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Speaker 2: Arizona volleyball.
Speaker 3: They struggled last night against coloradly lost in a five set.
Speaker 2: Inconsistency. Right, what was it? What was the final final
Speaker 2: score in the last set? Eighteen to sixteen. Oh, so
Speaker 2: they had a chance to get through it and they
Speaker 2: didn't win.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, And they've been playing well, right, they have been
Speaker 2: playing very well them and the soccer team.
Speaker 3: Virginia's Tony Bennett is retiring ahead of the basketball season. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're talking just now, Chroina. He was fantastic at Washington State.
Speaker 2: Obviously, if you're fantastic at Whisington State, you can get
Speaker 2: a hell out of there and get a good job.
Speaker 5: When you make Pullman one of the toughest places to
Speaker 5: play in the country, you're doing a great job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's, like I told you, Troy that he's
Speaker 2: the guy finally, the coach that was able to knock
Speaker 2: off Arizona after Arizona beat him for like ten straight
Speaker 2: years forty no, ten straight years longer than that, probably
Speaker 2: almost twenty years when they beat him like forty some
Speaker 2: in a row. I even did a math. I talked
Speaker 2: to a mathematician to see how difficult that would be
Speaker 2: of winning against the team forty straight because of all
Speaker 2: the probabilities and blah blah blah. He did it, and
Speaker 2: he did it more than once. They were pretty good
Speaker 2: with the two guards back there, I can't remember their names.
Speaker 2: And then he and then he was able to do
Speaker 2: well Virginia. I remember talking to him when I was
Speaker 2: in Pullman. What would he be doing if he was
Speaker 2: in a basketball coach? Because what would you think you'd do?
Speaker 2: I think it's obvious two things, two things teaching. I
Speaker 2: don't know that's exactly what he said. I'd be a teacher.
Speaker 2: I'd be a teacher. And he's a religious guy too,
Speaker 2: so I didn't be a pastor.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know a lot a lot of coaches football, basketball,
Speaker 5: you're teaching. You're teaching not only the sport, you're teaching
Speaker 5: life so it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: And if you're really good at it, you're teaching really well, Yes.
Speaker 4: You will.
Speaker 3: And Saints wide receiver Rashid Shahid is going to miss
Speaker 3: the rest of the season. He had surgery to assess
Speaker 3: an extent on a miniscus injury, but he will be
Speaker 3: out four to six months. So they payed a night, right,
Speaker 3: pay a night by the BRONCOSA go Broncos. Yep, exactly,
Speaker 3: go Broncos.
Speaker 2: Was that what you wear in the jersey?
Speaker 5: That is that's why I'm wearing the jersey. But you
Speaker 5: left no, no, no, no, always Bronco pride ideas. Okay, hey,
Speaker 5: I don't cover the Broncos.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can. You can't be, but you're allowed.
Speaker 5: You're allowed.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you think of bot X
Speaker 2: this year?
Speaker 5: You know, I like the growth. There's been up and downs,
Speaker 5: but you're gonna have that with any rookie quarterback, but
Speaker 5: very good understanding of the system can create for his
Speaker 5: own uh and every single game he's put the team
Speaker 5: in a position to win. You know, three and three
Speaker 5: they haven't come away all the way with the win.
Speaker 5: But for a rookie quarterback to be that fundamentally sound
Speaker 5: is rare. So a lot of positives, still a lot
Speaker 5: of growing pains, but positive is moving.
Speaker 2: Forward and there's no quarterback controversy like last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, and well quarterback controversy or you know, coaching controversy,
Speaker 5: Yeah that too. But anytime you can have a rookie
Speaker 5: quarterback that is progressing and you don't have to pay
Speaker 5: somebody one hundred and seventy million dollars, Well they're still
Speaker 5: doing that, aren't they. Well they're yeah, they're still paying them,
Speaker 5: but they's no eighty million dollars in dead money. And
Speaker 5: now he's in Pittsburgh and he's about to take the
Speaker 5: starting job away from their quarterback despite the four and
Speaker 5: two start.
Speaker 2: Right man, I wish I could see some of that
Speaker 2: dead money, just a million of it, A million millions. Good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cleveland Browns are moving ahead with the plan for
Speaker 3: a new Dome stadium in suburbs.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw that this morning.
Speaker 3: They were I think they're I think their contractor lease
Speaker 3: or something's up in like twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so maybe they'll be better.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm gonna be a I hate that You're Cleveland.
Speaker 5: It's like okay in Pittsburgh, Denver, Kansas City. You should
Speaker 5: not playing boards. Be part of the weather. That's part
Speaker 5: of your tradition, that's part of the aura that that's
Speaker 5: how you win football games.
Speaker 2: Stay outside, says the guy who's in the nice Tucson.
Speaker 2: I don't want and that's snowing minus two.
Speaker 5: Hey, Cole brings toughness. I just don't need it.
Speaker 2: Okay, mister switz nigger.
Speaker 3: Freddy Freeman is not going to be in the lineup
Speaker 3: tonight for the Dodgers in Game four.
Speaker 2: Who won Game three? Dodgers big, big time. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: Mets tied up tonight. No, Freddy Freeman, Mets tied it
Speaker 2: up tonight. Who's pitching? Did you say nothing?
Speaker 4: It matters.
Speaker 3: They're in New York, though, they have to tie it up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's over Yamamoto for the Dodgers in Jose. You
Speaker 3: can kind of go to Mets. Okay, Okay, good matchup.
Speaker 3: See the Yankees it is right now. It's two to
Speaker 3: one Guardians in the bottom six Game Game three, three,
Speaker 3: they can tie it up. We'll take it to too.
Speaker 2: Game no.
Speaker 5: Two to one at Cleveland wins it today, then it's
Speaker 5: two two right, No, this is game three. Oh Oh
Speaker 5: my bad, Yeah, my bad. Where have I been?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: You were in your your bunker's jersey? You're asleep?
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 5: Once the dinmonbacks were out, I was done following.
Speaker 2: Yeah. God, that must be a tough life follow The
Speaker 2: time back has its rewards.
Speaker 5: We're in the World Series last year.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they'll stop talking. Olympic snowboarder wanted for cocaine
Speaker 2: distribution and murder. Wowow who's when? Wow?
Speaker 3: Who form more? The Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been
Speaker 3: charged running running a drug trafficking ring that shipped vast
Speaker 3: amounts of cocaine across the America's killed several people. Authorities
Speaker 3: geez trying to truck him down. It's probably on the
Speaker 3: beat somewhere.
