Speaker 1: Streaming live on the Ihearts Radio. While this is Eye
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: And welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty, Young Steve Rivera. Your Troy. I just said,
Speaker 2: in case you didn't know, go easy, Go easy dot com.
Speaker 2: You're busy with her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I've got recruiting stuff up right now.
Speaker 3: Carter Bryant news and yeah, I don't know if that's news,
Speaker 3: that's still news. Yeah, but still I mean, finally made
Speaker 3: the decision. You got to do it.
Speaker 2: Any news in the summer is good news or whatever.
Speaker 3: And then obviously the official visit weekend, Izona had a
Speaker 3: busy weekend there.
Speaker 2: Did they get to he said, commitments? He said commitments.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they did.
Speaker 3: They haven't really said who they are, hold the people,
Speaker 3: the people who they are. But remember they have that
Speaker 3: for star quarterback in the names escaping me right now.
Speaker 3: But that is committed to Oklahoma. I think it's Jane
Speaker 3: and O'Neill Arizona was heavily involved in him, and he
Speaker 3: was here this weekend and did take photos with the
Speaker 3: coaching staff and did the hype stuff. So maybe a flip.
Speaker 3: Maybe a flip there. Okay, a lot of Texas guys.
Speaker 2: Do you think the second year for for coach but better? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Second year because.
Speaker 3: I think one you fix the issues on your coaching staff.
Speaker 3: You needed to revamp your offensive staff.
Speaker 2: What issues? Tell me?
Speaker 3: Can you say, yeah, Dino Babers was horrible. Let's let's
Speaker 3: be honest.
Speaker 2: I'm pay more personality than than the game in terms
Speaker 2: of personnel. If you can, you can you fix in.
Speaker 3: Terms of player personnality? Yeah, I think he could fill
Speaker 3: some holes that you.
Speaker 2: Had on the d line by by by the new
Speaker 2: coaches or the personality might not have been there or
Speaker 2: added to that too. Yeah, you know was to me
Speaker 2: very maybe pat his prime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, No, I mean great coach in terms of
Speaker 3: he's known for what he did at Syracuse. He's known
Speaker 3: for what he did at Arizona before.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But you know, when you're doing the same stuff that
Speaker 3: you did back then, it's not going to work. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And you got to be adaptable, so you get some
Speaker 3: youth movement in there. I think some things happened on
Speaker 3: the defensive side of the ball. In terms of injuries,
Speaker 3: there's just so many injuries last year for them that
Speaker 3: I kind of spiraled out of control and maybe you
Speaker 3: need a little restart there and a little refresher there.
Speaker 3: And then in the transfer portal, just as guys that
Speaker 3: they added on the d line and secondary added some
Speaker 3: key receivers. I think they're able to piece together a
Speaker 3: solid twenty twenty six or sorry, solid twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: roster coming up in a team that can compete for
Speaker 3: a bowl game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what was the end result for the.
Speaker 3: Recruiting did you say end result for it was on
Speaker 3: a football recruiting I think they finished at in the forties,
Speaker 3: around forty one, which is good, especially after the year
Speaker 3: that they just had.
Speaker 2: No question, but I think isn't what they sells playing
Speaker 2: time and a new world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got to do right now? What else in Arizona
Speaker 3: and you're gonna play you know? But you know that's
Speaker 3: what Jed sold and he was able to have that
Speaker 3: top twenty recruiting class that finished at nineteen. But you're
Speaker 3: talking about a program that had a lot of hype
Speaker 3: around it entering the season. You fell on your face,
Speaker 3: you took your lumps, and you just revamped, retooled your
Speaker 3: coaching staff, and you're able to piece together a very
Speaker 3: strong recruiting class for having, let's be honest, a disappointing
Speaker 3: season for what everybody thought and including probably what coach
Speaker 3: Brennan thought they were going to do last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Anthony, Julia, are you listening to me? Because he
Speaker 2: sent me something like out of the blue, and I
Speaker 2: don't know what the hell he was talking about with
Speaker 2: basketball or football and predictions from back in the day
Speaker 2: twenty years ago. He said he finally got one twenty
Speaker 2: years ago. Ye hadn't been right since what prediction? Well,
Speaker 2: that Arizona or Washington was going to win the league?
Speaker 2: And I said Arizona and he said Washington. So I
Speaker 2: was assuming it's basketball twenty years ago. You might have
Speaker 2: to look that up. I just texted them back. I
Speaker 2: don't know where that came from. Hey, Steve, remember this
Speaker 2: day back in twenty What the hell twenty years ago?
Speaker 2: Don't remember? Ultimate historians? Yeah, thanks for Google, the access
Speaker 2: all this newspaper stuff. What the hell was the newspaper?
Speaker 2: So he's here, he's texting me back for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: Anybody want to call get in the fight with us
Speaker 2: or otherwise. He's called five two zero four, one six
Speaker 2: seventy four forty. I wanted to get into the Mike
Speaker 2: Leach el Jibouti with the Hall of Fame because I
Speaker 2: know there was a group here. So it was basketball
Speaker 2: twenty years ago? Washington? Who they have? Did they have
Speaker 2: the little guard Leftyia?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, that was twenty years ago. The paper was
Speaker 2: still around fifteen, uh, fifteen years ago. I closed in
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. Twenty years ago was fifteen? No,
Speaker 2: I don't know, fifteen, twenty fifteen. I come on the
Speaker 2: ten years ago Steve, who does math five five? That
Speaker 2: was the year of Okay, that was the year of
Speaker 2: Did they have what's his name from Portland? Rogers?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, Washington they had the guy that was the
Speaker 2: star in Portland?
