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Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera in today's high school
Speaker 2: former high school coach and maybe trying to find a
Speaker 2: high school coach. Jeff Scurring obviously, and now we have
Speaker 2: Henry with breaking news.
Speaker 1: Well, this is Eye on the Ball breaking news on
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Speaker 3: Wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins was traded to the Chiefs this
Speaker 3: morning for a fifth round pick that will become a
Speaker 3: fourth round pick if the Chiefs reached the Super Bowl
Speaker 3: and Hopkins plays at least sixty percent of the snaps.
Speaker 2: You just got better.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, I said, that's that's ever been talking about.
Speaker 4: Are their Chiefs going to do anything at the receiver
Speaker 4: position because they've lost a few and big Gower.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 2: That's what good teams do, right, And we talked about
Speaker 2: this yesterday or Monday, right Henry, Oh, they're not playing
Speaker 2: as welllah blah blah.
Speaker 3: The NBA season kicked off last night the Celtics defeat
Speaker 3: in the Knicks one hundred and thirty two to one
Speaker 3: hundred nine and tied the record for most threes in a.
Speaker 2: Game with twenty nine.
Speaker 3: Nice and the Lakers defeated the Timberwolves one ten two,
Speaker 3: one o three.
Speaker 2: And Ronnie and his son played. Yep, that was kind
Speaker 2: of a well where, you know, obviously historical, but it
Speaker 2: was I don't I don't know. How would you say,
Speaker 2: did you watch some of it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I watched when how was that? I think it was cool.
Speaker 3: I think if they were obviously, if they were losing
Speaker 3: by a lot, I think they wouldn't have done that.
Speaker 3: But I think in that moment they were sixteen or something. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it felt right in that moment, and it was just
Speaker 3: a really cool moment to watch.
Speaker 4: As a parent and a grandparent, I love that. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm not you know, the basketball aficionado
Speaker 4: here for sure, but I just as a parent a grandparent,
Speaker 4: I thought that was just really really cool. And I
Speaker 4: want to say one thing about the Knicks. Losing got
Speaker 4: to be a little bit of pressure on Knicks with
Speaker 4: us with that T David looking pretty dark that I
Speaker 4: would think that in that town, if you're in New
Speaker 4: York right now, and you're not going to produce it
Speaker 4: the next I have a feeling that something's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you heard it here.
Speaker 3: First, Panthers quarterback Andy Dalton was injured in a car crash,
Speaker 3: and they announced that Bryce Young will be the starter
Speaker 3: for a weekly eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So did they say what the injury was.
Speaker 3: They didn't say the specific injury, but they said he
Speaker 3: was banged up from the Well.
Speaker 4: Okay, now you know why they pay backup quarterback so
Speaker 4: much money.
Speaker 2: Well, and in the back of this guc it was
Speaker 2: the starter. Get with it.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 3: Former Dodgers pitcher Fernando Vealezuela died last night at age
Speaker 3: sixty three. It wasn't announced the specific cause of death,
Speaker 3: but he took a break before the playoffs for health.
Speaker 2: Yeah. When when that happened and you saw photos something
Speaker 2: when he took the break, you're thinking, what the heck?
Speaker 2: He was very thin and obviously looked sickly, and that
Speaker 2: what maybe a month later he passed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll never forget him looking up at the sky
Speaker 4: when he pitched that. Just that's just an iconic picture
Speaker 4: of a guy that I mean, come on, he brought
Speaker 4: a whole different level when he pitched.
Speaker 5: Sure they're all excited.
Speaker 2: Sure, No, Back in the day, for me, you had
Speaker 2: Louis Tiant who did this, you know that motion look
Speaker 2: to the sky and that's kicking that wind.
Speaker 5: Up and the stop Martin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just you know you you remember those dudes who
Speaker 2: pitched like just just unorthodox.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you just just think about it though, But
Speaker 4: he was. There was more than that. There was something
Speaker 4: about his personality. It was a kind of a happening
Speaker 4: and a time when baseball really needed that.
Speaker 2: No question with a dog in eighty one. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: hispanic kid coming in and just kind of getting lucky
Speaker 2: and the guy rouse I think it was who got
Speaker 2: he couldn't come and play, or he couldn't he wasn't
Speaker 2: physically ready to play. Bernando comes in and throws a
Speaker 2: shut out and the rest of history.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And he was a phenom, but he stayed, he lasted.
Speaker 4: I think of Mark the Bird, Fedric and people like that,
Speaker 4: and they were they were a thing and then they
Speaker 4: were gone. But he was a thing and he stayed.
Speaker 4: And that was his great story. Plus I heard heard
Speaker 4: nothing but great things about it.
Speaker 5: As a person.
Speaker 2: That's a good pool with Mark the Bird Fedrich Detroit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: don't give me the bird coach.
Speaker 3: It was announced today that Oregon State and Washington State
Speaker 3: will play each other in football two times next season
Speaker 3: before the Pac twelve expands in twenty twenty six, two
Speaker 3: times in the season in the same season. Wow, four
Speaker 3: weeks apart, it said.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, and they do it in the NFL, right.
Speaker 2: That's that's true. Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was surprised when I saw that the NBA is
Speaker 3: going to investigate seventy six Ers center Joel Embiid over
Speaker 3: his participation after not playing in the preseason for what
Speaker 3: the team said was injury management, and he will miss
Speaker 3: the first three games at least of this season.
Speaker 5: That's a that's that's such a difficult situation.
Speaker 4: You know, if you don't know what's going on behind
Speaker 4: the scenes, and the doctor's not gonna he's they're going
Speaker 4: to give you a general updates, and usually it doesn't
Speaker 4: come from the doctor itself, it comes from the management
Speaker 4: of the team. That's just that's one of those situations.
Speaker 4: Having worked seventh summers with Utah Jazz in the weight room,
Speaker 4: that's just those types of situations are the types that
Speaker 4: you'll never see other players criticize the guy over that
Speaker 4: those things are so individual and unless you're there, you
Speaker 4: just don't know.
Speaker 5: He would could speculate all we want.
Speaker 3: Commander's quarterback Jane and Daniels missed practice today. His status
Speaker 3: is still uncertain for Sunday's game against the Bears and
Speaker 3: number one pick Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize, coach, that someone told us last week
Speaker 2: that he was being well, I know Clill Tate said
Speaker 2: that he was being recruited here back in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 2: so something like that seventeen, and then he obviously took
Speaker 2: a different route and went up north.