Speaker 5: God, yeah, in Mexico somewhere maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you were. We either were kid Luke as
Speaker 2: press commerce.
Speaker 5: I was not okay, but a lot of good stuff
Speaker 5: came from I did watch it.
Speaker 2: Would even tell me what.
Speaker 5: You think, you know, I think it's it's a guy
Speaker 5: that has this folk hero vibe to him with the
Speaker 5: city that gets buying them. And and when you have
Speaker 5: a walk on like that in that situation and you're
Speaker 5: playing it. It's always a fun story when a guy
Speaker 5: gets snaps like that and is a key contributor.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, no, no question, And he's a he's a
Speaker 2: hell of an athlete. I mean, come on down. Some
Speaker 2: of the toughest athletes I know are wrestlers, toughest.
Speaker 5: And hard school football players.
Speaker 2: They could probably play in Cleveland in the snow in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: I can't, but you can't. They can.
Speaker 5: After I do, I shut off the PlayStation game.
Speaker 2: But to my point, thank you, Top Sorry, Top twenty
Speaker 2: two twenty five commit Terry Shelton still locked in to
Speaker 2: Arizona despite the offensive struggles football. Okay, there was another one.
Speaker 2: There was a baseball. We got a baseball recruiter. We
Speaker 2: got a baseball recruit.
Speaker 5: Chip Hill's been hot on the recruiting trail, and you know,
Speaker 5: anytime you can pick up baseball talent here in Tucson,
Speaker 5: I don't think it's a surprise, but it's always a positive.
Speaker 5: And getting Sheldon locked in, if they're able to sign
Speaker 5: them again national letter and ted, that whole thing has
Speaker 5: kind of changed. But if they're able to get them,
Speaker 5: that's that's a massive pickup for they lost.
Speaker 2: They lost a guy with a week or so ago
Speaker 2: from telling if they continue to slide, possibility of more probably,
Speaker 2: I do excactly there is a likelihood of more. I
Speaker 2: do expect at least one more. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: go into the details of that, but news coming. We're
Speaker 2: not going down that road. But and you know how
Speaker 2: I feel about recruiting.
Speaker 5: But Alan gant to me it wasn't necessarily how they're
Speaker 5: playing Texas Boy near Lubbock and Texas that game calling
Speaker 5: and left not a big surprise.
Speaker 3: University of Arizona Baseball will include their fall schedule tomorrow
Speaker 3: afternoon at HI Corbett one pm on Central Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Two people show up for that game because of
Speaker 2: football obviously. No, that's tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Now you're getting confused, like the color I think it's Monday.
Speaker 5: What the hello? But you know, fall fall baseball and
Speaker 5: softball is always interesting to see. And they played multiple players.
Speaker 5: They get the whole rotation out there, and it's a
Speaker 5: fun watch.
Speaker 2: Did you go to baseball baseball? I did not just
Speaker 2: a baseball guy. You didn't do it? This the Hispanic guy.
Speaker 2: You didn't do it? No, No, not this year. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: I bet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my first time there had a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of music and dancing.
Speaker 5: I hear their Uh they're playing in the middle, in
Speaker 5: between pitches, in between.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as soon as the picture releases it, then they
Speaker 3: cut the music off. And then as soon as the
Speaker 3: you know plays over, then they'll go back and play
Speaker 3: music again.
Speaker 2: I just play it all the time like that bothers
Speaker 2: or swinging. Come on, you gotta be quiet. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: that's about all I got today. So you got kind
Speaker 2: of a quiet day. Okay. I was looking at you.
Speaker 2: I think you got all E was all the stuff,
Speaker 2: Uh that needs to be said? Anything else, mister mister goycats.
Speaker 5: No, I think he got the Arizona stuff again. You know,
Speaker 5: uh National signing Day right around the corner or whatever
Speaker 5: that means now in terms of uh signing your letter
Speaker 5: of intent and therefore you know all that changing.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: So it's a busy time of the year. You're gonna
Speaker 5: see recruits flip commit and uh it'll be interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What do you think that's gonna happen in Virginia?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 5: Man, I mean that to lose a coach this late
Speaker 5: into the process and right around the season, right around
Speaker 5: the corner that's a killer. We saw that kind of
Speaker 5: at Villanova. When Jay writes down, I think it was
Speaker 5: closer to the season, and you saw how that season
Speaker 5: turned out. It's always a tough situation.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, no, no, no question, did a wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 2: thing at Virginia got the title in twenty nineteen, after
Speaker 2: a year after becoming the first number one to lose
Speaker 2: to six sixteen. That was a year that when he
Speaker 2: got beat by number one. That was when Arizona lost
Speaker 2: to Buffalo and Boise. I remember that well because I
Speaker 2: was watching the game in Boise, thinking this can't be happening.
Speaker 2: This can't be happening. It happened, and then I think
Speaker 2: it was maybe that same day, same day, I'm sure Arizona,
Speaker 2: or maybe the day later Arizona lost to Buffalo in
Speaker 2: a horrible showing.
Speaker 5: I think it was the day later Arizona. I was
Speaker 5: a day later, the night before Arizona lost and then
Speaker 5: the next day okay, in that time frame, in that
Speaker 5: time frame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I was a chilis eating in our media
Speaker 2: meal or whatever, and I'm thinking and Boise say, what
Speaker 2: the hell am I still doing? In Boise twenty eight degree,
Speaker 2: whether yeah, I'm thinking Troy would love this. I don't.
Speaker 2: I'll pass they you weren't there, right, No, No, it
Speaker 2: was not coold at all. He was just raining.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's not that bad.
Speaker 2: No, no, no marching Boise, no problem, anything else. Patino
Speaker 2: to Virginia, who knows. I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't think that. I mean, we've seen Sean Miller
Speaker 5: to Virginia come up, and I don't think that's happening either.
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't think. I don't think that's good.
Speaker 2: That's let's talk about this. I don't think Sean would
Speaker 2: do that, given that Xavier was so loyal to him
Speaker 2: in bringing him back after all the brew haha. And
Speaker 2: you know, I think he'll stay loyal to Xavier.
Speaker 5: I think he will retire at Xavier. To be honest,
Speaker 5: I don't think he is leaving Xavier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I won't go that far. But no, he's
Speaker 2: fifty fifty five ish actually, Benet just I would just
Speaker 2: the retired at fifty five, So Miller's fifty five about
Speaker 2: that time. I would think that Sean partly thinks he
Speaker 2: has one more shot at it.
