Steve Ravera and Jake and Salez. They have their eye on the ball on Tucson Sports Stags yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty streaming live. I mean, iHeartRadio WAMS. Welcome back to my the Moro, Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay, and we have Sid doing some breaking news his eye on the ball, breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, we'll start off our breaking news with some I guess bigger stuff related to college
football. The I don't know if you guys have seen the stuff about the there's a group of university presidents and executives. They want to form a super league, which we kind of have mentioned in the past was kind of it looked like things were heading that way, but they have a plan in place. I was reading about it. Basically, they want seven ten team divisions, the top seventy seams, okay, and then they want to second tier with the rest of the FBS teams, and they want to have like a
like the Premier League does delegation, relegation and that. But they haven't met with anybody yet, any of the big conferences or the TV people. Yeah, actually they I read that a lot of the dinners have been called off, so I believe as of right now, things are heading in the college football playoff direction. Yeah. So it was an interesting proposal. Hey,
did you see the whole thing? No? So, so what they're saying is that there would be the seventy teams that make up what what what had been or was the Power five right when the PAC public as it was, and then with SMU now being in the ACC and it comes out to seventy teams on the nose. So they thought, okay, it makes so much
sense. You don't feel like you'll ever have yeah, right, because of what they what they said, Okay, you'll have seven ten team divisions geographically you know, in geographical arrangement or whatever, and then the group of five
teams will make up a ten team conference with relegation. So the best group of five teams will be in the ten team conference and they'll be able to move up and down, you know, a year, you know, each year, and now you have eight divisions or eight conferences or eight leagues or whatever you want to call them, to then make up a playoffs. Yeah. No, it sounds like and we kind of said it was going ahead, that you said before. Yeah, well, how old are we it
might happen? Did you say when? Or how are possible? Nothing's been really said. It's just right. They just threw it out there. Yeah. I think they're called there's like the CST or something they call themselves, but they just, you know, they just floated it out there, and I think it you know again, it's it's something that makes too much sense. Yeah, it is very interesting discussion, especially after they just expanded the
playoff. Really, we'll see and that's the thing, and a big deal will be do the Big ten in the Big twelve, I mean Big ten in the SEC want this? And do Fox and ESPN want if they If none of those four want it, then it will never happen. Happen you go ahead. If they like what they're doing, what they're building with the College Football Playoff, automatic bursts, all this kind of stuff, more money to the SEC and the Big ten, then they're just going to keep doing
that and screw everybody else. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. But that was a very cool plan. Yeah, I wanted to move into I guess news for tonight, Kishaw Johnson will be in the dunk contest, last chance to see him in red and blue, I guess you could say. But yeah, big, big news for him. Obviously, he he was a leader of this team. And as we talked about before, the NBA player, NBA player I think could be a project. I think defensively he
could be used. He showed that he can shoot the three ball a little bit better. But as of right now, I don't think many teams, which is interesting, right because he's a longer dude. Yeah, I don't think he is. I don't think he is Jay. He's not answering my question that I think. I think it's offensively more right, Johnson's NBA player. He could be. He could be a bench guy who can help a team. I think, yeah. But he developed a bit of a shot. Uh is he is he? You know? Maybe are you taking him
or Bellas? Oh? He shot you know ten times because physicality, aggressiveness. I think he's got better. He's got he's got more range shooting wise, he's meaner. Yeah, his his his his approach is more NBA like, way more NBA, yeah than than than Yeah, and tubellas heck of a player, a lot of awards, a lot of money, a lot of points, right. I wanted to talk about some NFL stuff, specifically
the NFL network. I don't know if you guys saw they are experiencing some layoffs of their time on air personalities, right, yeah, Yeah, when it gets to that level and you have a lot of money, something's up. Yeah, because they have a lot of money. They do have a lot of money, and and you know the first thing I heard was, Okay, we're gonna lay these people off, but we're going to keep paying uh the commissioner forty million dollars a year. What the hell? What the
hell is the NFL doing? Right? And how much is too much? Jeez? Yeah, yeah, I saw that. Why does why does? Why does the NFL feel they need to pay him forty million bucks a year? It doesn't make I do it for ten? How much was Kokov getting? Not as not five? That not the five that that Larry Scott was getting, but he was getting I'm gonna say three, yeah, three and change? How that go? Not very well? They killed the They were paying them a lot. You get what you pay for. I wanted to
touch on this because Jay was mentioning me about your MLB pool. Well, this NC State fan don't say that on the air. My wife's not listening. There's there's a room at my house. I'll be over if I get home and my stuff is out of the front line on Tuesday one, Hey, thanks for coming over, staying for a while under the bus. So there's actually a n C State fan that has paid for their Final four trip expenses with the money that they made from from betting on SC State Sports.
