Hour 2- August 15, TJ Juskiewicz

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hey, welcome back to Winning the Ball here on Fox
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we have ready with breaking news.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
This is Eye on the Ball Breaking News on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
All right, feel good Friday, very lovely day after my birthday.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
So today's oh, happy birthday dude.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Thanks, you don't get two days.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 5 (00:35):
Blood Dude, in my house, it's birthday week because you
have a bunch of girls in your house.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
I know that that is true too.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, I couldn't go out yesterday, and I'm not trying
to be like that horse that Jay bets. I mean,
mister crudo over there. Get into the actual sports though
and breaking news. Arizona women's soccer started off their season
on a really good foot, winning five to zero against

(01:03):
u n l V. First I think official like contest
that kind of ushers in the fall season for you
of a athletics.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Got they start so early? Man.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, Well, we were on the phone with coach Stubbs,
were you not, Yeah, yeah, she talked about the normally
would start now like August or eighth practice wise, but
they started them July thirty first because they didn't have
any you know, two weeks of getting ready for the
first game, right, would not have been enough time.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, right, keeping it going.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Volleyball has announced the lineups. I think coach Stubbs didn't
officially announce like who's going to be on whose team
on the show when she.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Was on tomorrow. Yeah, it is tomorrow. It's tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
The Red and Blue scrimmage is tomorrow at two pm.
So that's exciting. If you know, go catch some volleyball.
See how the team's gonna look. It's gonna be fun.
Another kind of big, I feel like thing that came
out this morning was the field level seating kind of

(02:08):
suits how they're calling it in no for football for football. Yeah, yeah,
finally got a got to see a little bit of it.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
I mean it looks really cool.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Well, they had those seats out, you know, kind of
set up for that uh spring football, yes, event that
they had. You know, if you want to go down
there and sit down there, I mean you're gonna see
some football it's gonna be.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
I think it's gonna be pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I don't remember seeing it because you had the party
thing on the north side right and they had the
fences or whatever.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, I must have missed it or didn't see it. Yeah,
it's on the home side.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
To be honest, as a fan and as a football guy,
might I probably wouldn't want to watch the game from
that vantage you see it because you can't see too much, right,
But I mean it'd probably be really good for like
recruits and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, front, Yeah, they get their like real official like
you know, seats table.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I know you don't have this on the thing, but
then if I can real quick, because Jay has been
here forever.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
The new court, what do you make of it? I
like it because it looks cool. It's not.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
It's not ridiculous like that court that Oregon had, and
I've seen some other like that big twelve Conference championship
tournament court that they had. I think the cactus logo
is pretty cool. I like it now. I did Tommy
Mike might yell at me because maybe he said this.

(03:30):
He said, I'm not so sure about those those dark areas,
you know inside the three point line. I didn't even
know it's really the two tone inside the three point line.
I think it's a little too dark.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay, I have to go back and see it because
I don't don't remember that.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
But uh I Tommy likes the court, you know, and
and and I think I like it.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, it looks good and it's recognizable.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, the logo is recogned.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Didn't I think CBS Sports came out and said it's
the best looking court in the country.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
They did last week.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yes, I think the day after it came out really
like on Tuesdays, it.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Does colorful and clean.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
You know. Now you just gotta win some games. Yeah, yeah,
seriously keeping it going.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
F C Tucson had a Western Conference Team of the
Year candidate get picked as one of the defenders.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
It's a DeAndre Pickett. He was named as he was one.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Of the teams, like I said, named as a defender
on the Western Conference. So shout out to them, big
one that we talked about a little bit already. I
know you're gonna like this. J. L A playing San
Diego this weekend in l A. Dodgers are favored by
are you j Are you betting on them?

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Okay, so yeah, actually betting on the Dodgers, I've stopped.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Okay, so other people can actually bet on the Dodgers. Now,
guess what, They're going to go on a huge I
just I just flat.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
And it was funny to do because it was tempting
because I thought, okay, the Angels beating four, they got
to beat the Angels, and then I thought, no, just don't,
and I didn't.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
They lost.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
They thought, okay, now they really have to beat the Angels,
and I think, no, I don't, and they didn't. In fact,
that one more time. Okay, they can't lose the whole
season series.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
To the Angels. And I laid off and then they did,
so I made the right decision. There you go.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
A big one that came out today was the Michigan
getting fined for the Searon mooreh or sorry, Sharon Moore
is gonna get added into it, but for the sign
stealing that Connor.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Was doing.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
A lot of people are saying that they're not happy
that they're not getting like a postseason ban or nothing
like that.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
What do you guys think about it?

