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Speaker 5: I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today is Troy Hutchison.
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Speaker 3: Can't put baby in a corner. Cool.
Speaker 5: So hey, welcome to the Monday Show, A pretty good
Speaker 5: show and the Collectic Show. I think we're gonna have
Speaker 5: Tony Daniel and from the u A. He's the marketing guy,
Speaker 5: and we're gonna talk to him about a lot of
Speaker 5: different things. They're going on their caravan again I think tomorrow,
Speaker 5: and then we're gonna talk to him about other things
Speaker 5: going on at u of A. You know how they
Speaker 5: hope to hype that place up even more or better
Speaker 5: or whatever word you want to use.
Speaker 3: I think this is in his first year here or
Speaker 3: the completed his first.
Speaker 5: Year here, so we'll talk to him about that and
Speaker 5: then We're going to talk to Chrissy Perham from U
Speaker 5: formerly of the U of a long time ago Olympic
Speaker 5: swimming medalist, gold medalist, I think it was. She's going
Speaker 5: to be in town helping out raise some funds I
Speaker 5: think for some people, So we'll talk to I haven't
Speaker 5: talked to her. She's kind of a crazy, crazy friend
Speaker 5: of mine, so we've talked to her before. Could to
Speaker 5: see everybody Monday. You didn't go to the football thing.
Speaker 5: I was a little bit busy, A little bit busy, okay, sure, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Did you get a permission slip from anybody?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, cool, I got it from coach Brennan. Oh you did, coach. Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: you know I can't be there Saturday. I help you,
Speaker 6: help you, and he gave me a rating thing. You
Speaker 6: could have tried out for that long snapper job. First off,
Speaker 6: First off, I think we've established I'm a five star
Speaker 6: water boy. In case Coach Brannan you need a five
Speaker 6: star water boy, I'm your guy. Yeah, I'm no long snapper.
Speaker 6: That's what mister Justin you were. You were better than
Speaker 6: with Adam Sandler.
Speaker 3: Well I get the high quality East tool. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: there you go. That's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you sound like it. So what'd you think?
Speaker 4: What'd you make of Saturday? You know, I thought it
Speaker 4: was a good community event. They did a good job
Speaker 4: of making sure the community was involved. Uh, the first
Speaker 4: time I've ever seen fans on the field during a practice,
Speaker 4: so that was unique. You have the beer garden, you
Speaker 4: had the concert going on. I think it draw drew
Speaker 4: a lot more people than what you would have saw
Speaker 4: in a typical spring game. Yeah, especially after the season
Speaker 4: that they are coming off of. So I think it
Speaker 4: was a smartity and a good job by the coaching
Speaker 4: staff to get everybody involved.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I agree with you. It was just like a
Speaker 5: regular practice. That's what it seemed like to me. Right,
Speaker 5: you go to practice?
Speaker 4: Was it pretty much the same exact thing, nondescript, a
Speaker 4: couple of nice plays? Yeah, eleven on eleven's Yeah.
Speaker 3: Did you do you like this team today?
Speaker 4: April twenty first, As of right now, do I think
Speaker 4: they're going to be better than last year? Yes? Does
Speaker 4: that mean bold?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: Does that mean better? More wins?
Speaker 4: More wins by one? As of right now they've finished
Speaker 4: five and seven, and I mean we still have to
Speaker 4: see what they're going to do in the transfer portal,
Speaker 4: around out their roster and kind of see how this
Speaker 4: team comes together come training camp. I think midway through
Speaker 4: training camp is when you get a sense of what
Speaker 4: a team is going to be.
Speaker 5: So did you You were there in the press room, right,
Speaker 5: I had never really listened to Daggie and Gonzalez at
Speaker 5: length and Brendan you know, he was kind of like
Speaker 5: the the main main event, but not really because the
Speaker 5: other two coaches were very good.
Speaker 3: And Noah.
Speaker 5: There's two things that struck me, well, three things. Gonzales
Speaker 5: very outspoken, very talks really fast, it says interesting things.
Speaker 5: Deagie was very interesting in as much as he's a
Speaker 5: young dude who gets it and you could tell he's
Speaker 5: dynamic in a way.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: And lastly from him is I've never and I've tried
Speaker 5: to think about this last few days or since then
Speaker 5: twenty four or forty eight hours, I've never heard a
Speaker 5: coach and maybe I'm wrong and I just don't remember
Speaker 5: because I'm older. Guys wax poetic on a player here
Speaker 5: at Arizona like they did. Noah how such a great dude.
Speaker 5: He is a great, a great dude, a great person,
Speaker 5: a great not so much a leader because they didn't
Speaker 5: go there all that much. But he's going to be
Speaker 5: a better leader, right and they think highly of him obviously,
Speaker 5: but just that dude to lead this team, yeah, because
Speaker 5: they they ranted about this guy like unbelie, Like I'm thinking,
Speaker 5: well the crap. I should do a story just on
Speaker 5: I've never heard this before, just how much they wax
Speaker 5: poetic on him.
Speaker 4: To sum it up, A good person and a good leader, yes,
Speaker 4: and a good just a good overall guy he is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And I'm talented and talented and it's kind of what
Speaker 4: you want your face of the program to be. And
Speaker 4: they're putting him on that pedestal and I'm not trying
Speaker 4: to put them on a pedical, but they're putting him
Speaker 4: right there to be the focus point of the program
Speaker 4: and the focus point of Arizona football for this upcoming season.
Speaker 3: Right, which of course you need that. You need that.
Speaker 4: You could sell that last year you got Teta McMillan.
Speaker 4: This year is the no.
Speaker 5: Feet the year right right now, he just has to
Speaker 5: kind of come through. It's not gonna be just on him.
Speaker 5: It's going to be on the whole team. Because they
Speaker 5: got a block for him and make him look good again.
Speaker 4: They got a block for him, They got to catch
Speaker 4: the ball that was the problem last year outside of
Speaker 4: Tetro McMillan, and the defense has to stay healthy. Last
Speaker 4: year they were dropping like flies. So a lot of
Speaker 4: things have to go right compared to what we saw
Speaker 4: last season.
Speaker 5: And then the last thing that struck me is Gonsales
Speaker 5: and how he talked very fast, but very insightful to me.
Speaker 5: And you guys have talked to him enough that you
Speaker 5: saw this, But he was talking about how this community
Speaker 5: needs to circle a circle of wagons, if you will,
Speaker 5: to try to keep these kids here to make sure
Speaker 5: that they're loved, whether nil helping with an ale or
Speaker 5: just maybe unfortunate that this community loves his team. And
Speaker 5: I'm thinking, I don't think I've ever heard that before too,
Speaker 5: where you're afraid that these kids who are talented, that's
Speaker 5: what they say, could get perched or poached from some
Speaker 5: other school. Yeah, today and movie, when's the when's the
Speaker 5: when's it closes?
