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Speaker 2: And good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and
Speaker 2: with me today is Dave Silver. Running the board is Kobe.
Speaker 2: So should be a good show today. God, you guys
Speaker 2: didn't get into the transfer portal, thank you?
Speaker 3: Not yet?
Speaker 4: Nobody mean yet yesterday?
Speaker 5: Did it?
Speaker 4: It just open?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But there's sor my options, you and everybody else.
Speaker 2: There's more than no puddy a thousand. Do you know what, Kobe?
Speaker 2: What's the number?
Speaker 6: Fair out?
Speaker 7: What the number was?
Speaker 2: It was like five hundred in the matter of minutes yesterday,
Speaker 2: so I'm sure the minutes of God, and there's probably
Speaker 2: double that now. Yeah, a few of the Arizona women's team.
Speaker 4: Is there anybody left? I close the door if you do.
Speaker 4: There's a draft. It's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 5: But you know, like I said, the portal open yesterday
Speaker 5: and the women and some of the guys, not the
Speaker 5: man in Arizona of course, but the women have made
Speaker 5: their decisions and we'll see what the idea does with
Speaker 5: how she reacts, she going to try to get some
Speaker 5: of them back.
Speaker 4: I'm sure so you'll try or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean, man, I know every school goes
Speaker 2: through this because of the situation and money and comfort.
Speaker 2: You know, back in the day for us when we
Speaker 2: cover the team, David and you know this, ye maybe
Speaker 2: one didn't come back at Christmas time and they were gone,
Speaker 2: and lou was okay with that. But at the end
Speaker 2: of the season, maybe one was gone because they didn't
Speaker 2: see playing time at least. When I covered the team
Speaker 2: back in the day and I was writing the books,
Speaker 2: many of them said to me, you know.
Speaker 4: I was kind of immature.
Speaker 2: I should have stayed because I went somewhere else and
Speaker 2: it didn't pan out there either.
Speaker 4: Really, only a handful of them, did yeh think about it? Well,
Speaker 4: you give me, give me will buying them maybe well,
Speaker 4: you know once he.
Speaker 5: Left, Yeah, that's a good number. There were not too
Speaker 5: many of that. Ruben Douglas, I guess a little bit.
Speaker 4: Mexico.
Speaker 2: He went to New Mexico, but he didn't play professionally,
Speaker 2: you know, at that level. But you're right, he was
Speaker 2: like this, the nation's leading scorer. He wasn't going to
Speaker 2: do that here obviously with Gilbert around, and he saw
Speaker 2: the writing on the wall right away.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But it's interesting because the women players that left, most
Speaker 5: of them are really underclassmen and big time recruits. What's
Speaker 5: her name, Tsioga? Yeah, Jada Williams is extremely is a
Speaker 5: huge influencer in women's basketball too, So that's just a
Speaker 5: big Yeah. She's one of these people that's got like
Speaker 5: a million followers and things like that, so that's going
Speaker 5: to mean a lot. With her nil situation too, I'm
Speaker 5: sure maybe she's looking elsewhere where she can get more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good luck to them. I mean the kid
Speaker 2: from New Mexico, Dent. I don't know if you followed
Speaker 2: the Yeah, I saw that he went. He went, and
Speaker 2: he says he could come back. He's just trying to
Speaker 2: explore his options and see how much he could he
Speaker 2: can grab. I mean, and that's what it is now,
Speaker 2: it's somebody grabbed. Yeah. Are you a question?
Speaker 4: I asked?
Speaker 2: You thought I have best ear sports fan? Right of course,
Speaker 2: yes see, And I'm not. And it started. It started
Speaker 2: a while back because this is what I do for
Speaker 2: a living, and I don't really don't get tied to
Speaker 2: any teams or anybody anymore. And and here's one of
Speaker 2: the big reasons, the free agency stuff. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: if I like this guy back in the day, they
Speaker 2: didn't have that. You know, they stayed together until they didn't.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's like, this team goes here, this guy
Speaker 2: goes here, and they're not the same team. Where's my loyalty? Hell,
Speaker 2: I don't want to deal with this, So I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna I'm just gonna watch the game.
Speaker 5: It is hard to be a fan knowing you don't
Speaker 5: know what your team's gonna look like in three weeks,
Speaker 5: you know, basically could completely turn over.
Speaker 2: And to and to that point, Dave, I've been reading
Speaker 2: a lot on Facebook and Twitter.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you're a UA fan.
Speaker 2: You're a UA women's basketball fan, right, You've got season
Speaker 2: tickets that are relatively inexpensive. You fell in love with
Speaker 2: this team, this program, and you buy buy the jerseys,
Speaker 2: You spend some money on the team, and you just
Speaker 2: bout a jersey.
Speaker 4: I don't know how much it costs. She's no longer
Speaker 4: on the team, Yeah, she's got I don't know how
Speaker 4: that worked. You know, what do you do?
Speaker 5: I mean, I think most fans are, at least in
Speaker 5: college basketball, I would think are fans of the school,
Speaker 5: maybe a little more than the players themselves.
Speaker 2: Right, So you're buying a jersey with just Arizona, You're
Speaker 2: not buying with somebody's name on it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I've got like a Diamondbacks jersey. I don't
Speaker 5: know Jim back shirts without a number, so it's just
Speaker 5: the team. He kind of like those kinds of things.
Speaker 5: But you're right, I mean, there are gonna be some
Speaker 5: that are going to stick out, you know, but you know,
Speaker 5: the Curs and the Shawn Elliotts and people like that.
Speaker 5: You get those number jersey, it's gonna be something special
Speaker 5: but from the past. But if you've got a current
Speaker 5: player and you got, like, what's Jada William's number, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go out.
Speaker 4: I don't even know what it is. Right, it's gone.
Speaker 2: She's gone, right, and you're gonna say, God, I'm glad
Speaker 2: I didn't get our jersey.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But it was like last year there was a
Speaker 2: kid who maybe who's anybody who's listening to the kid
Speaker 2: who's on the football program, and I guess he stayed.
Speaker 4: He pitched his jersey and then he left does that
Speaker 4: you remember that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Yeah, so you know I'm staying.
Speaker 2: I guess he's staying, or said he's staying. Go buy
Speaker 2: my jersey, Go buy jersey, and then boom.
Speaker 4: He was pitching. He was actually pitching it, and I think, so,
Speaker 4: I think that.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm talking to my butt, but you
Speaker 2: know that could be. But that's what was the case,
Speaker 2: you know, by on jersey and then I'm out of here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the Walkout women's team has lost players
Speaker 5: over and over again in the last you know, four
Speaker 5: or five years since they were in the national championship game.
Speaker 4: It's just been kind of weird to see that happening.
Speaker 5: And you'd think it would go the opposite way and
Speaker 5: the players would want to come, want to stay right,
Speaker 5: have a chance again, and if they go.
