WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:05.919 Pretty live. I mean my heart radio whip. This is I on the 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:12.560 Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports Sport Teams. Hey, 3 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:18.320 welcome back at to us tell you in the ball. I'm Steve, He's 4 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:22.879 Jake Jason with the breaking news. Yes, I on the ball, breaking 5 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:28.719 news. Okay. Um. One of the most accomplished UM sluggers in Arizona 6 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:33.960 baseball history, outfielder Davis has been selected as a second team All American by 7 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:40.479 the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association today. Yep, I don't know why he's 8 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:45.280 not first team, but okay, um again one of the prettiest swings ever 9 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:49.880 in Arizona. He had some bombs out there. Um love seeing him. 10 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:53.560 Uh didn't like wait he finished, but obviously, uh, you know, 11 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:59.759 well deserved I think right, Yeah, okay, Uh fourth standout Wildcats picked 12 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:04.120 up all regional honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association. Um his first basement, 13 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:08.040 Kiko Romero and Alfield or Chase Davis who picked the first team selections, 14 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:15.000 will shortstop Nick mcclargery, um In Alfield Mac Bingham or in second team recognition. 15 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.079 Right, we had those guys that that was announced yesterday, but well 16 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:23.000 deserved for those guys. Again, Arizona was a good team. They just 17 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.560 man just didn't have the pitching to do anything with all the hitting that they 18 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.200 had historic kidding, you know, hitting a team with Kiko Romero setting a 19 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:36.480 record for our bis, the Arizona men's basketball program and head coach Tommy Lloyd. 20 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:42.159 And now it's the signing of Lithuanian Paul Yes Morauskas to a national letter 21 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:45.079 of intent. Yeah, that came out about two weeks. Well it was 22 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.079 that, yeah, he committed or the Actually I don't think it was ever. 23 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.680 It was like sources saying yeah, yeah, yeaha so it's official. 24 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:56.400 Now he signed his letter, He's coming. I think Tommy's a rosters set 25 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:00.959 a passport you for you? Well, seven seven in national players again, 26 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:05.560 I think they were eight last year. Work there? Yeah about that seven 27 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:15.560 or the first seven or seven this year? Friend? Uh? Some national 28 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.240 news. The Washington Wizards and Bradley Beale will work together to find a trade 29 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:23.199 for a three time All Star if the team elects to reset the ross in 30 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:27.560 your future? When was the last time the Washington Wizards were good. It's 31 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:29.400 been a while. Let me tell you. I guess who was an assistant 32 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:31.400 coacher A friend of mine. A friend of mine went to school with him 33 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:35.240 college. He was the GM. One of the reasons why they were that 34 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.560 good. They just released him in April. And guess who's whose assistant coacher? 35 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:46.280 Jb Oh, that's right, that's right. I forgot that. Why 36 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:50.319 did they think he was with He's with Washington. No, he had been 37 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:57.080 with the Tea with Wizards. He tried maybe to get this out, but 38 00:02:57.319 --> 00:02:59.919 he's still there because I was the boss. No, No, Milwaukee, 39 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:05.199 Milwaukee, Okay, all right, yeah, um, Bradley Beel just played 40 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:08.599 on his first um year of his new five year, two hundred and fifty 41 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:13.159 one million dollar contract. By the way, he also has no trade cause 42 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.599 in his deal, so he can kind of pick where he wants to go. 43 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:20.960 Well, our guy Jody Aylor mentioned that he should be sent to the 44 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:28.280 Phoenix sunse for he'd be great with Booker and uh, if you, I 45 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:30.800 don't know what they'd have to give up or whatever, maybe Aden or whatever, 46 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:32.280 but to go run ahead if it can make it work, that would 47 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:35.800 be a very nice trio. Um. I don't know how much how much 48 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.599 defense it is gonna be played, but a lot of scoring. Most of 49 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:43.080 three guys. Defense. We don't need no stinking defense. I don't know 50 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:50.120 about they didn't have any of the last Okay, Rico Hines is joining the 51 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:53.560 seventy six ers as an assistant. Um College. That's the name we haven't 52 00:03:53.560 --> 00:04:00.240 heard of this time UCLA, Right, yeah, yeah, Raven's first pick 53 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.560 first round picks A Flowers recent agreement on a four year deal for a fourteen 54 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:08.400 million, fully guaranteed contract with a seven point two million signing bonus to be 55 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:12.120 paid in twenty twenty three. He imagine what was he? Who was he 56 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:15.399 making last year, you know in college? Probably a lot, but you 57 00:04:15.399 --> 00:04:18.600 know, yeah, but I mean seven, All of a sudden, you've 58 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.319 got seven million dollars in your bank And I know he doesn't get it all 59 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:25.560 because it's taxes and you gotta pay your agent and YadA, YadA, YadA. 60 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:28.439 But still, all of a sudden you look at your bank account and 61 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:32.160 there's seven figures in there. What the hell? What's that? What's that? 62 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:34.720 Gotta be like? Man, can't tell you what are you buying? 63 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:41.439 First? Jason? Um, I need a car. I'll probablyout by my 64 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:44.480 dad a car or a new house or something like a car house. Yeah. 65 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:46.959 They played an old clip of on Dan Patrick Show, they played an 66 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:54.639 old clip of Big Poppy and uh and um uh. Dan Patrick asked him, 67 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:58.480 you know what's the nicest car you know you bought or you you you 68 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:03.439 ever owned? H you know when? And he said a Lamborghini and and 69 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:08.920 perhaps he goes what color was it? He goes which one? He had 70 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.600 a white one and the yellow one. He didn't say that, and then 71 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.480 he said which one and then so then he asked him, you know what's 72 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.480 the fastest you ever drove one of those? And he said, in the 73 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:21.879 Dominican Republic on a road he got it up to two hundred miles an hour. 74 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.839 What the why? Just because he could? Yeah, he said, 75 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.639 because you could. He said, you couldn't do that in the United States. 