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I'm your host, Jagan Zalez. My partner Steve Rivera is still out.
We'll be out for the rest of the week. I've got Ryan here to
handle the board duties and join in on the conversation. I hope we'll have
some good ones today. Ryan, We're a lot again as every day,
there's some news, and we've got some more news breaking today, So I
don't know how much of it will say for your breaking news, but things
going on. Got an interesting show because I you know, yesterday when we
had Judy McDermott on talking about the youth golf programs they have and that they're
doing and ways for kids to spend their summer. I thought of my friend
Ryan Dunn, who runs a business called TGA Premier Sports that offers how wouldn't
call them camps, just you know programs you use sports programs throughout the summer.
They also do stuff after school programs and whatt It's like that, let's
get one more person in here to talk about the things that are available for
your kids out there or your grandkids, whoever is listening. So Ryan Dunn
is going to join us at about three twenty to discuss his program and the
sports that you can get your kids involved in with the with the things that
they do. It's a it's a really great program and a great business that
Tucson has here. And then at four twenty we're gonna bring in Greg Hanson.
I had wanted to bring him in to get some some of his historical
perspective on Willie Mays. We'll see what he's got to say about that.
You know, Greg a great historian, always has a lot of interesting factoys
about just about anything, and I wanted to get his thoughts on, you
know, one of the all time great players who passed away this week.
In line with that, this game at Rickwood, right, is that that
the name of it? Yes? And the Rickwood Stadium in Alabama where the
Negro leagues played a lot of their stuff. There's a major League baseball game
there tonight. Who's playing I never paid attention to that. It's going to
be the Giants and the Cardinals. The Giants and the Cardinals, okay,
you know two of the old old time teams. Giants go all the way
going all the way back to when they were the New York Giants, and
certainly the Cardinals have been around for a thousand years, so a lot of
history there. So that game is going to be going on tonight. I'm
assuming it's on ESPN, It's on Fox, It's on Fox and four fifteen.
Okay, so they've they've done a lot of refurbishing of that stadium.
Obviously, they've got to make the grounds major league level. They don't want
anybody going out there and getting hurt. So that game is going to be
tonight. I guess the big news of the day Ryan JJ Reddick. Yeah,
coach. Lakers have their coach who is as he's six months older than
their oldest player. He's about six months older than Lebron James. But those
two guys are pals. So we'll see how how Lebron uh works with JJ
Reddick. They do a podcast together and stuff, so they're you know,
certainly I'm guessing that you know, Lebron had a little bit of a say
in that Lebron will be forty years old in December, you know, getting
up there, and then there's a whole question about what happens to to Bronnie
James. But JJ Reddick made the made the coach of the Lakers today.
What do you think? So? Growing up, I used to watch Duke
Duke basketball and JJ Redick was one of my He was he was one of
the guys I enjoyed watching. He was such a good player, right,
good leader on that team, right, And then of course he went to
the NBA and I didn't really follow him after that, but he's he's always
been a good player of mine. And I think just watching a video before
the show, they're saying, you know, he has a really good IQ
for the game. I didn't really catch a lot of his games as being
an analyst on ESPN, right, I don't know if you ever got a
chance, not really, so I don't know if you he did a good
job at that. But but yeah, I think he's got a good basketball
mind. And you know, it'll means to be seen if he'll be uh,
if he'll be able to take the Lakers back to you know the finals
are yeah, well, you know the the the Athletic had a piece on
him. Uh really, I don't know some they had somebody very inside on
this, because they just talked about some stuff about how JJ Redick was very
impressive in the h in his interviews, that that he he with his knowledge
of of you know, schemes and how he's gonna run you know, how
he's gonna run his team in terms of you know, offense defense. Uh,
how they how he would use Anthony Davis. Now clearly, you know,
you'd like to think he went and did uh, you know, a
whole lot of homework to get ready for his interview. But it just,
uh, it just basically went deep into why the why the Lakers hired JJ
Reddick, and they just said he was, you know, he is very
impressive. This is what it said. It says in a piece of the
article. This was written by by Sham Sharania, Sam Ammick Amic and Jovon
Boja. There's a paragraph from from the article. It says multiple sources with
direct knowledge of the meeting described Reddick as quote impressive during and quote during his
visit to Los Angeles, diving deep into his offensive and defensive philosophies and displaying
his passion for the sport that foreshadowed willingness to submit himself to the countless working
hours for the modern head coach. So it just talks about how how he
would go about making decisions, his intent to, you know, increase Anthony
Davis's involvement in everything that they do. He's the best player. I mean,
you can say it's Lebron, but Lebron's going to be forty next season,
so you know, he's he's on the down side of it. So
taking advantage of what they have in the younger and the younger guy in Anthony
Davis, and then you know how he will how important it's going to be
to develop the young players that they have. Uh, you know Austin uh
Ruy Hachimura. Austin reeves those guys. So you know, look, guys
have gone from the broadcast booth to you know, head coaching all the time
right more. You know, Arizonans know that you know Bob Brindley, you
know he was a booth guy. You know, he took he took the
Diamondbacks to a World Series and then shortly after that got fired and went back
to the booth and uh, you know what's his name? The asc football
coach. Edwards, Oh, his first name her Edwards. He had been
now he had been a head coach, went to the booth, was it
was there for a lot of years. Came back to a s U.