WHOA, Well, both teams got to the Final four. You know it caught me. I didn't. I guess I knew it, but I didn't think about it. Two teams that are in the Final four are in the Final four, both men's and women's State. We talked about yesterday, k No. We knew about North Carolinas. I didn't bring. And then we talked about how Yukon has done a bunch of times, but I didn't put it together that they're both in there. See you can remember the Rubbert floor,
you remember target surface. I don't know if you guys saw yesterday, but it looks like the Baltimore Orioles are assembling maybe one of the best minor league teams ever. Put up twenty six runs yesterday. They have a very good system. I started following them because my best friend is a fan now and I've become a little kind of a fan. I mean, twenty six runs an MLB game. Yeah. The prospects now, I think are starting
to get called up more often as we're seeing. So it's going to be interesting how quickly the Orioles jump into that playoff picture as far as well. They were pretty good last year and they they fizzled out. Yeah, it's gonna be super interesting. Sticking with the MLB, though, the A's landed on Sacramento for their home for now. Yep. Interesting. Yeah, we're
were they playing before? They were always on the road this year, so they're still they're playing in Oakland and Oakland, so what did they land They're going to play until the region, so there until the stadium is built. And but they've got a Triple A team there and they're going to play there too, so I guess they're going to coordinate it somehow so that they're not both at home at the same time. Now, you got to imagine that
that field is going to take a beating. But it holds fourteen thousand, which is more than what they're getting at games in Oakland. Anyways, now they'll play some out. Yeah, people who are interested Sacramento will go to the games. Yeah, because they'll never have another major League Baseball team in there again. So yeah, and here's a big league city. I mean they got and they got an NBA team, so it's not like it's it's not a uh you know that doesn't have a you know, major league sports.
I wanted to talk about USC and them getting musclem in. It's a very interesting hire. Obviously, what did they hire it? Yeah, yeah, they hired it. Yeah. Wow. There was still a bunch of people were saying that wasn't gonna happen, or that it was all rumor and stuff. No, no, it happened. Eric mustn't that Wow interesting? I was gonna see that would be fun all the other No longer the we're not we're not going to see him. His name had been mentioned here when
Tommy was do you remember that. Yeah, very interesting for USC. They know he can recruit well, but we'll see if he's another kind of uh maverick magabond guy. He goes all over the place. It'll be interesting how long he stays there. Because he was in Nevada for a short time, went to Arkansas for a short time, did really well. All over he's done really well. Yeah, well nuddy, but yeah, a little crazy shirt off here there. Well he was at the regional that I worked last
year in Vegas and he was just nuts. It was great, it was funny, it was fun to watch. But yeah, interesting, Okay, I hadn't seen that he had actually gotten the job. Well, good for USC to get a guy. Maybe Brownie will stay. Yeah, yeah, I didn't even realize. I was listening to a podcast with JJ Redick and Lebron and I didn't know that one of Lebrons. I think his former high school coach is actually the head coach now at do Cane. Right, there's
a lot of a lot of buzz. Well he was retired, he just retired, Oh he did, but he still might go to Decane though. Well, there's a lot of buzz about it. Yeah, the median people that you might know, because there was when was a twenty to one dog that I think it's like when he come here, they bought the hell out of him here. Yeah, it is actually right, No, he just went down to thirty one. I was right. I was right in the middle of that sea there when you were telling him, don't do it right,
I tried again, what are we doing? What are we doing? Oh? So, as you guys probably saw the news about Carson Wentz as a former back, former Eagles quarterback, is going to be the backup in Kansas City. He he actually came out and said Nick Foles sold him on the Chiefs. When when Foles was there, he told him all the good things about the organization, and Wentz decided that's where he wanted to land. All you have to do is look at the rings that they wore. Yeah,
yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, that's interesting. We didn't have anything about the n You don't you know the the postseason n I T. Fox has bought it. Apparently they're going to do a better tournament or try to. Yes, I did see that today. Interesting how networks move and buy get rid of the un the joint basically, especially we saw with the
college football playoff. I forget how many years it's already extended into time, but I wanted to mention the I don't know if you guys saw the news about the ex Cardinals VP's suing the team and the owner was that was he a VP or the former coach. He was the VP. Okay, why yeah, defamation basically saying that they said some things about him. It's not the guy that went to Mexico. I remember they had to fire him after after he did something in Mexico and then came back. He didn't have a
