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Speaker 5: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball here
Speaker 5: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, Jay's out, I
Speaker 5: got Dave Silver with me. Juan is furiously working the
Speaker 5: phones and the computers. Sorry for the short delay. Our
Speaker 5: computers went down and but we're getting everything back up
Speaker 5: as we speak. Thank you, Je, Thank you Dave for
Speaker 5: showing up. Sure, I'm gonna blame this on you.
Speaker 9: Sounds like an exciting afternoon you got going here.
Speaker 5: That was the excitement. I hope that's the extent of
Speaker 5: the excitement. The good thing is we're on and we
Speaker 5: got everything back. It looks like with one working the board,
Speaker 5: so that's good. Thanks for joining me, Dave. Yeah, Dave,
Speaker 5: so we can talk about local stuff. I haven't seen
Speaker 5: you in a while.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's been, you know, retirement for me, so I
Speaker 10: haven't been really out and about too much.
Speaker 5: But oh, I hate you, Dave. I hate you, David.
Speaker 5: So I was gonna ask you, how long were you
Speaker 5: out of the business.
Speaker 9: What do you mean?
Speaker 10: Oh, I ended in at the end of twenty eleven,
Speaker 10: out about twelve years, and you were in it for
Speaker 10: here specifically, So twenty twelve you had to be twenty.
Speaker 9: Something twenty nine years?
Speaker 5: Did you miss it?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 9: I missed it when I left.
Speaker 10: I didn't miss the business too much, but I certainly still.
Speaker 10: I mean, I'm a big sports fan, so always going
Speaker 10: to be. But you're kind of watching and but you can.
Speaker 5: You could do that from a distance. Yeah, you didn't
Speaker 5: have to worry about deadlines exactly. You don't have to
Speaker 5: worry putting crap together.
Speaker 10: For it to wear makeup for a while.
Speaker 5: By the way, you should put it back on. Let
Speaker 5: me tell you, tell me the same thing. I should
Speaker 5: shave and wash my face and put makeup on. I
Speaker 5: can wear shorts all the time now, things like that.
Speaker 5: So it's been nice to kind of be away but
Speaker 5: also be a fan.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm kind of embedded in Tucson, so I've
Speaker 10: been here a long time and I still follow everything.
Speaker 5: Sure, sure, sure, And it's been good. I mean lately
Speaker 5: it's been crazy, not so much on the sports side,
Speaker 5: but in the administrative side.
Speaker 9: Yes, for sure.
Speaker 10: I guess the university has a new president as of
Speaker 10: this afternoon.
Speaker 5: Did they hire the guy they did today? Wow? The
Speaker 5: only guy they actually talked to, Although I would have
Speaker 5: put this caveat because you know the businesses they probably
Speaker 5: talked to a few people, don't Okay, if I don't
Speaker 5: get the job telling you didn't interview me. This never happened,
Speaker 5: and here's the guy that ended up with it.
Speaker 10: I mean, again, I'm not there and I don't really
Speaker 10: have any kind of inside information, but usually these positions
Speaker 10: require at least a few people to be interviewed, everyone
Speaker 10: from the provost to dean's people like that. When I
Speaker 10: was on campus, there'd be multiple people in town to
Speaker 10: talk to staff and faculty and other people around the university.
Speaker 10: So this guy obviously was very very well received as
Speaker 10: there he is.
Speaker 5: So you've been out of the business at Juba for
Speaker 5: how long?
Speaker 9: Just a few months?
Speaker 1: Just?
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I wanted to see if you could be
Speaker 5: candid with me. I'm not going to ask you any
Speaker 5: tough questions, but it's who would have thought they'd be
Speaker 5: in this situation financially right, however, But he's in this
Speaker 5: I shouldn't say everything. A lot of schools are like Arizona,
Speaker 5: they just haven't come up publicly with it. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: the media hasn't gone out and searched, you know, the X,
Speaker 5: Y and Z colleges to see how in depth they are.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think there's a lot of universities that are kind
Speaker 10: of in this predicament. The ironic thing about Arizona is
Speaker 10: they had just launched a big capital campaign when the
Speaker 10: news broke almost the next day, so the timing of
Speaker 10: everything was just a little bit strange.
Speaker 5: Remind me what that was, because you were probably at
Speaker 5: the end of your rope with that one.
Speaker 9: Well, no, I mean it was just you mean in
Speaker 9: terms of how we felt.
Speaker 5: Winter, No, no, no, what what was the campaign and
Speaker 5: you were probably getting out of your situation.
Speaker 10: Yes, well, I mean President Robbins was starting a big,
Speaker 10: multi billion dollar campaign.
Speaker 9: It was going to be.
Speaker 10: Again starting right in November, basically late October when this
Speaker 10: news broke, So the timing of that was a little
Speaker 10: bit odd.
Speaker 5: Did that hit TRD to that campaign in terms of.
Speaker 9: Because no, I don't think you know.
Speaker 10: Again, we'd have to check with you U of a
Speaker 10: foundation to see exactly how how they did financially, But
Speaker 10: from what I understand, they came up a little bit
Speaker 10: short this last year with their goals.
Speaker 5: You're talking about billions or millions, millions, okay, but the
Speaker 5: overall thing was all.
Speaker 10: Still the university is still raising over three hundred million
Speaker 10: dollars a year, so that's not not too shabby.
Speaker 5: Right, right, did you like that part of the world.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 9: It was good.
Speaker 10: I got to meet a lot of interesting people. I mean,
Speaker 10: I was such a news kind of person that I
Speaker 10: almost treated the people I met as if I was
Speaker 10: doing interviews with them.
Speaker 9: For the news story.
Speaker 10: And I got to learn all kinds of different jobs
Speaker 10: and histories. And again, I met people who were students
Speaker 10: in the nineteen fifties all the way up till the
Speaker 10: twenty tens. It's really kind of fun to hear their perspective.
Speaker 10: Everybody had a tie to the u of A right
Speaker 10: matter where they.
Speaker 5: Lived, and I think because of who you are and
Speaker 5: what you did, that opened a few doors. At least
Speaker 5: they knew the face, they knew the work, and and
Speaker 5: that's one of the reasons by the hire you, because
Speaker 5: you were who you.
Speaker 10: Are, right, so that that didn't hurt to a certain extent.
Speaker 10: I mean some of the people I used to joke
Speaker 10: with them, like, you know, you were in at the
Speaker 10: u of A.
Speaker 9: You probably weren't watching the news too much.
Speaker 10: But some of the people who've been around town, especially
Speaker 10: some of the local people, they knew who I was,
Speaker 10: so that that was nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that helped you shake hands, kids, babies, and
Speaker 5: get some money.
Speaker 9: And you know it's from a sports fan.