He did a decent job early, it kind of floundered. Then they broke
a bunch of rules and he got fired. But you know, guys have
done at So we'll see, you know, Uh, you know what people
do say about JJ Reddick, as you said, he's got a good basketball
IQ. So we'll see what happens. I don't know, I know,
you know. I mean, it's a hard enough job, right The Lakers
are a hard job. You know, it's it's a hard job to Uh,
it's the job itself. It's tough. It's the Lakers. The expectations
are always high. The organization by you know a lot of people that just
hasn't been well run in recent years under Jenie Buss, you know. And
any NBA coach is a tough coaching position is a tough job. But the
Lakers because of what fans expect, what the media expects, you know,
what the players expect. Uh, it's gonna be interesting to see how how
he manages that they've had a bunch of coaches in recent years. And here's
another one. We'll see what happens. They just they fired all their coachesn't
they. Yeah, he'll get his whole you know, whether he keeps any
of the of the guys. But see that's the thing. Okay, so
he's been, he's been in broadcast. What coaching connections? Does he have
to bring in a staff to do what he needs to do? You know,
because being a coach goes beyond drawing up ex's and o's on the board.
You got to have a coaching staff. You got to have a staff
that you can work with. You got to have a staff that can execute
what you want them to execute, what kind of players you want to coach.
There's a lot of stuff behind that. And that's the part to me
that you go, okay, JJ reddick, good guy. It was choking
on my eg's good guy, smart guy, right. But there's a lot
of pieces to a job like that. You know, you're running a pretty
good sized organization. I get it, there's only fifteen players, but you
know it's not like a football team. But you've got coaches and analysts and
all kinds of there's a system to running a team. How much he knows
about that is what is what will be interesting to find out. Yeah,
it's a it's a four year contract, so I mean I think it's going
to take at least a couple of years for really you know you and it'll
be interesting to see. Right, Okay, what did the expectations? How
much time are you going to give him to learn the ropes? Right?
I mean you have to think about that, and you got to give him
some leeway if they suck next year, you can't fire him right away unless
unless what you see you feel like there's no hope for it, and there's
situations like that. That's obviously what happened with many Williams up up at Detroit.
Right. But if they if he's as smart as they say he is,
it's not going to be like he doesn't have a clue. So now
it's going to be Okay, how long before he has to start winning to
a point where he gets you into the playoffs and those kinds of things.
That's that's going to be the interesting part of this, uh, this whole
experience with him. Yeah, but he's getting paid I think it's eight million
a year, which is about three million dollars less than what they had offered
Dan Hurley. You know, does JJ have an ego about that? Uh?
You know, he's certainly I mean, being that he's never coached before,
he can't expect to be getting what Dan Hurley was going to get.
So you know, maybe that's three million dollars you can put into a player
or something like that. So we'll see how that, how that works for
him. Good luck, you know, good luck. I know, I
know a lot of Arizona fans don't really root for him here because he was
one. He was a duke too. He was a duke at a time
where he was giving a lot more attention and a lot more credit as being
called, you know, great shooter in college basketball when probably a much better
shooter was right here in Tucson with Celine Stodommeier. So I'm guessing that there's
some Arizona fans who immediately don't become at Lakers fans, right, People don't
forget her on here and stuff like that. So I don't know, you
know, well, well it's one of those things. Okay, let's wait
and see what happens. I mean, the basketball season will be. It'll
be back here before you know it. So yeah, exactly we will.
We will find out soon enough. So anyway, so there's some news coming
out of Arizona. We'll talk about this when in breaking news. But they're
they're going to be due handling their multimedia rights a little differently obviously. Uh
uh. Desiree read francois coming in with a with an idea of how she
wants to do things. So we'll talk a little bit about that. We're
talking about offering. I'm not even sure one hundred percent exactly what it means.
