Speaker 1: Expected to be the number two and he was traded
Speaker 1: for a twenty twenty six third round pick and a
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven fifth round pick.
Speaker 2: Yep, So so we know this. We talk about this
Speaker 2: a lot, at least before when with Jay Why uh
Speaker 2: the divas in football or the wide receivers, right, their
Speaker 2: de was what were they in baseball? Outfielders probably not
Speaker 2: the pit centerfielders yeah, probably yep, the pictures. No, now
Speaker 2: maybe maybe closers to some degree, but yeah maybe closers,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, center fielders.
Speaker 3: But your pain a paying that? Yeah? Can we can
Speaker 3: we talk about George pickenstill? I mean, because we're learning
Speaker 3: about it off air.
Speaker 1: Yea.
Speaker 3: It is also really wild to me in football the trades, Right,
Speaker 3: you're trading an all Pro caliber wide receiver in the
Speaker 3: prime of his career for a third round and a
Speaker 3: fifth round. So you assessment what was your assessment? I
Speaker 3: just I mean, I my thought process is that you're
Speaker 3: having Is that equal? Is that true? Equal value for
Speaker 3: that player?
Speaker 2: Well? The things I thought you said that there must
Speaker 2: be some issues.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's got to be clubhouse issues, right, there
Speaker 3: has to be clubhouse issues.
Speaker 2: In my mind, Peop wouldn't do that.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: I mean where he's at, his capabilities, what he's you know,
Speaker 3: his age to kind of give up on him, there's
Speaker 3: gotta be there's gonna be a bigger issue and it's
Speaker 3: perfect for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think another thing too, is like receivers
Speaker 1: just come in so ready, like Jamar Chase's year ago. Crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you just see it every year, like there's going
Speaker 1: to be a breakout receiver. Last year it was Malik
Speaker 1: Neighbors obviously this year teammate. I mean for us, we
Speaker 1: hope so right, Yeah, absolutely a little bit of bias
Speaker 1: in there, but yeah, we'll keep it going. Now. Brendan
Speaker 1: summer Hill came back to the lineup. But Arizona loss
Speaker 1: yesterday two to five against GCU are five to two.
Speaker 3: They have their number. They just have their number. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just a bad matchup for the events. You wouldn't
Speaker 3: think you have all those teams that are like that.
Speaker 3: You always have an opponent that you're like, no, I
Speaker 3: don't want to play that guy. That's yeah. Is it
Speaker 3: more more emotional than it is physically? Probably because you
Speaker 3: think you're better than that. I think, yeah, maybe to agree.
Speaker 3: I think if they just I think GCU plays at
Speaker 3: a higher level when they play u A.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well obviously I think they have the series right
Speaker 2: the last few years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and they just they took it yesterday. Yesterday
Speaker 1: would have been like the rubber match for like the
Speaker 1: season overall series. So yeah, they I don't number the
Speaker 1: last couple of years.
Speaker 3: I mean they're legit. Just use legit. Yeah, like they're
Speaker 3: amid major in baseball, Sure they are. With everything else
Speaker 3: essentially baseball, they're at an elite level. They were in
Speaker 3: the tournament, that's true. Yeah, and when their capabilities of
Speaker 3: recruitment and how high they recruit kids, they've done a
Speaker 3: good jomb.
Speaker 2: Good coaching staff were there.
Speaker 1: You have to take advantage of times that they can
Speaker 1: show out against us, for sure. Yeah. Keep it. Moving
Speaker 1: on to Sophtmare now Big twelve Player of the Year
Speaker 1: Devin Nance.
Speaker 2: What what what? What? Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That's amazing. Yeah, holy cow, that is breaking new. It's
Speaker 3: a great job.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: We talked about her yesterday. We had the one of
Speaker 2: the softball assistance uh on the team. There hasn't been
Speaker 2: a player like her in a while here.
Speaker 3: No, this is this team's kind of this team special.
Speaker 3: I think I think it's they've got some depth to it.
Speaker 3: They've got some pitching, and she's part of the big
Speaker 3: part of it. Oh yeah, huge part of it. It's
Speaker 3: great to see you be playing at the caliber they're playing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know. If anybody beats Tennessee, you can get there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but they're not that level. But I'm they're
Speaker 3: not not at that. I mean, they're close to that level.
Speaker 3: It just depends. Sorry, you don't think so, we have
Speaker 3: no time to argue today, Okay, move on.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And like it was talked about earlier, they will face
Speaker 1: the winner of the seventh seed and ten seed, which
Speaker 1: is UCF and Utah tomorrow at three.
Speaker 2: They just kind of lay an egg in this tournament.
Speaker 2: You know, they have to do as much as they
Speaker 2: can to continue to host a host the regional right
Speaker 2: next is it next week? Yeah? Next week?
Speaker 3: What's your what's your thought process on baseball and softball tournaments? Like, uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: well you think it's worth it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's yeah, it's I know
Speaker 2: it's all new. Yeah. Why not to do it in basketball? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Just my thought process? Yeah, yeah, obviously I'm to do it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure because more money if possible. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like it kind of plays into like
Speaker 1: that like old travel ball kind of thing too. So
Speaker 1: if you're like following college I mean I assume if
Speaker 1: you if you follow college baseball and softball, it's like
Speaker 1: you're really you're really deep into like.