Speaker 10: I have to admit, I got to go to a
Speaker 10: lot of really cool places with these donors. You know, hey,
Speaker 10: where I was in Washington, d C. Meet me at this,
Speaker 10: you know, Congressional Golf Course, one of the most famous
Speaker 10: golf courses in the world. One time I was at
Speaker 10: Pebble Beach, just meeting on a lum who happened to
Speaker 10: be a member. So it was fun to have those
Speaker 10: experiences too, right, right right, intimidating it all.
Speaker 9: A little bit. Raising money is not.
Speaker 5: Easy, no, no, no, not easy.
Speaker 10: But you really just have to make connections with these
Speaker 10: people and find out what their passions are and see
Speaker 10: if it matches something that the U of A is
Speaker 10: interested in money for.
Speaker 9: So it was it was a challenge.
Speaker 5: Yeah, makes sense. But you know, you're you're a personable guy.
Speaker 5: You're a good guy, likable guy. I'm not saying that
Speaker 5: because you're here. Well, you know, we've been to you,
Speaker 5: we've known each other for a long time, and all
Speaker 5: that helps because you know, if you were starky and
Speaker 5: you were paint in the neck, you know, why would
Speaker 5: they want to talk to you?
Speaker 10: Yeah, And it was fun to be able to bring
Speaker 10: up stories from my history and like, hey, I was
Speaker 10: at that game too, where there are many many times
Speaker 10: right I was at this, I was at that game.
Speaker 10: You want to talk about final fours, I've been all
Speaker 10: the final.
Speaker 5: Fours, and sports is the the bridge for a lot
Speaker 5: of those conversations.
Speaker 9: Very much.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 10: You know, I wasn't necessarily raising money for athletics, although
Speaker 10: I could, but that wasn't It was always something I
Speaker 10: could bring up easily.
Speaker 5: No good, Good to have you in studios today. We're
Speaker 5: going to talk to the soccer coach, Rebecca Morros their
Speaker 5: new season. I think she's in her fourth year, a
Speaker 5: very good, smart coach and changing the ways that were before.
Speaker 5: And we'll see what she's up to now in the
Speaker 5: big Conference and some of the new people that she
Speaker 5: has coming in. And then at four fifteen I tracked
Speaker 5: down Casey Scourn, former U a kicker. You saw Anthony's
Speaker 5: note right about kind of like the odd quick fact
Speaker 5: one of the tougher punters you've come across, because he
Speaker 5: actually got involved in tackles. Yeah, and he liked it,
Speaker 5: you know, he liked it you'd get hit and he
Speaker 5: liked to hit. So we'll talk about that. He's now
Speaker 5: a cyclist. I saw him in April in Scottsdale writing
Speaker 5: the Scott Stille Tour tour to Scottsdale and ran into
Speaker 5: him and, uh, you know, what would cook Kickers be
Speaker 5: doing today? I mean, what's his routine now at spring
Speaker 5: as fal begins, because those dudes are okay somewhere else right, yeah, there,
Speaker 5: and they're practicing. It's like rich Rob didn't know what
Speaker 5: they did until they showed up, and he says, if
Speaker 5: you're missing those what are you guys doing? Yeah, those
Speaker 5: are That's just what you do have to do. All
Speaker 5: you have to do is do this, and you're missing
Speaker 5: what the hell are you doing on the other side
Speaker 5: of the field.
Speaker 9: You have one joke.
Speaker 10: I used to like going to practice and watch the
Speaker 10: kickers because they would, you know, they bring them in
Speaker 10: at the beginning, maybe they do a kickoff drill and
Speaker 10: then they would disappear an hour or two right in
Speaker 10: the corner, maybe stretching, doing something right. Bring him back
Speaker 10: for Pat at the end of it was it.
Speaker 5: Was always so we'll talk to him about that, the
Speaker 5: good old days. And I think I don't think you
Speaker 5: were here, but I do think if I can remember correctly,
Speaker 5: he missed the kick against Southern col Yeah. Yeah, one's
Speaker 5: giving me the confirmation. Kids. Remember, and he's the one
Speaker 5: that got the death threats. Just remember just the pressure
Speaker 5: of dealing with that, you know, because uh, sports sucks sometimes.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, you don't, you don't perform and people
Speaker 10: are gonna let you know. That's especially nowadays too, with Twitter.
Speaker 5: And Twitter and gambling aloud exactly.
Speaker 9: I didn't forgot about that.
Speaker 5: You're right, you know you cost me a lot of money. Bum.
Speaker 10: It seems to be, uh, a reason for a lot
Speaker 10: of hate in sports.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, just that there's a lot of hate anyway.
Speaker 5: It just compounds it. Yeah, yeah, okay, hey, Juana, thanks
Speaker 5: for joining me. Let me ask you a quick question.
Speaker 5: How's life on the other side of being a reporter?
Speaker 11: Oh it's so much fun.
Speaker 5: It's fun, so much fun. What the hell are you
Speaker 5: doing that? I mean here, hey, let the jokes come
Speaker 5: from the professional space. You're a reporter.
Speaker 11: Yeah, just started about two weeks ago where Arizona desert swarm. Okay,
Speaker 11: it's it's been It's been nice to see the guys
Speaker 11: out there and be able to write about it. Had
Speaker 11: an article come out today.
Speaker 9: Your first second second?
Speaker 11: Okay, cool about the defensive line, how they want to
Speaker 11: get vertical across the line of screamage and they just
Speaker 11: want to be physical.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're out there. We had Brian Peterson, your boss,
Speaker 5: here yesterday. So, uh so, how's that being kind of
Speaker 5: part of it asking questions. I don't know if you
Speaker 5: have yet or not. Uh, it's uh, it's different.
Speaker 11: Huh. Yeah, it's definitely different.
Speaker 12: It's not it is.
Speaker 11: It's not something I haven't done before. I've done a
Speaker 11: lot of interviews before this job, so it's almost feel
Speaker 11: a little bit.
Speaker 5: Natural to me.
Speaker 11: Just go in there and ask questions, ask the not
Speaker 11: yes or no questions, but answer.
Speaker 5: To fill your to fill your notebook, and to do
Speaker 5: your story exactly. Yeah. Yeah, so what do you see
Speaker 5: because we had Brian talk about what he saw. What
Speaker 5: do you see in your time? You've been there two times, three.
Speaker 11: Times from for the team. Yeah, I've been to almost
Speaker 11: every practice. Okay, that the defense is going to be
Speaker 11: I think very very quick to the ball. We have
Speaker 11: a really good secondary.
Speaker 5: I believe. Yeah, I should say you're not a weed anymore. Sorry,
Speaker 5: but you're still a student.
Speaker 11: But we'll just regard this. The secondary will be fast.
Speaker 11: They're they're very quick to the ball, very physical. The
Speaker 11: defensive line they want to pressure the quarterback, which I
Speaker 11: feel like they have been throughout the first couple of days.
Speaker 11: And then you have Jacob Mona holding down the linebacker.
Speaker 11: Tay Brown has been in and out with some mixtures,
Speaker 11: but he seems like the right hand man.
