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Speaker 2: Hey, good up to here, everybody, Welcome to Eye on
Speaker 2: the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: Got packed house today. The interns are all getting ready
Speaker 2: to pack it up, say goodbye. But I got Blake
Speaker 2: with me wearing his hat. No haircut problems today.
Speaker 3: No, not yet.
Speaker 4: But I do have to go to the barber tomorrow,
Speaker 4: so see what happens to go full mohawk.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna let it go. I like it.
Speaker 4: I like right, Yeah, why not? I think I got
Speaker 4: a board meeting tomorrow. They'll love seeing me with him along.
Speaker 4: You know these jokes, you know, nice haircut, kill your barber.
Speaker 4: You didn't kill your barber, but you're gonna get a
Speaker 4: different one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm just making the change. Yeah, I'm taking my mother's approach.
Speaker 4: Where every two weeks it's a new hairstylist. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: used to call it in the bullpit. Yeah, I got
Speaker 4: a clipper sign up in there. We got a Dujuan
Speaker 4: with us, We got mats back in the house. You
Speaker 4: got Ray got of control, so it should be fine.
Speaker 3: How you doing, man, good man. This is a great
Speaker 3: crew we've got today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Juan does my things, Ray does my things, Matt
Speaker 2: does my socials. Yeah, everybody, what do you do? I
Speaker 2: just I was about to ask, I pretend I know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about yesterday. I didn't know what the
Speaker 2: hell I was talking about, Like today and tomorrow. You know,
Speaker 2: try to get baby, do you get you? Try to
Speaker 2: get some calls and get me through the day. So
Speaker 2: what's going on? How about that Warriors?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: The NBA Playoffs had been a little while man. Yeah,
Speaker 4: all the underdogs, the Inderducks coming through.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, that was such a shock for me.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I thought the Tea Walls would blow out the Warriors,
Speaker 5: especially just coming off of Game seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh and then I.
Speaker 5: Didn't watch it, but I feel like what I heard
Speaker 5: was the Warriors controlled it for the most.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, start to finish without and then Curry was
Speaker 2: out for you know, two quarters, two plus quarters. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know before more. I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: gonna yeah, I don't know if he's going to.
Speaker 3: Be no day. He's out for a week at least
Speaker 3: a week, I think, didn't.
Speaker 2: They Yeah, so we'll see can they do it?
Speaker 3: Can they do it?
Speaker 2: And all the other games are pretty Look at the
Speaker 2: Indie Indiana.
Speaker 3: Indiana up to zero. Who would have thought that? No?
Speaker 3: And then the way they've done it coming back.
Speaker 5: That's their style though they always come They're always a
Speaker 5: comeback team. Can't count them out.
Speaker 3: Do you think.
Speaker 4: Just tying this into the community, do you think Matherin
Speaker 4: still has a long has a place long term with
Speaker 4: the Pacers.
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: That I don't know, but but I mean absolutely, just
Speaker 4: mean long is his long term plan with the Pacers?
Speaker 3: I would assume so long term, give me a seven years.
Speaker 4: Do you think he ends up becoming a star with
Speaker 4: the Pacers or do you think that he has to
Speaker 4: change environment abuse? That's tough, I'll say yes, but yes.
Speaker 4: Do you think he's taking a step back from his
Speaker 4: key season?
Speaker 3: That's it. That's why I'm asking.
Speaker 4: So that's why I'm bringing this up, man, is that well,
Speaker 4: you need to go somewhere else to get the minute?
Speaker 6: Team.
Speaker 2: I asked about this coming into the show, and you
Speaker 2: talked that he's getting some minutes, right man?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like if he has a future for
Speaker 7: the Pacers, it's depending on what TJ McConnell does.
Speaker 3: His age.
Speaker 7: I feel like a backup point guard between him and.
Speaker 2: And he's not really a back point guard. He's a
Speaker 2: shooting guard. He's a guy who's but you're just talking about.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's like the first playoff the bench, so.
Speaker 3: Moving him up on the bench. No, the guy could play.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Answer your question.
Speaker 2: I think two things can be true at the same time, right,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I haven't really seen him play that much this year.
Speaker 2: But to your to your point, he has not saying
Speaker 2: his play no, no, no play the situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, such a situation.
Speaker 4: And the way they're playing right now, you can't argue
Speaker 4: that their style of play is wrong.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, he would be change. Why you fix that?
Speaker 2: It's not broken? Right whatever?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, good, good question. I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know. We'll see and Tej is getting minutes too, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we have doing what TJ does.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then fifteen he'll get fifteen minutes, ten points,
Speaker 4: two rebounds, five steals and burne Yeah, burnees and dives
Speaker 4: and things like that.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 2: Cool, Let me tell you to today's show, we have
Speaker 2: Fred Harvey. We hadn't had Fred Harvey on the show
Speaker 2: in a while. You a track coach. They've been pretty
Speaker 2: pretty good this year. We'll talk to him about that,
Speaker 2: see what's going on moving forward at the end of
Speaker 2: the year now, and then at the four to seventeen hour,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a mistraining Chapel. Yeah, Brenon Chapel. I
Speaker 2: hope that's the way you say it. I'll ask I
Speaker 2: think that's what you say, all.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean, let me say it because if it's wrong,
Speaker 4: it's just natural for me to be wrong when people's names.
Speaker 2: But by older intern, it's going to say Chapel. He said,
Speaker 2: did you call me an older intern?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yea, I used to learn, So I'll take that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it makes it makes a situation a little bit easier
Speaker 4: to digest. You left the argy. No, I wish I
Speaker 4: would Okay, yeah, you'd still be playing. No, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be playing, Okay, I just have a lot more money, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So yeah, we'll have him at the four seventeen
Speaker 2: Just how you know the job, you know his expectations,
Speaker 2: you know, how does you know Tommy?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: You know he knows.
