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Speaker 5: news with some Arizona athletics. The gymnastics team got a
Speaker 5: little bit of maybe a surprise win up in ten
Speaker 5: B yesterday. Oh yeah, they beat the Sun Doubles for
Speaker 5: the first time. I'm not sure, like twenty seventeen ish,
Speaker 5: I can't remember. They don't really beat them very often. No,
Speaker 5: I think it was twenty seventeen regular She's I'm just
Speaker 5: throwing the numbers.
Speaker 4: Downt's see if I can find it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, final score of one hundred and ninety six point
Speaker 5: sixty five to one and ninety five point seventy two.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I read somewhere that it's been a while
Speaker 2: where they've beaten them in the regular season. I guess
Speaker 2: they beat them recently. In the in the postseason, but
Speaker 2: it's a rare win.
Speaker 6: The cool thing about gymnastics, too, is that these Olympians
Speaker 6: are coming back to colleges and competing. Like there's Jade
Speaker 6: care Is from Gilbert's, Arizona. She's still competing for Oregon State.
Speaker 6: She's been in two Olympics, and we're getting a chance
Speaker 6: to see them, you know, in college. Unfortunately, they're not
Speaker 6: in the pack ten anymore Pac twelve, but it's kind
Speaker 6: of neat every once in a while it's just like, ooh, didn't.
Speaker 4: I just watch her this summer? Yeah, so graduations to them.
Speaker 5: The men's tennis team had their ITA kickoff weekend where
Speaker 5: they had a chance to advance to the it ITA
Speaker 5: Indoor Championships.
Speaker 4: They beat USC on Saturday.
Speaker 5: Four zero, but lost a very close one to UCF
Speaker 5: yesterday three to four.
Speaker 4: That's a good program, yeah, a solid at They six
Speaker 4: in the nation.
Speaker 2: They are Coach Court right, Coach oh Shields. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: say this, and I say this to when he's on
Speaker 2: the show every time, the best coach at you a right, now,
Speaker 2: how do you move that program to that height and
Speaker 2: just kind of beat the tennis program, you know, just
Speaker 2: kind of like, holy crap, I mean every year's the
Speaker 2: last three or four years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean they've had, you know, way back when
Speaker 6: they had some pretty good talent, but there was very
Speaker 6: slow for a number. You just didn't even really pay
Speaker 6: attention to them. They weren't doing all that well.
Speaker 4: No they are.
Speaker 2: And they've had the staffords or the UCLA's or USC
Speaker 2: is the goal against, right, and now they're beating them.
Speaker 4: They are they are the team to beat. Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 5: They had that the USC game at the same time
Speaker 5: as the basketball. It was a pretty good crowd considering
Speaker 5: men's basketball was happening. That's probably where the rest of
Speaker 5: the sellout on the on the Saturday, that's probably where
Speaker 5: the rest of the sellout was.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was wondering because the parking, did you go? Yeah,
Speaker 2: parking is the parking?
Speaker 5: No parking for tennis, right, I got I got to
Speaker 5: park because I had the no no no, no, no
Speaker 5: no metoe for the fans.
Speaker 4: The fans fans, Yeah, they had to go pay somewhere else.
Speaker 4: I heard a fan yelling at that paid twenty dollars
Speaker 4: for this and yeah ye stuff like that.
Speaker 5: So Gradua'll they'll be looking to bounce back a couple
Speaker 5: of Fridays from now against Utah State to the women's team.
Speaker 5: They got a good win on Saturday following the men's
Speaker 5: team seventy seven to sixty two against number sixteen West Virginia,
Speaker 5: So they're on a three game winnings chicken.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: The Kansas a couple weeks ago, Cincinnati last Wednesday, and
Speaker 5: obviously West Virginia on Saturday are fourteen and eight right
Speaker 5: now with their next game this.
Speaker 4: Friday at Utah. Okay, that's good. Do some basketball.
Speaker 5: Potential recruit for the Wildcats men's team, A five star
Speaker 5: Elijah Arena, son of Gilbert Arenas, has never done his
Speaker 5: top five schools to the Arizona USC, Kentucky, Louisville, and
Speaker 5: Kansas do me one war time Arizona, USC, Kentucky, Bouisvo
Speaker 5: and Kansas.
Speaker 4: Well. Pretty good group. Yeah, pretty good group.
Speaker 2: And he's in LA based in the area. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a legacy guy. Could mean a ton for Arizona. Yeah,
Speaker 2: especially with Ronnie the Rice Rice Rice coming, Brice coming.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that's one of the reasons why they got
Speaker 2: Rice to help persuade.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Talk about super teams that might be turned into
Speaker 4: one they.
Speaker 6: Got a handful of players among the McDonald's All American
Speaker 6: team as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 5: And then of course the big time game tonight in
Speaker 5: Tucson as the Wildcat stick on number three Iowa State
Speaker 5: coming off a win Saturday against Colorado seventy eight to
Speaker 5: sixty three.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I always say, I mean they won at
Speaker 6: a issue and they kind of scuffled. It was pretty
Speaker 6: close game. Actually threw most of the most of the contest.
Speaker 6: They kind of blew him away in the last it
Speaker 6: was ten minutes to three run. I think, yeah, but
Speaker 6: they were not totally unbeatable. And you know, let's see
Speaker 6: how the Michale crowd treats them tonight. It's gonna be something.
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be fun. It'll be part of
Speaker 6: the storyline.
Speaker 2: This is to your point, the points both of you
Speaker 2: guys earlier. We've seen the crowds at the other big
Speaker 2: twelve schools, right, uh uh, pretty good, some of them,
Speaker 2: you know, break and all that stuff. But I think
Speaker 2: Arizona will show their Big twelve power tonight right with
Speaker 2: the crowd.
Speaker 6: Well, that's that's kind of the story we've been telling,
Speaker 6: is like, hey, you know, yeah, it's gonna be fun
Speaker 6: to go to Kansas and Iowa State and Houston and
Speaker 6: places like that, but those guys got to come here too.
Speaker 4: Did you go Saturday? Did you go Saturday? No? No.
