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Speaker 3: me today. Is Troy sit a send from goazycatch dot com.
Speaker 4: Are you doing, Troy?
Speaker 2: Good? How about you?
Speaker 5: How's your weekend?
Speaker 3: It was good. I don't even remember what the hell
Speaker 3: I did which made me play the perfect weekend. Yes, well,
Speaker 3: I'll rain the little right. Everyone's the great flood of
Speaker 3: Tucson never happened. It's getting my house ready for the summer.
Speaker 3: Little little early monsoon. Yeah, a little giving for the summer.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm still recovering from my surgery, so I
Speaker 3: did a little too.
Speaker 4: Much with that.
Speaker 3: I hope my doctor doesn't get e O at me.
Speaker 3: So we'll see, we'll see. Good to see you, Troy.
Speaker 3: Thanks for getting some guests that you were doing your homework,
Speaker 3: No problem, no, we get justin Spiras. At four seventeen,
Speaker 3: he covers Arizona football, obviously from the website The Arizona
Speaker 3: Day Star works for that other station.
Speaker 5: In the mornings, and then Ronnie Palmer at three seven
Speaker 5: running Palmer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, could get a good story with.
Speaker 2: Him, right Yeah.
Speaker 5: Former UFA linebacker played during the Tubs era and now
Speaker 5: was on the staff I think, and has been a
Speaker 5: defensive coach, analyst, you know, whatever you want to list
Speaker 5: as a role. But was one of the main pieces
Speaker 5: in terms of helping the team get back to a
Speaker 5: Bowl game in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll talk to him. He hasn't been on
Speaker 3: the job very long, right, just started right before the
Speaker 3: springball Well I was gonna say March ish around there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, good, good, we'll talk about that. We're talking
Speaker 3: a lot about baseball, softball. We won't have breaking news,
Speaker 3: We'll just can you just talk about it?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think the big news of the weekend was
Speaker 3: a baseball team. Yeah, doing what you did kind of
Speaker 3: doors opened for them.
Speaker 5: I mean, once you get the home host team out
Speaker 5: real quick, Yeah, and you don't have to face them,
Speaker 5: it's a good day.
Speaker 4: There was I who did that. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you remember.
Speaker 3: Back in two thousand and eight ish, two thousand and nine, whatever,
Speaker 3: it was Panel and Dunlap took over first Loot and
Speaker 3: uh squeaked into the into the tournament, and things fell
Speaker 3: into place, and all of a sudden they were in
Speaker 3: the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 5: They beat what Utah and then who was the well,
Speaker 5: Cleveland State lost Cleveland State then yeah, yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 5: then they got to to Louisville and louis will beat
Speaker 5: the crap out of them. That's what Pedal said, I'll
Speaker 5: never ever respect Patino again, and Patino keep the crap.
Speaker 2: Out of them.
Speaker 3: But it was it was you know, that was a
Speaker 3: year when everyone said Arizon listening down year, and they were,
Speaker 3: and they were when all circumstances of the events, you know,
Speaker 3: Loot being out and Panel and and done up taking
Speaker 3: over with Reggie and Sweet sixteen. Hey, a lot of
Speaker 3: people would have killed for that. So Arizona gets now, yeah,
Speaker 3: right now, it's the standard. Right now, it's the standard,
Speaker 3: right right. So I gave you these numbers. Someone to me,
Speaker 3: uh and I you know, everyone thinks I'm mister snarky
Speaker 3: and you know, paying the ass. So people have been
Speaker 3: posting it was one that has two people in the
Speaker 3: n NBA finals, right, Donnell and uh Ben Mathrin. So
Speaker 3: it's eleventh straight year that they had at least one
Speaker 3: right into the Plaust and I I, one of my
Speaker 3: buddies posted that, and I said, well, how many final
Speaker 3: fours they have in that time? And just just just
Speaker 3: to throw it, just to throw it out there, just
Speaker 3: from perspective. You can bring me these numbers that I'll
Speaker 3: give you some more. And then then he kind of
Speaker 3: threw one. I said, they've only been to two in
Speaker 3: thirty years. They won't have been to two. I mean,
Speaker 3: we know the two thousand and one is las time
Speaker 3: they got to the final four, but actually ninety seven
Speaker 3: because ninety eight he didn't.
Speaker 5: They had the best chance to repeat and they didn't.
Speaker 5: And they've come a couple of ninety five they choked,
Speaker 5: came close, came close. Sorry, ninety four they choked in
Speaker 5: the final four. But yeah, yeah, well check Arkansas are
Speaker 5: pretty damn good. Weren't they by like, what no, fifteen
Speaker 5: fteen in that game?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, are you talking about Chicago?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: No, I know Chicago, Rosemond Okay, yeah they choked, yeah
Speaker 3: rosebud Okay, Yeah, yeah, I was going back your ninety four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they choked. That that's a good word. So
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's it's tough, it ain't easy.
Speaker 3: And then today Tommy gets another guy. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you know what the guy's name.
Speaker 5: I have the Ivan part, the last names got to
Speaker 5: work on Germany. So waited for Byron me went nick
Speaker 5: that I guess what they were.
Speaker 3: They waiting because I know they had somebody lined up
Speaker 3: for a couple of months now, didn't know where from
Speaker 3: or who it was because of the Carter Bryon situation.
Speaker 3: But Carter Bran makes it official today in a in
Speaker 3: a tab right in a in a post, when we
Speaker 3: already knew two three weeks ago, and he makes official,
Speaker 3: So they make it official.
Speaker 4: Did they have to wait for that?
