Speaker 1: Breaking down all the x is at OHS. This is
Speaker 1: Iye on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Okay, welcome back to any of the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera, your Troy, your one.
Speaker 2: Now we have Ray with breaking news. Did we leave
Speaker 2: you anything, Yeah, we got a little bit of stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, Hi on the ball Breaking News on Fox Sports
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Speaker 3: Right, kind of just going over some of the stuff
Speaker 3: that we've done. According to ON three or three Rivals
Speaker 3: in twenty four to seven, Arizona is a top three
Speaker 3: with ON three breaking US at one. Rivals has US
Speaker 3: at two, and twenty four to seven has US at three.
Speaker 4: So are they done? Yeah, that's it for the for
Speaker 4: that recruiting class. But again transfer portal will always be there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Following that up, the Georgia star fresh man Oza Newwell
Speaker 3: has declared for the NBA.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think he was pretty good. He's a guard, right,
Speaker 4: solid player, very good, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: J other big news this one coming from within the conference.
Speaker 3: JT Toppins coming back for another year at is.
Speaker 4: He he's a fantastic player.
Speaker 2: It was funny because I saw you this morning or
Speaker 2: last night that he's projected to be a second round pick,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking this, dude, I would love that dude
Speaker 2: on my team.
Speaker 4: I think his problem is one the size to the age.
Speaker 4: I think he's a little bit older. Right, Well, if
Speaker 4: you're old, you're old this year, next year. No, I know,
Speaker 4: but NBA they want younger, the perfect body. But he's
Speaker 4: going to be a good player.
Speaker 2: He's a fantastic player, and he kept that ship going
Speaker 2: moving for Texas tech women. Women do this just happen.
Speaker 2: I just got a text. Yeah, well just make sure
Speaker 2: you attribute to where you see.
Speaker 5: It, okay.
Speaker 3: Michael lev says that Arizona said to name Buffalo's yeah,
Speaker 3: Becky Burke.
Speaker 2: It I just couldn't te just got a text about that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so they've found somebody. No, it's you're on the clock.
Speaker 2: You're on the clock. She's got a pretty good Do
Speaker 2: you know much about it?
Speaker 4: I don't know much about her, to be honest.
Speaker 2: I read some things, just you know, success there.
Speaker 4: They've been a very solid program. I know that in
Speaker 4: terms of region recruiting stuff like that. Her history, I
Speaker 4: don't know. We'll see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, man, who I'm coming in with the with
Speaker 3: the WOS bomb right there.
Speaker 5: Dude.
Speaker 4: I had gotten a text too.
Speaker 2: I was wondering if you were going to see it
Speaker 2: because I wasn't gonna say anything until it became official.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just keeping it moving. I'm sure we're going to
Speaker 5: circle back to that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When the Maryland coach, Kevin Willard, you know that that
Speaker 3: whole drunk it out. Yeah, he got tweeted out, you know,
Speaker 3: holding a picture with the villanova Jersey Derrek queen from
Speaker 3: mary You know he is going with took to social media.
Speaker 3: Oh and you know, just just a little upset about it,
Speaker 3: which makes sense.
Speaker 2: Okay, because his coach is doing that or his ex
Speaker 2: coach was doing that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: You know, here's the thing.
Speaker 2: It's been going on a long time with coaches jumping
Speaker 2: going and making more money. I don't know what's right
Speaker 2: and what's wrong, especially with the players moving as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little hypocritical, right so he yeah, just
Speaker 3: go get it and get it, and you know, don't
Speaker 3: want the door hitch in the ass. No, seriously keeping
Speaker 3: it moving. The base Arizona baseball team one yesterday eleven
Speaker 3: to nine against New Mexico State came into the week
Speaker 3: ranked at twenty four. Yeah, according to the NCAA website.
Speaker 3: Another a little bit more of a feel good story here,
Speaker 3: Thomas Luke Meaness I hope I'm not saying that too wrong,
Speaker 3: was named. He's a swimmer who was named the Big
Speaker 3: twelve Men's Freshman of the Year.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool? Did he?
Speaker 7: What do you?
Speaker 4: Did? You say? What you want? Because they just finish championships?
Speaker 5: Do I think it?
Speaker 4: Said?
Speaker 3: He set multiple individual relay program records and qualified in
Speaker 3: multiple events for the Yeah, for the championship meet. Moving
Speaker 3: on to baseball though, to the mlbuh the Dodgers Freddie
Speaker 3: Freeman expected to return from the Cubs. He got hurt
Speaker 3: I think for the oh did he? Yeah? He like
Speaker 3: slipped in the showers.
Speaker 5: Oh man, he got me.
Speaker 2: The showers gonna be the only thing that kills the
Speaker 2: Dodgers because they're so damn good.
Speaker 5: I guess they've lost two or three now, yeah, they
Speaker 5: they lost three.
Speaker 3: They just finished up their game I think to finish
Speaker 3: the series with the Nationals. But I'm pretty sure they
Speaker 3: lost two against the Nationals, which makes my little heart happy.
Speaker 5: Uh uh.
Speaker 3: Cody Bellinger says that he's gonna swear off chicken wings
Speaker 3: after food poisoning apparently.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah you got food poisoning, Duke, Yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 4: You gotta don't go to boat Jingles. You get the
Speaker 4: the Cajun biscuit chicken sandwich. Ye really, Jangles. I will
Speaker 4: never go to a Jingles ever again in my life.
Speaker 4: Here so many good things too, too. That's why you went.
Speaker 4: It wasn't it wasn't good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's I guess, I guess.
Speaker 3: Pegro Martinez, a Hall of Fame Pitcher, says that he
Speaker 3: has family members missing after.
Speaker 2: A God, how many people were in that place because
Speaker 2: it's it was in the Dominican rig Yeah, in the
Speaker 2: Dominican I think it was that place because you know
Speaker 2: Dotel passes away. It's all about fifty four people. Now
Speaker 2: he has family members missing. Yeah, what kind of event
Speaker 2: was it? Probably a big nightclub, I'm assuming, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you think that you know, people famous people didn't
Speaker 2: have you know, it's just weird all these names.
Speaker 4: But I mean, how many plates. Obviously we've never been republic.