Speaker 2: To you know, fairness Idea was on the show about
Speaker 2: this time last year, maybe in the summer. We had
Speaker 2: her on and she threw something that through Jay and
Speaker 2: I and through me for sure, well, this is we
Speaker 2: have no money, We have no money to get How
Speaker 2: am I going to compete with these big time schools
Speaker 2: when you have one hundred and fifty thousand dollars whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: Guess what all these programs that are Arizona are below
Speaker 2: maybe even the ones a little above probably don't have money, true, sure,
Speaker 2: And so how are you going to compete with the
Speaker 2: LSU's and those guys. Well, they've had an established, this
Speaker 2: stablished road to what they where they.
Speaker 5: Go to, right, right, I mean that have people who've
Speaker 5: been giving to those programs before the nil days yea,
Speaker 5: the Yukon's of the world and usc even you know
Speaker 5: out west. But yeah, I mean there's a big disadvantage
Speaker 5: to the teams. I mean, like you know, like I said,
Speaker 5: the Wildcasts, we were nothing really until a couple of
Speaker 5: years ago, and then they get big and they have
Speaker 5: a great, you know, great little run there for a
Speaker 5: couple of years, and then you know, now that things
Speaker 5: have fallen off, it'll be interesting to see how they
Speaker 5: recover as a program.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: If she's going to stick around, if they're going to
Speaker 5: continue to get good players.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a couple I think to be fair too,
Speaker 2: is she going to stick around or are they going
Speaker 2: to want her to stick around? It's a marriage. We've
Speaker 2: both been married, right, It's like I'm gonna leave I'm
Speaker 2: gonna leave. Well, you know where the door is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5: We've you know, every time I'm on here, we talk about,
Speaker 5: you know, the new regime that's in charge there. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and it's you know, it's not just the the athletic director.
Speaker 4: There's well, there's a new president to be a new president,
Speaker 4: and there's a money and there's a money situation.
Speaker 5: There's a money situation still at the U of A.
Speaker 5: And there's all kinds of new leadership inside that department
Speaker 5: and voices in Desiree's head. I'm sure just saying, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe we can I know somebody at
Speaker 5: my school that I.
Speaker 4: Was just stay at before I don't know, or or
Speaker 4: the previous school before I went to the previous school.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's just the way it works. It's
Speaker 5: a big network of coaches and they all know each other.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure the coaches themselves are wondering, like, WHOA,
Speaker 5: what's going on in Arizona? Is that someplace I would
Speaker 5: like to go? Now?
Speaker 2: Well, I know exactly if there's all this turmoil and
Speaker 2: you're saying, well, I'm not too sure if I want
Speaker 2: to send my resume there because what if I get
Speaker 2: caught up in that?
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean even in our state, the coaches at NAU,
Speaker 5: Grand Canyon and a Issue have all left, you know,
Speaker 5: is there one more to go?
Speaker 4: Who knows?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's crazy. So it's a funny time. We'd
Speaker 2: time conflicting time. So we're gonna talk a lot about
Speaker 2: basketball today and in fact, we'll talk about it in
Speaker 2: a little sec. But we're gonna have Todd Holthouse, the
Speaker 2: women's basketball coach at Pima. Fantastic run. Yeah, second place.
Speaker 2: They're great season for them.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmmmm.
Speaker 2: Continues to get better and they stay at this level
Speaker 2: for a while. We'll probably have Peabody on tomorrow. They
Speaker 2: finished third in their in their quest to a national title.
Speaker 2: You don't win that game and cost them, but it's fine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's hard to believe after all those wins. You're
Speaker 5: just like, how can they lose something so close?
Speaker 2: I was on with Mike Morgan earlier and it just
Speaker 2: didn't shoot well that day. Sometimes you have a bad day, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but god, what were they thirty nine and hours thirty three?
Speaker 2: You know, thirty three and three? You know, So so
Speaker 2: we'll talk to talk to Todd and then we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to coach Allan ben Hallen from UCLA formerly of
Speaker 2: UCLA in Mississippi State, just to get his thoughts on
Speaker 2: this time of year. He was the last Western coach,
Speaker 2: if I can correctly think that, when he took Ucla
Speaker 2: to back to back final fours, right, just the pressure
Speaker 2: and getting there, uh, and how he handled it and
Speaker 2: how others maybe should handle it, and what he sayes
Speaker 2: about what's left and to your point, before we started
Speaker 2: the blue not the blue bloods, but the the echelon.
Speaker 5: Yeah, conferences have have certainly emerged, and then and then
Speaker 5: they're the story the tournament really right now is you know,
Speaker 5: the Big ten, the Big twelve, the big the SEC
Speaker 5: obviously has a bunch and and none of the little guys.
Speaker 4: I mean even Gonzaga is not here ANYMOREA lost to Houston, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so they were both going five in a row
Speaker 2: to sweet sixteen I think it was, yeah, and both
Speaker 2: of them were fighting to get that continued trend here,
Speaker 2: but only the one could go.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean at first the first days of the tournament
Speaker 5: was great for the Big twelve. I mean, just one
Speaker 5: team after another, I think it would be one team
Speaker 5: lost out of the first round exactly right, But it
Speaker 5: was a pretty good performance by the conference, Like gu
Speaker 5: Iwa State lost the other day badly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was surprised about that they got They
Speaker 2: got Mississippi beautyful Beer is a heck of a good coach.
Speaker 2: And then the Baylor bailer was kind of sputtering.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Baylor was kind of but I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: there were five or six seeds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got it. Yeah, No, they did go to
Speaker 4: show you.
Speaker 5: We you know, we've always been talking about that, how
Speaker 5: the conference was setting these teams up and there's still
Speaker 5: a few left and you know, we'll see how.
Speaker 4: Things go weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We talked a little about that with Tommy today on
Speaker 2: our Zoom call before tomorrow's press conference. Uh, they had
Speaker 2: time for us today, so I'll probably have some stories
Speaker 2: on my website later tomorrow. We talked about that, and
Speaker 2: we had been discussing this. Uh wow, I think on
Speaker 2: the air, Dave about that ball, that crazy ball. You
Speaker 2: didn't notice until I brought it.
Speaker 5: Up, right, No, I had no clue and then you
Speaker 5: kind of started seeing it. Right, It's like what's going on?
Speaker 2: It is, like you said, Caleb be like, what's you
Speaker 2: doing and losing that ball like that? But everybody, it
Speaker 2: bounces just strangely. It bounces short, bounces long, just and
Speaker 2: I know everyone's gonna say, well, all the balls do,
Speaker 2: but these ones have more air in them.
Speaker 4: And you saw that story. I did see the story.
Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting because the ball is one thing.
