Tuesday, July 29, Hour 1

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
They good afternoon, everybody.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Welcome to Iron the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Steve Rivera.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
It's bring your kids to work today.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
So I did I have one and Ray?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I brought you together because if I said one name,
it wouldn't matter. I'll say the other name. Can't get
it wrong today I do with my kids. What do
you have?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Kids?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
And I had two boys, and I would look at
one and call him the other dude, and then, you know,
have to correct myself. I'm sure your parents did the same.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Ye who what do you? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, but it is what it is people who do
it and understand what I'm saying. Welcome guys, Welcome Ray.
You're going to be taking the calls, yes, and kind
of look through who's gone?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
And and one.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
You went to the press covers. You asked me a question.
I'm gonna ask you the question yet.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
The press cover. What do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:09):
It still seems like a program overall. It's bought in
to what their head coach is telling them. To what
their position, coaches coordinators are telling them. And it looks
obviously the coaches, they look like they mean what they
say is as most should, right, and so they always
say the right things, do look look the right way.

(01:31):
And of course that always comes with a new season,
even even for fans. You know, there's a bit of
optimism out there. Uh just there's your everyone zero zero
right now.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
And he said that, I mean they're starting. We're not
looking back.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
I think he said, don't look back the next season. Yeah,
we're not. One of the biggest things that was repeated
and even asked throughout the day was that this program
isn't outcome focused like they.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Were elect right, right right, which was interesting to hear
because someone asked about that, right what that kind of mean?

Speaker 2 (02:05):
We guess what? Guess what?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Every season is outcome focused or outcome You have to
have determined good word because you're measured by your wins
and losses, no matter how well you played exactly. So
so yes, I know we all know what he said.
But but but yeah, how do you how do you
not gone? Have they not gone four and eight or
whatever they went, they wouldn't be talking about the b

(02:28):
say We're just gonna continue.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
We're doing continue exactly with momentum.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
I think I think he had said that kind of
laughed anytime I hear that.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now, I think of you right away.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
And but you understand the content of the context, right yeah?
From my end, yeah, yeah, because okay, So no, No,
My thing that I got from it was I didn't
ask any questions. I'm not a football guy, but I'm
good A story on Brendan, A big story on Brendan.
Not a lot of media there, not as much as
there was there, and we know most of them right right, So,

(03:05):
and there was not a buzz, not like.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Last season, No and not, but there seems like a
little bit of a buzz within the program to they
are excited to get back out there. Oh sure, and
more than likely as they should be ready to prove
the doubters wrong.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
And there were a bunch of them, both offensively and defensively.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
I just why I think that they're gonna do.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Okay, I think the one thing I haven't sat down
with him yet, I'm scheduled to have with Brennan where
it's kind of like a quiet, quiet storm hopefully for them,
that quiet optimism.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, I think they have that now. No waiting for
the storm. Right.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
If they're better on defense, great, If if Noah can
find some people and they have some running game, that
they'll be okay, they'll end up seven to five. Like
we talk about ceiling ceiling wise, I think that's one
thing that comes with the Seth Diggy offense. It maybe
maybe even the loss of Totoro McMillan. He's able to

(04:09):
look off, he's able to look at other receivers. And
one of the things I heard throughout the day was
that it's a very fast wide receiver corps and that
that excites Noah.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Right right, they've been able to connect a lot more.
What did you Are you writing some stories right now? Yeah,
I'll be writing anything specific that you you saw or found.
I know they've talked about it since uh Brett Brannan's
first day, but that the Baredown Brotherhood, Oh yeah, you
talked about it.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
That is very very real.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
Ridrick Rees or Wisconda, I'm not sure you don't remember
how to no running back. He was the backup to
Kuali Connley last season. I asked him about the Barredown Brotherhood.
He said, last season, I thought it was the closest
team I've ever been on until I saw this team,
and I been with this team for this season. Yeah,

(05:02):
and he said it's a lot closer and almost all
every other player.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
So he said last year's team, last year's team.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
And I'm I'm guessing that's due to the fact that
they were together for most of them were together throughout
the last two years or three years of Jetfish. But
this this kind of seems like a natural kind of
gelling of new people a new year, new season.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, I guess we'll see, right. You could say that
on day one or pregame one. Yeah, no, I heard
you ask that of Salve, which was great. He gave
you a long answer, right, but he.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
Went through almost every single one of his defensive linement
right right.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'm going to probably use some of that just for names,
but not the down because the defense has a lot
of pressure. I think I asked them if they have
a lot of pressure, and coach Gonzalez was yeah, he
welcome is that. He was very good. I love listening
to him because he's a fiery dude. He's a smart dude,
he's got numbers, he's just you know, he was the
head coach, So we'll see what happens. I think there's

(06:02):
pressure on both sides of the ball I touched, so
the defensive side they have pressure because again, Arizona's known
for one thing or kind of defense historically, just historically, right,
But that this is like the Final four ninety seven. Yeah,
twenty eight years twenty seven years ago. Just how long
the desert swarm was thirty years ago. Yeah, and people
still say, you know, talk about.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
It anytime you mentioned Arizona on the national scale as
an overall program, right, desert swarm defense, This is way
before you call her mindset.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Right, right, And they're exactly right. That's what sal we
talked about, right, And I think you were there when
I asked him they had the dogs and do they
have the dogs now?

