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welcome back to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve, he's Jay. Now we have Ryan with breaking news. This is
Eye on the Ball Breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm gonna start
a little bit of University of Arizona news. Former Washington catcher Sydney Stewart commits
to Arizona softball. I guess, I guess. I don't know if it
was their their catcher from this year senior? Do we know or yeah,
I don't know. What what's your background? Does it say? Well?
The good thing is they need players like this. They just yeah, they
need to quality players. See what happens, you can kind of sense that.
I think that coaches getting stuff figured out, and and and and maybe
it's gonna take a little while, but it's going the trend. It's trending
up right. Well, Yeah, I mean, look, you know she
you know, they got to a super regional and in their situation was just
really about pitching. If you know, if she can just get some pitching.
I think she'd be just fine, but they need that, and and
three years into it, they still haven't had decent pitching. Does anybody know
where that Stanford pitcher is going. That's the one thing. The Stanford pitcher
who was fantastic to the player. I think she was going to, Oh,
here's the money, here's the bag, come here. Yeah, I
mean, I sure hope she got the degree from Stanford, uh before she
went to Oklahoma. But because I mean, why would you give that up
for any amount of money? I'm pretty sure I'm looking at right now.
I don't remember her name. That's why I said something Kennedy or something like
that. Okay, go ahead. R So, Emily step is a catcher,
she's returning from this past season. And then they added Emma Kevinaugh.
But they're saying that they still need some like Corn Rangel spots and does many
players. I think that's a kind of reason they wanted to add Stuart right
right. You don't have tickets to softball, do you? Do you?
I didn't go to a single game this want I knew that I want you.
I want to get They're not very expensive, and that's a good money
money situation if you want to spend some time out at the ballpark. So
I am I looking to Yeah, no, I you don't. This is
the first time in a long time that I have gone to at least one
game. But I don't know. I don't. They just never lined up
with one. I think, well, we're here a lot. I mean,
we're here during that time. I said. We talked to coach last
week or two weeks ago, Coach Brennan that we couldn't get to practice because
his practices were exactly at this time. Yeah, yep, yep, all
Rightick switch over to some NFL news X Raiders Defensive End Chandler Jones. Please
no contests, I may avoid Jael. Let me go over the d for
a little bit. So he pleaded no contest on June seventeenth to a domestic
violence charge, and we'll avoid all time if he meets certain conditions. You
see the ninety day Chelseonitz charge will be dismissed if he stays out of trouble
for the next six months, has no contact with a victim or you know,
except for the family court order according to records. Is that your side,
God bless you? Was you know can we just not Can we just
not beat up our girlfriends? Please? You knows tough, that's all.
That's it. Just you know, you got got all these you know,
we saw here, we saw here for you know, remember rich Rod with
his guys, and you know you've got all these great opportunities. You know,
you're in a position that not a lot of us get to be in.
All you got to do is not beat up. That's the last thing
they think of. I know, that's the last thing. I know.
When you're an athlete, I want to be I want to be kind here.
When you're an athlete and you've been given a lot because you can play
a sport well where you're going, you you think you can do a lot
of stuff. Yeah, and you and and I've seen it where you could
do a lot of stuff because they fixed it. Yes, yeah, might
telling you people took carrige, people to carry. There's a point though they
can't carry, cannot take care of you anymore. Yeah, yeah, No,
you're right. It's just it's I know that's just the way it is.
But it shouldn't be. No, I know, I know, I
know, I know, I know. I'm going back to this picture Najari
Stanfford, Stafford, Stanford. She has not committed and she has not committed
anywhere, although there is an item that says she has ain't some sort of
an ni L deal with some organization. So but I'm not seeing if she's
or she is in terms of her it's been a while time at school,
if she's gotten her degree, of what the deal is, because if I
my, if my, if my Stanford student softball player jumps into the portal
from Stanford and doesn't already have a degree, I'm tying that kid to a
rock over on the Scafford campus and saying, you're not going anywhere. But
that's just me, okay. Espe's over to a little bit of NBA news.
Knicks guard O g and Anobi has opted out of his contract and he's
going into free agency. According to reports, signed a four year, seventy
two million dollars deal with the Raptors back in twenty twenty with the player option.
