This is Eye on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jaganzalez sound Fox Sports fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services. I'm sure your most prized possessions katz R TUCSA at iHeartRadio station. Yet Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. We have no Jagan Zaws today, but we have Kevin Thomas in the house. Hello, Hello, Hello, running the booth and gonna be my partner
for today. Indeed i am. We do have a couple of great guests, so it should be fun. First guest in the first hour is going to be Kim Adare, the executive director for the Arizona Bor Bowl, the Barstools Arizona Bowl. Back on the CW. Yes, back on the CW. We'll break down news that was broken yesterday actually, and we'll talk more about that going streaming and on the on the tube. You know what the tube is. You're hear that, yes, Sairly, Okay, you're not
young enough to know not know, yeah, not that. We so we'll talk to her about three seventeen, three eighteen, and then in the second hour we're gonna have my buddy Pete Williams, the cornerstone of the Arizona basketball program from back in the day, talk about his thoughts on what he sees from the U basketball team. I think he went to the game in Palm Springs well to have to see that. He's based out of LA So we'll see what happens, maybe get his thoughts on some of the players and all
that. So you're looking forward to it. Thanks Kevin. This this show would not be existing if you were not here. Oh, it's all good. I hate that board. Does colors scare me be on a Friday? Yeah? Right out of the rain, out of the rain, out of the cold, out of the cold. For Tucson it's cold. Yeah, yeah, for us, it's really really cool. Yeah, a lot of things. We're gonna have some we'll talk about a little about today's games.
New Mexico State plays Liberty at the beginning at five for their championship, right their their championship, and then the big game at least for the day and maybe the weekend to me is Oregon Washington that starts at six on what ESPN? Good question. I think it's on ye, Yeah, why not right ESPN. So, uh, you know, we'll see what happens with that. I'll I'll make one of my predictions from that game in the second hour as as Jay and I continue to go head to head on something on the
picks. Yeah, I have J's picks for today as well in my back Okay, so we'll see how those go for him. Yeah, but does he have his on the in the back pocket? All year? He hasn't had a good He hasn't had a good year. Oh, by the way, if you want to call, please do five to four one sixty. It's just me and and Kevin or Kevin and I and it is on ABC. That packed Oh tonight. Okay, good, good, good, that'll be great. So some good, good people are doing that game. I'll
have to watch that one as well. Apparently you can also stream it on Sling TV, being that kind of thing. I don't know Sling TV who streams. Yeah, we'll we'll talk about that with with Kim. Of course, a lot of things going on. You probably have a ton of bricky news, a lot of people, a lot of a few people from you. They have decided to leave. That is true. That is true. Yeah, in fact, somebody just texted me it's on ABC. M hm, Yeah, you're correct. Did you have a couple of people joining the
transfer portal from U of A. Yeah, we'll wait for world. Yeah. So a lot of things going on this weekend with the big games, obviously NFL last night. You saw the Dallas game last night? I watched it. I watched the first some of the first staff, and it was boring to me. It was it was the slowest shootout I've ever seen in
my life. It was the slowest paced shootout ever seen. Did you not watch the shoot Okay, yeah, like it was the it was the slowest, like like I don't want to say the least exciting, because it was a fun game, that's one moments, but it was just like the like the least uh exciting, for lack of a better word, shootout. I've ever seen so many flags that really just messed up the pace of the game. Some of the flags just seem totally unnecessary. I seem that's happening a
lot. You know that the continuity of a game is kind of like in basketball, Yeah, you get somebody last five minutes and back it became stuttered, Yeah, stuttered and and and stilted and all that, and it just doesn't become a good flowing game. Yeah, but it was a good game for the Cowboys last night the Seahawks. The Seahawks honestly should have been in that game even more than they were. They had a misfield so they should
have been more they were. They had an uncharacteristic missfield goal by Jason Myers earlier in the game, I believe, right before half, which by the end of the game they're only down three going into the last couple of minutes. So yeah, Dak Prescott, it's a six straight game with multiple touchdowns. That is the longest active streak in the league, and it ties his
career high of six. And they haven't lost in Dallas all year, right, like a big, big team straight which is surprising to me because I grew up a Dallas Cowboys fan, and it seems like they would have had a bigger or longer home streak than they do now. Because at the very if you want to in my mind, uh you have you have very good teams, yeah, mediocre teams and bad teams. To me, this Dallas team is between good and mediocre, and it's probably more more close to mediocre
