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Steve Rivera and Jacome Solens. They
have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson

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Sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fifty. They welcome back toying the ball here

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on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve Rivera, you're jacons Ows and I

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hope you have some breaking news.
This is High on the Ball breaking news

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on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I
have some pretty interesting things going on.

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UM. Let's start with the fact
that the media day football media days are

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are underway. Big twelve is holding
their media day today. I think it's

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a couple of day event. A
few comments coming out of there or Brett

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Yourmark, the new Big twelve commissioner, who's been very aggressive on the expansion

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on the expansion front, on the
TV deal front, pretty much said that

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you know, they're still open for
business, UM, but nothing nothing imminent

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right now. He said, if
they have they're gonna have fourteen teams this

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year because Oklahoma in Texas are still
in the league for one more year while

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they're adding UM Houston, South Houston, Central Florida, BYU and Cincinnati.

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Then after next year they go back
to twelve. So he's saying that,

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you know, they'd like to get
to fourteen, maybe sixteen and see what

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they do. But nothing, Uh, there's also kind of you know,

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wait and see, he'd kind of
he's kind of saying, I'd like to

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see things kind of calmed down,
so we'll see what happens. But you

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know, still a lot of mention
of Arizona and Colorado maybe possibly you know,

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adding to that after this next year
or whatever. But um, he's

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just kind of saying, you know, they're it's nothing. It's not done

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yet. So that's that's one of
the things. Mike Gundy very vocal about

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Oklahoma leaving and saying that the rivalry
with Oklahoma is over. He said there

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his quote was the Bedlam game is
over because Oklahoma chose to leave the Big

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twelve period. It's got nothing to
do with Oklahoma State. He was asked,

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he says, do I like that? No? So I like that

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conferences are broken up? No,
but conference ree alignment is going on.

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So he's basically said, that's that's
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Texas thing. But now Texan M
Texas are gonna be back in the h

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in the same in the same conference
here pretty soon. Um. He didn't

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cover this the other day. I
should have probably covered it yesterday. Um,

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the Bay Area Panthers at the end
of Football League won their game on

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Monday night. I mean, the
Sugar Skulls will not host a playoff game,

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so you're done after Saturday. I've
got a game Saturday finale. They've

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got Green Bay. Uh. They
can still finish third or fourth in the

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league, so they want to win
the game to stay in the three spot.

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The fourth place team is gonna have
to play theirs on the Rattlers in

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the first round, and I think
they'd rather not. Even though they beat

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in the Rattlers, you know,
they'd rather not have to play them in

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the round. Rattlers have gotten hot
since they got their quarterback back, so

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they would they would face Bay Area
at Bay Area. They play in San

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Jose and they've beaten him there,
so you know, six and one on

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the road. Steve, they went
six and one on the road and they're

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two and five. Makes a zero
sense. But they've got a home game

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with the Bay Area I mean with
the Green Bay Blizzard. Uh. This

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Saturday at six o'clock Fan Appreciation Day, they're giving out some stuff, so

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think about coming to coming to that
game six o'clock at the at the Arena,

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close out the season. Um,
they're eight and six right now,

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so they've clinched a winning regular season. Social see what happens there and we

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will have hurt his chin, the
head coach of the Sugar Sculls on tomorrow.

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Okay, all right, Um,
stuff going on there is on a

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baseball you know, the draft was
earlier this week. A couple of guys

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that didn't get drafted. One was
a Tony Bullard, the third baseman,

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who I think a lot of people
expected he was going to get drafted.

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He did not. He assigned a
free agent contract with the Miami Marlins.

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So he's, uh, he's got
a place to go. And uh and

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and then uh kind of a surprising
um uh, a picture has gone into

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the transfer portal. Guy by the
name Up. He is a Pima kid.

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He was Aiden May. He's the
one that started the game in the

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World Series at the in the Cultural
Series. I think that's what you had

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read. Yep, yep, yep. And so um, he's uh he

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went five and three, everybody thought. And he's in the transport doesn't mean

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he's gone. He can come back. And you may have been that he

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just got into the transfer portal to
check out his options. He didn't get

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drafted, but he is in the
portal which closes, I believe tomorrow.

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And so, uh, he pitched
twice in the PAC twelf tournament, started

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twice in the PAC twelf tournament.
So he's, uh, you know,

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a guy that they thought they might
hang around. So like like most Arizona

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pictures last year, he's got a
high ERA, but you know, do

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you think that he can be a
good a good picture for for Arizona.

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And then then another another guy,
a guy who was transferring from Pepperdine,

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Shane Telfer. Another starting pitcher was
Donny the Chance report was alleged to come

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to Arizona, but he has signed
a free agent deal with the Diamondbacks,

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so he's not going to play the
Arizona either. So looking at Brian Peterson's

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easy desert swarm stuff, Arizona still
has eighteen pitchers on the roster for the

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twenty twenty fourth season. Eight of
them are newcomers. They did lose.

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We've mentioned Lake Walters, Uh,
their their top recruit who went with the

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forty fourth pick to the Kansas City
Royals. And he is pro deal could

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be worth around one point nine two
million to Arizona. No um, all

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right? Uh. John Rosty posted
some interesting stat He posted the returning scoring

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by percentage for Big Ten Basketball teams, and the three at the top are

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all in Arizona schedule. Ya Wisconsin
returning ninety two percent of it's scoring,

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Perdue returning eighty eight percent of it's
scoring, and Michigan stry Corps returning eighty

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three percent of it's scoring. Those
are the top three teams returning there scoring

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veteran teams, and Arizona's gonna have
to face on their schedule, just as

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we've said a bunch of time,
a great schedule, that's yeah, and

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that's part of the charm of the
schedule one and you know it should get

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you better for for March. You'd
like to think that, right, And

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let me tell you again, I
see this one thousand times. Nothing what

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happens in November, December, January, everyway means nothing to March. Right.

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You got all these games, say
you go split all those games?

