Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xes and oh's. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen
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Speaker 2: Okay, welcome back to Wind the Ball. You're on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. You're a Blake Eager.
Speaker 3: From Southern Arizona sports tourism and film authority. I should
Speaker 3: just say World Baseball Classic at this point. It's coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and we'll talk a little about that. We
Speaker 2: have time on this side. We always get messed up
Speaker 2: with your well go over with your time with breaking news.
Speaker 2: Yeah recently.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this one's a wild one, right, you're gonna should
Speaker 3: we tell people to pull over. It's really exciting breaking
Speaker 3: news today. Let's get to it.
Speaker 4: Then.
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Speaker 2: Fifty Happy Wednesday to everyone out there.
Speaker 5: You're truly let me hit the Lindo Goody two shoes
Speaker 5: whatever you want to call me, Blake, you want to
Speaker 5: come up with one for me?
Speaker 2: I think you have one for me, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that game, that one, that's a good one.
Speaker 5: Mister local, mister local, starting off breaking news with some
Speaker 5: Arizon athletics. I don't know if you guys talked about
Speaker 5: this yesterday, but Jay Friend was named the Big twelve
Speaker 5: men's tennis Player of the week.
Speaker 2: No, I think we did. I think is he the
Speaker 2: pro guy?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: No, this is kind of the you would I guess
Speaker 5: you would call him second string. Uh, Polton Smith is
Speaker 5: the Okay, so you must be the number two player.
Speaker 5: This guy, this guy, yeah, he's he's uh, he's like
Speaker 5: the co captain.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But if you had to place numbers on it, he'd
Speaker 5: be the second second A B A one two one
Speaker 5: A one B he's one B.
Speaker 2: Were you the who you either started? You the first guy? Guy?
Speaker 2: What point in my life the Pro Bowl?
Speaker 3: I was mostly always in the number two or number three,
Speaker 3: and then as I started moving up and guys anyway,
Speaker 3: who cares?
Speaker 2: I was there at a jersey and then uh.
Speaker 5: Kyle Altmeyer was named the Big twelve Player of the
Speaker 5: Week for softball. They have their bare down fields to
Speaker 5: starting tomorrow, Thursday, February thirteenth, at five o'clock against South Alabama.
Speaker 5: Okay two women's basketball, they played a night at Oklahoma
Speaker 5: State five thirty. I believe it's the first time they've
Speaker 5: met in twenty one years.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, this is one of those up games. They
Speaker 2: just came out the issue win, right, Yep, they need
Speaker 2: to have have they had a few consecutive wins.
Speaker 5: They had lost two straight, so they went three straight
Speaker 5: losses to three straight wins, two losses and a win,
Speaker 5: so maybe they'll get to two wins.
Speaker 2: Where are they sitting in conference right now? They are
Speaker 2: five hundred in conference six and six. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: where they're probably ten, yeah, yeah, eight to twelve? Ye
Speaker 2: has this been a real stranger? Another stranger? I mean,
Speaker 2: I hope to have her on the show sometimes hopefully.
Speaker 5: And then of course, the men's team lost at Kansas
Speaker 5: State last night seventy to seventy three. They host number
Speaker 5: six Houston Saturday, big time matchup. And the year gave
Speaker 5: me the year. We were looking at this the other
Speaker 5: day day, won't you uh? Price ticket prices?
Speaker 2: I haven't, I haven't seen well because maybe it was
Speaker 2: yesterday it was two thousand dollars in the lower bowl
Speaker 2: lower lower lower balls right now, I mean a couple
Speaker 2: of days a thousand, two thousand, and I'm sure upper. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was yesterday with with our mother intern. He wants
Speaker 2: to go. It is like nutty Bucks for those bleed stuff.
Speaker 2: It's gonna get worse even after yesterday. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: a big game. It's just not a huge game. I
Speaker 2: just can't wrap my head around them. Yeah you have tickets.
Speaker 2: We do have tickets. Yeah, pay your mortgage real quick,
Speaker 2: you know me? So, No, that's not an advisor for that. No,
Speaker 2: we we made a pack that that's not something we do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: nice packed. You the person I share the tame. Okay,
Speaker 2: you and your wife?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, go to a Yeah, yeah you should sing
Speaker 3: my bathing suit for that. I'll bring it, you know what,
Speaker 3: I'll wear it next.
Speaker 2: Love it. This will be the last few. If I'm
Speaker 2: going out, I'm going out with a bang. Sorry one.
Speaker 2: I'm was trying to look for tickets. Uh sold out? Yeah,
Speaker 2: it sold out, but I haven't found anything the black market.
Speaker 2: You're like it on the secondary markets. Pretty good. Take
Speaker 2: it to the game and Kidney.
Speaker 5: We talked about a little bit earlier, but Indiana did
Speaker 5: be Michigan State and Michigan State keeping tom is one
Speaker 5: went away from the big twelve win record beating Bobby Knight.
Speaker 2: And Woldson played for Bobby did so he prevented.
Speaker 3: That's gotta be like from a fan base, because we
Speaker 3: talked about you a fan, especially me as a fan.
Speaker 3: That's that's gotta be one of the worst, uh places
Speaker 3: to be a fan because every preseason you're like, we're
Speaker 3: great this year Indiana for Indiana. Great this year, We're
Speaker 3: back at that level next season You're going what this year?
Speaker 2: Especially you know's brother, Yeah, God, Archie Marching the coach
Speaker 2: there and he was hotters as hell as a coach
Speaker 2: and he couldn't do it there. Kelvin was there and
Speaker 2: couldn't do it. I guess you know, be were get
Speaker 2: in trouble. Uh, it's a tough place, but you find
Speaker 2: the right dude like the kid. The kid and I
Speaker 2: can say because I'm a hundred years old, the is
Speaker 2: that Michigan May May who played who worked under Bobby
Speaker 2: Knight there could do wonders And you know this, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna ask you this, but you know this, how much
Speaker 2: does coaching matter from a confidence standpoint?
Speaker 3: And Uh, it's it's it's it's everything, and it's almost everything.
Speaker 2: Did you have bad coaches? You say, yes, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think about it.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I mean, man, I was really fortunate.
Speaker 3: I had Gary Carter and I had Brett Butler, Like
Speaker 3: when I first got into Pro Bowl, my college coach
Speaker 3: I love, But I will say that I there, I've
Speaker 3: had two coaches that I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Put into Okay, so you've had bad coaches. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 2: and they were bad for a reason, right, you had
Speaker 2: a number of good ones.
