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Speaker 3: We have think we have a pretty good show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I saw it.
Speaker 4: I've been you know before I abandoned you. You know
Speaker 4: the golf coach at you know, the women's golf coachy.
Speaker 4: You know, we wanted to get around, but remember we could.
Speaker 4: She so dang busy, just kind of get things going
Speaker 4: when she had arrived, and then lo and behold, what
Speaker 4: the hell?
Speaker 3: Right? And all of a sudden, guess what, They're champions
Speaker 3: of the Big twelve Big Golf Champs. Wow, it's funny
Speaker 3: to me, and I said this to Blake yesterday. You
Speaker 3: know how it is when you lose a coach. You sean, Oh,
Speaker 3: who are you gonna get? The world is gonna fall?
Speaker 3: You know, we can't do this.
Speaker 2: You get Tommy uh is leaving on the whole.
Speaker 4: You ain't get how they're gonna recruit the West because
Speaker 4: they get Oh we gotta last high Nello, she went
Speaker 4: to Texas.
Speaker 2: She's done for the money. Yeah, no, we get this woman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything is always it does always fun so much
Speaker 3: hand ringing. But uh Jacobs, also, I got divorce.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, even a better woman
Speaker 2: comes over a couple of logs. I hope she's listening.
Speaker 2: My world is it? Oh? Gap? And then there's Steve. Steve,
Speaker 2: leave me alone. I don't I don't want none, I
Speaker 2: don't need none. Just leave me alone.
Speaker 4: But yeah, giovanna maman so he she's uh first year
Speaker 4: coach wins the Big twelve and the first and it's
Speaker 4: did I see it is right? The the school's first
Speaker 4: Big twelve championship?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, well overall right first among all
Speaker 2: the sports. Nice give her a race, okay, give her
Speaker 2: a million? Two a year. The hold of the desert.
Speaker 2: You know, I saw, I saw I saw. I saw
Speaker 2: the basketball coaches a term shee it's way less well
Speaker 2: she gets half, yeah, at least less than half.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, no, you know, go yeah, She's gonna
Speaker 4: be fine. We're gonna win some games. I saw that
Speaker 4: they we got a commitment from a player who can shoot,
Speaker 4: who shoots forty eight percent from three point range.
Speaker 2: I'm gonnay put on the men's team.
Speaker 3: Holy hell yeah, right, you know, yeah, I think the
Speaker 3: two are gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: They just gotta wait for Brian to see what happens
Speaker 2: with Carter. Brann looks.
Speaker 4: I don't know if this is the conversation when to
Speaker 4: go intright now. But you know, if Carter Brian comes back,
Speaker 4: they can be great. Yes, if he doesn't come back,
Speaker 4: they're still really damn.
Speaker 3: It be very good, right right, And again they have
Speaker 3: to play together, right, there's only one ball with a
Speaker 3: lot of good players, so we'll see how that meshes.
Speaker 3: But I think they have more weapons this year or
Speaker 3: coming in this year, and the one thing they didn't
Speaker 3: have last year, with a lot of offensive weapons.
Speaker 2: Yes, different offense right right.
Speaker 4: You know, it's gonna be interesting to see how the
Speaker 4: pieces fit, you know, with a walk of staying mo
Speaker 4: crevious and see you know, if he if he's healthy
Speaker 4: and and it turns out to be what they hoped
Speaker 4: he was going to be. This last year, you know
Speaker 4: kJ has gone. How does that affect the the backcourt?
Speaker 4: But you know you got you got guys, right, you
Speaker 4: know you think you got guys with the five star
Speaker 4: recruits that he got.
Speaker 2: So I you know, look, the buzz I'm hearing is
Speaker 2: that people are happy. Oh sure, we talked about this yesterday, Jay.
Speaker 3: And you know through the years, over the last forty
Speaker 3: two years since Stuke got here, how many times have
Speaker 3: you said this team is not going to be very good?
Speaker 2: Yeah? How many times? Maybe twice? People were saying that
Speaker 2: about this last team at the end of December, that
Speaker 2: going to be very good.
Speaker 4: Ya.
Speaker 2: I was one of them that it wasn't very good.
Speaker 3: And I think I continue to say that throughout they
Speaker 3: got beat a few times. What they did in my
Speaker 3: mind and I'm sure many people, they redeemed themselves in
Speaker 3: the final three weeks four weeks maybe where they set
Speaker 3: a rallying and playing better, did really well in the
Speaker 3: Big twelve and you thought more about more of them
Speaker 3: through the run.
Speaker 4: Right, right, Well, that was it. And you know, and
Speaker 4: what you saw was that Tommy really had to do
Speaker 4: a coaching job. I mean, he had to coach. He
Speaker 4: had to figure things out. You know, the last teams,
Speaker 4: a couple of teams he had before that, they were
Speaker 4: who they were out of the box, and that's who
Speaker 4: they were all year long. He knew that they couldn't
Speaker 4: continue being who they were in November and December, and
Speaker 4: he worked and he worked on it, and it evolved
Speaker 4: and by the end of the year and look, and
Speaker 4: he got to the sweet sixteen, which if you'd have
Speaker 4: said sweet sixteen in December, people would have.
Speaker 2: Laughed at you. Right after the four and five start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think before that four and five or
Speaker 3: you thought at least league right, because you thought that
Speaker 3: the pieces fit together and they looked good that they
Speaker 3: would fit together.
Speaker 2: Uh. But you know what you like the season?
Speaker 3: Like the season if you're gonna if I'm gonna evaluate
Speaker 3: the season like I just did.
Speaker 2: I think that.
Speaker 3: Caleb loves final year and died the same way. He's
Speaker 3: not that good. What happened, He's not doing really well?
Speaker 3: What's going Oh, he's doing really well, doing really well.
Speaker 4: And then he edited with a flat, and then you're thinking, god,
Speaker 4: he was pretty good.
Speaker 2: He was. Do you forget about the people have fallen
Speaker 2: in love with him so much?
Speaker 4: No, No, I'm right all those people who at the
Speaker 4: beginning of the year were crapping all over the guy,
Speaker 4: even saying I wish he hadn't come back, remember, which
Speaker 4: I was just incredulous that he had.
Speaker 2: The Big twelve player and PAC twelve player of the year.
Speaker 4: And he said I'd rather he not come back, right,
Speaker 4: and and and he just said, you guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And he was fine. I mean, he was great.
Speaker 3: Come on, who played better in the last stretch here?