Speaker 5: How many more years do you think?
Speaker 4: Ten?
Speaker 2: Thirteen, Sean Sean, Yeah, at least at least ten. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he knows this is this is what he does. He
Speaker 2: eats breeze, sleeps collar. I wrote that story a number
Speaker 2: of times. I think he might stared at me one
Speaker 2: time or no, he actually threw my lead back at
Speaker 2: me one time. They say I live this thing in
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven. Who doesn't know that, right? I
Speaker 2: mean there was no nothing wrong in that lead because
Speaker 2: it's factual. Yeah, and he is. I mean that's part
Speaker 2: of who his makeup is. And I think his year
Speaker 2: off though, and Troy, I don't know if you agree
Speaker 2: with me, gave him a sense of of Okay, maybe
Speaker 2: I've been doing it too seriously or too something too intensely.
Speaker 5: He took a chill pill.
Speaker 2: Did it really did not? Not that it's affected right
Speaker 2: now because you know he's back on thinks and I
Speaker 2: don't follow him that closely. But yeah, I mean it
Speaker 2: could have been the best thing for him.
Speaker 5: And really that first year at Xavier again this past season,
Speaker 5: they lost a lot of guys you know, to graduation,
Speaker 5: and one got hurt. One got hurt, that's you. But
Speaker 5: you saw the offense open up. It wasn't the same
Speaker 5: old Sean Miller's style of coaching in terms of offenses,
Speaker 5: that you saw a little different things here and there,
Speaker 5: and you know, you gotta wonder if that time off.
Speaker 5: He saw what coaches were doing around the country and said,
Speaker 5: you know what I got, I gotta change a little
Speaker 5: got to be willing to change.
Speaker 2: No, no, And that was his problem here. He was not. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was down, he was stubborn. He was doing his
Speaker 2: own process. I remember, well, I was gonna say he
Speaker 2: was the little kid. You know, you had to fit
Speaker 2: the shapes into a certain he has the square trying
Speaker 2: to go into a circle. Yeah. Yeah, did you ever
Speaker 2: see my going away call him on him? And it
Speaker 2: was partly because this is when he had Nico, he
Speaker 2: had Green and he had the one in Denver Ziganji,
Speaker 2: and he let him play and let him play until
Speaker 2: the semester came and then enough of a play, and
Speaker 2: you're gonna listen to me because they couldn't transfer. That
Speaker 2: was my impression of the whole thing. And I wrote that,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people said that was accurate, that
Speaker 2: you know he and then he stared me down a
Speaker 2: time or two because they said let him run. I
Speaker 2: mean that's the formula here. Let him run. Imagine if
Speaker 2: they had a coach who slowed them down and he
Speaker 2: did it, defends weren't happy with that.
Speaker 5: I always think imagine nic Omnnon and Tommy Lloyd.
Speaker 2: No with Green, with green, and my god, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: they would have won a ton of games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they would have been on the border. Are we
Speaker 5: in the tournament or out in the tournament?
Speaker 4: Oh? Deep?
Speaker 2: How deep?
Speaker 4: Are we? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No question, no question. Okay, let's take the break.
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Speaker 2: women's basketball coach, Todd Hometouse. Todd, how are you.
Speaker 4: I'm good. How you guys doing today?
Speaker 2: We're doing fine, doing fine. It's no longer summer. At
Speaker 2: least it's less summer, thank goodness. Yes, yes, yes, let
Speaker 2: me before we get into your Pima team, your fantastic
Speaker 2: PEMA team. I'm sure you saw that Tony Bennett is retiring, right, yeah?
Speaker 2: How old are you?
Speaker 4: I'm fifty four years young?
Speaker 2: Oh? Perfect, perfect, Okay, he's he's fifty five. I think
Speaker 2: Sean's fifty five. I'm a little older than that. You've
Speaker 2: been doing this for a long time. How old have
Speaker 2: you been doing this.
Speaker 13: I've been coaching when I first started at Falling Wells
Speaker 13: back in ninety seven.
Speaker 4: I've been doing this twenty seven years.
Speaker 2: So no, you're just a rookie. You're just a young
Speaker 2: kid at this.
Speaker 4: So I'm sure I haven't hit the forty yard forty years.
Speaker 2: Mark or the forty yard line mark either, but you must.
Speaker 2: Is this your calling? And I say that because a
Speaker 2: lot of coaches today, younger or older, maybe being old,
Speaker 2: but younger on the on the younger side of the old,
Speaker 2: are getting out because of what they're having to deal with.
Speaker 2: College Junior college is a little bit different.
Speaker 13: Absolutely, I honestly, I absolutely love what I do and
Speaker 13: just watching how the division won, like the NCAA, how
Speaker 13: that's all changing. I have a lot of friends that
Speaker 13: are in that business and they're the same way. It's
Speaker 13: just a lot like it's just it's it's not so
Speaker 13: much coaching anymore. And I think a lot of them
Speaker 13: got into it because they enjoyed building relationships and you know,
Speaker 13: you get to know the kids when you're recruiting and
Speaker 13: develop relationships with their families, and it really is like
Speaker 13: a special thing.
Speaker 4: And so that's it's more transactionary now.
Speaker 13: And so I think a lot of the people who
Speaker 13: got into it years ago for the reasons that I said,
Speaker 13: are now realizing now it's just about money and who
Speaker 13: can pay you players the most.
Speaker 4: And I don't think it's a fun or is enjoyable.
Speaker 13: For them because you can invest a lot of time in,
Speaker 13: you know, building relationships, and if they're not happy, they're
Speaker 13: gone in a year. So you've spent two years recruiting
Speaker 13: them and they're gone after one. And so I don't
Speaker 13: live that life, so I can't say that's exactly what
Speaker 13: it is, but just from my friends that I talk to,
Speaker 13: it's not as fun as it used to be, I think.
Speaker 13: And I think the nice part about junior college is
Speaker 13: it's still that way, and I'm sure some of that
Speaker 13: stuff will trickle down, but there's not the same money
Speaker 13: in the NJAC as there's an NCAA, and so I
Speaker 13: just hope it stays a little more pure, so to speak,
Speaker 13: for our level, because I still enjoy getting to know
Speaker 13: kids and spending time with them and helping them at
Speaker 13: like a very crucial moment in their life and kind
Speaker 13: of being there as a guiding light, and I love
Speaker 13: that part of it. The x's and o's are a
Speaker 13: lot of fun too, but the relationships are what make
Speaker 13: it special for.
