Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jacob Salis. They have their Eye on
Speaker 1: the Ball on Tucson's sports stage shat Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I in the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay. Now we
Speaker 2: have Ryan with breaking news.
Speaker 1: Lisis Eye on the ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen.
Speaker 3: Fifty started a little bit of news from it the
Speaker 3: men's basketball for Arizona. They announced the dates for the
Speaker 3: Red and Blue Showcase. The first one will be held
Speaker 3: October fourth at the Mchell Center and then the second
Speaker 3: event will be at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendow.
Speaker 3: There's also a DJ party after the two sons event.
Speaker 4: Oh interesting, Well, the keyword is the second one right there.
Speaker 4: So Arizona's going to do two Red and Blue games,
Speaker 4: one in Tucson and one in Phoenix, which goes to
Speaker 4: all they're trying to do, man, get get interest in
Speaker 4: the program, get people involved, find ways to make a
Speaker 4: little money. But they're doing a Red and Blue game
Speaker 4: up in Glendale.
Speaker 2: Right And when that came up, I'm thinking, what a
Speaker 2: great idea, and why didn't it takes so long?
Speaker 4: Exactly? Why an't you thinking that.
Speaker 2: Before I posted it, some people in Phoenix said, perfect
Speaker 2: for the cat fans up there, and you know, there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a bunch My problem. I just noticed now
Speaker 2: it's a Friday. It's a Friday, not a Saturday. So
Speaker 2: Friday Friday here, Friday there. And if we go, which
Speaker 2: I'm likely to go, it's not a Saturday. You know,
Speaker 2: you have to kind of get out of here early.
Speaker 2: You have to go.
Speaker 4: Well, the one in Phoenix is not intended for people
Speaker 4: from Tucson to drive up to Phoenix.
Speaker 2: But if you follow the team and you want to
Speaker 2: kind of do it, you got you go go to
Speaker 2: the one. I'm gonna go to both. What are you
Speaker 2: talking about, Well, that's your problem. It's not a it's
Speaker 2: not a problem. It's just like your decision. I wish, yeah,
Speaker 2: I wish it was gonna.
Speaker 4: But that one is for people up in Phoenix to
Speaker 4: go to that one, So they're not you know, sure
Speaker 4: they're not going to drive down here. Maybe they did
Speaker 4: before because it was the only one. Now that they
Speaker 4: don't have to, they can stay and go with the
Speaker 4: one up here, and more people in Tucson can go
Speaker 4: to the one here in Tucsa.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about those people, Jay worried about me.
Speaker 2: And when I wish it was on a Saturday, I
Speaker 2: always hoping it was that that was a Saturday, such
Speaker 2: a I'm gonna I'm gonna bring that line out to
Speaker 2: you when I feel the same way. My point is,
Speaker 2: I wish it was on a Saturday because obviously it's
Speaker 2: going to be big here. That's not a problem here
Speaker 2: going up there to watch that, because it's it's in
Speaker 2: Glendale right where in Glendale? Didn't say at that at
Speaker 2: the Glendale Arena? Oh okay, okay, so cool, long time.
Speaker 2: It's easy for me to say a long time in
Speaker 2: coming because it's gonna be good.
Speaker 4: Cool, I am I trying to go yeah, well and yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean there'll be people here that'll probably go up.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're gonna go up. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It gives you a chance if you can't make it
Speaker 3: here and then.
Speaker 2: Right right right right, and chicken tickets are going to
Speaker 2: be cheap, yeah they are, well they are noways are.
Speaker 4: But again that that see that was not for you.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not you. You're not You're not the
Speaker 4: no yeah no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: But if you cover the team and you want to
Speaker 2: be part of it. I mean you gotta go.
Speaker 3: Yes, it says right here. Speaking of tickets, they will
Speaker 3: go and sell Thursday for ten dollars apiece and they
Speaker 3: can be purchased on the Arizona Wildcare. Yes.
Speaker 2: No, it's going to be success. More chances to get
Speaker 2: nil money to pay some bills. Those gms of football
Speaker 2: and those those people assistant coaches, YadA.
Speaker 4: YadA, the director of operations.
Speaker 2: Sure, listen, ten ten dollars and you get ten thousand
Speaker 2: people there. But it's money you didn't have before.
Speaker 4: Exactly, exactly. No, again, somebody's coming in with ideas that
Speaker 4: they didn't have before.
Speaker 2: Steam right, No, which is great.
Speaker 3: I switched over to Arizona Soccer. Their season got underway
Speaker 3: back on the fifteenth. They just had their home opener
Speaker 3: and they won five nothing over Pacific and Nicole Dan
Speaker 3: was named player of the week. She scored She's scored
Speaker 3: five of the six goals that Arizona scored in the
Speaker 3: first two games.
Speaker 2: Exactly, she was player of the week. And nationally, I think, right,
Speaker 2: I think it was a national.
Speaker 3: Thing, says top top Dwarf Suckers Player of the Week.
Speaker 2: I think it was a national thing.
Speaker 3: Switching over to college football, some news from Oklahoma State.
Speaker 3: They are starting they're going to be starting to wear
Speaker 3: these QR codes on the back of their helmets. That's
Speaker 3: going to be linked to the NIL Fund. Just another
Speaker 3: chance for.
Speaker 4: What are you supposed to see him on TV?
Speaker 3: And the that's what it says. So it says you
Speaker 3: probably won't be able to see it from the you know,
Speaker 3: if you're in the stands, you won't be able to
Speaker 3: see it, even if you're like first row. But it
Speaker 3: says if you're watching at home, you'll be able to
Speaker 3: be able to catch them on the screen because.
Speaker 4: You always five yard run. Send them deserves.
Speaker 2: Yet these things, look at these things that they're going
Speaker 2: to come up with, unbelievable.
Speaker 4: You and I aren't smart enough to think of that.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not at all. If anybody thinks of
Speaker 2: us having a great line or to send us money,
Speaker 2: I'll put a QR code on.
Speaker 4: Well that was funny, gig one. Right now, let's get
Speaker 4: a show back on YouTube and.
Speaker 2: We'll get some n I L QR code on your
Speaker 2: because you look much better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet. I want to bet that there's actually
Speaker 3: somebody out there a tattoo somewhere.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Like well you remember back
Speaker 2: in the day, not too long ago, the Fighters had
Speaker 2: the they have yeah you know whatever, it was dot
Speaker 2: Com on on the back.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's sort to the w n B A. Just
Speaker 3: look at the news. As far as the viewership going,
Speaker 3: they had about a month off because of the Olympics,
Speaker 3: and the first game back with Clark, I had a
Speaker 3: viewership of one point two two million in a game.
Speaker 2: Yeah Sunday, right, yeah, I think it was Sunday Friday.