Speaker 5 (05:42):
I mean, they cheated the hell out of it, and
you know, and then they then they lied, and they
did all kinds of stuff, And I guess the NC
double A is trying to continue to exist, right because
I think there's a feeling that if they go in
there and just beat the hell out of Michigan, that
people say, get out of it.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Get you know, n C DOUAA, you're gonna cease to exist.
You're not running football anymore.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
I think they were trying to toll a line between
punishing them enough but not punishing them too much to
piss everybody off. That's my that's my take on it.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, I just think it's crazy too well, I'm gonna
say this to preface it. I watched that thirty for
thirty on SMU, But I think everybody's just like kind
of upset that, Uh, there's not a lot of people
that you know, that were a part of it, about
like a part of the whole scandal, that are that
are still there anymore. It's really just or obviously I'm
sure there's.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Like that's what they say here. I mean, that's what
they said here with Sean Man, and you know they're
gonna who they're going to penalize. Yeah, everyone's gone, and
it's always the sins of the father.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Look, just take their money, which is what they did.
They're they're gonna get like thirty million dollars. Oh really yeah,
it's like thirty million dollars in various.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Where does that go? Where's that goal?

Speaker 5 (06:54):
It goes to what's called a student Athlete Assistance Fund.
We're trying to exist, but it's a fund for athletes
n CUAA athletes if they need some sort of help
that you know, they can't get from their schools or whatever.
And it's not like I don't know what the criteria
is because now they're making a lot of money, right,

(07:14):
thirty million dollars is a lot of money. But there's
some you know, real strict regulations. I saw just a
little paragraph about what it is. But it's like, you know,
I don't know. You know, your your grandmother's dying and
you need a plane ticket or whatever.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well that's good, not anymore.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah, so I think it's it's some student assistance fund.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Not that your grandmother needs to pass away and need
good old days. I'm not saying that. Now they're making
tons of money.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, crazy stuff.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Kansas coach Bill's self says he's feeling good and he's
ready to coach after a heart procedure that he had
done in July.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
I think this is a this is a I don't
think they had a heart. This is a no statement.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I mean, and not that this is a make or
break a year for him, but he hasn't well the
last couple of years, and at Kansas, and for him
it's it's it's good, yeah, because we were there in
Boise once. You were there at the tournament when they
they wanted the they wanted the last second, and then
they lost and he said, I was waiting, waiting for

(08:17):
next year, and then next year came and they got beat.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
The first round. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's you know.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Kansas, how much do you put up even with the
Hall of Fame coach.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Look, you know there were there were some years that
Lude was catching some stuff here, you know, saying, dude,
you're just not winning enough. And then he went and
asked the championship, and people shut the hell up till
he till he retired. But yeah, no, I mean you
start to you start to hear some little things from
Kansas fans that you know, they don't know what to expect.
They're they're just wondering is he still the guy? Has

(08:46):
he lost it? Those kinds of things.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, keeping it going with the Blake Eager Little League
Baseball Scoreboard. What the hell he complained on Wednesday about
about knockover Little League the Little League World Series? Enough so,
Santa Cruz, Aruba is up eight to one against a
Regian Panama Venezuela.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
That's a tough one to name. Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Venezuela beat Vancouver, Canada four to zero. Vegas beat Bonnie Lake,
Washington five to three, and Fairfield, Connecticut and Honolulu, Hawaii
are set to start off in probably a couple of
minutes of soas four.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
Okay, I watched I watched the game the one of
the games the other day, literally one of the Little
League World Series games, and I think it was Connecticut
against somebody, and I don't remember if he played for Connecticut.
This kid played for Connecticut with the other team. I've
already got a kid in the Little League World Series.
So I just can't stand he just okay, First of all,

(09:48):
he's probably the best looking player on the field. He
looked like he was about six foot not the crap
out of him. Hits a double off the wall, guess
the second base he's you know, stand up double great
and I'm just a specimen of a kid. So you
know that he's that kid that thinks he is great,
and his dad thinks he's great and all those things. Right,

(10:09):
So he kept getting nearly picked off at second base,
and he kept going in standing up so he wouldn't
even slide, and he kept so finally he gets to
third and they pick him off of third, all right,
and it's a close play, and in the World Series
they have review so they so he's he's stomping around

(10:32):
and he's upset and and and saying I'm you know,
and throwing his hands up in the air.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
They review it.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
He was way out.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
I mean, he was way out.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
So when the umpire comes out and and and uh says,
you know, call stands, he rips his helmet off and
he's screaming and yelling at the at the arm.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Dude, it was on instant replay.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
You were out, no, And and he you know, and
his his coach gave him a hug and I would
have to go sit the helm down. You're not playing
anymore dead, I don't know. But he rips his helmet
off like you guys are wrong. I'm right, you're wrong.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
And I hated that. I turned the TV. I couldn't
stand it up. I did.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
I changed the channel because I don't want to see
these kids anymore.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Just because of him, Because of him, a twelve year
olds getting under his skin man.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Big time, big time under my skin. Because look he's
I mean, he's that kid that you know is really
damn yeah, but he's gonna he's that entire little turd
that you just want to slap.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Off that. Okay, you're gonna keep it going.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
There's a there was a list that came out of
the top ten greatest coaches in I say American sports
because there is no soccer included in this.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Goes Bill Belichick.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Uh, coach, you're going one to ten, one, ten to one.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (12:02):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Starts off with a hockey guy named Scotty Bowman from
the Montreal Canadians, Casey Stengele Uh at nine, Andy Reid
at where's this from?

