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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports
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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: You're Jagins aust Now we have Henry with breaking news.
Speaker 4: Arizona women's basketball regular season is over after following sixty
Speaker 4: one to fifty eight to Colorado in the Big Twelve Tournament.
Speaker 3: And they ended the season at nineteen and thirteen. And
Speaker 3: she still has hope. There's no hope.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the question they don't get in. Do they
Speaker 2: go to W and I Yeah, and they'll host a
Speaker 2: couple of games. You think they'll say yes today? I
Speaker 2: think they would because because of the fans.
Speaker 5: Because as much as as the fans, you know, whenever
Speaker 5: when the men's team the couple of times they got
Speaker 5: into the n and fans hated it, didn't go to
Speaker 5: the games, all that stuff, the women's fans are different.
Speaker 5: They just want to see them play and then and
Speaker 5: they're behind them.
Speaker 2: Well, here's another issue though, do you want to prolong
Speaker 2: if your idea or whomever prolong the season, uh, under
Speaker 2: the conditions that they're in.
Speaker 5: Well, I I again, it's it's a little different because
Speaker 5: of the overall expectations. I mean, yes, the expectation of
Speaker 5: this program, the women's program, is that they're you know,
Speaker 5: they get into the determined. So they had a great
Speaker 5: experience that the star they won the n I T.
Speaker 5: That's what that's where all this started. I think the
Speaker 5: fan base would get behind it, and I do. I
Speaker 5: do because just like they do with softball, Steve, they
Speaker 5: they just follow this team because of the team, not because.
Speaker 2: We'll see I would I would, You'll say yes, I
Speaker 2: would say no.
Speaker 5: I would say and I bet you they'd get five
Speaker 5: or six thousand at those games.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I'll say no, I will see Okay you
Speaker 2: say no that they won't accept it.
Speaker 3: They won't accept it. They won't accept it. Oh, they'll
Speaker 3: definitely accept The question is if they get in, they
Speaker 3: won't get six thousand.
Speaker 5: Okay, That that I would be more inclined to possibly
Speaker 5: agree with. If they get invited to the n T
Speaker 5: they're going, is what I say.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I don't know what the money situation is.
Speaker 3: I really don't.
Speaker 5: Because because Steve will play it as you know. Okay,
Speaker 5: we we didn't have a great season, but you know,
Speaker 5: we still got to get better.
Speaker 3: YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 5: You know, get Lauren Swan out there to get some
Speaker 5: more minutes, you know, stuff like that. You know, we
Speaker 5: it's an opportunity to get better, just just like playing
Speaker 5: in a minor bowl game, you know, like football. I
Speaker 5: like my answer. Okay, all right, the more that you talk,
Speaker 5: the more I like.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll stop talking.
Speaker 4: Number seven. Arizona Softball will begin conference play tonight again,
Speaker 4: you seef at Helen Brands Stadium at six people.
Speaker 3: I think that program. Holy crap, are they twenty one
Speaker 3: and two or something? Wanted to and not against just anybody?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had no idea. Some he said, yea, they're
Speaker 3: twenty one and two.
Speaker 5: I said, wait a minute, didn't they play Texas and Alabama?
Speaker 3: And like, yeah and two?
Speaker 2: Right right?
Speaker 7: Good?
Speaker 3: Good for her.
Speaker 2: Now comes the nitty gritty. Yeah, but twenty one and
Speaker 2: two beats the alternative, right.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: One, they don't have to play Oklahoma because they're not
Speaker 5: in the league anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, a little to play U c l A.
Speaker 5: Right, who they got, you know who they got to
Speaker 5: play in the Texas and the big TWELP.
Speaker 3: They have Texas Tech where they get a million dollar pitcher.
Speaker 3: Yeah right.
Speaker 5: I mean there's still some good teams in the league,
Speaker 5: but it's not the it's not the Pac twelve and
Speaker 5: it's not the SEC.
Speaker 3: But you have to supple.
Speaker 2: No, that'd be fun I tried to go to a
Speaker 2: couple of games a year though, Yeah, that would be funny.
Speaker 3: Couple a couple of those, couple of baseball games. I
Speaker 3: try to get on all the time. Yeah, he's too
Speaker 3: busy because he's he.
Speaker 2: Is too busy one and two he's a consultant for
Speaker 2: the softball team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good for them. I I you know, I
Speaker 5: got to get out there and see them. It's hard
Speaker 5: to get tickets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna try to go to a lot of
Speaker 2: the game. Are doing this show now?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: College basketball this weekend, Number seven Alabama travels to number
Speaker 4: one Auburn, Number two Duke travels so un rank North Carolina,
Speaker 4: and number seventeen Michigan travels to number eight Michigan.
Speaker 3: Seat there's a lot of there's a lot of handful.
Speaker 5: It's a great time of the year. Yeah, and then
Speaker 5: and then the tournaments start next year.
Speaker 3: Next week. Yeah, I'm gonna miss next week.
Speaker 5: I'm already missing next week. I'm already missing the no
Speaker 5: PAC twelve tournament next week. We were talking about it
Speaker 5: at lunch yesterday or Wednesday. Just it's the reality of it,
Speaker 5: right is it's right there now. It's like I would
Speaker 5: be getting ready, you know, getting my stuff together, making
Speaker 5: sure I'm like closer, click and stuff to get ready
Speaker 5: to go to the.
Speaker 3: PAC twelve tournament on Tuesday, and it's not there.
Speaker 5: I mean, I get to work a regional, which is great,
Speaker 5: but that the fun of going to Vegas for the
Speaker 5: tournament and all that came with it.
Speaker 2: For you guys, for you guys, and I talk about
Speaker 2: this all the time, but for you guys specifically, you're
Speaker 2: there for thirteen fourteen hours, right oh yeah yeah, and
Speaker 2: you're probably on a Thursday or Friday. God, get me
Speaker 2: out of here because I want to go have fun
Speaker 2: or whatever, and you say I don't want to do
Speaker 2: this anymore, and then you come back, I can't.
Speaker 3: Wait to do I can't wait to do it again.
