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I'm Steve Rivera alongside partner Jay Gonzos. It is going to be a day
today. We're gonna talk a lot about the Derby coming up on Saturday,
Oakley and otherwise and the main event in Kentucky. But first, there's been
some big news coming out of the University of Very well, some highly unfortunate
news. UM. Stuff to think about and talk about, UM and the
kinds of things that you really don't want to have to talk about, but
when they come around, you have to talk about. Right, I'm gonna
go ahead and you tell them, I'm gonna have to ask you a question.
Okay. Well, the first thing it's come out since our since our
show last night yesterday, that apparently not apparently, that Jade delora Um was
arrested and pleaded guilty as a juvenile to a sexual assault that occurred in Hawaii.
UH high school students. He was a high school student. He was
involved in it with another with a teammate of his on a teenage girl.
UH in Hawaii. We we don't you know, we won't go into all
the details other than to say that he pleaded guilty along with the other the
other individual, of sexual assault on this on the on the victim. Um.
He it was. It was adjudicated at the juvenal court level. He
apparently did not do any jail time. Um he's according to UH David Kelly
from Channel four, who's been on this all day, he's not having to
he's not having to register as a sex offender. And so the case is
done. Now what's come out is that Delora and his family, Emily had
to pay a settlement in a civil lawsuit to the girl and her family.
And that's what's kind of hit the news. A newspaper out of Hawaii UH
ran with this yesterday. So it's come out something that none of us knew.
That Jade Delora was convicted of a sexual assault before he got here,
right, So the question is what now? Well, and before he got
here, he was somewhere else right Washington first, and I don't know if
they knew anything about this, right, But let means there's so many things.
Let me say this before we start unraveling, because you know there's all
the questions, right, well, what about Jade Delora and what about the
football team? What about this? And what about that? Well, the
first thing we need to say, what about we need to say what about
the victim? Okay, wait wait first, first, go ahead and tell
them what you tried to do today. Uh through So I just I just
reached out to the event said, are you know, are we going to
get a statement from Jed or someone in the athletic department? And I've got
no response to that. So so we have we have try that and I
know multiple media I have also tried to get a comment or a statement and
the UFA hasn't responded. And we'll get to all that in a minute.
I kind of just wanted to start there because the least you did some betting,
which is beyond I thought. But let me let me say this because
when these things happen, it always becomes about the should we say the celebrity,
right, the Brandon Miller at at Alabama? The basketball player, uh,
you know, the basketball players from Alabama who are involved in that shooting.
The first thing it has to be about is the victim. And so
I just wanted to make sure I say that because what you hope and what
you want is that whatever happens to Jayden Delora and this other player he's at
Wisconsin, that you know, all considerations are being made for the victim that
they have been in you know, since this occurred back in twenty eighteen,
and that they will continue to be for the rest of her life. So
just for clarity, because you've been forward a little bit than me, a
lot more than me. Uh, they settled the civil civil monsters, so
that kind of now that he has money, right and apparently lots of it,
Yeah, that he was able to pay you or decided just to pay
and say, Okay, well she's hand from the whole not the whole thing,
but trying to move forward to Yeah, and look, and an amount
of money is gonna make it right with this with this victim. Okay,
she's got to live with this for the rest of her life. So all
I'm saying is that before we talk about anything as to how Jaden Delora is
gonna handle us, how are you by's gonna handle this. We just have
to make sure that we say, we got to make sure that the victim
is first and foremost in all of this. So I just wanted to say
that, Look, I got two daughters, but you don't need to have
two daughters to understand, you know, what this can do to a victim
like this girl. So I just want to say, let's make sure that
we don't, you know, take our eye off the ball about what's most
important here, which is the victim. Okay, right without without So now
we've said that, so a lot to go through. Um, did Jed
know this before he got there? Got here? Right? Because he didn't,
didn't matter where Washington state, he was none of his business by that
time. But when he got here, did he know any of this?
Yeah? Uh? Did? I didn't say yep, that they knew.
I'm just saying that's that's that's that's a major question in a situation, right,
and that's the beginning of it. It's okay, if he did,
that's an issue. If he didn't, Okay, so now what does he
do? Right? Maybe he says nothing, Yeah, maybe he says suspension.
Maybe nothing. I mean, what do you do that that's the whole
thing thing. Okay, there's two scenarios. Did they know or didn't they
know? Sure, okay. If they did know, then they have to
say they have to say why it was they were okay to bring him to
the university. They have to answer that. And they can't say it's none
of our business or they can't hide behind you know, student confidentiality any of
that. They have to say, we knew about it and this is this
was our thought process and going ahead and bringing him to the University of Arizona.
