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This is I on the Ball with
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everybody. Welcome to I on the
Ball. You know, Fox Sports fourteen

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fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're
Jaganzas. We're by ourselves today Tuesday.

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A good show today. Yeah,
you know, we put in a request

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to we saw saw the Storydia Barnes
and this sports and Leadership academy she's launching

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over at the Boys and Girls Club
and ocause you'd want to come on and

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talk about that and what all that's
gonna do and what it means to her

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and what it will mean to the
community. So we invite her to come

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on here and talk all about that. Okay, I didn't see that just

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recent Yeah, just came out this
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story on it. I think it
was yesterday. Um, and it's you

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know, she's putting some money and
u in her time into into this academy

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that's going to be housed over at
the West Side Boys and Girls Club,

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the one buy a real golf course, okay, and speedway, um,

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and just you know, giving you
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be a part of something and be
mentored, and her basketball players will go

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over there and you know, and
and and and teach some lessons and just

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you know, do some stuff with
the kids from that area. So it

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sounds like okay, good, good
good. I was gonna ask Jos to

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say to you, I guess she
knows that we're gonna ask questions. Well,

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yeah, we are gonna ask questions, but I said, we want

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to come and talk about that.
Okay, let's talk about Let's be sure

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we talk about that first and then
whatever the questions. Good good, good

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kid will let you ask those questions. It's very cool deal. You know,

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it sounds like very cool. You
know she's been she's been very um

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you know, from the time she
got here very uh just involved in some

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community right notion, whether it's whether
it's for equality and basketball or the stuff

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in the community. Um. You
know, she's joined more than coach here.

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Yeah, no, and she and
she's very committed to the to the

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university, to the community, and
the community has been intern very committed to

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her. Right, come on,
like I said to you a thousand times,

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not in my lifetime would ever ever
imagine I'm in a full house in

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the n I T title. It's
just right. I wouldn't there, and

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I'm thinking this is not happening.
And then it's continued. Right, Yeah,

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they I think they. I think
they led the Yeah, they average

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like seven thousand a game or something
like that. You know, I mean

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even the quote unquote you know,
not so great games. There's some of

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those non conference games, four and
five thousand people at those games, right

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right, and you were here.
I was not here for loots early years.

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Um so eighty three, eighty four, his first year, smattering of

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people, yeah you know that.
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you know pretty quickly, how quickly. That's why That's why I think my

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conference season that year, really people
realize that, you know, there was

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something, that there was something going
on that it was better than we had

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seen. Not sold out, right, not sold out, but you know

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they were getting eight nine. Okay, that's good. You were a team

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that has been well, yeah,
the team had been miserable, but you

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know, lud olson Um really gave
them an immediate, you know, shot

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in the arm that people believe,
wait a minute, that you know,

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there's a there's a commitment here to
making this a good program. People were

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just waiting for that. And the
basketball the previous year was so bad,

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right that people wanted something that I
think it coincided Jake, because we've had

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a lot of the guys from that
here, Pete Williamson and all that.

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Uh if you remember and you were
here, um and I've written about a

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thousand times, it took him about
half this season to start believing that they

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could win. And I think even
Pete said at one point, and he

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always told me, he says,
there was a point in there when they

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lost a lot, and it says, no one of you guys can't win.

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You guys are a bunch of losers. You don't know how to win,

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right, And then they started to
win and they started to win.

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Yeah, right, So no,
I mean I remember that, And then

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you know, it wasn't it wasn't
long. You know, game started selling

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out of them, and and now
here we are a year years later with

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Adiya who probably and when you got
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I said, I'm gonna remind her
of something I said to her when

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we were on the show. But
I'm sure it was a struggle early,

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yeah, and then it finally kind
of clicked. Yeah, yeah, well

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you know they started winning. They
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know what, and I'll bring this
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then talking about it later, she
had she was beating teams that you should

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beat, right the lower level,
but she said, I got to let

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them know that they can win,
right, you know, you got to

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start winning somehow before you learn how
to win. And then and then with

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all that then comes to the ability
to have the profile to do these kinds

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of things that I get a lot
of communities apart. Right, So she

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really you know, across the board, you know, elevated, um,

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you know, the women's basketball program
herself, girls basketball in town. Yeah,

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people want to but you know,
you know, I'm sure there's girls

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playing high school basketball that might not
have honest my about it if these things

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hadn't weren't going on, No question, he faked. I met some people

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I was out four or five months
ago, and it was a friend of

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mine and his wife, and she
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she was you know, he's taking
me to watch this women's basketball team.

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I really don't want to go,
blah blah blah. So she went,

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and she liked it because it was
a crowd. It's it's totally different than

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the men you're there all the time. It's a different feel. It's even

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crazy. It's it's it is it's
it's the softball crowd. Okay, but

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with some some youth in it as
well. You know. I mean,

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my wife goes to the games,
right, she's got seasoned for the reason

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of she just loves going to these
games. You know, they're exciting,

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Okay, she loves that it's women's
basketball. And and you know, her

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and one of her one of our
family friends from our kids growing up,

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you know, together, they bought
season tickets and actually every year since they

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watchings, they think two seasons ago. Each year they've moved, they've you

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know, increased their uh you know, where they're sitting, or they moved,

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you know, gotten better tickets.
So but they love they love the

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excitement of women's basketball. You know, my wife's been going to the men's

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team games forever now, We've always
had tickets to that, and she feels

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like one she owes it to the
program, but two she loves going.

