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Speaker 3: NFL Draft Day two is starting in one minute. Arizona
Speaker 3: tackle Jonah Savnea is expected to go today.
Speaker 4: Is it just round two or the good? It's round
Speaker 4: two and three? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 2: Other five minute of the five minute rounds?
Speaker 4: Yeah, five minutes? Okay, Where are you seeing him? I
Speaker 4: have not seen much of him the second round, late
Speaker 4: second round. Yeah.
Speaker 5: He's a big guy, right, big defensive tackle ten three twenty.
Speaker 5: He was hurt too, so wasn't he in during his
Speaker 5: uh you of a time?
Speaker 4: Yeah? But he's huge. Teams need those big tackles.
Speaker 3: NBA Playoffs last night, the Knicks defeated the Pistons to
Speaker 3: go up two to one in the series. The Thunder
Speaker 3: defeated the Grizzlies to go up three on the series,
Speaker 3: and the Clippers defeated the Nuggets to go up two
Speaker 3: to one in the series.
Speaker 4: Watching, I was watching a little a little. It was
Speaker 4: tough with the drafts too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I saw some of that tonight. Tonight I
Speaker 2: had what the Milwaukee and who's the other team?
Speaker 4: Minnesota?
Speaker 2: Minnesota, Minnesota, te Wolves, Lakers, Pacers, Books, and Celtics match.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Boston's just about to start. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Arizona baseball will begin a three game series this weekend
Speaker 3: at Texas Tech.
Speaker 5: So we're what a week or so from ending any
Speaker 5: of the regular season. Is this the end of the
Speaker 5: they this is their last series, I think, right?
Speaker 4: Or is there? I think there's one more week of series? Okay,
Speaker 4: I was thinking softball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, the tournament in Texas, right, Dallas, That's
Speaker 5: where the Big twelve Championship is, So that'll be a
Speaker 5: different look for for that event. Been in Scottstill, at
Speaker 5: least the uavas playing in Scottsdale on the PAC twelve tournament.
Speaker 3: The softball team has a three game roads series against
Speaker 3: San Diego State this weekend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go aztex Can I say that here? I'm gonna
Speaker 5: love them? Sure, of course, I didn't even know we
Speaker 5: had a softball team.
Speaker 4: No, I did.
Speaker 3: After the selection of tedt Roic McMillan yesterday, and Arizona
Speaker 3: players now have been drafted to every NFL team.
Speaker 4: That's a good trivia question. Yeah really, yep.
Speaker 5: Wow, we should have a contest and see if we
Speaker 5: can fill out fill up had sheet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, we'll do that one
Speaker 4: of these days.
Speaker 2: You're in we'll have just oh yeah, thanks and then
Speaker 2: have no have people you know this guy, this guy
Speaker 2: can fill in the blanks because you know there's I'm
Speaker 2: sure some who with the Jets.
Speaker 4: Who's with the Jets. There's a quarterback a long time ago,
Speaker 4: Bill Demery.
Speaker 5: Oh so you even knew that? I think I knew
Speaker 5: that one. Give me another one, Teddy, I can do
Speaker 5: the Patriots there.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Arizona picked up a commitment today from former Illinois state
Speaker 3: kicker Ian Wagner, who's originally from Sierra Vista.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool kicker place caicker. Yeah, they need to find
Speaker 2: that guy to replace Loop.
Speaker 4: Isn't the transfer portal like closing.
Speaker 3: Like any minutes today?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Right, okay, now what see what see what? Who comes?
Speaker 4: Who signs, and.
Speaker 2: Who's who's already left? Take three or four guys.
Speaker 4: Right, that's all I got.
Speaker 2: So you got Okay, we'll take some calls if anybody
Speaker 2: want to call. I know, Richard's texting me like crazy,
Speaker 2: uh telling me. I'll let him tell us because it's
Speaker 2: a little bit mean, and I could take me and
Speaker 2: Richard come on, give me a call.
Speaker 4: I think he's being facetious.
Speaker 2: Actually, he's saying that we're a bunch of old dudes
Speaker 2: and we're getting will be a little up on the younger.
Speaker 4: Younger generation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that we're just jealous.
Speaker 2: I mean, no, I think he's being facetious because I'm
Speaker 2: sure he believes the same thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. Well, because the way they act,
Speaker 5: they acting.
Speaker 2: We're giving them a grief about that. Yeah, no, come on,
Speaker 2: it just be like a human being, a regular one.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I mean there's a lot on the
Speaker 5: line for these guys, and there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 5: of financial things that are going to happen. I know,
Speaker 5: you know, he's making his nil money now, but you
Speaker 5: know he's gonna go to the NFL and or whoever anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, they're going to be doing commercials. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's all part of the image. Here's the issue that's
Speaker 5: got to be a good thing. Here's the issue I have.
Speaker 2: Uh, And I guess it happens to everybody in every
Speaker 2: line of work. But here's the guys who are wishing
Speaker 2: four years ago, wishing to be part of the NFL
Speaker 2: and get drafted and have a life in this because
Speaker 2: it's a lot of money.
Speaker 4: Right Uh.
Speaker 2: And then they they're grateful to humble blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Three years into their contract, I got to get paid more.
Speaker 2: I'm a pain in the ass, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: They've already established themselves, and then there they turned into
Speaker 2: something that they're I guess originally that's who they were.
Speaker 2: They were just being humble.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, if you look back maybe ten years ago,
Speaker 5: ESPN did like a thirty for thirty on how these
Speaker 5: athletes are going through their money so fast, and you know,
Speaker 5: they get these big giant bonuses and sign big contracts
Speaker 5: right off the bat, and then in three or four
Speaker 5: years they're they're going broken. So that's a problem. And
Speaker 5: a lot of that I think has to do with
Speaker 5: growing up and you know, even maybe it didn't come
Speaker 5: from the best environment, but just maturing as you're getting
Speaker 5: older and understanding what's important and if you want to
Speaker 5: be successful, they have to act a certain way, especially
Speaker 5: when you're performing in front of millions of.
Speaker 4: People in some cases.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, dad, that's my old man comment for the day.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, your last one. Anything else, No, that's it,
Speaker 2: right man. You want to call, please do five two
Speaker 2: zero four one, six four forty you have anything else
Speaker 2: on that list?
Speaker 5: We got a former Wildcat picture turns pro sign yea, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: Dawson Nett signs with the Cubs.
Speaker 4: He was a coach with you by right now. He
Speaker 4: was coaching his sisters. The okay makes sense, Yeah, it
Speaker 4: makes sense.
Speaker 5: And she's going to be playing professionally finally, after all
Speaker 5: this is done.
Speaker 4: Right, that happened to go?
Speaker 2: She got a golden something holden spikes something right, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: not golden spikes, that's defense baseball whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, litlepol league that she's going to go to.
Speaker 4: So that's cool.
