Speaker 1: Fifty. Hey, welcome back to Winding the Ball here on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 1: You're a break eager go on with us, and now
Speaker 1: we have Ray with breaking news.
Speaker 3: This is on the Balls on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 4: All right, starting off with some transfer portal stuff, you know,
Speaker 4: that's how it goes around this time of year. Two
Speaker 4: more players from the women's team transferred, two more from
Speaker 4: when this morning this uh, yesterday, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had that, We had that. Yeah, okay, all that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I mean total is up to four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totals up to four and they're all good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What is that is there writing on the wall there?
Speaker 2: I don't know, we just I mean, I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know. No, I don't make we
Speaker 2: don't know. What do you guys think?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to speak on it too much.
Speaker 4: I feel like it is though, just because you know.
Speaker 2: It's tough. It's tough. Yeah, it's tough, so many.
Speaker 5: Things keeping it moving.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to tomorrow his game, Malik Brown is going
Speaker 4: to be a game time decision for Duke tomorrow in
Speaker 4: the game against Arizona Starter. Yeah, yeah, he was the
Speaker 4: He was the other one that got injured the same
Speaker 4: the same game as Flag. I believe in the tournament,
Speaker 4: so he there's a chance that he comes back.
Speaker 5: Keeping it moving. Coaching carousel is still going on strong.
Speaker 4: West Virginia Higher's North Texas Ross Hodge as their basketball coach.
Speaker 1: Right at this time, we hear the Domondoes start the
Speaker 1: fall and the teams are being picked off. How many
Speaker 1: other ones? Because there's another one I want to talk
Speaker 1: about New Mexico. Yeah, that was the excellent Patino. I
Speaker 1: thought he'd be a good fit for somewhere else, but Xavier.
Speaker 1: It's a good pick for Xavier. I think it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a great pick for Xavier.
Speaker 6: I mean, just to jump in this because I missed
Speaker 6: it this week, but I mean, what are your guys'
Speaker 6: thoughts on Miller leaving Xavier to go to Texas.
Speaker 1: Ah, great move. He's gonna be paid a lot of money,
Speaker 1: I think. I think I think Tommy just as much
Speaker 1: now though too. We'll see, we'll see how he does.
Speaker 1: He's going to have access to a lot of money
Speaker 1: and a lot of talent, and but he's gonna be
Speaker 1: in the SEC right, Yeah, he is a good coach,
Speaker 1: He's changes, He's changed his style, so that helps.
Speaker 6: I'm asking more from like, if you're an Xavier fan, like,
Speaker 6: how how upsetting is that move to you? Because you
Speaker 6: essentially I feel like he's an executive. I feel like
Speaker 6: he's an Xavier guy through and through. Sure, Like I
Speaker 6: just look at Sean. I think that's a program that
Speaker 6: he fits in. They brought him back and gave him
Speaker 6: a second opportunity, only for him to leave to another
Speaker 6: bigger program again. So what's your question? I mean, how
Speaker 6: would you feel? How would you feel? Do you understand
Speaker 6: the move from it a totally Xavier fan? Totally totally
Speaker 6: you get it. If you're Exavier fan, you'd you'd be
Speaker 6: peeled that he left because you did give him that
Speaker 6: second chance, But you understand it. I don't understand it,
Speaker 6: but I totally agree with you too. I think he's
Speaker 6: unless I misread it, he's great with the mid major
Speaker 6: group and gets him to play hard for him. I'm
Speaker 6: sure that he'll do the same Texas, but it didn't
Speaker 6: work for him here where he had a lot of
Speaker 6: talent and they couldn't pay for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was a PAC twelve, not to.
Speaker 1: Sec right, you're right, but you still have elite athletes
Speaker 1: who didn't play hard for him or didn't you know,
Speaker 1: play copathetically with.
Speaker 2: It for him. Does it make sense? Yeaheah.
Speaker 4: Following that up, though, do you do you feel like
Speaker 4: kind of having like a Patino with like, you know,
Speaker 4: the family legacy with that comes with that name.
Speaker 6: Do you think that's a good band aid for Don
Speaker 6: Miller leaving? I just think Patino's a good I think
Speaker 6: he's a good coach. I think I did a really
Speaker 6: good coach. If you can win there, yeah, you can
Speaker 6: win a lot of places. Yeah, that's why I thought
Speaker 6: he was a good I think I said this on
Speaker 6: the radio Monday or whatever. I thought that, No, no,
Speaker 6: somebody was talking to me on Sunday or Monday. I
Speaker 6: thought that Patino to Texas would be a good one
Speaker 6: because his dad's not going to be much longer, two
Speaker 6: or three and he gets a bonus Patino lingering around.
Speaker 6: You think you think Rick said Saint John's for an
Speaker 6: their two or three years, maybe two more.
Speaker 1: Maybe you just got some Well, go ahead and with
Speaker 1: your with your new other breaking news, probably Sondan going
Speaker 1: to Saint John's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he well, yeah, he went to Saint John's. A
Speaker 4: few people thought he was gonna come here. He was
Speaker 4: in talks, was right before he went to a SU
Speaker 4: last year that he was gonna he was gonna come here,
Speaker 4: but ended up going to Saint John. I mean, I
Speaker 4: think even on Monday we talked about how he might
Speaker 4: he might take a shot at the NBA or the
Speaker 4: draft this yere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there was some thought about that because he
Speaker 1: was good enough before he started the year. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was supposed to be want done right all right,
Speaker 1: keeping him moving.
Speaker 4: Heard earlier that the the Suns are on a four
Speaker 4: game win streak. They played the Celtics tonight. But now
Speaker 4: they're back in that in that ten spot. You know, Steve,
Speaker 4: you said they were done. He said they were He
Speaker 4: said they were checked out a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 4: for Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: So thinks I mean back in the playing spot.
Speaker 2: I guess they're done.
Speaker 1: Well, even if they're done, how far they're gonna go.
