WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.279 Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball here 2 00:00:02.279 --> 00:00:06.200 on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, and today 3 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:09.080 with me is who are you Lamont Honley. 4 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:10.439 I'll be Lamont today. 5 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.199 Yes, great, great and great to have Lamont Hunley in 6 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:16.320 here today. My guy Kobe in to help me out here. 7 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.239 I'm hoping you can hear us because Ris is another 8 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.079 day where I got the control of the controls and 9 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:24.640 we'll see how much control I have. Good you see, 10 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:27.160 Good to see you la month. Have you recovered from 11 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:27.960 Saturday's game? 12 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:29.359 I have not. I have not. 13 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:36.240 I'm still feeling what I felt. Oh wow, I had 14 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:39.159 to kick off the kick off the game, and you know, 15 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:42.039 I stayed the whole game, and I watched the whole game, 16 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:45.679 and I'm just going into it. You can just feel 17 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:48.439 something uneasy about it. Before the game started. The game 18 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.759 even okay, I was with my brothers and stuff. We 19 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:56.000 was watching and and he, my younger brother, made a comment, 20 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:57.560 he said, they don't look good. 21 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:00.560 They don't look like they energize. Did it play? 22 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.640 And I and my comment was this, they got the 23 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:06.879 red jerseys on, you know, and that's you know, and 24 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:09.200 they got the white jerseys on. So in my head, 25 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:11.200 you know, the red make you a little a little 26 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:13.959 bit laid back and okay, okay, and not heat. 27 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:14.519 Yeah. 28 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:17.439 And and he saw that, he saw that, you know, 29 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:19.840 the morale that was out on the field of kids, 30 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:20.799 even in warm ups. 31 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.159 So living in the road just real quick. So you 32 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:25.879 guys go together, when you guys watch games, do it together? Right? 33 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:26.280 Yes? 34 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.439 So I'm sure did you in your head think, well, 35 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:33.519 when have they looked energized? I'm not I'm not gone 36 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:34.879 to put it in the words in your mouth, but 37 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.680 throughout the whole year we saw each other at at 38 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:40.239 the casino maybe a month ago. What you use the 39 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:43.200 word disappointment on it, and it is nothing's changed at 40 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:46.239 that point. You know, you're right, the disappointment is still there. 41 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.239 But the hope, I mean, every every game I go to, 42 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:50.799 there's always that hope. 43 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:52.719 But but when you went to the games live, there 44 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:54.599 must have been two or three two games at least 45 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:56.879 since the last saw you a month ago. Did you 46 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:59.120 see that energy then in between? 47 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:03.719 No? Well exactly, I take that back live. You're right, 48 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:07.159 we haven't seen the energy, that energy. But when we 49 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:13.199 did play, I forgive Houston, it was defensively. I think 50 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:15.879 the energy level was much higher than I have seen 51 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.439 all year, you know, And and that energy comes from 52 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:23.400 when you create turnobs. I mean, you make something excite, 53 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:27.639 exciting on the defensive side of the ball. And every 54 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.960 game that we played this year, if that took place, 55 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:34.199 you saw that energy level, excitement happen, give the ball 56 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.039 to the offense in the right side of the field. 57 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.719 But we haven't seen that happen most definite at home. 58 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:43.280 Yeah no, And guys like you and you were honest 59 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:46.039 a month or so ago talking about how disappointed you were. 60 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:50.840 I had David and Byron your guys in earlier throughout 61 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:53.280 the weekends, and they say, I told him, you said that. 62 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:56.439 He says, well, I guess, so all the guys should 63 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:57.360 feel disappointed. 64 00:02:57.560 --> 00:02:58.840 It hurts. I mean it hurts. 65 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:01.680 And and you know what would hurt more if the 66 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:05.280 players that's still on this team and the coaching staff 67 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:07.919 that's still part of this team, if they don't feel 68 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.759 how we feel or worse, then we got issues, no 69 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:13.199 question issues at that point in time, because they're the 70 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.199 ones who really got to fix this mess. 71 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:20.199 And it's a mess, right it's gotta start. Did you 72 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:22.360 listen to Brent on Saturday. 73 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:24.000 I did not. I did not. 74 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.800 He was very candid, very forthright to blame him. He's disappointed. 75 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:33.879 Uh okay, we've known that for a long time. Right, 76 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:35.599 he's the head coach, right, he's the one that's calling 77 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.560 the shots, and you know how I feel he just 78 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.639 doesn't show that energy right that you guys were talking about. 79 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.400 Maybe I see it differently in a coach, correct, and 80 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.879 maybe the kids follow that right. 