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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and
Speaker 1: Jacob Salez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty of Steve Rivera. He's Andy Brown and
Speaker 3: now we have Ryan with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball Breaking news on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: All right, was starting with a little bit of news
Speaker 2: out of University Arizona. Arizona's carly Sis Narrows was named
Speaker 2: the Big twelve Volleyball Rookie of the Week. It's been
Speaker 2: been a good start for the Arizona Athletics in the
Speaker 2: Big twelve. Right, they had Offensive Player of the Week
Speaker 2: for soccer, and then of course we had t mac
Speaker 2: who was Offensive Player of the week. So that's three.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, I think they swept. Didn't that volleyball team
Speaker 3: go Threno with their in their in their volleyball matches?
Speaker 2: Did you see what did you have to go over there?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't make over there. Now, okay, I have it
Speaker 5: on the schedule to make one. Are two of those?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: Second year right? Second year coach?
Speaker 2: Yeah, got some good recruits did I say, did I
Speaker 2: say player of the week or did I say Rookie
Speaker 2: of the week.
Speaker 3: Rookie of the week, Rookie of the week. So just
Speaker 3: for for newcomers, she's Is she a transfer? I think
Speaker 3: she's a transfer? Was she a freshman? I heard that
Speaker 3: she was very good coming into the season. Did she
Speaker 3: transferred from somewhere else? I think I could be wrong.
Speaker 5: Not seeing anything in the article.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine. Sticking with some news Arizona sports Kensey
Speaker 2: Fowler was inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: and former Stabbino standout now Pima Community College goalkeeper for
Speaker 2: soccer I Broke Valencia was named the a C c
Speaker 2: AC Division two Goalkeeper of the Week. Yeah cool went
Speaker 2: over Scottsdale last week, she had, Yeah, didn't you? Uh?
Speaker 3: There's more to that with the mckin the Fowler stuff.
Speaker 3: Did you go to the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 2: No? No, I didn't go to that. No.
Speaker 3: So so Andre iguod All was here and j T
Speaker 3: got in. So is Doc Porter.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: I love Doc. Yeah, he's been. He's one of the
Speaker 2: great guys Rincon High School. Oh really, there you go?
Speaker 3: Him and his brother A very good people of good stuff.
Speaker 3: Rinc Oh, really tell me more Andy Brown, and Brown, Jesse.
Speaker 5: Parker, some guy named Reno homes like a baseball team.
Speaker 2: Oh he came out of Rincon two.
Speaker 3: There's a long list of Yeah, you're right when you
Speaker 3: can mention Andy Brown and Jesse Parker and and mister
Speaker 3: Artie Moreno in the same sentence. You know you're up
Speaker 3: in the tax bracket.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 5: Between the two of us, we own a baseball.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, between me and uh Damon, we own a final four.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, no, I think you were a part of a game.
Speaker 3: Did you ever score? Game?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: I score? How many points scored?
Speaker 2: Five?
Speaker 3: Five points? What was your high?
Speaker 2: Schimee?
Speaker 5: Two against both Michigan and un.
Speaker 3: So you can just go and before you met your wife,
Speaker 3: I'm sure you said, Hey, did you know that klid
Speaker 3: reason I combined for forty five points in a win
Speaker 3: over Michigan?
Speaker 2: Oh? Really? What'd you have?
Speaker 5: Two?
Speaker 3: Okay, it doesn't really matter. Didn't we combined for forty
Speaker 3: five points?
Speaker 5: I beat the other walk on on the other team.
Speaker 2: Right, we had a good time. Sorry, Ryan, good. It
Speaker 2: helps helps keep the flow going. Going switch over to the
Speaker 2: college right, college football Florida State. They've now dropped out
Speaker 2: of the top twenty five. After I start, I saw
Speaker 2: a video before the show saying that the season is
Speaker 2: probably over now for Florida State. That's the case.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this share probably opened up their playbook. They have
Speaker 5: to they have to run the table. I'm going to
Speaker 5: beat that today.
Speaker 3: You might have to, yeah, right, the two tables to
Speaker 3: get it. But sometimes Brian brought up the butterfly effect.
Speaker 3: I kind of believe in that too. So last year
Speaker 3: the butterfly was alive and floating. This year the butterfly
Speaker 3: is dead. Sometimes you have to give up good and
Speaker 3: then next year is bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, But they were on.
Speaker 5: Their horse for a while there at the end last year,
Speaker 5: and then I got in the Bowl game.
Speaker 3: I saw I saw a meme on face, Facebook or
Speaker 3: or Twitter, I can't remember, uhy Facebook. You know, this world,
Speaker 3: it just sucks. It's just it sucks. You know, just
Speaker 3: people saying, you know Andy Brown's this, any Brown's that
Speaker 3: stand so so that they already fired the FSU coaching
Speaker 3: deon your next baby, on your next.
Speaker 5: No, you think that's already starting.
Speaker 3: That's it was a fake one. I had to go
Speaker 3: to This is true. You know, you see something foolish
Speaker 3: like that, you go not have to go verify. It
Speaker 3: wasn't very it wasn't true. But I'm sure you know
Speaker 3: how it is. Anybody can create kind of something.
Speaker 5: Well, you know they're going to make the phone call.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's gotta happen. Somebody's got a call. Yeah,
Speaker 5: would you be interested in I can't have this conversation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a call like this and we're talking.
Speaker 3: We're just kind of spending time with Ryan's time here.
Speaker 3: But back in nineteen eighty eight ish, I covered the
Speaker 3: football team that was my beat, and uh, I got
Speaker 3: a call from somebody before the pre internet. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Got a call. Hey, I got a tip of you revert.
Speaker 2: Barry Switzer's in town. They're thinking about getting rid of
Speaker 2: tell me and bringing in Barry Switzer. And I think, okay,
Speaker 2: but guess what I had to do. You had to
Speaker 2: I had to make a call to what stupidity?
Speaker 5: Is there any legitimacy to the fact that Barry Switzer is?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did you see Potito at the market the other day?
Speaker 3: He was at the market.
Speaker 5: As years later, I talked with.
Speaker 2: What's his name?
Speaker 3: Uh, youre telling me something truthful here. Yeah, I'm telling
Speaker 3: you something truthful.
Speaker 2: To guy.
Speaker 5: It's over at Kentucky right now.
Speaker 3: Oh uh no, Pope, he'll.
Speaker 5: Perry calla. Parry is on his way to Arizona at
Speaker 5: one point, and everybody said he was here shopping for houses. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I can say that was probably correct, that he
Speaker 5: was gonna come to Arizona. And he had one phone
Speaker 5: call yet to take, and he said, if that's the
Speaker 5: phone call I think it is, I'll probably not come
Speaker 5: in Arizona.
