Speaker 1: Breaking down all the usays and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports sporteen
Speaker 1: fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my in the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty Oh Steve Rivera, you're Dave Silvert.
Speaker 2: Now we have Kobe with breaking news.
Speaker 3: Breaking news from sports. Yesterday, Bengals defeat the Cowboys twenty
Speaker 3: seven to twenty as they moved to five and eight.
Speaker 4: Who's your team?
Speaker 2: San Francisco?
Speaker 4: Me my team this year? Buffalo? Oh you changed teams?
Speaker 5: I had change all. I lived in Buffalo, Okay, and
Speaker 5: San Francisco. Who was growing up San Francisco? Uh, probably
Speaker 5: the Raiders because I was in the Bay Area and
Speaker 5: the Raiders were good and the Niners were not in
Speaker 5: those years, but they got it. They kind of switched.
Speaker 5: So everybody's always been kind of a Raiders in forty nine.
Speaker 2: Ers, so everybody who's listened. I didn't know M a
Speaker 2: Cowboy fam but I gave up on them twenty eight
Speaker 2: years ago. You know, rightly so, because I used to
Speaker 2: live in Dallas before I got here. But uh, the
Speaker 2: game was the epitome of what their seasons like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you see that? Blunder I did.
Speaker 2: I was watching.
Speaker 5: I barely was watching any of the game, and I
Speaker 5: was watching the final. You know, a few minutes it
Speaker 5: was tied. I turn on was, oh, it's twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: It's gonna go overtime.
Speaker 2: And they had a chance to put it away. We
Speaker 2: just had to pick up the ball and get into
Speaker 2: field goal range and they were done. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then that happens what.
Speaker 5: I did not see any of the post game, but
Speaker 5: I'm sure they talked to Jerry So Mike McCarthy's still
Speaker 5: say but his contract is up anyways.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I don't see how it would be, but
Speaker 2: he says it is. But the kid who muffed the recovery,
Speaker 2: don't you saw the situation, right, Yeah, you've been playing
Speaker 2: the game for years, years, you're pro, they make give
Speaker 2: you half a million dollars whatever, and then you do that.
Speaker 2: You mean, you know you're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 2: You know, when you were a kid, when did you
Speaker 2: learn not to put the fork into the right Yeah,
Speaker 2: until you have, until you got it in the first time.
Speaker 2: He said, oh, I could not do that again.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you saw the reaction of the coaches. Those
Speaker 5: are always the best too.
Speaker 4: It's like, you know, like that, hell, what are what
Speaker 4: you doing?
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 5: It's it's gotta be frustrating for the coaches. Can they
Speaker 5: coach it all the time? And the player, which is
Speaker 5: you know instinctly the ball's coming towards him and you know,
Speaker 5: couldn't get out of the way or I'm gonna grab Yeah. Y,
Speaker 5: had he just recovered it, it would have been okay, but
Speaker 5: he bounces off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the hell out of the way.
Speaker 4: Bad.
Speaker 3: Arizona defensive lineman Tiati enters NCA transfer portal.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Like I said, I think there's going to be
Speaker 2: eighteen maybe nineteen now again to the top of the hour.
Speaker 2: Week of the first hour, we talked about that. I
Speaker 2: just thought that there was some disconnect between the players
Speaker 2: and the coaches. And I think this confirms what I
Speaker 2: was thinking, because all the good ones are leaving.
Speaker 4: He's he's going defensive line. Does it have a list?
Speaker 2: Does it have a list? I know, I know does
Speaker 2: have a list. You probably have to search for it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: They got a commitment though from a defensive defensive lineman
Speaker 5: in Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they also gave a scholarship. We're giving a scholarship.
Speaker 2: The kid from Washington, another kid from San Jose State
Speaker 2: saw that, and they have the kid one of the
Speaker 2: running backs from New Mexico. And so what's the first
Speaker 2: thing you think of, at least the New Mexico and
Speaker 2: the San Jose State the situation they're going after those guys.
Speaker 5: I know he brought some San Jose State and New
Speaker 5: Mexico players with him the first time.
Speaker 4: Dave, how'd that go? Missus Lincoln?
Speaker 2: How did depend?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Let's you know, let's again, let's give him benefit of doubt.
Speaker 5: Maybe just because now we're they're in the Big twelve
Speaker 5: and they've had a year and people sort of know
Speaker 5: what's going on. There's going to be a lot of openings. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, I fifteen or sixteen guys are leaving. That
Speaker 5: means they can fill the roster with that on top
Speaker 5: of the recruits. So there's there's bodies that will be
Speaker 5: coming in this way, right.
Speaker 3: Kaal and Clark named Time Athletes of the Year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that's a good pick.
Speaker 2: She was she she transcended college basketball, YEP, pro basketball,
Speaker 2: all of it. Because and I wonder how her year
Speaker 2: two is going to go, because they treated her like
Speaker 2: crap that first year.
Speaker 4: What did you think about her not making the Olympic team.
Speaker 2: I was indifferent to it because there was pretty good players. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in different.
Speaker 5: I mean it was it seemed like she never had
Speaker 5: a break other than the Olympics. You know, she literally
Speaker 5: went from you know, her college season, championships, you know,
Speaker 5: and all that stuff, and then the Olympics fell, like
Speaker 5: maybe the u WNBA started a little bit, and then
Speaker 5: you know, she plays there, then they have that break
Speaker 5: and then she comes back.
Speaker 4: So it was it was quite a run.
Speaker 2: And you're also thinking she one of the top twelve
Speaker 2: players in the world and in the United States.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean maybe not, but you know, she's certainly
Speaker 5: one of the top twelve most known players in the
Speaker 5: United States, and not the ratings are that big of
Speaker 5: a deal. Everyone's watching the Olympics AnyWho. But you know,
Speaker 5: it would have been nice to see her, and you know
Speaker 5: she'll be back in you know, LA in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was more like do you remember when uh, god,
Speaker 2: the duke guy everyone hates Christian Chris, remember he had
Speaker 2: the team and they were like he coming on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, same type of thing.
