WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:07.639 This is I On the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalis on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:14.359 fourteen fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services Ensure your most Prized Possessions. Kat z 3 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:19.600 R two SAD at iHeart Radio Station. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to 4 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:22.640 On the Ball, you know, Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's 5 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:26.600 Jay. Welcome to Thursday. Almost done of the week. We're getting there. 6 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:30.199 Lots of things going on. NBA Draft tonight. Yeah, will you 7 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:34.320 get drafted? Um? You know, I think I'm a late second rounder, 8 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:38.320 but you know I didn't do well at the combine. My uh my 9 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:42.119 vertical was a little thin, like two and a half inches, a little 10 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:46.640 two looking quarter Hu Nickel, you gets you can stick a thin phone book 11 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:52.240 underneath like you're probably in the omg Lee. I'm you know, I'm I'm 12 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:57.840 going I'm going more for a golf scholarship. Yeah, we'll give golf a 13 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.399 tour card. I would go go pick it on the tour. Will get 14 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.439 Smith from Pimo to help you out. I'm gonna get back in the saddle 15 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:07.159 this week. Uh, Steve, I'm gonna go play against my better judgment. 16 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.239 I'm gonna play tu Son nat Arizona National um, which is that's not 17 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.280 a good course to play when you're not playing well. No, it's right 18 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:18.239 around which is pretty much which is pretty much all the time, not to 19 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:22.000 so Nation Arizona Nat. Okay wait that's na. Yeah, well that's out 20 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:25.200 my way. Yeah yeah, okay, okay, toad, you I don't 21 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:26.480 know my golf courses. Yeah. Hey, A good show today, A 22 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.319 good show today. Put together something nice you worked your butt off with. 23 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.120 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got Amanda Beard, uh, new assistant 24 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:40.560 coach at Arizona National champion Olympic medalists, Um, come back to Arizona to 25 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:42.840 be a be a coach under Aggie Bush. So we thought we would give 26 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.840 her a call and see what she's up to. And she said, I'll 27 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.519 take your call. So she's gonna super Actually she's gonna call us technically, 28 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:52.920 but we're gonna talk to her at three fifteen just uh, you know, 29 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.719 I find out you know, why she wanted to go back here. Um, 30 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.200 she's such a great story. Yeah story. Yeah, I've never really 31 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:01.519 met her. I was in I was in Greece when she was in the 32 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:06.799 Olympics and doing some stuff, obviously doing working for the Olympics. A good 33 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.960 story then good story now yeah, just just a lot of things. If 34 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:13.879 she's done, yeah, yeah, somebody's been all over the place, right, 35 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.199 Well, so she'll be she'll be on it. You know when when 36 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.960 I when I read when I reached out to the u A to get her 37 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:21.719 on the show, I said, Oh, she's been on our show before, 38 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:23.039 and then I realized, no, she has. I think we've had 39 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:27.520 too many swimmers. Yeah. Um, yeah, so anyway, so we'll 40 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.000 have we'll have her on at three fifteen. Then at four fifteen, UM, 41 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.560 we reached out to uh, you know with all the stuff that happened 42 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:37.360 with San Diego State this last week, UM, where they told, uh, 43 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:39.400 they told the Mountain West look, we're thinking about leaving, but we 44 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:43.479 don't want you to, you know, kick us in the butt, um 45 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.039 and the Mountain weston, No, we're gonna kick in the butt. Just 46 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:50.080 find out what's going on San Diego States. We'll get h Kirk Kenny, 47 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:54.159 who was the beat right or covering San Diego State football for the San Diego 48 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:59.360 Union Tribune to our friend, Ryan Finley is not the sports editor, so 49 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:01.719 right, Brian turned us on to the Kurt and he's going to join us, 50 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:06.639 and we were exchanging some stuff about what we're here, what we're each 51 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:09.319 hearing. So we'll talk about that when he comes on, and it'll be 52 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:13.919 in the second hour our guests at about four fifteen four twenty. Yeah, 53 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.520 okay, looking forward to both of these interviews, two very different ones. 54 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:21.000 So that's good. A lot of probably breaking news too. Did you see 55 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.879 the baseball game with U with LSU and week for us last night? I 56 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:28.719 was busy watching the Dodgers and the Angels. Yeah, very good game. 57 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:30.919 So we have another game here at five during the same time. The draft 58 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:34.680 is going to be right, so a lot of sports things going on. 59 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:38.000 Was throwing last night. Oh that was a great game too, so I 60 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.360 watched it was the Dodgers beat the Angels for the second night in row two. 61 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:45.560 Nothing. Um uh, Freddy Freeman took show. Hey deep on Uh 62 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:50.080 yeah him. He had an opposite field, all kind of an opposite sort 63 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:53.479 it was. It was the left center but a little old Freddy's a left 64 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.280 handed hitter. Show. He was throwing gas but the Angels couldn't get him 65 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:00.960 any runs. So the Dodgers won the two zip so uh and they it 66 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.680 was one of those games where they just pitched their bullpen. Right, it 67 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.840 was all bullpen guys come on through one or two any forgers and they threw 68 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:11.759 a shut out. Yeah, it was highly unusual for their bullpen. I 69 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:15.439 was gonna say, um, let me pretend you're a show hey, and 70 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:18.959 you can speak your mind right and not say the politically correct stuff. Right, 71 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:24.399 you enjoy playing for the Angels? He probably does, because no, 72 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.319 no, no, no, I'm asking you as you Yeah, no, 73 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:30.360 I yeah, I think are you gonna tell me? I'm gonna tell you. 74 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:32.680 I like being in southern California? Okay, Well do you like playing 75 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:35.040 for the Angels? I think the Angels are a pretty good organization. I 76 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:41.439 just wish you'd get some better players around me. Um And maybe maybe that's 77 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:46.360 my um my bias towards the fact that Artie Moreno's from Tucson, and I 78 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:48.279 feel like I don't want to step on his neck. Oh he's not listening. 79 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.920 Wouldn't you think that he would be? It's funny I was watching with 80 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:56.199 some people. Wouldn't you just think he's tired of all this? Well, 81 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:59.639 well he's gonna be. You know. There does come a time he said, 82 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:01.680 I want to win, and so all the all the scuttle now is 83 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:04.279 that you know, I mean, the Dodgers are kind of considered the odds 84 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:09.759 on favor too. I know him, did you see that? The manager? 85 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:11.839 Your managers just say, you know, once she's nice, it wouldn't 86 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:14.120 be nice to see him in a Dodger uniform. And he couldn't really say 87 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:17.519 anything. Every every manager would love to see him in in the uniform. 