Speaker 2: Murph, so you know, we'll go with that and then
Speaker 2: just see maybe you know how long has he been
Speaker 2: in Tucson or how many times has he been to
Speaker 2: tuc soon before?
Speaker 3: So okay, cool, that'll be that'll be that. So what
Speaker 3: else is going on? Guys? You busy with yours? Your job?
Speaker 3: Do you have a job?
Speaker 8: I do?
Speaker 4: I do have a job. I need one of those hats.
Speaker 4: By the way, still I can't get you in. They
Speaker 4: sold out on the first day. I had to buy
Speaker 4: him before the first game. Yeah, you should have come
Speaker 4: to the first asked you.
Speaker 3: Did you go no? Huh, nobody went look at this movie.
Speaker 3: Nobody supported me. No, No, I'm good.
Speaker 4: Kobe is the two thousand? Kobe and Henry went, yeah,
Speaker 4: I got I got the whole.
Speaker 3: I got the whole.
Speaker 4: The second the B team, you got the B team
Speaker 4: going to see Yeah, yeah, I got quiet.
Speaker 3: Kobe went yeah that was his cheering.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Uh, what else is going on today? Before
Speaker 2: we get into the stuff Golden State?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've get some You've got some baseball softball stuff
Speaker 4: coming up. How did the tennis team do and didn't
Speaker 4: follow the bens?
Speaker 3: Then the women's out.
Speaker 5: The men women women lost the first round matchup against Illinois.
Speaker 5: Think it was like four one man swept both their
Speaker 5: opening matches.
Speaker 2: They go to Virginia. Yeah, I think that's it is
Speaker 2: not tomorrow or this week day for sure. I think
Speaker 2: is it like a super regional like the softball and
Speaker 2: it's sweet. It's a one say and then the women
Speaker 2: the softball team plays tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, you win? Yeah, okay, and.
Speaker 4: It should more than likely be uf there there and
Speaker 4: there was almost the number two seed in that in
Speaker 4: the in the big Tilter, in the Big Twilter.
Speaker 3: That's just one player of the year for you. They're
Speaker 3: taking all His thunder was so exciting. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. Listen.
Speaker 4: Listen, listen, listen, nobody listens. You're gonna be okay. One
Speaker 4: time I say somebody's name right too? Sorry, Ray God,
Speaker 4: bless it.
Speaker 3: You see. These interns needs to learn. You should have
Speaker 3: hit the bleek button. You should still but still do
Speaker 3: it every time. Are you talking? Get this.
Speaker 4: If there's a lot of because that's when Blake spoke
Speaker 4: every time I'm on a zoom called the automatically mute me.
Speaker 2: You have any you have any breaking news? For us
Speaker 2: on your end going on business the city. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean we're working.
Speaker 4: I mean we work closely with the county too, so
Speaker 4: obviously the county a lot. We're working with Major League
Speaker 4: Baseball right now on a couple of different things. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So hopefully I'm gonna give you a six week timeline.
Speaker 4: I'll be able to report twos like last time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but it came to fruition to not yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Okay, I eventually you told me what was
Speaker 2: going on. I can't tell you right now. I can't
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 4: I can sign the NDA's. I don't want to screw
Speaker 4: something up. You can imagine that it's bad enough. You
Speaker 4: guys don't go to the things that I get here.
Speaker 4: Do you imagine if I actually screwed them up bad
Speaker 4: enough that they didn't come?
Speaker 3: You're right? Touche?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So wait, can real quick? So into school
Speaker 4: for the three of you guys, right?
Speaker 3: How many? How many last last day of classes? Today?
Speaker 3: Was today?
Speaker 4: My last class? Holy con You finished on all your
Speaker 4: smart but Gray's coming back is not finishing. But one
Speaker 4: is one is that you're you're graduating. That's amazing, guys.
Speaker 4: First off, congratulations, Okay, are we excited to go into
Speaker 4: the real world. That's an absolute no. I see the
Speaker 4: look on your faces. I think one beat himself.
Speaker 3: A little bit. We'll check that diaper afterwards.
Speaker 4: But uh, it is it's a monumental, uh event that
Speaker 4: you guys are graduating college.
Speaker 3: Man, that's that's amazing. You got a motion.
Speaker 5: Today, for sure you should the last time walking out
Speaker 5: of the journalism building at the U of A.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you kiss the ground like a pastor? Did
Speaker 2: you kiss the ground?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Not that, not that clean? It is pretty?
Speaker 5: Is that even the journal the journalism building is some
Speaker 5: other person's name, and it's not just journalism, it's a
Speaker 5: bunch of other people.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, not until.
Speaker 5: There's an actual journalism building.
Speaker 3: While I kiss the floor, yeah yeah, well one h
Speaker 3: she graduated. We're under U.
Speaker 2: We need some money for us to renovate and clean
Speaker 2: the floors.
Speaker 3: Can you help us?
Speaker 4: I just do it myself at that point, and then
Speaker 4: Matt is going back to l A.
Speaker 3: He's an l A kid, West Coast kids. O, cal,
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do in l A.
Speaker 7: Joy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, be out of this heat like it call it
Speaker 4: a gap year. Yeah, camp here, all right.
Speaker 3: Let's just check it in. It's exciting that time yere.
Speaker 2: Right, right, Okay, so guess some NBA stuff out of
Speaker 2: the way. Is there a game tonight? Two games? That's
Speaker 2: the other guys, Right. Boston was a Boston and that
Speaker 2: was another upset. Oh, that was another upset.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Aaron, Yeah, we had the last second shot to
Speaker 4: win it.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 4: What do you feel about Aaron Gordon's dreads? How do
Speaker 4: we feel about he had? He had more dreads than
Speaker 4: I know, But they're like evolving and they.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's a question because I asked Jay this yesterday
Speaker 2: and you guys know this. You guys are young kids.
