Hour 2- September 15, Danny Gonzales

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Teen fifty streamy live on the Ihearts Radio AP. This
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, welcome back to Why on the Ball Here on
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SnO breaking news.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Let me just kind of go through the news. Same
thing that you know of the Toka.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
I mean dining Backs centering a three game series against
the Giants.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Here are they out.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Of the contention?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
You know, there are two games out with a week
and a half to go about. Really two weeks ago
they managed to somehow claw their way to two games
out the and all the back of the wildcard has
kind of been slipping away from the Mets. Uh So,
the Giants gets swept by the Dinonbacks and the Mets
get swept by the Padres. All of a sudden, the
Dinonbacks are in that third wildcard spot. A lot has

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to go right, and they play a lot of tough teams.
They play the Giants, Phillies, Dodgers, and Padres close out
the season. But right now they're in the thick of it.
Despite all the roster change and injuries that they've gone through.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, that's our baseball coverage for today. Thanks for the update.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, and I know I probably don't do a great
job with baseball, but now you know, in the playoffs,
I'll talk more about it to Yeah, I have to
because it's it's it's what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
During the season, there's one hundred and sixty two games, Yon, Yon,
every game.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Is more than Steve every game lock.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
In, get get who by did you that was Troy Hunchson?
He will never be back. Hey, did you see U.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
L s us Kelly get on the reporter for a
question that he didn't like. These coaches are so they
make millions, they make millions. Uh, they have parachutes upon
those millions, and they get.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Irked for these and they can be fired and still
get them.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah yeah, yeah, and they come off with these questions
about these little mindy did you see rich Rod two?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
The rich rich Rod's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
I didn't see its exploded? Did he get exploded?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
But he was happy because they won. Maybe let's pretty
became emotional.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
And you gotta love the rich Rock for when teams
go right, because with these go right, he's fantastic. When
these go wrong. You don't know what's gonna set them out.
And some guys said, are you trying to get me mad?
I mean, there's no thing that's gonna get me mad
for some question about you know, some inefficiencies or whatever.
And he was good, and you know, he's you know,
mixed his expressions, facial expressions and all that. So he's
doing a good job at West Virginia at least what

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they're one.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I think they lost one and they've lost a lot
of key players. I mean, they are very much being up.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
But he's the same guy that he was here, you know,
back home, and he's the right guy for West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
He's one of them.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
I mean, he'll get them turned around. I don't think
they'll make a bowl game this year because of the injuries.
It wouldn't shock me if they did, though, And next
year they're gonna definitely be one of the Too bad
he's not on the schedule this year and he's not
on that next year either. I think it's going to
be later down the line unfortunately.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Too bad for that. And then you yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
My thing with coaches won that question that set him
off obviously that that is a build up of being
annoyed with that reporter that that was very personal and
very built up to. I get his point to an
extense of Hey, we just want a football game. We
beat Florida by ten points. That's not an easy win.
But three you're at LSU. There's expectations with being the

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head coach of LSU, there's expectations that the fans have
of how they perform. So when a reporter asked you
about inefficiencies, it's because the fans want to know it.
That reporter is not out to get you.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Sure, sure, no, No, you're exactly right.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
That's what the fans want to know. The suck it
up and answer the question. It's a simple question. It's
a simple question you're making. You're making it.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
He's not saving lives, No, he's not, you know, going
to surgery and blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
He's a football coach.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
And I'll put this in perspective, at least in my eyes,
maybe not of the people's makes millions. And a simple
question about the offense and what's the problem the end, Yeah,
explain it and get next question.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
And got mad at it, mad at it saying we
have one of the better receiving courts and da da
da da da. Well, here's here's the facts of that.
Last year they were one of the better passing offenses
with this quarterback, the same quarterback they go into the year.
He's the Heisman front runner. They have all these receivers
coming back, and yet their offense is trash. So, yeah,
there's gonna be questions. You have all the tools, you have,

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all the hype, you built up, the hype doing Heisman
campaigns and this and that, and when it falls fat
on its face, well what's going on? Don't get matter? Reporter,
play it.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Better, right, And then you'll have people in the public saying,
why did you ask that question? They want it's what
they do, it's what we do.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
It's kind of like Tommy who who He's great? I
think Tommy the world of Tommy because I think he's
done a great job here. When when he looked at us,
including me, about we're gonna lose the next game. You
think we're gonna lose the next game to Baylor. I
think it was ya Baylor to lose Houston. No, I
don't think anybody here think that. And if we did,
so be it. You know what I'm saying, we asked questions,

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they answer questions, and they win games.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Now, is there some reporters that we've seen in the
past where there's pigeonholing and maybe maybe not pigeon holing,
but maybe there's an other it's not just a regular
question where they're trying to ork a coach. You can
see they're trying to get a reaction, and then the
coach gets bath, and they should because you've seen that

