Speaker 1: Steve Rivera, he's got his Eye on the ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson Sports Station yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to win on the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: Now we have Henry with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is Eye on the Ball breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: World Series Game five is tonight at five oh eight pm.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are leading three to one, and we'll have
Speaker 3: Jack Flaherty on pitching and the Yankees will have Garrett Cole.
Speaker 2: I think, well, history will show that they won't go
Speaker 2: to Game six, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: No team down three to zeros ever forts the game six? Wow? Yeah,
Speaker 4: only four of taking him to Game five? Two?
Speaker 2: Game five right in the way that's turned out when
Speaker 2: you're down three to three to zero.
Speaker 4: I mean, everybody's holding out hope for the Yankees that
Speaker 4: maybe maybe Aaron Judge came alive last night finally and
Speaker 4: they can ride him for a bit because the others
Speaker 4: were hitting a little bit and then they all kind
Speaker 4: of exploded last night. Stanton's been hitting, even if Dugo's
Speaker 4: hit a home run and Austin Wells from u of
Speaker 4: a hit a home run. So there's gonna be some
Speaker 4: momentum obviously for the Yankees after last night, and and
Speaker 4: some hope since Garrett cole is gonna be pitching home crowd.
Speaker 3: kJ Lewis was named to the Julius Irving Award watch List,
Speaker 3: which is an award that goes to the best small
Speaker 3: forward in the country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's deserving. He's deserving. I mean, it's uh. I
Speaker 2: think he's the in my view, he's the second best
Speaker 2: NBA prospect.
Speaker 4: On the team. He's good behind Carter, behind Carter Carter.
Speaker 2: You've seen him and I think you mentioned him very
Speaker 2: impressive on on Monday. I know the competition's not that great,
Speaker 2: but he does so much and he's got that baby
Speaker 2: face baby face and he looks like, you know, he's
Speaker 2: just a young dude, but he can play.
Speaker 4: He can really play. I was watching the game and
Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys heard this. Did you
Speaker 4: hear did you know the story about his his deaf
Speaker 4: parents or grandparents? Is it? I don't Maybe I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get it wrong, but there was some relatives and he's
Speaker 4: totally flew into in sign language and things like that. Oh, okay,
Speaker 4: and no, I didn't hear that it was. It was interesting.
Speaker 2: It may not be his grandparents. In fact, I've seen
Speaker 2: his grandparents and spoke to him briefly because they come
Speaker 2: to visit. It might have been his parents or maybe
Speaker 2: maybe a different set of grandparents. Yeah, that's so that'd
Speaker 2: be a good good story for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I think were there were things
Speaker 4: that I you know again, I think it was Darren
Speaker 4: Sutton was doing the game on on Monday, and he's
Speaker 4: he's good. He's good at digging up some of that stuff.
Speaker 4: So he and Matt were on. I'll have him on,
Speaker 4: I'll have him one and see. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Arizona soccer lost their first round game of the Big
Speaker 3: Twelve Tournament today two to one two Baylor.
Speaker 2: So there are there? Are they done? You think probably?
Speaker 2: I think that a very good season. Yeah, but this
Speaker 2: is they're done for the year, well, because they did
Speaker 2: have a very good good year compared to the years past.
Speaker 3: The Panthers will stick with Bryce Young at quarterback, despite
Speaker 3: Andy Dalton returning to practice after he was in a
Speaker 3: car crush last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I think a guy would go with a
Speaker 2: guy that's you know, they drafted have some future with
Speaker 2: maybe a MA shot right.
Speaker 3: The interfering Yankees fans were banned from Game five after
Speaker 3: interfering with Mookie Bets, and the Yankees announced that they
Speaker 3: will not be permitted to ten tonight's game and that
Speaker 3: their behavior was egregious and unacceptable.
Speaker 2: So didn't you say what did you say? Did you
Speaker 2: say this off the other day? What's that about the tickets?
Speaker 2: Where the tickets are going?
Speaker 4: The tickets are going to some pediatric cancer patients, So
Speaker 4: they're giving him those tickets away from I don't know
Speaker 4: how many were there at maybe three. And then there
Speaker 4: was some uh pre game comments from Alex Verdugo, of
Speaker 4: all people from Soorro High School High school here in Tucson.
Speaker 4: He was one of the guys that they brought out
Speaker 4: to talk to the media, and he had some pretty
Speaker 4: good contents about the fans, saying it was pretty much,
Speaker 4: you know, it's kind of what you expect, not to
Speaker 4: be bothered by fan interference. He says that it was
Speaker 4: asked of his thoughts. He says, maybe one of the
Speaker 4: more extreme ones trying to rip a ball out. At
Speaker 4: the same time, that's kind of New York. It's what
Speaker 4: you expect out here. I guess that's the passion that
Speaker 4: New Yorkers have, so those Unfortunately, those fans will not
Speaker 4: be part of the scene tonight at Yankee Stadium, but
Speaker 4: there'll be others they've had, They've had a history of
Speaker 4: some fan interference in that stadium over the years.
Speaker 3: Arizona women's basketball had an exhibition game yesterday versus cal
Speaker 3: State LA, and they won eighty two to two fifty three.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I haven't really paid attention to what's going on over there.
Speaker 2: I know, you know, Troy has and some other ones.
Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens. You know, she's got a
Speaker 2: lot of success now, it's kind of like trying to
Speaker 2: part of the difficulty in having a team is getting
Speaker 2: success and then trying to maintain it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they open their season, right, there's just another sax
Speaker 4: mission game this week. I think they open Oh I'm
Speaker 4: sorry November fourth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they opened I think the same day as the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, they're going to do that double matter is it?
Speaker 4: What happens the game on Monday.
Speaker 5: Ones at four eight? I hate Yeah, that's a way yeah,
Speaker 5: Canicius game. Yeah, they just clear it out. They'll clear
Speaker 5: it out and then you know for four hours eight
Speaker 5: o'clock game.
Speaker 4: Is eight o'clock. Yeah, you look, you probably sleep to
Speaker 4: sleep through that. I hate.
Speaker 2: Eight o'clock. I mean that's right in the middle of
Speaker 2: Monday night football. Yeah, three straight Monday night games.
Speaker 4: Yeah? Who did this schedule? Very get used to. It
Speaker 4: looks like there's a lot of them, That's all I get.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I got an email from somebody, some sub stack.
Speaker 4: There's a website.