Speaker 4: There's one place to go. How many places are there
Speaker 4: to go? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a bunch. Have you ever been to Cuba? Well, dude, Miami,
Speaker 2: little Cuba in Miami.
Speaker 4: Holy crap.
Speaker 5: So yeah, thoughts prayers out to them. I have hopefully
Speaker 5: hopefully everything works out.
Speaker 3: Today is Luca's returned to Dallas the first time since
Speaker 3: the trade.
Speaker 4: But did you see the game with the Okay? See
Speaker 4: was it?
Speaker 2: I guess he got thrown out for fighting with somebody
Speaker 2: in the stands.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they but it was.
Speaker 4: Not really him fighting with the people in the stands.
Speaker 8: I don't know it was. It was he stared down
Speaker 8: a fan, thought he was doing it to him, refrojected him,
Speaker 8: and pretty much.
Speaker 4: In the game. Yeah. Yeah, the NBA, Yeah, he probably
Speaker 4: deserved it.
Speaker 5: Uh. Jalen Wells is out of the hospital.
Speaker 3: He's expected to miss extended time with the broken wrist.
Speaker 3: Grizzlies guard okay, uh yeah, we were talking about it
Speaker 3: a little earlier.
Speaker 5: Yeah, did he need the card? Did not? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Kind of a two party here, but the Suns got
Speaker 3: absolutely crushed yesterday.
Speaker 4: They're just done.
Speaker 2: Well, mister mister you and Howard, You and Howard, no,
Speaker 2: watch out. They're on a momentum, momentum momentum.
Speaker 3: You've said momentum so many times in the last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. Man, all right, yeah, I gotta gotta match
Speaker 3: up with a thunder to night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, doesn't doesn't as a Suns fans, Yeah, no, this
Speaker 4: team has no heart. They're done. Do you think it's
Speaker 4: gonna be broken up? They will get rid of Katie,
Speaker 4: They'll keep Booker. I think Booker is a building piece.
Speaker 4: Try to read to ol Kitty. You can still get
Speaker 4: a lot for him and see what you can get
Speaker 4: when you have money in free agency. Keeping the coach. No,
Speaker 4: he's gone. He's gone. Apparently it's pretty bad in the
Speaker 4: locker room. And once that happens, Oh yeah, that's if
Speaker 4: that happens. No, you get snapped. You guys can't fix it.
Speaker 4: Go get Mike Miller. Denver just fired him and Crazy Malone.
Speaker 4: Mike Malone, thank you in a crazy situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Phoenix is kind of just misstepped and misstep
Speaker 2: and misstep since going to the finals a few years ago.
Speaker 4: It has but you know what, and fans get mad.
Speaker 4: They took the KD swing. Didn't work out. They took
Speaker 4: the Bradley Beals swing. Although you know what, Chris Paul
Speaker 4: being in a wheelchair when I worked out either. So
Speaker 4: atleast this ownership group tried, where the previous ownership group
Speaker 4: just sat on their butt and said, we're okay with
Speaker 4: being mediocre. At least there was an attempt. That's I'm
Speaker 4: fine with that. Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, son's son's outside looking in on the plane.
Speaker 5: Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: Uh just won their series last night against the Orioles.
Speaker 4: They are I believe what Uh six and six and
Speaker 4: five seven six, you.
Speaker 3: Go, they got a got a series against the Brewers,
Speaker 3: who you know didn't look very good against the Yankees
Speaker 3: star season off.
Speaker 4: That was when the whole torpedo bat that. That's in Phoenix.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: Earlier, maybe like an hour ago.
Speaker 3: I guess police were called to Tyreek Hill's house because
Speaker 3: his wife.
Speaker 5: Him and his wife were involved in domestic dispute. But
Speaker 5: she's not gonna press any charges.
Speaker 4: Okay, good didn't have issues before a lot, Ye had
Speaker 4: a lot of issues.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: Don't give me on marriage, You guys, don't give me
Speaker 2: on marriage. You better move to the next.
Speaker 5: Up with the Masters coming up.
Speaker 3: Uh, sports books have Scottish Shuffler and Rory pulling it
Speaker 3: up right now, Jay.
Speaker 2: Would be saying how much he's gonna bet I'm gonna
Speaker 2: how much Rory you would go forward?
Speaker 4: Seventy one eight one.
Speaker 5: Just I don't know why I didn't have it, like
Speaker 5: just plainly up here.
Speaker 4: That's up real quick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he he goes in plus four to seventy five,
Speaker 3: and then Malcilroy is plus six six five.
Speaker 4: Okay, six six two five. That's all right, that's not
Speaker 4: a bad twenty little bit whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, and yeah, that's it. That's about it.
Speaker 4: So did you look at Burke? I did? Yeah, what's
Speaker 4: what's up? So former Louisville guard. Oh yeah, has been
Speaker 4: to a final four, lost to Yukon and then in
Speaker 4: a final four game like a lot of people do. Uh,
Speaker 4: had success at College of Charleston, had success at let's
Speaker 4: see here USC Upstate, and has done very good at Buffalo,
Speaker 4: where she has gone sixty one and thirty seven during
Speaker 4: her dime there. Yeah. If you win places like that,
Speaker 4: you know you're pretty good.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: My only question is that they're all out there in
Speaker 4: the South and the east. You're coming over to Arizona.
Speaker 4: Can you recruit this area? Can you recruit the West coast?
Speaker 4: Can you recruit Texas. It just comes down to recruiting
Speaker 4: for me. But if you can coach them, yeah, get
Speaker 4: some transfers. You never know.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. This will be uh, death Ray's
Speaker 2: first big hire. Uh yeah, because she didn't hire Brett yep.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. No, good, congrats to Burke.
Speaker 2: We'll see Wednesday, Wednesday, maybe maybe Saturdays. Maybe a press
Speaker 2: covers Monday, maybe Monday, Monday. Yeah, okay, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: Very young, thirty five has has I don't think death
Speaker 4: Rays spoken about the departure, right, No, I don't think
Speaker 4: anybody will. I think I should. This is a book
Speaker 4: coming in five years when people are ready to talk
Speaker 4: to you for thirty about Arizona women's basketball. Right, how
Speaker 4: many people would watch it? That's how many transfers thirty
Speaker 4: for the last thirty years. The letters to Troy do
Speaker 4: you address later? Go ahead one? No, I have nothing
Speaker 4: to ask. Oh.