than it is good in my mind. Yeah, I don't know if you feel that well. I feel similarly, but I think they're closer to good than mediocre, just because I don't know. Dak's been out of his mind, like he's been playing so solid for them for some weeks. Now. I know they haven't played a high level of competition, but you only play who's in front of you, and he's been he's been killing who's in front of him for the most part. Sure, I get that you're you're giving
him a little wiggle room. I am, I am, But I mean I don't know he's in the MVP conversation. Their outscoring opponents two hundred and forty six to ninety five at home. There was a little bit of discussion last night on the on the broadcast about their their performance on turf versus grass. If you look at their numbers, I think they're like nineteen and one
playing on turf. Now they are fourteen to no at home, and their home is a turf, so that kind of skews those numbers just I honestly excuse a lot, but still five and one on turf, not counting the home games of Jerry World versus I believe too, and eight I want to stay on grass with the scoring being a lot lower on the grass as well. So it's just the Cowboys are a little bit of weird football team doing valuably okay. Yeah, well, and they haven't played in my mind,
they haven't played anybody. And like you say, they've beat the teams that are on the schedule, no apologies or no Cardinals, which is surprising. That game was just a horrible mess. Horrible mess. By the way, we're gonna have Javier Morales about three point fifty ish, get a few minutes with him while he's headed to or at the CEO Championship. They start at four o'clock with that game, the state title game for that so we'll have
a quick live report from that game with earlier. Yeah, I thought, so, yeah, no, it's to me unless it was on a Saturday. But yeah, tonight, I texted him earlier and I said, what time is the game or you know, thinking the game was at seven? Could he come on and they tell me the game was at four? I said, oh no, So maybe we'll get him on before the game actually starts because he'll be busy in the game. Yeah, okay, but yeah, there's an Oh it was good, it was fine, a lot way
too many penalties. Could have been a much better game than it was. But you know, let's where you get when you kind of have two banged up teams. Not that the Seattle Super banged up, but they're they're running back. Sharonay banged his knee last night. Uh, and we all know Dallas is missing a couple of playmakers on the defensive end. So yeah, and then tomorrow, of course, Arizona faces Colgate at one o'clock at McHale. You going, I believe so, yeah you have you have student tickets,
right, yeah, I do have? Yeah, Amazona as you remember, Yeah, okay, tell them to get allowed. Uh, they'll be here, right, They're not home yet, they're not they're still in town. Yeah, still in town. School. School wasn't end for another like half a week or something like that. Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, So it should be somewhat rowdy there tomorrow hopefully. Yeah. It's toothpas
against toothpaste toothpist Ye. We'll see what happens. Because on a Friday after I mean Saturday afternoon, students, the fans should the regular fans should be there. There's no really need not to be there, right, and there's no excuse that to be there. I agreed, Yeah, yeah, Okay again, if you want to call, please do five to two four one
sixty. Uh. We can take your call now. We're going to break here in about ten minutes, with about seven minutes, and then come back in about ten minutes with Kim Adair from the Arizona bow See what's going on. They're going to make their announcement on the teams coming to Tucson on Sunday, so we'll know more about that on Sunday. So there's that. Okay, what else is going on there? Kevin? Honestly, to be honest
with you, Steve, I was. I was pretty hyped about that Thursday night football game last night, and I'm also really hyped about the college basketball game tonight. I know you said the biggest game of the Washington which football world, Yes, the college basketball world. The biggest game of all night is by far Kansas versus which time is that? I believe it's at six let me oh man real quick, so at the same time as the big game, I believe, So I could be wrong. I'm looking at that,
but you're you have the last two national championships face. Yeah, you asked me about that game, and I kind of dismiss because it was you know, Birdie in the year. But you're right. Yukon Yukon, the defending champion goes against Kansas, the preseason number one and before that champion before that, right which is party still odds on favorite to win a title this year even though they lost. I think Kansas still has a really good shot
at it. I'm looking for that that Yukon tip off time and it's gonna be seven pm, seven pm out here for Yukon Kansas and it's Kansas minus three. For those who can, where's the game at? Are inclined for that kind of thing? It's in Kansas. Oh that's my Milindfield House, I believe. So yeah, if it's in Kansas and I don't people loss, Okay, we'll see what happens with that. I'm on Kansas for that one for those who care. Yeah, I think that's the smart bit.
