Hour 2- November 25, Kelvin Eafon, Jay Dobyns

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Speaker 4 (00:36):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (00:36):
Last show of the week, basically a Friday, because I mean,
who's going to work tomorrow?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Seriously work.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
I know we're not gonna have a show Wednesday, Thursday
or Friday.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yeah, just want to give it.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
Before I actually get into breaking news, I want to
give a quick shout out to the high school teams
playing in the semi finals this week, MICAEH Mountain and
South Point in the four A and six eight football Championship.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Some point, didn't they pull off a huge upset or something.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, they'd be number one, Pinnacle ten to seven.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Sow who's that game?

Speaker 5 (01:10):
It is in Castile High School? So they're playing Castile
High School. Who's the four seed? And it is in
Castile High School? And then Mike Mountain, who is defending
for a state champions is playing at heeler Ridge at
heeler Ridge High School, but now getting into some college stuff.

(01:30):
U of a obviously one last night one hundred and
three to seventy three against the University of Denver. Kind
of one of those games where you know you show up,
you win, like you say yeah. The women's basketball team
will be playing tonight against Northern Colorado. That game tips
off at six pm according to the website, and will

(01:53):
be at McHale.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
So if you want to go catch some women's.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Hoops, that's a good option. Obviously big one going into
the weekend football teams playing the team up in Tempe.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'm refusing to say their name this week.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
I think rivalries are what you make of them, and
to make it a good one, you got it, you know,
not hostile.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Hostile, but don't dum.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm not taking any bail money for Friday. It's okay,
so you bet you better call me coming pick me up.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I wear red and blue when you go.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
Of course, I'm sitting on their side, on the Arizona
side or the other side, because uh, tickets were one
hundred dollars teaper.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Did you have trouble getting tickets?

Speaker 6 (02:38):
I mean.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
It was I mean i'd assume that they were higher
priced than what they were like what Face Valley would be.
But I think on the Arizona side, because we were
trying to sit on the like on the no on
the top like whatever, like the top balcony or top
deck would be, but like the front row of that
top deck, I think it was like three fifty eight.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Uh, yeah, that's what I think for both.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
I think for both maybe, and then on the other
side it was like two thirty or something like that.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
So for this this who's who's selling those tickets?

Speaker 4 (03:12):
I have no idea for this game? People are going
people are going to good teams.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, which was that time you said that with this gume.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Ever, everybody says twenty fourteen. That was a good game.
I went back and watched it over the over the summer.
It was good game. I think that was in Tucson, right, Yeah,
how was that that game?

Speaker 5 (03:29):
Also just some quick tennis news, Philip Gustafson and j
Friend fell in the n C Double A Singles Championships
on Wednesday of last week.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
So Arizona.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, they were both Arizona tennis players, J friend was
number five. I don't know if that's in the country
or in the Big twelve or or what so. Also
following that up, though, UH Arizona's defensive coordinator Danny Gonzalez,
was nominated for the Broyles Award earlier today at the
press conference, he also mentioned that it was a testament

(04:05):
to the team rather than the person very coach answer.

Speaker 7 (04:08):
So, defense has been pretty interesting this year, especially the
last few weeks, where they seem to give up a
lot of points early on in the game and figure
things out really, Like the last three or four games
it's been out, they're down by fourteen. Nextly you know
they've not given up any points. Yeah, it's it's really interesting.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
It gives you that feeling that they're like a second
half team.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
But do you went to the press conference today one
of the guys he was, yeah, it was him, and
did you ask about the him coaching there and the
coaching here?

Speaker 5 (04:36):
And yeah, they actually started off with that and he
I mean he he said, what do you started out
with saying? Oh, He's like, I'm sure you guys have
seen the AI stuff. Obviously joking about it, but yeah,
he spoke about it. He talked about the importance of
the rivalry just in the state and he him knowing
about it, him having to live it on both sides,

(04:57):
and then you know, having to explain himself to the
team a little bit as well.

Speaker 7 (05:01):
What you guys had Chuck on yesterday? Right, Chuck cecil
How did that go?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
It was fun? He was fantastic. It was good. It
was funny. It was good. I talked a lot about
the play and asked him if he ever had to
pay for a drink anymore. He stopped drinking ten years ago.
But aren't you, Chuck Cecil, I said, probably recognize you,
aren't you? Chuck Cecils is you're kind of small. Ye,
you're kind of small, and they don't realize he's small.
Yeah for being Chuck cecil. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (05:26):
For some reason, highlights are not necessarily highlights. I mean,
there were whole YouTube videos of that game posted by
some of the players this week that I hadn't seen
in a long term from the games we did. Yeah, yeah,
including that they had one of those.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Including the you know, the eighty six, one hundred and six.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
Six yard interception in nineteen eighty six where then hey
we're calling him Martin Rudolph and yeah, I had to
correct him.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, but it was still a great what a memory. Yeah,
and yeah we talked about that. You know, he caught it,
you know, did you feel like he was gonna make
it well?

