WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:07.519 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jagon Zalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:13.519 fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure your most Prized Possession. It's 3 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:18.519 kat Z R two SAD at iHeartRadio Station ATOY. Good afternoon, everybody, 4 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:22.160 Welcome to Iye on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve 5 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:26.640 Roberta. He's Jagon'sawae scot a guy. Ryan back in. Ryan continues to 6 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.800 come back for the punishment. We're good, Thank you. Ryan. It's 7 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:33.880 Thursday. It is Thursday or that show to this week. It is last 8 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:37.880 show of the week, everybody. We're gonna be off tomorrow and Monday for 9 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:41.479 Memorial Day, So long weekend for the guys. We need to break. 10 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:47.240 Steve's the road, gonna hit the road, and I'm gonna hit the sack. 11 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.359 I don't know. Well, you gotta get ready for next week's when 12 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:53.240 you're on the road. Yeah you got a vacation from your vacation. Yeah, 13 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:56.840 I'm in your vacation. So Steve will be We'll both be back on 14 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:00.240 Tuesday, and we're lining up who we think is gonna be a great but 15 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:03.920 we're not gonna let you know who that is until we confirmed that over the 16 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:07.719 weekend, but somebody who would be very fun and that we've had before but 17 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.000 always have a great time. But I will be here Tuesday and then I'm 18 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:15.120 off for a week. And I headed down to Rocky Point with the fam 19 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.439 and uh, you know, couldn't go down there and you know, hit 20 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:21.959 the beach, sit on the sit on a back porch and just drink a 21 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:26.040 lot of beer and eat a lot of food. So cool. But Steve 22 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.680 will be here and uh, man in the man in the man in the 23 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:32.120 microphone. Yeah, it'll be it'll be fun. I'll have some good guests 24 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:34.120 with me, like you have a couple already lined up. I won't say 25 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:38.239 whom. Uh. So it's good as Thursday, a lot of things going 26 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:41.400 on. The last night's game baseball game was good. I hope ya taking 27 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:45.040 some news. Got a little dicey last night. At the end I watched, 28 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.799 I watched till there was sixty three. I'll find it, uh, 29 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:49.920 and then I just said, well, they're gonna win this. Well. 30 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:53.439 It was nervous from the from the get go, because Arizon gives up a 31 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:57.359 two run homer in the bottom of the first and like, I didn't think 32 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.079 they were gonna, you know, lose two to one. But you just 33 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:05.359 hate to see the other team get any get any bounce from anything. But 34 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:12.560 h Mason White just hit another moon shot or a three run homer that there 35 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:17.639 were there's a in that at that stadium, there's a there's a there's like 36 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:22.080 a I don't even know who you would call it, but there's a two 37 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:29.479 story Uh. It's it's just a place, a place to hang out. 38 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:30.400 Right, there's a bar and grill up there, you know, durry spring 39 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:32.960 training. There's like a bar and grill up there and people hang out. 40 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.680 He hit it over that. There were people sitting in it who turned around 41 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:39.840 and watched the ball goal over their heads. That's how far he hit that. 42 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.919 And so then Arizona had a nice six three lead. But then they 43 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.560 give up two runs in the bottom of the in the bottom of the ninth, 44 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:51.319 the winning run is at the plate, uh, and they get them 45 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:54.800 out. So they so they went six to five. They're in the they're 46 00:02:54.800 --> 00:03:01.919 in the bracket on on tomorrow Tomorrow play at seven o'clock. They play Stanford. 47 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:07.400 Regardless of what happens tonight, they play Stanford. As I mentioned yesterday, 48 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:12.479 Oregon State bt ACU this morning. So they get in, they get 49 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:16.800 in the bracket. If Arizona beats Cal tonight, Arizona loses to Cal, 50 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:23.520 which would put Cal in the bracket, Oregon State is out. Okay. 51 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.840 Interesting and how would you handle it if you were you try to win every 52 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.879 game obviously, Yeah, but he'll figure out how to pitch. He's gonna 53 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:34.439 yeah, he's gonna save his starting his you know, his starting pitchers for 54 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:37.159 for the rest too. He only needs two of them, right, so 55 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:38.840 you know, I don't know if he'll throw one of you know, one 56 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:44.240 of the starters or save him for uh, you know, if needed in 57 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:46.280 relief, you know, over the weekend. But uh, you know, 58 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:53.280 tonight's game doesn't matter. There's there's no consequence to the game tonight, Cal 59 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:58.439 Cal okay. And coincidentally, one of our guests our first kisses from Cal. 60 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.960 Yeah that's j John, a former assistant coach here at Arizona. He 61 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:04.919 was a head coach at Cal, I mean, excuse me, at Oregon 62 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:10.240 State, an assistant coach at Cal under under Mike Montgomery. Now he's administrator 63 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:13.319 over there, so keeping his uh, keeping his finger in it. But 64 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:17.399 h John's a Jay is a local guy, went to South Point and UH 65 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:21.759 so recent an inductee into the Peoplehall People County Hall of Fame. Right, 66 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:25.920 so we t you know, he grew up in the PAC twelve or Pack 67 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:28.720 ten, just like us. So we'll see what he's got, you know, 68 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.000 some of his thoughts on on where we're headed with with all of that, 69 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:35.519 and again as an administrator in a formerly packed twelve school heading to the 70 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:40.040 a SEC, we'll see what he's got to say. Yeah, we'll see 71 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.800 what he says. I'm sure he'll couch his words, yeah closely. Yeah, 72 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.000 okay, no, that'll be fun. And then in the second hour, 73 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:48.920 we're gonna introduce the new UH swimming and diving coach at Arizona, Ben 74 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:54.680 Lures. Uh just just joined the the staff in the last couple of weeks. 75 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:57.759 We'll just kind of find out a little bit about him, see what 76 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.959 he's up to, what he thinks of the place. He's coming here from 77 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.800 UNLV where he worked with Desiree Reid Francois when she was the ad over there. 78 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:10.560 So we'll see what he's got to say about his first few days here. 79 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.360 And so maybe some of his thoughts and expectations. Yeah, that'll be 80 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:19.319 that'll be good. You get to know him right away. Who else nothing, 81 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:21.759 you know, I don't know if we want to get to some stuff. 