Speaker 5 (06:41):
And he said, we'll find out. Well, yeah, of course
we'll find out. You can say that about any part
of the program. But I kind of maybe it's a bias,
you know, you know, type of sure fan, I am
off off of what I do from media side.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm drinking the juice. I'm buying it right now.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
Because because you're there's yes, but it felt like it
meant a lot more than what they said last year,
because you were you there last year physically? No, no,
but yeah you hear yeah you still the videos, but
you because you were physically there, you could yeah could
you could find but there. I felt like also, every

(07:20):
time I asked a question of a player, it was
almost the same answer. So they this really does seem
like they have that same mindset as a team.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
So let me ask you, maybe because you're not a
born born heroes to hit born a game.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
There you were healed, baby, you're healed. I drink what
are these days? A heel? But what do you do?
You drink the kool aid? You because you're here what
two three years now?

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, but I know you're probably not a fan as
big as as one n J.

Speaker 7 (07:52):
Yeah, but or so so I I think it's easy
to like, quote unquote drink kool aid right now. I
think what I try to do more is like I
give benchmarks, you know what I mean, Like, obviously you
know we we were State not supposed to be the
toughest challenge, right, so if they blow them out of

(08:13):
the water, it's one of those things where it's like
you can't get too high off that result, right, And
to an extent Hawaii.

Speaker 8 (08:19):
I think Hawaii would give a bit more of a challenge, but.

Speaker 7 (08:22):
You know it's really to me, it's like, Okay, you
can start building your expectations really off that Kansas State game.
Whether they lose or win, it really just depends how
they look against them more than anything. With like you know,
you're hoping the defense gets back to how they were
a couple of years ago.

Speaker 8 (08:38):
And same thing with some of the offense.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
You know, expecting like speeder wide receivers and stuff like that,
and seeing how that's gonna you know, affect like the
yards after the catch and stuff like that, like even
if it's short passes or.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
They try to pull them to schedule, you go that way. Okay,
because we talked about that all the time. So Hawaii's first, Hawaii,
I got it like the top of my head.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Okay, well Hawaii, we were stayed Okay, can't just stay
at all?

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Okay, which is non confidence. Who's who's after that? It
should be at Iowa State.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
So here we are, first four games, you're already a
third into the season. At what point do you think
you'll see the team? What point do you think you'll
see or no, not see know how good.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
This team could be. Truthfully, yeah, I think I know.
I want you to lie to me. Sometimes I lie
to make you look good.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
You'll never use that word again now, Iowa State, I
believe fourth game, fourth game, Okay, we should know where
the Arizona football program stands.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
Okay, yeah, I feel like the same way, and almost comparably,
you can you you can compare it to like that
season a couple of years ago when it was like,
you know, Washington came in super good and it's like
they didn't win, but they played them close.

Speaker 8 (09:51):
And so you go into USC and it's like, you know,
that's a thriller.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Where you're not expecting any of that.

Speaker 8 (09:56):
Right where it really could have gone either way.

Speaker 7 (09:58):
And so I think, yeah, kind of agreeing with it's like,
let's say they lose to Kansas State. Let's see how
they bounce back against Iowa State. If they do great
against them, then it's like, Okay, you know, maybe maybe
we're like, you know, cooking with something right now, but
I think that's.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
A fourth game.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
They could very well be three and one, maybe four,
and all if things go I don't I don't know
Kansas State or Iowa State, so we don't know until
we've seen.

Speaker 7 (10:22):
So I think it's almost like the NFL too, because
like when when I used to when I used to
just like bet more when I.

Speaker 8 (10:29):
Was a couple of years ago, when do you have money?

Speaker 7 (10:32):
When I had money, it's you know, you can never
really bet confidently those first three weeks because there's some
teams that are just gonna, like, you know, because there's
some teams that are just gonna you know, huge upsets
because they don't like other teams, don't know what to
expect from them yet.

Speaker 8 (10:47):
Maybe they have new wrinkles to their offense defense.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
Yeah, and so I feel very much so like the
same way with college football, where it's like, you know,
you expect Alabama to be good, right, but it's like right,
and then they lose to Vanderbilt and then they'll drop
another one to Oklahoma, you know.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
So yeah, yeah, I think you're right for it. Who
comes fifth.

Speaker 8 (11:06):
Oklahoma State here?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (11:08):
So see to me, I I I have them like
at six and three the first nine and then whatever
happens happens after that. But I think there's a lot
of winnable games at least. The thing is if this.
If this show was in Kansas State, you know what
you'd be saying, saying the thing they're saying the same
thing if this, If this show was in the Oklahoma State,
they're saying, we can get them, they're not that good,

(11:29):
and then who's who's between them? Same thing this at
this show. Because you have that, you have that bias.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
And i Alowa State's already in the in that mindset
because they were in the conference champions right last.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Season, right right, right, So, but you understand what I'm saying.
If you were at Iowas State, you think Arizona we
got that worried about. In Oklahoma State too, we could
probably have the same conversation we're having. We're gonna be better,
we're confident in YadA YadA, going under the radar whatever.
And the same for who's the Kansas State right because
it's a pretty good program. We just don't know how

(12:00):
good of a program there, and Arizona you.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Never know what to expect from really all three of those,
right right, And you don't know about the team you
cover because you just don't.