88 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:19.920 Well not only I mean, you can't say that anyway. That's ten. 89 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.319 That's why. That's why if you wanted to, that's why went that way. 90 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:28.639 You know. The feeling is that, you know, they're just nobody's 91 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:30.879 posted odds to this or anything like that, or if they have, I 92 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:35.199 haven't seen it. But the running uh, the running theme is that the 93 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:39.879 Dodgers are gonna have the best shot at him and he'll get over half a 94 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:43.879 billion dollar contract man the uh And I don't know what the attendance is all 95 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.439 the time every time he plays out wherever, he plays his shirts on your 96 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:50.920 cell out or whatever. But the Dodgers would go bunkers with yeah yeah, 97 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:54.439 oh yeah. But but you know they're gonna have to get something up if 98 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:56.839 they want to get him too, or no, he's a free agent, 99 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:58.959 right, I don't know. I don't know if he's a free agent or 100 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:00.959 not. But he can he's a restricted free agent. You know, they 101 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:04.519 can trade him or whatever. But in any regard, the feeling is that 102 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:08.600 after this year, Um, you know, he'll be leaving the Angels and 103 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.560 going somewhere else, right, whether it's the Dodgers, the Giants, and 104 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:16.360 then you see Port try feel bad for he's such a good guy. Yet 105 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:20.120 you know, just can't see him, do you know? You may you 106 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.680 know now they're they're now they're pretty good this year. I mean they're in 107 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.600 playoff contentions this Yeah, they've been winning more than a bunch of games. 108 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:29.920 That row. The Dodgers happen to beat him U back back to back games 109 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:35.040 Tues. Anyways, So we're here in mid June, still some time before 110 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:40.240 we get loaded with UA football and U A basketball stuff. Oh, there's 111 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:44.480 always u A basketball stuff. We talked about the new schedule, Belmont and 112 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:47.839 all that whole stuff. Um had a dion she you know, she she 113 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:53.480 Um We had her on what's Thursday, Tuesday, and then they released the 114 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:59.879 schedule yesterday with it. She could have told us the breaking news we had 115 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:02.639 she didn't. Yeah, but you know that's not her shattering years. They're 116 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:05.560 gonna play a game in Phoenix. It'll be a part of a part of 117 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:11.000 the of an event where both as U men's and women's teams and Arizona's men's 118 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:15.639 and women's teams will be playing throughout the day up there at Footprints Center where 119 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.279 the Suns play. You know, look, if if she just wants to 120 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.879 give us the big ones, like I'm having a baby stuff like that, 121 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:25.879 Um, you know, well we'll settle for that. Although she made it 122 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:29.279 clear that that's not happening again. Right, she just kind of said that 123 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:34.279 the parts aren't working anymore. She was funny, Yeah, that hurt her 124 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:39.759 daughters. What, she's three years old now, the one from the one 125 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:43.040 that was born. Yeah, because because those our first year right, and 126 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:46.160 we're three years into this, so that she's got to be close to getting 127 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:49.959 closer to three years old. So anybody want to call please do five two 128 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:54.199 o four one, six seventy four forty, Uh, give us a call, 129 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:56.639 give us your thoughts. We're just kind of free rolling right now. 130 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:00.000 Uh. And then you have breaking unisersal stuff. You saw some NBA trade 131 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:03.759 from NBA. Another NBA trade, another big one involving a guy that we 132 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.920 talked about earlier this week. You know, I don't know that we should 133 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.839 necessarily save this for breaking news, but we saw that this thing with the 134 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:16.360 submarine is over with, right, that's you know, highly unfortunate. Um. 135 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.680 You know, there's a lot of people expressing a lot of different opinions. 136 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.199 In the end, you gotta feel sorry for without question, I gotta 137 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.160 feel sorry kid. We spoke yesterday about whether we would do it or we 138 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:30.319 went or anything like anything like that. And and if you you know, 139 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.120 I wouldn't do it. I was too scary for me. But for people 140 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:37.039 with their own opinions, people died on this enough. Yeah, yeah, 141 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.519 you know. Um, and I guess you know, if I'm a parent 142 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.440 and I wanted to do that, okay, so I'll go do it. 143 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:46.840 Who's yeah, who's well, it's your life, Yeah, it's your life. 144 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.720 And the kid wants to come with his father or who's whatever it was 145 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.559 nineteen the dadcher said no, you can't come. Yeah, I'll say that. 146 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.279 You don't, Jay, you don't. When you take a drive in 147 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:01.279 your car to get across town to your house. You don't know what's gonna 148 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.120 happen. Of course you don't know. You know this country, you don't 149 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:09.279 know that this thing was shady from the styh. Yeah. Well and if 150 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:13.080 you haven't heard the news, um, the the there's a they've determined that 151 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:18.840 that the sub basically imploded. They found debris, they found verified pieces of 152 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:22.639 the submarine. Um, so they know it has that has happened. They 153 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.519 wouldn't did they go down there? They got they reached that level of well, 154 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:31.039 yeah, there was a remote that went down there and found pieces of 155 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.240 it. And I think they're starting to find pieces you know, floating and 156 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:41.320 things. So so they know because that's to twelve thousand, five hundred feet 157 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:46.559 down, that's yeah, you know that's what U two and a half miles 158 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:50.240 down, you know, um and they you know, you don't know, 159 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.000 did did it implode? An hour of forty five minutes in when they lost 160 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:58.759 contact? Was that when it happened? Is that when things started to happen 161 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:00.879 And it happened after that? You know? Where they down there all this 162 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:05.919 time thinking they might get rescued and nobody really knows yet, but I'm sure 163 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:07.919 they'll try and try and find that out, but in the end to five 164 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:13.159 people who perished in this thing. One of the saddest stories ever. You've 165 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.080 been following this, I hadn't except for just you know, curiosity, had 166 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:20.399 something like this been done. But was this the first voyage? And that 167 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:24.279 I don't know, I because if it's done other voyages, I don't think 168 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.279 it's gone down to the Titanic. Okay, okay, because there was I 169 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:31.440 did read something. There was a CBS reporter who went in this. Uh, 170 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.120 I didn't read it so far as to find out how far did this 171 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:39.159 guy go. I'm sure if they had gone down to the Titanic to see 172 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:43.440 it, that would have made news. So this is the first time we've 173 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:45.600 heard of it, you know, when it got locked. So I don't 174 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.440 I don't. I'll just say I don't know. But what we do know 175 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.799 is that this was a you know, this was a sort of a I 176 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:56.320 don't want to call it rick it it was just somebody kind of built this 177 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:58.720 in their backyard. But well it's I'm sure that when I won't compare this 178 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:03.639 but back in the eighty six or you remember where you were when those when 179 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.399 the rocket exploded to yeah, I was a kid I was in the Challenger. 