Speaker 1: Okay, no theme song today, no breaking news that.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say.
Speaker 3: But that's the wrong. It's the wrong to Troy World, Fox.
Speaker 3: I want to stay on Fox.
Speaker 1: Starting out breaking news with some transfer portal news Arizona.
Speaker 1: Former Arizona women's basketball guard Lawrence Swan has committed to Rutgers.
Speaker 2: They're going everywhere?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: They duck East? Are they are? They lost a lot?
Speaker 2: They had one player left on the rocks around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not I'll try to find it if I can.
Speaker 1: Just a question, but she will be playing for Rutgers
Speaker 1: next season. For Arizona football, they got a commitment on
Speaker 1: I believe Saturday from a three star athlete from Washington,
Speaker 1: Henry Gables. I'm not sure if I'm saying that right
Speaker 1: Gable tight end. It says athlete. But uh, they got
Speaker 1: a commitment. Okay, let me. Do you have anything on basketball?
Speaker 1: I don't think you have this.
Speaker 3: So I just saw today this morning Andre Iguodala's son,
Speaker 3: Andre the third or second maybe the third?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Did you see him play? I have not seen him play,
Speaker 3: So do you know him about it?
Speaker 2: I do not? Okay, So the reason I asked the.
Speaker 3: Recruiting guy, he's going to Baylor, right, every who didn't
Speaker 3: look at him, he's only a three star.
Speaker 2: He's a three star, so then he slightly looked at him.
Speaker 2: You know, you're recruiting at a certain level, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I know Bryce James is a three star recruit, but
Speaker 2: it's also Lebron James Son and I all sure stuff
Speaker 2: like that, of course, of course. But you know, I
Speaker 2: think when you're looking at the roster for years to come,
Speaker 2: got to pick and choose your spots. And sure enough,
Speaker 2: sure we didn't.
Speaker 3: I hadn't. I hadn't known of Andre Jr. Ever until
Speaker 3: I saw this morning that he was going to Baylor.
Speaker 3: So obviously must be pretty good if he's going to Baylor.
Speaker 2: You know, Scott Drew is a very good coach. Works
Speaker 2: he's got nothing, he's got nothing exactly, there's no one there, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: so but he's one of those coaches that gets the
Speaker 2: most out of, you know, nothing.
Speaker 3: So they've had a more recent title, yeah you know,
Speaker 3: five years right, five years ago.
Speaker 2: Compared to twenty something years ago. Yeah, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm doing? I get it. Something that rage has brought
Speaker 2: up to me. Uh.
Speaker 1: Becky Burke on Instagram posted something about Montea do saying
Speaker 1: she's back. Okay, so the one that's the only one
Speaker 1: that stayed, yeah, will be back for.
Speaker 2: She's did a pretty good job.
Speaker 3: I mean, anybody who thought she wouldn't probably wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 3: But anybody who comes into this position, you're still at Arizona,
Speaker 3: it's a Division one school that has a history, uh
Speaker 3: even a recent history. If you can find that magic,
Speaker 3: you'll you'll find a way to come back.
Speaker 2: And you know what you started at ground zero, You
Speaker 2: built up the roster. Is the expectations to get to
Speaker 2: the tournament, probably not this year, but you got to
Speaker 2: start somewhere. And she's doing a good job of building
Speaker 2: a foundation, right.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of the fan base is going
Speaker 3: to eventually come support her. You know, they're going to
Speaker 3: miss Ada in whatever capacity, but eventually find that coach
Speaker 3: Burke is going to be pretty good.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Everyone was cautious about Ida. They eventually built around her.
Speaker 1: You ever, do you ever know you ever lose an
Speaker 1: X just say sure, uh and you hate him, you
Speaker 1: hate him, and then eventually you get over it.
Speaker 3: Yep, you see Okay, hey, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just eventually you get over it and you just move
Speaker 3: on because well you have to write.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I'm keep moving forward.
Speaker 1: For Arizona baseball, Mason White was named the Big twelve
Speaker 1: Colt Player of the Week.
Speaker 2: You guys have covered baseball, Yeah, in an absolute bomb
Speaker 2: this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The dude's stud local stud, like a like a stud stud. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean that's he's going to be in the MLB dropped. Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, very talented player. I don't know, you know,
Speaker 2: will he make the lead? Who knows? I mean you
Speaker 2: were talking about leg On all the ends and out there,
Speaker 2: but uh, highly talented kid that's done well. You know.
Speaker 1: This comes after their series win in Provo BYU. They
Speaker 1: lost Thursday five to twelve. Friday they won five to
Speaker 1: four and Saturday seven to five, taking the series in
Speaker 1: provol for softball. If I can find it, I had
Speaker 1: it on here. They lost their series to Texas Tech
Speaker 1: Senior weekend one to two. They won the Thursday initial
Speaker 1: matchup two to one, got blown out Friday one ten
Speaker 1: to one in five innings, and then Saturday lost five
Speaker 1: to two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't have a chance to get out there, right,
Speaker 3: We're still we were still at the spring spring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did the million dollar baby win on Saturday? Yep? Yeah, bitch,
Speaker 2: well yeah, yeah, you know that was kind of like
Speaker 2: the where are you in terms of as the team
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 3: They're thirteen rankings, you know, mean whatever they want to
Speaker 3: want you to mean, but they were thirteen and fourteen, right,
Speaker 3: thirteen to fourteen if you have a study, and that's
Speaker 3: still the name of the game in softball.