Speaker 3: You could tell the difference, huge difference. There's no team effort,
Speaker 3: team attitude everything. Yeah, you're right, You're absolutely right. And
Speaker 3: guys don't play hard for bad coaches. I don't care
Speaker 3: who they are. They want to win, but they don't
Speaker 3: play hard for them because they don't have to. Here's
Speaker 3: the but I will say this, when the coach is
Speaker 3: so bad, players will sometimes just say, f you will
Speaker 3: do it for ourselves and so it kind of it
Speaker 3: can work backwards, but when you're stuck into that middle ground,
Speaker 3: its just But they don't do it long term.
Speaker 2: They do it for game, yeah, but not long term
Speaker 2: for a season. Yeah. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5: I had some bad coaches and they made me lose
Speaker 5: a love for the game. I eventually found it again,
Speaker 5: but it's tough.
Speaker 2: And you know, the coaches that are are good are tough.
Speaker 2: They demand out of you, they demand excellence and you
Speaker 2: just maybe even hate them a little, but they bring
Speaker 2: the best out of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got two, I mean two schools of thought, right,
Speaker 3: because we talked about John Miller and Tommy Lloyd too,
Speaker 3: completely different. And I think you're what you're saying right
Speaker 3: now is Sean Miller is an expectation you step on
Speaker 3: the floor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're in a conduct your way.
Speaker 3: I think Tommy's more kind of an open, I loving coach,
Speaker 3: like maybe more of a family.
Speaker 2: You can make. You can make your mistakes, but he's
Speaker 2: gonna keep he's gonna hold you accountable very much. So right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm doing a story about that. Yeah, I went through
Speaker 2: coaching phase. I went through both.
Speaker 3: Like if you caught me at a younger age, guy
Speaker 3: that broke my fung go and broke clip boards and
Speaker 3: sure than my older age.
Speaker 2: I was like, it must have taken something for you
Speaker 2: to just not just age. Something must have happened. I
Speaker 2: think I think, yeah, maybe something happened.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know you're asking you this question. I've
Speaker 3: never really like I do take shield is such a
Speaker 3: worst answer I possibly get a given. So thank you
Speaker 3: Steve for giving me one of my worst speeches ever.
Speaker 3: That's twice day and when I was just welcome, Welcome
Speaker 3: to our Wednesday therapy session. That's what we should call it.
Speaker 3: That's perfect, that was perfect harmony in the valley.
Speaker 5: Last night, Kevin Durant became the eighth player in NBA
Speaker 5: history scored thirty thousand points.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's impressive.
Speaker 3: Are you surprised that he's still with the Sons because
Speaker 3: there was a lot of trade talk around Katie.
Speaker 2: Well that well, yeah true, but you know, I guess
Speaker 2: ESPN or somebody, somebody, a reporter said that they were
Speaker 2: having chemistry issues. And the first thing that Kad says, no,
Speaker 2: what he else is gonna say? Right, don't you think
Speaker 2: that they're playing like there's chemistry issues?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some things that are pretty blatant there, right,
Speaker 3: I mean that again, what do you like?
Speaker 2: You said? What do you expect him to say?
Speaker 3: It's I have this problem when you're watching NFL and
Speaker 3: they're asking for your sideline reporters asking questions. When a
Speaker 3: coach is going into the locker room and you're like,
Speaker 3: what what are you expecting him to say?
Speaker 2: I say this to Jay all the time because of
Speaker 2: this question, Jae, are you a good guy? What do
Speaker 2: you think he's gonna say? Yeah, of course I'm a
Speaker 2: great guy. Yeah, let me hold that thought.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you go.
Speaker 2: Ask some people. I'm asking the wrong person.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean they still lost one one, nineteen
Speaker 5: to one twelve to the grad.
Speaker 2: Fifth straight the fifth ye los.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens with them. Uh.
Speaker 5: I saw something this morning that said that more than
Speaker 5: likely after the season ends that they'll look into finding
Speaker 5: him a new home.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure where he want to go.
Speaker 2: You've had the reports where Golden State before? Butler? So
Speaker 2: so I like that you're here because you're your form athlete, leadish,
Speaker 2: leadish whatever you want to use that word.
Speaker 3: What are you saying that because I was a starting pitcher?
Speaker 3: Pictures and pictures you got paid to, you get paid to?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, collected page?
Speaker 2: How many? How many I talked about good coaches? How
Speaker 2: many Prima donna's did you play with?
Speaker 1: Kell?
Speaker 2: You may have even been one. No, I was never
Speaker 2: a Prima Donna.
Speaker 3: I know what I'm saying, and that's the self a
Speaker 3: reflection where you're like, I don't let me ask some
Speaker 3: of the Yeah, the community guy, no matter where we went.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, quite a bit, especially the young guys that
Speaker 3: are like you're you're talking about money, guys that come
Speaker 3: into it and there's a self confidence that they have
Speaker 3: to have. This is vibe and success. But you could
Speaker 3: also be human not you can also be human with that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah you can. Yeah, absolutely, there's two there's two
Speaker 3: tails to that side. But quite a bit, quite a bit,
Speaker 3: especially in baseball. The most cocky, egotistical athletes I've ever
Speaker 3: come across. I mean, you've been around professional athletes, especially
Speaker 3: professional baseball players, and that's the Yeah. I would say
Speaker 3: maybe wide receivers would be up there to talk.
Speaker 2: About those divas all the time.
Speaker 5: So Maverick center Daniel Gaffer will be out with the
Speaker 5: right knee sprain, so adding kind of insult to injury,
Speaker 5: they're losing theirs not out of town. Yeah yeah, uh
Speaker 5: so that that adds to the list of Anthony Davis, Derek,
Speaker 5: Derek Lively, and Dwight Powell.
Speaker 3: For them, When's when's David supposed to come back? Though
Speaker 3: they said it wasn't a major injury, right six.
Speaker 2: Gosh.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. That's a tough one for me.
Speaker 3: Obviously he's a Dallas fan. You don't want Luca to go.
Speaker 3: But I mean, now you're starting to read some of
Speaker 3: those reports on him, like you're like, on what he's what?
Speaker 3: Out of shape? He's a bad clubhouse guy, Like, well, really,
Speaker 3: I didn't hear that.
Speaker 2: Hear that part. I didn't hear that part. Out of shape,
Speaker 2: But I was saying, I'm sure Fernando was not in
Speaker 2: good shape. He was pretty damn good. My point is
Speaker 2: he knows how to plant his weight. I would, I would,
Speaker 2: maybe we are, Hey, you're five ft seven? Has that
Speaker 2: every problem? Has ever been the problem? Height?
Speaker 3: I played this way all my life. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: know anybod I don't know anything. I mean, listen that
Speaker 3: that's probably a better way to look at it. I
Speaker 3: just maybe those were sports are coming out. Then you're
Speaker 3: three hundred pounds. How do you score thirty points?