Speaker 2: When he played here ten years ago, what do you
Speaker 2: know about Aaron Gordon when he was here? Not much,
Speaker 2: exactly exactly. That was our discussion. When he's they're here,
Speaker 2: they kind of isolated him. We never really got to
Speaker 2: tell their stories. Yeah, now that they're out, you kind
Speaker 2: of hear more and more. And I don't want to
Speaker 2: get on my soapbox for yesterday show, but we just
Speaker 2: didn't know who they were.
Speaker 4: Do you think that was more because of Miller? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And had arms length off, Yes.
Speaker 2: No question, And that's kind of the way they've moved
Speaker 2: it because because Greg Byrne was the ad, he didn't
Speaker 2: mind that, which makes no sense because he's kind of
Speaker 2: a publicity guy. Yeah, and you know, you know you're
Speaker 2: in that business. Did did media hound you guys? Probably not?
Speaker 2: Because you were in a small market, probably and in
Speaker 2: the second second string team.
Speaker 3: What do you mean when I was playing? Yeah? No,
Speaker 3: I mean New York is a beach.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, but but you're not. You're not the Yankees,
Speaker 2: You're not the Mets. We were the Mets. Did people care?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You weren't with the Mets when we played in Brooklyn?
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 3: Your team that? Did you play for the Mets? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What level? Did you not know? I played for the
Speaker 3: New York Mets? Are you in this discussion?
Speaker 4: Like, no, I don't know? A thousand times on air?
Speaker 4: Who are you kidding me?
Speaker 8: Who are no? No?
Speaker 10: No, No?
Speaker 3: You didn't make the majors, did you? I did not know?
Speaker 3: My point?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you were saying I didn't. My checks were
Speaker 4: signed by the Mets. Jesus, what I played in New York?
Speaker 3: Do you know.
Speaker 4: Exactly what I'm saying? Where in New York's in Brooklyn?
Speaker 4: You ever heard of Brooklyn? Yeah? My point, did they
Speaker 4: ever cover? Did teams cover you? We had like a
Speaker 4: few thousand people in the locker room in Brooklyn. It
Speaker 4: was wild. You had thirteen thousand fans. It was nuts.
Speaker 3: Every in games. Yes, it's still New York.
Speaker 4: People are gonna go watch you with the double Hey, listen, man,
Speaker 4: I had to pay people to come watch me, especially,
Speaker 4: I'm not even trying.
Speaker 3: To be funny. No, yeah, you had that many people going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but now when you're talking about like when I
Speaker 4: played in Hagerstown, Okay, hagar'stown.
Speaker 3: Now there was barely maybe too. That was low a.
Speaker 4: I was Florida State League, which Ports Saint Lucy wasn't nobody,
Speaker 4: but that was home. So did you mind so in Brooklyn?
Speaker 4: In Brooklyn? Did you mind the media? I love the media.
Speaker 4: I always have loved the media. I love the I
Speaker 4: mean the interaction. I mean I love the interaction piece.
Speaker 4: Some guys can't stand it right, people hate it and
Speaker 4: some people are jerk about it too. Yeah with you so, no,
Speaker 4: I mean what you hate I'm allowed to talk about
Speaker 4: for two minutes.
Speaker 2: Every time he's been accurate because I've said that baseball
Speaker 2: players were you know, if you give kids out of
Speaker 2: high school the major bonuses, they're kind of jerky.
Speaker 4: I mean they know you have to have this fake
Speaker 4: confidence anyway to be a professional athlete. And once you
Speaker 4: are able and have the capability of believing it, yeah,
Speaker 4: and it comes true. You can't blame them.
Speaker 2: You have a chip. Yeah yeah, I know you well too.
Speaker 2: If they're they've been cocky all the life, they're not
Speaker 2: going to change. And now that they have two million
Speaker 2: bank I mean you're gonna get humbled at some point,
Speaker 2: no question, no question. Eventually that's what happens. Yeah, kicked
Speaker 2: in them. Yeah, what do you mean, I'm not good enough?
Speaker 2: Ty five?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, and you know those guys. Yeah, I looked
Speaker 4: at my you know, in the mirror about fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3: This is not me.
Speaker 4: When you were playing in Brooklyn. Hold on, I cannot
Speaker 4: believe we just had this. No, no, you know exactly
Speaker 4: what I feel. Just a you didn't support the WBC,
Speaker 4: you didn't support Major League Baseball. Now I've been on
Speaker 4: the show I don't know thirty times and you didn't
Speaker 4: know I played for the Mets.
Speaker 3: This is wild, too bad.
Speaker 2: No one's understands you because I just hit the did
Speaker 2: you really better that way?
Speaker 3: That's gonna break good? To get hold of Fred Harvey now.
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me
Speaker 2: today is Blake Eager and now on the phone we
Speaker 2: have coach Fred Harvey, longtime friend and longtime track coach
Speaker 2: at Jule Fred How are you, Oh.
Speaker 6: I'm bowing?
Speaker 8: Well, no, I'm just getting ready for a great Big
Speaker 8: twelve championship.
Speaker 2: How has this been for you the first year? A
Speaker 2: lot of the other Spring sports have done fantastically, Well,
Speaker 2: I know, you guys have done well too.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, you know, and that's you know, when you
Speaker 8: look at the off the board with the different sports
Speaker 8: that we're talking about, and I know the big thing
Speaker 8: was and we get fixated on it, and I appreciate
Speaker 8: that is that they you'll look at how, you know,
Speaker 8: the football conferences comparing them the State twelve, you know,
Speaker 8: to the Pac twelve, the basketball conference, and everyone gets
Speaker 8: fixated on that, and so the you know, the perception
Speaker 8: is that we're moving into a conference that is a
Speaker 8: much better conference than where we where we came from.