Speaker 2: Just the sport in general. So it's like it probably
Speaker 2: let me ask you, I was gonna ask. I've read
Speaker 2: this too, because one of the big questions for the
Speaker 2: minor sports, and I use that word in quotation, uh,
Speaker 2: the travel here and there and all that stuff where
Speaker 2: they have to go to these places, especially in the
Speaker 2: Big twelve, we're not really in the region and studying
Speaker 2: and things like that. Did you have to do did
Speaker 2: you go far when you're in college?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 3: I mean we went to like Western Oregon and Central
Speaker 3: Missouri and stuff. But it was it wasn't bad. I
Speaker 3: think that's overstated. I mean we weren't jumping Like it
Speaker 3: would be difficult to go play Rutgers right from UCLA,
Speaker 3: but you're from a baseball standpoint, you're probably there for
Speaker 3: five days, so it's a little bit easier to acclimate.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, we'll keep it moving. Men's tennis is
Speaker 1: going to be facing Virginia on Saturday. What did they
Speaker 1: have the seeds the ten seed and Virginia is the
Speaker 1: seven and it's gonna a chance sweet sixteen round after
Speaker 1: winning their super regional against Denver and Harvard.
Speaker 7: This is where they've failed in the last two three
Speaker 7: years from the sweet sixties. Yeah, so you know, look
Speaker 7: forward to that on the weekend. See how that goes.
Speaker 7: The women's side lost to Illinois.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we talked about that yesterday, right, and then you
Speaker 8: talk about golf. No women's Yeah, women's golf. They lost
Speaker 8: at the Lubbock Regional. There were two spots out of
Speaker 8: qualifying qualifying for the.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, I didn't see that. She had a
Speaker 2: great year or two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just two over par, which is, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot better than a lot of golfers would do. I'm assuming,
Speaker 1: at least in this room.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll see oh Man Blake, No, I'm not nearly
Speaker 3: that caliber.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, getting into the Association. Though Steph supposed
Speaker 1: to miss at least a week with a level one
Speaker 1: hamstring strain, Warriors were still able to pull that one
Speaker 1: out yesterday ninety nine to eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you your forty twoish. What age did
Speaker 2: you finish play?
Speaker 3: Oh, just I've like giving up on life.
Speaker 2: You're here now. So nine was my last year? You
Speaker 2: were twenty something? Yeah? Do you do the math? You're
Speaker 2: asking these questions? Well, okay, well now you ask me,
Speaker 2: I'm asking you the answer. I don't want to do
Speaker 2: the math. Okay, So so do you know do you
Speaker 2: feel that people well in the professional world. No, And
Speaker 2: I'm not saying Steph just shut it down because he
Speaker 2: doesn't need to. He can go another twenty years in
Speaker 2: my mind, but when they have a hard time saying
Speaker 2: I gotta go, it's my time.
Speaker 3: I think I think the question has to be asked.
Speaker 3: Are you still capable of playing at a higher level?
Speaker 2: Right? I mean are you contributing? Are you winning? I
Speaker 2: think Steph checks all those boxes. Oh yeah, thirty seven?
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, not specific to him, but just so, for instance,
Speaker 3: I was watching the Cubs game yesterday and you've got
Speaker 3: Justin Verlander. He's forty two pitching, right. I think there
Speaker 3: has to be an honest conversation at some point. Max
Speaker 3: Sure's are the same thing because he's still I mean,
Speaker 3: he's middle of the road, He's going to be there.
Speaker 3: I think he's probably their number three, number four guy
Speaker 3: for a good team. They're a good team. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's probably really difficult to say this.
Speaker 2: Is it because of the money or because of the
Speaker 2: it's all you know, it's all you know.
Speaker 3: You're a ballplayer, whether you're a basketball player, whether you're
Speaker 3: a football player with your golfer, whether you're a baseball play,
Speaker 3: it doesn't mean your ball player goodbyes.
Speaker 2: That's what you know.
Speaker 3: That's what you've been taught all your life to try
Speaker 3: to do and accomplished it, and it's what you wake
Speaker 3: up every day.
Speaker 2: It's a routine, like what are you gonna?
Speaker 3: It's easy from our outside looking and going they've made
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty million to seven hundred million, why
Speaker 3: are they playing the sport anymore? And you're going because
Speaker 3: what do you do every day? If you don't go
Speaker 3: to work? I would just stay home. You would stay
Speaker 3: home and do nothing for like a week, maybe two weeks,
Speaker 3: and you'd be like, I gotta do something.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The thing is you'd be needed or wanted and
Speaker 2: other things that you have a name. But I totally
Speaker 2: get That's when I asked the question. At some point,
Speaker 2: there's an endgame. Yeah, that's that's kind of Do you
Speaker 2: think that some of them, most of them are many
Speaker 2: of them do have an endgame? I think so.
Speaker 3: I think if you've got a strong family connection, you've
Speaker 3: got kids, you sit down with a family and you say, like,
Speaker 3: this is what I'm expecting. This is our expectations, because
Speaker 3: that family has to do the same. You forget, kids
Speaker 3: have to move from schools. Yeah, you know, you get
Speaker 3: uprooted in these communities. I mean, obviously it's worth it financially,
Speaker 3: but sometimes it's not your lower level guy. You can't
Speaker 3: just constantly do that over and over. Sure, sure, keep
Speaker 3: it going.
Speaker 1: Pacers stolen at almost the buzzer yesterday, Tyresee hit a
Speaker 1: step back three to take the lead against.
Speaker 2: The less than a minute.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I really stole that one. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just been happening this the last two days.
Speaker 2: One of the games already on now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Celtics and uh, the Knicks just started, So
Speaker 1: that's gonna be one to keep an eye on.
Speaker 9: Nick's having an early lead three to two, and Knick's
Speaker 9: got it. They played in Brooklyn. Yeah, well done.
Speaker 2: All these guys have learned though, snatch the bubble from
Speaker 2: my head.
Speaker 1: It's all right. You know he teaches everything that he
Speaker 1: teaches everything that we know, not everything that you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the secret. Moving on to baseball, Diamondbacks lost today
Speaker 1: to the Mets.
Speaker 2: Oh, the game has already done. Yeah, I didn't see
Speaker 2: my fantasy there. You know, he's gonna hurt me. So
Speaker 2: he's gonna hurt me. You do it daily. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a pain in the butte if you guys are done
Speaker 2: fantasy baseball.