Speaker 2: I saw because I saw Sunday's game, and that was
Speaker 2: you could tell a lot of people Sunday game and
Speaker 2: it was a lot of excitement and all that stuff,
Speaker 2: and they put Indiana Indiana.
Speaker 4: You just keep saying it. Yeah, yeah, you just keep
Speaker 4: saying it, you know, regardless of what you think of
Speaker 4: her and why other players haven't gotten that attention while
Speaker 4: they just didn't. Just she's getting it. She's bringing that
Speaker 4: to the w n B A. Yeah, and instead of
Speaker 4: being a pain in the act or applaud her a
Speaker 4: little bit, because all she's doing is going out there
Speaker 4: and playing basketball, right, and there's an appreciation for that
Speaker 4: for whatever reason, just go with it.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I, you know, watched a few of
Speaker 2: the games now and uh, she she does kind of
Speaker 2: flop every now and again and kind you know, but
Speaker 2: she reminds me, this is a dumb dumb stay we'll say,
Speaker 2: Ben Maths. And every time you got out, it was
Speaker 2: I got gave the reps like, what the hell?
Speaker 4: Have been assaulted?
Speaker 2: Exactly? That's exactly what he was telling them. Every time
Speaker 2: that you would get hit, I've been some kind of
Speaker 2: felony was accused against me, you know, harmed against me
Speaker 2: because she does that too, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're the head snap.
Speaker 2: And yeah yeah bad. It was perfect for.
Speaker 4: That, putting on a show man. And that's what it's
Speaker 4: all about, all right.
Speaker 3: I think I guess maybe this was a different game.
Speaker 3: It says two point two million viewers and peaked at
Speaker 3: two point nine million. I guess the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people people are crazy about uh about her in
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 4: Let's see.
Speaker 3: I guess It's mover to some news right here for NFL,
Speaker 3: and Rogers is calling his Jets camp one of the
Speaker 3: most taxing in many years when I was taxing.
Speaker 4: Why because they made him work harder because he was
Speaker 4: actually in camp this time. He said it was tough, tough. Okay,
Speaker 4: big weedie, he's old. He is old.
Speaker 3: He is old, you know I really honestly, I hope
Speaker 3: he says healthy.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, look, it's it's like, you know what,
Speaker 4: He's one of those players that it's kind of more
Speaker 4: fun when he's out on the field and people are
Speaker 4: talking about him and he's playing, and you know, you'll
Speaker 4: get to have people who are going to root against
Speaker 4: him because they don't like him. You got people who
Speaker 4: for him because they do like him. So he makes
Speaker 4: it more interesting for sure. I think I think you
Speaker 4: got to give him that. I've come to not like
Speaker 4: him anymore because I think he's been a big baby
Speaker 4: and and he's got a little weird but what the hell,
Speaker 4: But you know, it is more interesting.
Speaker 3: The Little League Both series is currently going on. Cuba
Speaker 3: is defeating Mexico, I believe for nothing with the last
Speaker 3: time I checked. It's an elimination game too, so because yeah,
Speaker 3: that's one.
Speaker 4: I watched about five minutes of one, just in time
Speaker 4: to see a kid hit a grand Slam and he
Speaker 4: just thought he hit the ball so hard. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, wow, that for Asia. Uh no, he was
Speaker 4: the US USA. It was the US game. I don't
Speaker 4: remember what teams they were. But was it over the weekend? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Or was it?
Speaker 2: It was not the replay from the championship game last year?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, it was a game for It
Speaker 4: was a game from It was a live game, and
Speaker 4: you know, I like it. I turned it on base
Speaker 4: of loaded. Like the third pitch, a kid just goes
Speaker 4: big flash.
Speaker 2: Some of these kids and only the announcers kind of
Speaker 2: overstayed and used a lot of hyperbole for the kids.
Speaker 2: They're only twelve years old. Yeah, but there's a couple
Speaker 2: of kids I guess that that are fantastic. Yeah, some dude,
Speaker 2: some kid twelve year old and I didn't google it.
Speaker 2: Who's throwing gas? Gas?
Speaker 4: There's always one?
Speaker 2: And then he said he whatever, his chances was well
Speaker 2: pretty good if he doesn't burn himself out, throw his
Speaker 2: arm out.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, no, yeah, yeah, there's a yeah. I
Speaker 4: mean there's so much stuff about how hard people throw
Speaker 4: and how less durable they have become because of that.
Speaker 3: Right, I think I was. I had the game on
Speaker 3: a minute ago. I think there was one kid that
Speaker 3: pitched on like Sunday or something. He had like twelve strikeouts.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he pitched like five innings. Yeah, I's one
Speaker 3: teams incredible. Some injury news out of the MLB Orioles
Speaker 3: picture starting pitcher Zach e Flyn shoulder injury. He's gonna
Speaker 3: be going to the I. Oh so Baltimore's can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they struggle a lot, declined, Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Are well, I know what the Dodgers put Tyler the
Speaker 4: last now on the I l their best picture. Uh
Speaker 4: ten day, I L not. You know, he just got
Speaker 4: some tendon knights in his elbow. But you know, you
Speaker 4: start doing that, he becomes a little bit of a struggle.
Speaker 4: Although Max months he came back uh their basement and
Speaker 4: w yard last night in his first game back. So
Speaker 4: that was cool.
Speaker 3: How's the how you know West looking as it's still.
Speaker 4: Man, it's still very tight. I think the Dodgers still
Speaker 4: only two games up, even though they won last night.
Speaker 4: So I don't know, we don't know. It's it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not gonna be easy coming in. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the standings. The Yankees have slipped over
Speaker 4: the Orioles. So in the in the in the American
Speaker 4: League East. The Dodgers are what yeah, there are actually
Speaker 4: there are three games up on the pods, so Prodgers.
Speaker 4: Let's lost last night for them? Terrible? Yeah, go bad.
Speaker 3: That's not all I got for today.
Speaker 2: So I went there just on the Arizona Easy Desert
Speaker 2: Squirm White site and they had their poll, their their
Speaker 2: writers do their predictions for the year. So the consensus
Speaker 2: is pretty much eight and four. I think we kind
Speaker 2: of in that ballpark, right, Yeah, our guys Juan ten
Speaker 2: and two.
Speaker 4: I love one.
Speaker 2: He only he hasn't beaten Kansas State and he and
Speaker 2: he's kind of a pragmatic kid. Is he really is
Speaker 2: a smart He hasn't lose into Utah and to ucf
Speaker 2: uh and that's it, Okay, okay, good luck with that.
Speaker 2: The game, of course is Kansas State.
Speaker 4: That that's the one, and uh that that's the one
Speaker 4: you got to have. I think in order to win
Speaker 4: more than eight games, right, have a chance to win nine,
Speaker 4: you got I think you gotta beat either Kansas State
Speaker 4: or Utah and those are probably equally going to be
Speaker 4: equally tough.