Speaker 5: Got right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that was way before that before yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: because I was still Randon Roy there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a long time ago. I don't know
Speaker 2: what the heck he's sending me this for. Make sure
Speaker 2: you hit the button because I might cost here in
Speaker 2: a second when I get stuff like this. Mhm, Okay,
Speaker 2: anybody want to call again? We have time here for seventeen.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have Justin Spears on to talk about his
Speaker 2: his golf tournament that just happened then, and what's going
Speaker 2: on in the football program. If he's ever going to
Speaker 2: take a day off, what it will be because he
Speaker 2: has football coming up here pretty soon. And then he's
Speaker 2: there's so short staffed at that paper that everybody's taking
Speaker 2: on different things. Yeah, you know, welcome to the wordal media, baby,
Speaker 2: and welcome to the world of media. It is what
Speaker 2: it is. Dreamt of doing this. I did. You know
Speaker 2: why I need to have different dreams. It's funny because
Speaker 2: when I was going to the business a thousand years ago,
Speaker 2: back in eighty late seventies eighties. Got to tell you
Speaker 2: how old I am. We had some reporters go to
Speaker 2: the high school and kind of, oh, I want to
Speaker 2: be you, blah blah blah. You don't want to be us.
Speaker 2: The paper, the papers are dwindling. This is forty years ago, right,
Speaker 2: forty five years ago, and the paper, the jobs are fewer,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. You know, me being stupid at eighteen,
Speaker 2: it's not gonna happen to me. I don't have to worry.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna happen to me. Then you go to
Speaker 2: college and become a journalism a major blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Things are fantastic, and for twenty three years they were
Speaker 2: pretty good until the paper clothes And you're thinking, damn,
Speaker 2: I should have listened to that, dude.
Speaker 3: I remember my first class of the UFA. We had
Speaker 3: Damien Alameda in the class. Yeah, they said, Okay, if
Speaker 3: you're in it for the money and all that, walk
Speaker 3: out this store right now, right, good, nice, good, but good. Yes,
Speaker 3: but if you want to, if you're interested, buckle up.
Speaker 2: It's a good life. No hell, let me tell you
Speaker 2: I have a great life now. I covered I do this,
Speaker 2: I do other things for other people, and hey, I
Speaker 2: just need to see the end of the road. And
Speaker 2: he gets over there. It's a light coming from a train.
Speaker 2: But you know, you know it is so NBA Finals.
Speaker 3: Yes, you got the Pacers and you have the thunder right,
Speaker 3: a little bit of a surprise. I think nobody would
Speaker 3: have picked the Pacers at the beginning of this whole thing.
Speaker 3: And you look at the markets and no offense to
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City, no offense in Indiana. This might be the
Speaker 3: least viewed NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Ever, I saw that there was a story with
Speaker 2: Adam Silver talking about this, He said, the dilemma is
Speaker 2: not the two teams in it, but there was another dilemma.
Speaker 2: And I didn't have enough courage to click on the
Speaker 2: link to see what the dilemma was, but you'd see it.
Speaker 2: It's not as sexy. It's the teams. It's the team.
Speaker 2: But you know what, it's going to be a pretty
Speaker 2: good one because they're both very athletic and very good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And who would have this when was TJ here December?
Speaker 2: They was here this year, right, and the team was here.
Speaker 2: So you had an NBA team that's in the finals
Speaker 2: in McHale watching Carlisle the head coach and everything. Yeah,
Speaker 2: them to support TJ. Yeah, And who would have thought
Speaker 2: that at the time. I don't think anybody. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, Indiana had a very good roster, and I
Speaker 2: think you know, if you looked at them, you thought
Speaker 2: they were probably a year away, a year or two
Speaker 2: away from and adding a few pieces from potentially doing
Speaker 2: something like this. But the playoffs Tyler Haliburton's ad. TJ
Speaker 2: has had a phenomenal playoffs. Pascal Siakam, they've just gelled,
Speaker 2: They've just figured out yell at the right time, and
Speaker 2: and the Thunder. They're just they're just talent. Okay, see, okay,
Speaker 2: see and how many let's see.
Speaker 3: I like Indiana. I want Indiana to win. You have
Speaker 3: ave ties, and I just like Rick Carlisle as a
Speaker 3: head coach. But yeah, I think the Thunder are going
Speaker 3: to win this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. At six, I picked both of them.
Speaker 2: You know, my boy Chris owes me some money here
Speaker 2: because I have both sides of it. But it's not
Speaker 2: a sex it's not a sexy one because you do want,
Speaker 2: you know, some of the sexier teams in it. And
Speaker 2: we drew. We went, yeah, we went. It took twenty
Speaker 2: from me and I took it back.
Speaker 3: You know, how badly do you think the NBA wanted
Speaker 3: at least that New York pace re siies Go seven?
Speaker 2: Probably?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that that was the last, you know,
Speaker 3: major headline matchup.
Speaker 2: New York might have burned down had they won the day.
Speaker 2: You've been there a few times, never never, never been
Speaker 2: there a few times. I'll take it, I'll leave it.
Speaker 2: I won't take it. My son went to school in
Speaker 2: that area. So but I really like New York. Too
Speaker 2: many people, too many craziness. I like Mayberry here in Tucson.
Speaker 2: You sound like a people person. Huh how you many people?
Speaker 2: Excuse me? Excuse me? Could you tell me how to
Speaker 2: get the one hundred and seven and sixty third.
Speaker 6: Third?
Speaker 2: You can take a camp I can see it from here.
Speaker 2: It's like when you go to Vegas and you're at
Speaker 2: the you're at the MGM. How do you get to
Speaker 2: the stratosphere. It's right there, see the big building. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it's right there. I walk and it's like forever, right,
Speaker 2: it's forever. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember one time, I think it was the first
Speaker 3: year we went to the Backdall tournament early as I did,
Speaker 3: and I was like, I want to walk to Caesar's Palace.
Speaker 3: I want to see like the fountains and everything. I
Speaker 3: got like a quarter of the way. I'm like, you know,
Speaker 3: take I can see it on the TV. Or I'm
Speaker 3: going back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, evil, Evil is not jumping any Let's go back,
Speaker 2: I know, because it's right there right until it's not yeah,
Speaker 2: until you have to go up down round side right right. Well. Uh,
Speaker 2: maybe the tournament will eventually get back to Vegas. I
Speaker 2: was just there three weeks ago. For it's expensive, man always, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it's more expensive when you lose, well, doesn't helps to win.
