WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:07.679 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:13.640 fourteen fifteen, powered by Nova Insurance Services. Make sure your most prized possessions 3 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:19.000 kat z R two SAD and I Heeart Radio Station. Hey, good afternoon, 4 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:21.600 everybody. Welcome to you on the ball here in Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. 5 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:25.800 I'm Steve Rivera, You're Jay Gonzoz. Welcome to Thursday Show. Then 6 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:31.120 it looks like Dustiel Tucson became a little bit bigger today. Well certainly, 7 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:37.200 Um it's it's a little brighter, hotter can get brighter, not harder, 8 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:41.280 a little brighter. For I can't take it for some things, um, 9 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:45.759 you know, for football, Arizona football, for Arizona Athletics in general, 10 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.560 for Jet Fish certainly, um, you know, on the by the because 11 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:53.119 of the decision of an eighteen year old kid. Right, no, no, 12 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:55.640 no, you are funny you bringing it up because we didn't talk about 13 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.679 this. So one of our buddies text me about an hour ago. Now 14 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:00.280 headed to the doctor, and he says, well, what are you gonna 15 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:03.920 listen to him say? Come on, really, you're twenty year old year 16 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:07.599 old, fifty year old man, sixty year old man sitting by the edge 17 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.799 of your seat waiting for the information of a seventeen year old kid. I 18 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:17.000 know it's important, but really, Steve, I was saying that to myself 19 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:19.959 all the way here, because you know he did he had the program came 20 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.319 on at two o'clock. I was gonna I didn't know if he was gonna 21 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:27.079 come on at two o'clock. I leave my house at two o'clock. I 22 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:36.280 had YouTube on in my car. Now, mind you, if I'm not 23 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:38.719 doing this show, I'm not. You know, I'm waiting for the announcement, 24 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.519 but I'm not. I'm probably not watching unless I have absolutely nothing to 25 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:48.200 do. But you know, being that, you know, watching this and 26 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:53.879 just watching this program, and how much attention these grown ups, hey, 27 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.519 these kids, and how much of a business it is, and you realize 28 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:01.920 this is a really big deal. No, I'm not diminishing that because you're 29 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:06.560 because you're right, it is and the future of potential recruits coming in. 30 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:10.520 I get it. I get it. But I know when I was seventeen 31 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:14.280 years old, I wasn't worried about what other seventeen year olds were doing. 32 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.039 You know, it was throwing It was throwing me back to having to find 33 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:21.120 you know, follow up. But you know, on the one hand, 34 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:23.960 it was like, Okay, I'm I'm on the way in while I'm watching 35 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.560 this. Um, you know, I'm going back and forth between being a 36 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:32.840 fan and really wanting this kid to come to Arizona and then being you know, 37 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:37.400 having a show and just Okay, what are we going to talk about 38 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:39.360 if he goes to Oregon, or if he goes to an Notre Dame, 39 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:43.759 or if he goes to Tennessee. What do we say, right because he 40 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.080 didn't come, you know, do we get you know, are we pissed 41 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:47.520 at him? Or do we just say, hey, he's going to you 42 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:51.639 know, he's going to the big decision he had, he had he had 43 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:55.159 three other great places to go. Now he's picked Arizona, And so what 44 00:02:55.240 --> 00:03:00.960 does that mean? And it means a lot of things other than above and 45 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:05.120 beyond the fact that Arizona looks like they got a really good player. Totally 46 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.560 get it, totally get it. And here we are and we're referring to 47 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:14.599 go ahead, Elijah rushing the six five sixty six, two hundred fifty. 48 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.039 I saw two hundred and fifty pounds. He says, two forty on his 49 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:21.240 Twitter feed, somebody says he's two thirty, kind of like the Victor Webbaniona 50 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:25.879 thing. But he's a six six edge rusher. He's the number one ranked 51 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:32.800 player in Arizona, the number eight ranked player in the country, and the 52 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:38.879 number one edge rusher in the country. Arizon has never gotten a guy like 53 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:42.879 this, Right, Gronk was not that guy. T Mac who up to 54 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.960 now was the highest rated recruit, was not that guy. Um, none 55 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:50.280 of the other guys we had, you know that, the Arizona guy in 56 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:53.840 the past. You know, Michael Bates, Mike Chasca, go back to 57 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:57.759 Mike Dawson, go you know all these guys. None of those guys were 58 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:01.080 here. So what does that mean? Well, we don't know what it 59 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:05.800 means to play. That's the first thing I said coming in. But before 60 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:09.360 that, it means a lot of things. Even before he gets you in 61 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:13.199 the next year, it means a lot of things. No, the bottom 62 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.919 line, he's coming here. We'll see. You know what it's gonna make 63 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.879 me do, which I have no problem doing. Spending some time on a 64 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:23.199 Friday night at South or Salary, right, play to see what the fuss 65 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:25.560 is about. Yeah, Well, they played a bunch of his highlights in 66 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:27.800 you know when you when they play the highlights, you always see the best 67 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:30.879 players. But he's he's a man among boys. And so we'll see what 68 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.480 that looks like. You know that was as a junior. See what that 69 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.759 looks like as a scene, you know, speaking of we're gonna have his 70 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:41.319 head, head football coach Eric Rodgers is going to join us here in about 71 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:44.959 ten minutes. Uh, coach Roge, will you know tell us from his 72 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:48.160 perspective, you know what he thought, what he saw? Um, you 73 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:53.680 know, is Eric Rodgers happy that his guys are you know, going to 74 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:58.439 Arizona? Right? Or does he care? I'm sure he cares in one 75 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:00.920 way or another what he probably wants for his guys who land in the best 76 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:05.480 place for them. But you know, does it you know, is it 77 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:10.360 a bigger deal to him that his guy he's putting sending guys to Arizona and 78 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:15.639 hopefully making the Arizona program much better. Yeah, So we'll see what it 79 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:17.600 means to him, means the south Point. There's a lot of a lot 80 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:21.839 of moving parts here in a lot of different ways. Right. Congratulations to 81 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:28.279 Jed to Uve, to fans, to to Elijah, Russians, you know 82 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:30.879 to his brother Cruz, who's you know, who's uh you know here at 83 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:34.319 Arizona. You know they're gonna get to play together, watching the watching the 84 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:39.439 press conference. Um. Uh. Russian said that his brother being here was 85 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:42.720 a big deal. It meant a lot to him. Um. So you 86 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:46.480 know a lot of things that Jed Fish and his staff did in there, 87 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:51.000 uh to make this happen. You know, Uh, I don't know. 88 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:56.000 You have to say that from a recruiting standpoint, Arizona's for real under under 89 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.839 fish. Right, the question is how long? How long will it be? 90 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:03.560 Right? How and where do you go from here? Right? Right? 