Speaker 2: There you go, he's in Kentucky. Yeah. So he stayed.
Speaker 5: Ran into him at the Final Four in Detroit that
Speaker 5: year when he got the job, and he was everybody's
Speaker 5: kissing his rings and he was in the lobby of
Speaker 5: the hotel and we happened to catch him all by
Speaker 5: himself one day. Me and Jesse started pounding questions and
Speaker 5: he's like, yeah, but what about Josh. He goes, well,
Speaker 5: Josh has a job now he does.
Speaker 2: He's a Memphis Memphis right. Yeah.
Speaker 5: It was it was a good it was a good
Speaker 5: little chat.
Speaker 3: Well, my opinion, you spoke to the most overrated college
Speaker 3: basketball coach.
Speaker 2: He's a great recruiter in the last fifteen years at
Speaker 2: let him play. Okay, you could he did, you could
Speaker 2: do that. That's what he did in the last eight years.
Speaker 2: He got the best players because he was gonna send
Speaker 2: him to the NBA.
Speaker 3: Well see, I don't believe in that. There are the
Speaker 3: NBA players. They had to go somewhere.
Speaker 5: They had to do that for a year. They had
Speaker 5: to like, well, let's let's do it. AU team, we'll
Speaker 5: just play, We'll do a tour in the country.
Speaker 3: There's no there's no difference with Sean bringing some good
Speaker 3: players here. DeAndre wasn't he an NBA player when he
Speaker 3: was here?
Speaker 5: DeAndre was?
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, Trier kind of was, but then he kind
Speaker 3: of played himself out of it. But you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, they're just renting space here. Sure, because he
Speaker 3: had to if you.
Speaker 2: Have to, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, that's your job as
Speaker 2: a coach to keep him and make him play. Ben
Speaker 2: Now you have n I L money to do that, right, Well,
Speaker 2: that's what he's doing in Arkansas.
Speaker 5: Sure, all right? Ryango, all right?
Speaker 2: South south Point graduate. Uh take his name right, Lathan Raamson, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Safety south Point guy Point. He shined in the home
Speaker 2: opener for Ohio State this weekend at a twenty seven
Speaker 2: return twenty seven yard return excuse me on a fumble
Speaker 2: recovery for a touchdown. Yeah, he was out like he was.
Speaker 3: There was there was Robinson right, Ransom was kind of
Speaker 3: like second number two in the best players in that time.
Speaker 3: He's had a pretty good career at Ohio State. We'll
Speaker 3: see what happens after that. There's been some good You
Speaker 3: two soon and sometimes you guys show.
Speaker 5: Up sometimes, but they show up in other cities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they show up with It's tough. It's tough to
Speaker 3: stay here.
Speaker 2: It just is. The kids want to leave, sure.
Speaker 5: I mean when I was, I wanted to leave, and
Speaker 5: I left and I came back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everybody wants to get away from Tucson. Tell that
Speaker 5: your way and then oh my god was great.
Speaker 3: And then you eventually come home and you come home
Speaker 3: and say, you know what I like living here? I
Speaker 3: do like living Yeah, well I didn't, Well you you
Speaker 3: you you leve you were Vegas.
Speaker 5: To go where I got.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: I went to South Dakota State my first year, such
Speaker 5: red shirted and walked on at South Dakota State.
Speaker 2: Why there, it's cold.
Speaker 5: My dad's Alma Mon and my family's from there. I
Speaker 5: got a chance to play for basketballs. I want to
Speaker 5: play basketball.
Speaker 2: What happened? It was cold, man, it's cold cold.
Speaker 5: It's just the day I was leaving, the coach from
Speaker 5: Pima said, hey, I got a scholarship for you. Want
Speaker 5: to play at PEMA. And I was like, well, i'll
Speaker 5: call you in six months. Let you know how I'm doing.
Speaker 5: And I called him in six months, said you still
Speaker 5: got that scottlarship for me? And I came home. Who's
Speaker 5: the coach, Mike wo yep, so that was my run
Speaker 5: when I came back.
Speaker 2: You had a nice little run. Local kid does well.
Speaker 2: They went to Vegas, Vegas. Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 5: That's still paying off those bills. Yeah, but yep.
Speaker 2: It's too hot for Vegas. It's an ugly desert too here.
Speaker 2: But it's really hot there is that windy. It's ugly
Speaker 2: and windy.
Speaker 3: It's just go out at night when it's not ugly.
Speaker 5: No, that's why I move home.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, No, it's not good. We weren't raising kids
Speaker 3: and Vegas. No, no, no, go back to so On.
Speaker 2: Raise case. What else you got Ryan, Let's see got
Speaker 2: a story about out of the NFL. They estimated about
Speaker 2: thirty five billion dollars is expected to be bet on
Speaker 2: the NFL this season.
Speaker 3: M Oh yeah this weekend. Yeah, well not from here
Speaker 3: because they're not a sponsor anymore. Blood DraftKings.
Speaker 5: Five dollars just on NFL this season, a full season.
Speaker 5: How much of that is just the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe twenty percent of it? Wow, who knows? That's something?
Speaker 5: Well seven and Ali has its own program now about betting.
Speaker 5: Everybody has their own betting show, right, So it's become
Speaker 5: a big business, right, so tax it and let's build
Speaker 5: better schools.
Speaker 3: Or to give it to n I l Are you listening?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: And yeah, I gotta get a shout out to a
Speaker 5: friend of mine who just took over the athletic director
Speaker 5: job at Rincon High School.
Speaker 2: Lance. Oh really? Yeah? How was he?
Speaker 5: Lance is fifty something.
Speaker 3: So he's the son of son of Roland the Better.
Speaker 2: Okay, that family, that name is just huge, huge in
Speaker 2: the city.
Speaker 5: My coach at Rincon for a year year and a half.
Speaker 2: He's fifty ish.
Speaker 5: Yep, you're what fifty two Lances older than me, about
Speaker 5: fifty eight. Lance was a senior when I was there.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're about fifty five.
Speaker 5: Okay, but he's doing good things, trying to turn the
Speaker 5: program around over there.
Speaker 3: So right right that side of town or is seaside.
Speaker 5: Right Rincon's in Middletown Broadway, grey Croft.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, back in the day, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: That was he side. Yeah, east side.