Speaker 7 (06:00):
And then did he also talk about the year before
we had the interception that got called back there was
a penalty. I think, you know, he picked the guy
off ran it in for a touchdown, but there was
a clipping penalty.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I think he didn't talk about that.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Keeping it going forty nine Ers beat the Panthers last
night in Monday Night football. Team Mac had a touchdown.
Both quarterbacks I would say didn't play well. I mean,
it was just a sloppy game. I guess you could
say the defense played well, but maybe that's a little
bit of a cop out. The NFL also suspended Panthers

(06:35):
Trevion Morigg after the low blow that he dealt to
Juwan Jennings that resulted in a little extra curricular scuffle
at the end of the game. The big one that
just came out maybe within the last hour.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
I'd say.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
North Texas's Eric Morris is going to be the next
coach at Oklahoma. State obviously, North Texas off to a
really good start at school's best ten and one record
this season, and so he I'm sure Oklahoma State just
offered him some more money.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Sure, stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's the first time without Mike Gundy
for a long time.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
Yeah, it's gonna be a big it's a big jump
when missed the mullet. Their record is not good this year.
They're probably the other they're probably opposite one.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, one or two wins. I don't think they've won
in the conference yet.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, they've had like a huge losing streak.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
Yeah, that's how it goes.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
Oh Man, Suns lost yesterday, what no to the Rockets.
Rockets to the Rockets one hundred and fourteen to ninety two.
Highest scorer was for the Suns was Dylan Brooks. That's
probably not a good sign generally. Devin Booker had eighteen points.

Speaker 7 (07:50):
Though Kevin Durant did not play for the Rockets and
what would have been his return to Phoenix.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
I don't watch a lot of basketball, so take it
for what it's worth for everyone that watches basketball. A
lot of good games in college basketball tonight, though, got
a few tournaments going on obviously, and so Houston and
Tennessee will be playing. Oh, they should have been tipping
off pretty soon. Here, that's number three and number seventeen.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
And then.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
I thought I saw another one. Oh, Auburn and Michigan.
That's seven and twenty one. That is at six thirty.
That's gonna be on TNT. And then you know, obviously
for college football, it's a big rivalry weekend. So that's
gonna be It's gonna be fun. Arizona's gonna kind of
be the night cap for I guess the first day
on Friday, So you're staying over Friday, Oh, I'm saying

(08:46):
up there, yeah, yeah, because.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
It's just just how busy it is. So we had
it all tour. Then when the last nights basketball game, oh,
Friday night's football game, and then afternoon basketball game on Saturday.

Speaker 7 (08:57):
Don't you miss not going on? Don't you miss those?
I used to dread those games. No, I used to
look forward to them, but sometimes it was too overwhelming.
It was like impossible to try to cover everything with
our little small TV staffs. Whereas you guys would have,
you know, reporters all over the place. We didn't not anymore.
Oh you got a high school football too on top
of all that. Yeah, it's hard, Yeah, not anymore.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
It's sun to me. Do you know what you remember
John Alcoho? I saw that he pussed away.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah. He was a presence for sure, A big guy
would always be in the press box.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeahs last week I saw that who where you see it?

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Star Greg Cancer something about it? Yeah, So he was.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
He was in our generation of people even before us,
way before us it you know, would talk about U
of a stuff. So he was a kind of a
encyclopedia of sidcat sports. And sometimes it would just blurt out.
He would be a guy in the press box that
sometimes would cheer.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
No he's not.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Sometimes as of recently he was doing that and cheering
and doing other noises.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:59):
Yeah, kind of a joke was you know, you're not
supposed to be cheering in the press box for whoever. Yeah,
And he would and we'd have to look at him
and John, but he was. He was full of knowledge
for sure. Part of it is he was wearing headphones
from listening to the radio.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
To the radio.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, no, no.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
In fact, when I did my A Big Good Box
book and asked him if if he would want to
help me come up with big games and his research
and his knowledge, and it didn't happen because I had
already figured him out, but you know, to come and
be part of it, and he just didn't, which was
just fun.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Was he still going to the press boxes like recently? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Whoa, he was the old guy behind you. Oh well
we described him and yeah that's the guy.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
No, yeah, for sure, Dang, I didn't know that was
well I never introduced myself, but man, that's behind you.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yeah. Man, now that guy was hilarious. I love that guy. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (10:54):
I mean I should think could do something to honor
him in some way too, because he's really has been
around from like just half.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
A centius too. Was football basketball game. We were in
this room looking at Texas playing somebody in football I
think in the in the SD.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
I'm just kind of he was in there. Yeah, he
was no good. He was still going to game. Yeah,
I mean I saw the announcement. I had slipped my mind,
but I saw the announcement. I think yesterday had like
a special spot for him, and the Arizona Athletics Twitter
page like posted about it. Yeah. Yeah, anyways, we got

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five minutes left were done.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
H one more. Yeah, I'm a big volleyball fan.

