Speaker 1: And like everybody signing and saying that they're coming back,
Speaker 1: but you you never find out how much people transfer for.
Speaker 2: You never find out how much people like come back for.
Speaker 3: I think eventually we might when it all gets figured out.
Speaker 2: That this kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, keeping that news up though. Delorso also is
Speaker 1: going to be coming back. That got reposted by Carter
Speaker 1: Bryan on Instagram, So.
Speaker 4: It's like, uh, we'll go ahead as you continue on
Speaker 4: putty come up.
Speaker 2: I was just you know, hoping for the best of
Speaker 2: Carter Brian.
Speaker 5: Everybody everybody's still wondering how did you get these though?
Speaker 4: What about Carter? What about Carter? You're about Carter? Right?
Speaker 4: Nothing about Carter so far.
Speaker 2: I got the notifications turned on, but you know.
Speaker 5: You would everybody when when when's the draft? When you
Speaker 5: when does he have to be clear about it?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: He's got time. He's got a lot of time actually
Speaker 3: making something. And by the way, isn't that you canna
Speaker 3: have w NBA stuff because.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, keeping that up. Jay and Bradley also recent
Speaker 1: the softball team is coming off a sweep at Kansas
Speaker 1: over the weekend.
Speaker 2: They are on five game win streak. Yep, what is.
Speaker 1: Last I checked, they were thirteenth, I believe because they
Speaker 1: lost a couple back to back.
Speaker 2: Also coming off.
Speaker 1: Also in Spring sports news, the baseball team won their
Speaker 1: series against Oklahoma State after losing that first game on Friday,
Speaker 1: won a close one yesterday afternoon. Keeping up with Arizona though,
Speaker 1: the tennis team is the two seed going into the
Speaker 1: Big twelve Championship.
Speaker 6: Okay, oh, very cool, So keep an eye on that.
Speaker 6: Who's the one seed? Believe TCU. All right now to
Speaker 6: the to the national news. The whole Nico thing that
Speaker 6: was a big talking port throughout the weekend. I remember
Speaker 6: seeing it on the night Cap yesterday that Shannon Sharp
Speaker 6: does and just like some other shows on ESPN as well,
Speaker 6: it was interesting to me because you know, this hold
Speaker 6: it was the first hold in slash hold out right,
Speaker 6: like first public one, and so that was you know.
Speaker 4: Well, we've already kind of talked about that, but that's.
Speaker 5: A little bit which like Shannon Sharp with the Steven
Speaker 5: A what are their takes on this?
Speaker 4: I didn't see that.
Speaker 1: So Shannon Sharp, uh pretty much did blame him for
Speaker 1: a lot of the reasons that you gave before we
Speaker 1: were going to the break where it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you sign on, be responsible. You know, you're the one
Speaker 1: that that's putting your name out there.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: Stephen Ay, I believe blamed more.
Speaker 1: Of the the agents and the parents because from from rumors,
Speaker 1: you know, and I don't think anything's been concrete.
Speaker 2: This was like his agent was trying to negotiate this.
Speaker 1: Deal while they were in the playoffs already, and so
Speaker 1: he you know, he probably isn't aware of that at
Speaker 1: that moment.
Speaker 2: I mean he could be obviously, but you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, well, whatever happened to the quarterback from Vegas?
Speaker 3: Could you have your thing on the Vegas quarterback who
Speaker 3: left after the one?
Speaker 4: Like he was like the first dude to do this.
Speaker 3: Asking for money and then they said here, you know
Speaker 3: where the door is, you know where the doors and
Speaker 3: they did really well without him. Anyway, he wasn't about
Speaker 3: you kid, right, it was about the team. I don't
Speaker 3: know if he ever ended up somewhere. So that's another thing.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm gonna hold my breath, watch me, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna I'm gonna do well, go ahead, try to.
Speaker 4: I'm very very important, very important.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so maybe that'll continue to say you know.
Speaker 4: What the door is don't want it hits you in
Speaker 4: the ass.
Speaker 1: I think it's crazy too that he kind of gets
Speaker 1: like a cop out, like I know he's gonna have
Speaker 1: like his name, his name, you know, like in a
Speaker 1: reputation is probably gonna go down from this. But it's
Speaker 1: like having two windows in the in the wind, in
Speaker 1: the for the transport portal specifically like for football. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he can make this kind of mistake, can still end
Speaker 1: up playing somewhere.
Speaker 3: Well he will, like I said, nothing, maybe North Carolina.
Speaker 3: But now even at you obey, I'm guessing what they
Speaker 3: have fifty seventy whatever people practice you now that once
Speaker 3: the spring game hits, which is this weekend, right spring facilities, Uh,
Speaker 3: you'll see some people in the in the portal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's you cow. Can you prevent it? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And it's just I don't know how you supposed to
Speaker 1: how are you supposed to really have like spring practices
Speaker 1: like that when.
Speaker 4: You ever have a hot chick leave.
Speaker 5: You yeah yeah, well look, I mean we just we
Speaker 5: just talked to the Gymnastis Courch and he talked about
Speaker 5: you know, buying into the program and everything like that.
Speaker 4: This Nego guy, this dude is.
Speaker 5: Not going to buy into anything except a brand new
Speaker 5: car and maybe a house, right right?
Speaker 4: Do you want that winning? Do you care? You want
Speaker 4: that dude playing for you?
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have that guy playing for me if I
Speaker 5: was in a pickup league. No, No, I just I
Speaker 5: just wouldn't. It's not worth it. Yeah, you know, Look,
Speaker 5: there's eleven guys on the field. There's fifty three that
Speaker 5: are on there or more than that on this sidelines.
