WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:05.480 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:10.919 fourteen fifty. Subscribe now to the podcast on the iHeartRadio a app just Surgery 3 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:14.880 I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball hero 4 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:18.239 Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, He's Jay. Now we have Kevin 5 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:24.160 with breaking news and this is I on the Ball Breaking news on Fox Sports 6 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:27.519 fourteen fifty. All right, so we're gonna go ahead and start with some 7 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:33.920 Arizona football transfer news. Former San Jose State tight end Sam Olsen is going 8 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.280 to be transferring to Arizona. He had the fourth most receiving yards for SJSU 9 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:42.600 last season and now he's joining his former coach Brent Brendan and Matt Adkins here 10 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:46.920 former Arizona Wildcat nose tackle. We'll talk talk about a little bit about this 11 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:51.079 earlier. Bill and Norton is now committed to Texas, joining Joanna Quina. 12 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:55.039 He was just their spring game a couple of days ago. Yeah. That 13 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.920 that's a tough one on Bill Norton because he was a he was a big 14 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:00.799 part of you know why They're defense was pretty good. He just plugged up 15 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.000 the middle. You know, he's the guy that came here from Georgia. 16 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.560 You know, when a guy goes to Texas, you immediately assume he's going 17 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:12.480 there with some dollar signs in his eyes. And you know, good for 18 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:17.640 him if that's a good opportunity for him. Texas a really good programming. 19 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:21.040 He's back up, you know, went from Georgia, Arizona back to you 20 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:23.280 know a place like Yeah, but just again one of those things where the 21 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.760 dog, right, you the d dog, ce dog, d dog. 22 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:30.000 Everybody wants to be an a dog. In order to be an a dog, 23 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:32.840 you have to be with the a dogs, right, And so yeah, 24 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:37.680 I mean, look, I'm I mean I was it was bunned when 25 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.280 I heard he was leaving, but not mad. He was bun He's got 26 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.519 it, you know, he he came here and he did. You know, 27 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:47.000 he did like what Jacob Cowing did, right, went to a place 28 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.120 that got him an opportunity. He came here, he got an opportunity. 29 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.599 This opportunity happens to be still in college. But you know, you know 30 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:56.719 state of Arizona, to go to Texas, what are you gonna do? 31 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.680 Yeah, and you get to you get to chase that nil money and be 32 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:02.719 in the relationship with his DC. He's back in the SEC. He's gonna 33 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.120 go over there and he's gonna, you know, he's gonna I think he's 34 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.159 gonna have some receipts for you know, not having a chance to play that 35 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.960 when he was at Georgia, Right, Right, I think that's what the 36 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:15.400 world is gonna be about now, finding your level of competition. You know, 37 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:20.280 you do be the big dog here, right, or be another dog 38 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:23.719 somewhere else, right, and you'll get you better, right, big fish, 39 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:27.360 small pond, Yeah, the whole right. Arizona has also added former 40 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.080 San Jose State quarterback Anthony garcias a round out just the roster and have a 41 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:35.280 fourth quarterback to compete for any roster spots in the future. He's gonna join 42 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:39.080 Brandon Dorman and walk on Coltannabomb on the roster. Another guy who's leveling up, 43 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:43.599 right. Yeah, we'll see if he plays. Yeah, And then 44 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:47.000 we have some spring ball dates coming up. April twenty third is tomorrow at 45 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:52.039 they're gonna play at three fifty, and then Thursday at again at three fifty, 46 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:55.680 and Saturday is the spring game at six six o'clock. Right, Yeah, 47 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.240 we gotta get somebody on this week to talk about that because we haven't 48 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.680 done probably enough, we haven't been out there because we can't. We can't, 49 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:07.879 no apologies, we just can't. We'll be at the Spring Green. 50 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:12.879 Well, well we'll come back and we'll have all the answers. Okay, 51 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:16.400 and then f C two Sons women women's team is named Roberto Garcia as the 52 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:22.360 new head coach and Kaylee Carter, former F two song player as the assistant 53 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:27.199 coach. Did you listen to hear that? Say that again? F two 54 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:31.319 Sons women's team has named Roberto Garcia as their head coach and Kaylie Carter as 55 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:37.120 their assistant coach. I just got that information. Yeah, me too. 56 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:40.240 I just texted Kelly, see what's going on. She didn't win. She 57 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:46.000 went this year to the first year in forever. I don't want to talk 58 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:53.159 to Steve, you know, yeah, okay, three four years. Yeah, 59 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:54.319 me too. I just came over knows who knows what, you know. 60 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.240 She's got things going on, kids and stuff that kind of stuff. 61 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:00.800 So yeah, well, you know, she she had a good run with 62 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.639 the with FC two Son, so you know, wow, that's okay, 63 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.639 interesting, all right? Yeah, Garcia has been with them for five years, 64 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:11.000 and he led their youth team to five separate state championships as well, 65 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:13.759 So okay, there's some pedigree there as well. Well, there you go. 66 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.759 Arizona Baseball is a consensus top twenty five and four national polls after joining 67 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:21.879 Baseball America's and the coaches poll. Right, Yeah, it took a while. 68 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:26.040 I mean they were ranked in D one Baseball, soything else you can 69 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:29.199 go through them. They're ranked sixteen and D one Baseball, seventeen by the 70 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:32.959 National College Baseball Writers Association, also seventeen by Perfect Game, and then number 71 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:38.319 twenty by USA Today and Coaches, and then number twenty three by Baseball America. 72 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:42.040 Okay, what's the what was the publication beast here? Baseball America, 73 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:46.759 Baseball America, what's is the publisher back in the day? Dude, Man, 74 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:48.800 you're really gonna ask me to pull that name. It's it's from the 75 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:54.199 seventies. I know, you should have no problem. What'd you know? 76 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:56.720 What you don't? Yeah, I don't, Yeah, I don't have I 77 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.079 don't have enough because it was one of those things that you wish you when 78 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:01.360 you were a kid. At least where's that Tucson? Oh maybe I can 79 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:03.079 write for them. Yeah, this is when, you know, a long 80 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:09.680 time ago. Yeah, I know you're talking about it. Hank, Hank. 81 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:14.279 We'll get a We'll get a text here real quick. Yeah, well, 82 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:16.639 you guys find that I can go ahead a little bit of softball news. 83 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.959 Kaya Altmeyer was named the Pack twelve Player of the Week and Reagan Shaki 84 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:28.759 earned Pack twelve Freshman of the Week honors. Alt Meyer uh The earned the 85 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.759 honors after her career and where she uh led the sweep over Arizona State this 86 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:38.759 