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Yeah, that's fine, right,
you played them, right, You're gonna

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get credit from playing them. You
win a couple of them, that's great

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too. At the end of the
day, you know you're you're you're as

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they say, your body of work
is what matters. Sure, there'll be

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a good seed obviously, top four
probably and then guess what March. The

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first weekend of March happens. So
first first game in March, tournament game,

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right, and there you go,
maybe the pressures. Hey, perfect

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example twenty seventeen, eighteen, whatever
it was, they win the pack twelve,

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going away, everyone thinks, oh, we're back there. They're gonna

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set for a run. Four days
later they're coming back from boys, you

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saying, what the hell just happened? Oh? Man, you don't remind

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me? All right? Mentioned the
National League won the Allstar Game on yesterday.

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It's very happy with that. Happy
about that? No, No,

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I was st I didn't really care. I was a little bit surprised the

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American League had that big stretch of
of streaks of wins since twenty twenty nine

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in a row, man nine in
a row. I don't like that.

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So I still want the National League
to to do well. Um. A

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couple of golf tournaments coming up,
both in uh in UH the UK UM.

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The Scottish Open starts actually for US. It starts tonight at eleven o'clock.

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I'll be up watching watching some of
that tonight and then the British Open

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is next week, so do okay. So guys, you know a lot

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of the guys that you know,
we're going to play in the British Open,

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they go up there for the Scottish
Open, so because there is a

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PGA tournament in the US. But
it's kind of like for the guys who

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aren't going to be able to play
in the British Open, you know,

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the Justin Jordan's speech and Justin Thomas
and all those guys, they get out

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there, Rory mcory, they get
out there to play in the Scottish Open

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so they can get it past all
the jet lagging everything else and be ready

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to go for the British Open.
So that starts tonight. You can watch

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that on various channels. They think
it's on Peacock US and still still going

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on. I think to the quarterfinals
or the quarterfinals are running there to the

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semi. I think I saw a
note that, um, the last American

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man mail is out. He just
lost. Yeah, he's just learning no

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American males left in the in on
the men's side just lost today. Yeah,

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yeah, today, and and so
that's like I don't know the first

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time however many years that there isn't
even an American in the semifinals. Some

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big number on that one. But
you know, I used to really pay

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attention to Wimbledon. Yeah, and
you know, but you know the Jimmy

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Connors uh um uh uh what the
hell's his name? John mcelroe. That's

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a long time you board, you
know, and then and then you know

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the female side, you know a
lot of those. Yeah, yeah,

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I know what stopped? Well,
you know what, you know, that's

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you're talking about a different thing there, pretty girl who complete tennis. Yeah,

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I'll tell you what. Speaking of
that, I said, I did

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see recently the Caroline was Niaki,
who was very attractive tennis player from Was

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she the one what's his name?
She dated Rory mclard for a while,

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but she got married that she's had
a couple of kids. She's announcing a

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return tennis. Did you even know
she was gunn or whatever? I can't

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remember. She's from Denmark. I
think I want to say Denmark. Um,

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so she'll be bad. But oh
here here's one coming across it.

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This is the the uh, karma
is a bitch thing. Larry Nasser the

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Oh yeah, I remember did you
see that the doctor he got He didn't

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just get stabbed, they cut him
up in prison. He got uh,

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you got assaulted pretty badly in prison. I think I'd stabbed like eight or

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ten times or something like that.
Um. I think he's still alive.

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But uh, um, you know
he's uh, you know one of those

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things that you go into prison,
but that kind of a conviction, you're

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gonna be a target and he has
to do so kind of sad for that

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sad thing all the way around.
Shouldn't make not making fun of it.

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But dude, just bring bringing it
up. But you know, I mean

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that all that stuff, man's just
so bad. All right, that's all

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I got. Man, What do
you got? Okay, No, that's

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you covered the baseball stuff because I
was gonna talk about Tony Ballard and the

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other guy who left and decided to
leave. Uh. It's it's funny how

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your home may not be paradise.
You come and you hope to do well

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and then you say, yeah,
well I gotta go. Yeah it happens

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all the time. Yeah, what's
happening all the time. Now, okay,

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and well you know Tony Bullard's um
uh eligibility was up, so you

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know he was gonna so good for
him that he got, you know,

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gets gets a chance somewhere. That's
because that's you know, once you're you're

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a guy in that position, all
you want is a chance somewhere. Sure,

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So if he gets a chance,
sure, sure, everybody's dream.

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So I'm just kind of a commentary
I find, you know, the uh,

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the uf A Athletic Department has been
putting out basketball promos, you know,

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the double head that's up in Phoenix
and then the game in Phoenix against

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Alabama. It's interesting to see who
are sort of the faces, right,

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So on the on the promo graphic
they did for the double head where the

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men and women are both playing,
you got Helena Puao and Kylin Boswell.

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And then promoting the Alabama game,
the neutral site game up in Phoenix,

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it's Henry Vassar, who's sure hasn't
even been a starter, right, so

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he's the guy that he's the guy
on the graphic because say what you wanted,

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they're saying, oh, we're just
picking the guy. A lot of

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that. It's like Okay, who
sells, and so they've got to Henry

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Vassar doing that. I thought that
was really Henry. And I think the

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guys really gonna sell is the is
Boswall. Yeah, yeah, I'm kind

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of Boswell, you know you everybody
expects him to be the starter, you

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know, but yeah, boose on
social media, so they all know these

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other guys they're gonna start. Well, it's July, for God's sake.

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Relax. Oh here's one. Uh
do you watch Hard Knocks? Have you

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ever watched? Really? No,
I've never seen even an episode of Anyways,

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the New York Chats with their new
quarterback Aaron Rodgers have been picked to

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be the team that Hard HB was
gonna follow around, right? That ought

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to be really you know, I
did watch it a little, or you

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don't want to because back in the
day, a few years ago, the

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Arizona a wide receiver or whatever guys, uh, the friends of ours who

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got on the team for the Rams
and then he got cut at the end.

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One of the good guys, one
of the wide receivers, didn't have

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to come to me, you know
me and my names, but you Knowdanley

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berry Hill, No, no,
no, no, no, this is

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like five six, seven years ago, and he brought him in and he

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says, we really like you.
Yeah, yeah, but your cut,

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but sorry to see you go.
Yeah, I don't know. I again,

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you talked about behind the scenes stuff, and you know, we've been

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back there and I'm not particularly interested
in seeing what goes on. No,

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Camp the Wizard, the Wizard of
Oz was a perfect example. You don't.

