Hour 2- December 8, Brent Brennan

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the ball on
Tucson Sports Station yet Fox Sports fourteen fifth day.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey, welcome back to the ball hero Fox Sports Sports
and fifty. I'm Steve, you're Troy, and now you're one
what I hope breaking news, he says, Eye on the
ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Why do
you say hope because we didn't talk about did you
have it or didn't? Uh no, I always have breaking
news on a Monday. Yeah, you would mehit Tolindo would

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never disappoint his parents or me. Never, That's what I do.
That's why you called that. It'd be the story would
be that you disappointed break breaking news. I don't have
breaking news. Yeah, that'd be something that's the story.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
But Arizona Athletics, Right, let's let's get off with the
We get the bad news out of the way. The
honeymoons phase is over for Becky Burke. They've lost two
straight yesterday to to Mexico.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
But okay, honeymoon period.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
I don't know if there's a honey moon period.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh yeah, I wouldn't know if I'd go that strong
with it either.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, regardless, the reality is yeah, that there is going
to need improvements to be made.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Sure and she knows this. I mean they're still learning,
let me say this, And I don't know, they're starting
to learn the rough way.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, I don't know if you Mexico is any good.
But I saw the second half. I was just interested,
just interested to see how they played, and they fought hard,
they tried and they were on the verge, but didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm sure it's gonna get tougher from here, but we didn't.
We know this. This is what the season is probably
gonna be. Yes, exactly exactly, I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
And that's why I say the honeymoon's phase is over.
You started off six and oh it was a great November, right,
you beat me six straight times six and oh okay,
then you're not playing me anymore. You're playing so many
much better. Sure, sure, okay, so go ahead. I don't
want to put your break too, because you may stop

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quit playing.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Coming to work here.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Volleyball had a valued effort in the their quick NCAA
tournament visit. They beat South Dakota last Friday three to one,
but then lost to Stanford UH one to three. Yeah,
one to three. They she's making progress, very very good progress.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I like her. I like her. She's on the show
every now and again.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
And that's Arizona volleyball, right, I mean, but it's been
and then you play and then you play Stanford.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
I mean Stanford's traditional power. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Now, I think the next step is being those teams
that you probably should be losing to correct.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Were there a bunch of those during the year.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
I think they have covered. They had a couple of upsets.
They beat Baylor at home they were sixteen. They beat
TCU who was thirteen. They beat by b YU who
was twenty one.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Scho the other side, though, ye, should they have one
games that they should not have lost. Yes, So that's
what you can't lose. You can't lose to the teams
you should be. Consistency is the next step because she's
able to knock off. If you're able to knock off
those people should be losing too.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
But but I commit that's very commendable year, very very good,
especially to where she started. I think her first season
she only had two wins or so. So, I mean, great,
great stuff happening for volleyball.

Speaker 7 (03:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
And obviously great stuff for the number one team in
the country with Arizona basketball.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, they thrashed.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
The Auburn Tigers ninety seven sixty eight uh co p
eighteen points uh Jayden Bradley another sixteen, Brandon Burry sixteen.
They got a little bit from Yvonne Karkoff and.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
The game or so that he was player of the
game assists and defended eight assists.

Speaker 8 (03:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Was there anybody laughing or doing anything because he started
and played? Because that was the question earlier in the week,
right with with with Tommy kind of going back and
forth with.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I mean no again, it just hey, how how does
it heel once this vall goes down with see and
there were simple questions.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, yeah, yep, uh so Yeah, Arizona number one, they
have a big, big toast. Did people say it's neutral
but it's really not neutral against number one, number twelve
Alabama in Birmingham.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
You know what's another factor of that game, Jaye and
Bradley's return to the BAMA program.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, good, good point, good point. He's played them before,
but not like this.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Will he show up or or not? My bet is
that he'll show up.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
In rank games this season, he's scoring over twenty one
and a half points and shooting fifty percent.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Because they needed him. Yeah, we'll see. Give you an
early line. Just what's the Troy line? I would say,
Bama one and a half. It's a good line. It's
good line. I would agree, it's a good line because
Arizona number one. I agree. Yeah, Yeah, this is a
picking game, like you and I made. Yeah, maybe a
two possession game.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Maybe I would not be shocked if Arizona won by
let's say seven or eight.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
But well, their defense is gonna have to show up
given they shoot so many three pointers.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Rebound doesn't have to show up because though sometimes those
missus can go along Kareemo.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, I think the next level and Tommy's mentioned it
several times. For this team, uh and for this player,
Collopine needs to rebound the basketball. He's good enough to
average around eight eight to nine. He should not be
averaging around four three to four. How did previous play looks?

