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Speaker 3: Welcome to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera today. I have my fifth rounders,
Speaker 3: Troy and Ray. No, you guys are first rounders. Hell
Speaker 3: with that, fifth rounders. You guys didn't slip to the
Speaker 3: fifth round. No, I think we did it good in
Speaker 3: our interview process. I don't know you think that's what
Speaker 3: it was better than some people. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Referring to something that we'll talk about down the road.
Speaker 3: A lot of stuff happened. Almost did a bad word.
Speaker 3: A lot of stuff happened this weekend. Football, basketball, baseball,
Speaker 3: A lot of you have a lot of breaking news.
Speaker 3: Probably Oh yeah, players coming and going from the ubay.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 3: Yesterday I was out somewhere Troy and someone said to me,
Speaker 3: do you see what Kurt Bryant did? He says, what
Speaker 3: do you do? He says, well, he declared for the draft.
Speaker 3: I said that was kind of a four gun conclusion.
Speaker 3: We already know that the question is will he come back?
Speaker 3: Because he has a chance to come back. We already
Speaker 3: knew he was doing that, right, he did that a
Speaker 3: week or Sogo or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think Bruce was the one that
Speaker 4: wrote about it a couple of weeks ago that he
Speaker 4: was going to go through that process. And in today's
Speaker 4: college basketball, yeah, and NBA you have to he should,
Speaker 4: you have to write. Yeah, And it's been the case
Speaker 4: for a while, especially if you're that guy. Now it's
Speaker 4: whether they're going to pay him to come back enough
Speaker 4: just to come back, right, I'm looking at in my estimation,
Speaker 4: no less than a million.
Speaker 2: It had to be more than a million. Yeah, No
Speaker 2: less than a million. So yeah, more than a million
Speaker 2: to have him back.
Speaker 3: I do think though, if he does come back, this
Speaker 3: team's going to be fantastic.
Speaker 4: If he comes back, there, in my opinion, easily at
Speaker 4: top ten team one year next year. Yes, I know
Speaker 4: they were this previous season. They're in natural range. But
Speaker 4: you look at the roster with him called Pete Burry's
Speaker 4: having Jayden Bradley back.
Speaker 2: On a lot of weapons.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of firepower there and there's toughness there
Speaker 4: that we've seen last year and out translating to this
Speaker 4: upcoming season ahead of time.
Speaker 3: Right, right, what do you just to that point if
Speaker 3: he comes back, you have what they have? What do
Speaker 3: you think that the difference this year was that didn't
Speaker 3: get him over that Sweet sixteen top?
Speaker 4: You know, I think they took a long time to
Speaker 4: figure out what they had exactly. We saw the pieces
Speaker 4: not really mixing well in mid season. It took them
Speaker 4: a while to get out of that. But you know,
Speaker 4: go through the Big twelve, you win the games you're
Speaker 4: supposed to and upset a couple of teams, and right
Speaker 4: there with Houston. I don't know if it's anything they
Speaker 4: didn't wrong this year in terms of the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 4: You just ran into Duke, who on any given night
Speaker 4: probably wins the national title. So, yes, you want to
Speaker 4: get over that Sweet sixteen hump. But at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, you gave Duke outside of Houston their
Speaker 4: best game of the year, and he barely.
Speaker 2: Lost that year.
Speaker 3: You kind of how I read that kind of is
Speaker 3: that they were as good as they were going to
Speaker 3: get the right into a better team. Right, better team
Speaker 3: they don't be Duke, maybe not once out of ten times,
Speaker 3: two out of ten times, right, uh so, you know,
Speaker 3: I kind of don't want harpen. This seam has been
Speaker 3: long over, but compared to next year, I think that
Speaker 3: next year's team, on paper, once ahead of schedule, that
Speaker 3: if Brian does come back, that this team could be
Speaker 3: better than this year's and maybe the even as good
Speaker 3: as this first year Tommy's first year.
Speaker 2: You know what, talent wise.
Speaker 4: The talent wise, Yes, because I was gonna say, I
Speaker 4: think this past season was his best team in terms
Speaker 4: of what he got out of it, the toughness that
Speaker 4: he got. Yeah, because I think that that first year
Speaker 4: team plays last year's team, This past season's team, I
Speaker 4: don't think they're mentally tough enough to ham in that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, I still think that that team had better more talent,
Speaker 3: better talent for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, if you want apples to apples, they don't get
Speaker 3: any better mental or whatever.
Speaker 2: No, you're probably right.
Speaker 4: Get you get punched in the mouth guy like a
Speaker 4: walka and he just kind of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pulled over right right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think that players with Dylan, with with Henry, with
Speaker 3: the Chicago Dalan. Yeah, and then you have Matthren obviously
Speaker 3: and those guys. So yeah, okay, I'll give you that
Speaker 3: this team.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 2: It was fun this year, given even the ups and downs.
Speaker 4: I'll say this, if they didn't face Duke, Let's say
Speaker 4: they faced outside of Duke, Florida and Houston, that they
Speaker 4: faced any of the Sweet sixteen Sweet sixteen teams, they
Speaker 4: could have won that game.
Speaker 2: They could have gone to the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the draw, Yeah, I know, it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta be one seed higher, you don't, you
Speaker 3: don't face them or whatever, But it was it was
Speaker 3: you know, at the end of the day, everyone's happy
Speaker 3: about the season because how it finished.
Speaker 4: Right, and then actually won't have one guy. I need
Speaker 4: this guy to go off.
Speaker 3: Right, right, you have a few guys that could go
Speaker 3: off at any time. Yeah, yeah, no question. Okay, So
Speaker 3: we'll worry about that one when it happens. Welcome to
Speaker 3: Monday Show. I think we have a pretty good show today.