Speaker 2: You know, some guys like me, uh broke broke journalists,
Speaker 2: people who who start their own stuff and get paid
Speaker 2: on websites. So he did a list of the teams
Speaker 2: that he expects to see do really well or not
Speaker 2: well in the in the basketball, men's basketball and women's basketball.
Speaker 2: So what do you think he what do you think
Speaker 2: he says about Arizona men's He's only mentioned them once.
Speaker 2: It's the must win teams of twenty four twenty five.
Speaker 2: He's got to have us have them in the top fifteen.
Speaker 2: Does he have a ranking. He doesn't have a ranking,
Speaker 2: but just talking about he puts Arizona in the final
Speaker 2: four or bust category along with along with which makes
Speaker 2: a lot of sense for the along with Kansas Houston.
Speaker 4: Houston. Yeah, no, Houston.
Speaker 2: Kansas just got there, but Houston, because it's unfair to
Speaker 2: hold anyone to a you must make the final four
Speaker 2: now expectation in October. But both are frankly pretty simple cases. Houston,
Speaker 2: for the fifth season in a row, will have one
Speaker 2: of the best teams in America. They've made just one
Speaker 2: Final four in that span and have crashed out in
Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen in consecutive years. Kelvin won't be around forever.
Speaker 2: I think you'll really need to get it done this year,
Speaker 2: especially with Roberts and Cryer graduating. As for Arizona, Arizona
Speaker 2: is even is even simpler. It's it's year four of
Speaker 2: Tommy Lloyd and they and three one and two seeds
Speaker 2: have resulted in a total of four NCAA Tournament wins.
Speaker 4: You gotta get moving. You gotta get moving, that's for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 4: people here have we always have high expectations, and this
Speaker 4: is kind of the okay.
Speaker 2: The thought, I'll give you this, always have high expectations,
Speaker 2: but again, are they realistic expectations?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't see why not. I mean, honestly, well,
Speaker 4: you you the guys, most of the guys we saw
Speaker 4: last year are back and yeah, I like to see
Speaker 4: him after seeing a couple of I don't don't know
Speaker 4: if I agree with you. David. You've seen you here
Speaker 4: for the beginning of the beginning.
Speaker 2: You got here in eighty three, eighty four, spent right,
Speaker 2: you were like, yeah, when Luke got here, was he already.
Speaker 4: Here or you he he had been? He got here
Speaker 4: in March. I got here in October. Okay, okay, so
Speaker 4: he had been the same year I was. I literally
Speaker 4: walked into his season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was outsiding you better get your tickets now.
Speaker 2: There was nobody going to games before.
Speaker 4: They used to give us free tickets in the media.
Speaker 4: If you can believe that. Really yep, really, but four
Speaker 4: tickets sat in the sat in the end zone seats.
Speaker 4: But I mean that lasted one year, maybe maybe two? Wow,
Speaker 4: maybe two?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Cedric came in and says, now you've
Speaker 2: got to pay for these tickets.
Speaker 4: We can sell these tickets, right, we can sell them.
Speaker 4: We're gonna make some money. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So no, no, you you came in here at that time.
Speaker 2: You've seen the you've seen the rise. I got here
Speaker 2: in eighty seven, so I saw some of the rise
Speaker 2: and the great games that I started covering ninety one
Speaker 2: when it was really catching on in nineties, in the nineties, right,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of how it started up to me. Also,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know if you I talk
Speaker 2: with his jail all the time. Twenty for it's been
Speaker 2: twenty five years. Now, it's gonna be the twenty fifth
Speaker 2: year anniversary of getting to the Final four. Hard to believe,
Speaker 2: twenty fourth, twenty four, it's it's what are you doing
Speaker 2: when you were twenty four years younger?
Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, you know, it's been a long time. I
Speaker 4: mean I was, well, I personally we were there. We
Speaker 4: had we had we had two crews there covering that game,
Speaker 4: and we thought that would be, you know, one of
Speaker 4: many more to come. Sure, there'd been a run from
Speaker 4: what ninety well, I mean obviously eighty eight, but then
Speaker 4: ninety four, ninety seven oh one, it was. It was
Speaker 4: a quick seven years and we were there three times.
Speaker 2: So yeah, what I have asked this question of maybe
Speaker 2: a player, former player or two, what would you have
Speaker 2: think that his legacy would have been had he won
Speaker 2: another one loots?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, I mean, locally he was he's
Speaker 4: still going to be a legend. I don't know, he's
Speaker 4: he's below the obviously the coach. K's the world that
Speaker 4: have won many Calhoun and now you know Danny Danny
Speaker 4: early early, you know he would have been he would
Speaker 4: have been up there if you could have won maybe
Speaker 4: two or three more, a couple more.
Speaker 2: Oh, he would have won the chances. Yeah, this whole this.
Speaker 2: Then you have Arizona's blue blood. There's they're strong, YadA YadA,
Speaker 2: but that's not the case. You know, you've been to
Speaker 2: one final four and twenty three years. You've been to
Speaker 2: the title in ninety seven. That's been twenty seven years.
Speaker 4: It's going to be interesting too. We talked with football
Speaker 4: about the turnover and things like that. What what basketball
Speaker 4: is going to look like here? Say in ten years,
Speaker 4: are we going to go wow, Oh, there are a
Speaker 4: lot of changes in twenty twenty four when people are
Speaker 4: transferring like crazy. You can't keep these rosters together. They're
Speaker 4: leaving early. The best players don't even stick around more
Speaker 4: than you know, a year or two.
Speaker 2: And they're making a million dollars in the year, still
Speaker 2: getting paid.
Speaker 4: It's still making it hit. But you know it's still
Speaker 4: going to be those great prob you know, those quote
Speaker 4: unquote great programs winning national titles consistently. Still, that's going
Speaker 4: to be you know, maybe there will be more UH
Speaker 4: schools having a chance.
Speaker 2: This is going to be the thing, Dave, Dave, where
Speaker 2: you live, I live in a night You live in
Speaker 2: a nice area, right. Who's your neighbor, Jim, Joe, Bob,
Speaker 2: He's the starting guard for the you know, be That's
Speaker 2: what it's gonna come to. Yeah, they're gonna be my neighbors.
Speaker 4: They would be your neighbors.
Speaker 2: I mean the party already are a party invested in
Speaker 2: real estate, have these nice places. What was his record? Well,
Speaker 2: three and twelve, But let's not go there.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just I trying to look at
Speaker 4: it from the outside, trying to realize, you know, what's
Speaker 4: going on in all of college sports is difficult right
Speaker 4: now because you just don't know what you're gonna get,
Speaker 4: and these every program, every every program in any sport
Speaker 4: with all the turnover, is kind of hard to predict.
