Breaking down all the excess at alls. It's Steve Vera and Jakins Alves. This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to it in the bright you know on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen times Steve, you're Jakins Oz and I hope you have some breaking news. I do USI pobility you did. This is I on the ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty's gonna see you bury the lead. I'm not going to bury
the league. One of the big big news items of the day. Uh. Five NFL players, including uh four of them with the Lions, one of them a former Arizona guy. Guy. We really think a lot of them sat right there and here in our studio suspended by the NFL for violating the the NFL's gambling policy. Um. Three of them were busted for actually betting on NFL game. Big no no. In the rules, you can't bet on NFL games. Um. The rules do allow players to bet on
other sports, but you can't do it from team facilities whatnot. And that's Stanley berry Hill, the wide receiver from Arizona. Uh uh was here for Jed's first year. Got himself into the NFL with the Lions. Um was one of the two players he got himself a six game suspension with with one of the other players for UM for betting on something other than football. But they did it from the training facility and so that that's against the rules.
Um. And then the other three guys, one was with the with the Commanders, the two the two guys with the Lions all got suspended for a year. The two Lions players were released by the Lions already. They're like they're gone, they're out, and so um. You know the thing about this is begs a whole bunch of issues now. And you know, uh, you know, media and fans calling the NFL hypocrites. You know you're in bed with the gambling sites. You know, Draft Kings, who we
endorse, is an official betting partner of the NFL. But then you're suspending your players for gambling. Now, I get. You can't have guys betting on NFL games. That's true, no matter what, no matter how in bed these guys are, how married the NFL is to fan duel and Draft Kings and MGM and bet MGM and all of those, you can't have players betting on their sports. So sure, I don't. I don't have a
problem with that. Sure. The other one is, though, is that you know, you you got sports books and then this is this has been the argument. You got sports books opening in stadium. Yeah right, there's a bit there's a bricks and mortars sports book outside the Cardinal Stadium. Yet they're telling players don't bet from NFL facilities. That's the one that people have a problem, right, Well, aren't they these big fan sites one who
we endorsement right, Uh, kind of in bed with the NFL. If not owned by the NFL, they're not owned by the NFL, but they're partners with the big part. I don't. I don't think NFL invest in them, but they share revenue, right because when the NFL to allow them to use the product, the betting sites have to pay for them, you know. And then again you have you know, as I said, you know Draft Kings an official sports betting partner of the NFL. That's in the
read that I do when we've got endorsements to do. So that's where people are saying there's a there's a fuzzy line here that that that's that's in place how long can you do this and what are you gonna do? So? Um uh Now, Jamison Williams I believe Jamison Williams and Stanley berry Hill are the two um Lions players who only got suspended for six months for six games. The Lions have said, you know, we're going to talk to them. We're gonna make sure that they understand you can't do this yet a yet.
Look you know, and I know you try and bet on it. You're trying to use a betting site. They know where you are. They know exactly where you are because every time you sign on, they've got to locate you to know that you're in a place that allows betting, whether you're in the right state or whatever. By for instance, my understanding is if you're one of like one of the local tribal casinos, you can't use use it because because the geo fencing, you can't use the betting sites because they
have sports. So so you know, they know precisely where you are. So they obviously knew that Stanley berry Hill was betting from the Lions facility. So you can't do that. Now. Look, whether you like the rule or not, it is the rule, right, I mean you're driving down the street at forty miles forty miles an hour in a thirty miles an hour zone, you can't tell the opposite. Well, I think the speed limits should be forty, so don't give me a ticket. Well that's not how
it works. The loss as thirty. You're getting the ticket and forty. But you know, but these are the first guys that have been suspended since Calvin Ridley got suspended for a year from the from the Falcons forebetting on a Falcons game while he was out on an injury. So bury the league. Yeah, that was the story talking about it all right, Um okay, uh The nc Double a football. Remember we brought these rules that they were
talking about implementing the they're going to implement them, right. The clock will run after first downs except in the last two minutes of each half. So that's that's been a big difference between the NFL game and NCY Double. Again, the NFL, the clock continues to run on first downs. Everybody wants to speed up these games right in that window, a three hour window, Yeah, they do. So the clock will run on first downs except in