job that that was a coach. That's why. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that was that was a different guy. But yeah, this is another situation with the Cardinals. They've had a lot of I will talk to camp about it. Yeah, I want touch of weird stuff because now and then you're also seeing the rumors of them. No, I don't think anyone
has any idea what they're doing with the number four pick. Either they're saying they might trade it it, who knows, and then a bunch of As far as NFL teams go, it seems like the Cardinals their front office is always moving around, and maybe that that's why they haven't been successful. But we'll see how the draft goes for them. Well, the Bidwells haven't done a good job with a lot of different levels. Yeah, yeah, I
wanted up before we met a year. I wanted to touch on the the other u of a sports that are going on right now and kind of what they got going on. So pars on a. Baseball's gonna be at Cow this weekend starting tomorrow. And then softball did they win last night? They won? They tuesday? Or to play that they won fo in a row. They're playing better baseball, the pitching isn't better. Softball is going to be at Utah this weekend, and then uh, number nine tennis is hosting
number twenty one a s U this Sunday. Yeah oh okay, yeah, so so big time for them as they wind the season down. But yeah, right now is the as you guys mentioned, a little bit more quiet on campus these days because there's nothing to talk about anymore. Yeah, that's what you're almost done. Yeah, I'm gonna miss this place, not this place, but you okay, maybe I missed this place. What am I gonna do with your You're gonna what am I gonna do? Well? Can
I always have you here? Yeah? You know you can come, continue to come working for free. That's the problem. You can do that at the house back. I can pull weak for that. What else you have? That's all the major news. Michael Pennix had visited the Broncos Raiders. Interesting to see where he lands and all the other Pact quarterbacks land. But yeah, right now midst of the Spring Bowls, kind of taking over campus. Went last week for a bit just to see. But yeah, the
running back room right now stands out. They're big there. There's some big news in there. All the press conferences. I'm sure you guys have been keeping up with that as well. We had t Hudgson on yesterday to get he filled us in so info. Yeah, so that's been all fun, fun. But yeah, right now a lot of NBA stuff going on. Julius Randall out for the season, the nixt Star. But yeah, I'm sure you guys will dive into more pro sports with with our second guess,
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Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball Here in Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. He's Jay. Now we have Bob Kemp from kg US HEYM ten sixty in Phoenix. Bob, how are you doing great? How are you guys? Joy? Fine? Thank you. The first question we talked about this before you came on. Does anybody in the valley know the Final four is in the valley? Oh? Yeah, definitely, there's no question that people know it's here. There's been billboards and signs around town for
months. So yeah, people, people are aware of this, I think. Yeah, And we asked because you know, Phoenix has become a metropolis and there's so many things going on there and this one's separated because a lot of stuff happens downtown and a lot of happens a lot of things happening in Glendale. That's a good point. Yeah. One thing that you know,
the Diamondbacks are not here this weekend. The Suns actually are here this weekend on Friday and Sun be so I'm sure that I assume the NBA was smart enough not to schedule the Suns on a Saturday home game with two games in Glendale on Saturday afternoon and night. Yeah, you know, back to the you know, I mean, is it very noticeable in terms of with the with the final four being there's and noticeable in terms of you know, restaurants filling up and stuff like that, people, I mean, is there is
it in the way? I guess is what I'm asking. I'm not sure about that, to be honest, because I don't I haven't been too many restaurants this week. In fact, when I was, it was early in the week, so that was before the you know, people started filing in for the Final four, and you know, I assume Connecticut finally got here the obviously that was kind of a mess unfortunately for them, but they apparently
arrived safely. I also assume that they're gonna have the largest fan base because they just havev a LONGUS following, and they've actually played in some regionals here in past years and if I remember correctly, they're like three for three going
to the Final four. One they played in regionals in Valley here. So I don't know if they developed more fans just because of that or whatever, but they have a you know, since there's no West Coast team obviously or no Viuve unfortunately, Uh, it's gonna assume it's gonna there's gonna be more fans from Yukon here than any other team. So maybe to go on Jay's point, when the super Bowl is here, is it, uh, is it different than the Final Four in terms of the buzz? The buzz that's
a whole circus. That's a circus in itself. So yeah, I don't know if it really uh, you know, the Final four, you don't know who the teams are until you know less than a week before the super Bowl at least you have two weeks you know for people, if there's actual
fans. It's such a corporate thing. As far as the Super bowls mourned obviously, you know, the Final Four is a corporate thing also, but yeah, much more so, you know, percentage of people in the stands I think are more corporate people and as opposed to stands, as opposed to will happened this weekend? Yeah, is there? What do people what do people in general think about an event like that being there? Are they proud