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (12:13):
It's it's a site called m L Football. Andy Reid
at eight. Seven is Red Our back for the Celtics.
Six was Vince Lombardi, five is Nick Saban, four is
John Wooden. Three is Phil Jackson, two is Coach K

(12:33):
and one was Bill Belichick.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
All names I put up there.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
I don't know if I put him in the same order,
but yeah, I know about Casey Stengele because he coached
the Meds and they sucked for a long time.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, but yeah, who do you throw in there?

Speaker 7 (12:48):
That?

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Who do you throw out? If you got somebody else
to put in right? Noting else?

Speaker 8 (12:52):
Yeah, probably Bill watsh, Bill Walsh maybe. Yeah, his name
was benin yesterday. Yeah, yeah, you know, you know it
was with Culpepper. That's a decent list. I mean, I'm
saying here.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Trying to come up with ten more and say, oh yeah, yeah, right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
That's one of those things where you can make it
like like trying to name the top ten NBA players
or something like that. Right, you know that's all right.
I don't know if i'd have Coach K at number two,
and I don't know that i'd have him my head
of John Wooden, right right, right, Maybe he's five.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
In fact, he's probably this is another dumb thing. He's
probably disappointed more than he's won because he should have
had more.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
He should have had more, yea her point, Yeah, I
think just a couple, just specifically college basketball ones that
I'm surprised I don't see is the I always forget
his name, but the old school guy from Indiana, Bobby Knight.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Bobby Knight, Well he was a jerk, That's why he's not.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
He was that twelve year old guy and he yelled
at me one so you know he's.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
That was another. Next time we go to break goody
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Streamy Live on the iHeartRadio WIB. This is I on
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Speaker 2 (18:33):
Hey, welcome back to Winning the Ball here on Fox
Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera and Today's Jay Gonzalez.
Knowing if on we have TJ just Gowitz, the executive
director of ELP TOWR DE Tucson.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
TJ. What's going on?

Speaker 7 (18:45):
Hey, how's come guys, beautiful Friday afternoon?

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yes, Yes, you're four months away. Uh no, a little
more than three months away from the event.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
How's it going good?

Speaker 7 (18:57):
Well, about one hundred days more or less. Yeah, registrations
are looking great. We got people coming from all over
the world, and we just announced yesterday our prologue lineup
some of the top pros from the past, including Tour
de France Winter, Sir Bradley Wiggins becoming the Tucson So
so real excited about this year's Elle Tour.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
So it's does it really grow every year? I mean
it's like, are you dealing with more and more stuff
as this thing goes along?

Speaker 4 (19:26):
And how do you guys plan for that?

Speaker 7 (19:30):
Yeah, it has been growing, which is actually a really
good thing. There's a lot of events that are not.
So we we feel pretty fortunate that at our event
that more and more people hear about it and they
want to come and ride Tucson. So I'm pretty happy
about about that growth. And right now it's you know,
we we have a lot of officers out there and a

(19:51):
lot of just precautions out there, and you know, if
we have ten thousand riders or twelve thousand riders, we
can accommodate either. So we're We're happy with the with
the roads the last years.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
So we have about forty two hundred right now, could
be forty two oh one. If Jiggins Alas signs up today.

Speaker 7 (20:12):
That'd be a great thing. We could always use a
guy like Jay. You know, I think people will feel
good because then they're gonna come in one place above Jay.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
They're saying, yeah, they're gonna say if he can do it,
I can do it. I'm sure that's what it is.

Speaker 7 (20:26):
Yeah, I guess that's a good man mantra. Yeah he
can do it, I can do it.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
So one of the things that I wanted to bring
you up, and we'll leave that ltwhere stuff for later
h is you're you're a veteran of Florida. You graduated
from the University of Florida, uh the SEC world, and
you lived in Iowa for a number of years, almost
twenty years, saw a lot of college football. In fact,
you still go to a lot of games, and I
think you have U eight tickets. I think I don't know.

(20:53):
And we talk about this, Jay and I and everybody
else I have in the in the show, just about
the secret secrets of because I mean a big fan
or or or or schools doing it right for fans.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
What do you see?