Speaker 2: Okay again, anybody want to call, please do anything else
Speaker 2: you see out there? Anything on ESPN that you missed,
Speaker 2: Uh no, no anything.
Speaker 4: Were we were joking. I think I sent it to you.
Speaker 4: The joke.
Speaker 5: Michah Parsons last night during the draft, he was he
Speaker 5: was upset that the Cowboys did not get t MA
Speaker 5: mac right, and he was basically like crying on this
Speaker 5: sort of podcast that all he was doing. It was
Speaker 5: pretty pretty funny, yeah, because a lot of people kind
Speaker 5: of had penciled him in for Dallas too, like it's
Speaker 5: a twelfth pick.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, first, yeah, they showed you sent me that.
Speaker 2: Another guy sent me the uh uh the call that
Speaker 2: that team at got from the team did you see
Speaker 2: you know, I didn't see that or the owners and
Speaker 2: all them said, you know, we're gonna take you the number,
Speaker 2: blah blah, how do you feel it? And he was
Speaker 2: kind of really nonchalant, kind of like, okay, that's cool
Speaker 2: as soon, let's go, let's go. It wasn't like thank
Speaker 2: you very much, sir. It was more of a you know,
Speaker 2: being a twenty year old kid. And that's part of
Speaker 2: it too, because we're kind of criticizing. But again, they're eighteen, nineteen,
Speaker 2: twenty years old. What do we expect from them? Probably
Speaker 2: too much? Probably, right, you know, I'm going the other
Speaker 2: way with that now, right, right, but you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: You know, what do we expect?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, these guys have all gone through this
Speaker 5: process too, so they're used to, you know, being interviewed
Speaker 5: and talking to adults, you know, and trying to be
Speaker 5: respectful things like that.
Speaker 4: That's the one thing that we talk about this all
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 2: Even if I ever run in to Desiray and have
Speaker 2: some time with her, is I think that the and
Speaker 2: I said this somebody yesterday day before, that U of
Speaker 2: A would have more of a connection with the fans.
Speaker 2: More of a connection depends. And you you know this
Speaker 2: because you deal with it. How we were in the
Speaker 2: good old days when we talked to athletes one on
Speaker 2: ones or even two on ones whatever not on a
Speaker 2: podium where we got their message, they told their story.
Speaker 2: Now you don't get that, and now you have the
Speaker 2: you of A trying to help with nil blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: How do you think give money to someone you don't know? Right?
Speaker 4: Totally agree? I mean I totally agree.
Speaker 5: I you know, we do miss those good old days
Speaker 5: of that and that was what made our jobs even
Speaker 5: more special.
Speaker 4: It was like, Wow, I can't believe you just said
Speaker 4: that to me.
Speaker 2: You know, want to go back to the station and
Speaker 2: you're the only one that has it yeah, I got.
Speaker 5: This great quote, like I bet Steve didn't get this,
Speaker 5: or I bet the other stations didn't get this, And
Speaker 5: that was kind.
Speaker 4: Of the fun. That was the fun part of it,
Speaker 4: no question about.
Speaker 5: That, because you guys would turn out stories like, Wow,
Speaker 5: I didn't get that angle at all. I didn't hear
Speaker 5: that I was because I wasn't in that scrum with
Speaker 5: you know, Chase Butdinger or whoever at that time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you're right, and you know, I think the guys were
Speaker 5: able to show off their personalities a lot easier in
Speaker 5: those years than they do now.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll give you a perfect example. DeAndre DeAndre. We
Speaker 2: didn't talk to him at all, one on one until
Speaker 2: the PAC twelve because they opened the locker rooms and
Speaker 2: you're thinking, this kid's pretty cool. He's a kid eighteen
Speaker 2: years old, acting like a crazy little kid and personality
Speaker 2: a nice one. And then we'd get to the tournament,
Speaker 2: a good tournament, a good funny guy, and then he's gone, yeah,
Speaker 2: and we don't.
Speaker 4: I haven't.
Speaker 2: I've never seen him or talk to him since I
Speaker 2: never had changel he coming for a game or two
Speaker 2: here at you But yeah, we don't get to know
Speaker 2: these people on a more intimate way to tell their story.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: One of my all time favorite coaches here was Jerry
Speaker 5: Kendall when he was a baseball coach at Arizona, and
Speaker 5: he we would I don't even know if we even
Speaker 5: warned him that we were coming over. We would just
Speaker 5: show up on a you know, Wednesday afternoon and want
Speaker 5: to do a couple interviews years years, like eighties and
Speaker 5: nineties before he was finished. And we'd walk into Sansett
Speaker 5: Field and he just look over and go, you just go, Dave,
Speaker 5: who do you want to talk to today? He would just
Speaker 5: go round up the guys for us and we would have,
Speaker 5: you know, a couple of minutes with each of them.
Speaker 5: Took ten minutes, we were done. We had worries for
Speaker 5: like three days. Sure, now you have easy.
Speaker 2: Now you have coaches say you can't talk to the
Speaker 2: freshman until this or till that. Really, I think it's
Speaker 2: more of a control thing. That's ridiculous. It is ridiculous
Speaker 2: because we've already talked to him a few times before
Speaker 2: in high school. Yeah, they know who we are and
Speaker 2: questions we're going.
Speaker 5: I mean, college is all about growing up too, and
Speaker 5: I mean that's such an important thing.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Dave. Exactly, Dave. You go to hell with the
Speaker 2: history one on one. You learn how to watch your
Speaker 2: clothes and not lead them into the whites. You learn
Speaker 2: how to eat on your own pace if you have
Speaker 2: money to go to the restaurants or cook. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. You're exactly right. College just isn't about
Speaker 2: learning how to read and write, although it is, but
Speaker 2: you know, growing up I.
Speaker 5: Do it, especially if you're an athlete. That's part of
Speaker 5: you know, they grow up. They've watched all these guys
Speaker 5: on television. I would think, if I'm coming in, I'm,
Speaker 5: you know, eighteen or nineteen. You know, I want to
Speaker 5: learn how to do that.
Speaker 2: Well, are you talking to a former player? Probably on
Speaker 2: this show or maybe off the show. I won't say
Speaker 2: who it was.
Speaker 4: He says.
Speaker 2: The UA prepared him, not in a good way for
Speaker 2: the real world. And let me say why. They took
Speaker 2: care of them at every level. You know where to go,
Speaker 2: where to be, what to do, where to go, especially
Speaker 2: on the road.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, tutors da da da never let them fail.
Speaker 2: Part of part and as they should. But part of
Speaker 2: success and part of growing up is that failure because
Speaker 2: you know you don't want to do it again.
Speaker 4: Right right. I can understand.
Speaker 5: I suppose on road trips or whatever you know, to
Speaker 5: be you know, meetings or whatever they need to do.
Speaker 5: But just the weekly banter between the me I don't know.
Speaker 5: I would think as an athlete, maybe they're maybe they're afraid.