Speaker 5: I don't think they had to wait for it. And
Speaker 5: yet again, remember the team hasn't announced it, like they've
Speaker 5: been not announced the other international signings. They haven't announced
Speaker 5: it themselves. But I think, uh, you know the lens
Speaker 5: of international basketball, how you always see euro Hoops or
Speaker 5: ESPN whoever break that news. They waited, probably intentionally until
Speaker 5: Carter made his decision. It's probably been a decision already
Speaker 5: by Ivan for a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I saw my guy Babcock's list he has
Speaker 3: he has him still going at fourteen and you wouldn't
Speaker 3: come out if you were any less than fourteen.
Speaker 5: No, And there's some that have him in the top ten,
Speaker 5: in the top ten, yeah, there's a couple. There was
Speaker 5: one on I believe it was Yahoo dot com has
Speaker 5: him at ten, and then NBA mock Draft on NBA
Speaker 5: dot Com has him at fourteen. Then there was one
Speaker 5: at thirty two and twenty, but mostly in that lottery
Speaker 5: pick area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't think so, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: And then I saw that what Aery McDonald has signed
Speaker 3: with the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm an exciting team. Good good part,
Speaker 5: good time to be there right.
Speaker 3: Now, right, yeah, yeah, no question. Once Kaitlyn comes back.
Speaker 3: I'm wearing my keln shirt. I have no idea why
Speaker 3: somebody guy got it for me.
Speaker 4: Some I'm wearing it. What else going on else?
Speaker 5: I mean softball, you have you know to go to
Speaker 5: Kennedy transferring entering the portal by far Arizona's best player
Speaker 5: returning for next season. You could have made a case
Speaker 5: for her to be the best player on the roster
Speaker 5: last year. She didn't tweet up that Kim Dass broke
Speaker 5: that news going through her sources. But huge loss for Arizona,
Speaker 5: not a surprise. They've lost most of their pitching staff.
Speaker 5: Wasn't exactly a great staff to begin with, lost a
Speaker 5: couple of players in the portal already. So you're looking
Speaker 5: at a complete rebuild after hosting a regional and it's
Speaker 5: a dark time right now in my opinion.
Speaker 4: No, it is after having a pretty good season up
Speaker 4: to come on. Pretty good.
Speaker 3: You and I thought about this last week a little bit.
Speaker 3: I don't kick your ass again. Okay, no, but you know,
Speaker 3: relatively speaking, you know, give it a big twelve. Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: Texas text can be in the finals, maybe, yeah, what
Speaker 3: do they have though?
Speaker 4: They have that picture?
Speaker 5: Yes, they have one star picture. But pitching makes breaks
Speaker 5: the game, Oh no, no question.
Speaker 3: And the best picture up until well her and tennessee picture,
Speaker 3: you know, throwing seventy nine miles per hour, seventy eight miles.
Speaker 5: Up until today. They just got down.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, some great games, and I was watching more
Speaker 3: softball than I was baseball, although the baseball games were
Speaker 3: pretty good too. You you watched and they were already
Speaker 3: up by whatever they were up, said, this is nothing,
Speaker 3: but the softball was very good entertaining crazy stuff, crazy
Speaker 3: stuff the UCLA game, the LA organ, Yeah, the UCLA
Speaker 3: organ where she didn't step on the home plate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought she did.
Speaker 2: No, she missed it.
Speaker 4: I thought she did it. Let me see why I
Speaker 4: paid ball. I played ball, and not that this qualifies me.
Speaker 3: But if you saw her foot, it moved really strange
Speaker 3: in the in the in the plate where you step
Speaker 3: on something and it kind of moves with that.
Speaker 4: It wasn't dirt, it was something.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I played second base sometimes I didn't touch the
Speaker 3: base when it turned double play, but my inner inner
Speaker 3: touched the base. I wasn't directly on it, but I
Speaker 3: was touching it with my insights. Yeah, people would say, oh,
Speaker 3: he didn't he touched it, he grazed it. It's good enough.
Speaker 4: Yes, So I think that was just my opinion. But
Speaker 4: they obviously said.
Speaker 5: She didn't touch it, didn't touch it, and it didn't
Speaker 5: make any sense, although she did come back and touch it.
Speaker 4: So I don't know the rules of the rules, and
Speaker 4: whatever the rules said didn't make any sense.
Speaker 5: No, and it almost costs right them the game justice
Speaker 5: kind of Yeah, and that well that was Tennessee yesterday.
Speaker 5: U c l A Tennessee and uh they were able
Speaker 5: to take Yeah that the Organ game was good to
Speaker 5: I mean this whole weekend of has been phenomenal, crazy,
Speaker 5: but you know, Tennessee got it done and then Oklahoma
Speaker 5: held on and right now they're going to be playing
Speaker 5: Texas Tech.
Speaker 4: Texas Tech Organ the winner of Oklahoma Oklahoma and Texas.
Speaker 5: Play Oklahoma in Texas Tech twice and ninety is going
Speaker 5: to pitch twice.
Speaker 4: She pitched. Yeah in this whole thing. Yeah, it's the moment.
Speaker 4: It's a moment.
Speaker 5: It's the time of the year. I mean, you look
Speaker 5: at UCLA when they had Rachel Garcia. She pitched every
Speaker 5: inning until they're able to get her some help. But
Speaker 5: if you have that one ace, they're gonna be pitching
Speaker 5: every single ning.
Speaker 4: Can you finch? Where are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Alisha Hollowell, Yeah, who's the back in day?
Speaker 4: Who's my back in the day pitcher?
Speaker 5: Nancy Evans two weeks back, Kinsey Valery, Yeah, back in
Speaker 5: the day. And you know we're like three maybe three
Speaker 5: years apart or and I but you know, well you're
Speaker 5: back in the day, two year old.
Speaker 4: Get used to it.
Speaker 3: Get used to it again. If you guys want to
Speaker 3: call five two zero for one six seventy four forty.