Speaker 2: So one of the things that Ted Boyle was not
Speaker 2: to put him and he talked about the crowd and
Speaker 2: you know, he went zone and I'm.
Speaker 4: Thinking, what crowd? Did you see? What credit?
Speaker 2: Because it wasn't that great of a you know, considering, considering,
Speaker 2: But he says, I wanted to prepare them for this.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, okay, because he was talking about from yesteryear
Speaker 2: when he was at Colorado and it was that crowd.
Speaker 2: Saturday was not that crowd. He's just trying to be
Speaker 2: nice or something.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: He's he's looking for something. He can't win at Michale. Right,
Speaker 6: he's went over eight or that too. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 6: it's kind of a shame because they've you know, they've
Speaker 6: had a few, a bunch of players drafted off the team.
Speaker 2: Last year, they still couldn't beat Off. You remember how
Speaker 2: close he was to beat in Arizota. Yeah, the one
Speaker 2: shot the chin kid off the tip of his fingers.
Speaker 2: Had to look at the replay for half an hour.
Speaker 2: You remember that. That's like a decade or still in TV.
Speaker 2: Really we were tape.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So this weekend Vanderbilt got an upset win against number
Speaker 5: nine Kentucky their fans from the field or from the court,
Speaker 5: and then they were find a five hundred thousand What.
Speaker 4: Yeah, five hundred thousand. I think that's the bottom line rule.
Speaker 2: That's because was it Sean Sean started this myths?
Speaker 6: Was it last year where the duke player got hurt? Yeah?
Speaker 6: They showed the replay during the duke game, so yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean he was like and then John Shire came out.
Speaker 6: I thought it was gonna kill somebody. He was really mad.
Speaker 6: So they've been they kind.
Speaker 2: Of went a too long time ago, like the BAC
Speaker 2: twelve did when they because sewn there was only team
Speaker 2: that they were going to storm the court for. It
Speaker 2: was Arizona, right, and they twenty five thousand. I think
Speaker 2: it was fifty twenty five thousand, the Sean Miller rule. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so there was one. Did you guys see the Houston
Speaker 2: Kansas game?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I was gonna bring that up. Oh go ahead, please
Speaker 5: do uh just finishing out the Vanderbilt story. You know,
Speaker 5: they got they got ten thousand for their football win
Speaker 5: against Alabama, another twenty twenty five thousand, uh for their
Speaker 5: win against number six ten. See, so they're racking up
Speaker 5: the find I saw a picture that showed the uh
Speaker 5: the ad pleading to the student section of the kind
Speaker 5: of reay, let's let's let's try to stay off the court.
Speaker 2: And the five hundred five. Oh I was gonna say
Speaker 2: to you, Dave, So, five hundred thousand in the UA
Speaker 2: athletic program.
Speaker 4: How many employees is that?
Speaker 2: It could be a number, It could be a lot
Speaker 2: of people for a one hundred and twenty five whatever
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, who's that quarterback? Vanderbilt had the guy that got
Speaker 6: from New Mexico, Yeah, Pavas or something. Yeah, I think
Speaker 6: he went to make pava.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: He got a nice little cash deal to come there.
Speaker 4: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I'm talking they have money's a great school.
Speaker 4: Well they've never win. Now they're winning, but they got alums. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It become doctors right right right?
Speaker 5: And new uh eight people came out today. Auburn stay
Speaker 5: at number one. Uh So, as long as I was
Speaker 5: stayed with number three Houston, we went to six one
Speaker 5: spot six, number two.
Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense. One, two, three, Who's give me
Speaker 2: the top six?
Speaker 5: Top six, Yeah, Auburn, Duke, Iowa State, Alabama, Florida.
Speaker 4: And then rounding out is Houston is uhly in that mix?
Speaker 4: No no, no.
Speaker 2: No, no, no no, not in the mix of give
Speaker 2: me not to know what you mean, give me the
Speaker 2: top ten.
Speaker 5: Following Houston will be Michigan State, Tennessee, Marquette, and Perdue.
Speaker 4: Okay, will the championship?
Speaker 2: Will the champion team come out of that that ten?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I feel like it hasn't given recent years. Do
Speaker 4: you think?
Speaker 6: I mean pretty good real, pretty good chance they're gonna
Speaker 6: be one seeds and stuff.
Speaker 4: So you one seed possibly back to my question, Arizona
Speaker 4: in that group?
Speaker 2: No, no, okay, if you gave me the next ten,
Speaker 2: Arizona's not.
Speaker 4: In that group, not today, maybe in March.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you understand what I'm asking. It's gonna take
Speaker 2: it a little while, right, Yeah, it's gonna take.
Speaker 4: A little while.
Speaker 6: I mean seriously, I mean to be seriously considered. Now,
Speaker 6: you've got to be, you know, in the top twenty.
Speaker 6: Basically you gotta be a top two seed. Yeah, which
Speaker 6: is really just eight, but still.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and Caleb does to show up, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I think you're I think you're.
Speaker 4: In that group if Caleb plays well all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, does that make sense because you have one
Speaker 5: set that much of an impact on me and there
Speaker 5: one is, well you don't you kind of do need him.
Speaker 4: You know you've seen it.
Speaker 6: You gotta wonder how like the Doorsos are going to
Speaker 6: do in a big, high pressure game. It's not Campbell anymore,
Speaker 6: you know, it's Arizona, and they're gonna be the expectations.
Speaker 4: Expectations are much higher.
Speaker 2: Well, that's Saturday Saturday to me, and my story, my
Speaker 2: story specifically was, uh, they had doors who played out
Speaker 2: of his mind, Waka had fifteen rebounds, did really well,
Speaker 2: and Towson played another pretty good game in a couple
Speaker 2: of games.
Speaker 4: Now, if those.
Speaker 2: Three guys show up and play like that, I hate
Speaker 2: the word if, but if you know, if I hit
Speaker 2: the lottery number, I'm not coming back to the show.
