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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to you. I on the Ball here
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, your Jim Bentley.
Speaker 3: Hello, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: And you're raid we're ahead of time, but you have
Speaker 2: breaking news.
Speaker 4: Sure do.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball breaking news on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 5: All right, just starting off with the big one.
Speaker 6: Caleb Love obviously got the two a contract with the
Speaker 6: Blazers yesterday or the Trail Blazers. I'm sorry to go
Speaker 6: up to Portland. It went undrafted one among many. I
Speaker 6: was really surprised.
Speaker 4: R J.
Speaker 5: Lewis didn't didn't get drafted.
Speaker 2: The other one that's in North Carolina, Uh no St.
Speaker 5: John's. Oh the guy that Patino bench.
Speaker 2: He did get so. Oh, no, he's transferred somewhere.
Speaker 5: No, No, he went undrafted.
Speaker 2: I thought he went some uh Trentford somewhere. Then he
Speaker 2: decided to see in the draft.
Speaker 4: Yeah, are you sure?
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure?
Speaker 2: Okay? I thought he tranf he No, he transfer somewhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Off, you have the computer over there, we'll do that later.
Speaker 5: I'll check it.
Speaker 6: But yeah, from the from the list, I didn't see
Speaker 6: that he had uh transferred anywhere.
Speaker 2: Ud.
Speaker 5: Yeah, another big news.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: Former Arizona Wildcat Umar Bollo, I played for Indiana last year, was.
Speaker 5: Also got a two way with Miami Heat.
Speaker 2: Wow, so Miami Heat has Ballo yep?
Speaker 6: Uh Bradley no, Larson and Larson Larson and Keishaw Johnson.
Speaker 2: Oh god, what I said Bradley Yeah yeah, yeah, those
Speaker 2: because we talked about them yesterday, those three.
Speaker 6: Yeah wow yeah, yeah, interesting stuff, you know, just uh,
Speaker 6: I don't know representing the A.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's uh, he's far from the prototypical NBA guy, right,
Speaker 2: but he's gonna be a heck of a practice player.
Speaker 2: He could be. He could be in the G League. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you could talk about a guy who's probably gonna take
Speaker 2: a pay cut.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well that was another thing too.
Speaker 3: That's wild they're making that much money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that was That was kind of the big
Speaker 5: thing too.
Speaker 4: With r J.
Speaker 5: Louis or Louise. I'm not sure how to which one
Speaker 5: his name is, but.
Speaker 6: I guess he was supposed to he could have gotten
Speaker 6: It was projected that he would have gotten around two
Speaker 6: million in nil if he would have stayed in college.
Speaker 2: He wasn't. He wasn't gonna stay at Saint john.
Speaker 5: No, he was not going to stay at Saint John's.
Speaker 6: But I mean, he would have been one of the
Speaker 6: probably i'd assume biggest names in the portal if he
Speaker 6: would have stayed in But yeah, that was interesting. Also,
Speaker 6: Arizona has elevated John the Ruin and named him as
Speaker 6: the pitching coach since the other pitching coach went to
Speaker 6: San Diego State. Arizona Volleyball Stuff Classic twenty twenty seven
Speaker 6: top I don't know what oh means, but top thirty
Speaker 6: five outside hitter, Top thirty five outside hitter. Asia udo
Speaker 6: Ema has committed to the volleyball team here. So that's
Speaker 6: that's a good one for coach Stubbs. She got something
Speaker 6: cooking for sure.
Speaker 5: Over there.
Speaker 6: Also big news, well, I guess not big news, but
Speaker 6: it's came out today that the Big twelve, the athletic
Speaker 6: directors and coaches, are not going to be doing a
Speaker 6: preseason poll.
Speaker 5: I don't know why.
Speaker 6: Maybe just because they're not going to be doing like
Speaker 6: a preseason poll of the Big twelve.
Speaker 5: The Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: People aren't and the athletic directors and the reporters aren't
Speaker 3: gonna do it.
Speaker 5: Nah, I think, I mean, I don't get it.
Speaker 6: People are saying it's because Asu is projected to come
Speaker 6: in last and then obviously had a great year. But
Speaker 6: I feel like that's that's what you're thinking. Yeah, that well,
Speaker 6: that's what people are saying. That's what I'm thinking too,
Speaker 6: But I mean, I don't know. It kind of made
Speaker 6: the story though.
Speaker 4: That's silly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's silly. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: What's the big difference if you have one or you
Speaker 2: don't have one, But it's it's kind of like it's
Speaker 2: a constant. It's what you kind of and then you
Speaker 2: can kind of work from there. There was only what's
Speaker 2: projected to finish fifth in the finish his tenth or second.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just and there's no effort to be put into that,
Speaker 2: not really. I mean there's no money. Hey, Tim, can
Speaker 2: you send me your ballot?
Speaker 3: Okay, sure, no, you did, but you set yourself up
Speaker 3: for a really good story. And the end of the season,
Speaker 3: you know, they over they overachieved, or they under retrieved.
Speaker 2: What's the big deal. It's not costing anybody yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean you're asking the wrong guy.
Speaker 2: I'm just yeah, that's kind of do Maybe they don't know.
Speaker 2: Everybody doesn't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody does all the all the powerful conferences. Where
Speaker 6: did that come from? It was reported, but it was
Speaker 6: on Twitter. I saw it first on Twitter. It's the
Speaker 6: people that paid for I don't know X what does
Speaker 6: that guy know? Moving on to well, I guess the
Speaker 6: Sun is still keeping it on the draft though, traded
Speaker 6: up for Rashier Fleming and Kobe Reya. I don't remember
Speaker 6: seeing too much on them, unfortunately, but you know, college
Speaker 6: for college basketball, I mean hard to keep up with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I just google Lewis and he's nowhere at
Speaker 2: least right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it makes no sense.
Speaker 2: That makes no sense.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean even at the end of last year,
Speaker 6: it just didn't make it like why, I mean, I
Speaker 6: understand that he was having a bad game, but it's like,
Speaker 6: why are you going to benure player when you're going.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's the funny thing about it. But it
Speaker 2: was so it was such a cold moment for him
Speaker 2: doing that, and then Patino just like brushing him aside,
Speaker 2: say yeah, you're not going to play and everyone knows why. Yeah, well, okay,
Speaker 2: but that's just a strange thing.
