Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to you. I'm about here on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen, Tyche, I'm Steve Rivera. In with me to
Speaker 1: day is Jaginsaws now on the phone. Our great guest,
Speaker 1: as always, Josh Passner. With a new title, I was
Speaker 1: being called the UNLV head basketball coach.
Speaker 2: Hello, gentlemen, everyone's good. You are right about that. I
Speaker 2: love that title.
Speaker 3: The UNLV Running Rebels head men's basketball coach.
Speaker 2: Let's go. I'm beyond excited.
Speaker 3: It's been an absolutely awesome opportunity.
Speaker 2: Let me just say this.
Speaker 3: I love doing television, by the way, and I really
Speaker 3: thought I was good at it, and my boss is
Speaker 3: like me, yes, I mean, all the different networks like me.
Speaker 3: So for me to leave that because I had some
Speaker 3: other opportunities throughout the last couple of years, but they
Speaker 3: weren't better than the TV opportunity that had. But knowing that,
Speaker 3: being at Arizona with Loodolfson all those years, understanding what
Speaker 3: the different jobs in the West Coast, I love the
Speaker 3: West and to be able to get back with it
Speaker 3: that I believe UNLV being a leaping giant and and
Speaker 3: it just needs to be rattled and awakened a little bit.
Speaker 3: And I believe and hope, and we'll work at it
Speaker 3: to believe that we'll have an opportunity to shake the
Speaker 3: trees and try to get it back and wake it up.
Speaker 3: And so I'm so excited and honored to be the
Speaker 3: coach here. Look, everyone knows that, and and Steve knows
Speaker 3: this better than I do, because I wasn't there in
Speaker 3: the in the early nineties at Arizona, but there was
Speaker 3: a huge rival between coach Tartange and coach Olsen because
Speaker 3: both programs, as everyone knows, was the elite programs, was
Speaker 3: the superpowers of the West Coast.
Speaker 2: And so so for my job and.
Speaker 3: My responsibility is to try to get UNLV running basketball back,
Speaker 3: and we're working hard at it, and it's been a
Speaker 3: joy every which way.
Speaker 1: You kind of spoiled my question because what would think.
Speaker 2: He would be happy for me?
Speaker 3: I mean, look, it's it's as you guys know, it's
Speaker 3: a great opportunity.
Speaker 2: He would be really happy for me.
Speaker 3: Coach Holsen then, and it just you know, look, I
Speaker 3: mean it there's a chance here to do some special things. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Las Vegas is right now be kind of the epicenter
Speaker 3: of the is the epicenter of the entertainment world. Uh,
Speaker 3: it's becoming the epicenter of the sports world.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's it's one of those things where there's so much
Speaker 3: going on with greatness here and and people moving in
Speaker 3: and so you've got some great opportunities to for connections
Speaker 3: with players and and and everything else, and you got
Speaker 3: a real you got a real opportunity to do something
Speaker 3: special here. And I'm just beyond excited, very grateful for
Speaker 3: this opportunity and just extremely pumped up.
Speaker 4: What's the fan reaction been, Josh, Because this is not
Speaker 4: quite like a you of a guy going to a
Speaker 4: s U or something like that. But as you said,
Speaker 4: it was, it was a huge rivalry and some you know,
Speaker 4: those of us who've been around to how remember that
Speaker 4: that rivalry? You're an Arizona guy, but you know you're
Speaker 4: the un l V coach. What is there been anything
Speaker 4: you know that you've heard have that been mentioned as
Speaker 4: people come up and said to you you're an Arizona guy. Man,
Speaker 4: I don't know what's it been like so far?
Speaker 2: It's been great.
Speaker 3: People have been out, absolutely outstanding. I mean, look, they know,
Speaker 3: you know, we've a couple of people came.
Speaker 2: Up and joked about it.
Speaker 3: About the about the old old time with the rival,
Speaker 3: the rival between the two programs. But look, I am
Speaker 3: my loyalties to UNLV.
Speaker 2: Right now, as you though.
Speaker 3: I love you of A and had a great you know,
Speaker 3: you know how I feel about everyone there at Arizona.
Speaker 3: But I'm my loyalties to UNOV and we want to
Speaker 3: win every game we play, whether that's against in Arizona
Speaker 3: or anybody else.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 3: The people have been outstanding. And look they're they're Jay
Speaker 3: and Steed, they're they're hungry, yes, to get un LB
Speaker 3: basketball back. It's been you think about it, and I
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety they won the national championship. Nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 3: they went to the front. They've lost the duke in
Speaker 3: the finals. Since then, they've won like two tournament games.
Speaker 3: They haven't been to the tournament in twelve, thirteen, fourteen years.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's I've come at the right time,
Speaker 3: if that makes sense, to try to have an opportunity
Speaker 3: to try to, as I mentioned, to wake up the
Speaker 3: sleeping giant, to rattle the trees a little bit and
Speaker 3: get and wake it all up. And I just am
Speaker 3: so excited to have that opportunity to try to do that,
Speaker 3: and you know, we got a great thing in front
Speaker 3: of us to do, and it's not going to be easy.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: You guys know when you're trying to rebuild.
Speaker 3: It back, it's it's gonna be a lot of hard
Speaker 3: work and a lot of long hours and a lot
Speaker 3: of long nights. And that's what I'm doing. You know
Speaker 3: what I also in this today. The most amazing stat
Speaker 3: probably right now, is I I have been since I've
Speaker 3: got named the job, I have literally gone on just
Speaker 3: two hours of sleep every night. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 3: sleep thing for me not to crash out and like
Speaker 3: hit the floor on as little sleep as I'm going on.
Speaker 3: It's like going through hell weekly being a Navy seal,
Speaker 3: but they go through there with a little sleep, and
Speaker 3: I literally feel like that's what I'm doing it. And
Speaker 3: of course I'm not comparing myself to that, but but
Speaker 3: but my point is is I've been going on such
Speaker 3: adrenaline and it hasn't stopped. I'm eventually, I think once
Speaker 3: we get our roster bill he'll probably stop. But I'm
Speaker 3: going on adrenaline and it's been a great thing.
