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Speaker 2: I've been good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the
Speaker 2: Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rovera
Speaker 2: in with me today as probably an impromptu guest co
Speaker 2: host Aaron Crowley. How are you, erone, I'm doing well,
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir for having me. You are the Coulie
Speaker 2: Guard tournament director, tag you're it. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, very honored this year to be the twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five tournament chairman for the Color Guard Classic by Exact Sciences.
Speaker 2: Just super thrilled. Did I reduce your title? I said,
Speaker 2: tournament director, but tournament chairman, so chairman.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So we've got within the Tucson Conquislars organization, we actually
Speaker 4: have a tournament director who's a paid employee, okay, for
Speaker 4: running the actual Oh is that Jeff? No, Jeff's our
Speaker 4: executive directors, Ian Helm.
Speaker 2: All your all your titles. All you guys have titles
Speaker 2: monkey MUCKs. I need you munkeety MUCKs right there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so no, it's a pretty exciting time as we're Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a good shoot show today because you're
Speaker 2: doing your stuff. I'm gonna have Kim and here on
Speaker 2: the second hour talking about what they just went through.
Speaker 2: I mean, I work for l Tour. It's it's like
Speaker 2: a Trioca or whatever. That's some of a big events
Speaker 2: in this town. Sports events. I should say, Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Snoop Dogg just came in. Now you just need to
Speaker 2: have would be who you don't have celebrities? Remember that
Speaker 2: back in the day when you're who would be your
Speaker 2: ideal guy to come in and kind of be a
Speaker 2: golf guy. Oh you have celebrity, Yeah, the pro we do. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I mean it's you know a few years back
Speaker 4: when we've got the programs which is.
Speaker 2: Feah, yeah, and you have like Rogers and yeah.
Speaker 4: And so we've done kind of the celebrity classics that
Speaker 4: have been part of the tournament itself internally, and I
Speaker 4: mean we've had a good deal for all players.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. Ye, the crossover for professional athletes that love
Speaker 2: playing golf, right, and I'm sure back in the day
Speaker 2: already baseball and baseball had the you know the yeah,
Speaker 2: it'd come here, and kind of last year we actually
Speaker 2: had the rocket was out playing. Oh yeah, Roger Clem Yeah,
Speaker 2: super nice guy. Yeah yeah, you know they're super nice guys.
Speaker 2: When they're no longer playing, Oh, I could only imagine
Speaker 2: your seat. Yeah yeah, yeah, because because during this during
Speaker 2: the year, they're kind of some of them, not all
Speaker 2: of them, are kind of like tough. Yeah. And then
Speaker 2: when they're you and me, when they turn into you
Speaker 2: and me, they're, oh, yeah, whatever you need.
Speaker 4: I couldn't imagine sitting in your seat trying to get
Speaker 4: information answers, yeah, yeah, and dialogue, well while they're in
Speaker 4: the middle of what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the whole thing. Mister Crowley. Do you have
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes for me so I could ask you? Yeah? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I don't have time now, don't bother me, kid. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's pretty much how it was. Now it's now that
Speaker 2: I'm sixty, you have a couple of minutes. No, thank
Speaker 2: you very much that he declined. Coming. Yeah, comment, that's
Speaker 2: what gets written. Comment. You said it. You don't want
Speaker 2: to have to hang By the way, I have my
Speaker 2: intern here, my guy, Juan, how are you, Yeah, sir,
Speaker 2: I'm doing good. Thanks for being here, Thanks for saying
Speaker 2: next week off, did you? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's been a week. It's been a week
Speaker 5: a week, so it's good to be back. How's a
Speaker 5: vacation fantastic? You know, I got some actual rest, spend
Speaker 5: some time with the family. You kids even need rest,
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 2: I've been load. That's what it is. Well, you'll be
Speaker 2: back today with me at the game, Yes, sir, tonight
Speaker 2: you'll be there, Yes, sir. You're looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: I am kind of looking excited about the Big twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 2: are you prepared for what's ahead?
Speaker 4: It's it's you know, it's a coin flip on on
Speaker 4: what's going to say?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, I mean twenty games. Uh, they've got
Speaker 2: to go better than corn flip of ten and ten
Speaker 2: corn flip of ten. Yeah, they've got to go at
Speaker 2: least fourteen and six I think to have a shot.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 4: The only thing that they've got going for them at
Speaker 4: the moment, based on their preseason schedule, was what those
Speaker 4: teams records are at the moment.
Speaker 2: That's not to say it's gonna last. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can go to the dance. I mean, and this
Speaker 2: is before the dance dance. You can go to dance,
Speaker 2: but if you don't dance, Yeah, what's the point. And
Speaker 2: I use that analogy. You can play them and you
Speaker 2: don't win. Yeah, there's no point now and they just
Speaker 2: didn't win to say that you've made it right for
Speaker 2: what you know? Yeah, I mean they have to they
Speaker 2: have to show that they're worthy. Now. This is the
Speaker 2: time of that to show. Yeah, and you know what,
Speaker 2: the first time in my career here I can honestly
Speaker 2: say I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm not sure. But if
Speaker 2: it was a pack twelve starty, yesid no, God, that
Speaker 2: would fifteen sixteen to move in. But now it's a
Speaker 2: coldly craft.
Speaker 4: I don't know about you, but watching them preseason with
Speaker 4: their exhibition games, and mind you, yes, the talent was inferior,
Speaker 4: but just the way they played, Yeah, I was rather
Speaker 4: excited about the collectiveness of that team.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and there's been some injuries and some things that
Speaker 4: have happened, but the way they move the ball, the
Speaker 4: way that they played, I was like, okay, this is
Speaker 4: going to be.
Speaker 2: At what point did you feel that it has it changed?
Speaker 2: I'm sure it changed a little bit. Yeah, so you're
Speaker 2: talking early November. Yeah, and then you said, okay, in
Speaker 2: late November, this is not the team. I thought, Hey,
Speaker 2: I was the same way. In fact, I talked to
Speaker 2: one of the assistants and I said, I really like
Speaker 2: the way this team is constructed, very very fits right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then it didn't and then it didn't. And in fact,
Speaker 2: I had a great question from a from a listener,
Speaker 2: a friend of mine, listener. He says, could you ask
Speaker 2: time me this? And it was a pretty good question,
Speaker 2: a very pointed question. You know, when you put your
Speaker 2: your roster together, what are you hoping to accomplish? And
Speaker 2: are they accomplishing what you would hope they I didn't
Speaker 2: go that far, but yesterday asked about construction and did
Speaker 2: he do it for the Big twelve? Did it for Arizona? Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's two different things. You do it for Arizona, right,
Speaker 2: because you want to be Arizona good, but then you
Speaker 2: have to kind of do it for Big twelve because
Speaker 2: you have to be Big twelve good. Yeah, two different things.
