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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Iron the Ball Hero
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me
Speaker 2: today is Troy Hutchison from Gooizycass dot.
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Speaker 3: Whatever. Celebrate lately please? You said lightly lately relative term?
Speaker 2: Yes, welcome, everybody, Welcome. Good to be back ahead. Miss Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 2: I'm partly not gonna miss much week except for maybe Friday.
Speaker 3: This week. I'll let you guess know.
Speaker 2: Uh, good weekend kind of right, Uh busy weekend, busy sports. Yeah,
Speaker 2: busy weekend for sports. The Kentucky Derby on Saturday, Warriors yesterday,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna take all your breaking news and then
Speaker 2: based basketball just got a new coach.
Speaker 4: Just got a new assistant coach and Brandon Chappelle.
Speaker 2: Yeah we'll let we'll talk about it now. But to
Speaker 2: let you hdle some of that stuff now. So yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of things going on, and I haven't really
Speaker 2: We're gonna have Bruce Pasco at the four seventeen hour
Speaker 2: talk about what's going on with the basketball program, including
Speaker 2: that and the schedule that's gonna be.
Speaker 3: Pretty pretty big, right, pretty pretty good.
Speaker 4: A daunting task. And you know what if you.
Speaker 3: If you want to be the best Troy, you better
Speaker 3: play the best, be the best.
Speaker 4: All that's missing is that mid conference game against like
Speaker 4: a North Carolina or Kansas. What do you mean mid
Speaker 4: like remember how season season? Would have you known? February
Speaker 4: North Carolina in February it was.
Speaker 3: The It was the game that they played. Only a issue.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, I did it for twenty three years. It
Speaker 3: was fun.
Speaker 4: Only thing missing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it's good. That's good. That's the test,
Speaker 3: your test your guys, see how good they are and
Speaker 3: see what you need to improve on.
Speaker 2: And hope you don't screw up in March because you
Speaker 2: can have fun in November, December, January. If you don't
Speaker 2: do well in March, did you get criticized?
Speaker 4: You know what, they didn't do well last time? They
Speaker 4: did this last season in terms of the record in
Speaker 4: the non conference.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it paid off. It was Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: I had a discussion with a friend of mine on Facebook,
Speaker 2: one of my Facebook guys. He said, oh, it's best
Speaker 2: that they paid this, and I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 2: And Lukes philosophy was that played tough schedules, see what
Speaker 2: you need to improve on eventually get you ready for March.
Speaker 2: They didn't do that previously to this date.
Speaker 3: How can I see this? Okay? You see it? Work?
Speaker 3: Paid off? Right?
Speaker 2: Paid off to finish in the sweet sixteen paid And
Speaker 2: what sense did the payoff?
Speaker 4: You knew your problems going in the conference play if
Speaker 4: you played a weaker schedule. Who jumbled?
Speaker 3: Is there more more to the paidoff? Tell me more?
Speaker 4: It got It got made you tough. It made you
Speaker 4: in situations that you've been in before, different teams and
Speaker 4: been through that you knew what you.
Speaker 2: Knew how you had to be tough. You knew you
Speaker 2: had to be tough. Right, Okay, that's two. I'll give
Speaker 2: you this prepared you for the conferent friend, this is
Speaker 2: my biggest thing. And I think and again, if you
Speaker 2: have a weaker non conference schedule, you're going to the
Speaker 2: conference play.
Speaker 4: You get slaughtered, no question. You might miss the tournament,
Speaker 4: no question.
Speaker 2: And they did do that. They did do that. Let's
Speaker 2: go back to the Pac twelve. They played mediocre well
Speaker 2: under Sean. That was always the case where they played,
Speaker 2: you know, Okay, and he had won a lot of games,
Speaker 2: and that's what the defenders teams, the defenders will He
Speaker 2: won a lot of games. Well, he didn't beat a
Speaker 2: whole lot of good teams, Sean, I mean Tommy first round,
Speaker 2: first season, him here, he got to the sweet sixteen, right, underachieved, underachieved,
Speaker 2: underachieved because they played so well.
Speaker 3: But how was that scheduled?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 3: I can't remember the schedule.
Speaker 4: I think the mediocre.
Speaker 3: Yep, what do you remember? Just there was a lot
Speaker 3: of talent, no, no.
Speaker 4: No, no schedule schedule. They had Michigan in Vegas. I
Speaker 4: think Michigan was underwhelming, and then some other teams that
Speaker 4: just won there.
Speaker 2: So that kind of didn't set him up for what
Speaker 2: was ahead because they got physically beat up in in
Speaker 2: the tournament. Right TCU Houston the year after they lost
Speaker 2: to Princeton.
Speaker 4: Princeton, I think a week non conference.
Speaker 2: A week Okay, Pack twelve didn't show you sure, and
Speaker 2: I totally I do agree with you. They want a
Speaker 2: lot right again, But you know, I think that was
Speaker 2: more of a confidence factor in the tournament because uh,
Speaker 2: they were over confident thinking that it'd be what they
Speaker 2: would be, and then last year they lost to Timpson.
Speaker 2: The schedule was what it was, right, It was not great, wasn't.
Speaker 4: I think it was solid?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: So then so how come they ended up at the
Speaker 2: same place we succeed.
Speaker 4: I think the conference schedule was tougher, and I think
Speaker 4: that that was the difference in terms of the last
Speaker 4: few years.
Speaker 2: At some point, at some point though, and I'm just
Speaker 2: being doubles out, not to be a pussy, but mony
Speaker 2: at some at some and I am Steve, Uh, at
Speaker 2: some point you play a tougher schedule, it benefits, right,
Speaker 2: know what you need to do before by the time
Speaker 2: March comes. But at some point you gotta eventually say
Speaker 2: we're good, and so let's be good. Whether you played
Speaker 2: a bunch of schedule tough teams or whatever. And I
Speaker 2: still believe that it's how you play that day against Cumpston,
Speaker 2: they've sucked that day, and they got beat against Princeton,
Speaker 2: they were over conhent, they sucked the second half, they
Speaker 2: got beat so and then they just Houston, well not
Speaker 2: Houston with.
Speaker 4: The first one talking about Duke. Now, Duke Duke, I
Speaker 4: think he played maybe the second third best game in
Speaker 4: the country.
Speaker 2: Right, So the better team sometimes sometimes the better team wins.
Speaker 2: The Houston game that you were going to talk about.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you played the better team and Houston was a
Speaker 2: better team that day or that day, and maybe beyond
Speaker 2: they they were good.
Speaker 4: I think they're that Houston team was physically tougher and
Speaker 4: mentally doffer mindjiy Arizona was a one seed and a
Speaker 4: one seed for a reason. They were very good, weretty good,
Speaker 4: but they hadn't been punched in the mouth all correct.