Speaker 5: The dude saved your season in the last game.
Speaker 2: And now you're not even talking about him.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, this is a college sports is a business like
Speaker 2: the pros. Uh. And once you piss off, that's not
Speaker 2: one of the words.
Speaker 3: Right, that's where it's the eighth word here, it's okay
Speaker 3: the top.
Speaker 2: You upset your coach. I mean, they could just poo
Speaker 2: poo you all over the place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, yeah, what are you
Speaker 5: gonna do about it?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 6: Diamondbacks started a series against the Marlins. They talked about
Speaker 6: a little bit yesterday. There are two games above five
Speaker 6: hundred and they're three games out of the wild card spot.
Speaker 6: I think it's three games what it was yesterday. So
Speaker 6: you know, they're they're trying to trying to write the ship,
Speaker 6: even though they got a ton of injuries right now.
Speaker 6: Big news also today, Kaitlyn Clark is out again and
Speaker 6: will not be playing against Page.
Speaker 2: Oh she's not. Where would they have played that at?
Speaker 5: I think it's in Elis Dallas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a lot of I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 2: people are disappointed because she's a ticket seller.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean it was going to be such
Speaker 6: a it was going to be the matchup between Page
Speaker 6: and Page and Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 2: Obviously it's a couple of no, that's why its been
Speaker 2: a sold out probably sold out show.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: Angels manager Ron Washington is going to be missing the
Speaker 6: remainder of the twenty twenty five MLB season.
Speaker 2: Health.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because of health. They announced it today. Never want
Speaker 6: to see that hoping.
Speaker 2: He was one of our guys back in our day
Speaker 2: when he played for the Chemis City Chief Kemi City Royal. Yeah. Right, God,
Speaker 2: he's that old. Yeah, I mean, if I'm that old,
Speaker 2: he's that old. Oh, this is a pretty cool softball signing.
Speaker 2: Arizona Softball signed the biggest.
Speaker 5: Player of the year.
Speaker 6: Grace Jenkins got announced like half an hour before. But
Speaker 6: you know, biggest player of the year. That's I don't know,
Speaker 6: I feel like anybody with accolades that your program can sign,
Speaker 6: it's probably right the better thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see what happens. The one thing that you
Speaker 2: said yesterday or the day before yesterday was a signing.
Speaker 2: I mean the coach needs to get signed.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's it's gonna be interesting, but yeah, that's uh,
Speaker 6: that's most of the big news.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's all of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's all.
Speaker 4: The real you.
Speaker 3: I just I saw this yesterday Bernard got Yeah who's
Speaker 3: Who's Yeah, he's now the former You have a cross
Speaker 3: country coach?
Speaker 2: Did they tweet something out?
Speaker 3: I saw it on I saw it on Come Across
Speaker 3: on the Star website and I know some folks and yeah,
Speaker 3: Bernard is has You know, they're making a few changes
Speaker 3: at the cross country uh, and track teams over there,
Speaker 3: but not unexpected. You know, they haven't performed great. You know,
Speaker 3: Bernard is a great guy, great runner. Coaching at this
Speaker 3: level is hard in this area.
Speaker 2: Because you're a runner, you know what you're doing on
Speaker 2: that side of the world. Uh. This place used to
Speaker 2: be a fantastic track and field under Dave Murray in
Speaker 2: game coach Harvey every now and again, right, and we
Speaker 2: had Harvey on here last week. Sure, is it one
Speaker 2: of the destinations or what makes it great is the coaching?
Speaker 2: Is it the school? Can it be great again?
Speaker 3: It's it's coaching and Dave Murray was was a smart
Speaker 3: coach and he got people to achieve.
Speaker 2: Next time you're on, I want to have him on
Speaker 2: because I got his contact today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get coach Murray on. And but it was
Speaker 3: absolutely driven by him. I mean he had successes and
Speaker 3: then that drove other people that brought kids here.
Speaker 2: So before I asked him, because I asked the coaches
Speaker 2: what their secret sauce is, what do you think his
Speaker 2: secret sauce was?
Speaker 3: He you know, not only your coaching, not only do
Speaker 3: you have to know how many four hundreds running, all
Speaker 3: the science of it, but he knew how to you know,
Speaker 3: he could he could get into those kids.
Speaker 2: Psychics and the motivation, motivation.
Speaker 3: The motivation of it. And doesn't mean that Bernard le
Speaker 3: Gott and other coaches can't do it. But you know,
Speaker 3: it's there's.
Speaker 2: A magic to it.
Speaker 3: There's a magic to it.
Speaker 2: That's the words.
Speaker 3: And and he had it, and he had he had
Speaker 3: an excellent run. He probably had a seventeen year run,
Speaker 3: you know, seventy eight.
Speaker 2: Women and both I remember every these all these people.
Speaker 3: Every you know, he always had the number one runner
Speaker 3: in the country come here. How does that happen? He
Speaker 3: was just a great recruiter. It was it was people
Speaker 3: wanted to come here. It was was right after the
Speaker 3: dominance of Oregon and and he took it. And you know,
Speaker 3: now Nau has it, and there's a couple of the
Speaker 3: leastools they have it.
Speaker 2: I can understand that being an altitude being up there.
Speaker 3: The altitude's the thing.
Speaker 2: So so they there was altitude here apparently because they
Speaker 2: do it so well. But you know, my colleague David Kelly,
Speaker 2: I was going home yesterday, he was talking about the
Speaker 2: Sears Cup, the Director's Cup what it's called now, and
Speaker 2: Arizona was very good at that many years.
Speaker 3: Remember they were always been in top.
Speaker 2: Ten because the swimming program was fantastic, the track program
Speaker 2: was fantastic, and that's where they picked up a lot
Speaker 2: of points in addition to the basketball and all the
Speaker 2: other story.
Speaker 3: The secondary sports, you know, like back back in the day,
Speaker 3: and I l they're going to take a little bit
Speaker 3: of a cup, but back then they were they were.
Speaker 2: Your you know pointe yeah, point.
Speaker 3: They brought in all that as extra points because they
Speaker 3: were winning national championship, are finishing in the top three
Speaker 3: and right.
