WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:00.760 Are you a while? 2 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:04.799 This is Tucson Sports Stay yet, Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight, 3 00:00:05.799 --> 00:00:09.199 breaking down all the axes and ohs. This is I 4 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:13.279 on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen 5 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:13.919 fifty eight. 6 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.640 Welcome back to Alaball Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm 7 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:20.399 Steve Rivera, you're Dave Silver. We have Kobe at the 8 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:23.160 controls here, hoping you guys can hear us if you'd 9 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:24.960 like to give us a quick call five to two ozero for. 10 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.480 Of that's really that's okay. I think we're okay. 11 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:32.679 You can hear the ads five two zero four one 12 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:35.799 six seventy four forty. I'd like to hear from you. 13 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:38.719 See what's going on when your thoughts on the transfer portal? 14 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.679 Uh continue? Are you on Facebook at all? Do you 15 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:44.880 follow like the women's The women's situation is worse than 16 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.719 the men's. Yeah, and just you know, everyone's wondering what 17 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:49.320 the heck's going on. I guess we won't know for 18 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.000 a while, if at all. 19 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:56.079 No, I mean we'll players start coming here. 20 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:00.280 Women's hoops, I mean they've lost pretty much most of 21 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:02.560 the roster, I guess at this point, and there's some 22 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:05.799 question about who would be coaching them, I suppose as well. 23 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:10.439 Yeah, yeah, well though sometime soon and now do you 24 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:12.439 still trying to get some players to come here? 25 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:17.879 So yeah, I mean she's basically lost seven players and 26 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:21.280 no no one's been added. So yeah, you know everyone 27 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:26.239 from you know, Cunningham, Skyler, Jones, Canavets, I can never 28 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.760 pronounce her name, Kennazevich, Ross Swan, Jada Williams, and ay 29 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:35.359 Yoakum all lost, all left, I should say so, And 30 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:37.359 no one has signed, so the roster has not been 31 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.120 replenished by any means, and who knows what's going to happen. 32 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:43.159 Yeah, okay, I think I think if you can hear us, 33 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:45.760 I'm glad you can. I think it's online or in 34 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:49.599 the radio. I think you can, but you can hear us. Kobe, 35 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:50.519 You're good. 36 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:51.480 Yeah, we're all good. 37 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:54.439 Okay, So again, then we want to call please do 38 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:57.400 five two zero four, one sixty. We'd like to hear 39 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:00.480 from you. See what happens with the men's team. I'm 40 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.560 sure that Tommy is out there chasing some players or two, 41 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.359 and there's some pretty good ones out there, and Arizona 42 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:08.199 still a quality team to come and play for him. 43 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:10.199 I would think so, and you know, we I think 44 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:12.000 we have to kind of give him benefit of the doubt, 45 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:15.240 knowing how he's gone to Europe and brought back players 46 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:18.680 every year. You know, let's assume that's going to happen again. 47 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:22.199 And none of us know who those players really are. 48 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.639 We're not we're not really in the loop on those type. 49 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:27.280 Of and they're waiting for the word on Burisa. Oh, 50 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:29.080 it's right, the recruit from there. I thought he was 51 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:32.360 going to announce something on Tuesday. Tuesday, Nathan McDonald's game. 52 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:32.919 Didn't do anything. 53 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:34.520 You didn't do anything, because we would have heard by now. 54 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:37.400 Of course, I haven't really written anything or I haven't 55 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.479 posted anything. I don't have He is probably Horse Rivera 56 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:43.319 with his stuff. But I've been wanting to write a 57 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:44.080 column about all this. 58 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.560 But what can you say? I mean, what can you. 59 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.280 Say about this mess? You know that I'm glad I'm 60 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:50.840 not Tommy, that you don't have to deal with this, 61 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:55.000 because because it's the thing about it, he's not alone, 62 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:57.000 He's not alone. No, no, And if you're not a 63 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:58.919 final if you're not a Final four team, you have 64 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:00.400 to deal with this. If you're a final team, you 65 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:01.879 don't have to deal with this yet. 66 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:04.240 No, I mean just about every program in the country 67 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:08.080 is reshuffled right now. And I mean basketball season not 68 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:10.680 even over yet until Monday. Yeah, I mean teams are 69 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:12.960 you know, already scrambling and looking to get players and 70 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:15.599 people making decisions already. 