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He's Jacome Zose, Gonna boyd Devon in the house. It's heating up
in the old pebble in the sports world jam everywhere. There's all kinds of
stuff ninety degrees. But it's like a scorchery out in the real world.
What the heck is going on with softball? He was softball? You wa
basketball? And what happened to the sugar score? Oh man, oh man?
That was really bad. You know. I had to I didn't realize
the things that I said on the broadcast when that happened. I went and
watched the tale because I had to see want it again to see what happened.
So and I'm like, I did him on love It right, I'm
like, oh, um, that was a bad loss and they lost it
in a bad way. So what the hell happened? Well, um,
just a very basic, very basic, fundamental thing. Look, you know,
in your fifty yard field, you're always within scoring. This Sugar Skulls
had a had a had a six point lead seven seconds left. San Diego
got the ball on their own five and they throw a hale mary into the
end zone. Two Sugar Skulls are there by themselves. It wasn't even anywhere
near a receiver, and instead of knocking it down, one of them tried
to catch it. Popped up in the air of San Diego guy caught it.
Tie the game. Sugar Skulls seemingly got a break when San Diego missed
the extra point, so they go into overtime and then the Sugar Skulls lost
in double overtime. Wow, well, so did you listen to the coach?
Yeah, and what did you say? Same same thing I said.
He said, We told him, because there was a time out right before
the place, through the entire time out, we told him, knocked the
ball down, bat it down, batted down, bat it down, and
they didn't bat it out. And h So he just makes you said,
you know, hey, look, we gotta we take the loss and we
move on. They've got a week off, they've got a bye week and
then they're back home in two weeks against one of the Arizone You think that,
um, um, you know, you played ball. I played ball.
You played enough games in your life. They've played a lot more games
than I've ever played. And you know that that's what you do, right,
right, you know, the the and the instincts you know are always
catch the ball, right, you think I got it? And what happened
was the guy who was just standing there was going to catch the ball.
A sugar skulls guy came across in front of him to try and you know,
get his hands on it. So when it came down, you know
it. You know it distracted and he hit him in the chest and then
popped up in the air. And so, um, just one of those
things, you know, I mean, you know what I know, And
I mean I immediately said that, I said, the fundamental thing to do
this, to knock this down? Why they knock Yeah, And well they're
supposed to, right, They're supposed to and they're supposed to know and and
things. Both players one was Carrington Thompson, okay because he's a receiver.
But they put him you know back sure in pre event to be a tall
guy to be able to get up there and knock the ball down. He
was the one that came across in front of Mike Mentor, who's another veteran
guy. So it was two veterans who you know, knew what to do
and then just didn't do it. Yeah, and so it cost him a
game. And you know they you know, Sugar Skills were going went into
the game seven and one against San Diego in the you know, in history,
this is a game that and sand came in one and three on the
season. They shouldn't have lost its game. Sugar Skulls had a fourteen point
lead with five minutes left in the game and then lost the game. When
the crowd was it was a good crowd, good, good crowd. It's
hard to tell, uh you know, people sitting on our side of the
press box, but look good. It was a red out, a lot
of red jerseys. It's very cool. Cool. We have a collar higher
on the R and I on the ball. Thank you from California. Uh
so do you any time to talk twa We'll talk to you about Tommy Lloyd.
Go ahead, go ahead, we're on the air, so go ahead.
So anyway, I'll code you guys on Friday, and I just want
them the conversation that we've had on Friday, and says let me um,
and just let me say. I don't know what is going on behind the
scenes with Tommy Lloyd recruiting. I don't want to. I don't like to
make make stuff up out of out of Eric. I sure hope that Tommy
Lloyds has a couple of contingents these plans well, and I think the likelihood
that he does is probably pretty good because I think Tommy Lloyd knows what he's
doing. I you know, I've been talking to a lot of people about
this, you know, people losing their minds over how recruiting is going.
And all I said everybody is, let's wait to see what he puts on
the floor and then decide. You know, if you not even going to
know that until December after they've had some games. So people who are going
crazy that he's not getting guys, we don't know. Gabriel. Gabriel,
I know you're a young guy because I asked you that your age last week,
But what's your biggest concern outside of they haven't gotten any here yet?