Speaker 7 (12:10):
Yeah, And I think that kind of speaks to like
how everybody's been talking about like at the big twelve
conference days where it's like this is probably the conference
with the most parody, where it's like you never know,
like who's going to really come out on top?

Speaker 8 (12:22):
Like I mean, everybody talks about last year as U right.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, yeah, I was just going to bring that up.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Who would have thought I think three and nine Arizona
State team from that previous season would go on to
the college football playoffs?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, and I don't think they've had their media day.
But once I looked around and saw who was there today,
and like I said, I'm not a football game. I'm
just there because there was not a whole lot of fans, fear,
not a lot of media. But I'm thinking Ashue probably
has a lot of people, and not because it's a
bigger market. It's because of the success they had, right
And can they do it again? My bet is they
don't do it again. I just don't think they'll do.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
The college football playoffs.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
No, no, no that no, yeah, they'll they won't do that,
but that they will, they won't have the same success
they did this year. I mean they surprise people. They
don't have cataboos. Cattaboy was sixty percent maybe more of
their of their offense. I mean it's hard to duplicate
and and with what's the heaviest, the head that works
the ground or whatever.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
It's tough. It's tough because.

Speaker 8 (13:20):
You know you're going to get everybody's best game.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, and they were picked sixteenth. What do we have
to lose? Yeah, with your money? Then you picked for
NFLS when you have nothing, What do you.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Have to lose?

Speaker 7 (13:31):
Yeah, it's like when you when you get that like
like that bonus money.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah yah, yeah, you say it's your money. I'm just
trying to spend it.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, Yeah, when you start spending other people's money, you
know you're doing Okay, I haven't reached that point yet.

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This is I on the Ball with Steve Ravera on
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Speaker 3 (18:32):
Hey, welcome back to Why in the Balls Here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in today with
me is one from Easy does It's Wort? And right
from in the Ball? Yep, yep, Okay, So now we're
going to play about Donald thirteen minutes of Brett Brennan
all the questions you had today of his Probaty is
what twenty five.

Speaker 15 (18:51):
Twenty five minute press covers? Yeah, okay, go ahead. And
Ezra Fuono, we're still working through their act. See everybody,
thank you for coming. I've got a personnel updates for
everybody real quick, just so everybody's on the same page.
Peter Langey, Zach Ciulepa, and Ezra Funa, we're still working
through their academic process. We're optimistic that they'll be here,

(19:14):
but just want to let you guys know that they're
not here yet. Mike Mitchell's no longer been the football team,
but in terms of what we're doing today, we're bringing
back the guys that are here and the guys that
want to be here, players, coaches, staff, and everybody in between.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
We're excited about that.

Speaker 15 (19:29):
Our second year at the University of Arizona, building our
program here, and from day one when the season ended
last year, it has all been all about attacking this offseason,
attacking this process.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
And so for us, what that looked like.

Speaker 15 (19:44):
It started out with pretension of our players, then the
portal staff, so there's a lot in that, and then
that went to the off season and building momentum through
winter conditioning, building momentum through spring practice, building momentum through
uh spring recruiting, building momentum through summer workouts. And that's

(20:07):
where we are now today, right we're at the start
of fall camp. I love where this team is at.
I love the effort and the intention, the work they've
done with Coach Carol and our strength and conditioning staff
over the last seven months, the work they've done with
our new coaches and the coaches on the staff that
were here a year ago. I'm extremely excited about and
I think everybody is just ready to get to work.
We're not looking in the rearview. We're looking forward. We're

(20:29):
moving forward as a football program, and today we get
to start keeping score and we're excited about that.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Raise your hand if you have questions, I'll calling you.
We have two wireless bikes, will break to be able
to start with judgment up drafting mine hold good to
see Brett.

Speaker 16 (20:47):
Also the off season, building up the roster, building up
the coaching staff.

Speaker 8 (20:52):
What do you think was the most significant part to
that process.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, I'd say it's both things.

Speaker 15 (20:57):
I think when you go through a tough season like
we did a year ago, you've got to find a
way to fix what was broken, fix what wasn't working, and.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Then put those pieces together. And part of those pieces.

Speaker 15 (21:09):
Are how we're going to do things in terms of
how we're going to coach, what we're gonna do schematically,
and then the other part of those things are who
are the players that are going to play those roles right?
And so we've added more players to a roster than
I've ever been a part of this offseason, and also
more staff transition than I've ever been a part of.
But credit to the new coaches, credit to the new players,
and then also credit to our current roster members.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Those guys have really helped. Those guys helped the.