Speaker 8: I started looking her up too. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 8: She she did what idea did? She won the wn
Speaker 8: I t oh, so she has that experience coming in
Speaker 8: and uh, we'll see. We'll see if players like Montea
Speaker 8: stay the only player to stay, or if it's gonna
Speaker 8: be entirely a new roster, it'll be interesting.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure in today's world that she has players
Speaker 2: over there.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, who's over there, come along with her?
Speaker 4: We have them on the next side. Yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: Well then, and here's the thing, and you'll see there's
Speaker 2: always you know, you say blue, someone say bread, you
Speaker 2: say someone to say blue. Uh, she didn't win enough
Speaker 2: at where she's at. It's a it's a step up program.
Speaker 2: And blah blah blah. And well, Ada was never a
Speaker 2: head coach, right, she was never head coach. She did Okay,
Speaker 2: give people a chance, we'll see what happens. And again
Speaker 2: they did all these great things. But at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, it takes one great player to change
Speaker 2: your home time program. And it did and with some
Speaker 2: some with some pretty complimentary uh.
Speaker 4: People for sure. Yeah sure, but Elliott teams men's basketball.
Speaker 4: Yeah a McDonald changed women's basketball. All you need is
Speaker 4: that one short a program. Yeah, it'll be interesting.
Speaker 8: I feel like this is somewhat similar to the Jetfish hire,
Speaker 8: a little bit of an outside connection. There's some success
Speaker 8: and experience there, and it took him three years to
Speaker 8: get to an alimable and three years to get to
Speaker 8: ten wins.
Speaker 4: Sure see, we'll see what happens. I'm open to it.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Ravera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to mine about here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In Today is Troy Hutchinson.
Speaker 4: I on the phone.
Speaker 2: We have Kelvin Ethon, former U of a football basketball
Speaker 2: player now with twelve ninety.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Kevin?
Speaker 6: I'm doing good.
Speaker 15: I'm doing good.
Speaker 6: How you guys are doing today?
Speaker 4: We're doing fine.
Speaker 2: Can you talk real quick about the big news Tommy
Speaker 2: Lloyd getting a big fish coming in?
Speaker 6: Oh man, that is a huge git, you know right now,
Speaker 6: When you got guys in in the portal and everything,
Speaker 6: people get a little, you know, scared which way the
Speaker 6: program is going to go. And you know, I think
Speaker 6: with a guy like Tommy, he's showing you that him
Speaker 6: and his coaching staff, I can go and grab the
Speaker 6: high school guys as well, go into the portal and
Speaker 6: find another cave of love or even better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who you got here in ninety four? Right, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: ninety four? Who was your class? Give me your class?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 6: Oh man, I had a great class man the champions
Speaker 6: Miles Simon, Danelle, Harris Davis, and Michael Dickerson. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So that was a group at that time. I know
Speaker 2: you're a young man and you're thinking, look at us,
Speaker 2: we're going to be great. Did you think you were
Speaker 2: going to be great with that class? Because it turned
Speaker 2: out to be Okay.
Speaker 15: Yeah I did. We went to the Sweet sixteen and
Speaker 15: lost to Kansas, and every day that year.
Speaker 6: The practices versus Reggie Gary, Ben Davis, Cory Williams, Joe McLean.
Speaker 6: I mean, it was just some wars, Joseph Blair. It
Speaker 6: was just some wars against those guys every day, and
Speaker 6: it just seemed like it was something special about that group.
Speaker 6: I hated. That was the first year I had went
Speaker 6: to football and I had had some success, so it
Speaker 6: was hard for me to go back. But nah, man,
Speaker 6: I knew that team was specially and you know we
Speaker 6: we ended up seeing that. Well.
Speaker 2: The funny thing about it, I've said this and believe
Speaker 2: in this that when they lost to Kansas and they
Speaker 2: played really well in that ninety six game, food poisoning
Speaker 2: for Joe McLean or whatever, that that helped them beat
Speaker 2: Kansas the year later because they knew they could hang
Speaker 2: with them.
Speaker 6: Oh you know, I actually got a little burned a
Speaker 6: little playing time in that game. I always get mad.
Speaker 6: I always tell Corey wiis Man, you got me out
Speaker 6: the game because I got a shot made against me
Speaker 6: because he didn't help me on one of the on
Speaker 6: one of the screens. But but no, man, no, it
Speaker 6: really made us believe. Man, I knew it made those
Speaker 6: guys believe because that was the Paul Pierce team and
Speaker 6: uh race la French Don bun So. So so the
Speaker 6: next year wasn't so intimidating, right when when when you
Speaker 6: see those.
Speaker 2: Guys, right, no, exactly Now that bringing that up because
Speaker 2: Arizona's got a great class coming in. So now everybody's thinking,
Speaker 2: you know how Tucson is. They fall in love with
Speaker 2: these guys coming in and there's a lot of hope, right,
Speaker 2: but it seems like nowadays we live in this You
Speaker 2: got one chance, baby, you better make good.
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, nah, you got one good chance. I mean
Speaker 15: with some of these names that's coming here here.
Speaker 6: You know those guys are only gonna be here for
Speaker 6: one year.
Speaker 15: You may get too. I mean right now we're still
Speaker 15: trying to figure out is Carter Brian.
Speaker 6: Gonna come back? So you know that's a huge one
Speaker 6: that you know, it hasn't really I haven't heard anything
Speaker 6: about it yet. So yeah, man, you have to go
Speaker 6: for it and try to win the championship every year,
Speaker 6: which is what it should be, right, every year you
Speaker 6: should go into the season trying to win a championship.
Speaker 6: If you at the high level, top twenty five type program,
Speaker 6: top top fifty, and then everybody else should be trying
Speaker 6: to get to.
Speaker 15: The NCAA tournament.
Speaker 6: So hey, this is the way it should be.
Speaker 4: When you look at the guy and you kind of
Speaker 4: said the Carter Bryan, watch what he did this year
Speaker 4: and how he was able to develop into the tournament.