76 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:31.399 But down the Dominiment Republic, he said, he said, there's a 77 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:36.439 road somewhere that there's no traffic and it's straight and you can go as fast 78 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:40.000 as you want. He said, he was going two hundred miles an hour 79 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:46.360 for about five minutes. That would never do that, Never do Quarterback Kirk 80 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:50.399 Cousins has confirmed that he doesn't expect to have a further contract extension talks to 81 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.959 this office. He's been meaning he set out to play in the final year 82 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.160 of his deal and he's going to be scheduled to being free agents the next 83 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.199 off season. Chris, Chris our guy in the country. Stay will love 84 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:09.439 that hat because he's not a winner. Okay, guy, he doesn't win 85 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:13.680 enough money for for Chris, it's like, I don't know how he's been 86 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:15.600 getting paid, but money he's been getting paid. But he's a really good 87 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:19.560 agent. I guess it's called the Tony romot. I guess. Yeah, 88 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:24.199 a lot of a lot of yards but no championship. Well again, there's 89 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:28.920 probably what maybe fifty good professional quarterbacks in the whole world, and if you're 90 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:30.959 considered one of them, and if you're number forty nine, right, you're 91 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.879 making a bunch of money. Well it's what's the doctor thing? You know, 92 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:38.560 you go to school and you're the second to less guy to graduate from 93 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:43.759 the school. What they call you doctor? Doctor? Still the doctor absolutely, 94 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:48.560 just don't operate on me. North Carolina has legalized sports Campbell. Ye, 95 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:57.000 yes, some more degenerous the bill. The bill was signed. Roy 96 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:01.600 Cooper, the governor of North Carolina, signed the bill today. Um he 97 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:05.439 signed it at at where, the home of the Charlotte Hornets. It's a 98 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:10.839 big deal. They've already said that eight arenas and stadiums in the state will 99 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:15.519 be able to host sports book betting will launch no later than June of twenty 100 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:19.160 twenty four, so they'll get it going just in time for U for football 101 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:25.480 next season. They got to put some things together. Um and uh, 102 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:30.000 it says it's a brick and mortar. Oh, they've allowed online betting. 103 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.519 Okay, brick and mortar betting has been has been legal since twenty nineteen, 104 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.360 meaning you know, sports books and stuff like that, but you will now 105 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:39.839 be able to do online betting, which makes it a whole lot to You 106 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:43.839 can bet anytime anywhere, unless you're in the NFL. You can't bet from 107 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.000 your your team facility, so we know that, right. Yeah, well, 108 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:49.959 yeah, you know there's a lot of that. You're starting to see 109 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:59.079 a lot of stories about concern that too much gambling is going on by players 110 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.279 even though they know, yeah, they're not supposed to. Yeah, they 111 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:05.720 know you can get kicked out of the league for it. I think I 112 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:09.480 also make today about a player losing like eight million yeah for dollars, didn't 113 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:11.319 name the name? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like, that's 114 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:13.600 the same. Can't you know, how does that even? Like you can't 115 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:18.759 risk it? But you know they do. You know, Um, I'm 116 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.720 pretty sure if I'm making twenty million dollars a year playing basketball, I can 117 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:28.600 probably stay away, Like there are other avenues to make extra income if you 118 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:31.079 really need. If it's about the income, then you've got a problem. 119 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:35.039 It's not about it. It's about the jew Yeah, I guess so. 120 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.879 Yeah. Um. The Portland Trailblazers reported that they are not interested in trading 121 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:43.080 Damian Lillard right now. So damon name, what is the name? Keep 122 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:48.120 coming up? It's good, it's really good. I know he's get some 123 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.320 guys they need Portland. It's not going to be the team. The guys 124 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:54.039 they have more work to do than most other teams. Yeah, it's it's 125 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.000 like the It's like the it's like the the Anaheim Angels or the Los Angeles 126 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.480 Angels too. The best players in the history of baseball on their team, 127 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.559 Yet they don't go out and get other guys to make the team really good. 128 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:11.519 Why not? I mean they tried CJ and him for a while, 129 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:15.639 that didn't work, and then they got dremmy grants, um, and then 130 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.399 that didn't work. It's just one of those franchises. Yeah, it too 131 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:20.519 was cursed. Come on, they gave up on Michael Jordan. They didn't 132 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.720 go for him, they went for somebody else, say samboe. Uh, 133 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.679 there's been a lot of that going around. Just they don't They're just not 134 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.120 good at it. They're good when Damon was there, Damon I think for 135 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.360 a little while, the Trio Blazers. Yeah, yeah, um, okay, 136 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.120 do you have an else? So? So I had something today on 137 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.799 Facebook after looking up stuff. Uh, did you see that the athletic did 138 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.600 a group of their top seventy five? Ish? I think he could have 139 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.080 been more than that top basketball players. Did you see my note? No? 140 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:54.600 Okay, So how high do you think that is? Zulas? Probably 141 00:09:54.600 --> 00:10:01.960 about fifty eight? What about you? Senior? Sixty two? The god 142 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.200 I want to see thirty five, But I don't think that. I don't 143 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.159 think that's right. Let me let me go to what because I thought I 144 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.519 thought it was he's in if he's in the thirty, it wasn't. I 145 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:13.840 don't think it was likely to get drafted. Sixty five, okay, sixty 146 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:16.799 five? So someone had said all the comments that that, well he didn't 147 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.679 have a good draft, he didn't have a good gonebine, depends who you 148 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:22.440 talk to. But he's sixty fifth. He's not going to get drafted. 149 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:26.480 H Then they say, Yokis wasn't it was in the late second round. 150 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:30.960 Right, But even if he came back, Jake and Jason, he is 151 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.559 who he is, right, he is who he is whether he came back 152 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:37.080 or not, he'd still have the same m O next year. Right, 153 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.480 he's not coming back. No, he's not coming back. But he Everyone 154 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:41.720 says, well, some page and the players us to come back and blah 155 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.159 blah blah. The extra year doesn't mean anything. You are who you are. 156 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:48.519 I see you. That has always said it. You only have to 157 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.919 get one guy to like, right, if one team likes, he might 158 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:56.960 get drafted. Right, Well, look at look at and I'm not going 159 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:01.039 to compare the two. Solomon Hill a pretty good player, a marginal player, 160 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.440 yeah, an NBA player for that long. Okay, you never think 161 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.519 that who had a better creator zone? Who Zulus or Solomon Zulas? Easy? 162 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.519 Right? Yeah? Yeah? So why was Solomon Hill a better NBA? 163 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:13.919 Just that's it, that's it. Yeah, how you fit in, 164 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:18.600 Yeah, where you fit in. You're smart, you're you, or that 165 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.559 you can acquire. Sure, but Zulas had a way better career than he 166 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.799 almost had a lot of guys put the school records points in the game, 167 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:26.559 right, I mean who had a better who had a better career? A 168 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:33.639 Zulus or Aaron Gordon Zula's career right, yeah, who's a better player? 169 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.840 Well? Yea wow, okay you could you could put up a Zulus's career 170 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.360 with a lot of a lot of them. Yeah, even like Tom Tilbert 171 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:45.720 and them, Judd Buschler, right, they were very good players, right, 172 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.200 but to the to the the level. Yeah, I don't think jud 173 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:54.480 j Bushler was you know a Pac twelve or pack Den scoring Champa. Right, 174 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.159 not to pick on JD No, no, no, no, but 175 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.240 he had a great career. Was Judd was a good solid player, good 176 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:03.679 fundamental player like Luke Walton kind of guy. Right, Yet you know both 177 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:05.120 of those guys got into the league. And oh I wanted to say, 178 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.960 because I pushed this yesterday with a photo of Bill did you see the Bill 179 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:16.200 Walton thirty on thirty? Fantastic great stuff you make if you if you, 180 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:22.480 um we all know him we've had him on the show Lovable, polarizing. 