Speaker 3: We're gonna kind of getcap the the the draft over
Speaker 3: the weekend when as it pertains to Arizona guys, there's
Speaker 3: a few of them out there. Right, We're going to
Speaker 3: have yourself and Michael lov going to be here in
Speaker 3: about ten fifteen minutes. We'll talk to him about what's
Speaker 3: going on. A lot of names out there. Not a
Speaker 3: bad draft, right, I got Arizona for the first time
Speaker 3: in a while. You're seeing, oh, this guy's going, this
Speaker 3: guy's going, this guy's going. So that's good.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's pretty nuts on Brennan, but it's
Speaker 2: on the previous Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say that shows what Jedfish was able
Speaker 4: to build at Arizona. You look at that recruiting class
Speaker 4: with that Troman Nooman was a part of. Some of
Speaker 4: them are still in college and they're probably going to
Speaker 4: make the NFL. You look at the guy like Jonah
Speaker 4: Coleman over at Washington, cary O Davis, maybe Ephesians, Price Sock.
Speaker 4: So at the end of the day, that twenty twenty
Speaker 4: two or twenty twenty three roster that won Alimable, you
Speaker 4: might be talking about thirteen fifteen guys that are playing
Speaker 4: in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that's a lot from Arizona.
Speaker 4: That's a that's any decade and a three draft span.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a two decade kind of thing from
Speaker 3: Arizona's past.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we'll see what happens, but we'll get more.
Speaker 3: We're into that when when Michael lev comes on the
Speaker 3: board here and then in the second hour, we're going
Speaker 3: to talk to one of those guys. I got you
Speaker 3: checked down, thankfully, Jacarija, Corey Krofsky, Merritt, Jacorey.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Why did I see Jacory?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, So that'll be fun. When new Mexico guy,
Speaker 3: we'll talk to him. Uh maybe reminiscent about my time
Speaker 3: there and his time there. But Arizona, he was here
Speaker 3: for a cup of coffee.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what, to his credit, you know,
Speaker 4: he did play in the one game and then the
Speaker 4: NCAA eligibility issues happened and occurred and are well noted.
Speaker 2: But he's stuck with the team.
Speaker 4: A lot of guys usually, you know what, I'll just
Speaker 4: go work out by myself, use the facilities when I
Speaker 4: need to.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna focus on the draft. He was on the
Speaker 2: he did the practice squad stuff.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm gonna pretend to be I don't know, r J.
Speaker 4: Harvey from Central Florida for you guys, I'm going to
Speaker 4: pretend to be this guy. He helped the team get better.
Speaker 4: He didn't have to do that, and I think it
Speaker 4: paid off for him in the long run, because then
Speaker 4: you have coaches like Alonzo Carter who know a lot
Speaker 4: of people, not only on the college level of NFL level,
Speaker 4: they're gonna have nothing but good thing sit about you.
Speaker 2: And I think that plaid off then, you know, and
Speaker 2: he went to the commander's right commanders. Yeah seven, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, I thought, and I'm telling her this and
Speaker 2: you probably feel the same way.
Speaker 3: He was a difference. He could have won two or
Speaker 3: three games for Arizona, you know. And that's kind of
Speaker 3: the bad luck you run into. As for Brennan, you
Speaker 3: come in struggle with what you have and then this
Speaker 3: guy comes and then goes ah, man, what could have been.
Speaker 4: It was two big blows they took before the second
Speaker 4: week of the season. They had him, they had him,
Speaker 4: and then they also had Raymond Palito mysteriously disappear from
Speaker 4: the team. So you're without your left tackle, you're without
Speaker 4: your star running back. So instead of maybe a seven
Speaker 4: win season, you're looking at for and a lot of
Speaker 4: stuff went wrong and a lot of injuries happened, but
Speaker 4: you have those guys.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a stabilizing force. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can always and you can always think that
Speaker 3: right or hope that that was the case. I still
Speaker 3: believe that he could have won a game or two.
Speaker 2: He was so good. He was just so good.
Speaker 3: It was surprisingly good to me, given he was at
Speaker 3: New Mexico and did well. Not surprise in the sense
Speaker 3: that how did you get up in New Mexico? I
Speaker 3: mean he could have been somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Well, I remember before that, and I forget the school's
Speaker 4: names not coming to my mind right now. He was
Speaker 4: at another school before he transferred in small, smaller school
Speaker 4: and then did well with daniganzol Is that in New Mexico?
Speaker 2: So you follow recruiting, you fool you?
Speaker 3: How many times percentage reds give me where you have
Speaker 3: this kid smaller school, he levels up and it really
Speaker 3: works out because because most of the time, that's what
Speaker 3: this whole transfer portal is. They're hoping that, well, no
Speaker 3: one noticed me in high school. I was this one star,
Speaker 3: two star whatever. But I'm better that I'm better, I'm
Speaker 3: a Scooby, right, No, I go somewhere bigger and I
Speaker 3: still perform really well there and then now I am
Speaker 3: who I am.
Speaker 4: How many times does that happen? I would say maybe
Speaker 4: before I had a ten times. When you look across
Speaker 4: the country, I mean, look at Arizona. They were gonna
Speaker 4: have that with Jaquori Krossky America. They had it with
Speaker 4: Jacob Cowing, They had it with other guys on the
Speaker 4: roster in previously years too. Now, will you hit on
Speaker 4: all of them? No, they have guys that they've taken
Speaker 4: that haven't done anything, but well.
Speaker 2: This year might be that factor too. We'll go ahead out.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, they have a couple guys on the user right
Speaker 4: now that are maybe that forty percentile. But you look
Speaker 4: across the country and I think the ones that everybody
Speaker 4: really focuses on are guys like the Jacob County guys
Speaker 4: like Jaquoriy krossky Merrit. Because it wasn't just Arizona offering them.
Speaker 4: You're talking about Ole Miss got Jaquary acrossky Merrit to commit.
Speaker 4: That's an SEC school, Jacob County. I think he had
Speaker 4: asu USC, He had other schools highly interested in him.
