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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Winning the Ball. Here all Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, Dave Silverton with me
Speaker 3: today and now we have one with breaking news.
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Speaker 1: Happy Monday to everyone out there, your truly mister goody
Speaker 1: two shoes, Mihitolindo back on Monday, Magic Monday. Right kind
Speaker 1: of sad Monday. Apparently you want to make No I
Speaker 1: had to go get lunch. Ok, No, it's not her
Speaker 1: good cooking, the best Mexican food, and and it's southern Arizona.
Speaker 1: I won't go there. It's starting off breaking news that
Speaker 1: came in about halfway through the first hour. The Wildcats
Speaker 1: of Arizona ever renewed their contract with Nike.
Speaker 3: Apparel, nik You Apparel, and it's a it's a multimillion
Speaker 3: dollar deal. I'm sure through what through what? Twenty thirty
Speaker 3: twenty thirty three, thirty three, I'll be an old man.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm still here. You'll be here.
Speaker 3: That's pretty good. We'll be It's a good deal. And
Speaker 3: my host today is name Silver. He's joining us from
Speaker 3: some retirement community. He's retired, he's been retired, and he's
Speaker 3: still We're talking.
Speaker 4: Two and a half million dollars a year. It's a
Speaker 4: pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good little check that'll hit the that'll hit the
Speaker 3: will help with the deficit maybe or is that just merchandise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, two point three three million for cash and merchandise.
Speaker 4: Ten year deal provides twenty three point three million worth
Speaker 4: of Nike products. Okay, it's a two point three three
Speaker 4: million a year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's more of product not money, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll get good.
Speaker 1: It'll give student athletes access to the most advanced footwear, apparel,
Speaker 1: and equipment in the industry.
Speaker 4: We've got a call. It's under armor calling it. That's
Speaker 4: not true, mister Phil Knight on the line. Yeah, wait
Speaker 4: a seconds. I remember when they got that deal. Here,
Speaker 4: I am going back in the old days, but I
Speaker 4: remember they called me one time, this is maybe in
Speaker 4: the Nike called the TV station and they asked me
Speaker 4: to go to the UFA basketball game and just get
Speaker 4: some video of their new warm ups because they wanted
Speaker 4: to see what they look like on the players. This
Speaker 4: is literally just got to be late eighties maybe or
Speaker 4: whenever this original deal happened. They had kind of no
Speaker 4: clue they designed all these, you know, uniforms and different
Speaker 4: colors and different types of warm ups. They just wanted
Speaker 4: some video to see what it looked like.
Speaker 3: I should.
Speaker 1: I should.
Speaker 3: If anything, I would have known that, we would have
Speaker 3: had that in one hundred and one Things you Need
Speaker 3: to Know about Arizona.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was really cool. I mean, it's like, okay, what
Speaker 3: do you That's all you need. Just send them the tape.
Speaker 4: And I guess it was okay because they continued on
Speaker 4: to other sports.
Speaker 1: Men's tennis was playing the in the Diablo in Bye
Speaker 1: over the weekend. They beat Washington four to three and
Speaker 1: they beat the sun Devils of Arizona State four zero.
Speaker 1: They can play again this Friday ten o'clock and Saint John's.
Speaker 1: They also take on NAU. What are they ranked now?
Speaker 1: They were fourteen. I think I'm sure they're still around
Speaker 1: that area. They're eleven to one of the season. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: very good. To softball, they played in the Judy Garment Classic,
Speaker 1: went five to zero, including upset win. If you want
Speaker 1: to call it an upset, maybe it's number four UCLA
Speaker 1: nine to eight and ten innings.
Speaker 3: Their quarterback, their picture, what's her name, that's nets. Yeah,
Speaker 3: she's done fantastically, and then that's how you win, get
Speaker 3: a good picture.
Speaker 1: Twenty one and two on the season, and they've played
Speaker 1: seventeen without what some people consider her the best player.
Speaker 3: What what's the record? You said the record? What's a
Speaker 3: ranking ranking? They saw today? They are number four.
Speaker 1: They went to number four. They pretty much swapp places
Speaker 1: with ucl Who Mike kens Ram, Wow, that's good. That's great.
Speaker 1: They would start like twenty something, twenty one and two
Speaker 1: fifteen and good. She needs this. Good there. Let's see
Speaker 1: what do they got next. They've got the conference, should
Speaker 1: be say, they got their conference at home. Conference plays
Speaker 1: starting starting Friday against UCF. They got three games three days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: starting starting Friday.
Speaker 4: Okay, been a rare Monday one o'clock game. There's gonna
Speaker 4: be a reason. Well there in spring break, like we
Speaker 4: were saying, yeap March t that'll be the first Monday
Speaker 4: week week from today. Okay, one o'clock.
Speaker 1: The baseball team had a couple of surprise wins in
Speaker 1: the Astros Foundation College Classic, including number one Texas A
Speaker 1: and M losing three to two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of came back in that game, right right
Speaker 3: right bottom on top of nine bottom whatever it was. Yeah. No,
Speaker 3: they've done well too since their start seven and four.
Speaker 1: They've only lost one game since the Owen three start,
Speaker 1: which was against number three Tennessee, losing one to five.
Speaker 1: But they also beat number eighte Mississippi State six to five. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They play again starting Thursday against Pepperdine, four game series.
Speaker 1: That's pretty rare too. Yeah here Pepperdine is usually pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and right, and then squeeze it in a week
Speaker 4: from tomorrow a su here is a conference state.
Speaker 3: Game, or if it's a conference game, because you know,
Speaker 3: those sometimes don't work that way, don't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't It doesn't show as a big twelve matchup.
Speaker 4: But those are always kind of fun. Those mid week
Speaker 4: six o'clock games. I'd like to go to those. Did
Speaker 4: you cover baseball back in the day?
Speaker 1: In the movie?
Speaker 3: I heard I was still in college, and I heard
Speaker 3: that they the fans, very knowledgeable, used to rag both sides.
Speaker 3: It used to be a great great matchups, great atmosphere.
Speaker 3: I think the biggest crowds ever at San st Stadium
Speaker 3: were the Ashue games.
Speaker 1: By far in the mid eighties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and when there were some great teams. You know,
Speaker 4: both teams had either been to College World Series or
Speaker 4: we're on the verge just about everybody every year. So
Speaker 4: like the six Pack, they called it the league in
Speaker 4: those years.
