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Speaker 5: Happy Wednesday to everyone out there, yours truly, mister Greed,
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Speaker 5: We love it O day. Starting off breaking news with
Speaker 5: looking ahead to a women's basketball game tonight for Arizona
Speaker 5: women's basketball. They take on Cincinnati at six o'clock tonight,
Speaker 5: coming off a win at Kansas.
Speaker 4: Are you doing that?
Speaker 6: No? No, no, yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping to get her on the show pretty soon,
Speaker 3: just to see her gage her enthusiasm or whatever, because
Speaker 3: you know, it's been tough. It's been a tough year.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They I don't think they they haven't won at home
Speaker 5: in conference, but all three of their conference wins.
Speaker 4: I've been on the road. They're good road three and four. Overall,
Speaker 4: they're a good road team. I haven't been to Have
Speaker 4: you been to a game.
Speaker 7: I've not been to a game this year. No, when
Speaker 7: was the last time you did go to They went
Speaker 7: to one last year, did Okay? I drove by the
Speaker 7: Cincinnati bus needs anything. I know they're in town. The
Speaker 7: stay at the Marriotte right by campus. We know there's
Speaker 7: somebody in town, so that that'll be fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Games on ESPN.
Speaker 5: Plus, yes, yes, yes, PM plus uh. And then of
Speaker 5: course the men's team got to win in still Water
Speaker 5: against Oklahoma State ninety two to seventy eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they'll played well, they're looking ahead.
Speaker 5: Colorado's this Saturday at one o'clock, yes, PM plus one o'clock.
Speaker 7: It's a doubleheader day too. I think who women play after?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Later yeah, later, late in between.
Speaker 5: So I'll bet I'll be at tennis covering the men's team.
Speaker 5: They play on Saturday as well.
Speaker 4: So they're good. It can be good. Again, they're really good.
Speaker 4: Number six, they're really good. That's nice.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So looking to some other scores across college basketball, Ucla
Speaker 5: took down number eighteen Wisconsin in LA. Yeah, eighty five
Speaker 5: to eighty three. And then you had Arizona State beat
Speaker 5: West Virginia, number twenty three West Virginia at West Virginia. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so the state of Arizona got that sweep in Morgantown.
Speaker 4: Get to the NBA. The Mavericks forward.
Speaker 5: Last center Derek Lively, the second is out for two
Speaker 5: to three months with a foot fracture, So a little
Speaker 5: blow to their championship RN. They're already missing Luca and
Speaker 5: now they don't have one of their star players. The
Speaker 5: Lakers are adding Jared Vanderbilt to their roster, not adding,
Speaker 5: but gaining after he was cleared for the season. His
Speaker 5: season debut on Saturday. He's been out since February first,
Speaker 5: with let me see, where's you say it?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Foot right, midfoot spring since February first? Wow? Okay, uh.
Speaker 5: The Bucks and Pelicans game was postponed tonight after the
Speaker 5: snow storm.
Speaker 4: And you see this.
Speaker 3: You saw the snow in Orleans. Yeah, no one's on
Speaker 3: that street.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 7: I saw some video of Bourbon Street like last night.
Speaker 7: It was unbelievable. So it doesn't happen too often in Florida.
Speaker 7: There's all kinds of snows. I think it's their first
Speaker 7: snowfall in thirteen years. Yeah, probably, it's crazy.
Speaker 5: The Sun's acquired three first round draft picks in a
Speaker 5: trade with the Jazz, kind of sparking speculation for a
Speaker 5: trade with Jimmy Butler and the Heat, especially since the
Speaker 5: Heat have now suspended Jimmy Butler for two games following
Speaker 5: his return.
Speaker 3: Does say with pay? Probably not with pay. I doesn't say,
Speaker 3: but he's it doesn't really matter. But I'm just wondering
Speaker 3: how much each game is, like maybe one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty thousand dollars each game.
Speaker 4: Probably at least.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he said they said he missed a team flight
Speaker 5: for their road trip, the two game road trip. He
Speaker 5: had planned to join them the same night. But now
Speaker 5: there's they're gonna suspend him for two more games. Maybe
Speaker 5: you'll see a trade within the next two days or so. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Do you think that's not gonna do to the Suns?
Speaker 5: Are they gonna who they're gonna trade?
Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
Speaker 5: I'll probably trade those first three picks, the three first
Speaker 5: round picks.
Speaker 6: Maybe.
Speaker 7: I mean, if they could just get those three feel
Speaker 7: and Durant and Booker all on the court at the
Speaker 7: same time, they're really good, but they just haven't been
Speaker 7: able to It's like fifty percent of the time that
Speaker 7: they've all been teammates, they played together.
Speaker 4: Do you think Jimmy Butler will be a help to
Speaker 4: the Sons or a hinder.
Speaker 3: How many basketballs do they played with one? Two at least?
Speaker 3: I think so they're changing the game now.
Speaker 4: Too many stars on that I Booker and Durant is enough.
Speaker 4: But well they're not.
Speaker 7: They're not because their own is doesn't sit still. I
Speaker 7: mean they've changed coaches, They've made moves, fired, fired coaches,
Speaker 7: made all these trades.
Speaker 6: Yeah, whatever it.
Speaker 3: Takes to win Now. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 3: are paying attention to the NBA, because I don't. The
Speaker 3: kid from Alabama Smith that was really good that he
Speaker 3: was the one with the gun?
Speaker 4: Is he playing?
Speaker 5: Who's he playing for with the Rockets? I'm not sure
Speaker 5: he was with the he was with the Hornets. I
Speaker 5: had a good rookie season. I haven't really heard from
Speaker 5: him since because you don't hear his name very often.
Speaker 3: What about the guy who who wore that red red
Speaker 3: outfit shiny red outfit Kansas?
Speaker 4: I think it was Kansas the year before with the draft? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I have to kind of go.
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking, because you don't hear these names, you
Speaker 3: hear names that you've never heard before out of.
Speaker 7: The very international. I mean, you're not necessarily ever see
Speaker 7: these guys before. Sure, France, number of players from France
Speaker 7: in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: Especially speaking of France.
