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Speaker 3: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in today is my guy?
Speaker 4: What you and then Bedley?
Speaker 2: Let's go see.
Speaker 3: Bentley, my Friday guy. We've got Henry in the house.
Speaker 3: And look who we have here. They found you somewhere
Speaker 3: on you based campus. Matt, my social media guy. Good
Speaker 3: to see everybody. You go to the game on Saturday,
Speaker 3: Matt Broke.
Speaker 4: It's four o'clock.
Speaker 2: Man, it's.
Speaker 4: It's not too early, not too late.
Speaker 2: Let's come.
Speaker 3: You used to be a college student, you know, Broke
Speaker 3: is except for some most of the guys on campus
Speaker 3: now you know.
Speaker 5: You know, No, I made four dollars and twenty five
Speaker 5: cents an hour at the at the pizza joint, man,
Speaker 5: I was rich.
Speaker 4: I was getting free pizza and making four dollars.
Speaker 3: So, but you're not part of that deal like Henry
Speaker 3: because the customer zoo. Well, that's right, because you wanted
Speaker 3: to buy it. You wanted to buy one of the
Speaker 3: last games that we were together, right, whichever game that was. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I get it. No, it's tough out there. It's tough
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 6: It's on TV. Man, I think I'm watching on TV.
Speaker 6: You'll see Steve at the both you guys. Are you
Speaker 6: guys are what two months? A little more than two
Speaker 6: months away from being done?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Are you guys looking forward to this to being done?
Speaker 2: You're never gonna have it.
Speaker 3: You're never going to have it better than you haven't
Speaker 3: now ever, because the world word sucks, real world sucks.
Speaker 5: Listen, if I could go back right now, knowing what
Speaker 5: I know and now every old guy says it, man,
Speaker 5: I would, I would crush twelve hours of school a week.
Speaker 2: Twelve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm taking twelve hours this semester.
Speaker 2: It's really hard hard two of them remotely.
Speaker 4: I got four hours and I got four classes in
Speaker 4: one lab.
Speaker 3: No, to just enjoy your time, because it's.
Speaker 5: Listen, you're gonna be doing some sort of internet radio
Speaker 5: show in about thirty years, you know, when you're fifty three.
Speaker 4: Remember when we were in college and it.
Speaker 2: Was so great?
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, right, right, right right, well both seniors, right, ye,
Speaker 7: you got jobs lined up?
Speaker 4: What's going on? Let's get to it, man, Let's get
Speaker 4: right to the real world.
Speaker 3: I told them, I told them when I met him,
Speaker 3: get your stuff out it.
Speaker 4: Just yeah, just be essential, apply do something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just get it out there. Get it out because
Speaker 3: everybody else is too. You know, they're good, they're graduating. Well,
Speaker 3: good to have you guys in the in the house.
Speaker 3: Big discussions about whatever. A big game tomorrow only because
Speaker 3: it's a big game and they need to win, continue
Speaker 3: to win, they should do. Okay, I don't know, did
Speaker 3: you do? You know what the spread is tomorrow with
Speaker 3: Colorado has to be like twelve.
Speaker 4: Fifty twelve or eleven, probably.
Speaker 2: Like more than that movie.
Speaker 5: Maybe, Yeah, as called, I don't know. If they want
Speaker 5: a big game in the Big.
Speaker 4: Twelve, I think so? Did they are? They have? They
Speaker 4: won one? Maybe?
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tomorrow is one of those tests a former Pac
Speaker 3: twelve of the team play in Arizona finally and then
Speaker 3: Monday night. Okay, yeah, so that should be it should
Speaker 3: be easy.
Speaker 4: We should I mean, and you know, looking ahead of
Speaker 4: that game on Monday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the that's the trap game.
Speaker 4: So you never know, you never know. Yeah, covered, you know,
Speaker 4: not only cover, but when.
Speaker 3: So guys, Henry and Matt, what have you liked it
Speaker 3: to this point with the basketball team? And then what
Speaker 3: haven't you liked? Because I know my boy Matt is
Speaker 3: Yeah he's the critic.
Speaker 8: What if I liked? I've liked the improvement of Vasar
Speaker 8: that's probably the biggest. Yeah, he's taking a real step
Speaker 8: this year. I think coming into there, not many people
Speaker 8: thought he'd be a big factor.
Speaker 3: But however you were talking about I love it, but
Speaker 3: I think he's great. Oh and I thought this two
Speaker 3: years ago when he was. You were here when he
Speaker 3: was because he could stretch the court, he can handle
Speaker 3: the ball and do some stuff. And now his opportunities
Speaker 3: now because of a crevious out. So that'll help anybody else.
Speaker 2: Know. But what don't you like?
Speaker 3: What I don't like?
Speaker 8: I mean, it's the same as ever your can'ts score
Speaker 8: in the half court?
Speaker 5: Right up and down, up and down. Yeah, that guy's
Speaker 5: been That kid's been here for three years. That's like
Speaker 5: old school man, that's like we started back in the day.
Speaker 5: You know, like kids aren't around that long.
Speaker 3: Well you have to because he got hurt last year.
Speaker 3: That he didn't have to, but he did. Because he
Speaker 3: got hurt last year. It's kind of like a blessing
Speaker 3: in disguise. What do you got mat what do you
Speaker 3: got met?
Speaker 9: Honestly, honestly, not too much different. I need to see
Speaker 9: more from Cala, honestly, you and everybody else. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 9: that's that's really it.
Speaker 3: Did you play hoop or you played football? Not playing
Speaker 3: football basketball? Let's not getting.
Speaker 2: Were you cheated out of that?
Speaker 3: But the reasons okay, But the reason I was gonna
Speaker 3: ask is, if you're good at shooting the ball, wouldn't
Speaker 3: you think that you'd be good at shooting the ball
Speaker 3: all the time. Maybe not all the time. But more than.
Speaker 4: It's it's you know, I didn't play basketball, but I
Speaker 4: I played golf.
Speaker 5: I played those those repetitions that runs, and it's like
Speaker 5: you get a little off and you know, you can
Speaker 5: be on the in a slump for sure, days and weeks.
Speaker 3: It's not about your ability, it's about your head.
Speaker 5: It's a mental thing at that point, you know, it's
Speaker 5: it's you get into a rhythm and you know you
Speaker 5: can go on a tear for you know, for three weeks,
Speaker 5: and then you can lose it.
Speaker 4: Where did it go? The same time doing the same
Speaker 4: things that I did yesterday?