Speaker 3 (05:31):
I think he came out and kind of helped land
that first punch. I mean they just every time they
went inside, he was a little let me, let me get,
let me get to my shot, and it went in
almost every time.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
And that's what he is, right, that's what he needs
to be.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
I think the important thing, well, offensively, he needs to
do what he's doing. But the important thing for Kreos
is he's he's become a rim protector for Arizona.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, if anything, at the at the most he needs
to do that. Yeah, you points in are and rebounds
very much a bonus. But if he can be the
real protector, fantastic, Yeah, because that everybody else can score.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, and the great words of Andy Williams, Happy Holiday
Bowl for Arizona. I thought you would get that one, Steve,
I did, but nobody I guess did yet it maybe
it's maybe it's a presentation.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, there's a reason I call you the holidays. Yeah,
Oh cool, you going? I don't sing like you, Steve Holiday.
Are you going? We'll see, we'll see. I have to
figure some stuff out for food you in San Diego.
Let's go. I'd have a tin cup. We'll go to
the corner of We're in the Swan and Swan and
Sunrise area. We'll be there with a little tin cup
the right area. Yeah, Well, give us dollars trying to

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get to San Diego. For the Holiday Bowl. What do
you play?

Speaker 5 (06:49):
S m U, s m U.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I can spell the quote unquote idea Barnes Bowl.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, don't say that to some people.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
God, Arizona is a one and a half point favorite
right now. Obviously still got a month almost a little
less than a month ago.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Had I told you this seven weeks ago, they're gonna
pay the Holiday.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Bowl, oh, you would have been shocked.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh I thought you were gonna say a bad word. Shocked.
I hit that button.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes, I would have said you it's local.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, no, I would have been a little surprised. Again,
I have them at seven and five. So if you
would have told me that, hey, they pulled off a
couple of cents.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
And you would have been I would have said, rond schedule.
I'm right again. Then once again, what can I say?
One factor? Come on, you guys never thought this possible.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
I said seven and five.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, that's not the Holiday Bowl.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
No it's not. It's like New Mexico Bowl.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
That's fine. I would have gone there too, we'll work.
I would have said, rond schedule. Yeah, you have every
reason to be You were the only guy that had
them at eight. In my world, I'm gonna be honest.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
I saw your guys' preseason predictions at Asy Desert's Warm.
I saw that. I thought, oh, maybe it's a typo
that I read this. I was like, you know, he
believes that, Okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
And he's stuck by it.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
I honestly just looked at the schedule and kind of
if they make the improvements they need to, which they did, Uh,
this could happen.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
And you're gonna mention that to coach in about ten
minutes hopefully. Yeah, you can play it to your horn
and see this is why. Yeah, we have Brendan on
about eight seventeen. Yeah, I mean four seventeen. Eight seventeen
too late.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
On the ball after dark.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's good.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
No, uh, no buzzer needed no Yeah, yeah, actually need
some filler and noise slow r over there from Steve.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (08:43):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Looking at some college basketball scores. Uh, the former number
one team Perdue went down at home. They got pretty
badly good?

Speaker 5 (08:51):
Are they that?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Which state? Undefeated they are? Yeah, they're they're good. They
played really well early and and they should have been
in that Vegas tournament. They should have been in the
final of that biggest trim.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, they went undefeated. There and yeah, I don't know if.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
That political points and formats and all that stuff. It's
like the NBA nd season and you got to score
a lot of points. Yeah whatever.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Duke and Michigan State went at it. That's pretty close.
Sixty six sixty Yeah, dude. The Michigan State's good too.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Well, we'll see. I mean they're good right now. They're
one of those teams over the last couple of years
they've kind of been falling off towards then the reverse
Izzo as usually as those teams get better. But we'll see.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Arizona is the number one team. But they did not
get all the first place votes, Michigan with nineteen, Duke
with seven, and Iowa State with one.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
And there was a whi thirty three, thirty three to nineteen. Yeah,
some people thought maybe Michigan would have been number I.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Thought Michigan was gonna jump Arizona, mainly because they they're
on that streak of scoring one hundred on however any games,
and so I thought that was gonna come into factor.
And who watches West Coast basketball.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Well that that's one big factory. But I think two
things for Arizona went their way. One, you killed Auburn,
and you talk about East Coast bias and SEC bias.
Uh two, well three things. Two they're two and zero
against SEC that people think is the best conference in
the country. And lastly Michigan. Yes, they've been very good,
but Wake Forest took them to the brink and almost
beat them, lost ninety five ninety and Wake I haven't

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seen them that much this year, but not exactly a
powerhouse this season.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Looking at the NFL, Troy Broncos are looking good. Best
seaming football eleven and two on top of the AF
Super Bowl champions.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
They have the.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Tiebreaker over New England, who's also eleven and two. In
the NFC, you have the Los Angeles Rams ten and
three on top, followed by the Green Bay Packers nine
to three and one.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
This Cardinals coach keep his up. I would I would
fire him if I was the Cardinals man has been.
They're not good there. And it's not that they're just
not good. They're getting blown out the week out. They
look like they've given up.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
They played in differently. Yeah, No, I agree with you.
And you don't have a quarterback anymore. No, And he's
gone to I think he's gone too. Yeah, and he's
not gone. He should be gone, and where who knows?