Speaker 15 (21:33):
New people understand what our bare down brotherhood is all
about and how we're going to do business day in
and day out, what our culture is and how we're
going to live.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
And that part of it has been really fun to see.

Speaker 17 (21:46):
Hey, coach, does your approach or mentality change in this
fall camp as opposed to last.

Speaker 8 (21:53):
Year with it been your first one?

Speaker 15 (21:55):
I would say it's definitely different my approach. Does it
change wholeheartedly?

Speaker 8 (22:01):
Know?

Speaker 15 (22:01):
Because I still believe at the end of the day,
football is about blocking, tackling, having right people in the
right places, and executing at a high level and playing
harder than everybody that you compete against.

Speaker 18 (22:10):
You know.

Speaker 15 (22:11):
That being said, did I come at this offseason with
a different mindset than last season?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Absolutely?

Speaker 15 (22:15):
The circumstances were way different, right Like this this was
a much more you know, in terms of putting the
team together and building it. It was much more in
what I thought we needed here at the U of A.
And so we're kind of in the you know, we've
been on the job for I think nineteen months now
or maybe a little bit less than that. And so
when you look at that, how do you get the

(22:36):
right people in the right seats on the bus? How
do you get the right players to fit the schemes
that you're going to run and execute in And that's
what we've been doing.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
And so like my mindset or my.

Speaker 15 (22:46):
Approach hasn't necessarily changed, because I still think everything has
to be processed driven because last year we got we
killed ourselves with outcome focus. But that can't be who
we are now. We have to be worried about today.
What is the compliance meeting going to be like this afternoon.
We're gonna kick ass in that meeting right then we're
gonna move on to the next meeting and we're gonna

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dominate that meeting. And we're gonna focus on all these
small parts as we build our program day in and
day out through training camp, so that when we get
to the Hawaii game, we will have incredible momentum and
be ready to attack that moment at that time.

Speaker 19 (23:20):
I coach Brad Susmatt Sports three sixty from Phoenix, Good
to see you. What do you like most about your
team on the field coming into camp? What concerns you
most about your team coming into training camp on the field, I.

Speaker 15 (23:34):
Would say what I like most about where we're at
is I think we made huge strides in grasping scheme
changes in all three phases. Right when you bring in
three new coordinators, that's a lot of new learning. And
I love how the players have just attacked that, you know,
throughout the off season, throughout the spring practice. Is just
how intentional they've been about understanding and being able to

(23:56):
apply what that new scheme is going to look like
like in offensive special teams.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
I think what concerns me. I don't know that concerns me,
but like.

Speaker 15 (24:04):
The things we have to figure out, we have to
figure out who those pieces are going to be in
the special teams because we've had so much, so much
of a roster overhaul. We got to figure out who
we're gonna be the guys are gonna run down on
kickoff right? You know, we got to find out can
we hit it out of the end zone every time
like we did it last year with Tyler loop Right.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
We had a real benefit with that, you know, I
think we got to figure out what the rotation.

Speaker 15 (24:24):
Is going to look like in the offensive line because
there's a lot of new pieces.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
There, you know.

Speaker 15 (24:28):
Then then like over overall, we got to do a
great job of developing our depth so that when we
do have somebody get nicked, we have a chance for
somebody to step in there and execute at a high
level and give us a chance to win football games.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Two questions coach the faible question this early and we
were just getting started.

Speaker 16 (24:48):
The competition at center, When did those guys show you
and what did you see out of to camera?

Speaker 15 (24:53):
Well, I think that's a that's going to be a
fun thing to watch, right because obviously Grayson has a
lot of experience, you know, But I also think Kadi
is a guy that's played multiple.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Spots in the offensive line. Right. He's a big athletic kid.
He's a tough, physical kid, which you like that.

Speaker 15 (25:09):
And then he's also smart, you know, And I think
that position has to be one of your most intelligent players.
I think they have to manage so much from the
center position, and so that's gonna be one of those battles.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
It's gonna be fun to watch.

Speaker 16 (25:19):
And as far as interior guys go, with celep and
fun still working through some things. Who are some other
guys as interior linemen that could step up.

Speaker 15 (25:27):
In the offseason or in the defensive line. Yeah, the
interior guys. Yeah, yeah, you know, like I think you're
gonna love seeing there's been so many additions.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Up there, you know.

Speaker 15 (25:40):
I think mcnight is going to be something that's going
to be fun to watch. I think that started to
show up in spring practice and as you go. You know,
Tray Smith is kind of the guy that's everybody seen
and everybody everybody talks about, and he has flexibility to
move inside and outside. But I think with what coach
Gonzalez is going to do, you're going to see a
really aggressive, attacking movement style of front, and so those

(26:01):
pieces are going to be a little bit more interchangeable
than maybe what they have been in the past, where
you're like, Okay, we're going to line up in the
odd or even front and this guy's playing a four
I or a shade and he's holding the A gap.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
He's gonna be a little bit different. So I think
it's gonna be fun to watch.

Speaker 17 (26:18):
Besides quarterback, how many positions would you say right now
starting you have lockdown and are you concerned with the
lack of.