Jo, Jay, You've gonna run a long time. Do you know
what they're gonna say that. They're not gonna say. No, they absolutely
have to escape. No, Hey, they can't hide behind the lawn.
I'm with you. I'm with you, somebody with you. But I don't
even say will somebody will, Well, somebody will go out there and do
a Freedom of Information Act for all in emails and anything related. Oh sure,
this okay, and my parents needs to be an answer. My point
is they've been very good in stifling the media for the last fourteen years since
Greggburnon showed up here. Everything's been kind of on the on, the on,
the under underneath if you will, uh, no, no comment,
no comment. We don't we're not talking about that, blah blah blah.
So my my, I'm telling you. I'm telling you this fact that that's
what they're going to try to do. Whether somebody goes in and tries to
FOI this or whatever, freedom of information, more power to you. Wow.
If i'm if I'm their PR guy, and I'm not talking about you
know, matt a university, I'm talking about the university public relation. They
need to They need to advise the athletic department that they need to say something
because the community deserves that, well, the faculty deserves that, you know.
I mean, they've just went through this thing with the shooting on campus,
right, shooting that all this stuff was going on. Don't forget or
wasn't going on, don't forget the track track right, So there has to
be an answer to that. They can't. They can't stonewall this, I
don't believe. And to go to that, I think the highest authority they
may try to at a point, I don't think they should be allowed to
know. I don't. I love the university, I love the athletic department,
you know that. But I'm speaking from the standpoint now of of a
journalist and the community member. It says this is how this thing needs to
be handled. So if they did know, then we need an explanation as
to what went in the decision process to allow Jayden Delord to come play at
the University of Arizona. And look, for all I know, the Laura
may have gone through whatever measures needed to be gone through as a part of
whatever and had it right. Did he have to go to some some treatment
or some uh you know, some psychological whatever whatever you know, to kind
of get this out of him? Okay, you hope that something like that
occurred as well, that it wasn't just as simple as what we're reading is
that there was a written apology that was part of why he didn't go down.
There was more to it than that. Sure, this happened four years
ago, twenty eighteen. Okay, so it seems a long time ago,
but it's really not. Now. Arizona is part of it because of the
circumstances. Um, we'll see how they handle it in the next coming days,
because something will have to be done. I don't I'm not here to
argue with you. I totally agree with you, but having dealt with them
for the last And let me say this because I know you asked me if
we had had all sports Tucson, and me personally had asked no. And
I say this because I've no longer real journalist if that mean a real journalists
there you are? No, no, no, no. The Citizen closed
fourteen years ago. I kind of stopped there. Uh, I'm in this
business now. We don't chase things down. We don't, we don't you
know, we don't get into that rock. And I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna go do a freedom of everything. I'm relying on the other media to
come up with this stuff. Right in that sense, yes, But in
the general sense, I think you and are continue to be you and I
continue to be journalist from the standpoint that we want to find out Oh sure,
sure, but we're not pursuing it. We're not pursuing That's my point.
And I would have if this if I was the paper still open and
they were paying my bills, I would do it tomorrow. But it's not
so I'm not going to. Uh and then our Sports two Sun is not
that type of publication. Uh. The record is there was only day to
start, right, story and the and the TV station. That's what they're
there, and they're they're you know that they're doing it. That they're doing
they're doing it. So we're here to talk about it, right, and
that's what we'll be doing. Right is it? Right? Is wrong?
I don't know anymore? Jay, This is this is the funny thing about
it. I don't have any ties to you they outside of me covering them
and doing what I do. But I'm almost turning into you in terms of
being a fan hoping that they do will and it's just a Smith's jail,
you know. You know, I'm very unbiased on but but I can see
they're gonna have problems with nil across the board. They just are because you
see it and you say, I'm saying they're gonna need help. But I've
said this all the week too, whatever it is, and I'm thinking they
have issues. Yeah, But but in this, in this situation, you
know, keeping it to this situation, is that what I as a fan,
as an alumnus of the universe of Arizona, as a member of this
community, as the father of two daughters, right, yeah, all I
want. It's not just answered but I want Arizona to do the right thing.
Okay, we don't know. I don't know the way entirely know what
that is. Okay, because I was saying, either they knew and I
just went through you know, yeah, yeah, or they didn't know,
and which guess if they didn't know, why didn't you know? Yeah?
Why didn't you know? It's gonna happen? Moving forward? Right? So?