Speaker 2: I thought he tried to and we'll know tonight and
Speaker 2: beyond if he did it for Big twelve because you
Speaker 2: need to be you need to be a pain in
Speaker 2: the ass in the Big twelve you have to be
Speaker 2: if you're going to survive, right, So do you think
Speaker 2: this team has that pain in the ass in them?
Speaker 4: I honestly think we're gonna find out tonight because if
Speaker 4: you look at TCU's defense, but fifth in the country
Speaker 4: for points allowed, and when we haven't scored more than seventy.
Speaker 2: You're not any good any well, you're can I ask
Speaker 2: your age thirty forty forty so your loot was here
Speaker 2: in eighty three, so you were just kind of bornish,
Speaker 2: not even born yet eighty three, born eighty four, eighty four.
Speaker 2: So and I said this in my stories today for
Speaker 2: the look Ahead, was that historically and you know this
Speaker 2: because you grew grew up in it. Arizone thrives on
Speaker 2: points on transition, correct, that's what makes them who they are.
Speaker 2: They bitch you twenty four to four, you know, thirty
Speaker 2: to ten whatever it is. That hasn't been the case
Speaker 2: much this year and Tommy's the first three years, that's
Speaker 2: what it did, beat you up, and then where.
Speaker 4: You're games one to six to eight point runs. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and we just have not had those right this year.
Speaker 2: So I asked him that, I said, is it more
Speaker 2: of them defending you differently or you just not being
Speaker 2: able to do an He kind of put it on
Speaker 2: him that they're not doing what they need to do
Speaker 2: being aggressive, blah blah blah. But but if you know
Speaker 2: that's what I do, Yeah, what are you going to
Speaker 2: try to do? You're going to try and stop this?
Speaker 2: Trying to stop that? Don't you think that's what people
Speaker 2: are doing? Absolutely? And wouldn't you that's a.
Speaker 4: Percent I mean it if you think if we and
Speaker 4: I'll just pick on Caleb Love for the moment of
Speaker 4: where his shooting's at right now, we all know what
Speaker 4: his slumps are. But if he was maybe five, six,
Speaker 4: seven points more percentage points on his three point accuracy
Speaker 4: right now, we might be talking about it completely different.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, you'd begne three right. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 2: that close for the margin.
Speaker 4: So, I mean you have to give some credit to
Speaker 4: I think the teams that we've played are stopping what
Speaker 4: we're supposed to be good at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so which which which more power to them because
Speaker 2: that's what they're supposed to do. Yeah, you know. Uh,
Speaker 2: And and everyone that's been kind of wishy washy on
Speaker 2: defense at time and offensively been wishy washy. And that's
Speaker 2: the best word word when I can come up with,
Speaker 2: because they haven't been consistent. Uh. And it's just as
Speaker 2: I say, I've been doing this long time. This is
Speaker 2: the most bizarre team I've covered kind of in thirty
Speaker 2: some years. Yeah, because you don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 2: It's like going to a surgery not knowing if you're
Speaker 2: gonna survive. No, it's it's yeah, because they could go
Speaker 2: up and I mean they could end up putting eighty
Speaker 2: five on TCU, Yeah win by twenty We're like, okay,
Speaker 2: here we are, or it could be a fifty six
Speaker 2: fifty eight yeah loss, and we're like what are we
Speaker 2: doing here? Yeah? And you talked about seventy that's the
Speaker 2: kind of gauge. If they don't get there, they're gonna
Speaker 2: be in trouble. They in big trouble. I've been doing
Speaker 2: that surgery. Think, doc, did you sure? Did you wash
Speaker 2: your hands? Did you wash your hands? How did you
Speaker 2: do this? You wear your mask? What do you think?
Speaker 2: Because I don't think they can get the stops.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've wrote a piece right right after the non
Speaker 5: conference schedule finish.
Speaker 2: I saw them when you read it.
Speaker 5: But I saw, we've we've talked out it's almost since
Speaker 5: the season began, and even in the summer. So goes
Speaker 5: Caleb Love, so goes Arizona. Y. Yeah, so that's gonna
Speaker 5: be one of them. Did you make that one? They
Speaker 5: gotta This is one of the main points that's gonna
Speaker 5: drive their success if if Caleb Love can be successful,
Speaker 5: like you said, get those shooting percentages up, they're good.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be a successful team. They're not gonna look
Speaker 5: so sluggish and some of these losses.
Speaker 4: That they've had, and I'll even say it this way,
Speaker 4: if he can get to the foul line six to
Speaker 4: eight times a game.
Speaker 2: They'll win.
Speaker 4: And he's doing it because the last two that's his downhill.
Speaker 4: When he's playing downhill and he gets to the line,
Speaker 4: that means he's attacking in transition.
Speaker 2: That's a journal where he gets most of it. But right,
Speaker 2: and he's done that, like you said, last couple of games.
Speaker 2: But let me also tell you that the opponents that
Speaker 2: he's played this are not the ideal ponents, you know,
Speaker 2: so so also just I think they just need to
Speaker 2: stay aggressive.
Speaker 5: There was that that ten minute gap in that you
Speaker 5: see the game where they just turned it around. That's
Speaker 5: what they need to do, sure for the entire game.
Speaker 2: And when you saw that that ten minute stretch, what
Speaker 2: you think, oh, this is the team might that was it? Right?
Speaker 2: That was that that ten minute stretch And then they
Speaker 2: got choked and then they choked them right, they choked
Speaker 2: them into the slow and now they started doing what
Speaker 2: they've been doing.
Speaker 4: And maybe there's a few things that coach Lloyd saw
Speaker 4: that I didn't watch in that game, but I felt
Speaker 4: like there was a shift in personnel to rely that
Speaker 4: ten minute run.
Speaker 2: I don't think Carter Bryan got as much run.
Speaker 4: I think there was a few things, and who knows,
Speaker 4: there might have been some things he didn't do execution.
Speaker 2: Wise that that would warrant.
Speaker 4: Hey, you need to sit learn watch, But there was
Speaker 4: just it seemed like a different squad.
Speaker 2: But the way they played and who was on the court, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't notice that enough and during that stretch. But
Speaker 2: right at the end of the first quarter, I did
Speaker 2: turn to Brian and I've said this before, Peterson saying
Speaker 2: that this is a weird lineup. I mean, who's gonna
Speaker 2: score with this lineup? But yeah, with no score in
Speaker 2: and he kind of referred to it. It was kind
Speaker 2: of like the let's get out of here lineup? Where
Speaker 2: rest the guys before the Okay, okay, yeah you know.
Speaker 2: It's like you take your rest off for the break.