Speaker 4: Got punched in the mouth when they flopped.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it reminds me of the time. And you
Speaker 2: guys are played too young for this. Soliam Stottamayer was
Speaker 2: playing against Cal. I think it was Cal twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: fifteen something like that, and uh a Pastornat who's an
Speaker 2: assistant coach at that time over there, so oh count
Speaker 2: So what they did admitted into it. They roughed him up,
Speaker 2: They gave him an elbow, took a foul. I think
Speaker 2: it was a foul, but they want to get into
Speaker 2: his head that it ain't gonna be easy for you, sline.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna have to open shots. So right away,
Speaker 2: guess what happens to Selene. He folds because he's noised
Speaker 2: gonna have to be physical, and Cal has a sway.
Speaker 2: If I can remember quickly, he was on a probably
Speaker 2: lesson game. So I'm saying it's it's what you do
Speaker 2: throughout the season and eventually get you deternament and then
Speaker 2: all bets are off. What you did in November December
Speaker 2: doesn't mean crap. Loot would have won twenty championships had
Speaker 2: the championship been in November, but it wasn't. And then
Speaker 2: you can say, well, they had a good, tough schedule,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. And I've been through twenty five of these,
Speaker 2: so you know, I'm a doctor here. I saw a
Speaker 2: lot of good things in November and December, and then
Speaker 2: we'll let's set you up for a good March.
Speaker 3: No, not always.
Speaker 4: And the thing that you don't have that Loot and
Speaker 4: those teams had was Okay, you went through those hard
Speaker 4: times that season. Now you know for your next next year,
Speaker 4: and it's going to be an upper There is no
Speaker 4: more upper classes. Sophomore is an upper classman at this point.
Speaker 2: You know, at some point they're gonna have to forget
Speaker 2: about all that stuff and just play their ass off. Also,
Speaker 2: you talk about the Florida game right coming up? Do
Speaker 2: we mentioned we haven't we haven't do so they played
Speaker 2: for the first game, they played, defending champs. It's not
Speaker 2: gonna be the same team you saw this last year.
Speaker 2: And everyone's thinking Arizona's going to be pretty good, right yep?
Speaker 3: So what makes us not.
Speaker 2: Think that Arizona could be a better team coming in that.
Speaker 3: First game of the year. Yeah, well, if Carter comes back.
Speaker 4: People thought that way coming into this past season that
Speaker 4: it was I mean, they started number twelve and gonna
Speaker 4: be better.
Speaker 3: Than the year before and then and that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah what Y're four and five, four five, four and six, Yeah,
Speaker 4: something like that at the midway through almost half to
Speaker 4: know your non conference season, it's like, uh oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, did he make changes? Did he?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 3: Tell me dollar.
Speaker 4: Also, when in the starting lineup, kJ Lewis came out
Speaker 4: of the lineup, Henry Henry Vase increased his minutes given
Speaker 4: the injury to Crevas.
Speaker 2: Right right, right, So I asked for reasons so you
Speaker 2: could go because I didn't want to go review.
Speaker 3: So do you think those were?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: Okay, was was the local starter?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Was he a starter? Was he in your mind? Was
Speaker 3: he a starter?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: So he did that too, might be messed with the
Speaker 2: you know, get the guys to play, however, you get
Speaker 2: energy off the bench, right right, Henry was the next
Speaker 2: factor to me. He was the guy that helped him
Speaker 2: kind of And who's the other one? Towns walker walk
Speaker 2: in town Townsend was kind of just okay, he was there.
Speaker 2: He was there, so he did a little thing to
Speaker 2: tinker to get him to play better, right, yeah, and
Speaker 2: he got him to the sweet sixteen, three sweet sweet
Speaker 2: sixteens and a pressure real loss in four years. What's
Speaker 2: the pressure better on the sweet sixteen, better the sweet sixteen?
Speaker 3: This next year? Is there?
Speaker 4: I think there is? I think that I think there
Speaker 4: always is until you finally get to that level, until
Speaker 4: you finally get to the lead age.
Speaker 3: And what's what does pressure? What does pressure mean to you?
Speaker 4: If? How do I say this?
Speaker 6: Tom?
Speaker 4: He's a great coach, He's a young coach, and he's
Speaker 4: he's learning and developing.
Speaker 3: He's a good good and it's likable very.
Speaker 4: But is there a timeline where you run out of
Speaker 4: patients trying to get to a final four?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Here here, especially in today's college troops. Here here. I
Speaker 2: think he's fantastic. I like the guy as a good guy,
Speaker 2: as a person, everything. I mean, what's not to like?
Speaker 2: But I'm wondering, I'm not even wondering, what do you
Speaker 2: what do you think?
Speaker 7: Let me think what I'm doing. I agree with Troy
Speaker 7: where there is a timeline too? How long you're you're
Speaker 7: satisfied with sixteen's that happened?
Speaker 2: Where you're at? Remember where you're at Arizona? Yeah, where
Speaker 2: expectations are higher.
Speaker 3: Exactly they shouldn't be, but they are.
Speaker 4: And let's face it, this athletic director did not hire
Speaker 4: Tommy Lloyd.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got four more years, four years on the
Speaker 2: new contractor he just said, yeah, five years, you know,
Speaker 2: five million? Yeah, so yeah, yeah, No, he's got he's
Speaker 2: got plenty of time to get this. But another sweet
Speaker 2: sixteen and another sweet sixteen? Mm?
Speaker 4: You know who was also in a similar, similar situation
Speaker 4: with many coaches. But Jay Wright, when was he going
Speaker 4: to get pass the sweet sixteen? When was he going
Speaker 4: to get past the lead eight? And they gave him
Speaker 4: this tiny won two national championships and said, Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: going to retire now and have a good one. But
Speaker 4: it's a lot show.
Speaker 2: You guys are in your twenties, maybe you're thirty, twenty
Speaker 2: thirty in your lifetime.
Speaker 3: Do you think that you're going to win another title?
Speaker 4: That Arizona will. I think they'll win multiple by the
Speaker 4: time I die. By the time I die, we're talking
Speaker 4: to maybe ninety.
Speaker 3: Writes this stuff down.
Speaker 2: Write this stuff down when you're out you're doing your
Speaker 2: little king say dry you remember begging.
Speaker 8: Five.
Speaker 3: We're talking like before you got into the show.
Speaker 4: Hopefully sixty fifty five, sixty years ago.
Speaker 3: Was now it's on your timeline.
Speaker 4: Yeah, talking about my time.
Speaker 2: Fine, you live until what seventy ninety ninety hopefully Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll give you that.
Speaker 3: You guys, sixty years to win two.