181 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:24.799 Either you love him or you hate him. We've spent some time with him. 182 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.639 I thought, if you watch it now, you how he can you 183 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:33.919 not love Bill Wong? How could you not love Bill wall It's it's a 184 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:35.559 four I thought it was like a two part it's a four part series. 185 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:41.679 Wow, yesterday was you you? It's like a book. You'll want to 186 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.320 watch the next one? You want on one? I saw the final one 187 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:48.200 yesterday and it almost brought you to tears. And all the stuff that he 188 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:50.799 had to go through. Did you know he was going to Stanford to become 189 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:56.000 a lawyer? No, exactly for stuff. There's stuff that you that he 190 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.879 lost everything, that he lost everything. Uh, that that he was a 191 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:01.919 point where Luke was going to help him financially to save the house and stuff. 192 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:03.799 I mean, come on, this is stuff that you don't know. 193 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:09.159 Wow, right, she was suicidal? Talks about that. I remember, 194 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:13.559 I kind of remember that because all the injuries and stuff and and his Yeah, 195 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:18.639 he had nothing left. Wow. It's a fantastic story. Fantastic story. 196 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:22.679 It's hard to watch him walk, right, it's painful to watch He 197 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.639 talks about that with the injuries and how that all went through in the in 198 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:31.320 the Celtics stuff with Larry Bird. Just it's just an amazing story. I'll 199 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:33.440 watch it, you know what. I'll watch it and then you'll get it. 200 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:35.440 We'll go get him to come on the show and time. Yeah I 201 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.879 was, I was trying to get that to happen. Yeah. So yeah, 202 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:39.720 you'll watch it and we'll see what. Okay, all right, sounds 203 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:43.000 good, sounds good. Um, just real quick, um, Uh, 204 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:48.240 both the ESPN and UH and the Atlanta Journal Constitution have done sort of an 205 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:54.039 investigation into Georgia football players and their driving habits and lack of driving skills. 206 00:13:54.600 --> 00:14:01.120 UH report is that in the in a few months since that wreck that to 207 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.679 to UH football players drag racing, two people got killed. Um. There 208 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:11.840 have been ten more moving violations among Georgia football players in a total of three 209 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:18.000 hundred since since about twenty sixteen, all all under Kirby Smart and that the 210 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.919 feeling is that they're if they're whatever they're doing, they're not doing enough to 211 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.360 get these guys to not do that. So so I talked about something else 212 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:33.080 about the nil stuff. But um, um, yesterday we had Hill she 213 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:37.039 she made some great points about the nil what it initially do you think? 214 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.279 Do you think? And this has maybe a conversation with those sides after the 215 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:45.799 after the guest that it'll eventually get to where they initially intended it for. 216 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:48.519 Well, you'll get to sign autographs, you'll get to do things. Not 217 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:52.240 that they have to bring you here because they're gonna give you a little money. 218 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.559 I don't know. It's hard for me to think that they'll ever put 219 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.320 that back. I know it's hard for me to think that, yeah, 220 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.120 all right, let's check out. We're gonna come back. Lonnie TAVERTI push 221 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:16.519 Ridge Christian Universe right back. 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But yeah, it's um, 271 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:15.240 it's it's the right time. And boy, you guys were saying talk about 272 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.200 memory lane. I can take you down more memory lane than you probably want 273 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:19.119 to go. That's more here. That's why we're here. This is what 274 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:22.079 we do, Lonnie, this is what we do. Um. So, 275 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:26.559 so you know it was there a time that you kind of started thinking about 276 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:30.720 this that you know, you say it was just time. Um, you 277 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.640 know what, what were some of the things that went into your sense of 278 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:38.720 all that. Well, I actually had signed a letter of intent to come 279 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:42.759 back, and then about I would say about a month before the girls basketball 280 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:47.759 season was over this year, I just had that feeling in my gut of 281 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:51.720 like, I don't want to compare myself. I was going to tease you 282 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:55.079 and say I talked to the general manager of the Warriors, and remember he 283 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:57.240 said, if you can't put everything into it, you got to get out 284 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.279 of it. Well, and in reality, I don't know him, but 285 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.759 it was just one of those things where there's so much that goes on as 286 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:07.319 an athletic director at a high school, and especially if you're going to do 287 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:11.440 it the right way, where it's twenty four to seven, it's Saturdays and 288 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:15.759 Sundays, and that pace of life. I just was going, it needs 289 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:22.160 to be somebody else. And at the same time, something came up that 290 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:25.799 I'm going to be doing that I'm excited about. But it was the right 291 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:27.440 time, and that was the thing that was just stirring on my heart. 292 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:33.799 And there's a family situation that we're helping out, a family that's seeking asylum 293 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:37.599 and they live with us and twins running around our house that are about two 294 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:42.160 years old. They call me Papa, and so I wanted to spend more 295 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.799 time in that situation too, until they finally get their husband over here from 296 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:52.200 Africa. So life has kind of called you. Yeah, yeah, that's 297 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:56.519 right. Well, so you know, the twenty years it just like you 298 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:59.079 know, we were talking about, is that a long time or is it 299 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:02.640 not? Right? Um? Does it? Did that seem like a long 300 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:07.279 time to you to be in that job and doing what you did? Well 301 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:10.720 when I look back on it, yes it does. And then again it 302 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:15.240 seems like it just was yesterday when some of the memories that I have happened. 303 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:19.039 But actually it goes back twenty three years from the beginning of push Rich 304 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:26.480 and seventeen years as athletic director and the twenty three years in the girls basketball 305 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.759 program in seventeen years as a d But yeah, and it goes back even 306 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.200 before that, seven years at a place called Grace Christian School that maybe Jane 307 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:41.440 knows because we used to play Saint Gregor's as we know it. And that's 308 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:47.160 where I got my start literally thirty years ago in uh in education athletics. 