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She know, you know, she
hardly misses a game. No, no,

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And it's it's it's it's shown in
it's uh and it's commitment and it's

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to her well in the contract and
it's shown you know, you're on the

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community. People don't talk just about
men's basketball. I get asked about women's

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basketball. You're you're right. You
know people know that I'm doing stats for

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the women's basketball, you know,
and they asked about that all the time

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too. It's funny you weren't with
me. I went to the to the

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horses. It was one of the
last days, and um I posted I

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was at the horses. There was
no basketball game going on for men right

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covered men and the woman and she's
might relistening right now. She says,

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what do you mean there's no basketball? There's women's basketball. Why aren't you

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there? And I think, no, apologies that don't grow over the women,

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but hubs there. But it's it's
a comfortable point where they want you

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to go to cover right every and
if you're not and if you're not going,

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you're slacking right right right when jail, I mean again, you know,

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I started doing stats for them when
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were crowds when they were five people. Thousand people. Your atmosphere is totally

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different than your atmosphere. You know, there's a better feeling when you walk

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in, you know, and usually
the lower bowl is pretty full, you

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know it. I think ten thousands
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that. When they're seven or eight
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bowl, it looks pretty full.
So you know, again, she's done

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a great job. She's done a
great job by elevating uh, you know,

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the visibility of it, you know, and a lot of that came,

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you know, in that NI the
w n I t year when she

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was you know, pushing tickets during
the tournament to the point where you know,

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they filled it up for a championship
game and the rest is kind of

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history. Right. People are just
you know, people are caught. You

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know, they've got their tickets and
they're going to these games. So it's

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been uh, you know, it's
been a great ride for her and and

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you know she's, uh, she's
paying it back, and yeah, that's

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awesome to see. Right. It's
funny because she want the contract whatever was.

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She got the million, and there's
no questions she's paying it back and

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and and more so. Right the
enthusiast. You can't pay for that enthusiast,

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Right, I guess you can.
But yeah, but did you hear

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anybody complaining about her getting a million
dollars? Absolutely? Not one person.

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No back. Everybody said she's worth
it, she's worth it, and she

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would have been gone. She was
a chance, and they didn't want her

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to go. Yeah, and then
the school made a good move by keeping

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her. She made a good move
by staying. You know, now,

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will somebody down the road come up
and snap her up? Maybe? Maybe?

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You know? Well, and this
is part of the questions. I'll

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go. It's it's tough. I
mean, she's realized she created a monster,

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right, this monster, this monster
is tough. Let's say the Connecticut

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job opens up in the next few
years, right, Gino Rima is getting

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old. Right, Let's say that
job opens up. You know what,

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do you was gonna get a phone? Right? Yeah? Right? Or

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or any other big job right?
Yeah? I mean you know the Alice

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your job just filled? Um,
South Carolina. I think I think Don

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Steals probably should be there a while
longer, but you know, but she

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she would be in the conversation for
any when the Kentucky job opened up.

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Totally agree, Totally agree, and
still young enough to do a lot of

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things with her with her life,
right yeah, okay, no, that's

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a great one. And then at
the second hour and the second hour gonna

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bring Jody Ailer in talking more Phoenix
stuff. See what he thinks of that

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trade with Bradley Beale. People will
talk about the Cardinals with him as they're

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really going to be that bad,
right, yeah, four and a half

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he cents five. Yeah, he's
he's and he's more. Really I like

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Jody because he's really risk the realistic
and he's he and so was Bob yesterday.

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Bob was fantastic yesterday. Um and
and we'll see, you know,

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he's a UA grad. We'll talk
a little about Arizona and what Tommy's doing

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because Tommy, for when we know
this Wilder, I think his Willner somebody

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else had written, Uh, everyone
was down on Tommy. Tommy, what

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Tommy can't Tommy do? Can't you
know you know, Kemmy, Tommy can't

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win? And then all of a
sudden he's the king of what do you

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call him the King of the King
of the disaster, remain the King of

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the Thumber. He's really pulled it
out again. But I was with some

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people last saying, are they gonna
be good? Are they gonna be good?

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Talk to me in March, Talk
to me in March. You we

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don't know. We don't know,
just like we didn't know last year.

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The absolute were really good, you
know, the last few regular seasons.

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But you know neither one of those
regular seasons was everybody happy at the end.

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Right, aren't anybody ever happy?
Jay? You know you know they're

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never happy. So let me see
the cardinals. Yes, are even odds

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that under or under four and a
half wins over over four and a half

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is minus one twenty under four and
a half plus one. Yeah, I

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would go I'd go under, I'd
go under, I'd go under three and

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fourteen. It's a disaster. They
don't even know their backup is. We're

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talking about Whatzell or whatever his name
is from a Philly Oh h that guy

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whatever he That guy don't even he's
not even good enough for me to remember

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his name. That guy, Uh, he's still looking for a job.

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That guy can't remember those names because
we're old. Remember remember remember Danny White

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and tweet. Remember that guy though
it's Alo's gonna text me. I,

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uh that guy, So you know, I murray, he's not good enough.

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He's not gonna be good enough.
Uh, he's not gonna be healthy

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enough at the beginning, that's for
sure. Yeah, I had the guy

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to google the day Carson Wentz's what, We're awful. We're awful anyway,

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So Jody will beyond uh to talk
a little again. You know, stuff

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going on off all over the place, and I know a lot of a

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lot of you know, a lot
of stuff with the Suns. The Cardinals

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are coming up. Um, you
know, the Diamondbacks are going really well

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and pissing me off. Yeah yeah, I just goo was too right to

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beat the hell out of the Dodgers
fifteen. So no, but they've advanced

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ahead of the Dodgers and my and
my, my, my Reds. Who

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I'm not really owning the Reds because
I haven't been a Red Spen since nineteen

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ninety. Uh, they're they're come
out, they've won nine or ten straight.

