Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to I'm the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in with me today.
Speaker 1: Troy HUTCHISIM from Go Easycats dot Com. No with us
Speaker 1: is Ray with breaking news.
Speaker 2: This is high on the Ball, breaking news on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen to fifty.
Speaker 3: The jingle was going to take a day off anyways,
Speaker 3: starting up with some local stuff. Arizona Track and Field
Speaker 3: finished middle of the pack, I believe eighth at the
Speaker 3: Outdoor Championships in Lawrence, Kansas this weekend. The men finished
Speaker 3: with forty eight points while the women finished with forty six,
Speaker 3: and both teams finished ahead of ASU.
Speaker 1: So so do we did they have any champions or
Speaker 1: anything like that, winners of their division or competition?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Raynaldo Rodriguez first place finish in the men's long jump,
Speaker 3: and then another highlight was Aaron Tack who set the
Speaker 3: program record and javelin and finished second.
Speaker 4: Okay, and the javelin toss. So they'll be on their
Speaker 4: way to the into the LAS likely Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: First round starts out May twenty eight through the thirty
Speaker 3: first at College Station in Texas.
Speaker 4: Okay, keeping it going.
Speaker 3: The cactus logo is set to return to McHale for
Speaker 3: twenty uh for the twenty twenty five twenty twenty sixth season.
Speaker 4: So the love of the old people will be happy
Speaker 4: because they get to see that again. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4: And they gave the fans some options to vote on.
Speaker 4: Oh did they or would they see this? So I
Speaker 4: didn't see this on Twitter and Instagram. They gave them
Speaker 4: four court designs to choose from on Twitter. Okay, so
Speaker 4: it was another vote by the young kids, probably because
Speaker 4: nobody my ages that stuff, and there's Facebook.
Speaker 1: Did they have a chance on? Probably does like Twitter
Speaker 1: and Instagram. Hey, Mildred, what's that thing called Twitter? X?
Speaker 4: Twitter? Whatever? What Instagram? I just see a girl have
Speaker 4: a MySpace? So yeah, it's try. Hey, by the world,
Speaker 4: did you get our AOL email? Exciting stuff though, I
Speaker 4: mean the logo I always I love the logo. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the logo looks it's great obviously having never actually seen
Speaker 4: it on the court, I mean, yeah, it's spin, it's spilled.
Speaker 4: Yeah you' you know, I mean like you've seen pictures
Speaker 4: of it, you know what I mean? They didn't have
Speaker 4: it on the court. He's been he was He's not
Speaker 4: from these parts. Oh okay, Okay, okay, he's just busiting. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know. For California, Oh yeah, for sure, keeping
Speaker 4: it going though.
Speaker 3: The baseball team is I'm sorry, I got the softball
Speaker 3: stuff up, finished forty eight and thirteen and talking about
Speaker 3: it all day.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I guess there's not good enough for Troy.
Speaker 4: But are you doing doing what he's done for me?
Speaker 1: Late?
Speaker 4: Latly? Yeah, I need'd be a tough sale at Texas
Speaker 4: A and M right now. Oh no, what history do
Speaker 4: they have? Good? I mean, it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing. You
Speaker 4: shouldn't lose Liberty in the they're hosting a regional but
Speaker 4: and they got a bad drop. Liberty is a better
Speaker 4: team than what they see than the mat So who
Speaker 4: say and them got? Yeah, Liberty, you never number one
Speaker 4: team the Cocher. We're gonna be the best team in
Speaker 4: the coutch.
Speaker 5: I know this year wasn't very anyway, anyway, we can
Speaker 5: go on. I'm sure we'll circle back to it. Baseball
Speaker 5: team had a series with Houston over the weekend. They
Speaker 5: won the series, lost the first game, and they are
Speaker 5: looking forward to the Big twelve championship.
Speaker 4: I know you don't have this. Maybe do access to
Speaker 4: what are in the last ten fifteen games. Not good?
Speaker 4: Not good. It's like they're tailing off with the wrongs
Speaker 4: baseball because it's happened before. It happens every single time.
Speaker 4: I wonder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a four one two three four four game.
Speaker 4: Streak and that includes against last place Utah Utah GCU.
Speaker 4: Would they always have trouble with for whatever reason? H yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, So they're looking forward to the Big
Speaker 3: twelve Championship Baseball Championship obviously it starts on Thursday.
Speaker 4: And which do you have news on that? U? B
Speaker 4: y U or A s U about the they're going
Speaker 4: to relocate involve championship to Phoenix the surprise? So who
Speaker 4: who broke that? And I I somebody told me today
Speaker 4: as I was driving A Yeah, I saw this morning.
Speaker 4: I wonder how where it starts. I don't know why
Speaker 4: you picked surprise though there are so many nice facilities. Well,
Speaker 4: who's whose home field is that?
Speaker 6: That?
Speaker 1: Isn't that the Reds? Who's who's surprise? They're gonna play
Speaker 1: on somebody's field?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 4: Kansas City Royals and the Rangers also play there. Okay, Well,
Speaker 4: you know what's a nice facility? Mm hmm. Yeah, they
Speaker 4: could have picked They could have picked anything pretty much.
Speaker 4: I just meant something more centrally. The access for everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what I saw.
Speaker 3: That it's like the farthest one from skytt Harbor or
Speaker 3: some something like that.
Speaker 4: But once you're out there, you're out there. Hopking Stick
Speaker 4: Scottsdale has a couple, you know, the Angels.
Speaker 1: He's just trying to be the contrarian today. No, just
Speaker 1: red blue blue.
Speaker 4: As far is it?
Speaker 8: Like, what part of Phoenix is it for here?
Speaker 4: For here to two from Tucson to there, it's like
Speaker 4: adding an extra hour worraffic. Oh really, it's like by
Speaker 4: GC or something. It's weird. It's out there. Oh man, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that is kind of far drive.
Speaker 3: Keeping going though and moving on to professional baseball, Diamondbacks
Speaker 3: start their three game series against the Dodgers at seven
Speaker 3: to ten day.
Speaker 4: What was the series this last one? Who Diamondbacks and Dodgers?