Speaker 7 (21:07):
Well, I you know, I grew up in the South
and football is definitely king and and you know, people
rag on the secs and all you know, the SEC
they're they're no good. But you know, I mean proofs
in the pudding. They've won so many national championships. But
when you put one hundred thousand people into five or
six stadiums, that's that's real. Uh. Even the bottom feeders

(21:31):
like a Kentucky is legit or Vanderbilt, you know, there's
sort of legit football programs they take they take football serious.
In the South. It's it's life or death. That is
everything in the world to the people that live down there.
And and you see a few teams there's a few
teams throughout the country that that I think take football serious.

(21:53):
You haven't have Nebraska when they were good, and Wisconsin
or a lot of say there's a couple of play
is that they Penn State another one. But when it
comes down to football, if you've never been to an
SEC game or never lived in a community of the SEC,
it's really hard to understand just the passion of what

(22:16):
football is. And I think you know, I mean Arizona.
I mean, it's fun to go to the Arizona Games,
but it's different. It's not you know, it's definitely different,
and I enjoy going to the games. But you know,
going into Brian Denny Stadium with one hundred and five

(22:37):
thousand people or whatever is there, it's tough to beat
some of those crowds in the atmosphere.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
But you don't have.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
To have one hundred thousand people in your stadium to
have a great stadium atmosphere. And what Oregon has like
under sixty thousand their stadium holes and they have a
great atmosphere. There's some other places that they'll have fifty
thousand or whatever, and you know Arizona Stadium is fifty thousand.
That you can have a great atmosphere, the type of

(23:05):
thing that gets you, gives you goosebumps, you.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Know, when the game gets going.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
And I'm guess I don't know how you create that
or how Arizona can create that because it doesn't have it.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
Right now, I'll give you a good example. I lived
in Iowa for a while. There's a Iowa obviously was
in Big ten and Iowa State was in the twelve
and they were bottom beaters as far as football. They
were a basketball school, and you know, they'd get twenty
five thousand people to the games, and they got a

(23:37):
new ad in there, Jamie Pollard. It really turned the
culture around. I mean, Calgating became massive. I mean they
just made the experience fun and all of a sudden,
instead of getting twenty five thousand people, even if they
weren't winning football games, they were getting you know, forty
five fifty thousand people, and they stayed to the end.

(23:59):
It became a parent that, you know, a football We're
gonna put some effort into football, and the town got
behind the team. So I mean there are things, you know,
I mean a lot of times you hear, oh, we're
gonna renovate the stadium because the kids need better Wi
Fi or something like that. You put a winning team
out there, and you put you know, make the games exciting,

(24:22):
you know, I mean, get the fans jumping, and you know,
once they feel a part of that. Of course, winning
winning certainly helps, but once you feel a part of something,
that's that's you know, the atmosphere is contagious, and so
I've seen it. You don't have to have a one
hundred thousand people in the stadium. There's some small stadiums
that are pretty tough to go into and right and win.

(24:45):
And but but you know, winning, winning helps a lot,
no doubt, especially if you've got a fickle fan base
that you know, just support winners. But you've got to
grow that base. You've got to get the students involved.
I know, like when I was a student at Florida,
we we'd have coaches, you know, come to the you know,
come to the students and say we need your support,

(25:08):
and talk to the students and get them fired up
and you know, do all those things that are really important.
So it's not just the seventy five year old that's
had season tickets his entire life. It's it's that eighteen
year old that that gets fired up. And so it's, uh,
it's it's that whole culture of we're going to be

(25:29):
a winning football program. And you know, it starts from
game one and you know, by the time you know
the season is over, you know, do you put a
good product on the on the field, and do you
give the fans a great experience? Because that's you know,
if they just have a who Hume experience, they don't
come back right watching on TV.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, so you you're different than Jay. Jay's a life,
life long guy here and there's on a ghost of games.
Yah YadA. You're a visitor. You're kind of a you know,
new be to Tucson. But there's more of you. There's
a lot more of you now than ever. Right And
and I don't know, what would you say, natives in
the building opposed to non natives.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Like t J. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
I mean again, well, because they're not there for you're
they're looking for a great experience.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
They want to have fun at these games. And I
get it.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
It's hot sometimes and people complain about that. Well, I'll
just watch it from home because it's too hot or whatever.
But you know, if you get into the tailgating and
all that stuff, there are ways to draw fans through
all those things that you do. And you know, you
guys doing a bunch of stuff this year, uh that
that you know that's going to be a little bit different,
and that's and that's great. But in the end, you know,