Speaker 5: But like they used to always blame the court, like, oh,
Speaker 5: there's these dead spots like the Boston Garden or Maple's Pavilion,
Speaker 5: which always kind of crazy. But I wonder if if
Speaker 5: that's a combination too, of the ball being and you know,
Speaker 5: these are all modern courts.
Speaker 4: I would assume they're all the same.
Speaker 2: But the headline, and the one I sent you was
Speaker 2: what was the headline? Yeah, they admitted to it and
Speaker 2: playing the balls too much.
Speaker 4: Oh flate gate K.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, lady story So Wilson and Wilson's not going
Speaker 2: to change it. But Tommy said, uh, because two years
Speaker 2: ago it was a big story. Yesterday last year he
Speaker 2: talked about, you know, how the balls were, and then
Speaker 2: I asked him today the balls are still He says, yeah,
Speaker 2: but that's true, but we've shot the ball very well,
Speaker 2: so I'm not gonna say anything.
Speaker 4: Did they come back to to soon or did they
Speaker 4: sit out on the.
Speaker 5: Road straight It went straight to to to New New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they traveled all day yesterday, a long day
Speaker 2: practicing today. They even looked tired on the zoom uh.
Speaker 2: And then was on there kJ Caleb and Tommy.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I talked to kJ a couple of times, a couple
Speaker 2: of concussions, uh, saying that.
Speaker 4: Talked Tommy about him.
Speaker 2: Too, that he's played very well the last three weeks
Speaker 2: at least, I said, talking to the Naked Eye, my
Speaker 2: naked eye, he's played better. And Kenny says, well, everyone's
Speaker 2: trying to read too much into it, but he's softening
Speaker 2: it because it's true. He hadn't played really well most
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 5: He's come on strong. I mean he hit another three pointers.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it was like, oh my god, what's he doing?
Speaker 5: Then he makes it exactly my point.
Speaker 4: It's a menace on defense.
Speaker 5: He has been, you know, very He's just you know,
Speaker 5: he's a different type of player that Arizona has not had, somebody,
Speaker 5: you know, all purpose player. And Tommy talked about that
Speaker 5: fills up the box score with all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 5: Tommy talked about that miss dunks twice technical foul on
Speaker 5: one player that was like maybe one of the most
Speaker 5: bizarre moments I've ever seen, right, miss is it?
Speaker 3: Miss is it?
Speaker 2: And Tommy brought that up in terms of him doing
Speaker 2: more things that you don't see on the box score. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because he's a good defender.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there'll be times where you know, there'd
Speaker 5: be a scramble for the ball and all of a
Speaker 5: sudden he's got and he's breaking out on I mean,
Speaker 5: there were things that you know, they're just you don't
Speaker 5: see that much from you of a players over the years,
Speaker 5: and he's he's definitely different.
Speaker 4: He's been you know.
Speaker 5: I think it's a difference maker. In the last game, Yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll play in that defense.
Speaker 2: I think we got about a minute left before, so
Speaker 2: we talk about more about that. I don't think we're
Speaker 2: gonna have the clips from Tommy. Maybe we do, maybe
Speaker 2: we don't. Maybe we ch home tomorrow, whatever, and we'll
Speaker 2: take some calls. We run out of calls. People last
Speaker 2: night were calling at this last hour and couldn't get in.
Speaker 2: So if you want to get in, get in now.
Speaker 2: After the toddhold house call, after this break here Okay, cool,
Speaker 2: So we'll take the break Kobe and then get ahold
Speaker 2: of talk.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to our on the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and today is
Speaker 2: Dave Silver and we got Kobe waiting for coach to
Speaker 2: give us a quick call in looking forward to that
Speaker 2: just the whore that run started, how it started?
Speaker 4: Because she just has excuse me, magic has to start somewhere, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were the sixth seed in that tournament and
Speaker 5: managed to get to the championship game and have a
Speaker 5: close game there, had a chance to win and unfortunately
Speaker 5: couldn't finish things up. But what a great year for
Speaker 5: them again twenty nine and six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and second place is no nothing to sneeze that round.
Speaker 5: Oh no, when you look at all the thousands of
Speaker 5: schools that play junior college basketball, it's it's great to
Speaker 5: be in that spot, right Yeah, Okay, So yeah, he's
Speaker 5: supposed to call us, so he's ready for us. Just
Speaker 5: keep our eye on the.
Speaker 4: On the phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So then we'll take some calls after Todd about
Speaker 2: three forty two, give us a call five two oh
Speaker 2: four to one, six seventy four forty. I know we
Speaker 2: left a couple of people holding at the end of
Speaker 2: yesterday's long show. Is a good show yesterday?
Speaker 4: Did you get a lot of calls yesterday? Yeah, we
Speaker 4: had a few.
Speaker 2: We had a few from the you know, the game
Speaker 2: and and uh, you know, one of the things that
Speaker 2: taught I Dave Kelly calling Dave Kelly. The biggest question
Speaker 2: yesterday and maybe you came up with it too, was
Speaker 2: about a while and why he was out to the
Speaker 2: last few minutes and.
Speaker 4: He didn't go there. He says, we won the game.
Speaker 2: It's the strategies, you know, don't need to be explained,
Speaker 2: and we moved on from it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I in fact, I even heard you guys talking about
Speaker 5: it yesterday too, and we're sitting there watching it. I
Speaker 5: maybe he got kind of knocked in the stomach or
Speaker 5: whatever in section. I don't know if that was like
Speaker 5: why he was out, but he was out for like
Speaker 5: six or seven minutes, and it was critical, critical time.
Speaker 5: I mean they managed to hang on, of course, but
Speaker 5: there was there was some question after the game as
Speaker 5: to what that status was. And now looking back to
Speaker 5: the Duke game when they were here, didn't he also
Speaker 5: come out early?
Speaker 4: I don't think he played.
Speaker 2: I can't remember. I can't remember because Crebas was in
Speaker 2: the game that day. Yeah, and Henry was not that much.
Speaker 2: This is a totally different game. And I asked Tommy
Speaker 2: about that. This is not your It was on a
Speaker 2: team from December.
Speaker 5: No, for sure, you know, and Henry was was not
Speaker 5: a nonfactor if I'm not mistaken that game, And he
Speaker 5: wasn't much of a factor the other day either.
Speaker 4: But they're gonna need him to do something right right.
Speaker 2: No, and Duke is one of the taller teams left
Speaker 2: in the in the tournament. Yeah, they're not just flank
Speaker 2: Although he's fantastic, Yeah, of course, you know, I do
Speaker 2: you think he's fantastic, that's the word I used to
Speaker 2: he's again, he's a guy that fills up, that fills
Speaker 2: up the box score. He does all kinds of things.
Speaker 2: He doesn't always have to score.
Speaker 5: He was injured for, you know, the knee injury that
Speaker 5: of course, it didn't matter to those guys at that point.