Speaker 5: Maybe some were afraid to come talk to us. Well,
Speaker 5: I think most of them wound up being great. Sure,
Speaker 5: I mean I remember them all the time. Those are
Speaker 5: the things I remember most about.
Speaker 4: Some of them.
Speaker 2: Well, you remember, just a year or so ago, David
Speaker 2: or two maybe two the kids from USC who was
Speaker 2: the Orange County registered guy, quoted the kid before he
Speaker 2: went up to the podium, and he got in trouble
Speaker 2: because it wasn't officially from the podium.
Speaker 4: And he was just how he said, what should I say?
Speaker 4: How should I act?
Speaker 2: He heard that quoted him, and he says, you're going
Speaker 2: to take your credential way because he wasn't on the
Speaker 2: podium when you broke the rules.
Speaker 4: Really, yeah, really, come on, it's silly.
Speaker 5: But no, I think just kind of going back to
Speaker 5: what we were talking about with Shador and some of
Speaker 5: the others, they know how they should be acting, of course,
Speaker 5: and they know it's important, and they've got agents who
Speaker 5: are in their ears saying, you know, no, don't act
Speaker 5: like that. You know you're gonna get through these couple
Speaker 5: of days. It's not a big contract. The endorsements are
Speaker 5: going to be coming to you all the time, and
Speaker 5: you're gonna have an image to hold. Sure, but these
Speaker 5: days are I'm sure it's a little stressful and nerve
Speaker 5: wracking and embarrassing maybe in a way too.
Speaker 2: And if you don't like a question, you know what
Speaker 2: you say, I don't feel comfortable answering that question or
Speaker 2: answering that question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty simple, pretty simple? How much?
Speaker 3: Uh three minutes?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, no calls in this segment, Richard disappointed in you.
Speaker 2: You can give us a call here in the next
Speaker 2: three minutes. You can give me grief or I'll just
Speaker 2: say that you were being uh wait wait wait, wait,
Speaker 2: can't right now. But absolutely, this is my boy, Richard saying,
Speaker 2: after giving us grief about being old men, you can't
Speaker 2: call us right now. But I'm simply for free markets
Speaker 2: and democracy.
Speaker 4: Why they can do whatever they want.
Speaker 5: That's fine, that's fine, Richard, and I cannot buy their
Speaker 5: stuff if I don't want you.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the whole thing. So did I ask you
Speaker 2: this question? Do the guys influence you do? The guys
Speaker 2: that you see play or the chadors or yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I won't say so you're gonna go by Sprite because
Speaker 2: Lebron does eat drink sprite.
Speaker 4: Is there somebody that.
Speaker 2: You admire or you follow for whatever reason?
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of athletes I like. But
Speaker 4: I'm going but not purposely for commercial I don't I
Speaker 4: don't get it either, But what the hell? So Cleveland
Speaker 4: did not take thirty three? What number was that? I
Speaker 4: took a guy from UCLA linebacker? Okay, let's go. We
Speaker 4: got one call before you go. Hellow, you're on the air.
Speaker 4: Nine the ball? Who's this?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 7: Stevens Richard wanted to call in and follow up on
Speaker 7: an email.
Speaker 4: My whole thing is this.
Speaker 1: I like the.
Speaker 7: Nil I like the free market. I don't think we
Speaker 7: need to be regulating them or KYD to cap their incomes.
Speaker 7: Let's just let this thing go for a while and
Speaker 7: see what happens. Let the free market go. If the
Speaker 7: economy goes south, which it might, you know, the market
Speaker 7: dyce will go down. But you know, we're not telling
Speaker 7: the coaches they need to be regulated, right, They've had
Speaker 7: free reign all these years to do what in the
Speaker 7: hell they wanted to do. Okay, well, the players were
Speaker 7: trapped on campus pretty much. So this is this is freedom.
Speaker 4: This is the way it should be.
Speaker 7: And the kids are so much more aware nowadays than
Speaker 7: they were twenty thirty, forty years ago. They're coached, they
Speaker 7: know how to handle the media, they know how to
Speaker 7: handle their money. They're far more mature than we were.
Speaker 7: And you know, they're just they got to going on, man,
Speaker 7: And this is.
Speaker 4: Where it should be right now. You do a long
Speaker 4: list of there.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say two out of five is a
Speaker 2: bad but sure, I'm not sure. Uh, free wheeling probably more.
Speaker 2: There's so many the things you said that I won't
Speaker 2: argue with you because it's not a point, but I
Speaker 2: understand what you're saying, and I.
Speaker 4: Kind of agree.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just let it go.
Speaker 4: Let's be free.
Speaker 7: Let's be free the best we can.
Speaker 2: Free, love baby, Okay, I'm sixty nine all over.
Speaker 7: Ready to get rich, free to get very very rich.
Speaker 8: Yes, okay, but wait, free to free, to.
Speaker 7: Practice democracy, to make sure we keep that intact.
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, thank you guys, thank you for calling. Hey,
Speaker 2: keep emailing me, keep emailing. He's a regular email. He's
Speaker 2: in New Mexico, Oklahoma.
Speaker 9: Guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a he's a he's a good guy like Richard.
Speaker 2: Let's go take a break and then come back with
Speaker 2: coach Shields.
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Speaker 1: Down all the xs at ohs. This is I on
Speaker 1: the ball with Steve Rivera on Bomb Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball Hero on
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Speaker 2: today is Dave Silver. Now one Pune, we have UA
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Speaker 4: How are you doing, Clancy? I'm Dreick Delli.
Speaker 11: Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course. Uh can we pove him up, Henry?
Speaker 4: Henry? Can we get his voice up more? A little more? Coach?
Speaker 2: So good to hear of you. All you do is win,
Speaker 2: which is fantastic.
Speaker 4: How does that? How did this year feel?
Speaker 2: It's funny, I've always raved about you over the last
Speaker 2: couple of years that we had you on, and you
Speaker 2: continue to kind of outdo yourself every year.
Speaker 12: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 16: I mean this year has been interesting, It's been every
Speaker 16: year is different. You know, we had six new players
Speaker 16: on our team. Almost fifty percent of our roster was
Speaker 16: brand new. We had basically the best college player in
Speaker 16: the country who was off for half the season, winning
Speaker 16: professional tournaments. I mean, everything that got thrown at me
Speaker 16: this year was crazy and wild. And you know, we're
Speaker 16: ten country, we're conference champions and now We're ready to
Speaker 16: go dance.
Speaker 11: In the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 16: You know, for most teams who are the elite programs
Speaker 16: in the country, this is all they think about is
Speaker 16: the season starts. Sure once the tournament starts, and I'm
Speaker 16: hoping that's our mentality as well.
Speaker 5: How is the transition then, going into the Big twelve
Speaker 5: after all these years in the Pac twelve.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's it's exciting for me, just because when you've
Speaker 16: done something for eight years, it just kind of gets
Speaker 16: the same old, same old, you know, going to the
Speaker 16: same locations, playing the same teams, same coaches, and so
Speaker 16: now this new challenge of going into this conference, you know,
Speaker 16: against the defending national champions TCU, who's two in the country,
Speaker 16: who got us.
