WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:05.759 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:11.080 Fox Sports fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services ensure 3 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:12.919 your most prized possessions. 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.000 They're good enough to do and everybody welcome to Eye 5 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:18.839 on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm 6 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:22.920 Steve Rivera. In with me today is Ryan Hanson. Longtime 7 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:26.239 you have a guy? Well, how wou's your Doug? Do 8 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.800 you have a title? It's nice when you don't. I 9 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:31.679 like the U of a guy. That's a that's your 10 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:34.880 Carmel title. It is on my business card. Yeah. 11 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:37.600 My day job is I'm the president of Bomboyash Travel. 12 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:40.000 So that's where I came from to join you on 13 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:43.560 the air today. But color analyst for the men's basketball 14 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:47.159 radio broadcast. That's what probably most people in town now 15 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:49.920 would recognize the voice from you. 16 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:52.840 You have like slash like three one thing. One thing 17 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.079 was slash Slash Slash. Then we've got Kobe running the show. Kobe, 18 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:58.679 I hope this goes smoothly. We know that will, right, 19 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:00.679 we know that it will. Anybody want to call in, 20 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.280 please do. We're gonna probably look back at a lot 21 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.000 of things that Ryan's been around since like the early nineties. 22 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.560 Yeah, I started as a student manager with Loud Olsen 23 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:11.920 back in nineteen ninety two. So you think about who 24 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:14.359 was here back then, So it's the Khalid Reeves, Damon 25 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:17.319 Stodamaier here coming off right, the heels of Chris Mills 26 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:17.959 and that group. 27 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:20.120 So Chris was already that was his final year. 28 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:22.560 Chris had left and I started the next year. So 29 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:24.920 really my first year with the team as a student 30 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:27.439 manager was the ninety three. I was a stat guy 31 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:29.640 in ninety two ninety three, but my first year, which 32 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.560 is why I loved claiming it was the final four year, right, 33 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:33.879 not a first round last year. 34 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:36.200 Yeah, okay. And I started covering the team fully at 35 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.640 ninety one ninety two, so it's our wheelhouse, right. I 36 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:43.439 was here being backing up in the late eighties nineties 37 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:47.319 for all that stuff. So cool, No, we might go back. 38 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:49.920 We're reminisce to the good old days. But these times 39 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:53.319 are crazy times, right, football, basketball and everything else. We 40 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.760 had Rita Stubbs yesterday. They're on that caravan of doing 41 00:01:56.799 --> 00:01:59.640 things right, you know, shaking hands, getting babies, trying to 42 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.799 dren it generate enthusiasm at UVA, which I'm sure every 43 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:07.840 school does or should this place. This place is unique 44 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:10.319 in as much as it's not one of those top 45 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.319 tier schools I'm not speaking out of turn, I don't think, 46 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:16.000 but it's not also one of those bottom feeder schools. 47 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:17.800 It's right in the middle like it was in the 48 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:21.000 PAC twelve, PAC ten, and now it's trying to climb 49 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.759 its way back to or not back to the top. 50 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:26.400 But finances are going to probably be an issue. 51 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.719 Yeah, the whole dynamic of college athletics, the landscape is 52 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.479 something like we've never seen and we'll i'm sure potentially 53 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:33.840 get into a little bit of that with some of 54 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:36.039 our guests today. But one of the things that I 55 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:38.680 look at, Steve, is I am impressed with what's going 56 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:41.159 on in the athletics department right now, with the effort 57 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:44.879 to try to generate that fan connection. And Tucson is 58 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:47.400 a is a unique destination. It is a college town, 59 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:51.759 but it's not, as you know, a generational Arizona Wildcat fan. 60 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.360 There's so many of the supporters and maybe fortunately or 61 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:58.719 unfortunately the financially ones that are well off to make 62 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:02.639 this significant donations. Many of them Arizona was not the 63 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:04.960 school that they grew up watching as a kid because 64 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.240 they didn't grow up here. They may not even be 65 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.120 an alum of the University of Arizona, but they've retired 66 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.439 here and so this is now their closest connection to 67 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.840 an athletics department. So, because you don't have that generational 68 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:21.159 fandom that comes with the Southeast Conference and their football 69 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.199 programs or some of the Midwest teams like a Michigan 70 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.240 and Ohio State that it's handed down season tickets are 71 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:31.000 passed down generationally, you almost have to rekindle the fire 72 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.800 more often here in Tucson to generate that connection to 73 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.680 the local community. So the Caravan is doing a really 74 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.639 good job. Some of the offseason wins. You know, I'd 75 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:43.599 like to at least give major credit to Desiree and 76 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.000 the hire of the new women's basketball coach. That was 77 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:48.800 kind of an interesting dynamic of how that came about. 