Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and jaygen Salez. They have their eye on
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Speaker 2: Wam, Hey, welcome back to my the ball here Fox
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Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Nice age, truly, mister Goody two shoes?
Speaker 3: You got Goody two shoes to start off him?
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Speaker 3: He called me that one Friday and it's just stuck.
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Speaker 3: It's my thing now, mister Goody two shoes.
Speaker 2: Is your mom like that? Did you tell you so?
Speaker 5: Told me?
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Speaker 3: But happy Friday everyone out there. Start off. In some
Speaker 3: college football news, Jim Harbaugh is to be Michigan as
Speaker 3: honorary captain for their season opener. What really, after all
Speaker 3: that's happened this week, I don't know how it's gonna work.
Speaker 2: Place, man, time and places. They don't get it. Just
Speaker 2: don't touch anything, gym don't give anybody money. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know how it's gonna work. But the Michigan's
Speaker 3: president is excited to have him back, he said, So
Speaker 3: it looks like it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: See what should have been banned from that game too?
Speaker 3: To the NFL, the Patriots have released wide receiver Judu
Speaker 3: Smith Schuster. Wow, A lot of people are saying that
Speaker 3: it's because of the youth movement trying to get He's.
Speaker 2: Got to find a place. He well, you know, we're
Speaker 2: kind of living on a reputation of a name right
Speaker 2: because he's been there for a while. But I'm sure
Speaker 2: he's still good. You know, I see a cardinal you know,
Speaker 2: form in soon.
Speaker 5: It's nice when they do that though. Now, you know,
Speaker 5: since there's still like three weeks to go, so I
Speaker 5: can give him a chance to go sign up somewhere.
Speaker 3: So best best look to him to tryphend a new
Speaker 3: place call home. Dak Prescott is going to be held
Speaker 3: out of today's practice in the preseason game this weekend
Speaker 3: because of ankle shortness.
Speaker 5: Okay, boy, here we go.
Speaker 2: How do you playoff games? That they won.
Speaker 3: About as many girlfriends as have had?
Speaker 2: Was that a little pr for you. Sorry, yeah, you're
Speaker 2: probably doing okay though it's it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3: So I mean, just hope he gets well. I hope
Speaker 3: he's not so sore.
Speaker 2: That's just a pr thing for you Cowboy fans.
Speaker 3: Speaking of preseason games, we have a couple of games
Speaker 3: or three games today. Atlanta's playing Miami, Houston is going
Speaker 3: to Pittsburgh, and the Eagles are going to the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Do you ever watch those things?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: I mean maybe if by accident, like last night, I
Speaker 5: know they were on NFL network, was flipping around and
Speaker 5: you know, I was on for like five seconds.
Speaker 2: I don't pay attention to any of that.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, you know what I really enjoyed though,
Speaker 5: suddenly is Hard Knocks. The first episode of this year's
Speaker 5: came on this week. That's we're doing the Bears. The Bears, okay,
Speaker 5: And so they did an off season one with the
Speaker 5: New York Giants, which was really interesting.
Speaker 2: Well that was the Barkley stuff, right.
Speaker 5: You would have liked I mean, because it was hardly
Speaker 5: any football. It was all behind the scenes story in
Speaker 5: the in the front office and working on contracts and
Speaker 5: how that worked. I enjoyed it. Yeah, I would reckon.
Speaker 5: I mean you could still watch it today.
Speaker 2: Those are always the best because you're you're after the
Speaker 2: stories like you were, like I was, it's not about
Speaker 2: it's not about the game.
Speaker 5: No, No, it was great. I mean, let up. All
Speaker 5: the way to the draft. You got to listen to
Speaker 5: the scouts talking about certain players and how they would,
Speaker 5: you know, watch them at the combine and stuff. I
Speaker 5: thought it was really interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh to finish out some of the preseason stuff.
Speaker 3: But the Denver Broncos Jerys didn't was to start versus
Speaker 3: the Colts, oh Nicks.
Speaker 2: Against the Packers.
Speaker 3: I feel like I maybe maybe I'm a little bit biased,
Speaker 3: but I feel like it's one of the more interesting quarterback
Speaker 3: competitions that we.
Speaker 2: Have in Denver, Denver, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh great with with that
Speaker 2: one Wilson or or the new guy it's uh from
Speaker 2: Chicago right field just Appel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because Next, as you said, Next is starting this week.
Speaker 3: It should be I think it's dressed them first then
Speaker 3: bo Nicks, and I'm sure that give zach In a
Speaker 3: chance so that when they when they came out with
Speaker 3: their unofficial uh depth chart, they had Sham starting then Wilson,
Speaker 3: then Nicks, so.
Speaker 5: I like, I like bow next, don't do too how
Speaker 5: big is I don't seemed to be an issue, but.
Speaker 2: I thought was six to I liked him a lot.
Speaker 2: I liked him better than Penis uh in the regular season,
Speaker 2: and then that's well, you know, I still liked him,
Speaker 2: but you know, Pennix was fantastic.
Speaker 5: That's going to be an interesting situation with the Falcons.
Speaker 2: That's another one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cousins and Pix. What happens? So the Panthers were
Speaker 3: flying off for their game and or their flight ran
Speaker 3: off the taxiway. No one got hurt. Who's just the
Speaker 3: Carolina Panthers. Panthers Okay, they're they're flying I think from
Speaker 3: their their Preces game last night and uh hitting back
Speaker 3: home and they're they're playing went off.
Speaker 2: So is that an omen for the future.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't like that type of stuff,
Speaker 3: Like we'll like good omens here, Okay.
Speaker 2: We well, we don't have the KOD today, so it's
Speaker 2: not a kids of death.
Speaker 3: That's two MLB. The Braves and Reds are going to
Speaker 3: be playing at Bristol Mortar Speedway next to August.
Speaker 2: August second.
Speaker 3: Should be a sight to see.
Speaker 5: That's gonna be fun interesting. I don't know how they're
Speaker 5: going to do that. I'm sure we've got the configuration
Speaker 5: laid out, but do it on a big oval like that.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be like the old LA Coliseum games, you know,
Speaker 5: where they played in the Giant Stadium and had.
Speaker 2: That augusta next year. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, I mean Tennessee and Virginia Tech played a game
Speaker 3: there and it sold out.
Speaker 2: So one hundred and sometimes, I'm sure. I'm sure that
Speaker 2: would be easier though, wouldn't think so much easier to
Speaker 2: the Olympics.
Speaker 3: Chikai Richardson and the US team. She won gold in
Speaker 3: the four by saw that the USA women's basketball team
Speaker 3: advanced to the finals, beating Australia eighty five sixty four.
Speaker 3: They will play France, so a little interesting between the
Speaker 3: men and the women both.
Speaker 2: Playing France versus France. Yeah, in France.
Speaker 3: So should be a good, good couple of games through gold.
Speaker 5: Did you see what happened though with the men's one
Speaker 5: hundred where they messed up on.
Speaker 2: The fo Yeah, where you're gonna go there? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah they dropped them.
