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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and
Speaker 2: with me today is Dave Silver Usual Tuesday Spot Day.
Speaker 3: Welcome back back in again.
Speaker 2: You didn't bring a jacket.
Speaker 3: Didn't bring a jacket. Kind of the coldest studio I've
Speaker 3: ever been in, but it's great to be here.
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Speaker 3: It's refreshed for like two minutes summertime, and Tucson is
Speaker 3: here and it's not even summer.
Speaker 2: At least. We're paying our electric bill here at the
Speaker 2: studio too much though, because it's like sixty five degrees. Yeah.
Speaker 2: If I catch gold, I know who to sue. No, No,
Speaker 2: just just joking, just joking. I love my job. Hey,
Speaker 2: good see Dave. For a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 2: Let's start with some breaking news. You go on some baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean Oregon State's trying to stay alive
Speaker 3: against Louisville, who you know, knocked out the Wildcats. A
Speaker 3: couple of days ago. It's six to six. They're playing
Speaker 3: in the ninth inning. The Beavers have just scored a
Speaker 3: couple of runs in the top of the ninth similar,
Speaker 3: kind of a similar situation. Louisville bode this time was
Speaker 3: the one that made the cost of the error. There's
Speaker 3: two outs and they do have runners at second and third,
Speaker 3: so Oregon State still has a chance and they could
Speaker 3: be going to extra innings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there it's the top right, it's the top
Speaker 2: of the sixth, top to the ninth with six so
Speaker 2: Louisville still has a chance. But they scored the runs
Speaker 2: on the same type of miscue that Arizona had.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was six to four. They had bases loaded,
Speaker 3: grounder a short and the ball went right underneath his glove.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, he was obviously thinking maybe about
Speaker 3: getting a double play at least didn't get anything. Two
Speaker 3: runs came in. Now they still have runners at second
Speaker 3: and third, and again they do have the bottom of
Speaker 3: the ninth to deal with as well. But earlier, you know,
Speaker 3: LSU played UCLA, so that one went to LSU nine
Speaker 3: to five. Winter That was a winner's bracket game that
Speaker 3: was kind of carried over from yesterday with the weather.
Speaker 3: So they're both.
Speaker 2: Still LSU and mister Johnson's continues to roll.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they get their two wins, so they're in
Speaker 3: great shape. Yeah, whereas you know, UCLA is gonna have
Speaker 3: to fight back out of the elimination game the next
Speaker 3: time they played.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know Jay. I did on one big
Speaker 2: story on him when he first got here. I don't
Speaker 2: know him that well, but given the anamasity the Arizona
Speaker 2: has for him, he must be a very good coach. Yeah.
Speaker 2: What he's done is pretty good, right, because he knows
Speaker 2: the game and knows how to handle all the kids.
Speaker 3: I was kind of waiting to see you a few
Speaker 3: more stories about that. Well, both teams were there.
Speaker 2: We we talked about that yesterday and we talked about
Speaker 2: it with Michael Lev. They had their press conference, right,
Speaker 2: but I don't think Arizona people were there yet. The
Speaker 2: press conference of Michael Lev was not there, but he
Speaker 2: had a question in the queue on Zoom. Each coach
Speaker 2: has thirty minutes. Some of the other schools went twenty minutes,
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes, twenty minutes. LSU took all its thirty minutes
Speaker 2: and didn't have a chance to go to any zoom questions,
Speaker 2: so he didn't get.
Speaker 3: Never got the question. I know, you think that would
Speaker 3: have been one of the you know, prime stories of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but people on Els you don't give a crap,
Speaker 2: I mean, because they've already dealt with him, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's only people that do is from here.
Speaker 3: From Tucson. And who was there. Basically we had a
Speaker 3: couple of riots.
Speaker 2: Right, Javiier, we had Brian, we had Lori, but not
Speaker 2: a whole lot. The thing is, I know Jabier was
Speaker 2: not there because I guess this flight delayed the day.
Speaker 2: I don't know about Brian on his situation, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it was not talked.
Speaker 3: About and not being in the same bracket, and it
Speaker 3: would have you know, again, I think we talked last week.
Speaker 3: I think the only time they would have even gotten
Speaker 3: to play each other would have been in the championship series. Yeah, so,
Speaker 3: you know right, I mean it was nice.
Speaker 2: It's the same situation if Arizona plays in the same
Speaker 2: bracket as Texas and basketball. And not that the departure
Speaker 2: was hate field or hate field or otherwise. But Sean,
Speaker 2: you know, can you talk about your time here in
Speaker 2: Arizona you know he's gonna be diplomatic and you know
Speaker 2: it's going to happen. Oh yeah, at some point it's
Speaker 2: gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Likes to do that, and they'll put together some matchup
Speaker 3: with where they meet and you know, the Sweet sixteen
Speaker 3: or something somewhere along the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so we'll see what, you know, maybe not
Speaker 2: still average. I'm not older.
Speaker 3: You know, Christie, who are you again?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, you look for me here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised too, if well, I don't
Speaker 3: know if Sean Miller wants to do it, but you know,
Speaker 3: if they if they do set up a series here,
Speaker 3: I don't think I remember. I mean Greg Burn's kind
Speaker 3: of done that with Alabama basketball especially, so yeah, maybe
Speaker 3: not with basketball, but no.
Speaker 2: You know, he's weird. He's rear view mirrored that ERRS
Speaker 2: on a program and why why bring it up? Right?
Speaker 2: It's kind of like Tommy and uh and uh Gonzaga.
Speaker 2: It went no part of that, yeah, no part of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But I mean he didn't leave under no weird
Speaker 3: circumstances there either. And he's I'm sure he's you know,
Speaker 3: he's still good buddies with.
Speaker 2: Oh yea with Mark f you. Yeah, they don't want
Speaker 2: to mess with that. If they happen to play each other, well,
Speaker 2: that's just what it is, right, not not deliberately trying
Speaker 2: to play that, right. Yeah, So we'll see what happens
Speaker 2: today's show. We have time to get calls, maybe ten minutes.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a rich Tomy here on the show
Speaker 2: at that three seventeen.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's part of that big Coaching Alliance thing that he's
Speaker 2: I think he's the president or CEO, so something like that.
