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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball
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Speaker 2: in today with Dave Silver and we've got Kobe at
Speaker 2: the guest here waiting for phone calls and stuff like that. Dave,
Speaker 2: how are you doing well?
Speaker 3: Doing okay?
Speaker 2: How are you okay? Okay? Would you rather be inside
Speaker 2: than outside where it's going to start get hot?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What was it like ninety five when I walked in?
Speaker 4: So it feels good to be in a little air conditioning?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little windy too.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You collergic to damn yellow? I think I might be.
Speaker 4: You know, I usually start to feel at this time
Speaker 4: of year, usually when the temperature gets really super hot.
Speaker 4: That's kind of when I start to get sick. Oh, dude,
Speaker 4: when it kind of goes from coolist to hot. So
Speaker 4: we'll see if I can get through these next couple
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Speaker 2: Well, you have a suit of fit, give it to
Speaker 2: me so I can fall asleep during the show. Okay,
Speaker 2: it might be for a better show. Hey, a lot
Speaker 2: of things going on. Obviously. Let's say today we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about soccer FC Tucson on John Perlman. We'll ask
Speaker 2: him what the hell is he up to and what's
Speaker 2: he doing now with the titles that he has. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure I thought he was the president of the
Speaker 2: of the team. He might be doing other things now. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then at the four seventeen hour, we didn't put
Speaker 2: it on social because we didn't have it at the time.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have hal you and Morales talking about a
Speaker 2: variety of things high school sports as we running down
Speaker 2: the season with just about a few weeks left.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all a playoff should be starting here pretty soon,
Speaker 4: I guess mhm.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure Kobe will have some breaking news. We
Speaker 2: might impede on that breaking news if we run out
Speaker 2: of things to talk about. But someone asked me yesterday
Speaker 2: or the day before, because all these guys are coming back, right,
Speaker 2: Jade and Bradley awaka Crevous and there was one more
Speaker 2: still so so they're signing, they're sending these things out right,
Speaker 2: they're signed, they're signed.
Speaker 3: Has re signed everything everything that we're seeing.
Speaker 2: What social, what do you think I'm guessing there must
Speaker 2: be some nil involved there.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I've never never heard that before.
Speaker 4: Usually it was just they're coming back, or you know,
Speaker 4: they're they're not going pro or they're whatever.
Speaker 3: It's been framed.
Speaker 2: Right. So, like I said yesterday on Facebook, Saise, I'll
Speaker 2: be back tomorrow if God allows me to. Did you
Speaker 2: resigned to come back tomorrow? I didn't sign anything hothfully,
Speaker 2: you know what he asked me to. I'm afraid to
Speaker 2: sign stuff now, so I asked, I asked the powers
Speaker 2: that be at UA, what does that all mean? So
Speaker 2: here's the response. Just now, I mean, within the last
Speaker 2: six seven minutes, they are signing agreements related to revenue
Speaker 2: sharing in parentheses with the contingency that the House resettlement
Speaker 2: is approved, and implement WOW or financial aid agreements for
Speaker 2: the upcoming year related to their scholarships. So it's one
Speaker 2: or the other.
Speaker 4: Because the scholarships, if I'm not mistaken, they're year to year, right,
Speaker 4: you know, so everybody thinks, oh, they're going to get
Speaker 4: a full ride, but it's basically I'm pretty sure it's
Speaker 4: just year to year. The way it's worked out, especially
Speaker 4: in athletics, that's how it wasn't the good old days, right?
Speaker 2: Who knows these are not good?
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's insane, but it used to
Speaker 3: be that way, right.
Speaker 4: But yeah, when it comes to that house settlement too,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you know, they probably have a figure that
Speaker 4: they're looking at that they know they're going to get
Speaker 4: and they sign it.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, and they're complaining that in addition to the
Speaker 2: NIL without him mentioning the n L.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: So, and that's the key, because I'm sure the guys
Speaker 2: that are coming back aren't coming back for free, right
Speaker 2: or for a little pitton A lot of and.
Speaker 4: The guys that they're going to try to get or
Speaker 4: you know, to transfer, even even the Harvard kid from
Speaker 4: South Point, he probably he's getting something to come in here,
Speaker 4: and maybe he wasn't even getting anything at Harvard.
Speaker 2: Who knows, right, I don't, Yeah, probably not, don't.
Speaker 4: They don't have athletics scholarships right in the IVY League.
Speaker 2: They're not going to have anything there now at Harvard
Speaker 2: given the still be okay, no, but but the political yeah,
Speaker 2: I think they'll be okay, Okay, that's what that's their
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Speaker 3: Six billion dollar endownment.
Speaker 2: Oh that's true.
Speaker 3: Arizona's is like barely one.
Speaker 2: Okay, man, we live in a weird time. Yes, but
Speaker 2: that's for another day on another show. Uh So, anybody
Speaker 2: want to call, please do five two o four one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty. We'll take your call. Talk a lot
Speaker 2: about a lot of different things. It looks like we'll
Speaker 2: let for we'll let Kobe break the news. But the
Speaker 2: women's team did get a player today or recently, yep,
Speaker 2: from somewhere, So that's good. You could tell that she's already,
Speaker 2: as they say, on the ground running a couple of
Speaker 2: days after her press convererence. What did you think of that?
Speaker 2: Did you watch it?
Speaker 3: I did watch it. You know, she was she was impressive.
Speaker 4: She was she's polished, she's got a strong message, she's
Speaker 4: got a good personality. She kind of, you know, didn't
Speaker 4: shy away from saying that she got a lot of
Speaker 4: work to do. It's basically starting from scratch, and you know,
Speaker 4: she kind of like turned everyone to listen. I got
Speaker 4: a good move and I gotta I gotta get out
Speaker 4: and go. I know she showed up at one of
Speaker 4: the baseball games over the weekend, so she maybe didn't
Speaker 4: go immediately. But I'm sure you know she's already already
Speaker 4: making phone calls and zooms and however these things are
Speaker 4: worked out.
Speaker 3: You know, she probably has a lot of people calling her.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you in the business that you
Speaker 2: were in forever? Uh, in the media business? Have you in?
