Eye on the Ball, which four hours. By no way, make sure
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to Eye on the Ball, you know, Fox fourteen to see I'm Steve
vera Blom, said host jaganzas we gotta Jason with us today. Feels like
we've been away for a month. I like it. You know, somebody
actually thought our show was like over, are you guys like done? Did
you guys? Did you guys end your show? Like no? We you
know, we had a couple of things to do. We took some days
off to kind of get cut off on a few things. Yeah, so
you know, we just had to take a couple of days off. Sorry,
called life. You know what, I'm happy that somebody was asking exactly
missed somebody like Sally Field the really literally guys exactly? Yeah, Hey,
yeah, I didn't check you, sading frisk you. But did you bring
it down to the work today? Man? You know what, No,
And as you get upset, I just you know, I'm gonna ask you
this to Jason, so be prepared. Wasn't one of those things, Steve,
where I want guys who have these incredible opportunities that they wouldn't otherwise have
to not screw it up. Yeah, right on stupid stuff. And so
no, I didn't bring his gun to work today. So Jason, did
you uh, you know when I'm referring to we're talking about the jam jammer.
So so when he told us, you, everyone else, including the
world, that he knew he made a mistake in January, March whatever it
was, Yeah, did you say, Okay, we'll see Yeah. I
mean I figured because it happened too quickly for him and just like flip the
sword to be like I'm good, you can move forward now. I'm like
that was more of his what his team told him to say, rather than
it was he actually that was you know, really meant. So I figured,
as as soon as the off season can just gonna continue his antics.
And so not a surprise, no, not a surprise, no, yeah,
not a surprise. But they're disappointing because, like I said, you
know, and we would say this every time something like this comes up,
but we would have given to have an ounce of the talents that those guys
have, to have an opportunity like they've been given, and then to watch
him piss it away the way they do it just really bothers. I think
eventually, well, I'm sure there's gonna be a heavy fine and another big
suspension. Yeah, I heard he's probably going to miss a lot of the
next season, if not the whole season. Wouldn't you be really pissed off
to pure his teammate because you already cost me to see a pretty good season,
right? How about being the commissioner of the NBA. You know that
guy, because you know that you know, he gave him the benefit of
the doubt. He really got suspended for two games, not six, because
you know, he set out, had set up six games. He was
already by the time they announced the suspension. They says an eight game suspension,
so he only had to miss two more games and then he was back.
They led him off so easy, they gave him a chance, and
yet you know, does it again, and then he did it a out
kind of having to gilbal Arenas right, kind of like Arenus worked his way
out of the out of the out of the league. Still time to play,
right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, It's just so disappointing. And
and the thing is, you know, he got in that trouble and he
went back and hung around with all the same guys doing all the same things,
and he has buddies, his buddies, so whatever where you filming him?
Yeah? Well what the world these hangers on filming him, filming him
and then putting it up on social media. Yeah, so the video,
it's friend in the car with him once job, you know, pulled it
out. His friend like trying to like move the camera up and those way
too late, and they go and they fought up there. Yeah, and
somebody spotted. Yeah imagine if were not around, right, yeah, oh
yeah, but you know here and here's the thing now to me is that
you just are waiting for something really bad to happen with him, whether it
happens to him or he does something right that he doesn't get it. So
and he's not gonna get it. I don't think he's gonna get it.
Let's say let's say he's out of the NBA because of this right because nobody
wants to touch him. He gets suspend or whatever, nobody's gonna take him.
Let's say he gets out of the NBA and he's got all this moneys
do all whatever he's doing until until it runs out. You just feel like
this is a guy who doesn't have control of himself, and he's gonna do
something. Either he's gonna kill somebody or he's gonna get killed, which is
weird because his background isn't like that. Likes both thoth parents, a supported
family around him. Like he's a good kid, smart guy, Like I
don't know why he's doing this, Like he's got idiots around. Yeah,
and he lets himself be directed by these idiots. Yeah. Well, and
he's got to be smarter than those idiots, right, he's not. Yeah,
unfortunate. There's also a phrase that I use often. Uh it's the
mom who says, well, he hangs around. He just hangs around the
backgroud, ma'am. He is thinking the bad he's the back out in that
exactly. All the money, right, guys with his buddies don't have the
money. No, yeah, you know you could if you didn't have any
money thing to be doing this stuff. So it is what it is not
to be a preachy. But I just thought that was God with Steve.
You know. I mean, hopefully somebody, some kid out there, you
know it's maybe headed towards this kind of a career. You want them to
see this and say, just say don't do that. Just don't do that
postal child with what not to do? Right, yeah, right. You
can do a lot of things, and you have a lot of freedom when
you've got a lot of money like that, but there's some freedoms that you
don't have and this is one of them, and you blow it and blow
it right. Gilbert should talk to him. Gilbert should and say, you
know, this is what happened to me. Oh, hey's okay. So
we got about Tim and a good show today a Monday for for a Monday.