Speaker 5: Well, the guy from Duke Cooper Flag was practicing with them,
Speaker 5: but he didn't play right Yeah, right now, he was
Speaker 5: never in a game.
Speaker 4: But it kind of a similar situation.
Speaker 5: But you know, if you can take an athlete the year,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of who else, I mean, she
Speaker 5: was in the news for a lot of a lot
Speaker 5: of time during this year.
Speaker 2: Uh, Tony maybe might he had a pretty good year, judge,
Speaker 2: maybe not TONI Who else.
Speaker 4: Was he last year? I don't remember. I don't remember.
Speaker 3: Purdue hires UNLV's coach Barry Odom after he led UNLV
Speaker 3: to a ten and three record.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is not a shock that he was going
Speaker 2: to get a new job somewhere. I would not have
Speaker 2: been surprised had there was Gonna let Go, had had
Speaker 2: doesby let Go Brennan, that Odam would have been the
Speaker 2: next guy. She hired him at Dagas, That's right, That's right.
Speaker 2: She had him at Vegas. He's done very well, uh
Speaker 2: as opposed to the quarterback who left Vegas for no nil.
Speaker 2: He now has money more money at Purdue right within.
Speaker 2: I l But they also have a terrible team. I mean,
Speaker 2: weren't they like he had like one on the left.
Speaker 2: They were not good this year, and you know they've
Speaker 2: been good.
Speaker 5: I mean I think of you know, even Drew Brees
Speaker 5: and people like that went there over the years. So
Speaker 5: they've been pretty bad though lately, and they you know,
Speaker 5: got totally you know, humiliated by both Notre Dame and
Speaker 5: Indiana and State this year. So for due whatever good
Speaker 5: in basketball.
Speaker 3: Rich Rodriguez may be headed back to West Virginia.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which is not a shock to me.
Speaker 2: He kind of left under tough circumstances because you know,
Speaker 2: they love him and love him. He's a native guy,
Speaker 2: and when you leave kind of like fish and everybody
Speaker 2: else New mex School guy. Uh men in hall of
Speaker 2: the pissed that you and the piss that you've It's
Speaker 2: been enough time now where I'll okay, we need you back.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean he had a great run there in
Speaker 5: West Virginia, then goes to Michigan and kind of flounders
Speaker 5: and take some time off, comes here and you had
Speaker 5: a couple.
Speaker 2: Of good yeas.
Speaker 4: Now what would be his legacy here? I guess it was.
Speaker 5: The twenty fourteen team was his big one, right, and
Speaker 5: they made the Pack twelve.
Speaker 2: Champions and you always knew at least I thought that
Speaker 2: he'd want to jump after something, that that the fires
Speaker 2: were struck hard, that he would leave. He tried to
Speaker 2: go to South Carolina for whatever reason. That didn't work.
Speaker 2: One side says one thing, he says that another.
Speaker 5: Well, his legacy, unfortunately, was just kind of how he
Speaker 5: exited here. Yeah, it didn't look out too well. And
Speaker 5: then he lands, you know, on his feet where Jacksonville
Speaker 5: wasn't an assistant someplace?
Speaker 2: Maybe, Yeah, he was at he was at I want
Speaker 2: to say, Louisville or somewhere like that.
Speaker 4: Why am I missing this? Jacksonville State's in a bowl game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they won the Conference USA two years into the
Speaker 2: into the creation of the league.
Speaker 4: Yea for getting into the league. He was the coach
Speaker 4: just as I was leaving TV.
Speaker 5: I remember I interviewed him in his office, which I
Speaker 5: don't think I ever did with Stoops or whoever was
Speaker 5: before him, like just one on one in his office
Speaker 5: and then well, coach, I'm actually gonna stop. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be leaving here soon. But it's as good meeting.
Speaker 5: And he was kind of a good old boy.
Speaker 4: He was. He was a good.
Speaker 5: Interview because remember he did TV for that little stretch
Speaker 5: he was on CBS.
Speaker 4: So he was good with the media.
Speaker 6: He was he was a dude.
Speaker 2: And I did the story. He hated to lose, like
Speaker 2: he hated it. And you've seen the you've seen the
Speaker 2: videos of him going ballistic in the in the press
Speaker 2: box or whatever. He was just kind of that dude. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just kind of hated to lose. And he says, well, Steve,
Speaker 2: you know, my mom used to tell me all that
Speaker 2: time when I was a kid playing checkers, I used
Speaker 2: to hate to lose. We'd have to play until I won.
Speaker 5: It came from a generation to where you know, he
Speaker 5: was a little PC, you know, and so he had
Speaker 5: he had to be careful oh that he was not
Speaker 5: piece PC. And so when he shows up, you know,
Speaker 5: and things started happening around the department, and you know,
Speaker 5: news gets out of different things that were going on,
Speaker 5: it's like, yeah, this is not can't be acting like
Speaker 5: riding at university.
Speaker 3: University of Michigan's Mason Graham projected top five pick enters
Speaker 3: the draft.
Speaker 2: Potentially enter the Michigan Michigan. Yeah.
Speaker 5: He was good last year, Michigan not good this year.
Speaker 5: Did you see did you have the b YU recruit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't pronounce his name if you the bond stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going there to b Yu.
Speaker 2: The potential number one pick for the NBA is going
Speaker 2: there because the coach coached, Uh, Kevin Durrant, Right.
Speaker 4: He said b Yu. He just committed.
Speaker 2: I saw that who coached the coaches there coached the game.
Speaker 4: But he's he's coached Durant at Texas?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, okay, what else said he else?
Speaker 3: That's it for breaking news?