Speaker 3: Oh split the four gamer to Yeah. Yeah, tough divisions,
Speaker 3: so we'll see how that. I'm keeping on it as
Speaker 3: a Giants fan, so yeah, the I mean we talked
Speaker 3: about a little bit, but Tyrese Halliburton is inviting the
Speaker 3: Pacers fan who got a bunch of trash bags thrown
Speaker 3: at him in New York. After the next one, he's
Speaker 3: inviting him out for Game four. It's pretty cool stuff,
Speaker 3: I think. Yeah, taking so did you see that.
Speaker 4: I didn't see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it happen like yeah, it was okay, So like
Speaker 3: the nixt one, right, and then you know it wouldn't
Speaker 3: I think they were in New York when they won
Speaker 3: over the weekend, and so you know, crowd's going crazy,
Speaker 3: as the New York Knicks fans always are, and there's
Speaker 3: you know, there's a mob outside. Streets are filled, and
Speaker 3: there's a guy. There's one guy just walking in a
Speaker 3: Pacers jersey. And the Pacers already secured their ticket to
Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference Finals, obviously, and so there's a mob
Speaker 3: following it, like a huge like probably like at least
Speaker 3: seventy people, you know what I mean. And you know
Speaker 3: they're just picking up like like full trash bags, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, like off the sidewalk and just
Speaker 3: like New York, yeah, exactly, and they're just throwing it
Speaker 3: at this guy.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 4: It was okay. I'm not saying they did the right thing.
Speaker 4: That's all horrible team to do but what was he doing?
Speaker 4: But you know what you're doing. You know, it's crazy
Speaker 4: New York. What the heck are you thinking?
Speaker 3: No, seriously, and it's like it was funny. I was
Speaker 3: watching because he made an appearance on the Pat McAfee show.
Speaker 3: He was like, yeah, I was just trying to keep
Speaker 3: my head down and like just walk because you know,
Speaker 3: you don't want to run in a situation like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, grown man? How old? Uh?
Speaker 3: I'm I don't think it says how old he is,
Speaker 3: but it says he's a firefighter, so he might be.
Speaker 4: Thirty or older. Yeah, so he knew what he was doing.
Speaker 4: I mean, first of all, what the hell you're doing?
Speaker 1: And you're that old word of jersey from the other
Speaker 1: team and an opposing team's place.
Speaker 4: In New York, New York. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're instigating it. Yeah, you're thinking this. He is gonna
Speaker 4: have some fun. See see what comes up this?
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I guess it worked out though.
Speaker 3: I mean's free tickets the game for in Indiana, so
Speaker 3: you know, I had a little fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4: He gets to see them lose a home cool. Yeah,
Speaker 4: who do you know in that stree? You think of
Speaker 4: the next okay, oh, I owe you twenty bucks. You do,
Speaker 4: I was gonna bring that up twenty. I owe twenty.
Speaker 4: I forgot yeah paid.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, he owes me twenty because I
Speaker 1: took back by twenty from the Denver Oklahoma City series,
Speaker 1: So he owes me twenty.
Speaker 4: I'll give you the twenty.
Speaker 3: Moving into that thunder one yesterday one twenty five to
Speaker 3: ninety three against the Denver Nuggets in Game seven to
Speaker 3: punch their tickets to the Western Conference semis or sorry finals,
Speaker 3: and they are gonna be going against the Wolves.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be an interesting one, should be. I'll take Okay, see,
Speaker 4: I'll take September Wolves. I like, what about? What about
Speaker 4: the other one? What in the yeah? Said Nick? Next, Oh,
Speaker 4: I see some more the wagers being made twenty and
Speaker 4: twenty Nixon six and Wolves in six. Okay, I'll take both.
Speaker 4: I'll take your opposite. No, no, we have that twenty.
Speaker 4: I'll get you the twenty. You want to bet the
Speaker 4: other two two for twenty, I'll do the next series. Okay,
Speaker 4: I goodcause I already bet with him. Okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: I won't do the Wolves, but i'll do the X.
Speaker 4: Give me a chance. Man, give me a chance to
Speaker 4: make Are you gonna your own odds to No? No,
Speaker 4: I don't ask.
Speaker 1: I'm not that guy. I'm not gonna say you'll give
Speaker 1: me two points now, Dude. If I like that game,
Speaker 1: I would like to take.
Speaker 4: I like the.
Speaker 1: Blonde will say hello, how are you and then deal
Speaker 1: with it later.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I like the Wolves, and you know I'm gonna
Speaker 4: just call it. I like Wolves, take the whole thing,
Speaker 4: all of it. I gotta be honest. I like the NIXT.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take money for my intern but
Speaker 1: you already don't get paid here.
Speaker 4: I'm not a better guy. Welcome to the gambling hour, man.
Speaker 4: I just like to make calls, just like show people
Speaker 4: that I know sports. That's it. Yeah, that's a good take.
Speaker 4: Oh this is an interesting one too. Uh.
Speaker 3: The ex Nuggets coach Mike Malone, he's gonna be joining
Speaker 3: ESPN's coverage over the Thunder and Wolves like series.
Speaker 4: Well, you know you can come and talk because his
Speaker 4: team's gone. He want to get picked up somewhere. Did
Speaker 4: those Suns a job they're doing their I think second
Speaker 4: round interviews this week? Did anybody know who they are?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: No, doesn't really matter who did. I mean, they're keeping
Speaker 4: them pretty steal old. I know there's been some names league,
Speaker 4: but nothing like Major. It's going to be like this,
Speaker 4: some coaches type of fire.
Speaker 3: Oh it's interesting. Oh, this is kind of a big
Speaker 3: story over the weekend. I guess, well, Katelyn, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know obviously.
Speaker 4: W n B A oh yeah, yeah, the little ricus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little little fractus that went down whatever in Indiana.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I didn't think it was that big
Speaker 3: of a foul. I didn't even think it should have
Speaker 3: gone a flavorance.
Speaker 4: But no, it was a good fowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she she fell down and you know, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: it was a foul.
Speaker 4: She sold it to make it was aol. I'll give
Speaker 4: her that, But yeah, I don't know, I didn't think
Speaker 4: it was that big of.
Speaker 1: A My old thing is the crowd afterwards, the or
Speaker 1: the the you know, the racist stuff that.