Speaker 11: Earlier this year. Yeah, it's a great challenge.
Speaker 16: And you know, if you had told me at the
Speaker 16: beginning of the year we would have won the conference,
Speaker 16: I'd have said that an amazing season. And now that
Speaker 16: I'm looking at it, kind of the work that everyone's
Speaker 16: put in, I just feel like, you know, this was
Speaker 16: supposed to happen.
Speaker 11: I think the team worked hard, I think we have
Speaker 11: all the right.
Speaker 16: Pieces and I'm just happy that, you know, something that
Speaker 16: one of the goals that we set for ourselves we
Speaker 16: were able to cross off.
Speaker 4: So, Dave, I don't know if you know who.
Speaker 2: David Davis a former TV guy, longtime TV guy in
Speaker 2: this town. Me a former longtime sports writer. Now I
Speaker 2: do this, and I joked with you last year. You
Speaker 2: kind of laughed when I was with Jay talking about,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, you're the best coach on campus, given
Speaker 2: what you've done to the program. And just before you
Speaker 2: came on, maybe an hour ago, he said, we rarely
Speaker 2: talked about tennis.
Speaker 4: We didn't, and now we're.
Speaker 2: Talking about tennis, which makes that you guys have done
Speaker 2: a great job, and the women too.
Speaker 4: Just what do you do to make this team go?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 16: I just think we got the competitive, most competitive people
Speaker 16: in the world on our team, and the most competitive
Speaker 16: coaching staff, and and just a bunch of gritty guys,
Speaker 16: and I just I just know, I just want to
Speaker 16: be around people who are competitive, who are going to
Speaker 16: push me every each and every day. And I think
Speaker 16: that just kind of starts rubbing off on everybody around here.
Speaker 16: Do I think we have the most talent in our
Speaker 16: comfort and know? Do I think we have the most
Speaker 16: talent in the country. No, we have six freshmen. Half
Speaker 16: of them don't know how to put the right shoe
Speaker 16: on the right foot, you know, And that's not a joke.
Speaker 16: The amount of things I saw this year from freshmen
Speaker 16: gave me so many headaches.
Speaker 11: I'm balding. I'm going gray hair everywhere.
Speaker 16: But what I'll say is, I think the secret sauce
Speaker 16: and the ingredient is just how competitive this group is.
Speaker 11: And it's crazy.
Speaker 4: I don't even think.
Speaker 16: We're that competitive, but then we just meet our opposition
Speaker 16: and we're just a lot more competitive than them. And
Speaker 16: I think that's a testament to just nine years of
Speaker 16: guys going at each other, just beating each other in
Speaker 16: their heads in every day and getting tougher. It's almost
Speaker 16: like our practices are tougher than our matches, because you know,
Speaker 16: the guys are getting after each other so much harder
Speaker 16: than what we see on game day. And I think
Speaker 16: that really primes us for you know, the teams that
Speaker 16: we play.
Speaker 5: One of my friends was over at Indian Wells I
Speaker 5: guess what, a couple of months ago, and he was
Speaker 5: texting me, goes, who is this u of a guy playing?
Speaker 5: Maybe tell us a little bit about Colton and what
Speaker 5: he means to you into this program. He's obviously he's
Speaker 5: already kind of making his mark at the professional tournament level.
Speaker 16: Yeah, what Colton's done this year, I don't know if
Speaker 16: people understand it in the tennis role will be understanding.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the kids currently ranked.
Speaker 11: One hundred and fifty eight in the world.
Speaker 16: The day after our season, he's going to go play
Speaker 16: the French Open in Paris. A few weeks later, he's
Speaker 16: gonna play Wimbledon. A few weeks after that, he's going
Speaker 16: to play US Open. The kid is already I mean
Speaker 16: by the betting markets is they have him as the
Speaker 16: forty eighth best player in the world.
Speaker 11: And I'm not.
Speaker 16: Talking juniors, I'm not talking college. I'm talking about the
Speaker 16: professional ranks. They have him as the forty eighth best
Speaker 16: player in the world. And it's because of what he's
Speaker 16: done in these pro events and the fact that he
Speaker 16: still wants to finish his time here and his life
Speaker 16: toy at the University of Arizona with his brothers on
Speaker 16: the team. I mean, we are so lucky to have
Speaker 16: this guy. And you know, it was so fun for me.
Speaker 16: I was at Indian Wells, Indian wells. Basically for the
Speaker 16: people who don't know tennis, it's the fifth grade and slam, right,
Speaker 16: and Colton was playing on the court and I remember
Speaker 16: his playing his first match.
Speaker 11: It was a packed house.
Speaker 16: You couldn't no one could get into the stadium, and
Speaker 16: so fans started climbing the five other stadiums around his
Speaker 16: court to get a glimpse of what was happening out there.
Speaker 16: There were u of a chants going on, and I
Speaker 16: think that was the beauty of it all. It was
Speaker 16: Colton wasn't just like this journeyman pro. He was the
Speaker 16: college kid who was beating up on the pro guys.
Speaker 16: And everybody loved that story. And you know, I definitely
Speaker 16: know we gained a few fans for Arizona.
Speaker 2: So we were having this debate because we don't know,
Speaker 2: so how does that work pro and being here?
Speaker 16: Yeah, So, I mean, anyone can play a pro event.
Speaker 16: It's basically on you know, every tournament you play, you
Speaker 16: get a certain amount of points and you kind of
Speaker 16: move up. So like Red Fu, the singer, if anyone knows,
Speaker 16: he played a professional event in Africa like a month ago,
Speaker 16: and the guys, you know, a recreational player. So anybody
Speaker 16: can play professional tennis. Now the level of professional tennis
Speaker 16: is based on your ranking, and so it's really you know,
Speaker 16: a lot like I don't know, want to say golf,
Speaker 16: but you can go out and play individual tournaments while
Speaker 16: you're playing in the collegiate season. And you know, I
Speaker 16: think for us, Colton probably missed ten matches this year.
Speaker 16: And the fact that our team is still ranked in
Speaker 16: the top ten in the country without our best player
Speaker 16: one sixth of our roster, who's the best player in
Speaker 16: the country, and we were still able to do what
Speaker 16: we did was it was incredible.
Speaker 11: But I think you know, last night, we gave out.
Speaker 16: Our team awards for our banquet, and you know, the
Speaker 16: guys voted for Colton to be our most inspirational player.
Speaker 16: And I think everything that he did this year away
Speaker 16: from the U of A inspired our team to be
Speaker 16: great and and we all just kind of knew that, hey,
Speaker 16: we better get our act together because when this kid
Speaker 16: comes back, we better be awesome. We don't want to
Speaker 16: we don't want to be wasting this time that he's
Speaker 16: bringing to come back and play for us.