71 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:18.800 Yeah. About what about school? Is that a factor at all? 72 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:20.439 We talk about that all the time. 73 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.479 I think COVID kind of screwed everything up where now 74 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:24.280 it's online. 75 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:27.120 Rarely do they go to class. 76 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.520 They can do a lot of the classes online or 77 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.960 or you know, self pace or whatever. How many classes 78 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:33.319 do you have? 79 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:37.000 I have two online and three in person in person? 80 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.520 And how easy know the ones that are online? The 81 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:40.919 online ones are easier. 82 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:45.159 Yeah, yeah, and that's you welcome those, yeah, because but 83 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:46.520 don't you miss the interaction? 84 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.360 Yeah? I do in person because it feels more like 85 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.199 a college life. But if you want easier classes online, 86 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:55.360 definitely the way to go. Sounds like me, where was 87 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:56.879 this forty years ago? 88 00:03:57.560 --> 00:03:59.400 You got to go to class, had to go to class, 89 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:01.840 had to sign up, and they had to take role 90 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:03.520 your head? 91 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.280 Yeah, are you here? Take your name off? What's that 92 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:09.159 answer of silver? Yeah? I don't know, I don't know. 93 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:14.840 I didn't read the chapter. Ya yay, Yeah, college right right, Well, 94 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:17.199 it's it's all the experience you put into it, right. 95 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.560 You know, And and I did. I don't know about you, 96 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:22.759 but I once I got into my journalism classes, it 97 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:25.120 was it was fun because that's what I wanted to do. 98 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:28.879 But yeah, college is it's great for most people, the 99 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:30.240 best time of your life. Yep. 100 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.839 Until well who's uh oh, yesterday Ray was talking about that. 101 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:36.399 How you know, he was in the army and he 102 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.279 was he's a little older, he's twenty three, you know, 103 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:40.439 a young kid too. He says, you know what, the 104 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:43.759 real world is easier than the college world. And I'm thinking, 105 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.120 what are you talking about? And he said, because you 106 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.439 have a lot of things when you're in college. You 107 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.439 have to worry about classes, and if you don't have 108 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:53.360 a lot of money, you have to work. You have 109 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:55.600 to do a lot of things, internships, blah blah blah, 110 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:56.879 and that's a lot of things on your plate. 111 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.800 And I said, wait, do you get to the real world. 112 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:02.560 That's when the pressure begins. You have to be good 113 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:05.120 at what you're doing and have a high quality of work. 114 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:07.720 And if you have a family, exactly, there's that to worry. 115 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:10.759 Have you seen that that comedian I think it was 116 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:13.560 he's a juggler and he's juggling one thing. 117 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:14.639 You only have one thing to do. 118 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:17.519 Then you got school, and then you got kids, you 119 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.360 got a house, and you're juggling five try to keep 120 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:21.680 them all in the air at the same time. 121 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:23.920 It's true. Life sucks. That's the way it is. 122 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:28.120 Yeah, enjoy college while you're in it because because reality 123 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.240 comes and next thing you know, you're you know, like Rebecca, 124 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:32.839 she's raising the kids and she's coaching and she knows 125 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:34.040 a lot a lot going on there. 126 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:38.079 Right. Well, good for that program because it deserves that success. 127 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:41.240 It's been fantastic over the years. Hit all lull here 128 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:42.720 for a little while, and now they're back. 129 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:43.040 Yeah. 130 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.040 I mean when I was working, we would we would 131 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.279 try it out there, especially during playoff time. 132 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:50.360 They were always in the playoffs. They were always successful. 