Speaker 1: Remy Live on the Ihearts Radio WIB. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Man, the next time I come into your show on
Speaker 2: that announcement, I want to hear Steve Rivera and Lemon Huntley.
Speaker 3: Can I get it?
Speaker 4: This might be your last. That takes a lot of work.
Speaker 4: I don't even know when you're coming in outside. No, man,
Speaker 4: you didn't give me no proper time.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm giving you enough time to make that announcement.
Speaker 4: Could you put the special announcement? That's right, trumpets and everything,
Speaker 4: red carpet, that's right. Now. We have breaking news from
Speaker 4: Kobe Baby.
Speaker 5: No breaking news sound today, I guess, okay, okay, breaking news.
Speaker 5: Arizona Softball named unanimous top ten as they head into
Speaker 5: its first Big twelve series this weekend.
Speaker 3: Have you gone to see him yet? No, I haven't
Speaker 3: seen it.
Speaker 2: They're pretty good. Yeah, I may read and I see
Speaker 2: that very good. Yeah, which is great for her.
Speaker 5: Yes, beautiful Caleb Love named finalists for Jerry West Shooting Guard.
Speaker 4: Of the Year. Yeah, surprising to me. Shooting but not
Speaker 4: making guard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been up and down and again shooting guy,
Speaker 3: shooting guy.
Speaker 5: Okay, The Eagles are rewarding Saquon barkley first historic season
Speaker 5: with a two year, forty one point two million dollar
Speaker 5: contract ascension that makes him the highest paid running back
Speaker 5: in NFL history.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you.
Speaker 2: You don't have to tell me this because it's personal.
Speaker 2: What was your contract like? Like, not even a fraction,
Speaker 2: not even close to it. It was a point just
Speaker 2: cause you imagine this is forty years later.
Speaker 3: No, not even No, I can't imagine the type of money.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's guaranteed. Oh yeah, his money is. I
Speaker 3: think most of it is guaranteed. Yeah, no, I think
Speaker 3: all of his money is. Garrett.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there was no guaranteed money when I
Speaker 2: was playing, no at all for anybody, nobody. John Alway
Speaker 2: got the first guaranteed contract, Noel first year of his contract.
Speaker 5: He was the first player. Yeah, it's thirty six million guaranteed.
Speaker 5: So yeah, guarantee jets released.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Let me say something about that kid.
Speaker 2: What do you guys think about the fact that he
Speaker 2: did not try to win the the.
Speaker 4: Oh it's not that he didn't, they didn't allow him to.
Speaker 3: Well, you have a say in this.
Speaker 4: As a player.
Speaker 3: I don't think he did. Why not?
Speaker 4: I don't know he just I don't think they did.
Speaker 4: You're not the boss of your.
Speaker 2: Gonna you have the right to say you're gonna play,
Speaker 2: you're gonna play.
Speaker 4: No, No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: So the boss say I'm gonna sit you down. Yes,
Speaker 3: say no boss, I'm sure this record?
Speaker 4: Why when?
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't the team want the record? Didn't want to
Speaker 3: get him hurt? The kid was not gonna get hurt.
Speaker 3: He can get How do you know that? How do
Speaker 3: you not know?
Speaker 4: You must be difficult to live with the kid with
Speaker 4: the phone.
Speaker 3: But that's what I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 4: The reason.
Speaker 3: He had to have a no Google, we're gonna google.
Speaker 2: He had to have a say in regards to playing
Speaker 2: or not playing.
Speaker 4: No, if your employer says you can't go, you're not
Speaker 4: gonna go.
Speaker 3: So he had he had to have a say in it.
Speaker 4: First of all, I don't think he said, okay, I'll
Speaker 4: abide by that. That's what I was to say. No,
Speaker 4: I can't believe. I'm sure I would bet you a
Speaker 4: training session. I think Eric Dickerson guy in that kid. No, No, no, no,
Speaker 4: god No.
Speaker 2: I think Eric Dixison stopped that kid from getting I'm
Speaker 2: taking his record.
Speaker 4: No, I don't. I don't think so we'll google the rank.
Speaker 4: Google tell you everything.
Speaker 5: The New York Jets released wide receiver Dawnta Adams. The
Speaker 5: Jets will save twenty nine point nine million in salary
Speaker 5: cap space. He had no guaranteed money remaining on his contract.
Speaker 4: Well that was they got him for for the quarterback, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Do you have asked you this? Because I talked to
Speaker 4: you so often Aaron Rodgers? Have you did you play
Speaker 4: for with a guy like that? In terms of ego?
Speaker 4: I'm sure, Hell you.
Speaker 2: Guys, but I didn't have an ego, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, just like, just play the damn can't.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that that hasn't changed.
Speaker 2: I mean that's still players just like Aaron Rodgers, that
Speaker 2: that thought that you know, he was special and.
Speaker 3: Management treated him that way.
Speaker 2: So when management treats you away, he expects everybody else
Speaker 2: to treat you that way.
Speaker 4: You know, isn't that the first rule of bad chemistry
Speaker 4: and karma and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: To me, it is as far as bad you know,
Speaker 2: sportsmanships for you know, as far as you know, as
Speaker 2: far as putting the team together that's team together, and
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want good management.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want him on my team. I wouldn't either.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't want to be a I wouldn't
Speaker 2: want to be on a team.
Speaker 3: With him, right right? You know I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think he was good for the team at all.
Speaker 2: Do you still think he has a future? Oh, someone's
Speaker 2: gonna get him opportunity. He'll get and and and and
Speaker 2: Dante probably will be playing right beside him, true, because
Speaker 2: of a package package. Do I think he's gonna be
Speaker 2: probably end up being with the Raiders? Oh, which could
Speaker 2: happen because owns the part of the team too. He's
Speaker 2: kind of calling the shots to Yeah, he tried to
Speaker 2: get Stafford there, it looks yeah, didn't didn't work out
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 4: Are you a fan? Are you a NFL fan?