Speaker 5: You know that are that are part of this, and
Speaker 5: they all have to buy in. They all got to
Speaker 5: be pulling in the same direction. This guy is just
Speaker 5: basically said to every coach, I'm pulling in my own direction. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't. I wouldn't bring him in. I'm sure somebody will,
Speaker 5: of course if you're talented. Well, hell, look at the end, Luke,
Speaker 5: at the league, NFL, who do they have. Look at
Speaker 5: some of the guys they have in the roster, Guys
Speaker 5: who have done some crazy stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I still don't want to win.
Speaker 3: No, I totally, I totally you and I agree on
Speaker 3: this for the first TIB forever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Following that up and some more tragic news, former LSU
Speaker 1: star hiring Lacey apparently passed away from a self flipped,
Speaker 1: self inflicted gunshop wound after following the police chase this weekend.
Speaker 5: That is a sad story. Yeah, I mean talk about
Speaker 5: having everything and giving it away. Yeah, from that accident
Speaker 5: in December. Start, that's what it is. I mean, they
Speaker 5: were supposed to do the grand jury starting to a
Speaker 5: to indict him. I mean, look, I get it. You
Speaker 5: know you're going to probably going to prison. You know,
Speaker 5: you're probably gonna do that for a couple of years,
Speaker 5: but you're not gonna do it forever. Yeah, suicides forever,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, you know, it's it's it's it's.
Speaker 1: Tragic, permanent, fixed to a temporary problem. Temporary problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't get it back.
Speaker 2: Keeping that.
Speaker 1: Following that up though, with some more lighter news, Illinois
Speaker 1: star freshman Ca Casparis. That's a tough name, Jack Cucci.
Speaker 1: That's goods good into the NBA Draft.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's gonna start now more and more by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's in June.
Speaker 3: I think it's in June, right, the draft. Uh, so
Speaker 3: we'll see more and more names come out for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Houston's Milos Uson also declared for the draft.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I saw that he was a pretty good player.
Speaker 5: Did they get a player coming back to Houston? They
Speaker 5: lose one and get one?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh man, I think it was one of the guards.
Speaker 2: That's one of the bigs.
Speaker 4: Okay, he's coming back. Yeah, Houston's gonna be very good
Speaker 4: next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and then they were also gonna reload
Speaker 1: another top class according to all the sites.
Speaker 4: But that Arizona good Okay.
Speaker 2: I think that they had them above hers in a couple.
Speaker 4: Of already yeah, recruiting classes. Yeah, well you're number two,
Speaker 4: I think number one.
Speaker 1: How much they go there was like I feel like
Speaker 1: it was like the same three teams. It was Duke, Houston,
Speaker 1: and Arizona where like consensuously like the top three recruiting classes.
Speaker 1: Talking about the draft though w n B A draft
Speaker 1: is about to start in like twenty minutes. Yeah, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Page Buckers probably gonna be the first one
Speaker 1: off the board going to Dallas.
Speaker 5: She signed a huge deal too, the three versus three
Speaker 5: thing she's gonna make. Yeah, she's gonna make more money
Speaker 5: in that than she will in the w NBA. Is
Speaker 5: that like really that's what they kind of we're saying
Speaker 5: that you're they're on they're making seventy eight thousand dollars, which,
Speaker 5: of course, hey, y'all take that for the NBA for
Speaker 5: whatever months they're going to play, and then she's gonna
Speaker 5: be making a lot more than that in.
Speaker 3: A three v three, So go get it. It's funny
Speaker 3: how I feel about that, because they should go get it,
Speaker 3: and I'm upset about the guys getting money, and I'm
Speaker 3: not upset. It's just weird to me. I'm not upset
Speaker 3: because that'd be selfish. I'm not upset. I mean, look,
Speaker 3: this is a different time that I'm not used to.
Speaker 5: So they're playing pro ball, okay, I mean which, and
Speaker 5: then we've kind of grown up in the whole college
Speaker 5: era where you know, hey, you don't get paid. You know,
Speaker 5: no one's allowed to buy you lunch, and so this
Speaker 5: is all this is all really really new to us.
Speaker 5: I think that the difficult thing is, like, you know
Speaker 5: that you have somebody that's representing your school that is
Speaker 5: not interested in going to classes or being part of
Speaker 5: the school. They're there to play football. And you know
Speaker 5: a lot of people, a lot of football players will
Speaker 5: tell you I'm only here to play football. You know
Speaker 5: that's been going on for a long time. But you
Speaker 5: know they had to go to classes, they had to
Speaker 5: do certain things that they were doing. It's that's whole
Speaker 5: aspect is going to be completely different. Yeah, school, what's that? Yeah, well,
Speaker 5: it's funny because I saw kJ, right kJ this out
Speaker 5: in Georgetown with his posing with his new new uniform
Speaker 5: and all that school and I'm thinking, I'm thinking at
Speaker 5: the time and thinking, oh cool uniform. Doesn't he have
Speaker 5: classes here still? Because he has to maintain his eligibility
Speaker 5: right to go to the next level either either He's
Speaker 5: like you guys, and I don't know how many classes
Speaker 5: you have online, but I'm sure you have a couple
Speaker 5: in person.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he has to.
Speaker 5: He definitely has to maintain his progression in school. And
Speaker 5: when was the last time you saw somebody not not
Speaker 5: do well in school? Anytime? In the last ten years,
Speaker 5: twenty years? I used to do that all the time,
Speaker 5: the writing stories. Well he's not eligible because it's academically ineligible. Yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I I can't remember the last time. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 5: hear that a lot. Yeah, now he's able to buy
Speaker 5: you a burger in price.
Speaker 2: It's kind of A.
Speaker 1: It's it's really weird because I remember, you know, when
Speaker 1: I was in high school and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: it was like the issue, the issue really came up.