Speaker 4: So just look at the schools that are interested in
Speaker 4: those guys. Now, if it's a guy that I don't know,
Speaker 4: let's say it plays at you know, New Mexico State
Speaker 4: and he goes to an Oregon state. Who knows, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was the Lopus kid did the same thing. He
Speaker 4: was in New Mexico State, came here right level up,
Speaker 4: and now he's in the NFL. Yeah, Houston now and Phoenix,
Speaker 4: I think yeah, And I think those are those rare
Speaker 4: Thoz Lopez. You don't know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 3: Right, right, No, you don't know, because you will, You're right,
Speaker 3: and then you turn on to be thisantastic player that
Speaker 3: no one really paid attention to you for whatever reason. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: so we'll talk to him at the four or fifteen hour.
Speaker 3: We have Ray here, we can do some breaking news, right,
Speaker 3: A lot of stuff, A lot of stuff going on,
Speaker 3: women's basketball weekend, tennis, just got some notes, some information, right,
Speaker 3: Bafford has I'm gonna only be here today and tomorrow,
Speaker 3: so I'm not gonna be Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So we
Speaker 3: might talk about the horse racing situation on Friday, on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: about Saturday with Bafford's horse, his horses and the one
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna bet is I'm not gonna bet his,
Speaker 3: which is surprising to me. Uh, because you know why
Speaker 3: journalism is back.
Speaker 2: Did we go through this week Yeah, journalism pay, Journalism pays,
Speaker 2: we hope. So this weekend op I.
Speaker 7: Need a raise.
Speaker 2: There you go, yeah, okay, what time is it? I'm
Speaker 2: sham we got goeh, like four minutes. Also he was
Speaker 2: Alabama State.
Speaker 4: Alabama, thank you. I was thinking like southern Alabama. I
Speaker 4: knew that wasn't I thought it was how long do
Speaker 4: you one year to you? I think two years there,
Speaker 4: one year at New Mexico. Yeah, for four years, then.
Speaker 2: Four years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well he's my age.
Speaker 2: But you think that he'd get a get a COVID year.
Speaker 8: I mean everybody else was getting one of that.
Speaker 4: I think the problem was is, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 4: they had a game where jerseys and jersey numbers were
Speaker 4: being switched up, so they didn't know if he was
Speaker 4: on the field or off the field, and it was
Speaker 4: hard to track.
Speaker 2: And you know, wow, the.
Speaker 3: Little things, the little things that screw you, and then
Speaker 3: the big things. Oh he's another year the Vanderbilt player,
Speaker 3: he went.
Speaker 2: To j C. No problem. Say, if you're at Miami,
Speaker 2: you could be a tight end for ten years.
Speaker 3: So he's like eight years. I think, yeah, I saw
Speaker 3: that story. Okay, let's just go. We're gonna get Michael
Speaker 3: lev and come back.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to wind the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty via. You're sure, let's you say, Ray,
Speaker 3: We're gonna get ahold of Michael lev here in a second,
Speaker 3: so be prepared. I'm just trying to get him on
Speaker 3: the phone now, Okay, Well we'll get him in a second.
Speaker 3: Uh no, So we'll talk more about how many guys?
Speaker 3: About five guess because the free agency for drafting, Yeah,
Speaker 3: drafted and total total five total? Yeah, I just pulled
Speaker 3: that number out of my butt. Did a good job.
Speaker 3: So you drafted one signed? Who was the one quality
Speaker 3: Conley to the Bengals?
Speaker 2: Okay? I saw that? Yeah?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And then one former Wildcat got signed. I forget where
Speaker 4: he went. Bill Norton signed.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he was a Texas kid. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so he was done there, done there.
Speaker 4: I didn't play much, didn't play much at Texas. I
Speaker 4: think the time at Arizona that's enough tape there to
Speaker 4: have him sign him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool, Hey, I think we'll get Michael lev on
Speaker 3: the phone. Michael, are you there? Yes me, Michael Monk.
Speaker 3: How are you doing on a Monday?
Speaker 14: I'm doing well.
Speaker 2: Did you? Were you busy working the weekend?
Speaker 3: Maybe contemplating your columns for this week in terms of
Speaker 3: Arizona football signees draft?
Speaker 2: E's all that stuff, A little.
Speaker 14: Bit of both of the work. The work this weekend
Speaker 14: was busy work.
Speaker 6: I've been doing a lot of you know, little stories
Speaker 6: on women's basketball editions.
Speaker 2: Yea and that sort of thing.
Speaker 14: So nothing too deep, okay, but uh, you got got
Speaker 14: a piece coming out.
Speaker 6: On a high school softball player today, and got a
Speaker 6: piece coming out on Arizona Tennis's Colton Smith.
Speaker 14: Later in the week.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that should be good.
Speaker 14: So yeah, the bigger pieces on the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, cool.
Speaker 3: So let's talk about football specifically. Any surprises outside of
Speaker 3: uh T Mac?
Speaker 14: Well, I don't think t Mac was a surprise.
Speaker 6: Frankly, I think a lot of the pre drafts narratives
Speaker 6: were bs. He was the number one pure wide receiver
Speaker 6: in this draft all along, and it was actually a
Speaker 6: great fit at Carolina, so that didn't surprise me. Where
Speaker 6: Jonah Salva and Iyah went didn't surprise me. It was
Speaker 6: about the range. I think early two, I think Tyler
Speaker 6: Loop being drafted and Cory Krossky Marrit being drafted were
Speaker 6: pleasant surprises.
Speaker 14: Just the math was kind of working against them a
Speaker 14: little bit.
Speaker 6: Uh, just not a lot of kickers get drafted, but
Speaker 6: Baltimore has a unique situation where we have a need,
Speaker 6: so that made sense.
Speaker 14: And then, uh, this was just a really like rich
Speaker 14: running back draft.
Speaker 6: So I wondered if you if the numbers would just
Speaker 6: kind of work against Jaikory, but his workouts were so good.
Speaker 14: And I think it actually benefited him to.
Speaker 6: Not play very much this past season because about two
Speaker 6: hundred fewer hits that he didn't take.
Speaker 4: No, that's a fair point. You know, how do you
Speaker 4: when you look at Tatoro McMillan to the Panthers and
Speaker 4: just that spot and what they were able to do
Speaker 4: at the end of last year.
Speaker 2: Just you said it's a good fit. But why do
Speaker 2: you think it's a good fit.