Speaker 2: Or you just I just watched it because every now
Speaker 2: because somebody I know? Or why aren't you a fan
Speaker 2: of the gang? Yeah, because I wasn't an employee. Once
Speaker 2: you worked a gang, or you work for someone, you'll
Speaker 2: become a fan. So you So when I say that, no, no, perfect.
Speaker 2: When I when people say am I a fan sports fan?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I go to the games. I know what job. It's
Speaker 3: my job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I respect that. Yeah, and I know that there's
Speaker 2: more to the story. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: It does? I mean it really does.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you knew stuff that what really Yeah,
Speaker 2: behind the scenes, that really didn't happen that way.
Speaker 3: But you see it that way. Enjoy it, right, but
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 4: No, No, that's that's exactly why exactly.
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense. I respect that.
Speaker 5: Okay, Dallas Mavericks all star Carrier Irving suffered a season
Speaker 5: ending toward a c l was left knee.
Speaker 3: That yeah, that's too bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that team that the franchise has gone to crap
Speaker 4: and last month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why would why did Cuban trade?
Speaker 4: Cuban's not the guy.
Speaker 2: And why did he sell the team his percentage of
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 3: You know what his reasoning was.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what the reasoning was. Yeah, but he
Speaker 2: got out at the right time. Uh yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 2: he and he has no say in the day to
Speaker 2: day operation. He's a minority now and it's a female right. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 2: although the guys are calling the shots. That's why, that's
Speaker 2: why they got rid of Luke. You know, Luca, he
Speaker 2: was too heavy, not working out.
Speaker 4: The dude, if you scored thirty points in your three pounds,
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 3: Let him play. That's something he's doing well in l
Speaker 3: A right now.
Speaker 2: And actually I wasn't a fan of that because I
Speaker 2: was like, well, shoot, I mean him and Lebron.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean no, no, you know, I was just
Speaker 3: going to work out. But it's working out nicely.
Speaker 4: Another number two in the in the league, in the.
Speaker 3: That's right in the West.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I saw that the Angles franchise tag wide receiver T
Speaker 5: Higgins for second year in a row.
Speaker 3: You played for Colts in Minneapolis. Rick got drafted by
Speaker 3: the Beingals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3: I never never showed up and played in Denver. Never
Speaker 3: showed up.
Speaker 4: You just played for the Colts. Just well.
Speaker 3: Had a weekend in Miami after your how many years?
Speaker 3: Four years? Four years? And then you went to Miami. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Did you have fun in Miami though? No, I hated it.
Speaker 6: Really.
Speaker 3: It was a beach in the ghetto. Oh I Steven, Okay,
Speaker 3: that's it. I mean, that's all I remember. When I
Speaker 3: first got there, I was in a hotel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I go to the I'm driving over to
Speaker 2: the to the facility and I go underneath the underpath, yeah,
Speaker 2: on the highway, and I see lion.
Speaker 3: Outlines of bodies just got killed that night. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: Oh really, this is like nineteen eighty. It was like
Speaker 2: nineteen right at eighty nine ninety, I said, no, this
Speaker 2: is not me. Yeah they did.
Speaker 5: Sam Darnold said to be free agent as he did
Speaker 5: not get franchise tagged by the Vikings.
Speaker 3: Wow, that can be a raider. He can be.
Speaker 2: There's so many needed quarterbacks. And he's so young too,
Speaker 2: that's the thing. Yeah, I mean he did a great job.
Speaker 2: He got a lot of upside. He's still a young player,
Speaker 2: and I think that the ceiling is bigger for him
Speaker 2: than the other guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's It's for today's breaking news.
Speaker 3: Is nothing for you, bay, I haven't really seen just
Speaker 3: tonight's game. Everyone's going to play tonight?
Speaker 4: Yeah, night.
Speaker 3: Over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you've seen you've seen something the two from
Speaker 2: last year, right, white Man and and love from last
Speaker 2: year party until you can't you know, until you get
Speaker 2: it right. Uh So I guess, I guess. So he
Speaker 2: got to do a stand up and say ditto from
Speaker 2: last year, the same things you wanted. They gonna bring
Speaker 2: the same jersey from last year. So he's gonna have
Speaker 2: two jersey.
Speaker 3: What a deal?
Speaker 4: Well, come on, some of the kids are playing for
Speaker 4: seven years.
Speaker 3: Eight years, you know, I know that's crazy. What'd you
Speaker 3: get your degree in business? Business?
Speaker 2: And I had no idea I was going to be
Speaker 2: in it though. Oh I was gonna say, you no idea.
Speaker 2: But what happened, well, I didn't At that time. The
Speaker 2: business school was the schools to be in. You know,
Speaker 2: they directed you to.
Speaker 4: Those, so okay, so then you got your degree, you
Speaker 4: went to the NFL, played your four years. Uh, and
Speaker 4: then I stumbled. I stumbled into my business.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's basically the gentleman who started Arizona how forty
Speaker 2: one years ago?
Speaker 3: Gosh, what his name is?
Speaker 2: Scott Tongeah, he's no longer with us, but he started
Speaker 2: the business. And he actually was my trainer and Ricky's trainer.
Speaker 2: He used to he was our trainer, and you know,
Speaker 2: and then I got back in town trying to figure
Speaker 2: out what I'm doing my life. I got my real
Speaker 2: estate license, I got my insurance license. You know, I
Speaker 2: was going to go and become a teacher or coach,
Speaker 2: football and things like that. And then I called on
Speaker 2: him and sold him some of his and then he said, well,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm trying to expand the business and stuff,
Speaker 2: you know, thirty two years from since then, that's what
Speaker 2: I've been doing.
Speaker 4: Well, well, then, you did you have the business acumen
Speaker 4: to do it or he kind of helped you into it?
Speaker 2: Well? On the on the again, the book side of it,
Speaker 2: I learned that from him, I did. I mean, as
Speaker 2: far as the book side of the business, how to
Speaker 2: run the business properly or that that was learned through him.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, one of the things that we talked ahead.