309 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:51.039 So so let me ask you about about you know, because I look at 310 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.240 I look at the teams that that you're that you're playing now that you know 311 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:59.000 you've you've moved, I think you guys are three a correct in sports. 312 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:00.200 You know back when you know, when I was you know, you talk 313 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.599 about seventeen years and my son started at Saint Gregory fifteen years ago, so 314 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:08.480 that's when I first became familiar with you. But even in that period of 315 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:11.839 time, you know, you guys were playing you know, Desert Christian, 316 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:15.880 uh you know the Gregory School and you know the small schools Now, I 317 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:21.799 look at your schedule. You've got you know Sabino and CDO and and Ironwood 318 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:26.039 Ridge, and talk about that growth period and how you got to there. 319 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:27.960 You know, from being the small school that you were to you know, 320 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:30.519 being more you know, kind of middle of the road and playing some of 321 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:34.720 the some of the bigger schools in town. Yeah, that's that's quite the 322 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:40.640 journey twenty three years ago when we were when I first came over, um 323 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:42.680 it used to be Teliverty Christian. They played at Man Football. And the 324 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:48.039 very first year that we played football um Brand McFarlane, who was actually a 325 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:52.440 trainer for Tony LaRussa when he was with the White Sox. He was our 326 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:56.960 ad the first six years and the very first football game that we had was 327 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:00.000 on a Saturday morning because we had no lights, we had no stadium seating 328 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:03.839 on either side. There was a dirt road coming into the campus. And 329 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:07.039 the team that we were playing that very first game on a Saturday morning and 330 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:12.799 it was so hot, was Bobby Kievree and they rolled our team forty something 331 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:15.720 nothing. They were big, they were huge, they were well coached. 332 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:18.839 They end up being in the final four, might have been at close to 333 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:23.880 championship that year. But it started back there where we were in two A 334 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:30.519 and sometimes we were going to Hayden and Salmon Well away for our region and 335 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:36.519 other times it was going to the Tombstone and bisbeeing in that direction, kind 336 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:38.960 of depending how they would divide it up every two years. But you know, 337 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:42.759 you go along and you try to play better competition. In the summertime, 338 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:48.079 our girls basketball would be playing the sal Points and whatever, so we 339 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.599 probably got a little head start and playing bigger schools, but we stayed in 340 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:56.559 two A for a long time. And then in twenty fifteen is where things 341 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:00.920 really changed. And that's the year that AIA was gonna go a three year 342 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:06.400 experiment and they were really talking about football where they wanted to put teams down 343 00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:10.480 that have bigger schools that hadn't had success, and they were talking free and 344 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:15.519 reduced lunch and all this formula. Well, in twenty fifteen, we had 345 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:18.880 a tremendous sophomore class and we knew, gosh, we can't be playing there 346 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:23.400 for the next three years with these guys, and so I remember talking to 347 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:26.440 Troy Cropp, our head coach, and I said, hey, we'll be 348 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:30.680 maybe five hundred, but we'll be playing teams like Flowing Wells and other schools 349 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:33.799 you mentioned, and we may not make the playoffs, but what a great 350 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.960 experience it's going to be in the regular season, and so we kind of 351 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.400 bit the bullet. We went into that two fifteen season. We played Benson 352 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:45.200 the very first game at two A school, they beat us at their place, 353 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:49.640 and then we won thirteen in a row and won the state championship that 354 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:56.200 year and had this unbelievable run beating Lake Havasu in the final four almost two 355 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:00.759 thousand kids in their school, and Northwest Christian in the championshi ship. But 356 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:03.799 that's that's when it started. And if you'd have told me that we were 357 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:07.759 going to win the state championship that year and then two years later play cast 358 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:12.559 Stile in the state championship as well and losing a close game to them, 359 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:17.559 I would have said, you know, what drugs are you on? Because 360 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:21.559 never in my wildest dreams that I think that we would be playing for a 361 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:26.880 five A schools and not really thinking about it. It's not like we run 362 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.759 through everything, but it's it's kind of the norm now, and so that 363 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:33.240 that has been something where you just know it's out of your hands. The 364 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:37.279 right people come along, the right kids, and you watch it happen and 365 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:40.559 you're a part of it. So I was just going to ask you if 366 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:42.960 you can give us some lights, and you did, what are you going 367 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:47.920 to do? And I asked this about the former athletes and administrators who are 368 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:51.240 in this game. What are you going to do to kind of carry you 369 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:55.920 through in your competitive juices? Well, it's funny used to say that, 370 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.440 because this isn't really out there. So you're making me say stuff that I 371 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:06.079 haven't even told the Pushbridgid everybody there. I don't mind. I am. 372 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:11.640 I am going to be working with the school called Premier Prep. It's brand 373 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:17.519 new. Marty Roth has been working with the Volunteers Basketball Organization in the last 374 00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:21.559 few years. He was a longtime assistant at Amphi and then the head coach 375 00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:26.519 at Sabino and he and I had go back thirty years. And so let's 376 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:33.880 say online in person school that's really trying to cater towards athletes and playing in 377 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:37.359 the Charter School League as well as the Open League and even has a basketball 378 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:41.640 team that got invited to the YBL circuit for this next year on the boys 379 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.400 side. And I'm hoping to start something on the girls side, whether it's 380 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:49.680 in the Charter School League, you know, and eventually at wherever it would 381 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:55.119 go. But I've been at six practices this summer with that group that's going 382 00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:56.960 to go to Grand Canyon this Friday. But I'm going to be a part 383 00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:02.319 of that school. And we're really the two facility tators that are really starting 384 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:06.400 to school from scratch. That's um based out of Phoenix and a couple of 385 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:10.759 people that were with the Leading Edge Academy school system and they're the owners of 386 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:15.400 it, and we're the branch that's starting in Tucson. Wow. So then 387 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:21.400 this is that this is all You're not retiring. Well, I'm taking social 388 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:25.160 Security. I can only make twenty one thousand something, which they were glad 389 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:30.279 to hear that they would hire me before that exactly. And and yes, 390 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:33.480 and so I'm not retiring. I'm just not. I suck at golf and 391 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.559 I'm not that fype of guy that would be. I mean, I'm going 392 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.799 to be involved in something and and I'm I've met these eighteen to twenty guys 393 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.720 that have been practicing and that have been part of this organization. They play 394 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:48.359 club somewhere else, but they play their high school with us, and it's 395 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.559 our school. And you know it's funny. In six practice, I've fallen 396 00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:56.319 in love with these guys, and I needed to have that because it's it's 397 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:00.279 tough saying goodbye to something that you've been a part of twenty three years. 