Speaker 5: It's still considered east side. They have they also have
Speaker 5: UHS there, So you have UHS with the University high yeah,
Speaker 5: hen rin Kon. So there's twenty one hundred kids, so
Speaker 5: that puts them in level six or six A whatever
Speaker 5: they call it. They don't have the kids to play, right,
Speaker 5: so they're all the band is great, The band is
Speaker 5: really good. But football, they don't have enough kids. It's tough.
Speaker 3: No, it's for strange guys like Santa Rita and Palabodi
Speaker 3: and those.
Speaker 2: School all of them are small schools. Now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, six hundred people, seven hundred kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tough. I don't know, Ryan.
Speaker 3: That's the last thing here is you're still on the clock,
Speaker 3: on the clock, like you're getting paid for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure. So the forty nine ers they just reached
Speaker 2: the deal with their star wide receiver Brandon Nyuk the
Speaker 2: other day They have now reached a deal with their
Speaker 2: star left tackle Fred Williams. They and the holdout. He
Speaker 2: signed a three year eighty two point six six million.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 5: How much is guaranteed?
Speaker 2: Twenty five?
Speaker 5: Twenty five?
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty five guaranteed? Sorry for forty eighty eight is
Speaker 2: oh man to be a to be an athlete here?
Speaker 3: So we didn't say this at the beginning that so
Speaker 3: Arizona was number twenty, right, we said this the twenty
Speaker 3: but they're also eighteen. The coaches in the coaches poll
Speaker 3: r who they have to do to to get eighteen something?
Speaker 3: So far to state fell out and somebody else.
Speaker 5: Oh, I think Oregon didn't look so well in their
Speaker 5: home opener, right, but Idaho. So a lot of teams
Speaker 5: kind of slipped a little bit. So I think after
Speaker 5: this week I'll shake out.
Speaker 3: I think the fact that Arizona played so late because
Speaker 3: it ended about eleven ish. I think it was eleven ish.
Speaker 3: Uh no, so it's two thirty back back on the
Speaker 3: East side coast and the who's watching that game right
Speaker 3: in ESPN, So they just kind of looked at the
Speaker 3: box score and said, oh, look at that score. Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll vote from them, right, they didn't see the game
Speaker 3: style points. I brought the style points up to Byron
Speaker 3: Evans on the show on Saturday. He looked at me like,
Speaker 3: shut up, No one cares about style parts. I think
Speaker 3: they care about stole points.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so people like you know, people like you know me.
Speaker 3: I guess who aren't going to be able to watch
Speaker 3: the show, watch the game, and then kind of wake
Speaker 3: up in the morning and read the story.
Speaker 5: I mean the average fans. Style points are huge. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you want your team to win.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, look at Texas Tech. I'm sure there's big
Speaker 3: questions about them.
Speaker 5: Fifty to fifty one.
Speaker 2: Your wife is even saying, why are they playing them?
Speaker 2: What do you have to win?
Speaker 5: My daughter goes to school in Abilen, at another schools.
Speaker 5: She goes to McMurray in Abilen. There you go, Yeah,
Speaker 5: what is McMurray.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of it.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a private school.
Speaker 3: Okay, well look at you, mister big bucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Three. She got Christian, I mean Christian McMurray. And
Speaker 2: then Simmons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because my my one of my best friends played
Speaker 3: baseball hard and Simmons.
Speaker 2: Very good player.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she got full ride though.
Speaker 2: Oh good. Good for you.
Speaker 5: It's not me. I'm not proud.
Speaker 2: Your wife be very bright. She is she is, so
Speaker 2: was my nine dollars. Yeah, okay, super, let's take a
Speaker 2: break and come back. We're gonna speak to Jeff Deaton.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the excess at all. It's Steve Rivera
Speaker 1: and Jacin Salmas. This is I on the Ball on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteenth.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball Here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Riverta and today is Andy Brown.
Speaker 3: And now on the phone, we have Jeff Dean, the
Speaker 3: Arizona football and men's basketball PA announcer. You know the voice, Jeff.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 4: I'm great Steve and Andy. How you guys doing today?
Speaker 4: Beautiful Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Today We're doing really well. Thank you.
Speaker 3: How is your You just starting your seventh or did
Speaker 3: you finish your seventh year?
Speaker 4: This is the beginning of my seventh year for football.
Speaker 4: This will be the beginning of my thirteenth. This will
Speaker 4: be my thirteenth year for basketball. When we do the
Speaker 4: Red Blue show, okay, coming up in October.
Speaker 3: You are a cagey veteran in basket. I didn't realize
Speaker 3: that was that long. How it probably never gets old
Speaker 3: for you because you continue to do it and you
Speaker 3: do a great job of it.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you. I appreciate that. And you know, I
Speaker 4: as long as as long as I'm doing what I love,
Speaker 4: I'm going to continue to do it. And I don't
Speaker 4: see me falling out of love with the programs or
Speaker 4: the fans, or the players, the coaches, anybody the atmosphere
Speaker 4: anytime soon. So uh yeah, I shouldn't. I shouldn't be
Speaker 4: going anywhere by my own by my own admission. That's it,
Speaker 4: that's for sure, especially when you got so much excitement
Speaker 4: happening like what we saw on Saturday night at Arizona
Speaker 4: Stadium with that that quarterback and wide receiver tandem that
Speaker 4: we've got.
Speaker 2: Right, So your question, I want to know, how did
Speaker 2: you get into it? Jah?
Speaker 5: How does that you know, your audition for that spot
Speaker 5: that you do and then run us through that process?
Speaker 5: How does one get involved in that?
Speaker 2: Started? Yeah? You know?
Speaker 4: So yeah, so it was thirteen years ago and Arizona
Speaker 4: Basketball opened up there, you know, basically open auditions for
Speaker 4: the for a new PA announcer, and I didn't even
Speaker 4: I didn't even put my name in the in the
Speaker 4: audition hat. I had a friend actually, who also does
Speaker 4: PA for a college college sports. He contacted the UFA
Speaker 4: and said, Hey, I know a guy who would be
Speaker 4: perfect for you, and it just kind of things just
Speaker 4: kind of snowballed from there. I sent an audition CD
Speaker 4: to them back when we had these things called compacts
Speaker 4: that people would listen to, and I sent them a
Speaker 4: CD and Greg Byrne and Sean Miller liked what they
Speaker 4: heard and brought me in for a live audition, and
Speaker 4: then a couple of weeks later they notified me that
Speaker 4: they got the job. So I did that for six
Speaker 4: years and Greg he constantly asked me if I could
Speaker 4: be the PA announcer for football, and I kept telling
Speaker 4: him no, no, you know, because as a season ticket
Speaker 4: I've been a season ticket holder for twenty one years
Speaker 4: for Arizona football, and that's kind of like my church.