Speaker 2: I think I had pizza for three days. You know
Speaker 2: that twenty dollars pizza you're on the the McDonald's. Yeah,
Speaker 2: even those things, but it is what it is. Anybody
Speaker 2: want to call. We got about five minute stuff in
Speaker 2: this segment five two, four, one forty. I think this
Speaker 2: is what my summer's gonna go, kind of like rambling
Speaker 2: and rambling until.
Speaker 3: We get to the well, you know, opportunity for top
Speaker 3: ten lists, top moment lists.
Speaker 2: All that. That's what that's a blake. Blake who loves
Speaker 2: music will be doing a lot of stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And you know some different guests, non sports guys with
Speaker 2: with film, with film and stuff. The best game you
Speaker 2: ever covered, although you're just like two years into your profession,
Speaker 2: the best game I've ever covered.
Speaker 3: At the top of my head, I'll go to college
Speaker 3: basketball Arizona Ucla and the championship game.
Speaker 2: The I think twelve that's when the last shot, when
Speaker 2: Ben Natherin hit that shot.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, that's when who hit the I think Love
Speaker 3: hit the shot, and then or or Amy hit the shot.
Speaker 2: I think Ramy hit the shot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then the Ucla guard whose names escaping here
Speaker 3: was a freshman, got a wide open look at the
Speaker 3: three point line and hit the front of the iron.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Really, that was a good game in terms of like
Speaker 3: big moment stuff, you know. But I think my all
Speaker 3: time favorite that I've covered is probably the Women's College
Speaker 3: World Series. The first game, uh Arizona making it back
Speaker 3: Andrea's first trip in X amount of years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that kind of that kind of gave him that goodbye.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that was his first and then he went
Speaker 3: one more time and left.
Speaker 2: But Arizonna beat Washington.
Speaker 3: I can't remember what the score was, but it was
Speaker 3: like ninety five degrees outside, ninety percent humidity, and you're
Speaker 3: just roasting out there in Oklahoma. Yeah, but it's this
Speaker 3: legend of the game returning to a stadium that, let's
Speaker 3: be quite honest, he helped grow in.
Speaker 2: Terms of SOFA.
Speaker 3: It was just amazing to see that moment in him
Speaker 3: taking you know, BP and fungo with the team and
Speaker 3: hitting the ball around and getting ready for the game
Speaker 3: that he does here at Rita.
Speaker 2: But it's different when it's on that type of stage. Sure.
Speaker 2: In fact, you could tell when he got there finding
Speaker 2: after all these years of you know, missing a few
Speaker 2: years and then his final time, how emotional it was
Speaker 2: when they finally got there, right, And that's that's when
Speaker 2: he finally said goodbye.
Speaker 3: A week or so later, well, the day after the
Speaker 3: last game, when they lost. The day after the game,
Speaker 3: he announced it, right, But everybody in that building, well
Speaker 3: everybody knew for about at least a week pretty much.
Speaker 3: And I remember after they lost to Florida State, you know,
Speaker 3: you say, oh, you know, baseball's you know whatever they
Speaker 3: say about how can you not be romantic about baseball?
Speaker 2: Softball?
Speaker 3: The day the moment they lost, all of a sudden
Speaker 3: rain came in and it set in. It like a
Speaker 3: two hour rain delay. It was like, you know, the
Speaker 3: softball gods were crying that coach, and Gray was never gonna.
Speaker 2: Did you write it that way? You didn't, You did that.
Speaker 2: I was trying to get something up there. My bad,
Speaker 2: I did not. But yeah, so do you tell pictures
Speaker 2: your picture teller? You're a storyteller. You're right. Clouds opened
Speaker 2: up and cried for who none other than Mike Kentry.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Wednesday lost that all of a sudden, the
Speaker 3: rain came in and entered the delay, and yeah, next thing,
Speaker 3: you know, you're back here in Tucson. He retires, keeling
Speaker 3: low' higher and You're like, okay, guys, slow down, I
Speaker 3: just did a seventeen hour.
Speaker 2: Drive you and kill me? Then okay, let's take a
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Speaker 1: Streaming live on the iHeartRadio WAB, this is I on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to you guy on the ball here
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, your Troy Hutchison
Speaker 2: knowing for we have colleague radio guy writer, guy magazine guy,
Speaker 2: football beat writer Justin Spears waiting for an Emmy here
Speaker 2: in about ten years. How are you doing justin.
Speaker 13: What's going on? Guys? Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: How is that Shoindig Swing dig yesterday over the weekend?
Speaker 13: The golf tournament what you're asking about?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, it was a lot of fun, man, it
Speaker 4: really was. This was a tournament that I wouldn't even
Speaker 4: call it necessarily a tournament. It's just a one day event.
Speaker 4: But it's a scramble event that my brother and I
Speaker 4: wanted to put together a few years ago.
Speaker 13: You know, I remember vividly.
Speaker 4: I was standing in the kitchen at my brother's house
Speaker 4: and we were talking about golf, and he brought up
Speaker 4: the idea of, you know, we should host a tournament,
Speaker 4: or host an event that gets all our buddies out there.
Speaker 4: You know, we can make it a charity tournament. But
Speaker 4: all we want to do is just get our closest
Speaker 4: friends together, play some golf, have some fun, and while
Speaker 4: we're doing that, we can do something for a good cause.
Speaker 13: And we came up with the name the.
Speaker 4: Spear of Summer Classic, and our first year or our
Speaker 4: first two years, we benefited Children's Miracle Network and PMC
Speaker 4: for Children and they were so amazing. I mean they
Speaker 4: they were so supportive, and they were totally cool with us,
Speaker 4: you know, using them to to you know, raise money
Speaker 4: for charity.
