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Breaking down all the excess als.
It's Steve Leverra and Jagan Salmis. This

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is I Am the Ball on Fox
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you gotta turn on the button.
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it. Well you got Trump the
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I should criticize, okay. Um
Arizona Women's Golf head coach Laura Lannello

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wash Yeah. Ilanello was selected for
the h w GCA's watch List for now

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I'm the coach of the Year.
Awesome, you know again. You know

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she got her team hot at the
end of the year. Yeah, you

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know they're going to the NC DOUBLEA. So good for them. Yeah.

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She's one of our favorites. Yeah, she's been she's fun on the show.

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Ye, so yeah. Nick um
McQuary has been named one of the

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top of twenty five shortstops in the
nation as semi finalists for Brooks Wallace Award.

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He's a he's a little guy,
and he's hit some homers out of

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high corporate and I'm like, I
don't know that I could hit a golf

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ball out of high corporate. I
know's he's you know, he's been a

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really good player for Arizona. A
shortstop and uh yeah one considering the top

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shortstops. He's been there for a
while, right, who does he I

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think he's a senior. Yeah,
because he's the long hair. Everybody's kind

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of he's been there for a long
time. I think, yeah, he's

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been you know, kind of like
a Hawaiian guy, right, yeah,

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yeah. Um, League source confirms
Wizard assant coach Um Joseph Blair any of

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you for the Bucks head coach position. Um Blair has been with the Sixers,

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Timberwolves and Wizards for the past a
few seasons. Um. He actually

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played college bought here at Arizona and
pro ball in Europe. So Jay,

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so I covered him for all those
years. Rusta soul Judith was his number

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one fan. Everywhere whoever he went, Judith was there. He's probably and

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I'm just off the top of my
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come the furthest in my time,
in my time because Let's remember he was

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a heck of a player. I
think he even holds the record for a

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field goal percentage for in a year
career whatever. But at the end of

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his career he was academically ineligible ever
he had, he got suspended, blah

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blah, didn't finish his year.
He's come from this, from that to

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this where he's there and he's already
in the NBA for a long time now,

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drafted in the second round, didn't
get to play because of politics or

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whatever. Had a great career.
Um. But I was with somebody,

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uh, somebody who's in the NBA. I won't say who because I don't

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want to embarrass him, about three
years ago, and he said, I

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said, what about Joseph player.
He says, he's gonna be somebody he's

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got he knows he's got it.
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talk to people who know Joseph,
he's got that voice, he's got that

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presence, the president. That's the
important, the presidence, and he knows

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he knows what to say at the
right time. He it's it's BS,

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but it's not BS. You know
what I'm saying. No, And he

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has it, and I'm thinking Joseph. He says, yeah, watch and

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now I'm watching. Yeah, Well
you look at you look at a guy

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like Joseph and look in in a
position like that. Appearance doesn't matter.

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Yeah you're not. Only do you
have to know what you're doing. You

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have to look like you know what
this is your dress? But you do.

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But I mean, you look at
a guy like Steve Kerr. You

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know, he walks in the room, he's you know, he's sixty three

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or six whatever, all right,
but he's otherwise an unassuming guy. But

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yet you see him walking the sidelines. You see his mannerisms, you know,

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to put the microphone on him in
a huddle. He looks and acts

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like a coach. Yeah, and
then you see other guys you go,

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what the hell is that guy doing
coaching? And those are the guys that

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get fired, You jump from job
ja but somehow they keep getting employed.

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But you know, a guy like
a guy like Joseph Blair. You can

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picture Joseph walking up and down the
sideline. Yeah, he's imposing, he's

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big, he's six foot ten whatever, dresses you know. Well, yeah,

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we know he's only been on the
show once. Since I've been been

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here. You know, and just
a conversation with him, You're like,

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how can you not be impressed by
this? But right, no, no,

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I know there's other things I'd like
to say. But he was on

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the show a few times with me
before you came on the day of the

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place. Uh, he won the
title in the D League when he was

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with the Viper in the back then. I think it was the D he

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want with the Vipers. Very just
knows how to handle people, right,

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and and and who's the number one
guy with that? Steve Kerr right handling?

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Everyone says, uh did we?
We talked about this maybe two weeks

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ago with what's his name Jackson Jackson
who had the team before, who had

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a bunch of good players. Right, Okay, you're the coach, but

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if you don't know how to handle
a team, what's the point? Yeah,

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well that was the conversation. She
said, Well, Steve Kurs winning

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with all of Mark Jackson's guys,
Well, because Mark Jackson didn't win with

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those guys. We just see it
here, right, you have all the

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talent, but you can't do any
with it. What's the point? Yeah,

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exactly, No, I hear you. And uh, you know,

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you just get the sense from Joseph
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I've ever talked Okay, the time
we had him on the show, all

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those years that he was here,
I never really talked him. But um,

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you know, you talk to him
and you you sense that hit.

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This is a guy who's been very
busy learning the ropes, knowing the ropes,

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just biding his time, you know, working on you know, on

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NBA staffs. He did the G
League thing, um and just really kind

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of he did this almost been very
patient and he did the thing with Sean

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for a year. I mean,
he's still a relatively young man, you

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know. So you know, good
luck to him. Good luck to him.

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If he doesn't get this job,
he will eventually bring through. Well.

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Before we move on to another part
of this is the word is also

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out that Calvin Sampson as a as
the interviewed for that job. He's,

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uh, you know, I like, I've talked to Calvin more times than

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I talked to Joseph Blair, But
I like Calvin, Um, is he

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a good college coach? Is he? Is he a better college coach?

