What is it like for you to be here, the fact you're going to play in this game and the fact that you grew up watching this game?
BRADY BREEZE: I mean, it's surreal. It's something I've always dreamed of since I was a little kid. We've worked so hard to get here. Our practice yesterday, you could just tell that everyone was excited. People are excited to be playing in this game and being in this atmosphere and being in Los Angeles, you know, where most of the people are from, it's awesome.
It's going to be a really fun game. It just means the world to me, and I know it means the world to my teammates to be in The Granddaddy Of Them All. I mean, this is something I'll never forget. And going to Disneyland yesterday, that was just amazing. I saw some of my friends that played for Wisconsin too, got to meet up with them.
So you can just tell that everyone is here and we're ready to play, and it's going to be a lot of fun.
What kind of conversations have you had with Chad [Breeze, uncle] about what playing in this game was like?
BRADY BREEZE: I asked him a little bit about it, you know, when I was younger and stuff, and he was like: 'It's one of the best games you're ever going to play in.' He even compared it to the NFL and stuff like that. The thing is that you just can't compare them because you're playing with your teammates who you've grinded with your whole career in college and stuff, and all your coaches become your friends as you get older.
And he's like, it's something that you'll just – you'll never forget, you know, playing against – he played against Penn State back in the 1995. And he said it was just something that he still remembers to this day.
I watched a little clip of it that he showed me. He had a little VHS. I used to watch it when I was a kid and stuff with my cousins. I mean, it's just something that -
So you heave watched that game on VHS?
BRADY BREEZE: Yeah, yeah. He put it on his little TV. My little cousin and I would ask for it and stuff.
How old were you at that point?
BRADY BREEZE: I was probably like maybe ten or something like that. Eight or ten. I can't really remember. But, yeah, we'd watch it. And my little cousin used to wear his No. 7 Rose Bowl jersey all the time. He'd just randomly wear it. I'd go over to the house, and my little cousin would be wearing his jersey.
It's just something that I'll never forget growing up as a kid, just knowing that he got to play in that game and just dreaming of playing in this game. And now I get to do it and kind of live on, it's just something that's going to be awesome. I'm so excited.
Have you guys had many conversations about just sort of the state of the program of them versus now?
BRADY BREEZE: Not really.
They were obviously kind of perpetual underdogs, and you guys are in a different spot.
BRADY BREEZE: Yeah. He's talked about it a little bit. Like when he had his teammates and stuff, like Alex Molden, Dino Philyaw, like guys like that, he's talked about how they were just kind of underdogs. Dino was a JUCO guy that transferred and Alex was a guy that obviously went to the NFL. He was just a baller.
And they were just kind of, you know, underdog guys that nobody really expected to win. And even to make it to the Rose Bowl – like they lost to Hawaii, they lost to Utah, I think. And people thought that they weren't any good, and then they went on and won a bunch of games later in the season, in the Pac-12 Conference, they were Pac-10 at the time, and he said there's a bunch of guys that came together and grinded through the season.
I mean, it's just something that was pretty cool of my uncle, and to have like one or two offers coming out of high school, he said this is just something that, you know, I need to enjoy.Enjoy every minute of it. Something you never forget.
BRADY BREEZE: I mean, it's surreal. It's something I've always dreamed of since I was a little kid. We've worked so hard to get here. Our practice yesterday, you could just tell that everyone was excited. People are excited to be playing in this game and being in this atmosphere and being in Los Angeles, you know, where most of the people are from, it's awesome.
It's going to be a really fun game. It just means the world to me, and I know it means the world to my teammates to be in The Granddaddy Of Them All. I mean, this is something I'll never forget. And going to Disneyland yesterday, that was just amazing. I saw some of my friends that played for Wisconsin too, got to meet up with them.
So you can just tell that everyone is here and we're ready to play, and it's going to be a lot of fun.
What kind of conversations have you had with Chad [Breeze, uncle] about what playing in this game was like?
BRADY BREEZE: I asked him a little bit about it, you know, when I was younger and stuff, and he was like: 'It's one of the best games you're ever going to play in.' He even compared it to the NFL and stuff like that. The thing is that you just can't compare them because you're playing with your teammates who you've grinded with your whole career in college and stuff, and all your coaches become your friends as you get older.
And he's like, it's something that you'll just – you'll never forget, you know, playing against – he played against Penn State back in the 1995. And he said it was just something that he still remembers to this day.
I watched a little clip of it that he showed me. He had a little VHS. I used to watch it when I was a kid and stuff with my cousins. I mean, it's just something that -
So you heave watched that game on VHS?
BRADY BREEZE: Yeah, yeah. He put it on his little TV. My little cousin and I would ask for it and stuff.
How old were you at that point?
BRADY BREEZE: I was probably like maybe ten or something like that. Eight or ten. I can't really remember. But, yeah, we'd watch it. And my little cousin used to wear his No. 7 Rose Bowl jersey all the time. He'd just randomly wear it. I'd go over to the house, and my little cousin would be wearing his jersey.
It's just something that I'll never forget growing up as a kid, just knowing that he got to play in that game and just dreaming of playing in this game. And now I get to do it and kind of live on, it's just something that's going to be awesome. I'm so excited.
Have you guys had many conversations about just sort of the state of the program of them versus now?
BRADY BREEZE: Not really.
They were obviously kind of perpetual underdogs, and you guys are in a different spot.
BRADY BREEZE: Yeah. He's talked about it a little bit. Like when he had his teammates and stuff, like Alex Molden, Dino Philyaw, like guys like that, he's talked about how they were just kind of underdogs. Dino was a JUCO guy that transferred and Alex was a guy that obviously went to the NFL. He was just a baller.
And they were just kind of, you know, underdog guys that nobody really expected to win. And even to make it to the Rose Bowl – like they lost to Hawaii, they lost to Utah, I think. And people thought that they weren't any good, and then they went on and won a bunch of games later in the season, in the Pac-12 Conference, they were Pac-10 at the time, and he said there's a bunch of guys that came together and grinded through the season.
I mean, it's just something that was pretty cool of my uncle, and to have like one or two offers coming out of high school, he said this is just something that, you know, I need to enjoy.Enjoy every minute of it. Something you never forget.