Speaker 2: This might be just a question that you would not
Speaker 2: have to know at the top of your head. So
Speaker 2: have you ever seen one of these press conferences where
Speaker 2: it just failed, you know, because you always get a
Speaker 2: new person. Oh, they were pretty impressive. Oh they won
Speaker 2: the news conference exactly, That's exactly. I don't think I
Speaker 2: can ever remember one. I'll tell you one that just
Speaker 2: came to my one. Well, were you at summons? Did
Speaker 2: you see someonings?
Speaker 3: I was not there.
Speaker 2: He was okay, he he was okay. I couldn't tell
Speaker 2: he didn't want to be here, but he was going
Speaker 2: to cast a check or whatever. That was kind of
Speaker 2: the prettylude to what happened to him. But I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say herm harn herm, herm a issue, HERM Edwards, HERM Edwards. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because he took some questions that were kind of strange,
Speaker 2: just very strange, and you know, the devil's digestics, is
Speaker 2: you believe in the devil? You know? It was kind
Speaker 2: of very odd. Yeah, but it was just odd to me.
Speaker 2: Maybe he won the press commerce, but it was kind
Speaker 2: of what what are you from? I don't know.
Speaker 3: And the way that thing ended too, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Usually, you know, usually the coaches earlier,
Speaker 3: polished and sure.
Speaker 4: Know how to answer these questions, kind of know what
Speaker 4: to expect, and sure, you know, there usually isn't any
Speaker 4: you know, real, you know, out of the world type
Speaker 4: question that they're going to get thrown at them anyway.
Speaker 2: Sure, it's mostly softball questions blah blah blah. So uh,
Speaker 2: I think my point is, uh, when you when people
Speaker 2: are DEAs leaving, oh man, the world is gonna end,
Speaker 2: who are you going to get? Yeah, those were always
Speaker 2: kind of like not really true, because you're gonna find somebody. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're gonna find when somebody that's very capable of filling
Speaker 2: in or fitting in. Yeah, every place.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean we were talking I think I was
Speaker 4: here exactly a week ago. We had Joan Bavasini. We
Speaker 4: were talking to her about that, and I don't I
Speaker 4: don't think Becky had been hired yet No, maybe the
Speaker 4: next day it was.
Speaker 2: It was Wednesday, the two days later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know, we were talking about that and
Speaker 4: how every athleticor editor, every athletic director has a list
Speaker 4: of candidates for just about every job that's out there.
Speaker 4: So she probably had this list and yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: called her friends and called around and said, should I,
Speaker 4: you know, pursue this. And from what I was reading,
Speaker 4: there was like some other people involved. Maybe Sam Thomas
Speaker 4: might have been involved, some other people involved around the
Speaker 4: women's program.
Speaker 3: In the part of the process.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Yeah, there was kind of a collective group
Speaker 4: of people who were, you know, instrumental in making the
Speaker 4: final call or at least the recommendations. And that she
Speaker 4: either went to go see her in person or did
Speaker 4: things over zoom. You know, who knows how things go
Speaker 4: these days?
Speaker 2: Right right? Where did you see that? Where do you
Speaker 2: think you see that? Saw that?
Speaker 3: I just made it up? No, I'm just it's not somewhere.
Speaker 2: Okay, because I didn't read that.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 2: I just read a little. I read. I saw the
Speaker 2: press conversion as you did. I read Michael Epps's story
Speaker 2: on it. I thought that was done well. I would
Speaker 2: have written a lot like he did you know how
Speaker 2: impressive she was and where she's been and yeah, kind
Speaker 2: of where she has to kind of start and do
Speaker 2: this thing all over again. But no, I didn't see that,
Speaker 2: which you know they're going to have a committee, right
Speaker 2: you can ask people what do you think? What do
Speaker 2: you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean I think I guess the biggest
Speaker 4: question just is, you know, she's not really other than
Speaker 4: her college as a player at Louisville, you know, really
Speaker 4: has not been at this level of basketball or certainly
Speaker 4: as a head coach or anything like that.
Speaker 3: So it's going to be an adjustment for her to
Speaker 3: see how she can do the way.
Speaker 2: Do you do you believe that? I mean, and I
Speaker 2: say that because you were in a situation like this,
Speaker 2: you know it's there are stages, and I'd like to say,
Speaker 2: and this is just an analogy, not anything specific to
Speaker 2: women's coaching or my job at your job. So you
Speaker 2: do you ever go to the dog track? I did
Speaker 2: once a couple of times. A dogs be dogs, he dogs,
Speaker 2: and if you see dogs do really well, they get
Speaker 2: moved up to the dogs and the vice person. So
Speaker 2: when you were at Santa Luis, what'd you come before her?
Speaker 3: Silence abs.
Speaker 2: Were you ready for this jump?
Speaker 3: Probably not really.
Speaker 2: Oh you're a bad example. That screw that.
Speaker 4: I thought, well, I thought I was good enough of
Speaker 4: doing the on air stuff and in terms of covering
Speaker 4: things I never had covered, you know, Pac ten or
Speaker 4: whatever it was.
Speaker 2: I but you were capable. You were you were.
Speaker 4: You were able to go in and do interviews. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you knew the job. I was a little bit intimidated.
Speaker 2: Okay, but you may have been that. But were you
Speaker 2: good enough to do the job?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And that's kind of my point. Whether you're at
Speaker 2: the middle level, lower level and you're going to move up,
Speaker 2: it's it's, at the end of the day, the same game,
Speaker 2: coaching the same way. Yeah, and well, well he's not
Speaker 2: going to he or she's going to struggle as they
Speaker 2: move up, You're you're still the same coach. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The only thing I was thinking of, too, is just
Speaker 4: maybe her connections and trying to get new players, because
Speaker 4: as you know, she's starting from zero, you know, so,
Speaker 4: and that's where maybe, you know, are these women who
Speaker 4: were out there thinking about going to Arizona. I have
Speaker 4: no idea who this coach is. I don't know who
Speaker 4: she is, sure where she came from. I don't know where.
Speaker 4: You know, Buffalo is well, and that might be a
Speaker 4: little bit of a hardship his first year.
Speaker 2: So people like that say, well, do they have West
Speaker 2: coast connections? Do they have these coast connections? But if
Speaker 2: also you're a personable coach and you know how to recruit,
Speaker 2: you should be able to do that anywhere in the country.