Speaker 2: Again? Yeah? Because I do. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: Kadarius Tony was arrested in Georgia after allegedly strangling a woman.
Speaker 5: So who Kadarius Tony the wide receiver?
Speaker 2: I think he scored the oh for Kansas City. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 2: in the in last year's Super Bowl. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: uh so we'll see what happens with that. He choked somebody.
Speaker 5: Strangled, strangled recent recently, uh February sixth, that's recently ago. Well,
Speaker 5: Ohio State is going to hire x NFL coach Matt
Speaker 5: Patricia as their new defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: New seven year contracts?
Speaker 5: States really coming up with some seven year Nope, nope,
Speaker 5: I read that wrong.
Speaker 2: H that's Ryan Day. Sorry. I don't see any details
Speaker 2: on his.
Speaker 3: Yea, I was gonna say it coordinator roles. You don't
Speaker 3: usually see like long term contracts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it doesn't say it doesn't have any specifics, but
Speaker 5: we'll see what happens on that side of the ball.
Speaker 5: For the House State, there are some unfortunate news. A
Speaker 5: un LV football player Ben Chris Christ Chrismin was found
Speaker 5: dead in his off campus apartment in Uh. We came
Speaker 5: from Kentucky and he was twenty one. I haven't played yet.
Speaker 5: He just had moved from Kentucky. Yeah, that's awful. Yeah,
Speaker 5: twenty one years old. The base Yeah, sorry, leave it
Speaker 5: on the sorur. No, that's all I got. So, okay,
Speaker 5: what time is it got about two minutes.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, no, let's let's just go go. Good job.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about your stuff at the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 2: Oh good, I thought you were talking about the personal stuff.
Speaker 2: We were talking about off here. I shared that confidence.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Ayas the ball Hero POK Sports
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Speaker 2: Blake Eager.
Speaker 3: From Southern Arizona Sports Tourism and Film Authority.
Speaker 2: Now we have Jose called Drone from the Tucson Rodeo. Jose,
Speaker 2: how you doing?
Speaker 6: Hey? We're doing fine, my friend.
Speaker 4: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing well? Eight big, big week this week? What's
Speaker 2: going on over there? This is it?
Speaker 4: This is it?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 6: Since nineteen twenty five, we've been waiting for this big
Speaker 6: one right here, one hundred years. Super proud, super excited man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you you're the former, I want to say, a
Speaker 2: non executive director. But what's the guy now with Sam?
Speaker 2: With Sam?
Speaker 4: Sam's a chair.
Speaker 6: So I'm a I'm a former two time share at
Speaker 6: that two time share at the Tucson Rodeo. Very very
Speaker 6: honored to be part of this organization. And I'll tell
Speaker 6: you one thing. It's just it's a lot of work
Speaker 6: and a lot of headaches sometimes just like anything else.
Speaker 6: But when it all comes out this weekend, I'll tell
Speaker 6: you when those gates open, there's no better feeling seeing
Speaker 6: those families come in with their kids and grandkids and such.
Speaker 2: Right right, And you've had a ton of people come
Speaker 2: from all over the world to play in it, to
Speaker 2: to you know, to work in it, because that's how
Speaker 2: they make a living. And then you have the twosonans
Speaker 2: and you have the tourists and a lot of people
Speaker 2: love you.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you one thing. We get cowboys and cowgirls
Speaker 6: from all over this country. And you know there's like
Speaker 6: seven hundred plus p RCA road is in this contrary.
Speaker 6: We're still in the top two twenty five and we're
Speaker 6: pretty proud of it.
Speaker 4: So this is Tucson is.
Speaker 6: A rodeo to win. There's no doubt about it for
Speaker 6: the contestants. So it's a big one and perfect weather.
Speaker 6: Hey man, who what cowboy did? And Calboy doesn't want
Speaker 6: to come to Tucson right now?
Speaker 2: Right right? Well, So I have Blake who's part of
Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic, and I've talked to guys like you, guys,
Speaker 2: uh you the Rodeo, the World Baseball Classic, We're talking
Speaker 2: about the Could of Guard Classic coming up, the football.
Speaker 3: Football Roadrunners, and it turns into Sugar Skulls after that.
Speaker 2: Right, So a lot of a lot of these things
Speaker 2: love each other. You mean, they're all helping each other.
Speaker 6: Absolutely. It's all about fan experience, getting people out there,
Speaker 6: and you know, and Tucson what a great place to
Speaker 6: have all this stuff right here. So we need to
Speaker 6: keep it going, keeping people energized, getting things to do
Speaker 6: out here. And you know, we we want to keep
Speaker 6: all these events happening here. We don't want to lose
Speaker 6: any any more things than we had in the past.
Speaker 4: So, you know, being part.
Speaker 6: Of this event here in Tucson is pretty specially important
Speaker 6: for everybody doing what it or whatever they're doing here
Speaker 6: in Tucson. So it's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Jose's right.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think when the last time, especially with
Speaker 3: one hundred year anniversary, and don't be I mean people
Speaker 3: have reached out to people I'm talking to, especially maybe
Speaker 3: on the film side and media side, are coming from
Speaker 3: all over the country to see the rodeo, to film it,
Speaker 3: to be a part of it. Like, there's so much
Speaker 3: buzz around Tucson right now with what we're doing on
Speaker 3: all different aspects.
Speaker 2: You've got the gym show.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think the last time we've had a
Speaker 3: couple of months back to back with all these things
Speaker 3: happening and at this high level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 6: And there again, I mean, I don't know if you've
Speaker 6: had a chance to see this given chancy of this
Speaker 6: great mural that we did downtown on Alameda and Touli
Speaker 6: I'm four story mural, one hundred and forty feet, you know,
Speaker 6: like Nasu Garcia made, probably the best muraler is in Tucson.
Speaker 6: You know, it's just something magnificent. It represents not just
Speaker 6: the Tucson Rodeo, but it represents cultures and just Tucson itself.
Speaker 6: When you look at it, it's it's in your face.
Speaker 6: And that's just something really proud to be part of.
Speaker 2: And the kids love you because they get it out
Speaker 2: of school.
Speaker 6: Isn't that great? Were the only rodeo that does that?
Speaker 6: Can you believe that? And we still do it. And
Speaker 6: I'll tell you what. The kids look forward to come
Speaker 6: to the Tucson Rodeos, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Well, don't when does the when's the parade?