Speaker 4: You mean any ankle injury. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So he's you know, first team All American most
Speaker 5: likely the number one pick. So I got to take
Speaker 5: it for what I think, this could be his last game,
Speaker 5: could be fans could be.
Speaker 2: If you remember, Arizona has done that to a team
Speaker 2: or two, you know, ninety seven, ninety seven I think
Speaker 2: it was, Yeah, coach from North Carolina, Dean Roy Williams.
Speaker 4: No, Dean Smith.
Speaker 5: Well, that was his final final game. It was his
Speaker 5: final game. Arizona had knocked him off in the semi finals.
Speaker 5: But I mean, this is so you hate to start
Speaker 5: comparing him. This is somewhat of a similar situation. Here
Speaker 5: we go with the number one seed every year, sixty
Speaker 5: day for the last twenty eight years. There we go,
Speaker 5: we're a four seed. We're gonna knock off every team.
Speaker 2: But just because it's hope, right, because you hope, we've
Speaker 2: seen it before. But let me tell you, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: probably start a story like that next day or so.
Speaker 2: Because Arizona was an underdog to Kansas by seven. I
Speaker 2: think it was, if memory serves, and that was fair.
Speaker 2: That was that was the best team, the one loss
Speaker 2: all season, the best team in the country. And then
Speaker 2: you're thinking, and Michael Dickerson, we're underdog, you know, and
Speaker 2: lud Olson also said same thing. Yeah, like we're the underdog,
Speaker 2: you know, like Dickerson didn't give a crap. Well, you know,
Speaker 2: he just wanted to play basketball. I mean, Lout, I
Speaker 2: think maybe you were.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you were in there, but I'm pretty sure
Speaker 5: his answer was something like, you know, we're the underdog.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean really, I mean, you know, well.
Speaker 2: That was his power play. That was his you know,
Speaker 2: because he didn't do it often. He didn't mess with
Speaker 2: the the the uh bulletin board material stuff until till
Speaker 2: he knew when to use it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean this is again, this is somewhat similar.
Speaker 5: I mean, they're the number they're the number one team
Speaker 5: in the country, the number one seed in the in
Speaker 5: the East, and Arizona's coming in you know, fourth, that
Speaker 5: got all these kind of you know, a bunch of players.
Speaker 5: They are probably gonna play in the pros or at
Speaker 5: least somewhere professionally. So it's somewhat of a similar situation. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: so we'll see.
Speaker 4: I don't agree.
Speaker 5: I don't know, it's always a stretch because everybody goes there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, everyone's looking ten years and see what one where
Speaker 4: these guys wind up doing Yeah, yeah, right right, Well
Speaker 4: that team was so so good. Yeah yeah. And one
Speaker 4: of them just got a new job.
Speaker 5: Yeah he was oh him, and well and and well
Speaker 5: that's the next generation of Wildcat's got a new job too.
Speaker 2: But who's that Josh? Oh yeah, Josh, yeah, and he's
Speaker 2: on the show. You've been on the show with me
Speaker 2: with him?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he spent out. We texted this morning and
Speaker 2: uh and Bibby I talked talked to him last night.
Speaker 2: So what is he excited about this going?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he he was pretty much living in Sacramentos
Speaker 2: now because he was played by He was one of
Speaker 2: the color guys that he was like the he was
Speaker 2: like the give me the.
Speaker 5: Sons guys, like the Tom Chambers and he was that
Speaker 5: guy in Sacramento and.
Speaker 4: He, Uh, were you on the show with me with
Speaker 4: him a while back? I was, And I said, you know,
Speaker 4: what's are you going to coaches? Or why? Why you
Speaker 4: just do this?
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a good job, Steve, I'm going
Speaker 2: to coach. It was like, shut up, Steve, I'm going
Speaker 2: to coach. Wow, because I want to coach. That's a
Speaker 2: tough place to break into.
Speaker 4: But he has plans because you know, if you do
Speaker 4: really well right away, you can jump ship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you look to the Bay Area, you're
Speaker 5: right there. If something happened with one of those schools.
Speaker 5: Speaking of which, how about Stanford today getting rid of
Speaker 5: the football coach with Andrew Luck making them you know,
Speaker 5: he's their GM now, the former quarterback there and NFL quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I guess there are a lot kinds of problems behind
Speaker 5: the scenes right on top of them not playing well.
Speaker 2: Sure you know what he did at any other school,
Speaker 2: because I'm sure it happens at any of the school
Speaker 2: they wouldn't do anything. They'd kind of like, you know,
Speaker 2: but you're at Stanford, and I'm sure that the admin's
Speaker 2: and the professors are said, this is not Stanford, like right,
Speaker 2: we were an academic institution. We don't need this crap
Speaker 2: going on. I'm sure they use a better word to crap. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because they can, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean that was stunning.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, it's again, it's a school with
Speaker 5: a lot of prestige and history and this and that,
Speaker 5: and the coach was a former cal quarterback, right, yeah, Taylor,
Speaker 5: So there was always a little bit of that but
Speaker 5: not that that really has anything to do with it.
Speaker 5: But when they're talking about bullying and you know, taunting
Speaker 5: the players and.
Speaker 2: The misogyny, probably because well, and here's another one, he
Speaker 2: went three and nine two consecutive.
Speaker 5: Yeers, if he went nine and three two years, you
Speaker 5: think it would happen. Nobody would talk about it. He
Speaker 5: would still be there. But you know, that's just the
Speaker 5: way of the world. And you know, you gotta be
Speaker 5: careful and you've got a uh, you know, an institution
Speaker 5: with a great reputation and football is probably not too
Speaker 5: important there based on everything else is going on.
Speaker 4: No, but I'm sure it will be, will be when
Speaker 4: they hire the next guy. True. Who that could be
Speaker 4: is anybody's guest, right, I mean this whole you know,
Speaker 4: being in the A c C.
Speaker 5: It just, you know, it just seems so discombobulated for
Speaker 5: both cal and Stanford. I don't know if they'll ever
Speaker 5: get there get their footing in this.
Speaker 4: Well here's the funny part.
Speaker 2: And h when we're talking to Tommy and these guys today,
Speaker 2: they went from Seattle to to Newark. You know, not
Speaker 2: the end of the world, but it's a heck of
Speaker 2: a flight. California Stanford, cal the USC These teams going
Speaker 2: across country for games, and you travel, I traveled.
Speaker 4: It's not easy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's a three hour time difference this
Speaker 5: time of year too, so you probably lose. You leave
Speaker 5: Seattle at you know, eight in the morning, you get
Speaker 5: to New York at five. If it's a direct easy play,
Speaker 5: I mean you can fly NonStop to Newark. But still
Speaker 5: it's a long end. You know, it's going to take
Speaker 5: a day to adjust to the body situation. They what
Speaker 5: they're playing at nine thirty their time, so it's a
Speaker 5: long day on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bruce tried to get that from Tommy and Tommy's
Speaker 2: you know, no excuses type of guys. No, no, because
Speaker 2: it's they played late Sunday, the last game of the thing.
