WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.560 --> 00:00:07.559 Streaming live on the I Heart Radio whim. This is I on the Ball 2 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:14.119 with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifth day. They welcome 3 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:16.440 back to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve 4 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:20.839 p J. Now we have Jason with breaking news. I on the Ball 5 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:26.920 Breaking news. Arizona Swimming and Dive team has hired Chadiker. Still love to 6 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:31.239 complete their coaching style. I thought that he was the he was the good 7 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:35.439 grad assistant or something that he was out volunteer, former south Point, former 8 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:38.759 south Point swimming coach. All right, so in house kind of all right, 9 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:43.719 so they've kind of worked over their coaching. Gotta get back to what 10 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:48.039 it used to people believe or I remember they had. I think that, 11 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:52.600 remember they were part of the investigation that they're remember a year or so. 12 00:00:53.920 --> 00:01:00.479 So all right, okay, Arizona Wallcats, Philippe or reaching in Burrow each 13 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.599 and in Yep, Kyl and Boswell have both moved on to the quarterfinals of 14 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.719 EBO U nineteen World Cup today. I was looking up the stats on that. 15 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:11.920 UM. First of all, they can play each other, is that 16 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.840 soon if they win their next game. UM, semis or something that. 17 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:23.159 Yeah, USA plays Japan, it's quarterfinals and France plays Serbia and if they 18 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:26.760 if if Serbia and USA win, they'll play each other. They play well, 19 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:30.719 it says tomorrow, so I'm guessing it's you know, early in the 20 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:36.000 morning our time, uh, you know, Friday morning for US and then 21 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:38.760 you know they're playing every day. So um, but France, France and 22 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:44.640 Serbia, USA Japan in that side of the bracket to get to the semifinal. 23 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:48.879 Okay, but uh Borovich and had twenty six points yesterday, so he 24 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:52.239 kind of went off eleven to fifteen shooting. I think he's gonna be that 25 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:53.879 capable man I've seen. I've seen him a couple of times. It's just 26 00:01:55.519 --> 00:02:00.319 he looked he looked, Um, you look, he's not your guy because 27 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:05.040 he doesn't look good coming off the bus, because because that's what it's important 28 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.120 to you. He's my guy because he looks like, who's this dude, 29 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.319 you know, like Pete by Richard this solve. He said, God, 30 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:15.400 that guy's good. That's how he looked to me. He was pretty good. 31 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:21.000 I'll take that Steed because they we've talked about it before. So I'm 32 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:29.120 not former Arizona quarterback Lil Tate is back in the CFL with the Edmund Eskimos 33 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:31.719 right would actually the Elks they change that, But yeah, we had that, 34 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.000 we had him, We had that yesterday week. A little conversation about 35 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.680 Khalil and all that stuff yesterday. But yeah, he's back with Edmund Tinsel. 36 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.199 We'll see, we'll see how that pans out for him. Hopefully it 37 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:45.400 does. Okay, some national news we talked about this earlier, about the 38 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:50.520 handful of NFL players, including Colts cornerback and kick returner. I said Rodgers 39 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:54.719 are expected to receive season long suspicions this week for a legisly gambling. So 40 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:00.000 some more players, you know, not fall on the rules. Yeah, 41 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:00.960 you don't know what they know what the rules are. And actually I think 42 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:05.199 the guy from the Colt he's actually come on, that was my fault. 43 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:07.800 I was stupid. Yeah, you know he's he's actually had had a public 44 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:14.000 uh, had a public comment on that that he's uh. Um, uh, 45 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:17.599 it's fault. You shouldn't have done it. Yeah, yeah, definitely 46 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:24.520 so um. The nfl PA announced loyld Howell as its newest executive director, 47 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:30.159 are replacing Derry's um DA Murray Smith Smith Smith Yep, I'll stay. His 48 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:34.840 term expires in twenty twenty four. Oh, I hadn't seen that one coming. 49 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.560 Yeah, I've got dictor. Mary's did a good job, right, 50 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:43.080 didn't they. I mean there were some issues, but there always are, 51 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:45.759 you know when you're talking about a union, right, yeah, yeah, 52 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:50.680 okay, yeah. The new collective Bargain Agreement has been signed and shared with 53 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:57.520 the thirty NBA teams um. In the letter to the players, the NBPA 54 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:04.000 announced that the CBA or provide a projected twenty fifty million collective increasing salary benefits 55 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:08.759 for next season and a new TV deal blooming in twenty twenty five and other 56 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:13.960 revenue streams UM. So they hope that they might earn up toward a fifty 57 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:19.560 billion salaries and benefits over the seven year term. Jesus, that's a lot 58 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:23.639 of money. Yeah, it's it's like, it's not even real money, 59 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:27.199 is it. I don't know, but let me touch that. I just 60 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:31.519 get a whiff of it. It's pretty funny, okay. The Patriots um 61 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:36.279 signed wide receiver DeVante Parker to a new three year, three year deal worth 62 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:42.720 up to thirty three million dollars DeVante Parker. Where's where's he been? Um? 63 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.120 He's been with that, he's been. I mean, they's got a 64 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:49.560 contract extension, so I think him and Juju Smith, Shoester Conn probably be 65 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:54.040 there one in two our receivers for them, So we'll see how that goes. 66 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.879 Speaking of wide receiver, did you see that Antonio Brown is now being 67 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:03.920 sued by the players on his indoor football team because players got their game check 68 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:10.160 put in their bank accounts and then Antonio Brown had the money pulled back. 69 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.040 So these guys thought the money was in their accounts and they go look at 70 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.399 their accounts and he was gone, and then they filed they filed a class 71 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:18.720 action lawsuit against him. Yeah, right, that's all right. I mean 72 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:23.600 that's Antonio Brown, That's who he is. Yet. Um, the Chicago 73 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:28.759 Bulls center, the COLO is finalizing a three year, sixty million contract extension. 74 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:32.519 Is handy good. Um, he's a solid center. He's good for 75 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:35.240 what he is. I don't know if he's worth this amount of money, 76 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:38.319 but he's good for what he years. Is it good from USC? Right? 77 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.040 I think so? I believe so? Yeah. Um, I mean 78 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:43.920 their team as a whole isn't really getting any better with this move, but 79 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:46.879 I guess they're kind of just satisfied for what they with what they have. 80 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:51.959 Did she somebody throughout that the Suns should go after Derek Rose? Yeah, 81 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:57.240 they said yeah, which makes zero sense. If if you're gonna do that, 82 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.319 just keep Chris Paul I was. I was surprised that he's still in 83 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:02.800 the league. Yeah, and heard much about he's he's he's up there. 