the last two minutes and a half. Uh. Um, you can't have back to back timeouts, so you can ice the kicker once, but you can't ice them again, so you can't do that anymore. And then a one that just kind of doesn't happen very often, but if there's a if there's a penalty at the end of a at the end of a third quarter or or the first quarter, they would do an untimed down. That's gonna go away. They'll do that. They'll do that penalty the first play of
the next quarter. That's that's not a big time, say everybody. It's just well, that was one of those we just got to clean this up kind of rules thing. So these rules will be in effect for the next college football season, all right, um. John Willner reporting that those two PAC twelve executives who got fired over that money that Comcast money, fifty million dollars under overpayment that Comcast made and these two executives were fired saying that they
knew about it and didn't do anything about it. They're filing a wrong termination complaint against a conference saying that Larry Scott knew about the whole thing, shocked shocker, right, and told them not to do or say anything. I'm shocked, so on top of on top of having to come up at the fifteen million bucks there there, it seems to be you know what, that's one that I wish I was a lawyer, I take I could even not being a lawyer, I can win that, right, I can win that
case. Right now, no one's heard from him, how they have since he left that I nobody's heard from him. I think somebody tried to go tried to interview him and his island that he bought little while back. Exactly. Um, all right, I got a couple of couple of uh things happened in the NBA playoffs last night. First, Joel and Be kicked a guy in the nards who was taunting him. Hit him. Yeah, well I got him between the legs and the upper I'm guessing he got him in
the yards. Somebody made somebody made the joke that he only got him in one, so he only should have gotten you know, like penalty, right he got he got yet you get hit one, Okay, you feels right?
So so there was that kerfuffle. Then later on in the game, James Harden throws a forearm shiver to a guy, but it kind of gets away from and he got him in the nard and they tossed James Harden, what an inconsistent call, right, sir, right kicks okay, but a little there's a little nudge and then a little nudge in the nuts and then you get and you get tossed from the game. You know, James Harden
heard him. He thought when they blew the whist, he thought the fall was on the other guy because the guy was leaning into him, and then all a sudden he felt, not only does the fall on him, he got tossed, and so a lot of complaints. Doc Rivers just on the record said that was horrible. You know, not only should have not been a file, should have been following the other guy, and on top of
that, you can't throw him out of the game. And he was kind of saying that it seems like where it used to be that the Stars could get away with things that now the Stars are being closely watched, and you know, they're they're getting more stuff, you know, the getting more files there, you know, the getting thrown out of games, and it's like, what the hell is going on? You know, people come to pay
to see these guys play. We're gonna toss him because he did a little push off that happened to slip down and get a guy in the nether region. I mean, what do you what are we doing? Here's what upset? What's the world coming to where you can't hit somebody in the nards and get seriously seriously fun man, Come on, um okay um uh, Arizone's got an Arizona women have a new assistant coach. She was a special assistant
to UH to UH Dia Barnes or her name is bet Shelby. Uh. She was already here, she was moving, she was she was she was not an analyst. Yeah, like she was the one who come and put the lineups in the score books like that. So she had a role as she was exactly. So now she she's a full time assistant UH and it's announcing and it's an ouncement on Twitter. The women's basketball UH program said that she's regarded as one of the top recruiters in the country. We'll get him
and we'll get some players. A lot, got a lot of work to do. Um all right, UH, A little personal for me. The Dodgers were getting their faces kicked in today, got into the h got into the U I think the eighth inning, seventh inning or eighth inning, and the Dodgers were getting wiped out and a perfect game was being thrown against him. So then Dodgers guy hits a slow roller up the third base line,
kind of in the grass. The pitcher comes out to make the play, the catcher comes out to make the play, they collide and it's a base hit. He's the only hit of the game and loses the perfect game on that play. It's the video is all over Twitter. It's like basically saying, that's a crappy way to lose a perfect game. Now you know, it was a close no play that they don't know if he would have got him anyways, but he might have, but he had no chance to get
him because they fell over each other and I didn't get the play. Did they win last night? They lost the one last night? I was yeah, it with two two and the two two in the ninth and uh, James out in the rookie center field. It's hard to center grand I don't follow you guys because I don't really care about you guys. But the center fielder, now it was a former Dodger with the Cubs, was his name,
Cody Vllen. It's hard to see him in the Cubs unif. It is hard to see him his Cubs in from and he's tearing the Dodgers apart. He's played uh five games against him. Think he's got three homers. Oh, he hasn't done crap against anybody else. Anyways, the Cubs lose, a lose, a a perfect game and the dodd it's the largest Dodger shut out against the Cubs since nineteen thirty. Well, you know it terms of thirteen to nothing. So that was a bad one. You know.