Speaker 2: So you know, and we know coach Bush was a
Speaker 2: fantastic coach. The same dude he knew what buttons to
Speaker 2: Bush how to motivate all these all Americans, all these Olympians.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. If there's one thing I've
Speaker 2: learned in this business having been the reporter I was
Speaker 2: for a long time, and now this coaching matters. Coaching matters,
Speaker 2: and the kids gravitate to good coaches if, of course
Speaker 2: they want to be.
Speaker 3: Coached, true, And I think you know, that's why you
Speaker 3: see a lot of success at these secondary sports, at
Speaker 3: like the Division one small school or the Division two level,
Speaker 3: because the kids will go to where the coach is
Speaker 3: going to make them great. Yeah, and that they follow
Speaker 3: those coaches. And you can go and be a great
Speaker 3: athlete at a good program, you know. And there's a
Speaker 3: difference though, and you can go to a program it
Speaker 3: would be great. But if you want to be great
Speaker 3: at these smaller sports, you go to a coach.
Speaker 2: Can I allow you to either wax poetic on yourself
Speaker 2: or be realistic about yourself or whatever, because you're a coach,
Speaker 2: you teach. How are you in the coaching world?
Speaker 3: You know, my excitement in my drive as a coach
Speaker 3: is really to get kids excited about chasing big goals
Speaker 3: and big dreams. And so I'm really good at high
Speaker 3: school coaching. And you know, I'm coach adults, and I
Speaker 3: can help people do that, but I love to get
Speaker 3: kids excited and help them find that that inner drive
Speaker 3: and that inner talent. And so I'm good at that
Speaker 3: psyche part. I mean, I can help kids kind of
Speaker 3: figure out their drive and their potential. But I'm also
Speaker 3: real good at helping those high school kids, you know,
Speaker 3: learn how to make friends and be great kids and
Speaker 3: great students.
Speaker 2: So so let me. I used to run track speed,
Speaker 2: not long distance, and I don't understand how.
Speaker 3: You don't know you're a mileer yet, Stea, you don't
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 2: I would never do that, never do that, because I
Speaker 2: would collapse.
Speaker 3: I'll say that. Every kid says, I'm a hundred mee
Speaker 3: and around.
Speaker 2: At the third turn, I would be done. So something
Speaker 2: to ask you, how if I run in a mile,
Speaker 2: I'm a five minute mileer, gun right, and you want
Speaker 2: to get me to four fifty or whatever. But I'm consistent.
Speaker 2: How do you find those ten seconds? I mean, how
Speaker 2: do you and I don't have those ten seconds?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, for some of those sports, it's you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's it's building a base and it's building
Speaker 3: you know, it's piling on each other and you could
Speaker 3: find it for me, I could. I totally could. And
Speaker 3: it's and it's actually running faster than than four fifty
Speaker 3: in many of your short you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Yeah no, but yeah you can.
Speaker 2: But if to me, it's like this Peter principle, you're
Speaker 2: as good as you're gonna get and you're not gonna
Speaker 2: get any better because it's it's who you are.
Speaker 3: Once you break six minutes, you can always break six.
Speaker 3: Once you break five, you can always break five.
Speaker 8: Most good high school runners, you know, most good high
Speaker 8: school runners, you can get to about four thirty in
Speaker 8: the mile, and you know, exceptional ones, it's four twenty
Speaker 8: and then it's four.
Speaker 2: But that's when it becomes inner talent. That becomes when
Speaker 2: you're I could.
Speaker 3: You know a lot of athletic kids you can get
Speaker 3: and turning into runners. You know they're not going to
Speaker 3: be great runners, but they're athletic.
Speaker 2: Okay with that, let's go.
Speaker 3: We're going as I'm bringing him out for cross country
Speaker 3: next year.
Speaker 2: He's going to come out he's a wrestler. He's a wrestler.
Speaker 5: Oh real quick? What more?
Speaker 6: Oscar Rio's the four Star is announcing his uh commitment tonight.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you see Arizona. Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: sad tweets about that. Yeah, did you see some of those?
Speaker 2: I had not yet know there were just you know,
Speaker 2: sad ones just like you can which you could probably
Speaker 2: think of, Yeah, just stupid. What I hope he comes Arizona?
Speaker 5: No, of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Streamy live on the iHeartRadio app. This is I on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to why on the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen and fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and today's
Speaker 2: Tim Bentley. Hello, Hello, and we got Ray handling the calls.
Speaker 2: And now on the phone we have FC two Sun
Speaker 2: coach Sebastian Pinola. How are you, coach?
Speaker 7: I'm doing well, Thank you, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 2: You guys are killing it on the on the old
Speaker 2: grid there. What's going on?
Speaker 7: You know part of the game. We have to go
Speaker 7: four games on the road and never easy to go
Speaker 7: to California. I think that we're just trying to find
Speaker 7: our way to play away and we struggled with that.
Speaker 7: But you know, the staff and the everybody has still
Speaker 7: they believed that we're a quality team and we're ready
Speaker 7: to prove it tomorrow night.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 2: Yes, is it more than just tomorrow because it's a
Speaker 2: it's a big holiday weekend and you guys always have
Speaker 2: you know, fireworks and stuff.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, so we play, we play tomorrow night and
Speaker 7: then in July there which is our big fireworks game
Speaker 7: against Ventura the conference Bible. This is probably the biggest
Speaker 7: game that we have in the conference. So we're excited
Speaker 7: looking forward to this week.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, this is your first year with the team, correct?
Speaker 5: Coaching?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 4: Second one second?
Speaker 2: Second one? Okay, I'm sorry. How was this one compared
Speaker 2: to last year? Because last year they made the playoffs.
Speaker 7: Yeah? No, I year we've made the playoffs, went to
Speaker 7: a national Final four. And of course this year, the
Speaker 7: players that are coming in, they understood the responsibility that
Speaker 7: they had to to continue to maintain what we did
Speaker 7: last year. And I still believe.
Speaker 4: In the guys.
Speaker 7: They know they know what we have ahead. We have
Speaker 7: a great catch in terms of home games. We got
Speaker 7: three home games, one away and although other guys that
Speaker 7: are fighting for it have a lot of tough games
Speaker 7: to play, So overall, I think the goal is the same,
Speaker 7: trying to go as far as possible, and it's like
Speaker 7: tomorrow and next Thursday are the ones that matter the most.
Speaker 2: You said you talked about the road overall your five
Speaker 2: to two and one, is that correct?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So did you have a tough time on the road.