Speaker 2: So we know we've talked about you. You said this
Speaker 2: year fourth or fifth time with me. Now, your previous life,
Speaker 2: you were a news reporter or sports reporter, moved into
Speaker 2: the foundation and started a foundation, a fundraiser fundraising. So
Speaker 2: when this nil happened and talk of it three years ago, maybe, ye,
Speaker 2: what did you think that's going to affect how I
Speaker 2: do my job? Not how I do it's gonna affect
Speaker 2: my job, because.
Speaker 4: There was just but to be honest with you, maybe
Speaker 4: you should be talking to some people who are really
Speaker 4: really raising money for athletics. That's that's going to be
Speaker 4: an interesting question to answer because I didn't necessarily personally
Speaker 4: have to raise money for athletics, although I could if
Speaker 4: people wanted to give. I mean, I certainly wasn't going
Speaker 4: to turn them down, but that's their main job. And
Speaker 4: now all of a sudden, they have this other entity
Speaker 4: in the picture and people are being asked to support
Speaker 4: these collectives. So that's a whole new thing. But I
Speaker 4: think I may have mentioned one of the times on
Speaker 4: the show that you know, I had some donors who
Speaker 4: literally just came up to me and said, who are
Speaker 4: these people that are calling me? I have no idea
Speaker 4: what's going on. So the general public, at least now
Speaker 4: they're learning, but I would say maybe a year or
Speaker 4: two ago, they had no idea what this was next thing.
Speaker 4: You know, someone's calling I'm asking him for you know,
Speaker 4: a pretty large check to do what Wait a minute,
Speaker 4: didn't I just give money to support the program. So
Speaker 4: there's there's always been some confusion. But again it may
Speaker 4: be something we can we can talk about with some
Speaker 4: folks and athletics. Right.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the problem, Dave will be finding anybody who
Speaker 2: wants to talk about that.
Speaker 4: Maybe some former people. I know, some former Yeah.
Speaker 2: We'll give them on your roll dex dis tabe you're here.
Speaker 2: We'll try to get old of that. I mean, because
Speaker 2: it's a sensitive subject.
Speaker 4: Well, it's sensitive and the bottom line is the donors
Speaker 4: want to give to what they want to give to,
Speaker 4: and you need to get convinced.
Speaker 2: And it's going if I say, Steve Riverta gives X
Speaker 2: amount of money and I say I want to go here,
Speaker 2: and it's got to go there.
Speaker 4: It's got to go there. Yeah, that's part of the deal.
Speaker 4: I mean, you sign you know, a piece of paper
Speaker 4: and the UVA signs it as well and says you're
Speaker 4: going to give you know, one hundred thousand dollars and
Speaker 4: I want to divide it up between four different areas.
Speaker 2: That's the way that's the way it works. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: let me ask you another question. I don't know how
Speaker 2: you can answer it in your life.
Speaker 4: Now. How many of those people are out there? There's
Speaker 4: quite a few. I mean, honestly, there's there's what three
Speaker 4: hundred thousand alums around me around the world.
Speaker 2: You know, not all successful, No, not all. It's not
Speaker 2: so much. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, But it's
Speaker 2: not so much if they're successful, do they want to
Speaker 2: do anything?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: And he'd never even been asked that funnel is a
Speaker 4: small funnel, right, I mean it's a big, giant pyramid
Speaker 4: and there's a tiny group at the very very top
Speaker 4: that give most of the money. Yeah, and it kind
Speaker 4: of works its way down. So the hardest part, at
Speaker 4: least the job that I had was identifying people just
Speaker 4: to get them started. Make that first. I mean, if
Speaker 4: you even look back at some of the biggest gifts
Speaker 4: the u of A's had, especially in athletics because it
Speaker 4: got a lot of publicity, oftentimes those first gifts were
Speaker 4: ten dollars, you know, fifty years ago, and then they
Speaker 4: look at the record and like, you know, he just
Speaker 4: did a million dollars, And it all has to start somewhere.
Speaker 4: So that's that's kind of the key to fundraising anywhere.
Speaker 4: And you know, there's certainly a lot of people out
Speaker 4: there around the country, around the world who are Arizona
Speaker 4: grads who have the potential to give. Do they want to?
Speaker 4: Right right? No question?
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen,
Speaker 1: bidding I want to take part in the show called
Speaker 1: up Steve now went five, two oh four, one seventy
Speaker 1: four four nights.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Lie on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Fortune fifty m Steve Rivera and today's Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: We got Henry at the board and Matt as well.
Speaker 2: Now we have Walden Grove football coach Corey Noble coach.
Speaker 4: How are you good?
Speaker 12: How are you?
Speaker 2: We're doing well? What's going on over there at Walden Grove?
Speaker 2: You lose your first two and then you win sixth straight?
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, we're on a pretty good role right now.
Speaker 12: The boys are playing well. You know, we knew we
Speaker 12: had two really tough games to you know, start the
Speaker 12: season off the gate, and uh, you know, fortunately made
Speaker 12: a made a few too many mistakes to win those
Speaker 12: two games. You know, I feel like we were we
Speaker 12: were up in both of them, and we had a lead,
Speaker 12: had an opportunity to win, and just you know, made
Speaker 12: some mistakes. But we definitely came back after those first
Speaker 12: two games and uh, you know, I think got on
Speaker 12: a good, good track and have been rolling since then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's been the key? Six straight wins? What? What's
Speaker 4: what's happened really since since those first two.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, I mean we were in a similar
Speaker 12: situation last year, you know, playing the same schedule, and
Speaker 12: we actually started the same way we started, you know,
Speaker 12: with two losses and then rattle box six in a row.
Speaker 12: So you know, I think we kind of saw that
Speaker 12: that we you know, the guys who were on the
Speaker 12: team last year had confidence that we could you know,
Speaker 12: turn it around and and do some things. But you know,
Speaker 12: we really just uh you know, like I said, played
Speaker 12: really tough on those first two. Unfortunately, you know, made
Speaker 12: a couple of errors and uh that but we we
Speaker 12: really just cleaned up, you know, started playing a little
Speaker 12: cleaner football and you know, really just kind of hit
Speaker 12: our stride. We got a young quarterback who was you know,
Speaker 12: taking over his first two games and played well, and
Speaker 12: I think the team really trusted in him after seeing
Speaker 12: him play in those first two games, and you know,
Speaker 12: the team really just started to gel and come into
Speaker 12: their own.
