WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:07.679 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jagn Salid Sound Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:14.080 fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions k t 3 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:19.399 z R two SAD and iHeart Radio Station. Hey, welcome to Eye on 4 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:24.079 the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're jagins 5 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:28.879 Awas, and you're you know. I think I think your headphones will work 6 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:35.920 if you're plug them. We're in no happy Friday. Good thing. It's 7 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:40.759 Friday, Steve, and I'll have my grandson come and show you how to 8 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:47.520 use the remote. Please. They welcome everybody enough that I felt like the 9 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.880 women's basketball teams in the next in the next fifteen minutes, Okay, we 10 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:57.439 both got to get a lot smart. Not happen. We have the president 11 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:00.640 of the president of the university is coming in. We're gonna ask him about 12 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:04.200 the stuff going on around around athletics. There's a new a d starting here 13 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:10.799 on Monday. We heard she's in town. Uh, and he'll probably be 14 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:14.640 at the game tomorrow. I'm assuming Sunday is heard she said the third. 15 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:18.760 So the third is Sunday. That's probably when the contract starts on the third. 16 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.159 It's being that they probably start contracts, you know, Sunday through Monday, 17 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.760 Sunday through Saturday. Anyways, so we'll talk to doctor Robbie Robbins. 18 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.400 Uh you know it' it's funny because we have said, well, he's you 19 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:33.599 know, he's involved in sports, he loves sports. Well, I don't 20 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:34.439 know how many people know he. I mean, he was an athlete. 21 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.840 He was a he was a college a junior college quarterback. Wanted to play, 22 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.840 wanted to play college. He was in Mississippi, wanted to be the 23 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:47.760 next Archie Manning. And uh so he's got you know, he's got an 24 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.200 initial sports because he played knee. He blew out of knee and when you 25 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.799 blew out a knee back in that day, that was that pretty much. 26 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:57.799 So he didn't he didn't get to major college, but he he did, 27 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:01.319 okay, he went on to become a hard surgeon. I mean he did 28 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:05.799 all right, and then he was he was running the medical center at Stanford 29 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:07.759 and then he and then he was running it at the University of Texas. 30 00:02:07.800 --> 00:02:12.319 I think he's done okay, now haven't been the best of his say, 31 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:15.000 well, again, you know we've talked about that that it's been a it's 32 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:19.719 been a rough maybe a year or two for him at Arizona. But we'll 33 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:23.520 talk about that. Yeah, but you know, he's a smart guy, 34 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:28.319 and uh, I'm sure he you know, he knows the situation. He 35 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.560 knows what, you know, what has to be, what has to happen, 36 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:32.960 and he may know that, you know, he's he's working for his 37 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.879 job right now because you know, his contract runs out at the end of 38 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:39.120 at the end of June, and uh, you know, you think that 39 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:43.280 they got to make some progress on all that's going on for if he wants 40 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:45.879 to keep being the president here, and maybe he gets to and says, 41 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:46.759 you know what, I've done the best I can. I'll see you guys 42 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:51.400 later. He could do that too again, He'll be fine. Okay. 43 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:54.439 So then we're gonna have Bruce Pascal in the other half another hour talking about 44 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:59.120 basketball right at the Oregon game coming up tomorrow, another big game for Aona 45 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:02.000 senior stuff today. I saw some of the senior stuff discussions today, So 46 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:07.120 we'll talk to that about that when he comes on. So last night was 47 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:13.120 was an unbelievable performance by the UA women's basketball team, and then it wasn't 48 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:16.080 they lost. They lost. I like, and we talked about this just 49 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:21.759 briefly with Kevin that I thought I was inspired by them because they had that 50 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:29.400 game and then they didn't. Your thoughts. At the risk of sounding like 51 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:35.520 a pointing the finger at somebody, I don't mind. I don't mean to 52 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.599 disturb you. I don't mean to disturb you, but I'm going to disturb 53 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.080 it. In the last the last few minutes, with the five players that 54 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:46.479 they had on the court, there just wasn't anybody on the court, or 55 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:52.759 there wasn't a certain somebody needed to take take charge on the Arizona side, 56 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:54.719 and never did twive minutes, the last few minutes of the game. Of 57 00:03:54.800 --> 00:04:00.039 the regulation of regulation, regulation, that's that it needed. They needed somebody 58 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:05.080 to say I'm in charge, and and and and and take charge the thing 59 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:11.240 and and and it didn't happen. And they blew the lead. I mean, 60 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.719 they're they're they're up five with less than twenty seconds left in the game, 61 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:16.600 and they got into and they and they got in overtime. Now, 62 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:19.720 look us, he is really good. They're a top ten team for a 63 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:24.480 reason. They made some plays, but their best player had filed out several 64 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.199 minutes before that, so they were you know, they were up against it 65 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.120 as well, and they made the plays they needed to make to win, 66 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:33.360 and Arizona didn't make the plays they needed to make to win. And and 67 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:40.000 it just didn't look like they had the leadership on the court that it needed 68 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.600 to have in a situation like well, they didn't because they don't have very 69 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:46.759 many players to begin with. Who are they who they rely on if you 70 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.800 only have seven they have, but they but they had somebody needed to take 71 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.560 charge. I'm just gonna say that because I don't want to. I don't 72 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.160 want to, you know, I I don't want to say I mean that 73 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:59.759 player needed to take charge. But I believe there was a player on the 74 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:01.839 court we needed to be in charge. And today's point, I mean, 75 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:03.839 there was a point in the game, I forget if it was the fourth 76 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:08.199 quarter or the first overtime where you know, some of the men's basketball players 77 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:12.319 were court side as well, but Caleb Love was making the motion to shoot 78 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:14.800 shoot the ball. She was always making that motion, you know. But 79 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:16.839 there was I mean, there was there was a couple of possessions where Arizona 80 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:19.920 was kind of like almost hesitant on offense and didn't really know how to get 81 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:21.800 to the shots they needed to get. That's what I'm saying. There was, 82 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:25.680 you know, they needed somebody to be like, you know, I'm 83 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:29.000 in charge. Let's go. We're gonna take this. Hi, you're on 84 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:31.759 the air and eye on the ball. Hey guys, my name's Stu. 85 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:40.079 I've got a question for you. Okay, sure. I was out of 86 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.519 town for about a week, a week and a half. At that time, 87 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:50.079 gil Bert had just left the team. Right when I got back a 88 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:56.120 week ago, she was back on the team. Now I turned the game 89 00:05:56.199 --> 00:06:01.360 on last night and she's not playing again. She she has gone for good. 90 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:04.800 That happened over the weekend. Yeah, it happened, I think Monday. 