84 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:06.399 Yeah, um so, but I have a guy who might the Sons might 85 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:11.439 want to go after. Um they remember Wolves are declining to guarantee Torren Prince 86 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:15.120 at seven point four mailing dollars contract in the twenty twenty twenty twenty fourth season. 87 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:19.160 I'm torring Prince. He averaged about like ten point flast season, which 88 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:24.839 he's a good defender, um, good size wing player, so or what 89 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.000 the Sons could get him for a cheap deal. You kind of just asked 90 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:30.720 him death for what she really needs. Is he a starter? No, 91 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:32.959 he's not started, definitely not started, but he's a good like death piece. 92 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.360 Which so would you put money on them to win it all next year? 93 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:40.000 The Suns? Yeah not right now? No, I wouldn't either. 94 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.839 Do you think how here's a question for both of you. So do you 95 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:46.439 think there's two two questions? Do you think DeAndre Aine's gonna start the season 96 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:47.959 with him? Yeah? But from what I do now seeing yeah, I 97 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.519 do. Do you think that he's gonna end the season with him? I 98 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:56.040 do now I don't think I still don't you think he's still got I think 99 00:06:56.040 --> 00:07:00.240 he's gonna first question, Yes, he'll start there. I think Frank is 100 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.319 gonna want to see how he does feel and everything, and they kind of 101 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.040 just see how it goes and he might get moved. Yeah. I think 102 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:09.319 so too. Yeah, I think so too. Um Myles Bridges, PJ 103 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:15.560 Washington and feel um mal maldon um making are becoming a secret free agents. 104 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:20.199 Um Bridges has ten games left in his thirty games suspension after pleading no contest 105 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:26.759 to a fellowing domestic volunce charge in November. Um So the Corners is still 106 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:32.920 looking to possibly keep him up having the season all right, and that is 107 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:35.720 all the bricking it out? Well, Uh, Parry Francona, I think 108 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:40.519 we need to come of course, very much so. Having some health issues. 109 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:44.839 Um and sixty four three, Yeah, sixty three. I think it's 110 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:46.480 my age. I had to leave the game yesterday, he got lightheaded. 111 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.040 I spent the night in the hospital. They say he's home, but he's 112 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:54.000 not traveling. He's not traveling with the team. They hit the road, 113 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:59.079 so he's uh, um, you know again, you know, he's got 114 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.959 a history of stuff. He had gas from Tesla problems. He's got the 115 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:05.519 issue with his toe right. Um that he thought was it was partty well 116 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.399 getting fixed. But he's uh, you know, he's ever takes some some 117 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:13.720 time off, relatively young. He was a great guest, remember that we 118 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:15.240 had him. You know, he's been great. We had him a couple 119 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:16.920 of times and he's been great to us. So, you know, wishing 120 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.800 all the best too, uh to Tito. So hopefully he gets he gets 121 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.560 better and everything's okay. So right, and then I have one said, 122 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.879 you, Henderson is now going to be playing in Cleveland, I think for 123 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.440 their G league, for their gd He he was going somewhere their their summer 124 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:37.440 league, so some of somebody he was he was going somewhere else. I 125 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:39.039 think that the Clippers. I have to go back and see. But now 126 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:43.480 it was going to be going to Cleveland a better opportunity. Uh that he 127 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.000 said, Um, all right, going going to going going over to your 128 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:50.080 state, Steve New Mexico State. Do you see that? I saw that 129 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:58.759 their lawsuit with two players who would who had alleged some hazy and sexual assault 130 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:03.679 at the lawsuity Mexico State. One of the players got four point one million 131 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.279 and the other one got three point nine Really really, because I hadn't seen 132 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.120 that yesterday. They must have just come up with the numbers today. Jeff 133 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:15.679 Grammer, who you know were covering that, tweeted that that Duce Benjamin got 134 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:22.799 four point one two five million and shakiroud o'doon Novu got three point Well, 135 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.000 you know I've told you this already. Well, you know one of the 136 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:30.639 guys involved in that uh former Arizona Yeah Bacon, Yeah, kim making, 137 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:33.639 kim making. Uh. Just a just a crazy situation over there. I 138 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.559 don't think those two have landed anywhere. They were obviously transfer portal guys. 139 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.759 Uh now, I don't know, I don't know that they need to. 140 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:48.360 Yeah. Well, um, but but a bunch of Division one more Division 141 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:52.639 one console stuff, so um there the again, these are proposals the NCAA 142 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:58.320 D one console. They're proposing reducing the transfer portal window from sixty to thirty 143 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.679 days for each sport. Um. You know, I don't know when they 144 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.639 would fall, you know, but to cut it in half again, the 145 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.399 madness of the of the of the transfer portal, you know, is crazy. 146 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:16.960 Um, they're gonna let They're gonna let um the various oversight committees for 147 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:22.320 men's basketball, women's basketball, and football to kind of manage their own rules 148 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.120 for their championships and stuff like that and for their for their sports so that 149 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.399 you don't have to come up with rules that kind of fit everybody, which 150 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:31.879 kind of makes a lot of sense as long as there's some you know, 151 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:37.480 some common sense to to all of that. And then um, this one 152 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:41.200 which is which is interesting. He'll be interesting to see what uh um, 153 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:45.360 what comes to this. There have been certain requirements, one of them being, 154 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:52.399 uh, game attendance for you to go from FCS to FBS in football, 155 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.000 and so they've taken away the attendance requirement. But but they and they've 156 00:10:56.039 --> 00:11:00.519 specified the financial requirements. It's all about, you know, do you have 157 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:05.080 are giving enough scholarships? Is it enough money? Um? But you know, 158 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:07.960 before I could like if you were getting twenty thousand people in a game, 159 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:13.120 you couldn't go FBS. You had to you had up that there there 160 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:15.600 are two guys. I was just thinking as I went to the cafeteria, 161 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.600 two guys. I think we should get on the show later in July before 162 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:24.240 the football seasons are. Uh, let's get ahold Don Brown just because he's 163 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.039 a cool dude and see just how is he doing up in because a lot 164 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:31.080 of dudes left and then the rich rod again because they're gonna go d one. 165 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.320 He's d one. He's moving towards do you want Jacksonville State? Do 166 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:37.000 you won this year? You know what he says about that? I want 167 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:41.559 to say Conference USA, Like yeah, I don't know, I don't remember, 168 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:46.080 but yeah, he's you know, he's moving up to the Division Division 169 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.840 one level. Yeah, so let's maybe see check them down because Don Brown 170 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.840 was a great interview. Scruffy guy, you know, but put a little 171 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:54.480 good interview. How's he doing back up at his at his own town, 172 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:03.840 his own state. He's up there? Um Conference of champions dude, they 173 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:09.360 won Pack twelve won the most team championships with nine nine. So you get 174 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:13.840 a hold of a bill Bill, Well, you saw the the Sears clupper. 