(26:41):
a fan has got to want to come out and
see it live, experience it live, and then when they
get there, they've got to have a great time and
not come and not have legitimate complaints about concession prices
and all the all those things.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
Those things matter.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Uh, you know, otherwise you're going to stay home and
watch it on the seventy in screen you know, HD screen,
And so you have to give them a reason to come.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
Yeah, And I do think the university is trying some
great stuff. Is you know, bear down rallies before the game.
I mean it's an innovative idea to get you know,
people excited, you know, before the game, just you know,
get them close to the stadium, get them in the stadium.
But even if if you convert some of those casual

(27:30):
fans into into lifelong fans, I think it's a good thing, right.
And every time when you when you put that fun
factor into the game, you know, I mean I I
don't I never compare watching at home at on a
seventy inch TV to go in live. There's there's there's
no comparison. And we live in an experiential world where

(27:51):
those things are important. But you know, if that little
if you take your your son or daughter to a
game and they're they're nine years old, and they catch
the bug early, and and you know they watched the
band and they watch you know, the team run out
of the tunnel and fireworks and all that stuff, and
you know, you see a touchdown right in front of you.

(28:11):
All that stuff is lifelong memories that no matter what
TV is playing, you don't get that. And so you know,
you gotta do whatever it takes to get butts in
the stands. Win football games and they'll keep coming back.
But if they have a whole home experience that that
doesn't you know, get them to come back again. Well,

(28:34):
so you know, whatever it takes to get that experience
level up is is a good thing.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
So you're not from here. We already said this a
couple of times. Uh uh, you're an operation you what
why do you go? Could you're not?

Speaker 1 (28:45):
You A?

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Then?

Speaker 7 (28:48):
Well, I like supporting you know, the U of A.
This is my community here. I love college football. I
love college basketball. And so you know, if there's a
good game, you know, if it's if it's a you know,
an average game, I don't get as excited. But you know,
if they're you know, playing b YU or you know
someone like that, and or you know, uh say Oklahoma Sada,

(29:09):
you know a good program, I'm I'm excited to go
watch some good college football. And you know, I mean
over the years, they've had they've had some thrilling you
know teams out there. I mean when you got you know,
one of the top ten draft picks, I mean, you
got you got superstar players out there that we're we're
getting a c firsthand. And so you know, if if

(29:32):
you know, they put a good product out there, people
are going to recognize that and say, hey, we want
to see that. But also, you know the level of
competition being in a conference, uh, you know Big twelve.
I mean you got you know, week after week, you
got you got quality teams coming in here. There's no
reason why you know, mans don't support this this program
and come out and you know, especially those those marquee

(29:55):
games where we're they're conference games, right, you know that's
and then all of a sudden, you know, hey, you
know you're in a big bowl game or you're in
the conference championship. There's nothing wrong with that. You know
that a little school up north got to go to
the championship, right, There's no reason that that should happen, right,
So so you know, why why not? Why not Arizona?

(30:18):
So but you know, it starts with with game one.
I think it's a big it's a big motivating fact
when you get a packed, ravenous group of people in
that stadium, it it helps the home team tremendously. And
and so I hope that happens from from from game
one all the way through the season.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
All Right, TJ, tell us about your Gators. How do
you feel about them going into the season.

Speaker 7 (30:44):
Oh, we're good again, so you know, you know, you know,
I'm fortunate. You know, we we've won three national championships
in football. I say we because I actually worked there.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah that so I'll.

Speaker 7 (30:58):
Say a wee. But we also have, you know, three
national championships of basketball, which is the only country, the
only team in the country has ever done that, just
by the way. And they also have them in baseball.
So I mean it's a it's a legit program, you know,
being defending national champs, you've got a big target on
your back, really interested. You know, you got the matchup

(31:19):
with Arizona in in Vegas in November, which will be
a good test. But but football is king in the South,
even though they're basketball in national champs and they got
they got a super star quarterback and DJ Lagway. If
you haven't watched his kid play, he's he's legit. So

(31:39):
you know, you go into the season not knowing who's
going to be a Heisman Trophy winner. No one, no
one predicted you know Travis Hunter would win the Heisman
last year coming into the season or very few people.
So I think he's a dark horse Heisman candidate. And
you know there's a you know, playing on on eight
games every year every weekend. When you're the marquee game

(32:02):
during the week, if you're playing Georgia or or you know,
playing Texas, you're gonna get a lot of eyeballs on you.
So if he shines in those games, you know he's
a better quarterback than Arch Manning. I'm gonna tell you,
no matter what Johnny Football says, I kind of agree
with him maybe on one thing that I think Arch
may maybe not as good as everyone's predicting them to be.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
Are you I'm assuming then you're going over seven and
a half wins, which is their number this year?