82 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.959 I know, I don't. I don't know if you saw this, 83 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.120 but I'm taking it. I don't know if I've taken away some breaking news. 84 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:31.240 But PAC twelve sent out their financial results for the twenty twenty two to 85 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:39.959 twenty three fiscal year no end, and well, they paid out thirty three 86 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:45.199 point six million dollars per school, which is great. Yeah, you know 87 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:50.319 about where they thought they would be six hundred million dollars in revenues, with 88 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:57.040 three hundred and eighty nine million of that coming from television rights, another one 89 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.560 hundred and forty million from bowl games. And it looks like the way, 90 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:05.040 if I'm reading this correctly, another forty million from n C Double A events 91 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:09.759 like you know, tournaments and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, say, 92 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:15.079 brought in a little over six hundred million dollars in revenue, hundred million, 93 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:17.839 so you're saying thirty three. So well, but then they you know, 94 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:21.800 they had expenses, right, so they're their their their total expenses ran 95 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:29.040 one hundred and forty million dollars. So they distributed four hundred and almost four 96 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:33.000 hundred and four million, uh and they kind of kept uh about sixty million 97 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:38.839 for themselves. Yeah, okay for the PAC twelve pepub for the packed two 98 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:41.360 well one for you, one for me for you, what for me? 99 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:47.199 Twelve times there's Scott's gone, right yeah or is that still yeah? In 100 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:53.439 in the uh in the news release, uh, they said that the Pack 101 00:06:53.480 --> 00:07:01.000 twelve Networks made about where was it? Pack twelve Networks had made about about 102 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:10.240 twenty seven dollars uh in in you know, uh net income from you know, 103 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.759 from it's from its operations. I saw the other day that they are 104 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:19.319 talking about they're talking about keeping the like doing you know, uh sort of 105 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:26.079 being not an ESPN, but providing production services to conferences that need what they 106 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:28.800 have right well, because they've got all this, you know, I mean 107 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:31.480 they've got a yeah, a studio, a studio broadcast basically all the all 108 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:36.720 the makings of a broadcast network, equipment, cameras, trucks, you know, 109 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:41.600 studios, the whole bit. And so they're trying to generate business by 110 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:44.399 doing that. For like, maybe does the Mountain West need something like that 111 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:47.160 or whack or whatever and kind of trying to make that a business. Do 112 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.639 you know how Arizona's going to pull this off? Because they need their own 113 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:56.800 studios, right, Yeah, that's what the Big Twelve requires because ESPN is 114 00:07:56.839 --> 00:08:00.000 doing their own things. So yeah, no, the the the four school 115 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:05.120 from the PAC twelve going into into the into the Big Twelve have to have 116 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:11.040 their own studio facilities on the campus. Arizona has a pretty good TV program 117 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:16.879 with the IS, the IS, the PM people, Oh yeah, yeah 118 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:18.720 yeah, the u A oh oh yeah yeah, sure that's gonna be the 119 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.800 campus network. Yeah, yeah, so I would I would imagine that they 120 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.759 would do something, yeah, in conjunction with them. Uh and see it's 121 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:31.519 gonna all be in house, right supposedly supposedly so so basically if you know, 122 00:08:31.919 --> 00:08:35.320 yeah, I mean the schools are gonna have to you know, if 123 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:37.159 they want coverage of their stuff, I guess they've gotta. They've got to 124 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:41.840 have the facilities for for the Big Twelve, you know, or ESPN I 125 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:43.960 should say to come in and do that because games and stuff are going to 126 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:48.879 be on ESPN plus. Is it just start. ESPN is not going to 127 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:52.399 send a crew here to do the Arizona a s U women's basketball game. 128 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:56.480 You know they're gonna have to produce all that. I think the way it 129 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.080 works, all the schools have to produce that if they want to put it 130 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.720 on. Wow, that's interesting. So now they turn into their own TV 131 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.159 press. You know, we'll have to get somebody from there. How it 132 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.399 will work from the department. I wonder if they'd hire hire out people like 133 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.679 you know, let's say, just throw a name after Sean Mooney or something 134 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:13.240 like that. Who can you do that? It can be there like the 135 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.879 studio hosts or whatever? Right right? That interesting? Yeah? Okay, 136 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.039 cool? Wherever my resume, I gotta dust that off. I got a 137 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:24.159 face for it. Might have to shave. I have a face for radio, 138 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.559 so you might have to stretch that idea. I have to annunciate. 139 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:35.279 Never mind, I have to enunciate, shave and clean up my face exactly. 140 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:39.080 I'm not in for that race. Okay, No, no, cool. 141 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.679 That's interesting. Although I knew that, I just know how well, 142 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.480 we still didn't know how they're gonna pull it together. Yeah, because it's 143 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:46.440 it's coming up pretty quickly. What's going to start to happen and we're just 144 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.559 three months away? Was yesterday, yesterday. Today was one hundred days till 145 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:54.279 the start of college football. Hundred days. Okay, so you've got less 146 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.840 than a little more than three months, all right, that'll be cool, 147 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:58.799 that'll be cool. We'll get five minutes. We're gonna talk to Jay John 148 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:03.840 and then we're going to talk to to Ben Lords, Ben Lewis Lords. 149 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.960 Okay, tell you pronounce. I got some good feedback on our talk with 150 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:13.120 with Steve Curry yesterday and and all everybody, but Steve specifically because we got 151 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:18.000 about the last minute, right, yeah, And and they either they were 152 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:20.879 they were prepared for him or not prepared for him like we were. But 153 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.399 you put it on the website, right, put it on the website on 154 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.480 Twitter, so if you if they haven't seen it or heard it or whatever. 155 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.559 Yeah, well and you posted on Facebook. So you go to Facebook, 156 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:33.360 our Facebook and Twitter, and you can find you can find the interview 157 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:37.720 you got. And we had Roman Bravo Young uh at the in the second 158 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:41.919 segment and then Steve in the in the third segment of the second hour yesterday. 159 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.360 So if you want to listen to that. Uh, we had fun 160 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:46.679 with him, you always, we always do. He's he's always such a 161 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:48.600 great guest. But you can go listen to that anytime you want, right, 162 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:52.200 right, And that was fun always good to talk to him. Uh. 163 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:54.559 And today is our final day, which is another good thing. So 164 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.600 thank you for the summer. Yep. But it was funny because when you 165 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:01.960 first came on during the pandemic, it was like summer we could find anybody. 166 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:07.200 Yeah, everybody with nothing we want to come on the show. We're 167 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.399 having all kinds of great guess. We had Bill Walton, we had Frank 168 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:16.519 con we had Louise Gonzales, remember that one. Uh. We had Idea 169 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.960 Barnes comes on and announces that she's gonna have a baby. Uh and then 170 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:24.000 realizes I should I probably should have said that my son was her was her 171 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:28.159 sports information person at the time, and he was losing his mind because his 172 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:33.519 dad kind of made some work for him. Uh. I. We had 173 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.200 we had a great bunch of guests that that that whole that whole summer. 