Speaker 2: Pitching is everything. And you saw, you know, they were
Speaker 2: able to hang around that first game and Devin did
Speaker 2: a great job. But when you're playing in postseason softball,
Speaker 2: when you get to the super Regionals Oklahoma, you got
Speaker 2: to do it every day. And you know, she broke
Speaker 2: down in the sixth Maybe she should have been pulled
Speaker 2: out after the fifth ending, But I think it's a
Speaker 2: good learning pool for Arizona to look at that series
Speaker 2: and see what went wrong and what went right and
Speaker 2: moving to the Big twelve tournament. Now, you can't slip
Speaker 2: up from here to the Big twelve tournament if you
Speaker 2: want to host the regional coming up this postseason? Sure
Speaker 2: does it seem you got three weeks? How much? How
Speaker 2: any week stept for me? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I got like two, maybe two and a half. Really
Speaker 3: does it seem how much? How much time do we
Speaker 3: have here about tis and you have a lot of
Speaker 3: fill at all. So I was just gonna say, we'll
Speaker 3: talk about it and did it feel quickly this year?
Speaker 3: And did it feel quickly the.
Speaker 2: Last four years? We'll get to that later. No to both.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, you said it took forever.
Speaker 1: Coming up next for baseball, they got a game Wednesday
Speaker 1: against UT Arlington six o'clock. For softball, they have New
Speaker 1: Mexico State on Tuesdays at three and five o'clock. Okay,
Speaker 1: And of course, the men's tennis team won the Big
Speaker 1: Twelve Tournament championship. It's fantastic four to one against UCFS.
Speaker 1: These guys, I still say. I'll say this with respect
Speaker 1: to all the coaches on campus. Coach Shield is fantastic.
Speaker 1: I think he might be the best coach on campus.
Speaker 1: All he does is win, well, he doesn't win, and
Speaker 1: it's tennis, Come on tennis here.
Speaker 3: He just continues and for a while now not just
Speaker 3: you know, one on, one off, two off.
Speaker 1: I had a chance to cover them back in January
Speaker 1: and I asked a couple of players, but him, in
Speaker 1: particularly what his expectations were, you know, not a lot
Speaker 1: of people know Arizona tennis, and straight up he said,
Speaker 1: we want to win national championships, and I think this
Speaker 1: is a programming team that can go and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's very strange because you asked, you ask
Speaker 3: everybody what do they want to do within a national championship?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: And then as a as a questioner, you're thinking yeah, right,
Speaker 3: in your head, you're thinking yeah, right, like that's ever
Speaker 3: gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly if I were to try to like explain
Speaker 1: it to someone and say, oh, yeah, Arizona's men's tennis
Speaker 1: head coach wants to win a national championship, their first
Speaker 1: offer of christ be like Arizona has a tennis team.
Speaker 2: But there there definitely is a difference because with him,
Speaker 2: you can tell there's that Mike Andrea when they said
Speaker 2: we want to win. Yeah, yeah, what do you mean
Speaker 2: the way the way he is not only the way
Speaker 2: they are, but the way they care themselves. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: can tell when when a coach says that and he
Speaker 2: means it, and when a coach says it and he well,
Speaker 2: hopefully we'll win, Like there's.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, And I've said this especially doing what
Speaker 3: I've done for the last number of years. Coaching matters,
Speaker 3: and you can you can tell maybe one or two
Speaker 3: or five conversations with some whose coach knows if he's
Speaker 3: gonna be that he or she is going to be
Speaker 3: that person to be that good coach, right, because you
Speaker 3: need to have some toughness or some pain in the
Speaker 3: ass to be a good coach. Usually those coaches are
Speaker 3: the good coaches. And you know with it the reason
Speaker 3: obviously you can't be you know whatever, those old school coaches,
Speaker 3: but you have to be a pain in the ass
Speaker 3: to get the guys to be other women to be
Speaker 3: motivated to play for you.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean look at just as of recently with
Speaker 2: Alabama with Nick saban h.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, no, he's good for a reason. He's
Speaker 3: good for a reason, and they respect the hell of
Speaker 3: you know. The funny thing about is Sean. I thought
Speaker 3: Sean was too much to the to the outside, to
Speaker 3: the to the being a tough coach. There wasn't that
Speaker 3: that relaxation, No, no, no part of it. And Tommy
Speaker 3: might be too far to the other side. We won't know,
Speaker 3: but we don't see him behind the scenes, right, we
Speaker 3: don't see him. I think right in the middle between
Speaker 3: those two.
Speaker 2: This is the perfect perfect and we kind of saw
Speaker 2: Tommy going more towards that middle. Yes this season.
Speaker 3: You know what too, it might be that he's feeling
Speaker 3: more comfortable doing that. Yeah, because it's the only four
Speaker 3: years into being a head coach, right, and for all
Speaker 3: his career he was an assistant coach. And guess what
Speaker 3: assistant coaches do there? You have the good cop and
Speaker 3: the bad coup. Assistant coaches are usually the good cop.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, he doesn't mean that when he says that
Speaker 3: to you. Now he's gott to flip the role and
Speaker 3: kind of be the bad cop after being the bad
Speaker 3: the good cup for.
Speaker 2: So many years, and you kind of saw. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: give him credit and people are gonna hate me for
Speaker 2: doing that, but you saw what Jed. You saw Jed
Speaker 2: was that. Yeah, I'm not saying championship level of it,
Speaker 2: but to do what he did at Arizona, Yeah, and
Speaker 2: you saw the path that doesn't happen by accident.
Speaker 3: I mean what he did and he must have a
Speaker 3: something about him that we don't see Fiery or them
Speaker 3: wanting to play for him because they respect.
Speaker 2: The hell out of him. There's a drive that people
Speaker 2: didn't see it, and then that brings to you to well, Brennan,
Speaker 2: does Brennan have that?
Speaker 3: And that's it's right. No, you got he only had
Speaker 3: one bullet last year. I mean he got his bullet
Speaker 3: and it was not good enough. Now he's gonna get
Speaker 3: a second bullet for a second year. Either it's gonna
Speaker 3: have to be good enough or maybe not. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. You know, Jed had three, Jed had
Speaker 3: three and three. He pulled it off.