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Vegas? Who knows? Who cares? Because I don't know why
they got him in the first place. Good talent, Okay,
he's your quarterback.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Oh no, yeah, yeah, no, It's just one of those situations.
I thought after the Tennessee game he should have been gone.
You're up by double digits against the Titans and you
blow it some you blow it in a historical way, like.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, the NFL is very different, very funny. It's just
strange Vegas yesterday, so many other games just somebody just
New Orleans, Pizza, Tampa Bay and it's just really strange.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah. Well, in the flip side of that, a coach
that isn't doing very well this season, Stefanski with the Browns. Yeah,
he's a good coach. I think he is a very
good coach. Like if he got fired tomorrow, so many
teams would not line up to Tigre that guy Arizona.
They would Oh yeah, okay, we got about two.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Minutes yes Monday Night football back in action, Eagles and
Chargers six fift ABC.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, Yeah, let's go Eagle.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
The College Football Playoff came out yesterday. Texas Tech, Indiana, Georgia,
and Ohio State received the first round bys. You will
have a Texas A and M hosting Miami, Old Miss
hosting Tulane, Oklahoma hosting Alabama, and Oregon hosting James Madison Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Game should be fun.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Any first round upsets Oklahoma place who Alabama?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
That could be one didn't quote unquote upset.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
I mean, yeah, James Madison and Oregon.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
No, I hesitate with that one because Oregon. I think
they've been up and down all season, but it's at autsin,
so I'd give it to them.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
I'm gonna go Miami over Texas A and m Yeah.
I think that's a very good, kind of underrated Miami team.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah. I'm curious to see how Texas Tech does.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Well.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Paid team, pretty good, damn good team. But they'll have
to place Oregon. I think it is more likely Oregon
in the Orange Bowl, So we'll see see how that goes.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
I think if I had to make a prediction and
right now in the Universes tex steck for the national title,
I don't know, does it line up that way?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
No?

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Okay, well then there you go.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
That would be the semi final.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
I think I think that's the game that decides to really.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Well, I would have Indiana and Georgia. Yeah, yep, all right?
Could that be a good game?

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Would be good. I still think Ohio State will find
some magic. But we'll see. Okay, we got to go.
Come back with Coach Brannan.

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Speaker 1 (18:11):
Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the ball on
Tucson's sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Hey, welcome back to Iying the ball here on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Troy Hutchinson now
on the phone. You know him now, I'm sure you
love him.

Speaker 9 (18:27):
Now?

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Is Brent Brendham you a football coach?

Speaker 5 (18:30):
Coach?

Speaker 2 (18:30):
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (18:32):
I'm doing great? What's up? Guys?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Not a whole lot, but I want to thank you
for the last seven or eight days. Tucson's Sonny all
the time. Now everyone's happy. Thank you, Brent Brendon.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Oh everything feels better when you win, no question, and
you did it in great fashion.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Let me ask you. I was at the game on
at Issue that Friday night. I wrote a column and
one of the things I didn't know and I had
to talk to a couple of people. When did things
change for this team? And I talked to a couple
of people. They said, you lost a BYU lost to
Houston and they came back knowing that they could play
with these guys and putting even more work.

Speaker 8 (19:11):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I think that things change
for this team when you know we got when we
got back together at the start of the year, just
the way they were all committed, the way everybody was
kind of in alignment, knew how we were going to
move forward together, and kind of everybody was behind the
idea that if you don't want to be here, we
don't want you.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
Here, like, go play somewhere else.

Speaker 8 (19:31):
So we're going to move forward with the guys that
love the U of A and want to be a
part of this thing. To me, that's when we made
our biggest move to you know, losing a game in
double overtime or losing a game on the last second
field goal like we were in those games, because we
believe we could play with those people already. So you know,
I will say after those two games, we did come
back to practice more upset or more a little bit
edgier about attacking our process and getting done you know,

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during the workole we had to do to win those
games down the stretch.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
You know, one thing that not necessarily changed but just
got better as the season went along, and it's been
well documented is the defense and the secondary as well
being one of the top secondaries in the country. Just
the job that coach Gonzalez has been able to do
with that unit and the progression that you've seen from
beginning to end.

Speaker 8 (20:17):
No, I think that's been outstanding, you know, and I
think it starts with, you know, some really good players
back there, and you know at the corner position. A
lot of those players were additions through the portal. You know,
a couple of them we obviously knew from our previous
you know, time in Sanise State. But Javian Cole and
Michael Dansey played great football. But Aiden Garnes was a
great addition too. You can't play defense the way we

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like to play if you can't cover people man demand
and so obviously Stuke's and Dalton and Genesis get.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
A lot of the attention.