Speaker 4: There there's a guy that was was really kind of
Speaker 4: a not an unknown but you know, we just couldn't
Speaker 4: put the finger on athlete, quarterback, thrower, you know, and
Speaker 4: and now who could have I don't even think until
Speaker 4: he went down to Florida State that anybody could have
Speaker 4: seen this in his background.
Speaker 5: He certainly was pretty good.
Speaker 4: I mean, Daniels, yeah, l I mean you could see
Speaker 4: it kind of happening. But but boy, yeah no, he
Speaker 4: blew up, he did, he did.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It just goes to show you the development of these
Speaker 4: guys happens if they got the basic stuff and they got.
Speaker 5: The wherewithal to study of the game.
Speaker 4: That's the biggest thing going from college to the pros.
Speaker 5: You got to study the game.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's the difference, coach, Because I asked you,
Speaker 2: who would you rather have if you have both? And
Speaker 2: that's what you're Yes, If you guys have a guy
Speaker 2: who has talents and then studies it, do you have
Speaker 2: a deadly combination?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Because here's the thing.
Speaker 4: Everybody in the end of the NFL had all something
Speaker 4: in front of their name. They're all all America and
Speaker 4: all conference. They are all or they didn't get there
Speaker 4: in the first place.
Speaker 2: Sure they know how to get there. Yeah, that's all
Speaker 2: I got. Okay, I got an email, coach. I have
Speaker 2: a question for you. Can you tell the coach that
Speaker 2: if he is looking for a job, there was a
Speaker 2: school near Campbell and sixth that could use an offensive
Speaker 2: coin coordinator drust that resume off.
Speaker 5: Offense or coordinator. I don't know, I never really thought
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 2: Sure you have it, Sure you have it. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: if anybody wants to call, we have some time here.
Speaker 2: We can take a call. Five two oh for one
Speaker 2: six seventy four forty If you want to call, talk
Speaker 2: to coach, ask him a question. Is he coming back
Speaker 2: or not? Your seventy something seven seventy seven? You know, Hey,
Speaker 2: why not just get it at the morning, sip your coffee,
Speaker 2: your legs up on your chair, kind of enjoy the
Speaker 2: moment and say, God, I'm glad it's all behind me.
Speaker 2: But you need something, don't you?
Speaker 4: First of all, I don't drink coffee. Ask number one.
Speaker 4: Number two. I really don't sit around hardly.
Speaker 2: At all, ob zero for two? What else you're wrong?
Speaker 4: I just and I'm just not the guy that sits
Speaker 4: around and waits for things to happen. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go someplace. I'm going to do something.
Speaker 4: You know, I've I've hit all seven continents now. I
Speaker 4: love travel, I love adventure. Life is about experiencing things.
Speaker 4: And and I tell you what there's to me. There's
Speaker 4: nothing like being in an exciting game and that whistle
Speaker 4: blows and they kick it off, and no matter how
Speaker 4: nervous or how whatever I was before.
Speaker 5: The game, I'm in that moment.
Speaker 4: And there's very few things in life outside of being
Speaker 4: a husband or a parent that even come close to
Speaker 4: matching that. Mm hm.
Speaker 2: And you you're world travel you played, you coached everywhere,
Speaker 2: and now do you know you're at Florida as a
Speaker 2: small quarterback. Yeah, the things I learned every day. Hey,
Speaker 2: did you see that Salah's gonna go with the Green
Speaker 2: Bay Packers.
Speaker 3: I didn't know if that was confirmed or not. I
Speaker 3: saw he was at the practice.
Speaker 2: Looks like he's going to join them, join him. I
Speaker 2: guess he is close to friends with the head coach. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're in one of the he was either he's wedding
Speaker 2: or vice versa.
Speaker 3: Part of me was thinking he's trying to get back
Speaker 3: at Rogers, go back.
Speaker 2: To his old team. Who knows, who knows?
Speaker 4: You know, people just got to understand these, you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's always situational.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: He didn't become a bad coach when he went to
Speaker 4: the Jets. He was a good coach. He's recognized as
Speaker 4: a good coach, He's recognized as a solid guy. He's
Speaker 4: going to be successful, He's going to get another shot
Speaker 4: somebody else.
Speaker 5: Because it's in.
Speaker 4: Fact, it's a very small fraternity and the situation, I
Speaker 4: don't know many guys in the NFL, and I know
Speaker 4: quite a few of them, but I don't know many
Speaker 4: guys in the AND that really would want that as
Speaker 4: their first choice of a job. Right now, they're playing
Speaker 4: with Aaron as their guy, even as good as talented.
Speaker 5: That's just a tough that's a tough way to go.
Speaker 2: Dynamics is difficult. Let me ask you a quick question.
Speaker 2: So you're the head coach at X y Z school
Speaker 2: and you have a good contract. Obviously you're doing well.
Speaker 2: Now you have a quarterback who's making X amount of money,
Speaker 2: like a decent money. He's a quarterback. How do you
Speaker 2: how do you coach that when? When when the kid
Speaker 2: probably doesn't want to listen to you, doesn't want to
Speaker 2: be coached or whatever. Maybe he does be he doesn't,
Speaker 2: but he's making money. Now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that dynamic has changed things a little bit. That's
Speaker 4: why the relationship that you know with a player and
Speaker 4: the coach is so important. You when you walk across
Speaker 4: the white line, it's got to be all business, and
Speaker 4: that business is winning football games. And if you can't
Speaker 4: handle that, you don't belong there as a player or
Speaker 4: as a coach, because in fact, that player is never
Speaker 4: going to reach their potential.
Speaker 5: They're not.
Speaker 4: They're not going to get seen by the next level,
Speaker 4: which is why they're making these transfers.
Speaker 5: They want to get there. They're looking for opportunity.