Speaker 4: It's got to make you wonder what could he do
Speaker 4: in year two? But also that NBA drafts calling. I mean,
Speaker 4: just your thoughts of Carter and his overall first season
Speaker 4: and what he was able to showcases here.
Speaker 6: You know what, I think a coach's job, and you know,
Speaker 6: in a basketball program, job is to help a goud
Speaker 6: get to whatever their next level is. And I think
Speaker 6: Arizona did their job and coach Lloyd did his job
Speaker 6: for him. I mean, if he comes back, man, I
Speaker 6: can't believe it. I mean, because to me, the type
Speaker 6: of talent that he is a lot of times.
Speaker 15: Is better for them to go ahead.
Speaker 6: And get the rest of their training, you know, from
Speaker 6: the NBA, so he can go ahead and get his
Speaker 6: career started, right. But hey, if he comes back, I
Speaker 6: would be one proud wildcat, you know, seeing him on court.
Speaker 6: But I just think the talent that he has and all.
Speaker 15: The things that I've seen that he possesses with his
Speaker 15: defensive flexibility, his ability to hit.
Speaker 6: The three ball from every point on the floor, and
Speaker 6: I think he could put the ball on the floor
Speaker 6: as well. I just think that against some of the
Speaker 6: college guards who were a little shorter and a little feistier.
Speaker 15: I think, and with his own defenses, I think it was.
Speaker 6: A little tough. But I think with the space and
Speaker 6: in the NBA, I think he'll be even a better
Speaker 6: bar handler.
Speaker 2: So so we listened to you, obviously in the post
Speaker 2: game and the pregame stuff, and I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 2: a serious question. You may sound stupid, but it's a
Speaker 2: serious question. So you played here, you know, football more
Speaker 2: known for football than basketball.
Speaker 4: I would what are you?
Speaker 2: Are you a realistic fan observer or a fan fan.
Speaker 15: I think I'm more of a realistic fan. I'm a
Speaker 15: realistic because I'm a fan for sure.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm a man. I can't help you. I'm a fan,
Speaker 6: but I'm just realistic about what I see and what
Speaker 6: what you know and what I think. Uh, you know,
Speaker 6: I'm a I'm a former player, so I'm kind of
Speaker 6: players coach, you know. I lean more toward the players,
Speaker 6: so you know, at the end of the day, I
Speaker 6: think it's our job to help them advance as far
Speaker 6: as moving on to their NBA dreams or whatever corporation
Speaker 6: or job that they want to have one day. That's
Speaker 6: our job at a higher learning institution is to advance
Speaker 6: them on. So hey, some people this one year they
Speaker 6: go into be a computer uh you know, working at
Speaker 6: IBM or something, and some people it takes ten years.
Speaker 6: So hey, whatever it is and whatever it takes, I
Speaker 6: think that's our job to help them get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, And I say that because to me, you're realistic.
Speaker 2: You're not You're not a raw, raw guy, especially when
Speaker 2: you talk about the team in the post game, because
Speaker 2: if they lose, they lose, and you say.
Speaker 6: That yeah yeah, yeah, yeah no. I now now I
Speaker 6: have to keep it one, you know, real with myself
Speaker 6: first of all, and second just with the fans. I mean,
Speaker 6: I go on what I see. If it's a game
Speaker 6: that we should win, I say, hey, we should have
Speaker 6: won that game. We underperformed, you know, you know, we
Speaker 6: should have some better you know, you know, better play
Speaker 6: calls or whatever. The guys could have played better. But
Speaker 6: but but.
Speaker 15: But sometimes you play against people.
Speaker 6: That you if you win that game, you did a
Speaker 6: great job. And if you lose, you know what, if
Speaker 6: you had a great fight, you got something to grow from.
Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, as somebody that has has played for
Speaker 4: not only dig Tomy, but Ludelson as well, in those
Speaker 4: legendary coaches, you've seen their growth and development as a
Speaker 4: coach and as a program. As you look at Tommy
Speaker 4: Lloyd the last four years and the end of this season,
Speaker 4: where have you seen the most growth out of coach
Speaker 4: Lloyd from when he first stop put on campus to
Speaker 4: this past season.
Speaker 15: So I always gave him credit when he first came
Speaker 15: in how he gave.
Speaker 6: The team directly to the Ben Matherins in the tarries
Speaker 6: of the world. He didn't come right in and try
Speaker 6: to put his own stamp on the team. He let
Speaker 6: those guys lead that team. And you know, actually I
Speaker 6: give him more credit because I see him just it
Speaker 6: seems like he's grabbing these guys and really making them
Speaker 6: family and loving on these guys. The Caleb loves the
Speaker 6: kJ Lewis is, you know, And I just look up
Speaker 6: and down that roster. I just think he does a
Speaker 6: great job and you know, helping mold these guys into
Speaker 6: you know, good young men and good basketball players really
Speaker 6: and let them, you know, learn from their mistakes. Right.
Speaker 6: You see a lot of him and he say, hey,
Speaker 6: they got to figure it out right on the court.
Speaker 6: And sometimes I'll be like, man, no, run a play.
Speaker 6: But when I think about it, you know, and like,
Speaker 6: you got to figure it out. People are not going
Speaker 6: to always have a play for you and be able
Speaker 6: to point you in the right direction or what whatnot.
Speaker 6: So you know, I think they're learning a lot of
Speaker 6: great life lessons, you know, having a coach like him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question. Let's move on to football. Do you think, well,
Speaker 2: what do you think is gonna happen now? You know,
Speaker 2: have you been to spring practice one? I guess in
Speaker 2: a week we're gonna have the spring Spring festivities or
Speaker 2: whatever spring showcase Spring showcase? Does Is he under pressure?
Speaker 2: I know that's a tough question to ask ask, do
Speaker 2: you think so?
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know how I mean, like I said,
Speaker 6: these times of you know, uh microwave, uh, you know,
Speaker 6: Michael waves success is you know, it's funny to me
Speaker 6: because you know, usually you.
Speaker 15: Give four years for a guy to have his class,
Speaker 15: to get.
Speaker 6: To be seenor is, to see what he really got
Speaker 6: and to see which way the program is going. And
Speaker 6: after one year we already saying, give rid of the
Speaker 6: offensive coordinator, get rid of this guy up. I'm like,
Speaker 6: what is going on, Like who's actually.