Speaker 2: Yea, yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: So, you know, good for him, and I'm happy that,
Speaker 4: you know, his legacy here will be of having been
Speaker 4: a really good player.
Speaker 2: You're exactly right, you know, I won't remember that other thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, they'll forget now that how much they
Speaker 4: really didn't want him to be around.
Speaker 2: No. No, he ended fine.
Speaker 3: And then Tommy did too, that kind of rehab the
Speaker 3: whole year, and then they finished Sweet sixteen. And well,
Speaker 3: here was another thing, the Duke game. Had they tanked
Speaker 3: it lost.
Speaker 2: They were a different converse.
Speaker 3: It would be a different they would say all these guys,
Speaker 3: but they played hard, they played tough, they rallied to
Speaker 3: almost kind of get in it again.
Speaker 2: And they played them better than everybody but Houston. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so there was that, you know. I like the whole season.
Speaker 2: It was kind of god good, but it was fun.
Speaker 2: And again it was fun.
Speaker 4: The big twelfth season was really fun, just like we
Speaker 4: predicted it was going to be. Yeah, with all the
Speaker 4: great games, great home games, competitive home games.
Speaker 2: You know, just just have a word for it.
Speaker 4: I guess I can't say it on the radio, but
Speaker 4: just everything was so tight, right, yeah, these games.
Speaker 3: Just what next year is going to be even better? Yeah,
Speaker 3: with better teams coming in and they're going there.
Speaker 2: The schedule he's put together, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be fun, the good old days, just like
Speaker 4: a good well and you know, and again it goes
Speaker 4: through what we've been saying. I'll play these games, right,
Speaker 4: play Yukon, play Auburn, play Alabama. Plays play these games
Speaker 4: because at the end of the year, when you're being evaluated,
Speaker 4: if you play those games, then lose them, it's better
Speaker 4: than not playing them and beating some other crap teams.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 3: I got an email or a message from one of
Speaker 3: the one of my readers or whatever and friends.
Speaker 2: He said, Now, do you feel good that they're playing
Speaker 2: these teams? I've always felt that.
Speaker 3: I've always felt that it wasn't like the Shawn years
Speaker 3: where he'd play a bunch of the under NAU teams
Speaker 3: and then have these great records. And this is maybe
Speaker 3: a shot at him or maybe not a shot at
Speaker 3: a Sean.
Speaker 4: But he won a lot of games, no question, But
Speaker 4: he didn't play these types of games, right. They were
Speaker 4: few and far between, which maybe the time for Arizona
Speaker 4: basketball that was just not as much fun.
Speaker 2: No, go ahead, No, we had a ton of fun
Speaker 2: last year. Fun.
Speaker 3: I'll give you twelve years of basketball of under Seawan.
Speaker 3: Maybe three of those years were fun, Yeah, the first
Speaker 3: the Elite eight. Yeah, when they ran the twenty eleventeen,
Speaker 3: and then they went to fourteen and fifteen years and
Speaker 3: then got beat by Wisconsin. But those were fun until
Speaker 3: then and then it started to then it started to
Speaker 3: win right.
Speaker 4: Well, just you know, there wasn't really a lot to
Speaker 4: look forward to going to McHale. I mean, how many
Speaker 4: games that I'm walking into McHale, you know, taking that
Speaker 4: walk from where we park over there by the tennis courts. Yeah,
Speaker 4: through the arch and getting to mccalle going, I'm really
Speaker 4: excited for this.
Speaker 3: Game, right you were this year though, yea, yeah, even
Speaker 3: you have to go back to the current time or
Speaker 3: two a couple of times to rethink.
Speaker 2: But you know, and you know.
Speaker 4: Just how many times I thought, this is this one's
Speaker 4: gonna be fun tonight, even though it's a nine o'clock game,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know there was a lot of that this.
Speaker 3: I'm sure my boy here had a lot of fun
Speaker 3: too in his final year. Oh yeah, yeah, best game
Speaker 3: Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: I think it's got to be. I was sick.
Speaker 3: I always say that's that's what I love. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: what did you think about love?
Speaker 2: Finally? What did you think? And then what'd you think later?
Speaker 5: I never even when he was off to a bet start,
Speaker 5: I kind of knew, like eventually you get going. So,
Speaker 5: I mean, he was so good. He was literally the
Speaker 5: pack to a Player of the Year. Like you said,
Speaker 5: I don't I think fans jumped on him a little
Speaker 5: bit too much because they saw Snon on Arizona State,
Speaker 5: who they were going to get, who he was doing well, so.
Speaker 2: They kind of jumped on love for that, but that
Speaker 2: changed too exactly.
Speaker 4: And also think it was a little bit of a
Speaker 4: hangover from how he finished last season, you know, the
Speaker 4: season before, disappointment with you know, how bad he was,
Speaker 4: you know, down the stretch at the at the end
Speaker 4: of the twenty four season, so people kind of had
Speaker 4: a bad feeling going in and then he came out
Speaker 4: of the box not not looking great. And then the
Speaker 4: next thing, you know, he's carrying them to you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, they had a shot to win the league.
Speaker 4: You know, they had they beat Houston right then. It
Speaker 4: was a very good game, and had their shot at him.
Speaker 4: But you know, look at who.
Speaker 3: Look at who Houston ended up being. What are you
Speaker 3: talking about, Arizona. Arizona didn't beat Houston. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: They had a shot at you know, had they had
Speaker 4: they had they beaten Houston in.
Speaker 2: The regular season, they might have won the league.
Speaker 3: Right And I think too not this is a good
Speaker 3: thing or a bad thing.
Speaker 4: But Tommy kind of grew up too. He became more cranky,
Speaker 4: He became more didn't he.
Speaker 5: Henry that clip of him against Houston when he's yelling
Speaker 5: at Carter Bryan to like hold on to the ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, well that was manufactor.
Speaker 4: But even in the press room with with with us,
Speaker 4: you know, he was a little cranky inside.
Speaker 2: You know who the kicker kick.
Speaker 4: You know, he was more he was more uh more animated,
Speaker 4: which is good, which is a good thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and again, you know, as good as he's been,
Speaker 4: I think that's had made people forget this is only
Speaker 4: his fourth years ahead as the head basketball coach, you know,
Speaker 4: And I find me other head basketball coaches who have
Speaker 4: accomplished as much in that amount of time.
Speaker 2: Here's the side of John Shire. Here's the problem with that, Jake.