Speaker 13: And my brother and I we didn't make a dime
Speaker 13: off this event.
Speaker 4: All we wanted to do was just raise some money
Speaker 4: and all get my buddies together to play some golf.
Speaker 4: And the first two years it was great.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 4: We did it at Star Pass in year one and
Speaker 4: we had sixty golfers come out, including Noel Fafida, Arizona quarterback.
Speaker 4: And of course at that time, this was before nolh
Speaker 4: Flafida became Nol Fafida, you know, and when he was
Speaker 4: going into that year, he was Jaden Delor's backup, and
Speaker 4: lo and behold he became the face of the franchise.
Speaker 13: And it was a great time.
Speaker 4: Year one, like I said, sixty people, and then year
Speaker 4: two we got eighty four people, and we moved it
Speaker 4: to Corey Pines right there off of It ten near Marana.
Speaker 4: And then eventually, you know, Eastern Seals Blake Foundation came
Speaker 4: along and Betsy Bruce and all of them. They saw
Speaker 4: what my brother and I were doing. They've been doing
Speaker 4: a charity golf tournament for I think like fifteen years now,
Speaker 4: and they said, do you want to join forces? And
Speaker 4: I saw the resources they had. I saw the team
Speaker 4: of people that they had as well, and they took
Speaker 4: away maybe fifty steps that my brother and I normally
Speaker 4: have to take to put on a tournament. And they
Speaker 4: were so great with the Raffle prizes, with the organization, planning,
Speaker 4: the course, the dates and all that. Because my birthdays
Speaker 4: on the fourth of July, at my brother's birthdays on
Speaker 4: July twenty ninth. So what we initially did was we
Speaker 4: kind of met in the middle in July and that
Speaker 4: was the date of the Spirits Summer Classic. But the
Speaker 4: Eastern Shields Lake Foundation, they're like, well, would you like
Speaker 4: to maybe move it up to late May, like one
Speaker 4: of the last days of May. And I thought it
Speaker 4: was perfect because I mean late May, that's the other
Speaker 4: in Arizona, especially in Tucson, like it's getting warm, obviously,
Speaker 4: but it's not. It's not like hell in July and
Speaker 4: August where it's just just absolutely scorching hot. And so
Speaker 4: we moved it to late May, and we moved it
Speaker 4: to Vintanna Canyon and we played on the mountain course,
Speaker 4: which is maybe top ten in all of Arizona and
Speaker 4: we got one hundred and twenty people to come out
Speaker 4: this year. We went from sixty to eighty four to
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty. And we had Arizona softball coaching
Speaker 4: legend Mike Candrea out there. Chuck Cecil College Football Hall
Speaker 4: of Famer, he was out there as well. You know,
Speaker 4: we had former Arizona football great Bam McCrae. All so
Speaker 4: out there. We had both U of A golf coaches
Speaker 4: and Jim Anderson who's now the longest tenured head coach
Speaker 4: at the u of A with Fred Harvey retiring. And
Speaker 4: then Giovanna Maymon, who is who just wrapped up her
Speaker 4: first year as head coach of the Arizona women's golf
Speaker 4: team and she was just named Big twelve Coach of
Speaker 4: the Year as well. And you know, I mean, the
Speaker 4: list goes on and on. Of the great people. Joe
Speaker 4: Nell's former Arizona shooting guard. He was one of the
Speaker 4: guys who was in the winning group that won the
Speaker 4: third edition of the Spears Summer Classic. But and then
Speaker 4: also No Fafida and his dad and his uncle Steve
Speaker 4: who played for the Dolphins, and then Dash Fafida, who's
Speaker 4: a u of a linebacker commit for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: I mean, there was some very big names out there,
Speaker 4: and there were also, you know.
Speaker 13: Some people out there who could have done a lot
Speaker 13: of other.
Speaker 4: Things with their Friday morning and Friday afternoon, but they
Speaker 4: decided to come play golf with all of us and
Speaker 4: we had a great time doing it. And I can't
Speaker 4: thank Betsy Bruce and the Easter Seals Blake Foundation for
Speaker 4: seeing so much of what we do and wanted to
Speaker 4: join forces. And this is going to be a long
Speaker 4: and prosperous relationship and the Spear Summer Classic is definitely
Speaker 4: going to be a Tucson tradition for many summers.
Speaker 3: You know, what does it mean to you to have
Speaker 3: that backing from that organization, Just the impact that you
Speaker 3: and your brother have been able to make on the
Speaker 3: Tucson community and giving back to them as people that
Speaker 3: grew up here in Tucson just like I did as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean we love our community. You know,
Speaker 4: I moved here when I was just two years old.
Speaker 4: My roots are in southern California, which is why I
Speaker 4: like the Lakers and the Dodgers and all them. But
Speaker 4: I'm a too soon and through and through. You know,
Speaker 4: I grew up in the city. I grew up, you know,
Speaker 4: cheering for the Arizona Wildcats.
Speaker 13: And one thing that I've realized about.
Speaker 4: This community is if you give back back to this
Speaker 4: community in some shape or form, people are going to
Speaker 4: rally around that. People love the Tucson community and they
Speaker 4: love people who are investing in this community.
Speaker 13: And you know, is it.
Speaker 4: Astronomical amounts of money.
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't have the figures right in front of me.
Speaker 4: But all we wanted to do was just play golf
Speaker 4: and do something good in the process, you know. Shamefully,
Speaker 4: I am a COVID golfer, you know. I you know,
Speaker 4: growing up, I would go out to the driving range
Speaker 4: with my dad and my brother and you know, we
Speaker 4: would hit out.
Speaker 13: We would hit some some buckets.
Speaker 4: Of balls at the Blanchard golf course at Davis Monton
Speaker 4: Air Force Base.
Speaker 13: So I would always I always had the spling down
Speaker 13: and I knew the game of golf. Tiger Woods is
Speaker 13: one of.