Speaker 3: You appreciate the call. Get us through the day. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be a tough week for me. Everyone's gone, Dave
Speaker 3: Silver's gone, Blake is gonna be later another day. We're
Speaker 3: gonna have Coach Lopez here on a win Wenesday. I
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Speaker 5: No, you know, you look at this Arizona recruiting class
Speaker 5: number one on rivals dot Com. It's been there for
Speaker 5: a while. Really it was like three. No, it was
Speaker 5: number one above Houston b Yu. I believe Houston's too.
Speaker 5: Who's doing this rivals dot com? But who's Who's the
Speaker 5: guy in Yahoo? They have their own recruiting services that
Speaker 5: do the rankings, So we we personally do not get
Speaker 5: involved in that. It would be but no, the Arizona
Speaker 5: has the number one recruiting insight exact. The Athletic did
Speaker 5: a story yesterday and then we moved into today. Was
Speaker 5: the the top twenty five rankings given all the transfers.
Speaker 5: I think Arizona finish eighteen o right right now with
Speaker 5: the loss of Carter, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: And probably not with the addition of this guy, which
Speaker 4: I'm sure was could get. But we'll see.
Speaker 3: But eighteen okay, I think I post I post odds
Speaker 3: on my Facebook page last week.
Speaker 4: Would you bet this? Would you put one hundred dollars
Speaker 4: on this?
Speaker 2: On this?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 4: I think forty to one to win the National Championship
Speaker 4: forty one?
Speaker 2: No, No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: It's a wait, it's a dead money. The issue for
Speaker 4: me seventeen favorite.
Speaker 5: Yeah, The issue for me isn't necessarily Arizona as a brand.
Speaker 5: It's you're gonna be relying on freshmen a lot on
Speaker 5: this team, and it's unpredictable. You can't predict if you're
Speaker 5: going to have a Cooper Flag style freshman or a
Speaker 5: guy that is like Carter that isn't exact who's very
Speaker 5: good guy. I mean, he's going in the NBA draft,
Speaker 5: but he wasn't a guy that was gonna average eighteen
Speaker 5: points a game and leave a team. You're right, So
Speaker 5: I don't know. We'll see how Copete plays, We'll see
Speaker 5: how Brandon Burry's plays. Because of those guys, aren't those dudes,
Speaker 5: it's a tournament team that maybe could get to sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's so maybe to the sweet sixteen. Guess where
Speaker 3: you guess where they're stuck at the sweet sixteen sixteen.
Speaker 5: Now, if they're phenomenal, it's it's a team that could
Speaker 5: get to a Final FOURIG national title name. But you
Speaker 5: got to see what you got, and until you play games,
Speaker 5: you don't know what you got.
Speaker 3: And it's another uh, with that you considered a well,
Speaker 3: we'll see what they do in the in the regular season,
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: A great year.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a great watching year, phenomenal because of
Speaker 3: the games they're playing and who they're playing and who
Speaker 3: they're playing.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: And then and then comes March, and then now you're judged.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and you're gonna be battle tested again during
Speaker 5: the non conference and get into conference play and we'll
Speaker 5: see what that schedule is like. But now only eighteen
Speaker 5: games in the Big twelve instead of the winning games.
Speaker 4: Right, so we'll see what happens. Let's go, let's go.
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Speaker 1: I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Why on the bout here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera and with me
Speaker 3: today is Troy Hutchison from Goisycats dot com. Now on
Speaker 3: the phone me how Ronnie Palmer? Are you a coach
Speaker 3: on the football side?
Speaker 4: Coach? How are you?
Speaker 2: Man? I'm doing just fine.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: It's off and running this summer, just just keeping busy.
Speaker 2: How you guys doing.
Speaker 4: We're doing fine. Hey, welcome home, by the.
Speaker 2: Way, man, it's it's it's uh, it's pretty unbelievable to
Speaker 2: be back. I didn't think of a better place i'd
Speaker 2: want to be right now, and we're very excited to
Speaker 2: be back home, no doubt.
Speaker 4: You know, Uh, Coach Palmer.
Speaker 5: I was a kid that grew up watching you and
Speaker 5: Mike Stoops and building that program from where you guys
Speaker 5: built it on the defensive side of the ball and
Speaker 5: the recruiting. Did you ever think back then when you
Speaker 5: were playing middle linebacker that you would be getting into coaching.
Speaker 5: Did you have that coaching urge back in the day.
Speaker 2: I think so. Uh, you know, anytime you're at that
Speaker 2: position at you know, it's no different than a quarterback, right,
Speaker 2: a quarterback of the defense. But you do so much
Speaker 2: film study and you have so much respect for those
Speaker 2: that that helped you learn the game, and uh love
Speaker 2: the game. And and I've had some great mentors alone away,
Speaker 2: some special coaches that really helped fuel me long after
Speaker 2: the you know, the playing days were over. So probably
Speaker 2: at some point, maybe halfway through my career at Arizona,
Speaker 2: I knew coaching would be in my future when I
Speaker 2: finally hung up the Cleeds. So, you know, big big
Speaker 2: props to Tim Kish, you know, Mike Stoops, Mark Stoops,
Speaker 2: Corey Edmund. They were they were pioneers and just really
Speaker 2: great mentors, not only as coaches, but as father figures
Speaker 2: and as men just to help help me in my career.
Speaker 3: And great names you bring up right, Obviously, the Stoops brothers,
Speaker 3: Kish who's still around doing the National Football Foundation stuff.
Speaker 3: So let's assume for a second you're twenty years old,
Speaker 3: twenty one years old, and you're talking about middle of
Speaker 3: your career here and you, Okay, maybe I'll be a coach.
Speaker 3: What are you thinking? I'll be this kind of coach
Speaker 3: and this is how I'll do it? And could that
Speaker 3: happen nowadays because it's kind of removed from it.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know what, as a twenty one year old,
Speaker 2: you know when you're when you're young, and you're you're
Speaker 2: highly energetic. And I think that the biggest thing that
Speaker 2: I took out of those years was, Man, those are
Speaker 2: guys I'd run through the wall for And I always
Speaker 2: knew that feeling, and I kind of bottled up that
Speaker 2: feeling of being in twenty one nineteen, twenty years old
Speaker 2: as a young freshman as a starter here at Arizona,
Speaker 2: and just I wanted to be that type of coach.