Speaker 3: And isn't that where Don started.
Speaker 4: It's kind of where he made his debut mark on
Speaker 4: top of the dugouts or something.
Speaker 1: Screwing. Okay, the women's basketball team gotta win at Arizona
Speaker 1: State sebody one to fifty nine, and the crowd that
Speaker 1: was mainly Arizona.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty impressions. I think they took three buses, right,
Speaker 3: So so what's next? They have them?
Speaker 1: They got they played number well in the seating they
Speaker 1: played number nine Colorado or number sixteen Houston, number eight
Speaker 1: number I believe.
Speaker 4: So that's in Kansas City also in.
Speaker 1: The City Mobile Center. I believe it's the same same course,
Speaker 1: same arena. That's okay. It's a good arena too.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a nice kind of like team like
Speaker 4: the one in Vegas. Yeah, did you I kind of
Speaker 4: remember it. I don't remember much about it to you.
Speaker 3: I didn't go. Oh I was there, I didn't go.
Speaker 3: That's one of the places I didn't go with eighty.
Speaker 3: I wasn't covering the team.
Speaker 4: If I remember, Kansas City has an area called the Stockyards.
Speaker 4: It's kind of their touristy. And back then we're you know,
Speaker 4: almost forty years ago, it was it.
Speaker 1: Was fun, pretty hot.
Speaker 3: That's that's what they say that that people who are
Speaker 3: complaining about Vegas, wait till you see this. It's not
Speaker 3: you know, you can't go and you know, the bouchery
Speaker 3: till two in the morning, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: No, it's a good place.
Speaker 4: My mother was born there, so I got to go
Speaker 4: there a few times over the years. But and then
Speaker 4: to cover you know, a couple of U of A
Speaker 4: games with the two thousand and one was it? We
Speaker 4: were there for first round Kansas City?
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the snow, wasn't it?
Speaker 3: Wasn't that the beginning of the run to the final
Speaker 3: of the Final four?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: If I remember was a Kansas City, San Antonio, Minneapolis,
Speaker 4: No check on that. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3: Well, God, no, I don't think so, because I remember that.
Speaker 4: I found I thought our story from Martidi days. Was
Speaker 4: we had a guy that drove the live truck from
Speaker 4: Tucson all the way to Kansas City.
Speaker 3: You're checking it. I'm pretty sure. I don't think so.
Speaker 3: And they the freeway is the same. Agize that's true
Speaker 3: because this was two thousand and one one when they
Speaker 3: went to the finals.
Speaker 4: Let me check, maybe, I'm I don't think I'm getting
Speaker 4: old man is going.
Speaker 1: I'm checking right now. Okay, it did start in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: See where when it was in not Kemper. There's might
Speaker 1: have been. I don't even remember this at all. And
Speaker 1: I went to twenty of them. When does San Antonio next? Yeh,
Speaker 1: San Antonio? And then back to Minneapolis.
Speaker 4: It was it's the same freeway.
Speaker 1: It was hilarious time.
Speaker 4: Now we had a guy drive our satellite truck from Tucson. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'll beach in Kansas City and we we fly in.
Speaker 4: What did you play in the first round?
Speaker 1: They played Eastern Illinois and then Butler.
Speaker 3: Remember remember I do remember brother because Dad Mona was
Speaker 3: a coach. Yeah, and then you had old Miss I
Speaker 3: don't remember, Kansas City, Illinois, Michigan State and then and it.
Speaker 4: Was all the same freeway from down to San Antonio
Speaker 4: to Minneapolis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I think I remember nineteen ninety seven Birmingham
Speaker 3: and yeah in those ones. Memphis, I don't remember the city.
Speaker 3: I'll get it. It's a good place. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: no question.
Speaker 1: Women's basketball is nineteen and twelve on the season. They
Speaker 1: are on a four game win streak. Maybe they can
Speaker 1: win a couple in the Big twelve tournament, they make
Speaker 1: a little bit of a NCAA push.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they need to do that. They need to do that.
Speaker 3: You know, Das has been fantastic here. But but but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: As we talked about, Arizona lost at Iowa State. Arizona
Speaker 1: men's basketball lost to number nine Iowa State eighty four
Speaker 1: to sixty seven.
Speaker 3: Do we have the top twenty five? I wheer did
Speaker 3: Iowas State move up to? There were some great games
Speaker 3: this weekend, and I'm sure there was a shift impact
Speaker 3: twelve in the PACT in the top twenty five, on
Speaker 3: the in the top.
Speaker 1: Ten, so that they were ranked number nine. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: apparently what I have on ESPN is that they dropped
Speaker 1: one because they did they lose before. I guess ye,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it was because of the Oklahoma State loss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh so, we'll see what happens. They play Arizona A
Speaker 1: men's basketball is back in Actually.
Speaker 3: You're surprised that there was on the State of the
Speaker 3: Top twenty five. I was then because you were twenty
Speaker 3: fours a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They The men's basketball team takes on Arizona State
Speaker 1: tomorrow nine o'clock. Another lovely late tip off. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: hate those. The Arizona football team hired Craig Navar for
Speaker 1: Special Teams for the special teams coach, per Pete Thamio
Speaker 1: of ESPN, he'll replace dannigan Zalez, who elevated to defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Houston secured their second and back to back Big Twelve
Speaker 1: regular season title. Pretty impressive, you know, two seasons, two titles.
Speaker 1: Good for Houston.
Speaker 4: Third in the country, number three, and.
Speaker 1: Then Saint John's wrapped up the Big East title this weekend.
Speaker 4: Uh so, Ray, that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you want to argue with me
Speaker 3: or not, and you can if you will, But to me, Rick,
Speaker 3: but he's the best college coach in the country right now.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: He's been there for a long time. He's been a
Speaker 4: coach for a long time.
Speaker 3: But everywhere he's been, everywhere he goes, he succeeds, you know,
Speaker 3: and Saint John's you know, at one point premier program
Speaker 3: and he's kind of brought him back forty years ago.
Speaker 3: Have you seen his show, the show that I told
Speaker 3: you about and Vice? It's very good? Oh about Patino? Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: that it's a very good show. It can't just show
Speaker 3: you you can't you can't be a nice guy when
Speaker 3: you're a coach. And not that he's not a nice guy.