Speaker 10: One of my friends has told me wild, I don't
Speaker 10: understand how a picture you can struggle to get four strikeouts.
Speaker 10: I thought, again, I don't watch baseball, but I thought
Speaker 10: like striking out someone was like a main thing you're
Speaker 10: supposed to do.
Speaker 2: Well someone and he's struggling to get three pictures. I
Speaker 2: just on baseball. Yeah, we can't be in the same
Speaker 2: room together. How are you struggling?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: It is funny listening to people that don't watch baseball
Speaker 3: to say that, because it would make sense. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's an easy bet, Like how do you not do that?
Speaker 3: And then you're like, oh, it's the it's the hardest
Speaker 3: thing in the world to do.
Speaker 2: So hitting the golf ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, diamonbacks good West, right, you got San Francisco, You've
Speaker 3: got l A, You've got San Diego. I think they're
Speaker 3: fourth right now, but they're still game five games ye,
Speaker 3: five hundred. No, they're only one game nineteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I've been watching the Padres watch the Giants last night,
Speaker 3: like that's a tough division a bush.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Giants fan like watched the series against
Speaker 1: the Clubs. It was a good series even tho. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like watching them play the Padres, it was it
Speaker 1: was rough because it's just like Padres are just breaking
Speaker 1: on them.
Speaker 3: Padres are at a different level this year. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean they're bullpens arguably. I mean you guys and the
Speaker 3: Giants and the Padres arguably have the best bullpen in baseball.
Speaker 1: I think they're one and two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And but the Padres lineup is like Merril's going
Speaker 3: to be a superstar, right, Machado's still good, right, and
Speaker 3: you've got to tease in the prime of his if
Speaker 3: like that guy stays healthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The Giants always amaze me because we were talking about Steelers,
Speaker 3: like maybe a similar comparison between this Steelers in football
Speaker 3: and the Giants in baseball, like not a lot of
Speaker 3: superstar power with the Giants, good across the board, right,
Speaker 3: and but they're not in a position that they're going
Speaker 3: to win a World Series anytime soon. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: the good starting staff, but not great you know, So, like,
Speaker 3: what do you do if you're the Giants? Like good coach,
Speaker 3: but that division you're not going to compete money wise
Speaker 3: with the Dodgers? Right, The Padres have guys signed for
Speaker 3: long term, so they're gonna be good for at least
Speaker 3: another two years. So do you go you're trying to
Speaker 3: make a splash with it going all in on guys
Speaker 3: that though Tani thing fell through.
Speaker 2: I've asked this question too many people that on the show,
Speaker 2: the difference between coaching and good coaching and managing the
Speaker 2: right How much of a big difference does it make.
Speaker 3: That I think managing your bullpen situation means a lot
Speaker 3: like knowing how to rest guys, how to pitch guys,
Speaker 3: how to put up matchups, makes a lot of sense,
Speaker 3: and it's really hard to do.
Speaker 2: It takes a long time to understand. So the question
Speaker 2: with Roberts from the Dodgers, right, Dodgers guy, he was
Speaker 2: not they wanted him fire a few years ago. I mean,
Speaker 2: who want him front the front office of the fans?
Speaker 2: The fans because you know, he had the sound, couldn't
Speaker 2: do it, and now he has a lot more talent.
Speaker 3: Good manager is he? I think he's a good manager
Speaker 3: in the sense that he can manage uh superstars, and
Speaker 3: that's that's a lot you're talking about. I mean, Phil
Speaker 3: Jackson was a great exs nose, but he was also
Speaker 3: great at managing and more.
Speaker 2: Than half the battle. I think that's absolutely occurs the
Speaker 2: same way. Yeah, the same way. Yeah, because he's the one.
Speaker 2: He's a people person and you never did a hot chick.
Speaker 2: It's tough. It's tough because you have to make him happy.
Speaker 2: You have to make them happy, and not just one, two, three,
Speaker 2: it's four or five of them. Imagine having a Draymond
Speaker 2: on your team and what mood are you going to
Speaker 2: get him in one day at the next.
Speaker 3: So we make here a reference to Draymond and Draymond
Speaker 3: and uh a hot chick.
Speaker 2: No, the group of them because you have staff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's hard. That's why I wanted moving to Kentucky, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know what I'm saying, there's one ball and
Speaker 2: you have to make you don't have to make everybody happy,
Speaker 2: but you hope that they understand the role.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you you hope that your veterans on the team
Speaker 3: control the clubhouse to the degree that you want them
Speaker 3: to write in set of precedents. But so, how many
Speaker 3: years were you in the league or whatever league you
Speaker 3: want to say?
Speaker 2: Six? How many? How many of those six league six
Speaker 2: years did they did the clubhouse not get controlled? One?
Speaker 2: So five and one? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And how was that one we didn't? That's the only
Speaker 3: time I've never made the playoffs in my career. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: best fights, pitchers calling off infielders for making errors after
Speaker 3: a game like it was wild?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, where am i? And why am
Speaker 2: I here? Was that your last year? No? No, no,
Speaker 2: it was my second year. We're good.
Speaker 1: That mean just Denver and Oklahoma City after that? And
Speaker 1: then Haun's got something.
Speaker 11: I don't think you'll care about this, but uh, you
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Speaker 11: and what is it, the Utah Mammoth.
Speaker 2: Yep, really, yeah, mammoth, not Mammoth's mammoth, just one like
Speaker 2: the Stafford Cardinal. Yeah, okay, I have issue with that.
Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna like this team, but Memith, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: get your logo in now singular Sorry, franchise, where do
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
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Speaker 2: Then you you have a men's basketball assistant coach, Brandon.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, how you doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing well, We're doing well. Welcome back to Arizona, man.