Speaker 14: Well, first of all, Hi, Troy, how are you good?
Speaker 2: I'm doing good.
Speaker 14: This is why it's a good fit.
Speaker 6: Carolina doesn't have a true number one receiver, Okay, so
Speaker 6: let's start with that. Their number one receiver last year
Speaker 6: was Adam Fewen, and I think he's thirty five at
Speaker 6: this point and he's contemplating retirement, so he's at the
Speaker 6: end of his career. He's also someone who has openly
Speaker 6: stated that he is willing to be a mentor to
Speaker 6: younger players. Not all professional athletes are like that, so
Speaker 6: I think it's going to be helpful for Temac to
Speaker 6: have that type of presence.
Speaker 14: So that's one I think. Another is they didn't have that.
Speaker 6: Body type in their room, six foot four true outside
Speaker 6: receiver who can also play in the slot, which he
Speaker 6: did at times for the Wildcats and actually did.
Speaker 14: A lot of damage over the middle this past season.
Speaker 6: And I think a third reason that it's a good
Speaker 6: fit is they have an up and coming quarterback who
Speaker 6: showed over the last month or so of the season
Speaker 6: that he's actually good.
Speaker 14: We all kind of thought he was going to be
Speaker 14: a bust the way his career started out.
Speaker 6: We're talking about Bryce Young and he really came on
Speaker 6: late and he bawled out and he pounded the table
Speaker 6: for Tetoro McMillan. So you're making your young quarterback happy
Speaker 6: and you're giving him another weapon. And I think the
Speaker 6: last thing is that it's a relatively small market, so
Speaker 6: there won't be as much scrutiny and pressure on TMAC
Speaker 6: as there would have been if say he had on
Speaker 6: to the Dallas Cowboys at number twelve.
Speaker 3: You've you've covered a lot of players over your career,
Speaker 3: especially at the LA at USC. Where does where does
Speaker 3: t MA mac fit in terms of quality player? Better
Speaker 3: among the better players here? And I've said this before
Speaker 3: the season started that I thought had he had a
Speaker 3: great before the season started. I didn't know it was
Speaker 3: good or bad or in different whatever. I thought he
Speaker 3: had the chance to become the all time best.
Speaker 2: Football player here.
Speaker 3: Ever, his stats won't show that, but to me, in
Speaker 3: my eyes what I saw, he's pretty damn good and
Speaker 3: probably is in the top five regardless of the stats.
Speaker 3: Can you compare him to somebody at your previous life?
Speaker 6: This is a great question because I covered USC and
Speaker 6: I saw several really good receivers during my time there.
Speaker 6: I covered Markeith Lee, I covered Robert Woods. I would
Speaker 6: also throw a Dori Jackson into that mix. He was,
Speaker 6: you know, similar about as close to Travis Hunter as
Speaker 6: you would find in terms of being a true, you know,
Speaker 6: two way player. He mostly played corner and dabbled that receiver.
Speaker 6: So Jorry Jackson was probably the best athlete I've ever seen.
Speaker 6: I'd say Robert Woods was the smoothest, like most crisp
Speaker 6: route runner. I've seen a close and personal. Marquise Lee
Speaker 6: another like really extraordinary action until injuries kind of derailed him.
Speaker 14: T Mac is unique because just because.
Speaker 6: Of his size, you know, the way you just don't
Speaker 6: see a lot of six foot four guys move the
Speaker 6: way that he moves. He's just so fluid and natural,
Speaker 6: and I think it even threw off the evaluation for
Speaker 6: some scouts and draft knick types because it's just so
Speaker 6: effortless for him out there that it doesn't maybe look
Speaker 6: like he's running as hard as some other guys do,
Speaker 6: but he's still eating up ground because of his mom stride.
Speaker 3: It's funny you say that, because I was struck over
Speaker 3: the weekend by the criticism that he was getting he's
Speaker 3: not making cuts or he's not working in the start.
Speaker 3: And then it struck me like Kalid Reeves, right, a
Speaker 3: guy who was just a dude who you gave him
Speaker 3: the ball, you cleared out and let him play. He
Speaker 3: didn't work hard like Damon, but he got the job done.
Speaker 3: He was fluid, athletically gifted. And t Mac is the
Speaker 3: guy just give me.
Speaker 2: The damn ball. I mean, just give me the damn ball.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and he I mean, I feel like it was.
Speaker 14: The pre draft process was weird. Even during the draft,
Speaker 14: it was weird.
Speaker 6: They would show highlights of guys making these one handed catches.
Speaker 14: I'm like, WHOA, I may sure that stuff for T Mac.
Speaker 14: He's got like a bowload of dose.
Speaker 6: Yeah right, I mean, I think I don't know if
Speaker 6: Troy was there for this, but I'm pretty sure the
Speaker 6: first practice he ever participated in at Arizona, he made
Speaker 6: one of those ridiculous catches.
Speaker 14: On the sideline and all of our jobs just dropped.
Speaker 14: But by the end of his career at the U
Speaker 14: of A, he just did all the time.
Speaker 6: It was like routine again, very natural for him to
Speaker 6: go up and pluck the ball away.
Speaker 14: From the frame.
Speaker 6: One handed, two handed, acrobatic, crazy contested catches like he
Speaker 6: can do all that stuff, and for whatever reason, I
Speaker 6: feel like he didn't get credit.
Speaker 14: For it, and the lead up to the draft it
Speaker 14: was very strange.
Speaker 6: I don't know if there was just a couple teams
Speaker 6: or scouts out there that didn't like him, but I
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 14: It was weird. But I think all's well.
Speaker 6: That ends well for him in a great spot, and
Speaker 6: I think it's a it's a place where he can drive.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I was gonna say he probably has the best
Speaker 4: ball skills I've ever seen at Arizona through covering, and
Speaker 4: you know, just living here in Tucson, I can't think
Speaker 4: of a receiver that could go up and get it
Speaker 4: like he can. I know Dlon Griner was very good
Speaker 4: at it.
Speaker 12: So was.