Speaker 5: So so we'll do this and maybe they we'll talk
Speaker 5: about this. Because you know, you were this sports director
Speaker 5: right for in your time, how many under people did
Speaker 5: you have, like secondary people?
Speaker 9: Either one or two more?
Speaker 5: That's all? Wow? So they stayed awhile.
Speaker 9: I mean atogether altogether?
Speaker 10: Oh boy, maybe five or.
Speaker 5: Six with some of them being U A grads. Did
Speaker 5: they come through being U A grads or from somewhere else?
Speaker 10: They came from somewhere else, Okay, I'd have to think
Speaker 10: about it. Off the top of my head, I don't
Speaker 10: think anybody was a U A grad.
Speaker 5: And the reason I say that is because you said
Speaker 5: we right, you're still a student, so we can give
Speaker 5: you that. But and I've said this before on the show,
Speaker 5: a lot of the guys or the kids here are
Speaker 5: great UA grads and you know, they might be typing
Speaker 5: their stories or go watching the game and under the
Speaker 5: table giving a fist bump or each other high fives
Speaker 5: and blah blah blah. Did you come across that? Did
Speaker 5: you have to say, you know, temperate?
Speaker 9: Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 10: I mean even I hate to say this, but I
Speaker 10: mean there were times again, as reporters like you and
Speaker 10: I have been, we enjoyed it when they did.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 5: No, we talked about that because it meant.
Speaker 10: Good things for us too. You're going to get more readers,
Speaker 10: people are gonna be watching me. We get to go
Speaker 10: in these amazing trips of these events, and.
Speaker 5: It's easier to cover winter than it is a loser exactly.
Speaker 10: I mean I remember sitting there kind of clapping under
Speaker 10: the desk, you know, when when the teams are advancing
Speaker 10: to the final fours or bowl games and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: But you know, on the air, I was never a home,
Speaker 10: never a home.
Speaker 9: Home like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So did you do? You'll you'll see it. If
Speaker 5: you haven't seen it already, you can still see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 11: It's definitely hard to just not being the fan and
Speaker 11: having to be the.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you've been a found all your life and
Speaker 5: you're still a fan. Yeah, yeah, and it's is it
Speaker 5: one of the reasons why you decided to get into
Speaker 5: this business.
Speaker 11: I just wanted to be around sports. I wanted to
Speaker 11: find any sort of way in and this is something
Speaker 11: else passionate about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, suck with it.
Speaker 10: And that hasn't changed for people in a long time.
Speaker 10: I mean, that's really why I went into it, because
Speaker 10: I knew I wasn't going to be you know, Willie
Speaker 10: May's or anybody like that. When I was growing up,
Speaker 10: at about fifteen, I realized that I got to try something.
Speaker 5: Else, right, right, Had you not got into this, what
Speaker 5: would your plan be?
Speaker 9: I mean, I was really into the media.
Speaker 10: I can't think of anything else that I was passionate
Speaker 10: about other than maybe newspaper, maybe radio, and then eventually
Speaker 10: it became TV. But really, from about again, like age
Speaker 10: of fourteen fifteen, I was driving my mom and dad crazy.
Speaker 10: I was doing play by play in a car things
Speaker 10: like that.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm sure they're okay with it. When the chicks
Speaker 5: started coming exactly. Yeah, yeah, Dave, I'm so proud of you, son,
Speaker 5: thanks for doing this. Shut up, Okay, So we're going
Speaker 5: to take a break here. Get a call from coach
Speaker 5: and move forward with soccer.
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Speaker 5: Hey, welcome back to Oin the Ball here at Fox
Speaker 5: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. Been with me today.
Speaker 5: Dave Silver is my co host, and now on the line,
Speaker 5: we have beca moros the Arizona soccer coach. Becca. How
Speaker 5: are you?
Speaker 1: I'm terrific.
Speaker 5: Let me say this, it seems like yesterday we introduced
Speaker 5: you and met you for the first time. I think
Speaker 5: you're in year four? Is that right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You know, yeah, yeah, exactly. This this is my
Speaker 1: fourth season.
Speaker 5: You're a cagy veteran. Does it feel like four years already?
Speaker 1: No, it's slown I mean there's there's definitely been some
Speaker 1: different eras in the in the three years that we've
Speaker 1: had so far, from the drinking from the fire hose
Speaker 1: era to the almost feeling settled era to the like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is home era. So a lot's changed over the
Speaker 1: three years that I've been here, but it's slown by.
Speaker 5: So let me throw another curve at you. You're going
Speaker 5: to the big dwelve. Now what.
Speaker 1: Do I don't even know. I'm excited. It's crazy to
Speaker 1: be a part of such a big change when I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm still pretty new and so I was
Speaker 1: still getting used to the pack and all of the
Speaker 1: rivalries and the culture and the history. And now I'm
Speaker 1: moving into a whole new conference with different rivalries and
Speaker 1: the new history and get to be a part of
Speaker 1: writing this chapter in Arizona's incredible history. So it's just
Speaker 1: crazy to me.
Speaker 10: You know, you're coming from a conference that has had
Speaker 10: a lot of good success. Obviously, the Pac twelve was
Speaker 10: quite a soccer league. What about the Big twelve. I
Speaker 10: know a couple of teams made the tournament last year,
Speaker 10: but one of them was Texas and they're not there anymore.
Speaker 10: So where do you see yourself slotted in here as
Speaker 10: you make this move?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think I think we have a
Speaker 1: great opportunity.
Speaker 6: Ahead of us.
Speaker 1: I think soccer across the whole country has just continued
Speaker 1: to improve and improve. I'm I'm always blown away by
Speaker 1: the level of the college game compared to when I
Speaker 1: was there over twenty years ago. Now, So it's just,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's insane how much growth there's been,
Speaker 1: and it's such a popular sport, and so I think
Speaker 1: all of the Power conferences are really competitive and have
Speaker 1: great programs, great support from their universities and the conferences.
Speaker 1: So I think the Big twelve is going to be
Speaker 1: a huge challenge for us, but I think we have
Speaker 1: you know, we're in a great spot and we've continued
Speaker 1: to grow and develop, and so I think we've got
Speaker 1: a great chance to have a very significant impact in
Speaker 1: the conference.
Speaker 5: So pardon the naiveness of this question. David and I
Speaker 5: have covered the PAC twelve for a long time. PAC
Speaker 5: ten back in the day. It's more and it's more
Speaker 5: in football and basketball. It's more of a finesse, speed
Speaker 5: type of thing. Is that the same in soccer? And
Speaker 5: as you move to the Big twelve, we all think
Speaker 5: that the football and basketball will be tough for more
Speaker 5: physical Does that apply to the soccer game two in general?