Speaker 2: It was my understanding that you were five to two
Speaker 2: and one is a pretty good start.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean on the road we played. The team
Speaker 7: are playing tomorrow is a good team. They're going to
Speaker 7: good result and we struggle with them away lost to one,
Speaker 7: and then the other loss was against Redlands, which is
Speaker 7: another top three team in the conference that we beat
Speaker 7: here at home and they because away. So you know,
Speaker 7: it's of course you want to win every game, but
Speaker 7: sometimes I'd like to tell the guys we deal with adversity,
Speaker 7: we learn from it. It's a short season, so we
Speaker 7: have to continue to grow from this moment.
Speaker 3: Really too, I saw that you're you're five teen and one.
Speaker 3: You guys have Coachella's number there, My friend, did you
Speaker 3: see this?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Coachella. This last year they were so much more competitive.
Speaker 7: I mean we tied them twice home and away, and
Speaker 7: this year they come in and I think it's new
Speaker 7: you management for the club, and they just weren't ready
Speaker 7: for the level. So it's yeah, because yeah, you get
Speaker 7: the wings.
Speaker 3: But in other wins, that's great. They won nineteen and
Speaker 3: oh and sixteen and sixteen nil, I guess, so, like
Speaker 3: you know, but so that's just the fluidity of this league.
Speaker 3: You know, people can come in, manage ownership can change quickly.
Speaker 3: How do you manage your group of guys there to
Speaker 3: keep them focused and knowing that things are transitional so
Speaker 3: quickly and after a good.
Speaker 2: Year last year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think it's important to know that
Speaker 7: it's one team out of about twelve team that we
Speaker 7: have in the conference or whatever, ten eleven, but you
Speaker 7: against that team that we know we were better than
Speaker 7: them overall. I just told them you have to go on.
Speaker 7: You got to school all because all these goals are
Speaker 7: gonna matter at the end. They goal difference whenever you
Speaker 7: get to a playoff push. So if you guys understood that,
Speaker 7: they did the job. But if you ask me, now,
Speaker 7: we have to take care of the bigger guys coming
Speaker 7: to town and we have to be ready for it.
Speaker 3: So I was just because how do to keep them focused?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, they're seasons long, they're probably looking
Speaker 3: at what's up, what's next? How do you keep them
Speaker 3: focused during the season when they're they're so transactional or
Speaker 3: they're so transitional in the league up and down?
Speaker 7: Yeah, of course. So I think that the biggest thing
Speaker 7: is make them understand that it's a short season and
Speaker 7: that we're here for a purpose. That is for all
Speaker 7: these players are going to college, are going to professional
Speaker 7: is a pass, it's one step in their past. So
Speaker 7: we tried to make that professional environment and take every
Speaker 7: game very serious and try to make them understand the
Speaker 7: history and everything that is there is behind exstitution. So
Speaker 7: I think that's the best way that we can do it.
Speaker 7: With the environment that we provide, they understand that every
Speaker 7: game matters and we're expected to win.
Speaker 2: So yep, So coach, I don't think you answered this with.
Speaker 2: My other question is was there a lot of turnover
Speaker 2: from last year? Did you have to kind of start
Speaker 2: with a with a fresh roster or did you get
Speaker 2: some guys coming back?
Speaker 7: So I had the a couple of local guys that
Speaker 7: came back and then only one guy from out of town.
Speaker 7: And as you know, of course, the main the main
Speaker 7: guys that play for US come from all over the
Speaker 7: world and the country from different schools. So this year
Speaker 7: it was hard for me to recruit the guys back
Speaker 7: because it was an older team, so a lot of
Speaker 7: them you move forward to something else in their life,
Speaker 7: so I had to recruit.
Speaker 4: A whole new team.
Speaker 7: So it's kind of like restarting that product than getting
Speaker 7: them to where the other team wasn't just what the
Speaker 7: team means, because that that's what made the difference that
Speaker 7: year for us. We were so strong as a team.
Speaker 7: Wed some other teams were more probably better player for player,
Speaker 7: but we work very well as a team.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of like today's college game, right the nil.
Speaker 2: Every year you have to start new in fresh and
Speaker 2: try to did you you and in Perlman have to
Speaker 2: put the team together and say, Okay, this guy will
Speaker 2: fit here, this sky will fit there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, I mean we have that conversation, and
Speaker 7: I think that this year one of the goals was
Speaker 7: to bring a couple of younger players into the roster.
Speaker 7: So moving forward for next year, we had more returners,
Speaker 7: so the process will be quicker during the summer. But
Speaker 7: but yeah, we try to we have an idea of
Speaker 7: how we want to plan. We try to master the
Speaker 7: players that play that way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, what's the coach?
Speaker 3: I'm curious you're talking about, you know, putting together a
Speaker 3: new team each year. What's your average age or do
Speaker 3: you have a young team, you have a a an
Speaker 3: older team? What's your what's your age range for your
Speaker 3: your group?
Speaker 7: This year, I would say these years, right, twenty one
Speaker 7: years old the team the average we got a couple
Speaker 7: of older guys in like twenty four to twenty five,
Speaker 7: years old. But most of them are between twenty and
Speaker 7: twenty one, which is which is good because I mean
Speaker 7: they are either sophomores or juniors in college, right, so
Speaker 7: in they had another they have another summer to play
Speaker 7: and the plan is for them to come back and
Speaker 7: so we can deal with the guys that we like
Speaker 7: them this year.
Speaker 3: So these kids will go, they'll play for you for
Speaker 3: the summer, then they'll go play for their collegiate team
Speaker 3: or another club team someplace and then come back.
Speaker 7: Correct. Correct, Actually all of them are from college, really,
Speaker 7: so they go back to the colleges. And it's really
Speaker 7: how it works, is the best way to find the
Speaker 7: talent that can compete in the league.
Speaker 3: So I saw that you coach at the u A
Speaker 3: for a little bit too, So do you do you
Speaker 3: do you recruit the college campuses? Are you out recruiting
Speaker 3: or you are you how are you putting together your
Speaker 3: team each year?
Speaker 7: So well for the uf A and with the women's side.
Speaker 2: Let me ask if if I can follow the just
Speaker 2: a question, So is there a big difference or what
Speaker 2: is the difference women's side to the men's side in
Speaker 2: terms of coaching.