We'll have to have somebody come in and explain to us. Then there's
a continuing discussion. It looks like this thing with you know, expanding the
n CUAA tournament is going to happen and it's just really dumb. Well,
yes, yesterday you and Henri, yeah, you guys talked about it being
uh eight or they're going with sixty eight now, so they're going to either
seventy two or seventy six. I'm like, why, you know, somebody
made a good point today. You know, the pac clove is done right,
it's gone. So there's three, four or five spots that are open
now because they're not going to this conference. You know, now those teams
are playing elsewhere. But those teams that get absorbed into the other leagues,
you're not gonna take, you know, a seventh place team this year if
you weren't taking a sixth place team last year. So I don't know,
I just don't. I just don't get how you keep messing with stuff that's
already really good. And that's going to be a continuing discussion this summer until
that's also just that's not just then the women's right, and then they're yet
right, they're gonna do it to the women's Well, they do both,
so you know it's going to be again, you know, just let's just
get more teams in there, let's get more participation trophies, right and then.
And I hate that. I hate especially for this because it's there's there's
people who will say it's perfect, right now, it's perfect, don't mess
it up, And all they're gonna do is mess it up. That's all
that's all they're doing. All right, let's go and take our break.
We're gonna come back. We're gonna have ryan done. From the TGA Sports
Premier Sports in Tucson. It's a youth program where you can sign up your
kids, your grandkids to go out and you know, play various sports.
They teach things, they have a lot of things. We'll have Ryan talk
to us again about what it does, what's available, and of course the
cost to this. But it's really nice thing. Again. You know,
I'm one of those proponents of let kids play sports. Let them play all
the sports. If it's tennis, golf, whatever, let them play at
all and you know, be three sport athletes. That's how I feel.
All right, we'll be right back with Ryan done, coming right up.
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Welcome back on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm your host,
jagon Zales. My partner Steve is still out. He'll be back next
week. Got Ryan here running the board and joining the conversation. And on
the phone, we've got Ryan Dunn from TGA Sports, Premiere Sports of Tucson.
It's a kid it's a youth sports program running through the summer. They
do after school programs and all kinds of cool stuff. I wanted to bring
Ryan on after we had Judy McDermott on yesterday talking about the first tea in
the summer programs there. So, Ryan, thanks for being here. How
is it going. It's great. How are you doing. We're we're just
trying to stay cool here the warm summer days and and and and you're out
there with a layer of dust today, so it was like all smoky and
dusty all day today. Yeah, exactly. And we got a couple couple
of drizzles this afternoon too, so there you've got an interesting weather day.
So right, just give us a little summary of of you know, what
your business is and and what's out there, and then we'll get into some
of the specifics of it, because I don't know, you know, I
know you guys are doing well, but there's probably still a lot of people
out there who don't know that this is here in Tucson. And you can
put your kids into some of these into some of these activities, yeah for
sure. Yeah. So we're really just a youth sports organization that provides camps,
clinics, and after school programs sports programs for kids. So, you
know, a lot of our businesses after school programs. We actually go to
the elementary schools and middle schools and provide programs there after school, so you
know, parents don't have to take their kids somewhere else. They can leave
their kids at school in the after school programs, and we come in there
and and do a lot of sport at a bunch of different schools in the
area. But right now we're real big into summer camp season. So we've
got summer camps going on all throughout the summer, multiple camps per week,
get multiple different locations, all right, and the sports that you have going
right now that that kids can be a part of, Yeah, just a
variety. I mean, each week is kind of something different. I mean,
we've got some golf and tennis combined camps, which are really popular.
We've got flag football camps going on. We've got we've introduced pickleball this year,
which has really taken off. We've got some We've got a pickleball camp
coming up next week in Oro Valley. But we've got we just finished a
cheerleading camp last week. So we've got kind of a variety of things for
different kids. Wait a minute, pickleball isn't that an old people's sport?
I mean, what are you doing teaching kids pickleball these days. You know,
it's funny because a lot of these kids, their parents are playing it,
right, so you know, now the kids see it and they're kind
of into it. And what I have seen is it's a lot easier to
teach and a lot easier to play than tennis. So tennis is a really
popular sport for us, but the kids, you know, especially in that
younger range, it's easier for them to play than tennis. So you know,
they can learn the skills for a couple of days and then they can
actually volley back and forth fairly easy with pickleball. So I'm looking through your
website. You're all over the place out in Vail. You're up in Royal
Valley, Marana, Catalena Foothills, or where some of these places that kids
can go and be part of these programs. Yeah, So we worked through
kind of the local parks and rec sites at Oro Valley and Marana, and
then we kind of have done our own thing in the Rita Ranch Vail area.