Speaker 8 (20:43):
But you know, you can't sleep on the contribution to
Michael Dansby, Aiden Garns and Javon Cole.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
So we hear the phrase redline all the time. I
host the Honey Brothers for the Honey Huddle, and I
always ask this question that everyone. I googled it again today. Okay,
we know about the red line. When did that become
your creation? Were you sleeping one day you had a
dream and you said, okay, this is going to be
my phrase and this is what I'm gonna do. How
did it start?

Speaker 5 (21:11):
No, Let's started with us.

Speaker 8 (21:13):
At our previous job, because we were just we just
felt like there was so much like people have so
many mantras and so many sayings and so many great
quotes on the wall, but they don't have any they're
not easy to say, and they're not like, you know,
the players don't have a kind of direct connection to them.
So we're looking to make it something that when.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
We said the word, they knew exactly what the hell
it meant. Yeah, and we were going to get the.

Speaker 8 (21:35):
Response from them that we wanted. And so as we
got more and more ingrained in our culture and building
the program at u of A, that being just an
absolute cornerstone, and guys started to lean into it, and
coaches and the messaging, the consistency of our messaging, and
then you hear players calling each other out like, hey,
that's not redline, you know, so you know it was
that was It has been a work in progress kind.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Of going along those same lines with players calling each
other out and players taking more of a leadership role.
Going into the season, yourself and Ceftei talked about wanting
to see Noah be more vocal out there on the
football field, and we did see it throughout this year.
Do you think of a moment we were like, man,
it is completely changed for him being that vocal leader

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out on the football field for you guys.

Speaker 8 (22:22):
You know, I think, I mean, there was lots of
those moments over the course of the year, because you
started to see it really show up more during the
spring practice in the offseason in workouts where he was
really vocal about holding each other or holding the players
to a high level of accountability in terms of making
the runs, or you know, kind of our consistency of

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how we practiced. But there was a drill during training
camp where the defense really got after the offense, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
And that was when I.

Speaker 8 (22:52):
Saw that kind of assertive leadership from Noah. And the
next day the offense absolutely flipped it and the offense
kind of dominated the defense and in similar fashion the
next day, and it was because of Noah's response to
his frustration from the practice the day before.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
And so, you know, he's just such an.

Speaker 8 (23:10):
Awesome, awesome person, and he's one of those guys that
doesn't want to he doesn't want his voice to lose
its impact by using it too much. But when he speaks,
it's incredibly powerful.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
It's when you say that I was going to ask
you a question about him. So I've been around a
long time. You probably know that I covered Dick told
me when he got here in eighty six, eighty seven,
eighty eight and all that, and then I switched to
football basketball with lud so in that time and all
this time, I haven't met very many guys like Noah.
And I'll throw these names, Steve Kerr, just the impact
he had, maybe a Sean Elliott, a damon Stodermeier's leadership,

(23:45):
maybe a miles with his leadership. Other than that, he's
so impressive on how he is and how he acts.
When he replaced Dolaura on the show, I said, the
team kind of acted or played different when he was
on the field, and you can kind of see it.
He has that type of impact. Have you had a
guy like him before?

Speaker 5 (24:05):
No, I'd say Noah is one of one. He's really really.

Speaker 8 (24:09):
A unique, unique man, just how he approaches everything, just
who he is as a person, who he is as
a player, like how loyal he is, like how much
he cares about the U of A, how much he
cares about this program, how much he cares about his teammates.
He's really really special, And I know people get tired
of hearing that nobody talks about the quarterback, but this

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is a really special kid. And to watch him perform
and to be the first, you know, the first all conference,
first team All conference quarterback we've had in thirty years,
you know, I mean like forty.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Years, seventy five.

Speaker 8 (24:44):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, like that's incredible like that, you
know what I mean, There's been so many players play
that position here, So I think that's just I just
I'm excited that he's one of those young men that
loves the University of Arizona. He believes in his teammates
and his coaches, and he's loyal to this place, and
he demonstrates that with.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
The choices that he makes. Right.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
You know, a lot's been made about the coaching changes
that you guys made during the off season and the
sixty to one new players that have come in and
help revamp the program and get it back to where
you guys wanted to be. But one thing that I
don't know has been talked enough about, and you have
in your press conferences. Is that you guys were able
to hit on so many of your transfer editions and

(25:26):
identify the talent that maybe people overlook. Just the job
that you and your staff have done in hitting on
those transfers and just the importance of that in today's
college football.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
No, I think that's critical. I think the evaluation piece
is so important, you.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Know what I mean. And I think, you know, finding.

Speaker 8 (25:45):
Players that we thought, you know, fit us, because that's also.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
Part of it.