78 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:51.360 I think ultimately that's going to be a win that's 79 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.879 going to be a net positive for Arizona women's basketball. 80 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.080 And that's saying a lot. That's saying a lot because 81 00:03:56.120 --> 00:04:00.400 everyone loved most everyone loved Idea, right, and it's gonna 82 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.520 be hard to replace her, But I like you think 83 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.400 that she will fit in fine. It might take a 84 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.159 little bit a minute or two, but yeah, I think 85 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:10.240 I see what you see. 86 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:13.439 There's tremendous support here for women's basketball, maybe unlike many 87 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.040 others in the in the conference. So we're excited about 88 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:18.240 I am about what she's doing. 89 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:20.720 The new hire in becky Burg. We already got a call. Hello, 90 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:24.279 you're on the air and nine on the ball. Who's this, Hey, Steve, 91 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:24.759 This is Doug. 92 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:25.199 How you doing? 93 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:26.839 Hey, Doug, how are you good to hear from me? 94 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:28.519 Yeah? 95 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:30.319 Too, you know, I'm just running around town. I just 96 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.560 flipped on the radio and I hear Rhino on there, 97 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.399 and uh, I just want to say, Hey, Rhinos, Doug, 98 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:39.199 you're one of the more underappreciated people in the in 99 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:42.279 the basketball program. I just wanted to say that, you know, 100 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.879 I recognize your insights are really valuable. I'm glad that 101 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:48.959 you're still doing the radio show after all these years. 102 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.040 And I always trust, I always trust what you say 103 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.680 on the air. I feel like you always understand, you know, 104 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.120 the not just the x's and o's, but also like 105 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:01.480 what's between the ears on the players. And I think 106 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:03.480 the community doesn't really I don't know if the community 107 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.199 really appreciates how much you have your finger on the 108 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:07.720 pulse of the program. So I just wanted to say 109 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:10.399 thank you for all that for many years of service. 110 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:11.199 Well thanks, Doug. 111 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:13.839 I absolutely remember you know who you are and love 112 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:16.720 your support of the programs over the years. You've been 113 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:21.079 an ardent supporter through all the thing of Arizona Athletics 114 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.959 and your I do appreciate the commentary. I've lived a 115 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:27.759 blessed life to be connected to Arizona Athletics and more 116 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.079 particular Arizona basketball for as long as I. 117 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:31.480 I was gonna when you when I got you to 118 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:33.879 come on yesterday, I was going to say that to you. 119 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.120 I don't know a guy. I know a lot of 120 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:38.120 guys who've had a lot of success and blah blah blah. 121 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.160 You're one of them because you get to do what 122 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.040 you want to do right. You're there, You're associated with 123 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:44.839 the basketball team, they're successful, you get to do the 124 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.360 play by player analyst, and then you have a real 125 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.000 world job, which is a fan fantastic job. You work 126 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:51.959 for a dude. I really like a lot Peter Evans. 127 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:52.240 I do. 128 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:55.839 And it's a local community owned, you know, family owned business, 129 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.319 been in business, will be fifty years next spring, so 130 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.199 to be to be connected to a locally owned business 131 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:05.040 like Bomboyage. When I talk to people and they say, well, 132 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:06.759 what do you do when you're not calling games? Well, 133 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.600 we're selling vacations and I get to travel. So one 134 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.079 week from tomorrow I'm headed to Ireland so for on 135 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.920 a business trip. So my business trips aren't to the 136 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.399 Tulsa Airport Marriott for a convention and a stale donut. 137 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:21.800 You know, I'll be staying at the Ashford Castle in Ireland. 