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Streaming live. I mean, I
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the Ball with Steve Ribera and Jay
Gonzalez on Box Sports fourteen fifty. Hey,

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welcome back to I on the Ball
here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

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I'm Steve rob here. Jagon's all's
good stuff with John probably gets stuck good.

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We had to do Tuesday, and
you know, John was you know,

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John was one of the people who
was kind of plugged in as much

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as anybody. He's the guy who
broke the US play USC thing when that

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broke, So you know, it
was good to get all of his perspective

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over. You know, thirteen months
of stuff right right, No, a

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lot of stuff, and it's to
be continued because although Arizona's not involved,

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it's Pack four. And I just
saw Stanford doesn't want to get into the

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Big twelve. They're poop poo and
I think they want to give the Big

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Pai. Yeah, so there and
then uh uh the cal who knows what's

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gonna happen to them? And then
I think the obvious two are gonna go

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merge with the mountain. The mountain
with them, right, so we'll see.

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I think his point to the Washington
State as much as you are good

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at what you do right and overachieving. Yeah, it's not good enough sometimes,

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Yeah, sometimes you know you could
be you could be the good the

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best dude in the room, the
best dude, and treat people right.

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If the girls don't want you,
they don't want You're not gonna ask you

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to dance. You're not gonna dance. You're not gonna dance. No,

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that's that's exactly it. Okay,
we're gonna get to some more class.

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Let's go to some more uh,
some more stuff from the from the news

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conference. We're not gonna take any
calls right now. We'll beat you back

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probably on the other side of on
the other side of Ryan done. We're

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gonna talk to Ryan Dunn, who
runs a youth sports program that uh um,

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you know, they do after school
stuff, they do summer stuff.

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The school year is getting started so
well, and he's leaving town this week.

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Whyding to get him on this week, but he's leaving town tomorrow.

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Why don't get a chance for him
to talk about because as always, you

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know, Steve and I are big
proponents of youth sports and just get your

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kids out playing in the yard.
Man, not hanging out playing video games.

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We're gonna talk to Ryan, so
we're gonna break away from the subject.

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But a lot more to a lot
more to talk about regarding the from

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the press conference today. You know, um again, the whole issue,

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one of the big hanging issues throughout
the thing was what about a SU what

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about arising an SU? Yeah,
they're gonna split up, Okay, and

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uh, well, but I have
a question after this. Okay, all

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right, let me play that and
then we'll uh, we'll we'll talk about

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that. So here's here's what the
problems had to say about what the situation

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was with ACU. This was something
that I thought the two of us thought

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it was in the best interests of
the state, uh form both of our

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universities, um, for the rivalry, for us to stay together. I

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mean, I watched what happened in
Texas with Texas and uh um Texas A

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and M, and you saw Coach
Gundry get pretty fired up at the press,

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you know, the media day for
Big twelve about you know, Oklahoma

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made the decision to leave us and
it you know, bedlam this year is

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gonna be real badlum. Just to
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I hope this they'll continue to play. We didn't want to get into

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a situation where, um, where
we just kept the territorial cup forever because

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we got it. We wanted to
stay together. But the regions, um,

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the regions were very supportive and and
really like the fact that that we

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were in interacting so much. Oh
that's the end of class. Okay.

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So so the question was asked about
Arizona State in Arizona, but it wasn't

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directly asked it and I didn't ask
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for us and were they married together? Were because we've got conflict in reports?

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Did they have to go together?
Were they married together? Or was

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it all up to the border regions? I think they I think they wanted

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to go together, but they weren't
gonna I if the Big twelve wasn't going

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to take asu, Arizona was still
going to go. That's what I thought,

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That's what yeah, But I was, Yeah, we should have asked

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clar We'll get them on the show
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that was the biggest thing. Well, Arizona doesn't have to go without you

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know, you can go without them. Blah, blah blah. But it's

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good that they're gonna go with them
because now everyone talks, not everyone.

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A lot of people talk Washington Washington
State are separate or we're gonna We're gonna

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stay separate. The rivalry is kind
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least the one in Arizona. It's
not right. He did talk about the

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fact that BYU and Utah are back
together that man, I mean, that's

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gonna be mean. It's already used
mean, yeah, exactly. Um.

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Again, another one of the questions
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when when did did did? Uh? Was Arizona in pretty serious talks with

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when did that start? With the
Big twelve? And here's what he Here's

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what Robins had to say. I
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Um, there have been there have
been people reaching out who I have,

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you know, good relationships with UM
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talked to our commission new commissioner uh
one time. I think I at the

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Final four was the only time I
remember actually sitting down and talking to him.

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And and I've been consistent in what
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can't think about entertaining an offer from
the Big twelve. I don't even know

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what our deal looks like. And
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full attention and see what the deal
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presidents and chancellors in the Pac twelve
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Washington certainly did that. Uh.
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it was I think it was just
not a strong enough deal for everybody to

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stick together with some unfortune. Okay, Um, there's that. So what

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else do we got? Okay,
Well, there was a question who's to

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blame? Yeah, right, you
know who's to blame? Tough question that

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really, that's a tough question because
there's so many people. Well that's but

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there's it's like a smoker's board of
everybody. Yeah. Yeah, they're blaming

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all over the place. You blame
the pact off for being dumb and the

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way they are, well the things
that's all the money that this is one

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of the over over things that we
talked about it. I'm not a very

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bright guy, but I don't work
for university and we know people that do,

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and I think they're smarter than they
think. They're smarter than they are,

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right, because sometimes you overthink things, and here we are. They

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overthought it. They overthought it.
They really did. Here's what you had

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to say if if people if people
want to start blaming people, they're playing

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people to blame. You can make
your own narrative, which many people have.