Speaker 2: But in fairness of Jed, he started from literally gals
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, yeah, to where he built it. Good, good
Speaker 2: situation for Brennan. But also, I don't want to say
Speaker 2: an unfair hand, but a difficult hand in terms of
Speaker 2: the expectations were.
Speaker 3: Different, yes, yes, and no question expectations. And there's a
Speaker 3: thing where the kids, the players have to respect you.
Speaker 3: And then you know him, I mean, he's committing in
Speaker 3: a situation where you know, the substitute teacher or the father,
Speaker 3: the stepfather, we don't you know, we don't like this
Speaker 3: guy or whatever. I'm not saying that's the case, but
Speaker 3: you know, i'll throw that out there.
Speaker 2: Or or even, Hey, you know what we won last year.
Speaker 2: Let's just do what we do. Yeah, we know we're
Speaker 2: gonna win. Sure, who's saying this the kids? Yeah, And
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Oh, you can't get on there.
Speaker 2: We're getting our butts. You can't tell me what to do.
Speaker 2: I've been here before. Well, win some games and shout
Speaker 2: out again. We're not saying that happened last year.
Speaker 3: But that's a theory.
Speaker 2: It's results matter. Okay.
Speaker 1: The NHL playoffs have started. There's a couple of games
Speaker 1: over the weekend. The Jets beat the Blues. Have my
Speaker 1: beat the Stars, the Hurricanes beat the Devils, Maple Leaves
Speaker 1: beat the Senators, and the Golden Knights of Vegas.
Speaker 2: Beat the Wild Hockey. Yep, I was joking, what what
Speaker 2: what's hockey? Hockey? Hockey hockey?
Speaker 3: Well, you talk about you're gonna bury the lead with
Speaker 3: my Warriors.
Speaker 2: Uh kind of. I was trying to say that for
Speaker 2: the end, Okay, Oh, you have a nice finale. He
Speaker 2: got safe the uh.
Speaker 1: The golden child of college basketball last year, Cooper Flag
Speaker 1: confirms he is entering the NBA Draft.
Speaker 3: Also breaking news, the sky is blue. It's a good transition,
Speaker 3: is it? Duke Blue.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping to wake up to some Arizona Blue soon eventually. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yes, it will be Duke Blue for a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 1: maybe even Florida Blue. Who knows he was Florida Blue? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a great horse.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you off the You remind me of great
Speaker 3: horse that won this weekend in Gulf Stream.
Speaker 2: I think it was somewhere great name. NBA playoffs also started.
Speaker 1: For the most part, some blowout games, but you had
Speaker 1: some close games like the Nuggets and the Clippers.
Speaker 2: They went to overtime.
Speaker 1: That was a great game, and I think the Clippers
Speaker 1: had a fifteen point lead they blew that. So it
Speaker 1: was in Denver two the Lakers got blown out by
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves. I guess that would be somewhat of an
Speaker 1: upset over over the weekend because it was in La too, right,
Speaker 1: because it's in LA. They're the three seed. But Minnesota,
Speaker 1: I think is that good? Okay, I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: I think they're very good, but they're also very young.
Speaker 1: Well that's like Houston. And then of course the Warriors upsetting,
Speaker 1: if you want to call it an upset. The Rockets
Speaker 1: ninety five eighty five.
Speaker 3: That was a good game. Steph went off again and
Speaker 3: it was really good. They got their butt kicked on
Speaker 3: and offensive rebounds, so it was like, what the hell
Speaker 3: grab a rebound?
Speaker 2: But who knows?
Speaker 3: They could go on a run or they could get
Speaker 3: beaten seven games here on this series and.
Speaker 2: They can go Rocks can go four straight. You never know.
Speaker 2: That's my favorite part about the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Dream onunds. Give us the crap out of it. He's
Speaker 3: too inconsistent. Don't shoot it, don't shoot. I think he
Speaker 3: scares the crap out of everybody. Everybody want his teammates,
Speaker 3: nobody when he put his shoots from the three point
Speaker 3: line or whatever I'm thinking, don't don't give it the ball,
Speaker 3: the staff, everybody else clear out.
Speaker 2: Well, remember that's like the golden era of Draymond when
Speaker 2: they first won that title. He was able to hit
Speaker 2: two or three two three is a game and then distributeable.
Speaker 2: He isn't that offensive guy anymore. No, No, he's pretty
Speaker 2: good screen play defense.
Speaker 3: Well, the guy that I think is amazing is is
Speaker 3: Eric Gordon, who you didn't want him to shoot here
Speaker 3: and now he did three shot forty from the three
Speaker 3: point line. Can he has free throws. Now, how good
Speaker 3: has he gotten over the last ten years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not surprised. I mean when you look at
Speaker 2: somebody that gifted athletically, kind of kind of like Andrea Goodala.
Speaker 2: Andre wasn't a big time shooter at Arizona. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying he was in the NBA, but he developed his
Speaker 2: shot in the NBA and got better and better each year.
Speaker 3: Did the Pacers win their first row or okay, okay,
Speaker 3: so the Matherin and TJ are still rolling yep.
Speaker 1: And then last thing I got before we have to
Speaker 1: go the NBA on some of their award finalists. You
Speaker 1: got the MVP, have Giannis, Shay, gilig Is, Alexander and Jokich.
Speaker 1: For Rookie of the Year, you have Stefan Cassel from
Speaker 1: the Spurs, so here Rushier from the Hawks, Jalen Wells
Speaker 1: from the Grizzlies. And then, uh, that last big one
Speaker 1: would be the Coach of the Year. You have the
Speaker 1: Calvs coach, Pistons coach, and the Rockets coach.
Speaker 2: Not Night, not mine, Malone. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: Nope, okay, okay, everything else, okay, Yeah, we're good. What's
Speaker 3: gonna ask you? Oh, that's it. I think we'll talk
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Speaker 4: I'm going to be in town tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay, what are you making your way out here for?
