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Speaker 3: Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports
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Speaker 3: have your morales? Mister mister one said, I know, it's
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Speaker 2: Seven seven hour. This could be. This could be our
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Speaker 3: Hey, good after noon everybody. This is like ad I
Speaker 3: didn't expect you to be here to tell you truth.
Speaker 3: I thought I was ready on the board. You christ
Speaker 3: my dreams man. Sorry, no, no, I'm glad the last time.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're here tomorrow, you Chris, We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So uh so, welcome, welcome back. This is yours second second, last,
Speaker 3: second the last year of years in for the first
Speaker 3: time as a guest or second time, second time last
Speaker 3: summer I was here, Okay, and now we have a
Speaker 3: big show today.
Speaker 2: You got some pretty good guests.
Speaker 4: Jay Compost, Jay Compost new Mike Mountain football coach. He
Speaker 4: was at Sabino for a long time. Fourteen years, yeah,
Speaker 4: three seventeen.
Speaker 3: It's like all these guys are best friends, buddies, blah
Speaker 3: blah blah, beat the crap out of each other and
Speaker 3: then replace each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he was.
Speaker 4: He's been a Mica Mountain as an administrator since they
Speaker 4: opened four or five years ago, and he was there
Speaker 4: with Pat Nugent, and.
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's a coach.
Speaker 4: He's always wanted to go back and coach, and now
Speaker 4: he has his opportunity for a defending state champion. So
Speaker 4: Mike and Mowin Will we'll have to replace like twenty
Speaker 4: seven twenty eight seniors, but they have an established coach
Speaker 4: and they do have some good players coming back, so
Speaker 4: we'll talk to him about Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool.
Speaker 4: And then you said there's something going on there seven
Speaker 4: on seven. Yeah, the seven on seven's are going on.
Speaker 2: The Victory.
Speaker 4: Foundation is having their event on Thursday, and I'm sorry
Speaker 4: Wednesday and Thursday, but tomorrow and Thursday it's a huge,
Speaker 4: huge thing. They have over thirty schools there. It's over
Speaker 4: at the keno Quino Southfields. I don't know you want
Speaker 4: to ever been there to.
Speaker 3: Those I don't think I've ever attended an event there,
Speaker 3: but I've seen it.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 4: It's got you know, tons of football players parents that
Speaker 4: the parking lot's packed, so when you're leaving, it takes
Speaker 4: a well leave. But it's it's one of those growing sports.
Speaker 4: You know, flag football is in the Olympics. It's not
Speaker 4: flag football, but it's seven on seven kind of non
Speaker 4: non tackle, so it's really growing in popularity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think anybody.
Speaker 3: From here locally could be a consideration for the Olympic
Speaker 3: flag football team. I know the church people, the daughter, yeah, Borgae.
Speaker 4: Yeah Forgay's daughter is she's in the running. I think
Speaker 4: she still has to go through a couple of of uh,
Speaker 4: you know, uh tryouts and competitions to get there, but
Speaker 4: she's right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw them play. I guess it was maybe
Speaker 3: last year's championship on the on the probably whatever it was,
Speaker 3: it was Webb of espn't you what' you uh? A
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago these girls they were like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen.
Speaker 2: Whatever they were so damn pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 4: fun sport. It's it's in high school now that it's
Speaker 4: gonna be in this year coming up. Yeah, there's some
Speaker 4: talk about maybe even having boys flag football in the spring.
Speaker 2: Well have the NFL, right, NFL is doing that right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I know, well a high schoo level
Speaker 4: I'm talking about and uh, I know some of the
Speaker 4: track and field and volley boys while about coaches aren't
Speaker 4: thrilled about that at the same time. Yeah, but there's
Speaker 4: there's some possibilities of that happening now, okay, cool, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: So then that that's the three seventeen hour, right at
Speaker 4: the compost four o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: What do you got.
Speaker 4: Marcus Contolano a former cell Point and Pima player. He's
Speaker 4: the one of the organizers of the Old Pueblo Tribe.
Speaker 4: It's a new semi pro team. He wants to make
Speaker 4: it kind of like the Savannah Bananas, but also interject
Speaker 4: some competitiveness baseball in there too.
Speaker 2: So we will talk to him about their vision. It's interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well semi pro team, here are they gonna pay
Speaker 3: other teams about outtown.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they have a some California team, some
Speaker 4: Phoenix area teams.
Speaker 2: When does it started the first time? Here the seventh,
Speaker 2: which is what is it Saturday the seventh?
Speaker 4: So it's been in the works for a while obviously, Yeah,
Speaker 4: for a couple of months.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: It's at Reed Park, So it's not like at High
Speaker 4: Court or or Keno or anything like that out of
Speaker 4: park Field.
Speaker 3: But what are the two sons of wit in this?
Speaker 3: Is it kind of like below that above that?
Speaker 4: Uh, it's it's kind of at the similar level because
Speaker 4: it's semi pro.
Speaker 2: I think the Suarros have.
Speaker 4: Players who just finished college and like to do the
Speaker 4: Division two, Division three n A n A i A levels.
Speaker 4: Those guys are continuing their careers right after that. This
Speaker 4: this league with Marcus Marcus is developing, I think as
Speaker 4: players that have not not played recently or have played
Speaker 4: recently like a mixture, Okay, yeah, yeah, we'll know more
Speaker 4: when you talk to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that at four seventeen. I mean, we got
Speaker 3: a wedding going on today, but it's going to be
Speaker 3: boom boom boom.
Speaker 4: Wes Clements. I don't know if you guys watched the
Speaker 4: telecast this weekend. Well was he the guy? Yeah, because
Speaker 4: he's been there before, he's done a number of them. Yeah,
Speaker 4: with Roxy Bernstein, they're there. They make a good combination.
Speaker 4: It seems like whenever they do an Arizona game, Arizona
Speaker 4: doesn't lose.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So they did the PACTLL tournament last year, Arizona had
Speaker 4: that great run and they won all three games this
Speaker 4: weekend with Bernstein and Clements. He's a uf A guy,
Speaker 4: All American Hall of Famer. Yeah, played for Jerry Kendall,
Speaker 4: you know, So he's he's he's got a great opinion
Speaker 4: about a lot of things.
Speaker 3: So he's a good guy to talk to. Okay, and
Speaker 3: then again everything in Arizona, right. Steve Strong.
Speaker 4: Steve Strong nineteen eighty six championship team with Chip Hale
Speaker 4: a very good catcher. I think he was a leadoff
Speaker 4: hitter as a catcher. He can confirm that. But that's
Speaker 4: that's that normal to have a catcher be a lead
Speaker 4: off hitter. He was that good of a hitter and
Speaker 4: made things happen, and he was a good athlete.