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Wow, Joey Votto comes out,
you know, comes off like a

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major injury, plays in his first
game in like a year. He goes

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yard and then they have that kid
who just showed up. Yeah, and

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guys playing well. Yeah, I
didn't realize that the Giants had caught the

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Dodgers. The Dodgers are the third
place for the first time. And I

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don't know how long it's nineteen eighty
nine, eighty eight? Is that what

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you saw? No, No,
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ninety four when I might not talk
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here's a beat. Are you can
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the series again? Oh, that's
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the years before because I don't know
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playoff every year after this year,
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then then get bracketed so that they
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Bowl. Yeah, and I don't
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is it. I think this is
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or the likelihood have been playing in
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you ten to one. They were
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just pitched for president. Now.
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seasons and you know, shocked the
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know, the odds of that are
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likely, Steven. So I don't
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Rose Bowl with the Okay, as
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what don't we just go is you're
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um, you know again, you
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talking about, how you know,
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at the have age. Mike Steps
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coach at the University of Arizona is
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field right right. And in Tucson, because I think that Luke probably spoiled

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them, did probably spoiled them.
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town. When you're a college town, let's say it that way. When

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when you're a college town, you
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they would. You know, Larry
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sure, I mean Dad, you
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when when you're in a college town
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recognizable, and people hope that you're
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doing stuff and doing some good things
for the community, shaking hands, kissing

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babies. Uh, and they're giving
you money, trying to make a difference,

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right, And that's and that's one
of the that's the thing with what

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you know, this thing that that
that A D is doing the Sports of

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Leadership Academy, that you know,
she wants to make a difference. She

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doesn't just want to you know,
put her name on something and you know,

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and let somebody got off and run
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know in the story that the PJ. Brown did, she wants to be

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a part of it, and she's
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which is gonna make other people want
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uh you know that that that this
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there with with her name on it, which can be you know, something

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that you know the coaches do and
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you know, celebrities right right,
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know, we we talked about uh
you know Andre agazine we're trying to do

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with Arizona Assists, right, trying
to make a difference you know and help

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you know, help the athletes and
stuff like that, which again then supposedly

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helps the van so um that we
talked about yesterday. Okay, so we're

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just waiting for her to go a
quick call and uh and it was three

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fifteen, right, Yeah, Okay, I just want to you kind of

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scare me sometimes. And I did
give her the right phone number. Two.

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It happens stuff, you know.
But remember we had we had Bobby

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Robbins had to to I don't want
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Let's just say he was delayed by
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and we were appreciate to Yeah,
we're happy to get the fifteen that we

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got. So and I think I
think Adia is doing her camps this week.

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that to come and to come and
get on the phone with us. So

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um, but you know, I
just feel that, uh, you know,

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she's she's really being one of the
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she leaves, right whether she retires, she goes to a bigger school,

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that there's always going to be an
appreciation for what she's, uh, for

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what she's done here because let's say
let's say like let's speculate that a big

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job opens up and she can't,
you know, she can't turn it down

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and she goes you know, whoever
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he's got a program to run that
there's gonna be some expectations and so

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just like there was, you know
for Tommy Lloyd. So I'm pretty sure

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that there's gonna be an appreciation for
that, not not to the extent of

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what for instance, Kaitlin Lowe had
to take over with Mike and Drea.

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You know, with all the national
championships and stuff, that's still a program

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that has got a profile. Now
that's way beyond yeah, what it was

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she got. I'm glad you mentioned
that because I'm want to ask her a

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question, which which is I don't
know if she can help her even it's

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it's not in the same ball park
as her. But Okay, so she

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came and she was a great player, an All American type player here,

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a fantastic player, winning player.
UM and went away and came back and

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now she's back at her own mormantor
doing great um And we know Katon Lowe

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is a fantastic player, was a
fantastic player All American. I wonder if

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if she has or w would give
advice to kat and given uh and I

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know this the circumstances different. She
replaced, Uh, she came in a

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tough time, has done, but
she didn't replace some a coach Obamasini.

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But but uh, and and how
do you replace the legend? Right right?

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It's almost impossible. Yeah, you'd
rather be the person that replaces the

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person that correct. But I'm sure
she has some advice just to kind of

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settle into the job, if if, if that's a need, Yeah,

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does that make sense? It does
make sense, um, because there's a

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lot of pressure on Canton, there's, without question, because who what's the

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worst thing? You don't have a
good year or whatever. Well, you

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know you're not you're not good enough. You're not good enough, and you're

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not you're certainly not not come Mike
Kendred exactly. So we'll see if I

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can ask you that question in a
in a night, in a way,

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in a good way, in a
good way. Just that word. It

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makes sense. It makes sense you, But I just gotta And again it

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speaks to the idea that you know, she she knows that she's here to

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do more than coach women's basketb right. You know people already see her as

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a mentor uh, you know,
both within within the athletic department and probably

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you know and obviously you know out
in the community, even in the basketball

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world. Right, she's you know, she's one of the you know she

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I'm reading the story with PJ.
Brown. She she got invited to this.

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Uh, I'm gonna look it up
really quick. Here a thing with

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Nike where she uh called the night
the Nike Uh, the athlete think tank

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where she was invited to with with
what you know, people like Michelle we

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Serena Williams Um, some some other
athletes and some and some coaches to go

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in and just share some ideas as
to how they can use their voice to

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to do things in their communities and
so on. So um, you know

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she she's again. But but I'll
tell you what, man between all that

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and then you know, being a
mom, a couple of kids and the

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whole deal. Man right again,
where do you where do you find time

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for all in the public? Guy? Right right? No question, no

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question? So do you know your
money? Just want to well, I've

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yet made it. I sign a
couple of text messages to the to the

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UFA folks to see what she should
be should be calling. So I know

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she got gotten to the middle of
some things. So, um, about

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ten minutes that we can spend with
her name maybe twelve fifteen? Um,

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wait for a responsor, but um, what else do you've Um, we

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were just talking. You've got this
thing with the Titanic, right, oh

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yeah, yeah, yeah, unbelievable. Unbelievable, but not because stuff like

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this happens and you're thinking, how
does this happen? Yeah? Yeah,

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and you don't like water. I
don't like water a much, this deep

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water. Look, I didn't even
go on the submarine right in Disney.