Speaker 7 (32:29):
Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I think there are nine. I
think there are nine wins. So again, if it's all
about staying healthy, I think the key in college football
you get a you get a good offensive line and
a veteran quarterback, you go a long way and uh
and then other players step up. So offensive line is key,

(32:49):
especially in the in the SEC where it's a grind.
But you know, you win the games that you're you're
supposed to you and you eat at a couple that
you're not supposed to then then you got a shot
at it. And so you know, it's that's a great
thing about college football. We all start oh and oh
and excited to start the season, you know, and the

(33:11):
goal is to get to the Natty every year. But
you know, uh, you know, how far can you can
you push it?

Speaker 2 (33:17):
So you're telling me through all that that jud Fish
will have another year to wait before he takes his
dream job.

Speaker 7 (33:25):
Oh my, my prediction that Jet's going to be looking
for a job by the end of this year.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
But wow, and it will be.

Speaker 7 (33:33):
I think it's a it's a tough haul.

Speaker 14 (33:36):
No.

Speaker 7 (33:36):
I think Billy Naviers got I you know, having as
long as DJ stays healthy, they'll be they'll be legit
this year. I think they're the top twenty right now,
but they've got cupcakes early to kind of get their
feet on the ground. So you know when you play
like Long Island, you I didn't even know had a
football program, When you play those kind of cupcakes to

(33:58):
start South Florida, it's it's good, especially with a with
a quarterback that that's only had maybe six six games
to start, So you want to get those You want
to get those early wins, get that confidence before you
hit a Tennessee or an l s u Hey, TJ.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
You sound like a pretty proud alum so far. I've
been watching that kind of the any given Saturday, that
like that kind of behind the scenes that they did
on the SEC and there there's a lot of Florida
in it.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
Do you think it's Do you think it's a good thing.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Or a bad thing to be able to see kind
of like behind the scenes of a team like that.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
Oh, you know, I think the publicity to have that
kind of stuff. I mean, Netflix, the last time they
put the Florida program in the spotlight it was a
really bad one because it kind of recounted the horrible
Urban Meyer years. So I don't think that was a
good part, you know, the bad part of the Urban
Meyer with the with the you know, the the tight

(34:59):
end that Aaron so so this one is a true
love affair. I know, they just did one on Vanderbilt
about you know, how they beat Alabama for the first time.
They really focused on, you know, the the rise of
Florida last year, how they went from screaming a fire
to their coach to you know, being, hey, we're excited

(35:20):
about the future. So I think that that part of
it alone was pretty exciting. I mean, I you know,
I just watched that the other day, and I'm aren't
excited for the football season to start. I mean, I
think everyone anyone that's a fan is you know, circled
Week zero and then with some really great opening season
games to you know, whenever their team plays in Week one,

(35:41):
it's I mean, this Christmas Day in my mind when
college football starts.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Well, we're almost there. We're almost there. Thanks Tajing.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
Yeah, go hey, go support the Cats. I mean I think,
you know, coaches put together a really good team. You know.
I like what the administration is doing by trying to
get the fans enthusiastic, so they deserve your support.

Speaker 15 (36:04):
You know.

Speaker 7 (36:05):
Again, everyone's O and O to start out. So so
back to Cats and you know, love to see them
have a good run. Again.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
You just made Jay tear up.

Speaker 16 (36:16):
I know he's at Homer, I know he's a catman.

Speaker 7 (36:19):
And but hey, you know what, be proud of your team.
You know, like I said, we're all ow and out
to start, and that's you're undefeated till you're not.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
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Speaker 1 (40:33):
This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteenth
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Steve now went five to two oh four one six
seventy four.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Ford.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports
sporteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, your jacin zones. We got
rayed the controls here for phone calls. Now that we're
trying to we have ten twelve minutes to solve the
world's problems. Uh with to get two weeks left before
the season. But you were talking about this without the
F words and stuff about about sometimes many times, maybe

(41:06):
not the first game, maybe not the sacond game, but
fans fickle or otherwise find reasons not to go.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
Right, it's too hot, it's too cold, it's too late,
it's too early. You know, the concessions are too expensive.
I don't like the DJ and and you know, and
we're just getting off with you know, with TJ. Who
is you know, grew up a Florida fan. You know,
you go to floridagainst well they won national championships and

(41:34):
they you know, they're in a league that it's just
a whole different deal over there, and they're fans find
reasons to go to go, not reasons not to go.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
If you had two tickets to go to Florida, you
have two tickets to go to Alabama. I know there
are all kind of legacy places, but you know what
you're gonna do. You're gonna go.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
You're gonna go.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
You're gonna get all the crowd of one hundred times, you.

Speaker 5 (41:52):
Know, I mean, you know, I just remember there was
a season a few seasons ago, and I remember when
it was where you know, the game. There were a
bunch of late games, right, and people complain they're too late.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
I'm not going.

