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Speaker 3: Arizona target Brandon Berry's to announce decision Wednesday. The five
Speaker 3: star Commo guard will announce a decision on Sports Center.
Speaker 3: Burr's is a siding between Arizona, Oregon, Tennessee, Alabama, and USC.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of optimism that he's gonna pick here.
Speaker 2: I mean, the people on the interweb, what are they saying,
Speaker 2: there's news, good news is looming. I don't trust anybody
Speaker 2: until you hear it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know he's a Sam Bernardino guy. Carter
Speaker 4: Bryant's from the same general area.
Speaker 2: Let's say Carter Bryant, he stays, would stay with.
Speaker 4: These four or three or four pretty highly regarded recruits.
Speaker 2: That could be kind of fun. That's all that speculation
Speaker 2: that's out there right. It's you know, Hey, this is
Speaker 2: back in nineteen seventy two. Hey, give little Susie, I
Speaker 2: have a note for her. Check the box. Have her
Speaker 2: checked the box?
Speaker 4: Yeah? But I mean you got CoA Pete five star
Speaker 4: player out of the Phoenix area, and got Dwayne Aristode.
Speaker 4: Is that how you Proounce's last name, five star forward?
Speaker 4: You know? And Bronni's or Lebron's kid Bryce, and now
Speaker 4: maybe maybe Bury's who's ranked number eleven in the country
Speaker 4: overall prospect in twenty twenty five class. So he still
Speaker 4: has not made his decision. He numbered, he's a he's
Speaker 4: a combo guard. Who knows. I'm sure, Tommy, I'm sure
Speaker 4: everybody's kind of waiting to see how that plays out tomorrow. Good.
Speaker 2: Yes, because you as you know back in the day,
Speaker 2: and I absolutely hated it. Hated recruiting me too. Everyone
Speaker 2: hopes for the future. Yeah, you know, you can never
Speaker 2: have today. You have tomorrow's. Oh we get this guy
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. They got James, the James kid,
Speaker 2: and then they get the Peak kid. And now if
Speaker 2: they get this kid, the prosperity, YadA YadA, they still
Speaker 2: have to play the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was I think we used to just kind
Speaker 4: of look at this is good for these guys websites. Yeah,
Speaker 4: basically they really weren't running around the cut. You know,
Speaker 4: we just can't do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know if the newspapers even had the resources
Speaker 4: to devote someone just to recruiting, like.
Speaker 2: No, but we did because I spent time doing it
Speaker 2: and I hated it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to call their we call.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah. One of the most famous ones. The one
Speaker 2: one of the most famous ones I did was that
Speaker 2: early morning on a on a Wednesday, Tuesday whatever it was,
Speaker 2: was the twins from Stanford who went to Stanford the
Speaker 2: I want to see call the Collins twins and they
Speaker 2: decided to go It was here or there right here,
Speaker 2: right and decided to go to Stanford. And I ended
Speaker 2: up talking to them mo hob like at seven in
Speaker 2: the morning because they made a decision that morning. And
Speaker 2: she got on the phone and I said, you know,
Speaker 2: could you tell me real quick, I need to quote
Speaker 2: about you know why they decided. He said, Steve, if
Speaker 2: you had a couple of kids and they chose, they
Speaker 2: chose between Arizona and Stanford, wouldn't you want them going
Speaker 2: to Stanford? I said, good questions, good answer, very good answer,
Speaker 2: Thank you very for much of your time. And I
Speaker 2: guess we'll see him down the road. Yep, come on,
Speaker 2: I mean the same thing.
Speaker 4: But I mean this guy's decisions are where between Arizona
Speaker 4: and USC Oregon, Tennessee. It's not like Harvard is in
Speaker 4: mister Stanford even but you know, and he's another one
Speaker 4: and done. So now your window of opportunity, right, is
Speaker 4: a year. I guess everybody's who you opportunity is one year, right,
Speaker 4: you have that one year window. And so when let's
Speaker 4: assume for a second, Arizona does get him, you know,
Speaker 4: everyone thinks I'm the grim Reaper and poop poo and
Speaker 4: everything blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they get him. So now they have and
Speaker 2: and and Brian stays, okay, so they're gonna be pretty good, right,
Speaker 2: you'd assume that. Sure, you mean to tell me the
Speaker 2: other schools are not gonna be any good? You just
Speaker 2: saw too early top twenty five, right, don't say whom,
Speaker 2: but you said what was Arizona on it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Twenty four twenty four, So that means they have to
Speaker 2: leap frog, right, twenty three other teams.
Speaker 4: That's true, but a lot of that is just based
Speaker 4: on who they can get on the roster of this
Speaker 4: coming season. You know, these new guys, there's three for sure,
Speaker 4: I guess, at least at this point, and maybe a
Speaker 4: fourth Houston, I guess, and whatever else they can come
Speaker 4: up with and transfer port.
Speaker 2: Houston has come up with one of the better recruiting
Speaker 2: classes in the country already already, So you don't know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. You might have a lot of money
Speaker 2: in your pocket, Dave, but your neighbors probably have a
Speaker 2: lot of money in both pockets.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: Getting on TV like Houston did for the last month
Speaker 4: basically is Arizona used to talk about that all the time.
Speaker 4: The longer you go in that tournament, the more exposure
Speaker 4: you get.
Speaker 2: And they've been doing it for a while now, right
Speaker 2: last few years, so you.
Speaker 4: Know, yeah, I mean, Arizona milk that forever. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think it helped. Rocky was talking about it yesterday
Speaker 4: just about you know, people interested in the school. Enrollment
Speaker 4: went up when when Arizona basketball, you know, got hot,
Speaker 4: and that just is carried over forever. People want to
Speaker 4: be part of that. Okay, Kebby here turned Okay, we talked.
Speaker 3: More about Arizona men's and women's tennis got big wins
Speaker 3: on Senior Day, each closing out their home schedule with
Speaker 3: a victory. The number eleven men swept BYU four nothing,
Speaker 3: while the women defeated Colorado five to two.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got to get the coach on. The coach
Speaker 2: is on because they've had another The men's had another
Speaker 2: great season.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 3: Arizona men's basketball finishes fifteenth and final Associated Press poll.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's about right. Yeah, you know, sweet sixteen. Who's sixteen?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure sixteen would have been whom in the
Speaker 2: in the it doesn't matter, doesn't will find it later.
Speaker 3: Former Arizona guard Brandon Williams signs two year deal with Mavericks.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, he was one of the Shawn's guys. It's
Speaker 2: pretty good that him. I mean he never played here.