Speaker 4: I really love going to the games as a fan.
Speaker 4: So I'd always tell Rank some you know, outlandish number
Speaker 4: that he would have to pay me in order to
Speaker 4: get me to be at the ann aunswer. He just
Speaker 4: tapped me on the shoulder and so have a nice season,
Speaker 4: enjoy the games. And uh, but everything changed with with
Speaker 4: with Dave heikey and and uh you know, Dave ended
Speaker 4: up kind of just you know, offer me a lot
Speaker 4: of a lot of perks and things like that. Not
Speaker 4: a whole lot of money, but a lot of perks
Speaker 4: that go along with with with doing the football job.
Speaker 4: And and I gladly snatched it up.
Speaker 3: So you said, not a lot of money. So I
Speaker 3: was already gonna blame you for the deficit, Jeff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they wouldn't if if if my numbers fell
Speaker 4: off the books, they probably wouldn't even notice. I'll just
Speaker 4: put it that way.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you.
Speaker 3: So you're a big fan obviously, and people here who
Speaker 3: listen to the show know that I used to be
Speaker 3: a fan of sports a long time ago.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: I mean, I probably grew out of it because it's
Speaker 3: my job now. You know, you talk about it, you
Speaker 3: do it, you go to game, and eventually the wind
Speaker 3: wears off. Has it has it worn off for you?
Speaker 3: Or or what level of fan are you?
Speaker 4: You know, I'm still a heart fan every single day,
Speaker 4: you know, I still grow, you know, grow stronger and stronger,
Speaker 4: it feels like, you know, every day, because when you
Speaker 4: work for the teams, you end up developing relationships with people,
Speaker 4: and you know, a lot of those relationships kind of
Speaker 4: branch out, you know. You know, I developed a pretty
Speaker 4: good friendship with Sean Miller and his staff, and even
Speaker 4: though they're they're in Cincinnati now at Xavier, I still
Speaker 4: talk to him and his staff from time to time
Speaker 4: and his family and things like that, wish him happy
Speaker 4: birthdays and merry Christmases and all that stuff, and it
Speaker 4: just kind of broadens your horizons a little bit. I
Speaker 4: think it keeps you from being a really myopic fan.
Speaker 4: I think it allows you to kind of expand your
Speaker 4: view somewhat when you when you get to meet these
Speaker 4: people and know them and learn that you know, they're
Speaker 4: just they're just regular people like you know me. They
Speaker 4: just happen to have somewhat of a high profile job
Speaker 4: in a in a very very mercurial type of you know,
Speaker 4: work that they do. And so if it's just kind
Speaker 4: of allowed me to see that there are real people
Speaker 4: doing these jobs, real people, you know, the coaches, the players,
Speaker 4: everybody is just a real person and they just should
Speaker 4: be treated as such. But it hasn't changed my fandom
Speaker 4: at all. I still bleed red and blue.
Speaker 3: So you've been doing football for seven years. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about maybe besketball on the other end, but seven years,
Speaker 3: I think this is going to probably be or you
Speaker 3: could tell me the best team that you'll be announcing about.
Speaker 2: It's very apparent. I think, yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, obviously last year's team was pretty
Speaker 4: darn good as well. I mean that finished in the
Speaker 4: Alamo Bowl was really impressive, and that was it was
Speaker 4: a very impressive collection of players, and it's really nice
Speaker 4: to see this year the leadership that rose from within
Speaker 4: the player group basically making that dedication to the city
Speaker 4: of Tucson and saying we came here to make a
Speaker 4: difference in the city of Tucson, not for a specific coach.
Speaker 4: We ca here to make our mark on the city
Speaker 4: of Tucson, and we intend on on doing that and
Speaker 4: we're you know, we're not going to be satisfied until
Speaker 4: we do.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 4: I think that's kind of what you're seeing from some
Speaker 4: of the leaders on this team, which is really really
Speaker 4: special to see. You don't get to see that very
Speaker 4: often in this day and age in college football. So
Speaker 4: seeing guys rise up like that and and make it
Speaker 4: known that that that's their goal, that's that's really really special.
Speaker 4: And I think this team has has a lot of
Speaker 4: special qualities about it that are very similar to that.
Speaker 3: So, you know, seven years, and you went through someone
Speaker 3: for three uh jet for three?
Speaker 2: Right? Is that right?
Speaker 12: For someone?
Speaker 2: Was your first year or rich Ruth?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Someone someone's first year and my first year were
Speaker 4: the same first year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Good, Well, see that's where you that's where you suffered
Speaker 3: for three years. And now you're reaping there you are.
Speaker 3: Now you're reaping the rewards. You know always and there's
Speaker 3: always good bad, there's always good. Uh So your your
Speaker 3: love and I was going to go somewhere with this.
Speaker 3: Oh so now you go through three coaches and you
Speaker 3: kind of really probably don't deal with the coach is
Speaker 3: you probably deal with the new ads And there's a
Speaker 3: lot in store right for the for the program. Now,
Speaker 3: I mean there's they're doing DJs with things and monitors
Speaker 3: and all that. How busy are you with all the
Speaker 3: changes or do you are you affected?
Speaker 4: Yeah? You know as part of the team, the marketing
Speaker 4: team that goes on on game days and tries to
Speaker 4: put on the show for the fans, for the you know,
Speaker 4: the forty to fifty five thousand fans that show up
Speaker 4: at Arizona Stadium. You know, we're all a part of
Speaker 4: a team together. It's the game day experience and and
Speaker 4: I'm just a small part of that. And now I
Speaker 4: just happen to be the most tenured member of that situation. Uh,
Speaker 4: there's been a lot of turnover this this offseason in
Speaker 4: the marketing department and the game day experience department and
Speaker 4: Desiree read France while of course getting the job as
Speaker 4: the athletic director and bringing a lot of her people
Speaker 4: from Missouri with her, and they're a lot of their
Speaker 4: great experience that they had at Missouri and in the
Speaker 4: SEC and and some of the expertise and fun things
Speaker 4: that they brought with them are now being introduced. And
Speaker 4: so it's a nice wrinkle. And you know, there's there's
Speaker 4: change that happens every year when you work in this
Speaker 4: in this environment. A lot of change happened this year.
Speaker 4: But I think where, you know, the direction that they're
Speaker 4: going is is in the right direction. I know, their
Speaker 4: hearts and their their brains are in the right place,
Speaker 4: and if they can just take a little time for
Speaker 4: for everyone to kind of work together, kind of feel
Speaker 4: things out. And also you want to feel some of
Speaker 4: the feedback from the fans too. You know, they sent
Speaker 4: out surveys right away after the game to all the
Speaker 4: fans that attended the game to see what what they
Speaker 4: liked but they didn't like, and they're going to listen
Speaker 4: to them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she said that maybe a week or so ago,
Speaker 3: that she's big into those surveys and she pays attention
Speaker 3: to a lot of what people are saying because they're
Speaker 3: spending their money to go to these events.