Speaker 2: Now they have to turn around and play one of
Speaker 2: the games on Thursdays. You know what these guys, you
Speaker 2: know what these kids do for a living. They played basketball. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they'll the watch games all day.
Speaker 5: Other games are there's only a couple of games, you know,
Speaker 5: each day on Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 4: But still, right right, I'm sure they'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when it comes to that, we might have to
Speaker 2: move the whole House interviewed to the next segment here.
Speaker 2: If he doesn't call anytime, I've put an announcement out
Speaker 2: to see what's up. Yeah, so we'll see what happens
Speaker 2: with the guys press commerce tomorrow. We had to win
Speaker 2: them with them today, a couple of guys. So we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens.
Speaker 4: Do you know what time that is? And can you
Speaker 4: watch that yourself?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 2: Now they stream to the media just because we get
Speaker 2: special links and all that stuff. I haven't gotten anything yet,
Speaker 2: so I'll find out tonight.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Back in the old days, they used to throw them
Speaker 5: up on a satellite you know. Yeah, we'll call the
Speaker 5: TV station where is it. Nobody'd give them the coordinates.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well they still do that. Maybe you were supposed to.
Speaker 5: Do they probably should have, but you know, I think
Speaker 5: it says for media only. Yeah, there used to be
Speaker 5: some pretty good shows. And I don't even know. I
Speaker 5: honestly don't know. If you're sitting around like I do
Speaker 5: now at home. Some days, you know, like tomorrow, for example,
Speaker 5: they would just have like all day, maybe like an
Speaker 5: espn uh, one.
Speaker 4: Of those kinds of chances.
Speaker 5: Used to do that, which is one after another after another,
Speaker 5: so it was kind of a good chance to see that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure if.
Speaker 2: There's any program that you must have no time on
Speaker 2: your house, because what are you gonna do. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: watch the press conference, Mildred.
Speaker 4: Give me, give me a cup of tea, and change
Speaker 4: the channel.
Speaker 5: I make sure that they're gone, so I just I
Speaker 5: just have my you know, quiet time. Hey, we're watching
Speaker 5: the Duke news conference.
Speaker 4: What are you looking for? What do you what are
Speaker 4: you looking for?
Speaker 2: You should be retired and not caring, It's true. And
Speaker 2: I drag you in here because.
Speaker 5: That's that's kind of where where I was for all
Speaker 5: those years looking forward to them. I mean always, we always,
Speaker 5: you know, we had to get there today.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had to be there the day before do
Speaker 5: some kind of preview stories, and then the next day
Speaker 5: I had full Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guarantee you this was. You're going, what's uh,
Speaker 4: today's Tuesday games stores day tonight. You get in about
Speaker 4: six o'clock, Go get a man on the street, see
Speaker 4: somebody in the red red un fans here? Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: And again like Seattle, it's going to be somewhat simpler.
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously it's not closer to Tucson, but tons
Speaker 5: of alumni in the New York area and the East coast.
Speaker 5: I mean, the Philly fans will come up in d C.
Speaker 5: It's not too far.
Speaker 4: Who imagined who has that control that area controlled. Though
Speaker 4: Douke has a lot of fans, we have many more
Speaker 4: alumni in general.
Speaker 5: I mean, they have a lot of fans. But you know,
Speaker 5: in terms of university size, I mean, Arizona's probably sure
Speaker 5: times as many students sure out in New York and stuff.
Speaker 5: Was that one of your areas It was not, but Washington,
Speaker 5: d C. Was And they, you know, they were one
Speaker 5: of the would jump on any chance to see an
Speaker 5: Arizona came on the East coast. So it was in Florida.
Speaker 5: If it was in New York, they you know, people
Speaker 5: would be going. So yeah, I guarantee you you'll start
Speaker 5: sing hearing you.
Speaker 2: Well, you didn Seattle, You didn't Seattle. I was a
Speaker 2: little bit surprised because it was a long trip. But
Speaker 2: but like we say, they don't travel well, but they
Speaker 2: have a lot of alumps in those areas.
Speaker 5: Long trip and Washington State is, I think wrong among
Speaker 5: the top alumni bases in the country.
Speaker 4: It really is. And the Bay area.
Speaker 2: Well, here's here's the here's a good example. We have
Speaker 2: Kobe here from New York, Henry's from New York. I
Speaker 2: have another intern from New York at my other job.
Speaker 2: I mean, what are you guys doing coming all the
Speaker 2: way up over there?
Speaker 7: Yeah, hopefully they travel because there's more Duke fans in
Speaker 7: New York. But I'm sure Arizona will travel.
Speaker 4: And you come, but you come, you leave New York
Speaker 4: for the ninety five degrees that you're going to get today, right, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Henry will be good because he's wearing his you know,
Speaker 4: his flip flops and his short Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I mean the Duke, the Duke fans are good,
Speaker 5: but they're kind of spoiled even.
Speaker 4: And I'm not going to go to the.
Speaker 5: First round because we're gonna go to the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 5: Those are the excuses they would tell us back in
Speaker 5: the day you left me.
Speaker 4: It kind of spoiled.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, we got the a SEC tournament, we're going
Speaker 5: to win that. We're not going on to the first
Speaker 5: or second weekend. We're going to go to sweet sixteen
Speaker 5: because we're going there, and they go all time.
Speaker 4: Well, here's your other thing.
Speaker 5: You talked about ninety seven, you might as well talk
Speaker 5: about twenty eleven Arizona.
Speaker 2: I was a underdog there. They came west, right, Duke
Speaker 2: came west and Arizona beat the crap out of it.
Speaker 2: But they also had a fantastic performance by one guy,
Speaker 2: well one guy and one shot that you know, a
Speaker 2: few shots obviously, and then the next next shot Yukon.
Speaker 4: Was it was the beast.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were there, I mean it was. It was
Speaker 5: quite an amazing performance. I just remember I don't know
Speaker 5: where you were sitting, but I was kind of I
Speaker 5: was not.
Speaker 4: In my thirty two years of doing this. Uh yeah,
Speaker 4: I missed four. That was one of them. Why because
Speaker 4: I was?
Speaker 2: I was because I was. That was the first year
Speaker 2: like being out of the paper. I was working for
Speaker 2: somebody else, and uh I was couldn't go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So we were sitting maybe five or six rows, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: we weren't in like press row whatever. I don't know
Speaker 5: why we weren't, but you know, the TV guys sometimes
Speaker 5: got set out sign almost but I remember there were
Speaker 5: some people.