Speaker 2: It's not the world. It's like Tommy for all his
Speaker 2: his life, he was an assistant coach, right, and people
Speaker 2: are thinking, well, how did you get to handle the
Speaker 2: Everything turned out to be okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's I think the fact now that Arizona's in
Speaker 4: a different conference where the geography is, you know pretty
Speaker 4: much what it's almost like the middle part of the country,
Speaker 4: the Southwest and the Rockies. You know, she's gonna and
Speaker 4: she's coming from New York or Louisville, so she's kind
Speaker 4: of got a little Midwestern ties. I'm you know, they
Speaker 4: all know each other, sure, and you know she's gonna
Speaker 4: have friends who are gonna recommend players to her and
Speaker 4: things like that.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll give you this and this is what I
Speaker 2: know because I know basketball fairly decently decently. Uh So
Speaker 2: loot when he went recruiting when he first got here.
Speaker 2: What are you thinking? What do you what are people thinking? Well,
Speaker 2: he had West Coast ties because he coached the Lung
Speaker 2: Beach College and then he went to Iowa obviously in
Speaker 2: other places, so he had these connections. But what what
Speaker 2: did he have that he had that he could recruit?
Speaker 2: He had him, right, he had him, and then success.
Speaker 2: Well that's probably a bad example, but even like Dick
Speaker 2: told me he was at Hawaii, he had him just
Speaker 2: and then parents will saying I want my son to
Speaker 2: play for that guy.
Speaker 5: Guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean again, they're gonna have to get to know her,
Speaker 4: and they're gonna she's gonna have to get out there
Speaker 4: around the country.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't even.
Speaker 4: Know these days where they're if there's like camps or
Speaker 4: AAU events and things like that, she's gonna have to
Speaker 4: show up now. And you know Las Vegas is a
Speaker 4: big place for the for the guys in the summertime.
Speaker 2: Well, here's your thing. Now they have the portal. I mean,
Speaker 2: they can hunt and pick and and find and both
Speaker 2: are both men and women. What do we need? Okay
Speaker 2: with this guy does this and blah blah, blah. I'm
Speaker 2: sure that's how they found Delorso a waka and all
Speaker 2: these guys, because oh, that guy had a great tournament.
Speaker 2: This is who he would going to the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: He'd be perfect, rough and tumble with a waka. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, You need a shooter, where can
Speaker 2: we find?
Speaker 4: Oh, just kid, I'm sure she's doing the same thing.
Speaker 4: There's a list of how many five foot six, you know,
Speaker 4: shooting guards around out there, and there's probably one hundred
Speaker 4: of them. Yeah and yeah, she's gonna have to try
Speaker 4: to figure it out. And you know, whatever the financial
Speaker 4: situation might be in Arizona, how that's going to play.
Speaker 4: And then her personality and you know it's going to
Speaker 4: be good. She's got a good personality. I'm sure she's
Speaker 4: gould be impressive to the parents exactly, to whoever needs
Speaker 4: to make those decisions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So it's all about that personality, willing to win,
Speaker 2: winning over the parents, winning over the kids. It's it's basketball. Well,
Speaker 2: he doesn't haven't coached at this level before. I think
Speaker 2: that's second. That's low on the list, because if you
Speaker 2: can coach, if you could do TV Sima Luis Obispo.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: You could do TV in Tucson, Arizona does it, and
Speaker 2: you can probably do that in New York. It's just different.
Speaker 4: Just never got that chance, nor did you want to.
Speaker 4: Well maybe you did a little, who knows, but you're right.
Speaker 4: You're right, though, I don't know. I just there's always
Speaker 4: been that, you know, experience factor too. I mean she's
Speaker 4: thirty five, she's young. You know, how is she going
Speaker 4: to do if someone like Gino or Ama is going
Speaker 4: after the same player kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Lose?
Speaker 4: I mean, Tera is gone, so they don't have to
Speaker 4: compete with her. But the u c L a USC
Speaker 4: teams are pretty darn good right now. So she's got
Speaker 4: that to competing.
Speaker 2: And you're also not competing against you know, you're you're
Speaker 2: competing against the legacy. Yeah, you know you're competing against
Speaker 2: Oh really, it's like Arizona. Why do you think Arizona's
Speaker 2: has been so successful? Everyone? The perception is at the
Speaker 2: basketball school? Yeah, uh, how do you think Sean and
Speaker 2: he came in and he you know, Xavier, well he
Speaker 2: never coach at this level. But it's a basketball school.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty decent place to live, and it's a
Speaker 2: basketball school and they get people to the NBA. Yeah
Speaker 2: h do they now not as much, but they still
Speaker 2: have that reputation. Hell, people believe it's a blue blood.
Speaker 4: Well, and the women's the games are on TV, you know,
Speaker 4: things like that, even if it's the ESPN plus, you
Speaker 4: can watch your daughter or you know, your friends play
Speaker 4: everywhere all the time, so there's that exposure is going
Speaker 4: to be there too. So you know, you get a
Speaker 4: player from Florida and the parents are like, oh, I'll
Speaker 4: never get to see my daughter play. Well, yeah, she's
Speaker 4: to be on TV every game. You can pretty much
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In today with
Speaker 2: me is Dave Silver Now on the phone. We help
Speaker 2: Jonathan Perlman of FC Tucson on Jonathan, how you doing?
Speaker 5: How you doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing? Okay. Basketball season's over. Football season is almost over.
Speaker 2: I got started well football with the spring spring stuff.
Speaker 5: Okay, and then it's always going. We got players coming in.
Speaker 5: We're waiting to see who's leaving still. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: exciting times.
Speaker 2: Jonathan, worry about FC two sound, don't relax about the
Speaker 2: NIL deal. That's we can't control that. We can't worry
Speaker 2: about that unless you have money in your pocket that
Speaker 2: you can give to the NIL.
Speaker 5: Listen. I think everybody's been asked for it, so I
Speaker 5: don't think why I should. Hey, aren't you small business? No?
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Oh that's right. Are you glad you're not part of
Speaker 2: that stuff?
Speaker 5: Well, it's really to be honesty. We're really actually we are.