Speaker 5: The Wednesday and thursdays where there are four games each day,
Speaker 5: you know we'd get there, we'd get to the arena,
Speaker 5: at ten o'clock in the morning and leave at one
Speaker 5: o'clock in the morning the next morning. But yet, and
Speaker 5: we would be exhausted, and it would be a you know,
Speaker 5: just walking to our hotel room into our hotel across
Speaker 5: the street and just all of that. And you get
Speaker 5: to and you go, god, this is so hard. And
Speaker 5: then you get to Friday, and you've got kind of
Speaker 5: Friday off, you get the evening games, and Saturday you
Speaker 5: go when game me, You're right.
Speaker 3: Then Sunday morning you go home and say, I can't
Speaker 3: wait till next year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and there's no yeah, yeah, I'm definitely definitely
Speaker 5: missing it.
Speaker 4: The Big Twelve will move ten games to Friday for
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty five football season, including the Arizona Arizona
Speaker 4: State Game, which will be on the day after Thanksgiving this.
Speaker 5: Year, and the Kansas State game. The Kansas State non
Speaker 5: conference game is going to be on a Friday night
Speaker 5: here as well.
Speaker 2: Don't you think, don't you think we really don't pay
Speaker 2: much attention to spring ball. This is a big important
Speaker 2: deal this year for spring ball.
Speaker 5: Well, they got they got to make some headway for sure,
Speaker 5: you know, but you know they're not going to have
Speaker 5: a spring game.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure. Well they didn't really have one. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: It was a scrimmage.
Speaker 5: And and uh it sounds like they're planning something something else,
Speaker 5: something maybe a little more fan friendly to you know.
Speaker 3: Because they're born.
Speaker 5: They're born anyway, Yeah they are, you know, but I mean,
Speaker 5: you know, they're one the coaches have found have turned
Speaker 5: them into you know there there, there's scrimmages. They don't
Speaker 5: want anybody to get hurt, so many things. They don't
Speaker 5: have a game, and they haven't had a game in
Speaker 5: a long time. So I'm fine with that, but they do.
Speaker 5: They need to do some work. They got to do
Speaker 5: a lot of work and so yeah, but yeah, so
Speaker 5: the Kansas State game, I think it's it's in September,
Speaker 5: is a Friday night game.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's the year.
Speaker 5: I'm not happy about those because the tailgating is not fun.
Speaker 5: I don't know that well we even tailgate on those
Speaker 5: those games, and we guess we did last year the
Speaker 5: Friday which one it was a Friday night game Houston,
Speaker 5: We did, you know, but we basically we just went
Speaker 5: out there, put our chairs out there, and opened up
Speaker 5: our boxes of chicken in eate and then went to
Speaker 5: the game. It's not a not a typical tailgate, so
Speaker 5: that part. I missed the SU game up there on
Speaker 5: a Friday. Fine, I'm not going up there anyways.
Speaker 4: Brazil defeated Germany six to four at Keno Stadium last
Speaker 4: night to clinch the World Baseball Classic that takes place
Speaker 4: next year.
Speaker 3: Did you have fun? Did you What did you think?
Speaker 3: I think it was an enjoyable atmosphere. It was good baseball,
Speaker 3: but it was there for a few things. It was
Speaker 3: it was some sloppy plays in the beginning. Yeah, it dropped.
Speaker 3: The ball got better as the game went on.
Speaker 5: I'm attlebum night to get out to any of the games,
Speaker 5: although I did watch some of some of the games
Speaker 5: that we're on TV. You know, I found them on television.
Speaker 5: They were in the Major League Baseball at work.
Speaker 3: It was about I don't say two thousand.
Speaker 2: Maybe yeah, yeah, it was already. Yeah, it was alright,
Speaker 2: like the Mexican Baseball No, that's just the party.
Speaker 1: No, that was it was.
Speaker 2: It was a little cold last night, a little windy,
Speaker 2: but it was it was fine. Yeah, good, good for Blake.
Speaker 2: I watched some of them.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I saw the Germany team, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, they looked like baseball players.
Speaker 3: The Brazil, Brazil, all those guys. Did you see did
Speaker 3: you notice the field looked very good? Look good, look
Speaker 3: it looked like they keep they keep it in good shape.
Speaker 2: Well they redid it. Yeah, new scoreboard, new ground was
Speaker 2: a new scoreboard.
Speaker 3: I didn't how come I didn't see that. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Everything was kind of bright and colors. I was there
Speaker 2: for like my first any that I was there, and
Speaker 2: I said, oh, look what a little paint does here?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, it was nice, good, good good. That's all
Speaker 3: I got.
Speaker 2: Okay, what else anything else from you?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: We mentioned the Friday night games? Oh we Well, we
Speaker 5: were talking during the break about Stephen A. Smith gate
Speaker 5: in a twenty million dollars a year contract to blabber
Speaker 5: on the radio, I mean on the on ESPN, and
Speaker 5: how we feel like we should be making more than him,
Speaker 5: you know, more power to the guy.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Did you did you see his confrontation with Lebron? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't get the full effect, but I
Speaker 2: guess Lebron's mad at it because he was getting on Bronnie.
Speaker 4: Basically, there's a couple of weeks ago, you like said
Speaker 4: like lebron stop the act with Bronie.
Speaker 5: Well see, and that's the thing, it's that you used
Speaker 5: a perfect word act, because that's what these guys are,
Speaker 5: you know, Stephen Ah. I mentioned Pat McAfee, Colin Cowherd
Speaker 5: to a degree, uh what's his name? The dumbass which
Speaker 5: he was on Fox Skip Bayless. They're an act? Well right,
Speaker 5: they're an act and people want to pay. People want
Speaker 5: that act, and ESPN and Fox and those guys pay
Speaker 5: for the act.
Speaker 2: I particularly don't like the act. And that's where I
Speaker 2: was gonna go with this question. Okay, so you and
Speaker 2: I I don't. I've never really paid attention to Stephen
Speaker 2: a ll those guys because I just don't know who
Speaker 2: cares what they say. And I even said this in
Speaker 2: the show this week or yesterday. Maybe who listens to me?
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, who pay attention to me? Good
Speaker 2: luck with that?
Speaker 3: But you know what I'm saying, you don't. I don't.
Speaker 3: But what about the kids? The kids do they do?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 6: I don't know?
Speaker 3: They're just all over our social media? Yeah, but what
Speaker 3: is that if?
Speaker 2: If you're gonna get bad advice or just have someone
Speaker 2: yelling at you for no reason with the information? What
Speaker 2: what's the credibility? Why even listen? Because your son likes.
