Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to My Mind the Ball. Here on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve.
Speaker 2: You're a break Yeah, Henry with some breaking news.
Speaker 3: Now, this is High on the Ball breaking news on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 4: Colorado head coach Deion Sanders signed a five year, fifty
Speaker 4: four million dollar contract extension earlier today to stay at Colorado.
Speaker 1: Huh yep, yeah, ten million dollars next year still leave
Speaker 1: more than ten minute.
Speaker 4: Whatever it was they could put him in that good
Speaker 4: the top ten of highest big coaches.
Speaker 2: His name is Dion Do what I say. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's one of the greatest athletes of all time.
Speaker 5: He's putting out an athlete a coach I think from
Speaker 5: a name standpoint and name recognition maybe not exis and.
Speaker 1: Any party made them a ton of money. He part
Speaker 1: not has, he definitely has.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: College basketball today, we've got Ole Miss Michigan State at
Speaker 4: four oh nine, Kentucky Tennessee at fort thirty nine, Michigan
Speaker 4: Auburn at six thirty nine, and Houston Purdue at seven.
Speaker 2: And Okay, so I'm gonna give you one of those game.
Speaker 1: Is both you guys up of the you know, the
Speaker 1: matchups probably up here, give me the sure bed of
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 5: I mean this, This sweet sixteen is a little bit
Speaker 5: different because there's not I don't there's it was mostly
Speaker 5: it's pretty much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all good. Yeah, Well, yesterday I thought yesterday.
Speaker 1: To me, to be fair, yesterday was the easier group
Speaker 1: to pick. You know, I have Florida, you had you
Speaker 1: had a duke realistically, yeah, Texas Tech, I figured they
Speaker 1: would ten versus the three, but markets I should have
Speaker 1: won that game. Uh, and then who's in Alabama played
Speaker 1: out of their mindset those full four today? I have
Speaker 1: no idea Tennessee versus Kentucky. I think Kentucky's beat them twice.
Speaker 2: Uh. Houston, I think Houston is the one.
Speaker 1: I would pick Houston over Purdue, just over Purdue, and
Speaker 1: give me the other two.
Speaker 2: Ole Miss, Michigan State, I don't know because all Miss
Speaker 2: is pretty good.
Speaker 1: And Michigan Auburn. Yeah, I think Auburn Auburn two. But
Speaker 1: the spread Auburn struggled on the stretch. I think Houston's
Speaker 1: probably your pick. Yeah, and that's what that's what I
Speaker 1: went with.
Speaker 2: The Houston spread is eight and a half. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think that's I think that's probably spot one. Okay.
Speaker 4: Arizona softball pitcher Devin Nets pitched a perfect game yesterday
Speaker 4: versus b y U and a eight nothing Arizona win.
Speaker 2: And what else did you do? Hit a home run?
Speaker 2: A home run? Yeah? Oh tawny style? How was that?
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, how many times that you've heard
Speaker 2: that happen? Yeah? I mean you don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's not I don't want to say it's
Speaker 5: a rarity, well to have a two way player at
Speaker 5: that level, but I mean it's still pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: True, I'm sure it's happened a number of times before,
Speaker 1: but well, I hadn't heard one in a long time.
Speaker 5: I mean Paul Skans, Paul Skeens was a I mean
Speaker 5: he was a closer at Air Force and he dropped bombs,
Speaker 5: had a bunch of pumps.
Speaker 2: You guys know what pumps are? Home runs? No pumps baseball, Dido,
Speaker 2: Come on, guys, unbelievable Arizon trying to be cool. I
Speaker 2: don't need you don't know what I'm talking about? Man,
Speaker 2: what what up of that? Okay? But bad Mammagama?
Speaker 4: Yeah what Arizona Baseball will kick off a weekend series
Speaker 4: at home tonight at six pm versus Baylor.
Speaker 2: You covered that. I don't cover what do you cover anything?
Speaker 2: I covered some of the games. Yeah, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Have you seen them?
Speaker 1: They've been playing really well. Yeah yeah, but they was good.
Speaker 1: They just lost their I mean, arguably the best player.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: What happened? He punched the water cooler? Are you being serious?
Speaker 2: I am? Who was it? Where is it? Verry Hill?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Summer Summerhill?
Speaker 8: Sorry?
Speaker 2: Yeah, very Hill. You baseball players, I know I've I've
Speaker 2: had my fair sharers of kicking. No. No, I usually
Speaker 2: just punched stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, punched the extinguish shirts, like very extinger shirt in
Speaker 5: my hand, went through the glass and I was like,
Speaker 5: that was how.
Speaker 2: Old were you?
Speaker 1: I was in the north Woods League, so I think
Speaker 1: that was my first year, so I was probably nineteen.
Speaker 2: Hm. Anyway, sorry, baseball players, That's why I love you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because we're idiots.
Speaker 4: Ravens extended head coach John Harball through the twenty twenty
Speaker 4: eight season.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, is that breaking news? I mean I get
Speaker 5: it is, but I mean, what was it? I mean,
Speaker 5: that's the expected expectation, right, I mean they're not losing Harbot?
Speaker 2: Are you checking your phone? I'm checking for other stuff. Okay.
Speaker 4: The despite being in fifth place in the Western Conference standings,
Speaker 4: the Grizzlies fire their coach Taylor Jenkins today.
Speaker 5: I mean, we've talked about this on the show, like
Speaker 5: the turnover from an NFL and an NBA, especially NBA
Speaker 5: coaches like that carousel every single you're good, they're good.
Speaker 5: What's your expectation? Did he lose a clubhouse? Y players
Speaker 5: come together and say, sorry, we need a new coach.
Speaker 5: Can you ask me what's I don't know what's the reason.
Speaker 2: That's what I heard.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're forty three in Okay, so they're like
Speaker 1: the tie with the Lakers. They play yes tonight, and
Speaker 1: that's what I saw in the story that he lost
Speaker 1: the they're in the playoffs at number four, five five
Speaker 1: the time for four okay, So so here you are
Speaker 1: and your your coaches. I get it, though, if you
Speaker 1: lose the locker room, there's a potential that you're going
Speaker 1: to be whatever. And I'm sure you've been part of
Speaker 1: that right where you you plaid enough and you were
Speaker 1: a coach that that's very easy to do if you're
Speaker 1: not doing well, and that's the worst thing that could.
Speaker 5: Happen, and it's there's no way that you can get
Speaker 5: it back at this point, and at this point in
Speaker 5: the season, it's.
Speaker 1: Like a it's like a marriage and I'm bringing this.
Speaker 1: You want to go to a marriage councilor if you
Speaker 1: have to go to a marriage it's done.
Speaker 2: You're done. Yeah, And it's all.