138 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.480 So I do live a pretty blessed life. And back 139 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.560 to Doug's point, part of that blessed life is my 140 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:31.360 partner on the air for the games, Brian Jeffries. He 141 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.040 is to me the very best in the industry and 142 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:36.199 he makes me sound better. So I appreciate Doug the 143 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.920 comments about my inside. Yeah, I couldn't do it without Brian, 144 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:43.160 that guy is speaking of, and I think people are 145 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.680 starting to recognize and realize. I don't think people don't 146 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:50.000 appreciate who Brian is, but even as much as they 147 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:52.160 do appreciate him, they don't appreciate him enough. 148 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.120 Because that guy's a pro. He is a pros pro 149 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.040 and he was here Bone before. 150 00:06:57.680 --> 00:06:59.040 Yeah, no doubt. 151 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:00.879 We hear every now and then we'll hear about, you know, 152 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:02.759 like the play by play guy for X y Z 153 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.800 School has retired or something, and it always just gives 154 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.680 me chills because I can't stand the idea of someday 155 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.519 Brian not doing our games. I will say that his son, 156 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:14.600 Brody is I think a real talent up and coming. 157 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:17.160 He's already doing you of a baseball and I think, 158 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:20.639 as you do softball too, or women's basketball. 159 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:23.920 And he did women's basketball for Yeah, he did women's 160 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:28.519 basketball for a season. And then he is stepping up 161 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:30.680 his game and they'll be utilizing him more. As the 162 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.920 Big Twelve requires all of these events to be on 163 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.839 ESPN or ESPN Plus or some streaming network, you'll be 164 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:40.319 hearing Brody quite a bit more. And I actually had 165 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:44.000 an opportunity to broadcast in Arizona basketball three game series 166 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:46.800 with Brody because Brian Jefferies couldn't make the trip for 167 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:49.240 the Battle for Atlantis this year. Doug, if you recall 168 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:52.920 that he was staying back for the Arizona ASU Territorial 169 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:55.399 Cup football game, which he should and we want him 170 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.120 on that so to be able to join Brody on 171 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.560 the air. I actually called him Brian and two or 172 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:03.920 three times because he sounds so much like his father does. 173 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:08.120 His cadences delivery is very professional and very much like 174 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:11.079 his dad. He has a very bright future in broadcasting 175 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.519 if he chooses to do that, and I, like you 176 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.000 hope that that is a start here and we get 177 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:19.040 to see and actually hear him more on Arizona broadcast 178 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.079 if it's I think he's done some gymnastics meets for Arizona. 179 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:25.439 He's definitely stepping in on on the baseball side of things. 180 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:29.639 But Brian and Brody are treasures of Tucson and where 181 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:33.200 we really are blessed because those guys they care. They've 182 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.519 got great passion. That's one thing I think you you've 183 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:39.000 touched on it, Doug. It's not just Brian's ability to 184 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:43.000 deliver a great broadcast. It's the passion and the care 185 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:45.799 for the school and the players and the coaches. It 186 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:47.840 comes through his voice, doesn't it, Doug. I mean you 187 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:49.200 hear that in his dogs. 188 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:52.519 Yeah, he lives it right. It's like family, It's his 189 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:56.279 extended family. And it's not just the ex It's not 190 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:59.559 just you know what happened on the field or on 191 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.720 the court. It's it's the context all around it, and 192 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:05.480 he really paints the picture and he you know, obviously 193 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.440 he'll credit guys that he learned from for decades, you know, 194 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:11.039 as a as a young man. But now you just 195 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:13.360 you just pay it forward to the next generation. And 196 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:15.399 you know, two songs been blessed. A lot of really 197 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.600 talented people have gone to lucrative or you know, successful 198 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:21.840 careers and broadcasting. You know, Steve Rivera is one of them. 199 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.559 You know how lucrative Steve, but you know successful. And 200 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:28.600 then you look at you know, Ryan Ratkey, you look 201 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:30.919 at Dan Hicks, and you know Tom Tolbert up in 202 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:34.039 the Bay Area, and you know, all kinds of people 203 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:36.879 on every walk of you know, every corner of the 204 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:40.080 athletic campus here. We've had a lot of a lot 205 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:42.480 of guys and gals move on to success, which is 206 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:43.440 pretty cool to see. 207 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:44.480 Thanks for calling that out. 208 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.039 Yeah yeah, but again, what I. 209 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:49.840 Ask you know, the name Hansen has come up a 210 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:53.279 lot in you've a you know, athletics. I always forget 211 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.840 are you connected family wise to any of the other 212 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.879 people the name Hansen that have come through the athletics. 