Speaker 15: Running you know the programs you know in this country.
Speaker 15: But I just no, I think you.
Speaker 6: Have to give him some time to get his own guys.
Speaker 6: And I and I said it before, I think he
Speaker 6: would have had a team that will went to a
Speaker 6: ball game, maybe not won nine games, but could.
Speaker 15: Have easily won seven or eight games.
Speaker 6: If the running back would have been eligible. I mean,
Speaker 6: we saw what he was able to do at the
Speaker 6: uh the you know, in the All Star Games and
Speaker 6: at the Combines and whatnot. And there's a chance he
Speaker 6: may even get drafted. So if we would have.
Speaker 15: Had that kid in the backfield, you know, that would
Speaker 15: have could have should have. I think it would have
Speaker 15: been a different season.
Speaker 6: Because of the pressure that he would have took off
Speaker 6: the quarterback in tam Mac. But with all the being said,
Speaker 6: I think going into his second year, he's gonna actually
Speaker 6: have guys that want to play for him and.
Speaker 15: Not be like you know, my coach was was fished, right,
Speaker 15: because if coach Tommy was a left after we went
Speaker 15: to the Insight dot com bo and we would have
Speaker 15: got a new coach and we couldn't have transferred, or
Speaker 15: most of us would have transferred with him. Possibly it
Speaker 15: would have been a tough period.
Speaker 6: It would have never been to twelve and.
Speaker 15: One season, right, So I just think you have to give.
Speaker 6: A coach a chance to get his own guys to
Speaker 6: go to war with.
Speaker 4: You know, I agree with that he kind of started
Speaker 4: behind the eight ball. He had Raymond Palito decided, you know,
Speaker 4: football was not going to be his future right before
Speaker 4: the season. They were relying on him. You have the
Speaker 4: running back situation, so he kind of started behind the
Speaker 4: eight ball on the offensive side of the football, and
Speaker 4: then injuries piled up. But Calvin, again, have you been
Speaker 4: out there to spring and if so, what is your
Speaker 4: take in terms of that atmosphere with the new coaches
Speaker 4: on the staff and having Joe Salavea back on the sideline.
Speaker 6: You know, I haven't been out there because you know,
Speaker 6: when me having such an inside view of the program
Speaker 6: and these are my guys. I tried to get them
Speaker 6: a little time to get it together, and I want
Speaker 6: to go through the show case and get a chance
Speaker 6: to see the guys in that setting, right, because I
Speaker 6: don't like going to judge guys and sharks and you know,
Speaker 6: and just shaking horns and smiling with everybody. You know,
Speaker 6: I'm serious about this program getting back on his feet
Speaker 6: and winning. So I'm trying to get the jobs these guys,
Speaker 6: get some work, get these guys a chance to get
Speaker 6: some work in so when I go up there, I
Speaker 6: can really see something and have something to report on.
Speaker 2: So you came here in ninety four specifically mostly to
Speaker 2: play basketball for LOOT, right, but you ended up playing football.
Speaker 2: Has the perception of the program changed of thirty one
Speaker 2: years ago? Because what was the program back then in
Speaker 2: your mind and what is it now?
Speaker 6: Well, one of the reasons why I came to Arizona
Speaker 6: because it was one of the places that had, you know,
Speaker 6: the Desert Swarm. Football had just went to the Fiesta
Speaker 6: Bowl and the basketball team had just went to the
Speaker 6: Final four.
Speaker 15: So it was the opportunity to go.
Speaker 6: To a place where I had a chance to play
Speaker 6: with other good players and have an opportunity to win.
Speaker 6: So you know, coming into Arizona it was you know,
Speaker 6: it was huge. I mean because again Brandon.
Speaker 15: Sanders, Teddy Buski, those guys.
Speaker 6: Is walking the hallway. So you can see that there
Speaker 6: are success that you can have on that team. And
Speaker 6: we all know already what the basketball team and coach
Speaker 6: Hosen presented, but you know, again getting a chance to
Speaker 6: go out there and you know, and play football back
Speaker 6: then and having a chance to be a part of
Speaker 6: the twelve and one, you know, best team in the
Speaker 6: school history by my accounts, but you know, best.
Speaker 15: Team in school history. I feel like that it.
Speaker 4: Could be done.
Speaker 6: I know it could be done here. And even with
Speaker 6: the new nil and all the changes and everything like that,
Speaker 6: you saw the success of the Asus, which I hate
Speaker 6: to say, but I credit people who do great. If
Speaker 6: you had a great season, it is what it is.
Speaker 6: But it could happen. And all you have to do
Speaker 6: is get the right guys together with the right attitude
Speaker 6: and as coach Tomy said.
Speaker 15: Love on those Jim and Joe's.
Speaker 6: Right and great things can happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no question. So Calvin, as a little kind of
Speaker 4: fun question here, I saw your former teammate Brandon Sanders
Speaker 4: is going to be running the Boston Marathon. As a
Speaker 4: former running back, would you be able to outrun Brandon
Speaker 4: Sanders in a marathon today?
Speaker 15: Oh? Man, Now he's been training. I'm real he's been
Speaker 15: training for his marit.
Speaker 6: Now before before this marathon.
Speaker 15: No, man, I does Brandon, I sus whatever. But Brandon
Speaker 15: has been doing an amazing time.
Speaker 6: He's totally locked in to helping Teddy Bruski with that.
Speaker 6: So I think right now, man, in long distance, he'll
Speaker 6: get me. So I hate to sin I'm a guy
Speaker 6: that like to win, but I'm a realist at the
Speaker 6: same time, and long distance he'll get me. But I
Speaker 6: still think I'll get him in a farty.
Speaker 4: And then with coach Brennan, you've been around this past
Speaker 4: season and like you said, you want to go to
Speaker 4: the showcase and give them their space. But do you
Speaker 4: see a lot of similarities between coach Brennan and Dick
Speaker 4: Tomy in terms of coaching solemn personalities?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he can't help that. I mean he
Speaker 6: was he was on the staff and then he worked
Speaker 6: for him at Santos Stayed and you know, I'm pretty
Speaker 6: sure put in a great word for him. To get
Speaker 6: the job that Santose stayed and uh uh So to me,
Speaker 6: it'd be hard pressed for him not to have similarities
Speaker 6: with with with coach Tomy. Uh. You know again as
Speaker 6: far as.
