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Speaker 3: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball
Speaker 3: here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Riveta, he's
Speaker 3: Jagan Gauls. We've got a guy Ryan with us today.
Speaker 3: I only have one thing to say to you, Jay,
Speaker 3: but I'm glad I'm not in school anymore.
Speaker 4: That learning today got you. I know, I can't do it.
Speaker 4: Do you not have the I don't. I don't have
Speaker 4: the capacity, you know, the focus. You can't zero in
Speaker 4: on some.
Speaker 3: Focus determination, you throw anything right out there. I don't
Speaker 3: have the patience anymore to go through all that crap again.
Speaker 4: There's there's different ways of learning anymore, Steve. You can
Speaker 4: record stuff, you know, you know the I don't know
Speaker 4: if you use it.
Speaker 3: I use that.
Speaker 4: I use that pro not taking program. We don't have
Speaker 4: to take notes anymore.
Speaker 3: No, I know. You just got to clean it up
Speaker 3: and go back and listen to it again. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's all I do. Yeah, that's still like repetition, like
Speaker 3: you will explain what we're doing well.
Speaker 4: So for people who know what we're talking about, we're
Speaker 4: moving to a new studio here, they tell us by
Speaker 4: the end of the month, we're.
Speaker 3: Moving to the east side, like George Jefferson to the
Speaker 3: northeast side.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be over there in the we're moving. We're
Speaker 4: moving studios. So we went into took a look at
Speaker 4: the new studio today to kind of get trained on
Speaker 4: the board. Steve just kind of stood there with his
Speaker 4: mouth hanging open while I was videotaping the thing so
Speaker 4: that I could go back and re refresh myself and
Speaker 4: all the stuff that I was forgetting.
Speaker 3: That didn't prevent you from your mouth though, but you
Speaker 3: just have a video.
Speaker 4: But we did videotape the whole video of the whole
Speaker 4: thing so that because you know, I was getting in
Speaker 4: about every third word I know about you.
Speaker 3: So right, Ryan, guess what you'll be taking some tests
Speaker 3: you and the guys that are in our great interns
Speaker 3: will be you guys.
Speaker 4: You guys will get this so easy though. It's right,
Speaker 4: you guys.
Speaker 3: This is what you guys do. Yeah, right, that's why
Speaker 3: you guys are young. You can learn me. I could
Speaker 3: give it, you know whatever.
Speaker 4: I just don't know that that room is big enough
Speaker 4: for both of us.
Speaker 3: You know, I know the colors because I could see
Speaker 3: those door blue right, and then you.
Speaker 4: Different color that's purple. I'm wearing that shirt again that
Speaker 4: you thought was peach. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: In fact, in fact, I was gonna sit you because
Speaker 3: I saw you. The shirt says who's dressing you? Because
Speaker 3: they're doing a great time like that you made.
Speaker 4: This is the same one you made a comment on
Speaker 4: the other day.
Speaker 3: The other one was a peach one. That one's pretty pink.
Speaker 3: It's the same shirt you're that.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I had a bright pink, have a bright
Speaker 4: But you notice this shirt.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, because I think this
Speaker 3: is this is more of a laugh. It is your
Speaker 3: wife putting some stuff together because you ain't buiting that.
Speaker 3: The pink one.
Speaker 4: My wife bought me. This one my son bought.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: See the difference is this got the Nike logo. He's
Speaker 4: not gonna buy me anything. It's not Nike.
Speaker 3: There's someone else's dressing you because you would not be wearing.
Speaker 4: I yelled at the other day, Steve, I got I
Speaker 4: showed up for golf and I've got Nike golf shoes
Speaker 4: on with Adida socks. My I didn't think. I thought
Speaker 4: he was going to make me go home. I thought
Speaker 4: Adam was going to make me go home. I seriously
Speaker 4: did I converse and pumas?
Speaker 3: Dress good? Play good? Who cares? Did you play any?
Speaker 2: He said?
Speaker 4: You can't play like that. I'm like, I'm like, like
Speaker 4: what I'm like, I'm looking at myself like a quick
Speaker 4: you can't have those socks on with those shoes.
Speaker 3: Who are you raising out there? Back in the day,
Speaker 3: you were lucky to have socks and shoes with the holes.
Speaker 3: Exactly sixty years later, you're about you having a different
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: My mom used to be the one yelling at me
Speaker 4: about my socks.
Speaker 3: And that's my son.
Speaker 4: What the hell is going on?
Speaker 3: To wear clean underwear? Because you never know?
Speaker 4: I never that never happened. Those things are dirtiest things
Speaker 4: I put him on yesterday exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so I'm too too old to learn stick.
Speaker 4: Look, it's very cool. Well, have some more capabilities. We'll
Speaker 4: have more than one phone line.
Speaker 3: We'll know who's calling.
Speaker 4: We'll know who's calling. We'll have more than one phone line.
Speaker 4: You'll be able to call us and you won't get
Speaker 4: a busy signal. Well, you know, take your call and
Speaker 4: put you on hold, and you'll be on hold for
Speaker 4: two and a half hours like you are for all
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Speaker 3: Right today, we're hoping them full lines work today. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think they will. Yesterday we struggled to a possible
Speaker 3: interview or whatever and we got it to work eventually. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So we're hoping because we have a pretty good show today.
Speaker 4: Right. Well, one of the guests we were supposed to
Speaker 4: have yesterday, Alie Smith, the the daughter of the late
Speaker 4: Arizona football coach Larry Smith, but also the mother of
Speaker 4: a preferred walk on at Arizona, Mason Bray who. So
Speaker 4: we're going to talk to her about all of that,
Speaker 4: right being being the the mom of a player, being
Speaker 4: the daughter of a major college football coach, but that
Speaker 4: was like growing up, all those things. Just we'll just
Speaker 4: have some fun with that because you know, Larry Smith
Speaker 4: is still there, very well thought of in this town,
Speaker 4: despite you know how he left with USC and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. Over the overtiming think people have softened about
Speaker 4: about all of that, and he was, you know, continue
Speaker 4: to live here, and he and his wife and family
Speaker 4: were always very well thought of. So we'll have it.
Speaker 4: We'll have some fun with her, and then in the
Speaker 4: second hour at four fifteen, Amanda Beard is going to
Speaker 4: join us. Seven time medal winner, gold medal winner, uh
Speaker 4: two I think, two or three gold medal I think.
Speaker 3: So she was the darling darling of one of them.
Speaker 4: At the U of A. She's now she's been she
Speaker 4: was an assistant coach last year and got retained by
Speaker 4: the new coach this year. So we'll talk to her
Speaker 4: and of course get into the Olympic experience.