Speaker 2: Tell me the Coaching Alliance a positive coaching alliance. Yes,
Speaker 2: he's been there for a while. We've had him on
Speaker 2: the show a number of times in the past. I
Speaker 2: think last year was at this time was about the
Speaker 2: same time he came on, or the last time he
Speaker 2: came on. We'll talk about that. His dad's legacy. I
Speaker 2: think they've started something with that, and just maybe how
Speaker 2: his dad would be handling Nil, what do you care
Speaker 2: about this stuff? Of course, what do you have to do? Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know Howie would he handle his says, you know,
Speaker 2: le's somebody else. I'm just here to coach. Let's somebody
Speaker 2: else deal with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, it seems like a lot of the teams
Speaker 3: are doing right, aren't they hiring these gms and stuff
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with one side, I kind of like, how'd that go?
Speaker 2: How would you pay the kid better?
Speaker 3: Proxactly? Yeah, well, I mean Arizona apparently they're running for
Speaker 3: a pretty good court that we're reading today. A four
Speaker 3: star QB from the La area. Oscar Rios is his name.
Speaker 3: He's looking at Arizona and UCLA has two choices, so yeah.
Speaker 2: Could be good, could be good. Did you get I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go into a place I hate going into what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it? Anyway? Did you get caught up
Speaker 2: in the old the recruiting stuff when you were on
Speaker 2: that side of the more of.
Speaker 3: It was locally, I would say, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, we kind of we would go out on
Speaker 3: signing day and do a big, big day of coverage
Speaker 3: things like that, but it's more about coverage, Yeah, but
Speaker 3: not like ongoing unless some unless one of the you know,
Speaker 3: four stars or five star players from here, was going
Speaker 3: to make some announcement during this during the year, we
Speaker 3: would do that. But no, we didn't like, hey, here's
Speaker 3: the daily update kind of thing like newspapers sometimes.
Speaker 2: I hated and my as I got out of it, obviously,
Speaker 2: I used to say, and I still hate it because Okay,
Speaker 2: you get all these recruits these oh god, what a
Speaker 2: great recruit, What a great recruit. Okay, talk to me
Speaker 2: in four years and how it turned back, because you
Speaker 2: don't know until it's happened. Yeah, yeah, Okay, you know
Speaker 2: I'm going to the moon, Dave, I'm going to the moon.
Speaker 2: I'm promised, I'm gonna go to them, Dave. If you
Speaker 2: tell me this, Dave, Steve, when you get to the moon,
Speaker 2: you tell me it'll be a story. When you get
Speaker 2: to the moon. Don't tell me about the moon. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because that's how the recruiting news. Oh we got this guy,
Speaker 2: we got this guy. Let me tell you they've had
Speaker 2: some pretty good recruits over the years due how many
Speaker 2: find them? Never how many roseballs? Exactly. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: it's one of the situation. And the coaches will say
Speaker 2: that too.
Speaker 3: Usually. You know, I'm big, you know, when I have
Speaker 3: a signing day events, you know, the boosters coming in
Speaker 3: or whatever. Yeah, and they kind of temper their feelings
Speaker 3: sometimes just by saying, you know what, let's just see
Speaker 3: how this plays out, right, especially in football, and you're
Speaker 3: bringing in like over twenty kids and maybe half pan out.
Speaker 3: Never yeah, never even get on the field.
Speaker 2: Sure. The one guy that I talk about every now
Speaker 2: and again is Retrock. He went to the festival, right,
Speaker 2: played very well. He had some pretty good recruits to
Speaker 2: wear brothers or something like that numbers, and they didn't
Speaker 2: pan out. And I thought he'd get some legs from
Speaker 2: that greatness or that's the right word, right success, And no,
Speaker 2: it didn't happen. It was still talking about Okay, gee's
Speaker 2: he's still talking about we're not recruiting, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. It didn't mean much.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean even Arizona after the Fiesta Bowl, and
Speaker 3: we can maybe talk to rich about this. After that festival,
Speaker 3: you know, they kind of sputtered the next year after
Speaker 3: the twelve and one season exactly. You know, they didn't
Speaker 3: They didn't do great and actually, you know coach toll
Speaker 3: Me only lasted I guess another one more year after
Speaker 3: that ninety eight after having such a great ninety eight year. Sure,
Speaker 3: it just didn't didn't pan out. Yeah, No, just the
Speaker 3: way it is.
Speaker 2: That's why I don't get too caught up and into
Speaker 2: recruiting and all these guys because a lot of them
Speaker 2: don't pan out. You know when Seun got here, Remember
Speaker 2: you had the Sayah Turner, Sad Johnson, all these guys, no,
Speaker 2: not so loud even make it to January. They made
Speaker 2: it till the end of the year and then they
Speaker 2: were gone. Yeah, they were gone. That was fast. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and the best guys were thereon Gore's a guy that
Speaker 2: wasn't really recruited at TJ. McConnell and and it got
Speaker 2: just a dude right. In fact, we're going to have
Speaker 2: the beat writer for the Indianapolis Star here at the
Speaker 2: four seventeen. He's trying to get out of Denver and
Speaker 2: I guess there's been a lot of fight delays, so
Speaker 2: we're gonna have him on at four seventeen just talk
Speaker 2: to talk about him and McConnell and and after it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because TJ was a fantastic again.
Speaker 3: Inster against yesterday and they took him out, which is
Speaker 3: kind of weird. I mean, as soon as he left
Speaker 3: the court they couldn't do anything offensively.
Speaker 2: There was a sprink there where he scored like almost
Speaker 2: every point. Yeah, you're thinking what and he was near
Speaker 2: the basket kind of gibber jabbering in and out and
Speaker 2: blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: I mean, all these other guys are out there trying
Speaker 3: to set up for three point shots and he's the
Speaker 3: one penetrating and dishing.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: He took a couple of shots too, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean he was so effective and then as soon as
Speaker 3: he was done, if he was tired or whatever, but
Speaker 3: you know, he take him out. And that's Haliburton was
Speaker 3: was just a shell of himself all game. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: they couldn't do anything. That's one to five turnovers and
Speaker 3: what five possessions. It's pretty bad.
Speaker 2: That's what I wanted to ask the beat writer and
Speaker 2: just lost his name real quick. But he's going to
Speaker 2: come on here to see what that the coach has
Speaker 2: this Rick Carlisle, Yeah, Carlo has this has this system
Speaker 2: that he uses. It's justin do prick, where where he
Speaker 2: must have some set sequences of events to put in
Speaker 2: Mathron and and McConnell and then once those sort out throughout.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's just a strange kind of a
Speaker 3: it's an interesting rotation rotation because I mean, again TJ
Speaker 3: was really the impetus of that rally.
Speaker 2: Last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's been you know, pretty good throughout most
Speaker 3: of the series, and you know when he's when he's
Speaker 3: on the bench, they're struggling just to get the ball in.