of it? Do they like it? Is it a hassle? You know, do they like Phoenix being you know, in the in the spotlight like that? Or would people are say, you know, it's a pain, traffic's bad for traffic and all that stuff. What do they think about it? I don't think it's necessarily bad for traffic unless you live in glendal And,
And really the traffic is only bad for the two games. And well tomorrow is the uh, you know, to have the open practice thing, which is actually usually I've actually been to a few you know, final Wars and regionals obviously, and I'm sure you guys have been to regionals too, I'm sure, and probably at least a Final four or two. And the Friday thing with all four teams practicing kind of depends on who the coaches. Was kind of my history with that. It's either really fun or just a
complete waste of time. You're exactly right, exactly right. It seems to be nothing in between. No, you're exactly right, because you can watch the team's play that's for forty five minutes and okay, yawn, yeah,
and then and then you go to the press conferences. I do remember that the last one that the Friday practices were not well attended, if I recall, no, it was it was North Carolina, Gonzaga, South Carolina, Oregon, and I think with another part when they were here the last time, and once again we had you know, Gonzaga, they had quite a following. Actually they've played a bunch of games here over the years and they
have a very strong following in the valley. But you know, when you have teams that are from far away, the Friday thing is even more partially attended than the actual you know Friday, the Saturday of the games themselves. Yeah. Yeah, So what has your attention on your show? Up there is the Cardinals, the Suns, what is it Diamond? Well, this
week, this week I've been tricked definitely featuring the final four. He let's say, you know the one you know we do three hours and one ones by myself and then the other twos with Kayla uh you know my boss Slice co host and uh, you know the the one hour sport zone. We
took. The first four days of this week have been you know, centering on the four teams that are here and doing updates and previews with them, and and guests that the guys that cover those teams, and then tomorrow the Hall of Famer Mike the Course is going to join me in nine fifteen's. We've kind of previewed the tournament in summary as far as the actual day by day process, and you've been taking the final four out of the equation.
The Sun have been kind of lukewarm, just because they had said the expectations were so high, even though I thought they were unjustifiably high to begin You see that I just think they're a horribly constructed roster and uh, for a change, I might be right about a team that is in the valley here.
I just didn't think they were really made for success to begin with, and a lot of the things that I talked about, as far as no bench, lack of defense, no point guard, those things seem to hurt them almost every night when they don't win, which has unfortunately been more than even I thought. I thought they'd win like fifty five games out of just kind of coincidence in the regular season, and none of those things I just
mentioned would burn them until the postseason. We've seen them be burned by those things numerous times in the regular season. Is that you know they're they're kind of in the middle of the not kind of they're in the middle of the pack. When when they're when when they're in that position as supposed to being like, you know, a top seed or you know, two seed in the conference. As we get closer to the playoffs, does the excitement build anyways or not? Or they just gonna say, well, we'll get in
the first round, maybe we'll win a series. How do the fans take that and how much attention do they continue to pay to the playoffs or do they get fired up until they're not in it anymore. I'm not really sure how to gauge the fan on a whole. You know, I should know that, but I really don't, because I think it's just kind of a
mixed reaction. Right It's been a lot of people thought, and a lot of the national media thought when they signed Bradley Beal that this was going to be an automatic contending championship level team and sell them this season that they been that, even when those guys the Big three, so to speak, even though I don't think Bradley Beal quite frankly, he's a really good dude. I think he's more of a complimentary player than a star player. And you
know, so I never quite bought into the Big three thing. But you know, the the fact that they really have not had too many stretches where they've been really consistently good all season long, and now they're just fighting to stay out of the play in tournament, which you want to completely avoid at all. Confer you can that's just kind of a sub recipe for suicide as far as the playoff goes playoffs go. The fact they're fighting for that right
now. You know, they've had a couple of just look at the last two weeks. I mean, they've had some really impressive victories they wanted Denver, and then they lose at San Antonio and Victor Webb Yama didn't even play in that game, and they get they get blown out last Friday night at Oklahoma City and Shag Gildess Alexander didn't play in that game. Well, yeah, it's a hear the shoot that's on the last that's on the last two