Speaker 4: So who are the first two games against.
Speaker 12: Northwest Christian and then Arcadia?
Speaker 4: Okay, so the Phoenix area's schools.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, to Phoenix schools. You know, they're both I
Speaker 12: think both ranked in the top six right now and
Speaker 12: you know we're just outside of that and they're both
Speaker 12: you know, very good games.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you was that purposely done? Because
Speaker 2: you know, some coaches want to get to you know,
Speaker 2: get that test early. If they lose, they lose, they
Speaker 2: at least they know what they need to do to
Speaker 2: get to be better. And sometimes, you know, you played
Speaker 2: better teams and you become better.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was definitely intentional. You know. We in uh,
Speaker 12: you know, twenty twenty two. You know, we were in
Speaker 12: the Helo region and we actually went eight and two
Speaker 12: that year and missed the playoffs because of our power points,
Speaker 12: our power ranking because we didn't have very many good
Speaker 12: teams in our region and our non conference wasn't quite
Speaker 12: tough enough and we you know, as a coaching staff
Speaker 12: and as a program definitely said we never wanted that
Speaker 12: to happen again. So, you know, thankfully, you know, we're
Speaker 12: very happy to be over in the Keno region and
Speaker 12: you know, which is obviously very tough, but we wanted
Speaker 12: to make sure that we were ready, you know, and
Speaker 12: you get ready for big time games and you know,
Speaker 12: playoffs by playing good teams, and we wanted to make
Speaker 12: sure that that we did that, you know, and we
Speaker 12: wanted to see schools outside of just the just the
Speaker 12: Tuffon area, you know, get some competition against against the
Speaker 12: schools from other parts of the state and see some
Speaker 12: of those you know, top end teams there and you know,
Speaker 12: both Northwest Christian and Arcadia or outstanding teams.
Speaker 4: Just a quick question about the number of kids that
Speaker 4: are playing. You're you're in a really fast growing area
Speaker 4: of southern Arizona. I would imagine every maybe every summer
Speaker 4: you're thinking, wow, we've got a lot more people coming too, Sareta.
Speaker 4: Is that has that been the case for you and
Speaker 4: maybe for Sarrita High School too?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, you know, the the area is definitely
Speaker 12: growing around here, you know, that's for sure. I actually
Speaker 12: grew up down here, So I saw it when it
Speaker 12: was very very very little, you know, to kind of
Speaker 12: where it is now, you know, supporting two you know,
Speaker 12: four A high schools. You're you know, both of us
Speaker 12: around one thousand kids, eleven hundred kids. We're actually capped
Speaker 12: out right now at Walden Grove, Like, our enrollment is
Speaker 12: at capacity. So we're actually you know, unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 12: turning some kids away, wow, because we just don't have
Speaker 12: the seats. You know, we're hoping to We're we're building
Speaker 12: another building right now to in so that our enrollment
Speaker 12: can increase, and you know, we look forward to that.
Speaker 12: But we've definitely got you know, a I mean area
Speaker 12: here and a lot of growth and a lot of
Speaker 12: kids in the area. And you know, we definitely have
Speaker 12: a here at here at Walden we got about one
Speaker 12: hundred and fifteen hundred and twenty kids in the program,
Speaker 12: you know, so it's about twenty five percent of our
Speaker 12: male population in the student play U s male student
Speaker 12: population in the school plays football, which is awesome. So
Speaker 12: we're definitely happy with the numbers and you know, hopefully
Speaker 12: we can continue to grow.
Speaker 4: So how long have you been there?
Speaker 12: I've been the head coach here since twenty seventeen, here
Speaker 12: at Walden Grove. I've actually been at the school at
Speaker 12: Walden Grove in one capacity or another since it opened.
Speaker 12: I started here in twenty eleven as an assistant football
Speaker 12: coach and a wrest and the head wrestling coach, and
Speaker 12: then started teaching here in twenty fourteen, and uh, I've
Speaker 12: been the head football coach since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: So it looks like, just real quick that you've started
Speaker 2: a program that's feeding itself. That makes any sense that
Speaker 2: you know, you don't have to, you know, search to
Speaker 2: worry about kids that wanted to play because you've got
Speaker 2: a feeder system.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, like I definitely think that that we've
Speaker 12: got something pretty special here. You know, my first year
Speaker 12: taken over as the head coach, numbers were a huge concern.
Speaker 12: You know, we barely straped together, you know, enough kids
Speaker 12: to play our lower level schedules and do that. And
Speaker 12: you know, from that that first year, you know, my
Speaker 12: first day as the head coach, I think we had
Speaker 12: nineteen kids at practice that day when I took over,
Speaker 12: right right before the season started in twenty seventeen, and
Speaker 12: we were you know, recruited our butts off in the
Speaker 12: hallways here and at school the scheduled pick up and
Speaker 12: you know, got ourselves enough kids to have a team
Speaker 12: that first year, and we're pretty competitive, and you know,
Speaker 12: my stat's done a great job since then, you know,
Speaker 12: from the freshman level on up. And uh yeah, like
Speaker 12: we definitely, you know, feel pretty good about our numbers.
Speaker 12: You know, we've got good connections with the middle schools
Speaker 12: in our area, the youth program, and you know, like
Speaker 12: we definitely want want kids to know that it's a
Speaker 12: you know, good, good place to come play.
Speaker 4: And you've got a big one this week. Speaking of
Speaker 4: new schools with Micah Mountain, Yeah, I mean, what can
Speaker 4: you tell us about them? They're also again coming from
Speaker 4: what Vale areas, so they've also been kind of expanding there.
Speaker 4: They're high schools in that in that town, so kind
Speaker 4: of similar in a way, I guess.
Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely, you know, they're a little newer than we are. Yeah,
Speaker 12: you know, Wall and Grow has been around for for
Speaker 12: for a while longer, but yeah, I mean they're one
Speaker 12: of the top programs in all of a sudden in Arizona,
Speaker 12: and they're one of the top programs in the state
Speaker 12: and for a football. You know, it's it's going to
Speaker 12: be a big one, you know, top ten matchup in
Speaker 12: the state, and uh, you know what, we're definitely excited
Speaker 12: about it and and very excited for the challenge and
Speaker 12: the opportunity. Have you played great game with him last year? Yeah,
Speaker 12: we had a great game with him last year. I
Speaker 12: think it was fourteen seven or twenty one seven something
Speaker 12: like that. They they got the better of us last year.