Speaker 5: Very smart. Absolutely, Yeah, you want feedback from your clients,
Speaker 5: from your customers, right, so you got to ask, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I got to ask. Otherwise they call in the air showing.
Speaker 3: And they complained, Right, you don't want them to do that.
Speaker 3: I want to say that said, mister Dedon, did you
Speaker 3: you had a show in the morning. I'm sure you
Speaker 3: loved it. I wouldn't like the six o'clock wake up calls,
Speaker 3: but you know you missed that.
Speaker 4: In some ways, I do. In some ways, I don't.
Speaker 4: You know. It was a nice retirement after, you know,
Speaker 4: I worked in radio for twenty four years before I
Speaker 4: retired last June. And you know, I still do voice
Speaker 4: work and things like that. I just don't host a
Speaker 4: radio show anymore. And it was great doing the morning show,
Speaker 4: but because of the business that I run up here
Speaker 4: in Phoenix on a daily basis, I'm working every night
Speaker 4: until nine thirty or ten o'clock at night, So it
Speaker 4: was really difficult to work that split shift. Be up
Speaker 4: at four four thirty in the morning to prep for
Speaker 4: the radio show, kind of work somewhat throughout the day,
Speaker 4: take a three or four hour nap in the middle
Speaker 4: of the day, and then get up and go back
Speaker 4: to work again. It was it was just a little
Speaker 4: bit too taxing. And you know, thankfully I was able
Speaker 4: to make a somewhat graceful exit I think, and still
Speaker 4: able to be a part of the community down there
Speaker 4: in Tucson, which I love because that's where I'm from originally.
Speaker 4: I was born there in my family's from there. Just
Speaker 4: happened to live and work up here in Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Okay, where'd you go to school? Did you go to
Speaker 3: school here locally? At high school?
Speaker 4: No, we moved. We moved up to Phoenix when I
Speaker 4: was when I was somewhat younger, but because I went
Speaker 4: to Dobson High School up here of it, but family
Speaker 4: lived down there. I still have family lived that lived
Speaker 4: down there in Tucson. So I'm there all the time
Speaker 4: and have been for the last forty plus years.
Speaker 3: So are you brave enough to do what Jake Fisher
Speaker 3: and some of the rest of the guys do up there?
Speaker 3: Where are you a apparel and take crap from people?
Speaker 4: You know? We we when when when Sean when Sean
Speaker 4: Miller and I would, you know, would laugh about it
Speaker 4: and stuff, because you know, Sean was was very you
Speaker 4: know a lot of people don't know you know, just
Speaker 4: how you know, gracious and giving a man he was.
Speaker 4: When I got the PA job, they sent me about
Speaker 4: fifteen hundred dollars worth of apparel to where and they said,
Speaker 4: we want you to always be repping ABR and uh
Speaker 4: and so he and I would always talk about that
Speaker 4: and He's like, you a b are And I said,
Speaker 4: A b R and always be repping. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: wear I wear you have a gear as often as
Speaker 4: I can up here in Phoenix, And yeah, you hear
Speaker 4: it from from the fans and touch here. But they
Speaker 4: don't have much of a leg to stand on as
Speaker 4: it is right now, so it's kind of fun.
Speaker 5: For us, right right. I remember running to Greg Burn
Speaker 5: at the Final four in one year and we didn't
Speaker 5: have our Arizona gear on it, and he gave us
Speaker 5: a rash of crap. What are you guys doing? I
Speaker 5: don't see one block A on any of y'all. What
Speaker 5: are you doing? And from then on, I'm always repper.
Speaker 2: A b R.
Speaker 3: Now I put on that you are, tell me I'm
Speaker 3: not repping.
Speaker 5: You always be representing your school.
Speaker 2: A b R.
Speaker 3: Okay, I didn't know I'm in the in the vernacular,
Speaker 3: A y P, K y P know your people come
Speaker 3: you know that one.
Speaker 5: That's what that's Lott said, K y P know your people? Yeah,
Speaker 5: don't pass it to the walk in the corner.
Speaker 2: You know he's open. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so you so you come down every game? Do
Speaker 3: you be here Saturday? What are you looking forward to
Speaker 3: here on Saturday? The improvement? I'm sure we'll give me
Speaker 3: your evaluation of the first game.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, I mean, you really can't say much more
Speaker 4: than what what Tedoro McMillan did on Saturday night. I mean,
Speaker 4: he said all kinds of records. He's the he's the
Speaker 4: ap player of the week in all of college football.
Speaker 4: The entire country almost had five touches. He was literally
Speaker 4: twelve inches away from a fifth touchdown on Saturday night,
Speaker 4: and you know, made some spectacular catches even that landed
Speaker 4: him out of bounds and such. But you really can't
Speaker 4: say enough about about the job that he does. And
Speaker 4: and now the rest of the team is going to
Speaker 4: have to rise to the occasion as well, because the
Speaker 4: entire country now knows number four. I mean if if
Speaker 4: they if they didn't know before for whatever reason, they
Speaker 4: definitely know now. So it's going to be on you know,
Speaker 4: on the other ten guys on that offense and then
Speaker 4: that huddle with him to step up and rise to
Speaker 4: a new level to meet him and to match his
Speaker 4: his intensity and his his skill level, because and it
Speaker 4: is impressive and fun to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question. The only thing that I had a
Speaker 3: concern about was the defense. Obviously they'll try to get
Speaker 3: that fixed and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a you know, tackling is one of
Speaker 4: those things that you always see that's that's a downfall
Speaker 4: for a lot of teams in their first week of
Speaker 4: college football, and you also see guys at a position.
Speaker 4: We saw some of that on Saturday night there was
Speaker 4: on a stadium, and unfortunately, we did see a lot
Speaker 4: of you know, extra curricular stuff that occurred after the
Speaker 4: whistle was blowing, which completely unnecessary and I'm sure that'll
Speaker 4: get cleaned up as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you brought up Sean and basketball. Let's go
Speaker 3: to Tommy. Two very different personalities, at least in my eyes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, very very very different personalities. Sean was
Speaker 4: one percent business all the time. When Shawn and I
Speaker 4: would have breakfast, lunch, or dinner, we talked about basketball.