Yeah. Do we have did that light just go on? No? Didn't? Okay again, So we have a couple of guys transferring from UVA. We'll get more from that later. I mean, you have plenty of breaking news, breaking news, crazy stuff, even involving a cow. I saw that. I saw that. It was strange. Yeah, real strange. I can't get much stranger than that. Arrive every week, am I am? I am? I right? No, no, not at all. Small coaching fires. In fact, uh Nevada. You saw that the a
D there is a former U of a women's volleyball player. Yeah, she's pretty well respected. Obviously, she's been around the around the country becoming or trying to become an a D. She was an a D associate and all that stuff at a number of places, including Arizona. Now she's got her own gig at Nevada, so that was her first firing. You know, she has to get a coach to come up and let's see how that goes for Nevada. And they just had a winning coach with with Ja Corvell as
well, so we'll see it, right. I thought he was fantastic, He was fantastic. We met him here when they brought to Nevada for the Arizona ball two three years ago, and I thought he was a fantastic coach. And then he's a Colorado State gave Colorado a pretty good game, but he didn't have a good year. Yeah, they were okay, I think they I think they surprised some teams, but they didn't really do too much. And then you've seen that. I'm sure U s C's losing a few
players too as well. Yeah, U C l A a few players Rice. Rice just lost their quarterback. JT. Daniels retired medically retired just now. According to Pete Damill, JT. Daniels, he retired medically. He he said that he received too many concussions and he went talked to his doctor and they and they told him that he probably shouldn't play. So he's gonna he's gonna hang him up a little early. Yeah, did you see last night's game with l s U and Virginia Tech did the women's college with Yah.
She looked a little slow, lumber lumbering back and forth, but she scored nineteen points. Yeah, she had a good night on the on the on the statue. And what I mean, honestly, what else can you expect when you returned from missing four games at the early part weekson too, Like you're already trying to play in the shape and your four games, but we still don't have much detail on I don't know if we ever will.
Probably well, one day with the way the world works now, yeah, one day someone to get on a podcast and yesterday, oh you know, eventually they they part ways. Yeah, when she leaves her pros or something like that. Yeah, or never. I mean there's a lot of stuff that never clearly comes up publicly, but in how you know, everyone knows, everyone knows what they don't say. Yeah, she said that Shaquille and Nea was calling her almost daily, checking on her, making sure that she
was good. Oh yeah, I thought that was pretty cool with him to do. He doesn't really have to do that. But LSU stars I guess, yeah, have that have that link through time? Sure? Well I just saw. I know you said that your game of the weekend was Oregon versus Washington. But yeah in college. Yeah, because because I think that Georgia Bama could give it a run for its money. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'm not interested in that per se interested tonight
Georgia Alabama. Yeah, in fact, that's the key game for Jay and I I don't really I know I'm picking, but I'm not confident in it. Because you can go either way. You really could, I think could. It's one of those games where if you talk about it for long enough, you'll end up talking out of both sides of your mouth. Sure, and you not not know which way to go. Yeah, so I think I know which way I'm going to go, just because it could be anybody's
game. We'll see what happens. You don't know what he has yet, you know what he don't. Don't on this show. You don't need that. You didn't do that for me. In fact, you you sucked for me when I but yeah, I don't know if that was my fault. It was. It was a messenger kill. It was horrible that weekend. I mean, it's hard. It's hard. It's a hard thing to do. Beat the book, to beat the book right. Many have tried. Many have failed, sure, or have done really well and then the next
year not do very well. That's also true. That's also true. Yeah, Okay, Uh, that's we got about a minute. Let's just take the break now and then come back and we'll talk to Kim Adare from the
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to azypest dot com to schedule your free evaluation. Today. Streaming live on the iHeartRadio app, This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacinsalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Ribera. Jay's out today. Now on the phone, we have Kim Adair, the executive record of Barschool Sports Arizona Bowl. Are you doing camp good? See? How are you doing? I'm fine? Have you gotten some sleep? Are you still trying to
figure out what's going to happen? Where are you at? Oh? My gosh. I would describe this bull selection process this year specifically like trying to staple jello to a wall. It's very fluids, things are moving around.
