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Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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to I on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera,

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He's jaygan zawas in with us today
and Elise and intern possibly in turning

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training intern train. We have three
still far that's probably good enough right for

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the summer. Well, I will
see you and I will be gone day.

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But it depends on how much time
you and are going to be spending

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away from the microphone. We're already
counting up the days, right. Well,

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Ryan's in with us today. Good
to see everybody. Another day.

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A lot of bricky news there,
at least. I'm sure you're wearing a

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lot of stuff going on to your
Lakers. I know, I know.

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Are you crying? No? Not
really? I was expected. How can

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you get excited on a team like
that, for a team like that,

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Well, I think it's the hometown
team obviously, because let me because we

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have hearts. You have a heart. Still, we love our teams,

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right, It's like I don't even
know how to answer that. It's like

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I just do it's my team because
he doesn't. He doesn't, he doesn't

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have one, and he doesn't do
that. I don't know have a heart

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like no, like that question,
grumpy guy who doesn't care about any teams.

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How's how's that heart working out for
you? You know what? As

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through all the heartbreak that I've gone
through, still Azora, I still have

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it. And it's not black like
yours. Oh no, it's black.

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It's getting dark because it's it's it's
not good. It's not healthy because you

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know, eat through through like I
mean, I'm sure you don't give up

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on your teams, right, never
give up on your teams as bad as

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it do you. I don't have
one. He doesn't he has he doesn't

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have any don't have anyone. There's
no recent to I like to sleep on

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ourselves. I'm not a graduate.
I don't know nothing. He used to

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be. I don't care if the
exactly you're a journalists. Of course you're

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just supposed to be like this.
You're supposed to And he used to be

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a Cowboys fan and a Red fan. And he's not a fan of you.

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You just stopped being a fan because
they don't win. You get out?

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Wait wait you epitome of a bandwagon. Then when I jumped off,

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and I haven't gotten back on,
And you know why he hasn't gotten back

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on because there has been a reason
to get that fun for you? Oh

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yeah, yeah, I sleep better. I don't care about who wins.

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I mean, the Lakers aren't keeping
me up, the Dodgers or Arizona.

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What go back to? No,
No, because it doesn't. I realized

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a long time ago that it doesn't
really matter. Chip for them, no

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chip for them for a good game. Here's here's a question. So,

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and I've asked the kids that we
have on and some of the guys that

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we see in the press pressure conferences, they're mostly you have a grads,

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they're younger and Juligrat's true. Yes
and how yes, and you've been there,

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How do you change or decipher who
are you going to be? Your

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bias or own bias. He had
to get out because he was not going

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to be well. It was it
got too hard for me. But I

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was during the time that I was
covering Arizona, I thought I was very

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impartial and didn't really care. If
they want now, I'll tell you the

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one time I know that I cared, and I've told you this before.

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I cared when Arizona was in the
was in the Lait eight against North Carolina,

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but not because I wanted the Arizona
to win. For Arizona's sake.

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I wanted to cover a Final four. That's why I get there. And

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that's a long time ago. But
you understand what I'm saying. Those people

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in the rooms, and you've heard
the questions, there is almost apologetic sometimes

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you know this, You've been there. Yeah, I do you think now

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that you point that out, I
think it's interesting that sometimes they are sympathizing

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with the coaches after a loss.
Yeah. Oh, and there are certain

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reporters that are on a bad should
lead fans of the teams that they cover.

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I should understand what I'm saying,
Understand what you're saying, and I'm

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not. I'm not you a grant, so I have no skin in the

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game. Do I want them to
to win? Sure? Because it's easier

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to cover a winning team than a
losing team. I think I've been able

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to do both though cover and obviously
I'm a fan, I'm a student.

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I think I've been able to completely
do both write unbiased articles, make unbiased

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packages, and completely cover the athletic
department as a student unbiasedly. Yeah,

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and that's I think lots of people
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is the definition of being a professional. You're a professional about this. I

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thought I was very professional about because
I went from I mean I went from

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a blood in the water guy fan
Arizona fan to just and with air Zona

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football, I'm covering them all of
a sudden, and now I got to

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just cover them and be very impartial
about it. And and I was,

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you can separate it, right I
did. I did separate it, but

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I got tired of it. I
wanted to go back and a fan,

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and that's why I got out of
it after the time that I did.

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But but my point is that through
all of that, Okay, I'm a

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Dodger fan. I've always been a
Dodger fan. You know, Steve was

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a Reds fan. I think you
can do be where we are covering the

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sports that we cover, covering Arizona, covering you know, high schools,

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covering people, all that stuff,
and be a fan of you know,

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a fan of a pro team and
be open about it. I'm a fan

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of the Dodgers. Steve has given
up on the team that he was a

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fan of growing up because he's He's
like, what's the point? There's no

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point for my end, But I
think there's a point. There's not a

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point. I think no, there
isn't a point other than to have something

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to kind of watch a good game, that's all. But it's fun when

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you have saying it, when you
when you like the players, when you

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have a deeper reason to watch the
games. These kids, I don't really

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care. Steve, you're the outlier
of this. Are you are the outline?

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This will be like you go to
those to go to those media guys

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that we're talking about right now and
separate Arizona, Say do they are they

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fans of teams? They are because
because they're normal people like you. No,

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No, you know, just In
Spears is a you know, a

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fan of the Lakers and Chargers.
Hey, there's no, I'm not a

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wrong answer, and they're not a
wrong answer. Wrong answer because just because

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you feel that like momentum, Oh
god, it always comes back to this

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every single week in my mind,
how does this have anything to do with

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what we were talking about. It
always does. We always get back to

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show. That's right, you know
what, give it to him. It's

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your last show. You know,
you know you can. You can kick

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them under the table if you want. That would work for me to Steve.