180 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:09.759 I was in college, and you're thinking, oh, that's going to 181 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.039 change the way I was. I was in the Star newsroom and when when 182 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.720 it happened, and uh, I was, you know, working in the 183 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.799 middle of the day, and our our managing editor comes running out of his 184 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:24.320 office and he has the Challenger exploded, and all the TVs went on to 185 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:26.200 the watch it. Nobody was watching the lonch right, we had stopped watching. 186 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.480 It was only in the morning. It was in the morning finish, 187 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:31.879 Yeah, yeah, it was it was mid morning. Yeah. And he 188 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.440 came running out and said the Challenger exploded, and all the TVs went onto 189 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:37.720 that. And then then the next thing, you know, everybody's just gathering. 190 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:39.120 Yeah. And then back then, we didn't a back eighty six. 191 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.360 Come on, we didn't have any internet stuff. We didn't know and there 192 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:46.879 was no breaking news radio stuff. He had to be on your computer on 193 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.600 the ap wire to see. But you know, uh, and I don't 194 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.639 know how if he was, if he was watching it and then came out 195 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:56.960 of turn on all the TVs or what. But he came running out of 196 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.720 his office and yelled across the new the Challenger exploders everybody stood up and turned 197 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.639 all the TVs that were in the US room onto the onto the news of 198 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:09.440 that. So that's that's where I was. I remember that like it was 199 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:15.519 yesterday, walking to the dorm in college. So okay, I was already 200 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.600 a working guy. You're old, dude, Man, you're old eighty six, 201 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:24.639 six or twenty six. I was already writing sports. Thanks Steve. 202 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.679 I'll depress you more with the other time frames. But you know, again, 203 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.879 another one of those things that people talk about, um but really sad 204 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.320 um. You know, you don't wish things that well, there's a few 205 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:43.320 people I wish things like that. I communicate whatever guys. She calls in 206 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:46.879 and he sends me the stuff. I'm thinking, God, you must be 207 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:52.240 related to Jay's just so depressing, depressing. You know, he was listening 208 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.440 because I know he's listening. Who you are. I was bad. I'm 209 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:03.240 sorry. I'm sorry to everybody that bird you know. Well, yeah, 210 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:03.840 you know, I mean, yeah, I'll take you know, I'll take 211 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:09.480 a couple of shots for that. But there's only a few. But these 212 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:11.399 guys, you know, I don't know these guys, you know, And 213 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:13.240 I feel, I feel, I feel the worst for the nineteen year old 214 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.639 kid. Right, he had a very short life. Um yeah, maybe 215 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.679 he got all excited about doing this with his dad. Um you know what. 216 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:22.120 Yeah, you just don't know. It's like going first voyage on a 217 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:26.120 water in a balloon. Have you been on one? No, that's another 218 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:30.159 one those I would never go. I probably would, but not don't go 219 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:33.279 more than twelve feet. Yeah, that's another one of those things I would 220 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:35.679 never do. When I was at when I was at TEP, we had 221 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:41.679 a hot air balloon that got into our power line. Have been I have 222 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:45.039 been in the household. That's kind of like since cool, but you know, 223 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.519 when you're going for work, you gotta go. Yeah, I had 224 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.200 Both of those were for work. One time at t EP, we had 225 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:54.240 we had been flooded. We're having a flood and so I had to get 226 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:58.360 on getting on a helicopter with some guys and we had to go what they 227 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:03.399 would call by the lines right the you know that that power line that goes 228 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:07.000 right through the middle of the Rito Wash Rito River and what we had to 229 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:09.039 go make sure that those things. And I'm like, why do I have 230 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.000 to be there for that? Well, you need to film it. I'm 231 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:16.000 like those guys can film it. So I went on that and then with 232 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:18.919 uh, with the city manager, we just did a tour. We just 233 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.039 did a lap around the city just to see where, you know, development 234 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:24.559 was was and stuff like that. And I thought that was pretty cool. 235 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.440 And I got air sick at airsick, I looked easy both. When I 236 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.960 was an intern at the start in eighty four, Uh, they took me 237 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:35.840 to the pre to the the coursewoard. It was not a Lappaloma. No 238 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:39.919 the Lappaloma. No, not Lapaloma? What's one on twenty second Street? 239 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:43.960 Twenty second East stars stars when they were gonna do that, and I think 240 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.039 that was kind of coolest. I'm an intern. What they're gonna tell No, 241 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.279 I can't go. I'm gonna go there. There's a scene. There's 242 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:52.600 a scene in a movie called and Justice for All. Have you seen this? 243 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:58.360 Um? The guy uh uh uh Jack Jack Jack something. I can't 244 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:01.200 think. It was him and Appacina out in a helicopter and he says, 245 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:05.559 I like to fly out a little bit a little past halfway on my fuel 246 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:09.399 and then try to make it back. And they don't quite make it back. 247 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:11.360 They just they just land in the air. Oh, so they make 248 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:13.440 it. They made it, but they all the way back. Yeah, 249 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.960 not all the way back. They land in some water right right before the 250 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.919 airport. The skylight. I don't want to do. My biggest risk is 251 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.039 going under a four to five favorite. Yeah, all right, here we 252 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:26.240 go. We're gonna come back. Amanda Bear is gonna join us, so 253 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:31.279 we'll have a lit'll chat with her. Stick around. 