Speaker 3: I mean, they couldn't even run any kind of offense.
Speaker 3: It was pretty weird.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we'll have them told me at three seventeen
Speaker 2: and uh do prick pric at the four seventeen.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The meantime, it looks like the Wildcats may have lost
Speaker 3: their pitching coach.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the other one.
Speaker 3: That was the other breaking from Kevin Van. He was huge.
Speaker 3: He's been big in recruiting and big inches i think
Speaker 3: messaging to some of these guys. But it looks like
Speaker 3: San Diego State it's going to be his next destination.
Speaker 3: It's Brian Peterson's reporting that in all sports on easy
Speaker 3: Desert swarm. But yeah, it's gonna be an interesting could
Speaker 3: be an interesting series of events if players want to
Speaker 3: go with him possibly or maybe the recruits who we had,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of hoping to get here may want
Speaker 3: to go with him there.
Speaker 2: Well, that was the thing I think that Michael lef
Speaker 2: talked about a little yesterday. Because the chip is not
Speaker 2: under contract, right yet at least that we know of.
Speaker 3: And neither is this guy. Neither is Kevin.
Speaker 2: And then I was kind of the part so that
Speaker 2: he can give Chip some money, more money and his
Speaker 2: assistants more money. Well, it's hard to even if you've
Speaker 2: got more money, it's hard to turn down a head
Speaker 2: coaching job. And the San Diego State have they been
Speaker 2: good in the past? Have they been good in the
Speaker 2: recent PA?
Speaker 3: Not really, I don't think. I mean, I'm you know,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna lum so I sort of keep my eye
Speaker 3: on it. But I mean, Tony gwyn was their coach,
Speaker 3: you know, many ten to fifteen years ago, but they've
Speaker 3: kind of just not really been much of a factor.
Speaker 2: And you think they would be, right, Yeah, given the
Speaker 2: good facilities, good weather.
Speaker 3: Obviously whatever league they're in these days might be an issue, right,
Speaker 3: So who knows how the competition is going to be.
Speaker 3: I guess are they going to be in the PAC twelve?
Speaker 3: Is that one of the schools?
Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing, I mean, that's I think that's
Speaker 2: a big blow to Chip because this guy was pretty
Speaker 2: good with the arms. Yeah, they did wonders, So we'll see.
Speaker 2: I guess six to six at the bottom of the
Speaker 2: ninth now with the little in Oregon State, So you know,
Speaker 2: strange things happened to other teams, not just Arizona.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially well, and then you think about the players
Speaker 3: and all the transfer portal stuff and all the all
Speaker 3: the different things that have been going on. But now
Speaker 3: when your coaches are going to and what are the
Speaker 3: players going to think? Hey, you know, maybe I'll go
Speaker 3: to someplace like San Diego or someplace where you know,
Speaker 3: we've got basically got Cramkowski and Smith Bailey, the two
Speaker 3: top two pitchers would be coming back. You'd hope that
Speaker 3: would still be the case. Yeah, and that you know,
Speaker 3: they wouldn't take off, but you never Now you don't
Speaker 3: know what their relationship was with their coach, right, and
Speaker 3: that maybe was something that he would be able to
Speaker 3: entice them to go to California.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. Well, in a matter of time, we'll
Speaker 2: find out what's going on down the road. Okay, let's
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my about here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: Fortune fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave silver Phone. We
Speaker 2: have rich Tony from the Positive Coaching Alliance.
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
Speaker 6: Rich doing great?
Speaker 5: How are you guys?
Speaker 2: We're doing well. Thanks for joining us. Good to hear
Speaker 2: your voice. It's been a while you too, Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: how are things going up to the Coaching Alliance?
Speaker 6: It's been great.
Speaker 4: We're been a busy summer for us.
Speaker 6: We're just doing our workshops out in the community and
Speaker 6: just growing across the country. A lot of great strategic
Speaker 6: partnerships we're putting together, and uh, you know, it's nice
Speaker 6: to see us keep growing and making an impact. So
Speaker 6: it's been fun.
Speaker 3: What what is your specific role with the with the Alliance?
Speaker 3: I know your title, but what do you do say
Speaker 3: day to day to work with kids and work with coaches.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we, uh you know, obviously our mission is
Speaker 4: uh developed better athletes, better people.
Speaker 6: So we you know, spend a lot of our time
Speaker 6: working with school districts and youth sports organizations and really.
Speaker 4: Any any organization, and you know, provide tools and resources
Speaker 4: for parents, coaches, and athletes on essentially all the off
Speaker 4: the field stuff, character, leadership, development, social media, how to
Speaker 4: manage their you know, their brand.
Speaker 6: If you will, just just really trying to teach.
Speaker 2: All the all the.
Speaker 6: Great lessons that sports teaches us. And really that's that's
Speaker 6: the you know, you play sports your whole life and
Speaker 6: you learn the great lessons. I think you know a
Speaker 6: lot of you know, I always liking it to my
Speaker 6: dad and how he taught amazing lessons and made such
Speaker 6: an impact in people's lives players.
Speaker 4: You know, that still ring true today and I think,
Speaker 4: you know, he really understood that, and I.
Speaker 6: Think you know more coaches like that really is what
Speaker 6: put me in this role and just just the impact
Speaker 6: someone can have in someone's life and really changed their lives.
Speaker 6: So that's that's kind of the fun part.
Speaker 4: Of what I do and really trying to deliver that message.
Speaker 2: So I don't you know, you've been on the show
Speaker 2: a number of times over a number of years. Was
Speaker 2: there a model before this or is this the first
Speaker 2: and only?
Speaker 6: I mean, there's other groups around the country that do
Speaker 6: similar things, but you know, we're we're probably one of
Speaker 6: the largest in this space across the country. We have,
Speaker 6: you know, work we do in all fifty states and internationally.
Speaker 4: So really we're we're sort of the gold standard when
Speaker 4: it comes to this type of character and leadership development.
Speaker 4: And you know, my job, I run Arizona primarily, but
Speaker 4: I also oversee Whai as well as Nevada, so I've
Speaker 4: got kind of our our little region here that I
Speaker 4: kind of oversee, which is fun and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: just just really trying to raise raised, you know, support
Speaker 4: development funding to help us put our workshops on and
Speaker 4: make sure we're delivering as many as we can for
Speaker 4: for everyone that wants.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 3: So do you go to like a a high school
Speaker 3: and get you know, gather various sports together, like you know,
Speaker 3: girls soccer and boys baseball. I mean, is that the
Speaker 3: way it works? Are you trying to individual at the Yeah?
