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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're read Ja Geary. And
Speaker 1: that was great with Kenny. Thank you for getting him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, Kenny's awesome.
Speaker 1: He's always good. He's always good. You know, it's his
Speaker 1: first time on the show, but he's always good, like
Speaker 1: even in public.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, just like I say, it's such incredible story.
Speaker 3: You know, his background of growing up in Cleveland and
Speaker 3: and just uh.
Speaker 1: It's it's a good it's a good story.
Speaker 3: It's a great story. I mean it's it's it's a
Speaker 3: you could put it on the big screen. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: type story. I'll write a book on it. And so
Speaker 3: deferve that and then to play basketball and the pivot
Speaker 3: to baseball to have this that doesn't haredible career years.
Speaker 3: He really is on the edge of becoming a Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer, and I think that's something that's gonna happen
Speaker 3: for him. And and now he's entertainment and he's doing
Speaker 3: all these other things. I just think he just are
Speaker 3: a really great story to highlight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no question, Like I said, a lot of
Speaker 1: you guys and lout saw you guys where you guys
Speaker 1: are good people and turn into these good dudes, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yeah, and you know, and I
Speaker 1: know the bad dudes because there have been a few,
Speaker 1: but not a lot, not a lot, not a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, And you can kind of on maybe one
Speaker 1: hand if that and the good dudes are out there
Speaker 1: are doing good.
Speaker 3: Things and that's part of being and that really goes
Speaker 3: to being a coach, you know that being a Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame level coach, to being a good coach, someone
Speaker 3: good at the craft that yeah, you're looking for the
Speaker 3: best players out there, but you're also looking for personalities.
Speaker 3: Yeah does this person fit in? And and not every
Speaker 3: coach practices that. No, there's coaches out there that recruit
Speaker 3: by numbers and and recruit you know, not for need
Speaker 3: and just for publicity, and they usually find themselves in
Speaker 3: trouble and coaches and did not do that.
Speaker 1: So when you did your coaching overseas, uh a little
Speaker 1: at TCU, Rightcy, I'm sorry, but when you recruited, could
Speaker 1: you did you see yourself? Okay, this dude's really good.
Speaker 1: We could change it, you know what I'm saying every ego,
Speaker 1: every coach has an ego, so we could change, we
Speaker 1: will make them okay, But then no, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean early early in your career, when you
Speaker 3: when you're first getting the coaching you want, you think
Speaker 3: you can save everyone, like, yeah, I can save them all.
Speaker 3: You know, he may he had a number of red
Speaker 3: flags in the past, exactly when he gets to me,
Speaker 3: it's all going to be different, right, and that and that,
Speaker 3: And still I think from a coaching mindset, you still
Speaker 3: always want to have that that I would I want
Speaker 3: to give this an attempt, right. I think as you
Speaker 3: get older, how much time you'll spend on that on
Speaker 3: that issue shorter and shorter because you're realizing that, hey,
Speaker 3: I've given this individual one or two chances and there's
Speaker 3: still been no correction. And so there are things that
Speaker 3: you learn. But yeah, if you can identify, you know,
Speaker 3: kids that play hard, kids that play for the right reason,
Speaker 3: and and you can incorporate them into what you're doing,
Speaker 3: and faster you can do that, the better do you.
Speaker 1: So when you were in Japan, did you have say
Speaker 1: in the roster? Did you say in the roster or
Speaker 1: did the administrate or the gms or whatever.
Speaker 3: So, so how it works these for for the organizations
Speaker 3: that was with three different organizations than my six years
Speaker 3: in Japan. Was I was the GM for all the
Speaker 3: for the imports, for all the American pot okay, and
Speaker 3: so because I just didn't have the bandwidth the knowledge
Speaker 3: to be recruiting at the college level in Japan, we're
Speaker 3: you know, throughout the league, so we really relied on
Speaker 3: them in terms of the executives to kind of pick
Speaker 3: the Japanese players. And then I would work to find
Speaker 3: the Americans through agents and and through my own contacts.
Speaker 1: And so was it your philosophy? Was that the same philosophy? Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe little background stuff and see all these can these
Speaker 1: guys play as a team.
Speaker 3: Little bit, I'm doing as much background as I can.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna call it, you know. As soon as I
Speaker 3: work with the agent and we start getting some material in,
Speaker 3: I started identifying some individuals that hey, this might be
Speaker 3: a good fit for the way I play and size
Speaker 3: wise and experience. I'm gonna do it deep social media
Speaker 3: to dive. I'm gonna call coaches they work with in
Speaker 3: the past. I'm gonna do as much as I can't,
Speaker 3: because keep in mind, I'm gonna be with this individual,
Speaker 3: We're gonna live together for.
Speaker 1: Sure, eight to ten months. Yes, and he's part of
Speaker 1: your success, he's your failure.
Speaker 3: And and and even did even more even double down
Speaker 3: on that is in Japan with visus and work visas,
Speaker 3: I always laugh, if you have to, you have to
Speaker 3: be as sure as possible, because if you do want
Speaker 3: to make a change, saying in Europe, I can make
Speaker 3: a change out in probably two weeks, I could probably
Speaker 3: cut a player, let him go, have a guy come
Speaker 3: in two weeks later. Well, Japan, that's not the case.
Speaker 3: You're easy. Visas are very difficult to get there in times,
Speaker 3: especially work visas, so they might take up the two months.
Speaker 3: I always laugh, I would end up, you know, not,
Speaker 3: you know, working with individuals just not working out. I
Speaker 3: would cut that individual at least in my mind and
Speaker 3: with the paperwork. But I now have to hold onto
Speaker 3: this vision individual for two more months. But just because
Speaker 3: if that's how it works there, Yeah, and then what
Speaker 3: happens after three or four weeks when he gets hot
Speaker 3: and now I want to keep him, and so it
Speaker 3: makes for some awkward conversations so you want to do
Speaker 3: your homework up front. You want to be as sure
Speaker 3: as possible as you can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it totally makes sense. That's funny. That's funny
Speaker 1: because then maybe they get better in that time, you know,
Speaker 1: in that within that two months.