Speaker 2: The kid's gonna run through the wall for me and
Speaker 2: just be excited not only to play football but just
Speaker 2: about life and then hopefully leave the place better than
Speaker 2: what you found it, and hopefully they could leave better
Speaker 2: than what they were and that when they came in, you.
Speaker 5: Know, when the NCAA change the rules were, they were
Speaker 5: allowing analysts to be on the field and have practices
Speaker 5: and getting more involved with coaching and kind of opened
Speaker 5: the door for more coaching opportunities for everybody across the country.
Speaker 5: How did it all come about you returning to Arizona?
Speaker 5: Was that Brennan that called you? Coach Gonzalez that called you?
Speaker 5: How did that all come together for you?
Speaker 2: You know, that's a that's a pretty good story, man.
Speaker 2: You know, I was actually in a really good position.
Speaker 2: I was on my fifth year as head coach at
Speaker 2: Monterey Peninsula College, which is a small junior college on
Speaker 2: the West coast where my wife's from. It was a
Speaker 2: very well, you know, well paying job. You know, I
Speaker 2: did a lot of recruiting. We were having our version
Speaker 2: of success coming off of an eleven no season, and
Speaker 2: but I always had my eyes on returning to the
Speaker 2: Division one level, getting that taste of a head coach.
Speaker 2: You know, you just can't let that go. So I
Speaker 2: do have aspirations of being a head coach at the
Speaker 2: four year level. Coach Brennan at the time was at
Speaker 2: San Jose, so I was always sending recruits his way,
Speaker 2: going to his clinics, helping out in any way possible
Speaker 2: with recruiting, meeting the coaches, big shout out to a
Speaker 2: Lonzo Carter. Really started building my relationship with him, actually
Speaker 2: before I became a head coach, but in my earlier
Speaker 2: years at Northern Colorado, when I was an FCS coach.
Speaker 2: But but really just started networking and building with those guys. Uh,
Speaker 2: and then the plan is kind of aligned. And uh,
Speaker 2: you know, when Brennan took the job at Arizona, I
Speaker 2: still didn't reach out to him and didn't have a
Speaker 2: great personal relationship with him. But a guy by the
Speaker 2: name of Joe Salava was hired in January, and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I think so so highly of him and
Speaker 2: what he's done in his career and just what kind
Speaker 2: of a passionate leader he brings to this program. So
Speaker 2: when he got the job, we worked together for about
Speaker 2: maybe five or six weeks when I first got into coaching,
Speaker 2: not together as position coaches, but I just knew him
Speaker 2: from the staff and he called me and offered a job,
Speaker 2: an opportunity to come back home. And I had actually
Speaker 2: had accepted another job this coaching game is crazy, but
Speaker 2: it was a no brainer to really look at this
Speaker 2: opportunity and the kind of in that assistant d line
Speaker 2: coach role, that's that's that's new to the college UH landscape,
Speaker 2: and and really to really put my statement on this
Speaker 2: program and really help elevate where we are now. And
Speaker 2: and you know, Joe is Joe is probably the UH
Speaker 2: was instrumental the most in this opportunity. I didn't know
Speaker 2: Danny Brendan and I had met plenty of times, but
Speaker 2: you know what, we weren't on a on a calling
Speaker 2: each other basis. So Joe Salave is the was the guy. Uh.
Speaker 3: The one thing that I've noticed not covering it on
Speaker 3: the day to day for the football side of it, UH,
Speaker 3: is how enthusiastic this group is, right.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: You talked about the defensive coordinator UH and Salva of
Speaker 3: course and some of the other guys on the other
Speaker 3: side of the ball. Just just youngish, very full of
Speaker 3: life and ready to.
Speaker 4: Go at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, that's that's that's part of the game.
Speaker 2: And football is supposed to be fun, you know, and
Speaker 2: the game's changed, you know, kids are changing. Twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: it was yes or no, sir, and you were gonna
Speaker 2: do with the coach said to do because coach said so.
Speaker 2: Right Now, nowadays you have to really be able to
Speaker 2: teach and mold young men in a different way. And
Speaker 2: and part of our responsibility as coaches is to bring
Speaker 2: that juice and to have fun and show the kids
Speaker 2: that we can love them and we can make them work,
Speaker 2: and we can push them and motivate them at the
Speaker 2: same time. And it doesn't have to be ruling with
Speaker 2: the iron fists, so to speak, you know, like like
Speaker 2: the old school versions of football. So Danny does a
Speaker 2: great job. He lets his coach. That's the one reason
Speaker 2: why I thought this job was so you know, obviously
Speaker 2: it's bare down and it's home, but I was going
Speaker 2: to be treated as a coach even though I'm working
Speaker 2: under coach slave. They give me my ability to coach.
Speaker 2: They let me spend time and meetings, bring up good
Speaker 2: points in in the in the UH, in our staff meetings,
Speaker 2: and and have a voice. So usually that that respect
Speaker 2: and that appreciation, it just kind of goes around our room.
Speaker 2: And and our coaches are very very high energy, high motivating.
Speaker 2: We're running chasing after guys during practice, and they understand that,
Speaker 2: and I think it helps our players understand how much
Speaker 2: we care.