So he did he oh, he was acquired by the next from the
from the Raptors and he declined the option is what you're saying, Okay,
So he's going somewhere else. He's going to go to free agency. He
doesn't want to be with the Knicks. I don't go ahead, just like
the Lakers thought the name there, you'll go to the Lakers. We'll talk
about the Lakers in the second after you finished. That's that's really what I
happened. That's all. Yet. Okay, did you what did you listen
to or see the new Lakers coach? I did not what a fantastic press
conference? He left two F bombs. Two f bombs in there. You
know what you know, people people talk about me, not coaches. I
don't give it an f I don't. I'm here to coach man. Yeah,
I don't give it. Hey, look, you know he's got the
job. You know, it's up to him to go out there, show
right right right, and if he's confident in himself, then help everybody else.
I played under coach k I had fifteen years in the league. I
do what I've done for a long time. I think. I'm okay,
yeah, you know, and let me ask you this. Let me say
this to you, because you've been a boss. You've been a boss,
and I don't know if you're a people person to one hundred percent, they'll
go there that if you you know the game. You know the game,
right, And I use Steve Curs an example, and he's a one off.
He's just an exceptional guy. He knows people, knows how to treat
people fairly, and otherwise he was He was a perfect transition into his job,
right, did all these things. He never had a coaching job on
any level, and here he did became what he became. Did he have
a good team, Yes, But tell me that it's not difficult coaching those
egos. Got ego guys, not one, not two, three, four
or five of them. It's hard. It's harder than you think. Look,
nobody taught me how to be a boss again, Okay, I mean
so I went to some management schools, but not to a school that said,
okay, in this kind of a crisis between two employees, this is
what you do. I never got any of that. It just is a
fielding. No exactly. Okay, So this is where I was going with
it. If you're a good people person and you could read a room and
know who to massage, who not the massage, and hug on times and
kicking the ass on another others, you're gonna be okay as a coach.
You're treating people fairly and all people want and that's all people want, and
especially in sports, especially in sports. That's why Steve did the transition very
well. I think Reddicks is going to do very fine. He's in a
tough situation, right but anywhere, anywhere, anywhere, Look look Tommy Lowy,
the guy here, perfect demeanor for the situation. He came in in
a tough spot after Sean. Sean was a one way guy. And I've
said this to to coach Tommy when I did the story for you guys last
year, is he was the perfect guy to replace Miller after what Miller had
been had done. Does that make sense? But the way he ran program
and and you know what, just just the way it worked. Yeah,
no, I hear you. And that's what me ask you. Have you
have you had bad bosses who didn't know people? Oh? Yeah, how
did that go? Not? Well? Exactly exactly. That makes my point
even more because you could be a good boss, but if you don't know
people, you're not a very good boss there. And you know there are
a couple of a couple of people in you that I just thought, how
did you get to be a no, no, no people? Fall forward.
What did you get people for such a term? People fall forward because
they don't. It's like the it's like the the malcontent eleventh grader who beats
up kids and just doesn't care about any thing. They move them out because
they don't want them with them, they don't want them eleventh grade. The
faster he's out, the faster he's out. Right, No, I yeah,
no, it's it. And look, there's nothing easy about being a
boss, a coach or whatever. But what is easy and what should be
easy, I guess, and maybe it's easier for some people than this for
others is to be, as you said, just somebody who understands people and
treats people in a way that you would want to be treated. And that's
you know, it's it's simple. I mean, the whole the whole golden
rule thing. I don't want to get all religious, but the whole thing
of just treat people the way, you know, And that's what I That's
what I told the first time I became a supervisor at at t EP,
when when I mean all of a sudden, I was I was in charge
of people who I was appeer to. Right, I got promoted in that
department, And these are all people that we were all the same. Now
I'm their boss. And at the at at the first staff meeting we had
after I got the promotion, I said to them, said, I promise
you I will just try to be the boss that I would want to have.
That's why I'm going to try and be. And I said, and
and the other second thing I told him was I don't think I'm smarter than
any of you in this room, so I'm relying on you to make this
thing work. How did and how did that went? Well, that's what
That's all they wanted to hear. That's all they wanted to hear. It
worked really well. Fair be a parent or a transparent blah blah blah,
and that's it. I just I just never believed that I was smarter than
anybody or you know, I'm like I was. I was almost embarrassed to
be their boss because like we're all came from the same place. Yeah right.