174 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:39.440 Yeah, so it was good. Fine. I would continue to do what 175 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.120 we what we do with good guests, and then next week we'll do some 176 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:46.559 more, or try to at least when you're one day and then in my 177 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.480 three days, uh, anything else that we we can't steal everything from mister 178 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:56.519 nos was taking some of his stuff, right, but yeah, you have 179 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:00.759 the tennis person play the issue. Okay, you don't. I was just 180 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:03.799 curious. Yeah, I don't even know what happened. That's why I don't 181 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:07.120 say that I do. Oh you do? Okay? What else? The 182 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:11.519 game last night was a pretty good one, h Dallas and Minnesota. I 183 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:15.200 had Minnesota. I think everybody had Minnesota. And then these games have been 184 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:20.360 weird. And I've covered the NBA for for a while ninety three and I've 185 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:22.519 told people way back then that nothing happens until the fourth quarter, and it 186 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:26.720 continues to be that way. And nothing happened last night until the final two 187 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:30.639 three minutes like the previous game, when it will happen in the last minute. 188 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.440 I mean, things happened in the fourth quartera you just don't expect. 189 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.240 Dallas was Dallas was was down and then they were up, and then they 190 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:39.320 were down and then they were up and then they win it. Right, 191 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.840 I missed it. You're happy about that? About that? Oh? Okay, 192 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:46.559 you have Dallas? Oh is it? You're from Texas? You know 193 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.879 origin? Okay? Oh you are? Yeah? Well part did we know 194 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.200 that. Wow, like West Central. Oh yeah, yeah, I remember 195 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:56.320 that. Yeah, I remember that. So on your resume, I should 196 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:01.919 remember that. I believe there's nothing in ablee two. Only two things come 197 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:07.399 out, and I believe one of them. I know exactly. I know 198 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:13.000 the reference exactly and exactly. I know I know the reference. Look it 199 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:20.120 up. You really don't. Okay, that's what I believe Texas got. 200 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.279 Okay, we'll just go. Yeah, we got about a minute. We 201 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:26.639 got about a minute. So but I was I was going to say that 202 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:30.000 I didn't. I didn't see any of the game. Actually I was, 203 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.120 you know, believe it or not. Get this. Don't don't fall off 204 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:35.039 your chair when I tell you this. I worked out last night. Just 205 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:37.759 so you went to church. I went, and I went to the I 206 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:39.879 went to the gym. Drop somebody off. No, I just I just 207 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.360 got up on the on the treadmill for a while. And then but I 208 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.360 was watching the Amazon baseball game. When so I didn't see any of the 209 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:52.639 basketball game. Okay, I even want to go there today. I'm back 210 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:56.279 today, back. I haven't fallen today. So that's even another thing. 211 00:13:56.759 --> 00:14:01.559 So I got it all going on today, all right, Okay, let's 212 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:03.399 go and take our break. We're going to come back. 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Randy A seta here inviting you to join us 291 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:36.599 for the TMC Meet Me Downtown five k night run and walk coming up on 292 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:41.680 Saturday night, June first, and featuring the free Raising Caines High School Mile, 293 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.359 a free Kids Mile, and rock and roll on the main stage. 294 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:51.559 This is Tucson's biggest running party. Seerun Tucson dot net for all the details. 295 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:59.599 Streaming live on the iHeartRadio app. This is I on the Ball with 296 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:04.759 Roberta and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to 297 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:08.200 wynding the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Ribera, He's 298 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:12.400 Jaginsaus. Now on the phone, we have Jay John Now. I'm currently 299 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:18.160 a university of California, Berkeley administrator, athletic administrator, former you of A 300 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:22.680 basketball assistant and Oregon State head coach. Jay? How are you doing fine? 301 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.559 Steed? Jay? How are you guys doing today? We're doing well. 302 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:30.079 We even trying to find people. And you're perfect for this situation to 303 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:33.160 talk about the good old days of the PAC ten PAC twelve. You know 304 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:38.079 you've seen it all growing up here, being part of it here, being 305 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:42.759 part of it at Oregon State and now at cal Are you sad like some 306 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:48.519 many others to see it? Go? Sure? I mean it's been an 307 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:52.480 institution. I mean, if you were you were a kid growing up in 308 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:56.400 the set is in Tucson, you know, we had a Pack eight Game 309 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:00.279 of the Week to watch. You know, we're you know, we're playing 310 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:03.200 afternoon games in California. We've got you know, our U of A night 311 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:08.119 games. But yeah, I mean, it's it's it's just it's just strange. 312 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:14.279 It's just strange to think about. Are you more mad or sad about 313 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:18.000 this? Because I'm pissed. I'm really mad. Well, it's it's Uh. 314 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:23.680 Greg Byrne ran with the ball pretty well back ten years ago when he 315 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:30.400 started realizing some things in we're right with with Larry Scott and that leadership. 316 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:41.359 I'm mad from the standpoint that leadership. Leadership was misguided. Leadership was got 317 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:45.200 their eyes on the wrong on the wrong football. And you could extend that 318 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:51.200 to the n C two A. You know, I've told the story a 319 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:53.200 number of times. Was of late when I was after my first year at 320 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:56.039 the u of A. I mean, I'm sorry, my first year at 321 00:21:56.039 --> 00:22:02.440 Oregon State as head coach, I got it from ten thousand dollars in May. 322 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:03.799 I called my agent and I said, well, what's this for? 323 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.480 It is you know, it's just from me. It was from me A 324 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:12.279 Sports and this is two thousand and three, and he says, he said, 325 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:15.400 well, you get that. It's in your contract. You're part of 326 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.880 the basketball basketball game. And I said, oh, all about that. 327 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:21.839 It's what about my players, because my kids don't care about me in the 328 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:23.839 game. They care about the players. Players can't get any that money, 329 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:26.640 you know, they're not they're amateurs. And the SAI that's gonna be a 330 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:30.640 problem. You're gonna they're gonna have to fix that. Yeah, So that's 331 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:34.640 not anything answer to A didn't understand and some of these things with the Pact. 332 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:38.759 You know Pac twelve that they just took the eye off the ball in 333 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:45.680 some areas and now there's no league. Yeah, it's it's yeah, yeah, 334 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.480 it's crazy. Yeah, crazy. And now you're in a different league. 