WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:07.040 Breaking down the all the x is and ols. It's Steve Romero and Jakin 2 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:13.080 Summons. This is I Am the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen. Hey, 3 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:16.280 welcome back to win the Ball Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Tongs Steve Rivera, 4 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:19.280 He's Jackins else now we have our guy, Noah, we's some breaking 5 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:26.320 news. This is I Am the Ball baking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty 6 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:29.480 eight. Well, first of all, the thing that makes me the most 7 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:34.880 happy is that the Bruins are eliminated after having one of the most like one 8 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:38.439 of the one of the least humble seasons I've ever seen out of any fans. 9 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:41.479 They were showing off or something. They were no, they were so 10 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:44.880 like I know hockey fans and I know Bruins fans, and like Boston fans. 11 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.960 It's like it's like them in the Celtics, like when they're both good, 12 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:52.159 that's all they talk about. So they're gone. Celtics just need to 13 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:55.439 lose. I don't know if that's gonna happen, but like we call, 14 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:57.880 we can pray, right as long as they don't lose tonight. I need, 15 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.079 I need, I need Jade to bed on them. Old don't even 16 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.599 talk about it. Now we know who's Steve picked tonight. I don't even 17 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.879 see it. It was it's obvious, like you're not you're not taking the 18 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.359 sixers. No, I'm not taking this yeah yeah, um so yeah, 19 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:15.319 and beat is officially out for Game one. Uh, that is is not 20 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:21.159 good. Um, this whole playoffs, guys, Um, if you lose 21 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:23.879 a key player and it's not this is a brain surgery. Uh, it 22 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:29.280 kills the whole mojo of the team. That happened with everybody else that's in 23 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:32.280 the in the in the league. I mean, come on, you can't 24 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:37.640 you can't play. This is the playoffs. Yeah, you need everybody exactly 25 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.439 exactly. And it again gets to the Kawhi Leonard thing, right, Yeah 26 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:47.840 you got to play. Yeah yeah, And I don't know the injury. 27 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:51.519 It is what it is, right, But man, it's tough. It's 28 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:53.319 very tough that they're saying. They're saying Jimmy Bather has a has a swollen 29 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:57.439 ankle quote the size of a baseball, Like he's still gonna play every single 30 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:00.599 game this year. Yeah, that dude, That dude, his life story 31 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:07.040 is unbelievable. And he's he's homeless. He's tough. He's a fighter. 32 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:12.319 I love Jimmy um So. Yankees put Aaron Judge on the injured list with 33 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.719 a hip strain, which I don't think he's going to be a repetitive type 34 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:19.840 of thing for him. But I guess that's that's is he and the other 35 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.680 slugger. What's just standing standing on the aisle? No? No, oh, 36 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:27.560 Aaron Judge, he got hurt, but I don't think he went on 37 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.479 the il. Didn't you just say what he's on the ir Oh? He 38 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:36.800 is on the me you were preoccupied with. But the Yankee sock are they 39 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:39.039 lasting the league? Right? The last in their division? I think they're 40 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:46.680 last in the division. I don't think so. All I know is the 41 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:52.039 Dodgers have got the Diamondbacks, which hurts me to say. So what does 42 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:54.960 that mean? Yanks are tied with the Red Sox for the last the last 43 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:59.400 place? Yea for the Red Sox. Look at that in the twenty twenty 44 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:02.120 three these two stuck programs. They're both fifteen and fourteen. So every team 45 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:07.719 in that division as a winning record, which is interesting. Um J. 46 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:12.360 J. Watt is now a minority owner of one of the Premier League's team 47 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:15.560 from a Premier League teams soccer on England. Yeah, that's that's kind of 48 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:20.280 a video because people don't really understand the extent which you know, like internationally 49 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:24.199 English football, like soccer is a big deal. He's in so much revenue, 50 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:29.280 it's like kills the United States teams. Oh by far. Yeah, 51 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:34.000 because it's followed by Talbot. The fans they're just crazy exactly. You'll find 52 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:38.560 you'll find people. You'll find way more people here that follow that stuff. 53 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:44.520 Yeah. Then um you will people you know in England that follow like American 54 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:52.800 sports. Yeah, and just rapid crazy crazy fans. Yeah. Um oh 55 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:59.080 yeah, Snoop Dogg is joining Who is this this? Oh I saw this? 56 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:02.080 Um so I was running Nico smarks bits and buy the Ottawa Senators. 57 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:08.639 So that's a NHL team. Okay, guys are making way too much money. 58 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:10.680 Well I was gonna say, because the players are making a lot of 59 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:14.439 money obviously. Well you got players and former players starting to want to buy 60 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:16.759 you know, franchises and stuff. Yeah. Magic Johnson's been doing it for 61 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:21.319 a while. Yeah, those guys. Yeah, I mean, what what 62 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:26.480 were the what that you had you gonna You're gonna ask you about the and 63 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.319 the football team who got two got picked up or whatever. Well, um 64 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:40.199 um Jalen Harris and um got one more guy signed signed undrafted free agent contracts. 65 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:44.720 Yeah he he And you don't need to disparage him. I don't want 66 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:46.600 to either, but he he. I don't know if he lived up to 67 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.680 the hype or whatever, but he was. He came on the scene, 68 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.279 just the Harris brothers, you know, Yeah, and they didn't have the 69 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:57.480 years that you think or you think Jalen was Jalen. I think he was 70 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:03.079 such a physical specimen that you kind of expected more more from him. He's 71 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.639 your he's your airport. He put on a uniform and you went wow, 72 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:14.680 and you went wow. But um uh you know I I uh, um, 73 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:17.240 he didn't. You know, he didn't. And neither as his brother. 74 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.279 Um, neither as his brother. I'm looking, I'm trying to Jalen 75 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:26.720 Harris signed a contract, Christian Young signed signed with the with the Seahawks, 76 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:33.040 and then Josh Donovan got invited to the Bills a rookie mini Campum, so 77 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.360 they got you know, there's three guys there, and Hunter Ecles got invited 78 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:40.680 to the Seahawks mini camp. Okay, so four guys, but four guys. 79 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:43.160 You know, a lot of discussion. You know, it's been a 80 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.000 while, you know, Arizone hasn't been had any guys drafted and stuff like 81 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.920 that, but sort of a you know, there's guys in the pipeline. 