Speaker 4: He got hurt, right, so he never really had a chance,
Speaker 4: and he's managed to parlay it into the NBA.
Speaker 2: So this is already seven years maybe, Yeah, it's for him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was a chance. He was the guy that decided
Speaker 2: to come, come and stay, and other people followed because
Speaker 2: he was that good, right, and then he got hurt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he never never was healthy. Yes, he kind of
Speaker 4: came in he was injured, had to sit out for
Speaker 4: a year if I remember, and then sort of came
Speaker 4: back and never.
Speaker 2: Yeah, red shirted or something transferred. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The Denver Nuggets shocked the NBA by firing head coach
Speaker 3: Michael Malone and announcing they would not extend general manager
Speaker 3: Calvin boost contract. Lead assistant David Edelman will serve as
Speaker 3: head coach for the remainder of the season.
Speaker 4: But you're a Denver guy because you have some family there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was that was a stunner. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's been really successful. I want a championship just a
Speaker 4: couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: What have you done for me lately? Yeah? Oh, they're
Speaker 2: in a little losing What are they like, thirteen and
Speaker 2: sixteen or something, thirteen but last four in a row.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the playoffs are just around the corner. It's
Speaker 4: very odd timing, very odd timing there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think they have a good chance to
Speaker 2: still will be pretty good to have some pretty good
Speaker 2: I guess Murray's out for with injury.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's been out.
Speaker 2: He'll be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Well, really be ready.
Speaker 2: How can you do that with with one of your
Speaker 2: best players in the league and then you say good
Speaker 2: bye your coach because you're you lost a couple of guys.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't understand. There's got to be I
Speaker 4: don't know. There must be something else going there.
Speaker 2: I know you're a good TV guy, but you don't
Speaker 2: have a camera. How are you going to manage?
Speaker 4: Is that? I'm gonna think Adelman is probably Rick Adelman's son, Yes, ok, yeah,
Speaker 4: so Denver. Oh, I don't know, just a few years
Speaker 4: removed from their championship and still two years Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: you know, m v P again.
Speaker 2: Possibly. I think it's a Westbrook factor. He's with the
Speaker 2: team right now.
Speaker 3: Former MLB pitcher Octovio Dotel was killed in the tragic
Speaker 3: nightclub roof collapse.
Speaker 2: In the Dominican replay, Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of people who passed. I think fifty eight ish, Yeah,
Speaker 2: forty four lives. Okay, yeah, I remember him. He was
Speaker 2: a hard thrower.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fifty one years old too.
Speaker 2: Oh he was that old thing? Was that old me too?
Speaker 2: Know that you should say that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Florida is the only national champion over the last twenty
Speaker 3: years to overcome a deficit of nine plus points in
Speaker 3: the Elite National semi final and National championship.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you remember how I can't remember this. Do
Speaker 2: you remember how down Arizona was against North Carolina or
Speaker 2: Kentucky in their games? I know the Kentucky game was close,
Speaker 2: but they were down. Yeah, and I've seen that game
Speaker 2: a thousand times because they've played all the time. But
Speaker 2: they had to come back and you know a few times.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it would be good to look
Speaker 4: at the play by play. I think I might have
Speaker 4: the play by play sheets at home, at least for
Speaker 4: the championship game.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, did you watch last night? You
Speaker 2: watched that?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Did you watch the post games? I watched like
Speaker 2: the CBS coverage Yeah, yeah, when they're cutting down the nets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2: Did you You were there right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: See, so I was there obviously doing some stuff, some
Speaker 2: stuff covering the team. But I don't remember all those
Speaker 2: people on the floor in ninety seven. No, it was
Speaker 2: kind of restricted to a certain amount of people or
Speaker 2: the families or something. Yeah, but there was a massive
Speaker 2: lot of people. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean even the ladder has got like a sponsor
Speaker 4: name or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in fact, that's kind of funny. I texted Haayer
Speaker 2: after the thing that says, I can't remember seeing so
Speaker 2: many people on the court when we were there and
Speaker 2: interviewing real quickly after the game, and he says, no,
Speaker 2: this is new.
Speaker 4: I guess, you know, I'm trying to remember if I
Speaker 4: was on the floor. I remember going racing back to
Speaker 4: the back rooms of the media room. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if I did see it in person other
Speaker 4: than just maybe just watching it from there. From there,
Speaker 4: I don't remember, but you know, it's always a big deal.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know if we had, you know,
Speaker 4: thousands of people on the court like that in those years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I got. I got to yelled at indirectly
Speaker 2: because I was covering the team obviously for the newspaper
Speaker 2: and a Gannet paper, and I was doing some quick
Speaker 2: interviews on the floor and one of the guys from
Speaker 2: another Gannet paper, do you have a quote for me
Speaker 2: to use my home work? Man? I got? I got,
Speaker 2: I want to stop, I can't stop, and yeah, help you.
Speaker 2: You know, because like we were.
Speaker 4: Restricted in that we could not have our cameras at
Speaker 4: the court during the games as soon as they went
Speaker 4: off the air copyright, So now then we could come
Speaker 4: out with our cameras. So I think maybe that's where
Speaker 4: I was what I was doing at that moment, and
Speaker 4: we had two crews, so somebody else was back in
Speaker 4: the back still recording the postgame things and whatnot. But
Speaker 4: we would sometimes at that moment then we would come
Speaker 4: out and shoot our was your colleague one of them,
Speaker 4: the guy who passed two years ago, Joe.
Speaker 2: Joe, because it's the two year anniversary of today. Yeah, maybe, no,
Speaker 2: that's reason I asked just to bring him up. Joe
Speaker 2: Joe Pirates.
Speaker 4: Ye, Joe is my buddy, and yeah, we lost him
Speaker 4: two years ago today, which is shocking. Yeah, but he's
Speaker 4: a great guy.
Speaker 2: I liked him because I saw him one time on
Speaker 2: the free win and his charger Challenger whatever it was
Speaker 2: that hot is what the hell are you driving? Because
Speaker 2: he wasn't a Challenger guy to me.
Speaker 4: No, No, he was a big, huge baseball fan. He
Speaker 4: and his wife, we used to joke like they'd go
Speaker 4: on vacation, you know, they go to like Hawaii and
Speaker 4: to Florida and all these kind of nice places.