I was, I was. I was babysitting to my grandson today and so I was on the couch. He was asleep. I didn't want to move and the remote control was out of reach JET, so I had to watch it. JET. Do you know what we're unders you under your poops today? Four or five? All right? I mentioned it briefly yesterday. Those Cardinals uniforms came out that they were unveiled last night. They're awful. Oh, so that means you're gonna have A'm not gonna play well in those are
not They're gonna be terrible because of the uniforms. They unveiled an all red uniform that has like nothing on it. It says Arizona across the front. It's got the can you see it? What's what's the Arizona color? Blue? Arizona. The Arizona is in white white across the chest. Do you know how sometimes Arizone has reds universe I can't read the names right. So there's a Nike swoosh, a white Nike swush on the pant. You got the white I mean, you've got the NFL logo on the pant. Other
than that says Arizona and the number and nothing else on there. It's it's like somebody said, you got these out of the Wilson catalog, right. And then the white uniform just has a little striping on the shoulders, uh not in a little piping on the pants. And the black uniform is just solid, a little striping on the shoulders and that's it. I was like somebody got power Point and said I can make this uniform and they did. That's what they came up with. Well, they deserve to have a bad
season because they're gonna have a bad season because they got bad uniforms. Um Devin Cambridge the the the ACU guy who went into the transfer portal. He's the brother of the guy that made the I thought it was the guy who made the long shot against his own it's his brother. He'd gone into the transfer portal. He is not going to Oregon. Oh well wow, so he transferred from ACU to Oregon. So uh, oh wow, man, that's guy. Uh, that's the uh, that's the portal for you.
All right, Uh, just about out of time. Arizona softball and baseball are busy this weekend. Softball is at the Oregon schools, starting to at Oregon starting tonight. They've only got three packed pall series left. They got to get on their horse. They're three and twelve in the conference, so if they swept the nine games, they get to five hundred in the conference, that would probably get him in the tournament. But if they don't do
something like that, they'll probably not even getting the postseason last year. And baseball is at home this weekend. They've got the Utah in town. They got to get to work two as well. They're six and twelve in the conference, nineteen and fifteen overall, so they got hit their stuff going. Okay, all right, cool, got anything. No, that's it all right, Dave, Dave Hekey's gonna be calling us here, just texting me, so we should be having him in about five minutes. A right,
man, Then let's take our break. We'll and we'll get Dave Heke in here and we'll see what he'll see what he's willing to talk to us about it. That's just not going to be notched up to me. No,
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Is one of our favorite guests, Dave Vicky the ad A U A. Let me say this, Dave, real quick, you have more TV, more TV time than Tommy Lloyd. This Ncuba tournament. I saw you everywhere on that television. Oh thanks for setting me up right out of gat. It's great to do with you guys today. Nobody's true. You must have been I saw you everywhere every site there was, But you must have been glad to be home, because that's a that's a heck of a job.
Well yeah, hey, it's really a privilege to be part of the group. For those listeners. I mean, I know I was been a part of the selection committee for men's basketball, and part of that is not only selecting the teams, but traveling around and going to the different sites. And I think I slept in Tucsons six nights in March. So it's good to be back on the ground and with our group here and doing things inside of
Tucson. Well, how's the wallet after having to spend two out of three weeks in Vegas, right for the first to Pac twelve tournament and then uh and then the regional up there. Well, yeah, we do a lot in Vegas. Actually I didn't get to go to the Pawel because you would have been with the selection committee. You're right. I was in Indianapolis with the committee selecting the field, and then then went to Denver and I was, you know, at that site, then went to Las Vegas for that
site, and then obviously to the final four. It's a it's a lot of fun. It's great basketball. It's interesting to watch different programs, how they operate, how they how their coaches coach, you know, how the kids react. It's just it's very interesting and hum Again. You know, hey, our goal is to be there at Arizona, and I know Tommy wants to be there. We're going to be in the thick of it as
we go forward. Is being on the selection committee and actually you know doing that, you know for that week, how much of it is fun and how much of it gives you a headache? Well, look, there's a tremendous it's it's look, it's a great responsibility and it's very important and you've got to put your full effort into it. You have to commit to really centering around. Our job is to make sure the right teams, the best teams get in. It's very hard sometimes in selecting between a few teams,
you're just really cutting hairs and it does give you sometimes a headache. But the group, it's one on one of twelve and you know, we work through that in a way together. But then also ultimately individuals vote and bring teams over and bring teams into the tournament. So it's a really outstanding process.