175 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:16.320 I don't want the heck they call it now the Sears Cup. People 176 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.000 in Stafford, Yeah, Director's Cup directors, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 177 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:24.759 I saw tweet Stafford wins it again. Use um eighteen straight years that that 178 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.480 the Pac twelve has had the most NA team. Tell me the championships, 179 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.360 mister Gonzales. I'm joking, of course, because football, right, No 180 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:39.440 basketball, no right, women's women's basketball no right. So you're talking about 181 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:45.840 stuff that, uh that that people the Olympics parts. Yes, that's that's 182 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.200 the best way to put it, and no slide on that. It's such 183 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:54.039 a party. But but you gotta be realistic, son, be realistic. 184 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:58.759 It's like when you're you're giving me the finger, not figure, but you're 185 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:03.639 pointing to me. When Pastor was talking about blue Blood, I'm surprised we 186 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.080 didn't jump into that. We should have at some point, you should. 187 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.919 I thought you were gonna ask him, but we gotta. I wasn't. 188 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.080 I wasn't. I was gonna let it go. But did we got the 189 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.960 call from Princeton. I was definitely gonna gonna let that go. Hey, 190 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:22.440 Um, the Sugar Skulls can clinch a playoffs spot this week. They win 191 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:26.519 and they're in the playoffs for sure, But uh, oh look, here 192 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:30.840 it is. Here's one that just just came across because we had talked about 193 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.879 this last week. Xavier Jackson one of the assistant coaches that UH for the 194 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:39.039 Sugar Skulls and he was up for for the Inner Football League Hall of Fame. 195 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:45.759 He was voted into the Hall of Fame. Xavie Jackson, Jeff, 196 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.480 He's did one of the he's a co defensive coordinator. He's been a coach 197 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:52.759 with them pretty much the whole time. Good dude, really, good dude. 198 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:56.840 Um uh, just you know one of those happy goal looking see just 199 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:58.000 one of those guys. Was always got a smile on his face, always 200 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.720 joking around. I see him on the field for every game and he's fun 201 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:03.600 to talk to you. And yeah, he's he's been named to the twenty 202 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:09.320 twenty three UH Indoor Football League Hall of Fame class. So good for him. 203 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.919 You gotta get him on the show. So did you see here Steve 204 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:18.799 Kerr talk about the trade from Pool. He finally admitted to what everybody else 205 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:22.120 do. They just needed a reboot. Yeah, it wasn't about talent and 206 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:28.600 just needed Yeah. Yeah, but how could you how can you get along 207 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.879 with when people fighting, especially they're even getting over it. Yeah, the 208 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.320 trust has already been good. I mean that had to have put a cloud 209 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.639 over the locker room for the whole year, for the whole year. Right, 210 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.759 those things don't go away. No, those things do not go away 211 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:45.720 at all. Okay, all right, um, let's uh, let's check 212 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:48.240 our break when to come back when very well, we're gonna be having an 213 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:52.360 nil conversation with the guy in the middle of nil at Arizona, so we'll 214 00:14:52.399 --> 00:15:07.799 be right back. 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Subscribe 270 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:25.000 now to the podcast on the iHeart Radio app just Surgery I on the Ball. 271 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:27.160 They welcome back to Welcome back to Turing the Ball. Here a Fox 272 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:30.240 Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jagon's awesome. Now on the 273 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:36.240 phone, we have Ray Wells from friends of Wilbur and Wilma. Ray, 274 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:38.160 how are you doing. Oh, I'm doing great. How are you guys 275 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:41.519 doing today? We're doing good. We want to reminder you're up there. 276 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:47.079 We have three mind a lot of guys who say stuff, good, good, 277 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:49.079 have you on the show? Oh hey, thanks for having me? 278 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:53.519 Okay, Ray, So we've got a lot of questions, but you know, 279 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:59.200 you're you're in the middle of the day, the middle of the nil 280 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:02.920 stuff, and I think for a lot of people it's still some of it's 281 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:07.240 still a mystery to some folks, But you know, there's a lot going 282 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:11.440 on where there. It's it's you know, some people think it's a mess, 283 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:14.279 other people think you know, everybody's trying to figure it out. Just 284 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:18.519 don't know what's your how what's your approach to all the stuff that's going on 285 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:23.160 with NIL, and how do you operate within all of that. So I 286 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:27.000 think for me, the biggest thing is our collective. You're in Tucson, 287 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:32.079 um. What we wanted to do is be able to build a collective that 288 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:37.759 impacted the players but also impacted to the Tuson community. So what our players 289 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:41.880 do and how we do that is are all of our player engagements are out 290 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:47.200 in the community working with local nonprofits and charities to be able to impact the 291 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:51.200 community in a positive way and hopefully in turn, the community comes back and 292 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:53.480 supports the players, whether you know coming to games, being ted and ticket 293 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:56.680 holders. And that's basically what we try to do in terms of what are 294 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.880 collective with Friends of Wilburg Glomo. So is it one big pool. Let's 295 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.359 say I'm an athlete with u A and I get Sparkle. I happened to 296 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.519 go in Sparkle Cleaners, I say, I love you guys, is hey, 297 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.200 we'll sponsor you, Steve. Where does that money go? Does it 298 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:12.799 go to me directly or is it in the pool of for other guys too. 299 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:19.519 So we have two bake So Blueprint Sports, which is our parent company, 300 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:26.400 which runs the collective which funds Friends and Wilma. We have a for 301 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:29.279 profit side of the business where we do a lot of sponsorship deals. So 302 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:33.079 something like that with Sparco Cleaners would be a sponsorship if someone wants to do 303 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.000 attack deductible gift, that goes on to our foundation side. And yes, 304 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:42.880 that would be something that requires a requires charitable hours to be done and completed 305 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:47.720 in order to receive some type of compensation. Got it okay? Because this 306 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:52.039 whole issue came out about you know, and again another confusing issue to me 307 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:56.240 about the I R. S ruling that you know, nil collectives cannot be 308 00:21:56.039 --> 00:22:02.640 you know, or donations to nils cannot and our collectives cannot be tax deductible. 