past weekend. She batted six twenty five on five for eight with two home 87 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:43.759 runs. She also had a double and six RBIs. And then that was 88 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.160 kind of most of all I had for local stuff. There wasn't too much 89 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:49.839 going on locally. Uh. There was a very strange ejection today in the 90 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:54.240 Yankees game. I don't know if you saw that. Maybe the strangest one 91 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:58.959 I've ever seen. So Aaron Boone, five pitches into the game, believes 92 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:03.199 that the which that was thrown hit his batter. Umpire disagreed. He was 93 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:06.279 told, you know, giving a verbal warning, hey no more talking from 94 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:11.600 the dugout, and Boone back down said understood. The next pitch. A 95 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:15.279 fan screams from right behind Aaron Boone, yelling at the umpire. Umpire turns 96 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.360 around and a jects Aaron Boone. Boone comes out and says, I said 97 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.920 nothing. This is wrong like I. Umpire says, I don't care who 98 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:34.800 said it. You're gone wowt me let me wow wow it was it was 99 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:40.959 Wendell's stats, Wendall's stead, not Harry. Harry is like cold the hunter 100 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:45.800 Hunter went. But yeah, so he umpire said he believed that a player 101 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:47.639 from the end of the dugouts said it, and so that's why he said, 102 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:50.000 I don't care who said it, You're out of here. When the 103 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:54.600 reality it's clear as day video you can see the fans scream and then the 104 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.959 umpire turn around and be like, you're out of here, So defend this. 105 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:01.519 He's literally directly behind. I mean, like, sorry, my serious 106 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:04.680 boon through his voice, I didn't want to be there. I did you 107 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:13.480 want to be there? Got called out a ventriloquist situation. Wow, that's 108 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:16.439 awesome. That's awesome. All right, I thought you'd enjoyed that one. 109 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:20.079 Yet. Nelly Korda is going to put her win streak on hold. She's 110 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:25.720 going to forego playing in the next LPGA event to get her body some rest. 111 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.160 She won five in a row and two majors. You get out of 112 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:30.560 here, Scotty Scheffer. You haven't won five in a row at just twenty 113 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.519 five years old. Speaking of Scotti Scheffler, I had this. I saw 114 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:35.959 a tweet earlier that I saved. I thought you might find this interesting. 115 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:41.199 Jay. So in his last five events, Scotti Schffler has placed first at 116 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:45.360 the Arnold Palmer, first the Players, second at Texas Children's, first the 117 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:49.079 Masters, and first at RBC Heritage. That's sixteen million dollars in winnings over 118 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:55.079 just forty four days. Man. But then you know what they were saying 119 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.720 though that if you're kind of because they're saying, well, you know, 120 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:01.319 Tiger Woods and all your compare thements are like that saying if you compare the 121 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:03.720 money, you see the money he's making. Now, why you know it's 122 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:09.040 that big amount if you I don't know what the right word is, but 123 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.639 if you apply how much money it is versus what Tiger Woods was winning when 124 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:18.199 he if Tiger Woods would have won in those same five tournaments, Tiger Woods 125 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.519 would have won like eighty million scale, it up. Yeah, scale Tiger 126 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.759 would have been worth you would have won like eighty million dollars or something like 127 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:26.680 that. It's crazy. But you know, there's a lot of talk about 128 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:31.319 him, and you know, there's always those comparisons, you know, Jordan 129 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:35.960 and lebron and YadA YadA, yadda, Scotti shit. Watching him play, 130 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:41.759 he's just he's got that. He's he's dominating. And you know, the 131 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:46.120 fourth round started yesterday. He walks out and eagles the second chips in and 132 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:48.480 eagles the second hole. It's like, you guys, have no chance. 133 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:54.960 Is in the hazard and still you know, yeah, I mean he I 134 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:56.919 saw him hit a shot. He had hit the ball into the water. 135 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.679 So he's hitting out of some trees and he knocks it up next to the 136 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:03.679 whole. It makes the putt, that's the one I saw, and he 137 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:07.639 gets a par after putting it in the water. Yeah, that was unbelievable. 138 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.639 Come on, guys, it's not fair. I also saw this Tucson 139 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:15.320 native and free agent cornerback Levi Wallace is going to sign with the Broncos. 140 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:18.919 We're moving on, moving on. Where was the Steelers? I believe the 141 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.159 Steelers. Steelers last year Buffalo the Steelers. That's good, I believe. 142 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:26.039 Yeah, you know, keep getting employed man. One of the great stories 143 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:31.519 from Tucson. Yeah, I mean old time, Yeah, yeah, yeah. 144 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.279 A guy who just was kind of didn't you barely even get undersized. 145 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:41.000 Dude got recruited and now how many years is he six or seven years? 146 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:46.799 Coming from Alabama? Alabama? Right, that's a perfect example of betting on 147 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.159 yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally don't bet on yourself, Jake, 148 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:56.159 You'll lose, you know, yeah, I know. It's even money 149 00:09:56.200 --> 00:10:01.919 not happening. You know, we're like eighty thousand to one. Okay. 150 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.600 A couple of things. Women's golf. You have a women's golf. They're 151 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:11.240 not doing so well. The in the in the pac TWEFF tournament. You 152 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:13.399 know, it's one of those things where you know you win the tournament, 153 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.480 you automatically get in the n C douable as you don't win the tournament, 154 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:20.240 and you know you're you're at the you're at the whim of the Division one 155 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:24.799 Golf Committee. After two rounds, they are currently in seventh place. There 156 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.840 are eight strokes out of the lead. I think I think I'm kind of 157 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:33.120 a magic number you want to get to is probably fourth place and fourth place 158 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:37.240 right now as U c l A at minus one, Arizona's plus eight. 159 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.720 Well this turn, this tournament's up in Pullman. I can't imagine the weather's 160 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.080 all that great up there. Maybe it is, but uh it's a place 161 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:52.120 called the Poloose Ridge up in Uh. So they got one more day and 162 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.879 we'll see how they do. Well. Okay, did you just see the 163 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.320 world is coming to this Cooper Flag? You know who Cooper Flag? Yes, 164 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:03.720 of course, the Duke number one guy. He's gonna sign with Creative 165 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:09.519 Artists Agency c a A as the n A l A guys, that's what 166 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:11.519 the world is coming to. Well. C A is like a power agency. 