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And he'd be an NBA coach.
He did go to the NBA as an

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assistant for a while when he got
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But you know, Calvin said,
and he's sixty eight years old, so

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he's he's got miles. So we'll
see what happens. But it'd be interesting

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to see if he I mean,
the Bucks are a good franchise, a

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really good team, Joseph Blair would
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They would be They would be expected
to be good right away, part of

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part of coaching at that level,
at any level. I think that Kingsbury's

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would this is what he'd write it
too in Phoenix. If you don't have

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a presence in the room, and
if you don't demand, demand, or

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get the respect from the players,
your toast, your toast. And he

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came from college directly to the pro. He almost fell into the job,

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right right, He didn't really you
know what I'm saying? Yeah? Uh,

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And how are you gonna be respected
that way? Well again, let's

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let's you know, let's go to
the Dion Sanders example. Why why is

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Deon Sanders getting all the attention that
that he's getting for what he's doing in

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Colorado months before they've even played a
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and he's got who he's got his
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right. The Arizona men's golf team, uh ended up finishing in eighth place

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in the Morgan Hill Regional Tournament.
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Um. The top five teams will
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So that would have been that would
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So alright, next run? I
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I think, you know, Jim
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to a point where they expect to, you know, at least get to

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the nc you know, get to
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know, they just didn't do They
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they finished the fourteen strokes out of
qualifying. Mississippi State, Brigham Young,

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Florida State, Baylor, and Pepperdine. Well if i'd out of their region,

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um and as as uh as um
what's your name? You as?

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Jason said, they they they finished
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there, but you know, I
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Yeah. Um. The Arizona Coyotes
planned to build a new arena in

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Tempe UM as a part of the
two point one billion entertainment district. UM.

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This was rejected by voters UM yesterday, UM the team plans on the

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team said, if you its future
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National Hockey League in the coming weeks. A lot of up said people up

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in Phoenix on the sports side,
you know, if you saw writers and

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and people who we follow on social
media. You know, but you know

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what, UM, you put it
up for a vote, you lose,

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You take your lumps with it,
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is. That's you know, the
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it, so they don't get it. It'll be interesting to see what,

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uh, you know, what the
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UM. If you know, there's
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a lot of discussion today that the
Coyotes will will not only leave, but

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they'll have to leave Arizona. Well
because they don't have an arena. The

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plane they're not going to take them
back at the Footprint Center. That that

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that was a relationship that didn't work
very well UM, and they ended up

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going to the Hilo River Arena way
out there in uh in Glendale, and

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now they don't have a place.
They're playing in that little arena that a

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hockey plays in. That's not a
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playing. So it'll be interesting to
see what happens. The NBA Draft order

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was announced yesterday. The top five
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the Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets,
um Poland Trailblazers, Charlotte Hornet's and San

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Antonio Spurs The number one pick.
So obviously we all, I think know

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who the number one pick will be. Victor one biama U. How do

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you guys think? O? There
fourteen? Well, let's go to Victor

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for a minute, okay, because
you know they're they're I mean, they're

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annointing this guy as even a better
prospect than Lebron Ja Lebron, Michael,

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you know all those guys. I'm
like, wait a minute, wait a

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minute. The guy is with seven
five seven four seven five yea like one

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hundred and fifty pounds. Yeah,
okay, we saw what happened to Jeth

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Holme Grin right, you didn't even
get to play in this whole scene,

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right, you know, there's a
physical toll your body takes when you get

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into the NBA. And I'm sorry, it's kind of like the Bryce Young

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thing and the Kyler Murray thing.
How I get that Victor weimbon Yama can

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do things as a seven four seven
five player that other seven footers can't do.

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But what's it? What's the physical
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from him when he starts out there, when he's out there banging around with

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yok Yeah, that's because what the
hell's gonna happen? Even guys like Yannis

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when you came into the league,
he was really really good on both sides

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of the ball, but he had
to you know, bulk up to really

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be able to become one of the
best players in the league. We saw

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up in the chat this past season, Kevin Durrant even had to get a

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little bit bigger, right, Like, you know, he's very talented and

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both sides of the ball, but
that physicality aspect of the game is still

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going to a big portion of how
he actually performed in the league. My

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forms are as big as his,
can I don't disagree with you, Jay,

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Let me go to the other side
of the poll, you have DeAndre

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Aden, who's built like a Greek
goddess, who can't do any of that

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either. But he doesn't have Yeah, I mean yeah, but he's not

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he's not he's not losing his you
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getting hurt and getting his ass kicked
physically. By that, I mean,

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you know, getting hurt and stuff
like that. He's just not any good,

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right, you know, Or I
shouldn't say that he doesn't have it.

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He's just not as good as you
would expect him to be with the

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body and stuff that. My point
to that is the body really doesn't If

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you can play, you can play. Um. I mean, I mean

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I haven't seen much of it except
for high Yeah. No one puts bad

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plays on your head, so you're
gonna see the nice thing. Yeah,

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So I'm excited. I think that
Chet will have a nice career. We

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saw Bradley, remember brad brad See, he had a nice career. Wasn't

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great, wasn't bad great, but
he was he had a lot more than

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a cup of coffee seven eight years
Um. Right. I think the hype,

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like you said, the hype behind
him is I think it's too much

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like the standards he's being said to
without even playing one second in the NBA.

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Is I think is going to you
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hurt his career in the long term, I believe. So, yeah,

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we'll see, we'll see. I
don't I don't, I don't agree.

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I don't agree with Jay's philosophy.
Yeah, okay, but I get it.