Speaker 3: So they've gone to three four sweet sixteens and a
Speaker 3: first round loss, all his major upper and you still think,
Speaker 3: you still hear the people right, well, what's he done?
Speaker 2: What's what's he done? Right? Is that good enough anymore?
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll see.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens when they come back next year,
Speaker 3: and then I'll kind of a whole start over with
Speaker 3: the with the women's basketball program. We'll try to get
Speaker 3: ahold of her Burke here some of the time when
Speaker 3: she's less busy, which means what next year.
Speaker 2: She's not getting players man and hiring assistant coaches, right,
Speaker 2: and Brozi's coming back. Yeah, that's a you know what,
Speaker 2: that's a great hire. Not it is a great heart.
Speaker 2: Not just because of Loot's legacy and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: She had what seventeen years and as an assistant in
Speaker 4: the WNBA.
Speaker 2: She can coach and yeah, and she was been there,
Speaker 2: done that at this level.
Speaker 3: Here, right, she played here, she's you know, she's she's
Speaker 3: an experienced coach, somebody who knows the layout here, the
Speaker 3: lay of the land, probably has you know, a good
Speaker 3: feel for you know, boosters and fans and recruiting this
Speaker 3: recruiting in the area and all of that, and you know,
Speaker 3: and then she can attract players and say, look, I
Speaker 3: can help get you to the n w NBA because
Speaker 3: I know what it takes to be in the w
Speaker 3: n b A.
Speaker 2: Those things help, right, surely don't hurt. And if you
Speaker 2: have somebody inside the house.
Speaker 4: I mean, how how much did that help Jed Fish
Speaker 4: right with all the guys that he had here, all
Speaker 4: these guys from the NFL and whatnot. Why else would
Speaker 4: people come here to to play for a tennis player
Speaker 4: you have good at the end of the day, You're right,
Speaker 4: this is Broadcasting Seattle.
Speaker 2: It can we can, Well, that's all right.
Speaker 4: We'll we'll we'll text the we'll text the podcast linked
Speaker 4: to Jed.
Speaker 2: We'll go on the n.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna get to the women's golf coach Saturday.
Speaker 4: Giovanna. I guess it's Maimon, right, Maimon. She's from Spain. Okay, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.
Speaker 4: I get those all the time. This is just called
Speaker 4: Golf of Spain. Google it, Yeah, see where it's at.
Speaker 3: And then we're gonna get to some update on football
Speaker 3: because you are you gonna be there.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go tomorrow. But I'm gonna go there tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell's going on because I
Speaker 2: haven't been out there.
Speaker 4: It's a party, so Justin will be out there and
Speaker 4: kind of let us know what's going on tomorrow. It's
Speaker 4: a practice with a bunch of with a bunch of
Speaker 4: with a bunch of fan events and beer on the field.
Speaker 2: So they were made for years of beer garden. It's big.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely going. It should be fun. Okay, so let's
Speaker 4: take a break. Get ahold of the Giovanni.
Speaker 2: Giovanna.
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Speaker 1: Streaming live on the iHeartRadio AB. This is I on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Ramira on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Win in the Ball. Here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty, I'm Steve Rivera. In today's jagan Zels.
Speaker 3: Now in the ful, we have Giovanna Maymond, the Arizona
Speaker 3: Women's golf coach, champions of the Big twelve almost s.
Speaker 8: Hello, Hello, go cat good Cato, I mean I'm doing great. Right.
Speaker 2: How does that sound right?
Speaker 8: I know, unbelievable right now. I think it hasn't sunking,
Speaker 8: especially after a three way play, let me tell you that. So,
Speaker 8: I mean, it just sounds amazing. I think just making
Speaker 8: history and being the first team to win a victor championship,
Speaker 8: it's it's been so special for us.
Speaker 3: We're starting to go fundme place a thing for you
Speaker 3: to say, get the statue going, that'll be nice. Yeah,
Speaker 3: when you first got here just a few months ago,
Speaker 3: what were you thinking, Okay, I gotta do this to
Speaker 3: establish myself and the team.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know it all, you take it day
Speaker 8: by day. I think that's that's what you need to
Speaker 8: focus on. Just you come in, you try to set
Speaker 8: up a culture, but really blending I think your first
Speaker 8: year it's a little tough because you just have the
Speaker 8: kids that you have, you know it, and setting up
Speaker 8: a culture depends a lot on getting to know your kids.
Speaker 8: And when I got here, I mean, obviously like we
Speaker 8: had a lot of success at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 8: but golf comes and goes, and every sport comes and goes.
Speaker 8: We've had an okay spring, but we never I mean
Speaker 8: we never got our heads down. We always kept fighting.
Speaker 8: We always got better, and we knew that the process
Speaker 8: was gonna get in Like we were seeing results, it
Speaker 8: was just not clear in any tournament. And finally on
Speaker 8: this one he was, you know, the girls do really
Speaker 8: well when we're on TV. We were like, you know, girls,
Speaker 8: last round, we're on TV. I think it means something.
Speaker 8: We've been on TV at Falls of Honor, We've been
Speaker 8: on TVs and Andrews, we're on TV at Big Tall,
Speaker 8: So I think this means something. And there you go.
Speaker 4: Well, let me ask you, because you made the step
Speaker 4: from an assistant coach at Texas A and M to
Speaker 4: the head coach at Arizona. A couple of things there. One,
Speaker 4: you were going to an unfamiliar place. But then this
Speaker 4: big step of going from an assistant to a head coach?
Speaker 4: Was that ever intimidating to you when maybe you were
Speaker 4: away from the office or away from the golf course
Speaker 4: thinking about what you were trying to do personally or
Speaker 4: professionally as a coach. To take this step, like I said,
Speaker 4: in a different place and you know, moving up, what
Speaker 4: was that like for you?
Speaker 8: I mean, definitely intimidating. I would be lying if I
Speaker 8: didn't say it. But this is what I worked so
Speaker 8: hard for as an assistant and as a player in golf,
Speaker 8: and everything I worked for was right there. And not
Speaker 8: because it's scared you're not taking that opportunity. You're if
Speaker 8: this is your dream, You're going to get the opportunity
Speaker 8: one day and you just got to take it and go.
Speaker 8: And it's not that I really changed my coaching style.
Speaker 8: I really don't think I changed from an assistant to
Speaker 8: a head coach. You just have a little bit different responsibilities.