Speaker 2: But as far as the you know, out front, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just the person out.
Speaker 4: Well, that's where I wanted to go with it, and
Speaker 4: we talked about this before the show started. We live
Speaker 4: in a people person world, right. A lot of people
Speaker 4: aren't people personally agree and and a lot of the
Speaker 4: people who succeed at are people personally here. Why are you?
Speaker 4: What can I do for you? Good?
Speaker 3: To see you?
Speaker 4: YadA YadA? There's not enough of that. There's not enough
Speaker 4: of that in my in my world, in my view, Okay,
Speaker 4: you do it, oh man, I mean it, And you
Speaker 4: have to do it.
Speaker 2: I have to do it because you know, I want
Speaker 2: people to you know, I'm gonna be a part of
Speaker 2: what we do as a living there.
Speaker 3: Would you agree with me or no? I totally agree
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 2: And I think people, you know, people make things happen.
Speaker 2: You know, people is the difference in everything we do,
Speaker 2: you know, and I enjoy you know, going in a
Speaker 2: situation or sitting or or or Michael, you know, you
Speaker 2: go into a basketball game and people recognize you for
Speaker 2: what you do today, you know, I know, I know
Speaker 2: a lot of people recognize me for what I did
Speaker 2: forty plus years ago, or that it's the same people.
Speaker 2: But it's the same people it is in that case.
Speaker 2: But the fact is they recognize me for what I
Speaker 2: do today, and that's very.
Speaker 3: Special because they've dealt with you the.
Speaker 2: Business exactly, and they see me on the commercials, they
Speaker 2: see TV and things like that, and they think they
Speaker 2: know you on that aspect.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna be a butt heead you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be that that saying, you know, joyful, loving
Speaker 2: guy and and hopefully that turns into the fact that
Speaker 2: you have a need for me and come to my store.
Speaker 4: Sure, sure, or you can tell somebody and say, you know,
Speaker 4: he's a great he's a great guy.
Speaker 3: And we are, I mean, we're great people. We do
Speaker 3: the right things. But I don't think there's enough of that.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: I take pride on that. I mean, I take pride
Speaker 2: on on doing the right thing for people. And then
Speaker 2: you know, and I mean you you, you know, it
Speaker 2: doesn't cost much to smile. You have a smile on
Speaker 2: your face, constantly, have a smile on your face. The
Speaker 2: right thing and kindness to others the rent we pay
Speaker 2: for being on this earth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I wish it was nice with me that
Speaker 3: you are talking about it. Whatever.
Speaker 2: You just gotta learn to call me at the right time,
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Ravera on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Subscribe now to the.
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Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 4: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, your Lamont and your Kobe.
Speaker 4: We were talking too much and we forget the call.
Speaker 2: Hode, I have them calls, so go ahead and tom Oh,
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk amongst that.
Speaker 3: Solah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he just tested me. Why not?
Speaker 3: So tell me?
Speaker 2: Hey, tell me about the Jets. How did you come
Speaker 2: we're such a Jets fan. Are you from that area?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm from Long Island. My dad was a Jets fan. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's been rough. I mean, longest playoff yard in sports.
Speaker 5: But Long Island is in New York. The Jets are
Speaker 5: that's playing Jersey.
Speaker 2: That's why I can't understand why you got people from
Speaker 2: New York Jersey fans. I could never understand. My wife,
Speaker 2: she's a she's that way, and I can't understand. And
Speaker 2: the only team that plays in New York is Buffalo
Speaker 2: the Bills. That's true, because everybody plays in New Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's true. You're just looking for some success. Yeah, well
Speaker 2: Buffalo don't have my success when it comes to Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so keep an eye on that. He just just.
Speaker 4: Wait, it's raining busy, it's ringing busy.
Speaker 3: We're gonna call him then.
Speaker 4: I think that's something must be wrong with our phones now, Yeah,
Speaker 4: because what's is Steve didn't pay the bills again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Steve, Steve Stavero even got the Beata bill a Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we got in trouble with the last week.
Speaker 4: Fridday, we were totally off there for an hour because
Speaker 4: the Micxican work it's headquarters somewhere messed up somewhere, so, you.
Speaker 2: Know, and someone who's driving your van down here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he took two spots by the way.
Speaker 4: Oh, let's say, I don't know, I don't know what
Speaker 4: I just I just I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I mean it's like, you know, you
Speaker 2: got people coming into your studio here.
Speaker 4: Oh is this year?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh thanks? We were just gibber jabbering, so we got
Speaker 4: to call hot God, are you on your way down here? What?
Speaker 7: Uh? No, I'm actually actually not able to make it.
Speaker 7: I am going to have a staff member there, but
Speaker 7: I'm I'm fortunately not able to make it.
Speaker 4: You're not here for the last Bobby Hurdy game here ever.
Speaker 7: Wow, So it's a game here on Saturday, you know,
Speaker 7: at all, last game of DFA.
Speaker 2: I'll be there down here. So what do you think
Speaker 2: about that? What do you think about Bobby in the future.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I just really can't see any scenario
Speaker 7: that he does stay unless a SU feels very very
Speaker 7: cash strapped that they're not able to, you know, pay
Speaker 7: the three and a half mil more or less to
Speaker 7: buy him out. I mean, you have like the outside
Speaker 7: possibility that you know, all the freshmen decides that, you know,
Speaker 7: they're they're going to stay, Bobby stays, But to me,
Speaker 7: that really really seems far fetched. You know, they're supposed
Speaker 7: to have this documentary, They're supposed to generate the NIL
Speaker 7: for those players, and that never happened. They're still able
Speaker 7: to pay him what they said they're going to pay
Speaker 7: for them, but you know, I just don't see you know,
Speaker 7: a SU going into that, you know adventure once again.
Speaker 7: You know, it's not knowing that they have the NL stream.