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I get what he's saying, right, Okay. Um, the Blazers

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actually intended trade the number one three
overall pick in the draft to try and

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build a championship team around Damian Lillard. So that again, the Blazers intended

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trade throughout number three pick you try
and build it to get a bunch of

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players, of players, they don't
want Damian Lillard to leave, right,

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trying to appease Dame. Basically,
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request for trade and leave. So
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the chances to, um, you
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league is finally said for June tenth. It's going to be between Man City

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um, so it we really are. Some Phoenix Suns news, Chris

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team. According to Chris What's What's
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that's what he says on May seventeenth. Yeah, Chris Paul, Okay,

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yeah, we'll see. Um do
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they need to move on. Okay, I really do what we what did

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Phoenix is gonna do well. If
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hate that word, if if Chris
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name stays stays healthy? Ken if
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word if, Yeah, you're done
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we'll see what they do. Um
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and for this off season and see
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or some other team if you know
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would you guys think you I know
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by him possibly going to Houston,
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be willing willing to give him a
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thirty eight or two. Somebody'll give
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I wouldn't pay James hardy, Hey, we better go. You don't

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want it because we're gonna get you. Were running out of time. Yeah,

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I am fantastic and ready to get
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you okay? And contemporating it as
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you we? You know, we've
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hundred and twenty five days to go, and so we are pacing well.

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get. Yeah, well, we're
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in Glendale. Are there similarities to
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of the event? The super Bowl
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When when you compare the two events, where are they similar and where

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are they very different? There are
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to host major events like a super
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a women's Final four coming up in
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so much economic impact and community impact
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on the map, you know,
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put us on the map as a
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same. Some of the differences are
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is four teams and two competition dates, you know, a Saturday and a

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Monday next April sixth and eight,
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at the collegiate level, and so
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we get a little bit closer.
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to the two Super Bowls and now
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done a good job? And I
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but less complaints, a lot of
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did? But that's exactly it.
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afraid to give feedback, and so
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you know what I'm talking about.
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you know, before the event,
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Super Bowl, from the NFL or
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from the NC Double A, and
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really coming out of Super Bowl,
there was just such high praise for how

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the state operated, how all the
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of measurement. You know, we
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and are they going to bring their
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metrics that go into it as well. And it was a it was a

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record breaking super Bowl and worked see
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you said, yeah, the first
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job, at what point or was
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Kyle, this is way bigger than
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do you manage that thought process for
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to be done to put on,
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four? Sure? A great question. And it's so funny because when it

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hit me is when I was doing
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Super Bowl in New Orleans, and
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were taking place, and then we
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happening, and you know, midway
through the lights went out. Oh I

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remember that. Yeah, and so
I am thinking to myself, we have

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to keep the lights on too,
something that had never occurred to me.

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of how you need to have your backup

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in your contingencies. And so from
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was the chairman of the board is
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is an our company. So it
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in twenty fifteen. But then from
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plan and you just approach it in
fite size pieces, right day by day,

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month by month. And what it
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Arizona. You know, whether it's
elected officials, it's business leaders, it's

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tribal leaders, it's media. I
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host one of these major events.
So don't hang up the phone on just

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give me a leeway on this question. So did you did you participate or

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help out in seventeen with the final
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for this reason, Glendale has grown
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area with the casino now a lot
of things to do. In seventeen,

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the final four was separated, it
would there downtown or there places where in

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Orleans like you were San Antonio,
it's all in one place. Is there

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a chance to do that maybe in
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What we love about these major events, and I'm not going to hang up

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on you, sow, what we
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communities and they each have a different
personality, right whether it's Tucson, or

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its Phoenix, or it's Gustal or
it's Glendale. And so what we love

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is really introducing our visitors as well
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to really move people around and let
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before the event and after the event, and the Grand Canyon and the

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Catalina Mountains, whatever it is.
I mean, we love showcasing all of

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that with these major events. So
so when you've got as you mentioned,

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you've got four teams coming in,
they'll be here for you know, close

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to a week. Um, where
does is there like a line drawn between

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what you as the host committee does
in preparation for all of this and then

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what's firmly in the hands of the
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how they run or who runs the
actual show. I'll just say I worked.

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I worked at the Final four.
I work at NC Double A tournaments

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all the time as a volunteers,
and I'll be up for this when Doug

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Tamara is a good friend of mine. But I see the operation behind the

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scenes and how put together it is, right, it's it's well organized,

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and but there's there's a There has
to be a point where what the host

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committee does and all the work it
does in terms of you know, events

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and stuff like that, and then
what the NC Double A does to actually

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do the games. Is there a
line? There is there? Just you

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guys work together on all of it. You know what we work together on

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all of it. I mean it's
highly integrated between the host Committee, the

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NCAA and then the host university is
Arizona State, right, And we'll come

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back to the universities in a minute. And so we have been, as

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they said, planning for months.
We have monthly meetings with the ncuble A,

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they come to town and we you
know, go through the project plan,

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if you will, and the timelines, and we do divide and conquer,

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right because ultimately the NCAA and Arizona
State, I mean, they run

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the game operations the day of the
game on the court, right, they

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are experts at that, right.
The host committee doesn't need to be involved

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in that, okay. But frankly, everything else leading up to it,

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whether it's the fan fest at the
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we bring in the visiting teams,
you know, the airport logistics, the

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buses, I mean, all those
things we worked together on. Got it,

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got it? Okay? All right? So you were down in Tucson

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to speak to a group. So
if you're going to highlight the rest of

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the state, I'm sure Tucson is
going to be highlighted as well, exactly.

408
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I mean, Tucson is such an
important community to us. Obviously,

409
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Wildcat Country is going strong in Tucson
and we today I was down with the

410
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Tucson Metro Chamber, so it's over. You know, a few hundred businesses

411
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in Tucson and they were having their
business summit in Expo and so I got

412
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to speak to them about major events
and why we do them for the state

413
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:45.480
and how it really accelerates our business
growth and our resident growth. And obviously

414
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.240
it's a big giant commercial for Old
War. And we also want to make

415
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sure that the U of A is
involved, right U of A, GCU

416
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:59.119
n AU. We want all of
our Division one schools to be involved in

417
00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:02.359
showcase. As I said the state. So, so, what was your

418
00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:04.160
message to the business folks down here, Amy, What are you asking them

419
00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:08.480
to do or what would you like
to see them do to participate in some

420
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:12.640
form or another in the Final four
and just be a big part of it.