weeks. It's just so such an inconsistent consistency. You really don't know what you're getting from game to game. And I got that's largely because they don't guard anybody, and they're really not capable of guarding teams because they just don't have good defensive players. Uh, and they don't have the point guard they have the they're the worst fourth quarter team in the NBA by far. They've
been outscored by two hundred points on the season in the fourth quarter. And that's so bad that nobody else has been outscored more than one hundred points. Well, you're staying inconsistently. Reminded me of the basketball team I cover down here. Yeah, it's just you know, I should ask you guys about that. So what's the reaction. You know, I'm not the biggest Tommy
Lloyd fan. I appreciate that he took over a mess when they finally got Rida Miller, but I'm just they just they don't make adjustments during it. He doesn't make adjustments during games, and I just don't know what the hell they're doing a lot of games against the better teams and some of the non better teams that they face. That's acurate, He's going to go next question. No, you know, I think, Bob, I think that you know, people think. I think there are a lot of people who thought
they had figured out Tommy Lloyd and what he's what he is. But you know, again with this, with this loss this year, it's kind of like you're, you know, along along the lines of what use they say, well, what is he doing and why isn't he doing it better? Now? You know, some people took it to extremes and say they need to fire him, which is crazy when he's won eighty eight games in three
seasons. But you know, and I think, I think because of the amount of games that he number of games that he's won, people failed to don't think too much about the fact that he's only been a head coach three years and and so there's still a lot of a lot of things that have to happen for him in his career to you know, get to a point, uh where he's you know, considered one of the top coaches, you know, year and a year out. I mean, he's won a bunch
of games. Yes, he's had some good talent. Yes, I think this was something with amount he's won that maybe we've overestimated how good they really should be at the end of the year. Well, you mentioned the end of the year. I mean the three straight years they've played their best basketball in November and December, and unfortunately the NC Tournament is not in those two muths. They've been worse at the end of the season they were in those
two months. The other thing, I'm just curious, would they would he ever consider getting offense and defensive coordinator type of thing. We've seen a lot of coaches in college basketball, a lot of staffs have that now, and I don't know if they have that. Yeah, no, I think that might be a good idea. I'm not sure if that's going to be happening, but that's not a bad idea. Hey, we got a couple three minutes here. We wanted to talk to you also about the Cardinals. What
are they doing the Cardinals? Yeah, any ideas. Actually, they're doing the right thing, and they've been doing the right thing for what January of twenty twenty three, as soon as they got rid of Steve Kime finally as the general manager and started o new head coach, new general manager, new everything for the most part except or unfortunately, no, not the same and they have the same owner. But anyway, as far as the actual football
product, they just needed to start over completely. Well. I should also throw in that I personally don't think that Kyler Murray is ever going to be more than an above average quarterback. If that I would have started over there too. But they can't because they've paid them two years ago. They've got nobody else's got to take them at this point because they've paid them too much.
But they they're doing the same thing they did. They there's no way this team was one of the worst two or three rosters in football last year and it's not going to be any better this year because you really can't get any top notts free agents to come here unless you severely overpaid for them. And you know, I only even think those guys would come unless they got really grossly overpaid. Uh, there's no reason to think that this team is
going to be particularly good in the next two or three years. But they're just trying to accumulate as much talent as possible. They've got a ton of draft picks. I guess the draft is actually starts four three weeks from today. They've got double digit draft picks mad the fourth pick. They should trade the fourth pick down and get more draft picks for this year and next year,
specifically hopefully next year, and they just need players. I mean, by the end of last year, they only had two or three defensive players. Specifically, they were NFL caliber starters. Buddha Baker, who actually didn't have a good season last year by his standards and still made the Pro Bowl because his name is Budda Baker, and in Jalen Thompson, the two safeties. Those were the only two defensive players who were really above NFL average level
of talent. They had some offensive guys that weren't too bad, but they just have a really bad roster, quite frankly, and that's not the fault of the current administration. That's all Steve kim Thing who did a horrendous job, especially and the end of it his last few years he was the general manager. Came for a suggestion. Sure, if you were ever to get an opinion, you might be good at radio. Thank you, Thank you, Bob. It was good to hear from. You'll be doing well.