Speaker 2: Sure, and back to back weekends.
Speaker 4: Right back to back weekends, back back weekends. Is there
Speaker 4: an off week in between those.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not too sure. I'm not too sure. The
Speaker 2: one game that's consistently a loss, and I don't know
Speaker 2: because I don't know how good they are is you
Speaker 2: see a central and I don't know, are they good
Speaker 2: or just people?
Speaker 4: Well, well they're good, but it's a it's a long
Speaker 4: road trip.
Speaker 2: I think that plays a factor that I.
Speaker 4: Think people are factoring that in. So, yeah, the Arizona
Speaker 4: play as got actually a week in the day off
Speaker 4: between Kansas State and Utah. They play on a Friday
Speaker 4: night and then they're off the next weekend and then
Speaker 4: they go to Utah. So there, you know, they'll be
Speaker 4: able to come back and lick their wounds if they
Speaker 4: have them, but that can't you know, they Kansas State.
Speaker 4: The other thing is though that since the Kansastate games
Speaker 4: on a Friday night, but they still play the previous Saturday,
Speaker 4: so they really lose a day of prep for that.
Speaker 4: But then they get an extra extra they get an
Speaker 4: extra week and an extra day to get ready for Utah,
Speaker 4: which is good. You know, that's the start of the
Speaker 4: conference season.
Speaker 2: So our guy Devin, who got a job up in
Speaker 2: Kingman over the last week or so in daily some
Speaker 2: one of those kind of things is covering, covering, covering sports.
Speaker 2: He put it on Facebook. He has them going nine
Speaker 2: and three, kind of like us in Kansas State, Utah.
Speaker 2: And you see for the losses. Yeah, uh, seven and
Speaker 2: a half was the number, right, seven and a half
Speaker 2: or eight? Yeah, I got it at both. I definitely
Speaker 2: think it's going to be more than seven and a half.
Speaker 4: I got it at eight and I got it at
Speaker 4: seven and a half.
Speaker 2: Huh did I say you're a gambling man? Did I
Speaker 2: say that your honor the defense rests.
Speaker 4: I have to take that. I have to take that.
Speaker 2: Great, we've got we'll go, We'll go.
Speaker 4: All right, let's thank you very gay to come back.
Speaker 4: Arizona volleyball coach Tarita Stubbs will be joining us here
Speaker 4: in a few minutes, so stick around for that.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jagan Salez they have their Eye on
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Speaker 1: I mean, iHeartRadio wams Hey.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to I on the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jagan saw Now
Speaker 2: on the phone. We have Truda Stubbs, the Arizona volleyball coach.
Speaker 2: How are you, coach.
Speaker 6: I'm doing wonderful, having a great day.
Speaker 2: You must be very pleased. Guess why I'm guessing at
Speaker 2: least the season starts just around the corner.
Speaker 6: Yeah, super excited, super excited.
Speaker 4: So so you know, uh, you you had your first
Speaker 4: year last year, you know, just we'll say it was
Speaker 4: it was a tough year. But you know, how does
Speaker 4: that how does that set up your approach for this
Speaker 4: coming season? You know, what, what are the kinds of
Speaker 4: things that you're looking at that you know you need
Speaker 4: to do better that you think you did well. How
Speaker 4: how does that figure in what you're doing as you
Speaker 4: get ready for the season?
Speaker 6: You Last season was a new start first season. Everyone
Speaker 6: was excited about what was going to take place, was
Speaker 6: really looking forward to competing and doing well in the
Speaker 6: Pac twelve Conference. But we knew we had some deficiencies,
Speaker 6: having lost our setter who had set for three years,
Speaker 6: having lost out Lebero, who had been in Liberto for
Speaker 6: four years, so you knew you were going to have
Speaker 6: new bodies on the floor. So just making that transition
Speaker 6: was the biggest thing that we were trying to work at.
Speaker 6: So we had to do a lot of things in
Speaker 6: terms of competing and just getting ready there and ready
Speaker 6: to play. But after the season started going on, we
Speaker 6: knew that we had many deficiencies, and so my number
Speaker 6: one goal was to bring in some players that understood
Speaker 6: how to win and knew how to compete right away,
Speaker 6: versus having to spend time teaching that as much as
Speaker 6: we had to teach last year.
Speaker 2: We talked about that yesterday with football and high school
Speaker 2: kids coming up and what it all means, so, do
Speaker 2: you went in the portal and you grab some players.
Speaker 6: Yes, one in a portal and grabbed a young lady,
Speaker 6: Kiera Roby, who had been her last season at Florida State,
Speaker 6: and she just knew how to win. She was a complete,
Speaker 6: you know, competitor, and she was all over that and
Speaker 6: wanted to get some depth on a pen. So we
Speaker 6: brought in Amanda de Witt, and you know, just to
Speaker 6: have a depth in a gym is something that was
Speaker 6: really important because we didn't have a lot of viable
Speaker 6: competition last year in our gym.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So what do you think you learned about yourself
Speaker 4: as a head coach last year? You know, particularly at
Speaker 4: a program that you're familiar with, you've been around a
Speaker 4: long time. You know, did you run into anything you
Speaker 4: didn't expect? And what do you pick up from last
Speaker 4: year to help you coach this year?
Speaker 6: You know, everyone asked me that question. What's the biggest
Speaker 6: change in going from assistant coach to head coach? And
Speaker 6: I don't mean this in a negative way, but the
Speaker 6: number of people to actually talk to me now that
Speaker 6: didn't necessarily talk to me in the past is the
Speaker 6: thing that has been the biggest change, But you are
Speaker 6: a wildcat through and through is always about winning and competing.
Speaker 6: So being able to talk to different people to kind
Speaker 6: of hear their input or hear their suggestions, or hear
Speaker 6: the blessings that they you know, still upon our program,
Speaker 6: that's really important to me. So it just made me
Speaker 6: even more hungry.
Speaker 2: That's very funny, though, stay away from me. I don't
Speaker 2: want to talk to you guys. That's very funny. So
Speaker 2: you probably have to learn. And even though as an
Speaker 2: assistant you know this is the time management, what to do,
Speaker 2: when to do it because of the extra time you
Speaker 2: have to spend with their administrators.
Speaker 6: Yes, I mean every day is a new day of
Speaker 6: some type of meeting or connection or networking that needs
Speaker 6: to take place. On top of making sure that this
Speaker 6: year all sixteen of my players are in a good
Speaker 6: place and that I'm monitoring my staff and my managers.
Speaker 6: And so what I do once a month is I'll
Speaker 6: take my staff out to eat and when you just
Speaker 6: sit down and we talk. Then take my managers out
Speaker 6: once a week, and I spend time with each of
Speaker 6: the players every two weeks, just getting to make or
Speaker 6: that we all stay on the same page. I don't
Speaker 6: like surprises, so I try to do everything I can
Speaker 6: to make sure I don't surprise anyone.