133 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.839 But you got a bunch of a bunch of Tucson 134 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:54.600 girls were on the team, you know, so we all 135 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:56.720 sort of knew some of them, and you know, we 136 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:58.399 all we you know, it was it was a good 137 00:05:58.399 --> 00:05:59.040 local story. 138 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.720 Well you pull on a name with Stacey because she 139 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:06.879 was fantastic. The right, she was the bank Candrea of Pila. 140 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:10.360 She it was interesting how her career worked. 141 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:11.639 I know you've probably had her on the show a 142 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.480 few times, just her talking about you know, she was 143 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:15.720 with Mike, she was on her own. She went to 144 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:17.600 Yava Pie for a while when I think they won 145 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.480 national championships at both Pima and Yava Pie with her 146 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.120 and comes back to the U of A. And I 147 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:24.839 think she just wrapped things up a couple of years 148 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:28.000 ago too. But yeah, and so many women and girls, 149 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:31.040 you know, had a chance to play for her and 150 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:34.680 for Rebecca and for her dad. Yeah, so you know, 151 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:37.639 there's it's a great little legacy going. And you know, 152 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:39.959 Rebecca's kind of you know, the next generation. So here 153 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.839 looking at her roster, it's like like nineteen players and 154 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:44.639 eighteen of were from Tucson High School. 155 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.000 And she's relatively young to be doing this right and 156 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:49.720 find a nice career. She doesn't have to leave anywhere, 157 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:51.399 especially when you're successful. 158 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:53.279 Yeah, and it was always a good little story with 159 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:55.160 the with the you know, the dad and the daughter 160 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:56.639 kind of coaching together. 161 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:00.800 So yeah, you know, he was he was great. It's 162 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:02.720 just you've never met a story. I've never met him 163 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.160 it must have been a very good coach back in 164 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:05.519 the day. 165 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:09.279 Yeah, I mean, you know that little flowing Wells period. 166 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:11.759 You know, early two thousands, there were a couple of 167 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.920 state championships that came out of that program. 168 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:18.160 So, okay, anybody else again, if you want to call 169 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.360 five to zero, four one, six, seventy four, forty, I'd 170 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:22.920 like to hear from you. In the second hour, we're 171 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:25.720 gonna have some breaking news from Kobe, and then we're 172 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:29.399 gonna have it Orosburg here at about four seventeen, talking about 173 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.240 what's going on in the major leagues, and maybe talk 174 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:34.920 a little about Arizona because I know he's a big fan. 175 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:37.160 He's always sending me questions, what am on ye are 176 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:37.959 they gonna win tonight? 177 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:39.240 What do you think that is? 178 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:39.360 That? 179 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:41.560 Is that into it? What do you think about the transfers? 180 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.319 And he says, I don't know right now, it's too fluid. 181 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:45.000 I hate to say it. 182 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.120 I just haven't had a chance to concentrate on you 183 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.040 of a baseball yet. I see some of the highlights 184 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:51.160 in some of the games. I guess I'm not a good, 185 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:54.800 good super FANCI just yet. But you know, we're getting 186 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.560 into the nitty gritty of their season and their conference 187 00:07:57.560 --> 00:07:59.600 games are playing teams none of us, none of us 188 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:00.519 really new much about it. 189 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:02.959 Well, they got beat yesterday, two days yesterday, and two 190 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.600 days ago by Grand Canyon. They they don't want to 191 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.600 play Grand Canyon anymore because they's four in a row. 192 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:10.519 Really that they've lost to him. Yeah, yeah, they have 193 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:12.040 trouble with that school. They're pretty good. 194 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:14.000 Yeah. Well didn't they knock them out in the playoffs 195 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:14.560 last week? 196 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:16.439 So yeah, they were. I know they've been here for 197 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.519 the playoffs at least a couple of times. Yeah, but 198 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:20.759 that's a good babe. Cobe can look that up for 199 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.160 his breaking news. Grand Canyon Baseball baseball. You a baseball 200 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.319 because they're good. Obviously, there's certain teams that just have 201 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:31.399 your number. Yeah, but it's good. The games are you know, 202 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:33.759 they're available there. You can find them on if you 203 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:36.039 have ESPN. Plus a lot of the games are on TV, 204 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:38.960 so you can down and see them. 205 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:40.799 I haven't paid attention. I kind of forget. 