Speaker 4: And without that combination of player and coach working hand
Speaker 4: in hand for the same goals. And it better be
Speaker 4: that mutual goal of winning games and this kid looking good,
Speaker 4: it better be that. And not every game has to
Speaker 4: be this guy's Bailli Wick, but certainly it's got to
Speaker 4: be a well thought out strategy. I'll never forget when
Speaker 4: I took PEM out of the bowl game on national
Speaker 4: television and we figured out the strategy real quick. And
Speaker 4: I had the leading quarterback receiver combination in the nation
Speaker 4: and we were averaging thirty four passes per game. And guys,
Speaker 4: this was two thousand and four. It wasn't the same
Speaker 4: level of ago. Yeah it was, And so I had
Speaker 4: to sit down. I looked at the films and I
Speaker 4: look at their pass defense, and I see guys, you know,
Speaker 4: catch a pass, and I don't see them anymore in film,
Speaker 4: because you know, we don't see the full game.
Speaker 5: We see just the stop action.
Speaker 4: And I'm looking at that, and I'm looking at I'm
Speaker 4: saying and seeing their defense and how their three tailbacks
Speaker 4: and their full scholarship, and we don't have any scholarships.
Speaker 4: And I'm looking at that, and I come up with
Speaker 4: a strategy. And I got to bring in my quarterback
Speaker 4: and receiver and sit them down and say, guys, if
Speaker 4: we throw the ball twenty two times, we lose. And
Speaker 4: they got to understand the strategy to win the game.
Speaker 4: I said, but that fourth quarter, guys, that's your time,
Speaker 4: and you're going to shine and you're going to win
Speaker 4: the game for us. And guess what, we won the
Speaker 4: game on past number two on one.
Speaker 5: Now you can't you can't. You can't make that up.
Speaker 4: I mean, but that's just not a strategy that worked
Speaker 4: out for me. That's because the kids bought into that strategy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty oh four, yep, twenty years ago, that's when
Speaker 2: it happened. I would have been I would have lost
Speaker 2: my life if you would have said, okay, I want
Speaker 2: to bet your life. If if you remember what I
Speaker 2: would have say ten years ago? Tops, really can you
Speaker 2: believe that, I know you were a young man fifty
Speaker 2: seven years old, then that what's happening? Holy moly? Where
Speaker 2: the time was coming gone?
Speaker 4: And I had a big national magazine LESBI as one
Speaker 4: of the top ten coaches you know you got to
Speaker 4: look for in the future, not quite knowing.
Speaker 5: I was fifty seven at the time.
Speaker 2: Right, did you let me ask you a question? Because
Speaker 2: I was Jay and I go through this all the time. Uh,
Speaker 2: what point? At what point? Maybe you don't know feel
Speaker 2: it now? What how old is? When did you realize
Speaker 2: you're old? Ye know? At what age?
Speaker 4: I think it's I think it's probably different from everybody.
Speaker 4: I just think I know a lot of young people
Speaker 4: that are old souls, and they're really nice people.
Speaker 2: This is another noun answered question. Give me an answer.
Speaker 5: I just age is relative. I don't know. I just
Speaker 5: I don't feel old.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of things I can't do that I
Speaker 4: used to do, and I recognize these things that are happening,
Speaker 4: and I see other people.
Speaker 5: But you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 4: You just you take today, you get up in the morning,
Speaker 4: You make the best days you can.
Speaker 5: If you don't do that, it's kind of depressing. And
Speaker 5: I went through a little.
Speaker 4: Bit of this not too long ago, when I gave
Speaker 4: up coaching and everybody was starting to you know, I
Speaker 4: did a bunch of quarterbacks. I trained in the off
Speaker 4: season and that went really well. I had a great
Speaker 4: great amount of fun with that, and I had like
Speaker 4: forty kids that I was training, and I was out
Speaker 4: on the field almost every day and it was a
Speaker 4: real kicking And I do my charity work that I
Speaker 4: do in Mexico that you know about, and I like
Speaker 4: to stay active like that. But then the football season
Speaker 4: started and my kids went away that I was coaching,
Speaker 4: they went to their teams, and it was all of
Speaker 4: a sudden it hit me. And it wasn't that I
Speaker 4: was old. It's that I'm am I useful anymore?
Speaker 5: Am I?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: I think to stay the vibrant in life, you have
Speaker 4: to have a purpose.
Speaker 5: You have to feel active.
Speaker 4: And I was kind of searching and I still am
Speaker 4: kind of a little bit to what is my purpose?
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 4: And jeez, I'm a football coach. Now, that's not the
Speaker 4: greatest thing in the world. That I'm not making peace
Speaker 4: treaties to solve the problems in the Middle East.
Speaker 5: I'm not on that level.
Speaker 4: But you know what, I'm the guy that takes a
Speaker 4: little pebble and I throw it out into the water
Speaker 4: and it hits in the middle of that pond, and
Speaker 4: I watched the ripple go to distant shores, and those
Speaker 4: ripples are people.
Speaker 5: They're kids.
Speaker 4: And my wife gets on me for calling these guys
Speaker 4: that are now fifties and sixties for calling them kids,
Speaker 4: but they still are to me. They were my players,
Speaker 4: they're my kids, and I watched them be successful in life.
Speaker 5: And I was just a little little little part of that.
Speaker 5: And you know what, that's really good. I really like that.
Speaker 2: Henry. What did I ask when I what age did
Speaker 2: you give me? When I said old go ahead?
Speaker 5: I said sixty?
Speaker 2: Did you okay?
Speaker 5: Six?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: It was it was met I said forty, Matty sentiment, Okay,
Speaker 2: we got to take a break. You never gave me
Speaker 2: an answer. You're like, you're great with no no answers. Coach,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ge. I'm wanna get you son.
Speaker 5: Some people a politician, no worry.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, that's not a good They had the
Speaker 2: big twelve media day to day in Kansas City, uh
Speaker 2: and and Tommy Lloyd was on the podium and I
Speaker 2: guess someone asked him who put the non conference schedule together?
Speaker 2: Came up with the funny line, it depends. He said,
Speaker 2: if we win, I'll let you know. If we lose,
Speaker 2: I'll probably let that person know.
Speaker 5: That's a great answer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Okay, let's go.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xys and os. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Jeff
Speaker 2: skurin the age. Listen, Jeth Scart down the phone. We
Speaker 2: have mister Javio Morales from Allsports Tucson dot com. How
Speaker 2: are you doing, haf good?
Speaker 6: How are you guys doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing fun. Gimme give me a short or two sentence,
Speaker 2: a short sentence or two about the guy that's with
Speaker 2: me here.