Speaker 4: Well, was all that a big adjustment for you? Because
Speaker 4: we've heard that that there are some coaches, you know,
Speaker 4: assistant coaches who who who you know, maybe aren't made
Speaker 4: to be head coaches. The adjustment is difficult, all the
Speaker 4: all the stuff that comes with being a head coach
Speaker 4: and you're you're not. Maybe it's not as much X
Speaker 4: as the nose as it is all the other stuff.
Speaker 4: What kind of how do you feel like you handled
Speaker 4: that adjustment?
Speaker 6: For me, it was really important to get people in
Speaker 6: to do the things that I wasn't strong at or
Speaker 6: things I just didn't enjoy doing. So it's all about
Speaker 6: comprising the right staff around you and allowing them to
Speaker 6: have the autonomy to do the things that they are
Speaker 6: specialized in, and you know, strategically going after people to
Speaker 6: fill those voids. And I think we've done a great
Speaker 6: job of that.
Speaker 2: We talked to Becky a couple couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Are soccer Becka for weeks You'll need to get her
Speaker 2: season started with soccer. I'm curious because I answer this
Speaker 2: question too, is the game different in the Big twelve
Speaker 2: than it is in the PA Pac twelve in terms
Speaker 2: of finesse or strength or power.
Speaker 6: I think the one thing that's probably the biggest difference
Speaker 6: is is probably not as big of bodies, if you will,
Speaker 6: as it was in the Pac twelve, and so there
Speaker 6: was a certain athlete that we had a recruit to
Speaker 6: be able to stop someone who's six four six '
Speaker 6: five that we don't. It's nice if you have them now,
Speaker 6: but it's not as pressing for it. I think the
Speaker 6: game is going to be ran a little bit faster
Speaker 6: in the Big twelve than it was in the Pac twelve,
Speaker 6: but that's just by nature of having smaller bodies going
Speaker 6: after it.
Speaker 4: How does that set up for you and the team
Speaker 4: and the roster that you currently have, You know, does
Speaker 4: it fit well with what you do? How much of
Speaker 4: an adjustment is it going to be for you as
Speaker 4: not only as a program, but in terms of the
Speaker 4: players that you have.
Speaker 6: Well, we went out and studied every team within the
Speaker 6: Big twelve and looked at the recruits they had coming
Speaker 6: in and looked at what their strengths were and what
Speaker 6: we thought their weaknesses were. And we think that we
Speaker 6: matched well with what we're going into. You know, there
Speaker 6: will always be a few pieces here and there that
Speaker 6: you need to navigate and add in, but that's by
Speaker 6: nature of the game. So I think that we are
Speaker 6: going to be in a good position in terms of
Speaker 6: our personnel in comparison to who we're playing.
Speaker 2: So that's said, because you said you went into the portal,
Speaker 2: how many new faces do you have on the roster?
Speaker 6: You know, honestly you didn't know that number, but I
Speaker 6: think it's seven. But Kre will be as new. Amanda
Speaker 6: the wit is new, and then we have a several
Speaker 6: freshmen that came in. But because Carly was here in
Speaker 6: the spring, I don't necessarily consider her new to us,
Speaker 6: but she's new to you.
Speaker 4: Okay, So as you built this team, you know, we
Speaker 4: asked this of you know, football coaches, basketball coaches, what
Speaker 4: kind of a team are you? What do you know,
Speaker 4: what do you feel like you're going to be great at? Uh?
Speaker 4: And and you know, what are the time the teams
Speaker 4: that you feel you match up well with.
Speaker 6: We're going to match up with teams that are ready
Speaker 6: to go fast and play the game and not slow
Speaker 6: down and run a slow pace. I think that we
Speaker 6: want to be known as a team that's going to
Speaker 6: compete from the beginning to end, and we want to
Speaker 6: be known for defense. It is one area that we
Speaker 6: definitely struggled in last year was our passing the defense,
Speaker 6: and so we've spent all spring and will contain the
Speaker 6: sprint spind all fall working and improving in that area.
Speaker 6: Because the better you are at passing, the more you'll
Speaker 6: be in system which allows you to run your faster offense,
Speaker 6: and which is what we want to do.
Speaker 2: So who do we look out for this year player wise?
Speaker 6: Well, this year on our team is going to be
Speaker 6: Carli Cisnero, Jalen Hodge, Jordan Wilsons, and Kiari Roby.
Speaker 2: Oh so you have a nice group of people you
Speaker 2: can rely on.
Speaker 6: Yes, we have the four most in Arizona history since
Speaker 6: I've been here. I think these are the or best
Speaker 6: middle blockers we've had at one time. We've had stands
Speaker 6: where we've had two and three. But I don't recall
Speaker 6: for one day gets back in town. I'll ask him,
Speaker 6: but I don't recall, or we've had this depth in
Speaker 6: the middle.
Speaker 2: Who knows what that will happen because he's on the
Speaker 2: on the bicycle tour, right, you know, but whatever got
Speaker 2: into him, well, we'll find out when he comes back.
Speaker 4: Speaking of that, speaking of it, do you are you
Speaker 4: do you lean on him a little better, you know,
Speaker 4: getting some advice from him, talking to him about how
Speaker 4: things are going, and you know, getting help from him
Speaker 4: or you just is he out there in retirement and
Speaker 4: not talking to anybody.
Speaker 6: No, he's definitely not giving up volleyball. He's in San Diego,
Speaker 6: close to the San Diego area now close today. But
Speaker 6: I do call him for things that are like completely
Speaker 6: out of the realm of anything that we've ever talked about,
Speaker 6: and there was probably something that he dealt with behind scenes,
Speaker 6: and so he's always forthcoming with me on that. But
Speaker 6: he's always willing to help out whenever. But he knows
Speaker 6: I'm a little steppering at times, so he doesn't ever
Speaker 6: want to overstep his boundaries.
Speaker 4: Right. Well, you're you know, you're a head coach in
Speaker 4: really a new era.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: We talked to Dave and he he liked the old
Speaker 4: era and didn't didn't really feel like he was set
Speaker 4: up to want to want to do things the way
Speaker 4: things have to be done. Now you mentioned the transfer portal,
Speaker 4: whether nil comes into play for your program. The movement
Speaker 4: of players. You mentioned seven new players, you know, the
Speaker 4: movement of rosters. Uh this you know even though you've
Speaker 4: been around a while, you know you're a new head coach.
