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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back, joining the ball here Fox Sports fourteen
Speaker 3: fifty on Steve, you're Jay, And now with Brittany News,
Speaker 3: we have Henry Vikings.
Speaker 4: Rookie quarterback J J. McCarthy needs menisca surgery and will
Speaker 4: miss the whole twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's tough for the kid who had a lot.
Speaker 5: Of popach and pick right at That's yeah, that's that's
Speaker 5: that's hard and for the team, right because you get
Speaker 5: you pick, you pick a quarterback in the first round.
Speaker 5: You expect that he's going to be important to you
Speaker 5: and now he's out. That's that's too bad.
Speaker 4: Jim Harball has offered a coaching position to Colin Kaepernick,
Speaker 4: which Kaepernick is still considering. Well, still wants to come
Speaker 4: back and play quarterback.
Speaker 3: How old is you? Like fifteen?
Speaker 4: Only like thirty thirty four?
Speaker 5: This just in Joe Cappe he signed you know, well,
Speaker 5: I get it. Good for him, right, Kaepernick didn't leave
Speaker 5: on his terms and with all that crap that went on,
Speaker 5: I get it. You know, hanging on to the dream.
Speaker 5: But it's been so long since he played. I just
Speaker 5: don't see anybody, you know, saying okay, you know, come
Speaker 5: and be our quarterback. But you know, it takes the
Speaker 5: opportunity when it comes to you, man, I would.
Speaker 4: Noah Afida has been named to the Johnny United's Golden
Speaker 4: Arm Award watchless.
Speaker 5: Johnny, you man, that's my buddy.
Speaker 3: That's your buddy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Johnny and I we're friends.
Speaker 3: You just got to get his jersey up here, and
Speaker 3: I have it.
Speaker 5: Johnny United jersey.
Speaker 3: We wore it.
Speaker 5: You were it right, Well, that's right for when when
Speaker 5: we when we did our when we moved he did
Speaker 5: our move over here. Yeah. So yeah, another award and
Speaker 5: they're somemore right coming up. Okay, let's go through those.
Speaker 4: Jacob Manu has been named to the Preseason Buckis Award watchless.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's that?
Speaker 5: The best linebacker? Okay? As he you know again, man,
Speaker 5: it's been it's been eons since Arizona's had guys that
Speaker 5: have gotten this kind of attention.
Speaker 3: And you have to thank Jed for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Oh yeah, he wouldn't got these guys.
Speaker 4: The Patriots have traded Pro Bowl linebacker Matthew Judon to
Speaker 4: the Falcons for a third up pick. He had fifteen
Speaker 4: and a half sacks in the twenty twenty two season
Speaker 4: before struggling through injuries last year.
Speaker 5: All right, did you see the Patriots? So there was
Speaker 5: a list one through what are thirty two NFL teams
Speaker 5: one through thirty two ranking, and the Patriots in one
Speaker 5: I saw was thirty second, like the worst team in
Speaker 5: the NFL. I'm going from where, you know, the dynasty
Speaker 5: that they put together in just a few short years
Speaker 5: to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's what was shocking to us. We had
Speaker 3: Ryan with a Tom Brady jersey, so what is he thinking?
Speaker 5: But it's stunning that, you know, I mean, I get
Speaker 5: they lost a bunch of guys, right, one guy went
Speaker 5: to is well, I actually laugh at that. What's the
Speaker 5: name the guy who killed somebody?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a really good player.
Speaker 5: No, but you know, Brady Lee's gronk retires, you know,
Speaker 5: and leaves all those things and just like that, man,
Speaker 5: you're you were at the top, you were at the
Speaker 5: top of the heap, and now you're at the very
Speaker 5: bottom of the heap. That's crazy.
Speaker 4: One of Tommy Lloyd's team USA under eighteen players, Nicholas
Speaker 4: coming and the twenty seven Franks senior in the country,
Speaker 4: has an official visit to Arizona scheduled from August thirty
Speaker 4: first to September second.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, I mean that's why they do those things, right,
Speaker 5: you know, they do that to get contact with guys
Speaker 5: like that that they didn't can help them. So you know,
Speaker 5: if that wasn't an opportunity to get those guys and
Speaker 5: they probably none of those guys would do that, so
Speaker 5: good for him.
Speaker 4: Tickets are now on sale for the December fourteenth matchup
Speaker 4: between UCLA and Arizona at the Footprint Center in Fields.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't say prices. I don't think.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't see the.
Speaker 4: Right and Arizona Gymnastics set the program record for scholastic
Speaker 4: All Americans with twenty gymnasts.
Speaker 5: Scholastic All Americans. Wow, John cort Man tracking the whip
Speaker 5: on academics for those What.
Speaker 3: Do you mean they had twenty All Americans overall?
Speaker 5: Yeah, over academic All Americas.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, because they don't overall the years. Oh,
Speaker 3: ok they acted because they don't have twenty on the roster.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, I think it's years years. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: did you see that they and I just saw this
Speaker 3: I was on Tucson dot com that they're provost. They
Speaker 3: left after a month, after a month because he started
Speaker 3: July first, Yeah, after taking the job in April May
Speaker 3: something like that. Uh, there's so many changes that we're
Speaker 3: you know, hard to keep track of actually in and Adam.
Speaker 5: Mkille right, I mean, what what what's the backs? We
Speaker 5: are there? Right? They hired the new president and then goes,
Speaker 5: I'm out of here. You know, did they know each
Speaker 5: other or did the new president come in and say
Speaker 5: you're not my guy?
Speaker 3: And did you see the amount they were paying him,
Speaker 3: which I think when they announced it was kind of
Speaker 3: surprising given the money situation. Five point fifty for the
Speaker 3: provost for the provost, that's what that's what they make
Speaker 3: not here, right, Sorry, could we give a discount?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you wonder you know what, I don't know when
Speaker 5: you're here for a month, it's kind of okay, we're
Speaker 5: almost sense that you really wasn't committed here. Really, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't know or.
Speaker 3: Or didn't realize. There's probably so many stories right here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: realized the scope of the the situation situation. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: it could be It could be any because.
Speaker 5: You would think that the new president compan he says, okay,
Speaker 5: this is who's here, let's talk, or maybe the guy said, well,
Speaker 5: I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3: Right, your your your vision doesn't align with his with mine?
Speaker 3: And how many times does that happen in the job
Speaker 3: all the time, all the time? You're right, anything else,
Speaker 3: that's all I got. Okay, there was something else I
Speaker 3: saw here. Maybe that was it the pro listing.
Speaker 5: But yeah, got so much stuff going on over there,
Speaker 5: so much.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I was gonna go spend some time on
Speaker 3: the rosters of who is still here. And because because
Speaker 3: you know, I've been out of the newspaper business fourteen years.