Speaker 7: So it's it's it's really really tough. And I think
Speaker 7: Grabbersony knows that the spotlights on him. This is going
Speaker 7: to be his first real decision, important decision as a
Speaker 7: as athletic director, and I think you know, a decision
Speaker 7: to retain Bobby at this point is not really going
Speaker 7: to bode well, you know, for him either.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you talked about the new ad U, the cut
Speaker 4: lighting and lightning in the bottle for football. No, I'm
Speaker 4: sure they thinking they can do the same thing in
Speaker 4: basketball in other areas because it's possible.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, football right now is is
Speaker 7: really on cruise control, you know, and folks, uh, you know,
Speaker 7: if they're looking at football, it's definitely not with a
Speaker 7: critical eye or anything like that. They're just really pleased
Speaker 7: of all the growth that they're able to see from
Speaker 7: that program.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 7: You know, Baseball is uh, you know, as far as
Speaker 7: another major sport, is this really TVD It's been a
Speaker 7: very mediocre uh season to date. You know, you probably
Speaker 7: throw a hockey in there as a major sport, and
Speaker 7: hockey is doing great obviously in his first year at
Speaker 7: the toughest conference in a in all of college hockey.
Speaker 7: So all eyes on basketball right now as the major
Speaker 7: sport that people are paying attention to. People want to
Speaker 7: see it, you know, rise to the level of football
Speaker 7: and maybe that's asking the impossible, but at least be
Speaker 7: more relevant and have more much more success than it
Speaker 7: had this year.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, let's.
Speaker 7: Face it, this is the most balancing team that Bobby
Speaker 7: Hurley assembled. So to see this team not only not
Speaker 7: qualify for the Innsulay Tournament but also finished the regular
Speaker 7: season with a losing record, that's something that really doesn't
Speaker 7: sit well with the fan base and with the boosters.
Speaker 4: I think you would have thought he's ten years right,
Speaker 4: this is ten years yeah, yeah, so you would have thought,
Speaker 4: you know, given the name and he did well at Buffalo,
Speaker 4: that this guy who knows basketball apparently and played it
Speaker 4: very very well would have had some marginal success at
Speaker 4: a issue and it just didn't happen. There has to
Speaker 4: be some I'm asking you, did you partly know? There
Speaker 4: has to be a reason or two or three because
Speaker 4: for it not happening.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, Bobby Hurley's tenure at ASCO
Speaker 7: is not a total failure, and I know maybe some
Speaker 7: of his critics would probably point to that, but look,
Speaker 7: I mean there's definitely been some pretty pretty impressive moments,
Speaker 7: pretty impressive seasons all throughout his tenure. I think that
Speaker 7: you know, by and large, Bobby Hurley has not really
Speaker 7: surrounded himself, surrounded himself, I'm sorry, with a group of
Speaker 7: good competent assistants and a lot of assistants that he
Speaker 7: has hired, not only this past season, but really throughout
Speaker 7: his ten uere were really just you know, good recruiters
Speaker 7: and maybe sometimes even't didn't deliver all that well in
Speaker 7: that department. But as far as really good x's and
Speaker 7: O x as and o's guys, he really did not
Speaker 7: attract those kinds of assistant coaches all throughout the years.
Speaker 7: And you know, I think that there were many years
Speaker 7: that you need an assistant coach over there that to
Speaker 7: be an offensive or defensive coordinator for that matter, somebody
Speaker 7: that could really, you know, stand up to Bobby and
Speaker 7: say no if he felt that a decision or philosophy
Speaker 7: wasn't really you know, going the way it should go.
Speaker 7: I mean, Bobby really, you know, had those assistants here
Speaker 7: and there, but it's very, very few and far between.
Speaker 4: And I just.
Speaker 7: Think that especially this year when he had so much
Speaker 7: talent and look, i mean, injuries have definitely plagued this
Speaker 7: this team, there's no doubt about that. But you know,
Speaker 7: you take a player Likensanan, which I'm sure is going
Speaker 7: to get quite the welcome in Tucson later on tonight,
Speaker 7: but you know, he's a player that hit that that
Speaker 7: that freshman wall really early in Big twelve play and
Speaker 7: again and you have also the objective element there of
Speaker 7: a of an ankle injury in the Big twelve opener.
Speaker 7: But to have a really competent assistant coach that can
Speaker 7: develop him from the x's and o's perspective, to really
Speaker 7: help him as a very young player just overcome the
Speaker 7: fact that he has become a focal point of a
Speaker 7: scouting report that he cannot really deal with the defenses
Speaker 7: that that the teams are throwing at him. If as
Speaker 7: who has such an assistant coach on the bench right now,
Speaker 7: you know, we're definitely seeing a different so none I
Speaker 7: think and definitely saying maybe a different ASU team because
Speaker 7: we saw how well the Sun Devil team wasn't was
Speaker 7: a non conference play on nine and two some impressive
Speaker 7: wins against multiple teams that are going to hear their
Speaker 7: name on on selection Sunday, and Sonan was absolutely phenomenal
Speaker 7: during the during the non conference season, but once Big
Speaker 7: Twelve plays started. He really was an absolute, you know,
Speaker 7: shell of himself, and that's where the absence of a
Speaker 7: development de a mental assistant coach really really hindered the
Speaker 7: sun evels.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me ask you, do you think there'll be
Speaker 4: any hangovers not the right word, but a residual effect
Speaker 4: from the last time they played tonight?
Speaker 7: Look, I mean I think the fans and tooth and are.
Speaker 4: Always into it.
Speaker 7: When when when a su comes to town, and are
Speaker 7: they going to be a little more amped up than usual?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Sure, I think that the defice that that is going
Speaker 7: to be there. Uh, you know, because Bobby Hurley is
Speaker 7: squarely on the hot seat. I think that also, uh,
Speaker 7: does charge up the atmosphere that much more. I talked
Speaker 7: a second about Sonnan obviously a former you have a
Speaker 7: commit that they decide to make the trip up north
Speaker 7: on the I ten. Uh, that's another element, uh that
Speaker 7: to consideracy. I think there's definitely a lot of aspects
Speaker 7: in play that may make the atmosphere there and Michel
Speaker 7: center a little more charged up than he than he
Speaker 7: usually is for these acu of a games about you.