398 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:04.440 Yeah, no question, we wanted to ask you twenty years or twenty three 399 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:10.160 years, however it's been, how has the game changed? And maybe your 400 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:19.279 style to comedy? Wow, you know, as far as style there was, 401 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:22.680 I would say for me personally, and then I'll give the overview of 402 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.519 what I think is the challenge for all coaches. I would say, for 403 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:32.720 me personally, I was a man to man guy and almost thought as an 404 00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:36.240 insult if you did anything else and excused if I lost to somebody, if 405 00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:40.640 they played a junk triangle in two or one, you know whatever, And 406 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:42.400 really as time went by, just saying, you know, I got to 407 00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:47.799 be adaptable to whatever is out there that gives us the team the best chance 408 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:52.480 to win and just swallow some of your pride and just realizing, let's find 409 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.279 the best way to do it. But I'd say the biggest change is not 410 00:28:56.359 --> 00:28:59.960 so much on the court, and that I was literally talking to a friend 411 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.640 the other day when we were winning state championships and early in my coaching career, 412 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:10.920 and it didn't realize how fortunate I was. Back then. I was 413 00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:15.319 really tough on the girgles. I mean, I think I pointed out every 414 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:19.920 mistake they made in a practice. You would hear me constantly talking during games, 415 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:26.079 and I look back on it and I'm going, I can't even come 416 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:30.279 close to that now. And yet I have more issues going on probably now 417 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:34.000 that you see for all coaches and personally than you did back then when I 418 00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:37.920 feel like I was a little bit of an ogre. And I think the 419 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:41.440 real issue is this is back then, the parents that we had, they 420 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:45.839 trusted you that even if you didn't do things exactly the way they want, 421 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.039 that you cared about their kid and they really would tell their kid go talk 422 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:52.119 to the coach and they would absolutely need to step in if things didn't go 423 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:56.079 right from that conversation or you know, some time going by. But I 424 00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.200 think that's what hurts. I think all kids would fall in line with the 425 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.440 leaders on the team and the ones that are really going for it, but 426 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:07.920 with great intentions. I think parents get too involved and the short circuit what 427 00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:14.519 is kind of should be a natural thing of growing in learning things the hard 428 00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:17.839 way in an environment that's going to be the best one they're going to probably 429 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:19.680 be in for the rest of their life and you know, going on to 430 00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:25.359 work and beyond when they leave their parents' homes. I think that's the biggest 431 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:32.160 change. Basketball's still about fundamentals and players making plays and stuff like that. 432 00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:36.119 Well, now that I have you and Jay both coaches, and I being 433 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:40.640 a parent of some players, I think, and I'm being very serious with 434 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:44.640 this, the worst thing to happen to kids today are their parents. They 435 00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:48.000 don't let them be kids and let them learn from the coaches. Well, 436 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:55.200 we that is so true. We actually had a mandatory parent meeting at push 437 00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:59.920 Ridge that we do and through this organization called three D Coaching, they did 438 00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.640 a survey one gentleman did and he talked to high school athletes, a ton 439 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:10.400 of them, and he asked what was their most disappointing experience in athletics, 440 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:12.960 and it was something like seventy percent of them said to ride home with the 441 00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:15.359 parents. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We didn't. And we didn't say 442 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.799 that to try to make parents feel bad. We were trying to let them 443 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.079 know, hey, partner with us. This is a tough thing that we're 444 00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:25.680 trying to do, you know, And and here's how you can help. 445 00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:29.799 So I would agree with you. That's just I don't think they realize the 446 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.839 damage they're doing and how they're actually hindering what they really want for their kids. 447 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.319 Yeah. All great points. And I think you know what, whether 448 00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:41.200 you coach you know, T ball or Little league or whatever up you know, 449 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:42.799 up to high school or you know, into college, I mean that 450 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:45.799 that is the deal. It's like, as a coach, you just want 451 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:49.480 your parents to let you coach, and if they have issues with it, 452 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:55.720 then you know, deal with the kid. And the whole idea to me 453 00:31:55.839 --> 00:32:00.359 has always been, you know, you're growing here and experience of this and 454 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:02.880 this is where you get away from your parents and the way they you know, 455 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.640 try and and drive you. But I man, everything you said there 456 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:12.640 just made so much sense to me, both as a coach and as a 457 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.480 parent, you know, and I was that parent that you know if my 458 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:20.000 kids never had issues like that. But I'm pretty sure if they would have 459 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:22.319 said, Dad, I'm having this problem with this coach, I'm able to 460 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:27.440 you to go talk to the coach. Uh yeah, yeah, so will 461 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:31.680 you be It's interesting way you're moving to online, but still still, how 462 00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:36.480 will this affect you in terms of being a coach or an administrator with the 463 00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:40.359 parents or is it different. Well, really, what it is is uh 464 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:46.079 a gentleman I name Marty Rolls and myself. We're really talking about twenty to 465 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:52.599 thirty five kids or so um that would be meeting three times a week and 466 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:57.559 we're they're making sure they're on task of their online assignments. Then we actually 467 00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:00.880 add some classes to it, and then with weight training and things like that, 468 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:06.039 and then there's one day a week where it's they can come in and 469 00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:08.319 get tutoring, work on their game, whatever it is we do. And 470 00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:13.160 then they have Friday, Saturday, Sunday off and it's really catered towards those 471 00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.400 kids that are in club, you know, in the year round and trying 472 00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:21.039 to help them out with their schedule. We even have some gymnasts, some 473 00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:23.799 girl gymnasts that are going you know, they're checking out of school at noon 474 00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:27.839 a lot of times to go and you know how grueling it is, and 475 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:30.200 it's like, wait a minute, this might be a whole lot better for 476 00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:34.599 you to not be always making up stuff, but being able to create your 477 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:37.960 own type of schedule with the two of us making sure we're that kind of 478 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:42.279 life coach, you know, social, mental, whatever we need to be. 479 00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:45.039 We're there with them every day and making sure they stay on task. 480 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:50.440 And then if they happen to be girls basketball players or boys basketing players, 481 00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:53.039 he and I are coaching them. But it's open to anybody in town, 482 00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:57.920 even if they're not an athlete. But that's what it's geared towards is trying 483 00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:00.759 to make a unique schedule and a high brid model as opposed to just everything 484 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:06.400 online and then don't go to your sports somewhere else. The interesting model that 485 00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:09.320 you guys that look like you're putting together. Boy, it'll be interesting to 486 00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:12.800 see how this turns out for you all. The best of luck with that. 487 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:16.559 Well, yeah, I'm excited about it and we'll see where that leads. 