Speaker 13: Well? I something really near and dear to my heart.
Speaker 14: I work with a couple other volunteers and we did
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Speaker 13: And I had mentioned I said, you.
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Speaker 4: Because I donate my kidney and I want to see
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Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Cool, that's cool. When you approached Arizona with the idea
Speaker 2: to do this, Uh, just how how helpful were they
Speaker 2: and how did it all come about? To do it
Speaker 2: at Hillenbrand.
Speaker 13: So I called the big boss.
Speaker 14: I called Mike Andrea and I said, right, So Tots
Speaker 14: Andrea has known me since I was eighteen, bless his heart.
Speaker 14: We still have a lot of you know, our.
Speaker 13: Past still cross a lot.
Speaker 14: I've been Arizona athlete and then I was a really
Speaker 14: active alumni and I'm I'm a big cheerleader. I go
Speaker 14: I've gone three times since the softball team has gone
Speaker 14: to the World Series, and so our paths have discontinued
Speaker 14: to cross. And I reached out to him and I
Speaker 14: was like, Hey, what do you think of this? And
Speaker 14: he's like, hey, we're getting to the end of the season.
Speaker 13: Let me find out. And the next day I got
Speaker 13: a phone call.
Speaker 14: They're like, hey, can you be here on you know,
Speaker 14: next Tuesday. So the UVA has been really responsive. I
Speaker 14: have loved working with the team there. One of the
Speaker 14: interns is a diver, so that's awesome.
Speaker 13: And I'm just I'm.
Speaker 14: Really looking forward to getting back to Rita. I love visiting,
Speaker 14: I love going to the games. I love to tanning the
Speaker 14: ladies on and you know, now I get to kind
Speaker 14: of maybe inspire them years from now to be a
Speaker 14: living donor.
Speaker 2: Two what time does the game start?
Speaker 4: Six?
Speaker 13: I'm a doubleheader. The first game is at three and
Speaker 13: then the second game is at five.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool, Cool, So then you'll have a couple of
Speaker 3: bites at this. Will it be like a two game
Speaker 3: situation where you inform all the people there?
Speaker 14: Yeah, so the first game, I have been warming up
Speaker 14: my arm, Steve, I'm gonna do first pitch. I don't know,
Speaker 14: so I'm feeling I'm like channeling you know, Debbie Day
Speaker 14: old school. You've a ladies.
Speaker 13: Yes, we are besties.
Speaker 3: We were.
Speaker 14: We were very very close in college. I mean we're
Speaker 14: still friends now, but we're very very close in college.
Speaker 14: And so I'm gonna do that, and they'll talk a
Speaker 14: little bit about my story. I donated my kidney too,
Speaker 14: another Olympic swimmer's dad, so they'll.
Speaker 13: Go over that a little bit.
Speaker 14: But then we're gonna have, like I said, we're gonna
Speaker 14: have other donors. A friend of mine and two sons
Speaker 14: who donated to our dad. Another donor pair a daughter
Speaker 14: and a dad. We're gonna have some medical people there
Speaker 14: and from Banner representing Banner, and we're gonna be available.
Speaker 4: To answer questions.
Speaker 3: Tell me and I don't know why I don't remember this,
Speaker 3: how many years to go this happened? And how did
Speaker 3: it happen? When you were a match?
Speaker 14: So in January of twenty two, I saw that Missy's
Speaker 14: mom had posted on Facebook that her husband, Dick Franklin,
Speaker 14: was looking for a kidney, and I just was really
Speaker 14: moved to see if I could be a match. And
Speaker 14: five months later or six months later, I guess I
Speaker 14: was a match. And I mean, I'm the kind of
Speaker 14: person like I go to the dentist because I'm a
Speaker 14: grown up.
Speaker 13: I hate it. I you know, go to my doctor's
Speaker 13: appointments because I want to be a.
Speaker 14: Good grown up and I want to live and like
Speaker 14: move my body.
Speaker 13: And be responsible with it.
Speaker 14: But like I actually signed up to do a surgery,
Speaker 14: and when I was being rolled out to go start
Speaker 14: the surgery, my heart rate like was at fifty two.
Speaker 14: I just it was I felt like it was meant
Speaker 14: to be. I felt like I was supposed to like
Speaker 14: not no Missy before that, and then give Dick a kidney.
Speaker 14: And we bonded because of our swim community and I
Speaker 14: got to be the one that was there for him.
Speaker 14: So it's awesome.
Speaker 13: I love it.
Speaker 2: Who was the person again, who is the swimmer.
Speaker 13: Missy Franklin. Okay, yeah, she was pretty good. She won
Speaker 13: like five gold.
Speaker 4: Medals, a couple world records she did.
Speaker 14: Okay, No, she's much younger. Yeah, she's much younger than me.
Speaker 14: So that community, that community expands, Yes, yes, it's.
Speaker 13: Very much like I think.
Speaker 14: You know, we live in San Antonio and Sean and
Speaker 14: I have discussed volunteering together to promote kidney donation.
Speaker 13: You know, the Wildcat family, I think is feels really small.
Speaker 14: My husband's retired Air Force. That community feels really small.
Speaker 13: And the swimming.
Speaker 4: Community, you know, there's a lot of my you.
Speaker 14: Know, I would say probably nine some of my best
Speaker 14: friends are because of either swimming at the U of.
Speaker 13: A and we all were Wildcats, or.
Speaker 14: You know, being on a couple of national teams and
Speaker 14: Olympic team.
Speaker 13: Like, there is something about.
Speaker 14: That community where you know, friends of friends know each
Speaker 14: other and it makes the world really small and really lovely.
Speaker 2: Right right? Does it seem so long ago? I remember
Speaker 2: when you came back.
Speaker 3: So I was here in eighty seven, got here in
Speaker 3: eighty seven, you were here doing your thing, does it?