Speaker 3: You used to live there pretty much, have aartic my
Speaker 3: laptop and sit sit on a desk there and see
Speaker 3: everybody come by. And that's how you got stories, right,
Speaker 3: People talk to you. People don't know me because they're
Speaker 3: all new. Yeah, I mean I couldn't tell you. Maybe
Speaker 3: Justin Kikowski who's there at the time with basketball, uh football,
Speaker 3: nobody nobody even yeah, even in even in just anywhere
Speaker 3: along those lines, academics, nobody, nobody, and everyone's in the
Speaker 3: in the other building.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now just you know, so many, so many people have
Speaker 3: gone come and gone.
Speaker 5: You know, no, absolutely, it's yeah, it's all different. But god,
Speaker 5: you just all this upheaval at the university. Feel like
Speaker 5: at some point it's got to settle down and then
Speaker 5: they just got to start doing the work to you know,
Speaker 5: to pull this all back together.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: And then we talked. We had President Robinson here three
Speaker 3: or four months ago talking about eighteen months. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think that was a little gen we I only thought
Speaker 3: that went in to suddenly we said that that it
Speaker 3: would take longer than eighteen months to get out of
Speaker 3: this mess, right, and then in the Ernst and Young thing,
Speaker 3: it's going to take you know, time for for them
Speaker 3: to get all this money and have people support them again, right,
Speaker 3: to get back on track. Yeah, especially especially what's the
Speaker 3: what's the kids that you're gonna get paid? That the
Speaker 3: kid the twenty two million dollar thing?
Speaker 5: Oh that just the revenue sharing.
Speaker 3: Revenue sharing, Yeah, that's a huge deal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's that's a big, big, big ticket item
Speaker 5: to say, to say the least. Right, But you know,
Speaker 5: it's like how you know, and how's everybody going to
Speaker 5: do this right.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you. Let me ask you. Could you
Speaker 3: do this? I don't do this. You probably had to
Speaker 3: pay for football tickets already, right, Uh you got four
Speaker 3: two two? Okay two? So you and your wife?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh, because they're real goes to Yeah, they're on their own.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, can you say what you paid for it?
Speaker 5: I don't recall. I think it was. I had it.
Speaker 5: I can look it up real quick.
Speaker 3: But let me actually, so I want you to do that.
Speaker 3: Was that a fair price?
Speaker 5: Yeah? My tickets went up fifty dollars particular, okay, year
Speaker 5: for the year. Yeah, fifty dollars per ticket for the year.
Speaker 3: And the reason I ask is, I think if you
Speaker 3: if you make it a fair price. And that's what
Speaker 3: we talked about last week with Lamont, and we talked
Speaker 3: about it with you when you came back. That you
Speaker 3: have to find a way that that that central point,
Speaker 3: you know, that that perfect spot where you're in Tucson,
Speaker 3: you're not in rich Richville, that they can open their
Speaker 3: wallets and come to a game or two or three, uh,
Speaker 3: to get them in the in the stands.
Speaker 5: Well, the thing is, and I shouldn't say this, you
Speaker 5: should say publicly, but I'm going to If they had
Speaker 5: raised my tickets one hundred dollars one hundred and fifty dollars,
Speaker 5: I would I would have bought tickets, okay, because I'm going. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm going. I'm going to these games. I'm going.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm gonna follow the team, you know, I'm going.
Speaker 5: So what I've been unhappy about it?
Speaker 3: Probably and Deserrey has already gone public to say that
Speaker 3: the ticket sales were up, Right, you talked about this
Speaker 3: few days ago in terms of the percentage of new
Speaker 3: ticket sales.
Speaker 5: Right, and yeah, And I don't know what that uh
Speaker 5: you know what that uh good call is. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean I'm I'm going to the games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got a call.
Speaker 5: Hi, you're on the air and on the ball. Hey.
Speaker 6: I was wondering what you guys would think if they
Speaker 6: were to ever think about bringing back the not whole
Speaker 6: club that used to exist in the eighties and nineties
Speaker 6: at the football games. You know, I was a kid
Speaker 6: growing up going to the games eighties and nineties, and
Speaker 6: the deal back then was amazing. It was a dollar
Speaker 6: a game for all home games, and you went and
Speaker 6: you were kind of baby babysat by like student helpers
Speaker 6: in this at the end. But it made it easier
Speaker 6: for the parents to be able to afford and then
Speaker 6: a family could go. But I mean, now if you
Speaker 6: wanted to go with the family, everyone has to get
Speaker 6: the same tickets and stuff, you know, so it's a
Speaker 6: whole other thing. But I would just think that would
Speaker 6: be a very easy way to boost attendance if they
Speaker 6: were willing to accommodate, because I do know families that
Speaker 6: try to go that can afforda that would want to go.
Speaker 6: They're up in the three hundred section. They're the ones
Speaker 6: that are die hard, yelling hard. No one could hear
Speaker 6: them on the field while the students are partying, hanging
Speaker 6: out with Chris Rogers, and the main valley side is
Speaker 6: just still in there, sitting down, not really cheering. So
Speaker 6: I just think that would make a huge impact.
Speaker 3: You sound like Steve, you might have to get over that.
Speaker 5: Chris Rogers.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you do you go? Do you go?
Speaker 3: Do you have tickets?
Speaker 6: And I'll go when I can afford a ticket because
Speaker 6: I have a big family. I mean, I go and
Speaker 6: we can go. But that's basically two games a year.
Speaker 6: But if it was more affordable with a family option,
Speaker 6: and I could send off my little ones to go
Speaker 6: be with you know, people that would be with them.
Speaker 6: And even if it was a different section that they
Speaker 6: the kids don't eat the great seats. But if you
Speaker 6: think about the amazing tony years and the amazing seasons
Speaker 6: when it was a packed house, it's you had a
Speaker 6: good few thousand that were just kids. They're very discounted.
Speaker 6: Well the families could afford the other day.
Speaker 3: So did you listen to us when Lamont was on
Speaker 3: the show a week or so ago he brought that,
Speaker 3: he brought that specific thing up. He wished you could
Speaker 3: go back to that time. But but Jay and Jr.
Speaker 3: Is that Jr? Yeah, yeah, yeah, the corporate baby, it's
Speaker 3: it's all about the kids. And what would you mean?
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I mean if you anything give and take,
Speaker 6: you know, I know some MESSYC schools still do something
Speaker 6: like that. And I mean, I'm just saying, if you
Speaker 6: want to get people back to the door, you can't
Speaker 6: get some get some families in who are like the
Speaker 6: blue collar families and get your kids and things like that.
Speaker 6: Total gifts unless there's some type of compromise.
Speaker 3: Totally get it. Okay, let's let's say that happens, just hypothetically,
Speaker 3: you'd have to make those ticks. It's now, well not
Speaker 3: one dollar, but maybe five.
Speaker 6: Per kids, you know, per game. Let's say fifteen bucks.
Speaker 7: You know what I mean.
Speaker 6: You know KERK game, So I mean at that or
Speaker 6: at ten bucks, you know what I mean. But it's
Speaker 6: it's something more reasonable because if you could just sit
Speaker 6: at home then and watch you an HD and eat
Speaker 6: you know, a family.