309 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:04.799 Tell me what that meant in the context that what that meant to you 310 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:10.240 guys. So our collective, so Friends of Wilburn and Wilma, is actually 311 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:14.440 not a five or one C three okay, it is a collective. It 312 00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:21.359 is an nil collective that is basically run by a company, and so that's 313 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:23.920 why we have a different take on all of those things. That IRS letter 314 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:30.559 didn't affect us in some ways and directly indirectly it affected us because we have 315 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:36.079 others around us that the rumor mill basically starts, so we have to do 316 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:40.200 a lot of cleanup. We don't have any issues with the IRS because our 317 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:45.079 foundation, the BPS Foundation, which is one of our parent companies, does 318 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:48.319 all of our engagements. Everything runs through them. So anytime a student athlete 319 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:52.119 for Friends of Wilbur and Wilma is out in the committee doing an engagement, 320 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:56.799 they are doing that on behalf of the foundation. We don't just someone give 321 00:22:56.839 --> 00:22:59.160 us money and then we funnel and give it to a student athlete. It 322 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:03.119 all goes to one pots. Donors can't designate, so that we kind of 323 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.599 don't have issues with that memo where you had some people saying, oh, 324 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:08.160 we're given to A five or one C three, Where basically you had someone 325 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:11.680 saying, oh, may give a hundred thousand dollars and then turn around and 326 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.359 give it to a student athlete. We don't operate that way. It is. 327 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.119 It is absolutely quick pro quo. You have to do work in order 328 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.799 to be able to receive funds from our foundation, and those and those those 329 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.480 works have to be through a charitable organization. And that's been the issue, 330 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:30.319 right because you know all all the stuff that you hear, and how much 331 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:33.599 how much of it is real noise, and how much of it is as 332 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.039 you say, rumor where you know they're saying. So many of the of 333 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:41.200 the collectives have become not what this is supposed to be, that they become 334 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:44.599 just Okay, we've got a pot of money. We're gonna give you some 335 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:48.519 just so you can come to our school, do you is I mean, 336 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:55.440 is that what's going on out there? And in some places I can't speak 337 00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:57.680 on it with personal knowledge that I say, yes, I know for sure 338 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:02.680 it's going on. If we're speaking in a general term, I'm pretty sure 339 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:06.559 there are some collectives out there that that kind of fall under that where they've 340 00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:10.400 basically been using it as a paper play scheme. But I do feel that 341 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:15.880 most schools and most conferences do a really good job of making sure that there 342 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:19.640 are compliance that we are in compliance with NCAA. We like Friends of Open 343 00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:23.119 Wilma. I meet weekly with Arizona Athletics, with the compliance department, with 344 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:26.400 the administration, the football staff, so we are all in the same page 345 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.319 to make sure we're following the rules and we're doing things the right way. 346 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:34.160 I would say that that is probably ninety percent of the collectives across the country 347 00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:37.839 are doing this the way they're supposed to. And then you're going to have 348 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:41.519 those that want to be able to push the rules because there is some gray 349 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:45.240 area and the NCAA has admitted that there's a little bit of gray area and 350 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:48.599 how you operate, So you have someone that's probably pushing the rules to the 351 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:53.720 absolute limit in that gray area. So we've had an Arizona assist on this 352 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:59.160 a couple of times. Their specific to men's basketball. Are you everything else? 353 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:04.720 Yes, we are. We are everything else at the moment. So 354 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:11.000 we are doing baseball, soccer, women's basketball, football. But I'm going 355 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:15.000 to give you a little bit of a sneak peak. We are we are 356 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:19.720 going to actually rebrand and the football collect the football program that's going to have 357 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:26.480 their own collective becoming very very soon. It will still be under the umbrella 358 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:30.640 friends of Wilbur and Wilma, but we feel like football needs something that is 359 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.480 various, football centric, and then we will have all the Olympic sports basically 360 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.640 house, I'm the friends of Wilburn Wilma. Well, we like those sneak 361 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:41.680 peaks you much. We do appreciate that. So okay, so let me 362 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:45.720 let me get get very basic with you. So what are you mentioned the 363 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:52.039 two ways that athletes can can benefit from this. There's the for profit side 364 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:55.279 and then the nonprofit side. So explain to me how that would work. 365 00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:56.519 Let's say, let's say you come to me and say, okay, I've 366 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:02.440 got fifty thousand dollars that I want to contribute to this. Where does my 367 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:06.680 fifty thousand dollars go and how does it get into the hands of an athlete? 368 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:11.119 So the first question I would ask you is what type of impact do 369 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:15.720 you want to have? Are you trying to support a specific student athlete? 370 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:17.839 And if that was the case, I'd say, hey, we're going to 371 00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:21.319 do a for profit deal, which means you're not going to be able to 372 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:23.960 receive any tax deduction, but you're going to have an athlete, say, 373 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:29.960 be an ambassador for your business. So they're they're gonna make appearances at your 374 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.480 business. They're going to sign autographs for your business, maybe signs football, 375 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.720 do photo sessions. They're basically going to be an ambassador for your business. 376 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.640 And that's how they would be able to be compensated. If you say, 377 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:42.400 hey, Ray, I really want to I really want to task deduction. 378 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:48.200 I just want to make sure that I'm supporting the program overall. How can 379 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:48.839 I do that? I would say, Hey, if you want to make 380 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:52.000 a tax deductable gift, you're going to give this to the BPS Foundation. 381 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:56.960 We are going to use this in our overall mission to support charities and two 382 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:03.440 signs with our students. And so how that would work is if you say, 383 00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:07.920 hey, Ray, I really love I want to help the Boys and 384 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:11.880 Girls Club. That was one chariot that's near and dear to my heart. 385 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.720 We would what we would do is we would call the Boys and Growth Club 386 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.839 and say, hey, we have a donor that really wants to support inn 387 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:21.440 I L but they also have the Boys and Growth Club. How can we 388 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:25.240 partner together using the student athletes and their name, image and likeness and their 389 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:30.440 profiles to be able to benefit the Boys and Growth Club. And so the 390 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:33.119 Boys and Growth Club like a couple of weeks ago they had a fundraiser. 