Speaker 4: You're right behind the you're right in the middle. Right,
Speaker 4: you've been to these games a thousand times. You're I'm
Speaker 4: sure you're not giving him grief, but you've seen.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well to is going to be crazy. I mean,
Speaker 3: I mean, they're they're going to be after him tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm four, I'm five rows right behind the visitor team,
Speaker 2: and there's a couple of regulars that's there that constantly
Speaker 2: goes after the coach. And there's a couple of that
Speaker 2: in the past, constantly goes after Bobby, and and and
Speaker 2: and and and Bobby does he feeds into it. I mean,
Speaker 2: he has a way of feeding into it just as well.
Speaker 2: But you know, this game might be a little different
Speaker 2: because you know, obviously it may be his last game.
Speaker 2: So I'm not sure what kind of reaction he's going
Speaker 2: to really show.
Speaker 4: To this old Let me ask you to I think
Speaker 4: what this is about up I think maybe even in
Speaker 4: Phoenix media and I'm not sure who asked it, but
Speaker 4: it was it was. It was profound. I thought, Uh,
Speaker 4: he's animated, he enjoyed. I don't know if he enjoys it,
Speaker 4: but he's animated. He gets in the refs, does a
Speaker 4: lot of antics and blah blah blah. Do you think
Speaker 4: that carries over to the kids that play for him. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, I say, think the fact that Bobby Hurley
Speaker 7: is a very, very emotional coach, and you know that's
Speaker 7: not exactly breaking news for anybody. Let's follow Bobby Hurley
Speaker 7: not only in the games against U of A, but
Speaker 7: really just in any game as play. I do I
Speaker 7: do think players do take after the personality of their coach.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: There was a string of games.
Speaker 7: I think it was maybe four home games in a
Speaker 7: row where a player got ejected by an ASU player
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, got ejected and obviously one of them happened
Speaker 7: against against U of AD Adam Miller. You know, you know,
Speaker 7: but but but at the head of of of a
Speaker 7: U of A player, and Adam Miller, by the way,
Speaker 7: is questionable, uh for tonight. So if he does play,
Speaker 7: you can just add that to a long list of
Speaker 7: an extra charge up atmosphere at Mcheal Center.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: But but yeah, but I think that, you know, as
Speaker 7: much as you want to see a coach fight for
Speaker 7: you as a player and really getting get into it,
Speaker 7: the rest and everything, I do, I do feel that
Speaker 7: that is that thin line that does cross that it
Speaker 7: does get cross, and sometimes there is more harm than
Speaker 7: good that that's being done. And when your coach is
Speaker 7: frustrated and been sure he can't blame him. I mean,
Speaker 7: everything that could have gone wrong in this season, at
Speaker 7: least from when Big twelve plays started did go wrong.
Speaker 7: I think it does bleed over to the players. So yeah,
Speaker 7: I definitely think that. I definitely think it's a correlation
Speaker 7: over there. I mean, you have a player like Anna Miller,
Speaker 7: who I do feel is a true leader of this
Speaker 7: team and definitely not a hot head by any means.
Speaker 7: I mean every time I post a uh a post
Speaker 7: game video interview with him, I mean even fans of
Speaker 7: other teams are just floored by how well spoken he
Speaker 7: is and how class he is. And this is the
Speaker 7: player that already got ejected now once but twice this season.
Speaker 7: And I just feel that if the Waters were calmer
Speaker 7: on a bench, as would be comrade.
Speaker 4: On the court, right right, And one last thing or
Speaker 4: another thing, he said, Bobby said, I don't know, a
Speaker 4: week or so ago they had been beat right. He
Speaker 4: goes in the locker room and says, they don't even
Speaker 4: want to hear from me. You know what can I
Speaker 4: tell him? Blah blah blah. You remember what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: That was very strange.
Speaker 2: That was very strange to me because Bobby said that
Speaker 2: by his players.
Speaker 4: These players said that that they didn't want to hear
Speaker 4: from him anymore than what are they going to tell him?
Speaker 4: Is that accurate? And how did that come about?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I just think Bobby's somebody that, again going to what
Speaker 7: he said a second ago, very emotional, always wears his
Speaker 7: heart on his sleeve, and and he just probably knew,
Speaker 7: you know, probably even weeks before he made that statement
Speaker 7: on record that he just cannot get through to the players,
Speaker 7: he can't get them to play better. Yeah, again, there
Speaker 7: are some key injuries that to to keep in mind.
Speaker 7: I definitely don't want anybody to lose to lose sight
Speaker 7: of that. But I think that he felt, maybe even
Speaker 7: four or five weeks ago, he just cannot navigate this
Speaker 7: ship out of the rough waters. So that's one example
Speaker 7: where he was honest to a fault, you know, I mean,
Speaker 7: he can think it was after the last home game
Speaker 7: against by U, he talked about all those injuries or
Speaker 7: probably the universe trying to tell me something, and he
Speaker 7: said he's doesn't if he's gonna wake up tomorrow at
Speaker 7: the rate these things are going and if he does
Speaker 7: wake up, he doesn't know what bad news he's going
Speaker 7: to get, you know, when he does wake up, you know,
Speaker 7: So all those statements, you know, I mean, sure there's
Speaker 7: a lot of citizens and then sarcasm in it, but
Speaker 7: I think it just really just reflects the frustration that.
Speaker 4: That Bobby Hurley is having.
Speaker 7: And again going back to an earlier point, you know,
Speaker 7: when you have the players just seeing that upward frustration
Speaker 7: in public and I don't even talking about what's happening
Speaker 7: in the locker room behind close doors and practices, does
Speaker 7: everything is really compounding. So again, just a really really
Speaker 7: tough situation and a really tough environment that Bobby Hurley
Speaker 7: is trying to navigate through.