Speaker 8: Meal together, it's it's that's.
Speaker 6: How we're watching them now.
Speaker 3: The HD fifty five seventy five in screen has killed
Speaker 3: a Yeah, and your yeah, and your beers are cheaper
Speaker 3: in the fridge.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: And now before there were beers and kids, people would
Speaker 6: would you see the guys sneaking stuff in?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 6: Was just a kid, but yeah, I just that that's
Speaker 6: a very easy way to get more numbers out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, I was a whole kid too as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, even when when Dick told me they didn't know
Speaker 6: that that Jay was his friend.
Speaker 5: Appreciate that there, Thank you.
Speaker 3: I always want to I want to do what the
Speaker 3: lover was reciprocated.
Speaker 5: We loved each other. Hey, okay, so here it is.
Speaker 5: My tickets went up one hundred dollars. It went from
Speaker 5: six to eighty for a pair for six where I
Speaker 5: sit six games for yeah for uh that to to
Speaker 5: uh seven.
Speaker 3: Eight each each, no total six games.
Speaker 5: It went from it went from three forty three ninety.
Speaker 3: For six games per ticket six games right, yep, seven
Speaker 3: hundred seven seven eighty six games, two tickets, fifty dollars each.
Speaker 3: Whatever it is, that's not bad. No for entertainment, then
Speaker 3: you're gonna go anyway, right, you said anybody who heard
Speaker 3: him he'd paid double that.
Speaker 5: That doesn't mean I'm trying to move my seats more
Speaker 5: towards the middle to pay more. It's just we sit
Speaker 5: where we sit, and we we like where we sit.
Speaker 5: We're close enough to the bathrooms and the snack bars
Speaker 5: and yeah, you know, we feel we've got a good,
Speaker 5: good angle on things.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I know those seats are those seats are good.
Speaker 3: I like those and the weather. Yeah, we'll see. We're
Speaker 3: not here to solve problems. But if you could find
Speaker 3: an area and I can't remember in that south zone.
Speaker 5: It was in the south end zone and there were
Speaker 5: some bleachers. Now I don't know where you'd put them.
Speaker 5: I know exactly exactly where would you put them and
Speaker 5: you can't. You don't put them up in the top. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: because those seats are you know, you need to have
Speaker 5: them down. Look, you know what kids falling out of.
Speaker 3: The shure and you need and you need those prime
Speaker 3: seats for the regular people.
Speaker 5: Those seats are. Yeah, those are good seats for people.
Speaker 3: Yeah they there. You got to go, right, we do
Speaker 3: have to go.
Speaker 5: We've got Scott McKee head coach AT's Canyon to Laura,
Speaker 5: defending state champions new head coach there, so we'll talk
Speaker 5: about what what his challenge is in front of him
Speaker 5: stepping in for a team that already won a state championships.
Speaker 5: So Scott McKey coming right up. Then right after that
Speaker 5: we're gonna have Mo Tangara form Arizona player. Uh, he'll
Speaker 5: be here for the Fludofs and basketball camp. So we'll
Speaker 5: talk to both of those guys. So our phones are
Speaker 5: gonna be filled up, but we appreciate you listening, so
Speaker 5: stick around.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Wind the Ball here Fox Sports
Speaker 3: Fortune fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, he's Jagan's aust now and
Speaker 3: IFO we have Scott McKee that you football coach at
Speaker 3: Canyon del Orol. How are you doing coach?
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, I'm doing well. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: I guess you've been a long time football coach, so
Speaker 3: it's not so much new, just new to cdo. But
Speaker 3: when you just to take the job, what were you thinking.
Speaker 8: Thinking? How fast can Dusty get back kind of a
Speaker 8: deal we were doing together were kind of called at
Speaker 8: the Queen Creek model, where the head coaches kind of
Speaker 8: both overlapped and helped each other and then, uh, you know,
Speaker 8: kind of kept the program going that way, but took
Speaker 8: a little bit off of each side of it. And uh,
Speaker 8: and I totally get it. I mean, you want to
Speaker 8: stay championship, and he wants to spend time with his
Speaker 8: boys and his wife and and it's and it's a
Speaker 8: great place to be. So you just couldn't kind of
Speaker 8: pass something like that up because those places like that
Speaker 8: don't come open very often.
Speaker 5: Well, you're you're in a position, you're you guys, are
Speaker 5: you know, coming off of a state championship and now
Speaker 5: you're the head coach of this team. Is there any
Speaker 5: a little bit of feeling of okay, just don't mess
Speaker 5: this up? I mean, how do you how do you
Speaker 5: how do you approach that right with probably continued expectations
Speaker 5: for this program.
Speaker 8: Well, every day I try to make sure I don't
Speaker 8: mess up two things, right, my marriage and then Dusty's program. Okay,
Speaker 8: so that's the big kind of thing there. But you know,
Speaker 8: we know that we lost a lot of guys, but boy,
Speaker 8: of those guys that are sitting in the locker room
Speaker 8: are really good too. It's just their turn to go.
Speaker 8: And you know, the places is built for success. The
Speaker 8: way it's set up with class schedules, an a rated
Speaker 8: school administration that cares, and then your parents group is
Speaker 8: ridiculously amazing. So you have everything you need there. You
Speaker 8: just need, you know, we just need young guys to
Speaker 8: get experience right now. But it's a pretty amazing place
Speaker 8: to be honest with you.
Speaker 3: I think you were there last year, right, you were
Speaker 3: there last year with him?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I came in. I finished up at Saworo and
Speaker 8: then I helped us. He's kind of an analytical guy
Speaker 8: a couple of years ago, just kind of working practice plan,
Speaker 8: just two guys that like football. And then after Snowflake,
Speaker 8: I told him, I said I'm all in and I'll
Speaker 8: help you. And my job was just to assist him
Speaker 8: and anything he needed. And that was great because I
Speaker 8: could just focus on the coaching. And we're very fortunate
Speaker 8: to have those thirty seniors and what a special group,
Speaker 8: you know, Kaden Luke and Ski Lee and Chase Locks.
Speaker 8: I mean, you can't have a better group of young
Speaker 8: men than that.
Speaker 3: So so kind of wanted to go here with it
Speaker 3: because the kids know you, but you probably have a
Speaker 3: different style than Dustin and you know, how how does
Speaker 3: that work?
Speaker 8: Well, it's like my dad says, you know the old
Speaker 8: football coach. He goes, do it, Dusty, did you know what?
Speaker 8: Be yourself? So we follow a lot of the protocols
Speaker 8: of what they had, but we know we're adding some
Speaker 8: of our systems and things that I believe that were
Speaker 8: successful for us. And it's and it's been good. The
Speaker 8: kids got, you know, some some things they're familiar with,
Speaker 8: but at the same time they're getting a couple of
Speaker 8: things that are new, which kind of makes it exciting
Speaker 8: for him each day. And I'm humbled to be there.