Speaker 5: As well, you know, going back to your playing days
Speaker 5: and when you came to Tucson as a Texas kid,
Speaker 5: just seeing the Texas influence. Get back to Arizona with
Speaker 5: this coaching staff. I know it was strong with the
Speaker 5: Mike steps coaching staff, but it went away there for
Speaker 5: a while. How important do you feel it is for
Speaker 5: this university to have their footprint in Texas and see
Speaker 5: that again like it was back when you were playing here.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a great question. I think it's very important.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the only thing that matters, but
Speaker 2: it is a huge piece.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Obviously being in the Big Twelve Conference, Texas is very
Speaker 2: very close and accessible for a lot of places. But
Speaker 2: we have such rich history of Texas players, you know,
Speaker 2: the Earl, Mitchell's, Mike Thomas, There's so many. The list
Speaker 2: goes on and on of the guys that have had
Speaker 2: successful NFL careers, and Stoops did a great job, you know.
Speaker 2: I think part of the reason why I chose Arizona
Speaker 2: because of the name Mike Stoops, and I knew what
Speaker 2: he would bring from from a coaching standpoint. From a
Speaker 2: defensive standpoint. And I can still remember my first recruiting visit.
Speaker 2: You know, we had five or six kids from Texas.
Speaker 2: And in that first recruiting class, Mike stoops Era, we
Speaker 2: signed seven guys from Houston alone, and that's not even
Speaker 2: counting the kids from San Antonio, from West Texas or
Speaker 2: from up north or East Texas. I mean, we had
Speaker 2: seven kids from the right of Houston area, and then
Speaker 2: the following year it was Houston and Dallas, and the
Speaker 2: year after that it was another big crop from Dallas
Speaker 2: in Houston. So it's very exciting to see. Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Brendan gives me a lot of leeway with with talking
Speaker 2: to a lot of the families and the Texas kids,
Speaker 2: and I do have a really strong relationship with kids
Speaker 2: from the South and when they hear a coach that
Speaker 2: that can talk and look like them, or say some
Speaker 2: of the same know some of the same areas or
Speaker 2: you know. And we have quite a few coaches on
Speaker 2: our staff that represent the state of Texas. So I
Speaker 2: do think that's gonna be kind of a home for us,
Speaker 2: along with Arizona and California of course respectively. But yes,
Speaker 2: we're excited I'm very excited.
Speaker 3: No, in fact, like you were saying, you can talk
Speaker 3: to talk and walk the walk because you are one.
Speaker 2: Of them, no doubt. And it's uh, you know when
Speaker 2: when when parents have that conversation piece and you can
Speaker 2: tell they're a little maybe uneasy right of their son
Speaker 2: leaving leaving uh you know, the backwoods or leaving you know,
Speaker 2: the home base and going you know further down I
Speaker 2: in to to call it home. I can can leave
Speaker 2: the rest assured that it's a great move and a
Speaker 2: great decision, and and then kind of give them the
Speaker 2: why and show them the layout, and you know, this
Speaker 2: place is means so much to me and I know
Speaker 2: my wife here. So it's you can come out here,
Speaker 2: you can leave home. You can always go back and visit.
Speaker 2: But then after a while you realize that leaving that
Speaker 2: nest is is key to growing up as a man.
Speaker 3: So did you after you got out of here twenty
Speaker 3: some years ago, right, did you get into coaching right
Speaker 3: away and ask that question for this question? Do you
Speaker 3: think kids today are different? I'll know you kind of
Speaker 3: answered this question twenty years ago. And in terms of
Speaker 3: they want to learn, they want to be coached. Uh,
Speaker 3: even though you have to kind of coach them differently
Speaker 3: if you if you will given the money, you give
Speaker 3: them the nil all stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, I do think this day and age has changed.
Speaker 2: You know, kids are more driven. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: different ways to to brand yourself and to promote yourself
Speaker 2: in I L is a huge tool that can can
Speaker 2: create generational wealth. It can really change the framework of
Speaker 2: one's life after football. We're back back in the day.
Speaker 2: You know, our goal is the NFL. Yeah, and if
Speaker 2: it was the NFL, you know, you kind of hit
Speaker 2: that wall of you know, like what what, what's next?
Speaker 2: What's going to happen next? So you know, psychologically I
Speaker 2: could you can see a lot of athletes, you know, struggle,
Speaker 2: so but no, you know, after I finished playing my
Speaker 2: final season in two thousand and eight here in Arizona,
Speaker 2: I signed an NFL contract with the Washington Redskins, which
Speaker 2: is now the Commanders, and and you really for three years.
Speaker 2: You know, it was a combination of four different contracts
Speaker 2: you know, from NFL, UFL, and even CFL. So I
Speaker 2: gave it three years, and uh really started trying to
Speaker 2: look at the framework of what was next. Probably after
Speaker 2: the rookie season you know, and and Tim kish had
Speaker 2: offered me the h g A a couple of times
Speaker 2: at Arizona, and and for some reason I continue to
Speaker 2: turn it down. And I honestly think it was great
Speaker 2: to turn it down, just because you never want to
Speaker 2: look around and say what if?
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 2: So I think I was ready after that third year,
Speaker 2: and unfortunately, uh Mike Stoops was let go a week
Speaker 2: or two before I was hired on as a quality
Speaker 2: control coach. So but but coach kishuh really helped introduce
Speaker 2: me into the coaching profession and I haven't looked back.
Speaker 2: So it's been great.
Speaker 5: You know, obviously things change, especially from two thousand and
Speaker 5: eight today, but just looking at the renovations and the
Speaker 5: upgrades that Arizona's made with their facilities back when you
Speaker 5: were a player here to what the players have now,
Speaker 5: just her thought process of that and how much things
Speaker 5: have changed with the football program and just the facilities
Speaker 5: that they have now.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a great question. Around two thousand and nine,
Speaker 2: I saw the renderings of this this football facility and
Speaker 2: expanding the stadium and the indoor facility. I think I
Speaker 2: saw maybe a couple of years after that, and I
Speaker 2: couldn't have dreamt of a Petter setup for Arizona football.