You know, Yeah, I've been getting asked, what are you gonna
stand on the show? What do you can say on the show? What
do you say on the show? I wasn't sure what I was gonna stand
that show. It's just kind of happened. I said the same. We
didn't talk about it. We didn't talk about this is an ad lib type
of this first time you and I are talking about, Yes, except that
I asked you if you had upon it on my way over here is where
I kind of came up with you. But let me ask you. Let
me ask you something, because I have this problem with fans in general.
Okay, let's assume for a second they knew or whatever. Are you going
to cheer for now that you know? Are you gonna cheer for him?
Any differently? Because you know Arizona fans. Um, it's like Barry Bonds,
right, I did you win? They're happy there, you're you can
get away with there, we go with it. If you're a quarterback,
you're Barry Bonds who doesn't did his thing back there? Uh the only people
cheering for him with San Francisco Giant people, but he else hated the guy.
So are you going to be a fan of him? I don't know.
Here's what I'm gonna say. Is that your answer? No, that's
and that's a great answer. Now you don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. That's a great answer. I don't But here's what I'm
gonna say. And I thought it. I came up with this on the
way in because I was really trying to say, okay, you you can't
be wishy washy on this. Okay was my thought. I can't don't disagree,
Yeah, I can't. You know. We So on the way over
here, I thought, okay, let's break, let's take out who Jane
Delora is. We don't you know. I don't know him from SCHMO.
I mean I've talked to him in press conference. I don't know Jane Delora
Okay, But where I went was if this happened today, if or any
other player was busted for sexual assault to the point where it was certain that
it occurred, he was guilty. Okay, what would the you have a
do they kick him off the team? Do you hope you'd hope that they
would over the How can I say this will if you're talking to sexual assault,
I don't know any sexual assault. I don't know that because you can
get a d UI, you can you can steal a candy bar. Right,
those are things that you know nobody was really hurt. But you commit
a sexual assault, a murder, you know, something like that, that's
almost automatic rounds to be kicked off the team. I don't distribete with what
they should do, and it's not that they do doing a passional note crickets.
I won't say it online, but yes, right, wouldn't wouldn't he
be kicked off the team. And we also have something that we're going to
talk about. We can't talk about because we're gonna have Richard Ing from three
fifteen, but the basketball team. Right, we'll get into the whole basketball
team issue because we've got another issue there. But on this one, Steve.
I just think that. Now, the question is if they knew and
they let him come to the team knowing that this had occurred, right,
knowing that this had occurred, then can you kick him off the team?
Now? Yeah? Yeah, right, so I don't want to, Like
I said, yeah, there's issues after you obey the We don't know,
we knew what the track team, right, It took took a lot to
get through that. I'm glad I'm not the ad. I'm glad I'm not
the football coach or the president of the university because it was just and guess
what, he's already taking a lot of heat, taking some heat over some
other stuff on campus. Yeah. So yeah, so I don't know.
Um, I don't know what the answer is. We're not gonna have the
I don't know, but well, you know, well look we gotta,
we gotta. We got two hours, you know, we got some horse
racing stuff to talk about, and we'll continue this. We'll continue this.
Please call us. I've got a long Facebook. I don't know if you're
reading my Facebook. Some dudes all over it says why is this gonna come?
Or no, no, they didn't know about Jaden? What? Yeah,
I mean, how do you not know? Ye? Yeah, all
right, um. Richard ang, our resident horse racing guru uh covers the
West Coast tracks and we always get him before the the Triple Crown races.
He's coming on. So in the midst of all of this, we're gonna
try and talk some horse racing. With the Derby coming up on Saturday,
Richard ain't coming up, We'll get his pick for the Derby and then we'll
move on and have more of this discussion after it. So stick around.
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This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to I'm About here a Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's jakens Olsen. Now in the phone,
we have our guy, Richard Ian from Las Vegas, brisone and other websites.
How are you, Richard? Oh, happy to be on again a
year from last year. I know, rich strike kind of took us off
the rails last year. Maybe we can hit the target. The bulls eye
was a dark today. Yeah, he took everybody off the rail. That
was That was bad. Strike. Winning a right is almost going to live
with you for a month with you. But this must be like Christmas for
you this next couple of days. Oh yeah, yeah, for a couple
of reasons. One is, you know I wrote a book called Betting on
horse Racing for Dummies, the second edition, and this is the most popular
time of the year for sales because so many newcomers have their eyeballs on horse
racing. That don't don't normally do it the other you know, fifty one
weeks of the year. So a lot of newcomers, a lot of recreational
players are following Churchill and the Derby and the Oaks. So I do sell
more books and I think it's a good process to get people started in horse
racing to you know, to generate more interest. And then as far as
the handicapping, I mean, the two cards on Friday and Saturday, Churchill
are as good as you're going to see all year outside of the Breeders Cup.