Speaker 1: It's probably the worst thing you can say about a
Speaker 1: coach too, because I mean, he's got to go look
Speaker 1: for another job and that stigma is going to be
Speaker 1: with him and they're going to do their background work
Speaker 1: and that's that's a tough one to come over overcome.
Speaker 2: That's all I got.
Speaker 1: Okay, anything, did they sign anybody at the women's basketball
Speaker 1: I think they somebody was here that visited. Maybe you
Speaker 1: might have go to Azy Deserts work just to see
Speaker 1: because I think somebody had committed or signed or somebody
Speaker 1: in the last day or so. Because that that that
Speaker 1: that damn needs to be stopped.
Speaker 2: You know, the water.
Speaker 1: At least put a piece of gum in there something
Speaker 1: and see how long that lasts. Because there's just so
Speaker 1: many things. Can we talk about the signing co O
Speaker 1: Peede like this is a yeah, you know, you haven't
Speaker 1: done that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but why are we?
Speaker 5: Of course I don't want to lead in with it,
Speaker 5: but by any means, I mean, yeah, it's fine. It's
Speaker 5: a day old. I mean it was yesterday mornings and
Speaker 5: you didn't have a show yesterday, right? Today is not show? Today?
Speaker 5: Is that show?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 5: I mean on a scale from one to ten? Hey,
Speaker 5: how excited are you about the co opete signing.
Speaker 2: You as wrong? Not you? Okay, Henry? What's the question?
Speaker 5: My gosh, she's looking for you know, it's never a
Speaker 5: good thing when you ask a question. You look around
Speaker 5: the room and both of you guys are staring down.
Speaker 5: He's looking for news. Yeah, let me say the cope,
Speaker 5: go ahead.
Speaker 2: How surprising was no?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: One to ten? How How how excited are you for
Speaker 2: that signing? Probably nine?
Speaker 4: But if Carter Brant leaves in it might have to
Speaker 4: be a ten just because he fills a void that
Speaker 4: they deerate.
Speaker 2: How much of a fan are you? Your student here?
Speaker 1: You've been here, You're not from here, but you're you're
Speaker 1: How big of a fan are you?
Speaker 2: Out of ten? I'm probably like nine?
Speaker 1: Okay, So when you leave, we can we talk about
Speaker 1: wait wait, wait, wait, don't know about this. I'll transition badly.
Speaker 1: So when you leave this place, no matter where you go,
Speaker 1: how big of a fan do you think you'll be?
Speaker 2: Same? Probably the same, Samuel. I'm not going to go, but.
Speaker 1: Your numbers so that the a lumps can call you
Speaker 1: and ask you for money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead. No, I'm just gonna say.
Speaker 5: I was just talking about Hendry's expression, how big are event?
Speaker 5: I thought he was gonna say, like a one, like
Speaker 5: that's the expression, like Henry's that's Henry, I'd say and
Speaker 5: a half. I was like he's gonna say negative numbers
Speaker 5: with that expression of his face. So, yeah, you're right
Speaker 5: if if Briant leaves, that's a huge kid.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 5: So I mean, I don't know if you know much
Speaker 5: about co Pete, but three times yeah, you know, GATORAD
Speaker 5: player of the Year, four time state champion, Like that's
Speaker 5: a everybody's talking about buries and hopefully we still get
Speaker 5: a chance with here's my issue, here's my issue and
Speaker 5: people know that I'm your Yeah, yeah, of course. So
Speaker 5: you get this great guy, Colled Pete and he's a
Speaker 5: fantastic player in state. Guy he didn't go to issue
Speaker 5: yet A yeah, uh, I've covered this team for a
Speaker 5: long time, and like I said, day to day, for
Speaker 5: a number of years, I've seen a lot of talented
Speaker 5: players come through here, a lot of them. The Richard Jefferson's,
Speaker 5: the Gilbert's, the Mike Bibby's and blah blah blah, dere
Speaker 5: dere you know how many national titles they want?
Speaker 2: No, I I do your final list. If i'm if,
Speaker 2: I'm if, i'm if.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to channel my level of excitement based on
Speaker 5: the national excitement or national championship piece. That's mile though.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: I had a discussion with another friend of mine who's
Speaker 1: text to be back and forth saying, I'm I'm miserable
Speaker 1: and I need to be happy. Okay, sure, and and
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that, but but I'm realistic too, and
Speaker 1: that's what I'm supposed to.
Speaker 2: Be doing here.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Okay, they could get five of them. We won't
Speaker 1: know how good those are until they get here and
Speaker 1: they play.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're absolutely right. That's why I said the excitement
Speaker 5: about the recruitment. I didn't say how exciting, how good
Speaker 5: this team is going to be next year.
Speaker 1: That's the that's what everybody, everybody's excitement is about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm a Cubs fan, so I'm just used
Speaker 5: to being like going in the you know, we're going
Speaker 5: first game the season.
Speaker 1: Man, Okay, you guys got beat by Baltimore. Was no,
Speaker 1: we won yesterday?
Speaker 2: Crazy?
Speaker 5: We beat the Diamondbacks. You should we lost Dodgers two
Speaker 5: games in Japan though. Yeah, no, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: It's okay, great, great, great, But what does this mean?
Speaker 1: We know?
Speaker 5: In nine months? I just thought it was. It was
Speaker 5: a good day all around. It was a fantastic morning
Speaker 5: fantasy listen until what until you play the best team
Speaker 5: in the country and you gave him everything you possible.
Speaker 2: And you lost.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, no, but that was a great,
Speaker 1: great time. It was a great day, no question, But
Speaker 1: you would rather won. Did you read my story today?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 5: I can't read. It's much like my It's like, did
Speaker 5: you know there's two people you know? For two Okay,
Speaker 5: that's I'm gonna call Henry from now on so he
Speaker 5: can meet. He can read the stories that you write.
Speaker 5: Don't they have the chat? You nailed a buddy, that's
Speaker 5: exactly what. Let it read it to you?
Speaker 1: I yeah, I don't I was, and I wax poetic
Speaker 1: on that story today, just that it would have been
Speaker 1: nice for them to win, to show them to to
Speaker 1: just kind of a significant significantly explain this program. They didn't,
Speaker 1: but it was okay. They paid well enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: See, here's the thing about what you write. I really
Speaker 5: want to read it, and sometimes I even pay you
Speaker 5: money to read things that you wrote. But you never
Speaker 5: come through and give me those things, like when I
Speaker 5: paid you cash for your book, but you never brought
Speaker 5: your book to me.
Speaker 10: I saw you twice a week.
Speaker 2: You don't have it. Put one in the mill yesterday.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Ye did I grab one? Why? Because I
Speaker 2: had to ask you. I ask you to come on
Speaker 2: the show yesterday was on a Wednesday. We did. You
Speaker 2: didn't have it last night?
Speaker 9: Yes night?
