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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball here
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jagan Zawas.
Speaker 3: You've got a guy Henry and today welcome to Monday.
Speaker 3: I have one thing to say to you, Jay. You
Speaker 3: will be allowed to ask questions on the show today.
Speaker 3: Certain people aren't allowed to ask questions.
Speaker 4: Oh that's right.
Speaker 3: I saw that in Colorado or at Clemson. At Clemson too. Well,
Speaker 3: Clemson does his radio show, right, uh huh? And you
Speaker 3: remember that last year? Okay, so he had a show,
Speaker 3: he has his week. Yeah, so last year he had
Speaker 3: a show like every coach has the show takes Collins
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. So last year a guy called in
Speaker 3: and ripped him, Malcolm, we pay you eleven million dollars
Speaker 3: to be mediocre. And he went off like.
Speaker 4: Tow, I remember that, and then he and then he then.
Speaker 3: Donald went and got his shot in this year, no question,
Speaker 3: no calls, no calls, no questions. They're gonna take text
Speaker 3: questions so that way we'll be able to fil throughout
Speaker 3: the questions.
Speaker 4: It's dangerous to begin with, to take live questions, you
Speaker 4: know on the show. Yeah, we get scared of now
Speaker 4: and agin we never know, right, you never know now,
Speaker 4: you know that. That's okay. I'm okay with that. If
Speaker 4: they're still taking questions, you text your questions. And if
Speaker 4: you're gonna be a jerk, then they're not gonna let
Speaker 4: you be a jerk on the radio. I'm okay with that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the whole But the Sanders thing, he just doesn't like
Speaker 4: a guy who thinks has been criticals, so he's not
Speaker 4: gonna let ask questions anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he has been critical, calling him names a little.
Speaker 3: But that's what they do. That's what colinists do.
Speaker 4: Uh. It's very bizarre. The thing about it.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna prevent him from doing his job. He's
Speaker 3: going to go to the game right about the games
Speaker 3: and if Jagan's office is part of the Denver Post,
Speaker 3: guess what you're gonna do, Jay, You're gonna ask questions
Speaker 3: and this guy X guy is going to write his
Speaker 3: call using the responses. It happened here right, uh, for
Speaker 3: for Greg with with Wilder and all the guys that
Speaker 3: preceded him, he asked, they ask the questions, and he
Speaker 3: put together his column. You can't you can't prevent it.
Speaker 4: You're not. Yeah, he's still gonna write what he's gonna write.
Speaker 4: It's just okay. So he doesn't get to ask you
Speaker 4: that specific question, but somebody will. Somebody will, or he'll
Speaker 4: write off of what he hears anyway, and that's what
Speaker 4: most of us do. Now, you know what the dumb
Speaker 4: thing about it is, Dion Sanders is bigger than life.
Speaker 4: Sure right, he's the guy you know. You know this
Speaker 4: calumnist isn't more famous than Dion. He's not getting more
Speaker 4: attention than Dion. Why does Dion feel he needs to
Speaker 4: do that? Well, I guess you know he's he's running
Speaker 4: the show. He's done this before.
Speaker 3: We saw we talked about this from now again the
Speaker 3: the World series with MacArthur McCarver and Carver macarver when
Speaker 3: he jumped the dump the water and its O there
Speaker 3: you are right, and then he did this. I guess
Speaker 3: that Jackson Jackson, Jackson State. So this is nothing new
Speaker 3: to him. But you know how coaches are, they kind
Speaker 3: of want to control Sean, try to do it for
Speaker 3: a long time, Sean.
Speaker 4: You know, but he didn't cut anybody out. No, he
Speaker 4: didn't cut it.
Speaker 3: He just did He just didn't answer the questions, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then that's fine. If that's how you want
Speaker 4: to do things, then that's fine. But this childishness, this pettiness,
Speaker 4: and that's all it is. It's childish and it's petty
Speaker 4: for Deon Sanders Hall of Fame football player, you know,
Speaker 4: a coach, you know, major college football coach making millions
Speaker 4: of dollars and he's already got millions of dollars in
Speaker 4: the bank that he's gonna he's gonna go after this
Speaker 4: one reporter in this way. It's the stupidest thing ever.
Speaker 3: I guess he He went and spoke more about it
Speaker 3: on Saturday again, you know, just to follow up, and
Speaker 3: didn't use the guy's name. He's as well, I just
Speaker 3: want to see where you're at, you know, see who's
Speaker 3: with me and who's kind of not with me. Uh well,
Speaker 3: you already kind of know who is and who isn't.
Speaker 3: And now by the tone of the question, you just
Speaker 3: what they write. And that's how this columnist feels, right,
Speaker 3: that's his entitle his job to be to be a
Speaker 3: callis it's his job.
Speaker 4: He could totally be.
Speaker 3: The other way and be nice and everything would be happy.
Speaker 3: I'd be happy, But he's not.
Speaker 4: Every Every coach does things that they need to be
Speaker 4: criticized for. And we're gonna have Michael lev On today
Speaker 4: who was critical of of Brent Brennan and what and
Speaker 4: what they're doing with with with football practice and you know,
Speaker 4: closing it to the media, you know, and and and
Speaker 4: not letting the media talk about what they see and
Speaker 4: all those things, and and and Mike, you know, and
Speaker 4: Michael had every right to write that column. And we
Speaker 4: want to talk.
Speaker 3: When did that happen yesterday? The Sunday was in the
Speaker 3: special section.
Speaker 4: No, no, it was, I saw it online. I don't look,
Speaker 4: but it was just basically saying you maybe it was
Speaker 4: even on Saturday. You're missing it. You're missing an opportunity
Speaker 4: to get your fans engaged by closing off practices, closing
Speaker 4: and closing off the media. What the hell are you doing?
Speaker 3: Let me go that said, do you think Arizona cares?
Speaker 4: They should? Arizona athletic cares they should, uh, because because
Speaker 4: that's that's the image that they're sending out there, okay,
Speaker 4: is that you're not near as welcome as you were
Speaker 4: when Jed Fish was here. And that's a bad thing.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's exactly what it's saying, Steve. They're saying,
Speaker 4: you know, we're not going to be near as open
Speaker 4: as we were when you know, when Jed who did
Speaker 4: all the things that Jed did created what's happening now, okay,
Speaker 4: and now they're closing it off.
Speaker 3: That said, that said, and I'm not trying to go
Speaker 3: either way, I'm just asking, I'm just the double advocate here.
Speaker 3: Do you think the readers, listeners, or whomever give a crap?
Speaker 3: Let me say this, because because in our in our history,
Speaker 3: my history, uh, they don't care how we get the
Speaker 3: story or how much trouble we have to go through,
Speaker 3: how many hoops one, as long as we get the story.
Speaker 3: And if we don't, on you, you couldn't get the story,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Where general Joe public could
Speaker 3: give a crap of what we do and even hey
Speaker 3: one to see us gotta not do our job.