206 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:42.399 I don't know about yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know 207 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:44.639 about other people. But it's like, oh yeah, they are 208 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:45.679 on television. 209 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:49.960 ESPN plus, I haven't watched any of it. I should 210 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.480 go out there. I do want to go watch PEMO 211 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.120 men's baseball because Ken Ken how comey yesterday was talking 212 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:58.639 about the roster and a couple of the players on 213 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:00.919 his team. He had the Japanese picture that he has. 214 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.200 He's the closer. I will dare say his name because 215 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:08.399 I'll butcher it. But he's on the Japanese World Series, 216 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.120 Little League World Series champion. He was a pitcher, and 217 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.919 he's seen he said, he's never seen a picture with 218 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:15.759 the spin rate. 219 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:17.320 That he's that he has. 220 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:20.679 Wow, which is saying a lot, right, especially in today's 221 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:22.559 age when people pay attention to stuff like that. 222 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.679 It's good. I mean uve A, I mean not to 223 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:26.279 go back to the u A. 224 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:28.279 But twenty and eight so far and they're playing great 225 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.519 at home, fifteen and two at home, so they're doing 226 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:34.480 doing well. But they have lost their last game and 227 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:40.120 it was Greg n eleven paying No, they're not playing a 228 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:43.120 ISSU issue coming up? Yeah, ASU, right, So the weekend 229 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:45.480 series there and then they're back home for New Mexico State. 230 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:49.679 You're yeah, I don't claim to be naggy, but hey, 231 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:53.000 do you ever go to the issue baseball here and there? 232 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:57.120 Gosh, A long time ago, not not since they've been 233 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.200 in the Phoenix Muni Stadium all of the games at 234 00:09:59.200 --> 00:09:59.919 old Packard State. 235 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:01.919 Well, tell me because back in the day when I 236 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.960 was in school in first year, they told me that 237 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:05.960 it used to be crazy. 238 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:07.360 It was. 239 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:10.600 I can't say I was there very many times, but 240 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:13.080 you know, it's right, very similar to Sanset Field or 241 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.600 Sansett Stadium was right on campus. So it was right there, 242 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:18.519 you know, kind of the same similar complex where you 243 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:21.039 had you know, baseball and softball and track everything right 244 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:25.039 swimming all together next to next to the arena and 245 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:26.960 football stadium. So it was a good little area and 246 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:29.480 it's gone. I saw a picture recently. I think it's 247 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:31.639 I mean, I don't there's like putting some building. Really, 248 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.360 you know, there's they're waiting to destroy the whole place 249 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:36.720 because they've been over at UNI. Have you been to 250 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:39.840 the campus lately issue I was there a couple of 251 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:40.240 years ago. 252 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:43.519 It's it's it's a city. It's huge. It's huge. Yeah, 253 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:44.840 it's sprawling, full of scoture. 254 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:46.799 I was going to go there as a freshman out 255 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:49.159 of high school and I went to register and all that, 256 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.639 I'm thinking, holy crap, and that's back then now it's like, 257 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:53.279 holy crap. 258 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:54.000 Yeah huge. 259 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:57.080 Now it's a big place, big place, and you know, 260 00:10:57.279 --> 00:10:59.000 a lot going on around a campus too. That's what 261 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.639 I liked about Timpe was just there's so much to do, 262 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:06.320 restaurants and stuff like that. It's a destination right place 263 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:07.440 you can just you don't even have to go to 264 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:09.960 the campus. There's places to eat, places to just you know, 265 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:11.000 hang out in Tenpedes. 