82 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:55.240 There's you see guys on the team now, starting with um, the offensive 83 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:59.959 lineman, um, you know, who's projected to be a first round draft 84 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.319 and the guy that walked into the bresh conference the other day and looking like, 85 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:11.600 yeah, uh justin flow but uh, you know so but you know, 86 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:16.360 look at that. That's certainly one of the things that uh Arizona is 87 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:20.600 selling now because they've got so many former NFL coaches on their stat and that's 88 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:24.720 why they're getting That's I think that's one of the reasons they're getting guys, 89 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:27.319 is that they're saying, Okay, you're gonna come and you're gonna be coached 90 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.839 by guys who know how to do this in the NFL. We're gonna help 91 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:33.279 you get there. But those guys are all young, right, t Mac 92 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:40.199 and you know Jane Delora, Sure, what's the lineman's name who's really good? 93 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:46.160 Morgan? Uh, what's the last of his first day? Come on, 94 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:54.000 man, I know you're talking about oh god, um, but you 95 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:59.959 know those guys, uh uh, there's there's one thing Dan, you're getting 96 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:02.879 coached up to be the one thing about like Lut's time, and I referred 97 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:09.360 to this more than most, that he had guys that the new fundamentals knew 98 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.000 how to play basketball and the transition to the NBA. Whether they were capable 99 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:15.480 or not, they knew what they were getting because they were prepared. They 100 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:18.519 were getting prepared. They were prepared for the next level. If they were 101 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.720 not good enough, well they weren't good enough, but they made the transition 102 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:25.720 because that's what they were taught. Again, and you get a sense that 103 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.480 that's a lot of what Fish trying to do, not only with just what 104 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:31.079 they're doing on the field and trying to coach him, but the way he 105 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:34.519 brings in all his you know, his old coaching buddies to come and talk 106 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:39.079 to the players and stuff. You gotta you get your sense that they're really 107 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:44.160 trying to get the players a feel for the NFL while they're here. That's 108 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.319 to me, it's been the most impressive thing that the Wildcat Wednesdays or that 109 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:51.480 speech. And then you bring the guys in, you can't buy that stuff, 110 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:55.399 right, You just can't. Yeah, and what I don't know what 111 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:59.720 they're being told, but you can't. You can only imagine that you have 112 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:03.279 these experts coming in and you know, teaching you what to expect or or 113 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.480 you know, telling you what to expect the rext level and what type of 114 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:11.000 person you need to be as well. Exactly exactly, so you had some 115 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:16.800 stuff from Georgia, Georgia. Is that what you're at? Alabama? Uh? 116 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:24.480 Uh? An athletic department officially at Alabama. He's he's the Deputy Deputy 117 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.720 Director of Athletics for Compliance and Support Services. The guy by the name of 118 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:37.720 Matthew Travis self was arrested Sunday morning for domestic violence. So here's your compliance 119 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.480 guy trying to tell everybody how to follow the rules and then he gets arrested 120 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:43.840 for stuff. So yeah, they're having a rough go at Alabama. And 121 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:46.519 I'm I'm not saying I feel sorry for them, but I just like, 122 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:50.759 man, the hits just keep on coming for those guys, They just keep 123 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.480 on coming. A couple of the things, um, the uh, the 124 00:08:54.559 --> 00:09:00.559 Kentucky Derby Uh. Most positions were drawn today. Todd Pletcher has has favorite 125 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.639 uh forte coming out of the box. So, um, you know the 126 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:07.960 u of a guy. He's got three horses, two of whom they think 127 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:13.759 can win it and the third one maybe he's undefeated, but uh nonetheless so 128 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.519 just uh you know he's got three horses in this thing. You had if 129 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.039 he went like one, two, three, would that be that could be 130 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.720 possible? He the fourteen is coming out of the fifteen hole? Who which 131 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.440 should be? Okay, um, Baffer doesn't have anything, obviously not allowed 132 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:31.519 to. He got ripped. He had to let him divest himself, right, 133 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.519 But he'll be back for the Belmont. They'll be they'll return to the 134 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:35.919 Bellman. That's when he gets back. That's when he gets the courses back 135 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:41.039 because only only the Derby there is disallowed him. Okay, yeah, you 136 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.559 know he's he's fought it. They didn't let him, so he's gonna you 137 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.080 know, other people will be handing those horses. Yeah. So that's Saturday. 138 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:52.840 Fote is the three to one. Um, his his other tappet price 139 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.360 is five to one, and he's got them. He's in the five hole. 140 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:01.639 So um, we'll see, man, it's a full Any horses will 141 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:05.519 get to Richard ang to come on this week before Steve heads out and goes 142 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.919 somewhere to bet these races on Friday. So we'll get Rich on to to 143 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:13.799 give us some insight into this and full day, you know, two full 144 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:16.519 days of racing big rate. You know, the Kentucky Oaks is on is 145 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.519 on Friday, so a lot of cool stuff. And you know that's always 146 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.559 on a thing on NBC Sports Channel. Uh, you can catch all the 147 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.080 races and bet him if you want, so it should be fun. Okay, 148 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:31.360 Um, I think I had a couple of other things. Um, 149 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:37.799 Bryce Harper comes back from Tommy john surgery in less than six months and we'll 150 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:43.600 be in the in the lineup set. Uh. A lot of fantasy people 151 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.759 rejoicing at that if you you know, drafted him late to understanding that you 152 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.360 weren't going to get him, thinking you weren't gonna get him till June or 153 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:52.399 July. And now here it is, you know, the first of May, 154 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:56.559 and he's gonna be playing just one hundred and sixty days since he got 155 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:01.720 Tommy Johnson. Kind of crazy that that he's already gonna be playing. Yeah, 156 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:03.960 I mean, you know guys like that, they're they're a different breed. 157 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.519 They do things different from what from what we do, sure, because 158 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:13.200 they you know, they're built different, They're they're built differently, not only 159 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.840 physically, but but mentally. Good. Good for Bryce Harper. Never been 160 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.200 a big fan of his, but as he's gone, as he's as he's 161 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.559 gone on, I'm kind of rooting for him a little more, um, 162 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.720 because he's just a really damn good player. He seems obnoxious to me, 163 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:31.360 but he doesn't. He doesn't say a lot. Friend of mine did his 164 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.240 bi autobiography and he really and in Phoenix, you playing in Phoenix in Vegas, 165 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.519 um, Rob Meach Meach he was on the Daily News before Dweller went 166 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.000 to the News and uh, he had a hard time with the family. 