Speaker 2: And they go to minor league baseball games. He was
Speaker 2: just he was just that kind of a guy. It
Speaker 2: was so much fun.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Florida States guard tenayat lights in, the nation's leading scorer,
Speaker 3: announced she will transfer to South Carolina. Lateson will reunite
Speaker 3: with former high school teammate Raven Johnson, joining the game
Speaker 3: Cocks powerhouse team.
Speaker 2: Did you uh god? I hate the Internet? I hate Twitter.
Speaker 2: I hate a lot of this.
Speaker 4: Look at something.
Speaker 2: No, well, did you see after South Carolina loss and
Speaker 2: they got humbled pretty badly? Right, So then the fan
Speaker 2: base just comes in, Oh, she needs to be tired,
Speaker 2: she's seen better days. She just won her third title
Speaker 2: not too long ago, and oh she needs to go
Speaker 2: and YadA, YadA, you wonder Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Mean you wonder though too. I mean, what what more
Speaker 4: does she have to prove?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: She going to be in that position now, like, gosh,
Speaker 4: do I need to go through this again. She's winning
Speaker 4: Olympic gold medals, she's you know, winning national championship, She's
Speaker 4: had all his success and she, you know, probably in
Speaker 4: an age where she'd like to kind of into the SI.
Speaker 2: Well, Joe talked about that today's coaches now just kind
Speaker 2: of want to coach as much as they can get
Speaker 2: as much money as they can and just call it
Speaker 2: on their own terms, which Arianma would be the would
Speaker 2: be the perfect example.
Speaker 4: Yeah, both of those two, Yeah, those coaches.
Speaker 3: Former Notre Dame guard Olivia Millis has decided to transfer
Speaker 3: to TCU.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about that during that conversation. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: because she's had a million or two dollars, a million
Speaker 2: or two to start paying those kids.
Speaker 4: And when she's coming from where again.
Speaker 2: Uh, where's she going? She's going from She's coming from
Speaker 2: Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: Notre Dame. That's right.
Speaker 2: There was a chempce that she was going to go
Speaker 2: pro and then she decided just to stay. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: take the million dollars. It's more than the exactly Dave exactly.
Speaker 3: Mariners outfielder Victor Roblists will miss at least twelve weeks
Speaker 3: due to a small fracture in his left shoulder, potentially
Speaker 3: rolling him out for the entire season. The team believes
Speaker 3: Roblest is not required surgery at this time.
Speaker 4: Did you see that injury? He was running down to
Speaker 4: catch a foul ball right field corner, like I'm not
Speaker 4: sure if it was the bullpen, just right to the fence.
Speaker 4: It might have been on Sunday. He went flying into
Speaker 4: the fence like at one hundred miles an hour and
Speaker 4: flipped over the fence. He was not a not a
Speaker 4: pretty sight. But you know he made the catch too,
Speaker 4: which was even more incredible. But he went right into
Speaker 4: the wall.
Speaker 3: Texas freshman Trey Johnson announced he was entering the NBA Draft,
Speaker 3: where he's projected as a top five pick.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw his announcement on NBA today. Didn't see
Speaker 2: him play, Nope. Yeah, he's a good player. I'm sure
Speaker 2: Sean wanted him to stay.
Speaker 3: That is there for today's breaking news.
Speaker 2: Sean did bring one of his guys to the team,
Speaker 2: one of his savior and guys. Yeah, one of the guards.
Speaker 4: So how much time do we have?
Speaker 2: I think we have. Oh, we got to go. It's
Speaker 2: already four or thirteen. What do you got We'll do
Speaker 2: it later. Okay, cool, let's go come back with mister
Speaker 2: Aaron Torres.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Lying on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You do now,
Speaker 2: We're just going to try to get ahold of mister Torres.
Speaker 2: I haven't called us actually, uh so carry me for
Speaker 2: a second their day.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to talking to him. He was in San Antonio,
Speaker 4: looks like the whole weekend and has been covering the
Speaker 4: end of the basketball season. He looked like he was
Speaker 4: pretty busy, and I'm sure he's glad to be done
Speaker 4: and finished, as many of the college basketball riders are.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a whirlwind month yeah, and you you've
Speaker 4: been through it a million times and it was always
Speaker 4: kind of fun.
Speaker 2: Went to I just went to nineteen of the last
Speaker 2: year was the final fourth in Phoenix. So it's just
Speaker 2: a long day. You get to see your colleagues, you know,
Speaker 2: for you know, for a long time, the Dick Weiss
Speaker 2: of the world. Who's yeah, the crusty old Dick Wise
Speaker 2: and the guys the pet the forties. Yeah, mister Aaron Torris.
Speaker 4: Is his shoe.
Speaker 2: This is me, sir. How you doing fine? How are you?
Speaker 2: Did you get some sleep last night?
Speaker 12: No, hold on to textive, I'm good whenever you are.
Speaker 2: Just I'm in the middle of something.
Speaker 12: But I got about two hours of sleep, okay, and
Speaker 12: then I came back.
Speaker 2: But we're we're on the air. We're on the end
Speaker 2: right now. Okay, So sorry, how are you good? Good?
Speaker 2: Let me my naked eye from the TV. A good game,
Speaker 2: fun game to watch, not a well played game. What
Speaker 2: did you think?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 12: What I thought really quick was that I thought, you know, listen,
Speaker 12: I thought Houston was in a situation, you know, see
Speaker 12: something popped up.
Speaker 4: I really hate to do this to you.
Speaker 12: I'll give you a make good later in the week.
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta love no problem Aeron Taurus. Anybody
Speaker 2: wants to call it and fill in the spot, we
Speaker 2: can answer that question. Yeah, so no, no, that's what
Speaker 2: I saw. You saw the same thing. I sent a
Speaker 2: note to you, I think during the game, did I
Speaker 2: It was the same problem that I thought I had
Speaker 2: the ball. The ball was too active, and it is.
Speaker 2: It's been active for the last three years. In fact,
Speaker 2: Tommy talked about it last week, the ball being still
Speaker 2: a little bouncy and slippery or whatever.
Speaker 4: Right out of the factory. Maybe who knows what the
Speaker 4: deal is. If it's just they just don't replate the dam. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the game was was pretty sloppy, but I think the
Speaker 4: shooting was not all that great for most of the contest.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of what we expected from Houston.