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I think you're the outlier on this
one, okay, because people who

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people who are fans of sports.
I'm going to make a general statement.

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You can say it's I say it's
a fact, you can say it's an

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opinion. People generally who are fans
of sports, love football, love basketball,

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whatever. They're fans of a team
somewhere along the line. But they're

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not journalists. I mean there's a
difference. There's a difference journalists too.

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Maybe, okay, maybe, but
not me, not anymore. I know,

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I know you're not. At the
end of the day, it means

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nothing. It means nothing. I
don't think it means nothing. I mean,

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why do you think, why do
you think there's teams and all this

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money pumped into sports because people care
because it means something, because it means

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something, means something bigger. But
it means nothing to me. I know

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That's what I'm saying. You're the
outlier. You're money to go. The

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one that doesn't make you're the only
one. You're the one that doesn't make

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anything. Change the channels. I'm
okay, good point. Okay, let's

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come back on track. All right, Let's get back to where we were.

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Where we were, that's it.
We're talking about lakers there hours we

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started the show. Here's here.
Okay, perfect, perfect thing. Okay,

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I'm gonna continue the conversation. You
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and that's why you brought it up. Okay, So it does matter.

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It doesn't matter to her, that's
why Astra. Yeah, okay,

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so asked her and you and you
find did you hear the Lebron's question to

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a or answer to a question about
my breaking news? Actually about it next

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year? Then I'll leave it alone. Yeah, I'll leave it alone because

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he's right, all right, he's
right. Okay. The tennis people are

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wondering when we're gonna start talking about
them tennis. You tell them, all

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right, we're gonna be talking tennis
the whole second and third segments of this

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this hour three fifteen. Clancy shields
breaking all I don't know if you call

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it breaking all kinds of records setting
a new standard, I would say for

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for men's tennis at Arizona, three
straight pack twelve record season championships and now

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the first PAC twelve Tournament championship over
the weekend. They're a number nine seed

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in the NC Double A tournament coming
up starting this weekend, So he's going

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to join us at about three three
twenty, let's say. And then we've

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also brought in Ryan Stotland. He's
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the tournament, in the NC Double
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fourteen. So we're going to talk
about some tennis with both of them over

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the the last two segments of this
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hour, right, Ken, how
can we you know? Did you see

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his photo? Did you see his
most recent photo? Did he have a

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press commerce today? Oh? I
didn't see that today. We've better changes.

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We got to clean it up.
Well, I went, I must

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have been befo. Well, obviously
I put his picture up before the press

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conference because I didn't see that.
So he's got his baseball picture. What

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did you see it? You'll see, Oh, man, he's a little

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bit basically they made him shave right
in his noise. He's like, well,

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I saw a pass picture of him
and didn't realize he didn't have any

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hair. He probably appreciated the photo
back of the day. That's pretty funny.

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Yeah, so we'll get to that. That's exciting. He became the

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new a d recently. He had
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doesn't even look I know exactly exactly. He looks like Michael lev good luck.

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But I'm a fan of Mike.
So you are a fan of someone,

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all right, Well, we're gonna
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for we'll get a from. He
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that's a big deal. That's a
cool deal for him. And we'll talk

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about that in the second hour and
know how he's going to do both jobs.

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I have a question for you,
Steve. Are you a fan of

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any individual players? Uh? Are
you root for any players? I follow

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Steve Kerr obviously because we covered him
back and he's a good dude, good

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dude. But no, just follow, just follow. No, but you

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don't root for the Warriors because no, like pretty much. That's why I

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root for them. I root for
them. I don't care if they win

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to lose. But I'd like to
see them. If he bets on them,

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you root for them, but you
don't care if they want right,

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no, if they lose. She's
looking at you like she's like throwing baggers

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across the table here in time if
she stays in this business show, totally

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understand what I'm talking about. You
want? Jay doesn't understand. I don't

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care. Look at your time.
I think I have to take that a

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little bit. I really do.
You're that's your exhibit? I wind?

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Oh my god, Okay, okay, So could do a study on this,

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Yes, you could journalists cover more
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Ye, perfect, see your dick
semester. Why do you think so far?

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Ryan? What the hell am I
doing in this room? This is

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kind of the discussions. Should have
seen this when we were talking about Blue

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blod basketball team. Oh yeah,
you know that. Let's not go there.

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No, No, it's not today. Okay, cool, cool.

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So it should be a lot of
the stuff Ricky news. A lot of

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discussion with the tennis obviously. Uh
and I don't know about you who.

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We talked about this with coaches and
you used to play a volleyball. You

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kind of still do what mind you
kind of well, you're gonna still do

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well, that's what I do.
What makes a good coach a good coach?

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And we're talking in the let's frame
them in the context of what you

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would call a players coach versus somebody
who's kind of stands away from the team,

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right, you know, can you
you know Steve's the comments Steve made

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and we talked about this quite a
bit yesterday. What Steve said, you

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can't be a good guy to the
players and win championships, that's what That's

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what he said. I kind of
agree with that. Yeah, that's what

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you were kind of saying about John
Shire, right, he doesn't enough something.

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Yeah, of course, I think
at a high level that's true.

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At what's your level? What's the
high level like in Division one? Know,

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call it b Yeah, right,
because after they were talking about Vogel

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with Phoenix, he's a good guy. I mean the first thing you say,

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he's a good guy, but he
doesn't doesn't get across to the guys

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because he doesn't have that bain in
the ass. Yeah, I think at

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a high level, when you're dealing
with players that have an ego, you

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have to you have to put the
hammer down. Yeah. I don't know,

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if you've had this kind of experience
with coach and stuff, would you

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say, we're interviewing her right,
you know, did you feel you were

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did you prefer or did you feel
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was really nice to you or a
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you you're a little afraid of them, Maybe didn't. I would go with

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the second one. Yeah, my
high school coach, she was an Olympian

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from Alley. While she was an
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thing. So she was tough,
like she pushed you pushed us. Yeah,

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but also she was funny and like
off the court, we had a

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good relationship relationship, but in practice, I knew there was no messing around.