Speaker 8: And my model has always been, you know, and so
Speaker 8: are you are you all ready for the Big twelve? Well,
Speaker 8: I know, I think you have that backward. There's a
Speaker 8: Big twelve ready for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. So how do they handle it nicely?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 8: Well, you know, I mean, well, you know, let's not
Speaker 8: you know, a situation, it's really more you get driving
Speaker 8: that driving that message into you know, athletes, heads and
Speaker 8: you know, just general people you know, you know in
Speaker 8: the public, and you know it wasn't hosting, bragging or
Speaker 8: anything of that sort of. But you look across the board,
Speaker 8: you know, you know, from sport to sport and think, okay,
Speaker 8: there's that conference really that.
Speaker 6: Much better than where we came from.
Speaker 8: Uh. I love the conference. I love the diversity of it,
Speaker 8: you know, so that's a lot of fun. I've missed,
Speaker 8: you know, the whole the traditional Pac twelve. But you know,
Speaker 8: we have to see some different things now.
Speaker 4: Hey, coach, have you have you seen the opportunities grow
Speaker 4: from a recruiting standpoint now that you're in the Big
Speaker 4: twelve and opening you in different markets?
Speaker 8: No, because because you know, and I'll speak just for
Speaker 8: our sport only ran how we get to the national.
Speaker 6: Championships, you know why we? Uh?
Speaker 8: How you get to world championships? Nothing has changed for
Speaker 8: us in that capacity.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: And you know, for example, you take we completed our
Speaker 8: indoor season and you you think about what does it
Speaker 8: take to get to the NCAA Championships. You have to
Speaker 8: be in a sixteen in the country. It doesn't matter
Speaker 8: what region of the country. That you're in, you have
Speaker 8: to be in the top sixteen. So from a competitive
Speaker 8: standpoint of view, if we ran dual meets every single
Speaker 8: week and we had to run duel meets against you know,
Speaker 8: the schools in the conference, it would absolutely affect us
Speaker 8: in that capacity. So our kids are young men and women,
Speaker 8: you know, they get to meet the same way and
Speaker 8: there are they are international national athletes, So we recruit
Speaker 8: from the entire world to begin with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, no question.
Speaker 2: So you started the season kind of you know, so
Speaker 2: it's a new landscape or new board that's empty. Did
Speaker 2: anybody surprise you coming into the conference? Who's excelled really
Speaker 2: more than you'd expected?
Speaker 8: Well, you know, I'm really proud of we have a
Speaker 8: number of people at me athletically, you know, you know,
Speaker 8: from the men's women's friends, jumps, throws, we you know,
Speaker 8: in the hurdles, we've done an amazing job. Where you
Speaker 8: look at you know, our rankings, you know, going into
Speaker 8: this final week and this is these are the rankings.
Speaker 6: To me that means more than anything else.
Speaker 8: One week first regranking, okay, whatever, people maybe haven't jumped, thrown,
Speaker 8: or done whatever they.
Speaker 6: Need to do.
Speaker 8: So you start getting into this time of the year.
Speaker 8: So now everyone's going.
Speaker 6: Into their conference championship now.
Speaker 8: And so I uh, you know, going in you know,
Speaker 8: uh into the conference. You know, our our men's team
Speaker 8: has ranked number six in the conference. Uh, the ladies
Speaker 8: are number five in the conference, but the men are
Speaker 8: ranked number sixteen, you know, in the in the country.
Speaker 8: And so we're you know, from a competitive standpoint.
Speaker 6: Of view, you know, we're you.
Speaker 8: Know, we're we're we're one of these so be there.
Speaker 8: So that that didn't necessarily surprise you, but one of
Speaker 8: the one of the I think, you know, good surprises
Speaker 8: for us. You know, we we have you know, nine
Speaker 8: teams or nine events in our track and build events
Speaker 8: that are all ranked in the top twenty five, ranked
Speaker 8: in the top twenty five in the country. And that
Speaker 8: that means right there, you know, it showed there wasn't
Speaker 8: a surprise, but a pleasant you know, welcoming of you know,
Speaker 8: the diligence that you know, the athletes took upon themselves
Speaker 8: during the summer, you know, and continuing you know, during
Speaker 8: the fall.
Speaker 6: And here we are.
Speaker 8: Now the you know, the biggest you know, you know,
Speaker 8: you know PTOs to this group here is that we
Speaker 8: have you know, eight top fifty performances in the world,
Speaker 8: you know, on this team, which is huge. And two,
Speaker 8: if you have to answer your actual question or any surprises,
Speaker 8: well there's the biggest surprises. What I like to call
Speaker 8: the buy in, and the buy in is we are
Speaker 8: this good, kay, and then we start putting marks on
Speaker 8: the board. You know, I just called that to crossover.
Speaker 8: And the surprise is not that thing we are that
Speaker 8: we're just good? Is that how much accountability the other
Speaker 8: folks on the team help their teammates so that we
Speaker 8: can actually and that's the buy in and being able
Speaker 8: to you know, be able to show that at that level.
Speaker 5: Coach A couple of months ago, we got to talk
Speaker 5: before the Indoor Championships and you you had high praise
Speaker 5: for Trevion White. Austin Keyes kind of talked about what
Speaker 5: he's well, legacy he's going to be leaving with the
Speaker 5: program and what you're that connection between you two, Well.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think the number one thing is going
Speaker 8: to be that, you know, talent definitely has always been
Speaker 8: within him, but his legacy is really going to be,
Speaker 8: you know, again that that buy in to you know
Speaker 8: what you know, Coach Green, is doing with him, you know,
Speaker 8: and developing the young man, and you know, in his
Speaker 8: belief and that's I think when you look at you know,
Speaker 8: the level that we compete at the Division one track
Speaker 8: and field, it's the I mean, it's the best of
Speaker 8: the best. And for his legacy is that I worked
Speaker 8: my butt off, I did all the things I could write,
Speaker 8: you know, and you know, and he you know, ends
Speaker 8: up you know, the the Big twelve champion, your school
Speaker 8: record indoors in.