213 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:00.000 Department and it's an interesting quote. 214 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.720 And when I first started with the basketball program, obviously 215 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.320 the sports writer for Therison a daily star, the great 216 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.039 editor Greg Hanson. I am not related to Greg at all, 217 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:11.039 so there was always a question of hey, are you 218 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:12.320 the sports writer's son. 219 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:12.960 No, I'm not. 220 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:15.600 And then at the time, if you recall Doug, the 221 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:19.360 packed Ten commissioner at the time was Tom Hanson spelled 222 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:23.039 the same exact way, and we are not related either. Well, 223 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:26.519 his son Brian was a student manager at the exact 224 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:29.039 same time I was there, so I was connected to him. 225 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.320 And then Erica and I have a different spelling name, 226 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:37.440 so Erica Barnes formerly Erica. She's h anso n She's 227 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:40.519 Norwegian descent. I'm Danish descent with the e en. But 228 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.600 she and I we've known each other a long time. 229 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.480 She was a marketing intern in athletics when I started 230 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:49.320 working in the Wildcat Club together and we shared an office. 231 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:53.320 So she's gone to athletic greatness. I'm still doing the 232 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:56.559 same old thing, so she's out kicked my coverage. She's 233 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:59.039 an awesome person and we wish her the very best 234 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:02.159 and her future endeavors. But what a great, great contribution 235 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:04.919 she made for twenty plus years to athletics and bring 236 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:06.720 back the handsome part of that Doug. 237 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:10.519 So yeah, absolutely, all right. So we've established her one 238 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:12.399 of one and I just want to say we appreciate you. 239 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:14.200 So I'll look forward to hearing more. 240 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:16.279 Thank you. Yeah, thank you, Doug. We'll see you soon, 241 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:19.480 all right, you will. Yeah, thanks, good call, thank you. 242 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.559 Let's say before we get to the break, we're going 243 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:24.440 to have a pretty good show here. I think I 244 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:26.279 always kind of a I come through with a late 245 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:28.480 hit in the bottom of the ninth to save the game, 246 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:31.320 and I'm just saving it. I'm not winning it. Uh. 247 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.440 We're gonna have coach Candrea here at in about three eighteen, 248 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:36.960 talked just about you know what's going on. He's still 249 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.720 helping with the softball program. I think he's still helping 250 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.240 in the athletic department. So you know he still has 251 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.240 his after never retired. Don't retire because you become a 252 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:47.200 busier person to be Hey, you've got time. It's like 253 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:49.200 I call coach Lopez all the time, can you come on, 254 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:51.440 I got baseball. I gotta do this. And everybody wants 255 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:53.559 to a piece of him, right, and Candrea is one 256 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:56.360 of those guys. And then at four seventeen, we're gonna 257 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:58.399 talk to John Fina, former U of A football player, 258 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.200 Buffalo Bill guy. I want to talk to him about 259 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:03.879 football one and two, how it was for the draft 260 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.440 when he was getting drafted, because today's draft, right, and 261 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.279 we'll see if t Mac gets drafted early or mid 262 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:14.279 first round. Yeah, there's so many varying Oh. 263 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:16.120 I know, and all the different experts at him. What 264 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.320 was the latest I saw? Maybe tenth? Is that what 265 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:19.559 I thought? 266 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:22.399 For doubt to Dallas, which is nice, the one of 267 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:24.759 the lower ones, like twenty twenty two, and there was 268 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.759 Have you watched the internet. I haven't watched it closely 269 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:29.639 in the last couple of days. I hate the Twitter. 