167 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.039 Yeah, and then TV movies. Yeah, so that's why we were 168 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:20.559 just three four years ago. You couldn't talk to these guys agents. And 169 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.000 additionally everyone's wondering why all the Duke players are having a mass exodus. Well, 170 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.879 they're gonna have less player time or less playing time, less time on 171 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:31.279 the ball, and they're probably having their NILS deals possibly shrunk down to fit 172 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:33.799 in the big Cooper Flag deal coming right over. And I just saw this 173 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:39.840 from Sean Sharania. Charlotte Hornets are interviewing JJ Reddick for their head coaching job. 174 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:45.799 Mm hmm no, but that doesn't That's what I was just gonna say. 175 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:50.960 The easiest way to become a coach becoming become Steve Curse same way T 176 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:54.639 and T Yeah, ye smart. Yeah, he's very smart smart, But 177 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.960 Steve was the same way practical a person, you know, people person. 178 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:03.440 At least Steve was a GM before that, right, well, because of 179 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.639 the same reasons he was good at the stuff. One other note this got 180 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:13.360 passed today by the Division one Board of Directors. Uh, the PAC twelve 181 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:18.080 is officially no longer a Power five conference. Uh, the the board moved 182 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:24.279 there. Uh, they are now considered a non autonomous FBS conference, meaning 183 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.559 basically, there a group of five. Will they be renamed? Well, 184 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:30.679 I don't know what they're gonna do. I think you know, there there's 185 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.440 State from now. They're sticking with the brand as a you know, PAC 186 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:37.840 twelve, but they're they're no longer have the voting rights that the PAC twelve 187 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.960 has had. And the Power five conference, Uh, there's it's it's now 188 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:48.639 four, there's four and six. So since then since the announcements, now 189 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:52.960 one's at Oregon State anymore. Neither at Washington State. Through the president's leaving 190 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:56.799 right the president, coaches are leaving. Coach, we saw, oh, 191 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:01.039 we saw. I know if you saw. Damien Martinez canceled one of his 192 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:03.840 visits, the one to Kentucky. So he was going to get down to 193 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:09.720 three now, so down to three Miami and Tennessee. I believe there's a 194 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.840 chance. 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Hey, welcome back 270 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:45.000 to wire the ball here today one day. I'm Steve your Jay. We 271 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.400 have Rebecca Kitos, the women's softball coach at Pima. Coach. Are you 272 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:52.079 doing I'm good, How are you guys? Thank you for having me on. 273 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:56.599 Yes, yes, what kind of magic is going on at Pima? 274 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:00.240 What's going on with her? It's really simple. I'm not really coaching these 275 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.000 girls that are kind of playing on their own and going base to base and 276 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.160 I just stand there and guide them. So all the credit to the girls. 277 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.680 They're just playing really loosey. Come on, there's more to it than 278 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:12.559 that we know, and we're trying our best. You know, we held 279 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:15.480 off calling you as the streak was going on because we don't want to jinx 280 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:19.240 it. So are you superstitious? Are you? You know you're doing things 281 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:22.160 like getting up on the right side of the bed, putting your sock on 282 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.119 the same foot and all that stuff, or how do you handle a winning 283 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:32.559 streak like this? One hundred percent, we are extremely superstitious. I don't 284 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:34.519 even say the word. I don't know what you're talking about. We just 285 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:40.559 stick to our routine and I don't think we've showered in a couple of months. 286 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.839 So you're not superstitious. That's funny. So you are extremely supersious. 287 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.319 So Saturday, you guys were on the brink of love losing and you found 288 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:53.680 a way to come back. How was that? Well, it's not the 289 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:56.279 first time this team has done that. They like to do that. They 290 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:00.319 like to put a little scare in us, and they do really well playing 291 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:02.839 with their backs against the wall. And like I said, at this point 292 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:04.880 during postseason, a win is a win, and they just they just seem 293 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.279 to keep figuring it out. So we let them compete. Did I mean, 294 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:12.480 did something happen? Was there a change an approach, a change in 295 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:18.240 approach, a change in anything that you know started this or did it just 296 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:21.440 all of a sudden just start and then snowball? How did this? How 297 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:25.960 has this come about? So? I think the very first game that we 298 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:27.839 played the start of the season was Salt Lake and they were ranked number two 299 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:30.839 at that point and we beat them with a freshman on the mound, and 300 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:33.920 that I think kind of just opened everybody's eyes of what we were capable of 301 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:37.960 at that moment. And they just they just continue to get better. They 302 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:42.519 compete really hard, and I think we have a team that hates to lose 303 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.880 more than they like to win, and I think that's what we are are 304 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.720 running on before this started. You guys are nine to eight. What are 305 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:55.400 you thinking of that point? You know, just like at that point, 306 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:59.799 we had such a good postseason schedule. Everybody that we played I'm sorry, 307 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.119 yeah, everybody that we played in January was ranked in the top ten and 308 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.160 we beat them or we either split with them. So it was a very 309 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.519 good schedule to either win or lose with because we it was a good point 310 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:17.079 itself where we were okay, all right, has there been a particular I 311 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:19.240 guess when you're winning that many games in a row. Everything's going well, 312 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:23.559 you know, but he's been a particular area that's been you know, kind 313 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:27.519 of maybe exceeded some expectations a little bit, you know, pitching, hitting, 314 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:32.000 you know your defense, Uh, you know, top of the order 315 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:34.920 or whatever. I mean, what's what what's got your eye in terms of 316 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:41.480 why this has been happening? I think I think our team is very very 317 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:44.880 young. So we have a lot of girls that are just that are just 318 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:47.480 excited. They're happy to be here, and that's the key they buy into 319 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:49.839 They buy into it. A lot of the girls that we've recruited have come 320 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:53.400 from South Point to be no very good winning program, so they're used to 321 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.759 winning. So when you bring in kids that are used to winning, it 322 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:00.720 sets the standard for them when to get here. Yeah, no question, 323 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:04.680 no question. You're even better on the road than you are at home. 324 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:10.000 What's up with that? Yeah? Yeah, you know, I don't think 325 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:11.720 it really cares where we play. We have a job to do and we, 326 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:17.240 like coach Kendrea used to tell us, it doesn't it doesn't matter who 327 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:19.559 we're playing. Our Our thing is always by how many are we gonna win 328 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:22.079 by? So it's a mentality before we get on the field. Yeah, 329 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:25.680 so all right, so give us a little bit, tell us a little 330 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:27.440 bit about your team. Uh, you know who who've been the people that 331 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:30.200 have sort of been key for you, you know, pitching, hitting, 332 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.599 defense, whatever it is. U throw some names out to us as to 333 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.079 as to who's been really sort of the key to all of this for you 334 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:42.039 this season. Yeah. Obviously, our our our girls getting all the attention 335 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:47.640 right now, are are our quiet ones. Camille Zapeta is our second basement. 