Speaker 8 (25:48):
They got to fit our culture, they got to fit
our family, and they've got to be guys that we
think can contribute on the field and off the field
to help them make us better. And so I thought,
guys to Crowley and Fletcher Kelly, you know in our
recruit department, you know, our general manager, they just did
a fantastic job. And then our coaches also, because our
coaches are part of that evaluation process, and you know,
there's thousands of players in the portal and so it's

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you know, there is a ton of shifting through and
finding the ones that we think work out best here
at the University of Arizona. And it's a it's a
tough process. It's a long process. It's an exhausting process,
but those guys have done just such.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
A great job of it and we really appreciate them
for it.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Now onto the bowl game not so much, we'll talk
about that later, but the importance of having these extra practices.
You know, historically coaches love it because you get extra
time with the guys. You're the name of the schools
out there. There's so much win win in this process.

Speaker 8 (26:45):
You kind of broke up on me at the end.
There just there's so much that.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, there's so much whin the blockade will be out there,
going to all the Holiday Bowl, you get more practices
with the team. It kind of vaults you to next year.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Yeah, absolutely, I think that. It's so it's such.

Speaker 8 (27:03):
A great opportunity to get to play in the postseason.
It is really special, and you know, after what we
went through in twenty four, like you know this, this
team has a lot of appreciation for the for the
place they've put themselves in, right, but the practice is critical.
It gives you a chance to do a lot of
work with the younger players on that don't get as
many reps normally when you're getting ready for game time.

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It gives you a chance to get more practice with
your team. It gives you a chance to for the
team to get to be together, because this team loves
being around each other. I mean just everybody yesterday. You know,
they were kind of they had some workouts last week
and all that kind of stuff. But we met at
the main event yesterday for the announcement of the bowl game,
and just see how excited everybody was to be together.

Speaker 5 (27:45):
And the smiles and the hugs and the high fives.

Speaker 8 (27:47):
And the chest bumps, and they're bowling and they're competing
and they're playing video games. It's just it's a great,
great group of young men to be around. And I
really appreciate all these guys and what they've done for
the program this year.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
You know, when you look at just how things have
turned around here at Arizona and where you guys were
at the end of last season compared to this year,
and just the vibe of the city, I bet it's
got to be really special for you when you have
those moments like in McHale where they announced, hey, here's
Brent Brennan, the head football coach, and you hear the
stadium are up. That's that's got to be just a

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phenomenal feeling for you and the football team when you
walk out there with the Territorial Cup.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (28:27):
I mean I think that's amazing for our players because
it's just a reflection of what they've done on the field,
and you know a lot of hard work went into
that from the players and the coaching staff, and I
just think it's awesome that, you know, our coaches get
to feel that energy, that support from the city, and
our players get to feel that enthusiasm for you know,
whatever it is, beating the team up.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
North or going to a great bowl game.

Speaker 8 (28:48):
I mean, all that stuff is really impactful because we
talk so often about how the city of Tucson is,
so you know, the university is in the middle of it,
right It's just like such a kind of the cornerstone
of the city of Tucson, and just that relationship the
city has with our football program and with athletics you
know altogether here at the u of A. And so

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it is really special for our players to be on
the on the court. Our basketball team's playing great basketball
right now, and so just like what an environment that was,
and you know, to be out there, you know, the
Territorial Cup and just to get to celebrate that moment. Fantastic, fantastic.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Absolutely must have been the same thing with you and
your son. The success that's going on with you and
just the team and having him around.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
Oh, it's been fun for me. And I don't get
to see him very much.

Speaker 8 (29:35):
It's not like he's stopping by the office and see
his old man, you know what I mean. But it's
great because you know, Bobby Wade's coaching him, and obviously
I have a ton of appreciation for Coach Wade and
the job he does with that receiver group, and it
is fun and it's fun for me to you know,
I think if anything, he's probably he gets mad at
me for every time, you know, he tries to one
handed a cache or.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
Something, I'm on his case.

Speaker 8 (29:57):
Hard and he ends up doing updowns for it. So
but it is it is fun for me. I am
one of those dads that I've never coached my son
in anything.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Because of the job.

Speaker 8 (30:07):
You know, I've coached thousands of other people's sons, but
I've never coached my own until this year, So that
part of it is extremely special for me coach.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Going back to the kind of vibe around the city
of Tucson. Before the season, a lot of local media
and even national media, maybe even some of the fans,
had this team at as a ceiling of seven wins.
Obviously you've surpassed that by great leaps and bounds. Is
there any for any for you personally? Is there any
type of validation that came with this season?

Speaker 8 (30:38):
You know, I don't really feel that way, because in
this world, the job is never done, you know what
I mean. We've got a big time opponent in a
bowl game in less than a month that we got
to get ready for her to go on the road
and play good football. And then and then the day
after or the day of the game, the transfer portal opens, right,
and so then we're we're going to be heavy into
the retention of our roster and the acquisition of new

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players that Arizona football program. So, you know, I don't
know that, Like, I don't think coaches ever think that way.
You know, it is always onto the next thing, and
it's just such an aggressive, attacking kind of mindset and.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
Process you don't have.