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Um But I think I think the
no question that the media companies have

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had a big influence on this.
You know, I would love to see

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the day, uh when the university
residents and chancellors at what a second,

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we're pretty smart here. Why don't
we organize ourselves and we're in control.

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I don't see that happening for a
while, but that would be the goal,

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right is is we would be the
ones that we're engaging with the media

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companies to sell them something that was
valued other than we're getting whipsald around and

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moved here. I mean, I'm
hoping we're going to be with the Big

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twelve for a long time, but
we may be part of you know,

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Mega Conference United next So I don't
think there's blame. I think everybody's doing

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what they think is in the best
interest of their universities themselves. Media company.

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I mean, we had conversations with
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Apple is one of the most innovative
companies in the world, one of the

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most successful companies in the world.
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they had to make money. They're
they're not just investing money for the fun

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of it. They had to make
money from it. So I understand it,

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but I don't I don't think there's
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you want to go back to USC
and UCLA, I can't fault them.

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They're they're trying to do what's best
for their university. Um do I like

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it? No, I'm sad about
it, but we all got to move

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forward. So let me ask you
a question. Jay. Over the last

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couple of days, we've saw this
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the basketball team that drives this whole
right engine, right, And we see

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tweets from the minor lead the lower
They tell me the no, no,

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the lower sports though, oh yeah, the Olympics for tweets. Now,

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this is not a good deal.
We're gonna miss the traut. You know,

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our parents can't see us. We
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family, Bubba, and we know
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going to be a pain in the
ass. Blah blah blah. So it's

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a catch twenty two for me and
thinking that, Okay, you guys wouldn't

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probably exist if you didn't have football
or basketball. But we acknowledge what you're

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saying right, well, you handle
you kind of got a roll with it.

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You know, you do have to
go with it, and there's nothing

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you can do about that. So
they have ever write the bitch to complain.

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Well, the option was if if
if they didn't do this deal and

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they get a lesser deal and have
less money, you might stare eliminating scholarships

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or anyone of a number. And
that's a good point. And that's a

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good point. So survival is what
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play. This is a combination clip
going back to the reason for the decision

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and then just kind of what it
means, you know, for Arizona going

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forward. This is both Robin's and
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long and careful analysis of the deal
combined with um, you know, the

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decisions that we all had to make
making the best interests of our universe.

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Very obviously we were talking to UH
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and UH we just thought this was
the best direction for us to move forward

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with UH. For UH. You
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our faculty and staff, and the
state of Arizona. UM. We thought

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the future was going to be brighter
UM being a member of the of the

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Big Twelve and all the UM opportunities
that that afford us. I think they've

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been very aggressive. I like that. I think they're thinking about new ways

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to UM to highlight the conference.
And I think our our students and UH

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coaches and staff will will appreciate that
approach to college athletics UM. And you

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know, it's it's not an all
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people, you know, certainly families
who can't travel, I want to be

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able to see their UH, their
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think it's a very exciting deal for
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along us to see what the Pac
twelve UM could pull together UM, what

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that deal might be UM. Ultimately, though, this is a you know,

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the environment in college athletics is moving
quickly. It's changing. We've got

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to be able to adapt. We
need to make sure that we can UM

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put the university and our athletics program
in a position to be nationally recognized,

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nationally competitive, to allow our student
athletes to compete at the highest level.

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UM those those are critical to our
athletic program. So when when I look

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at it, you know, it's
about sustainability, it's about um stability,

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it's about guaranteed revenue planning. UM
those are critical for having a balanced and

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an appropriate athletic program. UM and
and I think this grows our ability nationally.

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We are we have opportunities to be
exposed in all the different time zones

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across the country we compete, you
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I think it can really help our
program grow as well. So UH

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fans have the opportunity to be engaged
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you know, we're on the platforms
both linear and UH you know, direct

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to consumer opportunities that really allow our
fans, our alumni, recruits parents to

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see this program at a very high
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another thing you hear David talking about
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visibility and the exposure. Wasn't the
PAC ten, PAC twelve? What are

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those great conferences that people watched and
people saw when did it lose its luster?

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Because if if this is going to
give them more visibility, what were

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they just doing? They lost a
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of that in the last TV deal
because you couldn't get PACK twelve because where

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because you didn't have them on direct
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late at night. You know,
PAC twelve after dark became a thing,

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but it also became a thorn in
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host say, while that game came
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couldn't step and watch the whole thing. That it happened during this time of

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Larry Scott when the PAC twelve network
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was going to get, and and
that that's when the PAC twelve started losing

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its visibility and people, I mean
half of half of do we talk about

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how you know, they were having
trouble getting games and the teams and the

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NCL play tournaments, the various tournaments, whether it's baseball or softball or basketball

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or whatever. They weren't getting the
notoriety and the visibility that they felt they

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should deserve for a conference. It
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every bit as good as other conference. And the funny thing is they bring

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back to these things. The PAC
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won to a tournament, a big
tournament since Arizona one ninety seven. Right,

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they went to a couple with him
in LA. They had football two

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thousand and four. Right, it's
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not a really good one. They've
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Yeah, the USC teams. Right, No, but you know what,

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since it went to a fourteen playoff, it's been Washington and then Washington

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Oregon the once it got in.
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I mean that's what happens. Even
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I think that's that's what I feel. This is gonna be good. From

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a from a visibility standpoint, people
stop saying where's Arizona or where's you know,

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where's the conference? You're in the
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Hey, they don't even know your
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let's take our Breakcorad and come back, Ryan Dune. It's gonna talk

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This is High on the Ball with
Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox

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Sports fourteen fifteen. Subscribe now to
the podcast on the iHeart Radio while just

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surgery. I I'm a mom.
Hey, welcome back to I on the

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Ball. Here old Fox Sports fourteen
fifty Steve Rivera, He's Jay Gonzales.