Speaker 4: She gets come on. Really yeah, just kind of like
Speaker 4: times we live in, the stupid times we live in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was crazy though. I saw Kaitlyn Clark's like
Speaker 3: tied third all time and like triple doubles in the w.
Speaker 4: She just got her first one, first game, first one. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean that was just crazy. They killed them. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I was a recent pretty damn good. She had like
Speaker 4: seventeen rebounds in the first two minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm kind of split on angel rees just
Speaker 3: because like she is good, but she a lot of
Speaker 3: those rebounds, a lot of those rebounds are offering missus.
Speaker 4: You know, put it back five times five rebounds right
Speaker 4: there exactly.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Where did you guys eat today? You guys are grumpy.
Speaker 4: We did it, that's the problem, Steve, Yeah, you mind me? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And what got.
Speaker 3: Moving into well, I guess golf Scotti Shuffler won the
Speaker 3: pg A Championship made a comeback on I think the
Speaker 3: last day that a lot of people were talking about
Speaker 3: Eagles coach Sirianni you got a contract extension. I thought
Speaker 3: that was pretty cool. I mean, I feel like he
Speaker 3: just won the super Bowl. Yeah, just won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: I just, man, I don't get where the Eagles are
Speaker 3: getting all this money from. Man, It's like they're paying
Speaker 3: Super Bowl.
Speaker 8: Geez. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then uh, there's a little one that was just
Speaker 4: personal for me.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: Fred Warner got a three year contract extension for sixty
Speaker 3: three million, and he's the highest paid livebacker.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So were you okay with the quarterback getting whatever?
Speaker 4: You got to? Sixty five?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think fifty three a year, isn't I mean,
Speaker 3: he's gotten to the super Bowl. No one expected it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he had a down year last year, but the whole
Speaker 3: team had, like was pretty much decimated by injuries. So
Speaker 3: it's like you're missing your last like, you're missing your
Speaker 3: left tackle, you're missing your number one receiver, you're missing
Speaker 3: your running back who sometimes is also a receiver. The
Speaker 3: defense was busted it up, so it's just it's gonna
Speaker 3: be a tough year either way. But I mean that's
Speaker 3: what happens, super Bowl hangover kind of thing. So I
Speaker 3: feel about it.
Speaker 4: Okay, anything else? Are you doing any writing as your place?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You just sart. It look pretty a little bit of both.
Speaker 8: But no, I.
Speaker 4: Very nice. What what do you mean? What do you
Speaker 4: mean very nice? Your situation? You're not having to write?
Speaker 4: That's good? I know, I know, but no, I need
Speaker 4: I need to.
Speaker 8: I need to.
Speaker 4: Football evaluations. We're going to be doing a quarterback stuff
Speaker 4: is positioned by a position breakdown of what Arizona has
Speaker 4: setting into a training camp, what they need to look
Speaker 4: for and that's already two months away June July. Yeah,
Speaker 4: pretty much. Yeah, because they started on the thirty first, right,
Speaker 4: they're one of those weeks zero usually a month, uh
Speaker 4: the week sarre I thought there week one, it's thirty first,
Speaker 4: thirty first. Yeah, that's when Hawaii or who they play.
Speaker 4: I think that's when they play Hawaii. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Then that's that's it for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're good. I think let's go because we're gonna
Speaker 1: give a call from Toby.
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and with
Speaker 1: me today is Troy Hutchesson from Goezycats dot com. Now
Speaker 1: on the phone, we have Toby a walk out from
Speaker 1: the UFA basketball program.
Speaker 4: Toby, how are you.
Speaker 8: I'm doing well. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: Great to have you.
Speaker 1: Let me say this because I've always want to say this,
Speaker 1: and I didn't say this at a press commerce when
Speaker 1: we've had you guys up on the podium. If I'm
Speaker 1: Tommy Lloyd and I'm looking to and i know I'm
Speaker 1: going to the Big twelve and I've seen Toby play,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I need that dude on my team because
Speaker 1: I'm going to Big twelve. Did they say anything like
Speaker 1: that because you fit the Big twelve perfectly?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 4: Not really.
Speaker 10: I think more so coach was talking about when he
Speaker 10: was recruiting me during the whole transfer portal process that
Speaker 10: I kind of fit his play style, and you know,
Speaker 10: he likes to play big and.
Speaker 8: Kind of crush guys inside. So that's mostly what he
Speaker 8: was talking to.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what you do because you did it very
Speaker 1: You do it very well, especially you know with Henry
Speaker 1: and then not with Henry at times.
Speaker 4: So you know, Teby, I've Steve's covered u of A
Speaker 4: basketball for a long time. I've grown up here in Tucson,
Speaker 4: so I've seen a lot of UFA basketball, and I
Speaker 4: can't remember a player that rebounded the way that you
Speaker 4: do out there on the court in terms of yes,
Speaker 4: there's been great rebounders, but it looks like you take
Speaker 4: rebounding very personal on a different level than most players
Speaker 4: out there on court.
Speaker 8: No, I appreciate that. Yeah, I mean it's really just
Speaker 8: been a mindset. Honestly.
Speaker 10: I just start taking it seriously to around my junior
Speaker 10: year in high school.
Speaker 8: You know, my.
Speaker 10: AU coach at that time, Dana Dingle for the New
Speaker 10: York Lightning. You know, he said, that's kind of like
Speaker 10: your meal ticket, you know, to getting the eyes of
Speaker 10: a Division one coaches on you.
Speaker 8: And from then on I just kind of took it.
Speaker 10: Really serious and tried to perfect it and make it
Speaker 10: sort of the forefront of what I was focused on
Speaker 10: whenever I was playing. And then you know, obviously defense included,
Speaker 10: and then obviously you know ingratiating you know, my offensive
Speaker 10: game too. But yeah, I've always tried to focus on rebounding,
Speaker 10: sort of a.
Speaker 8: Hanging my hat on that.
Speaker 1: So so now we know that, right, So now what
Speaker 1: are you doing on the offensive end in the summer? Typically,
Speaker 1: And I've covered this team for a long long time
Speaker 1: and seen some great players come through. So the season
Speaker 1: is the season, but the summer is for you to
Speaker 1: or the player to get better at doing something right,
Speaker 1: either dribbling, shooting or whatever. What are you doing this summer?
Speaker 17: Really?