Speaker 5: People do ask coming here if there's if there's money
Speaker 5: to be had for coming here. It's not. It's everywhere now,
Speaker 5: and players are asking what they can do to earn money,
Speaker 5: you know, from side deals for social media and things
Speaker 5: like that. It's it's just part of the fabric. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't really find again, I think it's what happens
Speaker 5: when some of the it's a great overcorrection, I guess,
Speaker 5: is what you say. And I think it'll get done
Speaker 5: in a way where it's.
Speaker 2: A lot more thoughtful.
Speaker 5: I've heard some thoughtful ideas caps, you know, contracts that
Speaker 5: go multiple years. I've heard some really cool things. And
Speaker 5: again it will There are soccer players that do get
Speaker 5: you know, twenty thirty thousand, but not like the numbers
Speaker 5: are getting for revenue generating sports.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so your season starts soon, right, how things?
Speaker 3: How things progressing for that.
Speaker 5: Fantastic? You know, our roster has been built, were slowly
Speaker 5: announcing the players. We have our season take holder at
Speaker 5: sponsors party this Friday at Corbetts. But again we open
Speaker 5: on May third with our sort of community celebration where
Speaker 5: we play a selection on Tucson, which is some of
Speaker 5: the top men's league players in Tucson, a lot of
Speaker 5: former some former FC two sound players, some younger players
Speaker 5: from the UH from the from the one A WAT
Speaker 5: to a league in the Tucson Metro League. And it's
Speaker 5: a great celebration with fireworks and we're really excited about that.
Speaker 5: Matt's but yeah, we kick off as in defense of
Speaker 5: our Western Conference Championship, and you know, expectations are always high.
Speaker 5: You know, in the last year, we in the last
Speaker 5: two years as we were returned to USL two, we
Speaker 5: were we lost one game and twenty three who went
Speaker 5: all the way to the National semi finals, and twenty four.
Speaker 5: So obviously, you know, coach Benada is put together another
Speaker 5: team that we think can make a deep run. But
Speaker 5: it starts with playing well on your opener and establishing
Speaker 5: those relationship quickly, which is a big part of you
Speaker 5: know USL League two ball. You have to put your
Speaker 5: players together with your local superstars and the guys coming
Speaker 5: in and we have players some all kinds of different
Speaker 5: countries on the team, so making that chemistry is what
Speaker 5: really step has got a gift for. And we're really
Speaker 5: just incredibly excited for the team we have coming in.
Speaker 2: How long have you been involved with SG two, so
Speaker 2: I asked for a reason.
Speaker 5: Yeah, since twenty eleven. Is really sort of the inception
Speaker 5: when we played the first you know match at High
Speaker 5: Corbett when we had supporting Kansas City played the Red
Speaker 5: Bulls and we played the Red Bulls reserves actually, and
Speaker 5: that was twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: So what I wanted to ask is how far have
Speaker 2: you come along with this?
Speaker 5: I mean, when I guess that's very open, how far
Speaker 5: have I come along as a coach, as a human being.
Speaker 2: With the with the FC two. So because you've you've
Speaker 2: transformed to into a lot of different things. But I'm
Speaker 2: sure you're very pleased with what's going on now.
Speaker 5: So now we're we're incredibly pleased. I mean, I think
Speaker 5: what this was always about was to help us, you know,
Speaker 5: put Tucson on the map for soccer in a number
Speaker 5: of different ways. We've been part of, you know, the
Speaker 5: development of fields. We've been part of the development of
Speaker 5: lots of players. We've had on our USL two team,
Speaker 5: a national team captain. We've had a Tucson player played
Speaker 5: twelve years in the MLS. We've had our own players,
Speaker 5: you know. You know this last week and Danny Musaski
Speaker 5: twenty seventeen players scored for the Sounders and got engaged
Speaker 5: in the same week. There's just so many personal moments.
Speaker 5: But as a company, you know, we've really we've really
Speaker 5: put ourselves, you know, back in a really great place
Speaker 5: here and you know, as we head towards the twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six World Cup, it's really positioning ourselves in that
Speaker 5: final move. We really want to return to professional soccer,
Speaker 5: but until we're able to do that thoughtfully, we are
Speaker 5: just really players. We have such a great partnership with
Speaker 5: SCTs on Youth and we're producing top collegiate players there.
Speaker 5: We work with PEMA College, we work with the u
Speaker 5: of A. We have so many different sports, you know,
Speaker 5: interns that are able to develop using us as sort
Speaker 5: of an incubator for their skill sets. And we have
Speaker 5: people working in sports all across the NBA, MLB, the Olympics, FEFA. Now.
Speaker 5: So I mean we're just we're just happy with what
Speaker 5: we've done. I mean, we're really satisfied, but unsatisfied all
Speaker 5: the time. I mean, we obviously want to win a
Speaker 5: national championship. We want to return to the pros, and
Speaker 5: we want to make sure that people remember Tucson as
Speaker 5: a place that you know, produces great soccer and great
Speaker 5: people and put you know, just have people come here
Speaker 5: and visit. And that's just what we've always done and
Speaker 5: we're going to continue doing that.
Speaker 4: One question I always had is just kind of watching soccer,
Speaker 4: you know, as a dad and as a fan and
Speaker 4: things like that, and in Arizona. Is why why is
Speaker 4: MLS not in Phoenix? Why are they not in Maricopa
Speaker 4: County someplace?
Speaker 5: I think that's an incredibly good question. I think the
Speaker 5: as we've gotten through sort of the conversations that I've
Speaker 5: been privy to, the biggest part is having it is
Speaker 5: you have to have a stadium that is climate controlled,
Speaker 5: with an ownership group that is willing to invest in
Speaker 5: a climate controlled stadium. So I think one would think
Speaker 5: that the most logical position would be an NFL owner.
Speaker 5: That's what's happened in other markets. You know, you're talking
Speaker 5: Arthur Blank, You're talking obviously the Craft family in New England.