91 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:09.279 I think it was on Monday. Adia publicly said Kaylen Gilbert was not 92 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:12.519 was no longer on the team. I think she said it after their game. 93 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.600 It was on the Monday on the Monday Show. Okay, Oh, 94 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:17.600 that's right. She said on one of the other radio shows that Kaylen Gilbert 95 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:19.800 is no longer with the team. And we had her on the show two 96 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:24.079 days ago and she confirmed it and and kind of says it was just kind 97 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:30.160 of an addition by subtraction or were they just not getting along or well it 98 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:31.879 seems you know, if you could read between the lines, which we do 99 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:35.240 here, Uh, I think that's that's what it was. It was just 100 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:40.920 bad chemistry. Uh. She's content with going to seven and they played admirably 101 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.399 last night. But I think that's part of it. We we don't know 102 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:46.560 for sure. I think she said something along the lines of, you know, 103 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.920 players are asked to do certain things, and then when players don't do 104 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:55.399 those things, then we asked them to leave. And I think we left 105 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:58.480 it at that. You know, I think at the end of the game, 106 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.360 I swear or said they were down to five, Yes they were. 107 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.680 They had they had seven players on the bench and two had filed out, 108 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:09.439 so they were down to the the end of regulation and the two overtimes they 109 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:15.160 only had five players. You know. Oh, I think she's a great 110 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.800 coach. I've met her one time, a couple of times. She's awfully 111 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:23.839 nice person. But you know, I was reading in Sunday spaper, where 112 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.839 is is it Ninja a medical student, Naji Naji Naji. You know, 113 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:34.040 she said she really enjoyed basketball, blah blah blah, but medical school is 114 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:39.480 more important. And then there was a little orb about but she said the 115 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.319 environment was a little toxic. Yes, well that's kind of a stude. 116 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:46.000 That's kind of old news. Now it's not old, but it's like two 117 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.680 three weeks old. They talked about that. She talked about that. How 118 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:54.279 you know, her story is her story and coach has a different story. 119 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:58.759 She can't say more than that, but we all understand what was said. 120 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.720 And the fact is a lot of the girls have left a lot of the 121 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:09.639 women have left the team. So you'd have to kind of investigate as we 122 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.000 would have to. Stu Stuve, go back and listen to our podcast on 123 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:20.480 Tuesday. It was tues Wednesday. It was Tuesday, Tuesday. On Tuesday, 124 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.839 she was in the second hour Tuesday. The interview comes up at about 125 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:28.839 uh twenty minutes after the After the hour, listen to her interview, because 126 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:31.840 we we talked about all of this, and she just mentioned things like culture 127 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.600 and and players. There's expectations of players, expectations of coaches, and sometimes 128 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.600 it doesn't they just don't fit and that and that's why they are for And 129 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:43.840 Stu, you sound like an older guy like us. Times have changed. 130 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:50.720 Times have changed in terms of with the student athletes. Well they the article 131 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.440 I read it him was in Sundays you know, the big blurb on the 132 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.240 second page, right right, Yeah, that's Greg Hanson's column. Yeah it 133 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:03.960 did say uh, it said she she had said the environment was a little 134 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:09.720 toxic, but now she was kind of taking that statement back. Well, 135 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:11.240 she she tried to clarify a little bit, but it didn't really. I 136 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:13.759 mean, people believe what that that. You know, what you say the 137 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:20.360 first time is generally what you mean. Second question, how do you how 138 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:22.840 do you get up? How do I pull up a podcast? Go to 139 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:28.639 the uh go to the iHeart website iHeartRadio dot com, do a search for 140 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:33.759 Eye on the Ball and our podcast will come up and you can listen to 141 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:35.919 it. You just click on to it. All right, So search Eye 142 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.320 on the Ball on the iHeart website. I listen to you guys in the 143 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.960 afternoon. I've never listened to a podcast. Yeah, well, we put 144 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.919 we put, we record the show and then we put it on so anybody 145 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:50.440 can listen to it after the facts, So you can go listen to Tuesday's 146 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:52.799 show. But you know what is I find ironic and then I'll let you 147 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:56.240 go. And so many of the players just love her. They do. 148 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:01.000 Yeah, yeah, well you know the seven whole. Sure, sure, 149 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.200 not everybody loves me, stew I can't. I find that hard to believe. 150 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:07.000 You know, they looked good last night. I don't agree with you. 151 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.399 They kind of blew it up again. Yeah, well, thank you. 152 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:15.200 It was too bad. They were shooting and yeah, thanks for seeing 153 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.759 the report that they were ahead. Yeah, and then I put the chimne 154 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.159 I didn't know they were on it puts the channel and then you could tell 155 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.559 they were just kind of you know, it was in the first overtime and 156 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:28.279 they just didn't look that sharp. And the second time they just didn't have 157 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.080 it, but they were playing. They even though they didn't have it, 158 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.759 they were shooting. Well, they should have won the game. They should 159 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:35.519 have won the game, and they didn't. All right, Stu, Hey, 160 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:39.200 we got to run. So thanks for calling, keep listening, keep 161 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:45.360 calling, and check out the podcast. Okay, well, thanks thanks so 162 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:48.600 much, STUPI for listening. Appreciate the call. Uh yeah, it's well, 163 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:50.399 it depends. It's been up two or three weeks from since that story 164 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:54.519 come out. Yeah, but you know, the everybody's waiting, what's up 165 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.519 with Kaylin? Gilbert and that that kind of ree new lingered for a few 166 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:00.759 weeks, you know. I mean, I remember