488 00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:21.239 Well, thanks a bunch for joining us today. Can I do one 489 00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:24.639 thing? Absolutely? I would just like, since I'm going to be leaving, 490 00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:28.280 I would like to say, and that's not like they're all going to 491 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:30.760 be listening, but since I'm old and I don't remember everybody's names anymore, 492 00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:36.639 I just want to say thank you to all of the coaches and all of 493 00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:40.360 the parents. And we've had fantastic parents and the and the student athletes that 494 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:45.519 Push Ridge that have made the last twenty three years great memories for a lot 495 00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:50.000 of people in the city of Tucson, but specifically me and the others involved. 496 00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:53.440 I just thank you to the push Ridge family and thank you to you 497 00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:58.719 guys for allowing me to do that. Well said Lonnie. Best of luck 498 00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:00.960 with all of that. Thank you, joy, guys, appreciate it. 499 00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:06.400 Be well, be Wellni TAVERTI. Well, that's a that's an interesting concept, 500 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:08.599 uh that they got going up. Yeah, you know, you know, 501 00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:10.639 at some point we'll have to see if we you know, we get 502 00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:14.199 him back. Just ye, that's going, Yeah, that's going. Yeah, 503 00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:15.679 okay, all right, let's go and take our our last break of 504 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:19.320 the day, and uh, well, thank your comments any of that. 505 00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:21.920 You know, we were talking about parents and coaches. Man, that's a 506 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:24.440 that's an issue that goes all the way down to I mean seriously, down 507 00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:29.880 to t ball. Oh yeah, down to keyball. 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What's your last name? 566 00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:36.480 Jason Day day day? Okay, I can't remember through you're reading your resume, 567 00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:38.119 but put them. He put them in your context, and I've got 568 00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:42.800 a first name in my contact. Appreciate that I know who I'm talking about, 569 00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:45.000 the one that brought him here. It's okay, Jason, come on, 570 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:47.519 he's my guy, Jason. That's all I need to know. Okay, 571 00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:51.039 I got a question. First name, basis, did you coach much 572 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:55.320 lady Okaya or okay or just through your kids playing sports and stuff like that. 573 00:39:55.480 --> 00:40:00.760 What was the worst parent experience that you had? And that's something that 574 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:06.760 you did something or maybe it was maybe it was something you did. This 575 00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:09.519 is kind of funny, but it's kind of strange because you know, I'm 576 00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:13.480 gone so much for basketball, blah blah blah. I don't even know. 577 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:15.960 It is kind of stupid. So my kid, my youngest son, my 578 00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:20.000 youngest son was playing tea ball after playing soccer. But he was like eight 579 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.239 six years old whatever it was, and he was halfway decent. And I 580 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:25.199 was gone for basketball. But I came and I was still coaching the kids, 581 00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:28.880 and I was gone for a little like a week or so. So 582 00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:32.639 some other and I had an assistant and some other parent, some other parent 583 00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:36.920 kind of kind of helped out a little. And I guess he figured my 584 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:40.239 my wife at the time single because I was never around. He was scamming 585 00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:45.320 on your wife. So when I came back, when I came back, 586 00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:50.920 he was like, who's this dude? Who's this dude? You see my 587 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:53.239 wife? You know, I tried to move and I'm no, I was 588 00:40:53.320 --> 00:41:00.639 just like I asked her, who does he think he is? That's who 589 00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:02.880 we're going to go. Yeah, to be it was the funny story. 590 00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:10.039 Doesn't come on with the girl. He should be flattered. Yeah, I'm 591 00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:12.639 saying, come on, dude, I'm going to go for a week, 592 00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:16.719 you know, man boy. So that's why, coach, you need to 593 00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:20.960 mark your character one of the story. That's the story. That's just that 594 00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:25.599 was way way off from where that was gonna go. But I love, 595 00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:29.320 I love I would do that today. And you know, in fact, 596 00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:32.159 our guy what's his name with the kids, him and his wife, Um, 597 00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:35.880 right right, I'm sure they're still doing it. Oh yeah, no, 598 00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:37.960 they're right. I would love to do that just because I love hanging 599 00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:40.800 out, you know, teaching kids. You don't think I see him out 600 00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:45.280 that because he's the he's the he runs the stack computer for the Sugar Sculls. 601 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:46.559 Plus I golf with them all the time. He said, the business 602 00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:50.599 is going great. Oh, I'm it's a perfect idea, perfect idea, 603 00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:52.599 and you know, teaching the kids how to do things, and it's it's 604 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:55.719 all repetitive. Um, I mean, can I say go ahead? And 605 00:41:55.719 --> 00:42:00.519 say what you're gonna say, not ahead. So I took us screenshot of 606 00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:02.440 something that YO kids said last night. I hope I did at least. 607 00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:07.559 And it's and it's perfect for perfect for anything. Okay. So he was 608 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:10.360 quoted last night or the day before. I just played basketball. I don't 609 00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:15.559 jump high, I don't run fast. Basketball is about teammates. When I'm 610 00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:20.519 open, I score when I'm not. I pass. Yeah, simple basketball, 611 00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:22.840 isn't it. Yeah? Right, you hit the ball, you throw 612 00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:27.840 the ball, you catch the ball, right exactly exactly, breaking it down 613 00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.239 into the simple thing. Come on, and I'll just go because we talk 614 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:37.320 about this year all the time, twenty seventeen DeAndre Trier all kinds rustics. 