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You come to practice to work to
play. It's game time, you

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know. But you wanted to play
hard for her because of that. Yeah,

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and I respected her obviously she had
a bronze medal for us. Sure,

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and that's kind of what we talked
about. Hey, you know,

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and at least you know how you
doing. It's hard to play for people

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like that, even though you were
even if you respect them. Yeah,

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I think off the court though,
you have to be able to you kind

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of have to like them. Yeah
right, you can't. Yeah, yeah,

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you can't hate your coach, but
you might not like the way they

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treat you on the court or something
like that. But you if you don't

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hate them, then you're likely to, you know, respond to that.

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Right. Being club, we only
got ten seconds? What do you have

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in club? Do you have a
like the coaches? They kind of I

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felt like we're almost didn't care that
much, you know, would and I

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didn't like them. I don't know
if I should say this. A lot

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of our team didn't really like them
off the court and felt like they actually

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don't care about getting to know us
on a personal level, and so kind

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of hard because and I also don't
respond. I don't think for college club

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sports like punishing people like you have
to run if you mess this up.

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I don't think that that does not
work, right, Yeah, I don't

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think punishments really work at this age. Like I'm twenty two, you're not

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that much older than me, and
you're making me run because I you know,

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but you did it, did something
wrong, of course, just like

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you kind of put your head down
and do it here we gotta go.

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All right, let's let's take a
break. We're going to be again talking

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to tennis the rest of the the
rest of the hour. First up,

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Clancy Shields, head head coach of
the men's tennis team, to talk about

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Rivera and Jagen Salvias. This is
I on the Park on Fox Sports fourteenth

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fifty. Hey, welcome back to
Eying the Ball Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

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I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jagan Sauce. Now on the phone. We

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have Classy Shields. The best coach
on campus Arizona Men's tennis. He really

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means that, he really means that. Clancy, You've said it a lot

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bunch of times for this might be
the luckiest coach on campus. Well,

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you've done it consistently, so that
doesn't happen by accident. So hey,

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congrats. We had you maybe a
month ago, no like two weeks,

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two weeks ago. Yeah, congrats. First time to have a PAC twelve

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Championship, tournament championship, tournament championship
leave the state of California. Yeah,

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really a surreal moment for a program. I mean, the last PAC twelve

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championship, the last time in Ohi, California. I mean there were about

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a thousand people there and yeah,
that was our main goal in the year,

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was to win this title that has
been eluding us for forever. And

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we were able to get done and
to be and many coaches, I was

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the top five team of Stanford and
who's had you know, twenty national championships.

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I mean, it was an unbelievable
mind just super proud of our guys.

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I mean, to do it for
zero and commanding fashion was really a

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statement. Well, well, let's
talk about that, because I mean,

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did you sense that your team on
that kind of a role or did it

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just materialize? I mean, I
don't know if you can tell that you're

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playing, you know, at the
top of your game like that, to

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be able to do something like that
against such a good team, I mean,

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did you see it coming at all? You never know? We every

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day I wake up, you never
know, Yeah, but you know we

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You know, we won our first
round against usc They had won the championship

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four years in a row and we
barely beat them four two, and I

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kind of jumped on the guys after
the match, like we need if we're

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going to win this tournament, we
got to bring something special, and I

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think it kind of woke them up, and they played lights out the next

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two days and it's probably some of
the best I've seen them play all year.

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So we're definitely peaking at the right
time and that's exciting as you go

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into the NCAA tournament. How many
times have you had to do that jump

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on your team to get them motivated? Because I have a question as we

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get deep into this tournament, So
how many times you have you had to

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do that? Yes, probably four
or five times this year. And I

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think it just get them to refocus. And but they, I will say,

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some teams don't respond to that.
Our team responds incredibly well when I

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kind of get on them a little
bit, and I don't want to say

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yelling at them, but it kind
of a wake up of hey, guys,

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if you want to do something special, we have to We've got to

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do things a little bit better and
execute better, and come together as a

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team better and have great energy as
a group. And certainly, maybe I

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told you last time, you get
to do it four or five times a

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year, I might be at my
max. But we used We used it

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at the right time, and I
think it helped our team to get over

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the top. So in full transparency
here, I really want to see these

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sideline reporters ask players or coaches or
whatever right after the game, what does

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this mean to you? Well,
obviously means a lot because you know you're

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playing for a championship whatever. I'm
gonna ask you what does this mean for

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your program? Because you've been winning, and you've been winning for a while,

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but this is a step you hadn't
taken. So what does it mean

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and what kind of mileage can you
get out of this going forward? Yes,

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you know, my brother texts me
going into the tournament and this jokingly

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said, Oh, you're only a
regular season champion coach, you can't win.

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Wow, not like I mean,
yeah, I hear you, but

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that is true. We haven't won
in the tournament. And you know,

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I think we win regular seasons because
we're a consistent team and we show up.