The thing about it, like with Kerr, he had a good team,
he also had a bunch of egos. How do you besage? And
look, I was at teasing likely power. I wasn't doing the Golden State,
Golden State warriors, you know, when you got guys like you know,
Draymond Green and those kinds of guys. Man, there's there's a lot
of work that goes into having being able to manage those guys, even under
your conditions of telling the guys or and the women, I'm sure, I'm
just me. I'll try to be the boss that you want. You know,
I want to be from me. Did you have people who try to
test you? Eventually? And probably I Eventually I eventually hired a guy who
was just a big p We talked and we talked about that, and you
had to let him go with Yes, I ended up firing the guy because
he was just too much of a pain in the ass because he was commanding,
you know, all my attention and trying to get this guy to be
a good teammate. Yeah, he was your dream on Green. Yes,
eventually, did say enough for I scrubbed him from the department. Yeah,
I mean, do you know that was a quantity that could have been a
consequence it. No, it was very sudden. I finally just said I'm
tired of your crap, and you must have had the OK from above,
So there you go. I had I mean, I had, you know,
I had uh what do you call it, you know, kept track
of stuff, your documentation. And then finally there was a there was one
final incident that just said that's over the line. You're you're fired. And
it was a hard thing to do because on the one hand, I liked
the guy, you know, he was he was a really smart guy and
he was really good. On the other hand, there was a third he
was a big giant piece of stuff that was just he ruined our department.
Yeah, and you can't have people like that. And every place, every
place, a lot of places have that guy or girl. Yeah, no,
you do you end up with one of those. And I guess I
should have known that when I hired to me. It's just fascinating. Oll
he doesn't have any experience. He knows the game and if you know people,
yeah, you're halfway. Well. Again, with the amount of time
that JJ Reddick has put into basketball, I mean, you know, since
he was probably a little kid, you figure he's he's seen enough, been
around enough coaches to know what makes a good coach, what makes a bad
coach. Probably if he's a smart guy. And since he went to Duke,
I'm guessing he's a pretty smart guy, you know, knows the x's
and oh and that's what he said. You know, I played with the
coach k I played in the league for fifteen years, Luke Luke wont same
type of deal. He'd filled in for Shot Steve Golden State. It was
fantastic. Went to the Lakers, not so much because of the dynamic of
the players. Yeah, and you know, now you know he's out.
He was with Cleveland for a while. Because you can be a great coach
and be in a horrible situation where nobody would succeed, you can, Yeah,
you know, I mean, how many coaches have been crap coaches in
one place then they become great coaches, you know, at another place.
You know, there's coaches like that. You know, Nick Saban couldn't coach
in the NFL, and all of a sudden he goes back to Alabama and
he's arguably the greatest coach in the history college football. You know. So,
I mean it's just some things work in some places and some places they
don't work. That's just the way it is. And it's coaches they kind
of figure that out and kind of see, Okay, I gotta do this
I gotta do this without giving up what they sort of stand for and how
they want to do things. Those are the ones they are successful. I'm
sure Steve Kerr had some nights where you went home and said, what the
hell? No one going on? When he called the other day when we
talked to him, I said, yeah, there were times when I wish
I could be Steve Kerr. Then I realized no, not so much.
So much. In fact, one of our readers or listeners just texted me
Kerr saw how the Bulls were massaged by Phil and he used this as right,
right, I mean, think about the Yeah, the job that Phil
Jackson did with the guys that he had over there, and he won six
championships with him. Yeah, so there you go. Todayn't easy. It's
not. If it was, anybody could do it. Okay, let's take
our break. We're going to come back Jerry Stitt. We'll talk to some
old Arizona baseball, maybe some other stuff. He's now in the administration over
at Pima, but just get a sense of what he's up to and some
of his thoughts on where we are with the college sports these days. So
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Salas. This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteenth. Hey,
welcome back to Iying the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve
Rivera. He's Jacin Sauce. Now in a hole. We have Jerry Stitt
from Arizona baseball coach, now an administrator. That Pima great Pima coach.
How are you? I'm doing well? How are you guys doing? Before
we ask you how to hit a screw up or a curveball up the middle,
we'll go to the questions because who knows. I wish I could do
that. I wish I could do that. I could help you, I
could help you. Yeah, I heard James said that you taught his wife
out of here. I remember that you are slow pitch softball team. I
think Ray Martinez got you to teach teach our wives how to hit. We
won a couple of titles out of that, so that's right. We've won
those big giant trophies that nobody wanted in their house. So we gave him
my dad, who used to come to all of our games anyway, just
a little side thing there, the good days. So coach, you had
a tribute, are you about Willie Mays? Could you kind of elaborate on
what that was? Yeah, I just really was my idol growing up when
I grew up. I grew up in Phoenix, and we were always I
was always a huge Giants fan with my dad, but unfortunately my brother liked
the Yankees. But yeah, we we would go to spring training games and
watch him, and we had Giants on the radio, Russ Simmons, you
know, and just every night I would when I could, I'd listen to
the games on the radio. I had I kept score I had a scrap
book. He was my guy, and uh, I saw him play a
few times. And the one clearest memory of it was down at the old
Municipal Stadium then on South Central and we're at a spring training game and and
he well, he was up and we were down the left field bleachers,
kind of between the third base and the foul pole and hit he hit a
pop up all over quotes to us and and my dad reached for it,
couldn't get it, and it bounced and came in it and he caught it.