Speaker 8 (31:15):
I don't think we really stop and smell the roses
very often. But it's just the way it is, you know,
what I.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
Mean, but I do. I'll tell you this. I love the.

Speaker 8 (31:25):
Fact that these players and these are assistant coaching staff
put together this fantastic season and how much the city
of two shunting the university is enjoying it.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
I love that.

Speaker 8 (31:34):
I love that because without the fans, without the students
showing up the Zona Zoo rocking every week.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
It's not the same experience.

Speaker 8 (31:41):
So that for that, I absolutely love it.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Just as a guest. But I know it's true. You're
one of the good guys, right, So I'm sure after
you beat Ashue and now with the Bowl game, your
phone has blown up with former players players probably you
don't even know how, just congratulated to you on what
you've done to this point.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
Yeah, nine hundred and eighteen.

Speaker 8 (32:01):
Text messages by Sunday.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Have you gotten to alve of them?

Speaker 5 (32:07):
No, I haven't. I have not gotten through all of them.
There's no way. But yeah, but you.

Speaker 8 (32:12):
Know, I think it's funny, you know, it's it's also
that's nice. It's nice to hear from people and the
well wishes are all well and good, you know, So
it's it's it's funny, you know. You know, you win
a game, you hear from nine hundred people. You lose
a game, your mom doesn't even tell you.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
So it's just so, it's just it's just the nature
of being a ball coach.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah, no questions.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
With the game being on January. Second, you're going to
be going through Christmas and the holiday season New Year's.
What is that time like for a football team. Obviously
you have the practices, but when you're going through those
holidays seas, how is the vibe and do you have
any plans with the team and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
Oh, it's awesome. It's awesome.

Speaker 8 (32:51):
There's nothing better than being with a football team over
the holidays because that means you guys have had success
in giving yourselves a chance to play another.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
Game in the postseason. There's nothing better than that.

Speaker 8 (32:59):
I'm telling you now, I've been doing this a long time.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
It is fantastic. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (33:03):
So we'll we'll get the team together, we'll have a
you know, we'll have some events for the team here
while we're while we're in town doing the bowl prep
and uh and then the actually the players do have
a break and the coaches have a break.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
They're going to go home for Christmas. You know.

Speaker 8 (33:16):
In the middle there you know, so you know the
practice schedule, you know leading up to it will be
pretty pretty hectic and pretty busy. And then there'll be
a break there for a few days where the players
get to go home and be with their families and
celebrate Christmas and enjoy Christmas. And then they come back
and we practice for I think a day or two days,
and then we then we jump on.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
A plane and plaut of San Diego. So it's great.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
I mean honestly, spending New Year's Eve in a hotel
room getting ready to play a game.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
Nothing better.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Well, coach, we appreciate your time, good luck, good for you,
and good for everybody involved because you guys work your
ass off and very impressive, very impressive. What you did well.

Speaker 8 (33:54):
I appreciate, I appreciate being all with y'all, and we
really appreciate.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
The support and everybody. But we're going to keep building
this program. We love what we're going, we love what
we're doing.

Speaker 8 (34:01):
Like you guys have heard me say, we have great
alignment with Desiree read Francois and with President Garrimella, and
we're trying to we're trying to continue to.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Elevate this thing. We want to We want to level up.
We want to be like Tommy and those guys in Manzho.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Well, what's you're saying, what's your saying in the loved room?
I want this is not enough? Or I want one
more or what was that?

Speaker 8 (34:19):
It's not it's not enough, It's not enough. And we
want to keep going and we want it to be
sustainable and consistent. And every year when we line up people,
we want people to know, like.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
No, that Arizona team is for real and that's what
we're building. Right Well, you started a pretty good thing
here going right now. Thanks much, coach, appreciate you'all beart out.
Take care of those Brendon good stuff.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Thanks.

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I think you're gonna ask malloy more cut yourself on
the back question. Oh, by the way, coach, I had
you reading four. This was never a doubt. I knew
you could be successful. I don't I don't need to
do that. Just look through the schedule.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
It doesn't need validation this What do you think did
I ask you this question?

Speaker 5 (38:40):
What?

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Uh? When do you think things turned around? However?

Speaker 4 (38:43):
He asked you, I think you asked me week Yeah,
and I said the b YU game, the b YU
and Houston.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, that's and that's kind of what the feeling was
for the people.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
I talked to, and to be honest, I think with
the program in general, just the big tall media day
when he said, oh, we're not gissing anybody's ass anymore, I.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Have no dot that that set the whole I totally
and I wrote that in for a magazine. I wanted
to mention that to him we already kind of got
too far into it. But no question that was the
case to me because that set his standard and sent
he put his foot down and says, it's a different
mind that his bull crap anymore. It's a different mindset. Yeah, yeah,
I almost said it. I did where I wanted to radio,

(39:21):
But yeah, okay, what so you don't put yourself on
the back of that's what I got. Pat myself on
the back.