91 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.879 Well, other things, we're gonna have the coach on at three fifteen 92 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.800 and we're gonna have Matt Murdeno on to talk about all this from rival going 93 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:16.279 home, going home yesterday, um and finding out that a sue we've we've 94 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:20.439 already acknowledged UVA has done a pretty good job recruiting, right, A issue 95 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:25.199 has done better as of now. Yeah, they're ranging, well, this 96 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:29.040 will pop them up above Arizona. So let's talk. We'll talk to Mordeno 97 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:32.439 about that. Where everybody stands right now today after this decision. Yeah, 98 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.800 you know something like this, you know, moves it moves you up, 99 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:40.199 moves you up the list. Um, but uh, you know, we'll 100 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.879 see, we'll see what you know, what happens there. Um, I'm 101 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:46.680 looking at uh at the two four and not at four seven at Rivals, 102 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:53.079 which is the the service that Matt Mordeno works works for, and I don't 103 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:56.680 I'm looking down the list and I don't see rushing even in the top twenty. 104 00:06:56.759 --> 00:07:00.800 So we'll see what they where do they have it? But um, 105 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:02.560 you know, certainly, you know, Arizona's gonna hang their hat on him 106 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:08.040 being the number eight player in the country according to two four seven Sports. 107 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:15.279 But it's you know, Steve without going overboard on on what this means. 108 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.560 Um, you know, look, Tennessee gets guys like this all the time, 109 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:24.240 or a game gets guys like these all the time. To put in 110 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:27.639 perspective, Oregon gets guys like these all all the time. You know, 111 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:33.160 for Arizona to get this guy, it means a lot in terms of one, 112 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.079 is he a five star four Stream, He's a five He's a five 113 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:42.120 star on Rival. Okay, so I think he's a four star on i'man 114 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.839 a five star on two four seven twenty four seven. I think he's a 115 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:50.720 four star on trying to find him. So, so is this the first 116 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:56.839 one they've ever had? First five star ever? Okay, Mac was a 117 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:01.879 four. Let me start this over again. I thought they they've got the 118 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.439 kid who the kid from Florida was one, right or for four? The 119 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:07.839 kid who who came came and spent that day. I think he was a 120 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.759 four. Okay, here I just found rushing his number fifty seven on Rivals. 121 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.360 He's a he's a four on Rivals. Um. But you know, 122 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:20.639 just a lot of times, you know, where they decide to go has 123 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:22.959 something to do with you know, with their with their thing as well. 124 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:28.959 So we'll see. But in any in any regard, you know, on 125 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.159 paper, yeah, is rated and so you know what has that opened the 126 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:37.600 door to for Arizona? Right right? But is it you know, all 127 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:39.039 of a sudden it's okay to go to Arizona if I'm a five star guy. 128 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.519 Well, it reminds me of in in a weird way, because of 129 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:48.320 New Basketball, how Sean Elliott changed the direction of Arizona basketball. Go even 130 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:54.600 before that with the first number, when Luke the first Pricdonald's you're here you're 131 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:56.879 hear the story of when they're walking out of McMillan's house when he told him 132 00:08:56.879 --> 00:09:00.200 he was committed to him. And I can't I don't know who the coach 133 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.320 was that would have been with him, probably Scott Thompson. I'm guessino um 134 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.480 and uh if And he and Luke said to him, I can't believe we 135 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:13.120 got Craig McMillan, right, And Craig McMillan getting a guy like Craig McMillan, 136 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.159 you know, made it okay for a guy like Sean Elliott. You 137 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:20.799 know, we come to Arizona and then as and then as you go up 138 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:22.480 you know, up the road, up the path, you know, guys 139 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:26.360 like you know, Mike Bibbie, you know, Damon Stodemeyer, all those 140 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:30.279 you know, all those guys, uh you know, and then you know, 141 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:33.240 later on and then even into the Sean Miller here. So it makes 142 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:37.240 it okay. You know, it's to to to you know, to go 143 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:41.679 to a place like that. And and that's what Arizona gets out of this 144 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:45.879 that it wouldn't got that those other schools don't get, because those other schools 145 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:50.399 get guys like this off. So I just think that. Uh you know, 146 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.600 so Brian Peterson has this. He said this eleven minutes ago. Uh 147 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.919 twenty seven two for seven sports sports port blah blija. Russian would be the 148 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:03.279 highest rated player to sign with Arizona, but not the highest highest to commit 149 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:07.799 to the Wildcats. Maybe that was that was the the table kid. Who 150 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.399 was that guy for it was here for like a week and he was a 151 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:13.320 five star dB. He wasn't even a weekend. Yeah, I remember, 152 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:16.519 I remember that his mom said, no, you're not going, They're not 153 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:18.960 going there. I remember the look on her face when he when he said 154 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.480 he was going to Arizona. I don't remember. He did it during that 155 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:24.879 All Star football game, and it was like I knew he wasn't, Like 156 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.960 what are you doing? Yeah, I knew he wasn't coming, but yeah, 157 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.879 no, this is this is great, great for for for Jed. 158 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.840 We'll see what happens. Now. We've got another year to wait for him. 159 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:37.759 Yeah. Um, you know he'll sign in November December, whenever that 160 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:43.080 signing period is probably and so Jed can't even talk about him publicly. Nobody 161 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.840 did tweet about him. He just no, not my name. I'm sure 162 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.200 he put a cactus. Yeah, he put yeah, and then then they 163 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:54.799 don't know. You're right, he just put a cactus. Put a cactus 164 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:58.519 that's dancing. And then you know, but can't you can't mention him by 165 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:03.240 name. That's against the rule. Takeover resets. Yeah, I wonder what 166 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:07.799 he's talking about. I wonder what he's talking about. But this is you 167 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:13.000 know, this is cool and you know, um, you know. It 168 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:16.399 goes back to that article that we talked about from The Athletic yesterday. I 169 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.279 don't know if you had a chance to read it, and anybody out there, 170 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.559 if you, if you get a chance, uh, find somebody. 