Speaker 1: I remember for like my generation, because they stopped the
Speaker 1: NCAA games and so everyone was like, yeah, pay the athletes,
Speaker 1: pay the athletes. And you know, obviously I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a bad thing because it was happening, you know,
Speaker 1: behind closed doors kind of anyways. But it's it's weird
Speaker 1: seeing it backfire so much wherever where it feels like
Speaker 1: everyone was so much for athletes getting paid and now
Speaker 1: it's yeah, they're kind of.
Speaker 4: Well, here's the issue.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how many deep pockets like Arizona we
Speaker 3: talked about this other times. How many times can you
Speaker 3: go to the deep pockets and if you're going to
Speaker 3: get bad money or bad bad returns on your money, Sorry, sir,
Speaker 3: I'm tired of giving to you and this is all
Speaker 3: I get, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, It's it's different than known in a protein on
Speaker 5: the pro team, you're gonna have you have some revenue. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, you're you're investing, you get some revenue. You're
Speaker 5: not getting anything like that here, except I don't even
Speaker 5: know if you can write that off on your taxes anymore.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe you can because you give to the foundation, not
Speaker 5: if you what you go directly to the player. You
Speaker 5: go directly to the player. Yeah, that's they're not a
Speaker 5: not for profit. Yeah, they are definitely a for profit institution. Yeah,
Speaker 5: no doubt about that.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: Doug McDaniel from Kansas State entered the transfer portal. Shout
Speaker 1: out to one. Let me get that update.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Patrick Peterson retired. Peterson play a corner
Speaker 1: for the Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, that's why I didn't know who he was. Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Hey we're missing we're missing the lead right here. But
Speaker 3: golf golf? Oh yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4: Too, let's go. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Rory mclroy, Yeah that was the Masters, did you?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean it was, it was. It was
Speaker 5: definitely exciting. Rory could have made it very unexciting, but
Speaker 5: Rory doesn't make anything unexciting.
Speaker 4: That dude makes his bed.
Speaker 5: It's like he gets half of it right, and then
Speaker 5: he goes over there and does really good. But it's like,
Speaker 5: you know, you're just say you'd be sitting there watching
Speaker 5: him make his bed and you'd be all tense and
Speaker 5: you know, it's like cheering you missed the quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but I mean, you know, so he misses, he misses
Speaker 5: a five five footer. Okay, after after missing the green
Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty five yard chip shot, misses the
Speaker 5: green on the most important chip of his life, misses
Speaker 5: the five footer, comes back in almost the same spot,
Speaker 5: hits a one hundred and twenty five foot wedge into
Speaker 5: four feet and that's what holds it final eighteen. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the in uh sudden death. I mean it just the
Speaker 5: fact that he can you know, he came back and
Speaker 5: hit that huge hook into into fifteen within like ten feet.
Speaker 5: I mean that's the thing about it. I mean he
Speaker 5: can hit some amazing shots and then he can miss
Speaker 5: some some normal, normal shots.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that was huge this weekend. Get a lot of
Speaker 3: big news, a lot of fun, a lot of sentimental
Speaker 3: stuff there, and then go ahead with your son stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike Rudols got fired after in just one season.
Speaker 4: The last I heard from you, guys, mister mister.
Speaker 5: You and uh and who's my guy?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Him? Yeah, that other guy.
Speaker 5: God, he's gonna call me and say, how can I
Speaker 5: forget it's uh Howard, Howard Howard. No wonder he hasn't called.
Speaker 5: He's probably depressed somewhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Right, they didn't make the playoffs, right. No, I was
Speaker 5: a little disappointed that the song you see. I saw
Speaker 5: the Son's game last night with with who they played? No, no,
Speaker 5: not last night was with like like the Clippers had
Speaker 5: a fantastic game and they lost. So now they're in
Speaker 5: the playing game tomorrow, which you know, we'll see what
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Speaker 4: How you doing.
Speaker 7: Hello, how are you guys?
Speaker 4: We're doing fine.
Speaker 3: It seems to me there's never a dull day, which
Speaker 3: of course makes your job even more interesting and I'm
Speaker 3: not sure about fun, but at least interesting. Right, you
Speaker 3: were at a press conference for women's basketball recently, You've
Speaker 3: in baseball all these things. Uh, we we kind of
Speaker 3: want to talk a lot about the women's program. I
Speaker 3: saw your call them yesterday. I think it was a
Speaker 3: very good one in descriptions and stuff like that. What
Speaker 3: did you make of her specifically?
Speaker 16: Yeah, she seemed to try About Becky Burke, of course,
Speaker 16: new women's basketball coach. She seemed confident, She seemed determined,
Speaker 16: seemed resolute. She seemed like she was ready to take
Speaker 16: on what's going to be a challenging situation and a
Speaker 16: a higher profile situation than she's ever been in before
Speaker 16: as a coach. Anyway, she's a pretty pretty high profile
Speaker 16: player back at Louisville. But you know, she seemed like
Speaker 16: very eager and ready to get going. You know, she
Speaker 16: made several references to rolling up her sleeves and getting
Speaker 16: to work. You know, she revealed that, you know, before
Speaker 16: she'd even changed her voicemail on her phone. She was
Speaker 16: reaching out to players in the transfer portal to try
Speaker 16: to get them to come to Arizona.
Speaker 7: So those are what I would say were my initial impressions.
Speaker 16: And I think it was important for her to make
Speaker 16: a positive first impression on at least a certain segment
Speaker 16: of the fan base that is still kind of clinging
Speaker 16: to the idea that your idea, Barnes, is you know, irreplaceable,
Speaker 16: which is I don't think is true, but I understand
Speaker 16: why they feel the way that they feel about idea.