Speaker 2: It's a lot different. I will say that for all
Speaker 2: the alumni, all the Ogs that come back and experience
Speaker 2: this place and look around, there was nothing better than McHale.
Speaker 2: We didn't we didn't know that we were struggling down there.
Speaker 2: We loved it down there at all the athletes. Like
Speaker 2: I said, I met my wife down there in the
Speaker 2: training room after practice one day. You know, is you're
Speaker 2: you're in the same kind of dungeon, and so to speak,
Speaker 2: and you know, the basketball teams right there, the volleyball team,
Speaker 2: the baseball team, and we're all there, you know, just
Speaker 2: trying to figure it out before ni El, before all
Speaker 2: these really cool indoor facilities and separate football facilities, and
Speaker 2: we had our training table and our meal money and
Speaker 2: life was good. But but now that you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's special to see what college sports is doing for
Speaker 2: all athletes and everything from the nutrition standpoint, the financial
Speaker 2: literacy stuff that we do here at Arizona, the mentoring,
Speaker 2: the tutoring, everything's so accessible for these kids that it
Speaker 2: really elevates your opportunities for when you are twenty two
Speaker 2: or twenty one or twenty three and on your way
Speaker 2: towards graduation and leaving Arizona. You're you're already off to
Speaker 2: a a better space career wise.
Speaker 3: I'm also assuming that you probably got some bonus points
Speaker 3: from the wife, maybe the kids coming back. Your wife
Speaker 3: obviously played the ball here.
Speaker 2: Lauren. She's fired up. You know, she's not fired up
Speaker 2: to deal with the kids by herself all day. So
Speaker 2: I don't know if I got the bonus points or
Speaker 2: if I if I owe a little bit. I'm sure
Speaker 2: I do, but she's fired up. You know. We had
Speaker 2: to kind of sit down and in any opportunity for
Speaker 2: a job, you kind of weigh those pros and cons
Speaker 2: of the job is worth moving financially, is it's set
Speaker 2: for us? And we Like I said, I had already
Speaker 2: accepted another job, another division one job in another state,
Speaker 2: and that job was very tricky for my wife and
Speaker 2: I to navigate. And then the same week, Coach Slavea
Speaker 2: calls and says, come on, let's roll man, and then
Speaker 2: let's just say it was a shorter conversation for Lauren
Speaker 2: and I to come back to Arizona. She was very
Speaker 2: excited not only for me, but for our families, so
Speaker 2: our girls can can see the layout here, they can
Speaker 2: be around such elite people, not only people, but athletes
Speaker 2: in a program that we found home, you know, over
Speaker 2: twenty years ago. So very excited, you know, and very
Speaker 2: very unique to to come here at this time and
Speaker 2: just so motivated to see this place continue to grow.
Speaker 5: You know, during the summer, you guys have a lot
Speaker 5: of busy recruiting weekends with official visits and people taking
Speaker 5: a look at the campus. I know this weekend was
Speaker 5: a big one, and you can't talk specifics in terms
Speaker 5: of players, but just the excitement level that you're seeing
Speaker 5: from these recruits and prospects, getting to meet the coaching
Speaker 5: staff and seeing what you guys are all about and
Speaker 5: just how teens are progressing for Arizona on the recruiting ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, you're nothing without recruiting. It's all
Speaker 2: about people. We are in the service business, and it's
Speaker 2: about serving these young men and their families. And the
Speaker 2: recruiting piece has been elevated, uh in Brennan's tenure, Like
Speaker 2: from last year to now, it's been elevated from what
Speaker 2: I've been told from everybody in the in the athletics department.
Speaker 2: We're we're very excited. This was actually my first official
Speaker 2: visit last weekend, and we had a number of kids,
Speaker 2: uh join in and commit. You know, we're keeping our
Speaker 2: numbers small because we love the intimacy and I think
Speaker 2: the families and the players really understand Coach Brennan as
Speaker 2: a as a head coach and as a man, and
Speaker 2: the staff and and we want we want everybody to
Speaker 2: really feel like home here because that's what Tucson is.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't even have to sell it because
Speaker 2: it is. It's just that it's it's such a home vibe.
Speaker 2: There's good people, there's good people in the community that
Speaker 2: want to take care of you. Uh, it's a true
Speaker 2: college town. So a lot of stuff and ruiting. We
Speaker 2: just put our best foot forward and we you know,
Speaker 2: we we show who we are. But you don't have
Speaker 2: to over overdo anything or be fake or false in
Speaker 2: any sense because this program and the facilities and everything
Speaker 2: has been top notch. So I've actually enjoyed my first
Speaker 2: official business I feel like I was an eighteen year
Speaker 2: old kid again. I'm over there in the front of
Speaker 2: the camera and dancing and hanging out and meeting people
Speaker 2: and let's just say, a lot of change out here
Speaker 2: at that you know, in the facilities. So it's been
Speaker 2: a lot of fun seeing how recruiting is going. It's
Speaker 2: a it's a challenge, but I I'm enjoying even the
Speaker 2: bad points or the bad times and the good times
Speaker 2: as well. But that's that's part of this journey which
Speaker 2: is called football.
Speaker 3: That's what it takes to be an eighteen year old.
Speaker 3: I signed me up. Baby, I'm sixty. I need to
Speaker 3: feel that way again. Coach, thanks to Yeah, yeah, no worry,
Speaker 3: Thanks a bunch of good luck. We'll see you guys
Speaker 3: in a couple of months. Already we started getting ready
Speaker 3: for the next season training camp around the corner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're about ninety ninety days to kickoff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and probably less than sixty days or so until until
Speaker 2: fall camp. So yeah, we're ready to go, very very
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Speaker 5: What else going on, Choy, It looks like Arizona baseball
Speaker 5: is going to be going to North Carolina as the
Speaker 5: Darkules beat Oklahoma fourteen to four today, securing their spot
Speaker 5: in the super regional.