Speaker 15: You know, following that track work.
Speaker 6: With the UCLA coach Tomy, you know, coach that U
Speaker 6: c l A back in the day, the defensive backs
Speaker 6: and whatnot. So I just think that, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 6: I think you should expect that. But he also has
Speaker 6: several other coaches that he was around and worked around
Speaker 6: and everything that I see seeing him as well. So
Speaker 6: you know, I like him that he's again a player's coach.
Speaker 6: I think in this day and age, the players need
Speaker 6: guys that you know, love on him and care about him,
Speaker 6: but also that's willing to get on him as well.
Speaker 6: And I see him as that type of guy. Uh.
Speaker 6: You know that's gonna be.
Speaker 15: You know, great for the program.
Speaker 6: That letting the other coaches do their job number one,
Speaker 6: but number two, you know, loving on those guys.
Speaker 4: So I asked you this already.
Speaker 2: Uh recently, Kelvin, you you came on the scene, you
Speaker 2: had some great players in front of you, the Damon's
Speaker 2: and the Kolids and and those guys. Uh, the differensons
Speaker 2: of the miles.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Was there a chance for you to transfer? And in
Speaker 2: today's world of transfer, you.
Speaker 4: Know, you know I'm gonna leave. I'm not happy. Would
Speaker 4: you have done it?
Speaker 6: You know, it wouldn't have been about a really necessarily
Speaker 6: not happy. I mean, it just would have been about
Speaker 6: a playing time thing and and and you want to
Speaker 6: play and you want to make a difference, you know,
Speaker 6: on the team getting to a h n C you know,
Speaker 6: making an n C double, a tournament birth. I probably
Speaker 6: would have transferred to TCU with uh where I think
Speaker 6: it was Tubby Uh coach Tubbs Uh heah came from Oklahoma.
Speaker 6: Or you have recruited me real tough, you know, and uh,
Speaker 6: you know kind of you know, let's just say recruitment
Speaker 6: word got back to me while I was up because
Speaker 6: like for of my AAU teammates played for TCU at
Speaker 6: that time, so you know, they were trying to really
Speaker 6: get get me to go back over there. And it
Speaker 6: would have been back home, like forty five minutes away
Speaker 6: from where I grew up in Dallas, So it.
Speaker 15: Would have been a good chance TCU would have been
Speaker 15: able to get me because you know, what was I had.
Speaker 6: Think about it? It was David Stardomar. The next year
Speaker 6: they brought it in Jason Terry, And.
Speaker 15: The next year they brought it in Mike be me.
Speaker 6: So you know, probably wouldn't. I don't think they would
Speaker 6: have missed me too much.
Speaker 2: Well, well, here's the thing is, I think there was
Speaker 2: a higher power than Tubby or Tubbs that said you
Speaker 2: can't go.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, no. My grandmother wasn't having it. My grandmother
Speaker 6: was like, you know, Kevin, all your life, you know,
Speaker 6: you follow through with everything you've ever done. She you know,
Speaker 6: and she was just like, don't.
Speaker 15: Turn and run now. I was like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 15: You know when she said that, I knew I was stuck.
Speaker 15: I knew I was.
Speaker 6: Stuck because I was. I was not going to disappoint
Speaker 6: my grandmother in no.
Speaker 2: Way, right right right, No, Kelvin, thanks a bunch. Appreciate
Speaker 2: you coming on.
Speaker 6: Oh no problem, thank you, God bro.
Speaker 2: Killnan you Let's take a break, maybe take some calls
Speaker 2: on the other side, finished off, maybe talk a little
Speaker 2: bit more.
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Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm out of town for the next
Speaker 2: two days covering an event in my other job.
Speaker 4: So loves to get to Burke.
Speaker 2: I guess uh that's we'll see what what happens with it.
Speaker 4: Higher. Yeah, you know, UH looks like a coach that
Speaker 4: does sound inspired players. You saw the video for celebrating
Speaker 4: uh the w n I t win and has done
Speaker 4: it everywhere she's gone USC upstate. They started eight wins
Speaker 4: next year, twenty two wins here. The previous stop with Buffalo,
Speaker 4: I think twelve wins was the mark and then in
Speaker 4: two years to get the thirty wins. So there's a
Speaker 4: pattern of growth everywhere she's been. So nobody asks Booth
Speaker 4: you call you guys, mister. I'll let that laugh.
Speaker 2: There was that do you do you think Arizona fans?
Speaker 2: And I love them because they buy my books and
Speaker 2: I love them and they're listening to this show.
Speaker 4: Let me say this first, as.
Speaker 2: I hate to bother you, but do Arizona fans? I
Speaker 2: asked Kevin, This is he realistic? He's Arizona men's basketball fans,
Speaker 2: realistic men's basketball fans. Just give me a yes or
Speaker 2: no for now? Yes, the realistic?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, no, no, I'm not gonna I'll say yes. I'll
Speaker 4: elaborate in the middle. Okay, s no.
Speaker 8: No, because at this point Tommy Lloyds would have been
Speaker 8: fired three times already.
Speaker 4: Okay, so go ahead, and you're you're the rookie in
Speaker 4: the group.
Speaker 20: Yeah, i'd say, I'd say if they've been here for
Speaker 20: a while, they are like locals are, but like people
Speaker 20: that like probably are new to the program and like
Speaker 20: new to the fandom, aren't as much.
Speaker 2: Because they're they overinplate their their ability that they overreplate.
Speaker 3: It, Uh yeah, kind of like they just expect more,
Speaker 3: kind of like how we talked about going into the tournament,
Speaker 3: like a lot of a lot of like, man, how
Speaker 3: do I put this? Like six we were talking about
Speaker 3: it kind of when we were off or when we're
Speaker 3: off the air that like sweet sixteen is like it's
Speaker 3: like somewhat of the standard kind of but like we
Speaker 3: expect more usually, but like that's like a decent like
Speaker 3: resting place for the season, I think.