Speaker 7: Fifth?
Speaker 3: Twenty fifth?
Speaker 4: That's Friday ish, Friday ish around Friday at some time.
Speaker 5: Okay, So there's you know, the thought that they could
Speaker 5: go somewhere else, even in this small window.
Speaker 4: You know, you never know in today's you know, college
Speaker 4: football world, you know, for this happy year. But and
Speaker 4: again I think, no, it's that I'm not trying to
Speaker 4: throw out that. No, it's gonna leave. But he's staying
Speaker 4: at Arizona. But you never know, Like let's say, I know,
Speaker 4: how State comes calling their quarterback. It's going in the spring,
Speaker 4: so everyone's up for grabs.
Speaker 3: Who knows.
Speaker 4: You know, you can't guarantee a guy is staying on
Speaker 4: campus anymore.
Speaker 5: And he said this a couple of times, maybe three times,
Speaker 5: where he talks about teams poaching teams, contacting them.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, what's what's the word he was using. I
Speaker 4: know what you're trying to but it's against the rules technically.
Speaker 4: But it didn't happen. Everybody does that, right, And you know,
Speaker 4: Danniganzal is one of the first coaches I've ever heard say, hey,
Speaker 4: you know what, I can cry about it, but let's
Speaker 4: just say it's happening and we all he didn't say
Speaker 4: we all do it, but the reality of the situation,
Speaker 4: everybody does.
Speaker 5: I still believe Henry was that guy all for sure,
Speaker 5: that they were talking to him during the season.
Speaker 4: And if not him directly his agent. Because remember a
Speaker 4: lot of these guys sucually, the high profile guys have
Speaker 4: agents working behind the scenes. How many times have you
Speaker 4: seen on social media recently. I don't know if you
Speaker 4: filew rivals transfer portal Twitter, but they'll talk to a
Speaker 4: guy and it says not a swords confirms is da
Speaker 4: da da da agent rivals.
Speaker 5: So you kids have fancy s, fancy gadgets, and you
Speaker 5: have fancies. Now we have agents agents. Unbelievable to me
Speaker 5: because they were not allowed to have anything back in
Speaker 5: the day, and just as recently as two three years ago.
Speaker 4: And the weird thing is, you know, you look at
Speaker 4: NBA agents, NFL, MLB, whatever, You look at those guys
Speaker 4: and these are high profiled agents. These college guys, they
Speaker 4: have five hundred Twitter followers, and it's like, who the
Speaker 4: heck is this dude? So are they follow the right
Speaker 4: people's advice? And that's another thing they have to be
Speaker 4: worried about it. It's unbelievable to me. It's just the
Speaker 4: way it is. I guess yeah.
Speaker 6: It just just kind of circle back on the community
Speaker 6: rallying behind these players. I think Tucson is a good
Speaker 6: place for that to happen because you look at a
Speaker 6: guy like Henry who left to who's leaving to North Carolina,
Speaker 6: you didn't see almost any hate for it. Everyone understood, yeah,
Speaker 6: he's gonna go get his money, and that's a great
Speaker 6: program to go get money at yea And even even this,
Speaker 6: I think it was Saturday, his girlfriend had the senior night.
Speaker 3: Did she play?
Speaker 4: She's the first base coach?
Speaker 6: As like okay, and everyone was all excited to see
Speaker 6: him because there were some ramblings though on Facebook.
Speaker 3: I think it was when they had his picture saying that.
Speaker 5: What they always will be for the most part, For
Speaker 5: the most part, Tucson, I think is a great place
Speaker 5: for that to happen.
Speaker 4: And then they should. He was fantastic here while he
Speaker 4: was here, Tasi here while he was here. I know
Speaker 4: the coach and staff would love to have had him.
Speaker 4: But when you're looking at numbers that potentially he got,
Speaker 4: the rumor is going around around two million. Who knows
Speaker 4: if that's true and accurate, But if you're looking at
Speaker 4: that number, it's like, okay, well, Arizona has five three
Speaker 4: star recruits coming in and potentially trying to get Carter
Speaker 4: Brian to come back. You only have so much money,
Speaker 4: sure are you going to spend it?
Speaker 7: Month?
Speaker 5: So I just saw Goodman tweet out something that the
Speaker 5: Kentucky has a ton of money, by you obviously has
Speaker 5: a ton of money. So you're competing with that now,
Speaker 5: which makes it it's just the rich getting richer.
Speaker 3: I mean, look at sports BYU.
Speaker 4: Basketball has been study, but have they ever had the
Speaker 4: number one overall recruit and these type of players coming
Speaker 4: in no money talks.
Speaker 5: It's unbelievable to me football to come on the teams
Speaker 5: that are always good at Alabama's Ohio States, they're in Tennessee,
Speaker 5: you know those types in Texas, Texas. Now, what's to
Speaker 5: prevent them from not becoming that team again?
Speaker 3: Or still with all that money?
Speaker 4: I think, well prevent them. I think it's more of
Speaker 4: this is how it's been going now, it's just open
Speaker 4: and right. This is why they're good, this is why
Speaker 4: they've been good for so long.
Speaker 3: Well, what is what kind of hope does that give you?
Speaker 3: For being an alumn of you.
Speaker 6: With the don't ask me right now, ask me in
Speaker 6: a month when I am an actual alum.
Speaker 5: But you know what I'm saying, and you're on both
Speaker 5: sides of it, you're you know, kind of professionally here
Speaker 5: and and still a students.
Speaker 6: It'll be interesting to see how Arizona handles it because
Speaker 6: we all know that Arizona is not in Ohio State.
Speaker 6: They're not at Kentucky. It has never been, never and
Speaker 6: more than likely we'll never get.
Speaker 3: To that point.
Speaker 6: But all we have to go off is our traditions
Speaker 6: are somewhat credibility. You know, we've wanted Arizona's won the
Speaker 6: National Chamber of Successes. Yeah, the success of the past.
Speaker 6: That's pretty much all you can go off of. You
Speaker 6: can say two sons of great community, it's a great university.
Speaker 6: So then Kentucky calls and says, oh, we have the green.
Speaker 4: Of course, Miss America is calling you, and you're you're
Speaker 4: here and you're chick. There's your chance, baby, there's your chance.
Speaker 4: I'll say this, and you're not.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna say no? Absolutely not.