Speaker 10: Just been working on my shot, getting more comfortable with it,
Speaker 10: being able to shoot it at game speed, working on
Speaker 10: footwork getting into my shot.
Speaker 8: So that's really been a focal point really, and then
Speaker 8: also just.
Speaker 10: Being able to you know, handle the ball, have a
Speaker 10: better feel for the game in that sense, sort of
Speaker 10: be a connector of the offense. Uh, you know, get
Speaker 10: guys into different actions, whether it be you know, dribble
Speaker 10: handoffs or screens, things of that nature.
Speaker 4: No, No, before you left to go back home, you
Speaker 4: were working with the assistant coaching staff and the coaching
Speaker 4: staff on your game. How did that How did that
Speaker 4: process go? And I know you just talked a little
Speaker 4: bit about what you guys, you know, partially of what
Speaker 4: you were working on. But what feedback did they give
Speaker 4: you during that time?
Speaker 17: Oh?
Speaker 10: I mean I think they definitely saw improvement, for sure.
Speaker 10: I was working with coach Ken a lot. We were
Speaker 10: doing a lot of stuff, you know, full speed in
Speaker 10: terms of dribbling and then kind of really breaking down
Speaker 10: my shot and working on some rhythm things.
Speaker 8: And then also you know, create the coach rounds.
Speaker 10: You know, he's not somebody that that gets talked a lot,
Speaker 10: you know when it comes to the staff, but you
Speaker 10: know he's really been pushing us in the weight room.
Speaker 8: So I definite feel I've gotten you no more athletics
Speaker 8: stronger for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no question.
Speaker 1: Again, if you work on your offensive game, who knows
Speaker 1: what you're capable of doing all around. And there's been,
Speaker 1: like you say, some pretty good rebounders. He's among among
Speaker 1: the other ones.
Speaker 4: What are you doing in New York? Did you just
Speaker 4: going home for the summer to work on your game?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Really, it's just a visit family. I haven't seen him
Speaker 10: in a while. I haven't been back home for a
Speaker 10: little bit, so really just to hang out with them.
Speaker 10: I work out with former Syracuse player uh Tyler Lyden.
Speaker 10: He played for the Nuggets and the Kings a little
Speaker 10: bit in the NBA, so he's from, you know, the
Speaker 10: area that I'm from, So I've been working out with him,
Speaker 10: and then also you know, just staying in the weight room,
Speaker 10: lifting things like that.
Speaker 8: But really it's mainly just to be here family and
Speaker 8: you know, hang with them.
Speaker 4: You know a lot of players when they say they're
Speaker 4: from New York, uh, there's that sense of New York pride,
Speaker 4: New York basketball. How do you do you feel that
Speaker 4: and how do you go about that? Because it is
Speaker 4: something out here on the East, on the West Coast
Speaker 4: that a lot of teams look for. Is that is
Speaker 4: that East Coast toughness?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I think.
Speaker 10: Being from New York, being from Hot Park and then
Speaker 10: also going and playing you know, high school ball in
Speaker 10: the Bronx and in the city as a whole, I
Speaker 10: think there's definitely like a type of grit and toughness
Speaker 10: that comes with playing basketball in New York. You know,
Speaker 10: games can get very competitive and you know, it's it's
Speaker 10: just one of those things where like growing up, everybody's
Speaker 10: playing no matter what sport they might end up playing
Speaker 10: in high school and become more specialized or focused in
Speaker 10: growing up, everybody's playing basketball, So you know, it's one
Speaker 10: of those things that gets competitive very early on, and
Speaker 10: you know a lot of kids, you know, take pride
Speaker 10: and you know with in those one on one matchups
Speaker 10: at the park or you know, even at school during
Speaker 10: recess things like that.
Speaker 8: So that's kind of the environment that I grew up around.
Speaker 10: And then obviously New York City basketball is, you know,
Speaker 10: a Beastern monster of its own.
Speaker 8: You know, there's definitely deep sea the.
Speaker 10: Rivalries from Burrow to Burrow when it comes to different
Speaker 10: schools playing against each other. So, you know, just growing
Speaker 10: up in that environment, I think that's kind of what
Speaker 10: has mowed me into the player that I am today.
Speaker 1: We're two months removed from the team from the season,
Speaker 1: and yourself, how would you evaluate how you did personally
Speaker 1: and the team did personally?
Speaker 4: At the end?
Speaker 10: I thought, you know, I did decently throughout the whole season.
Speaker 10: I think the beginning of the season was a tougher
Speaker 10: stretch for me. I think I was still filling out
Speaker 10: sort of the system and what my role was, and
Speaker 10: you know, I kind of think that towards conference play
Speaker 10: that I started to find my groove and started to
Speaker 10: become more comfortable, sort of more so established myself. I
Speaker 10: think towards the end of the season, foul trouble kind
Speaker 10: of got me into some issues in terms of you know,
Speaker 10: being able to be available to play on the floor
Speaker 10: and things like that. But I definitely do think that,
Speaker 10: you know, mid season that sort of hit my stride
Speaker 10: and definitely started to grow as a player for sure.
Speaker 10: And then from the team aspect, you know, I was
Speaker 10: really proud of the way that we were, that we
Speaker 10: were able to bounce back. You know, a lot of
Speaker 10: people rolled us off. I did that tough start in
Speaker 10: the beginning of the season, and you know, there was
Speaker 10: a lot of noise, a lot of you know, just
Speaker 10: a lot of nervousness and the fan base and all that.
Speaker 10: But you know, credit to coach Lord and the coaching staff.
Speaker 10: They sort of stolled rallied around us and and you
Speaker 10: know put us in a position to be successful on
Speaker 10: the court. And honestly, I think we could have made
Speaker 10: it farther than the three sixteen this past season. But
Speaker 10: you know, obviously we we went up against a Juggernaut
Speaker 10: and Duke and you know they had a you know,
Speaker 10: plusor those high level players on that scene. So but nonetheless,
Speaker 10: you know, I'm definitely proud of where we ended up,
Speaker 10: and you know sort of how you battled back to
Speaker 10: a sort of resurrect or.