Speaker 5: Do you see the Yankees have another another left handed pitcher.
Speaker 5: They just signed two hundred and eighteen million Max Freed,
Speaker 5: highest contract ever for a lefty.
Speaker 4: Two hundred and eighteen million.
Speaker 3: They have money to spend now after Sotos?
Speaker 2: Could you believe Sotos thing even more than a Tony's crazy?
Speaker 2: He's crazy stuff.
Speaker 5: He's younger, right, what is he twenties? Still like twenty six?
Speaker 3: Twenty six?
Speaker 7: What do you think?
Speaker 4: So young?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 4: I know, I thought he was older than that.
Speaker 5: He's been around since I was like nineteen. I think
Speaker 5: he was on the national right. What I say, you
Speaker 5: think BELLI chicks and take that job?
Speaker 4: What do you? I don't know. Why would he do that, Yeah, why.
Speaker 2: Would he do that?
Speaker 4: Well, well, there's young girls on campus. He's got a
Speaker 4: young girl friend.
Speaker 2: That's my point. That's my point. I was being joking. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know he's still getting some twenty four year old.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know why. There's got to be I haven't.
Speaker 5: Well keep it up in the story. There's got to
Speaker 5: be some relationships there.
Speaker 2: Well there, I think there is what I think I
Speaker 2: saw this yesterday on the McAfee show that uh, it's
Speaker 2: it's in the NFL. He would sell it that it'd
Speaker 2: be the portal to the NFL. Can I fish right?
Speaker 2: We got all these ex people, we know how to
Speaker 2: get you to the next level. You'll be prepared.
Speaker 5: He could keep bringing in all his former players, you know,
Speaker 5: to get pep talks like well, Gronk.
Speaker 2: Like well yeah, and then like the idean does in Colorado, Yeah,
Speaker 2: kind of the influencer.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't I just don't see from what you hear
Speaker 5: about coaches who do not want to be part of
Speaker 5: the this nil generation and all these transfer portals that
Speaker 5: are taking lesser jobs.
Speaker 4: Why would someone like that.
Speaker 5: Who's done so much and seventy two don't forget his
Speaker 5: age unless he's.
Speaker 4: Just not getting the offers, which maybe he's not for Well,
Speaker 4: there was a theory thrown out. I heard it yesterday.
Speaker 2: So Belichick's son is coaching with with Fish up in Washington.
Speaker 2: He gets this job, brings his son with him, and
Speaker 2: two or three years down the road, his son takes over.
Speaker 2: Kind of creates that legacy of you know, next guy,
Speaker 2: which makes sense if it's true or possible. So it
Speaker 2: would make sense, you know, bring a son along kind
Speaker 2: of grooming for the next job.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just don't know. It would be shocking. Would
Speaker 5: you coach at the this level? You're going to make
Speaker 5: four million dollars a year? You getting coach it?
Speaker 4: What was he making with when he was in the patrons?
Speaker 4: Probably making at least like seven Sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, but you're But the thing is today you're
Speaker 2: a competitor, right, You compete or you don't like to compete?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I love to compete.
Speaker 4: Depends depends what it is, because if I get a chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these guys who have competed all their lives, this
Speaker 2: is their juice, man, This is how they get their
Speaker 2: drilline going. And that's probably what it is. And he's
Speaker 2: you know, he's probably well, I'm sure he is totally
Speaker 2: different with the media than he is with the team
Speaker 2: because he runs a as you hear old people the
Speaker 2: former players talk, it's a difficult situation.
Speaker 5: And he's, uh, you know, parlayed this little retirement into
Speaker 5: a number of broadcasting opportunities. He's on mcafeel as you mentioned,
Speaker 5: and uh, you know, he's doing Peyton and Eli on
Speaker 5: on Monday Night football. He's got something with Draft Kings.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's been all over the place here during
Speaker 5: the football and you.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't think from his gonna views that he would be any.
Speaker 4: Good exactly, but it's pretty good.
Speaker 5: Asked me a question, dude, why didn't Why didn't you
Speaker 5: guys win this weekend?
Speaker 4: We just didn't. We just didn't. We didn't play well.
Speaker 4: Could you follow up with a little more on that?
Speaker 4: I just did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just did.
Speaker 4: I'd be come on.
Speaker 2: His personality doesn't lend to the media at least being dynamic,
Speaker 2: but but he is.
Speaker 4: It's like Saban Saban. Salmon's totally different than what he
Speaker 4: was on the field. Well, with the.
Speaker 5: Players, I think Saban's great, He's fantastics, really good. He's fantastic.
Speaker 5: You know, he's a little bit of a homer. I mean,
Speaker 5: he was pretty upset about Alabama this week not getting
Speaker 5: to the championship playoff game.
Speaker 4: But worst things have happened to him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and did you see Burns tweets he was Greg Burns.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he was like, shut up, shut up.
Speaker 2: You know you're Alabama. Get over it.
Speaker 5: Don't play you know, Southeastern Louisiana State. You know in
Speaker 5: November there's that one week when in the SEC where
Speaker 5: like everybody plays their cupcake game, like in the middle
Speaker 5: of Jilt exactly. Don't lose the Vanderbilt you're in Yep,
Speaker 5: you know. Oh I had to stop that at a
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Speaker 1: Today Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the ball
Speaker 1: on Tucson's sports station, Fox Sports sporteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the ball here at
Speaker 2: Fox Sports. What you took you, Steve Rivera in with
Speaker 2: me today is Dave Silver? Now when if all we
Speaker 2: have a whole house FEMA Women's Festival Head coach Todd.
Speaker 2: How you doing.
Speaker 6: What I'm doing?
Speaker 7: Great?
Speaker 8: And I'm so excited that I get to have Dave
Speaker 8: Silver out here with me too.
Speaker 4: I hear you go back, we go.
Speaker 7: You can go way back. Actually I taught Scott Driver's ed.