Speaker 4: Arison for basketball, at least at least Arizona is in
Speaker 4: the competitive pool football, that's where oh yeah, you got
Speaker 4: to be a realist. Of course, you gotta be like
Speaker 4: back in the day. If you can get seven to
Speaker 4: eight wins consistently at Arizona, Rich Rodriguez, Tik Toll me,
Speaker 4: Mike Steeves kind of was getting there to that point.
Speaker 4: That's good every now and then tend to eleven games
Speaker 4: and for the best.
Speaker 5: Well, that's what we talked about when they got into
Speaker 5: the Big twelve, right, that their chances of becoming even
Speaker 5: better is the playing field was a little more level,
Speaker 5: because in the Big Twelve, there's no USC, there's no
Speaker 5: organ there's no Washington. Right, So now you have, you know,
Speaker 5: a couple of good teams all the time, but not
Speaker 5: to that degree.
Speaker 4: Your top dogs that you're trying to get over generally
Speaker 4: in any given ball season. Kansas State, Oklahoma State, I
Speaker 4: know they were very bad this year, and maybe a
Speaker 4: Texas stack.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe a Texas stick. I think Iowa State starting
Speaker 5: just hoppus themselves. Yeah yeah, but there's yeah, but they
Speaker 5: don't strike. Yeah, yeah, you don't strike fear in the
Speaker 5: and then you could catch catch hot and catch lightning
Speaker 5: a bottle of time or two and become that team.
Speaker 4: Like, to be honest, let's say that Jet Fish team,
Speaker 4: that ten and three team, let's say you put them
Speaker 4: in the Big twelve last year, they probably would have
Speaker 4: rolled that conference with how deep they were, Yeah, you
Speaker 4: do that in the Pac twelve. Hey, you're finishing the
Speaker 4: top three. Congratulations. So I think I think the talent
Speaker 4: level is different than the BED twelve.
Speaker 3: Sure, now it's up to Brendan to get that going.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 4: It takes you know, it takes some consistency. We'll see
Speaker 4: if he gets that. You said, you're they're better this year,
Speaker 4: They'll be better. Next year, they'll be better. So they
Speaker 4: finished six and five and seven, six and six. I
Speaker 4: think anywhere from five and seven to seven and five.
Speaker 4: The schedule. I liked the schedule for them, if I
Speaker 4: could talk correctly. Out of the twelve games this season
Speaker 4: upcoming season, eight of them are in the state of Arizona,
Speaker 4: with one being at ASU and then the road trip Cincinnati,
Speaker 4: Iowa state. You know, you have a tough i Aloways
Speaker 4: Tay game, but it's not that difficult. There are winnable
Speaker 4: games there. Now, you got to take care of business
Speaker 4: at home. You have to be who you need to
Speaker 4: be at home, and then hopefully you get a couple
Speaker 4: upset wins along the way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, let's take a break here. How much is
Speaker 5: a break? Five minutes? Five minutes Okay, let's do that.
Speaker 5: Let's take it to about three fourteen. Let's take a break.
Speaker 5: We'll get ahold of Tony Daniel from the u of
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Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back to why on the Ball? Here on
Speaker 4: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and with me
Speaker 4: today is Troy Husha said, we got one at the
Speaker 4: controls here now on the phone, we have Tony Daniel,
Speaker 4: the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Revenue Generation and Engagement
Speaker 4: at to you of a Tony, how are you doing well?
Speaker 7: Doing well?
Speaker 14: Hope everybody's doing well out there in Wildcat Country.
Speaker 5: I think today I haven't uh, I haven't really officially
Speaker 5: met you, but I think you were. Uh you haven't
Speaker 5: been here officially your year or have you coming up?
Speaker 14: Yeah, coming up on a year in June, So yeah,
Speaker 14: getting getting close ten months now.
Speaker 3: Yes, Just how has your experience been here?
Speaker 5: Kind of you did your uh what do you call
Speaker 5: a feet running or hit the ground running when you
Speaker 5: got here?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Yeah, we hit the ground run and we got here.
Speaker 14: Uh yeah, but it's been great. I also love waking
Speaker 14: up every morning and knowing what the weather is going
Speaker 14: to be.
Speaker 7: And I love that for me.
Speaker 14: Uh I I played football at the University of Buffalo,
Speaker 14: so you know what you're gonna get there, A lot
Speaker 14: of cold, a lot of snow, and and just the
Speaker 14: opposite here, so so love that part. But yeah, we've
Speaker 14: we've hitting the ground running. Uh, lots of lots of
Speaker 14: great things going on and and now paying off and
Speaker 14: some some big twelve championships here in the in the spring.
Speaker 7: Uh, and more to come, we hope.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, how does that success? You just
Speaker 5: had it in tennis, you had it in golf.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, you guys are hoping to have it in
Speaker 5: the bigger sports obviously, but you know you've got to
Speaker 5: start somewhere right with these great sports help you and
Speaker 5: your job.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's success is contagious.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 14: You know, it was an incredible week with with our
Speaker 14: with two championships in one week.
Speaker 7: Doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 14: But just really proud, uh you know of our of
Speaker 14: our teams mint, men's tennis, women's golf, and like I said,
Speaker 14: more to come, we hope down the line here. But
Speaker 14: it's it helps us, all right. We everybody loves success.
Speaker 14: Everyone everybody wants to be a part of a winner.
Speaker 14: Our fans just gravitate towards that. Our staff, it makes
Speaker 14: us excited, uh to come to work every day and
Speaker 14: work with such great athletes and and and great partners
Speaker 14: and fans. So you know, it always makes our jobs
Speaker 14: easier and gives us, gives us an excitement to continue
Speaker 14: to take on the next one, and and and waiting
Speaker 14: for the next one. We got got some big ones
Speaker 14: coming up baseball and softball playing really well this year
Speaker 14: and hoping for long postseason runs and ending championships for
Speaker 14: them as well.
Speaker 4: You guys just had the Spring Showcase and saw the
Speaker 4: fan engagement with that, marketing obviously want to get people engaged.
Speaker 4: Where have you seen from Arizona fans during your time
Speaker 4: here in the last ten months that maybe has surprised
Speaker 4: you or shocked you about Tucson.