Speaker 5: You know what it feels good to be back. And
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Speaker 5: I'm you know, I've I've realized it has a lot
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm not mad at it. None of us are.
Speaker 2: Who are you know? And you know how it is
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Speaker 5: And I'll be honest, it feels good, you know, from
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Speaker 5: growing up, man, I you know this was point guard
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Speaker 2: Up the ball and Michil how old are you real quick?
Speaker 2: I'm forty one, forty one? So that would have been
Speaker 2: the Gilbert Arenas Jason Gardner kind of in that era,
Speaker 2: right two thousand correct, Yeah, yep?
Speaker 5: And and Secure and Juwan and those guys. That was
Speaker 5: my class coming out.
Speaker 2: Yeah with with Selim a little yeah Channing yep, yep, yeah. Okay.
Speaker 2: How would you fit into that group? That was a
Speaker 2: heck of a good group.
Speaker 5: Oh man, I just would have dove on the floor
Speaker 5: for loose balls and kicked the ball in hand to
Speaker 5: the real scores.
Speaker 2: Nice. Nice? What do you uh? How are you gonna
Speaker 2: have an impact? What are you gonna work with? And
Speaker 2: who are you gonna work with?
Speaker 5: You know what the best thing about coming here and
Speaker 5: joining his staff is the fact that I get a
Speaker 5: chance to touch multiple things. You know, as far as
Speaker 5: you know, working with all groups on the court, you know,
Speaker 5: obviously recruiting, game planning, scouting, you know, Coach Lloyd and
Speaker 5: the rest of the staff man. You know, you can
Speaker 5: feel it. You know, as soon as I got here,
Speaker 5: I can feel the camaraderie. I could feel the connection
Speaker 5: and uh man, you know, honestly, I'm excited to touch
Speaker 5: all areas.
Speaker 3: Hey, coach, I just wanted to say congratulations. Were super excited,
Speaker 3: so happy that you're here. Can you share with us
Speaker 3: kind of the start to finish process of how this
Speaker 3: started in your mind of making a change or potentially
Speaker 3: coming to u of a how you got here, how
Speaker 3: you guys executed the contract when it was announced and
Speaker 3: then or is that too much?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, that's fine. But if you could even start a
Speaker 2: little further, how did you how did Murphy find you?
Speaker 2: Or how did you find that's earlier point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what it was, you know, to make
Speaker 5: it sound story book, it was almost a needle in
Speaker 5: a haystack. I applied for his graduate with assistant position
Speaker 5: when I was leaving my first coaching job at Armstrong
Speaker 5: State in Savannah, Georgia, which is a Division two team,
Speaker 5: and you know, the application was out there for a
Speaker 5: while and then I get a random call and you know,
Speaker 5: I started the sets with them, so it's kind of
Speaker 5: like a cold call deal. And one of his assistants,
Speaker 5: Matt Dunn, started reaching out to me. Then obviously I
Speaker 5: had a chance to talk to Murphy and that's how
Speaker 5: it kind of started happening.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 5: They just you know, what they were looking for is
Speaker 5: what I could provide at the time, which was you know,
Speaker 5: an older graduate assistant that that can you know, have
Speaker 5: a relationship with the guys also you know, grow, help recruit,
Speaker 5: and so yeah, it was kind of a blind deal. Man.
Speaker 5: We both kind of went into it not knowing much,
Speaker 5: not having many connections, and you know, boom, we're here now.
Speaker 2: Well to to I'll get to Blake's question real quick.
Speaker 2: But I mean you talked about that it's very rare
Speaker 2: to get a job with people not knowing who you are,
Speaker 2: because it's a it's a good boy kind of network.
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, and you know what, you know, I'm still
Speaker 5: a big believer in you know things happen how they're
Speaker 5: supposed to. And I'm very safe driven, so sometimes things
Speaker 5: just happened. And that was one of those things early
Speaker 5: in my career, and you know it, I had to
Speaker 5: get an introduction with coach Lloyd here and and and
Speaker 5: and you know the rest is history.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, go ahead and ask if you can ask
Speaker 2: you a question again? They interrupted you. No, No, you're good.
Speaker 2: I think that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's probably more important to know the relationship
Speaker 3: of how he got to NAU and how that career started.
Speaker 3: And then you went to how you, how does did
Speaker 3: this start for you? On for for you of a
Speaker 3: how do you how did you think about this? How
Speaker 3: did you know it was time to make a change,
Speaker 3: and were you prepared for that?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 5: Before I got to Texas, I was at un LV
Speaker 5: with Kevin Krueger, who was also a staff with coach Murphy.
Speaker 5: Soh Murphy's been in in the middle of a lot
Speaker 5: of my decisions and this was no different.
Speaker 16: You know.
Speaker 5: At the end of the season here at Texas, you know,
Speaker 5: I always reached back out to to my head coaches
Speaker 5: that I've worked for and just kind of asked for advice,
Speaker 5: and Murphy was, you know, just giving me advice how
Speaker 5: to kind of.
Speaker 2: Move and then he kind of floated.
Speaker 5: The idea is potentially coming here, and you know, obviously
Speaker 5: I'll be excited for that. But then when I talked
Speaker 5: to coach Lloyd It, you know, everything changed, his energy,
Speaker 5: his his passion for not only the program but but
Speaker 5: filling this next spot. And you know I jumped on board.
Speaker 5: Really didn't hesitate much.
Speaker 2: So where did you grow Where'd you grow up in Texas?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm I'm I'm a I'm a true Texas boy.
Speaker 5: Grew up outside of Houston, Texas well, and I was there,
Speaker 5: you know all through high school, played college ball. Then
Speaker 5: my first time leaving home was to go overseas and
Speaker 5: play in Germany. So you know, you know it was
Speaker 5: a great experience for me, you know, growing up.