171 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.679 If you don't have a subscription to Athletic, find somebody who does and read 172 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:33.159 the article about Arizona staff recruiting not just Elijah Russian, but recruiting at South 173 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:37.120 Point. And again the fact that at six o'clock in the morning on the 174 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:43.080 first day the coaches could be on campuses, the entire Arizona football coaching staff 175 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.240 was at South Point. And what do they get out of They got these 176 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:52.799 two guys. Let's not forget Will Hike, the kid that that committed last 177 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.519 kiw on the will had committed and was on our show couple weeks ago or 178 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.559 last week. You know, they've got you know, the book ends of 179 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.039 the south Point defensive line. You know, Javier has a nice photo of 180 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:07.559 both of them. I'm not sure which the switch, but they're pretty big. 181 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:13.639 Russian is the bigger guy. Okay, okay, he's a big boy. 182 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:18.440 Um so again what what the meaning of this for Arizona is bigger than 183 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.240 the meaning of what it would be for sure of course. Of course, 184 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.279 so you gotta start. You gotta start with one right, right, You 185 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:28.120 can't win them all unless you start with one right And here's the one. 186 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:33.600 Or as like my brothers my like my brother likes to say that Elijah Russian 187 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:37.759 just grease the skids for more players to come in. Yeah, runway more 188 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:41.039 plays, like you think, if it happens, if it, if it 189 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:43.759 happens, so uh and and well right now we can think that it might 190 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:48.399 happen. Um someone else sensed that there could be another guy coming here pretty 191 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:54.440 soon who's just that as good. But yeah, so um so, as 192 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:56.799 one another guy said, it's kind of like you said, it's pretty bright 193 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:58.679 and two sons day and and you know, and then again I hate to 194 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:05.320 I to go back to the bedside of this. But now it really makes 195 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:11.279 you wonder, what the hell Kevin Summlin, what the hell right? You 196 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:18.960 didn't even try? No, that was really you didn't what the hell right? 197 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:26.120 And again maybe you probably don't get him. Anyway, we'll make him 198 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:31.080 tell you know, yeah right, sure, well it's like, well, 199 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.919 you see what happened to dictome me when that happened. You know, he 200 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.120 did really work really well chase the big timers and didn't get and didn't get 201 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:39.840 him. Yeah, but still but you know, but you got this guy, 202 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:45.559 as I say, two point two miles from your office, take a 203 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:48.279 shot, right, take a shot. Sure. So I'm gonna I'm gonna 204 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:52.360 screw to break. I'm gonna listen to his his press comp at least gonna 205 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.559 announced this. I guess he was on his phone doing it. Okay, 206 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:56.720 we'll come back with the coach. We're gonna come back with uh with Eric 207 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:01.200 Rodgers and Elijah Russians coaching. 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You 275 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:08.319 should be kind of very happy on cloud nine ish, uh with your with 276 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:12.440 your kids going good places to something. Must be very happy for you. 277 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:17.000 Oh. I think this is a very special day, There's no doubt about 278 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:18.640 it. I think, uh, just the family, Elijah, I'm so 279 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.720 excited for them. Honestly, I'm really excited for the University of Arizona. 280 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:29.200 UM. I think it's uh just in a tremendous, incredible experience that Elijah's 281 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:32.960 been through, but for him to play for the hometown crowd now is spectacular. 282 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:37.400 Coach, so uh, Steve and I we uh read a portion of 283 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:41.920 that article that you were quoted on, quoted in the Athletic talking about the 284 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:45.240 commitment at South Point me not just to Elijah, I think, but to 285 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:48.039 the your entire program at the you know, at the at the very beginning, 286 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:55.440 how much does that go into what a guy like Elijah or or uh 287 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:00.400 your other player uh will high you know when name these decisions. How big 288 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:04.440 of a deal is that for them? Well, I think it is a 289 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:07.440 big deal. I mean, you're going to build a relationship. Obviously, 290 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.079 this all starts with the relationships that you build with coaching staffs all over the 291 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:15.680 whole country. And for some of these guys that are these premier recruits, 292 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:21.000 they're they're talking to coaches every day all day and you're building a relationship, 293 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:22.839 and you have to feel comfortable, you have to feel at home. But 294 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.759 when you can have that relationship and it's right in your backyard and all of 295 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:30.480 a sudden, those coach, that coaching staff with the University of Arizona, 296 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:37.079 Coach Fish and those guys have done a tremendous job of making Elijah and Kiona 297 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:40.960 feel at home, making them know how much they care. That's a word 298 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:44.599 that I think it's you know this place sometimes and it's how much do you 299 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.759 care? Do you really care? And when you show people how much you 300 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:51.640 care, obviously, I think then good things happen. And that's what's just 301 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:53.759 happened for the University of Arizona. They've done a great job of showing those 302 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:59.279 guys how much they care about them and now they're gonna they're gonna get to 303 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:02.519 go play for the home town teams. So and you have two kids doing 304 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:04.519 that, which very makes you probably very proud of that too. But let 305 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:08.880 me ask you a dumb question. When did you know or did you know? 306 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:14.440 Yeah, I've I've kind of known a little bit, but um, 307 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:17.960 you know, this was This was not and it wasn't a home run in 308 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:22.279 a sense that it's gone kind of up and down. There's been different teams 309 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:25.680 that have been at the forefront throughout this whole process. I mean, it 310 00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:27.599 was Florida at one minute. I think it might have been Miami at one 311 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:30.920 minute. It was Oregon at one minute, it was Notre Dame, it 312 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.400 was Tennis, there was they were all kind of in the in the front 313 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:37.119 seat, if you want to say, at different points throughout this whole process. 