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and it deserves to get that reaction. But when a
guy's just asking about offense, sorry, that's your job.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, and that's part of they get paid for it
in addition to their own radio shows and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, I just I just thought that.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Was kind of interesting of the weekend when I saw
that it hasn't happened here in a while, at least football.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Jed was You know, Jed like the media, so does Brett.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, Jed knew how to be a car salesman with
the media and.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
It only has fifty five thousand miles.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, you love it.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, And then you know, Brendan's done a great job.
And if there isn't something he's going to answer during
the press conference, you'll pull you aside and say, hey,
this is what's going on. We just you can't talk
about it right now. It's like, okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah yeah, but you can't explain that a way in
the story. No, which of corazy. But again those are
off records, so once that happens, then that's it. But yeah,
coaches are unique breed.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, no questions. Some of the biggest egos I've ever met.
Really so.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I mean, you win a lot of games, a lot
of people love you, and you don't win a lot
of games, a lot of people don't love you, and
your life is centered on that.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Look a look at UCLA talk about breaking news. I
mean tremendous foster out, horrible start. You get blasted by
New Mexico. You probably should get fired. You know, it's
probably coming. I think the surprise of it was that
UCLA could have saved five million dollars that they waited
till after the season. Oh at the buyout. And that's

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a university that just doesn't have.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
To run now.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, that's so they're in the predicament because they have
no money, and that's their marginal in the conference.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Because he's getting seven million on a bio.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, but it's more like, uh, you know one of
those explanations that that he gave with some you better
do it now or it's going to be worse later.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, And that was a strange hire anyway, you know,
you hired one of your own and it didn't turn.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Out it was we have no other option pretty much,
pretty much, I mean to go from a running back
coach who was the associate head coach to the head
coach that you don't see that?

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Do you ever think?

Speaker 2 (07:36):
And I've talked to somebody today, I won't say who.
Give me an odds on on Jed taking that job?

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Just zero zero off the boards now, because one they're
in a horrible position.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, they would bed be silly to take a job
like that.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Two, I don't think they could match Washington's contract right now.
And three they're in the same conference and he's building
up Washington. Do I think he might have taked Let's
say he didn't take the Washington job and UCLA was
in a little bit better of a place where Washington
doesn't even look at him, and that UCLA job pops up,
I think he would have left for U C.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
L A after that I agree, and then they would
approach the whole entire roster because those were all Southern
California kids, and UCLA would have been built up quicker
than what we've seen.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
But I think timings horrible. Now the job that everybody
needs to look at is Floridorida. Yeah, but I don't
know if he is in a position to get that
job because you've reset your clock.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Jet Jet.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
He also hasn't done, I think enough to get that.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
And that's that's what I'm saying, where if you're at
Arizona and you're showing progress, he could have bolted for
Florida really easily. Now that you're a Washington trying to
do it again, well, now I kind of want to
see you go through it again.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
That's what you mean by set the clock.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, yeah, I agree with you there, and he needs
to do a better job at Washington or a good
job at Washington moving forward.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yeah. No, they're in the right track. I think they're
a very good football team. They'll probably be an eight
nine win football team this year.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Are they Okay?

Speaker 4 (09:09):
They won six last year. They have really good pieces,
favorable schedule. It's eight nine wins? You do that, maybe
three times, nine wins at Washington and maybe you're in
the NFL. We got college.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Okay, I think he'll stay in college for a little while.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
I could say, I'm just saying there, there is not
a job that I don't think he wouldn't take.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, a good way to put it, because I agree
with you. Yeah, there's that. Okay, we'll see what happens
here again. We're gonna talk to coach Gonzales here in
about ten minutes talk about his defense. I hope he
doesn't go into those long question long quick like you know.
Bill Walton asked him two questions and those are fifteen

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minutes than coach uh yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
But he was like, we're gonna be shorter of Weaver's
state breakdown today, guys, okay, by by four minutes, so
it's a sixteen minutes breakdown.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I was like, oh man, I'm gonna say, I'm going
to remind you that this is radio.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
But you know what, somebody told me this, and I
agree with them. It's great to have that compared to
the opposite like Kevin someone who oh, yeah, he's not
going to answer much, is going to mumble through the
press conference.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
I got. I was so surprised when I was covering
him with you guys on post game interviews where he
wouldn't talk about the quarterback because he'd have to watch
the film first.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, what you saw what I saw?

Speaker 4 (10:31):
That's a cop out. That's a cop out.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
I couldn't believe that. I says, Well, that's my policy.
I understand that, But what the hell you saw the
game I did do?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Then what do you want us to ask you? Hey,
what did you have for a snack at the halftime? Like?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well reminded me and not to bag on him because
he's long gone, but it was like, I don't know
if you were there when my guy at Channel thirteen
Damien asked him about his growing up in the jobs
he had, and because he was asking the question from
behind the you know, at the back of the room
with the ken and something was taken aback by Why
are you asking me in this setting at the press covers.