Speaker 4: Behind me that knew.
Speaker 5: I can't remember if it was Jack Murphy or Josh
Speaker 5: or somebody was coaching and as this thing was just
Speaker 5: exploding in the first half, and Derek Williams is going nuts.
Speaker 5: You know. They would look back if their friends in
Speaker 5: the stands like they couldn't even believe it. The guys
Speaker 5: on the bench were like shocked if they were doing
Speaker 5: this to Duke. It was just it was a weird
Speaker 5: feeling and.
Speaker 2: Then unrivaled on them quickly. Yeah, well, I guess in
Speaker 2: the second half. Yeah, but I mean they were, you know,
Speaker 2: they just I don't know what.
Speaker 5: I'm sure there were some pretty you know, outrageous runs
Speaker 5: of points that there was, and I was I was
Speaker 5: throwing up there. But again, the coaching staff, I think
Speaker 5: was just as shocked as as anybody else. Coach k
Speaker 5: you know, it was like whoah, the game down, take
Speaker 5: a time out.
Speaker 2: And in reality, that moment and the one against Wisconsin
Speaker 2: were Shawn's two best chances of getting to the Final four,
Speaker 2: you know after that, because they lost the Yukon and
Speaker 2: then they lost to wist coll Wisconsin.
Speaker 5: Sean Miller landing on his feet in Texas pretty pretty incredible.
Speaker 4: This is the world that we live in in it
Speaker 4: because uh, just was it seven years ago?
Speaker 2: Seven years ago all the thing broke eight years ago,
Speaker 2: five years ago, four years ago, he was fired and.
Speaker 4: Now he's going to make a boatload of money, probably.
Speaker 5: Probably the richest, one of the richest programs in the country. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's buddies with crys deal CONTI I guess they know. Well,
Speaker 5: Chris wasn't here. Wasn't he that I thought I read something.
Speaker 5: I didn't think that was true because the.
Speaker 2: Gym hired Sean. By that time, Delcanti has already gone.
Speaker 2: He had left a rice. I think, if my memory serves,
Speaker 2: I don't think that Chris was here.
Speaker 4: What did you read?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: I thought I thought I read something that he was
Speaker 5: with some overlap. Maybe he was here at the very
Speaker 5: beginning and then he left once Miller was hired.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I look and see all the time. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: think so. I don't think the Arizona connection. Yeah, you know, oh,
Speaker 2: we gotta go, we gotta go. Okay, so maybe we'll
Speaker 2: go here here from Todd on the on the other side,
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Speaker 4: So let me.
Speaker 5: I posed this question to to the guys yesterday, Who's
Speaker 5: gonna win a chawiship first?
Speaker 4: Tommy Lloyd, Sean Miller.
Speaker 5: Sean Miler going to Texas. I don't know he's gonna
Speaker 5: He's gonna get some players.
Speaker 2: I'm sure, because some players, He's not gonna be the
Speaker 2: top dog in the SEC.
Speaker 5: Oh, no, that's gonna be He's Texas got in the tournament,
Speaker 5: but they certainly weren't near the top of the.
Speaker 4: Of the conference. I've said this all go ahead.
Speaker 5: No, I was gonna just say technically, I mean, really,
Speaker 5: when's the last time Texas was really good in basketball?
Speaker 4: Kevin Durant, J Drant and the kid that the guard
Speaker 4: t J t j oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for.
Speaker 4: A long time.
Speaker 2: And I remember Blut played there all the time. I
Speaker 2: love going to Austin. They came here, Uh, Tom Penders
Speaker 2: and then Barnes Rick Barnes, Barnes.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: I used to love going there with the team.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: And good, I mean, come on, do you t and
Speaker 4: then del Conte spending their money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they've got so much money and so
Speaker 5: much you know, so much cash for the n I
Speaker 5: L I'm sure you know.
Speaker 4: I'm sureing Sean is a great recruiter. We all know
Speaker 4: that and you know it.
Speaker 5: So whether or not he can get these guys to
Speaker 5: get past the Elite eight, I guess, And I'm sure
Speaker 5: it's a huge personal goal for him as a coach.
Speaker 5: He's had, you know, great success and you know, random
Speaker 5: the issues of course near the end of his time here,
Speaker 5: but I think that he would love to just kind
Speaker 5: of use this now as the next step in his
Speaker 5: career where yeah, super successful.
Speaker 2: We've got to call now, Hello, you're on the air.
Speaker 2: I'm hey, you're on the who's this this coach? O?
Speaker 4: Brian? Hey, hold on, we might have to you jump
Speaker 4: jump off if Todd calls.
Speaker 6: Okay, just calling and saying that no matter how yu
Speaker 6: A does on Thursday. It's kind of strange what one
Speaker 6: year difference will make. If we get beat by Duke,
Speaker 6: people are going to say, wow, we got to the
Speaker 6: sweet sixteen. That's great. Last year we do this, we
Speaker 6: get beat and they went they want Tommy They's head, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you don't you know, you know, the fans
Speaker 5: here in this town, Clemson. Who's Clemson exactly?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's said, and you know, no matter
Speaker 6: what you guys are talking about the transfer portal with
Speaker 6: the girls, and it's going to be just as bad
Speaker 6: with the guys. You know, we don't know how many
Speaker 6: these guys are gonna stay whatever. You know, it's like
Speaker 6: play a new team next year anyway. So right, people
Speaker 6: just got to get used to It's just the way
Speaker 6: it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: So, Brian, I know we're gonna want too good to
Speaker 2: both you guys, because you have to deal with money. Brian,
Speaker 2: I don't know how much you make. I'm sure it's
Speaker 2: not more than a hundre two hundred three hundred thousand.
Speaker 6: But so if you get calls from tired.
Speaker 4: And I'm just tired, I'm just tired.
Speaker 2: But am I getting calls and they want money for
Speaker 2: me to give to a kid in the nil And
Speaker 2: I'm not the guy to ask, right, But and he's
Speaker 2: making eight one hundred thousand to meet that doesn't see why?
Speaker 6: No, you know, no, to me, it's like, why should
Speaker 6: I give money to a guy who's gonna make more
Speaker 6: money than me?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, it just doesn't you know. I mean,
Speaker 6: if I was a multi millionaire or a billionaire whatever,
Speaker 6: probably just no, no big deal, just to drop in
Speaker 6: the bucket, you know, fifty thousand dollars. But you know,
Speaker 6: and this town doesn't have those kind of rich people.
Speaker 6: So it's going to be very very difficult, you know,
Speaker 6: for us to compete with basically everybody else, you know,
Speaker 6: And I'm really surprised that ASU does not have a
Speaker 6: better NIL set up, especially with what goes on with
Speaker 6: all the corporations that they haven't feeding.