Speaker 4: My all time favorite athletes, and so golf was was
Speaker 4: always around, but I never really made it a hobby.
Speaker 4: And until COVID hit and then once the pandemic rolled around,
Speaker 4: and you know, I got furlough from a job and
Speaker 4: I just had my afternoons open and so I got
Speaker 4: the dust off the clubs. We go to the Silver
Speaker 4: Bell golf Course or even El Rio, and we just
Speaker 4: hit buckets and balls every day for that entire year
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty.
Speaker 13: And then the bug bit me.
Speaker 4: I was immediately hooked on golf and I would go
Speaker 4: to you know, all courses all around Tucson, Arizona. Now
Speaker 4: just because I was hooked on golf or I am
Speaker 4: hooked on golf, doesn't mean I'm any good at it.
Speaker 4: You know, Like anytime I go out there, all I'm
Speaker 4: trying to do is just break one hundred. So I'm
Speaker 4: a total hack. I'm not the greatest golfer in the world,
Speaker 4: but you know, I also don't I'm not totally totally bad,
Speaker 4: right like I you know, I'll hit some good shots
Speaker 4: and you know, I'll keep the keep up the fun
Speaker 4: and keep the pace going. But you know, golf has
Speaker 4: become such a big part of my life and it
Speaker 4: is really helps me with my mental health and just
Speaker 4: getting out on the golf course and even when it's
Speaker 4: blazing hot, you know, it's just you the outdoor elements
Speaker 4: and that little white ball, and there's something therapeutic about
Speaker 4: the game of golf, and so it's become a big
Speaker 4: part of my life, and it's always been a big
Speaker 4: part of my brother's life. And we just wanted to
Speaker 4: figure out a way to use the game of golf
Speaker 4: to give back to our community.
Speaker 13: And you know it kind of going back to.
Speaker 4: Your original question, Troy, the Spirituum a Classic was actually
Speaker 4: supposed to be a Tucson slash Phoenix event. You know,
Speaker 4: we were supposed to alternate between Tucson and Phoenix. But
Speaker 4: we saw the support that we got after year one
Speaker 4: and going into year two, and so many people said,
Speaker 4: hold on, hold.
Speaker 13: On, don't go to Phoenix just yet.
Speaker 4: Let's let's do another one and Tucson and see how
Speaker 4: it goes. And so many people have, you know, come
Speaker 4: to support this event, and eventually, I think my brother
Speaker 4: and I got to a point where we were like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're not taking this Phoenix. This is going to be
Speaker 4: a Tucson thing for sure. And to see the support
Speaker 4: from the people in Tucson, my friends, all the people
Speaker 4: connected to the University of Arizona, it's really special and
Speaker 4: it means the absolute.
Speaker 13: The world to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very nice, And all the proceeds go to the
Speaker 2: Bleak Foundation. One hundred and twenty golfers. That's a pretty
Speaker 2: good haul, right obviously, So that's cool, very cool.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, No, one hundred and twenty golfers. That's doubled,
Speaker 4: you know, from our first year at sixty at Star Pass.
Speaker 4: But you know, we're trying to increase that number, you know,
Speaker 4: the one twenty that's the new bar, and we're trying
Speaker 4: to get to one hundred and forty four. If you
Speaker 4: get to one hundred and forty four, that means a
Speaker 4: sellout when you have two groups at every single hole.
Speaker 4: So we were very happy and honored to have one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty golfers. But of course, you know, we're
Speaker 4: never complacent. We want to make sure that we sell
Speaker 4: out next year and for many years to come at
Speaker 4: a hundred forty four.
Speaker 13: So Stee, Troy, get.
Speaker 4: The cobwebs off the golf clubs, get some friends, and
Speaker 4: let's go golfing next year.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm a better driver of the cart. I am
Speaker 2: a golfer.
Speaker 4: I've played better driver of the car than they.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll do that, but I enjoy playing every now
Speaker 2: and again. I have my clubs and it's people. Do
Speaker 2: you use them? Not only when people ask and when
Speaker 2: I say no, I can't do it. Sorry, not this weekend.
Speaker 2: No more power to you. I've seen I've seen you
Speaker 2: on the videos and stuff. So but now we're what
Speaker 2: late or early June? Uh, in a matter of a
Speaker 2: few days two months, you'll be out there busy doing
Speaker 2: football stuff, right and you already are you? Already are? So?
Speaker 2: Did you? You? You had a little risk it. You
Speaker 2: can probably take some more time off before you get
Speaker 2: into the grind.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'll be you know, taking off here in
Speaker 4: just a little bit. But you know, as as Troy knows,
Speaker 4: you're never really fully off when it comes to Arizona football,
Speaker 4: especially in the the recruiting months. And right now Arizona's
Speaker 4: hosting a secial visits left and right, and a lot
Speaker 4: of guys from Texas, a lot of guys I mean
Speaker 4: from all parts of all parts of the country, but
Speaker 4: they're really diving into Texas and southern California in the
Speaker 4: state of Arizona. So you know, June is prime recruiting season.
Speaker 4: Last year, a bulk of Arizona's twenty twenty five recruiting class.
Speaker 4: All those guys committed in June. So yeah, I would
Speaker 4: expect here in the next few weeks to see all
Speaker 4: these recruits start to roll in. Maybe not as much
Speaker 4: as last year, right because you know, with with revenue
Speaker 4: sharing and nil and all that, you know, the athletes,
Speaker 4: they want to maintain as much leverage as they can
Speaker 4: in the recruiting process.
Speaker 13: So you may not.
Speaker 4: See as many commits in June this year, but I
Speaker 4: would expect to see a handful of Arizona football commits
Speaker 4: coming up here in the month of June. And yeah,
Speaker 4: and then not only do you have recruiting seat, but
Speaker 4: you also have camp season two.
Speaker 13: So Arizona football is going to be hosting.