Speaker 8: See?
Speaker 3: And then when you went to Olympics and you came back.
Speaker 3: I remember the interview when you first came back. We
Speaker 3: did it at the Double Tree. I think it was
Speaker 3: so many years ago. Yeah, yeah, does it seem that
Speaker 3: long ago or how ow is it?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 13: So every four years the memories come flooding back and
Speaker 13: it feels like it wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 14: But I like to do CrossFit, and every day I
Speaker 14: go to the gym and I get my rear ended
Speaker 14: handed to me and I'm reminded that I am not
Speaker 14: twenty one anymore. So, so sometimes it feels like it's
Speaker 14: really close, and like especially in an Olympic year, like
Speaker 14: the memories are very vivid, and my time at the
Speaker 14: UVA is very clear to me and the people that
Speaker 14: were in the athletic department at that time, Like I know,
Speaker 14: said Dempsey just passed away, and I'm honest, thride list
Speaker 14: to me of a people and we all remember him.
Speaker 13: So like sometimes it sometimes it feels like it wasn't
Speaker 13: that long ago. Yet.
Speaker 14: I don't want to shock you because I know you're
Speaker 14: still young in your forties, but I'm now in my fifties.
Speaker 3: Your Yeah, try to be nice, to be yeah, I
Speaker 3: dare you, all right, exactly tell you this. I just
Speaker 3: got a text from one of my sponsors. He says,
Speaker 3: have them join going to a meeting, but give me
Speaker 3: her information because I want to help. So I'm going
Speaker 3: to have to pass.
Speaker 14: Oh my god, that's awesome. Yes, this is what we
Speaker 14: want to do. If you talk about it, it's I
Speaker 14: am like the field of dreams for living donation, like
Speaker 14: I did. I donated, and I don't. I think it
Speaker 14: took me about a year to really.
Speaker 13: Understand the need and kind of the butterfly.
Speaker 14: Effect that happened because of it. After I donated, I had.
Speaker 13: Two friends also donate. And I think.
Speaker 14: The more that you talk about it, the more you understand. Like,
Speaker 14: you know, seventeen people die every day that you could
Speaker 14: be giving a kidney to.
Speaker 13: There's over ninety thousand people.
Speaker 14: On the kidney donation waiting list, and this is a
Speaker 14: problem that we could solve. You know now, you know
Speaker 14: we're not waiting to understand how we can do living donations.
Speaker 14: We can solve the problem now. And I would love
Speaker 14: to have more allies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I bet did you? I know you're kind
Speaker 3: of crazy. I'll say that with all the terms of endearment,
Speaker 3: you could take it good because you're you're out there.
Speaker 3: We've been you know, we know each other for a
Speaker 3: long time. Did you did you kind of say yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll do it, or did you kind of like I'm
Speaker 3: not sure.
Speaker 14: At the beginning, I wanted to remain anonymous.
Speaker 2: I just did.
Speaker 4: I felt a very disingen if I was going to
Speaker 4: like toot my horn.
Speaker 14: Now I've already done it. I don't feel like I'm
Speaker 14: tooting my horn. I feel like I'm reminding other people
Speaker 14: that there is another way that you can help your neighbor.
Speaker 14: And so I feel strongly about And also it's not
Speaker 14: for everybody.
Speaker 13: So for example, like you know, if you have kidney.
Speaker 4: Stones a lot, you're not going to be.
Speaker 13: A good candidate for being a donor. That's okay, because
Speaker 13: you could still.
Speaker 14: Talk about it or be an ally and understand that
Speaker 14: for example, writing your name on your license doesn't make
Speaker 14: you a living donor, and only two percent of those.
Speaker 4: Organs get used, you know, So like.
Speaker 13: Becoming an ally is the best.
Speaker 14: And if it ends up being something where someone's inspired
Speaker 14: to also become a donor or, it helps them.
Speaker 13: You know, It's it's very hard, and I definitely am
Speaker 13: one of these people. I hate asking for help, Like
Speaker 13: there are.
Speaker 4: People out there that need a kidney right.
Speaker 13: Now that don't want to ask.
Speaker 4: You know, it feels weak, and I think we should
Speaker 4: talk about it when we shouldn't tell people.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you up.
Speaker 3: So it's been a few years removed since you were here,
Speaker 3: and I kind of already went here. But what are
Speaker 3: your thoughts on the nil because you were one of
Speaker 3: those great ones in Arizona in the swimming world, has
Speaker 3: been one of them, had a lot of the great ones.
Speaker 3: What do you think about it now? How would you
Speaker 3: have crushed it? And what did you if you? I
Speaker 3: think maybe you've said this on the air with me before.
Speaker 3: How much did you get for that the medals that
Speaker 3: you want? Probably pittance now yeah, so yeah, so.
Speaker 14: In nineteen ninety two, you did not receive money for
Speaker 14: your medals.
Speaker 13: That didn't start until nineteen ninety six. But I did
Speaker 13: sign some really.
Speaker 14: Good contracts Bert Kinarc yeah, you know, but very well
Speaker 14: known lawyer in town. He was my attorney, and so
Speaker 14: I I mean, I didn't walk away with nothing, and
Speaker 14: I was really happy with kind of the little nesta
Speaker 14: that I'd created for myself. I do feel like at
Speaker 14: the time if they if we had had NIL, it
Speaker 14: would have been really fun and exciting to do that.
Speaker 4: Because I definitely felt like a Tucson.
Speaker 14: Girl and an Arizona girl and it would have been
Speaker 14: really fun to kind of explore that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the.
Speaker 13: Stuff that's available now for athletes, like.
Speaker 14: I don't begrudge them forgetting what they want, even though
Speaker 14: sometimes it does make me cringe a little bit when
Speaker 14: I hear about like all the pants for portal or
Speaker 14: you know, like the quarterback from Tennessee kind of holding
Speaker 14: out for more or whatever. Like I just I struggle
Speaker 14: with that a little bit because I feel like.