Speaker 6: The parade is on the twenty the nineteenth, I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: on the twentieth. So rodeo is from the fifteenth to
Speaker 6: the sixteenth, and then on Wednesday we have a concert
Speaker 6: from two to nine thirty with three great stars coming
Speaker 6: out to perform. And then the parade is on the twentieth,
Speaker 6: and then of course Friday, Saturday Sunday for the finals.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, it's a great experience. I've been through a couple
Speaker 2: of times, covered Ty Marie when he was here, when
Speaker 2: he was the Michael Jordan Rodeo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, big time, big time. So we do get all
Speaker 6: those NFR contestants, the one that you see at the NFR,
Speaker 6: they're going to be coming through Tucson once or maybe
Speaker 6: twice that they get lucky. This weekend's coming up. So,
Speaker 6: like I said, it's a big one, all the big stars.
Speaker 6: We have the best stock contractor in the world, I think,
Speaker 6: Benny Butler, and he brings the best because in order
Speaker 6: to get the best rides and get the best experience,
Speaker 6: you got to bring in the best stock, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: I did a story for BIZ Tucson a couple of
Speaker 2: months ago. Enjoyed talking to Sam and mister Baird. I
Speaker 2: can't remember though, because I'm getting old. You're the second
Speaker 2: largest or largest outdoor rodeo in America.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we are, especially on the Southwest out here, there's
Speaker 6: a couple of big ones out there. You still got
Speaker 6: Cheyenne and some other big ones out there. But we've
Speaker 6: got a big, big rodeo. We got a big fan base,
Speaker 6: and we got a big arena. I mean, if you
Speaker 6: go to any a lot of rodeos out there, this
Speaker 6: is one of the biggest arenas and people that's what
Speaker 6: they love about this. The contestants love about this. There's
Speaker 6: a lot of elbow room when you're inside that dirt.
Speaker 6: So it's where we're big time. We're big time. We're
Speaker 6: super proud of it.
Speaker 2: How long have you been part of this? Because I
Speaker 2: know once you're in you're kind of hooked, you know, Sam,
Speaker 2: it has been around for a couple of decades. Mister Williams,
Speaker 2: I think it was mister Williams. Gary was in forever.
Speaker 6: Oh man, Gary, he was. He was my mentor's note doubt.
Speaker 6: Gary was in it for about forty years. Sam's been
Speaker 6: in it for about ten years, maybe eight ten years.
Speaker 4: I still consider myself on you, but I've been out
Speaker 4: there since.
Speaker 6: Two thousand and five, and it sounds like a lot.
Speaker 6: But when you got people that have been out there
Speaker 6: for thirty forty to fifty even sixty years. You know,
Speaker 6: me hav him just twenty years into it. I'm still
Speaker 6: relatively new. But we you know, we continue to pay
Speaker 6: the road. We hope to get to this roadio to
Speaker 6: the next you know, two hundred year you know, I mean,
Speaker 6: we got to keep going. And we're pretty strong based
Speaker 6: out here. And like I said, it's.
Speaker 4: Part of our Tucson tradition. This is a.
Speaker 6: Tradition, part of Mexico and the US and the Buck
Speaker 6: Ghetto and the Buckhetto and the cowboy and the cowgirl.
Speaker 6: It's just part of our culture. And we just don't
Speaker 6: want to see that culture go away. It needs sustained Tucson,
Speaker 6: it really does.
Speaker 2: You talk about paved the way, but you also pay
Speaker 2: the way. I think it's u more than a half
Speaker 2: a million dollars in prize money, seven hundred thousand.
Speaker 6: There's so much money going out there. I'll tell you
Speaker 6: one thing, and that's whether that's why the cowboys love
Speaker 6: to come to our rodeo right here. And you know,
Speaker 6: we we we've been trying to do some you know,
Speaker 6: run some tests and everything else. And you know, we're
Speaker 6: generating close to seventeen million here in Tucson just those
Speaker 6: two weeks right there, just from people coming to Tucson Rodeo.
Speaker 6: So it's a big thing right now.
Speaker 4: There's people from all.
Speaker 6: Over the world to come see our rodeo and we're
Speaker 6: doing a lot of good things. Also, we're getting involved
Speaker 6: with a lot of organizations starting to do more community
Speaker 6: events out here.
Speaker 4: And that's what we want to do. We're in a
Speaker 4: comfortable set.
Speaker 6: We're comfortable in the saddle now that we can start
Speaker 6: utilizing these grounds more than just once a year and
Speaker 6: start doing more events and be part of more of
Speaker 6: a community. And we're pretty excited about that, and we're
Speaker 6: pretty excited about the future.
Speaker 2: Do you have since you've been here since in it
Speaker 2: since two thousand and five, any of the great memories
Speaker 2: that you have, you know, maybe have met somebody of
Speaker 2: a former big time dude or maybe even some movie
Speaker 2: stars that came through.
Speaker 6: I tell you, I've met some great people throughout this time,
Speaker 6: especially more in the rodeo business of course, and a
Speaker 6: lot of more people were I looked up to when
Speaker 6: I used to rodeo. I'll tell you when I wrote
Speaker 6: you in the early nineties, and I had more I
Speaker 6: had more hospital bills, and I did winning, so I
Speaker 6: can't think so.
Speaker 4: Much about that.
Speaker 6: But I did meet a lot of mentors, people I
Speaker 6: looked up to. And there's just something about the cowboy way,
Speaker 6: the cowboy love style where you do see the young
Speaker 6: kids they really look up to this right here, because
Speaker 6: I think everybody once in a lifetime wanted to be
Speaker 6: a cowboy or a cowboy at one time or another. And
Speaker 6: this is a big thing. And you know what, even
Speaker 6: though if you wear your hat three hundred and sixty
Speaker 6: five days of a year, you just wear it one
Speaker 6: time a year, it doesn't matter. We loved everybody to
Speaker 6: come to see our experience a great show, and it's
Speaker 6: it's open for everybody. And so the memories, it's hard
Speaker 6: to pick any, but I've had so many great memories
Speaker 6: pre Rodeo, when it's pride, became on the committee and
Speaker 6: being on the committee, and I still to this day
Speaker 6: need a lot of great people and doing a lot
Speaker 6: of great things for the sport and the communities.
Speaker 2: It's funny you're talking about hospital bills. I think a
Speaker 2: roofer in Tucson and a rodio dude in Tucson, he
Speaker 2: long way to make a living.
Speaker 6: Oh, I tell you, man, it's a hard right There's
Speaker 6: no doubt there's a hard gig right there. That's what
Speaker 6: makes the sport so unique. You know, it's you know,
Speaker 6: it's a lot of times. You know, we talk about
Speaker 6: that eight second ride, but it does feel like an
Speaker 6: eternity up there. But it's amazing with these men and
Speaker 6: women they put their body through. And I'll tell you what,
Speaker 6: we tip our hats to this wonderful stock. They are
Speaker 6: everything's everything in that arena is an athlete.