Speaker 2: The recently asked that because the recently I asked this
Speaker 2: is because I've covered the team personally for thirty some years.
Speaker 2: I've written a few books on the program. Murphy was
Speaker 2: a kid when I was covering the team with under Loot.
Speaker 2: But you know what you sound like to me is
Speaker 2: Juwan mcleoughan. You have that Houston voice.
Speaker 5: Hey, yeah, we we have that little southern accent a
Speaker 5: little bit. You know, I can't hear it as often,
Speaker 5: but you know we we fully embrace it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: You know, we love we're from And I can see
Speaker 5: that matching up.
Speaker 2: I can see that, Yeah, you have a pig. He's
Speaker 2: a he's a cop now in Houston. Say it again,
Speaker 2: he's a police officer in Houston.
Speaker 5: Now I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been a long time, a long time cop.
Speaker 2: So so I'm curious. You've you've gone all these places,
Speaker 2: you know, V and A. U of course you knew
Speaker 2: the program. What what's the perception of the U A
Speaker 2: basketball program, maybe as recently as last few years.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know what the last few years. Obviously
Speaker 5: the you know, it's it's Arizona's Arizona where you know,
Speaker 5: people put that in the category outside perspective as a
Speaker 5: as a blue blood historic program and always looking to
Speaker 5: compete for a national championship obviously the last few years.
Speaker 5: And it's funny when when coach Lloyd got here, I
Speaker 5: just got to UNLV and we were just actually watching
Speaker 5: some old game film earlier on that first tournament they
Speaker 5: had at T Mobile. Well, I think they played Wichita
Speaker 5: State and Michigan And for me personally, that was the
Speaker 5: first time I had a chance to see like the
Speaker 5: sands in the backing of U of A. And it
Speaker 5: was pretty impressive to see, man, just the fans support
Speaker 5: and just you know, you could feel the energy of
Speaker 5: just you know, playing for something bigger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the first time we got to see
Speaker 3: Lloyd on the big stage against that kind of competition
Speaker 3: because he destroyed Michigan too, and I think co Loco
Speaker 3: handled Hunter on that. I think Hunter scored like six
Speaker 3: points and he did.
Speaker 5: He did it right right, and we were we were
Speaker 5: in that same deal and we were just I remember
Speaker 5: talking O, you know, to our staff and it was like, man,
Speaker 5: you know Arizona travels, man, it means something, you know.
Speaker 5: It was it was pretty cool to see that up close.
Speaker 2: What your next project just needs to be this And
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you heard this because I did
Speaker 2: this maybe two months ago when it happened. So Josh
Speaker 2: is now at UNLV a place that you've been to. Uh,
Speaker 2: Damon is at Georgia Tech. Uh, you know obviously out there. Uh,
Speaker 2: Bibby's at Sacramento State. And now everyone's here. We've got
Speaker 2: to have a fourteen game set of games in Vegas.
Speaker 2: I'll be down for that.
Speaker 5: Sounds good, man, All all legends and it goes back
Speaker 5: to that point guard. You man, those those are real
Speaker 5: guys right there.
Speaker 3: Right right, Brandon, what's your what now that you're here?
Speaker 3: You're you hit the ground running? What did you find
Speaker 3: a place to stay?
Speaker 2: Do you have? What's your average day look like now?
Speaker 2: Moving forward?
Speaker 5: You know what It's all about timing, And it's timing
Speaker 5: right now. The guys are finishing up school, you know.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's where I can kind of connect with
Speaker 5: the staff that's here right now, and you know, of
Speaker 5: course looking for a place to So I'm out here
Speaker 5: by myself right now, but but my wife and daughter
Speaker 5: would be coming shortly, and you know, it's I've had
Speaker 5: a chance to move to a couple of different places,
Speaker 5: so I'm confident I'll find the right area and you know,
Speaker 5: find the right house to live in. So that's that's
Speaker 5: really it. And then on a day to day basis,
Speaker 5: like kind of like I said, just get to know
Speaker 5: the staff, get to know the you know, the system,
Speaker 5: the city. You know, I'm driving around while I'm looking
Speaker 5: at houses, just kind of taking it all in. I
Speaker 5: didn't realize Tucson was this big. In my mind. It
Speaker 5: was just kind of a small college town. But it's
Speaker 5: it's it's growing and so far, so good. I really
Speaker 5: like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know very much. So right, Uh, I wanted
Speaker 2: to ask you and I just lost it. I lost
Speaker 2: it in terms of oh, working for Tommy, he's a
Speaker 2: kind of a chill dude, but a heck of a
Speaker 2: good coach, gets intense when he needs to be. But
Speaker 2: were your thoughts on him in your early meetings with him?
Speaker 5: Yeah? You know, first thing is how how smart and
Speaker 5: intelligent he is, know he he I think you can
Speaker 5: have a chill persona or vibe when when when you've
Speaker 5: done all up already a lot of the work and
Speaker 5: you thought things out. But but yeah, it's just like
Speaker 5: what you said, man, it's he's very wants me to
Speaker 5: me and my family to get comfortable, wants me to
Speaker 5: kind of just figure it out on my own a
Speaker 5: little bit. And and we're gonna have enough time for
Speaker 5: the for the ball and you know the plan going forward,
Speaker 5: taking that next step as a program, and you know,
Speaker 5: he's so he's so considered of me and my family,
Speaker 5: which is which is? You know, I truly appreciate because
Speaker 5: you know, if your your family is good and you're comfortable,
Speaker 5: you can do your job even better.
Speaker 2: I think he said that a few times. Where there's
Speaker 2: a time and the place when you coach, you you
Speaker 2: get intents when you're coaching, and then when you're done,
Speaker 2: you have the family to go to. Because he doesn't
Speaker 2: want to separate that.