Speaker 2: You guys don't need it. This is what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Man load for nineteen exactly. I gotta get the off.
Speaker 2: No office, just plenty of office. It's just fun kind,
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 4: That The other part too, I think you know, and
Speaker 4: it's it's always easier to be happier when you're winning
Speaker 4: and playing well, but the joy and passion behind it,
Speaker 4: I think they're feeling the weight of what they should
Speaker 4: be and they're not, and it's starting to wear and
Speaker 4: tear a little bit on them.
Speaker 5: And it's hard, especially when another topic we've talked about
Speaker 5: is the nil that comes into play, like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: getting paid, I should probably produce.
Speaker 2: Or I'm already paid, right right? Why does this wat? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why does it matter? You? Have you been watching the
Speaker 2: Bowl games? Yeah? Okay, so so I've said this for months.
Speaker 2: Right now, you're getting paid, and I don't know the
Speaker 2: pay scale or the pace scheme or every two weeks
Speaker 2: whatever you might know. I'm not sure. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: either if they get a lot, I don't know, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is a super second to get the lomp Sum
Speaker 2: says that I'm getting paid, and I've seen it the
Speaker 2: last few days because the way that things have fallen
Speaker 2: in the in the games. Right in the in the
Speaker 2: Bone game scene, he's playing like a guy who's already
Speaker 2: been paid and is ready to get the hell out.
Speaker 2: Talking about cam Ward, I'm talking about that's one of
Speaker 2: them Colorado. Yeah, right that you know, what the hell?
Speaker 2: I got my cash. I'm good, I'm leaving.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you got Shdor Sanders already wearing giant giant sneakers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that cleets cleats made with the New
Speaker 4: York Giants.
Speaker 2: I mean, and if you're if you're a teammate, what
Speaker 2: are you thinking? That's that sucks. I couldn't imagine.
Speaker 4: I played small Division two basketball, but I couldn't imagine
Speaker 4: playing in this environment now with all the other aspects.
Speaker 2: From a team standpoint, because it's not that's hard. Did
Speaker 2: you did you read or did you see Doug Holler's
Speaker 2: story on TJ McConnell last week. It was very, very good,
Speaker 2: and I think I saw somewhere else. Did you see it.
Speaker 2: Probably not, but some of it was referenced when he
Speaker 2: came here to do his his retirement or not retirement,
Speaker 2: but that the story was that he was a senior
Speaker 2: and Stanley Johnson was a freshman, right, and then he
Speaker 2: had you know, he was the one and done dude.
Speaker 2: Everyone knew that, and he he thought a lot of himself,
Speaker 2: which is fine. Uh, and he was acting like it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and TJ says, enough enough, this is just not about you.
Speaker 2: This is not about you. You're not going to screw
Speaker 2: up my senior year being what you think you are. Ye,
Speaker 2: this is a team thing, don't I thought it was
Speaker 2: brilliant And and that kind of shows you who TJ
Speaker 2: was in terms of being a leader, and said, don't
Speaker 2: have this up, man, You're not gonna screw up my
Speaker 2: senior year. We're gonna play together.
Speaker 4: Or you're a freshman year, Like you can't take for
Speaker 4: granted that moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And to think that you're the poop to
Speaker 2: come in and and and and be who you think
Speaker 2: you can be here or want to be. There's other
Speaker 2: dudes on this team.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Could you imagine now having that conversation if I mean
Speaker 4: and I have no idea Stanley was getting paid bet
Speaker 4: or not. But good question, good question having that conversation now,
Speaker 4: right right, Like you can't, right, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know if you can.
Speaker 4: Like I think it's I think it's tougher to be
Speaker 4: a leader like that, and that's why they just don't
Speaker 4: really exist at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, well look at football, Yeah, look at football.
Speaker 2: I mean you probably go to the games, right, there's
Speaker 2: so many questions there that you that you can't find
Speaker 2: the answers to. No, and even if they have, the
Speaker 2: answers are the real answers.
Speaker 4: And I think it's so new and you know, it's
Speaker 4: it's unchartered. Yeah, and for any of us watching participating
Speaker 4: in it, I mean it's you know, yeah.
Speaker 2: The thing about it, guys is that it's not exclusive
Speaker 2: to hear no, oh gosh, No, it's everywhere, yeah, all
Speaker 2: on all levels. Yeah. And it's how they handle it,
Speaker 2: that's how they succeed or don't succeed, you know, even
Speaker 2: at the smaller schools. I'm sure they're dealing with stuff
Speaker 2: because even though they don't have the money for it,
Speaker 2: and Arizona's not a big school, it's.
Speaker 4: A no, not on the grand scheme of things when
Speaker 4: we're talking to Ilma right right, So you know they're
Speaker 4: dealing with it.
Speaker 2: Arizona's dealing with it. The bigger schools are dealing with it,
Speaker 2: probably at a bigger scale. Okay, So I guess who's
Speaker 2: the g NEX guest You are well part? So, yeah,
Speaker 2: you were scheduled to come on through fifteen. Tim Bentley
Speaker 2: was ill so we couldn't come in. Thanks for being here.
Speaker 2: You stay for the hour. I want to stay for two.
Speaker 2: I don't know. You can do whatever you want, stay
Speaker 2: for the hour. I gotta get home. Yeah, your your wife, Willie,
Speaker 2: you're not too far. Yeah, I don't sit too far
Speaker 2: for your ass to come over again. That's exactly sure.
Speaker 2: That's Steve. Okay, I'll take care of that. You said
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Speaker 2: She loves going to the game. My mom's mad at Yeah. Oh,
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Speaker 1: Streaming live on the Ihearts Radio while this is Eye
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Ye about Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera and with me today is Aaron Crowley,
Speaker 2: the Color Guard tournament chairman, chairman. Welcome back, Thank you
Speaker 2: back everybody. Hey, so you got something you got you're
Speaker 2: on the clock, man, you got a little two months,
Speaker 2: two months, two months from like yesterday or something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how are you? Thanks for getting out of your office. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you got it. So because you guys, I know how
Speaker 2: it is. It's just you get closer. It gets like, okay,
Speaker 2: did I do this? Do that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: We start we start ramping up even more so. I
Speaker 4: mean we've had a collect few of guys that have
Speaker 4: been kind of working and grinding since last year's tournament for.
Speaker 2: This one, and that's what it takes. Did you see
Speaker 2: my two something I did so, So you you've been
Speaker 2: busy at the course a lot. Yeah, yeah, so I said,
Speaker 2: I don't know at the time we talked. Yeah, we talked. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you'd been there a few times, like a few times,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure you've been there a few times since. Yep.