Speaker 3: Like, like what, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I can't.
Speaker 3: I didn't bring them up that way. You fail.
Speaker 4: I think we can relate because back in high school,
Speaker 4: like you talk with your friends, like at lunch about
Speaker 4: like you get that serious with your friends, you start
Speaker 4: to ye about your favorite players.
Speaker 3: And I think that's how the younger generation can relate
Speaker 3: to that. Yeah, no, I hear you. I hear you,
Speaker 3: and I don't What does it solve? It doesn't. It's
Speaker 3: like entertainment. I guess I don't know. There it is.
Speaker 5: That's that's the thing there. It's entertainment for them to know.
Speaker 5: But it's like it's for the same reason I don't
Speaker 5: like going to the superhero movies, right because I don't
Speaker 5: get them.
Speaker 3: I don't understand them. They lose me in five minutes. Okay,
Speaker 3: we gotta call enlighten us. Who's this on the air?
Speaker 9: Here on the air, Hey Bud, it's directing.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 3: How are you? I'm well?
Speaker 9: Thank you little Nippy out here just for comment. You
Speaker 9: know why I don't like a lot of the sports
Speaker 9: talk shows they're so busy screaming at each other, nobody
Speaker 9: talks to each other anymore. Yeah, and I think when
Speaker 9: they get into this, you know, the adrenaline gets pumping
Speaker 9: and they want to, you know, flex their muscles about
Speaker 9: how smart they are. And the app sports enthusiastic probably
Speaker 9: knows as much about stuff as they do to a
Speaker 9: certain degree. No, we don't have the inside edition, but
Speaker 9: we're not stupid either. We can see things. We can
Speaker 9: we understand the basics, and we understand what good things
Speaker 9: are and when things that aren't so good are. And
Speaker 9: I'm tired of the Hollywood whining and crying about somebody
Speaker 9: doesn't like me and anyway, so keep it calm, talk
Speaker 9: to each other and talk to your audience and you're
Speaker 9: going to get a lot and you do a.
Speaker 3: Good job of that.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 2: Well, welcome home on eye on the ball, welcome home.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Well, have a good weekend, Jeff, thank you.
Speaker 3: Rick makes a good point.
Speaker 5: Okay, what I don't I guess what I don't like
Speaker 5: is they start yelling at you because they want you
Speaker 5: to know that.
Speaker 3: They're smarter than you. And I know we've been We've.
Speaker 5: Done this for a long time, right, do we know
Speaker 5: a lot more than than other fans. We know more
Speaker 5: because we go to press conferences and where are things
Speaker 5: that the average fan. We're getting information and then from
Speaker 5: that information we have conversation. Whereas these guys, you know,
Speaker 5: the stephen A's and the McAfee's, they feel I'm gonna
Speaker 5: yell at you because it hammers home how much smarter
Speaker 5: I am than you. And I don't like listening to that,
Speaker 5: and I don't. I mean, I make the choice. I
Speaker 5: don't listen to that. I now I have to listen
Speaker 5: to Pat McAfee on game day because I want to
Speaker 5: watch game day, but he's on there and he always
Speaker 5: starts the show by screaming, and I hate that part
Speaker 5: of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, one more last call before we got to go.
Speaker 2: Who's this you're on there?
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that on the other side. Okay, thanks,
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 1: I want to take part in the show called Up
Speaker 1: Steve now went five to two oh four one seventy
Speaker 1: four forty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're jakins Aus.
Speaker 2: Now on the phone. We have South Point Catholic Girls
Speaker 2: soccer coach Kelly Pierce.
Speaker 3: Kelly, how are you?
Speaker 7: I'm good?
Speaker 20: How are you?
Speaker 3: We're doing fine? Thank you?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: How was uh?
Speaker 3: It's been two years since we've spoken to you.
Speaker 10: How was Wait?
Speaker 2: Don't get ahead of me, don't get ahead of me.
Speaker 2: How was the year without us and I and the
Speaker 2: ball and two for you? Because you win championships all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, we took a year off. We'd share it
Speaker 8: with somebody else and I missed you guys for sure,
Speaker 8: but you know, happy to be back this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you last year, and let's put context to it.
Speaker 2: I think you finished second, right, you finished the runner up?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we were. We lost in the championship and it
Speaker 8: was the rough one for us.
Speaker 2: That said, did that kind of fuel the group to
Speaker 2: win this one?
Speaker 8: I think it definitely played a role for the girls
Speaker 8: that were returning, you know, they felt that and how
Speaker 8: awful it was, and we didn't play well that game
Speaker 8: and definitely not the better team that day. I think
Speaker 8: it was a little traumatic for all of us, excuse me,
Speaker 8: but played a little bit of a role. But also
Speaker 8: there's a lot of new girls we had also, So
Speaker 8: I just think every year it's different, it's a different group,
Speaker 8: it's a different mentality.
Speaker 7: And the end goal obviously is always you know, to
Speaker 7: get to that championship game.
Speaker 5: Kelly, is it I mean, is it become an expectation
Speaker 5: that you guys are everybody? Look, we know you go
Speaker 5: into a season, you want to win a championship. You know,
Speaker 5: you kind of feel your cans when you're a programmed
Speaker 5: like yours. But does it come to an expectation level
Speaker 5: to the point where I don't know, maybe there's pressure
Speaker 5: on the girls to achieve that, or how do you
Speaker 5: handle all of that, or what's it like around the team.
Speaker 8: Thinking about all that, well, I definitely think it's there's
Speaker 8: pressure from outside, you know, outside of our bubble, and
Speaker 8: I think a lot of people expect us to excuse me, sorry,
Speaker 8: I'm been fixed, so I keep coughing. But for us,
Speaker 8: we try not to put that on there. We do
Speaker 8: tell them, you know, pressure is the privilege that you even have,
Speaker 8: that this opportunity to be here and that we are
Speaker 8: capable of being there. But we try not to dwell
Speaker 8: too much on the past. And I'm sure, like I said,
Speaker 8: like the seniors have probably motivated them a little bit.
Speaker 8: And for me, of course, it's always motivating and I
Speaker 8: don't like to lose, especially like that, so a little
Speaker 8: bit fuel to the fire and just having the target
Speaker 8: on our back every single year, I think it's motivating
Speaker 8: for them, but it's definitely a mentality that we have
Speaker 8: to have and be locked in as a unit, you know,
Speaker 8: the entire time, and it's hard, it's not easy. It's
Speaker 8: definitely a challenge every.