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Okay, it's a small world boat. Yeah, that's that's fine. But

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you know, when when you look
at this whole thing, you're thinking,

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what what were they thinking? Well, you couldn't pay me to do that,

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yet these guys paid a quarter of
a million dollars. It's like a

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parachute. Why in the world would
I do that? And you know,

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if I get in there and they
say, yeah, we're running this thing

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with a with the Nextbox Game remote
control. If you've seen that, that's

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actually the mechanism using to operate,
give me a refund. All right,

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I'm not going out Wait wait wait, wait, wait wait wait, You're

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we're using a game console. What
if it runs out of batteries? What

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are you doing? Yeah? Right, well what to doing? This is

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what they're doing now now they're in
the rescue mission. Yeah, um yeah,

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no, I was telling you it's
not like this. But when I

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first got here in eighty seven,
I remember this very well with a little

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girl. I think there was a
little girl who who fell down the well

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and they had to do all these
things for a couple of days and they

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had to pull out, and you
think there's no way, and then they

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got they did well. I did
see u a twitter a Twitter post that

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came out about three hours ago that
said they were estimating that they've got forty

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hours of breathable air from three hours
ago. So um, yeah, you

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know, but that's not a very
long time. No, it's not like

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a forty hours they have. I
mean they've got a day and a half.

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You find these guys, I don't
know how you find them A needlet,

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real needle in a haystock, right, and to be able to go

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down there, I want you gonna
do. Send somebody else down there,

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and how do you find them?
How do you get them some air or

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whatever, or how do you get
them up up to the surface. I'm

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already getting I'm already getting a text
from people. Yeah, I'll tell you

407
00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:18.839
what they're saying. Well, you
can imagine what they're saying. Wow,

408
00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:22.519
well you read that. You know, you go on and see all the

409
00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:25.079
things that some people day. What
were you thinking? Oh no, no,

410
00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:26.559
I'm talking about her guests. Oh
about her guess yeah, we stood

411
00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:33.440
up again. Oh people love doing
that. I'm just telling them relax.

412
00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:36.960
Yeah, you know, hey,
look, you know, if she loves

413
00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:38.599
come, I'm gonna ask you.
We'll ask her something. I'm a very

414
00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:42.079
busy person. Well, we're understanding. Maybe that's the thing. Maybe they

415
00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:48.160
know that we're not gonna yell out
at me because we're saying so just a

416
00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:49.440
couple of guys, A couple of
nice guys. Yes, yes, a

417
00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:53.960
couple of nice guys. Dont of
luck you know what it is that out

418
00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:57.599
of looks I should say, Oh, I saw it's funny. I'm gonna

419
00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:00.599
this is not a knock on you, but it's gonna be a little knock

420
00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.759
kunny. Um. I went to
George Lopez right on Saturday, and I'm

421
00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:07.960
thinking, if if Jay just let
himself go with his hair and his body.

422
00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.880
He would be George Lopez because his
hair. His hair is like have

423
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:18.680
you seen his show on TV?
His hair is like his original show.

424
00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:25.119
It's you know, yeah, I
told he dad two kids, you know,

425
00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:27.480
pretty wife, yea, the modern
issues, but issues that you know

426
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:30.759
a lot of us his parents face. I haven't. I have not watched.

427
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:36.400
Well, he's scheduled a lot of
hair. He's a little heavier and

428
00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:40.359
uh he's a little yeah, a
little worse than well yeah, no,

429
00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:44.720
well, yeah, you're you're Brad
Pitt. Yeah you're not Brad Pitt,

430
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:51.480
but you're Antonio's Lobotto junior. Yeah, yeah, it was It was funny.

431
00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:53.200
He wasn't he hit some new new
stuff. It's new stuff on old

432
00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:57.960
terms, just kind of saying saying
different jokes on same topics. So it

433
00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:02.599
was good, it was worth it. But he was his Yeah he's getting

434
00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:06.079
old, like oh all of us. But I moisturize, So I'm okay

435
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:11.720
kind of moisturize in this heat.
We're still waiting, We're still waiting.

436
00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.200
Um, look, it looks like
we're gonna try and get her after the

437
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.880
break. After the break cool cool, Yeah, she still helped her.

438
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:23.200
She said it sound like she called, but sat here stared at the phone,

439
00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:26.240
and you gave her the right number, right, yeah, yeah,

440
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:29.160
okay, Okay, why don't we
why don't we do this? Why don't

441
00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:32.640
just it's it's uh, I know
we have some time that we have extra

442
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:36.839
time? Do we have extra time
to either talk to her and then then

443
00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:37.960
then say goodbye? Okay, you
want to do that? All right,

444
00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:41.720
let's say okay, let's go,
let's go and take our break. We

445
00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:45.079
have a long commercials. We'll have
a long commercial break and then come out

446
00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:45.920
of that. You can talk to
her as long as we can. And

447
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:48.279
okay, it sounds good. Okay, let's take our break. We'll be

448
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:52.359
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This is I Am the Ball on
Fox Sports fourteen different They welcome back to

494
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win the ball here on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jaden.

495
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:22.400
No idea staring you're gonna call in. No, we're expecting her.

496
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:25.599
She's gay. If you got time, we got twenty s I'm getting in

497
00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:29.160
the text from her office. I
don't know if there's maybe a problem with

498
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:32.279
the phone. She decided to stop
talking to us because her questions, Yeah,

499
00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:37.400
no, kiddy, right, so
we're yeah, we have this coming,

500
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:38.880
but uh yeah, I'm just to
wait for her to check. And

501
00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:42.759
again we'd said it for three fifteen, so I don't know if she's got

502
00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:45.160
other appointments are, you know right
now? So we'll see if there's any

503
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:49.079
chance that we're gonna have to reschedule. Buks still trying, still trying to

504
00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:52.759
get a da Barnes on the show. That's okay, we're getting through this.