Speaker 4: A bunch of camps and seven on seven tournaments. And
Speaker 4: this is a really cool way or another way I
Speaker 4: should say, of getting recruits on campus. You know, this
Speaker 4: is kind of like the you know, their way of
Speaker 4: getting some targets that they're looking at and getting them
Speaker 4: on campus without taking a fun official or official visit.
Speaker 4: You know, they're going to be on campus at the
Speaker 4: u of A football facilities, playing in seven on seven tournaments,
Speaker 4: and the coaches are going to have that ability to
Speaker 4: talk to a lot of these guys, and it's also
Speaker 4: a good way to connect with a lot of Tucson
Speaker 4: schools too. You know, I remember, you know, going out
Speaker 4: to seven on seven tournaments at the u of A
Speaker 4: when I was playing at Sienaga.
Speaker 13: And yes, yes, I.
Speaker 4: Did participate in the seven on seven tournaments as a center.
Speaker 4: I probably had the easiest job out of anybody.
Speaker 13: At the seven on seven tournaments.
Speaker 4: But it was really cool going out to the U
Speaker 4: of A and connecting with with those guys. And I
Speaker 4: know the U of A definitely takes pride and reaching
Speaker 4: out to the high school school, to the local high
Speaker 4: schools and making sure.
Speaker 13: That they feel connected in some way.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you're gonna see some seven on seven tournaments
Speaker 4: with some local high schools, also some Phoenix area high schools,
Speaker 4: and it's a good opportunity for Arizona to really look
Speaker 4: at some of the top in state talent.
Speaker 13: That they have right here in their backyard.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Not only is it recruiting, but you're seeing kind of
Speaker 3: the scheduling timing coming out. I believe last week they
Speaker 3: announced a couple of night games Kansas State, Hawaii and
Speaker 3: some others as well, you know, I know it's a
Speaker 3: small thing, but you're not.
Speaker 2: Seeing that, you know, that extremely.
Speaker 3: Late kickoff yet there's no I don't think there was
Speaker 3: an eight pm on there. Maybe I'm wrong, but I
Speaker 3: think six and seven were the main wing.
Speaker 13: Damn it, Troy, you had to say it.
Speaker 2: You had to say it.
Speaker 4: You had to say it.
Speaker 13: Okay, all right, well I am fully expect thing.
Speaker 4: Big twelve opener, eight pm kickoffs.
Speaker 13: You had to say it's roight. Damn it, you had
Speaker 13: to say it. But yeah, no, you're right.
Speaker 4: I mean there's not, you know, too many late games
Speaker 4: to start the season. We'll see how Arizona does. You know,
Speaker 4: if Arizona gets off to a rocky start, then maybe
Speaker 4: we're looking at those those eight o'clock windows or maybe
Speaker 4: even normal games. But they're gonna be on ESPN Plus
Speaker 4: and not on linear television.
Speaker 13: But but yeah, going back to like.
Speaker 4: The schedule that you mentioned, the one thing that I
Speaker 4: really took away was Arizona. They're gonna have some games
Speaker 4: on TNT this year. With this this settlement with Warner Brothers.
Speaker 4: In the Big twelve, there's gonna be like, I think
Speaker 4: twelve or thirteen games on TNT slash TVs, and you know,
Speaker 4: Steve probably remembers the day.
Speaker 13: I certainly don't know.
Speaker 4: Troy doesn't. The days where college football was was was
Speaker 4: on TBS and you had you know, Brad Nessler and
Speaker 4: Aaron Andrews in the broadcast booth representing TBS.
Speaker 13: And now we're going back to those days.
Speaker 4: And I think it's the if I'm not mistaken, it's
Speaker 4: the season open to right, the season why that game
Speaker 4: is going to be on tn T. So yeah, the
Speaker 4: broadcast or the network that used to have all the
Speaker 4: NBA games and all that, they're going to dive into
Speaker 4: college football. So expect to see not just Arizona but
Speaker 4: other schools in the Big twelve to have some games
Speaker 4: broadcasted on T and T. And I think it's so
Speaker 4: cool that, you know, tn T is getting back into
Speaker 4: college football. And honestly, I love this schedule a lot
Speaker 4: for Arizona. Like I think that the fact that they
Speaker 4: have five out of their first six games, the fact
Speaker 4: that those games are at home, I think bosewell for Arizona.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: I think we've all we all know better by now
Speaker 4: to really have expectations for Arizona football after what we
Speaker 4: saw last year. But I feel better about the Cats,
Speaker 4: I really do. I feel better about them than say,
Speaker 4: when they got kicked around by forty two points by
Speaker 4: ASU in the Territorial Cup, because you know, I just
Speaker 4: I like the additions they made, both in the transfer
Speaker 4: portal at the high school level and also the coaching
Speaker 4: hires as well. You know, I think that Dino Babers
Speaker 4: was Let's just go ahead and say it.
Speaker 13: It was a mistake.
Speaker 4: It wasn't the right scheme, it wasn't the right fit
Speaker 4: for what Arizona had. It seemed like they were trying
Speaker 4: to fit a square peg into a round hole, and
Speaker 4: the offense was just so slow and lethargic, and there
Speaker 4: was just no intent or happiness. And now with new
Speaker 4: offense coordator Seth Daghi, who used to play quarterbacks, I
Speaker 4: mean like a decade ago, like he's not too far
Speaker 4: removed from his playing days with him and his ability
Speaker 4: to maximize the personnel, and I mean the classic example
Speaker 4: of maximizing the personnel is what he did at Marshall
Speaker 4: last year. You know, Marshall had the best offense in
Speaker 4: the Sun Belt. They had the Sun Belt Player of
Speaker 4: the Year with their quarterback, and they ended up winning
Speaker 4: the I think the programs like first ever sun Belt Championship,
Speaker 4: like last year was a very sore season for Marshall and.
Speaker 13: A big part of it was because of their offense.
Speaker 4: And Marshall had more rushing yards than passing yards. And
Speaker 4: so people who have any concerns about the balance of
Speaker 4: Arizona's offense, because Seth Daggi comes from the Mike Leach
Speaker 4: system and he has that background of.