Is it because they haven't gotten any year. If they would have gotten two
or three guys by now, would you be okay with it? I think
I think well, I got two things to say. Ball asked a ball
answer the first question. I think that Portan sing Arizona need to do is
good guys with Taylor in the steak with or has a big ability to go
to that we go to the basket and score. Unfortunately, some of the
players from last year worked. Hannay, don't don't even insult anybody, but
Kinna stops. Well, that's two years at row. If you want to
be honest, truth there because Houston did the same thing. Um. I
think that you have to be patient. You have a lot of time on
your hands. Gabe, You'll be okay. I think Tommy makes Tommy makes
I think a little over three million dollars a year. His job is on
the line, so he's well aware of what what to do, what not
to do. Um, I think they'll be fine. I could get one
more scene, so I'm not being braggadocious or any scene. So a couple
of days ago, I took time out on my schedule and I bas you
know, the two Arizona's am I l like Arizona Sets and the Friends of
a World War over World. I took time out on my busy day and
I don't donated some money to them because I want to help, so,
you know, with the Arizona to be a better program to compete against the
Alabamas or you sees Oregon. But so all the Facebook people who like us
complain complaining all that. If you if you want to contribute to make some
money and help Arizona get better, That's the only thing I got to say
about Gabriel. I want to applaud the heck out of you, because we've
been saying that here. If you're gonna bitch and complain, guess what,
bring out twenty fifty bucks, bring out whatever you want. But in order
to help this program be better is not about the complaining. It's about emptying
some wallets and give them what they need. Good congratulations, congratulations, And
you're not ragadocious, You're exactly what they need. Right. Thank you?
All right, Gabriel, thanks to hold By, Thank you for the call.
Be well, thank you, thank you for calling. Thank you.
Yeah, so, Jay, that's a perfect call. Because we talked about
this a lot last week. All the complaining on Facebook. If you're gonna
complain, that's ten dollars. It's a it's a complaint, are right exactly?
Oh he's doing this, he's not doing that, doing this, And
it's when it's all and people will say it's not about money, but yes
it is. We have the Colorado, we have the Colorado stuff. We'll
talk about later. But Arizona we understand. It's a good program, right,
it's a top notch program. But still it needs help, Yes,
it does, it does. And and you know, Tucson is one of
those places where in order to you know, it was trying to compete against
schools that have tons of money, right right, you know? So uh
you know, I mean you know this, this this cal State Fullerton player
who apparently was going to come and visit. He goes to Alabama, they
decide they want him. What do you think happen? Get him? Let's
get get him. So he didn't even come to Arizona. You blame the
kid, right, No, No, if they gave him whatever he was
asking for. This is the new world, it is. This is a
new world. And if Arizona UM is going to compete in the new world,
needs some help. It's what question we had Adam Lazarus u uh last
week. Um, and he didn't go on say it and I kind of
joked with it with hekey, what can they do? Well, he's excited
about their passion. Okay, you got some passion. Here's twenty bucks,
here, forty bucks whatever, whatever, because accumulates or more than anything.
And what they've always said about if you want to support Arizone Athletics, any
sport you if you want to support softball, if you want to support you
know, women's basketball, if you want to support buy a football tickets another
thing. That's what they always have said, by football season tickets. That's
how you can best support their their overall program, without question, without questions.
If you're gonna help them or you gonna bitch about it, be part
of the solution. Yeah, because if you do that, not only do
you support them, but you get something back for us. Right, you
get to go to course. But they've always said the best way to support
air Zone Athletics by football tickets. No congratulations. Okay, you're a young
man, and what great insight exactly showed? Be a model dude, right,
No, exactly, you start something because they need this, right,
they absolutely need this. You can't the whole New world. It reminds me
there. I don't know if this is an analogy that makes any sense,
but back in the day when Oprah had her shows and we had we saw
pretty girls on the stage and he says, I'm too pretty. I can't
get a date. You know, they can't get a date because they're too
pretty. Well, maybe there's something else involved, exactly. Maybe there's something
else in bone. Maybe you're paid in the neck by a place for guys
too, of course, but because there's need, you have to have other
other things than just being pretty. Yeah, exactly, and Arizona needs that
right now because we know what's a good program exactly. But guess what other
programs are pretty good too. They are, and everybody's trying to do the
same exactly, right, And they have built in money there they a lot
of them do, and here not so much. Well, you know,
they gotta fear the exactly. That's why guys like you know, Adam Lazarus
and then and then Uh of the Uh, the friends of Wilbur and Wilma,
they're trying to do that. So those are people who are trying to
trying to make an impact. Yes, are they in it for the you
know, for the monetary stake, of course they are. But they're also
in it because they support the programs and so that sure you have to do
sure, yeah. And then to stay competitive, just to stay competitive is
tough, right, that's harder. That's becoming harder and harder all the time
because so many you know, groups are doing so many different things, some
being a very uh creative and what they do, I use quotes around pretty
creative. Right. Well, its survival of the financial fittest, right,
exactly. That's exactly what it is, exactly, so we'll see at a
time when money is kind of thin. It is thin thin for a lot
of people. And you you read the stuff on Facebook guy yesterday. I
don't even know why I did this, Devin, because you follow it.
