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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In
Speaker 2: with me today is Blake Eager. He's not here yet,
Speaker 2: but we got Juan with us in this booth and
Speaker 2: we have Ray working the mic so here on the
Speaker 2: other side. The contraption, whatever the hell it is, That's
Speaker 2: why I don't do it, contraction. Welcome to Wednesday's show.
Speaker 2: Should be fun. It should be fun. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: ELK Tour director Executive director TJ. Jesskowitz in with some
Speaker 2: news about tomorrow and the ride. And then we're gonna
Speaker 2: have one of our great guests, that mattmil Buck, former
Speaker 2: U of A football, football, former basketball player, attorney. I
Speaker 2: want to talk to him about your guy that we
Speaker 2: just talked about before, is the Tennessee Tenessee quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I can't even say his name. We all NKO collectively,
Speaker 4: we call him Nico.
Speaker 5: What's his lasting? It's just that I Nico. Okay, we'll
Speaker 5: call him that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I sent him a video with with some
Speaker 2: thoughts from j Billis you guess he had a show
Speaker 2: with UH with coach k about all this. Eventually, the kids,
Speaker 2: maybe the student athletes starting to maybe thoughts, will becoming employees.
Speaker 2: I think that'd be the worst thing for them.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, because at that point you're taking away the
Speaker 4: student park in student.
Speaker 2: Athlete, and they won't have as many rights as they
Speaker 2: do as a free, free guy exactly.
Speaker 4: You know, it's just it's a crazy time right now.
Speaker 4: And it's not just college football. We had to see
Speaker 4: to this magnitude in college basketball, but maybe that's just
Speaker 4: because college football is a little bit more drama esque.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I bet you that we will see it in basketball.
Speaker 2: We didn't see it this year at least right right,
Speaker 2: people threatening not to play in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: And we're waiting.
Speaker 4: We're kind of waiting on that high recruit goes to
Speaker 4: school one year, tries to leave for more money the
Speaker 4: next and UH, in my opinion, probably settles. This is
Speaker 4: kind of what happening with this situation with Miko, because
Speaker 4: I don't believe UCLA would pay the four million that
Speaker 4: he's asking the ransom.
Speaker 2: No, no, I think and that's part of the charm
Speaker 2: because no one else really wants him, so he might
Speaker 2: be that might be the last resort for him.
Speaker 4: And all honestly, I followed very loosely, and then all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, you get these reports, Oh, tou Lane's
Speaker 4: pulling out North Carolina's I didn't know they had were
Speaker 4: in contention, right right.
Speaker 2: They don't want to pay the guy, which of course
Speaker 2: is every right to not to pay the guy, even
Speaker 2: though you have this high price price tag. Uh So
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens with that. But that's kind of
Speaker 2: like the president, the president of the whole situation with football.
Speaker 5: And it's just interesting.
Speaker 4: You read things here and there on X or wherever
Speaker 4: you find joy in your life? Uh yeah, with not
Speaker 4: an X Yeah exactly, you.
Speaker 5: Ever did a hot chick? Don't let me start here.
Speaker 5: But either way, you know, you get these stories.
Speaker 4: I would guess that you call him where Nico almost
Speaker 4: sat out of that first college football playoff game out
Speaker 4: of Ohio State, And you just kind of wonder if
Speaker 4: maybe that went into all credit to Ohio State. You know,
Speaker 4: they obviously won it all, but that game really wasn't
Speaker 4: that competitive.
Speaker 5: Maybe that's the reason.
Speaker 4: Why you know, you have your starter quarterback, thinking about
Speaker 4: other things. Yeah, thinking about four million dollars. If you
Speaker 4: would have payed better, maybe they would have paid him
Speaker 4: exactly exactly.
Speaker 6: And he was getting crushed that whole game.
Speaker 7: I mean, everybody there was those famous pictures of him
Speaker 7: cracking two helmets because when it was so cold and
Speaker 7: two he was getting hit so hard.
Speaker 6: But I mean.
Speaker 4: Exactly, that's why I went and got Wendel moy from
Speaker 4: right here in Tucson.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was it's gonna be interesting dynamic. I think,
Speaker 7: you know, it was a van going to come anyways
Speaker 7: with somebody. And now what I see, like on a
Speaker 7: lot of sports shows is that people are like, do
Speaker 7: you start contracts?
Speaker 6: What do you what do you put in those contracts?
Speaker 6: And how do you do that?
Speaker 7: Kind of like what you guys were talking about already.
Speaker 7: But I mean, it was a bound to happen eventually.
Speaker 7: It it's it kind of sucks that it happened this way,
Speaker 7: just because you know, you don't want like, you know,
Speaker 7: he's only twenty.
Speaker 6: You know, he's like just exact starting his life two
Speaker 6: years ago.
Speaker 5: He was going to problem.
Speaker 7: Exactly right, And so yeah, I think that's the only
Speaker 7: thing that like kind.
Speaker 6: Of makes you feel a little bad for him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so you guys are older than the eighteen obviously,
Speaker 2: how smart were you at eighteen?
Speaker 5: Smart?
Speaker 4: You think you think I was smart? You know, I
Speaker 4: think I'm giving you some credit. I think both of
Speaker 4: you guys, But you know I'm asking for a reason
Speaker 4: because at eighteen, you think you know it all. You
Speaker 4: have all these answers out your hands right right, and
Speaker 4: you're not going to die and nothing bad will ever
Speaker 4: happen exactly, And then you wake up in the morning
Speaker 4: and says, what the hell I gotta go to school?
Speaker 5: What do I exactly? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So, and then I think he's not alone in this decision,
Speaker 2: because I think his.
Speaker 5: Dad was part of it. Right, I didn't hear anything
Speaker 5: about that.
Speaker 6: There's conflicting reports about it.
Speaker 2: For report how much influence he had, Yeah, right, right?
Speaker 2: So uh but if you think your stuff doesn't stink, uh,
Speaker 2: and you like the Vegas like the Vegas kids. Vin
Speaker 2: Seasons married two three slua some of that.
Speaker 5: Yes, like that.
Speaker 2: So he he demanded more money and they were undefeated,
Speaker 2: and they says, okay, don't let the door hit you
Speaker 2: in the ass, and they stayed pretty solid.
Speaker 5: They went bowling and they won their bawl.
Speaker 2: Right, undefeated, undefeated for a long time until they didn't
Speaker 2: feel undefeated.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: But you know everyone thinks their stuff doesn't stink until
Speaker 2: it does.