Speaker 2: Me, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And you know, obviously coaching is a twenty four to seventhing.
Speaker 5: You're constantly involved, you know, helping players and whatnot. But
Speaker 5: it seems like with this new age of NIL and everything,
Speaker 5: that that's even broad in more that it is a
Speaker 5: non stop job. There is no off season anymore for them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I just think that that adds up.
Speaker 13: I mean, I think those guys also have families and
Speaker 13: wives and kids, and once you start losing a lot
Speaker 13: of that, I think, you know, what are you really
Speaker 13: doing it for?
Speaker 4: And so I think.
Speaker 13: That's I think you'll see a lot of people who
Speaker 13: have been in it a long time, probably start dropping
Speaker 13: out of it, and I'm sure there's younger coaches that
Speaker 13: are willing to take that spot, wanting to grind the
Speaker 13: twenty four to seven. But at the same time, I
Speaker 13: really enjoy what I do because I get to be
Speaker 13: around my wife and my kids. I get to go
Speaker 13: to their high school games. I get to be part
Speaker 13: of it, and that part is especial for me. I'm
Speaker 13: a husband and a dad first and a coach third.
Speaker 13: So I like it because we're able to balance all that.
Speaker 2: So let me paint this picture two before we go
Speaker 2: into the team. On a scale of one to ten,
Speaker 2: how tough are you on the kids or students one
Speaker 2: and two? Well, answer that real quick, and then I'll
Speaker 2: ask my next question.
Speaker 13: Okay, I consider myself a tough coach, probably tough when
Speaker 13: I need to be tough, but not.
Speaker 4: Over the top tough.
Speaker 13: Like I always tell recruits when I'm meeting with them
Speaker 13: that I want to take care of your daughters off
Speaker 13: the court. You got to know that I'm going to
Speaker 13: take real good care of him as daughters. And so
Speaker 13: I always try to coach just as I would want
Speaker 13: someone to coach my daughters, because I have two daughters,
Speaker 13: so I always kind of keep that in the back
Speaker 13: of on our mind. Now at the same time, and
Speaker 13: it happened today, like I have to get on them
Speaker 13: because there's certain things that certain standards and expectations that
Speaker 13: we have seam that I'm going to hold you accountable for.
Speaker 13: We're not going to let that slide. So today the
Speaker 13: speech was about effort. I don't want to coach effort, attitude,
Speaker 13: or enthusiasm. Those are three things that I shouldn't have
Speaker 13: to coach. And so you know, we have a young
Speaker 13: team and we're learning at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 13: so I just had to kind of set that standard
Speaker 13: at where we need it to be today and so
Speaker 13: we were coaching hard today. So tomorrow morning the sun
Speaker 13: will come up and we'll get back at it and
Speaker 13: have a great outlook.
Speaker 2: So it'll be fun, wash, rinse, and repeat. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So here's my follow up to that. And this is
Speaker 2: what I've heard too from coaches, not at not at
Speaker 2: the j C level, but other level. It's almost to
Speaker 2: a point they have to coach a little bit differently,
Speaker 2: right who they have to soothe the savage beasts for
Speaker 2: the chance that he might leave you know, you don't
Speaker 2: want to piss them off. You know, you got to
Speaker 2: coach them a little differently because at the end of
Speaker 2: the season, you know they might jump and then you
Speaker 2: need this kid.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and I think that the bad part about a
Speaker 13: lot of that is they are the kids nowadays, and
Speaker 13: I don't coach kids that are at that level. So
Speaker 13: I'm just saying what I've observed is that I think
Speaker 13: a lot of them have been told how great they
Speaker 13: are a lot of their life, and so I think
Speaker 13: they go into it thinking all those things because that's
Speaker 13: what they've been told. And then you get a coach
Speaker 13: who's going to hold them accountable for certain things, and
Speaker 13: they don't like it. So if I don't like it,
Speaker 13: guess what, I'm out of here, right, and they turn
Speaker 13: them leave the door, and so no, but you're right,
Speaker 13: I think coaches have to kind of adjust that way.
Speaker 4: Coaching is hard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry about that. It's amazing because you talked about
Speaker 5: them and telling Now I was just thinking about that.
Speaker 5: How you know, you're the greatest thing on earth, You're
Speaker 5: the greatest thing. Slight spread and you know, if there's
Speaker 5: a problem, it's not my problem, it's the coaches problem,
Speaker 5: or it's the teammates problem, and I'll just leave for
Speaker 5: a new area. And you see that a lot in
Speaker 5: college basketball today. But what I was going to ask
Speaker 5: you is being at the JUCO level and having kids
Speaker 5: for one, two, three years max. In terms of if
Speaker 5: it's a red shirt or not, how do you sustain
Speaker 5: success in cohesion and build that chemistry and that situation
Speaker 5: where you have kids that are maybe there one year.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I can only speak to how we
Speaker 13: do it, and a lot of it is in the
Speaker 13: types of kids we recruit, and so I think their
Speaker 13: mindset is probably a little bit different when they're coming
Speaker 13: JUCO because they haven't been told all those things and sometimes,
Speaker 13: you know, JUCO is their best opportunity to keep playing,
Speaker 13: and so.
Speaker 4: We probably get a kid with a little bit different.
Speaker 13: Mindset, whereas Tommy and Adia probably have you know, they
Speaker 13: want to go off to the top players because they
Speaker 13: want to, you know, be good, and so they probably
Speaker 13: have developed those relationships. And I think for me personally,
Speaker 13: I think it's my job as a coach to understand
Speaker 13: how each kid is motivated.
Speaker 4: Some you can yell at and get them to do
Speaker 4: what you want.
Speaker 13: Some of them have to be brought along a little softer,
Speaker 13: which is okay, But I think it's the coach's job
Speaker 13: to kind of make those connections so I can maximize
Speaker 13: the best out of each kid.
Speaker 2: So, having coached a long time, I'm gonna throw a
Speaker 2: little another curveball at you. Has there been a time
Speaker 2: that you have you have a player one year, very good,
Speaker 2: very good, and you said, you know what, you're probably
Speaker 2: too good for this spot. You probably need to leave
Speaker 2: to go find a better opportunity for you, knowing that
Speaker 2: it's going to hurt the team down the road.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we always call that, like addition by subtraction. I
Speaker 4: can't remember it happening recently.