Speaker 4: To win two? Okay, and in the years give him
Speaker 4: that any given Sunday, you never know.
Speaker 7: To yourself, what do you think I think, given if
Speaker 7: you live to ninety, if I live to ninety, Arizona
Speaker 7: will at least win one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll give you that. Tell me because because your
Speaker 3: question was in my life lifetime the coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2: He's uh, let me tell you, it's very difficult. Obviously,
Speaker 2: it ain't easy. Everybody has a chance or not everybody,
Speaker 2: but there's a there's a little small target, right and
Speaker 2: things gotta go well and blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: The only thing with Tommy that I questioned in terms
Speaker 4: of we'll see is not the talent of coach. He
Speaker 4: is not the type of coach he is, and not
Speaker 4: that he's not growing, but one the timeline from the
Speaker 4: fan base and the university of hey, when are we
Speaker 4: going to get there? Because colle shoops, everybody's in and
Speaker 4: out now yeah yea. And two do you grow frustrated
Speaker 4: with that and eventually say, hey, you know what, I'll
Speaker 4: coach Gonzaga. I don't want this.
Speaker 2: They love me over there, right yeah yeah, yeah, no no,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna get paid well no, yeah.
Speaker 3: But he's not that dude.
Speaker 2: He's got he wants to win, and he wants to
Speaker 2: do well, and he loves his place and all that,
Speaker 2: and I think this town loves him a lot. He's
Speaker 2: won a lot. I think the world of him. I
Speaker 2: actually do. I did a story in a big story
Speaker 2: in the magazine a month ago or whatever. It's just
Speaker 2: gonna be very difficult.
Speaker 3: We got to go. Is that a call?
Speaker 4: Your call?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, Hello, you're on the air and line the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this they just coached? Hey, coach, I'll want you.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 2: Coach, you're We're just gonna go to break coach. Can
Speaker 2: we just uh can you call back in like four minutes?
Speaker 5: No problem?
Speaker 2: Call back, Thank you, Ben, Let's go to break down.
Speaker 2: Thanks a bunch of coach. Uh, let's take the break.
Speaker 3: We were running a little and then we'll get ahold
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson Sports stationed Fox Sports sporteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my on the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me
Speaker 2: today is Troy Huts. Just send from Goodizycats dot com.
Speaker 2: Now when the phone, we have Danni Gonzalez, the Arizona
Speaker 2: defensive cordon coach.
Speaker 3: How you doing, I'm doing great.
Speaker 5: How are you guys doing today?
Speaker 3: We're doing fine.
Speaker 2: Let me let me say that I know that Troit
Speaker 2: got you to get us on the line here with us.
Speaker 3: Let me say this.
Speaker 2: I was at the press converence here I two three
Speaker 2: weeks ago at the end of the spring ball and
Speaker 2: and I met you once at a preseason preseason stuff
Speaker 2: when you first got here, and I was pretty impressed
Speaker 2: with you. I'm let me sell also say this from
Speaker 2: New Mexico. Originally I've been here a while now covered
Speaker 2: basketball football.
Speaker 3: Uh, but I was you.
Speaker 2: You struck me as a very cool, just a guy
Speaker 2: that many guys want to play hard for. And I'm
Speaker 2: not blowing smoked. I'm the I'm the guy that doesn't
Speaker 2: blow smoke here at all. But it was very passionate.
Speaker 2: When you're on on the on the table and I think, Hmmm,
Speaker 2: this guy must be successful because they want to play
Speaker 2: hard for him. I guess that's the essence of a coach,
Speaker 2: right or you tried to be.
Speaker 5: No, I think you you first, you have to gain
Speaker 5: their trust. You have to they have to know that
Speaker 5: you're in it for them. And I think once you
Speaker 5: get that, and once you show them who you are
Speaker 5: and they can believe in you, and no matter what
Speaker 5: they need you, you're willing to help them out and
Speaker 5: do what it takes to one develop them not only
Speaker 5: is a football player, but of the person. I think
Speaker 5: they're willing to do anything for you. And I think
Speaker 5: we have a great group of kids that really want
Speaker 5: to be good, and we've kind of laid a blueprint
Speaker 5: form and I think they've.
Speaker 1: All bought in.
Speaker 4: You know, you guys just finish up spring football, and
Speaker 4: when we saw the Spring showcase, I know, going into
Speaker 4: this offseason, linebackers, you guys were addressing that with Max
Speaker 4: Harris and Riley Wilson and others that you added at
Speaker 4: that area defensive line, you guy has added a bunch.
Speaker 4: How important was it this offseason to add depth in
Speaker 4: key positions which you guys were able to do.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: Obviously, depth was a big hindrance last year when we
Speaker 5: started getting guys hit, hurt and picked off. We weren't
Speaker 5: deep enough to stay competitive in the Big twelve. And
Speaker 5: I think the Big twelve from top to bottom is
Speaker 5: very comparatively if there's nobody in this league that has
Speaker 5: more than every more than anybody when it comes to resources,
Speaker 5: So evaluating and is going to be an important piece.
Speaker 15: Now.
Speaker 5: We needed to get bigger, which was one of the
Speaker 5: things that we addressed because when we played games in
Speaker 5: late October November last year, the teams on the other
Speaker 5: side of the country were significantly bigger than us. So
Speaker 5: I think we've addressed that. I think we've got eighteen
Speaker 5: on defense that we think can play. We need to
Speaker 5: develop a couple more for that added depth that we need,
Speaker 5: But I think we have the right pieces to be
Speaker 5: a very competitive football team come this fall.
Speaker 2: So back in the day and I'm gonna throw late
Speaker 2: in the old name to Pat Hill, like kry Pet
Speaker 2: Hill that told me back in the day, and you
Speaker 2: know I would run into Pat Hill maybe at a
Speaker 2: restaurant or whatever. He'd have, you know, his little napkins
Speaker 2: drying up schemes. Are you one of those guys? Do
Speaker 2: you kind of think out of the box and kind
Speaker 2: of do things when you're not even working, but really
Speaker 2: working with those type of things writing stuff down?
Speaker 5: I think I'm always trying to figure out what gives
Speaker 5: our kids the best chance to be successful. And you
Speaker 5: could definitely ask my wife. I mean there's something. There's
Speaker 5: something being scribbled all the time somewhere, whether it be
Speaker 5: on my phone, iPad, a notebook, I mean.
Speaker 3: Name it.
Speaker 5: We're always trying to find a way to give our
Speaker 5: kids an advantage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, always thinking, always thinking.
Speaker 4: You know you talk about the size and all that
Speaker 4: that you guys were able to add. But a key
Speaker 4: part of everything this Houseason was seeing guys that entered
Speaker 4: the portal come back with Genesis, Smith, Dalton, Johnson, Trad
Speaker 4: and Stukes. Just having that foundation to work with. As
Speaker 4: you entered your first season as DC at Arizona, how
Speaker 4: important was that for you to get those leaders back
Speaker 4: in the locker room.