Speaker 3: He's a stern guy and makes you want to play
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 4: It seems like he's been part of our college basketball
Speaker 4: world forever. I mean I can remember being way back
Speaker 4: in the maybe late seventies when he was a Provident
Speaker 4: with Donovan Tullie Donovan as a player. As a player, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, come on, when you take a Providence
Speaker 3: to the final four, okay, and then you do the
Speaker 3: rest of the things in Kentucky and and Louisville. Louisville
Speaker 3: of course, and then he went to Iona. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: the rehab, rehab his image and now he's Saint John.
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 3: Is that it?
Speaker 1: Do you have more? Have more? Okay? The top twenty
Speaker 1: five came out as we talked about Auburn, and Duke
Speaker 1: remained at the one in two Houston at three, going
Speaker 1: down the list, Tennessee, Florida, Saint John's, Alabama, Michigan State
Speaker 1: tecond then I will.
Speaker 3: I'll give you fifty bucks. Were you gonna pick to
Speaker 3: win it all?
Speaker 1: Right now? Yeah? Right now?
Speaker 3: No tomorrow when you're not here, I would. I always hoping,
Speaker 3: So you just take the one. I'll take Duke, Duke,
Speaker 3: I think they are like at five to one, it
Speaker 3: got to be the favorites. It's well, it's Auburn that
Speaker 3: like three, three to one. Really, I asked, because I
Speaker 3: already made my bed, what do you think?
Speaker 1: I will?
Speaker 4: You could probably just go down the list of the
Speaker 4: say the top twenty, and just probably every team maybe
Speaker 4: has a chance.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I think he went with Florida.
Speaker 3: It is because I mentioned that we got that ten
Speaker 3: to one, ten to one, Okay, they beat Every.
Speaker 4: Team has a chance, and every team a chance to
Speaker 4: lose in the first or second round. That's usually how
Speaker 4: it goes.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the handicap, David. I mean, there's always going
Speaker 3: to be this two fifteen ridiculousness and virgin is out.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Arizona's in. So you never know Michigan that
Speaker 4: they belonging there.
Speaker 1: Who knows. Okay, same old, same old. If things gonna
Speaker 1: get any worse. In Dallas, the Mavericks are raising their
Speaker 1: ticket costs citing they want the fans to invest in
Speaker 1: the team.
Speaker 3: Uh and the organization. How how screwed up you have
Speaker 3: to be. It's like, you know, we screwed you this time.
Speaker 3: I would do it again here in the two more weeks.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to come up with an analogy here. Well, Arizona,
Speaker 3: we're not very good, but we're gonna raise your prices.
Speaker 3: It's not a ticket increase, but we're gonna give you.
Speaker 4: You have to pay more money some some way, somehow,
Speaker 4: people are paying more anytime. Luca is just going nuts
Speaker 4: already for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, Uh, I'm not sure what that was, but
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant said that the songs were embarrassed. They embarrassed
Speaker 1: themselves and they're lost to the Timberwolves yesterday. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: uh so we'll see again. That's another see what happens
Speaker 1: at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: We've got to get out of here in about a minute.
Speaker 3: So maybe can I go through something why my trusty guy,
Speaker 3: Javier push Ridge wins the three A boys basketball title
Speaker 3: and Salad Point and the women's soccer and boys soccer
Speaker 3: when there are titles in four A. We'll probably have
Speaker 3: Booking and Kelly Pierce on here in the show. Maybe
Speaker 3: this week. PEMA, the men thirty and oh undefeated with
Speaker 3: incredible with Dan Marty's son one of the leaders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've had them.
Speaker 3: On the show.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you were my old buddy, Brian
Speaker 4: Peabody head coach.
Speaker 1: Great job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty and O and the PEMA and women's qualified
Speaker 3: for the region tournament after going eight straight wins, winning
Speaker 3: eighth Street times. So Pima's doing really well. And so
Speaker 3: with the high schools and locally good to hear.
Speaker 4: I mean, really team at thirty and oh, that's that
Speaker 4: hasn't happened no ever, No eighteen and oh conference.
Speaker 3: You know, I think they're one of the most I know.
Speaker 3: Jayard does a great job with them, but let's talk
Speaker 3: about we've had him on the show obviously, and.
Speaker 4: They score a lot of points every game. They're in
Speaker 4: the nineties or defense low one hundred.
Speaker 3: We don't need those stinking defense.
Speaker 4: Even one of the lower scoring games, they won seventy
Speaker 4: three to forty nine. But so they're playing seven was
Speaker 4: the last score?
Speaker 3: You sure you gotta go. We gotta get the kid.
Speaker 3: He's gonna call him seventeen.
Speaker 1: So let's go.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to my the ball hero Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty mc rivera. And with me today is Dave Silver.
Speaker 3: Now on the phone, we have with John Matheni, the
Speaker 3: new Twucson Amateur Champion golfer.
Speaker 12: John.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 13: I'm doing good? How are you guys?
Speaker 3: We're doing well? Congratulations. How'd you feel over the weekend?
Speaker 13: Very exciting and a lot of different emotions throughout the days,
Speaker 13: but overall exciting.
Speaker 4: Was this building? Was this something you could see coming?
Speaker 4: I mean, you're still in your teens, and I'm sure
Speaker 4: you're competing against guys much older than you. Did you
Speaker 4: have a pretty good sense where your game was as
Speaker 4: you headed into this tournament?
Speaker 13: Yeah? I kind of gauged where my game was coming
Speaker 13: into this tournament through my practice sessions before the tournament,
Speaker 13: and I felt in a good place preparing for this tournament,
Speaker 13: and my swing felt, you know, pretty great with my
Speaker 13: dad's help as my swing coach.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so yeah, he sent me the information this morning.
Speaker 3: What's your handicap? Well, let me with a He's a
Speaker 3: freshman at Keteleena Foothills fifteen years old. I have socks
Speaker 3: older than that obviously, I think your dad does too.
Speaker 3: So what's what's your handicap?
Speaker 13: Well, I would probably say roughly around a two to
Speaker 13: a one to three in between there. I mean, I
Speaker 13: haven't been keeping a straight handicap since I was little,
Speaker 13: but the past couple of years that I've been competing,
Speaker 13: it's probably around a three too.