Speaker 8: And you know, we got a lot of respect for
Speaker 8: Dusty in the school. So I'm just trying to give
Speaker 8: my best every day. And I'll tell you the part
Speaker 8: that I have that that you know doesn't get talked
Speaker 8: about well enough is how how blessed we are with
Speaker 8: the assistant coaches and then how hard did those players
Speaker 8: try for us? So pretty cool place.
Speaker 5: So what's the first thing you do when you walk
Speaker 5: into a situation like that? Because you're the guy now
Speaker 5: you said, I'm just trying to not mess up Dusty's program.
Speaker 5: But it's your program you've got. You know, you're going
Speaker 5: to do things the way you do things. How do
Speaker 5: you how do you approach that? What? You know what
Speaker 5: when you walked in the door and said, okay, I'm
Speaker 5: the guy. Now what's the first thing you were thinking
Speaker 5: about that you needed to do?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 8: The first thing you do is you just do a
Speaker 8: full evaluation of the program, you know, and all the
Speaker 8: things that they did well. You got to keep those right.
Speaker 8: And then you go back and you look at the
Speaker 8: Swaro years where we were getting it going pretty well
Speaker 8: with great football players, and you take some of those
Speaker 8: pieces of it. And then obviously then you got to
Speaker 8: tellor that to fit what you have in the room.
Speaker 8: And Kyd and Luke isn't in the room anymore. You know,
Speaker 8: if the Kylie's not in the room. There's great football players,
Speaker 8: but we have to adjust the angles for the stuff
Speaker 8: that we're asking those guys to do because you can't
Speaker 8: make them be what they're not. They have great skills.
Speaker 8: We just have to put them in those positions to
Speaker 8: be successful. So it's been good. And then the other
Speaker 8: part is used to lean on the staff. You know, hey, guys,
Speaker 8: how'd you coach this? How'd you cover this? Tell me
Speaker 8: the drill here, you know, and well I'll tell you
Speaker 8: the learning curve on those guys. The summer has been.
Speaker 8: It has been really really impressive, how hard and fast those
Speaker 8: guys are improving.
Speaker 3: So you're a you have a many years ago. I
Speaker 3: won't say how many because I really don't know, but
Speaker 3: you're an old bag. Your your roommates are Bobby Wade?
Speaker 3: Are you thinking? You're thinking I can't wait to coach?
Speaker 3: What were you thinking back then?
Speaker 8: Well, it was my roommates were the three of them
Speaker 8: were Lancebriggs, Bobby Wade, and Ray Wells and they all
Speaker 8: went to the NFL and I went to Pleblo High
Speaker 8: School as volunteer assystem. So that tells me the difference
Speaker 8: in the skill level. Okay, guys, So I got to
Speaker 8: go down there, and it just I always wanted to
Speaker 8: be a coach because of my father, and I was
Speaker 8: going to be on the U of A staff as
Speaker 8: a grad assistant. And then some of the alument talked
Speaker 8: to us about, hey, it's probably not a good idea
Speaker 8: to join on because Mackovic was going to get removed
Speaker 8: in a couple of days, and so I just ended
Speaker 8: up kind of in the high school game. And I've
Speaker 8: been there since and it's kind of been a great
Speaker 8: place because I tell the kids all the time, you know,
Speaker 8: I just plug into them. I mean, it's unlimited energy
Speaker 8: with those young guys, and it's great to be around them.
Speaker 8: And I'm really proud of Bobby. I mean he's I mean,
Speaker 8: how lucky are we to have that guy as a
Speaker 8: receiver coach of the UA?
Speaker 3: Right? So let me say so, you know, I write books.
Speaker 3: I think the stories you could tell being roommates.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well we'll focus on the good parts of that
Speaker 8: great great guys. And you talk about amazing teammates. I mean,
Speaker 8: those guys are the guys so and that's the best
Speaker 8: of the best. So you know, to have those guys
Speaker 8: still around the program, you know, I know Lance is
Speaker 8: in here and out a lot, and uh. And then
Speaker 8: Bobby's really working hard with those receiver groups. And if
Speaker 8: you guys look at those recruiting stuff, you know, he
Speaker 8: signs all those guys. I mean, you know those the
Speaker 8: rest of the staff is amazing, but Bobby's the one
Speaker 8: that's beating the doors down. So really happy for him
Speaker 8: and obviously coach a Keina and then Brennan. Those guys
Speaker 8: are all amazing human beings.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so all right, so going your football season starts
Speaker 5: in a couple of weeks. You know, we we talked
Speaker 5: to Pat Nugent yesterday. The only two games they lost
Speaker 5: were to you guys last year. Is that a rivalry
Speaker 5: that's that's brewing right there, even though you guys aren't
Speaker 5: far you know, as far away from from each other
Speaker 5: as you can get in this town.
Speaker 3: Uh, And do you need each other right? Right? Well?
Speaker 8: I mean, I think there's tremendous respect from our school
Speaker 8: for Pat because Pat was the one that got you know, CDO.
Speaker 8: I mean, it was always really good, but he's the
Speaker 8: one that took it up a whole other level over
Speaker 8: over there, and he did it with some really interesting things.
Speaker 8: I mean, the way he fund raised, the way he
Speaker 8: set his weighting room stuff. His practice plan was completely
Speaker 8: different because his varsity coaches would coach the JV and
Speaker 8: the varsity kids. So he left a lot of blueprints
Speaker 8: and fingerprints on the CDO program, and then Dusty came
Speaker 8: in and made it his and just you know, super
Speaker 8: charged it. So we all have a lot of respect
Speaker 8: for Pat and what he's doing over there. And you know,
Speaker 8: good football teams like to play good football teams. You know,
Speaker 8: we know that that was going to take our best
Speaker 8: effort to make sure we were ready and be prepared
Speaker 8: to play him, and we were fortunate that we had
Speaker 8: a group that was ready to do that.
Speaker 3: And you know, kids are always impressionable, right, they have
Speaker 3: white Ice. You have some pretty good alums that have
Speaker 3: come down. Yeah, and not too long ago. They're a
Speaker 3: little older, but you know, you have the Cadeen Carries,
Speaker 3: the Martinez kid. I think went to see the Robins kid.
Speaker 8: You have people yep, right and Rockers Stevie Rockers playing
Speaker 8: right now is starting running back over at Montana. So
Speaker 8: there's a lot of them. And you know, we had
Speaker 8: guys that came in, like the other day we had
Speaker 8: Montana Newstetter came down. He was here two weeks ago,
Speaker 8: three weeks ago with the freshman kids, and he was
Speaker 8: talking about that he was an iron man for cdo
Speaker 8: that means you didn't miss a day. So he's a
Speaker 8: four year didn't miss a day kid, four point zero
Speaker 8: and he's up there as a starting quarterback playing football
Speaker 8: in college. So you got those guys that keep rolling
Speaker 8: through the building, and then obviously I don't know them all,
Speaker 8: but they're always welcome. So anybody, you guys know that's
Speaker 8: a cdo guy. I end up painting a lot of
Speaker 8: houses for those guys, you know, class of sixty seven
Speaker 8: eighty five, that kind of years, But I don't I
Speaker 8: would love him. Everybody come by anytime. We need all
Speaker 8: their help.