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Knowing the phone, we have Ryan
Dunne from TGA Premier Sports. Ryan,

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how are you doing good? How
you guys doing? Thanks for having me.

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We figured who better to get us
off the twelve talk just into sports

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is Ryan. I was just gonna
say, are you sure you guys won't

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want to happen me on today?
All this realignments talk? We need a

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break, Ryan, We need a
break. Got uh you know, well

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you know we talked. I mean
we spent the whole time talking about on

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Saturday golfing, right, I mean
it was like the only the only conversation

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we had except for you know how
you know what's the number, but um,

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you know, we we've had you
on before talking about your your program.

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You're come, You're come, it's
a company, but you do you

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do have these uh school programs where
you know, parents can you know,

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sign up their kids for different sports. So just give us a basic overview

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of what you guys do and how
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so, yeah, basically our company, you hit the nail on the

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head. Big portion of our company
is we do after school sports at the

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actual elementary schools and middle schools.
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programs. We offer golf, tennis, cheerleading, flag football, floor hockey,

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ultimate frisbee, volleyball or some of
the sports that we offer. And

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yeah, we offer um you know, usually they're about six to eight week

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sessions and we have coaches that go
out and teach these classes. Usually the

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classes are once a week for like
I said, that six to eight week

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session and then really they're getting introduced
to sports. And the nice thing about

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it is is, um, well, a couple of things, We bring

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all the equipment out so the parents
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then the other thing is that they
get to keep them at school for an

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extra hour after school's over, so
for the parents at work and I can't

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quite get there right after school's over, we're there to provide the sports program

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and keep them at school for an
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I know you're just in your second
or third year. What are you in?

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This is a year two? How
how much have you grown? Because

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it seems like it's a very popular
situation. It is. We've we've grown

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a lot. We've added some new
schools this year. I think we've got

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about a half dozen new schools at
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this quarter here in the fall session. So yeah, it's definitely grown a

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lot, even our summer camps,
so we got camps to go on when

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school's not in session, and our
summer camps grew quite quite a bit from

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last year. So yeah, we're
real happy with where it's gone so far.

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Yeah, we were talking about how, you know, how busy you

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guys have been even even this summer
because you got summer programs as well.

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But you know, how do you
go about getting the school or how does

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the school come a part of this? Yeah, a couple of different ways.

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Number One, we kind of reach
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uh kind of in our area best. And then number two, we get

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a lot of schools that have grant
funds from the state that you know,

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for whatever reason, it may be
a low performing school and they think sports

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would be a good uh fit to
help these kids, you know, maybe

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boost their confidence, boost their self
steam provides something extra that they don't get

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normally. So we get some of
those schools as well, So a couple

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of different models. But you know, really for us, those those grant

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schools are really nice because the kids
really enjoy the programs quite a bit,

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and it's fun kind of seeing them
succeed. I when Jay said you're you're

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coming and saying, oh, man, I missed my opportunity because I told

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you less wanted to do this.
You know what, little kid doesn't want

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to learn how to pull the ball
or in my case, not pull the

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ball in the right direction. So
anybody can anybody can kind of do this,

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right? Oh yeah, for sure? Yeah. I mean, you

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know, we look for people that
have a sports background, that that are

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good with kids, that want to
coach, maybe have had some coaching experience

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before. But really we provide all
the curriculum start, all of our coaches

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for all the sports that we offer. So really, if you if you

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can pay attention and you're good with
kids, um, you know, yeah

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we can we can put somebody to
work. Now, now this requires a

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lot of you know help, right, you got you got you got people

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who who can coach, who can
handle kids. Um, how do you

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go about getting those people to go
out and be a part of this,

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because you know, not just anybody
can you know, can coach a sport

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or whatever? Yeah, no question, Yeah, I mean it takes.

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Uh, it's a long process.
I mean we post lots of jobs throughout

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the year and um, you know, we we vet the people. They

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have to go through a background check. Um, you know, that's that's

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the main thing. But you know, really, you know, we bring

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them in and we don't kind of
us. We don't usually throw them into

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the fire. We when we hire
somebody, we usually try to bring them

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on as an assistant coach. So
they're helping out at a school, they're

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helping a head coach out, they're
not really running the show, so they

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at least get a taste of how
everything runs. And uh, I think

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it really helps them out in the
long run because after they see it for

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a couple two three weeks and they
realize what they're getting into, and they

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can then be promoted to a head
coach and kind of run their own programs.

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Yeah, it sounds a lot of
fun and ages ages these kids are,

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what are the age? Yeah,
and mostly we're mostly in elementary school,

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so usually K through five, but
we have been in some middle schools

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as well, so um, you
know we're in a handful of middle school

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so yeah, really it's just an
elementary and middle school. So uh,

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if you if you if this is
offered at your school, Okay, just

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walk us through signing up. You
know how you know, you pick a

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sport that you want your kid to
be a part of. I'm looking at

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your I'm looking at you your website. It's they've been ton of visit you

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offer cheer, golf, tennis,
floor hockey. What does you know?

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What do you get for however much
money you put into something like this?

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Yeah? So typically, um,
the schools that we're at or the parents

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would register their kids. Uh and
and really the kids have to be enrolled

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at that school, so you can't
sign your kid up and you know your

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your kid goes to a school that's
that we're not affiliated with. You can't

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do that unless you get prior proofer
from the school. UM. Typically the

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schools will will only want they're enrolled
students to sign up for that particular program.

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UM. But yeah, all of
our programs are on our website.

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UM. You know, if say
a person wants to sign their kid up

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for flag football and we offered flag
football classes that they'll pay for typically six

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to eight weeks of classes, kind
of depending on how the schedule works.