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But then in the tournament, you
know, the better team kind of

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wins. And in the past few
years, you know, the talented teams

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from SC and UCLA and Stanford,
who in some respects have been more talented,

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have have been able to put it
together in the tournament. And this

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year there wasn't that talent cap they
You know, our team has come a

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long way and getting better each and
every year and to be able to do

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that, so I was proud of
that. But for our program, I

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mean, it's eight years of hard
work from so many individuals, to get

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to this point, and especially our
senior crew. I mean, those guys

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have given everything to this program,
and you know, it was fitting for

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it to come down to our fifth
year senior to clinch our match and to

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do it in that fashion. I
mean, it was just really special for

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me and special for our program.
And now you know we're one of the

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elite teams in the country and that
elevates, that elevates you to be able

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to do a lot of things and
to try to take this next step towards

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competing for a national championship. So
Clancy, when you first arrived here a

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few years back, did you I'm
sure you would hope this would happen,

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but did you see this happening?
And maybe at a point, I don't

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know, five ten years whatever,
of course, you know, I think

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when I walked in the room the
first year here, I told the team,

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we're going to win when this conference
one day, and I think everyone

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in that room just rolled their eyes
back to me, and for a good

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reason, we lost. I lost
my first nineteen matches in the PAC twelve.

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The first two years I was here, I never won a match in

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the PAC twelve. And you know, and then we just we just kept

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doubling down on recruiting the right kids
and working hard and finding our identity.

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And our identity is you know,
and it showed in our final match against

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Stanford. Those guys are just talented
beyond belief, and our team is just

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tougher than no And anytime that they
tried to open up the match, our

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guys were right there to fight it
off. And and I think, you

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know, it was one of the
best compliments you can get from your opponents

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when the coach tells you you were
just tougher than us, and it's like,

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that is the greatest compliment anyone can
hear from an opposing coach, And

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hey, you were tougher than us. When you think back to those first

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two years, though, I mean, how how dark was it and when

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did you feel like you were seeing
the light? Well? I can remember

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at the end of my second year, we lost a heartbreaker to Washington for

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three and there were three or four
guys crying after the match and they were

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like, is this ever gonna happen
for us? Coach, Like, we're

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working so hard, we're doing everything
right, We're doing everything you've asked of

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us, and that's just in sports
and in life, like don't give up.

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I just I think I just told
the team just don't give up on

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me, you know, don't give
up on yourself. And I think that's

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part of like the words that we
use in our program, don't give up

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on me, don't give up on
this program, I need you. We

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talk about like, you know,
if I if someone tells you, hey,

407
00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:37.720
I need you, this team is
like, Okay, I got you.

408
00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:40.119
You know. I think those are
some of the words that we used

409
00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:44.759
early on in this process, was
don't give up on me, trust in

410
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:48.160
this, in this, belief in
this process, and I need you guys,

411
00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:51.759
you know, and they've been able
to respond to that. I'm curious,

412
00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:53.200
because you've been here a while now, did you get a lot of

413
00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:59.400
texts and calls after after winning it
from your past players say I knew I

414
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:03.759
believed in you. Yeah, it
was really special. I mean one of

415
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.200
our things as well in this program
is to be in the moment. And

416
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:10.400
I just told our team, you
know, as much as we can,

417
00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:14.039
like put your phones down, let's
just be here together and share this moment.

418
00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:15.960
And then the next day, Yeah, I mean it was kind of

419
00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:19.640
you know, I can't imagine what
a football or basketball coach deals with.

420
00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:22.599
But yeah, I had about,
you know, two hundred and fifty messages

421
00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:29.839
of former players and colleagues and people
who are recognizing you know what it is,

422
00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:33.480
because yeah, these are long nights. There's a lot of things that

423
00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:37.920
go into winning a championship that no
one's ever going to see. And you

424
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:42.759
know, I think that was really
nice for that to be acknowledged. But

425
00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:45.799
at the end of the day,
the most special thing was to hear from

426
00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:51.319
our former players. We're talking to
Clancy Shields, head coach of the PAC

427
00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:53.960
twelve champion men's tennis team. So
Clancy, now you got to put this

428
00:28:55.559 --> 00:29:00.440
behind you. And you've got NCAA
tournament you're hosting this weekend. Uh.

429
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:04.799
You've got Boise State, uh coming
in at one o'clock on Saturday. You

430
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:11.160
said, Saturday Friday, one o'clock
Friday. Uh. You got Boise State,

431
00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:15.640
Pepperdine and Auburn play earlier in the
day. But okay, how do

432
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:18.960
you how do you, you know, get past this huge moment for you

433
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:23.119
and your program and your players and
move on to the next thing. And

434
00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:26.599
yes, that's a great question.
We haven't done a great job of that.

435
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.200
You know, in the past years
we've had you know, we've won

436
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:34.200
the regular season and then we've immediately
had a letdown and and you know,

437
00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:38.160
that's that's totally normal in sports.
And I think we've the experience that we

438
00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:45.160
have in this locker room is that
we've learned from having these immense highs and

439
00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.799
then like having a really bad low. And I think that's our team knows

440
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:53.160
that they have to be able to
refocus. And we all talked in California

441
00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:59.119
after the tournament, let's celebrate this
success without Santa's. You know, success

442
00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:03.240
without celebration is a sin. We're
going to celebrate this this weekend and come

443
00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:06.519
Monday morning, we are not going
to discuss it. We're not going to

444
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:08.960
talk about it, or we're just
going forward to the NCAA tournament. And

445
00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:12.880
we had a great practice eight am
Monday morning and everyone was dialed in.

446
00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:17.079
So I'm feeling very confident. And
I'm sure you want to beat your brother

447
00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:22.400
at school. Yeah, yeah,
I mean this is two years in a

448
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:23.640
row that we're going to have to
play them, and we have a ton

449
00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:27.920
of respect for their program. But
he certainly he texted me during the tournament

450
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:30.680
or called me and I stepped out
and he said, I hope you have

451
00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:33.640
your war paint ready, and I
was like, all right, let's go.

