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Steve Bravera and Jacin Salves. They
have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson

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Sports Stage Sat, Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. Heay, welcome back to I

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the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay,

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and now we have Ryan with breaking
news. This is Eye on the Ball

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breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Right. Starting with University of Arizona

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baseball, got a couple of commitments
to talk about. The first one is

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former Stamford outfielder Aaron Watt. Walton
has committed to play for Arizona. I

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believe he also is a pitcher as
well. All right, can never have

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enough pitching. Sixty three to sixteen
right handed picture, and he's got some

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power as well. He had he
hits. He hits as well. Oh,

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okay, see, as a sophomore
with the Bulldogs, he had nine

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home runs, three more than any
You have a righty b along with thirty

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six RBIs and fifteen for fifteen and
stolen base attempts. Wow, all right,

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that's like a good one. I
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they're Arizona's losing a couple of pictures
next year. I know Jackson Kent is

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expected to go to the draft,
and then there's a couple of I think

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I think they either win. I
think they lose all three of their starters,

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don't they I think they're losing all
three. I think Candy I don't

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work, Candya and uh the cam
Walty, I think they're all gone.

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No, cam Walty's I think was
a sophomore. But I think Candyaty's gone.

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Let's see, there was three pictures
that are Candyaddy looks like he can

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pitch in the majors. So yeah, you know, if he's he hasn't

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already decided to go, he needs
to decide soon. Yeah, that's a

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good pick up for for Arizona.
Definitely can use the Yeah, the pitching

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and the and the hitting as well, exactly. The other commitment is Hunter

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alb Alberini. He is he's committed
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I'm not really sure? Okay,
all right, like this this happened,

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I think like a like a week
ago. All right, see how they

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do next year, go back to
let's go to the NBA draft. We

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know that what's his name? She
forgot his name? Bonnie James Johnson and

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Larson Larson. Thank you. Wow, we know that he got You're really

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you're too young to not be able
to remember that you're getting you're catching our

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disease. Yeah, I've been here
too long, so palla Larson. We

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know he got drafted. We got
attracted by the Heat. And then some

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news came out after the draft ended
that Kishaw Johnson has signed a two way

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deal with the Heat as well as
that came from Chums apologize Palaye t shot.

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Going to the same place doesn't sound
good the well, yeah they're yeah,

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they're probably going after the same spot. Right, we'll see what happens.

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Yeah, Okay, who's got the
better chance of sticking? Probably?

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Really, why do you say that? He does more? Does more?

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He's good, he can handle the
ball as good as Johnson is athletically,

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It's it's a different league. I
don't think either we're gonna stick. But

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I've told you this a thousand times. I know that it's tough. Man,

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This is tough. Somebody's got a
stick, No, because there's other

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players I know, but that's what
I'm saying. They you know, I

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mean good luck. Like so it's
like, you know, every game,

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somebody's got to win. You know
this is not between both of them,

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because there's gonna be more people on
the roster. Yeah, maybe maybe he'll

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do well enough that maybe somebody else. I think one of them makes.

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I think one of them makes a
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I'm not gonna say which one,
but I think I think one of them

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does. I think the league starts
a couple of weeks as well. No,

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no, the it's the summer league. Summer League. Yeah, so

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they'll both be being playing in the
Miami Orlando League. Probably in the maybe

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in Vegas. I don't know if
they play in Vegas, but they play

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in the Orlando League. We'll see. It's not a lot of fun to

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watch. Sticking with the NBA draft, Uh, BRENNYE. James, he's

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he's been drafted. He's gonna play
with his dad over on the Lakers.

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That's automatic. It's an automatic roster
spot. I think so. Because he's

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not playing the G League. That's
no. They said no G league or

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two way contract for him. In
the world of demand, if it was,

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if it was Jagan Zalez six foot
six, two hundred pound guard and

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had the same skills as Brownie James, I guarantee you Jagan Zawiz would not

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have been drafted, right, correct, Steve Rivera whomever? Yeah, No,

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you're right, No, you're right. I mean he got drafted because

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of his dad, and he'll stick. He's no two way contract, he

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said, unless they say, well, why else would they do it?

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I mean, why else would they
only Lakers waste to draft if not to

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get him on the roster and and
and make this happens at him at the

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end of the bench over there.
Yeah, well, life is did anybody

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tell you life is fair? Well, it's gonna be. JJ Reddick is

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gonna have to deal with that exactly. That's why that job is the No.

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One situation. Who's the boy,
who's the coach? JJ Reddick?

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Who's the coach? Oh Lebron James? Yeah, wow, okay, assistant

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coach Marty James, assistant coach J. J. Reddick? All right?

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Also that that'll be the first my
father son duo in the NBA. Yeah,

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yeah, the next part of the
whole charm at least, you know,

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so switch over to m will be
a little bit of news for the

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Arizona Diamondbacks. Zach Gallon is expected
to return this weekend against the A's Where's

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he been? He went on there, he went on the fifteen day.

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I l had hamstream. It's not
an arm thing. So he just threw

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sixty seven pitches in a simulated game
on the twenty fourth, and he's got

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a bullpen session tonight. But he's
expected to return this weekend to the ball

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club, and then Alec Thomas Alfielder
also expected to return either this weekend or

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possibly at the beginning of July.
He had a string of left hamstring.