Speaker 2: They're not.
Speaker 1: They're done, They're not. They won a couple of games.
Speaker 1: Who they beat, Uh, they beat the Bucks on I
Speaker 1: saw that. I saw that they got the last sick
Speaker 1: and shot or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then.
Speaker 4: Camp Uh, here we go, pulling that up right now.
Speaker 4: They beat the Calves, they snapped, they gave them their
Speaker 4: I think their fourth straight loss at that point. They
Speaker 4: beat the Bulls and then gave it to the Raptors
Speaker 4: pretty rough eighty nine to start that win streak that
Speaker 4: they're on.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm fighting with somebody on the internet text.
Speaker 1: He knows because he sext to me.
Speaker 5: Okay, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's interesting for all those Suns fans out there, the
Speaker 4: I mean kind of old news. But Lillard out and
Speaker 4: definitely with a blood clot in the half and then
Speaker 4: coming back to Arizona.
Speaker 5: But you know, switching over to to some spring sports.
Speaker 4: Now, I guess softball as a B y U series
Speaker 4: coming up over the weekends starting on Thursday, going to Saturday,
Speaker 4: and baseball as a game tonight here at High corvidd
Speaker 4: Field against Seattle University. All right on, you're up, pal,
Speaker 4: got got your uh your article here?
Speaker 5: What how do you feel with.
Speaker 4: The new kind of like up tempo offense. Do you
Speaker 4: think you think like Arizona is a good fit for
Speaker 4: that for football?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: I mean, time will tell. It's still pretty early like that.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 8: It's been three days, so they realistically shouldn't know a lot.
Speaker 8: He says that they've pretty much picked up on most
Speaker 8: of it and it's getting there. But now it's time
Speaker 8: to add in the details and the the fun stuff
Speaker 8: where you can design plays and ah do little things
Speaker 8: here and there. Overall it tempo is a relative word.
Speaker 8: It only works if you execute. That's what Day said. Uh,
Speaker 8: and right now they're just trying this step one, execute
Speaker 8: and then we'll see success.
Speaker 2: We as in Arizona.
Speaker 4: Right and you know he came from Marshall. He brings
Speaker 4: like kind of an air raid offense with him too. Right,
Speaker 4: That's it's gonna be fun to see. I feel like
Speaker 4: that's that's a big twelve football right there, you know,
Speaker 4: following it up, you know, not since we're not having
Speaker 4: a show tomorrow. Tomorrow is opening day for most MLB teams.
Speaker 4: Got the Diamondbacks playing the Cubs. You excited for it?
Speaker 4: Excited for the Cubs? For the Cubs, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm excited for baseball. I mean, I'm a Cubs fan,
Speaker 4: but I mean I love them. We've got a great
Speaker 4: partnership with him. I wish them all the best, but
Speaker 4: I hope they don't beat my Cubbies. But yeah, it's phenomenal.
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, I love baseball, so at my core,
Speaker 6: I'm always going to be a baseball fan. But Opening
Speaker 6: days always, I think we should. I think everybody should
Speaker 6: get the day off for Opening Day Baseball. Like I
Speaker 6: don't think that's crazy. The federal holiday should be a
Speaker 6: federal holiday.
Speaker 4: I can't disagree with that. There's a little niche of
Speaker 4: Cubs fans here in Tucson. No, No, a few apart
Speaker 4: from you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's at Midwest Connection. Then when we were growing up,
Speaker 6: we had like you had WGN, so you watched Cups
Speaker 6: games all.
Speaker 5: The time, keeping it going.
Speaker 4: Jim Nance is targeting the one hundredth Masters in twenty
Speaker 4: thirty six as his retirement from golf broadcasting.
Speaker 2: How old is he right now?
Speaker 5: Sixty five? Sixty five?
Speaker 2: That's very young still, Yeah, and he does a great job.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, cool story about Jim.
Speaker 4: Nancy goes to the restaurant that my brother works at
Speaker 4: every now and then out in California.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, that's too that's too much.
Speaker 2: Marlin. Would you like the great Poopal? What kind of
Speaker 2: w do you have? With your fish. It's not a
Speaker 2: very that's not a very good I don't have money.
Speaker 1: That's that's a really poor man's looking at a rich
Speaker 1: man's voice British, your British voice.
Speaker 9: In it.
Speaker 4: In some sports memory billion news Michael Jordan's Michael A
Speaker 4: Michael Jordan game worn rookie Bulls jersey sold for four
Speaker 4: point two million.
Speaker 6: I don't think that's that surprising, to be honest, No,
Speaker 6: but it's just crazy. I mean you think that's crazy money, right.
Speaker 6: That's a lot of disposal income that you're spending on
Speaker 6: a game warn jersey.
Speaker 2: That's nuts.
Speaker 1: Like, so, what's the significance of that jersey?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: It was to be the first worn by the Hall
Speaker 4: of Famer in the NBAI.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, I get that. Eighty four eighty four, yeah.
Speaker 5: Eighty forty five. So yeah, that's pretty crazy. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's just man, that's worth I remember the the gentleman
Speaker 5: that that has.
Speaker 2: The card shop in Georgia geek friends.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, like the that mark is just like insane.
Speaker 6: That's that's generational wealth, yeah right for a jersey. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so when we sit around this table right here, because
Speaker 6: you can't do a rich Man's voice.
Speaker 2: Because you're not rich, is what you're saying.
Speaker 6: I was okay, but I mean that's generational Wealth's like
Speaker 6: we think about that's that's good for maybe maybe not
Speaker 6: you guys, but for us, that's good for I mean
Speaker 6: that would last our lives the rest of our lives
Speaker 6: for sure. But maybe even if you guys have kids.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you do, but all for somebody's Jersey.
Speaker 5: Definitely can do.