Speaker 5: And with that, you've been a few places, right, so
Speaker 5: you have a lot of experienced background for this.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Coming from Old miss most previous stops
Speaker 14: are Old Miss Missouri, it's been amazing that the fans
Speaker 14: support here is exceptional. I think maybe not a surprise,
Speaker 14: but something that we've noticed more here I think than
Speaker 14: maybe other places is tucsons of grassroots town. You know,
Speaker 14: the spring showcase you mentioned was an amazing event. Our
Speaker 14: fans really took to that, and it's exciting for us
Speaker 14: to get out in the community to meet people that
Speaker 14: we haven't before. It was an awesome opportunity to showcase
Speaker 14: our football program, but also our stadium. I talked to
Speaker 14: some people at the at the event on Saturdays, like
Speaker 14: I've been a u of a fan or i lived
Speaker 14: in Tucson for twenty five years and I've never stepped
Speaker 14: foot on the field, you know, And we and that's
Speaker 14: something you know, maybe some of us in the athletic
Speaker 14: department take for granted at times. Right We're we're down
Speaker 14: there all the time. We were part of that environment.
Speaker 14: We're part of that engagement at all times. And so
Speaker 14: given our fans and our community the opportunity to be
Speaker 14: down there and even something as small as an egg
Speaker 14: hunt or you know, letting little kids throw the football
Speaker 14: on the field. It was dangerous at times, but having
Speaker 14: having some little kids to play some play some games
Speaker 14: and throw the football on the field, like you just
Speaker 14: can't beat it. My son and I were down there,
Speaker 14: and you know, it just really gives that passion that
Speaker 14: we feel on a day to day basis from our fans.
Speaker 14: They can come and it can translate to those type
Speaker 14: of events and and so that's what we're looking to do.
Speaker 14: We're looking to connect our community and that's you know,
Speaker 14: the championships on the fields and courts and and and
Speaker 14: pools of play are going to happen. But it's a
Speaker 14: byproduct of what we can do with our community and
Speaker 14: how that support works in our ecosystems. So, you know,
Speaker 14: we just can't we can't say enough how excited we
Speaker 14: are about being here and doing those those sorts of
Speaker 14: things for our community. As we as we continue to
Speaker 14: move down this path, and and as we expand into
Speaker 14: the Big twelve.
Speaker 5: When when does we convince you to come from Missouri?
Speaker 5: I'm not sure she she's told you this is what
Speaker 5: we want to do. But given your title, what's your
Speaker 5: task and what's your task at hand to get things
Speaker 5: going here?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Growing revenue number number one name of the game. Right,
Speaker 14: everybody knows something about the house settlement and and revenue
Speaker 14: sharing with with with the student athletes. You know, we
Speaker 14: got to find new ways to do that, and we
Speaker 14: are every day, you know, things that our community will
Speaker 14: will recognize and latch onto. Right, We're doing a partnership
Speaker 14: with the Rio Nuevo District Downtown Tucson, something different, unique
Speaker 14: that we haven't done before. Our corporate sponsors, we're engaging
Speaker 14: with them in different in ways than we have in
Speaker 14: previous years. And then our fans like showing up and supporting,
Speaker 14: like all those things matter. Uh and and it and
Speaker 14: it and it works towards the bigger picture. And Tucson
Speaker 14: has been has answered the call right on all that
Speaker 14: and and need to continue to do so. We were
Speaker 14: excited about the new iteration of college athletics. You know,
Speaker 14: people ask me, oh, what's what's the biggest challenge or
Speaker 14: what what's what scares you the most about this? And
Speaker 14: and it is. Paying the players is a challenge, and
Speaker 14: it's and it is scary, but it's also a huge
Speaker 14: opportunity for us.
Speaker 7: It levels the playing field.
Speaker 14: Uh, it gives us an opportunity to take the next
Speaker 14: step into college athletics on the on a level playing
Speaker 14: field with everybody else. So you know, I know our
Speaker 14: our staff and internally we're up for it, and I
Speaker 14: know Tucson and and the Wildcat Nation.
Speaker 7: Is up for it as well.
Speaker 14: We're we're ready to we're ready to take on this
Speaker 14: new generation of college college athletics.
Speaker 3: Did you I think you're you're going on another caravan tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 7: Or is that sir? Yeah?
Speaker 14: We we've uh yeah, done done a couple so far
Speaker 14: and uh and got a few more this week. We've
Speaker 14: got three stops this week, including tomorrow, Yeah, downtown at
Speaker 14: the Monica. UH So if, yeah, anybody listening wants to
Speaker 14: come out, we'll have h A lot of our football
Speaker 14: team members and coaches will be there, other staff and
Speaker 14: and and and student athletes will be there as well,
Speaker 14: and it's just a great again, another great opportunity to
Speaker 14: get out in the community. We're doing twenty of these
Speaker 14: around UH Tucson, UH, state of Arizona, and then we're
Speaker 14: also dipping into southern California, which everybody knows obviously is
Speaker 14: a is a big place for a lot of Wildcats
Speaker 14: after graduation and beyond. So, yeah, twenty twenty stops. You know,
Speaker 14: we're uh, I think you all get to talk to
Speaker 14: Desire a good bit. You know that we're not scared.
Speaker 14: We're gonna get out there in the community and we're
Speaker 14: going to hit the ground hard and hit it, hit
Speaker 14: it running, and and that you know director came from
Speaker 14: her and so we yeah, we're we're just excited. It's
Speaker 14: been the few opportunities we've had so far. We've done
Speaker 14: three stops so far, they've been great and UH and
Speaker 14: looking forward to the other seventeen that we've got remaining.
Speaker 14: So if you talk real quick Monica tomorrow. What's the
Speaker 14: other two this week? Yeah, we have no gallus on
Speaker 14: on Thursday, and then we have another another Tucson stop
Speaker 14: youth on their own. It's kind of a community double
Speaker 14: community service block party with youth on their own on Friday.
Speaker 3: Okay cool.
Speaker 5: We had Kim Dare and Ray Flores here on Friday
Speaker 5: talking about their you know, bear down fifty to fifty things.
Speaker 3: Can you speak to that?
Speaker 5: And and and Ray and I go along that way
Speaker 5: back and he talked to me about this maybe about
Speaker 5: a year ago, and I'm thinking, what a fantastic idea
Speaker 5: finally came to fruition. Just your thoughts on that, because
Speaker 5: any any way to help generate money here you go.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you asked what my my job entails?
Speaker 14: That was That was a part of it when when
Speaker 14: I met Ray when I got to Tucson. That was
Speaker 14: one of the first things he pitched the Desirae and
Speaker 14: I and and uh, you know, we got to the
Speaker 14: finish line here with our with awesome partners over at
Speaker 14: the Arizona Bowl, and Ray and his team and yeah,
Speaker 14: so it's a great opportunity. It's given our student athletes
Speaker 14: revenue opportunities to get money in for us on our
Speaker 14: multi media rights partnership side. But yeah, it's it's a
Speaker 14: great opportunity and just another way for fans to get
Speaker 14: involved again. That's that's that's part of our our mission,
Speaker 14: right is some people can buy tickets and want to
Speaker 14: buy tickets. Some people can donate at high levels, some
Speaker 14: people can buy merchandise, some people want to play fifty
Speaker 14: to fifty right there, There's so many ways for for
Speaker 14: Wildcat fans to be a part of this and and
Speaker 14: help us, and that that's just this is just another
Speaker 14: way and reason to do that is is this fifty
Speaker 14: to fifty raffle And we saw good success in the
Speaker 14: first two weeks, gave away almost fifteen hundred bucks to
Speaker 14: the winner. Uh so exciting, exciting for that and looking
Speaker 14: forward to continuing to watch that grow here over the
Speaker 14: next year plus with the Arizona.