Speaker 2: Okay? God. You said I need somebody to look make
Speaker 2: me look better, and I'm in. I'll do it. You're
Speaker 2: in just as much as Dave Silvern most other people.
Speaker 5: Oh great, thanks, Uh, Henry, you're from New York. We're
Speaker 5: in New York, Manhattan, Manhattan Upper lower upper Upper Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was a Bay rich guy in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: So so you think once you leave here, no matter
Speaker 1: where you go you'll always be a nine out of
Speaker 1: ten you of a fan and all sports.
Speaker 4: Uh, definitely basketball, in football, the other sports. I mean
Speaker 4: you definitely follow them more when you're here than yeah,
Speaker 4: compared to like not being in town because if you.
Speaker 1: You right about them now for us or for whomever right,
Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't have done anything with them had you
Speaker 1: not written for us exact baseball or what are you?
Speaker 5: How often do you go to non basketball football games
Speaker 5: or matches? Like, how often do you go to a
Speaker 5: tennis match? I don't think of I never, I never
Speaker 5: have no either of I And it's I was just asking,
Speaker 5: so yeah, and then they're fantastic. Oh yeah, the men's
Speaker 5: the men's right, and the women are good.
Speaker 2: Men are really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and women. Sadly, I didn't go see the women's
Speaker 1: basketball team. Have them been there in a long time?
Speaker 1: I didn't go to the game this year, like everybody's
Speaker 1: you know, you have time, you don't have time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm doing three jobs and I do this and then
Speaker 1: I real, right, and then you go to sleep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and your male modeling career is slowly but surely,
Speaker 5: I like leveling out.
Speaker 1: Right me Like a lot of our listeners and including
Speaker 1: you have a face for radio. I am I never
Speaker 1: had model. You know what people say your hands are
Speaker 1: so soft? Well, I never worked the day of my life.
Speaker 1: I do this, but every single time you sit down,
Speaker 1: you get electricated.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 2: All right, Well anything else?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you were talking about earlier. Sophomore forward Joren
Speaker 4: Ross entered the Portal today.
Speaker 2: For another one. So we didn't get a kimpmentment, but
Speaker 2: we lost another place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I thought you went was incoming, not out
Speaker 1: going to another five total?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 2: Four or five? Right? Yeah? Yeah, I think it's five total, man.
Speaker 1: And then we still have to get a decision on
Speaker 1: what's going to be the future of the the program.
Speaker 1: I think, don't you think? I think so right? You
Speaker 1: need to have is she coming back? Is she not
Speaker 1: coming back?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 5: But I think listen, that decision has to be made
Speaker 5: as fast as possibly.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because of the world of the Portal now that
Speaker 5: you really need to be able to hit the ground
Speaker 5: running as soon as your last game.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. So you were playing in
Speaker 1: thirteen ninety five. I'm joking from the last time we talked,
Speaker 1: would you have gone? Would you have if it was
Speaker 1: able for you to do it in Eastern. You played
Speaker 1: Eastern Eastern? Would you have jumped into the portal? Not
Speaker 1: at Eastern? I would have. I would have gone to
Speaker 1: Metro State. I would have You would not have, No,
Speaker 1: because the portal gives you opportunities for scholarship piece of it,
Speaker 1: which I mean they this was before nil, but they
Speaker 1: did pay me to go there. Uh so if I
Speaker 1: would have had chance, I mean, my original commitment was
Speaker 1: probably going to be to Texas a M or USF
Speaker 1: and uh, I mean I got paid to go to college, right,
Speaker 1: So from a financial standpoint, it was it was it
Speaker 1: was the best deal.
Speaker 5: Yes, I think probably at this point. Yeah, after being
Speaker 5: in the Northwoods League and seeing talent and where I
Speaker 5: was able to compete at, I would have entered that
Speaker 5: I would end the portal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so no, you understand that what people are going
Speaker 1: through obviously decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I just think from a coaching standpoint, I don't know
Speaker 5: if I could coach today the way I used to,
Speaker 5: because not only do you have to coach to recruit,
Speaker 5: and when you also have to re recruit the same
Speaker 5: players you have.
Speaker 2: Were you tough or were you not tough? I don't use.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I mean, I mean I broke a lot
Speaker 5: of fungos and the chok a lot of clipworks, because
Speaker 5: really there was an expectation.
Speaker 2: And how did they respond?
Speaker 5: I think, I mean I was I was a I
Speaker 5: think I was fair. How did they respond well to that?
Speaker 5: Is it antiquated?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: I don't think you can. I think in this day
Speaker 5: and age, I don't think that coaching style gets you
Speaker 5: to the point where it used to, right. I think
Speaker 5: you look at the you look at college coaches today.
Speaker 5: I mean there's only one that comes to mind that
Speaker 5: still coaches like that, and that's Early and not not
Speaker 5: Early North.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not Bobby Danny any any mean not Well maybe
Speaker 1: I guess he still does. Uh yeah, Patino maybe a
Speaker 1: little oh that maybe maybe? Yeah, there's not In fact,
Speaker 1: I was thinking that when I was last week. I
Speaker 1: think when we saw Patino and the party, because all
Speaker 1: that all that generation of coaches are no longer here, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1: Anythink maybe that's coaching style, But I also think it's
Speaker 1: just I mean, it's not a game that attracts a
Speaker 1: lot of notches at this point and makes you want
Speaker 1: to stay in that position.
Speaker 2: Right, we gotta go? Yeah, let's go, I'll see it.
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Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera. You're Black Eagert. Now on the phone.
Speaker 1: We have for you of a Cornerstone guy, Pete Williams Troy.
Speaker 17: Hey, I'm doing pretty good. Before we get started, don't
Speaker 17: want to ask you a question. Why is it on
Speaker 17: all these promos you guys only have me on their
Speaker 17: plant from eighty four to eighty five, as if only
Speaker 17: played one year at the you.
Speaker 1: No, it's you played eighty four to eighty five, nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty three to eighty four, and then eighty.
Speaker 17: Four saying that forever.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 17: This a little promo when you guys advertised it's gonna
Speaker 17: be on that day or whatever.
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, Pete's right, you gotta fix this.
Speaker 1: I want to make a note.
Speaker 2: Pete isn't even like that forever man. Pete is a diva.
Speaker 2: Hold on him and write myself a note here.
Speaker 17: Hey, call it what.
Speaker 11: You want, but I just want to get.
Speaker 17: Give me, give me my two years.
Speaker 2: Man, we already paded the stats man. You know what?
Speaker 2: Uh uh? They were saying, A.
Speaker 17: One, I don't, I don't. I don't need no stat Paddy.
Speaker 17: I just want to I just wanted to say eighty
Speaker 17: three to eighty five.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we'll fix that. Holy crap. Okay, I guess
Speaker 2: we have to.