Speaker 5: Well, they didn't drop it, but it wasn't very good exchange.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it was bad in the first in the
Speaker 2: first leg, yeah, yeah, it was very bad. They finished
Speaker 2: the seventh a go. They were disqualified after probably yeah,
Speaker 2: after a further review. Yeah right, yeah, we.
Speaker 5: Had trouble with that for like the last twenty years.
Speaker 5: It's unbelievable. He used to win that every single time.
Speaker 2: And they haven't done it in a long time. Yeah. No,
Speaker 2: I saw that. It even looked ugly because he was
Speaker 2: right on top of him. Yeah, okay, anything.
Speaker 3: Else for the women's soccer, they will be playing in
Speaker 3: the gold match against Brazil.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I talked about that earlier. But best of luck to them.
Speaker 3: I hope they can bring it home. Last thing I have,
Speaker 3: The University of Arizona has announced that Shuresh Gary Milo
Speaker 3: it will be the twenty third president.
Speaker 2: At the university. Right right, They started to put pictures
Speaker 2: out there just saw you guys knew this about a while,
Speaker 2: but an hour or two ago. Right, the only guy
Speaker 2: allegedly they looked at. I'm sure they looked at more.
Speaker 2: They had to. Makes no sense not to look at
Speaker 2: more people.
Speaker 5: I booked him yet for a show here.
Speaker 2: No, No, we talked about Jane and I because we've
Speaker 2: had the doc doctor Robbins here a few times. We
Speaker 2: do want Yeah, he likes coming on the show talking
Speaker 2: about sports. But we were trying to get him for
Speaker 2: the last time, you know, before he leaves, because he
Speaker 2: was always insightful, obviously candid, uh and now he can
Speaker 2: be very candidate. Yeah, and a.
Speaker 5: Huge sports fan. I mean all the things that you
Speaker 5: know he's he's gonna be known for. He was there
Speaker 5: alongside everybody.
Speaker 2: Well, he was there alongside and he used air quotes,
Speaker 2: may have been the guide to hire most of the people.
Speaker 2: Tommy jed uh someone and mean, yeah, I don't, I don't,
Speaker 2: I don't know. No, I think maybe before, but you
Speaker 2: know those people and and and he was staunched behind
Speaker 2: Sean over my chip. Yeah yeah, and maybe him yet yeah,
Speaker 2: and he and he was staunched the over behind Miller
Speaker 2: over my dead body. He's eager to leave, you know
Speaker 2: or whatever. You know. Eventually said okay, you gotta go.
Speaker 5: You gotta be a good, good discussion for you guys,
Speaker 5: because again, you know, again as a fan, you guys,
Speaker 5: you were closer to it. But just watching his presence,
Speaker 5: I mean, was there all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I spoke to him a lot, in fact at
Speaker 2: the end, because I'd see him and his wife at
Speaker 2: the games and blah blah blah, give him my book
Speaker 2: and you know, uh, he liked the book. But the
Speaker 2: thing about it with him is maybe not you know,
Speaker 2: if he could redo it, how would he redo it?
Speaker 2: And but do you want if you're in juve and
Speaker 2: you're the ad or you're the you're the coach or whatever,
Speaker 2: do you want your president to be that close?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, I think there's arguments both ways.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's kind of what doomed the PAC twelve
Speaker 5: from the stories I was hearing, meaning was some of
Speaker 5: the presidents had no clue about sports, yeah, and didn't care.
Speaker 5: And then others like Robbin's you know, probably you really
Speaker 5: felt kind of terrible that things happened, maybe the way
Speaker 5: they did.
Speaker 2: I don't know with Scott, with Larry Scott not paying
Speaker 2: atten you know what was really good or yeah, not
Speaker 2: thinking more than Larry Scott.
Speaker 5: Yeah, again, you know, what's the role of the president
Speaker 5: in those situations when it comes to athletics? And I
Speaker 5: think there was that that storyline was a big part
Speaker 5: of what we were listening to right right.
Speaker 2: Some other news. Other former Morana football coach Louis Ramirez,
Speaker 2: the second passed away, I guess yesterday or today, probably yesterday,
Speaker 2: I think it was. Uh. He coached at Marana. He
Speaker 2: was coached for the Briget Burget. Who's down with you
Speaker 2: know the Rana kid kids, Toby's kids, who's now a issue?
Speaker 2: He passed away. He's only thirty one. He was an
Speaker 2: ad at in case of ground. So there's a lot
Speaker 2: of local stuff going on and football is going going
Speaker 2: to start now.
Speaker 5: It's funny, you know. I'm sorry, I'm gonna mess up
Speaker 5: the names. But the tackle.
Speaker 2: From the UFA last year, yeah, last year from Marana,
Speaker 2: he was he coached him too.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And then there's a Georgia's there's a great player
Speaker 5: there this year. I know that this coach moved on
Speaker 5: to a different school, but another really players coming from
Speaker 5: Irana High School this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, Jordan Morgan was the guy him and he
Speaker 2: coached both of them. We'll get in. We're get I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 5: That's quite a family. I'm sure you've seen the stories
Speaker 5: about their daughter too, like football star.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she quit she quit volleyball to do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 2: everybody's athletic, athletic, and it's a crazy great family for sports. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: anything else, I think.
Speaker 6: That was it.
Speaker 3: That's all I got.
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to the basketball tomorrow. That should be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because there's there's a chance they could lose.
Speaker 5: See Victor and who else they have? They got a few? Yeah,
Speaker 5: go bear Cat's two and it's gonna be a home crowd.
Speaker 5: They're all gonna be cheering against em, be like they've
Speaker 5: been doing.
Speaker 2: They're good for a reason. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 2: they lost or struggled.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Did you get a chance to see yesterdays?
Speaker 2: Just the just the highlights or low lights when they
Speaker 2: made a come back. I saw it on on on
Speaker 2: the internet. They were down by fifteen and a third.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of that's three four three pointers from Staff.
Speaker 2: They're back in the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Lebron had a look up to him then,
Speaker 5: like this is not going to happen under my watch. Sure,
Speaker 5: and Staff played well great actually the whole game, but
Speaker 5: Lebron that in that last quarter.
Speaker 2: If the thing is, if if they don't win it,
Speaker 2: how much falls on stet On Steve.
Speaker 5: Steve I don't know. I mean he got he's been
Speaker 5: taking a lot of heats well from the Boston fans
Speaker 5: because of Tatum basically. But yesterday there was like nobody
Speaker 5: coming off the bench near at the end, and those
Speaker 5: guys played the entire quarter almost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because you had they had to win. And
Speaker 2: and do you go to Tatum? What do you lose?
Speaker 2: I mean they're all fantastic, Yeah, and you have what
Speaker 2: twelve people.
Speaker 5: And he's been struggling honestly, you know, you just look
Speaker 5: at the stats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, how do you how do you
Speaker 2: not play these guys though all of them they're all good.
Speaker 5: Anthony Davis sitting on the bench.