Speaker 6: The two hundred, you know, uh, you know, and so that.
Speaker 8: Really was, you know, I mean, a great, great legacy.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever asked you this over the years.
Speaker 2: Uh that block A has has you know, people know
Speaker 2: the block a basketball, right sometimes in football you know
Speaker 2: recently on enough. But what does it mean to detract
Speaker 2: people when you recruit?
Speaker 8: Well in ironically, I mean the block A means a lot.
Speaker 8: But the number one you know thing is and you
Speaker 8: can't call it a block okay's to cactus logo, right,
Speaker 8: But what the you know, what the what the program
Speaker 8: means to people, you know throughout the country or throughout
Speaker 8: the world, is that they've seen athletes come into this
Speaker 8: institution and train, get focused and then compete at a
Speaker 8: super high level, you know, and so they're much better,
Speaker 8: you know, uh leading, and they did when.
Speaker 6: He came in.
Speaker 8: And you know, uh, you know, real testament that we
Speaker 8: have a few people but right now and you know,
Speaker 8: he's pretty topical right now, which he should be. Is
Speaker 8: you know, is Zach Eckstein, you know, the the high.
Speaker 6: Hurdler and he's he's he's a young man.
Speaker 8: That was you know, was a good high school Arizona
Speaker 8: High School hurstler and you know, he kept dropping and
Speaker 8: he was competitivest freshman year and now he's he's one
Speaker 8: of the top three guys in the you know, one
Speaker 8: of the top three guys arguably in the country. He
Speaker 8: has a number two mark, you know, in the country
Speaker 8: at number nine in the world. But what it what
Speaker 8: it shows that me, that Arizona blockade, that Arizona beardown,
Speaker 8: you know, attitude is that if if you're willing, if
Speaker 8: you're willing to do the work, you can see at
Speaker 8: a high level. Because we really coach, we hard coach.
Speaker 8: Now we we we coach them up hard, but it's
Speaker 8: a different hard and our heart is if you say
Speaker 8: this is what you want to be. They maybe we're
Speaker 8: going to give you the roadmap here it is, stay
Speaker 8: on track.
Speaker 6: Don't take any detours. You me, if we're going you.
Speaker 8: Know, if we're going to southern California, going to l A,
Speaker 8: don't deturn, head off you go to New Mexico. You know,
Speaker 8: just you've got to we have to stay off, stay focused.
Speaker 8: And that's you know, I think that's what the you know,
Speaker 8: the block a, you know, bear down. When you talk
Speaker 8: to a lot of coaches and athletes throughout the country,
Speaker 8: they'll tell you that that's what you know, you know,
Speaker 8: they they work and they and they just get better.
Speaker 4: So when you were talking about zacht in the number
Speaker 4: two in the country, in number nine internationally, those the
Speaker 4: international model. Is there a high level of recruitment internationally
Speaker 4: for you and if there isn't, are those international athletes
Speaker 4: competing in world Championships and Olympics and then coming back as.
Speaker 8: Well, Yeah, you know, we definitely, uh you know, are
Speaker 8: are recruiting high level you know, you know, you know
Speaker 8: throughout the world and you know, again high level. For
Speaker 8: a perfect example, you know, you know, a freshman coming
Speaker 8: over you know, uh say, you know, you know to
Speaker 8: our program, like for example, you know, uh, you know
Speaker 8: a Vogan Uh you know did Kovich. I'm gonna screw
Speaker 8: his name up as I do it every single time,
Speaker 8: but he's he's my high another one of my high hurtlers.
Speaker 8: Well he you know his you know, he's a high
Speaker 8: level first year guy you know from Serbia.
Speaker 6: And what what it does.
Speaker 8: When you see people like Zach be able to excel
Speaker 8: like that, It gives you the credibility that you know,
Speaker 8: I can you know, uh, I in the program can
Speaker 8: develop these athletes that are at a high level. And
Speaker 8: so yes that them competing having that many athletes you know,
Speaker 8: in the top fifty in the world, you know they
Speaker 8: will you know they athletes look at that as we're recruiting,
Speaker 8: and one of the recruiting you know, it's not a pitch,
Speaker 8: it's who we are.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 8: We have to you know, prepare our international athletes as
Speaker 8: well as our national athletes, but more so when you're
Speaker 8: recruiting internationally, we have to prepare you to be at
Speaker 8: your highest level, you know, competitiveness for your country. And
Speaker 8: that's not necessarily the philosophy in a lot of places,
Speaker 8: but if you think about it, if if We're getting
Speaker 8: them ready to compete at the World Championships for their country,
Speaker 8: you know, or the Olympic Games for their country. Every
Speaker 8: time and they step on that track, it's a recruiting
Speaker 8: tool for the University of Arizona. That's who they're going
Speaker 8: to mention, that's where they attend school.
Speaker 2: So, fred uh, I got here in eighty seven. I
Speaker 2: think you got here right after me. I think it
Speaker 2: is you must be the longest tenured coach at u A.
Speaker 2: You've seen a lot of people come and go.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, we've talked to Candrea Lopez, all these coaches
Speaker 2: who've come and gone, and some of them and you
Speaker 2: probably know they are glad they're not in the business anymore.
Speaker 2: Given the situation. How have you been able to deal
Speaker 2: with the ni L and all that stuff.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and it is difficult, you know, in that capacity
Speaker 8: because you know, you know, there's so much out there
Speaker 8: and you have to just stay focused on, you know,
Speaker 8: on your personal why and and my personal.
Speaker 6: Why you know, has been.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm I'm a teacher, I'm a coach, and
Speaker 8: for as long as you know, I have the you know,
Speaker 8: the you know, the the respect of the athletes who
Speaker 8: are in our program and why they are actually competing,
Speaker 8: then it makes it easier on you know, on me.