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And usually at most schools will offer
We'll be at a particular school two to

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three days a week, and we
may offer something different for three days a

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week, so they can sign up
for three different sports if they want to,

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or you know, sign up for
one and sign up for something next

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session of classes. I know we've
had you on before, but how did

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this thing start? Like, what
was y'all moment that you figured, hey,

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this might work. Well, it
was a previous previous owner that had

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been here in Tucson for for quite
a while and they were looking to retire

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and the business was for sale,
and we kind of looked into it some

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and you know, it seemed like
there was a good opportunity to grow it

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because I think they were in the
phase of their career where they were kind

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of looking to settle down a little
bit, so they weren't looking to grow

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a ton, and so when we
took it over there there was definitely a

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lot of opportunity. We've realized that
since we took over that there are there

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are many schools and many things that
we can do to grow it. So

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when you say we, I think
we should everybody know the we and that

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is your your spouse, Alicia Hollowell, who people might remember her from being

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an incredible pitcher in Arizona. And
I mean the two of you are running

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this business together right correct. Yeah, And in fact, she's out right

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now at We started our Catalina Foothills
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first day of classes for us,
so we're a couple of schools today and

409
00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:44.000
so she's out there and checking things
out. So when you say you gotta

410
00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:48.039
be you gotta be a student at
the school you offer golf at man Zanita

411
00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:51.000
Elementary. I can't come over and
say I go to man Zanita and get

412
00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:57.279
like some golf lessons from you guys. Correct, Yeah, but we can,

413
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:02.079
we can talk about out some camps
or something like that. Okay,

414
00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:03.160
I'll be a go to a camp
with a bunch of eight year olds.

415
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:10.200
That would be Yes, this is
a big eight year old. It's a

416
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:15.400
very big and his hair is a
little gray. This must be a lot

417
00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:19.000
of fun, a lot of rewards, internal rewards. Oh yeah, for

418
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:22.160
sure. I mean it's uh,
it's awesome, especially when you see that

419
00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:27.599
kid that you're working with at particular
class that you know, I think back

420
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:32.680
at golf, because golf is just
so hard as you guys, as you

421
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:34.799
guys know, but for for a
kid that you know just hits the ball

422
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:38.319
up in the air and um,
you know, they get so excited about

423
00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:42.759
it or or makes a putt.
You know, it really is uh gratifying

424
00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:48.519
seeing the looks on those kids' faces
when they accomplish something like that. You

425
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:49.279
know, and I know where at
the end of the summer, but you

426
00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:52.759
had some summer programs and how did
those work? I mean with those more

427
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.720
during the daytime, earlier in the
day. Um, summer programs work.

428
00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.960
So maybe somebody can look forward to
that, you know, next school starting

429
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:03.640
right now. Yeah, for sure, we uh we had lots of summer

430
00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:08.279
camps um throughout the summer, and
really it was every week we offered something

431
00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:14.880
different. We partnered with Ora Valley
Parks and Rex and we uh also partnered

432
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:21.279
with Mirando Parks and rec along with
Catalina Foothills School District, and we had

433
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:25.359
a bunch of camps going on in
those areas. Um yeah, and it

434
00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:29.720
was basically, like I said,
something different every week. And we're definitely

435
00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:32.960
looking to grow. I mean,
my next goal is to partner with a

436
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:38.119
golf course or two and and have
some camps actual actually at golf courses,

437
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:42.319
um, which would be awesome.
And uh we get a lot of families

438
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:45.680
that ask about that, and then
uh yeah, and going back to the

439
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:49.000
time, Yeah, we um most
of our camps during the summer, since

440
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:52.880
they were mostly outside, really are
in the morning, so like eight to

441
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:59.200
eleven time frame is what most of
our what most of our classes were well,

442
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:02.119
and you know, just getting kids
outside, I mean more than anything,

443
00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:04.200
I feel like that's what that's sort
of the value of this thing is

444
00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:07.599
to you know, get the kids
away from the video games and that you

445
00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:11.400
know, off their phones and going
out and doing stuff. Oh yeah,

446
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:15.480
no question that's that's a big thing
for I think a lot of people is

447
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.480
that you know, they're they're just
looking to get their kids out and um

448
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:23.480
and we're a good avenue, like
I said earlier, because we provide all

449
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:30.119
the equipment, so the parents are
not investing a ton, they're just investing

450
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.279
in the class. If they like
a certain sport, maybe they can get

451
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.359
them some equipment and you know,
step it up a little bit and and

452
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:44.640
do some leagues or join a team. But it's just a nice introductory for

453
00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:48.319
for kids, you know, when
there's not as much of a commitment as

454
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.880
there is when you have to buy
a bunch of equipment. Well, Ryan,

455
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:55.599
thanks a bunch of good luck and
congrats already to this point. Tell

456
00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:59.400
us how people can find you.
Yeah, So, our website is a

457
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:04.599
play team da dot com slash tuthon
and you can find us there and have

458
00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:08.039
as all of our class information and
we'll post any camps that we have as

459
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:10.240
well. All right, Ryan,
thanks a whole bunch of man. Say

460
00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:14.400
hey to your spouse for us,
and uh appreciate your breaking this away,

461
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:20.640
breaking up the monotony of this uh
thing that we've been dealing with from Yeah,

462
00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:22.319
no, kidding, appreciate it and
happy birthday. J oh Hey,

463
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:25.920
thanks a bunch, appreciate it,
Thanks a much. Let's take the break

464
00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:29.519
now, you want to take the
break? Now? Are we done with

465
00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:31.279
clips and stuff? We've got a
few more and we play that. We

466
00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:36.079
got some Tommy Lloyds. Yes,
yeh, there's basketball together. There was

467
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:38.200
some basketball stuff today and we're doing
a football practice. But I didnt even

468
00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:42.240
get a chance. Anybody wants to
call, but we'll take your calls as

469
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that. We'll be right back. If

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522
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got about seventeen minutes. If you
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523
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two Earl four one six seventy four
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524
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open, Yeah, and don't forget
to listen to the podcast closed every day.