Speaker 13: I mean last year we had Ailie Waugh was our
Speaker 13: point guard, but she was all world and she left
Speaker 13: because she got a great offer to go to San
Speaker 13: Jose State.
Speaker 4: So it wasn't it wasn't a situation.
Speaker 13: Where I was kind of like, you know what, I
Speaker 13: don't want to deal with it for another year, so
Speaker 13: let's find you a different spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I haven't had that. But at the same time.
Speaker 13: You know, we try to avoid recruiting those types of kids,
Speaker 13: and every once in a while you take a chance
Speaker 13: on a kid, yeah, what junior college is about. But
Speaker 13: hopefully you can get them to kind of buy into
Speaker 13: your culture. And if they do buy into your culture,
Speaker 13: they're going to really reap the benefits of it because
Speaker 13: of the reputation that we have and the possibilities that
Speaker 13: you can get after you leave Pima.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about this year's team. You said relatively young.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean we're probably fifty to fifty in terms
Speaker 13: of freshmen and sophomores. But you know, part of being
Speaker 13: the juco coach is you do a lot of teaching
Speaker 13: at the beginning because you have a lot of freshmen
Speaker 13: that have come from different programs, and we try to
Speaker 13: get them to, you know, understand what we're about and
Speaker 13: how we're going to be successful. So there's a lot
Speaker 13: of teaching at the ben But I will say this,
Speaker 13: I have a great group of sophomores that are great
Speaker 13: four point OHO students, that are great workers, and so
Speaker 13: that part of it's been easy because I have such
Speaker 13: a great group of sophomores that kind of can pick
Speaker 13: them up, you know, by the bootstrap, so to speak,
Speaker 13: and walk them along how to become good students and
Speaker 13: what we expect to practice and what we're supposed to
Speaker 13: do when we're out in public, and so I've been
Speaker 13: blessed that way. But yes, we got a lot of
Speaker 13: new faces, and I think a lot of those new
Speaker 13: faces will actually play a few minutes. So it's gonna
Speaker 13: it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: In terms of you know, you're having a lot of
Speaker 5: freshmen and younger players, especially at a JUCO level, when
Speaker 5: you're dealing with freshmen and sophomore how much of your
Speaker 5: guys coaching is the basics? Is the is the fundamentals,
Speaker 5: getting back to the fundamentals and fine tuning those things
Speaker 5: and preparing players for that.
Speaker 13: I love that question because we do a lot of
Speaker 13: fundamentals and a lot of that's because we preach a
Speaker 13: lot of details, Like we work on the details, I
Speaker 13: mean down to like how we box out for free
Speaker 13: throw situations, how we jump ball, how we get open.
Speaker 4: So I think that's probably the part of it that
Speaker 4: I enjoy the most.
Speaker 13: Is I've always enjoyed teaching the game, and so we
Speaker 13: make sure at the beginning of the season, preseason, in
Speaker 13: the beginning season that we are doing the most basic
Speaker 13: of fundamentals so we can understand what we're capable of
Speaker 13: in terms of basketball IQ. So we do a lot
Speaker 13: and then as we get the you know, fundamentals down,
Speaker 13: now you start putting in more of the reads and
Speaker 13: things like that more advanced level, but try to get
Speaker 13: them all on the same page at the beginning and
Speaker 13: then kind of build from there.
Speaker 2: What does this is a dumb question because I probably
Speaker 2: know the role, know the role, and know the answer.
Speaker 2: Jim's been with you a while now, right Rosboro. Everyone
Speaker 2: knows Jim loves Jim. What is he his role and
Speaker 2: how does he make your life easier?
Speaker 13: Oh that's a great question because he is like minded
Speaker 13: with me and the sense that it's the details.
Speaker 4: So his role, I guess if you really want me to.
Speaker 13: Find his role is he spends a lot of time
Speaker 13: prior to practice, Like we have the film set up,
Speaker 13: and so we watch film and he is up there
Speaker 13: with his pointer stick whacking on the TV, pointing out
Speaker 13: the small things like our foot placement, how we get
Speaker 13: through screens? Are you straight up and down on your shot?
Speaker 13: You know you're penetrating too deep. So his mind is
Speaker 13: great for us because he knows all the details like
Speaker 13: the back of his hand. So it's just the you know,
Speaker 13: the constant back and forth teaching the kids, like closer
Speaker 13: is not always better, make sure we're coming off two
Speaker 13: feet on our jump shot, make sure we're squared up.
Speaker 4: All the details.
Speaker 13: So that's where Roz really excels in terms of helping
Speaker 13: us and helping us grow, is that he just let
Speaker 13: he enjoys the nitty gritty details, and he enjoys teaching
Speaker 13: the kids both on film and on the court. I mean,
Speaker 13: we do such basic stuff every day, but we harp
Speaker 13: the same thing and so you'll really see it kind
Speaker 13: of evolved throughout the course of the year so that
Speaker 13: you know, in March, hope hopefully we're playing our best basketball.
Speaker 4: And so far it's been a formula that works.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question. I think back in the day when
Speaker 2: he was the lude, he was the soothsayer for the guys,
Speaker 2: you know, the middleman, and he was a master of
Speaker 2: the of a scout. You know, he knew the tendencies
Speaker 2: of other teams. And I'm sure he does that for
Speaker 2: you because that's probably undersold.
Speaker 13: Yes it is, and I think you can be a
Speaker 13: little bit less talented team.
Speaker 4: And better team because you're just better prepared.
Speaker 2: You're smarter what we try to do, right, no question.
Speaker 5: You know, And you talked about in terms of the
Speaker 5: details and the fineite and developing that aspect of players
Speaker 5: and whatnot. I want to ask you because Arizona, uh
Speaker 5: in terms of the men's team kind of is going
Speaker 5: through this development. How do you if you have a
Speaker 5: point guard, how do you develop a player in terms
Speaker 5: of their passing ability? How do you how do you
Speaker 5: change that mentality and a player?
Speaker 4: Right, that's a good one too, because a lot of
Speaker 4: it is personally.
Speaker 13: I like to watch them play, like I don't want
Speaker 13: to take away a kid's strength because you know, we
Speaker 13: have a freshman that hear, Melisia Nelson, who's from Window Rock,
Speaker 13: so she's from up on the res and she sees
Speaker 13: the game at a completely different level than.
Speaker 4: A lot of our kids.
Speaker 13: So the last thing I want to, you know, do
Speaker 13: is kind of like hold her back, so to speak.