Speaker 2: For Okay, So no quickly, but ask the women's program.
Speaker 2: Do they think highly of themselves?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 8: They What was the question was? Yes, yes? Are they realistic?
Speaker 8: They realistic?
Speaker 4: No, because I think they thought, God, I don't want
Speaker 4: to poop poo the program, but they thought, hey, we're fine.
Speaker 4: This is if we keep it the way it is,
Speaker 4: we will be fine. We will get out of this.
Speaker 4: You were I think they were overly optimistic, okay, and.
Speaker 8: It's a perfect word, overly optimistic for women's basketball over
Speaker 8: the last few years or yeah, yeah, and yeah, I'll
Speaker 8: say over the last few years, because I don't think
Speaker 8: anyone who airs on a basket women's basketball before Yeah.
Speaker 4: True, Like when they lost to North Carolina here in
Speaker 4: tusonwhere the target hells just blew them out in that
Speaker 4: second round game, and we're just like, that's okay. They'll
Speaker 4: be back next year, will they? They never got back,
Speaker 4: They never hosted again, and the program's standards kept on
Speaker 4: going down and down and down, and it was we
Speaker 4: already got to the title, she'll get us back? Yeah,
Speaker 4: here you are? Yeah, okay, no back to the men's Yeah.
Speaker 4: So why I say yes in terms of I think
Speaker 4: if you look on social media, the answer is no.
Speaker 4: I don't think you should follow social media. But there's
Speaker 4: a lot of fans in this fan base that believe
Speaker 4: Tommy's doing a good job. The developing is right. Do
Speaker 4: they want to get to a higher level and expect
Speaker 4: them to eventually? Yes, But they're all the thought processes.
Speaker 4: If you're going to fire someone, which again they're not
Speaker 4: going to fire tom who are you going to get there?
Speaker 2: Well, we heard that after Sean got fired, Right, who
Speaker 2: are they going to get Why would they do that?
Speaker 4: Who's going to be better? There's always something better.
Speaker 2: Once you guys married, get married and divorced, you'll find
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Speaker 8: We're going back to the women's basketball fans, are they no? No, no
Speaker 8: Mence men's Oh you said no no, because because well
Speaker 8: I do agree. If you look at Twitter X whatever
Speaker 8: you want to call it, there's there's fans that have
Speaker 8: tried to fire Tommy Lloyd for the last three years. Uh,
Speaker 8: and they believe the programs underperforming. I think they're done fine,
Speaker 8: and I think fans outside of social media think that
Speaker 8: as well. But they want more and they expect more
Speaker 8: when realistically they should it.
Speaker 2: Okay, y are didn't ask you on the women's side,
Speaker 2: is that right? Women's Are you you're kind of a
Speaker 2: tune with the women.
Speaker 3: A little bit like more last semester than then towards
Speaker 3: the end of it. I'd say, I'd say they're a
Speaker 3: bit more realistic with the women. Like I have these
Speaker 3: my other job. I have these regulars that come in
Speaker 3: and they would go to like every women's game, and
Speaker 3: you know, they were they were super cool about it,
Speaker 3: but they they were never like two down if they lost,
Speaker 3: you found two Yeah, but yeah, I'd say, yeah, I'd
Speaker 3: just say that they were more realistic.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I felt almost like we're happy to
Speaker 4: be here. Kind of a fan base for women. Yeah,
Speaker 4: where this is exciting. This is now or before before now,
Speaker 4: We don't know if you know, with the new coach,
Speaker 4: but or you know, this is all kind of first
Speaker 4: and we're going through the.
Speaker 2: Just well here here, lucky, it's like it's it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure this was just this is a
Speaker 2: dumb analogy. Seventeen seventy six, seventeen eighty one. We're the
Speaker 2: best country in the world. We're the best country in
Speaker 2: the world, right five years into our living conditions. Arizona
Speaker 2: has been alive for what five years?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Pretty much? Right nineteen? I think they won the w
Speaker 2: nineteen nineteen. Okay, so let's give them seven years. So
Speaker 2: they win that, they rise to that and you win
Speaker 2: that and whatever that's worth. COVID not doesn't count. You
Speaker 2: go to the finals and then title game, title game,
Speaker 2: which is in all fairness good obviously. But then here
Speaker 2: regard the decline. So you've lived for five six, seven years.
Speaker 2: How is that a real gauge of who you are?
Speaker 4: Well, okay, so real gauge of who they who they are?
Speaker 4: And I'm again Nyabuds was in charge of a program
Speaker 4: for a lot of time. It was at the bottle
Speaker 4: and it was horrible. It was not the bottle, and
Speaker 4: nobody really fussed about it. Right, I don't see anybody.
Speaker 4: There was a no care factor. There was about what
Speaker 4: eight hundred fans in the game. You could hear a
Speaker 4: pen drop. Nobody cared. I wonder who they were. I'm
Speaker 4: sure they're still around, yeah, probably. I want if anybody listening,
Speaker 4: we got about Timmans.
Speaker 2: If you're listening and you happen to go to those
Speaker 2: games before idea.
Speaker 4: Joe Monneseni Niabads, any of those m and Joan was
Speaker 4: very successful, very much.
Speaker 2: We had her on the show yesterday. She gave us
Speaker 2: some insight on what was going on and the program
Speaker 2: was pretty good.
Speaker 4: Honestly, it kind of felt like and you could see
Speaker 4: the relation in terms of men's basketball, what Joan Bonnasini
Speaker 4: did was similar in terms of what Fretz Node did.
Speaker 4: Build a foundation. Hey, you can get it done here
Speaker 4: at Arizona. You can make the tournament, get to a
Speaker 4: sweet sixteen I think she got at her time. And
Speaker 4: then you have somebody like Niabuts come in men's basketball,
Speaker 4: have the same issue and completely destroy the program, and
Speaker 4: then idea comes along, loodles and comes along, rebuilds it
Speaker 4: gets it to new whites. And you thought it was
Speaker 4: going to start something. You thought it was going to
Speaker 4: be that lootles and trend. It wasn't. But now there's
Speaker 4: there's still that path, there's.
Speaker 2: Still that yeah, that fans have to buy and be
Speaker 2: be part of the program, you know, part of the solution.