Speaker 10: Oliver, we could have another, Yeah, Charles Dickens, I like it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: Think about the watercob you can buy with that, you know.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, let's listen, man, if you have that money,
Speaker 6: you're hiring a cook, Like come on, yes, all.
Speaker 5: Right, last big one that I got the police.
Speaker 4: Uh so you know the musical group band back together,
Speaker 4: staying in summer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Georgia.
Speaker 4: Georgia has a little bit of a struggle, you know,
Speaker 4: with some speed and uh someone or the police that
Speaker 4: arrested or clocked Nitro Tuggle had him going one hundred
Speaker 4: and seven miles per hour before he was arrested.
Speaker 5: On March nineteenth.
Speaker 1: Man, what's the fastest you've gone in the car?
Speaker 2: Oh? Come on, I'm seventy five yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, listen, you're not there's not something you're gonna
Speaker 6: be showing up. Well, I mean hopefully that's somebody showing
Speaker 6: up in busting you. But what's the fast whimpud? That's
Speaker 6: eighty well maybe maybe eighty five. Maybe I think we're
Speaker 6: allowed to do that going up. I've been on the
Speaker 6: autumn so that's a little different. But did you do
Speaker 6: it on purpose? I didn't drive, I was in the
Speaker 6: car and you.
Speaker 2: What then your butch?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was very you could tell I was stressed.
Speaker 6: How about that? You can tell I was very stressed.
Speaker 6: You're like the hostage. Yeah twice you need to get
Speaker 6: out of here. Okay, going back to the apparel, What
Speaker 6: is something you guys everybody in this room would spend
Speaker 6: a ton of money on. What's one apparel item that
Speaker 6: you'd want to have, like a sports apparel? Like, what's
Speaker 6: something you would go if you had, let's say, all
Speaker 6: the money in the world, what would you buy one thing?
Speaker 2: See, this is where the fan comes in to play
Speaker 2: for me big time.
Speaker 8: If I could get like a Scooby Right jersey, I
Speaker 8: spent I spent a good.
Speaker 2: Penny on that Scooby Right jersey from you a Arizonia.
Speaker 1: He gave you a lot of money, and that's what
Speaker 1: I literally said. You have all the money in the
Speaker 1: world to you, said Scooby, Right.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think it apparel?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean like yeah, like he's never Jersey literally
Speaker 1: the same babe Ruth Warren Jersey signed by Baby Ruth.
Speaker 2: You I never saw Baby Ruth. I'll take I'll take
Speaker 2: Scooby right, I'll give a dang about baby. Come on now,
Speaker 2: kids today. Yeah, that's true. I get it now, that's cool,
Speaker 2: that's it, that's it.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you are no big time now.
Speaker 2: Gosh, give me a Victor wib game warn Jersey. Is
Speaker 2: that better?
Speaker 6: I mean yeah, but that's still not I mean that's
Speaker 6: why I want to get a fight with him talking
Speaker 6: about music and stuff, because it's a bad decision. Should
Speaker 6: not talk about I'm so judgmental when it comes to that,
Speaker 6: all right, So go around the room, Steve.
Speaker 2: I don't care about.
Speaker 1: Anything though, even if it was any apparel, because you
Speaker 1: want to jump on me, I will jump on I
Speaker 1: do not I do not know what I do not care. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jim Nancy, Yeah, you want to have better with you?
Speaker 5: Ready? Yeah, Joe Montana's Super Bowl ring from eighty four.
Speaker 2: Absolutely under ye that works? All right, all right, move on?
Speaker 6: Sorry you what what's your answer to your own question?
Speaker 6: I can't answer that question, super yeah. I mean I
Speaker 6: would probably say, man, that's a that's a tough question.
Speaker 6: I did, listen. I wasn't prepared for it. I hate
Speaker 6: this because I do it all the time. I ask
Speaker 6: questions and then he comes back to me. I know,
Speaker 6: I know it's not going to be a Scooby right.
Speaker 6: Warn jersey Jackie Robinson signed autographed jersey from his first season,
Speaker 6: first game.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, you gotta go, you gotta call. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: answer just because it might be a coach. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: you're on the airline the ball? Who's this?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 2: Who's this?
Speaker 7: You hear me?
Speaker 12: Sorry?
Speaker 13: JR?
Speaker 2: JR? Real quick?
Speaker 9: How much did you guys pay for Chris Rogers jersey?
Speaker 9: I'll hang up.
Speaker 2: That's like one of those calls we get from month.
Speaker 6: That's a good question, though, that's a really good question
Speaker 6: from one hundred dollars. No, not even okay, cool, let's go.
Speaker 1: We go to take a break and come back with
Speaker 1: Brian Peaby.
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to win the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Fortune fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera. You're Blake Eager wet one. We got Ray.
Speaker 1: Now we have Brian Peabody from the Pima men's basketball program.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Brian, I'm good.
Speaker 11: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Sure, of course, of course.
Speaker 1: I mean I can't remember when we spoke to you last,
Speaker 1: but I think you might have been. I'm just guessing,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe twenty three in a row, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: a little less, did you or not that you found
Speaker 1: this team special, because I'm.
Speaker 2: Sure you did.
Speaker 1: Uh the magic? The magic? How was that?
Speaker 2: How was the ride?
Speaker 1: It was a blast?
Speaker 11: I mean, you know, anytime you win that many games
Speaker 11: in a row. Was it ended up being thirty four
Speaker 11: games in a row, something I've never done in my career,
Speaker 11: and and you just it it's fun, It's nerve wracking.
Speaker 11: There's a lot of pressure. You just want to keep
Speaker 11: going and not disappointing and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 11: So kind of a roller coaster, to be honest with you,
Speaker 11: from a from a coach's perspective.
Speaker 1: The pressure did that hit at a certain number.
Speaker 11: No, now, just because we you know, the group that
Speaker 11: we had was really, really mature. We didn't have hot
Speaker 11: a lot of highs and lows with our team. We
Speaker 11: didn't have a lot of distractions with our team. They
Speaker 11: get along, you know, they played for each other. So
Speaker 11: we didn't have a lot of high and low.