Speaker 2: Well, you can have you can have the second team
Speaker 2: probably playing for the gold.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Anthony Edwards although he struggled too, like
Speaker 5: it's part of the you know, part of the game
Speaker 5: where they fell behind. He was not playing well, but
Speaker 5: so he never came off the bench in the fourth.
Speaker 2: Right, right, Okay, who do we have coming up?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: We have oh, Casey, Casey, let's just take the break.
Speaker 2: We can find out how to get ahold of them,
Speaker 2: not to find out we'll get a hold of them.
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and
Speaker 1: Jacobzalez on Fox Sports fourteenth fifteen.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here Foxsworks
Speaker 2: watching fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, Dave Silbert in with me
Speaker 2: to day. We got Jue as our guy. He'll be
Speaker 2: a bed in the phone and we have Casey Scawn
Speaker 2: here pretty soon. Casey is this you?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 6: See how you doing flying?
Speaker 2: Thanks for on the air, so be careful, no customers.
Speaker 2: Great to have you. How you doing.
Speaker 6: I'm going well. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Great. Great, we have Dave Silver here. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you were working at the time already.
Speaker 5: I was working for your school at the time, but
Speaker 5: I have been on television here in Tucson for a
Speaker 5: long time, so I watched you as a fan in
Speaker 5: your years.
Speaker 2: Hey, Dave, Yeah, so now Casey is it was a
Speaker 2: heck of a punter, was a heck of an athlete.
Speaker 2: Now he is a cyclist. How's that going for you?
Speaker 6: It's going well, and I'm still riding about twice a
Speaker 6: week right now. It's it's a little harder and it's
Speaker 6: super hot outside, so I have more time on the
Speaker 6: trainer inside. But yeah, give me bitsy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. One are the questions Dave asked me just and
Speaker 2: he kind of knew the answer already. Wasn't he part
Speaker 2: of the last very good team that Arizona played it
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen?
Speaker 6: Right? Yep? Twenty fourteen was our Festiboy year as a
Speaker 6: part of that, and then twenty fifteen was my last
Speaker 6: year brand not quite as successful overall, but s pretty
Speaker 6: good for Arizona standards.
Speaker 2: Yeah. One of the things that Jay and I talked
Speaker 2: about a nauseum here Arizona, you know, wins a lot
Speaker 2: of games, nine to ten wins, and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of expectations, at least the hopes are arise for the
Speaker 2: next year, and it doesn't work, and Arizona doesn't work.
Speaker 2: It hasn't worked. So that's kind of the reservation we
Speaker 2: have this year after last year. Why didn't work the
Speaker 2: year after in twenty fifteen?
Speaker 6: You know what, that's a really good question. I think
Speaker 6: I think we've had a lot of ipe around that season,
Speaker 6: especially in twenty fourteen, and we're kind of riding the hypewave,
Speaker 6: you know, that was a big factor of it, and
Speaker 6: then I don't know, for whatever reason, it just kind
Speaker 6: of died off in twenty fifteen. Yes, I think a
Speaker 6: lot of it was just the motivation and we had
Speaker 6: the train rolling in twenty fourteen. Maybe the off season
Speaker 6: was so long that the hype kind of died down
Speaker 6: by the time twenty fifteen season rolled around.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I was it was fun to watch
Speaker 5: that group play. What are your biggest memories. I know
Speaker 5: I probably know your biggest, your most famous memory of
Speaker 5: that season in twenty fourteen, but what was it like
Speaker 5: to be part of that experience.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think my my obviously favorite individual memory is
Speaker 6: a Washington Washington game. I think most people that watched
Speaker 6: that season can guess that. But I think my favorite
Speaker 6: team memory was when we went and we beat Oregon
Speaker 6: at home and they were ranked number two nationally at
Speaker 6: the time. I just remember we could have stayed in
Speaker 6: the locker room in Oregon for the entire entire night,
Speaker 6: just partyed and having a good time. Everybody was on
Speaker 6: a high after that win.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no question, you realize how rare that is to
Speaker 5: win up there for Zona that I don't think they've
Speaker 5: had more than a couple wins ever. Right, and that's it.
Speaker 5: The series is now over.
Speaker 6: Yeah. You know what though, for my team especially, it
Speaker 6: seemed like we had Oregon's number for whatever reason. We
Speaker 6: beat them way more time than anybody expected us ever
Speaker 6: to beat.
Speaker 2: So you can talk about his experience. The best play
Speaker 2: was it the one that Anthony said.
Speaker 5: Tell us just tell us about that about the the
Speaker 5: winning kick.
Speaker 6: At the Washington game. Yeah, you know, I think what
Speaker 6: what added to that experience was just a few weeks
Speaker 6: prior having the losing kick against USC, right, and so
Speaker 6: it was it was really nice to be able to
Speaker 6: have that opportunity so close. I think it was three
Speaker 6: weeks later for the Washington game, and so I was
Speaker 6: just trying to improve on that. You know, I learned
Speaker 6: a lot from the USC kick. I learned never to
Speaker 6: celebrate early and to always finish what you started. And
Speaker 6: I did my best to apply that in the Washington game,
Speaker 6: and it worked out.
Speaker 2: There was a game, and maybe you've been the same
Speaker 2: game Washington game, because I talked about how tough you
Speaker 2: were where you scored a touchdown, right, is it is?
Speaker 2: You scored a touchdown and you also laid out somebody
Speaker 2: on a kickoff or somebody you remember that.
Speaker 6: I don't remember laying anybody out of the kickout from
Speaker 6: the Washington game, but it did happen more than once.
Speaker 6: We talked about. Got in a lot of our special
Speaker 6: teams meetings. I had way more tackles than I would like.
Speaker 5: And why did that happen? Kickers? And usually you run
Speaker 5: towards the sideline, don't.
Speaker 6: I didn't want anybody taking one of my kicks back
Speaker 6: to that.
Speaker 2: No, but you were in the mix a lot. I
Speaker 2: remember one time it was like, holy crap, that Oh
Speaker 2: it was Casey. What the hell, do you think it's
Speaker 2: gonna get hurt.
Speaker 6: You know, I grew up an athlete. I played soccer
Speaker 6: my whole life, so it's not like I you know,
Speaker 6: I wasn't a kicker for my entire athletic career. I
Speaker 6: did have some physical contacts.
Speaker 5: Did you when you played high school? Did you? Did
Speaker 5: you play another position as well in high school?
Speaker 6: Uh? So, I actually only played three weeks of high
Speaker 6: school football. I played soccer my whole life, and then
Speaker 6: I was actually a walk on for my high school
Speaker 6: team as well, just in my senior season.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, let's go back to real quick to the
Speaker 2: USC game. Have you here?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 2: Why not? Right? You missed? You missed the thing, and
Speaker 2: then the big news was after the fact because you
Speaker 2: were getting death threats, which was very upsetting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it was. It was more upsetting for
Speaker 6: my family, especially for my mom, than it was for me.