Speaker 3: How about you guys liking Carter Bright. Yeah, it's shooting. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he's got confidence now, you know, before it was
Speaker 3: like a you know, like a Doe didn't know what
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 4: We're gonna go on a tear. Tommy Lloyd's got him
Speaker 4: set up.
Speaker 3: If they win Monday, they could do. They win Monday,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: What's up? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'll know Monday Monday.
Speaker 4: Is there a line on the I was taking prob not?
Speaker 3: I don't think so. No, I would assume that I was.
Speaker 3: Is gonna be favored by three ish three, three ish
Speaker 3: two and a half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see. We'll see it too early.
Speaker 3: So a lots go it on the NBA, the NBA
Speaker 3: and the NFL, the NFL. Who's who do you guys
Speaker 3: got this weekend? Commanders?
Speaker 4: Really commanders. Matthew's got the commanders. I'll take you second Eagles, Eagles.
Speaker 8: I'll take the Eagles, Bills, Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm taking the Bills.
Speaker 3: I think I would take the Bills too.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, my mom's got Kansas City. My mom's
Speaker 5: got Kansas City.
Speaker 2: She loves whatever.
Speaker 5: Because my mom she might even call him break it
Speaker 5: down for us. She loves Patrick mahonmes.
Speaker 3: Timmy doesn't know what he's talking about. Why don't you
Speaker 3: have me.
Speaker 5: And I like the commanders, Me and Matt Matthew and
Speaker 5: I are are on board with.
Speaker 3: What you want them. I mean, they've gotten lucky to
Speaker 3: this point. Although they played well those playoffs.
Speaker 9: They relied on Saque the old time and when it
Speaker 9: was time to throw, he couldn't deliver it. But I
Speaker 9: just gonna see that happening, you know, hopefully, and yeah yeah.
Speaker 9: And also so you're picking more because of that, not
Speaker 9: because they played and they've played well. I don't have
Speaker 9: It's just Saquon's carrying them. It's not like I was
Speaker 9: ruined against them. So when I see yeah, oh yeah
Speaker 9: for sure. So when I seen fourth or third and seventeen,
Speaker 9: you just dump a screen pass the Saque and he
Speaker 9: takes it up the field like that's not that's not
Speaker 9: playing well to me.
Speaker 4: That's just.
Speaker 3: One player. Yeah, that's like one player, Belly. What about
Speaker 3: Washington because they were not very good during the year.
Speaker 9: I mean, Washington outplayed the Detroit Lions like, oh, they
Speaker 9: kicked them all around. They kicked them. So I don't
Speaker 9: I can see that happened again the NFL.
Speaker 5: It's it's a it's a season broken up into three
Speaker 5: or four different parts, and so this is the fourth part,
Speaker 5: and they're playing very well in the last quarter of
Speaker 5: the season.
Speaker 2: They are we'll see. I'm surprised.
Speaker 4: Okay, are you betting this? Are you betting just dumb bills?
Speaker 3: My team lost last week Baltimore.
Speaker 4: Ye, I wasn't here last I wasn't here all this week.
Speaker 4: But I heard you beat Jay by a lot.
Speaker 2: A lot of half a point. Yeah. I wasn't going
Speaker 2: to have.
Speaker 4: You're not returning your calls right now.
Speaker 2: About here, right now? Yeah? But are he's helping me?
Speaker 4: What do you bet? What's the what's the big winning
Speaker 4: prize for you for winning.
Speaker 3: Into next year's competition?
Speaker 4: There's no food or drinks or nothing.
Speaker 2: We do that in other things.
Speaker 4: Okay, so entry into the into the next school next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I haven't played. I haven't paid for a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Jay's been paying something. You just all right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What else? Guys? Any think I'm telling you? Minutes? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So what's the mood on campus with the basketball team
Speaker 5: the Zona Zoo. What's the mood in the in the
Speaker 5: crowd when you're there, is anybody excited about it?
Speaker 3: Doesn't feel that it feels lower than previous years.
Speaker 5: Okay, So like, what are what's the what are you
Speaker 5: of a what are kids on the u of a
Speaker 5: campus rooting for?
Speaker 2: Sports? Wise?
Speaker 4: For the for the women's triathlon team, they're national champions,
Speaker 4: Come on, let's go. It might be that at this point,
Speaker 4: I mean, are you ready for.
Speaker 3: That's why they came to school here the national.
Speaker 4: Are you ready for?
Speaker 2: Track? Let's go?
Speaker 5: Track season starts, indoor seasons ending. They're gonna have a
Speaker 5: good team.
Speaker 3: No, it's not a big deal. Man, Now it's okay.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen you since since the end of the
Speaker 3: football You're the critic. You're the critic in the room
Speaker 3: next to me. Football? What do you what do you
Speaker 3: think how they're doing? I mean their number one players going.
Speaker 9: So that being said, I don't know what well, I
Speaker 9: don't even know what the future is gonna look like.
Speaker 5: Honestly, man, Matthews a senior and this is this is
Speaker 5: his last four months at the school.
Speaker 4: This is what's happened to He doesn't care.
Speaker 3: He's different, different, good luck.
Speaker 4: Though, good luck and I feel bad Matthew's been here
Speaker 4: four years, one good season? Is that about it again?
Speaker 3: They cut me, so, oh that's right, you know you
Speaker 3: know the story. Yeah, they were looking for walk ons
Speaker 3: and uh the running back in the room went right, and.
Speaker 2: You did well? You always yeah, And they said, sorry,
Speaker 2: it's not you.
Speaker 4: You have eligibility about there's track season, but let's go.
Speaker 3: Sorry, son, come on, you can probably play another few years.
Speaker 5: Given the n I N I L and COVID year,
Speaker 5: you can play till you're thirty two.
Speaker 9: I heard about the Uh that's like, oh.
Speaker 4: That's Steve's accountant.
Speaker 3: There's a baseball player like a picture.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so there's a thirty two year old baseball player
Speaker 5: playing in college right now.
Speaker 4: So did he have.
Speaker 2: Well, you don't know the school.
Speaker 4: I have hope he didn't have enough PTO to play,
Speaker 4: so he couldn't make.
Speaker 3: These little sinker ballers they throw a knuckleball.
Speaker 5: He didn't have enough et O and he's got two
Speaker 5: kids and a mortgage.
Speaker 4: He can't he can't afford to play college.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me see what we've got going today.
Speaker 4: What's on top?