Just when you think you've got it, something wils happened. And so it's been a really interesting situation this year, specifically right in fact, I know this is not good possible, but one of my buddies from New Mexico said, God, I really wish that that and the Arizona Ball was able to take New Mexico State. Given the success of the New Mexico State this year, really big success, and how they were, how they brought the city
here and they shut down Las Cruises and they all came here. I know that's not possible, but given even though you have your your your two conferences, it's still a big shake up. What are you waiting for. Well, certainly we've got the two championship games tomorrow to look at to see which team would be available. We have a number two pick and likely the champions and both of those games will go on to other bowls, and so we've
got the runner up to look at. But you know, both of our conferences are really well known for beating each other up in the end, and especially in the Mountain West, where certain teams started off very strong and look like they were going to even you know, really be highly ranked in the standings and then sort of fell off at the end, while others picked up steams towards the end, even though they were looking a little less strong in
the beginning. And so it's really an interesting dynamic. Especially in the Mountain West. You've got great schools like Boise State and UNLV playing in the Champion But you've also got Air Force and Fresno State in Wyoming who also had really really strong seasons there in the end. And you've got San Jose State now they're out of the selection for US because they are going to go off to Hawaii, which I think they deserve. And and so it's just looking at
all of the different factors. We also have some factors that we can't you know, control, that the teams can't control, Like Fresno State, they're starting quarterback jumped into the portal or said he will go into the portal so he'll be out for the game. And then coach Tedford at Fresnes State also now today he's got to step out right for the rest of the season because it's health issue. So there's it's a really it's a very fluid situation right
now. Yeah, no question. And so these days is it? How much different is it these days? I think you've been the executive director at least four years. I could be wrong. I haven't had time. Wow, seek time flies, And I did that big story on you a few years ago. It seems like yesterday she was like yesterday, your dad has
declared you the governor of the state. Yeah, so let me ask you, so, do you is travel different for you now because of technology now to use more I test from TV and computers rather than going out physically or is it the same? You know, I would say we visited more teams this year than we've ever visited in the past. We've just been going out and seeing more and being more on you know, on site. This year. We'll see how that continues and then next year. But but like tomorrow,
I will be in Vegas for the Mountain West Championship Game. So a lot of it, I mean, this week, a lot of it's just been happening with phone calls and you know, zoom meetings really, but sometimes it makes a big difference to be on site and having those conversations in person. Yeah, no question, And I'm sure let me ask you just real quick. So when you go to the games, I'm sure you have a
little red carpet for uh, you have a little red carpet. You know, the hosts, the city has a red carpet for you because they're more than thrilled to have you visiting. Yeah, I mean, I think, I think when when we show up for a regular season football game. Those teams are excited to see us there because they know that they're being thought of and considered. Right, And so I'll tell you I went up to they I had, you know, two reasons why I wanted to go up and
see Fresnes States beat ASU earlier in the season. I wanted to see Fresdness date ASU, and they did, and so that was a great game for us to go to. But also knowing Presdent State is always a team that we're considering bringing to our game and having some time with their athletic director and administrations always and coaches are always are always meaningful. So I can't remember off the top of my head if fresh Now State's been here, you would know
the teams. But I know, like air Force and some of the other ones you've mentioned, I have been through here, you know, Wyoming, and they've brought in some nice crowds. Has Fresno State been here before? Freston State has not come yet. Yeah, that's why I could remember that. So, and you're right, the Mountain West and the teams that you'd be bringing in. It is I mean, trying to predict who's going to beat whom on what day. Last week, I think San Jose State played
the UNLV. UNLV has had a great record, san Jose State went in and beat them. So it's on any given day, really, on any given day. Yeah, I have no way to predict who's going to win the game tomorrow between the UNLV and Boise State. Boise State fired their coach four weeks ago because they were losing, and then they started winning right after he left, so you know, they have an interim coach there right now
and trying to make a decision on their head coach situation as well. So there's a lot of moving parts and it's going to be interesting to see who's playing their best football tomorrow, right, No, No, you have a lot of and then you make the decision on some day, right that you come back and then you you know, we take a nap and then you get ready for Sunday. That's right. Sometimes we're still having conversations up until minutes before we announce, right, right, Always a fun, stressful,
wonderful time. Yeah, No, I'm sure it is. It's part of the job, right, kind of a job requirement. No sleep check, stress check, all this stuff. Uh so tell me Sunday I know you have a is it it's it's for the media, but is it for other people as well? People interested in the bulk? Can the public go? So we haven't you know, announced that publicly, but you know we if we have some diehardbule fans out there that would love to come, we'd love
to see them. We're doing it at the playground at noon it opens, and we'll be announcing around twelve forty five right right the playground downtown. Yeah, okay, And I'm sure you know it's what today Friday, So you're looking at less than forty eight hours and you and you and the guys Eric and all the you know, have contingency plans. You know, have different options, right because you don't want to just be surprised at the last minute.