Speaker 5: So okay, so tell us what do you guys look
Speaker 5: like so far? You know what kind of team are
Speaker 5: you going to be?
Speaker 8: Well, I'll tell you we have the most sophomores they've
Speaker 8: ever had on a varsity group has been four. We
Speaker 8: have fifteen and then four freshmen. But the way that
Speaker 8: they're learning right now is amazing. It looks like to
Speaker 8: be about ten seniors that will be able to really contribute.
Speaker 8: You have some special ones like Evan Greer, I mean
Speaker 8: there's nobody better than that one, and and some young
Speaker 8: guys that are just waiting for their turn. So the
Speaker 8: learning curve has been great. I can't get the gate
Speaker 8: open fast enough in the morning. They're sitting outside at
Speaker 8: five forty five, Coach, can we go now can we
Speaker 8: go a little bit earlier. So really blessed and fortunate
Speaker 8: to have the group. It will be a good fundamental group,
Speaker 8: you know, will be sound, and we'll just try to
Speaker 8: make sure that we can improve every single week and
Speaker 8: at the end of the year we'll be standing. We'll
Speaker 8: be there for sure.
Speaker 3: So how many people you have back from these both
Speaker 3: sides of starters?
Speaker 8: Three? Three toll? Yeah, Well, those kids that are in
Speaker 8: that build, those kids that are in those building are
Speaker 8: the same ones that were there.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 8: Basically that senior group that left is a state championship
Speaker 8: a couple of years ago. That was what Dusty had too,
Speaker 8: a bunch of sophomores, a couple freshmen, and a lot
Speaker 8: of young guys, and he really did a good job
Speaker 8: of nurturing that group through and then well you get
Speaker 8: a state championship out of it. So we're hopeful we
Speaker 8: can follow that same plan.
Speaker 3: So you show, you show up here at those three starters,
Speaker 3: and you know, everybody else in the city is saying, now,
Speaker 3: we gotta.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we know how that goes. And that's okay because
Speaker 8: that kind of drives us in the morning time. You know,
Speaker 8: we're the first one out to practice so and I
Speaker 8: know that for a fact. So we're out there earlier,
Speaker 8: and you know that's that they're reminder of that daily.
Speaker 8: You know, we've got people knocking on our door and
Speaker 8: they're excited to get a chance to get a piece
Speaker 8: of us. And that's okay. We look forward to that opportunity.
Speaker 5: You know. Over the last couple of seasons, you know,
Speaker 5: we've we've had a number of the local coaches you know,
Speaker 5: come on the show, and there's a lot of there's
Speaker 5: a lot of good coaches in Tucson. It seems like
Speaker 5: more than maybe there has been all at once in
Speaker 5: the past. And maybe I'm over generalizing there, but you know,
Speaker 5: you got you know, you're up against a pretty good
Speaker 5: coach weekend and week out. What as Steve's like, Stephen
Speaker 5: like Steve's this term, what's the secret sauce of having
Speaker 5: a good program and a good high school football team
Speaker 5: in Tucson, Arizona. What does that take?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I've been I've had something that we've
Speaker 8: had to build from the bottom and then there's something
Speaker 8: that you know, I'm getting to inherit from the top.
Speaker 8: But it's all the alignment stuff. It's it's you know,
Speaker 8: does the administration believe in in the message and are
Speaker 8: they willing to do the equal amount of work that
Speaker 8: you're doing. Do you have parents that can help fund it,
Speaker 8: support it and get the kids there every day? You know,
Speaker 8: that's an amazing thing. I mean, I don't think we've
Speaker 8: got a kid miss a day. You know, we don't
Speaker 8: have a ride problem, We don't have that kind of
Speaker 8: stuff that get them there, you know. And then the
Speaker 8: last part about is you got to have kids that
Speaker 8: are willing to work. And you know that's that's the
Speaker 8: formula for those those programs that are at the top,
Speaker 8: and they're consistent every year. You know, you just just
Speaker 8: change the faces and those kids have followed that same
Speaker 8: routine for you know, for Dusty was for fifteen years.
Speaker 3: So I've asked this question of the coaches and some
Speaker 3: of some other players administrators. So your coach and you
Speaker 3: have players, what's the percentage of being success if you
Speaker 3: have I'm gonna screw up this question. So you have
Speaker 3: some good players or mediocre players. How what's a mix
Speaker 3: of good coach and players to make a good team?
Speaker 3: And does the does that make sense?
Speaker 8: Players first?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 8: I mean, you know it didn't matter if we didn't
Speaker 8: block it right, Kate and Luke would run them over. Okay,
Speaker 8: So there's a difference between in a three yard game
Speaker 8: and Kyden putting kids on their back. So it's always
Speaker 8: players first, no doubt about that. But I think it's
Speaker 8: also now which is you know, if you look at
Speaker 8: the game it used to be, is those staffs were
Speaker 8: super charged. You had five or six head coaches on
Speaker 8: every staff, and maybe now you got a first time
Speaker 8: coach with a couple of new guys and a couple
Speaker 8: of their buddies, you know, But that's kind of been
Speaker 8: the secret if those those groups that keep those coaches
Speaker 8: together the longest are usually the most successful and two
Speaker 8: soon at least. And then in Phoenix it's a whole
Speaker 8: different deal because you know, your your funding is different.
Speaker 8: You know, you don't have six coaches, you got twenty six,
Speaker 8: but in twoson, that's kind of been the recipe has
Speaker 8: been the staff.
Speaker 3: But I also think that the coaching. Coaching matters, right,
Speaker 3: coaching matters. You can have a mediocre team and you
Speaker 3: used to be a player, so you kind of know
Speaker 3: these types of players, and the coach gets the things
Speaker 3: out of them for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure. And I think part of it is,
Speaker 8: you know, does the coach have a daily plan that
Speaker 8: allows development? You know, is it a hot or cold plan?
Speaker 8: Where is there is there a deal where every day
Speaker 8: there's a procedure for fundamentals and discipline and academics and
Speaker 8: all that tied together. Those are the guys that are
Speaker 8: usually pretty successful. But again, it always comes down to
Speaker 8: really good football players that are motivated to play. So
Speaker 8: that's that's the next part of it as well.
Speaker 5: We're talking to Scott McKee, the new head coach at CDO,
Speaker 5: defending state champion. Scott, I know you played them last year,
Speaker 5: but is there a little extra for you when you
Speaker 5: go up against your old Cougars or anything like that or.