Speaker 3: So you kind of go ahead, No, I was going
Speaker 3: to ask because they I mean, this is phenomenal. And
Speaker 3: when you get a chance, can you share with with
Speaker 3: the audience of leading up to this event what people
Speaker 3: can attend, what they can look for, you know, I
Speaker 3: mean people want to get involved, people want to be
Speaker 3: around at prices. Yeah, I mean all the all the
Speaker 3: information you can share, that would be great.
Speaker 6: You bed, well, any information you need to know, of course,
Speaker 6: you get on tusonrodeo dot com and if anybody out
Speaker 6: there is also, we got so many things that you
Speaker 6: can get involved with as far as volunteering, being a sponsor,
Speaker 6: or being any type of advisor. It cand of be
Speaker 6: part of this organization. But tous Rodeo, like I said,
Speaker 6: we open the door to anybody that must be part
Speaker 6: of it. And all you have to do is basically
Speaker 6: call the Rodeo office, speak to a few of us,
Speaker 6: and we can lead you in the right direction of
Speaker 6: what you can get involved in. But we can always
Speaker 6: take all the help in the world. We are a
Speaker 6: volunteer organization and you know, nonprofit of that, and so
Speaker 6: there's lots of things that anybody's interested in getting involved.
Speaker 6: You just call anybody that's been out there, or just
Speaker 6: call in the office and they'll lead you to the
Speaker 6: right person.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: You talked about the weather. I hope it's going to
Speaker 2: be good, right because I've been there a couple of times.
Speaker 2: It's rained. I guess it's supposed to rain on Friday.
Speaker 2: But you're you start really next week.
Speaker 6: We start this weekend.
Speaker 4: This is this is this weekend, you know what, And
Speaker 4: that's the thing.
Speaker 6: And we do everything right and we're ready and it's
Speaker 6: just up to mother nature hopefully she cooperates with us.
Speaker 6: But looking at everything and looking at the Farmer's Almanac,
Speaker 6: even at that, and it looks like we're gonna be okay,
Speaker 6: and it looks like the wedding is just supposed to
Speaker 6: be just perfect, and we really want that enough.
Speaker 4: It's not so much for us, even though we're.
Speaker 6: Out all year trying to get this ready. But woll
Speaker 6: I'll tell you one thing. To see those families out
Speaker 6: there and you see a bad weather or rain, hits heartbreaking.
Speaker 6: So I really want families to be out there and
Speaker 6: enjoy yourself and just have a great time and enjoy
Speaker 6: what we provide this great event here in Tucson.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what the number I had written about
Speaker 2: the expectations with the crowd for all these days, but
Speaker 2: it's sell out every time. Every day it's gone.
Speaker 6: Well, we're shutting down a ray some days already. I
Speaker 6: tell you one thing, if you're thinking of going to
Speaker 6: the rodeo, you better get your tickets now, because do
Speaker 6: not wait at the gate because they may.
Speaker 4: Be sold out.
Speaker 6: We've sold out in a lot of venues like a
Speaker 6: Buckheto club that I run also wet selling tickets out
Speaker 6: in October, and that last weekend I'm pretty sure is
Speaker 6: already done. So there's only four days left really, and
Speaker 6: you can buy some tickets, So you really need to
Speaker 6: get online or go to the rodeo office on six
Speaker 6: and Irving ten and get your tickets now, because it's
Speaker 6: heartbreaking when I see people out there in the line
Speaker 6: and it's sold out and they have to walk away.
Speaker 6: Get there early. The gates open now at ten. Wesed
Speaker 6: to open at eleven. We got the gates open at
Speaker 6: ten so people can roam around check things out. And
Speaker 6: then of course the Junior Rodeo and the Little Mutton
Speaker 6: Busting starts at twelve thirty to one thirty. There's a
Speaker 6: half hour break and then our event starts at two o'clock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's a lot of fun. Ose One wants
Speaker 3: to come out and ride. He said, he's been really
Speaker 3: looking for do you can we bring him out and
Speaker 3: throw him up on a horseland.
Speaker 6: Week and we can do that, and just to make
Speaker 6: it safe, well duct tape his hands to the horn
Speaker 6: and bottom of feet together, so we've got a good
Speaker 6: long ride on there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how we have it into the studio right now. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 2: no it must be. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Thank you man, Thank you, jose.
Speaker 6: Oh Man, thank you so much for letting us be
Speaker 6: part of your program there and if there's anything you
Speaker 6: need from us, you just be sure you give us
Speaker 6: a call.
Speaker 2: Well you do have a great time. But you know, lastly,
Speaker 2: you guys have been down at that site for a while.
Speaker 2: But that's not the original site, right, Oh god.
Speaker 6: No, the old site was out there. The Polo feels
Speaker 6: out there.
Speaker 4: In nineteen twenty five. That's where they started and they.
Speaker 6: Lined up all the Model a's and that was part
Speaker 6: of the arena. They made a big circle and used
Speaker 6: the headlines when they needed to. And I'll tell you
Speaker 6: one thing, it's I just wonder what the people back
Speaker 6: in nineteen twenty five thought if everybody's ever going to
Speaker 6: go to one hundred years.
Speaker 4: You know, they were just putting on an event.
Speaker 6: And here we are today.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure we'll keep it going. Man, Thank you, jose
Speaker 2: you beat Take care, guys, you will rodeo one of
Speaker 2: the staples on too soon.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 3: I mean it's wild the buzz it has around, especially
Speaker 3: for this year. But I mean, like casually talking to people.
Speaker 3: So many people are coming into town for this right right.
Speaker 2: And like I said, Juan, and then the locals, the locals,
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you guys love as kids. Yeah,
Speaker 2: rodeo weekend. For the last four years, I've missed it.
Speaker 2: Being at the U of A.
Speaker 5: I go up to my friends and co workers and
Speaker 5: I should be offering up. They like, what do you mean,
Speaker 5: So it's the rodeo? Yeah, what's the rodeo?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can tell you.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When you talk to people that aren't from here, it
Speaker 3: like blows their mind, right that we get two days
Speaker 3: off for that.
Speaker 2: Right, and two sounds like that perfect size city where
Speaker 2: it's still home, it's still Mayberry is still kind of
Speaker 2: smallish to have a rodeo, you know, because Vegas they
Speaker 2: have this, you know, big to do. Yeah, but here
Speaker 2: it's it's a rodeo. Yeah, it's a rodeo. Still, it's authentic, right,
Speaker 2: it's a rodeo. Yeah. When you say rodio, rodeo yeah yeah. Okay,
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to an the bout here on Fox
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Speaker 3: You're from southern Arizona, sports, tourism and films. You already
Speaker 3: do that World Paseok World Baseball Classic. It's right again
Speaker 3: now hit me. But you grew with World Baseball Classic,
Speaker 3: and that's that is March second of March.