167 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:48.120 It was just really it was almost unauthorized because they didn't want to talk to 168 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:52.639 him. All right, Oh, here we go. It's something brand new. 169 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:56.799 The NC Double A men's tennis bracket has been announced and Arizona will be 170 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:03.000 hosting. They're the fourth number, number fourteen national seed, so they're gonna 171 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:07.639 host the first two rounds next weekend. They've got they played Boise State in 172 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.919 the first round and then they've got Florida and Oklahoma State on the other side. 173 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:15.600 So if they win, they'll play the winner of Florida Oklahoma State. 174 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.360 That might help them because I talk to coach what's his name, tell me 175 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.360 his name, one of the great guys. I really like talking to him. 176 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.600 Down to earth and very very intellectually. Um just knows the pot he's 177 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:31.120 gotten players, right, they love playing for him. That the facilities might 178 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.559 be upgraded because of the right. Right, you gotta show your show your 179 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:37.639 wearers, right, Yeah, then maybe you get them improvements that might help 180 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:43.039 the progone as Zvertz goes in as the number forty one ranked player in the 181 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.320 country. Um goostaf Strom has been is on a nine match winning streak of 182 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:52.960 reading this off of off of pressures. No, this is uh uh easy 183 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:58.240 desert swarm um, and so you know there's uh it should be fun. 184 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:03.200 So but first time they've ever hosted's when's this this weekend? This will be 185 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.759 this weekend a Friday and Saturday. Now, school's almost over, kid, 186 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.679 when you're done next weekend, next Monday, next Monday. You can't wait 187 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:15.399 to get home, right, So your dog, that's it. That's it, 188 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.320 just the dog. The dog. So we'll keep you posted on that. 189 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:22.639 But that's uh, that's coming up this weekend. So um it should 190 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:24.840 be fine man, good, good for good for Clancy Shields to not only 191 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.039 get in, but now you know, to be able to host the first 192 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.559 come and try to avoid what happened last year. Right. Yeah, when 193 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:31.679 they real they went on the road and got it, they were very good, 194 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.039 yanked out of there pretty quickly. All right, we're gonna have Heather 195 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.919 more Martin. 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All she does is win culture. How are you doing. 250 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.680 I'm doing really good today. Thanks a lot. You Did you celebrate this 251 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.519 weekend? I mean, come on, three straight? Who does that? 252 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:12.359 Well, you know, I don't know. I feel pretty blessed. And 253 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.960 it's just it's been a great year for beach volleyball for sure. Man, 254 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:23.839 you at some point a lot of things going on. Yeah, well, 255 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:26.640 I mean how do you how do you approach each year? I mean, 256 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:30.960 you know, you've won a state championship a couple times oversea, you go 257 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.960 into a season, how do you how do you approach that? Keep them 258 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:38.200 hungry those kinds of things. Well, you know, obviously, the kids 259 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:44.279 that are really into beach volleyball, they kind of push that forward. I 260 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:48.400 mean, without their love of the game, obviously, it would just be 261 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:52.480 need being a cheerleader. So obviously I have some great buy in from my 262 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:59.519 student athletes, and they go and play volleyball beyond what we do at practice, 263 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.559 and that really the key is that you know, you can practice all 264 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:04.720 you want, but if you don't go play on the beach in California, 265 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:07.799 you don't go up to Phoenix and playing a trump up there, You're just 266 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.359 not going to gain the confidence that you need to be successful as you can 267 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.160 be. You're being a little modest too. I think through the years of 268 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.119 the one thing I've noticed is coaching matters. So what do you think your 269 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:26.119 secret sauces and getting them motivated? Secret sid um? Well, you know, 270 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:30.680 I'm a learner. I love to learn about coaching, and beach volleyball 271 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:33.920 is such a new sport in terms of how to coach it. There's a 272 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.400 lot of you know, there's beach volleyball, but you know, team beach 273 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:41.599 volleyball is so different. I mean, I have ten separate teams, five 274 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:45.400 of which compete in a duel. But I have you know, there's ten 275 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:49.519 teams at practice, and so they each have their own little personality and the 276 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:56.640 way they go about practice and competing, and so it's been really so oh, 277 00:19:57.119 --> 00:20:00.039 I don't know, it's just been so I've been so grateful to coach 278 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.559 beach volleyball because it is so new and how you train it how to be 279 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:08.519 kind of pioneered in a way, and it's been really fun to kind of 280 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.759 come up with a formula that works. Well. Let's talk a little bit 281 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:15.359 about that. Because you from a high school level, you were the one 282 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:21.440 or among those who did pioneer this in Tucson. You know, now you've 283 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:26.839 got a college program at Arizona UM. What what did it take to you 284 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:30.400 know, get the ball rolling on this and get it going to where not 285 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:33.519 only have you been able to establish this as a as a sport in town, 286 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.880 but you guys are really good at it too. Well. You know, 287 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:42.279 the beginning of going part was easy because South Boyne is so game, 288 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:48.000 you know, their game for new things and new um new sports. And 289 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:52.000 so when I got hired there as the indoor girls and boys volleyball coach, 290 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:55.960 I said to them when my interview process, I said, hey, I 291 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:59.640 want to start ball at Beach Volleyball, which had already started up in Phoenix. 