We got the Pima all right. Pema's got a lot of stuff going
on, including the baseball team getting to the district championship. Now, um
Wonda Region beat the Arizona Western two out of three, So I think go
to Nebraska. I guess. Is that like a is there a tournament?
I meant to look it up and they is it a tournament or is it
like a super Reachi? No? I think it's a tournament. And then
to try and get to be one of the final eight in the national tournament,
which I haven't been in and long time. When it used to be
they did it a few times, you know during the Rich all Day years
yeah, so good luck with that. Um. They had some a couple
of golfers that finished pretty women's golfers finishes as all Americans. So some some
cool smartical stuff. We're up up, We're up season upright tonight today,
director Pima. And then at four fifteen Kent Summers, who's retired but he's
still doing some stuff, and he wrote a column for three sixty Sports Arizona
and talking about Montie Williams getting fired. Yeah that was crazy. Yeah,
I don't Yeah, it's crazy. We'll talk more about ten. I was
in Phoenix Thursday to watch the Diamondbacks and right across the street, you know,
trying to find parking. There was probably more people at the Sun's game
than nowhere at the diamond Bad right, and they could Uh we heard the
seven eighth ten and it was two zero. We gotta get coming out out
of here for the beat. The traffic and Suns guys were already ended up
that way. He was over at the end of the fish. But yeah,
twenty two years in row, um he was. He's been the savior
of that so that organization for four years. Sorry, we don't need you
anymore to see like, yeah, well you guys to where we want you
know, you guys where we want you to get us. Now go,
We'll get somebody else to finish this. Yeah, right, I wanted you
know. It's funny because um, I've probably talked including your reading you know,
can't can't call him today, and just a couple other people I think
are you know, semi knowledgeable about about the NBA. All of them said
they needed to do that. Yeah, really was coaches the year two out
of its four years. Yeah, got got him do a finals and turned
turned to programmer. I'm a franchise around in no time flat, and let's
get him now out. Jay. I don't know if you'll agree with me,
Jason, but if you lose the ear of the team, right,
whoever these they'll shut down on you. Hey, we we've seen it here,
are you right. We just don't talk about it because because it happens,
we saw it a few times in here that the guys just you know,
I don't need to play for you. Well and yeah, and it's
the whole thing too of you know, a new owner, wasn't his guy?
Well, hey, you know we were talking about that. We talk
about that in the time. So if he's not your guy. He'll find
your guy. Yeah, you know, guy said, dy, thanks for
getting us here. We appreciate everything you did. Don't let the door hitch
in the ass right next up? Whatever? Yeah, and he'll probably set
next You'll get a job, you know the guys job. I heard the
bucks are am I looking to him? So he would definitely get a job.
But yeah, but they're gonna switch switch coaches with the Yeah, what
are the issues that I have? And you know this, I don't did
you follow Eden when you were a kid, because he was here a little
kid. He is what he is, Jay, you know this. You
know this. Everyone says he doesn't play motivated. When did he? When
did he? Guy's if that's who you are, Yeah, that's where you
are. I an argument with my son about it. He said he was
really good. I said, I know he's really good, But didn't you
feel like four times that he took time off and he just kind of comcial
to not He said, yeah, he disagreed with me. Oh, you
just said that he didn't see that. Oh he didn't want to see it.
Yeah, maybe you know he didn't want to see it because it's Aidan's
one of the guys, you know, but no, he Hey, if
you're seeing it, I'm seeing it. You're seeing it, honey. More
people have seen it. Yeah, you know, you just can't see all.
A lot of people have seen it. Okay, we'll talk more about
that town with kend because because they can't get rid of Dayton to get a
find of the coach. Well, I think they're going to though. I
think they well think I think I think he's whether he is or isn't a
problem, he is seen as one of the problems. But we clearly got
that image that he's a problem, that he's not doing as much as he
should be doing for a number one overall. And guess we're a new venue.
Won't change bull change of things sometimes it can, though sometimes it can.
But Mike bet Is, Nah, you work where you are right,
you are who you are. Okay, lots to talk about. I know
you probably have a lot of breaking news. There's a lot of stuff involved
in us that we'll probably sit in and out of baseball season, softball season,
a lot of seasons. And I know we'll talk to some softball But
I I did go catch the UCLA Arizona game. Do silly Arizona game.