Speaker 2: But if those three dudes play really well and they
Speaker 2: get some sprinkling of those other guys, the three horsemen
Speaker 2: on the briilter, right, this team can play. The thing
Speaker 2: is that's asking a hell of a lot yeah, but
Speaker 2: that's the team that could win it. I could show
Speaker 2: in March.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they can do some get some momentum here in
Speaker 6: the next two months. Basically they still have time to go.
Speaker 2: He's going to two bucks into the momentum.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is that your jar here?
Speaker 2: That's gonna be the I don't believe in the word momentum.
Speaker 2: But it's fine. You're you're still learning to have to
Speaker 2: have a couple of words. But I might get bleeped.
Speaker 5: We already, like we said, number Houston moved up to
Speaker 5: number six after their double overtime win at Kansas ninety two.
Speaker 4: To eighty six. So what did you what did you
Speaker 4: make of that game? Did you watch the game? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: completely great. Crowd can back and forth a little bit.
Speaker 5: You know, one team would get out to lead and
Speaker 5: then going to run, the other team would build that
Speaker 5: lead back up. I think it just goes to show,
Speaker 5: you know, the almost all big TF teams will not
Speaker 5: give up. They're not they're down twenty I mean you know, yeah,
Speaker 5: Arizona a year ago, they're down twenty to an Oregon
Speaker 5: State or even in Oregon, that game is over, Yeah,
Speaker 5: twenty down to Kansas. No, we're just we have them
Speaker 5: right where we want them. That's that's the mindset of
Speaker 5: all all Big Talf teams. Dave, did you see it?
Speaker 5: Did you see that game the Houston.
Speaker 2: You know a little bit, not enough to really talk
Speaker 2: about it. So I watched it because I want to
Speaker 2: see Kelvin level. I'm trying to get him on the
Speaker 2: show in the next a couple of weeks. Uh, Houston
Speaker 2: should have never won that game. Yeah, did you watch regulation?
Speaker 2: You're thinking they're dead, they're dead, they're dead, and then
Speaker 2: they tied it miraculously. Okay, overtime, they're dead. They're dead,
Speaker 2: they're dead, and they got into overtime miracules.
Speaker 4: Thirteen seconds and down six.
Speaker 5: That game is over any other game, and it went
Speaker 5: to two over two overtimes, right.
Speaker 2: He should have lost it in regulation, should have lost
Speaker 2: in overtime, and then he ran away with it over
Speaker 2: in double overtime. Yeah, that was that was what I
Speaker 2: was thinking for you, because he should have never won it.
Speaker 5: No, there, Kansas looks good until the final thirteen seconds.
Speaker 2: And Houston, but they were they were sticking around and
Speaker 2: sticking around.
Speaker 5: And it was But that's all Big twelve, that's all
Speaker 5: the Big twelve teen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm try to go quick.
Speaker 5: H he started suspended Jimmy Butler indefinitely, so see what
Speaker 5: happens with him a three.
Speaker 2: Hundred and fifty dollars three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
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Speaker 6: He's had a little bit of an issue this year.
Speaker 6: I mean how many times have been suspended?
Speaker 8: I mean.
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Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back to my I the Ball here on
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Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera. In today with me is Dave Silver
Speaker 2: Now on the phone the new head coach of the
Speaker 2: Las Vegas Raiders, Jim Rosboro. I always think you look
Speaker 2: like mister Pardy. Yeah yeah, no, Norm.
Speaker 4: Hasn't anybody said that you guys look a lot like
Speaker 4: the same kind of hair. Oh right, Carol Pete Carroll.
Speaker 8: People have said that, I hate to say that I'm
Speaker 8: considerably older, so he's he's still a young man. I'm
Speaker 8: a little bit older.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you're still going.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons I want to speak to you
Speaker 2: because you're you're you're still active as all hell coaching
Speaker 2: the Pima women's team. Uh, you're you're out there. You
Speaker 2: must continue to love what you're doing.
Speaker 8: Steve and Dave, I absolutely love it, and it's really
Speaker 8: been interesting the dynamics of coaching women athletes. And I
Speaker 8: did it down with Vicky Mays and the tennis team
Speaker 8: at the U for four years and now I've been
Speaker 8: out with Todd for eleven. I really enjoyed coaching the girls.
Speaker 8: And it's not that they're better or worse than the men,
Speaker 8: but it's a group of young ladies that we've had
Speaker 8: at PEMA for eleven years that want to learn. We've
Speaker 8: been good. We compete every year to go to national,
Speaker 8: so that's really been fun. And you guys, when you
Speaker 8: both get totally retired, you know you're going to find
Speaker 8: that you want to be busy and do something that
Speaker 8: you like. And that's exactly what this is. With the
Speaker 8: team out here and working with Todd's and our other
Speaker 8: staff members, it's really been rewarding. Guys.
Speaker 2: Do you think the level the level of play plays
Speaker 2: a factor in that where you know it's at the
Speaker 2: JC where the Division one is a little bit different.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean yeah, and you guys haven't necessarily been.
Speaker 8: We coach them just like the Division one team. I mean,
Speaker 8: we're on them to do things right. The drills and stuff,
Speaker 8: you guys were the practices down to Arizona when I
Speaker 8: was there with Luke, and a lot of the stuff
Speaker 8: we do out here is just the same thing we
Speaker 8: do with our girls. Ball handling, you got to do it,
Speaker 8: a lot of shooting, you got to do it. So
Speaker 8: it's really conducted like a Division one program. And when
Speaker 8: we get on the floor, there's an older coach that
Speaker 8: tries to be a little bit humorous, but everybody else
Speaker 8: is pretty serious and actually pay a little bit of
Speaker 8: money for the girls to laugh every once in a while.
Speaker 8: But on the other hand, you know, we make it fun,
Speaker 8: but it's also demanding and we get better and I
Speaker 8: think the record you know for Todd's going to the
Speaker 8: national tournament and then my last eleven years is pretty good,
Speaker 8: well over fifty percent, So it's really worked out.
Speaker 16: Well.
Speaker 6: Why do you think the quality of play has improved
Speaker 6: so much? Really, it seemed maybe I'm missing it, but
Speaker 6: it seems like it's just really gotten a lot better,
Speaker 6: say in the last ten years or so.