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So hopefully those guys can kind of
come back and maybe help to be back

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to a little bit. I know, Jay's not Japans. He didn't really

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care about Yeah, excuse those guys. Well, yeah, I don't know

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if you're going to bring this up. At that video of oh yeah,

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yeah, of sho Hey Otani nearly
getting killed by a line drive. You

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see that. So a FA ball
into the dugout and it was headed right

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at Otani's head and he was he
was looking, but he had nowhere to

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go and a bat boy got it
bare handed. I'll check that basically saved

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his life. I mean it was
like show hees needed to buy him a

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car or something. Uh, it's
an incredible video. He just got it

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with two hands, right, like, no big deal here, he caught

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it and then handed him the ball. But it's you know, and Joe

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Hate was ducking and he had a
helmet on, so yeah, I saw

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it. But I mean it was
headed right at him and and the kid

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got it. And I love the
kid didn't like you know, Ray,

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you just like got it. Here, here's the ball and gave it to

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somebody else. Right before that,
any actually set a record marking his tenth

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straight game home run accord an RBI. That's a new Dodger record, Dodger.

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Yeah, I just I'm just watching
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a record. And then he almost
got in the head by a laser beam.

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That's all I have. Okay,
yeah, I had one. And

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this is from from here. Uh. Nancy Evans, when was the last

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time you heard that? Yeah?
Yeah, I hadn't heard that anything.

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While she's now the new pitching coach
at Ole, miss Wow. That's uh,

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isn't that Taron Mowatt's old jobs Mississippi
State? She's a Mississippi State Okay?

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Oh wow, all right, I
heard Nancy Evans name in a long

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time. Yeah, I know somewhere
right, Yeah, so interesting. Yeah,

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no, I you know, one
of the great ones at Arizona,

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but kind of disappeared. You're right. I mean she had that she had

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that job here for a while,
so I don't know, many years ago.

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Okay, let let's talk about the
Bronnie James thing, because I really

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want to dig into this just a
little bit. I mean, I understand

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you got a guy like lebron and
your you know, on your team,

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in your camp. He means everything
to that franchise. Yeah, you know,

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if it's gonna make him happy,
I guess do you do it or

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not? I mean, what do
you think I'm gonna be guys on the

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team pissed off for Brownie James is
on the team. That's the funny thing.

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That's the funny thing because the first
thing I thought of was Caitlin Clark,

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and I don't know how I associated, but you know the treatment that

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she got in the league, right, and she'll still get in it.

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I guarantee you Ronnie James, he
won't be getting it. He won't be

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getting it because he's protected, you
think. So he's protected by his dad

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on the team and his dad from
other players from the league. There's no

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one that's gonna bully you don't think
you don't think. No. And he's

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gonna catch an now in the back
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not not, not really. No, he's protected every which way. So

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what is Lebron gonna do? Beat
up everybody who does something to his kid?

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Yeah, but he's not gonna have
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I don't think it's gonna be as
as intense as the Kimon Clark stuff.

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I mean, I think what he
gets out there, I think he's there's

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gonna be some guys out there who
are gonna want a little something. I

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don't know. I don't think so. I don't think so because he's just

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protected. Yeah, why why even
do it? What's the point? What's

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the purpose for fun? No?
No, this is different. For the

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hell of it is the hell of
it, it won't happen. If it

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does, well, well, well
I'll be the first to say that.

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Okay, here we are. But
I don't think it's going to This is

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not gonna be a pool thing.
A pool thing from the from the Warriors,

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because he talked a lot of crap. They just didn't like him.

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He touched a lot of happened and
what's his name slugged him because you talked

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a lot of crap. And you
know, I want to have you heard

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from him since nothing because they exiled
into Washington, all right, I don't

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know. And if you're brownie,
it's like when he was here and everybody

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bowed him, he had nothing to
do anything. But that's what I'm saying,

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right, That's exactly what I'm saying, is that there's people who are

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going to resent him, sure,
and want to show him what's what,

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just because he got drafted only because
his dad got him craft who looks petty

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in that situation. The people who
are bitter about it, well, good

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luck. That's fine. It's not
on him. I'm okay with petty once

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in a while. I know you. Yeah, that's Jacob's olence. But

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for him, I mean, who
does he apologize to? No? Right,

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I mean, look, does he
deserve it that treatment? No?

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No, no, But neither does
Caitlin Clark. And she's getting it.

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No, that's just the way it
is. That's just the way she doesn't

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have her mom or dad. That's
just the way things are. That there

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are gonna be some guys who are
gonna want a little piece of Ronnie get

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an opportunity just won't happen because his
dad's right there. If he wants to

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go to a different team, maybe
that would be the case. But he's

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gonna be at the Lakers. It's
not gonna happen in the house. That's

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for damn sure. It's not gonna
happen in because Bronnie would say, get

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that dude out of here, get
that dude out. I agree with that,

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and nobody. Yeah, if you're
if you're a Laker player, yeah,

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you're not doing anything. If you're
if you're a Laker player and you're

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that stupid to you know, do
something like that, then you're too stupid

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to be in the If you're play
from somebody else, what's the point.

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I mean, come on, he
may not even play that much anyway.

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Yeah, probably, Steve. There's
never a point winning. Yeah, for

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you petty people, I mean,
there's never a point to the you know,

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the hazing that goes on, and
so it's all stupid. It ain't

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gonna happen. It's all stupid,
but it happens. It's not gonna happen

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it won't happen. It's too much, too much at stake for the guys.