Speaker 5: I was telling Steve that this is so Scott is now.
Speaker 5: It's over twenty years.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Let me let me give you my one Scott Silver story.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's listening, probably not because he's busy,
Speaker 5: but you know he's in the film industry now and
Speaker 5: he's working for Searchlight and they have a big movie
Speaker 5: coming Christmas about Bob Dylan called a complete unknown Timothy Shallomey.
Speaker 5: If you saw him on Game Day, he's making the
Speaker 5: picks the other day on It's really good. So tonight
Speaker 5: the movie, Yeah, so tonight Scott is getting to go
Speaker 5: to the La Premiere, So Shalla May will be there
Speaker 5: and all the stars, El Fanning, the director, and then
Speaker 5: they're gonna show the film and then they're gonna walk
Speaker 5: They closed down I think it's Hollywood Boulevard. They're gonna
Speaker 5: close up the streets and there's a huge party. So
Speaker 5: he'll be home late. But he he when I told
Speaker 5: him you were gonna be on, He's like, make sure
Speaker 5: you say.
Speaker 4: I had to coach t.
Speaker 8: So thus fulling mountain memories are so much fun. Like
Speaker 8: I see those Oh they're not kids anymore, but.
Speaker 7: I think they're kids. I see them out and about
Speaker 7: around town. It's the coolest thing.
Speaker 2: So is that what you did or you do? You coached?
Speaker 2: I mean you taught drivers in YEP.
Speaker 8: When I first moved to Tucsont, I worked in the
Speaker 8: Flying Well School district.
Speaker 7: So I started off.
Speaker 8: At Homer Davis for a couple of years, and then
Speaker 8: I went over to the high school and I taught
Speaker 8: health and drivers A and PTE classes and weight training
Speaker 8: and all the all that fun stuff.
Speaker 7: So I got to meet a lot of awesome kids.
Speaker 4: Wow, very cool. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: So in addition to coaching, women's basketball. What do you do.
Speaker 7: Well right now? I'm the assistant AD and coaching basketball.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, I've narrowed the scope now assistant AD and
Speaker 8: women's basketball.
Speaker 4: It's not a bad thing, not a bad thing. And
Speaker 4: you're doing very well.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you're doing in the AD, but
Speaker 2: you're doing very well with the women's basketball team this year.
Speaker 2: Eight and one. Have a big game tomorrow and then
Speaker 2: another game on Sunday. That's a big game in a
Speaker 2: different way. What's going on with this team right that
Speaker 2: you have now?
Speaker 8: Well, it's been a lot of fun so far. And
Speaker 8: obviously I don't know if I'd have predicted that we'd
Speaker 8: be eight and one right now or not, but we'll
Speaker 8: take it. And the kids have come together great. We
Speaker 8: have a kind of a different team in terms of
Speaker 8: I think we're pretty strong inside, probably more so than
Speaker 8: we have been in the past, so we have good
Speaker 8: balance inside and outside. I got a post player that's
Speaker 8: averaging nineteen and ten, so that's always nice on those
Speaker 8: nights or you're maybe not shooting as well from the outside.
Speaker 8: But just a fun group and so far, so good,
Speaker 8: and tomorrow night, like you mentioned, we're going to go
Speaker 8: up to play Mesa. Masa's ranked number ten or nine
Speaker 8: in the country. No, rank number eight in the country.
Speaker 8: We're ranked number nine in the country. So it'll you know,
Speaker 8: it's been going on for eighteen years between Pima and Masa,
Speaker 8: and so tomorrow night's just another chapter in the book.
Speaker 5: I think you've got a good mixture of Tucson talents,
Speaker 5: as you always seem to. Is that still where you're
Speaker 5: you know, you're basing most of your recruiting is out
Speaker 5: of the Tucson high schools.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think our philosophy has always been just try
Speaker 8: to keep the best kids home and then fill in
Speaker 8: kind of, you know, with pieces from around the area,
Speaker 8: whether it's Phoenix or you know, we have some from Wyoming.
Speaker 7: This year, we have one from California.
Speaker 8: So we have a couple from New Mexico, and then
Speaker 8: you know, we always get a few kids from the
Speaker 8: reservation as well.
Speaker 7: So it's probably fifty to fifty, but it's always kind of.
Speaker 8: A blend of what we need and where the kids are,
Speaker 8: and so we try to keep the best ones home
Speaker 8: and then build around that.
Speaker 2: So do you spend a lot of time recruiting And
Speaker 2: I asked that in that way, kind of piecing your
Speaker 2: team together where if they fit or do you go
Speaker 2: after the best and just try to figure it out well.
Speaker 8: As we speak right now, we are on the road.
Speaker 8: My friend Pete far harder when I hire on the
Speaker 8: road right now driving to post im Butte High School
Speaker 8: to catch a game there.
Speaker 7: So we're always recruiting.
Speaker 8: Pete does a lot of the recruiting, so he's logging
Speaker 8: lots of miles. But tonight I happened to be along
Speaker 8: for the ride, and there's you know, I think I
Speaker 8: always kind of approach it like I consider us more
Speaker 8: snipers than shotgun in terms of we try to pick
Speaker 8: out kids that kind of fit what we're looking for
Speaker 8: in terms of character, academics, and obviously they can play ball,
Speaker 8: and so we're probably a little pickier. And you know,
Speaker 8: having success over the years allows us.
Speaker 6: To be a little more picky, so you know, we
Speaker 6: can turn kids away.
Speaker 7: We're not trying to fill roster spots.
Speaker 8: We're trying to, you know, get pieces that we want
Speaker 8: and kind of build from there. So I think that,
Speaker 8: you know, having success over the years has led us
Speaker 8: the luxury of.
Speaker 6: Being able to be a little more finicky. I guess
Speaker 6: when it comes.