Speaker 13: A real loyal Wildcat.
Speaker 4: And you know, I would I would encourage that for any.
Speaker 13: College athlete to stick it out in a place and.
Speaker 14: You know, make roots and be a part of the
Speaker 14: program and cheer for other sports and get to know
Speaker 14: the other athletes and stuff like that. But the NIL
Speaker 14: opportunities now, like this is exactly you know you want
Speaker 14: growth in sport. Do I think that they're doing it
Speaker 14: the right way all the time? Probably not, But I'm
Speaker 14: not an expert at this.
Speaker 13: But like when my mom.
Speaker 14: Was a college athlete, they didn't even like she wore
Speaker 14: the same uniform for basketball and volleyball, you know.
Speaker 4: And they didn't even have scholarships. So when I went
Speaker 4: to school and.
Speaker 13: I got a full ride, like this is the growth
Speaker 13: of sports in America and it's a business.
Speaker 14: And so yeah, I mean, would I do I wish
Speaker 14: that I would have had an opportunity like that. Yeah,
Speaker 14: that just wasn't happening at the time. But I definitely
Speaker 14: don't begrudge the athletes for you know, understanding that they're in.
Speaker 4: A profession and you know, it's a business, right, I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's it's hard, It's it's a delicate dance. I'm sure, sure, no,
Speaker 13: no question.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, enjoy tomorrow, give the word, give the word
Speaker 3: from Chrissy tomorrow.
Speaker 14: You're the best. I want to see buddy at that
Speaker 14: softball game. Want to cheer the Cats because that's awesome.
Speaker 14: It's their last home fan. But any information that anybody
Speaker 14: wants to find out about the becoming a living donor,
Speaker 14: there's a plethora of websites out there, and I would
Speaker 14: encourage anybody that has any questions to go do it.
Speaker 14: And lastly, Steve, thank you for all like always being
Speaker 14: a friend, always helping you know, Tucson athletes. I know
Speaker 14: you love the Wildcats more than just about anybody, So
Speaker 14: thank you for having me on. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to I'm Vaguero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera, You're Troy Hutchison, your one, and we
Speaker 3: got right here. So I just got to text for
Speaker 3: one of another listener, Christy just busted you. So you
Speaker 3: are a closet great Wildcap fan. I think we all
Speaker 3: knew it. Yeah, eat down inside. All that other stuff
Speaker 3: is just BS and Bill. If you're listening, I hope
Speaker 3: you are. You haven't called me since the first time
Speaker 3: you said that.
Speaker 2: We don't. I'm always negative, I'm not always nakedive.
Speaker 3: You're just realistic, and it's just realistic, pragmatic, pragmatic, pragmatic,
Speaker 3: honestly I am.
Speaker 2: You know, it's sunning outside, but a cloud could be coming.
Speaker 3: Arizona Blue, not Duke Blue, Arizona Blue. Well, good to
Speaker 3: talk to Chrissy, one of the crazy friends I have
Speaker 3: in the old sports world, doing some good scene. I
Speaker 3: didn't remember her doing the kidney thing. Oh, good for her,
Speaker 3: Good for her, and good thing tomorrow. Will you guys
Speaker 3: covered anything tomorrow?
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, nope.
Speaker 3: And they're playing my alma mater, so they should win
Speaker 3: pretty easily. Everybody you want to call, we have some time.
Speaker 3: We get about twelve minutes, yep, just about minutes five two, four, one, six,
Speaker 3: seventy four forty.
Speaker 2: I'll let us know what you think.
Speaker 3: If you were to tell us what you want new
Speaker 3: or improved a Michale or otherwise on campus, give us call,
Speaker 3: let us know, maybe pass it on to the people
Speaker 3: who need to know it's just your experiences as a
Speaker 3: fan or whatever.
Speaker 2: At you obey.
Speaker 11: That.
Speaker 2: You guys, give me all yours, right.
Speaker 1: I think the only thing I would say, and this
Speaker 1: is unrealistic dreaming, is moving both baseball and soccer to
Speaker 1: on campus. I think that would get a little bit
Speaker 1: more of the student population.
Speaker 4: To go.
Speaker 2: In my opinion.
Speaker 3: Well what you said soccer soccer, maybe maybe baseball. Baseball
Speaker 3: is doing better because it went a win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, it's doing so much better
Speaker 2: than what it was at Sanset as the old stadium,
Speaker 2: and that was right by you know, the football field,
Speaker 2: the basketball you knew that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just like the students didn't care or something. Well,
Speaker 3: you gotta win too. I guess it used to be
Speaker 3: Rocket a long time ago. You know, I don't know
Speaker 3: enough about that, but but when they moved to High COVID,
Speaker 3: it was like, holy crap.
Speaker 2: This well and then they started that's here they won
Speaker 2: the title. They started winning right right then and there,
Speaker 2: so you know they the High covered snice now and
Speaker 2: you know before when I covered the Triple A team.
Speaker 2: When I first got he was like, okay, nice it
Speaker 2: looked like the Cleveland team was still there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta call let's stick it. Although you're on
Speaker 3: the air nine the ball, who's this?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 10: Uh j r.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 19: I have ideas for each sport real quick on how
Speaker 19: to make it better. So baseball I recommend to get
Speaker 19: more students involved. Do like a shuttle that runs an
Speaker 19: hour before an hour after the game from campus back
Speaker 19: and forth for the students. That that way, uh, they
Speaker 19: can enjoy their time there, be safe getting home, uh McKay.
Speaker 19: The student seating availability and for the student seating uh
Speaker 19: and maybe eating some of the dedicated season ticket holders.
Speaker 2: You sell it without a seat.
Speaker 3: Just start that coverage. Start the basketball until you broke
Speaker 3: up a little. So start from the beginning.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 19: So for for for basket basketball, yeah yeah, basketball, I
Speaker 19: just say student seating, they don't need an actual chair.