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I don't know what the Wizard looks
like. It's kind of funny,

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which kind of true, you know
what, it's kind of want to know,

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it's kind of true. It's kind
of true. No, I agree.

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I mean, I don't know.
But there's a market for it obviously

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because they keep oh sure of course
they keep they keep doing it, people

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keep watching it, and uh and
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go with it, right, So
anyway, So but the the interesting aspect

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is that Aaron Rodgers isn't this one. You know, they never did a

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Packers one, right, So it'll
be interesting to see how he and you

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know, he's such a he,
he's he he's such a manipulator of the

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media. So we'll see what he
get what he does with this thing.

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Yeah, we'll see what happens.
Okay, well let's just go all right,

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let's go and take a break.
We're gonna come back. Sam Thomas,

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uh former on a player. I
think you all know her, also

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with the Phoenix Charactor. She's got
a backball basketball camp she's running on Saturday,

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Arthur Justis Community Center. Ship.
Come in and talk about her camps.

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Steve Rivera and Jakin Salez they have their

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eye on the ball on two sums
Sports Big yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty streaming

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Steve Rivera, here Jakinson, welcome to

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I on the Ball. We're just
waiting for Sam Thomas right there. Give

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it a buzz to talk about her. Sam Thomas group can this Saturday ages

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eight to eighteen. They're gonna be
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in the morning of eleven to fourteen, mid day and then three to six

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pm fifteen to eighteen. All kinds
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wanted to give her a chance to
talk about all that. So hopefully she

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hasn't forgotten about us. It's just
really busy, which I'm sure she is,

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right, So we'll have her in
just a second. So you know,

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it's it's cool that you see again
I talk about the saltim these athletes

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who still stay in Tucson do stuff
like this. You know. I mean

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she's from Vegas. She could just
be you know, going to doing stuff

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in Vegas or whatever. But you
know that she does this stuff at home

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and that athletes, you know,
continue to do that. I think that's

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really cool and a good person.
Yeah, good person. And she's and

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she's put herself out there. You
know, two years ago or whatever it

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was, she was doing the sid
work right, I'm so very visible for

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the football program, right and doing
Juie basketball. One day she had you

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know that that that clock that is
the time out clocks that they walk out

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on the field and they hold it. There's yeah, to hold that one

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at one of the games. I'm
like, it's hot as hell down there.

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One. They say that thing as
heavy as hell. Um. But

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you know, just seeing her do
all of that, that was very cool.

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It was very nor anything else.
You have six foot tall uh,

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you know, a person out the
woman out there holding this clock and just

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running out there was kind of cool. Bit you know again very uh you

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know, just stuck around two something
was very cool. Yeah, I love

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that, love that she does that. And then you know people know her.

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I mean, she's really well known, so hopefully she gives a call

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here in a second. Um.
You know, we were talking about,

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you know, the two basketball teams
and and who you know, who are

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going to be the faces for those
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I mean we've seen how you know, both Ada's and Tommy Lloyd's rosters have

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turned over quite a bit pretty much, but you know, you still got

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guys, you still got you still
got ladies that are you know, very

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visible. Helena play being one of
them. It's like her fifth year playing

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at Arizona. Um, she'll be
somebody that you know, will uh he

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will be a big part of what
they're doing. Colin Boswell, you know,

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made a name for himself, particularly
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to be able to uh uh you
know, kind of be one of the

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guys. But you was figuring womar
Ball is going to be one of those

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guys. But you know, after
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is sort of going to be new. I mean, I guess Palla Larson,

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Um, we'll see how much they
use him for stuff like that.

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Yeah, but he's he's kind of
like um Pelly's a lot like a Zulus,

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where he's got no visible personality.
What does that mean? He doesn't

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he's not a he's not Ben Matherin
or he's not he doesn't. He just

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goes about his business. Right,
he's not Daling Terry. Yeah, you

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know, one extreme to the other. Right to me, at least in

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my mind, that's kind of the
best way to explain it. He's got

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no personality for for being visible.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

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Well, yeah, he's just kind
of blessed his heart. Yeah, it's

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just he goes, he goes about
his business and doesn't do him exactly and

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he exactly he just Julis was the
same way. I wonder if Zulus would

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have been more personable, uh,
more personable and more and he is who

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he is because he's he is personable. He's just very you know, if

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he's a foreign a foreigner who doesn't
know the language, that will it would

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be like me going to somewhere that
I can speak the language. I'd be

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using my hands all the time.
Uh. That it may have held him

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back right right, you know he
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and that's all he had to say. That interview was it was. It

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was one of the classics because because
of the Sean thing. Remember he said,

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Sean, we were ready? What
we were ready for the game?

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Oh? The guy said you were
ready? What he was that expression that

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he gave us on that day,
that was that was pretty talented. Now

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it's kind of like you knew,
oh, they're not gonna have a good

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practice. Yeah, and I don't
want to be at that practice. Oh

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I kind of would have would a
mind had seen it, seen it from

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the side. Oh that's interesting,
that's what they said. Oh okay,

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pretty funny. All right. So
we're still waiting for for Sam Thomas.

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Hopefully she'll give us a call here
in a second. Um. But you

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know, it's uh yeah, but
you're right, I'm gonna agree with you

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at Pali Larson. He's he's out
there does the work. It doesn't say

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a lot, no no knock.
He's just the way he is. He's

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not Kerr right right, He's not
ben Um not as you say. He's

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not Dayal Terry, he's not dealing
Terry. So those guys had a lot

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of personality. He just goes about
his business. And this is a crucial

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year for him. It is crucial
year for he wants to if he wants

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to play at the next level.
Yeah, he's got to do a lot.

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I think I think that there were
some higher expectations for him, very

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much, so very much he than
materialized for him last year. Um.

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And so it's kind of like,
Okay, you know, we gave you

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that one out. You got to
get out there, right, no question,

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Jay, how you ask you this
dozens of times, if not more,

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Um, who's the shooter? Who's
the shooter? And you kept giving

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me um, uh Courtney Ray Raymy. It should have been Pelly Larson.