Speaker 5: So I mean, I don't know if that's an interest
Speaker 5: for we have a stadium that hosts, you know, world
Speaker 5: class games. We didn't bid for the World Cup, which
Speaker 5: I thought was shocking to me, and we don't have
Speaker 5: games being played in the World Cup. But I mean, again,
Speaker 5: that's really a climate controlled team. Obviously, Phoenix is maybe
Speaker 5: eleventh in terms of a TV mark, in terms of populace,
Speaker 5: it's it's it's obviously on their target list, but you
Speaker 5: just haven't found the ownership group or maybe the situation
Speaker 5: in some places have shot ahead of them with very
Speaker 5: aggressive ownership groups, like we saw in San Diego with
Speaker 5: the new team there, and obviously Las Vegas has been
Speaker 5: popping out there. But Phoenix Las Vegas have been obviously
Speaker 5: a part where people think that two of the next
Speaker 5: teams could come from there. And really Don Garbage it
Speaker 5: never shows his hand too early. But again I think
Speaker 5: that there's it's to me, it's probably not if it's
Speaker 5: it's not if it's when, And I couldn't speak to
Speaker 5: that exact moment.
Speaker 2: What set us up for this upcoming seat and what
Speaker 2: do you guys like, what do you guys have?
Speaker 5: We've got strong returners from Tucson obviously, we have to
Speaker 5: all Americans from Tucson, and DeAndre Pickett and Ismael Garcia
Speaker 5: from Pima who took PEMA all the way to the
Speaker 5: national tournament. We have Diego Valis who plays right back
Speaker 5: for Grant Canyon. In terms of local players, and there
Speaker 5: are Brandon Santez who's also played at Pima, was an
Speaker 5: All American headed to TSCU Pubo who's a national powerhouse
Speaker 5: at Division two. And then a slew of players you
Speaker 5: know from various top programs across the country with a
Speaker 5: variety of nationalgis. We've got Brazilian, Colombian, German, you name it,
Speaker 5: we have a player from that country and they're all
Speaker 5: time tested from coaches that we trust, that we believe in,
Speaker 5: that have told us that these players are are key
Speaker 5: members of their teams and are really able to produce them.
Speaker 5: We've picked off a couple of star players from a
Speaker 5: rival teams as well, which is always great to do
Speaker 5: so hopefully that the chemistry will come through the way
Speaker 5: we want to. And obviously amongst them, we have our
Speaker 5: youth players in the training group there so they'll be
Speaker 5: ready to be part of the team when they're ready
Speaker 5: to to become college players and move up. And we're obviously,
Speaker 5: you know, some young players in our academy that are
Speaker 5: finishing out their academy careers that we think will be great,
Speaker 5: like of course, you know, you know Gonzales who broke
Speaker 5: every high school scoring record. So I mean, for us,
Speaker 5: it's really critical that we developed players here locally, but
Speaker 5: we put them with players from across the country and
Speaker 5: they're going to challenge them and help them grow. And
Speaker 5: I think there was most evident with DeAndre Pickett, who
Speaker 5: now plays in the ACC for cal and there's no
Speaker 5: bigger soccer conference in that in the country.
Speaker 4: When you talk youth academies, what age group are we
Speaker 4: talking about when they can get started.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So obviously FCTWO Sun has its own youth programming
Speaker 5: through uh what we also offer. It's from from three
Speaker 5: years old all the way to nineteen, but we offer
Speaker 5: a you twenty team, which is aret the best of
Speaker 5: our youth academy players any age from you would call
Speaker 5: fifteen to twenty. So it doesn't matter how young you're.
Speaker 5: Obviously you've seen in the world players competing at sixteen
Speaker 5: years old, like Wayne Rooney and Email Messi was already
Speaker 5: making his debut at seventeen at Barcelona and me and
Speaker 5: Jamal right now is dominating at seventeen years old. So
Speaker 5: we don't put in an age cap that the player can
Speaker 5: handle the environment. We encourage them to do that and
Speaker 5: so that they play against professional youth teams from across Phoenix, Rising,
Speaker 5: New Mexico United, al Paso all have USL teams and
Speaker 5: they participate in that league in the Varsity Academy, which
Speaker 5: is in constant. Grant who's produced numerous players that are
Speaker 5: now on the national team are playing the MLS or abroad.
Speaker 5: So again for us, you know, it's complete programming. We
Speaker 5: try to make sure that we do a good job
Speaker 5: to give these players, you know, an amazing summer in
Speaker 5: addition to what they're already getting. And obviously we have
Speaker 5: a great coach in Sebastian Pineda who coaches as well
Speaker 5: with the U OFA Women and he just does a
Speaker 5: tremendous job. And we're really just looking forward to them
Speaker 5: and our women's team, uh playing the summer and just
Speaker 5: producing uh great great moments for families and and and
Speaker 5: great moments on the field like we had last summer.
Speaker 2: This is a question that's not related to FC Tucson,
Speaker 2: but what's your what are your thoughts on the German
Speaker 2: team going to try to break ground on South in
Speaker 2: South Tucston.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think again, you know, obviously, you know it's
Speaker 5: been with that piece of property being sort of I mean,
Speaker 5: there's lots of challenges that South Tucson has dealt with
Speaker 5: in terms of obviously the closing of the dog track
Speaker 5: and what to do with those properties and developers. I'm
Speaker 5: hopeful for them obviously, I think they'll be you know,
Speaker 5: a lot of work to do in the in the
Speaker 5: in the to develop that piece of property. But again,
Speaker 5: the more the more places where kids can play and
Speaker 5: train here is something I'm always going to be behind.
Speaker 5: I'll I'll always I watch it with great interest. You know,
Speaker 5: lots of teams like ourselves have partnerships with with the
Speaker 5: clubs abroad, so we're always open to that. We've had
Speaker 5: conversations with, you know, clubs in Spain, clubs in Mexico.
Speaker 5: We continue to keep those dialogues open to find the
Speaker 5: best partners for our players, for the best partners for Tucson,
Speaker 5: who really are invested in the community long term. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm hopeful that that can be something that gets developed,
Speaker 5: you know, along with the obviously the Mosaic Quarter. But
Speaker 5: you know, for us, we have a great partnership with
Speaker 5: the Stadium District PEMO. We love Keno North, we love
Speaker 5: where we train and play right now, and when we're
Speaker 5: ready to grow, we're sort of looking for opportunities where
Speaker 5: maybe it best suits us to play when we return
Speaker 5: to professional but we're super happy with our digs right now,
Speaker 5: and or encourage anyone to try to develop composition and
Speaker 5: here it only is going to help kids have more opportunities,
Speaker 5: which is the reason I got onto this in the
Speaker 5: first place.