Speaker 2: Year for you personally, because you've done and I teach
Speaker 2: about winning all the time, you put pressure on yourself.
Speaker 3: To do this.
Speaker 8: I probably do. I am a competitor in everything I do.
Speaker 8: I mean, day to day life.
Speaker 7: I compete with.
Speaker 8: Myself on ridiculous things.
Speaker 7: So I'm sure that's on there.
Speaker 8: Like I've always said, I hate losing more than I
Speaker 8: like winning. So I definitely think being successful with them
Speaker 8: and having these girls and seeing them in those moments
Speaker 8: drives me and fuels me so a little bit. Maybe, yeah, probably.
Speaker 5: So was there anything different about this team that did
Speaker 5: win the championship compared to last team that didn't? What
Speaker 5: was the extra thing that came together for you?
Speaker 3: You know that you know, help you put it together
Speaker 3: another championship season.
Speaker 8: You know, it's hard to compare the two just because
Speaker 8: it's two totally different groups and totally different teams. Obviously,
Speaker 8: we usually try to have the same mentality, but I
Speaker 8: think last year we didn't play our best, and unfortunately,
Speaker 8: I had that gut feeling going into the game where
Speaker 8: I just kind of sense it wasn't going to happen.
Speaker 8: And the same time, having three back to back, you know,
Speaker 8: in a row championship.
Speaker 7: I think it's good for us to have a lose.
Speaker 8: Every once in a while. I lost every once in
Speaker 8: a while. Getting that throat punch is awful, but it's
Speaker 8: also humbling and I opening, and I think.
Speaker 7: We learned from it.
Speaker 8: And I think the.
Speaker 7: Girls that were with us last year I got to
Speaker 7: return this year.
Speaker 8: I think between us, the coaching staff and them, we all.
Speaker 7: Learned a lesson from that.
Speaker 8: We don't really do a lot different. I just think
Speaker 8: it's a different team. We had probably the most talented
Speaker 8: team I think I've ever had was this year. But
Speaker 8: we're also really young, so trying to get them to
Speaker 8: walk in and buy into our process is always a challenge.
Speaker 8: But it's just totally different, you know, two different teams
Speaker 8: and different environment last year.
Speaker 2: I think, Wow, so you're young, expect of future success
Speaker 2: as well. Let's me s because we talked about this
Speaker 2: about an hour ago before we had you on the show.
Speaker 2: You've won four as a coach now and two as
Speaker 2: a as a as.
Speaker 5: A player, six as a coach and two at I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I had you don't take up.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's say it this way. You're making it hard
Speaker 5: to keep count. How's that that?
Speaker 7: That?
Speaker 5: There we go?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, forgive me.
Speaker 2: But you know, I don't think I've asked you this,
Speaker 2: and maybe I haven't. I had Wolf on yesterday because
Speaker 2: he's at five in a row, and that doesn't happen
Speaker 2: by accident. You know what, we all know Wolf and
Speaker 2: Wolf being a wolf, he's been here forever and done
Speaker 2: really successful. And I asked him this, what do you
Speaker 2: think your sect, your your secret sauce is because this
Speaker 2: doesn't happen by accident.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, Wolf is definitely in a league of his own,
Speaker 8: definitely a legend and somebody that I admire and I
Speaker 8: look up to, and he's been awesome and supportive of me.
Speaker 8: But I think, you know, I joked about it when
Speaker 8: you asked me the other day about that, like in
Speaker 8: the message, and I thought, you know, my mom did
Speaker 8: make her homemade Italian spaghetti sauce for us the night before,
Speaker 8: so maybe there's magic in there for the team. But
Speaker 8: you know, I think every year, like I said, it's
Speaker 8: just different. It's it's a matter of us getting these
Speaker 8: girls to lock in and bite into what we're selling
Speaker 8: and giving them the tools. And I can assure you
Speaker 8: it's not easy. They don't always bite into it. They
Speaker 8: probably don't believe half of what we're saying. But when
Speaker 8: they do, in those moments click and they look at
Speaker 8: you like, oh my god, You're like, yeah, we kind
Speaker 8: of know what we're talking about. Sometimes, but it's just,
Speaker 8: you know, it's getting this team mentality and getting them
Speaker 8: to trust each other, trust us as coaches, and just
Speaker 8: being committed, locked in, having accountability, and just you know,
Speaker 8: it's a tough several months, especially the season, our schedule,
Speaker 8: so it's just it's different. You can't approach every team
Speaker 8: the same. And I think we have learned to adapt
Speaker 8: with the times and this generation and this mentality it's
Speaker 8: a little bit more challenging over the years, so we
Speaker 8: I think we're learning as we go as well. But
Speaker 8: I think, you know, having these older girls that passed
Speaker 8: down this tradition to the younger girls, I think is
Speaker 8: really important that we try to create this good, healthy
Speaker 8: environment and culture, you know, from the top down.
Speaker 7: So that's just always the goal is to get them
Speaker 7: to lock in basically.
Speaker 5: Well, let's talk about that little bit because you talk
Speaker 5: about the you know, the the culture and the environment
Speaker 5: and all that, and Tucson Again, we keep talking about
Speaker 5: this because you know, you and Wolfgang and you know,
Speaker 5: you got Sunnyside and what they're doing over there. There's
Speaker 5: just a soccer culture in this town, isn't there.
Speaker 8: Yeah. It's really big actually, and I think it's bigger
Speaker 8: than people realizing that. I mean, I want to thank
Speaker 8: you guys for even paying attention to it. You know,
Speaker 8: you have Andy and Javier and Morales that are always
Speaker 8: keep an eye out, but you guys too, just I
Speaker 8: think having that visibility matter, So thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we try.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, do you You and Wolf two
Speaker 2: played in the Open Division?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: How was that? Yeah?
Speaker 8: I mean at the beginning of the season, I'll be honest,
Speaker 8: like when we first saw it, I thought, oh my god,
Speaker 8: the schedule.
Speaker 7: You know, we have.