Speaker 4: Yeah, mine, and mine never does. I'll tell you that. No, no,
Speaker 4: your stuff. Yeah, that's why. That's why in a month,
Speaker 4: exactly a month and start to sea, I'll be graduating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my stuff never stink.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And then guess what happens? Oh, I guess I do
Speaker 2: smell a little. No one wants to hire me, Blake,
Speaker 2: set the door, kid, you want to get to go?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 4: Well, so the whole thing about this Nico situation is
Speaker 4: supposedly it was never about the money. It was supposedly
Speaker 4: about the offense, the Tennessee offense. And there's no sense.
Speaker 4: And you're just hearing that now, exactly. Why didn't you
Speaker 4: hear it then or mid season? Or they had a
Speaker 4: good season, right, they went to the college football playoffs.
Speaker 4: It was obviously a good enough offense to make the playoffs, right,
Speaker 4: and he's good enough to handle it too, right exactly?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, well, well, look who's here do we have to
Speaker 2: have the trumpets.
Speaker 9: I was expecting more of like a red carpet treatment
Speaker 9: if I was going to be this late, But no,
Speaker 9: it was just nice. Thanks for thanks for being paid.
Speaker 9: You must have come from somewhere important. You look halfway decent, yeah,
Speaker 9: with no hat.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 9: So we're trying to work on an expansion for the
Speaker 9: Mexican Baseball Fiesta. So we've had a couple of meetings
Speaker 9: with different communities surrounding southern Arizona.
Speaker 2: Okay, we won't ask you how that goes because it's
Speaker 2: still way early.
Speaker 9: Probably, yeah, I mean every all good conversations, right, Good
Speaker 9: to see.
Speaker 5: You without a hat.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you have the.
Speaker 9: One side of my head. Don't laugh, Kwan's laughing, don't laugh.
Speaker 9: List admit it's grown out enough to where I did
Speaker 9: I tell you about this last week I had. I
Speaker 9: had to go to a breakfast club and somebody came
Speaker 9: over and was like, this is two weeks ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: A gentleman came over.
Speaker 9: And said, hey, there's an older German here that would
Speaker 9: like you to remove your hat, and I was like,
Speaker 9: I would too, but have you seen this haircut? I
Speaker 9: pulled my hat off and he goes, oh, no, keep
Speaker 9: the hat on who exploit it to the older gentleman,
Speaker 9: how's everybody? The older gentleman was the priest? Yea father, father,
Speaker 9: good reference. Hey, welcome, welcome, mister Premadada.
Speaker 5: We're talking.
Speaker 2: We're talking about another prima donna, the Tennessee quarterback who
Speaker 2: you know, maybe pulled a few too many strings and
Speaker 2: now will end up where he ends up.
Speaker 9: And what's a ripple effect from that through college football?
Speaker 5: I think it might be a.
Speaker 2: Good thing that guys will say, we better not pull
Speaker 2: this off because we might get one a label of
Speaker 2: being a pain in the ass. I'm just throwing stuff
Speaker 2: out here. Pain of the ass maybe tough to deal with.
Speaker 2: And who's gonna want to coach me if I act
Speaker 2: like this? Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, one hundred percent. I think there's coaches, and we
Speaker 9: talked about a lot about on the show, But like
Speaker 9: Tommy Lloyd, I think coaches or recruits on a couple
Speaker 9: of different levels. But I think character is always one
Speaker 9: of his, if not the most important.
Speaker 2: It's up there, right, And he does say this publicly
Speaker 2: that he's hoping for whatever, hope that he doesn't have
Speaker 2: to deal with the nil all that much because he's
Speaker 2: hoping the kids that come here want to be coached
Speaker 2: up and developed. Notwithstanding they're getting paid too, right, they're
Speaker 2: getting paid maybe hopefully maybe at a discount price because
Speaker 2: we're coming here to get developed.
Speaker 9: I think when you're looking at and what he's able
Speaker 9: to do on and off the court from a development standpoint,
Speaker 9: if I'm a player that wants to go to a
Speaker 9: program that I see longevity or a career path, you've's
Speaker 9: got to be in the top five, I would say,
Speaker 9: just from a development standpoint, from where they started. I mean,
Speaker 9: you're looking at guys like they are. You're looking at
Speaker 9: a wakas of the world, especially big men that you're
Speaker 9: seeing step on the court the first time. You're going,
Speaker 9: I don't know if they can play at this level
Speaker 9: to the point where they're going. These guys are, I mean,
Speaker 9: Vassar is a draft pick at some point.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, because you played for a
Speaker 2: cup of coffee or two in your baseball career, what
Speaker 2: level double Yeah, So I'm sure you ran into a
Speaker 2: number if you weren't one of them. Because I've heard
Speaker 2: stories already with you in the building the college coming
Speaker 2: from inside the half and I'll say this because I
Speaker 2: was a former baseball player. I've dealt with them in
Speaker 2: my professional life. They're paid in the assets A lot
Speaker 2: of them have are Premia Donnas, and you have to
Speaker 2: be a Premiam Dona to a certain degree to be good, right,
Speaker 2: to be good. But I'm sure you've saw many of
Speaker 2: them who thought they were better than they were and
Speaker 2: probably one and more than they got.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll tell you a perfect story we had, So
Speaker 9: I think it differs. Right, college guys are a little
Speaker 9: bit different than high school christ. Right, you've got that maturity,
Speaker 9: You've been knocked down a couple of pegs. A high
Speaker 9: school guys coming in as a high draft pick, he's seventeen,
Speaker 9: eighteen years old, he's already a millionaire, close to it,
Speaker 9: good example, doesn't really understand how the world works, which
Speaker 9: they shouldn't, right to a degree. Yeah, but we had
Speaker 9: a guy that wore a Yankees jersey in the clubhouse
Speaker 9: hold held. He was eighteen, high school draft pick, first year,
Speaker 9: gets drafted. Right, we show up, he's wearing a Yankees
Speaker 9: jersey and a Mets clubhouse. Mets just paid him six
Speaker 9: hundred thousand dollars to play for the New York Mets,
Speaker 9: and they were like, go home, go home, and that
Speaker 9: I mean, he didn't last more than two years. There
Speaker 9: was already there was already a problem there, but that
Speaker 9: thought process. Nobody stepped into his life and said, hey,
Speaker 9: what are you doing right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 9: And that's wild to me because I would never That's
Speaker 9: like going working at PEPSI and all you do is
Speaker 9: wear coke stuff like it doesn't Yeah, that your employer
Speaker 9: is paying you money to show up, why would you
Speaker 9: wear something else?