Speaker 2: And he's very much a.
Speaker 4: Chip Hail supporter because he was a teammate events. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so doesn't he have like kids who are pretty good too,
Speaker 4: didn't he have liked Yeah, he had a son who
Speaker 4: played football at cell point.
Speaker 2: Then that's it, that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he also had a daughter too, who was
Speaker 4: a pretty good athlete. Ye, I don't imagine, so I
Speaker 4: remember that with his son, I guess yes, yeah, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 4: cool tomorrow just for you know, Blake, just chimped in.
Speaker 4: It'll be Blake tomorrow with we have Andy Andy Lopez
Speaker 4: tomorrow three seventeen, So that'll be fun. We'll get the
Speaker 4: sertmon of Andy Lopez, which I always enjoy, always come
Speaker 4: away smarter. The IQ level will raise a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 4: which Mark, okay.
Speaker 3: Coach, whatever you say writing this stuff down, because I
Speaker 3: don't know what the heck. It's like a replay it
Speaker 3: so cool, cool, cool, So a little time for people
Speaker 3: to call him, but so you have a chance to
Speaker 3: call him now five two zero four one, six seventy
Speaker 3: four forty we'll have times after after compost or right
Speaker 3: now in the next five six minutes, right, we've got
Speaker 3: about six minutestes. Yeah, okay, cool, a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: going on. We're not gonna have any breaking news, but
Speaker 3: there is a breaking news.
Speaker 2: New York Knicks. The New York Knicks have fired their
Speaker 2: head coach, Tom Tammy.
Speaker 3: Though it makes no sense, but maybe for New York
Speaker 3: makes perfect sense. It's one of those things you just
Speaker 3: you kind of figure either they have their guy ready
Speaker 3: to go, yeah, or the players just didn't want him
Speaker 3: any round anymore.
Speaker 2: And you're building around the players at that.
Speaker 3: Point, right, which of course happens all the time, because
Speaker 3: who calls the shots, the GM and the players, because
Speaker 3: if the players don't get along or you know, he's
Speaker 3: not he's not for us, they make they make it known.
Speaker 4: Makes no sense, it's I think it's player driven, right,
Speaker 4: didn't Some of the players were critical after the loss?
Speaker 4: Oh I don't, I don't remember, But did you see
Speaker 4: that I heard about in ESPN?
Speaker 2: So that could be it. He's he's uh, you know.
Speaker 4: They they he's a good coach to get them to
Speaker 4: where they are, but he's rough around the edges. They
Speaker 4: probably feel like they can get somebody who can who
Speaker 4: can relate better with the players.
Speaker 3: They haven't been this good since two thousands, Since two
Speaker 3: thousand and they've made the playoffs for out of his
Speaker 3: five seasons. Right, it's it's another it'sn't similar to Malone
Speaker 3: with Denver. You just two years ago you want an
Speaker 3: NBA championship and now he's out.
Speaker 2: Just tells you.
Speaker 3: In fact, I was going to touch you and I
Speaker 3: didn't know you were coming in today. The way of
Speaker 3: the world, you're as good as your last haircut one
Speaker 3: and the way of the world is you. You're going
Speaker 3: into the real world now, right, And it's a it's
Speaker 3: a doggy dog. You better perform or guess what somebody
Speaker 3: else behind you is gonna perform for you. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: just the way it is. It's a Mark Malone one
Speaker 3: of the candidates now for the next job.
Speaker 2: That's it may be. I would hope.
Speaker 3: If you're a Knicks fan, I would hope. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: it makes perfect sense, makes perfect sense. It doesn't make
Speaker 3: sense in Phoenix. They've been more than a month or
Speaker 3: more than a month, right since they've let them go
Speaker 3: almost two months now, they haven't hired anybody. I guess
Speaker 3: there's talking to Cleveland. They're down to two assistant coaches
Speaker 3: from the Cavaliers.
Speaker 2: Which makes no sense. Have you ever heard those guys?
Speaker 3: No, which is kind of maybe refreshing because it's all
Speaker 3: a incestuous type of thing where they you know, they
Speaker 3: get fired here, get a job here, move move around.
Speaker 3: It's a same bag of people with the same resume. Well,
Speaker 3: you got fired here, but you're here now and you
Speaker 3: gotta gotta perform or else. I also think it's one
Speaker 3: of those things of everyone's looking to the thunder right now,
Speaker 3: where did their coach come from?
Speaker 2: Where did he come from? Exactly? Well, no one knows where. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're young. Everyone knows.
Speaker 3: If it comes down to one of these two cavalier
Speaker 3: assistant head coaches, that's the most people are going to
Speaker 3: know about them. So you have this maybe lower level
Speaker 3: tier coach, but then you build the team around it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and look where they got the thunder. Well, this is
Speaker 3: how probably it is too nowadays because you're talking about
Speaker 3: the players calling the shots. It's not so much about
Speaker 3: x's and know, it's about how can you pass the
Speaker 3: the k D Booker x x X player test because
Speaker 3: they can either manipulate you or whatever.
Speaker 2: You know, like Lebron is Lebron? Who's the coach now Lakers?
Speaker 2: A long time? Isn't the guy from Duke Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 2: his buddy.
Speaker 3: Right, you got his buddy who you know in the
Speaker 3: podcast stuff, and I guess he did okay, but you
Speaker 3: know we still it is okay in my mind because
Speaker 3: I'm not a Lake fan, but you need to have
Speaker 3: that kind of the good to go with from the
Speaker 3: from the stars. Okay, yeah, we'll take him.
Speaker 2: He's good to the thunder coach.
Speaker 4: I think it's really shake Gill just Alexander because he
Speaker 4: everything goes through him and the coach is facilitating it.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It's one of those things where they got a guy
Speaker 4: there who's going to facilitate and kind of put everybody
Speaker 4: in place where they're supposed to and they're gonna they're
Speaker 4: gonna work together, but everything goes through You'll just Alexander.
Speaker 4: The way he plays. I mean, he's amazing. He's the
Speaker 4: reason why they're there. So it's funny how the NBA
Speaker 4: coaches are thought of as these great coaches, and some
Speaker 4: of them have been, but they've all had some Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame fremenous players all around them.
Speaker 3: Is that something that the Sons should probably do. Get
Speaker 3: maybe a younger coach or maybe not not so known coach,
Speaker 3: and then around Devin Booker that's what they're trying to
Speaker 3: do right in Cleveland. It's not that they're exactly the same,
Speaker 3: but they have similar type of games.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, they're they're at that they're at that level.