Speaker 8: You're not the go to with the kids, you're more
Speaker 8: than intimidating person. The head Everything falls on you. Now know,
Speaker 8: you kind of question every decision now more. You like
Speaker 8: your staff is everything. For me, my assistant coach is
Speaker 8: like to go in everything. I mean, that's the number
Speaker 8: one thing, having a staff that you trust one hundred percent.
Speaker 8: And and for me that was probably the hardest decision
Speaker 8: to make and get right because I think I'm a
Speaker 8: coach that goes a lot with energy, and the energy
Speaker 8: that we put goes a lot to our players, So
Speaker 8: that will step in to step one. And definitely as
Speaker 8: an assistant, you really start seeing a lot you don't.
Speaker 8: You really don't know when you're an assistant to the
Speaker 8: head coach and to see them in responsibilities. The pressure,
Speaker 8: but at the end of the day, you really have
Speaker 8: to focus on what you have in front of you.
Speaker 8: I mean, the pressure of winning a championship is gonna
Speaker 8: come if you do things the way I mean, it's
Speaker 8: just the way you believe in them. So the effort,
Speaker 8: the energy that every day, the really spending time caring
Speaker 8: for these kids every day and developing them. I mean,
Speaker 8: I think we came back from our last tournament that
Speaker 8: we didn't have the best performance, and none of these
Speaker 8: kids took a day off. I mean, they were all
Speaker 8: practicing the day after. We're like, we have a championship
Speaker 8: to win, coach, We're gonna get better. So I think
Speaker 8: that just tells you a lot of the culture that
Speaker 8: we build. But just I mean, it's inundating. There's a
Speaker 8: lot of new things, but I think I've always been
Speaker 8: someone that is not afraid to ask questions. The move
Speaker 8: was hard, like everything I've never lived in Arizona, but
Speaker 8: you just take it day by day and I was
Speaker 8: very happy to have a lot of great people here
Speaker 8: that welcomed me. Great and it's really felt like a
Speaker 8: family for me.
Speaker 3: They always ask the coaches that we kind of really
Speaker 3: don't know, and we've been Jena, been here forever. What
Speaker 3: do you think your secret sauce is to being who
Speaker 3: you are as a coach?
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 8: I think it comes a lot with how much I
Speaker 8: love what I do and how much I give that
Speaker 8: to a player. The energy I bring. I mean, it
Speaker 8: doesn't matter if I'm having a bad day, or if
Speaker 8: something happened personally, or if maybe I'm dealing with the
Speaker 8: budget cart or cut or whatever happens in athletics nowadays
Speaker 8: that we don't have any control over. I really don't
Speaker 8: let that affect how I behave with my kids, and
Speaker 8: I never let that yeah to get them. So I think,
Speaker 8: like my energy in and out, it doesn't matter what's
Speaker 8: happening on the outside, I have no control over. That
Speaker 8: is something that I would say that who defines me
Speaker 8: just my positive energy, my just happiness, how much I
Speaker 8: enjoy this, how much I really want to get better
Speaker 8: with the kids, and just I love I love what
Speaker 8: I do, I love coaching, and I to me, what
Speaker 8: was the best part about this week was just seeing
Speaker 8: them do better in what we've been working on the
Speaker 8: whole year. You know, we've seen a little bit of
Speaker 8: better things, but I mean we also gave away some things.
Speaker 8: You know, we shout I'm nineteen over As a team,
Speaker 8: it was a really hard course, but we just saw
Speaker 8: a lot of things better from every key and maturity
Speaker 8: and just getting better through the year. And not to
Speaker 8: me is why I do this? So just the energy,
Speaker 8: the happiness, what I speak to my kids, I think
Speaker 8: that could be the secret salt. I mean, think I
Speaker 8: have anything I would love to say, you know is this,
Speaker 8: But I really just think my energy and smile and
Speaker 8: what I bring in and they never feel like I'm
Speaker 8: stressed or never even though I'm dying inside. I think
Speaker 8: that's very important.
Speaker 4: You can say that no one listens to us, so
Speaker 4: no one knows that it's still a secret. Well, let
Speaker 4: me ask you this, because you know, every coach has
Speaker 4: their style, Every coach has you know, the way they
Speaker 4: do things, and you probably learned from a lot of
Speaker 4: different people. But as a as a coach of a
Speaker 4: major college program, it is gonna sound like very simple.
Speaker 2: But what do you coach?
Speaker 4: Right? I mean, all these all these players, I'm sure
Speaker 4: they grew up. Some of them probably grew up with
Speaker 4: swing coaches and different coaches.
Speaker 2: What do you coach?
Speaker 4: What do you see as your job at this level
Speaker 4: to make these girls better, both individually and as a team.
Speaker 2: How do you do that? How do you go about that?
Speaker 8: I mean, of course you coach a lot more than
Speaker 8: you probably people think this is a sport that is
Speaker 8: very individual. At the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 8: you never plus a team. Everybody's playing their own ball,
Speaker 8: their own game, so you kind of have to tackle
Speaker 8: the sport a little bit individually in a way, like
Speaker 8: everybody needs to work on different things. A lot of
Speaker 8: these kids have their own golf coaches, so you kind
Speaker 8: of work in hand with them, but you're their eyes
Speaker 8: in their ears, so you honestly have to build a
Speaker 8: really good relationships with their coaches and the kids so
Speaker 8: they can trust you as well. But there's a lot
Speaker 8: more development that goes on here. I mean, from getting
Speaker 8: them the right equipment, from feeding them, from getting the
Speaker 8: right numbers. The course management part is the biggest part
Speaker 8: probably and just making I'm gonna be on women's golf
Speaker 8: if they feel good, they've played good, so it's all
Speaker 8: about how they feel if they feel good, if things
Speaker 8: are going okay, like just things out of their control.
Speaker 8: They let them affect them a lot, so you can
Speaker 8: help them navigate through that. But to me as a coach,
Speaker 8: it's helped me a lot to go out there and
Speaker 8: see a lot of I mean my former players that
Speaker 8: I've had on tours that just go to watch them,
Speaker 8: spend a day with them. You know, why do my
Speaker 8: kids need to be the best player in the world.
Speaker 8: What are we like just teach them all of these
Speaker 8: little things? How do we get better every day? So
Speaker 8: I think the coaching part there's a lot more going
Speaker 8: on and going through stats, going through like okay, a
Speaker 8: little better here. I mean sometimes the golf clubs move
Speaker 8: and you need to change lives lost and all these
Speaker 8: little things that take they honestly matter a lot in
Speaker 8: a game that.