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And and then what's the point he's
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I mean, he's harmless, exactly
right, exactly, he's harm he's not

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hurting you, and he's and he's
not and he's not gonna be Yeah,

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he's not gonna be in there,
you know, with the game on the

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line, hitting the three from the
corner. He's not. So yeah,

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in that regard, he'll probably never
be in a situation where the intensity on

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the court justifies. But I still
see somebody say I'm taking my shot at

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you just because I don't see it. I see it when Lebron's gone by

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that time he's if he's still in
the NBA, he's a player. At

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my point, there's no reason to
do it. Well, okay, but

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I see it more happening when he's
gone than not when he's not. When

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he's there. Just my thought,
Okay, well, yeah, you know,

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I I think there's somebody out there's
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a few, more than I think
more than a few. There might even

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be one on every team that wants
to and wants to take a little shot

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at it. You still need to
read that l s U coach. Sorry,

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you'll see a lot of you and
her. I'm serious, you need

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you need to read the story.
I don't dress like her though you don't

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know, you don't just like.
But there's a lot of chickens. A

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coach not saying you brought that up
again, I'm gonna have to go back

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and you have to dig it up
and read it. Oh my god,

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all right, I don't know.
Well, I'll tell you what though.

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People are gonna be watching. People
gonna be watching, of course, just

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to see, you know. And
by that, I don't mean they're gonna

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sit there and watch every Lakers game, but I think people are gonna be

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paying attention. Pet is Brownie getting
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know, whenever he's in a game. Uh and and you know, and

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then if somebody does give him the
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His dad come and beat him up? Now play in Siberia? Does the

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NBA do something right? Does a
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day he's cut? Now playing in
Siberia? Whatever appetute voice and the Jili?

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Yeah? So uh oh man,
it's gonna be fun. All right,

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let's take our break. We're gonna
come back. We've got Lamont Honley

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coming in. We're gonna talk some
football, some football. Steve, it's

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time to talk some football because we're
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that? Yes, of course,
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Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. He's

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Jigen Sauce. Now on the phone. We have a father of the bride,

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the Mont. Honey, how's that
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month that was also ato. I
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never done it, it's one of
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And you know, just like like
having your babies for the first time,

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but they've grown ladies now. But
yeah, it was beautiful. Wow.

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When when was this Lamont? It
was Saturday, Wow, twenty second,

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twenty second. And my youngest daughter, Devin, she was a almost

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sock a player here in Tucson and
she played at Utube also, and she

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ended up marrying a young young man
here from Tucson, from South Point High

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School. I've been knowing him since
he's been a kid, and he played

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football at South Points named Taylor Powell, playing back there and played it in

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a youth Congratulations. It was awesome. It was a beautiful day for everybody,

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right all right? Oh no,
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No no, no, no,
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importantly alright, good one. I'm
glad to realize you got it. Okay,

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good, thanks, Let's talk Let's
talk football. Let's talk football.

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Is it too early for talk football
or or not? Or you can always

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talk football? Yeah, I mean
I think I think you know, when

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you when you have change of the
guard and you know, changers players and

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coaches. I mean, I think
the game of football stays around twenty four

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to seven now. I mean,
he's a yearly sport. They all activity

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that takes place, and and that
has been a lot of activity going on

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over there at that at that football
operation, for sure. What's your sense

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of just, you know, just
the mood around the program, right,

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I mean, we as fans have
this mood that you know, some great

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seasons coming up, you know,
and all that stuff. But you know,

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just the feeling around the program,
how the coaches and how they've been

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accepted, and the players, how
they're doing with the coaches and all that

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kind of stuff. What's your sense
of it? Well, my major sense

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of it is that I don't think
it lost to beat. I think I

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think as far as from the coaching
change itself, I think it actually may

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have elevated itself because it has transformed
itself back to some of the ways of

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the you know, some of the
previous coaches and coach Tony of course in

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coach Phields. I mean, so
a lot of those things that you know,

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Jed did, Brandon and his herst
year are still there. But you're

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also dealing with coaches that coached under
these coaches. So you know for sure,

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you know that culture and that attitude
is going to come with it because

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you know, they knew what coach
Tomi was all about because they worked for

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him. Yeah. So now you
watched like the recruits, I'm sure you

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do. Uh, he's doing a
fantastic job. Are He's getting them in

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this early? Yeah, you know
they The thing that amazed me is the

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type of kids he's bringing in here. I think he's bringing in coachable kids,

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kids that want to come out here
and learn the system and learn the

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you know, the Arizona way and
learn you know, of course coach Brennan's

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way. I met. I was
fortunate to meet a few of the kids

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that that has came in on recruiting
trips like particularly the last weekend, quite

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a few was up at Lapa Loma, and we had an opportunity to meet

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a few of them, and and
they are kids that you want in this

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community, very polite to you know, good looking kids too as far as

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the body structures in the size.
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that he's bringing in here and step
in and plug in and hopefully make some

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action for for for us, real
quickly and fast. But what do you

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think was the most important thing Brennan
had to do to make sure that,

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you know, there was a comfort
level for the players? Right? All

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these players who stayed and you know, took a chance on him. Uh,

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you know, and you know who
we're talking about, right, the

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guys that could have gone somewhere else
and could have done well somewhere else,

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they decided to stay. What do
you think Brent Brennan had to do to

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make them comfortable that they made a
good decision to stay. Well, I

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think the number one thing he did
was he showed them that, you know,

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we're going to stay with this family, added to a family culture that

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was already established, you know,
I mean it's a family thing. I

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mean I think he's letting you know, the key core guys that did stay,

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letting them touch these players is coming
into these recruiting trips and from the

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transfer portal and true message in regards
to you know what, this is our

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team. This team belongs to us, you know, and we're a family

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unit. I mean we do everything
together. We buddies together, we go

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to movies together, we do this
together. You know the things that you

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do that you know to create that
family environment. You know, that family

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environment was those core kids. And
I think Brennan he stepped up and let

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them, that core group of guys, let them know, you know,

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this is your team. You know, this is your team. This is

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opportunity for you guys to make something
special for yourself within the walls of this

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University of Arizona. And I think
they will for I mean for years to

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come for the story that they just
started this first chapter in their life.