Speaker 5: It's true, I've I've always felt the same way that
Speaker 5: they're just kind of a sleeping giant that they've never
Speaker 5: been able to put together any kind of sustainable run
Speaker 5: of basketball success.
Speaker 4: And I don't know what the deal is.
Speaker 5: If they can, you know, get some of the corporate
Speaker 5: corporations to pony up more money, maybe it'll happen.
Speaker 4: Well, here's the one thing. What's his name, the issue?
Speaker 4: What's his name?
Speaker 2: The best player ever? James Harden, James Harden. So he
Speaker 2: gave a lot of money to the NIL. I guess
Speaker 2: that's what I read. So that's what Arizona needs. It
Speaker 2: needs some of the guys who are making some money
Speaker 2: or made some money to dump some into this program.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 6: I don't think I'm going to see that.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 6: I mean there's a lot of money out there, there's
Speaker 6: a lot of from alumni athletes. There's a lot of money.
Speaker 6: But whether or not they want to give them money
Speaker 6: is a different thing, right.
Speaker 4: No, I just read a story, not too long ago.
Speaker 4: That's what they don't do.
Speaker 2: They don't they come here, use the system and get
Speaker 2: and get paid a lot and then don't give back.
Speaker 5: Right, A lot of them give back in the towns
Speaker 5: where they wind up going too as well. So they'll
Speaker 5: go to you know, go play basketball in the Bay Area,
Speaker 5: or go play basketball in Los Angeles. Maybe they have
Speaker 5: to set up a foundation in those cities. I mean,
Speaker 5: there there's ways that they're giving back. I'm assuming that
Speaker 5: they don't want to keep every every set that they earn.
Speaker 5: But you're right, I mean, sometimes you're university. Maybe maybe
Speaker 5: they didn't have a good experience here. There was something
Speaker 5: happened here that's just you know, made them angry.
Speaker 6: They don't want that, and especially now there there's no
Speaker 6: there is no loyalty to schools anymore.
Speaker 16: I don't care.
Speaker 6: You know, you might as well forget about. Anybody needs
Speaker 6: appilead to play here and for a year or two
Speaker 6: and then they're gone.
Speaker 4: They're not going to give anything back to the Uba.
Speaker 6: They don't really care.
Speaker 4: Well, they got what they want it.
Speaker 2: No, you're exactly ready. And let's remember that loots guys
Speaker 2: are already done. They're done, right and now it's it's
Speaker 2: Shawn's guys who aren't very many in the league. You know,
Speaker 2: there aren't very many.
Speaker 4: No, so here we go.
Speaker 6: It's hard to tell, but I just you know, it's
Speaker 6: just hey going down and tell the viewers. You want
Speaker 6: to have a good time, go out and watch the
Speaker 6: U A Baseball team.
Speaker 4: Okay, Brian, we got to go another wat. Okay, thank you. Hello,
Speaker 4: you're on the air. Nine on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 8: Hey, Steven Sward.
Speaker 4: Howard Howard, Hey, we might have to jump off you
Speaker 4: off the phone.
Speaker 8: Right, I know, I know, I'll go really have three
Speaker 8: insightful points.
Speaker 18: Go.
Speaker 8: First of all, if it's nine and a half points,
Speaker 8: I'll take the nine and a half points with them.
Speaker 8: Second nil thing. I like it for the Charles. I
Speaker 8: have no problems with it, especially when it comes to
Speaker 8: the men because I'm so advocate of because these players
Speaker 8: are not ready, Charles. They need to stay at least
Speaker 8: two years. And if Dan and I'll keep some of
Speaker 8: these guys, marginal guys in, then that's good to stay in.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you have another point, you have your third point, Well, I.
Speaker 8: Forgot what the I mean?
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 6: The third point is only I guess I.
Speaker 4: Think about it, right, Howard? Thank you man. It's the text,
Speaker 4: all right. Well, yeah, that's always been the argument around
Speaker 4: here for years.
Speaker 5: They would just stick around for another one more year,
Speaker 5: one more year, but then they get if they get
Speaker 5: drafted in the first.
Speaker 4: Round, well that's a Carter Bryan kind of do you know,
Speaker 4: what would you do?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, is he gonna be picked in.
Speaker 5: The top twenty or the top ten if he sticks
Speaker 5: around for one you know, how do they even know?
Speaker 2: He's uh, he's one of those conundrums, right, if he
Speaker 2: gets drafted in top fifteen next year, he could be
Speaker 2: in the top ten. But I'm sure he's gonna make
Speaker 2: some money here, right. Is it enough to just kind
Speaker 2: of write and is it all about the money? I
Speaker 2: mean it comes from a good family, and how much
Speaker 2: I don't know. I've never been rich. My family's not rich.
Speaker 2: How how much money do you need? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: it's just you know, a lot of it's just your
Speaker 2: ego too. It's like, hey, my buddy's going to the Pros.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go play. My family's telling
Speaker 2: me I should go.
Speaker 5: So you know, I'm sure he's getting influenced by a
Speaker 5: lot of different people, and that's just how it works.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure you know some of these with a reportal.
Speaker 5: Open officially, there's gonna be some roster moves during the
Speaker 5: during the tournament. Richard Patino from New Mexico, I saw
Speaker 5: him Quota say, and this is ridiculous that this is
Speaker 5: happening so right in the middle of the biggest you know,
Speaker 5: weekends of the year.
Speaker 2: Right, So I guess he was trying to call him.
Speaker 2: It was busy because of that situation. We're gonna see
Speaker 2: if I can get him at four so you won't
Speaker 2: have to worry about.
Speaker 4: Breaking news.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we'll get him and then try to
Speaker 2: get Ben at four seventeen, so we'll see if we
Speaker 2: can get him. We got about I don't want to
Speaker 2: call him, have him called now, because we only get
Speaker 2: like five six minutes, all right, So anybody else want
Speaker 2: to call you can fill in the blank for us
Speaker 2: for the next five to six minutes. So Howard, if
Speaker 2: you came up with your one point instead of a
Speaker 2: two pointer and give us a three pointer?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think it's just you know, we obviously
Speaker 4: this is a great time of year. The coaching. But
Speaker 4: there's all kinds of shuffling.
Speaker 5: We've got, you know, two Arizona form Arizona players getting
Speaker 5: the head coaching job, or a former Arizona people, Sean
Speaker 5: Miller and Mike Bibbie. You know, the coaching moves, the
Speaker 5: nil moves, the transfer moves. It's just and on top
Speaker 5: of the fact that there's basketball is still to be
Speaker 5: played here this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I were one of them, I would be
Speaker 2: frustrated too, because the timing of it is horrible. All
Speaker 2: these guys coming back, well, there was one from who
Speaker 2: left Kentucky? Was it somebody somebody left during the tournament
Speaker 2: and didn't come back. He's just not coming back. It
Speaker 2: was a tournament team they're still playing. It might be
Speaker 2: Kentucky one of the players. Yeah, one of the players
Speaker 2: you said I'm not going did He didn't make any
Speaker 2: trips in the last two or three weeks, so oh,
Speaker 2: it was up pipp pippen Son. I don't know what
Speaker 2: what team he's with, but I saw that last night,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's gonna be teams that are to
Speaker 5: show up on the on the benches and hey, wait a.