Speaker 5: So I saw the press conference from Afar. I thought
Speaker 5: she won the press conference. I'm sure you felt the
Speaker 5: same way.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 16: Mean, if we're keeping score here, I would say I
Speaker 16: would definitely put it in the wind column. She was,
Speaker 16: I said, eager, energetic, very positive. She had her kind
Speaker 16: of her talking points in the way that she wanted
Speaker 16: to portray herself, you know, and she talked about such
Speaker 16: great stories about her time at every Riddle and Prescott
Speaker 16: and you know, all of the steps along the way
Speaker 16: and her coaching journey. I think that the experiences that
Speaker 16: she's had are going to help her here, you know.
Speaker 7: I mean, this is, like I said, the highest profile
Speaker 7: job she's ever.
Speaker 16: Had, but she's been in a lot of rebuilding situations,
Speaker 16: had to start a program from scratch, and it's kind
Speaker 16: of what she's doing right here, right, I mean, she
Speaker 16: has to build an entire roster and she has to
Speaker 16: do it in in relatively short order, and she's got
Speaker 16: to really, you know, tap into every resource that.
Speaker 7: She has to get that done.
Speaker 16: And she's done it before at other places that weren't,
Speaker 16: uh you knows, as attractive a destination as Arizona is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you so, So you mentioned challenging, and you mentioned
Speaker 5: a couple of things that are that that are going
Speaker 5: to be challenging for what do you think is going
Speaker 5: to be the biggest challenge that she's got to overcome
Speaker 5: and the ones she's got to overcome most quickly?
Speaker 16: Okay, all right, this is the This is kind of like,
Speaker 16: to me, the biggest storyline around the women's basketball program
Speaker 16: right now, and it's the topic of resources. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 16: like monetary resources. How much does Arizona actually have compared
Speaker 16: to its top competitors and say the Big twelve, right,
Speaker 16: there's been you know, there's a certa segment of the
Speaker 16: local media that believes that, you know, Arizona women's basketball
Speaker 16: is not sufficiently supported desiree. Rea Francois would push back
Speaker 16: at that notion. I don't have these the actual figures
Speaker 16: in front of me.
Speaker 7: I know what I've heard regarding revenue sharing.
Speaker 16: And it's a bit disappointing if it does indeed turn
Speaker 16: out to be, you know, two percent instead of five percent,
Speaker 16: which doesn't sound like much, but it's a huge difference
Speaker 16: for women's basketball. You're talking about, you know, roughly four
Speaker 16: hundred thousand dollars of revenue sharing versus a million. I mean,
Speaker 16: the figures that I don't know, and I'm just kind
Speaker 16: of going on, you know, what they said the other
Speaker 16: day are related to nil. I'm not even sure where
Speaker 16: that money comes from, to be frank, and what the
Speaker 16: school has to do with that. But you know, can
Speaker 16: Arizona compete in those areas to get the best players
Speaker 16: that TCU is getting or Baylor is getting or whoever,
Speaker 16: like the most deep pocketed programs are in the Big
Speaker 16: twelve and across the country. That was a pretty frequent
Speaker 16: complaint from Ada Barnes. I'm sure there's some validity to it.
Speaker 16: I don't know what commitments exactly have been made for
Speaker 16: Becky Burke, but she also said, like, I wouldn't have
Speaker 16: taken this job if I.
Speaker 7: Didn't believe that we had the support here to win.
Speaker 16: So, you know, it remains to be seen whether that's true,
Speaker 16: what kind of players end up getting, and you know,
Speaker 16: whether she's able to retain those players, which you know
Speaker 16: was one of.
Speaker 7: The big issues that Idea had.
Speaker 16: Right, It's like she she'd recruit these great players and
Speaker 16: she couldn't keep them for many reasons, and I think
Speaker 16: you know, money was one of those reasons.
Speaker 5: So I think you said this story, apologize why I
Speaker 5: get this wrong? You've been here I thought maybe five, six,
Speaker 5: seven years, but you've been here.
Speaker 3: About ten years now, right, Yes, that's true? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: So so would you have imagined Arizona women's basketball being
Speaker 3: talked about as much as it is ten years ago?
Speaker 7: One?
Speaker 3: It's like no publicity or good you know, publicity's publicity,
Speaker 3: and here we are talking about it on radio. You're
Speaker 3: writing the heck out of it. Other people are writing
Speaker 3: the heck out of it, and it has this fan
Speaker 3: base now or does it?
Speaker 4: Is it? Was it a love affair that could leave
Speaker 4: just as easily as it showed up.
Speaker 7: Well, I think that you know, that's to a Dia
Speaker 7: Barnes credit.
Speaker 16: Right, she built this program up and made it into
Speaker 16: something that people were interested in and want to talk
Speaker 16: about and want to see, you know, live and in
Speaker 16: person at McHale Center.
Speaker 7: She created a program that.
Speaker 16: You know is far you know, I know Joan Bonbassini
Speaker 16: one more games, coach Terry Longer made more NCAA tournament appearances. Right,
Speaker 16: But Ida reached a peak that I think no one
Speaker 16: thought was possible.
Speaker 7: Sure, right, she was enable to sustain that peak.
Speaker 16: But she definitely elevated the you know, the the profile
Speaker 16: of Arizona women's basketball and like in the zeitgeist, right, like.
Speaker 7: In terms of.
Speaker 16: Something that for people to talk about, for Arizona fans
Speaker 16: to care about on some level. Right, I would say, look,
Speaker 16: I'm not I'm not. I'm not Greg Hanson when it
Speaker 16: comes to putting things in historical perspective.
Speaker 7: But women's basketball is.
Speaker 16: Probably was maybe fifth on the in the on the
Speaker 16: scale behind football, men's basketball, softball, and baseball. And I'd say,
Speaker 16: now it's maybe third in terms of attendance for sure,
Speaker 16: and what people are interested in.
Speaker 7: So I can believe it.
Speaker 16: I can I you know, it also is happening within
Speaker 16: the context of women's.
Speaker 7: Basketball becoming more popular overall. Right, So I think that's
Speaker 7: part of it too.