Speaker 4: It's a new era for you. Are you liking how
Speaker 4: things are developing? How do you how do you? How
Speaker 4: are you approaching on that? It's like, it's not up
Speaker 4: to me to like it. This is the way it is.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, obviously there's a love hate relationship because there
Speaker 6: is a way that you know, you did things and
Speaker 6: this is how it got done and it worked well,
Speaker 6: and you want to kind of rely on that. But
Speaker 6: in order to compete in this day and age, you
Speaker 6: have to change with the times. And unfortunately or fortunately,
Speaker 6: depends on the mood I'm in, is always going to
Speaker 6: happen that way. And so that's part of having the
Speaker 6: right people around you on your staff where you can
Speaker 6: you know, get in on those little things that you
Speaker 6: may miss so you can't relate to. But I have
Speaker 6: a sixteen year old and soon to be twenty one
Speaker 6: year old at home, so they keep me at bathe
Speaker 6: of what is what is and what is We.
Speaker 2: Hear you yeah, we both hear you that one. Right.
Speaker 2: We're talking to Treta Stubs, the Arizona volleyball coach along
Speaker 2: those lines, how are you handling nil? We had a
Speaker 2: coach up Adiya Barnes on a couple of months ago
Speaker 2: and she lamented, you know, I don't know how to
Speaker 2: compete with the big boys. You know, the LS shoes
Speaker 2: are making millions from this. She's got a one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty two hundred thousand dollars budget and it just
Speaker 2: it's just like us being on a treadmill to nowhere.
Speaker 6: You know, it's hard. It's hard, and you know, the
Speaker 6: key is to go out and recruit the kids that
Speaker 6: want good. So one of the things that I've found
Speaker 6: with females and especially in volleyball, the goods more important
Speaker 6: than a fund. So it's getting to know different people
Speaker 6: at restaurants or car dealerships and say hey, what can
Speaker 6: we do together where it doesn't involve exchanging money as
Speaker 6: much as it is good getting you know, Cairo cryo, sorry,
Speaker 6: getting your eyelashes done, your hair, your nail sounds like that.
Speaker 6: That goes a long way in our sports.
Speaker 4: Instead of having money for that stuff, you get services
Speaker 4: that makes a lot of sense, do you do you
Speaker 4: find that? You know, when when you're talking about volleyball
Speaker 4: players or getting that type of stuff, how you know
Speaker 4: how difficult is it? And you know when you see that,
Speaker 4: you know there's a softball player at Texas Tech is
Speaker 4: getting a million dollars, or you see you know, football
Speaker 4: and basketball players you know getting you know these things.
Speaker 4: How are volleyball players you know themselves handling all that
Speaker 4: and just kind of accepting the spot that they're in
Speaker 4: because volleyball isn't a revenue generating sport like football or basketball.
Speaker 6: Our city is a little bit different because at Nebraska,
Speaker 6: you know they're doing it, but he's won a lot
Speaker 6: and he's put himself in a position to be able
Speaker 6: to go to the community and get those funds. I
Speaker 6: do believe that we could get more of the community
Speaker 6: if our voice was louder in that realm and just
Speaker 6: going out. So I spent all last spring just going
Speaker 6: out and raising as much as I could so that
Speaker 6: we can make sure our kids were here this summer.
Speaker 6: And you know, the community met me exactly where I was,
Speaker 6: So I'm very appreciative of that. But you want to
Speaker 6: continue to do it, and I continue to, you know,
Speaker 6: harp on with our players. That is about giving back
Speaker 6: to the community. I never want someone just to give
Speaker 6: us something and they get nothing in return. I don't
Speaker 6: think that's who I am as a person, and that's
Speaker 6: not the type of program I want to run.
Speaker 2: So to our listeners, how can they help you? If
Speaker 2: they feel so inclined, where would they go?
Speaker 6: Well, if they have a business, I would immediately ask
Speaker 6: that they would join in on our all in collective
Speaker 6: that we have over at friends the Woolburn Wilma. Make
Speaker 6: sure they use all in volleyball, and then those funds
Speaker 6: go to help our athletes get those little perks and
Speaker 6: you know, little things that will make them happy versus
Speaker 6: having the funds directly.
Speaker 2: You've been around for a long time. I mean it's
Speaker 2: hard to even talk about it because we're two old
Speaker 2: dudes here, right, We're two old dudes. We've been here
Speaker 2: for a long time, and we don't even we can
Speaker 2: honestly say we don't like it because it's changed, right,
Speaker 2: and we're not even bold. So God bless you guys,
Speaker 2: bless your coach.
Speaker 4: Well, it's one one of those things, right of being
Speaker 4: a head coach. That you got to get.
Speaker 2: In the middle of You know, this is not what
Speaker 2: you're barking for, at least in my mind. Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, coach. We appreciate your time.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Have a great day.
Speaker 2: We'll see how they do here in the next two year.
Speaker 2: It should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Second year in Yeah, you know again, every coach has
Speaker 4: this right right, right, right right. You know we've talked
Speaker 4: to the swimming coach, the golf coaches. Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: these coaches are in a tough spot. Sortsn't bringing in
Speaker 4: a bunch of money, right, so you know what do
Speaker 4: you did?
Speaker 2: Well? You we heard stoops, right, stoops. I gotta do
Speaker 2: this now because I can't now I can't coach because
Speaker 2: I'm doing this stuff.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 2: I feel for you, I feel you. But you got
Speaker 2: to do it, and that is part of it.
Speaker 4: That's part part of the job. Now, you got to
Speaker 4: accept that the job description for a head coach does.
Speaker 2: Change, right right, Okay, let's come back after the break.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jacob Salez Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Win the Ball Hero, Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve, You're Jay've got Brian with us. We've got
Speaker 2: eighteen minutes left on this segment, so plenty of time
Speaker 2: for calls any of that. Uh so good, good to
Speaker 2: talk to coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, see what's going on.
Speaker 2: I thought your question of of how she's gonna be
Speaker 2: different maybe or for the second year, right, because it
Speaker 2: was not a good year, and well, yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Didn't go on and they had some you know, personality
Speaker 4: issues and stuff like that. And again, you know, when
Speaker 4: you have a new coach and somebody who's been around
Speaker 4: a long time leaves, you know, there's a big adjustment.
Speaker 4: Often even if. I mean, she was an assistant to
Speaker 4: Rubia for a long time, but she's not Dave Rubio.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's that's what you That's what happened.
Speaker 2: And they've got out exactly how you wanted to get
Speaker 2: out at the right time. One of the things that
Speaker 2: that struck me, and I think I asked her, Oh,
Speaker 2: I know, I asked her about what we talked about
Speaker 2: with with the ad studia. But at the PEMA, Yeah,
Speaker 2: h coaches are gonna go volleyball, football or whatever. Are
Speaker 2: gonna go transfer portal route rather than the JV right
Speaker 2: or the junior college college right high scho They're gonna
Speaker 2: look for people who have experienced and and what's the
Speaker 2: job of the coaches to win?