Speaker 5: Uh, the Spurs and the Pacers are going to play
Speaker 5: their first game in Paris tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Uh, why a time, there's a couple of a couple
Speaker 4: of news.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple of games out there there, I
Speaker 3: believe for right now it's just the Pacers and Spars.
Speaker 4: They play tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, wenby, big, big French guy. They play tomorrow Thursday
Speaker 5: at noon on NBA TV and then Saturday. But the
Speaker 5: big story for them is that Great Papovich is still out.
Speaker 5: There's still no return for him, no time for return.
Speaker 5: But the the CEO R. C. Beauford has said that
Speaker 5: he's recovering. Well, he's recovering aggressively whatever whatever that means.
Speaker 5: Did you ever have to deal with Pop?
Speaker 4: Yes, anything.
Speaker 3: Well, he's covered the two thousand and one and still
Speaker 3: NBA Finals. He was good, he was good. It's funny.
Speaker 3: I kind of when member Sean got his kidney, his kiddey. Yeah,
Speaker 3: when he went I flew out there for a week
Speaker 3: and I spent time with the team and them, and
Speaker 3: I asked maybe a dumb question at the time, and
Speaker 3: I thought it was a smart one. And because I
Speaker 3: got the impression that people thought Sean was saw because
Speaker 3: he was had that my old mannered.
Speaker 4: Kind of am I speaking out a turn?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: I agree, yeah, And he.
Speaker 3: Looked at me like where you get the where are
Speaker 3: you getting this? And who are you because I had
Speaker 3: just shown up from Tucson right to cover this big thing.
Speaker 3: And he looked at me and says, well, I'm thinking
Speaker 3: that's what the perception is is it's not the perception
Speaker 3: I should know. I'm as coach and I left it
Speaker 3: like that, But at the time that's what it was.
Speaker 4: I know he was He's always been fun. He's kind
Speaker 4: of funny.
Speaker 7: And yeah, remember how he would deal with Craig Sayer
Speaker 7: with the with the interviews.
Speaker 3: I would to go, do you think those questions are
Speaker 3: are worthy of anything?
Speaker 7: But he played it up and then they wound up
Speaker 7: becoming really good friends. Of course, Craig got sick and
Speaker 7: so it turned out to be pretty emotional. But sure,
Speaker 7: you know he's been around. He was with a Warriors
Speaker 7: organization in his younger years, and I kind of remember
Speaker 7: him there I didn't and then kind of, you know,
Speaker 7: matriculated over to San Antonio.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you Harmon. Is it Becky Harmon?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so his assistant for a while. Now.
Speaker 3: Would you think that at some point that she could
Speaker 3: be an NBA head coach?
Speaker 7: I think she'd probably be the first person to do it.
Speaker 7: I mean, she's kind of in position right.
Speaker 4: Right, and she's one. If there was gonna be a first,
Speaker 4: she should be the first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very very successful at what she does in that organization.
Speaker 4: They might bring it. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, obviously the men are coaching the
Speaker 7: women's teams. You know, Gino's got a zillion victories of
Speaker 7: a ukon, so it's kind of gone that way. But
Speaker 7: whether or not the men can take orders from the women,
Speaker 7: you know, who's who knows, But she'd be the one.
Speaker 4: She's kind of in that in that spot right now.
Speaker 5: Dust some NFL news with some hiring and firings and
Speaker 5: parting ways. The Jets have hired Lions of defensive coordinator
Speaker 5: Aaron Glenn as their new head coach.
Speaker 4: Denver Denver, Detroit.
Speaker 3: It's kind of not falling apart, but the people who
Speaker 3: have gone their coordinators have left. Yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 3: like the Patriots were, you know, twenty years ago, when
Speaker 3: every one of their coordinators would get head coaching jobs.
Speaker 3: But Glenn played for the Jets too back in the day,
Speaker 3: so he's got a little bit of a history there
Speaker 3: at least.
Speaker 4: Okay, So well, I guess Ryan didn't get the job.
Speaker 4: I guess not Reck or yeah, rights Ryan? Thanks Ryan?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Uh trp uh.
Speaker 5: I don't even know if I'm saying Balky is out
Speaker 5: as the Jaguars GM. So now they're in two searches
Speaker 5: for one for a GM and now for a head
Speaker 5: coach as the Raiders have also hired Buccaneers uh GM
Speaker 5: John's spider. I'm not try to say that as their
Speaker 5: new GM. The Rams starting quarterback Matthew Stafford. According to
Speaker 5: his wife, he said he played through broken ribs or
Speaker 5: cracked ribs the last month or so.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: One of my secrets daven doing my job. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if you had the secret of doing your
Speaker 3: job and how you did it was you always got
Speaker 3: good information from the girlfriend or the wives. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: because they like to talk on a record or off
Speaker 3: the record, she might even.
Speaker 4: Have a So that's where it was okay, yeah, found
Speaker 4: out and nowadays that's back and it didn't have exactly
Speaker 4: and they're doing commercials together.
Speaker 7: So they they're you know, they're a little media company
Speaker 7: amongst themselves. So when there's breaking news, you know, again,
Speaker 7: go to the wife. The wife, she'll be the one
Speaker 7: to give about the information.
Speaker 5: Pass Rusher Khalil Mack has decided to return for the
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five season, and after speculations that he might retire,
Speaker 5: he'll be back for the Chargers this year. Looking ahead,
Speaker 5: got Championship Sunday coming up, Commanders Eagles for the NFC,
Speaker 5: Bill's Chiefs for the AFC.
Speaker 4: It should be the fun weekend.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was that Washington game last over the weekend
Speaker 7: was amazing. He's he's really good. Jaydon Daniels. You know,
Speaker 7: we saw hi at Asu for a couple of years.
Speaker 7: He was decent. It wasn't great. Then he goes to
Speaker 7: LSU and all this you done. Yeah, one last fie. Okay,
Speaker 7: I'm curious if you're gonna have the same one I have.
Speaker 4: Probably not.