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I mean this could be a mayful
movie type of football story here for what

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these kids has done. Wow,
that's pretty strong. You you feel that

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they're the next season with the Big
Twelve. I'm sure you're looking forward to

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it because Jay and I totally say
that if there's a move, it's a

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great move because they have a chance
of winning the league more so than they

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had a chance in the Pac twelve. Scus it does favor us and in

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a lot of ways in regards to
first and foremost the teams that's coming into

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Tucson that we're going to play against. And it also favors on the roll

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a little bit because we're not,
you know, playing some of the top

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teams is in it in the Big
twelve right now, So and and and

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I think, you know what,
with the momentum we we had coming from

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that Bowl game in San Antonio,
I mean that momentum is going to continue

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to to grow with us and go
with us, and it's going to carry

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on. I mean, I mean, I'm you know, I'm here to

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tell you I think we're gonna win
eight to nine games. I think we

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can easily win eight to nine games
and and basically qualify for a very you

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know, nice Vogue game going into
next year. And and those are things

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I look forward to because you know, I mean, the nucleus of the

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offense is there, the offensive line
is there, and god, these running

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backs, these these coaches brought in. You know, I don't think we're

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gonna miss a beat with with with
Wiley leaving and and Jonah Coleman going to

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Washington, I think I think that
room will be very healthy. What will

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there be any issues though with the
transition, you know, just to you

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get into a game, right and
things are going to be different, you

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know, with this coaching staff than
they were with the last coaching staff,

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no matter what, even if they're
doing pretty much the same thing as so,

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maybe terminology might be different, the
way guys come in and out of

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the game might be different, how
a pregame is handled might be different.

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Does any of that take getting used
to or can it affect how they do?

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Maybe even early in the season,
right they're going to go to Kansas

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State, It's going to be a
tough game, a tough place to play

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if things are going a little haywire, the fact that they haven't been there,

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you know, with this coaching staff
in a situation like that, can

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things like that, you know,
come to fruition and be an issue or

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do you think going in everybody kind
of knows where everybody needs to be.

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Yeah, I mean that naturally it
can become an issue. I mean because

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there's a lot of unknowns. I
mean, hell, coach Brennan can get

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out there and freak out. We
don't know, you know, and those

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kids don't they don't know if he
if he freaks out, how do you

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react to that? Yeah, I
mean, I'm just saying that, but

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I don't think that's going to take
place. But I think a lot of

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the things Jade that does take place
to place these kids in the position from

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day from the first snap of the
ball. All of that happens during spring

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ball. All of that happens during
summer camp and when they get into camp.

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All of those things that you're speaking
of, these these untangibles that you're

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speaking on, those things are always
worked on at that point in time.

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Man, they work in all those
situations, so it could become a natural

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snap for them versus it's an unknown
you know, when you get out there

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and you know, and the coaches
know the hostile situations that take place,

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00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.880
you know, you know inserting,
inserting stadiums and sing school. So they

408
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:19.119
bring that hostile situation during practice.
You know, if it's loud noise and

409
00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:23.240
may they'll blow that place up where
that that's that that's that they kind of

410
00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:27.000
duplicate that. So whatever those things
that may take place, all that stuff

411
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:30.839
is going to be practiced so the
kids can react to it and already you

412
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.880
know know what to do because they've
seen it. Have you been a player

413
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:38.039
for a long time and you observe
it for a long time, how much

414
00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:45.160
does the spring practice and the four
month layoff until the next practice have do

415
00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:48.799
you do? You remember that stuff? What is it? The impact?

416
00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:52.240
But I don't think at this point
there's no layoff of these kids, because

417
00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:55.799
now, when I was in school, we did lay off, trust me.

418
00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:57.880
So as soon as spring ball was
on, I was back in Virginia

419
00:28:57.960 --> 00:29:02.799
somewhere, or I was in on
the beach in Mexico or something like that.

420
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:04.799
But these kids, it's not like
that no more. I mean they

421
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:08.200
would they may take a week off, but they're back here in town.

422
00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:14.799
They're back in here working out with
the themselves and working out in the weight

423
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:18.119
room per se. So there's really
no down time for for for these kids,

424
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:22.559
you know, and and thank god, in a couple of weeks,

425
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:26.079
you know, they're gonna be hitting
this thing up again with the coaching staff.

426
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.000
So it's it's a whole different way
of football these days in time,

427
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:34.519
you know, since the dinosaur days
when I was playing, and you know,

428
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:40.079
so so these kids around the clock
football guys. So what I got

429
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:45.000
from that is, why were you
a slacker. Wait, because that was

430
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:48.559
the culture at that time. You
know. Hey, hey, I was

431
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:52.480
a product of my environment. You
know, you're right, You're right,

432
00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:55.720
because it's it's it's do it stop, come back and do it again?

433
00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:59.400
Right, yes, right, exactly, Well I thought that was the right

434
00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:03.880
thing to do. How things have
changed? Okay, Steve said, you're

435
00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:07.279
a player and and been a observer
for a long time going to the Big

436
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:15.279
twelve? Are there any places that
Arizona fans need to understand are just going

437
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.559
to be so much different? I
mean, tough places to play, tough

438
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:21.519
environments to go into. Maybe a
city that you go into and you go,

439
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:23.880
god, I really don't you know, I mean those kinds of things

440
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:27.680
where the road, Yeah, what
are we doing? What is your what

441
00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:30.839
are your opinion of some of the
places they are going to be going to?