Speaker 13: Innovator, great communicator. That's two Well, that's that's a word
Speaker 13: and a sentence, two word sentence.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 5: Thanks Avy, I are you next?
Speaker 4: Next?
Speaker 2: I like that?
Speaker 13: And obviously and obviously those two those qualities tie into
Speaker 13: a good coach and being able to work with different
Speaker 13: coaching staffs and players that he's been able to do.
Speaker 2: Right right, right. So now you're you're following football like
Speaker 2: most people know, and you do it well. Who are
Speaker 2: we going to watch the next month or so? Oh?
Speaker 13: Marana Mirana right now is the number one team in
Speaker 13: the whole state, if you can believe that, because they're
Speaker 13: number one in the Open division. Uh there eight, No,
Speaker 13: And it's held up that be number one in the
Speaker 13: Open Division, even though Phoenix has all those powerhouse six
Speaker 13: A teams like Red Mountain and Bashia and you know,
Speaker 13: Brophy Prep and all those type of programs. But there's
Speaker 13: still number one with only two weeks. They only have
Speaker 13: two games left. So even if they even if they
Speaker 13: went out, I think they'll I'm sorry, even if they
Speaker 13: might lose a game, they might still be in the
Speaker 13: Open Division. If they went out, they probably won't be
Speaker 13: number one because of those six eight teams are starting
Speaker 13: to climb up those power ratings because they're playing each
Speaker 13: other up there. But it looks like I would say,
Speaker 13: like a ninety percent chance that Morana will be in
Speaker 13: the Open Division, which is which is phenomenal when you
Speaker 13: consider the amount of resources that Southern Arizona schools have
Speaker 13: compared to what's going up in Phoenix.
Speaker 4: I've gotten to see them play twice and they're they're exciting,
Speaker 4: just an exciting ball club and they're they're playing kids.
Speaker 4: They've got a freshman linebacker. They're they're playing kids all over.
Speaker 4: They just there. They have fun out there on the field.
Speaker 4: And I saw him play Solid Point and one other
Speaker 4: game and that was just fun to watch.
Speaker 13: Well, I think the biggest difference issue with them is
Speaker 13: their defense. Their offense is always poland, but their defenses
Speaker 13: really come around this year. You know, Phillip Stewart is
Speaker 13: a former linebacker at Houston and he played for the Rams,
Speaker 13: so he's got a he's got a good defensive background
Speaker 13: and and he has been calling.
Speaker 6: Their plays on offense also.
Speaker 13: So he's one of those coaches that, you know what,
Speaker 13: five years from now, we can hear about him being
Speaker 13: being a coach somewhere in college assistant coach maybe or
Speaker 13: or even a you know, uh, a head coach somewhere
Speaker 13: down the road at at a higher level, because he
Speaker 13: definitely has shown that he can he can he can
Speaker 13: run a program to this to this extent at a
Speaker 13: at a at a small school area like Marana. Just
Speaker 13: imagine what you can do in a city.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: And you know, more resource, I get it.
Speaker 4: I get a lot of my Phoenix friends coaching buddies
Speaker 4: call me up and they that. And unfortunately, and and
Speaker 4: course this is kind of the nature of the beast. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: they start off by saying, well, you know, they really
Speaker 4: haven't played the schedule we have and this and that,
Speaker 4: and then they so but and then they ask me
Speaker 4: questions about them, and it's it's so funny. It's just like, well,
Speaker 4: why what can I say? Now you've already prefaced this
Speaker 4: with all the things that you really want to add
Speaker 4: to it, and to to kind of detegrate the fact
Speaker 4: that a Southern Arizona team is actually higher than you
Speaker 4: guys in the ranking, and that that's really interesting how
Speaker 4: that does not sit well up there, you.
Speaker 13: Know that well in a selfish way that that pleases
Speaker 13: me to see like a Morana number one and all
Speaker 13: these other teams are below them that are up in
Speaker 13: the Phoenix area. Because we hear a new coach coach,
Speaker 13: you know this, We hear it every year that you know,
Speaker 13: Tucson teams can compete. They and it's true to an agree,
Speaker 13: they don't have the resources that the Phoenix area schools do.
Speaker 13: But this could show that Southern Arizona school if they
Speaker 13: put their time and effort and resources into a program,
Speaker 13: they can actually compete at.
Speaker 6: A high level like this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you said the magic words there if they
Speaker 4: put those things into it. And unfortunately that's the problem
Speaker 4: down here is there's Steve and I were talking about
Speaker 4: this off the air.
Speaker 5: You know, there's just too many schools.
Speaker 4: And I don't want to blame the administrators or any
Speaker 4: part to finger at any one entity, but there's just
Speaker 4: too many schools in general that don't see what a
Speaker 4: good coach can teach away from the classroom that really
Speaker 4: directly applies to being successful in life, to being a
Speaker 4: better husband, to being a better father, to be a
Speaker 4: better employee, and to be frankly, to be a better
Speaker 4: student at the.
Speaker 5: Next level, not just an athlete.
Speaker 4: And they don't get what a good coach like Stuart's
Speaker 4: doing with those kids, not just the confidence of winning,
Speaker 4: but the discipline and the hard work it takes to
Speaker 4: get there, and the teamwork and the camaraderie and all
Speaker 4: the little details that a number one team has to
Speaker 4: have or they're not there. And if more administrations would
Speaker 4: see that, you wouldn't see a team here and a
Speaker 4: team there once every three years or five years, you know,
Speaker 4: you would see this kind of thing on a much
Speaker 4: more regular basis.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I don't know if you've been up there to Marna,
Speaker 13: like away from a football game that you go to
Speaker 13: a practice or you go on campus. I've seen him
Speaker 13: in both areas, and people gravitate to him on campus.
Speaker 13: He's got like a magnetic personality. The players will go
Speaker 13: through a wall for him. And I know you guys
Speaker 13: talked earlier about that the players have to have some
Speaker 13: kind of a I don't know, I fear factors the
Speaker 13: right word, but some kind of a high level of
Speaker 13: respect for their coach to get the most out of
Speaker 13: the their ability.
Speaker 6: And they definitely have it there.
Speaker 13: You know, they have a great quarterback called Meyer and
Speaker 13: Desmond Roebuck. They have some really high levels old players.
Speaker 13: But they do have some guys who are you know
Speaker 13: that would have to struggle.