Speaker 2: Six Yeah, people already asking me about going, and I
Speaker 2: gotta get my credential.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get your headshot. Is that what you need? Get
Speaker 3: your credentials. You'll be fine, it'll turn your way if
Speaker 3: you get You're right.
Speaker 2: Why are you gonna go that? So it should be
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Actually, might right do it cover
Speaker 2: it for class.
Speaker 5: I'm in the kats eye news classes where we put
Speaker 5: on the newscast and uh make packages and both with
Speaker 5: posts and whatever, and so I might might end up
Speaker 5: doing it on that one.
Speaker 2: Will you do me a favor and we'll get off there.
Speaker 3: And I hate to do it on there, but Thursday's
Speaker 3: college night, and so we're defining all that. You can
Speaker 3: help push it out to the uve and all the kids.
Speaker 3: So I know you've got spring break came up a
Speaker 3: couple of days after that. But it's a great There's
Speaker 3: gonna be drink specials and food specials.
Speaker 2: Just say just say the drinks. That's college. Don't drink.
Speaker 2: Go study.
Speaker 3: You know I went to college, right, And what's your point?
Speaker 3: I think you're they get wrong about your assessment. You're
Speaker 3: a good drinker, not a good study.
Speaker 2: That's it. I made it through. Did you what you
Speaker 2: get to do? Did you get no? University of Colorado,
Speaker 2: Denver Metros. That's right. We talked about the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: let's talk more about the baseball. Anybody want to call
Speaker 2: to talk about last night's game, that's fine. You want
Speaker 2: to get the frustration out. Of course, it may already
Speaker 2: be out after last night's game. I think they'll be
Speaker 2: fine on Saturday. Should be fun. If you have a ticket,
Speaker 2: good for you. I think if you have season tickets
Speaker 2: like you do this, this is the reason why you
Speaker 2: have season tickets. You had Iowa State, Duke Duke, Texas Tech, Houston, Houston, Baylor,
Speaker 2: Yes for and then you have to who's here for
Speaker 2: the non conference? You see only up there in Phoenix
Speaker 2: that's at Yeah. No, but yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Can we can we talk about this real quick before
Speaker 3: we move on? What's your feelings on neutral site games
Speaker 3: as a fan?
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan. I like I like them. I
Speaker 2: like them because it kind of gives you a true
Speaker 2: gage of who you are. You don't get you have
Speaker 2: the fans, but let me see, fans don't mean anything otherwise.
Speaker 2: There was one was gone to fifteen thousand final fours. Okay,
Speaker 2: but is the purpose having in the footprint center? So,
Speaker 2: like we were talking about it earlier, we went and
Speaker 2: saw Indiana play in Vegas and it was seventy percent
Speaker 2: Indiana fans and we travel well. It blew my mind. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's a neutral site that I'm like, Okay, this makes sense.
Speaker 2: Hold the thought because I want to talk about that. Okay,
Speaker 2: we got a call. Hello, you're in the air. Hey Steve,
Speaker 2: this is done.
Speaker 10: How'm going?
Speaker 2: Yes, my sparring.
Speaker 4: Partners very well.
Speaker 10: I meant to get in about an hour ago, but
Speaker 10: I got busy with work and everything, so I had
Speaker 10: to come in and take my lumps. But but as
Speaker 10: I'm thinking about it, Arizona didn't lose to Kansas State
Speaker 10: last night.
Speaker 2: They beat them so, without questions, without.
Speaker 10: Question, if they if they played like they had the
Speaker 10: last three weeks, they beat those They beat those guys
Speaker 10: by fifteen, no question.
Speaker 2: Man. But Kansas State's not a slouch. Let's let's start
Speaker 2: that there. They're not a slouch. If guess what if
Speaker 2: Arizona were to play well in the in in March
Speaker 2: how they had been playing, they get to the final four.
Speaker 2: But guess what, it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 4: It just doesn't.
Speaker 10: No, no, it doesn't. And we know that because you know,
Speaker 10: we've been here a long.
Speaker 2: Time exactly, and.
Speaker 10: When it's crunch time, as and Arizona has lost very
Speaker 10: few times where they've beaten by the other team. It
Speaker 10: has been our you know, our own undoings or their
Speaker 10: own ondoings. I'm not on the team and I don't
Speaker 10: have season tickets anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so you you followed it closely for a
Speaker 2: long time. I know that done because of how we
Speaker 2: talk on the show. Uh, isn't it perfect? Arizona basketball?
Speaker 2: They played this They played the last few games very
Speaker 2: very well in the Texas, Texas, Iowa States. Then they
Speaker 2: laid this one, laid this one a gig and then
Speaker 2: Saturday play out of their mind and win. And just
Speaker 2: that's just how it is.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that that's that's how it goes. And that's what
Speaker 10: we're all hoping to see. But I mean, we could
Speaker 10: see last night again and get run out of our
Speaker 10: own building. It's I don't think it's very likely, but
Speaker 10: we could see that. And and and I don't like
Speaker 10: neutral site games.
Speaker 2: Because because I mean, well, if if if you want
Speaker 2: to have a series and you want to.
Speaker 4: Play, well, let's let's let's say let's take u C.
Speaker 2: L A.
Speaker 10: Because now you know now that's going to be out
Speaker 10: of conference and everything else, those games should be at Poly,
Speaker 10: at Michale, not in Phoenix, and not at THET I
Speaker 10: don't even know what it's called, the Honda Center, the
Speaker 10: Arrowhead Pond. I mean that diminishes it for both schools,
Speaker 10: for both student bodies, and just for the college game altogether.
Speaker 10: You know they're not it's not an NBA game. It
Speaker 10: doesn't need to be in some at some corporate location
Speaker 10: off off campus.
Speaker 2: I mean I would I don't disagree with both of
Speaker 2: you guys. To me, it doesn't matter if that's what
Speaker 2: I was gonna go with it, But I think part
Speaker 2: of the proceeds are nil they put it into I mean,
Speaker 2: that makes sense to me.
Speaker 3: But I think the old school thought process was creating
Speaker 3: a different fan base or extending a fan base, which
Speaker 3: I don't think you really. I mean, I've been to
Speaker 3: those neutral side games and I don't think that's really well.
Speaker 2: Well, Phoenix exactly because they have a lot of alums
Speaker 2: in Phoenix allowed the chance to see you. You areson to.