Speaker 4: I mean that's there was literally and he would ask
Speaker 4: me questions like, who do you think is the greatest
Speaker 4: shooter to ever play at? You have a who's the
Speaker 4: greatest player ever? You have a you know, who's your
Speaker 4: favorite player? I mean, there was just NonStop basketball talk.
Speaker 4: And Tommy is very different. Tommy takes a different approach,
Speaker 4: and Tommy is probably most certainly more liked by his
Speaker 4: players than Sean was because of the kind of personality
Speaker 4: and you know, Tommy's got that big, one million dollar
Speaker 4: smile and he's just a lot of fun to be
Speaker 4: around it, and I really really enjoy working with Tommy Lloyd.
Speaker 3: Right, he's just one of the dudes, I think at least.
Speaker 3: But I think you describe Sean pretty accurately, and you
Speaker 3: you were probably one of the many or one of
Speaker 3: the few very few that got close to him because
Speaker 3: he didn't have a circle that he allowed in.
Speaker 4: No, he really didn't. And they, you know, they tested
Speaker 4: me early. It was kind of funny. They they sent
Speaker 4: me some tests early to see if I was somebody
Speaker 4: that was going to be trustworthy, and apparently I passed
Speaker 4: the test. And then after that it was it was
Speaker 4: open arms. And you know, Sean and his family treated
Speaker 4: me as well as as you can treat anybody. They
Speaker 4: invited me over to their home. You know, just just wonderfully,
Speaker 4: wonderfully you know, kind and generous and giving people. And
Speaker 4: I do miss the Miller family, but you know, things,
Speaker 4: things you know live on here in Tucson, and I
Speaker 4: am so happy to have Tommy Lloyd and his family here.
Speaker 4: And it's it's you know, it's an exciting time to
Speaker 4: be an Arizona basketball fan. The time. I think I'd
Speaker 4: be an Arizona sports fan regardless of what sport you're
Speaker 4: rooting for.
Speaker 3: Totally get you, because the Big Twelve is going to
Speaker 3: be fun. I was I was talking to somebody over
Speaker 3: the weekend or yes yesterday, I said, if you have
Speaker 3: basketball tickets, more power to you, because it's going to
Speaker 3: be fun whether you win or lose. But it's gonna
Speaker 3: set them up for March. At least you assume that, right,
Speaker 3: because then it takes some lungs.
Speaker 2: But be ready.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, you would hope, so, you would hope so.
Speaker 4: And I think I think they'll be ready for March.
Speaker 4: And and it may be even more ready for March
Speaker 4: this time with me with you know, as you mentioned,
Speaker 4: the the increased level of play in the Big Twelve
Speaker 4: from top to.
Speaker 3: Bottom right right, Well, yep, thank you very much, appreciate
Speaker 3: your time.
Speaker 4: My pleasure, fellas. Thank you very much. Enjoy the enjoy
Speaker 4: the game Saturday night, Enjoy the rest of the season.
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll be talking to you real soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we will, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: That's Jeff Dean, the voice inside voice of the stadiums
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Speaker 2: Thanks Jeff.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Ravera and Jacin Salez on Sports
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Eye on the Ball. Here, I'll
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Andy Brown.
Speaker 3: Got a guy Ryan with us for the next fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: If you guys want to call, please do five to
Speaker 3: zero four one, six seventy four forty. What were your
Speaker 3: impressions of the game on the weekend. I thought it
Speaker 3: was closer than it should have been. But he do
Speaker 3: I know, I think Andy would agree with me. Ryan
Speaker 3: Wood two, yes, yes, sure, yeah.
Speaker 2: And yeah. And you do you watch a game or
Speaker 2: what do you do? What do you do? I'm saying
Speaker 2: watch a game as a fan or watch go YouTube stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, we're watching people and low of traffic and
Speaker 5: people in and out and lines and.
Speaker 2: What about that? Dude? What about that? Dude?
Speaker 5: Not so much of that? Which is where where the
Speaker 5: hot spots are? Well, what's happening? Who's getting on and off?
Speaker 5: Where the referees at all that stuff? Getting the game,
Speaker 5: getting the guys on and off the field? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: where are the hotspots? Where's the problems?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Uh? You know we have medical calls, we have this call,
Speaker 2: we have So you were here for the do you
Speaker 2: work the loot? You're not here? You were? Did you
Speaker 2: have time to speak to Sean? Oh much?
Speaker 3: No, he didn't have he you know, we were going out,
Speaker 3: he says, Steve.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I didn't spend a whole lot of time
Speaker 2: with you. So you did.
Speaker 3: You're not here for me, You're not here for me.
Speaker 3: He's such a good dude, and he's he's kind of
Speaker 3: a ghost here. He doesn't really come back all too often.
Speaker 2: But you know, the.
Speaker 3: Local kid did very well. Yeah, still looks like he
Speaker 3: could play. And Kenny Kenny, Yeah, Kenny's little gimpy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, he's a little guy. I guess they played
Speaker 3: a lot of golf there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess
Speaker 3: Kenny's pretty good. Sean was saying, yeah, he said he did,
Speaker 3: took two buckets of what bads.
Speaker 5: Yea, all guys look great. Man Williams looks like.
Speaker 2: He's still playing. Yeah he does.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: He had an knee operation not too long ago, but
Speaker 3: he still does look like that.
Speaker 2: You know. Joe Turner's Joe Turner. Uh and the rest
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 3: Reggie, of Coursegie, I'm the only guy that looks like
Speaker 3: can't play anything. But you're you stand your lady, baby,
Speaker 3: You're the you're the you're the defender, you're the protector.
Speaker 5: And that guy that go in and get the five
Speaker 5: minute roughing penalty.
Speaker 3: Right right, Yeah, he got thrown out. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: He won't play next week.
Speaker 2: It's okay. But now they know not to pick on
Speaker 2: our star player, right right, he's the enforcer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay again, if you want to call in
Speaker 3: five to two oh four, one, six, seventy four forty uh. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you've been running your ad. I'm very very grateful to you.
Speaker 3: Any I'm sure you get a lot of I'm not
Speaker 3: sure to see a lot you get some feedback from
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we always hear you all. How do you hear
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Speaker 3: You're the You're not the only game in town, are you.
Speaker 5: No, there's a couple of there's. There's plenty of work
Speaker 5: in town.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But you have a lot of places to go,
Speaker 2: people to see. Ariz a little ball, I sue, Yes,
Speaker 2: there was a little bowl, golf tournament, rodeo. Come. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's good to be Andy Brown.
Speaker 5: It's good to be busy. It's good to be busy.
Speaker 5: Yeah you were.
Speaker 2: Was it tough for COVID.