Speaker 3: The guy I had on the show here. God, he
Speaker 3: was a high jump all you do is catch touchdowns. God,
Speaker 3: tell me, tell me, Michael, God, what's his name?
Speaker 14: Is this someone from the last time?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, no, no, no, it was a rich rock guy.
Speaker 2: I know you were talking about. Yeah, yes, that's it,
Speaker 2: that's it. Yeah, but not like that. No, no, but
Speaker 2: he would get up and leap and you know whatever.
Speaker 2: But kind of that guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I would argue too that
Speaker 6: t wasn't utilized to the fullest, especially in his.
Speaker 2: Last Yeah, I totally agree, totally.
Speaker 6: Agree, definitely had he definitely could have had more touchdowns
Speaker 6: if they had utilized him properly in the red zone.
Speaker 14: But of course last year's team barely got.
Speaker 2: The right zone.
Speaker 6: So yeah, there was just there's just a lot of
Speaker 6: problems with that offense. Again, I like it hurt him
Speaker 6: to stay. He would have been better off, you know,
Speaker 6: with the with the benefit of hindsight if he had
Speaker 6: gone to an SEC team. Oh, because he probably would
Speaker 6: have played in a better offense on a better.
Speaker 14: Team, would have been on one of the playing for
Speaker 14: one of the.
Speaker 6: Schools that gets the benefit of doubt, and uh, you
Speaker 6: know in the media that covers the NFL.
Speaker 2: So so let me ask you.
Speaker 3: Now he's gone and we were at the Spring Showcase
Speaker 3: whatever it was a week or so ago. Uh, what's
Speaker 3: gonna happen to Noah now that his buddy's gone.
Speaker 14: Hopefully he'll be better.
Speaker 6: You really, it's hard to say that having an amazing,
Speaker 6: like generational talent on your team was a negative in
Speaker 6: any way. But there's no question that Noah would look
Speaker 6: for him on almost every play and wouldn't necessarily go
Speaker 6: through progressions and would end up holding the ball kind
Speaker 6: of running around a lot of scrambled drill plays. People
Speaker 6: should find this story on Yahoo that Nate Tight wrote.
Speaker 6: Nate Tice wrote just about how many plays routes that
Speaker 6: team that ran that had more than four seconds to
Speaker 6: throw for the quarterback.
Speaker 14: He was like double the national average. So hopefully, you know,
Speaker 14: he'll just run.
Speaker 6: An offense as opposed to looking for a guy, and
Speaker 6: that will actually help to make him a better player.
Speaker 4: You know, I think one of the unsung heroes of
Speaker 4: the last several years for Arizona has been Jonah Salvinea,
Speaker 4: and we see him going the second round there and
Speaker 4: just looking at the the what stability he gave Arizona
Speaker 4: over the last three four years. Just your thoughts on Jonah,
Speaker 4: not necessarily where he went, but the impact he was
Speaker 4: able to have in Tucson and what I mean.
Speaker 6: If t Max is Unicorn one, then Jonah's unicorn one. A.
Speaker 6: How often do you see an offensive clignement come in
Speaker 6: and start as a true freshman and then fulfill the
Speaker 6: promise that everyone said that he had. I mean, there
Speaker 6: were guys are, oh, he's gonna be in the NFL
Speaker 6: in three years. You know, you hear people say that.
Speaker 6: Sometimes you roll your eyes. He was the real deal
Speaker 6: from day one. A couple things stand out about him.
Speaker 6: I think Number one just very unselfish, not really a
Speaker 6: tackle right, like he's a guard and they're gonna play
Speaker 6: him guard in the NFL. But when Arizona asked him
Speaker 6: to play tackle, no questions asked, went out there and
Speaker 6: did it, had to go play left tackle in the
Speaker 6: middle of a game. I don't think he ever practiced there,
Speaker 6: went out and did it to the best of his ability,
Speaker 6: even though he may not have helped his NFL draft stock.
Speaker 14: And then the other thing I would.
Speaker 6: Say, is just how naturally big he is, Like he
Speaker 6: carries his three hundred and thirty pounds like it just
Speaker 6: looks normal on him, you know, like he's not he's
Speaker 6: not overweight.
Speaker 14: He's just a big, thick dude.
Speaker 6: I think he's gonna play ten to twelve years in
Speaker 6: the league, and he's gonna make the Dolphins of their
Speaker 6: fans very happy.
Speaker 3: Nice since you've talked about the women's basketball team and
Speaker 3: you're probably the new uh the beat writer slash columnist.
Speaker 3: It wasn't too long ago, two, three weeks ago, whatever
Speaker 3: weeks ago, the whole city.
Speaker 2: Was, Oh, what are we gonna do with Diaz? Gone,
Speaker 2: what are we gonna do? It looks like they're doing
Speaker 2: we're gonna do. Okay.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I was saying to some friends of mine that
Speaker 14: it's kind of funny.
Speaker 6: That Arizona women's basketball it's kind of more or less
Speaker 6: finalized their roster before men's basketball has, and Becky Burke
Speaker 6: has been the coach for only two and a half
Speaker 6: weeks or however long it's been. Obviously, the circumstances are different.
Speaker 6: There's no like, you know, oh, I'm gonna enter the
Speaker 6: draft and see what my stock looks.
Speaker 14: Like situation with the women.
Speaker 6: But she's done a really good job so far, at
Speaker 6: least on paper, of bringing in a mix of players
Speaker 6: who either have extensive college experience, or they had pedigrees
Speaker 6: of some sort, or they won state championships, or they
Speaker 6: have some.
Speaker 14: Extreme skill like shooting or height.
Speaker 6: How it all comes together remains to be seen, but
Speaker 6: I like the look of the roster on paper, and
Speaker 6: I also like some of the additions they've made to
Speaker 6: the staff. I mean, bringing in Julie Haregrove, a local legend,
Speaker 6: gives them a West Coast you know, someone with West
Speaker 6: Coast connections, and then hiring a general manager, which the
Speaker 6: program has never had before, bringing.
Speaker 14: An assistant coach in from Texas. It's a lot of
Speaker 14: smart moves.