Speaker 4: I think under the circumstances. Okay, let's say Jed Fish
Speaker 4: had not done what he did, you know, opening practices
Speaker 4: the way he did, welcoming everybody who wanted to see
Speaker 4: to do that. Let's say, because you know scoops close practices,
Speaker 4: someone rich Rod Goloes practices, someone closed practice and if
Speaker 4: that kept going, then that's the way things work. But
Speaker 4: then Jed opens it up to everybody and lets everybody
Speaker 4: come in and it's wide open and you can go
Speaker 4: see practice, and you can get around the players and
Speaker 4: DA and people have come to expect that, and they
Speaker 4: needed to do that in order to get people back
Speaker 4: quote unquote back. Now they're back and you're saying, well,
Speaker 4: we're gonna cut you off.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: I think they care. I know that the people, the
Speaker 4: people that I've talked to care, not because they go
Speaker 4: to practice all the time, but just because they can.
Speaker 4: They want. We'll ask, we'll ask.
Speaker 3: We're hoping to get to Desiree on the show here
Speaker 3: in the next few days. We've been asking for a while,
Speaker 3: so ask him what her thoughts are. And with that
Speaker 3: kind of tone, where don't you think it would be
Speaker 3: beneficial to the UA program? A thing that needs to
Speaker 3: sell tickets and keep the fans happy to gauge the fans.
Speaker 4: Would this help, you know? And I look and I
Speaker 4: read Brent Brennan's reasons for not having a fall game,
Speaker 4: you know, where everybody could come, and it goes back
Speaker 4: to remember they used to have this meet the team,
Speaker 4: you know, when Dick was here. They'd come, kids would
Speaker 4: get be on the field, cynautographs and all that stuff,
Speaker 4: and then they and then they clear the field and
Speaker 4: then hold a short scrimmage. You know, I've got pictures
Speaker 4: of my kid walking around on Arizona Stadium turf, right,
Speaker 4: and people love that. And then they you know Stoops
Speaker 4: never did that, or maybe he did, but they really
Speaker 4: toned it down to the point that eventually went away.
Speaker 4: But to not even have a fall game where fans
Speaker 4: could come and just see what this looks like ahead
Speaker 4: of the first game, and you know, answer, we and
Speaker 4: we don't want to do that. You know, we're we're
Speaker 4: not going to hit you know, yeah, we're just trying
Speaker 4: to make sure we get to we get to uh,
Speaker 4: you know, the first game, nobody's injured. Got the idea,
Speaker 4: I get that, Yeah, and you can do that. Just
Speaker 4: send you send your starters out there to run five
Speaker 4: or six plays and then play everybody else. Fans want that, Steve.
Speaker 3: Well, they could, Well they could have had a fan
Speaker 3: a meet and greet with the fans and then and
Speaker 3: then said goodbye. Could have done that too, Yeah, uh, hey,
Speaker 3: I don't. I'm sure. I'm sure that if the marketing
Speaker 3: team had any legs or whatever you want to give them,
Speaker 3: that they could have tried to convince the football program.
Speaker 3: But but you know, and I know, and and those
Speaker 3: who kind of know know that the coaches call the shots.
Speaker 4: They do and it's the p R people. You know what,
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's not even the coaches, it's the it's their
Speaker 4: general manager, director of operations.
Speaker 3: Out question without question, and not all that, not every
Speaker 3: time they make the right decisions, and we'll make make
Speaker 3: a questionable decision. And we know who those guys have been.
Speaker 3: It says, what the hell's you're thinking? Well, we're doing
Speaker 3: this because and it doesn't make any sense. But but
Speaker 3: you're definitely right. And the PR people are, you know,
Speaker 3: toddling their thumbs saying sorry, we wish we could, but
Speaker 3: we can't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know right, yeah, yeah, the communications guys are nothing.
Speaker 4: I'm getting text messages saying yes we do care, Yes
Speaker 4: we do want to be you know, be able to
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: See so right now the text that you're getting, would
Speaker 3: they go, I mean, are the people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the people that are texting me, we would, Steve,
Speaker 4: we would get we would, we would make an event
Speaker 4: of it. Would go meet to Bob Dobbs hang out,
Speaker 4: have a couple of beers, go to the scrimmage and
Speaker 4: boom and it was.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: It was. It was like a pre a pre season game. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well also wanted to do that. I get it. I would,
Speaker 4: I would, hope.
Speaker 3: And we talked about this maybe two months ago, three months,
Speaker 3: two months ago when when the other schools, the Ohio
Speaker 3: States and the Alabama's, I know they're two offs or
Speaker 3: one offs that are paying five ten bucks to go
Speaker 3: watch practice, right, and that's how they're getting money for
Speaker 3: the nil right or the collect or whatever. And that
Speaker 3: would work here too. But there's twenty people that go
Speaker 3: in the.
Speaker 4: I know, they don't they shouldn't be charging for it, Okay.
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is that for all the hype
Speaker 4: and hoopla that's gone on since last year and all
Speaker 4: the excitement that's been generated it's been deathly quiet around
Speaker 4: here coming out of camp.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I agree.
Speaker 4: Stuff. We're gonna play Brent Brennan's full press conference here. Uh,
Speaker 4: you know we're talking game week now, right game week.
Speaker 4: The media got ten minutes with him today, ten minutes.
Speaker 4: That's how long the break, that's how long the press
Speaker 4: conference was ten minutes. And that's and then you're and
Speaker 4: you're gonna get that again on Thursday, two days before
Speaker 4: the game. We're going to get another ten minutes. Who
Speaker 4: do you think makes that difference? I don't know. That's sad.
Speaker 4: I was wondering if that was going to change, right
Speaker 4: with with with with with Brennan and saying I want
Speaker 4: to talk to these guys some more. It's not like
Speaker 4: he's unpleasant.
Speaker 3: Or there's a column. I mean, there's another column. This
Speaker 3: is what we tell you because this is all we
Speaker 3: we know, and it's ten minutes.
Speaker 4: Ten minutes actually nine and change.
Speaker 5: That's uh.
Speaker 4: When you know when you'll I mean, we're gonna play
Speaker 4: it and we're gonna have to fill the last five
Speaker 4: minutes because because you did it.
Speaker 3: That's how you know, Jay Jay, You've been in that
Speaker 3: business on that side of the world. Uh, and both
Speaker 3: sides of the world. You know that's not right.
Speaker 4: I don't know how these guys do right. Where do
Speaker 4: you get enough to write? Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm talking about you're thinking you if you're
Speaker 3: doing this, you're thinking they need more time. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it's not like you're imposing on Coach Brennan's time.
Speaker 3: You're talking five minutes. I hate it, which is I
Speaker 3: have no time and not just specific to this, but
Speaker 3: you know, give me a call and I'll have no time.