Softball they're getting brutalized too. Yeah, right, I think they can't get
pictures. They can't they can't get pitching because they've got all the hitting they
need, they can't get the pitching they need. You know, they keep
again, they're they're they get swept at Oregon and the last game they had
a four run lead, normally a four run lead for Arizona softball was a
four touchdown lead. Sure, right, sure, And now it's like you
know they I mean it? And you know, does that mean all the
great pictures out there are out there getting nil somewhere? Maybe they are,
yeah, because they're not coming here obviously, or I don't know if they're
just missing on pictures. But you gotta think that there's heavy company, you
know, in college, in college softball, softball is like the you know,
the pictures, like the college quarterback. You have to have a great
one to be great. And we talked about this, or maybe you did
a couple of weeks ago. They haven't had that great one. They've had
one or two in less fifteen years or whatever. And guess what, I
joke about this, but I'm serious because the guy on Facebook kind of got
on me for it. And everyone hasn't won a gone into the final four
in twenty two years now, right, they haven't won a title in twenty
six years. That's ages ago. And you've heard this two from your buddies.
Uh Now, softball hasn't been the Kendrea softball in a long time,
and that long time is almost an eternity for the little girls. How long
has it been fifteen sixteen years? Yeah, these little girls, some of
them were two years old. Yeah, they didn't. They don't know the
legacy unless they've kind of been hit over the head with it. You know
what I'm saying. It's it's so long ago. People don't care what happened
five years ago. Right, No, you don't, correct, But the
fans they remember, well, the fans like us who who you know,
have been around the block and seeing all this stuff, and we remember stuff
even before, right, you were any good? Right? Right? And
now it's yeah, it's yeah. Well, like I said, the worst
thing that happened to you was that national champion to him ninety seven. Because
now they have to live up to that expectation, which of course is fine.
Now Arizona's what eight national titles. This dominance they had is gonna eat
them apart. Yeah, because everybody, how come, how come? How
come? Really there's a huge expectation. Yeah, okay, okay, our
guests, okay, so we've got um at at three. I've already forgotten
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yees, Sarah Blacker coming up. You know, I gotta I gotta like
do something about this. Man. I can't remember anything. I mean,
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Sores. They have their I on a Boy on two Suns sports station Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to y on the Ball Hero Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Vera, He's Jacin's also got a boy Devin
in the house as well. Now on the phone, we have Sarah Blacker
from the very successful Paras on a Beach Volleyball team. How are you,
Sarah? Hi, I'm being hey, how are you great? We love
your enthusiast look at that. We're just two dudes and so so tell us
you guys have done very well right now, you're done with your regular season.
Yes, we just missed our regular season and we are heading into Park
Falls next week at Stanford University. All right, and you've got USC as
your opener. We know that the USC is pretty much pretty good at every
everything, but we know that they're one of the top teams in the country.
But you know, first, just talk to us a little bit about
your season. We saw that you set a new Arizona wins record. I
think you're up to ninety, is that right, Yes, So tell us
abody record was eighty six and I was able to beat the record this year.
Okay, and tell us a little bit about what that was like for
you to get the number. You broke it a while back, but now
you're up to nineties, so that's kind of another milestone number, So tell
us a little bit about how you feel about all that. So, yeah,
it was a really exciting time for me. I was tied with the
other girls at eighty six, so obviously they're really high level, top players,
so it was a big achievement for me. And one of them was
actually one of my best friends and partners, so I played with throughout my
college experience here. So it was a really exciting time. And it was
also during alumni weekend that we had all of our past beach volleyball players come
back. So it was couldn't have been more stussiful for me to have my
family and m past alumni there. But I looked up to throughout my years
here. The sport here is relatively u in its young infancy, right,
But you've been here for four years. What brought you from San Diego to
Tucson outside of this program, because you guys are still in the early stages.