Speaker 14: You put a little ball in a hole. And so
Speaker 14: we do a lot more with coaching.
Speaker 8: But I feel like coach psychology his mom all at
Speaker 8: the same time.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, did you did you see I'm sure every
Speaker 3: coach said will say yes, but did you see this
Speaker 3: potential in the in the girls a few months ago
Speaker 3: that this could possibly happen?
Speaker 8: I did you know. I really did. I always thought
Speaker 8: the conference championship was there. I think the for us,
Speaker 8: the team to beat was Arizona State rund number eighth.
Speaker 8: We were against them a couple of times this year,
Speaker 8: but I thought we had it in it. We were
Speaker 8: going to We've performed pretty well on courses that are
Speaker 8: really tough. We knew Houston Oak because they've won with
Speaker 8: not i mean a lot of strokes last couple of years.
Speaker 8: So we were like, this is our chance, you know,
Speaker 8: we just need to be the toughest team, the last
Speaker 8: prepared team out there. We were seeing a lot of
Speaker 8: progress from our girls week to week. It was just
Speaker 8: slowly getting there, and nobody was no There were no
Speaker 8: five at the same time we had one or two.
Speaker 8: But we always saw it coming. It was always something reachable.
Speaker 8: We just really had to take care of our business
Speaker 8: and not focus on anybody else. But we always saw it.
Speaker 8: I mean, these are the same kits that we start
Speaker 8: off and want two tournaments in the fall. So it's
Speaker 8: not that it's something different. It's just golf really comes
Speaker 8: and goes sometimes. But it's just a matter of like
Speaker 8: focusing on what in the process and getting better every day,
Speaker 8: but it was always possible. But definitely it's definitely something
Speaker 8: special that even though you can see it until you
Speaker 8: get it, it's incredible.
Speaker 3: So Jay and I have been doing this for a
Speaker 3: long time, and I'm gonna throw this at you because
Speaker 3: we talk about this every now and again. He thinks
Speaker 3: them full of it, and I think he's full of it.
Speaker 3: Do you okay, so you win this thing? You win
Speaker 3: this thing. I don't believe in momentum. He believes in momentum.
Speaker 3: Now you have what I like to say a nice run.
Speaker 3: I won't call it momentum. Do you believe in that
Speaker 3: momentum will carry you forward? Or is it like every
Speaker 3: gay every match is a different match and you have
Speaker 3: to prepare for that match. Does that it might explain
Speaker 3: it all right?
Speaker 8: I mean I do, I do create it. I do
Speaker 8: believe in momentum, but I believe in momentum more in
Speaker 8: a round of golf rather than like I mean, honestly anything,
Speaker 8: Like we have conference championship was now we have two
Speaker 8: weeks for regionals and then two weeks for Nationals. That's
Speaker 8: a month and a half away. You know, there's there's
Speaker 8: a lot of changes there. But I think a lot
Speaker 8: of these kids had they saw a lot of good
Speaker 8: things in their games that build confidence. So I think
Speaker 8: the confidence if there can build a little bit of
Speaker 8: momentum POSITIVT. But but I mean tomorrow we need to
Speaker 8: start off practice again because we have regionals. I mean
Speaker 8: that's the hard part about sports. It's you win something
Speaker 8: and then you're the next day, you're on the next one,
Speaker 8: on the next one, and that's that's how it is.
Speaker 8: So I yes, yeah, especially for golf. I mean Rory
Speaker 8: won the Masters and then the next next week he's
Speaker 8: playing another tournament.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So when you when you think of it that way,
Speaker 4: you know, how do you keep those that confidence we're
Speaker 4: confidence confidence if you want to call it confidence, if
Speaker 4: you want to call momentum when you have such a
Speaker 4: gap between when you play, because I mean, look, I'm
Speaker 4: not a good golf I'm an okay golfer. But I'll
Speaker 4: go out and I'll shoot seventy nine one day and
Speaker 4: then I'll shoot ninety eight the next day. You know,
Speaker 4: I mean, how do you know, you you're coming off
Speaker 4: this championship, you want to keep that feeling, But how
Speaker 4: do you do that with such a gap between when
Speaker 4: you play.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's not easy. We don't even know
Speaker 8: where we're going to regionals. You know, it's but at
Speaker 8: the end of the day, every course is going to
Speaker 8: be like, hey, good shots, make good puts, keeps are
Speaker 8: with his dreams. So it doesn't matter where we go,
Speaker 8: but just keeping that confidence and moment it goes to
Speaker 8: everyday things. I mean, we're having a team meeting, We're
Speaker 8: meeting with every kid individually. What do we do great?
Speaker 8: How can we keep that great going? What do we
Speaker 8: lack on? How do we work on that in the
Speaker 8: next two weeks? How do we get better in these
Speaker 8: areas a little bit? I mean even on the last
Speaker 8: day of the tournament, we played really bad our Part
Speaker 8: three the first two days really bad, and we were
Speaker 8: didn't think the first team was fitting us by nineteen
Speaker 8: shots on Part three only, and you know, we went
Speaker 8: to the range. We worked for two hours that came
Speaker 8: around and we only played the Part three is in
Speaker 8: our head. We literally play them on the range. What
Speaker 8: are you gonna hit? Where are you going to bounce it?
Speaker 8: Just play them? And so all that strategy comes into
Speaker 8: these two weeks and staying competitive. I mean we're staying
Speaker 8: and we're I.
Speaker 14: Mean, some of our girls are doing U with open qualifiers.
Speaker 8: So they're staying in golf. I think the most important
Speaker 8: thing you should do is just staying competitive and playing
Speaker 8: so qualifying, playing against each other. You're keeping their games
Speaker 8: sharp and just working on those strengths and the things
Speaker 8: that we had really good, keep them good, and just
Speaker 8: those things that lack just get them a little better,
Speaker 8: but just build on. I hope that answered the question
Speaker 8: a little bit. Goals can come and go.
Speaker 4: But it does, as you said, it does come and
Speaker 4: go from sometimes from one holder the next, the next,
Speaker 4: and certainly when you're talking about a two week gap,
Speaker 4: it can. It can be all different when you guys
Speaker 4: show up at the regional.
Speaker 8: No, yeah, I mean it's you see it on too
Speaker 8: all the time. Every It's not all we will have
Speaker 8: one winner every week, you know, or like Victor Hoblin
Speaker 8: is the cutting one week and then one the next week.