you went to a game 167 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.200 and she was on the bench and she looked like she might be hurt, 168 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:07.360 and she wasn't hurt. And then she never played in the game. So 169 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:09.080 they've just been going with seven for a while now. Uh, they've got 170 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:13.919 an eighth player who in a pinch would would give him a body on the 171 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:18.399 floor. But it'll be interesting to see if if she has any any impact 172 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.879 at all. But Steve, it's very simple. They should have won the 173 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:22.600 game. And I, oh, yeah, no, Actually, you know, 174 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.720 I turn off the tea. I was, I mean, I was 175 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:31.720 like angry. I'm like, why am I caring about this this much? 176 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:35.120 But you know, that's the first time you carried this year. Like I 177 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:39.840 was like pissed, you know that that they just they just didn't Did you 178 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.679 do it? Did you see the press coverts? I did not. The 179 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:48.440 women are are totally different than the guys. Uh, She's fantastic in an 180 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.799 interview anyway, she was very level headed. She wasn't pissed, she was 181 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.440 upset. She wouldn't even upset. She was just you know, proud of 182 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:00.679 the kids, but just wanted to the lost and the girls too. They 183 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:05.480 were very u not not very they were just you know, another game this 184 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.320 morning that they lost, but they were very good with the media. That's 185 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:13.240 what I'm trying to go. Well, we're not you know, which is 186 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.240 admirable. And I think you go into a locker room with the guys or 187 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:18.840 it's like death. Yeah, it's like pulling teeth sometimes. Yeah. I 188 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.720 mean, you know, every every every women's basketball player we've had on the 189 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.879 show, fantastic. Jada Williams on on on Tuesday was awesome. And you 190 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:31.919 know, again a lot of response to that saying how how enthusiastic and well 191 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:35.960 spoken spoken, she didn't sound like a freshman, and you know all these 192 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:39.600 things that you know that we heard from that interview. But again it's just, 193 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.480 man, I would just and then and then so after USC beats Arizona 194 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:48.519 and and and punches them in the face, then the USC men kick him 195 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.879 in, you know, kick Arizona in the nards. By they had Washington 196 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:56.279 State, they had him beat. It would have been you know, but 197 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.799 would have been a game that would have been big for Arizona. Have Washington 198 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.559 State lose a home give him some a little you know, a little bit 199 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.120 of a cushion at the and then they pissed that away at the end of 200 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:07.320 the at the end of the thing. So us see, I'm like, 201 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:09.759 I'm like, at the end of it. My daughter and I you know, 202 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:11.799 we were watching. I said, you know what, us, get 203 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:15.919 the hell out of here, go to the Big ten. Get get that. 204 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.440 I don't want to see you again ever. Just go away. He's 205 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.679 running out of team's apruit for you know, really are in the NFL college 206 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:24.679 bound? Well just go go go to the Big ten and get your ass 207 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:28.519 kicked in every sport. Now you know why I'm not a sports fan, 208 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:33.639 because I'm sure you I'm sure you didn't weren't all stressed out last night like 209 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:35.039 that was. I was just listening on the radio because I did have it 210 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.799 on TV. But it was like, these girls are romazing. How do 211 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.120 you pull this stuff off? And they had it, they had it, 212 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:43.919 just a rebound, a rebound, get a rebound, offensive rebound, and 213 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.519 you're thinking they didn't get that rebound, and it was going to overtime. 214 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:48.720 I think, oh no, they're in trouble. And then they got into 215 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.639 a second second overtime and then it was had a shot to win it with 216 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.919 the last second shot. Man, man, I mean, it was an 217 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.679 incredible game. It was it was I mean again, and in the end 218 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:03.960 you have to be very happy, very proud that they hung like that. 219 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:07.039 But they're going to they're going to the nat Well, she and she was 220 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:11.039 convinced that she was convinced that they're good enough now that they've proven that the 221 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.159 ubit has proven that they're good enough to play in the NCAA the way they've 222 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:16.840 played against these type of team. But they're not gonna get it. Yeah, 223 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.000 you could, you could, well, they what if they get hot 224 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.600 in the tournament? Well, if they win the damn thing. Yeah, 225 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:24.840 yeah, if they win a couple of games and get in the finals, 226 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:28.200 just because they might. I mean, they're great, they're a great story. 227 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.559 They got it, but one game after another with seven players, they're 228 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.519 a great story. But will the story come out? You know what I'm 229 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:39.440 saying now that they have access to to them full time? Okay, we 230 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.159 gotta go. All right, Doctor Robbie Robbins, president of the University of 231 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.120 Arizona, will be here and we'll kick some things around with him. We 232 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.519 won't kick him around. We'll kick some things around to talk about all the 233 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:54.120 stuff surrounding athletics at Arizona. So stick around. Make the right choice for 234 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.559 your home when it comes to windows and doors. 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Let Arizona Pest 301 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.119 Control get rid of your bad bugs, termites, bees, or rodents serving 302 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:52.559 Tucson and Southern Arizona since nineteen forty seven. Go to azypest dot com to 303 00:19:52.640 --> 00:20:00.839 schedule your free evaluation Today. Dreamy Live, I mean radio Wow. This 304 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:06.599 is high on the ball with Steve Rivera and Jacob Salez on Fox Sports fourteen 305 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:08.160 fifteen. Hey, welcome back to my I on the ball here on Fox 306 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:11.720 Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. He's jacin Zaus. Now on the 307 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:17.519 phone, we have doctor Robert Robbins from the U of A President. How 308 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:21.000 are you? I am doing very well. Jay, How are you? 309 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:22.480 I'm fine? Oh this is Steve. Yeah, that was Steve. This 310 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.119 is Jason. It's all right, you know, all right, look, 311 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:29.960 just two old Mexican guys just talking. It's hard to tell us apart, 312 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.880 so doctor Robbins, A lot happened in you know, over the last several 313 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:37.680 months. Start, you know, the financial stuff. You had to hire 314 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:40.839 a football coach, had to hire an athletic director. We're I don't want 315 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:42.519 to go through these chronological order, more so the newer ones. Right, 316 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:47.839 we've talked off the air, the new ad coming to town. She starts, 317 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:53.799 she starts the job next week. I just you know, you're in 318 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:56.920 a tough spot with with all the financial stuff going on and the challenges that 319 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.839 are in front of somebody. But you change athletic directors. How did you 320 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:04.920 convince them? What did you do to convince an athletic director, certainly one 321 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:11.400 of this quality to come here in amidst from an SEC school. On top 322 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:17.319 of that, yeah, well, Desiree Red Princeoise is a national leader. 