Speaker 5 (39:31):
You know.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
It was just not bad, not bad A good interview.
I got a couple of text saying it was a
pretty good interview. He's just a dude, you know, he's
just a good dude. I did like his.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Uh answer to my question about is there any validation?
He said, no, not really. It's part of the job.
You get that when you lose, you get the criticism,
when you get the praise, and uh, obviously this.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Season is pretty nice with the praise.

Speaker 5 (39:52):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
And and like to your point of not answering that question,
he did the same thing, right, you know, Oh yeah, sure,
of course, you.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Know, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
On the inside, it's like, but I know I could
do it, and well here's the thing, he's got to
continue to do it.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
And what was the history after Arizona has these type
of seasons?

Speaker 4 (40:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yeah, In fact, somebody said that they kind I'm sure.
I'm sure we'll talk about it all off season. Do
we know what the schedule looks.

Speaker 14 (40:18):
Like this year? No?

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yes, do they not exactly day to day, but we
know the opponents.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Texas tick on that, yes, and some other team.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
So so to your point of looking at the schedule, yeah,
it will be I'm trying. I'm really trying not to,
but it's really hard. Did you see to not look
at it? You know, you have even even at Washington State,
it's never that never was an easy trip for Arizona
in the past.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
But yeah, no, and hey, at least it's not November. Yeah,
it's literally in the season. No, did you see Arizona
States schedule for next year? They're at Texas tack, They're
at Texas saying they're they're at b YU.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
At b YU, it's a UCF. It's not an easy trip.
It's a continent with no with no quarterback. But at
home it gets a little bit easier. Kansas, who knows
what they'll have. Oh that that's actually the London game. Yes, yeah,
that's another So that's not an easy Yeah, never mind,

(41:22):
but Colorado at home, Baylor at home, Oklahoma State, Kansas State.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, in Hawaii, that's tough.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
That I wish for for Arizona. You have to play
Utah next year. That's at home. Cincinnati comes here, Iowa
State comes here, but on the road at b YU,
at Kansas State, at Texas Tech, and at West Virginia.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Okay, And I when I talked about Noah, I mean
everyone talks about Noah and being this guy. He's really
that dude. I wish he would talk though, in wins.
I think that's going to change.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
I think next year it does because now you're time
he's going to come back next year. I know pople
are like, well, what if he transferred? If he didn't
transfer the last two times, he's not transferred, and this
is his legacy. Yeah, I mean I think that's going
to change because now you're not just talking about and
again this is everybody getting ahead of yourself. He was
a couple a couple of votes away from winning Big

(42:15):
twelve Offensive Player of the Year. He was one of
the finalists for that. Okay, let's say he wins it
next year and they have a good year and he
has put some of the numbers. He's going to be
in the Heisman conversation. Now, will he win it? I
don't know. I mean that's we're talking about, you know, sure,
just leaps and downs conversation.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
True, but you didn't think he'd get to this point anyway, right, No.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
I thought it would be improved from the previous sort,
but not like this, not like this, but to be
in that conversation, to be in that area. You have
to do interviews because you have to put yourself in front. Sure.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Sure, and he's good. I mean, and he's good.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
It's not going to say anything stupid.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
No, no, And he's a product of the assistant coaches
that you talked about, and it was written about yesterday.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
They're trying to secure Gonzales and Daggy. It was a
good move.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
It was just a good move by the switch, ye,
for both sides.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
And not only those two. I mean, you look at
the changes of the coaching staff of getting Joe Salavea
back in the program, Josh Springle. I'm probably saying that
name Ron Josh Miller. The tight ends have improved from
last year, even Craig and I are. I know people
have had issues with special themes, but let's let's be honest.

(43:24):
I think which does need to improve. The punting game
improved once they made the switch to the Isaac Loveson
and the punt return improved when Luke Waison took over.
So those two things to improve.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Well, let me say this, This success has happened without
a kicker, without a good kicker.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Bout a consistent kicker. Yeah, which is you need those points. Yeah,
you don't want to leave points on the floor on
the floor. That's one of the things I think a
great about maybe two weeks ago. If more of those
kicks go in the hand, the game is solely in
the hands of Arizona more more games are more often
than not, and even even outside kicking, you score more