421
00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:18.279
What was your message to them?
Sure, I think first and foremost,

422
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:22.160
we want fans to be involved and
come to all these ancillary events that

423
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:27.680
we create surrounding the games on Saturday
and Monday. So we want fandom to

424
00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:34.119
be energized and excited about participating in
the men's Final four next year and then

425
00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:37.960
the women's Final four and twenty six. So first and foremost fandom. We

426
00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:42.720
have a lot of volunteers that come
from around the state to work the events

427
00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:47.640
and the games, and so we'd
love to have people volunteer. We also

428
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:52.799
get businesses involved in a number of
different ways. We have one business program

429
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:59.839
that is for diversely owned businesses and
they get the opportunity to bid on contract

430
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:04.640
associated with events around Super Bowl and
the Final Four and sponsorship, and we

431
00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:08.240
include nonprofits. So it's really a
matter of, you know, figuring out

432
00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:11.920
how people want to plug in.
So this is not a question for me,

433
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:14.920
but one of our listeners says,
how crazy is that going to be

434
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.160
when Arizona's at the Final four?
Diction. Of course, they're very hopeful,

435
00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:23.880
They're always open. Do you know
what we should be hopeful? I

436
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:29.680
mean, I think that it would
be fantastic, right, I mean Arizona

437
00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:33.519
has one one championship with Loot at
the helm Um, so you know,

438
00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.200
anything possible based on what we saw
at the Final four in Houston, I

439
00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:40.920
think so, yeah, very true. Fantastic, Yeah, very true.

440
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:44.200
Well, and I think I actually
the last one here. I think fans

441
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:48.440
were incredibly disappointed because there's a field
that Arizona should have been at that Final

442
00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.400
four and weren't. So but right
when you mentioned a few things, and

443
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.119
it's like I'm trying to wrap my
head around everything that has to take,

444
00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.640
Like you just talked about things like
security and traffic in those kinds of things.

445
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.920
I mean, how again, how
do you pull all that together?

446
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:06.519
You say, you have a project
plan and are there just a lot of

447
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:10.759
people that are that take those things
and run with them or how does that

448
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.839
work to get all these aspects of
running this type of event together? Yeah?

449
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.279
Sure, yeah, sure, it's
a great it's a great point.

450
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:23.160
And so I have a full time
staff that's now working on this at the

451
00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:27.599
Host Committee. And so think of
us as really the you know, hub

452
00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:33.440
of the of the wheel. And
then there's spokes around the state and around

453
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.680
the valley that you know, we
have a public safety spoke, we have

454
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.799
a hotel spoke, we have a
media spoke, we have a marketing spoke,

455
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:47.480
and then we incorporate, um,
you know, the subject matter experts

456
00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:51.400
if you will, from around Arizona, and then that's who we tap the

457
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:56.319
NCAA into throughout the planning process.
An as, So, what's the next

458
00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:57.359
step, Like I said, you
have about ten months, you said,

459
00:31:57.400 --> 00:32:02.279
three hundred some days left before the
event. What's the priorities now? And

460
00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:09.079
I think Andy send me a note
about tickets deadlines coming up? Yes,

461
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:15.359
and so we do want to make
sure that our locals have an opportunity for

462
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:21.240
tickets, and so there's a ticket
application process that ends the end of this

463
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:25.279
month, so May three first,
and so we are directing everyone to go

464
00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:31.079
to Phoenix Final four dot com and
the ticket application process and it just like

465
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:37.559
click on that and you can sign
up for tickets and then the NCAA does

466
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:44.279
a random drawing and so folks will
know if they're selected by early fall to

467
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.319
get the tickets. And you know, obviously we want to make sure that

468
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:52.119
as many locals get a chance at
this as possible. So it's Phoenix Final

469
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.279
four dot com. I think in
the past, if I'm correct, they

470
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:59.359
had to find a pay in advance
and if they didn't get it to get

471
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:04.559
refunded or is that wrong? That's
exactly right. So you pay two hundred

472
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:07.960
or fifty dollars per ticket and you
can, you know, put in for

473
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:14.440
up to four tickets and then there's
a twenty five dollar processing fee and so

474
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:17.799
you get fully refunded if you don't
get the tickets, minus the handling fee.

475
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:21.599
And if you do get the tickets, then you're they're yours. Didn't

476
00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:24.200
you get charged? Okay, Okay, what are you looking most forward to

477
00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:28.240
with this? You again, you've
done Super Bowl, so you're not going

478
00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:31.480
to be like intimidated or probably in
awe. But when you do, you

479
00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:35.559
know, when the final four comes
around, you know what are you look

480
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:40.799
looking most forward to? As as
as as it's unfolding. So I love

481
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:45.759
how Arizona shines on the global stage. And so when all of our local

482
00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:51.160
stakeholders come together and I mentioned you
know, many of them earlier, and

483
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:54.440
work together and just roll up the
red carpet for our visitors and for our

484
00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:59.559
locals, and people come to Arizona
and they just have such a great time

485
00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:06.319
and great memories around sport and around
you know, the game of college basketball.