It's uh, you know the other thing I don't those who are affiliated with teams or conferences that are being talked about aren't even in the room, So you kind of take that component out and and that's really you know, continues to keep the integrity of the process so or so good stuff and again again it's a it's fun again. I'm catching my breath. You definitely need to recharge after you do it. So, Dave, this question might be obnoxious, but it's coming from me. So you expected. Um, you've
been here about five years now. You'll probably call the Arizona base passionate. Today we've kind of called them looney tunes a looney tuners because Tom Lloyd doesn't get a recruit. Oh, the world is gonna end in the UA fandom. Um, could you give some perspective on just how life is you have a nil. We had Adam Lazaris earlier in the week kind of pumping up the programs and stuff like, what do you need from this fan base? Well, hey, we need to continue to have that great passion. Okay,
that's what makes this place special. Let's not forget that. Um. This is a really unique and UM I think challenging time in college athletics. There's so many forces that are at at you know, in action right now, whether that's the name, image and likeness, UM, the deal, whether that's transfer portal, which has really resulted in unrestricted free agency, puts enormous pressure. It begins. What used to be a recruiting period now is
basically a three hundred and sixty five day a year recruiting period. And I don't think that's fair to coaches. I think it puts fans in weird spaces because we're on high alert now every day of the year. I'm not shying away from anything here. I also think you have to put it in perspective. You know, these kids make decisions and they go It's not like we're all in one basket and that's all that there is. Every day, you
just keep grinding away and working hard. And you know, remember we all make choices to go right or left, and sometimes when someone goes left, you've just got to be able to pivot and figure out someone that will turn right. And you know, that's what we're doing, and that's what our coaches don't have great faith in Tommy and his staff. And again, at this point last year, we didn't have a transfer. Now it's like if you didn't have a transfer in day one, somehow you're doing something wrong.
So I do get a little irritated with the system that has become that has been created. I'm not blaming it. It's been created, and then all of the ramifications of that that have really I think are unfair to coaches, to fans, to kids, to programs. I'm going to comment on this in a different way, Dave. There's a good segment of the Arizona fan base that I just flat out do not like. And I don't like him, and he's one of them. He's he's among the fans. Yeah,
And I mean I'm a fan. I'm a fan. I think I'm a good fan because I feel like, I mean, am I passionate about football? Absolutely? Do I want them to win all the time. Absolutely. I'm upset when they lose. Absolutely, But I don't rail on a coach or a player for making a decision that's the best decision for them, you know, Like the stuff that happened, you know with kur creasea all these people wanted him gone, then he was gone. Another upset that he's gone
all of a sudden. Today, Mommy Lloyd can't recruit because this kid from Crayton went to gonzag instead of Arizona. And those are the fans that kill me. And I don't know how you guys do this. I hear you that you love the passion. You love the fact that they care that much. But to me, it's it's got a grind on you. Well,
I think it can be trying at times. Again, got to put it in perspective, a step back again, have confidence in our process and our coaches and what we can do. And you know, let's let's let the season and the work through the years um speak for itself. And you know it works sometimes. Hey, do I get bummed out when we don't win?
Am I disappointed when somebody who doesn't choose Arizona? Because I think Arizona is the best place for everybody, right And I feel that way too, And I know that if someone chooses us, they're gonna have an unbelievable experience here. Okay they didn't, I'm gonna go get someone who's excited to be here, wants to be here, and it's gonna you know, really be part of that experience and really use it. So again, I'm not gonna
let it bog me down. I'm not gonna let that happen. I want fans to be excited, enthusiastic, but look at having success, whether it's winning games, getting recruits, you know, winning championships, it's hard to do and sometimes it doesn't go your way. What happened has to happen is how do we pivot, how do we move forward and make it work and
again make it work in a positive way. Yeah, no question. I think one of the things, and I said this to Sean Miller a long time ago when I was doing stories on him, he created a beast. He had to feed the beast, and eventually sometimes the beast eat you up. Tommy. Tommy's kind of doing the same thing where he did two years sixty one wins. This record that he did was amazing. Now people expect more. He fed this beast and now the beast is kind of eating them.