314 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.200 But I think it just came down to this entire community. And I'm 315 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:47.640 gonna tell you this, This entire community rallied behind the University of Arizona and 316 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:52.519 supported them in making sure Elijah stayed home. And I think that just speaks 317 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:57.920 volumes to our community and where we live. And I'm just extremely proud of 318 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.359 being a two sons. Well, when you when a player like Elijah, 319 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:06.039 you know, top recruit, one of the top recruits in the country is 320 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:10.400 being recruited, what kinds of things are is he bouncing off of you? 321 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:12.640 Or that you've had others right, what kinds of things are they bouncing off 322 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:15.839 you? What are they asking you? What kind of advice are they asking 323 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:18.880 for? And what are you offering to them to help them make sure that 324 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:22.759 not necessarily that they go to Arizona, but they just that they make a 325 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:26.440 good decision for themselves. Well, I think, you know, it kind 326 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:29.400 of goes back to what I remember my parents teaching me when I was a 327 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:32.039 kid, and that's the old you know, here's the pros and here's the 328 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:34.279 cons. You put them on a piece of paper and you start writing down, 329 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:37.559 you know, here's the schools and then here's the things that are most 330 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:41.759 important to you. What do you value the most? Name them, mark 331 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:44.799 them one through ten What do you value the most? And then your rank 332 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:48.119 each school and you put a one next to the one that gives you the 333 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:51.559 most. If it's family, culture, if it's education, if it's a 334 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:53.720 big city life. You know, there's all those different things that you're looking 335 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:57.920 at when you're picking a college. And I think for Elijah, we did 336 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:00.599 that. That was kind of what came down and just putting those all on 337 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:04.799 a piece of paper, um, and then just evaluating and and kind of 338 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:11.559 again taking those relationships and then finding out that you know, I think what 339 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:15.599 it really boils down is you can't take away what it means to play at 340 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:17.960 home in front of your family. Yeah, I was gonna say so. 341 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:19.240 I mean there were there had to be a number of things. As you 342 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:22.160 say, you had to write down pros and cons. What do you think 343 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.720 were the main things, maybe three, four or five things that you're aware 344 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:30.200 of that were most important to him. Well, I think it was playing 345 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:33.920 in front of the hometown crowd and the family. I think it was. 346 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:38.000 I think it was the coaching relationships, It was the Again, there's a 347 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:42.200 phenomenal education that you can get at the University of Arizona. Um, it 348 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:48.559 was that family culture. The facilities are there. Um, they've got everything 349 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:52.240 that you need to win. Um. And so I think that's that's probably 350 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:56.720 what it all boiled down to. And don't forget the other kid will h 351 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.640 obviously, what are you guys creating over there? Well, i'll tell you 352 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:06.160 what. I just our defensive coordinate and I were just talking one minute ago 353 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:10.279 and I said, hey, don't mess this up. Now you could think 354 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:14.920 of so um, it's special. We're excited. We can't wait for this 355 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:18.640 fall. M are just our whole team in general. We've been working our 356 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:21.920 butts off all summer long. We've got they've had this week off and then 357 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:25.519 we come back for four hard weeks and then we put helmets on and go 358 00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:29.519 to work. So um, it's the season is going to be upon us 359 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:33.240 before we know it. I think Elijah stated in his speech about how he 360 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:37.079 wants to put Southern Arizone on the map, and that's what he's doing. 361 00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:40.680 And so we've got a lot to uphold. You know, on paper, 362 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:42.119 it looks great, but we've got to go out there and execute and play 363 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:45.240 football. On Friday, nights. It's funny you bring that the thing that 364 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:48.920 you said up earlier. But all of a sudden, you guys are better 365 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:52.680 coaches, or you better be, or you better be or does make us 366 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:57.559 look good? Does so so? So you guys have a season to play. 367 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:00.039 These guys. Okay, you've got all this, uh, all this 368 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:03.960 excitement of this, of these their commitments, and now you got to you 369 00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:07.079 still gotta go out there and play. Um, you know, what's what's 370 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:11.559 the message to the guys to make sure that you know, as no pun 371 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:15.640 intended that, to keep their eye on the ball, this ball. Yeah, 372 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:17.119 no, no, no, I think you nail then. And I 373 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:21.359 think, honestly, that was a big reason why both boys wanted. Uh 374 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:25.200 both these young men wanted to commit and commit now. Um, they are 375 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:29.319 very very focused on our football season and being the best teammates they can be, 376 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:32.759 and so they wanted to get this out of the way and they just 377 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:36.599 want to play football now. Um, they don't you know, the recruiting 378 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:41.240 trips to travel, all that stuff's done. We're locked in and and and 379 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:44.960 I think our whole team's rallying around them. They've been tremendous leaders, both 380 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:47.960 of them. Um, and I think that for us, it's just we're 381 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:51.680 locked in now on playing football and getting ready for our home opener against a 382 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:53.960 great Marana Tiger team. So so, coach, I'm not too sure sure 383 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:56.640 I should know this, but I don't. How long have you been at 384 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:00.720 some point? Uh? Two thousand two was the first year I started coaching 385 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:07.160 with somebody we know have been there forever. Um And let's uh nah, 386 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:08.920 I'll ask this question so you can do whatever you want with it. Uh. 387 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:14.960 The previous coaching staffs have taken a lot of criticism for not recruiting local, 388 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:18.160 didn't even go out. Uh. It must be refreshing to you for 389 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:22.359 you to see this happening now. It's uh yeah, No, I mean 390 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:29.240 it's I really have embraced the relationship with coach finishing his coaching staff. I 391 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:33.319 think it's he's done a tremendous job of opening up to me, and I've 392 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.039 done the same towards him. And that's it is. At the end of 393 00:26:36.039 --> 00:26:37.640 the day, it's a two way street. Both people have to communicate. 394 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:41.160 Both people have to you know, respect each other, love each other, 395 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:45.400 care for one another, and have each other's backs. And I think that's 396 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:48.839 kind of where we've gotten it to. UM, I was just mentioning earlier 397 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.960 to someone else. UH, coach to Steele and coach Rodriguez, UH and 398 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:56.279 coach Gibson. Coach Gibson and coach to Steele had two sons that played for 399 00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:57.960 us when they were at the University of Arizona, and we had some great, 400 00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:02.880 great relationships them. Unfortunately, we maybe just didn't have all the players 401 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:04.839 at the time that they needed a recruit. But UM, you know, 402 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:08.839 I think it was you know, the Big three with with with with Lathan 403 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:14.640 and Bejon and Bruno, UM and coach someone. Yeah, he's taken a 404 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:18.279 tough rap for what happened back then. UM, it was disappointing, I 405 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:22.200 think in a way, UM, and I think it boiled down to in 406 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:26.359 that position, it just comes down to, UM, at least make the 407 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:30.960 effort, making the effort show that you care and you want them if they 408 