Speaker 7 (11:35):
So there was news today this afternoon about Jordan Wilson
from the U of A was drafted by Major League
Volleyball's Grand Rapids Rise in the third round, the eighteenth
overall pick. Actually it happened yesterday, but she was one
of thirty two players drafted in the league. So she's
one of the top college players in the country.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
We talked about that yesterday.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
I didn't realize that.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I didn't realize there was pro volleyball like that.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
I didn't either. Yeah, there is. I've seen you're on
TV a few times.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
I don't know kind of I don't even know really
what I'm watching sometimes in terms of where they're playing. Yeah,
it's just I think ESPN picked had a package of games,
and uh, that's great. It's a great TV sport. Always
has been volleyball. Oh yeah, no question.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Just watching it in person, it's it's it's yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, some of the best games I've ever been to
was the volleyball for the Olympics. It was crazy in
Greece when they were playing. It was brought down the
house and the speed of.

Speaker 7 (12:30):
The ball It's insane amazing what they can how they
can dig those out, those out and make saves like that.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, okay, let's just go. We'll get Ahold of Kelvin
a little bit early. Talk about this weekend's game.

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Hey, welcome back to LA on the Ball Here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steepava, You're Dave Silver. You
got ready handling the calls. Now we have killed any
fund from the U of A captain nineteen ninety eight. God,
does that seem so long ago? Ki?

Speaker 4 (17:52):
A long time ago?

Speaker 6 (17:55):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I was a minute there.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
So GiB Gibby, your first thoughts as U football? What
are your first thoughts when I say that?

Speaker 6 (18:05):
Man? You know, you know a lot of times, you know,
people you know had the attitude of the hate ASU
and all that. I've just never really been one of
those guys.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Man.

Speaker 6 (18:15):
We had a healthy competition.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (18:18):
When they're winning and we're winning because I think the
game is even valuable. But man, as U football, man,
just competition your state rival. Yeah, I mean, it's just
it's just a fight, a dog fight.

Speaker 7 (18:32):
And the last time you played them in ninety eight
was quite a performance by by the U of A
on their home field, if I remember correctly, right.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Oh yeah, no a trunk man, we say U of A,
I say trunk trug Man Trug had a day that day.

Speaker 13 (18:48):
Man.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
I remember thinking to myself, it's like they point shaving
because they are all over me and they just letting
them run all over the field. But nah, yeah, a
great day that day.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
So so the the description you just made both teams
playing really well. Here we are both teams playing play
really well. What does that mean?

Speaker 6 (19:07):
Man? That means that you know you're gonna have a loser,
but the state is gonna get a great game. It's
not a team coming in after losing thirteenth straight. You know,
it's not a team but ASU missing the playoffs or
a bowl game. I mean, it's two teams that need
this game to get an even bigger bowl.

Speaker 14 (19:25):
Bit.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
So there's a lot on the line, and that's the
way you want it.

Speaker 14 (19:28):
Man.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
I mean again, I hate as you this week, but
I'm just not one of those people that just be
angry at them all year. I got better things to do.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
You know, from your perspective, as you watch this Wildcat
team grow and maybe improve here in the last part
of the season, what are you see?

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Why is this happening?

Speaker 6 (19:47):
I just think these guys came together, man, I think
I think they really came together. A lot of guys
were coming from the one double A in Texas State.
I mean guys were coming from places where they wasn't
getting playing time. They wasn't. And they all came here together,
sixty one new guys, and they just believed in Brendan.
I mean, he got his chance to have a group

(20:07):
of guys that believed in him. I said all last year,
I said, man, this isn't his team. These are a
bunch of guys that still believe in coach Fish. And
he finally got a group faster than I ever would
have thought he would have been able to. And he
got this group, man, and it was just a home
grey group. The perfect guys defensively, the perfect mix of
guys offensively, and it just all came together.

Speaker 13 (20:27):
Man.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
And you know, I'm happy for coach Brennan and I'm
happy for Wildcat football because you know, you know, after
last year people were thinking that we were just going
to go back into the dumbs.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
I mean, what did you or what's been the most
impressive thing about him?

Speaker 4 (20:41):
I don't tell you mine real quick.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
When he went to the Big twelve press conference wherever
they went, and he talked about I'm not going to
kiss anybody's ass anymore. I don't have to to me.
That's when it started.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
Yeah, and he did a lot of that last year.
And you know, I thought I said it before. I
thought it was hilarious, you know, having him, you know,
the team accept him as a coach at the u
of a game, I was like what I was like,
there's no power in that, you know. I was like,
you know, the players running this team this first year
right here, because you know the nil and everybody transferring,
and you know, you have the big guys to come

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back and play for you. You're the new coach that's
coming in, Please play for me. You know, that's a
that's a tough position of being as a leader of
any type of company or or a team. So he
got to go out and pick guys that wanted to
play at Arizona, that wanted the chance to play Division one,
that wanted to play at a higher level than where
they were at. And these guys came in hungry man.
And I'm excited to see what he do again because

(21:37):
I believe in him. Now, you know, he was a
coach tony guy, so I already knew that he was.
You know, he care about the players, so he was
gonna be able to, you know, find guys that came
in that had some some spirit. But to see it
all come together like this with nine wins, I said seven,
but nine, I mean, you know, I said six, maybe seven,

(21:58):
but having eight with opportunity at nine, I just I
don't think I thought that could happen.