Speaker 1: So we were joking, Jayni, but your good friend, I'm
Speaker 1: assuming he's still a great friend. Could have been on
Speaker 1: your staff, Mike Bibbi. But now he's got a head
Speaker 1: coaching job.
Speaker 2: Really happy for Mike.
Speaker 3: He'll do a great job at Sacramento State.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 3: I'm happy for him. In fact, he actually reached out
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 4: We talked.
Speaker 3: I mean, of course we talked.
Speaker 4: We talked all the time.
Speaker 3: After he got the head job. He had reached out
Speaker 3: to me and we were talking and he had mentioned
Speaker 3: he said he wanted to.
Speaker 2: Get a loot Olsen.
Speaker 3: I thought this was a great idea. A loot Olsen
Speaker 3: h game, like a like a uh uh you know,
Speaker 3: kind of like a classic, and and play and play
Speaker 3: Sacramento State un L v. Georgia Tech, because that's where
Speaker 3: David Stottlemeyer is at and then play and again in Arizona,
Speaker 3: had those four teams together and play. I thought it
Speaker 3: was a great idea, I said, Mike, listen, I think
Speaker 3: this is This is like literally the day I got
Speaker 3: the job, I said, Mike, because all before I got
Speaker 3: the job, the entire team was in the portal, so
Speaker 3: I had no players. And I walked into I walked
Speaker 3: into the into the job, I said, Mike, I have
Speaker 3: zero players right now. The last thing I'm thinking about
Speaker 3: is scheduling, I said, I had, I can't. I said,
Speaker 3: because if you schedule a game and we showed up tomorrow,
Speaker 3: we forced it donating. So I said, follow up with
Speaker 3: me in about a month. Let me see if I
Speaker 3: can get some players, and then then we can talk
Speaker 3: about scheduling.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 3: I thought that was really cool. That was really cool
Speaker 3: about Mike thinking about that.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. They'd be crazy for you one
Speaker 1: you played at one you coast a a another uh
Speaker 1: you know in Georgia Tech obviously, and then you're playing
Speaker 1: maybe who depends how the thing worked out, playing against
Speaker 1: a former great friend and Mike Bibbie or you know,
Speaker 1: your former school or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, who knows that? It was my idea. Now, look, obviously.
Speaker 3: It's easier said than done, as you both know in
Speaker 3: this a and age to get those things organized just
Speaker 3: because of everyone's schedules, got it delined and and and
Speaker 3: all that stuff and plus and plus schools you know
Speaker 3: now these days and James c you see it now,
Speaker 3: people are playing you know, they're they're they're playing games
Speaker 3: with nil benefits. If that may try to generate some money.
Speaker 3: So scheduling has changed a little bit, uh more so
Speaker 3: than ever before. So that makes it a little bit
Speaker 3: different in this climate.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you. You mentioned you have no players,
Speaker 4: right so, and that's certainly not the way it used
Speaker 4: to be, right him. And yes, some guys would transfer,
Speaker 4: but essentially you had a core of players, you know,
Speaker 4: pretty much anywhere you went. What's the challenge now? I mean,
Speaker 4: how do you do this? Where do you start?
Speaker 3: Well, what I would tell you is you're right. I
Speaker 3: mean I start off as zero players.
Speaker 2: I was able then to get.
Speaker 3: A couple so but I'm still don't have enough to
Speaker 3: even start a game yet. And but here's what I
Speaker 3: would tell you, and this is what I've told our staff.
Speaker 3: We've got to be paid disciplinations because.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of players.
Speaker 3: In the portal. We've had a lot of people that
Speaker 3: want to come to UNLV, but we've got to make
Speaker 3: sure they're good enough and they fit with how we
Speaker 3: want to play and how I want to play. And
Speaker 3: I've got to be the right fit for them, and
Speaker 3: they've got to be the right fit for me. And
Speaker 3: so as much as money's being thrown around in NIL
Speaker 3: and obviously that's critical. Evaluation with your eyes are still
Speaker 3: so important to making sure that you're getting the right
Speaker 3: player the right sent and and that's where the evaluation
Speaker 3: part of it comes in, which I think, you know,
Speaker 3: like a guy like coach Olsen and you both know,
Speaker 3: this is probably one of the greatest ever to do
Speaker 3: that with with player evaluation. I mean, how many two star,
Speaker 3: one star, three star guys that people didn't want he
Speaker 3: took and all of a sudden they're, you know, playing
Speaker 3: fourteen years in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question, you don't want another thing that you're
Speaker 1: talking now. You're a great fit for that place because
Speaker 1: you're a visible right, You're you're a visible dude. You're
Speaker 1: gonna not You're gonna mingle with the fans. Uh in Vegas?
Speaker 1: What better place to do this in Vegas? You you don't.
Speaker 1: I think you don't even drink sodas well.
Speaker 4: I told somebody, Josh, you know who asked me. I said,
Speaker 4: nobody's gonna work harder than you, for sure. And you
Speaker 4: you just mentioned that you're sleeping two hours at night.
Speaker 4: I said, nobody's gonna work harder.
Speaker 1: He's slept three here.
Speaker 2: Well, what I would tell you is I appreciate that. Guys,
Speaker 2: you're right.
Speaker 3: I'm a I believe I'm a good fit because you're right,
Speaker 3: they need somebody who's gonna be all in the community,
Speaker 3: who's gonna be tons of energy you you know, because
Speaker 3: a job like this, guys, it's sort of like you're
Speaker 3: in a politician in a way.
Speaker 2: You've got to be out.
Speaker 3: And talking to people and you can't be sitting behind
Speaker 3: your desk. You've got to have high motor, high energy,
Speaker 3: forward thinking, you know. And and I've looked every second of
Speaker 3: this journey of being here.
Speaker 2: And the other thing is, as you mentioned, you're right.
Speaker 3: I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't I.
Speaker 2: Don't gamble, So I'm not gonna get caught up in
Speaker 2: good night life type things. That makes sense. So, because
Speaker 2: here's my thing, I'm gonna be working.
Speaker 3: Like but I'm not leaving that office until things get done.
Speaker 2: True story.
Speaker 3: I love my family. I've got my wife and four
Speaker 3: little children.
Speaker 2: I love them.