Speaker 12: And you know, they've been on a tear this year.
Speaker 12: They're very, very good, and uh yeah, we're excited to
Speaker 12: go mix it up this Friday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question, because NuGen has done a fantastic
Speaker 2: It's Nudgen, right, Nudgen's down there.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he's done.
Speaker 2: He's been he's been a consistent winner, you know, tough coach,
Speaker 2: good coach. So how did last year's game and everywhere
Speaker 2: has been Yeah, yeah, yeah, how did last year's Maybe
Speaker 2: a game that you showed that you could play with
Speaker 2: him help?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, you know, like again, we're in a
Speaker 12: very similar position this time last year. I think we're
Speaker 12: definitely better prepared and you know, healthier going into it
Speaker 12: this year, and you know, the kids have seen it.
Speaker 12: You know, like we've been around each other, you know,
Speaker 12: seeing seeing each other on the field last last year,
Speaker 12: seeing a lot of the same opponents you know this
Speaker 12: offseason at seven on seven, and you know, just just
Speaker 12: all those things like seeing them. It's definitely something. You know,
Speaker 12: our kids are under no illusions as to how how
Speaker 12: outstanding of a program they are. But yeah, like what,
Speaker 12: we're definitely excited for the challenge and to see where
Speaker 12: we're at for that.
Speaker 4: Who should we be watching on on Friday? Give us
Speaker 4: a couple of guys that have been highlights for you
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 12: Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, like at any team,
Speaker 12: on any team, you know it, it generally starts with
Speaker 12: the you know, quarterback, up front on offense and anything
Speaker 12: like that. But you know, I guess I'll just start
Speaker 12: with the guys real quick, the guys who are protecting him.
Speaker 12: We've got a very experienced group of offensive linemen who
Speaker 12: have really you know, played a lot together this year.
Speaker 12: We got a you know, three year starter and a
Speaker 12: four year starter at center and left guard who have
Speaker 12: done some amazing things. And Salmi Evis and Rodrigo kick
Speaker 12: Carizosa that are gonna, you know, be trying to open
Speaker 12: holes and keep the quarterback clean all night, you know.
Speaker 12: And it starts with the big guys up front for sure.
Speaker 12: And then you know, our junior quarterback, Kayler Blaydon has
Speaker 12: really has really really played well this season. His first
Speaker 12: year is as our starting quarterback. He has played incredibly well.
Speaker 12: He's played well within the bounds of you know, kind
Speaker 12: of our framework and our offense. And then he's played
Speaker 12: really well off schedule too, and you know, he's definitely
Speaker 12: made a lot of big plays for us in big
Speaker 12: games and games that that we've needed him to make
Speaker 12: big plays, you know. So the quarterback there, and then
Speaker 12: you know our two running backs, I think are two
Speaker 12: of the best running backs in the state, two of
Speaker 12: the best running backs in southern Arizona in Carlos Montoya.
Speaker 12: He's a senior. He's also our starting mike linebacker. You know,
Speaker 12: he was he was named to the Fiesta Bowl All
Speaker 12: State Team. He was one of twenty two players in
Speaker 12: the whole state for all the divisions named that All
Speaker 12: State team before the season. He's been a two time
Speaker 12: All State guy of the last two years at linebacker.
Speaker 12: And he's also a stud on offense. So you know,
Speaker 12: Carlos Montoya at running back in linebacker and then Robert
Speaker 12: Cash at tailback as well. You know, they've really been
Speaker 12: a great one to two punch for us and a
Speaker 12: great combo and has done everything, has done a lot
Speaker 12: for us in a lot of our games. And uh,
Speaker 12: you know, we're gonna go as they go, and we're
Speaker 12: it's definitely gonna start with them on offense. And you know,
Speaker 12: Javon Coleman out at receiver has has been our big
Speaker 12: play guy. Uh, and you know Kayalan Shoals over the
Speaker 12: middle at tight end. And then on defense, you know,
Speaker 12: we got a senior safety. He's really you know, one
Speaker 12: of the leaders of our defense and one of the
Speaker 12: guys that you know, really kind of is the glue
Speaker 12: guy for us on defense. And JD. Chafin, who you know,
Speaker 12: helps get us lined up, makes a lot of plays,
Speaker 12: plays down the run, plays the pass. You know, he's
Speaker 12: kind of a jack of all trades for us. So
Speaker 12: you know JD. Chasin on defense with you know, i'd
Speaker 12: say Levi Mohler at linebacker, another senior play in linebackers
Speaker 12: some d n and Jackson Phillisteam who I think is
Speaker 12: one of the leaders in the state right now in
Speaker 12: terms of interceptions.
Speaker 4: Nice. Yeah, so you have a good group. Good luck tomorrow, coach. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we do. Yeah, I appreciate your time. Where's the game at.
Speaker 12: It's here at Walden Grove. Go on down.
Speaker 4: You know I would expect to be a sellout. Probably.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's gonna be a big game, be a big game.
Speaker 12: We're we're very excited.
Speaker 4: Great coach, good luck, Thank you.
Speaker 12: Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: Sure, great.
Speaker 2: Thanks Corey Noble from Walden Grove. Obviously a very good
Speaker 2: program up and cuming program. It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 4: Micah Mountain because Pat Nugen's been all over Southern Arizona
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Speaker 4: were at Flowing Wells. I can't remember exactly if he
Speaker 4: was the coach, but I know he spent some time
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Speaker 2: Hey, good enough, tonoon, everybody, Welcome to Eye on the Ball. Here,
Speaker 2: I'm Steve RIVERI, you're Dave Silver, Henry and Matt. Welcome
Speaker 2: to the show. I got to get some stuff done
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Speaker 2: a day when you've been on the show, and visit
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Speaker 4: The Walitas.
Speaker 2: I think it is the Asian food there ume a
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of good stuff. Bellissimo Bellissimo, Yes,
Speaker 2: that's another one steakhouse. Of course, they have Bingo, cosmic Bingo,
Speaker 2: the Spa, a lot of a lot of cool stuff.
Speaker 2: And it's you know, it's about thirty minutes from me,
Speaker 2: probably about thirty minutes from you.
Speaker 4: It's a good drive, but it's it's worth it. I know.
Speaker 4: We talked to the golfer golf course out there, which
Speaker 4: is a gorgeous place. So a lot of people are
Speaker 4: drawn to that casino. I know they get a lot
Speaker 4: of conventions and things like that, so they've taken a
Speaker 4: lot of business.