He gave it to me and and uh, you guys got all of
it. This is this is a treasure for me. But like all kids,
it was it was the next day it was sandlot a brandy. Literally
we were hitting that baby around instead of putting it putting it up on a
shelf. And but as I, as I grew up, you know,
he'd always watched him and loved him and read every book was ever written about
him. And uh, and when when JT. Snow was was was with
the Giants, I was up visiting my friend Dennis Romley, who was the
catcher on our high school team, and he lived up just I love Stanford
in Palo Alto, and and we're going to go to a Giants game.
Is his son Timmy was playing. He was he was thirteen and playing pony
and so, oh yeah, So I called j T, see if we
get in early in the batting practice, and so, of course sure,
So the next day we went down there. He met us at the gate
and walked us in and he said to me, hey, whatever you do,
don't even look at Berry today. Don't don't, don't say a word
to him. He's in one of those moods. And that was that was
very bond. You know. When he was in that mood, you better
watch out. So we went to uh PP and we're standing right next to
the lane that runs from the dugout to the to the to the plate,
you know. And and Barry finished his last round and he and he walks
out towards the dugout and I try not to look at him. Of course,
here's here's Timmy with with his very bonds jersey on and gloves with bonds
written all over the bedding clothes. And so he walks he's walking out and
he says, hey, coach ste how are you doing? And I said,
I said, I'm doing great, but not as good as you.
And he said, yeah, I can always do better. And he looked
at Timmy. He says, who's this guy. I said this, this
my my friend's son, Tim Timmy Romley, and he says, he says,
hey, when you come in, when you come and the locker room
later, I'll give you a pair of batting gloves. Kimmy was like just
floating on air, you know. And you know, we had recruited Verry
out of high school and I saw him play a lot of times and visited
his home and Coach Kendall was really good friends with Bobby his his his father,
and of course he ended up going to Issue and but still, you
know, he was very cordial to both Coach Kendall and I as long as
I remember. And so that was kind of a special moment that a he
remembered me that b JT had told us that you know, you better watch
out. Yeah, I don't even look at it. So JT finished his
round and we went He went down the cage hit some teas always did this
after BP hit some t's make sure everything was right. So we were walking
down the tunnel getting to the locker room. And then I looked in Dusty
Baker's off and there was Willie sitting in a chair talking to Dusty in front
of his desk. And so I said, hey, hey, Willie.
I said, hey, JT, that's Willie May. He says, yeah,
come on in, I'll introduce you to him. So we walked in
and you know, there's Dusty and I'd met him a few times Dusty,
and he kind of gave me the nod your hands, eyes, his head,
toothpick in his mouth of course. Feet up on the desk and JT
walks up to Willie and he says, Willie, I'd like you to meet
Jerry Stip And he says another surprise to me. He says, I know
who you are. You coach with Jerry Kendall, and you coach this guy
too, you know, pointing to JT as this that's true. And then
he says, I'll never forgive Jerry for pulling the hidden ball trick on me.
Oh wow. He says that wriggly Field, I'd hit a double off
the ivy. I'm staying on second base. You know, Jerry took to
throw in and and act like he threw it to the picture and and we're
both standing on second base and I step off the bag and he tags me
out and and then he says, and he was a rookie. I had
to laugh. Here's the greatest player on Earth. And j K pulls hid
and bal trick on him as a rookie has a pretty pretty good moment too.