336 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:49.079 She is on a on a hitting streak right now. We don't talk 337 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:52.519 about that because I just need her to do her job. But she's our 338 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:56.599 second basement, our sophomore. She's getting some real big looks right now from 339 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:02.839 how from UTEP from West Texas is number one in the country. We have 340 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:07.440 Mallory our leader sophomore behind the plate. Jasmine Waddell, who is eleven and 341 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:11.960 one, I believe or ten and one. She's our lefty from sen Manuel. 342 00:23:12.119 --> 00:23:15.079 So just a lot of good things on a lot of key players. 343 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:18.839 I heard you talk about this, so maybe ten days ago, around that 344 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.160 time that you're not doing anything coaching, you told us the same thing. 345 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:27.200 But you're probably just choking of course, what are you doing or are you 346 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:33.000 just filling out the lineup and they're doing the work. To be honest with 347 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:37.599 you, we have such good depth on this team. Whether it's pitching or 348 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.759 defense or hitting. It doesn't matter what lineup I'm putting out there. It's 349 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:45.279 working really hard to make a lineup because whatever we're putting out there is just 350 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:48.720 seems to work. So we're just kind of running on fumes right now and 351 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.240 riding the wave of competing. So I was gonna ask you, and then 352 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:56.319 Ray is next to you, probably, but is this the school record? 353 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:03.000 All these wins for me as a head coach, it's definitely a record. 354 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.759 The record is thirty seven. I believe that was with my pitching coach, 355 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:11.440 NICKI Johnson, who was a national champion for that team at seven. Okay, 356 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.839 all right, thirty seven straight wins. Sorry, I mean that's to 357 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:18.559 have a number because you know, we all know, I mean those of 358 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:21.960 us who played baseball. You know, on any given day, a baseball 359 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:25.920 team just doesn't play well, a pitcher doesn't pitch well, you can't get 360 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:29.359 any hits or whatever. You know. I'm looking at these scores. You're 361 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:32.880 scoring twenty runs and those kinds of things. You know, how do you 362 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:36.920 avoid the whole you know, oh, we didn't nobody plays well today? 363 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.720 Thing? We I think we you know what, we have a roster of 364 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:45.920 twenty five girls. So every day in practice we're scrimmaging, We're going live, 365 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:51.319 every pitcher is throwing, everybody's playing different positions. So by the time 366 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:53.400 we get to a game, it's not foreign to us. Yeah, it's 367 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:56.960 just like a normal practice day. We are scrimmaging every single day. We 368 00:24:57.000 --> 00:25:00.559 have thirteen pitchers and we're just working really hard. Is that new? Is 369 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:04.480 that? Is it a change from the past. Yes, My roster is 370 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:08.039 definitely bigger this year, and we just you know, we need to we 371 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:11.519 need to be able to play every single day if we want to compete in 372 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.319 such a great conference. Okay, all right, so you've got you've got 373 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:18.480 you guys are coming up with I think, did I see you guys Central 374 00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:21.880 tomorrow? Is that is that who you have? Correct? We're on the 375 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:23.680 road against Okay, so you're on the road for four games coming up. 376 00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:27.119 You know again, you know, how do you how do you keep your 377 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:32.519 focus with all this and not seriously, I mean not think about a winning 378 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:37.680 streak. How do you do that? It's what we try and keep it, 379 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:40.839 excuse me, really simple, Like we tell the girls whenever they're getting 380 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:45.200 trying to do as less as possible for the biggest results. Right, So 381 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:48.759 if we're coming out to practice, our practices are you know, they're not 382 00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:51.319 like in the fall where they were two three hours long. We're out here 383 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:53.440 for maybe forty five minutes to an hour and just working really hard and getting 384 00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:57.640 out. We're not changing our routine. We're still lifting weights every every morning 385 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:00.519 and doing study hall. So even I'm in a routine is key. I 386 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:04.200 think to the success on the field, we've been there. How many years 387 00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:08.359 have you been there? This is my fifth year. Did you kind of 388 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:14.039 sense that this was going to happen or maybe longer to do, or that 389 00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:18.759 you were building to something like this? Yeah? Well, you know, 390 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:22.000 bringing in this this recruiting class, we had a really good idea of what 391 00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:26.680 the goal was. Because we signed such a good recruiting class. Next year's 392 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:30.240 class is even better or as good. So my expectations are through the roof. 393 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:34.640 We were waiting for this, for anticipating this. The conference are so 394 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:38.240 good. Everybody we play is just dynamite. Well, I was going to 395 00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:41.079 ask you that, you know, the historically this has been a great conference 396 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:45.319 with you know, you know all the teams. I mean Central has you 397 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.759 know, been around for a long time. You have a pie all of 398 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:53.240 these schools have been i mean historically really good. How has the conference maintained 399 00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:56.200 that over the years. It just because you're in Arizona and Arizona's a place 400 00:26:56.240 --> 00:27:00.319 where girls go to play softball. I mean, what what's the magic there? 401 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.160 Yeah, everyone as a hotbed for softball. So you can go from 402 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:06.640 you can go to Phoenix, you can go to Prescott, you can go 403 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:10.279 anywhere in the state and find good ball. So, you know, and 404 00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:14.359 we're recruiting against all all the schools are recruiting each against each other. So 405 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:17.119 it's really a matter of time of how much you're putting out there and all 406 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:19.519 that extra work recruiting, you're getting to bring in the kids where you want. 407 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:22.599 And I'm sure you have the locals who want to play for you too, 408 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.920 because it's my understanding that a lot of the roster is built of little 409 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:33.519 locals, correct, correct, And so I'm very happy with the production of 410 00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:36.359 our local kids. These are the ones I wanted. These are the ones 411 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:40.279 that stayed home and chose to represent their local junior college. And I'm just 412 00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:42.640 so proud of them because they could have gone to other places and I got 413 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:48.279 the ones I wanted, and I'm very happy. So how does that happen 414 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:51.400 that? I mean you have to be out there, you know, going 415 00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:53.599 to all the games and seeing all the players. I mean, is recruiting 416 00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:57.680 still like that that you know they need to see you to know that they 417 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:00.559 want to come and play for you? Or is it you know, are 418 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:06.559 you kind of a program that they just gravitate towards. You know, recruiting 419 00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:10.279 doesn't stop. And I think that's ninety percent of the job, is recruiting. 