486
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:07.960
I mean, there's just nothing better
than that, and people will remember

487
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.280
it forever. Like that's kind of
part one. And then all those positive

488
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:16.280
impacts that we get to create here
on Arizona around these major events. It's

489
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:22.719
it's really meaningful, and it accelerates
things that we wanted to do otherwise for

490
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:29.079
our state. Right whether it's updating
or airport or um remodeling hotels or you

491
00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:34.119
know, whatever it might be.
It accelerates all those business initiatives. Super

492
00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:37.119
super Jay. Well, thanks for
joining us. We'll hope to talk to

493
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:40.159
you again as we get closer.
This is exciting Steve and Jay. I

494
00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:45.079
appreciate you having us on and we
look forward to talking more about the men's

495
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:46.760
final four. Great, right,
great to hear for you. Thank you,

496
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:51.280
Andy. Uh, take care,
it's uh, it's about we got

497
00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:53.039
to take a break real quick.
But interesting stuff. I mean, you're

498
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:55.440
going to be cover, You're gonna
be doing it. I usually go to

499
00:34:55.519 --> 00:35:00.679
it, so, um, well
there's some nuts stories, but I just

500
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you know, there's since we both
experienced, let's let's just talk about that

501
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:06.400
a little bit after the rig.
Okay, yeah, right, go very

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Ball. Hey, welcome back to twenty

555
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on the Ball, Hero Sports fourteens
to the Earth. Steve Tuesday, Jason

556
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:04.719
with us today seventeen minutes. Give
us a call five two old four one

557
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:08.159
six seventy four forty. Uh you
wanted to continue the conversation. We have

558
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:10.840
a couple of breaking news too,
Yeah, you want to go to the

559
00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:15.000
breaking news? First? Um,
we didn't talk about the UA recruit.

560
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:16.880
Oh yeah, I guess we should
do that. And then the Kleb love

561
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:21.079
thing. Right, so we go
past real quick, a couple of these

562
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:24.679
things. Um. First of all, uh again U, it was announced

563
00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:31.800
on social media that uh, Tommy
Lloyd has another another commitment from another overseas

564
00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:36.719
player. His name. I don't
know if you should even try to say

565
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:42.039
it? Go ahead? Did you
do with it? Um? I can't

566
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:50.719
find I posted? Hold on it's
um it's uh Polis Polius Paulius Maurus m

567
00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:54.199
U R A U S K A
S. Yeah, he's he's a six

568
00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:59.280
foot kid six foot eight kid out
of also out of Lithuania. Um so

569
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.880
another another year old guy again.
You know, you see some responses to

570
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:06.400
this when he's not getting enough American
guy, YadA, YadA, YadA.

571
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:08.239
You know, a while back he
groupist that he wasn't getting any guys,

572
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:12.280
and now that he is, and
you're still unhappy, So get the hell

573
00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:17.639
out of here. Just unhappy people
will always be unhappy people, exactly.

574
00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:23.800
And then word is out that Caleb
loved and Michigan point guard I'm not mission.

575
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:28.239
The North Carolina point guard who went
in the transfer portal committed to Michigan

576
00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:31.280
is now not going to Michigan and
he's back in the port You wouldn't know

577
00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:37.239
what the reason why no admissions.
Oh they wouldn't let him in. So's

578
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:42.639
there's yeah, so I don't know
if he'll be allowed to get in here,

579
00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:46.039
right right right? So so anyways, um so there's there's those couple

580
00:40:46.039 --> 00:40:52.039
of things. Um, this just
came up, and we'll talk about final

581
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:57.119
fours and stuff like that. This
just came up though. Um. Jason

582
00:40:57.239 --> 00:41:01.239
Sheer posted this answer to a question
by Dave Hekey. I don't know where

583
00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:07.679
this question right, I don't know
if it's an interview he did or that

584
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:10.800
somebody did. But it was a
question to Dave, and it said,

585
00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:15.119
and what are your hopes for your
conference as you move into the new phase?

586
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:17.719
And he said, I'm sure to
say it because it might change tomorrow,

587
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:22.400
but we're faced with a new and
ever changing world in conference alignments,

588
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:24.480
adjustments will have to be made,
but I know that we will land in

589
00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:29.599
a very good spot, certainly the
hope. And who knows, whenever you

590
00:41:29.639 --> 00:41:32.280
print, the result may be different
than the hope. But would like to

591
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:36.719
be with the PAC twelve and continue
the great tradition of the conference. But

592
00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:38.599
if not, there will be a
new landscape and a new opportunity for the

593
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:46.199
University of Arizona. I mean it's
about hope. We've been hearing right that,

594
00:41:46.920 --> 00:41:50.679
you know, and I think that's
sort of been the hope of everybody.

595
00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:53.519
If you're not going to the PAC
twelve, you better have a you

596
00:41:53.559 --> 00:41:58.039
better have a plan B. And
it sounds like they might have. Let's

597
00:41:58.039 --> 00:42:04.719
take this call, oh cost back? Yeah, yeah, give us a

598
00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:08.920
call back. We'll we'll try we'll
try and grab it before um. Anyways,

599
00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:13.559
um we're in there. Does it
say that they're going to the Big

600
00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:15.880
twelve, doesn't Somebody who's respond said, Oh, so, I guess we're

601
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:22.280
going to the Big twelve. Those
who are unhappy will always remain unhappy.

602
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:28.039
Those who don't listen will always not
listen. Oh my gosh, All right

603
00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:30.960
again I get I get so frustrated
with the people on social media. Get

604
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:35.599
out. Let's take this. How
you're on the air and night in the

605
00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:38.280
ball. Yeah, this is out
on Phoenix. How are you guys doing

606
00:42:38.360 --> 00:42:42.519
good? All? How are you? I'm all right, I you know,

607
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:45.000
I haven't called for a while,
but yeah, I've been watching,

608
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.039
you know, seeing from me pulling
all these kids from bliss Awnia, and

609
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:52.199
I'm not sure what to think he's
doing because I don't know if any of

610
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:57.360
them can play these big guys.
You know. It's kind of a little

611
00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:00.960
head scratching, to be honest.
Yeah, So you you're not believing in

612
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:07.079
Tommy not not in his recruiting.
It's it's there's there's a word that starts

613
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:10.719
was asked and ends with kay that
I'm thinking about when it comes to it

614
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:15.800
right now, because I'm just being
impressed by, you know, so a

615
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:19.960
few of them players. Yeah,
but these his strategy to get big guys.