Speaker 4: Take us through this event, because is this this is
Speaker 4: where you go from course to course to course?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Is it all over the over one weekend.
Speaker 3: Before you actually, which is a good question. Is this
Speaker 3: your first time in the event.
Speaker 13: Yes, this is my first time in the event.
Speaker 3: Nice start, Yeah, So go ahead and just take us through.
Speaker 1: You know what you what you went through?
Speaker 13: Well, So the first day I played was on Friday,
Speaker 13: and that event was at fred Anki and just there
Speaker 13: was really tough. I knew going into it the back
Speaker 13: nine was going to play a lot harder through the
Speaker 13: front nine, so I really mentally prepared for taking it
Speaker 13: real low on the front nine, and I was lucky
Speaker 13: enough to get a three under start through three, which
Speaker 13: really brought confidence going into the nine pole, which I
Speaker 13: know you can get on that green in two, which
Speaker 13: allowed me to make birdie there, so I ended up
Speaker 13: but I did have a bogie on I believe the
Speaker 13: seventh hole, so I ended up shooting three under on
Speaker 13: that front nine, and then back nine I got even
Speaker 13: the hotter started going two under in the next I
Speaker 13: believe five holes, which then I was able to stick
Speaker 13: with until the fifteenth hole, where or sixteen inst in
Speaker 13: seventeenth hole where I went bogey bogeing. That was just
Speaker 13: a mental error not committing to a shot, which I'm
Speaker 13: still learning about, I guess at fifteen. And then the
Speaker 13: next day, which was on Saturday, we played dell Urich,
Speaker 13: and this was a tough day as I believe the
Speaker 13: winds were around thirty eight miles per hour and this
Speaker 13: was really challenging. But I knew the winds were going
Speaker 13: to be later on in the days, just like the
Speaker 13: day before, I wanted to go low on the front
Speaker 13: nine and I was able to have a really great
Speaker 13: start at going three under on I believe hole four
Speaker 13: was it par four. I hit a drive from three
Speaker 13: twenty to three set to make eagle, which was a
Speaker 13: real confidence booster after not getting to a hot start
Speaker 13: on the first three holes and uh and then I
Speaker 13: was able just to battle the winds the back nine,
Speaker 13: and then the final day was just trying to you know,
Speaker 13: stick with and stick with the lead and just finished strong.
Speaker 3: Did you did you have the lead at any point
Speaker 3: before Sunday?
Speaker 13: Yes, I had the lead after the first round. But
Speaker 13: then the second round another player his first name was Joey.
Speaker 13: He played really amazing and shot five under round into
Speaker 13: that wind, which was an incredible round.
Speaker 3: And so what do you think about what do you
Speaker 3: think you're going into Sunday?
Speaker 13: Well, going into Sunday, I knew I just had to
Speaker 13: play my game and see what that did. And you know,
Speaker 13: he he played great and it was a really great battle,
Speaker 13: and I just stuck with my game, hit fairways, hit
Speaker 13: hit greens and stride making putts.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe a strange question, but does this get you
Speaker 4: into any other tournaments by winning the city Amateur here?
Speaker 13: Uh No, I believe this City Amateur doesn't qualify for
Speaker 13: me anything else. I guess it's more of a mental
Speaker 13: boost as I know I can compete at a high
Speaker 13: level and that's always something positive, I guess. So yeah,
Speaker 13: nothing nothing next.
Speaker 3: So along those lines, what are you confident that you
Speaker 3: can go do after this and and with that, are
Speaker 3: you the youngest champion ever here? Uh?
Speaker 13: Yes, I do believe I am the youngest championship so
Speaker 13: far what I've gathered. But I mean so coming up,
Speaker 13: I have a couple more tournaments that I'm looking forward to,
Speaker 13: and this obviously gives me a positive mindset going into
Speaker 13: these and I'll take what I have learned from the
Speaker 13: tournament to those tournaments.
Speaker 3: Dave, when I was fifteen, I was just hoping Penelope
Speaker 3: received my note to say I liked her.
Speaker 4: I think I borrowed my dad's clubs when I was
Speaker 4: fifteen too. So how did you get did you? I'm
Speaker 4: assuming your famili has helped you get to this point?
Speaker 13: Yes, oh yeah, no. They have given me tons of opportunities,
Speaker 13: as I able to be a member, have a membership
Speaker 13: out here at Omni, and be able to practice out
Speaker 13: here every day is you know. I greatly am appreciated
Speaker 13: of that, and I'm able to work on my game
Speaker 13: every day, which is a huge benefit as I you know,
Speaker 13: don't lose my swing. But then also the support they
Speaker 13: gave me was incredible, as my dad caddied for me
Speaker 13: for two of the days and then my mom for
Speaker 13: the second or for one day, she was able to
Speaker 13: caddy for me, and that having those two in my
Speaker 13: corner is always helpful.
Speaker 3: So you go to school at Kellleen the foot Hills.
Speaker 3: You're among your freshmen there. Did anybody of your friends
Speaker 3: or just the people there know that you did this?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 12: No, they.
Speaker 13: My friends and everyone they know of my accomplishments and
Speaker 13: they all wished me congratulations. And that was really cool
Speaker 13: to go back to school like that.
Speaker 3: So dave you play a little, right, if you played
Speaker 3: a lot and you were pretty good, you see this
Speaker 3: little fifteen year old come in? I got this guy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he kicked your butt? What do you think?
Speaker 1: What is Yeah?
Speaker 4: What kind of reaction do you get from you know,
Speaker 4: Joe Amateur when you say you want to go out
Speaker 4: and play at you know, Randolph and they're think about
Speaker 4: who's his kid? Yeah, the sharpshooter. Does that happen to
Speaker 4: you as well?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 13: Well, I mean yeah, they kind of, you know, they
Speaker 13: kind of wonder who I am when it's fifteen, you know.
Speaker 13: But it's cool to look at the other guys and
Speaker 13: be able to you know, talk to them and their
Speaker 13: experiences to learn off them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I'm sure people already know who you are
Speaker 3: though too.
Speaker 13: Oh oh yeah, No, it's a great golf community, especially
Speaker 13: the Tucson golf community. It's very very cool and uh friendly.
Speaker 4: Have the have the colleges come knocking on your door yet?