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It should have been with the reputation
and all that, but it never.

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Never. Henderson ended up, you
know, getting his starting spot, clearly,

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was more comfortable coming off, did
some great things, helped him win

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some games, and uh, and
now he's you know, but Pelly,

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you know he's gonna be in the
starting lineup now, Well, he's gotta

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be ready for we don't know who
those transfer we don't know how good those

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guys are gonna be. Yeah,
Um, because I really think Philippe is

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gonna be good. Really gonna have
an impact. Yeah, he's gonna have

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some minutes on Tommy. But you
know how it is, we say,

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oh, they're gonna have depth this
year, blah blah blah. Teams don't

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have they have depth, but they
don't really use it because you have your

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core guys. That's like you coach, you coach, right, Yeah,

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you had how many on your roster? Really and they were good? You

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were go, don't go, don't
go ahead of it? Should your roster

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had twelve? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, you could depend on how many

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three exactly to my point, to
my point, and you had strategic had

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to strategically put them places. Yeah, that didn't two and three hitters,

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No, But actually we had one
really good team that got to the state

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semi So that team had you know, in the in the the division that

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we were in, we had eight
good players. Well and that's and that

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and that's why we were really good
because we had hitters beyond the fourth spot.

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Now, the last couple of years
we didn't have that that you know,

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we weren't that deep in our roster. We had guys, we had

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guys started for us that it was
the first time they'd ever played baseball.

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So you know the depths, the
Lord giveth and the Lord man. He

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did, but you but you have
to have depth. And if you have

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depth, I'm taking eight good and
eight good Forstall because you're not gonna go

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Arizona have depth this year, right, He just didn't go with it.

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He didn't go well. He didn't
feel it was developed enough to be able

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to count exactly. So he didn't
have that, right, Well, that's

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my point. He has people,
but the depth was not there. He

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had guys on the bed. But
you get a sense that as you say,

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guys like Borovich and uh, guys
like vas like this new international guy,

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are they going to be what Harry
Vassar was last year? Are they

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gonna be what Morvachan was last year? And takes some time to develop And

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what kind of a step are these
guys who were here last year going to

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take this year. That's what it
used to be, Steve, right,

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Remember it used to be that,
you know, the guys on the court

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were juniors and seniors. It took
a while for the guy like Sean Elliott

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didn't come around very often where he
was going to start from the go and

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be exactly to be really good The
charm of Loots teams back in the day

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was they had six solid dudes,
six dollar dudes, and they had the

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Jason Terris who were able to come
off the bench and get better by playing

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the Simons and the Dickersons. The
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because they were played against better competition. Yeah, the B team was pretty

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dark good because they had in the
face to eighteen. Yeah. Yeah,

406
00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:52.640
back in eighty eight, eighty nine, come on, you had those starting

407
00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:56.880
five with a pretty good, solid
group behind right, and then eighty nine,

408
00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:02.079
but a group at that time that
you knew the role. They knew

409
00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:04.319
they weren't starters. You know,
Harvey Mason knew he was not a starter.

410
00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:08.319
He wasn't He was a really great
high school basketball player, but he

411
00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:11.200
knew he should not be starting.
But if you remember you Rids Chap,

412
00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:14.759
you're right, Yeah, they don't
think that right away. Nah, not

413
00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:17.400
right away, they don't. They
get him. I think I'm good,

414
00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:19.039
and then they get there and they
all of a sudden, Sean Elliot's on

415
00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:23.160
the court, Steve kurginating sixty percent
of his three pointers. Craig McMillan,

416
00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:26.119
you know, was a quote unquote
a five start, you know, coming

417
00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:29.400
up all of a sudden, these
guys are really damn good. Sure,

418
00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:32.440
and you're a sort of ordinary sure, yeah, until you get your time

419
00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:36.279
right time. One of the things
in this in the book was Damon talking

420
00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:40.039
about Sean Allen. You remember shann
Allen, Right, they became good friends.

421
00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:42.079
Shanny Allen was gonna be the next
Sean Elliott. And he got here,

422
00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:45.960
didn't want to sit, didn't want
to sit. He leaves and later

423
00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:49.200
tells Damon because they're still friends,
I wish I had never left. Yeah,

424
00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:52.240
I wish I had never left because
I would have become that player that

425
00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:55.839
I wanted to be. Right,
and you got to work at it.

426
00:27:55.920 --> 00:28:03.039
Yeah, and especial so much taking
your taking your hearn it's recognizing where you

427
00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:06.359
are. Well, that's right there. How many people don't, you know,

428
00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:10.039
they don't recognize right. They think
they've been told their whole lives this

429
00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:12.839
guy, and they get the ill
that guy's that guy, and that guy's

430
00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:18.920
that guy. That guy, and
that guy's probably better than you right now,

431
00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:22.680
right and probably as he leaves,
the next shows up. Well,

432
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:25.920
you know, you know, just
wait, look at the look at jet

433
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:30.480
Fisher's quarterback situation. Right, He's
got he's got Jane Delora. He's got

434
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.960
no Fafita sitting there who probably could
be starting in a lot of places.

435
00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:37.799
He's got this kid from Colorado right
now who's now committing. Right there's do

436
00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:42.240
they go get this kid from Mississippi
who's decommitted. You know, these quarterbacks,

437
00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:45.119
it's like they get in there and
they all want to play when they

438
00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:48.279
get here, and that's kind of
like, wait, you know there's other

439
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:51.880
guys here were pretty damn good.
The good the good thought for Jet though,

440
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.000
is that he has somebody's capable of
coming in right away in case something

441
00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:59.880
happens, if needed. Isn't that
how it's supposed to happen. It's a

442
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.079
host, dude, But this day
in age, those kids don't want to

443
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:06.400
sit around wait and see if they're
gonna get their their chance to play?

444
00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:08.559
How many? How many laughed?
I mean rich Rod had he loved what

445
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:14.000
he'd say. I love collecting quarterbacks. But if you didn't play, um

446
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:21.440
um not dah, he would have
never been seen. It doesn't get hurt.