Speaker 5: Because this is ESPN's top one hundred players from the
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five college football season. Twenty twenty four colleg
Speaker 5: football season tetroll. McMillan bring came in at twenty eight
Speaker 5: after being a preseason thirteen and uh for obvious reasons.
Speaker 5: Camp's got to be from Arizona State finished at number four.
Speaker 5: Oh well, yeah, it's big after not being ranked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and probably McMillan will probably be in the top ten.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, every mock draft i've seen, he's top five.
Speaker 5: I've seen top five in every mock draft. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: let me ask you. You want to talk about the duke Duke,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry you can. Danny Hurley, Yeah, did you see it?
Speaker 5: It's funny.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't see the game, but then I saw the
Speaker 3: tweets and then I saw the highlight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and exactly what he said, he uh, they're playing Butler. Yeah. Right.
Speaker 7: He went to overtime and I guess he was talking
Speaker 7: with twent the officials, and the official came over and
Speaker 7: maybe said a word or two and then turned around
Speaker 7: and walked away. And he's like, don't you turn your
Speaker 7: back on me. I'm the best coach in the blank sports.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then then he commented afterwards, you know they're always
Speaker 7: the cameras are always on me.
Speaker 4: Why are they always showing me on the sideline. And
Speaker 4: where did you use to describe the media? Oh god,
Speaker 4: I don't know a thing like that.
Speaker 3: A whole media who tweet things and because they did
Speaker 3: right after they said that, or you can see what
Speaker 3: he said, mouth off.
Speaker 4: I just wish these they would show these other coaches
Speaker 4: losing their minds at the officials and other big East
Speaker 4: games that I'm coaching, go into a timeout when I'm
Speaker 4: not talking to officials. You know.
Speaker 7: It's kind of the Mike Stoops cam that we used
Speaker 7: to have here. I mean literally the cameras, but they
Speaker 7: had one camera just focused on him because I knew
Speaker 7: you were gonna get something crazy.
Speaker 3: Guess what, He's won two in a row. Of course
Speaker 3: they're going to look at him and follow me because
Speaker 3: he's that guy. I mean, people don't put their camera
Speaker 3: on boring people.
Speaker 7: No, and he's you know, look at his brother up
Speaker 7: the road. The two of them could put on quite
Speaker 7: a show.
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I'm surprised they don't have a podcast. I
Speaker 4: think I would listen to. I think it's coming eventually there.
Speaker 4: It's like the Miller's had theirs, That's right. I didn't
Speaker 4: I kind of early in the whole game too, didn't.
Speaker 3: Did you ever watch it? I didn't either. Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: not really, It wasn't a need to.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 7: You know, they know where how to get their messages
Speaker 7: out these and they do it that way.
Speaker 3: Through the media, through the media, their own media. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Iying the ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave silver goetut
Speaker 3: of control.
Speaker 4: We just lost Bobs. We'll defne cocas your call.
Speaker 6: You could love.
Speaker 3: Look if I could just talk here, hello, let me
Speaker 3: just tell him.
Speaker 4: And we'll talk about his situation with doctor j How
Speaker 4: that went.
Speaker 7: Yeah, big night for him to get you know, one
Speaker 7: of the all time greats to come to Tucson, and
Speaker 7: you were there, you got to chance to hear them together.
Speaker 4: Right, they've been friends since what.
Speaker 3: Seventies seventies when Bob was a rookie at sixers. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: so you know there's that I want to talk to
Speaker 3: him about that because I didn't stay for that.
Speaker 4: Maybe they talked, Bob, are you there, Bob? Are you there? Hey, Bob?
Speaker 16: How are you am? One second?
Speaker 4: Will you wrong with us?
Speaker 6: Okay? Good? Do you hear me now? I can hear you?
Speaker 4: Fine? Yeah? Yeah, hey, okay, good. Congratulations on your night
Speaker 4: last week. How do you think it went.
Speaker 16: I thought it went extremely well. I think it was
Speaker 16: great for the community to be able to see someone
Speaker 16: like Julius irving right there in person, to hear him
Speaker 16: talk about his life, not getting some feed from a
Speaker 16: television or something. And and the responses we've heard from
Speaker 16: people is that they were amazed. I mean just some
Speaker 16: people said they cried.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 16: When Julius started out, I talked about the fact that
Speaker 16: he's the only living member of his family. I think
Speaker 16: that that kind of that kind of got people thinking.
Speaker 3: Right right, And I didn't realize his brother had died
Speaker 3: at an early age.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, his youngest brother and it was his uh,
Speaker 16: they had they had a sister who was older and
Speaker 16: then Julius is the middle child. And then Marvin or
Speaker 16: they called him, he was the one that was three
Speaker 16: years younger than Julius, and Marky died at age of
Speaker 16: sixteen when Julius was a freshman up in a U mess.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what do you think this is the most important
Speaker 7: thing he talked about. I mean, he's he's been in
Speaker 7: our world and we've watched him, you know, really since
Speaker 7: the seventies. What's his what's his overall legacy going to be?
Speaker 7: I mean he was kind of there before Michael Jordan,
Speaker 7: you know, but you know, everybody kind of looks back
Speaker 7: to doctor j has been one who started that.
Speaker 4: Style of basketball.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 16: I think he left everybody with the message that your
Speaker 16: best day is yet to come.
Speaker 6: So regardless of what he's done.
Speaker 16: Is past, I think he feels like he lives, which
Speaker 16: is that his best day is yet to come.
Speaker 4: Who uh, did do you remember the first time you're
Speaker 4: having fun?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 16: No, you know it's amazing because I mean I think
Speaker 16: people when they came to the fireside chat might have
Speaker 16: had preconceived notions about what they were going to see
Speaker 16: and hear, and I think they left impressed, overwhelmed and
Speaker 16: thought provoking.
Speaker 3: You met him in the late seventies, I'm assuming, right,
Speaker 3: what was were you obstruck too before you actually met him?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Come on, now, I mean I'm drafted.