Speaker 3: Matt he would know, because I've already forgotten. We put
Speaker 3: it on the Internet. Today, we have a reporter from
Speaker 3: oh yeah, yeah, the reporter from Colorado, but Brian Howell.
Speaker 3: He covers Colorado there and tomorrow he'll talk on general
Speaker 3: terms about that. He covers football. I want to see
Speaker 3: if he's still alive. I've being covered. We talked to
Speaker 3: him a lot during the seasons, because you know, it
Speaker 3: ain't easy.
Speaker 5: I think your reporter by trade, I think you want
Speaker 5: to you want good stories wherever you are. It's crazy,
Speaker 5: and it doesn't matter if if it's everything, you know,
Speaker 5: it's you want good stories. You want to be able
Speaker 5: to tell, you know, share good stories, right, good content
Speaker 5: every day would be. And then if it's national, if
Speaker 5: there's national stories, Deon Sanders his two kids, what I mean,
Speaker 5: that must be a fun must to benefit ride.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll ask him, Yeah, we'll ask him about that.
Speaker 3: And then at the four seventeen hour, we're gonna have
Speaker 3: Damon Damien Alameda from Channel thirteen just to get to
Speaker 3: his thoughts on what's going on locally nationally, how the
Speaker 3: TV station is surviving's over under?
Speaker 4: How many years has Damien been here over under? Is
Speaker 4: it seventeen one?
Speaker 2: I want to say seventeen Probably more than that there is.
Speaker 4: All right, so we'll have to ask him. But I've
Speaker 4: known Damien for many, many years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's probably more than that. Probably wait, more than that.
Speaker 5: He interviewed Mike when I was coaching track in a
Speaker 5: cross country at Saint Augustin and he interviewed some of
Speaker 5: those kids.
Speaker 3: You have that information, Yeah, go ahead and give him
Speaker 3: the mic.
Speaker 9: Luba Thompson from like Cincinnati Rads is playing for South
Speaker 9: Alabama Jaguars.
Speaker 3: And it's like a D one school baseball.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So he was with the Reds. Yeah, how is that possible?
Speaker 3: He was with the Reds pro and now he's gonna
Speaker 3: play college ball. Yep, oh football, yeah, college footbotball. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's what No, that happened kind of here too. There
Speaker 3: was a guy who was drafted in baseball here under
Speaker 3: rich Rod and he brought him in, uh stud dude,
Speaker 3: and he didn't make it. You know, he didn't play,
Speaker 3: but he was he was like one of the best
Speaker 3: quarterbacks in the country at that time. Then he went
Speaker 3: to cober Ba do baseball, came back and he was
Speaker 3: kind of he lost.
Speaker 4: It, thirty two year old trying for football. I mean, Steve,
Speaker 4: we still have some college eligibility.
Speaker 5: But after you played baseball, I did track and cross country,
Speaker 5: so I think we could maybe take a run at
Speaker 5: the football.
Speaker 2: So you couldn't run fast to the first base.
Speaker 4: I watched you walk upstairs. You still have some spring,
Speaker 4: and you're like, let's go.
Speaker 2: Not today, not today, I'm hurting. Hey, let's go.
Speaker 3: I'll come back and take a break, take a break,
Speaker 3: come back, talk to mister Howell Bran.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Eye on the Ball Here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and today with
Speaker 3: me is Tim Bentley.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 2: Now on the phone, we.
Speaker 3: Have Brian Howell from the Daily Camera in Colorado.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Brian?
Speaker 9: Good?
Speaker 2: How are you guys? We're doing fine.
Speaker 11: Hey.
Speaker 3: When I communicated with you yesterday, I was glad to
Speaker 3: get a response from you because I thought maybe that
Speaker 3: the last couple of football seasons had done you in.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: It was very busy, but it was fun covering a winner.
Speaker 2: We haven't done that a while. That's true, that's true.
Speaker 4: Anything do I feel like?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Yeah, well, I mean it's in some ways, you know,
Speaker 12: see you in Arizona football are somewhat similar, right, and
Speaker 12: that there's been a lot of down years recently, and
Speaker 12: then you guys had that nice year in twenty three.
Speaker 2: And Colorado has has it's here in twenty four. So
Speaker 2: it's nice to have that year.
Speaker 12: But I think both programs are hoping for more sustaining success,
Speaker 12: that's for sure.
Speaker 3: No question. You had talked about it with me, just
Speaker 3: how it's it's good. You may not be boring.
Speaker 2: It's good to have something to write about.
Speaker 5: Every right, we were talking about you know, covering. As
Speaker 5: a reporter, you probably relish having Deionne in town. Big stories,
Speaker 5: good or bad stories, but it gives you something to cover,
Speaker 5: gives you some some meat to cover. How's it been
Speaker 5: the last couple of years for you?
Speaker 2: Well, yes, to know.
Speaker 12: I mean, there's always something to do. But there's a
Speaker 12: lot to keep track of as well, because there's just
Speaker 12: you know, there's stories that come out of the woodwork.
Speaker 12: You're like, oh man, do you have to follow this
Speaker 12: one too? You know, and so there's a lot of
Speaker 12: nonsense stories that come out that you have to, you know,
Speaker 12: at least follow up on and find out there.
Speaker 2: Any truth to that.
Speaker 12: And a lot of times you find out no, but
Speaker 12: you know, it's still a headline here or there. So
Speaker 12: there's some positive but definitely some some drawbacks.
Speaker 5: You must have a big white board in your office
Speaker 5: just with the red strings, like everything is a false flag.
Speaker 4: Oh no, we got to move that.
Speaker 2: What's that? Well, you're going to see maybe he's got
Speaker 2: that too.
Speaker 5: But you know, with Dianna and the national news, I mean,
Speaker 5: what's it, what's what's it like?
Speaker 4: You know, what's what's your day?
Speaker 15: Like?
Speaker 4: I mean, are you getting national calls?
Speaker 3: Give you an example, Are you on the Dallas Cowboy beat?
Speaker 12: Kind of No, not at all, And I'm glad.
Speaker 5: But I'm sure Dallas, I'm sure those reporters were calling
Speaker 5: you and asking for some some radioheads or some quotes.
Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, there was a few of that, a little
Speaker 2: bit of that.
Speaker 12: And you know, every time there's something with you know,
Speaker 12: you get you know, people that want to talk to
Speaker 12: you and you know, get your take on it. And
Speaker 12: it looks like I never thought he was going anywhere.
Speaker 2: It looks like that's going to be the case. You know.