Speaker 3: They's nothing more important to me. But when the press
Speaker 3: conference was here, I uh, we did the press conference,
Speaker 3: and I told that I said, I got to get
Speaker 3: them back home because if my family came with me,
Speaker 3: because I just had to get them home so I
Speaker 3: could start working. And my kids are like, Dad, when
Speaker 3: you're coming home me, Misha, And I told this to
Speaker 3: my my bosses here. I said, look, I didn't tell
Speaker 3: this to my family, and said, I'm not coming home.
Speaker 3: I'm not getting going back home to pick my family
Speaker 3: up until I get my roster complete.
Speaker 2: You know why.
Speaker 3: As much as I love my wife and kids and
Speaker 3: there's nothing more important to me, they can't make.
Speaker 2: A jump shot the game. So I gotta get some players.
Speaker 2: So it is what it is you guys.
Speaker 3: So to answer your question, you are to call up
Speaker 3: in your your comment there, Jay, you are darn right
Speaker 3: nobody's gonna outwork me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's not a surprise. I know you got
Speaker 1: to go. Thanks for coming on. Enjoy you all the time.
Speaker 1: You know how I feel about you. Maybe we'll see
Speaker 1: you in Vegas sometimes. And we gotta get a game.
Speaker 4: Hey, get a game? We can you schedule a game
Speaker 4: with the chance you get.
Speaker 3: I think you should set it up. Listen, start talking
Speaker 3: to coach Tommy Lloyd about it.
Speaker 2: See if they want.
Speaker 3: To do a home at home, let's do a home
Speaker 3: and home unlv Arizona. We can do something special about it.
Speaker 3: Talk to Tommy, get it out there. See if Tommy
Speaker 3: is willing to do it, and.
Speaker 2: We'll do a home and home. Let's go.
Speaker 4: Josh, thank you man, Thanks, best of luck.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, you will thank you.
Speaker 1: Uh, he's dude, because he's perfect for this job.
Speaker 4: All those things right that that can get you in
Speaker 4: trouble in a job like this. But again, more than
Speaker 4: the work ethic of this guy from from the time
Speaker 4: when he was an assistant. I've told you the story
Speaker 4: that you know, he came to speak to a group
Speaker 4: that that I was with and he had three phones going,
Speaker 4: you know, and and and it was crazy to to
Speaker 4: to see. And he was young at that time, trying
Speaker 4: to make his bones and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: But uh, you know, he's he's still that guy, energetic,
Speaker 4: he's still youthful. He's gonna put every bit of energy
Speaker 4: that needs to go into this. Uh. And I think
Speaker 4: just U N l V itself is just such a
Speaker 4: great fit for him. You know, he's he you know,
Speaker 4: having been at Arizona, he understands this part of the
Speaker 4: country and why it's gonna work. So I wish him
Speaker 4: a lot of luck, a lot of I think.
Speaker 1: I think this one might work for him, you know,
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, You're Jagin Sauace.
Speaker 1: I'm almost I'm already tweeting that idea. I just put
Speaker 1: on Facebook and just put on Twitter. That's a great idea.
Speaker 4: Well, of course, I mean they should play.
Speaker 1: Come on, well you mean demon I think the fourteen
Speaker 1: for the fourteen Oh okay, and you had it in Vegas.
Speaker 1: You don't think that.
Speaker 4: Tons of people are people the basketball fans and Tucson
Speaker 4: are dying to have a reason to go to Vegas.
Speaker 1: But then you have Damon Bibbie. Josh are you there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh come on, Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's one of those two o'clock dance parties that don't
Speaker 1: tell them. We always talked about.
Speaker 4: It, now that that would be something, you know, get
Speaker 4: some people working on that. Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go. I'm gonna put it into reality year,
Speaker 1: put it out there too. That's a fantastic idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even if it's in Phoenix or somewhere, you know, just
Speaker 1: kind of it's got to be in Vegas. No, no,
Speaker 1: of course it has to be in Vegas. I'm no
Speaker 1: reason to do it anywhere else. Yeah, yeah, it would,
Speaker 1: it would sell, would sell.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you came here, last one out, last one out
Speaker 4: of Tucson. Turn out the lights Manu. Yeah, good good.
Speaker 1: Joshu is not fantastic.
Speaker 4: Again, wish him all the luck. I really hope he's
Speaker 4: successful there. I think he's got a chance to be.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's been tough over there, right, as he
Speaker 4: said that, it's been tough for thirty some years.
Speaker 1: You know, the one thing I wanted to ask him,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know how to ask him. We ran
Speaker 1: out of time because he had to go to a meeting.
Speaker 1: I think that he's going to have to change his
Speaker 1: philosophy as a coach. You know, he was, he's he
Speaker 1: was in Memphis, did okay there and then eventually was
Speaker 1: gonna he jumped ship before they jumped him, but to
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech and they let him go. Who's nicer than
Speaker 1: Josh Passner?
Speaker 4: Right? That might be a yeah, Well, you know, you
Speaker 4: like to think that you know, each time you make
Speaker 4: you to a new place, exactly, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: lessons behind you. Yes that you know, Okay, this is
Speaker 4: what happened at Memphis and what I needed to do better.
Speaker 4: Then he goes to Georgia Tech, and this is what
Speaker 4: happened to Georgia, And now I've got Georgia technoledge and
Speaker 4: Memphis knowledge you put into this job, and that you know,
Speaker 4: a good coach, a smart coach, just a smart person. Well,
Speaker 4: we'll take those experiences and make themselves better.
Speaker 1: And for me, you know, I've said this. Nice guys
Speaker 1: don't do well in this business, you know, the Steve
Speaker 1: Lavins and whatever, because they're good dudes. Yeah, and there's
Speaker 1: no better to do than Josh Pastor that he has
Speaker 1: to maybe be tougher.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm asking, don't you think that, Let's say
Speaker 4: a newspaper came along and wanted to hire you, and
Speaker 4: you one took a job at the newspaper after all
Speaker 4: these years, you'd be a better reporter than you were
Speaker 4: at the Tucson Citizen.
Speaker 1: I hoped that i'd be a better writer. Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: of course, because you have.