Speaker 17: Hey, we have to wait the next season to see Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, we're not going to talk to you until then,
Speaker 1: so so tell me tell me. Uh they were talking
Speaker 1: about a walker probably the best rebounder for all. What
Speaker 1: do you think about a walk On? Now we played.
Speaker 17: I like him. I mean, he really grew on me.
Speaker 17: I think he grew on a lot of people because
Speaker 17: you know, it didn't really start off that great. Although
Speaker 17: I never expected him to be a starter obviously, if
Speaker 17: you know big Mow hadn't got hurt. He probably what
Speaker 17: I think his role was was really served coming off
Speaker 17: the bench or whatever. But man, with his work ethic
Speaker 17: and everything in the way, he crashed the boards and
Speaker 17: he just he just seemed like a nice dude, and
Speaker 17: you know, he fit the culture and everything, and I
Speaker 17: think he just grew on a lot of people.
Speaker 5: Man, totally agree. Yeah, he was a I mean, I
Speaker 5: p We've I've said the same thing. This is Blake
Speaker 5: all the evolution of a walk over the season been
Speaker 5: incredible to watch, not only from a rebound a defensive standpoint,
Speaker 5: but his offensive game has grown. So I mean, he's
Speaker 5: almost I don't want to say a guaranteed bucket, but
Speaker 5: you want to try to get the transitional piece in
Speaker 5: his hands and see if he can score when you
Speaker 5: need it.
Speaker 2: So what do I mean?
Speaker 5: And now we're talking the seasons over as we move forward,
Speaker 5: Let's say Moe comes back right and stays next year,
Speaker 5: which I would assume he's going to do. You've got Vasar,
Speaker 5: You've got to Waka, You've got Stefan. What's that postplay
Speaker 5: look like? Do you think Pete for next year?
Speaker 17: Well, on paper it looks great, but in reality, I'm
Speaker 17: just not sure if that's going to happen, you know
Speaker 17: the way, with so much movement. I don't want to
Speaker 17: put a damper on anything with so much movement in
Speaker 17: his game now, And I hate to say it, I
Speaker 17: just think it's gonna be hard to keep all those
Speaker 17: guys happy. And I just got to feel and somebody's
Speaker 17: gonna end up leaving, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no question before we start going with the
Speaker 1: damper stuff or we won't go there. Yesterday, one of
Speaker 1: the things as I saw about you, you were very
Speaker 1: very high on on the commitment from Pete.
Speaker 17: Oh yeah, you know, like I said, I made a comment,
Speaker 17: I've never been as anxious by the decisions way back
Speaker 17: when when Marvin Williams a decided between North Caroline and Arizona.
Speaker 17: You know, I was done real, you know, into all
Speaker 17: recruiting every year, but this this decision here really hap
Speaker 17: me on the edge of my seat. And I was
Speaker 17: watching it live when it happened, and you know, sometimes
Speaker 17: I can be such a testimens I said, watching my luck,
Speaker 17: I gonna see him the fake Houston or some other times.
Speaker 2: And then I was still to seeing pict the you
Speaker 2: of a man. Yeah, so have you seen him a
Speaker 2: few times? Yeah, well mainly just some videos.
Speaker 17: I've never seen him in person, but just what I've
Speaker 17: seen in the video, his frame, the way he conducts
Speaker 17: himself on the court, and he's a man child.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 17: I think we got a good one.
Speaker 1: Did kind of reminds me of you're at least your
Speaker 1: build now, because you look like you can still play.
Speaker 17: Oh I was man, I never could in my in
Speaker 17: my best case scenario, I can never be built like
Speaker 17: that character is. But man, he's got a man's body,
Speaker 17: that's for sure.
Speaker 2: So another guy, another great fit probably for the program.
Speaker 17: Absolutely, And you know, againting don't want to get ahead
Speaker 17: of myself, but God that we can somehow keep you know,
Speaker 17: you know Carter Brian in afford him. Everybody's talking all
Speaker 17: this stuff, but hey, Carter Bryant's father is the real deal,
Speaker 17: you know. And I love listening to.
Speaker 2: The man's talk.
Speaker 17: He's in no rush to push his son in the NBA.
Speaker 17: He wants him to go, you know, when he's ready
Speaker 17: or whatever. And one thing, and again I don't want
Speaker 17: to get off track, but I feel the need to
Speaker 17: say this. I understand the movement that goes on, but
Speaker 17: it just disappoints me that none of these kids want
Speaker 17: to leave like some type of legacy at the U
Speaker 17: of A. And it can be done. It can be
Speaker 17: done in two years with somebody the statue of a
Speaker 17: Carter Bryant. You know, you take off one year, Okay,
Speaker 17: he's gone. You look at you know, Stanley Johnson, Come on, man,
Speaker 17: Aaron Gordon. Come on, man, you know, it's just not
Speaker 17: that that legacy at the u of A is. It's
Speaker 17: important to me, and I would like to think that
Speaker 17: more players would feel that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you were only here for two years and
Speaker 1: you left the huge legacy and.
Speaker 17: Proud of it, you know, although you know, most most
Speaker 17: folks don't. You know, I really don't seem to give down.
Speaker 17: But the folks back in the day they know what's
Speaker 17: going on. Yeah, I'm proud of that, man.
Speaker 2: But you're referring to radio hosts who don't give you
Speaker 2: two years on the.
Speaker 17: Hey you said it, man, Uh, how did.
Speaker 2: Or did it?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: Caleb? Did he grow on you or did you always believe?
Speaker 17: Well? Uh, yeah, I've been I've been one of the
Speaker 17: stanchest defender. But at the same time, I'm you're not
Speaker 17: one of those with girls from his laughs, you know,
Speaker 17: I'm I'm willing to call him out when he you know,
Speaker 17: does some boneheaded things, which he has done, you know,
Speaker 17: some some of the shops selection he's taking those uh
Speaker 17: and Tift team put runners or whatever floaters whatever. I
Speaker 17: hate that stuff. But I've always known what he was
Speaker 17: capable of. And you know, I depending very quite often
Speaker 17: on social media where you know, Caleb's gonna hit some
Speaker 17: shots when we really need him to or whatever. And
Speaker 17: just the way he's evolved towards the second half at
Speaker 17: the end of the year, you know, he's really became
Speaker 17: a leader in my opinion, and it wasn't just about scoring,
Speaker 17: you know, his defense amped up, his passing, but looking
Speaker 17: you know, for his teammates and everything. And I love
Speaker 17: hearing how his teammates talk about him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 17: You know, I've always been a believer at Caleb Love
Speaker 17: and you know, I hate how fickle some fans could be.
Speaker 17: You you know, hey, there's nothing wrong with criticism, that's
Speaker 17: part of the game, but sometimes you make it person whatever.