Speaker 8: Thank you. This is how crazy these sport is so
Speaker 8: but we cannot control that right now. We cannot control
Speaker 8: what's going to happen or how the teams all their
Speaker 8: teams are going to perform or that. But we can
Speaker 8: definitely do a resting today at getting better tomorrow doing
Speaker 8: like and I think that's what we've done good the.
Speaker 14: Process that we built and one bad day doesn't define you.
Speaker 8: It doesn't. It just a learning experience. We move on.
Speaker 8: I mean even this experience with huge experience of us.
Speaker 8: I mean we were we thought we gave it away
Speaker 8: the whole week. The girls played amazing, but we shot
Speaker 8: like seven eight over on the last couple holes every day. Yeah,
Speaker 8: the so we thought we give it. Even the last day,
Speaker 8: we thought we give it away. But everybody was finishing.
Speaker 8: We didn't know what was happening. We were waiting, and
Speaker 8: I told my girls, you guys know, like I don't know.
Speaker 14: We might have a chance. We can't do anything about
Speaker 14: it right now.
Speaker 8: But let's take it. If we get it, let's go
Speaker 8: warm up. Let's heat balls.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: No, if we do great, If not, I mean it's fine.
Speaker 14: We warmed up.
Speaker 8: We need more balls, but prepare. Don't just be waiting
Speaker 8: for something to happen. Let's just get ready. And and
Speaker 8: we did, I mean we did. We were ready for
Speaker 8: the playoff. We went three way playoff. You never know
Speaker 8: what can happen. I mean, these kids TCU four part
Speaker 8: of the last hole or alcohola station is with two bogies,
Speaker 8: like it happens. It's all so it doesn't end until
Speaker 8: it's a great learning experience for us. All that, every shot,
Speaker 8: every kid, everything matters, everything does we.
Speaker 2: It was great to talk to you.
Speaker 3: In fact, I'm gonna get yelled at if I don't
Speaker 3: say hello for Camille Reeves, she says to yallow, So
Speaker 3: good luck to you. I'm sure she's taking care of
Speaker 3: you in a nice way.
Speaker 8: So good luck, thank you so much, and thank you
Speaker 8: for having me on and very down and go.
Speaker 2: Cat good luck the rest of the way. Thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you. That was Giovanna Maimon.
Speaker 4: You know, she kept calling them kids, and I'm looking
Speaker 4: she's looking at her bio. She's been out of college
Speaker 4: seven years. She's only a little bit older than some
Speaker 4: of those players. But we should have maybe asked you
Speaker 4: because because she's young, right then, how that helps you know?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, well that well, you know we were
Speaker 4: run we were running along on time. Because it's mentioned
Speaker 4: in her bio that Rhino at Choa, you know, obviously
Speaker 4: one of the all time Arizona greats was her hero,
Speaker 4: and that's probably where she caught the golf bug, right.
Speaker 4: I've seen somebody like Rana who you know, was a
Speaker 4: big hero and not only in too, somebody in Mexico
Speaker 4: and as a professional golfer. And you know what I
Speaker 4: was going to ask was, if Leon Choy isn't.
Speaker 2: Around, are you? Are you in golf right back?
Speaker 4: Maybe we you know, we do that another time, win
Speaker 4: a national championship or something.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get her over sure. I just like Josh Passer,
Speaker 2: that's easy. We'll do it again. Exactly. Let's take a
Speaker 2: break and come back.
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Speaker 3: ready for some calls. Five to zero, four, one, seventy four, forty.
Speaker 3: Good to hear from you if you can. What's going
Speaker 3: on this weekend games? NBA starts today and again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well the playoffs are going Showy, his wife is
Speaker 4: having a baby.
Speaker 3: Oh no, Dodger, I thought I had.
Speaker 2: I forgot about this. It just got announced.
Speaker 4: If you're if you're a Texas Rangers fan and you
Speaker 4: bought tickets to the weekend series with the Dodgers, you're
Speaker 4: disappointed because show hey got a left behind. He's not
Speaker 4: coming to the game. Did you see the homer he
Speaker 4: hit I think day before yesterday. Not all of us
Speaker 4: are Dodger fan. Well, he hit it to the back
Speaker 4: of the right field pavilion. It was really far and
Speaker 4: it was it was a launch. It was one of
Speaker 4: those where you thought he hit that too high to
Speaker 4: go out, and it just was all the way to
Speaker 4: the back of the right field.
Speaker 2: In fact, who are the end of the league?
Speaker 4: And then they were in third place last night chet Yeah,
Speaker 4: they went on a little stretcher after they went eight
Speaker 4: and No, they went like six and six after well,
Speaker 4: one of our listeners, guy you know, said, next time
Speaker 4: you have money, ask him how he feels about being
Speaker 4: in third place.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with it. I'm fine with it.
Speaker 4: It's a long season and the Dodger is still the
Speaker 4: best team, so I'm not You know, look, if you're
Speaker 4: if you're a baseball fan and you follow a team
Speaker 4: and you're pissed off because they're in third place right now,
Speaker 4: you gotta, you gotta, you gotta figure yourself out because
Speaker 4: that's this is so far. Unless you're a White Sox fan,
Speaker 4: you know, his season's not over.
Speaker 2: Henry, call nine one one for me.
Speaker 4: This is not ja so much hit dab ja. He's
Speaker 4: being pregnatic. He's never been pregnantic.
Speaker 2: I will say.
Speaker 4: There's a guy in the breakfast club that I work
Speaker 4: with that, you know, when the Dodgers were they were
Speaker 4: six and oh and it went to me, I said,
Speaker 4: they're going one hundred and sixty two and oh and
Speaker 4: he just laughed.
Speaker 2: And I haven't seen him since then.
Speaker 4: So hasn't given me a crap about the fact that
Speaker 4: I think they're fourteen and six.
Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, yeah, is that happened. Yeah, they're in Texas.
Speaker 4: They're they're they're Yeah, they're at Texas. They just finished
Speaker 4: the home series. They're on the road for for a
Speaker 4: little bit. You know what, I'm just side conversation.
Speaker 2: I really don't like.
Speaker 4: Just everybody plays everybody, you know, American and there's no
Speaker 4: American league.
Speaker 2: In National League anymore, right, everybody plays every old school.
Speaker 4: I really wish it was, you know, one or the
Speaker 4: other than the two champs play at the end of
Speaker 4: the year.
Speaker 2: You gotta go play everybody. I don't like that they
Speaker 2: I mean, the.