Speaker 4: To be like, Okay, like you know, you and I
Speaker 4: we both write for BIZ Tucson. I'm a way better
Speaker 4: writer for BIZ Tucson than I ever was for the
Speaker 4: Star because because yeah. But but but in terms of
Speaker 4: I feel more comfortable doing things that I didn't feel
Speaker 4: comfortable doing at the newspapers.
Speaker 1: And we're also older and wiser, and.
Speaker 4: If somebody tells us to get the hell out, we'll
Speaker 4: just say I'll see you later. But no, but I
Speaker 4: feel more confident in my ability to whether bistwos on
Speaker 4: or anything any other work that I'm doing. I feel
Speaker 4: like I'm a I'm a much better writer because of
Speaker 4: the experience that I've had and again been doing it
Speaker 4: so long, I feel like I know it pretty well.
Speaker 4: And if somebody tells me, hey, you know, maybe you
Speaker 4: should have done this with it, you know, I'll do
Speaker 4: that because I don't feel like I have to know everything. Sure,
Speaker 4: I don't feel like I know everything about writing.
Speaker 14: Well, no, and that's how you get better or poltically.
Speaker 14: And that's what I would hope Josh would take it as. Okay,
Speaker 14: I did these things at Georgia Tech. Some of it
Speaker 14: didn't work. Here's what didn't work, So here's what I
Speaker 14: got to do different. Well, here's your here's your catch too. Okay,
Speaker 14: So we knew him here forever. Right now, he goes
Speaker 14: to Memphis. I think he was like thirty at the most.
Speaker 14: Man if that, and then he went to Georgia Tech
Speaker 14: Q pretty damn good programs at the time. Right, Well,
Speaker 14: he's kind of going reverse where Vegas would have been
Speaker 14: his first time.
Speaker 1: Right, do well and then go Emphis and then yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, he's got his work.
Speaker 4: He's got to work his way back.
Speaker 1: Up, yeah, or or be happy there or look.
Speaker 4: I love Josh. But maybe those jobs were a little
Speaker 4: over his head. Maybe Memphis was as young as he
Speaker 4: was at Memphis. Maybe it was a little too much.
Speaker 1: Jay Jakins, as you're going to be the new head
Speaker 1: coach at UNLV, I'm never leaving again. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: because it could be a destination that you just say,
Speaker 1: we've seen the possibility right thirty years ago. Right now,
Speaker 1: this program getting going bunkers. You know, there's nil money.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a yeah, Yeah, I mean I believe that that.
Speaker 4: You know, with all the things that go on in
Speaker 4: in in Vegas, UNLV, basketball is still a thing over there.
Speaker 4: You know, they want it to be good, and there's
Speaker 4: a lot of money, right, and there's a lot of
Speaker 4: money there that will, I think will support them to
Speaker 4: be good if the right coach comes along and starts
Speaker 4: doing all the right things.
Speaker 1: Well, Vegas was n I L before n I L.
Speaker 4: The fixer right, what was his name? Yeah, that the
Speaker 4: that the players got caught in the hot tub with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but IL before Yeah, I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of perfect spot for him. Uh. It works his butt off.
Speaker 1: He's not one of those Vegas dudes anyway, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he'll mingle, he'll he'll be very.
Speaker 4: Much to find himself. He'll find himself a nice place
Speaker 4: to live away from the away from all the hoop
Speaker 4: love Vegas, and he'll do the.
Speaker 1: Work pent House it.
Speaker 4: No, he's gonna go live in He'll live in Henderson
Speaker 4: or something like that, right, one of those great neighborhoods
Speaker 4: over there. Man, you've probably I know you've been on
Speaker 4: through there. There's some really places to live over there.
Speaker 4: Sure he'll be fine. Yeah, there's one thing you don't have.
Speaker 1: To worry about with Josh. Do worry about Josh?
Speaker 4: Right, right, he'll be great. I guess I didn't realize
Speaker 4: he had four kids. Yeah, I think three girls and
Speaker 4: the boy. I think that's what it is. Yeah, So
Speaker 4: we've been going back and forth time. I'm glad he
Speaker 4: came on the show. Uh, We've got to get my
Speaker 4: baby on too. He was on Rome a couple of
Speaker 4: days ago, and we've had him on a number of times.
Speaker 4: I had him recently. Did were you on the show
Speaker 4: with him? And you know I joke with him, you
Speaker 4: never said two words in school? I was kids stopping
Speaker 4: from talking yeah, he's.
Speaker 1: But look at the look at the tree of loot, Damon.
Speaker 1: Well let's start the top ker Uh Bruce Fraser, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you have Damon, Now you have Josh Miles was
Speaker 1: a coach. Uh Barton, not bart but god he was
Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Indians or Cleveland Cavaliers. Uh it'll come
Speaker 1: to me. Uh, there's another guy there. He was an
Speaker 1: assistant coach. Sean's his grandson, mister Brazi. Yeah, yeah, God,
Speaker 1: there's a few, a few. Because if you know, another
Speaker 1: thing that I thought possible, and maybe you agree with
Speaker 1: me or not agree with me. One of the things
Speaker 1: that I'm kind of touting his horn. He let them
Speaker 1: talk to talk to us the media right right? Randomly?
Speaker 1: How they become these people on the radio or TV
Speaker 1: coaching growing up?
Speaker 4: No, one hundred percent. I mean, you know, there's a
Speaker 4: there's a lot. There's a lot to that because if
Speaker 4: you learn, you know, dealing with idiots like us, right
Speaker 4: and and dealing with us in a way that it's professionals,
Speaker 4: gives you a lot of confidence in yourself to be
Speaker 4: able to go and handle a job, interview, handle you know,
Speaker 4: go recruit a kid growing up right, go speak in
Speaker 4: front of a group of people, go do some fundraising,
Speaker 4: whatever it is you're doing. You you get confidence in
Speaker 4: doing that by dealing with people like us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, no, I try not to cuss that.
Speaker 1: And that's a great point in today's world. They don't
Speaker 1: let they don't let them. Were afraid that they're going
Speaker 1: to say something. Guess what. These kids are pretty smart.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, and again getting to those two kids that
Speaker 4: I that I dealt with at the at the at
Speaker 4: the regional uh uh Clayton and I can't I can't
Speaker 4: remember the old guy's name, but the Texas Tech kid,
Speaker 4: they were really good at, you know, at handling you know,
Speaker 4: that that whole press conference thing. So you know, because
Speaker 4: because they've been doing them, you know, all year long.