Speaker 5: Let me say something because I was in your spot
Speaker 5: many years ago and wrote a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4: There's always more to the story. There's always more to
Speaker 4: the story.
Speaker 5: There's stuff you can't print because you can't prove and
Speaker 5: what you know, you know off the record, blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you know you've experienced that with Desiree already,
Speaker 5: with the coach Idea and other sports, of course.
Speaker 4: And I just lost my train of thought.
Speaker 5: Oh So with that said, what do you think Idea's
Speaker 5: legacy is going to be We talked about it before
Speaker 5: you showed up.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean I think I would say net positive, right.
Speaker 7: I think there was definitely some frustration.
Speaker 16: From both pacings went over the last three or four years, right,
Speaker 16: I mean, the results weren't quite as good Number one
Speaker 16: and number two.
Speaker 7: There was just this regular exodus of players. No, and
Speaker 7: why did this keep happening?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 7: Just sign up the times? Or was there more to
Speaker 7: it than that? Right? So I think there's that part
Speaker 7: of it.
Speaker 16: But when you look at the hole where the program
Speaker 16: was when she took over versus where it is now.
Speaker 7: I mean, she did a great job, and you know.
Speaker 16: Does are acknowledge that at the beginning of the press
Speaker 16: conference to the day, I think she deserves a lot
Speaker 16: of kudos. Did she have some trouble adapting to the
Speaker 16: new world? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Maybe so.
Speaker 16: A lot of coaches have, and that's you know, it's
Speaker 16: it's not unique to her that there'd be some challenges
Speaker 16: in that regard. But I would say overall, you know,
Speaker 16: if not the best women's basketball coach in Arizona history,
Speaker 16: certainly the second best, and no one else is even
Speaker 16: close to third place.
Speaker 3: Right, let's just switch gears because we can talk about
Speaker 3: this as long as we have the rest of the show.
Speaker 3: But let's go to basketball real quick. Tommy's kind of
Speaker 3: landing on his feet, Okay, after after the successful season,
Speaker 3: I guess with the guys coming.
Speaker 7: Back, yeah, I would say more than okay, is it?
Speaker 7: What about four guys that we know of at this point, right, Jayden.
Speaker 16: Bradley, Crevis Delorso, and Tobio Waca.
Speaker 7: I don't know. Maybe that's about all you can hope
Speaker 7: for these days. As far as the returning roster, I mean,
Speaker 7: maybe half your roster.
Speaker 4: And then and then we are now.
Speaker 16: The recruiting classes the best he's ever had, not even close,
Speaker 16: So expectations are super high. And I think, to me,
Speaker 16: the difference between, you know, is Arizona going to be
Speaker 16: really good next year or is there a Grizona gonna
Speaker 16: be great next year comes down to Carter Bryant's decision
Speaker 16: whether to enter the NBA Draft.
Speaker 7: Or to remain in Arizona for another season.
Speaker 16: And again, this is an area where resour versus nil,
Speaker 16: et cetera come into play, because that decision is not
Speaker 16: as cut and.
Speaker 7: Dry as it used to be.
Speaker 16: Right, used to be five years ago, ten years ago,
Speaker 16: a player Carter Bryant skill and ability, he would be
Speaker 16: a slam dunk excuse the pun, right, keep going to
Speaker 16: the draft right nowadays? You know he might be able
Speaker 16: to make a good chunk of money here when he
Speaker 16: loves being an Arizona Wildcat. Yeah, maybe he'll recognize you
Speaker 16: know what, if I come back for another season, work
Speaker 16: on my skills, become more than just a three and
Speaker 16: D player, I can be a lottery pick in twenty
Speaker 16: twenty six, as opposed to say, you know, the twenty second.
Speaker 7: Pick or whatever in this year's draft.
Speaker 16: So to me, I think Arizona's going to be really
Speaker 16: good whether they have him or not, but they have
Speaker 16: the potential to be great if he decides to return.
Speaker 5: So okay, based on that decision that he makes, what
Speaker 5: are the dominoes at fall? I mean, do we he
Speaker 5: leaves and suddenly people are like, okay, I'm coming in,
Speaker 5: or he stays and people are like, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 5: going to see the see the playing time that I wanted,
Speaker 5: so I'm gonna get at it out of this, or
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, I.
Speaker 16: Think yeah, the timing of it is always really tricky
Speaker 16: when it comes to basketball because I mean, they can
Speaker 16: really string this out for a long time.
Speaker 7: You know, the deadlines aren't as hard as as football.
Speaker 7: There's a whole process that they go through.
Speaker 16: If they want to put themselves into the pool at all.
Speaker 16: And the difference to me whether he goes or stays is,
Speaker 16: you know, you're looking at or acquiring really only role
Speaker 16: players if he comes back. If he doesn't come back,
Speaker 16: then you're trying to find someone who'd be a suitable
Speaker 16: replacement for him, you know, a starting level, really good player,
Speaker 16: And I mean who knows whether you know those players
Speaker 16: are going to be available at that point in time.
Speaker 16: Usually you know players, you know players will probably hold
Speaker 16: off on making their decisions because the agents and the
Speaker 16: handlers and even the players themselves, they're aware of all
Speaker 16: of these personnel maneuverings that are going on. I'm sure
Speaker 16: there's a lot of kids out there who would like
Speaker 16: to play for Tommy Lloyd, play for Arizona, but like
Speaker 16: you said, they don't want to come here if they're
Speaker 16: currently a starter or a star player and.
Speaker 7: Not get the same amount of playing time. So those
Speaker 7: dominoes need to fall first before we figure out exactly
Speaker 7: what that looks like.
Speaker 16: But like I said, the difference is role players versus
Speaker 16: you know, a starting or star caliber acquisition.