So these are great cards to bed into if you're you know, a
regular horse player. So it is there. I know there's various favorites and
whatnot, but sometimes there's like a horse that stands out above everybody, but
he says that's the one. It doesn't seem like we're in that kind of
situation this year. Well, for the Kentucky Derby, it's definitely pretty wild.
I think the favorite, and a pretty good favorite, is going to
be a horse called Forte from a trainer, Todd Pletcher. But it's amazing
how many people are trying to downplay him and go in another direction. Actually,
I'm in the same boat, but the favorite is going to be Forte.
He's done nothing wrong. He deserves to be favored. But I think
one of the reasons people are trying to poke holes in his boat is the
fact that he's just not that fast in a sense that he looks like he's
dominant. He doesn't look dominant like American Pharaoh or Justify or one of those
type of horses. He's good, certainly's good enough to win, but he
doesn't look overwhelming. So that's why people are trying to look at some other
horses too, right there. Yeah, that's the point I was making.
There isn't like an overwhelming favorite. There's a favorite, but not somebody that
everybody say that's the one, no doubt about it. Yeah, that's that's
That's what I was trying to point out, is that there's nobody who's going
to be like two to one, but this horses two to one, that'll
be I'll be shocked. Well, the fact that he's going to be more
like three to one or seven to two. The fact that there's twenty horses,
and there's always twenty horses and it's a crowded field. Styles make the
fight obviously here, Uh does he sit. Do they sit in the good
spots? Because if they're not um out, you know, front runners,
or they got to be you know, back runners or late writer arrivals.
You picked somebody other than forte, what does he do? Well, I'll
let the cat out of the bag right off the bad. Here the horse
that I picked to when the Kentucky Derby's number seventeen, Derma Sodogaki. He's
a Japanese horse. His prep race. He won the UAE Derby in Mayden
and I was on five or six weeks ago. A lot of people are
actually throwing this horse out, fellas, because there's a statistical negative about the
UAE Derby. They have produced eighteen Kentucky Derby starters none of them. Zero
of those eighteen have hit the board, meaning first, second, or third.
So you know, that's a pretty big hill to climb. But you
know, but when I saw this horse, you know, let me give
a little background to myself. Usually I liked the I like futures betting,
and I always try to find one or two horses to bet in the future
book in the for the Kentucky Derby. I was lucky enough to have justify
the year that he won at one hundred to one, and I was looking
for another future book bet, and by the end of March, I hadn't
be any horse Fellas, And then I saw this UAE Derby, and I
was so impressed by Dermo Sartakaki that the next morning I went down to one
of the race books in town here that offered a future book and I pump
some money down to the hundred to one. So he's the only horse I
have in the future book, but I got a great price on him.
He's probably going to be around ten to one. But you know, an
angle for liking him, Fellas. Outside of that is the fact that Japanese
horses have been running very well internationally, whether it's England, France, Germany,
the United States. So I think it's only a matter of time before
one of them breaks through and wins a race like this. With twenty horses
like this in a race, are you able to kind of project what it's
going to look like. You know who's going to be out front and where
horses have to come from where you know with each individual horse to kind of
get a sense of this is what their run is going to be like if
they get this run, they win. If they don't get that run,
they don't. I mean, there's so many horses you're trying to figure out
what's going to happen. That is a great question, and certainly one part
of the essence of handicapping is when I look at any race, whether it's
the third race on Friday at Santa Anita or whatever, the first thing I
do is I try to one identify the favorite and then try to identify if
he's a good favorite or in quote a bad favorite meaning he's vulnerable. And
two is I kind of break the field down as to the running styles.