Speaker 4: They just kind of win ugly and play with that
Speaker 4: great defense and see what they can do on the
Speaker 4: offensive boards. But Florida didn't really put up much of
Speaker 4: a fight in the first half until they really got
Speaker 4: things kind of rolling in the second half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of a sudden, it's Anthony, Anthony, like you had
Speaker 2: picked Florida. I picked Florida, obviously, and they were down
Speaker 2: whatever they were down, and then they closed it within
Speaker 2: four or three whatever it was, And I said, they
Speaker 2: got them where they want them. I said, they played
Speaker 2: a very poor first half, and I probably said just
Speaker 2: played badly and they were only down by two or three,
Speaker 2: you know, three or four. Yeah, abstuely, it's a perfect
Speaker 2: situation for Florida. They liked this spot. But then I said,
Speaker 2: so does Houston because that's what they're known for.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I mean having four number one seeds too,
Speaker 4: was kind of an attraction in itself in the final four.
Speaker 4: I think people wanted to see kind of the best
Speaker 4: of the best play, which we got. I mean, we
Speaker 4: really got almost every game, and this weekend was really good,
Speaker 4: you know, translated over to television viewers. That was the
Speaker 4: most watched since twenty nineteen. Yeah, they had eighteen point
Speaker 4: one million on CBS last night, so that's a pretty
Speaker 4: strong number for men's basketball. The women's game also had
Speaker 4: some good numbers too, but Florida Houston peaked with twenty
Speaker 4: one point one million for the game's conclusions, so people
Speaker 4: were watching that game not much else on last night.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember this, but nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2: I think it was Wisconsin was in the finals, Michigan State,
Speaker 2: whatever it was. It was before two thousand or maybe
Speaker 2: two thousand. Arizona was the number one. It was two
Speaker 2: thousand because everyzone was the number one team overall. Right,
Speaker 2: they lost to Wisconsin in a team that's very good
Speaker 2: but ugly. They played ugly and they got to the
Speaker 2: final four. I think it was under under Bennett, Dick Bennett,
Speaker 2: and it was ugly basketball because he just slowed it
Speaker 2: down in the fifties and yeda yedda, and people said, God,
Speaker 2: this is not fun to watch, just not fun to watch.
Speaker 2: Last night was different because it was it was fun
Speaker 2: to watch in as much as it was like a hockey. Yeah,
Speaker 2: is this skating back and forth? The ball wasn't going in.
Speaker 2: It was like I said, two piranhas going at it,
Speaker 2: uh and just kind of like a and only four
Speaker 2: fowls called.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean it was amazing that they just know,
Speaker 4: the refereess kind of just swallowed their whistles.
Speaker 2: And didn't do anything, and then just what they found
Speaker 2: their whistles in the second half.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was it was kind of a
Speaker 4: shame to watch, kind of you know, Houston. Not that
Speaker 4: they're the Cinderella story, but you know they're coming out
Speaker 4: of you know, of the Four Conferences or whatever five conferences.
Speaker 4: You know, they were from the Big twelve, and they,
Speaker 4: you know, they didn't get the kind of publicity that
Speaker 4: the SEC schools got as far as television and things
Speaker 4: like that through the course of the year. So maybe
Speaker 4: people didn't know too much about them even though we did,
Speaker 4: and they just kind of, you know, faded away. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you could just see it. I think I was even
Speaker 4: texting my kids. I'm like, oh God, they're falling apart.
Speaker 4: You know, they had that twelve point lead and just
Speaker 4: couldn't hang on.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and you you had a dog, you had
Speaker 2: both dogs in the fight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, got a had some good
Speaker 4: wagers going for the for the evening. Yeah, but it
Speaker 4: was still it was still that wasn't really kind of
Speaker 4: That's usually not how I watched the games.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you. Maybe you you and Jay.
Speaker 2: I did no, no, only because because I had a
Speaker 2: dinner wager with Jay from back last week and then
Speaker 2: I had the pick I had in January on Florida.
Speaker 2: But I enjoyed it. I still thought that even though
Speaker 2: he didn't have a great game and he was throwing
Speaker 2: some bombs up there with Clayton, that he was probably
Speaker 2: the second best player I saw all year outside of
Speaker 2: the flag.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what. You know, what's the
Speaker 4: duke situation going to look like? I guess we'll have
Speaker 4: those guys are probably all gonna go.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about Duke, Dave, don't worry about.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they've got three you know McDonald's all Americans
Speaker 4: lined up anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't cry for Argentina. Man, they're gonna be good.
Speaker 2: As you saw, I mean what, they're in the top
Speaker 2: three and a few top twenty five's.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Here, So you know, Houston, Duke, Yukon, you know, all
Speaker 2: the usual, all the usual, Kansas.
Speaker 4: You know, Kentucky got this guy, Jayden Quaint Hants who went.
Speaker 2: To his issue. Yeah, very good play, a good player.
Speaker 4: He had a c L surgery, so they're not sure
Speaker 4: if he's gonna.
Speaker 2: Be really okay. I thought he'd be a great fit
Speaker 2: for Averzona, And we didn't talk about this yesterday with
Speaker 2: Emanuel Stephan going to Josh at Vegas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, I haven't have you been following
Speaker 4: Josh's recruitings.
Speaker 2: Yes, we had him on, We had him on Friday.
Speaker 4: He does he get anybody?
Speaker 2: He had zero people on Friday. He got one. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's gonna have his work cut out for him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know, never never doubt Josh.
Speaker 4: Now you know this.
Speaker 2: He works his ass off. He wouldn't even say the
Speaker 2: word ass, doesn't drink, doesn't smoke. So he's in Vegas.
Speaker 2: What else you have to do but go work?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Really, how's he gonna fit into that lifestyle in Las Vegas?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's And he's the dude that's gonna go on, kiss,
Speaker 2: kiss hands and shake baby. You know, he's gonna get him.
Speaker 4: He's gonna you know, he's a good he's a good
Speaker 4: TV guy. So he's gonna get some publicity. It's a
Speaker 4: un l V.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: We we've been kind of joking about this, but that
Speaker 4: market compared to when we were covering un l V
Speaker 4: and their heyday. Basically they were the pro team in
Speaker 4: those years. And I'll look what they've got.
Speaker 2: I said yesterday their nil before nil was in a right.
Speaker 4: But they're going to probably get an NBA team. I
Speaker 4: would think one of the cities. If they ever, if
Speaker 4: they expand again on top of having you know, football
Speaker 4: hockey and now un LV bringing a new coach is
Speaker 4: going to get some publicity. They're not in the greatest
Speaker 4: conference in the world.