Speaker 6: Really, we do.
Speaker 4: Well, it's it's it looks a lot different in a
Speaker 4: lot of places. Ideally, you know, we'll work with the
Speaker 4: school district. We actually do a lot with Tucson Unified
Speaker 4: School District where we'll you know, they'll bring in their
Speaker 4: athletic directors, we'll do some training for all the coaches
Speaker 4: at you know, specific schools. Usually it's you know, we'll
Speaker 4: work with the district and then we'll go out to
Speaker 4: each school individually. We work closely with the Arizona Interscholastics Association,
Speaker 4: so we'll do training programs at their big coaches meetings
Speaker 4: every year where you have hundreds of coaches in the room,
Speaker 4: you know, just just really trying to deliver this content
Speaker 4: to you know, the coaches first, the ads, you know,
Speaker 4: the athletes, and then obviously the parents are another huge
Speaker 4: part of what we do. So we can do them
Speaker 4: in person or you know online or zoom. And we
Speaker 4: also have you know, online training courses we do that
Speaker 4: you don't need a person or a trainer per se.
Speaker 4: So really it's you know, it looks a lot different
Speaker 4: in a lot of places across the country, but you know,
Speaker 4: the impact here in Arizona, we probably impact close to
Speaker 4: eighty thousand kids a.
Speaker 2: Year across the state.
Speaker 4: So we're all over, you know, southern Arizona, here in Phoenix,
Speaker 4: as well as northern Arizona. So it's it's really widespread,
Speaker 4: and you know, we're just we're just trying to trying
Speaker 4: to a little difference.
Speaker 2: So you've been with them four or five years, maybe more?
Speaker 4: Yeah, shoot, I guess it's like six or seven years
Speaker 4: now at least, So.
Speaker 2: Let me let me track. So let me ask you,
Speaker 2: although you probably every year is different, right, everybody comes
Speaker 2: in and new parents come in and new leadership comes in.
Speaker 2: Do you see more of a need now than maybe
Speaker 2: when you first came in? And I say that because
Speaker 2: I'm on the show a lot saying that the worst
Speaker 2: thing to happen to kids or parents because of now
Speaker 2: it's nil. You know, their kid, little junior might be
Speaker 2: the key to success and getting the financials for the family.
Speaker 2: Does that make any sense? Maybe not. I lost him.
Speaker 2: He'll probably call back. But you understand the question, right, Dave,
Speaker 2: where it's kind.
Speaker 3: Of like, yeah, I mean there's things that our generation
Speaker 3: wasn't even thinking about right as we're coming out of
Speaker 3: high school.
Speaker 2: He's back, He's back. Did you get my question?
Speaker 13: All?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I did. Sorry, I'm not sure what
Speaker 4: happened there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what, I think there.
Speaker 4: Is a big need now and I think it really,
Speaker 4: you know, social media has really changed sports in general.
Speaker 4: I mean I never had that, you know, we never
Speaker 4: had that grown up. I mean just there's just such
Speaker 4: a one upness to you know, everybody on social media.
Speaker 4: We're all guilty of it. You know, our kids, you know,
Speaker 4: really fall fall victim, do a lot of bad things. So,
Speaker 4: you know, just really, you know, one of the courses
Speaker 4: we teach a lot is about people managing their brand.
Speaker 4: I mean obviously we see kids posting stuff, and you know,
Speaker 4: recruiters are looking at your at your at your handle
Speaker 4: every you know, so really what you put out there
Speaker 4: is your brand. So you know, obviously kids kids in.
Speaker 6: Their handling theirs their social media, and.
Speaker 4: Then obviously parents are a huge, huge, you know issue
Speaker 4: these days. I think It's always been that way, but
Speaker 4: I think more so than ever, we all see the
Speaker 4: videos of the fights and the you know, just the
Speaker 4: horrible stuff going on. So I think, you know, people
Speaker 4: lose sight really quickly of why we play sports, and
Speaker 4: you know, we need to let the kids, you know,
Speaker 4: be be the ones on the field and we need
Speaker 4: to cheer them on. But you know, parents a lot
Speaker 4: of times will ruin that as well as coaches. So
Speaker 4: you know, really, I think it's needed now more than
Speaker 4: ever with all the mental health issues going on.
Speaker 6: Across the country and just different stuff.
Speaker 4: So we're, you know, we're at the forefront of all
Speaker 4: that and it's been been fun to kind of be
Speaker 4: a part of it.
Speaker 2: If I could have real quick So so in my
Speaker 2: time covering Luke for you know, the almost twenty five years,
Speaker 2: there may have been one or two, maybe three. Parents
Speaker 2: are kind of helicopter even their kids at this level, right,
Speaker 2: so you know, what's going on with the son. He's
Speaker 2: gonna getting playing time, YadA, YadA. I'm wondering because you're
Speaker 2: the son of diactomy. I'm sure were there many or
Speaker 2: many parents have gotten involved because I'm sure that he
Speaker 2: kind of said, Dad, I'm mightna have to deal with
Speaker 2: this again.
Speaker 4: Not as much as you'd think, honestly, I think he well,
Speaker 4: the cool thing about him was he had a pretty
Speaker 4: good open door, so he actually embraced talking to parents.
Speaker 4: I don't really know specifically. I'm sure there were some
Speaker 4: tough conversations, you know, with my boys not playing or
Speaker 4: nothing of that, and you know, I get I'm sure
Speaker 4: there was. I don't I never did really see that,
Speaker 4: but I gotta think. I mean, I remember talking to
Speaker 4: Chip Hale when he was managing the Diamondbacks and he
Speaker 4: said he had parents reaching out to him about on
Speaker 4: the diamond you know, it's just like it never ends.
Speaker 4: You know, It's like it's it's just he was laughing
Speaker 4: when because he Chip does some stuff for us off
Speaker 4: and on. So it's just funny. You know, it really
Speaker 4: never ends. But I obviously it gets a little a
Speaker 4: little less and less the higher you get.
Speaker 6: Up, I would imagine.
Speaker 3: So I was gonna say, at least on your LinkedIn page,
Speaker 3: you have you know, senior Regional Director DA DA DA,
Speaker 3: and you have the Dictomy Legacy Fund. Can you explain that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: So we So when I when my dad passed.
Speaker 4: Away in twenty nineteen, I decided to create a you know,
Speaker 4: essentially a fund under his name through Positive Coaching Alliance,
Speaker 4: where we would use that money to do impact in
Speaker 4: Arizona and Hawaii specifically the places where he coached and
Speaker 4: you know, meant the most to him. So once I
Speaker 4: you know, we created that in twenty nineteen and then
Speaker 4: fast forward to you know, this year. It's still going strong.