323 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:25.039 She's one of only four sitting women Power five ads and the only Latina. 324 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:30.079 And she was a student athlete at UCLA and then she got her law degree 325 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:37.400 from the University of Arizona College of Law. So she's coming home. And 326 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:42.319 she's got a great track record being a deputy AD at Virginia Tech and Tennessee 327 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:48.960 and then the athletic director at UNLV and most recently at University of Missouri. 328 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:59.079 So she knows how to make changes, be decisive, and modernize an athletic 329 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:06.160 department. And UH transitioned us into the Big twelve. So she checks every 330 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:10.480 box and she she wanted. She want to only be a great leader for 331 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:17.000 the athletics department. And I am very confident with with her experience that she 332 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:22.839 will get us to a profitable status in the athletic department despite all of the 333 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:27.400 challenges that we've got UH in the changing landscape of athletics. But moreover, 334 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:33.799 she's going to be a university leader. She's already a national leader and she 335 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:38.599 is totally dedicated to our students, their experience and their well being. So 336 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:45.000 I could not be more excited that Desiree reed Francois said, yes so and 337 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:51.279 again supremely qualified. Nobody's you know, nobody's debating that. But you had 338 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:53.640 to have a selling point, right and and and what you know, what 339 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.319 was it? Aside from her coming home, there has to be more to 340 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:00.000 why she decided to take this job. What did you sell to her about 341 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:04.480 the u of A or the community or anything else. Yeah, I didn't 342 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:07.359 have to sell the U of A in the community to her. She already 343 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:12.599 got that. I think that, you know, she she was looking for 344 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:19.799 a new place to to put a mark on for her that she came in 345 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:26.359 and helped turn it around and build a world class, modernized athletic department. 346 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:32.240 And this this job gave her that opportunity. Moreover, I think it was 347 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:38.160 exciting going into the Big twelve and and just all of the history that she 348 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:44.880 knows about the U of A. Look, you know, we are still 349 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:48.599 with the coaching change and coach Brennan coming in, We're still one of the 350 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:56.599 favors to win the Big twelve Football Conference championship. The basketball program is going 351 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:02.559 to be brutal, you know, every that is just a tough lead to 352 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:10.160 play in. But I think those challenges for her are things that get her 353 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:12.960 stimulated. And I just tell you, we're so lucky that she said, 354 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:15.960 yes, so, doctor, you had you brought in a destrate with that 355 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:18.880 you had to let go of Dave. What was your thinking behind that? 356 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:26.079 Well? I thought that, you know, we needed a new direction. 357 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:30.960 I love Dave. Dave has been a great friend for a long time and 358 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:37.079 will be forever. But we needed we needed a new change in directions. 359 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:41.920 Giving all of what's going on at the university, just remind people that, 360 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:47.680 you know, we've got this structural deficit and all the colleges added together is 361 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:52.640 sixty million dollars in the athletics department on its own is over thirty million dollars 362 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:59.240 of deficit. And Desrae never blinked an eye about that, and she's just 363 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:02.920 excited. I need to get to work on Monday. She will be here 364 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:10.400 tomorrow for our Senior Day for both the men's game and then the women's game 365 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:14.640 at night, and I think she's going to a tennis match or something else 366 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:21.240 in between. So she for all intents and purposes, will be on the 367 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:25.279 job starting Saturday tomorrow. Bobby, I don't I've seen you in a lot 368 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:26.319 of the games. We say a little to each other. I wanted to 369 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:30.240 ask you this question on the air though. It seems to me that you 370 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:36.319 have your situation here, But why aren't other schools in the same situation or 371 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:41.680 are they and just not being reported? Because everyone went through COVID and suffered 372 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:45.279 some great losses, and it seems like it would be a good just contagious 373 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:49.079 that everybody was going through this or should be going through this. Yeah, 374 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:56.640 I think all but a few of the really pop athletic programs are losing money. 375 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:02.160 If you look at UCLA, it was report or just a few weeks 376 00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:07.960 or months ago in the La Times that they have a thirty four million dollar 377 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:12.319 structural deficit and has been that way I think for four or five years. 378 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:18.200 Many of our PAC twelve partners are experiencing the same thing. Cal has always 379 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:26.720 struggled with deficits in the athletics department. We've never really subsidized for the university. 380 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:32.720 Now we get tuition waivers from the university for We've got five hundred student 381 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:40.640 athletes and we have about three hundred and fifty or so tuition waivers for those 382 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:45.480 FDEs, if you will. But I think every athletics department in the country 383 00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:53.960 is going through similar things, and it's just been part of the whole university's 384 00:26:55.640 --> 00:27:00.880 budget deficit and it just gets attention. So I'm sure sure that you know 385 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:03.599 you've got a lot of things to work out with the border regions in terms 386 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:07.319 of fixing this. But how long? But how long is this going to 387 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.039 take before you feel like you're at a point where you say, okay, 388 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:15.160 we think you know, we've got a plan. Is it two years, 389 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:17.759 three years, five years, ten years? Well, how long is this 390 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:21.319 going to take to fix because it seems like the problem is almost so big 391 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:23.400 it's like, how do you ever fix it? Well, but you know, 392 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:27.640 it's one hundred and seventy seven million dollars on a three almost well it's 393 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:33.079 two point seven billion dollar budget, so it's about five to seven percent of 394 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:38.039 the overall budget at the university. Things at the university are going great in 395 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:45.680 terms of student success, retention accomplishment. When I arrived, our retention rate 396 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:51.200 was eighty two percent from the first year to the second. Our goal when 397 00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:53.240 I got here was to get it to ninety percent. We're up to eighty 398 00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:59.279 seven point seven percent, the most accomplished, most diverse class we've ever had. 399 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.279 Research. The expenditures were about six hundred million dollars when I arrived. 