Speaker 4: Season Middleway, Toby. A lot of people, I don't think
Speaker 4: realize how much of a bookworm you are. I know
Speaker 4: you kind of shared that story throughout the season this
Speaker 4: past year. What are some of the books that you
Speaker 4: kind of put together for your summer reading and and
Speaker 4: just give us some background on that if if you
Speaker 4: do have a book plan this summer, I don't think.
Speaker 10: I necessarily put together a book list for this summer.
Speaker 10: I think I have I see that I'm looking to
Speaker 10: read Jordan Peterson World, a new book. I think it
Speaker 10: came out in November, but I haven't really gotten a
Speaker 10: chance to read it. It's called We Who Wrestled with God.
Speaker 10: So that's a book that I've been looking to read.
Speaker 10: And and then you know, I'm kind of looking to
Speaker 10: go deeper into C. S. Lewis's essays and letters sort
Speaker 10: of get like a collection of those, and then uh
Speaker 10: deep dive into reading some of his you know, theology
Speaker 10: and thoughts and things of that nature.
Speaker 8: That's kind of what's on deck for now.
Speaker 10: I'm sure that you know, there maybe more things that
Speaker 10: pop up later on, but those are kind of the
Speaker 10: two things I'm focused on.
Speaker 1: So just maybe the last question, Toby, your love for reading,
Speaker 1: I just lost it. Uh oh, well, what do you
Speaker 1: intend to do after college? Obviously, maybe play a little
Speaker 1: basketball if you can, but beyond that, what you know,
Speaker 1: what be a senator?
Speaker 8: I'm not sure.
Speaker 10: It's uh something I've been trying to contemplate. You know,
Speaker 10: right now, I'm majoring in finance. I'm trying to work
Speaker 10: through ler so possibly you know, do something with that.
Speaker 10: But you know, that's that kind of degree is you
Speaker 10: know a little bit more flexible, so it kind of
Speaker 10: opens the doors up for you know, a lot of positions.
Speaker 8: But honestly, that's something I'm still putting thought into and
Speaker 8: still trying to figure out.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm not sure if I want to stick
Speaker 10: into the you know, basketball world when I'm done playing,
Speaker 10: or if I want to branch out and you know,
Speaker 10: move on from that.
Speaker 8: You know, so that's just somethings to kind of trying
Speaker 8: to decide.
Speaker 1: No, very cool, very impressive. When you talked about the
Speaker 1: book stuff for a while back, I was like, who's this, dude.
Speaker 4: I mean, we don't hear this very often. And very impressive,
Speaker 4: very impressive. Thank you Toby so much. We appreciate your
Speaker 4: time real quick. Uh when where do you have the
Speaker 4: next winning in six and seven? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 10: I would say in seven if they do, you know,
Speaker 10: pull it out, which I hope they do. I think,
Speaker 10: you know, New York City might burn down just the
Speaker 10: way that those fans are so just passionate and strong
Speaker 10: willed for their team. Definitely proud to be a New
Speaker 10: Yorker for sure.
Speaker 4: Take care of be wealth, be staateful. We'll see you
Speaker 4: in the fall.
Speaker 8: Sounds good.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Yeah, thank you. Very very cool dude. You
Speaker 4: can tell you can tell when you interviewed him on
Speaker 4: the put him he's very very you know, thought provoking
Speaker 4: him in Townsend as well.
Speaker 1: Uh, a lot of the guys, a lot of the
Speaker 1: guys are very very smart. And how they responded to
Speaker 1: answers her questions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and as in you know, we've seen it a
Speaker 4: time a lot with the freshman too, and it happens
Speaker 4: because you're developing as an interviewer and you go through
Speaker 4: that process where you can see they're sitting and thinking
Speaker 4: of what they want to say before they'd say it.
Speaker 4: Very free flowing Kobya Waka Townsend Caleblell was that way,
Speaker 4: very eloquent in what they were saying. So always a pleasure. Yeah,
Speaker 4: very very impressive.
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Speaker 1: In with me today is Troy Hutchison from Goyas. He
Speaker 1: kept stuck up Ray running the board, So no mistakes. Hey,
Speaker 1: we haven't talked about journalism fantastic race. That was he
Speaker 1: had no chance and he won a lot better than
Speaker 1: the Kentucky debris. Oh yea yeah, yeah, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a good race. If they they if he and the
Speaker 1: Sovereignty run against each other in the Bellmon, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 4: But yes, Georte race.
Speaker 3: No, I know Journalism came back from sixth, though, they
Speaker 3: came back from sixth in that last segment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was. It was crazy. He had no chance
Speaker 4: to win anyone. Yeah, and wins the ball mount six
Speaker 4: three weeks under, three weeks now.
Speaker 3: So since Sovereignty didn't race in Preakness, is that can
Speaker 3: there like a rubber match?
Speaker 1: It'll be a rubber match, well in between them two?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, between them two. But uh uh, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure he has an advantage or not because he's
Speaker 1: it'll be five weeks since he ran in the in
Speaker 1: the derby by that time. It is what it is,
Speaker 1: that's these are the these are the the the parameters
Speaker 1: you have to participate in. So yeah, no harm, no fower.
Speaker 1: I guess there's no excuses. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're gonna run against each other, but it should be
Speaker 1: a fun race.
Speaker 4: I hope they do. Ye, did you watch it? No,
Speaker 4: I'm not. I'm not a big racing guy. How do
Speaker 4: you do? What do you like today's show? You don't
Speaker 4: like anything today? You're like Mikey baseball, basketball, football, you
Speaker 4: know that kind of stuff. If I had cable, i'd
Speaker 4: watch tennis more. I really like this, do you Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's interesting. Watch a lot of softball out That was that, right?
Speaker 4: ESPN espen plus blah blah blah. Uh. There's a few
Speaker 4: upsets obviously, h A and M Liberty. Who else? Who's
Speaker 4: the one Nebraska winning that regional?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 4: We did? What's your name? Because she was? She's a stunt?
Speaker 14: Ye?
Speaker 4: Who does she pitched against? Uh? She? I don't think
Speaker 4: she even went up against the top seed in that region.
Speaker 4: I think they forget her. Yeah, okay, we got a call.
Speaker 4: Who's this?
Speaker 21: Thanks Steve?
Speaker 4: This is Don You guys doing Yes, it's fine. Good
Speaker 4: give us some stuff. Don.