616
00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:22.440
That's like they're gonna sit on the
bench forever. I just don't understand.

617
00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:29.400
So there's gins and ends. Can
I buy a vowel? Could I

618
00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:31.599
do? Uh? Well? Did
you shrure to me asking did you trust

619
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:37.239
Sean when he was doing his recruiting? Oh? He I woke it.

620
00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:40.920
We gotta give him the devil his
due. Literally, his was out standing

621
00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:45.559
most of the time. He had
a lot of you know, and that's

622
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:50.519
what Tommy won with Tommy one with
Shawn's likes. So he's home guys,

623
00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:53.480
he's getting I'm I'm not sure he's
faster. Is he ever gonna do anything?

624
00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:57.280
He's sent as a rail. It
looks like, you know, sorry,

625
00:43:57.320 --> 00:44:00.440
but he's kind of let me ask
you are you? Are you not?

626
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:04.119
Uh? Are you? How can
I say this? Are you not

627
00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:07.599
aware? Because you've never seen them
play, you don't know who they are,

628
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:09.079
and you saw the other guys,
So you feel more comfortable or you

629
00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:12.559
Yeah, you feel more comfortable.
Yeah, you know they got more you

630
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.320
know. It's just like, uh, I know he was after the guy

631
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:17.840
for the kid from San Dieo State
that they didn't get who looked really good.

632
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:21.679
Would have been great, and you
have a uniform. But unfortunately didn't

633
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:28.679
get what kind of I thought you're
players that they're They don't pan out a

634
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:30.840
lot, and even Tabella's who had
a lot offense, at least had an

635
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.599
offensive game. I mean, he
is a lot of parts of hit game

636
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:37.760
that we're never there. So I'm
just always skeptical. You know, some

637
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:42.079
of the guys had gone Baggy got
like if he gets another SA bonus,

638
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:45.559
that's a different store. But I
don't know about the ones he's pulling in

639
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:49.280
right now. Yeah, well you
did you do you know for a fact

640
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:51.840
the San Diego Kid is not coming. I didn't see that. I thought

641
00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:57.239
he was announcing that we heard on
Saturday. Oh I thought I saw somebody

642
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:00.079
because I thought because they got this, they keeping these I hear, like,

643
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:06.760
I thought these are the consolation Croc
didn't get this kid. I didn't.

644
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:09.079
I haven't seen that a sort something. You know, you read Twitter,

645
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:13.920
and sometimes you don't know what's the
truth and what's the uh you know

646
00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:19.079
what's not not true? San Diego
Kid comes in Saturday, or we'll make

647
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:23.639
it Saturday. So oh god,
they need him, Oh they need him

648
00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:28.119
so bad. So we'll see what
happens. I don't. I don't um

649
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:30.000
I understand what you're saying. Because
you haven't seen these guys. You don't

650
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:34.400
know how good they are, whether
they're skinny or fat or whatever, or

651
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:37.119
fast or slower. Well, we'll
see when we see. But I you

652
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:39.800
don't know the unknown, you don't
know what. You don't know, so

653
00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:45.800
pretty much that's true. It's just
you know the first the results, like

654
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:50.719
I said, because Vaster came in
so hyped up and then he I mean

655
00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:52.239
he did, he did it,
looked like he did it. He's the

656
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:57.840
project, you know, maybe,
and that's what project not good, and

657
00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:00.800
he is. I think he's gonna
be fantastic. I think all these so

658
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.000
called projects that you you labeled are
going to be fine down the road.

659
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:08.280
I know we're into immediate satisfaction,
and I'm not here to alibi coach Tommy

660
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:13.119
Lloyd, but I think that you'll
be okay with what he has. What

661
00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:16.159
okay means I do not know?
Right Well, that makes him feel better.

662
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:21.440
I appreciate that. I think he
kind of was hurt by coming in

663
00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:23.800
with so much talent and winning so
much, and now he's kind of it's

664
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:27.760
like if he doesn't have that.
Everyone's gonna say, you know, he's

665
00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:31.960
he couldn't he's kind a little bit
how fun it's a double or to win

666
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:36.119
that much in initial how I used
to be a car salesman. One day,

667
00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:37.880
one month, I sold seven cars. He told me send sel ten.

668
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:42.079
The next they said self fifteen.
The next I got out of the

669
00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:47.119
business. You understand what I'm saying. Well, I might have to read

670
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:53.119
your blu Please do you put out
another. I'm looking forward to thank you

671
00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:58.559
all. Thanks for the call.
Appreciate you listening. You know, if

672
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:00.039
he's not how it is, that's
where we are, you know, because

673
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:05.199
you got you got guy like al
who liked Sean Miller's recruiting. And I

674
00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:07.840
didn't want to you know, I'm
happy that he called, but I wanted

675
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:08.960
to say, so did you like
when these guys would come in here for

676
00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:14.519
a year and leave didn't show and
yeah, and so you know, I

677
00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:16.199
mean, it's a matter of what, you know, what matters to you.

678
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:19.119
You don't want to piss off the
guests. I didn't want to piss

679
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.639
off the guests. I really didn't. I have some apply for you.