Speaker 1: Yes, I would say that's that's definitely the reputation of
Speaker 1: the conferences. But overall, as a game, soccer has been
Speaker 1: getting more and more finesse, more and more tactical, more
Speaker 1: and more cerebral across the entire country. So I think
Speaker 1: where that sort of difference used to be extremely prominent.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little more subtle now, and there's
Speaker 1: good soccer being played in all of the power conferences.
Speaker 5: No good.
Speaker 10: How about this is the match up with your arch
Speaker 10: rival with going into Chapel Hill this year. What's that
Speaker 10: going to be like for you and for this team?
Speaker 1: I know, it's kind of funny. I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to have a lot of respect
Speaker 1: for for un C and their soccer program and what
Speaker 1: Anton Durrance has done there and the support staff and
Speaker 1: technical team he has working with him and the players
Speaker 1: he brings in every year. I mean, it's such an
Speaker 1: iconic and historical program for soccer that it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of an honor to go there and
Speaker 1: play there and take take our team there to play,
Speaker 1: and then to have them coming back to play at
Speaker 1: our home in two years and then be able to
Speaker 1: bring you know, guitar heels to Tucson and have our
Speaker 1: community come out and be able to watch that battle.
Speaker 1: And obviously I hope and expect to have good results
Speaker 1: and have a good game against them, But I think
Speaker 1: just the significance of the significance of it for the
Speaker 1: team is is something special? So and then with size,
Speaker 1: there's thoves up really quickly against you know, a top
Speaker 1: contender early and in non conference play and get ready
Speaker 1: for all of the best competition we'll have in conference.
Speaker 5: So we'll talk to some of the players in a bit,
Speaker 5: but first let's talk about someone who you lost. I'll
Speaker 5: hope who's been your goalie for a long time, did
Speaker 5: very very well. How do you how do you hope
Speaker 5: to replace someone like her?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think I think the players returning,
Speaker 1: especially the back line, have to fill some of those shoes,
Speaker 1: so it's not entirely on someone new and coming into
Speaker 1: the lineup. We obviously have four goalkeepers in our goalkeeping unit,
Speaker 1: and they've been working really hard in captains practices and
Speaker 1: in preseason and in all of their preparation. We have
Speaker 1: a little bit more experience coming in and in Olivia Ramy,
Speaker 1: who transferred to us from Oklahoma, which we were not sure,
Speaker 1: you know, where we would get experience from, so that
Speaker 1: that's been positive. And then we have very talented younger keepers,
Speaker 1: including Kira who played with us to the spring, and
Speaker 1: Sophia Cortes Brown and Kayla Kuschoffner, So that unit is
Speaker 1: very competitive. But Hope's experience, experience with the back line
Speaker 1: leading the team, the confidence that she had in her
Speaker 1: ability and end their leadership as a captain is those
Speaker 1: are big shoes. So I'm expecting that our our veteran
Speaker 1: back line will be able to you know, fill some
Speaker 1: of that, and then one of or two of the
Speaker 1: other keepers will will also be able to step in.
Speaker 1: But she's you know, she's already been back to visit,
Speaker 1: which is tremendous and was pretty pretty awesome to see
Speaker 1: our freshman keepers get to saylo and introduce themselves. As
Speaker 1: you know, she's been such an icon here.
Speaker 10: You know, in terms of recruiting, how do things switch
Speaker 10: up on it? You've got a pretty good mixture of
Speaker 10: players really from all over the country, does it? This
Speaker 10: does really matter as far as recruiting goes, since you're
Speaker 10: joining a new conference or or what I know, you've
Speaker 10: got you've got international players, so they're coming from everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a couple really tremendous Internet players, and
Speaker 1: I know when I was playing, playing with international players
Speaker 1: is one of the opportunities to learn because every every
Speaker 1: country has their own soccer style and you can pick
Speaker 1: up different things that you know, are different from the
Speaker 1: American way. So I think it's a great opportunity to
Speaker 1: have international players in and I know it's appealing for
Speaker 1: for soccer players from a lot of places to come
Speaker 1: get an education and play such competitive soccer in the
Speaker 1: United States in college. But as far as the conference changed,
Speaker 1: I think Dallas has always, you know, been a hotbed
Speaker 1: for soccer in this country. So getting into the Texas
Speaker 1: area to play games and conference is you know, that
Speaker 1: used to be something we tried to do in non conference,
Speaker 1: but you know, now we'll have that in conference. So
Speaker 1: that's helpful recruiting. And you know, non conference play is
Speaker 1: always great to schedule on the West Coast, and that's
Speaker 1: still really appealing for us. And I think just the
Speaker 1: university overall has such such tremendous appeal in southern California
Speaker 1: that I think we'll still do a lot of our
Speaker 1: recruiting there. But we've been able to get into Colorado, Georgia,
Speaker 1: some other pretty big areas. You got some some players
Speaker 1: from Maryland, Florida. So yeah, we've been we've been, you know,
Speaker 1: hitting up a lot of areas and just looking for
Speaker 1: that the best players we can get, best students we
Speaker 1: can get in creating the best team culture with the
Speaker 1: right people.
Speaker 5: So when you recruit, do you get the get the
Speaker 5: lady or the player who who fits your style or
Speaker 5: best player available? How do you put your team together?
Speaker 1: Definitely some of both, you know, we I really try
Speaker 1: to recruit players that I'm going to enjoy coaching whatever
Speaker 1: their role ends up being, whether they come in right away,
Speaker 1: have an impact they need to earn a spot, whether
Speaker 1: they're you know, in contention for you know All Conference
Speaker 1: Frenchmen team, or you know, maybe a role player coming
Speaker 1: off the bench. I think, you know, everybody has a
Speaker 1: role and can contribute, and I think the right people
Speaker 1: are always the most fun to be on the field with,
Speaker 1: whether it's as a teammate or a coach. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking for players who love the game, who don't need
Speaker 1: to be motivated to show up. They want to get better.
Speaker 1: They're intrinsically motivated, they love training, and so they bring
Speaker 1: something extra every day when they show up, and a
Speaker 1: lot of that you get from their club coaches to
Speaker 1: see them every day. They really know what their character
Speaker 1: and drive is. And then you are definitely looking for
Speaker 1: for soccer players that fit your style, and for us,
Speaker 1: it's players who like to think the game, who are clever,
Speaker 1: have good technical ability, and and just a lot of
Speaker 1: soccer savvy.
Speaker 10: A lot of soccer going on this weekend too in Paris.
Speaker 10: What are you what are your thoughts on what we're
Speaker 10: going to see?
Speaker 1: Man, I think this is the best I've seen the
Speaker 1: US play in a long time. The quality is great.
Speaker 1: And Brazil coming back and getting themselvesselves to the top
Speaker 1: of the tournament is you know, for those of us
Speaker 1: who grew up watching Brazil dominate to see them, you know,
Speaker 1: back is great. There's such I mean, it's just a
Speaker 1: football powerhouse in the world. So there's no reason that
Speaker 1: their women shouldn't be at the top of world football
Speaker 1: every single year. So I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: a heck of a battle. And you know, Mark's last
Speaker 1: international game, and uh, it's just there's so much going on.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for it and really been enjoying the
Speaker 1: US players and their style of play, and so that's
Speaker 1: pretty pumped for him.