Speaker 7 (22:04):
It's kind of interesting too, because like you, like you mentioned,
some of these guys are brand new to this rivalry.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
How do you think they feel about this week?

Speaker 7 (22:10):
Is it just another game or is it still the
ASU game in that in that u of a locker room.

Speaker 6 (22:16):
Well, you know, a lot of these guys don't, you know,
know a lot about the rivalry. But they know about
rivalries because a lot of these guys played at a
lot of universities where they played in these games. So
it's not like a freshman or a junior college guide
that's coming from a lower level and they don't understand
the intensity behind these type of games. Most of these

(22:36):
guys are coming from you know, like I said, Division
one Double A teams that you know, uh that played
in big games or other Division one teams that played
in rival games. So I don't I don't think uh.
And a lot of these guys are seniors, right, so
I don't think it'll be a huge adjustment. I think
you know, it's a little overrated because once that game
gets started, uh, in the beginning of the jitters and

(22:57):
and and you know, you're a little excited because of
you know, ASU Arizona all the fans. But after that
thing get going, it's another game. It's just a game.
It's on.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
So take it back again to ninety eight. Did you
give a fiery speech? Did you do anything special?

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (23:15):
Yeah, that was all right. Yeah. Ninety eight was crazy
because they they I remember that we had a meeting
at a hotel in town because we stayed at the
hotel during the games, and they put a picture on
the wall on the on the might should be saying this,
but they put a big projector and it had an

(23:37):
ASU you know, turned down our goal post when they
beat us in ninety seven and or was it ninety six?
Ninety six? And and uh man, I broke the projector
and that was all that needs to be said. That's
talking about I broke the projector. I mean, I'm sure
the school paid for the athletics paid for it. Whatever.
I didn't. Coach didn't say that because we got the dub.

Speaker 7 (23:58):
I guess what was Dick? Tell me, like the week
of this game. You got to see him a few times.

Speaker 6 (24:06):
Yeah, you know, Coach Tomy the week of this game. Man,
he was all about the seniors. You know. He wanted
everybody to respect the seniors and respect guys from the past.
So he brought guys in to talk to us all
the time, which I used to really love to hear
their stories, you know, about this game and how important
this game meant to them, and how important it meant
to uh, you know, the state of Arizona, the Tucson community.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
And then just the seniors get up there and Coach
Homes used to be like, uh, you you know, play
for the seniors, you know, leave it on the line.
You want these guys to go out of here feeling
good about their situation. And a lot of times it
was for a Bowl game birth a lot of times,
I mean especially I think it was my junior year.
We had to be as you to get into basically

(24:49):
the insight dot com bo, you know, for Brady Batten
and all those guys. So yeah, uh, coach Man. You
you just can feel the intensity and him being more serious.
He always was a guy, so you're it really wasn't
no different than what usually be but he was really on,
we have to take care of the seniors and try
to send those guys out of here with a victory.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, yeah, we'll see what happens. I'm assuming you're gonna
go up or are you gonna stity down here?

Speaker 6 (25:15):
No, I'm gonna say that every year, I got some
family commitments that I have to attend to, but I'm
gonna be I'm gonna be watching from the beginning to
the end.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Trust me, what would you if you can recreate it
and you don't have to do it to that level?
What would you tell the guys?

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Now?

Speaker 6 (25:33):
I would tell the guys that, you know, my thing
is always this play like when you're a senior, you
will want the guys to play for you. That's always
been my thing. I think that right there will motivate
you to understand. They're like, wait, man, if I was
a senior, this could be my last song ever playing.
A lot of guys don't get a chance to play
across seas or in any of the league.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
This is it.

Speaker 6 (25:54):
Play like this is your last game, and that's what
you tell the younger guys. Man, I'm just like, you
know this game it means a lot to a lot
of the guys. Like I said, you get all the
speeches and everything, but the biggest thing is for the
younger guys to play like they want the people the
younger guys to play when they're seniors and seniors you
want them to play like, hey, you know, play like

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this your last game ever, and you will have no regrets,
you know. So it's just one of those things, man,
where you just want everybody to understand the seriousness of
the game and that this is some guy's final moment.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
It's been really fun to watch, for sure. I mean
it's kind of cool that, you know. I know your
your teammate was, was Brad Brennan. Have you talked to
him about how things have gone recently? I know he
was at the game the other night.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
I think, oh yeah, no, man, I've talked to him.
And when his brother first got there, well before his
brother was even getting the job and the rooms, how
we talked and then uh, and then definitely we talked
once he got the job, and then I talked to
him when he was down here. He just ecstatic, man,
I mean, you know, he just smiling from ear to ear.