442
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:34.359
Well, and I know Cincinnati is
not a fun place to go,

443
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.559
period. And depending on what time
of the year you go back there,

444
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:42.240
it's going to be cold. Yeah
naturally. West Virginia. Hey, those

445
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:47.359
guys that those fans really get crazy, you know, because the only thing

446
00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:49.720
to keep the one is the alcohol, you know, So I mean that

447
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:53.759
is going to be and and and
that's the only you know, similar to

448
00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:57.839
Tucson. But but they they are
there, and they packed that stadium back

449
00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:02.240
there in West Virginia, you know, so and that those are those gonna

450
00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:06.480
be some hostile environments as far as
on a on a on a fan perspective,

451
00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:10.000
as far as a player looking in
the stand and say, wow,

452
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:15.640
I haven't seen this before, because
I don't think particularly this this team,

453
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:21.480
and and the teams maybe the last
ten years haven't gone into an environment such

454
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:23.880
as what they're about to go into. And you know, so it is,

455
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:26.920
it's going to be a little hostile
form. And and I could say

456
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:32.880
that's all in the in the preparation
of the coaching staff that make sure that

457
00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:37.759
they're prepared in regards to what the
people are gonna say to them, you

458
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:40.720
know, and what they might be
doing at them and all these different things.

459
00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:42.880
You're gonna be prepared for those moments. And and you just you know,

460
00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:45.960
I've seen it. I've done it. I ignored and played the football

461
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:49.079
game, you know, and and
I you know right now I lacking this

462
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:52.160
thing. Is when I was playing
ball, we went to L s U

463
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:59.599
and played down in the l and
that was the craziest facility ever seen in

464
00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:02.240
my life at all levels of the
game I played. Playing in l s

465
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.559
U was crazy. It was just
a madhouse. And you got and the

466
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:10.319
other things that we got to worry
about too, And we got to prepare

467
00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:14.720
for, not worry about. It's
to humidity. Now we're going to places

468
00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:20.079
where there will be more humidity playing
until it, you know, and so

469
00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:22.960
we got to prepare for that and
get our body ready for that. And

470
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:25.160
that's something that trainer's got to make
sure the kids are prepared that way with

471
00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:29.319
their bodies. Central Florida. Man, hold on, we got to call.

472
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:34.400
We gotta call West Virginia. It's
Bubba on the line to you about

473
00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:39.039
drinking the game. Keep in mind
and keep in mind, Steve, I'm

474
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:44.680
close to that state. Yeah.
See he can say that because he's from

475
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:49.160
over there. Sorry, you don't
want to talk to you. Yeah,

476
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.279
I forgot. I forgot. You're
on the team that went to uh went

477
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.519
to l s U. Uh.
Okay, that was my senior year.

478
00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:00.960
Lu. I mean I'm going into
note to day was tame going versus going

479
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:05.400
to the LSU. Bro Okay,
have a forty a forty year old question?

480
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:08.039
Forty year old question, why the
hell didn't why the hell didn't Larry

481
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:13.200
let Max try that field goal at
the end of that game LSU game.

482
00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:15.359
Yeah, remember you guys were down
well, you were down town. No

483
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:19.920
no, no, that was too
far, that was too far. What

484
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:23.839
lost that game for it was our
dumb offense, you know, our offense.

485
00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:29.279
And right after the I think I
had like thirty five tackles because we

486
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:34.400
stayed on the field and uh and
I and I was I just ran into

487
00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:37.839
advance of Johnson's just and mean,
I tried to choke him. He from

488
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:42.359
the ball twice. Yeah, you
know, it was just crazy, man,

489
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.000
And they just put us in bad
situation offensively. So the defense just

490
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:47.680
stayed out there. Yeah, but
you guys had a chance to win that

491
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:52.640
game. I remember that. Oh
we did well, we did and said

492
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:59.160
Allan Durden got touchdown, touchdown.
It was like or something. Yeah,

493
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:01.880
but the one one day that got
us the work. Actually we did give

494
00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:08.519
up a punt return and I think
the kid name was the Healer. Yeah

495
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:15.519
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, run it back. So well,

496
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:20.960
Thank you bunch, proud father.
Yeah man, congratulations to that awesome

497
00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:24.400
thank you. Ok. Yeah,
I got a big grin on my face

498
00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:29.920
and she made me cry. Yeah, very cool. What's about you,

499
00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:32.239
man? Thanks Lamon? All right, guys, I'll be bleased we're talking.

500
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:36.719
Thank you one of the great guys. Lamont. Yeah, he's just

501
00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:39.559
what his daughter got married over the
weekend. Hey, l s U.

502
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:44.320
I went for basketball a couple of
times. Scariest place I've ever been.

503
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.280
I'm not joking. He's exactly right. And I was just a reporter in

504
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:51.880
the building. Yeah, it's it
gets a little two days. Yeah,

505
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:54.239
well that game is there is not
fun. That was that game that you

506
00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:58.280
know when Mike two sticket his team
there. We thought about going and then

507
00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:00.840
you know who told us we shouldn't
go, Doc Hopkins. Yeah, he

508
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:04.119
said, you guys don't want to
really don't want to go? No,

509
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:06.440
No, it was it was scary
for me and I was just watching the

510
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:07.280
game. Yeah, he said,
you guys really don't want to go.

511
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:09.880
Yeah, all right, okay,
let's take our break word and come back.