Speaker 12: I don't think the Cowboys have yet announced their coach,
Speaker 12: but it looks like they're closed. So I'll be very
Speaker 12: grateful when they announced somebody that's not Deon Sanders.
Speaker 2: Because I don't want to deal with the coaching search again.
Speaker 3: No, those are the worst. So have you given? You know,
Speaker 3: I used to be a reporter a long time ago,
Speaker 3: for a long time twenty five years, and days off
Speaker 3: were very few. I got them on the back end.
Speaker 3: Did you have days off because you went from basketball?
Speaker 3: You went from football to some basketball and then you're
Speaker 3: still covering a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a lot.
Speaker 12: I mean, there's not a whole lot of days off
Speaker 12: from about August first through you know, March fifteenth or so.
Speaker 2: You know you kind of take your vacation time in
Speaker 2: June and July.
Speaker 3: Right, right, yeah, no question. So overall, how would you
Speaker 3: have rated your experience just this year? Because they were good?
Speaker 3: I went to a bowl game and the drama was
Speaker 3: not all that big, I don't think because there were winning.
Speaker 4: That's what's just the new normals you like to me, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, frankly, I tell people with us all the time.
Speaker 12: I mean I think that if any report were able
Speaker 12: to come spend say a month, you know, or even
Speaker 12: a week at University of Colorado in my shoes, that realized, oh,
Speaker 12: this is actually more normal than we thought, you know,
Speaker 12: not as much of a circus as it's portrayed, because
Speaker 12: it it just felt normal. I mean, it's just like
Speaker 12: covering a football team that you know, it was a
Speaker 12: good football team, and so it was a lot of
Speaker 12: fun because they were winning, and you know they were
Speaker 12: they were winning handily for several weeks in a row.
Speaker 12: And you know, there was a Heisman race obviously, and
Speaker 12: got to go to New York City and cover a
Speaker 12: Heisman Trophy winner, which've never done before, and you know,
Speaker 12: cover whole game, which is rare during my fifteen years
Speaker 12: on this beat.
Speaker 2: So it was a lot of fun because I mean.
Speaker 12: There was some generational talents that we had over the
Speaker 12: last couple of years.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun covering those guys.
Speaker 3: Did you get sent to the doghouse a time or
Speaker 3: two or no or most of the generally?
Speaker 12: Not really, you know, I mean there's times he's always
Speaker 12: gonna not always. I mean, at some point you're going
Speaker 12: to get called out a little bit, dogouts, I would
Speaker 12: say no. But I think for the most part, I'm
Speaker 12: not sure anybody knows where they stand with him. I
Speaker 12: think I have a good relationship with coach. I'm not sure, okay,
Speaker 12: but but yeah, I don't think I was ever the doctors.
Speaker 2: I was still able to ask questions all year.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, right, some people were where are you from that?
Speaker 3: Never mind, we'll pass on that one. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: that's that's good. So now Colorado comes in. The men's
Speaker 3: basketball team shows up tomorrow. They're not doing well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think the key is will they show up?
Speaker 2: You know that they're.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's not a good team. It's there's some good
Speaker 12: pieces some good young pieces, and you know, early in
Speaker 12: some of those Big twelve games, they really they had
Speaker 12: opportunities to win those games. And even against Iowa State
Speaker 12: and Boulder, they had a lead late in the second half,
Speaker 12: but they cocked it up and they just there's always
Speaker 12: been something that goes wrong with that team. And the
Speaker 12: other night against b YU, they go on a fourteen
Speaker 12: oh run, take a ten oh lead, and then over
Speaker 12: the next like twelve minutes by U was from thirty
Speaker 12: nine to six.
Speaker 2: And it just looks I mean it was. It was
Speaker 2: unbelievable how dramatic that was.
Speaker 12: And and just the mistakes this team makes, and yeah,
Speaker 12: they're not good this they're currently it's like the worst
Speaker 12: conference opening, you know, oh and seven they've had and
Speaker 12: I don't know how many years, and they're trying to
Speaker 12: avoid that, but you know, you're gonna try to do
Speaker 12: it in a place that.
Speaker 2: You never win.
Speaker 12: So I think it's highly likely that they'll go to
Speaker 12: O and eight in the conference. And I think a
Speaker 12: lot of buff fans are looking at the schedules saying,
Speaker 12: where is a win gonna come from?
Speaker 5: Because well we were talking about it. Yeah, Iowa State
Speaker 5: comes to town on Monday. So this may be an
Speaker 5: off game or the trap game, and it sounds like
Speaker 5: you they have they have they can go in spurts
Speaker 5: and maybe they catch you a unaware or you know,
Speaker 5: off guard.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know maybe.
Speaker 12: I mean it's a weird team because look, I mean,
Speaker 12: this is a team that out in Maui beat Yukon,
Speaker 12: you know, and you know, then they like I said,
Speaker 12: they were leading Iowa State at home a few weeks ago.
Speaker 12: So but I mean the Malli that Malley invitation really
Speaker 12: was kind of the epitome of this team. I mean,
Speaker 12: it was three days in a row and the first
Speaker 12: day they get blown out by Michigan State, and then
Speaker 12: they beat Yukon and then they get blown out by
Speaker 12: Iowa State.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of this team, is that.
Speaker 12: They're generally not gonna be very good, but there there's.
Speaker 2: Enough talent they could rise up and beat somebody.
Speaker 3: Is is Boyle in any trouble given you everyone thinks
Speaker 3: that he's a pretty good coach, of course, and he's
Speaker 3: been in the league for a long time. But now
Speaker 3: that the football team is doing well and is there
Speaker 3: a standard whatever? But do you think because he is
Speaker 3: a pretty good coach.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't think so. I think there's enough that
Speaker 12: he's done over his tenure. I mean, he's the winningest
Speaker 12: coach in program history, and I think there's a lot
Speaker 12: of understanding that. Look, they lost three NBA guys from
Speaker 12: last year's team and had a really good run last year.
Speaker 12: And you know, basketball, like every other sport, is trying
Speaker 12: to navigate this new world with the poor and nil
Speaker 12: and things like that, and uh, there's not a ton
Speaker 12: of money for football even here, so you know, let
Speaker 12: alone basketball, and so Rick George knows that, and so
Speaker 12: there's gonna be some challenges for for Tad to try
Speaker 12: to keep doing what he's doing. But they've got another
Speaker 12: good recruiting class coming in this next year. So they
Speaker 12: feel like the group that next year will be freshman
Speaker 12: the sophomores, is actually gonna.