00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:33.000 choose something else, That's one thing. UM. I think what I love 409 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:37.200 about what Coach Fish has done is he doesn't care who you are, what 410 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.119 how many stars like. He's going after you. He wants you. And 411 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:44.279 Uh. He did a tremendous job with t Mac last year getting him to 412 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:48.640 flip from Oregon and coming to Arizona with Elijah and Keona coming over. Um, 413 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:52.279 I mean you're getting at the end of the day, it takes talent 414 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:55.759 to win, and he knows that more than anybody, and that you get 415 00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:57.039 this talent in there, and I think they got a real shot. So 416 00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:00.000 it'll be fun to watch. So when you came on, you talked about 417 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:04.200 how how excited you are for for Elijah and and you know, and for 418 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:07.880 the University of Arizona. How much do you want your guys to go to 419 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:11.400 Arizona? Right? I mean, is I know you're probably advising them, 420 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:14.319 look, do the best thing for you, but is it special for you 421 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.799 to see them sticking around here and playing at Arizona? Do? I mean, 422 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:22.039 is that something that you really really want them to do? You know? 423 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:25.920 For me to be honest, UM, I want them to go where 424 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:30.799 they're going to be happy. Um. Elijah, the number of schools, 425 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.160 the choices that he had, I sit here and go. I don't know 426 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:34.359 how I would choose I had. I mean, if I was in his 427 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:37.480 shoes, I have no idea how I would take a school. Um. 428 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:41.480 I think when I look at it, Notre Dame like to me, Notre 429 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.599 Dame Stanford. I'm kind of a I'm an academic guy, so like you 430 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.640 know, when I get an offer from a Michigan or a Washington or a 431 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:52.759 Northwestern, a duke of Vanderbilt, those are the ones that speak the most 432 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:57.359 volumes to me. Um, you know. But at the same token, 433 00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:02.039 to play for your hometown team and you got your family and all that before 434 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:07.079 that speaks volumes too. There's there's just nothing like playing playing in your backyard, 435 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:10.279 right, no question. We talk about this often because you have Bijan 436 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:12.599 going to Texas and who would fault him? Right? Ransom goes to Ohio 437 00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:15.279 to say, who would fault him? All these other kids going through these 438 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:19.920 big places, And if I had a son who's whose colleges were chasing him 439 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:22.279 like that, I'm thinking, that's a tough decision, but I know where 440 00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.720 I'm going and no fault, you know, no apologies, no apologies. 441 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:29.880 But you know, he's also a guy. We talked about this before you 442 00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:33.720 came on, a guy like Sean Elliott who could kind of transcend or or 443 00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:37.400 make things happen here at the University of Arizona because he's a local kid and 444 00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:41.839 his name will be known because God he remember when remember when and when this 445 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.279 kide rushing showed up and change the world, you know, change the program, 446 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:49.519 and that could happen here. Yep, I remember. It's funny you 447 00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:52.880 bring up Sean Elliott. I was at a game when I was like I 448 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:59.200 might have been in middle school or like sixth grade at Harrelson Cross Junior High 449 00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:02.680 and I go to se d O High School to watch Choia play when Sean 450 00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:07.680 Elliott dribbles the ball down, throws a pass behind his back and the kid 451 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:10.960 goes up and dunks it, and the coach bench Sean Elliott for throwing it 452 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.200 behind his back when he didn't need to. I'll never forget it. Taught 453 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.400 me a great lesson just as a little kid watching Sean Elliott play. But 454 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:22.119 you're right, and now these kids are gonna be able to see, you 455 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:23.920 know, they come to our games on Friday night, watch Elijah go out 456 00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:26.599 there and make this sack. Do this I mean, and then to go 457 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:32.359 watch him play at you of a and then I you know, we're going 458 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:34.440 to cross our fingers and keep him healthy. But he's gonna have a chance 459 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:40.000 to play on Sunday. So it's it's pretty awesome. It's pretty special in 460 00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:44.000 the terms of the amount of work that a coach has to do in a 461 00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:48.839 recruiting process like this, and you had to you know, not more than 462 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:52.759 one guy, right, how much of a how much work do you have 463 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.400 to put into this too? You know, follow up with coaches and meet 464 00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:02.240 with coaches and get them information and then get him from it. Is it 465 00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:04.240 fun? Is it hard? Is it all of the above? You know, 466 00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:07.279 in terms of the role that you have to play in this. Yeah, 467 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:11.559 no, Uh, probably that's a better question for my wife. But 468 00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:17.119 you know, you're right, it's it's Uh, it's NonStop. My phone 469 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:22.359 rings constantly. I probably get fifty and I but but I have a really 470 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:26.079 tough day job to my work work, Um, I'm managing forty five projects 471 00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:30.480 at a time, all different stuff any you know, anything from a honeyman 472 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:36.599 job to redoing a whole roof UM with our system for UH facility service company 473 00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:40.480 here in town. But it's for me, UM. I enjoy the heck 474 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:42.720 out of it, So it's not work for me. UM. I love 475 00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:47.680 talking to the coaches and building relationships with them. I love promoting our kids 476 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.079 and talking about them. Um. It's a full time you know, just 477 00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:52.960 just the coaching alone is a full time job, There's no doubt about it. 478 00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:56.599 I would love to be able to make enough money where that's all I 479 00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:00.839 had to do, but unfortunately that's not how it's gonna work. So I 480 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:04.519 just keep plugging away, loving what I'm doing. My family is very very 481 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.680 supportive of me, so that helps. Um. But but it's I enjoy 482 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:10.559 it. But it's it's NonStop, the text messages, the phone calls, 483 00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:15.480 it's it's all day, every day day there. But it's it's it's part 484 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:19.119 of it. So I enjoy it, like I just embrace it. Well, 485 00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:22.240 the good thing is your wife still with you, So that's right. 