Speaker 10: It's so kind of a transitional group too, right, I mean,
Speaker 10: Alex Morgan not there, and Megan retiring things like that.
Speaker 10: So what does that say about maybe just the depth.
Speaker 10: I know a lot of these are college most of
Speaker 10: them are college players, I'm assuming, right, Sonya Smith Stanford, right,
Speaker 10: something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Smith is she's She's left Stanford after her
Speaker 1: sophomore year, so she's been in the pros for a while.
Speaker 1: Jade and Shaw never never went to college. Corbett Albert,
Speaker 1: I think, is probably one of the younger players. But
Speaker 1: they're most of them have finished college. They're still on
Speaker 1: the young side. They're They're not better in the way
Speaker 1: Alex Morgan and Megan Raupino were. But I do think
Speaker 1: those players were so so large and larger than life
Speaker 1: that the transition, you know, it's harder to make because
Speaker 1: they they really did push all of soccer forward and
Speaker 1: put the national team or continue to put the national
Speaker 1: team on center stage, as as the players who came
Speaker 1: before them also did. But you know, when you have
Speaker 1: such large personalities and icons, it's the transition is hard,
Speaker 1: you know, and in your you have young players who
Speaker 1: have to step into such big shoes and make such
Speaker 1: a big splash for people to start to support them.
Speaker 1: But I think these these players have and definitely the
Speaker 1: front line is just really exciting and dynamic and also
Speaker 1: able to produce for each other. So it's it's it's neat,
Speaker 1: and it was probably a long time coming to a changeover,
Speaker 1: so you know, it's it's been great for these players
Speaker 1: that they've been able to do such a such a
Speaker 1: strong job and put together such complete and professional performances.
Speaker 5: Let's go back to the team real quick. I think
Speaker 5: one of the big statements or or or thoughts when
Speaker 5: they move to the Big twelve and the staffords of
Speaker 5: the world going east to the ACC the travel for the
Speaker 5: for the Olympic sports like yours, Uh, is it going
Speaker 5: to be as difficult as people like you know, me
Speaker 5: and Dave, the common people who think that these these
Speaker 5: kids can't survive a trip to West Virginia and study
Speaker 5: and all that stuff. To me and I could be
Speaker 5: totally wrong, and I usually am where these kids this
Speaker 5: is what they're built for. You know, they're still young.
Speaker 5: They can do a lot of different things where the
Speaker 5: travel is not going to be that tough. But I
Speaker 5: could be I could be wrong, and it's going to
Speaker 5: be tough.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be some of both. It
Speaker 1: like everything you know, when when young people come to college.
Speaker 1: Some people just roll right in and get it together quick,
Speaker 1: and some people take a year to figure out college living.
Speaker 1: And I think there's going to be some of both.
Speaker 1: The time changes will pose an extra challenge because you know,
Speaker 1: anytime you mess up your bedtimes and stuff, there's things
Speaker 1: you don't really realize are are affected. You're eating schedule,
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I think there will be some challenges.
Speaker 1: The travel will be longer, Do I think that it will,
Speaker 1: you know, just topple these student athletes, know, I think
Speaker 1: they are built for it, but there may be some
Speaker 1: who have some challenges depending on you know, fatigue or
Speaker 1: missing class or if they're you know, communicating well with
Speaker 1: their professors ahead of time, or you know, that's the
Speaker 1: skill they really do have to learn. So some some
Speaker 1: student athletes take a little while to learn learn that
Speaker 1: as part of growing up and not having parents to
Speaker 1: communicate for you anymore. So, you know, I think there
Speaker 1: will be challenges, but they are similar to the challenges
Speaker 1: they already face. It's just maybe you know, amplified in
Speaker 1: a few situations here and there.
Speaker 10: These are all products of the COVID lockdowns and having
Speaker 10: to deal with education, you know, from a distance for
Speaker 10: a couple of years themselves while they were probably in
Speaker 10: high school or junior high. So we'll see how they
Speaker 10: do with this next challenge again, has the U of A.
Speaker 10: Has the athletic department kind of gone over this with
Speaker 10: each team as to how to orient yourself and prepare
Speaker 10: for this.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of support along the way. I
Speaker 1: think as we you know, a lot of our schedules
Speaker 1: were already kind of locked in, so the conference schedule changed,
Speaker 1: but you tried to keep you know, non conference stuffs
Speaker 1: as consistent as you had planned and where you kind
Speaker 1: of made commitments and had contracts with school signed. So
Speaker 1: I think as we go forward there may be some
Speaker 1: more recommendations and best practices and things like that, but
Speaker 1: you know, we just kind of had to roll with
Speaker 1: it quickly and pivot as fast as we could and
Speaker 1: get ourselves organized and scheduled since you know, you kind
Speaker 1: of scheduled two plus years out, so kind of happened
Speaker 1: really fast, I'd.
Speaker 5: Say, right, So maybe just go back for the final question,
Speaker 5: to go back to the beginning. You're starting your fourth year.
Speaker 5: Is it long from the end of last year to
Speaker 5: this point I'm sure you're a coach who wants to
Speaker 5: do it all the time. To coach and to get
Speaker 5: on the field.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, an eternity. It just feels like forever and
Speaker 1: all the players are training and doing so much work
Speaker 1: on their own, and your ability to support them is
Speaker 1: fairly limited. It definitely can support them in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, giving them training programs and things like that,
Speaker 1: but you know, you really can't help or provide input
Speaker 1: or be on the field with them and help them
Speaker 1: in their development. So it's kind of like you're just
Speaker 1: waiting for them to arrive and get going so you
Speaker 1: can see what they've done and how they've handled their
Speaker 1: development plans and things like that. So it's tough. And
Speaker 1: then they come back and they run some captains practices
Speaker 1: and you know they're all out there working so hard
Speaker 1: and you're sitting in your office doing admin stuff so
Speaker 1: in recruiting, So yeah, that's tough. I would love to
Speaker 1: coach more of the year, but we're full swinging now
Speaker 1: and I'm just happy to be back with them and
Speaker 1: you know, they've made a lot of progress, and you've
Speaker 1: got new players are really competitive who have come in
Speaker 1: and you know, all of that really makes for an
Speaker 1: exciting environment.
Speaker 5: Well, good year, good luck to your four. We appreciate
Speaker 5: you coming on.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, thank you, Becka Morrils so for your coach.
Speaker 5: Just unus you got here. You can see the program
Speaker 5: inching its way to success. Those are one of those
Speaker 5: things because you face, like you said, the West Coast,
Speaker 5: the Stamford's and all those they're pretty damn good. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean it's tough to crack that top four, top five.
Speaker 5: Maybe it'll be different than the big.