Speaker 22: So we just do the same thing every day. We
Speaker 22: didn't change our routine.
Speaker 11: And I think, you know, if you start changing things
Speaker 11: because of your winning and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 11: you're probably gonna ruin things. So we just decided to
Speaker 11: keep everything the same.
Speaker 6: Hey, Brian, this is Blake. Thanks for coming on, and
Speaker 6: just wanted to say congratulations. What an incredible run and
Speaker 6: was like the talk of the town in my family
Speaker 6: group text with my dad, like was always updating us
Speaker 6: on what you were doing. And uh, I just want
Speaker 6: to know this is this is probably a personal question.
Speaker 6: How many times did Edgar Soto call you during this
Speaker 6: this run and bug you?
Speaker 11: Now he was taking credit for everything you got.
Speaker 2: I figured that protly cared about.
Speaker 22: It's like, hey, make sure you mentioned.
Speaker 11: My name when when you're talking to people, because I
Speaker 11: was the guy that hired you. He was calling and
Speaker 11: checking in and yeah, he is the guy that hired me.
Speaker 11: Took a chance, and so I, oh, Edgar a lot
Speaker 11: for for everything that you done for my career. So
Speaker 11: congratsbed Or you're the man.
Speaker 2: So you you played these great games.
Speaker 1: You finished third, obviously, take me back to the semi
Speaker 1: final game. Did you kind of feel odd about what
Speaker 1: was going on or what were you thinking during the
Speaker 1: beginning maybe middle in the end.
Speaker 11: Well, two things happened. One is we didn't score like
Speaker 11: we normally score. I mean, we just had an off
Speaker 11: night offensively, Like you saw our numbers. You know, we
Speaker 11: can score one hundred points every single night. The last
Speaker 11: game for you know, third place centers, I think we
Speaker 11: on hundred and six and eight or something like that,
Speaker 11: and we just didn't put the kind of numbers up
Speaker 11: that we normally do. The second thing that happened, and
Speaker 11: you know, I'll take the blame for this, is they
Speaker 11: played small. You know, we have big guys. We have
Speaker 11: you know, two guys that are six nine that we start,
Speaker 11: and they played small and the kid came off the
Speaker 11: bench and I did a poor job adjusting.
Speaker 22: And did I was averaging five points.
Speaker 11: A game ended up with twenty two points that night.
Speaker 11: I kind of thought that was the difference in the
Speaker 11: game right there, or had maybe we went small or something.
Speaker 11: You know, they're always second guests and after you lose.
Speaker 11: But they shot it, they played well. I think they
Speaker 11: shot fifty two percent from the three point line and
Speaker 11: we did not, you know, so that was to me
Speaker 11: the difference in the game.
Speaker 1: You finished third, which is obviously nothing to sneeze at.
Speaker 1: And it's great. It's funny because I've covered you know,
Speaker 1: you of A. They finished second against the Duke in
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, and they had a great team.
Speaker 1: I mean, in my mind, the best team ever at
Speaker 1: U of A. And but they don't get talked about
Speaker 1: like the ninety seven team and the ninety eight you know,
Speaker 1: some other teams.
Speaker 2: How do you think this team will be remembered that.
Speaker 22: You have, Well, I mean there's so much to remember.
Speaker 11: I mean, people, you know, obviously look at just the outcome,
Speaker 11: which is wrong.
Speaker 22: No one like you've been around Tucson see for a
Speaker 22: long time.
Speaker 11: How many people, how many teams at at any level
Speaker 11: in any sport won thirty four games in a row.
Speaker 11: That's to me, that's the hardest thing to do. Know,
Speaker 11: you can get hot at the right time in one,
Speaker 11: you know, in one four games to.
Speaker 22: Win a national tournament, and.
Speaker 11: But to win thirty four you got to have a
Speaker 11: special group to do that, just that one thing, night
Speaker 11: in and night out, you know, and like each other,
Speaker 11: play for each other and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 11: which they did.
Speaker 22: So I think just for me, the day to day
Speaker 22: effort that they that they brought every single day.
Speaker 11: We didn't have any highs and lows during the during
Speaker 11: the season. You know, there was no distraction. There wasn't
Speaker 11: a kid that would come in and, you know, be
Speaker 11: pissed off because he wasn't playing and kind of stuff.
Speaker 11: They all just kind of accepted their roles and played
Speaker 11: for each other and had fun and it just kind
Speaker 11: of fell in place. We didn't do anything different, and
Speaker 11: just I think the maturity of this group, having older
Speaker 11: guys on my team, you know, really really helped sustain
Speaker 11: that streak to the whole thing. And I've been you know,
Speaker 11: I've been in too some on my whole life, and
Speaker 11: I can guarantee you're gonna have to go back a
Speaker 11: long way in the record books to find.
Speaker 22: A team that's won thirty four games.
Speaker 11: In a row.
Speaker 2: Brian, when did you know this group was special?
Speaker 11: But I mean, I know John Wooden, so you know,
Speaker 11: you gotta hit me on the head. But I just
Speaker 11: think with this summer, you know, Gable, if I could
Speaker 11: put one senil, one thing in that made a special
Speaker 11: as Gabe old him and his leadership, you know, he's
Speaker 11: he went on his mission, came back. So he's an
Speaker 11: older kid. He's you know, basically four years out of
Speaker 11: out of high school, and he just kind of led
Speaker 11: by example. And then it got even better than that.
Speaker 11: He was leading bulcally, you know, on sidelines and huddle
Speaker 11: in practice. And you know, if you come to a practice,
Speaker 11: every coach that came to a practice, the first thing
Speaker 11: they asked is like, my god, I've never seen a
Speaker 11: kid like that involved in a practice. And that's why
Speaker 11: his recruitment has really exploded, you know, to the next level.