Speaker 16: I'm drafted by the sixers, right, and Julius is the
Speaker 16: icon for the whole league. But immediately I could tell
Speaker 16: that on the court, oh he was doctor j He
Speaker 16: did things on the court that you just don't believe
Speaker 16: are possible. But then off the courting with Julie and
Speaker 16: we struck up a relationship from from day almost day
Speaker 16: one in camp to the point where after one week,
Speaker 16: you know, all the veterans have their own rooms. The
Speaker 16: rookies are two to a room. There was a cut
Speaker 16: after one week. I had a single room, and you know,
Speaker 16: some of the veterans being veterans, you know, like Doug
Speaker 16: Collins and Henry Bibby and Lloyd Free who's in that world?
Speaker 6: Be Free?
Speaker 16: And they were like, now I put three of them
Speaker 16: ugly rascals in one room. And Julie said, now Bob
Speaker 16: can move in with me. He's been my big brother
Speaker 16: ever since.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, you told that story.
Speaker 3: Uh I would I would have seen that you guys
Speaker 3: liked each other one in part because one you're very
Speaker 3: talented basketball players, but also cerebral, you know, kind of bookish.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been called a nerd. Especially I've been called
Speaker 6: a nerd.
Speaker 16: That's one of the one of the things that Channing
Speaker 16: Fry and I always laugh about.
Speaker 6: They say, you know, the nerds of of the world unite. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but it's true.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that was kind of like a thing too,
Speaker 3: because he's a very bright man, well spoken, just as
Speaker 3: you are, you know, well respected.
Speaker 16: No, I mean we hit it off in so many
Speaker 16: different areas. It's like we had known each other for life.
Speaker 6: Like I literally was his little brother.
Speaker 16: And then you know again, since when I got there,
Speaker 16: his little brother had passed away, I have literally become marquee.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 7: Talk a little bit if you could about the museum.
Speaker 7: It's on campus, it's new, pretty new. This was a
Speaker 7: benefit for the week.
Speaker 16: Can you maybe we just had Yeah, we just had
Speaker 16: our second year of actually being open. We've been in
Speaker 16: business before that, we were basically running the museum off
Speaker 16: of the Internet and our website. But after two years,
Speaker 16: you know, we've had over seven thousand people come to
Speaker 16: that museum, and you know, as a reference point, you know,
Speaker 16: State Museum gets about two thoul within a year. So
Speaker 16: we're extremely happy about what we've done and what we've
Speaker 16: been able to accomplish. And obviously my wife, being the
Speaker 16: executive director, has been unbelievable what she's been able to
Speaker 16: put together. I think that you know the thing, and
Speaker 16: so many people when it comes through there, they come
Speaker 16: in the door and the first thing they say is
Speaker 16: this is not what I expected. At which time I've
Speaker 16: been there, my wife said, well, what were you expecting?
Speaker 16: And it's something that she's put together with a lot
Speaker 16: of exhibits. It's inner generational so that they can also
Speaker 16: affect not only older people but also the young students
Speaker 16: on campus. And it looks I think it looks nice
Speaker 16: in class and education.
Speaker 4: So I'm not sure you want to talk about this.
Speaker 3: But one of the purposes, or if not, the purpose
Speaker 3: of bringing him over was to help raise money to
Speaker 3: help support it, correct.
Speaker 6: No question.
Speaker 16: Definitely was a fundraiser, and Julius said he wanted to
Speaker 16: do something to help the museum, and we said the
Speaker 16: best way would be to do a fireside chat. This
Speaker 16: is a fourth that we've done. We did Ruby Bridges.
Speaker 16: It was the first one. Stacy Snowden was the second one,
Speaker 16: Coach Snowden's.
Speaker 6: Daughter, a lot of walls from the Little Rock nine.
Speaker 16: And then at the same time Julius is the fourth one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some big names who, what's what's next? And what
Speaker 4: else do you have on the calendar?
Speaker 6: Anything?
Speaker 4: Planning?
Speaker 12: How this.
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 6: Questions?
Speaker 16: You know, we keep raising the bar and it makes
Speaker 16: you wonder how far can the bar be raised. We
Speaker 16: haven't really discussed what is next, per se, but we
Speaker 16: do know that given our market, given Tucson, you cannot
Speaker 16: do too many of these. So it's not like going
Speaker 16: to do one every three or four months or one
Speaker 16: every six months. I think that probably one a year
Speaker 16: or one every two years. It's probably the best way
Speaker 16: to go about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sounds about right. We had you on the show
Speaker 3: last week, I think it was and knowing you how
Speaker 3: I know you and your books and stuff and mine.
Speaker 3: You talked about the bomb at Utah and some other things,
Speaker 3: you know, Dave sid and of course I wanted you
Speaker 3: to kind of relate another story the year that you
Speaker 3: got hurt on your right knee or left knee, I
Speaker 3: can't remember, but how you kind of evaded the press
Speaker 3: and how you trick people and believing in your right
Speaker 3: hand left hand with your hook.
Speaker 16: Well, about two weeks before our season started my senior year,
Speaker 16: I twisted my knee and they said I had torn
Speaker 16: car lage on my left knee.
Speaker 4: Have you heard this thing?
Speaker 16: And so back then, though, you know, it wasn't like today.
Speaker 16: There's no way if something like that had happened, everybody
Speaker 16: in the world would have already known. Back then, nobody
Speaker 16: could tell.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 16: Just meant that if you think about how you play basketball,
Speaker 16: if you jump off your left lege, I mean, as
Speaker 16: you're shooting the ball right handed, well, my left leg
Speaker 16: I was trying to avoid as much as possible, take
Speaker 16: it at the end of the year and have surgery
Speaker 16: on it. So I played my senior year left handed,
Speaker 16: always going to my right leg to go up.
Speaker 6: And take the shot.
Speaker 4: Did teams not figure that out?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 16: I was amidextress up to twelve feet, So I mean
Speaker 16: it's like pick your poison. And you know, somebody was
Speaker 16: talking to me about a week ago, but how do
Speaker 16: you do though? And I remember having a conversation with Kareem,
Speaker 16: I'll do jabbar and he said, and Kareem, I thought,
Speaker 16: articulated very well. If you draw a line down your
Speaker 16: spine to the floor and up to the ceiling. That's
Speaker 16: why you see NBA guys kind of with their bodies
Speaker 16: go back to try to establish contact.