Speaker 4: To win and get have the best players that fit
Speaker 4: what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2: You're measured on your success and and why do why
Speaker 2: wait four years? Wait three years?
Speaker 4: That's why when you see somebody like what's his name,
Speaker 4: Dabbo Sweeney Okay at at Clemson say I'm not doing
Speaker 4: the transfer portal, Well, you're closing off, uh a source
Speaker 4: of good players to keep to stay to your principles,
Speaker 4: right right, Well, you know there's players out there that
Speaker 4: can help Clemson, and to not even consider them just
Speaker 4: because they're in the transfer portal as opposed to coming
Speaker 4: out of high school.
Speaker 2: It seems crazy to me, because no, I got I
Speaker 2: kind of agree with you. If that's the case. Is
Speaker 2: that still happening? He's still noting.
Speaker 4: He just says I'm not doing the transfer.
Speaker 2: For more power to him, because I guess he believes
Speaker 2: or betting on himself to get the kids prepared, right,
Speaker 2: But it's not the Clemson program that we used well, right.
Speaker 4: And here's the thing, Steve, he said, I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: get high school kids. I'm going to develop them. But
Speaker 4: what happens when you go get this high school kid
Speaker 4: that you think you're going to develop and he leaves
Speaker 4: after year one because he didn't get developed enough. Well,
Speaker 4: then somebody else, right, and somebody else benefits from that.
Speaker 4: And then you go get another high school kid. And
Speaker 4: is that other high school kid or a walk on whatever,
Speaker 4: better than a guy you can get out of the
Speaker 4: portal who's played. I'm telling you, I can't wait to
Speaker 4: see this running back out of New Mexico Cory Krossky
Speaker 4: Mari play because everybody says this guy's the real deal.
Speaker 4: Screwed that he was at New Mexico last year. He's
Speaker 4: the real deal, and I want to see how real
Speaker 4: deal he is. But I feel like, is he a
Speaker 4: better option than a kid who was in high school
Speaker 4: and going to the prom at this time last year?
Speaker 2: You know, well, you'd think you think, no, he is
Speaker 2: probably not. He's a man, yeah, right, and he's been
Speaker 2: through the deals of details. No, I agree with you.
Speaker 2: In fact, I don't know how I would feel. Maybe
Speaker 2: a little debo, but a lot of transfer.
Speaker 4: Again, you just need to say, I'm gonna go get
Speaker 4: the best players I can get, whether that's in the
Speaker 4: portal or whether that's a high school kid.
Speaker 2: And there's no doubt that he can do that, or
Speaker 2: even a junior college because he's at a good school.
Speaker 4: Right with Yeah, I'm sure there's guys in the portal
Speaker 4: who would love to go play.
Speaker 2: Well, that said that said, Uh, that said that was
Speaker 2: used analogy I'm not gonna use. He's sticking to his
Speaker 2: principles and either it's gonna cost him his job or
Speaker 2: it's not right. But we think we'd probably do it differently.
Speaker 2: But but he's doing it his way, and he's pretty good.
Speaker 4: He gets to do that. He's you know, he's a
Speaker 4: he's a proven code. She's got some national championships. Short
Speaker 4: you know, you're gonna say, you know, if you're the
Speaker 4: Gant administration, you're gonna say, all right, you know, we
Speaker 4: gotta trust him because he's done a great job here.
Speaker 4: But again from where we said, you think why you
Speaker 4: know why, It's like you're saying, I'm gonna get players,
Speaker 4: and I know there's some good players in that neighborhood
Speaker 4: over there, but I don't want to go into that
Speaker 4: neighborhood and get those guys. I'm gonna get my guys
Speaker 4: from this neighborhood over here.
Speaker 2: My way is gonna work under whatever you guys say,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna do them, by the.
Speaker 4: Way, right, it's crazy, crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, and then she talks about we asked about the
Speaker 2: Dia Barnes thing, you know, and I thought that was
Speaker 2: brilliant too. Well, you you bro, We had coach guy
Speaker 2: on here yesterday and we talked about it with here.
Speaker 2: One of the special things about Tucson, and I asked you,
Speaker 2: where do they rank among the programs? And he says, well,
Speaker 2: they have accommodations, good meal plans, blah blah blah. So
Speaker 2: instead of nil cash the given sentence right.
Speaker 4: Because it was fine because she said, you know, like
Speaker 4: getting you know, yeah, you're getting nails done costs money
Speaker 4: and that's if they don't have to pay for that
Speaker 4: because they've got an nil deal, then great, that's it
Speaker 4: might as well be money. Right, So uh no, you
Speaker 4: know that, and maybe that's the way some of these
Speaker 4: other programs do that instead of handing cash over. Okay,
Speaker 4: you know, give us some services. Let me come in
Speaker 4: on a on a Sunday afternoon or whatever, and you know,
Speaker 4: get my nails done or my air done, or you know,
Speaker 4: get a car wash or whatever whatever it might be. Yeah,
Speaker 4: then that then that's rare because that's if you're going
Speaker 4: to use those services anyways, then that's money.
Speaker 2: Well anyways, well, who do we have on a week
Speaker 2: or so ago? But we've I've heard a thousand times
Speaker 2: you have two back in the day, they didn't have
Speaker 2: money because I asked all the time, you were born
Speaker 2: too late, right, talked about that and how many of
Speaker 2: the guys would have said pizza hudskivens a pizza back
Speaker 2: in the day.
Speaker 4: I'll take the pizza.
Speaker 2: I'll take the pizza. I don't have anything right now, honestly, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we are two thousand.
Speaker 4: I mean you you're you remember the oldest when we
Speaker 4: used to be able to go into the locker rooms, right,
Speaker 4: each player would get a pizza, They'd order a thousand pizzas,
Speaker 4: and everybody would walk out of the would walk out
Speaker 4: of the locker room, whether it was basketball or football,
Speaker 4: with an entire pizza. You know, that was you know,
Speaker 4: that was signed up sort of a postgame meal for him,
Speaker 4: and it was a whole pizza.
Speaker 2: Now the guys could buy a franchise, Yeah, some of
Speaker 2: them them. You have private jets ready for them exactly. Well,
Speaker 2: what a time to be a college student student athlete.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're good, if you're good, if you're good. Anyways,
Speaker 4: you mentioned, uh Dabblesweeney doing things his way. So Justin
Speaker 4: Spears just posted his notes from from today and he
Speaker 4: he's got a Q and A with I must have
Speaker 4: been from the press conference. Maybe not, maybe he got
Speaker 4: some time with him alone, but he he asked a
Speaker 4: bunch of questions. One of them was, how about an
Speaker 4: open practice for fans to attend because practices have been closed.
Speaker 4: Uh and let me read what he said.
Speaker 2: I guess is it with Brendan?