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There's no other time to talk to you. Yeah, where
else am I going to ask you? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:12):
You know, so we have to ask these questions.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Well, it's like with Sean Miller when he was here,
he was like, yeah, you know, this guy's got a
great story. You're gonna have to talk to him one day,
you won't let us, So go ahead and tell us
right now because it's not gonna happen, and know that
that's true.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's like DeAndre.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
We never talked to him during the regular rarely talked
to him in the regular season, and then we go.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
To the packed ten tournament, yeah, Pac twelve tournament.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
And we find out he's a funny, fantastic kid because
he was only eighteen I think it was at the
time and goofy, funny, told jokes stuff like that and thinking,
where have you been? Yeah, you know, and then a
week later he's gone.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, it's all over a week later. Yeah, it's the
coaches are are funny.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's a d there's that control
freaking them. Yeah, you know. And I understand that we
all have that.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
One, especially like in someone's case and others when you
come from Texas coaching, when you come from SEC country
and the spotlight of the program, no matter where you
are in those states is so massive. Yeah, you get
burned a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
No, no, no, I knew you were going to go there
because I get that, and you kind of are reserved
or whatever. The word is very cautious with who to
trust and who not to trust. But this little Tucson,
if there's ten reporters, pretty much nine or ten of
them are all hoping that you do well.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, because it means more coverage for them for the
next X amount of years and they don't have to
worry about coaching, changing articles and that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
It's funny.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
I think I got a text about something. Okay, so
we'll see what happens. A big game here in two
weeks or less than two weeks, about ten to twelve
days with ioways stayed at one o'clock. You said, no,
fourlock o'clock, four o'clock. I actually have just for FYI,
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We'll know more as we get closer to the game,
so that'll be fun. I'm having fun.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
With the least. How can they catch that.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Three hours before the game here just at this station.
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what happens. Let's take a break, get ahold of coach
or coaches can call us right, Okay, let's go.

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Speaker 2 (18:09):
Hey, welcome back to my on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Troy Hutchison
from Arizona Wildcats on that side side fight him there,
Just google it you'll find him Twitter and otherwise. We're
waiting for coach Gonzales. I think he's in a meeting.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Rate yep, just in the staff meeting right now, but
he will be giving us a call once they are
out of that meeting.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
I'm gonna tell him I need to get him to
run some laps. He's late.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
See what he does, but he hit me get down
it all free, So no, it looked forward to him.
He's good fun. We had him on the summer right, yep.
A lot of fun to talk to. Gave him some
food tips. I'll probably see. I think he's gone out
there to eat two Pokemon moms. So talk about his
New Mexico days real quick, because obviously I'm connected there
as well.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
What else defense we've talked highly enough about. I think
here we go, Here we go. Hello, you're on the
air and nine of the ball. Who's this?

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (19:06):
Guys?

Speaker 13 (19:06):
Coaches all, how are you doing?

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Coach?

Speaker 3 (19:07):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (19:08):
I was being brave here and I was gonna say,
you're gonna have to run some laps for me. You're
a little late, I am.

Speaker 12 (19:14):
We were to run the laps we were having.

Speaker 13 (19:16):
Uh, we've gone out of staff me. I apologize, No problem,
No problem.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Good to hear your voice, my new Mexico guy. You
know what, I was doing some things last this morning.
Where did you go to high school in Albuquerque?

Speaker 12 (19:29):
Valley?

Speaker 3 (19:29):
High School? Oh Valley?

Speaker 2 (19:30):
You know I was gonna I was hoping you went
to Eldorado Only for selfish regions. I'm a little bit
older than you. I grew up listening to Mike Roberts,
Rocky Long, Noma Zoni. You know guys that you were
probably just a little boy back then, and I said,
the best football to me, a football player I ever
saw come out of was Jim Everett.

Speaker 12 (19:51):
There's no doubt.

Speaker 13 (19:51):
Nineties nine Eldorado High School.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yes, they played my my competition at Savey High. I
didn't go to Save I win the same mics. But
those were the good old days to me. When was
the good old days for you back there?

Speaker 12 (20:03):
You know it would it would have been the early
nineties right there. I mean Bill Gentry was still coaching
Elder I have to play against him. I mean it
was that was, I mean, that was that was kind
of when I grew up. And I knew about Jim
Everett because he was when I was young. Obviously was
still a star there, still very popular there in Albuquerque.
And and uh Ray Bard, who actually never ended up

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getting to play because he went to prison, but he
was probably he was the number one recruit out of
high school, coming out of West Mays Of High School,
same year as uh Tony Dorsett.

Speaker 13 (20:33):
So there's been some good people at Albuquerque, right right right.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Let me ask you, and we'll start this way. Obviously,
you were a head coach over there. What what type
of perspective did that give you to be in the
position you're in now and maybe to make you a
better coach.

Speaker 12 (20:49):
But definitely made me a better assistant coach.

Speaker 13 (20:51):
I'll tell you that the uh.

Speaker 12 (20:52):
The opportunity to be a head coach and you have
to deal with the things that you you think you're
prepared for, you think that you're going to get come
across your desk. It's a lot bigger deal than you
actually have than you ever think about. And then being
able to balance that and being able to still be
the defensive coordinator and being a head coach takes a
little bit of balance and you get better as you

(21:12):
go through it. I absolutely love being a defensive coordinator
and doing things we're doing right now. So I'm a
lot better assistant coach for Coach Brennan because I can
take things off as plate that I know that I
can keep him from having to deal with, and it
betterman our football program.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
You know, coming into this season, there's a lot of
doubters of Arizona football, and given what happened last year,
kind of understandably so, but how have you seen the
defense play with that chip on their shoulder as it
really showed up in that Kansas State game? Outside of
that one seventy five yard run. I mean they were
just all over the place defensively, well.