505
00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:54.920
We'll get through this. Yeah,
um yeah. Another question is obviously

506
00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:58.039
to ask, you know, the
state of the basketball programs? Now,

507
00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:02.319
who won? Who won the last
show? Carolina? Yeah? What did

508
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:07.240
they? They should have? Um, Stanford got upset. There's a lot

509
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:13.480
of a lot of teams getting upset, the world of the game, the

510
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:16.799
game itself, and then I l
transfers just seeing how she's dealt with it,

511
00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:22.000
because she's had to deal with the
last two years a very very large,

512
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:25.759
very in a big, large way. We're a large way. Yeah,

513
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:34.039
I mean where don't remember, Steve, don't remember who one? Yeah,

514
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:40.519
Um, I don't think South Carolina
they go beat look at right now,

515
00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:45.920
mL it's right, Yeah, that
was a great game with iowan and

516
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:49.759
I'll shooting now that yeah, that's
right because I yeah, I had the

517
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.960
shooter. Yeah yeah, uh yeah, I know great in the in the

518
00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:55.359
in the you don't you can't see
me? Yeah yeah, that's right there,

519
00:33:55.720 --> 00:34:00.920
that's right. And then and and
and what's her name Kim Mulki had

520
00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:10.199
that ridiculous out there anyway? Yeah, okay, uh oh god, we're

521
00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:15.039
told that she's on some other conference
call or something. We don't know if

522
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:17.559
we're going to get it around,
okay, So all right, man,

523
00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:21.920
it's gotta make it up as it
go along. Okay. Uh do you

524
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:25.960
want to keep the lines open?
Um? Oh no, yeah, just

525
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.800
in case. Okay, Um,
it doesn't look like it looks like we're

526
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:37.920
not gonna get it, okay,
okay, uh uh all right, which

527
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:39.280
I've just said we're gonna we'll reasketch
it, all right, so let's let's

528
00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:43.239
move on, okay, um whatever. Okay, So then just if you

529
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:45.360
want to call, please do right, you apologize for that. You can

530
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:47.920
get his grief about it if you
like. Again, things, uh,

531
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:52.159
you know, things happen, so
and that's what that's what happens when you

532
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:55.400
get live radio. So Anyways,
a lot a lot of discussion about Victor

533
00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:00.639
Webb on Yama today. For some
reason. He's in he's he's here for,

534
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:02.639
you know, getting ready for the
NBA Draft. It was a really

535
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:09.000
funny video of of of him.
He's that I must have been a Yankee

536
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:13.719
stadium or something like that, and
he's he's, I don't know if he's

537
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:16.800
gonna take take batting practice, but
he had a baseball bat in his hand,

538
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:21.639
and he looked like he was holding
a te like your eye would look

539
00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:23.039
if you're holding a T ball bad. I mean, it was just that

540
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:27.559
small. A lot of its kinds
of people don't really know how tall he

541
00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:30.599
is. They say he's seven some
four thought or something like that. And

542
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.760
he's doing and he's doing all kinds
of crazy things. I mean, he

543
00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:37.960
plays like a guard. You step
back three pointers. Oh here, we

544
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:46.960
gotta call this. Hell, you're
one on the ball. Hey there,

545
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:52.519
how are you cat recruiting costs?
Those? How are you okay? You

546
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:55.599
got? Yeah? You gotta take
those calls otherwise then we're not gonna want

547
00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.039
to talk to you. Right,
So we're shit. You're calling anyway,

548
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.440
So thank you? How the heck
are you? In fact? That we're

549
00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:07.920
hoping you break some news. Any
few family members coming, No, no

550
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:13.440
family members. No. I was, Oh, you're saying pregnant that that

551
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:19.519
problem is not gonna happen. Sounds
good. Well, out of service from

552
00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:23.880
now on, as as are some
of us as well, so idea.

553
00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:27.960
So we wanted to talk to you
because we saw the story earlier. I

554
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:31.519
think it was just yesterday on this
uh Sports and Learning Academy that you're doing.

555
00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:36.000
Um and we Steve and I've been
talking a lot about how you know,

556
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:38.199
some coaches they don't just coach,
they do other things, and this

557
00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:40.800
is one of those things. First
of all, just give us a little

558
00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:45.880
bit of a rundown of of what
this is and what it kind of what

559
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:50.599
it means to you and what you're
doing with it. Okay. So I've

560
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:53.320
obviously been involved with the Boys and
Girls for many, like decades. So

561
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:58.840
in Seattle, I was in SCALE
for fourteen years, I was on executive

562
00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:01.840
board, did a ton of stuff
in the community with my foundations and just

563
00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:07.320
get shoot from the college the WNBA. So it's the organization I've always loved.

564
00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:10.880
So when I moved to Tucsons,
you know, Joan was really involved,

565
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:15.159
and I obviously that's the national organization. I wanted to be involved here

566
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:19.000
with the Boys and Girls sub so
got involved, got on the board,

567
00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:21.719
have a lot of good friends that
work there, so just continue to work

568
00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:27.079
with them, and I involved.
I was involved with Nike doing some really

569
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:30.320
cool stuff to like just got put
out a couple of weeks ago. It

570
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:34.920
was called the Athlete Think Tank,
and so in the asses Think Tink we

571
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:40.320
get to like Nike helps us just
kind of narrow our focus and see what

572
00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:45.679
we're passionate about. I'm obviously passing
on women in sports and opportunity to sport,

573
00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:50.159
access to sport, and obviously quality
and stuff like that for young girls.

574
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:52.880
And I thought, well, in
Tucson, I feel like there's nothing

575
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:57.840
significant for young girls, you know, playing basketball, and there's not a

576
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:00.800
lot of opportunities here like I see
another place. So I wanted to be

577
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:05.639
a part of creating change for that. Nike loved it and want they want

578
00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:09.159
to support what I would feel passions
about, and so UM donated one hundred

579
00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:14.960
thousands to the Boys and Girls clubs
and so, but I didn't want it

580
00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:17.320
to be like just one hundred thousand, like oh here you go here's money,

581
00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:22.760
like do what you want. I
wanted to create um like a program

582
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:25.159
that could be impactful. They could
end up being the best program in the

583
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:30.679
state and then national. So we
could have an academy, so teaching skills

584
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:35.679
on and off the court. It's
providing access to sports. By we're doing

585
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:38.000
some stuff in a specific clubhouse will
enable them to play. Because like the

586
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:42.360
Drew Steve Drew clubhouse, like the
air contain does the works, the floor

587
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:45.079
need to be resurfaced, so that
needed a faceclift. So wanted to impact

588
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:51.079
that one directly. And then m
like a girl power day where I can

589
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:54.880
have mentors come in and my friends
can speak to the kids and then empower

590
00:38:54.960 --> 00:39:00.119
them and get them motivated to want
to do some big things and dream big.