Speaker 4: Ble, Anthony's events. When you guys are allen and what
Speaker 4: what what can fans expect to see when they go
Speaker 4: out and you obviously are going to have desirat reframs
Speaker 4: while I talk to them coaches, players, But what what
Speaker 4: is event detail for fans that are thinking about going now?
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, you mentioned a lot of it,
Speaker 14: you seeing talking, hearing from our athletic director, coaches, staff,
Speaker 14: and and and student athletes, but also just a chance
Speaker 14: to connect with other Wildcat fans, right, That's that's that's one.
Speaker 7: Of the reasons we want to do this.
Speaker 14: Everybody doesn't doesn't always have that opportunity to connect with
Speaker 14: people in their community who are Wildcat fans, or you
Speaker 14: might meet somebody new, So just an opportunity to do that.
Speaker 14: But but doing a lot of what we're doing today,
Speaker 14: hear about the successes of our of our student athletes
Speaker 14: and coaches in our programs. Uh, hearing from our student
Speaker 14: athletes and and what makes them tick, what their day
Speaker 14: to days are like. It's been one of the most
Speaker 14: rewarding parts of of these these caravans is our fans
Speaker 14: come up to us after we do our programs like, oh,
Speaker 14: it's so cool to hear you know what the volleyball
Speaker 14: players are doing on a day to day basis, and like,
Speaker 14: I didn't realize they're waking up at five am and
Speaker 14: going to bed at ten pm. You know what their
Speaker 14: days are like so it gives you that inside look
Speaker 14: into Arizona Athletics. You get to hear it right from
Speaker 14: the people that are that are in the trenches every
Speaker 14: single day. And again just gets that opportunity to connect
Speaker 14: and meet with our community and and and all the
Speaker 14: Wildcat fans out there can come together and of what
Speaker 14: we're supporting on a day to day basis. So that's
Speaker 14: a little bit of what to expect. Good food, good
Speaker 14: drinks are usually at our at our venues as well
Speaker 14: for for purchase and and uh and fans can be
Speaker 14: a part of that. But again, just a good, good
Speaker 14: opportunity to connect and be part of something something bigger.
Speaker 6: When you have programs like women's golf and men's tennis
Speaker 6: winning Big twelve championships, what does that do for fan engagement?
Speaker 7: Does?
Speaker 6: How much more does that draw when you have these
Speaker 6: little maybe not so out in the spotlight pro winning
Speaker 6: championships helping out when the big ones don't.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, like I said, success, it is contagious.
Speaker 14: And you know triathlon obviously won the national championship this year,
Speaker 14: a huge thing for our community that they're only the
Speaker 14: second year, in the second year programs so again that
Speaker 14: that stuff just that's that's so contagious, and and all
Speaker 14: of our other student athletes are talking to them every day.
Speaker 14: We've had a few triathlon members on our caravan stops
Speaker 14: and they're talking about their experience and like what it
Speaker 14: took to get there. And and when our fans hear that, right,
Speaker 14: like all of our athletes are working incredibly hard, and
Speaker 14: because they don't win it that year doesn't mean you know,
Speaker 14: they're not out there working as hard as they can.
Speaker 14: But hearing it from the student athletes directly what it
Speaker 14: took to win a triathlon championship, especially in their second year,
Speaker 14: you know, just continues to bleed over into all of
Speaker 14: our sports. And you know, I think it just continues
Speaker 14: to build the legas of success in championships that we
Speaker 14: have here at Arizona just continues to build and build
Speaker 14: on that.
Speaker 7: And and all.
Speaker 14: These athletes, like I said, they're in the dorms together,
Speaker 14: they're in the dining hall together, and they're all talking.
Speaker 14: So you know, that stuff goes around, right, like, oh,
Speaker 14: that was easy. We we won a big twelve championship
Speaker 14: in our first year. Right, We're we're men tennis. We
Speaker 14: want an easy one, right, So they're getting on on
Speaker 14: the other athletes, and and so that just continues to
Speaker 14: breed that success and and and so it's fun, right,
Speaker 14: it's it's it drives that. But I think the fan
Speaker 14: engagement again that all our fans, we all are striving
Speaker 14: for for those championships, and no matter big or small,
Speaker 14: we want them all.
Speaker 5: So so, Tony, when you first arrived here almost a
Speaker 5: year ago, let me let me so this that you
Speaker 5: and I'll give you some background just for me. I've
Speaker 5: been here thirty seven years. I was a newspaper guy
Speaker 5: for twenty five before you know, papers kind of crumbled.
Speaker 5: I'm doing other things now media wise, and now doing
Speaker 5: some of this when you first got here, and I
Speaker 5: wouldn't know this. So I went to a game when
Speaker 5: you first got here. Did you kind of walk the
Speaker 5: halls and go through, you know, kind of like doing
Speaker 5: your own audit in your mind to saying, okay, maybe
Speaker 5: we should do this better, Maybe I see this needs
Speaker 5: a paint job here, blah blah blah?
Speaker 3: Did you do that?
Speaker 7: One?
Speaker 3: And two?
Speaker 5: I was a fan a couple of games this year.
Speaker 5: It would never get to be a fan, you know,
Speaker 5: I usually covering the game, and I was at the
Speaker 5: football game and people were complaining about the audio. You know,
Speaker 5: you could bare to hear it, or it was very
Speaker 5: mumbled or whatever. And I'm thinking, now, that's not a thing.
Speaker 5: And then I guess what it affected me because I
Speaker 5: was a fan for a day and I'm thinking, they're right,
Speaker 5: I can't hear certain things, you know, So is that
Speaker 5: going to be addressed?
Speaker 3: And did you do your audit, your walk through?
Speaker 7: Yeah, did a personal one.
Speaker 14: I think one of the things that was really cool
Speaker 14: for me my first day here. I walked through the
Speaker 14: hallways and obviously you know the history of Arizona and
Speaker 14: the championships that come with it. And I walked down
Speaker 14: the softball hallway and you remember, right, yeah, Arizona Softball.