Speaker 12 (21:48):
You know, I mean I thought they I thought they
played hard. We gave up four play, we gave up
one hundred and forty yards and four plays, and we
gave up forty nine yards and fifty plays. So we
got to solve those four play so we don't have
that problem because I mean in a one point or
a one possession game, it's gonna be the difference between
winning and losing. And I have no I mean when
we uh, I thought earlier on we had good communication

(22:10):
on the staff when we had the fourth and one another.
There's a lot of people that were like, why would
they play it right there? Why co coach being head
sat theyn't get the first down, they ain't gonna move
the ball, don't don't give them the ball midfield. We
won't let them score. And our kids we're playing with
that now, give give all the give our football team.
I mean, players, players win games. Coaches do not. And
there's been all the nice things that and that's all.

(22:31):
I mean, that's the buy in from from Tucson and
I talked about it. I mean, I don't care what
people say, whether it's negative positive, it means they care.
We've got a lot of people care and people are
starting to get invested, which is awesome. Well that what
that means is at some point, if we lose game,
it's gonna hurt really really bad and not only our
football team and alert the community of Tucson. So keeping that,
keeping that picture there, solve those little things. So we

(22:52):
don't have an opportunity to lose game and keep playing
with that. But give the credit to the kids. Coaches
don't win games. Players do.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
So I think you know, I'm the I'm the host
for the Huddley huddle with the guys, and they mentioned
you crazily good, you know, with a lot of affection
and a lot talked about popular populate tackling.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Was that your phrase?

Speaker 12 (23:14):
So populations of the football is Coach BZ, I mean
we have a deal in our room, and Coach b
I mean popular football creates a lot of positivity for
your football team on both sides of the ball. We
we live by something in the defensive room, it's no
what's to do and how to do it? Because if
you know what to do and how to do it,
you can make a ton of plays. If you don't
know what to do, you don't get on the field

(23:34):
all elevens of the ball and a bad humor. Yeah,
that means they have ill intent to try and destroy,
block destruck. I mean just violence when you get there.
All of of them have the have the obligation to
support their teammates and get there and then keep them
out of the breaking in on it. I mean, if
they don't score, if they don't score touchdowns, we're gonna
win a bunch of football games around here. And so
our kids live and die by that. So there's no

(23:57):
when the ball is thrown or when the ball is ran,
you should see eleven maniacs running to the football and
the referees. You tell our kids all the time, like
stop jumping on the pile, and I want to play
on the verge of being too much, and our kids
has done a great job of that this year and
stay discipline and not hurt our football team. There's gonna
be an opportunity. There's gonna be a time during the
season where we get a late hit because somebody dives
on the pile. From the nature of the way we play.

(24:18):
But right now, they're doing a really good job of
avoiding those.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
This is a tough question only because of self evaluation,
but everyone raives about the defense so far. What kind
of grade would you give it.

Speaker 12 (24:32):
I'll sumb it up. We gave one hundred and forty
yards up in four plays, so obviously, in my opinion,
not good enough. What we did is we kept them
out of the end zone. And our job is to
keep them the one less point than the offense scores.
So if the offense scre seven, then we need to
keep them the six. And that's just the life we live.
And I'm okay with that. Yeah, I had no I
mean when they were running the ball and trying to

(24:52):
set up Michael for that last fill goal, and Michael Michael.
Michael took a lot of a lot of grief for
missing a couple of field goals. But people should keep
it in mind. Kickers are erasers. They're erasing mistakes that
somebody else has made to get in that position. We
didn't get a first down because somebody miss a block,
or somebody held, or somebody missed the throws, or they're
having a punt because somebody didn't tackle. Mean all those things,

(25:14):
So Michael Medina missing that that that that kick that
wasn't the difference between win losing the game. If we're
down by two, he's got an obligation to make that kick.
That was gonna give us some breathing room. Well, breathing
room leads to coaches being soft and passive and played
bim but don't break and that prevent defense stuff. He
missed that kick, and our kids are like, you know what,
it's on us, like we're gonna go win this game,

(25:35):
Like put it in the defensive hands. And that's the
attitude that we want around here. It doesn't matter what
the situation is. If if it means that we have
to go out there and keep it the team from
driving in two minutes, we're gonna be aggressive. We're gonna
be smart at the same time, so we don't have
guys running running down the field by themselves. But we
took an opportunity. Now that's say we're gonna be perfect
in every two minute situation this year. It does not
mean that, but it means we're gonna have a plan,

(25:57):
a plan of action and go out there and see
if we can execute it.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
One guy on the defense that's really stood out from
the bunch is Genesis Smith and kind of under the
radar player compared to the rest of the Big twelve.
And I really don't know why, But what have you
seen from Genesis and his development and the player that
he's become today.