Speaker 13: So I think my biggest challenge is to try to
Speaker 13: elevate the other people, Like, look, you got to be
Speaker 13: looking for the ball at times, maybe you've never had
Speaker 13: to look for the ball before, because she's gonna find
Speaker 13: you if you're open, and you got to be ready
Speaker 13: and at the same time teaching Malicia that you know,
Speaker 13: you got to be patient with them and communicate with
Speaker 13: them so that they can understand what you see, so
Speaker 13: that we're maximizing both ends. And so point guards are
Speaker 13: fun to coach because every one of them is a
Speaker 13: little bit different. Some are vocal, some are scoring point guards,
Speaker 13: some are ask first question. So to me, I've always
Speaker 13: enjoyed the challenge of trying to maximize what our point
Speaker 13: guards are. And we've had great point guards. That's probably
Speaker 13: why we've won a lot of our games. Just if
Speaker 13: I think back, we had Sid stalwarth JJ, not Guy
Speaker 13: Riley Watt. We've had such good point guards, but I
Speaker 13: never wanted to really change their game. I wanted to
Speaker 13: kind of learn how they play the game and then
Speaker 13: adapt how we do things so that we can maximize.
Speaker 4: Their abilities as well as elevate everybody else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, So give us an update. I think
Speaker 2: you start this weekend right with an exhibition or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited about this.
Speaker 13: Over the years, I've coached so many Native American kids,
Speaker 13: and I've really learned to appreciate and admire their customs
Speaker 13: and either cultures, and this weekend, Steve, we get to
Speaker 13: go to Window Rock and we're actually gonna go to
Speaker 13: Fort Defiance. They have a seven thousand seat arena at
Speaker 13: Fort Defiance, and we're going to scrimmage Fort Lewis, which
Speaker 13: is an NCAA four year school in two school. And
Speaker 13: so we worked with the Fort Lewis coaches because basketball
Speaker 13: is so popular on the Res that bringing these kids
Speaker 13: kind of up where they grew up is gonna be
Speaker 13: awesome experience for the kids.
Speaker 4: And while we're up.
Speaker 13: There, we're gonna have some of the novel and elders
Speaker 13: speak to us about the significance of Fort Defiance just
Speaker 13: in his historical terms.
Speaker 4: And so I'm just super excited because you.
Speaker 13: Know, every year, every year we do an Indigenous People's game,
Speaker 13: and now you know this year, I've been trying to
Speaker 13: get up to Fort Defiance for the last couple of years,
Speaker 13: and this year it's gonna work out. And so I'm
Speaker 13: excited to just go experience that and have the kids
Speaker 13: experience that because a lot of our kids who grew
Speaker 13: up maybe in Tucson, On or Phoenix don't understand what
Speaker 13: a basketball means up on the Res.
Speaker 4: And so I'm super excited to go up there and play.
Speaker 13: It'll be my first time in the event center, and
Speaker 13: so it's gonna be fun. We're gonna leave tomorrow and
Speaker 13: stay in Wholebrook tomorrow night and then make the rest
Speaker 13: of the way on Saturday and come back home.
Speaker 2: They're nice. Well, we were talking about that earlier. You
Speaker 2: know what coaches would do if they weren't coaching, They teach, right,
Speaker 2: and this is a teaching moment.
Speaker 13: Yes, for sure. And that's what I wanted to be
Speaker 13: educational for everybody. We all can learn something every day.
Speaker 2: Book reports are due next week.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm going to grade any book reports.
Speaker 13: I promise I got on a great teaching because I
Speaker 13: didn't like grading anymore, so I probably let them pass
Speaker 13: on the book report.
Speaker 4: Hopefully, you know it will be something that they ll
Speaker 4: always remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, fantastic, Tom has always Thanks a bunch.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I appreciate you guys so much. Great to hear from you.
Speaker 13: I look forward to talking to you. Yes, let's have
Speaker 13: a great basketball.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, once you start going, we'll have you back on.
Speaker 4: Okay. Sounds good, Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Thanks to all right. That was Todd hold House for
Speaker 2: the women's basketball coach at PIMA. A pretty good program
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Speaker 2: We'll see what happened. I thought he's like the Swami
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Speaker 2: do you have to buy drinks? Do you think he
Speaker 2: has to buy drinks here? One? Do they recognize him?
Speaker 2: And two do you think he has to buy drinks here?
Speaker 5: I don't think he has to buy drinks here. And
Speaker 5: Arizona fans are older, so I'm gonna guess they recognize them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know so yeah, yeah, but the older, older people.
Speaker 2: He probably doesn't go to the establishments for people.
Speaker 5: That's true.
Speaker 2: You know, the kids are saying, no, you buy your
Speaker 2: own crap. Yeah, but like Miles, Miles, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if he would have to Miles, Richard Richard right, Richard
Speaker 2: uh Channing, Luke, Yeah, Steve Kerr.
Speaker 5: Really you can name a whole laundry list of basketball guys.
Speaker 5: Now football guys. I think that list is shorter.
Speaker 2: Well, first, they don't recognize them, Teddy Brusky, Teddy Gronk,
Speaker 2: true true holes.
Speaker 21: I think I think that that's kind of the good.
Speaker 21: Ricky Yeah, Ricky and his brother Chuck of course. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 21: if they drink. You know what I'm saying, but yeah, hey,
Speaker 21: it's on me door.
Speaker 5: That's why these risk people like, hey, you know that
Speaker 5: that platter. You just bought that food platter. Don't worry
Speaker 5: about these.
Speaker 2: Rich people have money. They don't have to spend enough
Speaker 2: food or drinks. That's smart. You save money that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah you remember me? No? Oh, yes, sure, I.
Speaker 5: Gotta try that. Hey, I'm Teddy Brusky. You you have
Speaker 5: to do a lot of changes. First, tick off that
Speaker 5: the Denver bronk or juice. You don't think it will work? No, No,
Speaker 5: I don't either.
Speaker 2: It's too No. I was gonna try to say something
Speaker 2: with a cold, but it's not cold enough for Tonight
Speaker 2: will be game with New Orleans and who oh okay
Speaker 2: we talked about that. Yeah, good luck with that. What
Speaker 2: are you watching it?
Speaker 5: No, I will be watching at Louise canteena tonight. So
Speaker 5: who what is cantina on twenty second and gold? Oh
Speaker 5: you're an east side guy, I am.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll break the breakout or shout out to Louise.