Yeah, So we actually just hit our ten year anniversary of having beach
volleyball at u of A, So that was a really exciting milestone for our
scheam and our coach. But I came from San Diego, born and raised
there, and I started out playing indoor volleyball actually, and started playing beach
volleyball as it became a new sport as I got older, and you know,
being out in San Diego, it's pretty fun. It was all your
friends and being able to be out on the beach and play before I thought
you loved um made it even special for me. And as it became a
new sport, they were offering scholarships and um I was able to talk to
a few universities of where I was interested in, and I visited U of
A and totally fell in love with the coach and the campus and what they
had to offer here. So, at what point did did beach volleyball become
more of the direction you wanted to head in? Uh? You know,
I mean, you know, was it in high school? Was it before
high school? When? When was that? And why why do you prefer
beach volleyball over the indoor game? Yeah? So it was in my early
years in high school. I stopped pursuing indoor volleyball because I wanted to pursue
beach volleyball and I knew I knew I wanted to play in college. So
and I definitely liked it more than indoor volleyball because it's more it's more in
your own your own control is what I've like found out. And you have
a lot of control over the game. It's just two people, so it's
doing your partner. Where are you going to have that one on one communication
and be able to make the changes that you need to win? Rather than
endoor, I thought you have less control over the ball and what's going on
because there's five other girls on the court. So I liked having that ability
for me and my partner to like work together in practice and be able to
perform at the best of our ability with having each other. Yeah. No,
no, I've never been to an event here, but it looks you
know, I've been to the courts. I said, what a cool situation,
right than the nice and the nice area. How has two son or
do you embraced the sport there? Good fans, good fans support great fans.
Yeah, So that's one of the reasons why I chose to come to
the University of Arizona because you know, the people in Suson are so supportive
and everyone is always resting the A on their shirt and you could be walking
around and everyone's saying they're down. So I love that supportiveness. And you
know, it is a new sport, so we don't get as many fans
as we would like, but it's definitely nice to get people out there.
And I mean, we have a beautiful facility, so you can come out
there and enjoy the sun and watch them volleyball. So I think it's a
great place to be. Our intern here, Devin Homer, who I did
a story on you when you broke that record. You said that you spent
last summer with your partner in San Diego working and getting ready for this season.
Tell me, you know how important was that and what do you think
it's done for you this season? Yeah. So I've been playing with alex
Parkhurse and it's been amazing because she's also one of my best friends outside volleyball.
So it's great having to play with her because we know how far we
can push each other. You know, when you're playing with someone, you
might not know the limits of how far you can push them and of them
work hard because you both want to win. So it was great. She
came and stayed with me in San Diego for some time, and we were
able to train and just get to each other's game more better and to learn
those limits of how far we can push each other. And you know,
I could yell at her and she knows this okay, and she could yell
at me, and I would be happy that she's being encouraging and that she
just wants me to perform at the best of my ability. So it's a
great partnership and we've done pretty well. This year, we've been playing out
the one spot. So obviously it's been a big challenge for us because you're
playing the top teams from every school, but it's also I'm really grateful to
be in that spot because I want to be competing against the best and I
loved doing Alex, so I'm really grateful for her. How much better have
you been as a as a player since you got here? I know you're
a fifth year person. Yeah, so I've definitely improved. Every year.
I feel like I've improved a little bit, whether that's mentally or physically.
You know, every year you've gained, the more knowledge and the more touches
you've get, So I feel like I've learned better how to see the game
with different aspects of how you have to have the mentality that every point matters
and that if you don't get one point, you have to move on to
the next. You know, it's like it's not the end of the world,
and you have to keep pushing yourself. If you don't get one point,
the most important one is get the next one. So that's kind of
what I've always told myself. And you have to move on from the games
that you should have gone but didn't, so I feel like from that,
in fact, I've really improved my game. Um obviously, yeah, five
years is a long time, so I definitely have college that I have gained.