Speaker 17: That's where I have the issue is and and a
Speaker 17: lot of them take it personal with Caleb.
Speaker 2: Love is concerned.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think sometimes fans forget that these are kids,
Speaker 5: right Like, they're young, they're young men trying to grow
Speaker 5: and mature, and you're watching somebody like Caleb in front
Speaker 5: of our eyes get to the point where I think
Speaker 5: expectations are are He's exceeded what the expectations were and
Speaker 5: that's crazy to think how great he has been, especially
Speaker 5: coming in from you and see, but you said it earlier,
Speaker 5: the way he was a facilitator this year, a defender,
Speaker 5: a team leader when we needed it. And then what
Speaker 5: he did against Duke, I mean just I mean, or
Speaker 5: don't forget orgon No and Oregon. I mean literally putting
Speaker 5: the team on his back and willing them to beat
Speaker 5: Oregon and stay in a game with Duke, which if
Speaker 5: from a talent standpoint, I think exceeds what we had
Speaker 5: on the floor. Uh where do you put that performance
Speaker 5: last night against Duke in the all time greats of
Speaker 5: University of Arizona basketball?
Speaker 2: Pete?
Speaker 17: Uh wow, I missed out on a lot of good stuff,
Speaker 17: you know when I was over over in Europe, Bottle
Speaker 17: of years, you know from you know, you know Damond
Speaker 17: Stotlemyer had some incredible numbers, Toled Reeves, this and that.
Speaker 17: But considering the stage that this one was on, Oh well, well,
Speaker 17: Derek Williams okay.
Speaker 2: Hold on, Yeah, that's what I said too, did.
Speaker 17: Derek Williams Duke Games? I was, Hey, that's one of
Speaker 17: my favorites because I went into that game back when
Speaker 17: the twenty eleven whatever it was not really thinking we
Speaker 17: had a chance. I just wanted this to compete in
Speaker 17: that game in Anahim against Duke. That's how I felt
Speaker 17: that game, and they mopped the floor with him. It's
Speaker 17: sort of like last night. I kind of thought the
Speaker 17: Sweet sixteen was our ceiling, and I didn't really expect
Speaker 17: us to be do but knowing what we're capable of,
Speaker 17: if everyone's hitting on all cylinders and we cut down
Speaker 17: in mistakes, we had a legitimate shot. So the fact
Speaker 17: that Caleb performed the way he did on such a stage,
Speaker 17: because I was reading or maybe listening to someone saying that,
Speaker 17: you know, if Caleb has a bad game or whatever,
Speaker 17: I just hope the fans don't crush whatever, just you know,
Speaker 17: understand what he's done for this program in the past
Speaker 17: couple of years or whatever, or shut that noise, because
Speaker 17: the kid played great, you know, and I hope people
Speaker 17: really would truly understand what he actually meant to his program.
Speaker 17: And granted, you know, there were times where he was
Speaker 17: you know, kind of inconsistent or whatever. But on the whole,
Speaker 17: I think the marriage with Caleb Love was good for
Speaker 17: these two years.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about the year as a whole.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've read my story today, because
Speaker 1: I kind of talked mostly about that rather than the game.
Speaker 2: Did you when there were four and five?
Speaker 1: What were you thinking when they kind of regrouped midway
Speaker 1: through and they did really well in the Big twelve
Speaker 1: and then they kind of faltered at the end. Although
Speaker 1: the competition was what were you thinking?
Speaker 17: Even when they were four and five, I was still saying,
Speaker 17: you know, no, we're still going dancing. You know, I
Speaker 17: knew that. I knew they would just get together. I'm
Speaker 17: not saying I knew we would take Uh did we
Speaker 17: tie for second place? I think we did tie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 17: well yeah again, But I knew. I knew we were
Speaker 17: going to the dance no matter what. I knew they'd
Speaker 17: get together.
Speaker 2: Tough schedule.
Speaker 17: I didn't think the team was really it wasn't really
Speaker 17: a cohesive fit at the at the beginning, the parts
Speaker 17: didn't really seem to fit. I just didn't think we
Speaker 17: had consistent perimeters shooting. Sometimes the defensive effort was right there,
Speaker 17: but they turned the defense around.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 17: You know, granted, we still gave up a lot of
Speaker 17: threes or whatever, but individually and we did do a
Speaker 17: much better job to Pristley. The second half of the year,
Speaker 17: which I was really proud of or whatever. So I'm
Speaker 17: you know, I'm pleased with the season. You know, I'll
Speaker 17: take it, you know. And those who you know want
Speaker 17: to be naysayers and got a bunch of stuff say, yo,
Speaker 17: kick Rocks. We had a good year as far as
Speaker 17: op the.
Speaker 5: Thurn, and I think a lot of credit has to
Speaker 5: lie on Tommy Lloyd's shoulders for being able to ad.
Speaker 5: Like you said, early in the season, I didn't think
Speaker 5: they had a lot of identity on the offensive side
Speaker 5: or the defensive side, and to take that group and
Speaker 5: change them into what they were last night to that
Speaker 5: point has been incredible. I think Tommy Lloyd's one of
Speaker 5: the best coaches in the in the game right now
Speaker 5: on both the development side and understanding of what he's
Speaker 5: gotten on the floor. Where do you see where do
Speaker 5: you see the ceiling for this group moving in the
Speaker 5: future and not knowing what the pieces are, But what's
Speaker 5: your expectations of U of a basketball for the next
Speaker 5: two to three years.
Speaker 17: Well, again, Tommy Lloyd's the bad ass. As long as
Speaker 17: we got him, I'm good. I think we're gonna be
Speaker 17: okay if if the parts come back next year in
Speaker 17: addition to Collpete and you know, hopefully the Brandon Bury
Speaker 17: but god, that's almost too good.
Speaker 2: To be true.
Speaker 17: If that works out, we're gonna be fine. We are,
Speaker 17: and I know a lot of other teams out there,
Speaker 17: they're voting, they're stacked and this and that. But we're
Speaker 17: on the verge. Well I won't say on the verge,
Speaker 17: but you can right now. I think we can compete
Speaker 17: with anybody. Arizona basketball is going to be fine, you know.
Speaker 17: And Tommy Lloyd I trust, and I just want to
Speaker 17: sit back and enjoy it. And I'm just I'm just
Speaker 17: glad to be able to watch the show as well
Speaker 17: as far.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I was going to say, you know, because we
Speaker 5: were saying it. I was saying it from a fan standpoint.
Speaker 5: You're saying from an analyst standpoint, Pete, from a players standpoint.