Speaker 15 (26:26):
Those that's a really tough question. That that is a
really I don't have I don't have good answer for
you on that.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
I really don't, you know.

Speaker 15 (26:37):
I think the most important thing, you know, with like
how we're getting ready for fall camp is that there's competition.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Right.

Speaker 15 (26:44):
So sometimes you might say, Hey, you know, this guy's
ahead of this guy on the staff, but we're like,
we need this guy to push this guy, So we're
not going to.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Tell this guy that he's the starter. Does that make sense, right?

Speaker 15 (26:56):
Like, sometimes you don't want to award a guy that
because will he stay motivated?

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Will he continue to attack the work in a way
you need him to? Right?

Speaker 15 (27:04):
So we're trying to make sure that everybody, every position
on the team, including quarterback, feels the pressure of competition
in the practice environment.

Speaker 17 (27:13):
Hey, coach, in the transfer portal era where players can
go to another school without having to sit out like
they used to in the past, does that change in
any way the way you coach and manage freshmen who
are just starting their careers out in college.

Speaker 15 (27:32):
I don't think so, because I think being a freshman
player is there's a developmental process to getting good at
college football. Now, the hard part for all these freshmen
is that they were the man last year wherever they were. Right,
they're the best player in their high school team, they're
the best player in their district, they're best player in
their state, whatever that.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
They're all super high level kids, right.

Speaker 15 (27:51):
But there's a developmental part to getting process to getting
ready to play on this level, playing the Big twelve.
And one of the things that I tell the freshmen
every year, and it's amazing because some will listen and
some won't, is if you know what to do, you'll
have a chance to play, Like if you just know
what to do. And because the scheme normally the playbook

(28:13):
is expanded in all three phases, right, the detail the
technique has been elevated in all three phases.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
And so if those players will listen.

Speaker 15 (28:22):
To that and really dive into knowing what to do
their job, responsibility and special teams or offense or defense,
those freshmen will have a chance to play. Right, And
if a freshman is good enough to help us win
football games, he's gonna play.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
We're gonna put him out there. David Hey coach.

Speaker 20 (28:39):
Two questions for me as well, just to kind of
follow on what Michael said there, We're in an era
now obviously where guys can leave, established guys can leave
and come back like we saw with Kean Burnett. What
was your assessment of the key on situation? How did
you handle that? And obviously he's a guy that leaves
here as your number one tight end. Does he come
back as your number one tight end? Or is there
a process for him to work his way back into

(29:01):
that position.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
There's six questions in there, so I'll try and to
answer each one.

Speaker 15 (29:05):
Okay, first of all, when Keen, when Keen told me
that he was interested in exploring that, I was respectful
of it. I think it's important that I'm respectful that
it's their option to do it. And so if I'm
a jerk, there's no way we're getting them back.

Speaker 21 (29:22):
Right.

Speaker 15 (29:23):
If I handle that moment poorly, there's no way he's
going to want to come back and play for a
team that I'm the head coach of.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Right. I love Keen.

Speaker 15 (29:29):
I told him that when he I said, I'm sad
you're leaving. I love you, you know, and if things change,
let us know. And things changed, and we had a
chance for him to come back to us, right, And
I think the cool thing about that is at the
end of the day, he chose the University of Arizona,
and he chose the players and the coaches in his program.

(29:52):
He chose that because he believes in that he missed that,
he missed how that felt, he missed what that experience
had been for him, and that's why he chose to
Cam to come back.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Now, does he walk back in the door tight end? One? Like?

Speaker 15 (30:04):
Probably not at the start of spring practice, right, because
there's other players there that are making really great that
were that were making really great progress.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
You know, I'm sorry at the start of fall practice,
but is he going to be in the mix? Is
he going to be at the front of the line.

Speaker 15 (30:18):
Sure, And that's one of those positions where the competition
is going to be fierce because there's some players in there.
Tyler Palace made a great move this offseason, really impressive move, right,
And then we know Sam Olsen is a productive player, right,
so we know that there's good stuff there, and then
we know there's some young young players stepping in there.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
We want to see what he can do too, So
it's good. That's gonna be a lot of fun.

Speaker 20 (30:37):
And some of these that are offensive linemen, you've been
able to add like like the camera, like bounds, like Buchana.
Do you find it easier maybe to get experienced linemen
in the portal than maybe it was before.

Speaker 15 (30:48):
No, No, it's our general manager is back there. He's
laughing right now at my answer to that question. I
would say, outside of quarterback, offensive line is the hardest
position to recruit out of the portal.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
It is the hardest one. It has the most competition,
it is the most intense.

Speaker 15 (31:06):
The hard part about it is for some people, like
the guys you mentioned, we're recruiting them to come in
here and compete for a starting job. Right now, A
lot of the young men that are entering the portal
as an offensive line and they don't know that they're
getting recruited to another school to go be a backup.
They don't know that because you know, someone on the
other side of that equation is not telling them the truth.

Speaker 14 (31:26):
Right.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
But those guys were expecting them to compete for a job.