420 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:11.920 Yeah, you have girls that want to stay home and play, but 421 00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.240 it takes extra work to go out there. You're not just recruiting the kid, 422 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:18.920 You're recruiting the family. You want to show them what we have to 423 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:22.400 offer, all of the wrap around services that we have. It's a great 424 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.240 place for me and we want to keep our local kids home. Sorry about 425 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.720 this question, I should know us. Is your dad still Is your dad 426 00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:33.400 still working with you? Say that again? Is your dad's still working with 427 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:37.279 you? Is my dad yes, my dad is a volunteer on staff. 428 00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:40.720 Yes he is. Okay, did he ever go through something like this? 429 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:45.079 I? You know, I after doing some research, I think he did 430 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.599 a streak of eleven but he had some great, great teams, and his 431 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:52.359 teams they went to the championship, and like I said, I would trade 432 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.200 all of this in to win the one that counts, and that's our ultimate 433 00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:02.039 goal. All right, Well, Becca, know uh again, I'm I'm 434 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:04.480 really hoping we didn't. We didn't jinx this for you. It's great to 435 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:07.960 see you know what you guys are doing over there. Thank you, you 436 00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.880 know, and you know, I mean, look, this town has followed 437 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:15.160 Pima softball. So you've got a few games left here home games. But 438 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:19.359 you're at Central tomorrow and then you're at Eastern over the weekend, right and 439 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:22.680 then when when are you back? When are you back here? We we 440 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:29.880 aren't back until I believe that mark against our first sophomore day against Yaba Pi. 441 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:36.359 Okay, in light of s in light of saving the city water, 442 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:41.359 you might want to take a shower. Well, there's twenty five girls that 443 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:45.599 have to people has the money to come, you at least have to walk 444 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:49.720 you at least have to wash the socks. A lot of Victoria's secret, 445 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:56.920 but at least wash the socks. Okay, at least that much. Thank 446 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:00.599 you so much, and and best of luck the to the way. I 447 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:07.279 appreciate it. You good. Look, please don't tomorrow. That just scary 448 00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:10.880 thought, because you know, locker rooms are stinky to begin with it. 449 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:12.160 If you've ever been to a hockey locker room, you know what I'm talking 450 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:17.480 about. A dang. I hope you didn't become the kiss of death chain 451 00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.079 you started it because we called it. We'll see what. Well, yeah, 452 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:26.000 okay, So as as she mentioned, they've got they've got Central tomorrow 453 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:32.359 Saturday, they've got a double header up at Eastern Arizona April thirtieth. Their 454 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:36.599 April thirtieth, are back with Yava Pie so and then they then they then 455 00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:40.720 they got Arizona Western and then the Region one tournament. So good luck to 456 00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:44.039 them. And man, this is look, it's it's cool to see that. 457 00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:45.920 You know, all these teams that are playing right now. You know, 458 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:49.640 when you've a women's softballs on a streak, Arizona, I mean a 459 00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:55.720 zon baseball's on the streak, PEMA Softballs on the streak. Uh tema baseball 460 00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:57.559 doing pretty well. You know it's cool to see all. That's what you 461 00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:03.160 and the kid would call well momentum momentum absolutely one dred percent momentum, and 462 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:04.599 they're gonna keep it going. You watch, Yeah, okay, and this 463 00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:07.799 take the break and have more. We'll have time on the other side for 464 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:11.799 phone calls, So give us a call five to zero four one, six, 465 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.039 seventy four, forty and we will take your re cast. 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A Team offers a fun and exciting opportunity to work 505 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.759 in the sports and entertainment industry, with flexible schedules that are perfect for those 506 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:10.079 looking for a part time job or a second income. Come be a part 507 00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:15.800 of a winning team. The A Team apply online today at a team security 508 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:21.320 dot net. Steve Rivera and Jake and Salez they have their eye on the 509 00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:28.639 ball on Tucson's sports stage Jet Fox Sports fourteen fifty streaming live on the iHeartRadio 510 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:32.000 app. Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. 511 00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:37.320 I'm Steve, He's Jay. We got Kevin with us eighteen minutes for 512 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:38.960 you guys to give us a quick call. Let us know what's going on. 513 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:45.239 See how you are doing. Outside of my voice, I'm too four. 514 00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:52.039 Just give us a quick call. Yep, you know it. We're 515 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:53.599 we're at a point in the you know, in the year. I guess 516 00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:57.920 where stuff starts to slow down a little bit. We're talking you know, 517 00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:00.920 baseball, softball, and you know football practice, spring practice coming up. 518 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:05.119 That's gonna end this week with the spring game on Saturday. What are you 519 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:07.840 gonna talk about Steve Well, you had something for Oregon. Yeah, it 520 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:14.199 was an interesting thing. Hannah del Gatto, the the Oregon softball player who 521 00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:17.599 crashed into the fence, broke her fractured her neck and her spine. Uh 522 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:25.519 not this last weekend, but the weekend before she had a They she's in 523 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:28.920 the neck brace in a whole bit, but they put her in the game 524 00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:30.880 to get a start on senior Day. I guess just went in for a 525 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:35.800 pitch or whatever, and uh and uh, you know, just to you 526 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:37.840 know, sort of a tribute to her. I guess, you know, 527 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:40.960 for lack of a better word, but you know, she there's a photo 528 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:45.039 of her on Twitter and she she just got a neck brace on obviously because 529 00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:46.159 of you know, he break your neck, you need a brace, I 530 00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:51.519 guess. But you know, good for her that she's a hopefully they say 531 00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:53.079 she's gonna have a complete recovery. He's just probably gonna take a while. 532 00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:57.360 Yeah, yeah, no, good, that's good news. Have we been 533 00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:59.760 talking about it since it happened? Yeah? Yeah, well again, I 534 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:01.639 you know, I saw it, so it was it was it was a 535 00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:06.119 scary looking thing, and uh, you know, and it happened, but 536 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.000 you know, that's when you play sports man, you do things like that. 537 00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:13.079 And you know, she she she was giving it her all on that 538 00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:16.519 play and it ended up, you know, with a potentially life changing injuries. 