Speaker 3: Right exactly, Okay, no cool. On day two of practice
Speaker 3: went on today.
Speaker 4: We were too busy doing other I have no idea
Speaker 4: what went on over there.
Speaker 3: So they were doing the interviews. You'll start seeing stuff
Speaker 3: on Twitter. Yeah, so we'll see about that. We talked
Speaker 3: about this a little yesterday with with Polito. He's going
Speaker 3: to be missed. I think, uh is kind.
Speaker 4: Of well, he's good enough to be a starter, of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and a good player, you know, a good player
Speaker 3: with more experience. Uh. You know, some people are hinting
Speaker 3: things blah blah blah. If you don't know, don't.
Speaker 4: Say, don't. Yeah, yeah, you know, he's a he's still
Speaker 4: he's still a young guy. Don't speculate. If you can
Speaker 4: report it, report it right right. If you know, you
Speaker 4: know and and you can you can with uh, with certainty,
Speaker 4: report then fine. But you know, understand, you know, as
Speaker 4: we say, these aren't professional athletes. Get well, they're sort
Speaker 4: of profession they're starting to be a professional athletes.
Speaker 3: But journalism still journalism, it is.
Speaker 4: And and just to do the right thing if you're
Speaker 4: if you're looking into, you know, if you want to know,
Speaker 4: or looking into what happened to me. Look, it's good
Speaker 4: enough for me to know that he's not gonna he's
Speaker 4: not gonna play. That's it. He's not We're not sitting
Speaker 4: around waiting, well, is he gonna play in a week?
Speaker 4: Is he gonna play six weeks? He's not available this year.
Speaker 4: If it's an injury, fine, If it's some personal issue,
Speaker 4: then whatever it is, you know, let him go off
Speaker 4: and deal with that. So, but yes, he is gonna
Speaker 4: be missed. When you're talking about a guy who would
Speaker 4: be starting on the offensive line, when you know how
Speaker 4: hard it is to come across offensive lineman, Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be he's gonna be missed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question. Okay, So we'll talk a little about
Speaker 3: that as well as we move forward day two and
Speaker 3: then as you know, as we get close to the
Speaker 3: first game. So we're gonna move moving in about a
Speaker 3: month less than a month apparent. Yeah, yeah, so that
Speaker 3: should be fun. I hope you learned everything you need
Speaker 3: to know. Right, better food up that way, then you
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Speaker 4: Well, they shut down the McDonald's up there.
Speaker 3: Did you know that. I didn't know that they're rebuilding it.
Speaker 4: They knocked it down and building the new and I
Speaker 4: pulled in the other day and there's like a fence
Speaker 4: around it, and so got to have McDonald's really go
Speaker 4: up that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if the kids, the kids will be going up
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Speaker 4: The pizza place, there's the basils there, there's.
Speaker 3: The restaurant, and the the restaurant up above the Walgreens.
Speaker 3: You've probably been there. It's like a yeah, above the
Speaker 3: Walgreens on the corner north west corner. Uh, there's I
Speaker 3: want to say it's a seafood type of plate.
Speaker 4: God man, I know there's Italian place right, Uh something
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Speaker 3: Or peanut peanut, peanut pena viva viva peanut. So I
Speaker 3: got something like that. So it's gonna be good for us.
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of stuff on that safeway area.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's the nine Stein's over there, Chinese place.
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Speaker 3: we are restaurants. Okay. What's going on? What's going on?
Speaker 3: A lot of swimming stuff today Olympics. I'm sure you
Speaker 3: have with breaking news, right because we were kind of
Speaker 3: like out of there.
Speaker 4: I heard a bunch of stuff that Kevin Durant was
Speaker 4: was was with somebody, Well he was, he was what
Speaker 4: do you call it trash talking the sudan players, Kadie,
Speaker 4: what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well I thought he got into it with Keishaw Johnson
Speaker 3: or something on Twitter or or so.
Speaker 4: No, he apparently during they caught there's some I guess
Speaker 4: some video of him dogging, you know, the Sudanese players
Speaker 4: I'm like, what are you doing right?
Speaker 3: Come on, man, Yeah, it's like South Point talking crap about.
Speaker 4: Greenfield exactly exactly, Yeah, yeah, you're no your well, well, well,
Speaker 4: what it tells me is that they were a little
Speaker 4: concerned about how close Sudan kept that game because they
Speaker 4: you know, they were really I mean they were, they
Speaker 4: were never they weren't in it, but they weren't getting
Speaker 4: blown out. And I think they think the Americas, after
Speaker 4: after how close they came against them, they thought, Okay,
Speaker 4: we're going to go out there and kick their asses
Speaker 4: and make make sure that they know that that was
Speaker 4: an accident what happened the first time around. But the Sudans,
Speaker 4: they wouldn't go away. They kept hanging in ten, twelve,
Speaker 4: fourteen points down and didn't go away. So who knows what?
Speaker 4: Who knows it was on his mind? You know what?
Speaker 4: Excuse me be better than that, Kevin.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, you know I didn't see that.
Speaker 4: I didn't see much Olympics today other than to know
Speaker 4: that the guy that I that I picked to when
Speaker 4: the golf tournament is in forty fifth place out of sixty.
Speaker 3: But the the kod is back.
Speaker 4: There's only sixty guys and he's like in forty second
Speaker 4: or forty fifth place or something like that. They've got
Speaker 4: Shane Lowry this week in the Olympic Golf tournament. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: because I've used up I've used up all of the
Speaker 4: West guys.
Speaker 3: But you just said he's not getting a gold medal.
Speaker 4: He's not. He's not.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of breaking dows that would log on
Speaker 3: God Baseball, the inchels angels done. You have to see
Speaker 3: you don't say all right, I don't want to still,
Speaker 3: just will save it. We'll save it for he's here
Speaker 3: to save us, not to hurt us.
Speaker 4: Save it for what do you call it? Yeah, did
Speaker 4: they have a late practice today or something? Or no?
Speaker 3: Sometimes okay, yeah, you just not see his.
Speaker 4: Mom just seeing the stuff getting posted. Now it's getting reposted,
Speaker 4: that's what it is.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, okay, all right, Well again you want to call.
Speaker 3: I think we have well, I don't know. We're going
Speaker 3: to get to a break here in about three minutes,
Speaker 3: but today I think our phones are gonna work. Okay, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: Are either you guys are degenerate enough to bet on
Speaker 4: that Hall of Fame game tonight.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's I thought about it. I was like,
Speaker 3: oh places bet tonight just for fun?