292 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:02.000 They had already had it for about seven years. And I said, 293 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:04.200 I really want to start beach volleyball and Tchutson. And when they hired me, 294 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:08.039 they that was part of the you know, their their agreement was that 295 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.519 they would do that. So, you know, I think I coached into 296 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:15.119 it for two years and then on the third year we started beach volleyball and 297 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:19.079 we just put into the AIA and said, hey, we want a schedule, 298 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:22.880 and it was kind of easy as that. Luckily, the Tuton the 299 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:27.079 Racket Club is down the street, and so we practice and compete at the 300 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:32.880 racquet club. Would love to have courts at school, but I think their 301 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:36.960 first priority right now is um, you know, building the new building back 302 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:41.119 that you know, was burnt down this summer, and a parking garage is 303 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.400 kind of on their radar. So I'm hoping with the volleyball success that we've 304 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:48.440 had that maybe they'll think about building a beach volleyball facility. But we are 305 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:52.920 happy to be at the Tucson Racket Club, you know, at the court's 306 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.039 at the racquet club. It also doesn't hurt to have pretty talented young women. 307 00:21:56.359 --> 00:22:02.839 I know Matt Bach's daughters A you're do you think right for you? 308 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:04.720 No, she's actually a junior this year, though I get to have her 309 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:10.720 back next year. And what even you know bonus is that her sister Caroline, 310 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:15.000 or we call her Ki plays on the team as well, So we 311 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:18.880 have two mule box Um you know, competing for the Lancers, which is 312 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:23.119 amazing. I mean, Megan Um will go down in history as one of 313 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:27.440 the finest competitors I've ever coached. It's funny you say that, because all 314 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:32.640 I've heard throughout the years, I've covered a lot of dudes on that basketball 315 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:34.720 program, and one of the name that comes up most often in terms of 316 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:40.960 being a dogged just a dogged fighter was Matt. Oh. Yeah, that 317 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:44.480 Matt is he and he's given that gift to his daughter, Meghan. I 318 00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:48.079 mean, Keki is a competitor also, but she's different. She's a very 319 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:55.559 different person than Megan, and Meghan is just she competes like she she doesn't 320 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:57.720 win, you know it, and you're and she's figuring out a way next 321 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:02.640 time to be ill. Pretty cool. Yeah, No, So what do 322 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:07.119 you think Why do you think beach volleyball has so quickly become a very popular 323 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:10.440 sport, not only at you know, the high school level, but the 324 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:15.039 college level. I think that because it's super fun. It is really fun. 325 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:21.039 It's just practice is fun, Competing is fun. There's not m It's 326 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:26.519 not the kind of grind the club and indoor can be sometimes. You know, 327 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:30.200 indoor volleyball obviously great and fun as well, but each you know, 328 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:33.680 you're out on the sand, but you're outside. I mean, our favorite 329 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:36.160 thing to say is, you know, you don't see that indoor as a 330 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:40.799 hawk flies by, or we're looking at the beautiful Katalina mountains, or you 331 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:45.079 know, we're having snow at practice like we did this year, so you 332 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:49.079 know, it's just a fun environment. And I really think the autonomy of 333 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:52.839 beach volleyball as well. I mean, I'm involved with them, but I'm 334 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:57.720 not allowed to coach during play, so the girls have to learn how to 335 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:02.400 figure out on their own. So there's a ton of autonomy in this game. 336 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:04.319 And I think they like that part as well. Yeah. No, 337 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:07.880 who wouldn't want that as a player, right, That's fantastic. I was 338 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:12.480 going to mention earlier for some point such great success. You know, Kelly 339 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:18.279 Pearce has wants some titles. Now you there's a wolf Gang of course, 340 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:23.039 just the football program doing very well. What's going on there? You know, 341 00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:27.119 someone just said that to me yesterday, and I think it's two things. 342 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:32.640 I think the academics at South Point are rigorous, so you are really 343 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:36.519 engaged and when you come to practice, you tend to be pretty engaged. 344 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:38.799 And I don't have to spend a lot of time getting you to dial in. 345 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:42.359 You're just you're already there, And that I think is one component. 346 00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:48.119 I think the parents support is also a huge component to their success. And 347 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:52.400 then finally, you know, just the administration support of athletics. That that's 348 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:56.160 what you know, the South Point knows that they're about athletics, and they're 349 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:59.039 not you know, they're not afraid to admit it and get behind it. 350 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:03.160 Well, is there is there any kind of um? I mean, I 351 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:08.039 guess there's been some discussion of getting the boys did not start playing beach volleyball? 352 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:12.279 Yes, you know, I think that is on the docket. Next, 353 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:17.119 you know, flag football is going to be They started that for girls 354 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:21.599 and so that'll be the next women's sport. So then, um, I 355 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:25.480 would I have heard is that they have already started a pilot program for boys 356 00:25:25.559 --> 00:25:29.480 high school volleyball up in Phoenix, So, um, I think that is 357 00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:32.960 next. I think it's right around the corner. Well, very cool. 358 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:33.960 When you say around the corner, what do you think that might be? 359 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:38.720 Well, I'm hoping in the next two years. I mean, honestly would 360 00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:45.160 love to see southwoyed M started at the pilot program next year and maybe do 361 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:49.680 a modified schedule sort of like how we did with girls volleyball when we first 362 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:53.680 started. We didn't play in the complete schedule, so we didn't qualify for 363 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:57.559 state at that time. We just played in a minimum amount of matches. 