Speaker 2: Well, before we you came into the room, we were
Speaker 2: talking about with Swan and Ray. It's a point where
Speaker 2: those kids, the high school kids were even older. I
Speaker 2: think their stuff doesn't stink. And then I am this guy,
Speaker 2: So don't tell me what to do because I already
Speaker 2: know what to do.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I went through that my junior year
Speaker 9: of college. Like I definitely had that mindset. Yeah. I
Speaker 9: had a really good summer, made the All Star team
Speaker 9: in the Northwoods League, came in as a preseason All American,
Speaker 9: and I pretty much pooped the bed the whole time.
Speaker 5: So okay, So because of your attitude, you think.
Speaker 9: And my work ethic, my attitude, I was already talking
Speaker 9: to multiple scouts I thought I had the but it
Speaker 9: was a it was a reality check that I needed
Speaker 9: in my life at that point. How long did it
Speaker 9: take you to reset when I got injured? When I
Speaker 9: had my arm, I had an elbow injury that year
Speaker 9: that was really from a maintenance on my body, not
Speaker 9: being prepared for the season. I realized that my career
Speaker 9: path could have could have gone away from what I
Speaker 9: wanted it to be.
Speaker 5: Was there a point.
Speaker 2: Was there a point or or two, or player or
Speaker 2: two where you said I don't want this guy on
Speaker 2: my team.
Speaker 5: Maybe you were that guy that was Yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean, I'm not going to get into two specifics
Speaker 9: plode no, but yeah, I mean I got in a
Speaker 9: fistfighting clubhouse in low A one time with an outfielder's name.
Speaker 5: He screwed.
Speaker 9: He screwed up a player or something. No, No, No,
Speaker 9: I would never do that, and I never blamed. I mean,
Speaker 9: I'm like, it's the rest on my should No, it's
Speaker 9: just the attitude that he carried in the clubhouse, the
Speaker 9: way he dealt with things all we just became the head.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And we'll look at this guy from Tennessee and it
Speaker 2: happens everywhere too. We're guys, newcomers or whatever show up
Speaker 2: on campus and you're thinking, well, this guy thinks a
Speaker 2: lot of himself and and he's either really good or
Speaker 2: he's not as good as he thinks he is. And
Speaker 2: then how does that mix with the current chemistry locker room.
Speaker 5: I mean it's a killer.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 9: I don't like to use the term cancer. That's just
Speaker 9: not something, but uh, it's a it's deflating the balloon
Speaker 9: that you're trying to inflate going to the season, right.
Speaker 9: It's just a piece that takes away from the whole,
Speaker 9: the whole side of the team.
Speaker 2: And that's it's uh, and that's kind of what we
Speaker 2: talked about this maybe a day or so ago. Uh, sons,
Speaker 2: you know, your sons.
Speaker 4: If the coach can't fix this, it the coach can't
Speaker 4: fix it, it's becomes you.
Speaker 5: You lose the locker room. Rayre, you a Suns fan.
Speaker 6: I weren't a Warriors.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was these from the Bay Area, okay, but
Speaker 4: but you're highly on the.
Speaker 11: I'm not.
Speaker 7: But I just thought that I try to cover Arizona
Speaker 7: stuff when it comes to breaking news, and the you know,
Speaker 7: they were on the cusps.
Speaker 2: I was putting you with Howard and having lunch together
Speaker 2: because remember that day you saw, Well, I'm thinking, what
Speaker 2: are you guys talking.
Speaker 5: About, They're going to tank.
Speaker 9: He's not a Suns fan now if they make the playoffs,
Speaker 9: and he's going to be one of the worst fan
Speaker 9: bases for being fair weather fans.
Speaker 4: I really had to go find that shut because they were.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But to your point, Steve, when you're talking about professional
Speaker 9: teams and you're looking at culture and building a culture,
Speaker 9: NBA's NBA is difficult, especially we talked about the coaching
Speaker 9: carousel at this point, right, I think there's and I
Speaker 9: hate to say this is a player. I think there's
Speaker 9: too much control right now with the players at the
Speaker 9: NBA level, where once they're unhappy, they take that and
Speaker 9: kind of go with it, right, instead of saying, and
Speaker 9: I'm not saying this goes for everybody, it's there's specific examples.
Speaker 9: But the Suns, I mean, how how are you that
Speaker 9: bad with your roster? How are you not you can
Speaker 9: have a losing record in the NBA make the playoffs? Right,
Speaker 9: it's ten teams. How are you not a playoff team?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: When you have a lot of Prima donnas on the team,
Speaker 2: you know apples, spoil the Apple card or whatever that
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Wining the Ball here of Fox
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Speaker 2: Blake Eager.
Speaker 5: From Southern Arizona Sports tourism in film.
Speaker 2: With and now we have TJ. Jeskowitz from the ELK
Speaker 2: toor to Tucson.
Speaker 5: TJ. How you doing?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 3: Doing good?
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 2: I know you have a friendship with my boy Blake.
Speaker 2: He's a kind of a good guy. That's to bring
Speaker 2: him on. Hey, big news, big news coming soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We open up registration for the forty second ELK
Speaker 3: Toor to Tucson starting tomorrow at noon, and we expect
Speaker 3: about ten thousand plus people to come join us in November,
Speaker 3: So pretty excited around.
Speaker 5: Here, TJ. How long does it take for that registration?
Speaker 9: Because you guys do you do a phenomenal job, and
Speaker 9: we are so lucky to have you come in and
Speaker 9: kind of take over that event, change it the way
Speaker 9: you did. I don't think our community fully understands the
Speaker 9: economic impact of that event and everything you do behind
Speaker 9: the scenes. How long does it take for that registration
Speaker 9: to kind of sell out because it's a it's such
Speaker 9: a premium event.
Speaker 3: Sure, well, it takes probably about six months to seven months.