Speaker 3: It takes time for some reason that a lot of
Speaker 3: times you would end up cutting a guy and before
Speaker 3: he even got on a plane, another Japanese team end
Speaker 3: up taking him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny, But real quick because the NBA Draft
Speaker 1: is coming here. Your thoughts on Curdil Bryant didn't play
Speaker 1: a whole heck of a lot, although he did in
Speaker 1: key moments, you know what I'm saying, And then he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lottery picked this guy from went from
Speaker 1: here to there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Carter just an incredible story. Here's a
Speaker 3: young man coming out of you know, coming out of
Speaker 3: high school, five star guy, all the accolades, I'm g
Speaker 3: justs the college and it takes him a minute, you know,
Speaker 3: he just it wasn't as easy, which you always find out,
Speaker 3: and it took him almost half a season to adjust
Speaker 3: to that. And then you could see something that's you know,
Speaker 3: kind of snapped in his brain, like Okay, you know,
Speaker 3: this is the level of toughness and level of work
Speaker 3: and effort that you need to be successful at this level.
Speaker 3: And then once you kind of figure that out, the
Speaker 3: other part was easy. You knew he was gifted athletically.
Speaker 3: You had a beautiful jump shot, a really nice stroke defensively,
Speaker 3: had length, and he was just so young. And I
Speaker 3: think that's what's been so enticing, even though he didn't
Speaker 3: have huge numbers. Yeah, you know, NBA guys you know,
Speaker 3: can't help themselves.
Speaker 1: No, no, and numbers don't mean anything, because if you
Speaker 1: can play, they'll find you. They'll find you. And then
Speaker 1: at that time, though Tommy had already found his niche
Speaker 1: right with his team starters, replacements, blah blah blah. And
Speaker 1: he was one of those replacements because if he had
Speaker 1: he started him, everything could have just gone ketawumpus. It
Speaker 1: could have been changed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the chemistry could have been completely different. But you know,
Speaker 3: Tommy last year, you know, speaking on last Ye's team,
Speaker 3: needed a couple of things happened. He needed kJ Lewis
Speaker 3: to kind of come into his office and say, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, I think I might be better off the
Speaker 3: bench and maybe gets now, Uh, dell or so out
Speaker 3: there early for some some some early touches and using
Speaker 3: his veteran experience. And so yeah, if Carter Brian is
Speaker 3: thrown into that mix earlier, it throws things off potentially
Speaker 3: and we see something different. But you know, the NBA
Speaker 3: guys can't help themselves in terms of when they see
Speaker 3: someone young like that, regardless of their numbers, they just
Speaker 3: don't want to miss out on the next big thing. Sure,
Speaker 3: I don't think they're thinking Carter's going to play next
Speaker 3: year or maybe even the year after, but they're thinking
Speaker 3: year three. Sure, he's twenty one years old. Now we're
Speaker 3: just catching him the best second contract he's twenty four.
Speaker 3: That's kind of how they start thinking long term. Yeah,
Speaker 3: when they look at these prospects.
Speaker 1: And you saw it too, because you were in the
Speaker 1: league for a while, right and you saw it because
Speaker 1: you were trying to save your job because the new
Speaker 1: kids are coming in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went I mean I was a second rounder,
Speaker 3: so I was a little bit different, you know when
Speaker 3: you're when you're a late second rounder, which I was,
Speaker 3: and I went through that whole process. You know, I
Speaker 3: was All tournament team for the Big West out in Phoenix,
Speaker 3: I went to Chicago really thought I was going to
Speaker 3: be somewhere around the bottom of the first round of
Speaker 3: some of the teams that were looking at me. Found
Speaker 3: out later the Lakers, talking with some of the Lakers personnel,
Speaker 3: it was between Derek Fisher and myself for that twenty
Speaker 3: ninth spot. So it's always kind of fun to see
Speaker 3: how that would have played out. Yeah, but yeah, you
Speaker 3: just uh, you know, you just get in there. You know.
Speaker 3: I had to fight for every team.
Speaker 4: I was on.
Speaker 3: I played for, you know, the Spurs first, right, I
Speaker 3: was with the Cleveland. I got drafted by Cleveland, but
Speaker 3: as the second rounder you gotta it's not guaranteed. And
Speaker 3: with the San Antonio the next year and was able
Speaker 3: to make that you know, before you know, going over
Speaker 3: to Europe and some other things. So, you know, these
Speaker 3: guys are so lucky nowadays. They just with the skill
Speaker 3: development and just kind of where they're at and where
Speaker 3: the game is at. It's just a really special time
Speaker 3: to be a player.
Speaker 1: Well, the thing about it, at least what I've covered
Speaker 1: for all my plf of my life actually is all
Speaker 1: the players like you and other ones, they believe they're
Speaker 1: the guy, you know, and how could you not believe
Speaker 1: you get the guy. You're a bunch of alpha males,
Speaker 1: who you guys are going to be in the first round.
Speaker 1: You guys have your career set, but there's a thousand,
Speaker 1: few hundred of you every year they come out, right.
Speaker 3: More than that, I think they We used to say
Speaker 3: there's there's more brain surgeons every year that graduated the
Speaker 3: NBA basketball players, And there's some truth to that, because
Speaker 3: just not a lot of jobs, and and and you know,
Speaker 3: basketball is so universal now, I mean, you know, basketball's
Speaker 3: played in every country in the world. Countries you don't
Speaker 3: even think about they have a team there. There's you know,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be some factory, some company that's supporting these
Speaker 3: teams all over the world. And so it really is
Speaker 3: an international game. Obviously, if you look at this year's
Speaker 3: roster players, it really reflects that.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I don't know, maybe twenty fifteen, two
Speaker 1: and fourteen, whatever it was, and the guys came out,
Speaker 1: Gordon and some of the other ones, and some the
Speaker 1: your Euros started getting picked a lot, a lot, and
Speaker 1: some of the guys were falling down and some of
Speaker 1: the people on the internet, some of are finishing. It's
Speaker 1: just not fair. I mean, they're coming out early and
Speaker 1: these yours are taking their jobs. I'm thinking, guess what
Speaker 1: this ain't this aint. This is called real life, real life,
Speaker 1: and you if you leave, that's on you. You think
Speaker 1: you're good enough, but there's more, there's more people out there, yeah,
Speaker 1: wanting that same job.