Speaker 6: It seems like, you know, whether it was all Becky
Speaker 6: Burke or whether it was a combination of Becky Burke
Speaker 6: and Desiree read Francois, there was a plan and that
Speaker 6: plan has been executed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, I can so far so good, right.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I would greater in terms of overall,
Speaker 3: but it looks close enough to be an a given
Speaker 3: the situation where there was nobody.
Speaker 2: On that roster is maybe one.
Speaker 14: I mean, who knows, right, I mean, like, yeah, it's
Speaker 14: impossible to tell, right.
Speaker 6: A lot of these players from you know, from uh
Speaker 6: what you called mid majors, so this is a step
Speaker 6: up for them, and we never you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: guess that the vast majority.
Speaker 14: Of the audience that's listening to your show today has never.
Speaker 6: Seen Buffalo women's basketball, so we don't know what the
Speaker 6: product is gonna look like. She talked about like being
Speaker 6: defense first, but kind of using that to play fast.
Speaker 14: I think there's gonna be ah.
Speaker 6: More pace, more three point shots, which is a little
Speaker 6: more modern way to play ball.
Speaker 14: You know. I want to see how hard did the
Speaker 14: kids play for her?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Give her given aren't going well, yeah, given her prescote wich,
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna have to play hard for her.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think, I like, I don't think she's
Speaker 6: gonna be an easy coach to play for. And we'll
Speaker 6: be similar to Idea in that regard. Sometimes you know,
Speaker 6: kids don't like that. Will we'll see what the culture
Speaker 6: piece looks like. But I don't think Desire would have
Speaker 6: brought someone in that she didn't think would build a
Speaker 6: good culture because that's extremely important for her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, what about So what do you have next?
Speaker 3: You had something today, like you said, remind us and
Speaker 3: then I guess when's your tennis player. I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: to that one because the dude is good, the dude
Speaker 3: is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So.
Speaker 6: Okay, So today I've got a piece coming out on
Speaker 6: a softball pitcher named Claire Achilles from Tanka Verity High.
Speaker 6: She's a sophomore two way player, real standout, rising star.
Speaker 6: And Colton Smith is ranked like one hundred and sixtieth
Speaker 6: in the world and he's made money on the adv
Speaker 6: Tour yet he's still in college. So I'm going to
Speaker 6: kind of find out why that is, how he's able
Speaker 6: to do that, kind of you know, what he's all about.
Speaker 6: So those are the pieces, and then of course we'll
Speaker 6: have wrap around baseball coverage this weekend with TCU.
Speaker 4: Coming to town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Michael's usual. Thank you very much, enjoy the week.
Speaker 14: Thank you, gentlemen.
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Speaker 3: up to, what you're thinking, blah blah blah. Tonight the Warriors.
Speaker 3: I know this might have been a breaking news thing,
Speaker 3: but tonight the Warriors could.
Speaker 2: Close it out. Yep, no, no, yeah, there go three one.
Speaker 3: They could go two. Okay, they're two to one. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: so that's in this in home. They could go three one?
Speaker 2: What's up? Spread? Do we know two Warriors our favorite?
Speaker 2: Two or three?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. They might tie it up.
Speaker 4: The Warrior fan over here, it's getting ahead of himself.
Speaker 4: Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler, come back. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think they might go three and one today, do too? Okay,
Speaker 4: we'll see what else?
Speaker 2: What else? Troy? You busy doing nothing.
Speaker 4: While I have a story coming up on I uh. Wagner,
Speaker 4: the new potentially a new place kicker for Arizona was
Speaker 4: transferring in from Illinois State.
Speaker 2: Talk about shoes that needs to be filled, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: big shoes.
Speaker 4: And he's had three years at Illinois State averaging I
Speaker 4: think the percentage was sixty nine percent success, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 3: That's a lot different from you with Tyler last week. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: what a fantastic kid. I didn't really know his story
Speaker 3: until he said with about coming from Dallas and and
Speaker 3: Doug Fath and all that. Didn't know that because I
Speaker 3: covered Dug Fath thirty five years ago.
Speaker 4: Well, I remember when he first came. They worked him
Speaker 4: out up on her. Yeah you know, long game was
Speaker 4: not his saying it was all the short game, right. No, No,
Speaker 4: that's exactly leg and exactly of that. And then him
Speaker 4: and Luke because haversacker, Lucas kind of took him under
Speaker 4: his wing and they just hit the ground running, worked hard.
Speaker 2: And that's the memory.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to go there with him because I
Speaker 3: didn't want to say that, but that's how I remember it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't have that boomy leg because they didn't
Speaker 2: have that. They had both of them.
Speaker 4: Lucas was the lawn kicker, and if it was anything
Speaker 4: inside I would say thirty yeah, well sorry, anything inside
Speaker 4: forty is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2: Then it would be Tyler Luke.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it felt like, okay, if it's thirty five yards,
Speaker 4: you should take a penalty, so you could back it
Speaker 4: up for Lucas because you'll miss it. And if it's
Speaker 4: anything about that, then just go to him, because Tyler's
Speaker 4: not going to have the leg to get it.
Speaker 3: Sure, No, No, I thought the same way. I didn't
Speaker 3: want to go there because I said, maybe my memory
Speaker 3: is not the same. But yeah, you're right, he didn't
Speaker 3: have that leg. I wonder what the heck. And he's
Speaker 3: a former soccer player, Uh how he kind of developed
Speaker 3: that in over the last two three years.
Speaker 4: And you know, one thing that he talked about is
Speaker 4: a golf swing, trying to work out your golf so
Speaker 4: making it all one. And this kicker that's coming into
Speaker 4: Arizona talks about a golf swing, one consistent movement. So
Speaker 4: a lot of similarities with kickers and golfing.
Speaker 3: And they're all kind of goofy football players because all
Speaker 3: you have to do is one job. If you screw
Speaker 3: up that job, everybody knows you screwed.