400 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:07.640 They hit nine hundred and sixty million this year. We're going to cross over 401 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:12.759 that one billion dollar threshold within the next year or so. So things are 402 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:18.640 going really, really well at the university, and I think that what we 403 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.960 say, what we said publicly is that it'll be an eighteen to thirty six 404 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:27.240 month turnaround. I think it'll be sooner than that. The final thing I 405 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:33.160 would say is the people who love this university, the alumni, even donors 406 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.599 who've adopted the university and didn't go to the u of A, have been 407 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:45.319 incredibly generous and supported everything across the university with their hard earned money. We 408 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:52.000 went public with our three billion dollar campaign in November called Fuel Wonder. We're 409 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:56.279 already at two point two billion of that three billion dollar goal, and I'm 410 00:28:56.359 --> 00:29:02.119 confident that we'll exceed that goal and get three point five to three point six 411 00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:08.960 billion dollars that will support student success, support our incredible faculty and staff, 412 00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:14.920 our research, mission and athletics in the arts. Those are the big things 413 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:17.799 we're raising money for. Right Well, well, well, I had a 414 00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:21.559 quick question personally for you. It's been a crazy year given all the things 415 00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:23.400 that have gone on, including the Big twelve move to the Big twelve, 416 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:29.720 How has it personally been for you other than very busy? Yeah? Busy, 417 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:32.559 And that's the way I like it. And I'll just tell both of 418 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:37.720 you, I have never been more energized and more excited about my job. 419 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:44.319 I've got a great job, and I look forward to waking up every day 420 00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:48.039 and attacking problems. I always say, there's one hundred and sixty eight hours 421 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:52.079 in the week, make each one of them count like you mean it. 422 00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:56.720 And this is what I love doing and I'm just blessed to be able to 423 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.559 lead this great university. Well, you know you say you love waking up 424 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.640 every day, because I know there's some days I don't want to get out 425 00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:04.920 of bed and I don't do any any of what you do, so I 426 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:10.200 don't I don't even know what to say to that. So tell us. 427 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:12.039 We haven't had a chance to really talk about, you know, since the 428 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:17.920 football season ended. Tell us how your day was when you found out that 429 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:19.480 Jed Fish was leaving, and then you were going to have to replace a 430 00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:23.279 coach who had just gone ten and three and created all this excitement around the 431 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:29.160 football program. Yeah, well, coach, you know I'll always be thankful 432 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:34.359 doing too, for coming to the u of A and and getting the football 433 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:40.839 program back on track and winning ten games, going to the Automobile and beating 434 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:45.839 Oklahoma and giving them their a proper send off from the Big twelve to the 435 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:52.039 SEC. But uh, you know, I knew that we had to get 436 00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:59.240 someone quickly. I knew coach Brennan from the last time that the job was 437 00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:03.440 open. I had a chance to visit with him after that, and I'd 438 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:08.319 been watching him carefully, and he is a Waldcat through and through. Even 439 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:14.279 though he went to UCLA, his wife, his brother, he actually coached 440 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:18.440 his brother right here when when he was at u of A on coach Tony 441 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.279 Staff. This guy will be here until he retires or he gets fired. 442 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.240 I'm just telling you, this guy loves the u of A. He's a 443 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:32.400 Waldcat through and through, and we couldn't have a better person at this time 444 00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.680 in our history to lead our football program. So let me ask you about 445 00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:37.559 the hiring of Brent Brandon because we talked about this a couple of times, 446 00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:42.960 and my comment was, I went, I went through a longer hiring process 447 00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:47.079 to get hired for a job at the mall. Then it took you guys 448 00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:52.720 to hire a football coach and pay him millions of dollars. Are you comfortable 449 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.880 with that? Yes? Oh yeah, I think I think all of these, 450 00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:01.960 you know, the ad hired the coaches usually go very very fast, 451 00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:07.319 and uh, you know, I'm thankful to Dave he Key for getting that 452 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:15.119 done and and he acted quickly and definitively. So I'm very very happy that 453 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:22.720 we we got coach Brennan to to come back home, uh into into as 454 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:28.400 symbol and excellent staff. I mean, coach Barber's I've been watching him and 455 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:32.880 known him for a long time. You know, former Syracuse head coach is 456 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:39.839 coming home also, Uh, Coach Akeena, keeping Ricky Hunley and Chuck Cecil 457 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:46.119 to absolute u of a legends in the program, and being able to retain 458 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:52.480 our most of our our incredible team from last year. Uh. Those are 459 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:57.799 all very very positive things. Uh. And now you have a basketball team 460 00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:00.440 men's and women's that are doing very well. What do you see in the 461 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:05.640 men's basketball program as as we heading now to the big month of March. 