You already started with continguency. If this happens, well, this happens, and this happens. You guys are like the national the final fourteen guys. You don't know what's going to happen. Who is our communications and PR guy. He's got about six press releases drafted and then he puts together the announcement video. So he's got about four or five different variations of that,
so yeah, we're prepared. Yeah, good for good for him. You also have some big news either yesterday the day before you're going to be on TV, right, Yeah, so we really are excited about this because we are going to be I say that, you know, the ball with the best of both worlds, which is our game, wills continue to be broadcast through barstools platform digital platform, So anyone that's interested in watching it digitally and
online can do that through barstool dot TV. But we also announced yesterday that people that are interested in the more traditional viewership opportunity will be able to watch it on the CW right. So that's great, great for all of our football teams and their fans. While watching it on barstools as easy as watching something on Netflix, sometimes it takes the little people people a little longer to
understand that. So now we've got an option for everybody. Yeah. I was going to ask you because over the last two or three years, when the Barstools people came aboard and you guys really got behind it, they've been very good to you guys, and now and you know, hyped it up, hype that situation up. Now that you have TV, like you say, best in both worlds. How is that? Just? Have you been ha You been pursuing that for a while and you just happened to get it
at the last minute. Not at all. This is a really funny story. If you have a minute for me to tell it. Sure. A week after our game ended last year, I got an email and it was from a gentleman named Perry and he emailed and said, Caim, I'm the chairman of the Foundation for Ohio University. I was in the end zone when they won an overtime. What an amazing game, What an amazing broadcast.
I watched it later. My day job is that I am the CEO and chairman of next Our Media and we just bought the c W a few months ago, and we would love to broadcast this game. And that's where it started, and it's because they were here. It's really amazing the depth and range of people that attend our game, you know, from all of the
different institutions in their fan bases. And so this is another instance of we had this person in town that we didn't even know about, who's a mover and shaker in the media world, and he came to us and said, we want to broadcast this game, and we said, great, talk to Barstool, they've got the rights, and Barstool, to their credit, was like, you know, we're interested in this type of a partnership and bringing the game to even more viewers. And CW loved the way they did the
game. Barstool will still be in the booth and it will still be a Barstool game. It'll just also now be available on the CW. Well they so who will have the well, Barstooll have their own people and then CW have their own people announcing the game or it's one one group. The CW is taking the barstool okay, okay, no super super And I know the barstool has other things going on with you guys. So if you can talk about what's happening that weekend or that you know, that New Year's weekend with
you guys. Yeah, we're calling it a Shongo week because it's a party week. I saw that party. Yeah. So we've got a lot going on. We've got a you know, we've got a pub crawl happening on the twenty ninth, and a Pepperrelli on the twenty ninth, and of course our big Tailgate and game on the thirtieth, and then we have our Taco Bell in New Year's Eve Downtown Bowl Bash with fireworks presented by O'Reilly Chevrolet on New Year's Eve, and we've moved that. Actually it's going to be run
forty East Congress in that big mural parking lot across the streets. Oh yeah, the Monica Yeah, and headlining in that event is Warrant. So we're really excited to love a silent disco. It's free well, fireworks off the top of the Hexagon building. It's gonna be an amazing downtown New Year's you've experienced. We want everybody come find us down there. Why didn't you tell
me this in uh in January? I could have grown back my mullet and you know, got my you know, headbangers music ready and I would be prepared for New Years this year. It's not too late. You're gonna You're gonna love it. It's gonna be great. We have eighties and gentlemen opening for Warrants. It's gonna be fun. Bring your cherry pies, cherry yeah right, cherry, and your at your mullets. I'll have to go rent one or so. I have to go buy one at the week place and
get my you know, my curls back for the for the weekend. No fantastic, Okay, cool. What what do you what are you estimating? I know, you know, you hope for good weather. You know, sometimes you get cold weather. Sometimes you get a hot day and then a cold day, and a cold day and then hot day. I remember that day it was really cold and then the sun came out. It was perfect
for the third and fourth quarter. I'm sure you're hoping like all he says, you know, sixty nine point nine degrees or seventy two point one, whatever it is. But have you seen any early projections in terms of what's going to happen like today, today's our winter, right and if it's this bad, that's that's not that bad. No. I mean, you know I used to check the weather this about thirty days out and then I would be stressed up until the week of the game. Even last year it was