Speaker 5: I don't remember the last time looking at a Sweet
Speaker 5: sixteen and seeing I mean, there's really there wasn't any
Speaker 5: upsets going into this in my mind. I mean, Arkansas,
Speaker 5: you can make the case, but they're still it's a
Speaker 5: Calipari team. I the level of talent that was at
Speaker 5: the top this year was I think higher than it's
Speaker 5: been in years. When's the last time you saw and
Speaker 5: I want to call them blue bloods because not everybody
Speaker 5: in the tournament right now is blue bloods. But I
Speaker 5: mean the disparency or difference between the talent level from
Speaker 5: the top seeds to the lower seeds.
Speaker 3: And I L.
Speaker 5: Yeah once do you think that has a lot to
Speaker 5: do with nil? Or when's the last time you saw
Speaker 5: something like that?
Speaker 17: Are you saying? Because there's some many you know, the
Speaker 17: big schools in there, and we're not really seeing like
Speaker 17: cinderellas like we see years past.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no cinderellas this yere right, I mean other
Speaker 1: than you can make the case for Arkansas.
Speaker 2: I guess, well not.
Speaker 18: No, because Arkansas still Arkansas, and and uh Wagner and
Speaker 18: the and uh I think the bookiy man, you didn't
Speaker 18: play that much as Booky with Oklahoma with Arkansas Bookie planning.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma.
Speaker 17: Yeah, but uh no, you you may and I never
Speaker 17: really get that much thought, but now that you say it, yeah,
Speaker 17: there's nothing but but but the big boys up in there.
Speaker 17: But hey, the way that that that n I L
Speaker 17: and and and you know the money and everything, I mean,
Speaker 17: you could there may be a powerhouse development next year.
Speaker 17: That came out of nowhere and we don't know it
Speaker 17: because they got the money to get the lord of
Speaker 17: these kids to their school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that powerhouse might be b Yu with all the
Speaker 2: money they've got.
Speaker 17: Oh, I love b Yu Man. I can't believe it
Speaker 17: was saying that, But I love b y U man Man.
Speaker 17: If that kids Saunders had another year eligibility got in
Speaker 17: with the kid coming in next year, oh my god,
Speaker 17: they would be something terrible.
Speaker 1: So so no one knew Loot better than you, maybe
Speaker 1: Curve Sean because you guys were close. What would Loute
Speaker 1: think of Tommy and what he's done.
Speaker 17: Loot will be pleased. Loot will be pleased. I think
Speaker 17: he would love the way that he that he plays basketball.
Speaker 17: You know, the kids share the ball, they moved this
Speaker 17: and that. I think the fact that the defense got
Speaker 17: better as the year went on the second half. We
Speaker 17: were much better defensive team collectively than we were earlier. Whatever,
Speaker 17: Loot would be absolutely thrilled with coach Tommy. I have
Speaker 17: no doubt in my mind whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we have the summer similar style and.
Speaker 17: What I like is that, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 17: of things that we're not privy to as fans, and
Speaker 17: I call myself a fan because I am. You know,
Speaker 17: you don't see what goes on in the locker room.
Speaker 17: You don't see what goes on. We may be watching
Speaker 17: the game, you don't see what's going on in the
Speaker 17: bench whatever. I've seen first hand where Tommy you know,
Speaker 17: has gotten into there. But you know, verbally this and that.
Speaker 17: But then he stepped it up where you know he
Speaker 17: he will I I say, he can call out players
Speaker 17: through the meeting without throwing them under the bucks. You know,
Speaker 17: that's what I like. You know, he's, uh, yeah, he's
Speaker 17: gonna protect his players this and that, but he can
Speaker 17: still call them out without throwing them under the bus.
Speaker 17: And he's done at the times. You know, he mentioned
Speaker 17: when he had that little rent with about Caleb Loved
Speaker 17: several weeks back, but you know he's a fifth year senior.
Speaker 17: He should know better and stuff like that. I was
Speaker 17: loving that press Thomas, you know, because if he can
Speaker 17: go it that way with Caleb, he can go it
Speaker 17: that way with everybody. But he still did it in
Speaker 17: a respectful way.
Speaker 2: Right, No, no, no, And that's what that's the beauty
Speaker 2: of a good coach. Right.
Speaker 1: It was like Bobby Knight, if he goes after the
Speaker 1: main guy, the other guys know that they have to
Speaker 1: step it up to.
Speaker 17: Yeah, but I don't know Bobby not going to exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna say without laying hands on players
Speaker 5: that example with the coach. But you know what I'm
Speaker 5: saying talking.
Speaker 2: If Luken suspend uh, suspend you? He can he can
Speaker 2: suspend anybody.
Speaker 18: No, but he had every right to.
Speaker 17: So you know that was that was part of of
Speaker 17: course I understood it. Anybody with a brain would understand that.
Speaker 17: And also Loop was throwing up the press conference with
Speaker 17: a whip either.
Speaker 5: Right, right, And I know, I mean we talked about
Speaker 5: this pet you probably can agree with this, but as
Speaker 5: a play as a as a player, we respect that
Speaker 5: because we know we screwed up, right, And if you
Speaker 5: let us get away with that, yeah, that's gonna have
Speaker 5: so much more trouble. Like if you call me out
Speaker 5: on my bs and you set me straight, I've got
Speaker 5: more respect for you moving forward.
Speaker 17: Absolutely, your teammates doing that, that's all goes with the
Speaker 17: whole curture and everything. So yeah, but no, Luke, Luke
Speaker 17: would love Tommy Layd.
Speaker 2: So at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: In kind of my story today too, is uh, it
Speaker 1: was turned out to be a very nice season. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was some kind of hiccups. And he admitted it.
Speaker 1: He said yesterday it was fun. Uh, the day before
Speaker 1: he said it was fun. And then it was quite
Speaker 1: an adventure, you know, a nice little road to how
Speaker 1: far they got?
Speaker 17: Yeah and and yeah, and you know, in retrospect, you
Speaker 17: look back, you know, just look at some of those
Speaker 17: games with Houston where he came down to the last
Speaker 17: four or five minutes or whatever, you know, could there
Speaker 17: were several games like that, you know, when we had
Speaker 17: it and just kind of fell apart at the end
Speaker 17: or whatever, and just uh, you know, we get the
Speaker 17: right pieces together, and I'm so excited about the possibility
Speaker 17: of next year.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 17: A lot of things have to play out, obviously, but
Speaker 17: you know, if I could have these my way and
Speaker 17: get this player here, that player there or whatever. Man,
Speaker 17: I mean, granted, I understand everybody else is doing the same,
Speaker 17: you know, and sometimes we get a little ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 17: Oh we're what I hate is we have so much depth.
Speaker 17: We may have No, we don't have so much depthiny
Speaker 17: we did. He probably gonna play no more than eight
Speaker 17: or nine players anyway or what?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 17: I love the possibility is what's shaping up as far
Speaker 17: as next year is concerned. Now, we'll know within maybe
Speaker 17: you know, weeks or whatever, who's leaving, who's saying, and
Speaker 17: who's coming or whatever. But it's gonna be a good,
Speaker 17: good type of basketball next year, no doubt.