Speaker 4: She's what thirty five he said, thirty five? Thirty five.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she has that personality or maybe possibly personality.
Speaker 2: She'll have to continue that that love affair with the fans.
Speaker 4: Got Yeah, you've got it. Oh, nowadays you got to
Speaker 4: do it all the time. You can't be I don't know.
Speaker 2: Bobby Danny Hurley is that guy for his group, but
Speaker 2: he's wins, so he doesn't win.
Speaker 4: Is tom is there that guy? No, but no he wins.
Speaker 2: No, you know he's crowning. No, No, Tommy is a little.
Speaker 2: Tommy is a little. But he's also criticizing the group.
Speaker 2: But it's in all fairness. I defend Tommy because he's right,
Speaker 2: he's accurate. Yeah, we got we got to call Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the aaron I and the Ball.
Speaker 21: Who's this Hi, Steve, this is done. Hey, I just
Speaker 21: wanted to say on the men's program, I don't think
Speaker 21: that the fans, the fandom is realistic. The last couple
Speaker 21: of times that I've gone on to games, the that
Speaker 21: that middle mezzanine or the little walkway between the sections
Speaker 21: there always full. You see people they're they're like they're
Speaker 21: getting in their steps. They're not even watching the game.
Speaker 21: They're not they're not in their seats.
Speaker 15: I had.
Speaker 21: It's I had seats that were on that road, those
Speaker 21: those extra seats that they they put there, and you're
Speaker 21: basically sitting in the walkway and you can't see the
Speaker 21: game because there's people walking back and forth and it's
Speaker 21: the same people. It's like they never sit down, like
Speaker 21: they're at the street fair. I didn't know that.
Speaker 4: I never knew that the Games of mckielay was the
Speaker 4: same issue.
Speaker 21: Too, and that the women's game. It's like when Dave
Speaker 21: was in the in studio with you last week and
Speaker 21: we were talking about the old days. The women's game,
Speaker 21: it's more joyous.
Speaker 15: The game is the event.
Speaker 21: It's not it's the event is not going to the game.
Speaker 21: The event is the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 21: And while and while Adiya had her wins and loss issues.
Speaker 21: She always her teams always they played hard, they played
Speaker 21: with they played with ghanas they played they played pretty hard.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 21: Man, a lot of times they're shorthanded. And the thing
Speaker 21: is is with the heights that she got, with the
Speaker 21: getting to the championship games. One thing we have to
Speaker 21: be honest. The talent base in women's basketball is so
Speaker 21: much smaller than what it is in the men's game.
Speaker 21: So you have the halves, the blue bloods that have
Speaker 21: been blue bloods for a long long time, and there's
Speaker 21: nobody else coming up. You know, Baylor faded in the
Speaker 21: women's On the women's side, LSU is always right like
Speaker 21: right there knocking on the door. But you got the
Speaker 21: connecticuts and well you had you had Stanford until Vanderveer
Speaker 21: retired and where did that go? And where did that go?
Speaker 21: That went away really fast. But hopefully there's a base
Speaker 21: where the new coach here can can pick up, you know,
Speaker 21: and and her being a young person, hopefully people will
Speaker 21: see her. I haven't seen any video or anything of her.
Speaker 21: I just saw her picture just now on line, and
Speaker 21: you know, hopefully, you know, if she shows some enthusiasm
Speaker 21: I think she'll be able to pick up the fan
Speaker 21: base from where they are, and you know, and hopefully
Speaker 21: she gets the players and and and she's able to
Speaker 21: make it work at Arizona, where whereas Idea had her
Speaker 21: her issues apparently I don't know what they are, what
Speaker 21: they were, you know, but good luck to her, and
Speaker 21: and I thanked her for her efforts in building the
Speaker 21: program up. From like you guys were just saying, from nothingn.
Speaker 4: Anything, your thoughts on what you said, I think the
Speaker 4: talent of women's basketball compared to let's say, fifteen twenty
Speaker 4: years ago, is in a so much better place than
Speaker 4: it was. The talent pool is wider. You're not seeing
Speaker 4: just these monsters seams. And again, yes, Yukon North Carolina. No,
Speaker 4: not North Carolina, Yukon South Carolina. They're loaded. They one
Speaker 4: and I whatever, I get it. But USC has come up.
Speaker 4: UCLA has been very good, Arizona, LSU, TCU, Louisville. So
Speaker 4: there's there's a lot of good programs out there, the
Speaker 4: talents out there. And in case of you know, not
Speaker 4: getting the talent, I did had top five classes. They
Speaker 4: just all transferred out and succeeded somewhere else. So the
Speaker 4: talent wasn't an issue at Arizona.
Speaker 2: No, well, the talent that came then left. They had
Speaker 2: great careers other places.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Colorado. Yeah, aaron I finally had success there. You
Speaker 4: TCU with Madison Connor had success.
Speaker 2: Said that she was making quarter million dollars. I don't
Speaker 2: know about that. Joanes said that.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Joe said that. I'm thinking, Holy Cray, I wish it
Speaker 2: would have been a female.
Speaker 4: College for for uh, for Madison honor. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 4: see that. I don't know. I'm not going to question her.
Speaker 4: We'll see now. Uh, what's what's her name? The former
Speaker 4: louisvo player that lay at tc this year the Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: yeah live Yeah, I can see that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, well there's money, there's players. We'll see what happens here. Thanks, guys,
Speaker 2: are we done?
Speaker 4: We're good? And are we close to it?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 2: Okay? No, no, thanks guys. Thanks to Troy for coming in.
Speaker 2: No show tomorrow, Thank you on We'll see you monday,
Speaker 2: you guys, both you guys, uh, and talk more about
Speaker 2: what's going on with the state of the well football.
Speaker 2: Football is going to be over next weekend, right, yep,
Speaker 2: they'll have something on Saturday.
Speaker 4: They have a scrimmage Saturday night at seven pm that
Speaker 4: switched from eleven AM to some because you know, you know,
Speaker 4: and that and that's what that's what they're gonna do
Speaker 4: in this showcase that they're going to have eleven on
Speaker 4: eleven periods, but most of it's just gonna be regular practice. Okay,
Speaker 4: thanks guys,