Speaker 10: Twel's going to be a different adjustment for sure, because
Speaker 10: you have the Stafford's and UCLA is winning national championships
Speaker 10: while you're trying to grow the program. It's hard to
Speaker 10: believe it's thirty years since this program even started, so
Speaker 10: they've had their ups and downs.
Speaker 5: For thirty years. Lisa Fraser showed up him back in
Speaker 5: the day, thirty years ago, Dave year old man, ten
Speaker 5: year old.
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Speaker 9: I forgot the coach's name. You got me.
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Speaker 7: the ball on Tucson Sports Stage. Chef Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to line the ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 5: I'm Steve, You're Dave.
Speaker 9: I'm Dave, and he's won.
Speaker 5: Yes, sure you're one. So if anybody paid attention to
Speaker 5: us before we went to break, before coach I said
Speaker 5: that we're going to talk about that, and I don't
Speaker 5: write anything down, which Jay doesn't needed until we forget.
Speaker 5: So if anybody can remind us what we're going to
Speaker 5: talk about. I think it involved something you had done,
Speaker 5: but you were busy the summer. Dave, Dave Jay, whatever
Speaker 5: your name is.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I got to make a shout out to my
Speaker 10: friends from my alma mater, San Diego State. We've been
Speaker 10: doing these baseball trips for the last about ten years,
Speaker 10: so we went this year. We went to New York,
Speaker 10: which was a treat. I'd not been to the new
Speaker 10: Mets Stadium, City Field or newish.
Speaker 9: Field, which was very nice.
Speaker 10: We saw a Mets game against the Phillies and then
Speaker 10: followed up later with a Yankees game against the horrendous
Speaker 10: White Sox later in the week, so it.
Speaker 5: Was bad too.
Speaker 9: Did they don't even remember?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I just was in eminated by the Yankee fans. I
Speaker 10: don't know if you've been to a game there before.
Speaker 10: This is this was again the relatively new Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 9: But it didn't matter.
Speaker 10: Fans were in rare form and just being kind of
Speaker 10: a quiet you know, Arizona and in Californian as I am.
Speaker 10: Just to listen to the noise and listen to the
Speaker 10: people was as much of the experience we have.
Speaker 5: We have Henry, who's from New York in Manhattan, so
Speaker 5: he's this one. But Henry Henry, and we talked about that,
Speaker 5: I'm not a New York guy. My son went to
Speaker 5: Rutgers and he lived in that area, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 5: I really don't like the people.
Speaker 9: It was unbelievable, you know.
Speaker 10: And again you watched the games on TV and you
Speaker 10: see the enthusiasm.
Speaker 9: Actually, you know.
Speaker 10: Also speaking of sports, we took a tour of Madison
Speaker 10: Square Garden, which you know, for.
Speaker 5: Me, we talked about that. We talked about go ahead,
Speaker 5: I want.
Speaker 9: To ask you. It was kind of cool, you know, again,
Speaker 9: like were people.
Speaker 5: There was just an empty building.
Speaker 10: It was empty and it was like, yeah, it was
Speaker 10: like it was like ten o'clock in the morning, so
Speaker 10: they cleaned up from the night before.
Speaker 9: I guess it was fine.
Speaker 5: Okay, remember that some people sports arena in La Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: not that bad. That's where I was going.
Speaker 9: But it was fun, you know.
Speaker 10: For me, it was kind of like, oh, yeah, I've
Speaker 10: seen a locker room before, I've seen the press box
Speaker 10: area and.
Speaker 9: It seemed, you know, it's old for me.
Speaker 10: My friends and there were like maybe twenty five people
Speaker 10: on this on the tour, and most of them were
Speaker 10: from different countries. Yeah, and you know, it's kind of
Speaker 10: neat to see the banners. We go up, we went
Speaker 10: really high. I could see all the Knicks banners.
Speaker 5: And how long did you say in New York? A
Speaker 5: few there?
Speaker 9: About a week?
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah, that's a long time in New York. Yeah.
Speaker 9: It was fun though.
Speaker 10: You know, which if you if you haven't been and
Speaker 10: it's relatively new, is the World Trade Center Museum?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so that's phenomenal. That may have been the highlight
Speaker 10: even more than the baseball.
Speaker 5: There's the White Place Oculus is the oculus whatever next
Speaker 5: to the monuments, like a shopping mall, but.
Speaker 9: A huge yeah white Yeah. That's where you come out
Speaker 9: of the subway.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very impressive.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was very very neat, and just the whole
Speaker 10: all experience there was was very dramatic and very well done,
Speaker 10: you know.
Speaker 5: As far as museums go, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 5: you went at a good time this.
Speaker 9: Yeah. We try to.
Speaker 10: You know, we're a bunch of old guys, so we
Speaker 10: don't want to kill ourselves walking around in the humidities.
Speaker 9: We look.
Speaker 10: We usually plan these trips for the spring, like May.
Speaker 5: I don't want to go a couple of blow.
Speaker 10: We were on subways. It was right, and again I'm
Speaker 10: not used to that. You know, you're not used to
Speaker 10: just walking out and just jumping on some subway.
Speaker 5: The Saints Connectity.
Speaker 9: We went there.
Speaker 10: And then so next year we're looking at the Kansas
Speaker 10: City in Saint Louis, which will be a.
Speaker 5: Little Go go to Kansas City in March and you'll
Speaker 5: be fine for the you know, the Big twelve Tournament, which.
Speaker 9: I'm looking for baseball though in March.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, there's not, but you know, there's gonna be basketball,
Speaker 5: and by all accounts, everybody's really excited about that because
Speaker 5: everyone complains that it's not gonna be in Vegas, and
Speaker 5: you've been to Vegas for that and it's exciting right now,
Speaker 5: everybody in Tucson goes. But now I think it's gonna
Speaker 5: be in a different experience and it's supposed to be
Speaker 5: a lot of fun. Yeah, so I think the people
Speaker 5: who go are gonna have a good time. Oh we
Speaker 5: didn't realize.
Speaker 10: This, Yeah, I mean just getting to Kansas City is
Speaker 10: a little difficult. That's probably ninety percent of the people
Speaker 10: who would drive to Biga.
Speaker 5: Right right right getting there. Oh, they ain't going to
Speaker 5: day going to Kansas City, the people they go from
Speaker 5: here to to Vegas. What they're gonna do is they're
Speaker 5: gonna go watch the games in Vegas on TV about
Speaker 5: the Big Twelve.
Speaker 10: Because there'll be other terms assom in Vegas au lest
Speaker 10: everybody else.
Speaker 5: Is going to stick around, right, And that's how it is.
Speaker 10: Whoever's left Mountain West, yeah, Big Big West or whoever?
Speaker 5: Right right when you found out that they were eventually
Speaker 5: a year ago now Big twelve and you've been around,
Speaker 5: so did you think, Okay, it's a good idea, it's
Speaker 5: gonna be fun, or what the heck?