Oh oh yeah, that must have been exciting. I gotta tell you,
um, I've changed my mind about damn about Arizona. There's a big talent
gap right now. But yeah, you know, you know that. I
looked at UCLA's roster, and then I looked at Arizonas roster. Arizonas all
freshman, all freshman. I mean, there's like three juniors and above something
like that, three may be four. LA was all juniors and seniors,
you know, and so that's where they UCLA had a Evan's year seniors,
whether they're clean up hitters seven years. So you've been here since like the
nineteen fifty you know, and and you know, you just look at the
age of these of these of these players, the maturity of these it was
it was it was wait wait, I guess I guess the comment that it
was women against girls, you know, and now we say, you know,
men against those women against girls. There were these all these grown up
women playing these you know. I mean, yes, you had Devin Nets
and the you know, uh, um Izzie Patch, a couple of you
know, I hired love but Arizona's nothing much fresh year. You change,
I think you try to think as bad as everybody thought. You know,
there are so people on the old famous Internet say, of course doing this,
doing that, of course, And we'll talk about someone because I'm sure
I'm way can get into the whole breaking his aspect of that. But I
did go see that game he was gonna play. It was gonna play tough.
They hung in there. Um, you know the Pactael players that you
heard a couple of homers against him, and that was a difference in the
game. You know, it was you know, it may have been that
had they won that game, they might have gotten in. So they pitching
again, you still same issues. Just Devinness pitched really well, she pitched
the whole games. She pitched really well. She gave, she gave,
She threw a four hitter, but three of them ahammers and that's how they
lost. And that's all. You know, I just wanted to see,
doesn't look as bad as it sounds, and it did not that mean that
one and for that one game, for that one game, yeah, okay,
well they didn't get in and we'll talk more about that later. Anything
else going on. We have about two two three minute We hope to get
some calls at the back end of this hour or like three forty three forty
five. Have our people calls calls. We're gonna have Monaco here in about
five ten minutes. UM, so that'll be good too. Break this is
coming up. Yeah, Badford's back. He's there's only eight horses like he's
back. He's back. Um. Yeah, And I don't think it was
the winner. The winner of the derby is in but very few from the
from the you know that this is something we hadn't talked about. Um.
U have a guy who we try to get on a time or two.
Um who trainer Forte Plech Tod Pletcher has been suspended. Oh that's the same
reason. Whoa when just recently ten days for drugging. Fourteen was caught with
drugs on September. I didn't know that. The come on, man,
you're not learning that the U A are you? So that was an issue
or it's an issue you won't fourteen won't be running in this one. So
it should be interesting, should be a good day of racing. Okay,
you follow horse race more than I do. How does a horse who was
a long shot in the Kentucky Derby comes around and wins it? Okay,
all of a sudden, they were the they were the total favorite in the
next race. You know, let's say, I mean, if they hadn't
they hadn't won the Derby, would they You know, they sucked before the
Derby. Now they win a race which a lot of horses just come up
and all of a sudden win and have a great day. Now it's like,
you know, the prohibitive face were to win the next race. Is
that I totally understand because people seen him for the first time. People seen
him for the first time, even though they've run a few times before,
and now they know who they are. But like this this guy, I
don't think he's gonna win because this style won't fit for this track because you
need to be fast like that eighty one long shot last year. And also
he was like one of the favorites for the Derby. He was an eighty
one long shot. Really wasn't any good, right, he got, he
got, but he broke through one race and all of a sudden, he's
one of the best horses in the world. You're your long weeks later.
Your logic doesn't work for horse race. It doesn't work for is how you
how you run that day. Some horses don't like to run on certain days.
You know, It's just the way it is. That's why this tons
a tough game. Man's a tough game. Richard Egan something like, he's
not right. You know, he had a tough y, had a tough
derby day. No way, you know, you know because you find him.
I've won with him before. Yeah, that's my point. There were
days and there were not good Yeah there day. Yeah, I mean,
just how that happens. All right, let's take our break. We're going
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here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty Steve, he's Jake. You gotta calls this
Jim Monico. It is Jim. How are you good? Afternoon you and
well thank you make me you're on the air, so we're happy to have
you on the air. What a fantastic year is the season over or no
base fantastic season you guys have had and continues. It's amazing. Um,
it's been a crazy day to be honest with you, trying to get everybody
all over the place. We've got teams everywhere, so it's just been outstanding.
Well, we know we saw her baseball dead over the weekend, so
they've moved on in the tournament. So you said you've got teams elsewhere,
tell us who's gone where right now? So we just brought back the women.
Maria our golfer, finished and then did great. She's a two time
All American and getting ready to make a decision on which Division one school she's
going to. Our men's team is now in Wichita. They actually passed in
the airport, so they're out there now competing for the national championship in golf.
Our men's team, let's see where also are we track leaves tomorrow to
go to Hobbs, New Mexico, to complete in the national Championships out there,
they'll be going for the next week, and then baseball leaves tomorrow morning
to head to Nebraska. So this is a naive dumb question, Jim,
who pays for the travel if they've made the postseason? That is a terribly
naive dumb question. I know that's a college page for our our travel for
championships. The college does, okay, so it still comes out of Pima.
Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah. The NJCAA is nothing like the NCAA
when it comes to that. That's why sko k wow I didn't realize that
it's not a cheap No, it's incredibly expensive. Yeah, makes sense.
So god, oh you know what, I don't want to bring you down
thinking about that, so sorry. So let's first talk about baseball. I
mean, you know, because that's a sport that has been you know,
historically great, you know, some past appearances in the national tournament whatnot.
But um, you know, they've they've had a really good year. We
talked to Ken hackemy during the year. Just tell us a little bit about
what you saw those guys do this year. Let me be honest, They've
done nothing else than they've done every year. I mean, that guy plays
right. I always said how tough the WSFL was when we had four ball.
They compared it to the SEC, and Greg Hanson did an amazing article
and compared us to the Pac twelve and the conference are champions, and here
he is, you know, he wins the most games in team history and
doesn't make the playoffs, right, and this year he feels a team that
just believes they can do it and went out there and with a little bit
of the way that the ball bounced and everything else, this year it was
our turn and those kids are just they're outstanding young men and they work really
hard and ken hold into a really high standard. I mean, it's enjoyable
to watch those guys play. I'm curious because you're the AD obviously that's why
you have you on. But you must be busy going to all these events.
How is life for you with all these events? So last week,
you know, we were at the ADS conference in Yuma while we're trying to
well, I'm trying to get ready to host a championship. So you're constantly
doing something and you know a lot of guys are like, well, are
you're going to Nebraska to watch him play? Well? No, because I
have good men in Wichita can this and uh and and I have another track
team with with forty people going to nationals in Hog, New Mexico. I
said so realistically. And my assistant is one of the assistant track coaches.
So I'm like, I've got to be available in case things, you know,
don't go right, and I've got a bunch of coaches and kids that
I have to make sure are safe and good. So I stay home and
kind of handle the control room. You know, they talked about the golf
team, you know, the golf team is passing each other at the airport.
And you know, we've always been impressed with Marcus Smith. He he
you know, we had we had him on you know, his first season
as as the coach, and at that time he seemed like such a little
kid still right, but you know, we had him on, you know,
a couple of weeks ago and he's like, you can tell that he's
matured into like a junior college golf coach. Do you see what coaches look
like after a few years, it's like the president. So in another year,
Marcus will be ball. So you know, it's just, you know,
it is what it is. And I think the nature of the beast
to be in a junior college coach and at his age and experience was so
far behind the curve, right, And he just jumped in with both feet
in a couple of arms and said I'm gonna do this. And he's done
it, and he's done an amazing job, and he has matured and he's
he's a great guy and a really great coach. And the guys in the
Great Ladies play hard. From yeah, yeah, no questions, let's sell.
We got about five minutes, so we're talking to Jim Monico. The
idea PIM overall for the year. Women's soccer again very good. The men's
soccer, of course, very good. He's my understanding. You're trying to
get the national tournament back or did you already do that? I was stupid
enough to go ahead and do it. It will have it back, And
this year it's actually a day longer because they wanted one more day of rest.
That was the national office. So yeah, that's the second week in
November. All that all the college will be back in Tucson, come for
a national championship. Yeah. Pressure, huh, but but you must love
you've loved it. Obviously you wanted it back because there's a reason for that.
But it's kind of be like the two Sons or PIMA is the headquarters
for great soccer team? Is it doesn't? You know, you're right,
but PEAM is the headquarters for great athletics? Makes sense? Yeah, well,
I mean it is. It is right. I mean we look at
things really in such a different light now in the last five six years,
because not only do we do great things on fields, we've always bragged about
the classroom. In this past semester three one, four, so we beat
last year's three zero six. It's like hitting sixty two bombs in the next
year hitting sixty four. Wow, look at you guys. So it's dated.
Great. Back back to the soccer Terama. What did you like about
hosting it last year? I mean, I know, as Steve said,
it had to be a lot of work, but there's there's a reason you
wanted to bring it back. What did you like about doing it? What
did I like about doing it? Truthfully? Is it puts It puts Pima
and Tucson on the national collegiate mallot. You know, we have the un
the University of Arizona, and they're amazing at everything, but people don't have
a tendency to look at what we have here, and I think the JC
Tournament brings that to light. With the hotels and the weather and the facility.
Right it's not on the U of a campus, it's another facility.