Speaker 4: What's your seed? They're the five seed, five seed, none seeded.
Speaker 2: Not see that.
Speaker 4: What does this do for Chip?
Speaker 5: I mean it's the barrier that he hasn't been able
Speaker 5: to break. You hosted a regional last year, got beat
Speaker 5: oh and two Dallas Baptist knocked them out. It's a
Speaker 5: big milestone for him. I mean, he was very emotional
Speaker 5: after the win last night, saying that it's hard to
Speaker 5: win these games, and it is, there's no question about it.
Speaker 5: But you know, getting to be able to be in
Speaker 5: a spot where you can potentially get the Omaha and
Speaker 5: get the program where it wants to be, it's a
Speaker 5: massive step for the program, especially in terms of recruiting.
Speaker 5: You're going to be on TV during these games, more
Speaker 5: people are going to see your brand out there.
Speaker 3: We've talked about this before that probably baseball, softball, swimming
Speaker 3: are more of the blue blood sports historically, right historically,
Speaker 3: so getting to the get into Omaha is the holy grail?
Speaker 4: Or is it realistic?
Speaker 5: It's realistic? I think I think the standard should always
Speaker 5: be for softball baseball, because of how things have changed
Speaker 5: with an eel and everything, you should always be in
Speaker 5: a super regional looking to compete to get to Oklahoma
Speaker 5: and Omaha.
Speaker 3: But is Arizona wealthy enough? And I think we're seeing
Speaker 3: that in softball possibly where they don't probably have the
Speaker 3: money or they don't have the coach. Whatever they're missing
Speaker 3: coach I was gonna say coaching, I'll say coaching money. Uh,
Speaker 3: whatever they're missing the missing link.
Speaker 5: I think they have enough. I know they're enough money.
Speaker 5: Enough money in the transport portal maybe not, maybe not.
Speaker 5: But do you have enough resources, facilities and tradition to
Speaker 5: recruit at the high school level?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just because you growed up in a Rolls Royce
Speaker 3: Troy doesn't make you a different Troy.
Speaker 5: No, but you're not paying again, you're not paying these
Speaker 5: high school kids millions of dollars like you're at the
Speaker 5: college college basketball, college football level. Sure now the transfer
Speaker 5: is sure Like again NIGRII Kennedyan exception. It's it's not
Speaker 5: gonna happen, right, But can you at least find a
Speaker 5: hitting gem pitching that small colleges and other programs have Tennessee,
Speaker 5: they their pictures from South Carolina. Nobody knew who she
Speaker 5: was and they went and got her. Why Why is
Speaker 5: a program like Tennessee out recruiting. Well, they've expanded, they've
Speaker 5: expanded their recruiting po.
Speaker 3: And they're and they're good, but they're more recent good
Speaker 3: than Arizona's recent I disagree really this.
Speaker 5: Time this was their first one College World Series trip
Speaker 5: in nine years and Arizona has been there three times. Okay,
Speaker 5: so but yet they're able to recruit at a higher level.
Speaker 4: Okay sec.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, but again it comes down to coaching and
Speaker 5: I think Chip Hall, you're you're in a position to
Speaker 5: get to Omaha. So the recruiting is gonna go again.
Speaker 5: You have White, spent Mason, it's been phenomenal. Yeah, players,
Speaker 5: Summer Hills one of the top prospects, and then I'll
Speaker 5: be draft coming up.
Speaker 4: But those are the guys you want to get on
Speaker 4: your team. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But the key for both programs over the last
Speaker 5: couple of years, or really since the dawn the time
Speaker 5: is do you have the pitching pitching in and recruiting
Speaker 5: pitching and defense. And so if they don't get to
Speaker 5: the Omaha, it depends on how you lose, I mean,
Speaker 5: if you lose competitively.
Speaker 3: Kind of like Arizona men's basketball. Yeah, it's been blown
Speaker 3: out by Duke, it would have been all.
Speaker 5: What the hell, it's the same old thing.
Speaker 3: But they played well, they came back, they made a game,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So all the.
Speaker 3: Season's been saved, even though it's still the same stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So for Arizona baseball, if you forced a game three,
Speaker 5: let's say, and you lose the game in game three
Speaker 5: and North Carolina moves on. Okay, they were the five seed,
Speaker 5: they were one of the top top ten programs in
Speaker 5: college baseball. You did a good job getting there. Nobody
Speaker 5: thought you were going to get past Oregon. That's a
Speaker 5: bright spot. Now you get swept zero to two and
Speaker 5: you get blown out of those games. I mean, you
Speaker 5: moved on to the next round.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 5: You got there.
Speaker 3: But man, you weren't even competitive in it. Okay, well
Speaker 3: you can paint more pictures. But I get what you're saying.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I agree with that. But because
Speaker 3: he's the fourth year in, right, she's fourth year in
Speaker 3: at her place. We'll see, we'll see what it means,
Speaker 3: because it's tough to win. Like I agree with him,
Speaker 3: it's tough. There's so many good teams out there, got
Speaker 3: good players, coaching, matters.
Speaker 5: And for college baseball, even tougher than college softball is
Speaker 5: the top recruits are going to them. I'll be draft.
Speaker 5: Even if you're recruiting them, you're probably not going to
Speaker 5: sign them. So that's another element to the college of course.
Speaker 4: And that's the curveball.
Speaker 3: That's the curve ball that you have to hit, you know,
Speaker 3: curveball in college sports because they have a chance to
Speaker 3: go somewhere else and get paid for real. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens. Good for him though, if they
Speaker 3: go to North Carolina, see what they do with the
Speaker 3: chance to And you know, to all those who believe
Speaker 3: in momentum, they have momentum. I guess what sort of
Speaker 3: other teams when they get to this point. Everybody has momentum.