It doesn't make sense to me. Yeah. Again, let's I'm just a guy. If I try to keep things in perspective, these are eighteen, nineteen twenty year olds. These are coaches that are working their tails up. I know how hard they work and what they put into it. I know how important winning is. Nobody comes here, Nobody is a part of this program that wants to lose or doesn't want to put the best effort forward.
Um, you know that. Just again, we have disappointing days sometimes and again, That's what's troubling to me that now a day like today has become a day like a championship. Right, we lost the final four. It's just ridiculous that we got this thing too to a certain level. And I know I'll be criticized for what I say with you guys. I've always been a guy that's pretty passionate, and I wear it on my sleeve. It's it's been very honest, it's very sincere because I believe you. Yeah,
yeah, aren'tually happy you came on the show today. I'm already geared up a heck of a day. Yeah, okay, let's let's let's let's change gears just a little bit. How much can you tell us about what's going on with the with the the PAC twelve, a TV deal and expense, what expanse, what just all of that, you know, the expansion, the grant of rights, the TV stuff. I mean, what's happening? And when is there anything you can say hey about what we can expect
over the next month or weeks or whatever. Well, I really wish I could. I In many ways, I don't know, And that's a real real answer. We again, our conference and our Commissioner continue to work very hard to position us the best way possible to get a deal done. I don't have new information. I'm going to reveal a thing, quite frankly,
because I don't have anything. This needs to run its course. I've kind of gotten caught a couple of times because others have shared with me, Hey, it's gonna be a few weeks, or it's going to be a month, or I really don't know anymore, and I'm not going to put time limits on it. I know that our conference continues, our ads, our presidents continue to be committed to each other and keeping the conference together. We
think we can do that. We think it's a great conference, and um, we will get a media deal and ultimately granted rights that will hold the group together. That's kind of where we are. And if we don't, you know, then we'll again, We'll we'll react the right way. And it's not like we're just sitting here waiting for that. Obviously, we have to scan the landscape and understand what's going on out there and know where we would pivot to. So but I'm bullish. I want us to stay together.
I think it's a tragedy of pack twelve conference would not stay together with all the history tradition. But at the same time, I understand that we have to make the right decisions for the University of Arizona and put us in the best spot possible going forward. Well, I guess that's the one thing
that fans want to know. They just want to know that you Arizona, because you know in the end you got to do the right thing for you, that you Arizona are pretty much ready for anything, and that it's safe to say that you are. Well, Hey, I'm much like Tommy. I don't know what the game outcome is going to be. In a basketball game, We've got a plan of attack. We hope we can get to a point where we want to. If somebody puts the heck of a defense
on us, we got to change at halftime. We're going to do that. We're gonna look at different options. So yeah, I have to that's my role, I guess as the a D and President Robins's role to communicate with each other what our options, Where would we go? What if strip it all the way down and say what if this happened or that happened? You know, we go through those scenarios and we're gonna get and we're gonna
be in a good spot no matter where this thing has. So I'm assuming that a few years back, when you and the in the fiance at that time left Albion and loaded up the car went to Eugene, you never foresaw what your experience you that was an ad In fact, you would probably been a better baseball coach today, or wanted to be a better baseball coach. Well, I often think maybe I should have just done that coaching thing. Yeah, Hey, it's changed a lot, and certainly college athletics has.