Speaker 4: Are you still too young for that?
Speaker 13: No, I'm still too young for that. But you know,
Speaker 13: college is definitely in my path. You know where I
Speaker 13: want to go, but you know that's just for the future.
Speaker 13: But it's insight.
Speaker 3: When did you start? You said you started young. At
Speaker 3: what point did you start?
Speaker 11: And?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: And you played golf four or five times a week? Oh?
Speaker 13: Yeah, No, I try and get out every day here
Speaker 13: at Omni And I've been started playing golf well ever
Speaker 13: since I was little. My grandmot got me, I think,
Speaker 13: my first step. But my dad really is the one
Speaker 13: who's been coaching me since I was little. But I
Speaker 13: only started playing competitive golf around the age of nine
Speaker 13: to ten only.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you talked about this. Do you use this
Speaker 3: word a lot of confidence? You know, they give you confidence.
Speaker 3: I don't golf because I'm horrible at it, Dave David,
Speaker 3: when you put you you're kind of your recreational yeah,
Speaker 3: as much. But when you play it with this Golf
Speaker 3: seems to be one of those sports, having covered all
Speaker 3: these sports that if you don't have that confidence, you're
Speaker 3: not going to do well no matter what you do.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yes, confidence is really important in the game of golf,
Speaker 13: and especially the mindset of you know, being confident thoughts
Speaker 13: and obviously well overall confidence when you're swing, because if
Speaker 13: you don't have, you know, confidence in your swing, you
Speaker 13: don't really trust and that's where mistakes.
Speaker 9: Can come in.
Speaker 13: And my dad the final day, when I was a
Speaker 13: couple down after seven holes, he was the one who
Speaker 13: really gave me, I guess confidence and I learned a
Speaker 13: lot from it and the experience, you know, the confidence
Speaker 13: that was he put into my mind was really helping
Speaker 13: to where I was able to shoot really well the
Speaker 13: last ten holes that I played, and that's always helpful.
Speaker 3: Do you I'm curious, do you have an older brother,
Speaker 3: older sister, a younger brother, younger sister.
Speaker 13: Yes, I have a younger brother who's my twin and
Speaker 13: I'm just a minute older than Does he golf too, Yeah,
Speaker 13: we golf every day and he's kind of there. I
Speaker 13: always try and help him out. He's helping me out
Speaker 13: it's a mutual friendship I get.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's also someone to go out with him and
Speaker 3: work is you know, you have two people doing it.
Speaker 3: You can get better that way by competing.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Yeah, we can both watch see what we're doing
Speaker 13: wrong too, we're doing right and that's always helpful. When
Speaker 13: did he have playing goal?
Speaker 3: Did he participate?
Speaker 13: Yeah? He played too. He played well the last day,
Speaker 13: but the first two days it was a little rocky.
Speaker 13: But he's he's starting to play a little better. So
Speaker 13: I'm always rooting for him, and I think he can
Speaker 13: get to a similar spot where I am and shooting
Speaker 13: pretty decent scores.
Speaker 3: How did you? Is there a secret is how you've
Speaker 3: gotten so good this young? Is there a way you
Speaker 3: can well, I mean explain it.
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 13: So well. I mean there's really no secret to it
Speaker 13: other than just working. But I mean, I guess kind
Speaker 13: of swing wise, my dad has always taught me one
Speaker 13: of my fundamentals, and that's kind of where you preparation
Speaker 13: for the swing and then also just hitting the ball
Speaker 13: pretty far, because I know these college guys hit the
Speaker 13: ball pretty far. And I'm trying to be just up
Speaker 13: there with him because I know if I have the
Speaker 13: length to hit it. I mean, I can you know,
Speaker 13: putting and chip and can come. But you know, length
Speaker 13: isn't always given, and so with me hitting the ball
Speaker 13: pretty far from my age, I think that's given me
Speaker 13: a real advantage towards these courses where these greens are
Speaker 13: gettable with a driver.
Speaker 1: Nice. Wow.
Speaker 3: So I asked you about the older guys, will they
Speaker 3: they probably know you are not surprised or whatever. Have
Speaker 3: they treat you that the last three days? Oh?
Speaker 13: Well, everybody treated me, you know, I guess normally as
Speaker 13: a golfer. They were all, you know, congratulating me towards
Speaker 13: the end. It was kind of normal. They kind of
Speaker 13: treated me as I was just a regular kid. But
Speaker 13: I don't think really many people knew that I was fresh,
Speaker 13: and I think they all thought I was more of
Speaker 13: a senior or junior or out of college. But I
Speaker 13: think for the most part, everybody treated me normally.
Speaker 3: And yeah, hey kid, you need a right home.
Speaker 4: How much experience do you have outside of playing desert
Speaker 4: golf if you had a chance to go play, you know,
Speaker 4: on the coast or somewhere else, you know, in different environments.
Speaker 13: Yet, oh yeah, I've played a lot of tournaments outside
Speaker 13: of just the West, like in Florida or Colorado. I've played,
Speaker 13: you know, tournaments in New Mexico, although that's a little
Speaker 13: bit of a desert course, but yeah, I've played a
Speaker 13: lot of tournaments outside just desert areas. So just trying
Speaker 13: to gauge experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, now we've got to keep you an eye out
Speaker 3: for John Matthaney the third in your future, because that's
Speaker 3: pretty pretty cool. Youngest dude doing the America the Tucsun
Speaker 3: Amateur Championships. Fantastic.
Speaker 1: What did you?
Speaker 3: I guess you probably you had your vision on doing
Speaker 3: this in a while, right, You probably signed up a
Speaker 3: long time ago. Is there is it? You can you
Speaker 3: play as a fourteen year old, thirteen year old or
Speaker 3: you have to be fifteen?
Speaker 13: Oh no, I've only ever heard this this year. I
Speaker 13: heard about it probably, I want to say too, our
Speaker 13: will win sign up. Half of my dad kind of
Speaker 13: just found this tournament and it was just like, well
Speaker 13: we can play in this, and I said, well, sure
Speaker 13: I can play in that, I guess, and here we are.
Speaker 3: Cool. Well, congratulations a job. What do you get? You
Speaker 3: gotta saw you with a couple of trophies or something.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I was, I well, there's a trophy in the
Speaker 13: clubhouse that's going to have my name on it, and
Speaker 13: then I get a trophy here that I get to
Speaker 13: keep in my bedroom.