Speaker 2: No, but no, you know, but there's so much potential
Speaker 2: there because you've seen it happen before. Right. In fact,
Speaker 2: like Arizona went of the reasons why Lout came here
Speaker 2: and was so successful and came here initially what Bob
Speaker 2: Elliott said, and he said it a few times and
Speaker 2: then he did it in his book. Had it not
Speaker 2: had the success with Snowden that he may not have come.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, certainly un LV has had, you know, an
Speaker 4: amazing history, especially in the you know, the late eighties
Speaker 4: early nineties with Tark and all that did a nice job. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they were they were always you know, amongst the conference
Speaker 4: leaders whatever conference they were in Mountain West, I guess,
Speaker 4: but I just look at the landscape of Las Vegas
Speaker 4: and every time I go there, it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: it's just growing, growing, growing. Where does you and l
Speaker 4: be fitt into anything? You know, for football, it's always
Speaker 4: been way down, but you know that with the Raiders
Speaker 4: and now the you know the hockey team and baseball
Speaker 4: is coming in a few years. You know, where's anybody
Speaker 4: gonna be able to pay attention to that program? Will
Speaker 4: fans you know, have extra money to go see? You
Speaker 4: want to be a basketball game anymore? Not like it
Speaker 4: used to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, again, there's an easy solution for all that win, right,
Speaker 2: just win baby, and they'll come. It's like the women's
Speaker 2: basketball program here. If they'll find somebody, right, they'll find
Speaker 2: somebody who will do a good job, get them back
Speaker 2: to maybe not the level that it was, because that's
Speaker 2: going to be very difficult.
Speaker 4: If the fans will carry over next year, I would
Speaker 4: think no matter what, Yeah, you know, they're going to
Speaker 4: give her or him, you know, a chance to do something.
Speaker 2: And if they're good, if they're good and competitive, I
Speaker 2: think they'll they'll show up and then and do Okay.
Speaker 2: And we talked about this yesterday gently the fan base
Speaker 2: is a pretty strong, different group, right uh, and kind
Speaker 2: of how the men's group should be loud, uh just
Speaker 2: kind of bunkers crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean, you know, it's kind of still
Speaker 4: a novelty a little bit, and that you know, they've
Speaker 4: they've been good for what five or six years pretty
Speaker 4: strong once they kind of got the W N I
Speaker 4: T and then started making runs in a tournament. So
Speaker 4: you know, the core audience is here and the new
Speaker 4: coach is going to inherit that and it's their job
Speaker 4: to keep it going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess there's just I just got a
Speaker 2: tweet from no our listener's idea has landed in Dallas,
Speaker 2: and I guess you probably have a press coming sometimes
Speaker 2: so with.
Speaker 4: Her husband and whole family. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this that's an old puddle. But I just got
Speaker 2: it about an hour ago. Okay, anybody want to call?
Speaker 2: We have time to take a call. Aaron Taurus couldn't
Speaker 2: stay on with us. Something came up. That's just the
Speaker 2: world that we live in with the journalism and spotty news.
Speaker 2: So we'll take the take a call or to Kobe's
Speaker 2: here ready, and then we'll take more calls here after
Speaker 2: the break as well. Thanks for hanging with us yesterday.
Speaker 2: We had a little glitch. If you didn't listen to
Speaker 2: our interview with Rocky the Rose. That was funny, but
Speaker 2: she said she was an Italian guy called who is
Speaker 2: this Rocky person? And she was in the first hour
Speaker 2: and then we had mister Rhino, Ryan Hanson in the
Speaker 2: second hour, who who had some great stuff with us too,
Speaker 2: talking about this year's team and just the the world
Speaker 2: of college basketball that we live in. Did you see?
Speaker 2: Did you see? And I wanted to tell him the story.
Speaker 2: Did you see after Houston one in the semi finals
Speaker 2: and A Lajoen was there and he tried to get
Speaker 2: on the court and they didn't allow him on the
Speaker 2: court because they didn't he didn't have any idea, they
Speaker 2: didn't know who he was. The people there, right, and
Speaker 2: then even an administrator for Houston said came in and
Speaker 2: to kind of intervene, and the guy still wouldn't let
Speaker 2: him on. And I don't know if they eventually led
Speaker 2: him on, but that's what the clip was. Lut had
Speaker 2: that same experience in Boise. Would you get to poison?
Speaker 2: But you don't know this one because I've said Rhinos
Speaker 2: talking about it a few times. So Boise, Yeah, when
Speaker 2: I think it's maybe first round, maybe the second round.
Speaker 2: We all needed ideas to get it was you know,
Speaker 2: posts and all that stuff, and we all needed ideas
Speaker 2: to get in. Well, Luke forgot as well at the hotel,
Speaker 2: so so he was going in and they wouldn't allow
Speaker 2: him in. They wouldn't allow him in without at least
Speaker 2: not on the court, right. So he let him in
Speaker 2: and then he had to watch the practice on the
Speaker 2: sidelines and the sidelines until he got his his idea. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I used to tease him, like remember the YAO commercial,
Speaker 2: the Yao he looked at his idea. Yeah, yeah, that's lude. Also,
Speaker 2: for God's sake, you know who he is. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was great. I didn't see, uh, I saw a key
Speaker 2: in the dream. I didn't see like Drexler or anybody
Speaker 2: that group. He must have been there. The only two
Speaker 2: people I saw was it was it was a dream
Speaker 2: and Carlos.
Speaker 4: Okay and Jim nance Jim Broadcaster was there getting ready
Speaker 4: to go to the Masters this week. But going back
Speaker 4: to my other passion these days is the Tucson Festival
Speaker 4: of Books. We had Maren Fader, who we talked to
Speaker 4: on the show, who wrote the book about Hakeem. So
Speaker 4: I've read a chance, got a chance go take a
Speaker 4: look at that book because she did a great job
Speaker 4: on that. She was really proud of which the work
Speaker 4: she did in the years it took to get information
Speaker 4: about him and he didn't talk. He didn't. He barely
Speaker 4: talked to her. But you know, she's she managed to
Speaker 4: write a you know, like a four hundred page book
Speaker 4: about him. He's had he's had quite an influence on
Speaker 4: a lot of players, current players who've gone to him
Speaker 4: for advice. Johannis, especially some of the African players and
Speaker 4: Asian players who've come over that just kind of wanted
Speaker 4: to know, how do you how do I navigate through
Speaker 4: all this with a different culture and different style of
Speaker 4: play and things like that. And that's forty years ago, Yeah,
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2: He's just got to be what sixty something, sixty two
Speaker 2: is short at least?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he was there, right, he was in
Speaker 4: the game, the North Carolina State game, the Valvano game
Speaker 4: eighty three.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize it now that they said that Holden
Speaker 2: was thirty nine, that Valdana was thirty seven. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: didn't realize it was that young either.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, Golden, you know Tucson kid, excuse me, Phoenix,
Speaker 4: Phoenix kid went to Sunny Slope High School. They want
Speaker 4: a state championship. I think I was covering those games
Speaker 4: like in two thousand and two ish. I think it
Speaker 4: was so Yeah. Then he worked at what University of
Speaker 4: San Francisco. It's funny if you look at his like Wikipedia,
Speaker 4: it's kind of interesting. He kind of followed when some
Speaker 4: coach around. He was an assistant, and then he broke away,
Speaker 4: and then he goes to us F and then he
Speaker 4: goes to Florida and national champion.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well, okay, let's take a break down and
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to IM about here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roverta, You're Dave Silver. We've got
Speaker 2: Aaron Torre's back on the line, Aeron, how are you.