Speaker 4: Well, Caleb, we heard from Pat Field and Caleb uh
Speaker 4: uh what's the last name?
Speaker 3: Billiams?
Speaker 4: Williams is not going to play. But none of these
Speaker 4: guys are gonna play. So I don't I don't know
Speaker 4: what you make of it. How can you bet on that? Right?
Speaker 3: If? No? No?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 3: How why why would you bet on it?
Speaker 4: Well, there's yeah, we know how, but why you know,
Speaker 4: why would you want to bet on that unless you're
Speaker 4: just like you're bad. You need a phone number, you
Speaker 4: need one eight hundred.
Speaker 3: Next step, Yeah, take all advice from you. You need
Speaker 3: a next step hold though, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay. I was just starting to go through Michael
Speaker 4: Lev's five takeaways. He's tweeting out five takeaways from every practice.
Speaker 4: He says he's going to be at every pree.
Speaker 3: So he said, is it from today? Yesterday?
Speaker 4: This was from today? Okay? So I just posted this
Speaker 4: with time at three o'clock. So he says, the quarterback
Speaker 4: battle appears to be wide open. Four quarterbacks. Rayden Dorman
Speaker 4: Anthony Garcia, Adam Demonte, and Cole Tannenbaum all got reps
Speaker 4: with the two's said, all had their moments. I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be surprised if Garcia, who has a background with the
Speaker 4: coaching staff, eventually wins the title. But this one is
Speaker 4: a long way from interesting stuff. And you know that
Speaker 4: that's important. I mean, we saw it right. You know,
Speaker 4: if norf Feed is not the number two quarterback last year,
Speaker 4: who knows what all happens to that team? When when
Speaker 4: de Laura got hurt? Sure, so you know that's a
Speaker 4: that's a big deal. Trading Stukes was back on the field.
Speaker 4: He missed. He missed the first practice. The running backs
Speaker 4: did a lot of work, he says. Tedor McMillan seems
Speaker 4: like a man on a mission. The rehabbing wide receiver
Speaker 4: around a series of sprints right in front of us
Speaker 4: as a temperature inch toward one hundred degrees late Thursday morning,
Speaker 4: t mac and head strength coach Colin Carroll have been
Speaker 4: attached at the hip. The only the McMillan quote unquote
Speaker 4: pulls the gronk and doesn't play this season is if
Speaker 4: something goes wrong with his recovery so far, so good. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because remember Gronk could have played and chose not to
Speaker 4: that last year.
Speaker 3: I think, didn't Adam Hall kind of go to the
Speaker 3: same thing. Yeah, injury and then they tried to at
Speaker 3: the last minute and then because.
Speaker 4: Steps needed him and it didn't work.
Speaker 3: It did work out then that his career was kind
Speaker 3: of ended. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so we're not going to get gronked with
Speaker 4: with t mac which which would be nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what I mean, he still got
Speaker 3: work to do.
Speaker 4: He still has to have a good year, you know,
Speaker 4: to be under consideration to get drafted if he wants
Speaker 4: to get drafted high. So he can't not play and
Speaker 4: then think, okay, we're going to take it, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he starts to show that he's worth it, right,
Speaker 3: although you know that he has crazy ability.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's take a break. It's already within one minute.
Speaker 4: Alie Smith Farmer still the daughter of the Lake head
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jacon Saliz they have their eye on
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Speaker 3: Now on the phone. You have Alice Smith though Arizona football.
Speaker 12: Mom.
Speaker 3: How proud are you? Missus?
Speaker 13: Miss so proud, so so proud? Thanks for having me
Speaker 13: even day. Yeah, it was very last minute. I mean
Speaker 13: we you know, he was kind of offered as a
Speaker 13: walk on in the spring and then he had to
Speaker 13: go through you know, a bunch of like a process.
Speaker 13: So we just found out he had to go through
Speaker 13: the appeal process because the grades were not well like
Speaker 13: you know, early on in high school. So he made
Speaker 13: up for the end, but we still had to go
Speaker 13: through that, and we found out Friday that he was approved,
Speaker 13: and so they called and said, we need you down
Speaker 13: here Sunday. So we packed up and came down here
Speaker 13: in forty eight hours. So it's been really exciting for
Speaker 13: him in all of us.
Speaker 3: Very nice and he had a fantastic senior year. If
Speaker 3: I can remember, Oh, well, what would have happened had
Speaker 3: he not shown up here? Would you have gone to
Speaker 3: to like a school somewhere else?
Speaker 13: Yeah, we were looking at maybe like like a one
Speaker 13: year school out of it. Like we knew, no matter what,
Speaker 13: we just wanted to get out of Phoenix. We wanted
Speaker 13: to get you know, all of us out of Phoenix.
Speaker 13: And so yeah, if Arizona didn't happen, we were looking
Speaker 13: a few one you know, one year colleges, one or
Speaker 13: two year colleges Midwest area. So, I mean, no matter what,
Speaker 13: we knew, there was going to be an opportunity for Mason,
Speaker 13: you know, because he did not play his third year
Speaker 13: of high school and that didn't help him with recruiting.
Speaker 13: So but yeah, his senior year he fought, he won
Speaker 13: the starting position. You know, he had excellent grades all year,
Speaker 13: he was an amazing leader. He was injured after the
Speaker 13: third game and missed I believe three games, and then
Speaker 13: he came back and brought him back and they won state.
Speaker 13: And you know, that's all you can ask for, is
Speaker 13: high school football player, right.
Speaker 3: Right, So, so, so what's what's the well we're talking
Speaker 3: about masonbry right right, what's the opportunity for him as
Speaker 3: a preferred walk on on?
Speaker 4: You know, what's what's he hoping for you know for
Speaker 4: this year or next year and beyond. I mean, what,
Speaker 4: what's what's the approach right now and what can you
Speaker 4: expect to uh see as he as he goes through
Speaker 4: this season.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, great question. The first thing he has to
Speaker 13: learn this whole offense. You know, he he actually ran
Speaker 13: a really good offense in high school because his head
Speaker 13: coach was Dat Kill, who came from you know, numerous
Speaker 13: other programs in college and is now at the Seahawks.