that it was going to rain, and it didn't rain. After all, it was perfect. After we had that cancellation in twenty twenty one, I'm just really happy as long as we have a game. So if it's raining, if it's funny. So long as we're having the game, I'm a happy camper. But sure, you know, we've been really lucky for most of the years without having any rain, and I've got, you know, a good feeling we'll be happy again this year. What are the things that
you we we talked about because I did that story with Alli. You know, he's the hype man for this event. Uh, you know who doesn't love Ali and his his craziness trying to get this game going. But one of the things that's kind of like underplayed, although it's played heavily, is still the money you give to the local communities. I was there for your check check presentations, I don't know, four or five months ago, and how how happy the people are getting those big checks. Yeah. One hundred
percent of our net proceeds go to charity. And you know, we're doing this game as a community for really three reasons. We want economic impact for Southern Arizona, we want to give national visibility to Southern Arizona through our through our game. And finally, we give one hundred percent of those proceeds back to charity and really build up our community through these organizations that are doing so much to help people, our friends and neighbors here. So it's really important.
Every empty seat in the stadium is an empty is you know, our dollars that could be going to local charities. And so I know that not everybody has you know, is a fan of the teams that we're bringing that they are a fan of Southern Arizona and they can help us by just coming to the game, buying a ticket, drinking a beer, and having a really incredible experience. We have people. Once you come to the game, people come back every single year because it's so much fun. So come on
too soon. We need you to get up, buy a ticket and come visit us. On December thirtieth time. What time is the kickoff again? So you can have an remember earlier one of these games, maybe two three years ago, it was the breakfast tailgating in the band and you still have all that stuff. So yeah, our tailgate opens at ten am on the thirtieth and we have a cord hole tournament going on. We have live music, we have our community village out there. We've got games and beer and
food trucks. It's a big, big fun party. It's a pachonga, it's a big fun party down there. We want everybody to come down and join us. Start the day off right, get in the mood for the bowl, and then join us over at the game just a few hours later. And who doesn't love a pachanga? Who doesn't love a pachanga? Who doesn't? And tickets where can we find them? You can go to our website at the Arizona bul dot com or straight to seat geek, which is
our ticket provider, and look up the Arizona Bull there. Okay, and you get you get the money from that as well that you don't lose anyone near there. Oh no, no, okay, okay, Well, thanks a bunch. We'll probably talk to you guys again as we get closer to the event. It's Tony what twenty eight days, twenty nine days? Man nine days this year flew by five flies right, it's crazy, right okay, Kim, get take a nap in between now now and half fun is
half fun of the game tomorrow. Take care all right by Kim and Dare the executive director of the Barstool Sports Arizonable. It's back again. It should be a fun game, is here? Right? Yeah? Well, because you don't know who's going to be in it one and and the teams that come in are always kind of like, uh uh, they're one excited to be here. But but some of those upstarts, you know, that have never been to a bowl or it's very infrequent. So okay, who doesn't
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Fox Sports fourteen to fifty. Subscribe now to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app just Surgeon I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back, joining the about hero Fox Sports fourteen to fifty. I'm Steve, You're what's your name? Kevin? Kevin in the building today? Kevin Kevin working the board here no jw K no J no J. I don't know where Jay is. He's out summer and join his life. Uh, so you and I for the next few minutes, and then we're gonna have Hubier Morales from All Sports to
Sun dot Com call us in from the Mountain America Stadium. Yeah. Uh, he's at the CEO Championship game against Uma Uma Catholic. I think it is. They started four, So he's gonna give us a quick preview. Let us know what's going on. I know he's there, he's already posting photos. So we'll get that before the end of the hour. If you'd like to give us a quick call before Javier, we got about seven six
minutes something like that. Give us a quick call. Are you going to be going to the Arizona Bowl. I know some locals that do you know, just to support the program or support the game and what they're up to with the with the charities. A lot of money given to the charities, which is great. So five two, four, one, six, seventy
four forty we have our picks later in about an hour. You're breaking news at the beginning of the hour, and then Pete Williams will come on about four to seventeen to talk about UA basketball, uh Ua basketball as he sees it. Right now, I think that I'm gonna ask him about to Johnson to see if he sees himself in there, because Pete was not a great