Speaker 12: I'm great. I apologize, Fellas. It was the funniest thing.
Speaker 12: I had my dog at the dog parks. She was
Speaker 12: having a great time. I said, you know what, I
Speaker 12: can take this call. We're gonna be good.
Speaker 17: Next thing, I know, the dog was chasing a frisbee
Speaker 17: and read or over and she was scared.
Speaker 12: So I wanted to make sure she was okay.
Speaker 4: But she was.
Speaker 12: She was. She's fine, you know, much like the much
Speaker 12: like the Florida Gators.
Speaker 17: She rallied and finished strong.
Speaker 12: But you know, I just had to make sure she
Speaker 12: was it. Literally, guys, we were there for well over
Speaker 12: an hour. She's having the time of her life, not
Speaker 12: a care in the world. And of course the second
Speaker 12: that I got on Live with you guys, we had
Speaker 12: a little chaos. But everything's great. She's she had a
Speaker 12: good time. She's sleeping now, and uh, just a pleasure
Speaker 12: to speak with you guys and talk about last night's
Speaker 12: game and everything else going on.
Speaker 2: She just wanted you, I think, so Steve so real
Speaker 2: quick than any surprises last night. And hey, you saw
Speaker 2: this game twice on Saturday. You saw another game yesterday
Speaker 2: where the trailer pull it off.
Speaker 17: Yeah, you know my take, and I've said this now a.
Speaker 12: Few times anybody that's asked me, I really like Saturday
Speaker 12: night it was more Houston won the game rather than
Speaker 12: Duke lost the game. You know, Houston played the way
Speaker 12: that Houston does and final ten minutes Duke made mistakes,
Speaker 12: but it was it was about Houston forcing turnovers, executing whatever.
Speaker 12: Last night to me was about really just Houston melting down.
Speaker 12: I mean, you know, whatever you think of whatever, and
Speaker 12: you want to give Florida credit, and we're not trying
Speaker 12: not to give Florida credit, but I mean we're talking
Speaker 12: about a situation where you know, Houston didn't get a
Speaker 12: shot in its final four possessions. You know, we know
Speaker 12: the stats. They didn't get a you know, final minute
Speaker 12: twenty eight zero shot attempts for turnovers, and so you
Speaker 12: know the way it went down. I thought also the
Speaker 12: second to last possession, or excuse me, the last possession
Speaker 12: where you know, you get the ball back with it.
Speaker 12: I think it was about twenty six seconds and you're
Speaker 12: really you're in about seven or eight and you haven't
Speaker 12: even gone yet. It's like, I thought, you guys got
Speaker 12: a chance to see Kelvin Sampson in person this year.
Speaker 12: He is a stud he's he's Hall of Famer. But
Speaker 12: I thought the final two minutes I didn't think they
Speaker 12: were very well coached. I really didn't, which is shocking
Speaker 12: given that I thought they you know, I thought Sampson
Speaker 12: put on kind of a coaching clinic on Saturday night
Speaker 12: against Duke.
Speaker 4: Seems like just just closing out games has become harder
Speaker 4: and harder these days, you know, between just you know,
Speaker 4: constantly fouling and constantly you know, it's kind of shifting
Speaker 4: your your focus on, you know, how do we get
Speaker 4: how do we just kind of get this game over with?
Speaker 4: That seemed to kind of been, you know, a theme
Speaker 4: really throughout the tournament.
Speaker 17: It was amazing to me in hindsight.
Speaker 12: I feel like I did the same segment about five
Speaker 12: different times this tournament where you think about you Kon'd
Speaker 12: had Florida on the ropes, Florida.
Speaker 17: Rallies, Arkansas had Texas Tech on the ropes.
Speaker 12: Texas Tech overcomes I think an eight point lead with
Speaker 12: about three minutes to go, a point definisode about three
Speaker 12: minutes ago. Then two days later, Texas Tech has a
Speaker 12: nine point lead with I remember it was nine minutes,
Speaker 12: nine points with two fifty three to go, Florida rallies
Speaker 12: and wins, you know, obviously Saturday night with Duke Duke
Speaker 12: Duke in Houston, and then of course last night. So no,
Speaker 12: when I think it speaks to guys, and I know
Speaker 12: it's been a talking point this tournament, I really think
Speaker 12: the top of college basketball is so strong right now.
Speaker 12: You know, It's like people always say, like in the NBA,
Speaker 12: out of these you know, team has a twenty point
Speaker 12: lead and the other team ends up come back to
Speaker 12: win because the other team has really good players too.
Speaker 12: You let your foot off the gas for half a second.
Speaker 12: These things happen, And so yeah, I thought it was
Speaker 12: a very entertaining tournament. I think that, you know, I
Speaker 12: know there's a lot of talk about the future with
Speaker 12: Lessonderella is that the best players transferring up, But I
Speaker 12: think the top of the sport is really Listen. I'll
Speaker 12: even defer to Steve. You know, you've been covering it
Speaker 12: longer than I have, But I think the top of
Speaker 12: the sport now, because of the transfers and because of Nil,
Speaker 12: I actually think is now stronger than it's been. Maybe
Speaker 12: in twenty five, thirty years, as far as back to
Speaker 12: the days when guys used to stay for three or
Speaker 12: four years.
Speaker 17: So I know, if you're you know, a fan of a.
Speaker 12: Certain school or a certain brand, it gets frustrating as
Speaker 12: to some of the current state of the game things.