Speaker 7: In terms of coaching, I will say that just I
Speaker 7: would see the women in terms of listening to structure
Speaker 7: of following destructions that are better, so you can be
Speaker 7: a little bit more tactical in that way, at least
Speaker 7: at the level. Of course the problem is different. But
Speaker 7: at the level that we're at the guys, I think
Speaker 7: the sport is a little bit farther ahead in terms
Speaker 7: of the development of the players. It's been around longer,
Speaker 7: so you see a lot of players that just have that.
Speaker 7: The guys like to go more one b one. They
Speaker 7: like to they won't be one challenges, They tackles all
Speaker 7: this stuff. So the women sometimes they play more as
Speaker 7: a team. They try to break teams down as a team,
Speaker 7: and that's that's one of the main things that I've
Speaker 7: seen being on both sides now. So it's very interesting.
Speaker 7: I'm always trying to figure out things because I do
Speaker 7: believe it's the saying sport, but there is little details
Speaker 7: and real things that is different. How you coach with
Speaker 7: the women's and with the men.
Speaker 6: So coach, I'm noticing that you guys only have four
Speaker 6: games left for your season, and three of them are
Speaker 6: against teams that are ahead of you guys on the table.
Speaker 5: What do you, you know, what are you kind of.
Speaker 6: Doing just to like get your team ready, not only
Speaker 6: like to play against good teams will finish the season strong.
Speaker 7: I think this is this is the tougher time of
Speaker 7: the year because of the situation that we put ourselves
Speaker 7: in on the table. But I think it's also why
Speaker 7: players come to a play a place by institution. This
Speaker 7: is a place that we're a top team in the country.
Speaker 7: We want to make playoffs every year, we want to
Speaker 7: win it every year. And these are the moments that
Speaker 7: these players with these big resumes have to step up
Speaker 7: and provide results. And that's what I keep telling them.
Speaker 7: But I told them today after training, it doesn't get
Speaker 7: any better than this. You go play at home teams
Speaker 7: that are fighting head to head with you, and you
Speaker 7: get to beat them and you get to make the players.
Speaker 7: But so as a player, if you put myself in
Speaker 7: those shoes, and I'll be excited to go out on
Speaker 7: the field. And I think that's how they feel. That's
Speaker 7: how they feel.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm missing something coaching, but if it's true that
Speaker 2: you only have four games left, you're five to two
Speaker 2: and one, what that's the eight games right? Twelve games total?
Speaker 2: Am I wrong. I thought you guys went deep into
Speaker 2: the season last year, or maybe that was two years ago.
Speaker 7: No, it was last year that we went to the
Speaker 7: national final.
Speaker 2: For you, how far? How far was that? How long?
Speaker 2: Deep into what August September?
Speaker 7: It was like being we loved the game in July
Speaker 7: twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Oh, so that's that's the season. So it's not it's
Speaker 2: a quick, quick season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like the national final will be August second. Wow,
Speaker 7: that's what it is because then all the guys go
Speaker 7: back to college.
Speaker 2: That makes sense. That makes sense. So that's why you're
Speaker 2: kind of saying every game is urgent because you can't
Speaker 2: afford to have a lot of st This is it.
Speaker 7: We're going to be number one or two in the conference.
Speaker 7: But yeah, if you look at the table, all the
Speaker 7: teams on top, which is works in our favor. We
Speaker 7: all play in each other, so I think that table
Speaker 7: is going to move around like crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, coach, does a successful season like last year
Speaker 3: and the when you're having this year, does it help
Speaker 3: in recruiting? I don't know if you call it recruiting,
Speaker 3: but do kids seek you out? Do they seek you
Speaker 3: out and say hand like an opportunity?
Speaker 4: How does that.
Speaker 7: Work one hundred percent. I think the recruiting process through
Speaker 7: at the beginning of the year when you're calling players
Speaker 7: in and you know, they get excited when I'm calling
Speaker 7: them because they know what we did last year. They
Speaker 7: know the environment that we provide. So it does help
Speaker 7: a lot when you're doing well, and that's why we
Speaker 7: were able to bring the quality that we have this year.
Speaker 7: Now now we need to click at a higher level
Speaker 7: so we keep going well.
Speaker 2: Coach, So you played tomorrow, right, tickets available, all that
Speaker 2: good stuff, right, a lot of people.
Speaker 7: Yes, we're expecting a good crowd. We're excited to be
Speaker 7: back home after for away games. I think the people
Speaker 7: that saw us at the beginning, I will say, expect
Speaker 7: to see the same thing, even with more fire. Because
Speaker 7: we're not happy with how we perform on the roads.
Speaker 7: We're coming back home to take care of business. So
Speaker 7: looking forward to see all the times out there.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, are you one of those
Speaker 2: coaches that you say you're not happy that you either
Speaker 2: get to get on the kids because you need to
Speaker 2: be tough on them, or they just you know that
Speaker 2: they're gonna play better because they're unhappy.
Speaker 7: I will tell you after that road last road trip,
Speaker 7: I was not happy with them, and they heard it
Speaker 7: from me to them, we need to have we need
Speaker 7: to have a shore memory because in football, you win
Speaker 7: and you lose, and you cannot be super high when
Speaker 7: you win and super long when you lose, because we
Speaker 7: got games to go. So I just told them I
Speaker 7: was Yeah. It was a tough conversation with them, but
Speaker 7: I said, this is it. We move forward and we
Speaker 7: got to get home and take care of business.
Speaker 2: That's why you make the big bucks coach. That's why
Speaker 2: you make the big bucks.
Speaker 3: Is the off season. So these kids are done at
Speaker 3: the end of July and then you don't come back
Speaker 3: around till May. What do you do? You're coaching the
Speaker 3: women at the U of A. But what is at
Speaker 3: FC two song? What is what happens in between?
Speaker 4: So you know the fall.
Speaker 7: Of course, the guys go back to the colleges. I
Speaker 7: go with the women to work in college and then
Speaker 7: around December January is when the whole process of recurring
Speaker 7: starts again. So usually if you want to find the
Speaker 7: top players, that's when you start reaching out, having conversations,
Speaker 7: talking with colleague that coach at the college level. For
Speaker 7: them to say players in and all that. So it
Speaker 7: starts around December January, and then hopefully by March you
Speaker 7: have the bulk of your roster. But if you meet
Speaker 7: thus the first few months, you will meet in a
Speaker 7: lot of good players.