Speaker 13: Throwing the ball.
Speaker 4: Look at what he did at Marshall again, more rushing
Speaker 4: yards than passing yards. And he'll be the first one.
Speaker 6: To tell you.
Speaker 4: And he looks at his talent, he looks at the
Speaker 4: personnel and their skill sets, and he figures out.
Speaker 13: Ways to maximize those guys.
Speaker 4: And based off of what we've seen in the spring,
Speaker 4: I think this offense is going to take a big
Speaker 4: step forward, which is saying something because you don't have
Speaker 4: Teturo McMillan, you don't have Jonas Savinea, you don't have.
Speaker 13: Josh Baker or Wendell Mooy.
Speaker 4: Like when you look at how much they lost, you're like, man,
Speaker 4: how can this Arizona offense get back to being good again?
Speaker 4: And I think the speed they added in the transfer
Speaker 4: portal with wide receivers like Javin Wattley and Chris Hudson
Speaker 4: and Luke Wisong, and then the big bodied ex receivers
Speaker 4: with Tray Spivee and a rising receiver and Brandon Phelps,
Speaker 4: who had one of the best spring camps out of
Speaker 4: any Arizona Wildcats. I think the offensive line is death
Speaker 4: only position that is concerning, right, Like, I don't think
Speaker 4: Noah Fafida is going to have the best protection in
Speaker 4: the Big Twelve, but you look at from the spring,
Speaker 4: Noah got the ball out quick and too many times
Speaker 4: last year Noah was holding onto the ball and it
Speaker 4: led to either a poor decision, maybe an interception he
Speaker 4: did lead the Big Twelve in interceptions last year, or
Speaker 4: throwing the ball away and he led college football and
Speaker 4: throwaways last year. So I think getting the ball out
Speaker 4: of Noah's hands quickly, I think it's going to be
Speaker 4: a good recipe. And like I said earlier, I think
Speaker 4: the fact that the first half of the schedule, five
Speaker 4: of those games are at home, you know, I think
Speaker 4: Arizona could really stockpile some wins and then you know,
Speaker 4: maybe steal a game or two in the second half.
Speaker 13: Of the schedule and figure out a way.
Speaker 4: To get the six and six and seven and five.
Speaker 4: Then I think if they do that, then I think
Speaker 4: the pressure is just a little bit off of a
Speaker 4: Brent Brenner right now.
Speaker 13: So I'm excited for the season.
Speaker 4: I think Arizona. I think they have some favorable opponents,
Speaker 4: some favorable matchups. But then again, we also don't really
Speaker 4: know until we see the games being played, right Because
Speaker 4: ESU was voted to finish last in the Big Twelve
Speaker 4: last year and then they ended up winning the whole
Speaker 4: damn conference and.
Speaker 13: Going to the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 4: There were, you know, other teams that were supposed to
Speaker 4: do good and then didn't, like Utah and like Oklahoma State.
Speaker 4: So we don't really know until we know. And so
Speaker 4: I think Arizona they have a chance to really make
Speaker 4: some noise this year. But I do have some concerns,
Speaker 4: but I guess we'll find out August thirtieth against Hawaii.
Speaker 2: Well, justin thanks so much. Let me say you just
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Speaker 2: We got about eight minutes justin I couldn't get about.
Speaker 2: That's cool, though he's a good information. Oh yeah, soft
Speaker 2: football starts pretty soon. I hope you have some time off.
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Speaker 2: for the summer because I left for a month, and
Speaker 2: then I didn't have a day off until seven months later.
Speaker 2: Good old days. Now I can go and stick and
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Speaker 2: cool dude. Yeah, Steve Rivera, Yeah, good old days. Anybody
Speaker 2: want to call? Finish this off? For the rest of
Speaker 2: the day, we got about seven eight minutes five two
Speaker 2: zero four one six seventy four four zero if you
Speaker 2: want to call, listen to judge justin see talked about
Speaker 2: seven and five maybe. I think we talked about that
Speaker 2: last week, didn't we Where they gonna finish seventy five?
Speaker 2: Maybe six and six, you know, because there's some games
Speaker 2: that can go either way, so we'll see which way
Speaker 2: they go.
Speaker 3: I think anything from five and seven and five it's good.
Speaker 3: You can't be four an eight again and getting low out.
Speaker 2: No. Four and eight, that's not good for him. Uh,
Speaker 2: seven and five, five and seven, No, six and six,
Speaker 2: seven and five that would be good. And it seems
Speaker 2: that gives you hope again. Again, this is what we
Speaker 2: talked about at the beginning. At least I did we
Speaker 2: know what Arizona has. The things have improved, right, we
Speaker 2: went through this last week. You were not here. I
Speaker 2: guess today. Uh this game, that game, this game, this
Speaker 2: back and forth. Okay, yeah, no, it was like eight,
Speaker 2: It was like eight and four, seven and five. Right,
Speaker 2: I think we're maybe seven and five, maybe six and six.
Speaker 2: But some games could go either way, right, you know,
Speaker 2: will will the desiree be forgiving or unforgiving? Depends on
Speaker 2: the situation, right, Yeah, I mean you have to think
Speaker 2: this and her hire, right, none of these coaches on
Speaker 2: the current coaching staff across the athletic department were any
Speaker 2: of her hires except for now with Becky Burke with
Speaker 2: the basketball program. So I'm not saying in golf in
Speaker 2: golf too, I'm not saying they're on the hot seat.
Speaker 2: That's not what I'm saying. But you're you're always wondering,
Speaker 2: you know, am I doing enough? And that's and that's
Speaker 2: not just here, it's everywhere. Yeah, right, because you know,
Speaker 2: he's not your person, he's not your guy, whether the
Speaker 2: adies and home man or a woman or whatever if
Speaker 2: you didn't hire them or them in trouble. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: no Well, man, I really like this person. I want
Speaker 2: them to succeed. We'll keep them around a couple more
Speaker 2: years or none of that, right, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: Good luck to them, I think, tip Ton, Well, what
Speaker 2: I was going with this is we know what Arizona
Speaker 2: has or how they improved, but we really don't know
Speaker 2: what the other schools have done to coquick. Hello, you're
Speaker 2: on the air nine the ball? Who's this big big
Speaker 2: once it work? Give me some sor.