Speaker 2: So you talked about this, for mentioning this at least twice,
Speaker 2: about playing professionally at some point realistic, realistically, can that
Speaker 2: happen anytime soon?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I think so. I mean I think for me,
Speaker 5: you know, I set a goal of, you know, by
Speaker 5: the end of twenty six having a franchise again. You know,
Speaker 5: I don't think we'll start playing twenty six, but coming
Speaker 5: to an agreement and finding a partnership group. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's the number one goal starting you know, once we
Speaker 5: hit you know, probably July this summer. I mean, that's
Speaker 5: really where I turned my personal focus to. I've been
Speaker 5: really a strong group of individuals I've mentored to help
Speaker 5: run the company and allow me to think bigger and
Speaker 5: bigger ideas. You know how that works if you're stuck
Speaker 5: in the day to day and you're not able to
Speaker 5: really you know, have the conversations you want to have
Speaker 5: with and sort of developed a vision. But I have
Speaker 5: such an incredible support staff and so many young and
Speaker 5: talented people that are now with me full time that
Speaker 5: I'm really able to do that. So, you know, my
Speaker 5: goal obviously to have a lot of conversations in the
Speaker 5: next twelve to fifteen months heading into the World Cup
Speaker 5: next summer, and then obviously have some some news to
Speaker 5: produce during that period of time, where I think is
Speaker 5: going to be a real, real turning point for this
Speaker 5: country in terms of the growth of the game.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say to you mentioned Mosaic Quarter. Is
Speaker 4: there any soccer plans for the Mosaic Quarter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, there's in phase three of
Speaker 5: the master plan. There's a soccer stadium in a beautiful drawing,
Speaker 5: and like I always say, I I've seen a lot
Speaker 5: of beautiful drawings in my time, and that you know,
Speaker 5: I'm really happy that they're breaking ground. I think it's
Speaker 5: a wonderful thing for that area and for me. But uh,
Speaker 5: you know, it will it match the timeline of what
Speaker 5: we need to do or is that location the perfect
Speaker 5: location for our team. I think that's yet to be
Speaker 5: determined on how that development goes. So again, we had
Speaker 5: some initial conversations there. Their focus right now is obviously
Speaker 5: in the first phase and it's obviously a very interesting
Speaker 5: time in our country in terms of volatility for doing
Speaker 5: large projects. So I'm really just excited for them. I
Speaker 5: hope it's going as well as it can go, and
Speaker 5: I'm excited for Pema County. But like I said, for us,
Speaker 5: you know that timeline and what that stadium would actually
Speaker 5: look like and what the terms of that are obviously
Speaker 5: are are to be seen more when they than they
Speaker 5: commit to that piece of the project, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So we got a couple of minutes here
Speaker 2: John refresh us on what to do at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the season, where to go for tickets, stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Incredible, we were still got a season tickets on sale.
Speaker 5: We've also had a flex packs. We know that people
Speaker 5: tend to go away in the summer, but the flex
Speaker 5: pack are a great opportunity if hit our for you
Speaker 5: to hit our biggest games of the season, the ones
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Speaker 5: Mile You're th July are are obviously any games you
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Speaker 5: the community. So you see a lot of camps and
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
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Speaker 2: You're Kobe. Good to talk to Jonathan Ya.
Speaker 3: It was good.
Speaker 4: Seasons coming up pretty soon, May third at home. They've
Speaker 4: got i think seven matches at home, so May June July.
Speaker 4: Good time to get out and watch some soccer.
Speaker 2: Good. Yeah, stay cool, stay cool.
Speaker 3: Find some places, stay cool.
Speaker 2: It's a little it's a little home court advantage, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean he's got these teams coming in from like,
Speaker 4: you know, Ventura, California. You know, teams like that that
Speaker 4: are not used to the desert heat.
Speaker 2: But they go to places that are kind of human,
Speaker 2: aren't they just kind.
Speaker 3: Of yeah, their schedules kind of all over. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, good good for him.
Speaker 3: I know they do good that.
Speaker 4: They do a lot, a lot of firework shows, they
Speaker 4: do a lot of things, a lot of attractions to
Speaker 4: get peop sure in my and watch.
Speaker 2: The old bring them to the ballpark things, right, the
Speaker 2: old Mike Vader philosophy. You're right right, How we're gonna
Speaker 2: get him here? Yeah, a lot of stuff, no, which
Speaker 2: is good, you know, and something to do obviously very
Speaker 2: inexpensive as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and good players.
Speaker 4: You know, he's talking about players and you know, either
Speaker 4: had had good high school success here, maybe played at Pima,
Speaker 4: maybe playing cup club soccer, or the women's players from
Speaker 4: the U of A coming over and playing there and
Speaker 4: extending their careers.
Speaker 2: And I wish my son would have been able to play,
Speaker 2: but he left to play call it somewhere else. So yeah,
Speaker 2: didn't come back. No cool, Okay, take some calls if
Speaker 2: you want five, two zero, four, one, six, seventy four
Speaker 2: or forty talk about whatever you'd like to talk about.
Speaker 2: We've talked about women's sports obviously, now soccer in the
Speaker 2: way of the world. We'll have some breaking news from
Speaker 2: Kobe as well with some signings I think in the
Speaker 2: women's basketball and the guys coming back. We mentioned that
Speaker 2: already signing are.
Speaker 3: Signing year to year deals, right whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming for a lot of money.
Speaker 4: I would guess they're gonna they're gonna get a big
Speaker 4: chunk of that house settlement money from what we understand,
Speaker 4: and then whatever the nil you know adds on to that.
Speaker 2: Well, they're talking about like two hundred thousand dollars each,
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars each. Do you have any eligibility left?
Speaker 2: Do I? I take half that for half the thought
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'll be I'll be the twelfth guy
Speaker 4: on the team or whatever, the fifteenth guy on.