Speaker 3: Do you do you.
Speaker 2: See if Bobby is not if Bobby is dismissed from
Speaker 2: his job this year, do you see a place for
Speaker 2: Bobby in basketball?
Speaker 7: I mean, I think that there's definitely one team that
Speaker 7: would take a flyer on him. I definitely could see that.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, obviously, when you have a coach
Speaker 7: coming off back to back losing seasons, you're not exactly.
Speaker 3: A hot commodity.
Speaker 7: But the Bobby Hurley name, I think in some circles
Speaker 7: and some airs of the country is going to carry
Speaker 7: more weight than others. I mean, would it be surprised
Speaker 7: if maybe a team from the East Coast, you know,
Speaker 7: close to his hometown of New Jersey, would want to
Speaker 7: take a chance on him. Would it be a mid
Speaker 7: major versus a high major? Yes, I think that would
Speaker 7: be fair to say in terms of in terms of
Speaker 7: a probable scenario. I mean, look, I mean, you know
Speaker 7: you know that sports is what have you done for
Speaker 7: me lately? And again, I mean when you talk about
Speaker 7: a coach that's coming off of a back to back
Speaker 7: losing season, your stock is it's not going to be
Speaker 7: that hot. I mean, that's not really any big revelation.
Speaker 7: But by me stating that, so, I think there's a
Speaker 7: place for Bobby Hurley. But I also think that it
Speaker 7: probably be a mid major, not a high major, and
Speaker 7: maybe again summer closer to the East Coast, where you know,
Speaker 7: his name does still carry a lot of weight. Obviously,
Speaker 7: you know, he comes from you know, you know, the
Speaker 7: basketball royalty, in terms of his dad being in the
Speaker 7: Hall of Fame, his brother winning up you know, back
Speaker 7: to back championships with Yukon, so I think that maybe
Speaker 7: the East Coast might be one area that might be
Speaker 7: more apt to hire Bobby Early compared to the rest
Speaker 7: of the country.
Speaker 4: So so last question, I know you you probably do
Speaker 4: your due diligence very well. If he's not there, I'm
Speaker 4: sure you have a short list already.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I short list rather not said on
Speaker 7: the phone on an interview, but yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 7: there are some candidates which which have expressed the you know,
Speaker 7: a desire in in the ac job. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's a bad job at all, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean what is attractive about coming to issue for basketball?
Speaker 3: I mean, where's the attraction?
Speaker 7: Yeah, look, I think I think just uh, you know,
Speaker 7: really maybe a lot a lot of it is off
Speaker 7: the court, just living in a place, you know, like
Speaker 7: like Phoenix, like like Maricopa County, which is in an
Speaker 7: area that is very very attractive. You do have an
Speaker 7: NBA team in your backyard and in the in the
Speaker 7: Phoenix Suns. You know, the news just came out a
Speaker 7: couple of weeks ago James Harden, one of the most
Speaker 7: noble players in the n b A and the uh
Speaker 7: and the really uh high high dollar amount of nil
Speaker 7: that he contributes. I really do things as their practice facility,
Speaker 7: it's definitely one of the better ones among among high
Speaker 7: major programs. You know, you can talk about you know,
Speaker 7: there's a financial arena but being you know, you know,
Speaker 7: being antiquated, but you know, it's still not not a
Speaker 7: whole goal or not to play basketball in. And you know,
Speaker 7: like others said, it really is more about the NIL
Speaker 7: money rather than what kind of arena that that that
Speaker 7: them that you are playing. And you know, in a
Speaker 7: su being one of the biggest universities in the country,
Speaker 7: I think there's definitely some elements that go into ASU's favor.
Speaker 7: I'm not going to sit here and tell you that's
Speaker 7: the most desirable head coaching job that's going to open
Speaker 7: up over the next few weeks, but I definitely would
Speaker 7: put it in the top ten versus versus the top twenty,
Speaker 7: you know, in terms of the jobs that happen.
Speaker 3: Will open up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just real quick, I think they if they
Speaker 4: find the right guy, and maybe it doesn't happen this year,
Speaker 4: when I find the right guy, this team could or
Speaker 4: this program could really take off. I did up briefly
Speaker 4: with brief fader Feeder Fraider of Jesus Christ. Bill uh
Speaker 4: Uh it did for you know, a moment or two,
Speaker 4: ninety five, ninety six, whatever it was. Uh, they can
Speaker 4: they can happen. You know. I have a couple of
Speaker 4: names out there too that could fit perfectly here. But
Speaker 4: unless it happens, it happened.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, yeah, that is true. I mean I'll just drop,
Speaker 7: you know, a quick nugget and say that you definitely
Speaker 7: want to keep an eye on coaches.
Speaker 3: They do have ties to the Valley of the Sun,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 7: Those I'm not saying they're shoeings to replace Bobby Hurley.
Speaker 7: And again, and I'm not here also to suggest the
Speaker 7: decision was already made, But I just feel that that's
Speaker 7: that's the current uh that is taking place right down
Speaker 7: to MP. I think that's that's something fair to say.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I would say that any uh uh current
Speaker 7: head coach of another team that does have ties to
Speaker 7: the valley, if you're looking to make uh some kind
Speaker 7: of hot list, uh, you know, on a piece of paper,
Speaker 7: those are definitely probably the names that you want to
Speaker 7: look at.
Speaker 4: Nice I'm gonna google it right now. Thank you man,
Speaker 4: thank you, good luck. So appreciate it. Yeah, I still
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Speaker 4: He was at New Mexico State. Killed it there. Now
Speaker 4: I was doing pretty well in Mississippi State. Heck of
Speaker 4: a coach, because if you can win in New Mexico State,
Speaker 4: you should win there. You could win. Thank you. Okay,
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Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back to the bar here on Fox Sports
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Speaker 4: world's problems. I can't even solve my own. But you know,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you're looking forward to again. Anything interesting that
Speaker 4: Hot said about ASU Did you already know you? You
Speaker 4: you you came here right? What was their what was
Speaker 4: their image back in the day in basketball? No, no, no, football?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean everybody, when you think about when you
Speaker 2: talk about the state of Arizona, it was a sup before.