447
00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:25.240
The other kid doesn't get hurt.
Right, yeah, right, no,

448
00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:27.240
I I yeah, I mean it's
it's it's it's sort of a weird

449
00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:30.079
thing and it with you know,
and then when you now start throwing in

450
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:36.319
the ni all stuff, that stuff
that really complicates everything. Sure, I

451
00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:37.799
get it. It's like having your
best kids. You have five kids and

452
00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:42.000
well, you know you gave Johnny
if you know, a sucker, can

453
00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.119
I get to you know, you're
giving your kids playing favorites and blah blah

454
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:48.720
blah games. Don't tell mom I
gave you five bucks. Blah blah blah.

455
00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:52.359
You know, you know, it's
it's it's it's these politics, Yeah,

456
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:56.880
politics with money. Yeah, well
I guess said this politics. All

457
00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:00.680
right, So I'm gonna I'm gonna
see if we get get Sam for the

458
00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.519
next segment because we're running out of
kind of time on this we're doing.

459
00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:07.039
We can go to break now and
come back about her camp. But uh

460
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.960
uh so it's you know, yeah, I mean, I just god,

461
00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:18.440
I can't I can't imagine all that
you've got to think about when you're running

462
00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:21.720
a program and to make you know, like in basketball, yeah, you

463
00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:25.519
gotta keep fifteen guys semi happy,
when in football you've got you know,

464
00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:30.480
pretty much eighty some guys that all
got here thinking I'm the guy. Sure,

465
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.799
because that's you, that's your scholarship
and your bottom. You know,

466
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:37.279
don't don't have that. Your walk
ons are just scrapping for anything they can

467
00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.119
get. And then some of them
get yeah, some of them. Some

468
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:44.200
of them get in there over the
scholarship guys and out scot like, what

469
00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:47.200
the hell happened to me? You
know? So that's why I see so

470
00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:52.240
much movement. Uh okay, So
we well, we now have Sam Thomas's

471
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:53.240
phone number, so we'll give her
a call here during the break. So

472
00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:56.279
let's go ahead and go to break. Let's do that. We'll call her

473
00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:00.960
after the and and get her on
after the break, so we will be

474
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525
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on Fox Sports Sport Team fifteen.
They welcome back to on the Ball here

526
00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:55.119
question fifteen. I'm Steve Jacobs as
for still waiting ton eighteen minutes before we

527
00:34:55.239 --> 00:35:00.960
close. Yeah, I'm guessing that
Sam Thomas got tied up with something unexpected

528
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.519
because she's not been responded to our
attempts to reach her. So, okay,

529
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:07.480
I have to you know, you're
get this out of ourselves. Okay,

530
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:09.960
Well, here's the thing. I'm
looking at. Bruce Pascals in the

531
00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:16.000
middle of his uh of his UH
cover five his five most memorable games on

532
00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:20.239
the Arizona be Okay, started with
it. He started with number five.

533
00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.519
He's working from five to one,
so he's he's down. He's up to

534
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:29.199
number two. So number five game
that I barely remember, um with the

535
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:34.159
team with the Chase biding your team
losing to UAB at home. Do you

536
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.360
remember that at all? No?
Didn't it was? Yeah, it was

537
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:43.480
They fell seventy two seventy one to
visiting UAB in an early round game in

538
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:45.039
the twenty Yeah, two thousand and
eight and I keep yeah yeah, yeah,

539
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.400
yeah, yah yeah, I'll give
you an example. Did so let's

540
00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:50.920
put it in perspective. So I
started covering the team in ninety one,

541
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:53.840
Bruce came in ninety nine. Is
two thousand and one. Um, so

542
00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:58.800
that was the year. Don't forget. I'll give you the um. Oh

543
00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:00.280
god, I hate my memory.
This was two thousand and eight. No,

544
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:02.400
no, no, I want to
give you two thousand and eight.

545
00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:07.559
Yes, two thousand and eight.
Yeah, okay, maybe it was my

546
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:10.360
last year covering the team with the
paper or second of the last Chase money

547
00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:15.880
eager. I was going to tell
you that you're right because because because what's

548
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:19.360
his name was not on the coach? Yeah, what's his name? Miller?

549
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.639
Sean Miller. It was, um
who's the one that had the last

550
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:28.639
shot against connect Yukon missed the shot
Jr. Don't you remember the call when

551
00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:31.039
he called time out? That was
that was this game? That was this

552
00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:35.320
game because the next game we had
to I'm gonna tell you a story here.

553
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:38.079
Uh so he could called the time
out, which no would ever do,

554
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:40.559
right, Yeah, you just don't
know time and place. He calls

555
00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:44.199
up a time out, they lose
the game. They gotta go to Georgia

556
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:47.800
and playing a consolation game in front
of ten people in Georgia. It was

557
00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:52.079
horrible. It was horrible. I
do remember that. Yeah, because if

558
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:55.039
Jemal Horne he called the time out
right, and then then he did it

559
00:36:55.039 --> 00:37:00.400
again about three weeks later he did
it in the USC game. Was seeing

560
00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:04.280
that, Yeah, I was watching
that in a restaurant. I'm like,

561
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:07.559
it's one of those things where the
TV screen is up there, I'm not

562
00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:09.800
hearing anything, and I'm like,
did your Melhorn just found that? Guy?

563
00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:15.480
Purposely did? He said, he
just did that. And you're at

564
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.360
the time, you're you're fifties,
fifties, you've seen the first time you're

565
00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:23.599
seeing I've never seen that, Danny, you had seen it again by the

566
00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:28.119
same person two months later or whatever, months like exactly, all right,

567
00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:31.440
So that's his number five is number
four. I had it here just a

568
00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:38.320
second. Um was when the San
Diego State uh um uh Nick Johnson Bunnies

569
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:45.039
block to win the uh the Diamond
Head classed. Yeah uh And again that

570
00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:49.400
team turned out to be really damn
good, right. That was a Stanley

571
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:52.440
Johnson. Was Stanley Johnson on that
team? No, I don't know,

572
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:57.239
here's a little before here's the guys
that there's there's um forget his name,

573
00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:00.360
the kid who broke his foot.
Oh, actually Brandon Nashley. I see,

574
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:07.960
I see between both of us.
Tarshevski. I see, uh well,

575
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:10.599
remember his name is actually supposed to
pronounced Tarschevsky. Really you never saw

576
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:14.199
that. Somebody asked him in a
story that you know, he said,

577
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:16.639
how do you how do you really
pro He said, it's Tarshchevski and he

578
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:20.199
said, wasn't pronouncing Tarzuski. So
why don't you tell us? He said,

579
00:38:20.199 --> 00:38:22.000
because it was fine. It was
like just big like what's his name?