Speaker 4: Where's that come from?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I think the truth be known. And
Speaker 8: you know, for quite some quite a number of years now,
Speaker 8: they've had these travel teams and they're going around the
Speaker 8: country and playing in their state and all this kind
Speaker 8: of stuff, and it was kind of a matter of
Speaker 8: the coach of the travel team throwing the ball out there.
Speaker 8: And there may not necessarily have been a lot of teaching,
Speaker 8: not in every program in the summer, but a lot
Speaker 8: of them. It was just get to the whole and
Speaker 8: you know, you guys have seen or heard about that
Speaker 8: kind of stuff. It's not very good basketball. But lately
Speaker 8: I think people have been taking it more serious. And
Speaker 8: I do know that you're in Tucson and in Phoenix,
Speaker 8: where we recruit quite a bit, coaches are doing a
Speaker 8: good job in the summer and they're teaching, and they're demanding,
Speaker 8: and they're teaching fundamentals and I mean in any sport,
Speaker 8: a lot of it is the fundamentals, and I think
Speaker 8: these guys are doing it or ladies doing it in
Speaker 8: the summer with their teams, and I think it's made
Speaker 8: for really good people coming in. And this year, for example,
Speaker 8: I think we have six or seven new young ladies
Speaker 8: in the program and they came in sound. They needed
Speaker 8: to learn our system and learn what we were doing,
Speaker 8: and we demanded some other things and they knew, but
Speaker 8: they were more ready and they were more disciplined than
Speaker 8: they'd had had good coaching in the summer. And the
Speaker 8: truth is, you guys know this too. They start playing
Speaker 8: on these travel teams in fifteen sixth grade, for crying
Speaker 8: out loud, so you know they've been out there a
Speaker 8: lot of years, and if they're fortunate to have a
Speaker 8: good coach, they come in pretty darn sound.
Speaker 2: Before we get to the people think, do you think
Speaker 2: there's going to be a Kayton Clark factor where everyone
Speaker 2: wants to be Cayton Clark.
Speaker 8: We have three of them on our team now. Steep Wow,
Speaker 8: I don't know. You look at the story of her.
Speaker 8: It's absolutely amazing. Wes Morn I know her high school,
Speaker 8: but I can't come out Dowling High School. I think
Speaker 8: she went to Dowling High School and Western Moy in
Speaker 8: iowand of all the things, now, ah, it was a
Speaker 8: perfect storm. The brothers were a little bit older. I
Speaker 8: think they played in the backyard. Father was there. They
Speaker 8: were demanding, they were tough. And then she got to
Speaker 8: Iowa and it is my alma mater, so I understand
Speaker 8: that one I said I'll go Hawks. But she ran
Speaker 8: into really, really a good coach there. Alisa Bluter ran
Speaker 8: a great, great program, gave her the freedom she needed,
Speaker 8: understood exactly how to treat her. And I'm sure the
Speaker 8: last couple of years were tough because of all the attention.
Speaker 8: And you got the other girls on the team that
Speaker 8: are saying, you know all, but they all melded together.
Speaker 8: It's it's really hard to say that there's going to
Speaker 8: be another, you know. On the men's side, there was
Speaker 8: a Lebron James, and maybe because the social media wasn't
Speaker 8: as prominent when Lebron was in high school, nobody knew
Speaker 8: about him quite as much. But Caitlin Clark, you know,
Speaker 8: she got to Iowan. It was just it's an amazing thing.
Speaker 8: And she's probably one of the most well known people
Speaker 8: in the country. So if there's going to be another one,
Speaker 8: I'd be a little bit doubtful on.
Speaker 6: That lot of young she was on TV and did
Speaker 6: a lot of women see that, And you know, maybe
Speaker 6: I won't play volleyball, maybe I'll go to basketballball.
Speaker 8: And she's a lot of big coverage on a lot
Speaker 8: of big coverage on our games. I told I told Josh,
Speaker 8: now we got a big one on Wednesday. Told Josh,
Speaker 8: you had a Charger playing because he's got a lot
Speaker 8: of extra money, and why in and see us playing
Speaker 8: Mason on Wednesday. So in any event, yeah.
Speaker 2: You guys are rolling. I mean every years is a
Speaker 2: nice little run here. It's what seventeen to three or
Speaker 2: eight game winning streak?
Speaker 8: What's going on seventeen and three? Wow, we've got a good,
Speaker 8: good team. The other thing, and I don't know how
Speaker 8: much you're aware, but the Division I schools did not
Speaker 8: want to play us a Division twoes anymore. They didn't
Speaker 8: think it helped their standing getting into the national tournament
Speaker 8: where they were seated and all this. So we play
Speaker 8: all the teams in our part of the league, the
Speaker 8: Division twos, We play them three times, and you guys
Speaker 8: would also know that's that's kind of kind of a
Speaker 8: cru U Santa season. You play them home and away,
Speaker 8: and that's what we used to do play Eastern Western Central,
Speaker 8: play them home and away, and it was actually pretty
Speaker 8: good basketball, and we didn't have to sit out here
Speaker 8: and say, well, they're just way, way better. We beat
Speaker 8: them our share of the time. So it's a little
Speaker 8: bit different now, and maybe that's a little misleading than
Speaker 8: seventeen and three. But on the other hand, you beat
Speaker 8: the people that are in front of you, and we
Speaker 8: have never disrespected the game. We've gotten out every single
Speaker 8: time and gone hard and done our stuff and so on.
Speaker 8: So we can only do what's in front of us,
Speaker 8: and we've so far taken care of that pretty well
Speaker 8: with a big game on with Masa on Wednesday.
Speaker 6: How about local talent does this roster have? Is there
Speaker 6: a lot of two song girls playing that are able to.
Speaker 7: Get to the.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Dave, I'm just kind of looking at her roster here.
Speaker 8: I think we have, well, I think we have four
Speaker 8: or five girls that are from Tucson, and maybe not
Speaker 8: all starters, but they're good players and they're all contributing
Speaker 8: and the brand of ball is a lot better. We
Speaker 8: ran into a girl. I went over to Flowing Wells
Speaker 8: High School for a Christmas tournament and ran into a
Speaker 8: young lady from Douglas that I really really really like.