81 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:50.319 And as you and I have spoken to, we don't 82 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:52.680 know what goes on behind closing right, to be fair, 83 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:54.680 to be fair to him, we have no idea what 84 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:57.919 goes on behind closed doors. And you know, and we 85 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:01.000 had to have coaches that show that energy, and Tucson 86 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.599 didn't like those Doyle of coaches. So we really don't 87 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.879 know what Brendan does behind closed door. But I can't 88 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:12.360 only imagine this guy has to hurt all the time, 89 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:14.919 you know, and and and and to stand in front 90 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.519 of the Republic and got to defend himself. 91 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:20.439 I mean that that has to says a lot. 92 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:25.199 Too, So that given that happened, shouldn't that piss you off? 93 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:28.839 And say, I'm going to make some changes, and we 94 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:31.319 know that they're going to be changes. But I'm saying, 95 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:34.920 you know, he mentioned looking at the mirror, blah blah blah. Okay, Laman, 96 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:36.480 you're a good dude. I know you're a good dude. 97 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:39.199 I don't know you outside of my our arrangements, you 98 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:42.360 know whatever, You're a good dude. Can you get pissed off? 99 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.040 Can you be a different dude when you need to? 100 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:44.600 Yes? 101 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:47.600 So that's the that's the something needs to happen. 102 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.000 And I and I pray that that's the type of 103 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.759 coach we have in Britain. You know that he knows 104 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.120 and and and we'll go see the pissed off if 105 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.920 he make a change in his culture staff. And I 106 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.920 think there should be changes made in the coaching staff. 107 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:05.279 I'm one of those guys that think that players are 108 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:07.839 a product of their coaches who coaching them. I want 109 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:10.519 to go there with you to you know, in regards 110 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.600 to the actual style that you play on the field, Okay, 111 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.720 being prepared day in and day out, play in and 112 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:20.839 play out, it's a reflection of the actual coach who's 113 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:21.800 coaching you. 114 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:22.399 Right right. 115 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:25.240 You said this before three, you said this about two bunchs. 116 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:26.240 Ago and I can go down. 117 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.360 I can go down the coaching staff and look at 118 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:34.879 the players, their product, their production this year, this year, 119 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.079 you know, and probably can make an assumption of who 120 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:39.279 should stay who should not. 121 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:42.120 Are you giving me more than three names? 122 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:43.800 I can give you more than three. 123 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:47.680 Well, it's almost a clean house. Well you know five 124 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:49.759 ish now I. 125 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:51.120 Have said three three, three four. 126 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.240 Okay, okay, that's not a clean house, but it's it's 127 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:54.480 a significant amount, and. 128 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:55.000 It should be. 129 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:57.480 I mean, when you're four and eight, there should be 130 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:00.439 a significant no argument here, A lot of changes should place. 131 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:04.600 He can't fire himself, he can't fire the kids. So 132 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.879 the next person in line has to go in order 133 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:10.279 to make those changes and see those changes take place, 134 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:14.759 you know, and uh and I foresee that coming. 135 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.839 Yeah, no, I think we all do. It became public 136 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:19.759 history that there was going to be some changes. I 137 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:23.279 don't know who. You can guess and I could guess, 138 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.759 but we'll wait till we hear from from him and 139 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:32.079 or them. We talked about disappointment. We talked about I 140 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:34.120 just didn't see enough energy throughout the whole year. You 141 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:36.920 know how I felt a just energy and just kind 142 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:40.879 of no motivation. And let me ask you something, because 143 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:44.040 coming in were a lot of high hopes right from 144 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:49.160 last year, especially especially, did everyone I'll say everyone miscalculate 145 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:50.040 the talent they had. 146 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:51.160 I think so. 147 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.560 I think the talent they had and the talent they 148 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:57.480 missed that they lost. I think that was that there 149 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:02.240 was some hopes there, you know, offensively, I mean losing 150 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:04.360 a couple of guys on an offensive line as well 151 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:10.079 as I'm not talking about injuries before the yeah, and 152 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:13.839 the tight end and went to the NFL. Colwyn who 153 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:16.279 went to the NFL. I mean those some key players 154 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.959 there and then Coman then a back right huge. 155 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:20.879 I thought that was huge, huge, you know. 156 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:23.560 You know, so you lose that talent and of course 157 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:25.800 you lose some talent on the defensive side of the ball, 158 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:30.160 so you know, with that in mind, I think Tucson 159 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:34.040 still was expecting a ten and two team sure or 160 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:36.759 was it eleven and two right with with the bowl game? 161 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:39.560 So they were respected eleven two teams, you know, ten 162 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:43.319 plus win team. You know, the reality we didn't have 163 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:47.319 the talented to get to six obviously, but I expected six. 164 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:50.680 Truth expected six. I expect us to be in a 165 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:51.480 bowl game this year. 166 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:54.360 We should be talking about a bowl game and not 167 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:55.800 about what took place. 