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Great 321 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:41.200 to have you on the show. We're talking quick off the year. We 322 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.759 welcome back. But you've had a fantastic career. Now you're going to be 323 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:52.160 a big time coach. I can't even describe to you guys, the excitement 324 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:56.960 level that I'm having the get the opportunity to work with these athletes. I 325 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:03.680 mean, it just I that's where my passion is and my love and so 326 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.400 now I get to like be at the place that I fell in love with 327 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:14.119 my swimming. It's just, yeah, I'm overwhelmed. So when you're when 328 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:17.039 you're looking into this job and they were talking to you about it, obviously 329 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:19.079 you know, you know you're a legend here at Arizona with all the Olympics 330 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.680 that you've been in and that you participated in, and your national teams and 331 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.000 all that kind of stuff. But what do you think sold them on bringing 332 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:30.160 you back, aside from the fact that you're really danging good at swimming. 333 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:37.920 I think this is the work that I've done with other athletes. I do 334 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:42.440 a lot of technical strokes technique work with high school and college aged athletes up 335 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:47.319 in Washington State, UM I did a lot of work with UCLA when I 336 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:51.599 was training out there at the end of my career. So just that and 337 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:56.759 a lot of long conversations with the coaching staff because I think what's really important 338 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:02.000 too is that you have someone that believes in you. Of a in the 339 00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:04.759 swimmers, they you know, I bleed red and blue, I'm a wildcat 340 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:10.440 like that's so having that kind of passion on your full deck, it really 341 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:15.720 translates into your athletes as well and helps keep them motivated and driven and hopefully 342 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:21.279 get some really great performances. It's It's funny. Jay is pretty tired of 343 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:25.359 me asking the question of all the coaches you have on every coach and every 344 00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:29.039 very good coach has a secret sauce to them, either it's caring for the 345 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:32.720 kids or whatever. What do you think yours is and what has it been 346 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:37.359 to this point? Yeah? You know, what I found with the age 347 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:40.680 group that you're working with is they want to be heard, you know, 348 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:47.480 so I always want to stick around like before and after practices and be available. 349 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:52.160 I think the best thing for me when I was an athlete there is 350 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:56.880 I felt Frank Bush was my coach. I felt like he was a father 351 00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:59.880 figure to me. You know, I could go to him for anything, 352 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:02.160 and then when I was in the pool working for them, I just had 353 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:07.240 so much respect for him. So having that relationship with a coach and athlete 354 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:14.599 like that is huge. And I currently I own a facility up in Washington 355 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:18.680 State. I have forty late teenage early twenty employees at work for me. 356 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:22.000 So I'm used to being around that age group and I love it. And 357 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:26.559 I think they just need to know that you are there for them through thick 358 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:29.279 or thin. It's funny you say that. Let me let me make a 359 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:30.920 quick comparison, because you were here when Luke was here, and some of 360 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:36.519 the guys that I know are fairly well played hard for Loot because the one 361 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:40.319 thing they didn't want to do is disappoint Loot. Was it this and and 362 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:42.599 Steve Kerr and those types of guys were they played for each other because they 363 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:45.799 didn't want to disappoint each other? Was that the case during those great times 364 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:49.799 at you you didn't want to disappoint Frank and the rest of the guys because 365 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:55.880 there were all Americans too. Yeah. No, I mean I'm in the 366 00:23:55.920 --> 00:24:00.720 pool staring up at Frank Bush and I just had I mean I expected him 367 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:04.960 beyond so it didn't matter if it was a swim meet or just like a 368 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.200 set that we were doing in practice, just anything. I was like, 369 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:11.960 if he thinks that I can do it, I can do it, and 370 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:17.319 I just, um, yeah, I didn't. I absolutely did not want 371 00:24:17.319 --> 00:24:21.079 to disappoint him. I wanted to work really hard for him. And I 372 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:25.400 think that's a cool thing if you can build up those relationships with your athletes. 373 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:29.119 So when you when you were looking around, I mean, was it 374 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:33.240 when you decided you wanted to be a college coach or did you decide you 375 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:36.000 want to be a college coach before this opening came up? Or did this 376 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:37.559 opening come up he said, okay, I want to do that, you 377 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:44.440 know which came first. So U it kind of all fell together at the 378 00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:48.000 same time, except for I was really itching to get back to Tuthon. 379 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.400 So you know, Washington State doesn't have a lot of funny days, so 380 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:59.799 we kind of we were while I love it up here, I'm ready for 381 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.160 a little bit more sunshine, so we actually have we're looking at relocating back 382 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:08.279 to Chusan And then I started to have these conversations, um with Augie Bush, 383 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:14.359 and um, the reality of that he needed uh someone that could really 384 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:18.799 help his breaststrokers. And I was like, I'm your girl, Augie. 385 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:22.960 I promise you. I will come in and I will work my butt off 386 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:27.680 for these athletes. I just I just have so much respect for that program 387 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:32.200 and that university that just get me on the pool deck, and I will 388 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:34.200 I will work hard for them. Yeah. Yeah, well of course. 389 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:37.119 So so when you're when you're thinking about this now, I mean like, 390 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:41.839 are you on the job yet or when when do you When do you actually 391 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.759 start the job? I won't be there till early August, so um, 392 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:49.039 we move. We actually will be moving down the end of July and I'll 393 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:52.799 start. I'll start my job early August. Okay, well, what's the 394 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.279 first thing you're going to do when you get here? Oh? Just I 395 00:25:56.319 --> 00:26:00.400 don't know. Soak it all in. I'll go to EGS and get there. 396 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:04.640 I'm just excited for all of it. You do want to have an 397 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:08.920 endorsement already? R You wanted to say easy, because I know you wanted 398 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:14.519 to say so, Okay, they want to give me a free little smoothie 399 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:19.240 or an easy terry sider one in the fall is hell? If you have 400 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:23.119 to buy a beer in this town with your name. That's wrong. So 401 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:26.119 let me ask you. I mean, the you know, college athletics has 402 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:30.920 changed a lot, and you know, we we had we had Erica Barnes 403 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:33.400 on a couple of days ago and talking about how, you know, the 404 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:37.039 the you know, outside of football and basketball, those sports are now starting 405 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:41.880 to come along in terms of how they're being affected by NIL, transfer portal, 406 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:45.279 you know, all these things that are going on. Um, are 407 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:49.960 you pay how much of that is in your thoughts as you're thinking about the 408 00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:52.920 job that you're going to have in front of you coming up in August? 