Speaker 12 (26:16):
You know, It's the stuff I talked about in preseason
camp that if Genesis plays like I think he can
and does the things that he's capable of, We're gonna
have one season with Genesis Smith in this defense. And
for personal and selfish reasons, I hope I'm wrong. I
hope he comes back for the young man's reasons that
he's If he's a first round pick, then I'm gonna

(26:37):
kick him in the tail and tell him, like, go
represent the u of A at the next level. He's
done everything that I think he can do and more.
I mean, Jen is a freak. He hear coach be
talking about all the time. He's the CEO of our team,
the chief energy officer, which he is, whether it be
in meetings, whether it be in the weight room, whether
it be on the field. I mean that dude just
lives one a happy life. I mean, God has blessed

(27:01):
him with some unbelievable talents. Genesis is very strong in
his face, which is really neat, and he's taken advantage
of everything he's been given. And then the leadership and
the amount of just pure passion that he has. It's
spread through our football team and he's the leader on

(27:22):
our side of the ball. When we leave the field,
I mean when we take the field, I mean he
does the break and we attack the feel like we're
gonna go take somebody's soul. It's all because of Genesis
Smith's attitude.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
What type of I asked this of Brian Peterson in
the first hour, what type of energy do you hope
to give out that the guys follow? Because you're your dude,
that's intense and fiery. Is that what you're hoping or
what is it?

Speaker 12 (27:49):
You know? I try and be the same person I
am in everything I do, and I think that's important
for our kids to see. I am pretty energetic, I
am pretty fiery. I think there's a a fine line
between being confident and arrogant. And I believe in what
we do, but more importantly, I believe in our kids.
And I have a great confidence in our football team

(28:12):
and in our football players, and I want them to know,
just just like my own kids, when they when they
do something that I don't think is up the standard,
I'm gonna hold them accountable and let them know. It
doesn't mean I'm gonna mother FM or I'm gonna cuss
them and demean them because I don't believe that's coaching.
I don't believe that's teaching. But I'm gonna make.

Speaker 13 (28:29):
Sure that they understand. I mean, when they had that
long run.

Speaker 12 (28:32):
I want to talk to Jen right away. I want
to talk to Jabbari. I mean I had three or
four guys that I want to identify, like, like we
can stop that from happening. And if you're gonna yell
and screaming them those moments, like they ain't listening to you.
So I want them to know that, like I care
for them more than anything in the world, like just
like my own kids. And if they call me at
two o'clock in the morning they need the body of Barry,

(28:52):
I'm gonna bring the shovel like they know that, and
so they're willing to do whatever they can to make
sure that they live up to our state. And then
we train forty three out of the fifty two weeks
a year so bet'll be fun, because if it ain't fun,
then they're gonna lose interest and they're gonna lose passion,
and so we try and make it fun without destroying them. Now,

(29:13):
now there are times that we have to get after him,
but for the most part, let's go out there and
have fun. And you know what's fun winning winning fun,
So right now they're having a whole bunch of fun.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Obviously, this week is very important in terms of getting healthy,
correcting some teams, some things on the team in terms
of the schematics and what you guys want out of
the team. But it's also important recruiting week. What are
your plans personally in terms of a trip you might
make this weekend to get out there on the recruiting trail.

Speaker 12 (29:42):
Well, I will, I will be up in the up
in the Sacramento area. There's a big football game up
there with a young man that we are trying to
flip our way. I write him a letter every single day.
I'm sure that mailman is getting tired of having to
deliver a letter every single day to this young man.
But there's gonna be so many darn letter in his
house and with his family that it's gonna be hard

(30:02):
to turn down the University of Arizona, and I'm gonna
go watch him play. We're gonna practice Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
I think that it gives us an opportunity to clean
up a lot of the things that we need to
fix to continue to grow as the football team. I mean,
right now, and I've said it during my press conference,
is like we have to face this opponent every week,

(30:25):
like we need to fix Arizona before we fix the opponent.
And there's plenty of things that we need to fix
on all sides of the ball that will be addressed
during practice this week. There's a fine line between wearing
them out and having them fresh, So the practices will
be structured in a way that we can get a
lot of work done quick. There'll be a lot of
weightlifting this week because the only way that you continue

(30:47):
to do the things that we do physically and to
play the way we play is to be strong. I
mean that three hundred the forty six guys that we
can have our clean over three hundred pounds, that stuff
will go away if you don't continue it. So focusing
on that, and then obviously there's the help issue for
the ones. I really think and I'm excited about this.
Going into the Iowa State game will probably be the
helpiest this football team's been, which usually you have that

(31:09):
on August thirtieth. We're gonna have a little bit of
a luxury going in the Iowa State game. I think
we're gonna have everybody. I think. I hope we got
ten days to figure it out before we know, so
I think there's a lot of positives there.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
So you must be very happy to have Stukes back.
At one, let's talk about that. And then two, you're
a huge numbers dude. You must be good at math.
And when did this start?

Speaker 12 (31:36):
Getting Trading Dukes Facks is like it is like, uh,
like when you wake up on Christmas and you have
a toy the Santa Claus left you right there. You
can't believe you actually got that toy. That's like trading
Duke's like when they're announcers do on TV on that
first list on the third down where we got a
sack and I mean he did.

Speaker 13 (31:51):
He looked like he got shot out of a cannon.

Speaker 12 (31:54):
And that's who trade and Sukes is. So if we
can get him back, we can get trade smith back
and anybody else that's injured like it gives us an
opportunity to just have more bullets to shoot at people.
Numbers guy, when when you say I'm a numbers guy,
which which feed you're referring to? That that help on
on game day? What do you want to know? Well?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
You that's it.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
I mean when I talk to you for for media
day in July, I think this dude's thrown out numbers
that you know, just off the top of his head.
He knows every stat area of there's a swarm number.
And then you talk a lot of numbers, which is
fantastic because it's it's just did you rattle them off.