615 00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:42.719 If they just played that way, that team would have been fantastic. One 616 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:46.440 ball, get to the open, guy, shoot when you open. That 617 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:50.480 team didn't know how to do that. You know. It's funny. Um, 618 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.239 last night sitting around watching TV hit getting ready to hit the sack, 619 00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:58.599 and I was your channel surfing and came across the UCLA you of a back 620 00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:01.639 twelve tournament championship game, which which from this year this last year, okay, 621 00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:07.320 And it was in the second half and you know, and you know 622 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:09.039 because I when you know, when I the time I saw it, you 623 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:12.119 know, I saw it live. It was right in front of me. 624 00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.000 Uh, you're not watching it because you're you're not watching it because you're not 625 00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:16.880 doing the stats. Ye yeah, yeah, no, that this is that 626 00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:20.880 up in Vegas. I'm not doing stats. I'm I'm watching the game, 627 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:22.559 but you know, kind of caught up in the atmosphere in the whole bit. 628 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:28.639 But watching the watching the game on TV like that. You really got 629 00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:31.800 a sense of that with with Tommy Lloyd's team, right, is that you 630 00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:35.840 had five guys on the court and it didn't matter. You know, kyl 631 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:38.199 and Boswell was on the court, uh, Kurk Creaso was on the court, 632 00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:45.719 you know whoever. And you you watch Tommy Lloyd's offense, offense and 633 00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:49.880 he's not just his offense, but you know, everything that they did was 634 00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:52.320 so simple. It's really simple. For the ball will find the open, 635 00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:57.000 right, It's really really simple. It's that you get the ball and if 636 00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:59.239 you're open, you take the shot, and if you're not, you get 637 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:02.039 it to somebody who is open or might be open. And you watch how 638 00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:07.840 they passed the ball and you go this is not that hard. Uh. 639 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:13.159 And maybe that's why he was able to be so good so fast, right, 640 00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:15.079 right, because I think he simplified the game for these guys. There 641 00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:19.840 wasn't a pack line defense, right or whatever, you know, whatever it 642 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:23.440 was. It was just these guys were out there running basketball probably like they 643 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:28.199 played growing up, you know, on the on the playground, after having 644 00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:31.039 not been able to play that way before. Right, That's why that's that's 645 00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:34.679 part of his secret souce. I mean, he's he's not coach, But 646 00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:37.039 like I said, you have a you have a dad who's strict and do 647 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.519 this and do that, uh, and then you have a step dad who 648 00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:43.920 says, no, you can have ice cream at eleven. Don't worry about 649 00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:45.159 it. Yeah, you know it's fine, right, and you get to 650 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:47.880 say, hey, look we can stay up play. But you remember the 651 00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:53.320 shot that that um the name Rainy hit, the three partner that he hit 652 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:58.079 escentually won the game game right, And you watch a plan and I ran 653 00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:00.840 it back a couple of times just to see how that played. Paul found 654 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:05.280 him. Yeah. Right. There was a ball came off the came off 655 00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:09.199 the rim. Pelly Larson tossed it to somebody who tossed it to Rami and 656 00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:13.039 then he just made a quick step up, you know, and a step 657 00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:15.039 back jumper, and he made it and it was like the ball found the 658 00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:20.880 open guy. And and that's that's what's so simple about what Tommy Lloyd does. 659 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:24.519 And I don't think people realize how simple it is because they've been so 660 00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:30.039 used to the uh yeah, the structure of what Sean Miller was doing. 661 00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:31.760 Yeah, and let me say this, I think Yukon did that too, 662 00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:36.119 where they played as a team. Maybe not in the same situation. They 663 00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:39.639 played as a team, and teams win championships and all that cliche, but 664 00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:44.280 it's true. It is true, one hundred percent true. Look at Denver 665 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:46.440 didn't do this to the extent that Golden State does it because Golden State, 666 00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:49.800 you know, can have a two footer and they pass it up for a 667 00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:53.079 three ft three pointer. But but they had the two guys Murray had. 668 00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:58.880 But the other dudes complimented every every situation. And I know we bring this 669 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:04.840 one up at but the DeAndre Ayton team, they had arguably or at least 670 00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:07.880 a guy who was in the discussion for the best player in college basketball, 671 00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:13.639 and yet they were terrible with two dudes that were pretty dulling, right, 672 00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:16.800 and they were terrible in that in that NC Double A tournament game because everybody 673 00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:20.480 had to get theirs. And then you you know, then you go to 674 00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:22.000 this, you know, and I get it aarzone lost the Prince in the 675 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.480 whole bit. But you if you go watch that UCLA game, you know, 676 00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:29.119 you see LA had some stars, you know, uh you know, 677 00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:32.119 Uh, I'm Jimie Hawk, is Amri Bailey, you know all those guys 678 00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:36.480 they were really good. They were missing one of their they were missing Yeah, 679 00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:42.559 good player. But nonetheless you just watched watching it on TV versus watching 680 00:46:42.599 --> 00:46:46.360 it in the arena. Um, you see how simple really it really is 681 00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:50.639 what Tommy Lloyd does. Why then you feel you feel like, okay, 682 00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:55.480 they're gonna have a bunch of new guys again this year, and they're they're 683 00:46:55.480 --> 00:46:59.480 gonna run the same stuff and do the same thing and probably win a bunch 684 00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:02.039 of game. And that's and that's what makes them special. Uh, here's 685 00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:06.440 the problem with this whole situation. And he said this on the podium, 686 00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:09.639 Uh, you can have you can go twenty five and seven, you can 687 00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:14.280 go thirty three and two. If you don't win in March. You're gonna 688 00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:17.320 be crushed. Yeah, because that's when it matters. No one will remember 689 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:22.079 the Duke game, No one'll remember the Alabama game. Unless you do well 690 00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:25.639 in our arch. You're not you're not great on anything else. And you 691 00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:29.280 know, Arizona fans need to be ready that Arizona's gonna lose some of those 692 00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:30.960 games, oh very much, so very much so well, you know, 693 00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:34.559 and us talking about it because it's even you know, it's gonna be on 694 00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:38.239 Twitter and Facebook saying what Yeah, No, they're gonna listen some of those 695 00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:40.960 games. But you know what, they're gonna be better for playing. And 696 00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:45.519 that's the that's what's bothering. Why other schools, that's the point. Why 697 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:50.079 schools and now that's Arizonally did it for a long time too, won't play 698 00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:53.119 those games. Play them because you're gonna be better for that, and you're 699 00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:59.119 gonna be beating cal State. You know, Southern Louis subisious or somebody totally 700 00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:01.800 get it, totally get it. In fact, I'll just bring this cautiously. 