Speaker 2: So what are you looking at it? You say, okay, this,
Speaker 2: you know, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: Well, it's I mean, we want to get out there
Speaker 4: just so we can reaffirm where we have things set up,
Speaker 4: and knowing from last year being our first year with
Speaker 4: you know, some of the challenges of the congestioned of
Speaker 4: where we've got kind of our finishing holes fifteen sixteen,
Speaker 4: seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 2: Up there by the clubhouse.
Speaker 4: Just trying to find ways to make it easier for
Speaker 4: patrons and for the golfers themselves because this one's a
Speaker 4: little different.
Speaker 2: They're in carts. Yeah, so you know, previously.
Speaker 4: When we were over at Omni, the golfers were walking,
Speaker 4: so you had less cart traffic, which is just tough
Speaker 4: to navigate a golf course trying to go there from
Speaker 4: an operation standpoint, just making sure that we're maximizing every
Speaker 4: piece because we were at Omni for so long that
Speaker 4: every one of us in leadership roles knew that place,
Speaker 4: like at the back of our hands. We knew every lot,
Speaker 4: every dirt spot that we could put something. And now
Speaker 4: it's kind of creating from scratch. So getting out there's
Speaker 4: much as we can without being in the way of
Speaker 4: the club members. So we want to respect you know,
Speaker 4: it's a beautiful golf course and clubs.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: Sure, I think one of the things that they were
Speaker 2: concerned about, and you guys did a great job. I
Speaker 2: was there on a I don't know whatever day it was, Saturday, whatever.
Speaker 2: Uh the traffic, I mean, you guys had that all
Speaker 2: figured out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were I think from and this is what
Speaker 4: we were pretty optimistic about. Just centrally located, you know,
Speaker 4: north central we'll call it, at least from where we
Speaker 4: were far northwest side of town is able to utilize
Speaker 4: parking and bussing in and so we really kept a
Speaker 4: lot of foot traffic off and I think anyone that
Speaker 4: knew that the golf course was going to be occupied
Speaker 4: by us in the tournament kind of stayed away from
Speaker 4: Sunrise a little bit. So it wasn't as as you know,
Speaker 4: congested as you know, I mean, you're just right down
Speaker 4: the streets, so.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, from here, and it's and it's just like
Speaker 2: in and out. I mean, because you're going east west
Speaker 2: or whatever it is. I know an'll tour and you
Speaker 2: know this better than most because you're a native. That day,
Speaker 2: because we tie up the streets. The number one complain
Speaker 2: is what the hell you're doing? Is you ruin our day? Yes,
Speaker 2: it's one day out of three sixty five, and we
Speaker 2: we understand that, and and and and sorry, yeah this
Speaker 2: is coming. We it's guess what, guys, it's going to
Speaker 2: be here again next year for you, I'm sure that
Speaker 2: was was that an issue?
Speaker 4: It was, but I think I mean just Tucson in general,
Speaker 4: and I think welcoming this event up to this side
Speaker 4: of town. We got some great partnership from a lot
Speaker 4: of business.
Speaker 2: Is a different audience.
Speaker 4: It's a different it's a different audience, and it's a
Speaker 4: different use of of land. And when we were over
Speaker 4: at Omni, this is before those KB homes got built
Speaker 4: yet behind I think it was a tournament course seven.
Speaker 4: That whole dirt lot was was ours to use. And
Speaker 4: so you know, knowing that we don't have that kind of.
Speaker 2: Space, we we got pretty creative on where we could
Speaker 2: park people, right, yeah, no, and okay, so let's get
Speaker 2: away from that. Uh now, uh, you have the field set?
Speaker 2: Is the field set of at all? No, it's not.
Speaker 4: So we are generally about i'd say, probably three or
Speaker 4: four weeks away before we start to get the majority
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 2: So let us one hundred how many people seventy eight
Speaker 2: seventy eight, so you're probably sixty seven and then not
Speaker 2: that's an issue because you're always fill it up, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but this is how it's getting closer and closer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're we're starting to get more and more
Speaker 4: phone calls for exam sponsor exemptions and get the other
Speaker 4: players in the field.
Speaker 2: But we got to kind of see where we sit.
Speaker 2: Who's who determines that?
Speaker 4: So title sponsor, Tour and us get to say in
Speaker 4: the number of openings that we have that are not
Speaker 4: filled by to or card requirements and so again figure
Speaker 4: out who's you know, medically not going to participate if
Speaker 4: or choose not to participate, we generally get outside the majors,
Speaker 4: We generally get one.
Speaker 2: Of the top one or two names. Yeah, so for
Speaker 2: for the actual full full lineup. So so we're coming
Speaker 2: up about the time when the big names are about
Speaker 2: turning fifty, right, I think what Phil had just turned
Speaker 2: fifty a couple of years ago, Yeah, years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I think he played in it. He did. Uh
Speaker 2: So now you know the Tiger Woods people in that era, right, we.
Speaker 4: Got so we got Tiger next year. You wish turning
Speaker 4: fifty out? You know you have a congre you're listening.
Speaker 2: Wish list you have I'm sure you have a wish
Speaker 2: lish not for the future, but even now. Yeah, can
Speaker 2: you say no, really, no one was listening to go ahead,
Speaker 2: help next time I'm on I will oh as we
Speaker 2: get closer. Yeah, no, that's cool, that's cool. But I'm
Speaker 2: sure that if I went in and tried to google
Speaker 2: who starting Yeah, exactly. So No, so there's it could
Speaker 2: or could not happen. It might it might happen.
Speaker 4: I am cautiously optimistic to say, yeah, that's good, we'll see.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's good.
Speaker 4: Basically, did you watch him at all up the PNC
Speaker 4: Championship with his son Tiger?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that was fantastic. It was a great story. Yeah,
Speaker 2: great story, and it was a founding thing. The ex
Speaker 2: wife was there and the daughter and yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 2: coming out was a warm and fuzzy Yeah it was. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean he looked pretty good playing so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and he'd probably be returned. And this is just me
Speaker 2: not knowing much about golf, so I can't hit it
Speaker 2: straight that. Once he turns fifty, I mean, he could
Speaker 2: be Tiger again. He yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Whereas it's not that he's refounded, but he's in a
Speaker 2: different Yeah, he can format correct because I don't think
Speaker 2: he needs to hit it three forty.
Speaker 4: He can hit it three ten and still be yeah
Speaker 4: ten fifteen yards above average for that age base. Right,
Speaker 4: you know the fifteen up guys which I still launched it.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's they're they're good for a reason.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh it's yeah, it's I played in the program
Speaker 4: a few times and getting to walk and play with
Speaker 4: those guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know who played with Ken Duke boy from Markansas.