Speaker 3: It is a competitive environment and so no question, you've
Speaker 3: got to do your homework. You got to make you know,
Speaker 3: you got to be sure if you're going to make
Speaker 3: that jump, because you know, we tell these kids it's
Speaker 3: called world out there. You know, you see the NBA
Speaker 3: and the glamour and the money. But if you don't come,
Speaker 3: you know, if you don't make it initially, you know,
Speaker 3: you're really going to have to fight and kind of
Speaker 3: be a gladiator going around the world and through minor
Speaker 3: leagues to kind of get back. So you got to
Speaker 3: choose wisely.
Speaker 1: But the funny thing is, and I say this all
Speaker 1: the time, guys like who don't make it still have
Speaker 1: a wonderful career overseas or whatever. And sometimes I wish
Speaker 1: I had their future because it's it's not a bad living.
Speaker 3: It is not you know, I think some people they
Speaker 3: look down on overseas ball or minor league ball. But
Speaker 3: if you have an opportunity, you come to college, you know,
Speaker 3: to be a student athlete, and if you have an
Speaker 3: opportunity to pursue your your career in your sport, travel
Speaker 3: the world, play for free in a lot of instances,
Speaker 3: or to travel free, and they make some money to
Speaker 3: put in your pocket. You know, it's only a blessing.
Speaker 1: And now you have n IL and now you have
Speaker 1: the big announcement that came out last week for you know,
Speaker 1: there's twenty million dollars that it's going to be a
Speaker 1: big pie for you or basketball players and football players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what a world it is.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 3: It's a great time to be a student athlete. That's it.
Speaker 3: It's a great time for college athletics. It's just it's
Speaker 3: it's one of these, you know things, these evolutions that
Speaker 3: just has to occur because the game is just got
Speaker 3: got so big. And so I'm gonna correct it's not
Speaker 3: in I l were we're in a rev share model
Speaker 3: for Ford where you know, the university now starting just
Speaker 3: this past weekend, got the word we're gonna have to
Speaker 3: raise you know, twenty point five million dollars that's unbelievable
Speaker 3: to me, you know, and.
Speaker 1: So could you talk, could you explain that to me
Speaker 1: real quick? And we have uh two minutes? Yeah, best,
Speaker 1: it's best let me because it's twenty point five, right,
Speaker 1: twenty pah all you have to raise that could you
Speaker 1: don't have it now or not?
Speaker 3: That's where money we got to go out to the
Speaker 3: community and raise. And so we have our Student Athletes
Speaker 3: Excellence Fund that you know, that's where donors can can
Speaker 3: participate and be you know, helping these coaches retain their talent,
Speaker 3: helping coaches recruit talent. You know, these are our big
Speaker 3: things going forward. You know. It just it just came
Speaker 3: to a point where and this is me speaking, where
Speaker 3: college athletics became so profitable the TV contracts and in
Speaker 3: the player contracts and the and the presidents and ad
Speaker 3: contracts became such a big sport that it just felt
Speaker 3: like it was time for the student athletes to participate
Speaker 3: in that business model. And I think that's what we're seeing.
Speaker 3: And it's not easy. It hasn't been smooth. Obviously, the
Speaker 3: transfer portal has muddy that order up in terms of
Speaker 3: what this could look like. But going forward now with
Speaker 3: the plan. I think it's going to be cleaner. I
Speaker 3: think they will address the transporportal at some point and
Speaker 3: it'll make things fair for everybody else.
Speaker 1: So so you guys have to come up with that
Speaker 1: money the universities, not just you've able to all universities.
Speaker 1: So is NIL done with?
Speaker 3: So nil, you know, it's that's something when we speak
Speaker 3: on But NIL is a is a third party. It
Speaker 3: is an agreement between a third party and a student
Speaker 3: athlete that you know, if somebody in the community wants
Speaker 3: to go out and sponsor an athlete, where they have
Speaker 3: to present an athlete with the contract and that contract
Speaker 3: now has to go to the NCAA August where it
Speaker 3: has to be looked over to make sure it is
Speaker 3: a fair market value and if it's determined so then
Speaker 3: they'll allow that deal to transpire. And for some reason
Speaker 3: that isn't allowed and they too, an athlete still participates
Speaker 3: in that. That's something that could hurt the university. So
Speaker 3: we're going to be policing that very closely.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's that's could be on top of on
Speaker 1: top of that, correct, if they're able to do it,
Speaker 1: that could be on top of the twenty million correct.
Speaker 3: So you could have all these deals on top of
Speaker 3: your rev share, you know where some people will get
Speaker 3: a competitive avantage there. But that's why we need individuals
Speaker 3: in Tucson to step up in that area as well.
Speaker 1: What a good time to be a college y. Actually,
Speaker 1: what a bad time to be an administrator? That's crazy,
Speaker 1: Reggie crazy, Reggie. Okay, we got to go in and
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Speaker 2: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports forteen to fifty.
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to my on the ball here on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty, I'm Steve Rivera. In with today
Speaker 1: is Reggie Geary. And now on the phone, we had
Speaker 1: the voice of the Wildcats, Brian Jeffries. Brian, how you.
Speaker 5: Doing, Steve, I'm doing very well. How many lives is Reggie?
Speaker 1: We'll get to that later because I do want to.
Speaker 5: He told me he's the greatest shot blocker in Japanese
Speaker 5: basketball history.
Speaker 3: I mean from a first stanfway of a guard. Maybe, yeah,
Speaker 3: like I say, Arizona.
Speaker 1: But well, we'll get to those lives later. So just
Speaker 1: there's jobs that people have that are great. You have
Speaker 1: a very good one, and I'm sure that you work
Speaker 1: from late August to June. Right, we're not even done yet,
Speaker 1: and you maybe worked a day or two this year
Speaker 1: because you have a great job. I'm sure the last
Speaker 1: few weeks or at least two weeks have been fantastic
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 9: Well, it has.
Speaker 5: It's been crazy, and I mean we've been on the
Speaker 5: road for four weeks or something now. I mean we've
Speaker 5: finished the season in Houston and you know, went straight
Speaker 5: to Arlington for the Big twelve Tournament, then went to Eugene,
Speaker 5: then to Chapel Hill now to Omaha, so a lot
Speaker 5: of traveling involved, but some great results. And I think that,
Speaker 5: you know, that second game at Houston back in mid
Speaker 5: May was kind of the turning point for this team,
Speaker 5: and they've played really well since then. And you know,
Speaker 5: now there's no discounting them. I mean, they probably won't
Speaker 5: be one of the favorites to win this whole thing
Speaker 5: in Omaha, but they probably weren't expected to win in
Speaker 5: Chapel Hill or Eugene or who knows where. So they
Speaker 5: just they believe in themselves right now and they're having
Speaker 5: fun and that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: You can you I hate to ask this question comparing contrast,
Speaker 1: but you covered some pretty good teams, you know, ninety seven,
Speaker 1: ninety four.