Speaker 5: Well, I think in January that thing was the utmost importance.
Speaker 5: I mean, we had a pretty good run there, and
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, one jumped in the portal,
Speaker 5: and then two, and then it became eight of the
Speaker 5: guys that we really wanted to stick around.
Speaker 15: We had conversations with probably twenty five.
Speaker 5: Others where we told them, you know, if you want
Speaker 5: to play football, it's probably not going to be here.
Speaker 5: But those eight the genesis is the Stukes, the Dalton
Speaker 5: Johnson's of the world. We did everything we could to
Speaker 5: keep them, and we did, and we battled back and
Speaker 5: they got out of the portal and remained, and then
Speaker 5: we were able to survive this portal here in April
Speaker 5: where the guys that we plan on being a big
Speaker 5: part of the picture next fall, they all stayed and
Speaker 5: they didn't even we didn't have to talk them out
Speaker 5: of getting out of the portal. They never entered the portal,
Speaker 5: which was now standing thing. And I think it speaks
Speaker 5: both for the culture that we built here in a
Speaker 5: short time and what Coach Brennan's idea and the foundation
Speaker 5: of this program and where we're headed. So there was
Speaker 5: a lot of excitement at the end of that portal
Speaker 5: window closing that we knew who our football team is.
Speaker 5: We're excited about the guys we have on this football team,
Speaker 5: and now it's time to get biggest, strong in the
Speaker 5: weight room so that we have some swing behind that
Speaker 5: hammer when we get.
Speaker 13: To the fall.
Speaker 2: So, can you describe what defense you're gonna not defense
Speaker 2: you're gonna run, but aggressive being who you are kind
Speaker 2: of what's the plan?
Speaker 5: Well, the plan is to make it as hard as
Speaker 5: possible on the offenses. And I think we have some
Speaker 5: depth of the D line, but I also think we
Speaker 5: developed some depth at linebacker. We have the ability to
Speaker 5: have four down linemen on there. We have the ability
Speaker 5: to have three down line and three linebackers on there.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna be able to create some problems for
Speaker 5: offenses by the pictures that we give them. We're never
Speaker 5: gonna we won't be static. I can promise you that
Speaker 5: will be very aggressive. The more we can get after
Speaker 5: a quarterback with a four man rush, the more stuff
Speaker 5: we can do in coverage. But I can promise you this,
Speaker 5: we will get after the quarterback, and I think we
Speaker 5: have some pieces back there with Marquise Dalton trade and Stukes,
Speaker 5: Chances Smith and the secondary that.
Speaker 15: We can we can we can create some problems for
Speaker 15: people and have.
Speaker 5: An opportunity to get some turnovers with those guys that
Speaker 5: we have covering in the back end.
Speaker 4: You guys were able to add coach Joe Salavea to
Speaker 4: the coaching staff and that seems to have helped out
Speaker 4: in terms of recruiting, transporport and whatnot and bringing in
Speaker 4: a guy like Tsava. Just the impact that you noticed
Speaker 4: from coach Salavea this spring practice and what are you
Speaker 4: excited most about having him on your staff along with others?
Speaker 4: Say you guys had it as well.
Speaker 5: Well. The most exciting thing about coach Salavea is I've
Speaker 5: had to compete against him for a long time, whether
Speaker 5: it be in recruiting or on the field, and I
Speaker 5: really effect and admire the work that he's done from
Speaker 5: Afar and having the opportunity to be up close and
Speaker 5: to be on the same side of the street is outstanding.
Speaker 5: I mean, coach Olive has won an outstanding person where
Speaker 5: it starts the multi He's very strong in his faith,
Speaker 5: He's a great mentor to the men in the d
Speaker 5: line room. And then the job he does recruiting is phenomenal.
Speaker 5: Not only is he a great evaluator, but his relentless
Speaker 5: pursuit of these young men. I think we're gonna be
Speaker 5: really excited about our signing class once we get through
Speaker 5: June and all these official visits and then sign these
Speaker 5: guys in November. I think there's a lot of upside
Speaker 5: on what this class is looking like between the guys
Speaker 5: that we have on both offensive defense. But coach Olive
Speaker 5: has been a big doctor in that.
Speaker 3: That said, how is it coaching under Brent.
Speaker 5: Coach Brennan is by far within the FBS football is
Speaker 5: he is the best players coach there is. And the
Speaker 5: way he treats his staff, we're allowed to be fathers
Speaker 5: and husbands, which is which is not always that common
Speaker 5: in this profession. He has a very strict I mean
Speaker 5: it's outstanding by our players because they understand what they're
Speaker 5: allowed to do, what they're not and nobody told that
Speaker 5: line and Coach Brennan has been I mean, we kind
Speaker 5: of did a reset on the program in January and
Speaker 5: it's been outstanding. I mean, he's a great individual to
Speaker 5: work for, he's a great man. It's been a true
Speaker 5: blessing for me and my family to be here, and
Speaker 5: I'm really excited about the future of this football program.
Speaker 4: During your post practice interview at the Showcase, you got
Speaker 4: to sit there with coach Dagan talk about the offensive
Speaker 4: mind that you see in him and the battles that
Speaker 4: you guys have had this spring practice. You know, can
Speaker 4: you just share with our listeners here a little bit
Speaker 4: of your thoughts on the job coach day he's done
Speaker 4: in the short time here in Tucson.
Speaker 3: Well, I think the.
Speaker 15: Biggest thing that he's done in the short time.
Speaker 5: Is he's laid the foundation of what their belief system
Speaker 5: is going to be on offense. And I've been this
Speaker 5: is going on my twenty eighth year of doing this.
Speaker 5: Coach Zegi's mindset and is close to a defensive mindset
Speaker 5: for any offensive coach that I've been around, which has
Speaker 5: been fun for us. I mean, his deal is if
Speaker 5: that ball stood on the ground, freaking a our offense
Speaker 5: is expected to go score and our mantra forever has
Speaker 5: been doesn't matter what it is keeping out the freaking
Speaker 5: end zone. So having that competitive spirit back and forth
Speaker 5: against each other has been outstanding. And then the buy
Speaker 5: in from I mean, you have to believe in what
Speaker 5: you do, and you have to portray.
Speaker 15: Some confidence in what you do. And coach Zeigi is
Speaker 15: an extremely.
Speaker 5: Confident young ball coach and it's bled over to his
Speaker 5: players and on the offensive side, and we've had some
Speaker 5: great battles through springball. You'll see an improved tempo. You'll
Speaker 5: see it improved. I mean, offensively, we have a chance
Speaker 5: to be significantly better than we were last year. And
Speaker 5: if we pair that together with a good defense, I mean,
Speaker 5: it could be a really fun football season.