Speaker 2: Up that job. Nobody knows the kicker until you miss.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was, or you're great one of the two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like an offensive lineman, no one knows your name
Speaker 3: or who you are until you get a penalty or something.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, But tremendous development for Tyler Loup. But no
Speaker 4: Ian Wagner. You know, his last year at Illinois State
Speaker 4: hit about seventy five percent, so career sixty nine percent.
Speaker 4: But he also did punning as well, so this is
Speaker 4: going to be his first chance to just be a
Speaker 4: place kicker.
Speaker 2: Junior senior.
Speaker 3: He'll be I believe a senior, but you know with
Speaker 3: eligibility now, yeah, he'll be twenty seven by timis out.
Speaker 4: Kind of you, right, but had family and j yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you serving the country, had family in Cira, Visa.
Speaker 2: So it's a little bit of a homecoming for away. Okay,
Speaker 2: when's that coming out? That is going to be coming
Speaker 2: out tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3: Okay, gotta be a gotta be a server, got to
Speaker 3: be on that system of goasy. You'll get the first question,
Speaker 3: but after that then then you got to you better
Speaker 3: make that first question good to make sure you get
Speaker 3: a second question answered.
Speaker 2: Okay, how can people do that? We never talked about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just going to goezycats dot com and when you
Speaker 4: log in, it'll ask if you want to sign up
Speaker 4: for the premium membership and I believe that is nine
Speaker 4: to ninety five for the month or not ninety nine
Speaker 4: five cents for the year, So oh what.
Speaker 2: Nice? So you could do the monthly fee of basically
Speaker 2: ten bucks or one hundred for the year. I think
Speaker 2: that's a good deal. Buses. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, how'd
Speaker 2: you get him by yourself? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Just when he committed to Arizona, followed him on Twitter,
Speaker 4: followed me back, and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 4: let me do a story real quick with him and
Speaker 4: ask him if I can ask him a few questions,
Speaker 4: and there we go.
Speaker 2: And before we can't talk to him at all.
Speaker 4: Right, well, once it gets on campus, he can't talk
Speaker 4: to him. But he is not on campus, so yeah,
Speaker 4: we're okay, cool, good, good for you.
Speaker 3: At four fifteen, we're going to talk to uh Corey Kraft,
Speaker 3: right okay, and then at four o'clock we can get
Speaker 3: some breaking news, right okay, anybody calling, will please do
Speaker 3: five to twoo four one forty uh women's basketball.
Speaker 4: You know, it's hard to set a bar because of
Speaker 4: how saying chaotic things were last year. In the last
Speaker 4: several years, you lose most of your roster. She's done
Speaker 4: a good job of adding players, but you just don't
Speaker 4: know what they're gonna be in terms of not only quality,
Speaker 4: but how are they going to play with each other?
Speaker 4: How's that chemistry gonna go? You're bringing in a lot
Speaker 4: of transfers.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you, because I didn't, I didn't cover it.
Speaker 3: I didn't I really talked about it here in the
Speaker 3: scale of drama, okay, well no, no, let's that'll be
Speaker 3: a question. But on the scale of how good they
Speaker 3: were one to ten, howard they or last year? Yeah
Speaker 3: or okay, on the scale of drama, what were they
Speaker 3: about an eight?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: So that kind of doesn't jive, right, doesn't jive and
Speaker 3: drama people kind of kind of didn't see it solid
Speaker 3: because you don't, you know, you have to answer like
Speaker 3: why are they leaving?
Speaker 2: What? Yes, so, and without have to go in into details. Right.
Speaker 2: But but I think the one thing that.
Speaker 3: You won't have next year maybe a five in terms
Speaker 3: of competitiveness and drama three maybe three.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can you never really know. But the
Speaker 2: hope is that you kind of stop that that's settled.
Speaker 4: That's that issue, because it's been not only last year, yeah,
Speaker 4: in the last three four years, right to be honest,
Speaker 4: really title Yeah, there's been nothing but consistent issues behind
Speaker 4: closed doors with the program.
Speaker 3: Right, so I think that will be eliminated, possibly very likely,
Speaker 3: and then the quality of play that you've been used
Speaker 3: to might be matched over the last couple of years
Speaker 3: or exceeded or maybe not.
Speaker 4: Can you do better than what they did last year?
Speaker 4: I believe so, but I think real realistically, just because
Speaker 4: you don't know how these pieces are going to fit
Speaker 4: right in a good way or yeah, thirteen sixteen wins,
Speaker 4: I think is that margin or that's where you want
Speaker 4: to be in year one. If you're ahead of that, cool.
Speaker 4: If you're a little bit behind that, oh, well to
Speaker 4: your one, you're going to have to give this. You're
Speaker 4: gonna have to give her time to build the program.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question too. Yeah, two or three years, right
Speaker 3: of course. And then with desiree Hi in your hair,
Speaker 3: she'll probably get more leverage because it's her higher Now.
Speaker 4: The good thing for Becky Burke, and it was a
Speaker 4: good thing for Idea, but it didn't work out for
Speaker 4: Idea is it's not the packed call. It's not the
Speaker 4: talent that you see in the pack roll with Stanford's
Speaker 4: and Oregon Oregon States and you know UCLA's and USC's
Speaker 4: of the world. Look at Big twelve, Okay, Kansas State TCU.
Speaker 4: Outside of that, it's pretty open. So there's not those
Speaker 4: just top five, top ten teams sitting up time.
Speaker 3: And if they do well, you know that there are
Speaker 3: other schools other players are going to want to jump
Speaker 3: on and then nil, that issue will never go away.
Speaker 2: No, And and Arizona is what it is.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: You know you take your girl either to McDonald's to
Speaker 2: be Vacci's or Flemings.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll say this for you to cook for her.
Speaker 4: I'll say this for Arizona. An Idea proved it right,
Speaker 4: we're way back in the day. Night Butts didn't use
Speaker 4: it as well as idea. Did you have great facilities
Speaker 4: compared to most of the women's basketball court?