Speaker 2: I never heard of it because it's on the east side.
Speaker 2: You know where that is. I think I've probably seen it.
Speaker 2: You probably driven by the.
Speaker 5: Time too, right by skate country, right, Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why, that's why I rarely go out that way.
Speaker 5: You're you're in the north side, on the north side, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah. What else? Anything else going on? Uve Tommy
Speaker 2: Tommy game right around Monday?
Speaker 4: Monday?
Speaker 2: Monday? Yeah, I think we're going to try to have
Speaker 2: Bruce on Tomorrow and a couple other people maybe talk
Speaker 2: about the game on Saturday, and then the basketball program
Speaker 2: on Monday.
Speaker 5: Now, how do you think Arizona fans when you look
Speaker 5: at the Big twelve and they don't finish, Let's say
Speaker 5: they don't finish in the top five, what is.
Speaker 2: Is that's a possibility, That's a possibility. Yeah, what's the reaction?
Speaker 2: I want to say, realistic. I think they're gonna have
Speaker 2: to be realistic. Whether they are or they aren't, I
Speaker 2: don't think so. I don't know, Troy, I don't try.
Speaker 2: They're gonna freak out a little or a lot, but
Speaker 2: doesn't really matter. I mean, if you're second or third,
Speaker 2: or fourth or fifth or sixth, it's gonna there's gonna
Speaker 2: be a lot of it's gonna be a logjam there, Yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of the same times it's gonna be and
Speaker 2: then luck of the draw in March and then see
Speaker 2: how you play.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I think a nightmare situation for Tommy long term.
Speaker 5: What if you win the Big twelve the first year
Speaker 5: and now you have those expectations and those aren't realistic expectations.
Speaker 2: And you were exactly right. I think you've been this
Speaker 2: long enough to listen to me. No, when we went
Speaker 2: to Duke, and I don't think I said this to you,
Speaker 2: but the worst thing that happened to the team, as
Speaker 2: we found out, was beating Duke because it was unrealistic expectations.
Speaker 2: You said a standard, Yeah, you think, well they could play, Hey,
Speaker 2: we have a chance to win the national title. Did
Speaker 2: you ever think before that game that they had a
Speaker 2: chance to win the national town?
Speaker 5: I thought it was a team that could if it
Speaker 5: came together at the end. Okay, And when I saw
Speaker 5: that two game, I was like, wow, you know what,
Speaker 5: this is a team that could do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I've seen too many games in November where
Speaker 2: they play out of their mind and then do really
Speaker 2: well and then eventually don't have the same juice.
Speaker 5: And you know, we talked about it at that game.
Speaker 5: The way Kylon Boswall played in that game, he was
Speaker 5: tremendous in that game and that was going to need
Speaker 5: to be something that needed to go from start to finish.
Speaker 5: The way he played and to be honest, that that
Speaker 5: was the key where it wasn't me.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, and we've never really talked about this,
Speaker 2: either a car or a press conch or something. What
Speaker 2: do you think his situation was? Because he didn't play
Speaker 2: confidently at all in the first after the first month
Speaker 2: or so, Uh, he just didn't play himself. Had he
Speaker 2: played better, this team would have been much better.
Speaker 5: I think if he played better that Arizona would have
Speaker 5: been in the lead eight, maybe even final four. But
Speaker 5: you know, I think you look at a guy. Yes,
Speaker 5: he came out of Phoenix in terms of high school,
Speaker 5: but most of his life was spent in the Midwest,
Speaker 5: was spent in Boswell. Yeah, was spent in Illinois. And
Speaker 5: you're so many miles away from home, You're on your own,
Speaker 5: You're in a college town where basketball reigns supreme. Right,
Speaker 5: you're the man on campus.
Speaker 2: You're probably able to get away with stuff.
Speaker 5: One hunder and you know what, do you really at
Speaker 5: that moment do you love the game? Does your love
Speaker 5: for the game kind of fizzle a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think that anything happened on the court
Speaker 2: or otherwise off with teammates or anything like that. It
Speaker 2: just didn't seem not that he lacked uh something, but
Speaker 2: he lacked something. I don't even know how to say this,
Speaker 2: because he looked indifferent. There was a time or two
Speaker 2: he had Tommy had to get on him on the
Speaker 2: sideline because you know, you have to be more engaged.
Speaker 2: I think it was you know when you remember yelled
Speaker 2: him on the sideline.
Speaker 5: Be more active.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just more engaged, and he just wasn't. Then he
Speaker 2: realized okay, yeah, and then you know, he did it,
Speaker 2: and then he didn't do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't think there's a lot of games
Speaker 5: where a point guard where you have the ball in
Speaker 5: your hands so many times, right, you finished with zero points,
Speaker 5: zero rebounds, zero assists.
Speaker 2: That happened.
Speaker 5: That happened to three times, Yeah, throughout the season. So
Speaker 5: you know, I think it was growing paid pains. Again,
Speaker 5: a guy that should have been a freshman last season,
Speaker 5: you know, did the reclassification the year prior, and you
Speaker 5: went through growing pains, and you went through a situation
Speaker 5: where I think he got down on himself and didn't
Speaker 5: know how to get out of it, and it just
Speaker 5: kind of spiraled with no end in sight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to I don't disagree with you there.
Speaker 2: I think something had to do with love too. I
Speaker 2: mean his ability to kind of maybe take the ball
Speaker 2: from his hands time or two. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's true or not, but that's just me. I played
Speaker 2: a doctor on radio, not on real life.
Speaker 5: And then the pressure of Bradley playing while off the bat.
Speaker 2: Yeah. In fact, Tommy probably did a bad move by
Speaker 2: not going to him earlier. Yes and no, but if
Speaker 2: you didn't that didn't matter if you're gonna lose Boswa, No,
Speaker 2: probably not. It's not like Noah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, we talked about that with Noah.
Speaker 2: Uh did we already talk about this? We didn't go
Speaker 2: into details. Okay, but Noah, okay, place mediocrely or whatever
Speaker 2: and pressing too much. Blah blah blah. The callers said,
Speaker 2: why did you just bench him? You talked about no, no,
Speaker 2: because you might lose him. Yeah, but what's behind him?
Speaker 2: There's nothing behind him, and that that's the situation.
Speaker 5: You know. You do have Brandon Dorman, who had a
Speaker 5: horrible spring and training camp. Who is the number three
Speaker 5: quarterback in the depth chart and you have a walk
Speaker 5: on that's number two, and you know, cold Tannerbaum played phenomenal.