Speaker 5: Eight.
Speaker 1: You know, is this a team of destiny or can
Speaker 1: you tell now? Too early?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I hate using that because I just don't know. You know,
Speaker 5: you don't know. I mean, you go back and you
Speaker 5: look at some games. You know, they gave up eighteen
Speaker 5: runs last Friday in Chapel Hill, they struggled to get
Speaker 5: some hits. They had two hits in that opener against.
Speaker 9: Cal Pauly up in Eugene, and you know then they.
Speaker 5: Turn around and get sixteen on Saturday Chapel Hill, So
Speaker 5: you never know. I mean, I think teams of destiny
Speaker 5: you kind of get a feeling because they have, you know,
Speaker 5: more consistency to them in terms of what they do.
Speaker 5: The best thing about this Arizona team is that they're
Speaker 5: they're not bad at anything. I've told I tell a
Speaker 5: lot of people, I don't think they're great at anything,
Speaker 5: but I think they're good at everything. And so they
Speaker 5: hit when they need to, they pitch when they need to,
Speaker 5: they defend very well. I mean, they just there's a
Speaker 5: lot of things they do really well. And the key
Speaker 5: has been that, you know, the right thing has come
Speaker 5: forward when they need it at most. And I think
Speaker 5: that's the you know, the makings of a very good
Speaker 5: baseball team, but a team of destiny. I you know,
Speaker 5: we'll see what happens in Oma. I think that's that's
Speaker 5: where it kind of shows there. If you get on
Speaker 5: a roll there and you win your first couple of
Speaker 5: ball games, then you start getting a feeling that this team,
Speaker 5: you know, just will refuse to lose. And we'll find
Speaker 5: out here over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian, I mean I love the fact that it
Speaker 3: seems like Arizona. Arizona's going into this as an underdog.
Speaker 3: As you mentioned, I think there's a real argument that
Speaker 3: they're probably one of the hottest teams in the country,
Speaker 3: you know, just putting aside maybe that first game out
Speaker 3: in Chapel Hill. So I love the I love the
Speaker 3: position they're in right now. You know, I know we're
Speaker 3: still a few days away, but you know, Coastal Carolina
Speaker 3: someone we're familiar with. What do you what do you
Speaker 3: see in that matchup?
Speaker 5: Well, they are the hottest team in the nation. Probably
Speaker 5: maybe Arizona's probably second. But you know, Coastal Carolina's won twenty.
Speaker 9: Three straight games. Yeah, good point, Yeah.
Speaker 5: They they have. You know, they won I think this
Speaker 5: second most Wednesday've had in school history, or maybe tied
Speaker 5: for the most.
Speaker 9: It's a team that.
Speaker 5: To me is a little bit similar to the one
Speaker 5: we just saw in Chapel Hill, just in terms of
Speaker 5: some of their numbers. You know, they they're a good
Speaker 5: hitting team, but they're not great, you know, home runs.
Speaker 5: Arizona's hit more home runs then Coastal Carolina. The key
Speaker 5: for the Shans is the fact that they have a
Speaker 5: great pitching staff, they're Team Era. I believe it's second
Speaker 5: in the nation right now, and they have three outstanding
Speaker 5: starters and so led by Jacob Morrison who's eleven and
Speaker 5: zero on the season. And the Wildcats just saw a
Speaker 5: guy last week.
Speaker 9: Who was unbeaten.
Speaker 5: So that's how they win most of their games is
Speaker 5: using defense and pitching, and so if the offense is equal.
Speaker 9: Then it really comes up.
Speaker 5: I think it comes down to pitching, and Arizona's very
Speaker 5: deep in that department, and I think that Coastal Carolina
Speaker 5: has better starters right now with a little more experienced.
Speaker 5: Two of them are very experienced, and they've got a
Speaker 5: third new guy who's been really good. I think Arizona's
Speaker 5: bullpen might be a little bit better. So I just
Speaker 5: think it's a great matchup going in. And there's going
Speaker 5: to be a lot talked about that twenty sixteen championship
Speaker 5: series and how it ended, and it wasn't a good
Speaker 5: feeling for the Wildcats.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I know Mason White said he watched every pitch of
Speaker 5: that those games, and you know he's looking forward to this.
Speaker 5: Some of most of the other guys probably have no
Speaker 5: recollection whatsoever.
Speaker 9: Of what happened in twenty sixteen, but I.
Speaker 5: Just think it's going to be a great way to
Speaker 5: kick Kings.
Speaker 9: Off in Omah on Friday.
Speaker 1: God, I had this question set up for you and
Speaker 1: I just don't get old, just don't get out. Oh well,
Speaker 1: the last couple of days, I've asked a couple of
Speaker 1: people this about Chip because he was on the show
Speaker 1: on TV. Right they do the in in game interviews
Speaker 1: for that's the ending or whatever. He comes off as
Speaker 1: kind of Tommy ish, Tommy Tommy Lloyd ish, kind of
Speaker 1: a good old boy, kind of funny, self effacing. Is
Speaker 1: he that guy? And then you know you've got it made.
Speaker 1: You have Brett Brennan, who's that guy? You got Tommy
Speaker 1: Lloyd and you got this guy.
Speaker 5: Oh, trust me, I'm very blessed, Seve. I mean to
Speaker 5: work with three coaches like Arizona has right now, that
Speaker 5: not many guys get that opportunity. And you know, I've
Speaker 5: I've really loved watching Hip kind of grow into this role.
Speaker 5: Remember he was in pro baseball, he played, he played
Speaker 5: college baseball. You know, he played it very well a
Speaker 5: long time ago. He still has a national championship ring
Speaker 5: that he likes to show off, but he goes to
Speaker 5: pro ball and comes to college baseball. It's a different
Speaker 5: it's a different story when you get into college baseball.
Speaker 5: And I remember that first year. I think his head
Speaker 5: was kind of spinning because of all the things that
Speaker 5: you have to do away from just coaching the players,
Speaker 5: and so to watch him kind of grow into that role,
Speaker 5: his to me, has been really fun to see. I
Speaker 5: think one reason the players respond well to him because
Speaker 5: he has that pro background, and that's kind of how
Speaker 5: he treats his guys. I mean, there's not I don't
Speaker 5: see him as a you know, he's not a strict guy.