Speaker 13: So Mason got really great experience with learning that offense
Speaker 13: and all I know was super complicated. So I feel
Speaker 13: like that already puts him ahead because he is phenomenal
Speaker 13: when it comes to reading offense and reading defense. And
Speaker 13: I mean he's a smart, smart quarterback, so you know,
Speaker 13: it's in his blood. I mean, this is a kid
Speaker 13: that I can tell you from a very young age
Speaker 13: he started writing his own playbook, you know, and he's
Speaker 13: left with the football. So but this year, I think
Speaker 13: really he's focused on just really getting a foundation and
Speaker 13: getting you know, to know the team. I'm very grateful
Speaker 13: that this team is so family because that's exactly what
Speaker 13: Mason needs. And learning the offense and you know, getting
Speaker 13: grounded in school and you know, all the practices he's
Speaker 13: had in his life so he can get to this point.
Speaker 3: Oh so, I think one of the questions we wanted
Speaker 3: to ask is you're excited in the East Spring when
Speaker 3: all this started. How excited were you one? Because he's
Speaker 3: kind of coming back home at he's home for you too,
Speaker 3: right giving your daughter was Larry Smith. How would your
Speaker 3: dad feel about this?
Speaker 13: Oh my gosh, myar We keep thinking about that. And
Speaker 13: you know, this morning, Mason was at be a practice
Speaker 13: for the very first time, and you know, I got
Speaker 13: a photo of him in the Arizona helmet and I
Speaker 13: just thought, oh, my gosh, his dad, my dad, Like
Speaker 13: you know, there's such a legacy here between you know,
Speaker 13: my dad and then his father too. And the really
Speaker 13: cool thing as Mason is number fourteen exactly like he's wow.
Speaker 13: But you know, my dad, like, Mason is the youngest
Speaker 13: of five other boys within my family, not me, but
Speaker 13: you know, I have a brother too, and there's five
Speaker 13: boys and one girl. And I'm when Mason was very little,
Speaker 13: maybe two, when my father was still alive, and Mason's
Speaker 13: on the floor and my dad looks down at him.
Speaker 13: He goes that one I go what he goes. That's
Speaker 13: the one that's that's going to do something far. I
Speaker 13: was like, he's two. Dad, He's like, he's the one.
Speaker 3: So that's how that's how it starts with those guys.
Speaker 3: You know he's born, you know, you know, it's going
Speaker 3: to be my star.
Speaker 13: That's what he said. I'm like, well, and he was
Speaker 13: like really sad as a kid. He was like really chunky,
Speaker 13: and like we have a brother son, Heath and I do,
Speaker 13: and he's really tall, lanky, and then Mason's you know,
Speaker 13: Mason's tall, but he's way more sick. So so he
Speaker 13: was right. My dad was right?
Speaker 4: Is it? I mean, as you as you're trying to
Speaker 4: figure out what to do, I mean, how hard was
Speaker 4: it to I mean you want I mean, was Arizona
Speaker 4: the place you wanted to end up? Or where were
Speaker 4: you just looking for any opportunity? I guess I know
Speaker 4: if that's the right way to ask that. But how
Speaker 4: important was this for you guys that he wind up here?
Speaker 13: Extreme Well, I think this is the best place for him,
Speaker 13: you know, considering with what he just went through, you know,
Speaker 13: with his you know, he unfortunately passed away four months ago,
Speaker 13: and all he's ever won, and it was that his
Speaker 13: son played at Arizona, and ironically, Arizona reached out and
Speaker 13: you know offered Mason, you know, I mean whatever you
Speaker 13: call that as a walk on. But he didn't even
Speaker 13: know about it. So Mason got to tell his dad
Speaker 13: that Thursday, and he's.
Speaker 3: Passed on Saturday too, well right before.
Speaker 13: So he's died knowing his son got that opportunity and
Speaker 13: you know, for his healing. For I mean, my family's here.
Speaker 13: You know, we have a lot of support in Tucson.
Speaker 13: I know, you know, old players, alumni, half the staff,
Speaker 13: you know, they know Heath, they know Mason, so you know,
Speaker 13: I just think it's the best place for him. And
Speaker 13: he came home, well, you know, I had to drive
Speaker 13: him down here. We're actually putting rid of his dorm.
Speaker 13: In about an hour he gets to go in his
Speaker 13: dorm finally. So he's been staying with you know, my
Speaker 13: my mom lives here in TUSA, so we've been staying
Speaker 13: with her till we can get him. But he's been
Speaker 13: you know, down at you a ail day and the
Speaker 13: first day he came home and he just goes, Mom,
Speaker 13: everyone's so nice to be Yeah, yeah, no, but he
Speaker 13: just said, it just feels like family. It feels like
Speaker 13: home to him, and he feels safe, so I think
Speaker 13: it's a perfect place for him.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you, can your mom cook? Because if
Speaker 3: she can cook, guess who's going to be there.
Speaker 13: She can cook. But yeah, I mean, Mason's one of
Speaker 13: those who eats every few hours, so you know, she's
Speaker 13: got to cook a lot of stuff. But yeah, I
Speaker 13: mean the nice thing is that if he needs anything,
Speaker 13: you know, my mom's here, and then my other son
Speaker 13: and I are moving down here in about a month
Speaker 13: back to Sucson.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, wow, okay, cool, yeah, cool cool. We talk
Speaker 3: about your dad a lot on this show. Given the
Speaker 3: history of the coaching staffs here, good and bad. Your
Speaker 3: dad was a really good one obviously. How old How
Speaker 3: old were you at the time that he was coaching,
Speaker 3: because he was followed by another good one? Didn't tell
Speaker 3: me right, correct?
Speaker 13: Yeah? So I so nineteen eighty So I was nine
Speaker 13: or ten years old. Not to tell you my age,
Speaker 13: but I was about ten. So you know, a lot
Speaker 13: of those guys like Ricky, you know, all those old
Speaker 13: guys suck, Mike. I knew them, you know. I was
Speaker 13: running around on the practice field when I was ten
Speaker 13: eleven years old. So it's been nice because they have
Speaker 13: always still been family. And yeah, I mean, I know,
Speaker 13: you know, they're so proud. I know every you know,
Speaker 13: everyone that knows the whole situation with Mason and football is.
Speaker 13: You know, we're just so super proud of the work
Speaker 13: he's done and the effort and just being locked in
Speaker 13: so you can get here.
Speaker 4: What was It's hard to Its hard to say like
Speaker 4: this because there were so many aspects of being in
Speaker 4: you know, in a sports family like that, where your
Speaker 4: your dad's you know, a major college football coach. You move,
Speaker 4: you moved some successful one, you moved from from places
Speaker 4: everybody knows your dad. You walk into restaurants people know him.
Speaker 4: You know, you're running around on the field with people,
Speaker 4: as you said, Ricky Hunley and Chuck Cecil, people who
Speaker 4: are on TV and in the newspaper all the time.
