WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:03.399 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:08.039 Fox Sports fourteenth fifth Day, powered by Nova Insurance Services 3 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:10.599 Insure your most Prized possessionets. 4 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:15.320 Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball 5 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:18.600 here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In 6 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:22.879 with me today is Tim Bentley, my usually Friday Day 7 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:25.320 Friday guy. Hello, Hello, welcome back, Jim. 8 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.160 I'm glad to be back. Happy Yeah, Happy New Year. 9 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:30.399 You were like mister Dora the Explorer. 10 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:31.239 I was out and about. 11 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:34.240 I went to Seattle, was up there when it was 12 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:37.840 about twelve degrees so that was prepared for the cold 13 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:38.320 weather here. 14 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:39.600 You went to find the winter. 15 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:41.079 Oh my goodness, it was. 16 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:42.399 It was. 17 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:43.439 It was. It was so. 18 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.159 Cold, especially Seattle. That's kind of like fun. 19 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:48.960 It's rainy cold, so it wasn't any any fun cold 20 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:52.280 like it has been here. And then through New Year's 21 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:54.119 I had the crowd that everybody else had. So I 22 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:56.359 missed a day with you missed today. 23 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:59.320 You know, Okay, No, you're back. That's fine. We've had 24 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:01.079 some pretty good show was yesterday. It was a pretty 25 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:03.200 good show if you missed it. We're at the Casino 26 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:08.719 Dell Soul with the Greg Hanson and my guy Ja Gonzalez. Today. 27 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.159 Jay will be back at the end of the show 28 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:13.879 with his picks. Trying to catch me at the final 29 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:15.400 weekend of the season. 30 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:18.120 Sounds close to me. This sounds like it's a horse race. 31 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:21.879 I choked last week, so now he's caught up one 32 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:22.159 of these. 33 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.400 Remind me, what's the bad again? Are you guys? Million 34 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:25.159 dollars next? 35 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:28.879 Yeah, next year's entry feeds. He paid for me this 36 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:31.280 year because I beat him. Now, I don't want to 37 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:32.799 lose my throwing here. 38 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:33.719 No good. 39 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.959 Good to have you back. Cool. You're well known in 40 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:38.640 the city. I've brand into some people that knew you 41 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:39.840 and you were going to be on the show? 42 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.560 Did I I do? I owe him money? 43 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:46.519 They did not say anything but that, But you know, 44 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:48.079 as long as they didn't say it, you're good. 45 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:48.400 I know. 46 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:50.400 Well, a lot of people know you too, Steve, so 47 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.120 I run across people, so they did, You're on that show? 48 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:55.159 Yeah, Now, Steven Arry is a good guy. 49 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:59.560 Two people when that was my mom and she's I 50 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:03.120 was gonna that line too for a uh no, okay, cool. 51 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:06.159 So today we're gonna talk a lot about the basketball 52 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:10.639 game tomorrow with U A and uh, you know UCF 53 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.080 late night, another late night game they get to stay. 54 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:15.960 Of course, I'll ask you a question that we talked 55 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.280 about yesterday. First of all, we're gonna have mister Torres, 56 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:22.240 Aaron Torres from Fox Sports here in about three fifty 57 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:26.639 three seventeen calling from Los Angeles, getting his thoughts on 58 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:28.639 the team and the college basketball is kind of a 59 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:31.919 weird season. Anybody can anybody can win it. 60 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:32.199 You know. 61 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:34.319 I mean we're on a five and zero wind streak, right. 62 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:36.319 I mean it's like I was watching some games and 63 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.439 I was like it was on a Tuesday or something, 64 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.879 and I'm like, oh, this is this is Big twelve basketball. 65 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:43.319 So yeah, you know, anybody can win. And I love 66 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.280 watching it's it's it's a good test. Early on, I'm 67 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:48.520 glad we're getting beat up and elbowed and you. 68 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.199 Mean earlier in the year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and they 69 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:53.039 have been and they have been so And then at 70 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:55.840 the four to seventeen hour we're gonna go with Brian 71 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:59.479 Peabody from Pima. They're undefeated. I don't know where they're ranked, 72 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.199 but they're under feeded, like seventeen and OHO doing very 73 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.719 very well. They have the Marley kid from Phoenix. 74 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:05.360 Nice. 75 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:06.439 So they're doing really well. 76 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.680 He's a good coach, Yeah he is. He is a 77 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:09.159 great coach. 78 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:11.479 Yep. He has a bigger run Tours than Tommy Lloyd. 79 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.639 I don't give him a grief about that. Uh So, 80 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:18.840 no cool. So I asked the guys yesterday with Jay, mister, 81 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:22.520 mister happy, mister, you know, I'm a U bag guy 82 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:24.919 and Greg. Greg kind of agreed, No, he didn't, kind 83 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:27.199 of agree. He agreed with me. So Arizona's a five 84 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:30.439 and zero in the last five very the right of 85 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:34.199 the ship to a degree. I'm trying to not label 86 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:38.039 or to sway you. Uh, they've beaten you know, five straight, 87 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.919 they've beaten the last two in the Little League. Have 88 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:43.199 they gotten better? Have they gotten better? 