So we're going to be in a lot of those Vale schools this upcoming
school year, which we haven't been a part of the last few years.
So we're really excited about that, and we're hoping to grow those those camps
for anytimes kids are out of school, spring break, fall break, winter
break, and of course summer break. So we'll add a lot of that
stuff. In the Roota Ranch Vail area and then Catalina Foothills, we do
a lot of camps through their community schools programs, so a lot of that
stuff is opened to the public, but a lot of their obviously they're after
school programs, are just open to the kids that are in that school district,
right and so and now, And also I think we've talked about this,
sometimes there's opportunities for for you know, students, college students even right
even high school students to come out and be coaches and mentors and instructors and
stuff like that. Yes, absolutely, we always have a need for really
good coaches and people that want to be around kids and want to have fun.
So we have a variety of different types of coaches. We've got some
retired folks, we've got some college a lot of college students. High school
students for us is a little bit difficult because just because the elementary schools do
get get out earlier than the high school typically, so those for after school
programs, the high school students that are kind of tough to get because they're
still in school for the most part. So but yeah, we are always
looking for really good fun coaches that love to get out run around with the
kids. So, okay, so here's here's a question. So the camp,
let's say it's a golf camp. How much of in the camp,
how much of what you're doing with the kids is actual instruction? You know,
how to hit a golf ball, how to you know, how do
you know? How to putt? How to chip? You know that kind
of thing versus just some going out and playing and having a good time.
Yeah, it's basically all instruction. There are some fun games that we obviously
do to keep things interesting, but it's a lot of you know, a
lot of instruction to kids that maybe have never don't know anything about golf,
maybe have never played before, maybe have never held a club before. So
it's learning the basics, it's learning etiquette, it's learning the rules. We
have rule sessions typically part of every day, we go through stations, you
know, chipping, putting, in full swing. So a lot of that
stuff is uh, you know a lot of our camps are really instruction based,
got it? Okay? All right? And who puts this curriculum together
with the programs together what you're going to do every day? How does that
work? I mean that sounds like a lot of work if you're doing as
many camps as that as you see on your website. Yeah. Absolutely,
Yeah. We we kind of spend spend the off season kind of putting those
together, and uh, we kind of have a formula of what we want
to do for each each one of our camps, so we kind of have
it laid out for our coaches. So you know, typically we make it
very easy for our coaches. You know, they can they can obviously do
some of their own own thing, but we have it laid out for them
so that they can kind of look at the curriculum for the day, for
the week, and we have it kind of broken down by by the men
of kind of what should be done. Wow. Okay, So basically,
if I want my kid to learn tennis, I can send it to one
of these camps and they're going to come out of there and they're going to
be ready for the tour or what. Yeah, I mean a lot of
the other the other thing with tennis is we have lots of clinics that we
do. We have a really good tennis instructor that has worked for us for
the last couple of years. We've got a clinic that happens basically every Saturday
in Marana at Continental Ranch Park, and so we've gotten a lot of those
kids that have been with us for a couple of years that are that have
gotten really good and they've We've added some programs, so we've got a Wednesday
We've got a Wednesday night clinic for the people that can't, you know,
have commitments on the weekend. So we have a Wednesday night clinic from six
to seven thirty every Wednesday in Marana as well. And then Catalina Foothills we'll
have one starting in July at Catalina Foothills High School at the tennis courts there.
So there's lots of lots of good tennis that we offer, and uh,
you know, the after school programs are great getting kids kind of introduced
to how it works. But then you know the next step would be attending
one of those clinics and you know, kind of coming through there every year,
you know, and kind of build on those skills now are there for
the summer for the summer camps? What are going on right now? Are
there certain periods to sign up or can you join in the middle of a
camp? How does that work? You can join in the middle of the
camp. You know, our our registration is typically always open, so yeah,
we're we're open. But obviously our our camps in the summer or Monday
through Friday, typically they're from eight am to eleven am to get out of
the really hot weather. But typically, you know, a new camp starts
every Monday, and so yeah, you can sign up right before the camp
starts day before and you know, even if you realize, hey, I'm
gone on Monday, but you want to attend Tuesday through Friday, then you
can absolutely do that. Got it? Okay, we're talking to Ryan Donn,
owner of t TGA Premier Sports, a youth youth sports program where you
can take your kids to learn all kinds of things. Do you get do
you get a lot of kids who do multiple camps and you know, in
different sports their parents just like that, you know, them being you know,
in this stuff, or do you see kids kind of sticking with a
sport? Yeah, a little both I mean, I have a kid right
now that I right off the top of my head that I know out in
oural Valley that's been to every one of our camps in Ooral Valley so far
this summer and scheduled to be basically all the ones in the future as well.