Speaker 6: You know, I was playing in the game, so I
Speaker 6: knew the stage that I was on, and unfortunately that
Speaker 6: I wish it wasn't. But that's just a part of sports,
Speaker 6: especially at that level. Right, And you got people that
Speaker 6: are gambling on the games, who knows what they have
Speaker 6: invested in it. So it was definitely I mean it's
Speaker 6: tough for me too, but a lot tougher on my
Speaker 6: mom than it was for me.
Speaker 5: Well, how did you handle it as a family? Did you?
Speaker 5: I mean, try to tap it down a little bit
Speaker 5: and maybe not make it such a big deal. And
Speaker 5: I mean, you don't want to give it too much passion?
Speaker 2: How can you write? How you can? And it's tough.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so actually, you know, moms will be moms, right. So,
Speaker 6: unbeknownst to me, she had reached out to Greg Byrn,
Speaker 6: our athletic director at the time, and you know, asked
Speaker 6: what he could do about it, and he handled the
Speaker 6: situation really well. You know, asked if they had local
Speaker 6: police and asked if I wanted to have an escort
Speaker 6: to class. You know, they investigated some of the threats
Speaker 6: and you know, found founding people that made the threats
Speaker 6: and reached out and kind of said, hey, you can't
Speaker 6: do that kind of thing. So the school and sought
Speaker 6: the department in Greg greg Burn especially, did a very
Speaker 6: good job of handling it. That's for me, you know,
Speaker 6: I kind of went on life as usual. I was
Speaker 6: a person that was on the field. The people making
Speaker 6: the threats were just behind their phones or computers or whatever.
Speaker 6: And I was willing to bet that nobody would come
Speaker 6: and say any of those things to my face.
Speaker 2: To see you tackle some dudes.
Speaker 5: Probably walking around campus. I would guess that probably ninety
Speaker 5: nine point nine percent of people didn't even know where
Speaker 5: you were without you know, uniforms.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like your.
Speaker 5: Going to my you know, sociology class and I'm worrying,
Speaker 5: who are you?
Speaker 2: Casey was in a class.
Speaker 6: You know that you have all of the team issued here,
Speaker 6: and I obviously would wear it to class for so
Speaker 6: many times. He would be like, oh, are you a
Speaker 6: manager for one of the teams?
Speaker 2: Not anymore? I was, well, let's go there because uh
Speaker 2: and I said. One of the I wanted to ask
Speaker 2: you was okay. So it's August eighth, eighth, ninth, you're
Speaker 2: getting ready for the season, and we see you and
Speaker 2: the guys who go to practice, see the kickers kick
Speaker 2: off at the beginning, and then you go to the
Speaker 2: stadium and they do their stuff and then they come back.
Speaker 2: What is it that you guys do like now.
Speaker 6: In terms of practice practice?
Speaker 2: Right like August ninth, you have a game in three
Speaker 2: weeks what do you guys doing while the team is practicing.
Speaker 6: I'm your practice, Okay, Yeah, So being a kicker is
Speaker 6: a lot like being a pitcher. You really have to
Speaker 6: limit your kick count because you know, you end up
Speaker 6: kicking the legout, just like throwing your arm out. So
Speaker 6: you go to the stadium and do your own thing
Speaker 6: because it just has extra space. But realistically, it's you know,
Speaker 6: do a couple of kicks because you're not in anybody's way,
Speaker 6: and then it's kind of getting into recovery mode. And
Speaker 6: that can be tough sometimes because you know, usually at
Speaker 6: the end of practice you have team periods and they're
Speaker 6: expected to kick you know, either a potential game winner
Speaker 6: scenario or you know, pats or whatever to the in
Speaker 6: the practice. So it's kind of tricky because it's you
Speaker 6: need to balance between going into recovery mode but also
Speaker 6: staying warm enough so that you can, you know, kick
Speaker 6: for the team series at the end of practice.
Speaker 5: Don't they call it like a dead leg or something
Speaker 5: where you just you just get worn out. Maybe you
Speaker 5: know you have to kind of pace yourself through the
Speaker 5: course of the season. I would assume, right, yeah.
Speaker 6: Exactly, And actually the twenty thirteen season. That's that's exactly
Speaker 6: what happened to me. I ended up kicking my leg
Speaker 6: out and just totally ruined my groin and unfortunately couldn't kick.
Speaker 6: And it was hard just you know, knowing that I
Speaker 6: was competing for the starting job going into that season
Speaker 6: and I had to stop due to injury.
Speaker 2: We talked about this kind of jokingly, Dave and I
Speaker 2: so rich Rod, you know, the surdly cranky guy that
Speaker 2: he was, and you guys miss missed the kicker, says,
Speaker 2: what the hell you guys doing on the other side,
Speaker 2: because this is all we asked you to do, is
Speaker 2: kick the field goal or kick nnect your point, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. He was kind of that god
Speaker 2: that way, absolutely.
Speaker 6: And it was especially hard for me because you know,
Speaker 6: I grew up as a soccer player and if soccer
Speaker 6: isn't as one sided, so you can just go out
Speaker 6: and practice more, right, It's that's that's how you get better.
Speaker 6: And unfortunately you can't have that same approach for kicking.
Speaker 6: It's you've got to be a lot more analytical and
Speaker 6: look at film and you know, get your reps in
Speaker 6: kind of mentally instead of physically.
Speaker 5: Are they filming you in practice, like up close where
Speaker 5: you can again go in afterwards and take a look
Speaker 5: at how you're doing, or is it just a big
Speaker 5: wide shot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all the time we probably had you, so we
Speaker 6: had all of the regular camera angles, and then we
Speaker 6: had at least one person that was just directly focused
Speaker 6: on off as kickers.
Speaker 2: So when you decided to come out and play your
Speaker 2: soccer guy before, did you have hopes of playing in
Speaker 2: the NFL as a kicker?
Speaker 6: Kind of? But I was. I was realistic about it too.
Speaker 6: You know, so many of the big guys, especially in
Speaker 6: Archimi talks Scuty right, they have agents that are like
Speaker 6: hounding them before they're even graduated to try and get
Speaker 6: them to have an agreement, you know, so they can
Speaker 6: be represented. I didn't have that kind of experience, so
Speaker 6: I just told myself, you know, maybe maybe the road
Speaker 6: to the NFL isn't going to be the one from
Speaker 6: so looking back, I don't know if I really have regrets.
Speaker 6: I think if I if I was committed to putting
Speaker 6: it all the time and grinding and training for you know,
Speaker 6: a year or two years on my own, that I
Speaker 6: could have made it. But I've got a good job
Speaker 6: I've got a great wife, I've got a baby girl
Speaker 6: on the way right now, and I don't know if
Speaker 6: I would have that same life, if I would have
Speaker 6: trained for the NFL.
Speaker 2: Well, the kid that just left maybe two three years ago,
Speaker 2: have a second.
Speaker 5: He's been bouncing around a huge.
Speaker 2: Leg too, and he's got what you know, what every
Speaker 2: kicker wants, right, But then he bounces around.
Speaker 5: And just got picked up by somebody or released. He
Speaker 5: was in the news this weekend.