409 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:59.160 Yeah, I mean I did some work with pepper Dyne a couple of months 410 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:03.200 ago just talk about the NIL and just the effect that has on athletes and 411 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:07.720 disco just all of that. It's very complex, it's um it's a it 412 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:11.519 is a whole new world for the athletes that are coming into their college careers 413 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.839 and beyond. So UM, I personally, I hope to just I like 414 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:21.359 to be a sponge, absorb as much information as possible as I can about 415 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:26.119 everything and make sure that I can help guide any young athletes in the right 416 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.720 direction. And also I think transparency is just very important. So just being 417 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:36.880 able to have those honest relationships and conversations. Especially, Yeah, it is. 418 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:41.559 It's a completely different world since I was competing. Let me ask you 419 00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:45.720 a dumb question and bear with me. So we know that Michael Jordan was 420 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.160 Michael Jordan, and Magic Johnson and Magick Johnson and guys like that who are 421 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:53.599 great players but had a difficult time being coaches because they expect the best because 422 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:56.599 they were the best. How how are you going to handle that because you 423 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:00.839 were pretty darned good and the people you're coaching aren't a man to be heard? 424 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:06.680 You know what, I think? Not everyone's cut out to be a 425 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:11.400 coach because you got to put your ego aside, and you you what I 426 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:15.839 did as an athlete doesn't really exist now, you know. So what I'm 427 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:19.359 trying to do is take anything that I've absorbed, anything all the different I've 428 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:23.839 I've had the honor of working for some of the greatest coaches in swimming. 429 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:29.079 So I'm taking everything that I've learned along the way and hoping to be able 430 00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:33.000 to guide these athletes. And if you come into it and you have this 431 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:34.599 ego like, well, I'm the best, you have to do it my 432 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:40.200 way or the highway. It just doesn't fly that way you want to. 433 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:45.319 You want to put yourself aside and all of your athletes are first. They 434 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.519 are number one and um and you've got to make time for them no matter 435 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:52.400 what and kind of drop everything if they need to. So how many stories 436 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.279 do you think you're going to have to tell about all the Olympics you went 437 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:02.920 to? Uh? You know, is that way to help motivate players or 438 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.359 swimmers? Is it a way to just give them something to shoot for? 439 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:08.640 I mean, how will you handle all that, all of that, because 440 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.920 you know a lot of these swimmers come with those ideas in their mind. 441 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:18.559 Yeah. I think the way that I've always kind of been with my athletic 442 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:25.319 career, I keep it quite person like private. I guess I don't just 443 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:29.079 openly talk about it unless someone wants to talk about it, unless they want 444 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:32.279 to hear anything, and they want stories and they have questions, and I 445 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:37.240 will be an open book, but I don't just kind of volunteer that information 446 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:41.119 upon people, because not everybody wants to sit down and hear the story of 447 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:47.640 my life. So, but some people will find it interesting and some people 448 00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:49.440 will want to put that book down. Let me tell you something. You 449 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:53.640 did have a fascinating book a decade ago, and how did that go? 450 00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:57.200 And why did you you? Kind of it was great stuff on you? 451 00:29:57.839 --> 00:30:03.240 Why did you want to do that? Well? So at that time, 452 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:07.240 I was doing a lot of clinics, working with a lot of young athletes, 453 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:14.519 and I'd walk away from all of my interactions with them honestly feeling like 454 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:17.720 I was kind of lying to them because I was just giving them all the 455 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.039 good information. Here's all the great highlights, there's my sizzle reel. And 456 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:26.319 I didn't. I just didn't. It didn't sit well with me. So 457 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:32.200 I decided that with the help of my friend who as a writer, to 458 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:34.079 to kind of put it all out there, just be very honest, because 459 00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:41.000 I wanted young young athletes to understand that the road and the past to being 460 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.559 successful is not clear and it can be very bumpy and rocky, and I 461 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.839 wanted to have that more honest relationship with the with the athletes I was working 462 00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:53.119 with. And did you feel like that was that was? It was good 463 00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:57.319 for your cathartic did you know? Did you make it for you feel better 464 00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:00.119 about yourself? I mean, how did that? How did that all wind 465 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:04.279 up? For you. Well, you definitely feel like you're you're opening your 466 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:11.160 your like diary for everybody. So it's a little uh intimidating. But I 467 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.200 also feel like it was like, okay, well that was that was my 468 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:17.519 life, and I put it out there and now it's over here on my 469 00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:21.079 bookshelf. I can tap into it when I need to. But I'm I'm 470 00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:25.000 ready to continue moving upward and onward. Yeah, so what is the thing 471 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.720 you think you're most looking forward to as a coach? I mean, what 472 00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:30.920 do you what when when when you put your head on the pillow tonight, 473 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:33.640 you know, what are you thinking about in terms of I can't wait for 474 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:41.079 this? I? Well, so I really geek out on like getting really 475 00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:45.640 technical with strokes. So I i will put my head on the pillow and 476 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:49.880 I'll run through different drills that I will would do with them and just different 477 00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:55.119 techniques and how I would want to talk to it. And that's that is 478 00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:57.319 really what excites me. So let me let me tell you something. We 479 00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:00.680 have about three minutes. Stuff. You're talking to two dudes who never had 480 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:07.359 a sizzle wheat wheel. We never had, so that's very impressive. But 481 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.559 let me tell you about let me say, let's assume that we could run. 482 00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:15.000 Jay and I can run, but and I used to run, how 483 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:20.039 do you would you make us faster if you if you just run, you 484 00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.960 know, how do people get faster? And in the pool, if you're 485 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.000 a swimmer and you're pretty good, but you have your limits everything in the 486 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:28.359 Peter principle, you're as good as you're gonna get. How do you make 487 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:32.039 people get better? Yeah, well, I don't think that you're as good 488 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:35.279 as you're going to get. Like, I think there's a whole different, 489 00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:38.480 different level that people just don't know how to tap into. So not only 490 00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:42.440 are doing work in the pool, And I mean you used to swim laughs 491 00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:45.720 Like I can swim laughs up and down. My competitors swimming laughs up and 492 00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:46.880 down? But what am I going to do to get the edge over them? 493 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:52.599 And that usually comes to like my mental stability and how I approach everything. 