Speaker 8: So track and fill in terms like n oli and
Speaker 8: those and products are a little bit different. And and
Speaker 8: this is going to be my arrogance speaking here, is
Speaker 8: that when you see track and field athletes move from
Speaker 8: one institution to another, they're not moving because oh that
Speaker 8: school's offering me more money. They may move because hey,
Speaker 8: you know what, coach Harvey, I love you, you think
Speaker 8: you're great hurracles, but I think that's a better hurdle
Speaker 8: coach for me over here, you know, And they'll and
Speaker 8: they'll make those moves. It's never about the amount.
Speaker 6: Of nil dollars that you know, getting.
Speaker 8: Now we have to in our sport be able to
Speaker 8: uh do a better job of being able to build
Speaker 8: that foundation for in io because that's going to really
Speaker 8: help our you know, help.
Speaker 6: Our based product.
Speaker 8: But we're not losing kids because of money. And we're
Speaker 8: certainly you know, you know, not acquiring kids from other institutions,
Speaker 8: you know, uh, you know, for money. And again with
Speaker 8: coach Harvism here when we when we talk about you know,
Speaker 8: whether it's our our throwing events, you know, these these
Speaker 8: athletes that are coming in there, it's such a specific
Speaker 8: way of training, and they're going to make those moves,
Speaker 8: you know, for the ability to be able to get
Speaker 8: better because that coach can help them.
Speaker 4: And now the biggest question, No, I just want to
Speaker 4: I mean, this is just because there's such a vast
Speaker 4: array of athletes a you coach, which is significantly different
Speaker 4: than any other sport. What's the new what's the nutritional
Speaker 4: resident like routine for your your teams? Do you have
Speaker 4: a nutritionist on staff that pretty much maps it out
Speaker 4: or do players just instinctively know how to try to
Speaker 4: go about it? Because it's such a big part of
Speaker 4: sports these days.
Speaker 8: So we use our nutritional foundation here, you know, in
Speaker 8: the department more for guidance because it's you. It's it
Speaker 8: is such a vast variety of athletes from you know,
Speaker 8: the distance group to know to our throwers. You know
Speaker 8: you're talking about the protein intakes and things for each
Speaker 8: of those you know, those different event areas.
Speaker 6: It's vastly different, you know.
Speaker 8: So what we we have a you know, a pretty
Speaker 8: decent system in my mind where we're able to you know,
Speaker 8: help write menus. Uh, they're taking them on shopping sprees,
Speaker 8: if you will. And the shopping spree is the this
Speaker 8: is how you shop this, you know, and just really
Speaker 8: making sure that we have good guidelines, you know, to
Speaker 8: be able to do that now in my perfect world.
Speaker 8: And if you have a couple of million dollars in
Speaker 8: your pocket, you want to give me, you know, and
Speaker 8: I would love to be able to have you know, uh,
Speaker 8: you know, you know, you know, actual cafeteria which we
Speaker 8: can you know, we com feed every athlete, you know,
Speaker 8: three meals a day. That really would be tremendous. And
Speaker 8: that's an unbelievable, unbelievable cost.
Speaker 3: So well, I just checked my pocket. I've got a
Speaker 3: dirty napkin and kleenex and we'll say, you're it out.
Speaker 3: We'll get you. We'll get you some dollars. Don't worry. Now.
Speaker 2: The most important question that I want to ask you,
Speaker 2: what the hell are you Steelers going to do at quarterback?
Speaker 8: Oh, we're gonna get going to figure it out as
Speaker 8: we do.
Speaker 3: Then you've changed that you changed about the Steelers.
Speaker 8: But now I'll tell you what And again this is
Speaker 8: just one man's opinion. I love the way that they drafted.
Speaker 8: I'm really excited they did not take a quarterback, you
Speaker 8: know at number twenty twenty one.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I think there you can get the same productivity if
Speaker 8: you go later rounds. And I believe that it's the thing.
Speaker 8: Will Howard, you know, I remember at Kansas State, but
Speaker 8: he's the Ohio State guy now. But I really think
Speaker 8: that within two years that guy said, be are starting quarterback.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can.
Speaker 2: I always have hope, coach, can always have hope.
Speaker 8: Hope is hope of the positive thing you know about
Speaker 8: I do?
Speaker 16: I do?
Speaker 3: I never have it. That's my problem, coach. Thanks a bunch, Fred,
Speaker 3: appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Hey, my pleasure hand.
Speaker 8: Thank you guys on bear down.
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Speaker 2: today as we finish up the semester. Can I ask
Speaker 2: a dumb question?
Speaker 4: Most my questions are pretty dumb anyway, Well, put my
Speaker 4: ahead of the buzzer. Really, can I keep those headphones?
Speaker 4: I mean, you're gonna wearing him since nineteen ninety six? So,
Speaker 4: so the question is track and field coach. So Fred
Speaker 4: oversees a program, right, so he's got to have specific
Speaker 4: coaches for every single sprinters, long distance, yeah, hurdles.
Speaker 3: What is he like? Is he more of a manager
Speaker 3: in that sense then, or is it does he have
Speaker 3: a specific area that he's an expert? I think yes
Speaker 3: to all that.
Speaker 2: He's kind of like jetfish, kind of jet fish kind
Speaker 2: of manage it, but also coaches them.
Speaker 4: And those coaches in those areas have to have at
Speaker 4: least I would assume one assistant coach, yeah, or do
Speaker 4: you have you have assistant coaches?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, I think some do, right, Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 4: So it's just a group of coaches that guys are
Speaker 4: specific and specific area, but like a football program.
Speaker 3: But not as many coaches as you think.
Speaker 4: That's what you How many kids are on track and
Speaker 4: field A bunch of twenty forty, Yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 4: more than twenty forty on.
Speaker 5: When they sixty they had that preview before indoor eighty,
Speaker 5: are we just doing twenties?