Speaker 13 (26:56):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
You know, we looked at each other last year and
shook hands like you know, like you know, almost like
I got your back, brother, Like we ain't got to
talk about what's going on with the program. And but
that handshake this time where we looked at each other
and I was like, yeah, maybe you know what I'm saying,
like you know, so it's it's unspoken. It's you know,
we all you know, battled with you know at Camp

(27:17):
co Chiefs and you know, we're a part of twelve
and one hit, you know, historic type of team. We
don't even have to see each other for years, and
when we see each other, it's just something that just
you know runs you know, I got goosebumps thinking about
it now. It's just you feel each other. You know.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
What do you think was the difference to get Arizona
to this point? Was there a point there in the season,
maybe a memory that you can think of that got
them to where they're at now?

Speaker 6 (27:43):
H Man, I didn't see necessarily a big game where
they got there, because if you know, again you go
back and look at it, two of the games that
they lost they probably should have won, you know a
little bit better, you know, game management, a little bit
better played by some of the guys they win those games.
So when I really look at it, it probably was

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in the summer, bringing these guys in and just all
those guys coming together and hearing them talk about this
red line. I'm like, red line, red line. I never
heard that before where that comes from, But just hearing
all the guys regurgitated, just hearing all the guys having
the same coach speak and hearing them saying it all
the time to where you started seeing it on the field,
and you started seeing it in the defensive play with

(28:24):
with coach G having those guys, DG having those guys
just flying around looking similar to swarm. I could never
call anybody else swarm, but looking similar to swarm. Right,
looking similar to swarm over there. And then on the
offensive side of the ball, I think it's when Noah
bought into, you know, Daygy's offense and reading his progressions

(28:46):
and you started to see him finding multiple receivers and
not locking in onto certain guys. So I think it's
a mixture of those two that defense flying around and
DAGI and Noah, you know, finally getting on page and
started to get in the rhythm.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, we'll see what happens with any predictions, any anything
you want to talk about with that.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
Yeah, well, prediction wise, man, I would love for a
great game, but I don't know why. I think we
have a slight advantage because of now in their quarterback
and their top quarterback being out. With that being said,
the quarterback that they have now is a great quarterback.
He's a He's a fifth six year type of guy.
He can run the football, which we do have problems with.

(29:29):
I just think right now NOA is playing at a
high level. The receivers really believe in them. That running
game is a little better than people think. I am
afraid of eds US running game. They're those guys can
really run the ball. But I think that edge that quarterback.
I hope it comes to light and we win that
game by three. I don't I don't really want to

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blow out.

Speaker 14 (29:51):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (29:51):
I don't, you know, blowout and cool, but that three
point victory will be something that everybody remember.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Yeah, it's been it's been a fun year.

Speaker 7 (29:58):
It's been fun to just kind of, you know, go
through these games and see what's going to happen, really
maybe not knowing so much after last year and to
you know, kind of be surprised, And I guess that's
what sports is all about.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
You're just not quite sure what to expect from week
to week, game to game.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
Yeah, yeah, that's for sure. I mean, you think about
some of the coaches who've been fired in the middle
of the year, who would have ever thunk, right, I
would have None of those guys I would have would
have thought that they were on a high hot seat
to the level that they were, And coming into the year,
it seemed like Brennan was on a hot seat, which
I thought was ridiculous. I say, man, we must be
a school with a lot of money somewhere that I

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don't know about, and you know, and then I'm like,
in what coach would want to come into that situation?
After you know, coaches just getting sent packing left and right.
So you know, I was a little, you know, worried
about that. But at the end of the day, man,
coach Brennan shut those worries down by locking in and
circling his wagons with his guys and and really getting

(30:55):
those guys to believe in you know. And people think
it's a joke the way he carry himself on the
side line. Man, he's a former player uh, he understands
the puss and and what you know, these guys of
this generation like because he's been coaching for a while
and he has a young spirit about him. Man. And
you know, and I love that aboutom because people think
those type of guys can't be disciplinarians, and yes you can.

(31:17):
It's very easy. You're suspended for this game. That's that's
it's that easy, right you know. So man, you have
and think about this. You haven't heard any bad stuff
like guys getting in trouble. I mean, I don't know
if that stuff happens anymore like back in the day anyway,
but you you have. You haven't heard anything bad about
none of these guys. And with sixty one new guys
in campus in city, usually you hear something, you know,

(31:41):
So for a whole football season, a successful football season
where guys are actually winning and performing well, and you
don't hear anything. Man, It just it just it just
makes you tip your hat to coach Brennan and his
south even more.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Well, we'll see what happens this weekend. Calvin, thanks so
much for your.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Time, are you?