Speaker 4: But you know there's some kids that, you know, we
Speaker 4: would talk to everybody, right, but nowadays there's only about
Speaker 4: three or four guys on a team that do any media, right,
Speaker 4: So these other kids that are there, they really don't
Speaker 4: experience that. And you know that there's some kids that
Speaker 4: probably you know, I don't know how to handle it.
Speaker 4: These guys do, the guys that you know, the the
Speaker 4: Cooper flags and those guys they know how to do
Speaker 4: that because they get to do it all the time.
Speaker 4: But the guys that don't, they come out of there
Speaker 4: and they haven't had that experience.
Speaker 1: Missed one. Craig McMillan.
Speaker 4: Craig McMillan, Yeah, all kinds of guys, just a lot
Speaker 4: of guys out there that that have been you know.
Speaker 1: I totally agree with it. These guys come to college
Speaker 1: to learn one to grow up. I think that's what
Speaker 1: you used it for, you to grow on And why
Speaker 1: why coddle them and keep them behind the scenes when
Speaker 1: you can freely tell You can tell her stories better
Speaker 1: than anybody. And guess what, n I l p people
Speaker 1: who know who their story is.
Speaker 4: They give to them and you find out a lot
Speaker 4: about the questions, right, You find out about whether or
Speaker 4: not this is a ja Morant in the making versus
Speaker 4: a perfect the making.
Speaker 1: So let me let me ask you this. So did
Speaker 1: you see the press conference at the loss with Duke
Speaker 1: with UA's press conference?
Speaker 4: I missed it, well, So it was great.
Speaker 1: It was great because Henry, who didn't say a lot
Speaker 1: of things, he stepped up and said, you gotta love
Speaker 1: Caleb love and it was It was a great post
Speaker 1: post game because it was not about the game. It
Speaker 1: was about the love for club and Henry's you got
Speaker 1: to get this guy. He's one of the best people
Speaker 1: I've ever met. We would have never heard that otherwise.
Speaker 1: And thank god he said it, because you wouldn't you know,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't say it otherwise.
Speaker 4: No, it makes it. It makes total sense, Steve. And that's
Speaker 4: and that's the thing that I've really, you know, been
Speaker 4: unhappy with in terms of the way, you know, media
Speaker 4: has been shut down from you know, from dealing with
Speaker 4: with with athletes, you know, especially in football, where you've
Speaker 4: got a hundred guys that that you know that you
Speaker 4: maybe want to talk to, and you only ever talked
Speaker 4: to four or five.
Speaker 1: So so I'm getting more people, so have you. The
Speaker 1: guy couldn't remember, right because he was with Cleven that
Speaker 1: was with the Orlando Magic. And then we have another
Speaker 1: one the right in our backyard, Regie geary Ye, who
Speaker 1: was a coach at a SMU I think it was,
Speaker 1: and then in Japan, I don't think.
Speaker 4: So he's still playing. I'm taking no look at it.
Speaker 4: That's sorry, mixed up all the time.
Speaker 1: That's about ten of them and all pretty successful. Jason
Speaker 1: Terry Jason Terry's with salt Lake. Yeah. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: bunch of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And all during that time, all during that lout time.
Speaker 4: That stretch, yeah, that stretch you guys. No, yeah, you know, look,
Speaker 4: and I felt, I always felt that Lute tried to
Speaker 4: let these guys experience, right, you know. Well, and it
Speaker 4: was during it was during its time that a lot
Speaker 4: of stuff got started getting shut down. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 4: just the again, I've talked about the access that we
Speaker 4: had with those guys, and and you just felt like
Speaker 4: they were growing up right in front of your eyes
Speaker 4: while you were talking to them.
Speaker 1: And the thing is for the readers, the readers and
Speaker 1: the fans, they got to know who they were. And
Speaker 1: especially nowadays, don't you need them the fans to know
Speaker 1: who they are because guess what you're asking the fans
Speaker 1: buy tickets and give money.
Speaker 4: Right right, exactly exactly. But you know, I mean I
Speaker 4: think back to the interview that he did with Anthony
Speaker 4: Cook his senior year, you know, and here's a kid,
Speaker 4: you know, he's probably twenty one, maybe twenty two years
Speaker 4: old at the time, and we had a conversation about how,
Speaker 4: you know, how his dad had had committed suicide. And
Speaker 4: I'm like, here's a kid that probably doesn't want to
Speaker 4: talk about that. But he felt confident enough in himself
Speaker 4: to be able to have that conversation with a reporter.
Speaker 4: And it's like, you know, you felt like he was
Speaker 4: growing up right there and having that conversation and therapeuty. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and it's very therapeutic for them. You know, we had
Speaker 4: to the last time I was on we had Tom
Speaker 4: Tolbert on it, you know, the time I went to Tom
Speaker 4: Tolbert's dorm and and spent those spent three hours with
Speaker 4: him and and you know, heard his stories. And now
Speaker 4: at that time, he didn't fess up to the story
Speaker 4: about him not being home when Tartanian came looking for him.
Speaker 4: But you know, we talked a little bit about the
Speaker 4: whole thing, that midnight loot and how all that some
Speaker 4: of that happened. He didn't go into as much detail.
Speaker 4: But you know, these guys were having conversations, very personal conversations. Well,
Speaker 4: and it was good for them to have those conversations
Speaker 4: because now they were they were more comfortable in their
Speaker 4: own skin. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, the mint that lout didn't start till after him
Speaker 1: because Matt Autik was the secondary, right, right, and then
Speaker 1: it kind of circled back.
Speaker 4: But I mean he took you know, he did talk
Speaker 4: about how, you know, Lute stole them from from under
Speaker 4: Titanian and so you know, there's a lot of there's
Speaker 4: a lot of benefit to that and and you feel
Speaker 4: like instead of shielding them from it, they should let
Speaker 4: him experience that stuff.