Speaker 12: But I think if you're following a Power Conference team,
Speaker 12: I think times are good because the teams are just
Speaker 12: now better across the board than I think they were
Speaker 12: even three or four years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question, Aaron. One of the things I'm
Speaker 2: skeptical about, and that's not the right word, but like
Speaker 2: teams like Arizona, a team that you cover pretty uh
Speaker 2: on top of your on top of with your website,
Speaker 2: that they're they're here, I think they're not at the
Speaker 2: top top. They're at the at the bottom top, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. And they probably don't have the
Speaker 2: nil money the others do. How are they going to
Speaker 2: compete with those others to stay or get to the
Speaker 2: near top.
Speaker 12: Well, what I'll say is, you guys, aren't you guys
Speaker 12: aren't the only ones dealing with it. I mean North Carolina,
Speaker 12: I think you know, no, no, no, no, I'm being serious.
Speaker 17: Northern Carolina just hired.
Speaker 12: A quote unquote GM, and I think really until about
Speaker 12: six eight months ago, they thought, Hey, the Carolina Jersey
Speaker 12: is gonna be all we need. And it's no that
Speaker 12: it's a changing world. But what I would also say
Speaker 12: to you guys is I truly still believe at the
Speaker 12: end of the day, yes, money and we know what's
Speaker 12: now a more money driven sport.
Speaker 17: I know a lot of people hate even acknowledging that.
Speaker 12: But it's the truth. But I do still think to
Speaker 12: a degree it is about the right fit, the right
Speaker 12: coaching staff, and you know, the relationship you have with
Speaker 12: the coaching staff and can they get you where you
Speaker 12: want to go. And so if you're Arizona, you know
Speaker 12: Tommy Lloyd now has a track record. He's got guys
Speaker 12: in the NBA, He's gotten guys into the first round.
Speaker 17: You know, he's taking a guy like Keishaw.
Speaker 12: Johnson who wasn't on anybody's radar and has put him
Speaker 12: in a position to play in the league. And so
Speaker 12: you know, there's always gonna be kids that you lose
Speaker 12: over money. But listen, in the old days, there were
Speaker 12: kids you lost too. But I think that kids still
Speaker 12: at the end of the day, they want to be
Speaker 12: a place where they know they can trust the coaching staff,
Speaker 12: they can can be developed properly, and they can get
Speaker 12: to where they want to go. I mean, I just
Speaker 12: I literally talked to a kid, a dad, excuse me,
Speaker 12: whose son is in the portal, a guy that'd be
Speaker 12: deemed to be one of the quote unquote top portal
Speaker 12: players available. And the dad said, point blank, like, you know,
Speaker 12: we quote unquote took less money because we trusted this
Speaker 12: coaching staff to get my son to where he wants
Speaker 12: to go. And so it's not the perfect answer, Steve,
Speaker 12: And there's gonna be frustrating Knights. There's gonna be frustrating
Speaker 12: situations where maybe a kid wants to stay or you
Speaker 12: lose a kid because of whatever. But I also think
Speaker 12: Arizona still has a ton to offer a lot of kids,
Speaker 12: and it not only Arizona, but Arizona with Tommy Lloyd specifically.
Speaker 12: I think he's a great coach, and I think that
Speaker 12: they still have a ton to offer the guys that
Speaker 12: they're gonna go after.
Speaker 4: Just kind of wondering, you guys have been reporters for
Speaker 4: a long time. What's it like being a reporter now?
Speaker 4: The season is over. I mean, is we have no
Speaker 4: idea what to expect, do we. I mean Arizona again,
Speaker 4: they've got a couple of players that they've signed. As
Speaker 4: far as freshman coming in, there's still gonna be some
Speaker 4: transfers I assume coming in. What is it like now
Speaker 4: as a reporter compared to say, five years ago?
Speaker 12: For me, Uh, it's a completely different world. I mean,
Speaker 12: you know, I always say it is that, you know,
Speaker 12: I love college basketball, but the season went that on
Speaker 12: a Monday, you talk about it on Tuesday, and then
Speaker 12: it really it kind of there were really you just
Speaker 12: kind of put it on the back burner until you know,
Speaker 12: September October.
Speaker 17: You know, every once in a.
Speaker 12: While there'd be a five star that got up that.
Speaker 17: Was uncommitted or whatever, but it basically was.
Speaker 12: A sport that really ended when the season ended. And
Speaker 12: and now I'll tell you guys, I mean, you know,
Speaker 12: last April was a little bit different because cal Perry
Speaker 12: left Kentucky right around this time, which then led to
Speaker 12: Kentucky needing to make a higher et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 12: But I only bring it up because you know, the
Speaker 12: news cycle in college basketball and the in I think
Speaker 12: it really goes really into May, and then you've always
Speaker 12: got those couple guys that are testing the NBA draft
Speaker 12: waters and so now you really have news going on
Speaker 12: really until pretty much end of May early June.
Speaker 17: Now is it day to day, minute to.
Speaker 12: Minute, No, But it used to be nothing. And so
Speaker 12: I don't know that it's quite a twelve month a
Speaker 12: year sport, but I think it's a lot closer to
Speaker 12: that than it was even three or four years. But
Speaker 12: I think it's a great question. I think it's changed.
Speaker 12: And frankly, I just think if you're not covering the portal,
Speaker 12: and if you think you know that your job ends
Speaker 12: the day that the season ends, you're missing out on
Speaker 12: a lot of content that I think a lot of
Speaker 12: fans really want and have interest in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe let's go somewhere else real quick. To one
Speaker 2: of your guys that I know you followed very heavily
Speaker 2: when he was here as Sean Shan Miller now at Texas,
Speaker 2: what do you think his prospects are?
Speaker 12: You know who I saw last night, Fellas and it
Speaker 12: was just a quick handshake Hello, Greg Byrne, who of
Speaker 12: course hired Sean at at at Arizona. So listen, I
Speaker 12: think Sean's gonna be great. And and Steve, I'll say
Speaker 12: this is I do think that unfortunately, this is the
Speaker 12: new what you referenced earlier is the new reality. Is
Speaker 12: that I think Sean. You know, Sean took the Xavier
Speaker 12: job around three years ago. He there was an offer
Speaker 12: on the table from an SEC school, and I think
Speaker 12: he felt like Xavier was the better opportunity for him.
Speaker 12: And then I think he saw pretty quickly the money
Speaker 12: that it was going to take to compete at the
Speaker 12: highest levels.
Speaker 17: He maybe lost the guy or two.
Speaker 12: He should he didn't want to, and all of a
Speaker 12: sudden you look up and you know he's leaving a
Speaker 12: place at Xavier where I think if you had asked
Speaker 12: him the day he took the Xavier job, I think
Speaker 12: he would have thought that he was going to retire there.