Speaker 3: You mean to tell me it's like my mom would come.
Speaker 3: How come you haven't call me Mom? I'm too busy. Well,
Speaker 3: you know what, at the end of the day, I'm
Speaker 3: kind of not too busy. Yeah, you're really say hello
Speaker 3: to mom, tell her I love her for That was
Speaker 3: like a four second thing. And that would it would
Speaker 3: it would have it would have saved There will be
Speaker 3: a lot of aggravationing at me.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. That's again, and it's in
Speaker 4: light of where Arizona Pro Arizonas program is. You just
Speaker 4: think that somebody over there would say, guys, let's let's
Speaker 4: do it a little more. Yeah, let's let's let's let's
Speaker 4: loosen it up a little bit and get and give
Speaker 4: the medium more time to tell more story.
Speaker 3: Do you think, okay, of the people who are listening now,
Speaker 3: and maybe we'll get a call edator And then this
Speaker 3: is going back again to.
Speaker 4: Do they really care?
Speaker 3: But uh, we're generalizing, but we're not generalizing. This is
Speaker 3: just how it is, and it benefits the media. Benefits
Speaker 3: the media obviously, and it and it benefits the uvade.
Speaker 3: They should be there should be no bitching either way.
Speaker 4: Steve, when my kids were little, you have no idea
Speaker 4: how forward our family looked to meet the team. Oh no,
Speaker 4: I guess every year we would go over there. You know,
Speaker 4: they'd give you a poster. The players would be all
Speaker 4: the tables and then sign we would we every year
Speaker 4: for my son ad him, we would add the new poster.
Speaker 4: We had it frame and put it up in his
Speaker 4: room and every day would put every year and put
Speaker 4: the new poster on top of it. Finally, when we
Speaker 4: stopped doing that, look, there were like ten posters, you
Speaker 4: know with it with all the player signatures and stuff.
Speaker 4: And and you know, we took him. He was two
Speaker 4: years old and we took him. He didn't know what
Speaker 4: the hell was going on. We tied a balloon to
Speaker 4: his butt so that we wouldn't lose him on the fields,
Speaker 4: you know, because we enjoyed it. We wanted to be
Speaker 4: a part of that. And the fact that they don't
Speaker 4: do that is crazy, especially when you're not asking fans
Speaker 4: to give money to these players. They want to know
Speaker 4: the players.
Speaker 3: All the time. No, no, and that's the reason. That's
Speaker 3: how you couch it. I mean, this does a great question. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then maybe she doesn't have an answer because then
Speaker 3: she has to go to talk to the timmy rights.
Speaker 3: These guys for tend minutes.
Speaker 4: Come on, really really there we go, We ranted, we ranted,
Speaker 4: and it's just and I just think it's it's it's
Speaker 4: it's unfortunate that that that it's come to this.
Speaker 3: Well, this is when the letters start to come in
Speaker 3: or the emails start to come in from the fans
Speaker 3: to the people that make the decisions.
Speaker 4: Well, whoever, we've got a caller coming in, but we
Speaker 4: can't take that call. We got to go to a break.
Speaker 4: Please call. After the next segment, we're going to play
Speaker 4: Brent Brandan's press conference. So in the second half, in
Speaker 4: the after the after the press conference, in the next
Speaker 4: segment after that, please give us the call we want
Speaker 4: to hear from fans what you think of all this?
Speaker 4: And am I overreacting? Maybe some people ever think I am,
Speaker 4: But I don't think I am because I'm a fan
Speaker 4: and you know I would want to go to a
Speaker 4: false scrimmage, you know, right before the season starts. So
Speaker 4: all right, let's take a break. When we come back
Speaker 4: the full Brent Brandon press conference from today. Uh, well,
Speaker 4: we've been playing for you, so stick around.
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Speaker 1: Steve Ravia and Jagen Saliz they have their eye on
Speaker 1: the ball on Tucson's sports stage. Chef Fox Sports forteen
Speaker 1: fifty streaming live. I mean iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3: Wab Hey, welcome back to winning the Ball here Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Bavera, He's jacinbs Jauce. Now,
Speaker 3: I guess we're gonna go to about.
Speaker 4: A ten minute. Yeah, you're gonna have all the news
Speaker 4: that fit to print, because that's all we got right now. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Brent Branton with his uh, you know, game week presser,
Speaker 4: talked a little bit about New Mexico at the beginning
Speaker 4: because they played on Saturday. We'll talk a little bit
Speaker 4: more about that, but here we go with the full
Speaker 4: press conference.
Speaker 14: There are a lot of upsets or year upsets and
Speaker 14: week zero is that something that you can use as
Speaker 14: a talk to the point until two point for your team.
Speaker 5: That's definitely something we've talked about, you know.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, every game is a different game,
Speaker 2: and it's all about how you prepare and you know
Speaker 2: what your mindset is going into it, you know, And
Speaker 2: so I don't know why those things happen the way
Speaker 2: they did on Saturday, but credit to those teams that
Speaker 2: you know, either you know, press those teams to the
Speaker 2: edge or or you know, in the case of towards
Speaker 2: text on a way to get it done.
Speaker 5: Where yours from the next go?
Speaker 2: After watch, they look like they play hard obviously, I think,
Speaker 2: definitely creative defensively and and then offensively they've got some weapons, right,
Speaker 2: I think, you know, if I watch that game. As
Speaker 2: I watch that game, I think, you know, I feel
Speaker 2: like they're one catch away from it being over, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So I was really impressed on
Speaker 2: both sides of the ball, you know. I know, Bronco
Speaker 2: has been a really good coach for a really long time.
Speaker 2: So the team, they're gonna be ready to play, and
Speaker 2: they have the advantage of having played a game you
Speaker 2: know where we haven't, so it's a little bit different.
Speaker 5: You get two questions.
Speaker 2: I thought, one question, I'm just kidding. Go ahead, team
Speaker 2: that's gonna play, come on the triple question and sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm just messing with you.
Speaker 5: All right, what we got Bren?
Speaker 15: You personally seven months ago you were on this stage,
Speaker 15: you know, being introduced as there, I said.
Speaker 5: Coach, now you're a process guy. But being here in game,
Speaker 5: how's it feel being real? It's awesome. It's awesome. It's funny.
Speaker 2: I had that thought walking out here just now, you know,
Speaker 2: just like how much has changed in seven months. But
Speaker 2: I think it's a it's it's surreal, but it's also
Speaker 2: really really special and I'm excited, just like our players
Speaker 2: are now that.
Speaker 5: You the first game is by pass.
Speaker 4: Do you like the fact that you saw and has
Speaker 4: some film of in Mexico or is.
Speaker 2: It kind of the double edged No, I think it's
Speaker 2: a good thing, and I definitely I think I think
Speaker 2: you know that that's how you would look at it, right,
Speaker 2: Like they had the benefit of actually playing a really
Speaker 2: tough four quarter game, which I think there's benefits to that,
Speaker 2: and then we have the benefit of having some tape
Speaker 2: on them.