Speaker 6: To start at other high schools and and but.
Speaker 13: They're they're performing at a high level because of his
Speaker 13: coaching and the coaching and that coaching staff.
Speaker 4: Well, when I went out there, I mean, he greets
Speaker 4: me when I've got a couple of his his coaches
Speaker 4: were assistants for me along the line, and he greets
Speaker 4: me like I'm old family. And he's just got that
Speaker 4: magnetic personality. But he also has that mystique that there's
Speaker 4: just a little bit different. There's something about him and
Speaker 4: you kind of put your finger to your brain and.
Speaker 5: Say, Okay, what is it.
Speaker 4: This guy's there's something unique about this this guy, and
Speaker 4: I think I think that's a real special quality.
Speaker 2: This has been building too, hasn't It just just didn't happen.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, they've I mean even going back to the
Speaker 13: Borgade with any Any Litton as a coach and Trent
Speaker 13: Borgay was there, Luis Amidas replaced him and kind of
Speaker 13: kept it, kept the ship floating. And and then Stewart
Speaker 13: came and coached with uh ramidez Uh. You know, God
Speaker 13: bless his soul. He passed away a few months ago,
Speaker 13: but you know Stewart was his one of his assistant coaches,
Speaker 13: and now he took over and it's.
Speaker 6: Just it's gone.
Speaker 13: Uh you know, skyrocketed to be number one in the
Speaker 13: open division. Their their their passing game, and I'm sure
Speaker 13: coach could appreciate that. Their their passing games. Ever since
Speaker 13: Lytton was there, has just really taken off and been
Speaker 13: a model program for a lot of other other schools.
Speaker 13: The way they do their their offense. So they do
Speaker 13: they do the no huddle, quick read offense kind of
Speaker 13: like rich rod And And I know, I know you
Speaker 13: you coached Ritrot's.
Speaker 6: Son, so it is a high powered offense.
Speaker 13: That and again that if if given another you know,
Speaker 13: possibility of.
Speaker 6: Coaching a high higher level, I think he would flourish.
Speaker 6: I think the Stewart flourished.
Speaker 13: But thank god he's at Morand and he's in southern Arizona,
Speaker 13: and we hope never leaves.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope so too, because we need more guys
Speaker 4: like that down here. And the one thing that you
Speaker 4: can't predict them, he says, well, what's going to happen
Speaker 4: when they have to play for you know, high level
Speaker 4: competitive teams in a row, because let's face it, there's
Speaker 4: some holes in the schedule down here.
Speaker 5: And that's true.
Speaker 4: And I just say, you know what, that's why we
Speaker 4: play the game. We'll see because you know, who knows,
Speaker 4: maybe they can step up the challenge and maybe they
Speaker 4: got a few kids. You know, I've had two losing
Speaker 4: efforts in state championship games. One of them lost my
Speaker 4: quarterback and one of them lost my key running back.
Speaker 4: And you know, stuff happens, and you know, but they
Speaker 4: have not had to have that kind of weekend, week
Speaker 4: out schedule, and other than that, there's just not a
Speaker 4: weakness out there. And they go out there, they do
Speaker 4: their thing. And here's what I like the most watching them.
Speaker 4: They seem to have fun and I like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 13: What's interesting is there's three five A schools in the
Speaker 13: open division. They're not the only five A school there's
Speaker 13: three up. There's a couple other ones, So the five
Speaker 13: level kind of risen and it could be competitive with
Speaker 13: some of those big SIXCES schools. So if Morana stays
Speaker 13: at number one, they'll play the number eighteen and all
Speaker 13: indications are that and they'll play that game at home
Speaker 13: that they can they can move on in the open division,
Speaker 13: which is you know, again, like I said that, use
Speaker 13: the word phenomenal, that a team from down here can
Speaker 13: have those kind of aspirations, whereas before it was pipe dream.
Speaker 4: Yeah you got sent up there. You've got Centennial and
Speaker 4: the Desert Edge. That both of them became literally new
Speaker 4: teams with transfers at games number sex when kids could
Speaker 4: become eligible. And so that's going to be the thing
Speaker 4: that's going to disrupt that open division, which personally I
Speaker 4: do not like the open division. To me, the open
Speaker 4: division is the AIA's excuse for the fact that they
Speaker 4: can't get conferences correct. And if they got if they
Speaker 4: had conferences correct and they had the right thing. But
Speaker 4: you can take for you know, there's there's four A
Speaker 4: teams that used to get in it. Now that won't
Speaker 4: happen anymore, but there used to. Do they get in
Speaker 4: and they would be they would have been the four
Speaker 4: A state champion and the open division I lose in
Speaker 4: the first round, and I never thought that was fair
Speaker 4: to that. I could say the same thing too about
Speaker 4: five a's because at some point depth enrollment kind of
Speaker 4: meet meet somewhere in the middle and it kind of
Speaker 4: catches up to you.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I you know, will Morana survived through the open division.
Speaker 6: That's that's another thing.
Speaker 13: Getting there and maybe winning a game or two will
Speaker 13: be a great accomplishment. It's going to be hard for
Speaker 13: them to go four and oh in the open division.
Speaker 6: And I agree with you.
Speaker 13: I think I think that they need to look at it,
Speaker 13: make it even maybe a tiered open division, like A
Speaker 13: six A has an open division, five A has their
Speaker 13: own open division.
Speaker 6: Something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're around when we had we had four A
Speaker 4: one and two and five A one and two, and
Speaker 4: that was that was a great thing. If you were
Speaker 4: in the second level of five A, you you just
Speaker 4: didn't have the resources of the other schools. And we
Speaker 4: all knew it. It was pretty obvious, particularly when they started it.
Speaker 4: And then schools like Notre Dame Prep frankly somehow ended
Speaker 4: up going down into the four A two and they
Speaker 4: have all the resources in the world, and you go,
Speaker 4: how did that happen?
Speaker 5: This was supposed to.
Speaker 4: Be a kind of a have and have not type
Speaker 4: of division, because let's face it, we've got, you know,
Speaker 4: except for one or two schools. You got TUSD that
Speaker 4: can't find their way in the world athletically, except for
Speaker 4: a coach here and there that does the best job
Speaker 4: of coaching, frankly, off anybody in the city. Those two
Speaker 4: USD coaches that produce winning that they those guys deserve medals.