Speaker 8: Unfortunately she tore or meniscus or something in her in
Speaker 8: her knee, but we may try to get her up
Speaker 8: somehow next year and rehab with us and so on.
Speaker 8: But there's there's talent here. I think you just have
Speaker 8: to go out and look. But then you also have
Speaker 8: to consider. You know, when you get the Nationals, you're
Speaker 8: playing teams from all over the country, and they're big
Speaker 8: and they're strong and so on, so we kind of
Speaker 8: have to tailor what we bring in to our hopes
Speaker 8: of doing well at the national tournament. But there are
Speaker 8: some girls who can play here. You just have to
Speaker 8: go out and find them. I think Sunnyside has a
Speaker 8: good team this year, several several good players around. Bubble
Speaker 8: has a couple of good players. So yeah, there are
Speaker 8: some locally that with improvement, can sure help us.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, because I'm naive to this question,
Speaker 2: I guess Jim is there's two national ties are two leagues,
Speaker 2: Division one and Division two.
Speaker 4: They're not just well US really.
Speaker 8: Okay for US. Well, Also there's NCAA Division one, Division two,
Speaker 8: Division three, and AI and then there's the community college level,
Speaker 8: and there's a Division one where they can give full scholarships.
Speaker 8: And that's why you go out the Eastern and you
Speaker 8: see only FOURIGN kids. I mean, we've seen some six seven,
Speaker 8: six eight kids that are coming from other parts of
Speaker 8: the world and they're on these Division one teams because
Speaker 8: they have full scholarships and we can only give room
Speaker 8: and board, and we just get we aren't full scholarship.
Speaker 8: I guess we give books and so on, but we
Speaker 8: are not a full scholarship league. So we have our
Speaker 8: own national tournament where last year, if I might brag,
Speaker 8: we were US and MASA. We're the only teams to
Speaker 8: win four games at the national tournament. And Steve, I
Speaker 8: don't know if you ever had Riley waugh On last year,
Speaker 8: who was our best player in the guard last year,
Speaker 8: finished up her career with forty three points at the
Speaker 8: national tournament in a huge win. I'm saying forty three
Speaker 8: that's kolid, like you know. So, but there's two two
Speaker 8: tournaments and we've been very fortunate to go to the
Speaker 8: Division two tournament quite a few times.
Speaker 2: I wanted to bring on too. You used to be
Speaker 2: a head coach back in the day. Are you kind
Speaker 2: of glad that you don't coach now? Given the nil
Speaker 2: and all the stuff that goes on and.
Speaker 8: The Division One, I couldn't I couldn't be happier. And
Speaker 8: both of you guys know, if loud Olsen was here
Speaker 8: going through this stuff, Mike Montgomery going through this stuff,
Speaker 8: named some of the others, Lorenzo Romart going through this stuff,
Speaker 8: and maybe he still is, it's horrible. And you know this,
Speaker 8: they would not stand for it. And you see what's
Speaker 8: his name right from Villanova? Bennett from Virginia, And these
Speaker 8: guys are saying enough enough. What was the big talk
Speaker 8: about Ohio State and football twenty million dollar team? And
Speaker 8: I don't know if that's true or not, but there
Speaker 8: is money involved, and it's it's just it's really to me,
Speaker 8: ruined the game. And I think you talked to a
Speaker 8: lot of people, and maybe they won't stay so publicly,
Speaker 8: but I think a lot of head coaches were absolutely
Speaker 8: sick about it. And the truth is, you guys know,
Speaker 8: recruiting was hard enough, right, I mean recruiting was tough.
Speaker 8: You had to get to know the family, if you
Speaker 8: know the kids, they had hangers on and everything. So
Speaker 8: recruiting was hard nothing. Now it's worse. It's terrible.
Speaker 6: It's amazing just to be able to keep your team.
Speaker 6: You almost have to re recruit every year. It seems
Speaker 6: like I have the transfers won farefoot Bortle is open
Speaker 6: on site, leave you stay.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you go over and talk to our coaches here
Speaker 8: now at all levels. Yeah, you season's over. You've got
Speaker 8: to rerecruit because you have to get players in if
Speaker 8: you're going to be competitive. And now you got to
Speaker 8: re recruit them. It's it's not a very good team.
Speaker 2: So I was going to ask you, there's no one
Speaker 2: that knows better than you, having spent a lot of
Speaker 2: time with him, and he I know this. Du he
Speaker 2: would have not he said, you know, hell, I'm out
Speaker 2: of this. I don't need discrun.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think absolutely no quest And again, recruiting was
Speaker 8: hard enough. I mean we got lucky on some kids.
Speaker 8: You get a Michael Wright in, Sean Ellett was here
Speaker 8: in the backyard, and those were not all easy. Now,
Speaker 8: maybe Sean was, but some of these other getting quit
Speaker 8: reads here. It was you know, it was a tough
Speaker 8: recruiting job, and it was it was difficult, and you
Speaker 8: were on it every day of the year. But now
Speaker 8: they've added all this money and how much you can get.
Speaker 8: I mean, the talk around with you guys know, Lumar Ballo,
Speaker 8: who was here last year was Indiana for a huge
Speaker 8: amount of money and that's been pretty much published knowledge.
Speaker 8: So it's just it's really taken to me a lot
Speaker 8: of some of the fun out of the whole thing.
Speaker 8: I'm not a huge fan of any of that kind
Speaker 8: of stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's funny too, because you know, these programs are
Speaker 6: hiring general managers now.
Speaker 4: It's who maybe take some of the load off of
Speaker 4: the coaches.
Speaker 6: That they don't have to go out and run around
Speaker 6: the country and that these you know, gms or whatever
Speaker 6: are evaluating talent.
Speaker 4: I guess, so yeah, they don't love it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you look at the staff now, I mean, they've
Speaker 8: got more people that can be on the court and
Speaker 8: I don't know about travel, but yeah, they've they've got
Speaker 8: to get out and they've got to get the players.