Speaker 3: So we're opening it up now in April, you know,
Speaker 3: pretty much seven months from now. When we roll into November,
Speaker 3: people are going to be, you know, bringing their bikes
Speaker 3: in the town. We get people from literally all over
Speaker 3: the world. So what those people need to know is
Speaker 3: that they're registered. They can go to start booking hotel rooms,
Speaker 3: booking flights, you know, coming from you know, pretty much
Speaker 3: from you know, if they're coming from Europe or or
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Speaker 3: little bit of planning. So we open up that registration,
Speaker 3: let them know that they're in and then they start
Speaker 3: getting ready, training and making their travel arrangements.
Speaker 9: And tomorrow is the first day. You start wearing bike
Speaker 9: shorts every day right to promote the event.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: You know, it does get to be about one hundred
Speaker 3: degrees here real quick, and I think we already hit
Speaker 3: one hundred. So you know, Wilf Coate's not going to
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Speaker 5: Year, less is more.
Speaker 2: So I'm wondering just curiosity because I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2: So we had about ninety five ninety eight one hundred
Speaker 2: last year. Of those how many get ready right away?
Speaker 2: You know, they finish the ride, they take a little break,
Speaker 2: and then you give them this opportunity for a card,
Speaker 2: and how many of them are saying, Okay, I'm coming
Speaker 2: back no matter what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's a good chunk of people that no
Speaker 3: matter what, you know, this is their annual pilgrimage. They're
Speaker 3: going to be here and be ready. There's other people
Speaker 3: that just kind of discover the sport. You know, there's
Speaker 3: people that made say a new Year's resolution, Hey, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get in shape and I'm going to ride out tour,
Speaker 3: kind of like your old counterpart j that have that, Hey,
Speaker 3: I just got to have that, you know, goal to
Speaker 3: get shape and to ride something or do a marathon
Speaker 3: or something like that. So it's a really it's a
Speaker 3: goal setting opportunity for people around here that might not
Speaker 3: have ever done anything of this kind of magnitude. So
Speaker 3: we'll take the people that have been doing it for
Speaker 3: probably thirty years, and we'll take the ones that are
Speaker 3: the first time up, and they all kind of blend
Speaker 3: together when it comes.
Speaker 9: To November and there's different there's different stretches people can
Speaker 9: sign up for, right, twenty five miles, fifty miles. What
Speaker 9: can you explain that a little bit?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got the long assistance one hundred and two miles, which,
Speaker 3: believe it or not, the winning times were people averaging
Speaker 3: twenty nine miles an hour, So there's people that are
Speaker 3: ride just unbelievably fast. I mean, these are pro level folks.
Speaker 3: Then we have the sixty three miles where one hundred
Speaker 3: kilometers which is a metric century, and then we have
Speaker 3: kind of that that, you know, really shorter ride for
Speaker 3: people that still want to get out there thirty two miles,
Speaker 3: and then we have some ones for more families five
Speaker 3: mile you know, in a one mile, just just stuff
Speaker 3: that's just getting people involved in an event.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, we're going to sign up for the
Speaker 2: one mile, right, Steve, Yes, I'll walk it. No, I'm
Speaker 2: too busy.
Speaker 5: I can't. I don't have time for that, mister Blake.
Speaker 9: So you know in fact that you're out there, Blake, Yeah,
Speaker 9: I listen almost every morning I'm on the peloton.
Speaker 5: That's a complete lie, like once a month.
Speaker 2: So no, in fact that when they get out for
Speaker 2: one hundred and two, it takes about realistic a little
Speaker 2: bit more than ten minutes for all those people.
Speaker 5: To get through the start. It's that impressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that our lineup very unusual for massive start events
Speaker 3: like we have. Most of them don't have the bulk
Speaker 3: of their people riding the big ride. Most of them
Speaker 3: would be, and they're the shorter rides.
Speaker 17: Different here.
Speaker 3: You know, in Tucson, we're probably probably looking about four
Speaker 3: thousand people that take off for the Century rides. So
Speaker 3: it does take ten minutes for them to roll through
Speaker 3: that start over on Cushion Street, and so yeah, it's
Speaker 3: pretty spectacular. If you want to enjoy, you know, a
Speaker 3: cup of coffee or maybe a coffee and a half,
Speaker 3: you can just kind of watch watch the writers roll
Speaker 3: out early Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they come from out, like you said, from
Speaker 2: all over the country. And one of the joys of
Speaker 2: this of this event, which I think I helped to
Speaker 2: promote it, are these stories involved, right, people with cancer
Speaker 2: or illnesses that they're doing this because they have a
Speaker 2: goal to just do it before or they're writing for
Speaker 2: someone like that. I mean, they're all over the place.
Speaker 2: We had one of this last year that got pressed
Speaker 2: all over he had pancreat I think this prank curated
Speaker 2: cancer or prostate cancer pretty severe and he wrote this
Speaker 2: weekend in Scottsdale.
Speaker 5: They make this a routine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there are some amazing story I mean,
Speaker 3: if you know us older guys who would remember, like
Speaker 3: Roy Fireson would always have those types of stories, you know,
Speaker 3: that would just touch your heart. You can you can
Speaker 3: listen to some of these people of why they're riding
Speaker 3: and it is just, you know, bringing tears to your eyes.
Speaker 3: They're riding for their late grandfather or you know this
Speaker 3: their high school coach that just passed away and that
Speaker 3: that taught them how to be successful life. I mean,
Speaker 3: you just hear these stories that you know why, you know,
Speaker 3: different people are motivated to ride, and it truly is
Speaker 3: just just really tugs in your heartstrings, right.
Speaker 9: And if you're just a general like general population you
Speaker 9: want to there's a chance you can go out there
Speaker 9: and see a pretty high a lister writing in that ride.
Speaker 9: You've had what Patrick Dempsey and you've had Barry Bonds.
Speaker 9: Who else have you had riding that Will Walton? Yeah,
Speaker 9: So if you're just a general pop guy that you
Speaker 9: want to go out there and see maybe catch a
Speaker 9: glimpse of somebody, there's always somebody out there.
Speaker 5: Well, just this.
Speaker 3: Weekend, for example, at Tortoise, Scottsdale, we had you know,
Speaker 3: two of the most famous cyclists in the world that
Speaker 3: Bradley Wagans, Sir Bradley Wigans that won the Tour de
Speaker 3: France just about twelve years ago. We had Lance Armstrong
Speaker 3: that was that was with us. So we've been known
Speaker 3: to attract some of the best cyclists in the world.
Speaker 3: We are also known to attract some of the worst
Speaker 3: cyclists in the world, so and then everything in between.