So educate us a little bit. Okay, first of all, Steve
and I are aren't ever gonna play beach ball because it's hard walking in the
sand enough without having to run and jump and do all those other things.
You say beach I say Corona exact exactly exactly, but yeah, but you
know, you're listed as a defender. Alex is listed as a blocker.
Um, you know, tell us how, you know, how these two
have to work together and kind of who does what? Yeah, so we
have Alex at the net, as you mentioned, he's a blocker, so
that's obviously a really important fisition because she's staying up there and when she served
as bass, he has to run up to the net because she's the most
as a player at the net due to her you know how tall she is.
She's up her six foot so that's a huge advantage for us having her
long arms up there. And then I'm in the back kind of and she's
getting me signs basically of what she's gonna take or like what she's gonna block
with the ball, So we use like signs to put it behind our back
and she can tell me if she's gonna block angle or if she's gonna block
line, and then basically I would do like a type of fake out to
think that the player thinks they can hit there, and then I would end
up there. So there's definitely a lot of strategy that comes into it,
and communication is a big aspect of it. So yeah, so she's definitely
an important position back there, and I'm a defender, so I'm kind of
just running behind her hope for hoping that she's gonna get some touches on the
ball, so I'm not sprinting around. You may have talked about this.
You may have talked about this earlier when you talk about the records, but
now now you have your name kind of as the set the standard person,
right, so you think anybody's gonna catch you at some point. I hope
not. I continue to leave this, uh this mark here, but you
know, I obviously want our programs to grow, and I hope that other
players are able to achieve this because I want our program to do well in
the future. And I think that someone could. Definitely, I think that
I have to get a lot of respects with my teammates who I played with
throughout the years, because they obviously helped me to win a lot. And
it doesn't just like one person. It takes having um a good partner.
So I hope that someone can beat it. But obviously I'm really honored to
have to have made that record. How hard is it and how much of
a challenge is it because as as with so many of the of the women's
sports in the PAC twelve, the PAC twelve is really really good, you
know, in this sport again and you know, playing in the league like
that, how does that keep you on your toes? What are the challenges
for that? Knowing that every every time out there you're going to get somebody
really really good, right, there's definitely a lot of challenges. I mean,
the past twelve that is one of the strongest conferences. And as we
mentioned, this volleyball is a new sport, but every year there's seams that
are coming extremely challenging to play and you have to get out there with the
mindset that everyone's gonna want to try and beat you. So definitely I've been
a challenge, but I'm honored to be a part of the past twelve because
of the competition is so high, so you know, we get excited when
we get upsets, and we've gotten some upsets this year against some schools that
were ranked higher than us. So it's definitely good to be a part of
a division and have those challenges. I guess the three aspects of it.
So let's talk about you real quick. Have you gotten your degree yet?
What is it in? And what do you hope what do you hope to
do with it? Yeah, so I got my degree in public health and
now I'm doing my masters and healthcare management. So with us not playing our
COVID year, we got an extra year of eligibility. So that's why I
was able to come back for my fifth year and play another year volleyball and
get my masters. So very grateful for that opportunity, and I've enjoyed every
step of that. And so yeah, I'm currently going through the process of
looking at jobs and I hope to be a part of the healthcare field and
maybe pharmaceutical sales and medicinal advice sales is what I'm interested in. Yeah,
so I'm gonna ask you our question, and you know I won't be offended
of whatever your answers. But would you like to stick around Tucson? You
headed back your San Diego? What do you think you'll do? We'll see.
I have learned to love Tucson and I've enjoyed my five years here.
Then Diego is my home and you can't be at the weather there. I'm
sure you could agree. Agree. That's why people. We'll see what happens.