Speaker 4: Do we lose any of the current recruits that have
Speaker 4: committed if he stays? Do you think?
Speaker 7: I don't think so.
Speaker 16: I mean, I think they're coming on operating under the
Speaker 16: assumption that he stays, and I think there's a world.
Speaker 16: I think CoA Pete is a similar player to Carter Bryant,
Speaker 16: but I think they could definitely play together. You know,
Speaker 16: one could be the three and one could be the four.
Speaker 16: That's not that difficult to envision. I don't think the
Speaker 16: other two, you know, Braden Bury's and uh Co Peter,
Speaker 16: the headliners of this group of course, Dwayne Aristote and
Speaker 16: Bryce James, I don't think they're necessarily coming in here
Speaker 16: expecting to start right away. You know, Tommy has kind
Speaker 16: of been an eight man rotation sort of coach. But
Speaker 16: you know, I don't think it would be the worst
Speaker 16: idea in the world to expand that to nine or
Speaker 16: ten over the course of a long, difficult season. Get
Speaker 16: more guys in, get more playing time, more experience, light
Speaker 16: in the workload for some of the regulars, and I think,
Speaker 16: you know, a lot of these guys are friends too.
Speaker 7: And they want to play together.
Speaker 16: And I think the idea of having like a super
Speaker 16: team with you know, three potential you know, first round
Speaker 16: picks on it would be really exciting for those guys.
Speaker 5: Let's go to baseball real quick as something that you
Speaker 5: love very much and you're always out there.
Speaker 4: How good is this team? And then what do you
Speaker 4: see the rest of the way.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, obviously they need to get Brendan summer
Speaker 16: Hill back, and they need Brendan summer Hill to be himself.
Speaker 16: He's been out since late February with this broken hand situation.
Speaker 7: I don't think he's coming back this week.
Speaker 16: Maybe he can come back next week, but I think
Speaker 16: they should hold off as long as they can. If
Speaker 16: they continue to play as well as they have, I
Speaker 16: believe their record without him is seven and five. They
Speaker 16: can be at or above five hundred while he's out.
Speaker 16: I think they can afford to let him take the
Speaker 16: time that he needs to heal and get back to,
Speaker 16: you know, the player that he was. This is they're
Speaker 16: talking about the best player on the team, first round
Speaker 16: pick in this year's draft, leadoff man, with speed, with power,
Speaker 16: super clutch. Last year too, was involved in a lot
Speaker 16: of those you know, walk off shenanigans that Arizona polts.
Speaker 7: So I think that's a huge, huge factor. They've done
Speaker 7: really well.
Speaker 16: So far, but I think I think they're capable of more. Honestly,
Speaker 16: the lineup like hasn't totally clicked yet. I mean, the
Speaker 16: offense really kind of struggled over the weekend against Oklahoma State.
Speaker 16: They gave a lot of credit to the Cowboys pitching staff,
Speaker 16: which is really good, and there's certain type of pitchers,
Speaker 16: lefties with a with a big braking ball that have
Speaker 16: given them trouble, but they're right there, right where they
Speaker 16: need to be, in position to possibly, you know, get
Speaker 16: a bye in the Big twelve tournament, maybe get into
Speaker 16: the top sixteen and host a regional, which would be
Speaker 16: a really big deal. Definitely a desirable situation to get in.
Speaker 16: So I'm bullish on this team. I remain optimistic. You
Speaker 16: never know what the health situation is going to be.
Speaker 16: But you know, if Summerhill comes back in a timely manner,
Speaker 16: I think this team can definitely make a run.
Speaker 5: I don't think I've asked you this question. This will
Speaker 5: be the last one. So you're a columnist, your columnist
Speaker 5: now at the Star. Thekids are making a lot of money,
Speaker 5: or certain kids are making a lot of money. Where
Speaker 5: do you stand in terms of being critical of those
Speaker 5: kids making a lot of money?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 16: It's a good question, right because the line that was
Speaker 16: always drawn, at least.
Speaker 7: By me and I think a lot of people was
Speaker 7: I'm you know, I'm.
Speaker 16: Not going to go out of my way to be
Speaker 16: overly critical of you know, amateur athletes, right some you know,
Speaker 16: some of whom, like you know, aren't even old enough
Speaker 16: to to buy a drink at this point, and that
Speaker 16: dynamic has changed. To be sure, I think what I think,
Speaker 16: what I go by, Like my compass is you know,
Speaker 16: am I being fair?
Speaker 7: Right? Am I being?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 7: You never want to get personal?
Speaker 16: I don't think right you can criticize someone's play without
Speaker 16: without crossing that particular line of getting personal.
Speaker 7: So I don't know, kind of a case by case basis.
Speaker 16: It's a really good question, though, because things have changed
Speaker 16: in that regard, and I think it might tip a
Speaker 16: little bit more the other way if that information became
Speaker 16: more public and it was something that was talked about more.
Speaker 16: Because even though we all know they're getting paid, no
Speaker 16: one ever talks about it with them directly, right, No
Speaker 16: one ever brings it up in a process. Oh hey,
Speaker 16: like you know how much did you get to come
Speaker 16: to Arizona. It's always like, well, you know, why did
Speaker 16: you come to Arizona? What appealed to it about you?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 7: Question a big stack of money?
Speaker 4: Why isn't that question asked? Why isn't that?
Speaker 7: I don't know, It's like it's still like taboo in
Speaker 7: a way. You know, I don't know. I would feel
Speaker 7: I feel like I feel like a jerk.
Speaker 4: Michael, how much do you make at the start.
Speaker 16: I'm happy to talk to you about the offline, but yeah,
Speaker 16: but we know in the world of professional athletics that
Speaker 16: that is a topic, yeah, discussed right and without hesitation,
Speaker 16: So I know, maybe we'll get there at that point.