Speaker 6 (31:59):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Got out take care of.

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Speaker 3 (35:57):
Hey, welcome back to I'm the Ball here on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty M. Steve ROBERTA, you're Dave Silbert. We've
got Ray handling the phones. Now on the phone, we
have Jay Dobbins.

Speaker 13 (36:07):
Jay, how you doing, hey man, Thanks for having me back.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Of course, guys, of course I'm gonna ask you the
same question and asked Kelvin Ethon about twenty minutes ago
when I say, ASU football, what do you think of?

Speaker 14 (36:21):
Well, you know what, if you want people to remember
your name, you have to give them something they can
never forget. And this is the game that counts. This
is the game that everybody pays attention to.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Like.

Speaker 14 (36:34):
For example, if Chuck Cecil has his one hundred and
six yard pick six against Cincinnati or Kansas. Do we
remember it the same way that we remember what he
did to Asu?

Speaker 1 (36:46):
We don't.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Yeah, right now, it's huge. What was it like playing
for Larry Smith in this game?

Speaker 7 (36:52):
Because he was really into this this rivalry from what
I remember.

Speaker 14 (36:57):
You know, Coach Smith really understood it. All over the
lock rooms, all over the meeting rooms, everywhere you went.
The number one goal every year was beat a s U.
He put so much emphasis on that game, and and
and it was it was personal for him, and and

(37:17):
he was emotional about the game, like all week long.
He was always very emotional ASU week Like what did
he do?

Speaker 7 (37:25):
I mean just just the way he carried himself? Or
how how could you players see that in him?

Speaker 4 (37:31):
Well, Dave, you remember.

Speaker 14 (37:32):
Larry, I mean he was a tough dude. Larry was
a tough man, and he was very stoic. And when
he would talk about the A SU game or when
he would start ramping us up, he would actually get weepy.
It was you could you could see and feel how
important it was to him, because I think he had

(37:54):
a great understanding of how important it was to our
program to beat our in state rival.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Was he a fiery guy with a speech or anything.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Did he have that? Did he pull it out of
his pocket?

Speaker 14 (38:06):
You know what I was always afraid of Larry. I
loved him, he treated me great, but like I was
afraid of him and like I didn't want to disappoint him. Yeah,
because you know, he gave me a chance and he
gave me trust. But you know, for like the Fiery Side,
he had Tom Rogman on his staff, and ROGI gave
those those new Rockney speeches.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Yeah, yeah, that's what the honeys, you know they But
you know it's funny you talk about something right now.
You respect him and you play hard for him because
you respect him so much. I think that's the coach
that you want to play for. And most most of
the time, those are the very good coaches because when
the players don't want to disappoint the coach, you play
your ass off.

Speaker 6 (38:49):
You know.

Speaker 14 (38:49):
And all our coaches, well you know I felt that way,
and it was they they extended their trust to us,
and you know what, they coached us really hard. They
like that was old school coaching. They said and did
things that you probably can't get away with today. But
like we embraced it and we loved it because we

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knew that they loved us. We knew that they cared
about us. And as a as a player, if you
know your coach cares about you personally, if you know
that he loves you, you want to be coach card
And those are the guys you want to run through
a block.

Speaker 7 (39:26):
Well four, Yeah, it's interesting too because you know I
got here in eighty three and you guys are on probation,
and I know you were kind of in that little
probation era. So this this was the last game of
the season, no matter what, for what five years?

Speaker 4 (39:38):
Basically, Yeah, that Dave.

Speaker 14 (39:41):
They know that eighty three game. You know, the ASU
was looking at the Rose Bowl. You know, their fans
are carrying roses in their mouth, and you know, and
as you remember, like that came that game came down
to the last play, the last three seconds as time expired,
Max hit you know, a long field goal, like like

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in the fifty range.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
To seal that.

Speaker 14 (40:08):
And so like, I'm glad that you were here, Dave
for that game because that was a super important game.
It was the second game in the streak that lasted
nine years where Arizona didn't know what it felt like
to lose ASU.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
That was an amazing stretch.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
So if you talked about Zendejas kick just now you
talked about Chuck's again a big, big interception.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Did you have one of those?

Speaker 6 (40:34):
You know what?

Speaker 14 (40:34):
I played in three of the Territorial Cups eighty two,
eighty three, eighty four. I never played on it against
a su where I lost, But I like, I always
loved talking about my teammates. You know that eighty two game,
that ninety six yard catch and run from Tom Tunnecliffe
to Brian Holland a sixty five yard bomb where rad

(41:00):
Anderson outran the defense to score, Like like.

Speaker 13 (41:03):
I love, I love my teammates.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
I was.

Speaker 14 (41:07):
I was very blessed to play with some of the
most amazing players in the history of Arizona football, and
I was happy to just be a part of that.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Let me ask you, did your one year interapt with
Chuck's one year A one year?