Speaker 8: And I don't know what you guys would feel about it,
Speaker 8: but I just think it's taken a lot of the
Speaker 8: energy and fun out of the whole thing. And who
Speaker 8: raises the money? I mean, Kentucky, you know you can
Speaker 8: unlimited funds. University of Texas with crystale contact, unlimited funds,
Speaker 8: Weber State up there. Well, you know they're not going
Speaker 8: to be involved in the big money. It's it's just
Speaker 8: it's pretty tough, I.
Speaker 2: Think, right right, Well, you know we I had Monica
Speaker 2: as a guest here, I don't know, months or so ago,
Speaker 2: and he says it's kind of starting to permeate into
Speaker 2: the junior colleges.
Speaker 8: Well, our budget is ten bucks, you guys know, not
Speaker 8: much more than that. Wet Yeah, yeah, yeah it maybe,
Speaker 8: I I don't know. I mean again, at the at
Speaker 8: the higher level of the community college, those coaches are
Speaker 8: looking to move on and they get a good player
Speaker 8: and they keep them there. So it may well be
Speaker 8: starting to permeate the community colleges. I have not heard
Speaker 8: of it, but I wouldn't wouldn't disrespect what he said.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, so you you were tenth ranked. Uh you
Speaker 4: play MESA and.
Speaker 8: You faith they've we moved up. We moved up to
Speaker 8: number eight today.
Speaker 4: Oh you did okay? Well, breaking news nice time.
Speaker 8: Breaking news.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there it is breaking news.
Speaker 2: So so you've you've had teams like this before. How
Speaker 2: what makes this different or special?
Speaker 8: Well, they've really.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 8: The truth of it is, we've got a good blend
Speaker 8: of the guards or the perimeter people. We've gotten a
Speaker 8: big girl, uh, the first one that we've really had
Speaker 8: about six three and and she's pretty talented. But they've
Speaker 8: melded together. Well a lot of times it takes longer.
Speaker 8: Our kids are about a month ago really started to
Speaker 8: good with each other and move the ball. And you
Speaker 8: look at the assists. How many assists for baskets you have?
Speaker 8: So we're sharing the ball as we say, make the
Speaker 8: ball hum. So it's just really been kind of neat
Speaker 8: to see. And that's why you coach, and that's you know,
Speaker 8: you want to get your radio program better all the time,
Speaker 8: and that's why you do it. You love it. But
Speaker 8: we've been fortunate to have unselfish girls, girls that are
Speaker 8: willing to play defense, and to this point it's worked
Speaker 8: out pretty well. Now we got to think eight or
Speaker 8: ten games left before tournament, and again this game on
Speaker 8: Wednesday is really a big one for us. They beat
Speaker 8: us up there. We need to beat them here and
Speaker 8: then we have to play them right at the end
Speaker 8: of the season back up there. So what we're fighting
Speaker 8: for is the highest seed in our tournament, our local
Speaker 8: local tournaments. So still a lot at stake for the
Speaker 8: pema Aztecs.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you, so you go into
Speaker 2: the game tonight one you can chure against your rival
Speaker 2: Iowa State and maybe chure.
Speaker 4: As little for Arizona.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I'm planning to. I've got a guest in
Speaker 8: town that has always known him for a lot of years,
Speaker 8: really really a good friend, and he's just coming off
Speaker 8: knee surgery. So whether he feels he can make the
Speaker 8: effort to get to and from the arena and so on,
Speaker 8: I don't know, but definitely we'll be watching and I'm
Speaker 8: anticipating going. So should be should be a good game.
Speaker 8: Everybody likes this Iowa State team, and I think Arizona's
Speaker 8: back on track and looks to be playing pretty good basketball,
Speaker 8: and the pieces are fitting together, so it should be.
Speaker 4: A great game. We talked a little about this at
Speaker 4: the beginning of the show.
Speaker 2: You guys back in the day played a fantastic schedule,
Speaker 2: had the great teams that would come in Arizona. McHale
Speaker 2: rocked and I said, if you can afford tickets, you
Speaker 2: should get tickets to see the Big twelve. Tonight's one
Speaker 2: of those nights. How did you guys prepare for these
Speaker 2: huge games?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean both of you were there, and really
Speaker 8: there was no difference. Now, the kids know if you're
Speaker 8: playing Duke. You know, every kid on the team knows,
Speaker 8: and they anticipate that that game, and they circled on
Speaker 8: the calendar, and the kids, as far as I can tell,
Speaker 8: love to play those big games. I mean they get
Speaker 8: geared up. They're playing against good people, want to show
Speaker 8: them up, want to show people they can play at
Speaker 8: that level. So there was never really any problem of
Speaker 8: getting the kids geared up and then loot. As you
Speaker 8: both the well know. Again, he was a very even
Speaker 8: keeled guy. I mean, everybody knew it was a big game.
Speaker 8: Scout it, do it well. We're not going to be
Speaker 8: too high, we're not going to be too low. Get
Speaker 8: out and do our job and so on. So Syracuse
Speaker 8: was coming in which they did a lot of these
Speaker 8: great teams. The team and everybody knew and one of
Speaker 8: the greater games. I'm sure both of you were there
Speaker 8: was that Duke game with Laitner and Hurley and all
Speaker 8: those guys back in what ninety or ninety one, one
Speaker 8: of the great games in the history of Michale. But
Speaker 8: everybody knew and everybody showed up and played and it
Speaker 8: was just a trific thing. But it was that same thing.
Speaker 8: Get prepared, cover the scouting report, get out and do
Speaker 8: your job. Nothing much more complex than that.
Speaker 6: You know, as an Iowa guy, or maybe you know
Speaker 6: even close to Iowa State, what would you tell the
Speaker 6: current u of a team about, you know, getting through
Speaker 6: the old Big eight, now the Big twelve, some of
Speaker 6: the places they're going to have to deal with the Kansas.