Speaker 4: You know, we've raised over six hundred thousand dollars through
Speaker 4: that fund, which is pretty amazing. And uh, you know,
Speaker 4: we that fund goes into a reserve account which I control.
Speaker 4: It basically will earmark towards specific programming. So if there's
Speaker 4: a school district or a need out in the community
Speaker 4: that can't have funding, I will pull funding from that
Speaker 4: and we'll use that to do the do the work.
Speaker 4: So it's really been fun to to have that. It's
Speaker 4: really been I mean, over the years just supported tremendously.
Speaker 4: The Pebble Beach Coaches Class Thick which was just up
Speaker 4: in Pebble Beach. My dad started that years and you know,
Speaker 4: thirty forty years ago and it's still going. So that's
Speaker 4: a that's a it's a golf tournant where all the
Speaker 4: college you know, D one coaches come, they bring some donors.
Speaker 4: I know Brent Brennan was just up there Dino was
Speaker 4: up there and they bring some of the U of
Speaker 4: A donors and they played pebble and figlass, couple other
Speaker 4: courses up there and and it's just a fun time
Speaker 4: for them to get together. But they do donate, you know,
Speaker 4: to a specific charity each year, and luckily for PCA,
Speaker 4: they've they've chosen us the last few years to kind
Speaker 4: of underwrite to you know, support so which makes sense
Speaker 4: because obviously my dad was a big part of why
Speaker 4: that tournament exists, and it just seems to really.
Speaker 2: Tie in well.
Speaker 4: So it's fun for me to be able to just
Speaker 4: still carry on his legacy the way the way it is,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, people more than ever even to
Speaker 4: this day, just just really appreciate the impact that he
Speaker 4: had and and I just I love to be able
Speaker 4: to tell people about him and obviously just continue his
Speaker 4: impact and and just just a really great thing. And
Speaker 4: people can learn more about that if they go to
Speaker 4: Positive Coach dot org backslash Tony Fund f U n
Speaker 4: D and they'll see all the information there about about
Speaker 4: what they what that is and if they ever wanted
Speaker 4: to give or anything to that.
Speaker 2: You also something coming up next month, right, I guess
Speaker 2: somewhere in Payson.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we have our annual fundraiser golf tournament and called
Speaker 6: our Beat the Heat Classic.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: We do it up last year, last couple years we've
Speaker 4: done it up at the Rim Club in Payson, which
Speaker 4: is a beautiful private course up there. Obviously we want
Speaker 4: to try and get out of the heat, so people
Speaker 4: have been you know, willing and able to make that
Speaker 4: drive up to Paysin. It's about twenty degrees cooler. This
Speaker 4: year it's at Chaparral Pines and uh, just a fun day.
Speaker 4: We get all the you know Cardinals and the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 4: You of a sends up a team issue. We had
Speaker 4: a lot of great support from the High School Association and.
Speaker 6: Just just a great day.
Speaker 4: And you know, obviously it's it's to raise money for
Speaker 4: PCA and just just a fun day. Mike Candrea is
Speaker 4: playing this year. So just just a really fun experience
Speaker 4: and look forward to it every year.
Speaker 3: Before we let you go, what would Dick tell me
Speaker 3: be like as a coach in twenty twenty five, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six, would he be able to handle everything that's
Speaker 3: happened in the sports Man?
Speaker 4: You know what I've talked. I was just talking to
Speaker 4: someone about that the other day.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, I think he would. I think he
Speaker 4: would adjust. But at the same time, I know a
Speaker 4: lot of coaches that I've talked to, like in his era,
Speaker 4: who are still coaching, and you know, just saying how
Speaker 4: tough it is. I mean, it's it's really it's really
Speaker 4: hard to develop a program the way my dad did,
Speaker 4: like by you know, bringing in young guys, developing them,
Speaker 4: you know, and he just can't do that anymore. You
Speaker 4: just really have to recruit back your own team. I
Speaker 4: think he would be.
Speaker 6: Great at you know, keeping guys around.
Speaker 4: And I feel like he would do well. But I
Speaker 4: do think it's such a challenge. You know, you look
Speaker 4: at Nick Saban and guys that are just like forgetting
Speaker 4: I'm done with this, and you know, it's it's difficult,
Speaker 4: and you know, it's it's a whole new world, and
Speaker 4: it's changed college sports in general. I mean it's you
Speaker 4: hardly even see guys recruiting high school much anymore, you know,
Speaker 4: other than football. It's just like you plucked from.
Speaker 3: The other d one.
Speaker 4: Programs less of programs, and you know, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I got I like to think he would do great,
Speaker 4: but at the same time, I feel like it would
Speaker 4: be a little bit of a frustrating experience form So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question. Just maybe lastly for me, your baseball
Speaker 2: program did very well. Did it make you proud.
Speaker 6: The Cats?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, they I was.
Speaker 4: So happy for them and Chip and just great to
Speaker 4: see them, you know, get to them. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 4: would like to see him play a couple more games,
Speaker 4: but I'm very proud of them and just great to
Speaker 4: see them really get back to Themah is just a
Speaker 4: feat in itself. So just really proud of them and
Speaker 4: excited for for the future. Chip's done a great job,
Speaker 4: and just just really happy for him.
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe lastly, you give us that website so if
Speaker 2: people want to help or or need help or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, in general, if you go to positive
Speaker 4: coach dot org, you can you know, see all the
Speaker 4: great things we do and obviously get in contact with
Speaker 4: with anyone there and myself on there. And then if
Speaker 4: you wanted to get more information on the Dicktmey Legacy Fund,
Speaker 4: that's Positive coach dot org backslash HEMI fund, and you
Speaker 4: can learn more there and contribute or reach out to
Speaker 4: me directly on there and love to get people involved
Speaker 4: at all levels. So just appreciate, appreciate you guys helping
Speaker 4: me out there.
Speaker 2: Sure of course. Awesome. Good to hear from you. To
Speaker 2: Rich take care.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great to hear you, guys. Boys.
Speaker 2: We'll talk fans, Okay, we will, Rich, we will enjoy
Speaker 2: that one one hundred and fourteen degree weather.
Speaker 4: Oh geez, now same here, all right, thanks you take care,
Speaker 4: Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Take you all right? All right, Rich, tell me good
Speaker 2: to talk to him. We'll take a quick break and
Speaker 2: come back.