89 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.199 I you know, you and I have talked about coaching 90 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:48.479 in the past, and so do you want to win 91 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:50.000 the early part of the season or do you want 92 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.560 to win you know, later at middle and then the end. 93 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:52.879 Of the season. 94 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:54.639 So it's rhetoric. Is that rhetorical? 95 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:56.000 Just a little bit? 96 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:58.759 But I you know, I was watching him play and 97 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:00.319 it's you know, they're getting the ball in the middle, 98 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.560 you know, down load a little bit more often than 99 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:04.919 they did early on. We had those talks in November, like, 100 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:07.759 what the what's I even have a tall guy down there? 101 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:10.800 You know you're not going to pass to them. 102 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:13.159 So I don't know if they've gotten you know, if 103 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:14.759 they've turned it around one hundred and eighty degrees. 104 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:15.960 But it feels better to me. 105 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:18.800 That's a great phrase. It feels better because it does 106 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:20.759 feel better and it looks better too. 107 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:22.839 Right, and not just because they're winning, but because they're 108 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.079 playing in a way that's like, okay, this makes sense. 109 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.639 You know, they're moving the ball, they're they're not just 110 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:29.600 running and gunning, and. 111 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.199 So it feels better. They're not just running gunning, but 112 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.240 they are, which is good for them. They're not just plotting. 113 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:38.000 Because this year they're plotting. 114 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:41.199 It look horrible, right the old it felt out of 115 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:43.759 sink and you know, at a at a at a 116 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:45.399 sink for sure, out of whack, and it just didn't 117 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:45.920 feel right. 118 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:47.839 So it just feels better. 119 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:49.879 Feels better. Yeah, Okay, so so I posed that, well 120 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.480 they better and okay you kind of said yes, Uh, 121 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:55.560 they just didn't play anybody, and people are gonna say, okay, 122 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:57.759 the first three before the Big twelve, they didn't. Those 123 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.120 teams were ayn't good, right, Those aren't the team you're 124 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.199 going to play the turna right, right, And Cincinnati and 125 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:05.720 West Virginia are Okay, I know they were ranked, but 126 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:08.279 that was kind of they backed into being ranking. Right. 127 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:10.480 Well, you know what, I think, we beat West Virginia 128 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.199 on the for the second time, so we learned a little. 129 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.360 Bit, right, you beat him for the first time after 130 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:17.120 the second right after, right. 131 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.560 So I think you know that's that bodes well, you know, 132 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:21.480 like people are learning, you know, listening to what coach 133 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:22.120 Lloyd's saying. 134 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.560 Well, let's say this, it beats the alternative, which the 135 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:27.959 alternative is losing right right, right, So so yeah, so 136 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.199 they've gotten better. They're playing better, playing looks better. 137 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:33.399 You know, it just feels it feels right to me. 138 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:34.759 It hits the right spot in my brain. 139 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:37.680 Yeah, so are they better at I said yesterday that 140 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:41.240 let's wait until or hold judgment until they played the Houstons, 141 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:46.920 the Iowa States, the Texas Techs, the Baylors, because those 142 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:49.079 are the teams that you'll be measured against in March. 143 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:49.920 Right. 144 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.040 And you know, my buddy Dave is a big Houston 145 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:53.920 fan and he's riding them all. 146 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:56.879 The way through Houston, Houston as he should. 147 00:05:56.959 --> 00:06:00.519 They're very good, they're great, and so I think what's missing, 148 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.680 you know, like I would say that their medium right now, 149 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:06.240 they're not great, they're not bad. Who's the and their 150 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.639 medium right now? And what hasn't clicked for me is 151 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:11.560 you know, you used to kind of you used to 152 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:13.480 know that Juve was going to rise to the challenge. 153 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:15.920 They were going to play the great teams great and 154 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:17.160 I don't feel like they've done that. 155 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:17.800 Just quite yet. 156 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:20.519 Well, you know, because they haven't, you know, the games 157 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:20.800 that they. 158 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:23.920 Don't get that sense that they have that that extra gear. 159 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:26.439 Right and and you had proof with the first those 160 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.800 games that they lost with UCLA's and the Oklahoma's and 161 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:33.879 all that, even though Oklahoma's kind of middlely now kind of, 162 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.360 but they're still good. Uh So, But that's I'm not 163 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:38.800 poop pooing Arizona because I think eventually they're going to 164 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:40.639 get even better moving forward. 