Speaker 2: All my responses were not good enough for today. My
Speaker 2: earphones aren't either.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 5: When they had that press conference before the indoor championships,
Speaker 5: I was expecting maybe six athletes and six spoke, but
Speaker 5: then you had the rest of the team fill up
Speaker 5: the rest of the room.
Speaker 3: I mean, do you think they were as big as
Speaker 3: a football team? Close to Yeah?
Speaker 2: For both for both yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, so forty
Speaker 2: and forty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a world I have no idea. I almost
Speaker 4: said that for it, by the way, I almost softly
Speaker 4: said that that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I literally don't know. I was I've always just
Speaker 3: been here's the issue with this program.
Speaker 2: Here, it's good, but it's not like elite level, which
Speaker 2: of course it'll you know, it's Arizona, but you have
Speaker 2: you can pick your spots with some elite level type
Speaker 2: of people. They maybe the Olympics, they have gone and
Speaker 2: done well. And yeah, yeah, Harvey's Fred's done a heck
Speaker 2: of a heck of a job here over all these years.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely, I mean longevity, sustainability, all those things
Speaker 4: he's been able to accomplish there. And yeah, yeah, you're
Speaker 4: he's been here almost as long as you've been alive. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so twenty eight years, twenty years? Are you still playing
Speaker 4: in Brooklyn?
Speaker 19: All right?
Speaker 3: What's next? What are we talking about? Uh, Pittsburgh? Are
Speaker 3: you guess you're not a Pittsburgh guy? Right, you're not
Speaker 3: a like in general?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Do I like steel momentum? Momentum? Right, trouble? Yeah? Yeah? Double?
Speaker 3: I mean are we talking about the Steeler? Yeah? I
Speaker 3: have no idea. Who's their starting quarterback next year? Possible?
Speaker 2: I mean possibly Aaron Rodgers who that happens, He's they're done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but they did, they drafted that kid, Will
Speaker 5: Howard out of the house.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But eighty four, thank you? And you did the
Speaker 3: maths on there.
Speaker 4: So did you have to add forty four plus forty
Speaker 4: four thirty six there?
Speaker 3: And that's more women than men? Probably?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's sexist title titling yeah, of course because of that.
Speaker 4: Ye can we get back to the Pittsburgh Steelers, So
Speaker 4: you think Howard's not going to step in and start
Speaker 4: this year?
Speaker 3: Right? Maybe? Possibly they have no one else? Why not? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And I mean you were able to see what they
Speaker 4: were able to do on the other side of the
Speaker 4: ball last year. So if they can at least have
Speaker 4: a running game, which they already have kind of a
Speaker 4: two headed monster.
Speaker 2: Dealers don't like the Cowboys just back in the day teams.
Speaker 2: They haven't really done much the.
Speaker 3: Last year.
Speaker 4: That's listen, you're today, how old are young?
Speaker 3: Twenty seventy seventy? Yeah? Was that when last year rock?
Speaker 1: No? No?
Speaker 3: He was like when they were undefeated and they were
Speaker 3: still bad?
Speaker 4: I think, ye, I listen, I'm not gonna you can't
Speaker 4: compare them to the Cowboys. Cowboys haven't been super Bowl
Speaker 4: ready and since ninety four, uh no, ninety five, wasty
Speaker 4: six one. The title ninety four ninety five was the Niners.
Speaker 4: So you people keep talking when they want to talk
Speaker 4: about the Cowboys, but they they haven't accomplished anything.
Speaker 3: Little Field.
Speaker 4: The Steelers have been relevant for the last I mean
Speaker 4: you have Mike Tomlin leading his ship and Mike Tomlins
Speaker 4: arguably the best coach in the NFL. I'm not saying
Speaker 4: year by year tenure wise, who's better than him?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 3: Is he the longest tenured coach outside of Andy Reid? No,
Speaker 3: I think he gotta be. Just said no, and then
Speaker 3: then you threw read there.
Speaker 2: I was to say he's the longest tenured and then
Speaker 2: you threw and you read I think he might be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he is.
Speaker 4: Oh, No, Tomlin's been there longer than yeah, and Andy
Speaker 4: Reid's only been with us.
Speaker 2: To the point that they let him go, it'd be like,
Speaker 2: holy crap, because he's been Tomlin.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 20: I think that's one of those things that like would
Speaker 20: like make the spark though, to like get him over
Speaker 20: the hunt, because it's like a lot of people always
Speaker 20: talk about it. They like in this kind of limbo
Speaker 20: situation where they always do good enough to make the
Speaker 20: playoffs but never bad, like never like great to like yeah.
Speaker 2: And that's just calling card Tomlin who has been in
Speaker 2: the playoffs blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: But and then has two Super Bowls. Yeah, but but.
Speaker 20: Yeah, we're bad enough to like do like get a
Speaker 20: star draft orything like that.
Speaker 4: And I think the amount of respect that he has
Speaker 4: from the players still is pretty impressive. But you're I
Speaker 4: mean the turning, the coaching turnover. The coaches turnover rate
Speaker 4: in the NFL is ridiculous, and it's getting that way
Speaker 4: in the NBA. You're singing in soccer. I've talked about
Speaker 4: that before. Uh So, to commit to a program is
Speaker 4: pretty substantial when Mike Tomlin's done it for so long.
Speaker 3: But you're right there.
Speaker 4: That's a really good way of putting it right, is
Speaker 4: that they're they're always good enough to make the player playoffs,
Speaker 4: but never good enough to make get a championship game
Speaker 4: or go. And I don't know what you know they
Speaker 4: Their identity in the past was you know, your defense
Speaker 4: was a steel curtain, right and tough, and you had
Speaker 4: enough offensive weaponry to beat good teams. I don't know
Speaker 4: what they're till you didn't right until you didn't right
Speaker 4: until Brown And I mean you had a three at
Speaker 4: the monster for a while.