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seventy four forty. What do you
got, Jacob Okay. So I

561
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was looking over this thing with with
Sunday ticket and the lawsuit. First of

562
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all, anybody who's sitting there thinking
I got money coming, you know,

563
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:57.559
ye hits a loss. It's a
long way off. Well it's not even

564
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.119
now. We don't even know how
much. It was four point seven billion

565
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:05.440
dollars in damages for resident for the
residential class, ninety six million for the

566
00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:10.880
commercial class. It covers two point
four million residential customers forty eight thousand businesses.

567
00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:17.760
Now, this lawsuit actually began nine
years ago in twenty fifteen, it

568
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:25.280
got dismissed and then it got reinstated
by an appeals court. So this very

569
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:30.239
the NFL and DirecTV both said they're
going to appeal this, so this is

570
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:37.320
years away from being resolved. But
as I said, essentially it was that

571
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:45.480
the claim was that the NFL and
DirecTV violated anti trust laws by selling the

572
00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:53.079
Sunday ticket package at an inflated price
because they it was theirs and they they

573
00:39:53.079 --> 00:40:00.679
were able to do that in the
NFL's position was that their anti trust exemption

574
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:02.880
allowed them to do this, so
that that was the argument. But a

575
00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:08.840
jury, a jury ruled against the
the NFL. So now they're saying that,

576
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:13.719
you know, the NFL has said
and Direct TV said they're going to

577
00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:17.519
appeal. It says right here payment
this is from an ESPN story, payment

578
00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:22.360
of damages. Any changes to the
Sunday ticket package and or the ways the

579
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:28.519
NFL carries it Sunday afternoon games would
be stayed until all appeals have been concluded.

580
00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:30.800
So nothing's going to happen until this
thing gets resolved. And you know,

581
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:36.159
the direct TV in the NFL aren't
going to say, okay, were

582
00:40:36.159 --> 00:40:38.000
all right, we'll pay the four
point seven billion dollars. We're good.

583
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:43.159
And then there's something in here that
says, since damages can be tripled under

584
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:47.199
federal antitrust laws, the NFL could
end up being liable for fourteen point three

585
00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:51.920
to nine billion. But they're not
going to let that happen. So we'll

586
00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:53.639
see what we'll see what happens.
But anyways, we're a long way from

587
00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:57.719
anybody, you know, getting their
two or three dollars that they might get

588
00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:00.280
as a Direct TV subscriber. I
feel like I get a little more coming

589
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:04.440
because I was a I've been a
subscriber since the outset, so I guess

590
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.400
it directly came out or a Sunday
Ticket started in nineteen ninety four. I

591
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.960
didn't realize well long ago it had
been that long. But I have had

592
00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:15.760
it the whole time. So anyways, do you have YouTube TV? No,

593
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:17.719
you know, so can you buy
that? You can buy You can

594
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:21.639
buy Sunday Ticket just on YouTube.
Now that's why I bought it. That's

595
00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:23.800
I bought it. Last year,
I split and I split it with my

596
00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:34.559
brother. So because you can have
you can have two to two streaming services

597
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:38.480
to TV two TV's at the same
time, you know. Uh, so

598
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:44.920
we we uh you know, we
split it and he watches it and it's

599
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:46.360
fine. It worked fine for us
last year, you know, I mean,

600
00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:51.199
I had we were in California during
part of the NFL season. We

601
00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:53.840
you know, we got to watch
watch the games over there. So it's

602
00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:57.760
streams and it's fine and it works
fine. Okay, so let me go

603
00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:00.079
to the you know and see the
draft and the play basketball. So you

604
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:02.760
were at the round four, I
was at the final four. Gave me

605
00:42:02.760 --> 00:42:07.719
a chance to see the Yukon Huskies
play with so many good players, right,

606
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:09.599
and their center pretty good player.
Yeah, I thought he was very

607
00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:14.960
good cleaning cleaning. What did you
think of it? You know? Well,

608
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:16.000
the whole team was really good.
And he held his one against you

609
00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:20.679
too, right, and he played
very well. So if you're DeAndre and

610
00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:24.079
you a little scared he's going to
Portland, Oh I didn't know that,

611
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:30.000
Yeah, d Deandrean's got to get
off his ass and play hard to be

612
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:31.039
a really good player. And that's
my point, and that's good point.

613
00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:36.079
He's one of those guys that has
all the physical tools. The thing about

614
00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:39.159
it, Jay, is we're judging
a dude. We're judging a dude like

615
00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:44.480
we judged the son of a gun. My point is going to go to

616
00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:49.639
crap, no hands back in at
Stokes. It's at Stokes. He's seven

617
00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:52.280
foot one, seven foot two,
very built like a rock, you know,

618
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:54.480
but just didn't want to play basketball, you know, and and and

619
00:42:54.480 --> 00:43:00.800
and DeAndre fantastic skills, talented than
But my point is, what if you're

620
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:02.519
just that dude and you just you
don't feel like I just don't feel like

621
00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:07.320
it. And and now people so
the Phoenix Suns saw that and maybe now

622
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:12.920
Portland because they got this guy coming
in. Well, the fact that they

623
00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:16.599
drafted Donovan Klingon tells you my point. What they think, that's my that's

624
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:19.679
my point. The thing about it, You and I go ahead, go

625
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:22.760
ahead, Oh we got a call
her. Let's take this hire on the

626
00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:28.440
air and on the ball. Hey
Jay, Hi, Steve, what's done

627
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:34.840
is done? Right? Yeah?
Yeah, what's up, Steve? You

628
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:40.800
now with with Brownie James. It's
not gonna get physical with him, But

629
00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:47.400
when he gets a foul or he
misses a shot, he's gonna get chirped

630
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:53.360
on so bad by the it's gonna
be. But it's gonna be. What's

631
00:43:53.400 --> 00:44:00.440
the matter. We'll tell your papa. Whenever he gets fouled, he and

632
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:06.599
he complains about it. Who will
tell you, papa? Who are you

633
00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:08.920
getting this trips from? The The
players are the stands, the players,

634
00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:14.199
they think right, the stands,
the players. The fans are gonna hate

635
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:17.400
him outside of LA and even in
l A they're gonna You know, the

636
00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:24.519
thing is is is the slots for
the American players is diminishing as the years

637
00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:31.840
go by because they change the NBA, the NBA isn't American basketball anymore.