Speaker 6: I called uh uh Texas text up to zero in Oklahoma?
Speaker 2: Oh you know that's music? Yeah, I see that is
Speaker 2: Is there a good thing for you with a new
Speaker 2: softball coach at Arizona's gonna.
Speaker 13: Be yea.
Speaker 2: A martini or something like that. I get it.
Speaker 6: I get it to the X man or else that
Speaker 6: that Steve Rivera have that million dollars for Nigerie Kennedy
Speaker 6: to come her senior year.
Speaker 2: Well you gotta figure out how Dakota. Dakota Kennedy is gone. Yeah,
Speaker 2: now Dakota Kennedy.
Speaker 6: Is gone, so you know I'll take her leaving. If
Speaker 6: we can get there the picture.
Speaker 2: You know this place better than most, especially in softball.
Speaker 6: The money is gonna be funny because this weekend hot
Speaker 6: at the Zoom into June in California, and I can't
Speaker 6: wait to call my friends and see if Haman's there.
Speaker 2: Come on, no question, Yeah, yeah, yeah, is there a
Speaker 2: You've been in the groove for a long time, enough
Speaker 2: enough solid pictures to go around.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, yeah, yeah, there is you just like we,
Speaker 6: I mean, me and you talked, and they've just missed,
Speaker 6: even even Andrea myssed. I mean it's you know, Oklahoma
Speaker 6: hasn't missed the last few years. I mean even with
Speaker 6: this Landry girl they got. Everybody told them, oh she's
Speaker 6: not what they were, but he's leading them to the
Speaker 6: final four in the World Series.
Speaker 2: I'll say this, They're not missing and Andrea's miss quote
Speaker 2: unquote miss You.
Speaker 3: Still had a Gator National GATORAY Player of the Year
Speaker 3: in Taylor McQuillan, who got Arizona the Women's College World Series.
Speaker 3: Now is Taylor Arizona ustaf No, But Arizona doesn't have
Speaker 3: a Taylor McQuillan. Arizona doesn't have an ALYSSA Denham to
Speaker 3: go to right now. So you're trying to get back
Speaker 3: even at that level.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you, Troy. I saw Taylor junior and
Speaker 6: senior year at Mission Beagle and we went to the
Speaker 6: championship game against Chino and I looked at my buddy
Speaker 6: and he looked at me, and he goes, oh my god,
Speaker 6: you guys are gonna win two national titles with her.
Speaker 6: That's how dominant she was high school while she was.
Speaker 2: But you know this, there's other there's other nuggets out
Speaker 2: there that are just as good, if not better, with
Speaker 2: better teams.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's true, man, And you've got to put it
Speaker 6: all together. Even in Texas Tech. They're hitting Oklahoma right now.
Speaker 6: So it's not just Kennedy.
Speaker 2: I go into places I'm sometimes I'm not the best
Speaker 2: looking guy in the room.
Speaker 6: Ah, that's a lie.
Speaker 3: And it's chemistry. I mean, you know, lock rooms work,
Speaker 3: and what's going on. I mean, for a number of
Speaker 3: years we saw the women's basketball program, people transferring in
Speaker 3: and out.
Speaker 2: It wasn't going good. Now you have had goach whether
Speaker 2: it was chemistry, coaching situations.
Speaker 3: A lot of I haven't seen that went into one
Speaker 3: ball of time for a change. So there's a lot
Speaker 3: that goes on in.
Speaker 2: VIC. You have a lot of knowledge in this, and
Speaker 2: you send me notes all the time, you know. I
Speaker 2: guess you can continue doing that until I just block you.
Speaker 2: Did you did? You? Did you coach?
Speaker 6: I I only coached at the youth level and I
Speaker 6: assisted at the high school level.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that doesn't yeh, because the little girls aren't gonna,
Speaker 2: you know, create too much some trauma. So yeah, if
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 6: And actually, when my girls started getting a little bit
Speaker 6: good and I knew, I stepped away completely and said, hey,
Speaker 6: somebody else kind of take them. There was the car
Speaker 6: ride home wasn't too pleasant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well this these radio calls aren't too pleasant, you
Speaker 2: know why right?
Speaker 6: You know, I love you, but but but yeah, there
Speaker 6: there is pitching to go around out there. And I
Speaker 6: don't know if Troy said it last or somebody did,
Speaker 6: but we've got to kind of get away from California
Speaker 6: and and and Stiff and Batbusters and those guys and
Speaker 6: and turn over some new nuggets in Texas and the
Speaker 6: Midwest and stuff.
Speaker 13: We have to.
Speaker 3: There's a ton of talent out in the South that
Speaker 3: Arizona hasn't turned over.
Speaker 2: Those Rocks. Yeah, they're there.
Speaker 6: And all those travel teams Troy and I don't know
Speaker 6: if you're familiar with that. They never used to contend
Speaker 6: with PGF. It was always obviously Firecrackers, Batbusters, Corona Angels.
Speaker 6: But now those teams are winning those tournaments. Those teams
Speaker 6: are coming west and winning those big tournaments. So you
Speaker 6: know that the talent's out there. Georgia, the Georgia. Georgia
Speaker 6: has two teams that are just fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 6: So it's gonna be uh Man, Desiree has been thrown
Speaker 6: into the fire.
Speaker 5: That's for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no question on another number of different levels. Hey, big,
Speaker 2: we gotta go.
Speaker 6: Okay, it was a great show you guys, good job.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thank you, Senor huch Listen, thanks for coming in.
Speaker 2: Good guests today. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Thanks