Speaker 3: So so yeah, we're we're definitely gonna have a handful
Speaker 3: of pros that will be riding. We do a little
Speaker 3: thing kind of like a fantasy camp that people ride
Speaker 3: with the pros for a couple of days, do some
Speaker 3: challenging rides leading up to eltor to Tucson. We call
Speaker 3: it our prologue and we probably have about ten different
Speaker 3: cyclists that that are, you know, pretty pretty much well
Speaker 3: known in those fields of being, you know, a former
Speaker 3: great professional.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 2: So over the weekend TJ mentioned this, Uh, Lance Armstrong
Speaker 2: was there and Sir Braddie Wiggins. So they've finished midpack.
Speaker 2: I think I think it was, but it's not. Some
Speaker 2: people attack it as a ride or a race, and
Speaker 2: some of the people attack it as a ride. So
Speaker 2: imagine you're ahead of Lance Armstrong, right, and you're this
Speaker 2: you're the seventy year old guy. Eventually, you know, in
Speaker 2: five years and years whatever yours and you're sitting down
Speaker 2: with your ground. Son says, yeah, back in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: I beat this guy named LEAs Armstrong. You may know
Speaker 2: who he is, but I beat him in that ride.
Speaker 2: And that'll be the story. You know, you want to
Speaker 2: tell the complete story. Yeah, yeah, but that'll be the story.
Speaker 3: Well, but that's the cool thing about cycling, because you know,
Speaker 3: if you say you went to a fantasy camp. Do you
Speaker 3: think Michael Jordan's gonna let him dunk on you?
Speaker 17: Probably not.
Speaker 3: I think I think Jordan would probably relish, you know,
Speaker 3: swat in your ball away. So that's the cool thing
Speaker 3: about cycling. You can go out there, you know, you
Speaker 3: can line up with some of the best that ever,
Speaker 3: you know, put the helmet on and and ride, and
Speaker 3: you know, you look down at your score or your
Speaker 3: time afterwards, and hey, sure enough, you know I was
Speaker 3: two or three places better than this person that that
Speaker 3: you know, was one of the people in sort of France.
Speaker 3: So it's a it's a cool feeling.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 3: The nice thing about the pros that we get they
Speaker 3: want to just visit with people. You know, they've had
Speaker 3: their glory. They don't need to be you know, winning
Speaker 3: any more. But you know, then again they're still competitive people.
Speaker 3: Last year we had Kobe Deigert, who won a gold
Speaker 3: medal in the Olympics, who won you know, towards Tucson.
Speaker 3: So there's still some people that'll occasionally get that bug
Speaker 3: to say, hey, you know what, I'm feeling good. I
Speaker 3: think I'm just going to go out and crush it today.
Speaker 5: So what's the what's the the payment? For tomorrow.
Speaker 2: What's the first to encourage people to do it if
Speaker 2: they already know they're going to be in it, to
Speaker 2: get in early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we open it up at one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five dollars. That that's you know, basically gives you
Speaker 3: that ride for the for the weekend you come to
Speaker 3: the expo beforehand, gives you all the eight stations. It takes.
Speaker 3: It takes a few dollars to just make sure that
Speaker 3: we're lining up these roads with plenty officers, barricades, et
Speaker 3: cetera to ride this event throughout the city. So it's
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty five dollars by the time you
Speaker 3: get closer into the event, and it more than doubles,
Speaker 3: so you know, better get in early, don't worry about it,
Speaker 3: you know, put to put the money down and just say, hey,
Speaker 3: start training and have that peace of mind that you're
Speaker 3: real shirt for the event.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And TJ, can you speak to that because when we
Speaker 9: first met, I was still pretty wet, not that I'm
Speaker 9: not still pretty wet behind the ears, but the barricades
Speaker 9: and sheriff. Can you speak to that point of how
Speaker 9: many people it takes to put on this event and
Speaker 9: the size of it is. I blew me away when
Speaker 9: we had our first our first conversation a couple of
Speaker 9: years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a ballpark, probably about a thousand safety officials throughout,
Speaker 3: and that includes people that are you know, putting out
Speaker 3: safety signs, cones, barricades, blocking traffic, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 3: There's also hundreds of law books and officers throughout. There's
Speaker 3: engineers just checking to make sure all those things are correct.
Speaker 3: We have we have doctors out there, we have you know, paramedics,
Speaker 3: we have you know, just just a slew of different people,
Speaker 3: people cutting up fruit and handing out water and giving
Speaker 3: you electrolite, all that good stuff. So you know, if
Speaker 3: you total up all the people that are out there
Speaker 3: that are trying to make this thing safe for you,
Speaker 3: it's it's a good thousand people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, how do you benefit from something like this, Blake?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean tell me, tell me how. Well, there's
Speaker 9: a couple of different reasons. I mean what El Tour
Speaker 9: is doing in Tucson. But I mean you also have
Speaker 9: TJ's got his race in Coaches County as well. So
Speaker 9: it's it's the six counties that we look at and beneficiing,
Speaker 9: but it's it's growing the support the cycling sport, it's
Speaker 9: economic impact. We I mean, we don't benefit it from
Speaker 9: a financial standpoint, but we benefit from it just from
Speaker 9: an overall six counties and regional standpoint. I mean, I
Speaker 9: don't think you know, sometimes we we and just having
Speaker 9: going through this with the World Baseball Classic. The load
Speaker 9: that TJ carries on a yearly basis is substantial and
Speaker 9: what he had to take over and what he's able
Speaker 9: to change and do. But that's why I want him
Speaker 9: to speak that the barricades, a shriffs, the safety officers,
Speaker 9: it's not just fifteen to twenty people, I mean a
Speaker 9: thousand people. That's an extremely high number for what he's
Speaker 9: putting on.
Speaker 2: Can you talk about I don't know if you want
Speaker 2: to say the public cost you because it ain't cheap
Speaker 2: right when it gets When it gets the guys are
Speaker 2: starting to pay a hundred seventy five hundred eighty and
Speaker 2: they have to ask why is it so expensive?
Speaker 5: Well, it ain't cheap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean we could. We could roll it
Speaker 3: out in the middle of nowhere and you know, go
Speaker 3: out in the middle of the desert and put a
Speaker 3: bike race on and and you know, we'd have no
Speaker 3: economic impact and they wouldn't be singing hotels, they wouldn't
Speaker 3: be sitting on a margarita when they get done. They
Speaker 3: wouldn't be you know, going into El Charro for dinner afterwards.