Speaker 8: Perry we have to steal and well we had them
Speaker 8: in the Open, but then we had Davier who went
Speaker 8: on to win the Open and who was, you know,
Speaker 8: probably the most deserved team to win it. In my opinion,
Speaker 8: I think they were by far the best team, so
Speaker 8: Initially it was dun team, like I said, and we
Speaker 8: kind of thought, like what are we in for here?
Speaker 8: We had no idea what to expect. But ultimately, I
Speaker 8: really think it helped us and I think we were
Speaker 8: successful because of that, because we had those challenges and
Speaker 8: we didn't have a bunch like I always call them
Speaker 8: cupcake games where we're beating a team eight to zero
Speaker 8: because no one's really benefiting from that or learning. So
Speaker 8: even in those moments, we lose and it's not fun.
Speaker 8: But I really think you know, the girls battled and they.
Speaker 7: Showed up and they played well against all of those
Speaker 7: top teams, including Castile.
Speaker 8: You know, we had them in the second round in
Speaker 8: the open and we lost two to one. But I
Speaker 8: mean our girls showed everything that was capable of the heart,
Speaker 8: the fashion, just.
Speaker 7: The work ethic and that commitment, that grit that we
Speaker 7: always talk about from tot point.
Speaker 8: So I think it did pay off. It was a
Speaker 8: little scary, but ultimately having those throw punches I think
Speaker 8: benefits you in the end.
Speaker 5: So so you you mentioned you have a very young team,
Speaker 5: So what number seven next year? I mean, talk to
Speaker 5: us a little bit about the team you have coming
Speaker 5: back next year, noure no treasure.
Speaker 8: We can all knock on wood. So I'm superstitious, you know.
Speaker 8: That's what they said. Right after We went like what
Speaker 8: about next year, and I was like, We're gonna enjoy
Speaker 8: it for now. You know, you never know, obviously, that's
Speaker 8: always the end goal is to be successful and you know,
Speaker 8: to be at the top. And but it's not. It's
Speaker 8: not handed to us ever, nothing's gonna no one's gonna
Speaker 8: roll over and give it to us. It's always hard
Speaker 8: work and dedication throughout the season, even a little bit
Speaker 8: in pre season for me and the coaching staff. So
Speaker 8: I mean, we'll see, I have five freshmen this year
Speaker 8: and a big softmore and junior class. You know, we're
Speaker 8: losing five talented seniors, which is always hard, especially Mvlise.
Speaker 8: You know, she came in clutch in that championship game
Speaker 8: for us and with our captain, so you know, you
Speaker 8: lose some, but hopefully that next crew of juniors steps
Speaker 8: up and really plays their role.
Speaker 5: Just this sort of a technical question, I guess, so
Speaker 5: you're putting, you know, a team on the field. How
Speaker 5: many players beyond that do you feel you need to have,
Speaker 5: you know, in terms of depth to actually to be
Speaker 5: really really good. I mean, you know, and who are
Speaker 5: good players that may be starting elsewhere stuff like that.
Speaker 3: How far beyond the start do you have to go?
Speaker 5: You know, we talk about, you know, a college basketball team, right,
Speaker 5: they've got to have at least eight what's your rotation?
Speaker 3: I mean how many?
Speaker 8: I don't have like a magic number really, you know,
Speaker 8: we had twenty five on a roster, which is pretty big,
Speaker 8: and every year I'm like, God, I shouldn't.
Speaker 7: Take that many because it is a juggling.
Speaker 8: Actor and to get everybody in and giving everyone out
Speaker 8: an opportunity. But you know, everyone plays a really important
Speaker 8: role with us, and we try to have that message
Speaker 8: from day one to try outside even if you're not
Speaker 8: getting in the game and you might be starting in
Speaker 8: a different high school in town. The you know, experience
Speaker 8: that you're getting here, with the competitiveness and just the
Speaker 8: culture that we have, I think every one of them
Speaker 8: play an important roles because practices, obviously they're huge for us,
Speaker 8: and that we want to go big and we want
Speaker 8: to scrimmage. We have the numbers and we have the
Speaker 8: potential to do that. So I don't have a magic
Speaker 8: number every game, you know, requires different players and different
Speaker 8: strengths and wesses.
Speaker 7: So everyone, you know, I think everyone played a really
Speaker 7: important role this year.
Speaker 8: We didn't have I never really have like a crazy
Speaker 8: goal scorer, which a lot of teams do. We spread
Speaker 8: it out quite a bit. I think we had over
Speaker 8: ten girls that scored for us this year. So I
Speaker 8: think everyone you know.
Speaker 7: Really played the role we needed.
Speaker 2: So you know, I tease you and and joke with you,
Speaker 2: do you have Do you ever decompress because you're always
Speaker 2: the win work, win work?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Not really, you know, single mom life.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 8: I'm actually in a parking lot getting ready to go
Speaker 8: grocery shopping after work today, hanging up with you guys.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you you're gonna be the best grocery shop today.
Speaker 3: What what's going in the shopping cart today? Anything good?
Speaker 8: Well, my friend is reminded me it was lent, so
Speaker 8: I have to get something without me today, So some
Speaker 8: kind of beetfood tonight?
Speaker 2: Right right?
Speaker 3: Well, congratulations.
Speaker 2: I think the statue at cell point will be coming
Speaker 2: up soon with you both you and there you go.
Speaker 8: Well, hopefully someday I'm in his spot. I don't know
Speaker 8: if I'll be around thirty years, so coaching, but you know.
Speaker 7: He's for sure that's that too.
Speaker 2: But you you getting something from this obviously, Maybe the
Speaker 2: girls are just keeping you motivated. What what is that?
Speaker 2: Because you've been doing it a long time, but you
Speaker 2: still have a long road it if you want to continue.
Speaker 8: I mean love. I think it's just a passion for it.
Speaker 8: I really enjoy it. And it's not just I mean, yes,
Speaker 8: I love to win. I love being you know, having
Speaker 8: that competitive atmosphere for sure, but I also care about
Speaker 8: these girls off the fields, and I've developed a lot
Speaker 8: of good relationships with former players families, you know. I
Speaker 8: still it's always so cool to get these messages and
Speaker 8: phone calls and see the support from the former players
Speaker 8: of alumni coming back and their families and just creating
Speaker 8: that and just seeing how they are, you know, when
Speaker 8: they're getting married and they're having babies and many years
Speaker 8: down the road obviously, but it's just I love seeing
Speaker 8: that part of it. It's bigger. Like obviously I enjoyed
Speaker 8: it as a player winning, but getting to have you know,
Speaker 8: twenty to twenty five girls every year that you're building
Speaker 8: these relationships.