452
00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:37.319
Yeah, So tell us a little
bit about what the fans can expect

453
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.720
to see who come out and see
you play on Saturday. And you know

454
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:47.720
your opponent. I mean, yes, I think we have the toughest number

455
00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:49.759
four seed in the NCAA tournament.
I mean, this team has won back

456
00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:55.359
to back conference championships. They you
know, I speak with my brother every

457
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.559
day about our team. He knows
our players inside and out. Their players

458
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:03.960
will be very well accustomed to the
heat here and the you know, the

459
00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:06.519
noise our crowd brings, and I
think they're going to be really ready to

460
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:08.720
give us a strong test. And
you know, I just I just told

461
00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:12.720
our team, guys, get the
bulldozer out and let's let's let's let's get

462
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:17.079
it doesn't matter who we're playing,
we got to get through everybody. And

463
00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:19.359
if we're if we're fortunate to get
through that first round, then we're going

464
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:25.039
to play quite possibly the two seeds, which is Auburn and they beat us

465
00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:27.759
last year in the finals of the
Blue Gray Classic. And I'll promise you.

466
00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:30.720
Their team is the same team and
our team is the same team,

467
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:36.160
and we all remember how much they
were celebrating in front of us after that

468
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:38.279
loss, and so we I think
our guys would be very motivated. This

469
00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.359
is kind of a weird technical question. So how do you how do you

470
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:44.839
what do you know about the other
team before you play? I mean,

471
00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:48.319
how do you scout? Do you
scout or how do you scout? You

472
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.519
know, we know basketball coaches you
know what, and football coaches watch all

473
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:55.039
kinds of film. How do you
figure out how to play these guys?

474
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.160
Well, it starts when you're in
the recruiting process. Every one of those

475
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:04.759
kids at those universities we have recruited, We've watched and we've been watching them

476
00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:07.839
since they were fifteen sixteen years old, and so you kind of get a

477
00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:12.039
little framework of what they do.
And then you know, throughout the course

478
00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:15.400
of the years, you just keep
notes on everybody and so that when you

479
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:17.400
get into these matches, you have
a game plan of what you want to

480
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:23.279
do. But I think part of
our philosophy is not making it too complicated

481
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:25.920
for our players. I mean,
the game plan is simple, play your

482
00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:30.599
game, take your shots, take
your swings and we're going to help guide

483
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:34.079
you through a game plan during the
match. But these kids, these kids,

484
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:37.640
if you overload their brain with some
complex game plan, then they're not

485
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:42.319
really letting it flow and letting it
ride. And we want to certainly play

486
00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:45.599
our own game. It also must
be special that the women have done so

487
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:51.039
well and the men for a special
year. It is I don't know if

488
00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:53.519
they're I mean, besides the women's
coaches and players, I don't think there

489
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:58.319
was a happier person in Tucson to
see them do that. I mean it,

490
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:01.039
you know, they really are.
Yeah, we're one program in a

491
00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:05.000
lot of ways, and we share
the court from the facilities, and we

492
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:08.079
watch their matches and we're really invested
in each other. And there's this it's

493
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:12.759
a great storyline. Their first time
in ten years, and they you know,

494
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:15.599
all these coaches work hard here at
the u of A. But but

495
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.599
in particular, our women's staff has
worked the bus off. Their players have

496
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:22.319
worked hard, and they they've they've
they've been on the cusp the last few

497
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.480
years, and I was just so
happy they got over the top and now

498
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:29.279
they can kind of set that bar
of like, Okay, this is the

499
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:30.960
this is the bar. This is
the standard, and each and every year

500
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:35.039
we're gonna be We're gonna be dancing
and going to the tournament. Maybe one

501
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:39.480
last question for me, but tennis
comes off as this this stuffy type of

502
00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:43.880
game. But you guys kind of
have fun on the sidelines and all that

503
00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:49.519
stuff. Is that true? Is
that accurate? It's college sports and this

504
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:54.240
ain't no country club. This is
this is supposed to be the best moment

505
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:58.279
of these kids live. I want
them to be their true and authentic self,

506
00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:02.400
to play with passion and and our
players play with that passion and joy.

507
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:06.519
The fans see that passion and enjoy
and they want to join in with

508
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:08.079
them. And I think that is
what you're going to see this weekend.

509
00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:12.559
You come out to the matches at
the Ropes and Tennis Center, you're gonna

510
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:16.079
see a bunch of a bunch of
warriors that are going to be competing for

511
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:20.360
Arizona and they're gonna play their hearts
out, and it's just you're gonna fall

512
00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:22.639
in love with these kids right away
because you see how hard they compete.

513
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:25.599
Okay, so tell us about tickets
and all that kind of stuff, and

514
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.519
there's I mean, there's are there
more than one match going on at a

515
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:34.440
time or is it or is just
one at a time? There's one match

516
00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:37.559
going on at one at ten am, which is going to be between Auburn

517
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:40.079
and Pepperdine and then we will play
to follow them at one pm. No,

518
00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:45.800
but I'm talking about individuals, like
you know, is the one you

519
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:49.960
know singles match at a time or
are there multiple matches going on during your

520
00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:53.079
match? So there, it starts
off with doubles. There's three doubles matches

521
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:57.719
that goes on and that's for the
first point, right, And it's like

522
00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:00.920
if anyone wants to watch tennis,
you have to come to the doubles point.

523
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:07.000
It's fast paced, it's a ton
of energy. There's three awesome storylines

524
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.039
going on. And then after that
then we play six singles and it's the

525
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:15.360
first to four points. And so
the great thing about college tennis is if

526
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:17.760
you don't like the storyline going on
in court one, go to court two.

527
00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:21.239
There's a great storyline over there.
If you don't like that one,

528
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:24.400
go to courts for Herman, he's
the most fun kid you'll ever watch play

529
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:29.719
any sport. I mean, it's
just a fun team to watch and it

530
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.440
is a yes. The first to
four points wins and it's usually around two

531
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:36.920
hours two and a half hours the
match, and so get there early.