Speaker 5: So does he turn pro, then as soon as your
Speaker 5: season's over and begins these.
Speaker 16: Yeah, the day after the NCAA tournaments over, he's turning
Speaker 16: pro and he's going to cut off and and go
Speaker 16: play all the professionals out in Europe.
Speaker 2: So you had him every year, you had him every year.
Speaker 11: This is his fourth season, which yep, from start to finish.
Speaker 2: So did you see this kid four years ago?
Speaker 4: Sing?
Speaker 2: Or did you see this in him four years ago?
Speaker 11: I think I'll be remembered.
Speaker 16: I would be lying if I said to be doing
Speaker 16: this at this moment in his career, I would say
Speaker 16: a little bit yes.
Speaker 11: But then when I went.
Speaker 16: Out and I traveled with him and I saw him
Speaker 16: in the environment, I'm not surprised at all. And I
Speaker 16: think it's one of the true things I got to
Speaker 16: learn about this kid is he adapts to his environment
Speaker 16: better than anyone I've ever been around. And he just
Speaker 16: kind of took some mental notes. Okay, at this level,
Speaker 16: you have to do this, and so he changed made
Speaker 16: those changes in his game. And the college level is
Speaker 16: a lot different too. You know, when you come back
Speaker 16: to the college game, you have to readjust your game
Speaker 16: to win in the college ranks. I think it's the
Speaker 16: same thing when players, you know, see the NBA guys
Speaker 16: like there's a pro style NBA player and then there's
Speaker 16: a you know call style game, and you know, you
Speaker 16: see that in March Madness. You see these guys from
Speaker 16: you know what was it like Oakland, you know, university
Speaker 16: last year and the guys who are great college players
Speaker 16: but might not make it at the pro level. And
Speaker 16: I think it's the same thing in tennis. You have
Speaker 16: to adjust your game to win at both levels.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 5: How do you think he'll do? I mean, do you
Speaker 5: think he'll be able to get through a round or
Speaker 5: two in some of these majors.
Speaker 16: I think he's gonna be top ten in the world.
Speaker 16: I think he's gonna be a household name. I think
Speaker 16: I think we're all gonna be watching him on TV.
Speaker 16: I Coul's always take the first year is a little transition,
Speaker 16: but I think you know, he played the number ten
Speaker 16: player in the world a couple of weeks ago in
Speaker 16: Houston on Clay and Tommy Palm, and I'm watching the match.
Speaker 11: I was there.
Speaker 16: I flew out. He lost the first set. He was
Speaker 16: a little nervous, and then he started figuring the guy out,
Speaker 16: and I just felt, if he can get this second
Speaker 16: set I think he can beat the guy in the
Speaker 16: third and that guy's ten in the world, and so
Speaker 16: far I was able to kind of see it firsthand,
Speaker 16: and I just think this guy's the limit for this kid,
Speaker 16: and it's something that.
Speaker 11: All of us are going to be really proud of.
Speaker 11: And I can say this one hundred percent for a fact.
Speaker 16: There's nobody that loves the University of Arizona more than
Speaker 16: this kid, and he's going to be a tremendous ambassador
Speaker 16: for our program moving forward.
Speaker 2: You talk about the competitiveness of this team. You have
Speaker 2: a number of international players. Does that kind of help
Speaker 2: fuel this competitiveness?
Speaker 16: Oh, no way, they're the most uncompetitive because it's not
Speaker 16: college tenants. It's loud, it's in your face. It's not
Speaker 16: like Wimbledon where it's these golf collaps. You know, you
Speaker 16: get here and there's noise and there's there's just so
Speaker 16: much commotion.
Speaker 11: And what we talk about is thriving in the chaos.
Speaker 16: And so when our practices, we're yelling, we're screaming, we're
Speaker 16: making noise, we're doing chance And it's the ability to
Speaker 16: kind of lock in and thrive when so much is
Speaker 16: going on, and the ability to stay in that moment
Speaker 16: and perform. And I think that's one of the beauties
Speaker 16: of this and it's one of the reasons why some
Speaker 16: of these freshmen who come in here struggles because the
Speaker 16: game is it's like playing Davis Cup.
Speaker 11: It's like playing the labor Cup up.
Speaker 16: It's you know, you've got fans are chanting, you've got
Speaker 16: your teammates chanting. Everybody is making noise on six different courts,
Speaker 16: and it's really kind of distracting, to be honest. I mean,
Speaker 16: I would love to go take this to golf where
Speaker 16: we go out with and we just fans are yelling
Speaker 16: and screaming, almost like Happy Gilmour right where everyone's yelling
Speaker 16: and screaming, and then you have to perform under it.
Speaker 11: That's kind of college us.
Speaker 2: Was that the sixteenth hole in Phoenix or was it
Speaker 2: who told is that Phoenix sixteen sixteen?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right, it doesn't live try to do that a little
Speaker 5: bit that they got the music playing, I think, but yeah,
Speaker 5: it doesn't.
Speaker 4: It's hard to watch that.
Speaker 2: Do you like your chances? Tell me about your chances
Speaker 2: this year. Given the fact that you've you've made a
Speaker 2: couple of runs over the last couple of years.
Speaker 16: Yeah, Well, you know, we've been there the Sweet sixteen
Speaker 16: three times, and I just think this team's hungry for more,
Speaker 16: and we've been we've we've fallen short a few times
Speaker 16: last year four to three to Columbia on the road,
Speaker 16: and I think the team has learned a lot from that,
Speaker 16: and it's like, how are we going to take this
Speaker 16: one step further?
Speaker 11: Now? The problem if.
Speaker 16: That is, you know, seniors graduate and then you bring
Speaker 16: these young kids and they don't really know what it's like.
Speaker 16: And so we're hoping that our leaders on the team,
Speaker 16: our coaching staff can really get these kids ready to go.
Speaker 16: But you know, I'll never make a promise about anything.
Speaker 16: I think our team's dangerous enough to be anybody in
Speaker 16: the country, and I know if we don't show.
Speaker 4: Up, we also can lose anybody.
Speaker 11: And that's sports for you.
Speaker 16: But I will tell you what our coaching staff, our
Speaker 16: captains on the team, I think we all have the
Speaker 16: most clear vision that we've ever had since I've been
Speaker 16: here about trying to make a deep run. And everybody's
Speaker 16: focused on, you know, taking it one round at a time.
Speaker 16: But if you told me, hey, put your team up
Speaker 16: against the number one team in the country. Can you win,
Speaker 16: I would say yes, absolutely. We have the best player
Speaker 16: in college tennis, our number two players rank five in
Speaker 16: the country. I mean up and down our roster. We
Speaker 16: have a lot of really good spots and that makes
Speaker 16: our team really dangerous.