Speaker 4: Dodgers, just the fact that they're playing at the Rangers.
Speaker 2: They shouldn't be playing the Rangers.
Speaker 4: They should be playing but this is this has been
Speaker 4: going on for a couple of years. But they should
Speaker 4: be playing the Reds and and the Mets and the
Speaker 4: Astro no Astros in the American League now the Mets,
Speaker 4: and you know, you know what I'm saying, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: I just I get I get a little nostalgic for
Speaker 4: that when I see, I mean, the Dodgers open their
Speaker 4: home season against the Detroit Tigers. What the hell are
Speaker 4: they doing playing the Detroit Tigers. Henry, do we sell
Speaker 4: like gold dudes?
Speaker 5: Who just you know, I agree, though, I think that
Speaker 5: I don't like how they limited the division games, right,
Speaker 5: you only play your division like thirteen times?
Speaker 2: Oh good?
Speaker 4: I mean every year the Dodgers would open against the Giants,
Speaker 4: the Reds, the Padres and like a meaningful series games
Speaker 4: like they want to played two games in Japan against
Speaker 4: the Cubs, which, okay, you got to play the Cubs anyways,
Speaker 4: they're nationally. But then you come home and you start
Speaker 4: your your home season, you start your you know, and
Speaker 4: it's the Tigers.
Speaker 2: What are we doing playing the Tigers? Well, you beat
Speaker 2: the crap out of the Yeah they did. Why aren't
Speaker 2: they playing the Giants?
Speaker 4: Why aren't they opening against the Giants or the Padres
Speaker 4: or you know, even the crap ass Rockies.
Speaker 2: You know, get a get ahold of the commissioners.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it just you know, and and for me,
Speaker 4: that's a that's a lot of why I think the
Speaker 4: America the All Star Game has lost its luster too,
Speaker 4: because there's no rivalry between the two leagues and where
Speaker 4: you play everybody. And I'm just again, you know, we're
Speaker 4: gonna die eventually and nobody will be talking about this anymore.
Speaker 2: But I don't I really don't like that at all,
Speaker 2: even a little bit. When you said I don't like it,
Speaker 2: I was waiting for it.
Speaker 4: Could have been you could have gone anywhere. Okay, I
Speaker 4: get it, Okay, Steve, those are things that are in
Speaker 4: my mind right now.
Speaker 2: Yes, you need to go back on the show. It's
Speaker 2: baseball season.
Speaker 4: All my wallpapers oh wait, wait, wait, go ahead.
Speaker 2: All my wallpapers are Dodger Stadium. By the way.
Speaker 3: By the way, you haven't seen you since the Final four.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to take you for you to take
Speaker 3: me to dinner.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4: We Well, if you had had a show last week,
Speaker 4: we could have gone last week.
Speaker 2: I gotta take it out Sea Snake. Yeah, that game
Speaker 2: was fantastic. What a game, What a game. I wasn't
Speaker 2: sure I was gonna win it, but I'm glad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know it was funny because my wife's
Speaker 4: not listening to this. I took Houston money line.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: It was one one and a half, okay, and I
Speaker 4: thought it was like one fifteen. And well, I had
Speaker 4: it in a parlay. I had a two leg parlay.
Speaker 4: I had the under, which was easy and easy and
Speaker 4: easy hit. But I had Houston money line and the
Speaker 4: line was one and a half, so they're getting down
Speaker 4: to the end. I said, please don't lose by one.
Speaker 4: Please don't lose by one. Please don't lose by one.
Speaker 4: Because if they'd have lost by one and I had
Speaker 4: taken the spread, I would have hit and then they
Speaker 4: lost by two. And so I'm like, Okay, I felt
Speaker 4: better about that, So thank you for about myself. Oh
Speaker 4: you want to hear the said kod of all ko ds.
Speaker 4: So I do that immaculate grid.
Speaker 2: Have you seen that? Okay, I do the immaculate grip.
Speaker 2: I do it every day with my son and a
Speaker 2: couple of the guys and we'll do it. So it
Speaker 2: was a.
Speaker 4: Cincinnati Red's second basement. Was the All you had to do
Speaker 4: is play one game at second base was the category.
Speaker 4: And of course everybody's gonna say Joe Morgan, right, and
Speaker 4: so the is to try and get somebody that not
Speaker 4: everybody takes, to get the lowest number. A lot of
Speaker 4: these I think when I see these things come up,
Speaker 4: I think of base my baseball cards when I was
Speaker 4: a kid, and I remember having Tommy Helm's baseball card.
Speaker 2: It was a second basement for the Reds back.
Speaker 4: In the seventies, late sixties, early seventies maybe, And I
Speaker 4: thought of him, and I put it and I put
Speaker 4: him in there and I hit it and right, he
Speaker 4: was like a one percent of people who guess that
Speaker 4: category guessed him. And it was on whatever morning, it
Speaker 4: was a Saturday or Sunday morning, and like an hour
Speaker 4: later on Twitter it comes out that he died.
Speaker 3: Henry, make sure this is the last time you see him, Like, what.
Speaker 2: Did Will Smith? What did get my name out of
Speaker 2: your mouth? Exactly? Don't even think about it. I'm like like,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I can imagine his family going. He was
Speaker 2: fine this morning. What happened? It was?
Speaker 4: He died like an hour after I put him in
Speaker 4: my Macula grid crazy, I'm going to change my number
Speaker 4: when you text you know what, I don't.
Speaker 2: I do not blame you even a little bit.
Speaker 4: Who's calling? It's nobody even a little bit. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean I thought, oh my god, but what am I?
Speaker 4: What am I doing here?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I mean nobody wants to be around me sometimes because
Speaker 4: of that stuff. Please don't please don't mention my name
Speaker 4: to anyone.
Speaker 3: So did you so you go to your Wednesday thing?
Speaker 3: So they turned out to like this season. I'm sure
Speaker 3: the basketball, yeah, they were fine.
Speaker 4: People are happy again, you know, with the way Caleb
Speaker 4: finished the season, you know, it's kind of like, okay,
Speaker 4: now what right that you know that that's the thing
Speaker 4: you know is mo Creeb is going to be any good?
Speaker 4: You know? Why did Henry leave money? You know, and
Speaker 4: and all that. I'm like, guys, there's money. That's my
Speaker 4: idea that here's my issue.
Speaker 3: Here's my issue because I've heard this more and more
Speaker 3: that there's a lot of tampering going on and it's
Speaker 3: a month two left in the season and you already got.