532
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.519
It's going to be a packed house. Fantastic, right, Okay, okay,

533
00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:43.519
Clancy, Well, appreciate it.
Best of luck this weekend, and

534
00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:45.599
uh, you know, if you
go win the national championship, we'll get

535
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:49.480
you on again. How about that. I love that. That sounds like

536
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:52.960
a plan. Thanks for having me
on tap. We got to go to

537
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:55.960
break, Yeah, we got we
do. We've got Ryan Stotland, the

538
00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:00.360
women's tennis coach, coming on here
in a few minutes. So he'll be

539
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:04.679
on about six minutes from now,
So stick around for that and we'll talk

540
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Hey, welcome back to I on
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576
00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:53.679
I'm Steve Rivera, He's Ja Gonzales. Now on the phone, we

577
00:38:53.719 --> 00:39:00.960
have Ryans Tott Lamb, the Arizona
women's tennis coach headed to the tournament.

578
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:05.119
How you doing right, We're doing
great. How are you fine? Thank

579
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:08.800
you? Congrats? Congrats? How
did how did it feel? It feels

580
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:14.840
amazing. It's a great feeling.
So. Uh, we've talked about the

581
00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:19.119
fact this is the first time in
ten years, so obviously something that you

582
00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:22.960
know, as as Clancy said that
you guys have been on the cusp of

583
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:25.920
this for a while. What was
it that you think got you over the

584
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:32.320
top? I think just the confidence
the kids had. Basically they believed that

585
00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:36.760
we were better than anybody. We
walked out onto the court with even top

586
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.840
ten teams that we competed against.
So I think every we just battled harder,

587
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:45.000
we were mentally stronger and just getting
through this. Uh, Basically,

588
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:49.119
these road trips and getting the wins
are really tough, and so that was

589
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:51.880
a that was a big deal this
year and it was a fun, fun,

590
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:53.920
fun progress really to see these kids
grow. Some of them had to

591
00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:58.039
come from you to kind of instill
it into the into the players or how

592
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.280
did that come about? Just the
confidence? Yeah, I mean, I

593
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:04.760
think just just setting the standards and
expectations of what we what we can do

594
00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:07.079
here, and so I think so
in my first year, we had some

595
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:10.280
fun stories about you know, getting
our first conference win for the seniors ever

596
00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:14.320
and things like that that steps onto
the court when I first got here,

597
00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:16.840
and you know, just turning around
to ending, like when we walk on

598
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:21.719
the court, there's nobody better than
that. So it was just a long

599
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.920
you know, long I guess five
years of being to play during COVID but

600
00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:30.880
along five years of just building and
instilling this this culture that there's there's nobody

601
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:35.840
better than Arizona. So uh,
during the course of the season, you

602
00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:37.159
know, obviously some ups and downs, you know, because you had some

603
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:42.039
wins and some losses, but you
know what, what was there a sort

604
00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:45.280
of any kind of a steadiness to
what you guys were doing. And how

605
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:46.199
did that, I mean, how
did that feel? How did you feel

606
00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:51.199
about this team? Throughout the season. I think it's a special team.

607
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:55.039
Just even if we didn't make it, we we just have a special group.

608
00:40:55.199 --> 00:41:00.199
We have a great kids. They
they look out for as teammates and

609
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:05.000
that's just an individual sport. But
this team is really together as a team,

610
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:07.840
and the culture is amazing and it
just makes every day feel like it's

611
00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:12.280
not work. They do a great
job of just making it fun and also

612
00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:15.880
doing the struggle of sports and the
growth of what they want to become.

613
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:20.480
I would say, well, well, tennis being you know a bit of

614
00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:23.320
an individual sport, but you know
you have there's obviously a team aspect to

615
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:27.199
this. How does that work?
You know when you know that you know

616
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.880
each individual has to go go out
and do their job, but you know

617
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:34.559
they're they're trying to win their match. But then somehow it host to all

618
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.000
be to being in sort of a
team concept. How do you as a

619
00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:43.280
coach work that? Ah, well, you still every day just thing you

620
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:46.760
understand that they're going up there to
perform and there are kind of an island

621
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:52.039
by themselves. I always compare to
like boxing, because like physical tests where

622
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:54.679
you have to set out the pieces
that you don't have anybody in for you,

623
00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:59.239
So you got to figure out how
how to juggle that. And I

624
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:01.440
think the biggest thing hitting the team
carimaraderie, because in our sport, nobody's

625
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:06.400
played a team event probably ever until
they get to college. And understanding how

626
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:10.639
important your energy and your body language
and your demeanor really flexed upon the team.

627
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.320
And so I think we will focus
mostly on the team and the individual.

628
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:20.960
We kind of a little bit trying
to understand that I saw on TV

629
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:23.760
you guys were watching the brackets.
Was there any doubt that you would not

630
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:28.639
get in? We didn't have a
party because we didn't think we were getting

631
00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:30.800
in. Wow. So when you
saw the saw the name, you were

632
00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:36.920
obviously very ecstatic. But what gave
you that impression? Just because of our

633
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.360
ranking time to get in, we
knew, you know, pretty deide where

634
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:45.000
we were at. Our season was
very good and we were ranked where no

635
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:49.639
teams were not got in where we
were, so we were very very confident

636
00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:52.119
where we were at. All.
Right, you're breaking up just to scope,

637
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:54.800
so I don't know if you can
position your phone a little different to

638
00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:59.280
help us out here. So tell
us tell us a little bit about you

639
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:01.679
know, okay, going into this
tournament. You're traveling, you know,

640
00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:07.400
how do you you know, get
as again, we talked to Clancy,

641
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:08.760
how do you do you foor you
of getting in? Now you've got to

642
00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:12.719
get back to business and take care
of the business of you know, trying

643
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:16.360
to go and win you know,
some matches. What's your what's your approach

644
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:22.000
to that? Well, I think
we've been competing every weekend for many weeks

645
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:23.119
in a row. I can't remember
how many, probably two months. So

646
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:27.400
we just got to prepare like we
did for the conference championships. We have

647
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:30.320
a couple of days and we're out
of here, so we're playing at our

648
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:32.719
highest level. We really don't need
much. We just need to go out

649
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:37.840
the opponent and understand what we need
to do individually and be ready to go.