525
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You can hear all the stuff that
was talked about today with the Robbins

526
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and Hikey helding ording the first press
conference since the everything happened over the weekend.

527
00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.599
We're trying to get both those guys
on our show some time and there

528
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relatively in your future, just to
have our way have our shot at him.

529
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:07.840
But um, really they kind of
covered everything that we were sure pretty

530
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:09.440
much everything I thought we wanted to
hear. Sure, Yeah, I was

531
00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:15.119
gonna ask or just curious. Are
curious because heke stayed there a little afterwards.

532
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:20.039
Um, I'm sure that Bobby Robinson, who is who does a lot

533
00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:23.480
of stuff with sports, right,
he's he's there. Uh, he didn't.

534
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:27.719
He didn't think this would happen four
and a half years ago or how

535
00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.760
many years ago, and how much
he would be involved because he was one

536
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:36.800
of the key players, because he
became part of them, the inner workings

537
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:39.039
or whatever. Wild, Well he
got he recently got put on the uh

538
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:44.639
PAC twelve board. Yeah whatever,
I think they call it the board.

539
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:46.840
Um, but yeah he got.
He got knee deep in the middle of

540
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:51.320
it, not only on Arizona's behalf
and on behalf of the PAC twelve.

541
00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:55.400
So we have a collar higher on
there and I on the ball. Oh

542
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:59.840
yeah, this is James. Hey, James, Hey, you guys do

543
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:05.119
and good? So what are you
thinking? I think it It was inevitable.

544
00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:07.760
It looked like the PAC twelve was
going away and Arizona had to do

545
00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:12.480
what they had to do to survive
and make money and proceed forward. I

546
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:16.000
had a question though, did you
guys watched the Washington President and Athletic Director

547
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:20.400
in their media day. I watched
her segment. It was just one segment

548
00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:22.960
where she was very adamant, very
adamant about Yeah, the situation is that

549
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:25.920
what you're referring to? Yeah,
well, one thing about it. She

550
00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:30.800
kept referring to some like clause in
two years where teams could opt out of

551
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.239
the deal, and she kept referring
back to a word there wasn't like any

552
00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:37.199
commitment for these schools to stay together
for the long term, and she kept

553
00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:40.159
bringing up this two year opt out. Have you heard or anything about that

554
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:44.159
in the contract? That was if
I did, And what it was was

555
00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:46.519
there were and I don't know exactly
what the numbers were, but because because

556
00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:51.960
the contract was based on a base
amount, it started at twenty three,

557
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.039
it started at twenty three, they
bumped it up to twenty five, and

558
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:58.239
then the rest of it was going
to based on be based on subscribers.

559
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:02.519
And what they had said was at
one point seven million subscribers they would get

560
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:07.559
to the thirty one point seven million
dollar number that the that the Big twelve

561
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:12.199
had, But there were some opt
outs based on how many subscribers they got

562
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:19.480
that if they didn't they didn't meet
uh certain uh marks on subscribers. By

563
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:22.400
I think the first time to opt
out was that three years, not maybe

564
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:25.159
maybe it was two, but um, but it was based on that.

565
00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:29.199
So if they didn't get if the
deal wasn't working the way they were hoping

566
00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:32.559
it would with with subscribers, that
teams could opt that programs could opt out.

567
00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:37.920
Yeah, it seemed like that was
like a big deal for that president

568
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:40.519
at Washington. She brought it up
a few different times, so James I

569
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:44.159
can't you met with us in Vegas
right when we went to Vegas? Yes,

570
00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:47.880
so I can't hear about your thirty
something what are you early early forties

571
00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:53.280
from you? So we're one of
those dudes where, um, going streaming

572
00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:58.199
is kind of like a little foreign
to us because we're older, uh and

573
00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:01.280
TV is what we're used to for
all our Does that scare you the streaming

574
00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:05.599
part of it? For me?
It does? You know, being able

575
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:07.199
just to turn on the TV and
flip it on and flip through channels and

576
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:10.960
find your game is always the best
case scenario. Having to sign up there's

577
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:15.519
all these different streaming services, having
to sign up for the Apple TV for

578
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:17.760
this and Netflix for that, and
it just becomes a pain in the ass

579
00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:22.079
and it makes it hard for fans
to follow sports. Yeah, and that's

580
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:24.079
what he's talking about, that right
right, and that and that in the

581
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:28.000
end, you know, Arizona didn't
want to be, you know, on

582
00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:30.840
a streaming service right, not now, not yet. There may be a

583
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:34.239
time, you know, John Wilner, if if you heard him, he

584
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:36.960
said in five years, that might
be the place that you want to be,

585
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:39.599
right But I don't think it is
right now. So do you know

586
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:46.400
if the Pac twelve ever reached out
to the WB that was never mentioned or

587
00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:50.280
anything, but that was kind of
written. Yeah, a lot of people

588
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:52.920
said that the CW was in the
conversation at some point, and people are

589
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:57.280
making fun of it. And then
even that would be better than having to

590
00:40:57.360 --> 00:40:59.800
having to stream only. I think, you know, some kind of you

591
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:02.159
know, mainly stream, but putting
some on you know, network TVs would

592
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:07.559
be ideal for a Big Five conference, right. I'm a channel surf and

593
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:09.119
when I'm watching football, if I'm
not at an Arizona game, I'm at

594
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:13.719
home, I'm like, I'm surfing
sure different games. And I don't know

595
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:16.480
that I'm going to be switching switching
on my Apple so then and then going

596
00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:21.400
back and forth. And that's that's
the issue right now now when every when

597
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:24.039
everybody's streaming, maybe everybody does it, right, Yeah, and I agree.