364 00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:00.960 And I think that would be the best way to start boys Beaches, just 365 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:07.839 to get a schedule and then start building on that. Well, so, 366 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:12.119 so tell us how many how many girls programs are there now in the city 367 00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:17.240 and how much is that spreading? I mean, is it is it being 368 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:19.720 taken on quite a bit? Or you know what? How is this going 369 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:25.759 to evolve as we go along? Well, I think the evolution is going 370 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:30.160 to have to come from TUSD because they're the one one school district that hasn't 371 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:34.319 picked it up. AMPI has it, so that means CDEO AMPI, Ironwood 372 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:40.119 Ridge UM, Siennaga has it. Morana has it, so that's Morana, 373 00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:45.680 that's Mountain View UM. And I've I've heard Katalina Foothills is right there and 374 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:49.359 they're ready to start a program and TUSD. You know, what I've heard 375 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:53.480 from them before was well, we can't build a facility at all the schools 376 00:26:53.559 --> 00:27:00.319 and that's not even required Castile, where we play the state tournament. They 377 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:04.359 have one facility for the entire district. So I believe there's six high schools 378 00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:08.920 that practice out of this one facility. It has six courts. It's beautiful, 379 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:15.400 it's big and um really nice. So it's gonna take you know, 380 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:18.440 um t USD say, okay, hey, we're willing to put one court, 381 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:25.200 you know, one um uh, the only somewhere and having multiple courts 382 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:29.240 and let every let multiple schools practice there. So how many teams are actually 383 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:33.240 in the entire state? Oh gosh, that's a good question. I am 384 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:38.440 right, as the number forty eight seemed to not I wouldn't. I think 385 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:44.039 that's around somewhere because there's Division one and Division two, so I think that's 386 00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:47.599 about what there is. And it's kind of leveled off a little bit. 387 00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:49.480 Beach volleyball, you know, it's kind of you know, it was huge 388 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:53.480 and now it's kind of like you know, settling in so um it's still 389 00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:56.799 growing, but not as rapidly as it did it first. So along those 390 00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:00.519 lines there are a majority of obviously menu them come from Phoenix. How are 391 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:07.480 you able to infiltrate them given that they've been playing longer, a lot longer 392 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:15.559 than feating twos on people? Practice practice, you know, it's really it 393 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.400 is. I think it's training. I think it's how we train, and 394 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:22.160 um, it's playing the game, and you know, how we go about 395 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:26.079 our practice. I think that we're able to kind of close the gap because, 396 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:30.400 like I said, I have girls that are committed to do getting better 397 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:34.960 at volleyball, and they go and they play. So I'm wondering just and 398 00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:38.440 Jay kind of alluded to this question. So you win the first one, 399 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:42.240 it's it's it's tough to get there, it's even tougher to stay there. 400 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:47.559 You've been able to do that, Now do you how do you move forward 401 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:51.440 with you know, maybe the possibility of four and you have some players coming 402 00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:56.240 back. So is there pressure to do the four? Um? You know, 403 00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:59.440 I don't feel the pressure because I really didn't even feel the pressure for 404 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:03.279 the third. I was just happy that we were in a position to even 405 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.920 achieve that, So I you know, you know, my husband was given 406 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:10.319 me a hard time on our bus ride home it is because I made a 407 00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:14.079 new lineup on the bus ride home after the Sea tournament, and I was 408 00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:15.240 like, oh, well this thing that looked too bad. I mean, 409 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:18.359 I have a lot of seniors this year, so it was a little bit 410 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:22.359 like, wow, what are we gonna be doing next year? But I 411 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.680 do I do see a good group coming back. Um, it's just going 412 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.920 to be a matter of how much they commit to beach volleyball over the summer, 413 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.519 you know, because it's not it can't be just our school season. 414 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.640 It's not enough. Yeah, right, Okay, coach, we appreciate your 415 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:42.039 time. Congrats again three times very much. Hey, thank you so much 416 00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:45.480 for the phone call. And um, I appreciate you, you know, 417 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:51.880 just recognizing women's athletics and honoring that. Well, first of all, it's 418 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:53.839 May first, okay, so let me say it before I text you. 419 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:57.400 Oh so we'll we'll we'll set up a time for next May first, so 420 00:29:57.480 --> 00:30:02.799 you'll back on the show for number four. We'll just do that now. 421 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:08.680 I love that idea. It Okay, thanks, appreciate you. Okay, 422 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:12.279 thank you. Okay, he went not you know you w three went not 423 00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:18.720 four? Were there? You're funny? No? I mean, you know, 424 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.400 you keep winning, you keep winning. But you know, the bigger 425 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.160 thing to me, it's not not just that they're winning state championships, but 426 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:29.799 they they're getting a great sport going, you know. I mean there's sometimes 427 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:32.640 sports come along and you say, well, what's that. You know, 428 00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:37.599 I get whatever your university was trying to do, but they triathlon. It's 429 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.680 not a spectator sport really, you know, it's kind of like an obscure 430 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:47.920 sport. But you know, beach volleyball is something that you know we've played, 431 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:51.160 right, I mean, I've sure played volleyball in the sand. It's 432 00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.599 I can't do it now, I can't do it anymore, but you know 433 00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:56.799 I did. And those are the sports that I think catch people's eyes right 434 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.240 right right. And let me say this because she she was spotty, very 435 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:06.160 humble. Three times okay once first, okay, two, okay, three 436 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:08.759 times. There's there's a secret to it. I'm not a secret to it. 437 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:12.279 But that doesn't happen by accident, it doesn't. You know, you 438 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:17.000 gotta have something there to make sure know. Kelly does it too there and 439 00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:18.920 Wolf Kang has done him many times. You see, you don't stumble. 440 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:22.559 Here's here's the ball, go play. No, you you get these girls 441 00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:26.920 motivated, right exactly, and you figure out yeah, I mean, and 442 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:30.880 you keep getting them motivated right over and over and over again and and and 443 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:36.160 and winning doesn't become uh routine, routine, yeah, you know, it 444 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:38.119 becomes like every every time they win it it's a big deal, right, 445 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:41.440 and that and that's what you have to do, and that's not easy to 446 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:44.599 do. Yeah. I was into Sunnyside wrestling, right, yeah, the 447 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:47.000 same thing. Yeah, no exactly, but yet they keep winning, keep 448 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.720 winning, keep winning, keep winning right right, and it's and it's special 449 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.720 to them. And then you start winning, you say, how can we 450 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:55.880 give how can we not win or want to win because we don't want to 451 00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:59.440 disappoint the people before us. And I think in this, in this particular 452 00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:01.400 case with this sport, is that you can also see that, you know, 453 00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:07.039 I think I think Heather would like to see other schools, you know, 454 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:10.880 get programs going, be more competitive, the whole area more competitive. 455 00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:15.319 And now you get better because of it, you know, without question? 