Speaker 12: That's the back burner. The front burner is he is
Speaker 12: at Texas now, and I think he's gonna crush man.
Speaker 12: I mean, listen, it is an NIO world.
Speaker 17: But he's been a.
Speaker 12: Relentless recruiter forever. And I think, you know, Texas is
Speaker 12: a talent rich state, a very populous state, and I
Speaker 12: think there's I just think he's gonna.
Speaker 9: Do very well there.
Speaker 17: The sec is tough. I mean, you're never gonna go
Speaker 17: you know, I'd say you're never gonna go eighteen and
Speaker 17: one night.
Speaker 12: You know, whatever it is. But Houston just did in
Speaker 12: the Big twelve. But you know, I think he's gonna
Speaker 12: win big there. And I just think that that was
Speaker 12: a school that always had the talent, but they maybe
Speaker 12: haven't always.
Speaker 17: Had the coaching.
Speaker 12: I think they now have the coaching with a guy
Speaker 12: that is gonna bring in talent. I think it's actually
Speaker 12: a sort of perfect match and I'm kind of excited
Speaker 12: to see how.
Speaker 2: It all works out. Okay, Erin, thanks for coming back.
Speaker 2: We gotta go, We gotta go. Thanks. I will talk
Speaker 2: to you soon. Enjoy the portal. Enjoy It's never a
Speaker 2: dull day.
Speaker 9: Right, it never ends.
Speaker 12: Man, Thank you guys, and thank you for your patience.
Speaker 12: And I apologize about that before.
Speaker 2: What's your dog's name? What's the dog's name?
Speaker 12: It's a girl. Her name is Charlie. She's sitting in
Speaker 12: the car with.
Speaker 17: Me right now.
Speaker 2: A girl named suit Okay, boy, a girl name you know. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you man, take care of Charlie. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: We got about five minutes stufft about cool. Okay, so
Speaker 2: that was good to get ahold of him. I know
Speaker 2: he's a big Sean fan, Sewn Miller. I agree with him.
Speaker 2: If Sean doesn't do well, you know, it'll be a
Speaker 2: surprise to me.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean he's he's When he was here, he recruited,
Speaker 4: he recruited wonderfully.
Speaker 2: Here's the reason I say that because I used to
Speaker 2: ask him every year. It was, without a doubt, question
Speaker 2: of mine, when are you going to start running? And
Speaker 2: he would look at me like, you know, stop asking
Speaker 2: me these dumb questions. Yeah, And eventually, guess what he
Speaker 2: eventually did. He left here, took the year off and
Speaker 2: decided to change, and some of his teams at Xavier
Speaker 2: the last couple of years have been very good in transition.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, you mean as far as changing up the
Speaker 4: offensive style and stuff.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean he's going to go into a
Speaker 4: wild conference. The SEC is filled with national champions. Now, uh,
Speaker 4: you know he's going to have to adapt. He cannot
Speaker 4: play the slowdown style. I don't think I have any
Speaker 4: success there. I mean Alabama, I don't know. They're all
Speaker 4: athletic and running and Texas is going to want that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Houston tried to do it right and they're
Speaker 2: very good at it. But it's a different You talked
Speaker 2: about bully ball yesterday. I've written about it a couple
Speaker 2: of times, but it's a bullyball was style. They had
Speaker 2: Crier who should have probably taken the last shot at
Speaker 2: some point. Of course, sharp they had shooters too. They
Speaker 2: could play a little fast, but they still were dominant
Speaker 2: with the defense. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a good showing for the Big twelve too.
Speaker 4: I think, you know the team is what Texas Tech
Speaker 4: made it into the lead eight, Arizona. Arizona got to
Speaker 4: the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: So I mean it was a good big Why you
Speaker 2: did a nice nice they're in the top ten I think.
Speaker 4: For next year. Yeah good. You know it's going to
Speaker 4: make it more fun for us next year to just
Speaker 4: kind of follow along and see these games week to
Speaker 4: week and how Arizona's going to change things up, and well,
Speaker 4: what's the nucleus of this team going to look like
Speaker 4: next year?
Speaker 2: For guys like me who followed the college basketball scene
Speaker 2: and you who enjoy watching it and now we're talking
Speaker 2: about it, I think, and I'll say this all the time.
Speaker 2: The best thing that happened at Arizona basketball was it
Speaker 2: went into the Big Twelve. Whether they win, it doesn't
Speaker 2: really matter, although it's a nice thing, but this gets
Speaker 2: you ready for the most important thing, and that's March. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean they played, they played great in the in
Speaker 4: the Big Twelve tournament. I think a lot of people
Speaker 4: thought that would help and it did. Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: they got some momentum going into the n C Double as,
Speaker 4: which was nice. We never knew.
Speaker 2: You don't use that word, but they played. They played
Speaker 2: well at the end and they moved on their own.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And they played. They played well even to even to
Speaker 2: the end against Duke.
Speaker 4: Had a chance. You know who was it was it
Speaker 4: Ryan last yesterday talking about you know, if you a
Speaker 4: couple of possessions, a couple possessions and you know they
Speaker 4: they could be the team in the Elite eight or
Speaker 4: moving on.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So and and who knows. Like I say, every
Speaker 2: time Arizona was told you can't, they do. It's the
Speaker 2: it's the lower level teams that you had wondered you
Speaker 2: wondered about, you know, because would they get up enough
Speaker 2: for the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the quality of play was definitely much higher
Speaker 4: in the Big twelve. I think there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 4: And every game was kind of you know a question,
Speaker 4: Thank you Mark. Is this going to be a game
Speaker 4: where you know someone's gonna sneak up on him and
Speaker 4: beat him. That shouldn't be, but you know they were
Speaker 4: right near the top of the standings.
Speaker 2: Almost from the get go. Okay, we got about a minute,
Speaker 2: are we good? A minute? Yeah? Okay, Dave, thanks for
Speaker 2: coming in again today. I'm gonna be in tomorrow with
Speaker 2: the other guys. Thank you Kobe for coming in today
Speaker 2: and leaning the board. We have no flaws today. I'm
Speaker 2: in tomorrow and then I'm off Thursday and Friday on
Speaker 2: assignment for another job that I have up in Scottsdale
Speaker 2: for a few days. So thanks everybody. A good game
Speaker 2: last night. We'll see what we get tomorrow for guests,
Speaker 2: and hope to hear from you. Thanks.