scorer. He's a scorer around the basket like Johnson, and a big body, muscle guy, kind of the enforcer kind of guy, right, A lot of effort paid in the NBA for a couple of years with the Nuggets, uh and lived off his hard work, you know, And back then it was it was here we got a call, and back then it was more rough and tumble. Oh you're on the air with eye on the ball. You're breaking We could bear to hear you. You're breaking up? Hi, James, Hey James, how are you? James? I'm doing well
enough. I wanted to call cop to being wrong about my take on the game. Well, your game, or the way or the or the way they play. Well they played. They played very well. You know. What's happened to me, Steve is something that has happened, would have incrementally and gradually is a part of the game. I didn't think they'd be able to win the last two or three games, and they did. And that that's the line play on both sides. You know. Fafita was accurate,
He was precise, involves on the money. Got to give them all the credit in the world for that. But he couldn't stand in there and you know, look for open targets the way he does without the offensive line, Oh, no question, no question. And that that most of the time that I watched Jim Doore was running for his life. Yeah, yeah, and and so that's improved. And uh, we've got to give Flafida credit. I do anymore that that he does. He is accurate and precise.
So they put a real tough beat down on ASU, which they've fully deserved. And I think the credit for all this goes to Jed Fish. Yeah, no, you're right. Let me just track get back real quick with Jayden and his situation, because I think that Noah is more patient behind that line. He's not looking to run if one, two, three options are not there, right, He's kind of anticipatient, like you said, Jaden is more of Okay, if this doesn't work, I got to get the
hell out of here and take off. Well that that was what they were faced with early on. Hello, yeah, I'm listening. I'm listening. Can you hear me? Yeah, that's what they were confronted with early on. I mean, there wasn't a pocket for him to pass out of. And if you remember, Jed had his short to encourage him when we heard him do it on a radio program, to run the ball when there's nothing
there take off. Yeah, yeah, Well he did that. He did that a lot, maybe a little too much, but that was his go to you know, if everything else fails, I'm going Yeah, well, I watched this game intently, and the play calling and the play design and the execution, we're all just great. And you got to give that Jeed Fish and his coaching staff. They've done a great job. Yeah, no
question, it's been a it's been a heck of a year. I mean, this this year should have happened next year, and who knows what's gonna happen next year with all the success this year. Well, we're gonna play in a new, new league, so that'll be interesting. Yeah, yeah, it's always nice. It's gonna be it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun. I think I think it'll be very interesting. I actually think that's where they belong to begin with, is in a league about that level.
Yeah, right, right, right, Okay, Jee, we got to go because we're gonna get another call here from Flavier. But thanks, thanks, all right, appreciate it. No, some people who have followed Jim and his comments were wondering where he had been, because he had been uh uh, he had been saying Noah was not the guy. Well he was not that, not that he wasn't the guy. He was back in
Jane for a while. You play, yeah, you play yeah, yeah, And I think I think you brought up a good point about that with the pocket not being the same just because of the place, right right. Hey, Yeah, you're on the air with eye on the ball. Hey Steve, Hey, you got settled up in an a issue. Yeah, you've kept the sea worn from me from last week. Yeah. Nice and nice? Yeah, cool, cool, cool. So I got a nice seat, got a nice view. What's going to happen? And what do
you think? What do you think about the crowd, Well, the crowd's pretty small. It's crazy to have a game like this in a huge stadium because it's probably I would say about what to two to three thousand here in this seat is about fifty right right, it's not I think anybody could make it from you and Tucson are here, right, But it's not a big crowd. But it's a it's a nice uh you know night for football. It didn't look good in Tucson early with rain, but it's nice up here,
right. No, I thought that when you said it was at four o'clock? Is is this is this abnormal for the time? Well, they're having the five a championship right after that. Four makes sense? Makes sense? Okay, so things people are working right now too, so they probably could make the game, but they'll probably watch it on stream and streaming live right on a NFAs network. What if, what if CDO does pull this
off? What would it mean to the CDO community. That would be the fourth day championship, second for dust In Peace, first since two thousand and nine. It would be another fourteen to no season, which is quite an accomplishment. You know, Tucson has not had two championship teams in the same year since nineteen seventy six. Wow, and that was that was or I'm sorry yeah, CDO and Tucson Deaf and the Blind which is became a SDB.