It shows people not only what we have, but what we have to offer
when it's time to pick a place to live. Rightly, no question,
m who did you have to impress? I'm sure they probably said, no
doubt, let's just go back because the weather is fantastic, I'm sure all
the opponents or the other people enjoyed it too, because I think it's that
time. The weather was fantastic. So I'm going to say something and it's
usually not me because I don't I don't blow my own horn whatsoever. And
it's still not me. But they said it was the best tournament they've ever
been to with the hospitality tend and what the city and our local food just
did for us to help us. The facility they thought was amazing. Once
again, the weather was incredible, and we had the highest attendance in the
last fifteen twenty years that anybody can remember. So so do you go to
your do you go to your soccer coaches and say, okay, we're doing
this again, so get your stuff in gear and you better be there,
or how do you how do you handle that? It's exactly right, I
said, one way or another, you're gonna be there, so you need
to play in it. You can work at one. Very true, but
you know what, given the coaches you have and the players you have,
they'll be back. Oh are you kidding? Causing and Kendra two of the
best coaches in the country, and no matter what they have, they'll put
the best product on the field and it's never been a disappoint So, Jim,
we talked to your coaches from the different sports all the time and they
just talk about the atmosphere that you've created over there. Well, you know,
thinking back, because you know from the time that you got there to
now, what do you think has been the key to what you guys have
been doing from a pro gram standpoint? And I know you're going to say
all these things about all these people that you that are there, but there's
something that you've had to have done and that you say your sights on in
terms of this is what I want to do to create something great here?
What did you what are some of those things? The only thing I really
wanted to accomplish was for us to become cohesive, a family like and we've
done that and I mean that in the aspect of caring for each other.
You know, at one time it was a soccer program, it was a
baseball program. Now there's an athletic program, and we're just pieces of the
one body and everybody. It's not a buying things. They just they gravitated
towards that. The kids are amazing. They each support each other's sports,
and they're at every other event, and the coaches actually care and help each
other, and I don't I don't think you can have a lose, you
know. I mean I tell them I love them all the time because I'm
nothing without them, and they're incredible, and I just want them to know
that and to pass that same, you know, that same mentality and mentorship
down to their kids. I want them to believe in something bigger than themselves.
Right, we didn't even talk about the men's and women's are basketball progress
because right they're very good ranked most year, so it's not all Yeah,
Trodd went to the national tournament again and Brian lost in the championship game.
I mean, god, you know it's it's just listen. If it's not
for you guys and for all the other the sports people in Tucson, nobody
knows about p mccaullege athletics and it is a diamond. Yeah, no,
yes, no doubt it. It's just you guys. Well, you guys
always give us something to talk about, so we appreciate that much first for
sure. So, um, you're kind of funny. Yeah, yeah,
you know, wasn't like so so you're watching all these things from a distance.
Um, what do you have your eye on right now? Honestly,
I have to look the next year. Already this year is done. Um,
we're giving everybody the the the same they need to succeed for this year.
That travel that we want to make sure they're traveling the best they can
because they've earned that. I truly believe the coaches and kids have earned a
quality trip. So we've worked hard on that. Now we have to look
at next year and see. You know, in my honest opinion, I
want to see athletics grow. We are we are the best thing going.
And why wouldn't you sink your money into your best crop? Yeah? No,
great, fantastic Jim as usual, appreciate you. Oh you guys are
amazing. Thanks so much. Guys, thanks about Jim Monica from PEMA.
No good stuff that Then He's right, I mean, it's a fantastic you
never thought this twenty years ago. I mean the amazing thing is because you
know, Tucson has had Tuson has been good at certain sports, right baseball,
softball, you know, softball? You know, then soccer became a
thing. You know, basketball probably took a little longer, right, you
know, but but now peam of basketball has been good for a while.
Um, you know, so when you when you's in now golf, I
mean, you know, so when you see that all these sports because look,
I look, I knew some guys, you know, we knew guys
who are you know in sports period? It wasn't always this way, right,
and I think you knew that, you know, And so you know
when you see how many sports are doing so well, that's how you really
and by accident, right, it is not by accident. Yeah, okay,
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part everybody else down, but you know, it is what it is.
We'll talk to him a lot. Whatever you guys want to talk about,
just give us a quick call. Uh see if you missed us for a
couple of days. Yeah, you know, somebody did miss us, right,
I got some notes wondering where where the heck we were. We just
had stuff to do and you know we again, as people know, we
do other stuff. So sometimes you just gotta try to catch up. And
then you know that that allowed us to do that. Yeah right, okay,
cool, what else we're gonna talk about? I don't want to get
into your your area of your life, Jason with the breaking news, So
yeah, that's kind of hard. There was. So Baffort's coming back up
for Time to Go. He's probably gonna be more of the story than than
the extual race because he's been there already. Some stuff out of social media
and stuff, and yeah, you know, the athletics got a story on
him that I haven't read, but it's a good story that just came out.