Speaker 3: If you probably have a ton of them, Well, thanks
Speaker 3: so much, Jonathan, John, thank you, appreciate you very much.
Speaker 13: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck to you. You don't need luck. You're
Speaker 3: gonna kick the crap out of people. Thank you, John,
Speaker 3: appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, good luck, John Latini. Obviously, fifteen,
Speaker 3: I was like playing marbles.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if I could play that well any
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Speaker 4: fifteen to be able to do that. Put other numbers
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Speaker 2: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Lie on the Ball here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, You're Dave Silver.
Speaker 3: You were one got ready and with us too, getting
Speaker 3: ready for the end of the show here. If you
Speaker 3: want to call five two zero four one six seventy
Speaker 3: four forty I let us know what you're thinking. We
Speaker 3: have some continuation, Yeah, we're kind kind of continuation of
Speaker 3: breaking news.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson is retiring from Fox NFL coverage after thirty
Speaker 1: one years.
Speaker 3: You can kind of see that was happening, right with
Speaker 3: people kind of filling in for.
Speaker 1: Him a lot.
Speaker 4: Did you I mean, if you guys watched the pregame
Speaker 4: show of the Super Bowl, they did kind of a
Speaker 4: retrospective of his life with AI. They kind of like,
Speaker 4: I don't even know how to describe it, but they
Speaker 4: started showing him, I think, playing with Jerry Jones in
Speaker 4: college and they showed you know, did you guys see
Speaker 4: this thing? It was pretty cool, but it was his
Speaker 4: entire life and I went through animation and through technology,
Speaker 4: he aged all the way to whin he is now.
Speaker 4: I mean, all his years, you know, coaching in college,
Speaker 4: coaching with the Cowboys, coaching with the Dolphins. It was
Speaker 4: pretty It was a pretty creative piece of work, and
Speaker 4: everybody thought, well, he's going to announce his retirement when
Speaker 4: this thing ends. He didn't until now. I guess he
Speaker 4: did it today on Colin Coward Show or something.
Speaker 1: It's quoted the most one I ever had in my career,
Speaker 1: that's counting super Bowls in national championships was that Fox
Speaker 1: Sports he did for.
Speaker 3: Thirty one years. That's how long he's been out of
Speaker 3: the business.
Speaker 4: Didn't he live on a boat in Miami or something. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's kind of his thing. But that's what I really liked.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys.
Speaker 4: They're just horrible. It's about about the last time they
Speaker 4: were worth watching. Arry Switzer was next years. Switzer was
Speaker 4: the coach then, right when they played in Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tempee, what do you think he'll be remembered for
Speaker 3: the most But how about them cowboys?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Some good hair, I mean good haircut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that hair.
Speaker 4: The white hair looked the same his entire career.
Speaker 3: Right he did. It was like you were old when
Speaker 3: you were forty five.
Speaker 1: It's like Lute.
Speaker 3: Lewis, he's always looked at your way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then like Steve kurs Is, he's always been old.
Speaker 1: I feel like they're gonna people are gonna end up
Speaker 1: saying that about me. All Right, I'm already I've gotten
Speaker 1: great hair since.
Speaker 3: fIF years old, dying. Where is it that I can't
Speaker 3: see it?
Speaker 4: It shines off of everyone. You're an old soul. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: old soul. That's what I needed. I need a gray hair.
Speaker 4: When I was on television, ever, I thought I looked
Speaker 4: like it was like twenty Oh really, And then finally
Speaker 4: started coming in.
Speaker 3: After as I started literally super old my boy Miguel
Speaker 3: or fat Mike. Would he say, Dave Silver with the
Speaker 3: Grecian or no, what do you say? He did the jail?
Speaker 3: He said Jael something. Then he talked about Guy Ashley.
Speaker 3: I can't remember what he said. Whatever, whatever he said,
Speaker 3: You've looked the same to me all this time. Yeah, Dave, Okay,
Speaker 3: anything else? Anybody calling five to two, one forty. We'll
Speaker 3: see what happens tomorrow night, and I'm not looking forward
Speaker 3: to it. Late Night's gonna be a long day tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Oh you can talk about the Colder Guard Classic that's
Speaker 3: starts this weekend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of kind of started. There's a few
Speaker 4: things going on. The fans can finally get over there
Speaker 4: inside the ropes at La Poloma on Wednesday for the
Speaker 4: pro am. Yeah, so that's kind of when it starts.
Speaker 4: As a few kind of pre event, pre tournament events
Speaker 4: that have happened so far. Yeah, golfers come in, whether
Speaker 4: champion to the weather should be really nice. You know,
Speaker 4: Jim Furick will be here for a wild can he's
Speaker 4: coming Okay, well, just to what to play a lot
Speaker 4: of the usuals. I mean yes, you can play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: Okay, Stricker, Wow, let's take a quick you know he's
Speaker 3: got we'll take your call. You saw that you called.
Speaker 3: Just give us quick call back. I didn't know he
Speaker 3: was gonna play.
Speaker 4: Well, that's one story, says they were able to get
Speaker 4: Jim Feurick to return for this year's event.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I think he's just about fifty to fifty.
Speaker 4: One, has won seventy one million dollars playing golf.
Speaker 3: Well, he's been very philanthropic here a to ubay. He's
Speaker 3: given a lot of money to the him and current
Speaker 3: some of those games.
Speaker 4: I think he created a scholarship in Ler in the
Speaker 4: business college where he graduated.
Speaker 3: Did you have any ties Taylor?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 1: No, Okay, got a call.
Speaker 14: No.
Speaker 1: I was going to bring up the one of our guys,
Speaker 1: Blake Eager his event. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The World Baseball Class Classic started yesterday.
Speaker 1: Uh, Colombia won their game, Brazil and Germany split their
Speaker 1: two games, and China lost their their one game.
Speaker 3: They've already played. How many games did they play?
Speaker 1: I thought they played Some teams played one and then
Speaker 1: a couple of teams. I've already played two, and there were.
Speaker 4: Two yesterday and so far one more coming up right right?
Speaker 1: Six?
Speaker 4: Who did you like watching or did you I just
Speaker 4: saw one game. I just saw Germany be China. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and Germany pounded them. Yeah, they ended it early.