I'm just a little bit of a traditionalist and a purist at heart. I just I'm all about change and growth and doing new things, stretching it. I just hope we don't lose the core purpose and the core of this whole operation, and that's our students, our student athletes, the great universities we are part of, the great fan bases, the alums, the grads, and all those tremendous memories. If we I think we're really embarking in an
area where it's becoming very, very fragile. You might think that this would be good, but that's gonna change so many pieces of it. It's gonna look different down the road, so I got to be careful. But I think there's still growth and you know, and we can stretch it to different ways, but it's fragile to a degree right now. The things that we
love most about it are very fragile. Well, well, you know, State We've talked a number of times, and you know, Dave Rubio was very open about how every so much has changed that he just if it didn't feel like he could do this anymore. Mike Andrea has said I wouldn't want to coach in this environment either. You know, Andy Lopez has said that. Steve and I are both pretty sure that Loot wouldn't wanted to coach in this environment. But when you hear that kind of stuff, I mean,
does that make your job harder? Does it? Or do you just kind of like it is what it is and let's move on. I mean, how do you how do you you know, deal with that? Yeah? I think look at the biggest challenge. There's no question the hardest job is the is and the biggest change has been with the coaches. Again, just like we talked about a little earlier, we've turned this into three hundred and
sixty five days that you have to win every single day. You know, there's just there's just enormous pressure change this new NIL environment, an environment of student athletes that you know are different. So you've got to react differently. You've got to step back and examine how you approach the situation. So that's hard on coaches, and that's you know, it's hard to develop continuity and
consistency and some of those things. Okay, my job is to try to weed through some of that, try to keep the best things we can. Try to help our coaches clear some of that mess away from them so they can go do what they do, and that's you know, work with the kids, work with our student athletes, and UH and have great programs that can compete for championships. And ultimately, I still want to graduate. I want our young men and women to go to school and graduate and have lifelong
experiences while they're on a campus. I'm gonna throw this question to Jay, but and this might be the most hard hitting question you'll have all day. Sorry to say, Dave, uh face mask, Go ahead and ask because I don't Oh, We've been told to ask you about the face masks on the football t why are they white and not and why are they blue? And why are they white and not blue? That's right, because they were blue back in the day. Somebody's really upset about that. What was back
in the day? Defined back? Good question, Well, the Desert Farm uniforms back you know, the nineties. M Okay, I do a lot of things, but face mask. I have some super talented people that at that time I face mask. That's not smarter people than I am that can answer that question. We will have to find that person. To find that
persons a question. Yeah, we actually got to ask that. Yeah, I'm looking at a picture right now, the nineteen nineteen ninety three team and you know, the great uniform but the face masks were blue and not white. That they're white now and the team that somebody's really think about it again. I remember, you know, we've had red face masks in my time here with red helmets. We've had yeah, I mean, we've had the white ones. I think we went to a very traditional, clean look and
right now that's had part of the white face mask. I will I'll tell you this and I'll tell you listeners. I'll throw that one on the table to our team and our staff at our next meeting and say, hey, let's look into it and let's see what makes sense. A lot of that comes from our football program. For coaches and our team. They make those decisions. They like what they see, and I think maybe the white mask right now is where they're all ast. We've got about a minute left.
I have a quick another quick question. You were at the Red Blue football game. What did you assess from the fifteen practices? Well, hey, I mean, I think there was more that it was obviously done during the practices than the game. The game's really a reward for those kids for the four weeks of practices and the hard work. But I thought in the first time it was great to see them out there. I think we look bigger, stronger, faster. Um. I thought the first quarter, maybe quarter
and a half, there was a lot going on. You could see things. Uh. I like how we look. I think we've again taken another step forward from the eye test. In my viewpoint that we look like a better football team. And Jed has confirmed that he thinks we're a bet. You know, on the on the field, we're a better football team. Now, you got to turn that into success when it counts, and that's in the fall, and I know we're all excited about going there. So
kids are in a great place. I love our energy, the enthusiasm. Thank our fans for coming out, huge number over twenty thousand. So there's you know, football matters. Is that kind of came out that weekend? It matters and two soon again and that's great. Yeah, yeah, perfect, Thank you, Dave. I hope we didn't upset you all. We hope we didn't wreck your friday. I'll get in trouble. Someone will criticize you for what I said. I'm sure if that's the world we live in.
You say I love something and says why exactly I love my mom? Well, why do you love your mom? What the hell is that? Always? It's always great to about a little bit and I love it and thanks for having me. Thanks, I appreciate you have a great weekend. It's it's funny because I got an email of the text from you from somebody. Why are you guys being so nice? Why do you be sometimes called a polyanda man? You know what? Or you polyda? What? Polyta?
Come on enough? What what is there to be pissed off? About today. Right, it's called the world, it's called Friday, right, Monday, It's it's yeah, it's April. All right, there's no basketball being played. Why are we so pissed off? All right, let's take our last break where to come back. We'll take more of your cause. Five Tuesday, four away. Let's close out this Friday and get the heck out here. We're right back. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan,
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it. Hey, this is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Subscribe now to the podcast on the iHeart Radio while just surgeony I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to you in vall. He on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's jagon ZoZ. Now let's go to the phone. All right, we have a caller, Gabriel. You're on the air. Okay, how are you? Guys? Were good? Fine, thank you obviously you know what Ryan
them committed to Kazaga. I just want to give my thoughts about us. So I don't think Tommy Lloyd. I think Tommy Lloyde needs a learned from its example and not for all for all eggs in one basket and just just give a lot of um uh players, just give a lot of players. Look just look out a lot of players. Let me ask you this game, but why why do you think Tommy Lloyd did not Why do you think he's not looking at other players? I mean, that's a serious question.