Speaker 2: Be a good foundational piece as long as they can
Speaker 2: keep them together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 5: I think with this, with this settlement money coming in,
Speaker 5: it's going to stabilize some things for those schools and
Speaker 5: those coaches, and and and Pad not necessarily pad the pockets,
Speaker 5: but you know, put the put some cash in the coffers.
Speaker 5: What's the rest of the season, look like, I mean,
Speaker 5: what's your you know, their own eight in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 5: I mean, are they just gonna kind of try to
Speaker 5: get through the season and and put their tail between
Speaker 5: the legs and be done and and get on to
Speaker 5: the next year.
Speaker 4: What's what's your take?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's probably what it'll end up being.
Speaker 12: I mean, I think at the start of the year
Speaker 12: you're looking at it and saying, you know, maybe they
Speaker 12: get some break. They're an n I T team, But
Speaker 12: you're looking at it now like there's no way, you know,
Speaker 12: it's it's hard to see them being even that close.
Speaker 2: I mean there's some winnable games.
Speaker 12: I mean, a SU comes to town this next week
Speaker 12: and they're not a great team, and they did see
Speaker 12: you didn't play well down there, but they can beat
Speaker 12: a s U. You know, there's some teams that are
Speaker 12: coming up that they could beat. But their schedule also
Speaker 12: has them and they got Houston and Kansas and Iowa
Speaker 12: State and obviously Arizona got Kansas twice coming up, so
Speaker 12: you know, it's a brutal schedule and I expect them,
Speaker 12: frankly to be playing on Day one of the of
Speaker 12: the Big Twelve. Tournaments r maybe they get a win
Speaker 12: that day and out the next round.
Speaker 5: That's kind of what I see for that team is
Speaker 5: who's who's having a good season in a in a
Speaker 5: bad team. Who's who's who should the UFA fans watch
Speaker 5: tomorrow when they're McHale.
Speaker 2: Well, it depends on the day.
Speaker 12: That's one of the biggest problems is that, you know,
Speaker 12: Tad doesn't really know who's gonna show up from day
Speaker 12: to day, and I think that's one of the hardest
Speaker 12: things for them. And they've got some some capable guys.
Speaker 2: I'm looking up the status as i'm talking just so
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 4: Remember stands out that much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's really no star.
Speaker 12: I mean, Julian Hammond is their point guard and he's
Speaker 12: probably the most consistent guy. But you know, he's had
Speaker 12: some off nights here and there, but he's probably the guy.
Speaker 12: He's he has to play well. If he plays well,
Speaker 12: then maybec he's got a shot there. Andre Yakamowsky Arizona
Speaker 12: fans might know him.
Speaker 2: He's been on.
Speaker 12: The Washington State teams that gave into Tucson the last
Speaker 12: couple of years and one, so he's like the one
Speaker 12: guy on the team that knows how to win in Tucson.
Speaker 12: So I've got to watch out for him. And you
Speaker 12: know there's other guys bang it. Doc is one guy
Speaker 12: that I mean, he's one of the highest ceiling guys
Speaker 12: I think in the conference. But he's still a raw
Speaker 12: young player that's still developing. But he's very capable of
Speaker 12: having a big game, and so you got to watch
Speaker 12: him because he'll be a fun one to watch as
Speaker 12: he develops, you know, asan Yappa is another one that's
Speaker 12: you know, they've got a talent.
Speaker 2: It's very braw right now.
Speaker 3: So you you've been covering the team just Colorado for
Speaker 3: the last fifteen years were they had the Pac twelve
Speaker 3: already evolved into that. They were never in the Big
Speaker 3: twelve when you started.
Speaker 2: Sorry I lost you there first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you've been covering the team for fifteen years.
Speaker 3: I think they joined the Pac twelve right when you
Speaker 3: started covering the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, peer term se was in last year in the
Speaker 2: previous Big twelve.
Speaker 12: So you know I covered the twenty ten season, the
Speaker 12: football season in the Big twelve, and that that year,
Speaker 12: you know they were playing in the Big twelve and
Speaker 12: you know they were coming along at that point Tad
Speaker 12: was just getting started. So yeah, this is here, so
Speaker 12: basically my time covering them as a mirror Tad's time
Speaker 12: at CEUs. So yeah, one year Big twelve and then
Speaker 12: thirteen in Pact twelve.
Speaker 3: So you you're well aware of the craziness of the
Speaker 3: Big Twelve, especially in basketball, because it's it's a pretty
Speaker 3: drm good league. There was one to still trying to
Speaker 3: find its footing. What do you know, what do you
Speaker 3: hear about Arizona this year in basketball because it's it's okay,
Speaker 3: but it's not Arizona. Arizona Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I haven't followed them as closed because you know, obviously
Speaker 12: a lot of the early season I'm focused on on football,
Speaker 12: and I focused primarily on the women's basketball team for
Speaker 12: US in our coverage. We have another guy who covers
Speaker 12: the men's basketball team more than I do. But I
Speaker 12: know Arizona had some struggles early on in the season,
Speaker 12: but it sounds like they're kind of right in the
Speaker 12: ship a little bit and you know, started to play
Speaker 12: some good basketball. And this is not the best time
Speaker 12: probably for seeing you to hit Arizona. I think they
Speaker 12: would have rather seen Arizona maybe two three weeks ago
Speaker 12: rather than now. But I still expect Arizona they're gonna
Speaker 12: adapt and they're gonna be fine. And I don't know
Speaker 12: if how this year is gonna end up to them,
Speaker 12: but I still expect them to be of the perennial
Speaker 12: powers in this conference going forward.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think Colorado's going to want to go
Speaker 3: home after Tomorrow's came at three.
Speaker 2: Give it.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be like seventy degrees and nice. Because everyone
Speaker 3: who goes to its place in West Virginia Cincinnati has
Speaker 3: gone to some places that have been very, very cold,
Speaker 3: and they they mentioned it because it's they're not used
Speaker 3: to that stuff. Now now you guys are or Colorado's
Speaker 3: coming down for a nice little, nice little vacation if
Speaker 3: you will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're probably gonna enjoy that. I mean they've they've.
Speaker 12: Been on the road a little bit and it's been
Speaker 12: really really cold here, you know it cold and snow.
Speaker 12: It was a couple of nights ago it was fourteen
Speaker 12: below overnight, So yeah, I didn't see basketball. Is probably
Speaker 12: gonna enjoy a little.
Speaker 4: Uh what is what is? What does blow mean?
Speaker 2: Because do you not leave your house.