Speaker 4: To recruiting, what was it like recruiting your daughter?
Speaker 8: Man, she kept me on the outs until like the
Speaker 8: last minute. She surprised me on her senior night, and
Speaker 8: so recruiting her was a little different because I really
Speaker 8: didn't know what she was thinking about doing and then
Speaker 8: she's dropped.
Speaker 7: It on me.
Speaker 8: But you know the fact that she's a sophomore now
Speaker 8: it's almost over. So it's been so much fun. Like
Speaker 8: everybody always asks like, how is it coaching your daughter?
Speaker 8: And to be honest, I absolutely love it. And I
Speaker 8: think a lot of that's because of the kind of
Speaker 8: kid she is, and probably growing up at a basketball house.
Speaker 7: She just is a great teammate and great team players.
Speaker 8: So she's probably heard me over the years come home
Speaker 8: and complain about this, that and the other, or praise
Speaker 8: kids for this, that and the other. And she's kind
Speaker 8: of figured it out and she's been a lot of
Speaker 8: fun to coach.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that what is she going to
Speaker 4: do next?
Speaker 8: You know, Well, she wants to be an architect, so
Speaker 8: finding an architect school is a little harder than finding
Speaker 8: someplace that wants to be a pe teacher. So she's
Speaker 8: looking and she's applied to some schools and we'll you know,
Speaker 8: we're kind of writing out the basketball season to see
Speaker 8: where that goes. But you know, I think, no matter what,
Speaker 8: she's going to be somewhere learning how to be an architect.
Speaker 8: So a lot smarter than I am, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, what percentage of your players continue
Speaker 5: with basketball once they've hit PEMA?
Speaker 4: Is this is this the end?
Speaker 5: Or you know, how many go on and play somewhere
Speaker 5: else or you know, stay involved in the sport.
Speaker 8: That's a great question. Actually, the numbers probably higher than
Speaker 8: you think, because a lot of our kids get recruited.
Speaker 8: If I have to give you a percentage, I'd probably
Speaker 8: say that seventy five percent of our kids go on
Speaker 8: and play somewhere, whether it's NAIA Division two, Division III.
Speaker 8: We've had a number of D one players. But you
Speaker 8: know that's a small percentage. So TEMA kids have a
Speaker 8: good reputation, as you know, they come from our program
Speaker 8: and they know how to play man friends, they know
Speaker 8: how to get it done in the classroom. They're good
Speaker 8: character kids. So you know, we're at the point or
Speaker 8: I'm at the point where I've been doing it in
Speaker 8: a while, and so now coaches call me and ask
Speaker 8: and it may be a kid that averaged two points
Speaker 8: for us, but as a great kid and a great student,
Speaker 8: and they'll get an opportunity to go play, and I think,
Speaker 8: you know, the ones who want to keep playing, we
Speaker 8: usually find a home. But you know, if I had
Speaker 8: to give it a number, I'd say it's probably seventy
Speaker 8: five to eighty percent of our kids go on and play,
Speaker 8: which is really cool.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, you know, Lot had this presence.
Speaker 2: I'm sure all the division coaches and you you coach
Speaker 2: at that level to a DA probably has that presence.
Speaker 2: So when you go to see a recruit, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if they know you're coming in or they you
Speaker 2: kind of just kind of get in flying or drive in.
Speaker 2: Do they know that you're there and you have that
Speaker 2: you get that presence, you're a big dude. Do they
Speaker 2: know you're there? And maybe you can kind of tell
Speaker 2: that they may be trying to impress or not impress.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I'm not real good at hiding. That's not
Speaker 8: one of my one of my strength. But usually we
Speaker 8: try to give you know, first of all, if we're
Speaker 8: going to make a drive somewhere. We try to make
Speaker 8: sure the kid is actually going to play and make
Speaker 8: sure that you know, if they get a sprained ankle
Speaker 8: or they're sick or whatever. So we try to touch
Speaker 8: base with at least the coach, you know, depending.
Speaker 7: On the kid.
Speaker 8: Some kids get all eeked up about you know you're
Speaker 8: coming to watch them, So sometimes I won't tell them
Speaker 8: we're coming, but I'll make sure coach knows we're coming.
Speaker 8: And then some kids are cool about it and get
Speaker 8: excited for it, so we'll let them know, but they
Speaker 8: know we're coming tonight and so that'll be exciting. And
Speaker 8: I don't know, I don't really really remember anybody, you know.
Speaker 8: I try to tell the kids just go play your game.
Speaker 8: You don't have to do like we're recruiting you because.
Speaker 7: We know you're already good at basketball.
Speaker 6: So just go play and do what you normally.
Speaker 7: Do because that's that's what we want to see.
Speaker 2: So you played with tomorrow and then Saturday you have
Speaker 2: a big game, the Indigenous Game. Correct, you've done this
Speaker 2: for three or four years now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's something I started four years ago. So this
Speaker 8: is the fourth annual Indigenous in honor of an Indigenous
Speaker 8: people's game. And it kind of came to the concept
Speaker 8: because I've had the pleasure of coaching such a number
Speaker 8: of Native American young ladies over the years, and I
Speaker 8: just see how big a part of their culture that
Speaker 8: basketball actually is. And so I just started this because
Speaker 8: we've you know, had so many good kids go through.
Speaker 7: So it's kind of grown.
Speaker 8: And this year we're adding a couple of high school games.
Speaker 8: So we're gonna host Bob a Keepery High School versus
Speaker 8: San Pascual High School, a couple of red teams. We're
Speaker 8: gonna have their JV girls game at three thirty, We're
Speaker 8: gonna play their varsity at five, and then we're gonna
Speaker 8: play Park University JV at seven and then intermixed. You know,
Speaker 8: there's some there's powwout dancing, there's hoop dancing.
Speaker 7: We have recognition by our NASA Native.