Speaker 4: Right they can't get a name coach because of where
Speaker 4: they're at. Mark Malone I don't think would go to Phoenix. Uh,
Speaker 4: even now Thibodeau probably wouldn't go to Phoenix. So they
Speaker 4: need to get somebody who maybe is a young up
Speaker 4: and comer and will be a guy that the players
Speaker 4: will will rally around and and you know, not not
Speaker 4: cost so much. It seems like there's so much uh
Speaker 4: locker room issues nowadays and pro sports that we can
Speaker 4: really bring a team down that can't happen in anything if.
Speaker 3: It comes from the star right and and Katie is
Speaker 3: so temperamental. I'm not speaking out of my butt if
Speaker 3: I'm just what he is, uh and you know, the
Speaker 3: alpha alpha male kind.
Speaker 4: Of maybe, But well, the draft's coming up, right and
Speaker 4: at the end of this month, I believe, so yeah,
Speaker 4: so look for some changes there. There might be some
Speaker 4: trades where we might see some different players in Phoenix.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be a wild off season for as
Speaker 3: far as trades and stuff like signings. Okay, that said,
Speaker 3: how much you pay attention to the NBA? Me personally,
Speaker 3: I pay attention you know, win to ten seven and
Speaker 3: a half. Okay, that's seven and a half more than me.
Speaker 2: Exactly. I don't really pay that much of it.
Speaker 3: I maybe a two because of Golden State in some
Speaker 3: of the stuff that you know aks you a guys,
Speaker 3: which they are very few. Now there's two in the finals.
Speaker 3: Two in the finals. Yeah, for eleven straight year. Oh
Speaker 3: by the way, did they get to the one and
Speaker 3: four in those the last eleven years? You always have
Speaker 3: to bring that up, Steve, huh, you saw you bring
Speaker 3: that up in social media too. But you're right, I mean,
Speaker 3: come on, you'd be proud. Well, your school needs to
Speaker 3: get to the final four. Hell with this NBA stuff,
Speaker 3: what does that get you? No damn thing doesn't. I mean,
Speaker 3: these people have got their master's degrees now that we're
Speaker 3: born after the lile you and I well were we
Speaker 3: were together there in ninety seven, right when they won
Speaker 3: the title. When they won the title, that's twenty eight
Speaker 3: years ago. Twenty eight years ago. They've got their degrees
Speaker 3: and have kids. Yeah, two thousand and one. I don't
Speaker 3: think there was Bruce, right, it was Bruce either, you know,
Speaker 3: Bruce was there, Bruce Russo that's what twenty four years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the people you're twenty two, yep, twenty two. You hadn't
Speaker 3: been born yet.
Speaker 2: There's an example right now.
Speaker 3: But but to your point, and to my point, Arizona
Speaker 3: blue blood, you got to speak up this radio.
Speaker 2: No no, no, I was.
Speaker 3: Going to because we we've agreed with this for a
Speaker 3: long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think since even last summer we said it out
Speaker 3: loud and we've said it, I guess proudly. If you
Speaker 3: want to put it that way, Arizona's not a blue blood. Yeah,
Speaker 3: call in if you disagree.
Speaker 4: Phil Johnson said something very profound after they won the
Speaker 4: championship ninety seven. He said, this may who knows when
Speaker 4: this will happen again. It may never happen, Oh very much.
Speaker 3: Well, you remember what Josh Passner said, Dad, Dad, this
Speaker 3: is easy. We'll be back more of this. He's admitted
Speaker 3: that too. You know, because you think you're a freshman, right,
Speaker 3: what do you know, what do you know? You probably
Speaker 3: haven't had your first beer or anything else.
Speaker 2: Hey, this is great. We could do this a lot. Well,
Speaker 2: that's josh, yeah, just throw up the business. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: give a grief about it all the time, you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, we got to go and get a hold of
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay.
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Wall on Fox Sports fourteen
Speaker 1: fifty Want to take part in the show Call up
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to why the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen Cookie, I'm Steve Roberta. In with me today
Speaker 3: is Jabo Morelesquim at the controls now We have an
Speaker 3: administrator coach. All slash slash ass all these titles from
Speaker 3: Jay compos at Mike come Ountain.
Speaker 2: Coach, How are you, gentlemen, How are you guys doing today?
Speaker 2: We're doing fine.
Speaker 3: Coach. Let me give you a heart hitting question right away.
Speaker 3: I talked to coaches all over from all over and
Speaker 3: they're running from coaching. You're diving right back into it.
Speaker 3: What are you thinking?
Speaker 5: You know? Uh, people have asked me that a bunch,
Speaker 5: especially coming off the fact that you know, coach Nujan
Speaker 5: left last year. Fortunately no state champ. Nowhere to go
Speaker 5: but down if you look at it from that perspective.
Speaker 5: But I'll look at it from that perspective. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm just appreciative the fact I get this opportunity to
Speaker 5: come back into coaching. I enjoyed, you know, taking those
Speaker 5: first year or two off there from when I left
Speaker 5: Sabino as a head football coach and just focusing on
Speaker 5: being an assistant principal and being able to be more
Speaker 5: involved in the life of my kids who were pretty
Speaker 5: young at that time. And now it's just a good,
Speaker 5: good opportunity for me to get back into it here
Speaker 5: at Micah where we have a good thing going. Obviously,
Speaker 5: you know, I've been part of the process of just
Speaker 5: helping get all of our sporting activities up and running
Speaker 5: here as the sistant principal in charge of athletics. So
Speaker 5: it's just it worked out to be a job that
Speaker 5: was going to work to fit my schedule and being
Speaker 5: allowed me to still be an assistant principal, and I
Speaker 5: just couldn't turn it down. And we have a great
Speaker 5: group of kids who have really embraced me. You know,
Speaker 5: as their head coach is one thing. Being the guy
Speaker 5: at school that has to make sure kids are doing
Speaker 5: the right things and all those that type of thing.
Speaker 5: But you know, coming in as a coach, these guys
Speaker 5: were I don't know if they knew what to expect
Speaker 5: that first, but it's been great. I've been with them
Speaker 5: since January and we've had a lot of great experiences
Speaker 5: together and we're getting tyter as a team all the time,
Speaker 5: and that's one of our goals to keep that culture
Speaker 5: going and having a good program and having a good
Speaker 5: process for success.
Speaker 4: How much did it help to make that this isn't
Speaker 4: being there in Mica the last four years rather than
Speaker 4: coming from like another school or being out of out
Speaker 4: of education and trying to get back in. How much
Speaker 4: it helped to be there, be be with the players,
Speaker 4: be with some of the coaches that made you to,
Speaker 4: you know, make this transition easier for you to decide
Speaker 4: to come back to coaching.
Speaker 5: Well, that's a great, you know, great question. It makes
Speaker 5: it a lot easier the fact that I know the
Speaker 5: lay of the land, and you know, I helped hire
Speaker 5: some of these guys that are here on campus now.