Speaker 1: No question. I've said this for a while now. It's
Speaker 1: been us since Greg came on of Greg Burned, it's
Speaker 1: twenty tenish. Yeah, it's been fifteen years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you know back then the one year
Speaker 4: it was it was my chance to do this. But
Speaker 4: the one year that I worked as a media guy
Speaker 4: for the Sugar Skulls and we had a session which
Speaker 4: which you should right, we had which there was a
Speaker 4: session where I talked to them about dealing with the media,
Speaker 4: and you know, and I may I ask for a
Speaker 4: show of hands, how many guys you know don't like
Speaker 4: the media or don't trust the media, And the bunch
Speaker 4: of hands went up. It's okay, let me just tell
Speaker 4: you this. Don't look at this as something crappy that
Speaker 4: you've got to do. It's a one it's a part
Speaker 4: of the job. But two, it'll do you some good
Speaker 4: to talk about yourself to people. You know, you be
Speaker 4: old pr person, right, you know, talk about and let
Speaker 4: people know who you are. You know why because when
Speaker 4: you got the helmet on, you want those people to
Speaker 4: have a sense of who you are, so that the
Speaker 4: root for you. And I felt like, you know, I
Speaker 4: saw some heads nodding, and I remember that, and I
Speaker 4: feel like I was trying to take the edge off
Speaker 4: of or the lack of trust that so many of
Speaker 4: these guys have have in dealing with the media. And
Speaker 4: there were still some struggles throughout the.
Speaker 1: Year, you know, because they probably weren't used to because
Speaker 1: they weren't used.
Speaker 4: To those you know one guy, you know, one guy
Speaker 4: that the media wanted to talk to after a practice
Speaker 4: and he took off out of back gate because he
Speaker 4: didn't want to do it. You know what I did.
Speaker 4: I took I took the camera with me and we
Speaker 4: went over to the locker room and made him do
Speaker 4: the interview and was and then he was fine, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he did the interviews, that's what happens, you know. But
Speaker 4: he had this image and and and he was scared
Speaker 4: of personal image, right, and he was scared of it
Speaker 4: until I got him to feel comfortable.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about a twenty three year old kidder
Speaker 1: than that.
Speaker 4: I'd been a couple of years in the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so by then, yeah, yeah, And it doesn't hurt
Speaker 1: because of the people in the community or other places
Speaker 1: see you as a professional. Right, and then you were
Speaker 1: able to speak, uh, like what I can't do now
Speaker 1: speak your own story?
Speaker 15: Right?
Speaker 4: And look, are there some degenerates in the media who
Speaker 4: are in it for the wrong reason, who are in
Speaker 4: it looking to make somebody look bad? Of course, it
Speaker 4: are like any other profession. There's bad people and you
Speaker 4: have to be you have to be aware, you have
Speaker 4: to you know. But for the most part they're not.
Speaker 4: There's a few, but there's but they're not, and you know,
Speaker 4: and you find you can find that out pretty early
Speaker 4: on when you deal with somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's take a break down and take some
Speaker 1: calls on the other side.
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Speaker 1: They welcome back to Whying the Ball here Buck Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're jiggens as I think
Speaker 1: we started. We're gonna call it to Play in the
Speaker 1: Ball Classic. Yeah, I mean yeah, I think it's a
Speaker 1: great I think it's Bibby's a smart dude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's smart.
Speaker 1: Some of the people are saying it's got to be
Speaker 1: played a mchail.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no. We gotta go to Vegas for this.
Speaker 4: We gotta go to Vegas for this. There's a two
Speaker 4: day tournament up there, you know. Yeah, just let ended
Speaker 4: to have to be winners and just match two teams.
Speaker 4: You know, know who you're gonna play when you get
Speaker 4: up there. It doesn't matter. Just four teams, all of
Speaker 4: them theirs on the connections. I'll play a couple of
Speaker 4: games up there. Yeah, you know, two games in two days.
Speaker 1: It's perfect, perfect, even if it's not the first sue second,
Speaker 1: I gotta steal live for two more years. But you're
Speaker 1: over unders fifty fifty, who knows, but that's I think
Speaker 1: it's a great idea. People are Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, let's go all over it, man, get all over that.
Speaker 1: Cool, cool, cool Joseph Blair. We forgot it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for good another coach. Joseph Blair's in the he's
Speaker 4: in the where is right now?
Speaker 1: Vipers? They just real grand Vipers. She just lost in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so they're everywhere everywhere? What else? What is
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 4: We haven't talked about Idea? Oh yes, the house age.
Speaker 1: It's well, you were on the show last time two
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, right, we talked about that and you
Speaker 1: were pretty vocal of what texts going on, and you
Speaker 1: were pretty strong that things needed to change.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I get you know, disgruntle players leave and
Speaker 4: they say bad things and stuff like that. We know
Speaker 4: ideas a tough, a tough coach, and is she too
Speaker 4: tough for some of these players? Maybe? But then we say,
Speaker 4: you know what what's tough and what's abusive? Right right?
Speaker 4: And we don't you know, I mean, we know the difference,
Speaker 4: but you know, when she's coaching, which is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's take this call real quick. You're on the
Speaker 1: aar andine on the ball? Who's this?
Speaker 27: This is Vic?
Speaker 1: Steve Jay?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 22: Hey?
Speaker 27: So I just had a real call real quick. Changed
Speaker 27: courses and uh and uh, Steve bragged on my little
Speaker 27: cousin last night taking that three point challenge down. But I, uh, listen, dude,
Speaker 27: as Prescott and she won. She won the three point
Speaker 27: the college three point shooting challenge at the at the
Speaker 27: final four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because when you test me on.
Speaker 27: Sewing women and I don't know if you remember, Jay,
Speaker 27: but I told you and when we were at the casino,
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Speaker 1: That I always see that. That what I get that
Speaker 1: look every day when I see But.
Speaker 27: I'm proud that she's a she's a young Chicana. I
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Speaker 27: Her great randpa started Sunshine Litle League, got a Santa
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Speaker 27: his name is actually on the skate park there. And
Speaker 27: her great grandma played for the Flirts, which is a
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Speaker 27: aunt Norma is one of the first Title nine scholarship
Speaker 27: players played softball at Arizona well, so just kind of
Speaker 27: had to throw that in there. But we're super.