Speaker 2: Right okay, So be aware tomorrow night and then again
Speaker 2: the third of July to go see you guys play.
Speaker 7: Yes, please looking forward to see the fans.
Speaker 2: Just report, yes, sir, hydrate is gonna be hot. But
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you coach. I appreciate you, of course, guys.
Speaker 2: Thanks having be well, that's the FC two sun guys
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Speaker 1: on Tucson's sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Gay, welcome back to win on the ball Here Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera, your Tim Bentley, and you're Ray.
Speaker 2: I don't give your last name, Ray, I can't have
Speaker 2: all the ladies calling in.
Speaker 5: They don't get my last.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk to Sean Elliott in about a minute
Speaker 2: or so, two minutes, he's ready for us. It was
Speaker 2: cool to get to find out what's going on FC Tucson.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize the schedule was so quick.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like it sounds like a it's like
Speaker 3: a college program almost there, bringing these college kids in
Speaker 3: and pay a little pro soccer and give him a
Speaker 3: taste of professional athletics and then back to school.
Speaker 2: So that's great, right, Yeah, no, No, it's quick and
Speaker 2: in good weather. I mean good weather. If you're playing
Speaker 2: in one hundred and one not one hundred and ten. Well,
Speaker 2: because you know by the time they play at seven,
Speaker 2: it's a little better, but it's it's pret a brutal.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Were you here when it was one hundred thirteen last week?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, well i'm too. Last year was brutal, right,
Speaker 2: really brutal. I've been here thirty seven years, and I'm
Speaker 2: thinking either I'm getting old or wimpy or something, because
Speaker 2: I said, I don't know if I could take this.
Speaker 3: I was so mad. And I've lived here off and
Speaker 3: on like you for a long time, and I was
Speaker 3: so mad, and I just like it every years. Just
Speaker 3: it's I think I'm just getting old.
Speaker 2: It's just getting cranky. Yeah yeah, yea, yeah, I'm gun
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: I'm grumbling about it.
Speaker 2: This is not get off my us, Get up my rocks,
Speaker 2: Get up my rocks, get up my driveway, because it's too.
Speaker 3: Started looking to uh, you know, opportunities outside of this place.
Speaker 3: But no, two sons great. And I'm excited to talk
Speaker 3: to Sean. I know he's he's a he's a proud
Speaker 3: to son and and and I want to get his
Speaker 3: perspective on what he misses the most about Tucson and
Speaker 3: what he doesn't miss I'm sure it's one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifteen degrees.
Speaker 2: Yeah oh no, oh no busy.
Speaker 5: Yeah so you got busy.
Speaker 2: I can have them try to call us.
Speaker 3: Yeah oh yeah, so no that the f C. Two son.
Speaker 3: I you know, I work at TMC and we help
Speaker 3: those kids from time to time with some doctor's appointments
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. And it's you know, when you're
Speaker 3: in a room with them and they're just kids. They
Speaker 3: really are, but they're just they're such great athletes and
Speaker 3: they're on their way. It's it's fun to see them
Speaker 3: kind of wide eye. This is their first taste of
Speaker 3: being a professional athlete. I don't know how much they
Speaker 3: make a few bucks. I'm sure they get room board
Speaker 3: and yeah, yeah, so we help them from time to time,
Speaker 3: just keep I got.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So now that was interesting to hear his his recruiting price.
Speaker 3: He's like a collegiate coach. He coaches the women's and
Speaker 3: then he's got this to something right.
Speaker 6: Well, I thought it was really interesting because I just
Speaker 6: didn't know that he recruited that way.
Speaker 5: But getting a call, Hello.
Speaker 2: You're on the airline on the ball is just Sean,
Speaker 2: Sean Elliott, how are you all right?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: You know, we have Steve Kurr every now and again,
Speaker 2: And I said, Steve, if there's a guy, I want
Speaker 2: to be Steve Kerr. And then I realized he has
Speaker 2: to deal with a bunch of Prima Donna guys. So
Speaker 2: if I can't be Steve Kurt. I want to be
Speaker 2: Sean Elliott because you have a f acting job, your
Speaker 2: former NBA guy, and now you're on the radio. What
Speaker 2: do you do when you're not on the radio.
Speaker 19: Oh, well, today I just portrayed myself around the golf course.
Speaker 20: That wasn't too much fun. It was hot and my
Speaker 20: swing wasn't there, so it was not the best day.
Speaker 20: But you know, listen, I do have the best gig.
Speaker 20: I get to call seventy games a year.
Speaker 19: I do the seventy of the TV broadcasts, and I
Speaker 19: get to travel with the team.
Speaker 4: They still treat me really well.
Speaker 19: And you know, for a long time I saw really
Speaker 19: good basketball and it's getting back to that.
Speaker 4: So I'm excited for the future.
Speaker 2: Well, your future looks kind of bright up. You got
Speaker 2: a kid going over there to you. And let me
Speaker 2: say this, I'm not trying to blow smoke at all,
Speaker 2: but he's a kid that kind of reminds me of
Speaker 2: you in a sense that he's a heck of an athlete,
Speaker 2: can do a lot of different things, and he's a
Speaker 2: good kid. What you're getting is a good kid from
Speaker 2: a good family. So that kind of how reminds me
Speaker 2: of you. What did you see when they got a Carter?
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean he strikes me that way too. I
Speaker 19: don't think there's any doubt, you know. I like his athleticism.
Speaker 19: I love I love his athleticism. I like the way
Speaker 19: he shoots the ball. He's already got really good form
Speaker 19: on his shot. I would say that, you know, at
Speaker 19: the same age, he was a better shooter than I was.
Speaker 19: You know, when I look at why he shoots the
Speaker 19: ball with the range he's got, I mean, really nice
Speaker 19: looking shot, and he has really good quart awareness.
Speaker 4: You know, it makes a lot of really nice passes.
Speaker 19: And I you know, just watching a little bit of
Speaker 19: his clips, I see, you know, a kid who has
Speaker 19: a lot of good instincts. It's obviously that It's obvious
Speaker 19: to me that the coaching staff there did a great
Speaker 19: job with him. He moves well without the basketball, fighting
Speaker 19: spots on the floor, makes a lot of smart backcuts,
Speaker 19: gets himself in the paint pretty easily. But I think
Speaker 19: more than anything, Steves I really like his defensive instincts.