Speaker 14: But then you walk down the hallway and you see
Speaker 14: eight championships in a row with coach Candre and you're
Speaker 14: just like, man, this is so cool. And then you
Speaker 14: walk down the basketball hallway and you walk and you
Speaker 14: walk and you walk, and there's NBA legends everywhere and
Speaker 14: you just forget how many even went here. Right, So
Speaker 14: that was the first audit that I did that was
Speaker 14: really really cool. But you know, it reminds you of
Speaker 14: what you're working for and why I came here, and
Speaker 14: the potential the championship pass and history that we have
Speaker 14: and the championship future that we're trying to build. You know,
Speaker 14: those are the things I kind of took in at first, right,
Speaker 14: But then you get into the day to day and
Speaker 14: you're right, we took an audit and we are continually
Speaker 14: auditing everything. You've if you've had Desre on you, you've
Speaker 14: heard her talk about our fan surveys and those type
Speaker 14: of things, and believe me, we do here hear everybody
Speaker 14: on that. We're also in there and and visualizing what
Speaker 14: this could look like. The sound is something that we
Speaker 14: are taking into pool consideration. It is an expensive undertaking. Yeah,
Speaker 14: so we're trying to find ways to rectify that now smaller,
Speaker 14: smaller bits on the short term so then get to
Speaker 14: the larger picture of a full sound renovation. So we're
Speaker 14: hoping to have that done here in the next few years.
Speaker 14: It is not something unfortunately we'll see this year at
Speaker 14: Arizona Stadium, but hoping that a lot of other changes
Speaker 14: that we're going to make our impactful on the game day.
Speaker 7: Because we do recognize that the.
Speaker 14: Sound is is a barrier right now, and hoping to
Speaker 14: improve that in small incremental ways here to start until
Speaker 14: we can get the big picture done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've been writing and talking about the deficit for
Speaker 5: for a couple of years now, two three years now,
Speaker 5: and you guys are tasked to desiree in yourself and
Speaker 5: many others trying to fix that, right, And I think
Speaker 5: it's going to be fixed pretty soon in fact. But
Speaker 5: for you, you've been probably been in the business long,
Speaker 5: you're still a young man. But here's here's a huge challenge.
Speaker 5: And I don't mb you guys at all. You guys
Speaker 5: have to raise money athletically to help the kids have
Speaker 5: to got to get paid, so you're helping with that
Speaker 5: or trying to fix that and get that done. And
Speaker 5: then other things like the the cost of of audio
Speaker 5: and things like that. How difficult is it and and
Speaker 5: just you know, you're you're asking a lot of people
Speaker 5: in all that.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's definitely a challenge. But but again, our fans
Speaker 14: see the value uh in in all in the things
Speaker 14: that all these brings. We're just trying to have to
Speaker 14: right now to prioritize and make the main things the
Speaker 14: main things, and and right now that that happens to
Speaker 14: be revenue sharing. Uh and some so some of these
Speaker 14: things are not necessarily taking a back seat, but we're
Speaker 14: we're pushing them down the line and again trying to
Speaker 14: make incremental improvements until we can get a little better
Speaker 14: handle on on revenue sharing and beyond.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's it's a.
Speaker 14: Challenge, but again we look at it as as an
Speaker 14: opportunity for us to meet new people, bring new people
Speaker 14: into the fold and different ways and and find what
Speaker 14: their priorities are. That's our development team will will tell
Speaker 14: you that, you know, we we want to meet with
Speaker 14: donors and and fans and figure out what their priority
Speaker 14: and are and what they're passionate about from a sport
Speaker 14: perspective or beyond. So you know, it gives us the
Speaker 14: opportunity to meet them and meet them where they are
Speaker 14: to provide an upgraded experience or an upgraded athletic experience
Speaker 14: for our student athletes.
Speaker 5: Sure, of course, real quick, before we leave tomorrow, what
Speaker 5: times does it start? And it's again at the Monica,
Speaker 5: But what time does it start?
Speaker 14: Yeah, Monica tomorrow at six pm and then yeah, program
Speaker 14: will be probably about an hour in so seven o'clock PM. Yeah,
Speaker 14: at the Monica tomorrow night. Okay, I'm wrong, I'm off
Speaker 14: five pm tomorrow. Oh five okay, five to seven. Five,
Speaker 14: five to seven is total. That's where I was getting
Speaker 14: mixed up. Five to seven is our is our full event.
Speaker 14: Like I said, five o'clock will kind of be the start.
Speaker 14: We'll go for about an hour and then we'll start
Speaker 14: speaking to our coaches, athletic director and student athletes about
Speaker 14: six pm.
Speaker 5: Great, okay, no shaking hands, kissing babies, all that good stuff. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 5: thank you Tony. Great, great to talk to you. I'll
Speaker 5: introduce myself to you next time I see you.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Great, talking to you all. Thank you.
Speaker 5: And Verdowm Yeah, take care. Thank you, Tony. Daniel from
Speaker 5: the UVA appreciate it. From the marketing, development, strategic stuff
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Speaker 5: Be joy what you say from goyscats. We got Juan,
Speaker 5: we got Ray. Let me ask you guys, so I
Speaker 5: give you the opportunity to do what Tony does.
Speaker 3: And you guys were there often enough. I used to
Speaker 3: be there a lot.
Speaker 5: I don't kind of walk through that place anymore as
Speaker 5: much as I used to give me your audit?
Speaker 3: What also needs to be looked at?
Speaker 4: Michael?
Speaker 5: Michael, okay real quick, and anybody wants to call and
Speaker 5: let us know what you think with your ideas, because
Speaker 5: I'm sure you guys go to both football, basketball and
Speaker 5: other places. What needs to maybe have a little paint
Speaker 5: chot whatever, you know, whatever the audit is, let me know,
Speaker 5: so you McHale.
Speaker 3: They spent a lot of money, and they have.
Speaker 4: But in terms of the lighting, maybe this again, I
Speaker 4: think the lighting is a major thing.
Speaker 3: Well who said it?
Speaker 4: Were you guys with me here with maybe the other
Speaker 4: group where you wanted to be more the whole placean
Speaker 4: just the centerpiece, which was a Sean Miller special. He
Speaker 4: wanted that to be kind of NBA stadium lighting. That's
Speaker 4: that's the way Sean wanted it, because remember at the
Speaker 4: beginning of Sean's career, it was lit up and then
Speaker 4: it changed the stadium lighting around the Aaron Gordon whonder what.
Speaker 3: The point was.
Speaker 4: I think it's to make it feel more like an
Speaker 4: NBA arena, make it more professional. But I think it's
Speaker 4: hurt mchail a little bit. I think the crowds are
Speaker 4: just I mean, I love to sing. Let's let's be honest.