335 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:55.720 Yeah, okay, okay, tell us about that. Tell us about 336 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:59.640 that and what you guys are having to go through now to prepare yourselves to 337 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:03.119 be in the league. That's you know, pretty much across the country in 338 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:08.839 all respects. Well, the geographical piece for you know, for Arizona and 339 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:12.799 again I'm a Wildcat, so there'll be a time when I'm assuming when I'm 340 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:18.119 retiring back in Arizona, and you know, geographically that's not a that's not 341 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:22.799 a horrendous move right to go into the Big twelve, you know, for 342 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:27.920 the for the four teams going to Big ten and then Stanford and call going 343 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:33.000 you know to the CC, it's like trap your kind of wrap your head 344 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:37.079 around, you know, you know, where's the California kid or West Coast 345 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:41.000 kid that wants to play in horwell conference? You can't, well I can't, 346 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:42.480 I can't. I guess I can go here, but I got to 347 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:47.759 travel. It just doesn't make sense. It's it's too bad. Right, 348 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:51.400 right, So do you travel with the teams that you are are kind of 349 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:56.640 facing or for following? Uh? Only in postseason? Okay, it's just 350 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:02.680 I've got I mean, I have thirteen, I'm thirteen teams that I supervise 351 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:06.119 out of our out of our out of our thirty and most of them are 352 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:08.720 in the most of them are in the spring. And so it's just like 353 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:12.599 our men's golf team is in the n T two A Championships and Carlsbad. 354 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:15.880 So once baseball we get through this, I've got I know, I've got 355 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:21.799 to go over there to to California this weekend and just said, but that's 356 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:25.880 just really for the most of my travel, it's the heavy travel March, 357 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:30.759 April and in May and the rest of the time, just trying to work 358 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:36.559 with my coaches and and keep you know, keep the athletes moving straight ahead. 359 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:37.880 So so let me ask you, Jay, and we've you know, 360 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.880 the kind of there's all this conversation about, you know, the student athletes 361 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.160 and the angst over the travel and the cost of the traveler. We're we've 362 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:49.200 that's been run run to the ground a whole bit. Is there other stuff 363 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:55.079 out there that's coming with this move to the ACC and theoretically for the other 364 00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:57.559 schools that are moving to conferences that are you know, where they're they're heading 365 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:02.000 east. That we're not talking about that, or that we don't know, 366 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:04.480 that we don't understand, or that are maybe things that are kind of up 367 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:07.440 in the air for you guys in terms of we don't know yet how this 368 00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:11.799 is going to work. Is there anything like that besides the travel aspect of 369 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:17.599 this, Well, for the sports, for the sports that I that I 370 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:22.240 supervise, you know, so when I have golf, if I have golf 371 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:26.240 and swimming, track and field, by and large, you know, either 372 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:29.680 whether it's at the U of A or whether it's in Oregon, those teams 373 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:34.319 pretty much don't go east anyway in the regular season, you know. They 374 00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:38.680 they they some of them assemble at certain places and have big meats and stuff 375 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:45.160 like that. Baseball now is the one that's creating has got a lot of 376 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:52.680 moving parts because they played they played three games series. Anybody, anybody who's 377 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.720 been on the West Coast and has to travel three time zone away, you 378 00:25:56.839 --> 00:26:00.480 can't. You can't do that the day before the games and expect kids to 379 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:07.279 be have their bodies responded well, you try to stay away from that with 380 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:12.960 basketball baseball. I don't know why baseball would be any different les let's anaerobic 381 00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:18.960 stuff, but still so you know, and you have a mandated day off 382 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:25.359 during the season with your sport. So you're gonna play a Thursday, Friday 383 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:29.000 Saturday baseball series, which okay, that I mean you're leaving Tuesday night. 384 00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:33.640 Okay, are you putting kids on red eyes or or how are you doing 385 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:36.960 that? And then it rains a lot in the southeast. You know, 386 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.000 so some of these airports aren't necessarily Virginia Tech and you've got to drive. 387 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:45.920 You got to drive bit to get the ronoacher Richmond. I mean, so 388 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:51.039 there's some logistical things that are like you're gonna have to deal with. Baseball 389 00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:56.240 is always playing a midweek game too, so you know it's are we talking 390 00:26:56.240 --> 00:27:02.920 about academics too, they how's a different entity than a lot of places on 391 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:07.519 that piece. Let's let's get away from the administrative part of this now seven 392 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:08.319 minutes. I want to go to the good old days. So I want 393 00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:11.240 to kind of get breck your life apart. This is your life. So 394 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:15.799 you were talking as a kid in Tucson, what were your greatest moments of 395 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:21.519 recollections sports wise at the u of A as a fan. As a fan, 396 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:29.440 I will say that when fred Zan Noden showed up, McHale got built, 397 00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:33.799 and all of a sudden we were good in basketball. That was I 398 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.440 was right in high school at that time, exhilarating. That was so awesome 399 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:41.640 because all of a sudden we were good. I mean, we're in that 400 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:45.960 stretch where ANSU was just so good in football no matter how good we were, 401 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:48.480 you know, they were beating us. So all of a sudden, 402 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:53.720 now basketball is good. Okay, I go back to you know, the 403 00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:57.440 first thing, the first U of A events that I was taken to were 404 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:03.160 baseball. So you know, my senior year in high school seventy six, 405 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:07.039 you know, baseball, we win, We win the World Series. I 406 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:08.640 mean that was a big deal because again I grew up as a kid who 407 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:12.880 doesn't like a s U and they were always so good in baseball. We 408 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:18.680 were two, but we win one there, you know, and when we 409 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.160 go to the Pac ten and you know, by that time I had transferred 410 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:26.599 back from Northern Arizona to the u of A. I can you know, 411 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:30.960 explicitly remember that for season, the Pac ten basketball will upset U c l 412 00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:34.559 A and the fans storm, the fans storm the court. Security wasn't ready 413 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:40.519 for it, and it was it was wild, you know. And then 414 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:44.079 well, I mean college, you know, we win baseball again, you 415 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:47.240 know, I mean stuff like that. That were those were things just like 416 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:48.720 then. You know, then you get out of school and you start working 417 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:52.480 