456 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:17.200 Yeah, question, A lot a lot of things, a lot of things 457 00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:22.400 happening with a sport like that to be able to you know, to um, 458 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:27.319 you know, improve what they're trying to do but also get more opportunities 459 00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:30.279 for other girls to play this sport. Okay, let's go early and then 460 00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.200 we can get more calls in this. On the other side, I want 461 00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:37.119 maybe the colors to think about this. Uh did did Tommy? Is Lloyd's 462 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:42.599 story? Uh? Make you more at ease with what's going on? Are 463 00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:45.359 you going to trust the process? I know he doesn't use that phrase, 464 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.960 but you kind of have to write or is He just says it's like you 465 00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:52.839 tell, you know, kids, you know behave relax and they don't behavior 466 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:57.039 relax. You could say it, but you know that's not going to happen. 467 00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:59.400 Right now, you still kind of freaked out. What's gonna happen? 468 00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:01.640 Okay? Is that a good bay? Sounds good to me? Absolutely? 469 00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:06.720 All right, We'll be right back. 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Did if 525 00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:09.960 you follow the Tommy Lloyd's situation and read the Daily Star Bruce's story on Tommy, 526 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:15.360 did you feel more at ease? Got got a text from while I 527 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:19.199 didn't feel, I wasn't. I wasn't. I was at easy with Tommy 528 00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.679 already. What I was where I was not at ease with was the freaking 529 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:24.880 fans. Yeah. Yeah, so they need to relax. But so Doug, 530 00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:30.360 our guy from Seattle text me and says lost faith in both Tommy and 531 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:35.360 Idea. They don't seem to have a strong direction of what they want to 532 00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:37.280 do. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Doug, you heard 533 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:42.559 that. You can call us if that was that? Uh yeah, Uh, 534 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:46.760 the's Doug, Doug. That's really dumb. That's really dumb. You 535 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:50.480 know, both of these teams that keep going to NC Double A tournament, 536 00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:52.800 they're winning a million games, and you're saying they have no direction and have 537 00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:55.880 no idea what you're doing. That's the dumbest thing I've heard said about it 538 00:37:55.880 --> 00:38:00.119 Arizona basketball in a really long time. Sorry, Tommy, Tommy. It 539 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:04.760 sounds like an owner giving a vote of confidence to the coach. Doug, 540 00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:09.239 You're I think you're way way off based on that dog. You can call 541 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:12.599 us. Yeah, you can feel free to call Doug. We'll argue this 542 00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:15.039 out because I think you're one hundred percent wrong on this. You don't have 543 00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:21.280 to buy j I think you're a hundred percent wrong in this because Okay, 544 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.159 so they haven't neither one of them's won a national championship in the last three 545 00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:27.159 years, so therefore their direction list and don't know what they're doing. That 546 00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:30.559 it's kind of ridiculous. Five two, four, one, six, seventy 547 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:34.119 four forty. You can give us a quick call. Anybody who wants to 548 00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:37.679 chime in. It's a good topic of I think they're gonna be fine. 549 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:42.000 I think they're gonna be fine. Every school's going through issues in UCLA the 550 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:44.519 same way. They've lost a lot of their staff, I mean staff, 551 00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:46.800 their roster. They'll have to replenish, and every school has to do it. 552 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:52.559 So yeah, no, exactly, exactly it. I don't know it. 553 00:38:53.519 --> 00:39:00.480 I just can't believe that our fans, that the fans are so and 554 00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:07.480 titles not even the right word, just oblivious, that's true what these two 555 00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:12.440 programs are doing. You know, did yeah? Did they flame did? 556 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:15.440 Did they flame out? In? Uh? Did? Did? Uh? 557 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:22.159 Uh? You know Arizona basketball flame out against Princeton? Absolutely absolutely. But 558 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:30.440 I just don't, you know, I just don't know how you can just 559 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:32.599 sit there and say that they're directionless. What is that what he said? 560 00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:38.519 Was that the word? Uh? Yeah, yeah, yeah him. No, 561 00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:43.159 let's take the call higher on the air and eye on the ball, 562 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:49.119 Nico, walk me off the ledge, Nico. I'm losing my mind with 563 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:52.440 with the Arizona fans. Man, this has got too much time on their 564 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:58.480 hands. Man. Probably that's one of the problems. I agree, you 565 00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:01.639 got to if you're stretching that much about you of aman? Yeah, yeah, 566 00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:07.320 is there anything out there that keeps you that busy with the topic, 567 00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:09.719 you know, whatever it is like, you know you're concerned about it, 568 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:15.039 but you know over concerned. Man, if I don't get laid in like 569 00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:22.039 a week half, remember where you're at, Remember where you're on the air. 570 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:27.320 Come on. But I heard you guys talking about Jalen Harrison. Okay, 571 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:31.519 go a man. I bought into the hype you did. Yeah, 572 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:37.519 and that will say this. I think he sticks man at the next level. 573 00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:43.159 He always played his as uh. I'm sorry about that. No, 574 00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:46.440 that's funny. I agree with you. I think he played like crazy. 575 00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:52.159 He just didn't yeah, exactly. He didn't have the impact that you would 576 00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:57.960 expect from him. Everyone thought he'd be an old man, but he and 577 00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:01.039 he had bad coaching. Well, and that's right. I mean what I 578 00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:07.119 say he had. He had five five different defensive coordinators, five different linebacker 579 00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:09.480 coaches in his time at Arizona. So of course something like that has an 580 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:15.719 impact. But still a great player, a great player, can you know, 581 00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:21.199 deal with that and still be a great player. I get what you're 582 00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:22.480 saying, but I'm not saying it's going to be a starter, but I 583 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:27.360 think it'll be a special teams guy. Yeah, we'll see, we'll see, 584 00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:34.679 all right, man, thank you, thank you, Nico. See 585 00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:37.920 if Doug gives us a call them me just kind of reclarified what you had 586 00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:40.760 heard. Lost faith in both Tommy and Adia. They don't seem to have 587 00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:52.639 a strong direction of what they want to do. Wow, Okay, look, 588 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:55.280 everybody's the title of their opinion, and that's fine. Everybody has their 589 00:41:55.320 --> 00:42:01.280 opinion, but but it's wrong. We're trying to say, Well, I 590 00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:06.159 think I think the opinion is incorrect. I think that I think they both 591 00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:08.960 have a pretty good idea of what they're trying to do, you know. 