Speaker 6: Whatever side of that line they're on means you go
Speaker 6: the other way.
Speaker 16: It's that simple, because if you go the other way,
Speaker 16: they're already behind, and so they got to go through
Speaker 16: your body get to the ball.
Speaker 6: There's an one and that's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you didn't finish your story. So you're in St.
Speaker 3: Mary's and what happens, Well, so season's over.
Speaker 16: I go into Saint Mary's under a different name. They
Speaker 16: removed the cartilage in my left knee and I went
Speaker 16: in maybe about five o'clock, and about four o'clock the
Speaker 16: next morning, they whisked me out out of a back
Speaker 16: door and what I remember was the anesthesiologist and I
Speaker 16: don't know his name, had just bought this brand new
Speaker 16: red and white Rolls Royce convertible and he says, you
Speaker 16: want to take a ride in my car? And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 16: I'm twenty one years old, you know I do.
Speaker 6: And I ran to this dude, I.
Speaker 16: Don't know, six five six months ago and he says,
Speaker 16: do you remember me? I said, I'm sorry, I really don't.
Speaker 16: He said, I'm not anteshesiologist with I said, no, no,
Speaker 16: not the red and white, the vertable.
Speaker 6: Rose roy Drude. That car was serious.
Speaker 16: So so I go home. And then that's why I
Speaker 16: didn't play in any All Star Games that year, because
Speaker 16: I couldn't. I was rehabbing that knee. So the excuse
Speaker 16: I gave was, hey, you know my academic load. I
Speaker 16: can't afford to go over here for a week and
Speaker 16: go over there for a week. You know, I had
Speaker 16: had an audience class and a finance class, and I
Speaker 16: couldn't afford to miss those kind of classes.
Speaker 6: But the real reason was I.
Speaker 16: Couldn't play for one or two I was in rehab
Speaker 16: on that knee.
Speaker 4: Wow yet, and you were drafted? Where were you drafted?
Speaker 12: Again?
Speaker 16: Second round to the Sixers, So the scouts.
Speaker 17: The scouts had no idea, what did you get? The
Speaker 17: training camp? Still kind of give me, oh no, no,
Speaker 17: no about training camp. I was fine, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 17: I was my memory. I played in the summer league,
Speaker 17: the Sunny Hill Baker Summer League that the Sixers like,
Speaker 17: they had the rookies plan. So I did that, and no,
Speaker 17: I was fined by then. But I knew that right
Speaker 17: after the season and the sooner I had the surgery,
Speaker 17: the sooner I could be rehabbed, sooner I'd be back
Speaker 17: to normal.
Speaker 3: We wanted to ask you another quick question before you
Speaker 3: leave NL. What do you think about it today and
Speaker 3: how do you think it would have been back in
Speaker 3: your day.
Speaker 16: Well, first of all, I think they need some restrictions
Speaker 16: on how much is being paid. I mean, this has
Speaker 16: gotten out of hand. But at the same time, I
Speaker 16: would have loved to see some nil back when I
Speaker 16: was in school, because see, when I was in school,
Speaker 16: we could even work. And so there we were married.
Speaker 16: In college, she was picking up jobs stocking jeans and
Speaker 16: stuff and clothing stores and cleaning people's houses, et cetera.
Speaker 16: Because we were trying to, you know, make things stretched
Speaker 16: as much as possible because I wasn't allowed to work,
Speaker 16: and she was on some scholarships. But you know, you
Speaker 16: make it, do I tell you though, the guy that
Speaker 16: saved us, his name was Lowell Hickman. He's a little
Speaker 16: short Jewish guy, ball head, always had a cigar in
Speaker 16: his mouth, and he used to run was called the
Speaker 16: Union Club at the top floor of the student union.
Speaker 16: And hopefully there's a statute of limitations on the store.
Speaker 16: But he said, Bobby, I know it's tough for you
Speaker 16: in bed, So any food we put out here at
Speaker 16: two o'clock we have to remove it and throw it away.
Speaker 16: You just come up here with a bag, so we
Speaker 16: throw it away. You take what you need of the
Speaker 16: roast beef and the turkey and stuff like that. And
Speaker 16: that's why when I used to see that guy after
Speaker 16: I got out of college, I didn't care where we were.
Speaker 16: I didn't care what restaurant it was. His bill came
Speaker 16: to me, I'm paying for his food because he fed
Speaker 16: me when I couldn't feed myself.
Speaker 4: Had nice you had a nice meal plan?
Speaker 6: Then? Oh yeah, no, no he he he said it
Speaker 6: out there.
Speaker 16: We just had to gets like the vegetables and stuff
Speaker 16: like that to go with it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Do you think you would have stayed at the U
Speaker 7: of A or would you be one of these guys
Speaker 7: that would maybe go back to Michigan or maybe go
Speaker 7: back and play for Michigan State the way things are now,
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I really don't know.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 16: It's it's something that the nil like Lynn Gordy, you know,
Speaker 16: my former teammate, he's up at Creighton. Two years ago
Speaker 16: he called me and said, Bird, you know this nil man,
Speaker 16: you've been a two million dollar guy. And I said, jabber,
Speaker 16: you know how I am I still have one point
Speaker 16: ninety nine of it because I don't spend any money,
Speaker 16: So it would have made life a lot easier for us,
Speaker 16: for Beverly and I. But I don't know about all
Speaker 16: this transfer, and it's like it's just no commitment into
Speaker 16: a school, no commitment to a community, right, you know,
Speaker 16: sometimes I wanted to the commitment even getting your education.
Speaker 16: You know, anybody that's transferred schools, No, you don't get
Speaker 16: all your credits to transfer with you.
Speaker 6: So I don't know.
Speaker 16: I just don't see this being something good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, you're exactly right. We talk about that too.
Speaker 3: It takes to be being school for five years, but
Speaker 3: they only have like sophomore credits because they've only been
Speaker 3: around lastly. Because we talk about this with the guys
Speaker 3: every now and again. You stayed, you chose to stay.
Speaker 4: There's a few. Corey Williams have stayed.