and you know, other things to take up your time as much. But 418 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:55.920 I remember those, those those moments when we got we got good. We 419 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.400 got good football too, you know, you know, beat Notre Dame, 420 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:04.319 uh, you know for football and uh, anyway, you know those kinds 421 00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:07.240 of things. You know, you grow up in twoshoun, your you know, 422 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.799 you raised a big party life, and in that window time in high 423 00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:15.160 school and college, we move into the Pac ten. We're good and we're 424 00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:18.079 good and everything, and it was fun and it was fun. I think 425 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:22.400 you're not close to the same age. I think we're you know, teenagers, 426 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:25.720 right or late teenagers when they when we got into the into the Pac 427 00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:27.359 ten. You know, I've told people to me, it was like we 428 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:32.240 grew up right when when Arizona got into the get into the Pac ten. 429 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:34.079 That's how I saw it. Yeah, no, it was. It was 430 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:38.720 cool, right because you grow up watching the California teams, you know, 431 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:42.359 and and so that first year, you know, that first year we joined 432 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:48.640 the Pac ten I had just turned twenty and my junior year in high school 433 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:52.359 in college. But it was it was fun. It's just there was such 434 00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.759 an energy, and there was such an energy in town. And the team's 435 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.039 coming to playoffs. Oh my gosh, you know, we've got we've got 436 00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.079 these teams coming. I'm not you know, I'm not knocking Colorado or what 437 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:07.079 Colorada, state of Wyoming, but nonetheless I got these other ones coming in. 438 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:11.359 That's a little that's a little different fun. Yeah. No, I 439 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:14.440 say we traded those few schools for USC and U C. L A. 440 00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:17.319 And you know, al a sudden, John Elway is on the field at 441 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:23.160 you know, at at Arizona Stadium. Yeah, just tell you how things 442 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.440 have changed. You know, you're in college and you just you know, 443 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.440 everybody can be a friend, right. I run into John Alway after Stanford 444 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:36.920 plays cal plays Arizona. I don't know seventy eight or seventy nine, but 445 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:41.640 I run in. I run into him at Stanford went to go eat after 446 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:48.519 the football game, at Arby's on on Speedway and I see him and I 447 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:52.799 just walk up to him and say, we got we got a little party 448 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:55.480 going on in our house. You guys are sitting around, he says, 449 00:30:56.119 --> 00:31:00.119 you know, so nobody's nobody's chartering home. They're going postgame meals in in 450 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:04.480 Rby's, you know, And that's It's like the world has definitely changed. 451 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:07.920 Yeah, no question. Okay, So then you get out of school, 452 00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:12.400 you become eventually become a teacher at a school, an assistant coach. Here 453 00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:18.559 onner loot and talk about those times, those great times with coach Oh yeah, 454 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:23.440 yeah, I'm going to I'm going to go back a little bit in 455 00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:30.680 eighty three when when when coach arrived. I was a freshman high school basketball 456 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:34.079 coach at tell Point, and I had a little burro up my behind and 457 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:37.559 I wanted to coach in college. So I went to the u of A 458 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:42.319 and met walk walked in and I got an audience with Coach O for fifteen 459 00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:47.039 ten minutes. Asked him, I want to be a GA. He says, 460 00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:48.880 well, we ever got my GA, son, But I want you 461 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.039 to go down and want you meet my number one guy, Scott Thompson and 462 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.440 uh So, I go meet Scott Thompson and Scott invites me to come work 463 00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:01.960 camp, and I take it your college job in New York State coaching basketball. 464 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:05.880 So now I'm in college and i'd come back and work camp, and 465 00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:08.559 you know, got to know coach and coach was was an ally. I've 466 00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:12.759 been an ally for me and somebody that I could every now and then call 467 00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:16.960 and ask for professional advice, and one thing leads to another. I get 468 00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:20.279 you know, I bounced around a bit in the eighties. I get to 469 00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:22.960 Butler, we do a good job at Butler. I get to Oregon with 470 00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:25.079 early camp first year, and then all of a sudden, I'm able to 471 00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:29.680 come back home to my hometown, to my alma mater and coach to one 472 00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:34.759 of the best coaches in in America and coach add a great program to do 473 00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:37.599 ay. So I couldn't have been more fortunate. We're talking to Jay John 474 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:44.960 uh stupoint Catholic grad coach at Arizona, coach at CAL coach at Oregon State. 475 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:46.920 Go back to that. You know when you when you first got on 476 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:50.720 the staff in Arizona, first game, right, You're gonna sit on the 477 00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:52.559 bench and the whole deal. What was like that for you when you walked 478 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:57.720 into Michale. Uh, you know for a game. Well, I will 479 00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:00.079 tell you this is a lot different than being a visitor. And everybody was 480 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:05.720 going to stand and uh the band was going to keep playing that riff until 481 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:09.240 you score it. Oh yeah, it was just exhilarating. Honestly, I 482 00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:15.720 couldn't I couldn't explain it. It was just so it was just so awesome. 483 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:21.880 And yeah, yeah, it is awesome. I don't want have to 484 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:23.039 say it. Well, here's another one. I'll give you one of your 485 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:27.920 better experiences, if not ever. Uh, you face Loot for the first 486 00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:30.680 time. No one beats Loton, none of his ex guys beat Loot, 487 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.480 and you beat him up in Oregon. I was there. You guys beat 488 00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:38.799 him? How did that feel? That was one of those moments. We 489 00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:43.640 actually did win twice, once in O four and once and O six. 490 00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:49.759 It's one of those things where you know you're never on footing with with the 491 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:54.079 Hall of Fame and legendary coach no matter where it might be, somebody that's 492 00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:59.000 of that statue. Coach os certainly that way a good mentor for me, 493 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:04.000 but it makes you feel like it's okay for you to be in the same 494 00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:06.960 in the same gym. You know, it makes you feel like you're you 495 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.159 know, your your piece of what you're doing is is you're doing. You're 496 00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:15.119 you found some things that are working. You're not at that stature. You 497 00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:17.000 know. Those are teams that coach O still had went to the n C 498 00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:21.440 two A tournament. I didn't have one of those, so you certainly you 499 00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:27.360 certainly got them all they weren't looking. But it's still again, it just 500 00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:31.559 makes you you've accomplished something in the profession if you can get to that point 501 00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:36.800 where you can take on a legend and come ahead, come out ahead. 