Speaker 4: Proud of her.
Speaker 27: Ooh career. She's she set the WHAP record for three
Speaker 27: pointers this year, beating Becky Hammond. She has like two
Speaker 27: or three three point records at un l V and
Speaker 27: she played and obviously one four league title that modern day.
Speaker 27: So she's quite a career.
Speaker 1: So she chance on the WNBA.
Speaker 27: No, she's actually at the Women's Final four this weekend.
Speaker 27: She flew in this morning and she's gonna try out
Speaker 27: for European Scout.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, you know the good thing that on
Speaker 1: this call, I know you got to leave now from
Speaker 1: the call, there was no Dodger talk.
Speaker 27: Where we're losing.
Speaker 4: I know I'm watching, I got it on in here.
Speaker 27: Okay, but but it's okay, but I just got my
Speaker 27: uh my gold embroidered hat. Jay.
Speaker 13: You love it, man?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw those very cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah cool, awesome. Okay, thanks, But there's.
Speaker 27: Gonna be planning during the during the summer, Steve, so
Speaker 27: watch out.
Speaker 4: Okay. Thanks a bunch of man, Okay, thanks guys, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Thanks a bunch of What were we talking about before?
Speaker 4: We're starting to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you know, I saw something today. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was just coincidence whatever. They said
Speaker 1: that the top twelve arrogant coaches in women's basketball. So
Speaker 1: I clicked on it. It was it was fairly recent.
Speaker 1: Uh you think she was on that list?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Where probably eight or ten.
Speaker 1: Twelve, twelve one. I was surprised that they had her
Speaker 1: on the list and she was twelve. Who would be
Speaker 1: number one or two? Kim Malkee she was number two.
Speaker 4: Close's don Don Staley three, okay, Gene Arima first of
Speaker 4: course the winners. Yeah right, yeah, and you got.
Speaker 1: You kind of have to have that if you're gonna
Speaker 1: be very It was all the blue blood women's basketball.
Speaker 1: And you're thinking, again to my point with with with Josh,
Speaker 1: you have to have some of that in you to
Speaker 1: be a good coach.
Speaker 4: It's a confidence, almost an arrogance, you know, to take
Speaker 4: all the bullets but still say, you know, I'm doing
Speaker 4: this because this is what I think is the best
Speaker 4: way for to do this.
Speaker 1: And let me say this. Adia we know is a
Speaker 1: tough person, a demanding person, but she's also good at
Speaker 1: what she does. She didn't get to the final four
Speaker 1: and national championship by accident. I think maybe that's kind
Speaker 1: of an excuse now to say this is who I am.
Speaker 4: But but well, she had the players at that time,
Speaker 4: and and and you know what what it seems like,
Speaker 4: you know, I was having this conversation I think in
Speaker 4: San Francisco. We were talking about about a DA and
Speaker 4: what's going on with the program, and I said, you know,
Speaker 4: you know, when you when you think about that that
Speaker 4: team that couple of years, you know, when they won
Speaker 4: the women's in I T and they went to the
Speaker 4: Found four and all that stuff. The common denominator, it
Speaker 4: wasn't about I guess Aaron McDonald was an incredible player,
Speaker 4: but to me, it was a it was a Sam Thomas.
Speaker 4: You need you need that right, and that she was
Speaker 4: somebody that probably had the locker room. And there's been
Speaker 4: nobody like that since Sam Thomas.
Speaker 1: They haven't been here long enough to Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: mean still, you know, a freshman or a sophomore or whatever,
Speaker 1: whether it's a portal person or whatever, comes in and
Speaker 1: and they've just not had anybody who can pull the
Speaker 1: entire team together present.
Speaker 4: Look, and I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna say a very
Speaker 4: sexist thing right now. Okay, I've coached boys and I've
Speaker 4: coached girls. Girls are are harder to coach because of
Speaker 4: the drama that comes with coaching girls. I mean guys, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they have their personality issues and stuff like that. They
Speaker 4: get on the field and they want to win. Yeah. Girls,
Speaker 4: My experience was that you had to deal with those
Speaker 4: issues even during games. Yea and so, and then it's
Speaker 4: right and then and then all around it. So it's
Speaker 4: a it's a you have to have somebody who can
Speaker 4: within the team, not a coach, a player who can
Speaker 4: make sure that that stuff doesn't interfere.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, I don't know if you heard the interview
Speaker 1: I had with Todd Holdhouse, right, he very successful in
Speaker 1: his position in FEMA. He says he became a better
Speaker 1: coach than even now. And you saw what he did.
Speaker 1: His daughter was on the team, and she's a teenager
Speaker 1: and she I learned a lot from her. How do
Speaker 1: we know how to deal with what was going on?
Speaker 4: You know? It was two to you know, actually three
Speaker 4: of us, three male coaches coaching the Saint Gregor softball team.
Speaker 4: And there were some issues, Sure, there were some issues.
Speaker 4: My daughter was in the middle of some of those issues. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know she was, she was the pitcher on the team,
Speaker 4: and you just you just not, you know, after having
Speaker 4: coach baseball, you know, for four years and then and
Speaker 4: I'm dealing with this, I'm like, can we just play? Yeah,
Speaker 4: can we just talk? Get along?
Speaker 1: Here's the other throw throw that with the women's thing
Speaker 1: and adia situation. Uh, and then her her salary, I
Speaker 1: mean at a school that needs to save as much
Speaker 1: as possible right right to see how that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a dilemma because now she's out there recruiting.
Speaker 4: Is she going to sign a contract here, you know,
Speaker 4: sometime soon or is she not? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And you know how those in a nimbo coaches live,
Speaker 1: and it's very difficult to It is really hard to.
Speaker 4: Recruit because players want to know even though a player
Speaker 4: comes here knowing I might leave after my first year,
Speaker 4: they want to know if they want to know, if
Speaker 4: you know a coach might be here.
Speaker 1: Jason Gardner another one.
Speaker 4: God, dang, Steve, We're not We're not. We're not even close, man.
Speaker 4: We're just missing this.
Speaker 1: You know, the aaron I on the ball.
Speaker 27: Who's this.
Speaker 4: Treasure?