Speaker 8: No, No, that's you know, if I ever made anything
Speaker 8: about me, guys, then I'm doing the wrong thing in
Speaker 8: this position. Okay. I loved every single minute I was
Speaker 8: down there, except for the last meeting I had with
Speaker 8: the principal and the athletic reccor. I still have a
Speaker 8: bad I still got a bad feeling about that. But
Speaker 8: not those kids that played for us, not those parents
Speaker 8: that supported us, and not the teachers that were in
Speaker 8: the building, you know, and I kind of thought that
Speaker 8: would be my last place to coach. And you know,
Speaker 8: things happen in mysterious ways, so you know, I would
Speaker 8: have never been a part of that state championship team
Speaker 8: had that conversation not taking. But let me let you
Speaker 8: know that every day I'm really really motivated by that conversation.
Speaker 3: How long you been doing this?
Speaker 8: It will be my nineteenth years ahead football coach. I
Speaker 8: think I'm actually going into my twentieth season. So I
Speaker 8: started off I was twenty three. I believe I was
Speaker 8: the youngest head coach in the state, one of them,
Speaker 8: I think, in the history of the state. And now
Speaker 8: I'm the old guy. So the beard got gray, the
Speaker 8: hairline went back, the body, you know, the belts on
Speaker 8: the last loop now, guys, So I'm getting right into
Speaker 8: that prime meet as a coach.
Speaker 3: I think you know you're talking about us, dude, you're
Speaker 3: describing us too, So don't worry about that.
Speaker 8: All those ambigers. It's the world man. You guys remember
Speaker 8: those things I did you get the bacon burger?
Speaker 5: I absolutely did.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Well one more thing, guys, with the U of
Speaker 8: A you know, maybe maybe they could take that nil
Speaker 8: stuff and some of the some of the corporate sponsors,
Speaker 8: and you roll that into a package where of the
Speaker 8: kids for the NIL would get to choose a elementary school,
Speaker 8: a middle school, high school kid that has really improved academically,
Speaker 8: we're socially, and he could take his whole kid to
Speaker 8: the you know, they could take the whole family to
Speaker 8: the game. And the ni L would pay for that
Speaker 8: from the from the vendors and the sponsors. Yeah, so
Speaker 8: the player could get a community outreach. The kid could
Speaker 8: get to go to the game. The families are going
Speaker 8: to the game, they're buying concessions. The NILS tied into it,
Speaker 8: and now you have a pack stadium every week. What
Speaker 8: about that guy?
Speaker 5: That sounds good to me. My son just joined the
Speaker 5: marketing team over there, so I'll pass that one on
Speaker 5: to him for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, and I think it would be grant me.
Speaker 8: How cool would that be if that quarterback that we
Speaker 8: got stops by a kid's house there, you know, and
Speaker 8: a graduations. Man, you did a great job on the team,
Speaker 8: and you did a great job in your school. Here's
Speaker 8: four tickets for you and your family and i'll see
Speaker 8: after the game. Well, I'll tell you what. You can
Speaker 8: make a lot of fans for life doing that.
Speaker 3: A big brother, big sister type of thing, no question.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you, so you and your roommates, Uh,
Speaker 3: how do you think they would have done in this uh,
Speaker 3: this crazy nil deal.
Speaker 8: Well, you know, you guys will be disappointed. I'll tell
Speaker 8: you the story. But Lance and Bobby, you know that
Speaker 8: was they were down to bear meat and bones. And
Speaker 8: I was running a small paint company at the time,
Speaker 8: and those guys were on the paint trucks. Okay, and
Speaker 8: you're talking about NFL guys and they were they were working,
Speaker 8: especially Lance, and those guys were working, taking off houses
Speaker 8: and doing that to make it. And then he walked
Speaker 8: by the and know just kind of disappointing because you
Speaker 8: walked by the student store and there's their jerseys and
Speaker 8: these guys don't have enough money on their scholarship check
Speaker 8: to buy the jersey, right, and you look at Lance's
Speaker 8: personality and you talked to Bobby. I mean, those guys
Speaker 8: would have made a million dollars each just on personality
Speaker 8: and performance.
Speaker 3: You guys were born a little too early. Yeah, thanks coaching,
Speaker 3: But I'm happy.
Speaker 8: I'm happy for the players that they're getting it now,
Speaker 8: I am for sure.
Speaker 5: Thanks coaching Scott. Thanks a bunch of good luck this year.
Speaker 8: Thank you guys. You're always welcome.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 8: We've got a great place up there. We love to
Speaker 8: have you guys. We've got good nacho, little Aliano sauce
Speaker 8: and they're little warmer.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks Matt, good guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, excited in a job like that, right, all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, you're you know, you're coaching a state championship.
Speaker 3: Team in a good and a good school pronounced school name, school,
Speaker 3: all that stuff. Okay, we're gonna come back, take a
Speaker 3: little what time is it come back? And we had
Speaker 3: to wait a little while because.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're go get Mom was going to come on
Speaker 5: at four forty five, So we'll have a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5: I don't know if we'll be able to take a call,
Speaker 5: but yeah, we'll get Okay, good idea, All right, stick around.
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Speaker 2: the ball on Tucson Sports stage shat Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to eying the ball here Fox Sports
Speaker 3: forteen fifteen. I'm Steve, You're jay Don Henry working behind
Speaker 3: the scenes. Got fifteen minutes. We got about four minutes
Speaker 3: here before we go to get Tom.
Speaker 5: Right, you have something for me? Yeah, you know. I
Speaker 5: got curious. I saw the Twitter announcement the tickets were
Speaker 5: on stale for that UCLA Arizona basketball game December fourteenth.
Speaker 5: It's a one o'clock game Saturday afternoon up in at
Speaker 5: the Footprint Center. Though US old guys still refer to
Speaker 5: it as America West Arena, but it hasn't been that
Speaker 5: for a really long time. But the arena in downtown Phoenix.
Speaker 5: Fifty court side seats right you know, on the floor,
Speaker 5: sideline seats or one hundred and twenty nine dollars upper
Speaker 5: level seats. The cheapest ticket, and you know, really it's
Speaker 5: again one of those arenas where all the seats are good.
Speaker 5: They're only forty five bucks.
Speaker 3: Forty five bucks. And that was the last time they
Speaker 3: played who they played last year up and there up
Speaker 3: there was that Alabama. They yeah that was Alabama. Yeah,
Speaker 3: a good game. Yeah, the two games Ashue played somebody
Speaker 3: in the right Yeah that that was. That's a good
Speaker 3: venue to play.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So anyways, if you're if you're interested that that
Speaker 5: games up now that there own there's only one game.
Speaker 5: It's just the one game. There's not a c is
Speaker 5: not playing that day either. Also, but you know, uh
Speaker 5: again it's a great venue. Uh good stuff. I was
Speaker 5: last day to watch the Eagles, which was cool. But
Speaker 5: it's you know, forty five dollars for a nupper level ticket.