So that's something you do with any race. Twenty horses makes it a lot
harder. It's a little more complex. But horses, like Steve mentioned with
boxers, you have styles, so you know, horses that are dead closures
cannot change their style for any particular race. Some horses like the stalk,
meaning you know, sitting midpack a few length off the lead, and some
horses like to have extreme speed. This particular field, unlike last year,
doesn't look to have as much early speed and it fellas And one angle that
I like with Dermis sort of Gaki is he won the UAE derby going wire
to wire. But I took a look at his other dirt wins in Japan
and the other three wins came from off the pace, so he doesn't need
to lead. So he has the flexibility to either go to the lead or
sit back. But there's not a lot of speed in this race, so
it's going to set up some interesting scenarios where jockeys are trying for the same
spot on the racetrack and they might have a might have some problems. Yeah,
that means it could be a crowded field that the quarter pole coming down
the stretch. Wow, oh absolutely. You know, the quarter pole of
every Kentucky Derby is always like traffic gym in midtown Manhattan, because what happens
is they've run a mile and there's a quarter a mile to go, and
quite frankly, some of these horses don't want to go anymore, so they
start to back up through the field. And then you've got the horses you
are trying to rally and they're trying to get around the deadwood, and so
you get a lot of conflict at the quarter pole. Horses trying to move
forward and the horses that are backing up, and you've got to be lucky
to get through. I mean remember last year Rich Strike. I mean he
absolutely had all the luck in the world, Donny alone, just weaving in
and out of traffic to stay clear, not have to check and get through
on the inside. What has to happen then for fourte to not win the
race? Uh, you know, in or to win the race? Well,
yeah, well, first to not win the race because we want we
want to we want to get a price, right, we want to bet
some money on somebody's going to get it. I want the winner. But
if Forte is the favorite, so what what has to happen to keep him,
you know, not off the board, but out of the you know,
from winning the race. Well, a real simple answer to that question
is, uh, none of these horses has run a mile on a quarter,
which is ten furlongs. Some of these horses have run eight for eight
furlongs nine fur alongsh meaning a mile in the But it's ironic how another eighth
of a mile from a mile in a day fill a mile and a quarter
hits a lot of these horses right between the eyes. And you know,
a horse like Forte might have for example of the lead at the at the
eighth pole, but he's had another eighth of a mile to run. He's
never run that far before. And you know a lot of good horses have
been gobbled up in the deep stretch because they just can't get that far.
And then you have horses that are coming on. So he may actually run
at a lot of horses run really good races in the Kentucky Derby and run
second and third because you know, the last eighth of a mile, the
last sixteenth of a mile, the last one hundred yards and sometimes eat these
horses up. Which brings me to you fourth, your fourth pick, Angel
of Empire, who has that late kick, who might be gobbling up a
lot of those horses. Yes, he comes from a great stable. Brad
Cox is one of the top trainers in the world, much less United States.
And this horse lights to come from way back, and he's impressed a
lot of people. He's impressed me enough to certainly put him on my list.
But among the horses that are going to come from way back, yeah,
ain't Jel of Empire certainly fits the bill. So one of your picks,
practical move has been scratched. What's going on? Over there's a couple
of a couple of horse has been scratched. There was this one uh trainer
owner that you know, they've had to suspend him for a little bit.
So there's a couple of things going on over there. But you've got a
couple of scratches in the derby. What's up with that? Yeah, today
it was a real wild day on social media. The trainer that had his
horses scratched was his name is Safie Joseph Jr. He's based out of South
Florida, done in Gulf Stream Park and Palmetto and he had the unfortunate scenario
of two of his horses literally died on a racetrack after running a Churchill this
week. And you know, there's still an autopsy to perform to find out
what the reason why. But Churchill and the stewards decided to step in and
basically take all of his entries out of their races, so he's not going
to none of the Sappie Joseph junior horses are going to run this week.
And another scratch the practical move who certainly is was a logical contender. I
actually didn't hear the reason why, whether he got sick or suffered some sort
of minor injury of some sort, but it brings a couple of horses in.
One of them is really interesting to me, is horse called Mandur and
Hero, who is another Japanese horse, so there'll be three Japanese horses running
in this race. Mander and Hero last reign in the Saint Nia Derby and
lost by literally an inch. The practical move in a three horse blanket finished
Skinner with the other horse and he drew in off the al soligibleist. So
both Skinner and Mandarin Harrow are now in the body of the race. Amazing
does I haven't had a time to look at the card completely, but Baffort
obviously can't have any horses in the rides this weekend, but he does have
a horse or two with somebody else tied to it. Well, a lot
of the horses, a lot of his better horses were sent over to Tim
yakteen Okay, So if you see Tim Yaktein as the trainer, pretty good
chance it's a Bafford horse, okay. And the same case for tomorrow,
anything running tomorrow for your oaks. What are you talking about the oaks?
Well, you know, as far as the Kentucky yolks as certainly as prestigious
a race to win is the Derbysist for the fellies. When I hate decapped
the race and my report for a bridgon at dot com, my top two
choices were both from the same barn, Brad Cox, who I'd just mentioned
with Egel of Empire and one of the Wet Paint's going to be a very
strong favorite, maybe in the range of two to one, nine to five,
that kind of thing. But I like the uncoupled stablemate number six Botanical,
who's coming out of Turfway Park. He's won four straight races at Turfway
over the Subpeter Service. But but he looks like he's got a lot of
talent. So I went with the bigger price of the cock sources, number
six Botanical over number seven Wet Paint in the Oaks tomorrow. Okay, okay,
no great stuff, Thank you, Richard. And how can people I
know that we've already got your your picks for Saturday and Friday, right,
how can people find it? Well, there's two places to find it.