Speaker 3: Play, Yeah, but would you rather watch Arizona play at
Speaker 3: Footprint Center or at McHale. It's a completely different atmosphere.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the home court, the home court advantage is still
Speaker 10: there because you could Arizona could play, could play an
Speaker 10: East Coast team at Team Mobile in Vegas, and okay,
Speaker 10: it's Vegas. Every I can get there. Arizona's still going
Speaker 10: to have a home court advantage, but it's not Michale Center.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 2: I will debate you with the home court advantage because
Speaker 2: numerous times, Well, you talked about the Indiana game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we went to that Indian game. Indiana game with
Speaker 3: seventy thirty is not not even believing.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that Arizona fans that got there says, oh,
Speaker 2: we're Arizona. We have with Norris, Oh look at this.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was. It was mind blowing. Yes, par do
Speaker 2: you give you some awakening? Oh? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: I mean it's also the Plac twelve mentality at that
Speaker 3: point to where it's kind of the King's crowns.
Speaker 2: You're wearing it. Hey done, before you go, come me
Speaker 2: on front. Jay's going to be with me. We can
Speaker 2: talk about Saturday's game. Okay. And I still heard.
Speaker 4: You of a chance last night on the TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah that went? How well? Did it go?
Speaker 10: Well? You know, I mean you hear it, and you
Speaker 10: hear it and it looks good when other teams are
Speaker 10: looking at watching the game where you're going, there's Arizona
Speaker 10: fans there, Holy holy right.
Speaker 2: You know it looks good. Yeah, okay, thanks time, we'll
Speaker 2: talk to you.
Speaker 4: Fiveday, thank you.
Speaker 2: Man. So to your point in Vegas, uh and just
Speaker 2: and that's kind of a point. And I've seen it.
Speaker 2: I traveled with the team for a long time. Arizona
Speaker 2: goes to Anaheim. Their home court advantage sweet sixteen ille
Speaker 2: eight whatever. You know how you know how that meant
Speaker 2: last year they played you know what meant zero zero?
Speaker 2: It means nothing. Oh, they play well, they're going to
Speaker 2: be travel having ninety percent of the fans there, it
Speaker 2: means nothing. Every time they play in Anaheim, they lose
Speaker 2: in the tournament with fans. Yeah, that's true. There's no
Speaker 2: home court adtage when there's fans. They had to play
Speaker 2: the other team on a neutral site court. Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: not used to that court. You're not playing on it
Speaker 2: every day, and both teams have to deal with it.
Speaker 2: Fans in the sands doesn't mean anything. It doesn't. It means,
Speaker 2: oh they have more fat who cares? Yeah, honestly, I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to be flippant or funny. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: if if I were to do a dissertation, I would
Speaker 2: use those examples.
Speaker 3: I remember playing the White Sox, a ball team, and
Speaker 3: we were walking out of the stadium or walking into
Speaker 3: the game, I can't remember which one, and fans were
Speaker 3: calling us Yankees and then like get out of here,
Speaker 3: you Yankees, and it was like the weirdest moment in
Speaker 3: my life, like cursing at us and like spitting in
Speaker 3: our general direction, and I was like, where am I?
Speaker 3: But I was in South Carolina. That's where I was
Speaker 3: at that point. So it's just the strangest thing I've
Speaker 3: ever And did it matter didn't. No, I don't care
Speaker 3: at all. Only one time I've ever seen a heckler
Speaker 3: and the audience like affects somebody's performance on the field.
Speaker 3: So it's a story. I had to tell you off here,
Speaker 3: said you can understand what are you in the South? Yes,
Speaker 3: same place, Okay, it doesn't shock, same series calls.
Speaker 2: We're good. Yeah. So to your point, home court advantage,
Speaker 2: it's not if it's actually home court advantage, yes, because
Speaker 2: it's comfortable, you know exactly where the spots are, you
Speaker 2: know the room. Kansas State Party benefited a little from it,
Speaker 2: even though they shot forty two. But neutral side fans, fans,
Speaker 2: fans Vegas, Vegas, they have a lot of fans. Okay,
Speaker 2: so what yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: I was saying more from our you know, our community standpoint,
Speaker 3: where you're you know, you're talking about ticket holders or
Speaker 3: season ticket holders or you're buying a group of tickets,
Speaker 3: and you're going into it going okay, like we talked
Speaker 3: about you, Duke Houston, Baylor. You've got all these phenomenal teams,
Speaker 3: and you're like UCLA's on there. But then I've got
Speaker 3: to go to so I'm paying for season ticket, but
Speaker 3: then I've got to pay for another ticket to go to.
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, you had tickets? So was that a home
Speaker 2: Was that a home court ticket? No?
Speaker 3: No, no, I had to pay for the for the
Speaker 3: UCLA ticket. But as it is like for me, and
Speaker 3: I know this is just saying this in the air
Speaker 3: now a grievances because I'll all use complain all the time. Uh,
Speaker 3: if I'm paying for season tickets, I don't want to
Speaker 3: drive an hour and a half up north to watch
Speaker 3: a game that should be played in Sure. But did
Speaker 3: you go yeah, of course we do. Yeah, And I
Speaker 3: was depressed the whole second half. I was ten minutes
Speaker 3: that I didn't so I was sulking. Let me say
Speaker 3: this because the projections are and it's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: But the backetology it was almost a three and I.
Speaker 2: Think I'm saying three ten ten overall is what in
Speaker 2: UCLA's part of that and they would play in the
Speaker 2: second round Arizonna beat them by ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean u c l A just beat Michigan State.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I would agree with you on that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: turnaround game, they'll beat them easy. Yeah, I shouldn't say easy,
Speaker 3: but they'll beat them. We're not going to be a
Speaker 3: three c I. It's gonna now no, Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be a tough stretch to these next three games.
Speaker 2: You'll be I would be, So, I would be, okay
Speaker 2: if we want one to show you guys really want one,
Speaker 2: you're realistic because now you've listened to me enough to
Speaker 2: become realistic. And you're a long time that and so
Speaker 2: and so are you. So you listen to to Briant.
Speaker 2: The front end was was what it was. And I've
Speaker 2: been telling they're not as good as you think they are.
Speaker 2: They're not as good as you think they are. They're
Speaker 2: pretty good, but they're not as good as you think
Speaker 2: they are. And now the back end, So how were
Speaker 2: you bought into the eleven and one good? Please and
Speaker 2: be honest, one hundred percent honest.
Speaker 3: I think this is this is a really good team
Speaker 3: in the sense that when they play as a team,
Speaker 3: I think they can beat anybody.
Speaker 2: What do you mean by really good? Good? Not great? Good?
Speaker 2: Not great? I think they're better than good, Okay. I
Speaker 2: think to see a team.