So yeah, we get some kids that kind of go through multiple camps
with us, and yeah, and then we get the other kids that you
know, are really just interested in one sport. So yeah, we get
a little bit of a variety there. Okay, So who's the golf coach?
Because I know you're a really good golfer, you've been in high school
golf coat. Are you the golf coach or do you have some that does
that for you? We have we have multiple golf coaches, so h I
like to get in there and help out with some golf from time to time.
But yeah, we've got we've got multiple golf coaches that that are really
good and uh are really strong golfers and teachers as well. Got it.
You can go ahead and tell everybody that you shot as sixty nine over the
weekend, your first sub seventy round, even though I would have given you
credit for a whole lot more. But where'd you got? Where'd you guys
play? We played Cricket Tree, Crooked Tree, So sixty nine at Crooked
Tree. So that that right there cements it. You know, if anything
in the sixties, it's not on a miniature golf course. You you did
pretty good. Yeah, it was a it was a fun day. Uh.
And it was just kind of one of those days where I had it
had it all going, So it was uh, it was it was fun
to do that. Yeah, very cool. Now you run this with your
with your wife, right with Alicia? Absolutely, Ryan's married to alisiha halliwell
we all know, well she does she go by Alisia Hallowell done Alicia?
Where what is it? She typically just goes by Alicia Dunn. But you
know a lot of people know where right the great you have a you have
a softball pitcher. Tell me a little bit about how how this business developed?
Right? Uh? I know you you you took it over from somebody.
But the business itself, the business model itself, how did that come
about? Do you know? Yeah? So it really it started out as
really just a golf and tennis company, and you know they were looking for
and this has been you know, more than a decade now, but they
were looking for something that wasn't so readily available in the community sports wise,
So they didn't want to do anything basketball or soccer stuff like that that's so
readily available. So golf and tennis was kind of the obvious where there weren't
as many programs available, especially in the after school settings. So that's really
where it started, and then it kind of just expanded from there after golf
and tennis and and really you know, pickleball is a is a new one
that we just started last year, and that's one that really fits in nicely.
But some of the other sports we do volleyball and cheerleading and flag football
as well as some other sports that are that are pretty popular as well.
Well. You mentioned flag football, right, I mean, that's that's really
picking up. You've got a you know, a girls flag football in high
school now, Uh? Is that? Do you see that picking up in
terms of what you guys are doing. Yeah, As far as our numbers
for summer camps, I would say flag football is probably our most popular summer
camp along with I mentioned earlier, are we have a golf and tennis combined
camp that does really well, but yeah, flag football is definitely right up
there as far as our most popular. Okay, so let's talk a little
bit about what this costs. How how uh you know, how can you
know people with kids who they want to put in these programs? How do
they how do they access that? And? Uh, you know what does
a our different sports? Do different sports cost different amounts? Or is everything
the same? Typically everything's around the same same price, you know. Right
now, our summer camps are one eighty nine for a full week, full
week summer camp. But we do have some other things, like I mentioned
earlier, like our clinics. Uh, those happened once a week for for
a month, and those are typically uh they started around eighty dollars. So
that's a really really good way to kind of get into a sport and kind
of get into tennis and kind of learn it and see if you like it
for a month and then keep going from there, kind of building from there.
So that's a nice thing. But you can find all of our pricing
information all of our locations at PLAYTGA dot com slash two soon all right,
and then school's going to start to well, school kind of descended for some
but you know we will get going in August some early August, right,
which is which is crazy. But so, how how do how do some
if you know, if you've got a program at their school, do the
schools help you out put you know, putting the word out? Uh?
How does that work? And let's say you go to let's say you want
your kid in one of these programs, but it's not at their school.
How do they how do they join one of your programs? Yeah? So
good, good questions. So, yeah, the schools really do a good
job of helping us out kind of putting our name out there for parents and
their newsletters. We send flyers home with the kids, We show up to
their back to school nights, Uh, set up a set up a table,
and a lot of the schools that we're going to be at, so
we try to get that out there as much as possible to kind of promote
our programs. But yeah, it's really it's Uh, the schools do a
really good job of helping us out with that. And uh, you know
the schools that do a lot such as newsletters letting us send flyers out,
you know, those are the ones that were really successful at So yeah,
and then uh, again PLAYTGA dot com slash Tucson you and fine, as
soon as we put new schools up on our website, we'll have it.