Speaker 2: Oh he's fun. Yeah. So I'm not a big golfer.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan boy of golf, but I
Speaker 2: know the names. Uh. And I've said this when I
Speaker 2: was there last year, and I can't have fandmoid him
Speaker 2: because we were at eighteen. I think it was watching
Speaker 2: great day, great day, and I thank god if I
Speaker 2: could only walk like for a couples. He's got that.
Speaker 2: He's got that gate like you know, oh my god,
Speaker 2: doesn't stink. And I'm just it's always got his shoes
Speaker 2: are always aired up. Yeah, he just kind of what
Speaker 2: he's like, kind of I get a lot of ladies
Speaker 2: if I walk like that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: He's got that. Yeah, And you know, so just even
Speaker 2: for a weekend, I can walk like that, you know,
Speaker 2: just and these guys are I guess they're normal people,
Speaker 2: but they're not normal people because they're good at what
Speaker 2: they do. I mean, all athletes, if they're at this level,
Speaker 2: they have that they take. I mean there are that
Speaker 2: are at that level. Yeah, and you know you're at
Speaker 2: that level. Yeah, right, and to be at that it
Speaker 2: takes a little something, right, No. So there's that guy,
Speaker 2: and then you have the other guys who are just
Speaker 2: you know, normal dudes who who played golf very well. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean that's the other thing too.
Speaker 4: I Mean there's you know, twenty or thirty names out
Speaker 4: of the seventy eight field, you know, you know, and
Speaker 4: then the other ones you wouldn't you did a little
Speaker 4: deeper dive.
Speaker 2: And yeah you know. Yeah. Well you had the Spanish
Speaker 2: guy a year or two ago. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: he's the fun character guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You have all those guys, and then you have old guys.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's still around. You have all that guy
Speaker 2: is still around yep. Yeah, and then you have the
Speaker 2: women my age who are kind of like still fanboying them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know because they remember from younger days. Yep. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of fun, a lot of fun. So when
Speaker 2: you're there doing the stuff, and I say stuff meaning work,
Speaker 2: give me your day, give me your day. So tournament
Speaker 2: week turnment day. They start Friday, right.
Speaker 4: So actual tournament play starts Friday, so we call it
Speaker 4: advance week. So we're out there the Friday before the
Speaker 4: tournament starts and doing a few operational pieces. But we're
Speaker 4: probably in the next week or so we'll start having
Speaker 4: operationally building the infrastructures and so kind of being out
Speaker 4: just making sure things stay on time and online. But
Speaker 4: tournament week itself really, I mean, we have a phenomenal
Speaker 4: group of Conky stores. So we have fifty eight active
Speaker 4: Conky stores, which is operationally and sales wise, where the
Speaker 4: arms that put it all on and put it together.
Speaker 4: So and we've got people in key roles that when
Speaker 4: that week comes, they're going to be putting in sixteen seventeen,
Speaker 4: eighteen hours a day for a week, which I did before.
Speaker 4: That's it'll be you know, it'll be eight nine, ten hours,
Speaker 4: right type of stuff. So kind of work your way
Speaker 4: up a little bit.
Speaker 2: With that, right, and it's probably stressful, yeah, for twofold
Speaker 2: I mean one, you want to make sure that you
Speaker 2: you put on a good event, and that's your priority,
Speaker 2: right for how many partners are part of it, for
Speaker 2: those that buy you know, sponsorship package or hospitality packages,
Speaker 2: not to say you know col of Guard and Exact
Speaker 2: Sciences and the Conquistores and U of A and all
Speaker 2: the all the big names that helped lint this song.
Speaker 4: We want to make sure that we represent them well. Sure,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, it falls back on
Speaker 4: us to me up.
Speaker 2: No, no, And I'm sure you hear it.
Speaker 4: If you don't, oh, oh absolutely, we hear it throughout
Speaker 4: what we could have done better, you know, Monday morning,
Speaker 4: on Monday afternoon, here's what you should have done differently.
Speaker 2: Right, right, And then you said and you do it differently,
Speaker 2: says well, maybe you should have zagged the other way.
Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, there's no real answer, no, because you
Speaker 2: have so many people. When there's you know, when there's
Speaker 2: more than two people involved, you get the third person
Speaker 2: talking about, well you should have Oh, yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's yeah, it's like.
Speaker 4: Any any any big event.
Speaker 2: Sure in large organization. Right there, you do it two
Speaker 2: ways to get it right that they're and the one
Speaker 2: thing you don't want to do is mess up. You
Speaker 2: just try to do as best you can whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just represent you know, the community, represent
Speaker 4: the organizations that are right but want it.
Speaker 2: The good thing is you're the tournament, the chairman, and
Speaker 2: you have that big title, but you have like the
Speaker 2: fifty eight people who are pulling the rope with you
Speaker 2: to make sure that this works. Yeah, wouldn't be where
Speaker 2: I'm at without them. Yeah. And then you're but you're
Speaker 2: only here for a year, right as tournament chairman. Yep.
Speaker 2: And then and then you kind of become normal again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be I'll be still affiliated with it, I
Speaker 4: become no longer an active member, so I won't count
Speaker 4: as that that fifty eight, but I'll still be part
Speaker 4: of our tournament leadership committee and other things that are
Speaker 4: still part of and.
Speaker 2: That's how it's structured. Yes, right, who's you already have
Speaker 2: an is year guy? Right?
Speaker 4: We Yeah, we do. But well that's the secret too. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we don't announce that. Yeah, I can't. I can't steal
Speaker 4: that fun. This is not the CIA.
Speaker 2: I know. I can't. I can't do it. It ends up
Speaker 2: because we end up doing Uh, there's some process to
Speaker 2: affirm he he yeah, he does. If he doesn't, you know,
Speaker 2: he doesn't mess something up there at sixty five days.
Speaker 2: If you don't fulfill your commitment then and if he
Speaker 2: happens to be listening, he knows. Okay, okay, No, it's
Speaker 2: a good gig. You guys do a great job because
Speaker 2: it is important in the community. This is important for
Speaker 2: the community, and it's been going on forever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we couldn't be more more happy with the partnership.
Speaker 4: We have a cop guard right now and the exact
Speaker 4: science team it's been I think you know they're they've
Speaker 4: this is now going into their I think their eighth year.
Speaker 2: Eighth or nine. Well I was gonna say five, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I should know this a the story. No, and it's
Speaker 2: right in a wheelhouse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's important, which and they're using this which
Speaker 4: is fantastic and I love it the platform for but
Speaker 4: and I think the numbers here last year we had
Speaker 4: three and twenty seven survivors and attendance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so their advocacy.
Speaker 4: Group and their survivors and caregivers for those survivors get
Speaker 4: brought out, get put up, get to attend and right
Speaker 4: and and get the whole, the whole treatment for it,
Speaker 4: which is awesome.