So he was my idol, you know, like I say, just
every every special that was ever on uh Netflix or Amazon whatever, I'd watch
it and and and always just beside besides the number, the numbers, you
know, the incredible numbers he put up, and it was it was just
how he played the game and just uh, it looks like he was loving
every single minute of it. And and and that's what That's what I think,
more than anything attached me to And and I was. I was actually
watching the game on the Game of the Week with with Dizzy Dean and Buddy
Bladner when he when he hit that, when he hit his four home runs
against Milwaukee. So a lot of good memories about Willie. And in my
in my study right now where I am, I have four pretty good pictures
of Willie. One, uh, a very of large black and white of
the catch. Oh yeah, that is signed by Willie. So I got
some pretty good memories of a man. Well, Jerry, and we're talking
to Jerry Stiff from Arizona baseball coach. Jerry. You know when we were
kids, right, we had guys like that, you know, you know,
to me, right to me, you know, it was Sandy Kofax,
you know, And I mean I was I was seven years old when
his career ended. Yet you know the two or three years that I can
remember, you know, watching him still stand out to me, you know,
sixty years late, nearly sixty years later, and we had guys like
that. You had Willie Mays. You know, we talked to you know,
our friend Greg Hansen had Mickey Mantle. I you know, Steve had
you know, Pete Rose and Joe Morgan and those guys. We had those
guys. I don't know if it's the same today. And I don't mean
to be the get off my lawn guy. Yeah, people love show,
Hey o Tani, but you know who's who are guys that when you think
about growing up, you think about guys like that. For you, it
was Willy Mays. Yeah's right, it was always well in Like I said,
my brother was a Yankee fan, and I love Mickey Mantle and you
know, I love Mickey too, what a great player. And you know,
coach coach, coach Ken Drea. He has a whole room and how
dedicated to Mickey Mannell and the Yankees. And he has he has some Memorabiley
and I'm sure it's worth of but it is. It's incredible, you know.
But you're right, you attach yourself to see your idols and and you
just just kind of stick with them always. And that was that's so true,
I think. So Okay, so we want we want to get a
little into a little bit of a deep conversation here that that was pretty deep
too, though. But I was looking at your I was looking at your
bio on your Hall of Fame page on the on the air z on a
website, and the last line says that your doctor says his doctoral dissertation presented
the case for aligning athletic department goals and objectives with educational and social mission of
our universities. I thought, is there anything more timely than that right now?
And that that's kind of what universities are having to do because of the
finances of stuff they're having to absorb these athletic departments that have long been kind
of separate. Is that kind of where you were going with that? That
you know it has to be it all has to be together. What what?
I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on that whole thing. I
know how long ago that was you did that, or if you still think
about it, but it seems very pertinent to what's going on right now.
Yes, I do think about it, I and I and I do bring
it up often, you know. I talked I talked to Chip not too
long ago about about part of part of a big part of it was the
vision, mission and goals, part of what what the athletic department is doing.
And as I learned, and as I learned in my research and interviews
with lots of athletic directors and coaches around the West, is that the mission
statement isn't worth the paper is written on it. It's how it's how the
athletic director, the president of the university see the role of athletics within the
community. And so often we got we get caught up and what are we
doing right now? But the vision part of it, and this is what
Chip is doing so well is looking forward and where are we going to be
in ten fifteen years. I'm sure this was a magical year. I mean,
it was an unbelievable year that the Cats had. But how do we
build on this? And how do we make the players appreciate and love being
Wildcats and want to be here more than any And that's part of it.
It's the co curricular part of it, not just athletics and not just academics.
It's how the community perceives that the players, uh and the coaches as
as part of the community, and and so often that is missing. But
I think I think in your earlier segment about the comment about the coaches and
how at the u A and how how dedicated they are to the community and
and and what we're trying to build here, I think that's that was the
biggest point of of my dissertation. What do you make of? What do
you make of today's n I L and so many things going on in the
financial situation that your your former school knows such thing as a former Wildcat.
Yeah, you know, the ni L money is uh, it's it's out
of control and and uh it doesn't look like anytime soon that it will get
back under control. I think one of the best things the n C two
A could do would would be would to put a limit on the time that
the transfer portal is open. But as we know now, it seems like
forever that it's open and kids can you know, hang out, hang out,
hang out, and then five weeks later they can dive into the transfer
portal. I think like a two week open period would be good. But
just like you look at some of the schools that that susy, you look
at Tennessee and I watched I watched the post game UH last night with coach
Fatello and and it's it's astounding the thing that you hear. It's like,
oh, here at Tennessee, we have everything we need. We have we
have the finances which we have, the players, we can get any just
about anything we need. And what he means by that is is we can
pretty much get any player we want. And we've seen you look at the
transfer portal from Jay Johnson at LSU, how many kids he's gotten out of
the transfer portal and who knows how much he's paying those guys. And for
me, some of those kids that get money in IL money that's the most
money they're ever going to make in baseball. They don't know that, right,
but you know, they get one hundred and fifty thousand, and by
time they pay their agent and taxes, you know, they might clear eighty.