680
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:24.679
I know you're I know you're wondering. You know what happened to me,

681
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:31.159
But you know, what do you
do? But you know it's well,

682
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:34.400
we don't know though, right,
I don't know. But we think Henry

683
00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:37.639
Weiser is going to be good.
I think but he certainly he showed flashes

684
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:39.480
of it last year. But you
know he didn't play because he wasn't doing

685
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.599
what Tommy needed him to do to
be able to play, you know.

686
00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:45.920
And and it was the same situe
with the Dama ball. Who's now gone?

687
00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:50.360
All right, high, you're on
the air and on the ball.

688
00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:53.920
How's it going today? What's up? Ryan? Well? Just calling about

689
00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:58.679
you know, the recruiting thing.
Um, you know. The one thing

690
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:02.480
and I've said past is one good
thing about the European players. Okay,

691
00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:07.039
they don't have the ego like the
American players. And everybody complains if you

692
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:10.719
get why aren't we getting five star
players? And one of the problems you

693
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:15.239
get the five star players they're gone
in the year. Yeah. One good

694
00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:20.639
thing about the European players. Most
of them stay two three years and you're

695
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.920
able to develop them right right,
And then you know, and it's also

696
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:27.840
everybody says, well, Sean Miller
had all these guys, Well, Sean

697
00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:30.480
Miller didn't win with these guys.
Exactly. You're gonna write the tale of

698
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:35.559
my book, my next exactly.
That's what we've been talking about. How

699
00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:38.039
are you gonna make these people happy? You? You? You set the

700
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:43.519
example perfectly. You get you get
good talent to jump the ship, you

701
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:45.320
get them. I'm gonna stay here
longer you cry about it. I mean,

702
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:51.840
at some point there's a medium here. Yeah, making everybody happy thing

703
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:54.239
too. I was reading today about
that kid who went from Michigan to Kansas.

704
00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:59.519
Yeah. Well, he's the first
person I've seen admit that he went

705
00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:00.719
for the n i OL money.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he

706
00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:04.519
did, and you know he did
you know, Yeah, that's kind of

707
00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:07.119
that underground thing. Yeah. Well, you know. And also to the

708
00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:12.519
kid who went from Carolina to Michigan
who didn't qualify grade wise, you know,

709
00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:15.599
um, well that's not so,
that's not surprising that he got to

710
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:21.440
play with Carolina and not have to
go to school. They are pretty good

711
00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:25.519
about giving away freeze free diplomas,
sen letters to our coloradoe to us.

712
00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:30.800
He's not lying. No, he's
not lying. He does evidence. He's

713
00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:31.920
not lying. You're not lying,
right? Well, no, I mean

714
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:35.480
when what's her name? When they
got in trouble, that guy said,

715
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:37.760
I got a degree. I didn't
even know how to read after four years

716
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:42.079
exactly all right, right, but
you know, and they said, well

717
00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:45.000
it's available to every student. I
don't think that was, but it was,

718
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:47.519
yeah, exactly. Okay, Hey, Bran, thanks the whole bunch.

719
00:49:47.519 --> 00:49:52.159
Man, appreciate it. You got
about six minutes. All good points.

720
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:54.159
I mean, and they'll make some
good points too. And look,

721
00:49:54.400 --> 00:50:00.360
the knock on the European guys,
and particularly the guys that that you know

722
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:04.000
that uh Tommy Lawrders brought in is
that they're not tough enough. You know

723
00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:06.199
what they're saying, Well, you
got it, you know, because they're

724
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:09.719
they're more finesse kind of players.
But you know they you know, they

725
00:50:10.280 --> 00:50:14.599
had they played with the beauty of
the game. Wait a second, So

726
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:17.719
Sean brought in guys who were tough
enough to well, you're right, you're

727
00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:22.039
right, I don't remember. Maybe
prepare them. Okay, we had five

728
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:23.800
to ten years, twelve years.
We've got one guy, Solomon Hill is

729
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:28.719
tough guy. That was That was
that was that was when you were a

730
00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:32.639
young son. That was a Sean
that was a lout time of type of

731
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:36.639
sean thing. Yeah, okay,
so but he was a finesse guy too.

732
00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:37.760
He was a smart guy played in
the league. You know what I'm

733
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:42.719
saying, right, Arizona's got a
history of not correct be tough enough.

734
00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:45.639
This is just not a one coach
there. I mean, you know,

735
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:49.119
when you think about the remember the
Lout's first couple of tournament teams that got

736
00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:55.360
blasted by by Charles Barkley and right, and just beat the hell out of

737
00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:59.840
them physically. And I've said historically
they're not They're not a tough group.

738
00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:02.480
They're basketball playing. Yeah, exactly. All right. Hey, so going

739
00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:07.360
back to you know, the final
four stuff, I think you know you've

740
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:09.079
been behind the scenes of a million
of them because you've covered up however many

741
00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:12.360
you know, four or five hundred
of them right now, and uh,

742
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:15.039
you know, and I've worked a
few, worked the NC double A ternams

743
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:19.719
and stuff. I don't I don't
know that anybody realizes how much work,

744
00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:22.760
how much working well without questions,
and how much work it entails. And

745
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:25.599
it was funny because I've worked a
number of regionals, first and second rounds,

746
00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:29.679
but I had not worked a final
four until the last one. In

747
00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:36.679
Phoenix, and the step up in
the amount of stuff that has to be

748
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:43.000
done and that they have to take
care of, and then the the staff

749
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:45.480
that they bring to do those things. People would be shocked as to what

750
00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:49.719
it takes you put on a Final
four. That's why I asked the question,

751
00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:52.320
you know, where's the dividing line
between what a host committee does?