Speaker 5: So I'm sure they see it the same way I
Speaker 5: would assume they do.
Speaker 7: What is your message the team is to say, prepare
Speaker 7: for Mexico and one of your expectations to that.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, my message to the team is it's
Speaker 2: all about us. It's about our process and how we prepare.
Speaker 2: It's very very simple. It's boring and it's not sexy,
Speaker 2: and but it's all about you know, just the detail
Speaker 2: of our process.
Speaker 5: And our preparation. You know.
Speaker 2: I think that part is I think that sometimes gets
Speaker 2: lost with the whatever exposure the media, friends, family, fans,
Speaker 2: all that stuff, you know, but it's it's always that
Speaker 2: it's about us in this football team and how we
Speaker 2: go about our business this week preparing for this game,
Speaker 2: and then you know, how we show up on Saturday,
Speaker 2: and my expectations are for us to play well.
Speaker 5: And that would be my massive expectations every week. Last week.
Speaker 5: Cool with being out of one of.
Speaker 7: The advantages that it's nice about the school, university theres
Speaker 7: are what are so many other things that have been
Speaker 7: in place here that you look back sat we have
Speaker 7: had they say, and we love that they had those.
Speaker 2: Stats for Vans well, I think I think, you know,
Speaker 2: everybody has contributed greatly to having this amazing facility here,
Speaker 2: you know, and you know it wasn't until our last
Speaker 2: season that we actually had that really nice football building.
Speaker 2: I think that has a chance to impact recruiting, and
Speaker 2: it impacts your teaching environment, you're learning environment, It impacts
Speaker 2: your recovery, your training room, your weight.
Speaker 5: Room, all those things. You know.
Speaker 2: So I think, you know, we're definitely fortunate to have
Speaker 2: what we have here, and I think the guys do
Speaker 2: a good job of respecting it.
Speaker 4: How much of your overall playbook do you think you're
Speaker 4: going to be able to use this first game or
Speaker 4: do you want to save.
Speaker 5: Stuff for later on?
Speaker 2: All I want to do is win, and so whatever
Speaker 2: we need to call to find a way to play
Speaker 2: good football and give ourselves a chance to win is
Speaker 2: what I want to do.
Speaker 4: Two questions to see.
Speaker 5: Now that's a thing. Now that's a thing.
Speaker 14: The first one is what if anything in your experience
Speaker 14: is uniquely different about the season.
Speaker 5: Over Everyone's different, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I've I've played in season openers where we were favored,
Speaker 2: where we were massive underdogs, where it was even I
Speaker 2: played against teams that people thought we shouldn't beat.
Speaker 5: I played against teams that people thought we should beat.
Speaker 5: They're all different.
Speaker 14: What SAT or stats do you value the most that
Speaker 14: you feel like it's the data's.
Speaker 5: Impact on winning goals.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's a lot of you know,
Speaker 2: especially now with all the information and.
Speaker 5: Data you get or you have access to.
Speaker 2: But I think the simplest ones would be turnover margin,
Speaker 2: third down, and red zone. It's just simple, you know,
Speaker 2: places to start for that.
Speaker 4: Had you ever been don't in a dunk tank before?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, plenty of times. I'm always up for
Speaker 2: that stuff. That was it was a cool That was
Speaker 2: a really nice thing. I thought it was great to
Speaker 2: get all the student athletes together, to get them all
Speaker 2: together with all of our coaches and support staff and administration.
Speaker 2: It was a really well run event. You know, the
Speaker 2: stats everyone they put it together, did a great job.
Speaker 2: And the dunk take was kind of fun. I mean
Speaker 2: I was up there for a while. You know, I
Speaker 2: think whoever somebody gasped uh, our boss Desiree on the
Speaker 2: first pitch, like it was you know, I got to
Speaker 2: watch people miss.
Speaker 5: For like twenty throws. She got knocked in there in
Speaker 5: the first one.
Speaker 4: So it was great.
Speaker 2: It was it was a cool environment, great to get
Speaker 2: all student athletes together. I think one of you know,
Speaker 2: kind of on your question, one of the really awesome
Speaker 2: things about University Arizona is that our athletes eat breakfast together.
Speaker 2: And so to your question, like we did. We weren't
Speaker 2: able to do that at my previous institution. And I
Speaker 2: think there's real value in that because they do care
Speaker 2: about each other and they do support each other. And
Speaker 2: so then that way, when you have an event like
Speaker 2: you had yesterday, it's actually like meaningful and a lot
Speaker 2: of players or a lot of the student athletes hadn't
Speaker 2: seen each other since summer, and so it was like
Speaker 2: it was a great kind of Hey, the semester starting,
Speaker 2: let's kick this thing off.
Speaker 5: It was really cool.
Speaker 4: Tradition or something about the game they see her they.
Speaker 15: Are looking forward to that that day.
Speaker 5: Oh that's a good question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think I think college football is
Speaker 2: the best sport in the country. Like I think it's
Speaker 2: magical and there's all the things that go into it,
Speaker 2: from the tailgating to the wildcat walk, to the the
Speaker 2: band and the cheerleaders and the pop pom and the
Speaker 2: you know, in the Flag group, like like the students,
Speaker 2: the Zona Zoo, like all those things make it absolutely awesome.
Speaker 2: And I know there's lots of people that like watching
Speaker 2: games in the comfort of their home, but there's nothing
Speaker 2: like the smell of walking into a stadium on game
Speaker 2: day and what that feels like and feeling that energy
Speaker 2: and being a part of the experience. It's one of
Speaker 2: the most special things that happens across our country all
Speaker 2: saturdays during the fall.
Speaker 15: Perfect.
Speaker 4: But you've got to think here a little bit that
Speaker 4: the communication.
Speaker 5: How do you feel about that shy into the game?
Speaker 2: How do you.
Speaker 5: Decided what player?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's still under consideration, I think, but I
Speaker 2: think it's gonna end up being Jacob Ono or you know,
Speaker 2: and if he's not in that, I think.
Speaker 5: It would be Gunner.
Speaker 2: But that's not a surprise because everyone's gonna because they're
Speaker 2: gonna have a green dot on the back of their helmet, right. So,
Speaker 2: but the communications been good. We were able to pract
Speaker 2: to sit a bunch. I think the tablets are going
Speaker 2: to be a useful tool for everybody. I'm just watching
Speaker 2: the games this weekend. You see how often everybody is
Speaker 2: utilizing it. On the sideline. You know, I think, you know,
Speaker 2: watching bits and piece of the SMU game. Every time
Speaker 2: I saw Rhett, he had a tablet in front of
Speaker 2: He was holding a tablet and scrolling through.
Speaker 5: You know, I think the big thing that everybody needs to.