So it's one of those things that it's almost tragic in my mind.
And and you know, when Arkansas was bounced out of their regional and their
coach Van Horne, who's he I watched. I watched his post game too,
and he said and he and it was incredible to hear him say that
we just need to get better players. We're just going to get better players.
You know, how does the coach put being bounced out of the regional
on the players? How about, hey, coach, how about saying I
should have done a better job of coaching. We the staff, we should
have done a better job of preparing for this, which is exactly what Chip
said when they were bounced. He didn't blame it on the players. He
said, we just have to do a better job of preparing and we will
in the future, so that we just can't. We cannot compete in thel
nil race and we've lost kids already. Trying to get him out of the
transfer portal because we just can't give him the you know, one hundred and
fifty, two hundred and fifty whatever they're getting from these other schools. So
that's kind of where I am with that. I think that the NT two
A and the schools have lost control. As they used to say, the
inmates are running the asylum and the kids are in charge. Yeah, yeah,
I know you're right, coach. We appreciate your time. Thank you
very much. Always you bet anytime, be well, be well, thank
you. Okay, yep, that was Jerry Stitt, coach, Jerry stick
I still need to know how to hit a curve ball up the middle.
That'll be for another day. No, that's not that happening anymore. I'll
give you that ham streaks are too old to be right. Well, tries
swinging a bat. Let's see see what you do to yourself. Let's cut
them off, cut that mic off and that's going to break. All right,
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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to Wying the Ball hero Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay, You're Ryan I got thirteen
minutes. He has been all day, thirty three years of his life.
He said, I'll be Ryan tomorrow too. You'll be Ryan tomorrow. You'll
be here tomorrow, right tomorrow, I'll be Okay, I remember that.
I remember that. Hey, well, anybody want to call? Uh,
I just got a text. We had a good interview with coach stitt YEP,
funny story about all his Barry Bonds and yeah, you know, you
know you forget right. I mean Barry Bonds went to ASU. We saw
him play here. Uh, you know I hated him then and still hate
him. So that's the way. That was definitely the good old days of
baseball. Oh you know, so's Arizona Asu. Yeah, the rivalry there
during the you know, during the six pack years. And do you remember
Bob Horner? Oh yeah, I was like thirty seventy he was he was
late seventies. No, yeah, I asked because he put down a good
play. Yeah, Bob Horner. I hated that, to be my doll.
Hated that guy too. You don't like anybody. Floyd Banister hated that
guy too. There were a bunch of those guys, you know, and
you think of the guys that came through here as part of that. You
know, Mark Maguire came through here playing for playing for USC, you know,
Mike Mussina. Uh, there were some guys that that that we saw
come through here. I didn't hate those guys as much as I hated you
guys. Yeah, they were. They were loaded, and there was some
incredible, incredible intense baseball games among those two teams. You know, in
the years, you know a lot. You know, before they expanded,
uh uh what became Sansett Stadium. You know, they would move the series
to High Corbett and uh, you know they would play over there in front
of thousands and thousands of people, and uh god, those are those are
such fun games. You know, later on in your years, you didn't
realize what at that time, you didn't realize what you're seeing, what you
were seeing until you thought about it later on, thought, wait a minute,
I remember that. Now. That a big deal. Right. Let
me talk to you real quick about that Texas A and M thing. So
he loses last night against Tennessee. The coach I didn't realize he had a
connection to del Conte. He was his coach at TCU before he left.
So last night the question was asked, I guess later in an interview after
the game about leaving or the probable interest in Texas, and he blew up
and says, I took the job at Texas a and m to never take
another job again, and that hasn't changed in my mind. He said,
that's unfair to talk about something like that. I gave up a big part
of my life to come and take this job. I poured every ounce of
my soul into this job, and I've given this job every single ounce I
could possibly give it. So write that less than twelve twenty four hours,
he's gone. He's gone again. You're just again. Just don't answer the
question. Yeah, it says to know and let people speculate all they want,
right, Just don't answer the question. Let people because then now he
sounds and appears. Look, he's got no credibility mine. You know,
he's got great ability for the Texas fans, but everybody else thinks that guy's
an idiot. You know, just if you're in a position like that,
just say, you know, I mean, like like the thing we go
back to the thing with jet Fish, right, yeah, I mean he
was like, where does that come from? Oh? What Torres just you
know from you know, you think about jet Fish and he was I'm here
here for the long haul. Yeah, and then you find out he was
looking for a job the whole last season. All of last season, he
was looking for a job during the year. I don't know what this,
but there and Torres, one of our guys on the radio every now and
again. Uh, he leaves for Texas in an all time scumbag move.