270 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.600 Everyone's an expert. Everyone's an expert. Even the experts are saying, 271 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:34.919 well this guy, I'm hearing this and this, and it's 272 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:37.320 not good news about t Mac. And then you know, 273 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:40.320 when you're in Tucson, you're saying, there's full of it. 274 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:41.480 You and I both know this. 275 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:44.200 And when it comes to draft, either NBA or Major 276 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:47.600 League Baseball or NFL, my hope for an Arizona Wildcat 277 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:49.360 guy like a t Mac is that he just lands 278 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.639 in the right situation. So if it's tenth, twelfth, twenty 279 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:55.840 second to me, yeah, the money might be a slight 280 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.320 variable there, but you want him in a great situation 281 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:00.480 so that he can get off from the right places. 282 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:02.759 So many times, if you get drafted to the wrong 283 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.440 franchise that has, in his case, maybe a quarterback that 284 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.080 doesn't jive with you, or an offensive coordinator that doesn't 285 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:13.159 utilize your strengths, then your career could be dictated based 286 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:14.360 on those first couple of years. 287 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:16.679 Sure, I remember, and a lot of the comments are 288 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:19.240 not always accurate. I remember when Richard came out and 289 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.039 you both. I spent time with Richard in that group, 290 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:25.679 Luke and Lauren and Michael Wright, that two thousand and 291 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:28.919 one group when he was decided to come out as 292 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.399 a junior. One of the pundits of a friend of 293 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:32.840 mine he has been on the show a few times, 294 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:34.799 said I don't think he's ready for the NBA. His 295 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:37.240 stats don't show it. You know, he's making you know, 296 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.159 a certain percentage of his shots, he's averaging twelve points 297 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:42.200 whatever a game, doesn't really have a handle on it. 298 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:44.799 Yet again, I'm thinking, I know you're good at what 299 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:47.799 you do, but you don't see what people see jump 300 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:50.039 through the gym. He's kind of got a good hit 301 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.799 at that time, a good IQ for basketball. Obviously, now 302 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:54.320 he's doing what he's doing, he has a great IQ. 303 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:56.559 But you know what I'm saying, and I'm thinking, you 304 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:58.840 don't see what he offers because you don't see him 305 00:13:58.840 --> 00:13:59.240 all the time. 306 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:01.519 Yeah, if you're right, and there's so many variables to 307 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:03.600 to how you're going to be successful moving down the road, 308 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:05.879 and Richard's one of those guys. I agree his stats 309 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.960 maybe didn't jump off the page, but boy, talk about 310 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:10.759 where he's taken his career. 311 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:11.039 Well. 312 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:17.639 Also during that time, let's throw that roster at you him, Gilbert, Jason, Luke, Lauren, 313 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:21.320 Michael so and you're playing for LUT. I always can 314 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:24.240 say this that who held Michael Jordan to sixteen points 315 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:30.360 this seasoning being Smith exactly and in Lut's programs, unless 316 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:32.279 you were Jason Terry in ninety nine, you weren't scoring 317 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:33.279 a lot of points. 318 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.960 Right, and you weren't given the green light relatively speaking. 319 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.480 You and I both have talked about this at nauseum. 320 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:40.600 The two thousand and one team that you just referenced, 321 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:44.679 arguably and maybe for my money, the most talented group 322 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:48.600 of Wildcats, but an interesting group, a cast of characters 323 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:51.360 to a certain degree when you throw in Eugene Edgerson 324 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.679 in the mix with Luke and Richard and Gilbert and 325 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:59.480 how those different dynamics worked personality wise, that was definitely. 326 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.519 A coaching job. Loud Olsoen it was. 327 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.360 It's easy to say, wow, great talent, but he had 328 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:05.559 personalities to juggle to. 329 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:08.000 That said, you forgot. Another personality is Ricky Anderson who 330 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.879 had oh he was a stick the Whippi boy from 331 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:13.399 lut even though they were really close. 332 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:15.639 You know what, I'm great Ricky Anderson story. Every day 333 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.360 Coach Rosboro would go to Ricky Anderson and ask him 334 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.120 how he was feeling energy wise and what his health 335 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:23.960 status was. And Ricky would respond with a percentage, and 336 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.720 it was a very specific percentage every day. So if 337 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:29.360 he was having an off day, Steve, he would tell you, yeah, 338 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:32.240 seventy seven percent today, coach seventy seven percent. If he's 339 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.120 feeling good, ninety three percent today, coach ninety three percent. 340 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:38.840 So Ricky what a great dude, great fun and he 341 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:40.559 had a we had a fun time with Ricky on 342 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:41.759 campus for his five years. 343 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:44.279 Yeah, Okay, you gotta go. 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