Speaker 6 (41:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Yeah, Me and Chuck were teammates, So let me ask you,
because we had him on yesterday and you know he
can be a cut up, just a dude. And I say,
you know people out in public, do people recognize you?
And says they don't believe I'm Chuck because I'm too small.
So when you first met him, you're kind of the
same build, maybe a bit bigger. How was it back then?

Speaker 14 (41:45):
Well, you know what my favorite Chuck story is, I
would always stay after practice to get extra work. When
you're not very talented, you have to work extra to
keep up to find a way to get on the field.
You better be willing to put in extra time because
everybody out there is bigger, faster, stronger, more athletic than you. Right,
So I would always stay after practice every day and

(42:06):
catch extra passes. Well, Chuck would stay after practice too,
But like, what do you do as a defensive back?
So the old five man sledge, Yes, that had the
five pads on him. Chuck would literally back up twenty
yards from the five man sled and sprint at it
and dive into it head first, dive into it sideways.

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I'd be like, do what are you doing? Like you're
out of your mind.

Speaker 13 (42:30):
He's like, I've got to hit things.

Speaker 14 (42:33):
They don't let me hit anything at practice.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Well, you hit the ring a bell or something?

Speaker 14 (42:39):
He did, Yeah, he you know, and and and and
Chuck was just he was such a fun teammate because
he was that guy that was going to die for
you if he had to.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (42:52):
Yeah, Well we saw what he did in the NFL
and the way he treated his body.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Well, you said yesterday if you remember a gray he
talked about, I couldn't play. He wouldn't be allowed to play,
right because he was a missile.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
No, you know.

Speaker 14 (43:04):
And and and that that Sports Illustrated, that iconic Sports
Illustrated cover with him, you know, with.

Speaker 13 (43:10):
His face bleeding.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
That is Chuck.

Speaker 13 (43:13):
And and and.

Speaker 14 (43:14):
We were lucky because we got a first glimpse of that,
Like we saw it first here in Tucson before the
rest of the country did.

Speaker 7 (43:23):
And again, he was probably what five ten five when
he got here, and I don't know there was yeah, but.

Speaker 14 (43:28):
He but he hit you like he weighed two twenty
and ran four to four.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Right.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Did you ever go up against him and have to
suffer the faith?

Speaker 14 (43:37):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (43:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (43:37):
We we battled it out at practice all the time,
and we were always wrestling around and and but but
Chuck was just such a competitive guy, even early, you know,
when he was first on campus, when he was you know,
should really had no business physically being there. He was
so competitive, Yeah that I mean it was inspiring to

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be to to play on his team.

Speaker 13 (44:01):
The way he played the game made.

Speaker 14 (44:04):
Everybody else around him play the game harder and more recklessly.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Crazy.

Speaker 7 (44:10):
I know, I was just gonna says, what would be
your most you know, favorite moments of this of this
rivalry game personally?

Speaker 14 (44:19):
Well, you know what, Like I had a couple of
big catches in the eighty three game, and those are
were personal for me to just have that success. And
the eighty three game was in Tempee and you know,
there's seventy thousand plus there and just a little that
we had a little.

Speaker 13 (44:38):
Pocket of fans and they stuck them way up in
the corner so.

Speaker 14 (44:41):
They could really have no impact. You couldn't hardly hear them,
seventy thousand people screaming at you. And at the end
of that game, after Max hit that kick, all the
maroon and Gold was gone, and our little pocket of
fans was still up there, like a.

Speaker 13 (45:00):
An hour after the game, cheering and.

Speaker 14 (45:02):
Partying and celebrating. That's I love that.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
I love that memory.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
So invariably or all the time or most of the time,
it's the underdog that wins the game. Yeah, I mean,
for whatever reason, maybe emotions and all that. Do you
remember those times and even recent times when that happened.

Speaker 14 (45:21):
Yeah, that you know, the eighty two Territorial Cup. I
think ASU was ranked like five or six in the
country and they had this amazing, blitzing defense that was
just destroying people. And but we had an equally amazing
coaching staff that put together a wonderful game plan for us,

(45:43):
and we like we'd like we kind of ran them
out of the stadium. It was like twenty eight to
eighteen I think that game. And you know, and the
thing is like they came down insulting, like wearing the
maroon jerseys. Like we warm up with our blue tops
and they're warming up with their maroon tops, and they're like, hey,

(46:03):
we came down with our home jerseys.

Speaker 13 (46:04):
We're treating this like a home game. So at have
like at pregame we.

Speaker 14 (46:09):
Had to change into our all whites. I'm that super insulting.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
Remember seeing that.

Speaker 7 (46:15):
I remember seeing highlights of those long touchdowns and that's right,
the UFA guys, we're wearing whites.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
That was that was.

Speaker 14 (46:20):
You know, we're playing at home in our whites, you know,
and not by choice because they came to their like
what do you want us to do you want us
to drive home and change our clothes so you're like,
you know, it doesn't matter what color jersey we wear,
We're gonna whip your ass.