Speaker 2: So I spurged the kids could tell me if this
Speaker 2: is a good bet or not. So I was there
Speaker 2: last week with Jay to do our show and it
Speaker 2: was a pretty good show. And I said, because I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be doing this for a while, I wanted to
Speaker 2: do it for a while. So I bet X amount
Speaker 2: of money on Baltimore winning.
Speaker 4: The Super Bowl. What were the odds?
Speaker 2: Good question, because because I should have I always kind
Speaker 2: of I always liked Baltimore. I should have got out
Speaker 2: of ten ten eleven, got it at five, six, five
Speaker 2: or six six. I think it was there one of
Speaker 2: the favorites k Casey and then them. But I like,
Speaker 2: I like how they played. I think I think so too.
Speaker 2: Six to one.
Speaker 4: I think it's not that bad if I were don.
Speaker 12: Too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no question, because well they were. They were
Speaker 2: like eleven to one, are they they? I think they
Speaker 2: lost the first kind of case.
Speaker 4: I lost it, and then they lost Vegas. They were
Speaker 4: owing to Yeah, lost the Vegas. Are you sure?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I didn't know that and got no. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but I should have, Are you right? Because
Speaker 2: I liked them all a lot because they barely lost
Speaker 2: on a toe touch from Kansas City, right, Yeah, and
Speaker 2: they just didn't have a good game last week.
Speaker 4: Now last week, I think it was good karma that
Speaker 4: they got back. Oh spoke about Watson.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you've heard in the way, I
Speaker 5: just felt like that game if someone.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah, I saw that. I saw that quote.
Speaker 4: He was pretty vocal after the fans were booing or cheering.
Speaker 4: I should say, when when Watson got home in Cleveland
Speaker 4: fans and he's like, that's the most ridiculous thing. You know,
Speaker 4: He's out there playing his heart out and yeah, that's
Speaker 4: today's fans. Yeah, you know, but it's kind of fun
Speaker 4: to see Jamis kind of like, where does he ban
Speaker 4: for the last five years?
Speaker 2: All of a sudden he's he's still in the NFL. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: did we interrupt your No.
Speaker 4: I'm done.
Speaker 2: That's good for today. By the way, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to be here tomorrow or Friday. Headed to del Mar
Speaker 2: to play or not to play, well, to play, but
Speaker 2: to watch the Breeders Cup. Well, everyone knows how a
Speaker 2: big horse racing pans. I'll be watching the Breeders Cup
Speaker 2: at the bucket list item for me, You're just going
Speaker 2: as a fan, going as a fan kind of yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: to watch the ponies with. We had Karl Watson on
Speaker 2: on Monday. He and Paul Whiteman and Pengrim have a
Speaker 2: horse and the two year old race. Of all, they've
Speaker 2: had some of the best horses in the world here
Speaker 2: from time to time, so they're they're staples at del Mar.
Speaker 2: So I hope to see them there and we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens. I mean, I've never been in that type
Speaker 2: of environment for that big of horse race. I've never
Speaker 2: been to the Derby, which is another bucket list. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that'd be fun. But this is even bigger. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: is even bigger. It's a two day, two day experience, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: all ther it's like a six by twelve probably about
Speaker 2: twelve six the first day at I'm just being general.
Speaker 2: The first game first day, and then six the next
Speaker 2: It could be more than that, but the best horses
Speaker 2: from all over the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Plus you're in del Mar, which is that's not
Speaker 4: a bad place to be. No, no, no, no. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Last time I was in San Diego for the Arizona
Speaker 2: San Diego State game. Stayed at the beach there in
Speaker 2: Mission Beach. Yeah, they broke into my car and shattered
Speaker 2: my window.
Speaker 4: I remember that. So I came home right after the
Speaker 4: game and said, I don't need this.
Speaker 2: So we'll see. That's hope lightning doesn't strike twice. Say
Speaker 2: it out a slay it at a hotel now, so
Speaker 2: maybe that'll help. Where were you staying before Meason in Airbnb?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, it's going to be okay, Yeah it was.
Speaker 2: It was you know you were there. It was hot
Speaker 2: that day. I don't you remember that day? Very hot,
Speaker 2: very hot, unconventional for or characteristic for San Diego.
Speaker 4: So I said what the hell I'm going to go.
Speaker 4: It was the first game for the Stsues BRANDI yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: which you know what. I'm sure you've seen it, but
Speaker 4: I've not been, but you've seen it. I've seen it
Speaker 4: on TV.
Speaker 2: And it'd be that place would be perfect for tuson Arizona.
Speaker 2: That size, that size, Yes, it'd be full be it's nice.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure about the shading and all that that
Speaker 2: had to be improved, but it's a perfect like forty
Speaker 2: yeap forty two, I don't know what it was, but
Speaker 2: it's a nice arena or stadium, perfect for Arizona.
Speaker 4: A handful of years ago I would to Oregon State
Speaker 4: and their stadium is about that size. They redid it.
Speaker 4: It's called Research Stadium, and I think it's I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe forty maybe thirty eight thousand. Again, perfect size right,
Speaker 4: well and not a bad seat in the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know Corvallis. It's like a hiccup somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but they've done nice at least there. I mean they
Speaker 2: still play in the field house. I killed coliseum. Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: I can't remember the foot I covered the football team
Speaker 2: and I was there. I don't remember what even what
Speaker 2: it looked like. Yeah, it was in basketball. That place
Speaker 2: is dump I'm sorry to say.
Speaker 4: I mean we went there, I'm going to say five
Speaker 4: years ago or so and it was really nice. Oh
Speaker 4: they just finished. Oh, because you're still working on it.
Speaker 4: I think I think it's since been finished. But they
Speaker 4: really they cut it down to much smaller size, kind
Speaker 4: of like what Stanford did where they went from like
Speaker 4: ninety thousand to fifty thousand in that footprint.
Speaker 2: Right now, I can put it down to twenty five thousand,
Speaker 2: and it's still empty. It's still empty.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 2: They are too busy studying man solving the world's problems,
Speaker 2: right kind of. At least Rice doesn't have easy tests there,
Speaker 2: you know, inventing internet companies. Yes, yes, and we're paying
Speaker 2: for them, yep, okay, yeah, anything else? We got the
Speaker 2: football game, basketball game coming up? Looking forward to that
Speaker 2: Monday night. Uh, you got to be fun.