Speaker 11: Because if every kid wants to talk, but no kid
Speaker 11: wants to talk on the court, at least in the
Speaker 11: right way. They want to talk trash, but they don't
Speaker 11: want to talk in the right way, and he does
Speaker 11: it the right way. And so I owe a lot
Speaker 11: of the success that we had to Gabe.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you. I don't know you would
Speaker 1: tell me this. Four or five years ago. You were
Speaker 1: struggling with the team that you absolutely didn't like coaching.
Speaker 1: Do you think it kind of things in the world
Speaker 1: kind of even out and then you get this team.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I mean I believe in the basketball gods, you know,
Speaker 11: And so I didn't kill anybody during that year, So
Speaker 11: I think the basketball gods he ordered me with a
Speaker 11: really good team. But that year was COVID year, you know.
Speaker 11: And I'm just telling you, and I'm not bragging because
Speaker 11: I probably pushed people away, But you got to play
Speaker 11: for me, to play at Pima, to play for you
Speaker 11: got to be a Peabody kid. You gotta do things
Speaker 11: the right way. You got to put you know, work
Speaker 11: really hard. Obviously, you got to go to class. You
Speaker 11: got to act the right way. I mean, I just
Speaker 11: missed a kid, you.
Speaker 22: Know, right before Christmas that didn't.
Speaker 11: Want to do it the Peabody way. And I'm not
Speaker 11: saying it's right or wrong. It's just indifferent. And you know,
Speaker 11: we've had a lot of success doing that. So when
Speaker 11: we go out recruiting, you know, my assistant said, is
Speaker 11: he a.
Speaker 22: Peabody kid is a p A lot of kid.
Speaker 11: No, no, no, no, We'll find a Peabody kid. So
Speaker 11: we finally got a group of kids that wanted.
Speaker 22: To do things to me the right way, and they
Speaker 22: did it.
Speaker 11: And they did it, you know, better than almost any
Speaker 11: team that I've ever had.
Speaker 1: So it takes you know, you've been around a long time,
Speaker 1: You've had a lot of success, a lot of seven
Speaker 1: I guess, more than seven hundred wins now in your career.
Speaker 1: Does this a team and this run help in the
Speaker 1: future with other kids wanting to say, hey, I like
Speaker 1: the style, I like all this even more than they
Speaker 1: did before, no question.
Speaker 11: I mean, you know, we had our exit meetings yesterday
Speaker 11: and today, and then we had staff meetings and and
Speaker 11: we just said, hey, we got to be selective because
Speaker 11: everybody and their mother wants to come to PEMA right
Speaker 11: now because of you know, the amount of points we score,
Speaker 11: the recognition that we get. I have six guys on
Speaker 11: my team. I've never had this happen to me before.
Speaker 11: We have six sophomores on my team. And that's it.
Speaker 22: All six of them have.
Speaker 11: Full right scholarships to play at the next level, you know,
Speaker 11: So Gabe Oldham, obviously, Wes Ball, Cohen j and Max
Speaker 11: Marley all have Division one rides and then the other
Speaker 11: two kids, Colin Benson and Cooper Jones, both have Division
Speaker 11: two rides. So they're all getting their education paid for,
Speaker 11: you know, for four years, and that's a big deal.
Speaker 11: I mean, you see the transfer portal and all that
Speaker 11: kind of stuff, and our guys are getting recruited, so
Speaker 11: that's huge for you know, for our guys and PEMA
Speaker 11: college and recognition and stuff so that, you know, end
Speaker 11: of the day, that's what you want as a coach.
Speaker 11: You want these guys the better their lives.
Speaker 22: And obviously the experience is great.
Speaker 11: But getting these guys, you know, to the next level
Speaker 11: is always the goal of mine. And you know, five
Speaker 11: Fix didn't have an offer coming out of high school
Speaker 11: and now like Westball, you know, he had zero opera
Speaker 11: coming out him around of high school. Now he has
Speaker 11: thirty offers to go play at.
Speaker 22: The next level. You know, do you just like to
Speaker 22: hear success stories like that?
Speaker 2: Sure? You know, that's that's huge.
Speaker 6: I mean from a kid like me that came from
Speaker 6: junior college and was able to go on and have
Speaker 6: the opportunity it's a big deal. I mean, it's congratulations
Speaker 6: to do It's what it's exactly why you do it.
Speaker 6: So my question to you, Brian, is that with a
Speaker 6: new NC DOUAA rule where they're going to allow four
Speaker 6: year eligibility after junior college, does that help you from
Speaker 6: a recruiting standpoint.
Speaker 11: Now, well that it hasn't been passed yet.
Speaker 6: Oh sorry, if it did pass, how about that?
Speaker 11: Yeah, if it does pass, oh, no question. I mean
Speaker 11: I would think obviously I don't know because it hasn't
Speaker 11: happened yet, but I think it would put a devise
Speaker 11: on all the postcrads. So instead of going to a
Speaker 11: postcrad and saving your eligibility, why wouldn't you go junior
Speaker 11: college get free education, a really good education, not a
Speaker 11: POSTCOD education, you know, sitting in a gym, doing doing
Speaker 11: school work, going to a real school like team of college,
Speaker 11: getting a really good education, get good coaching and all
Speaker 11: that kind of stuff, and not have it against count
Speaker 11: against you, and then go play four years of of
Speaker 11: you know, Division one, Division two basketball. I think it's
Speaker 11: gonna help junior colleges immensely and in the right way.
Speaker 1: Dude, real quick, you talked about Marley, and I know
Speaker 1: that I talked to the kid that's going to Iona.
Speaker 2: How do you say his name.
Speaker 11: Again, Cohen Jagin's alive.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's going to on my own. I think
Speaker 1: that's still on the on the play. Even though that
Speaker 1: the coach is leaving it, well, we're we're.