Speaker 2: These This world is kind of crazy, and a lot
Speaker 2: of the football players getting chunks. I guess they've been
Speaker 2: working on a lot of the relanguaging of the contracts
Speaker 2: because they're gonna have to cut some scholarships make it
Speaker 2: more tight for football and rosters and things like that,
Speaker 2: because you can't give one hundred and ten people two
Speaker 2: hundred thousand, right, and then the women get what they get, right.
Speaker 2: And that was probably one of the probably it was
Speaker 2: one of the stickers with idea that their percentage was
Speaker 2: going to be very, very small.
Speaker 4: What do you think it's going to be at SMU.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure most of there they drew nothing.
Speaker 2: Probably be a same percentage, but more more back money
Speaker 2: from people who have money. True, you know, the day
Speaker 2: Silvers of the world will donate to the to the program. No,
Speaker 2: But I also think though she's got to prove herself first.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're not just gonna willy nilly and give
Speaker 2: you money just because I would assume.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, her her task is to you know,
Speaker 4: build up program. It didn't do very well the last
Speaker 4: couple of years. She's you know, not really walking into
Speaker 4: the greatest situation. She did that here, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: so we'll see if she can do the same thing.
Speaker 4: She had the charisma here, she had the you know,
Speaker 4: the she had the notoriety. People you know, kind of
Speaker 4: instantly knew who she was. So that didn't hurt.
Speaker 2: No, no question, and she hit She hit the target
Speaker 2: right away. I found success. Uh, you're gonna have w
Speaker 2: NBA stuff, I'm assuming right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because there's some connections to Arizona on that draft
Speaker 2: last night. I won't say what, but no, it's how
Speaker 2: you're teasing me. I can't because you don't know. Okay, No, cool,
Speaker 2: you have to wait date, hold on, hold your horses day.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 4: I saw Ari McDonald re signed today with the LA Sparks.
Speaker 4: Speaking of UFA women's players still still playing, Yeah, well,
Speaker 4: she's only like four years removing.
Speaker 3: Right now, it seems like she's been around for a
Speaker 3: long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well she because we saw her for seven for
Speaker 2: three and then four down three you know, so, uh
Speaker 2: and some I saw Sam Thomas on some tea and
Speaker 2: some photos the last couple of days. You were saying
Speaker 2: that she may have been part of it. Was there
Speaker 2: at the news conference, Yeah, that's where I was. But
Speaker 2: you're saying that she might have been part of the
Speaker 2: helping of these.
Speaker 4: Some of the stories I read was that she may
Speaker 4: have been involved in the search committee and maybe they
Speaker 4: asked for her opinion on things or you know, what
Speaker 4: the players are looking for in a coach kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's how that would go. And that would
Speaker 2: be actually a good question. Uh you know what, what
Speaker 2: what makes a good coach?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And in today's world, because you don't have there are
Speaker 2: very few older coaches anymore that are any good. You know,
Speaker 2: Patino's seventy something sixty nine, I think seventy oh at least, So,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, those guys are almost ready
Speaker 2: to get out of the game. And though the younger
Speaker 2: coaches are starting to come up, you know, the Florida
Speaker 2: coach obviously Tommy and those guys. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: So it's a new philosophy because you have to have
Speaker 2: the news philosophy. You can't have the old school philosophy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, with kids stay, especially with them making money.
Speaker 4: It's you know, when I think about how the coaches
Speaker 4: would operate back, you know, even what ten years ago,
Speaker 4: when they were all worried about going to Vegas or
Speaker 4: going to these recruiting things during the summer. You know,
Speaker 4: is that even a priority anymore? Where there's two thousand
Speaker 4: players in the transfer portal? You know, do you go
Speaker 4: look that route? Now, well, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 2: We talked about this with a lot of the JC
Speaker 2: guys with the peabodies, the monocos and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and now they're trying to get those where you go
Speaker 2: to JC and you don't lose any exactly legibility.
Speaker 3: That's the way it's going to be, right.
Speaker 2: So, so no, those guys and the high school kids
Speaker 2: are going to be kind of shut out because if
Speaker 2: you if you're a coach, Dave, and you have some
Speaker 2: issues with trying to fill rosters, where are you going
Speaker 2: to go first? Yeah, the portal, because you're going to
Speaker 2: go after a guy that's already been there, done that,
Speaker 2: and has some experience at that level. Now, I'm kind
Speaker 2: of doing the opposite of what I told you. If
Speaker 2: you're going from San Luis a we's good too and
Speaker 2: not given it the kids a chance, right, But if
Speaker 2: you have this kid like Beriz who's a high school feenom,
Speaker 2: you ain't gonna pass on him.
Speaker 3: You don't want to pass on him. And how long
Speaker 3: is he going to be here?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: You know those guys are maybe short term situations. With
Speaker 4: the Carter Bryants of the world. You know, we don't
Speaker 4: know is he gonna come back? Is he going to stay?
Speaker 4: That's the risk you take and taking a blue ship
Speaker 4: high school player nowadays where you can go get you know,
Speaker 4: a couple of transfers who might be able to you know,
Speaker 4: look look at Tobey and del Arso are going to
Speaker 4: be here for at least two more two years total
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, it's funny back in the day, and
Speaker 2: I can't remember the conversations with lut and them. Do
Speaker 2: you go after a guy who you know is going
Speaker 2: to be one year or not and then or go
Speaker 2: after a more stable three four year guy. And I
Speaker 2: remember kind of him saying you go after the talent.
Speaker 2: You go after the talent, because let's share. We talked
Speaker 2: about this. I think off the air, look at the roster,
Speaker 2: the returning corps outside of love, right, but you replaced
Speaker 2: him with with Cole Pete, Cole Pete. You have the
Speaker 2: Bery's coming in. You have the Bryant kid, k Lebron
Speaker 2: and Brons Lebron, Lebron, Lebron's son, and then another one,
Speaker 2: the Aristonta Aristot. So you have some great group next year,
Speaker 2: Tommy might have one year window that window doesn't open
Speaker 2: up greatly like this year. Honestly, Dave, did you think
Speaker 2: Arizona had a chance to win the national title this year? Okay, exactly,
Speaker 2: so it was the window open or kind of open,
Speaker 2: or even of open.
Speaker 3: Wah, right.