Speaker 4: Canisius you know, I lived in buffal That's where they're from, Buffalo.
Speaker 4: If anybody wonders who what Canisius is. It was interesting
Speaker 4: in Buffalo, believe it or not. When I was like eight,
Speaker 4: I had three I don't know why I remember these
Speaker 4: goofy things but there were like three colleges that I
Speaker 4: remember as a kid. At Niagara, which is where Calvin
Speaker 4: Murphy went. If anyone remembers, he had a great guard
Speaker 4: for the Houston Rockets and button swirler was his thing. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Remember Bob Lanier went to Saint Bonaventure, which is also
Speaker 4: in that area. Bullets, Diston's mostly other Bucks and then Canisius.
Speaker 4: So there were like these three schools. I don't know
Speaker 4: why I'm thinking about this, but when I hear where
Speaker 4: I heard Arizona's playing. Oh yeah, so you're a Buffalo fan. Nah, Buffalo,
Speaker 4: I mean it's only kind of in my heart more
Speaker 4: than anything. I mean I lived there briefly. But yeah,
Speaker 4: those were pretty good years. I think all those I
Speaker 4: mean there's obviously two great players just at that moment, right,
Speaker 4: and then what's his name from ESPN goes to Saint Bonaventure,
Speaker 4: the Woes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, the guy Woes took that job at
Speaker 2: Saint Bonnie right right. He was making a ton of
Speaker 2: money too. Yeah, he's like a GM. He's like the
Speaker 2: GM of their ni l Yeah. Yeah, you can show
Speaker 2: that what a good job job that must be. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if you could get people to like go there right, right,
Speaker 2: you know it's gonna be tough. It's tough because you know,
Speaker 2: that's kind of like a feeder place too. You do
Speaker 2: really really well there where else you're going to go, right,
Speaker 2: It's like it's like, uh TJ McConnell. Right, he's at Ducaine,
Speaker 2: a very good player. Sean sees him and I don't
Speaker 2: know how they got him here, but he came here
Speaker 2: and turned into this great player. Yeah, he was already
Speaker 2: a pretty good player his career. He's having Yeah, ten years,
Speaker 2: will be the wed and go hon her. Wow, making
Speaker 2: a ton of money. Yeah, I mean who who would
Speaker 2: have thought?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Not me, not me. But again, what's one of
Speaker 4: those situations. You're in the right place at the right time.
Speaker 4: They needed someone like him. But he was at Philadelphia first,
Speaker 4: and then he goes to the placers.
Speaker 2: Steve Kirk type ker type, good guy with the media,
Speaker 2: people like fan.
Speaker 4: I'm sure the fans love him there.
Speaker 2: Sure it's one of them. Yeah, work hard, work hard,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Anybody want to call police? Do we
Speaker 2: have a lot of time here and we got about evunits.
Speaker 2: If you want to call, maybe we'd get some calls
Speaker 2: here because some people were trying to get in earlier
Speaker 2: five two, four, one, six, seventy four forty Dave, thanks
Speaker 2: for coming in again. I know you have better things
Speaker 2: to do, like maybe cutch your weeds or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is this is a highlight for me to
Speaker 4: come do this. This is a blast.
Speaker 2: Hey, I already did that today, so I don't get
Speaker 2: that taking care of that's.
Speaker 4: A case I don't want any part of retirement. No,
Speaker 4: it's fun. It's fun because you get to do things
Speaker 4: that you want to do. I've that's kind of been
Speaker 4: my mantra. It's like, now I get to do things
Speaker 4: I really want to do, not I have to do.
Speaker 4: So this is nice. Yeah, I just stayed.
Speaker 2: Bader's coming and bring me uber eats.
Speaker 4: That's tonight. That's later when I go home to watch
Speaker 4: baseball or whatever else is on the deb What does politics?
Speaker 2: By the way, you can from all those calls you
Speaker 2: get and all the damn spam things, you know, it's
Speaker 2: not over yet.
Speaker 4: It's funny. I have gotten some today, but I think
Speaker 4: it it tapered off a bit, honestly to me, at least,
Speaker 4: maybe because I already voted.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say any want to go there.
Speaker 2: But I don't know because I voted too, and I'm
Speaker 2: still getting them, still getting pretty soon, pretty soon, got
Speaker 2: six days.
Speaker 4: And even then it's not going to be resolved. I
Speaker 4: know it's going to be a long time. Yes, it's
Speaker 4: not going to be resolved. And even then, I'm just
Speaker 4: looking forward to not having political commercials on every moment
Speaker 4: of the day on TV as you're watching these games.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're watching a lot of stuff and it's
Speaker 4: just NonStop. And I know the TV stations are making
Speaker 4: a fortune of this too. This is their biggest time
Speaker 4: every four years. I got someboddies still who are you
Speaker 4: know who are former general managers And we were talking
Speaker 4: about that recently, like weach is love no vela.
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you, because I'm not in the
Speaker 2: TV business, that is the new newspaper business. Uh does
Speaker 2: that revenue go to direct it to the TV's the
Speaker 2: locals or to the corporate and they feed you guys.
Speaker 4: I was never in that part of the world either.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say probably stayed local, I would think,
Speaker 4: I mean they're all owned by big corporations. Anyway, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I mean, that's a good question. I don't
Speaker 4: know if it's you know, everybody, because you know, for example,
Speaker 4: you know, k Guns owned by Scripts, which is a
Speaker 4: gigantic not only you know TV, but also a newspaper company.
Speaker 4: So I don't know how that would work if it
Speaker 4: all just goes to the Script corporation.
Speaker 2: And the reason I ask is if the locals can
Speaker 2: eat you know, you know what I'm saying, they're doing
Speaker 2: all that spending, the locals can sustain a group of reporters,
Speaker 2: right and not lose the you know, because Channel Ford
Speaker 2: just went through a big deal with with Allen, right Alan,
Speaker 2: what's the name of the comedian Allen Byron Allen, Byron Allen,
Speaker 2: that group, they lost the people, and so I'm wondering
Speaker 2: if they pay Allen big big corporate and then they're
Speaker 2: the ones that make the determination.
Speaker 4: I heard they just had more layoffs, even like where
Speaker 4: recently Channel four, Yeah, like in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Really I did not know that. I watched that show
Speaker 2: every now and again or the programming. I haven't seen
Speaker 2: any less people.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, it could be people behind
Speaker 4: the scenes too, but that's you know, there's that's one
Speaker 4: thing about television news it's it's like a football team.