Speaker 3: They'd be you know, getting back you know, wherever they
Speaker 3: came from. So the nice part about this, we give
Speaker 3: them the entire experience. So just like if you go
Speaker 3: you know, if you went to the Final Four, you're
Speaker 3: gonna you know, you're gonna spend you know, three or
Speaker 3: four days over in that city. Check out all the
Speaker 3: sights and sounds and all that. Well, this is there.
Speaker 3: This is their final four for these people that that
Speaker 3: ride the bike. So they're gonna come over here. They're
Speaker 3: gonna you know, they're gonna ask for us things on
Speaker 3: the top shelf. It's a it's a group that's got
Speaker 3: disposable income. It's a good traveler. There's people that come
Speaker 3: in RVs that take up Airbnb's hotels, et cetera. So
Speaker 3: they're spending money here. We want to, you know, provide
Speaker 3: that opportunity. It is one of the reasons we do
Speaker 3: it in downtown. You know, that time of year usually
Speaker 3: on the weekend. It's a really good time to do
Speaker 3: an event in downtown because you know, the businesses aren't
Speaker 3: you know, there's no court in session or anything like that.
Speaker 3: So so when we have it there, you know, it
Speaker 3: fills up hotels, it fills up restaurants, it fills up bars.
Speaker 3: The airport has has people flying in from all over.
Speaker 3: There's rent of cars going out. So all that stuff
Speaker 3: is economic impact at its finest.
Speaker 2: So so real quick again, one hundred and twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2: Where to go on the website? One and two? When's
Speaker 2: the next bump so they can get in now?
Speaker 3: Sure, sure it's a elk toward tuson dot org gets
Speaker 3: you signed up. That'll give you all the information you
Speaker 3: need to know. That next MOMP is at the let's
Speaker 3: see here, the end of May would be the one
Speaker 3: where it bumps up again. So they got about forty
Speaker 3: days to get that that one. Five after that it
Speaker 3: starts gowing up, probably about ten dollars a month all
Speaker 3: the way up until till November.
Speaker 2: And maybe lastly, the impact it has nonprofits and the
Speaker 2: organization organization has raised how.
Speaker 3: Much so over time forty two years, one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty million dollars right in that ballpark. You know, a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of funds, a lot of little
Speaker 3: ten dollars twenty dollars donations that have added up. You know,
Speaker 3: some people will do a Hey, I'll give you a
Speaker 3: dollar a mile for all you ride. That will go
Speaker 3: to that charity. We don't take any of that. It
Speaker 3: all goes to those nonprofits. We had about ninety six
Speaker 3: nonprofits I believe last year that rode for their cause.
Speaker 3: Not only are they out there promoting their cause, but
Speaker 3: they're raising funds for their cause. So it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3: Instead of putting on another car wash or a bake sale,
Speaker 3: you know, they could ride ol tour, raise some funds
Speaker 3: and raise awareness.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, is official slogan going to be get off the peloton,
Speaker 9: get on the street. Is that what we're going with
Speaker 9: for you?
Speaker 3: Way to do that? Yeah, get in, get into real peloton,
Speaker 3: not that thing.
Speaker 9: I'm verbal trademark here right now. So if you want
Speaker 9: to use it, you're gonna have to give me some money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, go for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's better than get off your fant acids, get
Speaker 2: on the bunch.
Speaker 9: That's what I've got a t shirt that says that,
Speaker 9: So I look at the mirror, it's backwards. But when
Speaker 9: I look at the mirror, that's what it says.
Speaker 5: TJ. Thanks a bunch of man.
Speaker 3: Hey, sure anytime guys, All right.
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Speaker 1: Tucson sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In today is Blake Eager.
Speaker 2: Got one with us? Ray with us. If you guys
Speaker 2: like to call, please do five two zero four one
Speaker 2: six seventy four forty. We'll take your call. You know
Speaker 2: that we got Matt Milbach coming on the other side.
Speaker 2: We were talking about the Tennessee Coach Tour Tennessee quarterback
Speaker 2: or he'll land.
Speaker 5: We still don't know one things.
Speaker 2: Maybe you still that's kind of like the front runner,
Speaker 2: right front runner.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the consensus right now.
Speaker 4: Again, he's probably settling as far as NAL money goes,
Speaker 4: but at least.
Speaker 5: Someone wants him at this point. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So how much do you think in your example with
Speaker 2: the kids signing for six hundred thousand blah blah blah
Speaker 2: eighteen nineteen years old, right, that has the same type
Speaker 2: of impact with the kids in college.
Speaker 5: Getting that money.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's I think it's pretty much the
Speaker 9: same thing, right. I mean, I don't know how this
Speaker 9: day and age works anymore. Right, I think at some
Speaker 9: point in NIL has to become a contract contractual where
Speaker 9: it's it's a multi year contract.
Speaker 5: We've talked about this.
Speaker 9: Another school can you can transfer, but another school has
Speaker 9: to buy out or you have to pay for that buyout.
Speaker 9: But from a coaching standpoint, I mean, how much longer
Speaker 9: can you have these elite coaches doing what they're doing
Speaker 9: if they have to continually re recruit their own bills.
Speaker 5: It's every year.
Speaker 2: In fact, we I played something for the guys, send
Speaker 2: something to Matt bill Buck for his discussion because us
Speaker 2: an attorney, but to exactly. Your point was j Bill
Speaker 2: is talking about signing contracts three year minimum.
Speaker 5: If you want to buy out, you can.
Speaker 2: Buy out or the other school has to buy you
Speaker 2: out to get out, you know, to get out of
Speaker 2: the thing. I don't know if there's a good solution,
Speaker 2: but that's a good one, I mean, a decent one.
Speaker 9: Let me ask you, guys this question, and you want
Speaker 9: to ray you guys might know this more from pole
Speaker 9: standpoint because you're on campus. At what point do the
Speaker 9: money generating programs football, basketball, potentially baseball and softball to
Speaker 9: a degree start collapsing other programs and you start losing swimming,
Speaker 9: you start using the Olympic gymnastics, like lower end volleyball programs,
Speaker 9: Like where are we going? What's the end goal here?
Speaker 9: Like where are we going in the future? Like how
Speaker 9: many colleges are going to lose those programs to now
Speaker 9: reallocate funding for the for the for the profit programs?
Speaker 2: So hold that, guys, will take a call real quick. Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air and on the ball.