Speaker 4: Calls right over here. This is what we can do
Speaker 4: for you. Well, the scene is going on, right, and
Speaker 4: while a school can't go talk to a player, both
Speaker 4: the school can send people you know in the underground
Speaker 4: railroad and then they've got their representatives there eight everybody's
Speaker 4: got an agent.
Speaker 2: Now. That seems so weird. This seems so weird.
Speaker 4: The quarterback from from Tennessee had an agent in high school.
Speaker 2: Did you read that?
Speaker 4: I read I read a some I think somebody athletic
Speaker 4: wrote a story about the whole thing with him holding
Speaker 4: out and he stopped going to practice and they said, well,
Speaker 4: then get the hell out of here, and all that
Speaker 4: time and then talking about his his agent from high
Speaker 4: school negotiated his nil deal with Tennessee before he got there,
Speaker 4: before he even got he got an eight million dollar
Speaker 4: deal with Tennessee. And then and then you hear then
Speaker 4: you hear that he wasn't fulfilling his side of it.
Speaker 4: He wasn't going you know that you're getting paid to
Speaker 4: do autograph sessions and appearances, and that he would not
Speaker 4: show it these things. And so Tennessee finally got sick
Speaker 4: of it and said, okay, as I.
Speaker 2: Should as you.
Speaker 4: If that's who you are, good luck, go see if
Speaker 4: you can find that deal somewhere.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the that's what it's going to
Speaker 2: have to be. And that's all other schools are saying.
Speaker 3: If this is who you are and you want more,
Speaker 3: and we've already given you whatever all of this and
Speaker 3: then U c l A.
Speaker 2: I guess is going to get him? Is that you
Speaker 2: see again? Is that where he's going now? The latest,
Speaker 2: the the latest, and he's going to take money drop.
Speaker 3: I think they're they're not going to pay him two
Speaker 3: million bucks a year, right, so you know, more power
Speaker 3: to you, but you know, and.
Speaker 4: It shows, it shows what we're dealing with here with
Speaker 4: the immaturity of these people that you're giving millions of
Speaker 4: dollars to no question, you know, to find out that
Speaker 4: he got this deal and all he has to do
Speaker 4: is this.
Speaker 2: Basically, all he's got to do is go.
Speaker 4: Turn on the sprinklers and watch him for two million
Speaker 4: dollars a year. And he didn't even want to do
Speaker 4: that deep down, Jane, does this surprise you, No, not
Speaker 4: even a little bit to meal. And that's another reason
Speaker 4: why I'm not a big right of sports. And that's
Speaker 4: when you see when you see no Off Flafiita over
Speaker 4: here holding camps and you know, doing appearances and going
Speaker 4: you know, and hanging out with kids and all the
Speaker 4: stuff that he's doing. And I know he's not getting
Speaker 4: two million bucks a year, but you appreciate, you appreciate
Speaker 4: what how special it is to have a kid like that,
Speaker 4: or have a kid like tam Mac you know, and
Speaker 4: the things that he was doing and some of the
Speaker 4: players that they get. And that is going to matter
Speaker 4: so much more anymore, because if you're giving a kid
Speaker 4: all this kind of money, you got to be sure
Speaker 4: that not only is he getting his but you're getting
Speaker 4: what you're paying, right of course, because you're not giving
Speaker 4: that willy nilly want.
Speaker 2: To And it's limited, right, it's limited. You only have
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 3: No, it's and that's just the way of the world
Speaker 3: to me. It's just so surprising. And every year, every year,
Speaker 3: after the end of the season, we're going to continue
Speaker 3: to go in here, you know, well, what's happened with
Speaker 3: this guy? What happened with this guys? Are they being
Speaker 3: talked to? And when you get good players like Tommy
Speaker 3: Is and everybody else, Houston be what Baylor has no
Speaker 3: left and he's a it's a pretty good program, right
Speaker 3: he won the title a couple three years ago.
Speaker 2: And now look at them. I mean, everybody's gonna go through.
Speaker 2: How did it go for Kansas with Hunter Dickinson? Right?
Speaker 2: And how much money they gave that guy and what
Speaker 2: did they get out of that?
Speaker 4: It really is really it seems like it's more magnified
Speaker 4: at the College of the Then say you give Caleb
Speaker 4: Williams a bunch of money to go be the quarterback
Speaker 4: in Chicago and he's only so so and you find well,
Speaker 4: that's more of a big business.
Speaker 2: And you know you're hit and miss and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: But when you when you have the limited amount of
Speaker 4: money that you have to give at the college level,
Speaker 4: you give it to a guy and he's not worth
Speaker 4: a crap, it seems to cost or hurt even more, sure,
Speaker 4: no question, right, because you threw away the money, yeah,
Speaker 4: pretty much that you could be given to somebody who
Speaker 4: who can may have been really good as and as
Speaker 4: you say, who cared.
Speaker 3: Well, let me say this, it's like Carter Bryant. We
Speaker 3: think he's a good kid, a very good kid, comes
Speaker 3: from a great family, YadA YadA. And now he's going
Speaker 3: to declare, not declare, he's going to go to the draft.
Speaker 3: You know, good, Look, he's.
Speaker 4: Going to declare he's going to go into the draft
Speaker 4: and inspect the draft, which he should.
Speaker 3: No question, he should do exactly what he's doing right now.
Speaker 3: Could he come back, Sure, he might just get as
Speaker 3: much money coming back then he will in his first
Speaker 3: year rookie contract.
Speaker 4: And that's the whole idea, you know, that's the whole
Speaker 4: I go check it out, get all them arm get
Speaker 4: all the information you can get, you know, to make
Speaker 4: the right decision for you. And that's what you gotta
Speaker 4: do and I really you gotta really respect. I love
Speaker 4: the fact that he said, Okay, I'm gonna all sign
Speaker 4: this deal. You know, he signed this this uh, this
Speaker 4: compensation deal, but I'm gonna go check this out. And
Speaker 4: and love Tommy saying go go figure it out, because
Speaker 4: because if he decides to come back, you want him
Speaker 4: to be all in sure right, not wondering what if,
Speaker 4: you know, should I have done this or that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: So anyways, just like that, we got to go the
Speaker 3: first hour. Okay, we're gonna get breaking news from Henry,
Speaker 3: they're gonna get ahold of Justin Spears from the Daily Star,
Speaker 3: and then we'll run through that hour two, all right,