Speaker 12 (32:33):
The Well here, here's I'm blessed and it might be
a blessing and a curse. As my wife, I have
a freaky memory that I can see stuff and remember it,
I can read stuff and remember it, and I can
bring up stuff from an old argument, uh, to only
my benefit. By the way, I never try and benefit her.
I'm always wrong, she's always right, which makes us very

(32:54):
happily married. Now I'm I'm lucky. I'm married to the
most wonderful woman in the world. And and uh, she
never acts like I'm wrong, so that's even better. I'm unblessed.
But the history of this football program it fascinates me.
I think you have to be all in wherever you're at,
and you can say you're all in, but if you're

(33:15):
not gonna put in the time to really figure out
where you're at, what you're about, and what they're about,
then you're just saying words. I believe in everything that
we do here as a program. I believe in everything.
If you believe in the program and where it came from,
you're apt to represent it better. And then to get

(33:37):
the kids to believe in the things that we want
to do, you have to be able to back it
up with actual numbers and things that have been done.
In my career, I have the opportunity to be on
top five defenses. Why because we had really good players
and they played hard. And if you're not going to
think something into fruition, then why do anything. If you

(34:00):
want to take an easy path, you'll find something else
to do because being average is never fun. Being average
is no good and getting that message displayed to our
team and then some of the stuff is for fun
for our fans. Because I truly believe like the crowd
that stayed for the Weber State game, like every single
one of those people, if they could identify themselves, deserves

(34:21):
like an award and a T shirt and trow because
that's a two and a half hour delay, Like that's special.

Speaker 13 (34:26):
That means you really care.

Speaker 12 (34:27):
They showed up on Friday night, which is I believe,
a high school football night. But they showed up on
Friday night, and in the fourth quarter when we were
down there on third down the final two possessions, like
there was some real noise out there.

Speaker 13 (34:37):
That was fun.

Speaker 12 (34:38):
That's exciting. Well, once again, like I said earlier, that
means people are starting to care. And guess what, when
you lose, it hurts, and when something doesn't go your way,
it hurts. But the only way that you get that
passion is to continue to get them to believe and
the product you're putting on the field and get them
to believe and resonate with the kids. I think the
nil will help because they actually get to see our
kids' faces in those things, and when you can you

(34:59):
can relate a face to something, it's better than a helmet.
I mean, look at the love that Ricky Henley and Chucks.
People have in the community at Tucson. They know who
they are and we want all our kids to be
that way. So I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep beating
my chest about the buy too Old because I think
this place is special and as long as we continue
to win, it's going to get more and more special

(35:20):
and all those fun things. It just makes everything around
here better.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
True.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
So we'll wrap up with this. Obviously, you guys are
in a good position right now heading into the bye week.
With the bye week, you guys are doing the promotion
for buy tickets or buy bye week tickets ten dollars
tickets for select areas in the stadium. Just your thoughts
on the fan base you kind of went into it
and the opportunity they have to help pack Arizona Stadium

(35:45):
for that Oklahoma State game.

Speaker 12 (35:48):
The uh here's here's our message, and I think coach
Coach b said that we're gonna win to buy the
bye part of it this week.

Speaker 13 (35:56):
By our kids being dedicated and.

Speaker 12 (35:59):
Getting everything done they need to do from getting healthy
to the region of the practice. The b UI part
for the city of Tucson, I think.

Speaker 13 (36:08):
That we've we've given you an opportunity.

Speaker 12 (36:10):
To see that. We have a bunch of kids that
represent this place really well. They're excited for you to
watch them play. And whether you're at home yelling at
a TV and screaming, or you're in the stands, there's
this human emotion and there's corzol, and there's all these
things that when you're actually out there in the environment.

(36:31):
The adrenaline, which is the best drug there ever is
you actually feed off of it, and you can feed
off of the guy sitting next to you more so
than you can yelling at your TV. So take advantage
of that because it's the best drug there is in life.
And let's pack Arizona Stadium. Let's go over fifty thousand
people there. The kids have made a commitment to stay here.

(36:53):
They stayed here for Coach b and they stayed here
for the University of Arizona, and they stayed here for
the city at Tucson, kids like Noah Flapita. So I
love this place. And I know there's a special part
of Tucson when the wildcats are on fire. And I
know that Jetfish and his staff in twenty three created magic,
and we're trying to recreate that magic. Again twenty five.

(37:14):
We're off to a good start. Come out there and
enjoy it, because it's a take of a lot more
fun when that place is full at fifty thousand than
it is when there's only thirty. And you know what,
the thirty or however me were there on Friday forty,
whatever it was. We're amazing and we just want them
to know that we appreciate them, were thankful, and know this.

(37:35):
The more you get invested, the more it hurts when
things go bad. But the more you get invested, the
more exciting it is when they go good.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Yeah, no question, Well, coach, appreciate it. And when this
is all over for this year, you and I got
to do some lunch at the pokem moms have some
green chili, chicken enjoanas.

Speaker 13 (37:52):
Let's do it.

Speaker 12 (37:52):
I can't wait. And I really appreciate it. I mean,
I didn't know you were a Santa a demon, so
you know we're you say my.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Yeah, yeah, say Mike's guy.