Speaker 5: Who's this Brian?
Speaker 8: How's it gone?
Speaker 5: Hey? Brian? What's the word?
Speaker 8: Just about that quarterback? Still? Like you know that I'm going.
Speaker 17: Well, UCLA recruited him out of.
Speaker 8: High school, so you've found that area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now they got a problem because they got.
Speaker 8: A kid from Appalachian State who came in.
Speaker 3: Did the portal to come play with this coming season,
Speaker 3: and now he's looking at going somewhere else because he's
Speaker 3: not too sure what's going to happen that they do
Speaker 3: sign his kid. But the one thing too is UCLA
Speaker 3: can't afford four million dollars right right there.
Speaker 8: There's no possible way they can afford that.
Speaker 2: Right yeah, no question. Now you have to pick your spots.
Speaker 2: The funny thing about it, Brian, and you're old enough,
Speaker 2: like like all of a sudden, we'll talk about this.
Speaker 5: Would like the competition.
Speaker 2: They don't want to stay anywhere where you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to face competition because you want to play it right away.
Speaker 3: Right well, you know with all them me being thrown around,
Speaker 3: why should you.
Speaker 8: You know, I mean lot me.
Speaker 17: Okay, there are kids who are.
Speaker 3: Gonna have a shot at playing professional football.
Speaker 8: Besides college is professional football now, but I mean the NFL.
Speaker 17: But some of these kids have no shot at all playing.
Speaker 3: So what they're doing is I'm gonna collect the money
Speaker 3: now and then worry about life later. Oh yeah, no question,
Speaker 3: it's it's you know, it's just you know, it's it's
Speaker 3: just real difficult, you know to should watch and stuff,
Speaker 3: you know, because like you said, we're older and we're
Speaker 3: not used.
Speaker 8: To this, you know, and we this is like a.
Speaker 17: Slap in the face for the slap in the face
Speaker 17: of the fans. Do you know, the people who put
Speaker 17: up the.
Speaker 8: Money, you know, go to the games and everything.
Speaker 2: Do you think, both of you guys, all three of
Speaker 2: you guys, uh, that this will sour sports watching sports
Speaker 2: caring when you have your teams out there or other
Speaker 2: teams just casual you see. God, this is kind of
Speaker 2: like it's great entertainment or entertainment. But you have this
Speaker 2: thought in back in your mind. These guys are getting paid.
Speaker 2: They're getting paid a ton of money. Does it salary?
Speaker 3: You know, it may bring more people into watching professional
Speaker 3: sports because they figure, I'm getting the same thing at college,
Speaker 3: but it's much better talent wise, and you know, and uh,
Speaker 3: and watching the NFL then is college and all getting paid.
Speaker 3: So why not watch the better of the people getting paid?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean from my standpoint, I think it's just
Speaker 9: the drastic change that you're going to see is it's
Speaker 9: gonna it's just going to continue to become more regional
Speaker 9: from a university standpoint, where they started losing the national
Speaker 9: appeal because of that, and you you hit the buy
Speaker 9: in from the fan base in their hometown, but probably
Speaker 9: not the excitement that you would create on a national
Speaker 9: level because of that. Yeah, but you're seeing droppings right
Speaker 9: now and NBA level. I mean you're seeing you know,
Speaker 9: everything you're seeing in Major League Baseball. I mean, like
Speaker 9: the viewership numbers are down across the board. And I
Speaker 9: think this plays into it because it's all just kind
Speaker 9: of a convoluted pool of a mass right now. I mean,
Speaker 9: there's so much payment on all these levels.
Speaker 3: You have to figure out where where am I going
Speaker 3: to put my money? If I if I have enough
Speaker 3: money or entertainment, where am I going to put it?
Speaker 3: Am I going to put it in college? Am I
Speaker 3: going to put it in pros? Yeah?
Speaker 17: And this is before I need to ask you.
Speaker 3: Has anybody heard about Carter Bryant's doing.
Speaker 5: No, we don't know yet.
Speaker 2: He hasn't til the twenty sixth, I think we said yesterday, no,
Speaker 2: no hint of anything. People are going to speculate whether
Speaker 2: it takes him longer that he'll stay if it takes
Speaker 2: him sooner, and it's already passed the sooner part, you know,
Speaker 2: a month and two.
Speaker 3: I've noticed that more of these people who do do
Speaker 3: come out.
Speaker 8: We're predicted to go ahead of him. He may look
Speaker 8: at us.
Speaker 17: If I stay one more year, I could be one of.
Speaker 8: Those top ten guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because right now, all these other guys coming out,
Speaker 3: everybody says, well, he's a top ten guy, he's the
Speaker 3: top fifteen guy. Does that push Parter Bryant back down
Speaker 3: the list? Maybe being a twenty five to thirty.
Speaker 2: Guy and making a nice chunk to change here whatever
Speaker 2: that Trump to change is right, and probably making more
Speaker 2: money here than he would as a rookie his first.
Speaker 9: Year, right, right, I know what he's gonna do, but
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna tell you guys till at twenty six.
Speaker 8: Okay, Knights, have someone in the know on your show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's just used to hearing the know. Okay, thanks Brian.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 5: You heard of John Matier, John Mattier one m a
Speaker 5: t e R.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma paid quarterback John Mytteer three million just got reported. Okay,
Speaker 2: well these quarterbacks making a ton of money. All these
Speaker 2: guys are making a ton of money. Well, what's the
Speaker 2: kid from BYU the number one overall prospective?
Speaker 5: Eight million? Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2: Here's the here's the catch though, So Phoenix is looking
Speaker 2: for a quarterback, I mean a coach, right of Phoenix,
Speaker 2: the Suns. Guess who might be on the top of
Speaker 2: that list. M the b YU the b YU coach.
Speaker 2: I could see that. Who just came from the NBA. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he came from Phoenix. Right. So if this kid who
Speaker 2: got eight million to go play at BYU, probably because
Speaker 2: of the coach. Now the coach may not be there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know that's that. I mean, you're running
Speaker 9: that situation. And if you're a coach, which one do
Speaker 9: you prefer to go? I mean, the NBA, any professional
Speaker 9: level sports has to be more appealing at this point.
Speaker 5: You'd think that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I would assume that just from the current landscape.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you get fired in one year, you're
Speaker 2: still gonna get paid ten to.