502 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:39.360 Yeah, no, it was great. I remember that first time because that 503 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:44.119 was the first time someone like you or on a former assistant and beating them 504 00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:50.800 at that level. So I remember. I remember the game too, and 505 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:54.440 we had a we had a freshman that just just caught the ball and pivoted 506 00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:58.360 from twenty eight feet away front of the bench and it went in. And 507 00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:01.599 I said, howly smokes, we just might this game may run out of 508 00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:06.360 time. We may just walk get get a w tonight. Yeah. So 509 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:08.679 yeah, yeah, well, Jay, thanks a bunch for joining us. 510 00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:13.199 We got to go. It goes quickly here. I have a good luck 511 00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:15.840 tonight. I guess you know you're facing Arizona. Yeah, I know. 512 00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:22.400 It's it's it's it's you know the difference in this because again I'm a I'm 513 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:27.000 a wildcat through and through. You know, you get close to a group 514 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:29.559 of kids, and kids just wear a different shirt and matter where they go 515 00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:31.800 to school, right, the kids, you like them, so you know, 516 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:36.239 for tonight, I want I want the Bear kids to do well. 517 00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:39.679 Arizona's in the instit institute a tournament. We're not and it can help. 518 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:44.039 But again, I'm a wildcat at heart, and I love Chip Hale and 519 00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:45.679 I like what they've done with the program. It was fun to watch it 520 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:50.360 on video to see the walk off against Oregon State the other night. So 521 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.280 manyhow Yeah, okay, Jay, appreciate it, Thanks coaching, Thank you, 522 00:35:55.360 --> 00:36:00.480 all right, you guys, thank you j John you got you got 523 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:01.840 a lot of good stories. One of the good guys too, Yeah, 524 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:07.519 one really good places. All right, gotam went too fast? He goes 525 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:09.559 by fast. Well, i'dlucky to interview. I was gonna say, can 526 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:12.280 we cut it and just bring him back? Yeah, you know, I'm 527 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:15.360 looking at I'm looking at the clock and it's just running. It went faster 528 00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:17.719 than normal. All right, let's take our break. Would love to hear 529 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:21.360 from you. Five two zero, four, one, six, seventy four, 530 00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:23.840 forty. We'll be right back. If you're an Arizona Man's basketball fan, 531 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:28.280 you know it's been successful for nearly forty years. Now take a look 532 00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:30.239 back at the Loudolsen era. 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Subscribe now to the podcast on the iHeartRadio 559 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:37.400 app just searching I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to My on 560 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:39.519 the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay got 561 00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:43.119 Ryan with us. We got about thirteen minutes. If you guys want to 562 00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:46.159 call, please do five two oh four one six seven four four zero. 563 00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:49.639 We haven't heard from you guys in a couple of days. We've been really 564 00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:51.960 busy. Yeah, so why not just give us a call. If you 565 00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:54.960 heard yesterday Kurt, that'd be great. Uh, Jay, John, good 566 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.159 to have him back, you know, and all this stuff we've been talking 567 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:00.400 about, you know, the old days of the pec te you know, 568 00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:05.280 it's get in emotional, Steve, Well, give me give no, we 569 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.280 have time to b s. Give me a couple of games that you definitely 570 00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:12.679 remember. We've talked about the U s L A yeah game. You know, 571 00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:15.639 Yeah, there's ones and losses and stuff and those are kind of obvious, 572 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:19.519 but you know, I think moments that kind of are I don't want 573 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:22.280 to say under the radar, but like you think, okay, this was 574 00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:24.599 you know, this was cool. It was when Notre Dame came to town. 575 00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:28.480 You talk about football, Okay, you've got football, got basketball play 576 00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:31.199 lay and played in nineteen eighty right, and you we're like, okay, 577 00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:35.599 wait a minute. In the whack, Notre Dame wasn't coming to Arizona Stadium. 578 00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:37.159 All of a sudden, you see the gold helmets and the and the 579 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:42.480 and the and the gold pants and Notre Dame is here, and you're going, 580 00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:45.559 holy crap, you know what we're you know, how did we get 581 00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:49.159 here? Right? You know? One of those things, you know what 582 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:52.440 you know the first time we went to a home game and USC is on 583 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:55.199 the field because U. C. L A Had come here way back in 584 00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:59.360 the day, had come here before, but not USC. All of a 585 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.199 sudden, you're playing U. S C. And you know, and and 586 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:05.480 for me, you know, Jay Jay talked about you know, there was 587 00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:08.360 always a pack a pack eight game you know on TV here on Saturday, 588 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:13.519 and you watched the game and these are the schools that you saw on TV 589 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:15.239 and you go, wait a minute, that's that U. S C. 590 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:20.280 The one that's you know, plays in the LA Coliseum. They're here the 591 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:22.440 first time. All those things you know, started to happen. Uh. 592 00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:27.079 We're kind of moments where you go, you know, okay, this this 593 00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:30.840 is this is really cool and I'm glad Arizona did this, even though I 594 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:34.480 know us he's gonna kick our asses. Right yeah, well you you talk 595 00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:37.840 about that, I'll go, I'll go. Big games during my time, 596 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:40.519 well even before my time. And you you saw this because I think you 597 00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:45.000 may have been covered when Duke came down here for the Festival classics, right. 598 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.639 Uh, those big those were right, big games. Uh. And 599 00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:52.440 I wish they had a feastbal Classic and they handed handle it that way where 600 00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:55.360 you know, four games four days, two days, three days because they 601 00:40:55.360 --> 00:41:00.480 had in between games they have no game, no game, but fantastic teams, 602 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:05.079 parties, dinners, stuff like that. Uh. And it was a 603 00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:07.760 place to be so so that but ended up in the Pac twelve, you 604 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:12.800 know when Stanford came here and beat them. Yeah, and the first storm 605 00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:15.079 and it was a big store. It was a big deal. No, 606 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:17.760 it was a court storm by by other people or no, Arizona one, 607 00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:22.960 but Stanford against Azona be number one. The court storm, which never happened. 