539 00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:21.079 Yeah, wants to think when you're when you're on a playing field or 540 00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:24.480 a court and you're just you know, doing what you love and all of 541 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:30.039 a sudden can be taken away on a given day. Right, this is 542 00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:31.840 what happens. Again, if kids want to call, hey, that was 543 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:37.440 fun with Rebecca. Yeah, you know, and got of tictions from Ray 544 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:39.800 and it was a good job. Yeah, no that you know, she 545 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:44.280 you know, she's but look she stepped in some big shoes, you know, 546 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:49.679 with her with her dad and and uh and the whole bit and uh 547 00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:51.719 you know, and he's still out there helping her. But you know, 548 00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:53.800 good for her that that this is you know, something like this is happening 549 00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:58.039 for her because she's uh, you know, she's she's put in the work 550 00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:02.159 and you just hope that that you know, things go well. But man, 551 00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:07.880 that's that's a that's an incredible an incredible streak. Uh. You know, 552 00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:10.920 sure when twenty six games in baseball or softball, right, well, 553 00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:13.960 so many things have to go right, for you to win a game, 554 00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:15.880 and it's easy for just one or two things to go wrong and you lose 555 00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:20.639 a game. And uh and for her to you know, pull that together 556 00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:23.719 is a's a pretty cool thing. So good for her. Yeah, good, 557 00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:29.159 that's great. That's great. I'm gonna call yeah sick, this call 558 00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:32.639 higher on the air and on the ball. Hey Jay, it's Kim again. 559 00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:39.920 Yes, sir, I'm sort of wondering what cause student to associate me 560 00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:49.719 with some chicken squat dude that would make an idol. He's checking on everybody. 561 00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:52.280 I think he thought it was me at some point. I just think 562 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.400 you're you haven't called it a while, and I think at some point you 563 00:37:55.519 --> 00:38:00.760 call me cranky. So I'm I'm going back into my row decks and and 564 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:05.440 checking on everybody who said I was cranky. So there you go. There's 565 00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:09.199 your here's the bottom line, Steve. If I wanted to call somebody out, 566 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:13.679 I'll call your show and du no. And in addition to that, 567 00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:20.360 you text me because you've done that, So there you go. Well you've 568 00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:25.360 been eliminated, Jim no longer aspect, So I want to know. I 569 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:30.599 listened and listened and listened to you guys talk about the failure of the basketball 570 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:35.000 team to go any further than they did. Yeah, well, what did 571 00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:39.239 you decide was their downfall? What aspect? Good question, that's a great 572 00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:43.760 question. Let me say this, Jim and then to Jay can chime in 573 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:49.079 all year and then if if if my guy here, Jay disagrees with me. 574 00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:51.800 I've said it all year. Two things that I was concerned about the 575 00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:57.519 most Bollows free throw shooting and and Caleb going crazy and not uh not hitting 576 00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:04.800 shots and going not crazy, going going guard in a bad game. If 577 00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:07.920 those two things happened, this team would not would not survive it. Eventually, 578 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.679 it did. It took a while, but it did. It all 579 00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:15.679 happened at once and again, as we said all year long, there were 580 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:17.760 games that they lost. We said, if they do that in a game 581 00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:22.039 against a good team in the NCAA tournament, they'll lose. And that's exactly 582 00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:30.400 what happened. Well, where I come from, which is Indiana and basketball, 583 00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:39.800 there is almost a religion why you would have hardly looked any further at 584 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:45.280 the success or failure of a team in an eighteen year old point guard. 585 00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:52.119 Yeah, but he's he's not a tem but see Jim teams win with young 586 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:54.840 point guards, especially in this day and age, where Jim, by the 587 00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:58.239 time you get to by the time you get to college, you've played so 588 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.320 much basketball, you're not really he was already two years in. Yeah, 589 00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:06.239 two four years. He's a sophomore, Jim. Yeah, no, I 590 00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:09.440 I no, I he just wasn't good at the end of the year. 591 00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:15.400 He just wasn't good. And it's that simple. I don't think anything partly 592 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:20.239 because of his age. I'm not sure I agree with that, and I 593 00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:27.679 don't. I don't think he's a prototypical time point guard either. Uh yeah, 594 00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:31.000 yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean, he was live 595 00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:35.800 it this way. In terms of guys on the team, he was the 596 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:39.960 most I thought, the most well equipped point guard. Jade and Bradley pretty 597 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.320 good. Yeah, but he's not a distributor. But he's not so much 598 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:45.840 of a distributor. You know. He takes the ball to the wall at 599 00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:49.800 the point, and that's the point I'm going at, And it's the point 600 00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:57.960 guard that distributes the ball since the floor and everyone else operates off his efforts. 601 00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:02.920 Yeah, they haven't had that guy since teaching mconnall. TJ. McConnell. 602 00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:07.199 Yeah, well, I'm thinking of Mike Baby and those guys. Well, 603 00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:09.199 that's a long time ago. You were a young man for that. 604 00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:15.280 No, you were, now you're still all back. Then, I'll let 605 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:22.000 you go. Thanks, you've been eliminating throughout the list. Yeah, okay, 606 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:23.880 thank you. You know, I I don't know. I mean, 607 00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:30.519 I think I think Colin Boswell is more point guard than he is a two 608 00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:35.320 guard. Yeah, very much. Right. It's funny. He was very 609 00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:38.679 capable the year before, right, How could you go from very capable to 610 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:44.800 uncapable in a year. Honestly, he wasn't incapable. There were just some 611 00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:47.639 games where he just was very big games not you know, not good well 612 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:51.199 more. I think he was more the most part, Steve, he was 613 00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:53.320 pretty good, uh more often than not. For sure. I was, 614 00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:58.000 okay, I'll go fifty to fifty on that. You can go that way. 615 00:41:58.039 --> 00:42:00.880 I'll go fifty to fifty because you was one a guy that was that 616 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:06.360 was very good at some point, wasn't very good anymore or even halfway good? 617 00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:07.559 Am I wrong? No? I don't think you're completely wrong. I 618 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:10.599 was gonna say that I think his game lacks focus. I think on the 619 00:42:10.840 --> 00:42:14.920 or like it. You knew the talent that he had, which is what 620 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.000 you're speaking, could you've seen it, but he wasn't on the court. 