Speaker 8: American Student Association, and our New Chance is actually gonna
Speaker 8: speak aut it this year too, So it's kind of
Speaker 8: grown and it's kind of a big deal and I'm
Speaker 8: excited for it and I'm always proud of it because
Speaker 8: we just keep adding to it.
Speaker 7: So it's been a lot of fun over.
Speaker 5: The years, and you have some current players on your
Speaker 5: roster right from from the reservation. Looks like window Rock
Speaker 5: and Page and people like that.
Speaker 8: So yeah, we have we have five kids. Actually, we
Speaker 8: have one from window Our starting point guard is from
Speaker 8: window Rock and she's good. We have a girl from Page,
Speaker 8: we have one from Holbrook, we have one from Kirtland Central,
Speaker 8: which is in New Mexico, and then one of our
Speaker 8: Native kids is from Dobson High School up in Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So does it keep you well? And I'm sure
Speaker 2: it's gonna be well attended right from the locals.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it gets bigger every year, but many time we
Speaker 8: have this, and now we're adding the high school games.
Speaker 8: I think that'll be even a bigger crowd. So it's
Speaker 8: been a lot of fun to kind of grow over
Speaker 8: the years and seriously just thought of it one day
Speaker 8: and thought we'd.
Speaker 7: Put it together.
Speaker 8: But we know we have Native American uniforms, so we
Speaker 8: have turquoise uniforms that will break out on Saturdays. So
Speaker 8: it's just a lot of fun and a way to
Speaker 8: honor the kids that have come through here in the past.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, good, good. So you like this team, you
Speaker 4: must like this thing.
Speaker 2: Eight and one playing hard for you playing well for
Speaker 2: you you guys, you and and and Brian. Obviously every
Speaker 2: year you guys have a good team. What do you
Speaker 2: guys need to do to sustain this?
Speaker 7: I think we have in terms of we do a
Speaker 7: lot of things good.
Speaker 8: Now it's you know, it's probably ten games to kind
Speaker 8: of get kids in the right spots. But then once
Speaker 8: we get them in the right spots, just to fine
Speaker 8: tune what they're working on or what we're doing. And
Speaker 8: then you know, as you go through and you start
Speaker 8: repeating the ponents, you got to throw a wrinkle or
Speaker 8: two in here there. So just kind of keep evolving
Speaker 8: and keep growing so that you're playing your best basketball
Speaker 8: in Mark.
Speaker 4: The league is always tough? Is it tough again this year?
Speaker 5: It seems like every year there's somebody making, you know,
Speaker 5: a good run to the championship.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I think our league is, you know,
Speaker 8: for our level, our Division two junior college level, it's
Speaker 8: tough every year. We went to Nationals last year as
Speaker 8: an at large bid, MASA went as the region champ.
Speaker 8: MASA finished third in the country and we finished seventh.
Speaker 8: So yeah, two teams that you know from our area
Speaker 8: that finished in the top ten of the country last year,
Speaker 8: so it's just a it's a battle every year. There's
Speaker 8: some new teams that kind of emerge each year. I'd
Speaker 8: probably Scottsdales knocking on the door again. Glenndale's better this year.
Speaker 8: We just played them Saturday, but they've improved quite a bit.
Speaker 8: And then Chandler Gilbert will be in the mix too,
Speaker 8: so makes it fun, makes it interesting, and just see
Speaker 8: who's better in March.
Speaker 2: I guess how long you been there? You've been there
Speaker 2: a few years, eighteen years, eighteen years year. Wow, well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it's never gotten boring. You have an
Speaker 2: old joke teller as your sidekick there, but eighteen years
Speaker 2: because every year is different, I'm assuming.
Speaker 7: Yeah, every year.
Speaker 8: That's what the fun part about coaching, and maybe even
Speaker 8: more so in junior college is you turn over basically
Speaker 8: half your team every year, so every year.
Speaker 6: It's kind of a new chemistry experiment.
Speaker 8: I've been fortunate because I had the same assistance, so
Speaker 8: that's always good because that stays steady, so like the
Speaker 8: coaching remains the same, but then it's kind of like
Speaker 8: putting the new pieces of the puzzle together and teaching
Speaker 8: them the way that we like to play, so it's
Speaker 8: always stays fun. And you know, going back to what
Speaker 8: I taught Scott in school, I love this flong webs
Speaker 8: and I still love it the same way now. So
Speaker 8: as long as they keep paying me to do it,
Speaker 8: I'm gonna keep doing it.
Speaker 5: How much longer you think you want to go? You've
Speaker 5: been doing it, like you said, a long time.
Speaker 7: Maybe I have a fifth grader, so I got Oh gosh.
Speaker 2: Dave's not trying to push you out, because he's not
Speaker 2: trying to push you out either.
Speaker 4: I want to do some radio. Steve need some help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need a guess though, when the season's over,
Speaker 2: you got to come in.
Speaker 8: I'd love to come in and sit in the studio
Speaker 8: one day. It'll be a lot of fun in fact
Speaker 8: for radio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people we all do, except for Dave here. But
Speaker 2: because College Grove is coming in Thursday, so here you go.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just gotta get I gotta get cosgrow fired up.
Speaker 4: And who knows what he'll say.
Speaker 8: I think if you move the show to BOPDPS deep
Speaker 8: body be glad.
Speaker 2: You'll say, can you yeah, just go remote?
Speaker 4: But okay, yeah, but that might happen too.
Speaker 2: We gotta wait for you guys to finish your your
Speaker 2: seasons here, so making a long experience you guys. If
Speaker 2: you guys go, really it's late March or April.
Speaker 8: If we go where we want to, we'll be done,
Speaker 8: like March twenty fourth.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well here's your date, March twenty fourth. We'll talk
Speaker 2: to you after that. Okay, Okay, thanks, Tom, appreciate you.
Speaker 7: Hey, I appreciate it. Good to catch it up, Dave,
Speaker 7: Thank god, I.