There's been another southern area school like small schools like Thatcher and Moerenci and other things from southern Arizona. That one state champions but within Tucson, you know the city limit. Uh. This this could be the first time Casabno won last week, he could be the first time from seventy six and two teams in Tucson won a state championship. This might be a dumb question,
but we both know the piece dust In Peace. Pretty well, he's a neighbor of mine and I didn't know really that he had had dismissed success. What do you think his legacy is now? And then if he wins another one, what would it be. He's one of the top coaches ever to coach in Southern Arizona and he hasn't too many that have won two championships. There's only a handful that have won two state titles in Southern Arizona or Tucson area. Richard Sanchez at Sunnyside, John Malamo at Tucson. Only may he
filled a Tucson in Bob Smith at CDO. Wow, and Bob Smith a CDO did in the seventies, so he would join that elague group. Skerrn has three A Skerrn like above above him because with three championships he wanted me in the nineties with Sabino. That's another interesting thing about tonight is the Sabino's nineteen ninety eight championship team. It's going to be honored at halftime of this
game for the twenty fifth anniversary of that championship. Oh wow, Okay, I didn't know so and Freeley, how many did did freed win one or two. Freely won one and we all know and you know actually he won too. He won he well he was with Mornci with one of them, but he won with Amphi in seventy nine. Okay, yeah, I take that back. He didn't win that with Marenci. He went to a championship game with Mornci. So, but he won one with Amphi in nineteen seventy
nine. And we all know his legacy because everyone uh talks highly of him and he was one of the deans here, but Dustin would come up with two. And he hasn't been a head coach all that long fifteen years. This is a fifteenth year an assistant introducing pisa cdo for like eight years before that. So he's been in the program for about twenty three, twenty two, twenty three years, an assistant under what's his name? Not under himself? What's his doay, I'm sorry, under under the Pat Newgen talk about
that, right, Pat Newgen? Right right? No, no question. And he's been in the area for forever. No, okay, cool, what's to look for? What do you what's your prediction? Well, Caden Luke, he's got over two thousand yards, a big running back five two twenty pounds, and that's Video's bread and butter. They they hardly passed. They passed on situations where they might be able to get the defense off guard here and there, like a draw player or something like that. But they're
running game is what's gonna win it for CDIO. The key to that is Video can't get behind early. They can't get behind my two touchdowns. These are both two undefeated teams and CTDIO uh is not. Their passing game has not been nearly as effective as their running game. And then you mccatholic is much more balanced. They can throw. They have a passer with more than two thousand yards and a runner running back that has almost fifteen hundred yards,
so they're going to be balanced. They were as CEO is one kind of one dimensional. Who's the who's the higher seed? You mccatholic, they're both thirty No, but uman Catholics number one, number two? Okay, okay, so defenses too, okay. Yeah, we saw cdo versus versus Micah Mountain, Is that right? Yeah? And they were. It was a good game, great game. So we'll see what happens. We'll see if Piece can do it. Again and have cdo get another win. Okay,
yeah, it'd be big for Tucson, right. Well, I didn't realize that since seventy six, you said, Right, that's the last time two teams in Tucson City limits won state championship the same year. Yeah. Wow, it's been a long time. Okay, thanks, have fun and enjoy. I know what's work, but have fun. That's fun. Thank you, Thank you. Man Saber Morales from All Sports tousaun dot com. If you want to read him after the game, please do go to the website.
You'll have a lot of pictures and during the game Twitter Yeah yeah, media read does that very well. Okay, we've got about a minute left, we'll take we'll take our break here soon, come back with breaking news, right, and then have Pete Williams at the out the four fifteen four to seventeen mark, and then have our picks at the final final moments of the show. Okay, can you we have time? Right? We have
like thirty seconds? Yeah, we have like a minute a minute okay, but I'm looking at it, but I don't want to play some music. I'm talking play some music and then we'll go to your COMMU say, give me a break, Yeah, give me to break today. I'll go back