580
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:27.440
The running back who turned and turned
to be the DV Darrel Lewis?

581
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:30.880
Yeah, how many ls do you
use? Too? Well? He never

582
00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:32.840
told never told us, right,
I see Nick Johnson, I see Kevin

583
00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:39.239
param Um whilst I see in there. You got a call, got a

584
00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:45.239
call. Let's see what this is? Higher on the air and I on

585
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.679
the ball. Hi, Sorry,
this is Sam that I missed the show.

586
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:52.960
We're still on, so we're we're
we still got some time to We're

587
00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:55.960
glad you called, so we appreciate
you are on the air. So no,

588
00:38:57.119 --> 00:38:59.920
you know. So you know,
well, thank you for Paul.

589
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:06.480
We appreciate it. You got caught
about summer League. Okay, all right,

590
00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:07.719
we hear you, We hear well, we do. We still appreciate

591
00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:12.320
you calling one to talk a little
bit about your camp coming up or camps.

592
00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:14.400
I don't know if you call one
camp or if it's three camps,

593
00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:19.199
but it's your camp coming up on
on Saturday, and how people can can

594
00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:21.639
sign up for that and come and
be a part of it and what you

595
00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:23.119
know, what they're gonna get to
do. So just feel us in in

596
00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:29.119
general. What's your what's going on
on Saturday? Yeah, So Saturday,

597
00:39:29.679 --> 00:39:35.239
I'll be hosting the second Sam Thomas
Hoop Group. Super excited everyone at the

598
00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:39.039
jccast and helping me put it on. This year, we're actually able to

599
00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:45.079
give scholarships to some kids, so
m we're doing three different age groups this

600
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:46.880
year. We're doing six to ten, eleven to fourteen, and five to

601
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:51.559
eighteen. So UM, I had
the link in my bio on Twitter and

602
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:55.039
Instagram. Also Jick visit um the
Tucson JCC and it should be up there.

603
00:39:55.079 --> 00:39:59.480
But yeah, we're just looking to
teach basketball to the kids and twos

604
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:04.000
and I feel like there's always opportunity
in Tucson to teach the youth about basketball.

605
00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:06.960
They seem to be eager. There's
just not a lot of opportunities.

606
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:09.519
So I'm hoping that I can,
you know, kind of be a source

607
00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:13.800
for them, hoping that they can
have fun. And yeah, we're gonna

608
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:16.119
be given away some prizes, so
I'm super excited. Can you talk about

609
00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:21.239
the importance it is to you coming
back and doing this for a community that

610
00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:24.679
help you out so long so much? Yeah, I mean it means everything.

611
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:29.480
I don't think I could give back
to this community as much as they

612
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:34.000
have given me. I feel like
I can host as many camps every day

613
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:36.360
and it still want to be enough. I mean, this community, this

614
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:39.480
team has just you know, they
I grew up here. I feel like,

615
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:42.960
even though you know, it's only
five years of college, I just

616
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:45.480
feel like I really developed as a
human being, a person, and so

617
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:50.639
I just want to give back as
much as I can help out the youth,

618
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:53.599
and of course always support Arizona well, Sam, somebody you know from

619
00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:58.599
here, a larn Year, grew
up here. I've always appreciated, you

620
00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:02.559
know, people who come here from
other places and stay or keep coming back.

621
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:06.079
You know, I think of people
like you know, the the Huntley

622
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:09.719
brothers who came here so long ago
and are still here. Uh you know

623
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:15.159
all these you know, people like
that who maintain these connections in Tucson,

624
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:16.920
and you know, seeing you,
you know, continuing to come back and

625
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:22.119
do this stuff. What is that
that makes you do that? You talked

626
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:24.920
about how this community helped you,
but there's got to be more to you

627
00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:29.440
must I mean, what do you
like about Tucson that makes you keep coming

628
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:34.920
back? Yeah? I just think
it's like a home away from home.

629
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:37.760
It's so easy to call it that. You know, there's no professional sports

630
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:43.199
teams down in Tucson, so everyone
really invests all their time and their support

631
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:45.920
into Arizona. So you know,
you go to the grocery store, they

632
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:51.280
recognize you. You go, you're
walking down the street, they see you,

633
00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:53.719
and you know they care about you. They follow you on Instagram.

634
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:57.719
Hem you like, lets you know
how much they've changed their lives, their

635
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:01.119
kids lives and so just actually hearing
people take the time to tell you that

636
00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:05.800
and not just be like, oh, you're a great basketball player, Like

637
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:07.599
they really care about you as a
human being, and how you're doing.

638
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:12.400
And you know, it's been crazy
to say two years now since I've been

639
00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:15.039
gone away, but it still feels
like it's home. Everyone's still checked in

640
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:17.800
on me. They all, you
know, message me, let me know

641
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.199
how proud they are of me to
keep watching me. So it's just great

642
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:24.159
to have that family aspect, right
right, right, we'll go back to

643
00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:28.559
the camp in a second. Let
me ask you, You've had a great

644
00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:35.480
career here. What do you think
your legacy is or will be. That's

645
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:40.119
a great question. I hope my
legacy would be what I came here to

646
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:44.559
do and that's changed the program.
I want to be known as one of

647
00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:46.880
the you know, it's one of
the girls on the team that helped change

648
00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:50.559
the program, put Arizona on the
map. I think, you know me

649
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:52.760
Ariy Kate, we've done a great
job of doing that, just you know,

650
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:55.920
building the community and now we're getting
you know, some of the top

651
00:42:55.920 --> 00:43:00.920
recruits. We're competing with Yukon South
Carolina organ we're competing with all their recruits

652
00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:05.400
who kids are choosing us. So
I just want to be part of that.