638
00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:39.039
It's international basketball. And so now
you know there was only what twelve guys

639
00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:44.960
on a roster. How many are
Americans anymore? So he's taking a valuable

640
00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:49.079
spot that I think people are going
to take an offense to. Yeah,

641
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.039
well that that was my point about
players in his own locker room, right,

642
00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:54.000
they are going to say, wait
a minute, why is this guy

643
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:57.480
here? And why am I sitting
on the end of the bedroom. Why

644
00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:00.000
is he going to the game.
Well, we don't know if that's gonna

645
00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:04.440
because he's not gonna be good enough
for that to happen. I think I

646
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.960
think his playing time is going to
be minimal because he's still gonna have to

647
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:14.639
prove himself. You can't be a
total and complete liability. And the thing

648
00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:19.400
is is Lebron's gonna go out and
fight people for his kid. He cries

649
00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:24.280
like a baby when he doesn't even
get fouled. No, so so there's

650
00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:28.719
you know, they don't even touch
him, and he's crying like like like

651
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:34.039
he just got a he needs a
liver transplant after that shot that he didn't

652
00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:37.679
get. So I I really don't
think you know, this is this whole

653
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:43.320
thing. It's gonna be bad for
him. It's gonna be bad. It's

654
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:46.599
not gonna be visible on the on
the TV unless you get a hot mic

655
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:52.199
on the court and you hear somebody, you hear it and you hear another

656
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:54.360
player chirping. Now because they're not
gonna have to get physical with him.

657
00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:59.440
It doesn't have to get physical.
He can stay in the mental and it's

658
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:01.440
just gonna be chirping. It's gonna
and it's gonna be what are you doing

659
00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:05.599
here, dude? You don't even
belong here? Yeah, well, should

660
00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:08.559
have stayed at USC. Well,
he needed to go somewhere else to well

661
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:13.880
that that the whole situation is so
complicated because have you gone anywhere, he'd

662
00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:16.519
get the same grief. You gotta
agree on USC just for being the sun.

663
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:28.480
It's it's hard because Lebron instead of
letting the kid make his own way,

664
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:32.159
right like Jordan's. Jordan's kids were
never you know, they were.

665
00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:36.679
He had a son that was a
D one basketball player. And guess what,

666
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:40.119
you know what if you're D one, you're pretty good. Yeah there

667
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:47.440
that that's nothing to sneeze at.
But to to force feed your kid into

668
00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:53.039
the n B A that just that
just makes lebron look even even worse.

669
00:46:53.320 --> 00:47:02.039
In my opinion, Donny mister,
let nothing stare in this world. Nothing

670
00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:07.280
what? Nothing's fair? No,
no, I know it's not fair.

671
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:13.159
But the thing is is you can't
go around with your chest out when everybody's

672
00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:16.239
looking at you, going, man, look at this nefo baby over here.

673
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:22.119
You know it's good, it's gonna
be bad for him. And as

674
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:24.360
soon as the Bronze out of the
league, if that kid has no game,

675
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:29.159
he's gonna be gone with them.
Yeah, no question, no question.

676
00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:32.960
And right now, right now,
with all these players and everything else,

677
00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:39.440
I have a big problem with players
having so much control. I think.

678
00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:46.400
I remember when Dan Patrick. I
remember when Dan Patrick got Russell Wilson

679
00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:54.000
shipped out of Seattle because he asked
him in an interview do they talk to

680
00:47:54.039 --> 00:48:00.960
you about the trades and personnel?
And Russell Wilson said no. And then

681
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:06.360
a week later he was with the
Broncos. And that was all on Dan

682
00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:09.480
Patrick. Because Dan Patrick was the
one that put that on Russell Wilson And

683
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:14.440
he still does it on his show. How come they don't defer to you?

684
00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:17.559
You're the star? Well, you
know. And the thing is is

685
00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:21.840
like, if you're running a company, if this team is your company and

686
00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:25.480
you want it to go to a
certain way, why would you Why would

687
00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:30.800
you go to your middle manager and
ask his opinion. He doesn't have to

688
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:35.159
make the become monumental decisions. Right
he's not paying the checks too, he's

689
00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:38.199
not signing the checks. He's not
signing the checks, and he's not managing

690
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:44.559
the salary cap right now. It's
a bigger thing. And I don't you

691
00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:47.440
know, this little Browning experiment,
it's not going to go well. Well,

692
00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:50.400
no, I don't disagree you.
Thanks for the call. We're going

693
00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:52.079
to I want to talk to Jay
about this too, Thank you, Donny.