Speaker 22 (31:31):
Yeah, Hi, Jason Barkak got nine certainly a lot speaking
me that this is Noah Afeta his first year playing
without his best bud.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
But wide receiver is.

Speaker 22 (31:39):
Your specialty, and you've stacked that room with a bunch
of quality players. What's been the thought process behind the
wide receiver position and helping Noah and having to replace
Tamac in the off season.

Speaker 15 (31:51):
I think that's one of those questions that I've been
getting a lot this summer. How are you going to
replace t Mac? And you don't, like, you don't replace
a player like that, You know what I mean. He's
that talented, he's that special. Now do I think that
we have more people in that room that can contribute
this year than we did last year?

Speaker 2 (32:10):
I do, And that was part of the off season
Number One.

Speaker 15 (32:13):
Like early in the season last year, I said to
coach Wade, we have to get faster at receiver. That
was an absolute mantra, Like like I was driving that
so hard, and like you said, in the receiver space,
I can be a little bit of a hard ass
because I have it.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
That's my thing.

Speaker 15 (32:29):
And so we needed more people to even that out
because what we felt so much last year with Temac
was that people were able to push so much coverage
to him, and that just and it made it much
more challenging to distribute the football to attack every you know,
you want to be able to attack every space on
the field right, and we weren't able to do that effectively.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
And so I think the people that we added.

Speaker 15 (32:48):
In that room, the combination of speed and also production,
gives us a chance to feel great about that receiver
room going forward.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
You kind of talked about it in terms of the
depth that you guys were able to add.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
How do you about the depth at the offensive line
and compare to the last year at this time, just
the bodies that you have in the.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Room, we feel good.

Speaker 15 (33:07):
But I'll tell you this, everybody feels good about the
depth of the offensive line at the start of training camp,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Like that's that's that part of it.

Speaker 15 (33:14):
But I do think those guys who work extremely hard
this offseason, I think Coach Carroll and his staff have
done a great job physically preparing them. Our training staff
has done an incredible job getting them ready for just
what is coming.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
And so that part of it.

Speaker 15 (33:27):
Then we got to be smart in the practice environment,
but we also got to get the work done right.
That's the thing that is the rub that every college
coach struggles with this time of year. How do we
get the desired physicality in practice that we need to
be game ready and keep our team safe at the
same time. Right, that's the million dollar question that everybody
is working.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Through last year. Do you feel like, okay, cool.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Well that's about half of it, right, got a lot
of information there to your point one about the momentum
and things like that. Won't look back. I just kind
of still get a kick out of it because and
it's you know, I think, I don't know. I don't
know Brennan. I just know you know his reputation, how
he's handles himself on the sideline to this. To everybody

(34:14):
I've spoken to for the story, he's a good guy.
He's uh is authentic right that they came for him
because he's a good guy. And this is no knock.
I'm not knocking. You'd think that he would be more forceful.
He's a football coach. I mean, you've had coaches of
the wrestler.

Speaker 21 (34:33):
Right.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
To me, that's the toughest sport you could ever play.
Discipline in angles, toughness, just just you have to be
a dog because the trash kicks if you don't, and
you're in it on your own.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
There's no tag team stuff. And to me, those coaches
are just pain in the ass. Because you have because
they have to be. Does that make sense?

Speaker 8 (34:54):
Yeah, in the best way possible.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, because they're trying to make you into a man
of wrestling.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
To me, that's kind of the same way with football,
maybe to a lesser gentleman type of thing, but to
make these dudes play hard and mean, and Gonzalez talked
about his defense going to be brutal or I can't
remember the word you used. They're going to be aggressive
and brutal. Don't you have to be that guy to
make him the guy? I mean, I could be wrong.

(35:21):
You can tell me I'm wrong, but you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 18 (35:23):
No.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
I think for certain programs and obviously certain players, you
have to do that. But I think I think what's
key for Brennan uh is that he doesn't he doesn't
have to be He's letting his assistant do that. Danny Gonzalez,
he saw that when the transition from defensive coaches to

(35:44):
the defensive players. He went around every table and started
dogging on them. I just think just about I was
talking to Tia Savea the first thing he did, what's
up to you?

Speaker 2 (35:55):
What's up to Shawn?

Speaker 5 (35:57):
He's he's letting his assistants do that while he focuses
on the bigger picture.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Right, which of course makes sense because if you're the
CEO of the company, you don't have to Who was it?

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Did you ever watch The Wolf of Wall Street?

Speaker 6 (36:11):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (36:12):
What's his name?

Speaker 21 (36:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (36:14):
It was? Who was the DiCaprio? But he was trying.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
He was the like the mean dude who got all
the money or whatever? You have to Yeah, see, you're
a movie guy. I can't remember that he was. He was,
He was the motivator, wouldn't he?