Speaker 4: Yeah? With Brandon, it says, well, we've done that the
Speaker 4: first few months. Then as it goes. For me, I'm
Speaker 4: always trying to figure out one of our main standards
Speaker 4: for the team, which is to protect the program. When
Speaker 4: we do that, there's a lot of information getting out
Speaker 4: there from the practice environment that's not going to serve us.
Speaker 4: Have to make determinations on how to corral that. So
Speaker 4: that would be why. But we've had a big group
Speaker 4: of donors at every practice so far as it's training camp,
Speaker 4: and that's been positive. Early on in camp, we've had
Speaker 4: a lot of fans. People have had a lot of
Speaker 4: access to our program. I feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 4: But he's closing it down. He's closed it down and
Speaker 4: and fans, you know, the practices are no longer open.
Speaker 2: Anybody listening can give us a call. And because I've
Speaker 2: seen it on Twitter with the media can reporting. Mostly
Speaker 2: they're upset the reasons why, But there are people saying
Speaker 2: why not. I mean, that's his program whatever, But people
Speaker 2: upset this. They should be telling people what's going on?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: What do you what do you sit because you're you're
Speaker 2: you're a fan and and you're and you're kind of
Speaker 2: a journalist.
Speaker 4: I've never mind when coaches close practice, you know, because
Speaker 4: I've always believed it was for you know, as he
Speaker 4: says to, you know, to protect the team, you know.
Speaker 2: To Okay, what does that mean?
Speaker 4: That means that people can't see what you're doing? Right,
Speaker 4: Connor Stallions, Dude, Connor Stallions, I have two words.
Speaker 2: If you could kick my ass and I know what
Speaker 2: you're doing, you can kick my ass.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But still, you know, a first year coach at
Speaker 4: a program where you know, there's so much technology and
Speaker 4: stuff that people look, that's people. People knowing stuff about
Speaker 4: you helps. Otherwise, Michigan would have sent Connor Stallions out
Speaker 4: there to be scouting games because because it works, it
Speaker 4: does work. Why do you think they watch hours and
Speaker 4: hours of film because it helps.
Speaker 2: Well, And that's what's the difference between that and going
Speaker 2: to a practice. Yeah, I think it's a little paranoia,
Speaker 2: but that's for me.
Speaker 4: Well again, you know, over over time, practices were closed
Speaker 4: here and I didn't have a problem with that. Well,
Speaker 4: but you know that fish came and opened it up.
Speaker 4: But why did he do that because he had to
Speaker 4: rebuild the interest in the program, you know.
Speaker 2: And so but here's the issue. And a month ago
Speaker 2: we were talking about this where they're gonna pay at
Speaker 2: Alabama Ohio standard but charge them twenty bucks to go
Speaker 2: see it open and they were gonna sell out right right,
Speaker 2: because that's how much interested they had him open here.
Speaker 2: How many people showed up twenty Yeah, forty Yeah, because
Speaker 2: we were we were there there, there weren't there may
Speaker 2: be fifty sixty people there. Yeah, maybe in a good day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So okay, I get it. There's not a whole lot
Speaker 2: of fan interest even at the practices that we went
Speaker 2: to on a Saturday. Yeah, that side of the field
Speaker 2: was not very I don't.
Speaker 4: Have an issue with that as much as they have
Speaker 4: the issue with them shutting down the media. Yeah, from
Speaker 4: talking about practice. Totally agree with that. That's crap.
Speaker 2: Totally agree with that. Did it shut it down?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that they say you can come to the practice,
Speaker 4: but you can't talk about what you see. That's really
Speaker 4: that's difficult. That's that's difficult a fan. You know, you
Speaker 4: don't know who's watching. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the issue. You go and you're an over
Speaker 2: zealous fan, right, and you have a way with the
Speaker 2: computer or the tea, your little friend. Oh, I went
Speaker 2: to practice day, I'm I'm Joe Schmoet, and this is
Speaker 2: what I saw. I get that, I get that I saw,
Speaker 2: and this is what I saw. This guy was running.
Speaker 2: This was not a guy running. So he's become a
Speaker 2: reporter too. Everybody's become a reporter.
Speaker 4: Now, and I think that has has probably as much
Speaker 4: to do with it, because you get it. Back when
Speaker 4: Mike Stupid was closing practices, they didn't have that right,
Speaker 4: right if somebody was recording your practices. They were doing
Speaker 4: it from afar with the video cam. Sure, sure, and
Speaker 4: you knew they were doing it.
Speaker 2: And I don't know what Dick Tomy would say now,
Speaker 2: they would have never been able to pull off the
Speaker 2: David eld just think exactly, and because they don't have
Speaker 2: an agreement with the people in the stands exactly.
Speaker 4: But also at that time, fans didn't have the outlet
Speaker 4: like social media, and that's go on and say this
Speaker 4: is what I saw and that's my point, that's what
Speaker 4: I want to say, And now they do, so I
Speaker 4: don't know. Look, it's six to one a half dozen
Speaker 4: of the other. I can see in your first year
Speaker 4: when you've got the advantage of people not knowing as much.
Speaker 4: If they want to see what you do, they got
Speaker 4: to go look at Santaose State film. Well, the Santose
Speaker 4: State film doesn't have no fafita, you know, and and
Speaker 4: team AC running routes for that or the kid from
Speaker 4: New Mexicoo or the kid from exactly. So I don't
Speaker 4: have an issue an issue with that. It'll be interesting
Speaker 4: to see if he does this again next year. He says,
Speaker 4: we're not, you know, opening practices, or I think burn't
Speaker 4: practices open at the very beginning, and then they closed
Speaker 4: him down and they said no more. You know, fine,
Speaker 4: you know, people got a chance to go out and
Speaker 4: see this A little bit.
Speaker 2: On the scale, a big deal. How old you rank
Speaker 2: at that? About a three of a ten of ten? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that they closed because of the way they did it
Speaker 2: or the media you mean, or no, that.
Speaker 4: They close practices because I think Arizona still is in
Speaker 4: a position where they still want to be generating and
Speaker 4: just let people touch and feel and see see the team.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of excitement, uh and fans, you know,
Speaker 4: the fans are gonna come out to the games, but
Speaker 4: they're still pant fans out there who are skeptical.
Speaker 2: Okay, so so let's just because you know these guys.
Speaker 2: I know these guys, uh, because we've been in this
Speaker 2: business low time. Oh and their boosters that are going
Speaker 2: to these practices, right, hey, Jim, Joe, what's going on? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what they're gonna do. They're gonna tell you
Speaker 2: that's what this course.
Speaker 4: But if you're Joe Schmo and you're not the booster
Speaker 4: that's out on the field, you really don't get a
Speaker 4: sense of it. Well, yeah, they ran some places. Team
Speaker 4: actors you know, goes yard all the time, they run
Speaker 4: this reverse or whatever.