Speaker 5 (42:04):
It's too late, it's too late, it's too Then we
get a one o'clock start and nobody went. And it
was a one o'clock start like in October, and still
then it was too.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Hot to explain that. The text you.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
Just got, well, somebody said, somebody sent me a Facebook
message saying, you know, the Arizona should put misters and
put an overhang, you know, for some shade. I'm like, okay,
you're not gonna you can't add an overhang to Arizona Stadium.
It just architecturally. I'm no architectures student, but you can't.

(42:36):
It's like misters, really you can't. You know you're going
to cover fifty thousand people with misters. You can't do
that again. It's a situation where you've got to understand
where we are, where we live, what it's like, and
decide you're going to go.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Well, that's the whole thing. You're not in an ideal place.
I love Tucson, I love Tuson. It's hot, yes, right,
so you're gonna have to deal with that, right.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
No, But like you said, like you were telling Corey
rubertson the Green Bay coach, it's seventy two degrees here
in December and we're golfing and we're not digging out
of snow.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
There are trade offs.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
And if you're a fan and you and if you're
a fan of of Arizona.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Football, then go and if it's hot, then it's hot,
and go to the game. Go find a play place
in the shape where you can sit.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Tell me because you were at the games and I
didn't cover football, covered basketball, so I was in that
most of them. Uh, the greatest season when it came
to that. The attendance in the fun fourteen, I can't
remember fourteen.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
What fourteen was.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
It was not you know, people were people were surprised,
right that they got that good. Yeah. Finally the s
U game. People said, this team's really good, and they
you know when they packed it, and they packed, they
packed it it. Actually, Steve might be one of the
Mike Stoops years. And in fact, I'm thinking about the
Mike Stoops years the year that Iowa came to town.

(44:01):
Remember that those games were all fifty thousand plus.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
That was a huge game.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
All those games were because they they played a physical, fun,
you know style of football.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
Nick Foles was the quarterback.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
They had prof NFL guys running all over the field.
That I think that was the team that went to
the you know, went to the festival and was a
game away from winning the the the league. There was
a that they had Oregon here for for game day.
You know, that was the game that they lost to

(44:37):
Remember the fans were going to rush the field and
then Oregon went down and scored an overtime and it
was I mean that those were exciting, great fun games,
but you know, it kind of died after rich Rod
left and we're been trying to get it back.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Yeah, understandably died after Richard.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
But I'm gonna say, as a fan, you know, the
fun I thought the honest year ever was that twenty
fourteen season because every game was you know, they had
this exciting offense, they had you know, all these you know,
these great players, and they were winning games.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
They won games.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
You know, they beat Washington, Washington at the last second,
you know, even the USC game they you know, missed
the field.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
They would have won the game.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
They had ben Oregon early for just an all out
fun season. I stick to twenty fourteen in there.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
And you live here, you're a native, and I know
we by get calls that these guys hate the place.
It's a fickle place.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
It's just a place.

Speaker 5 (45:37):
And some people will say the twelve and one season
but for excitement of every game ninety eight, But when
you're talking about the excitement created every game, to me,
it was the twenty fourteen season, partly because it was unexpected.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
And it wasn't and it still wasn't pit packed right right,
It's hard to make that here. It's two sons of
difficult places.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
Our fans aren't really Arizona fans, no, No, like I said,
there's there. They're just people from all over. They're just
people from all over. There aren't enough Arizona fans, yeah,
you know, so you've got to have something else and
you've got to attract these people with something else.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
And that's what they're trying to do.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
I think we were talking about, was it with Blake
making the tickets that's expensive go to places that they'd
love to go to the game, but they can't afford it.
U And you can probably infer what I'm talking about,
just to get the butts in the seats. Yeah, because
they might buy a churl, they might buy a bier,
they might be you know what I'm saying, it's more
money on the other end.

Speaker 5 (46:36):
Yeah, And and you know they're trying to do stuff.
They're lowering prices on a bunch of the concession stuff.
You know, a hot dog is.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
You have you have to live.

Speaker 5 (46:43):
Hot dog is going to be three bucks. A soda
is going to be three bucks. Uh, you know, so
it's not going to cost you you know, nacho is
going to be like three bucks. It's not going to
cost you fifty dollars to go get you know, a
hot dog and a couple of hot dogs and a
couple of sodas. They're you know, they're trying to do
stuff like that. I mean, ticket prices are going to

(47:04):
be ticket prices because there's twenty and a half million dollars.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Well, yeah, you paid it.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
I paid it. I didn't even think about it. You know.