Speaker 1: No one brought us up. This's our last question because
Speaker 1: we've got to go. But you had to be impressed
Speaker 1: with Martinez last night. He didn't get as much money,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden last night he was
Speaker 1: playing significant minutes.
Speaker 17: Yeah, little fella had his moment. You know, that's for sure.
Speaker 17: And you know he's a valuable comight either have. And
Speaker 17: I hope he's happy with his role because I'm sure
Speaker 17: he's going somewhere and play a bigger role in another program,
Speaker 17: would have you or whatever, But no, I like the kid,
Speaker 17: and I hope he's happy there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Petere's always thinks I'll change that logo.
Speaker 2: I'll change that.
Speaker 17: Hey, we'll find out next year. You know.
Speaker 2: Well whatever you if I.
Speaker 17: Don't see a THO eighty five, I'm calling you out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you already did. Let me ask you, are
Speaker 1: you coming to visit any time? You could be a
Speaker 1: co host when you come and visit.
Speaker 17: Well, definitely, I'll be there for the camp. But other
Speaker 17: than that, you know, I may just if I can
Speaker 17: slide down there for a dad two just to play
Speaker 17: some fan duel or some draftking. My mom was just
Speaker 17: down there the past few days and I put in
Speaker 17: several parlays with him on fan duel, and man, I
Speaker 17: got I get so tired of get eight out of
Speaker 17: nine or seven out of eight.
Speaker 2: It's always one man, no question. That's why they call
Speaker 2: it what they call it. Yeah, right, exactly, Thanks Pete.
Speaker 17: All right, fellas, you got to be good.
Speaker 2: Thanks pe.
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Speaker 3: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball here at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fiftym Steve Rivera, your Blake eager. We got
Speaker 1: Henry here at the control. So we're waiting for some
Speaker 1: calls maybe five, two, zero, four, one, six, seventy four
Speaker 1: forty let us know how the team did last night.
Speaker 2: But your thoughts?
Speaker 1: Did it turn out to be a pretty good season otherwise?
Speaker 1: You know, they went twenty four and thirteen. I think
Speaker 1: it was yep, twenty four and thirteen. A lot of losses,
Speaker 1: but still you kind of feel good. Right They went
Speaker 1: to the Sweet sixteen three years ago as the number
Speaker 1: one seed, right, they lose to Houston.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a Matha and Terry and that was a
Speaker 5: that was kind of a disappointing year. I mean, you're
Speaker 5: playing in Houston team that was I think they were
Speaker 5: a fifty that had no business being a fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, yeah, go ahead. We got to call. Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air nine the Ball. Who's this?
Speaker 22: Hi, Steve, This is done, I Mike, Henry. They doubt
Speaker 22: everybody doing today.
Speaker 2: We're doing fine. Thanks for something, Oh no much.
Speaker 22: I just wanted to say I got what I what
Speaker 22: I tweeted out at you last night. We got the effort.
Speaker 22: We just didn't get those. But what I really didn't
Speaker 22: like was that what would you call it the large
Speaker 22: call where they all took the charge and then they
Speaker 22: called him for a foul to what I didn't I
Speaker 22: didn't understand that. But I want to nitpick one play
Speaker 22: here or that, because I think I think the game
Speaker 22: was bigger than that.
Speaker 1: You You're not alone, because everybody didn't get that. I mean,
Speaker 1: even the people there didn't, So what the hell was
Speaker 1: that he was one of the.
Speaker 22: Well that was that was a strange deal. But like
Speaker 22: Pete was saying, I think the development of the team
Speaker 22: over the course of the year, while it seemed kind
Speaker 22: of slow for.
Speaker 2: You're breaking up a little, you're breaking up.
Speaker 22: Yeah, well, the development of the team was a little
Speaker 22: bit slow for a lot of us fans. I think
Speaker 22: at the at the end of the season, you know,
Speaker 22: you you saw a lot of fight.
Speaker 2: In this team.
Speaker 22: Yeah, and and that was that was good to see
Speaker 22: because you know, everybody's all the big bad, big twelve.
Speaker 22: You know, well, it's gonna make them tough, you know,
Speaker 22: and it's like, well, we're used to the Pac twelve,
Speaker 22: so we're not used to playing that way or we're
Speaker 22: not used to seeing that kind of play, and so
Speaker 22: I was a little like, well, I wanted to wait
Speaker 22: and see how the team was going to uh, you know,
Speaker 22: how the team was going to grow on that in
Speaker 22: that respect. Yeah, now now.
Speaker 11: We go ahead.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, this last question, they
Speaker 1: give me a scale one to ten. The overall season
Speaker 1: satisfactory for a fan.
Speaker 22: You know what we got to We got to the
Speaker 22: sweet sixteen in a good way. We finished the season strong.
Speaker 22: I'm gonna give it a good strong eighth. I think
Speaker 22: that we started off better. You know, maybe we're a
Speaker 22: top ten team and we're sitting at a two seed
Speaker 22: and we don't have to play Duke until tomorrow. But
Speaker 22: that's that's not how it played out. But the way
Speaker 22: these guys finished, with the ups and downs of the
Speaker 22: individuals and the ups and downs of the team as
Speaker 22: a whole, I think they finished strong and they they
Speaker 22: really have something to.
Speaker 17: Be proud of.
Speaker 22: But but the bad thing is is now we're at
Speaker 22: the worst part of the season because you know, the
Speaker 22: season's over, the portals open, and now you know, now
Speaker 22: I'm just waiting to see if and I think there's
Speaker 22: a good chance that somebody leaves that we didn't expect
Speaker 22: them to leave, and we won't know and we won't
Speaker 22: know why it was right right, We got to go.
Speaker 1: We've got another call. But thank you. Done for the
Speaker 1: calls this week. Okay, touch you next week. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: You got a call? Ye get a call. Oh you're
Speaker 2: on the air and one on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 11: Hey, Hey Steve, Hey Blake?
Speaker 2: They hey Howard?
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, I'll be quick to the point. I didn't
Speaker 11: see that play when they where the guy went down
Speaker 11: with a flag or no, I saw the play. I go.
Speaker 11: I was like scratching in my head. It took so long.
Speaker 11: Why did he go shoot free throws? The main one
Speaker 11: is when the guy took Henry down and didn't release
Speaker 11: the bad one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean if I wasn't I if I had
Speaker 5: to pick one. You know, we're talking atturning point last
Speaker 5: night and a foul to really, Nick, it's a flagrant
Speaker 5: fel I mean you had the exact same thing happened
Speaker 5: to Bradley two plays before. That, and then it happens
Speaker 5: to Vasar and it doesn't get go. They didn't call it,
Speaker 5: and they and you had every analyst on the saying
Speaker 5: it's the same foul.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was. That was that infuriated me a little bit.