Dania O'Neill, who who we know is the the sympathizer and in the
kind of sympathizer, she's the one that go gets you actually yeah, yeah,
she's the one that did the story. She's sort of a watchdog for
athletic right. Um, So there's that, and what else is going on?
What does she saying? She it's a good story, how he thought
he was railroaded. Yeah, and she's still you know, he says that,
right, he still says that he's it's in behind him. But he's
still trying to get his name clear to all that he did mention Pulcher or
they didn't mention Pletcher in the story. He's backing Pletcher because people don't understand
the business. Uh, you know, you failed rooke this. Yeah,
but it was like there were circumstances for involved involved, and that's just it
is what it is. I can't explain it. For another horse died at
Churchill. There was like seven or eight now because last week threw the the
whole bunch another one like today? Yeah, yeah, I mean that's and
that happened. Remember that sent me then and mar Forever had a whole bunch
of an and they had him here too at the Rito. Also in the
NBA starts here tomorrow, at least from my mind, the Lakers, the
Lakers the Western Conference finals, yea, and then the Eastern You're hanging up
red dude, now your team. I like, I liked my chest,
like k I really loved my chests with Denver. If they can stop a
D, I think they get to. Yeah, dat series is going to
determine on a D and Yoki's matchup. Whoever one's that maxical one the series?
Yeah yeah, um, so I still I'm still I bet even more
on in Denver. So um you put them on on it? Oh yeah,
I like Denver, I like Denver lot Yeah yeah. Um what you
think about about the way the did you did you see Steve Kers said about
the team? Yeah? I thought it was perfectly on the said we weren't
a champion, perfectly honest with what I agree perfectly. They were a horrible,
horrible away road. They're a really really bad row team. And you
know Jordan Pool didn't play up to the standard. I didn't you know,
Yeah, we knew that, right. Did you see the reasons why they
hit him and punched him and just respecting Steve and they wanted him He is
kind of I didn't realize this, but you can see how he plays ye
consistent, a little punkish. Yeah, m did you see that attitude?
Like yeah, I saw Mike order clips whatnot of the way like in the
huddle, like Staph and Draymond is trying to talk to him and he walks
away, you know, like yeah, so yeah, that's a big factor
why they didn't play that well together season. So yeah, he was very
very honest about it. Yeah you know what. I think that's what everybody
likes about him. Yeah, Okay, you know what, and we sucked
and we got the most out of our team. It's gonna be how hy
you're on here and hind the ball? Hey, Jay, Steve Grad,
you guys are back. This is done? Hey done, what's up?
Done? I just wanted to comment on on Tema Athletics. Yes, sir,
you know, growing up here, you know they'd have I mean years
and years ago they had a great football team for a few years and then
every you know, everyone's from while the baseball team would be good, you
know. But but the renaissance they're having right now, it's like amazing.
They're you know, they're they're all They're like a Stanford where they're good at
everything. Yeah, they've had a bunch of great coaches. It seems like,
you know, we've had so many of them on the show. We
talked to Cosgrove as as uh you know, as Monica, you know,
say we you know, we talked to Todd hold House, we talked to
you know, uh, Peabody. I mean, just all these coaches come
on and they all just seem like great people. And you know, when
you have that, you know, it's it's it's it's it's uh contagious.
It can be contagious, contagious. And then the nice thing is they want
to be here in Tucson, right right. And it's funny to me because
when you talk when when I think about little leaguers and Pop Warner football,
the coaching makes all the difference because kid kids that are ten years old,
they're all the same, most of them. You know, there's a one
percenters, but but it's it's nice to see that you have these this bunch
of elite coaches at our community college that are doing these things that are making
it so hard on Monacle because you know, if everybody earns to travel,
well, holy moly, Yeah, that's got to be a heck of a
budget he's got to come up with. Yeah, that's why he asked.
I didn't really know that. I thought that maybe some kind of sanction would
pay for it. Yeah. Yeah, there's no money comes in from you
know, because like in the NCAA, right, they get their expensive government
stuff. So yeah, no, yeah, And it's just a shame that
they didn't have football, you know, back from back in the day where
you know it could have been like I think football could have been really good
too, because it's junior college football, and you had a lot of good,
pretty decent kids that were here. They didn't get to play be on
high school. And and I also wanted to shut out the crew at All
Sports Tucson dot Com. Go ahead, those guys. They do an amazing
job. We got the Little League All Stars tournaments coming up. If anybody's
out there and you want to, you want to, you want to find
out what your old little league was doing or whatever. They've got the scores
from all the brackets, all the I mean, I think they end up
with like a dozen people out there watching Little League and reporting on it.
And the Balls brothers don't sleep their vampire. They do the vampire. They
mustn't. They must not, because the kids that leave Tucson and go play
n IA ball some across the country or whatever, those guys still acknowledge them
when they're getting their player of the week in their conference. Two thousand miles
away and it's a rolling thing, and it's they just do an amazing job.