Speaker 5: I'm not trying to discredit goal, but it's a walk
Speaker 5: on from a guy that won Packed Fell Freshman.
Speaker 4: Of the Year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a huge gap, right, you're not going to
Speaker 2: make that. There's a point though. There's a point though,
Speaker 2: and I think we talked about it before we got
Speaker 2: on the air less drive. They're down twenty five, whatever
Speaker 2: it is, Yeah, go ahead and do it ten Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: for safety reasons, Yeah, why is he in the game
Speaker 2: taking shots, throwing more interceptions, getting down on himself when
Speaker 2: the game is well in hand and you give the
Speaker 2: other guy a chance just to have a chance, Yeah,
Speaker 2: just to get reps to be honest, to let you
Speaker 2: know what you have behind them. Well, there's a lot
Speaker 2: to see you. If they lose this game, then there's
Speaker 2: gonna be some more questions.
Speaker 5: Well, to me, this is kind of like that moment
Speaker 5: of the season, where are you going to be a
Speaker 5: bull team? Are you going to be four, four and
Speaker 5: five for well four in eight, five and seven on
Speaker 5: the outside, look.
Speaker 2: At you if it's five and seven that's a disaster. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a disaster. Four in eight is a real disaster.
Speaker 2: Six and six still bad, Yeah, still bad given what
Speaker 2: the circumstances were coming in seven and five underwhelming.
Speaker 5: Yeah, eight and four Okay, you're fine.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're finding What took you so long?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What what changed between now.
Speaker 2: And right right? With the schedule? Maybe one, well that's it.
Speaker 5: But but then again, you know, everybody looked at Okay,
Speaker 5: the schedule is going to get lighter. Arizona State right
Speaker 5: now is playing better football than Arizona sure, and I
Speaker 5: don't think anybody in the start of the season thought
Speaker 5: that was going to be the case.
Speaker 2: Sure, And who knows the trips they're going to shake
Speaker 2: mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Yeah to Central Florida. That's going to be a tough
Speaker 5: road game on the road in Florida. That's a lawn trip. TCUs.
Speaker 5: I don't think they're that good. TC is not that good.
Speaker 5: But you're in Texas. Yeah, so that's that's tough.
Speaker 2: So you doing you're still doing recruit right, Yeah, but
Speaker 2: were the target spots at Texas and Texas?
Speaker 5: The Houston area is the main target, you know, when
Speaker 5: talking to coach a Lonzo Carter, who's very well known
Speaker 5: on the recruiting circuit. A lot of guys know Alonzo.
Speaker 5: He said their main focus was the state of Texas
Speaker 5: and specifically Houston. He took that on himself. He's been
Speaker 5: there like three four times during the off season trying
Speaker 5: to recruit. So anytime you can go into Houston and
Speaker 5: try to pull some players, that's critical for them, and
Speaker 5: that's really the battleground that they're trying to get their
Speaker 5: feet into.
Speaker 2: So I think that they're gonna debut some new helmets.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the cactus logo on the helmet from you know
Speaker 5: what that means to me, They're gonna.
Speaker 2: Lose, not a damn thing, because I was still win games. People.
Speaker 2: Oh they gonna look nice, to look nice playing dice,
Speaker 2: to shut the hell up, just win some games.
Speaker 5: Hey. It's like the old saying, yeah we lost, but
Speaker 5: our uniforms match, yo. So we got that going for
Speaker 5: us and that that gave us what six ten points?
Speaker 5: Yeah exactly, I mean, not a damn thing.
Speaker 2: I'll say that to anybody that says, ye know, oh
Speaker 2: they look good, what the hell? Play hard? Play well?
Speaker 5: But seriously, your your thoughts on the cactus logo and
Speaker 5: that logo or Arizona, because usually I think of that
Speaker 5: as a basketball logo.
Speaker 2: I have a hard time matching my clothes if I
Speaker 2: If I do that, I have a good day. I
Speaker 2: couldn't tell you.
Speaker 5: I couldn't. You're like Tommy, I don't know what they're wearing.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, he's and he's probably serious about
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 5: And just give me to get them.
Speaker 2: To the game on time and let me play them.
Speaker 2: And it's I'm showing my age or whatever, but it
Speaker 2: just doesn't matter to me how they look. Just play. No,
Speaker 2: I just play a win.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I agree with you and I personally, I'm tired
Speaker 5: of the uniform switching. Just where the desert's warm. Uniforms
Speaker 5: get rid of everything else.
Speaker 2: And he said, didn't they have well Ua basketball, they
Speaker 2: had the games, the uniforms on red blue. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: those look sharp, and you didn't like them a lot
Speaker 2: of people like them. They're simple, big nice.
Speaker 5: I like it when they and they do it during
Speaker 5: big games, the UCLA game, the Duke game, whatever big
Speaker 5: game you want to talk about. They do those mid
Speaker 5: nineties to mid two thousands jerseys that they won the
Speaker 5: National championship in just go back to that Arizona basketball.
Speaker 5: There's no magic in those, but that's your brand. Yeah, No,
Speaker 5: I get that. Stick with your band and go with it.
Speaker 5: You know, none of this fancy's great. Great, you're not
Speaker 5: an Oregon. You're not Oregon. You're not it's you're Arizona.
Speaker 5: Just kinda do the nitty gritty and just win some game.
Speaker 5: And you don't have for Arizona basketball. You don't have
Speaker 5: to be Oregon. You actually had tradition, right, So we
Speaker 5: talked about the whole time. There's some thing that we
Speaker 5: didn't talk about. Maybe next time you show up. It
Speaker 5: was the Vegas thing, the biggest thing. When I had
Speaker 5: you on and no no on talking about the payments
Speaker 5: and not getting paid and deciding to leave. You guys
Speaker 5: were spot on, and I was like, what that's happening.
Speaker 5: And a month or so later it happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They checked in clearing and said, okay, checked in clear. No,
Speaker 5: I'm not playing, And.
Speaker 2: Look who's bad at it? Looks bad at it? The quarterback.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because now they're off and running.
Speaker 2: They don't need they don't need that, dude. The backups
Speaker 2: better right, right, Sometimes you might not get what you
Speaker 2: wish for.
Speaker 5: Or sometimes you get what you wish for and you
Speaker 5: regredit later.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Okay, were good, let's go.
Speaker 2: Ryan take us away.