Speaker 2: So you talked about this, and I say this all
Speaker 2: the time about just competing against each other. I think
Speaker 2: one of the things that you get better at is
Speaker 2: when you play against better competition. And you said you
Speaker 2: have that in your on your team. So each play
Speaker 2: each other and they get better by getting beat up
Speaker 2: by the better player.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Well, look, I was the youngest of five kids, and
Speaker 16: you just when you're on this you have this big family,
Speaker 16: you get beat up all the time.
Speaker 11: And I think it's that.
Speaker 16: It's what I learned as a kid is you know,
Speaker 16: my siblings are beat up on me, and it just
Speaker 16: made me want to be better. And then I just
Speaker 16: come on, one more, Let's play one more. You know,
Speaker 16: you're playing a game of basketball. Come on, let's play
Speaker 16: one more. Let's play one more. And I think that's
Speaker 16: what I started to see in this rosters. Guys will
Speaker 16: beat up, beat on each other, and the person who
Speaker 16: losts that, come on, let's play another one, you know,
Speaker 16: And I think that's what I've tried to create here
Speaker 16: a little bit with these guys, is that, hey, if
Speaker 16: you lose that you want to play another one because
Speaker 16: you want to be winning.
Speaker 11: And I think, you know, as a coach, you.
Speaker 16: Kind of let a few things slide in your practices
Speaker 16: to allow the guys, not to necessarily make it personal,
Speaker 16: but to make it personal enough that the guys are
Speaker 16: going to find a way to level up and bring
Speaker 16: their you know, bring their best game each and every day.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 5: Are you going to continue with the international look of
Speaker 5: this program going forward? You got so many good so
Speaker 5: many good players from all over the world here.
Speaker 16: Yeah, we're just trying to find the best players we can.
Speaker 16: You know, everyone, you know our number one players is
Speaker 16: from Tanaino, Washington, a little dot in the middle of Washington.
Speaker 16: We've got the number one player from up in Phoenix
Speaker 16: who's just coming back from a knee injury.
Speaker 11: That that kid's tremendous.
Speaker 16: And the reality is is I tell this to a
Speaker 16: lot of people. If you if I took you to Europe,
Speaker 16: you go on these little villages and you see a
Speaker 16: big you see a big, beautiful tennis facility, because tennis
Speaker 16: is woven into that community of it's not just about
Speaker 16: playing tennis, it's the social outlet. It is where people
Speaker 16: come together, and it's just so much more. I think
Speaker 16: tennis is the second or biggest sport in many of
Speaker 16: these countries, and tennis is like the eighth or ninth
Speaker 16: biggest sport in the in the US. And so there's
Speaker 16: just a lot of talent away from the States. And also,
Speaker 16: you know, hey, we're going to be in every recruiting
Speaker 16: battle we can with some Americans, but certainly, you know,
Speaker 16: the the top twenty Americans, fifteen of those kids go
Speaker 16: to IVY League caliber programs, and so that just kind
Speaker 16: of takes away a lot of.
Speaker 11: The good players.
Speaker 16: And we just have to get creative and find the
Speaker 16: kids that can come in here and make a difference.
Speaker 16: And you know, Tommy and I have a lot of
Speaker 16: conversations about how many different countries is it, And you know,
Speaker 16: we talked quite a bit about different countries, and certainly
Speaker 16: seeing what they've done over there and weaving those international
Speaker 16: guys in the team is really cool.
Speaker 2: I'm sure when you first got here or when you
Speaker 2: took the job here, a number of years ago, did
Speaker 2: you see the potential in this place being a tennis
Speaker 2: a big time tennis And I'll say that because you've
Speaker 2: established that, but the answer public easy, yes, But did
Speaker 2: you see the potential?
Speaker 11: I saw the potential.
Speaker 16: To be doing what we're doing, though, if I'm being candid,
Speaker 16: I didn't think we'd be doing what we'd be doing.
Speaker 16: I thought we'd be a top twenty five team and
Speaker 16: dip in and out of there. I mean, there's some
Speaker 16: challenges that we have to go through. But now that
Speaker 16: I see the culture that we have and our motto
Speaker 16: in our program, culture wins, And I think every person
Speaker 16: who comes in we wear wristbands. It's written in our
Speaker 16: locker rooms, and everybody starts to buy into the thing
Speaker 16: that's gonna win us matches, that's gonna make our team
Speaker 16: a perennial powerhouse is not one individual. It's not one person.
Speaker 16: It's going to be the culture that we create each
Speaker 16: and every day. And if you get a pretty good
Speaker 16: team who has a great culture, you can do exactly
Speaker 16: what we're doing here. And it's something that you know,
Speaker 16: I hope the other teams on campus can kind of
Speaker 16: look over and say, Hey, what's men's tennis doing and
Speaker 16: I promise you it's not having the most talented kids
Speaker 16: on our roster. It's just having a really great culture
Speaker 16: that each and every day that we you know, we
Speaker 16: take care of and that we don't have any slippage
Speaker 16: in and you know it starting from the top. I
Speaker 16: mean having Colton to be a part of our program
Speaker 16: and seeing what a pro looks like each and every day.
Speaker 16: I mean practice starts at two o'clock. At one o'clock,
Speaker 16: he's in there getting his body ready. You know, the
Speaker 16: guys out hitting extra serves and then you you know,
Speaker 16: doing work on his own. And when you have guys
Speaker 16: that just go above and beyond and that's a part
Speaker 16: of your culture, then everybody, the new guys don't know
Speaker 16: any better. They're like, oh, this is what we do here.
Speaker 16: We practice four hours a day. You know, we go
Speaker 16: out and hit on our own extra you know, any
Speaker 16: opportunity that we can go play tournaments on our own,
Speaker 16: we're doing it. And I think that's one of the
Speaker 16: if there's one thing I'm most proud of in my
Speaker 16: time here is building that and I want to keep
Speaker 16: it going as long as we can.
Speaker 11: And you know, it's gonna. It's a it's a daily effort.
Speaker 5: So this this weekend, you learn where you're going for
Speaker 5: the first round. Tell me about the tournament itself, is
Speaker 5: it how many teams are even in it? And where
Speaker 5: are the sites where you could be playing?
Speaker 16: So that the tournament has sixty four teams, the first
Speaker 16: two rounds are hosted by the top sixteen teams in
Speaker 16: the country. So we'll host the first two rounds possibly
Speaker 16: the super Regional. If we're able to get through, we
Speaker 16: would have to be in the top eight. So we're
Speaker 16: kind of close to that. We're going to be maybe
Speaker 16: nine next week.
Speaker 11: And so yeah, and.
Speaker 16: Then and then if you get by the super Regional,
Speaker 16: you go to the final site a lot like Omaha
Speaker 16: for baseball or you know, Oklahoma City for softball, and
Speaker 16: then it's the final eight teams and it's anyone's ballgame.
Speaker 16: And I we found this a couple of years ago
Speaker 16: when we made the final site. It was they had
Speaker 16: sixteen teams at that time. Anybody can be anybody on
Speaker 16: a neutral site. And I just love our team and
Speaker 16: our culture up against anybody when it's when it's.