Uh, we'll have it there for people to register. All right, Ryan,
Well this is fun. I mean, this is this is cool.
You just look again. To me, there's nothing better than getting the kids
out to you know, to do some stuff outside. Get off their phones,
right, get off my lawn kind of thing for me. But you
know, get out there and again you know, being that you know,
I love golf. You love golf to me. You know, you learn
how to play golf. That's something you get to do until you you know,
until you just can't do it anymore. So very cool. So all
right, we'll keep an eye on you guys, and uh, you know,
get the word out for you know, once the school schools get going.
But you know, congratulations on the business. It looks like you guys
are doing really well. Yeah, appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having
me. I always appreciate it. All right, Well, well we'll get
out there and you're going to show me how to get a sixty nine because
I you know, I'm not not e been ever. I've never even been
close to that. So okay, Ryan done, Thanks so Bud, talk
to you soon. Give give my best to your family. Sounds good.
Same here, Thanks Jay. All right, that was Ryan Donn TGA's premier
Sports. Go to their website PLAYTGA dot com again. Just get your you
know, you get your kids out and doing stuff. It's always good.
There's never anything bad about it. And you know, get them to play
because you know, I saw funny funny. Uh. I don't know if
you'd call it a meme or whatever, but it was saying, you know,
kids in the nineteen sixties, you had all these kids standing around their
bikes and stuff. They're out in the middle of the street nineteen seventies,
you know, they're doing stuff. They're playing records nineteen and as you go
along, then the one that says twenty twenty, everybody's standing there looking at
their phone. You know, I mean, yeah, I mean they you
know, our parents would kick us out of the house at you know,
nine o'clock in the morning the summer, and you wanted to be out of
the house, right, and so it's it's interesting how things go. So
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your host Steve is still out and we'll be for at least one more
day. I've got Ryan here to help us out and be part of this
conversation. Lots of stuff to talk about, as always, I was just
looking at something that came across that maybe came across a couple of days ago,
but I'm seeing it for the first time. But on three Sports is
going through a thing where they're listing the top five Heisman Trophy andndidates for each
conference. So they did they did their Big twelve one. I think this
may may have been a couple of days ago, but they list their number
one candidate from the Big Big Twelve for the Heisman Trophy as none other than
Noah Fafieda, one of the few that isn't buying the uh. The the
are totally buying the the all the uh. What's what's the right word for
this? Just not not just putting Travis Hunter and Shador Sanders on top of
everybody else just because Deion Sanders is their coach, right, they do have
Travis Hunter as the number number two UH from from the Big twelve, Jalen
Daniels, the quarterback of Kansas number three, Avery Johnson, the quarterback of
Kansas State, is number four, and Olie Gordon, running back from Oklahoma
State, is number five. So they even have Shador Sanders in there.
They've got him as a as a as a wild card, but they say
that he's got a better shot at being the first quarterback off the board in
the NFL Draft next year, but not a good shot of winning the Heisman
because Colorado just isn't gonna be good enough for them to win it. They
basically said, if Arizona can go win the Big Twelve, which okay,
you know that it would, it would put for Feta firmly in the running
for the Heisman if he's the one that direct set So, you know,
more stuff that makes me nervous, Ryan, more stuff that just makes me
nervous, worrying about whether Arizona can step up to the expectations. I think
I think they're gonna be okay, honestly, you do. I think.
So it really is a wide open conference. It is. And that's great
to see that that his top right for the year. That's really that's awesome,
right. I hope, I really hope Arizona can go out there and
they can. That would be it would be incredible in their first year.
Is big twelve to win the win the car. Right, there's a lot
of preseason hyped to him more than pro I almost discount the clil Tate stuff,
but you know, Cliltate, you know, got mentioned as a Heisman
candidate and all that stuff, and then we all saw how that ended.