Speaker 2: Troy brought up that conversation, so that was one of
Speaker 2: the things that struck me and maybe your tone because
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 2: It was about losing and how much you hate losing.
Speaker 2: Where does that come from? And how did that manifest?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I think it's it started from a
Speaker 5: young age. And my dad was very competitive when he
Speaker 5: was teaching me to play baseball, or when he was
Speaker 5: teaching me to play soccer or football, and mean those things.
Speaker 5: I mean when he teaching me to play baseball, he
Speaker 5: put me in front of our metal shed and he
Speaker 5: threw the ball at me as far as he could
Speaker 5: and he's like, son, do you not allow that to
Speaker 5: hit to the building. If that is the building, we're
Speaker 5: gonna have problems. And so I'm doing everything I can
Speaker 5: at five years old to keep this freaking baseball coming
Speaker 5: being darted from my dad to try and hit this,
Speaker 5: and and it became Uh, that's just that was the
Speaker 5: that was the deal. You whatever it is, you are
Speaker 5: successful at you you want.
Speaker 15: And that's just kind of the nature that I'm going into.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm I'm competitive in anything I do. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, I just want to win. I mean it's
Speaker 5: to the point that I hate losing more than I
Speaker 5: enjoy winning, which is really sad, but it's just it.
Speaker 5: It just gets so deep in me when I lose
Speaker 5: or I don't create success with whatever it is I'm doing, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that becomes a problem for everybody around me.
Speaker 13: So just just win so we.
Speaker 15: Don't have to deal with all that nonsense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what you just said is I think
Speaker 2: for coaches who just have that passion for it, it
Speaker 2: hurts more to lose and than it feels good to win.
Speaker 2: I think that's the that's kind of like the signage
Speaker 2: that every good coach has.
Speaker 5: Well, it's it's one of those things. I mean you
Speaker 5: win and everything you put into you should enjoy it
Speaker 5: a whole lot, because it's really hard to win football games.
Speaker 5: But when you win, you kind of move on to
Speaker 5: the next one because you know it's coming, and when
Speaker 5: you lose, it's hard to get over it. So, I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just it's just the nature.
Speaker 15: Of what comes when you're that competitive.
Speaker 4: So we were told that tomorrow May sixth, you guys
Speaker 4: are opening up a camp called Extraordinating Extraordinary Cats, a
Speaker 4: camp for kids with disabilities. Can you share that and
Speaker 4: the community outreach stuff you are doing with camps just
Speaker 4: like that here in Tucson.
Speaker 5: Well, last last Tuesday, we had the kids to steal
Speaker 5: for individuals like to make a wish condition, whether they
Speaker 5: whether they're fine, a debilitating disease, or they've overcome cancer,
Speaker 5: I mean those things, and it was really fun to
Speaker 5: have those children out there last week with our football
Speaker 5: players and our team. The camp that we have tomorrow
Speaker 5: called Extraordinary Cats. My wife and I our youngest daughter Abby.
Speaker 5: She's eleven years old. She has Down syndrome, and when
Speaker 5: she was born, my wife had seen an individual's football
Speaker 5: camp for kids with Down syndrome that Christian McCaffrey and
Speaker 5: his dad ed McCaffery put on and she had thought
Speaker 5: it was really signed.
Speaker 15: To it and looked into it and she's like, you know,
Speaker 15: we should do this, And I told her, if.
Speaker 5: I ever become had a football coach, we will start
Speaker 5: a camp and represent anybody that has any individual with
Speaker 5: a disability, and we think of it as different abilities.
Speaker 5: And because everybody's good as something and people with disabilities
Speaker 5: oftentimes are more like than different, will learn as much
Speaker 5: from them as they do from us. And so when
Speaker 5: I became head coach of the University of Mexico, we
Speaker 5: started a camp called Extraordinary Lobos and it was for
Speaker 5: individuals with the disabilities, and it was just awesome. I mean,
Speaker 5: they come out, they get to be around our football players,
Speaker 5: they do drills, they blew football drills. I mean, these
Speaker 5: kids are never going to play Division one sports or
Speaker 5: these individuals, and so to give them the opportunity to
Speaker 5: compete in that manner with our football players is awesome.
Speaker 5: And so when we took the job here at the
Speaker 5: University of Arizona, my wife was like, we got to
Speaker 5: continue this, and so I asked coach Brennan if we
Speaker 5: could become extraordinary cats and continue this for our community
Speaker 5: here in Tucson, which has been freaking outstanding. And I
Speaker 5: think we as of last week, we had over sixty
Speaker 5: individuals registered. So we're excited about the opportunity. Tomorrow night
Speaker 5: at five o'clock. Registration starts to four thirty. Anybody with
Speaker 5: an individual and anybody wants to come to the camp
Speaker 5: and come to the camp. I mean, you don't have
Speaker 5: to have a disability.
Speaker 15: If you have an If you do have.
Speaker 5: A disability or somebody with a divisibility that you want
Speaker 5: to bring, you can bring them and compete with them.
Speaker 5: And we're gonna do different drills with our football players.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be able to tour the locker room, try
Speaker 5: them some pads. It'll be a great event for the
Speaker 5: city of Tucson, a great event for the University of
Speaker 5: Arizona and Arizona Football. Something very passionate about. And like
Speaker 5: I said, we're in We're intoing inclusion. Our daughter is
Speaker 5: in a genet classroom with their typical peers. We fully
Speaker 5: believe in that and we're gonna spread that as much
Speaker 5: as we can where we can. Our kids go to
Speaker 5: Catfield's Catalina Foodthill School District and our daughters at Manzae
Speaker 5: Elementary School. She's going to Orange Grove next year where
Speaker 5: we have our other daughter who's at Orange Grove and
Speaker 5: they've been phenomenal with an inclusion program of keeping our
Speaker 5: daughter involved with typical peers. So we're excited about this
Speaker 5: camp tomorrow. We want anybody and everybody to come out
Speaker 5: to it and experience it and have a great time
Speaker 5: in Arizona Stadium.
Speaker 4: I did see on Twitter that you guys had a
Speaker 4: QR code for people to sign up and get active
Speaker 4: with that. But how long does the camp run? Is
Speaker 4: it just tomorrow or is it a select number of
Speaker 4: days for people that are interested.
Speaker 3: Nope, it is.
Speaker 5: It is just tomorrow. Registratings at four thirty. The camp
Speaker 5: goes from five to ish. It's just a one day camp.
Speaker 5: We'll continue to do this annually, but it'll be really excite.
Speaker 15: So they can sign up.