168 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.199 So you hang out with a different crowds than I do, 169 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:00.879 at more different crowds than most people, because you know 170 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.360 it's guys, and you're friends with a lot of the 171 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:06.839 your businessmen locally, you know, stuff like that. I know 172 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:08.319 you don't give up. You're not going to give up 173 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:11.800 under any condition, right, Uh, your buddies. 174 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.000 Some have even really, Yeah, I think some guys have 175 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.879 given up, you know, in regards to hope on giving 176 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:22.439 up on the coach right himself. Some guys have given 177 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:25.920 up naturally on the team in that case. But yeah, 178 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:27.879 that there has been people who have got to this 179 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:31.240 point where you know, enough's enough, right, right? But but 180 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:33.399 but I'm not there. Yeah, I don't think I could 181 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:33.879 ever be that. 182 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.639 No, you're not that type of fan because you're you're 183 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:39.480 a former guy. You want to see them succeed, right, Yeah. 184 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:41.879 Do we live in a time when and I would 185 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:44.720 you and I talked a lot about this before. So 186 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:47.639 then another getting paid. They may be getting paid better 187 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:48.000 than you. 188 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:48.679 I'm sure. 189 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:51.440 I'm sure they're getting paid better than me. So they're 190 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:53.879 getting paid. Do you think that that's enough for the 191 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.320 kids today, or that you don't have to show out 192 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:59.120 now even though because hey, I'm getting mine. 193 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.000 When you said enough for the kids, because they getting played, 194 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:02.960 they paid. 195 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:05.360 Paid, you know, do they have that motivation to say, okay, 196 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:08.080 I want to be better. I got mind coming in. 197 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:09.200 I'm okay. 198 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:12.960 You know what. Unfortunately, that's the mindset of this generation. 199 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:15.759 And that's why, you know, and that's so we can't 200 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.840 just put the finger on you know, the athletes that 201 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.000 get played. I think it's a generation problem. You know 202 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:24.000 that people want it now and they should get it now. 203 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.799 They expect it now. So that's a generation problem to me. 204 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:31.080 But I'm still a believer that who you are is 205 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.080 a product of your household. And if you come from 206 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:38.559 a steady, committed household, especially a household that's you know, 207 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:42.519 say that someone's giving you an education, first and foremost, 208 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:45.080 you go do the right thing because they are giving you. 209 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.799 I'm appreciating the opportunity to get this education, appreciate it. 210 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:51.080 So you do what you need to do, you know, 211 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:54.279 day in and day out, to show your appreciation for 212 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:58.000 that education that you're receiving. Everything else is gravy. I 213 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.200 used to know the cake, you know, So that that's 214 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:02.919 to me, what kind of household you come from. And 215 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.159 that's gonna show the type of people if I'm a coach, 216 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:08.720 that's the type of person I'm gonna try to recruit, 217 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:13.480 you know, someone who's they know, they deserve it, and 218 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.240 everything else is icing on the cake, you know, and 219 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.279 they're gonna they're gonna give there all day in and 220 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.279 day out to make sure their self is better as 221 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:21.519 well as his team's sure. 222 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.559 Sure, Now, finding those kids that do that is. 223 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.360 The problem, but that's their jobs. That's the coaching job. 224 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:30.879 Did you I don't know if you heard my show 225 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:33.600 with Coach Lopez here maybe two weeks ago, three weeks ago, 226 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:36.679 did you fantastic? I think the world will ended opus? 227 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:40.360 He talked about ones, twos, and threes, And you want 228 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:43.279 the ones. You love the ones. There's fantastic talent, they 229 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:45.279 work their butt off, blah blah blah. You don't want 230 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:47.679 twos because the twos want to be they think they're 231 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:50.519 ones ones and they're not ones, right, And you love 232 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:53.279 threes because they're just they're just the dogs because they 233 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:55.759 want to be ones, but they don't have that talent. 234 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:59.720 But they'll do anything for you one to become a one. Right, 235 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.200 So those twos, so now they got to go after 236 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:05.879 the threes and the ones because I'm sure, well, you 237 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:08.200 know what the twos that were here. If there are twos, 238 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:10.840 how did chance to be ones? Because there was plenty 239 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:15.000 of opportunity because the ones, because cons were either hurt 240 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:15.600 or left. 241 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:16.799 Yep, you're absolutely right. 