701 00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:06.159 A lot of people who love Sean before he left team says, well, 702 00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:07.440 he's a winner. Yes, he had a lot of wins, but 703 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:13.119 more than fifty those games came up again, came up against Northern Arizona or 704 00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:19.239 lower. Those are fifty sixty wins that that we know the quality of games 705 00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:22.079 were not very good, right, No, it wasn't. Those are bad 706 00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:24.800 schedules for a long period of time, and and and you hated to see 707 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:29.639 it. So I'm loving the schedule, man, regardless of where the games 708 00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:32.800 are. Guess, you know, playing people they're gonna talk to talk about 709 00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:37.760 him on ESPN and on Fox and and everywhere else and CBS and the big 710 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:42.320 games. Those are gonna be games that you know, Arizona is gonna be 711 00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.280 you know, in in the spotlight a lot this coming year. And I'm 712 00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:49.039 really looking forward to that. Uh, you know, I'll be interested to 713 00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:51.880 see what Tommy has to say about it. As you know we get close 714 00:48:51.880 --> 00:48:53.360 to the season, he's had a look at his team. You know, 715 00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:55.480 of course he's gonna say, you know why we're going in there to win 716 00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:59.239 all those games. We're playing them because they're good for our team. Right, 717 00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:01.559 I'm looking forward to here. It's great, it's great, and he's 718 00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:06.079 it's the Gonzaga model, it's the loot awesome model to play him early see 719 00:49:06.119 --> 00:49:07.519 what you need to work on, right, See how tough you're gonna be? 720 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:10.039 Yeah, and I say tough just how good you need to be, 721 00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:14.519 right because I don't know if they're gonna be tough again? No again, 722 00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:17.440 I mean you know what was it? You know the ninety seventh season, 723 00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:21.840 Right, they didn't they play North Carolina like they played in the second, 724 00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:23.360 second, third game? Yeah, I remember that Miles was not available, 725 00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:27.239 right, he wasn't available yet they went over they went over to North Carolina. 726 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:29.599 No, they played Charlotte, right, No, they played in Springfield. 727 00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:30.920 It was the Hall of Fame game. Okay, but it is on 728 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:34.360 the East Coast. So they go over there and they win that game. 729 00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:37.440 Yeah, and who knew? Well, the thing is, that's when Michael 730 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:40.800 Dickerson, who's this kid? Yeah, I mean yeah, he had played 731 00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:44.920 well before, but he had to step up because Miles was not a round. 732 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:46.559 Right. But you know, you can you can see some things and 733 00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:50.239 it's like all right, you know, and then you know, winning the 734 00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:52.960 game like that early sure gives you hope the whole rest of the year. 735 00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:57.480 You say, no matter what, we were able to do that, you 736 00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:00.880 know where we're capable. Yeah, and then if it fifth in the league, 737 00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:04.159 fifth in the league, or so bad when Luke Luke punted the ball 738 00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:08.920 at the Oregon State game, crazy crazy times, crazy times, And how 739 00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:14.719 piss they were after he missed it on that too. I can't remember. 740 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:16.840 I can't. I don't think that was that your It was a your year 741 00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:21.519 of eighty eight ish when he got pissed, got pissed after losing the first 742 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:23.400 couple of games in Oregon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, eight 743 00:50:23.519 --> 00:50:25.400 No, eighty eight years they only lost three games. No, no, 744 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:29.880 well maybe it was eighty nine when they went to Oregon. They lost early 745 00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:34.199 and he was they were playing hard, blah blah blah. But that year 746 00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:37.119 that was the blow up was in cal and Staff. Remember they lost the 747 00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:39.360 plast two. Yeah, Phil Johnson went went crazy in the locker room, 748 00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:45.280 and then they started winning. Who knows. We never know what's gonna set 749 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:46.440 you off. Yeah, that's gonna set you up. I mean, come 750 00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:50.199 on, yeah, no again looking forward? So all right, so I'm 751 00:50:50.199 --> 00:50:53.320 gonna tell my little my my parents story. Okay, so I'm coaching. 752 00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:58.920 It's the first year that the kids are pitching. Okay, so we were 753 00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:01.800 past coaches pitched the kids. So they're maybe nine years old, eight or 754 00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:05.440 eight or nine years old. So we had you know, you always have 755 00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:07.800 the one or two kids that aren't very good. They don't play much. 756 00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:12.039 And but this one kid, he comes up to us during the practice. 757 00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:15.480 Can I try pitching? We said sure. So he gets up there and 758 00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:19.480 he pitched some batting practice and he was fine and everything, like nine maybe 759 00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:22.519 nine. Okay, So so we're at last game of the year, um 760 00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.599 and we're just playing games. Don't mean anything, right, So we put 761 00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:29.440 the kid on the mound. He goes out to We put him to go 762 00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:30.840 out to pitch. Okay, you're gonna pitch this game, last inning. 763 00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:35.880 You're gonna go pitch. And his dad comes flaming out of the bleachers, 764 00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:38.760 comes screaming at us at the dug out. What are you doing? You 765 00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:42.400 put in them out there. You're gonna embarrass him. You're gonna ruin I. 766 00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:44.480 You're gonnambras him. He's never gonna want to play baseball, guys, 767 00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:49.239 sir, go sit down, Yeah, just go sit down right now, 768 00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:52.159 all right, don't you do not come over here and do this. Sit 769 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:58.440 down and let your kid play. Kid strikes out the side. He struck 770 00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:00.519 out the side. He threw strikes, struck out, the side, came 771 00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:04.800 off, the came off the did you hear back from the no? The 772 00:52:04.840 --> 00:52:07.760 words did not gy. I looked at the bit, I looked at the 773 00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:09.719 bleacher, sees this guy gonna come and apologize for us. He did not, 774 00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:14.159 And I said, that's a bad dad. Yeah, oh yeah, 775 00:52:14.159 --> 00:52:16.159 of course that's a bad dad. It's funny you see those, uh those 776 00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:21.039 there's things on Instagram where the coach goes out and tells the coach tells the 777 00:52:21.119 --> 00:52:23.320 player, you know, it looks like you're gonna be somebody other than a 778 00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:30.079 baseball player. All that. But the kid and the kid probably did this 779 00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:34.280 day. He probably still thinks about that day. Who's both of the little 780 00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:37.039 kid? Okay, he's parting little barrass because the dad. Yeah yeah, 781 00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:39.039 but the look kid probably thinks about that day that he went out and pitch 782 00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:43.679 for the first time and did what he did. And the coach already talked 783 00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:45.559 about this. I know we have very little time, but the drive home 784 00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:52.519 it's the worst time because your parents as well explaining can you explain yourself blah 785 00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:55.039 blah blah. Yeah, enough enough of that, Yeah, all right, 786 00:52:55.280 --> 00:52:59.360 there is there is pre baby. Yeah, we are preaching, man, 787 00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:01.519 we are said, definitely are okay. We had a good time. Hey, 788 00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:05.639 Brian Jefferies is on tomorrow. Just let you know, Steve, we're 789 00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:08.840 gonna have him on. We'll wrap up some of the you of a bill 790 00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:12.920 be school year right and how they did so, we'll get Brian on along 791 00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:15.320 with another great guest. I'll be sure to be back tomorrow. Wills see 792 00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:20.000 you tomorrow. I'm running through the world like a running back up Wolls running 793 00:53:20.039 --> 00:53:22.480 running back out. Thirty thousand people in here and a me