598
00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:27.239
I don't think people outside of the
Pack Towel fan base are going to

599
00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:30.760
be signing up for Apple TV to
watch Pack Towel basketball or basketball or anything

600
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:32.320
like that. James, James,
I can't remember you called maybe two three

601
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:37.400
weeks ago. Were you poo pooing
the move to the Big twelve because well

602
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.239
you're Pack twin pac twelve. Guy. No, he's poopooing Arizona football because

603
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:44.320
of Jaden de Laura. Well,
yeah, gorgely, I'm on the de

604
00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.159
Laura. He should be off the
team bandwagon. But I love the Pack

605
00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:50.360
twelve and since I've been alive,
they've been in the Pack twelve. So

606
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:52.000
that's all I know. And you
know, being in the West Coast and

607
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:55.119
be able to go to California for
games is awesome. But at this time,

608
00:41:55.159 --> 00:42:00.679
you know, with the bad management
with Larry Scott and the new director

609
00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:02.559
of the Pack twelve, it you
got to survive and that's the only thing

610
00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:06.199
you they can do to, you
know, go to the Big twelve and

611
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:09.039
try to make it work. Yeah, so you're watching on TV. Yeah,

612
00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:12.480
all right, thanks James. Hey, James, appreciate it. Man,

613
00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:15.039
thanks for the call. All right, thank you guys. So,

614
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.000
so, Jay, there was something
that John said in there that I thought

615
00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:21.480
very compelling because we talked about it
on Friday. So I traveled with the

616
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:23.320
team a lot over and we don't
know this for the last quarter century,

617
00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:28.400
um, and I said that UA
fans don't travel well. And you agree

618
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:30.239
with me, because realistically they don't. I know fans think they do,

619
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:34.159
but they don't. But they have
a lot of fan bases. La.

620
00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:38.119
Just go Seattle and that's when you
hear the cheers. You it's not because

621
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:40.480
they got on the team plane and
they went. No, it's because they're

622
00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:45.400
there. Because they're there. Okay, So now he talked about Tom Tobert

623
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:49.039
going in not being able to.
Now there's gonna be a lot of fan

624
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:52.559
bases. This is why they didn't
want the move. It's a big deal.

625
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:54.519
You know. You go, if
you went to a football game at

626
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:59.519
at the Rose Bowl or at Same
there were a lot of Arizona fans every

627
00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:01.760
You're right, a lot of I
mean there's there's some travel to those,

628
00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:07.639
but a lot of them are there. There were a lot of Arizona fans

629
00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:10.320
at the San Diego State game.
Yeah, not because I mean a lot

630
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.880
of us went, but there were
the southern California there and the Bay Area

631
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:17.519
in particular, maybe not so much
in Washington. I remember going to Washington

632
00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:21.199
game, you know a lot of
years ago, the coach you know there

633
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:23.320
were people, There are people there
in those big cities because they have alumni.

634
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:25.800
Bas well, this is gonna be
tested now yeah, I'm sure you

635
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:29.559
have a lot of people in Dallas. I'm not sure you have those in

636
00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:34.239
Kansas City or in Oklahoma. Uh, this is gonna You're gonna gets different.

637
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:36.480
I mean, it was hard to
get a ticket in the UFA section

638
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:40.599
for UCLA basketball game at CLA and
was never hard at USC, was never

639
00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:44.960
hard at It was hard at Stanford
for a while, but you know,

640
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.320
it's never hard at Washington State.
But you know, but that's it.

641
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.199
That's that's a big deal. It's
gonna be interesting to see how that plays

642
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:57.039
out and how much fans travel.
But maybe maybe maybe when you see how

643
00:43:57.239 --> 00:44:00.639
how their fans travel, are gonna
travel the year, people realize that's what

644
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:04.360
you gotta do when you're in the
big Well did you go to I can't

645
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:07.800
remember. Did you go to Indiana
game in Vegas? You did not go?

646
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:10.920
And I think that you know Arizona's
lads Vegas and because it's just right

647
00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:14.800
there and they love their cats,
they love them during the Pac twelve because

648
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:17.880
it's close and people you don't normally
see a game are there out till two

649
00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:23.840
in the morning. Dancy Um.
They found out Indiana and other schools travel

650
00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:28.000
and they're thinking, oh God,
I know this. We didn't take it

651
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.800
over like we normally do. Absolutely, I think they learned a lesson that,

652
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:35.039
hey, maybe we're not the guys
that we think we are. All

653
00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:37.840
right, So Tommy Lloyd, he
had a press conference today, just talked

654
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:42.119
to getting ready. They're going to
the Middle East here in the in the

655
00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:45.519
next even tomorrow the days they lived
part right, going to play some games

656
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:49.760
in Israel and in Abu Dhabi.
But if he initially he had some initial

657
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:53.480
comments about going to the Big twelve, really trying to stay away from it

658
00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:57.480
to focus on his team in his
season. Here's what he had to say

659
00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:00.320
about the move to the Big twelve. I'll just start off. I mean,

660
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:05.039
obviously we're switching conferences, and um, you know, I think it's

661
00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:07.960
exciting, you know. I mean, I'm speaking specifically about Arizona basketball,

662
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:12.280
but I think it's an exciting opportunity
for us. But to be honest with

663
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:15.800
you guys, I mean, I
think one of the things I'm really gonna

664
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:17.719
I'm focused on myself and I know
if my team is gonna be that's next

665
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:23.400
year. And um, you know, the Pac ten Pac twelve conference has

666
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:28.679
been great to the University of Arizona
over the years and really helped, you

667
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:30.559
know, establish it as one of
the premier athletic departments in the country.