Speaker 12: If you look at your tomoroor there's a b road
Speaker 12: there you can actually drop below that.
Speaker 4: No, we don't have those.
Speaker 3: They better give you hazard pay.
Speaker 4: Do you have a snow shovel at your house? Of course?
Speaker 3: What is that scraper?
Speaker 2: Scraper?
Speaker 4: I know we're got to have it.
Speaker 2: You have that multiplease.
Speaker 12: You need a backup in case, you know, one breaks
Speaker 12: on the ice or.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 4: Exactly where big babies here?
Speaker 3: Who are you from again? I can't remember. We've had
Speaker 3: a lot of fun with you in the past. Jay,
Speaker 3: and I where are you from?
Speaker 2: Originally? I'm from here. I grew up in Littleton.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, you're a kid.
Speaker 4: You better knows what a snowshovel is.
Speaker 3: You're saying fourteen below that's nothing.
Speaker 4: Wearing shorts.
Speaker 12: And my wife, my wife's from Minnesota, so I mean
Speaker 12: they go on family walks.
Speaker 5: She's teasing you that you can't handle fourteen below because
Speaker 5: that they went on family walks.
Speaker 3: And you're gonna say, you're gonna get off the phone
Speaker 3: with us, all those two dumb asses over here in Tucson.
Speaker 3: You don't even know what the hell cold is.
Speaker 5: It's like sixty eighth grees. I'm wearing I'm wearing a
Speaker 5: puffer jacket and pants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Brian, I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: We don't know what shorts are this time, you know,
Speaker 2: of course, but you they will.
Speaker 3: They'll be bringing them down here on Saturday. Thanks a
Speaker 3: bunch as always, Brian.
Speaker 2: Good good that you're doing well up in the Colorado
Speaker 2: bet Thanks guys.
Speaker 3: All right, Brian hell from newspaper up there covering to Colorado.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera, He's got his eye on the ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson Sports station, Fox Sports sporteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball Hero Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty From Steve Rivera, I can get through
Speaker 3: my cough here or not cough with pick them with
Speaker 3: Tim Bentley. Yo, we've got our guy, Matt and we
Speaker 3: have our guy.
Speaker 8: You you got it.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at you. I think I haven't seen you
Speaker 2: in a while. Henry. There you go.
Speaker 4: We saw last week he's got Henry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, have some once a weeknd.
Speaker 2: I used to see him all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he's got five classes at the u A.
Speaker 5: We were talking about these guys seniors. I got senior
Speaker 5: eyed as bad I can. I can just see it
Speaker 5: written all over.
Speaker 3: You guys are just very few clauses. No, wea fifteen?
Speaker 4: How did you do that? When I was a senior?
Speaker 5: I was a senior for like three years in a row, dude,
Speaker 5: and I had two classes.
Speaker 2: Every Oh yeah, you guys were in eight years?
Speaker 4: Yeah I was.
Speaker 5: You know, I was on the six and a half
Speaker 5: year plan. There was skiing there at NAU. Matthew's ready
Speaker 5: to get I was going to l A. Wants to
Speaker 5: get it hit the big time. Henry's going back east.
Speaker 2: If you weren't gonna do this, what are you going
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 3: If you guys don't do this, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: What would you like to do? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Outside of journalism. What would you start your own stuff
Speaker 3: or do something? You know, work in the business, Probably
Speaker 3: a business. Matthew's going to be in the movies, Andry's
Speaker 3: going to start a business. You guys started moving. I'll
Speaker 3: give you and I'll give you a name when you're done,
Speaker 3: because I have you know some people out there, especially
Speaker 3: for that. You know, at least you can you know,
Speaker 3: they spend a day or two with them and kind
Speaker 3: of get it and get it out there. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 3: it's and you know how this world is if you
Speaker 3: know people, But who know people?
Speaker 4: I know, I know.
Speaker 3: Henry, I don't know anybody in New York. But you
Speaker 3: may not even get to New York. Yeah, hopefully do
Speaker 3: you want to go back? Is it I do? Henry's
Speaker 3: ready ready to get out of here. He's ready to go.
Speaker 3: He's been in two big cities that get a lot
Speaker 3: of opportunities, obviously.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: Is there a phone number? Can people call us?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Five, two O four one six seventy four forty. I
Speaker 3: think it's working because the last few days hadn't been.
Speaker 3: It was kind of jiggity. All right, we'll call us.
Speaker 5: Who's got career advice for Matthew?
Speaker 4: And Henry Henry Henry, What was your was?
Speaker 5: What was see? What was your very first job that
Speaker 5: you count as a real job.
Speaker 3: Well, I like, I tell these guys get out early.
Speaker 3: But I was an intern at my hometown paper when
Speaker 3: I was nineteen twenty nineteen. Then I went an internship
Speaker 3: to here Tucson with a daily Star that I went
Speaker 3: to Phoenix, the paper there in the summer's right right right,
Speaker 3: And I worked all my time for the Albuquerque Journal.
Speaker 3: They paid for my school and did that. And then
Speaker 3: I left after my senior year. I went to the
Speaker 3: Dallas Morning News worked that summer there in my other internship,
Speaker 3: and then I got a job here at the du
Speaker 3: Salon Citizen. Haven't left it. I mean I had a
Speaker 3: chance or two, but I like it here. You know,
Speaker 3: we talked about that.
Speaker 5: I know, my very first job in Tucson, other than
Speaker 5: a paper out was I worked. I was a carryout.
Speaker 5: I bagged groceries at Lucky Grocery store.
Speaker 2: Made four bucks an hour.
Speaker 4: I know, I made three dollars and ten cents an hour.
Speaker 4: I was. I was nineteen eighty nineteen eighty two, Oh
Speaker 4: she was eighty three. I was sixteen. My first job
Speaker 4: over there on Swan and Sunrise, which is now an ACE.
Speaker 4: And so get this.
Speaker 5: When I went I went in there, they said, hey, gang,
Speaker 5: we are changing the grocery store business.
Speaker 4: I was on a tour.
Speaker 2: Well was it, what was it called?
Speaker 5: It's called Lucky Grocery Store, which became Abco, which became
Speaker 5: all of things. He said, we are, we are changing
Speaker 5: the world. We are going to stay open until nine o'clock.
Speaker 5: We're selling groceries until nine o'clock every night, and we're
Speaker 5: not closing at eight. And and we're going to save
Speaker 5: the p in it. We're gonna we're getting plastic back,
Speaker 5: We're getting we're using plastic bags.