Speaker 4: The average age at a U of ABU basketball games
Speaker 4: around fifty five to sixty.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so what do you say? What do you say?
Speaker 3: I want to take it happen.
Speaker 5: Actually a lot of time to watch the game, so
Speaker 5: more lit it will keep them lively.
Speaker 4: Maybe a little bit more lively. Yeah, you know you're
Speaker 4: seeing the zone a zoo go crazy. I know a
Speaker 4: lot of students have told me when they're in the
Speaker 4: dark like that, they don't feel like they're part of
Speaker 4: the action really, So.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, one, you're one of those. I'm one of
Speaker 3: those students for the last four years. I was. I was.
Speaker 6: I got there early, but not early enough to be
Speaker 6: right there front section in the lower you need to
Speaker 6: be part of the band pretty much.
Speaker 3: Yeah. At this point, that's all you can see on TV.
Speaker 6: Yeah, especially because they're in their reforms of the like
Speaker 6: Candy Cane.
Speaker 5: I wonder if there's like a study, like a like
Speaker 5: a psychological study the reason why it feels like that.
Speaker 5: It feels kind of not bored, but kind of like
Speaker 5: sedated for the darkness.
Speaker 4: You know, when they're about to start, like a performance
Speaker 4: or whatever. If you go to like a Broadway show
Speaker 4: or everything, the lights go damn and to go to
Speaker 4: center stage and every really quiets down. Or the movies. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but that's that's where a stage or play because you
Speaker 4: want to be quiet.
Speaker 3: But I get it. But it's always been kind of
Speaker 3: that intenda. I think, especially on TV, it doesn't help
Speaker 3: Michael look full. The lighting. When you have it all
Speaker 3: lit up, it looks full. It looks intimidating.
Speaker 6: When we have or when Arizona has the white outs
Speaker 6: the redouts or whatever outs, blackouts, whatever, stripeouts whatever.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I wouldn't know this only because I go
Speaker 5: to the game and I know what it feels like.
Speaker 5: And obviously the lights you don't have those lights in
Speaker 5: the light out whatever. It just it's fantastic, right, there's
Speaker 5: certain there's a handful of games that we were fantastic.
Speaker 3: The other ones, I guess.
Speaker 5: I guess I really haven't paid attention to the darkness,
Speaker 5: maybe because I'm used to it already.
Speaker 3: I think, I think so.
Speaker 6: I think it's I've just been a decade of that lightning. Okay, well, yeah,
Speaker 6: has been asleep for a decade. And I never would
Speaker 6: ever thought that because to me it was just normal.
Speaker 4: And I'm looking at it from a perspective of because
Speaker 4: I grew up here obviously, and I went to games
Speaker 4: my grandparents had had season to get to McHale when
Speaker 4: it opened back in the seventies. We would sit on
Speaker 4: the opposite where the team comes out, a couple of
Speaker 4: rows back behind the walkway there. Yeah, and that used
Speaker 4: to be lit up. You have the metal bleacher bleacher
Speaker 4: chair with the backs, and it just felt more lively
Speaker 4: back then than what it does now inside mcale.
Speaker 18: Okay, uh in McHale, I haven't been to too many games,
Speaker 18: but if I had to pick one thing. Yeah, probably
Speaker 18: just like moving the student section. I know we've talked
Speaker 18: about it a couple of times, but.
Speaker 5: That ain't happening. So that ain't happening. Yeah, you can
Speaker 5: take your audit.
Speaker 18: And I don't know, it's just I feel the same
Speaker 18: way like when it comes to like football though, because
Speaker 18: I've been in the football stadium like a few times,
Speaker 18: like as of like going to watch the game as
Speaker 18: a fan, and then also like with press and stuff. Man,
Speaker 18: those bleachers are rough to sit on, esp like after
Speaker 18: like in the fall, like in those first few fall games,
Speaker 18: like if you're wearing shorts, like sorry about your legs,
Speaker 18: like they're getting a little they're getting a little.
Speaker 4: Toast, but's gonna get burnt the time or two Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know. The one thing that I think could fit,
Speaker 4: And we talked about the San Diego State Stadium, which
Speaker 4: is fantastic, great, but it's brand new, so everything's you know,
Speaker 4: in the honeymoon and it looks great. If they reduced
Speaker 4: the seat and Arizona it made it more make it
Speaker 4: more cozy, and make it more full in a reversed way. Well,
Speaker 4: not only that, I think it's just you know, can
Speaker 4: you feel almost what is a fifty three thousand used
Speaker 4: to be fifty six thousand? They did something like that,
Speaker 4: make it about forty five forty six. I think about
Speaker 4: forty five that that should work, and it was working
Speaker 4: when it was what forty eight back in when excuss here? Yeah,
Speaker 4: like for eight thousand. Yeah, I'll take your word for that. Well,
Speaker 4: you guess what if you win?
Speaker 5: If you win and you win consistently with your seven
Speaker 5: eight nine like you were talking about, and that'll bring
Speaker 5: people out.
Speaker 4: Tell that to rich Rod?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 3: Was he did insistence?
Speaker 4: You know, the sames were not for no, No, we're
Speaker 4: in two son I remember you guys are two sons.
Speaker 4: You guys are two sons down five and there you
Speaker 4: were there, Yeah, I were.
Speaker 6: From twenty twelve to twenty twenty eighteen. You were missed a.
Speaker 4: Home games as you were as a fan, right, as
Speaker 4: a fan who your parents bought you the tickets?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Uh, what's the deal with the tickets? And how come
Speaker 5: there's not more of you guys out there because they've
Speaker 5: gotten only more and more expensive.
Speaker 3: Okay, well there's a there's an issue.
Speaker 4: I'll say I'll say this with rich Rod. The first
Speaker 4: year of rich Rod game we stopped. And it wasn't
Speaker 4: because of rich Rod because they moved the family section,
Speaker 4: which was by the end zone where the team used
Speaker 4: to run out. They moved it all the way up
Speaker 4: the noseblayed and raised the ticket prices. Well for you know,
Speaker 4: yeah family, you know, fixed on a budget, you're not
Speaker 4: going to be able to do that. It's like, well,
Speaker 4: we loved football. We did it for so they don't.
Speaker 3: They don't go anymore at all, No, even to a
Speaker 3: good game. Uh to find a way to get it.
Speaker 4: Find a way if they want to, yeah, but not
Speaker 4: not to season tickets like they had for twenty five
Speaker 4: years ago. Was growing up?
Speaker 3: Were they too expensive?