Speaker 11: Still talking to them. Obviously, the coach got fired, so
Speaker 11: there was nothing binding by that, but the coach, the
Speaker 11: new coaches reached out to us. So we're just trying
Speaker 11: to figure things out. You know, he's got other offers and.
Speaker 22: All that kind of stuff.
Speaker 11: So in the next two weeks, you know, I've already
Speaker 11: sat down with all my players and and we'll find
Speaker 11: a good home for all of them.
Speaker 7: Up for all these kids.
Speaker 11: And if anybody deserves that, he does. I mean, you know,
Speaker 11: he cared. He was a player of the Year in
Speaker 11: our conference, first team All Conference. You know, if he's
Speaker 11: not an All American, something's wrong.
Speaker 22: With the system. He should be a first team.
Speaker 11: All American for everything that he did. Then he was,
Speaker 11: you know, made All Tournament team in the national in
Speaker 11: the tournament. So he's achieved everything you basically can at
Speaker 11: this level, and so he'll he'll get a nice ride,
Speaker 11: uh somewhere, and we're figuring that out right now.
Speaker 2: The portal is.
Speaker 11: Kind of the best things up. Everybody's going crazy on
Speaker 11: the portal, and so when the dust settles then hopefully,
Speaker 11: you know, they'll come down to earth and figure out Hey.
Speaker 22: And this guy, this guy and this guy. And it's
Speaker 22: just it's new to me.
Speaker 11: You know, I'm old school, and so I'm not very smart.
Speaker 11: I'm still trying to figure the whole thing out. But
Speaker 11: we'll make.
Speaker 22: The best of it.
Speaker 1: So let me if I could real quick up. And
Speaker 1: I'm kind of joking, half joking. Here, did you become
Speaker 1: a better coach this year because of this success?
Speaker 2: Because you're the same dude.
Speaker 22: That's a great question.
Speaker 11: My wife, Chris says I became a better coach this year,
Speaker 11: And I said, why is that?
Speaker 22: And she said, you didn't talk as much. I guess
Speaker 22: I became a better coach because I kept my mouth cut.
Speaker 22: So so yeah, to answer your questions, yes, I did.
Speaker 1: So is that the way of the future for a Peabody?
Speaker 11: Well, see, we got I gotta have the leadership like
Speaker 11: I have this year. If I don't, then I have
Speaker 11: I'm gonna have to go back to the old school
Speaker 11: Peabody right.
Speaker 1: No, that makes sense though, if you have good dudes
Speaker 1: and players who listen and then can be you on
Speaker 1: the court or you in the locker room, you don't
Speaker 1: need to talk.
Speaker 22: You really don't.
Speaker 11: I mean a lot of you know, you've seen enough game,
Speaker 11: Like I have a lot of coaches just like the
Speaker 11: cock to talk. And it was kind of fun just
Speaker 11: sitting there. It really was. I'm just telling you, I
Speaker 11: enjoyed it. I just get a bottle of water, sit
Speaker 11: next to the bench and just listening to what they
Speaker 11: had to say. And I enjoyed it just like a
Speaker 11: fan would be enjoying it in the stands. I enjoyed
Speaker 11: it from right there in that seat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure they'd love playing for when you
Speaker 1: scored one hundred points every damn game.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, that's fast.
Speaker 11: Well that you know, when we got the Pima, people
Speaker 11: forget this.
Speaker 2: You know, before we got.
Speaker 22: There, they'd only won two games.
Speaker 11: In two years, and and.
Speaker 22: We just had to change something.
Speaker 11: And again I'm.
Speaker 22: Not taking credit for as my assistant Mike Morgan and
Speaker 22: Matt mind and like we got to do something different
Speaker 22: and back in the day and you know this everybody
Speaker 22: wanted to be the defensive guru. You know, it's kind
Speaker 22: of like you know Houston or something like that.
Speaker 11: He played flow and guard and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 11: But we weren't getting the guys that coaches was in
Speaker 11: Eastern and Western and stuff. So we just started playing
Speaker 11: fast and we got fast and faster and faster, and
Speaker 11: and it just you know, people want to play that way.
Speaker 11: Kids want to you know, we'll come to Tima. You know,
Speaker 11: we had I think seven guys average double figures year.
Speaker 22: Six of them are getting scholars Actually, I take that back.
Speaker 11: We have we have eight guys that got scholarship to
Speaker 11: my freshmen already have scholarship offers on the board. Hopefully
Speaker 11: they're going to come back. I'm trying to persuade them
Speaker 11: to come back. But we had eight guys on my
Speaker 11: team gets scholarship offers already because of the style pace
Speaker 11: that we play, you know, they want to be involved
Speaker 11: in that. We had seven guys averagedlved with double figures,
Speaker 11: and you know, you get to share the ball. We
Speaker 11: let the country and assists.
Speaker 22: And it's just a fun way to ply.
Speaker 1: So maybe last question, uh, you know you're in the
Speaker 1: car car sales bills business. You know you won thirty
Speaker 1: four if the one thirty three, Uh, you got to
Speaker 1: sell sell me. You know you you sell ten cars
Speaker 1: last month, you got to sell twelve more next month.
Speaker 2: How are you going to do it?
Speaker 11: Well? We we we'll do it. We've already started. So
Speaker 11: I've already signed five kids for next year. So we're
Speaker 11: we're doing our due diligence. And again I'm not being
Speaker 11: cocky or bragging, but you know, we can be really
Speaker 11: selective this year because of the year, Like there's a
Speaker 11: lot of people.
Speaker 22: That might you know, my phone rings every every two.