You can say that because that's what he does for a living. Jed,
We kind of knew that would happen at some point, right. Look,
he is what he is. He's a he's a maverick Bega Mount. He
came here, he was here for three years and he left. Yeah.
Hey, I'm perfectly fine, get right. He put perfectly right situation,
perfectly fine with it. But along the way, quit dropping the breadcrumbs like
saying I'm coming back, you know, instead, just shut up about it.
Yeah you said, I'm not talking about any of that stuff. I'm
trying to coach a season. Yeah, do that. It was mishandled at
the end, it was, it really was, you know, And then
you know, then he should you know, when when the ad said,
you know, I'm gonna come to your house. We're gonna film this,
we're gonna put it on on social media. She said, yeah, you
know that's not I love you guys, and thank you for you know,
thank you for the offer. Can we not do that because I've got some
people that maybe I don't want him, right, right, No, no,
sensible right. And if the athletic doctor said no, we're going to
do this, then I say, well, then you know what, go
hire somebody else because I'm you're not I'm not your kind of guy. He
wouldn't have done that. And then a month or so later, I don't
know the timeline, the AD's gone. Yeah, right then that guy's gone,
who had just gotten there months before. Right, So you know,
all these guys just just don't say anything. And I know it's hard,
right, you know, you go, you go back to the you know
when when uh uh Nick Saban said I'm the coach of the Miami Dolphins and
I think less than forty eight hours later he was the coach at Alabama.
Just deflect the question and if you want people gonna speculate, let him speculate.
But if they don't have an answer like that, you know, if
you don't tell people I'm here, then you leave. You don't look stupid.
And that's part of the problem of being not a problem, but being
a journalist. We asked the questions, you give us the answers, and
this is what you say. Well, he said, well he didn't.
You know, what's he get that? Well, that's what he said.
Yeah, you know, do you love your wife? Yeah? I love
her very much, and then all of a sudden he's divorcing. Oh I
met the soulmate. Shut up, shut up, I met my soulmate.
You know, I didn't know she was around the corner. Well I kind
of did, but they didn't. Right, as far as you know,
I didn't know she was around the corner. You'll just they'll say, yeah,
you know you again. I mean I love that. And the what
do you call it an all times comeback from tauris? Yeah, that's pretty
good. Now we've seen this before. I'm come on, Uh, basketball
specifically call the party moving from here to there? Yeah, it's let them
do with it. Yeah. Yeah. The thing is, the questions have
to be asked, right, uh, And it's not on them for you
to ask. If you decide to answer it, then be willing to stand
behind the answer. And if you don't want to have to stand behind something
that's gonna make you look stupid, then don't answer it that way. You
know, he could have just said, look, guys, just want to
ask, I just lost the National Championship game. I'm not talking about that.
Boom. Yeah it's over, it's over. Yeah yeah, no exactly.
Good answer, because again, journalists ask questions. Your job is to
win games, and that's it. No, exactly. And then christ Connie
running around like a like a wolf. He's up everybody. He's like to
do on the monopoly table, the little guy with the mustaches, and he's
buying all the property. Buy another property. Hey, you're gonna have Baltic.
I'm gonna take the other one. I'm taking digging board, yeah,
turking board will take it. All those fancy places. Well because I have
all the money. Yeah, pretty much. Him and other people, well,
good for him, good for you know, it's convention. You sit
down the road, do they you know, are they are they on the
spending spree that you know he's going to catch up with them at some point
or are they I'm still going to try to track him down because he's one
of my boys from northern New Mexico. Out of this kid, this little
Mexican kid, Hispanic can become del Conti. We'll see if yeah. Oh
yeah, yeah like big Spanic. Yeah sounds like Italian. No, no,
no, he's he has said that. He makes he sounds more Yeah,
you know the people. Yeah, yes, he's I wouldn't have thought
that. Yeah, from the hills and cows tows in northern northern towns.
Yes, okay, okay, So let's try to get him on. Give
him grief because he knows I want to give him grief. It's what we
do, you know. We're like the Hispanic group and we're good grief and
then we go have beers later exactly, you know, and then laugh about
it exactly. I mean, it's not it's not what we do that we
bring people down to our level. That's why George Lope was because of George
Loan, exactly. We bring people down to our level. We always do.