Speaker 2: That's the whole thing, because it's obviously everyone has their thing,
Speaker 2: and you guys are more than golf. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's an event to support these people and awareness for
Speaker 2: co director cancer and of course for the for the
Speaker 2: money you raised to help local the charities.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh it's I mean, and I had talked about
Speaker 4: this when we when we chatted a while back. But
Speaker 4: I mean just one hundred plus charities that benefited from
Speaker 4: this last year's tournament.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like my number in the strength I
Speaker 2: can't remember what the number.
Speaker 4: Was, seven hundred and eighty four thousand ternible proceeds raised
Speaker 4: from last year, right, which is awesome. I mean We
Speaker 4: had five hundred and eighty four volunteers. I mean, it
Speaker 4: takes a gigantic village to put this on. But you know,
Speaker 4: as we talked about, I think the cool part of
Speaker 4: you know, every every dollar that that hits this community.
Speaker 2: You're cana stick around. We'll talk more about this, but
Speaker 2: we're still give me the dates real quick. So March
Speaker 2: seventh through the ninth is the tournament. Yeah, March.
Speaker 4: Think I thought it was leap February, but so it
Speaker 4: used to be. It's gottenfted around a bit. Okay, so
Speaker 4: a little bit more than two months. Yeah, we're trying
Speaker 4: to buy a little touch of warmer weather. You guys
Speaker 4: know how it goes sometimes that Lake Rodeo weekend. You
Speaker 4: don't know what you're gonna.
Speaker 2: We're never gonna get. No, we're never gonna get I
Speaker 2: even forgot the word for it. Winter. We're in the
Speaker 2: middle of almost January. We haven't had winter now, but
Speaker 2: watch what happens. We're gonna get snow on Easter Sunday.
Speaker 2: Winter late and yeah, late January even though right because
Speaker 2: everything's shifted a month. Yeah, it's crazy. You know what,
Speaker 2: maybe you'll get the eighty two degrees, but It's always
Speaker 2: been good because even when you get the snow, you
Speaker 2: get a lot of publicity, like look at the mountains
Speaker 2: and the mountains tactful scenery. Yeah, beautiful scenery where you at.
Speaker 2: I think Color Guard class because it's on TV and
Speaker 2: it showed so well last year on TV. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was pretty right. It's a great area. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know a lot of fans and we'll talk more
Speaker 2: about it. Let's connect a break, come back, talk more
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Eye in the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in with me today.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a co host, is mister Aaron Crowley
Speaker 2: for thanks sure, The Coling Guard tournament chairman and we'll
Speaker 2: have my Guyjan in with me today. That's why it's
Speaker 2: gotten so smoothly. Everybody's exactly right. If you want to
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Speaker 2: through there, and I'm sure you're going to be really busy. Uh.
Speaker 2: And then you have something that's other than golf. Other
Speaker 2: than golf, we talked about it, which is kind of
Speaker 2: a big deal. I went to the Contra last year
Speaker 2: and it was well attended, a great night of listening
Speaker 2: to music. Yes, and you have another one. We do
Speaker 2: so we're continuing our series of r O c q
Speaker 2: Fest Rock cq Fest. So we will be hosting out
Speaker 2: of the racetrack the really to Downs great space, great
Speaker 2: space for phenomenal space.
Speaker 4: And I've always been a fan of of any concert
Speaker 4: and an event I can go to to where I
Speaker 4: can exit quickly, Yeah, and have ease of egress, which
Speaker 4: is that's how it's set up out there. So we've
Speaker 4: got Friday night the seventh, March seventh, will have Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 4: We'll be playing with Rob Bass and Tone Loak so.
Speaker 2: So yeah, back in again, our ages kind.
Speaker 4: Of in that my age nineties nineties themed evening. We
Speaker 4: think it'll be a blast, is a great showing. And
Speaker 4: then Saturday night, March eighth, we've got our headliners co
Speaker 4: Wetzel's just been coming. Yes, single single, single, yep, yep
Speaker 4: single musicians, Yeah, no.
Speaker 2: That would be a lot of fun for two nights
Speaker 2: of the music. Yeah, it should be. It should be
Speaker 2: a great time. Yeah, especially well for the older group
Speaker 2: of Ice Baby and yeah it's a funky gold right yep,
Speaker 2: gold the one brought based. Yeah, I'm sure I can
Speaker 2: come up with a name. It takes too to make
Speaker 2: a thing go right. Yeah, that's three so we got
Speaker 2: three songs. We got three songs, so it'll be a
Speaker 2: fun nine minutes. Just kidding, they've got more than that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be. It's gonna be a great show. It'll
Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. Yeah, got old geezers in
Speaker 2: the first night and then the young dudes on the
Speaker 2: Saturdy Yeah, Saturday, but yeah, no, it's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: we were we were trying to trying to get creative
Speaker 2: on and you did expand.
Speaker 4: And you did and and doing two nights. We've typically
Speaker 4: have just done one. And in the past when we
Speaker 4: were at Omni, it was held on the driving range
Speaker 4: and then created. You know, some benefits, but also some
Speaker 4: setbacks on on setup and established. So last year is
Speaker 4: our first year again kind of breaking the mold on
Speaker 4: the golf course change and then getting out to the
Speaker 4: racetrack for for the concert, which we couldn't have gone
Speaker 4: better for our first showing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no question. A lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. A lot of people at can't remember I
Speaker 2: wrote the story what a month and a half ago
Speaker 2: with you. A lot of people came through. Do you
Speaker 2: remember what you told me? It came through to the event. Oh.
Speaker 4: For the number days, yeah, forty one thousand.
Speaker 2: So you're looking at an average of at least twelve
Speaker 2: each day. But you have days before you played Wednesday Thursdays.
Speaker 4: So we've got the PRORAM Wednesday Thursday, which is not
Speaker 4: open to the public. Oh okay, so we don't get yeah,
Speaker 4: we don't necessarily count that from a point. And then
Speaker 4: we have an event on Sunday of Advanced Week. It's
Speaker 4: an amm tournament, so it's four amateurs get to play
Speaker 4: in a scramble on the course set up for the tournament.
Speaker 2: So you actually get to play for the purpose of
Speaker 2: just another opportunity for you know, those that don't want
Speaker 2: to play in the pro am from either just a
Speaker 2: comfortable standpoint of playing golf, but it's it's a fun
Speaker 2: day again, raising.
Speaker 4: Awareness and proceeds back to our foundation for the kids.