Speaker 4: Second, the guy left Scout apart me, he's not there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's already got He's already in the transfit. He's literally
Speaker 4: in the portal and now he's gone.
Speaker 5: So yeah, we might want to google see him once
Speaker 5: your Google see the transfer portal numbers, because I would
Speaker 5: a venture to guess over under right now is about
Speaker 5: a thousand uh from yesterday to today and.
Speaker 2: How many actually get get picked? You know, people don't
Speaker 2: talk about that one. And to the education, well, if
Speaker 2: you don't get picked, you don't go back to school.
Speaker 4: Probably not that's college. Yeah, to see how things are
Speaker 4: going about, I'm sure.
Speaker 5: There's sure we have. Did we talk about the juju
Speaker 5: uh injury? That was very that was very sad. She's,
Speaker 5: you know, kind of one of the faces of women's
Speaker 5: college BASKETBA. She goes down last night out for the year.
Speaker 5: That was her knee she had. She was so good
Speaker 5: last year and I kind of I don't know about you,
Speaker 5: but I I you know, I watched it a little
Speaker 5: bit during the regular season, but you know, once a
Speaker 5: tournament hits, you're just watching you know, specific players or
Speaker 5: teams and usc top seed in the in the in
Speaker 5: the tournament, and she goes down. So that's that's sad.
Speaker 5: You wonder how long she'll really. She could be out
Speaker 5: all next year these injuries.
Speaker 2: She was forever and she was set to break getting
Speaker 2: clarks all time scoring and she just did that last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting. What's her name page from Yukon?
Speaker 5: Didn't she also have a similar knee injury and it
Speaker 5: did take her a bit to kind of regain her form.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that kind of doesn't give us that Becker
Speaker 2: Juju a matchup that was gonna maybe happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be I'm curious to see how things
Speaker 5: work out, you know, TV wise with the ratings last year,
Speaker 5: Remember the women beat the men with ratings for the
Speaker 5: championship games, right, But I don't I'm not sure if
Speaker 5: that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Well, you'd lose one of the star players, right or attractions?
Speaker 2: Probably not, Probably not Let's And it's not Yukon again, right,
Speaker 2: so it could be Houston.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: They're not too appealing, but they are, Yeah, men's who
Speaker 2: else is appeal to yu kind of? I mean, Duke
Speaker 2: of course is kind of still appealing as an appeal.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that Thursday night's game is going to be
Speaker 2: well watched. Yeah, well that's what they put it on.
Speaker 2: Well they put it on at least West Coast prime time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: the numbers will be they'll be, you know, about the same.
Speaker 2: Probably ten eleven million is usually kind of what the
Speaker 2: championship game draws. And last year that I think the
Speaker 2: women were my over over the men.
Speaker 5: So's how it's gone, especially with Caitlyn Clark. She was,
Speaker 5: you know, obviously marquee player. People wanted to watch her.
Speaker 5: She chanced to transform the women's game. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 5: not too sure if you're going to get a call.
Speaker 5: It's already fifty three. Probably have three minutes there, yeah,
Speaker 5: two minutes, two minutes, okay, so we'll either take a
Speaker 5: call or not take a call.
Speaker 4: It doesn't really matter. They have to be really quick
Speaker 4: if you do call.
Speaker 2: Anything else you see out there, because we're not sure
Speaker 2: if we get Todd, we're not going to have any
Speaker 2: breaking news.
Speaker 5: So anything out there dating me see that, you're I'm
Speaker 5: just looking around. The juju injuries still making big news.
Speaker 5: Jeordan Montgomery, pitcher for the Diamondbacks, and they they spent
Speaker 5: a fortune on a couple of years ago. It was
Speaker 5: hurt good last year, got hurt, gonna have Tommy Tommy John.
Speaker 4: So that's the end of that.
Speaker 5: Their season starts this week Major League Baseball tipping off
Speaker 5: or what the first pitch? Yeah, well they had the
Speaker 5: games last week in Japan, but the real games begin
Speaker 5: this Week's right season Dodgers of course, and the Mets
Speaker 5: were the Mets right behind your Mets, yeah with one Soto.
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of the usual suspects in baseball.
Speaker 7: I think the Braves are up there, if they can
Speaker 7: say fully healthy.
Speaker 19: Yeah, you're a baseball game. Yeah you follow that because
Speaker 19: you're in New York. Yeah, well my team is good,
Speaker 19: I follow it. So I'm following the Mets this season. Yeah,
Speaker 19: your team or the Yank Mets. Oh well, you've had
Speaker 19: a tough time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's turning around now finally.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well they were supposed to be pretty good a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago, right, yeah, and then just didn't work out.
Speaker 7: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean they were good last year, they got
Speaker 4: well the year, but was it the year? But was
Speaker 4: because they were bad and then a terrible and they
Speaker 4: were great that.
Speaker 7: They were supposed to be good and they were bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. Chemistry, baby, Yeah, gotta have it gotta have it.
Speaker 4: I mean they were.
Speaker 5: I mean I was in New York actually myself in
Speaker 5: May and they were ten games below five hundred. Back
Speaker 5: then to that game, I went to a game, you know,
Speaker 5: they played the Phillies, and the Philly beat him, and
Speaker 5: they were obviously the.
Speaker 4: Better team that day. But uh, I don't remember.
Speaker 5: I forget what the exact run, but it was something
Speaker 5: like they went like sixty and thirty, you know, to
Speaker 5: finish up the season.
Speaker 4: They just went nuts the last couple of months. Well
Speaker 4: they want to win, right, They're putting money into it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Steve Cohen is unlimited money, so yeah, must be nice.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, you know what that means that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: well he's a U Bake guy, isn't he? Who's the Jets?
Speaker 5: The Jets guy's the Ubakery Johnson. Yeah, no, Steve. I
Speaker 5: think Steve is a big donor to Michigan as well. Okay,
Speaker 5: I mean there's buildings named that's what you need, you
Speaker 5: the Ardie Morenos to come back.
Speaker 4: You need the know him. No, no, you think I'd
Speaker 4: be doing this.
Speaker 5: Was a sponsor already needs to Yeah, he can least
Speaker 5: sponsor the show. I would have gone to New York,
Speaker 5: New Jersey plane. Yeah right, we gotta go.
Speaker 2: We gotta go, hold that covers trouble right, We'll come
Speaker 2: back and see what we do at four o'clock