668
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:34.159
And um, you know, I
think it's our job on the way out

669
00:45:34.199 --> 00:45:37.159
to honor that. And you know, I think we're one hundred percent focused

670
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:40.119
on on having a great, you
know season in the Pac twelve. I

671
00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:45.039
mean, that's one hundred percent where
my focus lies and where our our team's

672
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:47.119
focus is gonna lie. And then
you know, after the season, we'll

673
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:51.079
we'll start, you know, looking
forward to the Big twelve, but we're

674
00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:53.519
not we're not going to be distracted
by it. Tommy's so funny because he's

675
00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:59.960
so understated. You know, Bruce, as much as he like Bruce,

676
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:01.960
he'll be on the show tomorrow.
He pushes him and then no, Bruce,

677
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:06.159
I'm not gonna answer that. You're
not gonna get what you want because

678
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:08.239
he's not gonna say anything. He's
not gonna buite. I'm not gonna buy

679
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:12.119
Yeah. And it's funny, you
know, him and Miller had this ten

680
00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:15.079
of ten back and forth. And
it's different with Tommy because it's a funny

681
00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:20.639
one. It's really good nature.
He pokes at him, but Tommy pokes

682
00:46:20.639 --> 00:46:22.880
that Bruce quite a bit, and
Bruce Bruce is Bruce right, just you

683
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:27.440
know, he just tried to do
his job. But Tommy, Yeah,

684
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.880
well we're about today. We can't
worry about tomorrow. We gotta get through

685
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:32.159
this year, first season, and
we'll talk about it, yeah all you

686
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:36.920
want. But did we tell you
it's gonna be Friends Center. It's gonna

687
00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:38.559
be fun, man, It's gonna
be a lot of fun. Be all

688
00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:42.199
right. You talked a little bit
about the summer house. It's been going.

689
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:45.480
They've had some practices. They think
they've had nine nine out of ten

690
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:49.320
practice because they had their tenth today. Um, to get ready for this

691
00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:52.880
summer tour. Here's what he's said. The summer has been going. Well,

692
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:55.039
we've had a good summer. We've
had a really good summer. You

693
00:46:55.079 --> 00:46:58.039
know, I mean, you're allowed
to do stuff, which is really cool.

694
00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:00.199
It's kind of you know, you
know, the NC to Blaze really

695
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:02.239
allowed us to kind of increase our
practice time and in the time we can

696
00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:06.119
spend with our team basketball wise.
So, um, I feel like,

697
00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:07.639
you know, we have a lot
of new pieces and they've acquimented. Well,

698
00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:12.199
you know, today we're we're gonna
be touching on practice nine of ten.

699
00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:15.719
You know what you're allowed for these
uh, these foreign tours. And

700
00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:20.039
you know, I mean, are
we game ready? Probably not, but

701
00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:22.360
but we're probably closer than I think, you know, I mean, and

702
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:24.440
I listen, our guys have played
a lot of basketball games. When when

703
00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:28.599
the clocks you know, said it, you know it's gonna be ten whatever,

704
00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:30.239
you know, for four quarters.
I think our guys will be ready

705
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:32.679
to go. And um, you
know, and and the cool thing is

706
00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:36.880
we're gonna be able to play everybody
and and really give a lot of guys,

707
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:40.039
you know, good basketball on court
experience. So I'm scity, Yeah,

708
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:45.599
it's gonna be He's not gonna care
about points and defeats and anything like

709
00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:49.239
that. It's it's a it's a
feel good type of thing. Educational.

710
00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:52.840
He talked about that with the traveling
professor. Uh, they're studying kind of

711
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:57.119
now. I like a little back
and forth that he and Bruce had for

712
00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:00.480
because Bruce Pass was going on the
trip covering for their day to start.

713
00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:04.760
So he's going and he told Bruce, I don't want you reporting who's starting

714
00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:07.639
who's not starting. You know,
this guy's starting, that guy's out of

715
00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:08.559
starter. He says, if we
do, we're gonna shut it down.

716
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:12.880
It was pretty funny. But what
he's trying to do is get guys to

717
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:15.199
play. Sure, see what they've
got, get guys to play together and

718
00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:17.639
all that kind of I don't know
if you have this clip, but this

719
00:48:17.679 --> 00:48:21.480
was a funny clip too, but
I tam me with one of you guys

720
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:30.880
the drink the Martinis kid. Yeah, and I'm sure have the people in

721
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:37.039
the room didn't know what the David. So so yeah, I'm looking forward

722
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:43.119
to that because given Tucson and the
Hispanic community does yeah, he'll be loved.

723
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:45.840
He seems to really think that.
He seems to really like this kid,

724
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:49.440
the kid from his fame anyway.
So here's just like I don't even

725
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:52.840
remember hearing this clip, but here's
just I'm talking a little bit about the

726
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:58.159
tour itself and some of the things
that they expect to experience. For sure.

727
00:48:58.199 --> 00:49:00.199
I mean, listen, I've never
done before and tour, but I've

728
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:04.360
traveled, you know, to a
bunch of foreign places, so I know

729
00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.840
I love traveling, and it just
it just this opportunity popped up, and

730
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.320
uh, you know, I I
want to give you know, you know

731
00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:14.360
Leigh Miller with Complete Sports a ton
of credit. I mean, she's the

732
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:16.920
one who reached out to us and
really's offering us the opportunity of a lifetime

733
00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:22.440
UM. You know, and you
know Daniel Posner with a group called Athletes

734
00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:24.679
in Action, I mean sorry,
sorry, Athletes for Israel. Sorry Athletes

735
00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:29.000
for Israel. UM. You know, they're doing some amazing things, you

736
00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:32.119
know, combating anti Semitism and you
know, bringing you know, whether celebrities

737
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:36.760
or celebrity athletes or now they're get
delving into the college base and bringing college

738
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:39.159
teams over. It is to kind
of bring notoriety to what's happening, you

739
00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:43.320
know, in their world and expose
you know, some of our players to

740
00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:45.400
it, which is awesome. And
I've been to Israel a few times.