486 00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:27.119 So the who who's next? Who's next? You know we've got uh, 487 00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:29.839 we've got some great ones. Um, you know, we've still got to 488 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:31.759 find We're gonna find a great home for Louis Cordova. You know, he's 489 00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:36.440 our big tackle. He's gonna play some nose guard for us. Um. 490 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:42.079 Dinos Drosos is another stud. Nate Spivy. Nate Spivy's a name you've gotta 491 00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:44.759 you're gonna have to keep an eye on. I think he's a big time 492 00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:46.720 player for us. He's gonna be all over the field on offense, he's 493 00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:52.599 gonna play defense. Um, he's probably our best all around athletes. Um 494 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:54.640 it's so we've got We've still got Quiet and then I mean again, we've 495 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:59.279 got a number of other kids that are, uh, we've got some really 496 00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:02.279 young ones. Obviously, Noah Bannier getting his offer early from you of Ay, 497 00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:05.960 just at their camp just a couple of weeks ago. And he's just 498 00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:09.599 going to be a sophomore next year. So we've got Javon Wilson, We've 499 00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:14.839 got Sabian Marino, We've got a lot of big Isaac Moyle. These are 500 00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:19.319 all sophomores that are stuts, absolute stuts. And Elijah's got a little brother 501 00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:22.480 coming up right, what's that? And Elijah's got another little brother coming up 502 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:24.839 right? Yeah, yes, and yes, as a matter of fact, 503 00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:29.519 my son, my son Jake, he'll be a freshman next year, David, 504 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.480 Elijah's brother is going to be a freshman. So, um, it's 505 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:37.240 gonna be We've got a great I mean, we we have seventy freshman football 506 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:39.720 players that have signed up to play football this year, so U you know, 507 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:45.319 and again it just speaks volumes to the success that we've had over the 508 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:47.599 years, you know, being ranked and number seven team in the state of 509 00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:52.720 Arizona over the last decade, I think that speaks volumes. And now that 510 00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:54.839 to have Elijah, what we're doing. These kids, you know, they 511 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:58.319 want to come to South Point and we've got a special thing going and we 512 00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:00.960 just got to you know, just keep this thing moving in the right direction. 513 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:06.480 Coach, don't screw this up. You got I know im. Hey, 514 00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:10.639 I'm trying not alright, Coach. I appreciate your time here. Do 515 00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:15.119 we really do? Good stuff? Good stuff? Thank you, congrats today, 516 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:16.840 Thank you very very much. Appreciate you guys having me on. Thank 517 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:22.599 you. Well come on, if you have that was telling you kinda well 518 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:23.760 yeah, I mean yeah you got. Okay, you got you got all 519 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:28.079 these players. Now let's let's see what you can do with that. Well. 520 00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:30.880 Good good job, you know, Coach Rodgers, a good job again. 521 00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:35.960 Congratulations to Elijah Rushing and uh you know, and again the big thing, 522 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:39.039 you know, big picture, this door is swung wide open, fair 523 00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:43.480 zone. Get in there. At South Point. They made some inroads at 524 00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:45.199 some of the some of the big schools, the great schools up in Phoenix, 525 00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:49.079 and so I think that's next. I think that's what I kinda got 526 00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:52.480 a hint that somebody from Phoenix might be coming down there. So it's on 527 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:55.239 for you know. Uh, I mean, look, Fish, he said 528 00:34:55.800 --> 00:35:00.360 he was going to do the work. Yeah, and he clearly is right 529 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:04.760 now what's happening? Someone said that was a great interview. Okay, Well, 530 00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.679 appreciate coach Rodgers for coming on, and we'll kick the torontomore right after 531 00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.480 the breaks. We'll stick around. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, 532 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:14.920 you'd know it's been successful for newly forty years. Now. 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This is I on the Ball 574 00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:22.519 with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Subscribe now to 575 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:27.840 the podcast on the iHeart Radio app Just Surgery I on the Ball. They 576 00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:30.519 welcome back to I on the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen. Cookie Young Steve 577 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:32.960 Rivera, He's Jacons All Street for about thirteen minutes. If you guys want 578 00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:37.199 to get on in on the conversation, give us a call. Five two 579 00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:40.840 o four one six seventy four forty. It was great to talk to mister 580 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.360 Rogers. Yeah, yeah, you know, there has to be a whole 581 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:51.719 a huge amount of satisfaction for one of your players. Oh yeah, you 582 00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:53.360 have to be able to have this right, right, right to do this, 583 00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:58.519 to get this level of attentions and bring some credibility, to bring some 584 00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:04.159 ccredibility to your program what you're doing. Um and and then to see these 585 00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:07.159 guys go off, and you know, you hope you'll do something great. 586 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:10.639 And uh, you know the feeling that that asked me, like you know 587 00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:15.559 your Robinson's coach, how how great you about that? Right? You know, 588 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:17.559 Well, like we said, like we said as I came in today, 589 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:21.480 it says, okay, this is the first step of one of many. 590 00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:24.480 Well, actually finished out the career of his high school then coming on 591 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:29.920 being the player that people think he's gonna be for a year or to come. 592 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:32.400 You know, this is just a long crack. There's still that part, 593 00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:35.360 right, He's still got to go have a great season. Well you 594 00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:39.199 remember we remember when we covered there was the besttball football back in the late 595 00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:44.960 eighties. The best guy at that time was Mike Shatska. Right, came 596 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:49.719 in and I don't know McDonald's American or whatever, and and and he gets 597 00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:53.000 hurt right away. So all that work, all that stuff to get him 598 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:58.519 there and all that is over when yeah, it's gone, it was gone 599 00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:01.519 and hurt. Uh, and so you'd never know. But right now we 600 00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:06.159 know that he's coming here. And uh, Horizon was all giddy. They're 601 00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:08.280 they're giddy for sure, and fans are giddy. Um, you got a 602 00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:13.119 bunch of you know, fans of other teams who are not so giddy doing 603 00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:17.079 the same stupid things. Yeah, he's just stupid, Steve. You know 604 00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:22.199 he Oh, he's gonna suck, or he'll be there a couple of years 605 00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:23.840 and he's gonna transfer it. He's gonna be find out. It's a horrible 606 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:27.519 place to be. Uh, you know, I hope he gets hurt, 607 00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:31.440 you know, I mean from all of that, it's like, you know, 608 00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:37.559 what if that's your life to crap on an eighteen year old kid or 609 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.239 seventeen year old kid, ever old he is because of a college decision he 610 00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:45.559 made, if it's your life to say I hope he gets injured, or 611 00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:50.840 there was one said he's gonna he's gonna suck and he's gonna end up homeless 612 00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:57.800 and two sons. Really that's where you that's where your life is, right, 613 00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:00.320 that's where you're liking And I'm like, man, and how bad do 614 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.159 you have? How bad things have to be for you to be that guy? 615 00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:12.159 Very bad? But look, you know what, and you know, 616 00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:19.400 Arizona it all levels and as a program in general, it's always been the 617 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:22.480 place that it's hard to have good things, right, you get some good 618 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:25.000 things, then they they're good for a while, then they go away. 619 00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:29.480 You know, you gotta you get a player like Mike Chasca Parade all America. 