Speaker 7: With it means something to me. And I think that's
Speaker 7: something my mom has passed down.
Speaker 8: To me, and you know, she's got every one of
Speaker 8: my games. My family's there. It's just something that I
Speaker 8: think they know that I'm very passionate about and that
Speaker 8: I love. So I think that's you and I don't
Speaker 8: like to live.
Speaker 3: By the way.
Speaker 2: I wanted to go see you guys play, but someone
Speaker 2: forgot to let me know when they played.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 8: To be fair, I do have, Like you mentioned, my
Speaker 8: life is crazy and I.
Speaker 7: Have a lot of meages every day.
Speaker 8: So I apologizing.
Speaker 5: It's not your day to watch Steve Kelly.
Speaker 3: It's not your day to watch.
Speaker 2: You know, no excuses. One last question I asked Wolf
Speaker 2: this yesterday. Okay, so we all know Wolf, he's the
Speaker 2: grandfather of soccer and Tucson has done so so well.
Speaker 2: What do they think of him up north because he's
Speaker 2: done so well? And he says, well, they kind of
Speaker 2: don't really like me. But for you, I mean for you,
Speaker 2: we all know your success and you're doing really well.
Speaker 2: What are the people beyond Tucson think of Kelly Pearson's
Speaker 2: South Point? Because I'm sure they say, oh God, we
Speaker 2: gotta please they come again.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, I think it's actually a mixed you know.
Speaker 8: It's something that I always at the end of the
Speaker 8: year to myself. I always think, thank you guys for
Speaker 8: hating us and putting you know, giving us so much
Speaker 8: crap in pre season and talking about us and worried
Speaker 8: about us, because I think that motivates us further. Yeah, collectively,
Speaker 8: not just me, But I think it's a mix. I
Speaker 8: do think I have a lot of respect from a
Speaker 8: lot of different coaches and it's soccer community in general.
Speaker 8: But I'm sure there's always you know, maybe a coach
Speaker 8: or two that i'd be and they weren't happy about it.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I've felt it both ways.
Speaker 8: But I think I do have more support than not,
Speaker 8: is what I would like to think at least.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Kelly, thank you, YadA YadA, talk to you,
Speaker 2: ye YadA, YadA, talk to you. Thank you, good luck
Speaker 2: and again, congrats, get some good stuff at the grocery store.
Speaker 3: Six wins.
Speaker 8: All right, thank you guys so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you Kelly Perce from South Point.
Speaker 3: Cool. Cool, Let's take a break and come back.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera He's got his eye on the ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson's sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to one in the Ball Hero Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Vera in with me for
Speaker 2: the final second. Henry Matt finished out the week's two
Speaker 2: week cool things going on. So you wanted to continue with.
Speaker 5: Some numbers, Yeah, I wanted to circle back because I
Speaker 5: am a little bit of a stat break on some
Speaker 5: of this stuff.
Speaker 3: So I was looking. I was going through.
Speaker 5: The U of A basketball media guide trying to find
Speaker 5: other games where both teams went into triple digits. I
Speaker 5: found one more back in nineteen fifty five, but this
Speaker 5: was an overtime game. So you got to throw throw
Speaker 5: in that caveat another ASU game and a Arizona lost.
Speaker 3: One O four to one O.
Speaker 5: Three three pointers, no three pointers, three of them and
Speaker 5: also no thirty second shot clock. So there were three
Speaker 5: of them and all three of them against as U.
Speaker 5: Now there were a bunch of close ones. Yeah, that
Speaker 5: would have been a bare down there a bunch. There
Speaker 5: was a bunch of close ones. I mentioned in two uh.
Speaker 5: This was way back when LOOT would schedule a good
Speaker 5: non conference game on the weekend after playing as U
Speaker 5: in the middle of the week.
Speaker 3: And they played Yukon here coming in two two.
Speaker 5: Thousand and two, so coming off Arizona's championship game appearance
Speaker 5: and lost in one hundred to ninety eight in overtime.
Speaker 3: I remember that game.
Speaker 2: I remember it was the return game from the other
Speaker 2: game that Yukon beat Arizona on that.
Speaker 3: Golden that wasn't called that, No, that was they called it.
Speaker 2: And Lauren Wood Yeah yeah, let me ask you something
Speaker 2: because these are easy or hard to remember. But okay,
Speaker 2: so that was Richie Balostero's special on the goaltending that
Speaker 2: may or may not have happened, right. What about the
Speaker 2: foul that was called on Townsend? Was that a foul
Speaker 2: because you have I haven't seen you since then on
Speaker 2: the Townsend foul.
Speaker 3: With BYU oh b. Why did you even see it?
Speaker 3: I didn't really see it when it happened.
Speaker 5: Really, it really happened because I see as soon as
Speaker 5: a guy with with what I do. As soon as
Speaker 5: the guy starts going to the basket, I look at
Speaker 5: my computer so they can get ready to input.
Speaker 3: Whatever I didn't see, I saw the replay.
Speaker 5: I saw a whole bunch of different views of it,
Speaker 5: you know, on social media.
Speaker 3: Townsend clearly bumped him as he started to drive.
Speaker 2: Right or I thought it was more of the other
Speaker 2: guy bumped.
Speaker 5: But either there was contact. Let me put it that way.
Speaker 5: There was contact when the guy started to drive but
Speaker 5: once the guy got past Townsend and he went up
Speaker 5: for the shot, he didn't touch him. So what struck
Speaker 5: me more than anything, and this is I think what
Speaker 5: bothered people is the guy the referee who was right
Speaker 5: next to the play. The referee closest to the plate
Speaker 5: didn't call it, and Tony Padilla calls it from the
Speaker 5: scores table.
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on, thought, we're going to take a call here. Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air and one on the ball.
Speaker 3: Who's this, Nico? What's up?
Speaker 1: Hey? Man?
Speaker 22: Chilling man, I got a question for you.
Speaker 17: Man.
Speaker 22: We're ready as you should. But hey, he ends up believing.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 22: Do you think the women's basketball grat just dies?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Matt says yes with that question, he would like. I
Speaker 2: think it depends on who they get. And the name
Speaker 2: has already been mentioned in publicly. Is the Vegas coach
Speaker 2: who she hired in Vegas. She's very good? Yeah, very
Speaker 2: very good.