Speaker 12 (38:01):
Okay, say Mike.

Speaker 13 (38:02):
I apologize.

Speaker 12 (38:04):
I never got to play that, and we did when
I was the Valley we played Santa fe Yeah. Uh
never lost to him, by the way, So I'm you
can you can stick that one.

Speaker 13 (38:12):
I will and I will that's good.

Speaker 12 (38:15):
Now. We never got to play the horseman, so I
don't have any bragging rights there. My brother in law,
he's the head coach at at Sea Boul High School
right now. Yes, he was on my staff in New Mexico.
They're off to a three and one start.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (38:26):
Nobody thought bull it was gonna be worth a darn
this year. And they they screwed off the Albuque High
game where they should have won and before and oh
but there's a lot of really good football in Albuquerque
that people have no idea about. I think Albuquerque choos
On very similar, very much. Two's On's a little bit hotter,
a little bit warmer in the winter, but very similar.
And another reason I love being around here. But I
appreciate all you guys do for us. I'm gonna get

(38:48):
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to hold the phone up there. I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 2 (43:07):
Hey, welcome back to I Am the Ball here on
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Speaker 3 (43:10):
I'm Steve Rivera.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
You're Troy with Aaron Wildcats on that side. Hey, thanks
for doing this. I thought he was fantastic. He was
not long, and you can tell he just loves the job.
Very passionate about what he does, which you know in
a defensive coordinator and an offensive coordinator you need both. Yeah,
and I think Seth does the same thing on his side,

(43:31):
very very passionate or what.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
He's very much so differently. Yeah, I think Danny's a
little bit more fiery at times. It Seth's got his
own fire too, but they go about it a different way.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Right, you know when they The thing that I noticed
the first time I met these guys when we had
the press conference with them side by side up on
the podium and they kind of went back and forth.
I thought, this is a great little routine here, you know,
kind of a lot of the love showing to each other,
but a competition between each other. And that's what you especially.
And I saw some quips on Danny. I didn't want
to go regurgitate him, but his his uh disdain for defeat.

(44:09):
You don't because I guess he's he's a very competitive guy.
His family plays that we know didn't like to lose.
I'm sure you saw that. Yeah, uh, just just we
you and and I'm the same type of way. I've
kind of relaxed with it as I've gotten older, but absolutely.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Hate to lose.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
Yeah, no, And it's everything like you talked about. You know,
I get go ahead.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Although you're on the air nine on the ball.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Who's just money to money? What's the word? Man?

Speaker 3 (44:37):
I haven't heard from you.

Speaker 20 (44:39):
Yeah, hey, you were a saint, Mike Corsman.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yes, yeah, that makes a lot of.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Sense now in a good way. I'm I'm gonna take
it in a good way.

Speaker 20 (44:48):
Baby, No, I mean coming from a Robertson cardinal, I mean,
oh holy.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
How did you get out of Vegas?

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Nobody gets out of Vegas?

Speaker 20 (44:57):
Hey, well, I mean it's from here originally, but get
in and get out. But it's kind of hard.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Wait wait, wait wait wait year? What year?

Speaker 20 (45:06):
The turn of the century.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Oh yeah, you're way younger than me. Sorry, sorry to say,
but we owned you dudes for my time.

Speaker 20 (45:15):
Yeah, well for I guess now they're going head to
have to stay championships very much. But hey, that interview
with Gonzales was really good. I could hear a lot
of New Mexico is kind of need to bury your body.
I got the shovel. This is our life and I'm
okay with it. I ream my coach telling me. In

(45:35):
New Mexico we played to have fun and winning. It's
fun and that's why we played. We played to win.
So it's uh. I really appreciate Brendan having and basically
he was he was a head coach at you and
m Brennan has another head coach with him, just like
Kyle needs Bob Sola in San Francisco. I think it's

(45:56):
a it's a good mix and and uh, you know
they're they're finding any equilibrium and the Cats are going
to go up to aims and win. I think I'm
calling it right now.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
So let me let me ask you because you're you're
pretty well. I thought you were pretty pragmatic until that.
So three games in, what do you like? What don't
you like?

Speaker 5 (46:17):
Uh?

Speaker 20 (46:17):
I do love the defensive line where that D line,
the interior line is just doing what they want to
do when they want to do it, when they have
to do it. And I think that's it. That's that,
that's the hingepin to all of it. If you can
control the guards in the center on the offense, you
can control the game. And I don't, I don't. I
don't see IOA State is that tough? I in case,

(46:41):
they almost got him in Dublin and they're they're they're
their quarterback. If you listen to their media, which I'm
I'm a nerd, and I do. Their quarterback.

Speaker 12 (46:52):
He's up and down.