Speaker 5: And one of the things I did when you know,
Speaker 5: Pat decided that he wanted to go ahead and make
Speaker 5: the announcement that he was going to go ahead and
Speaker 5: step down about a week after the state championship game.
Speaker 5: The first thing I did when I had the green
Speaker 5: light from Nimar, after pad Ha told the players and coaches,
Speaker 5: is I called every single coach and, uh, just you know,
Speaker 5: let them know that I had a spot for them
Speaker 5: on the staff if they wanted to stay, and that
Speaker 5: I thought they did a fantastic job previously. I had
Speaker 5: a chance to watch them for you know, four years
Speaker 5: as we've built this program. So that was good, and
Speaker 5: a lot of them did stay, and I appreciate that
Speaker 5: because they didn't have to. I just appreciate the fact
Speaker 5: that they put that trust in me. And I brought
Speaker 5: a few new guys on staffs, and the Molsabino guys
Speaker 5: came over and are helping us out along with a
Speaker 5: great group that Pat had assembled. So I think we
Speaker 5: have a pretty good dynamic team. Obviously, we have Brett Darling,
Speaker 5: who's an amazing defensive coordinator, the Broils Award winner this
Speaker 5: year for top assistant coach in the state of Arizona.
Speaker 5: Richard Sanchez, a long time legendary coach, is our offensive
Speaker 5: line coach, and you know, he's here just about every
Speaker 5: day with us, even in the off season. So we're
Speaker 5: very fortunate. We have a lot of great coaches besides
Speaker 5: those two guys in addition, and it takes you know,
Speaker 5: football is one of those sports you can't just have
Speaker 5: one or two coaches. You gotta have to have quite
Speaker 5: a few out there doing a good job and have
Speaker 5: a lot of depth because you're running three programs at least,
Speaker 5: so our school we have a freshman team, a JV team,
Speaker 5: and a varsity team. We'll have over one hundred and
Speaker 5: thirty one hundred and forty athletes next year in the program.
Speaker 5: So it takes a lot. But we have a lot
Speaker 5: of good people on campus and a lot of support
Speaker 5: from our community and our administration coach.
Speaker 3: I'm not exactly sure how many years you were out
Speaker 3: of coaching to become the administration a part of it,
Speaker 3: but you had to have it'ched a time or two
Speaker 3: to get back in at some point given. And I've
Speaker 3: said this on the show all the time. With the
Speaker 3: people I meet who get out and get it that
Speaker 3: competitors compete or they got to find something to compete with.
Speaker 2: Were you like that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, like I was saying before, that first year was
Speaker 5: nice being out. To be honest with you, I've been
Speaker 5: going fourteen years straight as the head coach, and I
Speaker 5: got a chance that first year out to go watch
Speaker 5: Brooks Reed play twice over in Atlanta. I had a
Speaker 5: chance to go watch Matt Bushman play when he was
Speaker 5: with BYU, and then Marcus Edwards in the Army and
Speaker 5: Navy game. So that was fun to be able to
Speaker 5: do that stuff during the football season. I normally I couldn't,
Speaker 5: but you know, as time went on and our own
Speaker 5: kids got older, it was, you know where I got
Speaker 5: to the point where I wanted to get back in it.
Speaker 5: And I always looked at this way, you know, I
Speaker 5: consider myself a football coach, even though it was not
Speaker 5: for eight years. I still felt like I was a
Speaker 5: football coach at heart, and at the end of the
Speaker 5: DA football coaches want to coach football, So I definitely
Speaker 5: want to get back getting through it, and I was
Speaker 5: very excited about this opportunity and I'm having a lot
Speaker 5: of fun with it. And that's the biggest thing is
Speaker 5: I think you should have fun no matter what you do,
Speaker 5: and if you can do that while you're working, even better.
Speaker 3: I understand you're married. She must really love you saying honey,
Speaker 3: what are you doing? What are you doing?
Speaker 5: You know, it's funny if if you'd ask her that
Speaker 5: when I got out getting back in when the kids
Speaker 5: were you know, seven years old and three years old,
Speaker 5: she would have had a hard time with it. But
Speaker 5: you know, our oldest is now going into high school
Speaker 5: next year, so things have changed in terms of she'll
Speaker 5: not be coming with me and she'll be a swimmer
Speaker 5: on our swim team, So that part of lines up
Speaker 5: better for just, you know, moving kids around and letting
Speaker 5: them be part of activities, but also part of what's
Speaker 5: going on over here on my co mountain.
Speaker 4: You know, fourteen years it's Sabino. I think you went
Speaker 4: to Forest state championship games, right, came up short than those,
Speaker 4: But is that another reason why you want to come
Speaker 4: back because you've tasted it and now you feel like
Speaker 4: you're at a program that can compete for one and
Speaker 4: you can get to that mountaintop.
Speaker 5: So to speak, Well, you know, when you get into this,
Speaker 5: I think any coach out there would say that the
Speaker 5: goal is to win the state championship. And that's definitely
Speaker 5: a goal of ours. I mean, we have, you know,
Speaker 5: talked about the fact that those team and football and
Speaker 5: Tucson is repeated I think since nineteen seventy seventy one,
Speaker 5: and we lost a lot of great players thirty one seniors.
Speaker 5: I believe we graduated our entire offensive line. But you
Speaker 5: know what, people may not realize that we have some
Speaker 5: other good players that are coming up in the program.
Speaker 5: So we feel as though we definitely are going to
Speaker 5: be in the hunt. I tell the kids this all
Speaker 5: the time. Is anybody could say that they want to
Speaker 5: do it, they want to win it, but are they
Speaker 5: putting the work in or have they put the work
Speaker 5: in since the freshman year, really in the weight room
Speaker 5: and all the things that it takes to as a
Speaker 5: junior and senior to have an opportunity to be where
Speaker 5: we're at. I think we have done those things, so yeah,
Speaker 5: that's the goal, but that's not the main driving force
Speaker 5: of me wanting to come back. You know, what I
Speaker 5: missed most about coaching was the camaraderie with the kids
Speaker 5: and seeing them go from you know, youngsters to basically
Speaker 5: grown men by the time they leave the seniors. And
Speaker 5: then what I really value is some of the relationships
Speaker 5: I have with my former players that are now you know,
Speaker 5: husbands and fathers and police officers and former NFL football
Speaker 5: players and teachers and coaches themselves. And that's kind of
Speaker 5: the you know, residual benefit of being in education and
Speaker 5: being able to maintain some most relationships even in adulthood
Speaker 5: for some of your foreigner players.
Speaker 3: I've had Pat In as a co host of Time
Speaker 3: just one time after and had him on the show
Speaker 3: obviously for last season. Is he going to be around
Speaker 3: or is he gonna let you leave you alone?
Speaker 5: You know, Pat, we'd love to have him stay around
Speaker 5: here at Michael Mountain. But Pat made a tremendous sacrifice
Speaker 5: the last several years as our coach. I don't know
Speaker 5: if you know this, but he lives over in Oral Valley.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's gonna go.
Speaker 5: That drive for him every day was pretty extensive. I
Speaker 5: mean you're talking about an hour and a half two
Speaker 5: hours in the vehicle just to get to and from work.
Speaker 5: So we'd love to have Pat around. We've offered Pat,
Speaker 5: you know, jobs to stay around and do some things
Speaker 5: with us. But you know, I think you want to
Speaker 5: just enjoy that retirement phase and spend more time with
Speaker 5: the family and just be able to do the things
Speaker 5: that he wanted wants to do and stay closer to home.
Speaker 5: I think he still wants to work, but not the
Speaker 5: same capacity as you have work of the had football coach.
Speaker 2: That makes sense, Okay, makes sense. What's going on?
Speaker 4: I guess yeah, that seven on seven is coming up.
Speaker 4: What tomorrow is a Victory Sports Foundation you guys in that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we play tomorrow as our first actual competition. So
Speaker 5: we'll play three games tomorrow, one against Mountain View, one
Speaker 5: against twuson High once again, one against Costa Grande. So
Speaker 5: we'll be out there at keynote tomorrow and Thursday or
Speaker 5: big Man will also be out there competing as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Seven on seven has gone on for a long time.
Speaker 4: I think last a couple of decades. Right, It's been
Speaker 4: there for a while, but it seems like the popularity
Speaker 4: of it has grown because of the flag football and
Speaker 4: so forth. I mean, what are your thoughts about it?
Speaker 4: Are are you a proponent of the seven on seven
Speaker 4: or what are you? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 3: If I can ask, and what do you get out
Speaker 3: of it? I hope to get out of it?
Speaker 5: Well, it's two different things that an answer your question.
Speaker 5: Seven on seven now is a sport of its own, right,
Speaker 5: it's going to become an Olympic sport. Now there's girls
Speaker 5: like football that's being played at the high school level
Speaker 5: in the state of Arizona. So yeah, it's growing a
Speaker 5: lot in popularity. I can tell you when I got
Speaker 5: out of coaching, a lot of the kids in the
Speaker 5: off season didn't do seven on seven. They were playing
Speaker 5: other sports or they were just way training. Now a
Speaker 5: lot of kids going seven on seven teams and compete
Speaker 5: outside of the normal high school season and kind of
Speaker 5: stay with that throughout the whole off season. So it's grown.
Speaker 5: It's become big on a life with it zone. I
Speaker 5: think if kids enjoy it and they're getting something out
Speaker 5: of it, then I think it can be a good thing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it he relates to high school football and real tackle football.
Speaker 5: I think there's there's some value and going to seven
Speaker 5: on seven that's why we're doing it for a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks here. But it's not real football in terms
Speaker 5: of high school tackle, right. So there's some good habits,
Speaker 5: like you get a lot of reps of your quarterbacks
Speaker 5: and receivers. Your dB gets some high dbs get high
Speaker 5: level reps. I don't think it's always good for quarterbacks
Speaker 5: over the long haul because in real football you don't
Speaker 5: get four seconds to sit back there with nobody in
Speaker 5: your face and throw the ball down the field. I
Speaker 5: think for linebackers they get a bad habit of wanting
Speaker 5: to drop first instead of hitting the run fits first.
Speaker 5: So there's some things you got to work out. That's
Speaker 5: why we don't go too long with sevens. You know,
Speaker 5: we'll spend spring football plus these first couple of weeks
Speaker 5: of summer competing having some fun. It is fun and
Speaker 5: it's good camaraderie, and we'll go to San Diego State
Speaker 5: next year with the team, take our alignment with us
Speaker 5: and just develop our culture. Right. So that's what this
Speaker 5: was part of it is the kids having fun, developing
Speaker 5: some culture and try to keep everybody healthy and get
Speaker 5: what you can out of it and then move on
Speaker 5: to real football. So come in the middle of June,
Speaker 5: we're going to be We're still in the weight room now,
Speaker 5: but we'll be in the weight room full time and
Speaker 5: we'll be working on you know, just conditioning and some
Speaker 5: actual running, our actual football formations that we're run during
Speaker 5: the season.
Speaker 4: Are you still going to keep your administrator role at
Speaker 4: Malcolm Mountain while you're doing coaching.
Speaker 5: I will, Yes, I'll still be the assistant principal. You know,
Speaker 5: we had a great team over here, and I did
Speaker 5: this one year at Sabino as well, where I was
Speaker 5: the head football coach and also the assistant principal. And
Speaker 5: so it's, you know something you really got to juggle
Speaker 5: that schedule because there's a lot going on as an
Speaker 5: administrator and so you know a lot at Sabino where
Speaker 5: we had a really good team. We have one here
Speaker 5: with Nimer and Brittany Mattsashino who's our other sust of principals.
Speaker 5: She's in charge of curriculum and instruction. You know, they
Speaker 5: just we work really well together and we balance each
Speaker 5: other out and we're able to when they need to
Speaker 5: pick up the slack for me. They can do that
Speaker 5: and I need to stay for them one when I
Speaker 5: need to.
Speaker 2: Okay, no sounds good coach anything else?
Speaker 4: Huh Yeah, I mean what the team loses a lot
Speaker 4: of players, there were a lot of seniors. I think
Speaker 4: we're more than twenty five or twenty six, right, you know,
Speaker 4: the new coach, head coach, but you got a lot
Speaker 4: of coach, you know, assistant coaches coming in. What are
Speaker 4: your what are your thoughts about how the talent coming,
Speaker 4: you know, returning or some new talent that will be
Speaker 4: able to get you some wins this year coming up?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So the biggest thing is we graduated our entire
Speaker 5: offensive line, and that's you know, an area where it's
Speaker 5: the most important part of the game in my opinion,
Speaker 5: is what you can do upfront on both sides of
Speaker 5: the ball. So, you know, we've got a lot of
Speaker 5: work to do there. But we have some great kids.
Speaker 5: I mean, just because some of these guys didn't start
Speaker 5: last year wasn't because they weren't good. It's because we
Speaker 5: had three year stars in front of them. So we
Speaker 5: got to solidify that and get those guys the experience
Speaker 5: that they need and the reps and whatnot. But I listen,
Speaker 5: Number one, nobody's gonna so sorry for us losing, but
Speaker 5: I think we lost thirty one seniors actually. And number two,
Speaker 5: we have a lot of good kids in the program
Speaker 5: that have been working since their freshman year and they
Speaker 5: understand what it takes him. We got a couple of
Speaker 5: new kids that have come in that will help us out.
Speaker 5: Matter of fact, we have a baseball player on our
Speaker 5: campus that played football with a freshman at CDO and
Speaker 5: he's going to come and play with a your elite
Speaker 5: level athlete. He's a really good baseball player, throws low nineties.
Speaker 5: So we had a couple of other kids that played
Speaker 5: basketball and now they're playing some football. We had a
Speaker 5: couple of transfers in, so you always get some is
Speaker 5: that kind of sprinkle in And our program was already
Speaker 5: strong before that, so I just helped. That's a little
Speaker 5: bit of depth. So I've got we've all got high
Speaker 5: expectations for our program. We're not gonna run from that.
Speaker 5: We're gonna embrace that, and we're just looking forward to
Speaker 5: get rolling and you know, have a successful season.
Speaker 3: You know, one of the things I was gonna ask
Speaker 3: you because of the replacements. Uh, it's tough to get there, right,
Speaker 3: to get to the top, but it's even harder to
Speaker 3: stay there. But I think the experience that you've gotten
Speaker 3: or you know you're going to see is that they
Speaker 3: know how to win, you know how to win in
Speaker 3: their winners.
Speaker 5: So that will probably help. It will help you know
Speaker 5: you're right. These kids are winners.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: You look at Roley, Carson, Broden Schmidt, h two guys
Speaker 5: that were juniors last year seniors this year. Is those
Speaker 5: guys are proven winners, and there's a lot of other
Speaker 5: guys around them that are as well. And those are
Speaker 5: guys you never heard of before that are going to
Speaker 5: have years that you'll know about them, you know, a
Speaker 5: couple weeks into the season to go hear their names
Speaker 5: quite a bit. So all that being said, you know
Speaker 5: it's time for the new group to to step up.
Speaker 5: Coach Nugenet laid an amazing foundation for this program. Coach
Speaker 5: Darling who's been here since the very beginning as well.
Speaker 5: And so this is not just like one person that
Speaker 5: you know is the result of all the success is
Speaker 5: a combination of all the parts coming together and working together,
Speaker 5: you'd be able to get this going. So we're gonna
Speaker 5: miss Coach Newson. He's a fantastic coach and he's still
Speaker 5: a thunderbolt no matter what, He'll always be a thunderbolt.
Speaker 5: And we're gonna keep on trying to keep the tradition
Speaker 5: going that that he started.
Speaker 2: Coach, Thanks a bunch of it coming on.
Speaker 3: Good luck coming up, and then obviously in the fill
Speaker 3: we'll probably talk to you then too.
Speaker 2: I see you at Keno South.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely appreciate you guys for all the work you
Speaker 5: do with Southern Arizona Sports and getting out there and
Speaker 5: giving his kids a.
Speaker 3: Recognition that they deserves. Thanks you bet, you bet take
Speaker 3: He's good. He was good, obviously a good administrator, good coach. Successful,
Speaker 3: it's being all right. I mean, look at the Brooks
Speaker 3: reed Bushman. He was talking about a couple other guys
Speaker 3: that went on a d one.
Speaker 5: So he's the eye.
Speaker 2: He's a very good coach. Cool. Okay, let's take a
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and with me
Speaker 3: today is of your morales from all sports Shoes on
Speaker 3: dot com dot on I'm running the board. A good
Speaker 3: to talk to Jay, hadn't talked to him in a while.
Speaker 3: Got some big shoes to Phil. You talked about Nugent
Speaker 3: last time. You know, he just was we gotta call okay,
Speaker 3: just you know how you know he wins the title,
Speaker 3: thinks about it, decides get out.
Speaker 2: Who doesn't want to go out on top?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: And he's he's kind of wanted to step away from
Speaker 4: coaching for a little bit, and it is a long
Speaker 4: drive from Oral Valley to to Mike Mountain. I think
Speaker 4: that kind of wore on him a little bit, and
Speaker 4: he is going out on top, So I would I
Speaker 4: would anticipate him though, coming back to coaching like two.
Speaker 2: To three years.
Speaker 4: You would yeah, yeah, just kind of reset. I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be surprised at all if he does that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we said I was going to talk about something
Speaker 2: that we had talked about off the air. Softball.
Speaker 3: Softball, Yeah, softball. Someone posted in front of my next
Speaker 3: to posting on softball just about the situation. And you
Speaker 3: guys can tell me the situation because I don't know
Speaker 3: as well as you guys do. People leaving blah blah
Speaker 3: blah portal you know who love today? Yes, Kaya Altmeyer
Speaker 3: has left airs on a base or softball. She'll be
Speaker 3: in the transfer portal, more than likely leaving with everyone else.
Speaker 5: One of.
Speaker 4: Ten now against ten ten total seven pictures well three
Speaker 4: the left ten in the.
Speaker 2: Portal, four that are out of eligibility. Overall, seven pitchers
Speaker 2: are gone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right now.
Speaker 3: So she brought up a point. I don't think their
Speaker 3: contractors or chips have been renewed right at least not
Speaker 3: publicly told us right now yet. So one of the
Speaker 3: things that the guy had written was that there's a
Speaker 3: story there, right, there's what's going on?
Speaker 2: Is it nil? Is it players? Yea yea.
Speaker 3: And and I don't think that people know people know
Speaker 3: the media, especially in this town. You know that you've
Speaker 3: been You've been this guy. I've been this guy for
Speaker 3: a long time. Wan is learning about what's going on,
Speaker 3: but it's like, you're not going to be pressed on
Speaker 3: this stuff.
Speaker 2: You're not.
Speaker 3: You might want to ask the first question or the
Speaker 3: second question to the coach what's going on? You might
Speaker 3: get an answer blah blah blah. But there's no opportunities
Speaker 3: to talk to him because they're not talking right, there's
Speaker 3: nothing being set up. I shouldn't say they're not talking
Speaker 3: not purposely or no press conference, no press conference right
Speaker 3: to see what's going on, so you can say what's
Speaker 3: going on? Okay, Well, n I l maybe player boom,
Speaker 3: not happy, players not happy, playing time, YadA YadA. If
Speaker 3: Hobby leaves and three or four people leave there thinking
Speaker 3: well do I want to stay? How good are we
Speaker 3: going to be? I should go find my own place too.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of factors. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: there's an answer for all of them, but yeah, but
Speaker 3: there's a lot of answers, are a lot of a
Speaker 3: lot of questions, a lot of answers.
Speaker 4: I don't think here's on those lots of players, like
Speaker 4: the coda Kennedy and Kyle Altmeyer in any sport fans
Speaker 4: forer wise at that level, coda, Kennedy's to two time
Speaker 4: All American just a model student, model of person, comes
Speaker 4: from a great family. Those are those are the type
Speaker 4: of players you want in your program for four or
Speaker 4: five years and you can build legacies from them. And
Speaker 4: she's leaving after two years, right, So that's a huge, huge, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, disappointment for Arizona. You know, I like Caitlyn Lowe.
Speaker 4: I I've watched her when she played, and I really
Speaker 4: like the way she's kind of you know, tenacity and intensity.
Speaker 4: Mike Andrea kind of gave her the keys of the
Speaker 4: car and he saw a lot in her. But times
Speaker 4: are different now. Arizona is not what Arizona was when
Speaker 4: Candre was in his even even you know, in his prime,
Speaker 4: even candrea as later years were kind of difficult because
Speaker 4: of other programs catching up.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: So I think Desiree read from Francois she's with these
Speaker 4: coaches that are already in When she became a d
Speaker 4: it was by a conversation of like, you know, I
Speaker 4: support you, I want to see how you you how
Speaker 4: things fare. We'll we'll we'll evaluate and we'll go from
Speaker 4: there at that at a at the right time after
Speaker 4: the season. I think that's where we're at with with
Speaker 4: with Kaylin Lowe and and Chip Hale, what happened with
Speaker 4: the Dia Barnes. I think Ada might have saw the
Speaker 4: writing on the wall and and probably to her, you know,
Speaker 4: to her benefit or to to her, you know, her,
Speaker 4: A good thing for her to do is to find
Speaker 4: other positions.
Speaker 2: Was her payment to go to samew Public. I haven't
Speaker 2: seen it.
Speaker 4: It's a private institution, so come out, but it's probably
Speaker 4: more than what she was getting Arizona, and she was
Speaker 4: getting a lot at her as long she was getting
Speaker 4: one point five right.
Speaker 3: On point something point something yeah, yeah, yeah, So I
Speaker 3: mean that's a factor plus plus.
Speaker 2: You know, you depends who you read and who you trust,
Speaker 2: right who's saying what?
Speaker 3: Uh It was a marriage uh that was very good
Speaker 3: for a while, a marriage of convenience for some of
Speaker 3: that time, and then sometimes that you just got to say, okay,
Speaker 3: let's let's we got to move.
Speaker 4: On from both sides. And I think it worked out
Speaker 4: very well. You know, I think uh Ida will get
Speaker 4: what she wants r at SMU. We'll see if that
Speaker 4: parlays in the wins and and you know, deep runs
Speaker 4: than the tournament and in Arizona gets uh, you know,
Speaker 4: Bert that it's doing a great job with you know,
Speaker 4: kind of the way she brought this to her staff
Speaker 4: together and some of the players that she got in
Speaker 4: the transfer portals. So she's she's showing that that you know,
Speaker 4: that work ethic that's gonna make her a success here.
Speaker 2: So we were together at All Sports two soun dot com.
Speaker 2: You do how much better job than I do? Do
Speaker 2: more stuff?
Speaker 4: You do this?
Speaker 3: So so I was gonna say, you know the fan
Speaker 3: base of the of the women's basketball team. Do you
Speaker 3: know the fan base of the softball program?
Speaker 4: To a degree, I do because I know I've been
Speaker 4: to some of the games and I look at what's
Speaker 4: going on with the Facebook.
Speaker 2: So I see this all the time.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna bitch, you need to be part of
Speaker 3: the solution unless it's super second that the nil is
Speaker 3: not sufficient, not sufficient.
Speaker 2: And I know this is going to be the case. Well,
Speaker 2: how do you help?
Speaker 3: Well, I buy season tickets? Okay, good, but guess what
Speaker 3: that ain't enough? And I use it ain't because when
Speaker 3: I'm busied I say, ain't it ain't enough anymore? Right?
Speaker 3: So I saw somebody posting them, maybe we need to
Speaker 3: pay each each of us who were bitching about stuff,
Speaker 3: pay fifty bucks, like put it in the jar if
Speaker 3: you're if you have some some disdain for it, be
Speaker 3: part of the help and put some money into the
Speaker 3: coin jar and help them get better players if that's
Speaker 3: an issue, or continue to go to games, cheer them
Speaker 3: on and see them go twenty two and twenty two whatever.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Am I speaking out of
Speaker 3: my butt?
Speaker 2: Damn it? This is the radio show Don't Know, Don't.
Speaker 5: Like You Are?
Speaker 2: Tuesday's kind of weird. No, like you said, it's it's
Speaker 2: a new era.
Speaker 5: Lot.
Speaker 3: We've talked about coaches having to change, and some of
Speaker 3: them want. The ones that don't want to change have left,
Speaker 3: right and see their right? Yeah, go ahead, lead not right,
Speaker 3: not wrong? Whatever it is right now, it's it's affecting
Speaker 3: the fans because buying season tickets is not enough. No,
Speaker 3: it's not enough if you're an Arizona fan and you
Speaker 3: want to compete with the Ohio States, the Alabama's, the
Speaker 3: Organs of the UCLA's and in this case probably parably
Speaker 3: looking at the program like Oklahoma, who has caught up
Speaker 3: with Mike and dri I thing for the most well,
Speaker 3: the Arizona was Oklahoma, Arizona was Arizona. Oklahoma caught them
Speaker 3: or or is now the new Arizona. Yeah, you know
Speaker 3: when they were talking about this five times winning the title,
Speaker 3: Arizona did that Tuesday. I mean it was common and
Speaker 3: he got mailed there Oklahoma see the all the time
Speaker 3: because he was always there. It's just the way it
Speaker 3: is now. Now it just doesn't happen because you're a
Speaker 3: fan and you can say this and that. You gotta
Speaker 3: be part of it. You gotta be part of it.
Speaker 3: You got to be inside it. Yeah, and you have
Speaker 3: to establish yourself. I mean canre established himself as Kaylin
Speaker 3: Low established herself. Yet she's an All American, one of
Speaker 3: the best players ever to play at Arizona. But as
Speaker 3: a coach, she hasn't got to that point where people
Speaker 3: are going to be fully invested in her as a coach.
Speaker 3: She might even you know, agree to that that she's
Speaker 3: not at that stage yet. And now with this happening
Speaker 3: with ten transfers and a couple of them all timers
Speaker 3: leaving that's that's really a setback to her. So you've
Speaker 3: been to press coverages. How many you think in your
Speaker 3: total thirty to fifty. So this for a second, we
Speaker 3: have a press coverage. Do you think we're going to
Speaker 3: get the story?