608 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:25.880 Yeah, never happens. And you know where I always remember, well, 609 00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:30.119 we always like anytime Arizona got beat on the road, there was a 610 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:32.239 court storm. You go, guys, you know this is happening more often, 611 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:36.639 you know, sure, you know, you know, as we say, 612 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:37.679 you know, act like you've been there. Then all of a sudden, 613 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:40.400 Arizona beats the number one team in the country on it's court. Yeah, 614 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:43.679 and here they come, right, you know, right, how about 615 00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:46.599 how about and you were here? I was not here the bokshot, yeah, 616 00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:50.599 I said, I well, I saw that as a fan. I 617 00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:53.440 was sitting in the I was sitting in the corner, so my view of 618 00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:57.119 it. They it happened on the far side of the court for me, 619 00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:00.079 but I was sitting in the corner, so I saw the trajectory of the 620 00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:04.599 pass and the whole bid. I was right in line, and I'm like, 621 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.400 in that instant. It happened fast, but I thought he's gonna score 622 00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:12.800 and he did yeah, yeah, yeah, and and you know yeah, 623 00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:15.199 I mean, now you know that was a huge one. Again, I 624 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:17.679 was still a fan. I wasn't I wasn't covering sports when they you know, 625 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:22.719 when when they, you know, eight eighty six, they won the 626 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:24.519 championship. I was in sports, but I wasn't covering the team when they 627 00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:30.400 won the Pack the Pac ten Championship for the first time. But you know, 628 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:34.239 I'm here's here's this one's gonna sound goofy. I remember when they hired 629 00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:37.199 Ludolsa. I had no idea how big a deal it was. Three I 630 00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:39.400 had no idea. I'm just like, Okay, we got a new coach 631 00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:42.800 and he coached at Iowa. I mean, how good is that? Right? 632 00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:45.719 I'm be like, who is he? You were twenty three show because 633 00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:49.119 I was eighty three. I would have been twenty four eighty three. Well, 634 00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:52.360 yeah, well what happened in early eighty earlier eighty three, so I 635 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:54.440 was still twenty four years old. But I'm like, I don't know who 636 00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:58.159 this guy is and he's from Iowa? Is he any good? It was 637 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:00.119 just in the final four? Is any good? I guess, you know, 638 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:04.800 I guess yeah. And that changed the kind of the complexion of Tucson. 639 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.480 Yeah, the complexion of Tucson and sort of Tucson. It's sort of 640 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.800 you know you By by that time, football had kind of said okay, 641 00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:16.639 we're competitive in football. Basketball had not been, especially the year before, 642 00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:22.000 and it's kind of like, okay, now, you know we're we feel 643 00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:23.360 like we're grown up in football. Are we going to be grown up in 644 00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:27.719 basketball now? Yeah? And you you were and you were they were. 645 00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:30.760 So there's a couple of other ones. Obviously, Uh the Derek Williams block, 646 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:36.199 yeah against Washington. That was big, but there's been there was much 647 00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:37.880 bigger. Get there. I was gonna say, there's so many people that 648 00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:44.440 you know with we call it recency bass when they say name a big moment 649 00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:47.559 in Arizona basketball at Michale and they throw in the block by Derek Williams against 650 00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:51.840 Washington, Like, guy, well, that was that was a great play. 651 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:53.679 But that was come on, that was like I remember they did the 652 00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:58.599 serviy like four or five years ago and big plays or that was the number 653 00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:02.000 one I think you were. Are you talking about Matt mellbox steel against against 654 00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:06.079 Duke you know in ninety one, you know in the game that was in 655 00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:08.480 like double overtime or something like that. A ball's going not a ball, 656 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:12.000 not steal a save, a ball's going out of bound. He saves it. 657 00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:15.559 Arizona scores, they win this game. Uh you know those kinds of 658 00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:19.119 I'll give you another one. Salim hits the shot over a Flollo from from 659 00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.039 forty a mile out, a Kaylin Clark shot, right, Yeah, it 660 00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:25.559 was playing the final moments of the game. That was a fantastic over U 661 00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:29.960 c l A. Right, you beat Ucla, you beat Duke. It's 662 00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:32.840 like it's Washington. Yeah, yeah, no, I know everybody was afraid 663 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:36.880 I was going to lose to Washington in this game. But it was Washington. 664 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:38.239 It wasn't you know, right, and anybody want to call it that 665 00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:43.920 to these quick moments you have them in football, I have him in basketball 666 00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:47.519 so many well, a loss when Ucla came here and beat the streak and 667 00:44:49.480 --> 00:44:52.360 we talked about this a lot when we have Authic and we have these guys 668 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:53.960 because he was not in the game at the time, so shocky. Yeah, 669 00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:57.960 yeah, that one was shocking, right, I mean it was U 670 00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:00.440 c l A. And I guess if you're going to lose that streak, 671 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:05.400 better to lose it to Ucla than sorry. J John Caller, Oregon State. 672 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:08.480 I'll give you another game that was just bizarre in how they want When 673 00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:12.400 Buddinger got his face stepped off. Yeah, and they were down by like 674 00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:15.679 seventeen eighteen and then came back and won the game. Yeah. And there 675 00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:17.800 was a UCLA game like that too. Oh yeah, yeah, same, 676 00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:22.320 same. Actually, uh they played Oregon Oregon State and it happened twice in 677 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:25.400 the same year. Oregon State came, they beat the Oregon State and they 678 00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:30.000 beat UCLA in the same fashion, came storming bath. Yeah. Yeah, 679 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:32.719 no, yeah. We could go on and on about great moments, great 680 00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:37.039 moments in baseball, you know, some of the softball wins, and we 681 00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:39.880 don't know, we didn't even know about women's basketball. They've beat in Stanford 682 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:42.960 here a few times, a couple of times, a couple of times. 683 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:45.199 You had to cover. You had to do those games scoring I did. 684 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:49.360 I did the latest one. I did the latest one, but I the 685 00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.199 first one. I wasn't. I wasn't doing that that yet. But you 686 00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:55.760 know, and look, you know, you know, let's take this call. 687 00:45:55.800 --> 00:46:00.199 We got somebody calling in, Hi, you're on the air, eye 688 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:02.840 on the ball, Hey, guys, how you doing. What's going on? 689 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:07.679 Howard? Hey? Yeah? Leigh? And they had the McMillan shot 690 00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:13.719 was really good, but the coolest thing I'll ever forget and I don't know 691 00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:16.440 exactly which game it was. It was around the holidays, it was right 692 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:21.840 before Steve got there. Probably what about eighty six, Jay, when the 693 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:23.960 U of A was down by eleven? Was it at home? It was 694 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:28.239 about two minutes and they won the game. That was just crazy. I 695 00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:37.800 can't remember which one that was, but do you vaguely remember it that McMillan 696 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:40.639 he was Maybe that McMillan game. I don't know. I'm saying this is 697 00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:45.679 like telling Jay he was about five eight gorgeous talking about Okay, there is 698 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:50.400 one that I do remember like that, and it was it was Loot's first 699 00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:52.960 year and it was sort of the year that towards the point of the season 700 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:57.840 where all of sudden things turned around. But they were down nine to a 701 00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:02.199 s U at a s U with thirty seconds left in the game and came 702 00:47:02.239 --> 00:47:07.239 back and won that game. That's the one like that that sticks in my 703 00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:09.719 brain is like, not only did they win that game, but it was 704 00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:15.840 a SU at their place. Eddie Smith and and and and uh Pete Williams 705 00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:19.840 and those guys, you know, coming back with thirty seconds left in the 706 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:22.639 game. I would have been ned walk at the time. Okay, you 707 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:28.119 remember that one. Oh so it was it around that was around the holiday. 