Always. Hey, look at you, look at j J. Meana
Noma. He got a manager job at TP. He thinks he's full of
it. He thinks look at how he walked, didn't walk like that,
even dresses fancy now like he works at Dylan's. I can. I could
tell some stories of it, but my brother and for Kanye, I'm gonna
telling the story because this this is a yessence of it, right, my
brother and for Kanye Attorney. And he's down there in our old neighborhood south
of south of Valencia Road, off the freeway, going door to door,
all right, campaigning door to door talking to people. You run for Kanye
Attorney, you know, but yeah, yeah, And he answered the door
and some guy said, I'm not voting for you because you left the neighborhood
and you don't care about us. That's perfect hispanic. And I'm like,
okay, so you're gonna go vote for, you know, the lady who
really doesn't give a crap about you, all right, doesn't even has never
been south of twenty second Street. You're gonna vote for her instead of the
guy who used to live here because you're mad because he made himself better and
got out of the neighborhood, that's what you're gonna do. And basically that
was his any that makes sense, right, you you got out, you
made yourself better than me, So I hate you, and so I'm gonna
go vote for somebody else who doesn't give one crap a lot, right,
but I know it. That is the essence of that. Go listen,
go listen to the George Lopez concerts, the early ones and Neil there's a
whole segment about that about how how I'll give you a reason to cry?
Yeah, yeah, how we you know we we can never congratulate people on
making themselves better. We always want to bring him back down to our level
because it makes us feel better. No, exactly, it's a crab mentality.
You ain't leaving this bucket. If I'm not going, You're gonna pull
your butt down exactly, and no disrespect. We'll go have drinks later exactly.
Okay, yes, we have three and a half minutes. Anybody want
to call give us a break, give us a break, give us a
call, and give us a break. I don't know how you can tell
him back. Uh. That was a good interview with coach Stitt. Uh
nice one. This uh this first part with with uh uh ray fortis a
lot of people, a lot of concerns about what's going on at you.
Let's see how they get out of it. Uh. We hope to get
uh desiree on the show to talk about stuff about what's going on. And
you know, my one of my questions I think has to be, did
you did you know this before you took the job? Did you have any
sense that this was going to happen? Because she's up against it, man,
look at look at you. I think she got the job because of
this. That they asked her to do this job, because I mean,
they had to know. And if they didn't, here's the the u A.
Yes, here's the deal. If the u A knew and didn't say
and didn't say, well, okay, stop there. Do you think there's
a chance that happened. No, really, I think there's a chance that
I do not. Okay, so because it would have been on her also
on her to do her due diligence to find out what's the financial decision?
Are you going to do? I think they brought Steve, They brought her
in to fix this. That's why she's here. I think I think that
that they felt that she could fix it, and they didn't think they could,
so that's why they made the change. That that's why she's here.
She's here. We'll ask her that question because uh, because it's important.
I think, I mean, would you have taken this job knowing that?
We asked her that, Steve, remember she said she took you in our
interview with her, and at the press conference she was asked about that.
She said, you know, I'm coming here to you know, to change
all. You mean depression, not the one that we had with her.
I can't remember that. I didn't believe. I believe if i'm my memory,
I know it's mostly my memory is that the financial situation was already you
know, the deficit, all that was already known, and that the idea
was that they had to bring in somebody who could fix it. There was
a reason they fired Dave Hike, and she had to ask that why okay,
why why are you making this change? Is it? Well, we
got this financial situation and I'll tell you if they didn't tell her that,
then then the uvas, you know, really bad people. But they had
to have told her that. I believe they had to have told her that.
Yeah, Okay, we'll ask her. I'll ask her again. You
know, you know what we had. All we got to go do is
look back at the news reports. Is too when all this stuff came out
and when she got hired. We'll figure that out, we'll do I think
she had to know. I think she had to know. It's a tough
situation, and uh so we'll see. Uh, we'll see what happens from
this, because it's a lot of work. Yeah, because I think she
she said she relishes the challenge of coming into a place like this and in
fixing things. I think I think that was part of her part of her
main press car welcoming press conference, that she's looking forward to this quote unquote
challenge. You know, what else is you going to say to fix I
know I want out of here. Well, she could have said, I'm
not taking that job because there's no effing way anybody can fix it. Right,
I can say, effine can't. I you said you can't. We'll
be here tomorrow. Let's tell it. I said, you didn't say else.
Okay, let's get out of here. We'll be back tomorrow. Uh
we yeah, Scott Scott Thompson the Arizona basketball Well we'll be back tomorrow.
See later.