494 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:58.359 I'm hyper uberly competitive. I love to get into like that mindset of 495 00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:04.880 kind of all my little secrets of how I like approach my races, approach 496 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:08.559 my practices, all of those little kind of challenges and goal setting and stuff 497 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:13.160 like that. So, um, I just I think there's a lot of 498 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:16.400 athletes out there that think that they're working hard and don't understand that they have 499 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:22.240 a whole nother gear of working hard that they haven't figured out yet. That 500 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:25.920 makes sense because coaches find that extra gear, right, that's what we're supposed 501 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:29.519 to do. Yeah. Absolutely, that's what all my coaches did for me. 502 00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:31.720 Yeah, makes sense. Okay, makes sense, very good. Okay, 503 00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:35.279 Well, Amanda, we appreciate the time. We know this was a 504 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:37.240 you know, sort of a last minute thing to get you on, but 505 00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:40.200 you know, just uh, you know, welcome home. As we said, 506 00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:43.240 you know, we're looking forward to it, to seeing you here. 507 00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:47.039 I appreciate you guys having me on, and I'm beyond excited to get back 508 00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:51.519 to Jule. We're gonna use this interview as our beginning of our scizzle wheel. 509 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:57.440 Well, if that means I gotta run, I'm not running, love 510 00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:00.000 it. I love it all right, Amanda, thanks a whole boy, 511 00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:02.920 have a great day. Absolutely, you guys do. It's funny, Jay, 512 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.640 It's funny because you know, I had a son who you put highlights 513 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.400 on that thing, and you see the you see the YouTube things when the 514 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:13.599 kids are trying to be recruited, you don't see them messing up on those 515 00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:15.440 things. Yeah, kids are all high lights. Sure, I did for 516 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:19.039 my daughter. So you have all these things. Oh he could play, 517 00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:21.519 he could play, he could dunk, but can he do anything else? 518 00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:23.119 Yeah? No, absolutely, you know I did one of those for my 519 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:29.360 daughter as a recruiting Yeah, pitching a softball, pitching and and and soft 520 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:34.239 on stuff. And you know when she the curveball that didn't break, didn't 521 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.320 make it, didn't make it. On to the day lord of the ball. 522 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:38.559 You know the ball that she threw outside. It was all the strikes 523 00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:40.599 that were right over the middle of So this is what you can do. 524 00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:44.920 I won't tell you what she can or how many times it took us to 525 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:49.719 get that shot. All right, let's go take our break where and come 526 00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:52.199 back. Well, we'd love to take your calls. Five two, zero, 527 00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:53.880 four, one, six, seventy four, forty anything you have on 528 00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:58.519 your mind, We're ready to talk about it. We'll be right back if 529 00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:00.400 you're neighbors one a man's basketball fan. You know, it's been successful for 530 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:04.960 newly forty years. Now. Take a look back at the Ludolson era in 531 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:07.480 my new book, Lessons from Loot. 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Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez they have their Eye on the Ball 574 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:14.360 on two Sons Sports Stage chef Fox Sports fourteen fifty streaming live. I mean 575 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.880 I heard Radio Am Hey, welcome back to O on the ball here on 576 00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:22.159 spot quurteen fifty. I'm Steve, he's Jay. We have about fifteen thirteen 577 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:23.679 minutes. You want to give us a quick call five two old, four 578 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:29.360 one six seven four four zero for let's snow, what's up for you guys? 579 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:31.079 You know that was a swimming legend, not just the u of aase 580 00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:35.480 Well, yeah, yeah, I put that on question. Amanda Beard was 581 00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:39.360 in four Olympics. Yeah, four olymp choose fourteen years old and fourteen years 582 00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:43.039 old for the first one. I mean that is like, that is crazy 583 00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:45.480 stuff for something like that to a have come out of the u of A 584 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:50.159 and then b want to come back to the u of A and come here 585 00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:53.920 and try and you know, work her magic. Yeah, in the program 586 00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:58.199 this I don't know if this is an equal. It's not like Miles Simon 587 00:38:58.199 --> 00:39:00.480 coming back to coach. It's more like Steve Kerr coming back to couch. 588 00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:07.159 Even more so, right, I mean yeah, I mean even more so. 589 00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:12.480 I mean as as accomplished a swimmer or an athlete as the UFA has 590 00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.119 ever had. Yeah, you know, it really is. And so to 591 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:19.559 have her and they've had total oh yeah, and to get her back, 592 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:22.199 you know, that's that's quite a cool. Froggy Bush. We're gonna have 593 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:24.639 to talk to him. We know, we never had him about how he 594 00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:28.400 feels about about all of that. I mean, he's got to feel pretty 595 00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:30.119 dang good to be able to pull the trigger and get Amanda Beard to come 596 00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:32.440 here. Yeah, but that's that was one of the if you want to 597 00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:37.559 talk about blue blood, blue blood program, that was. That was one 598 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:42.079 that was during that time. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, a bunch of 599 00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:46.440 Olympians and now it's champions, world champions, record holders and all that kind 600 00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:50.039 of stuff. If there's one thing that I've learned, and I think I've 601 00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:53.480 said this on the show with you Jay in doing this and the sports writing, 602 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:58.119 was the coaching matters. Coaching matters. You could have a good group. 603 00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:00.840 And we've seen it in group. If you're co which doesn't drive with 604 00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:04.559 your good group, it means not a nothing, um. But if you 605 00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:07.559 have a good like the Frank I'm using Frank Bushes, a guy who's kind 606 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:12.119 of like just like a dude who cares about his kids, great philosophy, 607 00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:14.840 is not a yeller, I don't think so, just a normal temper, 608 00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:19.440 and then he creates these crazy Olympians. Yeah. Yeah, And there were 609 00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:22.880 a whole bud of coaching matters it does you know, you know, they 610 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:27.119 got to motivate, They got to be technical, right, they have have 611 00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.440 to have the technical aspect of it, the motivational aspect of it. But 612 00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:34.199 then as as we've said, the carrying piece of it. Yeah, right, 613 00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:37.280 that so many coaches, that's that seems to be the one that's missing. 614 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:42.360 More often the coaches, well turn out you think are good coaches, 615 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:45.400 but are not. Well did we talk about this before too, maybe early 616 00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:47.239 in the year. Steve Kerry, Steve Kerry, he hadn't coached, he 617 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:52.760 hadn't done anything along those lines of media whatever, um and people would say 618 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:54.800 to me, well, look at the people he has on the team. 619 00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:00.320 Ever, do you ever data hunt woman? He ever? Did you have 620 00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:04.239 five dudes who think they're the best, You think you're gonna get along? 