Speaker 5: If you don't ever get to go to games in
Speaker 5: Tucson because you don't you know that season tickets or whatever,
Speaker 5: there's a good opportunity for you to go up and
Speaker 5: see what should be a really good game, right And.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of alums up there, so it'll be
Speaker 3: another one side of affair in terms of uh fans. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, you see a doesn't travel well yeah, they
Speaker 3: they they they don't even go to the home games. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's Arizona.
Speaker 5: Well, we haven't really fun conversation about that today about
Speaker 5: road trips in the Big Twelve, and they say, well,
Speaker 5: you know, Arizona fans aren't going to travel. Fans have
Speaker 5: never traveled. You know.
Speaker 3: That's one of the biggest no mercy, right, you know.
Speaker 5: Like like they said, well, you know for football, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, fans would go to the u C, the
Speaker 5: u C, l A, and USC games because you could drive,
Speaker 5: and a lot of students would go to those games
Speaker 5: to spend for football, right, to go spend a weekend
Speaker 5: in La hanging out, you know, and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: But aside from that, Arizona fans, either football or basketball,
Speaker 5: don't travel to distances that they can't drive to.
Speaker 3: No question. One of the biggest things. And the first
Speaker 3: thing I'll say to you, Jay, well, what about all
Speaker 3: the yelling and screaming you here in basketball games? Okay?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: Because you do you know what, because they have a
Speaker 3: ton of.
Speaker 5: Lands there live there, and that's going to be different
Speaker 5: in the Big Twelve because those cities that Arizona is
Speaker 5: going to starting starting this year, they're not big alumni
Speaker 5: bases for the UFA. Maybe Dallas, right, maybe Houston, Yeah,
Speaker 5: probably some in Colorado. But in terms of uh, you know,
Speaker 5: the way you know, the kind of fan bases that
Speaker 5: they had in uh In, uh In, uh l A
Speaker 5: or even the Bay Area, they don't have, you know,
Speaker 5: they don't They're not there. No, So you're not going
Speaker 5: to see that kind of support on the road that
Speaker 5: those are.
Speaker 3: We supposed to go?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well are you this is Steve?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Are you ready for us? You're ready for us? Yes,
Speaker 3: you're You're on the air. Mon, Just so you know
Speaker 3: you're on the air. Now, we have Mo Tangara on
Speaker 3: the show. How are you, Mo?
Speaker 7: How you been I'm doing okay, I'm doing okay, so
Speaker 7: working family and uh you know, just trying to keep up.
Speaker 3: Okay. Well, we're going to see you here pretty soon, right,
Speaker 3: You're coming next week for the big camp.
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: How did you enjoy yourself? The first time? Was great?
Speaker 7: I think it was it was a human process for me.
Speaker 7: I know a lot of guys struggle after the loop
Speaker 7: holes away and think for me it was like I
Speaker 7: wasn't here and then he was someone who was like
Speaker 7: a father figure to me.
Speaker 1: It was good.
Speaker 7: It was really really good for me. After that, I
Speaker 7: was able to recover.
Speaker 3: See I don't know if you can do this, but
Speaker 3: so we have the guys speak about, you know, the
Speaker 3: impact had on them. He had a he had he
Speaker 3: had a long story. Can you kind of can you
Speaker 3: summarize what he meant to you? He in love to me.
Speaker 7: I think with the Lou I was able to discovery
Speaker 7: who I'm, who I am what I mean by there
Speaker 7: When arriving in the United States from OFFICEA with going
Speaker 7: to Prens School, I didn't have a clue what was
Speaker 7: going on. Even though I was a good player over
Speaker 7: the well, coming from my background and everything, I didn't
Speaker 7: have a really clue who I am. And even if
Speaker 7: being ranked the players, I didn't have no clue because
Speaker 7: you know, once again it's and then acting the game
Speaker 7: by him coming and visited me for the first time
Speaker 7: and give me the confidence to see I'm a somebody.
Speaker 7: I think that a law changed my life. So to
Speaker 7: recognize their wow, I'm in the United States and Ludosa
Speaker 7: time visited me. And then when the new was there,
Speaker 7: the whole school, the pastor the principal, everybody is wait
Speaker 7: for him, do that out of practice style that was waiting.
Speaker 7: It's like he had a big welcome. And after the Loon,
Speaker 7: keep after Louo back to Arizona and everything changed for
Speaker 7: me even in my high school. So from there it
Speaker 7: gives me a sense of confidence, giving sense of Wow,
Speaker 7: I'm a somebody in this world, and that's what I
Speaker 7: would say, you know what, I'm gonna go play for
Speaker 7: this guy so that alone know retire him what I
Speaker 7: would be because you know, I came in there with
Speaker 7: a lot of trauma, being young, being the poor, and
Speaker 7: now you're fighting and someone who's just opened their door.
Speaker 7: You recognize he's a big time and it's kind of
Speaker 7: changed my life and since then, to give me that
Speaker 7: confidence that I keep going with everything I'm doing.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's pretty powerful. It's very very powerful.
Speaker 7: To get to that and see that when I lost him,
Speaker 7: do what he did to me, and even in my
Speaker 7: tournaments that I'll run it, I'll run with him and
Speaker 7: him being gone. He takes a lot out of him.
Speaker 7: I'm telling him. But the last time that I came
Speaker 7: to the defense he camp. It helped me.
Speaker 2: Loe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you remember the first time you visited the
Speaker 3: Tucson on you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I remember, I remember. I think, like I want
Speaker 7: to stand out to that is? Uh the softball game?
Speaker 3: You went to the softball game?
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, no, we we had a softball game.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 7: Doing that.
Speaker 14: I didn't.
Speaker 7: I never played softball, so I had to pretty much
Speaker 7: running around. Now I know what I want to do.
Speaker 3: The seven foot guys, the seven foot so the bat
Speaker 3: you must say look like a toothpick to you?
Speaker 5: Well, what I guess. And maybe had these conversations before.
Speaker 5: What did you like most about being here? The time
Speaker 5: that you spent here? What would what did you like
Speaker 5: about Tucson and the and the time that you had here?
Speaker 7: People was number one?
Speaker 1: But people.
Speaker 7: I had the environment where it makes me feel like
Speaker 7: I'm home. And when I went when I went through
Speaker 7: to my box surgery, it was a very tough time
Speaker 7: for me. I see my dream being shut down completely,
Speaker 7: but I had the people around me. Uh, this is
Speaker 7: a wonderful lady Paddy Oda and then people on the
Speaker 7: university gods. So it was so much sharing what I
Speaker 7: was going through with my back suits because I came
Speaker 7: here to get to the pro and I had a
Speaker 7: back problem. And then I see that my dream being
Speaker 7: shut down and from there when I look, people have
Speaker 7: so much love for me. Anybody cared to say hey,
Speaker 7: you're gonna be fine and trying to uplift my spirit.