Speaker 11: But but I'm proud of the team. They did good.
Speaker 11: And what Pete said, all the freshman sophomore juniors around
Speaker 11: the country, you know, went to the final sixteen, they're
Speaker 11: gonna get a lot down the road, Like you were
Speaker 11: saying to Pete two three years down the road, we're
Speaker 11: gonna be all right, we're gonna be really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, And.
Speaker 11: As the longest span of anyone listening here, what going
Speaker 11: to my first game in like seventy two three when
Speaker 11: it opened, we had a nine for the season. Okay, okay,
Speaker 11: there'll be why do we even get farther, especially the
Speaker 11: way we started?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Nine?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, that's fair.
Speaker 11: All right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll relate this this team to something and maybe
Speaker 5: we it's relatable. It's whether you're in a dating world,
Speaker 5: whether you're dating women or men, it's it's you start
Speaker 5: off and you're like, I kind of le this person's fine,
Speaker 5: Like they're okay, like and starts building into this like
Speaker 5: friendship and then all a sudden you're like, I'm in love,
Speaker 5: Like this was that team to me where I was
Speaker 5: like I don't really like like I don't want to
Speaker 5: be seen in boulla with this team. And then you
Speaker 5: kind of go out to dinner and it's a dark
Speaker 5: corner and you're like it's fine.
Speaker 2: The food was fine, the conversation was okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And the next day you're like, maybe I'll grab coffee,
Speaker 5: and then you're like, okay, maybe I'll go to a
Speaker 5: nice restaurant. And then by then you're like, yeah, let's
Speaker 5: go on a vacation together, like that's what this was
Speaker 5: to be. And I was like I fell in love
Speaker 5: with this team over the course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I totally get that analogy, and I think
Speaker 1: a party accurately.
Speaker 2: So let's go back to the real quick.
Speaker 1: So three years ago they played Houston as there Arefore
Speaker 1: You is a one that Sweet sixteen is a disappointment
Speaker 1: given the situation and circumstances, right because you're they're one
Speaker 1: Tommy's first year, Tommy's first year, great team, and you
Speaker 1: think it's a great team. Right, it is a great team,
Speaker 1: and you and you run and you run against a
Speaker 1: tough Houston team. Okay, get punched in the face, right,
Speaker 1: and just weren't expecting. Okay, second year they get beat
Speaker 1: by Princeton and that's a really disappointment, and then that
Speaker 1: kind of qualifies like a five for the year, even
Speaker 1: though that a good year, right, And then last year
Speaker 1: you're you're a two I think it is there are two.
Speaker 2: Then you lose to.
Speaker 5: That's my that's my biggest disappointment, and that's you should
Speaker 5: have beat that team, and that's you have a pretty
Speaker 5: good year, and then you lose that game and you
Speaker 5: come away like what the hell? I mean, you played
Speaker 5: one of your worst games all year and you still
Speaker 5: had a chance to win, and just that was you
Speaker 5: should have beat Clemson and all.
Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen finishes. But this year is different because this
Speaker 1: is a feel good moment. It's a field going, it's
Speaker 1: a feel good it's a feel good moment. Different levels.
Speaker 5: The game that Love had, the opponent that we're playing
Speaker 5: in Duke the best, I mean, generational talent and slag
Speaker 5: and the comeback yeah, and the comeback from nineteen points down, yeah,
Speaker 5: how hard they played. They left it all on the court,
Speaker 5: like it is what it is. At this point, you
Speaker 5: were lacking one another, big man, that's what you were lacking.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, And you wouldn't know this until you played the
Speaker 1: game and played the way you did, because if they
Speaker 1: lose by twenty, you're.
Speaker 2: Thinking, oh, man, we kind of knew this was going
Speaker 2: to happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think that's where that tournative events. You go,
Speaker 5: this is something special. We're watching something special in a loss.
Speaker 1: And you don't say that very often when you step back,
Speaker 1: because I told you earlier, I hate the phrase it.
Speaker 5: It was a quality loss. This wasn't a quality loss
Speaker 5: in the sense that, Okay, now we get a chance
Speaker 5: to go on and prove ourselves. It was a quality
Speaker 5: loss that you I'm the same way. I'm like, I
Speaker 5: hope we don't get luck.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 5: We're gonna get blown out by thirty points here, and
Speaker 5: to be able to turn that round and once love
Speaker 5: just go get out of the way, give me the ball.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take this.
Speaker 1: Over, right, And it saved a lot of things, saved
Speaker 1: the season in terms of people's perceptions, have saved his
Speaker 1: perception or how people perceived him. Yeah, I agree, And
Speaker 1: I think if you're if you're a player around the
Speaker 1: country right now, there's not many coaches in the country
Speaker 1: that you'd rather play for than Tommy.
Speaker 2: Look, I would. I would go to bat for Tommy
Speaker 2: every day of the week. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think those who know how he coaches and
Speaker 1: who he is because he's just a dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just a dude, even when he speaks
Speaker 1: on this podium. And I've said that to him a
Speaker 1: number of times. In fact, I have another story about
Speaker 1: him in his Tucson I think I can say this publicly.
Speaker 1: He's a father of the year, one of the fathers
Speaker 1: of the year in the city, and I did a
Speaker 1: profile on him. He's just the dude who just happens
Speaker 1: a coach and kind of like, you know, you want
Speaker 1: to go catch your beer, you know, get a beer.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, coaches aren't like that. They're not.
Speaker 5: You know, it's a It's like it's almost like you're
Speaker 5: getting an old school an old school coach where you
Speaker 5: see that personality come in and come out and come
Speaker 5: in and come out. But he's connected to the community,
Speaker 5: and I think that's where I think from two zones
Speaker 5: are that's right in the Wheelhouse one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: That's what you need, especially after Sean. You know, Sean
Speaker 1: was not going to he didn't care about being connected,
Speaker 1: and now you have Tommy who's kind of connected and
Speaker 1: he just wants to have a good time.
Speaker 5: And he wants to be a part of the community,
Speaker 5: which is hard to find.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, you've got something in a simple way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we ready to go. We got like thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, thanks Henry, yep, So we just we're just
Speaker 1: gonna talk baseball the rest of the time, right, thirty seconds?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, sure? What that What that happened?
Speaker 11: Can I give that?
Speaker 5: I want the book that you wrote and I paid for.
Speaker 5: You still haven't brought it to me. So well, once
Speaker 5: your hair grows back, that's never gonna happen that my
Speaker 5: hair is gone, buddy.
Speaker 2: Thanks man for everybody. Thanks thanks for the calls this week.
Speaker 2: Good week. We'll talk to you guys Monday.