Speaker 3: Go from what we started to get to the point
Speaker 3: that now they have to be better than good. You
Speaker 3: have to have key pieces, and you're seeing guys develop
Speaker 3: in front of your You're looking at the transition of
Speaker 3: Alaka and Vsar once you know, totally. We all talked
Speaker 3: about this, and people might disagree with me. Miller was
Speaker 3: a phenomenal recruiter, maybe the best in the country, you know,
Speaker 3: a top three, But I never saw players truly developed, developer, right,
Speaker 3: And with Tommy, this is the first time that you're
Speaker 3: watching these guys like to.
Speaker 2: His credit to Miller, he didn't have them long enough
Speaker 2: to develop. No, and he probably didn't need to. You're
Speaker 2: getting all Americans, right, You're getting high level guys. You're
Speaker 2: getting five star guys. Thanks for noticing. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 2: but it's a different aspect. I don't think you I
Speaker 2: don't think you can call them good. I think they
Speaker 2: have to be really good and they're not great, but
Speaker 2: I think they're a team that so that tells me
Speaker 2: they are a five to six seven. See I think
Speaker 2: four to seven. I think four to six. Okay, so
Speaker 2: good one one? So how do you feel about that?
Speaker 2: Are they good? Were they good? How good?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 1: Leven?
Speaker 2: In one? They were good? Very good? What were they?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: I'll agree, really good? Where there was really no middle
Speaker 5: level with them. They were either playing perfect games or
Speaker 5: near perfect games or just kind of getting by. And
Speaker 5: you're just kind of wondering, well, which team's gonna show
Speaker 5: up today? Which Caleb Love is going to show up today? Well, well,
Speaker 5: Henry Vassar show up today.
Speaker 2: Isn't that scary moving forward? Because you have you are
Speaker 2: always going to have that which which Caleb Love is
Speaker 2: gonna show up? But Henry is going to show up?
Speaker 2: Maybe Jaleb Jayden plays better? You known' I'm saying it's Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think you have so many pieces
Speaker 2: that step up. I mean delorso we don't talk about
Speaker 2: a lot, but that's a guy that if he can
Speaker 2: get like I thought, I thought Tommy was going to
Speaker 2: ride him a little bit more last night from an
Speaker 2: offen because and he got some shots off like that
Speaker 2: that bank shot that he put up early.
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, he found a rhythm. I just
Speaker 3: think you have some A walk has turned into a
Speaker 3: monster underneath there. Not a double dumble machine, but pretty close.
Speaker 3: I think Brian's going to continue. So I think you
Speaker 3: can have the you know, you can have love be off,
Speaker 3: you can have Visa. Bradley's gonna step up. We don't
Speaker 3: even talk about kJ nearly enough for what he contributes
Speaker 3: to the game. Last night we had one of those
Speaker 3: crazy games. Yeah, it's just it's it's I would be
Speaker 3: more surprised us losing in the first round this year
Speaker 3: in March than I would if we went to the
Speaker 3: lead the eight.
Speaker 2: But does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Like I see this team, I'm more comfortable coming on
Speaker 3: the air and saying like when I fin out finished,
Speaker 3: I'll fill out my bracket and I've got them going
Speaker 3: to the lead eight. I'm more comfortable with this team
Speaker 3: in that situation than I have been in the years past,
Speaker 3: because really I'm talking about the losses we've had to
Speaker 3: Texas Tech to Case State Like, they're not blowout losses.
Speaker 3: So even at our worst, we still are grinding with
Speaker 3: a chance to win the game. Where you look, in
Speaker 3: the years past, we were getting our bots blown out
Speaker 3: in certain games when we didn't step up, when we
Speaker 3: played down to the competition. I think it's just a
Speaker 3: different feel for me.
Speaker 2: Well, we talked about this, yes, so I called it
Speaker 2: the last two games, the Sprinkle game. You got a
Speaker 2: little dash of this and that from everybody, even even
Speaker 2: Caleb going six for twelve seventeen. That's a dash enough
Speaker 2: for him because he's got fifteen points in a few suss.
Speaker 2: But you need you definitely need that every game. You
Speaker 2: definitely need that because that covers for Caleb.
Speaker 3: Yeah tell me, Yeah, No, we talked about that earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And you're gonna and when you're playing, when you're playing
Speaker 3: the Houstons of the world that are your top ten.
Speaker 2: You have no worry about that. I don't have they
Speaker 2: play Houston and they're playing him in the Sweet sixteen,
Speaker 2: blah blah. I have no worry. They're not gonna show up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you play you play college with Charleston in the first round.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, I really don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, the scary thing is if a team gets
Speaker 3: hot from three. But I thought, b why you shot
Speaker 3: pretty well from the beyond the arc, and we hung
Speaker 3: with them.
Speaker 2: And then we kind of just kick their butts. But
Speaker 2: you're not gonna say. You're not gonna say, oh, we're
Speaker 2: really good because we beat b YU well, because we
Speaker 2: beat you know, West Virginia and Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: No, I'm saying really good because we were able to
Speaker 3: transition into a completely different offensive flow mid season and
Speaker 3: watch to turn on a defense that I've when's the
Speaker 3: last time you saw Arizona play defense?
Speaker 2: No, let me tell you. Sold me on their toughness
Speaker 2: and their defense. Yeah, and you're gonna lose it sometimes
Speaker 2: like last night. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that right there is why I think this is
Speaker 5: a sweet sixteen. I can comfortably say even in a
Speaker 5: month that this is a sweet sixteen team.
Speaker 2: Defense, defense, toughness, toughness. And now if you just had
Speaker 2: some offense, and that's a scary that's that's the offense
Speaker 2: shows up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, lead a final four, possibly sweet sixteen is this
Speaker 5: is quite the sweet spot for this Arizona team.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this question. Have you have we
Speaker 3: seen this team? I'm maybe we talked about it a
Speaker 3: little bit that first half in Baylor, but have you
Speaker 3: seen this team at its very best?
Speaker 2: Texas Tech? Texas Tech in that stretch where they were tough,
Speaker 2: they were like I hadn't seen tough like this, toughness
Speaker 2: like this in a long time, and things were going
Speaker 2: really well with a good offensive plans. It was plenty
Speaker 2: of in the second half.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you you watch those stretches and there's times
Speaker 3: that you're like, Okay, this is a real deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but those are just fleeting stretches. Yeah, okay, thanks man,
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in. Was that it? Yeah, we didn't talk.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot.
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Speaker 2: Thanks prediction for Saturday or just win.
Speaker 3: You think when I think, oh my gosh, sixty nine
Speaker 3: seventy one ub there we go. Okay, but I don't
Speaker 3: believe that I'm saying it. But I don't know if
Speaker 3: I believe that. Okay, thanks