Speaker 2: I mean, they were the the team in the state
Speaker 2: of Arizona.
Speaker 4: We were not.
Speaker 2: We was always the step How was that being the
Speaker 2: step child, Well, it motivated us to kick their butts,
Speaker 2: you know, and rename that, you know, become you know,
Speaker 2: not the step child to that school. Okay, so now
Speaker 2: now for most of the part it was kind of
Speaker 2: like an even step child after all that, because you
Speaker 2: went on the street, right, they've.
Speaker 3: Took it around. I think I think we took it,
Speaker 3: took it over over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then and they did, they came back back,
Speaker 2: you know, always just lost my train of thought, which
Speaker 2: is not a surprise. But you would think you would
Speaker 2: think in the population you know that school is in
Speaker 2: would kill it, that it should be much better than
Speaker 2: particularly basketball, you know, because you have sports, well all sports,
Speaker 2: you absolutely, but but basketball should be like a dream place,
Speaker 2: dream place for for kids to come to and a coach.
Speaker 3: To be that.
Speaker 4: We've always said it's a sleeping giant. They just having
Speaker 4: a weekend or whatever. Uh So the push ourselves, having
Speaker 4: your little brother blah blah blah. Uh And now it's
Speaker 4: obviously kind of even in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 4: It's for basketball, for basketball. Yeah, I was gonna.
Speaker 2: Ask me softball. It used to be softball one time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: no jealousy from your ends. No, no, none, whatsoever. I
Speaker 2: mean I'm so past that. Yeah, yeah, you know, I
Speaker 2: mean if I was in the meat of it, i'd
Speaker 2: probably be a little jealous.
Speaker 3: But I'm so past that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not at all so but but but it's gonna
Speaker 2: be interesting to see if there's some changes up there
Speaker 2: and how they're gonna, you know, deal with those changes.
Speaker 2: Right well, to your point, I was gonna ask you, okay,
Speaker 2: you asked them about just the facility and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: They've never really put that money money into it. I
Speaker 4: have no idea they're gonna start now with a new ad.
Speaker 4: They're gonna start kind of doing that stuff. You built
Speaker 4: a hockey facility, which is strange, strange, Yeah, exactly, beautiful
Speaker 4: hockey facility. Yeah, I mean you put money, they're pretty
Speaker 4: good football stadium, which is one of the best football stadiums,
Speaker 4: and you still got a nice outdoor turn and just
Speaker 4: recently I think they got lightning in a bottle with
Speaker 4: doing how right they're doing exactly what was one that
Speaker 4: did for that one year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a good year. Right now we're got
Speaker 2: to see now we're gonna see trying to continue exactly instead,
Speaker 2: So he that that one good year?
Speaker 3: Is it that twelve and one year?
Speaker 4: Right? Okay?
Speaker 2: And then you get back to where you normally are,
Speaker 2: so you know it's but but.
Speaker 3: Again it baffles me.
Speaker 2: With the population up there and the opportunity to to
Speaker 2: get kids to that that community, why not.
Speaker 3: Well, the funny thing is.
Speaker 4: You asked him, and I think the world the uote
Speaker 4: about what's the what's the uh what what is it
Speaker 4: about it? Right? And he brought up, well, you have Phoenix,
Speaker 4: it's a metro, you have the sons, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: I think the sons are.
Speaker 2: Against you because this competitions competition, right, whether you live
Speaker 2: in Phoenix from scott Still or whatever, and you have
Speaker 2: to come down to the school to coach.
Speaker 4: There's plenty of places in tenp It's a nice place.
Speaker 4: It's a it's a huge place.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Also where it goes against them too? Is it too big?
Speaker 2: You know, you got you got families and kids that
Speaker 2: don't want to be in that big population.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: I mean me personally, I hate for you. I mean
Speaker 2: I can't deal with the traffic. I can't deal with
Speaker 2: you know, getting around and you know you go out,
Speaker 2: you gotta wait in the line for an hour before
Speaker 2: you go in the place. I mean, you really can't
Speaker 2: plan a uh you know, Friday afternoon date because you
Speaker 2: never get on it.
Speaker 4: And you're right now. It's all the little pockets. You know.
Speaker 4: Well you you living Masa. You got to get to
Speaker 4: Glendale AND's and now it's like traveling to right and
Speaker 4: some people like it. You know, it's a great place
Speaker 4: to visit. From my end, also, that's it. But we'll
Speaker 4: see what happens. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to a great game, good get good game,
Speaker 2: and an exciting game, a fun game. And you know,
Speaker 2: I think I think it's it's going to end up
Speaker 2: that way. How long have you had those tickets, those
Speaker 2: tickets that I said at it's it's.
Speaker 3: We had those. We've been there for so you kind
Speaker 3: of still knew there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna ask you who your favorite coaches
Speaker 2: to to watch and to listen to at that spot.
Speaker 4: Maybe Oregon State's big cool guy.
Speaker 1: The.
Speaker 4: Organs.
Speaker 2: You know, Actually I like the Utah coach they got fired, Cristo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that cat was. I mean I really liked.
Speaker 4: That you weren't there like for the Bibby's and for
Speaker 4: the ravelings.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, actually I had tickets behind the
Speaker 2: team for that further up, okay, which team, don't team?
Speaker 2: Our team. It's like ten rolls up, you know. But
Speaker 2: then we moved over to the middle, to the middle,
Speaker 2: to the right side. But it's gonna be interesting. Like
Speaker 2: I said, man, there's a couple of people that say,
Speaker 2: you know, exactly purposely they're there for that reason. I
Speaker 2: think they're just to just the you know, hammer on the.