Speaker 19: Does a great job moving his feet and using that
Speaker 19: athleticism on the defensive in the floor, which is probably
Speaker 19: the hardest thing for coaches to get young players to
Speaker 19: do is to buy in on.
Speaker 4: That side of the floor.
Speaker 19: And it seems to me that he relishes playing defense,
Speaker 19: getting big blocks, getting deflections, steals, trying to generate offense
Speaker 19: with his defense, and that's something that is really hard,
Speaker 19: really difficult to teach.
Speaker 2: Did you were you at the press conference there on
Speaker 2: Thursday with him?
Speaker 4: I'll be there tomorrow though, Okay, So I'll be there
Speaker 4: at MC.
Speaker 19: Both the rookies like an intro at the practice facility,
Speaker 19: so I will get a chance to meet him and
Speaker 19: Dylan Harper tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Hey, Sean, this is Tim Bentley. You and I grew
Speaker 3: up in Tucson around the same time. I'm from Sabino
Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty five. I think your choice at nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty five. So yeah, welcome.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 3: I'm curious, you know you you obviously played in the league.
Speaker 3: I'm curious. You know, you look at Carter Bryant and
Speaker 3: you see a ton of kids come in every year.
Speaker 3: Where do kids like Carter stumble? You know, they he's
Speaker 3: got a good game, he's ready to play at the
Speaker 3: next level. But where do those kids stumbling? Why do
Speaker 3: they not succeed? And how do they watch out? What
Speaker 3: what what is their stumble, what is their their sticking point.
Speaker 19: I think the biggest thing, tim is that they underestimate
Speaker 19: how difficult it is. That's the biggest thing. You know,
Speaker 19: it looks easy on television, and I've said it before,
Speaker 19: everybody sees the plays, but they don't see the rehearsals.
Speaker 4: They don't see the practices.
Speaker 19: They don't see the long plane rides, they don't see
Speaker 19: the travel schedule. They don't see how difficult it is
Speaker 19: and the wear and tear in your body, and they
Speaker 19: don't see the off court obstacles that come with not
Speaker 19: having the coaches there, mentors there to to be there
Speaker 19: for you and tell you what to do and what
Speaker 19: not to do.
Speaker 4: You're on your own.
Speaker 19: You've got a pocket full of money. A lot of
Speaker 19: people lined up to try to take it away from
Speaker 19: you or get you in the table.
Speaker 4: So you've got to look out for that.
Speaker 19: And that's the biggest that I think, that's probably the
Speaker 19: biggest thing.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's it's uh. You know, when you're
Speaker 4: that age, you know people tell you got to get
Speaker 4: your rest, you got to eat right, but.
Speaker 19: You feel like when you're eighteen nineteen years old, we've
Speaker 19: all been there. We feel like we're invincible, and so
Speaker 19: you've got to park that right away, and you've got
Speaker 19: to start taking care of yourself, preparing your body every
Speaker 19: single day, because it is a grind.
Speaker 4: It is it is a grind.
Speaker 19: It's hard for me now as in an ountor I'm
Speaker 19: beat at the end of the year every year and
Speaker 19: so sometimes I mean not sometimes, as lots of times
Speaker 19: pretty much every year where I you know, we talk
Speaker 19: to the guys in the crew and I say, I
Speaker 19: don't know how I did this. I have no idea
Speaker 19: how I played games. You know, got on planes, got
Speaker 19: in places at two in the morning, got up and
Speaker 19: played again the next day. And so you know, a
Speaker 19: lot of these young kids really have to be in
Speaker 19: the best shape of the life. You have to have
Speaker 19: the right mindset because it's a lot more difficult than
Speaker 19: it's presented to the everyday fan and even players out
Speaker 19: there that think it's a little bit easier.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're talking about going.
Speaker 19: To a college game of where you're playing forty minutes,
Speaker 19: and you're playing thirty to thirty five games a year
Speaker 19: or two of an NBA game that's bigger, stronger, faster. Yeah,
Speaker 19: forty eight minutes and you're playing eighty two games.
Speaker 4: Now you're playing four or five days.
Speaker 19: A week sometimes, and so that whole thing starts to
Speaker 19: wear on you big time, and you just there's no
Speaker 19: way to really prepare for it unless you really go
Speaker 19: through it.
Speaker 2: It's funny you talk about the plays and the rehearsals.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of Loot's time with you guys. Invariably
Speaker 2: back in the day when I covered you guys, they'd say, you,
Speaker 2: of a guys, were very prepared for what the league
Speaker 2: was going to show them because Luke prepared you for that,
Speaker 2: not just not just the game, but just how to
Speaker 2: deal with the whole situation.
Speaker 19: True, Oh, no, no question. I mean, goodness, Steve. I mean,
Speaker 19: Loop practiced us so hard. Our practices were tough. Yeah,
Speaker 19: our practices were hard, and we practiced days in between games.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 19: Now it's a lot different. You know, you have a
Speaker 19: lot of teams that don't really practice. I mean, I
Speaker 19: think Steph Cassel said today I saw them somewhere online
Speaker 19: where he said they had eight practices last year. You know,
Speaker 19: because the coaches are so concerned about not even the coaches,
Speaker 19: I'd say, the sports scientists are so concerned about load
Speaker 19: managing players and keeping their legs fresh and healthy and
Speaker 19: that kind of thing.
Speaker 4: Not when we're with coach. Oh, we practiced hard every day.
Speaker 19: We taped sometimes lots of times for shoot around and
Speaker 19: so we you know, we taped our ankles, and so
Speaker 19: that means when you're taping your ankles, that means you're
Speaker 19: getting after it. It's not a simple walkthrough, right, and
Speaker 19: so well, you know, we have those kind of rough
Speaker 19: and rigorous practices all the time. Days off of us
Speaker 19: were extremely, extremely rare, and so that you know, you're
Speaker 19: that kind of preparation. Your body is prepared to go
Speaker 19: through a long haul, and mentally you're prepared.
Speaker 2: Right at the time you guys are playing, Oh god no.