Speaker 2: Remember is it, no matter what happens in the game,
Speaker 2: you cannot show the tablet to an official.
Speaker 5: That's a big one. That's a bad one.
Speaker 2: So I just want to make sure everybody on my
Speaker 2: staff knows that, like, under no circumstances are we doing that?
Speaker 7: And then I answer this last week and all and
Speaker 7: you decided what coaches will be in the box and
Speaker 7: what coaches will be.
Speaker 5: On the good Yes, have some of this fall.
Speaker 2: What kind of impact has branded the Sanders had on
Speaker 2: the program?
Speaker 5: Brandon Sanders is great.
Speaker 2: I was on a zoom with him last night with
Speaker 2: you know, all the football letter winners that he does,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, every every three months, every every month,
Speaker 2: and it's just trying to keep those guys informed and updated.
Speaker 2: He's also you know, just a great job with the
Speaker 2: kind of the high school relations and in that part
Speaker 2: of it. You know, him having been a coach here
Speaker 2: in the state of Arizona. I think there's value in that.
Speaker 2: Also the fact that he was such a great player here.
Speaker 2: I just love the fact that we have so many
Speaker 2: guys around the program that have played played here at
Speaker 2: the u of A. I think that's there's real value
Speaker 2: in that, in the in their experience and and their
Speaker 2: knowledge of the place, and having branded being kind of
Speaker 2: forward facing with our football alumni and then also with
Speaker 2: the high school coaches. I think it's been really valuable
Speaker 2: for us. He's at he's doing a great job. You know,
Speaker 2: obviously there's a lot of top tier running backs in
Speaker 2: this conference.
Speaker 5: Uh and you get asked the times before, but how
Speaker 5: do you feel about the defensive line going into the toe?
Speaker 1: Go on?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be one of the you know,
Speaker 2: nice surprises of this football team.
Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of talent there.
Speaker 2: We got a good mix of you know, some speed
Speaker 2: and some edge presence with some physicality interior, and so
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a lot of fun to see see
Speaker 2: what that looks like when we start playing.
Speaker 5: All right, thanks guys.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, so so you got nine and change, Like
Speaker 3: you said, you're the beat guy. One was a question
Speaker 3: about a dunk du the dunk tank, dunk tanks. So
Speaker 3: that took about a minute, and so you got eight
Speaker 3: minutes of stuff. What are you going to rune.
Speaker 4: Now? Much watch?
Speaker 3: Obviously the guys who asked the questions had their agenda
Speaker 3: and they knew what they're gonna write about. But holy crap,
Speaker 3: I need to write a story to preview the game.
Speaker 3: And I'm thinking it's gonna be a column because I
Speaker 3: can't get much from this if I'm.
Speaker 4: Scrapping for a story. I'm upset at the dunk tank
Speaker 4: question because you don't have time for that. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: we didn't get at the top. There are a couple
Speaker 4: of questions about New Mexico. You know, they had a
Speaker 4: game on Saturday. They got beat. Well we can talk
Speaker 4: about that in a minute, but you know, with the
Speaker 4: limited amount of time that you have, you need to
Speaker 4: ask questions that are that pertain to this is game,
Speaker 4: the team or the game, right, this is game week now,
Speaker 4: I get you. Somedeny asked about tax He said t
Speaker 4: X playing. Then he laugh and that's it. You didn't
Speaker 4: say any more about that. That's fine, So you know,
Speaker 4: you get okay, he's fine, but yeah, you know you
Speaker 4: know that he was asked about Brandon Sanders. Brandon Sanders
Speaker 4: does a great job of what does Brandon Sanders have
Speaker 4: to do with this week's game?
Speaker 16: Right?
Speaker 4: Right? No, you love Brandon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know that was a that was a
Speaker 3: practice schedule three months ago or two months ago, right whatever, Right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's very difficult.
Speaker 4: You know. I'm glad I don't do this anymore.
Speaker 3: I'm glad I don't write like that anymore on the day,
Speaker 3: every day, every day, because it's it's it's almost fruitless.
Speaker 4: All right, let's take this call. Hi, are on there
Speaker 4: and eye on the ball.
Speaker 17: Hey, Team Money. I think you guys are.
Speaker 12: Uh, I think.
Speaker 4: You're breaking here. You're breaking up a little bit, so
Speaker 4: hold the hold the phone, well closer.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 17: We've kind of like a in a golden era, and
Speaker 17: I think in u of a sports media right now.
Speaker 17: You got the dudes doing the podcast samely, one guy
Speaker 17: doing a bunch of podcasts, but and then the three
Speaker 17: different radio shows, and then levs and uh spears on
Speaker 17: the newspaper and what was it you guys are referencing Michael.
Speaker 15: Left the article correct, right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 17: So yeah, the PR Department is dropping the ball. I
Speaker 17: haven't seen any I got like an email or two.
Speaker 17: But I mean as far as like old school media
Speaker 17: like billboards or radio commercials or anything like that, there's
Speaker 17: absolutely zero hype for this season. And yeah, I guess
Speaker 17: the football team could take care of that on the field, right,
Speaker 17: But that doesn't cover for the public relations department being
Speaker 17: non existent?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: So are you hyped on your own or where you
Speaker 3: getting the hype?
Speaker 1: I'm hyped on my own.
Speaker 17: I mean, I'm gonna die hard just like everybody else.
Speaker 17: But it doesn't that doesn't mean that you know the
Speaker 17: piard and can take the season off. I guess Lef
Speaker 17: pointed out that they have a bunch of vacancies, but
Speaker 17: come on, I mean, this is supposed to be a uh,
Speaker 17: you know, a top tier program there, right.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing, you know, We're going into what
Speaker 4: a lot of people feel like is going to be
Speaker 4: a special season and we're just not getting enough enough
Speaker 4: news out of there, right, And to be clear, you're
Speaker 4: mentioned the PR department, the PR department of the guys,
Speaker 4: they're just putting out what they're allowed to put out.
Speaker 4: When you're talking about why there's more not more stuff
Speaker 4: coming out? If you're talking about marketing, right, not enough,
Speaker 4: as you say, billboards and hype and things like that,
Speaker 4: and they're doing some stuff. And then also just the access,
Speaker 4: the access is being cut off and and and that's
Speaker 4: probably in the football office somewhere. So just you know,
Speaker 4: just to make sure that we have a clarification of that,
Speaker 4: because the guys who handle the media, the communications guys,
Speaker 4: they're just doing what they're allowed to do and that
Speaker 4: comes from higher up. So that's the unfortunate part of it.
Speaker 17: So are you saying that this is going to the
Speaker 17: AE like she's coming up short.
Speaker 4: No, No, I'm say I'm saying in the it's in
Speaker 4: the football office. Someone in the football office is saying,
Speaker 4: we're only gonna We're only gonna let Bret Brent Brennan
Speaker 4: talk to the media for ten minutes at a time.