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touchdowns in the red zone.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Yeah there there.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
I think there was twelve out of the twenty nine
or thirty something trips that ended in field goals. You
scored touchdowns and most of the time they were pretty
dang close that they had to. Yeah, and they made
it hard on themselves. Those games are in your hands
a lot quicker and a lot more often.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
And truthfully, the only really of the twelve games one
set back Iowa State. They just didn't show up. I
was gonna mention they weren't ready. They were ready, they
just weren't. And they played well against BYU, played well
against Houston, just didn't win.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
But that was the one pooped, the bed one. I'll
even say they all played BYU for.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
That without question. It was just be what you saying,
We're not going to lose this game.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
And it was Arizona just you know what you could
say Arizona just not being ready for that moment. But
again I go back to that penalty and then zone.
You don't have that penalty arizon the whole second the
passing on the fourth down.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Yeah, and that's a fifty to fifty call, which more
tours not calling it.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
They game.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Wasn't there holding the brother It was like the one
holding on Chube Mai.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
Yeah, that negated a touch all the time.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
That's the first overtime.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
But in regulation they had two pass interference penalties on
that final by you drive to tie the game, and
the first one zone and then on the first one.
Do you remember what the first one to me was
past interference, the second one, No, it wasn't. But again
that's how it happens. Sometimes it goes your way, sometimes
it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Where's Arizona sitting right now? And I know we're in
too silent we're talking about Arizona, But what do you
think basketball? The success the football is six now. We
talked about this in the mid ninety five is when
they were doing really well in the mid nineties that
other people are thinking Arizona look at them, especially in
the two top name programs football and basketball.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
I think it has a better shot of staying consistent
than it did in twenty three because you have a
coach that will probably stay longer than Jeed Fish did.
But I think the football program, when you look talent
level and no was a part of that team. There
are some guys that were part of that team. I
think talent level top to bottom, that teams will get
closer much better the three twenty. Yeah, I don't think

(46:17):
that's but you're building to that. That's the thing you're
building to that, right.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
I mean, yeah, who would have thought that Arizona had
the fourth best recruiting class in the Big twelve this year?

Speaker 4 (46:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Are even giving going into the season? Who would have
thought that at the end of the season, Shore.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
And it's not just hey, it's the fourth best and
the Big twelve and the Big twel is just not
a very good football they're what thirty four, thirty five,
I believe thirty five nationally. Yeah, and they had a
couple of guys that it flipped the other way they
could have been.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
And let's not talk about or the transfer portals still
coming up.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, and they're they're gonna get guys in the portal
and they're not gonna out. People are like, how are
they going to get guys they don't have the nil
They're gonna do what they did just this last trans
season identified talent and nobody else is really looking at
Michael Dansby. They hit on that javeon Cole Aden guards,
even guys on the offensive line like type you can't

(47:11):
trigger and bounds. Nobody wanted them. Now, now he probably
isn't gonna play in a bowl game, but you know, he.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
Was probably I think he was possibly the best lineman
all year because.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
He you know, he he got banged up near the
end of the season, so he has He wasn't in
the last two games, so odds are he probably won't
be in the last one. But they had on every
train center. I mean, nobody talks about the camera, but
just solid, solid from the from the game.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
To me, you're talking about Arizona football. Uh, These no
big names, no real big names, but names that just
kind of are underachievers who just overachieved the Scooby Rights
of the world, you knows.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
And.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
He can't have underachieved.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
I think he for what he was, for what he was, Yes,
he was a four star guy and after that I
think he was one of the most underwhelming players in
a football history. To be honest, I think when the
book is written, probably yeah, like I want to have
him as a top five quarterback. Well you want my
top ten. But getting back to the original point is

(48:20):
that you have all this the guys that are overachieving.
But what's the key. You have a quarterback, you have
no Yeah, you have the choice.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
The kid that just is he the guy? Is he
the guy?

Speaker 4 (48:32):
He's very good?

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Well, then then there's a guy now when you're sitting
out watching.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
The only question I have with him, and you're learning
from Noah, which is a great teacher to have the
only question I have for him. He's he's a little scrawny. Yeah,
he's very skinny. Well, well look, Noah's a little small
for sure, But Noah isn't like not durable. Yeah, he's durable.
And that's something.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Troy. It's like JJ JJ the running back Taylor Taylor. Yeah,
he pays short, right, he's short. How do you play
like this? This is all I know. The kid who's skinny,
he's played this way all He'll be fine.

Speaker 4 (49:10):
And you have a college training.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Yeah, So they are who they are they're for the reason.
But if he's as good as people say, he'll be fine,
you know, with a year of development. And we're stalking
up againting hey, if if Delorso can get big, this
guy can get big too.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
Who would have thought at the beginning of the year
that Arizona would be in the top twenty five better
Bowl positioning than Washington? Not me, not me than Washington.
I mean that's yeah, not me, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
Not you, yes, you no better than Washington going into
the season.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
I want I don't know is Washington.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
I thought they're going to go nine and three or
ten in two.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Washington would end up they're playing in four, so they
were at the level Washington.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Didn't think they would be better than Washington. That's that's
why I say, no.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
We'll see in the next couple of years how good
Jedif Jed is as a coach, we just will three
years here, I don't know. Come on, I think he's
a pretty good coach, but how long? How long will
he be there?

Speaker 5 (50:11):
You know?

Speaker 2 (50:11):
That's well, that's part of the problem. I mean, how
do you jump around and become a good coach? You know,
you got to sustain. We're good, We're good Hey, thanks
for the good show, great show. Thanks for the calls,
VIC and anybody who call. I can't remember Rick, yeah
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