One is to go to brisnet dot com and follow the links to get it.
But also it's available at race Day Laws Vegas dot com. I have
a homepage there on the Race Day Laws Vegas dot com website and actually would
prefer people go there because you know, eliminated the middleman. But anyway,
but the way you spell it is literally race Day Lost Vegas. This spells
save as it sounds dot com. And you'll see my smiling face on the
left column. Doesn't click on it and follow the follow the instructions and if
they get it, they'll get some smiling faces on something. We want to
see your smiling face on Friday and Saturday so particular. Yeah, thank you,
Richard, would be talking to you for the freakness sounds good fellas elective
weekend. Appreciate it. Richard ing from Vegas. Um, all right,
man, there we go, there we go. It's a wide open it
really isn't. The conversation is that you know, there're they're you know,
so often there's Okay, this is the this is the horse. Something bad
has to happen for this horse to win. It's kind of like there's a
lot of horses to win this, right, right, and then again when
you see what happened last year, it's like, yeah, holy cow,
what the heck? Yeah, we'll see. Okay, let's let's take the
break, come back, and maybe we'll get some calls about our discussions with
the Laura situation. Will continue with that discussion and then also talk about dicussion
stuff going on in the basketball as well. Stick around for all that.
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I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to on the VAHA on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. We already gonna call Jake might want
to grab this. OK, we'll call us back. Yeah, we missed
that. Sorry about that, Give us a call back quick callback. We're
just coming back from break so we weren't paying attention. But that's Jay.
I'm Steve. We're ready to talk about the Delora situation. Go ahead if
you can. Why don't you there's news right in the last few minutes.
Okay, Hi, you're on the air and Eye on the ball. Hey,
good afternoon. How are you doing. What's up? Tommy? Hey?
Right off the top. I you know this isn't blown small. There's
a lot of reasons I'd like to listen to you guys, and a lot
of what have to do with your history around and covering you ay, and
I just want to you know, I just want to be complimentary and and
how you came out forth and what's what is going on and what may or
may not have been known and what you believe in how it should be had.
Well, we appreciate that, you know. It's just it's I couldn't
I tendn't think of a better way to put it. It's well put and
it's very you know, uh, it's personal, but it's not right.
Yeah, right, No, I think that's good way to put it.
More news is come on what you whence we finished with you? Yeah,
we'll explain you're okay, you're a fan though you're you're a fan. So
what what's your first reaction to this? And do you have have you thought
stoughted thrown enough to say this is what I think I would like to see
them do. My first reaction is, honestly, was I sure, hope
we didn't know about it? Yeah, And then my next reaction would have
been what Steve said, and if we did, you know, is it
going to come out? It's really you know, you guys know, I'm
I'm straightforward, you of A basketball first and foremost over everything in the entire
world that's sports. But this is you know, I'm a U of A
guy, you know, it's it's my school. And I don't know the
answers. Yeah, I just hope that they that they can find a way
to choose the right thing to do, honestly and whatever that falls for.
I mean, honestly to me, if they knew about it, you know,
kind of and they said that too, well, what if they knew
about it and they said, okay, then them, well how do they
here? How do they how would they say, Okay, well now we're
going to kick you off the team. We hit it for you. But
yeah, I not make anything that makes all the sense. And I think
we're at such an early stage in this that there you know, look,
we haven't heard we haven't heard a word one from the U of A.
Although statement from Wisconsin has come out, so we'll read that as soon as
we're done here. But I don't know, I'm not sure what the right
thing is. I have in my mind what I think it is, but
I don't know if that's the right answer. So you know, we'll we'll,
we'll, we'll say that here in a second. So, Hey,
Tom, thanks a bunch for the call. Derby you can Hey, I
love that you guys are covering that, you know if people don't, uh,
you know, I appreciate you had that guy on today. And you
know, I got I got a guy that I followed twelve months a year
and he's a good dude and happy and he does well. The Derby is
so exciting, right because because there's twenty horses, it's a disaster to the
first turn and it makes it wide open. Exactly. Yeah, it's so
much fun. Yeah, it's just so much fun. And what we do
is I've said this to Steve Rivera before, my favorite horse to pick in
the Derby is all and first and third and like look at look at the
year authentic one as the third favorite, but tis the law the scratch favorite
running second. We had two tries that paid twelve hundred thirty dollars each.