Speaker 5: They can go to Brent Brandant football camps, you can
Speaker 5: go to Arizona Football Camp or Arizona Football website or
Speaker 5: the QR code, or you can just show up tomorrow
Speaker 5: at four thirty and register at the stadium.
Speaker 15: Either way you can do it.
Speaker 5: However you want. But we're looking for individuals with disabilities
Speaker 5: to have a whole bunch of fun with our football.
Speaker 2: Players a specific agents, no any any individual. There's no
Speaker 2: age limit, okay, no cool. More importantly, now, do you
Speaker 2: miss home? Like I said, I grow up in Santa Fe.
Speaker 2: I missed the food, I missed my friends.
Speaker 3: How about you?
Speaker 16: You know what.
Speaker 5: Home is wherever you put your feet, and right now, Dusan,
Speaker 5: Arizona is our home. We love it here. I think
Speaker 5: I'm a firm believer of wherever you are, you have
Speaker 5: to be all in now. Our family, the majority of
Speaker 5: our family, my wife's family is in Albuquerque still, so
Speaker 5: we'll go back there and visit and do all those things.
Speaker 5: But we are situated in Catalina Foothills right now. We
Speaker 5: love our community, we love our where we're at. And
Speaker 5: so the new Mexican food, we haven't found anything quite
Speaker 5: like that out here yet. The Mexican food and New
Speaker 5: Mexican food is different, yes, so we're still hunting that up. Luckily,
Speaker 5: my wife is a wonderful cook, so I get as
Speaker 5: much of it as I want. And uh, but Juson
Speaker 5: has been fantastic for us for the past year. We're
Speaker 5: excited to be.
Speaker 2: Here, spoken like a true coach, diplomatic and didn't want
Speaker 2: to piss anybody off, you know, Like, have you eaten
Speaker 2: at Pokemon Moms?
Speaker 5: We have not, so that that's a new one. That's
Speaker 5: what we need to try.
Speaker 2: That's the one because let me tell you, I missed
Speaker 2: food like that. All the Albuquerque stuff santathe specifically, but
Speaker 2: that's the closest you'll get that's good.
Speaker 5: Where is it at.
Speaker 2: It's on the east side, It's near Udall Park. Just
Speaker 2: Poco and Pokemon Moms. You'll find it.
Speaker 1: Go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic stuff. Coach, thanks for joining us. Enjoy we'll
Speaker 2: talk again soon.
Speaker 5: Awesome. I appreciate you guys having me on. Thank you
Speaker 5: all you do for our community and person on football.
Speaker 3: Thanks coach talking guys, be well man, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Uh And Albuquerque is like just to soon with snow
Speaker 2: and I'm going to offend a lot of people.
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Speaker 3: That's good. He was good. I like, he's just like a.
Speaker 3: I don't want to see a powerful voice, but a
Speaker 3: convincing voice.
Speaker 4: To me, an old school coach. Yeah, with that old
Speaker 4: school yeah, you know somebody that you're get inspired by.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, yeah, yeah, that that's Adam. Did you were there?
Speaker 3: Weren't you? With the post?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the relationship that he had or the the
Speaker 2: goal back and forth that hum and dag he had
Speaker 2: was like.
Speaker 3: Intriguing to me.
Speaker 4: You don't see a lot of oftense coordinators or evense coordinators.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say romantic, but like about the
Speaker 4: other dude in terms of what they can do.
Speaker 2: Right right, and and that said day was very How
Speaker 2: can I say this? And I'm sure it's simple because
Speaker 2: I don't hang around the football program as much as
Speaker 2: the bestball program about his and then Noah right and
Speaker 2: every coach waxed his poetic on their players, but not
Speaker 2: to the extent that Dagie did the most. And I
Speaker 2: can't remember mispraise or misquote him, and how passionate he
Speaker 2: was about Noah, how smart he is, how how thoughtful
Speaker 2: he was he is, and and everything I know about
Speaker 2: Noah is exactly true.
Speaker 3: Right He's He's that dude, and he was very passionate
Speaker 3: about him that night.
Speaker 2: It was like, I mean, if if you want somebody
Speaker 2: to talk highly about you in any situation, that's.
Speaker 3: What you want to hear.
Speaker 4: And you notice not only as the day it's Brendan,
Speaker 4: it was Jadfish, it was even it was even the
Speaker 4: name's escaping me right now. The former offense coordinated is
Speaker 4: escaping me right now. For here they just they I
Speaker 4: just left us think babers. But everybody has talked that
Speaker 4: way about Noah, and so if everybody does that right,
Speaker 4: if everybody does it right, there was something about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, no, obviously, because he's kind of held this
Speaker 2: team together last year. He brought a lot of the
Speaker 2: guys back, or at least they came back. And it
Speaker 2: doesn't surprise me now and I said this, you probably
Speaker 2: don't remember this when he replaced uh, the Lord Jayden.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking there's.
Speaker 2: Something about this game, the Stanford game, right that they
Speaker 2: played harder for him, and they pulled that game out
Speaker 2: and Jay would look at me like that, and I
Speaker 2: asked him, I don't want.
Speaker 3: To say his name.
Speaker 2: I said that that seemed to be the case for me,
Speaker 2: and it happens all the time. The players play harder
Speaker 2: for people that they like and are are impressed by
Speaker 2: or respect. And they said, no, that's not there's no
Speaker 2: question that was the case. And some of the people said, yes,
Speaker 2: very much so. And you saw it from that point
Speaker 2: on the Washington game, the USC game. Yes, I don't
Speaker 2: think there are any any of those ball games with
Speaker 2: the previous quarterback, right right, Everything just seemed to gel
Speaker 2: right after that moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like you find it.
Speaker 3: Very noticeable one and then you can see what you
Speaker 3: can see why now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well and you saw why after the season
Speaker 4: when Jed left, when everybody left, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: what's going to happen? And know on TMAC stay and
Speaker 4: they're able to get the majority of the Yes, they
Speaker 4: lost some pieces, but the majority of the roster back.
Speaker 4: That doesn't happen, especially nowadays.
Speaker 2: You're exactly right, even just to test it, because some
Speaker 2: of them stayed a year and then obviously left right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: We talked about this a year ago when I was
Speaker 7: first starting with you, that there's there's almost an aura
Speaker 7: about Noah Flafida that almost everyone's drawn.
Speaker 2: To at the perfect position, too, right, because you need
Speaker 2: that quarterback, that guy to be the quarterback.
Speaker 7: And then it's not only the person he is. You
Speaker 7: don't see many five ft ten quarterbacks. I was going
Speaker 7: to say that they get that respect. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: And I think what's different about this spring that we
Speaker 4: didn't see in the previous springs or pre last spring
Speaker 4: when no Fafida was going to be the guy as
Speaker 4: they said, you know what, Yes he's a great leader.