Why do you think I mean, don't you think he's out there looking at a lot of players? Or why? Why? Why do you think he's only looked at a at a couple. I mean there's I know there's a lot of people saying that, But why do you think that maybe he looked Maybe he's looking for somebody's for Maybe he's looking for people who are good for his program, like right, right, No, that's isn't that a good
thing? So he's looking after the good people. So I'm not sure he's putting all his eggs in one basket, like you said, uh, and like Jay asked, how do you know unless you're reading something somewhere that we haven't read, that he went all out on them hard and failed. I think the opposite of that, Yeah, maybe, Yeah. What probably happened was his brother told his younger brother, Hey, go to Gonzaga because familiar.
But I don't know what's going on. Hopefully, let me say this, Gabriel, I think in the next couple of days, maybe a little longer, you'll see that that the guard from Gonzaga went to Gonzaga and got him some good cash. I'm not joking out. I think in the next if that happens, you call us back and say you were right. If I'm wrong, you call us back and say you're you were wrong. Yeah,
and can I also can't do you think Tommy annoying? Tommy Lloyd needs to look at his coaching staff and a commissee which uh like hiring another um assistance or assistants that does really good in recruiting because looking in Sean Miller's he got he had a book richardson or don't go there, don't go there. Here, Here's here's what I think, Gabriel, Here's what I think. I think. And I'm pretty sure Tommy Lloyd has won sixty one games with
the staff he's he has. I just I just responded to a guy on Twitter who said, you know, Tommy Lloyd has to prove that he can coach because Sean Miller's players are all gone now. And my response to that was, wait a minute. These players that you think are so great that Sean Miller had they got him fired. He got fired with those guys, and Tommy Lloyd won sixty one games with those guys. What what? Why?
What's the argument? There's a disconnect there is that you know, well, Tommy Lloyd can't you know, let's see how he can do with his own guys, well, the guys that he and the guys that he inherited got the previous coach fired. So I some of these arguments aren't making any sense to me. And plus some of the people who want to who were high, we're happy that tom Lloyd Scott High was complaining about coach Miller with all his scambal right, right, exactly, So you're answering your own question.
You are, Gabriel, you really are. Hey, look, thank you Gabriel for Colleen. We appreciate it. Have a great weekend. Continue to call u skip, thank you, thank you. But you know, she said, now that's the argument, Well, let's see how he goes with with Sean Miller's players, going I'm like he won, he won with Sean Miller's players when Sean Miller couldn't win with Sean millers. I said that all the time, and he had some great five stars, right, what
were the results? Right? What were the results? Buffalo? I'll give you buffalo. I'll give you other other game? Which dot state? How did that go? Exactly? Can we go another call? A? Right? Great? Yeah, let's take this. Hi, you're on the R on the ball. Hey Tommy, it's windy over there. Wherever you're at, we can barely hear you. It's very windy or something. All right, Yeah, forget Get somewhere where you can where you're out of the wind.
Well. Cool um. Obviously a lot of people are passionate about it. You know, I was joking with it with with the with Dave, but it is what it is. He said all the right things. They're passionate, and I understand that they do that, and he needs their support. Yeah, I wish that he doesn't want to piss any of them off, and he should, of course, right, that's his job. But I guess, like I've always said, these dudes posted on Facebook probably don't
have or give much to the program except for their criticism. Financially, I'm talking about nancial sure, and then you know, and then like you got all these media guys who had this platform and they're not there. You know, you got Gabriel okay, saying why did you put all his eggs in one basket and go for the tampark guy? How do you know that?