My pleasure. Thanks guys anytime. Yes, thank you, Bob. Kim love his opinion. Yeah. Well, you know it's funny too, because we talked to Jody Hailer, Jody things Kyler Murray's bomb. It doesn't make any sense to me. That doesn't make any sense to me either. I mean that that there's two guys in the room that believe one thing or the other. And I'm on Bob Kemp's side. You know, I don't come on the dude's gonna get hurt eventually. He has a few times. Yeah,
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Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, he's Jay. We have fifteen minutes, so it'll be watching the phones. Phone the phone phone. If you want to call plase do five two oho four one six seventy four forty. We're not here tomorrow, so give us a quick car Monday or Monday. Yes, let's say kick us out of Phoenix. Monday's possible. Well, yeah, it's possible for you. No, you're you and your group are pretty crazy. I know,
but we work. We were What are you doing? What are you doing there? I don't know yet. You could be pointing on no certain the rute, you know what I over there? I could be I could be coming and holding the mic for you in a press conference. That could be handing you some stamp that makes the decision. Doug Tamer, Oh, so you could be doing He's told us. He's told us that we could expect to do a lot of different stuff because I don't think I don't know that
they got the number of volunteers that they usually get. Excuse me, sure the restrooms that way? Yeah, so you know we might have to escort coaches. Really funny story on that. Buddy might remember Ray Martinez so hosting a first and second round here and Georgetown was here Alonzo morning long ago and they George John had just lost to whoever, I don't know, and Ray had the job of escorting Alonzo mourning to go get a drug test and they
had just lost. So you can imagine a Lonzo morning after a loss, not in a very good mood. And you know, there was a certain there's a time limit, a time you know, an NC double, a mandated time limit for you to get to your drug test. And Ray is supposed to get him there, get him there. He's just talking about he's standing there trying to tell a lot of more we gotta go, we gotta
go, we gotta go. And Alonso at one point he's getting dressed right and uh, and he's sitting there and he grabbed you like he grabs out one of his dress socks and he just kind of snaps it like you know, and just taking his time putting his stuff on, just to kind of be a big turn because he was unhappy that they lost and then he had to go do a drug test. But that's the kind of stuff that that you know that we're going over there to do sure, you know, esport
escort, coaches and maybe a monitor at a press conference. Yeah, and a whole bunch of stuff like that. It's fun. It's it's a lot of all the behind the scenes stuff. We'll hopefully get to see some basketball as well. Right, I'm hoping. I'm not far away from the floor. Yeah. You know, I think people don't realize that, you know, the n c DOUAA tournaments like that, they need volunteers. You know,
they don't pay a bunch of people to come and run it. There are some paid spots, you know, like the scorekeepers and the stat guys and you know all that kind of stuff. But the people who run around and and kind of do all the you know, the the well the running around were handing out stats, uh uh, you know photo marshals, photo marsh all that stuff are all volunteers. And if you ever want to work in n cua A tournament, contact the school that is hosting this year.
In this it's as U. They're they're the they're the hosts. They're the ones that have to make all these arrangements, you know, contact them. You know, I know that if you know, my daughter wasn't flying off to La for the weekend. She would probably come and work this, you know, because I could have called Doug and said you need another body and it said yes. So if you're interested in doing that kind of stuff,
now you can't get caught up and the basketball you gotta get. You know that you're going to be doing some work, but you'll get to see some basketball. And that's what we hope to do this week. Sure, So like Steve was gonna go sit in a seat somewhere watch the whole games. What's your basketball? The figure out what I'm gonna righte, Yeah, that's the you're gonna write, Steve. I don't know. I don't even know.