Speaker 16: I'd love to see some sort of a collective bargaining
Speaker 16: situation where these guys have kind of more professionalized multi
Speaker 16: year contracts so they're not, you know, hopping from school
Speaker 16: to school every year. But it doesn't seem like we're
Speaker 16: at that point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, it's quite too early, right, too early in
Speaker 5: this thing. Michael is always thanks a.
Speaker 7: Bunch, Yeah, thank you guys.
Speaker 4: Thanks Michael Love from the Daily Star outstanding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go and take a break and come back
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Speaker 9: on the ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 5: Hey, welcome back to about here Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 5: I'm Steve Rivera in with Mike Quinn today. Got one,
Speaker 5: we got ray, We got the calls coming in hopefully
Speaker 5: five two oh seven, four four zero.
Speaker 4: Give us a quick call, let us know how you're thinking. One.
Speaker 4: You got something.
Speaker 5: Page Backer's number one overall pick in the WNBA Drive
Speaker 5: just happened that first pick. Okay, so that was a
Speaker 5: shop shop Yeah, yeah, exactly, makes total sense.
Speaker 4: She is really good. Yeah, there's two things.
Speaker 3: The women's basketball team here beyond belief of what idea
Speaker 3: put together right, and then women's basketball in the real
Speaker 3: world of WNA. Who would have thought this was happening
Speaker 3: in it and just over the last couple of years
Speaker 3: of yeah, well, and there've been good players throughout the
Speaker 3: whole thing. I remember going to sure the Sparks, you know,
Speaker 3: the Who, the Sons, Who, the Phoenix team, Mercury, Mercury.
Speaker 3: I went to the first game twenty five years ago
Speaker 3: and it was like, Okay, this is cool.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 5: They've had you know, great players for years, uh in
Speaker 5: in in the league. But yeah, I think you know,
Speaker 5: Kaitlyn Clark definitely got people's excited and interested. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: then she had a foil, right, she had right, she
Speaker 5: had rees there was there was there was a foil.
Speaker 5: And uh, you know, a lot a lot of a
Speaker 5: lot of people are like upset that Page isn't getting
Speaker 5: the notoriety that Caitlyn did. It's it's like, look, Page
Speaker 5: has a very solid game. She plays good solid basketball.
Speaker 5: Calan Clark was exciting and she's shooting the ball from
Speaker 5: the from the from the bus, you know, I mean
Speaker 5: that was what that was about.
Speaker 8: It.
Speaker 4: It's like going, how far away can she shoot from?
Speaker 3: And and to to her credit, Page is just as good,
Speaker 3: if not crafty and and all that and obviously won
Speaker 3: a title.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I would.
Speaker 5: I would think that Pages more talented than than Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 5: Is they played different positions and they do different things,
Speaker 5: have different strengths. But uh, I mean you went to
Speaker 5: go see him, didn't you go here?
Speaker 4: Paige?
Speaker 5: I didn't see Page? No, no, no, I'm sorry the
Speaker 5: Iowa Uh Tasi No, I went. I went to see
Speaker 5: Diane Tross. That's right, that's right to Phoenix, And I'm
Speaker 5: waiting to see when when they do the you know,
Speaker 5: retirement and retire jersey and all that other stuff that
Speaker 5: they're going to do. This here, I'll go to that. Uh,
Speaker 5: what's your fascination? Well, one, you know, she grew up
Speaker 5: in right right next to my hometown. So I've been
Speaker 5: following her since she was in high school. And then
Speaker 5: you know, my daughter was in high school and playing
Speaker 5: basketball when she was playing at Yukon and big deal,
Speaker 5: and so we were that was kind of a tie
Speaker 5: in between my you know, me and my daughter. Yeah, yeah, sure,
Speaker 5: and and so so those things matter, and so uh,
Speaker 5: you know it was it was Diane Tarassi Bobblehead night,
Speaker 5: and my daughter sends me a notes like you gotta
Speaker 5: go okay, so we did. Yeah, yeah, but yeah that's good.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 5: It is good, you know, I mean, look, they play
Speaker 5: a hell of a good basketball. You know, it's not
Speaker 5: you know, it's not like it used to be where
Speaker 5: it looked like a you know, an eighth grade boys team.
Speaker 4: So the send letters to Mike, not me. What's that?
Speaker 5: Send letters to Mike? Yeah yeah, well but I understood
Speaker 5: play play the game. The game is different. The game
Speaker 5: is definitely different. They have some very talented players, right, and.
Speaker 3: You always kind of want to know and she's kind
Speaker 3: of like, uh, the kit is like Steph Curry saw
Speaker 3: Stepp play yesterday. It was a fantastic tour. Just pulls
Speaker 3: up anywhere. You know, he does miss too. He's one
Speaker 3: of your volume shooters, right, but you don't mind seeing
Speaker 3: him shoot a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: If I every time down, guess what I'm getting the
Speaker 3: ball to one dude, if you jama, don't dreama, don't
Speaker 3: don't shoot the ball, give it to that guy.
Speaker 5: Do you see that thing with Steve Kerr? They had
Speaker 5: a Steph was open on the on the wing and
Speaker 5: this this other player I don't even know who he was, Uh,
Speaker 5: pulled up and took a three and nobody hill. Yeah
Speaker 5: last night, it wasn't last night, was recently. But then
Speaker 5: you know Steve, Steve Kirk brings a guy. Because I'd
Speaker 5: like to introduce you to Steph Curry. You know when
Speaker 5: you see him give him the ball. Yeah, well last
Speaker 5: night that's who took the last shot. It was a
Speaker 5: horrible shot. Horrible shot.
Speaker 4: He was not set.
Speaker 3: He just maybe he just thought he'd ran out of
Speaker 3: time whatever, but he was could have got a better shot.
Speaker 4: It was a good game. Yeah, because Leonard went off too.