708 00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:30.960 It was probably one of the first pack. Yeah, it was early 709 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:32.559 in I think it was pretty early in the pack Puffs Impact ten seasons. 710 00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:37.360 Yeah, because I just remember. I think it was snowing. It was 711 00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:39.920 almost snowing. I think was one game I'm talking about. Yeah, I 712 00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:45.239 can't. I don't remember that one when you're saying eighty six ish, Yes, 713 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:49.360 it was right around eighty six. Yeah, and it was right on 714 00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:52.840 it was. I think it was snowing in Tucson that day because I was 715 00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:57.159 we were hanging out in Rio Cancion. Oh my god, I lived there. 716 00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:00.519 It wasn't the same, but it wasn't the same bun a Venture. 717 00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:04.880 It wasn't Texas Tech. That was. That was. That was a tournament 718 00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:07.719 with those two teams. That's just game. I wish I remember what that 719 00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:13.000 watch. I don't have that one. It was down eleven, was about 720 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.960 two minutes left, yah boom. I don't have that. I don't have 721 00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:20.039 that one. That doesn't happen anymore. Well, yeah, well, you 722 00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:24.199 know sometimes occasionally occasionally, Howard, are you okay? The sons are done 723 00:48:24.239 --> 00:48:29.440 and everything's okay, up there. I'm okay, you've got the last time, 724 00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:31.280 and you weren't. I talked to Steve. Had to be at a 725 00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:35.440 funeral. I didn't tell you, guys, I fell off a ladder too, 726 00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:37.719 Did I tell you that? What the hecky? What are you doing 727 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:40.000 up on a ladder? Come on? No, don't know. I should 728 00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:44.880 have went down to my roofers ladder because you know, I'm building my garage. 729 00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:47.280 I tore down the old car port and there's a beautiful garage. I'm 730 00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:52.440 just she rocking it. So that's when is that your doghouse? You're fixing 731 00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:54.679 up your doghouse from the wife. Oh my god, it's so fancy. 732 00:48:54.840 --> 00:49:00.440 It really is fancy, and it's got all the belt was a store built 733 00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.519 by through a storage remount. I have to get a permit for that, 734 00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:07.400 but permitted and uh anyway, my roofer shouldn't have worked on the Easter, 735 00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:12.840 which was a few weeks before. Guess how far he sell? Ten feet? 736 00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:17.920 Twenty eight feet he was. You know, he's lighter than me and 737 00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:23.159 still gravity. You shouldn't have been working on eastern j J fell three feet. 738 00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:28.880 Yeah, I fell three feet. I heard him say that, Yes, 739 00:49:29.159 --> 00:49:31.840 I heard him we gotta go, Howard, thanks a bunch of guys. 740 00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:38.199 Yeah, thank you. Yeah, that game, Jay eleven, I 741 00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:43.320 don't know. There were a few of those games. They were down like 742 00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:47.199 eighteen right the second half. It came back one seasons the Organ State game. 743 00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:52.960 I have that pension to either be killing him or they get down and 744 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:55.960 they race back. Well the Florida game, Uh that was a Sean Miller 745 00:49:57.039 --> 00:49:59.559 game. But that Florida game, they were down a bunch right right, 746 00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:00.960 and I was and they you know, they turned it around and won that 747 00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:04.840 and when that came So look a lot of great moments and there'll be some 748 00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:09.400 more, right Kansas. Those coming to fifth said, yeah, creating some 749 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:14.199 new memories. But uh, you know when we're talking about going back to 750 00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:15.360 you know, nineteen seventy eight, I mean, Jay, John, you 751 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:20.519 talked about the court storming when they beat U C l A here and uh, 752 00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:23.880 you know and that kind of stuff. A friend of mine went to 753 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:28.239 the thing on the South Side with the U A coaches. You saw that. 754 00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:30.440 I'm sorry, Facebook Murphy was there. Yeah, and Brennan all that 755 00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:34.760 says He says, h I met Brennan. What a good guy. What 756 00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:37.159 a just a normal dude. Yeah, I said, yeah, he's just 757 00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:39.519 a normal dude. He would you couldn't point him out in the mall and 758 00:50:39.559 --> 00:50:45.000 say that's the head coach of football football. You know, you're one hundred 759 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:50.280 percent correct. Again, I hate the I hate these the word unassuming because 760 00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:52.079 that sounds like plain. But you know, just kind of like, you 761 00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:54.719 know, like like Tommy Lloyd, just kind of an average guy making his 762 00:50:54.760 --> 00:51:00.280 way around town and and you know, and then he's a multi million dollar, 763 00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:02.440 you know, head head coach at a major university. You know, 764 00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:08.280 the time needed Tommy at at at Canes, Yeah, I was gonna say, 765 00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:10.679 and then it was kind of early in his time here. Yeah. 766 00:51:10.840 --> 00:51:14.920 Yeah, I was sitting there at Canes and the T shirt and and Jim 767 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:17.719 shorts and you know, having some canes and nobody going up and bothering him 768 00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:23.360 asking for We went to lunch somewhere nearby campus, and it was like his 769 00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:27.360 first three or four months, and we kind of just walked and we just 770 00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:30.920 he wanted to get the Bible, what what to expect. So we talked 771 00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:34.599 and he pulled out his credit card blah blah blah, and the waitress didn't 772 00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:37.800 have any idea and like nobody really knew what I'm taking. How refreshing it 773 00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:40.519 is. Come somewhere and not being harassed, right, you know, if 774 00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:44.639 you're the coach. I'm sure now that's not the case. But back then, 775 00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:46.519 his first few months, first few months, and I'm like, Okay, 776 00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:50.159 there's Tommy hanging out. Yeah, you know, decided to go over 777 00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:52.719 to canes and get them. Your brother run into him like somewhere, and 778 00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:57.880 he just had them at union. Yeah, he bought some drinks. Pretty 779 00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:00.840 funny. All right, We're at the top of the hour. We've got 780 00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:04.119 breaking news coming up. Ryan says, there's a whole bunch and I think 781 00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:06.719 there is, so uh, stick around for breaking news, and then we're 782 00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:09.599 gonna have Ben Lors. We're gonna talk Arizona swimming. He's the new the 783 00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:14.239 newest coach at on campus, so we'll see what he's what his impressions are 784 00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:16.400 of his new job and his new campus. So stick around for all that