Speaker 4: We're saving the whales, is what this guy said.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Instead, isn't it funny how they make these decisions? And
Speaker 3: they realized after years, what the hell were we thinking?
Speaker 5: I know, yeah, So it was we learned how to
Speaker 5: bag groceries in plastic bags, and we still had paper
Speaker 5: and I and I still can bag groceries.
Speaker 4: Pretty good with as a pro.
Speaker 3: You guys go grocery shopping. I don't do off. I
Speaker 3: was that sprouts. I guess today they charge you for
Speaker 3: the bag.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: Welcome to twenty twenty five? Why are they charging nickel
Speaker 4: a dime?
Speaker 2: Something like that?
Speaker 5: So when I go to Seattle, my wife is from Seattle,
Speaker 5: and they charging they charging.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna say that? Really?
Speaker 3: Oh in La what's the cost of that?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Ten cents?
Speaker 2: Really? Dude? And you want to go back there?
Speaker 4: Come on, man, McDonald's doesn't charge you for a bag
Speaker 4: here in Tucson. Stay here. I'm telling you. Work on
Speaker 4: the radio show here.
Speaker 5: You're gonna make a lot of money saving money, not
Speaker 5: buying bags at McDonald's.
Speaker 3: You gotta just grab it, you there or take you
Speaker 3: with you? Well, New York probably not, you're in Manhattan
Speaker 3: or yeah, yeah, not that bad?
Speaker 5: No, no, well no, no that you know on Fifth
Speaker 5: Avenue where he's living up there.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Nice, nice.
Speaker 4: What are you doing this weekend? You're gonna watch the game?
Speaker 4: You're gonna go.
Speaker 3: Youre going tomorrow to cover the game at one o'clock,
Speaker 3: finished about three wait what a half hour to talk
Speaker 3: to the guys, and finished by four thirds.
Speaker 4: You must be in heaven. You're gonna because you don't
Speaker 4: have to stay up.
Speaker 3: Till yeah, yeah, no, no question. Yeah, but it's still
Speaker 3: a long day. It's like kills your afternoon. It may
Speaker 3: sound like I'm bitching, but I'm not, because I'm not.
Speaker 3: It's just going to the game watching.
Speaker 4: It's like the what was our guy from Colorado? Brian?
Speaker 5: You know, every day you're on there's something happening every day,
Speaker 5: and if you're not covering a game, then you're covering
Speaker 5: you're talking to the coaches of the players.
Speaker 4: Something happening.
Speaker 3: My whole thing, and these guys will learn it's it's
Speaker 3: it's not so much about the game. It's trying to
Speaker 3: be clever with what you're writing.
Speaker 2: And that's my most difficult thing.
Speaker 3: You know, when I'm watching and thinking, Okay, there's a
Speaker 3: good angle, but this is a good angle, and it
Speaker 3: kind of changes, you know, every ten minutes or whatever,
Speaker 3: and then at the end you're thinking, okay, you write
Speaker 3: this stuff down and and well this doesn't apply anymore.
Speaker 3: This doesn't apply anymore. And then so nowadays I just
Speaker 3: kind of write the next day. If it's in the
Speaker 3: late night game, no one's going to stay up till
Speaker 3: midnight waiting to read me when the heather is that gear,
Speaker 3: So I wait a while and I started to go
Speaker 3: to bed on it.
Speaker 2: Wake up in the morning.
Speaker 4: Sure, when most people are reading, checking in the scores
Speaker 4: and all that.
Speaker 2: Like the old school stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's what I kind of do and try
Speaker 3: to be clever, but most of the time I don't pull.
Speaker 3: I'm tired too, man, I'm sixty.
Speaker 2: You haven't in basketball?
Speaker 5: Woll Matthew, you're a senior man, if you listen, don't
Speaker 5: miss out.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna be Monday night? Henry's got to take you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No? Oh yeah?
Speaker 3: But then what else? We've got to a few good
Speaker 3: games I have to go to. Yeah, you've been to
Speaker 3: them in the past. No basketball in the four years?
Speaker 2: What the hell's wrong with you? Want to go tomorrow?
Speaker 3: I might not go and I have a ticket.
Speaker 4: Wait, yeah, I'll go. There you go, Matthew. Glad you
Speaker 4: showed up today.
Speaker 2: Really you haven't.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a there's a reason why you guys
Speaker 3: come to school here. One of them is basketball. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, So what do you watch it?
Speaker 2: Somewhere?
Speaker 3: Watch you just watch it on streaming or or somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this is a good deed for the semester.
Speaker 3: Missed out on the Colorado game. But yeah, although you
Speaker 3: mean the football game. No, you were glad because you
Speaker 3: went to have a town right. Yeah, No, you didn't
Speaker 3: miss much. I didn't even go because I said, yeah,
Speaker 3: everybody you didn't go to Yeah, well yeah, and I'm
Speaker 3: glad I didn't because it was the onside kick and
Speaker 3: that that didn't work and the rest of it was bad.
Speaker 2: It was Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you guys think, because I don't know how much
Speaker 3: I want to see you the next we have February
Speaker 3: March April, do you think that he's going to turn
Speaker 3: it around football?
Speaker 2: No, we'll get back to you in a second.
Speaker 3: What what would turning it around? Seven and four, seven
Speaker 3: and five, eight and four, seven and five. Yeah, they
Speaker 3: could get to eight and four, not next year, but
Speaker 3: under Brennan.
Speaker 8: Because two years how because we saw what happened with
Speaker 8: jet fish there one and eleven.
Speaker 3: So you're taking that that's tested and using that as
Speaker 3: a good example.
Speaker 5: But are are are we willing to our fans, as
Speaker 5: the as the administration, willing to wait two years?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: I mean with immediate results that people get from year
Speaker 5: to year, are they willing to wait two years.
Speaker 4: To go seven and yeah?
Speaker 3: I think if they're not over five hundred better this
Speaker 3: year than they're let's still move on. Yeah, okay, go ahead,
Speaker 3: go ahead, give them, give them the mic. So okay,
Speaker 3: So you don't think so at all? You have no hope? Ye,
Speaker 3: not that Sacramento State.
Speaker 2: Would you have gotten there to play?
Speaker 3: I've gone anywhere to play?
Speaker 2: But you know what I mean.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm not trying to talk bad, but I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't see them. Yeah, you're not talking about you're
Speaker 3: talking realistic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the voice of reason over there, Matthew is is
Speaker 5: giving us, is dropping it down for us.