165 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:42.879 But if they beat the teams that they shouldn't. 166 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:45.639 Beat or will have a hard time beating, the Iowa States, 167 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.839 the Houston's, the Baylors, and the Texas text maybe uh 168 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:51.519 then they then they sold me. 169 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:54.199 I'm in and if they can win a few of 170 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:55.920 those games, you know, make it to the tournament. I 171 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:00.600 think that, you know, this rough row through the Big 172 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.360 twelve Welcome to It boys, is going to help them. 173 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.959 Well. Just a few days ago, maybe ten seven, no 174 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:08.879 one thought that they're well, no one, a few people 175 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:10.759 thought they were going to be the tournament at all. Right, 176 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:12.959 there were nowhere to be found. Now you can kind 177 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:14.560 of probably see that they're capable. 178 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:16.959 Yeah, and then worthy, you know that you get on 179 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:18.920 a run, you know, they start to feel good, they 180 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:21.360 start to listen to their coach. You know, I've I've 181 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:23.439 heard some people say, you know, you know, people start 182 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:25.920 to think about these kids, start to think about you. 183 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:27.480 Know, what is it? What does a run look like? 184 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:28.240 How does it help me? 185 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.639 You know, how does it help me in that sense 186 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:33.319 going forward? You know, like if you know, when the 187 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:35.279 season gets done, where do I stand? 188 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:35.839 Yeah? 189 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:37.680 And I owe money the next gig. 190 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:39.879 Isn't that sad? That that's what we're kind of talking 191 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:42.480 about now. It's not about the team, It's not about 192 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:43.879 it's like what's in it for me? 193 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.480 You know? And it's it's every time you're. 194 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:49.560 Talking about that, I do because I see it and 195 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:53.160 I and I and I think, you know it's you know, 196 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:55.839 you're going to be just like the NFL. You you 197 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.199 root for the colors, the NBA, you root for the colors. 198 00:07:58.199 --> 00:07:59.920 It's going to become that way, Sorr. It's going to 199 00:07:59.959 --> 00:08:02.160 be hard to be loyal to a team because you're 200 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:06.000 to a college team, to the players. 201 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:08.959 But that's always been the case because if you're a 202 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:11.360 booster guy or whatever, you've always been a booster to 203 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.600 the school. Right And Tim Bentley comes through for three 204 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:17.360 four years, he's gone, okay, nice knowing you, Tim, Thanks, 205 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:19.639 you know, you're always a wildcat. Steve comes in, blah 206 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:22.240 blah blah. You always get but you're always they're putting 207 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:24.000 money into the school, not the person. 208 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:27.279 Right, But now that it can be you don't invest 209 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:29.399 in a kid for three or four years, you're you. 210 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:31.879 Know, you're renting. You're renting a player a kid for 211 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:33.879 a you know, for six or seven months. 212 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:36.039 That's the sad part. 213 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:40.039 Yeah, I worry about the you know, I worry about 214 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:43.039 the kids because they really are kids, eighteen to twenty. 215 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:44.559 Two year olds in what sense, well, what kind of 216 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:46.639 advice are they getting? You go over here, you go there, 217 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:47.399 they don't care. 218 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:49.600 You know, what'd you think when you're eighteen nineteen. 219 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:51.440 I think they're getting those I think those kids are 220 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:52.159 getting bad advice. 221 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:58.159 Tim, don't touch the stove. Tim, don't don't put this 222 00:08:58.240 --> 00:08:59.120 fork in that plug. 223 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:01.360 I know foods that are purple are not good for you. 224 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.120 Can I eat hot tomorrow every day for breakfast? 225 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.720 Exactly? You think I've got one point five in the bank, Tim, 226 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.120 or mister Booster, I don't need to hear you. 227 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.600 All these kids want to play at the next level, 228 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.759 and you know, statistics show that one percent of them might. 229 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:20.039 So I worry that they don't get good advice. 230 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.080 You know, Hey, you can make it to the NFL 231 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:23.480 or to the NBA if you go to the next 232 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:25.759 school and then they get hurt and they get they 233 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:26.600 get lost in that show. 234 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.600 Yeah, well that's gonna be the case. I think it's 235 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.480 going to be the case. We've talked about that where 236 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:34.120 where education is lost in this whole mix because they're 237 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.120 jumping from one school to the other, transfer credits and 238 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:40.200 YadA YadA. Five years are done. Well, what degree do 239 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:41.679 you have? Well I don't have one. 240 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:44.120 Yeah, but you have six years of school. I went 241 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:46.399 to school you know, for for eighteen of those months 242 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:47.039 out of six. 243 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.720 Years, right right, And you know, come on, I don't 244 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:53.000 think maybe there's a professor out there that's listening. You 245 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:56.279 can call me. Do the kids actually care about school? 