Speaker 2: And then you have the other dude in New England
Speaker 2: long Yeah, yeah, who's been there since this casey was
Speaker 2: born doing this job. I mean, come on, how does
Speaker 2: this happen?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think that's the life of the kicker. Lucas har
Speaker 6: six experience has probably been norm You know, you get
Speaker 6: into a rookie camp for your first season, probably don't
Speaker 6: make the team. You bounce around to a couple of
Speaker 6: different rookie camps until you make a practice squad and
Speaker 6: then you know you're you're trying to crack that fifty
Speaker 6: three man roster. And for a lot of kickers, that's
Speaker 6: the life for multiple years. And it was what I
Speaker 6: wanted to sign up for.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, Nick Folk has been around what almost
Speaker 5: twenty years. It seems like it seems like he hasn't
Speaker 5: stayed on the same team.
Speaker 2: But he's done really well.
Speaker 5: He's you know, been good enough and consistent enough. Right,
Speaker 5: That's going to be one of the keys to that job.
Speaker 5: Is this the consistency? You know, we look at these
Speaker 5: kickers and I mean, really, you're making what eighty percent
Speaker 5: of your kicks usually, and if you got you dropped
Speaker 5: to seventy you're in trouble. I mean you have to
Speaker 5: be steady.
Speaker 6: And strong, absolutely. Yeah, That's that's one thing I wish
Speaker 6: I knew going into kicking in college with how much
Speaker 6: I really needed to take care of my body. That
Speaker 6: the body, maanings is a huge factor. And the people
Speaker 6: who end up playing in the NFL for a long
Speaker 6: time are the ones that are the best at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, right, anything, how we talked a little about this,
Speaker 2: but how was it being a student athlete Arizona? And
Speaker 2: now don't you wish you were like maybe ten years younger,
Speaker 2: you'd be making some nil money?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, just missed it by that much.
Speaker 2: Job, right, How do you think life would have been
Speaker 2: would have been different even for you a kicker?
Speaker 6: I think I potentially would have tried to pursue the
Speaker 6: NFL a lot more. You know, I don't think I
Speaker 6: would have been making hundreds of thousands of dollars, but
Speaker 6: I probably would have been in the tens of thousands,
Speaker 6: and seeing that cash may have made me reconsider if
Speaker 6: I wanted to try to go gro Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like Tyler Loop is a fantastic kicker. Yeah,
Speaker 2: their guy now, and they're just they're you've got to
Speaker 2: be good. You've got to be good to play at
Speaker 2: this level one, and these guys are really good because
Speaker 2: he's one of the best in the country.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's terrific. You guys stickney the way I'm motivating too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: That's interesting. Of course, that's such a difference in just
Speaker 5: the last last couple of.
Speaker 2: Years, right, right, right, anything else isn't this?
Speaker 5: This is the ten ten year reunion. I guess if
Speaker 5: you're anything planned for the ten years of from twenty fourteen, Gosh.
Speaker 6: Thanks for me making me show old. You know, we
Speaker 6: all to go down for at least one game. I
Speaker 6: haven't been down for Homecoming or a few years. I'd really
Speaker 6: like to go down and celebrate for that, so we'll
Speaker 6: see at least the AFT game and potentially one more.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 2: We've had the rich Rob here a few times on
Speaker 2: the show. Always a good guy and kind of you know,
Speaker 2: how was it playing for him or did you deal
Speaker 2: with him? Maybe outside of a game winner and a
Speaker 2: and a miss Oh.
Speaker 6: I loved having coach Ron as a coach. He was
Speaker 6: the kind of guy. He looked good for work that
Speaker 6: you put in, and he rewarded you for working your
Speaker 6: butt off. That was you know. I actually got put
Speaker 6: on Starship the year that I started, and for twenty fifteen,
Speaker 6: so I wouldn't have had it any other way.
Speaker 2: Right right, Okay, Casey, well, thanks a bunch and enjoy
Speaker 2: your cycling. We'll see you up in scott Still again soon.
Speaker 6: All right, guys, thanks for having me do well.
Speaker 2: Thank you. That's fun. That's good. Yeah. Yeah, kickers have
Speaker 2: a bait. He keeps having. It's like the backup quarterback.
Speaker 5: It's like, uh, the closer in baseball. You're either great.
Speaker 2: Or right here or people hate you yeah for one
Speaker 2: game and then you come back in.
Speaker 5: Yeah. But those kickers, I mean, like I was trying
Speaker 5: to say, they have to be good. There's so much
Speaker 5: pressure and you know, they're they're pretty solid, most of them.
Speaker 5: Once they get to the true level.
Speaker 2: Sure they have to be. Who's the guy, uh is
Speaker 2: it Baltimore? Who's the kuy of Baltimore? Oh yeah, they
Speaker 2: never miss this, seemingly just in Tucker. Yeah yeah, and
Speaker 2: he's got the record now, right, sixty four sixty five
Speaker 2: he misses.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's I mean anything inside sixty he's pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And then you have the case guy who just scored
Speaker 2: a huge, huge contract.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, yeah, you're sure Tucker will be wondering about that.
Speaker 2: Right right, and and happy about it too, because you
Speaker 2: know it's a it's a copycat copycat.
Speaker 5: It's interesting though, the whole NI. I know, you just
Speaker 5: kind of got in there at the end about the
Speaker 5: nil you wonder how things are now? Oh yeah, Arizona,
Speaker 5: how that's been going?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: And I'm hearing again, kind of again from people who've
Speaker 5: been asked, who've been who want you know, just kind
Speaker 5: of out of the blue, like hey, do you want
Speaker 5: to help out here?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 5: You exactly right? What's this going towards?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: But the money's coming apparently.
Speaker 2: Well, which is great for them. And you know, two
Speaker 2: sons that college town and everybody loves the U of
Speaker 2: a seemingly unless but you know also to j Dave
Speaker 2: Dave and Jays Dave that that I don't know what
Speaker 2: the percentage is, but a big percentage is not from here.
Speaker 2: They're not They're from Iowa, They're from California, from Colorado.
Speaker 2: They're not two sonents. These are not fun players though.
Speaker 2: The people people people who are giving right right, So
Speaker 2: then you it's a different ask, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: you have to buy into U bit right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean again, just again, anecdotally again, There's a
Speaker 5: person I've met in Washington, d C. Who's in Aluma,
Speaker 5: and he reached out to me just before I stopped
Speaker 5: working at Arizona about that. Like, wait a minute, I
Speaker 5: just got a call from some it wasn't the athletic department.
Speaker 5: They wanted me to give to athletics for the ni
Speaker 5: L program. Is this legit?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 5: So I had to kind of send him a link. Yeah,
Speaker 5: this is the organization, this is the group is doing.
Speaker 2: This right right. So in about three years on, when
Speaker 2: you're making a ton of money becoming a sports guy,
Speaker 2: somewhere in they're gonna say, can you give us some money?
Speaker 2: I know you can't come to the game.
Speaker 3: But I'll always be I.
Speaker 2: Will find a way. You'll find a way. They picked
Speaker 2: the trip.