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Don't you have to be that way, not to be
to that extent.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
But you know what I'm saying, get these dudes pumped,
and maybe again, maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
You don't. Maybe you don't have to be that guy.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
It's also the first not even first day of training camp.
I'm sure it will know the media and other people
will see that.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Well, that's the thing. I don't think he's see it.
But I'm told too that he does it. He does.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
He's a he's a motive a motivator behind the scenes,
which is great. He kind of reminds me of Tommy
a little bit. When Tommy first started it area, he
was kind of the nice guy. He could really dislike him,
and then you saw it the year. Yeah, he was
a little bit more fiery.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
Yeah, but he was more fiery with us, and there
was a lot of people and I think a lot
of Arizona fans like that, and almost all the coaches. Yeah,
no question, they like they like the question with rich Trod.
Rich Trod obviously he showed it on every place.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Everything was worse. Yeah, the fans love that. Yeah, they
just don't like the sideline.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah, they don't. They don't.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
That's something maybe that's too much of where someone like
Bobby Hurley. Yeah, yeah, he gets in trouble.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
That's a good, good comparison with with Stoops or not
with rich Trod, but with Stoops just you know, calm
down though, So I'm looking for a little Stoops and
somebody else in between.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Makes makes the writing. The writing in between, Yeah.

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Right in between. I'm curious though, we've got a good
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Speaker 2 (42:25):
You threw Tommy's name in there and.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
How he's more fiery, had no question this is you
just finished his fourth year rate yep. But I think
his fiery is more with the media than it is
with the with the team, although I don't think.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
I kind of saw it at the end of last season,
and I would be shocked if it wasn't, just because
of the circumstance. You're you're talking about a big twelve championship,
you want to get, you want to win that.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
You know, we want to give it all.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
And when you're making the beginning of the season mistakes, still, yeah,
you're gonna get a little bit fiery, and even in
the march madness into the tournament, still kind of making
those mistakes, you're going to be a little bit more friary, rightfully.

Speaker 7 (43:05):
So yeah, I mean that's what happens when I would
imagine that, Like when you're a coach, you know you've
been drilling kind of this thing. It's like, hey, you
got to stay away from this and you know, lead
more into this or like when this isn't working, we
have to be able to flow into into something else.
And so you know, just seeing those same issues come up,
I mean I think anybody would get frustrated, you know

(43:26):
what I mean, And I mean that's just life, though,
you know.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
Do you think he should be more of that from
beginning to the end of the season, Tommy.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yeah, but yeah. But here, here's the thing. I don't
know what he does on the road because I'm not
on the road obviously, And.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Then here he's coaching, but he's and he's waving his
arms to get the crowd into it.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
So I don't know if I see him enough to
offer this assessment, does it make sense.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
I do know how he is with us, and I
know how he is with Bruce, and they have a relationship.
Obviously he can give each other grief or you know,
one way grief, I should say. But you've seen him
in with us, You've seen him in with me some
with the and and and I've been through thirty years
of this stuff. Okay, what good is it to be

(44:12):
feisty with us? And there was a circumstance last season.
I think we talked about it off the air. But
you just come off a good win against Baylor and
you're still not satisfied. Yeah, which is great, And maybe
the next.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
Game it is a little bit tougher team and most
people might think they're gonna they're gonna go and lose
that game, and that's that's when you can use that
as a motivation for your team. All the media, the
media is writing this, media thinks this. The everyone thinks
that we're gonna go and lose this next game, and
obviously they didn't.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
They use that.

Speaker 7 (44:46):
Yeah, do you think he's gonna be more feisty this
year because they're gonna have a tougher schedule just right
out of the gate.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
I don't know. I don't know. I guess we'll see
they're gonna have to be better. Yeah, I don't know.
That's a good question. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
I think if they're are making fundamental mistakes, you just
careless with the basketball or not taking some smart shots, yeah,
you'll you'll probably see that right away. But it does
take all It takes a lot, especially at the beginning
of the season, to get that fiery. Yeah, and obviously
you're playing top tier opponents, You're more than likely going

(45:19):
to make those mistakes. So it's a little bit understandable,
especially to start the season.

Speaker 21 (45:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (45:23):
I think like especially with a young team too, because
you know, a lot of everybody's talking about this incoming
class and like how much they're going to have to
contribute and stuff like that. But yeah, I mean, I
don't know, it's gonna be interesting because I mean you
got to imagine that, like emotionally, they're going to get
up like everybody, you know, everybody on the roster, assistant coaches,
like man even like the like the guys that wipe
the floors, you know what I mean. It's like, hey,

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we got to lock in for this game because it's like,
these are the guys, these are the people that we're
hoping to play like you know March beginning of April
kind of thing where it's like, you know, this is
maybe not obviously you're going to go through a season,
but I mean good place to test your metal.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
Yeah, we'll see back to football, back to the football.
We'll see what happens because they have a month. Uh,
and I think you guys are right four games, five
games into it if they're not ready by the fight, Okay.
I remember, and I said this a number of times
something with you yesterday. Uh, probably coming out of New
Mexico the game as a fan and hearing the people

(46:22):
come out of the stadium and they don't know me
from Adam. They're just working by, says God. If we
play like this the rest of the year, we're going
to be screwed. And they were screwed. Yeah, we gotta
call Hello, you're.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
On the air nine of the ball. Who's this Hey, Steve?

Speaker 21 (46:35):
This is done.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Hi guys, Yes, kid day, kid day at the party,
pizza day.