621 00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:07.559 Right? You know how difficult that is? Again and again, Mark Jackson 622 00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:12.679 could not mold those guys into a championship team. Steve Kerr went in their 623 00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:17.559 same guys championship right, and so what was the difference. The difference was 624 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:21.559 you know the coach not to bad mouth Park Jackson, No, No, 625 00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:24.960 he just wasn't able to get the most out of those guys like Kurt was 626 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:30.960 able to do the minute he wantd Come on, what did he have much? 627 00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:35.280 Remember when they hired. When he got hired, people are like, 628 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:37.840 who's this dude? Who's this dude? What the hell are you doing? 629 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:40.360 Now? He's widely considered one of the best coaches in the in the NBA, 630 00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:44.920 had nothing right, and he had a team on the brink of another 631 00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:47.519 title. No. One hundred percent and again and you know, closer to 632 00:41:47.559 --> 00:41:51.239 home, Tommy Lloyd, right, he's gotten He got so much more out 633 00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:54.079 of Sean Miller's players than Sean Miller did. And and so you know there's 634 00:41:54.119 --> 00:42:00.360 something, as you say, the secret sauce, right, everybody he has 635 00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:02.880 to have one. Yeah, and everyone has a different action. Everyone has 636 00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:06.800 there's a different difference. It's a different thing. And it may be the 637 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:09.960 same thing, but just a little different. Yeah, a little tweak because 638 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:13.360 you know, it's like I said, if you can't run, if you're 639 00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:15.440 fast, but you need to get past that fast. This isn't like hitting. 640 00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:19.360 If you're a good hitter, you practice at it right. Yeah, 641 00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:21.320 you just don't show up with a bat and you hit right. No, 642 00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:23.159 you gotta practice at it right. And with swimming, I don't get it 643 00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:28.079 because I don't swim. But how how you become a better swimmer with technique 644 00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:31.119 or special movement? I don't Yeah, yeah, all that stuff. No, 645 00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:34.000 you know, all the sports have that. You know, when you 646 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:36.840 think about a gymnast, right, how does she go from a nine nine 647 00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:38.960 or a nine to eighty five to a ninety nine, which is a big 648 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:44.679 deal, right right right? You know, uh, five one hundreds of 649 00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:47.639 a point is a difference between you go, you gotta find that. I 650 00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:51.559 gotta go get that somewhere. You know, gymnasts or you know, I 651 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.480 see gymnast gymnastics similar to to a swimming when it comes out. You know, 652 00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:59.760 golfers, you know, you see golfers talking about, well I had 653 00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:01.599 this little tweak. You know, I wasn't you know, I wasn't bringing 654 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:06.280 my shoulder back at the right angle or you know whatever it might be. 655 00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:08.400 You know, like I mean, you see that. You go play golf 656 00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:12.079 and you know, to me, when I play, I go walk up, 657 00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:14.719 I hit the ball right, But these guys walk up and the ball 658 00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:16.760 it's got to be in a certain spot. You know, the club has 659 00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:20.079 got to be you know, everything's got to be just so, and they 660 00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:22.039 can consistently do that, and that's why they're a good golfers. And that's 661 00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.760 why I can hit a great shot and I can hit the same shot five 662 00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:30.239 minutes later and it's terrible. Correct. Well, a lot of these guys 663 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:34.239 have coaches too, and the coaches sec they see, they see, you 664 00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:38.280 know, like I'm fascinated. They'll show side by side video of a guy 665 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:43.559 of a play or a female player swinging a club and they'll say, look 666 00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:45.960 at the difference between you know, the one on the and the one on 667 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:46.679 the right. And I'll look at him and I'll go, what is it 668 00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:50.760 looks the same to me? Right? It all looks the same to me. 669 00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:53.000 Right, Watch that stuff, and I think, I try to do 670 00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:58.800 that. There's nothing like that just today. And I'm always looking for tips. 671 00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:01.320 Right. So Phil mickles Is showed up on my on my on my 672 00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:06.280 Facebook feed with a chipping lesson, right, And I watched the chipping lesson 673 00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:08.920 as a while back and it worked for about three rounds and then I forgot 674 00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:12.760 everything. So he came back on. He comes back on and said, 675 00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:15.800 okay, in my last one, I showed you this. Well, let 676 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:19.480 me add this and it's like this shoulder turned thing. And I'm like, 677 00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:23.320 why didn't you tell me that the first time? Because I'm all screwed up 678 00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:27.760 even then. People, it's all practice, like shooting free throws. Yeah, 679 00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:30.480 what do you do? You shoot ree throws and you shoot more free 680 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:32.920 throws and you keep shooting free throws. Yeah. Um? And how many 681 00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:37.920 times have we seen this were players have left points on the table because they 682 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:40.800 don't free throws. Yeah, no, I watched that. I told you 683 00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:45.440 the other day. I watched the second half of the UCLA Arizona Packs Attention 684 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:49.360 a new Marbalo went up there. I mean, he made some free throws, 685 00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:51.960 but he missed his man as he made and that made it a really 686 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:54.159 close well you know who, it was pretty good at the Coloco who didn't 687 00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:57.920 remember he was absolutely horrible, and all of a sudden he got really good 688 00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:00.840 at really good at yeah. Absolutely no. Yeah, those little things, 689 00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:04.440 you know, And that's what I think that. You know, when when 690 00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:07.800 Aggie Bush decided he's hiring a Manda Beard, he thought, you know, 691 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.480 we just need somebody who can come in here and as she said, you 692 00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.400 know, help everybody take a little step forward, whether it's in the breaststroker, 693 00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:21.639 whatever, whatever, whichever swimmer she's gonna coach. But you know, 694 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:24.280 there's that little bit and at that level, at the college level, and 695 00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:28.760 then again at the pro level, you know, that little bit is the 696 00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:30.639 difference between winning and losing. Again, I take it back to golf. 697 00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:36.199 You know these golfers you sit there now with all the technology. You know, 698 00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:39.360 you hear you hear a a golfer talking to his caddy about where he 699 00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:43.400 wants to hit it, and he's talking about hitting it into a like one 700 00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:45.679 square yards. Well, you need to hit it there, not there, 701 00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:49.199 you know, you know, you need to hit it left about ten feet 702 00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:52.760 of that. I'm like, I'm just trying to get it there. I'm 703 00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:54.360 just trying to hit it hit in that neighborhood. And these guys, that's 704 00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:59.119 how precise they are. Let's also remember they make millions of dollars. I 705 00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:02.239 know, but but but the precision that that that they you know that you 706 