Speaker 19: Sell it as a space in a row, you know,
Speaker 19: with a capacity and stuff. But that way, yeah, back
Speaker 19: to participants throughout the throughout game. If you look at
Speaker 19: other competitions that we have in the country, there's some
Speaker 19: kids that never sit down. And even consider that for
Speaker 19: some of the elderly, give them like limited amount of
Speaker 19: seats time so that they're more active and not falling
Speaker 19: asleep in the games.
Speaker 2: And then I mentioned it before.
Speaker 19: For football, after the first half, open it up at
Speaker 19: a discounted price to let take a sale will happen
Speaker 19: so that people, Yeah.
Speaker 3: You're breaking up jail, But I get it because the students,
Speaker 3: most of them leave or someone will, right, Yeah.
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, I mean ideally they'd be earlier games. But
Speaker 19: I'm talking about like families that would love to go
Speaker 19: if this can't afford to go. If they knew they
Speaker 19: had a chance to get in after halftime because the
Speaker 19: seats weren't sold, and so them at a discount of great,
Speaker 19: you could have the second half. You know, you count
Speaker 19: on real dedicated fans being there.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's possible, but that's not a
Speaker 3: bad idea unless the game is like it starts at
Speaker 3: eight o'clock and.
Speaker 19: You know you have to get you and Chris Rogers
Speaker 19: should coach all the sports.
Speaker 2: Well, you just screwed it. You just screwed it up.
Speaker 3: Jill. Well, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. Uh,
Speaker 3: just not on the student. I didn't get that, did
Speaker 3: you understand.
Speaker 1: I think what he's trying to say is get rid
Speaker 1: of seats, the physical seats, and just create like a
Speaker 1: space for them to stand kind of.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, like the final fours. Oh, I see, I
Speaker 2: see all that kind of have like like.
Speaker 10: That.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's not either safe or probably sound to do that. Okay,
Speaker 3: if that's what he meant, I didn't understand what you're
Speaker 3: trying to say. I was trying to do.
Speaker 5: They do.
Speaker 2: They have Now it's just done for me. But I
Speaker 2: walked through all the time bleachers or they have seats,
Speaker 2: have seats for basketball. For basketball, they have seats. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: so football is all bleacher. Yes, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Still say shortening the or making it smaller, getting more
Speaker 3: people in that way, making more cozy whatever.
Speaker 2: I think for football that works. Basketball, no, no.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: Fifteen thousand for big games, they'll show and it's not
Speaker 3: that bad. You like go and look at each other, like,
Speaker 3: what's thirteen thousand people or whatever, And it's noticeable because
Speaker 3: you're used to it packed, right, Yeah, and then you
Speaker 3: see pockets up in the stairs, up in the top
Speaker 3: kind of empty and you're thinking what, But then again,
Speaker 3: it's like ten o'clock yep.
Speaker 2: I'll say this for basketball because Tommy talked about getting
Speaker 2: there late. Yes, have giveaways to get there early. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have gifts like they did Bobbleheads a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago. With various different sports, have like I don't know,
Speaker 2: a towel giveaway for the first like five something.
Speaker 3: Let me also tell you to try you know this
Speaker 3: because you guys are too No, no, no, well it
Speaker 3: costs money. Yeah, but Tucson is notorious and I've been
Speaker 3: here thirty seven years for being a late arriving Yes
Speaker 3: group anywhere anytime, if the play starts at ten oh one,
Speaker 3: they're getting in their seats at ten thirty, at ten
Speaker 3: ten o'clock ten, Yeah, just you know, thirty seconds before
Speaker 3: the actual team and they say, where's my seat, where's
Speaker 3: my seat? And by that time game's on. But his point,
Speaker 3: I never ever thought his point was was misdirected because
Speaker 3: it was on the money. You know, the game would
Speaker 3: start and you'd still have people trying.
Speaker 2: To get to their seats where you're at o their
Speaker 2: venues and they're they're already harrassing.
Speaker 3: You went to Kansas, then to Kansas twice, and there
Speaker 3: they get there early to have a fun time and
Speaker 3: then the game starts.
Speaker 2: Due they were allowed yeah, yeah, like thirty minutes before
Speaker 2: the game. Yeah. Yeah, but you can't always be Those
Speaker 2: are one offs right there. But I'll say this, they
Speaker 2: were also letting students in way early and then they're
Speaker 2: like regular like I do, this section came in, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then I would say about fifteen minutes later, the
Speaker 2: regular fans, like the field in season ticket holders filled in. Right.
Speaker 2: So maybe that's the thing you do with McHale as
Speaker 2: you let the students in earlier than what you do
Speaker 2: and maybe do activities, I don't know, get them involved.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's you know, that's a guy like
Speaker 3: for Tony that we had on right uh yeah, because
Speaker 3: we were there at Duke and we were we had
Speaker 3: to be seated pretty much in our area because the
Speaker 3: guys came in and we hard to get in and
Speaker 3: out of our.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we had no room. Once he got down,
Speaker 2: you were there, Yeah, you were not getting up and
Speaker 2: you're getting back.
Speaker 1: Right now to go on your point about two. So
Speaker 1: on arriving late, you know, I would get stuck in
Speaker 1: the third row of the media. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's like that's a bad thing or anything. It's just
Speaker 1: when the best basketball, when the crowds arriving late, they're
Speaker 1: walking in front.
Speaker 2: Of you, you can't see anything, right, yeah, and you're just.
Speaker 1: Like, well, we're already ten fifteen minutes into the game
Speaker 1: and you're barely getting here.
Speaker 2: My favorite is when people did I've had happen to
Speaker 2: me a couple of times. I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: happened to you. They'll come up and go, where is
Speaker 2: section I'm working, dude, I tell I'm sorry, man exactly.