391 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:37.519 We would show up with players there to be able to find autographs, take 392 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:42.440 pictures, possibly speak either go to the local clubs. I think there are 393 00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:47.039 twenty local clubs in southern Arizona. We would just have athletes go to local 394 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:48.960 clubs and be able to engage with those boys and girls that are in those 395 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:52.240 clubs. And so that's how we would work. Both sides of that, 396 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:56.960 they're a little bit different. One side you're basically using someone as a marketing 397 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:00.519 marketing tool, and then the other you're using them as they do good in 398 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:03.920 the community. But those athletes who go do an event like that, they 399 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:08.039 get paid to do that, right, they would get they would be compensated. 400 00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:12.599 And Coach Fish, Coach Fish does something very unique and not a lot 401 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:17.440 of collectives do, which I absolutely commend him for. Coach Fish wants to 402 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:21.160 take care of We call it kind of moneyball. We take care of everyone 403 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:23.720 on our rosters, from you know, a starter all the way down to 404 00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:27.279 a walk on. The coach believes that being able to help and use nil 405 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:30.680 to be able to help all of us, all the student appletes on a 406 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.119 roster is very important to him. And so you know, you have you 407 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:37.480 may have a young man that has to walk on. He's still going to 408 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:38.960 have an opportunity to be able to go out in the community and do some 409 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:44.079 good until receives some type of compensation. So we had mister geist don here 410 00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:48.519 maybe about Jordan guys obviously one of the we consider one of the faces of 411 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.359 the University of Arizona athletic program giving his success. We talk to him about, 412 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:56.799 hey, how's the nl IL. That's not about me, that's about 413 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.960 the you know, the other sports football and basketball. So so how would 414 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:06.240 a guy like that who you know and and the and the diver um Delaney 415 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:11.599 Snell doantastic people, but you know they don't see that money. So it 416 00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:15.720 is interesting enough. We actually just did an activation with Delaney Snell. She 417 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:19.720 was actually a brand new bassador um for the Easter Shills Blake Foundation. She 418 00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:26.039 was out with their Olympic medals um and without their golf tournament fundraiser. She 419 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:29.920 also did a spot on the news like local news channel for them. So 420 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.200 she actually did We did at nil in uh engagement with Delaney that was probably 421 00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:38.920 two weeks ago. Uh, Jordan and and you know it's it's we we 422 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:42.920 set them up as they come along. Um. And so we're slowly working 423 00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:47.759 through the department to be able to onboard more sports. We haven't gotten the 424 00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:49.759 track and field. And for me, I actually was a track and field 425 00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:52.200 letter when her coach Harvey with my hurdles coach when I was here at jo 426 00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:55.799 Ay. So it's one of those sports that's near and dear to my heart 427 00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:59.720 that we are slowly starting to onboard and getting four sports in an apartment so 428 00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:02.400 that we can work with them in the local community. Wait a minute, 429 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:03.839 dude, you were a linebacker, how are you and you were a hurdler? 430 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:11.240 Yes, sir, absolutely, Wow, dang things we get today. 431 00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:17.279 Well, okay, I'm sorry I digressed on that, but I was just 432 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:19.640 a little stunned by that. But okay, so you know, are you 433 00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:25.160 in terms of the way all this is coming back, do you ever feel 434 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:27.880 like just stuff is coming from all different directions at you, like you just 435 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:33.640 uh taking a test. You're just okay. Just yesterday, the NCAA puts 436 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:38.119 out a memo that says, if you have a state law that is in 437 00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:42.680 conflict with nc double A rules, you better be following the ncable A rules, 438 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:48.279 what the hell you know what? So we actually we are actually working 439 00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:53.759 with UM all of our state legislator partners on specifically for that. We had 440 00:30:53.960 --> 00:31:00.039 a coach in a couple of our university admin actually go out to DC a 441 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:03.759 couple of weeks ago and had a forum. Nick Saban was actually attended this 442 00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.839 thing, but at the University of Arizona was actually leading the charge on this 443 00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:12.599 because of things like legislation in every state has a different law as it pertains 444 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:17.039 to NIL. You could get California and Florida really kind of got all this 445 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.640 thing kicked off a couple of years ago, but they have different laws there 446 00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:23.000 than we have in Arizona that they have in Washington, you know, the 447 00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:26.319 University of Texas. Everywhere, everyone has different laws. So it's hard for 448 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.079 us to be uniformed what we what we do. And this is why I 449 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:36.359 meet with compliance and administration, so is that I know exactly where you know, 450 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:37.599 the lines we need to stay in between, and what we can and 451 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:41.799 cannot do and is a constant name And that's why we do so much meeting 452 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.039 to make sure that we are all in compliance and that we don't have those 453 00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:49.039 types of issues because it can be slippery. We have, you know, 454 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:52.920 with like you know, I'll speak with basketball. We also had with football. 455 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.240 We have international students. There are specific rules to what international students can 456 00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:00.720 and cannot do as it pertains to nil, so we have to make sure 457 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:04.319 that we're you know, up on those at all times. So you've been 458 00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:07.240 out of the game for a while, although kind of still doing stuff. 459 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:12.960 Could you have ever imagined it coming to this? And what got you into 460 00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:22.680 this? You know what, I could actually see this coming you because of 461 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:25.440 the amount of revenue generated on a year out, year year in, year 462 00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:30.079 out basis, it was going to get to the point where student athletes we're 463 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:34.000 either going to have to be compensated or you were going to have the college 464 00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:37.720 model kind of collapse on itself because why take my talent to college when I 465 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:42.799 can just go as for a basketball player, I can go overseas Allah like 466 00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:46.319 you know, LaMelo Ball or someone like that. If that starts becoming a 467 00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:51.200 path, well what happens to March madness? It kind of goes away. 468 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:53.839 And so you could kind of see those things coming. But why I got 469 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.000 back into it, You know, I worked in the athletic department for you 470 00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:02.079 of a for six years doing alumni relations and then the full time fundraiser. 