But you know, this team, it's because this team can be really good,
and it was really good last year. You know, with Cliltate,
it was really all about that four gain stretch that he had in the middle
of the of the twenty seventeen season, whereas you know, we didn't know
how good that Arizona football team was going to be. This team, there's
a lot of expectation that's going to be really damn good and that's why he's
getting this kind of attention. And you know, and then you got a
guy like like Tatora McMillan that also bringing a lot of attention to the program
or to the team for this coming year. So I don't know, man,
I'm again, I'm I'm getting I know, I'm going to get more
nervous as we go along. I'll probably be nervous until after we see what
they do. It's Kansas State, uh and you see, Okay, how
good are they really? In the third game of the year. You brought
up mc millan. Is there any update on him on his injury? No,
we we talked to both asked that of Troy Hutchison and Justin Spears,
and there really isn't one. Just what what Brent Brandon is publicly saying that
he's going to be okay, he's going to be ready to go. You
know, we don't see these guys anymore right now. You know, they
they're they're working out, you know, they're not out on the field anywhere.
Spring practice is over, so I don't know that anybody's even spotted him
recently to see if he's still in a walking boot or if he's walking around
or whatever. So I don't know. I don't know. Starts next month,
right the training tip. Yeah, it'll start in Yeah, it'll start
in Uh. I think late July, now, Pat, I'm going to
do this all season long. Big twelve Media Day is uh. I think
the week in July. It's up in Vegas. Got a time, figure
out a way to go. I don't know though, but but uh,
you know, once once media days began, then you start seeing things right,
and you think that Big twelve Media Day, they're gonna want to take
you know, either Fafida or McMillan and probably Jacob man who or somebody like
that, you know, somebody from the defense, uh to Cardio Davis or
one of those guys always you know, take one of the top players in
the upcoming season. So we'll see, you know, we're gonna we're gonna
find out when everybody else finds out about what's going on with Tata Roy McMillan.
You know, if it's one of those things where he's gonna come back
in the middle of the year or whatever. Now you got issues, right,
But uh, you know, until until he's not ready, we're gonna
assume the best. And I believe Brent Brennan when he says he'll be ready.
So we'll see what happens. I don't know. I don't know,
all right. Uh, you know, baseball going on a lot of a
lot of of Theankees and the Orioles are playing today, and I think there
are kicking the crap out of them right now. Last I heard it was
it was it was a lot to not very many. The Dodgers took just
took a the third out of four games with the Rockies. Do you see
a score in the Yankees game? Yeah, it's Oh, it's even worse
than I thought. I mean, that's a big series, right, But
they're the two the two teams in the in the East? Is that in
New York? Was it in in in It's in the Bronx. It's in
the Bronx Baltimore right now? Is one and a half gams back in the
Yeah, okay, well there you go, making a making a statement.
You know, this is this is where the dog days start. Right.
It's hot, you know, most teams have fifty or sixty games in.
You know, you're still you still got one hundred games to go. You're
trying to make sure that you stay in the race. But you know,
bodies start to, you know, start to wear out. You know,
Dodgers have had a bunch of injuries. U all the teams are dealing with
those. You're trying to get guys back, the Dodgers trying to get k
Clayton Kershaw back. Walker Bueller, who's who was there ace a couple of
years ago, has not been very good coming off of his his surgery.
It's this is the time where baseball season starts to get long, and they're
not even halfway yet. They're not even halfway. But you know that game
with the with the Orioles, you know that they you know, they want
to they want to make it make a statement against the Yankees, and it
sounds like they are. So that's very cool, very cool. All right?
What else? Uh? Oh, I don't know if you guys talked
about it yesterday, but the College Baseball World Series is going to be A
and M in Tennessee. Yeah, tax a one last night, okay,
and that starts on Saturday. Saturday and Saturday for thirty our time. Okay,
yeap, they're up in Omaha. So that's a three game set or
best of three, best of three. Tennessee and Texas A and M a
couple of SEC teams, all right, you know, say what you want.
Uh, there were too many of them in the in the in the
tournament anyways, they were bound to bound to finish it. But you know,
two teams that I remember, Texas A and M ever being good at
baseball. So you know, there you go. Tennessee has been good for
you know, a lot of years at different times and stuff like that.
But I think, uh, Texas A and NAM is a little bit of
a newcomer to this. I don't know, I don't know, you know,
this this is like the first year I've not really followed college baseball as
closely. Yeah, I like last year, year before, I mean I
tended to watch it. I think it was a little more exciting last year
and the year before, but I don't know, this year has just been
kind of dull. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, you know,
I mean it's where, you know, again, like I said,
we're at that time where things start to settle down Okay, we're gonna be
talking about the NBA draft coming up. We'll get some we'll try and get
some people in here to talk to us about that. Arizona's got a couple
of guys and you know, they may get drafted. I think, uh,
Keisha Johnson has moved up up the draft board a little bit. I
don't know where Pela Larson is on any of the mock drafts, so he'd
gotten into him. I don't know if he's still in there or not.