Speaker 3: Did I guess his kid playing or I don't know
Speaker 3: if he's pitched today or maybe who's a big deal.
Speaker 3: I guess they're gonna set up their own press conference
Speaker 3: with the mom and the dad. Oh really, yeah, we
Speaker 3: got to call. We got an email from uh from
Speaker 3: Eric Rhoades, and he says, don't don't ask for an
Speaker 3: interview without our permission. Pretty much, there's no one on ones.
Speaker 3: They're going to set it up so everybody can be
Speaker 3: their task question. And this is the MLB product. That's
Speaker 3: who's running this show. I've learned that yes, oh do
Speaker 3: tell no, It's okay. Yeah, And that's just how it is.
Speaker 3: You know, they own it. So they're going to come
Speaker 3: in and do it for what two games? Two games,
Speaker 3: six games, eight games, seven games total.
Speaker 4: Game on Thursday, and then there's two tomorrow, and there
Speaker 4: were two today and two yesterday, so it's quick and
Speaker 4: I think some of the games are on TV. If
Speaker 4: you go to the w BC website you can watch them.
Speaker 4: Tickets are relatively cheeckens were cheap fifteen. Yeah, I believe tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I'm positive tomorrow is Kid's Day. So there'll be a
Speaker 4: million little kids running around for the first game in
Speaker 4: the morning and then I'm not sure what they have
Speaker 4: going in the afternoon. But what's the good any kind
Speaker 4: of special night? Yeah, put me on the spot. I
Speaker 4: know one of these nights was was military night. I'm
Speaker 4: not qua college college college night.
Speaker 1: College is.
Speaker 3: Cheap beer, cheap dogs, cheap food. Yeah, right, you'll be there.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually got to cover it for a class of mind. Okay, cool? Yeah,
Speaker 1: really did you do your homework for for Blake? Didn't
Speaker 1: you send you stuff? I'm a good students, don't mess
Speaker 1: up as often.
Speaker 3: We try not to get in trouble. You go and
Speaker 3: get your your sack, lunches given to you. What else, Dave,
Speaker 3: what else you got? You know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: It's just kind of a fun time of year, springs,
Speaker 4: rainings rolling along in Arizona.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Everything everyone's kind of you know, in the early in
Speaker 4: their seasons with you know, weekend games and stop on
Speaker 4: baseball playing.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's good.
Speaker 3: Gonna call who's this you're on the air. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 3: you're on the air.
Speaker 1: Who's this?
Speaker 3: Oh Brian, Hey, Brian, you're hard to hear today. Well
Speaker 3: there you.
Speaker 12: Are, there, you are turn up, your turn up your miracle.
Speaker 4: There there we go.
Speaker 3: It ain't it ain't money. Okay, go ahead, just not
Speaker 3: looking forward to.
Speaker 12: The game tomorrow night.
Speaker 14: Not for the game, but at nine o'clock start time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well it's almost over. What's that Saturday? It's
Speaker 3: a mid day game, right, thirty tomorrows the last of it.
Speaker 3: Saturday is mid day.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, Brian, we talked about this. You called off Friday
Speaker 3: with Jay and stuff. Uh, Saturday party didn't didn't surprise you?
Speaker 14: Well, it surprised me, and that we played so poorly.
Speaker 14: You know, I didn't think we played that bad.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I thought, you know, we you know, I thought
Speaker 12: we made a defense better.
Speaker 14: I don't know that's handling the ball better, but I
Speaker 14: guess you know, I've seen it all season and nothing's
Speaker 14: changed though.
Speaker 3: Right are you? How high are you on this team?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 3: Skilled?
Speaker 1: One to ten?
Speaker 12: Live?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you don't what everybody saying.
Speaker 3: I was just going to say that because everybody's been
Speaker 3: discontented or disheartened by this whole last few months.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, and I can see you can see
Speaker 14: the frustration and Tommy.
Speaker 1: Light, you know.
Speaker 3: How, because I'll give you mind.
Speaker 12: I mean, well, okay, like.
Speaker 14: You'll see the offense kind of run something and make
Speaker 14: a terrible ass and whatever, you.
Speaker 12: Know, and and you just may show him on TV
Speaker 12: or whatever, and just to look on his face.
Speaker 3: Well he had one of those looks this weekend, did
Speaker 3: he he had? I tweeted about Sean Miller when Sam
Speaker 3: Decker couldn't get stopped and he looked like, what can
Speaker 3: we do?
Speaker 1: You know, what can we do?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? They have fans are thinking too good?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I don't. I just you know, it's just maybe
Speaker 14: it's gonna you know, maybe they're gonna surprise this. I
Speaker 14: hope they do. I would love to be disappointed.
Speaker 3: What would be the surprise.
Speaker 14: Get to the Elite eight?
Speaker 3: Yeah, A lot of teams would have to go right, obviously,
Speaker 3: a lot of things.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we have to be a ton of
Speaker 12: stuff to go right.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 12: Okay, but you know, hey, you talk.
Speaker 14: We went on that streak for thirteen out of fourteen games.
Speaker 12: Why not do it again?
Speaker 3: Yeah? The quality of teams are going to be different.
Speaker 3: So here's here's what I see in Tommy's frustration for
Speaker 3: the last three ye years. I think Tommy's I think
Speaker 3: the world of Tommy. I think he does a great job,
Speaker 3: especially in replacing Sean because of what happened at the
Speaker 3: end of Sean. And he's been very bubbly and he
Speaker 3: kind of still continues to do. But he's also been
Speaker 3: a little biting the last month or so.
Speaker 12: Right, you know, I mean, Okay, you can sit here
Speaker 12: and could only make excuses for so.
Speaker 1: Long for your team.
Speaker 14: Well then after a while, you know, I mean, the
Speaker 14: fans aren't totally stupid, you know, they see, you know,
Speaker 14: there's not that much really improvement, you know, since all
Speaker 14: you know, and I know we went thirty out of fourteen,
Speaker 14: but our last six have been not very good.
Speaker 3: No, Brian, you know one of the things too, he
Speaker 3: talked about, I'm sorry to uh it was Thursday. It
Speaker 3: was again, what game was it Friday?
Speaker 1: What game did we go to?