Speaker 16: Well, first off, I want to start out that was
Speaker 16: a really good interview with Toby with with o'walka, because
Speaker 16: you know, I've seen I've seen the videos of the
Speaker 16: postgame interviews, and it's always about the game and everything
Speaker 16: and this was about the young man, and that's an
Speaker 16: impressive young man. And now I really thank you for that, because,
Speaker 16: like we've talked about lately, we don't get that access
Speaker 16: to these guys, and it's it's really nice to be
Speaker 16: able to see some of these these people, these young people.
Speaker 4: And uh, see how well rounded this kid is, right,
Speaker 4: ask people. We don't get to see him as people, right,
Speaker 4: and yeah, but as.
Speaker 16: A rebounder in an Arizona uniform, he reminds me of
Speaker 16: Pete Williams.
Speaker 1: I was just going to say that when when you
Speaker 1: said that, Detroit, there's two dudes that remind me of
Speaker 1: Pete Williams. And I didn't see him back in the day,
Speaker 1: but I know him very well because he comes and
Speaker 1: visits all the time.
Speaker 16: And the Ben Davis, Yeah, yeah, Ben Davis is a
Speaker 16: little bit bigger, so it's a little bit more like
Speaker 16: he should be able to rebound. But Pete was only
Speaker 16: only six seven, and uh, it just seemed like he
Speaker 16: had rubber arms that could stretch out and take the
Speaker 16: ball away from everybody. And Pete, I seek, I believe
Speaker 16: he led the back ten in rebounding at that time.
Speaker 8: And and.
Speaker 16: You know, and and the way Toby rebounds, it's like
Speaker 16: it's like his life depends on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's what rebounding is. That's what rebound it is.
Speaker 16: It's want two, you gotta want, you gotta have a
Speaker 16: gun us to do it.
Speaker 4: And you could tell that this kid he does right.
Speaker 1: Right if he develops that offensive shot like we talked about, right,
Speaker 1: he is what he is. He's a rebounder, kind of
Speaker 1: like the enforcer guy. But if he has that ten footer,
Speaker 1: that twelve footer or whatever, because he's not going to
Speaker 1: have the long distance, uh, he could make some money.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a very good career ever in eure
Speaker 4: Up or yeah somewhere.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think I think he can and uh real quick.
Speaker 16: On softball, Arizona is not the only team that did
Speaker 16: not win their regional. I know there's a there's a
Speaker 16: number one seed.
Speaker 4: I wasn't talking.
Speaker 8: I'm just saying.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, you know, I was ready. It's just.
Speaker 16: Disappointing. Yes, But the thing is is Arizona hasn't had
Speaker 16: a dominant picture in.
Speaker 4: Since Hallowell.
Speaker 16: It seems like, yeah, because even tarn Mowatt used to
Speaker 16: throw a lot of junk and everything and I think
Speaker 16: it's funny nowadays all the softball programs are pitching by committee,
Speaker 16: and they're pitching like this is the number one, this
Speaker 16: is the number two, this one starts on Friday, this
Speaker 16: one Saturday, this one Sunday, and then we'll figure it
Speaker 16: out on Sunday and pitch whatever's left. And I think
Speaker 16: that that has really hurt Arizona. But to her credit,
Speaker 16: Caitlin Lowe has not set that batting order wasn't the
Speaker 16: same all year long because kaya Haltmeyer, who finished I
Speaker 16: think she finished the regional bat hitting not she was
Speaker 16: nine for seventeen or something like that. She was the
Speaker 16: number she was number two or number three early in
Speaker 16: the season, and she was batting six by the time
Speaker 16: they got to the regional. So I mean, at least
Speaker 16: there was some experimentation with that as opposed to go ahead.
Speaker 1: So when you evaluate this, and I know it's only
Speaker 1: less than twenty four hours removed, how would you evaluate
Speaker 1: the season as a whole.
Speaker 16: It's to me, it's kind of like the basketball season,
Speaker 16: like it was a success with the question mark, because
Speaker 16: you know, you expect at Arizona, you expect a lot
Speaker 16: out of the softball team, The thing is is they
Speaker 16: haven't won a national championship in eighteen years, so the
Speaker 16: standards are really higher than the level that they've been playing.
Speaker 16: And the softball team has gone through a lot of
Speaker 16: the similar things that the baseball team has gone through,
Speaker 16: except for they were going through them in the middle
Speaker 16: of the season. Where the baseball team is it's been
Speaker 16: right now at the end. I mean the last two
Speaker 16: games against Houston, they played, pitched well and they hit
Speaker 16: They hit a ton and that's not what was going on.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: So to both of you, guys, to both you and Troy,
Speaker 1: so we have you on the phone. So Arizona's basketball
Speaker 1: program hasn't won a title since twenty seven years, twenty
Speaker 1: five years, right. They haven't been to the Final four
Speaker 1: in twenty four years. Okay, so we know that, right,
Speaker 1: and they've gone to the Sweet sixteen a few times,
Speaker 1: Elite eight.
Speaker 4: Okay, we know the history. Uh do you is it?
Speaker 1: Do you give them more of a leeway than the
Speaker 1: softball program who hasn't won and would you say seventeen
Speaker 1: eighteen years? They have more of them obviously, but you know,
Speaker 1: is there the same time, I think the basketball team
Speaker 1: gets a lot more leeway.
Speaker 4: I truly, I truly do because.
Speaker 16: There's been so much there has been so much smack
Speaker 16: on the on the on the socials about going away
Speaker 16: from Caitlin Lowe, and I don't think that. I think that,
Speaker 16: you know, certainly pitching needs to improve, in my opinion,
Speaker 16: everything else, I mean, it is what it is. It
Speaker 16: would be nice to have a Mash or somebody that's
Speaker 16: going to hit thirty home runs, but.
Speaker 4: We got to get pitching. We got to get better pitching.
Speaker 4: I'll see that.
Speaker 22: That's my opinion. It all starts in the circle. I
Speaker 22: do agree that it all starts on the mountain. Yeah no, yeah,
Speaker 22: for sure, it starts in the circle. And that's the
Speaker 22: only way you win in softball is if you have
Speaker 22: elite pitching. I do think, I do agree that the
Speaker 22: basketball program gets a little bit more of a leeway.