Well, because these guys that are on social media and alleged allegedly you know, uh inside, yeah, know something and they're allegedly cre credible media are saying this, And where do they get their information because twenty recruits haven't called them to say Arizona's recruiting me that that means Tommy Lloyd is not their recruiting guys. I'm pretty sure Tommy Lloyd is not their recruiting guys. Yeah,
I mean, I think I can say with a lot of confidence. I don't know, but you know, yeah, these guys know a little more than nus because they live on this stuff. But to tell me, if to say he's the's this is the only guy he's gone, don't ask you something because I don't know if a nice news from sincerity? Uh do you or in the past, have you paid for the subscriptions? You don't. I don't either. I don't understand why people would. And that's let them
write them know if they want. But you're gonna get the news for free at some point somewhere. Um, I don't get it, and what do you get from it? We only need to know it when we want to talk about it, right, And you know, look we got plenty you know, we got plenty of information, come from a lot of different place. Yeah, Hi, you're on the ron on the ball, No man, Nico, what's up? Man? Did you get your answer? A voice of reason? Nico will be a voice of reason. Did you get
your answer? Though? From hekey man? David Hicky didn't even know what the uniform So that's a dope, that's but he said he was going to check on it. Are you happy with that? He said he was gonna put it out on the He did what the nachos? Dude, I said, fix the nachos, and he fixed the nacho. We'll get an answer for you, we promise. Hey man, he didn't even know the Desert Swarm uniforms. May Margaret did those? Like crazy? What's on your Nico?
Hey man? You you guys almost last man, But asking that question got me back. We told you we were going to ask, well, no, because Jay, you were hating on the car. Those the uniforms, Nico, they're terrible, man, that's why uniforms are clean. They're clean, Well, they're clean only because they don't have anything on them. Let's sit there, they sit there, some tackles in them. Exactly. Hey, man, they're going to the super Bowl. You've been to the
desert, haven't you. It was four twenty yesterday. It was four two oh yesterday. Bigger than that, very obvious, all right, Nico, But you know what I needed that I did. I needed I needed to call. He was like Johnny on the spot for me today. We'll see what I'm sitting here with all this. And then the Dodgers got beat thirteen to nothing, almost got a perfect game thrown at him, the best it was against their best picture. Who is he got? He got crushed.
He got with the glasses, right, yeah, he got. I mean he got crushed. And then I didn't couldn't get couldn't change the channel because the remote was out of reach. You been, You're gonna be. She's gone for a while. A week. Oh your your toast. I'm gonna be a I'm gonna be a shell of myself by the time she gets back next Friday. You know, first of all, I'm gonna eat bad every day, right, I'm having been the other to day. I've already invited
my daughter over there for Lucky Wishbone on Sunday. You know, I got Sugar Skulls tomorrow, so I'm gonna eat stadium. Yeah, that's right, Sugar tomorrow. Yeah, make sure about that. And then we have the nag thing yet. Yeah, okay, let's yeah real quick, because you got about two minutes left. Sugar Scolles home open her tomorrow six o'clock. It's a San Diego Strike Force, the Sugar Scolleser three and oh all three games coming on the road. So this is a home opening. It's a
red out. The first thousand adults can get a replica red uh Sugar Sculls Jersey. So you know, come on, let's just come out from Let's get a crowd in there. It'll be it should be fun. It's a it's a pro sport where we're always rooting for the pro sports. So try and get there and then on on Sunday, uh noon to two, I think so yeah, at the at the Cricket Store on West Saint Mary's Road. My Nagi and uh and I think three of her teammates are all gonna
be there. Helena Fuale, Kleen Gilbert and as Mary Martinez are all gonna be there signing an autograph. Uh, it's a's sort of it's a basically it's a like a card show type of event. So that'll be going on, food trucks and all kinds of stuf. I'm glad you brought the card show. I'll be as signing some books showtime cards on Sunday from one to two Speedway East Speedway Speedway just east of Craycrofted Showtime Card. A lot of things are going to be busy. Good good week of stuff, you know,
good week of stuff, A lot of fun. It was a lot of fun, you know. You know, we even talked to NBA this week. I hope, like like we knew what was going on. He texted he thanks for doing this U as always. I hope he's text me back, you think. God, it was a good week though. We had fun. Um. You know, it's a frustrating day, you know, coming in I feel pretty good about it now. I just have my say the sun's gonna go down tomorrow, yeah, but tonight and guess well
it'll come up. Well. I love, you know, I love what we do, Steve, because I love having a chance to come in here and blow off some steam on stuff like that and yell at the fans. And I know some of them hear me and they think I'm an idiot. Others hear me. I've gotten a couple of text messages saying, hey, you know, way to go. Um, you know, thanks for saying this because I want to say it to everybody. Would would again if we if we dump on every good guest that comes on the show, guests aren't
going to come on the show. So if you want to people to keep coming on, we've gotta be we at least gotta be reasonable with them, right, and they'll keep coming on. All right, We're gonna check out here. We'll be back on Monday. We hope you'll be here. Have a great weekend everybody, and be safe.