Speaker 4: You get these players, you know, on such and such days.
Speaker 4: That's where it's the run out of It's not you know,
Speaker 4: if if if the football office said Brent Brent Brennan
Speaker 4: can talk to the media for half an hour, then
Speaker 4: the so called PR department we called the Media Relations
Speaker 4: Office and communications office would say, great, we've got him
Speaker 4: for thirty minutes. Somewhere in the football office. They're saying,
Speaker 4: this is all you get.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I don't know who pushes that ball on the
Speaker 17: other side as well. But when it came to what Riguez,
Speaker 17: when it came to Jeddie and a fish like, I mean,
Speaker 17: these dudes were all over the place before the season started,
Speaker 17: right and and not with Brent. I barely heard Brennan
Speaker 17: the voice right now. I didn't know what his voice
Speaker 17: sounded like Hill right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, it's kind of right and and and
Speaker 4: to be to be honest, it might not even be him.
Speaker 4: It might be you know, they've all got all these
Speaker 4: all the football programs, and I have a general manager
Speaker 4: and a chief of staff, you know, you know, and
Speaker 4: those those guys are they manage you know, the they
Speaker 4: manage the program off the field, and they're the ones
Speaker 4: who make the it's like you know, you know, it's
Speaker 4: like well like like a general manager and an NFL team,
Speaker 4: they're those guys who decide this stuff in general so,
Speaker 4: you know, and Brandon just kind of goes along with it.
Speaker 4: It's what I would think, because he's busy coaching. Whatever
Speaker 4: you guys want, that's what we'll do. And that's what
Speaker 4: they do. And that's we are where we are all right, Hey, hey, team,
Speaker 4: and we got to go. We appreciate the call man,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 3: No good call, So we gotta go to break. We'll
Speaker 3: take more calls on the other side. Right, talk more
Speaker 3: about this obviously.
Speaker 4: Okay, we'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Mean, iHeartRadio WAFT. This is Eye on the Ball with
Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jacob Salez Pot Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty on Steve Rivera, He's Jacob
Speaker 3: as Delburg Guy Henry for the next sixteen minutes of
Speaker 3: this hour. If you guys like to call five two zero,
Speaker 3: four one, six seventy four forty we may have gotten
Speaker 3: a caller to right before break, So if you want
Speaker 3: to call us calls back, that'd be great. So I'll
Speaker 3: be reading his column. We'll talk more about his column
Speaker 3: mony Mike Left. Yeah, yeah, it's very good, obviously, very
Speaker 3: good and very fair. I think, very very fair.
Speaker 4: Look, the media has been a friend to the U
Speaker 4: of A program since Jed guy here, right, Yeah, And
Speaker 4: so there's I don't know what they're afraid of in
Speaker 4: terms of letting people have information. So well we'll see
Speaker 4: and you know, look, and if fans aren't screaming for it,
Speaker 4: then okay, then they're then they're doing what they're doing.
Speaker 3: I don't think fans know any better not to scream
Speaker 3: for we're in Tucson. It's a fan fully, it's a
Speaker 3: it's a it's not a you know, we're gonna gotta
Speaker 3: go place they're gonna and you want them to go.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, there's not brain surgery, right, And here's the thing.
Speaker 4: You know, the media guys, you know, justin spears Lev
Speaker 4: you're Brian Peterson, Troy Hudson, all those guys. They're doing
Speaker 4: a real good job churning out as much as they
Speaker 4: possibly can with the little that they get through the condition.
Speaker 4: And so maybe people don't realize how little information they're getting.
Speaker 4: But if you go read, if you know, kV Away,
Speaker 4: all the TV stations, and if they're all writing and
Speaker 4: saying the same thing, all the coverage, so wherever you go,
Speaker 4: you're just getting the same thing, because that's all there is.
Speaker 4: You know, whereas you know you back in the day, right,
Speaker 4: we always say that you know you, you would do
Speaker 4: a story on this guy. I would do a story
Speaker 4: on that guy. And then during the week we all
Speaker 4: had different angles, you know, I would when we were
Speaker 4: at press conferences, right, you'd hear questions that the other
Speaker 4: reporter was asking, so you kind of knew what their
Speaker 4: next story was going to be about, and you were
Speaker 4: gonna and you were trying to come up with something different. Sure,
Speaker 4: everybody's got the same stuff now and that's all you get.
Speaker 3: No, no, And let me remind you, Jay, So this
Speaker 3: press conference, it's already been aired. Everybody has seen it,
Speaker 3: seen it, heard it, blah blah blah. And now they're
Speaker 3: gonna tell stories about it, right, so it's old news
Speaker 3: by today. It's right now, right right at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, it's no old news. It's old news
Speaker 3: right now. You'll but you'll see this news today tomorrow
Speaker 3: and they'll say, oh, it's breaking new.
Speaker 4: No, it's not now. I will say these next two
Speaker 4: days Tuesday and Wednesday, they bring in an offensive coach
Speaker 4: and some players, and the defensive coach and some players.
Speaker 4: So the guys get more stuck right then, but it's
Speaker 4: still very limited. And then you get Brandon on Thursday
Speaker 4: for another ten maybe fifteen minutes, and then that's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's all you get. That's that's how how
Speaker 3: it was. I. You know, when I was doing it
Speaker 3: with with Bruce, we'd always try to get and you
Speaker 3: save as much as you can for a later time
Speaker 3: another way, because you had to.
Speaker 4: Remember those Tuesday press conference would last a couple of hours.
Speaker 4: Yeah they you know, you get you'd get a half
Speaker 4: an hour forty five minutes with well, you'd eat, was
Speaker 4: the first told me. Would you want to stay? Yeah? Stay,
Speaker 4: You'd get half an hour forty five minutes with the coach,
Speaker 4: and everybody would get their questions in and then players
Speaker 4: would come in and you get players, and then you
Speaker 4: could get players after practice. Yeah, it's crazy. I don't know.
Speaker 4: All right, we beat we beat the hell out of
Speaker 4: that horse, dead horse. But you know, if you've got
Speaker 4: comments or or questions about it or want to want
Speaker 4: to talk about it, would love to hear that, right
Speaker 4: five to zero, four one, six, seventy four forty.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's it's a good point, and it's it's
Speaker 3: a valid point, I should.
Speaker 4: Say, especially with the excitement that this season.
Speaker 3: Sure is going for it and this is you got
Speaker 3: two things. If this if Jed left us in a
Speaker 3: in a in a heap of mess, you'd say they
Speaker 3: got to open it because people need to know because
Speaker 3: or want to know, because how are you going to
Speaker 3: sell this program?
Speaker 4: That right?
Speaker 3: But here they are maybe they think we don't need
Speaker 3: to sell this program.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be good. According to Michael Let's column, you know,
Speaker 4: their ticket sales are going very well, and maybe maybe
Speaker 4: they're saying, Okay, that's all we got to do.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: I just feel like the more you do, the better
Speaker 4: you do.