But San Diego I definitely miss it. Yeah, that's why tucsonans go
to San Diego pretty much. You know. That's her side side gig right
there. I don't know if I'm going back after that hot weekend we had
us, but yeah, what was up with a hundred and five degrees in
San Diego weeks September? Right? Right? Right? Well, okay,
thanks for joining us, Sarah, Thanks so much, best of luck,
win some Thank you so much for having me win some games and make sure
that the girls don't catch you. Yeah, thanks for having Thanks to you
guys. Thanks, that's Sarah Blacker from you of a volleyball record holder man
record holder, right, I mean that's a lot, that's a lot of
wins. Yeah, you know what I mean, how was she did to
talk to? She was easy, she explained everything. Well, um,
yeah, she's she's all I know of her, and what I hear she's
amenal young lady. Yeah, first of all. Plus she's you know,
she's not, you know, eighteen years old, right, so she's that
she had some time here and understands and you know, obviously you know,
grown up a lot of here, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah, it's
funny all these kids who've been here five years and yeah, it's a long
time. Sometimes. Yeah, we're not in you this is not your father's
but yeah, yeah, no, it's uh, you know, I know
at some point we'll run out of that COVID year coming up, but for
now, it's, uh, you know, let's talk about that more on
the other side and maybe have some people calling about the n IL stuff that
we were talking about. Maybe Gabriel can inspire some people. But that's kind
of where we start, and we have so much to talk about today with
things going on. Yeah, all right, let's go take our break.
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call five two o six seventy four forty we'd love to hear from you.
On a Monday. A lot of things going on, so we'll have a
lot of things. I'm breaking rush anything nil wise, it can call in.
You wanted to go, you want to go, you can go with
it if you want whatever you do. Well, first of all, let's
talk about the nil thing because because again reiterating the point that you were making,
and that Gabriel kind of demonstrated for us by by by calling you to
say, you know, I'm saying these things, but I also put my
money where my mouth is right. And we you know, we say that
all the time. And you're compared to voting, you know, don't vote,
then don't bitch the same thing. If you're going to be an Arizona
fan and you want a bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch will then be
a part of it. Don't just sit on the side and bitch about it.
So so you go to Vegas every year you've been to the pactor,
could you work it? I go to cover it and we stay at the
media hotel. Blah blah blah. I'm gonna give you an example. And
I don't know if it fits or not, but but you mingle around the
crowd, right, sure it's a different crowd. Then you see mcale exactly
without without without even all the people who seemed to camp who can't seem to
either get into games or or we don't see him sitting down around the bottom.
Correct, good point. And I was gonna kind of go there.
It's it's a fun group, very loud group, and they have fun and
they're in Vegas. Um to me, it's like you watch the tang Amendments
and and Moses comes down the hill and sees the debauchery going out. That's
them, that's them. Come on, I've been out too in the morning.
That's them. You know, you see the two you know it.
I'm laughing because it makes so much sense. And let me tell you a
lot of those people are the ones complaining, I guarantee you, because they're
having fun and they're they're they but they're not they're not fully invested. They're
there to have fun. And and I get that. I applaud them,
thanks for going to Vegas and have fun. But yeah, but no,
I do you know, I do know a number of people that you see
in Vegas who you know don't go to the home games. Sure, sure,
right, sure, but and that's fine, that's fine, and that's
fun. Who you get to be sure everybody gets to be and your chance
to go to Vegas and enjoy it. And I'm not I'm not boot pooing
it, but you under something. They're not having fun, they're they're to
have fun as you should. But I'm also got a feeling that's kind of
the people that rag on on Facebook. And I'm also pretty sure that when
that tournament, when the tournament was in LA, they didn't go. They
didn't go. They're there because it's in Vegas, sure of course, because
you know, sure they added they added fun of that, sure, sure,
but to Vegas thing, coming Moses to check about it, you know,
that's accurate. That is so bad. That's true. I mean true,
I do think about that, especially when it was at the MGM and
it was all there. They're going to the casino after the game. Oh
my god, it was a madhouse. Right. It's a little more spread
out now, but it's still it's still really good, you know, going
to the park MGM after a game and that the circular bar in there.
Are you kidding me? Right? You know everybody's everybody's there, Well,
what do you stay? Park MGM St. New York. And it was
it was exactly that. That's what kind of party, just dancing till three
in the morning. And I was like, don't can't tell this guy's sleep,
but it's funny. I'm out too watching them. I thinking, Holy
Molly, what are you doing up? I'm trying to get to my room.
It's hard, and you know, but I look forward to it too,
you know. I mean, you know, work in the games.
You know, it takes a hat for you to get out of the arena
and stuff like that. But you'd walk into the casino at the MGM,
and you know, they're like four bars down there in the casino and all
four of them were loaded with Arizona people, people and stuff. Just a
lot of fun. Question and more power to them. If you want to
be that fan, that's be that fan. But a lot of them I
see on Facebook just complaining softball too. Here's another problem is that you have
your softball fans, you have your women's basketball fans, you have your basketball,
you and your football. Where does your money go? Right? Right?