653
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:07.920
And you know, obviously we have
that banner hanging up in Mchao,

654
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:10.519
so that can always be part of
the legacy to help people remember. No

655
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.639
no, Kenny, So a little
bit more about your camps. So you

656
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:19.119
said you've got three age groups,
So what are they going to get to

657
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:22.719
do and what are they going to
get to experience when they come to your

658
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:24.840
camps And how are the different age
groups, what are the different things you

659
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:30.679
do with the different age groups.
Yeah, so we actually have contact physical

660
00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:32.639
therapy helping out as well. So
they're going to be teaching the kids the

661
00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:37.159
importance of stretching, taking care of
your body, staying hydrated, eating right.

662
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.880
So we're just gonna start with that, and then obviously based off the

663
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:45.559
different age levels, we're gonna definitely
play a lot. Love playing, so

664
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:50.119
we're going to be scrimmaging and then
just learning some different drills, keeping it

665
00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:52.199
nice and easy. Just want to
make sure they're having fun and they're learning.

666
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:55.920
Obviously putting in that defense because we
love defense over here at Arizona.

667
00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:59.440
But yeah, I just want them
to actually, you know, take something

668
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:01.719
away, whether it's you know,
they learn to keep their elbow and when

669
00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:05.559
they shoot, or to stay low
on defense. You know, they don't

670
00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:08.239
need to remember everything at the camp. I just want to be able to

671
00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:13.000
take one thing that they really stuck
and took away with them. I think

672
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:15.400
we have DD Wheeler on maybe a
work or so go. I think you

673
00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:20.719
showed up their for their camp,
correct, Yes, I will. I

674
00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:22.440
will be there on the last day. Okay, So you'll be there on

675
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:29.000
the last day. So between you
three, add Um and Felicity, I

676
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:32.519
mean, you got the the the
young youth of the girls in this town

677
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:37.079
covered, which is great. Yeah, we're good to go. We're taking

678
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:43.280
care of it, which I think
you you you mentioned there's the girls need

679
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:45.719
to know that this is all available
to them. You just gotta work hard

680
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:51.760
and maybe you become the next Sam
Thomas exactly. And you know we need

681
00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:54.519
some two song recruits going to Arizona. So I always want to help them

682
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:59.119
out and get them those opportunities.
So okay, so not tell us a

683
00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:01.039
little bit about your your career.
You went up with the Mercury for a

684
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:05.639
little while. Are you you just
trying to keep in shape in case you

685
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:08.639
get the call again? What are
you doing to stay ready to play and

686
00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:12.519
that you get the call? I
mean, how does that work for you

687
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:16.800
on a daily basis? Keeps me
busy? That's for sure. Yeah.

688
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:21.400
I try and stay on a routine
obviously, to keep it kind of similar

689
00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:24.039
to you know, the professionals.
Waking up at a decent hour, going

690
00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:28.280
to bed at a decent time,
getting the workout in in the morning,

691
00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:31.400
trying to get scrimmages, because I
feel like whether you run ten miles or

692
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:36.280
you're sprinting as hard as you can, nothing gets you in basketball shape,

693
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:39.239
like actually playing basketball. So definitely
trying to just stay in shape and then

694
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:43.239
being ready for the call. I
mean, last time I got the call,

695
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:45.440
it was maybe six pm, and
they put me on a flight at

696
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:49.480
ten pm that night, and I
was in the game at that noon the

697
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:52.800
next day. So I'm just always
staying how my feet and being ready.

698
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:54.119
Wait, manute, how the heck
do you do that? I mean,

699
00:45:54.159 --> 00:46:00.079
how do you manage that? Oh? It's the love of the game,

700
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:02.599
That's all I can say. When
you love the game, you'll take any

701
00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:07.280
opportunity you can get. When when
all this is said and done, what

702
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:10.719
do you hope to do? Because
you have so many opportunities here and you

703
00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:15.000
took advantage of all of them,
and you did you know sports information?

704
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:19.880
You were you were out in public
what do you hope to do. That's

705
00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:22.920
a good question. Um, I
know, for now, I don't think

706
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:27.159
I want to coach. I think
I want to, you know, do

707
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:30.800
as much as I can in different
spots. Whether that's you know, doing

708
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.519
more of these camps, doing speaking
events, I don't know. I don't

709
00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:38.079
want to be necessarily a coach of
course at the college level yet, but

710
00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:40.920
I think I want to learn more. I like doing behind the scenes work.

711
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:44.440
I learned a little bit of that
my time at Mercury. How many

712
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:47.159
different opportunities there are, so,
you know, here at Summer League,

713
00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:52.880
I'm definitely you know, getting connected, staying in touch with people, just

714
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:57.320
trying to see what I can do
outside of basketball. So a minute ago

715
00:46:57.360 --> 00:46:59.920
you mentioned, you know, when
we're talking about your legacy, you mentioned

716
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:02.000
couple of the players that we were
key to the time that you were here.

717
00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:06.519
Uh, Aery McDonald. You talk
about you know Kate who's down in

718
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:09.239
well when she was in Australia.
Now she's I think in Europe somewhere.

719
00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:13.039
How much do you all keep in
touch and what do you keep in touch

720
00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:19.119
about? Um, yeah, we
definitely all keep in touch. I would

721
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.639
say it's maybe a few times in
Manses because we're all so busy. You

722
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:27.360
know, Kate's on a different time
zone right now. But of course whenever

723
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:30.400
we're in the area, or you
know, Arizona's playing and it's a great

724
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:34.960
game or something like that, We'll
always keep in touch. And Aery helps

725
00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:38.480
me when I was with Mercury my
first year, just you know, trying

726
00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:43.800
to keep me motivated, stay positive. So it's definitely we're definitely a family.

727
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:46.119
Whether we talk, you know,
every day or once a year,

728
00:47:46.239 --> 00:47:50.880
we definitely it's a bond that no
one can ever break or explain. So

729
00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:53.239
does has a dear been watching you
play and then calling you up in Tony

730
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:55.920
You need to do this, you
need to do that. She's still coaching

731
00:47:55.960 --> 00:48:00.719
you a little bit, Yes,
a crazy hours of the night. So

732
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:05.119
I'm surprised to you. I don't
know how that woman sleeps yet he updated

733
00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:07.280
you know, it's giving me all
the advice. So she's definitely checking in

734
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:10.239
as well. So you've mentioned Summer
League a couple of times. Are you

735
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:15.480
in Vegas helping out with the guys. Yeah, I'm in Vegas right now.