471 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.240 This job was kind of the best of both worlds for me where I still 472 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:09.160 got I got to work with student athletes, I get to work with a 473 00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:13.160 lot of my former colleagues in the athletics department, and I get to raise 474 00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:15.359 money. So it was really like almost a tailor made out for me. 475 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:19.799 I'm in Coach Fisher's office, you know, I got I got a phone 476 00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:22.640 call from yesterday, so you know, I get I talking to the head 477 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:28.759 coach literally today. I had just left Jaden Delora from doing an engagement, 478 00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:34.680 and so I'm back in athletics. I'm back working with athletics, but I'm 479 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.880 not all the way in athletic, which is nice. Yeah. So so 480 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:39.559 let me ask you too. Like I said, we touched Arizona, assist, 481 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:44.000 there's all these things going on. You were in Tucuda, Arizona, 482 00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.640 a great college town. But there's only and this is I could be wrong. 483 00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:51.480 There's only a certain amount of deep pockets in this town and obviously alum 484 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:54.200 everywhere around them. But how is it going after the same type of money 485 00:33:54.559 --> 00:34:00.319 from different locations, not just you everybody else trying to the school, the 486 00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:05.079 sports department, all that changing the same money. You know what, I 487 00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:07.599 would say that this is we kind of have, but I think most college 488 00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:13.119 athletics programs kind of operate this way, and University of Brizonna is no different. 489 00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:15.480 Week we have kind of a trickle down economics in terms of the athletic 490 00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:20.840 department where you have a football program where the revenue generates from football helps to 491 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.199 cover a lot of the other sports. You know, football or basketball is 492 00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:27.920 very self sustandings you have those two main revenue generating sports. And so I 493 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:31.519 think what has happened in the Tucson community is there's a there's been a recognition 494 00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:35.960 that we need to make sure our football program and solid to be able to 495 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.360 make sure that all the other sports are solid. So the community is a 496 00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:43.320 little bit divide. I wouldn't say community is divided. What we are trying 497 00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:45.880 to do is actually broaden our net and get more people in the community involved. 498 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:50.719 You don't have to be a million dollar donor to help with nil we 499 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:52.000 have. You know, we have so many different ways to give, whether 500 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:58.079 it's memberships, memberships, you can be an annual donor, making pledges. 501 00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:00.800 You know, we got some new things rolling out with the new collective and 502 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:05.360 when we rebrand and launch that coming up soon where the average span in two 503 00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:08.039 stig can be more a part of what we're doing with NIL and they can 504 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:10.800 now, but we're going to have more avenues for them to be able to 505 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:15.679 get involved from. And it could be whether you're just doing you know, 506 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.559 you know, as little as fifteen to twenty dollars a month. Yeah, 507 00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:22.079 so you know that's two star. That's two starbus, coffees and a muffin 508 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:24.760 and go Wildcats, Right, So where do they go to? Where do 509 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:29.039 they going to help you? So if you go to friends at Wilbur, 510 00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:32.360 friends at Wilbur and Wilma dot com and put support now, and it will 511 00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:35.920 take you to those avenues where you will be able to help and support the 512 00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:37.719 wildcats. So a lot of dudes like Jay and I who have no money 513 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:42.320 go there and click on and give you twenty bucks. Forty bucks that's what 514 00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:45.719 you're looking for to absolutely and I think you know, the more people that 515 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:49.599 do that in Tuston. If I have a stadium of fifty thousand people and 516 00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:52.960 everyone's given us one hundred bucks we're in a good spot. Yeah, that 517 00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:55.719 makes total sense. Well, you know, I don't know how you put 518 00:35:55.760 --> 00:36:00.639 your head on the pillow at night with all the stuff that's going on around 519 00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:04.679 this um. I mean, they're just coming from so many different directions. 520 00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.000 But you know, you somehow have to keep it all sorted and to make 521 00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:10.360 sure that as you said, you're in you're in compliance, and then you 522 00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:16.119 know double bonus that you're actually helping the athletes and that and that to me 523 00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:20.159 is the most fulfilling when I got hired, and I would never forget this. 524 00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:22.760 In my interview when I came back to work for athletics red Burn, 525 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:24.440 he said, hey, you know, what do you see yourself doing in 526 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:27.800 ten years? And I said, helping people. I said, I will 527 00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:30.440 be of service in helping people. I don't know what that capacity will be. 528 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:35.920 And here I am ten years later, literally almost ten years. You 529 00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:39.760 know, I'm helping student athletes. I'm directly impacting our student athletes, and 530 00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:43.280 I think that is the perfect thing for me. And that's why I came 531 00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:45.679 back to Tucson was I wanted to be a difference maker when it came to 532 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:49.599 what we do in athletics. Well, right, We appreciate your time. 533 00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:52.760 We'll probably have you back to explain more more stuff. But let me tell 534 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:57.599 you somelve you, unlike Jay, I believe you change tomorrow. Tomorrow we 535 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:01.159 have a very funny anybody. But there you unlike Jay, I believe you 536 00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:07.960 could hurdle. And so there picture Bray, I believe I saw you play. 537 00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:10.599 I mean, I believe you. It's just like, that's a big 538 00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:14.159 dude, dude, you jumping those hurdles. Man, get out of his 539 00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:16.599 play, Get out of his way. Thanks, Ray, thank you very 540 00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:22.119 much. You got to have a good one. That was a good interview. 541 00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:23.159 He was a big dude. Man. Yeah, that's a good dude, 542 00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:29.920 you know, you know, but to lean, lean and mean and 543 00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:31.800 he's like, you have to be a hell an athlete to be, you 544 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:36.519 know, a linebacker and that and fast enough to be a hurdle for him. 545 00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:38.760 Okay, we gotta go for this segment, all right, come back 546 00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:42.760 more. Yeah, we'll take your calls five to two zero four, one, 547 00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:45.199 six seventy four forty. Uh. If you didn't catch this, or 548 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:49.519 you want to make sure that your friend here's what we just talked about. 549 00:37:49.719 --> 00:37:52.320 Make sure they listen to the podcast at the iHeart dot com, so will 550 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.239 be right back. If you're an Arizona Man's basketball fan, you know it's 551 00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:59.519 been successful for newly forty years. Now. Take a look back at the 552 00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:01.360 ludles An era in my new book, Lessons from Loot. It was a 553 00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:05.719 labor of love through the eyes of twenty five former players, coaches and friends 554 00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:08.559 to give insight to the coach and the man who led them, competed against 555 00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:12.840 them, and inspired them. 