Speaker 2: Because my attention spent is like two minutes. Did we
Speaker 2: talk about some of your program people coming in, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we we're not doing the celebrity Yeah, so we're we
Speaker 2: may have a few special guests one to put yeah,
Speaker 2: that we'll want to play, so we'll kind of fill
Speaker 2: fill that out as we get closer, but the program
Speaker 2: is typically just the professionals and then okay for amateur
Speaker 2: and that's how it's normally been. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 2: said you had Roger last year. Yeah, we had yeah
Speaker 2: Rogers and then Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: A few years back we had Rogers play in the program.
Speaker 4: And also we did something on Saturday for Celebrity Challenge,
Speaker 4: so we did a few years back. We had Jake
Speaker 4: Owen performed for us as well, and Jake's like a
Speaker 4: too handicapped golfer golfer, so he also wanted to play
Speaker 4: in the the celebrities, so we actually had it was
Speaker 4: a couple of NFL players, Larry Fitzgerald playing it.
Speaker 2: You also had what's his name, who's a pretty good
Speaker 2: golf for to the pictures smoked. Yeah, yeah, he's played
Speaker 2: in the event a couple of times. Yeah, he's got it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he is a super nice guy. Yeah, it's a mile. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you could tell he's a big dude. What about the
Speaker 2: other guy who's who's probably the most popular dude out
Speaker 2: there who doesn't walk like uh Ford Couples. But mister Daily, Oh,
Speaker 2: because everybody loves him. He's like one of the He's
Speaker 2: like you, he's like a dude, you want to go,
Speaker 2: you gotta smoke. Yeah, yeah, he's the guy you want
Speaker 2: to sit down have a beer? Yeah yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 2: he will. Yeah he might have more than one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So is he back to We're going to see where
Speaker 2: he's at.
Speaker 4: Physically, and if he can actually qualify on his own,
Speaker 4: he may be able to do. He and his son
Speaker 4: part of that because they usually so. I I didn't
Speaker 4: see their name on on the top of the leaderboard,
Speaker 4: and I didn't watch every bit of it, so I
Speaker 4: don't know if he played, because I know that he's
Speaker 4: undergone another couple of surgeries.
Speaker 2: So sure, you don't want to tell me who's coming in.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you. I'll get it out of you.
Speaker 2: I'll get it. Uh No, what a great event. Obviously
Speaker 2: you've had it forever forever probably you know. And miss
Speaker 2: McDermott who did it for a long while. She's one
Speaker 2: of my favorites. Also, Jeff, Jeff is doing a great
Speaker 2: job in his return here. Ah, you guys do a
Speaker 2: fantastic job. Thank you. And it's kind of like a
Speaker 2: I don't know, and it's like attorney.
Speaker 4: It's got that component too. It and definitely a brotherhood
Speaker 4: that we have. And you know, we've got over two
Speaker 4: hundred and thirty members.
Speaker 2: So tell me that's what two hundred and thirty members,
Speaker 2: but only fifty eight are that's what we call active.
Speaker 4: So we've got by our our by laws of our organization,
Speaker 4: how many active members can facilitate from a sales standpoint,
Speaker 4: an operational standpoint, just the size of our group and
Speaker 4: what we do.
Speaker 2: But to be honest with you, it's not fifty eight.
Speaker 4: It's closer to seventy five or eighty of guys that
Speaker 4: actually show up and operate and help out, regardless of
Speaker 4: their status of active life senior whatever it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we got to talk cool. Hello, you're on
Speaker 2: the airline on the wall. Who's this?
Speaker 12: Yeah? This is Jill.
Speaker 2: How are you doing? Got a question? I'm doing?
Speaker 12: Question? Yeah? The venue I just turned the radio on.
Speaker 12: Is the venue the same?
Speaker 9: Is it?
Speaker 12: Tucson Country Club?
Speaker 2: We're gonna be over at La Paloma Country Club?
Speaker 12: Oh? La Paloma? Okay, Okay, there, it was there last year.
Speaker 2: It was there last year.
Speaker 12: Okay, Okay, I didn't go. I was out something I
Speaker 12: just might mention the manager. I used to work for
Speaker 12: pat Our Vendors pay for a suite on the ninth
Speaker 12: green at Tucson Country Club, and one of my customers
Speaker 12: happened to know one of the caddies who came up
Speaker 12: after he finished, and that was the best storytelling time
Speaker 12: I've ever heard. Okay, this guy had. He had about
Speaker 12: fifteen people just mesmerized some of the stories he was
Speaker 12: telling about some of the things that happened to golfers caddies.
Speaker 12: So what what a great advent you guys put on.
Speaker 12: I'll definitely go out and watch.
Speaker 2: Thank you, you appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for the call, Thanks
Speaker 2: for taking your time to and to listen. I appreciate it. No,
Speaker 2: come on, you could write a book. You could write
Speaker 2: a book on the behind the scenes stuff.
Speaker 4: Oh it's I mean, I don't get me wrong. I
Speaker 4: love interacting with the players. They're fantastic their stories. But
Speaker 4: the caddies come on loopers and and what they've seen
Speaker 4: in the journeys that they've been on. I mean, they
Speaker 4: they do a phenomenal job. Especially see it in the program.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it's it is one of our our
Speaker 4: price possessions when it comes to the golf tournaments, the
Speaker 4: program just because of of of where we get the
Speaker 4: opportunity for you know, the engagement with the community and
Speaker 4: the pros and but those guys, Oh, it's an absolute
Speaker 4: blast and the stories that they have to tell.
Speaker 2: If you if you wanted to go to a store,
Speaker 2: you don't go to the source. You go to the barbershop.
Speaker 4: That's it. Go to the barbershop, that's that's you want to.
Speaker 4: There's a we've got to there's a cabby tent. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know the caddies hang out and yeah, it's like
Speaker 4: the barbershop.
Speaker 2: At the racetrack. You don't go to the owners. You
Speaker 2: go to the jocks. Uh huh. They'll tell you, Oh,
Speaker 2: he's a pain, yes, but I write for him. They'll
Speaker 2: give you all the details. Yeah, yeah, up the record.
Speaker 2: Yeah you didn't hear this from me, that's exactly it.
Speaker 2: But I got a story for you, that's exactly it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that they've seen what you've been part of this. You're
Speaker 2: forty for how long? So this would be my ninth tournament. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I became a member in twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. It
Speaker 2: was my first. You don't have to be delicious with
Speaker 2: your story, but do you have a good story to tell,
Speaker 2: like in your in your participation. It has to be
Speaker 2: you know, over the top. No, it's funny.
Speaker 4: Actually going back to John Daily, So we have something
Speaker 4: called BUCkies, which is where our members kind of go.
Speaker 4: It's our it's our spot or our kind of safe haven.
Speaker 4: For us to get away, get out of the heat
Speaker 4: when it's hot out. But we usually have a little
Speaker 4: fun going on there.