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Speaker 2: But we're fine, We're fine. Uh. There's a final indie
Speaker 2: game that we were talking about, Louisville there is.
Speaker 3: The Beavers are out. Louisville wins seven to six, so
Speaker 3: Oregon State's eliminated.
Speaker 2: So the last real team that we're familiar.
Speaker 3: With, you see CLA, they're still around. They're gonna play
Speaker 3: later tonight again, they already played today. They're gonna play Arkansas.
Speaker 3: So Arkansas hasn't lost yet, right, so they have to
Speaker 3: beat them twice.
Speaker 2: These formats are strange. I mean, I know they're that wrong. Anyway,
Speaker 2: they're pod you know, they're pods. One side one decide
Speaker 2: they should just play like the women. I think that
Speaker 2: the you.
Speaker 3: Know, I'm sorry Arkansas has they lost their first game,
Speaker 3: but anyway, and they're not gonna be able to throw
Speaker 3: their pitcher who tossed the no hitter yesterday. So I wonderful.
Speaker 3: I'll be able to come back. I would I would
Speaker 3: be sure. So believe they get beyond.
Speaker 2: Yesterday Monday, Monday, so probably Thursdays Saturday.
Speaker 3: They could play a game Thursday, so we'll see. Will
Speaker 3: begin on Saturday. No matter what.
Speaker 2: That was pretty dynamic Yestorday, So we'll see what Arizona does.
Speaker 2: I guess they've already elevated the assistant coach to be
Speaker 2: the pitching coach. At least that's what what you're seeing.
Speaker 2: That's what I saw on Asy Deserts form with Brian
Speaker 2: they've already moved him up. Can you find it to
Speaker 2: promote John d Run the pitching coach following Kevin Vince's departure,
Speaker 2: Sen Ugustin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. You know, when these coaches leave.
Speaker 3: It's one thing when the players leave, but when the
Speaker 3: coaches leave, that's a whole another. You know, part of
Speaker 3: the of the factor of how these teams are put together,
Speaker 3: especially with free free movement. Basically you just want to
Speaker 3: get up and go and join your coach, or you
Speaker 3: want to go to San Diego or whatever the deal is,
Speaker 3: or you want to stay who knows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think it's the San Diego State. Well, the
Speaker 2: San Diego Union Tribune was the team. That's a news
Speaker 2: source that broke the story.
Speaker 3: And Kevin is from San Diego, so sort of makes
Speaker 3: sense and natural makes sense. Yeah, yeah, you know San
Speaker 3: Diego State, home of our US Open champion by the.
Speaker 2: Way, j J.
Speaker 3: Small, Yeah issue, San Diego State, Alama.
Speaker 2: He's been all over the media last couple of days
Speaker 2: doing the rounds.
Speaker 3: Yes, this morning, two different shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Today show.
Speaker 3: He was always on there too. Today he was on McAfee.
Speaker 3: He was on Sports Center.
Speaker 2: Just a dude too, right, because he lost his card
Speaker 2: not too long ago, did he But he was he'd
Speaker 2: been so bad he had to be you know whatever,
Speaker 2: how that ever works?
Speaker 3: I mean, has a guy ever bogied the first five
Speaker 3: holes in the same day round in the last round
Speaker 3: and gone on to win. I mean it was such
Speaker 3: a while. That was a just the weirdest you golf day.
Speaker 3: I mean, I have I'm not a great golfer.
Speaker 2: Yeah me either, because I'm horrible. Yeah, and I hate
Speaker 2: being frustrated. I'm supposed to be having fun, true, chasing
Speaker 2: that little white ball. Oh damn it, give you water,
Speaker 2: I'll find it. Yeah, I'll find it or jactics or
Speaker 2: snake areas.
Speaker 3: I mean, remember, you know John Weinstein, the late John
Speaker 3: Feinstein wrote all those books about golf, but A good
Speaker 3: Walk spoiled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was one of the great titles of a
Speaker 2: golf book, right, right, that's funny. It's true for me
Speaker 2: at least, that's why you want to go golfing. No,
Speaker 2: I'd rather drive the cart and tell me where to go. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: five four, one seventy calls. We would appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts on maybe the baseball season as it concluded Arizona.
Speaker 2: I guess Tommy and them have to cut down to
Speaker 2: twelve here pretty soon with their guys. I think they're
Speaker 2: at eighteen or whatever. Co Pete is having an outstanding
Speaker 2: or having that study session up in Colorado spring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting. That's a quick process when of these
Speaker 3: games beginning. Let's start soon, right, you.
Speaker 2: Know they start the twenty seventh dish twenty seventh next weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so they have to still get ready for that and
Speaker 2: then go to Switzerland if they have any games.
Speaker 3: It's all good, just be practices thereineam together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. One of the things I learned
Speaker 2: in this that the coaches have no saying who gets
Speaker 2: to be on the team. Really, Yeah, it's because they
Speaker 2: don't want to be held accountable for your guy or
Speaker 2: so it's a it's a group of of other other.
Speaker 3: Than they're like a consortium of coaches. There's like five
Speaker 3: of them, pretty big, big ones too, right, I mean
Speaker 3: that's interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So so the coaches won't you know, Bell, you
Speaker 2: Colpete's gonna be playing for you? So yeah, so no,
Speaker 2: So it's a group of coaches from somewhere other place.
Speaker 3: So they're not like Tommy's recruits.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, one of them did not make it, that
Speaker 2: Coleman kid, right, Holmes Homes is.
Speaker 3: The one whose brother played it was a Dayton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I think. So, Okay, okay, so you
Speaker 2: know Tommy's out there doing his stuff. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: He's gone the road again and mister international.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be that's gonna be interesting and be
Speaker 3: fun for Tommy. I mean, he's kind of on that path.
Speaker 3: It looks like where he's going to maybe get into
Speaker 3: that whole USA basketball coaching mix that Steve Kerr is
Speaker 3: kind of wrapping up, I guess, right, But you know,
Speaker 3: it takes a lot of years to get to that level.
Speaker 2: And he's in pretty quickly. Yeah, pretty young. He's you know,
Speaker 2: what is the fifteen fifties. Yeah, if that's so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So he's uh, he's in a good spot. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of respect that USA basketball show up
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well when you're you know, the right hand man
Speaker 2: to you guy, a good zaga, Yeah, and then doing
Speaker 2: really well here or you know what's perceived to be
Speaker 2: really well. Oh, we'll see. We'll see. In his style,
Speaker 2: I think he you know, lets him play, go up
Speaker 2: and down, play to their enjoyment. So we'll see. Hold on,
Speaker 2: we got to call hello, you're in the air, an iball.