Speaker 7: I think that's Adam to the Loot. Also, that's what
Speaker 7: attracted me willing to stand Arizona and call here at home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, no question. So tell me though, when
Speaker 3: you first got here, other than the softball game, did
Speaker 3: you come in the heat? What did you think about
Speaker 3: the place? The cactus and stuff like that, because you'd
Speaker 3: never been this far west.
Speaker 7: No, I love it because it was like Africa. So
Speaker 7: it was like remind me so much back home with
Speaker 7: the heat, so I've been used to that, and then
Speaker 7: when I came here, I'm like, oh man, this is home.
Speaker 7: You know, so the pretty much over in Africa. It's
Speaker 7: part of the desert, so we get a lot, we
Speaker 7: get the heat like the year. So that kind of
Speaker 7: helped me say, Okay, this is home. And I said
Speaker 7: I'm just gonna come to this place and I want
Speaker 7: to play for the Ludoso.
Speaker 5: Well, and then you stayed right in your your phoenix
Speaker 5: and you still you're still you're in a harder place
Speaker 5: than it was here. But uh, you you've decided to stay.
Speaker 5: Why did you decide to stay?
Speaker 7: It's uh. Once again, it's it's kind of part to
Speaker 7: deal with the loud also, uh and uh, the the
Speaker 7: people anything you need, Like even right now, I had
Speaker 7: a second baby, I had a you know a lot
Speaker 7: of those, A lot of the thing I'm dealing with
Speaker 7: my family now. He involved a lot of the University
Speaker 7: of Arizona love, uh, and then a lot of the
Speaker 7: people who's involved with the university. So the environment and
Speaker 7: that family environment that I'm surrounding with it, I think
Speaker 7: that's what tracked me to stay here and know that,
Speaker 7: Like the University of Arizona is there, and I get
Speaker 7: to see you guys once in a while, and loud
Speaker 7: also legacy, whatever it is, I still want to be
Speaker 7: part of that.
Speaker 3: So you you had your own little thing here a
Speaker 3: few years back with your with your native kids playing
Speaker 3: up here. How did that? How did that go? And
Speaker 3: did we see or have we seen any of those
Speaker 3: kids play in the States.
Speaker 7: Yeah, none of them come to the state. It was
Speaker 7: I had about we had about four guys who went
Speaker 7: to Division, different programs Division. Some went to the prep school,
Speaker 7: end up junior college end up in Division one program.
Speaker 7: We had about four guys who was able to do that,
Speaker 7: and then some of the Chinese players now that big
Speaker 7: time that play the Channel League. It was really really
Speaker 7: really good, uh the tournament, but you know, the working
Speaker 7: today is very hard. It was really really really hard.
Speaker 7: But you'd also made it easy for me. But uh,
Speaker 7: I think we had about two years of that that
Speaker 7: we haven't haven't done anything with that.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: Also, what did you feel about about Ballow leaving?
Speaker 7: It was a tough it was. I was shocked we
Speaker 7: never had that. We never had that conversation. I'm I'm
Speaker 7: gonna do tough old brothers like you know, I call
Speaker 7: him a young brother. I like to stand back and
Speaker 7: then be the supporter, be the fan. So we didn't
Speaker 7: have any conversation. I wish, you know, he had a
Speaker 7: little bit of conversation with me, Uh, so I can
Speaker 7: guide him, like see what we can do to bring
Speaker 7: you know, what whatever he was looking for. When I
Speaker 7: can coming down to two Shie to see if we
Speaker 7: can talk to the people rather people will get some
Speaker 7: of whatever whatever he is looking for. But I didn't
Speaker 7: have that conversation with him.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 7: It's a rise of me. I just sat on the
Speaker 7: news and then I texted him. Ah, and then I
Speaker 7: try to talk. Uh you know, they say, hey, everything okay,
Speaker 7: and but you know, I find out he left for
Speaker 7: a different purpose. But you know, I think.
Speaker 3: If the reports are true, he's doing okay with about
Speaker 3: a million dollars in his pocket.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's really cool. I mean, I think the
Speaker 7: money is good, but what I have today, money don't
Speaker 7: buy that. My mother and my little brother, I totally understand.
Speaker 7: But you know, sometimes the relationship can go far away.
Speaker 3: Yeah he did.
Speaker 7: He did a great job, willing to help and the
Speaker 7: good kid. So I think he's always gonna have their
Speaker 7: relationship with the u A with the love now. But
Speaker 7: you know, I feel like we should have maybe just
Speaker 7: talk to him or just see what we can come
Speaker 7: up and help him a little bit with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we'll see that. We'll see you next week.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you.
Speaker 7: See one more thing, I'm going through to some really
Speaker 7: tough time right now. My my my town or my
Speaker 7: own town that I've been fighting that I've been doing
Speaker 7: a lot of to help people back home.
Speaker 8: The flood.
Speaker 7: The flood come to my town and destroy almost about
Speaker 7: six hundred thousand homes and even my home. My parents
Speaker 7: just have to move to another city, like the waters
Speaker 7: all over the place. So I'm putting some stuff together.
Speaker 7: I'm going to need you guys help, trying to set
Speaker 7: up the book go fund me and to see how
Speaker 7: can I support my people. Now, my family, I'm going
Speaker 7: to take care of her, but there's a kind of
Speaker 7: people who look up to me who need some assistance.
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna put some stuff together and then I'm
Speaker 7: going to need you guys help because I've been helping
Speaker 7: them with the fund raising, but it has been tough.
Speaker 5: All right. We'll be happy to help. You'll definitely be happy.
Speaker 3: We'll see you next weekend. You just let us know,
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you. Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hadn't heard anything about that.
Speaker 3: Okay, So once he gets to we'll put on our
Speaker 3: social we'll get out there and get out so good.
Speaker 3: It turned out to be a good show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't back.
Speaker 3: We didn't rag the fans all that much.
Speaker 5: Well a little bit. Well again, we we you know,
Speaker 5: we reminisced and talked about you know, I poured my
Speaker 5: heart out there for.
Speaker 3: You guys, right, you should. I'm running your book today.
Speaker 3: I was a friend with.
Speaker 5: Toby under Rich was listening because he wasn't that good friend.
Speaker 5: Yes I was, Yes, I was, Yes I was.
Speaker 3: We were Bud Henry. You didn't give me a Kleenex.
Speaker 3: I needed to wipe my ear, my towel and my eyes.
Speaker 5: We we were the we were the right side of
Speaker 5: that infield for for several years. He played first and
Speaker 5: I played second. And the reason we both played those
Speaker 5: two positions because that's as far as we could throw
Speaker 5: the ball. We had a blast, it was. It was
Speaker 5: a lot of fun playing playing baseball.
Speaker 3: Good show today, Thank you, Scott Key.
Speaker 5: Yeah, good guys. Yeah, be interesting to see what happened
Speaker 5: what happened with Cdo this year?
Speaker 3: And then yeah, well he doesn't have a lot of
Speaker 3: coming back. Exactly, mister p exactly.
Speaker 5: All right, we are out of here. We'll be back,
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