246 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:59.279 Have the ever? I'm sure the serious ones do it. 247 00:09:59.320 --> 00:09:59.559 I'm not. 248 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:02.440 My wife is a professor at the UVEAN, and so 249 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:03.600 I have a unique insight. 250 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:06.399 Okay to this, So they do, but they does she 251 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:08.639 teach student athletes. 252 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.000 From time to time. She does. Okay, good, so from 253 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:11.679 time to time. 254 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:13.720 The qualified for this conversation. 255 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:15.840 Yes, I doubt if she's going to call in right now. 256 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.320 But you know, the kids in that eighteen and nineteen range, 257 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:21.519 they're going to be knuckleheads. 258 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:22.320 Yeah, sure, of course. 259 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:24.840 It doesn't matter if you're a high level athlete or 260 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:27.720 you're the smartest kid. You're just knuckle ahead, you know. 261 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.919 But these upper classmen, these kids that decide that school 262 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.440 is important to them, those kids are good, are good students. 263 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:34.720 Yeah. 264 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:36.320 It just it's like anything else. It just takes a 265 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:39.639 couple of years of maturation. Sure, to mature a little bit, sure, 266 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:41.960 especially when you get closer to the end of the road. 267 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:44.759 Are you're thinking, oh crap, do I know enough, Am 268 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:45.639 I ready enough? 269 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:46.200 Exactly. 270 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:48.320 I have a couple of interns that have come through 271 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:51.759 here in the years. In fact, I reached out to 272 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:55.320 them today and they had internships when they left. And 273 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:57.759 I suggest this all the time, and you know you're 274 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:01.720 in the business, start early, meet as many people as 275 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:04.080 you can. Get your name out. If you're good, they'll 276 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:07.399 find you or keep you. And two of them just 277 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:09.919 don't have jobs. I mean they don't have jobs because 278 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.200 the one was of the dbacks. I didn't know it 279 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.799 was a seasonal thing with the season. Now he's in 280 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:18.399 Phoenix winning, but he's a barteight. And the other one 281 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:21.879 was in Los Angeles because she's from there, and now 282 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:25.679 her new ventures closed. 283 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:26.919 Wow. 284 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.480 So but you know, hell, my newspaper closed. My whole 285 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:33.279 career went the crap. Well, so you pivot. I tell 286 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.679 kids all the time you have to be essential. I've 287 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:38.480 told your your guy here, I said, be essential. Yes, 288 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:40.919 I can do that. You want, I got it. I 289 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:41.360 can do that. 290 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:42.120 Can I help. 291 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:46.759 I'm in you know, be essential, be in in somebody's 292 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:48.919 space and say I can do that, because eventually something's 293 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:49.399 going to happen. 294 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:50.000 Whatever you need. 295 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:52.799 People aren't just going to hand it to you. And 296 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:55.360 so these kids that are in college, you talk about 297 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:58.480 getting to the end. You know, at some point, you know, 298 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.200 when their eligibility is running out, they're going to realize 299 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.120 are they in for the next level or not? And 300 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.360 that's that hard wake up call that I worry about 301 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:10.600 for some kids that don't have that education or don't 302 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.720 have some stability experience, you know. And maybe they have 303 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:16.279 six hundred grand in the bank, which is a nice chunk, 304 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:18.360 but it's you know, for the rest of your life. 305 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:20.759 I give you that, give you that. 306 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:22.840 Right now, I have a I have a half a 307 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:27.960 semester of eligibility left. I'm thinking about going back. They're 308 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:28.960 gonna make me gifts them. 309 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:33.080 In but it's just tough. And I'm not crying for 310 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:36.879 the student athletes. They've never had any better than now, right, Uh, 311 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:39.360 you know, the Noah's and the TM Max and all 312 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:42.440 those guys. Some guy was gonna pay. I saw somewhere 313 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:45.759 at one point five million, uh somewhere, maybe a quarterback 314 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:50.080 in Washington State. I'm thinking, really quarterback for washing in 315 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:52.919 Washington State. I think that's where it was. How in 316 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.039 the world, I don't welcome to America, you know. 317 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:57.440 I read about it, and I know that you know 318 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:00.200 these high level players that you have super duper talent 319 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:02.960 or their super high profile. You know, they bring a 320 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:04.960 lot of attention to your program. I can see that. 321 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.639 But there this must be a big pot of money 322 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.639 that I don't know about, yeah somewhere. 323 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:13.399 Yeah, you and I both don't know the right people. 324 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:15.759 Nothing they're going to give it to us, although I 325 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:18.360 am looking for sponsors. So get a hold of me 326 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:21.519 for one of the brothers, very inexpensive. 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