Speaker 5: Right right, and you know it's on And I picked
Speaker 5: this up from him and obviously Coach Murphy too from
Speaker 5: talking to him over the years. When you do your
Speaker 5: work and you're prepared, you can you can balance both,
Speaker 5: you know, and so this you know it's this group.
Speaker 5: And as far as group, I meant staff, I can
Speaker 5: quickly see you know, they do their work to take
Speaker 5: care of their business and then you know they have
Speaker 5: time to balance it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned some stuff. Blake here is a long
Speaker 2: time basketball fan. Jan's an UA student who's covered basketball
Speaker 2: for followed basketball and I followed up for a long time.
Speaker 2: Could you give me a memory or two just from
Speaker 2: Afar what you remember most? Was it the kolid reeves
Speaker 2: Damon Stott of maer Time, Was it the bib Eat Simon, time,
Speaker 2: maybe Richard Jefferson and Gilbert.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, you know what, honestly, it is that ninety seventeen
Speaker 5: for for two reasons. I spent some time over the
Speaker 5: summers in San Diego when I was younger, and this was,
Speaker 5: you know, obviously after them coming off of national championship,
Speaker 5: and one of my cousins was a big u of
Speaker 5: a fan. And it's funny, man, I'm on my Twitter page.
Speaker 5: I you know, I had to change everything. You were
Speaker 5: excited to be here. But right now my profile picture
Speaker 5: is a is a picture of the phone posits that
Speaker 5: Mike Dibbie wore that season, And that's what I think
Speaker 5: about early on, and you know, watching basketball in college
Speaker 5: and and knowing about that Arizona team that won the championship.
Speaker 5: But Mike Dibby was one of my favorite point guards
Speaker 5: even in the NBA, and so that's one of the
Speaker 5: first things come to mind. And that group with Miles
Speaker 5: Simon and you know, Jason Terry, all those guys man.
Speaker 11: Right right, So the program has got a lot of buzz,
Speaker 11: in particular with this income and recruiting class. Have you
Speaker 11: had a chance to look at maybe some of the
Speaker 11: film behind this class and just your initial impressions and thoughts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what that's that's kind of the luxury
Speaker 5: of me coming from Texas directly here. You know, we all,
Speaker 5: you know, recruit a lot of the same guys we
Speaker 5: you know, me and coach Lloyd, we you know, the
Speaker 5: first time we met was that or recruiting events. So
Speaker 5: you know, I'm very familiar with the big time roster
Speaker 5: that they were able to put together turning guys, right,
Speaker 5: you know, the returning guys, and you know, played against
Speaker 5: Toby when he was at Tennessee and was a fan
Speaker 5: of Jaden when he was coming up, even in his
Speaker 5: first year at Alabama. So I had a chance to
Speaker 5: you know, really know this roster. And that's what I'm
Speaker 5: kind of doing right now as far as watching film,
Speaker 5: getting caught up on terminology and guys, getting me the
Speaker 5: speed of how they play and how they do their
Speaker 5: day to day operations.
Speaker 2: Right. Well, you come in at a great time. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a great future next year's season. Everyone
Speaker 2: looks forward to the next season obviously with the guys
Speaker 2: who can return and the schedule that they're having. So
Speaker 2: enjoy your time finding that house and be safe with
Speaker 2: your family and stuff, and we'll see you soon.
Speaker 5: Sounds good, man. And and if you guys have any
Speaker 5: good restaurants you wanted to test, please let me know
Speaker 5: from foodie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, great, great. You're probably a text Mex guy,
Speaker 2: are you? Or what are you do? You? What do
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Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 5: I'm I'm I'm a really everything guy. My wife she uh,
Speaker 5: she suspended. She's from Patho actually, oh so, I'm a
Speaker 5: chips and salsa.
Speaker 2: Guy all day, every day. Okay, I'll say something. I'll
Speaker 2: send her for some notes on some of the restaurants
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Speaker 5: That sounds good.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, coach, I appreciate you.
Speaker 5: Yep, thank you, guys.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports
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Speaker 2: we got Matt, we got Ray. Just don't calls late
Speaker 2: for dinner. Who's the guy that does your intro? Is
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Speaker 2: ball your host, Steve Rivera. Yeah, I think you go
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Speaker 3: I'm giving you you're gonna do well in Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Stop there, folks. I want to stay on. Yeah a
Speaker 2: good stuck to you, know, mister mister Chappelle. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: always exciting getting your coach. That's good. Higher, Yeah, big loss,
Speaker 2: but good higher yeah yeah, no, no and It's kind
Speaker 2: of goes with his trending younger, right, everybody's younger now
Speaker 2: and his staff. We'll see how how good he is
Speaker 2: one they he needs to find, uh, a guy who
Speaker 2: can well recruit. But I'm he he does that well.
Speaker 2: But Tommy, but to scout, because you have to have
Speaker 2: those assistants who scout, you know, the opponents. Yeah, is
Speaker 2: that what his role is going to be? One of them? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Him and Murphy do that because Steve did that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're scouting other teams, you know, their makeup
Speaker 3: is a I'm sorry the Wildcats out of season around
Speaker 3: at conference schedule next year's wild Ye.
Speaker 2: I was gonna go go there with you. Are you
Speaker 2: gonna I'm sure that's the thing you're going to miss
Speaker 2: the most because you were at all the games this
Speaker 2: year for the first time ye forever, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean because you went to the games and you saw
Speaker 2: the great games. You're not gonna You're not going to
Speaker 2: be there unofficially, Yes, I won't be there. Well, I
Speaker 2: mean most of them are neutral. Yeah, but the big
Speaker 2: game well yeah true? True for next season, yeah, for
Speaker 2: next season.
Speaker 11: Most of the I think the only big time home
Speaker 11: game is gonna be Auburn.