266 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:11.879 Fun. 267 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.519 Right, we went early, Right, we went early, So that's 268 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:17.159 our last commercial break before the hour, so we have 269 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:17.759 plenty of temper. 270 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.120 But I just want to reminisce about Yeah, no, god, 271 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.240 we could. That's and that's what this shows about. 272 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.320 You were back in the day. There's a great old time. 273 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:27.759 And when Luke let me ask you this, when lut 274 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.480 when Luke first got here and he came here and 275 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.840 talked about, you know, buy your tickets now, YadA YadA, 276 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:37.480 and he had this you know lines, you know, yeah. 277 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.000 What'd you think? What'd you think? Was he kind of 278 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.879 you thought it's gonna take him a while? Yeah, you 279 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:42.759 know what, It's funny. 280 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.240 Just today I was talking to somebody about that, about 281 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:51.159 that moment. Our good friend, the late great Dave Sitton, 282 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:53.919 I'm quite sure where he was working in eighty three, 283 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:58.879 but he tipped off one of my friends about Luke 284 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.399 going to be hired. Was you know, right around the 285 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:03.879 final four whenever you remember the time, Oh, all that 286 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:04.559 sort of happened. 287 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:05.519 I can tell you because. 288 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.759 Cedric went to Philly, I think it was Philly to 289 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:12.440 go talk to him, and they happened to lose that game. 290 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:15.799 Hanson missed the free throws and you know he pulled 291 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:17.960 them aside, and yeah, all that story. 292 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:20.919 But so really so this guy he was telling me 293 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:22.279 literally this this that's funny. 294 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:24.320 You've been breathing this up because this was earlier. 295 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:26.159 Today and he was saying, yeah, Dave sitting you know, 296 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:28.399 told me that, you know, this great coach of Maya 297 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:29.799 was coming out and he's going to take the job, 298 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:33.399 and he's gonna, you know, he's gonna try to get 299 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.000 everybody to buy season tickets. And this guy went and 300 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.440 bought season tickets like way before, way before, and he. 301 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:42.279 Has them still. Really, he's eight rows behind the ben. 302 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:46.440 How old is he he's probably late sixties, maybe a little. 303 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:49.919 Secay, so he must have been he was about he 304 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:55.440 had to have been, uh, but thirty thirty ish thirty 305 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:55.879 is the time. 306 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.440 So he bought tickets just just like that. 307 00:12:58.440 --> 00:12:59.000 That's funny. 308 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:02.399 I was not here yet for that announcement. I got 309 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:05.039 here later that year in October. But you know, it 310 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:06.399 was one of those things I was like, oh yeah, 311 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.039 remember just the seasons about to begin, got to roll out. 312 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:11.639 That video of lout you know, warning everybody to bicycles 313 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:13.840 is not Favier's. I think he's listening. 314 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.960 Javier would know this because he was back to the student, 315 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:20.879 no a kid, you know, following all this stuff. I 316 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:23.679 think it might have been in eighty three, right, So 317 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:26.320 that's what forty two years ago, forty two years ago, 318 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:31.519 almost to the day, I think April fifthish, April thirdish, 319 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:33.799 because the thing that I had written in the books 320 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:36.440 a number of times was that they flew him out, 321 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:40.320 him and Bobby and he stayed at the Westward back then, 322 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:42.759 and he went to go he went downstairs to go 323 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:46.840 to the gift shop. And how many islands do you 324 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:49.000 know in this town? There's a ton of them, right, Yeah, 325 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:52.720 there happened to be a little old lady, lute, what 326 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:53.519 are you doing here? 327 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:57.440 If I've heard the version I heard was that maybe 328 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.639 there was a convention of people. 