694
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:57.719
So I want to go there because
I think it was Scott Thompson yesterday

695
00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:00.599
that talked about that, or I
could have been who else do we have

696
00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:06.679
there early this year, mister STI
maybe how it's the gets the players calling

697
00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:08.840
the shots. And you're gonna see
a lot of that in college now because

698
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:12.639
you're making the money. How are
you gonna teach tell these kids to play

699
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:15.840
this way when they're making when they're
makes amount of money and when they when

700
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:19.880
they think that they're you know what
doesn't stink? Right? Exactly. How

701
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:22.719
are you how's that gonna go?
Yeah, it's different, it's different,

702
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:24.159
and it's it was, it was, it was, it was. We

703
00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:28.239
were talking to Scott Toms because we're
asking because he was talking about the modern

704
00:49:28.280 --> 00:49:36.039
coach, right, you know uh
uh uh you know that guy, you

705
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:38.599
know telling me that, you know, the modern coach has to coach differently.

706
00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:45.599
You know, the days of Bobby
Night and those guys are the way

707
00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:47.920
in the past, way in the
past. And and if you want to

708
00:49:47.920 --> 00:49:52.760
be successful, you got to treat
your players a certain way, because guess

709
00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:54.599
what, if you don't, they'll
go somewhere. You're going to be treated

710
00:49:54.639 --> 00:49:58.400
the way they want to be sure, and then that's and that's the way

711
00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:00.880
it's gonna be. And you're right. The players do have a lot of

712
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:05.320
the control now, both at the
high school, college and pro level.

713
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:07.880
I mean, look at what's going
on the high schools here and tis on.

714
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.760
Good coaches are quitting, yeah,
because they don't want to have to

715
00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:14.400
deal with their players and their parents. Sure, well for the ages,

716
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:17.480
when was the last time and you
coached who are in basketball, specifically good

717
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:22.239
basketball. A guy could score forty
points a game, but don't get fat,

718
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:23.719
don't get in fout trouble. You
don't have to play defense. Just

719
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:28.199
kind of watch you. You know, you're a one sided player, yea.

720
00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:31.199
And not to that degree of the
guy dictating how you are. But

721
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:36.480
most of the kids now it's the
I don't want to mention names on rosters

722
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:39.000
now, but you can kind of
sense that they're the ones dictating the rope

723
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:43.400
here or you know, pulling the
rope or whatever. Well, they're making

724
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:46.239
the decisions, right they are,
And that's that's just the way it's going

725
00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:50.920
to be. And it's it's like
it's to me it's sad, but it's

726
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:54.599
the way of the world. Well, you can't fight it those Sad is

727
00:50:54.639 --> 00:50:58.119
the right word. It's just to
me where we are. To me,

728
00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:00.880
it's sad because it's not well.
And we're older, you know, because

729
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:04.559
it's not how we solid for forever, right, And it's like when coaches

730
00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:07.480
get fired and the player says,
well, it wasn't on him, it

731
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:09.519
was on us. Yeah, right, it was on you. You But

732
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:14.280
because you couldn't play together, you
weren't any good. You weren't any good,

733
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:19.360
right, I yeah, I mean
I hear you. And maybe sad

734
00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:21.440
is the right word. I mean
it sucks, and I know that.

735
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:23.800
Let's just say that sucks. It
does suck because you feel like, I

736
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:30.000
feel like just the fabric of all
these sports has changed so much so and

737
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:34.320
look, we're all gonna kick you
know, in the next twenty years or

738
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.280
whatever, and the generation that's coming
up, it will always have been like

739
00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:40.119
this and they won't even talk about
it. And in their time it will

740
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:44.519
change too. It could change back
who knows, who knows? Who knows?

741
00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:50.400
Yeah, I mean yeah, and
overcorrect it calls for another overcorrect yeah,

742
00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:52.280
because I mean yeah, I mean
again. You know, I'm sitting

743
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:55.639
here, I'm flipping through through Twitter, and there's a picture of Lebron,

744
00:51:55.800 --> 00:51:59.360
you know, with his kids,
and like, I think of the control

745
00:51:59.440 --> 00:52:04.960
that Lebron his head over his teams
throughout his career much so right, Oh,

746
00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:06.880
we're going to my you know,
we're gonna we're going to Miami.

747
00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:08.559
We're gonna win one. We're gonna
win to it, you know. And

748
00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:12.440
then he went he went back to
Cleveland, and then he you know,

749
00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:16.239
he's he's at the Lakers and he's
calling the shots everywhere he goes, and

750
00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:22.360
I just I just don't I just
don't feel that guys like Willie Mays and

751
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:28.039
Mickey Mantle and Sandy Kofax and Jim
Brown and you know had that level of

752
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:30.480
control, no question, no question, they didn't. That was so long

753
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:35.400
ago, so long ago. So
let's go even newer. Did John Alway

754
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:37.679
have that kind of control over the
Denver Well who didn't want to get drafted?

755
00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:40.280
Well, that's right, he did, right, yeah, And that's

756
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:45.599
kind of where it started, right
right right right about there, you can

757
00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:47.599
say that that's where things like that
started. Yeah, and then and and

758
00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:52.280
it was it was slow, and
then it blew up over the last few

759
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:54.280
and they started, I don't want
to play in the in the in the

760
00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:59.000
playoffs, in the in the boat. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Control

761
00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:01.199
yeah, control. All right,
man. We got deep there, Steve,

762
00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:05.440
Yeah, we got really Tomorrow a
day and tomorrow is another day.

763
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:08.079
All right. We will be back
tomorrow. Yeah. We appreciate Delaney Shane

764
00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:13.079
all joining us. Best of luck
to her on her Olympic, Olympic journey.

765
00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:15.239
Thank you, Laman Huntley as always
a lot of good stuff. Ryan,

766
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:22.039
nice job on the board again today. Appreciate it and we'll talk to

767
00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:22.480
you all tomorrow. Thanks for being
here