Those more, all those guys and and Monico and Pima College. It's
just really neat to see that that these guys are everybody's getting their due if
if you know where to look for them. Yeah, no, great,
great, thanks to appreciate appreciate it. Thank you, Thanks Ton, Thanks,
thanks thanks for listen. Thanks I always thanks for listening. We were
talking about before he came on, what we're saying the young kid, you
remember stuff. Um, we're talking about what we're talking about, closed state
yea yea yeah. So so he's taking hits though, because because it's the
coach's responsibility that his team didn't get any better. Well, there's certain things
you can't control, right, you can try to control chemistry and all that,
but if the team doesn't get along, you just don't get along.
And well, again, what he was saying was, we got as much
out of our team as totally great as we were going to get. Totally
agree. And whether you believe that or not, you know, people,
well you have you have Steph Trace. You should win the NBA championship every
year, right, that's not how it works, no, you know.
And then what Joel Embiid said right where he talked about you can't just be
two of us we got and people are calling him out for saying, wait
a minute, you know, yeah, that was that was part of the
quote. Thought some like media outlets that they cut it. So yeah,
Aly got the force before he said that, he said, I asked me
better. James has to be better. We all have to be better.
Then he said that, Well, it's good that you're paying attention because you
know how the media. Yeah, yeah, you gotta get that's how it
got played, you know, and it's like you know, he I mean,
there's a sometimes there is as much as you're gonna get, you know,
if you if you go back to that uh that scene and it was
a movie, but that scene in Blue Chips at the end of the at
the end of the movie for Nick Nolton, who was the head coach,
said his best coaching job was a year before when they went you know,
sixteen and fourteen, you know, when he had won national championships. He
said, the best coaching job ever did was last year because we got everything
out of that team that we were going to get and sometimes you know,
sometimes you know that you've maxed out, you know, you know, like
it was a football team last year, they maxed out. I'm fine,
there's no other way you could have predicted they were gonna get five wins,
right and five and seven? You know it's not good enough for anybody,
but you had to you feel like five wins was as much as they were
going to get. Well, that's what Doc Rippers was saying that with Philadelphia,
who would have thought they would have gotten this far under their cigar Stantus.
I know, I don't know how good they were. I don't know
where they were predicted to finish, but they took Boston to Game seven before
here, so I don't know. His job is probably on the n Yeah,
I mean, I just I just with um their situation, but I
think they could have went farther given the situation they were and in Boston they
weren't playing that while honestly the whole series, the whole Boston Boston, yet
they weren't playing a will to the whole series. By Game one they led
Sixers win it even though James Joel wasn't playing. And then even in the
past series like they took the Hawks and six games where they probably should have
swept the Hawks. So the Sixers had a chance to win the series,
but they just kind of gave it away in Game six and then you know,
Jason Tatum just saw the game away games, haven't based Boston? Yeah,
yeah, Well you gotta know your limitation? Ye? Well, yeah,
you know, and and again sometimes you know, I mean sometimes you
do max out and then other times you do what you know, what you
know the Bucks did? What Arizona basketball did? You know? You know
things like that. I mean, you know a lot of teams don't max
out. You know, they leave a lot behind and you go, what
they all happened there? And I think that's why Montie Williams got fired.
Yeah, because they're just people feel like you had Kevin Durant, you should
have done better. Right. Well, now we'll ask m Kent about We
talked about this. If they didn't get to the finals or to the win
it all? Was it worth it? Was it worth it? Because they
didn't have him for forever? Right they brought him in in March or whatever
it was. Yeah, he got hurt. Was all giving up the landscape
for him? Yeah, I guess it was worth it because Kevin's on a
four year contract. So even if they didn't win it all this year,
which they didn't, they so out for more years. Let me asked you,
because you follow it more than we do. Yeah, they win.
Will they get to the finals in the next three years? Yeah? They
definitely should. They have a core already set up in plays with Book and
Kevin Durant. They need to add pieces around them too, and they could
definitely get there. I fel like this year they took the Nuggets was six
games and then without any like depth really in my opinion, So I was
like, next year, Adam or death, you don't get a new coach
in there that they really like and then take the next step to the if
no conference finals of the finals? Can you save this clip of sentences?
How would see what he's doing? Emergency room? How you face down?
I don't know. I don't know if I can get there this That franchise
is kind of cursed. Yeah, okay it, well you know again,
where are the where are the pieces? Right? How do you get your
hands on them? No? No, just you got this max contract with
DeAndre Hayton. You know, if you feel you need to get rid of
them. Who's gonna take him? Right? And how much is that going
to cost you? And now did you need what did me a good roster
size? Playing roster size? They played with five six guys, right,
yeah, but everyone else plays eight. Now there's some teams that whittled down
right, like like six seven guys, right, So they need they need
I think they need a good like starting like ten, like ten, like
you know five, and I was like five, that's a good start.