621 00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:20.920 It didn't seem like his game was focused on any one aspect of it. 622 00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:22.000 It was like, well, let's see what happens this game. And it 623 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:24.760 was very clear. And they're throwing different things out of every game. So 624 00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:28.880 he's either gonna be able to excel or not excel because his game is not 625 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:31.480 consistent in that way. Sure, and it was very clear either from the 626 00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:36.159 beginning at some point when you knew he was not gonna you were not going 627 00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:39.360 to see the good Boswell, if he had an airball or something went bad, 628 00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:43.679 he was not good. Yeah, And we did have a couple of 629 00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:45.800 players like that on this on this year's team. To give me the other 630 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:46.599 ones, I mean, I feel like there are some games where no, 631 00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:51.400 I don't think. I think I think there are some games where bollowed earlier 632 00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:53.280 in the season. Specifically I'm talking about where like you kind of get a 633 00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:57.639 vibe of his effort being a certain level, or his ability to get up 634 00:42:57.679 --> 00:42:59.719 and down the court being a certain level against a certain tea. He was 635 00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:01.760 not exactly he was definitely not a shape when the start. I think, 636 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:05.280 you know, as you're watching the I think there were games where Caleb Love 637 00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:07.760 You're like, okay, well he's either you know, mister inferno hot fire, 638 00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:09.960 or you're trying to get the Caleb Love who's not going to make a 639 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:15.920 three and tap whatever. So I think we had a couple of players, 640 00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:19.800 specifically guards, that you know, we're up and down on their ability to 641 00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:21.880 what would you say? And I just popped in my mind, what would 642 00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:27.239 you say? The biggest mystery of this team was just why they could be 643 00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:30.119 so bad at times, well against good bad teams, right against bad teams. 644 00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:32.360 I mean, what against any team. I mean, well, you 645 00:43:32.360 --> 00:43:37.280 know it eventually Stanford, Oregon State, I know. But what I'm saying 646 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:40.239 is, but you know they were I mean, they just that they could 647 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:45.119 be so good and then be so bad. Yeah. Well, my thing 648 00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:49.320 is they were bad against bad teams until Clemson came in. It wasn't that 649 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:50.960 a bad team. It was not a bad team. They were not a 650 00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:57.079 bad team. I don't know, I really don't know why the gap right, 651 00:43:57.159 --> 00:44:01.000 the gap from how good how bad they could be? And and again 652 00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:04.800 and and as you said, a bunch of times. You know, how 653 00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:07.280 much of it was shaded by how well they did early in the year. 654 00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:12.960 Were we mistaken as to how good they were during that time? Hell and 655 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:16.079 by mid December we were talking about whether the flaws. Oh, we can't 656 00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:22.159 find it until we found them. Then we found it. They found us. 657 00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:25.840 Honestly, they were big. They show themselves to us, keep working 658 00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:30.920 very No, I don't know, Steve, I don't know. I don't 659 00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:37.239 think it was about Boswell being too young. I just think it was about 660 00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:39.519 Boswell not being very good as a point guard. And at the same time, 661 00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:43.960 there were some games where Caleb Love wasn't very good over the last few 662 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:46.199 games in the season, and then other other pieces of that as well. 663 00:44:46.280 --> 00:44:50.360 So, and it happens, it happens. So I don't I'm not. 664 00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:57.239 I'm not so sure. How Yeah, it's it's hard to pin it down. 665 00:44:57.239 --> 00:44:59.559 I guess what I'm saying, you know, I mean the way Jim 666 00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:01.320 asked a quest, what was the thing? Well, it wasn't a thing, 667 00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:04.840 you know, it was a lot of little things. Yeah, a 668 00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:07.719 lot of little things that added up to a big thing and and a loss 669 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:13.960 to in the in the sweet sixteen, I guarantee you next year when Indiana 670 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:15.840 plays, you're going to see a lot of people posting stuff on how he 671 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:21.400 did from the free throw line. Bollow, Yeah, because either he's good 672 00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:23.679 or he's kind of good or not good, but he made shots. Yeah, 673 00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:28.039 I really I like Bollow as a player. I think I'm unsure if 674 00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:30.679 Indiana fans are fully aware of like the player that they're getting, right. 675 00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:34.679 I think they think that they're getting a certain guy when really they're getting a 676 00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.159 different guy who's also a high quality, you know, one of the best 677 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:38.840 big men in the nation. Sure, but I don't know if he's the 678 00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:42.360 guy that they think that they're getting. No. I totally agree that's a 679 00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:45.599 good observation because we talked about that. If they're paid one point whatever, 680 00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:50.360 if play, if the if the internet's correct, and I don't doubt I 681 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:53.039 doubt that it is, well what are you getting for that? Yeah? 682 00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:58.320 What are you paying for? Wow? There's all that. There's a you 683 00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:00.719 know, I mean that's the question that's going to be asked going forward for 684 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.239 players where they didn't have to deal with that. Sure, I mean they 685 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:06.639 say, well, you got a scholarship, you should be better when you're 686 00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:07.599 making a million dollars. You need to be better than that. Well, 687 00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:09.719 they're gonna have, you know what, They're gonna have to deal with that. 688 00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:13.719 Sure. Sure. We were talking about fans being nasty earlier this year. 689 00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:19.159 Yeah, I mean when the more money players start making, it get 690 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:22.559 Yeah, I brought that up. You probably weren't here. Then if you're 691 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:28.079 getting paid money like that, do you deserve it and you're not playing well, 692 00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:32.000 he probably comes with the territory. It just does, sadly, but 693 00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:36.239 it does. Yeah, absolutely, it absolutely does. But again, if 694 00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:37.880 you want to make the big bucks, you're gonna have to take the stuff 695 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:40.440 that comes with it. Sure, sure, no, And then you know 696 00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:43.760 what, and they're gonna they're fine with it. Sure you know. Well, 697 00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:46.960 of course the checks are cashing and as a booster, I know you 698 00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:51.519 put money into it. And Cody does too. And I never asked him 699 00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:53.840 this question. But you put twenty five fifty thousand, and you think I 700 00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:57.719 paid, I paid for this. What's my return? You know? I 701 00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:00.239 think in that in that sense, Steven, And I don't know, maybe 702 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:02.679 if this is just how I would approach it to me, if I'm supporting 703 00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:09.400 a kid n I l yeah, but I'm I'm kind of like, all 704 00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:14.000 I want is for them to not do anything really stupid, like get in 705 00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:19.199 trouble, you know, I mean, if they're I feel if you feel 706 00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:21.880 that, if you're gonna, first of all, if you've done your due 707 00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:28.320 diligence on a kid to to provide some uh nil support, you're probably gonna 