Speaker 1: How you guys doing Richard? What's going on how about them? Lobos?
Speaker 15: Good here, Jay on the radio with you, Hey, you guys.
Speaker 15: I just Oklahoma had an assistant basketball manager position open,
Speaker 15: and I guess after quite a lengthy interview process and struggles,
Speaker 15: they named Trey Young as our assistant manager now the
Speaker 15: basketball team.
Speaker 1: Yes, the GM.
Speaker 15: Sput and I think his application came with a million
Speaker 15: dollar check. So we thought it was rather interesting the
Speaker 15: way to pursue that job.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, he's paying them or they're paying him.
Speaker 15: No, no, he donated.
Speaker 3: I think of me into the progress.
Speaker 1: That's okay, it makes sense.
Speaker 4: I don't have that anyway.
Speaker 15: Uh, you know, that's what that's what's going on part
Speaker 15: of in IL.
Speaker 1: Did me ask you, Richard, because of the OU rivalry
Speaker 1: with Texas, do you think there's a lot of envy
Speaker 1: now from Oklahoma to Texas because Texas has kind of
Speaker 1: took a major step up in every sport?
Speaker 4: Well, you do.
Speaker 15: I don't know if you saw the analysis by somebody
Speaker 15: I forgot Sports Illustrated or something who reviewed these schedules
Speaker 15: that were handed out by the SEC to Oklahoma and Texas,
Speaker 15: and their schedule was a lot easier than powers. Plus,
Speaker 15: we didn't come in with a real very good team.
Speaker 4: Did.
Speaker 15: We were pretty unstable this year. I mean so uh.
Speaker 15: And but who didn't think that was going to happen
Speaker 15: by going to the SEC? I mean, only an idiot
Speaker 15: would think that they were going to hand Oklahoma good schedule.
Speaker 15: I mean that was just stupid.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 15: I mean, you went the SEC. We sold out our
Speaker 15: power and our tradition. Yeah, you know, and who gives
Speaker 15: a damn? I don't care anything about SEC football. You know,
Speaker 15: you guys are you're Pack twelve fans. You know you
Speaker 15: love the Pac twelve. It's gone. You probably have to
Speaker 15: struggle to be interested in the Big twelve. But anyway,
Speaker 15: it is what it is, as they say, and the
Speaker 15: world's changed.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and you're talking and you're talking to football
Speaker 1: specific great, yes, right there, I was.
Speaker 15: Yeah, okay, uh, basketball Oklahoma. It appears I think that
Speaker 15: thunder Oklahoo City thunder is drained off the Sooner crowd
Speaker 15: of attendance.
Speaker 4: That makes interesting because the Norman.
Speaker 15: Is thirty miles down the highway, thirty five miles away,
Speaker 15: And why wouldn't you just go downtown and see the thunder?
Speaker 15: You know, it's great and if you can get a
Speaker 15: very a ticket at a very reasonable price.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I asked case you how the how that's gone
Speaker 4: for them over the years with the Phoenix Suns and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's only a certain amount of dollars, right yeah, thanks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks bench. Hey did you hear you vote?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Interesting? You know, it's gonna be interesting to see how
Speaker 4: long Oklahoma kind of stays middling with all this stuff
Speaker 4: in the SEC. They're middle of the road football team.
Speaker 4: We're middle of the road basketball team. And they're not
Speaker 4: used to that, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They just got hammerd by LSU and baseball yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and softball, I'm sure it's pretty good still. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they're battling with Texas and that will.
Speaker 4: Be interesting too to see if if Oklahoma softball continues
Speaker 4: to be what Oklahoma's softwa has been now that they're
Speaker 4: in the SEC. We've got he said, you know, you
Speaker 4: got LC, you got Alabama, you got all these teams
Speaker 4: down there that are really damn good.
Speaker 1: No, sometimes you get what you wish for, and you say,
Speaker 1: what the hell do you?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 4: They well, they well they were sort of the a
Speaker 4: s U. What a s U was when Arizona went
Speaker 4: to the pack to the Pac ten. Is that you know,
Speaker 4: Oklahoma went kicking and screaming. Yeah, uh you know, and
Speaker 4: and and now they're paying sort of paying that price.
Speaker 1: One less call for abut a minute. You're on the
Speaker 1: air nine the ball. Who's this.
Speaker 27: Hey, yeah, don't forget about Chris Rogers.
Speaker 4: I think he coaches that soon.
Speaker 1: No, this is my highway guy. So let me saying.
Speaker 1: There's there's a there's a Coleman. So Coleman he played.
Speaker 4: For Yes, yes, he's an assistant somewhere.
Speaker 1: He's a Foothills foot Hills. I think your data story
Speaker 1: there are Coleman's. That's Foothills. So there's you know, that's
Speaker 1: the first one I remember from from Sean Miller's time.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there could be another. And he had a
Speaker 1: few gas that are coming through the ranks too, so
Speaker 1: many for loot because they're now in their forties and
Speaker 1: fifties coaching. Are we good with time? Got about a minute?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I got a minute?
Speaker 1: Okay, No, thanks for coming back, Jay, No.
Speaker 4: This is fun, that's all. It's fine. I look forward
Speaker 4: to it every Friday. Man.
Speaker 1: I had to go find you my road next.
Speaker 4: Keep me coming back, Yes, you know, as long as
Speaker 4: as long as you need me, Steve.
Speaker 1: I'm here for every Friday. Maybe I'm here for you Friday,
Speaker 1: I'm here. We'll know more about the final four. So week,
Speaker 1: the bet is you got Duke, I got.
Speaker 4: Florida, and where do we bet? We're going.
Speaker 1: Win or I gotta win right by the way. No, no,
Speaker 1: we're good with that.
Speaker 4: I'm good. We'll do it before a Friday. A Friday,
Speaker 4: I got Florida in my bracket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, No, it's we won't know until we know.
Speaker 4: I don't want to agree with the Dodgers fan anyways.
Speaker 1: Smart, smart, I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: I have a total appreciation with that, because I don't
Speaker 4: want a giant fan to agree with me.
Speaker 1: What do you What do you have when you have
Speaker 1: two grudge people in a room? You have that? Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks guys, Hey, great week of shows. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you guys Monday.