329 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:01.559 Maybe maybe she. 330 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:04.720 Was part of that, but everybody from Iowa lives here, 331 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:05.559 you know, they live here. 332 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.240 And then she saw him in the gift shop. 333 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:10.519 Was it just looting and Bobby on that the kids 334 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:12.639 were here and they didn't come to take a look yet? No, 335 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:14.919 because yeah, because that had to be a big deal 336 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:16.559 to move the whole family out because they were all, 337 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:18.440 you know, high school ish age. 338 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:20.559 I was, but that was the appeal because they were, 339 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:23.159 you know, mostly from the West coast. And he kind 340 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:25.519 of not that he wanted out of Iowa, but he 341 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:28.639 had already been overwhelmed by the people that he couldn't 342 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:32.240 go to dinner, he couldn't do anything because they overwhelmed. 343 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:33.039 Him or them. 344 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.159 Yeah, and luckily it came to and he turned into 345 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.120 but he was he understood it here because it wasn't 346 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:39.559 as bad. 347 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:42.639 It wasn't as bad it was. I've never been to 348 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:45.720 where Iowa city. I was city, so I don't know 349 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.440 the culture there. I'm sure it's just really you know, 350 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:50.639 they would know Dave Silver if he was out in 351 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:51.519 the streets because. 352 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:54.200 Small town get an autograph yet. 353 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:58.080 Whatever, there's the kicker that he said, I hate to 354 00:14:58.080 --> 00:14:59.200 bother you. 355 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:03.840 But yeah, and then you eventually bother you, right. He 356 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:05.919 but he was a good sport. I never saw him. 357 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:08.279 I mean he he got to the point obviously late 358 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:10.600 in his life and late in his career where the 359 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:12.879 U of A used him to go do those things. 360 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:15.360 You know, Hey, we're doing an event in you know, 361 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:18.840 San Diego. Weren't you was any colleague of yours? Well, 362 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:21.120 in a way, I mean we would you. 363 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:24.360 When I worked at the Foundation, the Foundation, you know, 364 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:26.559 had an office for him, and they would set up 365 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:28.799 dates for him to go, Hey, we're gonna go again. 366 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:30.639 He would go to San Diego all because he was there. 367 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:33.279 He was in Cornado, so they'd just bring him out 368 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:34.120 to some party. 369 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:34.600 And he was great. 370 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.519 He loved doing the fans just loved it, even to 371 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.279 the you know, his final years when he would just 372 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:41.679 come to you know, something where he could just sign 373 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:45.039 autographs and smile and that was he was an attraction. 374 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:47.279 And reminisce about the good old days, just like we're 375 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:47.720 doing just. 376 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:52.240 Like, yeah, they're gonna be calling us someday. In fact, Steve, 377 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:53.679 when did you write that book? Yeah? 378 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:56.080 In fact, I got a call today from someone I've 379 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:57.639 been trying to get on. I've had him on before, 380 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:01.559 one of your buddies. I think Bill rome who I 381 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:03.279 wanted to have him on yesterday and I left him 382 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:06.279 a message and I can't come on today. He's he's 383 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:08.480 too busy and he's gonna come in next week. But 384 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:11.519 you know, he was one of your time too. A 385 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:13.480 lot of people showed up in the mid eighties. I 386 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:15.159 saw Bill Romer not long ago. 387 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:19.639 Just golf course. No, no, he just he was just 388 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:21.360 at some breakfast. I was okay, he was there. 389 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:23.399 So we haven't seen each other in ages, Oh really yet, 390 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:25.679 but he you know, he was, he was right there. 391 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:29.879 We were colleagues basically the beginning when I forstot he 392 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:30.279 was on TV. 393 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:33.200 Yeah, he was on Channel thirteen. He's also on Channel eleven. 394 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:35.799 I think doing I think he was doing play by 395 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:39.600 play for Arizona Baseball. I want to say the nineteen 396 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:43.480 eighty championship year was Roamer doing play by play? 397 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:44.480 I'm not good. Yeah, I don't know. 398 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.200 He'd have to tell that whole story. I thought there 399 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:47.360 was some affiliation though. 400 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:49.080 So maybe we'll get him on next week when you're back. 401 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:52.240