Speaker 4: Just us versus them.
Speaker 16: Neutral site, no one's home court. No one's advantage, and
Speaker 16: I think our team really thrives in that. Well, coach
Speaker 16: you Yeah, that week Friday Saturday, we'll be at home
Speaker 16: hosting the first two rounds. On Monday selection show, we'll
Speaker 16: find out who's coming to Tucson, and then we'll just
Speaker 16: kind of put our heads down and go to work.
Speaker 4: Nice grinds it out.
Speaker 2: Okay, coach, thanks so much for joining us on. Congrats
Speaker 2: and continued success as we move forward.
Speaker 11: Thank you appreciate you having me on BARDA.
Speaker 2: Tiny shields up what a I think it is a
Speaker 2: fantastic This doesn't happen by accident.
Speaker 5: No, no, you know, and it's funny. You know, we
Speaker 5: kind of didn't even get into it. Went about going
Speaker 5: international with Tommy the same kind of success. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's really built this team with a bunch of international
Speaker 5: players and his best players.
Speaker 2: From the state of Washington. I was surprised when he said, no,
Speaker 2: they're not competitive, they're not. Oh they're not, but that
Speaker 2: makes sense, I guess. I mean they a cool what's up? Yeah,
Speaker 2: tennis players. Yeah, the tennis players. That's awesome.
Speaker 5: I mean really, they're like there were a handful of
Speaker 5: players over my years that we would cover and go
Speaker 5: do a feature story on But we didn't have teams
Speaker 5: that had successful.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera, he's got his eyes on the ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson Sports Station yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to ye in the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: We've got Henry at the control. If you don't call
Speaker 2: us the due five two zero one seventy four forty
Speaker 2: you have news on the draft to day.
Speaker 4: Yeah. More good news from the Wildcats.
Speaker 5: A standpoint offensive lineman Jonah seven Yea was selected thirty
Speaker 5: seventh overall by the Miami Dolphins in the second round.
Speaker 5: So big Jonah twenty one years old, on his way
Speaker 5: to the NFL second round pick, So good for him.
Speaker 4: That's afraid of two Wildcats has not.
Speaker 5: Happened in the first two rounds since the year two thousand.
Speaker 2: So who was the previous guy at Miami from you
Speaker 2: bay because you said, oh am, I supposed to know
Speaker 2: that too. Well, well, I don't know because said that
Speaker 2: was part of the quiz right now to think about
Speaker 2: that at least do Yeah, Okay, that's good.
Speaker 5: So yeah, t Mac yesterday Carolina. So they're both going
Speaker 5: to the to the southeastern part of the country.
Speaker 2: So the next guy would be who Tyler Loop if
Speaker 2: he does get drunk, you think he'll get out Henry
Speaker 2: is according to whoever? Okay, I think he will be
Speaker 2: probably later in the later in the.
Speaker 4: Six seven Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's what he had said too, that
Speaker 2: he was going to be back in Dallas and be
Speaker 2: prepared tomorrow.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean Janah really was prolific at the U of A.
Speaker 5: I mean he barely missed a game or anything. He
Speaker 5: played three different positions, so that's good. He's pretty versatile.
Speaker 5: But he's so big. I mean he's like six three,
Speaker 5: three thirty five something like that, so I would expect
Speaker 5: him to be probably a tackle for yeah, for Tua
Speaker 5: whoever's playing quarterback down there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big guy. Yeah, Yeah, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: I'll just keep your eye on the phone, Henry, just
Speaker 2: in case we get a call or two this weekend.
Speaker 4: Some games. What else?
Speaker 2: Is there a game? A couple of games tonight, right?
Speaker 2: Baseball softball?
Speaker 3: You said, uh yeah, the baseball plays Texas Tech Softball
Speaker 3: plays ss.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: So there's that. As we wind out, you have two
Speaker 2: more weeks of school, yep, and then your history and
Speaker 2: then me just kind of recommending people. YouTube people who says,
Speaker 2: but Henry, what Henry doing there?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, then the real world, Henry good like this
Speaker 2: shark from Jaws, It's coming.
Speaker 4: It's good, right right? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 2: So anybody want to call five to two O four
Speaker 2: one six. I'm sorry, five to four one six, seventy
Speaker 2: four forty. I saw that the Tommy Lloyd's been all
Speaker 2: over the place this week going to a concert tonight,
Speaker 2: Midland traveling the Traveling show promoting this Midland concert tonight.
Speaker 4: He might get it. I heard.
Speaker 2: He might get on the stage sing a lullaby or two.
Speaker 4: You know that? Okay, I think I'm right with this.
Speaker 5: Yes, wis track Michael is it Michael Weisstrack from Midland
Speaker 5: The two songs some one is the brother event ye
Speaker 5: Alex Flanagan.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, because he talked about some oil a lot,
Speaker 2: you know, having grown up there. She's no longer in TV.
Speaker 4: You know that.
Speaker 2: You knew that, right. She's an agent, she's with she
Speaker 2: really yeah, huh. She helps with the agencies in California.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen Kevin in forever. I try to get
Speaker 2: him a time or two. Uh, he's hard to reach,
Speaker 2: Kevin Flanagan. She came to town.
Speaker 5: Just as Arizona was about to get in trouble. They
Speaker 5: did a big to do with a big fundraising event.
Speaker 4: I guess whatever.
Speaker 5: It was November or October of that year, twenty seventeen. No,
Speaker 5: just a couple of years ago. When the Financial News
Speaker 5: Focus came out. She came out and she was like
Speaker 5: the MC or did some interviews on stage. I might
Speaker 5: have interviewed Gronkowski who was also there. But anyway, she
Speaker 5: came to town for that and she was kind of
Speaker 5: talking about how great the u of A was.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, There's been some pretty good alums from this area,
Speaker 2: especially in the media. Now she's one of them. Now
Speaker 2: Richard's gonna making this move. Richard's making his move.
Speaker 5: Richard's to be on the main broadcast right for the finals,
Speaker 5: the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got a call. Cool, hell, you're on the
Speaker 2: air nine on the ball.
Speaker 4: Who's this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nicole, I've been wondering about you, man, I've been
Speaker 2: wondering about you in a good way.
Speaker 20: Hey, Man, I got work, man, I gotta girl for
Speaker 20: it do double whamby.
Speaker 4: But in a good way. That's okay. What's up? What
Speaker 4: are you doing work wise?
Speaker 20: If you can say, Man, let's just say I work
Speaker 20: at Amazon.
Speaker 4: Okay, No, cool, cool, Okay.
Speaker 20: But I was man, I want to congratulate all the
Speaker 20: Cats that got picked.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 20: Think t Mac his career might die in Carolina.
Speaker 3: But that's all right, that's true.
Speaker 2: Money could Yeah, no, but he I think he'll be
Speaker 2: fine and he'll he'll what hold is he twenty twenty one?
Speaker 4: Something like that.