Speaker 5: He lets the players, you know, live their lives and
Speaker 5: do their thing. And you know, that's the way they
Speaker 5: do it in pro ball. And if you get the
Speaker 5: right players in there, and he has the right bunch
Speaker 5: right now, they know how to police themselves and they
Speaker 5: really do get along very well.
Speaker 9: I think.
Speaker 5: You know, Brendon summer Hill, I thought, brought up a
Speaker 5: great word a week or so ago and talking about
Speaker 5: this team, and he said, trust. They really have great
Speaker 5: trust in one another, and every team doesn't have that.
Speaker 5: So you know, Chip's done. I just think a marvelous
Speaker 5: job of kind of molding these guys and getting through
Speaker 5: a season where they lost Summer Hill there for what
Speaker 5: sixteen games or so without Brian Fogo.
Speaker 9: For a while. They've had to bring.
Speaker 5: In three new starting pitchers this year, and so there's
Speaker 5: just you know, those kind of changes.
Speaker 9: Aren't easy to adjust to.
Speaker 5: And that middle of the season there, I remember one
Speaker 5: stretch they lost five or six and like I said,
Speaker 5: they got they got beat badly at Houston in that
Speaker 5: first game, and quite honestly, I'm sitting there going, well,
Speaker 5: this may be, you know, a quick vacation for those
Speaker 5: of us who you know, have vacations at some point
Speaker 5: during the summer. But you know, they got, they got
Speaker 5: it turned around. And it wasn't like Chip just went
Speaker 5: into the dugout or the meeting room or the locker
Speaker 5: room and said let's win one for the gipper. He
Speaker 5: let the guys kind of figure it out on their own.
Speaker 5: I mean, he puts the best players out there and says, okay,
Speaker 5: you play your best and you're gonna do fine. And
Speaker 5: that's exactly what they've done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, to that point, I'm trying camaraderie and
Speaker 3: that coming togetherness. You know, I'm watching the games on TV,
Speaker 3: and I'm seeing everybody with the stash that the mustache
Speaker 3: is out there. Now. You know, do you have a
Speaker 3: favorite mustache? Did you grow a mustache? And we're going
Speaker 3: to see those in OMH.
Speaker 9: I did not. I've tried once and it's not pretty.
Speaker 9: So we'll look at that.
Speaker 5: You know, baseball and every sport, you know, you've got
Speaker 5: certain things that I don't know what you want to
Speaker 5: cause superstitions or whatever, or you get hooked onto something
Speaker 5: like you know, going to mustache and that's great, you know,
Speaker 5: nothing wrong with that at all. You still have to
Speaker 5: go out and play the game. But you play baseball.
Speaker 5: Season's long. I mean we're now over sixty games this year.
Speaker 5: These guys are together a lot, in particular now the
Speaker 5: last four weeks, and so you have to find those
Speaker 5: outlets there.
Speaker 9: And you know, we're in.
Speaker 5: Chapel Hill last week and there there wasn't much you
Speaker 5: could walk to around the hotel and and so you know,
Speaker 5: you're pretty much in the hotel when you're not playing ball.
Speaker 5: And I think the guys, you know, that's what brings
Speaker 5: up the camaraderie, is the fact that they get along
Speaker 5: away from the ball field, and they use that time
Speaker 5: to their advantage in terms of whatever they need to
Speaker 5: do to get ready for the next one. And I
Speaker 5: think because they get along so well that even though
Speaker 5: they may not sit in the room together and start
Speaker 5: game planning amongst themselves, I think they all know what
Speaker 5: their assignments are and they trust one another to go
Speaker 5: out and execute.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned the guys that had been in and
Speaker 1: out of the line line up because of injuries. I
Speaker 1: guess three guys, right. You can mention him again if
Speaker 1: you like. But it reminds me as you were saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, back in ninety seven when Miles was out,
Speaker 1: they had they had, you know, Bibby had to kind
Speaker 1: of kind of grow up right away, and Dickerson showed
Speaker 1: who what he could do. So people had to show
Speaker 1: up and kind of grew up in front of you
Speaker 1: because they had no choice. Is that the case here right.
Speaker 5: Well, it was because when summer Hill was out, Arizona
Speaker 5: still one more than it's lost, but not at the
Speaker 5: same rate that they have with him in the lineup,
Speaker 5: and so other guys. Yes, they had to get some
Speaker 5: other guys to step up. You know, Gunner Guile, one
Speaker 5: of the local guys. He came in, he started sixteen
Speaker 5: games this year. He hasn't played since I think that
Speaker 5: Houston series because you know the guys in front of him,
Speaker 5: you know, Summer Hill Briogl had been healthy and so yeah,
Speaker 5: guys like that. TJ. Adams another guy who had to
Speaker 5: play in place of Bryfogel when he was injured. Now
Speaker 5: you know, he just gets spot duty right now, but
Speaker 5: doesn't complain, goes out and does his job. And mattist Mirah,
Speaker 5: who fills in at third base and shortstop. I asked
Speaker 5: him one day, I think just the effect of, hey,
Speaker 5: you know you don't get to play every day. How
Speaker 5: do you get yourself prepared? He says, well, I have
Speaker 5: to be prepared because I might be called upon at
Speaker 5: any moment. And I think that kind of mentality is
Speaker 5: something that these guys have had to embrace and they have.
Speaker 5: And you could say the same thing on the pitching side,
Speaker 5: even though there haven't been injuries there. It's a very
Speaker 5: deep bullpin and you know, some guys have it one
Speaker 5: night and some guys don't. And I thought this past
Speaker 5: weekend was great when Julian Tungini came in got his inning,
Speaker 5: Casey Hintz and what Tony Pluta did on Sunday is
Speaker 5: something that should be admired for a long long time
Speaker 5: after throwing what fifty four pitches the day before. So
Speaker 5: they've all found a role on this team, and it
Speaker 5: may not be the same role every game, but they're
Speaker 5: all willing to step in and help out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question. The closure Pluto was fantastic. You said,
Speaker 1: fifty four pitches that the day before, and you're thinking,
Speaker 1: are they going to bring him out again? And of
Speaker 1: course they do, because if you don't, you're probably going
Speaker 1: to be questions. And if you do well and he
Speaker 1: wins it, you're not going to be questioned.