Speaker 5: No, we just shifted focus on COVID. We did non
Speaker 5: event stuff and really security is always going to be there.
Speaker 3: I mean you were you were you were COVID resistant.
Speaker 5: Yes, wow, we were pretty It took us about six
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Speaker 5: We're actually interviewing this week.
Speaker 2: What do you look for? What's what's you look for?
Speaker 5: Friendly people, people that want to be out and about
Speaker 5: and deal with people.
Speaker 2: That's what we do. We deal with people.
Speaker 3: It's funny that you say that, because I don't think
Speaker 3: enough people know that we're in a world where it's
Speaker 3: a people business.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: We're in the people business. Yeah, absolutely, you know, don't
Speaker 3: be a jerk and you'll be okay.
Speaker 5: And ninety nine percent of the people coming in our
Speaker 5: events want to be there. There have a good times, right,
Speaker 5: So right, we're just tell them here's the rules and
Speaker 5: have a good time. Yeah you do pretty good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, cool?
Speaker 3: What else is going on? You can't wait for basketball?
Speaker 5: Basketball? I can wait a little bit. I'd like to
Speaker 5: get a little football in and when football gets about
Speaker 5: halfway through that I'm ready for.
Speaker 3: Well, you're not going to be busy after this weekend.
Speaker 3: There's like three weeks for weeks before we come to
Speaker 3: come back. Right then we go to the games.
Speaker 5: We're going to take some I think we're gonna take
Speaker 5: a mini vacation. We're gonna have to San Diego.
Speaker 3: Yea, yeah, last time I saw you and or talk
Speaker 3: to you in San.
Speaker 5: Diego, that was the first game.
Speaker 2: It was the first game two years ago. This week.
Speaker 2: Actually you were a little tipsy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were doing we were doing the brewery tour.
Speaker 3: The brewery toy that's the San Diego games.
Speaker 2: Er, what are you doing?
Speaker 5: I gotta go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was when we were at del Mar. You
Speaker 2: were calling it.
Speaker 5: That was fun trip. So we're gonna go back there
Speaker 5: in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: You were you were at the Final four again this year.
Speaker 3: Because you've been to a few, I don't like it.
Speaker 3: I don't like that situation.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 5: It's like Houston. Same thing. We're back to as.
Speaker 3: An Indian Indianapolis, which is a good, nice venue, great there.
Speaker 3: San Antonio and New Orleans.
Speaker 5: Yes, I agree, those are the top three. I don't
Speaker 5: know what to compete.
Speaker 3: With them because everything is walking distance. It's centralized. You
Speaker 3: can have fun here, go here, go there, no problem.
Speaker 5: In the in the fans, the team. I say that
Speaker 5: the people of that city want.
Speaker 3: You there, right they were used to having you there.
Speaker 5: That's the biggest thing is the Houston. We got the
Speaker 5: feeling that nobody really wanted us there.
Speaker 3: They did they actually know you were there.
Speaker 2: They just kind of like, oh, well, we're gonna close
Speaker 2: at ten, Like, well there's fifty thousand people rolling out
Speaker 2: of that stadium right now.
Speaker 5: You sure you want to stay open for a couple of.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're done.
Speaker 3: But it was kind of I say, when they were
Speaker 3: in New York and then and then the game was
Speaker 3: in New Jersey at the stadium out there, uh, knowing
Speaker 3: you that the final founts there, it's just like, okay,
Speaker 3: it's Tuesday.
Speaker 5: Well you know on the PAC twelve was in Vegas.
Speaker 5: There were three other conferences at the same time, you know,
Speaker 5: and then on top of that, there were kids playing
Speaker 5: volleyball tournaments, like what are you what are you guys
Speaker 5: here for?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Have volleyball tournament?
Speaker 3: Yeah right, right, Well the thing at Vegas it was
Speaker 3: one place, one cent. I loved it when it was
Speaker 3: a GM.
Speaker 5: Well they got the final four bend you see that, right,
Speaker 5: going in twenty thirty something. Oh yeah, hopefully I'm alive then. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but they got it. So it'll be in Vegas.
Speaker 3: And that'll be crazy. That'll be crazy. Well did you
Speaker 3: just have a Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Did you go? No? I did not go.
Speaker 3: What did you live when you're in Vegas?
Speaker 5: I lived Henderson, right on Vergia, Henderson and in Vegas.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: When you come trying to get out of town, you
Speaker 3: go on that road right, the Green Valley Ranch. Yeah, yep, yeah,
Speaker 3: we look at you lotty die are you?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So I moved out there. I lived the first
Speaker 5: two years in by campus, in a little apartment that
Speaker 5: was not in the best sport of town.
Speaker 2: Oh you just sleeping.
Speaker 5: So my wife, my wife came down when we got married.
Speaker 5: We moved out to the suburbs. And the first thing
Speaker 5: we did was get robbed. Oh really kicked in the
Speaker 5: back do where it took all that stuff. Wow, we
Speaker 5: moved to the suburbs to get ribbed. Wow, Like that's
Speaker 5: just not so savand place.
Speaker 2: So really so that was not good. In the house
Speaker 2: new house, kicked in the back door. We weren't there month.
Speaker 3: Wow, how bit you?
Speaker 2: That feels like obviously a violation.
Speaker 5: Like a phone call. My wife's like, there's the it's
Speaker 5: we've been robbed, and I'm like I'll be right there.
Speaker 5: So the TV goes everything that was our Vegas story.
Speaker 2: You can't win. You can't win in Vegas.
Speaker 5: No, no, you can't. Well you got you get the experience.
Speaker 5: You get life experiences, and they teach you how to
Speaker 5: be aware. Sure, be around, what's look for your shoulder.
Speaker 2: The security needed some security moving what's going on to
Speaker 2: catch them? No? No, yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 5: They can they probably they theorized it was the construction
Speaker 5: workers because it's brand new built and there was nobody
Speaker 5: behind us yet, and so it was a big boot
Speaker 5: print on the door and an ear print on every
Speaker 5: window where they went and listened to see it. You're
Speaker 5: home and then there's a footprints all the way around and.
Speaker 2: Their home is he Matt Locke murder.
Speaker 5: She wrote, Oh we put screen put those heavy duty
Speaker 5: iron doors on those screen doors after that and on
Speaker 5: the windows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a day late day late in the big
Speaker 3: screen TV short.
Speaker 2: We were naive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's too bad.
Speaker 2: That's too bad.
Speaker 3: We've talked about this before because Vegas is the capital.
Speaker 3: What your favorite places were people.
Speaker 2: To see.