Speaker 4: As a little girl, a little kid and not specifically
Speaker 4: a girl, but just as a little kid seeing all
Speaker 4: that did that was that normal to you? Did it
Speaker 4: seem normal to you or did you know? You were
Speaker 4: in a situation that not a lot of kids are in.
Speaker 13: It was very very normal. And I think I like
Speaker 13: because I had this staying all through childhood that like Saturdays,
Speaker 13: I couldn't do a friend, I couldn't work, I couldn't
Speaker 13: do anything on Saturdays because that was our game day.
Speaker 13: And so as a coach's family, like you live for Saturdays,
Speaker 13: and you know there's a mindset you wake up anxiety
Speaker 13: and nerves and you know it's so you know a
Speaker 13: lot of my friends throughout my life have really come
Speaker 13: to understand Lee Valley alone on Saturdays. And now it's
Speaker 13: been since Mason, you know, been playing high school. It
Speaker 13: was like that on Friday. As the mom of a quarterback,
Speaker 13: you know all those nerves too. So I mean I've
Speaker 13: been very fortunate to you know, this job and this
Speaker 13: life and the coaching world. You know, it's great. You know,
Speaker 13: there's a lot of perks to it. You know, there's
Speaker 13: also a lot of negative to it. You know, your
Speaker 13: life is in the limelight. It's hard to really check
Speaker 13: people sometimes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, they love you one second, they hate
Speaker 13: you the next. So and that affects everyone, not just
Speaker 13: you know my father, to affects that whole family. So
Speaker 13: you know, I have a soft spot for other kids,
Speaker 13: you know, other families that come from this world because nowadays,
Speaker 13: you know, it's a transfer portal and people are fired
Speaker 13: all the time. Like you know, back in night Day,
Speaker 13: I think it was pretty normal that you had a
Speaker 13: job for an average of about five years. Now I
Speaker 13: think it's maybe two thirty, right, So yeah, it's it
Speaker 13: was just it was amazing. It was. I was very
Speaker 13: fortunate and you know, been around football players and all
Speaker 13: these brothers I've had my whole life, and you know,
Speaker 13: now we're older and they still are families. So you know,
Speaker 13: it's a bomb that never goes away, whether you're a
Speaker 13: player or a coach or you know a family that
Speaker 13: age well.
Speaker 3: That age you talked about ten in nineteen eight, but
Speaker 3: you were probably in your early teens when your dad
Speaker 3: decided to leave and you already built all these friends here.
Speaker 3: How was that for you?
Speaker 13: Oh, it's great. Well, the nice thing is that I
Speaker 13: was also an athlete. I was a swimmer. I swam
Speaker 13: me around for fourteen years of my life until college.
Speaker 13: So you know, with min dad. I remember when my
Speaker 13: dad was interviewing for USC and he came home and
Speaker 13: he sat Astanta as a family and said, how do
Speaker 13: you guys feel about moving out to la And I
Speaker 13: was like, yes, you know, I wanted to live in California,
Speaker 13: and my mom, you know, not everyone else in the
Speaker 13: family was really for that. Yeah, but obviously we ended
Speaker 13: up going there and it was a great experience, and
Speaker 13: I think it helped me because I was an athlete
Speaker 13: that I you know, met friends fast. I got really connected,
Speaker 13: you know, I got into my group pretty quick, so
Speaker 13: it was easy.
Speaker 3: So I'm sorry, where did you go to college?
Speaker 13: I went to college in State Elizabeth though.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so you stayed in the Okay, did you
Speaker 3: swim there?
Speaker 13: I swam there for a year and then I was done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, okay. So Jay always talks about this too.
Speaker 3: You have. So your dad was here and then he
Speaker 3: left and he went to Missouri. But guess what happens.
Speaker 3: You came back, your mom came back. Now you're coming back.
Speaker 3: He came back. Tucson must be a special place.
Speaker 13: It is. We can't stay away from this place, you know.
Speaker 13: So when my dad got hired at Missouri, my mom
Speaker 13: and dad had a place in Tucson, and so when
Speaker 13: they left her there, they they held onto that place
Speaker 13: and because they knew they always wanted to retire in Tucson,
Speaker 13: so that's what they did. And I've been in got
Speaker 13: Staff for the past eight years, and now that Mason's
Speaker 13: here and I don't have to live up there anymore,
Speaker 13: so we're all coming down here. Plus with the circumstance,
Speaker 13: I feel like we all need to be close for
Speaker 13: that healing part with both of our boys.
Speaker 3: So let me tell you something. Let me give you a secret.
Speaker 3: You part already know. It's not as stuffy down here.
Speaker 14: That is, It's true, true, but I will say it's
Speaker 14: not as clean, not as clean as well.
Speaker 3: There's that we're working on it.
Speaker 4: We're working on.
Speaker 12: Down the roads.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I get out there for you.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, yeah, And downtown's gotten much better too, though,
Speaker 4: you got to give us that. We've got to very
Speaker 4: nice downtown again. So it's very I see that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So so as a mom this year. So you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, the likelihood that Mason's going to get on
Speaker 4: the field is probably not very high, and he's got
Speaker 4: you know, he's got to work his way and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. But you're still gonna be out there going
Speaker 4: to the games, uh, like you know, like you did before. Uh,
Speaker 4: what what Saturday is gonna be like for you now?
Speaker 4: With your son on it on the team.
Speaker 13: Well, if he's not playing, and it'll be fine, I mean,
Speaker 13: nerve anxiety. If he's playing, it's you know, it's a
Speaker 13: whole different ball game, a whole different mindset. But you know,
Speaker 13: we've always been Wildcats from the heart, and we've always
Speaker 13: followed Arizona my whole family. I always have, so have
Speaker 13: the you know, our boys, especially Mason. It was cool.
Speaker 13: He's had this Arizona banner up on his wall in
Speaker 13: his room at home for eight years and it's now
Speaker 13: going to be in his dorm. Yeah, and all his
Speaker 13: you know. So it's very exciting. But you know, as
Speaker 13: a mom, I'm just here for support and to push
Speaker 13: him and keep him accountable and make sure he has fun, because,
Speaker 13: more than anything, this experience should be fun for him. Yes,
Speaker 13: you know, I know he's been very humble since he's
Speaker 13: been there. He's not the hot sat on the black
Speaker 13: anymore like Yard high school. So it's good. You know,
Speaker 13: it's a process there. He's got a great roommate, so
Speaker 13: he's been blocked in.