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You've got about eleven minutes a good interview. I know we'll have 605 00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:52.239 him back. I don't know, Ray, but very important, very sport 606 00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:54.920 dude. I feel I feel like between the Arizona Assist interview that we did 607 00:41:55.000 --> 00:42:00.079 last week, this one, I have a better understanding and I get that 608 00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:04.320 no matter who we get is going to say we're doing it. The right 609 00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:07.320 way, right, but we all know that there are some that are not. 610 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:10.920 Yea, And but it makes sense now how the nonprofit side versus the 611 00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:15.400 you know the other side, right, and now we get some little break 612 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:19.119 news and football will be on their own, right, Yeah, sort of 613 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:23.480 like Arizona Assistance and have it on kind of separated. But you know, 614 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:29.079 I certainly hope that, um, you know, people out there realized that 615 00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:30.719 you know, some of these other athletes, man, they work hard too, 616 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:34.679 yeah, no question. And they need they need money too, yeah, 617 00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:37.639 no question. Where's all that coming from? I mean, just where 618 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:39.719 coming from? I don't know, you know, it just it is because 619 00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:45.719 the Wildcat Foundation or the sports area needs gets needs stuff to right. They 620 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.599 still got to be able to have there's tentacles everywhere. They still got to 621 00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:52.719 be able to have facilities and and scholarships and all this stuff. So yeah, 622 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:55.599 right, all right, So we were talking about the Director's Cup, 623 00:42:55.760 --> 00:43:00.760 the lear Field Director's Cup, which the final standings are out going to make 624 00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:04.320 a prediction, you can does Arizona one? I have it? Yeah? 625 00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:09.679 Okay, so uh I said sixty the tip fifty six lower, no better 626 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:14.440 better? Better? Higher? I guess higher? Uh no better than forty 627 00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:20.320 five, little high. Wow. Okay forty three, okay, forty three. 628 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:22.639 Surprising to you. I thought they were in the fifties. Yeah, 629 00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:27.199 exactly, Yeah, a while back they were. They were in the fifties. 630 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.880 Um they're they're forty third. Um, Stanford won the thing of yeah, 631 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:36.159 um number one, it's it's the top ten or Stanford, Texas, 632 00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:37.760 Ohio State. Now, for those of you who don't know what the Director's 633 00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:42.880 Cup is, it's standing for all sports, so you get points for how 634 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:45.960 you finished nationally in all sports. Stanford, Texas, Ohio State. Virginia, 635 00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:52.039 Florida at six is Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, LSU USC. 636 00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:57.920 That's it right, there's still PAC twelve, LA at fourteen, Washington, 637 00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:01.679 Washington at twenty one, twenty two. I was surprised by Cal. I 638 00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:07.199 was surprised by KELP. You know, still, but they don't it's almost 639 00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:09.679 I get the impression, maybe you do two. They don't care about their 640 00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:14.119 athletics at kel which, of course, there's a bunch of brainy acts where 641 00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:16.519 you're here. They don't care about football and basketball and basketball, which, 642 00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:22.559 of course, which is the opposite everywhere else. After Cal at twenty two 643 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:27.199 and the Pact twelve. You got Utah twenty eight, a su at thirty 644 00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:31.960 five, Oregon at thirty eight, Arizone at forty three, so azone sort 645 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:36.639 of at the bottom of the conference. Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. 646 00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:38.119 It makes sense that just needs to improve on that. Hey, we 647 00:44:38.159 --> 00:44:40.519 got about eight minutes. I have a little quick thing. I saw something 648 00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:45.519 I was watching ESPN today and have a question for you guys right now today 649 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:51.519 today, uh, in the year twenty twenty three, twenty two, who 650 00:44:52.400 --> 00:45:00.280 is the most exciting player to watch any sport, any gender? Who would 651 00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:02.320 you go and see, you know, pay one hundred bucks to go watch 652 00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:07.079 to play? Who's your guy? Who looked too it's easy show I paid 653 00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:10.719 to go see show. Hey, last year and the dude didn't even get 654 00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:14.719 a base head. I was so mad at him. Okay, okay, 655 00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:16.000 did hit one ball up? The man? His name was mentioned a couple 656 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:21.039 of times. What about you? He was? He was the next guy 657 00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:24.800 in in fact, Patrick's Patrick Holmes and see for me, although I've probably 658 00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:30.159 seen him with time or two Steph Curry. Yeah, so guys like that, 659 00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:30.599 you know, it's like that. I mean, there are few, 660 00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:34.119 there are a few guys you know, I'm more of a baseball guy than 661 00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:37.039 both of you. No, but let me two You'll never see you're seeing. 662 00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.800 Yeah, another Steph Curry may come along, and another Patrick ma Holmes 663 00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:45.320 may come along. There isn't gonna be another show. Heyo, Tony probably 664 00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:50.239 probably see yesterday. Yes, he struck out ten on the mound and he 665 00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:52.239 hit two homes. Wait wait, and you forget the kid the other part 666 00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:55.159 of it. He left because he had a chip nail. I mean, 667 00:45:55.400 --> 00:45:59.880 you know that's that's that. That's that. That's that kid in literal league, 668 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.599 right who comes and it's just better than everybody else and dominates. Uh 669 00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:08.039 you know, a literal league. That's who he is. And he's doing 670 00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:13.119 it at the major league level. He's just the best player by a lot, 671 00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:19.119 and and that that's what's crazy about about that. But yeah, I'm 672 00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:21.840 I'm always on playing and I was excited, and every time he came up 673 00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:23.960 to batman, I was glued. I didn't I didn't and I think he 674 00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:29.199 got a single, but that was it. Yeah, No, he'd be 675 00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:34.039 one. I think Curry Mahomes was mentioned a lot because he one of the 676 00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:39.519 people said on the thing is it's like watching magic, Michael Jordan because of 677 00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:45.360 what Patrick Mahomes does and he enjoys doing what he does. These players do 678 00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:52.639 things that Yeah, yeah, I think there's a couple of other ones. 679 00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:55.440 So I mean I want to go see Lebron right before he goes out. 680 00:46:55.599 --> 00:47:00.400 Yeah, I would have loved have seen Jordans live right. Um, you 681 00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:05.159 know, uh, I can't think of anybody else in the NBA that right 682 00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:07.400 rises to that left. You're gonna want Steph Curry. You might want to 683 00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:12.719 go see the San Antonio kid coming here. Uh, I'm waiting to see 684 00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:15.559 I'm gonna I think he's you know. The funny thing is everyone's talking about 685 00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:20.880 him now. No one's talking about Home anymore. Yeah, he's He's this 686 00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:24.880 is the newer, improved gun improved you know. Yeah. I mean, 687 00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:29.159 look, am I gonna watch him play to see how he's doing? Of 688 00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:30.679 course I am once so I can come on and show and talk about it. 689 00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:34.559 But too, I am curious to see how good he's really gonna be. 690 00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:37.880 But I'm not sitting here saying he's the second Coming, because we've had 691 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:42.679 other second comings. Jet Homegren is the second coming and and he's not, 692 00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:45.000 you know, but we haven't seen, barely even seen him, so, 693 00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:49.440 um, you know, I don't know, but you're right. I mean 694 00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:54.280 Steph Curry, Lebron James. I don't know who else in the NBA doesn't 695 00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:58.480 fire me. No, no, because he's so nondescripted. Yeah, but 696 00:47:59.079 --> 00:48:01.719 the Greek creak, but be fun to watch even he do not even even 697 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:05.760 him not so much, or Joel Embia, none of those guys. No 698 00:48:06.519 --> 00:48:07.840 homes, Yes, I didn't think. I don't think him my homes. 