00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:05.960 know what they're doing, the difference between making the ten foot part and not 707 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:07.639 making the ten foot Sure, sure you know what they're doing right now. 708 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:12.840 They're taking that ten foot put right You're here on the radio and you're gonna 709 00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:15.199 talk about golf on Saturday. But that's what they do, right, every 710 00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:19.800 right, every day every day when you see these guys, they'll finish eighteen 711 00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:22.440 holes and then they go straight to the practice rage because you know there was 712 00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:25.719 some shot that they weren't hitting quiet right and they got to go get it 713 00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:29.239 right. Well, it's like it's like this is interesting. I mean because 714 00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:31.280 Steve Kerr shot. But I mentioned this all the time with Furich, how 715 00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:37.559 he hits the ball. It's ugly, right, but it's his ugly right 716 00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:43.360 and he knows how to hit that right. Millions you know what, I 717 00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:45.679 think you should change your stroke? No, no, no, no, 718 00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:47.960 I'm going with this. Well, when when you look at when you look 719 00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:52.880 at how guys bad, Yeah, you look at it hitter all the different 720 00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:57.840 stands and swings and where they have their hands you know, up high, 721 00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:00.679 up, low, you know, laying the flat, laying it, you 722 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:05.000 know, standing it up. You know guys who stand straight up versus get 723 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:07.559 into a crouch. Yeah, why are there so many different swings? If 724 00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:12.360 there's a good way to hit, why don't you the wire? Doesn't everybody 725 00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:16.400 hit that way? That's what that's been one of the mysteries of baseball to 726 00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:22.559 me, or a pictures wind up wire pictures wind up so different, it's 727 00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:24.840 what you're comfortable with. Like Chase Davis his stance when he gets in it's 728 00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:29.559 kind of strange. Yeah, very open up, very open. He crowds, 729 00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:32.719 he crouches really low, he holds the back flat and then he's got 730 00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:37.280 this, you know, lift his leg and big step and boom and he's 731 00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:39.440 got one of the best swings. Like ever. Yeah, lefties always do 732 00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:45.960 though you can hit, you know, all these leftiest Let the guy yesterday 733 00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:49.880 from TCU who hit the ball under winning track and didn't make the home run. 734 00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:52.960 Great swing, blah blah blah, three feet short. Yeah, you 735 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:55.639 know where. I was talking about the eggit velocity with myself who were talking 736 00:47:55.639 --> 00:47:58.880 about that. He said, Dad, the egg of velocity on there was 737 00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:01.519 one hundred eleven miles cur And I'm like, is that good? So he 738 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:08.480 quickly googled and says a next velocity of ninety five in Major League next of 739 00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:14.159 ninety five to one hundred five miles an hour is considered great. Anybody who 740 00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:19.280 gets a ball in the air ninety nine times out of ten it's a home 741 00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:21.639 run. Well, this park is a monster. Yeah, and this guy 742 00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:24.320 hit at one eleven and still and didn't get it out of monster and then 743 00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:28.880 he didn't. I don't got too high. It's just the way it is. 744 00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:34.280 The trajectory and all that stuff is no I you know again the difference 745 00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:37.840 between you know, that level and then just you know, just Joe Schmo, 746 00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:42.039 who's out there. You know, the preciseness of you know, you're 747 00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:45.480 you're whether you're you're shot, you're jumper, or the way you throw a 748 00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:51.360 football or you know, how you hit a baseball or you you know you 749 00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:55.039 throw a pitch or whatever. Um, the preciseness of that, just the 750 00:48:55.079 --> 00:48:59.400 smallest thing makes a big difference as to whether or not, as they said 751 00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:01.400 in bull Drum, whether or not you're a two hundred hitter or you're you 752 00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:05.840 know, a one extra base hit. You know, a week and you're 753 00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:07.840 in the and you're in the hut and you're in Cooperstown, right, you 754 00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:12.719 know, it's it's it's crazy, the preciseness of of all of that, 755 00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:15.440 and especially the golfers, it just drives you crazy with and how these guys 756 00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:19.760 say, well, you know, don't aim for the first flag game for 757 00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.800 the second flag and you look in the background and there's like you know, 758 00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:24.639 on your screen, there's like a half an inch apart. You go, 759 00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:29.880 what different? What's the difference? Right? And that? But they know 760 00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:32.719 and they know, and it's it's it's weird to me to see how they 761 00:49:32.760 --> 00:49:37.840 know that, how they can do that. Okay, we got about twonute 762 00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:40.159 stuff. We're gonna have some breaking news. Hopefully it's enough to a bunch 763 00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:44.760 of stuff. It just not again nothing earth. There was a big trade, 764 00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:46.559 uh in the NBA. Another one, so we'll talk about that one 765 00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:50.639 a little bit, uh because we always do. But uh, just a 766 00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:53.679 bunch of little stuff. There's a there's a really good one. I'll it's 767 00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:58.519 something that I'll see you know who you're taking in this because it's pretty funny. 768 00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:02.880 But there was the ruling on LSU and the I RP thing. I 769 00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:06.840 don't know if you saw that. I saw that. You know. That's 770 00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:08.079 one of the final ones, right, that's gonna be one of the last 771 00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:15.920 ones. They think, Uh, did they do Kansas already? No? 772 00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:21.519 No, Kansas I think is left if we google you can find find it. 773 00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:23.079 I think that they left them alone, which was kind of strange. 774 00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:28.000 I don't catch that well, but this was this was probably the most punishment. 775 00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:31.519 Yeah, Dan Walkin wrote it wrote a really interesting if Dan Walkin has 776 00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:36.039 been on our USA today write it wrote or an interesting column about that if 777 00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:37.719 you get if you got a USA look at and go check that out, 778 00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:42.880 just basically saying the I RP was just a complete waste of time, waste 779 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:45.039 of time, waste of effort, waste of money. Um, it didn't 780 00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:50.599 do anything. And uh, this this LSU ruling, and I think Kansas 781 00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:53.599 is the last one. I think it says it in that Colm that that 782 00:50:54.079 --> 00:50:59.320 looks they're left. They they've got but based on based on what happened today 783 00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:02.440 with LSU, mm hmmm, doesn't look look at nothing's gonna happen to Kansas. 784 00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:06.559 So, um, you know that's that's just the way it's gonna be. 785 00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:08.719 But you know, hey, that that was good for Arizona, right. 786 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:12.320 Let say, didn't get a bunch of a bunch of crappy either, 787 00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:15.639 So they'll be they'll be fine. R let's gonna take our our next break. 788 00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:19.440 We're gonna come back. We do have breaking news, um uh just 789 00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:22.920 you know, spread of stuff. So we'll uh well we'll cover all of 790 00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:24.599 that, and we'll we'll be back in just a little bit.