Speaker 3: Right right, So you must be very happy to be
Speaker 3: back and kind of reconnect with some old friends and
Speaker 3: just uh enjoy Joey Life back in Tucson.
Speaker 13: Yeah, absolutely, I love it here. I just found the
Speaker 13: house yesterday, so we'll be down here in about a month.
Speaker 3: Great, Well, thanks for joining us. This is a lot
Speaker 3: of fun.
Speaker 13: Yeah, thanks again you guys, and I love your show
Speaker 13: and I'm sure we'll run into each other again, right.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and say hello to your mom. She was
Speaker 3: a guest on her show a while back when we
Speaker 3: talked about a shu and how much your dad hated.
Speaker 13: We could talk, we could talk hours about.
Speaker 3: Well, hold on to that thought because they'll be playing
Speaker 3: them later on here. We'll be back.
Speaker 13: Maybe another time. But thanks you guys. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Charlie Smith, mom of Mason Bray.
Speaker 4: That was very fun and again a sport you talk
Speaker 4: about a sports family, right, you know, the whole life
Speaker 4: was built around. Very cool. Glad to see that they're
Speaker 4: coming back to Tucson. All right, man, let's let's go
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Speaker 1: with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to One of the Ball here Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, Pjake, got our guy Ryan
Speaker 3: with us today. We have sixteen minutes if you guys
Speaker 3: want to call. That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Choose a lot of fun. You know, it's funny because
Speaker 4: a lot of times you forget that these coaches have
Speaker 4: families and a lot of times little kids, right or
Speaker 4: teenagers or ten year old kids you know who are
Speaker 4: going through this when they hear that, you know, people
Speaker 4: booing their dads or their moms, you know, saying stuff
Speaker 4: about it. Now in today's world, you know, with the
Speaker 4: social media and all that stuff, and that there's these
Speaker 4: little kids that are going through that stuff, and it's
Speaker 4: kind of like, you know, you forget about that and
Speaker 4: how that stuff might affect you know, those those kids,
Speaker 4: because I mean, you know, it's actually kind of a
Speaker 4: funny story. You know, one time when I was when
Speaker 4: I was covering football. One of the things I had
Speaker 4: was a was a Friday Picks column. I was bad
Speaker 4: at it then too. I'm sure I would predict all
Speaker 4: the top twenty. Back then it was top twenty instead
Speaker 4: of twenty five top twenty college football games. And I
Speaker 4: knew around the time that Pete Rose was getting in
Speaker 4: trouble for his gambling stuff. So every column I had
Speaker 4: some sort of a comment about Pete Rose, and you know,
Speaker 4: just some snid remark because I didn't like him. So finally,
Speaker 4: at some point during the season, somebody writes a letter
Speaker 4: to the editor. We had letters to the sports editor
Speaker 4: that ran on Sundays. Soon writes a letter to the
Speaker 4: sports editor ripping me for being a jerk and called
Speaker 4: me a jerk in the letter for uh for calling
Speaker 4: you being so mean to Pete Rose. And my mom
Speaker 4: calls me and wants me to get the lady's address
Speaker 4: and phone number so he could cook. So she go
Speaker 4: beat her up.
Speaker 3: You don't call you don't call that.
Speaker 4: She literally she called me, can you get the phone
Speaker 4: number of that lady. I want to find out who
Speaker 4: she is, and I want to go kick her ass.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, Mom, relax, Okay, probably that's part of
Speaker 4: the job. I've got to call him. My pictures in
Speaker 4: the paper, people are gonna say things about me. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but she shouldn't be calling you a jerk in the newspaper.
Speaker 4: I kind of am, you know, kind of I to
Speaker 4: diffuse that. I said, yeah, no, I'm fine with it.
Speaker 3: No big deal. She was.
Speaker 4: She was hurt by that. But that's sort of the
Speaker 4: you know, the same thing with kids, right sure. I
Speaker 4: mean we all think, you know, when we think about
Speaker 4: Larry Smith, we will think about the time that you know,
Speaker 4: he alleged I wasn't at that game, but where he
Speaker 4: you know, supposedly flipped. I was at the game. I
Speaker 4: just missed when we flipped off the crowd. You know,
Speaker 4: it's like, you know, these kids are going through that too.
Speaker 4: They're hearing people say stuff about their their parents and
Speaker 4: their and stuff, and they have to they have to
Speaker 4: deal with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I can. I can understand that completely.
Speaker 3: It was good to talk to her. Yeah, and we'll
Speaker 3: talk more about about about U of A obviously down
Speaker 3: the road, looking forward to maybe talk to her mom
Speaker 3: and getting issue stuff that will significance.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: In about half hour we got to get a man
Speaker 3: of beard, yes, talking about the Olympics, looking.
Speaker 4: Forward to that. A lot lot more Olympic Olympics news
Speaker 4: coming out today. I didn't, I didn't. I was busy today, Steve.
Speaker 4: I didn't see hardly anybody. Watched a little bit of
Speaker 4: the golf this morning. That was about it. Do I
Speaker 4: know when Chase Fighting is playing again?
Speaker 3: No? I don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know, i'd like, you know, I kind
Speaker 4: of keeping.
Speaker 3: Still in or she's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well no, she's got she's got the individual ten
Speaker 4: meter platform event that she's in. I just don't know
Speaker 4: when that is, you know, I don't even know where
Speaker 4: they are. And the diving stuff, you know, there's all
Speaker 4: the swimming stuff going on, you know, just there's there's
Speaker 4: so much stuff going on. Hardy to keep up with it. Now,
Speaker 4: Like I said, you can watch all the sports. I mean,
Speaker 4: you've got archery, you can watch.
Speaker 3: I saw some kayak. I saw some ping pong yesterday.
Speaker 3: That was fun sport.
Speaker 4: I love the kayaking, the bad minton, the there's so
Speaker 4: much stuff. Breakdancing. Have you watched any of the breakdancing?
Speaker 4: Neither there's breakdancing is the Olympic sport? Did you know
Speaker 4: that it's break dances? And again break dancing is Olympics sport.
Speaker 4: But baseball and softball are not, right, But you.
Speaker 3: Don't want the coach and Bush talked about that the
Speaker 3: whole city. Yeah, that makes that makes sense. No softball, right,
Speaker 3: no softball.
Speaker 4: No softball, baseball. But there'll be softball and baseball next year. Yeah,
Speaker 4: But the way I think softball is going to be
Speaker 4: in Oklahoma City when the rest of the Olympics, some
Speaker 4: most of the Olympics are going to be in l
Speaker 4: a Oh. Is that really they're going to play softball
Speaker 4: at that makes in Oklahoma City?