Speaker 3: Matt Mulbacher stayed, Joe Nell's why is it Tucson that special?
Speaker 16: A Tucson this special? But in terms of the why,
Speaker 16: you know, the economics are not the same. My rookie
Speaker 16: year in the NBA, the average salary was.
Speaker 6: Seventy five thousand a year, which was better than what.
Speaker 16: My classmates going into big eight CPA firms are going
Speaker 16: to make. But it's not the twelve million year they're
Speaker 16: paying now, I'll be honest with you. They had to
Speaker 16: put me out of the league of ourselves up there.
Speaker 6: I'm not leaving. I'll wait. I'll be that good veteran.
Speaker 6: They could give that a good knowledge to the rookie.
Speaker 6: I mean, if you I mean, I mean twelve million
Speaker 6: right for the same the same job.
Speaker 16: Eighty two regular season games, eight exhibition games.
Speaker 6: Hope you make the playoffs.
Speaker 16: And these guys now start call going for loading management
Speaker 16: saying I'm tired, I need a day off.
Speaker 6: What you mean a day off?
Speaker 16: You signed for eighty two I'd be like Michael Jordan
Speaker 16: as an owner. I signed you for eighty two games.
Speaker 16: I want to see you out there for eighty two games,
Speaker 16: right right, you said, like Charles Barkley, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 16: it's it's crazy, but I mean they got private planes.
Speaker 16: Beat the flat commercial. You know, you play a game
Speaker 16: and you got a four point thirty wake up car
Speaker 16: to go catch a bus to go catch the flight
Speaker 16: to go to the next town.
Speaker 6: There was no executive chef on board.
Speaker 16: I mean it's just but I mean, hey, it's a
Speaker 16: sign of times things change, right.
Speaker 4: Right, Okay, well as usual, Thank you very much for coming.
Speaker 6: On all right, appreciate it man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Barb Elliott, good stories, love y sure,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah. We'll take a break here and come back
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Speaker 4: We got on with us. We got another but ten
Speaker 4: to fifteen whatever, we got about thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 6: Cool.
Speaker 4: That was fun. I'm hoping the phone lines work.
Speaker 3: If you want to call us, please do five to
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Speaker 3: I guess people are saying it's busy and they're trying
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Speaker 4: So yeah, I've tried messing with it, but I don't
Speaker 4: know what's going on. There's gonna be a bnon Louise.
Speaker 4: I'll give you a call. Yah, check, yeah, check, we
Speaker 4: should check. I should call and check.
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Speaker 4: That's because we can call, right. That's how we got
Speaker 4: Bob a week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, it's stories and Bob Elliot, of course, he's
Speaker 7: been part of the Tucson sports scene for what fifty years.
Speaker 4: On the seventy, yes, mid seventies.
Speaker 7: You know, he's been around and obviously great player and
Speaker 7: has had a wonderful you know where we were away
Speaker 7: from basketball and then we've you know, watched him on
Speaker 7: TV for years and years.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's just going to say that to you because
Speaker 3: I think were you not with me when he last week?
Speaker 3: When someone called it, I can't remember who called, uh,
Speaker 3: some guy Joe or whoever said, uh, he missed Bob
Speaker 3: and sitting and I said, well, don't forget Larson. I
Speaker 3: mean back in those days he replaced Larson maybe yeah,
Speaker 3: or they did what of these two did well?
Speaker 7: Larson was the color guy, and then Bob came in.
Speaker 7: I think maybe I don't know Bob was. We'd have
Speaker 7: to kind of check his resume, but I think he
Speaker 7: was doing maybe some other things besides local U of
Speaker 7: A as a broadcaster. But you know, he obviously flourished
Speaker 7: here with with Dave Sitting. That was a good team
Speaker 7: for a long time. And you never well, I said,
Speaker 7: you never left. You were just here for thirty a
Speaker 7: round the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I haven't left
Speaker 7: and I liked you people know me here. Why when
Speaker 7: I leave YouTube? He stayed.
Speaker 4: And like the guys I mentioned Corey and Bill Back
Speaker 4: and Joe Nell, there's a lot to be said.
Speaker 7: And those guys have all had great, you know, great careers,
Speaker 7: whether you know it's lawyers or accountants or you know,
Speaker 7: you name it, business guys. Yeah, and they took advantage
Speaker 7: of their notoriety as basketball players or football Reggie Geary's
Speaker 7: you know now working at the u of A.
Speaker 4: You know it's a good again.
Speaker 7: You're in the spotlight for four years, hopefully you're doing interviews,
Speaker 7: see how you act, and you know you're basically applying
Speaker 7: for a job during those four.
Speaker 3: Years, you're you're exactly right, and you don't burn bridges,
Speaker 3: you don't piss anybody off.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, and the guys you mentioned did exactly or didn't
Speaker 4: do that exactly. We're good dudes.
Speaker 7: You bring in business because you're you're famous from your
Speaker 7: basketball time, and then you have to kind of prove yourself.
Speaker 7: I mean, I remember going back way back to Sean
Speaker 7: Elliott when he was a uh he was an intern
Speaker 7: at one of my friends insurance agencies or something, and
Speaker 7: he just loved having Sean Elliott there is a new
Speaker 7: You imagine walking in and hey it's it's an All
Speaker 7: American basketball player.
Speaker 3: Him, her, Jenny Finch. Imagine them in the NIL time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they would be the top earners. They would be making
Speaker 3: some major miles, you know miles. Yeah, especially after after
Speaker 3: the championship year, if he's stuck around here.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, it is busy. It's something I just I
Speaker 4: don't know why though.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I tried calling it on my own. Yeah, it's really strange.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 3: You can always text me and I will. We'll get
Speaker 3: a hold of you. Someone just said, but it's me.
Speaker 3: I tried to call what couldn't get in? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: makes sense again. I'll hope you enjoyed the show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you know all these guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's you know, he was talking to
Speaker 7: a little bit about you know, your loyalty to your school.
Speaker 7: Where does that fall for like a Caleb Love or
Speaker 7: someone who's going to go to two or three schools
Speaker 7: and you know, all of a sudden, you're fifty years old,
Speaker 7: like do I go to homecoming?