Speaker 2: And Kansas is coming. I assuming Kansas, yeah, and then
Speaker 2: the rest of the league obviously, but ever're just talking
Speaker 2: non conference, yeah, right, right, but you'll be able to
Speaker 2: see if you have the good job and wherever you're going.
Speaker 3: He's got some terrible basketball around where he's moving though, right,
Speaker 3: that's it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be crazy. You're gonna find out that the
Speaker 2: issue you a big game is is nothing compared to
Speaker 2: the Kentucky level. Then, like we all knew that, though
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think I don't know. Do you
Speaker 2: do you feel that you ASU do?
Speaker 3: I think it's like specific, Oh yeah, that's probably it's
Speaker 3: just because of the rivalry.
Speaker 2: But I mean a s U hasn't been no, but
Speaker 2: overall just overall, just the rivalry itself.
Speaker 3: Do you think it compares to how does it compare
Speaker 3: to other rivalries around that country?
Speaker 2: Question?
Speaker 3: Like Texas Oklahoma. That's the question. It's a are you're
Speaker 3: talking about just in state rivalries? Both in state? I
Speaker 3: think I would say Kentucky Kentucky Louisville is probably you're
Speaker 3: not in basketball, I would say it's got to be
Speaker 3: number one. Right, You're duke in North Carolina. Sorry, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's number two vice versa. Yeah, switch them. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was the beasketball and issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't even overall, Yeah, it's a it's a
Speaker 2: top ten five really in overall, I believe. So you're
Speaker 2: talking about all sports everything, just the just the h okay,
Speaker 2: okay that yes, yeah, top five, I would say top
Speaker 2: twelve maybe my twelve. Why not. There's gotta be there's
Speaker 2: gotta be more, more rivalries that are better than a
Speaker 2: s U U.
Speaker 9: U.
Speaker 2: You think that that's that's the rivalry, and that's that's U.
Speaker 2: You live it, so I don't want to argue that,
Speaker 2: but you think, Okay, what about Oregon? Okay, we'll go
Speaker 2: back in Oregon state Washington. I don't want to argue
Speaker 2: with you, Matt, because you live, you live it. You're
Speaker 2: Auburn Alabama for sure. Okay.
Speaker 3: And what about Washington Oregon Oregon versus Oregon State.
Speaker 2: You're talking why they hate each other Washington Oregons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but how we were talking about in state now
Speaker 3: we're maxing. You just want to talk about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a rivalry, but that's not a rivalry, just
Speaker 2: a general general general rivalry. L A has see we
Speaker 2: don't see it from here, but he lived. That's fair.
Speaker 2: That's fair. We're getting a different perspective.
Speaker 3: We don't think about that as a true rivalry because
Speaker 3: US has always been way better than U c l A,
Speaker 3: mostly in football, and then U c l A and
Speaker 3: that's basketball.
Speaker 2: So well, what makes it good? What makes the UL overall?
Speaker 10: Every sport is just even woman's on the women's side too,
Speaker 10: like more recently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, what are you gonna say, right an Auburn, Florida, Florida.
Speaker 3: State, Florida, Florida State. I mean every I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: so Dari right, there is not top five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've a s U is not.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if they're my top ten as, right, because.
Speaker 2: You've never had Texas A and M.
Speaker 3: I mean, you talk about U n C two, you
Speaker 3: talk about Auburn Alabama, you talk about Louisville Kentucky. I mean,
Speaker 3: these teams when they play each other in the past
Speaker 3: have usually been the top ten, like they're competing for
Speaker 3: national championships. When's the last time you have A and
Speaker 3: as you have been in the top ten when they
Speaker 3: played each other in any sport, Well, give it another
Speaker 3: one other than baseball.
Speaker 2: Utah, I don't I don't know. I don't know. You
Speaker 2: call me mister Utah. Yeah, because of our conversation, e
Speaker 2: y u Utah. I mean they hate each other. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I get it. Yeah, they hate each other. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know this is the top it. Then I stopped
Speaker 2: the rivalry. What category are we putting this in?
Speaker 3: Rival like competing when they're competing at the highest level,
Speaker 3: or just overall rivaly because I don't know how to
Speaker 3: rate I don't know how to rape then, because every
Speaker 3: state is going to say the same thing.
Speaker 1: Bedlam's always fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always circle Bedlom for college football because you never
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen in that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolutely right. So right there doesn't top five,
Speaker 2: top ten, maybe top twelve. You're still you're not changing
Speaker 2: your mind.
Speaker 1: I think you can make a case for top ten
Speaker 1: being from here. But yeah, it's top five tough because
Speaker 1: I mean you think about like Michigan, Oh State too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's Michigan, Michigan state'll state Michigan.
Speaker 11: Like, here's my last argument for why it's top five
Speaker 11: in my opinion, with other rivalries there's there's other ones
Speaker 11: to it, so like Florida Florida State, but then there's
Speaker 11: also Florida Miami. Think about Arizona Arizona. They what other
Speaker 11: rivalries are there?
Speaker 2: Truly? Maybe you see you said maybe, but you said
Speaker 2: there's no maybe there.
Speaker 3: It's actually there's it's one hundred rivalry in basketball in basketball.
Speaker 11: Sure, no, three hundred and sixty five days. These two
Speaker 11: get that and no one else apples apples.
Speaker 3: You're probably right. Yeah, I don't know. You said you
Speaker 3: wouldn't be in your top twelve. No, I think it
Speaker 3: might make my top thirteen.
Speaker 2: At thirteen. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: This is I know I brought this question up, but
Speaker 3: I u c L a usc as something for Matt
Speaker 3: being from LA.
Speaker 2: What would you put it in the in the top
Speaker 2: ten if you is it in the top ten recently?