708 00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:34.039 support a kid that you know, you know that there's you're going to check 709 00:47:34.079 --> 00:47:37.119 the character right. You're not going to support a kid that's likely to do 710 00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:40.440 that you think is likely to you know, do something really ridiculous or stupid, 711 00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:45.280 you know, a d u I uh, you know, a sexual 712 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:49.840 assault, you know whatever, you're gonna you're gonna try and support a kid 713 00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.519 that you think has has a lot of credibility. You look at their family, 714 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:53.960 you look at all those things, because you're putting money. You know, 715 00:47:54.320 --> 00:48:00.519 it's an investment. And so I think a booster who does that and 716 00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:04.280 does this stuff for the right reason. All they're looking for is for a 717 00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:08.719 kid who's a good representation of whatever program they're in. And maybe they're not 718 00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:13.719 as good as you would hope they were going to be, but as long 719 00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:17.920 as they don't embarrass you, and not only don't embarrass you, but represent 720 00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:22.400 you really well, you know, on and off the field. I think 721 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:27.400 that's what Booster's looking for. I don't think Booster is going to pay is 722 00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.480 necessarily looking to pay a Caleb Le's Okay, I'm gonna give you this money, 723 00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:34.360 but you better score twenty three points a game. I don't think that's 724 00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:37.599 what they're doing. I think they're saying to Caleb Love, you better not 725 00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:39.760 get in trouble. You better go to school, do all the stuff that 726 00:48:39.840 --> 00:48:43.639 comes with being an athlete, and you know what, and just be a 727 00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:45.760 good teammate. That's all I want from you. And I was going to 728 00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:47.400 say, like if I was a Booster in that position, which I was 729 00:48:47.679 --> 00:48:50.800 not, but if I was, I would just want to know that they're 730 00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:52.599 doing the things on and off the court to be the best version of them. 731 00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:54.920 So right, that's it, And I want to help him do that 732 00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:58.079 by making sure that the bills are paid. This you know, you can 733 00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:00.400 go get closed whatever. Yeah, but just don't be spending all your time 734 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:04.719 out and about right like like if like if you know, if you're well, 735 00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:07.320 if you're if you're providing an I l to to to Umar, you're 736 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:13.000 not disappointed of course I was just gonna throw something. So you're supporting n 737 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:16.159 I l if you saw what the ranch and you're doing this for, and 738 00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:21.559 then you see the photos of him at the table, well that's that's that's 739 00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:23.360 up there where I said, as as long as you're not doing anything stupid, 740 00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:27.880 right, being a good representative, that was not a good being a 741 00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:31.880 good representative of the program and of you know whoever was supporting him. And 742 00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:35.760 that's that's exactly what I'm saying, Steve, you know, doing something like 743 00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:37.400 that or like I said, or getting the d U I you know, 744 00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:42.599 ra car racing a car, getting shot, getting caught, shoplifting, you 745 00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:47.159 know, flunking out of school. Those are the things that that you know, 746 00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:51.639 you watch for. But you know, if if you were if you're 747 00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:55.280 providing an nil money to Umar Bellow and he had a horrible game in an 748 00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:59.760 important time, you're not pissed at that, and you're not saying I shouldn't 749 00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:02.199 have every giving you any money and not sending him an apple casher question right, 750 00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:07.639 right? So you know, so that's I think that's that's me. 751 00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:12.440 Now, maybe somebody is saying, Okay, I'm gonna give you this dough 752 00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:15.360 but you better get you know, X X X and X. Well. 753 00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:19.559 I don't know that that might be different for different programs around the country, 754 00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:23.679 Like if the expectations are X, for example, you might look to find 755 00:50:23.679 --> 00:50:27.559 a player who fits that no matter what their character is. But that might 756 00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.639 not be what an Arizona booster is looking for versus you know, any other 757 00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:34.159 school. I mean, again, I don't have that money to hand out, 758 00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:36.840 but if I did, I'm just looking for a kid who's going to 759 00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:40.679 represent me, because I'm if I'm giving him an al money, I'm asking 760 00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:45.519 him to come and represent whatever it is, my company or whatever, and 761 00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:49.280 as long as they represent that well. And I think for the most part, 762 00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:52.440 Kylon did that whole thing, that whole episode with the the you know, 763 00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:55.000 was that Was that a smart thing to do? Now? Was that 764 00:50:55.039 --> 00:51:00.000 a dumb thing to do? Yes? Would somebody probably disappointed in that? 765 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:07.199 Yeah? Absolutely, but far worse things true you put it that way, 766 00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:12.079 Yeah, I mean, if you put it that way. And also, 767 00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:15.639 if you're giving the kid money, whoever it is, are you are you 768 00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:17.840 telling them this about Okay, I hope you don't do this or I hope 769 00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:22.639 you don't do that. What if you're not. Well, let me put 770 00:51:22.639 --> 00:51:24.599 it this way. I'm putting that in the contract. I was gonna say, 771 00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:28.519 the contracts, Yeah, they're they're contract that. I'm putting that in 772 00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:34.480 the contract. I'm saying the morals clause or behavioral clause or morals clause in 773 00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:37.679 the contract. There are those in major league contracts. You know, you 774 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:39.719 do this, you know, we get to pull, we get to pull 775 00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:44.480 your salary, you know, without penalty because you did this or that. 776 00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:49.679 Those are things are pretty standard in the contract, and I'm thinking I would 777 00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:53.039 expect that those things are standard in nil contracts as well. I'm sure that 778 00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:57.679 Bert Lopez doesn't want t mac out there, you know, hanging out at 779 00:51:57.679 --> 00:52:00.920 strip clubs and you know, walking around with hookers and things like that, 780 00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:06.280 if he's going to represent his company. That's a bit extreme. But okay, 781 00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:12.400 how extreame is that, Kevin? Don't trying to gauge around over here? 782 00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:19.679 Yeah, forty five seconds, get out of here. But you know 783 00:52:19.719 --> 00:52:21.840 what, you get my point though, right? You get The point is 784 00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:27.639 that you know you're you're paying these guys mostly for their reputation, and it's 785 00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:31.440 and and and so the reputation of your company is going to be affected by 786 00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:35.960 the reputation of the We Gotta Come when we have Jake on it later this 787 00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:38.320 week, some people says, joking, he said, we got to blame 788 00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:43.239 Jake because he was kind of on the initial steps of this and this is 789 00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:45.360 nothing what they wanted to do. This is not this isn't what it was 790 00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:49.199 supposed to be. Right, all right, Okay, that's it for the 791 00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:51.840 day. Thank you for being here. Follow us on the podcast. It'll 792 00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:54.599 be up tonight. 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