Speaker 5: I've been there, I can tell you.
Speaker 4: And then but in Phoenix you got Phoenix Union that
Speaker 4: has the same issues. But in Phoenix you've got Glendale,
Speaker 4: You've got Tempe, You've got all these you know, Mesa,
Speaker 4: You've got all these other places that are kind of
Speaker 4: energy their Tucson on their own, so to speak, if
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, you know, and they don't
Speaker 4: have that inner city school that people just don't want
Speaker 4: to pour resources into.
Speaker 5: I mean, we're out there.
Speaker 4: I go to games with the National Football Foundation in
Speaker 4: the Arizona ball and do their Friday night lights thing,
Speaker 4: and there's fifteen, seventeen, eighteen kids on the field for
Speaker 4: a team, and then you've got to play a team
Speaker 4: with forty five and it's it's just it's just not fair.
Speaker 4: It is what it is. And they step up the plate,
Speaker 4: and God bless those kids.
Speaker 5: They give it a go.
Speaker 4: But as you you could see it yourself, and you've
Speaker 4: written about it too, it's just it's just not fair.
Speaker 13: Yeah, And I don't know if enough it's being done
Speaker 13: to address that. I mean, TUSD doesn't even have an
Speaker 13: AD yet, and it just seems like it's in you know,
Speaker 13: it's a neutral There's got to be some like you
Speaker 13: got to be aggressive and plan and get get get
Speaker 13: it to where these programs have the resources, you know,
Speaker 13: get get each weight room improved, get the fields improved,
Speaker 13: make it so it's inviting to students that are there
Speaker 13: that they can be part of that kind of a
Speaker 13: winning culture. But I just don't see it at some
Speaker 13: of these schools, like like.
Speaker 6: Santa Rita and Catalina. Unfortunately. I know the coach there, Andy.
Speaker 13: Fessus, is doing all he can did make that and you.
Speaker 4: Played for me, want to state championship with me in
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety and he's a smart guy and he knows
Speaker 4: football and he loves it. And yet you still you
Speaker 4: got to have kids, and that's something the NIL and
Speaker 4: things like that. You know, of course, you know people
Speaker 4: are maybe unaware. We're almost every state is going to
Speaker 4: have the NIL in high school in the next few years.
Speaker 5: And it's just reality.
Speaker 4: And if you if you know, if you want to
Speaker 4: play that game, if you want to be the champion,
Speaker 4: there's a way to do it. And it's not the
Speaker 4: way that I grew up. So if I go back
Speaker 4: and coach, you can't do it on your own. You
Speaker 4: have to have these resources. And like you know, we
Speaker 4: went down there and and we went from that had
Speaker 4: won and I think like two and a half years
Speaker 4: down to Ria Rigo, they built U facility. We got
Speaker 4: up to about fifty to fifty and and you know,
Speaker 4: I mean when we beat Nogallas for the first time
Speaker 4: in school history. You would you would have thought that
Speaker 4: that that I want the presidency of the United States.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, it was something else.
Speaker 4: That's one of those games and really kind of a
Speaker 4: nothing situation to the rest of the state. But I
Speaker 4: am so glad I got to go through that that
Speaker 4: No Gallus Rio Rico rivalry. And actually, you know, of
Speaker 4: course we were two and zero against them, and people say, well.
Speaker 5: They're not this, and I don't care. We weren't that either,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But those kids were playing for the real deal, and
Speaker 4: that's when it gets to be fun, you know. And
Speaker 4: but schools that that happened because the superintendent stepped up
Speaker 4: to the plate, David Verdugo, and made positive things happen.
Speaker 4: And and then then that year they we get the
Speaker 4: A Plus School Award. And it's just not an accident.
Speaker 4: These things kind of travel hand in hand. And if
Speaker 4: you want, if you want kids to do great things,
Speaker 4: you got to teach them how to be great.
Speaker 5: It just doesn't fall out of.
Speaker 13: A tree, right, I mean, you have to have the
Speaker 13: right people in place. And if you look at the
Speaker 13: facilities brought to people, the Rio Rico facilities they challenge
Speaker 13: like small college facilities.
Speaker 6: The way the way they have it over there, it's
Speaker 6: it's amazing.
Speaker 13: And that is an example, like you said, of a
Speaker 13: school district stepping up to realize the importance of having
Speaker 13: those facilities to generate interest, excitement, and get people more involved. Sponsors, advertisers.
Speaker 13: All that ties in if they can see that there
Speaker 13: is an emphasis placed on an objective, whether it be football,
Speaker 13: the madiachi.
Speaker 6: Program, a folkaloo program, you know, you name it.
Speaker 13: If if a school shows that in our school district
Speaker 13: shows that initiative, it's going to get supported, yep.
Speaker 4: And it brings the whole community or city together, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: I said, that's it, guys, we got to go. So
Speaker 2: we talked about one school with you guys. I don't
Speaker 2: know about that, Thanks holl There's other.
Speaker 6: Schools that are gonna be doing really well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get to those. We'll get to those as
Speaker 2: the season progresses. Thanks, Thanks Hobby, Hey Aby, thanks for
Speaker 2: all you do.
Speaker 5: Buddy. You guys do you and your brother do a
Speaker 5: great job. Thanks.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball hero Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In today with me
Speaker 2: is coach Jeff Scurrin. Hangling board is Henry. We got
Speaker 2: about twelve minutes or so. If you want to call,
Speaker 2: this is your perfect chance to I have two zero
Speaker 2: four one six seventy four forty. Let us know what
Speaker 2: you're thinking or what you want to talk about. So,
Speaker 2: as you were talking about how a coach, I wanted
Speaker 2: to ask you who is your toughest competitor here as.
Speaker 4: A coach, all there's two guys that come to mind
Speaker 4: or that I personally enjoyed competing against, but it was
Speaker 4: just the biggest challenge. The first one was my old
Speaker 4: friend Howard Brannick. Oh, yeah, Toorrow Howard, and I of
Speaker 4: course it was Sabino Touorrow. That that's that was part
Speaker 4: of it, that that you have to have that natural
Speaker 4: rivalry set in stone. But what people don't know is
Speaker 4: we met on our cruise ship on the way from
Speaker 4: Crete to North Africa and we became instant friends. I
Speaker 4: hadn't even moved to Tucsion, and so when I came
Speaker 4: to town here, it was instant friendship. And we loved
Speaker 4: competing against each other and it was a great rivalry.