Speaker 4: Yes he's a great person. We need him to be
Speaker 4: more vocal, right, and we're going to challenge him. Yeah
Speaker 4: this spring, that's the first time you've ever heard somebody
Speaker 4: say we're going to challenge know what to be more
Speaker 4: of a leader than what he is.
Speaker 2: The funny thing about it, I can say, I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to go back with some of the players that
Speaker 2: I covered. The last guy, maybe not the last gay,
Speaker 2: but a guy like that was TJ McCoo, just the
Speaker 2: dude who, okay, guard non descript but led those teams
Speaker 2: to how good they were. And it was funny because
Speaker 2: the year before I ran into lout a couple of
Speaker 2: times in twenty thirteen whatever it was. He says, how
Speaker 2: they look, and he says that they're gonna be good,
Speaker 2: but the best player is not even playing. I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: who's that well? Was their guard the transfer from the
Speaker 2: Kane I'm thinking, oh, that's interesting. And then the year
Speaker 2: later you see him playing and says, oh, exactly what
Speaker 2: lou would want in the guard. Was him just the
Speaker 2: guy who helped everybody make play better.
Speaker 4: And went about his wisess, not caring about how many
Speaker 4: shots got up in there.
Speaker 2: And that you remember the story that I saw from
Speaker 2: Paul Carrol, not Paul carl I'm sorry, the athletic guy.
Speaker 3: Oh my names are just getting too old. He wrote
Speaker 3: the story when when when TJ.
Speaker 2: I guess got his thing, talked about Stanley Johnson and
Speaker 2: he was a freshman and TJ was a senior, I
Speaker 2: guess by this time, and Stanley was being Stanley, kind
Speaker 2: of being the cocky freshman kid and he don't screw
Speaker 2: up my senior year. And you're not gonna do this
Speaker 2: to us. You're gonna play we want you to play,
Speaker 2: don't mess around.
Speaker 4: And you know what Stanley needed that you, no question,
Speaker 4: he needed a lot more, no question, probably throughout his career.
Speaker 4: But that makes him who they are, that makes TJJ yeah,
Speaker 4: and that's who makes what makes yeah. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: And you know you kind of saw it last year
Speaker 4: when they're going through the lows and the highs. No
Speaker 4: matter how many times he got hit, no matter how
Speaker 4: far they were down, he was in there. He was
Speaker 4: in there taking the blows until finally, I think in
Speaker 4: the BYU game, they pulled them in the last like
Speaker 4: three minutes of the game. But most guys are going
Speaker 4: to be like, you know what, we're down by thirty,
Speaker 4: just take me out. Yeah, I'm tired of It's.
Speaker 7: Not only that him staying in the game. He's not
Speaker 7: plenty fingers and then he's pointing them at himself. Right,
Speaker 7: I need to play I need to play better, YadA YadA.
Speaker 7: It's easy for us, for guys like us to be, oh, well,
Speaker 7: the left guard missed missed this block. Sure No, Noah
Speaker 7: was going to say, I didn't get the ball out
Speaker 7: in time, right.
Speaker 4: Well, and you know what is critical on himself and
Speaker 4: rightfully so he saw throughout the season. You missed the
Speaker 4: tight end wide over, wide open, over the middle of
Speaker 4: the field. You missed this receiver over the middle of
Speaker 4: the field. You threw this pick here because you got
Speaker 4: tunnel vision with t mac and every press conference it
Speaker 4: wasn't oh, this guy's well that. No, you're right, I
Speaker 4: miss that. That's my bad. I got to get better
Speaker 4: on that.
Speaker 3: So how do you think he's gonna do it? I
Speaker 3: maybe already asked you this question, but how do you
Speaker 3: think he's gonna do without his safety inknit?
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna do better because he knows, he
Speaker 4: knows somewhere else there isn't that that blanket right there,
Speaker 4: and that thought in your head, Well, I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: throw it up to Teta Row and see if he
Speaker 4: can come down with it. And I think there's a
Speaker 4: lot more talent in the receiving room now. You don't
Speaker 4: have the guy like tetro Roe McMillan. I don't think
Speaker 4: there is a guy like that, sure, but you have
Speaker 4: better depth to through six than you did last season
Speaker 4: because no offense to Chris Hunter, who's played very well
Speaker 4: and probably will be a key piece bearers under this season.
Speaker 4: He didn't come on until the last what like four
Speaker 4: games of the season, and outside of that, you can
Speaker 4: name me a consistent target on Arizona or a guy
Speaker 4: that could get open. Now you have Javian Watley, you
Speaker 4: have Luke wis On, you have uh, Chris Hunter, Chris Hudson,
Speaker 4: you have you have guys on the offense.
Speaker 2: Do you I couldn't be critical with Gonzalez because we
Speaker 2: just got him on the phone right now.
Speaker 3: And how last year felt?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 3: Do you think they're gonna be They're gonna be better, right,
Speaker 3: You're gonna be better?
Speaker 4: How much better defensively or as a team both, So defensively,
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be tremendously better. And I think
Speaker 4: they would have been good last year because they're gonna
Speaker 4: be healthier, okay until they're not healthy, until they're not
Speaker 4: at least to start, And I think there's more depth.
Speaker 4: And I think unlike coach Akina, who I think they
Speaker 4: did a terrific job considering all the injuries that he
Speaker 4: dealt with, I think, unlike him, you're gonna see Gonzalez
Speaker 4: switch stuff up. I kinda kind of sat in that
Speaker 4: four two five, we're gonna play zone coverage. We're gonna
Speaker 4: lit's with the front four, and if you beat us
Speaker 4: that way, you beat us that way, and it kind
Speaker 4: of killed them throughout the season. I don't think the
Speaker 4: defense was not to blame, No, no, but I think
Speaker 4: you're gonna see more of a willing to switch things up.
Speaker 4: One thing's not working. They're gonna come in with a
Speaker 4: three four five three three five And he's an aggressive dude, aggresive,
Speaker 4: aggressive dude.
Speaker 3: Any want to give help, give me his game plan.
Speaker 3: I just think they're going to be more aggressive.
Speaker 4: And then as a team overall, I think they're gonna
Speaker 4: be much better. Does that mean you know, more way
Speaker 4: nine wins? No, I don't think so. But somewhere between
Speaker 4: that five to seven mark I think is the golden point.
Speaker 4: And right now, if I had to pick right now
Speaker 4: without training camp, which is huge, you got to see
Speaker 4: how they are in training camp, I would say it
Speaker 4: was gonna go six and six and get sobal game.