Speaker 15: Of the world.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean it's Big ten. I thought years ago
Speaker 8: when we were at Iowa. Now this is you want
Speaker 8: to talk about a long time ago. But you were
Speaker 8: going in with Bobby Knight at Indiana Gy and Katie
Speaker 8: at Purdue Ohio State loaded that that was a huge
Speaker 8: league with big time crowds, and now you're finding that
Speaker 8: the Pac ten or twelve. I hate to keep saying,
Speaker 8: you didn't, as you guys knew, some of those crowds
Speaker 8: were not real, real good. They didn't even open up
Speaker 8: all the stadium at Washington State, so it wasn't like
Speaker 8: you were going and UCLA never filled up totally. Now
Speaker 8: we got pretty good crowds going there, but USC we
Speaker 8: didn't have big crowds. So now you're going into tough environments.
Speaker 8: Every every single crowd is big in this league. And
Speaker 8: there's a great crowd here. So it's a tremendous league,
Speaker 8: tremendous basketball league. And again I think these guys have
Speaker 8: it right, the ship right it here and seemed to
Speaker 8: be on the correct track. So you know, we'll see,
Speaker 8: we'll see tonight. This will be a great game.
Speaker 4: Thanks Jim.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you to do one and do me
Speaker 2: a favorite. Could you leave us with the advice your
Speaker 2: dad gave you many many years ago.
Speaker 8: Now, my dad told me years ago when Luke hired me.
Speaker 8: I've never really spoken publicly. He hired me for a
Speaker 8: thousand bucks a year. How about that one, guys, he said,
Speaker 8: work so hard he can't, work so hard he can't
Speaker 8: get rid of And that's kind of been my motto
Speaker 8: I passed on to my kids. So on works so
Speaker 8: hard he can't get ready, And that's what happened. I mean,
Speaker 8: we didn't know each other at all, and I was
Speaker 8: just kind of came in. Here was a little long
Speaker 8: learned bell bottomed pants and all stuff, you know. But
Speaker 8: it really worked out well, worked so hard you can't
Speaker 8: get rid of That's been the model.
Speaker 2: That cares mere model. It's a hat, that's a T
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Speaker 4: See you toay guys. Yeah, thank you Jim.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty oh Steve RIVERTA, you're Dave silver
Speaker 2: dot one. Now we've got a call on the phone.
Speaker 4: Who's this? Hello, Hello, who's this? It's Rick?
Speaker 16: Hey, Steve.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Rick? What's going on? Well?
Speaker 16: You know, ironically, Hey, David, Hey. I was thinking about
Speaker 16: Roz the other day with chatting with Josh Passner or
Speaker 16: texting whatever, and I saw a Facebook picture of he
Speaker 16: Luke and I think Luke brought his whole staff to
Speaker 16: Arizona that first couple of years, and I couldn't I
Speaker 16: couldn't remember the names of the other two guys in.
Speaker 2: The picture, Scott Thompson and Scott Thompson.
Speaker 16: I think it was Scott Thompson one of.
Speaker 4: The Scott also played a.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, I can't remember the other guy's name. But anyway,
Speaker 16: what I was gonna say about Roz, he's probably one
Speaker 16: of the most underrated coaches in Arizona Athletics that have
Speaker 16: come across the landscape. And there's a lot of good
Speaker 16: coaches that have come across, but he was very unassuming,
Speaker 16: very down to earth, and always seemed to treat everybody
Speaker 16: I noticed. He treated people with respect.
Speaker 4: So go ahead.
Speaker 16: No, I'm just gonna say he but the fact that
Speaker 16: he knew his ex'es and o's and he knew the
Speaker 16: sport of basketball, and I think he was way underrated
Speaker 16: through his capability.
Speaker 2: Rick, I totally totally agree with you. I'll let Dave
Speaker 2: respond to that as well. But the good thing is
Speaker 2: now I understand you can observe and pay attention.
Speaker 4: We just got to get you to do that when
Speaker 4: we play poker. But your great observation.
Speaker 2: Great observation, because the one thing that he was brilliant at,
Speaker 2: and I was gonna say this when we came back
Speaker 2: before he called Rick, is he's a fantastic, fantastic scout
Speaker 2: of if eversont if Luke needed a scout against the
Speaker 2: best teams, he was.
Speaker 4: The dude, how do you know that? How do I
Speaker 4: know that?
Speaker 2: Because he scouted most of the big I covered thirty
Speaker 2: to twenty five years.
Speaker 6: Sometimes the newspaper will put, like, you know the scouting
Speaker 6: report and say, you know, coach so and so did that.
Speaker 4: But he was he was the best.
Speaker 2: That's great because that's how that's why he landed a
Speaker 2: job with Loot. It was kind of in the book
Speaker 2: thing that was his thing. He was kind of a
Speaker 2: scout geek. And very good at it. I just appreciated
Speaker 2: the loyalty. You know that there was those two guys.
Speaker 6: I mean, they were a team for how many years,
Speaker 6: twenty years until they were at the end, but they
Speaker 6: know at the end was just sad for a lot
Speaker 6: of us who didn't really know all the inside stories.
Speaker 2: Sure, as part of the book, it took some things out,
Speaker 2: but he was part of the book of what happened.
Speaker 16: And here's one of the when you mentioned him as
Speaker 16: a scout. He had developed a lot of relationships throughout
Speaker 16: the country that people respected his opinion and he learned
Speaker 16: to respect theirs. And it's that mutual trust the coaches
Speaker 16: and people in the industries have, even if their competitors,
Speaker 16: they have this mutual respect. And he garnered when he
Speaker 16: talked about going to Texas Tech. My cousin's from Lubbock,
Speaker 16: and so I'm thinking about going out for that game, but.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, go ahead. Well, so this is one of
Speaker 4: the things I think I had.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I talked to Josh about this,
Speaker 2: but I may have talked to Ross about this maybe
Speaker 2: a few years ago. One of the things that I
Speaker 2: thought Josh didn't do, or maybe he did I can't
Speaker 2: remember now, was have Ross go with him to be
Speaker 2: part of the coaching staff in Memphis, just to have
Speaker 2: that veteran coach and guy who knew basketball. You know,
Speaker 2: I can't remember who Josh had, but I know what
Speaker 2: he had in Ross, and he just didn't.