Speaker 11: Seconds, the emails, and we're having tryouts and all that
Speaker 11: kind of stuff, and we have open spots you know
Speaker 11: that that we need to build. We've got Uh as
Speaker 11: of today, we have eight guys coming back, and I'm
Speaker 11: allowed fifteen guys on my roster, so I have seven
Speaker 11: scholarship opportunities for kids that want to be, you know,
Speaker 11: involved in something special and team of basketball special. You know,
Speaker 11: if you ask, you know, any of my kids that
Speaker 11: you know played first this year, you know they're going
Speaker 11: to you know, talk about how special team of college
Speaker 11: not just from the basketball standpoint, but the community of
Speaker 11: Tucson and the exposure and that you guys give us.
Speaker 11: The media gives us, you know, and we're in the
Speaker 11: paper every day, on the radio.
Speaker 22: And people come in interviewing and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 22: It's really a.
Speaker 11: Neat environment for junior college. I don't think any junior
Speaker 11: college has the stuff that we have going on right now.
Speaker 11: So we just got to keep things rolling and strike
Speaker 11: it while it's hot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cool, Well, congrats. You got to know.
Speaker 6: I was just gonna say, tell Mat, I said, Hi,
Speaker 6: I've known Matt forever and so heye and yeah his
Speaker 6: assistant coach. So and then I'm sure you and I
Speaker 6: will run in each other at our favorite neighborhood watering
Speaker 6: hole at some point.
Speaker 7: Again, no, no.
Speaker 11: No, I've been there in a while. What are you
Speaker 11: talking about.
Speaker 1: I want to go. I have it either, so.
Speaker 22: Well me, I met Matt over there in thirty minutes.
Speaker 6: Come on over all, right, tell Matt, I said, Hi, Okay, great,
Speaker 6: you guys got it.
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Speaker 2: True, true, true?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Looking for tomorrow's game.
Speaker 5: Oh how could you not?
Speaker 4: I mean everyone's going to be If you're not watching it, you're.
Speaker 5: Just not a sports person.
Speaker 2: I think the sports bars are going to be packed.
Speaker 2: Oh are you watching it tomorrow? We just had this
Speaker 2: conversation earlier. Oh, well, you don't know yet. Yeah. It's
Speaker 2: probably gonna be in my house. Yeah, don't tell me.
Speaker 6: I don't want to go to the sports bars. We
Speaker 6: used to do that, like we'd go to a mallie.
Speaker 6: It's a great place to watch, but it was always
Speaker 6: a lot there forever by your age.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now you're watching it with the mom and dad,
Speaker 1: hlindo and you.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm be yelling too much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm doing the same. As soon as we turned
Speaker 6: the game on our dog as like see you later. Yeah,
Speaker 6: as soon as one of those Yeah, I'm one of
Speaker 6: those guys screaming a fiery mick.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I'm one of those guys. You're a coach too.
Speaker 6: I'm yelling in here for no reason.
Speaker 7: Like you don't think.
Speaker 1: You don't think I get upset watching the games. That's true.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 7: Okay, I got it quick. Yes, it's gonna be I
Speaker 7: would definitely bet on the U of A because Duke
Speaker 7: come on, their league was really you know, very very
Speaker 7: very very factor.
Speaker 1: That's another factor. Yeah, the A SEC was a package.
Speaker 7: And you you were saying Taylor tied for fourth. I
Speaker 7: don't care if they tied for fourth. In my mind,
Speaker 7: they were the fifth best team during the year. I
Speaker 7: don't care about the.
Speaker 22: End because I can name through five right off the battle.
Speaker 22: Obviously b y U, Iowa State, in Texas Tech, those
Speaker 22: were those three.
Speaker 2: Teams are more gritty.
Speaker 7: Taylor just wasn't that good, and you know they beat them,
Speaker 7: and and and I just I think what's going through
Speaker 7: the battle that's going to be the good. And I
Speaker 7: want to focus on another thing. I think Duke through
Speaker 7: the years and the Arizona players, we might have been
Speaker 7: have a soft label, but we've been better pros than
Speaker 7: the Duke players period. They won more championships Duke play,
Speaker 7: I mean, loots people, they won way more championships in
Speaker 7: the NBA one. There's no questions.
Speaker 2: I'm not an expert. I'm an expert.
Speaker 7: Just you only got you only got Kyrie and Zion
Speaker 7: is going to be a total flop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well they have you know what's his name?
Speaker 7: They have no good players. We could we could have
Speaker 7: ten players that have won championships.
Speaker 2: Even what Bison.
Speaker 7: Delay, didn't he win one two? With everyone with the Bulls,
Speaker 7: I mean, they've got some pretty good we've they've been
Speaker 7: injured and then Zion's eating too much of that. That's
Speaker 7: the worst team he could have gone to. And Bobby
Speaker 7: Hurley got injured on the motorcycle. He would have been
Speaker 7: a good Uh.
Speaker 2: Does have more titles the.
Speaker 22: Movie because they have.
Speaker 11: They're like the They're like the Stanford of the East.
Speaker 7: They have higher stands. I'm not saying, you know, they
Speaker 7: have a smart ball game, but I think all the
Speaker 7: uf A players are grittier and their dummer and their.
Speaker 2: Jocks stop there.
Speaker 7: And of course the Suns, even if even if the phenomenon,
Speaker 7: oh that's a duke player, he's got one Jason Tatum,
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, okay, okay, that's.
Speaker 2: The one I was.
Speaker 7: That's the only one that's that's good, really good.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 7: But even if he plays or not, we're still winning
Speaker 7: tonight the Suns. But then they'll have a chance to
Speaker 7: get us back because he's got his ankle. They'll probably
Speaker 7: be safe with it, and we're going to go back
Speaker 7: to Boston and it will be a good game.
Speaker 22: Okay, Oh and yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Go by yesterday called it with
Speaker 1: three points and only gave me two. I got six
Speaker 1: points for you. How often do you see your callers
Speaker 1: in your personal life?
Speaker 2: Good question?
Speaker 1: Uh, Howard goes to our shows when we have remotes.
Speaker 1: Victor goes to our shows whenever remotes. Not very not
Speaker 1: very I'm not. They don't stalk me, thank god. Uh,
Speaker 1: just not very often, not very often. They text me
Speaker 1: like during the show, that's why you're always on your phone?