752
00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:55.920
You know what the NC double A
does. She mentioned the host schools that

753
00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:00.320
you know, Arizona State is the
whole school. I mentioned Doug Tamara who's

754
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:05.440
their sports information director. He's in
charge of the media operation. And I

755
00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:09.000
remember UM at one of at one
of the previous UH it used to be

756
00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:15.559
that you had to host a regional
the year before you host the Final four,

757
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:20.119
sort of as a dry run.
And the regional that that they hosted

758
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:27.760
at the Cardinal Stadium the year before
UH seventeen the Final four. Mark Brand

759
00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:32.519
who was he was the sports information
guy. The notebook he had to carry

760
00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:37.239
for just the media operation, it
was literally six inches there and he was

761
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:40.159
hauling that thing around. I felt
like, dude, you need a backpack

762
00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:45.480
or a cart when you think about
when you think about that, it was

763
00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:53.039
just that piece of it and now
how you know you have to with the

764
00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:58.960
way the magnitude of the event.
Now you know there's seventy thousand people you

765
00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:02.840
know at these uh the Final four, Now it's a twenty five or thirty

766
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:07.000
thousand. No, that's like there's
not a wedding anymore or birthday party.

767
00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:09.800
So the one thing the question I
tried to be nice with and kind of

768
00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:14.760
funny with was the was the location
right? And you've been to? Well,

769
00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:16.119
you went to this. I've been
to eighteen of them, and the

770
00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:19.800
one in New York was horrible because
the game was played in New Jersey.

771
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:22.239
We had to get in the bus. People in New York didn't give a

772
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:25.159
crap about the final four. We
uh. Places where you have to go

773
00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:30.920
centralize San Antonio, New Orleans,
the one in Charlotte, the one in

774
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:36.079
the Indie all place, one big
party, the one in Phoenix people.

775
00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:39.239
The one complaint I heard was downtown
they had the fan fast by all the

776
00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:44.360
concerts. And then in Glendale they
get in your car and then have you

777
00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:47.920
taken that trip to get across town? Yeah, it ain't. It ain't

778
00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:52.599
easy. It's like an hour to
get across town. So you can enjoy

779
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:55.480
walk around and see this thing.
Can That's that's my only That's why I

780
00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:58.880
asked the question. Well, like
like I think I said before, you

781
00:53:58.920 --> 00:54:02.679
know, I work in that four
I drove home after the after after each

782
00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:06.119
day. Sure, I just went
home because it was going to take me

783
00:54:06.159 --> 00:54:08.480
as long to get to hotel in
the middle of Phoenix exactly. I just

784
00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:12.760
you know, high tailed it out
of there. And and and to this

785
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:15.239
day, I kind of feel like
we missed a lot of of the event

786
00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:17.880
because we came home and we're not
you know, we're not part of it.

787
00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:22.280
And what we're gonna do it differently
this year. Um, but uh,

788
00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:24.920
you know, I'm looking forward to
it. But that that that's a

789
00:54:24.920 --> 00:54:28.280
tough that's a tough deal, uh, you know, for it to be

790
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:30.920
as separated as it is. And
her answer was a good one. They

791
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:34.360
want to kind of share the wealth
and everything going around. But for the

792
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:36.559
fans, the fact that well,
the fact of the matter is they don't

793
00:54:36.599 --> 00:54:39.159
have the facilities out in Glendale.
True, that's they need to have to

794
00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:42.199
be able to do all this stuff. True, but have you been out

795
00:54:42.199 --> 00:54:45.559
there? But the state it's plenty
of room, and the new casino and

796
00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:52.079
just the sin so so many things
going on out there, you think,

797
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:54.119
But I get it. I get
it. The thing about the travel,

798
00:54:54.440 --> 00:54:58.519
like you said, it just as
as long as it takes you to get

799
00:54:58.599 --> 00:55:01.559
from downtown to two, it's almost
an amount of time it takes you downtown

800
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:06.599
to get to Glendale because of the
traffic. Yeah, no doubt so.

801
00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:08.920
So it's a great event. Oh, it's a fantastic event. Yeah,

802
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:13.559
being fans all over the from all
over. Yeah, wouldn't it be cool

803
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:16.280
that Arizona plan event. And we
thought we thought that was going to happen,

804
00:55:16.360 --> 00:55:20.559
and was it twenty seventeen seventeen,
we thought that was gonna happen.

805
00:55:20.599 --> 00:55:23.480
I remember being I was angry,
you know, because I worked the regional

806
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:27.679
in San Jose when it was lost
to Xavier. I'm literally on the court,

807
00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:31.800
yeah, and I I wanted I
wanted to go beat up Alonzo Trier

808
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:35.559
on the court right there. Wait
a sec. Okay, they get by

809
00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:38.840
the game, They're not getting there. In the end, they were not

810
00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:45.039
going to beat Gunzagging right and to
the to l to the point that we

811
00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:50.800
kind of wanted to make with all
that Gunzaga team was a bunch of twenty

812
00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:53.119
four year olds a bunch of men, a bunch of men that we're gonna

813
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beat the hell out of Larry marking
In and Alonzo Trier and Raley Alkins.

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We're all to twelve year olds,
right, you know what? That's high

815
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sort of um? What's the right
word? Came to Griffs with the fact

816
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that they didn't get there was that
a I don't know if they would have

817
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beaten Gonzaga day, Yeah, it
would have been a heck of a game,

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but who knows. A good show
today, good show today, fun.

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Thank you Jay Perry for joining us. And John Pronan, let's go

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buy a piece of his team.
He would like a horse, right like

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the horse? Okay, tomorrow,
back tomorrow. Dave hk will be be

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joining us tomorrow, and I think
I think we've got John Wilmer so we

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can talk some Pack twelve stuff.
Be sure to come back tomorrow