Speaker 4: They got expensive? They weren't as bad before, and then
Speaker 4: when someone came the tickets lowered. They did it for
Speaker 4: two years, saw the product on the field and said
Speaker 4: we're good. So yeah, you know, and it's improved since then.
Speaker 4: I'm sure the price is going on.
Speaker 3: Well they have because they have a search charge though
Speaker 3: for to pay the kids.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 5: Okay, So that's football, basketball anywhere else. I haven't been
Speaker 5: a softball. It's always it's a nice place to still
Speaker 5: get that newness and they win.
Speaker 4: It's a new you know. The only thing, the only
Speaker 4: thing with softball, and I don't know how you do it,
Speaker 4: is the outfield bleachers there and Andrea's corner. Find a
Speaker 4: way to get them shade because it's just a roasting
Speaker 4: area there. If you had, like I don't, you would
Speaker 4: have to do conon like a canopy behind the backstop
Speaker 4: to block the sun from hitting them, because you can't
Speaker 4: do it above it. It's not gonna it's going to
Speaker 4: hit you directly in the face, so it had to
Speaker 4: be from the opposite end.
Speaker 3: There's probably a way.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's probably a way with those with those
Speaker 5: shady things, you know those even you can take them
Speaker 5: off when it's nice out and put them back on.
Speaker 3: That's your roof if you will.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that that would be the number one thing
Speaker 4: for softball is getting those people some shade out in
Speaker 4: the outfield. I know Andrea wanted to and they said, no,
Speaker 4: we can't do that. He wanted kind of like Wrigley
Speaker 4: Field seating on the buildings.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, up there, that would be cool. That would
Speaker 5: be cool. Yeah, but what insurance? Insurance? Some looney tune
Speaker 5: you want to jump off the top. Well, anything else
Speaker 5: like I said, I haven't been to Hyde Corby in a while, right.
Speaker 18: Actually I just remember this from when I went to
Speaker 18: like my first Arizona game in twenty twenty twenty two
Speaker 18: or twenty twenty three. Was they need to get another
Speaker 18: like another Well they don't have to obviously, but another
Speaker 18: elevator would be nice. Is get into that nosebleeds like
Speaker 18: also football, Yeah, when uh, like when it's hot, you
Speaker 18: got that's a long.
Speaker 5: East side, west side, both sides, probably because both well
Speaker 5: it's it's an old stadium right with whatever they built
Speaker 5: it with. Yeah, so you're talking about the east side.
Speaker 18: Yeah, to the home side, the home side, yeah, uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, east side.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's just like because like you know, everybody's waiting for it.
Speaker 18: So it's like if if like for some people that
Speaker 18: need to get on it, you're probably waiting like twenty minutes,
Speaker 18: and then even then it's like the elevator takes forever.
Speaker 3: It's just one is just one.
Speaker 4: I mean we only use the press one. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: there's two on that side. But still, I mean you're
Speaker 4: still sure.
Speaker 3: For thousands of people right to get up into.
Speaker 4: Their seats, and then you have the fans that go
Speaker 4: with you, and it's like, well, we got to stop
Speaker 4: in the luxury area, then we got to stop here.
Speaker 4: Then it's like, okay, come on, what I learned from
Speaker 4: this conversation. You two guys were lazy? Are you going
Speaker 4: up the stairs?
Speaker 3: Big three guys? I'm also I'm not even I'm not
Speaker 3: ashamed of being lazy.
Speaker 5: Come you get into this business for the pre food
Speaker 5: at the halftime game exactly.
Speaker 4: So you guys have sat in the football Seiuma's fans
Speaker 4: more recently than Steve and I And Steve you you
Speaker 4: said you went Okay, I remember as a kid the
Speaker 4: restrooms were horrible. Yeah, and I don't know if they're
Speaker 4: still that way. But they used to have the trough. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're an old.
Speaker 3: I don't think they do anymore.
Speaker 5: Do that.
Speaker 4: And then they used to have no doors on the
Speaker 4: in the toilet area, so there was no doors separating
Speaker 4: you from the people. It was just a divider. But
Speaker 4: there was no front. Really, there was no front. Embarrassing
Speaker 4: that so if you have to use the restroom, good luck.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they that way, they should have Okay,
Speaker 4: it was it was not that way in like nine really, okay,
Speaker 4: twenty ten, there was the press room.
Speaker 7: I tried.
Speaker 5: Actually even there, there's only like just a small area.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 3: I try not to. I try not to miss anything.
Speaker 5: So I just told it and they're not take that
Speaker 5: extra chicken wing exactly.
Speaker 4: And then lastly, I'll say soccer, they need a locker room.
Speaker 4: I mean that that's that's an ridiculous locker room for Arizona.
Speaker 4: It's attached to the public restroom and it's attached to
Speaker 4: the for soccer. Yeah yeah, so it's only is there
Speaker 4: only one where the visitors go They have to go
Speaker 4: to their bus. Wow, yeah, they have to go to
Speaker 4: their bus.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: There's their locker room, which is attached to the stands
Speaker 4: where you know, you know, get your hot dog and
Speaker 4: stuff the vendor. And to the right of that same
Speaker 4: building is one public restroom which inside of that restroom,
Speaker 4: the lock doesn't work. It was put in the wrong way,
Speaker 4: so you have to like keep your foot there. But yeah, no,
Speaker 4: they need to redo that facility.
Speaker 3: This division one program.
Speaker 5: Okay, running these notes down for Tony if he hasn't
Speaker 5: got out there yet.
Speaker 4: Saying soccer need they need a little They've done work
Speaker 4: there with the fen scene and stuff like that. But
Speaker 4: get the mo locker room.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that makes the number one.
Speaker 3: See here you go.
Speaker 5: So here's more money, right, more money that needed to
Speaker 5: be had. When I asked him, you got you gotta
Speaker 5: pay the players, gotta getta find facilities for the u
Speaker 5: U of a if you know, pay U of a
Speaker 5: because they had to survive. And then what was the
Speaker 5: third one? Uh?
Speaker 3: Whatever else they gotta do? Kids?
Speaker 4: School, you're gonna give when you get your job as
Speaker 4: an alum?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
Speaker 5: Hello, I just understand you just got your degree. Uh
Speaker 5: got a job. We'd love to have you in. Your
Speaker 5: education was nice, wasn't it. Uh click click, Sorry you
Speaker 5: get the rock number?
Speaker 3: Wrong number? Yeah, my girlfriend, Well there's your money's going there.
Speaker 3: I understand see the data, hot chick. They're tough.
Speaker 7: You gotta pay.
Speaker 5: You gotta spend money on them. You gotta go, yes, sir. Okay,
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