Speaker 4: Where do I go? Which is to go to all
Speaker 4: of them? To all of them?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: But you But you're right, especially the education thing. You
Speaker 3: go to a school, go to school, go to school,
Speaker 3: you're credits stone transfer. By the time you're twenty five
Speaker 3: years old, you don't have the what do you stay?
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 3: Not that that's a big deal because sometimes they don't
Speaker 3: care about the education.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you hear a lot about you know, guys
Speaker 7: have gone back after they're jump playing and things like
Speaker 7: that and go get their their degree. But you're right,
Speaker 7: and many people, not just athletes, they get their undergrad
Speaker 7: one place, they go, get their masters another place, their
Speaker 7: PhD in another place. So Bob is one of the
Speaker 7: you know, rare that real guys that stuck around.
Speaker 3: And you know this because you're a part of the business.
Speaker 3: Maybe what year was your last year? Twenty eleven, twenty eleven,
Speaker 3: So that's the start of it. Greg had showed up,
Speaker 3: right burn, Oh yeah, Sean was here. We didn't get
Speaker 3: really a lot of access to it. And I'm transitioning
Speaker 3: in a weird way, but it became less of the
Speaker 3: the player stories, less of the player stories, And how
Speaker 3: do you get to know the player stories unless you
Speaker 3: tell their stories. But it's hard to put it in
Speaker 3: that form because you don't get a whole lot of
Speaker 3: time with them. And you're you're looking at the school
Speaker 3: itself now, who needs to sell tickets? They need to
Speaker 3: be more fan friendly, and if you don't know the players,
Speaker 3: how are you going to do that? They just need
Speaker 3: to be more accommodating.
Speaker 7: However, Yeah, well, the one thing maybe this is different
Speaker 7: now than was then was they're on TV all the time.
Speaker 7: You do get that viewpoint of these guys, and you know,
Speaker 7: we may not know what Caleb Love really thinks, but
Speaker 7: we can we can see him on TV. We see
Speaker 7: his expressions. That's about all you're getting now. And it
Speaker 7: looks like, well it's supposed to maybe some postgame comments
Speaker 7: and you.
Speaker 4: And you're you're part of this.
Speaker 3: You go out to the fan base or the you know,
Speaker 3: corporate or whatever world, and and and how you sell
Speaker 3: the basketball program when they really don't know who they
Speaker 3: are or whatever. You know them because of they're successful,
Speaker 3: but you really don't know them. In fact, DeAndre Ayton
Speaker 3: when he was here for that first year, we had
Speaker 3: little access to them. We you know, talked to maybe
Speaker 3: three or four times in the season on the podium.
Speaker 3: And then we go to the Pac twelve tournament and
Speaker 3: lockers are open, and you see this young dude who
Speaker 3: just wants to have fun and enjoys life. It is
Speaker 3: very funny, and you're thinking, these are the stories that
Speaker 3: we should be telling all the time, but you want
Speaker 3: to get them a certain window.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, I kind of, like I said,
Speaker 7: I was kind of there and sort of as this
Speaker 7: thing was happening, it was kind of switching out to
Speaker 7: full access to barely any access. And that's just the
Speaker 7: way some of these organizations, whether it's universities or professional teams,
Speaker 7: kind of orchestrate who gets to talk and the messaging,
Speaker 7: and I'm sure they're coached quite a bit and told,
Speaker 7: you know, say certain things or don't disparage your teammates.
Speaker 3: And you know this just as well as me, or
Speaker 3: if not better. People who are fans, like the the
Speaker 3: the the ones here, they support the program. They support
Speaker 3: the program, not necessarily the players, because the players come
Speaker 3: and go right now, it's they're helping you, of a
Speaker 3: They're loyal to you. They not to the the Alcans
Speaker 3: or the Treers or whatever. Exactly, those dudes come and
Speaker 3: go exactly. In fact, how often do they come back?
Speaker 4: True? Not often?
Speaker 6: Not often.
Speaker 7: I mean it's like a big deal when you know
Speaker 7: when there is on a play duke this year and yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean they brought back, you know, a nice little
Speaker 7: all star team with Bibby and those kind of guys.
Speaker 7: Gilbert Gilbert was there. Yeah, but you're right, I think
Speaker 7: they got their degrees. So maybe they'll come back for
Speaker 7: you know, other reasons. Well, and they're sending their kids here.
Speaker 7: Perhaps you have the status of okay, you got you
Speaker 7: got the furix. You know the curs, you're the Jeffersons
Speaker 7: who actually give money back money.
Speaker 3: But but how many of them don't. It's a very
Speaker 3: big percentage who have done really well with themselves.
Speaker 7: I mean there's a there's a letter Winners Club I
Speaker 7: think it's still called in the athletic department, and they're
Speaker 7: kind of the group of people that are you know,
Speaker 7: contacted by athletics. It's it's an interesting dynamic because when
Speaker 7: I was fundraising, I could be fundraising for you know,
Speaker 7: the Department of Communication. But the guy wants to give
Speaker 7: to athletics. I mean, you know, you should never knew
Speaker 7: you never knew really what you were going to get.
Speaker 7: Sometimes she needs me. You knew what they majored in
Speaker 7: things like that, right, But just because a guy played
Speaker 7: basketball here doesn't mean he wants to give to basketball.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 4: You would find that the ex player.
Speaker 7: Sometimes didn't care, could care less, or they you know,
Speaker 7: maybe they didn't have a great experience, maybe they had
Speaker 7: this animosity tour. As a coach, I totally get that
Speaker 7: same thing. I had a terrible professor in you know,
Speaker 7: in English. I'm not going to give to that point.
Speaker 7: We would get those stories all the time. Yeah, they
Speaker 7: did have a magical experience where it all kind of
Speaker 7: came together.
Speaker 3: But doesn't it make sense, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to give money of my exl that
Speaker 3: I had.
Speaker 4: A bad time.