Speaker 3: Sure, no question. And then we're also living in an
Speaker 3: era where you of a produces their own news or
Speaker 3: their own media right right, their own they do. They
Speaker 3: do videos and unlike maybe people who call or think
Speaker 3: of this show, we need to be positive. Well, those
Speaker 3: places are positive. When you're in house, you're going to
Speaker 3: be positive.
Speaker 4: Right. We're just gonna talk about what there is to
Speaker 4: talk about, whether it's good or bad.
Speaker 3: Good or bad, right right? And this is this is
Speaker 3: neither good nor that. It's just our observation about what
Speaker 3: they're doing.
Speaker 4: This call Hight on the air and I on the ball.
Speaker 18: Hi, how are you guys?
Speaker 4: We're good? How are you? Who's this?
Speaker 7: We're good.
Speaker 18: Here's something to add to your rant.
Speaker 16: I just heard.
Speaker 18: Today that they're canceling Beare down Friday.
Speaker 5: Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 4: I hadn't heard that this. Who's this?
Speaker 14: Kathy Hi?
Speaker 4: Kathy Hi, Kathy Hi.
Speaker 18: Guys work with alumni band in the u of a
Speaker 18: band And this came from Chad Shoop and the director
Speaker 18: of band.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. That was like the pep relly of the
Speaker 3: team of the program.
Speaker 18: Yeah, and it really drew in those people that would
Speaker 18: bring their kids, little kids right that probably would never
Speaker 18: make it to the seven point thirty start or you
Speaker 18: know an eleven o'clock. You're out of the sands type thing,
Speaker 18: and it creates a lot of positive dive for the
Speaker 18: you you know, with the palms and the mascots and
Speaker 18: the pride and everything else.
Speaker 3: What do you think the reason is? Did that cost money?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 18: I don't know. I you know that you'd have to
Speaker 18: add Chad Shootman, which might be a good person to
Speaker 18: get on. Yeah, except to usually have practice Monday Wednesday Friday,
Speaker 18: so maybe Tuesday Thursday, but because it's from like three
Speaker 18: to like five thirty.
Speaker 17: But I don't know.
Speaker 18: Maybe Merchant Square felt it wasn't gigging enough bang for
Speaker 18: the buck.
Speaker 3: Well, that's been there for a long time. I mean
Speaker 3: they would have said that a while back. This hap
Speaker 3: this is a big disen news.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it's sort of sad. I mean I remember going
Speaker 18: down there with my kids when they were little, and
Speaker 18: you know, you couldn't even hardly find a place to park.
Speaker 18: And parking has always been a problem. But they had
Speaker 18: it one time. If you bought something or had dinner
Speaker 18: or something, you've got a stamp and you could use
Speaker 18: it in the parking garage.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm. So you're not tied to the U of
Speaker 3: a right, you just have friends or connection to the band.
Speaker 18: Why wasn't the Pride? No no, no, late seventies, early
Speaker 18: eighties no no.
Speaker 4: But for this news, you know, you know somebody in
Speaker 4: the band that and you've you found out that they're
Speaker 4: not doing it.
Speaker 18: I heard it on I saw it on Facebook.
Speaker 3: Okay, so do you have you talked to anybody besides us?
Speaker 3: I wonder what the general thoughts are because this is
Speaker 3: kind of a big deal.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, a lot of a lot.
Speaker 3: Of people go into this. I mean it was kind
Speaker 3: of like a little party. You know, even Tommy Lois would.
Speaker 18: Not find a place that General Benn or Anchovy place
Speaker 18: through the one the Mexican Food place. You couldn't even
Speaker 18: find a.
Speaker 1: Site table when that was going on.
Speaker 3: Well that they must, well the business was booming. Well
Speaker 3: we'll see, we'll see. We'll get the word. We'll get
Speaker 3: the word and see what we hear.
Speaker 4: Okay, I just looked it up on Facebook. It looks
Speaker 4: like there's no Baredown Fridays for these first two games,
Speaker 4: because it says this is on the main Gate Square
Speaker 4: Facebook page that bare Doown Fridays will start on October
Speaker 4: the fourth, which would be the the Texas Tech Game,
Speaker 4: So maybe it's just these two games. It says bear
Speaker 4: Down Friday's returned this October, so there you go. So
Speaker 4: it's kind of a little both. Right, they're not having
Speaker 4: for the first two games, but they're having it for
Speaker 4: starting with the games in October.
Speaker 3: So keep your celebrations down until don't tug loud.
Speaker 4: Exactly exactly okay, but but I'm glad you called it
Speaker 4: our attention to this because at least we know that
Speaker 4: right that still Compody might have gone down there this
Speaker 4: Friday and said, where is everybody?
Speaker 3: Well we still collected what would this was the decision
Speaker 3: behind this? Yeah, I don't know, it makes no sense,
Speaker 3: makes thank you.
Speaker 4: Hey, thank you appreciate it, no problem.
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening. Great, great to have a female.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So yeah, it says they return on in October,
Speaker 4: and this is supposed three hours ago, so this is
Speaker 4: pretty new. Yeah, but not you know, but again, no
Speaker 4: decisions are strange because it's too hot. Well don't know,
Speaker 4: you know where you live, where do you live? Is
Speaker 4: it gonna change?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 3: Christmas is this year like every other year, and it's
Speaker 3: kind of cold then too.
Speaker 4: Sometimes not.
Speaker 3: Steve, I don't know what well, I think I think
Speaker 3: we're marking up a strange tree, but it's the right
Speaker 3: tree because they need people. Apparently they're happy with the
Speaker 3: people they have. We know that there's I don't want
Speaker 3: to talk to Love because he's there are changes in
Speaker 3: the program at the u of A, and they're trying
Speaker 3: to figure out things. Uh, Desert is trying to kind
Speaker 3: of get stuff done. Yeah, so they do need help,
Speaker 3: so we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 4: All right. Anyways, Okay, so your your lobos.
Speaker 3: No, my lobos, my lobos, enemy, my lobo.
Speaker 4: They kind of poop the bed the bed on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Dude, No, and they got a little the treatment that
Speaker 3: you you the.
Speaker 4: Ko d So I'm not I'm not taking credit for that.
Speaker 3: I'll your six degrees of separation on this baby, so
Speaker 3: I get a texture of you.
Speaker 4: And I think I forgot. I forgot.
Speaker 3: They were plane during the day, so they played They're
Speaker 3: playing in in Albuquerque, and I turned it on once
Speaker 3: you said.
Speaker 4: Oh you're so what did you say?
Speaker 3: I said, I said, Arizona's gonna have a hard time
Speaker 3: with when you I.
Speaker 4: Said, I said, the cats are in big trouble.
Speaker 3: And I said, oh my god, come on, come on.