Speaker 2: But now as you get older, you're thinking, what a
Speaker 2: great preparation. Because in the books that we that I've
Speaker 2: written and you've helped with, after a loss, you know
Speaker 2: when he comes out and is in his suit and
Speaker 2: he has this little white paper and he says, God,
Speaker 2: what's going to be on that paper?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 19: Oh yeah, he I mean, we hated losing because we
Speaker 19: first off, we hated losing as a group, but then
Speaker 19: we hated the repercussions. You know, when coach came to practice,
Speaker 19: starts breaking everything down, and coach hated losing like we did.
Speaker 19: And boy, he would not be happy if we didn't
Speaker 19: perform well, didn't follow the game plan and we you know,
Speaker 19: they'd be held to pay in practice the next couple
Speaker 19: of days.
Speaker 4: And so he coach was tough like that. But I
Speaker 4: think it hardened.
Speaker 7: All of us.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, hey, Sean, take us back to nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 3: that run that you know, talk about the energy. You know,
Speaker 3: you're kind of on the cusp of you a being great,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't quite there yet. You know, like, well,
Speaker 3: we can look back on it now and say, man,
Speaker 3: it happened, But what was it like and living in
Speaker 3: the moment, you know, coming from Tucson in the UVE,
Speaker 3: what was it like?
Speaker 19: Oh, I mean, it was just you know, it was
Speaker 19: really like a dream come true, just to be able
Speaker 19: to put our program on the map and to really
Speaker 19: show people what we could do and what we were
Speaker 19: capable of. I think that when you talk about a
Speaker 19: run in eighty eight. I remember later on Billy Packer
Speaker 19: said we had the best November and December in the
Speaker 19: history of college basketball. We were unranked at the start
Speaker 19: of the season and then beat everybody on the way
Speaker 19: to number one, and that was you know.
Speaker 4: We believed in ourselves.
Speaker 19: In ourselves, we knew that we were capable, but it
Speaker 19: was nice to back it up with our play on
Speaker 19: the court because we put in so much work in
Speaker 19: the off season, in the preseason getting ourselves into shape.
Speaker 19: Our practices, like I've talked about, were rigorous and tough,
Speaker 19: and you know, also know, we also felt that we
Speaker 19: were being coached the right way because coach paid attention
Speaker 19: to detail.
Speaker 4: He really did a great job.
Speaker 19: Developing us as players, getting us on the right page,
Speaker 19: and teaching us how to play the game the correct way.
Speaker 19: And it was just fun to see all that come
Speaker 19: to fruition.
Speaker 2: So I thought, a bunch of the X guys on
Speaker 2: and how you thought, how you thought would think that
Speaker 2: Loot would handle the NI l now, given your given
Speaker 2: your McDonald's story, given your McDonald's story, you know.
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, you know, he'd be like all these other
Speaker 19: guys like Jim Calhoun to just say I'll screw it,
Speaker 19: I'm out of here. You know, I don't I don't
Speaker 19: know how coach he would have been able to manage that.
Speaker 19: That would have been something that would have just given
Speaker 19: given him so much angst and so much stress. Uh
Speaker 19: you know, because again, I mean, coach did it the
Speaker 19: right way. He really did it the right way. And
Speaker 19: and the fact that now you have a lot of
Speaker 19: players that you know, I can't regard to the players
Speaker 19: from making a lot of money. I mean, if it's
Speaker 19: there for you, absolutely, but I think it detracts from uh,
Speaker 19: you know, kind of the spirit of college basketball. And
Speaker 19: and it kind of pains me to say that because
Speaker 19: it's you know, you go there, you go to your
Speaker 19: school to play for the name on the front of
Speaker 19: the jersey. That's that's what you go there for. And
Speaker 19: you go there to get an education. Uh you know,
Speaker 19: now it's where guys are obviously you guys know you know,
Speaker 19: if you transfer in to make more money, you're looking
Speaker 19: for big paydays at different schools. And and that, I
Speaker 19: mean would be extremely difficult to just maintain for coach.
Speaker 4: I mean, how do you build a program nowadays.
Speaker 19: I can't even imagine how tough it is for coaches
Speaker 19: that you get young players.
Speaker 4: That you you keep.
Speaker 19: Your eye on and you recruit and then you get
Speaker 19: them into your program, you develop them only to have
Speaker 19: them leave for a bigger payday somewhere else. I mean,
Speaker 19: how do you build conces and see, how do you
Speaker 19: build a program under these circumstances to be extremely difficult?
Speaker 2: No question. We got about a minute. Could you go
Speaker 2: back and give us that McDonald's story real quick.
Speaker 19: Yeah, that was a story where I got pulled out
Speaker 19: of class and coach needed me to go with him
Speaker 19: to the Rotary club and speak.
Speaker 4: And so I go with Coach O to the Rotary Club.
Speaker 19: We do our thing, and on the way back we
Speaker 19: got practice in like an hour, Coach looks at me.
Speaker 19: He's driving the cars, just me and Coach, and he says,
Speaker 19: have you eaten anything?
Speaker 4: And I said, no, Coach, I'm starving, you know. So
Speaker 4: Coach pulls out of twenty and.
Speaker 19: He's got a water cash in his wallet and I'm thinking, hey,
Speaker 19: I'm gonna buy myself a big Mac and some fries
Speaker 19: and I'm gonna pocket the rest because I can make
Speaker 19: that twenty dollars last week at that time. And Coach
Speaker 19: hands me the twenty and he says, give me my receipt,
Speaker 19: and my change I was stun I was like Coach
Speaker 19: like you could give me all the money in your
Speaker 19: wallet right now and I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Say word with that. I don't have anything, and Coach
Speaker 4: Will sitting there.
Speaker 19: I mean I should have gone and bought nineteen dollars
Speaker 19: and worth of food online.
Speaker 3: N C double A wants to talk to here right now.
Speaker 2: They just called. Yeah, yeah, limitations. This guy, Sean has
Speaker 2: always loved talking to you. Man. Be well, take care
Speaker 2: of your day, Sean, the new Arizona guy.
Speaker 3: Take care of him honor.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, guy, Thank you, Thank you. Sean Elliott
Speaker 2: appreciate him very much.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 2: We gotta go. We're up against it. Yeah, okay, thanks Ray,
Speaker 2: Thanks good for having me. Thanks Sean. Appreciate it, everybody,