Speaker 3: What's their identity right now? Just defense? In a running game,
Speaker 3: i'd say, yeah, maybe coach, Hello, you're back on the air. Hello,
Speaker 3: Hey Steve, this is done. Hey don just help us.
Speaker 19: Your Hey is Mike Tomlin. That good or the Rooneys
Speaker 19: don't pull the trigger. I think they've had three coaches.
Speaker 19: They've had three coaches in the last what fifty years.
Speaker 2: I think that kind of fits into the narrative we
Speaker 2: just talked about, Right, how do you pull that trigger
Speaker 2: when he's got a pretty good resume?
Speaker 4: How many super Bowl championships they have in the last
Speaker 4: fifty years? He doesn't suck? Right, the Steelers have but
Speaker 4: five or six super bowl But.
Speaker 19: How long has it been? It's been how long has
Speaker 19: it been since they won? But the last four of
Speaker 19: them were in six years in the seventies. But I mean,
Speaker 19: Tom what Tomlin does is he does not suck.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the headstone. That's the headstone, you know.
Speaker 19: Yeah, he he doesn't suck. He wins games, and and
Speaker 19: lately it's been mediocre. And he was he's he had
Speaker 19: been in he had been in a weak division for
Speaker 19: a long time too. And I'm not trying to talk
Speaker 19: against him, but his longevity I think speaks towards the
Speaker 19: towards the organization as well, not just him. Yeah, because
Speaker 19: because I'm a fan of the quick trigger of the
Speaker 19: quick Trigger club, and it's just it's downright exhausting. Are
Speaker 19: you you a Raiders guy?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, okay, I can't remember you getting on Jay
Speaker 3: a couple.
Speaker 19: Yeah, because he taught j Jake talk smack. I'm not
Speaker 19: used to it. I don't like it.
Speaker 8: Well, I shouldn't say that I'm not.
Speaker 3: Used to it.
Speaker 19: I'm I'm I'm I'm surprisingly used to it. And now
Speaker 19: we got an old guy, so he's not gonna be
Speaker 19: there long. He might be there long enough to write
Speaker 19: the ship a little bit.
Speaker 4: Do you think they already had the ut guy who
Speaker 4: the Raiders. We got Pete Carroll, so he's.
Speaker 19: What seventy two or whatever, So yeah, so how long
Speaker 19: is he going to be there for? I mean they
Speaker 19: they may have a plan as well. Pete Carroll might
Speaker 19: have a plan for long term. But I don't think
Speaker 19: if as soon as this thing doesn't work, they're gonna
Speaker 19: they're gonna do him too, and we'll be back on
Speaker 19: the Merry go round. I think that's the that's the
Speaker 19: bad part for the Steeler fans is they can't get
Speaker 19: off of it, and for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: They haven't been able.
Speaker 19: I mean, you got to have a trigger man, you've
Speaker 19: got to have a quarterback, and in the NFL. There's
Speaker 19: probably only eight or nine NFL quarterbacks. All the rest
Speaker 19: of them are journeymens.
Speaker 4: So is that the coaches fault or is it the
Speaker 4: fault of not having the front office of not having
Speaker 4: a quarterback at that position? Well, it's not being able
Speaker 4: to find a quarterback if you're in the playoffs. You're
Speaker 4: drafting too late and do you want to mortgage the
Speaker 4: rest of your draft to move up for something that
Speaker 4: you don't know is going to be a sure thing
Speaker 4: because there's no such thing as a short thing.
Speaker 3: How many people passed on the homes, you know?
Speaker 19: And then and then the Browns, you know, drafted a
Speaker 19: couch from Couch out of Kentucky and he was absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the.
Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns right now, man, they've got a great quarterback room.
Speaker 19: No, if you have five quarterbacks, you don't have one
Speaker 19: quarterback right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you they have too many, We'll see.
Speaker 19: You know, it's not a pitching staff, it's a quarterback
Speaker 19: room and you only need one. And that's the that's
Speaker 19: that's the hardest part for for for most teams because
Speaker 19: you know, the Steelers they have everything else, they have
Speaker 19: everything else except for an elite quarterback. And they can't
Speaker 19: draft high enough to draft one, and who wants to
Speaker 19: pay for one?
Speaker 4: Who's their elite offensive weapon because if they you've got
Speaker 4: to have d k or Jalen Warren.
Speaker 19: I don't I don't know their rosters, so I don't know.
Speaker 3: But I mean, what is having.
Speaker 20: I mean, I think he's a good I think he's
Speaker 20: a good first punch, like in a in a stable.
Speaker 19: You know what, what, what's what's good about having a
Speaker 19: top three receiver if you don't have a quarterback, they
Speaker 19: can get it to them.
Speaker 4: No, that's a great point. I think that's a question
Speaker 4: the NFL is trying to answer, right, That's what they're.
Speaker 3: Trying to do.
Speaker 19: That the NFL has gotten so technical. When I was
Speaker 19: a kid, you saw how teams lined up and you
Speaker 19: knew they were going to run the ball or you
Speaker 19: knew they were going to throw the ball.
Speaker 3: This is a.
Speaker 19: Throwing down no matter what. Now you have no idea
Speaker 19: what's coming. It's it's so technical. It's it's all combination
Speaker 19: routes and choice routes and everything else and audibles at
Speaker 19: the line that you know you got to have. You
Speaker 19: got to have an IVY League team on the field.
Speaker 19: With NFL type talent to be successful. Yes, that's why the.
Speaker 3: Team still still upset that they're not wearing leather helmets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted one sign. Hey, we got to go down.
Speaker 2: Thanks man, than thanks guys.
Speaker 3: Thanks. You've now coming.
Speaker 2: Into the covering the Pittsburgh Steelers beat here, so we're
Speaker 2: gonna take a break and come back to your breaking
Speaker 2: news whatever's left.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to ruin that before you get there.
Speaker 3: The Steelers