Speaker 3: So then I saw the score and they were up
Speaker 3: by ten, twelve whatever it was, and then they even
Speaker 3: got a bigger lead later thirty one to sixteen, thirty
Speaker 3: one to fourteen, and that's when I kind of caught it.
Speaker 3: For the end of the third quarter.
Speaker 4: It was at one fifty three pm. It was like,
Speaker 4: which would have been halftime ish, I think it was
Speaker 4: at halftime, and they said, look at the Lobos exclamation point.
Speaker 4: The Cats are in trouble next week.
Speaker 3: And I go to us say, oh my god. Really,
Speaker 3: So just about thirty minutes later, the KOD started to
Speaker 3: take effect because they did. They had a thirty one
Speaker 3: to fourteen went into the fourth quarter. I'm watching I'm
Speaker 3: having lunch with a friend at tried it and I'm thinking, oh,
Speaker 3: they got this. Wow, this is a big win for them.
Speaker 3: And I got home and they pooped the bed and
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, how could they have lost that game?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I was golfing, okay, and so when I
Speaker 4: texted you that was home. Oh it was Oh I missed.
Speaker 4: I missed the Georgia Tech Florida Day game, which is
Speaker 4: another one who got talked to me because I was golfing.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we got to were I was in San
Speaker 4: die In, LA on a family trip. We were in
Speaker 4: the airbnb and we put the game on. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: this is great. This is college football. And I'm like, whoa, okay,
Speaker 4: let's take this real quick, higher on the art and
Speaker 4: eye on the ball.
Speaker 16: Hey Jay, hey Steve, this is done.
Speaker 4: How you guys done done? What's up? What is up? Done?
Speaker 16: Hey? I got two things. You know, who was wasting
Speaker 16: the time in the press conference with questions about dunk
Speaker 16: tanks and Hanny Aids and all that stuff, and Brandon
Speaker 16: Sanders the media.
Speaker 4: Right, That's what we said, So you know you.
Speaker 16: You said it. You know you got ten minutes and
Speaker 16: your Comepatriots are over there screwing around and wasting time.
Speaker 4: We have no doubt about that. That's what we said.
Speaker 16: And I'm gonna tell you what though, I've been looking
Speaker 16: for my own hype all this time. I'm rewatching the
Speaker 16: games that I still have on my DVR. I looked,
Speaker 16: I try to look up some santols A Steak games
Speaker 16: because what I don't want but I do not want
Speaker 16: to see and what a lot of people that did
Speaker 16: not like Dick tomy back in the day was he
Speaker 16: gets a touchdown lead in the middle of the second
Speaker 16: quarter and he starts running out the clock. Yep, yep, remember,
Speaker 16: because that was a big complaint in the nineties. Was
Speaker 16: you know, Jesus, you know, Jesuise.
Speaker 4: It's funny you to bring that up, because I should say,
Speaker 4: I watch it. I had it on and the TV
Speaker 4: my office where I was working, I had the cal
Speaker 4: the cal Arizona Hill Mary game on today. I played
Speaker 4: that because I needed something, right yep.
Speaker 16: So waits what we've been doing? Yeah, I mean, or
Speaker 16: that's what I've been doing. Is I've been going to
Speaker 16: YouTube and looking up videos. I watched the Alamo bowle
Speaker 16: from start to finish time or two.
Speaker 4: I love you, man, I love you because I do
Speaker 4: that too. What the are you retired? What the hell
Speaker 4: you do for?
Speaker 16: Oh no, it's just I mean there's too much stuff
Speaker 16: on TV. I mean, there's there's so much stuff on
Speaker 16: TV that there's nothing to watch. So so I'll watch,
Speaker 16: you know, you know, I'm looking forward to the season
Speaker 16: and everything.
Speaker 17: And uh.
Speaker 16: The other thing is is the A D is putting
Speaker 16: a huge, huge emphasis on being in the Big twelve.
Speaker 16: If you've seen her. If you saw her press conference
Speaker 16: last week. She started out and she was like like
Speaker 16: just chit chatting in the beginning, and then she's all like, gany,
Speaker 16: did you try the Lota bytes? You know, and I'm
Speaker 16: going here she goes again because there was like the
Speaker 16: introductory press conference or it was her second press conference.
Speaker 16: She started talking and all she was talking about was
Speaker 16: the restaurants at Tucson. And then last week it was Man,
Speaker 16: when these people from Texas and Kansas come to Tucson,
Speaker 16: they're going to go crazy with all the places they
Speaker 16: can go eat and everything else. And maybe that's why
Speaker 16: bear Down Friday's gone away because nobody's going to be
Speaker 16: here from out of town.
Speaker 3: We'll see, well, you know, the last week's press conferences
Speaker 3: were press conference was for the it was for the
Speaker 3: stadium food that was specifically for that.
Speaker 16: Well, when I watched the whole thing, I go, well, okay,
Speaker 16: that's why she started. But it was a second press conference.
Speaker 4: I saw her only dart that way.
Speaker 3: Only because only because other she got other questions about
Speaker 3: football and other situations from the from the press that
Speaker 3: was there. Because we don't get access to a lot
Speaker 3: of these people. I mean, it's very rare, and when
Speaker 3: you get them very rarely, you ask the questions that
Speaker 3: you have other stories to do.
Speaker 16: Yeah, no, no, I get that. I get that part,
Speaker 16: and I think that I think the football program is
Speaker 16: being a little bit guarded because I mean, the coaches
Speaker 16: coach is Dave Hekey's guy. Four years later, Yeah, right, Brennan.
Speaker 16: Brennan has gotten it. He's gotten his hands on the program,
Speaker 16: which is in a much better place than when he
Speaker 16: would have got it four years ago. Right, So I'm
Speaker 16: sure there's a lot of guarded this trying to because
Speaker 16: he has made statements about taking what the players liked
Speaker 16: from the old playbook and combining it with their playbook
Speaker 16: and making it, you know, bringing them together so that
Speaker 16: you know, the players are comfortable, the coaches are comfortable,
Speaker 16: and everything else. So you know, hopefully this whole lockdown
Speaker 16: thing is just a part of getting this thing kicked off,
Speaker 16: and they don't want the distractions the coaching staff anyway.
Speaker 3: I never thought of you as a conspiracy theorist, but
Speaker 3: now I do.
Speaker 4: Done Why, Well.
Speaker 16: I mean we haven't been. I mean I've just been
Speaker 16: sitting around thinking about it because well, months ago, I
Speaker 16: was thinking God, I hope he doesn't toll me this
Speaker 16: thing up.
Speaker 4: Well, you're too late with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's that was done a long time ago.
Speaker 4: Hey, we gotta go now, we gotta go top of
Speaker 4: the hour thinking about it.
Speaker 3: Since then, stop thinking about it. Thanks stuff, got don
Speaker 3: don don. We'll take a break here and and get
Speaker 3: with breaking news.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got breaking the top of the hour.