Speaker 7: It is?
Speaker 10: Kind of what the heck? I think maybe we should
Speaker 10: talk about this in about a year's kind of see
Speaker 10: how it went played out. Okay, really, because like as
Speaker 10: I was trying to ask Becca, you know, have they
Speaker 10: had kind of meetings internally, like how are we going
Speaker 10: to handle these road trips where we're leaving on a
Speaker 10: Tuesday and not coming home till Friday? Right, you know,
Speaker 10: school and travel and sleep and I wonder how athletic
Speaker 10: department is doing.
Speaker 5: And I hope I didn't kind of overstate myself, But
Speaker 5: I still believe the kids and want kind of kids
Speaker 5: care about students being the student right but okay, maybe
Speaker 5: signed up. There's student athletes. Some are serious about it,
Speaker 5: some are not. They'll get when was the last time
Speaker 5: you heard of a kid not doing well academically a
Speaker 5: student athlete?
Speaker 9: It doesn't happen.
Speaker 5: It doesn't happen anymore. Now they have a lot of resources.
Speaker 10: They've got that beautiful buildings, the Ginny Clements Center right
Speaker 10: outside the ticket office that has been open now, I
Speaker 10: don't know, maybe inside ten years. And that was a
Speaker 10: big thing to have, you know built. Remember the days
Speaker 10: where there'd be students, you know, getting tutored.
Speaker 5: Oh sure, Anima.
Speaker 9: McHale right by our area.
Speaker 5: Right right right right in there, tutoring right well, donnad Swayne.
Speaker 5: It would be a legend, right right. So now it's changed.
Speaker 5: I don't remember all Lott. Well, we don't hear much
Speaker 5: about academics anymore anyway. But you know, someone's not ineligible
Speaker 5: or ineligible.
Speaker 10: Sometimes when those when those headlines happen, we're not quite sure.
Speaker 5: Sure, sure, sure we can't talk about it for we're
Speaker 5: probably right. I'm kind I don't have to deal with
Speaker 5: that stuff anymore. Yeah, i'd be sure that's the thing
Speaker 5: you don't miss.
Speaker 10: No, I mean again, as a reporter, it's never fun
Speaker 10: to cover those kinds of things. I mean, you have
Speaker 10: to and you've got you know, kind of news people
Speaker 10: behind the scenes who are bugging you and want to
Speaker 10: make sure that you get the story fat first and correct,
Speaker 10: and it was always difficult.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those days are kind of over or not kind
Speaker 5: of there for us at least.
Speaker 10: Yeah, which is there isn't a desert swarm guys doing
Speaker 10: those kinds of stuff.
Speaker 5: Well even yeah, they're there, even for them. They more
Speaker 5: they more so grab the stories from other people too,
Speaker 5: you know, the Daily Star and rewrite, rewrite those so
Speaker 5: let the other people do the dirty word.
Speaker 9: Not that we ever did that. Well maybe maybe you didn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not going to throw Yeah, well we're well
Speaker 5: aware that TV were understaffed and you know, had to
Speaker 5: kind of you know, oh, this isn't the paper. We
Speaker 5: gonna follow this or chase this or whatever. No, No, No,
Speaker 5: the business is the business and we'll see. Okay, if
Speaker 5: anybody wants to call, let me remind you when talked
Speaker 5: to Dave, you haven't talked to David A while five
Speaker 5: to two oh four one six, seventy four, seventy seven,
Speaker 5: four four zero. You can give us a call, anybody.
Speaker 5: It's Friday, right days Friday.
Speaker 9: It's Friday.
Speaker 5: Finally, yeah, finally. So okay, and see what's going on football?
Speaker 5: Have you paid attention? What's going on with football?
Speaker 9: With Arizona?
Speaker 5: A football?
Speaker 10: Just again again not being able to really be there
Speaker 10: and see it. But sure, it's been fun to see
Speaker 10: the headlines and players getting named All American teams, preseason
Speaker 10: All American teams.
Speaker 9: It's kind of fun to fall and.
Speaker 5: Which hadn't happened in a while. I mean to this extent, No.
Speaker 10: I mean t mac is first team All American. He's
Speaker 10: gonna you know, he could be top five pick.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So you got here in like mid eighties, right, eighty
Speaker 5: four ish, eighty three, eighty three. How do I know this?
Speaker 5: Only because I came a little later in eighty seven. Uh,
Speaker 5: you've seen a lot of football, and what do I know?
Speaker 5: You saw the end of Rickey Henley or very very end. Okay, So,
Speaker 5: and you've seen a lot of players in that time.
Speaker 5: And I've seen a few things since eighty seven, mostly basketball.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go I've go on the record a number
Speaker 5: of times to say, at the end of this year
Speaker 5: and if t Mac gets to play a lot play
Speaker 5: without being hurt, that he'll go down in my mind
Speaker 5: as the best football player to ever play here. That's
Speaker 5: saying a lot. I know in his position is hard
Speaker 5: to gauge, but the dude is fantastic.
Speaker 10: And we'll see what the what the accolades look like too.
Speaker 10: I mean again, Ricky, I remember correctly too. He made
Speaker 10: every All American team and first team this first team that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he made every tackle he made.
Speaker 9: He was the star of the show.
Speaker 10: That was probably the most decorated player. But there were
Speaker 10: there we been a few others.
Speaker 5: But not Bruski. Yeah uh, you know Kadem who didn't
Speaker 5: get as many act but did a lot. Of course, Gronk,
Speaker 5: but he didn't play a lot because you got hurt.
Speaker 10: It would have been nice to see him play a
Speaker 10: full three or four years to be healthy because he was,
Speaker 10: I mean, he was a dominant player even here for
Speaker 10: those couple of years.
Speaker 5: Right, So you you won't You're going to reserve your
Speaker 5: right to agree with me after the year that the
Speaker 5: team at could possibly be the best player. The dude
Speaker 5: just catches everything everything.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's great when you have people like that. I
Speaker 10: mean there's you know that that position too has really
Speaker 10: become kind of the marquee spot in the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 10: I mean those guys and what is in Netflix doing
Speaker 10: a series right now just on receivers and things like that.
Speaker 10: So those guys have been kind of the prima donnas.
Speaker 5: Well you went exactly where it was going to go.
Speaker 5: What the hell is wrong with or I'll say wrong,
Speaker 5: but they're all dimas. Yeah, throw me the ball, give
Speaker 5: me the ball, give me the ball, give me the
Speaker 5: just catch the ball. Be quiet.
Speaker 10: I don't remember Jerry Rice anything like that. The next
Speaker 10: generation kind of started with like.
Speaker 5: The mikel Sinco and well Michael Irene kind of he.
Speaker 10: Was Nev was kind of a trash talker, but he
Speaker 10: was playing alongside Rice in those years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, same time. But now it's you know the
Speaker 5: we you follow it.