Speaker 9: Yeah. No.
Speaker 5: I talked to him on Saturday night after that save
Speaker 5: on or that went on Saturday when he went two
Speaker 5: and the third in that game and I end the
Speaker 5: fifty some odd pitches and I asked him, I said, hey,
Speaker 5: you know, if Chip wants you to go in and get.
Speaker 9: It out tomorrow, can you do it? And he goes, oh,
Speaker 9: yeah I can. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I didn't know he was going to ask him to
Speaker 5: get three outs, but you know that's the type of guy,
Speaker 5: you know, Tony is I mean that you know I
Speaker 5: don't think people understand what he has done this year
Speaker 5: because they look at his e er which is sub two,
Speaker 5: and you know, he just set a school record for
Speaker 5: single season saves. And but but there's one game in there.
Speaker 5: If you if you look at the stats when he
Speaker 5: gave four runs at Grand Canyon, if you take those
Speaker 5: that one game out of the equation, he's given.
Speaker 9: Up one run the rest of the season.
Speaker 5: That's it. And so I don't know that I've seen him.
Speaker 5: We've had some pretty good closers, you know, Jason Stoffle
Speaker 5: we just passed in terms of the save record and
Speaker 5: so on. But he is remarkable. He really is out
Speaker 5: of uniform. You know, he's a what a mechanical aerospace
Speaker 5: engineering major and kind of looks the part. So for
Speaker 5: him to do what he does, I can't tell you
Speaker 5: how much I think of this guy.
Speaker 1: It's funny he did like me asking you this question
Speaker 1: in late August. You know, Brian, we're gonna need you
Speaker 1: to go through June June. Do you have it in you?
Speaker 1: And you're gonna say, of course, I of course I
Speaker 1: have it in meet Steve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes you know you're just to use the off
Speaker 5: handed word you suck it up and you do it.
Speaker 5: Rickie can talk about that. Ricky probably was. I bet
Speaker 5: you there was at least one game in Reggie's career
Speaker 5: that he was not one hundred percent at tip off,
Speaker 5: But you know, he sucked it up and played and
Speaker 5: you know, probably blocked nine shots and uh skull thirteen
Speaker 5: steels and eighteen assists or whatever.
Speaker 1: You were injured one time with your ankle. I think
Speaker 1: you had twisted ankle sometimes.
Speaker 3: My junior year, yeah, I had injury that I played through.
Speaker 3: But the longer you play this game or observe it
Speaker 3: or watch you're rarely at one hundred percent. You're always
Speaker 3: gonna have to find why, find ways to grind through.
Speaker 3: But when you're having special years, you're gonna pat yourself
Speaker 3: together and put yourself out there.
Speaker 1: What did twenty year olds do anyway?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 1: This is what you guys do. You guys been doing
Speaker 1: all your life.
Speaker 3: You live for it, you love it, you know, and
Speaker 3: that's why they're they're they're at the pinnacle right now,
Speaker 3: you know, and going to Omaha for this experience. So
Speaker 3: there's nothing's gonna keep these guys. He'd hit by a
Speaker 3: pitch or hitting the elbow or you know, roughed up
Speaker 3: on the basse path. You know, like we saw the
Speaker 3: young man the other day. You know, they're gonna do
Speaker 3: whatever they can and get back out.
Speaker 9: In the field.
Speaker 1: How was the kid that got hurt in the path?
Speaker 1: Is he okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Brian Fogel passed the concussion protocol and so he
Speaker 5: should be ready to go on Friday, plenty of rest
Speaker 5: in between. I'm not saying that one hundred percent because
Speaker 5: I haven't spoken to him or seen him, but that's
Speaker 5: I've been told that it was not anything serious, which
Speaker 5: is fortunate because when he went face down, Yeah, after that,
Speaker 5: I thought, oh my gosh, because he'd already been you know,
Speaker 5: he's hurt both shoulders. You go back to that Houston
Speaker 5: series when he hit the wall and hurt one shoulder
Speaker 5: and later in the ballgame splid into home plate and
Speaker 5: hurt the other one, and he couldn't play the outfield
Speaker 5: for that series in Arlington, and so I was concerned.
Speaker 5: But like I said, as of right now, he's good
Speaker 5: to go on Friday.
Speaker 1: How cool is it to to have white, a local
Speaker 1: kid who who's a stud and just a dude that
Speaker 1: you say, what do you play sell point, seth point
Speaker 1: looking at him playing shortstop and knocking the crap out
Speaker 1: of the ball.
Speaker 9: Well it is.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's a great story because you know, just
Speaker 5: going to a Wildcat fan the way he has and
Speaker 5: now what he's done in three years. You know, in
Speaker 5: the record books in multiple areas, he needs one more
Speaker 5: extra base hit to become the all time extra base
Speaker 5: hit leader in Arizona history. And so he's going to
Speaker 5: be remembered for a long time. And you know the
Speaker 5: story is, you know, his dad and his granddad played
Speaker 5: at the U of A. One of the things that
Speaker 5: should stand out about this team is the number of
Speaker 5: Arizona players who are not only on the roster guys
Speaker 5: but who you know are making an impact. You know,
Speaker 5: Andrew Kine, Mason, White, Gunner, Guile, I could keep going
Speaker 5: from there. I mean, and then you take a look.
Speaker 9: At their you know they're pitching this year.
Speaker 5: You know On Kramkowski's a sophomore Walden Grove High School
Speaker 5: down south, and you've got what guards are from Rio Rico,
Speaker 5: and it's just you look up and down the roster
Speaker 5: and you find guys that you know, have all from
Speaker 5: Arizona that have made it, you know, a big part
Speaker 5: of this team. And that says a lot for the
Speaker 5: talent here, but it also says, you know, Chip Hale
Speaker 5: knows how to recruit guys, right, And I think he
Speaker 5: loves to recruit guys.
Speaker 9: From Arizona because.
Speaker 5: If they want to stay home and they have played
Speaker 5: or they have watched the U of A over the years,
Speaker 5: I mean it's a little it's more special to them.
Speaker 9: And I think that's what Mason White kind of echoed
Speaker 9: the other day.
Speaker 1: Well, you got at least two or three more weeks
Speaker 1: in you, so you don't enjoy I hope he takes
Speaker 1: some clean clothes and have fun.