Big chase, you get that big bomb exactly. Okay, Well we'll be
on it. Man. That there wasn't said to be a lot of speed
figure into this thrace, but guess what a lot of the speed horses happen
to be in gates two, four, six, and seven and they can't
just stand around right along with his seventeen Yeah sok hey, thanks Tommy,
appreciate it. Good look. Yeah, so go ahead, okay, let
me let me, let me go to the And this was this was tweeted
out because it was a response to Link Kawano, who was the right writer
for the Honolulup paper. They came up with this. Yeah from from this
from Patrick Herb, director of Communications and Brand Strategy at Wisconsin Athletics, is
in response to your inquiry on comote E Comoe loop to, I'm going to
pronounce it. The u W Athletics UWB in Wisconsin released the following statement.
At the time of Wisconsin football student athlete Como E. Latu's initial enrollman at
UW Madison, the matter being reported involving Latto was not known to UW Athletics
officials. That's saying at the time of his enrollment. As described, the
matter relates to Latto when he was a miner, and the juvenile records are
sealed. Last fall, UW Madison officials became aware of the civil suit filed
in the matter based on the information available to the UW Madison Office of Legal
Affairs and UW Athletics officials, the matter being reported that involved lat Too prior
to his time as a college student does not violate the UW Athletics Student Athlete
Discipline Policy, University misconduct policies, or reporting or disclosure requirements. Law Too
remains a member of the Wisconsin football team. Simple Day came out and said
the right away, what did you say after you heard read that? What
did you say that this? I think Arizona is gonna put their logo on
this. It's gonna say, uh, either Matt Answer or somebody from the
you of a football office, and it's gonna be big, and they're gonna
replace Lattu's name. Right if in fact they didn't know, if they didn't
know when he enrolled, And that's the biggest question, the question, so
well, when we were talking about you know two things, there's two.
There's two. You know, if you're looking at a flow chart, there's
there's two starting points. They knew or they didn't know, correct, We
already talked about if they didn't. If they knew, then we need an
answer as to why this was okay. If they didn't know, then why
didn't they know or when did they find out? And then what was the
response or reaction when they found out? Yeah, there we go, another
call. All right, higher on the R and I on the ball.
H James, Hey Jings, what are your thoughts? Pretty sad to hear
it's not unbelievable that this could happen. But uh, even if you have
agents didn't know at the time, they know now they need to do the
right thing for the university, in the school and the sports program as a
whole. What would be the right thing moving on from that player? Ah,
yeah, I don't know about that. That's tough because this my question
is to everyone else. Then if they knew it at the time, they
went into recruit him, but now they know now, now it's okay.
I don't see that as being an acceptable solution. And that's and that's kind
of sort of down the road where I was going to say, if this
happened today, right, if the incident occurred, let's say over the weekend,
they found out about it today, he would have a minimum be suspended
while they investigated it, and if they determined that he was guilty of the
act, he probably would be kicked off the team. We'll look at Elliott
Pits. Well, we don't need to go there because nothing. I don't
want to go there. But I don't think the university needs to do the
right thing. You know, it's not it's easy to do the right things.
One tough, the one it's tough, but that when it shows your
true character and your and if you're a class institution. And unfortunately he did
plead guilty. I guess as a minor, and you know, it's a
civil case and now it's bought to light and I think the university just needs
to do the right things as hard as it is. Right, I don't
think. I don't think you're alone and thinking that. There's been a lot
of you know, this has been all over social Media's been a lot of
people have said, you need to move on from him. Um, I'm
assuming. I think the first thing we need to know is how how did
we get to hear? Yeah? Right, James, I'm assuming you go
to football games, right, Yeah, But I'm not going to be renewing
my I'm not getting season tickets this year if he's still on the team.
Okay, That's why I wanted to go with it. Would you cheer him
if he was still the quarterback? Now? So that's a neuro I can't.
Yeah, I'm sure it doesn't matter about how great of an athlete you
are. If this is in your past, then I'm sorry. I believe
in second chances. But unfortunately, if you they didn't know, now they
know they can need to do the right thing, and if they were hiding
it before, then they need to do the right thing still. And he
needs to go to a different school at this point when people know exactly what's
on the on the plate, right, Yeah, no, I hear you.
Okay, thanks, appreciate it, Thank you, Thank you, guys,
you thanks for calling. You know, And something I said a long
time ago Steve and things like this is that you know, being a college
athlete is a privilege. Yeah, right, not a right, it's a
privilege. And along the way, you can't do things that or you should
be required to forfeit that privilege. He can, he can still be a
student at the University of Arizona. He can move on with his life,
right, he can do all these things. But should he be allowed the
privilege of continuing to be and represent the University of Arizona. That tough question.