Speaker 5: Okay, do you have any friends who are athletes? No, no, no,
Speaker 5: they're not taking you out to these expensive dinners.
Speaker 3: No no, I don't go to mister Buys.
Speaker 2: I still go to mister yeah, and he's not here.
Speaker 5: They go to selling it right, so.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the excess at alls. It's Steve Leavera
Speaker 1: and Jacin Salvez. This is I on the Park on
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Eying the Ball here Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Stevees Dave Silver and got a quon
Speaker 2: with us for seventeen minutes. If you got a call,
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Speaker 2: out the day. Thanks for coming in, Dave.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 2: Oh a lot of fun you enjoy doing this? Don't
Speaker 2: you good to be here rather than see if I
Speaker 2: can even still do this? That's kind of fun. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is simple. This is like us talking at a bar.
Speaker 2: Can I see your ID? Want? I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're allowed in the bar yet? Yeah I am. You're
Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty one.
Speaker 3: I've been allowed for years.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 5: I'm at the point where I just don't go anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ten o'clock I gotta go home, exactly, get my
Speaker 2: wrist the dogs. Yeah yeah, the good old days of
Speaker 2: being young crazy. Uh. You're looking forward this You are
Speaker 2: looking because you get to cover the games, go to
Speaker 2: the games. Yeah oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Just in general, it would have been exciting just going
Speaker 3: into the Big twelve, just seeing the new traditions and
Speaker 3: new teams, not the same old the Organs, the UCLA's,
Speaker 3: the usc s. Right, not that it was that it
Speaker 3: was bad, but it's it's time for a refreshing now nowaday.
Speaker 2: Along those lines, Arizona has a chance, a better chance
Speaker 2: to win the league rather than they did previously.
Speaker 5: Exactly get in this expanded playoff situation, but brought in
Speaker 5: the Big twelve only I think, to two schools as
Speaker 5: opposed to the other big conferences.
Speaker 2: And that too kind of like a dumb and dumber
Speaker 2: are you're saying we have a chance?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, could you imagine if Tucson got a
Speaker 5: playoff game? What that would be like on a Friday
Speaker 5: or Saturday night and.
Speaker 2: Now you're getting carried January. Now you're getting carried away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it would be the national exposure. The first Arizona football.
Speaker 3: The first hypotheticals that came out were what if Arizona
Speaker 3: hosts it? Yeah, you got a team like Washington coming back?
Speaker 2: Who who's whose hypothetical? Is that just a bunch of yeah,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 3: Like they they got the brackets out when when the
Speaker 3: expansions came out.
Speaker 2: That's which we're thinking that get jed back here just
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, yeah, how was it?
Speaker 5: How was it?
Speaker 2: We had Alie Smith here last week? I think Monday,
Speaker 2: maybe Monday. Really she was fantastic. It was fun, we
Speaker 2: reminising about the good ol days. Right, how was and
Speaker 2: you were here for that time? How how was that
Speaker 2: with him coming back? You were here?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm well, I'm gonna I'll start up by saying,
Speaker 5: I remember, I'm old enough to remember when.
Speaker 2: She was just a little girl, and she talked about that.
Speaker 5: And you know, we had the Larry Smith Show on
Speaker 5: k GUN when I when I got here. So I've
Speaker 5: been here a couple of years and my predecessor was
Speaker 5: hosting and he leaves and I step in in nineteen
Speaker 5: eighty five, so I don't I don't know how old
Speaker 5: she is, but she was probably.
Speaker 2: She was ten and like eighty two, is that what
Speaker 2: she was? She was ten?
Speaker 5: Young girl. Yeah, And occasionally they would come in. She
Speaker 5: and Corby would come in and sit on the side
Speaker 5: of the set and just be there with him, and they,
Speaker 5: you know, he take him to breakfast or whatever after
Speaker 5: we did the show. So again they've been we haven't
Speaker 5: been friends or anything or even close, but we know
Speaker 5: each other. So it's cool that now her son is
Speaker 5: playing the football team.
Speaker 2: But that's one of the reasons why we had her
Speaker 2: on because you know, here's the football mom of the
Speaker 2: place where her dad coached.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's great. I mean, you know, that's going to
Speaker 5: be an interesting story to see just how that plays
Speaker 5: out if he gets a chance, maybe as one of
Speaker 5: the backups. He's coming in as a true freshman, so
Speaker 5: I'm not sure what the chances are there, but maybe
Speaker 5: eventually in a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows. But back to the question, how was
Speaker 2: it for him coming back and how did they how
Speaker 2: was he treated?
Speaker 5: Not well, there was a lot of a lot of noise,
Speaker 5: I'm sure you know. He left under you know, kind
Speaker 5: of weird circumstances. They would they'd come off the wind
Speaker 5: in the Aloha Bowl and you know, him claiming that
Speaker 5: he's not leaving to go to USC And I think
Speaker 5: I probably told you the story before where you know,
Speaker 5: we literally we could never do this today, but we
Speaker 5: would went to his house and hung out and interviewed him,
Speaker 5: like over the fence of his backyard with our camera
Speaker 5: and him saying, you know, I'm not going I'm staying
Speaker 5: in Tucson. Leave go back to their station and the
Speaker 5: next morning he left. So it was a little bit.
Speaker 2: Off part of that over the over the over the way.
Speaker 5: I didn't go.
Speaker 2: Somebody else.
Speaker 5: Somebody else did it, one of my said, one of my,
Speaker 5: one of my guys.
Speaker 2: Of course, yeah, I think they could still partly try
Speaker 2: to do that, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But you know, it was fun because we played
Speaker 5: them a few times. I don't mean to say we,
Speaker 5: but uf A played them, The USC played USC, and
Speaker 5: I got to go over there for their weekly news
Speaker 5: conference like that week, maybe on a Tuesday or Wednesday.
Speaker 5: It was really fun. L a team that had Rodney
Speaker 5: Pete who had a Tucson connection obviously, and Larry and
Speaker 5: I think Junior say out. So he left me for
Speaker 5: eighty seven. So that was it was. And he went
Speaker 5: he went to three straight rose balls right out of
Speaker 5: the right off.
Speaker 2: The bat, and you can slideing for doing that. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's what that's the reason why you go.
Speaker 5: Of course, you know. So he does that, He goes
Speaker 5: to Missouri and then he comes back to Tucson and
Speaker 5: lives his final years here and we to see him
Speaker 5: in the press box and his wife Cheryl is still around,
Speaker 5: right and she's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had her on the show two years ago.
Speaker 2: I think too. I had her on the other at
Speaker 2: the other station because the Larry hated the issue and
Speaker 2: it was during the week of a issues. Could you
Speaker 2: kind of reminisce about the weekly grind or whatever because
Speaker 2: he just didn't like listen to him. Yeah, and he didn't.
Speaker 5: I don't think that was like, you know, maybe winning
Speaker 5: the Pac ten was maybe number one or maybe a
Speaker 5: national championship. I ASU was right at the top of
Speaker 5: his list every year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it still is because that's one like the
Speaker 2: first questions. How do you feel about the rivalry? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, if you don't know about the rivalry, sham
Speaker 2: on you.