Speaker 3: That makes sense.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it doesn't to me. They got soft
Speaker 4: there's good softball stadiums. But that's all over in LA.
Speaker 3: On a normal day in LA. Just to drive around,
Speaker 3: oh god, that's going to be a mess. But now
Speaker 3: you have Oklahoma City. Just concentrate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you're an Olympic softball player, you're not
Speaker 4: really where the Olympics are. I don't know, Steve, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I would I would have thought that you
Speaker 4: could play softball at USC Stadium or U c l
Speaker 4: A Stadium or.
Speaker 3: All those places. Yeah, I didn't know that. I didn't
Speaker 3: know that. But I don't know lot l A. I
Speaker 3: hate l A. Here's a disclaimer.
Speaker 4: Driving around, Oh god, I mean I wouldn't live there.
Speaker 3: What's the word for you? Then?
Speaker 4: I mean I like going there.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I like l A driving around.
Speaker 4: Oh no, see when I when I when I go
Speaker 4: to l A and I'm in traffic, it's just to me,
Speaker 4: it's an accepted part of being in l A. I
Speaker 4: don't I don't deal with it all day. You know,
Speaker 4: all my life, you know, every day of my life,
Speaker 4: so I don't mind it.
Speaker 3: I'll give you a story. It rained one saturday. It
Speaker 3: was a little play the u USC and U C
Speaker 3: l A. My then wife we had a party in
Speaker 3: engagement to go to on a Friday. It rained. It
Speaker 3: took about four hours to go seven miles. Seven miles.
Speaker 4: I've never had that happen. Oh, you couldn't get off
Speaker 4: the freeway wherever that.
Speaker 3: Because everybody was trying to do that, and that was
Speaker 3: everybody trying to, you know, find a spot to get up. No, no,
Speaker 3: it was not good. And I remember training day.
Speaker 4: Let's take this car. You're on the air nine the ball.
Speaker 12: Hey, j hey, Steve, this is done done?
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 12: Oh? I got a couple of a couple of comments
Speaker 12: on the Olympics. But as far as softball goes, there's
Speaker 12: no stadiums in LA to support softball.
Speaker 3: But there's college there's that.
Speaker 4: You got, you got.
Speaker 12: You can only see like eight hundred people at the
Speaker 12: u c. L A Stadium. Looks like it's in a park.
Speaker 12: It looks like it's in a city park.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 12: It's not as big as Rita Hillenbrand. The only place
Speaker 12: that can support Olympic softball is Oklahoma City, and especially
Speaker 12: the way that they've enlarged that that stadium to hold
Speaker 12: as many people as they do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I think it's a smart move. But
Speaker 3: I kind of agree with Jay in terms of everyone's
Speaker 3: in LA, why not just they play there?
Speaker 12: It's sad. I mean, it is sad that they're not
Speaker 12: in LA like everybody else. And but then here's the
Speaker 12: only I forget which Olympics it was. I think it
Speaker 12: was in Atlanta and they had like river kayaking or something,
Speaker 12: and it was like three hundred miles away.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The other thing about that is that if if
Speaker 4: let's say you're a spectator, right, you want to see
Speaker 4: the softball and you want to see other sports, well
Speaker 4: you got you Either you're either going to go see
Speaker 4: softball or you're gonna go to l A. And so
Speaker 4: that's the only thing about that is it I.
Speaker 12: Did's tough unless they could find like a minor league
Speaker 12: baseball stadium that they could convert for the Olympics, someplace
Speaker 12: that can hold four or five thousand.
Speaker 4: Well they did that. Where was that? Was it? Tokyo?
Speaker 4: They had softball and they did that. They played you know,
Speaker 4: they did the thing like you know where we used
Speaker 4: to do when you know we played softball on a
Speaker 4: on a on a baseball field. That's that's also not
Speaker 4: good for the Olympics. You need you need a stadium.
Speaker 4: I just don't know how big the USC and US
Speaker 4: and and UCLA stadiums are.
Speaker 12: Come on, come on, Jay, USC doesn't have softball.
Speaker 4: Oh I love it. That's how much I know Dan Don,
Speaker 4: That's how much I know there. So there you go.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're not an idiot.
Speaker 12: You could find you know, I'm sure there is the
Speaker 12: minor league baseball park that they can convert. But then
Speaker 12: you're gonna have to pay off that baseball team to
Speaker 12: take their stadium for a while. Yeah, and then you're
Speaker 12: gonna have to rebuild the whole field.
Speaker 4: Yeah all right, Well then that then that's the answer, right,
Speaker 4: that's why they're doing it at.
Speaker 12: Yeah, because there's no there's no other stadium like that
Speaker 12: that can support the amount of people that are gonna
Speaker 12: want to go.
Speaker 3: Well here, here you go. It's a thirteen twenty eight
Speaker 3: thirt thirteen hundred.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's not very big. Well yeah, I was just
Speaker 4: looking that up too. Yeah that's not very big. Oh
Speaker 4: they're like.
Speaker 12: Nobody goes so it doesn't matter. It's not like they
Speaker 12: pack it anyway.
Speaker 3: Right, Which is strange because you were just saying, Jay,
Speaker 3: they're one of the Juggernauts of the Ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're one of the top programs in the country
Speaker 4: and they have a thirteen hundred seat stadium. Come on, man,
Speaker 4: They're as blue blood as you can get in softball.
Speaker 12: And that's what they have because that's that's because that's
Speaker 12: all they.
Speaker 3: Need right right, because you know, look at football.
Speaker 4: Two people they can play football at the at the
Speaker 4: at the softball stadium.
Speaker 3: They're all traffic.
Speaker 12: I tell you, well, look what Look what's happened to
Speaker 12: Arizona softball. They used to play in the corner of
Speaker 12: the field over there, and you look at the old
Speaker 12: pitchers when Kendrea first got here, and it was like
Speaker 12: a backstop. It was back in the middle of the field.
Speaker 12: That's where they played. And then they and then they
Speaker 12: grew the program and they built Rita and then they
Speaker 12: added the left field bleachers. Yeah, I think they need
Speaker 12: to put some bleachers on top of the building in
Speaker 12: right field. But yeah, I mean that would be another thing.
Speaker 4: I took a softball class that was taught on their
Speaker 4: field and it was just it was like playing in
Speaker 4: the park. You know, you the face Northwest, I remember
Speaker 4: face regular bleachers, yess, And you know we had softball class. There.
Speaker 3: Uh, you go into some pretty tough classes.