699 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.119 Yeah, I'd love to see him. I would have liked to have seen 700 00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:15.079 Aaron Rodgers five years ago, six years ago, seven. I would like 701 00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:19.679 to see him running too. The endzone three. You're still you're still holding 702 00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:22.639 onto that. I'm a bit. That's the only time I've ever been yours 703 00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:24.760 still holding onto that. You need to let that you had all that yardagein 704 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:29.400 here? That would you need to let that go? Okay? Let it 705 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:31.719 go? Okay? You know there was a sawt fight. There's also UFC 706 00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:37.880 that's very popular. Man nuns who you just go and you see how do 707 00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:40.400 these people beat the crap out of each other and survived? Thinking up our 708 00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:45.320 friend Roman Bravo saw this weekend Thursday, Thursday, I think Thursday. That's 709 00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:51.199 tomorrow, right, okay, right, but he has a local tucsonan Jabier 710 00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:53.880 knows more about this in his corner. I think it's the debut, right, 711 00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:59.880 it's a debut debut. Just first, like I'm asking, why do 712 00:48:59.880 --> 00:49:04.280 you go get in the face like that because they pay you. It's not 713 00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:06.239 like a bar. You know, you can't pay me. It's not a 714 00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:08.800 good gentleman. Sorry, you cannot pay me enough. You cannot pay me 715 00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:14.320 enough. So good luck to him. Back to the director cup standings, 716 00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:19.239 Arizona finished ninth in the conference, even though they were forty third in the 717 00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:22.800 country. They were nice Washington State. It's the after Arizona. It's Oregon 718 00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:28.400 State, Colorado and Washington State. That makes sense. Yeah, you've used 719 00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:30.679 to be at the top of oh yeah, yeah, no when Liven the 720 00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:34.119 leven good years. Yeah, you finished two spots ahead of Arizona. They 721 00:49:34.159 --> 00:49:37.000 were, they were six. But Arizona ended up with the Territorial Cup. 722 00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:42.199 Yes they did, which is way more important than than the than the back 723 00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:45.679 when they used to call it the Seriares Cup. My buddy that Ray Martinez 724 00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:46.760 raised money and the Ray we need to get to a rose. He said, 725 00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:50.599 man or, we're up there in the in the in the sears cup. 726 00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:52.679 I said, you know what you can do with the serious cup, 727 00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:55.519 turn it in at the until you get me a rose bowl. I don't 728 00:49:55.559 --> 00:50:00.559 give one crap about the series. Well, your time is to it is 729 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:06.199 sticking fast, really fast. Okay, we got we got about a minute 730 00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:08.320 and we want to call five two o four one, six seventy four forty 731 00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:14.880 Just a quick question if you want a good show today, like more informative 732 00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:19.000 with with three right, Um, I think we're trying to get a Sugar 733 00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:21.519 Skulls guest for the Mark. They've got a big game on Saturday. They've 734 00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:24.119 got Vegas, Vegas coming in town. It's in town, Rights, it's 735 00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:28.119 here six o'clock. Oh, that's a big, big, big thing. 736 00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:30.639 Right they have a big Do they have something big the first? Right, 737 00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:35.280 don't you have? It's a big given. Well, they're given all it's 738 00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:39.760 military appreciation to day. And they're also giving away kids baseball cats. Um, 739 00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:43.599 first thousand kids in the door get a base. And I know they 740 00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:45.639 at two son is in the hunt for a playoff, as as are the 741 00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:49.360 women. Um so I've see two sons. If you have a chance to 742 00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:52.280 fireworks and all that stuff on Saturday thing or the third one of those days. 743 00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.840 It's gonna be hot out on Saturday. Come to it's gonna be hot 744 00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:00.000 the resident. What are you talking about? Oh man, it's it's gonna 745 00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:01.599 like this for another week or so. No, and the ital tail off. 746 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:05.440 Okay, I'm gonna check with you, mother nature. I mean, 747 00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:08.000 I'm not going golfing this weekend, but I maybe you know, if it's 748 00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:13.559 not well after are sent a graphic of something too much of friends one hundred 749 00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:17.440 eight one hundred eleven hundred and twelve. Speaking of real real quick um um, 750 00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:22.440 let's plug. Jason spears he's got a golf tournament coming up. We 751 00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:27.320 talked about it on when when he was on yesterday, July the fifteenth. 752 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:30.559 Uh, it's a star pass, it's a it's a it's a benefit tournament. 753 00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:34.119 He's not making any money off. It's just something that he and his 754 00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:37.119 brother felt it was it was important to do. Um it benefits um. 755 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:44.599 Where is it? I have it here? I don't know what's okay, 756 00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:46.239 I can't find it, but it's it's you know, it's just something that 757 00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:51.599 they want to do do annually and benefit of local charity and so July the 758 00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:54.920 fifteenth, und twenty five bucks a player five hundred dollars a foursome. Uh 759 00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:59.360 and uh, you know you get to go play golf for eighteen play eighteen 760 00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:01.679 holes that uh at Star Past, which is a great course, fun course. 761 00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:06.599 Anyways, just to want to make sure you're not gonna not gonna go 762 00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:08.280 play it. I'm not because you know what I have. There's a Sugar 763 00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:12.760 Skulls game that night. It will be the season finale. A couple of 764 00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:16.559 weeks ago, I played on the day of a Sugar Skulls game and it 765 00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:21.119 was a bad idea. You know, it was a bad idea. If 766 00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:22.800 I played, I might still go play. Yeah, I suck it. 767 00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:28.800 I sucked. I'm just horrible. But that's prevent you reach out to Justin 768 00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:30.920 if you if you feel like that's something you'd want to contribute to, because 769 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:34.400 it's uh, it's for a good cause and he's gonna try and do this 770 00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.159 once a year or so. All right, man, that was fun, 771 00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:39.079 very well, Thank you so much. Thank you for the education. Uh 772 00:52:39.480 --> 00:52:44.199 Keona will Hike. Thank you for talking about why you went to Arizona. 773 00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:47.360 I think get some good yeah, good stuff, okay, great, all 774 00:52:47.400 --> 00:53:00.719 right, we will see you tomorrow. A perfect