But uh, you know, you like to you know, Arizona, you
start getting guys, you know, drafted again. Uh, you get a
couple of guys out there, you know, if they do, they you
know, then you're starting to feel it. You know, Tommy Lloyd's getting
guys out there. You know, Benedict mather and got drafted a couple of
years ago, very high, Dyale and Terry Rissian Coloco. So you know
they wanted to Arizona. Who needs to continue putting guys in the draft because
that's how you get guys in right that guys want to come and they want
to know they've got a chance to be in the NBA. So we'll see
we'll see what happens. So I don't know, is there hands down number
one pick this year that you're aware of? Think? So I've actually I'm
trying to pull something up about Larson. I don't know if it's true or
not, but the headline said he was withdrawing from the drafts to go back
to school. Really, where did you see that? I was just googling
his name just to see. Huh you sure that wasn't from last year because
he was in the draft. He went in the draft last year and then
pulled out and came here. So maybe maybe that maybe that's what that is.
But no, I think he's done with his eligibility, so that that
has to be that has to be an old year. Man. I'm like,
really, what what do what do we not know about? All right?
Ryan, You're okay, all right, We're gonna let that one slide
because I'm like, what the heck? But you know, again, you
know, Arizona's been that program or been a program that is, you know,
putting guys in the NBA with Josh Josh Green, was you know in
the NBA finals? Right? He played a lot more this year, didn't
he? Yeah, he played a little a little more. He had more
of a more of a starting role with the Mavericks throughout the year. He's
a really good he's a really good three point shooter. Really yeah. He
wasn't that when he was here, of course not of course he wasn't.
Well you know again, you know you can, you can work on that
and reinvent yourself. So, I mean, he's a solid he's a solid
roster guy now, not the guy who's going up and down and stuff like
that. When I say three point shooter like righterv like, he's not one
of those. But when he gets the chance make it open three, he
can, you know, he can think it. Well, good for him.
I'm glad to hear that. I mean, you know, I still
don't believe he belongs in the rafters at Michale, but you know, I
don't wish him to not have a good, you know, a good NBA
career. Uh. You know, he was a good guy when he was
here, played under Sean Miller, and that particular team didn't do great in
the n C Double A tournament. But you know, good, good for
Josh Green. He's you know, he's making his way over there and and
sometimes it takes It takes time. You know, if you can hang around
long enough, get some experience, get guys to know you, you got
a chance to stay. And so he's doing that, so so good for
him. I hope it. I hope it works works well for him.
All right. About Larson reading reports from this morning, it looks like currently
he's objected the faults who number forty three for the heat. Okay, all
right, but but he's in there. I mean, I think when the
when the season ended, and maybe it was going into the combine. I
don't think either him or Keisha Johnson were were in many of the mock drafts.
I think there were a little bit lower. Yeah, I know,
I read one. I think it was Bleacher Report, uh huh, and
they had one I think it was Johnson who was in, uh huh,
but then was not. So yeah, and at one point Larson was in
and Johnson was not. I think, you know, early on. So
you know, whoever, whatever's happening, and however people are finding out about
these two guys. You know, good luck to both of them. You
know, it'd be nice if one of them could slip into the first round.
That would be key shot, right because I think it was thirty seven
was the last thing we saw on him. But you know, if they
get drafted in the second round, that means they've got a shot. They'll
get to go to a camp and have a chance of making the team.
So we'll see what happens. I you know, I like both of those
guys. I thought they were good soldiers. I thought they were good players.
Didn't, you know, didn't get Arizona to where we wanted wanted them
to get. But I thought that they were both good guys and uh and
didn't and did a nice job at Arizona. You know, I really wasn't
fond of Palla Larson his first year here. I thought he made, you
know, a lot of mistakes, right, a lot of turnovers, that
kind of stuff. But you know, you saw him grow into, you
know, being a pretty good player, pretty good, reliable player, always
a good defensive player. So hopefully it works out for him. All right,
let's go and take our break. At the top of the hour,
we're gonna come back. Ryan's gonna have breaking news for us, and then
we're gonna get into some baseball history again with Greg Hanson talking about some Willie
Mays and and and other history like that, because you know, Willy being
gone is it's a big deal, and uh, you know, we all,
I think, you know, unanimously agree if not the greatest player of
all time one of we'll see where Greg sits on that. He's a big
Mickey Mantle fans. We'll see where he puts them compared to Mickey Mantle.
But Greg will join us and we'll talk about some of that, So stick
around for all that. We'll be right back with breaking news.