650
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:40.119
But we're playing at a high level, so there's not much we need

651
00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:44.360
to fix right now. So you
got here six years ago, what were

652
00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:46.760
your hopes uh to get to the
tournament? Obviously? But did it come

653
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:51.440
faster than you thought? Did it
come later than you thought? And did

654
00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:55.039
you think this was possible? Yeah, we thought as possible. Obviously.

655
00:43:55.039 --> 00:44:00.159
I think this is the start,
is my my my hope is that was

656
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:02.719
always let's get to the NCAA's and
start there. And so I don't know

657
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:06.280
wis coaches we want to get there
our first year, but I knew it

658
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:09.280
would take the rebuild from where we
started. So you know, for us

659
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:13.840
it's never fast enough as coaches,
but I know it was. It took

660
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:17.719
some time, and it's it's it's
bitter, it's sweet because those six years

661
00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:23.480
that we've been dealing with all these
close calls, the players have not given

662
00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:27.079
up on anything, and now we're
there, and I think this is only

663
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:30.360
going to just help promote our growth
and get us there more and more often.

664
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:32.159
You talked about the start, so
Plancy said when he first got here,

665
00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:36.639
he didn't win his first nineteen matches. How was your start and what

666
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:42.599
were you thinking? Well, we
started pretty well. Actually well we we

667
00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:45.119
got off on a pretty good start
and we won our first conference match,

668
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:50.400
I believe for our seniors. So
it's a funny story with our first I

669
00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:53.320
think it was against Utah Is our
our girls won and it seemed like we

670
00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:58.360
had won. Wimbled, and there
was tiers everywhere and everybody was, you

671
00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:01.639
know, ecstatic basically to baffle me
a little bit to where I had to

672
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:05.000
set the standard and go, we're
going to be these teams all the time

673
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.559
dat. So you know that reset
the expectations that you know, this isn't

674
00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:13.320
a this is a joyous experience,
but we don't need to over celebrate because

675
00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:15.800
we're going to do this on a
routine basis. And so seeing seeing where

676
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:19.559
it's that now, where we go
take care of business and the kids expect

677
00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:22.320
it is just a fun, fun
change to see from where we were six

678
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:25.039
years ago. So tell us a
little bit about your team. Uh,

679
00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:29.519
you know some of the individual players
and you know who's kind of been you

680
00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:31.440
know, sort of at the at
the front of what you of what you're

681
00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:36.519
doing in terms of you know,
leading and being the examples and those kinds

682
00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:38.840
of things. Talks a little bit
about some of those players. Oh,

683
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:43.440
we have just a great team overall. But I mean our seniors always have

684
00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:46.960
led by example and just get it
done. So Kayla Wilkins and Brando intertial

685
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:52.960
Gingi they just they they do whatever
it takes for the team on and off

686
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:57.440
the court. Uh. They they
fight for everything. They're just awesome people.

687
00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:00.519
They give back to the community.
They're just they do every thing right.

688
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:05.119
They're just picture perfect student athletes.
So okay, so now tell us

689
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:07.119
a little bit about what you know, what do you know about Oklahoma.

690
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:08.800
You've got them up. I don't
know if they're gonna be a little mad

691
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:14.039
about the Alimo Bowl, if that
even comes into this, but we know,

692
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:16.360
but you got them. Yeah,
they're a very very good team.

693
00:46:16.440 --> 00:46:20.599
Actually, one of my former assistance
is there now, so we've kept in

694
00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:22.280
touch and he's a great guy.
And they're a very very good team.

695
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:27.480
They're probably the best team that didn't
host so there. I think they're seventeen

696
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.679
or eighteen in the country. Is
they're a very very dangerous team that has

697
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:35.280
made the national championships, some of
those players before. So we have our

698
00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:37.760
hands full, but we're excited for
the challenge. Okay, okay, all

699
00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:40.679
right, So well one more question
because uh, you know, we talk

700
00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:45.639
again. We talked to Clancy about
the relationship between the two programs. You

701
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:47.360
know, and you see, you
know, the programs at Arizona men's and

702
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:51.719
women's basketball a lot of success.
You know, men's and women's golf a

703
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:53.440
lot of success. You know,
softball and baseball, so the sort of

704
00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:58.320
the like programs, but tennis maybe
you see each other a little bit more

705
00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:01.920
right because you know you're at the
facility or whatever. What's the relationship like

706
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:06.360
and how do you feed off of
each other to have success like you guys

707
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:12.039
are having now. I mean Clents
he has changed the whole landscapes of college

708
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:17.039
tennis by just basically showing that anything
is possible because he's broken records year in

709
00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:21.599
and year out, and now he's
breaking records that are almost a century old

710
00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:25.519
and nobody's ever done. So.
I've known Clancy since I think he was

711
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:30.920
eight years old, and I've been
competitors and friends with him for basically our

712
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:35.440
whole lives. But just to work
next to him, I get to see

713
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:38.679
everything that he's done and what we're
trying to do and accomplish it together.