Speaker 5: Yeah. At least the rivalries obviously will continue. And I
Speaker 5: mean you talk about some of the games and some
Speaker 5: of the teams, but happened by you back in the
Speaker 5: mix is going to be huge for people in Arizona.
Speaker 5: That's going to be a big game whenever by you
Speaker 5: would come to the Phoenix area or to hear they travel,
Speaker 5: they travel. I've got a lot of fans in these cities,
Speaker 5: so that's going to be a fun one to continue.
Speaker 2: I'm doing a big story on the Arizona Bowl for
Speaker 2: BIS Tucson. Your thoughts on that and both you guys
Speaker 2: with Snoop Dogg coming back coming to bring it or
Speaker 2: sponsor it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, funny you should say that, because I'm probably
Speaker 5: going to be involved in some way with that. The
Speaker 5: Blazer group, the Blue Baby Blazers, which is what I
Speaker 5: would be in if I do this. At the beginning,
Speaker 5: they're the kind of introduction to.
Speaker 2: The bull.
Speaker 5: And you get to graduate to the Blue Blazers after
Speaker 5: a year or so. But they have a number of
Speaker 5: events throughout the course of the fall, especially they they
Speaker 5: will be at many high school every Friday night. They'll
Speaker 5: be at a game with their big helmets.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It's just kind of handing out information and just getting
Speaker 5: people to know that they've got their kickoff lunch and
Speaker 5: in October, which is going to be a La Paloma,
Speaker 5: the teams will be staying, you know, in their usual places,
Speaker 5: Star Pass and La Poloma.
Speaker 2: A lot of festivities with kids. I think it all
Speaker 2: start kids coming in, you know, youth football.
Speaker 5: You know, if you've been watching the Olympics, you've seen
Speaker 5: Snoop every night on NBC having a good time.
Speaker 2: So who's more you biquit A than him, who's now
Speaker 2: more loved in from generation to generation to generation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know he's a football guy too, right, didn't
Speaker 5: you have like kids played? He has a big league
Speaker 5: in Los Angeles, a youth football league. So he's you know,
Speaker 5: he's he's legit when it comes to that. And you know,
Speaker 5: this is the first Bowl game that's kind of tied
Speaker 5: to alcohol, right, alcohol, which ought to be interesting from
Speaker 5: that standpoint. It's going to be on the CW network, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's alcohol, and then they're going to pay some
Speaker 2: ni al money to the kids who were playing.
Speaker 5: All the money that they raise stays in Tucson for
Speaker 5: different charities. So it's it's great.
Speaker 2: Right, I got here in eighty seven. The city landscape
Speaker 2: has changed so much, right, I think when I moved here,
Speaker 2: I know, it was maybe there was stuff beyond that,
Speaker 2: but it was you know, we lived out there, We
Speaker 2: lived all right, You and I live in that area,
Speaker 2: but there was very little out there, and now it's
Speaker 2: all out there, a lot it's out there. Just how
Speaker 2: has the place changed for you? Because you got here
Speaker 2: a little before me.
Speaker 5: Like you said, I think about it, You're right, I mean,
Speaker 5: I know it was two lanes in those years, and
Speaker 5: it did expand eventually and kind of didn't turned into
Speaker 5: Sunrise and La Paloma was built in those first few
Speaker 5: years and I was in town. But it has changed
Speaker 5: a lot. Ooral Valley doesn't look like it. Mirana doesn't
Speaker 5: look like it is now. So I'm kind of where
Speaker 5: we live. It's kind of on the fringe of Morana.
Speaker 5: We've got you know, family out in Morana. That's you know,
Speaker 5: in an area that was just a bunch of farms
Speaker 5: and now it's it's quite an area. And that area
Speaker 5: is kind of like maybe not as much as how
Speaker 5: Phoenix has, but the Phoenix market exploded and look at
Speaker 5: what the high schools have done. Crazy produced all these
Speaker 5: NFL quarterbacks and crazy you know, we're kind of, you know,
Speaker 5: on the fringe is starting to do that.
Speaker 2: Here right well we're almost south or the north.
Speaker 5: Thus, yeah, I mean the populations are growing, families are
Speaker 5: moving in, and youth leagues are expanding. And the given
Speaker 5: you a.
Speaker 3: Chance, did did it?
Speaker 2: I know it grew up and we're talking about growing up,
Speaker 2: but did it grow up exponentially if that's the right word. Uh, athletically?
Speaker 2: Even with Arizona because I saw you know, Dick Tomi
Speaker 2: was the coach. They competed, but they didn't compete. You know,
Speaker 2: there was a time or two and basketball was you know,
Speaker 2: just kind of starting when you got here with lout.
Speaker 2: You know, it was kind of getting that magic and
Speaker 2: then you got you got there with that magic and
Speaker 2: it's kind of sustained it kind of Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean basketball, we've pretty much can count on basketball
Speaker 5: every year. I mean, there's there may be better years
Speaker 5: than others, but it's always going to be at the
Speaker 5: top I think in town. And you know some of
Speaker 5: the other sports softball, softball had that run too, but
Speaker 5: it's also kind of been up and down the last
Speaker 5: maybe baseball, baseball, they've all they've had their moments. I
Speaker 5: mean we've had golf championships and swimming and things like that.
Speaker 5: Even you know, even the hockey team won a title
Speaker 5: in the club years.
Speaker 2: Well, let me say say this, when you first got here,
Speaker 2: and I didn't know if I didn't feel this because
Speaker 2: I was a small town guy, did was it Dusty
Speaker 2: Tucson when you got here a little bit?
Speaker 5: I mean it did grow up, it got and that's
Speaker 5: kind of a reputation. I think I think you got
Speaker 5: to give Luton basketball credit if you kind of put
Speaker 5: us on the map and it's like, hm, basketball's kind
Speaker 5: of set the standard. Maybe some of our other sports
Speaker 5: can also rise to a level like that because we
Speaker 5: can see it can be done here. So that that's
Speaker 5: kind of how it worked.
Speaker 2: And then what about the city though, because I think
Speaker 2: that it had to kind of grow up too, or
Speaker 2: grew up maybe that would be the right word, but
Speaker 2: maybe become more provincial.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so. I think that's probably it's probably
Speaker 5: hard to answer why that's happened. You know, businesses have
Speaker 5: kind of have not always picked Tucson as a location, right,
Speaker 5: you know, so that's one of the reasons why people
Speaker 5: aren't here. Are people are here because you know, a
Speaker 5: Raytheon has continued to build Caterpillar. You know, a lot
Speaker 5: of biotech is kind of coming. So there's different businesses
Speaker 5: that are arriving now that maybe weren't here, maybe weren't
Speaker 5: even in existence twenty five years.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, no, it's changed a lot. And you grew
Speaker 2: up here, right and and sure it's changed in your
Speaker 2: lifetime and you're still your young kid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And the U of A is also has done
Speaker 5: that too. People, not all of the people come here. Sure,
Speaker 5: you know there's now places where you can begin your
Speaker 5: careers here in tech and then those types of business medicine.