620 00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:32.519 He gets hurt and never materializes. Um, you know, you have 621 00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:37.039 a kid like Rodney Pete grew up here in town, play Little League baseball, 622 00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:38.880 YadA, ya YadA, and he goes off to USC and then comes 623 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:43.079 here and kicks your ass. You know. Um, you know some of 624 00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:46.079 those other guys that have left from here. You know, fortunately Arizona didn't 625 00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:51.559 ever have to play be Jean Robinson. But you know it's hard for it's 626 00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:55.199 hard for us in Tucson as Arizona fans to have good things. And so 627 00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:59.960 for Arizona to get something like this, you know, people are gonna be 628 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:04.639 getty and they're gonna be excited and they and they deserve to be And uh 629 00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:07.239 yeah, a lot still has to he still has to get here and he 630 00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:08.800 still has to be good. I don't know how to ask this question because 631 00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:12.679 I've been here thirty five years and I love this place that I really had 632 00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:16.679 a chance to leave, but I didn't. I like this town. Maybe 633 00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:20.440 the callers can help me with this, and you j you've never left. 634 00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:23.880 Um. You talk about Tuson being what it is, right, it's not 635 00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:27.559 La, but I don't want to be La. Right, it's not doubts 636 00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:32.400 anything, want to be what makes this place special that people don't really gift, 637 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:36.840 if that makes any sense, because there are other cities that are nice. 638 00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:39.519 No, from the outside, you see, the Tucson is Phoenix's baby 639 00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:44.039 brother. M it's hot as hell, will always be right, it's hot 640 00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:46.840 as hell. It's in the desert, it's near the border. But there's 641 00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:52.119 a butt, there's there's a lot of puts there. Yet you know, 642 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:55.599 you come here, you spend to spend a little time here, spend a 643 00:42:55.639 --> 00:42:59.360 weekend. You know, because Richard talked about this, this is not a 644 00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:01.920 destination place. You get here, right, go come come here, spend 645 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.960 a week here, you know, go to some restaurants, do some stuff, 646 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:09.480 play some golf whatever. Go to the mountains, right, you know, 647 00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:12.760 you know, go up. You know it's one hundred and ten degrees 648 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:15.039 down here. You go up to Mount Lemon, It's it's eighty degrees and 649 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:20.880 it's nice. You experienced the things that matter to us, and then you 650 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:23.199 go, wait a minute, you know there's something here, right right, 651 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:28.199 you know, come come in here, come here in March or April? 652 00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:31.119 Are you kidding me? Right right, right, right right, because you 653 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:35.480 can't compare it to Austin and maybe you can into college town. Yeah, 654 00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:39.159 but Austin has its thing. Uh, Boulder has its thing, right, 655 00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:43.400 you know what I'm saying. You know how many times Ricky Ricky Hunley told 656 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:46.760 us the story about how he flew in here from Pennsylvania and he got here, 657 00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:52.239 you know, on a nice winter day, and he said, I'm 658 00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:55.480 coming here. This is where I'm coming. Yeah, you know that's you 659 00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:58.800 know, that's what we're talking about. Somebody who comes here and has an 660 00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:01.239 appreciation for that stuff. And okay, okay, So then you say, 661 00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:06.239 well, I can't playing in Arizona. But you know, and I still 662 00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:09.719 remember rich Rod's press conference. He's you know, he said why not us? 663 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:15.000 Why not us? And and you know he got close, but you 664 00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:17.280 know it didn't sustain it. But you know, it's a place that you 665 00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:21.119 can come and do things. Okay. So I got I got some people 666 00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:23.119 texting me a couple of things from us. One of the reasons it's a 667 00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:25.840 small, big town. I think that's the best thing that because you know, 668 00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:30.320 I was just feelings over the weekend and it's only all almost cost um 669 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.199 uh five six degrees hotter, and you feel it. You feel it, 670 00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:38.719 and it's not comfortable. There's like nowhere to go to cool off. I 671 00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:44.280 went to the ball mild winters. Okay, no traffic like the big cities. 672 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:46.320 People will bitch about it, but it's not like we bitch about our 673 00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:51.239 traffic. But you know what you tell anybody in La you can get anywhere 674 00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:53.679 in town in half an hour and they're gonna go all take that right. 675 00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:58.280 And of course good food, good arts, and there's entertainment and if you 676 00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:01.880 guess what if you don't like it or same here, you go and you 677 00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:04.760 come back. If you want to go to the beach, you go to 678 00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:07.280 San Diego, you go down to Rocky Point. You know it's not that 679 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:12.039 expensive, right, It's not a good So you know that's why I asked 680 00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:14.639 the question. It's not San Antonio because it has a lot of the same 681 00:45:14.639 --> 00:45:16.280 things. It's not Albuquerque. Albuque has a lot of the same things, 682 00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:20.039 but it has but it's not too soon, say, you know, I 683 00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.960 mean I traveled around a little bit. You know, governing sports mostly. 684 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.920 You know, went to Denver when all the pactof Cities went to Denver, 685 00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.400 went to Miami, went to you know, Illinois, went to DC. 686 00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:37.079 UH, went to these places, and always with an eye because I was 687 00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:39.880 a journalist, always with an ie what I want to live here? And 688 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:45.800 the only two places that I thought I could live were Denver and San Diego, 689 00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:50.440 all right, even Seattle. I really like Seattle, but for a 690 00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:53.079 lot of the gloominess of it. You know, I think I did the 691 00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:57.719 I did the count one time. I think I I spent fourteen days there 692 00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.199 all right, covering various stuff, and I think I saw the sun twice. 693 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:02.719 Yeah, it's like that that. You know, I'm from Tucson. 694 00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:06.480 That I can't I can't do that. You know. I love the Bay 695 00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:10.559 Area, right, take me to Scoma's every day over there, fisherman's work, 696 00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:16.719 you know. But I would never live in San Francisco or in the 697 00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:21.440 Bay. I would never live in La Yeah. I don't know how Willard 698 00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:24.079 Willard does it, but you know I would never live in Vegas. Yeah 699 00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:28.519 right, No, no, you would be you would live that Longe, 700 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:31.119 right, you know. And and I'm the guy that thinks Eugene is would 701 00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:35.719 be too small for me, and I love, but it would be too 702 00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:37.159 small for me. I feel like there's not enough to do there. It's 703 00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:39.519 a lot like Tucson, it is, but it's a great college stile. 