714
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:43.000
And he's so supportive of our program, and I love what he's done with

715
00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:46.239
his program. I think it makes
all the difference in the world when we

716
00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:51.679
get to work and we get to
share all the things, what we develop

717
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:55.280
and how we recruit and just share
all the knowledge that we have. Well,

718
00:47:55.320 --> 00:48:00.440
Coach, we appreciate your time,
good luck, Thank you, appreciate

719
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:02.039
your time. Thanks for having me. All right, all the best talk

720
00:48:02.039 --> 00:48:07.079
to you. Yeah, good good. He talked about Clancy like them,

721
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:12.039
well, they've known each other forever. And I was just going to ask

722
00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.000
you, but I didn't want to
kind of pull on the interview. How

723
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:19.239
everybody knows everybody when you're kids and
you're at this level, you're playing each

724
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:22.760
other all the time at that national
level, right, Well, I mean,

725
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:25.480
you know, Clancy's playing against his
brother on Saturday. You know,

726
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:30.360
Ryan's got an assistant on on you
know, on the other team. They

727
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:34.679
I mean, it's you think it's
a big circle, but often it's not,

728
00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:37.360
you know, And it's like that
in a lot of volleyball, right

729
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:39.440
you know, if you're playing club
volleyball, you know all the players in

730
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:43.960
town, or you know all the
players, you know. I think tennis

731
00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:47.159
is even more like that though,
because it's individual, so there's just less

732
00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:51.960
people who play. And then I
kind of think growing up they play each

733
00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:53.880
other, play each other, and
they travel a lot to different tournaments,

734
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:55.960
and like, you don't have a
team, so those are your friends,

735
00:48:57.400 --> 00:49:00.559
your opponents, you know. Well, you know, We've a lot of

736
00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:04.599
people have talked about you know,
in the NBA, right these guys have

737
00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:07.800
known each other since they were all
playing club ball, and that it's it's

738
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:14.119
led to a friendliness and a camaraderie
that as we were growing up, our

739
00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:16.320
teams, you know, teams hated
each other. They didn't know each other

740
00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:20.920
because they didn't grow up playing against
each other. But now, particularly in

741
00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:23.400
the NBA where you've got travel teams
going all over the country, from the

742
00:49:23.400 --> 00:49:28.559
time these these guys are you know, in junior high or whatever, that

743
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:31.320
they do know each other. So
if they're in the NBA together, they've

744
00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:35.760
known each other for so long,
it's hard for them to be enemy except

745
00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:38.760
for the competitiveness when they compete and
then they kind of get into it on

746
00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:43.519
the court. But then after the
game they hug and kiss and lobber all

747
00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:51.679
over each other. But okay,
like what Kevin Kevin uh uh, you

748
00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:55.800
know Kevin Durant said about about uh
Edwards, Anthony Edwards, you know,

749
00:49:55.920 --> 00:50:00.840
just talk glowingly about him. In
the immediate aftermath, begets his ass kicked

750
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:02.440
by them. You know, you
just didn't see that. I mean,

751
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:06.960
you would see teams show some respect. Yeah, they were really good,

752
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:08.440
you know, they would played the
good team they beat it, But you

753
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:13.840
didn't see a player. You didn't
you know, at least what I remember

754
00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:17.159
growing up, I didn't see,
you know, Dick but gets talk about

755
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:22.000
how much he respected Johnny Unitas because
like he wanted to tear john United's head

756
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:25.440
off before the game, during the
game, and after the game, explained

757
00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.920
to them, who they're looking at
me with blank eys. But but you

758
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:35.559
know, but but say you know
a great player, an NFL player,

759
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:38.880
for instance, you wouldn't hear him
say how great he thought an opposing player

760
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:43.559
was because he wanted to kill that
guy. So when you played your club,

761
00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:46.920
do you play it against guys or
women who have the verge of playing

762
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:52.239
in the in the considerable a one
one in a division one division's kind of

763
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:55.039
the point of club is because you're
not going to do that. But you

764
00:50:55.079 --> 00:50:59.079
have you played. Maybe there's some
maybe grades, maybe something else that they

765
00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:01.920
just didn't care of school and you
don't know what I'm saying, they're they're

766
00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:05.920
just not good enough. Yeah,
that's kind of why. Or they chose

767
00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:09.320
to not commit their whole life to
volleyball and just still play a little bit.

768
00:51:09.400 --> 00:51:13.440
You know, that doesn't where it
doesn't take over your whole life and

769
00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:17.079
you can still have a totally normal
yeah. I mean there are definitely some

770
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:22.079
girls on my team who could have
played D one but chose to not dedicate

771
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:27.159
everything and drop everything for this sport. You can have a life, yes

772
00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:30.800
exactly, but that's but it is
kind of for most people, it's kind

773
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:35.480
of like, well, I really
love this, but I'm not going to

774
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:37.760
make it to the next level,
so let's take a step back and just

775
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:43.599
play for fun. But you're friendly, right with with other players, you

776
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:45.559
know, other schools, teams and
stuff like that, maybe because you've seen

777
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:50.920
them around or whatever. Yeah,
I mean there were some you know more

778
00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:53.719
at the like California tournaments because me
being from there, like the u C

779
00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:58.480
schools, like I played girls that
I knew. Yeah that's high school.

780
00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:01.239
Yeah. So you kill him,
but then you don't want to kill him,

781
00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:07.079
sure, you want to be Yeah, but it's like you want to

782
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:09.639
beat them because it's kind of that
almost makes you want to beat them more

783
00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:13.119
because it's like there's history there,
right, or you're good, you know

784
00:52:13.119 --> 00:52:15.679
you're gonna see him again. Yeah
right, yeah, all right, you

785
00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:16.599
want to kill him, you want
to kill m Okay, we gotta go,

786
00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:19.639
Okay, we just got to go. So we're at the top of

787
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:22.639
the Howard and at least it's gonna
be back with breaking news. Let's stick around.