Speaker 2: But next year, if these guys come back, how why
Speaker 2: does that open? And probably as wide open as you've
Speaker 2: seen it in a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean if those guys is if the freshmen
Speaker 4: are as good as advertised. The don't always know that,
Speaker 4: but yeah, again, they seem to have a little bit
Speaker 4: of a nucleus coming back, and who knows about Carter Bryant.
Speaker 3: But but this is right there, this.
Speaker 2: Is super scar he does come back, that window that
Speaker 2: you better hit that window because that window doesn't come
Speaker 2: around too often.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that window with those kind of players and the
Speaker 4: freshman coming in, that's a pretty good little, you know
Speaker 4: group to build around, right for them?
Speaker 3: Maybe one year?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: No, No, that could be it, Yeah, because then guess
Speaker 2: what you have to start all over again.
Speaker 3: We made three of those guys take off next year,
Speaker 3: that's it.
Speaker 2: Could be the end of it. And if not, they're thinking, God,
Speaker 2: if we could just have these guys come back, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. Well you can only have that for so
Speaker 2: many years because it doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, if the nil and these in this uh you know,
Speaker 4: house committee money is as advertised, some of these guys
Speaker 4: will maybe stick around for an extra year because the
Speaker 4: money is going to be better in college sure than
Speaker 4: going to the G League or going you know, right
Speaker 4: in the first round or in the second round where
Speaker 4: you're not guaranteed anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it'll help every school, not just here too.
Speaker 2: So windows of opportunity. It's like Duke will have that
Speaker 2: window all the time. The Kansas is if they play
Speaker 2: their cards right now, Florida is going to be an
Speaker 2: up and coming team Houston's been fantastic. So the Riches,
Speaker 2: the the uh rich, rich and richer exactly, exactly, and
Speaker 2: Arizona's trying to become that rich again. It hasn't been
Speaker 2: rich in a while.
Speaker 4: No, but it's still pretty good still top twenty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right right, no, no, no, I won't disagree with that,
Speaker 2: but there was a point where you top twenty is
Speaker 2: not the top ten, yeah, and it needs to get
Speaker 2: back to that point even now. What they started eleven
Speaker 2: twelve in the beginning of the year something like that,
Speaker 2: and they finished fifteen, number nine in the top ten,
Speaker 2: and then he didn't end there. But they like to
Speaker 2: be realistic and that's why I asked you the question,
Speaker 2: did you think that that window was doable for the
Speaker 2: national title? You didn't think that. I didn't think that.
Speaker 2: But over the last twenty years, how many times you
Speaker 2: think that that window was available? Maybe three? A couple
Speaker 2: of Shawn's teams, maybe a Tommy team when he first
Speaker 2: got year, and they played out of their mind with
Speaker 2: the with Shawn's guys and they lost to Houston. I mean,
Speaker 2: those windows don't happen very often. Yeah, you know, hell,
Speaker 2: it was one of the ninety seven. That window was
Speaker 2: not there.
Speaker 3: No, there was no window there, No.
Speaker 2: No ninety eight. Guess what that window was there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And how did that go? Right? So have they'll have
Speaker 2: a as they say, magic luck, no injuries. A lot
Speaker 2: of things have to go your way, have to happen,
Speaker 2: The schedule has to break in your favor.
Speaker 4: A couple of episodes, especially in the tournament. You know,
Speaker 4: when you wind up having to play a twelve seed
Speaker 4: instead of a five seed in one of those kind
Speaker 4: of games. Things sometimes managed to work them work themselves out.
Speaker 3: It happened to you. I think was the one year.
Speaker 3: I think it was maybe even the rust penalty year.
Speaker 2: It was the word.
Speaker 4: You know, all of a sudden they get to the
Speaker 4: sweet sixteen because there was a big upset in the second.
Speaker 2: Cleveland State I think, beat the Utah or something like that.
Speaker 2: Whatever was nextcond on how Arizona's in the sweet sixtees, right,
Speaker 2: it didn't deserve to be then they got destroyed by Louisville.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah and Patino yeah right, right, but you had
Speaker 2: to sweet sixteen appearance, right, and for a season that
Speaker 2: was kind of up and down throughout the whole year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they kind of finished strongly. The funny thing about
Speaker 2: that year is people said, well, Arizona's in a down year.
Speaker 2: They got to the sweet sixteen folks with a bunch
Speaker 2: of assistant coaches pretty much, right, there were assistant coaches
Speaker 2: to Lot when he left, right, that's right, That's why
Speaker 2: they were there. So who was that guy, Mike Dunlap.
Speaker 2: Mike Dunlap part of that group, Mike Dunlap, Russ Penal,
Speaker 2: Reggie Geary, Reggie as a coach, that's right, And kind
Speaker 2: of they put that thing together and had this great
Speaker 2: run with the Chase.
Speaker 3: And Nick Wise and Chase Jordan Hill.
Speaker 2: Jordan Hill, Chase Button here. Yeah, and pretty good group. Yeah, tough,
Speaker 2: tough group. At least they got at least they got there.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, and of course got destroyed by Patino's team. Right,
Speaker 2: that's like a thirty point game. Yeah, yeah, in Miami.
Speaker 2: I remember it. Well, Okay, how much time we got
Speaker 2: about a minute or two? Okay, no, good first hour.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk to have you and Morales on
Speaker 2: the other side after Kobe gives us his breaking news,
Speaker 2: and then we'll be able to take some more calls.
Speaker 4: Talk about a little bit about that series that was
Speaker 4: announced to today by the U of A Basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, should be really fun.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure they had one twenty five years ago?
Speaker 3: Remember that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Do you remember the big game over there?
Speaker 3: What happened Lauren Woods blocking?
Speaker 1: Ye?
Speaker 5: You do?
Speaker 3: I do remember that?
Speaker 2: Who was the who was the reft that called it?
Speaker 2: I don't know, bos Richie bia Steros really yeah, the goaltending.
Speaker 2: There were some great back back ten referees that had
Speaker 2: reputations for kind of Libby.
Speaker 3: Changing games, Dave Libby.
Speaker 4: I remember, I remember going back to the book Returner
Speaker 4: years back in the early eighties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all those guys. Garibaldi was it, big guy? Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: well I can't remember something like that. Yeah, Okay, we
Speaker 2: gotta go. We'll come back with Kobe's breaking news.