Speaker 2: I'm going to say now, but historically, historically it has
Speaker 2: to be it has to be Okay, and what do
Speaker 2: I know about Colorado, Colorio State, all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but different, they've got to be somewhat in the
Speaker 3: same kind of league. I think Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Texas, Oklahoma Texas,
Speaker 3: I said earlier absolutely, and they usually play each other
Speaker 3: at a high level. I mean, that's what you're talking about, Budlin, Like,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter if you're ranked or not, You're it's
Speaker 3: gonna be down to the wire.
Speaker 1: Man, red River, There's been so many good like I
Speaker 1: feel like I could just talk about Red No, it
Speaker 1: didn't not even close. But like when I was in
Speaker 1: the military, like you know, start like growing up or
Speaker 1: like getting into college football, it was just like come
Speaker 1: back after comeback after comeback for Oklahoma for like a
Speaker 1: three year stretch and it was just like man, and
Speaker 1: it was like all while yours was there too. And
Speaker 1: so it's like, dude, like like Texas, Like I don't
Speaker 1: know Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: I thought you were stationed in Texas somewhere, no service
Speaker 2: to Okay, Yeah that's Texas, SUCA. Yeah, it's a good face,
Speaker 2: it's it's all right. They're they're the easiest people. I
Speaker 2: don't want to make you cry. They're in the top two.
Speaker 2: Yeah wait wait, you're right on.
Speaker 3: Yeah for today, and then when you move.
Speaker 2: There'll be thirteen.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You've You've prepared so many young men and young women
Speaker 3: for their next step, and they're sure, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm being honest. Okay, this is true. I'm I give
Speaker 3: you a compliment, just take it. So, how how many
Speaker 3: do you stay in contact? Ok Now, because you are
Speaker 3: from a personnel standpoint, you have the ability to build relationships,
Speaker 3: like how many of those the young men young women?
Speaker 2: That's a fair question. About five? It's five or six? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's good, that's really they've also landed some pretty good jobs.
Speaker 2: Do you text them and say, is there any jobs openings?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, But I have talked to him about that because
Speaker 2: some of them just recently are still looking for jobs,
Speaker 2: or because the media is so fluid that they've lost
Speaker 2: that job and looking for another job, and they're asking
Speaker 2: me for advice and or recommendations, or they're you know,
Speaker 2: me saying endorsing them. Yeah. Now, do you think you'll
Speaker 2: do the same with Matt and one that one? Yeah,
Speaker 2: if they, if they, and we we talked about it
Speaker 2: coming into the the studio, right, what I think he
Speaker 2: should do? Right giving the advice of yeah, so so
Speaker 2: because I was them many years ago. And yeah, but
Speaker 2: my problem with this program, and I'll say this publicly,
Speaker 2: Arizona has in the journalist department, they start them too late.
Speaker 2: I mean I saw Juan. I think it's fantastic. Ray
Speaker 2: and all these guys they started, they came here as seniors.
Speaker 2: They should have been here as sophomores. That way you
Speaker 2: can build that relationship. And I want to send them
Speaker 2: out as a software somewhere else. Come back, do a
Speaker 2: summer as a junior, and as as a senior whom
Speaker 2: you're ready to get hired and you're ready to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because if you're a sophomore, you've got two summers
Speaker 3: and the exactly to get out of this market, learn another market,
Speaker 3: and then come back exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: And I told that to Matt coming in right. I
Speaker 2: wish you would have started earlier. That way we can
Speaker 2: kind of get established here somewhere, impress somebody, and they'll say, hey, Matt,
Speaker 2: when you're done, come back, yea, come back. I said
Speaker 2: this to Juan, I said this to I'll say this
Speaker 2: to Ray. But the other ones I said they started earlier. Uh,
Speaker 2: but still it was kind of too late. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: one's not his head right. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, It's something that's been talked about within the students, uh,
Speaker 11: within journalism at Arizona one.
Speaker 2: Not only are we starting late.
Speaker 11: But especially specifically my class that we're about to graduate
Speaker 11: with it was print focused, and we can't be print
Speaker 11: focused anymore. Were you the COVID class well a year
Speaker 11: after you was kind of still kind of And and
Speaker 11: maybe that's an issue too, because they're online learning and
Speaker 11: all that stuff.
Speaker 2: You don't learn that stuff. It's like when Spanish, you
Speaker 2: don't learn it from a book. You can go to
Speaker 2: a biblicitecha all you want, but it doesn't get you.
Speaker 2: You know, you got to go and learn how to speak.
Speaker 2: And then this is the same thing. One you probably
Speaker 2: learned more in a year, not just here, but doing
Speaker 2: the other stuff you've done, right, Ye, because you learned
Speaker 2: a lot because you had to because it was your job.
Speaker 3: Fail in the field you want to go in, Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: I mean because that's the best way to learn.
Speaker 2: You have to and you find out if you want
Speaker 2: to do it. Yeah, and I'm assuming you still want
Speaker 2: to do it.
Speaker 11: That's one of the questions I was asked with my
Speaker 11: last interview process, So why journalism? I said, well, I
Speaker 11: fell in love with it and I want to pursue this.
Speaker 2: Then my next question to you is are you still
Speaker 2: in love with it? Yes? That answers it yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: So it's kind of combining these last two conversations and
Speaker 11: speaking of top five, top whatever, where do I rank
Speaker 11: top five?
Speaker 2: Interns? Oh?
Speaker 3: The personal question gloves coming off them, accepting top two,
Speaker 3: not to Hey, you're in the top five for me boom.
Speaker 2: He's he's seeing not five, not four, not three, not
Speaker 2: two With that raise, tell me you got to get
Speaker 2: up theah. That's the right call. We'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 6: We'll bring you.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Another note, what do I say
Speaker 2: more importantly importantly that's what to the hot chicks? All right, guys,
Speaker 2: thanks for coming in.