Speaker 7: No, I mean, so much of it is their experience
Speaker 7: on campus and whether or not they led to a
Speaker 7: job that gave them the success to be able to
Speaker 7: give so totally get it. That was part of part
Speaker 7: of it when you had to kind of decipher as
Speaker 7: you're meeting these people, like, oh, yeah, I was a
Speaker 7: huge when I was a student, used to go to
Speaker 7: all the games. I love the Wildcats. But then you know,
Speaker 7: now I'm sixty and I don't know anything about these guys.
Speaker 7: I never get to hear from them, right, they never
Speaker 7: called me? How come you're calling me?
Speaker 4: Why are you calling you know? What do you want?
Speaker 4: Do they? Would they actually say that to you? Well,
Speaker 4: that's a case study in in all this.
Speaker 7: I was listening to something I think it was about
Speaker 7: Ohio State just after they won the championship. They have
Speaker 7: like eight hundred thousand alumni. Yeah, and Arizona has around
Speaker 7: four about half that number. So can you imagine just
Speaker 7: the size of the development staff and some of these universities. Sure,
Speaker 7: and they've got here and it's doing well, right, it's
Speaker 7: doing well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, seemingly it's it's an interesting, interesting part of the
Speaker 4: university scene.
Speaker 3: And the reality of it is that Arizona will I'm
Speaker 3: saying this with my audience being arizonaats that it will
Speaker 3: never be Ohio State in that money world, right, or
Speaker 3: the Texas or the Balance or whatever.
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 7: You know, when you're at Stanford and you're you know,
Speaker 7: two miles away from Google and Yahoo and and these
Speaker 7: are alums that are starting these companies, right, you know.
Speaker 4: They're right there. They have that advantage going for them
Speaker 4: in the Bay Area. They also have to hope that
Speaker 4: there was a good experience, right, and they love the place.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you know, when your endowment is in the
Speaker 7: thirty billion range or whatever Stanfords is or USC they
Speaker 7: can just turn around to Hollywood and just say, you know,
Speaker 7: George Lucas, do you want to name the school after you?
Speaker 4: Or whatever?
Speaker 3: Sure, Steven Spielberg, did you find it? I probably asked
Speaker 3: you this question a thousand times. Did you find it difficult?
Speaker 4: And yeah? And the ask is a different, different beast
Speaker 4: because I know I couldn't do it. Yeah, depends on
Speaker 4: who who you were talking to.
Speaker 7: You really had to you had to really get a
Speaker 7: relationship going with people, and it got easier as the
Speaker 7: relationship goes on. I mean it's usually you know, a
Speaker 7: major gift is not going to come instantly unless they're
Speaker 7: going to just say, Okay, i'll give you X amount of.
Speaker 4: Dollars, but usually you want more.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh, rest of your mind, you're going, oh, you're
Speaker 7: going to give me, you know, ten thousand dollars, Well
Speaker 7: you could probably give me twenty five.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And do you say you asked that?
Speaker 7: Could you have to kind of dance around, dance around
Speaker 7: a little bit and just kind of prove what that
Speaker 7: money is gonna do.
Speaker 3: Dave, I'll give you ten million. Don't call me back
Speaker 3: exactly what we did. That happen ten million or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 7: They would sometimes say this is gonna be my last
Speaker 7: gift for a while. Yeah, you know, call me in
Speaker 7: five years. That's kind of how it plays. And that
Speaker 7: happens in athletics, and it happens.
Speaker 3: I could have see I can see that happening here
Speaker 3: because I mean, how deep in the pockets.
Speaker 7: Believe me, there's people out there. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 7: gotta find those things you know you need, they're out there.
Speaker 7: If you're looking just for that kind of money out there.
Speaker 4: Right, and they gotta want to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like you said, there's a lot of factors that
Speaker 3: didn't have a good time to have kids going there.
Speaker 4: Now you know, am I paying tuition?
Speaker 16: Now?
Speaker 4: That was always a good excuse, like you know, I'm
Speaker 4: already paying.
Speaker 7: I'm paying my kids tuition. Well yeah, yeah, we'll talk
Speaker 7: to you in four years years. Yeah, how would do
Speaker 7: we do it on time?
Speaker 6: Rambling? Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, we're good and a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, sure, See when you get your degree and
Speaker 3: you get your job, you'll be on the one.
Speaker 4: Mister s here, you're doing well that well. You can
Speaker 4: answer the phone though, that's the hardest part, just getting
Speaker 4: the meetings. It's silver again, that's six number from the
Speaker 4: University of Arizona. Why are they calling the want one thing?
Speaker 4: It's the nil money. That's a whole other ballgame. But
Speaker 4: have you talked with them on the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've had them. It's it's it's and they're innovative.
Speaker 3: They're trying to do as much as they can in
Speaker 3: different areas. Right, every team has their own little bucket. Now,
Speaker 3: I don't MBM because it's a tough.
Speaker 7: Time there's a lot of people out there and a
Speaker 7: lot of things to that they could give to, So
Speaker 7: you have to kind of match that interest and passion.
Speaker 3: And sorry, Dacion was just called a gift to him, right,
Speaker 3: it's like treating true to treat. Sorry, there's no more candy.
Speaker 3: If you have no more candy left.
Speaker 7: The the thing is to get to them and ask
Speaker 7: them what they're interested in, not what I'm interested Oh yeah,
Speaker 7: what do you care about? Yeah, that was That's kind
Speaker 7: of how the conversation would begin. And then then you
Speaker 7: can play along. What if it didn't fit your wheelhouse, well,
Speaker 7: you try to find place where it would. Sometimes you say,
Speaker 7: you know what, we can't control that. We can't just
Speaker 7: create a major for you because you wanted to create
Speaker 7: a major. It doesn't just work that way.
Speaker 4: We would you get that script in the back of
Speaker 4: your bucket or well you have to just.
Speaker 7: Kind of go along with the rules of the U
Speaker 7: of A or the Board of Regents or where everything's
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well, thanks Dave for coming into the chair
Speaker 3: one as usual. Thank you very much. Tomorrow, I hope
Speaker 3: to have these phones fixed so we can get some calls.
Speaker 3: Thanks everybody for listening. Thanks Bob Elliott, and thank you
Speaker 3: to Eric Rhodes.