242 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:19.759 So again it goes back to the type of kid 243 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:22.720 that you're recruiting that you're bringing into your system and 244 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:27.320 you're bringing into your program. You know, So I believe 245 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:29.759 everything that you know, Coach Lopez said in regards to 246 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.440 that that thinking, you know, because I would want threes 247 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:33.600 and I'll make them one. 248 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:34.039 Right. 249 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:36.039 Well, I think you guys when you played, were a 250 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.320 bunch of a lot of threes with a lot of ones, 251 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:42.480 and you had one one your brother. 252 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:42.919 Yeah. 253 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:45.559 Yeah, we had some other guys over cheer. They're the threes. 254 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.240 The overchievers wanted to be ones. I'm sure you had 255 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.159 a few twos and you knew who the twos were. 256 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.879 We did, We did, we did, and you know, and 257 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:56.840 you know the thing is we we just we as 258 00:11:56.840 --> 00:11:58.799 a as a university got to go back to that 259 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.879 way of thinking coaching, and we can't think that the 260 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:05.799 universe of Arizona is a you know, Michigan or Ohio State, 261 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:07.440 the Union love Arizona. 262 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:09.480 I love that, you know, and that's that to me. 263 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:11.080 Take that pride. I love that. 264 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.519 And then when you have that opportunity knock them off 265 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.559 the the hi horses, that means a lot when you 266 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:18.519 you can go into note your dame and take it 267 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:21.000 from them, to those schools and take it away. 268 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:22.559 And that's what you guys did a lot right back, 269 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:24.879 and they and they still kind of did undertld me. 270 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.600 And if you I've always said that Arizona and I've 271 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:32.159 been here a while now, they can't prosperity. They can't 272 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:35.559 handle prosperity. Had a great year, just what I'm gonna 273 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:38.080 do this year right, even better? But they don't put 274 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:39.840 in the work or they do something well. 275 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:44.240 Yeah, but have we had opportunity to keep a coach 276 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:48.879 yourself around long enough to keep because like every time 277 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.600 we we have that prosperity, someone's gone, you know. So 278 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:54.799 now we got to regroup again and figure out how 279 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.120 we fix it. So you know, maybe maybe Brendan staff 280 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.279 and this this staff is the ones that keep going. 281 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.960 Who knows right, right, No, I talked about we're gonna 282 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:05.679 take out let me tell you who's gonna be on 283 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:07.720 the show today. So we have Lamont here today. We're 284 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:10.519 gonna have coach Jerry Stitt at the first hour in 285 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:13.559 about five six minutes talking about his situation at Pima 286 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:16.320 and coach Wing because they had a ceremony for coach Wing. 287 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:18.440 Yeah, you're probat of here. 288 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:20.559 We'll talk about all that and what would what would 289 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:22.799 Kendall think of all this money stuff? 290 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:23.679 You know him? 291 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:25.840 Like lut right, Like Luton says, you know, what the 292 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:26.399 hell do I do? 293 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:29.159 What am I doing here where they wouldn't be coaching? 294 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:28.639 Would? 295 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:31.200 This is more power to you? 296 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:31.840 Right? 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Today is the month Hunley. 373 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:59.200 Now on the phone, we have coach Jerry Stick. Coach, 374 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:00.120 how are you. 375 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:04.279 Do. I'm doing very well. Thank How are you guys doing? 376 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:07.119 We're doing well too. We wanted to talk to you 377 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:09.720 about a number of different type of things here. First, 378 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:13.200 the memorial you have for Coach Wing. How was that? 379 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:15.039 And I'm sure it was very heartfelt. 380 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:21.039 It was, it was. It was very well attended. Guys 381 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:25.119 from came from all over the country. We had representatives 382 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:29.440 from every era Wildcat baseball. 383 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:31.960 The current Wildcat team was there. 384 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:35.759 They sang Bear down Arizona at the end of the 385 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:37.599 memorial and. 386 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:41.240 It was it was really really good. 387 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:43.240 What did he mean to you? 388 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:46.799 Well, he was. 389 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:51.680 He was my mentor for years and years and as 390 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:54.640 we say in in baseball, he coached me up. 391 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:00.960 For just over fifty three years. Uh. 392 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:06.920 I first came in contact with him, My very first 393 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:10.960 contact with Coach Wing was when I was coaching at 394 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:16.000 South Point. I was a rookie coach and not ready 395 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.279 to be a varsity head coach, but I was doing 396 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.519 it anyway, and and I went over to play the 397 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:26.119 Palaverty Titans and coach Wing and he was already a 398 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:29.319 legend and we were we were in the game for 399 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:35.160 about five minutes and then we got some pretty good Afterwards, 400 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:37.640 he talked to me at home plate and he just 401 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:41.720