Speaker 5: I think I think I think this because the women's
Speaker 5: basketball fan is different from the men's basketball fan. The
Speaker 5: women's basketball fan is almost like the softball fan. They're
Speaker 5: going to follow the program until there's a reason not
Speaker 5: to follow them. So I think that the fans would
Speaker 5: give a new coach a chance. And but I do
Speaker 5: think that like all fans, they want wins, right, There'll
Speaker 5: be some loyalty, as there is for everybody, right, But
Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't think it would be an
Speaker 5: immediate serious drop off. I think the fans say, Okay,
Speaker 5: you know she she do you create a good program,
Speaker 5: I'll keep following it.
Speaker 3: That's what do you go Nico, This is a strange question,
Speaker 3: But no.
Speaker 22: I don't go to the women's games, but I watch
Speaker 22: them just because idea. Yeah, like, and that's what I'm
Speaker 22: saying is ideal.
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Like I'm saying, there's loyal people like you that me
Speaker 2: just say I don't want to do.
Speaker 5: And part of it will be the personality of the
Speaker 5: new coach, because that's what let's say, let's say is
Speaker 5: a personality, right, she created, she created, Right, So I
Speaker 5: don't know, Nico, I would say it would we would
Speaker 5: have to wait and see.
Speaker 3: I can't. I don't know you can answer that question
Speaker 3: either way just right away.
Speaker 22: Yeah, man, I'm saying, Man, I feel like it would
Speaker 22: go back to like one hundred people probably going to
Speaker 22: the game.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if they win. If they win,
Speaker 2: they'll they'll come. You know, that's just you know, Tucsons,
Speaker 2: that's just how does hey do they win tomorrow?
Speaker 22: Men's basketball? Man, I don't know. Man, this team is
Speaker 22: like a crazy woman.
Speaker 20: Man.
Speaker 22: The highs are great. The loser's just terrible.
Speaker 3: Man, my boy, those women, those women.
Speaker 22: Hey, Steve, though, if you want to buy some stop,
Speaker 22: I'll tickets. I may or may not know someone that has.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, let me know you probably they're probably yours,
Speaker 2: but you probably take all the good games.
Speaker 22: They're down the third baseline.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you go for a completely different reason than
Speaker 5: Steve would go.
Speaker 2: No, no, let's go. Let's keep me in mind, and
Speaker 2: you know how to find me, you know.
Speaker 22: And first of all, Jay, I go because I respect
Speaker 22: the game. It's better than baseball. It's a lot faster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for keeping those funny appreciated.
Speaker 5: God, I was going to say something really bad, and
Speaker 5: I stopped myself.
Speaker 2: You gotta steal ye go on once a week. I
Speaker 2: got to keep my job.
Speaker 3: Here, I stop myself. Okay, no more calls. We can
Speaker 3: take something more.
Speaker 5: Anyway, you know, going back to the whole thing, Well,
Speaker 5: that that one hundred and ninety eight to ninety eight game.
Speaker 5: That was also the game where we got the stack
Speaker 5: Crew got called out because a Mecca okafor was one
Speaker 5: block short of a triple double and there was a
Speaker 5: ball that went up that it was close and we
Speaker 5: didn't call it a block, and Jim Calhoun in Sports
Speaker 5: Illustrated had a quote that it should have been a
Speaker 5: triple double, but the stack Crew and Tucson didn't give
Speaker 5: him his death block.
Speaker 2: Well, those were the good old days of those types
Speaker 2: of games. You know, Arizona went there, they came here, Kansas, Kansas.
Speaker 5: You played, they played everybody, right, they played Illinois, they
Speaker 5: played North Carolina, the Duke a few times, all the
Speaker 5: you know all those where they played the home ASU
Speaker 5: game in the in the middle of the week so
Speaker 5: they could play a great conference game, nationally televised conference game,
Speaker 5: and you.
Speaker 2: Got a weekend Tommy, because he's doing that now, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to do that now.
Speaker 5: We were having actually were having a fun conversation about that,
Speaker 5: and this was a conversation in the middle of the
Speaker 5: game on Tuesday night. The question came up was did
Speaker 5: this did the UFA fans lose their stuff when when
Speaker 5: Seawan Elliott did not make the eighty eight Olympic team, right,
Speaker 5: and then the young guys didn't know that John Thompson
Speaker 5: was the coach of that team, and I said, of
Speaker 5: course they lost their stuff. Also because that was the
Speaker 5: time when John Thompson had declined the return game with
Speaker 5: Arizona that they were supposed to play that year, because
Speaker 5: Arizona went and played them up there in eighty seven
Speaker 5: got the living crap beat out of them, and then
Speaker 5: when Thompson realized the eighty eight team was going to
Speaker 5: be really, really good. And incidentally, if you watch that
Speaker 5: video that Dana Cooper did of the of the eighty
Speaker 5: eight team, he shows a highlight from the eighty seven
Speaker 5: game at Georgetown where Billy Packer predicted that Arizona would
Speaker 5: have a Final four quality team the next year and
Speaker 5: Thompson and declined to come and play the return game
Speaker 5: that year. He said, at the time the PAC twelve
Speaker 5: PAC ten had a rule that at pack ten home
Speaker 5: games it was packed ten refs. Well, they played with
Speaker 5: the Big East refs at Georgetown, and he said he
Speaker 5: wasn't gonna come here if they had packed Pack ten
Speaker 5: refs and they didn't come and they just paid Arizona
Speaker 5: off on the contract. But it was really because he
Speaker 5: knew he was gonna get his ass kicked and he
Speaker 5: and he declined to come. But again that was another
Speaker 5: one of those return games that was gonna one of
Speaker 5: those great non conference games that was going to be scheduled.
Speaker 3: They were going to play charge. Yeah, well, Bill the
Speaker 3: Packer was was sput on.
Speaker 2: Everybody else didn't didn't think see what he saw that?
Speaker 5: And I don't even remember that happening, right, you know,
Speaker 5: I the first time I saw that that clip was
Speaker 5: when I saw the video. If I'd have known that
Speaker 5: Billy Packer had said that on TV, I would have.
Speaker 3: Used that in a you know, it's you know, in
Speaker 3: a story.