Speaker 2: Okay I didn't because it's mostly built for a built
Speaker 2: for the men's program.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, I think whereas I think Kansas they have
Speaker 4: a women's basketball court, they have a volleyball court, some
Speaker 4: some have their own basketball venue. But when you look
Speaker 4: at McHale in terms of the venue itself, there's not
Speaker 4: going to be a lot of bit built in built
Speaker 4: in place for you to to succeed exactly. Yeah, because
Speaker 4: they share.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I didn't really think that or know that, but that
Speaker 3: makes total sense and another reason why they are so.
Speaker 3: I think though, if she does win, even marginally, that
Speaker 3: people will gravitate to her.
Speaker 4: You just got to her number one job obviously, bring talent,
Speaker 4: get the coaching staff, he get all that organized. But
Speaker 4: you have to be able to sell the program. And
Speaker 4: sure Creditedia she did a great job when they're of
Speaker 4: selling the program. You have to be that an energetic
Speaker 4: and engage because if you're not, nobody's gonna care.
Speaker 3: No in fact that she's doing that right now at
Speaker 3: s you right, she's out in social and she's doing
Speaker 3: what she does. You are who you are, and that's
Speaker 3: what she is, and she she'll do good at that
Speaker 3: or do well at that.
Speaker 2: So that's not I would say then one of the
Speaker 2: big things is you just got to sell yourself to
Speaker 2: the community, right right.
Speaker 3: The fact that she's not from there, has no ties there.
Speaker 3: That's probably her her not demise, but that's her. She'll
Speaker 3: have to overcome that well and that and that's why
Speaker 3: you bring in Rudolfson's granddaughter on the.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but to.
Speaker 3: Your point too, yeah, you know that's why she's got
Speaker 3: some connections here. You get smart connections, smart move yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: and tremendous coaches too.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, that's a thing.
Speaker 8: Uh yeah, I think kind of like what Troy was saying,
Speaker 8: like as long as like like around like a mediocre season,
Speaker 8: I mean she had and anybody who's been following you
Speaker 8: know she like you know that she has like kind
Speaker 8: of that reputation of building programs too. So it's like
Speaker 8: it's one of those things where it's like I feel
Speaker 8: like you kind of look at it like how Jeff
Speaker 8: Fish was, where it's like, you know, maybe you have
Speaker 8: like a rough first season or like a decent enough
Speaker 8: for a season just to keep building off that, and
Speaker 8: like I said, she has the track record right of
Speaker 8: proving it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And there's no pressure not to become successful right away,
Speaker 3: right because one the person who hired yous here and
Speaker 3: heard you for a reason.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's it's not that Okay, hold that tut Troy,
Speaker 2: You're on the air, nine on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 19: Hey, Steve's done?
Speaker 2: Hey don.
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 19: Just talking about the women's program and what Troy was
Speaker 19: saying about the facilities. If you remember the video that
Speaker 19: came out on the Socials, when Becky Burke walked into
Speaker 19: McHale Center, She's looking up and you could see her
Speaker 19: she goes she mouths, wow, And I think that Arizona
Speaker 19: across the board has a look of a pro style situation.
Speaker 19: You know, we know the football stadium is is old
Speaker 19: and it has its issues from Michale Center is is knife.
Speaker 19: You know, then they got they got the Jefferson the
Speaker 19: practice gym that I know the women's team uses because
Speaker 19: I've seen it on videos and stuff. And I think
Speaker 19: that as long as this team, because it's hard to
Speaker 19: put a win total number because like you said, we
Speaker 19: don't know none of these players have played together. You know,
Speaker 19: if she brings a couple from Buffalo, they'll be able
Speaker 19: to spread the word as to how coach likes to
Speaker 19: do things and this is what coach means when she
Speaker 19: says this or that or whatever. As long as they
Speaker 19: take on the attitude that she has shown already and
Speaker 19: they play forty minutes of ball and games and they're
Speaker 19: competitive and they're you know, like the few players that
Speaker 19: Idea had at the end these last two years, they
Speaker 19: they never quit like someone's football teams that you could
Speaker 19: see that they would quit. They they played hard all
Speaker 19: the time. And if if Becky Burt can get her
Speaker 19: her team to do that from the get go, I
Speaker 19: think she can get a really good, strong foothold.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, in the.
Speaker 19: Community and and and build a thing the right way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, that way.
Speaker 1: I see it.
Speaker 3: In fact, two years ago, I think it was two
Speaker 3: seasons ago, when Ada had like six players, seven players,
Speaker 3: and she played us close. But I was thinking, God,
Speaker 3: she's coaching her butt off, because you don't. That doesn't
Speaker 3: happen easily, right, And she was competitive. They were competitive.
Speaker 3: They worked hard with the limited limited people. They had
Speaker 3: not since probably the championship year when they went to
Speaker 3: the finals.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 19: Yeah, and they did it this past season. The girls
Speaker 19: that were playing were playing hard. But what you were
Speaker 19: talking about a minute ago the drama where players were
Speaker 19: missing games and there was no explanation, right, there was
Speaker 19: no injury report, right, and there was this, and there
Speaker 19: was that, and that's been going on for a few
Speaker 19: years and that I didn't really I didn't think much
Speaker 19: of it, but it was it was like exhausting, like
Speaker 19: when are we going to have the whole team?
Speaker 6: Right? Right?
Speaker 3: Right? That doesn't happen by accident. And I say that
Speaker 3: a lot, but it doesn't happen by accent.
Speaker 4: Again, you talk about the playing with six players is impressive,
Speaker 4: but why are you in that position for every year
Speaker 4: and so eventually that's part of the problem too, even
Speaker 4: though you got the most out of that, Yeah, it
Speaker 4: could have been a different situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's impressive. And then you say, but why is
Speaker 3: it happening? Yeah, yeah, okay, thanks to.
Speaker 19: The impressive thing was is?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 19: We knew she could coach right other stuff, Well, she.
Speaker 3: Can get she can get stuff out of her players,
Speaker 3: and that's what she was known far. Mean, she she
Speaker 3: did really well until until until, you know, until she
Speaker 3: did until she didn't right, right, Okay, thanks don, yep,
Speaker 3: thanks thanks for the call. We're gonna have to take
Speaker 3: a break here, come back with Ray and breaking news.