Speaker 3: No, he knows, I mean, he's playing it. He knows
Speaker 3: the guy and I don't know. Yeah, do you? I
Speaker 3: think I'll ask you this question before because you played,
Speaker 3: you know, to the to the level whatever you played,
Speaker 3: and then you come here and like you said before
Speaker 3: the show started, during the show beginning, you don't have
Speaker 3: any money blah blah blah every every college student right now.
Speaker 3: But but you see those dudes, yeah, who are reigning
Speaker 3: in it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I can't even utter the worst that like work a
Speaker 3: lot harder, I guess. I don't know. But yeah, were
Speaker 3: you talking when your buddies was making fifty or something somewhere.
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 4: Do you so the athletes on campus.
Speaker 5: You know, so obviously the football players and basketball players
Speaker 5: make a little cash. No, I don't know, No, I know,
Speaker 5: But what's the what's the mood on I asked you about,
Speaker 5: like the mood for the sports teams. But when you
Speaker 5: see these athletes that are making some money, some real money,
Speaker 5: is there resentment or is there some sort of you know,
Speaker 5: what's the feeling of the of your fellow students when
Speaker 5: they see that.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, I don't think there's an honestly,
Speaker 3: is making a lot more money off.
Speaker 4: So you guys think they should be making the money.
Speaker 2: Definitely. Yeah, It's like, yeah, it could have been me.
Speaker 8: Maybe there's a little resembment because I spend like fifty
Speaker 8: bucks on a team X.
Speaker 2: Sure over priced.
Speaker 3: But well, there's still word that he can finish the
Speaker 3: top ten in the draft. I think six to the Raiders.
Speaker 3: You saw it up, Well you can have some breaking
Speaker 3: news here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited to hear I saw that.
Speaker 3: Anybody who get us through the last five minutes of
Speaker 3: this show of this hour five two o four, one, six,
Speaker 3: seventy four or seventy four forty you can call us,
Speaker 3: let us know how we're doing. Not so good today,
Speaker 3: we're well, what else?
Speaker 2: Game?
Speaker 3: I hope, I hope you go to the game and more.
Speaker 3: I'll see you there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go down, you know, I bet you there's a
Speaker 5: seat next to Steve when you go down. Will we
Speaker 5: probably just go down the good sit in the front row.
Speaker 3: There's no cheering in the press box.
Speaker 4: Wait, Matthew doesn't cheer away. Have you heard him?
Speaker 9: He has?
Speaker 4: He's like, ye complaining and I.
Speaker 2: Told you, I told you.
Speaker 3: Damn Townsend. Waka did you say what you liked about
Speaker 3: the likes? Because you know.
Speaker 2: What you agreed?
Speaker 3: You agreed, he didn't like anything.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Sound so bad. I'm not like I'm a fan, I'm
Speaker 3: a guys.
Speaker 4: I know we're beating Matthew.
Speaker 2: We're not. We're not putting words in your mouth.
Speaker 5: Now he's over there sitting in the corner. All right,
Speaker 5: you got three months off of your senior year. It's
Speaker 5: gonna be okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, am matt we can't hire you because we saw
Speaker 3: that you were very negative about they're.
Speaker 5: Going to be listening to this podcast. Matthew, poor guy.
Speaker 2: Now you might come back. Who knows? Would you cut?
Speaker 2: Would you say?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 3: Definitely? But if it doesn't even have like oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: right right, yeah, so yeah, we had talked about that before.
Speaker 3: They might be trying to revamp it. Now they got
Speaker 3: some people coming in. We'll see. You never know how
Speaker 3: much time we got about two minutes, ye, two minutes. Okay,
Speaker 3: so no calls, no calls. Now we'll get some breaking
Speaker 3: news from Henry on the other side. Uh thedn't talk
Speaker 3: to who Damien.
Speaker 4: I'm excited to talk to Damien. You know, we were talking.
Speaker 5: He's been around for a long long time and he
Speaker 5: interviewed some of my kids and tracking and cross country
Speaker 5: back in the day. He's just got a good sense
Speaker 5: of the community and a good sense of of, you know, what,
Speaker 5: what makes sports great and good in our community.
Speaker 4: And so I'm excited to talk to him.
Speaker 3: What was the story with you guys, because he that's
Speaker 3: that's what it's about. It's about the story.
Speaker 5: So we were we were doing something for a coach
Speaker 5: of ours who had passed away, Al Buell, and there
Speaker 5: was a race that we were a part of called
Speaker 5: the Red Beard Rally, and he interviewed several of our
Speaker 5: seniors and graduating kids that had run for coach Buell.
Speaker 5: And one of them was Nico Montoniez who was an
Speaker 5: Olympic trials athlete, two time Olympic Trials athlete, and Marcus
Speaker 5: Montano and his brother Nathan. Just good kids and Damien
Speaker 5: did it, did a great job with them. You know,
Speaker 5: he's he knows uh, local sports. He knows local community,
Speaker 5: the community and and what makes you know, sports special
Speaker 5: for high school kids and just uh kids in general.
Speaker 3: Here in the red Beard so he had a beard,
Speaker 3: a red beard.
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 5: He had red beard, and he was a great guy
Speaker 5: and he loved running and wanted to to share that
Speaker 5: level running with everybody including me.
Speaker 2: Was he a young dude?
Speaker 5: He was not a young guy. He was probably well back.
Speaker 5: Ye yes, now that I'm fifty eight, he was sixty five.
Speaker 5: He was a very young guy. But that was about
Speaker 5: twelve years ago. Yeah, okay, yeah, So we'll talk to
Speaker 5: Damian about that and other things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just to get what's going on in the world
Speaker 3: of sports, hopefully, you know, because it's changed too. I'm
Speaker 3: sure you saw the shellel Force probably gonna lose TV
Speaker 3: with themen. It's a changing landscape.
Speaker 5: You know, the media landscape is you know, when I
Speaker 5: was involved in the media from you know, ninety nine
Speaker 5: to two thousand and eight. You know, it was a
Speaker 5: different animal. The recession hurt a little bit. The new media,
Speaker 5: social media, YouTube, all of it has really changed that landscape.
Speaker 4: And so I feel bad for those those folks.
Speaker 5: You know, they want to do good work, they want
Speaker 5: to tell good stories, they want to they want to
Speaker 5: report the news, and there's just not as much resources
Speaker 5: as there have been.
Speaker 3: Oh no, not at all. Okay, well we got time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're good to go. Okay, let's let's go and get
Speaker 3: your breaking news. On the other side, this