Speaker 2: And a few years back, mister John Day and I
Speaker 2: were doing some karaoke together. I think I heard about
Speaker 2: that because he's he likes to get love singing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he love Yeah, any good he is, okay, Yeah, sometimes
Speaker 2: when you're good, you like doing it. You're pretty good. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I heard some stories like that, but maybe not your story.
Speaker 2: But because he does it quite frequently.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, And depending on which part of the
Speaker 4: operation side of the tournament you're in, there's always some
Speaker 4: some fun interactions and the food and beverage guys and
Speaker 4: supplied distribution guys that you keep everybody who loved up
Speaker 4: and happy.
Speaker 2: Right, they work quite quite long hours. So the funny
Speaker 2: thing is, that's funny. You guys had forty one thousand.
Speaker 2: You're probably gonna see that again. Depends on the weather,
Speaker 2: of course, but even forty one thousand for three days,
Speaker 2: it's not a crowded thing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's just packed, but it's not a crowded thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: which makes it very comfortable. Oh, it does. And I
Speaker 2: think the way that that I'm not trying to be
Speaker 2: nice because you're here. No, I'm just stating the facts
Speaker 2: that I know I'm right there with you.
Speaker 4: The last thing, I mean, as much fun as it
Speaker 4: is to in those events that your elbows to elbows
Speaker 4: with people, it's not the most enjoyable experience.
Speaker 2: Sure, lines and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, so I think you're that's exactly what I
Speaker 4: think the experience of it, And that's what we strive
Speaker 4: to do is to make sure that one our venues,
Speaker 4: if if you're happen to be purchasing kind of the
Speaker 4: hospitality ticketed venues, that that your your experiences is top
Speaker 4: of the line. And then if you're if you're coming
Speaker 4: out as a as a general admission ticket holder, and
Speaker 4: which we love having all the above, we want to
Speaker 4: make sure again that your experience, you're not sitting there
Speaker 4: feeling like, okay, well I'm not treated. Well, you got
Speaker 4: one line that I can get something out of. So
Speaker 4: we got stuff everywhere.
Speaker 2: And remind me again, So you talked about the pricing,
Speaker 2: so general mission all that stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so general admission pricing and believe we're around it's
Speaker 4: something forty to forty five dollars.
Speaker 2: I haven't a day going and and that's like, well
Speaker 2: you have all day yeah right, yeah, yeah, well day
Speaker 2: you can make the date with three day packs if
Speaker 2: you want, you can get by the day packs. Uh.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of like people watching.
Speaker 4: Well it's in and again if you've got the mobility
Speaker 4: to be able to walk a little bit, right, it's
Speaker 4: a beautiful venue. Yeah, and depending on what side of
Speaker 4: the golf course. Again, if you're wanting to go a
Speaker 4: little bit away from the hospitality side to go on
Speaker 4: the north side of Sunrise, the first nine, first thirteen
Speaker 4: holes are on that side of the golf course.
Speaker 2: Do you know, we're, like you said, a little listen
Speaker 2: to little more than two months away. If you want
Speaker 2: to get tickets, they can get them now, get them now,
Speaker 2: or even as you get closer you can get them in.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: So you kind of don't sell out, right, No, we don't.
Speaker 2: We'll end up our hospitality tent. So our Club sixty
Speaker 2: two trophy terrasts.
Speaker 4: Those are our hospitality ticketed events that come with food
Speaker 4: and drink, and and that's sort we do sell out
Speaker 4: those just because we build the capacity. But general admission now,
Speaker 4: so I mean you can get tickets at the gate. Yeah,
Speaker 4: day of So if it's something he decides you want
Speaker 4: to come out for a few hours, spend the time
Speaker 4: on a beautiful day, come join us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, cool, that's true. I was fortunate to be
Speaker 2: with you. Is your boss or coworker, mister Van, mister
Speaker 2: Advance Vance and and in RBC right and your sponsor.
Speaker 2: Thank you for very much for joining in on absolutely
Speaker 2: and the party that I have here. I love it. Well, no, no, great.
Speaker 2: I hope that you'll be fine. I mean this this
Speaker 2: event is kind of like not sells itself, but you
Speaker 2: guys kind of maintain it.
Speaker 4: I think with being the especially the actives and some
Speaker 4: of the guys that are still really active in and
Speaker 4: even if they're not active status, are part of the
Speaker 4: fabrics of this community anyway what is right, And so
Speaker 4: they're promoting it through their own channels. And so we
Speaker 4: got a lot of a lot of sales arms going
Speaker 4: out there and keeping the word going right, and really
Speaker 4: there's not another one of these in town, and so
Speaker 4: you know there's there's there's a dollar to be spent
Speaker 4: sure in this town.
Speaker 2: And you and you do a lot with that dollar
Speaker 2: to give away and yeah, stuff like that. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: I've done those stories where the people that you give
Speaker 2: the money to are like, oh God, look them this,
Speaker 2: look what this means to us, you know, And that's
Speaker 2: the gratified any thing from your end, Oh, which I love.
Speaker 4: I mean, And again I think as we talked about
Speaker 4: in our story previously, is you know the little dollar,
Speaker 4: the one dollar that gets you know that it's donated
Speaker 4: out and what that what that means, I mean the bigger,
Speaker 4: the bigger dollars spent names on buildings and things like
Speaker 4: that are great.
Speaker 2: But being able to change the lives of we have
Speaker 2: less than a minute after how many people do you
Speaker 2: think and we're going to have you in again, Yeah,
Speaker 2: as we get closer, maybe a time or two obviously
Speaker 2: how many people representing the color Guard will be coming
Speaker 2: in not color Guard, but uh, the survivors yep. So
Speaker 2: they're they're targeting close to five hundred this year, so
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty more than one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: more than last year, which is it's a it's a
Speaker 2: big ordeal for them, and you know they're kind of
Speaker 2: making it like make a wish. Yeah, yeah, and they'll
Speaker 2: have a story, right their stories are phenomenal. Those are
Speaker 2: great stories too, Nomal. I wish we could tell more
Speaker 2: of those stories. Maybe have one in yeah, because that's
Speaker 2: what it's for. Yeah. Absolutely and the day. Yeah absolutely. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us. So you didn't take off because
Speaker 2: I don't want your your your wife again, No, no,
Speaker 2: we can't have her yet thrown something the game, So
Speaker 2: I don't want you. I'm telling I'm mad exactly. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: thank you, appreciate you. Thank Yeah. We'll see you against
Speaker 2: here in another week or so on the week, but
Speaker 2: in a few weeks to come back in it's fun.
Speaker 2: Thanks Aaron Crawley with the with the Color Guard Classic.
Speaker 2: You're the tournament chairman. Thanks, good luck with that. Appreciate
Speaker 2: you don't even know luck you get this. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks one