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Speaker 2: mister Quinn. I am Mike Quinn. Good to see you.
Speaker 3: Mike.
Speaker 2: It's good to be back. And I got fired last week.
Speaker 2: You did well. We had important stuff to talk about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's think it was an important show and so
Speaker 3: I didn't get invited. You did not make the important
Speaker 3: list exactly. But my guys Want and Ray are back
Speaker 3: for that. Were ever hear for the important day. But
Speaker 3: the hell was important. Oh it was a passion of
Speaker 3: Cedric Dempsey. Yeah, that's a big deal that continues to
Speaker 3: be Yes.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming they're going to have something here sometime this
Speaker 2: summer to pay tributes to him and what he did.
Speaker 3: You were student when he was here, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah powerful. So it wasn't enough to get me invited
Speaker 3: to the show, but it was.
Speaker 2: I gotta come with more game than that. Smart like that.
Speaker 2: A lot of stuff went on. So I haven't been
Speaker 2: on since Wednesday, had an assignment in Scott's Stale for
Speaker 2: four days. Uh So a lot of things have gone
Speaker 2: on when we were here last guys, because it broke
Speaker 2: the Burke that she was going to be the at
Speaker 2: the end end of the show, I think. And there's
Speaker 2: been a press conference since introductions, her family all that.
Speaker 2: You went to the press conference. I saw the press conference. One,
Speaker 2: what were your impressions of her? She looks ready, She's
Speaker 2: very excited about the opportunity. This is her biggest level
Speaker 2: that she's been at. And one I would say with
Speaker 2: high expectations given recent history. You know, four years or
Speaker 2: four or five years ago, Arizona was in the national
Speaker 2: championship game and that that and that's what she talked
Speaker 2: about her and Desiree refrancois one of the first questions
Speaker 2: she asked and the main questions she asked. Where do
Speaker 2: you see this program in two three years? Desiree said,
Speaker 2: playing for now championships or defending national championships at that point.
Speaker 2: So expectations are high for Burke. Sure. Let me ask you,
Speaker 2: mister Mike, so you you in your business of time
Speaker 2: or two I know you're teaching out you or an instructor. Uh,
Speaker 2: did you hire and fire people?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean a different So do you give them that?
Speaker 2: What do you hope to be in five years?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Because why it's just what's the purpose? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean it's like, well one, it's many times it's
Speaker 3: a trick question because it's like when you don't know
Speaker 3: where the organ how the organization set up for this,
Speaker 3: It's like, where do you expect to be in five years?
Speaker 2: What are they going to answer? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What's the you know, it's like, wow, I expect to
Speaker 3: be fired and working for somebody else, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: hoping for a better Actually ask me the questions. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what are you where are you going to be in
Speaker 3: five years? I hope to have your job? Yeah, hope
Speaker 3: to have your jobs.
Speaker 2: What do you mean? He says, Well, by that time
Speaker 2: you'll be sitting by the beach and having sodas. You're
Speaker 2: gonna read on tiring and do that. Yeh yeah, you
Speaker 2: have your job. Well, what's the wrong there's no wronger?
Speaker 2: Right answer?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Of course you're going to say I want to win
Speaker 2: a title in two three years? Is that realistic? Realistic?
Speaker 2: Look up the word if you don't know what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't believe. So. I think if they're if they're
Speaker 2: competitive and there, I think they're going to be committed.
Speaker 3: I like, I do turn what she's saying, and I
Speaker 3: think it's a Arizona is a good destination.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmmm hmmm. I think it's going to be a
Speaker 2: good higher. She was impressive to me. Did you see
Speaker 2: the press company? No, she was impressive to me physically
Speaker 2: and what she said. Her backstory is fantastic, right. Uh,
Speaker 2: she didn't want to be given given anything. She's worked
Speaker 2: hard for it. Obviously she's been all over the place.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk about her more. But is that what
Speaker 2: you came away with? Did you? Were you there after
Speaker 2: the press conference where they kind of lingered and talked
Speaker 2: more to her very little. I didn't get the chance,
Speaker 2: because that's when you get this true, that's when you
Speaker 2: get the other good stuff, the real Yea Becky Burke, right.
Speaker 6: I haven't got that chance yet. I hope to have
Speaker 6: her on the show here at some point. But impressive.
Speaker 6: Did say she seems authentic. How old is she?
Speaker 2: I have no idea forty thirty five? Also, she was
Speaker 2: younger than I thought, forty years oloter just I say older,
Speaker 2: because she's been all over the place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, I really think this is
Speaker 3: a good hire. I mean it's a young coach with
Speaker 3: a lot of experience, a lot of energy.
Speaker 2: Idea was a good recruiter. She was a no question,
Speaker 2: pretty bad retainer. No, no, no, to be fair, exactly,
Speaker 2: to be fair, that's exactly true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she was a great recruiter, poor retainer. I
Speaker 3: think that this we can recruit to the universe Arizona.
Speaker 2: So to both of you, especially to you one, because
Speaker 2: I know you're kind of out there in the internet world.
Speaker 2: So people who listen and watch watch the games for
Speaker 2: the women's team and the men's game. So she so
Speaker 2: ideas leaving or whatever is who are going to get? Right,
Speaker 2: Who are going to get? Who we're going to get?
Speaker 2: There's always someone else you're gonna get. Look at when
Speaker 2: Sean left, Sean left or got fired. Now what we're
Speaker 2: gonna get? Oh the world is gonna fall? Yeah, and
Speaker 2: everything turned out fine. Sure, So typically everything turns out fine, right,
Speaker 2: Arizona's a good destination. They had very good candidates apply
Speaker 2: for this job, so it wasn't like that they were
Speaker 2: short on people like wanting to wanting to work here. Yuh,
Speaker 2: so you're gonna get quality. Yeah, you noticed her salary.
Speaker 2: I did six sixty five around there, sixt sixty five,
Speaker 2: about seven hundred thousand less than then idea, which of
Speaker 2: course means the program of saving money, and that's about
Speaker 2: the right wheelhouse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I mean, that's a legitimate I mean, now
Speaker 3: come here, do something, you know, get a get a
Speaker 3: national championship in two or three years. Yeah, okay, then
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about renegotiating sure contract.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 2: Well, look at look at how Adia made hers timing
Speaker 2: and circumstances. Yeah. I don't know what she was making
Speaker 2: before she made one point one or one point two,
Speaker 2: but it was a time of crisis. I think COVID time, right,
Speaker 2: COVID times, with the chance that she might go to
Speaker 2: Baylor make a lot of money, and the darling of
Speaker 2: the program right at the time, and you don't want
Speaker 2: to lose her. So what do you have to do?
Speaker 2: You pay her? Yeah, in a desperate move to keep her,
Speaker 2: you pay her timing and circumstances right, right, Although the
Speaker 2: level of payment didn't equal the success afterward, right, I mean, well,
Speaker 2: you certainly pay for path performance, which doesn't guarantee future performance. Well,
Speaker 2: look at you. I like that. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 6: You've been studying something, but he's trying to prove his
Speaker 6: point for important days.
Speaker 3: Exactly some day I'll invite it to the big show.
Speaker 3: But you're exactly right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well that's it.
Speaker 3: I mean you we thought that we caught lightning in
Speaker 3: a bottle when they went to the one to the
Speaker 3: final four, and it turns out that we had a
Speaker 3: good player. And then it turns out that we started
Speaker 3: letting good players go. Yeah, and you know, circumstances happened.
Speaker 3: She certainly didn't live up to the expectations that we had,
Speaker 3: which were very high.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and here's here's the other issue. And I think
Speaker 2: a lot of ad I think she's a good, good coach,
Speaker 2: like a good recruiter, not a good retainer. I know
Speaker 2: we're not up on a personal level, but you know,
Speaker 2: we've talked before. I did a story for Bistus on
Speaker 2: our magazine story. But the way she went out the
Speaker 2: door was kind of troubling. You talked about the interview
Speaker 2: with Dallas right on the radio or whatever it was
Speaker 2: on the side and kind of criticizing some some coaches,
Speaker 2: you know, the mid mid level coaches. Well she kind
Speaker 2: of started that way, but not really, not even at
Speaker 2: that level. She was not a coach at all, or
Speaker 2: she was, she was a assistant coach. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 2: I hate to beat the state horse because we'll talk
Speaker 2: a little bit more about it with lev because he
Speaker 2: knew more because he spoke to her, spoke to the principles.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they went off the record on a number
Speaker 2: of things. Uh, so we there's always more to the story.
Speaker 3: Well, she can't fortunate in getting this head coaching job,
Speaker 3: I mean with with Arizona, you know, and she did
Speaker 3: because she was a great player and she was yeah here,
Speaker 3: and so it's like, okay, she was a good assistant. Okay, hey,
Speaker 3: we're gonna take this chance on her being a good
Speaker 3: head coach. Did she skip over her mid major time?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah.
Speaker 3: Did she consider herself fortunate for that? No, she thought
Speaker 3: she was just blessed, which is different. Okay, true, probably
Speaker 3: that's a good one. You're probably right.
Speaker 2: And then timing circumstances gave her the chance to have
Speaker 2: this great ride convince the people that go, which was amazing. Hey,
Speaker 2: if I'm what's her legacy?
Speaker 3: Do you know what her legacy would be the fact
Speaker 3: that she went took her team to the phone floor,
Speaker 3: But then I think she couldn't keep anybody good players here.
Speaker 6: She should be considered probably and possibly the best women's
Speaker 6: basketball coach in Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I think her and her former coach will
Speaker 2: go one one A, one B.
Speaker 6: This is kind of similar to the way Jed Fish
Speaker 6: went out. Realistically, Jetfish has one of the greatest seasons
Speaker 6: and Arizona football history correct that that maybe that season
Speaker 6: is not going to be remembered as much because of
Speaker 6: the way the Fish left in the way it turned
Speaker 6: out last season.
Speaker 2: What was his legacy, I don't know, turning turning the
Speaker 2: program around. I think three years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe even two and a half if you if
Speaker 6: you want to count that first one with COVID and
Speaker 6: different era two to half.
Speaker 2: And then half of the half. I mean, he got
Speaker 2: tim in circumstances given that the quarterback, uh Delora kind
Speaker 2: of face flamed out with the injury, and then yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's the thing.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, if he doesn't get injured, does
Speaker 3: he you know, do we have that great season or
Speaker 3: do we stick with Delora.
Speaker 2: So okay, we'll talk more about all that stuff later,
Speaker 2: especially the the the Idea Barnes thing. Basketball continues to do. Okay, right,
Speaker 2: they get or the recruits from last week. We saw
Speaker 2: that Monday or Tuesday or whatever it was, and then
Speaker 2: and then people are coming back. Uh, there must be
Speaker 2: finding some money to pay these guys with who I'm
Speaker 2: gonna take some of your stuff, but you can go
Speaker 2: back with it later. But the orso coming back with
Speaker 2: Bradley coming back walk out last week. I plus I
Speaker 2: said that he was coming back. So the some of
Speaker 2: the main pieces are coming back. Yeah, they just need
Speaker 2: they just need h Carter Bryant to come back. Yeah
Speaker 2: that that that would definitely be good. Uh good for us.
Speaker 3: I mean we got these we got these great recruits
Speaker 3: that are coming in, you know, top recruits, you know,
Speaker 3: one of the top recruiting classes.
Speaker 2: You know, it's really funny.
Speaker 3: These guys are like, oh, you know, coach Lloyd is
Speaker 3: so wonderful Coach Lloyd, and you're not coming here for
Speaker 3: Coach Lloyd. You're coming here for Ben Franklin. Okay, Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: so don't you know, don't tell me how greatly your.
Speaker 2: Coaches for scring Yes, I did exactly.
Speaker 3: We know why you're coming here. Yeah, they well I
Speaker 3: think they yd. I mean, Lloyd Is is a good
Speaker 3: recruiter and you know it is a pretty good coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, nobody just prove that this year.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna get paid, why not enjoy your life
Speaker 2: at the place you're gonna get paid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know absolutely, I mean they're you know,
Speaker 3: you're not going to play for some you know, bug
Speaker 3: tussle tack, right, even if they can come up with
Speaker 3: the cash. You know, uh, some of these guys you know,
Speaker 3: are actually interested in winning.
Speaker 2: Right. Well, we'll go to that. The Tennessee quarterback. We
Speaker 2: talked a little about it off there there. Well, we'll
Speaker 2: talk about that for the for your breaking news, because
Speaker 2: we both have opinions on that, sure and probably the
Speaker 2: likelihood of that continue to happen. Being held hostage. Okay,
Speaker 2: for our first hour, we're gonna have a gymnastics coach,
Speaker 2: John Court. They had a pretty good not a pretty good,
Speaker 2: very good yeah season this year in the postseason, so
Speaker 2: we'll talk to him about it. He's been headed this
Speaker 2: direction for a while now. Every year getting better and better.
Speaker 2: So he'll be at three seventeen to honor that team.
Speaker 2: And then at four to seventeen we're going to have
Speaker 2: mister Michael lev who's been in the middle of all this,
Speaker 2: the women's basketball, the men's basketball stuff, the baseball team
Speaker 2: that's riding right now. So two things.
Speaker 6: One, just to go back to Burke's introductory press conference.
Speaker 2: One thing I did like if.
Speaker 6: I was an Arizona fan and I am on the side,
Speaker 6: is her mindset of twenty four to seven, three sixty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Or she talked about how players if the jersey practice
Speaker 6: jersey and tuck, She'll tell him there's no days off.
Speaker 6: She's not going to slack off one day, but then
Speaker 6: be hard on it the next day. It's it's twenty
Speaker 6: four to seven, three sixty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And the other thing I want to be up is
Speaker 6: Arizona baseball. I believe Saturday for the game, right, crazy
Speaker 6: crazy stuff happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah? Pretty were you there? I was not. Okay,
Speaker 2: I saw the video I saw do we know what happened?
Speaker 6: Like to go ahead, Brian said that Brian Peterson, one
Speaker 6: of the my boss at Asy doesn't Swarm, said that
Speaker 6: one of them had a dislocated shoulder and the other
Speaker 6: one had back injury.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they felt pretty hard, obviously they did.
Speaker 6: In the video it looks like one of them both
Speaker 6: almost both of them broke their legs, but I guess not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't didn't come down very well. No, no,
Speaker 2: I wondered how long the delay was. It had to
Speaker 2: be some kind of I think it was half an
Speaker 2: hour to forty minutes. Oh really, yeah, yeah, I had
Speaker 2: heard it over the over the internet whatever, and then
Speaker 2: I saw the video and I said, wow, they're surprise.
Speaker 2: That doesn't happen more often.
Speaker 3: Well, I think they rarely jump in that kind of wind,
Speaker 3: you know, And yeah, it was windy, and and then
Speaker 3: and that's what happened. You know, Oh you see it
Speaker 3: in your past life. Oh sure, yeah. I mean they
Speaker 3: you know, they jump into every Army game. I mean
Speaker 3: it's like, you know, Army Navy game. They're jumping in.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of guys that that do that stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 3: uh for a living. And you know they checked the
Speaker 3: wind and if the wind's bad, they don't jump.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My guess is that they were like, you know, we
Speaker 3: can do this, we can make this, and yeah, and
Speaker 3: they didn't. And then and then what they did is
Speaker 3: they you saw them fall really hard.
Speaker 2: They didn't.
Speaker 3: You're supposed to do it what they called pelf and
Speaker 3: you know you kind of roll on, you know, on
Speaker 3: your side. One guy rolled on his side and that's
Speaker 3: how he just located his shoulder. The other guy didn't
Speaker 3: roll on his side. He fell fell down like straight
Speaker 3: to his legs, and yeah, he hurt his back. You
Speaker 3: could definitely tell, you know, like I said, I saw
Speaker 3: the video. It's like, yeah, it's not a good thing.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break here and come back with Coach
Speaker 2: Court on the other side.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Why the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today
Speaker 2: is Mike Quinn. Now on the phone. We have court
Speaker 2: of the Arizona gymnastics team. John, how are you?
Speaker 5: I'm good? Steven back how are you doing.
Speaker 2: We're doing fine. Hey, what a fantastic season you've had.
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you when you have time to kind of reflect?
Speaker 2: Are you too busy to reflect? Or you a guy
Speaker 2: that kind of maybe can you know, smell the roses?
Speaker 5: I like to celebrate the small victories, but at the
Speaker 5: same time it's probably going to take a couple of
Speaker 5: months to really let it set in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did it meet your expectations?
Speaker 5: I would say it met them in and met them
Speaker 5: in a lot of ways. Yes, we you know, we
Speaker 5: had it. We had a really good game plan from
Speaker 5: the beginning of the year. We knew we had to
Speaker 5: do things a little bit differently. We knew we had
Speaker 5: to pack the athletes later. We had a great buy
Speaker 5: in from all of our student athletes for the things
Speaker 5: that we needed them to do in order to be successful,
Speaker 5: and we were able to execute throughout the entire season
Speaker 5: and really focused on process not outcome. And that's just
Speaker 5: really important. When you can't control what the other team does,
Speaker 5: we can control what we do. So it was so
Speaker 5: much about process and uh and never giving up and
Speaker 5: having the wee over me mentality, really reminding them of
Speaker 5: that that all of us it's not just one of us,
Speaker 5: it is all of us. And that's just not the
Speaker 5: things that we do with gymnastics, that's just everything with
Speaker 5: the program. You know, whether you're in your in your
Speaker 5: social life, in the classroom, representing Arizona Athletics, representing ours
Speaker 5: of gymnastics, it is a we It is a wee thing.
Speaker 4: It is not amusing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's outstanding. The So, you know, you talk
Speaker 3: about expectations, you talk about a team buying in. I
Speaker 3: see Elizabeth LaRusso is coming back. What are your expectations
Speaker 3: for next year? I mean, it's like people have bought in,
Speaker 3: want to stick around.
Speaker 5: It's great to bring back Elizabeth. She was injured last
Speaker 5: year so she didn't play. And Elizabeth also graduated a
Speaker 5: year early from high school, so she's the same age
Speaker 5: as by sophomores.
Speaker 2: Wow right now.
Speaker 5: And she'll be a staple on the vault and for
Speaker 5: exercise next year just like just like she was this year.
Speaker 5: So it's definitely excited to have her back. And she's
Speaker 5: working on her graduate degree in speech pathology. Great major here.
Speaker 2: So let me say we've had you on the show
Speaker 2: kind of every year, and every year it progressed, right,
Speaker 2: is it building? It got to this point in a
Speaker 2: building method and continue with that building.
Speaker 5: Method, Yes, without a doubt. I mean when you look
Speaker 5: at our regional results, in our regular seating results, they've
Speaker 5: kind of been equal, but last year it wasn't equal.
Speaker 5: Last year we went into the regional's ranked I think
Speaker 5: nineteenth to twentieth, and we just we didn't have a
Speaker 5: great team performance. We dropped the thirty first in the
Speaker 5: rankings we were and we were pre season thirty one
Speaker 5: this year, and we also finished sixteen because we made
Speaker 5: the Sweet sixteen this year in gantastics, and I believe
Speaker 5: the buying was really there. We had twelve underclassmen, which
Speaker 5: you know when some can sometimes be a challenge, for sure,
Speaker 5: but we had wonderful leadership with our seniors and juniors
Speaker 5: in our fifth year, a lot of dats, and that
Speaker 5: buy in and that leadership really was the difference for
Speaker 5: the end result that we had.
Speaker 2: This might be a doub question because I've covered sports forever,
Speaker 2: but better, better athletes, better conditions, better situations, what's been
Speaker 2: the difference?
Speaker 5: I thought this year we had better buy in. And
Speaker 5: that's not not to knock teams of the past, but
Speaker 5: just this year that buying level was at an elite level.
Speaker 5: I thought. We also made sure that we said, okay,
Speaker 5: what can we do differently from prior years.
Speaker 2: We changed around the.
Speaker 5: Equipment in Michael. Yeah, so it did not look like
Speaker 5: it did in prior years. We brought out both east
Speaker 5: and west side seating all the way to the baseline,
Speaker 5: so the fans were six feet away from the athletes.
Speaker 5: So it created an entirely different environment. Sometimes it was loud,
Speaker 5: you couldn't hear yourself, you know, speak to someone, and
Speaker 5: the fans had a good time. We brought up the fireworks,
Speaker 5: some power technics for introductions. We had a new electronics
Speaker 5: scoring system. We did a lot of things for fan engagement.
Speaker 5: We had a new marketing guy. He did a great job.
Speaker 5: We did some things differently to get Zona Zoo. We
Speaker 5: raffled off of Giant Screen TV this year to get
Speaker 5: some students to show up. So we just did some
Speaker 5: things a little bit differently, and we'll sit down at
Speaker 5: the end of the year and say, hey, what worked
Speaker 5: and what needs to get better so we can keep
Speaker 5: capitalizing on the momentum from this year's season.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we keep hearing that nil transfer portal room
Speaker 3: in college sports.
Speaker 2: Uh, how does that affect women's gymnastics?
Speaker 5: I think you know, for us it's alive. You know,
Speaker 5: the transfer portal is alive.
Speaker 4: And well in those.
Speaker 5: Things that you just said, I think you just have
Speaker 5: to navigate the best that you can. You have to
Speaker 5: stay true to your principles, but also you have to know, hey,
Speaker 5: this is this is the this is the college world
Speaker 5: that we live in right now, regardless of the division.
Speaker 5: And I think you have to say, okay, this is
Speaker 5: what we want to do as a program who fits
Speaker 5: those profiles.
Speaker 2: So I'm sorry, dinner to keep going no.
Speaker 5: Because because because for me, I don't like transactional relationships.
Speaker 5: I like gugutent relationships and sometimes I stalk, can interfere,
Speaker 5: And you know, for our program, we want to be
Speaker 5: certainly as competitive as possible, but we also want to
Speaker 5: make sure that in four years they're ready to go,
Speaker 5: they're ready to graduate because there isn't a pro level
Speaker 5: with our sports. They have to get out, they have
Speaker 5: to get a job, they have to go to grad
Speaker 5: school and ready to put themselves into society and be successful.
Speaker 5: That's also our job, as well as winning championships.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're.
Speaker 3: Definitely into into the buy in which the transfer portal
Speaker 3: can make that difficult, you know, bringing bringing people in
Speaker 3: in the middle, uh that are that are transactional as
Speaker 3: you mentioned. Uh So I commend you on being committed
Speaker 3: to that that effort and sounds like you certainly have
Speaker 3: people that are bought in because you're bought in on that.
Speaker 5: It's it's starts at the top. I have to leave
Speaker 5: from the front, you know, for sure, myself and my
Speaker 5: and my staff. And it doesn't mean that the portals.
Speaker 5: You know, sometimes it can be something that's good and
Speaker 5: sometimes it can be something that's bad. For lack of
Speaker 5: a better word, whatever the reason is that you go
Speaker 5: in or you stay in or you come out. People
Speaker 5: just trying to do, at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: what is best for them. I can't fault anybody for
Speaker 5: doing that, honestly, you know, that's that's just that's just life.
Speaker 5: And I hope that everyone that goes in they land
Speaker 5: someplace and they're happier or second try, or sometimes sure
Speaker 5: or sometimes the third try. It's up to us as
Speaker 5: coaches to vet to vet the process and you know,
Speaker 5: make sure that we have our trucks and ballots. So
Speaker 5: whoever that we do bring in on the portal, we're
Speaker 5: making sure that they you know, that they are what
Speaker 5: we need, you know, certainly athletically, academically and a cultural
Speaker 5: fit for our program.
Speaker 2: Sure, let me ask you. Because of the success, I'm
Speaker 2: sure that you're getting more inquiries, body better more and
Speaker 2: going out and finding a better gymnast, if that makes
Speaker 2: any sense, if if that's a phrase. But does the
Speaker 2: quality of recruitings get raised a little?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? It does. You know. Towards the end of the season,
Speaker 5: you know, we had the championship run Big twelves, we
Speaker 5: would running round there and we had a recruiting weekend
Speaker 5: between the Big twelve championships and our regional championships, so
Speaker 5: we had we had two prospects out and that went
Speaker 5: very very well for us.
Speaker 2: So till probably the season. Let me interrupt you, So
Speaker 2: how long you've been here? A few years now?
Speaker 5: Right, just just you know I've been here and there, yeah,
Speaker 5: twenty seven years.
Speaker 2: Love, But as a head coach, as a head coach.
Speaker 5: Head coach, I just finished my seventh.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I'll think you in five or six, Okay,
Speaker 2: So seventh tell me given the long range history. I've
Speaker 2: been here for thirty seven and saw some some gymnastics
Speaker 2: meets through the years, but the quality of the quality
Speaker 2: of athletes must have gone from this to this in
Speaker 2: all that time you've been here, right, and even now
Speaker 2: it's kind of maybe ramped up in the last seven years.
Speaker 5: It's I mean, the quality of athlete has has always
Speaker 5: been good, you know, certainly at Arizona with twenty years
Speaker 5: ago or that or today, you know, they're they're doing this,
Speaker 5: they're doing the same skills, they're just doing.
Speaker 2: That doing it.
Speaker 5: I think a little bit different setting. When you put
Speaker 5: live television into it and put social media into it,
Speaker 5: it's like everyone's seeing your routines every single night that
Speaker 5: you're playing. Yeah, and that and that, and that changes
Speaker 5: and that that changes a lot of things.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: For for someone eighteen to twenty one years.
Speaker 2: Old, was it was there a time coach in the
Speaker 2: season that you said, hmm, we might have something here
Speaker 2: or did you kind of already know?
Speaker 5: No, So we talked about process and then we were
Speaker 5: having a staff meeting and one of one of the
Speaker 5: coaches said, you know, we haven't lost at home or
Speaker 5: you know, we haven't been out of the top twenty
Speaker 5: all year long. I think it was at the midway
Speaker 5: point in the season and it was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: you're right, and I said, who have we You know,
Speaker 5: we might have two losses up to that point, and
Speaker 5: it was one was to Utah and one was to
Speaker 5: Michigan Historical Programs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Utah has been very, very very good over the years.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you too, So I'm going to give
Speaker 2: you this magic wand what would you like people to
Speaker 2: know about this, because I'm sure you would ask for
Speaker 2: more people to show up and be more engaged, and
Speaker 2: how maybe help with that and out what would you
Speaker 2: maybe give one or two thoughts to people who don't know.
Speaker 5: I think that people need to come out and see
Speaker 5: the one. There's an entertainment level to what we do,
Speaker 5: and there is a huge athleticism to what we do,
Speaker 5: where it doesn't matter if you know a little gymnastics
Speaker 5: or a lot or none at all, but if you
Speaker 5: come and you see what our team is doing and
Speaker 5: just the physical rigors of the sport, whatever workout it
Speaker 5: is that you know that you might do, whether it's
Speaker 5: something hard or something easy, and you come and see
Speaker 5: what they have to do and the level of performance
Speaker 5: that we have as a team. There's also a great
Speaker 5: family value in the Kale. Tickets are not that expensive
Speaker 5: and in and out in less than two hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have five to six home meets a year.
Speaker 5: I just asked that everyone gives us a chance. We're
Speaker 5: doing some really really special things. Tucson's a great place
Speaker 5: to play, regardless of whatever sport you like, you know,
Speaker 5: Tucson's is an awesome place with that, and I just
Speaker 5: think that if we can get more people into McHale
Speaker 5: to see it, they're going to like what they see.
Speaker 5: They're going they're going to enjoy it. And we've had
Speaker 5: a lot of new folks this year that have come.
Speaker 5: We've set up some things for kids, you know, in
Speaker 5: the in the competition venue. Everyone's really enjoyed it. And
Speaker 5: I definitely want to give a shout out to our
Speaker 5: you know, to our corporate sponsorships that really helped one
Speaker 5: of ours want to help fitness one of the Chick
Speaker 5: fil A, Irvington and uh in nineteen. There were big
Speaker 5: sponsors this year for us. And everything helps.
Speaker 2: Move the needle right, no, no, take the village.
Speaker 5: Every every bit helps, every bit helps and it takes
Speaker 5: a village, you know, without it, without a doubt, but
Speaker 5: it's it's that it's that magical. You know that that
Speaker 5: is for sure. And you know, I gotta give a
Speaker 5: shout outs to my to my coaches that were awarded
Speaker 5: you know nt double a Regional Assistance of the Year,
Speaker 5: all three of them, which is awesome.
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 5: Three people on the first team All Conference list in
Speaker 5: the Big twelve, first through in the Big twelve. Some
Speaker 5: great honists.
Speaker 3: I can see how the uh these you know, your
Speaker 3: your women would be such great role models for young girls. Uh,
Speaker 3: just to come out there and see the strength, the power,
Speaker 3: the agility, the poise. Yeah, I can. I wish I
Speaker 3: could drag my if if I had little girls again,
Speaker 3: I'd be dragging them out there.
Speaker 5: I know that drag yourself.
Speaker 3: Oh I definitely wi, I definitely will because you HITM
Speaker 3: and his wife do go to these events.
Speaker 2: Absolutely so. Are you one of those coaches? You you
Speaker 2: win matches on Saturday, uh, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 2: you win during the you win during the week.
Speaker 5: Absolutely what you how you play their affection of reflection
Speaker 5: of how you practice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you put them through tough. Is it you
Speaker 2: put it through them through tough situations or them putting
Speaker 2: themselves through both.
Speaker 5: You know, we do a lot of mental training, but
Speaker 5: we also do quite a bit of you know, game
Speaker 5: day scenarios and situations because we have to be able
Speaker 5: to step up.
Speaker 2: To the pressure. Yeah, well you put yourself and you
Speaker 2: have to welcome that pressure. Well, you welcome the pressure.
Speaker 2: Well you can have to pressure yourself again because you
Speaker 2: continue to do that trend up right, So you know
Speaker 2: you sold ten cars last week. I guess what you
Speaker 2: have to do this week? John, Yeah, well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I raell fifteen. I want to sell twenty.
Speaker 3: And you know what have you done for me lately?
Speaker 3: I'm I'm excited about your next season, that.
Speaker 2: For sure, coach. Don't put too much pressure on.
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's all it is is an opportunity. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, it really is. Every day it's a different
Speaker 5: opportunity to to get better without a doubt. You know,
Speaker 5: we're gonna, you know, we want to enjoy the what
Speaker 5: just happened, and you know we want to sell. We
Speaker 5: want to celebrate that, you know, but we're gonna we're
Speaker 5: gonna turn the page here down the road sure, and
Speaker 5: we'll get ready for next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, when you're at a barbecue and may or June
Speaker 2: you said, I don't know if you drink a beer
Speaker 2: or two. We did have a pretty good year, so
Speaker 2: you'll be able to enjoy it. When when does your season?
Speaker 5: I enjoy it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? When does your season start?
Speaker 5: Competitions will start in January. Okay, we go until April,
Speaker 5: so we you know, we just we just finished up
Speaker 5: and all the coaches were recruiting last week. So we
Speaker 5: just got to town. And tomorrow can I uh have
Speaker 5: a daughter function and then tomorrow will uh, I'll be
Speaker 5: out at Vinie's Pizza and Sia Vista. I'm the coach's caraventor.
Speaker 2: Let's start tomorrow real quick. Thank you for bringing that up.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow it starts right Uh. Tell me about that, the
Speaker 2: reports of that with Desirae in in the past eighties
Speaker 2: doing this stuff because you need that engagement.
Speaker 5: It's about bringing Yeah, it's one hundred percent about fan engagement.
Speaker 5: We're bringing us to the fans, you know, and really
Speaker 5: hoping to force for some new relationships and uh, you know,
Speaker 5: and also enjoy some some old ones that we've all
Speaker 5: already established and you know this. This tour is going
Speaker 5: throughout the state. It's already started last week. It kicked
Speaker 5: off last week. This will be my first first stop
Speaker 5: and I'll be there. I believe Ben the swim coach,
Speaker 5: is going to be there and bring some athletes with
Speaker 5: us down to Sierra Vesta.
Speaker 2: We'll talk.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about the season and promote our sports and
Speaker 5: promote promote our athletic department.
Speaker 2: Right right, okay, coach, but.
Speaker 5: Also see what Hey, as a fan, what's important to you?
Speaker 2: What do you need? Yeah? Be important from their end
Speaker 2: of it, right, no question, coach, Thanks a bunch for
Speaker 2: joining us. Congrats again. Yeah, what a great year.
Speaker 5: I appreciate I'll see you guys around.
Speaker 2: Yes, thanks a bunch of John Court from the Arizona
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera, You or Mike Quinn.
Speaker 2: We got I am one and Ray catching the phone call.
Speaker 2: So you guys ready to call, please do five to
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Speaker 2: take your calls. Any thoughts on what's going on another
Speaker 2: I'll wait for you to get the recent most recent
Speaker 2: announcement because we get about fifteen minutes before we go
Speaker 2: to breaking news again. So things going on with the
Speaker 2: men's basketball program, which is great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean all good news seems like yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, it was tough to have Henry leave, but
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, I wish you would have you know, Okay,
Speaker 2: I want to be positive. I wish he would have stayed.
Speaker 2: I really liked him. I really liked the way he
Speaker 2: played too. But I tell you, I waka stayed. I
Speaker 2: tell you what that that's a difference maker, I think, Oaka.
Speaker 2: You know these guys with you know, who's I think
Speaker 2: might be? And I dive, who's my kiss? The death
Speaker 2: guy last year? Oh? My Deloso he was my right.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be just a death guy again
Speaker 2: because a year under his belt, maybe more confidence, maybe
Speaker 2: a little stronger maybe and maybe he can shoot. He's
Speaker 2: not your volume shooter. That's the other kid, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: the other you know. I mean the thing is that, Look,
Speaker 2: it looks like we've got some shooters. I hope that uh,
Speaker 2: you know, Delorso like gets the lead out of his feet.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he needs changed his shoes from
Speaker 2: you know, steel boots, because the guy moves his feet.
Speaker 3: So he's not a defender. You don't pay him to defend, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't. You don't pay him to defend. You certainly don't.
Speaker 3: But I tell you the other team knows that too.
Speaker 2: It's funny. Now, guess what. You don't pay him before
Speaker 2: five years ago, you don't. You're not supposed to. Now
Speaker 2: you have to pay him. You gotta call, we gotta call. Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air nine in the ball.
Speaker 3: Who's this?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 2: Steve? This is done? Hey, what's up? Not too much?
Speaker 2: I Mike?
Speaker 18: I got everybody good, good good. I'm glad Mike's on
Speaker 18: today so I can have my opinion. There you go,
Speaker 18: not not not like the last couple of times that
Speaker 18: I called not naming any names, but Troy Hutchinson. But anyway,
Speaker 18: you know, everything looks good for Arizona for next year.
Speaker 18: I agree with what you're saying. But what nobody's mentioning
Speaker 18: is greeb Us has a foot injury. Aristotle has a
Speaker 18: foot injury. And these these are not ballerina dancers. These
Speaker 18: are big guys. And you know, wasn't it wasn't it
Speaker 18: Bill Walton's feet that did him in? You know it's
Speaker 18: it's it's like like that's the part that makes me
Speaker 18: nervous because we could be in the same boat again
Speaker 18: where we could lose a guy, lose two guys, we
Speaker 18: could lose completely different guys. But uh that that part
Speaker 18: kind of it worries me just a little bit. I hope,
Speaker 18: I hope that everything goes well and these guys get
Speaker 18: plenty time enough to heal.
Speaker 2: Well, we got to call it. It's Troy Hutcherson. I think
Speaker 2: he's once to tell you that it's only it's only April. Relax. Relax.
Speaker 18: Well, I mean, the thing is is Crebas ain't gonna
Speaker 18: get any smaller come October.
Speaker 2: Well, he's not gonna get any faster. He's not gonna
Speaker 2: get any faster either. Yeah, yeah, that that either.
Speaker 18: Luckily, he's got big he's got a lot of rains.
Speaker 18: He didn't have to take that many steps, but he's.
Speaker 2: Just such a big force he needs to. You can't
Speaker 2: ask a dude like that to be more mobile because
Speaker 2: I don't know if he can be.
Speaker 3: You wish he would be. Well, Henry can be a
Speaker 3: big force in the middle.
Speaker 2: That's it. I agree, Henry.
Speaker 18: Henry was was like if he if he'd have stayed
Speaker 18: and developed a little bit more, how much how scary
Speaker 18: would he be? Because he's he He could be your
Speaker 18: four yep and and Crevas stays in the middle and
Speaker 18: try to get a shot off. No, you have, especially
Speaker 18: in this especially in mid range, you know Big twelve,
Speaker 18: because there's a lot of guys take a lot of
Speaker 18: mid range shots in the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have really liked to Henry Crevas a waka.
Speaker 18: Just on the floor at the same time.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, but just just a little combination
Speaker 2: with your other dude, that rotation.
Speaker 18: That rotation, none of them would get tired. That would
Speaker 18: have been so awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that may be why I would have been. That
Speaker 3: may be why Henry left. You maybe didn't want to
Speaker 3: be part of that rotation. He wanted to get a
Speaker 3: little more playing time. Hey, don we gotta go. We
Speaker 3: got another call.
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling, guy, Thanks, thanks for listening. As always,
Speaker 2: we got another call. Hello, you're on the air. Nine
Speaker 2: in the wall. Who's this? Hello? Hello? Who's this?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 4: This Brian?
Speaker 2: Hey, Brian, Hey, what's going on? Brian?
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably the best thing I heard all weekend.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's nice to have a walk up back
Speaker 4: and everything. It was what the Tennessee football team did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we were going to talk about it, but
Speaker 2: go ahead and say what you're gonna say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think it's about time someone said, hey,
Speaker 4: enough is enough. Yeah, you know, and I think more
Speaker 4: schools have to do it. But unfortunately, uh, it's not
Speaker 4: going to happen. You know, it's got to happen. Something
Speaker 4: that has to be a stop to this somehow.
Speaker 2: I mean the kids.
Speaker 5: Okay, I he basically made an I don't.
Speaker 4: Know if he signed a contract or made an agreement
Speaker 4: or something in writing whatever you know it. Firstly, I
Speaker 4: guess it was like eight million for four years, basically
Speaker 4: what it is if you didn't go to this draft.
Speaker 4: And then he finds out those the quarterbacks and transferred
Speaker 4: back and somebody else made four million. He says, well,
Speaker 4: I want money too. I want all that money too,
Speaker 4: and it's just got to stop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look you're like you just said, it might
Speaker 2: stop in some place and might not stop in other places,
Speaker 2: but that's the world we live. It sucks to me.
Speaker 2: Mike and I were talking about that before the show.
Speaker 2: To me, I love my job, I love what I do.
Speaker 2: I hate that part of the job and I'm not
Speaker 2: even involved. I just have to write about and talk
Speaker 2: about it. But but it's just so sad what we've
Speaker 2: come to with sports at the college level, right right.
Speaker 4: You know, it's just you know, I know, it's free agency,
Speaker 4: and I understand it that you know, these kids want to,
Speaker 4: you know, strike while the iron's hot and everything, but still,
Speaker 4: I mean, if you put kind of like it's like
Speaker 4: blackmailing the school if you don't do this, and I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna do anything for you, you know, But it
Speaker 4: also too but you're black milliing the school, you're black
Speaker 4: million the fans at the same time. Yeah, this stuff,
Speaker 4: this stuff just turns fans off the college sports.
Speaker 3: Now, no, no question question. Yeah, the pie is going
Speaker 3: to get smaller with that. The Uh yeah. So this guy,
Speaker 3: I guess uh was part of a number of athletes
Speaker 3: who said he if you want me to play in
Speaker 3: a bowl game, it's it's scary enough to pay me more.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh right?
Speaker 3: Did it come from him or his dad? I heard
Speaker 3: his dad was involved somehow. Well, I'm sure his dad
Speaker 3: is involved. He's got a whole entourage, agents family. I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know if he ever speaks for himself.
Speaker 2: Brian, this is a personal question. Let me ask you
Speaker 2: a personal question because I have Mike. He's a booster too,
Speaker 2: He's a lum. I want to see you buy tickets, right, Mike,
Speaker 2: I do you do you give a little scratch to
Speaker 2: the teams, the guys. No.
Speaker 4: I I buy the tickets, thesent tickets, whatever. And that's it,
Speaker 4: you know, And it's I mean, it's these tickets have
Speaker 4: gotten more expensive. Yeah, and I can't see paying more
Speaker 4: for the tickets than there going. Okay, I'm going to
Speaker 4: get more money to a spoiled kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you're not alone. You're not alone especially
Speaker 2: and I know you probably don't make one point five
Speaker 2: two million dollars a year. Get you're giving people who
Speaker 2: make that more money.
Speaker 4: Right, It's hard. It's hard for me. I'm retired. It's
Speaker 4: hard for me to want to get money to somebody
Speaker 4: who's going to make two or three times the money
Speaker 4: I make.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, right exactly, you know. And it's like, well,
Speaker 3: you know, I'd like to have a good team. You know,
Speaker 3: if you want to have a good team, you got
Speaker 3: to do this. I'm like, we're all rod team. I'll
Speaker 3: still see you from the side. Yeah, I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: to jeopardize my retirement so somebody can, like some spoiled kid,
Speaker 3: can you know, buy another car.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And with that settlement from the NC Double A,
Speaker 4: it's probably going to get worse because it's going to
Speaker 4: be more money involved now. And unfortunately, the lesser sports,
Speaker 4: you know, are going to be the ones who are
Speaker 4: gonna get screwed on off this whole thing. Well, because
Speaker 4: you're you're not going to have you know, you're not
Speaker 4: gonna have a lot of money for baseball tennis, golf,
Speaker 4: you know gymnastics that you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Well, you saw the uproar basketball, we'll get it all.
Speaker 2: You saw the uproar with the DA only getting two
Speaker 2: to four percent of whatever they're going to get, right,
Speaker 2: and that was hard all done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I understand you know how you know how
Speaker 4: she feels. You know, she needs to go to a place.
Speaker 4: And fortunately now in coaching, it's also you need to
Speaker 4: figure out a place I can go right and get
Speaker 4: money so I can recruit, you know. And before when
Speaker 4: she first started recruiting, it was a pretty level playing field,
Speaker 4: you know. I mean, I know there was money passed
Speaker 4: from my only camp by and not be naive about it.
Speaker 4: There was stuff that was going on. But now that
Speaker 4: it's all out in the open, it's even worse.
Speaker 2: Right right, Okay, thanks Brian has always, thanks for calling,
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to it. Got about five minutes, four minutes,
Speaker 2: I'm saying, we yeah, I've got about four minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we may take a call or two if you want
Speaker 2: to call real quick five two oh four, one, six
Speaker 2: seventy four forty. That's the issue. I have. I make
Speaker 2: X amount of money now very why would I pay
Speaker 2: it to do who makes ten twenty times what I make?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then what we're going to see and we're well,
Speaker 3: we're seeing. What we are seeing is these teams are
Speaker 3: now funded by billionaires, you know, I mean they're like
Speaker 3: pro sports, you know, uh, you know Oregon is funded
Speaker 3: by uh Nike.
Speaker 2: Home state, those guys, the oil well in Texas, the oil.
Speaker 3: Texas oil, Oklahoma's Oklahoma state. Who was the guy that
Speaker 3: just funded Michigan said go out and buy a football team.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: But it was like, yeah, the you know, uh, that's
Speaker 3: where that that money is going to come from. You know,
Speaker 3: sit there and ask you know, and I know they do,
Speaker 3: but sit there and ask, you know, the regular people
Speaker 3: that are out here. You know, hey, give up some
Speaker 3: of your money so we can go, you know, pay
Speaker 3: this eighteen year old kid two million dollars.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, I don't know if I'm that,
Speaker 2: but think about it. It's not just one kid, and
Speaker 2: it's the whole starting lineup, yeah, which is going to
Speaker 2: be what eight to ten million dollars If Matt in
Speaker 2: my math is right, Holy moly. You know I know
Speaker 2: where you live. I know where you live, right, you
Speaker 2: have a nice place. Don't be surprised if you have
Speaker 2: a neighbor who's yeah getting his degree.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, oh I know these I mean, these guys
Speaker 3: definitely can afford a better house.
Speaker 2: And I'm in. And that's no no harm, no foul,
Speaker 2: because you know, more power to you, good luck, good
Speaker 2: luck with that.
Speaker 3: I don't blame the kids. I mean absolutely don't blame
Speaker 3: the kids. I mean they're gonna get They're gonna try
Speaker 3: and get what they're gonna get. I think I think
Speaker 3: the kids. If there's a guy from the Tennessee quarterback, well,
Speaker 3: the Tennessee quarterback. You know, someone told me once is like,
Speaker 3: uh takes to get fat hogs get slaughtered, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're gonna be if you're gonna go
Speaker 3: after greed and you're gonna be part of the sloth, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be. Uh at some point, it's gonna come
Speaker 3: back at you.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If this guy's gonna get four million dollars, the guy
Speaker 3: is not that good. I mean, Arch Banning is our
Speaker 3: Arch Banning is getting twelve million dollars. But heyes, twelve
Speaker 3: million dollars. His the one guy that doesn't need started
Speaker 3: like one or two games. Yeah, well you say payment
Speaker 3: for past performances. Yeah, past performances no indicator of future performance, yea,
Speaker 3: as past results no indication.
Speaker 2: Uh no, but that's how I bet my horses, baby, Absolutely,
Speaker 2: past performances, exactly. Keep looking at that. By the way,
Speaker 2: the Kentucky derby three weeks, I'm excited about that. Journalism
Speaker 2: gonna win it. Yeah, journalism, Journalism is gonna win it.
Speaker 2: It's back. Journalism is back, at least in the horse
Speaker 2: racing business. Maybe the only they're they're at the place. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you heard it from me. Now I gave you a
Speaker 2: few first time. The journalism will pay off. Hey, let the.
Speaker 3: Jokes come from the professional exactly. Sorry, sorry about that.
Speaker 3: I should have written that down and slid it over
Speaker 3: to you. Say this, say this, Hey, let's go this
Speaker 3: with that will go?
Speaker 2: I know,