You can't stretch to it everything? Right? Yeah, no it can't.
But but I will say though that again going back to what I said
and what I was always told at at you know, at the U of
A, you know, buy a football ticket to support the other programs.
That's you know, that's where you because you know, a women's basketball ticket
is not crazily expensive. My wife and a friend of hers have season basketball,
women's basketball, great entertainment. They're not real expensive, they got great
seats and they have a great time. You know, football tap you know
this is I think, uh Monday or Tuesday is the deadline to renew season
football tickets. I know that because I get a robot season football. To
god, I don't remember. I'd have to go on and look. I'll
look it up. Okay, uh okay, I would. I know.
I know that it's roughly four hundred and some dollars that I, you know,
no for for two takes. Oh, that's not a bad at a
fair ticket. That's not at the section where I said, I said on
about the ten yard line on the north end. I think for some reason,
two hundred thirty five dollars sticks in my brain. But I don't know
if that's that's not that's the right now. But but no, But but
then there's top you know, I get a tailgate pass. You know,
you got all these things going. I think I come up with about nine
hundred bucks. Yeah, but's your that's your your that's your extra right that
and that's what I do. I mean, that's that's how I choose to
enjoy it. Did you got it? Did you get a number yet?
I try? Okay? Um, but oh uh listener, Bill says six
hundred and fifty bucks for me? Is that Bill? I'm talking to Bill
on Twitter? Right says how much per ticket is? What is the question
that I have? Yeah? If it's under five, it's under five hundred
and six for six seven games? Right? Um? Yeah, um yeah?
That okay? That's those are those are single game prices? Yeah,
I'll look at up. I'll look at my account because I I what I'm
gonna what I'm gonna what I'm gonna uh have to pay for? And I've
got to come up with it this week. And like I've been, I've
been getting a robo call a day. You remind me. I'm like,
leave me the hello. I'm gonna renew my tickets, leave me the hello.
What you could come up with that? Let me tell you what I
did this yesterday? So I had my little book signing thing at the showtime
card what's his name? Is? Is great? That what's his name?
Uh, George George George Moddis is fantastic. And then I went to the
Honey brother the Brothers cooked. It was fantastic. Let me ask you something
about Ricky though, So when you were he's about your age, about your
age, maybe a little younger. It's a little bit younger a year or
two year, two years? Okay, So how was he here when he
spoke to How was he engaging? Was he was? Was he intimidating or
no? I remember him being, you know, very engaging and uh and
uh just you know some not intimidating. I think he was kind of almost
a big, big teddy bear. Okay, perfect, So it fits fits
with what I was gonna say. So he had been in a month and
they give each other grief and it's it was a fantastic a little back and
forth with him. I kind of did the m scene for the two.
It was like a gathering of twenty Uh. Michelle Schultz did a great job.
But I came away with with Lamont a sponsor of the show, fantastic
guy. To me, Uh, Ricky was very impressive. Yeah, just
exactly how you described him. A big teddy bear with some great philosophy.
And I'm thinking, I'm thinking when he's talking to some the people that I'm
thinking, how would you not want to pay for this? Dude? No,
no doubt because you feel like if you're being recruited by him, then
you're probably um, um, you see a guy that you you really like,
Yeah, right right, he doesn't, but you get on the field
with him and he's gonna he's Yeah. And I asked him about that the
kids learning wanting to be coached, and he says about eighty percent of them
due probably the other two due too, but they don't know it. Um.
But he was very impressive with the stuff he told the guys. It's
like being a father. You could use the same mentality. You could,
you know, be tough on your kids, but not that tough. You
know what I'm saying. Yeah, there's a there's a project there. Uh.
It came away very impressed with him. I'm not surprised about it,
but it just kind of reinforced the stuff that we already know. That's what
I didn't know him back to him, Yeah, so you know, it
just kind of confirmed. Yeah, all right, I found I found my
account my tickets. Again. I sit on about the ten yard line.