Speaker 5 (47:14):
So there's stuff and they're trying to do some things.
They're gonna have food trucks down on the ground level
underneath the west side of the stadium for you know,
for for people to get you know, to get other stuff.
Here it is a fountain, SODA's bottled water three dollars
like uh notches and popcorn four dollars.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
That's all I have at a game.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
Yeah right, you know that's I don't you know, I
don't get the burger and the the nacho grande and
all that stuff, and give me nachas with bros cheese
and some in a pile.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
And I'm trying to digest the stuff that.

Speaker 4 (47:47):
You had exactly exactly, you know.

Speaker 5 (47:50):
So you know what I was reading this Tucson dot
Com story that came Who wrote it came out yesterday
Justin Justin Spears wrote it. But all the things are
trying to do well caught my mind more than anything
of all those things you're trying to do, is what
do they got their ideas just by going around the
Big twelve?

Speaker 2 (48:08):
That's what they're great and saw all.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
These things that people are doing and say.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
Let's do some of that. Yes, the bitterest with a
form of flattery is taking it from somebody else. No. No,
that's what they've been needed to do for a long time.
Get a call yep, okay, cool, got a call Hello,
you're on the air und of the ball.

Speaker 16 (48:25):
Hey, yeah, No, I just wanted to chime into.

Speaker 7 (48:27):
And I think that the.

Speaker 16 (48:28):
Ultimate issue is figuring out if the goal is to
to make money or is the goal to provide a
home deal of pull home Deeld advantage for the for
the for the players and the field supported and to
possibly get more recruits in the future that see us
as a fan base that supports. Because it's it's really
either or, I think with Tucson, because the people with

(48:49):
money typically are the ones who are like students that
are coming that may or may not be interested in
saying at the games that have some money in.

Speaker 7 (48:56):
The sudent housing.

Speaker 16 (48:57):
Or the folks that are the retirees that have the
extra money to go to the basketball games but also
to the football games. And that middle class, the lower
class that we really would fill up the stadium doesn't
have access to it still unfortunately, So I think that's
the biggest thing if they did want to. I've talked
I've fought in before and talked about like halftime if
it's pretty dead to get some you know, buses and
shuttle people in from different hubs where, you know, just

(49:21):
to fill up the seats and stuff. But I think
that's the biggest issue. If you're trying to make money,
that make money, but you may not have customers. But
if you're going to fill a seat, that might end
up producing a poor quality product because the kids feel
more supportive that the athletes still more supported, and that's
then that's another strategy.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
You couldn't do both.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
I mean, well, there's a there's a balance.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
I think you can, but there's a balance and you've
got to find the balance, and it's just historically been
hard to find that balance in Tucson, Arizona. You know,
a price point, a price point that's going to get
a fan into the stadium, but that still pays the bills.

Speaker 16 (49:56):
Yeah, Or to think like I said, or I think
creatively of like, hey, let's do this thing where it's
going to be unique, but second half, you're gonna guaranteed
almost a sold out stadium. Who's even though you actually
didn't technically sell it out. Who's just I'm a yeah,
who's this?

Speaker 2 (50:10):
You've called before? So what's your name?

Speaker 16 (50:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (50:14):
I was wondering if you're gonna talk to me about
Chris Rogers.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
But yeah, yeah, But.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Do you do you go to the games?

Speaker 16 (50:25):
I do if I can afford it. Honestly, one of
those guns, you know, And I'm an educator, but but
I know, like I know, like educators and school principals
and coaches from across the city that if you gave
their students and access to the game at a cheap rate,
you would have, you know, given given give them the
tops the three hundreds, you know, given that at halftime,

(50:46):
it probably have more people reflective and louder than the
rest of the whole stadium. But visually on television it'll
be like, dang, that's this is the school to be
reckoned with. This is a school that supports their their
their players.

Speaker 7 (50:57):
You know.

Speaker 16 (50:57):
Other than that, like I said, it's who can get in.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
So I agree, Well, thank you JR. Appreciate it, man, Yeah,
thank you.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
No, it's hard.

Speaker 5 (51:06):
Yeah, it's hard finding the right formula because and especially
now the pressure too, the pressure to generate the revenue
is higher than ever before.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Maybe not next weekend, but the weekend after. We'll try
to get desree on a Friday. And when you come
in and ask her that because she's been here, she
was a student, she knows and now she's an administrator,
she should know and she's trying to figure it out.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
Is there is there a right answer? As you said,
there's not a secret sauce.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
It's not a secret sauce.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Well, actually, like take it back, there.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Is winning that helps. That's the number one.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's the number one thing. You win.

Speaker 5 (51:38):
They'll come. But you know, you look at a program
like ASU. You know, back in the seventies and eighties,
they could fill a seventy thousand seed stadium, but it
got to the point where they cut out nearly half
of it, right And okay, so they had them, you know,
last year because they won.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
We'll be interesting to see what they do this year. Well, Jay,
thanks for coming in. I will see you guys on Monday.