Speaker 5: I think softball and baseball is very different from football
Speaker 5: and basketball in a sense that in terms of momentum,
Speaker 5: in terms of like if you get a hot pitching
Speaker 5: staff at the right time. In the posty Andy Lopez
Speaker 5: when he won the national title, that pitching staff got
Speaker 5: hot at the right time. They were good, but they
Speaker 5: went on this role. Sure, and once you get pitchers
Speaker 5: and roles, it really doesn't matter who they if they
Speaker 5: believe in that it doesn't matter who they face you.
Speaker 3: You will use the word momentum, I'll use the word confidence,
Speaker 3: and then yeah yeah, because it's it's all one and
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 4: Pretty much depends what word you want to use.
Speaker 5: Where I feel like, I feel like basketball and football
Speaker 5: most of the time, and I get March madness, there's upset,
Speaker 5: but most of the time, the better teams are gonna win.
Speaker 3: The chucky well baseball not to share that could happen.
Speaker 3: Texas is out, Vanderbilt's out, some of those teams that
Speaker 3: it's like, it's hard to win, especially in baseball, well
Speaker 3: and especially all sports, but baseball, since I know it
Speaker 3: did very difficult because you can have a bad day.
Speaker 4: It's how you play that day.
Speaker 5: All Texas and number one overall Seat went out in
Speaker 5: the regionals. I just feel like those two sports, you know,
Speaker 5: if you have the confidence and your pictures are rolling,
Speaker 5: you can beat anyway.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, cat one, you have your Texas tech picture. Yea,
Speaker 4: who she is?
Speaker 3: You play harder, And I know people don't believe that,
Speaker 3: but I definitely believe that. You know, we talked about
Speaker 3: the Glora thing. When I asked that Lama and the
Speaker 3: loora thing. And then Fafida comes in to me if
Speaker 3: they played harder for you saw it? I saw I
Speaker 3: saw it, and I was chris as a little for it.
Speaker 3: But no, you could tell he just played harder there.
Speaker 5: For whatever reason, there's that I don't know what it is,
Speaker 5: but players see it in practice, especially no question, and
Speaker 5: it's like, Okay, why wasn't this guy starting like it's
Speaker 5: not even debate who's better. Why don't we roll with them?
Speaker 3: We saw that with Dawkins and uh and uhlil Tate
Speaker 3: And you're thinking, but you know, what do we know
Speaker 3: because you know, maybe a practice, but what do we know?
Speaker 4: What do we watch people?
Speaker 3: Well, this guy's getting paid millions, you better make the
Speaker 3: right decision until he doesn't.
Speaker 4: And and uh fish was that.
Speaker 3: Guy here with with the two quarterbacks and Rodriguez was
Speaker 3: the coach back then. Yep, you know it says job
Speaker 3: that's on the line that not yours are mine.
Speaker 5: And again, sometimes they're not practice players, like cool T
Speaker 5: was notorious not a practice player.
Speaker 4: Basketball.
Speaker 5: Derek Williams apparently wasn't very good in practice, but when
Speaker 5: the lights turned on all of a sudden, it.
Speaker 3: Just no, you see that I saw that a lot
Speaker 3: for a lot of people. And if you're just good,
Speaker 3: you're good, and that it doesn't matter either way. You know,
Speaker 3: you're consistent all the way through ye good, good or bad.
Speaker 3: It's like Gamon and Kalidklid just she just didn't work
Speaker 3: as hard as Damon, and Damon was fantastic, and so
Speaker 3: it was Kalid until they weren't until he wasn't right
Speaker 3: because you have to you know, keep the keep the
Speaker 3: momentum going if you will that way, that word. When
Speaker 3: he went to Miami, he just didn't get any better well.
Speaker 5: And again it's it's a drive that you could be talented, yes,
Speaker 5: but if you're not willing to put in the work,
Speaker 5: put in the extra and let's put in the extra
Speaker 5: weight room time, you're not going to make it. They
Speaker 5: don't know that that's maybe less talented than you.
Speaker 3: No question, because that's part of it. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: part of who you are. Getting better, getting better, one
Speaker 3: to be better. And you see it's like this, like
Speaker 3: we talked about this the beginning of the show. There
Speaker 3: was almost eighteenth ranked blah blah blah. Pretty good team, right,
Speaker 3: it's going to be fantastically loaded with talent. There's seventeen
Speaker 3: other teams that are going to be in a better
Speaker 3: boat or in a better situation in that boat, but
Speaker 3: nobody knows because they don't really follow it.
Speaker 4: They don't follow it until you see it.
Speaker 3: It's like Florida International back in the day, two three
Speaker 3: years ago, whatever you've seen it for Atlantic Atlantic, where
Speaker 3: they come from. They get to the final four and
Speaker 3: he says, well, I didn't notice them. You didn't notice
Speaker 3: them because you didn't look for it, you know, he said,
Speaker 3: where these guys come from, Well, they're pretty good.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't know until you pay attention.
Speaker 5: And you're going to find out a lot about a
Speaker 5: team just looking at college basketball right now, what they're
Speaker 5: going to do in the weight room with Chris rownas
Speaker 5: with the strength and conditioning coach and everything that goes
Speaker 5: on there. Carter Bryant I had a feeling and whoever
Speaker 5: interviewed him to I'm sure they did too when they
Speaker 5: interviewed him, because we got an opportunity to interview him.
Speaker 5: He went from one ninety five when he first stepped
Speaker 5: put on campus about two fifteen. He was soft, softy, yeah,
Speaker 5: but right before the season, Well, if you're gonna put
Speaker 5: on that much weight and get bulky and worth that
Speaker 5: hard in the weight room. They're gonna be a good player,
Speaker 5: and it showed up later in March for Arizona.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, okay with that, we're gonna go take a break,
Speaker 3: come back here the top of the hour. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna have any breaking news, so we'll just continue the show.