Speaker 4: Days to get along. They've been there for a long time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's just so comical to listen
Speaker 2: to you. Were you there when they hit the last
Speaker 2: shot two years ago? The last shot and they wanted
Speaker 2: the last second the shoe game. Yeah, so they hits
Speaker 2: the last second.
Speaker 4: Cambridge hits last I had and Bobby was excited and
Speaker 4: then he started and then he came back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he came back and they got after him. They
Speaker 2: got after him in the corner there and it's right
Speaker 2: by the student section too. That's make it even worse.
Speaker 2: And Bobby, his son was on that ye oh, you
Speaker 2: know he's a senior this year. Yeah, okay, so he's
Speaker 2: on the team this year. Yeah, because his son was
Speaker 2: on the team. And I remember they was getting at
Speaker 2: their son in that corner there and stuff. And then
Speaker 2: you know, and then they have these the reserve seats
Speaker 2: in the due corner there to right of me for
Speaker 2: the s U fans, family and ads.
Speaker 4: And let me ask you a question. You can answer
Speaker 4: it however you want. Obviously, what did you think of
Speaker 4: the b y U stuff and the chanting of the
Speaker 4: kids and just the bad language.
Speaker 2: Well, and I don't think it's a place for it,
Speaker 2: but you know, we can't control young kids. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, these kids are gonna think the way they
Speaker 2: want to think, and they're gonna say what they want
Speaker 2: to say, you know. But you know, at times there's
Speaker 2: not a place, particularly you know, with a university like that,
Speaker 2: and when you talk about something that's to me that's
Speaker 2: religious or or personal or racial anything like that, there's
Speaker 2: no place for it, you know. So I I I
Speaker 2: hope these kids learn from that and they grow from that,
Speaker 2: you know, and and and and not let it be
Speaker 2: you know, part of their they're they're.
Speaker 3: Chanting that they do right? Right, No, I think it
Speaker 3: wasn't right. It wasn't there right.
Speaker 4: We talked about it before, right, No, I wasn't there.
Speaker 3: But you were. If you were there, what, Oh, not
Speaker 3: a chance? My friends were so but you you.
Speaker 4: Would did say that you weren't surprised. No, because of
Speaker 4: the because of who they are.
Speaker 5: During the duke game, there's like chance about do some players.
Speaker 5: So I wasn't that surprised. But is it a certain group? No,
Speaker 5: I would say it's everyone.
Speaker 3: It is everyone once.
Speaker 2: They just just pick it up on what the one
Speaker 2: person may be saying, or individual a small group may
Speaker 2: be saying.
Speaker 3: Well, if you drinks in them, okay, and it leads
Speaker 3: to that, yeah, are they aren't they students?
Speaker 4: Yeah? But they Yeah, they can still drink.
Speaker 2: When school drinking any of the I remember that twenty
Speaker 2: one now right? If I'm yeah, okay, so he's on
Speaker 2: twenty he doesn't drink.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course, that baby face he doesn't. I
Speaker 3: can see.
Speaker 4: I can see. He said you're not going tonight?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't get tickets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it sold out. Are you gonna stay up
Speaker 4: for it at home? Yeah?
Speaker 14: Oh yeah?
Speaker 4: Are you gonna watch it? Did either study algebra or
Speaker 4: to watch the game?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You're watching on that big screen TV at your house
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all right, you're paying him.
Speaker 3: Well, he got a big streme. He's part of a frat.
Speaker 3: They get the got two TVs. Oh okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, like I said, I'm I'm just excited to see
Speaker 2: you know, uh Bobby's reaction, you know, the whole game,
Speaker 2: and and and then and like say, at the end
Speaker 2: of the game, will they shake hands?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure they will.
Speaker 4: He apologized later on maybe a day or two, literally
Speaker 4: calling I guess they talked to me.
Speaker 3: Oh, he pobed directly to Tommy. Tommy, Yeah, and they
Speaker 3: that night. I think.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you, how after a discussion what we
Speaker 4: talked the good points in about points of this team,
Speaker 4: how far are they gonna go.
Speaker 2: Our basketball team in the tournament, in the big tournament. God,
Speaker 2: it's you.
Speaker 3: Know what, you know what I think.
Speaker 2: I think playing in the in the Big twelve, it's
Speaker 2: going to allow us to advance a few games that
Speaker 2: we probably would not advance if we did not play
Speaker 2: the type of opponents we played last year. And I
Speaker 2: think because it was a more physical season for us,
Speaker 2: you know, I think it put us in the situation
Speaker 2: where we will be prepared, you know, for you know,
Speaker 2: games that we lost in the past year. So with
Speaker 2: that in mind, I can see ourselves at least advancing,
Speaker 2: you know, three games.
Speaker 4: Oh really, I get you to the lead.
Speaker 3: Well depends on who were playing.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 2: So if they get to the sweet sixteen, good season.
Speaker 2: Good season today, very good season. So you're gonna miss
Speaker 2: the I always see you in Vegas. Yeah, man, I
Speaker 2: hate that. I I I really enjoyed going. Actually I'm
Speaker 2: going to Vegas Thursday for a trade show, and this
Speaker 2: would be the week, you know, because next week would
Speaker 2: be the Pac twelve tournament. But yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 2: actually it was. It was more of a family thing
Speaker 2: with us. You know, my brothers, my daughters would go,
Speaker 2: my wife wouldn't go, My brothers, my daughter, we all
Speaker 2: meet up there. My young my oldest daughters her birthday
Speaker 2: during that week that time. So we just made a
Speaker 2: little fun thing, family thing. And yeah, but we're gonna
Speaker 2: miss that. And I can't see myself going back to Kansas.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, it's too much. Too much.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, thank you for being with me, Thanks for
Speaker 4: having me. I'll have to call you three days.
Speaker 2: To call me three days and just DM me bro
Speaker 2: check my schedule okay, thanks Kobe, thank you,