591
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:05.480
And so it's gonna been there's a
five thousand dostarge of every year that's

592
00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:09.679
the youth of the year will get
one female will get per year. Nice,

593
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:15.039
so something that like it's sustainable and
it's like a legacy and people can

594
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:19.199
be involved, and so I'm excited
it's going to be incredible. Yeah,

595
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:22.519
I'm assuming that, well we know
this before you were here and even when

596
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:27.119
you played here. The youth basketball, especially for girls. They had some

597
00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.840
pretty good players every now and again
or whatever. But since you've arrived,

598
00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:34.480
you can see that the women's game
or the little girls game has improved.

599
00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:38.480
Have you have you seen that or
seen the impact? Yeah? I think

600
00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:42.679
that, you know, basketball is
getting better, But when I look at

601
00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.679
Tucson, I don't feel like I
see a lot of like opportunities here and

602
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:50.119
like you know, and honestly,
like working with Nike in a high level,

603
00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:54.719
I learned a lot, Like I
didn't know there's a huge percentative girls

604
00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:58.159
to stop playing sports, and you
guys gonna crazy, You guys are gonna

605
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:04.159
say, what because of sports frauds
like FOURT brothers are really expensive and some

606
00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:08.039
stopped playing because they don't have access
to sports bras makes sense, I guess,

607
00:40:08.199 --> 00:40:12.159
yes, Yeah, well I never
thought about that. I just thought,

608
00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:15.239
so, there's so many things I
can do that just can't impact that.

609
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:16.079
I was like, after I heard
that, I'm like, I'm gonna

610
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:19.960
sports Rod drive at the game,
like you know, just like that's like

611
00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:22.079
and then I'm gonna tell you guys
another thing, and you guys gonna probably

612
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:28.000
drop your little microphone. You know
what. The first Spurts fra was what,

613
00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:34.920
okay, take a guys men's underwear. Okay, yes, you're a

614
00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:37.079
good jock strap. This is why
I learned a Nike. The first Spoorts

615
00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:43.199
bra was a jock scrap stone together. Yeah, oh my god, I

616
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:46.519
like, what we do? You
know, we don't even like that was

617
00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:49.599
kind of funny, but I couldn't
believe. I was like, wow,

618
00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:52.480
yeah, we don't even like worrying
what the well, you know, and

619
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:58.840
and well imagine we probably hated it, didn't do anything. Well again,

620
00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:01.360
when you know, and then when
you think about that and how far I

621
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:06.400
mean, the starting point for girls
basketball versus the starting point you know,

622
00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:10.320
for boys basketball are two very different
places when you talk about issues like that

623
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:13.159
that you know, we never had
to deal with that. You know,

624
00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:15.039
you're playing a T shirt and short
and that it and you don't know until

625
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:19.480
you know, right, Yeah,
well I didn't know that, Like I

626
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:22.280
didn't even think about that, because
you know, I just thought that's like,

627
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:25.280
wow, I stuff I didn't think
about. But I think that I

628
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:30.199
think a lot of young women are
aren't confident. And so even even if

629
00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:34.119
you don't have to be some Division
one player, but even getting young girls

630
00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:37.760
and sports, and sometimes there's religious
reasons. Some girls can't play. Like

631
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:42.320
there's a Youth of the Year at
a Tucson there wasn't allowed to play for

632
00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:45.599
years. It's Somalian descent and because
the religious reason, wasn't allowed to and

633
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:50.840
then playing it safe her life.
So there's so many different obstacles, and

634
00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:53.719
I think that young women just quit
sports blot So I wanted to create something

635
00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:58.159
special and impact it here, be
able to test it, be able to

636
00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:00.440
see it, be able to grow
in And my goal is to build the

637
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:06.559
biggest US like girls program in the
state or nastional like where it can be

638
00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:08.639
big. So like one hundreds of
girls are coming for Girl Power Day and

639
00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:15.159
just better teams and younger teams and
just access. So what's the starting point

640
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:17.800
for this? How does something like
this you know, in terms physically what's

641
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.119
going to happen? What are we
going to see in terms of what your

642
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.800
this academy is going to be.
Well physically, the money had to go.

643
00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:29.519
So the money was there. That's
the starting boards. You have to

644
00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:30.960
have money to do all this stuff
to higher staff, I'm funding and all

645
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:35.519
that stuff. Um, the next
thing you'll see is like we're developing like

646
00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:37.480
programs. It will probably start the
next month or so. Okay, so

647
00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:42.920
you'll see a big press release coming
out probably the next few weeks and then

648
00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:45.880
with the date of the program.
So then we'll start like in the summer

649
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:49.880
going there for different stuff and the
actually there will be actual programming. So

650
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:53.320
it's a design program. Yeah,
okay, god, okay, all right,

651
00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:57.199
Well and yeh, I mean I
saw in this story you picked this

652
00:42:57.320 --> 00:43:00.199
clubhouse because, as you said,
you know, it's got some physical issues

653
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:04.400
that need to be fixed over there, and it's look, let's say it's

654
00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:07.159
a it's in an area town where
there's just not a ton of money over

655
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:09.320
there, and I guess you're just
you felt like that's the best place to

656
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:14.119
start this and give them an opportunity
to have something that can help them.

657
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:16.159
Yeah, And what I liked about
the club was it's a mixture, so

658
00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:20.960
it's it's really interesting. It's diverse. So it's a lot of immigrants from

659
00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:22.960
all over like you could be Mexicille, like Africa, like a lot of

660
00:43:23.079 --> 00:43:27.320
immigrants, and then it's mixed with
some wealthier kids. So I thought it

661
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:31.559
was a perfect diverse mixture, and
I actually sent my son there last week

662
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:35.039
starting like, so he's going to
be involved because I think he needs to

663
00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:39.199
be exposed to everything and just different
people, different life. And I think

664
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:42.519
the other thing is like there was
a swamp cooler, there was no air

665
00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:46.119
kiddation thing they couldn't there wasn't like
resources there to even like participate in things.