741
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:49.920
It's a mind blowing experience and I'm
so excited for our players. I think

742
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.639
they literally were trying to give them
an idea, but I don't think they

743
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.360
really have an idea. And I
think it's going to be an experience that'll

744
00:49:55.360 --> 00:49:58.559
stick with them for the rest of
their lives. And then you know,

745
00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:00.199
the the you know, we want
to get a shout out to, you

746
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:04.440
know, the ABU Dhabi Department of
Tourism. You know that they're helping sponsor

747
00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:07.400
our time there, and you know, it was just exciting. They're they're

748
00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:10.039
running you know kind of uh,
you know, somewhat of a basketball festival

749
00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:14.400
or they're bringing you know, you
know, some top teams in the world

750
00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:16.800
there to you know, complete compete
in some exhibition matches, like Team USA

751
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:20.360
is going to be there. You
know, they're they're gonna be playing like

752
00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:23.000
the likes of Greece and in Germany. And then you know us, we're

753
00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:24.920
going to be there, Kansas State's
going to be there, and you know

754
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:30.119
some other you know international you know, uh international national teams are going to

755
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:35.079
be there. So it's gonna be
awesome. So it's I'm fired up,

756
00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:37.480
and you know, I mean,
I don't think there's any way but to

757
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:39.039
bond on one of these deals.
But you know, we're going to be

758
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:42.639
really intentional and how we try to
drive at home with our guys and really

759
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.400
make this in experience. That's that's
you know, not only great for them

760
00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:47.039
individually, it's great for our team
and and um, you know, great

761
00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:50.159
for the culture that we you know, we try to build year in and

762
00:50:50.199 --> 00:50:53.000
year out here yeah, no question. And it's always good that somebody else

763
00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:57.360
is paying the bill exactly. Nothing
like going on a trip like that if

764
00:50:57.400 --> 00:51:00.400
you're not paying for it. It
was really that was really funny when he

765
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:04.400
said, I mean, we're gonna
we're gonna go see you know where where

766
00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:08.639
you know David where David David was
said, and we're talking David and golithe

767
00:51:08.679 --> 00:51:14.039
that David. That's pretty much and
they're gonna float in this and the uh,

768
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:17.199
well, you know, I mean, look, I think we all

769
00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:21.760
recognize prettier with Tommy that he's a
pretty thoughtful guy. Yeah, you know

770
00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:27.960
he's not. He's not. It's
his life's focus is not basketball, right,

771
00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.679
He thinks about other things. Collect
he thinks about other things and I

772
00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:35.719
and you can tell that he really
wants these guys to experience this now.

773
00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:39.119
Umar Balow and and Pelly Larson came
into the press conference after that, and

774
00:51:39.159 --> 00:51:42.800
all they talked about was the basketball, you know, and I'm where we're

775
00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:45.239
gonna go to the basketball. We're
gonna have some chance to play some teams

776
00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:47.719
we haven't seen before. They didn't
they didn't talk about it at all about

777
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:52.639
what the cultural pieces su I was
gonna ask this Jay and maybe I don't

778
00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:55.519
know if you can actually Um.
So they're international players, right, they're

779
00:51:55.559 --> 00:52:00.639
international players and have a Nober of
to go on in national I think it's

780
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:02.880
going to be more of the American
players that kind of enjoyed this because I

781
00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:06.440
haven't never done that. They have
never gone outside of the United States.

782
00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:09.119
They're kind of used to the Yeah, the outside, the travel world and

783
00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:14.280
outside influence from from Sweet Yeah,
he's been all over. He played in

784
00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:15.880
Israel, he said, Israel.
Yeah, Now, he said, you

785
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:17.760
know, they went in, played
a game and left, so he didn't

786
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:21.639
go see all this stuff. They're
excited about it. I think that,

787
00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:24.079
you know, the players obviously more
excited about the basketball than everything's gonna come

788
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:28.039
with it. But I do believe, uh, you know that Israel.

789
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:30.480
I've never been there, but you
know, Israel was one of those places

790
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:32.320
we're you gonna get the holy hell. I mean, I had that experience

791
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:36.880
in Rome. You couldn't say that. I don't know if I had that

792
00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:38.519
experience when I went to When I
went to Rome and went to I got

793
00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:45.599
very religious. When I went to
Saint Peter's right back, I was a

794
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:47.639
little happy. I didn't burst into
flames when I walked in. Get it

795
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:53.840
go back? All right, God, that was a quick show, a

796
00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:57.480
lot of stuff. I feel like
we're ready to move on. Tomorrow.

797
00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:00.800
We're gonna have a lot of Bruce
song. Bruce gonna talk to us about

798
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:04.320
the trip, and Brett Farrah the
new Sports Center, theaters and Daily Star.

799
00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:06.800
We're gonna get to him about covering, you know, covering the Big

800
00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:08.960
Swamp coming up. So I'll be
all airs one Daily Star tomorrow as our

801
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:12.840
guest. But a lot of good
stuff to talk about. And uh,

802
00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.280
and you know this thing, this
thing's going to go on for a while.

803
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:19.719
But we're going to the Big twelve, Steve we are. Yeah,

804
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:21.920
we're going to the Big twelve.
I hope we do it from the studio.

805
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:24.519
It's gonna be fun. It's gonna
be fun. But first they have

806
00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:27.480
a lot of stuff to do.
You got some work to do between now

807
00:53:27.480 --> 00:53:30.119
and then football season is getting ready
to start. So all right, we'll

808
00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:30.440
be back tomorrow. Thanks for being
here.