Speaker 3: You were going to say, oh no, just so I
Speaker 3: didn't even know Oral Valley, Moranda that stuff existed, and
Speaker 3: now it's even more than it was back then, right
Speaker 3: right as.
Speaker 2: A kid, Well you got here, tell me because I
Speaker 2: came to visit here in eighty four eighty five for
Speaker 2: something and I think it was like the Revenge of
Speaker 2: the Nerds type of time, right, and that was still
Speaker 2: kind of you know, it was Tucson, you know whatever.
Speaker 2: How was that because you were here?
Speaker 5: I mean, so they just had their what fortieth anniversey
Speaker 5: eighty four, So if anyone remembers, I worked with Ed Sorenson,
Speaker 5: who is a sportscaster at k GUN then and his
Speaker 5: wife was in the movie. He was in the film
Speaker 5: was one She was one of the cheerleaders. I need
Speaker 5: to go watch the movie again and see her. But
Speaker 5: she was there, And then there were a couple other
Speaker 5: movies Can't Buy Me Love Me There, you know again,
Speaker 5: we were kind of all is still kind of at
Speaker 5: the tail end of old Tucson being quite the movie producer,
Speaker 5: like Three Amigos was kind of in that era, but
Speaker 5: then it all kind of stopped.
Speaker 2: Tin Cup was here like early literally.
Speaker 5: Nineties maybe, yeah, they shot you know, some of that
Speaker 5: at La Poloma and also in two right, right, so
Speaker 5: that was that was pretty fun, right, And the early
Speaker 5: again back in the western days too, you know High Chaparral,
Speaker 5: you talk about that and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's growing a lot. It's good, and it's
Speaker 2: just different now. I mean obviously the traffic you can
Speaker 2: tell with the traffic not so much in the winter
Speaker 2: in the summer, but it's HiT's here in the winter.
Speaker 2: It's got to be here pretty soon for sure.
Speaker 5: You know, we've got the casinos, we got you know,
Speaker 5: attractions that we've got resorts that weren't here.
Speaker 2: And let me go with another school, Pima, because Pima
Speaker 2: when I got here was like, you know, you can
Speaker 2: Pema blah blah blah. Now it's like it's competitive nationally,
Speaker 2: it's kind of no longer the it's maybe the little
Speaker 2: step brother, but it's not as.
Speaker 5: Much right right. And some of those some of those
Speaker 5: athletes are getting situations where they can go on to college,
Speaker 5: to the bigger universities, and that's been good, and it's
Speaker 5: always kind of been the case.
Speaker 2: But and you never left. I mean I'm sure you
Speaker 2: had a chance, what chance you And I did too?
Speaker 2: And I like this place, yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Mean I liked it. I like being the main guy
Speaker 5: on on the on the station and you know, again
Speaker 5: with loot and with that kind of being you know,
Speaker 5: the exactly people. So many of my friends around the
Speaker 5: country like, oh, I've never been to the n cua
Speaker 5: A basketball through and I'm like, I've been there like
Speaker 5: twenty five straight years, right, I mean I had that advantage.
Speaker 5: So it was a good, good time to be here.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna go cover a team and you have
Speaker 2: a good one here, what's the point, right, Well, why leave? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: That's was my idea.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I mean again, you've written about it and
Speaker 5: documented it, you know, so well over the years. But
Speaker 5: most of my memories are in my head and I
Speaker 5: can think of, Wow, you know.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you have tapes somewhere, good tapes.
Speaker 5: I got to figure out what that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, You're like, Jay, You've got them stored somewhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's gonna be my next during my retirement years.
Speaker 14: That's a VHS VH probably even tho. They're even weirder
Speaker 14: formats three quarter when you first got here. Yeah, Beta,
Speaker 14: Beta cam things like that. So I need to contact
Speaker 14: my old friends and try to get some transfer.
Speaker 2: Right, right, I know those guys too, the Mark Bateman's
Speaker 2: of the world, right, Yeah, he's probably listening right now. Okay,
Speaker 2: we got a couple of minutes. Nobody called the day
Speaker 2: sorry to say it wasn't that big of a draw. No, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you have to go to the bottom of the line. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's fine. You feel me back sometime field in well
Speaker 2: for Jay. Of course he's out. He'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 2: I will see. I hope you have the Little League
Speaker 2: little We didn't talk about that. The Little League girls
Speaker 2: lost today, so they're out out in North Carolina. They're
Speaker 2: out of the World Series. But who would have thought
Speaker 2: this team from Willcox, Arizona makes it that far.
Speaker 5: It was fantastic. Yes, great, I mean I go out
Speaker 5: there and pick peaches, you know, at Apple, So we
Speaker 5: go to Willcox.
Speaker 2: Come on, how can you come up with ten twelve
Speaker 2: girls and to do this? Yeah, it's one of those
Speaker 2: needle in the Haystack lightning in a bottle thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean I was watching the game, I don't know,
Speaker 5: a couple of days ago when they were on and
Speaker 5: they were already saying the picture.
Speaker 2: But yeah, she's the daughters. The coaches done it.
Speaker 5: We were saying, oh, college, college coaches are already taking it.
Speaker 5: She's twelve.
Speaker 2: Yes, she's twelve, right, you know.
Speaker 5: So that's that's where we are right with sport Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then that was one of the things that
Speaker 2: I think Ken's ready to talk about. This is what
Speaker 2: has come to I'm not sure I want to be
Speaker 2: part of this anymore. Yeah, because it's crazy. It's got
Speaker 2: to be tough to be chasing around. Yeah, the League
Speaker 2: Softball world. It was tough for us when we did it.
Speaker 2: When we were chasing eighteen nineteen year old is seventeen
Speaker 2: year olds? Where you're gonna go recruiting, which I absolutly hated.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do it? Well, I don't know yet,
Speaker 2: Well called me right away, wouldn't you know?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Ever, No, no, you have to go check again, because
Speaker 2: you know they weren't gonna do it. Now they break
Speaker 2: their own news with the Twitter and the TikTok and
Speaker 2: whatever that else stuff is. Your kids, get out my lawn.
Speaker 2: Tired of you guys.
Speaker 3: You know you're a TikToker.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm not a TikToker at heart. Don't even
Speaker 2: know how to log in.
Speaker 5: I can log in. There's some pretty good stuff TikTokers.
Speaker 5: Every once in a while I'll find something my kids
Speaker 5: love it.
Speaker 2: Hold your kids thirty, they're in their thirties. Now, I
Speaker 2: got a forty year old. Oh, holy moly, good luck
Speaker 2: with that forty one. They're on their own.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: We used to play softball right a long time, about
Speaker 2: thirty years ago. Yeah, he was a kid. He was
Speaker 2: about ten years old. Makes sense now, Well, Tanks day
Speaker 2: for coming in, of course, thanks for enduring the QT area.
Speaker 2: Thanks Jan as usual, I mean, thanks for everybody's help.
Speaker 2: And we'll see you guys Monday,