462 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:13.039 Yeah, only great things on the horizon, I tell you, getting coach 463 00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:20.119 Lloyd locked in to be here, hopefully as a Wildcat for life, but 464 00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:23.680 certainly for the next several years. We don't have to have all this speculation 465 00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:29.799 and that he's going to you know, University of Washington or Ohio State or 466 00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:35.240 the San Antonio Spurs or wherever people make up stuff to, you know, 467 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:40.039 get clicks and get eyeballs. But you know, Tommy has done an incredible 468 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:44.960 job since he's been here. And I love this team. I love their 469 00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:51.880 spirit, and I'm just hopeful that they can make a very deep run. 470 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:55.240 If they can continue where they are, at least to the bracketology I see, 471 00:33:57.079 --> 00:33:59.920 they'd be the number one seed in the West. So at Salt Lakes, 472 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.640 La Phoenix, you got don't set up any better for anybody else in 473 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:07.280 the country. And I just hope, I hope we can get back there 474 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:12.519 to the final four. And as I always said, I told Coach Fitch, 475 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.039 if you're going to get to a bowl game, he might as well 476 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:16.199 go out there and win it. If you're going to get to the final 477 00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:19.760 four, you might as well go out and win it. But it is 478 00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:24.599 so hard to win one game in any sport at any level. So I 479 00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:30.239 know that's a tall order. But he's got a very special group of guys 480 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:31.679 this year. Yeah, I don't think you've missed a game on all this 481 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:35.199 year, basketball wife. Let me ask you, and I thought this, 482 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:37.760 do you, and pardon the punt, do you watch it with a surgeon's 483 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:40.679 eye or do you watch it as a fan? When you go see the 484 00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:45.480 UVA, saw you Asu and I saw you a duke and all these games 485 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:47.039 obviously the year, But how do you you watch it? How do you 486 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:52.920 watch it? You critique it or you just enjoy it? I think it's 487 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:57.400 both. But the main thing is I am there to support our students. 488 00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:06.400 I'm there to supp support our fans and our boosters and donors. And I 489 00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:13.159 obviously enjoy watching the game, but I enjoy going to the ballet here because 490 00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:16.239 I know these are our students who are working hard, not only in the 491 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:20.920 classroom, but on the court, on the stage, in the pool, 492 00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:27.079 on the field. And the primary joy I get out of this job is 493 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:30.440 to help our students realize their hopes and dreams so they can go out and 494 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.880 make the world a better place. It sounds corny and trite, but I 495 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:38.760 believe it deep in my soul. And I know how important the arts, 496 00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:45.239 athletics, all of our academic programs are. We've got truly WorldCat class faculty 497 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:51.679 and staff. That's why our students come here. And I'm just the biggest 498 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:57.880 enthusiast from everything about this university. It's just that, you know, the 499 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:04.320 mere lab or English department is not often on national TV, but this is 500 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:08.800 important everything at the university. To me, I love every aspect to the 501 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:12.440 university. Okay, last question. You don't have to answer this if you 502 00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:15.320 don't want to, but you know, where do you put your name on 503 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.320 a list? I guess those seats next to you at the at the table 504 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:22.079 at men's basketball games, because you know, she seemed to have like a 505 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:25.000 different guest every game. You know, how do you get on that list? 506 00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:35.079 Yeah? You know it's I Veronica castro Is. She and Craig Henderson 507 00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:38.760 are tasked with, you know, managing me, and they usually have you 508 00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:44.119 know, JP Rosney act ahead of the foundation, usually have donors. I 509 00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:46.360 think if you look down there on Saturday I don't even think I get to 510 00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:51.960 sit down there on Saturday because Terry Lunger in the long time oh yeah, 511 00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:59.719 president and CEO of Macy's and Bloomingdale's is having his big retail conference at at 512 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:08.760 of Mountain this this week and he's bringing four fortune and fifty CEOs to come 513 00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:12.960 to the game. So I think I'm even getting bounced out of my seat. 514 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:15.719 I may, I may get to sit in a little jump seat down 515 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:21.599 there. But it's meant to be for people who love the university, support 516 00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:25.519 the university, and you know it. Sometimes it's a faculty member, you 517 00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:30.719 know, it's a it's a variety and a diverse group of people who come 518 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:35.639 down there. But anytime you want to come, let me know get through. 519 00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:39.320 So doctor, there you go. You got four big time people coming 520 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:44.840 in. There's your solvment of the solve of the the money issues right there. 521 00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:47.719 Yeah, yeah, exactly. And they and they are here because they 522 00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:52.480 love our students. This is a student conference. I had. I there 523 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:59.920 was a meeting yesterday about women in the C suite that the CEO of Hershey 524 00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:04.400 was there, and I mean, this is all about serving our students and 525 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:08.719 helping our faculty and staff to be successful. One thing, I don't know 526 00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:13.440 if we're short on time. I want to get this in about last night. 527 00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:19.440 Okay. I tell those seven players who suit up every game for our 528 00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:24.920 women's basketball team, they are the toughest, most resilient, most determined, 529 00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:30.199 most bare down people I've ever seen. And I just I wish they could 530 00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:35.519 have won that game last night, but their effort, they never give up. 531 00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:39.599 They never take a playoff. And it may be one of coach Barnes's 532 00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:43.920 best coaching jobs he's ever done. I was going to say that because we 533 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.719 had Kendree on maybe ten days ago. He said exactly that. And we're 534 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:50.519 thinking Jy and I are looking at each other. Hmmm, that's interesting. 535 00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:54.599 But you feel the same way one hundred percent. I mean, you know 536 00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:59.920 my dream I told I told the student last night. After the game, 537 00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:04.159 I congratulated them all. They left it all out on the court. Uh. 538 00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:07.559 But you know, TCU went through something a few years ago that I 539 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:12.360 was reading about where they had open tryouts because they were down to four players. 540 00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:15.679 We're down to seven. Yeah, and there there's a young woman who 541 00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:20.679 who was on the bench, and I said, I would love it if 542 00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:22.760 she came in the game and made the winning shot. You can't make that 543 00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:27.079 up for TV movie. You're right, you're right, right, Well, 544 00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.320 doctor, we appreciate your time as always. Thanks the whole bunch for joining 545 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:34.400 us. Yeah yeah, yeah. And this this walk on student who is 546 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:37.599 a good basketball player, but she gave up basketball for her study. She's 547 00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:42.760 a four point oh student. This is what we're about podcasts, you know, 548 00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:45.960 just get it done. And I couldn't be more proud of this whole 549 00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:49.280 university. Well, thank you, doctor, appreciate you. Thanks docorn ye 550 00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:52.079 see around, thank you. Okay, all right, my bye, Doctor 551 00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:55.039 Robinson. We got to get him in because he was talk sports you always 552 00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:59.440 done. Okay, let's go because we're right. Yeah, we're way over, 553 00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:00.840 but let's we appreciate him doing that. So let's kind to break down 554 00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:04.159 what you says. Yeah, let's take our break and we'll talk about some 555 00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:07.440 of this stuff and we'll take your costs five two zero four one six four 556 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:09.760 forty. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you know it's been successful 557 00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:14.159 for nearly forty years. 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Come be a part of a winning team. 591 00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:43.159 The A Team apply online today at a teamsecurity dot net breaking down all the 592 00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:47.440 exes at alls. It's Steve Rivera and Jagin Salvez. This is I on 593 00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:52.880 the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to I on 594 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:55.159 the Ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay Gotta guy 595 00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:58.320 Kevin in with us today. We have ten minutes if you guys want to 596 00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:01.360 give us a quick call. Obviously, the interview with the president went long 597 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:04.519 and it was good. Yeah, no, I thought I thought he was 598 00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:07.360 good. I think he wanted to stay with us. You know, we 599 00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.760 need to get him in here for like an hour, but good luck with 600 00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:13.039 that. We never get to a new studio. You know, he's a 601 00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:15.239 little busy. Yeah I know, Yeah, I know. I want to 602 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:20.880 bring him in here. We you know, we went through the stuff we 603 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:22.519 wanted to go through. How did you get this athletic there to come here? 604 00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:27.559 Why is Dave. Heck not here sort of, I mean he and 605 00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:30.280 he had said that publicly before we felt we needed to make a check. 606 00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:36.039 Why to your question, I thought my the most interesting response was how soon 607 00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:37.360 they're going to get out? How soon they're going to get out of this? 608 00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:40.960 And she said, what eighteen months? Eighteen to thirty six months, 609 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:45.079 a year and a half to three years. I can't get out of the 610 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:47.199 carloan in that fast. Well, yeah, I mean I'm going to ask 611 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:50.599 him for a little bit to help me get out of that, you know 612 00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:53.960 whatever. But always good to have him on again. Guy loves sports. 613 00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:59.360 I think it's funny that he doesn't even get his seats tomorrow. That was 614 00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:02.360 pretty like, okay, I got front receipts. Well not today here, 615 00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:07.880 I'm you know, I'm in the back row somewhere. But you know, 616 00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:10.239 it's funny because you know, all the stuff that's going on around the border 617 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.039 regions and we don't want to get into the weed into the on the on 618 00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:17.519 the border regions stuff. But you know, Katie Hobbs that the governor was, 619 00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:22.159 you know, went after him and earlier this week, if you said 620 00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:27.239 John Arnold, I mean no, Fred Duvall the chair of the Board of 621 00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:30.360 Regents is uh Fred Duvall, who called yeah who quit? Yeah, yeah, 622 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:32.679 who resigned? He just came out to yeah today, Yeah today. 623 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:36.599 So you know, things going on up there. The meeting next week with 624 00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:38.920 the with there supposed to have an in person meeting with with the builder. 625 00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:42.719 Yeah, So we'll see how all that comes out. I know, there's 626 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:45.760 a lot of a lot of people, you know, who lacking confidence in 627 00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:51.079 in in him right now. But there's been a lot of missteps and you 628 00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:53.400 know, but he's owning it too, right. Well. You you notice 629 00:44:53.440 --> 00:45:00.320 his tone and his love for the university, whether that's the purpose he said, 630 00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:02.360 I'm sure there was, how much he loved the students and the university 631 00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:07.559 and the students and the university. So you know, he wants to stay 632 00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.440 obviously it's a great job. But there's a lot of things going on. 633 00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:16.440 Well, guys like him who have achieved what what he's achieved again, they 634 00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:21.920 see these things is as you know, as as he said about about about 635 00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:25.079 the ad, they see these these things as opportunities as opposed to they're not 636 00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:29.679 crisis, their opportunity and and and that you know, if he's that kind 637 00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:31.039 of guy, I mean, look, I remember the first time I interviewed 638 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:32.960 me. We were talking about I remember what we were talking about. He 639 00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:38.079 goes, look, I've held somebody's heart in my I've helped their heart in 640 00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:44.000 my hand. So anything else you want to throw at me pales compared to 641 00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:46.119 that, you know. And I'm like, okay, I get that, 642 00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:51.800 you know, so uh you know, it's it's it's uh, you know, 643 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:54.719 when when you've done that type of stuff, been in that type of 644 00:45:54.840 --> 00:46:00.480 scenario or that type of environment, the fact that the governor's telling at you 645 00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.480 just really doesn't isn't going to make you sweat that much. And they have 646 00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:07.920 this plan and they're going to fix it. Seems to have a plan, 647 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:09.760 and he does, and he does have a lot of support. And you 648 00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:15.920 know this from the local business. The business people and the boosters love him 649 00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:20.920 because he's he's he's he's made and this comes from all the biz tuss on 650 00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:24.519 stuff that I that I've done. He's made the university a big part of 651 00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:31.440 the economic development community, helping businesses by by you know, engaging the U 652 00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:36.960 of A into things that businesses are doing, you know, And and that's 653 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:39.519 important because we haven't had that and you know again another one time, as 654 00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:44.039 the interview said, when I got here, we weren't doing that. The 655 00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:49.079 U of A was not involved with raytheon and and and all the companies that 656 00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:52.920 are here. They were not and we are now and and you can give 657 00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:58.320 him credit for that, because you know they Every story that I do related 658 00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:01.000 to the economy here in town and involves talks about how big a piece of 659 00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:05.239 it the U of A is. Right, do you think to the question 660 00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:07.800 I asked about other schools being in trouble, We know that there are a 661 00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:12.079 few u cl A like but the once you mentioned we've knew you know about, 662 00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:15.440 I'm talking more nationally, more naturally, like that New Mexicos, the 663 00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:19.760 Colorado States. Yeah, I know. But the thing is, you don't 664 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.079 you don't hear. You don't hear about it because to them, it's it's 665 00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:25.239 always been that way. Well, what it's always been like here is that 666 00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:30.360 you have athletics has always been self self sustaining. To my point, however, 667 00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:35.960 is that there should be some kind of story like that. You're not 668 00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:39.320 the lone ranger. It depends on the level being a low ranger. But 669 00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:42.679 it's out there. I mean, look, at Col's troubles, all the 670 00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:45.000 troubles they've had for years, right, that's it indifferent. They don't they 671 00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:47.679 don't give a well maybe they are not. They have, but Steve, 672 00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:54.119 they have a Division one athletic program and they've been in financial distress for years 673 00:47:54.159 --> 00:47:58.920 and years in years, right, you know, very you know, there's 674 00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:04.280 very few Alabama in Ohio states and Michigan's and Washington very few, and everybody 675 00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:07.639 else is you know, just kind of either hanging on or losing lots of 676 00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:09.719 money, and the and the university subsidize them to keep the programs going. 