Speaker 9: Twelve Yeah, I'm signing a five year contract, right, maybe more?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we'll see. What did you say a couple
Speaker 2: of days ago? That the Phoenix is paying the assistant
Speaker 2: coaches seventy five million. Oh no, no, that must have
Speaker 2: been yesterday with Kobe that although for Vogel, Williams, this
Speaker 2: guy Budenhaalzer are getting paid seventy five million dollars to
Speaker 2: go away.
Speaker 5: The whole staff.
Speaker 2: Well, no, all the three recently fired coaches. Oh you
Speaker 2: mean as a collective as the head coach is going away?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well I think Budenholser only had like I think
Speaker 7: like a three year seventy.
Speaker 6: Five million dollars.
Speaker 2: Well whatever, Yeah, because they're staying paying, they're paying the locals.
Speaker 5: They were paying him twenty five million year.
Speaker 6: They were paying him a lot. Maybe not that much, but.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that seems like, yeah, you you have a lot more. Say,
Speaker 9: if you're paying a coach twenty five million, I want
Speaker 9: him to Yeah, you probably want him to get on
Speaker 9: the court and play.
Speaker 5: True. Yeah, we'll see anybody else want to call it?
Speaker 5: Here's a question, right, here's a question.
Speaker 9: Do you think you'll ever see and this is our
Speaker 9: this is probably more our day and age, you'll ever
Speaker 9: see a player coach in any sport?
Speaker 10: Again?
Speaker 5: Question?
Speaker 2: Good question, Probably not, because the only guy that would
Speaker 2: do it now would be Lebron, Right, Yeah, he's kind
Speaker 2: of doing it now anyway, or has had KD KD. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like those guys could do it
Speaker 2: on a like a like a mid market team where
Speaker 2: they bring fans to the stadium, but there's still is
Speaker 2: a collective training to control. I just use did a
Speaker 2: little bit. And I don't think I know Pete Rose
Speaker 2: did it. Who was the last player coach?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Ray's going to google it, He's going to ask Jeeves Jeeves.
Speaker 9: He's gonna get on his my Space account and see
Speaker 9: what comes up. Maybe a chatted. You don't even know
Speaker 9: what my space is?
Speaker 5: What about? What about ask Jeeves? That was that was
Speaker 5: pre Google? R Google? Yeah?
Speaker 9: Goodness, gracious, Yeah, yeah, you're just being a couple of
Speaker 9: supercomputers on this side of the table. Over here, I've
Speaker 9: got another call. Are we hanging ten surfing?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 5: You're on there nine on the ball.
Speaker 17: Who's this?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 21: This is Frank. Hey, Frank, you were asking to Brian
Speaker 21: whether this is just an I L and all this
Speaker 21: stuff going on the transfer portal is going to sour people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I think it is.
Speaker 21: I'm feeling it myself. I'm still one hundred percent, said
Speaker 21: Arizona Wildcat fan, but I'm not inclined to buy season
Speaker 21: tickets as I used to do, And so I'll catch
Speaker 21: a game here and there and I'll watch them on TV.
Speaker 5: So let me let me ask you.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, Frank, is that because of the
Speaker 2: price you did this? Because they put extra fifty dollars
Speaker 2: dollars on the above and beyond the price ticket.
Speaker 5: Is that because of that? Or you just soured on
Speaker 5: the whole thing.
Speaker 21: Well, it's a combination, I think mostly that, you know,
Speaker 21: I mean, we grew up when players were loyal to
Speaker 21: the school. I mean I was expected and that would
Speaker 21: be you know, three four years and now there's no
Speaker 21: loyalty at all, and uh and yeah, and the prices
Speaker 21: are growing up also, you know. And also like eight
Speaker 21: pm games don't really work for me, especially football, long
Speaker 21: football game.
Speaker 5: So yeah, right right now, I agree with you.
Speaker 2: And guess what the audience is most of many of
Speaker 2: the audience members are guys like Frank and guys like
Speaker 2: me who are older and want to get home in
Speaker 2: a good hour. Right yeah, right right, thanks Frank, Thanks,
Speaker 2: thanks Frank, thank you for Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 5: Sure of course, Frank, we got about a minute or so. Yeah,
Speaker 5: real quick on that though.
Speaker 9: I mean I think at some point people are choosing
Speaker 9: where to spend their money, right, Yeah, So I mean,
Speaker 9: like for me, we talked about it, like, I'm yeah,
Speaker 9: the season ticket piece. You brought it to the attention
Speaker 9: that we're going to get charged extra fifty dollars. That's
Speaker 9: one thing. But then I go on and have to
Speaker 9: pay for ESPN Plus because I don't want to miss
Speaker 9: any of the away games. Like at some point, it's
Speaker 9: not it's no longer free to watch games, even if
Speaker 9: you're not going to the game.
Speaker 5: So let me ask you, and you.
Speaker 2: Don't have to answer this because it's kind of a
Speaker 2: personal question, but in a game, you I think you
Speaker 2: how many ever ticket you have, you get parking, you
Speaker 2: get food.
Speaker 5: What's what's the daily game cost you?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: I haven't broken it down. I mean I could.
Speaker 9: I would say two hundred ticket, parking, food. It's probably
Speaker 9: a little lower than that because every things in the package.
Speaker 9: But let's call it one hundred dollars per person and more.
Speaker 9: That's that's not a cheap ticket, no, I mean it's
Speaker 9: I mean, there's only so much and it's going away
Speaker 9: drastically as we start to progress, especially for these young
Speaker 9: guys like Ray and One, the discretion discretionary income. It's
Speaker 9: no longer like who's got enough money to pay for
Speaker 9: rent to rent a house? Who's got enough money? And
Speaker 9: I'm not trying to get on a box here, No,
Speaker 9: you're right. But then when you do have a little
Speaker 9: extra money left over, or you're gonna go spend that
Speaker 9: on a on a game that is going to completely
Speaker 9: wipe you out, or are you going to watch that
Speaker 9: game somewhere and.
Speaker 2: It could possibly disappoint you, or spend that money out
Speaker 2: of dinner with your significant other and enjoy the game
Speaker 2: on a big screen.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Yeah, with your hot shake
Speaker 5: one day?
Speaker 9: Why I always settled out walking in with a with
Speaker 9: a mink coat on and a cane and you have
Speaker 9: four bays both arms.
Speaker 2: This is your story telling, man, This is your story
Speaker 2: Empidelic over here. We gotta go with that.
Speaker 5: We'll go