Speaker 4: I did. I took a badminton class and look for
Speaker 4: that got you exactly exactly.
Speaker 12: Hey, I got a question for you guys. You guys
Speaker 12: have talked to sports people from all over and everything.
Speaker 12: We've had Olympians on the show. What is it about
Speaker 12: the Olympics that these commentators always say, whall? You know,
Speaker 12: it's it's the Olympics. I know the Olympics are big,
Speaker 12: but some of these athletes have a very short window
Speaker 12: to be at their best. So what is wrong with
Speaker 12: the World Championships or something like that. I don't know,
Speaker 12: not that there's anything wrong with that, but they make
Speaker 12: the Olympics out to be such a big deal.
Speaker 4: It's the history.
Speaker 3: It's in the four year every four years and yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's.
Speaker 4: Only every four years, and the build up to it, right,
Speaker 4: you know, some people don't get that window. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: know some people who just their.
Speaker 12: Lives, people just miss that, they missed their peak by
Speaker 12: two years off.
Speaker 4: And it's like, you know, they they they you know,
Speaker 4: they set their lives on the course to get to
Speaker 4: the Olympics, and so you know, it's I feel like
Speaker 4: it's a it's a tremendous amount of pressure. And we
Speaker 4: were using the example of let's say you're one hundred
Speaker 4: meter freestyler and that's your only event and you and
Speaker 4: you come out and it's what takes you a minute
Speaker 4: to swim that or a minute and a half or
Speaker 4: whatever it is, and you go and you swim that
Speaker 4: in a heat, and then you don't make the next level,
Speaker 4: and that's it. For four years you've trained for that,
Speaker 4: and then it's over in a minute and change. However
Speaker 4: long it takes you swim one hundred meters, you go.
Speaker 4: I mean, the pressure of that is incredible.
Speaker 12: But here's a here's a good Olympics story. I was
Speaker 12: watching the other morning and it was it was ladies archery,
Speaker 12: and I thought this lady was wearing a fanny pack,
Speaker 12: but she wasn't. I don't know where she was from.
Speaker 12: I don't know what her name is. She had a
Speaker 12: little bucket hat, the back was flipped up. She had
Speaker 12: glasses on, and I thought she had like a pouch.
Speaker 12: And she's like six months pregnant. Wow, there's a little
Speaker 12: Olympian in there.
Speaker 4: That's too cool. I hadn't heard of that one.
Speaker 12: And he and he and that little kid and somebody
Speaker 12: better tell him and drill it into him. Dude, you're
Speaker 12: an Olympian.
Speaker 4: You were there, you were there.
Speaker 3: His name is Zeus, Yeah, he's That's what they got.
Speaker 12: Or if it's a girl, they could name her.
Speaker 4: Paris the professional state as always. That's pretty pregnant, lady
Speaker 4: in the you know, the Olympics, that's that's a crack up.
Speaker 4: Who would have thought? I mean, good, you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: I know, I look like I'm wearing a fanny pack.
Speaker 3: That shirt. Thank you.
Speaker 4: I appreciate this. My son thinks you could have got Okay.
Speaker 3: Okay, no cool. And we got maybe three minutes left.
Speaker 3: Do you want to give us a quick call? We
Speaker 3: could take it. If not, don't worry about it. We've
Speaker 3: got next hour.
Speaker 4: Getting and I mean, you know, to to Don's point,
Speaker 4: the you know, the Olympics are a big deal because
Speaker 4: they I think there I know from a TV standpoint
Speaker 4: and all that and all the money that goes into
Speaker 4: but in terms of I think the competitions, I feel
Speaker 4: like they were a bigger deal back when it was
Speaker 4: uh the amateurs, oh yeah right, and it was like
Speaker 4: you you felt more attached to them because you knew that.
Speaker 4: You know, they grew up. You know, now you've got
Speaker 4: Lebron on the court, You've got kd on the court,
Speaker 4: You've got all these professionals playing, and you know in
Speaker 4: all these sports. Back then you knew, you know, for
Speaker 4: the moment part this was it. You trained, you were
Speaker 4: in this one Olympics and then you were done.
Speaker 3: But it only happens, maybe it happens in other things, basketball, baseball, golf,
Speaker 3: what other sports that have have the pros of the
Speaker 3: pro hockey? You know, hockey, Okay, winter, I'm not a
Speaker 3: big winter guy. It's too cold.
Speaker 4: But you know, the you know, even the skaters and
Speaker 4: and even the gymnast uh Steve, I mean that, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean Simone Biles is by no means an amateur. Right,
Speaker 4: She's making a lot of money doing what she's doing.
Speaker 4: You know, good for her, but the point being that
Speaker 4: she's not an amateur. And and you know the tennis players, right,
Speaker 4: you know again, so it's it's it's it's a it's
Speaker 4: a festival of professional athletics, is what it is. Not
Speaker 4: for the kayakers and those you know, some of those sports,
Speaker 4: but you know, most of the sports these people are
Speaker 4: doing you're doing it for making money.
Speaker 3: Let me throw this that you too, because you know,
Speaker 3: we talk about when we were kids, and you're talking
Speaker 3: about when you were talking you were younger much right.
Speaker 3: As you get older, your sense of wow, your sense
Speaker 3: of wow, this is cool kind of fades because you've
Speaker 3: seen enough of them when you're a kid. I'm sure
Speaker 3: if you when you're in your high school gym back
Speaker 3: in the day, or his little kid, Wow, look at
Speaker 3: this place. Now, it's just a just a disabiliting do
Speaker 3: you understand?
Speaker 4: Hundred percent? I think of the first time I walked
Speaker 4: into Michael Cinner and I'm like, holy crap.
Speaker 3: Now it's kind of like okay, yeah, yeah, right, And
Speaker 3: that's kind of the sense I get here. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: get this just all the time you're thinking, no, it's
Speaker 3: just normal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hear, You're yeah, you're absolutely right. And when
Speaker 4: you see these great things and you see them over
Speaker 4: and over again, then they're kind of yeah, they become.
Speaker 3: Your immune to it normal.
Speaker 4: Right. All right, we'll take our break. We're to come
Speaker 4: back breaking News with Ryan. Then at about four twenty
Speaker 4: we'll have Amanda Beard. We'll talk some more Olympic stuff
Speaker 4: with her. You know, she won a whole bunch of medals.
Speaker 4: I'll ask her where she keeps them, right, and just
Speaker 4: get some of her thoughts. And she's still on the
Speaker 4: coaching staff at Arizona, which is a really cool thing.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to her about that as well. So are
Speaker 4: you sure you stick around