Speaker 1: Or ask this question? What about this? Yeah? But this, No,
Speaker 1: it's cool. This guy's and come on, you were in
Speaker 1: the forties, forties. Why do you keep the late forties?
Speaker 1: Things slipped out of your mouth so easily. You said
Speaker 1: mid nineties when we were talking about buying a house earlier.
Speaker 1: Do you know old? I was at the mid nineties.
Speaker 1: You're young, you're like kwand you have an old soul.
Speaker 1: I do have an old one. It's about thirty two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just try and get that's gonna be right.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 1: About thirty two. No, but our callers and our listeners
Speaker 1: are our age. Yeah, you know they're thirty five and older. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, come on, this dude, if this dude, if
Speaker 1: this dude didn't have to be here, they wouldn't be
Speaker 1: listening to old men Rivera. Although I give them all
Speaker 1: the wisdom they need.
Speaker 2: That's true, I think. I mean, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, No one, You're right, I want to
Speaker 1: believe that they would. But those dudes are talking about
Speaker 1: the Lakers and all this, you know, this other stuff.
Speaker 6: Come on, I've got young people around me at work,
Speaker 6: and I'm just like, we don't even speak to.
Speaker 2: This, right, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: That's why I have these old crowds that are very
Speaker 1: loyal to the because it's you know, we talk about
Speaker 1: stuff that matters.
Speaker 6: I just thought you would create like a Howard Sterne
Speaker 6: model where you bring them in every now and again.
Speaker 2: Eccentric guest.
Speaker 1: Well, I do have some of those who want to
Speaker 1: join me on the show to be a guest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then Scheam's dudes, Steve dude.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad dude. Verbal It's like Mike wants
Speaker 1: is dying to do that. Come in and and he's
Speaker 1: good and clever, he's probably listening right now with you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be wallly pipped by fat Mike.
Speaker 6: So many things in that sentence right there, but any
Speaker 6: more calls. Nothing yet, very we're gonna do predictions. Uh yeah,
Speaker 6: we've got five minutes. I think we got five minutes.
Speaker 6: I think Kelvin has already gone there.
Speaker 1: Juan's said, his professional career says no, his heart says yes, well, actually.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can we do? Can we do a score though?
Speaker 7: One?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 8: Give me a seventy seven seventy one Arizona.
Speaker 2: That's your heart's saying this.
Speaker 6: No, that's your professional opinion that Juve wins by six. Yes,
Speaker 6: I think seventy seven to seventy one. They've got to
Speaker 6: be above sixty six possessions at that point. I think
Speaker 6: you're in pretty good territory. I'm sorry, I'm statcasting, getting
Speaker 6: too baseball season?
Speaker 2: You want to talk about spender heart? Must you overthink?
Speaker 2: You have a thinking problem? I do have a thinking problem.
Speaker 6: Yeah, every we all have vices, Steve, we all advice
Speaker 6: as my friend, Yeah, what do you think you think?
Speaker 1: First take a seventy two first one to seventy two
Speaker 1: to seventy three Duke will get there first.
Speaker 4: Right, I'd say, I'm the delusional fan on the show.
Speaker 2: I'm calling it.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say, I don't know, seventy nine to.
Speaker 6: Seventy youve Yeah, so all three you guys pick you
Speaker 6: a to win. No, you've got Duke, Yeah, Duke, but
Speaker 6: they're not going to cover. I mean, I've got Dukelue,
Speaker 6: I've got Duke winning on my brackets.
Speaker 1: But I'll be a homer. I think seventy five seventy
Speaker 1: two Uve.
Speaker 2: And the reason why.
Speaker 6: I think we're shooting a three ball pretty well right now,
Speaker 6: I think we can continue that.
Speaker 2: I got to call good. Hello, you're on the air
Speaker 2: and one on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: This is the only time you want to see me
Speaker 9: is when you're taking my money at the poker cable.
Speaker 1: No, and when you lose a bet like this, because
Speaker 1: I got a feeling you're gonna bet me on this one.
Speaker 9: Oh, I'm taking there, I'm taking Arizona. You know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why you called in to say that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, are we buying lunch or what?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, I'll give you how many points you
Speaker 1: need make it.
Speaker 9: Realisten need eleven that's.
Speaker 1: Might as well go to Vegas and do it. Why
Speaker 1: would I do it here?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, you go because you got Arizona winning straight up?
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, you're gonna give me points?
Speaker 2: Steve.
Speaker 1: I love you, but not that much.
Speaker 2: You're not getting points for me on this one.
Speaker 9: All right, I'll tell you what, straight.
Speaker 2: Up double or nothing? Double or nothing?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: Because you owe me? Still no, you owe me. I
Speaker 6: feel like this is a running theme. I gave you money,
Speaker 6: I didn't get something in return, or we just you're.
Speaker 2: Just taking people's money. What are you talking about, Rick?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 9: Seeve, you're gonna give me points or you're gonna pay
Speaker 9: me double.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you what. We'll have to duck this
Speaker 1: off the air. I think you've been drinking or something.
Speaker 1: Holy crap. I don't know. No, we'll talk about this
Speaker 1: because I have no idea what you're talking about. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not giving any points. Okay, we gotta we gotta go.
Speaker 1: You gotta go, thanks man, We gotta go already, we
Speaker 1: gotta no. We gotta like two more minutes, don't we
Speaker 1: It's a seven minute Oh really? Holy crap? Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks to everybody. I'll see you on Friday. Talk to
Speaker 1: you on Friday.
Speaker 6: We'll see you next week, right, are you you just
Speaker 6: remember I did pay you for something. I might go
Speaker 6: downtown tomorrow. Okay, thanks everybody, Thanks for calling all that.
Speaker 6: We'll see you guys Friday.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, See you guys.