Speaker 4: And the other one was Dennis Binet when he was
Speaker 4: at South Point and Dennis, Dennis is a great, great coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that thought. We're ubbug. We have a call.
Speaker 2: You're on the air and I on the ball. I
Speaker 2: see this is done, don, I'm.
Speaker 5: Doing coach, How you done done?
Speaker 2: All right? I got a.
Speaker 17: Quick question for coach. Years ago, when I was coach
Speaker 17: in Little League, I used to I used to tell
Speaker 17: people these kids are a sponge. They'll take in everything
Speaker 17: you give them. And so with ten and eleven year olds.
Speaker 2: We'd come up.
Speaker 17: To bat, I'd have my first three batters and I'd say,
Speaker 17: I tell him, after he gets on base, I want
Speaker 17: you to bun him over and you to hit him in.
Speaker 17: And then I would but I would say, but if
Speaker 17: he gets a double to lead it off, I'll bets
Speaker 17: are off, go ahead, hit away. And I didn't have
Speaker 17: to give a signal, didn't have to do nothing, and
Speaker 17: I'd let the.
Speaker 2: Kids go.
Speaker 5: Images and those kids.
Speaker 17: And you go to high school football games and it
Speaker 17: seems like it takes forty five seconds for these kids
Speaker 17: to run one of the five or six plays that
Speaker 17: they run, and then the other team is running motions
Speaker 17: back and forth across the formation with seemingly effortless, effortless
Speaker 17: And I say that's coaching.
Speaker 2: Those guys don't.
Speaker 17: Either, don't trust those kids. Well, no, I think that's
Speaker 17: what it is, is trust, because I think these kids
Speaker 17: they will take it and they will run with it
Speaker 17: if you let them.
Speaker 4: Well, some people are natural teachers. Done some people just
Speaker 4: come by it naturally. You know, there's some people that
Speaker 4: can go to education, to go to college and that
Speaker 4: study become a teacher for twenty years and they're still
Speaker 4: not going to be a good teacher.
Speaker 5: They just don't have in their soul. It's just not
Speaker 5: who they are.
Speaker 4: And you're obviously one of those guys that had it
Speaker 4: and some of these guys that are coaches that are
Speaker 4: really not teachers that come from off campus.
Speaker 5: That used to be the golden rule. You had to
Speaker 5: have your staff on campus.
Speaker 4: In states like Texas and Georgia, that's still a ninety
Speaker 4: percent requirement. And matter of fact, in Georgia, everybody has
Speaker 4: to be on campus in some form or another at
Speaker 4: least to be around the educational system. But I think
Speaker 4: you've hit You've really hit the nail on the head,
Speaker 4: and I think you're one hundred percent correct, And thank
Speaker 4: you for trusting those kids and teach them to do
Speaker 4: what you do, because that that's really the hard of coaching.
Speaker 4: It's just teaching.
Speaker 5: Good job, Thank you.
Speaker 17: I just was wanting a little backup on on my idea.
Speaker 5: But you got it from me, buddy.
Speaker 2: That's all right, Thanks coach. That might have been the
Speaker 2: nicest call you've ever made. Usually you're kind of complaining.
Speaker 17: Done well, it's only been one game of the basketball season.
Speaker 2: See, we got plenty, we got plenty.
Speaker 17: I didn't know there was a university in Port Tallis.
Speaker 2: Now you know? Now you know, I don't know.
Speaker 17: Is that where eastern New Mexico is?
Speaker 2: That's where they're at, right right?
Speaker 6: Oh? Is it?
Speaker 17: I was just guessing because I heard they were like
Speaker 17: a stone's throw from the.
Speaker 2: Border, so near. Love, Look, you're on the borders. It's
Speaker 2: more East Texas than it is New Mexico.
Speaker 17: Oh no, I got a guy that would probably want
Speaker 17: to fight you on that one.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 2: thanks guys. Yes, good another call?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're on the air on Eye of the Ball.
Speaker 2: Who is this?
Speaker 15: Hey?
Speaker 18: This is Tim Hey nice here in some high school
Speaker 18: football and Tucson coach Stern. I coached you football in
Speaker 18: northern California and a lot of our kids went to
Speaker 18: Da La Salle High school football and it's something different.
Speaker 18: And when I came back to Tucson, I had a
Speaker 18: buddy whose son was at Santa Rita, and I said,
Speaker 18: hold on to your helmet because you're gonna You're gonna
Speaker 18: learn something.
Speaker 4: Well, that was probably one of the most fun jobs
Speaker 4: that I'd ever had, you know, And Berry says, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's because you went from zero and ten one of
Speaker 4: nineteen before I got there, and the first year he
Speaker 4: went to the you know, to the state semifinals and
Speaker 4: then to the championship game. But it wasn't it was
Speaker 4: more than that. It was the buy in from the kids.
Speaker 4: Like like we were talking about earlier with Javier Morales.
Speaker 5: It was the administration. We really had it going.
Speaker 4: I had Jim Ferguson there was the basketball coach, and
Speaker 4: he was taking teams to the state championship game, and
Speaker 4: it was it was we were rock and rolling.
Speaker 5: That was a fun That was a fun time.
Speaker 4: The hard part was it was in the era of
Speaker 4: TUSD when that when the administration it was. It wasn't
Speaker 4: that they didn't care. They just didn't want winning football.
Speaker 4: But you come from one of the areas of the
Speaker 4: United States where there is not only talent, but there's
Speaker 4: a commitment to these those youth programs and a lot
Speaker 4: of you you'll see a ton of kids in college
Speaker 4: coming out of the area you were coaching in.
Speaker 18: Yeah, our youth program, I mean we'd have seventy five
Speaker 18: kids try out and we'd have to cut down to
Speaker 18: thirty five and it was just different there. I do
Speaker 18: remember this was like in the year when Dayla Saw
Speaker 18: was first going to go play Long Beach Polly on TV,
Speaker 18: and you know, all the youth coaches were saying, wow,
Speaker 18: wait till day Sell plays Polly, and it was like
Speaker 18: it kind of reminded me when you guys were talking
Speaker 18: about Ran and the Phoenix coaches and it would be
Speaker 18: nice if Moranna could get in there and have a
Speaker 18: good game or two and show what they can do.