Speaker 5: But yeah, he predicted that Arizona could go to the
Speaker 5: Final four in eighty eight, and then they did, which
Speaker 5: is crazy because nobody else thought that. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 5: know I didn't think that. I think you were talking
Speaker 5: you you were with me when I talked. We talked
Speaker 5: to Harvey, right, you talk to Harvey and Matt those
Speaker 5: teams and Tobart. Last week, that team just beat the
Speaker 5: crap out of each other, just beat the crap against
Speaker 5: people just because just they want to play hard and
Speaker 5: right have fun.
Speaker 3: I mean, not too many teams like that.
Speaker 5: Since right, right, you know, just did it just because yeah,
Speaker 5: you knows as as uh, you know, I've told that
Speaker 5: story about seeing Steve Kurr in the elevator after one
Speaker 5: of those games when Arizona just got his butt kicked
Speaker 5: and he just said, this team doesn't have oh yeah,
Speaker 5: he doesn't have the tough this team has to play
Speaker 5: year before yeah, the year before that, this team has
Speaker 5: to put a snarl on its face and decided. Pete
Speaker 5: Williams and Steve Kerr brought that to that team. That
Speaker 5: team was tough.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: Tom Tolbert, as goofy and nutty as that guy was,
Speaker 5: he was a badass on the floor, right.
Speaker 3: He was a six to seventh center, he was. He
Speaker 3: was a waka. Yes, physically he was a six to
Speaker 3: seventh center.
Speaker 5: And well he didn't look like he didn't look like
Speaker 5: Tobyo waka. He didn't look like he was a badass.
Speaker 5: He was and he took up space in the middle
Speaker 5: and he didn't take crap from anybody. Then you had
Speaker 5: Anthony Cook who could block anything, right, you know, Elliott,
Speaker 5: you know matured that year that was his junior year.
Speaker 5: McMillan was just a quiet assassin, and then Kerr was
Speaker 5: the guy who brought an attitude Kenny off. Kenny Lofton
Speaker 5: was an incredible talent of you want to talk about
Speaker 5: a change of pace. You were covering Steve Kerr, Now
Speaker 5: you're trying to cover Kenny Lofton, who could jump out
Speaker 5: of the gym. That created problems for for for the
Speaker 5: other teams.
Speaker 2: No, and that team became the favorite sign of just
Speaker 2: down back then. Many of the kids.
Speaker 5: Don't know about it still is still is, but you know,
Speaker 5: you know, getting back to the whole triple digits by
Speaker 5: both teams, that was that was crazy the other night.
Speaker 3: And and uh.
Speaker 5: I actually actually at towards the end actually was hoping
Speaker 5: as you would get to one hundred just so we
Speaker 5: could have that.
Speaker 2: We're all talking about that when that happened, because we
Speaker 2: didn't know when the last time and then looked it
Speaker 2: up seventy three, but no other two teams had done that. Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: Arizona and Arizona and somebody else. It was all the issues.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's happened three times, and all three times
Speaker 5: it's in ASU.
Speaker 3: But one of them.
Speaker 5: The one in fifty five was an overtime game, so
Speaker 5: that it kind of you know, if you're talking about
Speaker 5: a regulation game, it's it's been twice that that's happened.
Speaker 3: We got about five minutes or too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, if you want to call it, get us
Speaker 2: one last question, good week? All right, what do you
Speaker 2: think tomorrow? I think they lose. I think the first
Speaker 2: one to seventy five wins it. You know, seventy seventy
Speaker 2: something seventy maybe.
Speaker 3: Why do you think they lose?
Speaker 2: It's gonna be tough to Gary said, it's perfectly. They
Speaker 2: haven't lost a Senior Day in forty some years. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that plays a factor, right, and stuff, I've been there.
Speaker 2: If you want to talk about a trend, right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Why would you bet the otherwise? Right, they're a favorite
Speaker 2: by three and a half. I wouldn't touch that. Uh
Speaker 2: does it really mean much to Arizona? Probably not.
Speaker 5: You could mean from a seed, but if they you know,
Speaker 5: if they win a couple of games in the in
Speaker 5: the Big ten, Big Tough Tournament, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: That could be a quick trip to the Big twelve tournament.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're going good luck, they would play.
Speaker 5: They would play Iowa State if the seeds hole. So
Speaker 5: Iris stay right now with the five I think, but
Speaker 5: so you.
Speaker 2: Know, you know, it's it's and it's a trip far
Speaker 2: away people are did you see the stuff on Twitter
Speaker 2: and Facebook? No one was going to the games to
Speaker 2: see the women's tournament. No one's gonna go to eight ninees.
Speaker 2: No one's gonna go to the ones. They're gonna go
Speaker 2: tomorrow right on Saturday, right today and Saturday. Same with
Speaker 2: the guys. Yeah, that's when the.
Speaker 5: Well, the Wednesdays were a little thin in Vegas, the
Speaker 5: Wednesdays with the with the lower seeded games, and then
Speaker 5: then the the the tempo would pick up when the one, two, three,
Speaker 5: and four seeds would show up on.
Speaker 2: Friday nights and Saturday nights. We're huge because that the
Speaker 2: would be yeah, you know, and the rest would be
Speaker 2: dancing that park place ball and whatever you know.
Speaker 3: In the morning. Where are you from? Drink?
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's what I think. It's gonna be missed
Speaker 2: by so many people. You just made that trip already.
Speaker 3: I missed it already.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, thanks guys, it's good. You gotta go the
Speaker 2: time like a minute, okay, cool? Thanks everybody. Next week's
Speaker 2: another week. I'm not sure. Well next week, are you
Speaker 2: win next Friday?
Speaker 3: I could be here next Friday. You have nothing else
Speaker 3: to do. I don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think they're gonna play. I would say
Speaker 4: they're ever gonna play Baylor. Yeah, State is going to
Speaker 4: be the five and they're gonna be the three, so
Speaker 4: they'll play.
Speaker 2: I was still thinking if the winner of tomorrow or
Speaker 2: tomorrow whoever wins, won't win the repeat game next week
Speaker 2: if they played. Yeah, Okay, thanks guys, Thank you, Henry,
Speaker 2: thanks for keeping in touch with this, Matt, thanks for
Speaker 2: being here.
Speaker 3: A bunch of jay you two alrighty Man and me.
Speaker 3: I'll see you guys next week for