Yeah, there's ten's a low. Let's see. I don't Milwaukee. How's
a good starting tas? I think Milwaukee does? Um? I mean,
Deniver probably does. Dene's a really good bench. Yeah, have never a
really good bench as well. But I think well Bosston, oh yes,
Boston has an incredible like depth. They're have really good death as well.
So there are a couple of teams that have like a good like guys that's
where they are. Yeah, that's true. So it is hard though,
especially with the cap situation in Phoenix. I don't know all the just b
I know, like you know Deandre's contract, Kevin's you know books, So
here's a lot of money, you know, three guys all and then Chris
Paul as well, I figure out what to deal with him. Well,
it's funny. The big headline was that book and uh and uh and Kevin
h stigned off on this. Of course, you wouldn't you ask them,
what's you Since you wouldn't you have to ask him, right being the two
stars and saying can we win without him? Ye? Then for they to
say, I think he needs to stay or whatever. But there's no question
that if Aiden's still there, he's gone. If Aiden's gone, maybe he
stays. Does that make sense? Yeah? Yeah, it makes sense because
they couldn't go inside. No, you know, play, I guess I
didn't see Monty. You know, he just you know, getting let go.
I definitely predict DeAndre and we'll get rated his off season Biday, Nay
Monty get'll let go by guess makes sense? And they want to you know,
keep want to go to the other. So well we'll see if they
you know, get rid of both. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
okay, we got about four minutes left him. We want to give us
a quick call, please do five two, four, one, six,
seventy four forty. We have Ken Summer's talking here with us, and Ken
Summers will talk about the firing of Bonnie Williams and stuff. You know,
a lot continue to hear stuff about and we'll try and get John Wilner on
sometime this week. Continue here a lot of stuff about the PAC twelve.
What's going on with the PAC twelve and stuff. Did you see Michael he
story on on the Lord on the lawyers, Yes, clif or something,
go ahead, we gotta yeah, we got to talk about that. I
think it was last week's I forgot, but so so now the the lawyer's
lawyers are saying that that de Lord did not interact be guilty to the sexual
assault. That uh that the girl's lawyer, the victims lawyers said um,
and they're pissed. And I think they're they're considering or have uh filed Uh
I don't, I don't really or considering the claim. But they're definitely denying
what they're denying. They're denying what what the other lawyers said and what's been
out in the media. Right, so basically, somebody he's not telling the
truth. But right, I don't know if I want to use the L
word, but somebody's not telling the truth because somebody, because you have one
side saying that these two guys pleaded guilty to sexual assault. You have the
lawyer de Laura's lawyers saying he did not. You have the other players lawyer
saying basically arguing the point, So, what the hell happened? Yeah?
And it brings up doubt. It brings up doubt, and and and again.
If you're in a situation where nobody is supposed to be able to release
be releasing information as to what happened at the jubal court level, could they
and I don't know that your friends or your buddies who listen, I think
you can say, but nobody's going to get the record. And I was
gonna say, could those records be released if no parties agree, good parties
agree? I don't know. Does that make sense? Yeah, I hear
what you're saying. Can they be unsealed if everybody agrees that they that they're
unseal? The story correct? But yeah, so you'd have to get the
victim or the alleged victim now, and the two alleged uh calling perpetrators or
whatever to all agree. And I don't know that anybody would ever do that.
I don't know that any lawyer would allow that to happen unless it's gonna
make their client correct, and so not all sides can look good coming on
truth. Right. That's why it's either the two guys are okay or the
victim is okay, and whoever's not okay it is going to say I'm not
you know, I'm not agreeing to that, but I don't know if you
can't. I don't know what the law is on that. May maybe one
of our guys is listening. Can juvenile court records be unsealed? Because the
only way to prove it if they agree, Say, I did see that
there's some language about juvenile court um that you don't plead guilty in the In
the juvenile court, you're adjudicated as having committed this thing, whether that's you
know, it's another word for pleading guilty or not guilty. Right. So
I'd love to hear from somebody who's got some experience with that in terms of
what what it means to say somebody was adjudicated versus somebody pleading guilty. And
they've probably done your guys, your people have probably been through this before.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, you know, so you know they've
experienced some this. Okay, no great, great first hour. We gotta
go to the second hour here in about ten seconds. Okay, let's take
our break. We do have to go. We will be back and we're
gonna take breaking news from Jason, all kinds of stuff going on over the
last several days. And then uh Ken Summers will talk about the firing of
Minie Williams of the Suns. We're very pack