Speaker 5: Entertainment was because you worked them. Yeah, we worked a
Speaker 5: lot of them. So you know, Garth Brooks is one
Speaker 5: of them. He's the entertainment guru. The guys that put
Speaker 5: on great shows, they're still around. It was sad for
Speaker 5: me to see Steve and Tyler retire. Basically well cook
Speaker 5: but he was a great entertainer. Those bands that are
Speaker 5: still around now that were around thirty forty years ago
Speaker 5: are still the guys you want to see.
Speaker 3: Did you see the Stones have not? Because they were
Speaker 3: up there my birthday, I was up there.
Speaker 5: They were there. There was a big event and people
Speaker 5: were going to that. It was I think it was
Speaker 5: graduation maybe in May May, wasn't it so May. There
Speaker 5: was a bunch of people that went up there the
Speaker 5: night before and then had to work graduation. Yeah, those
Speaker 5: are those are the people I like to see.
Speaker 2: Who you said Garth and you said who else? Tyler Garth? Yeah,
Speaker 2: Errol Smith's of the world. I like to see like Stapleton,
Speaker 2: I'd like to see one of his. Good Kenny Chesney
Speaker 2: was on a great show. But you did a mostly
Speaker 2: you know v which you call it.
Speaker 5: Tam Thomas, Max Center. The big shows out at the
Speaker 5: Stadium with George Straight those were fun Stadium, Stadium, the
Speaker 5: Sam Boyd State so doing those were great, Grateful Dead
Speaker 5: three days of Grateful Dead and just an amazing people
Speaker 5: watching amazing.
Speaker 2: The Aroma was probably crazy.
Speaker 5: It was a little righte sometimes. And then following them
Speaker 5: was the was a group called the called Fish kind
Speaker 5: of the same knockout. And then as when Jerry died,
Speaker 5: they called themselves the Others, so it wasn't grateful that
Speaker 5: it was just called the others. So they toured for
Speaker 5: quite a bit.
Speaker 3: Did you know did you know you had to have
Speaker 3: known mister Bill Walton. Yes, do you have a story
Speaker 3: of two because.
Speaker 5: Bill and I worked a camp in Vegas together. It
Speaker 5: was put on by Bank of America and we were
Speaker 5: going around kids talking about basketball, and h kid got
Speaker 5: a basketball Bank America on it, and so he used
Speaker 5: me and we went around town. He used me as
Speaker 5: the guinea pig, like he would show like post mooves
Speaker 5: and he would put me on this defense and he
Speaker 5: give me a little crap because I was an Arizona guy.
Speaker 5: And so he's like, they only teach you how to
Speaker 5: play defense down there, right at least going at and
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't want to hurt the guy, like
Speaker 5: he has no ankles and no knees and he's shooting
Speaker 5: shots over me, and I'm just kind of letting him
Speaker 5: do it, and so he keeps He just I was
Speaker 5: that was my role, So I'm staying in the lane.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: So about the third day I was done. I was like,
Speaker 5: know what, I'm taking it to him. So I might
Speaker 5: have played him a little rough and maybe bumped him
Speaker 5: a little and hit him on the elbow and made
Speaker 5: him miss a couple of shots. And afterwards he was like, seeing,
Speaker 5: I told you, I know they taught you there, So
Speaker 5: I just had to get it out of you. He
Speaker 5: was a great guy.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 5: I would sit and listen to him all day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he's great at his inspirational speech speeches.
Speaker 5: He got a little a little different at the end.
Speaker 5: I mean when I knew him, when I talked to him,
Speaker 5: it was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2: Right, right, he was. He was more under control. Is
Speaker 2: that the right price? He was more straightforward in his approach.
Speaker 5: He wasn't so far off to one way.
Speaker 2: Or the other in the silane. Yeah, yeah, I just
Speaker 2: got to be his stick. Oh yeah, yeah, he knew.
Speaker 2: That's why he ran, no question.
Speaker 3: In fact, when he passed, I had a conversation with
Speaker 3: Luke who about him, because Luke had written the forward
Speaker 3: for my book, And I said, you know, look, at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, we all loved him, and
Speaker 3: I think we appreciate you and nothing he had a
Speaker 3: choice because you allowed and the kids allowed him to
Speaker 3: be shared. And because everybody knew Bill, whether you liked
Speaker 3: him or didn't like him, you knew who he was
Speaker 3: and and and and that takes a lot of time
Speaker 3: from the kids, if that makes any sense. You know,
Speaker 3: my dad had Dad liked that too, and animal like
Speaker 3: that too. Everybody kind of knew them and and hey,
Speaker 3: share they're fun, They're fun to be with. I can
Speaker 3: tell you stories about them. Uh, And he appreciated that
Speaker 3: because did you watch his special? Yes, what a fantastic special.
Speaker 3: I recommended it all the time because it was it
Speaker 3: was to the point he was who he was serious wise, as.
Speaker 5: Much as he heads with Wooden. Yeah, he quotes that
Speaker 5: guy all the time and gives him so many attributes
Speaker 5: or so many first credit for the stuff that he learned.
Speaker 2: Do you still have your dad? Yes? Your dad?
Speaker 3: So was he a pain on the neck dad?
Speaker 2: No? So neither was I.
Speaker 3: But but if he had been, you appreciate your dad
Speaker 3: when they are because you get you turn into a dad, right, sure,
Speaker 3: and you become your dad says you know you're gonna
Speaker 3: like me at the end, but maybe not right now.
Speaker 5: No, I remember getting yelled at a few times, but
Speaker 5: not pushed. Not one of those dads where I had
Speaker 5: to be the next best thing, right, yeah, whatever I did.
Speaker 5: I'm not one of those helicopter.
Speaker 2: Parents, but neither was I.
Speaker 5: So that's it's nice to see your kids going and
Speaker 5: become successful in what they do and knowing you gave
Speaker 5: him a little better, right, and some and some advice.
Speaker 3: And you won't know until until you know, No, you know, yeah, we.
Speaker 5: Can't make great decisions and that's all you can help.
Speaker 2: Right, right.
Speaker 3: It's funny because my son, my son, my oldest, is
Speaker 3: in the communications world, maryln and then he's a heck
Speaker 3: of a writer, much better than me. And I'm sure
Speaker 3: he won't admit it, but there was some kind of
Speaker 3: me and him at some point. Yeah yeah, And he
Speaker 3: won't say that, but if you're listening, yeah yeah, you
Speaker 3: won't know. Okay, Hey, thanks for joining us. Be back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Thanks a bunch to Brian Peterson and to Jeff Deane.
Speaker 3: We'll see you guys tomorrow.