Speaker 4: Said, congrats, Well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 7: All Right, you guys take care.
Speaker 2: Coach Hodel Scot obviously eight and one doing well. The
Speaker 2: right number nine played tomorrow in Masa and then come
Speaker 2: back on Saturday. I think the games at six o'clock
Speaker 2: at Pima.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the Indigenous game, Indigenous people's game, which is
Speaker 5: kind of cool. They're bringing in high school because there
Speaker 5: was a really good Netflix series I believe about those
Speaker 5: communities in northern Arizona and all the success and what
Speaker 5: does what high school basketball means there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a big deal, it really is.
Speaker 2: Okay. So it starts at three thirty with the JV
Speaker 2: game Santa Press Well against Barbecue. What you saying thank you, Dave.
Speaker 2: This is a Saturday game. This is a Saturday game.
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Ravera on
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I'm the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fortunet fifty. I'm Steve Vera here, Dave Silbert. You've
Speaker 2: got Kobe handling the background stuff. We got the calls
Speaker 2: if you like to call five to zero four, one six.
Speaker 2: What do you got going there? You were you were talking,
Speaker 2: you were googling, Well, you googling.
Speaker 4: I was just looking baseball.
Speaker 5: It's just you know, it's the Winter meetings, so this
Speaker 5: isn't kind of the week when the big gun tracts
Speaker 5: come out and players are moving around a lot of
Speaker 5: free agents. The big one was the Yankees with Max
Speaker 5: Freed the pitcher. Yeah, yeah, seven year deal, two hundred
Speaker 5: and some million's pocket change compared to Soto. But still
Speaker 5: Yankees are always going to be in the middle of things.
Speaker 5: Dodgers usual suspects.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you see anything with the Arizona and how
Speaker 2: many people they've kind of bosto oh for football? They
Speaker 2: just the Star just sent an alert that it continues
Speaker 2: to grow, you know. And then the volleyball team is
Speaker 2: now in the Elite eight, I guess with their their
Speaker 2: their tournament, postseason tournament. So they're doing really well. And
Speaker 2: there was one who got a commitment from a from
Speaker 2: a Texas guy, defensive lineman, Porter Patton. So as they
Speaker 2: come new ones come on in. There's a lot.
Speaker 4: There's a lot on the list though, the big ones.
Speaker 4: What Manu Wente Mo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh what's his name? Uh, Malachai makay Riley Yeah,
Speaker 2: ano another one. Uh, there's there's been a few. I
Speaker 2: think there's nim me count at the three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen,
Speaker 2: oh about twenty twenty, pretty big. Yeah, anythink course a
Speaker 2: quarterback Joanah Rodriguez. Uh just you know, holy crap, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be about potty thirty. I mean again, at least
Speaker 2: to me to believe that there was no there was
Speaker 2: no desire for these guys to play for their coach.
Speaker 5: Well with the quarterback Bradon Dorman, didn't he come in
Speaker 5: pretty yeah, pretty highly regarded. He was like a four
Speaker 5: or five star quarterback that didn't work out.
Speaker 4: We got a call yeah yeah, okay, hell little you're
Speaker 4: on the air nine on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 2: There's Brian Brian Hey two times in a week.
Speaker 17: I like it, I know, and Jay's not there?
Speaker 2: What the heck? Yeah, what's what's the word.
Speaker 17: Well, I'm just looking at you know, all this transport
Speaker 17: portal stuff. You know, it doesn't matter until August, right when,
Speaker 17: you know, when we start practicing, then we'll know what
Speaker 17: roster we have, you know, because right now we have
Speaker 17: all these guys leaving.
Speaker 6: And we'll get all these guys coming in and then.
Speaker 18: In the spring or I think there's another time in January.
Speaker 7: I think there's.
Speaker 18: Another time, you know. And so if if we bring
Speaker 18: in some people.
Speaker 17: That and people on our roster don't like what they see,
Speaker 17: they're gonna leave, and then we'll have the spring practice,
Speaker 17: and right after spring practice there's another portal time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 17: This there needs to be some kind of regiment or
Speaker 17: rules that that are set down this otherwise it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Well that's the whole problem.
Speaker 5: Well, the one one of the I guess maybe you
Speaker 5: could say good things is if you think about academics,
Speaker 5: which I'm not quite sure anybody really does it anymore,
Speaker 5: but you know, the semesters are ending and kids are
Speaker 5: coming out of high school and the skipping their senior years,
Speaker 5: and that semester is ending too, So the timing now
Speaker 5: is kind of good for them. I guess where they
Speaker 5: could make a choice and move on. So there'll probably
Speaker 5: be a bunch coming here in the next week or so.
Speaker 7: Is the U of A.
Speaker 17: Also, Also, what Lane Kipping said, I thought, I'm not
Speaker 17: a big Lane Kipping fan, but what he said was true.
Speaker 17: They need to change the portal date. Okay, till after
Speaker 17: the football season, because you've got guys they had it
Speaker 17: on but starting yesterday.
Speaker 18: That they could put their name in the portal. Right, Well,
Speaker 18: I guess Duke had a quarterback who's going into the portal.
Speaker 17: And he said, I'm not going to play, you know,
Speaker 17: in the in the in the games.
Speaker 18: So all these people who go into the.
Speaker 17: Portal, of course they're not going to play in them
Speaker 17: bowl games. Whether they were or not doesn't matter. But
Speaker 17: at least for the teams and the coaches whatever, and
Speaker 17: for the fans at least you know what.
Speaker 18: You'd have going into a bowl game. Now, you never
Speaker 18: can tell what's going to happen to me.
Speaker 4: Brian, what level of U A fan are you?
Speaker 2: Well, not of ten.
Speaker 17: I think of ten, but it's getting starting to weaken.