I mean the ten yard line probably goes right up between my legs, um
roast fifty six, so it's about halfway up. We sit right above the
upper tunnel, and it's a great view, because yeah, yeah, it's
a great if you're gonna sit on the ten yard line, that's how high
you want to be seeking see the other end of the field. So that's
about where I'm at. Um My tickets are three hundred forty bucks apiece,
three forty, so that six hundred eighty bucks for two tickets, and uh,
that's what we pay. And then I think that's that's up because they
increased, they raised their prices this year. I remember how much they raised
them. I'd have to look back in my accounting to see how much I
paid last year. I don't remember it being three forty. I thought it
was more, maybe even two eighty to ninety. I don't know, but
one hundred and forty bucks per ticket. We get two tickets and then we
get a tailgate pass. It cost four hundred dollars. That's that we break.
We split up and doing a bunch of right will worth it? Right?
Oh yeah percent plus it's basically a parking pass for me because I'm I'm
the one that the parks that we got. We gotta call, we gotta
call who it is high on the air and on the ball. Hey,
this is Jay Dobbins. I had a comment on Ricky and Lamont for Steve
and Jake. All Right, how are you hey? I like you guys,
put me direct. Yeah, Yeah, you're in. You're on.
You're on the air, Jay, You're on the air. Hey, I
just want to heard you guys talking about the Hunley brothers and and uh I
played with both of them. Ricky was a year ahead of me um and
Lamont was the same year as me. Lamont was our team captain in nineteen
eighty four, and uh Rick was you know, the you know, the
nation's captain in ninety And how were they back then? Were they were they
fuzzy guys, you know, fuzzy huggable guys or were they like intense guys
every now every bit of of what you see today like they haven't, uh
still like the nicest guys, approachable. Um, they were the stars of
our team, but you never know it. You never know that were the
stars because they treated everybody like people like myself who were like mid tier players.
They treated us just like we were one of the big time guys.
Yeah. I think that's party why you guys were so good back there.
Kind of lunch pale guys where everybody was treated equally and you just wanted to
kick people's buttons. Well, you know what those when when you're when you're
stars, when your best players take that hierarchy away and everybody's all in it
for the greater good, for the common cause. Um, that's that's when
you have a special team, right right, No, and you do.
And again, what I've always loved about these two guys that they came from
some who are really far away and have stayed here become a big part of
the community. Um, and you know, and didn't just come and go
right, They came and stuck around. And I love that about those two
guys. You know, it's what's interesting as a teammate, not only as
a friend, but as a teammate. When you're when you're at that age
and when you're playing alongside someone and you admire them. You admire the people
that you're standing next to, not just as a teammate, but you would
like their work ethic and their attitude and their character and how they treat people
and how they interact with people, not just in the football program, interact
with people in the community and on campus. That says a lot, because
there's a lot of competition and there's a lot of egos going on amongst the
team themselves. So when you're standing next to a guy solder to show old
and you actually admire him and want to be like him. But that's what
a leader is, right, No, and either one you're you're you're among
your brothers, among your your pals, and you don't want to disappoint each
other. Well, and those guys, you know, like um Rick at
that point, Ricky was a player that we had not really yet seen.
He's like that type of player is more common now, but in the in
the early eighties, you didn't see six three, two hundred and fifty pound
linebackers who could cover sideline to sideline. Right. That athlete hadn't arrived yet.
Yeah, yeah, made it, made it, has made a nice
living with it. Jay, Thanks for thanks for spending your afternoon with us.
We like her from you. I always will see you guys in the
afternoon. Super We do appreciate it. Jay, Thanks the whole bunch man,
all the best guys you will good call. Thank you Gee Dobbins,
there's the guy who knows right. Yeah, he was with him who update
staying out of trouble now that he's not coaching high school football anymore. He
he is um nobody. He makes it perfect exist those like I said,
I was not here, then you were here. It was just a nitty
gritty dudes. Yeah, no, he was. Those guys were, and
Joe Drakes, all of all of those guys, even a guy like Tom
Tuncliff who was a little guy but you know he was tough and and then
he was you know, those guys were just good guys. Randy Robbins,
all those guys and who a lot of them are stuck around Okay again,
which I love that being a local, you know, knowing that these guys
came here and not only came here to play football, but fell in love
with the place and had stayed. Okay, great call, Thank you,
Jay. Let's take our break. We're gonna come back. We'll do all
kinds of breaking news. Uh, and then we'll have a John Pearlman to
talk FC. Two sons. Let's stick around for all that