Speaker 21 (46:44):
But did they send you for beer?

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Steve? Yeah, he sir, you, Yeah, a good one, done,
good one. That was good.

Speaker 18 (46:54):
Hey, you guys talking about Tommy getting fisty on that
time out during the Big twelve tournament?

Speaker 21 (47:01):
Is that what you guys are talking about?

Speaker 2 (47:04):
That was one of the instances.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
Yeah, that was well.

Speaker 18 (47:08):
He admitted afterwards that his his ESPN friend kind of said, hey,
we're going to be doing this and and that looked
like an act. But if he does want if he
does want to be act feisty or whatever, he's going
to have to clear it with his seniors. He's going
to have to clear it with his with his tenured players,

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and luckily for him, every year most of the time
it's first year guys anyway, and he can change his
personality if he wants to, which I think I would
enjoy that.

Speaker 21 (47:41):
A little bit more.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
You know, I don't want him to turn into.

Speaker 18 (47:45):
A psychopath like Stoops, because because Mike Stoops, Mike Stoops.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Acted like he was out of his element.

Speaker 18 (47:53):
He had no idea how to be a head coach,
and he acted like a baby the whole damn time.

Speaker 6 (47:58):
It was.

Speaker 21 (47:59):
It was a bit parrasing, and I think, go ahead
on that.

Speaker 5 (48:05):
Note, kind of going off of the feistiness of coaches
and what fans like to see or not see. Where
do you think Brennan coached Brett Brennan stands. You think
he's not feisty enough. Some people don't think he is,
some people think he is enough.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Do you where do you think I.

Speaker 18 (48:21):
Think this offseason he has got he has gotten a
little bit saltier because he can be more, a little
bit more. It kind of starts where he said not
long ago.

Speaker 21 (48:35):
How he had to kiss a lot of ass last year.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
In fact, and I said that I said it to
a player today and exactly, but go ahead, I'm sorry.

Speaker 21 (48:43):
Well, I think that I think Dad just sets the tone.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
For everything else. He said, just like in the in
the press conference today, do you think you know do
you think you know?

Speaker 18 (48:53):
Offensive linemen in the portal, you know, are hard, you know,
are easy easier to get Lineman in the portal, He's
all like, no, no, I mean his answers are a
little bit a little bit shorter and a little bit
sharper this year, where last year he was trying to
get along and now it's it seems more like he's

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trying to get things done.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Yeah, don't you think it's more comfortable.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
He's just a you know, another year, you're more comfortable
exactly what you're you're you know, the the quote you
just said about being Uh, I forget what you just said.
And I even used that question to know what today
where he felt I had to kiss some ass because hey,
I be And some friends talked about that a lot
because and I use this analogy on the show. If
I'm a step dad and I want everybody to be happy,

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especially the wife I just married, I have to be
nice to the kids even though they're rats.

Speaker 21 (49:44):
Yep, yeah, yeah, I mean I think that's exactly it.

Speaker 18 (49:49):
Because he had so many returning people, I mean, they
you know, I mean they lost a bunch, but we
had a lot of guys returning with set expectations.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
Just crazy, everything's going to change. You know, the offense
was going to change.

Speaker 18 (50:03):
We didn't know it was going to go into the toilet,
but you know we you know, everything was going to change,
so you can't expect.

Speaker 21 (50:10):
It to be the same thing.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
And I think that, like you, like you just said, Steve,
he was trying to get.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Along last year.

Speaker 18 (50:19):
He was trying to get along and get through that
first year because by the time he got hired and
and somebody finally said it, the only place the only
players that were new in the port new to the
portal were the ones from Arizona, Washington, and Alabama. And
between those three schools, who's coming to Arizona. Yeah, you know,

(50:43):
so now this year he's I think he's he's more
on a level playing field with everybody else. I think
he's made He's made some he's made some good changes,
which which is good to see because I think that
that kind of tells us if he needs to make
more changes or other change defense, you know, different changes,

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he's not going to be.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
Afraid to do that to get better. I hope. Yeah, no,
I agree, Thanks man.

Speaker 21 (51:09):
Thanks to yes sir, you guys have a good Thanks.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
We've got to go pretty soon.

Speaker 7 (51:14):
Yeah, I think kind of on the point of, like,
you know how everybody's talking about like how he had
to like kiss some kiss them, but to get some
players to stay.

Speaker 8 (51:23):
I thought that he.

Speaker 7 (51:24):
Made a really good point when he talked about Kenyon
Burnett coming back, where he's like, yeah, I mean like
he had to do that at the time to get
people to stay. But at the same time, people who
left came back because you know, he was like very
you know, he was nice and like acknowledge people sure
when they were going into the portal.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Sure, And that's what you know, some of the people
I talked to, he's just he's that guy. You want
that guy on your side, whether he's uh, I'm going
to go to the principal and and talk to them.
He says, Okay, let's figure this out. You know what's
the issue from your side. How can we make this
better rather than going off the wall and being a
jerk about it. Yeah, Okay, let's take a break and

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come back. Driplical