736
00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:17.920
Um, you know, just catching
up with some of the alumni.

737
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:23.599
I got to see zoo Zulus yesterday. So just saying hi to everyone networking

738
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:29.360
and yeah smart, Yeah, you're
a smart girl, doing exactly what you

739
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:31.559
should be. Are you still doing
your clothing line that you got that started

740
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:36.000
while you were down here? Is
that's still a thing. No. I

741
00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:39.239
ended that when I went with the
Mercury because you know, the um the

742
00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:44.000
purple is a different color for me, so I decided to let it go.

743
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:46.880
Okay, all right, just curious, okay, So all right,

744
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:50.679
well Sam, we do appreciate you
taking the time to give us a buzz

745
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:53.559
where they again talk about your camp
and where people can go sign up for

746
00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:59.960
that. Yeah, so the camp
is this Saturday. Everyone can still sign

747
00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:04.800
up basically doing six to eighteen age
group and you can sign up on my

748
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:08.360
Instagram, my Twitter the links there
or go to the tooth on um JCC

749
00:49:08.599 --> 00:49:12.239
website. It should be up there
as well. All right, sounds great.

750
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:15.000
Well again, best of luck with
that and everything else you're doing.

751
00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:19.079
And we do appreciate you taking the
time. Thank you. Thanks for having

752
00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:24.000
me better late than ever. Thank
you, Sam, cool man cool Look,

753
00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:28.480
you know what I knew she was
gonna call it just a matter of

754
00:49:28.800 --> 00:49:30.719
you know, getting she was in
the middle of something, so you know

755
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:35.159
what she was in Vegas? Man, Yes, you know you're in Vegas.

756
00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:37.159
I'm not calling you. Hell no, forget that, man. All

757
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:40.559
right, Well that was good.
So again, well, uh, you

758
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:45.719
know, we'll both put both the
links to Sam Thomas's uh camp as well

759
00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:51.559
as the physicals that Banner's doing up
on our social media tonight, so everybody

760
00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:53.400
will can come looking for you.
If you can't remember where to look,

761
00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:57.599
look at our social media and you'll
find that. So we'll definitely get that

762
00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:00.199
stuff up there. All right,
man, it's been fun, man good,

763
00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:01.719
a pretty good day. Sometimes,
got a little bit of time if

764
00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:06.119
we got about a couple of minutes
if you have a call for any of

765
00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:08.400
that. But we're gonna be back
tomorrow with we're gonna be talking some Sugar

766
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:13.599
Skulls with Hurt his Chin, the
head coach of the Sugar Skulls who have

767
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:17.360
their season finale and it's the home
finale on Saturday at six o'clock. They're

768
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:21.679
taking on the Green Bay Blizzard,
a team that hasn't been here before.

769
00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:23.760
So you're looking for something new there, go, you know, go check

770
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:28.719
out this game. It's your last
chance, last chance to see them unless

771
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:34.280
they win their home they win their
playoff game and the Rattlers lose, then

772
00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:38.199
the Sugar Sculls could host a playoff
game, but for now it looks like

773
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:42.199
this might be the last chance to
sea him. And then John Perlman,

774
00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:46.000
uh, the president and owner of
FC Houson, will be coming in to

775
00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:51.239
talk about their last weekend at home
as well. Right right, So okay,

776
00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:53.760
some and then we're gonna close out
with another great guests guests on Friday.

777
00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:57.840
So good week, so far,
so Goodn't it been fun? I

778
00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:01.840
know we we took Monday off by
accident, but we're trying to make up

779
00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:07.199
for us. But you know,
man, it's again. It's you know,

780
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:08.840
you think it's it's not going to
be busy, and it's busy.

781
00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:13.039
All this stuff going on, I
mean, things bouncing around all over the

782
00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:15.280
place. Uh, we're again.
We're starting to get football media days.

783
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:21.079
The PAC twelves Media Day. PAC
Twelves Media Day is next Friday, right,

784
00:51:21.199 --> 00:51:23.880
so that's uh, you know that's
coming up. We're still waiting on

785
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:30.840
the PAC twelve TV deal and some
some word about expansion to San Diego State

786
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:34.239
in the league or not. Is
SMU in the league or not. You're

787
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:37.000
starting your conversation. There might be
two more out there somewhere. It could

788
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:40.880
be and you know, I know
that we we uh on John Wilner and

789
00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:45.119
John Kenzano's last show. Um,
they talked about they thought it was going

790
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:49.320
to be this week and here we
are on Wednesday. You can said that

791
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:59.519
for fifty two concutive weeks and you're
strike fifty two. Obviously, it's been

792
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:05.400
crazy crazy. I don't know what
to say. Just be patient, yeah,

793
00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:07.599
be patient. Whatever. Our listeners
texting me, what's gonna happen again?

794
00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:10.519
He says, I said, uh, you just gotta hold on.

795
00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:14.760
It's gonna hold on. And it's
like, you know what it's gonna be

796
00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:21.159
like he said, anti climac,
But it's just nothing Burger. It's gonna

797
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:23.760
be what would be I don't know
what would be anti climac. I don't

798
00:52:23.800 --> 00:52:28.599
know. They just do the They
just do a TV deal and no expansion

799
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:31.519
and stuff, right and then wait
wait for that later. Yeah, come

800
00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:36.599
on, wouldn't that be perfect?
Yeah? I mean that that would be

801
00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:40.079
about the speed of what's going on. I packed well and people would say

802
00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:49.639
pack of we'll talk more about this
tomorrow. Would you blame collect George?

803
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:52.960
Do you blame him for any of
us? Know that this all started a

804
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:54.599
long time. That's a long time, Okay, all right, we'll be

805
00:52:54.599 --> 00:53:00.119
back tomorrow. Be sure to check
in. M Let them