Speaker 3: That was the And we looked at each other and
Speaker 3: I gave you the nod. WHI So he mentioned that
Speaker 3: without mentioning it. Saturday night, in the postgame of his
Speaker 3: radio show, he says, you know, I really liked he said,
Speaker 3: I got into the know, I really liked what the
Speaker 3: Iowa State people. You went in. People were already down,
Speaker 3: sitting down, already actively kind of engaged in the game.
Speaker 3: The game hadn't even started. And he says, you know,
Speaker 3: we need to start being better at that, because Arizona,
Speaker 3: you were there, it was it was ten thousand.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's generous.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 14: And and also one thing too, Arizona, I don't think
Speaker 14: that the time is for the game.
Speaker 3: We are late, right, no question, no question.
Speaker 1: Always.
Speaker 14: I don't care for three o'clock in the afternoon, six
Speaker 14: o'clock at night. It's about the same thing. People start
Speaker 14: pouring in there about you know, uh right when they're
Speaker 14: playing a national anthem or you know, addressing the players whatever,
Speaker 14: and so the atmosphere doesn't really kick in until about
Speaker 14: two or three minutes into the game.
Speaker 4: Right, you're right in that way, When does the band
Speaker 4: start playing? Does the band play early?
Speaker 14: Yeah, they do, but if there's hardly anybody there, it
Speaker 14: doesn't really matter who's playing, right.
Speaker 3: You're right, you're right. Well, well, the last chance on tomorrow, Yeah,
Speaker 3: thanks Brian.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think this should be the good one though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree to I agree that would be yeah,
Speaker 3: thanks man.
Speaker 14: Yeah, okay, but.
Speaker 1: I was saying the BAM starts about twenty minutes oh
Speaker 1: before yeah, poor, Okay, I'm sure tomorrow will start thirty
Speaker 1: because of the senior ceremonies.
Speaker 3: Senior ceremonies. Yeah, that's true. They better get there early. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're going to see that stuff. You say that the
Speaker 3: crowd could, the kids could be a little crazy, especially
Speaker 3: with a issue.
Speaker 1: I know, I know I used to be. Yeah n
Speaker 1: o'clock specifically with a issue.
Speaker 3: And you started getting your gray hair. Yep, here you guys.
Speaker 1: I got about ten on that sit down.
Speaker 4: I think spring break is going to start Wednesday for
Speaker 4: a lot of this, Oh yeah, probably probably remember, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the campus starts to clear out pretty pretty early in
Speaker 4: the week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take the ten day break, yeah, I think Ray
Speaker 3: you're taking You're taking the nine game nine day break.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a I'm a head out on Thursday morning,
Speaker 1: Harry to the peninsula over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why not? Right?
Speaker 1: School school school.
Speaker 4: Well, because we were saying at the top of the show,
Speaker 4: you know, he was saying he's going to give him
Speaker 4: a rat of a five or something, like that. It's
Speaker 4: kind of perfect because I mean, they're you just don't
Speaker 4: know what they're what you're gonna get. It could be great,
Speaker 4: that could be terrible. And that's kind of the way
Speaker 4: there season's gone. It's funny because I know everybody talks
Speaker 4: about that. Well, in ninety seven they were a four seed,
Speaker 4: and you see every year you hear it, right, this
Speaker 4: is the year that could happen to be a four
Speaker 4: seat and they didn't do this, they didn't do that,
Speaker 4: and then they will go on this run. Right, well,
Speaker 4: and that's usually how each team is remembered anyways, what
Speaker 4: happens in mid March.
Speaker 3: Right, unfair or fair? Right, it's just the way it is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's good.
Speaker 4: We get there every year, though, but the UFA gets
Speaker 4: there pretty much every year.
Speaker 3: You've got a mouse in your pocket, the we you know,
Speaker 3: you're a we that can be a we. Now one's
Speaker 3: a week until for about two more months you guys
Speaker 3: are paying tuition. Yeah, yeah they're wee. I'm not a wee,
Speaker 3: but you're right. We'll see. So how did you how
Speaker 3: do you what was the legacy of the first yeas?
Speaker 1: First year?
Speaker 3: Who Tommy's first year first year here? What's the quick
Speaker 3: what's this the legacy of the first year? It was
Speaker 3: it was no, no, it was it was the Houston.
Speaker 3: It was a great season. It was a great season.
Speaker 3: You lost in the sweet sixteen. Great season, great season,
Speaker 3: Okay my opinion, Okay, okay, because I think they the
Speaker 3: last like five six games that season. Yeah, we lost
Speaker 3: to Houston in a rough up. Okay, So okay, Princeton,
Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, Princeton.
Speaker 1: Terrible. Yeah, that was an up and down season as well,
Speaker 1: just overall, because there was I think that was one
Speaker 1: of those type of seasons where you go and lose
Speaker 1: at Oregon State and you're kind of, well, is this
Speaker 1: is a tournament team?
Speaker 9: Really?
Speaker 5: This year?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are they playing well?
Speaker 3: You're talking about that, you're comparing that to this year?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 1: Overall?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so that's terrible, Dave, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Same word. I wouldn't say terrible, well, I mean just disappointing.
Speaker 3: Okay, last year, last year team.
Speaker 1: Who they do at the end.
Speaker 4: Sweet sixteen? I mean that's kind of predictable.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 4: How much was Arizona favored by They must have been.
Speaker 1: But it was it was close, like one and a half. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: do you have an Arizona's history. I wasn't surprised. It
Speaker 1: was more of a another one of those why didn't
Speaker 1: we show up again?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why didn't they?
Speaker 3: And you were talking about the beginning, the getting into
Speaker 3: this session. They have all these flaws. I guess what's
Speaker 3: going to eventually catch them? All these flaws.
Speaker 4: Flaws aren't going to go away.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, you're right.
Speaker 5: You're right.
Speaker 4: Whether or not they can get around some of those things,
Speaker 4: you know, balance it out somehow, and we goes away
Speaker 4: and Arizona doesn't give up eleven three pointers maybe.
Speaker 3: Six instead one gives us the break. We gotta go,
Speaker 3: we gotta go.
Speaker 1: We're done.
Speaker 3: Thanks everybody, Yeah so quick. Yeah, see you Wednesday, see
Speaker 3: you Wednesday, maybe Thursday, Thursday. Okay, thanks Case