Speaker 4: We'll see what. I love the schedule, I like what
Speaker 4: they have, I love the coaching changes they've made, but
Speaker 4: we'll see what they have in training camp. That number
Speaker 4: could go up or stay the same.
Speaker 7: I'm kind of in that same mindset six and six,
Speaker 7: six and six, maybe not even not even just looking
Speaker 7: at wins or losses. I just think they're going to
Speaker 7: be a lot more competitive. Do we know what the
Speaker 7: schedule is?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So the schedule I just pulled it up. That's why
Speaker 2: go ahead and give me a game. We'll go game
Speaker 2: by game, even though it's it's May fifth.
Speaker 4: Training camp.
Speaker 7: First game versus Hawaii home against Hawaiian. Okay, we'll give it.
Speaker 7: Home against Weaver State. Two home against Kansas State, close loss,
Speaker 7: two to one and one. The first road trip to
Speaker 7: Iowa State lost two and two. Versus Oklahoma State at home.
Speaker 4: I'll win. I think Oklahoma State is really after last season,
Speaker 4: and Gundy since Lake.
Speaker 7: It's okay, let's go with you in three and two,
Speaker 7: b y U at home, three and three at Houston win, Okay,
Speaker 7: four and three at Colorado the four and four listen
Speaker 7: because it's like Colorado home against Kansas.
Speaker 3: Kansas pretty good.
Speaker 4: They weren't good last year.
Speaker 3: They weren't four and five, four and five, five four.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3: Five and five and four, Okay at Cincinnati five and five.
Speaker 2: If I'm gonna you're gonna get Kansas we're gonna take
Speaker 2: away kids five and five.
Speaker 3: Last home game against Baylor.
Speaker 4: I think they get that win.
Speaker 2: Okay, home game, home game, Okay, well, six and play
Speaker 2: and the the trip to tep six and six and six.
Speaker 3: Okay, with with some wiggle room in there, because we
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, wish was six and six. Okay,
Speaker 3: maybe a bowl game.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe six and six that's that qualifies. But I
Speaker 4: think they're, like we talked about Cincinnati, that's a winnable game. Colorado,
Speaker 4: there's two.
Speaker 3: There's two, and there's two or three in there that
Speaker 3: you can go either way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Colorado, you don't know what they're gonna be do
Speaker 4: without Shore and without Travis Hunter. And the fact of
Speaker 4: the matter is, out of those twelve games, eight are
Speaker 4: in the state of Arizona, seven are at home, eight
Speaker 4: in the state of Arizona. You'll only leave the state
Speaker 4: four times.
Speaker 3: So if he goes six and six, what does that mean.
Speaker 4: He goes six and six, he goes a successful year,
Speaker 4: and I think recruiting goes up and his timetable at
Speaker 4: Arizona is extended.
Speaker 2: So I think, yeah, it's yeah, how you're going to
Speaker 2: get rid of a guy that's six and six and improving.
Speaker 4: And improving, and you're making the right games. The recruiting class,
Speaker 4: I thought this past recruiting class, for all the trouble
Speaker 4: that they had this season, I thought they pieced together
Speaker 4: a pretty nice class at top forty, top fifty class.
Speaker 4: This recruiting class coming up, I could see being in
Speaker 4: that top twenty top thirty.
Speaker 2: Range, given that you've been in the recruiting business for
Speaker 2: a while now and you're no cage vetteran if you
Speaker 2: want to call it yourself. Back at thirty, sure, where
Speaker 2: should Arizona be recruiting wise? You said, top thirty fifty, whatever,
Speaker 2: Where should they be?
Speaker 4: I should compete, to compete, I think, to compete in
Speaker 4: the Big twelve, and to compete at a national level,
Speaker 4: they should consistently be in the top thirty five.
Speaker 3: And is it possible?
Speaker 4: I think it's possible. So you saw Jetfish have a
Speaker 4: top thirty five class and a top number nineteen class,
Speaker 4: which is highest ranking recruiting class in Arizona history, and
Speaker 4: then you saw the results some other results. They did
Speaker 4: very good. And then when Mike Stoops was here, they
Speaker 4: were consistently getting top thirty recruiting classes. And yes, you
Speaker 4: know eight and five, eight and five, and they kind
Speaker 4: of fell apart. But you had NFL dudes on those rocks.
Speaker 2: And it's very parent Arizona just from the draft here.
Speaker 2: I mean they got they got people.
Speaker 4: Where rich Rod his name wasn't recruiting there in that
Speaker 4: fifty to seventy range. Somebody is even ninety.
Speaker 3: I think his ego was part of that problem where
Speaker 3: he thought he can coach them up.
Speaker 4: I think it's ego. And I also think defensive staff
Speaker 4: saying not not caring enough about defense, bringing over that
Speaker 4: West Virginia staff that wasn't good defensively. At West Virginia.
Speaker 4: You didn't want to recruit and didn't want to recruit
Speaker 4: and were older dudes. You just didn't care defensively.
Speaker 3: What do you have against older dudes? So you've said
Speaker 3: that a few times.
Speaker 4: The older dudes they don't like to change.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in college they don't like to change more
Speaker 2: momentum a more important note.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't like momentum.
Speaker 4: We don't got it.
Speaker 3: Momentum.
Speaker 4: Actually, you gotta adapt with the times.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, you think you very much, so we gotta
Speaker 3: shave I need to.
Speaker 2: But I agree with you. I agree with you. Thirty five,
Speaker 2: top thirty five, There was no possible.
Speaker 3: Can they do that?
Speaker 4: I think they can this upcoming recruit again, I think
Speaker 4: anywhere from that twenty to thirty range is a realistic
Speaker 4: actually rotation for this up and recruiting class. Okay, you're
Speaker 4: just gonna win if they have a successful because you could,
Speaker 4: you could get all these guys committed before the season
Speaker 4: starts there let's say twentieth in recruiting, right, and then
Speaker 4: all of a sudden you start losing and teams are like,
Speaker 4: you really want to go over there? Oh of course,
Speaker 4: look what they're doing. Okay, I'm going to decommit. You
Speaker 4: see that all the time. So you have to be
Speaker 4: able to show consistent growth in a program. Yeah, Jed
Speaker 4: was headed there until he was Yeah no, because imagine
Speaker 4: what in no offensive Brendan or anybody on the staff. Now,
Speaker 4: but I get it that they had that top that
Speaker 4: number nineteen class and they had a thirty five class.
Speaker 4: You go ten and three with a alimable Imagine what
Speaker 4: the recruiting would have been.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, the ball was rolling the balls wrong, and you
Speaker 2: can imagine. But doesn't mean it's going to guarantee it,
Speaker 2: but it is what it is, I'll be ready to go. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: let's go and come back. And then we'll get some
Speaker 2: breaking news.
Speaker 3: This report