Speaker 4: There's a million people behind the scenes that are that
Speaker 4: helped to make you look good hopefully right, do the
Speaker 4: do the graphics and do the cameras.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, Let me ask you this and
Speaker 2: anybody can call on please ask us some questions. Uh,
Speaker 2: if I had a chance, would I do this? Would
Speaker 2: I do this again? Would I be a newspaper?
Speaker 4: Guys that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, you know, you know, all the
Speaker 2: depends what you know. Whatever happened to me. It was
Speaker 2: twenty three years of having fun and writing for twenty
Speaker 2: three years. Would you refocus and I have two journalism
Speaker 2: you guys out?
Speaker 4: Sorry? Yeah, sorry. I had a great time. I mean
Speaker 4: I the good thing about it was I was very young,
Speaker 4: and I was lucky, and I got a chance to
Speaker 4: be on TV when I was twenty two, you know,
Speaker 4: so I could go work for a couple of years
Speaker 4: and just you know, totally mess up and work on
Speaker 4: it and try to get better at it and learn
Speaker 4: how to do the job, and then gradually got to
Speaker 4: you know, got here and was able to sustain the
Speaker 4: career here. I used to sometimes think about, how did
Speaker 4: that happen? How did I last all these years and
Speaker 4: he wanted to leave. Well, there were times, but you know,
Speaker 4: it was just a matter of where it was going
Speaker 4: to be, what, what the opportunity would have been, how my
Speaker 4: family would have felt about it, And that's kind of
Speaker 4: the nature of every profession. Yeah, it was that time
Speaker 4: when Luke called you, I needed to get out of here,
Speaker 4: to get me in trouble.
Speaker 2: But well, you know, if you could, if you could
Speaker 2: have we done this baby with the other guy with Ryan.
Speaker 4: Did you already give these guys advice? What would you
Speaker 4: do if you were.
Speaker 2: Why are they looking at me now because they needed
Speaker 2: they're getting the setting.
Speaker 4: They're getting close. Yeah, they're getting close.
Speaker 2: What I what I would advise, And I tell this
Speaker 2: to Henry all the time. I don't know if I've
Speaker 2: told this to that yet. Get your resumes out now
Speaker 2: now because you'll be done in May. Well you're gonna stay.
Speaker 2: You can stay extra right, Matt, you're going to to.
Speaker 4: One thing I would tell people that I used to
Speaker 4: tell all my interns this, even before they learn much
Speaker 4: about the nuts and bolts about the business, is just
Speaker 4: be aware of what's going on. Be a news junkie,
Speaker 4: a sports junkie, don't walk yet. It used to kill
Speaker 4: me when they would walk in they go, hey, what's
Speaker 4: going on today? I go, don't you know? You know
Speaker 4: we're playing you know, canesius and basketball or whatever. We've
Speaker 4: got to you know, there's a there's a game where
Speaker 4: you know, that's kind of what our focus is going
Speaker 4: to be. Just be on the ball, because I think
Speaker 4: when you sit down and you're going to be interviewed
Speaker 4: by somebody like like I would, I would want them
Speaker 4: to kind of know what's happening in the world and
Speaker 4: not be oblivious. And you know, we can teach you
Speaker 4: some of the skills and you'll get that. You'll get
Speaker 4: better at that as you move along in the job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that I'm teaching them doing some of that stuff.
Speaker 2: That's the one thing with the with the with the students.
Speaker 2: They don't read enough and they don't see styles of writing.
Speaker 2: They don't see formats and how you're supposed to write
Speaker 2: about it and stuff because there, you know, I get
Speaker 2: they're busy with school, but this is what you.
Speaker 4: Want to do.
Speaker 2: You should learn learn from other people. But you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, what are you still writing for all sports?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Okay, how's that gone? I enjoy it. Yeah, okay, yeah, things.
Speaker 4: I think, as much practice as you can get now,
Speaker 4: especially for you know, for these guys that are just
Speaker 4: you know, still kind of getting ready to break into
Speaker 4: the business, take advantage of it. I again, I had
Speaker 4: a lot of interns, and most of them if they
Speaker 4: wanted to get a job, they got a job because
Speaker 4: they had a chance, at least for a year or
Speaker 4: so to do do the the work and learn how
Speaker 4: how it goes. And you know what a TV station
Speaker 4: looks like, and how a camera works, and how to
Speaker 4: write a script and how to want to teleprompter do
Speaker 4: all the stuff behind the scenes. Sure sure not.
Speaker 2: And these guys now, you know, Matt and I are
Speaker 2: in the same boat with the with the machine here
Speaker 2: because we haven't had as much practice, has a little.
Speaker 2: Henry's got it mastered, thank god, and he's gonna be
Speaker 2: with me for a while. So you need to get
Speaker 2: that stuff out, Henry. You know that you can't be
Speaker 2: living in Manhattan and your your mom's and dad's place
Speaker 2: all this life. Although when you're there leting you go visit?
Speaker 2: Can we come visit? Go to a Yankees game? How
Speaker 2: would you pay for the hotel? Dom State of Henry's. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: go to Madison Square Guarden.
Speaker 4: Do you like that place? The garden? I love it?
Speaker 4: Why history? Why wouldn't it an atmosphere? History? What about
Speaker 4: the spell? Maybe I'm used to it. I bed there
Speaker 4: a number of times. It's just like, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: are they going to get a new one? That place
Speaker 4: has been there.
Speaker 2: No, they've you know, funny thing about it when I
Speaker 2: did my books with the Uba and places they did,
Speaker 2: that's like the fifth version, right, yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you mean the latest version. The place has
Speaker 4: been there since like nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, maybe because there's been a bunch of versions
Speaker 2: the right, you know, on they build it up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the first one was like eighteen seventy
Speaker 4: or yeah. I wasn't sure you were aware that it's
Speaker 4: like the fifth version of No. In fact, we even
Speaker 4: did a tour this summer when we went to New York.
Speaker 4: We went on the Madison Square Garden Tour, which was
Speaker 4: they were and they showed pictures of the historic and
Speaker 4: like there's a wall that had all the different versions
Speaker 4: of that spot.
Speaker 13: Right.
Speaker 2: I would have never guessed, but yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 2: an old but it's a it's rebuilt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you look at the boxing matches quick Joe
Speaker 4: Lewis and those.
Speaker 2: Kinds of waving us off. Thanks everybody, Thank you, Henry,
Speaker 2: thanks everybody else. Taught to you guys on Monday,