You know, I'm gonna get there tomorrow early and and see, I don't know, you know what you want to do any Arizona stories, I mean a stories, not like Arizona Connections. You don't have to see that anything like that. You know. The funny thing though, to your point is is I want to kind of bring it home here and you know how you can kind of relate it here because you know who really cares otherwise And that's kind of hokey too, Yeah, I mean, even though it's up
the road, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't think so. Oh you drove Throughduso one day, right, it was a hot day that day, back in seventy five. There's my lead. It was hot and seventy five, yeah, what darkened story? And then in August yeah god oh well now yeah, you know, I mean, well that was I mean, that was what we always had to do. Write at the papers, you know, yeah, make localized, localized, because any any slap can go write a game story, right right, right,
so you have to be different. I don't know, I might do something he or or the North Carolina guy or you know whatever, just whatever. It's interesting. I haven't figured it out. Yeah, I just got to get up there because credentials and traffic and ride you know all that long way that's far, like two and a half hours. Yeah. We got one of our guys going up to he's getting our credentials tonight, so smart like, yeah, our credentials and our gear. That's what I'm looking for.
The gear, yeah, you know, Yeah, I don't know what I'm gonna doing with all my pack gear. Now, I have a couple of year I've worn it a couple of times. That's vintage, vintage. That was gonna college a couple of sid It's gonna be on eBay soon. Yeah. No, I loved Ustell. I wouldn't get rid of it. It's cool, all right. I have my ninety ninety four final for you've seen I worn it here, thirty four jack final four jackets. Well, I saw you. I saw you stole your sons, uh Battling of Foothills soccer
jackets, and you're perfect. It's be perfect. Yeah, I have. I have my ninety the ninety seven golf shirt that I bought there, and there's a fit. I think it would now. I can't wait less now than they did then. And I also have the ninety ninety seven pull over wind breaker that I bought there with the logo on it. I have in the back of my closet more money spent. Maybe I'll break it out here one of these days. More money spent. Then give me scrap about the
fact they haven't won a championship since then. Oh that will remind me. Yeah, that'll well, you don't need reminders, but it would remind you. Well, the blue Blood will have to wait again and again. In fact, in fact, Culpeper sent me a note after the loss. You know, we had them on and you were saying, well, you know, because I brought up to him, he's as well, maybe win when more, he says, Steve, your point is made again. When you're right this long, it just bothers me. It'll be a while. Well,
you you're a Dunge fan. You waited a hell of a long time with some pretty good teams. Yes, oh that was Yeah, that's been brutal. So those especially twenty I think one, he's a kid, he's a kid arranging experienced a good life because they won one before you were twenty three. That the worst one though, was probably twenty seventeen. Oh yeah, that one. Cheating Astros, those bastards, yes, because they were loaded that one. That one hurt and they got cheated out of it,
them and the Yankees. So for Final Four this weekend, any predictions you guys, do you guys think, Yes, we have to write. I guess we got to get to it. I'm gonna hate to say, I'm going I'm going chock. I'm going chock. I think I think it's I think it's purduing Connecticut in the championship game. You know, what I think you. I think Due beats you Khan because I think it's just too hard, too hard, too hard to repeat. I think Due beats you Khan.
Whoa You get some good odds with that? Yeah, decent odds with that. I mean, look at that. Yeah, it's better than two to one. Probably. I think, yeah, I'm gonna go with Purdue just the not not because I think Yukon Purdue is better or whatever. I just think the game's gonna the game is gonna start, and and Purdue is gonna impose it as well. I think they win it. I do. I'm as much as if I pick Yukon. I owed Chris twenty bucks.