Speaker 5: Hey, you know I looked at this way. You know
Speaker 5: you've got potential Where you're looking at eleven days in Omaha.
Speaker 5: If you're starting on Friday and there's nothing like it,
Speaker 5: it's if if you haven't been put it on your
Speaker 5: bucket list, because even if your team is not there,
Speaker 5: it's just a great almost two weeks of baseball. City
Speaker 5: of Omaha just does a marvelous job. And that's why
Speaker 5: it stayed there for so long.
Speaker 9: So you mart event and gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: You might and you might be the only guy that
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Speaker 5: I'll be glad to coach talk to Jay. You know, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's kind of well you look at that and our
Speaker 5: friends from Morgan State, we could very well see you there.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's uh kumbaya, yeah, baby, the old old
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Speaker 1: do what you do? Yeah, yeah, good luck, Thank you, Brian,
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Speaker 1: Reggie Geary? Is a good day of stop Reggie?
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Speaker 9: Who's this? Hey?
Speaker 1: It's T money, T money. What's up?
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Speaker 4: I just want to fanboy Reggie Geary right now. Uh.
Speaker 9: You know, Reggie was my favorite player growing up.
Speaker 4: I always had that infectious smile before he stole the
Speaker 4: ball and stuck his.
Speaker 1: Elbow in the rim on the other side of the court.
Speaker 4: But no, I just uh it's cool to hear his
Speaker 4: voice and watch him, watch him work, see him give
Speaker 4: back to to this community and stay loyal.
Speaker 1: That's that's outstanding. Do you have a favorite memory? Because
Speaker 1: I do, I have one of mine. So do you
Speaker 1: have a favorite memory? I have a few, but.
Speaker 10: I don't know if if it's a favorite memory, per se.
Speaker 4: But I mean I remember his senior year.
Speaker 3: We didn't know that the.
Speaker 4: Confluence of guys on that team. I think Miles and
Speaker 4: those guys are freshmen, but Reggie led that team, and
Speaker 4: I think they they took Kansas to the wire that
Speaker 4: year or the year before they went to the national championship.
Speaker 4: But it was like Reggie selling it, you know.
Speaker 1: Like he just he just did it like that.
Speaker 10: He was that guy.
Speaker 4: And you know, I was like I was middle school,
Speaker 4: so it left a huge impression on me. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I always loved watching Reggie pledge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a couple. There was a don't get
Speaker 1: passo Texas a passo you left like almost a free
Speaker 1: throw line and and chammed that in. I think you
Speaker 1: can bet maybe her drinkle that day. It's a different,
Speaker 1: different game, but you remember the dunk I don't don't
Speaker 1: pass and that, and then the mission game with the
Speaker 1: blood right and then the phone call it cal remember
Speaker 1: the phone We had some fun.
Speaker 3: We had some fun. First of all, team might I
Speaker 3: appreciate you calling in man, thanks for sharing that. You know, Uh,
Speaker 3: I just had so much fun playing for U of A.
Speaker 3: And uh, it's just great there. You know, there's been
Speaker 3: so many individuals who walked up to me and saying, hey,
Speaker 3: I remember you as a kid, and I love how
Speaker 3: you played the game with a smile, and you know,
Speaker 3: I just I just loved being a wildcat man. I
Speaker 3: just enjoyed every second of it. So so thanks for
Speaker 3: calling in.
Speaker 10: Yeah, let me let me ask you.
Speaker 7: A question if I could.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that Arkansas game, sorry, that Arkansas game Final four,
Speaker 4: Like I saw it written, I thought, on damon, I
Speaker 4: saw it written on your face. But that frustration that
Speaker 4: you guys had, and I get you guys, gave it up, give.
Speaker 5: It your all.
Speaker 4: But I mean I just remember, just like staring at
Speaker 4: your face.
Speaker 9: I'm like ten years old.
Speaker 4: Man, what are these guys feeling right now? Can you
Speaker 4: can you tell me what's going.
Speaker 5: Through your head?
Speaker 4: Like you're trying to get get these guys getting get
Speaker 4: get get the lead and you know the last five
Speaker 4: minutes left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you know, just to go back to
Speaker 3: those times. You know, this the ninety four Final four
Speaker 3: and Charlotte, you know that ninety fourteen was a special team.
Speaker 3: You know, it was really the first incarnation of a
Speaker 3: three guard offense. No one really had seen in a
Speaker 3: long time. So for me, Damon Stodamyer, Klid Reeves, you know,
Speaker 3: to kind of be that one two three, All three
Speaker 3: guys ended up playing the NBA's PRIs point guards. But
Speaker 3: we were able to come together in that ninety four
Speaker 3: year with Corey Williams and Ray you know, Reyos, the four,
Speaker 3: Joseph Blair and it was just kind of a magical year.
Speaker 3: And then we get to this Arkansas game after having
Speaker 3: beat Louisville in Missouri to get there out in LA
Speaker 3: and now you know, it just it was just one
Speaker 3: of those really kind of fun, uh, just kind of
Speaker 3: frustrating nights. I tell people it was the only night
Speaker 3: that Damon and Klid were both off.
Speaker 1: Four for twenty four years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that never occurred. We always had one on dayman.
Speaker 3: You know, if Klid had a slow night with Damon
Speaker 3: had twenty seven, if Damon had a slow night, Klid
Speaker 3: would fill in. It was the first time all year
Speaker 3: that we had both off and it was just it
Speaker 3: was just kind of a frustrating night.
Speaker 1: Let me say this to Arkansas pretty damn good.
Speaker 3: I mean, Richardson than you know, they had Scottie Thurman,
Speaker 3: Corey Beck I mean they had pros too, and you
Speaker 3: can't forget obviously, you know who the power Howe for
Speaker 3: not corters Williams, Cortis Williamston. Yeah, I mean he had
Speaker 3: twenty five and twenty five rebounds. He was dominant that night,
Speaker 3: and so we ran up against a really good team,
Speaker 3: had a little bit of off night, and you know
Speaker 3: it's a thin line at that level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, that's a well I'm glad talking to you.
Speaker 1: Managed did T money? Did you listen to the Kenny
Speaker 1: lofton interview?
Speaker 4: No, Man, I got to go back and listen.
Speaker 1: That's amaz I have to go back and listen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was good.