666
00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:50.559
So I felt like that club really
needed love. And I knew if

667
00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:54.119
I got involved that other people lived, so other donors, other fans like.

668
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:57.880
So I felt like I could really
impact it as close to you of

669
00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:00.360
a right, Okay, so let
to run over there. We could do

670
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:04.960
internships there, So it was it
was a place that I can, like,

671
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:07.639
um, be really involved with.
Ye. That's felt I could really

672
00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:10.239
impact in that way. Okay,
I'm gonna throw you a big lay up

673
00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.000
question. Okay, easy, lay
everybody want you to explain this. You

674
00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:19.119
know, at some point when you
were you kind of thought I'm gonna be

675
00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.840
a head coach someday, or I'm
gonna have an opportunity to do something like

676
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:24.920
this. You decided you wanted to
be this right, and Steve and I

677
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:27.960
were talking about, you know,
some coaches just want to coach. You

678
00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.880
don't want to do the other stuff
that goes with this. At some point

679
00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:34.559
you made a decision that this is
the type of stuff. You know,

680
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:37.880
when you went to coach somewhere,
You're gonna get yourself involved in the community.

681
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:39.280
You're gonna want We're gonna want to
do more than be a coach on

682
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:44.079
the court. When did that hit
you? When did you decide that that's

683
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:46.960
what you wanted to do. Well. I never had aspirations to be a

684
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:52.119
coach, so I always had aspirations
to impact. Like so, I didn't

685
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:53.840
know I wanted to coach until I
started coaching, because I was like,

686
00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:57.000
I don't know if I'm gonna want
to coach these kids, Like I didn't

687
00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:00.199
know. Um, I just knew
I love basket all and I really loved

688
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:05.079
mentoring and I loved foundation stuff.
So I was the first of the NBA

689
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.440
player to start a five O one
C three And I did that because a

690
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:10.119
lot of my friends on the NBA
side, like rayale I was Chard Lewis,

691
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:12.719
they all had him. I was
like, I love your things.

692
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:15.800
So I used some of my NBA
friends resources to start mine because I borrowed

693
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:19.639
there people because I'd have the money
like they is and that's how I started

694
00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:22.039
mine. And then I just did
the little stuff like for me, it

695
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:25.599
was like effortless and it was so
impactful. So when I was I made

696
00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:29.199
programs with a storm. Like one
day, I was like, I want

697
00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:30.920
to donate sus. So I said, I said, we're gonna. I

698
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:34.960
had volunteers. We put out like
fifty bins and I said, okay,

699
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:37.840
that we're gonna donate sus and we're
gonna give them out to like all these

700
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:39.880
boys and girls clubs and stuff.
So we would donate sus and I would

701
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:44.079
say, okay, what's the fourth
school in Seattle? And they would tell

702
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:45.719
me the school were like ninety nine
percent rounds for your assists and lunch in

703
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:49.519
the elementary. So I did a
school supply drive. So to me,

704
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:52.679
it was like it was I could
do it because I was. I had

705
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:55.800
the platform and it was easy and
it was fun and I loved it.

706
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.440
So I've always done that. I've
always had that servant mental. If I

707
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:02.679
have access to things, why wouldn't
I do that? Like it's easy,

708
00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:07.519
okay, And so I think that
was just my mindset because for me,

709
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:09.719
I'm never gonna win enough games like
coaches get fired, probably get fired.

710
00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:13.960
You love when you're when you win, you're hated it when you're laws when

711
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:16.239
you lose. So I figured,
like I thought the biggest impact would be,

712
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:20.519
like, what's my legacy, Like, how about I remember I remember

713
00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:22.280
by like the things they did to
make twosm better, the things I did

714
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:29.519
that made young girls like have access
and um, just like impassing people here.

715
00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:30.920
I think of making it a better
place than how it came. Like,

716
00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:34.280
to me, that's more important than
like to win the losses. I'm

717
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:37.079
never gonna win fifty championships. Well, you've made an impact on a lot

718
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:39.400
of people. They go to the
games, they go to games, they

719
00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:44.119
love you. You've you've shown that. But I think that's because of what

720
00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:46.480
we do. So like I feel
like if you don't have like that offensicity

721
00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:50.679
and you're not out there like doing
stuff to make things better, they're not

722
00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:53.039
going to follow you. And I
honestly think because we were getting thousands of

723
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:57.320
fans when we weren't great, I
think it's because of that stuff. They

724
00:46:57.400 --> 00:46:59.400
see what you do then they want
to support. It's like, wow,

725
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:02.440
you know, I think it's all
correlated. Yeah, it makes a lot

726
00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:05.559
of sense. I mean, you
know, and again that's why I said,

727
00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:07.599
you know, some coaches just wanted
to coach, and there have been

728
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:09.519
some coaches to come through Arizona who
just wanted to coach, and then,

729
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:13.800
as you say, when the time
came that maybe they needed some support,

730
00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:16.000
it kind of wasn't there because they
weren't out there. And you know,

731
00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:20.480
I won't mention names, but you
know there's some coaches that I specifically have

732
00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:22.599
in mind, and even something before
you got it, they thought that coach

733
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:25.679
might still be here if they had
been out doing stuff and got to know

734
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:30.199
people. And I feel like,
uh, you know, there's more to

735
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:32.280
the head coaching job than again,
as you say, the XS and oh

736
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:37.199
so I think that this town has
an appreciation for that. And again,

737
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:39.800
being a college town, you're more
visible than if you were coaching and late

738
00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:45.079
say Los Angeles, right, yeah, And I think that like some coaches,

739
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.320
I think it just gets pulled of
so many direction, right, It's

740
00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:52.599
hard, but I feel like that
we have an opportunity and like we have

741
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:55.960
the obligation to like, like give
back. I think that when you get

742
00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.400
to a certain level and you have
the ability to put on Twitter to like

743
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:05.880
rememberingly like Lena was passed, like
he was sick and he was gonna die.