Speaker 18: But as a Santa Ria I know what's going on now,
Speaker 18: and on Javier's post, I always put go go Eagles
Speaker 18: or go Santa Rita, And it's kind of a joke
Speaker 18: with the guys that I played with. But when you
Speaker 18: went to Santa Rita, that was something and we really
Speaker 18: enjoyed that as old ballplayers at Santa Rita.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you something that that the ladissier at
Speaker 4: at where you were up in Northern California, A Dallasal
Speaker 4: that's one of the finest men that ever put on
Speaker 4: a coaching whistle.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: That guy not only knew how to win, but he
Speaker 4: taught kids how to win in life. I respect that
Speaker 4: whole situation more than you could possibly imagine.
Speaker 18: Yeah, thanks coach, and nice talking high school football with you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling? Is just your first time calling? I
Speaker 2: guess he's okay, cool. We gotta know the call though. Hey,
Speaker 2: thanks for calling. You're on the year and I on
Speaker 2: the ball. Who is this Nico? What's up?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 15: I just want to ask coach a question.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and make you clean please.
Speaker 17: Hey, what would it take you to go back to
Speaker 17: Santareta because we need a coach man.
Speaker 5: My wife has a no two USD rule. Let's start
Speaker 5: right there. I was.
Speaker 4: I was at Sabino and and I love the kids,
Speaker 4: I love the community.
Speaker 5: I left for a reason.
Speaker 4: That when I left San Rita, I was having the
Speaker 4: time of my life coaching those kids and doing really
Speaker 4: good things there with people and getting a lot of support.
Speaker 4: But you know, it takes it takes a village to
Speaker 4: raise a football team. I really mean that. I'm not
Speaker 4: being sarcastic. It takes a village to raise a child.
Speaker 4: You can imagine when it takes to produce a good
Speaker 4: football team, and you have to have all hands on deck,
Speaker 4: and that means you've got to have people that really
Speaker 4: care about and it's not just winning on the field,
Speaker 4: it's winning overall and teaching. And nowadays you get such
Speaker 4: a dangerous sport. You have to have the right equipment.
Speaker 4: You've got to have a good staff, you got have
Speaker 4: great trainers, you have to have good facilities. And kids
Speaker 4: want stuff. Come on, you know you played. Kids want stuff.
Speaker 4: They want things, and you know what, I want them
Speaker 4: to have stuff. When they produce, when they come to work,
Speaker 4: when they do it right, when they have great behavior,
Speaker 4: make good grades, I want them to have cool things too.
Speaker 4: And that takes that takes a commitment from the community.
Speaker 4: And that's the problem out there. It's it's it's not
Speaker 4: an easy problem to solveyh.
Speaker 17: Well, that's like coach eating your left junior year.
Speaker 5: Yep, I remember him, or a good coach.
Speaker 2: Hey, well, thank you coach Mano. Thanks for being so
Speaker 2: nice on this call. I appreciate you. We get into
Speaker 2: the call. No nowhere calls. Okay, we got very little time.
Speaker 2: We got to get out of here in about three
Speaker 2: four minutes. So good to have you, coach.
Speaker 5: I tell you, this is fine.
Speaker 4: I as a former journal as a major, this is
Speaker 4: always the type of thing that you think about today.
Speaker 4: Maybe someday I'll sit in the booth. But now I'm
Speaker 4: sitting there watching Tom Brady. Now as a coach, you
Speaker 4: got to understand, I love watching Tom Brady.
Speaker 5: Now do I think he's a good anouncer? Hey, it's
Speaker 5: a long.
Speaker 19: Way, but hey, let's judge too quickly. He's learned over,
Speaker 19: you know, he's the kind of guy that's just going
Speaker 19: to work at and get better. But the insight that
Speaker 19: that guy gives me, I mean, I sit there.
Speaker 5: And this is a disease.
Speaker 4: I watch college, I watch NFL football, and I sit
Speaker 4: there with a pad and pencil taking notes.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, because you did say, maybe before
Speaker 2: some of the colors called in that when you were
Speaker 2: a GA back in Florida, back in the day, many
Speaker 2: years ago, the one thing, a couple few things you did.
Speaker 2: You listened yep, and you took notes yep. And that's
Speaker 2: how it starts.
Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, listen, you know we all think growing up
Speaker 4: that we're the best or we know this, and we
Speaker 4: know that. Then you sit in a room with some
Speaker 4: really special people and you sit there and you go,
Speaker 4: I don't know a dog one thing about this, But
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what if I want to sit in
Speaker 4: that chair. Someday I better pay attention and learn. It's
Speaker 4: all been done before. We just got to be smart
Speaker 4: enough to look at history, not just national politics, talking
Speaker 4: about overall. We've got to look at history of what
Speaker 4: you do. It's all been done before. Let's study the masters.
Speaker 4: Not some guy over here that had all the different things,
Speaker 4: but a guy in my situation taken over. I had
Speaker 4: four zero win teams, and all of them, you know,
Speaker 4: we had the big win down at Rito Rico, but
Speaker 4: all the other three got.
Speaker 5: Me on the USA today.
Speaker 4: You know a newspaper for putting all three of those
Speaker 4: teams in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got Oh man, I was gonna ask you
Speaker 2: a question. I'm not sure you can answer this in
Speaker 2: a minute. Give it the answers. The secret to becoming
Speaker 2: a good success you got about forty seconds.
Speaker 4: You got to surround yourself with the right people. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's what it's all about. Whether it's in a family situation,
Speaker 4: whether it's a work situation, whether it's a sports team,
Speaker 4: you have to surround yourself with the right people. If
Speaker 4: they don't have the skills, you got to provide them
Speaker 4: the education and knowledge to step up to the plate
Speaker 4: and know it. Everybody doesn't know everything. They're not born
Speaker 4: with the knowledge. It has to be taught somewhere along
Speaker 4: the line, and you got to have people that are
Speaker 4: hungry to do it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good answer, good answer. I agree with you, because
Speaker 2: there's not enough of that. There's not enough of that. Henry,
Speaker 2: are we good to go? We are good to go.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Hey, Jeff, thank you, coach.
Speaker 5: Appreciate I enjoy this has been fun. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, See you guys tomorrow.