Speaker 11: It's Ceedee Lamb making a big deal about his contracts.
Speaker 11: I get that he's a top receiver in the NFL,
Speaker 11: but has he won a playoff? If they want to
Speaker 11: go in some playoff games and then.
Speaker 5: Weekend right right, your importance to the team means something.
Speaker 10: But no team MAC is sensational and obviously Noah has
Speaker 10: and they have a wonderful chemistry chemistry going AND's just
Speaker 10: keep them healthy and let's see what happens.
Speaker 5: Right. So, so, and I've talked to you about this before,
Speaker 5: because you've been on the show before. Uh, the success
Speaker 5: of the athletic department, uh coincides or or at least
Speaker 5: uh leads to other things the stuff that you did,
Speaker 5: because if the teams are happy, if the teams are
Speaker 5: doing well, alums are doing happy, are doing well and
Speaker 5: are happy, which means your job was a little easier, a.
Speaker 9: Little bit easier.
Speaker 10: But again, like I said, as I've said before, you know,
Speaker 10: I wasn't really specifically raising money just for athletics, but
Speaker 10: you know I could as well if people wanted to give,
Speaker 10: they can give whoever they want to. I'm just the
Speaker 10: you know, the conduit for that. But yeah, it was
Speaker 10: always easier to go on a trip on a Monday
Speaker 10: after they just had a big win on a Saturday,
Speaker 10: knowing that the people you're going to talk to were
Speaker 10: interested and had been, you know, keeping tabs on the school.
Speaker 5: So did you raise money accidentally? Like the accidental tourist for.
Speaker 10: Athletics accidentally, but I was specifically at the end was
Speaker 10: working for one college, the College of Social Behavioral Sciences.
Speaker 9: So that was kind of my main goal.
Speaker 5: What did you do before you did something else?
Speaker 9: For that?
Speaker 10: I was with the foundation, the foundation, and then there
Speaker 10: we could raise money for anything, Okay, So we were
Speaker 10: kind of representing that's and that was early in my
Speaker 10: time of even just doing the job and learning it,
Speaker 10: so that was kind of neat.
Speaker 9: Then later I branched off and just went.
Speaker 5: To one college. So so I think you can speak
Speaker 5: to this. You're no longer tied to u A. I'm
Speaker 5: doing a story on the AC, the Arizona Sports Entertainment Area,
Speaker 5: the new the new program that with no more lear Field.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, you know, the the new leear Field. Your
Speaker 5: thoughts on that, you know, I.
Speaker 9: Wish I knew more. I don't, I don't.
Speaker 10: I mean, I guess the big question was whether Brian
Speaker 10: was going to continue was play by play, which they've
Speaker 10: already answered that, but again that whole I've got a
Speaker 10: friend again.
Speaker 9: This is just kind of an anecdote.
Speaker 10: A buddy who had a company and they were giving
Speaker 10: and they were sponsoring things, and all of.
Speaker 9: A sudden, he doesn't know who to call.
Speaker 10: You know, it's like the person I was dealing with
Speaker 10: inside gone. Yeah, so I think maybe those questions need
Speaker 10: to be answered.
Speaker 5: Oh sure, was that a while ago?
Speaker 9: No, this was like last week?
Speaker 5: Oh really, because last week I know desirely had a meeting,
Speaker 5: like a pow wow with with those people, those those
Speaker 5: people with money locally, because I know I had lamont
Speaker 5: in here Friday and he talked about that meeting. I
Speaker 5: saw photos on Facebook of some of the donors, the
Speaker 5: potential donors at this thing at Sand's Club I think
Speaker 5: it was, And so maybe that's the starter.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean a these are not donors, they are
Speaker 10: more sponsors different right, the gift Right. So he was curious, like, well,
Speaker 10: who do I call now?
Speaker 5: My guy that was the guy wants to sponsor this show?
Speaker 5: Give him my number.
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, they would have their name on
Speaker 10: billboards inside the stadium.
Speaker 5: And that's important given that lear Field, at least in
Speaker 5: the past gave seven million dollars a year. I'm sure
Speaker 5: that's number fluctuated through the years, but I think potentially
Speaker 5: there was more gonna come. But now it's we're on
Speaker 5: our own Arizona and we're gonna we're gonna sell the
Speaker 5: heck out of it.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you wonder about their exposure. I mean, how things
Speaker 10: Do they have a radio network still? Is that even
Speaker 10: a thing anymore? You know, they used to have twenty
Speaker 10: outlets around the states?
Speaker 5: Does that even That's a good question because I didn't
Speaker 5: go there with anybody yet. It's well, Brian's coming back.
Speaker 5: I don't think they have the contract with the other
Speaker 5: guys yet. The twelve ninety who's typically been the player.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's done yet, so that the talent
Speaker 5: has yet to be signed. But I think all the
Speaker 5: talent's coming back. So there's that, and that's what you're
Speaker 5: talking about, right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's always kind of been the same.
Speaker 10: Way for her right years, right, you know, it'll be
Speaker 10: one flagship and.
Speaker 5: That lends me to this. Okay, it's always been the
Speaker 5: same way for a long time, and now there are changes.
Speaker 5: We have a new sheriff in town, if you will.
Speaker 5: Part of the expression with Desirae and things are changing,
Speaker 5: people are leaving, people are coming in maybe and maybe
Speaker 5: that's a good thing, because well we know what the
Speaker 5: old thing looks like, and they got in trouble.
Speaker 10: And again, I guess going back to the radio thing,
Speaker 10: people are consuming their radio in a different way.
Speaker 9: These there's no question.
Speaker 10: Necessarily sitting in a car anymore. They're sitting at home,
Speaker 10: you know, streaming, listening to you guys streaming all the time.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I mean some of the professional sports have been almost
Speaker 10: dropped on over the air radio doing things just online.
Speaker 5: Well everybody, we talked about that earlier this week. You know,
Speaker 5: website like a desert form all sports. Tucson newspapers are
Speaker 5: not being read as much, if at all. The news
Speaker 5: is coming differently at different.
Speaker 10: People, and you know the next general is the ones
Speaker 10: who you know they're going to be targeting. Sure, old
Speaker 10: guys like us, we still want to read the paper physically.
Speaker 5: Or right, we talked about that too.
Speaker 9: It doesn't happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, do you read the paper physically? You read
Speaker 5: it online. So you're an aboration because we're older and
Speaker 5: so me too. I don't I don't get the pay
Speaker 5: per ut it's five bucks on Sunday. Did you realize that? No?
Speaker 5: Did you?
Speaker 10: I'm shocked, But I mean I'm reading I'm reading the
Speaker 10: Sunday and Quotes paper on Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, right, right, right Hanson. Greg Hanson's notes are right.
Speaker 5: Right early, sure, sure, okay, we got to go. We're
Speaker 5: gonna get ones breaking news and then we'll talk more
Speaker 5: on the other side.