Speaker 22: But I'll say this, I think the softball program is
Speaker 22: better historically. Yeah, no question, And there's no doubt about that,
Speaker 22: no question.
Speaker 4: Now, thisball basketball program hasn't been to a Final four
Speaker 4: since when did you say, what two thousand and one?
Speaker 4: Softball getting to the Women's College World Series, in my opinion,
Speaker 4: is kind of like getting to the final four. I
Speaker 4: know there's more teams and you got to get through more,
Speaker 4: but that that is your goal. That is, let's get
Speaker 4: there and see what happens. Andre made it his last
Speaker 4: few years. She made it her first year, and I'll
Speaker 4: argue even that in that first year it wasn't for
Speaker 4: sure that they're going to make the tournament, and they
Speaker 4: kind of made this magical run to the to the
Speaker 4: Women's College World Series. The pitching has gone downhill from
Speaker 4: Kendrea's last two years till now. I know Devin had
Speaker 4: a nice year, but the previous two years it's been
Speaker 4: very poor. The talent in the infield. The talent outfield's
Speaker 4: very good, but the talent in the infield, there's no
Speaker 4: All American All Conference player in terms of PAC ten
Speaker 4: PAC twelve in comparison Big twelve. Sure, Stuart's very talented,
Speaker 4: but it's not a Desia, it's not a Charlie's Pelacios.
Speaker 4: It's not a who is Kinsey's catcher? I forget her
Speaker 4: name right now at the top of my head. Home
Speaker 4: run hitter anyway, but huh, it was number fifty two,
Speaker 4: wasn't it.
Speaker 16: No, no, no, no, it was It was a Blondie
Speaker 16: from CEO's she works at the u A.
Speaker 4: Now, no, she's in Phoenix. She's no, no, no, she
Speaker 4: was the home run hitter. She was, She's like third
Speaker 4: or fourth all time in home runs. Uh Chapman, Okay, anyway, anyway,
Speaker 4: but my point, my point, My point is the point
Speaker 4: being is that the talent, the talent level at Arizona
Speaker 4: isn't what it used to be, and the pitching they
Speaker 4: haven't figured out for a very long time. And I
Speaker 4: think Kenzie was the last real elite pitcher they had.
Speaker 4: And unfortunately the rule change happened in the Women's College
Speaker 4: World Series where they started calling it more like we
Speaker 4: had around Aaron Ju was talking about it, but uh,
Speaker 4: even compared to Taylor McQuillan and listen to them, it's
Speaker 4: not even at that level. And that was problematic back then.
Speaker 4: People are saying, oh, it's not where it should be. Well,
Speaker 4: it's not even at that point.
Speaker 16: Now I agree with that, And you give Kenzie Fowler
Speaker 16: too much credit.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I don't if they don't call it,
Speaker 4: if they don't call lifting, they probably win that World Series.
Speaker 4: And if Branniella Straps doesn't drop the ball in left field.
Speaker 4: Who knows how that series turns out.
Speaker 16: I think I think that adjustments could have been made
Speaker 16: with Kenzie, that it should have been easier. But now
Speaker 16: you know that's that's neither here nor there right now.
Speaker 4: But I agree with you.
Speaker 16: I think that you know there is talent in the infield.
Speaker 16: Taylor Bial I think wasn't didn't last year she finished, Uh,
Speaker 16: she finished last year without an error. She had she
Speaker 16: had a golden glove. I mean, she's not a big
Speaker 16: hitter as like what we're used to having, you know,
Speaker 16: slugging shortstops. But yeah, I agree, I think we have
Speaker 16: a serviceable team now. But also the talent is more
Speaker 16: spread out all over the country. And that all started
Speaker 16: probably around the last time Arizona won the national championship,
Speaker 16: because now all of a sudden, all of a sudden,
Speaker 16: you see all the star players are from the West
Speaker 16: that are playing out in the South.
Speaker 1: Thanks Don for the call. We got another call coming in.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your call. Appreciate it to you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I have a good one, guys. Yeah, he just hung out.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Richard, you know, Richard, if you want to
Speaker 1: give us a quick costs all your email to me Richard,
Speaker 1: if you'd like to give us a call please? Do
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Speaker 8: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Okay, how'd you find that? Someone? Sit you note? No
Speaker 4: Google man? Okay? Eighty nine home runs all night and
Speaker 4: they've had some great you skegs a year or two ago.
Speaker 8: Skut's is ok.
Speaker 4: But that's a Mike Andrea recruit, so was nets Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well well maybe you might be no, maybe
Speaker 1: you're possibly right about her being but you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't know her personality, so I don't know how
Speaker 1: she tough she is on the girls or the women.
Speaker 4: So we'll see.
Speaker 8: We got it.
Speaker 4: We got a call. Oh, you're on the air, Andine
Speaker 4: on the ball? Who's this?
Speaker 21: Steve's Richard. I enjoying the conversation and I always enjoyed
Speaker 21: down down by the way.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 21: It all comes down to recruiting. Yeah, and this coach
Speaker 21: at Oklahoma what's her name is Sherry Cole or something,
Speaker 21: you know, and her Okahoma softball team, she's recruited girls
Speaker 21: from California.
Speaker 4: For the last fifteen years.
Speaker 21: So a lot of the girls that played at Arizona
Speaker 21: ended up at Oklahoma. And that's just no question about it.
Speaker 21: Here all he's she's one in California pitchers and hitters.
Speaker 1: And you're saying, well, you're saying that the girls that
Speaker 1: could have possibly come here went to Oklahoma.
Speaker 21: Yeah, so for sure, of course they did.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 21: Well, and so anyway, I mean it's it's recruiting. So
Speaker 21: you got to get out there and you got to close.
Speaker 4: The deal.
Speaker 21: Got closed.
Speaker 4: You got to close, for sure. And Mike was that
Speaker 4: closer that way. Yeah, sure, of course Mike was that closer.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of this stuff. You said recruit
Speaker 4: and then Mike would have the final say. But again, yes,
Speaker 4: they're coming in and getting California talent. Well, there's telling
Speaker 4: in Texas, there's telling in Florida, there's telling other places.