Speaker 3: They'll go, as you still wearing those blue vests, Target
Speaker 3: with the white hat? Yeah, Target, could you tell me
Speaker 3: where the fore the under arm the older it is?
Speaker 2: I had that happened like twice. I'm like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: I'm just working. Well, can't know I'm working? Go ask somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think personally it happens to me all
Speaker 1: the time, whether I'm working or even just being a fan.
Speaker 2: People come up to me and I'm like.
Speaker 1: I don't know, don't have your ticket at Mikale, at Michale,
Speaker 1: at the Football Stadium or a Target.
Speaker 2: Sir, do you know where the frost flakes are? I said, Uh,
Speaker 2: probably someone that works here. That's bigger start. You probably
Speaker 2: looked lost to I don't road. Do you know where?
Speaker 2: That's funny?
Speaker 3: Okay, any more calls we can take maybe one that
Speaker 3: we got five minutes. Yes, we can take another one.
Speaker 3: Thanking Jr.
Speaker 2: For calling us.
Speaker 3: Let us know what's going on. Uh yeah, So I
Speaker 3: think that you of a will see the subtle changes.
Speaker 3: I was surprised when he said that they're gonna start
Speaker 3: making but it's kind of be subtle, not like a boom,
Speaker 3: like like I think the at the football stadium, Arizona Stadium.
Speaker 3: The biggest problem I had was the sound. And the
Speaker 3: only problem I had was a sound, not not the
Speaker 3: seats I was in the section. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 3: you think I'm gonna go live in that is the
Speaker 3: part of the no no, I was invited for that,
Speaker 3: but you could very yeah hear it, and maybe it
Speaker 3: was because I was far away from it. Whatever they
Speaker 3: would sound, it was exactly it muffled, right, yeah, no question.
Speaker 3: So I mean, you fix one cerro here, one cereo there,
Speaker 3: it's probably bits pieces.
Speaker 2: Right then that's kind of what it sounds like it
Speaker 2: was gonna happen, right And then there you go. Eventually
Speaker 2: you have a whole system.
Speaker 3: And then by that time it's like the roads here,
Speaker 3: you fix this area, but then that one breaks and
Speaker 3: then you got to come back exactly And then do
Speaker 3: they say, well that's always being under construction. No, it's
Speaker 3: just that where you drive, they fix this area, you
Speaker 3: gotta go this area and then other fix blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: You know how many fixes do they need in that stadium?
Speaker 2: Bunch? Right, I mean it's an old stadium for a reason, right,
Speaker 2: and elevators, I'm not sure. Good luck with that. Stop
Speaker 2: being lazy. You're you're in shape. You're the one in
Speaker 2: here that's in shape.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 18: When one thing I saw that on Saturday too is
Speaker 18: one of the like on the screen, not the not
Speaker 18: the big screen, but the one in the corner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just like a green panel like it
Speaker 2: just like stayed green. I don't know, maybe they just
Speaker 2: didn't use it. I think I think they might have
Speaker 2: been having technical difficulties. That scream usually is working. But
Speaker 2: did you did you go you in as a fan?
Speaker 2: Did you were you on the field? I took like
Speaker 2: a little lap around the field just to see.
Speaker 3: Like what was did you what was your feeling being
Speaker 3: the fan on the field because we were we were
Speaker 3: you were there. Yeah, I was there for like a minute.
Speaker 2: I just walked by. Yeah, I mean it was cool.
Speaker 18: The person I went with they hadn't been on the
Speaker 18: field either, so they thought that was pretty cool. And
Speaker 18: I mean there was kind of cool events, like the
Speaker 18: little like there was like I just get more of
Speaker 18: like why I would intrigue a family to go, because
Speaker 18: it's like you can leave your kid, well not leave
Speaker 18: your kid, but like you can be with your kid
Speaker 18: like doing all that kind of stuff and like you
Speaker 18: like taking an eye like at the like at the
Speaker 18: practice that's going on, compared to like having to chase
Speaker 18: your kid around the state.
Speaker 2: I would imagine.
Speaker 3: Right. No, the one thing that I thought Tony hit
Speaker 3: on two is when you were kids and me too,
Speaker 3: when you went to those type of games and you
Speaker 3: got to kind of watch them and meet them. It
Speaker 3: was when you were ten years old or eight years old.
Speaker 3: It's a cool thing because you don't get to meet
Speaker 3: your heroes. You don't get to meet your heroes, and
Speaker 3: you know, eventually they're not my heroes anymore. But back
Speaker 3: when you're young, they were, Well here's the thing. Now
Speaker 3: your hero's there for spring and they're not there when
Speaker 3: all comes Well, that's yeah, that's it's hard to stay
Speaker 3: engaged intact.
Speaker 2: Let me see you.
Speaker 3: That's why you're a sports fan, right, Yep, I'm not
Speaker 3: a sports fan because for that reason, my guy here
Speaker 3: is on this team and then he could be somewhere
Speaker 3: else tomorrow. It's like the we talked about Jimmy Butler, right,
Speaker 3: is he here for a year or whatever and then
Speaker 3: he goes somewhere else this movement. That's why I'm horrible fantasy.
Speaker 2: I get my team.
Speaker 3: I don't trade anybody because I'm loyal to the team
Speaker 3: that sucks and I don't get rid of them.
Speaker 2: Well, and and college is becoming more and more and
Speaker 2: more like the NBA where they're in the contract, but
Speaker 2: it doesn't really mean you're under contract. You just throw
Speaker 2: a fitting and get traded where you want to go.
Speaker 2: Kevin Kevin Durant uh, Kyrie Irving has done it before.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter that our movement happens regardless of contract.
Speaker 2: So I know college they don't have contracts, but eventually
Speaker 2: you gotta think, yeah, right, we gotta go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, thanks guys for coming in today. We'll see
Speaker 3: you guys tomorrow