Speaker 6: It's kind of like what Tommy did with Steve Robinson
Speaker 6: coming from North Carolina. Guy had been around as an
Speaker 6: assistant and head coach for years. So I can think
Speaker 6: a lot of these younger coaches do need someone to
Speaker 6: do that guy, someone who's had some history, someone who
Speaker 6: has a lot of experience in different parts of the game,
Speaker 6: whether it's scouting or dealing with the media or dealing
Speaker 6: with fans. Says I'm sure Steve is very helpful, maybe
Speaker 6: just quietly behind.
Speaker 2: The scenes, you mean, oh Steve, Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 16: And one more things, Todd over a team. I've known
Speaker 16: Todd for a long time, even before he had the
Speaker 16: team of job. He was at the women's assistant with
Speaker 16: Joan and uh. He's so smart. He's incorporated people like
Speaker 16: joh Or Roz into his program. But he can be
Speaker 16: a better coach, and that's a that's a sign of
Speaker 16: a good coach. That he's willing to learn from other
Speaker 16: people and not let as ego getting away. So I'll
Speaker 16: let you guys go.
Speaker 2: Rick, you up here very well, I'm gonna pay. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna write this stuff down next time I see you, all.
Speaker 8: Right, Steve, put it in, Just put it on my tab.
Speaker 2: Next you realize, Rick, you your tab is running right?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I know. I think I owe you twenty bucks
Speaker 16: or something.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. Uh, I love it. Uh. We
Speaker 2: got maybe a room for another call. But but that's
Speaker 2: what I was going to bring back. Ross, fantastic scout guy.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 2: That's that's the lost art man. I don't even know
Speaker 2: how they do it because they have to what so
Speaker 2: much film.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I guess maybe the difference now too is
Speaker 6: everything's on TV, you know, so you pretty much see things.
Speaker 4: You know, game, the game, the call, you're on the
Speaker 4: air and eye of the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 18: Hey, Steve has to go and miss Doug another.
Speaker 4: Guy who watched.
Speaker 18: I've watched a lot of basketball and uh, and hey, Dave,
Speaker 18: good to talk to you again. I haven't haven't talked
Speaker 18: to you, probably since we sat next to each other
Speaker 18: at the Tackbell Baseball tournament up in shot scale that time.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 18: Yeah, first off, I know you're probably getting close in
Speaker 18: the top of the hour here, but yeah, with Ros,
Speaker 18: I mean I I echo what the last collar said,
Speaker 18: just class all the way.
Speaker 4: Uh, but not just class. I mean he had the
Speaker 4: x's nose to back it up.
Speaker 18: What I really I don't know what what Tommy does
Speaker 18: or what Seawn did, but his loop's assistance would all,
Speaker 18: I believe you can correct me, would have sort of a.
Speaker 8: Position assignment where one guy was in charge.
Speaker 18: Of the bigs and somebody was doing the guards. I
Speaker 18: don't remember is Roz had a specialty, but when I
Speaker 18: would go watch practices, I don't remember what, you know,
Speaker 18: which group he was working with, but he was he
Speaker 18: was very very on on the ball. So to speak
Speaker 18: with his with his group, and you could just yeah,
Speaker 18: like like the like you just brought up the scouting reports,
Speaker 18: you could always trust that the biggest games, it was
Speaker 18: gonna be a ROS game. Yeah, but yeah, I love
Speaker 18: the guy, uh, Mike. My My Ros anecdote is that
Speaker 18: we were at the I was fortunate enough to be
Speaker 18: at the final four in Minneapolis in two thousand and one,
Speaker 18: and I got seats through that leg department and managed
Speaker 18: to sit next to Roz's wife, Kim, lovely woman, uh,
Speaker 18: really sweetheart of a person. And for whatever reason, there
Speaker 18: was somebody who's probably like I don't know if it
Speaker 18: was in the semis, maybe it was a Michigan State
Speaker 18: fan or something, but somebody was giving her a hard time.
Speaker 18: And I just had something to the guy and for
Speaker 18: the gal whoever it was, and just said like, this
Speaker 18: is like the wife of our assistant coach. He's all class.
Speaker 18: Why don't you give it a rest, you know, And
Speaker 18: I kind of stood up for her a little bit,
Speaker 18: And for years to come, Roz would never if he
Speaker 18: saw me, he wouldn't. He never failed to thank me
Speaker 18: for that. It's just a small gesture I made. But
Speaker 18: and he also like mailed me a handwritten note thanking
Speaker 18: me for standing up for his wife's honor at this.
Speaker 4: At the basketball game.
Speaker 8: That's just it's just the kind of guy he is,
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 18: So yeah, he's he's a real asset to the community.
Speaker 18: It's really good to know he's still working with with
Speaker 18: youth because he's got a lot to offer right well,
Speaker 18: you know, there's been a lot of guys through the
Speaker 18: program that have had sort of that same wry sense
Speaker 18: of humor. The Steve Kerr, Matt Mulebot, Jim Rosborough and
Speaker 18: even Luke just kind of deadpan. They just slipped something
Speaker 18: in there. You don't realize it's funny for at first,
Speaker 18: and then you're like, oh wait, that was.
Speaker 8: Actually pretty good.
Speaker 3: Dry.
Speaker 18: Yeah, dry, that's probably the better word for it. If
Speaker 18: we have a second, Do we have a second? I'd
Speaker 18: better catch you another time, But Dave, sometime I want
Speaker 18: to ask you about the status of like local sports, uh,
Speaker 18: like the local news sports segments. I miss I missed
Speaker 18: the days. Yeah, I missed the days of you and
Speaker 18: all the others we.
Speaker 2: Talked about a little bit. Yeah, he'll be back this week.
Speaker 2: And Putty more than he likes, but he'll be back
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 4: Call us Dan, Yeah for sure. A big game tonight,
Speaker 4: go Cats. Yeah, see you there. Hope we win a
Speaker 4: big one. Okay, Thanks, let's go. We got to go, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: let's go. Thank We'll see you ready tomorrow. Okay, Thanks,