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Speaker 13: How you guys doing?
Speaker 2: Richard? What's the word you didn't text me today?
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Speaker 13: You know this tush push controversy with Jalen Hurts, right, yeah, uh,
Speaker 13: you know, it's it's kind of boring to sister quarterback sneak.
Speaker 13: The thing is this, he he's the strongest quarterback knowing
Speaker 13: the history.
Speaker 3: Of the NFL, I believe.
Speaker 13: So that's why it's so successful. And they tried to
Speaker 13: change the rules, which didn't work. But you're just gonna
Speaker 13: have a hard time starting stopping him. That guy squatted
Speaker 13: six hundred pounds his senior year in college. Is that
Speaker 13: why they created Can you tell me any any NFL
Speaker 13: quarterbacks ever.
Speaker 2: Been that strong?
Speaker 5: Ever?
Speaker 2: Hold on? Hold on up the top of my head.
Speaker 3: Uh no, yeah, hold on, Tim Tebow?
Speaker 4: No, he squatted four or five at Texas.
Speaker 2: And what is Allen's not this strong as No, no.
Speaker 3: Nobody is.
Speaker 4: He led the weight lifting room at the University of Goldcomo.
Speaker 13: And that played there that one year.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 13: You know, I see him really as an Alabama quarterback.
Speaker 3: But anyway, he's.
Speaker 4: Just too strong, and that's why he's so successful. You know,
Speaker 4: you don't change the rules.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: They said lou Al Sandra couldn't dump. It was too gloring.
Speaker 13: They outlawed it for a while, you know.
Speaker 4: Uh, it was just his talent.
Speaker 2: That made it able to do it.
Speaker 13: Same thing with this guy. So anyway, whatever anything else,
Speaker 13: I wanted to say that the quarterback sneak as part
Speaker 13: of football. Football is part of rugby.
Speaker 2: This is the way it rolls. Are we going to
Speaker 2: hear anything you don't like it?
Speaker 4: Stopping. We can hear anything Chine.
Speaker 2: The suitors, anything with the suitors, this stuff fault. Uh,
Speaker 2: they better be better.
Speaker 13: I think I'm afraid. You know, this is the do
Speaker 13: or die year. You know, if they don't, if they
Speaker 13: go downhill this year, they could fall into the abyss. Wow,
Speaker 13: I'm curious.
Speaker 2: You know, they lost.
Speaker 13: Twenty seven transfers went out, twenty people graduated, and so
Speaker 13: you were replacing with transfers and recruits.
Speaker 2: But is that the same?
Speaker 15: I don't know.
Speaker 4: We're looking better, We're looking.
Speaker 3: Good, but we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you whatever, doo care, Thank you, Thanks for
Speaker 2: the colle Richards calls in to talk about Oklahoma. That
Speaker 2: was yeah, well he already calls in, but he texts
Speaker 2: me a lot. Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're now like in the Big Boy Conference too,
Speaker 3: in the SEC, so things are a little bit right,
Speaker 3: but different than they were before, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: No question. We'll see what happens to the Oklahoma football,
Speaker 2: Texas football, you know SEC football.
Speaker 3: He's it's hard to hard to remember that they're in
Speaker 3: that league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know they want to be elite, so
Speaker 2: let's go.
Speaker 3: That was fun talking a rich You know, his dad
Speaker 3: was really one of my all time favorites too. I
Speaker 3: was here his entire his entire run. Great memories of
Speaker 3: some of the wins and losses, and just the way
Speaker 3: he it's perfect. The job Rich has two where he's
Speaker 3: he's working with the young players and young kids. Because
Speaker 3: Dick was was that way. He was a coach's coach,
Speaker 3: and you hear so many great stories about him from
Speaker 3: a players always like, oh man, you know the things
Speaker 3: I learned from coach? Tell me you go back almost
Speaker 3: anybody who came to the program and all and his
Speaker 3: years here stories were great.
Speaker 2: And that's what the coaches are supposed to be, right,
Speaker 2: you know, the growers of young men into men and
Speaker 2: have these stories about you know, fortitude and you know
Speaker 2: I always didn't have much, but then I came here
Speaker 2: and became a man. Yeah. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: They named the practice fields that are, you know, next
Speaker 3: to the football facility there, you know, right right by
Speaker 3: McHale for coach, and there must have been a kid.
Speaker 3: There must have been three hundred players out there. Like
Speaker 3: when they did like the dedication ceremonies, it was really nice, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, guys just really liked him.
Speaker 2: I don't remember, I don't know if you knew this.
Speaker 2: But so my starting music at the other place was
Speaker 2: this is it from kay Logains blah blah blah, and
Speaker 2: I've had it on forever until we moved here where
Speaker 2: we could use music, although we might bring it back
Speaker 2: and Rich and some of the guys is, why do
Speaker 2: you run that music? It's one of my favorite all
Speaker 2: time songs. Back in seventy nine, Magic Johnson and Larry
Speaker 2: Bird and all. It was used to be this that
Speaker 2: used to be the shining moment song back of the
Speaker 2: day when I was younger, So I used it. I
Speaker 2: always loved that song, and he says, well, that was
Speaker 2: my dad's favorite song. I said, really, it's no coincidence.
Speaker 2: I didn't you know. I didn't do that because of that,
Speaker 2: But he said, because there was so lyrics in the
Speaker 2: in the song that you know that kind of stood
Speaker 2: out to him. You know, this is your moment, baby,
Speaker 2: grab it.
Speaker 3: We did a thing on TV GOT a long time ago.
Speaker 3: It's called let me think of the name of it,
Speaker 3: where he had to be I did a golf shot
Speaker 3: really close. It wasn't the closest to the pin or
Speaker 3: something close to the whole something like that. As a
Speaker 3: contest was it beat beat the pro, beat the pro.
Speaker 3: So Dick would come out. Dick was one of the guys.
Speaker 3: He was good. I mean, you know, I don't even
Speaker 3: know if the coaches nowadays would do this, but we
Speaker 3: convinced him to come out, and he basically had to
Speaker 3: take a shot at a par three and get it close.
Speaker 3: We would measure that and we'd say, okay, Dick Tomy
Speaker 3: got it within six feet eight inches. We put that
Speaker 3: up and then everybody who played that hole on the
Speaker 3: next Saturday, anybody who came and played that hole could
Speaker 3: try to beat him, and if they did, they would
Speaker 3: win a prize. And so he was one of our,
Speaker 3: you know, fifteen people around town who did it. He
Speaker 3: was such a good sport about it. Of course, he
Speaker 3: probably took like twenty shots and we got one close.