704 00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:43.000 I love. Eugene's getting rains too much, yea, and the East Coast. 705 00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:45.239 You know, it's it is what it is, but there's something. 706 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:51.559 There's just something here for people. And it's the people that recognize recognize it 707 00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.000 that have the best time. So yeah, thanks for the list, mild 708 00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:58.719 winters of course and all that stuff. So yeah, but you know it's 709 00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:02.800 it's, uh, I don't know, an acquired taste, right, it 710 00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:06.000 is, but you have to get to you have to get here to get 711 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.599 that acquire right, you have to spend some time. And you'll hear people 712 00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:10.880 bad mouth and say, well, two sis, it's little. It's a 713 00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:15.039 hick down. You know, it's hill billies and horses, and you know 714 00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:17.920 what, just come here and check it out. I don't know those people. 715 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:22.719 Horses, I don't even know those people. Even they think of two 716 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:25.679 sons, they think of old two songs, right, you know, dirt 717 00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:30.880 streets and uh that exactly exactly know they probably do. Yeah, and especially 718 00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:34.960 with the things that have happened in this town over the last few years. 719 00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:37.360 You know, you go downtown, man, there's stuff happening down there. 720 00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:39.440 You know, it's it's some very cool stuff. It's fine. I ran 721 00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:44.920 into a lady whatever last trip I was on, and I had my backpack 722 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:47.559 on, and it had an Arizona stick around the back and uh or an 723 00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:51.960 Arizona luggage tag on the back, and and the lady goes, oh, 724 00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:52.920 yeah, you still live there. So when was the last time you were 725 00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:58.039 there? She says, two thousand and eight. I said, it's a 726 00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:01.199 lot different. Yeah, it's a lot different. Yes, I said. 727 00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:05.800 She goes, well, you know, we had a really dead downtown and 728 00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:09.320 said, downtown is different. You come to two son, I said, 729 00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:13.480 you, if you liked it there, just come and check it out and 730 00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:15.760 you'll see it. Come back. Yeah, just don't come back now. 731 00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:19.880 Yeah, and don't stay. No, I'm just kidding. That's part of 732 00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:22.360 the part. Well, that's a part of the thing. You know. 733 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:23.519 We have a lot of people who say, yeah, come and check it 734 00:48:23.519 --> 00:48:27.159 out, but those still don't stay. We don't we don't want you here 735 00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:30.519 for long, which is dumb. But you know it's it's uh, I 736 00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:35.840 don't know. I just feel like you know, you we're a place it's 737 00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:37.280 always fighting to it. Like, as I say, have good things. 738 00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:40.519 So when you get a good thing like this happened, you know, you 739 00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:45.239 get really excited about it. If Notre Dame had gotten Elijah Rushing, it 740 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:46.920 had gone great, we got another guy, you know. If Oregon got 741 00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:50.199 him, great, we got another guy. I saw the list Oregon. 742 00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:52.800 Uh, somebody put up a list of four and five star recruits this year. 743 00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:57.800 Oregon and USC both have twelve. Elijah Russian would have been just another 744 00:48:57.800 --> 00:48:59.760 guy. Right. No, No, that's a that's a good point, 745 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:01.880 right, because you're right. That's the funny thing. It's like when love 746 00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:07.719 Love came from North Carolina here and everybody was happy and me, mister mister 747 00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:13.199 negative or mister different Downer, Debbie Downer, everyone's all happy. And I 748 00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:16.440 get that. I'm happy for Tommy and the group. Uh. And I 749 00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:21.199 said, well, North Carolina wasn't too sad, and seeing him go, 750 00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:23.400 they got a better guard coming in. And that's how they felt, right, 751 00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:27.800 That's how they felt. But Arizona had a different feeling because then he 752 00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:31.159 did him right. You know exactly. I know, so I just you 753 00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:36.119 know, look, and guys come here and again we find out how you 754 00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:39.599 know, they come here and they stay. Hi. You're on the air 755 00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:43.119 and on the ball. Well, we got about a minute. I gotta 756 00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:45.320 make it quick, okay, guy, how are you guys? This is 757 00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:54.400 Gabel car boys boys. We got a good recruit and today bear down Ca. 758 00:49:55.239 --> 00:50:00.679 That's a little different tone than yesterday day before. I like you. 759 00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:04.559 Yeah, can I can say two more things? Yeah, real question, 760 00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:08.320 I've got. I've got the Oregan death. Fans are crying right now, 761 00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:15.039 and there's still softys the Atlantic Ocean. And you know for a fact that 762 00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:20.920 deaf fish is doing his work, unlike Kevin Sumlin to basically collect your check 763 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:27.000 and went to the bar. That's a little too much of a relation. 764 00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:29.880 Thank you, Gabel. You're on top of it all right, Gabriel. 765 00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:32.920 We appreciate it, man, Thank you, thanks, thanks for listening always. 766 00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:42.000 Fresno's never the same without Gabriel. Your free Gabriel Friendsne's Nico. Yeah, 767 00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:45.440 we love you, Gabriel. Appreciate the calls always. So yeah, 768 00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:50.400 So you know again, a great a great day for for Arizona, assuming 769 00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:54.400 you know he's gonna stay that the se as a listener, as a hard 770 00:50:54.440 --> 00:50:59.079 commit I can't I can't think that there's gonna be much that would get him 771 00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:01.960 to to, you know, after all this, to leave his brother and 772 00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:06.480 leave his family somewhere else, especially after the commitment. You know, there 773 00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:09.320 has to be there has to be some stuff, plenty of stuff that that 774 00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:13.159 that Arizona has done to keep him here, to get him here and keep 775 00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:15.840 him here so, you know, and hopefully we get to see him see 776 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:17.639 what he can do. And again, you still got another year of high 777 00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:21.960 school to play for als, so we'll see what that. But you're right, 778 00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:22.519 I think I'll you know, I'll go. I want to go see 779 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:25.559 him. Yeah, we'll see what this kid looks at the South Point Miranda 780 00:51:25.599 --> 00:51:30.199 game that opening the game that that Eric Rodgers talking about. That's a huge 781 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:32.199 game. You know, Mirandos are really damn good. It'll be fun to 782 00:51:32.199 --> 00:51:36.360 go and see a game and see what's going to check that out. Okay, 783 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:37.559 all right, let's take our break. When come back top of the 784 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:40.400 hour breaking news. Uh, because we've been so busy with this, I 785 00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:43.880 don't know how much we've got. But there's a couple of things out there, 786 00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:46.199 so stick around for that, and then we're gonna have uh Mad Mordano, 787 00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:50.360 who is going to commit from H Rivals, talk to us about what 788 00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:52.760 some of this night mean as well, so stick around.