Speaker 4: No, it'll be like a Phoenix reporter asking Sean Miller
Speaker 4: or something, you know that kind of response.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're not going to open up. You
Speaker 3: know what you would back when you and I did this,
Speaker 3: and not that we got the story. We got more
Speaker 3: of the story because we had our own private time
Speaker 3: with people, right you know. Yeah, I walk with Loot
Speaker 3: from the end of the game to the car. I
Speaker 3: know you were terrified of that because you weren't there.
Speaker 2: Home I was.
Speaker 4: I wasn't used to Loot like you were. I actually
Speaker 4: got along more with the assistant coaches, right right. Lou
Speaker 4: was still inviting and he was still sure approachable. But
Speaker 4: I had extra time that you didn't because you were writing, right,
Speaker 4: you know, And that's the whole thing. That's when you
Speaker 4: get your stuff. But when you some people comforted, well
Speaker 4: you know, have this or see this, This is why
Speaker 4: what's really happening. You know, I can tell you certain things,
Speaker 4: but you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna get it with a coach sitting at
Speaker 3: a podium in front of twenty people.
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't happen. You're right.
Speaker 4: Any does any reporter have you know, an quote intimate
Speaker 4: million you know relationship not not you know, with as
Speaker 4: a working relationship with a coach that we've had before.
Speaker 3: Probably and I won't say whom, probably, but I'm sure
Speaker 3: most of the information.
Speaker 2: Is held back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well a lot of that with Rosborough, you know, sure,
Speaker 4: a lot. He probably gave us more off the off
Speaker 4: the records stuff than on the records.
Speaker 3: And we're tempered, and we tempered the information that we
Speaker 3: did or didn't get right because we at least got
Speaker 3: the sense of what was going on right.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if that happens today. You're right,
Speaker 2: that's something on earth I didn't think about. But that
Speaker 2: does not happen now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think coaches can really have even if
Speaker 3: they wanted to. It's just such a social media world
Speaker 3: where everything gets misconstrued or everything gets posted. So yeah,
Speaker 3: you really do have to be careful about what you
Speaker 3: say to certain people and how you present yourself.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 3: I saw something today on the Florida Baseball coach. Yeah Sullivan, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he has his whole episode and he's he has
Speaker 3: his own opinions on what happened, and no one's gonna know. Well,
Speaker 3: and he apologized. You see here he apologized today. I
Speaker 3: guess to wait for us coach had to apologize to
Speaker 3: for whatever he said. But there's always you know, this
Speaker 3: is one thing because an ad not too much good
Speaker 3: said to me, Steve. And you know, I'm sixty years old.
Speaker 3: I've been through a lot of stuff and I know this.
Speaker 3: There's always more to the story. There's always more to
Speaker 3: the story. Always, and for supt Well, which I don't
Speaker 3: follow religiously or like you guys do, there's always more
Speaker 3: to the story. There's a reason why ten people have left.
Speaker 3: This is the sad part to me. They had a
Speaker 3: fan In my mind, I don't know if it's fantastic.
Speaker 3: They had a very good season whatever the what they
Speaker 3: finished they did, they only had they only had what
Speaker 3: what eleven or twelve locks? So how do you have
Speaker 3: a fantastic season? I'll use that word loosely, but still.
Speaker 2: And then you have this.
Speaker 4: Money from other programs, the chance to win a championship
Speaker 4: out of the programs some of the things we said
Speaker 4: earlier player coach relationship, especially on the We've heard a
Speaker 4: lot about the pitching, how some of the pitchers didn't
Speaker 4: get their endings like they had in the past.
Speaker 2: So I think there's a lot of that in between.
Speaker 4: I think somebody like the Coda Kennedy is probably getting
Speaker 4: feelers from like well established ANBC programs who are who
Speaker 4: have a better chance, not a much better chance, but
Speaker 4: a better chance in Arizona winning the championship next year
Speaker 4: or the year after.
Speaker 2: So I think a lot of that's coming in play. Yeah,
Speaker 2: more power Tour.
Speaker 3: I mean you deservingly so forty eight and thirteen on
Speaker 3: the season, you beat Alabama, you run Royle Alabama in five.
Speaker 3: Early in the season, I mean, you beat Stanford twice.
Speaker 3: Do you think historically you may have had trouble within
Speaker 3: the part twelve? If I forty eight and thirteen, you
Speaker 3: don't what, I'm gonna apologize to nobody.
Speaker 2: Nobody.
Speaker 3: You beat number one time who's in the College World Series.
Speaker 3: You don't beat them. You take them to eight and
Speaker 3: you lose eight to four, and that gets out of
Speaker 3: hand late in the eighth. But you you go tote
Speaker 3: to tote with them. You're right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just mentioned the player coach relationship with the
Speaker 4: pitching coach Christian Conrad.
Speaker 2: Looking with Devin NEETs.
Speaker 4: You can turn the you can one idiot and say,
Speaker 4: look what happened to Devon Nets with him as pitching
Speaker 4: coach and how much she evolved and her hitting too.
Speaker 3: Well, you bought something that was interesting because the pitching
Speaker 3: and they didn't get their innings are how many did
Speaker 3: they have?
Speaker 2: Five?
Speaker 5: Ten?
Speaker 2: How many pictures did they have last year? This season
Speaker 2: they usually have about eight to ten.
Speaker 3: Okay, so then you're expecting innings when you need to
Speaker 3: win some games.
Speaker 4: You're you have a couple of really good pitchers like
Speaker 4: and that's let.
Speaker 2: Me say this.
Speaker 3: If I'm the coach, and if I'm the coach and
Speaker 3: my contract is gonna come up this year, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I need to do. I need to win.
Speaker 2: I need to win. Guess who's the coach?
Speaker 3: Me?
Speaker 2: Who's calling the shots?
Speaker 5: Me?
Speaker 2: I need to win?
Speaker 3: So the third, fourth, fifth string pitcher, Sorry, but we
Speaker 3: gotta win. You know, well, maybe we'll be up by
Speaker 3: seven eight runs, you can go in. But guess what
Speaker 3: I gotta win?
Speaker 2: I liked my job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like kJ Lewis and basketball, he didn't start and
Speaker 4: he transferred. But Tommy Lloyd had to do what's best
Speaker 4: for the team.
Speaker 2: Well, look at lot.
Speaker 3: Lot wouldn't have The guys didn't want to play it whatever,
Speaker 3: guess what they did. They left right, you know what.
Speaker 3: They regretted it because they would have state been better
Speaker 3: here eventually if they waited their turn.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: And I think Kayln Lowe has that personality of it's
Speaker 2: my way or you know, the highway. I think she has.
Speaker 3: Today's athlete probably doesn't want that. Let's go, we gotta go.