Speaker 7 (46:32):
Anyways, I heard that Frank Kush would never stay overnight
like in Pima County. Did you ever hear those stories
like they would They would bring the team like to
cast a grand and spend the night before the game
because they didn't want to spend the night in Tucson?

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Do you this is you know what you were all
old dudes now and ya YadA? Do you miss this,
you know, suiting up and being part of this craziness?

Speaker 14 (46:58):
Absolutely because you can't. You can't replace it. And I
think it becomes actually almost more important the older you get,
the further it's removed from your youth, Like like I
find myself in this all the time. You don't know
it's the good old days, when it's the good old
days until they're gone.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Yeah, right right, no question.

Speaker 7 (47:22):
And I'm sure you guys still stay in touch, right,
There's got to be you know, text going throughout throughout
the years.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
Basically I would assume, right.

Speaker 14 (47:31):
Yeah, you know the teams I played on are are
still those players are super close. The coaches are super close.
And then you know, like guys that played before me,
like I'm in touch with I was always a big
Scott Piper fan when I was a kid. Who was
you know on those Jim Young teams with Bruce Hill

(47:52):
and Jim Upchurch and t Bell and Willie Hamilton and
Scott was that you know, that kind of possession type guy.
I always love Scott Piper when I was a kid.
You're on friends with Scottie, and.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Then all the guys that came.

Speaker 14 (48:05):
After I played, you know, and and and.

Speaker 13 (48:08):
I just I just love how close we all are.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
So let me ask you, where are you going to
be when you watch a game on Friday? And how
is it to watch a game like that with you?

Speaker 14 (48:21):
Well, I'll be watching the game from my couch. I'll
have a beer in my hand. I'll make sure that
I've got like some block a gear on. No one's
going to see it.

Speaker 13 (48:30):
But it's just.

Speaker 14 (48:32):
Representing and been such a super important game this year
with with these matching records and like who wins this
game owns the state for three hundred and sixty four days?

Speaker 4 (48:45):
Right do you? You are?

Speaker 1 (48:46):
You a yeller?

Speaker 3 (48:47):
You watch a game. How do you watch a game?

Speaker 13 (48:51):
You know, Like I'm not I'm not a guy that
screams at the TV, but like you know what, like
I do jump up and you know and fist pump
when I see something that I like.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
Yeah, yeah, kind of the same way I turned the
sound off a lot.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Do you Yeah, okay, okay? Well, as always, Jay, thanks
a bunch.

Speaker 13 (49:11):
Enjoy the game, guys, Steve Dave, thank you again for
having me.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Appreciate it. As always, Jay Dobbins, Yeah, with a great time.

Speaker 7 (49:19):
I do remember that eighty three game. I remember, I
remember the Max field goal was huge, it was on CBS.
It was my first so I got to Tucson in October,
so this was like a month into my time in Tucson.
So I did not go to that game in person,
but you know, that was kind of my first experience.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
When I covered that. This My most memorable is the
banana uniform. Yeah, up and try with Larry Marmaye. I
think it was nine are on their Best's kind of
my career basketball all after that, but great games, and
that's always the underdog that kind of pulls it out.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
For some reason.

Speaker 7 (49:49):
Yeah, I mean, you know, we had the fortunate chance
to broadcast a couple of those still when I was
with k Gun, so we had the TV contract up
until eighty six through eighty six, so we had one
hundred yard one hundred yard interception. We had the game
before that where Max kicked a couple of big long
field goals and Chuck had a big interception, and the
Hunley brothers were there and maybe Lamont at that point.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
But Ricky in the eighty three game was huge. Yeah,
it was.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
It was a great time, booky stuff to remember. The
field goals that is us missed down here, the old
younger ones, the other ones and hit the pole and
got blocked. It was just really weird things happened.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
That was not a good memory.

Speaker 7 (50:27):
That was not a good afternoon for the Dahaus family
after all the success, right, you know, the cousins and
Max and Luis and all these guys having great years,
and you know, it's just a rough way to end
that season.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Yeah, no, no question. Good with time.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
Yeah, we got like a minute, okay, cool, cool, you
be safe. Where are you gonna be watching the game.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
I'm going I'm going up, I'm gonna cover go.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
It would be my second or third game this year,
going up up. You're going to be there as a fan. Yep,
they out of trouble. Please, I will do my best.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Your mom will be down here, will be disappointed. Yeah,
she will be.

Speaker 6 (50:59):
You might.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
What are you going to keep watching? I'll be watching
on TV.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
With appirit handing with it toned down.

Speaker 7 (51:05):
Was like with the Soundtown, that it might be somewhere,
you know, out somewhere enjoying the game, somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Besides that, with a group of people, it's always it's
a big game, obvious. Yeah, Okay, thanks everybody for listening.
I'll be back on Monday. No show tomorrow, no show
for Thursday Friday because the holidays. So we'll talk to
you guys Monday