Speaker 4: You ever got another call? Okay, cool, good Ren for
Speaker 4: thanks a bunch. Let's take another call. Who is this
Speaker 4: hot topic? Man? Well, you know, Nico, what's the word, Niko?
Speaker 9: Hey man, I just want to congratulate this stuff. Disappointing,
Speaker 9: but you know they did, all.
Speaker 4: Right, so disappointing.
Speaker 1: Give me the definition of disappointing to you, because I've
Speaker 1: been fighting with that word with Troy here.
Speaker 9: I don't know that devinits would just be better, but
Speaker 9: she got racked, is what it is. And I'm also
Speaker 9: disappointed because they have like eight pictures on staff and
Speaker 9: they don't seem to know how to use.
Speaker 13: Any of them.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's kind of Oh sorry, NiCoT, did
Speaker 4: I mean to cut you off there?
Speaker 8: My bad?
Speaker 9: No words.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like quarterbacks if you have like four
Speaker 4: of them, yeah you have too many. Yeah you have
Speaker 4: to have eight. You probably don't have. I mean, Devin
Speaker 4: rose up to the level she did, but you don't
Speaker 4: have that one. And that's what you're trying to do that.
Speaker 7: So do you go?
Speaker 8: Did you? I think you go?
Speaker 4: You have to get you and your dad right?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Did?
Speaker 1: And Troy you talked about this PAC twelve is not
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve. The Big Twey is not the PAC
Speaker 1: twelve right now? So did you think that they regret
Speaker 1: regrets because of being in the Big twelve?
Speaker 15: No, not really.
Speaker 9: I finished it. I thought they'd either win it or
Speaker 9: come in second place, and they came in second.
Speaker 4: So did that get them ready for what was ahead?
Speaker 9: I think they're non confident. Schedule probably helped them more
Speaker 9: than their conference.
Speaker 4: Yea, Troy, I don't know.
Speaker 9: You're bringing them. You brought in this freshman picture from
Speaker 9: Washington last year and she never saw the field. So
Speaker 9: what happened to Brooke Mannion? What happened to you know?
Speaker 4: I don't know, none, none of them started to develop.
Speaker 4: You brought in these what we're highly thought of recruits. Again,
Speaker 4: college softball recruiting rankings are very difficult to maneuver and
Speaker 4: go through because they're all jumbled. But I used to
Speaker 4: didn't develop, Manning, didn't develop, Ryan Maddox didn't develop at
Speaker 4: least of the pictures that you thought they could be.
Speaker 4: Summer and Dyke, who I don't think really saw the
Speaker 4: field that much this year and they went over for
Speaker 4: so wait wait.
Speaker 1: Wait, So don't you think that they could be useful
Speaker 1: down the road if they truly stay?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean at this.
Speaker 9: No, I don't think she will be. But I think
Speaker 9: right maybe maybe Rhino or madd X.
Speaker 14: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think I used I think I used to have
Speaker 4: the best stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, okay, any thanks Nico, appreciate you listening, Thanks
Speaker 1: for the call.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I used to has the best stuff.
Speaker 4: Her ball really moves and tails off and but you
Speaker 4: need consistency, you can't be good.
Speaker 1: Well that's the that's the problem when you have too many,
Speaker 1: like you're saying they have with five, six, whatever they eight,
Speaker 1: how are you gonna how are you gonna give them
Speaker 1: all good time? And if you get garbage time, you're
Speaker 1: not really facing the good players.
Speaker 4: And then this past offseason they got a picture from
Speaker 4: Iowa State and the name is escaping me right now,
Speaker 4: but she had an e RA A over four at
Speaker 4: Iowa State and they're how good is They're doing the
Speaker 4: cactus dancing live where that they resigned her, and you know,
Speaker 4: she might be a nice person. You're celebrating that like that,
Speaker 4: that's the level you're recruiting at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I guess maybe she Well here's another thing.
Speaker 1: I think she's like the rest of the coach. This
Speaker 1: is the last year of a contract, kind of like
Speaker 1: the idea situation. Yet either you get on, you get
Speaker 1: them moved more more years, or or you're you're gonna
Speaker 1: be lamed up.
Speaker 4: Yess I swaying. Yeah, it's funny enough. She's from Texas.
Speaker 4: I always stay transfer though, I mean, you know, and
Speaker 4: Stoddard's from somewhere, but again, transfer current conduction.
Speaker 1: So I think I asked you this story. You've in
Speaker 1: your lifetime, you've seen one UA basketball championship.
Speaker 4: Right, well, I was too, So technically no, okay, if you.
Speaker 1: Want to go technical, Are they gonna win one in
Speaker 1: your lifetime in the next twenty five years?
Speaker 4: Basketball? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay? Is softball with this current staff now and with Tommy? Yes, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 4: I have more I'm going to stay there, but I
Speaker 4: have more faith than Tommy to win the national title
Speaker 4: than I do with Caitlin Low with the softball program. Okay, Baseball, no,
Speaker 4: because the same reason I Recruiting has been a major
Speaker 4: problem over the last couple of years and pitching. But
Speaker 4: pitching has always kind of been an issue there. But
Speaker 4: and you kind of need that special chemistry as a
Speaker 4: team in any sport, but it seems that way for
Speaker 4: college baseball. But I just I think the recruiting could
Speaker 4: be better than what it is. Okay, they usually have
Speaker 4: rough endings the year two. You're right, it's so difficult,
Speaker 4: you know, it's so different.
Speaker 1: You have to get lucky, healthy, YadA, YadA, and all that,
Speaker 1: especially in basketball and softball. You know, the thing is
Speaker 1: Caitlin's not Mike Candrea. No, Sean was not loot and
Speaker 1: neither is Tommy. You gotta find some magic somehow. And
Speaker 1: other teams are good too. They are, and that's part
Speaker 1: of the problem. Other teams are good too, especially in softball.
Speaker 1: Now Arizona is what it was. It's been overtaken by
Speaker 1: the SEC schools.
Speaker 4: Sure, but you can still be competing for national championship,
Speaker 4: not having to win it any every year, but at
Speaker 4: least trying to compete to win it.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with it. Okay, we got to go.
Speaker 1: Thanks mister will Ray, Thank you very much. Thank you
Speaker 1: Trev for coming in great guest. Thank you today.
Speaker 4: It was a good day