Speaker 3: I think we were at Star Pass if I remember. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember that. It was pretty good. It was fun
Speaker 3: and we got some pretty good people to take part.
Speaker 3: Kenny Lofton did it, yeah, but yeah, it was great.
Speaker 3: He was He was a good sport.
Speaker 2: He was my When I first got here in eighty seven,
Speaker 2: I didn't cover the first year, but I covered three
Speaker 2: years after the fact, and it was very nice to
Speaker 2: cover him. And he got on me a couple of times.
Speaker 2: He was with a couple of things that I wrote
Speaker 2: that he didn't like. But he was fair and he
Speaker 2: was good. And then you cover him, right for three
Speaker 2: four years? I did for three and they said you're
Speaker 2: going to cover Loot. Now, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: want to go. I don't want to do that because
Speaker 2: you knew how good you had it, right, Yeah, because
Speaker 2: he was that good. You know, he would get on
Speaker 2: you and you used to do with me. It got
Speaker 2: on me a few times, but I said, no, I
Speaker 2: don't want to go with a guy who has a reputation.
Speaker 3: They're not liking the media, right, I mean, I think,
Speaker 3: did you go to camp coachies?
Speaker 2: Yes, the flies? How did you forgetting the flies were.
Speaker 3: Bad and all that stuff and the humidity. But he
Speaker 3: would he would hold court in the which I don't
Speaker 3: know if any coaches do that nowadays, but I mean
Speaker 3: he would just like, you know, we'd all be sitting
Speaker 3: around the media guys, you know, doing our whatever, snickering
Speaker 3: and looking at the players, and he just come over
Speaker 3: and sit down with us, and he would just kind
Speaker 3: of go off right and talk.
Speaker 2: It was funny I did that, I think in eighty
Speaker 2: I did that for three years, but in eighty eight.
Speaker 2: I remember this very well. Probably my first year there,
Speaker 2: and you know, we had the little trays at cafeteria trees, right,
Speaker 2: we sat down blah blah blah, and he'd bring his
Speaker 2: wisdom and we sit down and talk. And then it
Speaker 2: was probably my first day there. I got up and
Speaker 2: was going back to the place where we're staying, like
Speaker 2: the motel stakes of your brother. Yes, and he said, Steve,
Speaker 2: is your mom here? And I said, no, coach, what's up?
Speaker 2: You put your tray away. She ain't doing this for
Speaker 2: you as an Oak sorry, coach. Yeah, that's the way
Speaker 2: he was.
Speaker 3: He It was great because even if you watch video
Speaker 3: nowadays of a football practic, you don't get to see much.
Speaker 3: They show us stretching maybe and maybe a couple we sho.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He used to let us shoot everything. He would come
Speaker 3: over to us when they were going to start doing
Speaker 3: something kind of tricky. He'd say, listen, guys, you know
Speaker 3: I really appreciate it if you just turn your cameras
Speaker 3: off now for five minutes and I'll come back and
Speaker 3: tell you when you can turn him back on, which nowadays.
Speaker 2: Well, and there were times when we'd go, right, we'd
Speaker 2: all go. Jay was covering and I always used to compete
Speaker 2: against Jay back in the late eighties, and there were
Speaker 2: times we just went because we wanted to see if
Speaker 2: anybody got hurt. And you know, kind of like the
Speaker 2: day to day stuff. They could be doing trick plays.
Speaker 2: What the hell would we know?
Speaker 3: Right exactly?
Speaker 2: Well, you remember the David Eldridge situation rights the UCLA.
Speaker 2: They were doing the eyebone, blah blah blah. We might
Speaker 2: as well not know what the hell was going on.
Speaker 2: And then Saturday they ran over the hell over the
Speaker 2: Bruins and he says, how did that happen?
Speaker 3: Well, they were just practice, you know. Yeah, we didn't know.
Speaker 3: We didn't know what we were shooting. We were out
Speaker 3: there with the cameras and I'd say, hey, we want
Speaker 3: to do a story on you know, Ortiz Jenkins, and
Speaker 3: we would just be shooting him by himself. And I
Speaker 3: could have run five trick plays and we wouldn't either
Speaker 3: known it. And he was he was. I mean, all
Speaker 3: the coaches are paranoid about who's you see there?
Speaker 2: Well, if you remember after him Stoops came in or not,
Speaker 2: you know, not if it came in, but Stoops came in,
Speaker 2: and you were you around for student. So so we
Speaker 2: the practice field right there in the corner and right
Speaker 2: corner of sixth and Campbell. I remember Stoops making sure
Speaker 2: that across the way where Chubbah or Chuba whatever that
Speaker 2: damn restaurant was. It says, make sure there's nobody there
Speaker 2: filming us, because they could be, you know, taking shots
Speaker 2: of us. Don't think I even went to a press conference,
Speaker 2: even though I didn't cover the team that I was
Speaker 2: doing basketball. I said, you guys are really concerned. Says yeah,
Speaker 2: because they could be filming in some spy And I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 2: what happened to the times when Dave, if you brought
Speaker 2: your team to me or I brought your team to you,
Speaker 2: it was the better, better team wins. I don't care
Speaker 2: if I knew what you were running right. Those days
Speaker 2: were long gone, long time.
Speaker 3: Apparently there's some story I might have been a Dick
Speaker 3: Tony story where somebody was seen, you know, before the
Speaker 3: Rose or something, you know, in the stadium, you know,
Speaker 3: taking pictures. And since then, you know, we don't want
Speaker 3: anybody you know, in our practices. So there was there
Speaker 3: was always something. It was weird, weird paranoia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it exists. Now we'll look at the Patriots whatever,
Speaker 2: not the flaategate, but it was the the yeah, with
Speaker 2: the filming of practices somewhere else, you know, and then
Speaker 2: the pre scouting whatever. It was the Michigan Yeah, they
Speaker 2: bring yourself against me. Let's see what you got, baby.
Speaker 2: I don't care how good you think you are. It's
Speaker 2: like with basketball too.
Speaker 3: I mean, they play each other so many times, they know,
Speaker 3: they know every play. It's not like some surprise is
Speaker 3: gonna shure. The only thing that would that Coach Olson
Speaker 3: was talking about it is if somebody got injured and
Speaker 3: if that news got out, how that could affect the
Speaker 3: spread and things like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's another excuse. We gotta go already. Talk to
Speaker 2: you guys on the other side.