Speaker 1: Yeah hardwell yeah, him and and James Harden. They were
Speaker 1: going crazy.
Speaker 3: And I don't watch I rarely watch NBA play NBA
Speaker 3: regular season, but this kind of had NBA playoff for
Speaker 3: the kind of playoff game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that there's a lot of people that
Speaker 5: are turned off in the NBA game.
Speaker 4: Oh well, you think it is, It's a fact. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And and you know, I think that you know, college
Speaker 5: basketball March madness very exciting, but there are a lot
Speaker 5: of people that are like, you know, I'm like, Ki,
Speaker 5: these are these are the rich, spoiled brats too.
Speaker 3: No, and that's why I think that there's going to
Speaker 3: be a waning and excitement for stuff like this.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, that's I think that is helping the rise of
Speaker 5: women's basketball with pure.
Speaker 3: Basketball, and Brian called it, I mean that's what kind
Speaker 3: of talked about it all. Sure, you're going to put
Speaker 3: up with the spoiled kids playing mediocre basketball or more sports?
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: How much you know, the conversation in the stands by
Speaker 3: the way, how much does he make?
Speaker 5: That's right? Exactly, Yeah, this is what I'm paying for. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 5: it's it's it's different now. Yeah, so I'm.
Speaker 4: Saying you got it.
Speaker 5: There's they're still the same age, they're still eighteen years old,
Speaker 5: but you got to treat them different. I mean, they're
Speaker 5: they're not the eighteen year old that is, you know,
Speaker 5: eating ketchup sandwiches because they can't afford anything. You know,
Speaker 5: this is this is an eighteen year old that is
Speaker 5: driving around one of his Mercedes.
Speaker 4: Let me ask the kids, you see him on campus
Speaker 4: or do you? Sometimes? I do?
Speaker 3: And how do you You know how I feel? I don't
Speaker 3: even know how I feel, but it's strange to me.
Speaker 3: You guys see him, how do you feel? Because they're
Speaker 3: your age? It's crazy to think about.
Speaker 12: And I'm one of the I'm a senior and there's
Speaker 12: there's some that are younger than me.
Speaker 4: But I feel like I can't touch them.
Speaker 5: I feel like I can't get near them because they're
Speaker 5: so there's this aura about them there, there's the money
Speaker 5: behind it.
Speaker 4: It's weird. Yeah, no, it is weird.
Speaker 3: About twenty years ago, when I was in the heart
Speaker 3: of my sports writing career, there did a story on
Speaker 3: Singletary Singletary from the Bears' Mike Singletary, and it says
Speaker 3: We're just big dudes who play a good game very well.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, that's how they are.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're dudes talented who play a game very well.
Speaker 3: I guess guess what happens at the end of the career.
Speaker 3: They become you and me?
Speaker 5: Right, Oh sure, no, absolutely, And that's the thing, you know,
Speaker 5: It's like, well, I you know, it makes you wonder
Speaker 5: what these guys are doing with that money. You know,
Speaker 5: eighteen years old, here's a million dollars. It's like going, oh, okay,
Speaker 5: what are you going to buy? Like a lot of
Speaker 5: pixie sticks? Down at the down at the Okay, though,
Speaker 5: have you seen what they're wearing? Yeah, jewelry. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's gonna last too. They're gonna want it hawk in that,
Speaker 5: you know, because you're not gonna do it, you know,
Speaker 5: not everybody's going to NBA really.
Speaker 4: Wants to say something. Oh no.
Speaker 1: It was just like getting back to that point that
Speaker 1: Juan was making. It does feel it's weird because like
Speaker 1: when you're on campus, they do feel like that, Like
Speaker 1: it feels like there's an air around them that it's
Speaker 1: like everyone's like, oh, don't don't go talk to him.
Speaker 2: Or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But like at the same time, like I remember seeing
Speaker 1: Ballow downtown a couple of times. I've seen like some
Speaker 1: of the football players at other places and like I'll
Speaker 1: go up and say, what's up to them?
Speaker 4: You know, and as you should guess what they're normal
Speaker 4: people like doing me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I remember being here and watching seeing
Speaker 5: Damon Statomaier. You know, it's like getting in a car
Speaker 5: and stuff like that, you know, and I was like,
Speaker 5: wh oh, there's Naven Stophom. You know when heck I
Speaker 5: was thirty years old. It's like I'm ten years older
Speaker 5: than him. I'm a captain in the army, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: there's stuff. You know. It's like but usually I hate
Speaker 5: to bother you, but yeah, but yeah, it's like when hey,
Speaker 5: let's and I know you're a big deal being eighteen
Speaker 5: years old. You used to do that to me when
Speaker 5: we first met. Yeah, you were there. Hey there's a river,
Speaker 5: never a big deal. Could you just hit the ball river? Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 5: pull the ball. Pull the ball. I don't need another
Speaker 5: pop out to second.
Speaker 1: Funny enough to Actually there was one time it was
Speaker 1: after one of the football games and I was I
Speaker 1: was at O'Malley's and I saw the football team there
Speaker 1: and knowing how much these guys make, Like I saw
Speaker 1: of a feed.
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, did you want me to buy
Speaker 2: you a drink or something? He's like, no, I got it.
Speaker 4: No, no, no exactly. That's not how rich people get rich.
Speaker 4: They don't have to buy anything. Yeah, can you drink?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Speaking to which are you seeing? Where T is
Speaker 5: gonna go?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: You know it's a different, completely different topic. Yeah, we
Speaker 5: gotta go now. No, we'll talk about that later. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll tell you we have time for that one. Hey,
Speaker 5: thanks for coming in. Yeah, thank great, great to be in.
Speaker 5: Its good to be invited in, even it's not a
Speaker 5: big show. Monday's Duo one right here. Thanks everybody.
Speaker 4: Thanks