677 00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:16.039 Because whether you're in New Mexico, Colorado State, Tulane or wherever, a 678 00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:22.360 lot of a lot of those schools are identified by their athletic Sure, it's 679 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:27.880 front ports of Athletics. As they say, okay, well you'll get to 680 00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.480 know more about all this eighteen to thirty six months. That's a very quick 681 00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:35.400 for a fixed in eighteen to thirty six months. And oh you know, 682 00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:38.159 wow, yeah, you know, but you know there's going to take some 683 00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:44.039 damage control and people will lose some jobs. And yes, and if your 684 00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:46.920 football program is better, right, if you're selling more tickets, that goes 685 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:51.159 a long way towards doing that, because not only are you selling more tickets, 686 00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:54.440 you have more donor support, you have you know, all those things, 687 00:48:54.599 --> 00:48:58.760 all those things you know, go hand in hand. And maybe that's 688 00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:00.119 what, okay, we want. We went ten and three last season. 689 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:07.199 We are our projections for attendance in this next school year can be higher than 690 00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:10.280 they were last year, right, things like that season tickets and all that 691 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:15.320 stuff, and then paying to get into the spring game, that kind of 692 00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.119 thing. Right, Yeah, we'll have to dig deeper into the puckets. 693 00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:21.920 You know, they haven't told me if my tailgate pass is going to go 694 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:27.119 up, but our tickets did go up, for sure, fifty bucks ticket. 695 00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:30.840 I'm okay with that. That's changed, Bud. That's a party again, 696 00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:34.760 that's successful. Never mind that's not my unit. That's a successful party. 697 00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:37.079 Well, never mind that. But you know, but look, my 698 00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:40.440 my son is an employee of the u of A. You know, I'm 699 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:44.559 gonna throw whatever support I can, whatever support I can afford over there, 700 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:46.280 because you know, I feel like in the end, you know, it 701 00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:50.920 helps him too. So and there's a lot of people like that, a 702 00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:54.159 lot of people like me who have kids or dads or moms or relatives or 703 00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:59.360 whatever who work at the u of A. So anyways, that's what i'm 704 00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:02.039 that's my that's my that's what I'm. That's what I'm going with right there. 705 00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:06.800 So okay, okay, again, we have maybe one time for one 706 00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:09.480 caller if you can, or if you want to five two zero four one 707 00:50:09.559 --> 00:50:13.320 six four forty, but we're gonna go at the top of the hour with 708 00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:16.280 breaking news by Kevin Do we have Bruce Bruce Pascal join us and we'll talk 709 00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:21.039 about the game tomorrow and the seniors and all that kind of cool stuff, 710 00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:22.639 and uh, you know, we'll just have him read his story for tomorrow 711 00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:25.320 on our on our air. What do you think about that? I think 712 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:32.199 that would work, sure, exactly. But interesting breaking news again a topic 713 00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:36.119 that I want to get back to because we were gonna do it yesterday and 714 00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:39.199 then we got into all the some of that other stuff with the stuff that's 715 00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:42.760 going on with the college football playoffs right now. I don't know if you've 716 00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:45.519 seen, if you've seen much of that the fourteen team, yeah, fourteen 717 00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:50.039 teams and how those fourteen teams are going to be decided on. But I 718 00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:51.800 thought that was real cool thing. If you want to, if you want 719 00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:54.360 to look it up, it go look up Ross Dellinger on on Twitter, 720 00:50:54.719 --> 00:51:00.480 and he put out a bracket h t well, a fourteen team brackets on 721 00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:07.599 the conference realignments. So if the conference alignments had happened and and the and 722 00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:09.480 the rankings and stuff like that, and guess who would have been in that 723 00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:15.519 bracket? Arizona, the University of Arizona. Well, yeah, fourteen, 724 00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:20.840 he would He the brackets showed that Arizona was in there as a ten seed 725 00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:24.039 and would have opened up with Ohio State, which would have been I think 726 00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:28.000 that would have been very fun. You know, that game would have been 727 00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:30.039 at Ohio State, which probably wouldn't have been all that much fun, but 728 00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:34.360 that would have been cool. And that's what I do like about the About 729 00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.000 the thing we'll talk about it some more about the twelve team tournament is that 730 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:44.719 that's like a realistic goal for teams like Arizona, whereas teams like Arizona did 731 00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:49.039 not have a realistic goal of making any of the four team playoffs. Right, 732 00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.199 right, and you know what, just get me in, I'll take 733 00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:55.280 my shot and see what happens. Okay, we had about a minute left. 734 00:51:57.519 --> 00:52:00.400 Good first hour. Yeah that was good again, doctor Robins was I 735 00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:04.519 thought he was good. I hope if you if you're just joining us and 736 00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:08.079 missed it, our podcast will be up shortly after the show. Tell them 737 00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:12.719 how again because Stu might be listening. Yeah, Stu, this is for 738 00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.440 you. You can go to the iHeartRadio website, do a search for Eye 739 00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:19.320 on the Ball and we'll take you to our podcast page. You can click 740 00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.599 on. All this stuff is linked on our social media both on Facebook and 741 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:28.239 extent formerly known as Twitter, and then you can also find us on Apple 742 00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:35.519 podcasts on Spotify. Just go on any of those podcast hosts and search Eye 743 00:52:35.559 --> 00:52:38.039 on the Ball and you'll find us. You'll see Steve's mug and my mug, 744 00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:42.119 or you'll see our cool logo, and you can listen to any of 745 00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:45.039 our shows. So and that'll go up tonight. It'll be up about an 746 00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:49.159 hour or so after the show. So if you missed it, go back 747 00:52:49.199 --> 00:52:52.360 and listen to it sometime tonight. Maybe it'll help put you to sleep. 748 00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:54.840 All Right, we're gonna take a break. We'll be back and Kevin's gonna 749 00:52:54.840 --> 00:52:55.400 have breaking news.