592 00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:17.199 I mean it's like what they're trying to win games and what's the Yeah, 593 00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:20.880 I think that I think that the women's side, they just have to kind 594 00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:24.920 of recalibrate what what the priorities are. Right. Uh, she's getting talent, 595 00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:29.679 She's getting talent, she's just having a hard time figuring how that talent 596 00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:35.400 works together right together because since the uh, since the well, when she 597 00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.880 got to the championship game, you had one star and the rest of them 598 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:45.599 filled in, right and and in and in whether somebody thinks this is a 599 00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:50.480 sexist remark, right in women's college basketball, you can get away with that. 600 00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:54.400 Yeah, And and she didn't, and she did. Aery McDonald's was 601 00:42:54.480 --> 00:43:01.320 so extraordinarily good that she could single hand to do what they did and what 602 00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:07.199 that moment did get into the title game has created a monster maybe unrealistic, 603 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:13.400 right, not maybe unrealistic because it's hard to return to that stage. It 604 00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:16.280 just is on a situation. And now you know Arizona is at a point 605 00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:20.280 in this program where they well, first of all, there are no no 606 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:24.960 more Aery McDonald's right in in in the in the in the in the locker 607 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:29.519 room at Arizona. So you've got to put a bunch of different players together, 608 00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.360 and he has. You've done a pretty good job. They've been pretty 609 00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:36.960 good. Have they been great enough to get to another Final four? No, 610 00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:39.239 they haven't. But to say that they're kind of direction lists and don't 611 00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:43.920 know what they're what they want, that seems silly. Let's also say that 612 00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:47.559 if I could that the last three years have been it's not that big of 613 00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:55.119 a social social of a m um sample size, sample size, because Tommy 614 00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:58.679 has been your two years right, come on, he's won a lot of 615 00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:02.079 games. The resume looks pretty good. Look a couple of early round well 616 00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:06.639 last she was early around. They got the sweet sixteen up and Houston. 617 00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:08.920 No excuses, right, I mean, come on, if they were gonna 618 00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:13.199 beat Houston, they had to play very well. Yeah. And again, 619 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:19.559 if Tommy Lloyd looks direction list is it because you don't know who who who's 620 00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:21.719 coming in to play for him? I mean, what is that? Yeah? 621 00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:24.840 There we go on the air and on the ball. How's it going 622 00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:30.199 today, Ryan? We're doing okay? Good? Well, you don't sound 623 00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:34.000 like you're doing okay. I'm mad. I'm mad. I'm mad at I'm 624 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:37.519 mad at the Arizona fan. Okay, how how can you be mad with 625 00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:43.400 ignorance? I wish people weren't ignorant. I think he's frustrat I think we'll 626 00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:45.880 just frustrated kind of like I was. Yeah, yeah, you know, 627 00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:52.079 but I look at this way. People have to understand this is a new 628 00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:58.679 basketball reality, yes exactly, and whether and whether we like it or not, 629 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:02.239 just the way it is. And people have can't live five years ago, 630 00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:06.360 ten years ago, fifteen years ago, exactly. Got to live in 631 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:10.039 the now. Exactly, and and and these people who are guys from Seattle 632 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:14.320 or whatever, you know that they don't live that way. They just live 633 00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:16.519 on. Oh my god, we won a championship with the greatest program ever. 634 00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:21.880 You know, it doesn't work that way anymore, right, right? 635 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:23.840 How old are you? How old are you brain? If you don't mind, 636 00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:27.559 seventy four? Seventy four? Okay, well, okay, so you 637 00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:32.039 were fifty pretty much fifty maybe maybe forty something forty nine when they won the 638 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:37.880 title in ninety ninety seven. Right, yeah, that's a that's a hell. 639 00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:40.960 That's a third of your life. I know. You know, hey, 640 00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:45.440 hey, in my lifetime, I'm happy with one. It would be 641 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:49.000 nice if we had a rose. I don't think we're ever going to have 642 00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:51.760 one. Well, we're going to put it, yeah, no, put 643 00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:53.239 it with the new system, put it in a new perspective that I mean, 644 00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:57.199 there you go. Your dad waited a lifetime to get there, right, 645 00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:01.519 and it never came right. I mean, we had our chances and 646 00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:06.679 unfortunately didn't work out. You know, But I just you know, I 647 00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:10.360 just think if people also look at him, well, he's not recruiting well, 648 00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:15.840 and people still have to realize that Sean Miller. Thing wasn't settled till 649 00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:22.119 last year, so all of that still hung over the Arizona program, whether 650 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:25.320 they were going to be punished or not. Every recruiter used that against us. 651 00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:31.280 Yeah, well well there was that. But Brott Bryan even in spite 652 00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:35.280 of that, okay, even in spite of that, you know, sixty 653 00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:39.280 one wins in two seasons, the Sweet sixteen and branded the Sweet that they 654 00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:42.760 should have done more with that, They should have done more than they did 655 00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:45.800 last year. But for people to be saying that this program is direction list 656 00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:50.440 and Tommy Lloyd doesn't really know what he wants when he's been able to do 657 00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:54.559 that is just crazy talk. Well, hey wait till next year. We 658 00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:58.480 lose about six more players, right, and then these people are gonna have 659 00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:01.280 these people are gonna die at heart attack and everything. No, it'll be 660 00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:06.119 crazy, yeah, and that's it's gonna be year to year ups and downs, 661 00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:08.639 and you know, if they have another early exit, then you kind 662 00:47:08.679 --> 00:47:13.119 of started saying, hmm okay, but you know, let's get there first. 663 00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:16.400 You know, one thing too, if people realize the older coaches, 664 00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:21.840 who are the establishment coaches that we've known forever and ever they're all getting out 665 00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:24.800 of the business because they can't handle this. Well, not that they can't, 666 00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:28.719 it's not that they can't handle they choose not to. They don't want 667 00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:30.920 they don't want to handle it, which is smart. It's not worth it. 668 00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:35.000 Yeah, it's not worth it, you know. And let's see how 669 00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:38.840 long these younger coaches last. Yeah, no, are they got the last 670 00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:42.199 ten years? Are you in the last fifteen years? Or you're not going 671 00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:45.320 to last thirty or forty? And we'll see how the administration handles them too, 672 00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:51.079 because if you don't win, you're you're evaluated on wins, right. 