It's hard not to pick you Coock, really hard because I had Houston, and I thought Houston would be able to pull beat them below up Alabama shoots well, who knows. I don't know. I'm just going to watch some good games. I want there to be too close. I don't want both games to be just blown. I don't and typically they're not like that. Jay, You know that maybe because sometimes the under games, the understudy games,
yeah, are the batter games. Well, the best day of the Final Four is the first Saturday, is the Saturday because of the two games. But I yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Purdue. Okay, we have six minutes. We made our predictions. We can kind of go back to that. But I have you're saying you con went yeah, which is said, but it is what it is. So I got to know from somebody who listens to us. I won't see who it is because his name is on the thing you and I said. He says, who
is Bob Camp? And I said, he's a sports talk show and Phoenix where you've been? He says, you and Jay both agreed with his take on Tommy. I was shocked Jay. I wasn't checking j but you too about his coaching situations, but he made sense about his game changing or non game changing situations and and faltering late in the game. It's interesting to hear perspective from somebody who's not here every day. Would you agree with I would
agreed as well. But you don't really think other people have the same opinion. Really, you think other people would think, oh, Arizona, everything's good, but well, we'll see, and we're fans and we wanted not you, Steve, we are you know, and we want to think that think the best, and we don't want people to We don't want to say here and think Tommy Lloyd has uh he's got to be better coach, and
that he's a really good coach. And yeah, he'll get it. But if you look at it, and you look at it from the HBO present, he's right, right. They just never fixed anything in the second half when they weren't shooting the ball, they never did anything. They kept trying to do the same thing and ultimately it got him eliminated. So yeah, I mean you have to you have to agree with that. Yeah, well, our boy here says I don't. He just tends to be again up
to hear this, I don't agree. Yeah, yeah, you know, but again I also I also say, though, and I said it, you know, a little bit ago. He's three years in, three years in with a lot of wins. He's clearly gonna win a bunch of more games. Yeah, let's take this. Hi, you're on the Aaron on on the ball? Hey Jay, this is done. How you guys doing? We're good? Don? How are you give me that optimism? Don? Well, I gotta go back to what mister Camp just said and you
guys agreed with him. I was trying to say that a few weeks ago, and then we had a caller that came in after me started crumbing me for did I go to the games? And then did I see all that stuff? And I thought, what mister Camp seeing from Phoenix was no adjustments. But hey, that's okay. I guess the point got made. Well, your credibility was shaking the last two weeks. Now your credibility is better. So we agree with you now though, Hey you guys have a good
weekend. All right, we're gonna try. Thank you. Yeah, I remember that call. I remember he was like poop poo in it, and you know, you look back and sit back and kind of look at it. Yeah, especially in that game, he did not make adjustments, and even Thumpson had a lot to do with it. They went to that zone freaked Arizona out, which usually does when they have own They couldn't get the ball to to to bollow, not that that would have mattered. He one
from seven from the freethaw line, and they could hit shots. I mean, the stars aligned and the defeat they just did things that had to happen happened. And then everything that could go bad, right, right, And when only one dude showed up, Brady and then well kJ Lewis got him out of a funk where he was coming in and stealing the ball and doing all that. Yeah, I think the common denominate with a lot of these teams is they have that a dude that can knock down threes. Right.
We see even Yukon they have their two guys. Alabama can get in there. So you know, we've been waiting on Arizona to see who will be the next three point guy, if there ever will be one, If there, We've been talking about it for years now. But yeah, did you read I was before I was got interrupted earlier? Did you read the the Michigan coach the former Michigan coach Howard John Howard. It was a great story in the Athletic about he is the first time he talked in two years to
reporter one one. I talked about his situation when he went through and all his health issues, and you know the Caleb Love thing going there and not getting people to get in and and then coming here. A lot of a lot of things were said. It's interesting just how things kind of happened and you know he's a Michigan guy. They got rid of him. Just just an interesting story. And you haven't read molchy. I still are you driving on tomorrow on your own or with people? I'm driving with my son?
Okay? Is he driving? Okay, I read it. When you're not, I'll get it read. I'll be you know. I mean, we're just going up to We're not you know, we're just we're gonna get there and probably get somebody eating. Women's find afford that tomorrow should be very again, really compelling games. You know, there's some people are making an argument that the best game of the week is I Yeah, and there's a great
argument to be made for that. Yeah, I'm gonna try certainly the most compelling game that's first or second, that second game, that second second. Yeah, I'm going to give those a good watch. I'll watch them to Yeah. I might go to a sports bar and watch yeah. No, yeah, how can you miss it? Because you don't want a lot of people don't know anything about the sport and right, and we've gotta be talking about it. We're gonna talk about it. Carolina undefeated still so that story
as well. Yeah, and then uh, Caitlin Clark's your your, your, your superhero. They you the word generational on her, which she is. Yea. Even Kim Malkey used it, you know, mean lady that she is. You gotta read that story. She's got a little Jay. I definitely will. I got to read it just to see if if it comes out, if it if it's really that obvious that I that I have some soh you have no questions some of them and only the people that know you, like know you. We'll see that, okay. Because I don't
what to think Sid. I don't either. I'm a good guy, right yeah, see said knows. I don't feel grudges against Sid. I love Sid, I love all the interns. What Steve is thinking? O Jay here Dunn's Hillt's grudges. All right, we're out of here. Where we're back on Tuesday. Will be out tomorrow and Monday, as Steve and I will both be at the Final four, so we'll be back on Tuesday to talk about all of it. So be sure to come back on Tuesday.
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