Speaker 9: It was good.
Speaker 1: We were back in the day, reminisced a little and talked
Speaker 1: about the future. So cool. Yeah, go back on the
Speaker 1: podcast later tonight.
Speaker 4: All right man, Yeah, strong work.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bess Man appreciate it is good, good stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the could you could you remember the phone call Intel?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you got on the plate. It was it
Speaker 1: was a timeout somebody was it Bozeman? We got a call.
Speaker 1: Well we'll get back to that. Hello, you're on the
Speaker 1: air nine the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 5: Hey, Steve, this is done you doing?
Speaker 1: Hey? Done fine? Hey, thanks for trying to call yesterday.
Speaker 1: We moved studios so the phones were not prepared for you.
Speaker 5: Yes, you saw me on the caller ID you didn't
Speaker 5: want to talk to me.
Speaker 1: No, we always loved. We don't always agree, but we
Speaker 1: love your calls.
Speaker 5: I want to I want to piggyback on what.
Speaker 9: Tim Money was saying. You know, I want to.
Speaker 5: I appreciate Reggie's time when he was in uniform here
Speaker 5: and his time coming back and when you when you
Speaker 5: asked he about his favorite play, it was that dunk
Speaker 5: against UTEP for me, Yeah, me too, Me too, because
Speaker 5: the athleticism on defense was which was like four years
Speaker 5: of that. You couldn't pick one of those, but that
Speaker 5: breakaway dunk and he was in the rafters. I mean
Speaker 5: that was that was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don to be young again. I remember those days
Speaker 3: so fundly.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: I was thinking earlier, I said, you know, if I
Speaker 5: get on the if I get on the air, I
Speaker 5: want to ask Reggie if you can still throw it
Speaker 5: down now.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, unfortunately, and now that I'm fifty one, it's hard
Speaker 3: to say, even believe I cannot. I didn't tried last
Speaker 3: time I dunk was thirty nine. I told the kids
Speaker 3: for my fortieth I was dunk. I did not and
Speaker 3: have it. They remind me every birthday that this is
Speaker 3: still not occurred. But I'm hanging in there pretty good
Speaker 3: for my age.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just I just had a question, and it's
Speaker 5: in regards to uh uh pressure situations and stuff and
Speaker 5: when I'm getting that was game one last Friday. They
Speaker 5: showed Owen Cramkowski warming up, and this poor kid was sweating.
Speaker 5: He was sweating like he had the flu, and I thought, Wow,
Speaker 5: it must be really humid over there. But he was
Speaker 5: the only one. None of the rest of our guys
Speaker 5: were all sweated through their uniform and everything else. And
Speaker 5: here's this kid. You know, yeah, he's a sophomore, but
Speaker 5: this was the biggest stage he'd been on.
Speaker 9: And uh, I.
Speaker 5: Hope he's I hope he shook that off for coming
Speaker 5: up this week or for this Friday anyway. And I
Speaker 5: was just wondering. I was I'm hoping he wasn't sick,
Speaker 5: and uh, I hope he gets over his nerves. But
Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys noticed that last week
Speaker 5: or not.
Speaker 1: I didn't see it.
Speaker 5: But I'm just yeah, he looked, and then later on
Speaker 5: they showed him he comes set on one pitch and
Speaker 5: his hands were shaking. I don't know how the bench
Speaker 5: didn't see that, and I don't know what they were trying,
Speaker 5: if they were trying to get him to settle down,
Speaker 5: but boy, that poor kid was shaking last week. And
Speaker 5: uh but uh, I remember we said last Friday that
Speaker 5: the game that morning had nothing to do with the
Speaker 5: game on Saturday. And you know, that's baseball. That's that's
Speaker 5: just baseball, and sometimes it's basketball too. But uh, you
Speaker 5: know those guys, they didn't quit. And uh, really proud
Speaker 5: of them, been watching them all year, and uh, you know,
Speaker 5: I think it's you know, hopefully they got another another
Speaker 5: couple of runs to get through the bracket and then
Speaker 5: and then the the championship series. That'll be great if
Speaker 5: they could do that. You know, it's going to be
Speaker 5: a steep hill, but we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: We've done it before. Thank you done.
Speaker 5: It's it's like the Sweet sixteen in basketball. Now we're
Speaker 5: playing with house money. What happens happened?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, you appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Thanks guys.
Speaker 1: Aute or so are these calls are gonna make you
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 9: I love this.
Speaker 3: No, then that's why I too. Sond was great just
Speaker 3: to Don's point, you know, dealing with dealing with those nerves,
Speaker 3: that's just part of it. That's part of being on
Speaker 3: the big stage. I'm sure the next time that young
Speaker 3: man gets out there, he'll do better.
Speaker 1: So I got a minute left. You uh tell me,
Speaker 1: did you get nervous when you're out there?
Speaker 3: Before every game? Really before every game? I got nervous.
Speaker 3: My nervous. It was something that drove me. I was
Speaker 3: nervous that I would either do something I would embarrass myself,
Speaker 3: and more important, that we would lose the game. And
Speaker 3: so I used that that that anxiety or or or
Speaker 3: that fear a little bit as fired that I'm going
Speaker 3: to play as hard as I can to make.
Speaker 1: This not your best move, your best move ever outside
Speaker 1: of the dunk? Was you, Santa Clara, although you lost?
Speaker 1: Was you feinting injury and Dylan cominged to shoot the
Speaker 1: free throws and then Dylan a ninety throws.
Speaker 3: We just talked about that. I think that was my
Speaker 3: first coaching move. You know, my first coaching move was
Speaker 3: as a player. It was to get my ninety percent
Speaker 3: free throw shot. A guy knew from high school into
Speaker 3: the game and he went in and missed, and so
Speaker 3: we talked about this about two weeks ago. So, uh,
Speaker 3: my first decision was not a good.
Speaker 1: No, it's just it was a good and it just
Speaker 1: didn't work. It didn't work because, yeah, you were not
Speaker 1: a good You came. You were even pretending limping off
Speaker 1: the field, off the court, kidding, they're Dylan, and he
Speaker 1: missed the free throw. Yeah, yeah, thanks for coming in
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun anytime.
Speaker 1: Don't say that because I'm gonna call you marm. Thanks
Speaker 1: everybody for listening. If you missed it, you got to
Speaker 1: catch the the podcast tonight. Thanks much