Speaker 20 (46:53):
He's very volatile, and I think with our dbs and
if our line is clicking and and the linebackers are
doing what they do. Granted, the competition we've seen hasn't
been that great, but what what Gonzalez said was very poignant.
Giving up what one hundred and fifty yards and four plays?
We got to clean that up. That to me, if

(47:14):
I were an opposing offense, that would scare the heck
out of me, because he's you know, he's guys thinking
like a serial killer, which is which is you know,
New Mexico way of doing things.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Yeah, I'm well, buddy, thanks for the call.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
I'm glad you're not from West Vegas.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
T buddy good.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
He's where he's from is about sixty miles from santape
That's why he's.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Giving me grief.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Where are we going? You were talking about something before
he called it. Yeah, welcome to my world. Welcome to
my world. But I can't remember what you were talking about.
He was about Denny. No, No, I can't remember. Okay,
the life of me.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
But no, I do agree with the Iowa State thing
that they're not a team that rolls out there and
you're like, damn.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
They they're they're better. See, this is the pomal laws.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Yeah, yeah, no question, no cause, and it's still early.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
We haven't seen enough of these teams.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Uh, there's a lot to like for Arizona, there's no
question about that.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
They haven't lost.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
They're playing with a slight ship on their shoulder, which
you know, which helps. Uh, But we just don't know
how good they are.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
Do you come on? Do you?

Speaker 12 (48:21):
No? No?

Speaker 4 (48:22):
I thought you would have known by now, because I
thought I would say in Kansas City was going to
be better. But for the thing about Iowa State too,
is have they ever looked dominant even when they were good? No,
I haven't seen enough that this Matt Campbell team. Well,
Matt Campbell is the head coach. His identity is win,
winning ugly. How do you win an ugly football game?

(48:42):
Make it gritty, grindy, You just find a way to win.
That's that's what they do. So even if Arizona makes
it close, it would surprise me if it's a blowout,
which would if I always stay blue out airs Okay, okay,
because that's not that, that's not who they are.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
You know, you wouldn't surprise you. It would surprise you
if it if it was you. I don't disagree with that.
In as much as Arizona has a running game, and
if you can establish that running game, which it can,
h it trbably should have done more of that against
Kansas State. Yeah, that they'll be in games, and they'll
be in games.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
And they've done it with three separate backs because they've
been banned up. Kendrick Resono wasn't able to go. Quincy
Craig was banged up with a shoulder injury, which they
said on the broadcast during the game, so they had
to run with Ishmael Mahdy. I mean he was tasted
underd and twenty one yards of total offense. Quincy Craig

(49:37):
had that phenomenal performance in the first week, and we've
seen Kedrick Resono be a bull dozing back for this team.
So the fact that you can do it no matter
who's back there, yeah, is highly important speaks followings for
the offensive.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Line, right, And if one doesn't do it, maybe the
second guy will, if not the second guy, the third guy.
So you have some potential there and then I guess,
I guess there's a good chance that no one's going
to get better m you know, and make it more
of a passing running game.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
Yeah, and you know, I forget if it was Vic
or somebody brought this up today in terms of dagging.
I think it was Brian too. Actually. People expecting an
air raid up tempo offense, Yeah, that was never going
to be the case. Once he's a running guy. Well,
he's a balanced guy. There's there's that air raid effect

(50:27):
that is there naturally because he played for Mike Leech,
she played in the Sunny Dyke system and stuff like that.
It's going to naturally be there with that coaching tree.
But when you look at what he did at Marshall,
you look what he's done so far this season. Now
he's not this guy. It's very different, but it's more
of a balance attack like a Rich Rodriguez offense that
wants to be up tempo. Is it at that point yet?

Speaker 3 (50:49):
No?

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Do they do similar things? Not necessarily, but there's that
balance that great offense coordinators like Rich Rodriguez, great offense
minds bringing to the table.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
No, I'm getting swayed to more about.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
I'm still gonna say six.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Yeah, maybe seven, because the litmus test hasn't really gotten
there yet. It was this was a nice win, no,
no question about that. Uh, and it beats the alternative, right, losing,
because there was a point was I think we talked
to this about the beginning of the show. There was
a point there. Oh man, they can't afford to lose
this game, did you they're back? That's what I felt like.

Speaker 13 (51:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
No, but they.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Survived a bad way. But they've survived in a good way.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
Yeah, for sure, So.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
That kind of gave you. Okay, okay, that's true. They
probably would have lost this game. Three years. They definitely
would have lost this game. It did four years, first Jets, second,
first and second year. Yes, yeah, so there's that, but
they didn't. They didn't.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
Yeah. Now, let me ask you, this would surprised you,
and I know how I feel about this, if maybe
not surprises the right. What's the shock level. Let's say
they go ten and two and when the win the conference,
they finished number one in the conference and.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Play for a big world final game. What is would
a shock me?

Speaker 4 (52:00):
At what level? What you've seen right now in the
rest of my head would explode that that much of
a shot.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Yeah, ten and two from this team, My head would explode.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
And I'm not talking about from the start of the season,
because I one hundred percent agree with you at the
start of the season, but that right now.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
My head would explode. Really yeah, I'm not. I'm not.
I'm I'm at a six being convinced that this team
is what it is if they could go ten and two,
Come on, that's that's kind of coach of the year
for one hundred percent national Coach of the year at
least for consideration. Yeah, this team, this was a this
would be like last year's ASU team.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Yeah, without a question.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
But let's get there first.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
You have to get you have to get to that point.
But my point is the Big twelve hasn't shown anything
that is unsurmountable. No, there's no team that's unsurmountable in
this conference. And if you continue to progress and you
see the edges get better, who knows? Who knows?

Speaker 3 (52:55):
Okay, thanks Troy, We got to go appreciate your time.