Speaker 2: Just who you want to go watch the games? The
Speaker 2: dudes in the stads, right.
Speaker 4: And maybe they're gonna go because they didn't get to
Speaker 4: see it at practice. There's a lot of ways of
Speaker 4: looking at that, Steve, Right, Okay, Now I got to
Speaker 4: go to the games because I didn't you know, I
Speaker 4: don't know what the hell is going on because I'll
Speaker 4: go to the New Mexico game to see how they look.
Speaker 2: How how with them? And Bill's gonna hate me? Hell
Speaker 2: with them because they don't let me go watch practices.
Speaker 4: There's that too. Yeah, there's gonna be people who said, well,
Speaker 4: screw you. SYS wouldn't let me come and see practice.
Speaker 4: You're not buying a ticket. You're not fan friendly, right,
Speaker 4: I'm not buying a ticket exactly. I mean there's so
Speaker 4: many ways we can go. And then again, in the end,
Speaker 4: if they win, they'll show up. People will show if
Speaker 4: they if they if they win three of the first four. Okay,
Speaker 4: how many people are gonna get the Texas Tech game?
Speaker 2: Oh for a bunch? Forty eight thousand, forty eight forty nine, Yeah, thousands,
Speaker 2: a whole lot.
Speaker 4: It is it's yeah, it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 4: later game.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a later game. They'll be they'll be nice.
Speaker 4: And I think it's an eight fifteen game.
Speaker 2: Oh then then it's too late.
Speaker 4: No, maybe we don't know that.
Speaker 2: I think it's too early because it's it's uh.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, No, it's too We were talking about it.
Speaker 4: There was a bad there was a late it's a
Speaker 4: late basketball game. No, what is it? No, we saw
Speaker 4: something on the schedule because we were talking.
Speaker 2: About thirty Its way a month late in advance.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a football game.
Speaker 4: What do you mean. Yeah, oh, super Now Texas Tech.
Speaker 4: Texas Tech is still a TB eight time.
Speaker 2: I would assume so because it's still late into.
Speaker 4: The only games they have times for our the first
Speaker 4: three three.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so the thing is too and then you
Speaker 2: got and again Bill, just too. It's like Goldilocks. It's
Speaker 2: too hot, it's too late.
Speaker 4: It's to this.
Speaker 2: Generalization.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you are generalizing. There are all a bunch of weenies.
Speaker 4: You're not.
Speaker 2: But you know that's just the way it is. If
Speaker 2: you win, they'll come. If you don't, well, when's basketball start?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: When's the Red Blue getting?
Speaker 4: God? All right, let me read one more thing. Justin
Speaker 4: asked him. At this point in training camp, is the
Speaker 4: Arizona where you want it to be? Brendan said, I
Speaker 4: think we're in a great spot. I really do. I
Speaker 4: think we have work to do and I'm glad we
Speaker 4: have two weeks of practice left. This stretch right here
Speaker 4: was a tough stretch. We had six practices in seven days.
Speaker 4: That's the grinder part of camp. And I thought our
Speaker 4: players did a great job. They showed up for camp
Speaker 4: and are in great condition, in good shape. I think
Speaker 4: coach Carolyn is staff did a great job preparing for that.
Speaker 4: Then our coaches are are coaching the heck out him
Speaker 4: and spending every hour of the day trying to do
Speaker 4: whatever we can to improve our team. So there you go.
Speaker 2: Okay, to me, that was coach speak. We gotta get better.
Speaker 2: We got two weeks and you got two weeks. I said, no,
Speaker 2: we're perfect. Werena, We're ready to play today.
Speaker 4: You're not hear.
Speaker 2: But guess what you have to fill your notebook?
Speaker 3: You do?
Speaker 4: You do? He's got he's got to write this stuff,
Speaker 4: you guys. Unfortunately, these guys have to write a lot
Speaker 4: with a little.
Speaker 2: I just did a thousand words story for you, saying
Speaker 2: the same thing.
Speaker 4: A few times. You know. I took that out.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, did did my uh oh that's skilthier. Okay,
Speaker 2: my line in in the There was a little bowl game. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: there was one. There was one about catching the night
Speaker 2: lightning in a bottle.
Speaker 4: I might have left that. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 4: remember editing your stuff.
Speaker 2: There's one year.
Speaker 4: That's the funny thing, because I said, here and we're
Speaker 4: doing all this and we're talking to me, then I'm
Speaker 4: I'm like reading your stories and saying, well, that's crap,
Speaker 4: it's really good. Well, that's really good.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like the show. This guy like the
Speaker 2: show get piss out that gets removed editor, Well you
Speaker 2: get it along line.
Speaker 4: Everybody needs they don't pay me enough to do it.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that right now listening. I hope
Speaker 4: Steve I need. I need a bonus for when I
Speaker 4: edit Steve Store hazard. Definitely the hazard to my to
Speaker 4: my brain.
Speaker 2: Okay, calls today, We've got tonute tomorrow, we have your
Speaker 2: last show here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be here tomorrow. I'm still working on guests
Speaker 4: for tomorrow, and then you're in charge Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2: Friday. I'm not sure how thing on Friday. Uh, the
Speaker 2: week one's a good yeah yeah, show with just me
Speaker 2: and Ryan and maybe maybe I'll get maybe with some
Speaker 2: of them, maybe Kenny will be loft in or somebody
Speaker 2: will say yesterday, okay, yeah, anyway, so.
Speaker 4: All right, one more day Steve Days gone down close.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have any of my buddies coming from New Mexico
Speaker 2: to come to the game, because they're not getting good
Speaker 2: and we'll see him this weekend, right, Yeah, so we'll
Speaker 2: see the excitement maybe just to come down and once
Speaker 2: in play. Still he is favored in that tempo point yeah,
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 4: That's a lot. That's a lot when you're playing a
Speaker 4: cool Yeah, that's that's that's quite a bit. I'm looking
Speaker 4: this up right now to see what it is. I
Speaker 4: told you new now told you he did get it.
Speaker 4: He took I saw that he was a finalist. He
Speaker 4: did get he did get the junk. All right, we'll
Speaker 4: have to we'll have to get him on again, remember
Speaker 4: us well big.
Speaker 2: Time whenever's place the Houston in the big twelve.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe we get him on. Yeah, that'd be a
Speaker 4: good one. Yeah, good okay, yeah, uh the line now
Speaker 4: is eleven ten and a half eleven.
Speaker 2: Well that means that would be enough.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, well thanks everybody.
Speaker 4: That was fun, good good show today. Thank you for
Speaker 4: a treat of Stubbs for joining us today. And also
Speaker 4: Philip Stewart, he was a lot of fun. The Marana
Speaker 4: football coach. He was all right, we'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Se year round.