673 00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:53.440 Uh, this is a win, win or go home type of thing from 674 00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:58.239 the administration. So good, good call, good call. Yeah, thank 675 00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:00.039 you, We'll see you later. Thanks Ryan. There was a breaking news 676 00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:04.679 that we didn't have before. I think maybe just happened. Lauren ware now 677 00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:07.000 headed to Texas A and m wow, okay, good for her. Yeah, 678 00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:10.400 wepe it goes well for her. You know, I'm not I'm not 679 00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:15.320 sure I understand that transfer unless you know, again it's been made clear that 680 00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:21.719 the girls coming in or you know that she's not gonna be able to be 681 00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:24.760 you know, play ahead of them. But and and a lot of that, 682 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:29.280 you know, the continuing saga up and up in Colorado, you know, 683 00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:32.800 with with Dean Sandees and and and what's going on up there, and 684 00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:39.039 we can't we can't really evaluate what he's done until September because okay, and 685 00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:44.960 with the old you know, with you whatever, you know, I think 686 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:49.480 they're they're gonna be extraordinarily good. By that, I mean, you know, 687 00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:52.119 for a one in eleven team, you know that they're gonna be I 688 00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:55.159 think they're gonna be really good. You know, maybe a six or seven 689 00:48:55.239 --> 00:49:00.639 win team, or they're gonna win one or two games again because you know, 690 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:04.599 on the one hand, with all the drama and the you know, 691 00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:06.920 who knows what that locker room is gonna be like, right, I mean, 692 00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:08.960 I don't know if you read the article, I think it was an 693 00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:14.039 SI. It's a very short article that basically there was this there was this 694 00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:19.800 issue with the fact that that Dion Sanders was not letting guys who were transferring 695 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:24.960 get their game or their practice film in game film. And so they've changed 696 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:29.000 that. They've changed that. But in doing that, you know, they 697 00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:31.840 talked to some players, and players a couple of players said that basically, 698 00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:37.800 the players who were hanging over from last year. He doesn't talk to him, 699 00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:40.000 he doesn't want him there, He doesn't talk to him at all. 700 00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:44.719 This guy said, I would walk by him in the hallway and he wouldn't 701 00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:50.760 even look at me. That that he doesn't want that, And that's what 702 00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:52.679 they're saying, And more than one player said that, that's saying, that 703 00:49:53.199 --> 00:49:58.159 said that he just doesn't want any of the players from last year. That. 704 00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:02.119 So what's gonna happen is they say there's still twelve scholarship players from last 705 00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:07.599 year who are left, so maybe he's talking to them. So one thing, 706 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.719 one or two things gonna happen. That the locker room is a mess 707 00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:15.199 because because they you know, how can you how can you be together when 708 00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:19.760 there's just all this sure crap going on them and us and all that kind 709 00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:27.159 of said. Or he's weeded out everybody, and everybody everybody else that's there 710 00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:30.000 is all together, and they're gonna and they're gonna, you know, back 711 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:31.239 each other up and they're gonna be really good. Well here's the issue. 712 00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:34.840 And I don't know what the story you were talking about, but I did 713 00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:37.719 read that about the film and things like that. If I've been impressed with 714 00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:40.840 what he's done, at least what he says he's done right but once and 715 00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:45.119 he's been very impressed with that way. But if you're gonna walk the walk, 716 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:46.760 you don't be a jerk about it. I mean, how can you 717 00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:50.599 not talk to the kids that are on your team, right? I mean, 718 00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:52.480 if you're gonna be upfront and this is what we need to do to 719 00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:58.400 be uh personable or well, he doesn't. But that's the point, the 720 00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:01.119 point of what the guy was saying. He doesn't want them their last year's 721 00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:05.559 players are there, Yeah, and he's doing everything he can to get all 722 00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:07.519 of them out of there, not just not just some of them, all 723 00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:12.239 of them. Like I said before, you and I have both have been 724 00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:15.519 in other jobs. Luckily I haven't been in many, Budge, but you 725 00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:17.639 had to go to corporate world a couple of times. It's not a pretty 726 00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:22.480 world. And if they don't want you there, they make life a little 727 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:25.840 difficult. They do sixty plus players, and then they want and then the 728 00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:29.000 places that you've been to and I won't say, who are you? You 729 00:51:29.199 --> 00:51:31.920 said it before it becomes toxic or they are toxic, and then they wonder 730 00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:36.519 how come we can't do better, well, be a better human being for 731 00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:42.199 God's sake, exactly, honestly, just pretty simple, Steve, exactly. 732 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.559 I mean you know, and that that's the thing. So I don't think 733 00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:47.840 there's gonna be an in between. Either it's gonna be a great right or 734 00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:52.320 right. Everybody is on the same page and they're gonna be they're gonna improve 735 00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.920 a lot. And if they don't do well, guess what we're gonna hear 736 00:51:55.000 --> 00:52:00.800 better stories. Well we'll hear well, we'll see how Dion Sanders takes takes 737 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:02.960 it if it's not going well, you know, if if if, if 738 00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:07.440 they're crappy next year and he feels like he's got a bunch of crappy guys, 739 00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:09.480 is he going to do this again next year? Right? Yeah? 740 00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:13.880 What Broughton guys? Now, the two now they suck so I want them 741 00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:15.920 out of here too, and let's roll this thing over again, right right, 742 00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:20.039 we'll see what happens. Right, good show. It wasn't by very 743 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.840 quick, it did go by. Thanks Heather more Martin and good luck with 744 00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:27.800 your women's for your beach volleyball efforts, and Dennis Benet that was fun. 745 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:30.280 Got to get a little insight as to what that what that thing looked like. 746 00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:35.440 It's pretty excited. Sure, sure with the once in a lifetime player. 747 00:52:35.559 --> 00:52:37.960 Yeah, I mean yeah, there hasn't been one like that year before, 748 00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:39.920 you know, only three first round draft picks out of Tucsons. So 749 00:52:40.440 --> 00:52:44.400 very cool. So all right, we'll be back tomorrow. We'll take some 750 00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:46.320 more calls five to two zero four and six seventy four forty follow us on 751 00:52:46.360 --> 00:52:50.400 the podcast, and uh, Facebook and Facebook. Let's see tomorrow