744
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:07.719
It's like he told me, Okay, I want to give clinic bosses.

745
00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:10.920
Like for me, I feel like, because for me to take an

746
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:15.480
hour or two on Twitter, like
that's nothing for someone I can make like

747
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:19.239
their families feel so sussiful, Like
how could I not do that? That's

748
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:21.639
how I felt. More. I
felt like, you're supposed to do it,

749
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:23.519
right, Like if you're not doing
it, you don't get it because

750
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:28.039
you're supposed to help people. And
like, I think that's just kind of

751
00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:30.000
the way you said be I don't
mean to be coaching if you're not into

752
00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:32.800
that, right, right, right, then let's talk basketball real quick.

753
00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:36.239
I don't know if you remember this. Two years ago, Jay and I

754
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:38.320
he had just come on the scene
and I and I stupidly and you guys

755
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:40.440
laughed at me. You and J
says, well, now that you have

756
00:48:40.599 --> 00:48:44.400
arrived, and you were like in
the championship with the n I T you

757
00:48:44.519 --> 00:48:45.760
said, Steve, we haven't arrived, and you guys laughed at mean,

758
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:51.239
and more power to you, because
you're right. You've had some great success,

759
00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:54.840
great success, and it's it's tough
to get there, it's almost twice

760
00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:59.599
as tough to stay there. How
has it been with all that success to

761
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:04.239
kind of stay up there? I
think it's been. It's been hard because

762
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:07.280
I think that once you and I'm
a competitor, like this is why I

763
00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:08.800
CoA. It's like I want to
win. Um, so you want to

764
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:10.599
impact, you want to do things
the right way, but you're like,

765
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:15.760
I want to win. And I
think different people like approach things differently,

766
00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:19.199
and I think it's just people's mindset. So for me, like we haven't

767
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:22.599
arrived yet. Um yeah, Like
now we're a consistent top twenty program.

768
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:27.239
Yeah we're good, but it's like
we haven't won anything yet. So for

769
00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:32.000
me, it's like that that drives
to win and like like sustain obviously,

770
00:49:32.039 --> 00:49:36.960
which is really hard to do,
but like, um, but I want

771
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:38.280
to win and that's why I'm here
and that's what I'm trying to do,

772
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:42.719
so that's what we're working towards.
But yeah, I think it's it's really

773
00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:45.559
hard. Winning is hard. It's
supposed to do now with all the nil

774
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:50.440
and there's so many facets to everything. But I think it's fun and they

775
00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:52.320
drives me because after you have a
taste of success. You want the real

776
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:57.199
thing, you want to win it. We only got about maybe another minute

777
00:49:57.239 --> 00:50:00.480
and a half or so, but
this is a much longer topic. But

778
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:02.920
you know, again, a lot
of turnover and so many teams. Tommy's

779
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:06.719
team turned over, a bunch of
your team turned over, a bunch of

780
00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:08.639
you know, all these teams all
over the country are turning over. With

781
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:12.760
the transfer portal and all this kind
of stuff, is that just gonna be

782
00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:15.039
a regular thing? Now? Do
you think that that's We got to get

783
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:17.719
used to it being that way.
Absolutely, And I remember, like about

784
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:22.400
two months ago, I was taking
all kinds of heat. Everybody's online.

785
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:24.679
He doesn't know that the last all
players us and they're like laughing because you

786
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:28.760
can't say. You can't say the
truth about everything. You can't say you

787
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:30.000
put them in the portal if they
put themselves, and like, you can't

788
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.800
say, even though you want to. But so I just sat back and

789
00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:37.280
mind just happened fast. But some
of that was by design. I know,

790
00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:42.599
it's people really fast the changes.
But after you saw that happened with

791
00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:45.920
me, the average was like four
and a half kids, So then it

792
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:49.960
kind of got normal. But I
think this is college athletics. Right,

793
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:52.400
you were going to lose people every
year if they don't play there or not

794
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:55.320
staying, and they all think they're
better than they are usually and kids leave,

795
00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:59.159
and I think that's the way it
is. But for me, it's

796
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:01.599
like I want to coach what I
want to be here that like, I

797
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:06.079
want to be a great teammate.
And they aren't just looking at their stuff.

798
00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:07.800
So um, it's talented. I
think it's gonna happen with on the

799
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:10.679
men's side, our side, it's
just the way it is. And with

800
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:15.199
nil the teams have more money,
they're gonna buy players. Yeah, and

801
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:17.760
that's the reality. So you have
to figure out how to navigate that,

802
00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:22.960
right, the new world of college
about college sports? Actually, so do

803
00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:24.360
you? Thanks a bunch, Hey, thanks a bunch. We know you're

804
00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:27.920
a bunch of a busy person.
Again, you gotta go get some more

805
00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:30.519
players, so then we want to
invite you on the show some more.

806
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:36.480
I know, not happening. I
have like, well, I have my

807
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:40.599
daughter and twelve other dollars exactly exactly, all right, coach, thanks a

808
00:51:40.599 --> 00:51:43.719
whole bunch. I have a great
summer. We'll talk to you again at

809
00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:46.880
some point. I appreciate it.
Thank you all right, bye for us.

810
00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:51.360
I'm glad we got such She's such
a great interview page. It's so

811
00:51:51.440 --> 00:51:53.880
easy going. I know she's not
easy going, you know, on a

812
00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:58.440
lot of stuff, but well,
good coaches aren't, right, you know,

813
00:51:58.519 --> 00:52:00.920
good coach learned. She's I want
to win in the in the end,

814
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she's doing all this stuff she wants
to Let's talk more about it.

815
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We have breaking news, we have
some breaking we have some stuff and talk

816
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more about. There's a whole lot
more stuff to talk about because I think

817
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that uh you know what she's a
lot of what she said is really is

818
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really important. So let's uh go
and take our break. We're gonna come

819
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back. We will have some breaking
news and then we'll break down Ada's uh

820
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Ida's stuff as well, So we'll
be right back