Speaker 2: No, he'll be fantastic. No, no him?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens, man, right, right, So what do
Speaker 2: you think about the basketball program?
Speaker 4: What's happening there Arizona basketball?
Speaker 2: Yeah, with all the guys, was a couple of I
Speaker 2: was leaving. Now the guy guy's coming in.
Speaker 20: I don't know. They'll be all right. They got co Pete,
Speaker 20: they got that other five star. I'm sure, tell me
Speaker 20: it'll figure it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 20: I wish they would have still had Vesa.
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, me too.
Speaker 2: He would have been a huge puzzle to keep a
Speaker 2: piece of the puzzle to keep for sure, because I
Speaker 2: don't know how Crevis is going to do.
Speaker 20: I don't know. I don't know if Crevis has the
Speaker 20: speed that Henry Head to be honest.
Speaker 2: No, no, that he does not. He's just a big
Speaker 2: body near the basket. He's gonna have to improve all
Speaker 2: that stuff.
Speaker 20: Man, you think Bolo gets drafted.
Speaker 2: To No, no, no, he'll play, he'll play overseas, he'll
Speaker 2: get he'll play in a summer league team in Vegas,
Speaker 2: and then he'll have to play somewhere that's not NBA.
Speaker 20: All right on, man, Well, good talk. I gotta go
Speaker 20: watch the draft. They get scattered.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, let us know. Thank you man, Thank you, Nico.
Speaker 2: Good to hear from you. Yeah, Nico, Nico and Gabe.
Speaker 2: I miss those guys, Fat mic Is your regulars. These
Speaker 2: are bar castic characters.
Speaker 4: Had to have those guys who were paying attention, like
Speaker 4: to call Rick calls all the time.
Speaker 5: I was never a richer caller of a sports talk show.
Speaker 5: I don't know ever did me either, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I never did like Jay Stiller for a long time.
Speaker 4: Isn't it first time? Collar?
Speaker 11: Who?
Speaker 4: Damn collar? I've never been to an indoor game, that's
Speaker 4: true that I don't know.
Speaker 2: You'll go to your girlfriend, your wife or whatever you have? Now, gofriend,
Speaker 2: what do you you go?
Speaker 4: Friend? Can I get tickets? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I just could get We'll get on the call, trow, Yeah,
Speaker 2: call true. Right, he'll be you'll be already giving away seven.
Speaker 4: You'll be that's right though, you'll be eight and nine. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Drew Dixon, Yeah that's cool. Yeah, Okay, that's next week,
Speaker 2: not this week in San Diego.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna be playing this week. That's too bad.
Speaker 2: It was good to talk to him. I'd never really
Speaker 2: talked to to Drew Dixon.
Speaker 5: Hey, some guy named Sanders just got that's not the
Speaker 5: same family. Oh just got drafted t J. Sanders number.
Speaker 5: We're going into number forty two.
Speaker 2: Oh so they passed who got forty? Because there was
Speaker 2: a thirty three and forty were the two things. So
Speaker 2: he might continue to fall No, maybe maybe Henry was
Speaker 2: he any good?
Speaker 4: I'd like to think so, but maybe did you see
Speaker 4: him a time or two? Yeah, I'd watch a decent
Speaker 4: amount of his games. I thought was he good?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I thought he was pretty good?
Speaker 2: So maybe, well, it's time and circumstances. Like you guys said,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't think it's so. It was an
Speaker 2: overall week quarterback class, so I definitely thought he was
Speaker 2: a top three prospect.
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh didn't take a meantime, they're drafting who's isn't the
Speaker 5: guy from Louisville?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Louisville quarterback got draft? Oh really? But just now? Yeah,
Speaker 4: pick forty okay.
Speaker 2: Oh that's the next quarterback to whom New Orleans Okay.
Speaker 5: And that was one of the places they were talking
Speaker 5: about him going. But forty nine ers are coming up.
Speaker 5: All the Jets are coming up now, so that's next
Speaker 5: and then the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: I think all the factors that you guys talked about,
Speaker 2: just maybe attitude, talent, uh, the Dion factor all played
Speaker 2: a part.
Speaker 4: Do you really want to be part of that mess?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 5: But quarterbacks are funny too, because I mean, look at
Speaker 5: Tom Brady got draft in the sixth round and Brock
Speaker 5: Purdy was the last pick in the draft, and these
Speaker 5: guys all made it. So I think a lot of
Speaker 5: it's just like I said, circumstance and coaches and who
Speaker 5: somebody gets injured ahead of you, you might have opportunities
Speaker 5: opportunity to you. Just gotta get get on a team
Speaker 5: and get going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll probably talk more about this on Monday, obviously
Speaker 2: to wrap it up because today they have the thing,
Speaker 2: and then Saturday all day because they go through like
Speaker 2: five more seven I think seven rounds.
Speaker 5: Right, seven and something like that. It goes quickly on
Speaker 5: on the weekends. There's like one minute between picks. Right,
Speaker 5: it was pretty fast.
Speaker 2: Right, this is your Well, I'm not gonna you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: be in so I won't see you Friday, and then
Speaker 2: I might be gone two weeks later too, So it's
Speaker 2: gonna be slim pickings.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be me too. History.
Speaker 2: Oh you're gonna be gone to Okay, I might not
Speaker 2: see you next week because you're usually might be Tuesday. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: because one day I got to somebody in Tuesday, you'll
Speaker 2: be in Tuesday, and then Wednesday, I'm out Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 2: and then the same for the week after as we
Speaker 2: move forward, and we're good to go. Yep, but about
Speaker 2: a minute, we're good at okay, No, okay, good, thank
Speaker 2: you Henry for coming on in. Uh, this maybe the
Speaker 2: last time I see you.
Speaker 4: Henry. I'll let you know, maybe come in before I'll
Speaker 4: try to come in. Yeah, okay, you and your guys,
Speaker 4: yeah exactly.
Speaker 5: Okay, graduating, which is when May May sixteenth, So I'm okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: yeah after that, okay, okay, you're going to be in
Speaker 5: the big ceremony at the stadium.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, you already take those pictures. Everybody's taking those pictures.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I didn't do those. I had.
Speaker 5: I told you that I had a couple of years
Speaker 5: of experience of announcing names really, which was really good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really fun get those names.
Speaker 5: They'd literally hand you the name like and have like
Speaker 5: one second to look at the name and try to
Speaker 5: read it out.
Speaker 4: And you can imagine there was some time it was
Speaker 4: kind of like the WBC. It was I was prepared.
Speaker 5: It was easier to do the WBC than it was
Speaker 5: to do some Arizona names, but it was It was
Speaker 5: really fun. I did the stadium and I did Centennial
Speaker 5: Hall a couple of times, so it was a real blast.
Speaker 4: Cool. I'd butcher those names and everyone knows that. Let's go.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Dave for coming in, thank your heading for
Speaker 2: coming in, and thanks for the callers.