Let's go to the next question. You're because you were so adamant,
you were so adamant on the Alabama thing, go ahead and give him the
news. Well, uh, Jayden Bradley, the basketball player who have signed
with Arizona yesterday. Everybody's the guard out of Alabama. Um. And I
mentioned this briefly because I was still trying to make sure we had it right.
I mention briefly at the end of the show, you had you had
left was the player who, yeah, who was with Brandon Miller at the
at the scene of that shooting of of the woman. Uh in Alabama.
We were certain that Brandon Miller at the very least needed to be suspended from
you know, at least for a while to figure out what was going on.
They didn't do that, and we were highly critical of that. Jade
Bradley was with Brandon Miller. Now, it wasn't his car. He's not
the one that drove the weapon over there, and by all accounts, Brandon
Miller didn't even hand the weapon. He drove the car to the guy.
The other guy came got the gun and the incident happened. You know,
what does what does what should be done about Jaden Bradley? Right right?
So should he have been suspended as well? Should both of them have been
suspended? Now we were again we were highly critical that Brandon Miller should have
been Jaden Bradley too. I don't know. Well, there's a guy on
my Facebook. I pushed this history once I heard that he had committed to
Arizona. Um, Chris bred He's it's public. He's on my Facebook now.
A risky and desperate move. I sent this to you right now,
said risky and desperate move. He was at the scene of a shooting in
Alabama. Where's where a young woman was murdered. I don't care how good
he might be extremely disappointed. Well, where where I differ with that?
It's not It's not desperate, Tommy Lloyd's not desperate. The question is,
you know, what's the standard, right and how much did they vet this?
And you know it did did they did they go talk to the cops?
What role did Jaden Bradley happen this if any and if they said,
look, he just happened to be there. He was a passenger in the
car. You know, he was a passenger's car. He had no idea
what was going on and then this happened. That's the case, then then
fine. But if you know Brandon Miller and Jane Bradley and where over the
saying, hey man, there's a fight going on, the guns in the
back, you know that we'll get you know, and then it happens,
there's a little more culpability there to the whole thing, which was where I
was with Brandon Miller. Brandon Miller knew knew he was taking the gun to
the scene. Did Jade Miller also know? I don't know. Yeah,
I know. It's well, we don't know until we know the slippery slope
for both about for both of these things, I'm a little less um opposed.
I guess I don't know if that's the right word to the Jade Bradley
thing. Then I think where I'm going with I really am well, I
think that de Laura for whatever reason, now n I L or n L
I right, UM will partly dry up. Yeah? Are you going to
support right whether he's playing or not playing? Yeah? Are you gonna?
Are you gonna continue to have this guy endorse your company, your product,
you whatever it is? Um, it's unfortunate it's unfortunate, and you know
the there's the whole well he was only sixteen thing with bull crap. I
know when I was sixteen nine, you not to rape a girl, right,
right? And you can say that because it was he got he was,
he admitted that he did. Yeah, that's why this is so that
one I don't that. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna hear that argument.
The question is, you know, as James said, you know, what
is a second chance for Jade delora As? Does a second chance mean he
still gets to play college football? Or does a second chance just mean he
didn't have to go to jail, he can still go to college and he
can go on with his life. You know, how far do you get
to do you get to go? You got this tough, tough call,
tough call on every level, beginning with the admit thought in your mind?
What you know, what do you want them to do? No, it's
not my decision. I know it's not your decision. But do you have
an opinion as I know, because I don't know what I would do it?
No, no, no, this is a tough, tough call.
There's no right answer. Maybe there is, and I don't know what it
is. I'm glad it's not my decision, you know. I mean I
think I try. I think back to things that happen, you know,
at the time Alvin Smith shot a gun. Yeah, you know he got
suspended. Well you know there was and they ended up taking him back.
There was on a football I know under rich Rod took a player or two
with his players with history, right, and it was kind of it came
and it went, Yeah, it was one day, this is what I'm
doing. This is why we did it, and we moved on from it.
But it wasn't not as serious as this. Uh and you know because
you follow it. Um, this is different. Like I said, I
just keep going back to the too. How would you handle this if this
occurred today? And I think you have to look at it that way man,
And maybe I'm wrong, you know, And I'm not a lawyer,
right, What rights does Jaden Delora have as somebody who this is in his
juvenile past. Yeah, the records are sealed. Um, it's been adjudicated.
He's gotten whatever he was gonna get for the crime, right, you
know, whatever they did in juvenile court. If he had to go to
some counseling or whatever. Uh as we said, he had to do an
apology. What you know, how much you know what's next for him?
You don't have an answer to the question you just asked me, right,
No, okay, I really do because it's tough, it really is.
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