Speaker 17: And it's not because of the UOBA itself, it's just
Speaker 17: the dynamic of NCAA sports.
Speaker 2: So you answered my own question because I figured, maybe
Speaker 2: it takes its toll after all this stuff. Maybe the losing,
Speaker 2: the nil, just the completion.
Speaker 17: You know, the losing doesn't bother me, only for the
Speaker 17: fact and football we're so used to it. Okay, But
Speaker 17: what bothers me is, you know, I'm an older person
Speaker 17: and I'm setting.
Speaker 18: My ways, and I like having the whole idea that when.
Speaker 17: This season's over with, I basically have an idea what's
Speaker 17: coming back next year for our team. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 17: in any sport, in any sport, and that's not happening anymore.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, you have until August, so be prepared.
Speaker 17: I was with a group of guys, you know, I mean,
Speaker 17: you know, there's no telling what we're gonna have, you know,
Speaker 17: in quarterback at Taffeta, what if the Peter decides to leave?
Speaker 17: You know, Yeah, I know you're right, and that could
Speaker 17: possibly happen. There'll be some school's gonna say, hey, you
Speaker 17: come here with your talent, we can make the offense
Speaker 17: around you. The right way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian, thanks for the calling. Another call coming in.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, keep calling, keep calling. Thanks a bunch?
Speaker 2: Did he Okay, we got another call coming in. Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the airline the WORLVE.
Speaker 19: What's going on, Steve?
Speaker 2: What's going on? We're doing well. I think you talked
Speaker 2: to us last week. Right, what's your first name again?
Speaker 2: My first name is Michael, Michael. I'll remember that, Michael.
Speaker 2: What you got for me today?
Speaker 20: Hey, just like I said, if Arion's on the basketball,
Speaker 20: that's going to be successful. They got to play more
Speaker 20: complimentary basketball. And I indicated that kJ Lewis seemed like
Speaker 20: he was the guy that wanted to do that, if
Speaker 20: you recall, Yes, and basically, when you got three guys
Speaker 20: and everybody wants to be the man, the problem is
Speaker 20: is everybody can't be the man. So they gotta work
Speaker 20: work together a little bit better and they might win
Speaker 20: a few more games.
Speaker 19: But they're in a very very tough conference.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 19: They got about four or five teams in this Big
Speaker 19: twelve that the real deal.
Speaker 20: So you know they're gonna go down a few more times,
Speaker 20: but they gotta they gotta work at it. Hopefully it'll
Speaker 20: get them better. You know the ninety seventeen struggle too,
Speaker 20: but they seemed to put it together at the very
Speaker 20: end and stuff like that.
Speaker 19: There So, and your guy that called after me was
Speaker 19: talking about es I, well, he sounded like he was
Speaker 19: solved too.
Speaker 2: You know the last time you called.
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, it was a guy called that to me.
Speaker 20: Everything everything he can say where sib It sounded like
Speaker 20: he had two two uh pound to five pound bags
Speaker 20: of seeing the sugar in.
Speaker 19: His back pocket. See, I was recruited by coach.
Speaker 6: Lou Henson over at New Mexico State.
Speaker 20: I played ball and stuff like that there So, I
Speaker 20: ain't gonna tell you much more.
Speaker 19: About me, but I can tell you this here. I
Speaker 19: know a little bit more than he does about the game.
Speaker 19: And uh Arizona has not had.
Speaker 20: A real point guard in a long time. Most of
Speaker 20: these guys are two guards who are shoot first guys
Speaker 20: and try to get their teammates involved.
Speaker 2: Secondly, it does.
Speaker 19: Not work like that.
Speaker 20: There successful teams like you see uh Duke Kentucky and
Speaker 20: those teams they moved that ball around.
Speaker 19: You know a lot of people, A lot people get
Speaker 19: touches every time they come down the court. It's not
Speaker 19: just one guy that I'm gonna dribble and make.
Speaker 20: A hero shot, or it's not just one guy that said,
Speaker 20: well pass me the ball and I'm gonna take this
Speaker 20: long fifty foot there.
Speaker 17: So yeah, they start.
Speaker 2: Yes, Michael, tell me because I went to New Mexico State.
Speaker 2: What year did you play there or did you get
Speaker 2: recruited there?
Speaker 20: I got recruited there in the seventies, brother, before coaching,
Speaker 20: before the coach.
Speaker 19: Had left, it went on the bigger things.
Speaker 2: But I could tell you about it because yeah, back
Speaker 2: in the early seventies. In fact, no one really knows this,
Speaker 2: but New Mexico State has a bigger and better storied
Speaker 2: history than New Mexico does. Everyone talks about the Lovels,
Speaker 2: but they went to the Final four in seventy two,
Speaker 2: seventy three, if you remember.
Speaker 20: Sevney one, seventy two, John High Roight wayams all those guys.
Speaker 20: So I could tell you a little bit about basketball
Speaker 20: because I played it very well.
Speaker 2: Sir, Okay, and Michael, Michael, we got another call. Keep
Speaker 2: calling me things. We'll go through some history with you.
Speaker 2: Next time you call.
Speaker 19: We'll do that.
Speaker 2: Thank you, man, thanks for the call, and I agree
Speaker 2: with you at the point guard situation. Go ahead, we
Speaker 2: got another call. Hello, you're on the air and nine
Speaker 2: on the ball.
Speaker 21: Hey Steve, Hi, Dave, this is done.
Speaker 2: Hey don dude, I didn't get your your I got you.
Speaker 2: You sent me the thing last night, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: what the hell is this? But now you clarified it,
Speaker 2: so I get it. What's up?
Speaker 21: Did you get to see that Van?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 8: I did?
Speaker 21: I did crazy, pretty interesting stuff. Uh, you know, Bryan
Speaker 21: stole my thunder. I didn't hear the end of his call,
Speaker 21: but uh, I mean, we're creeping up on thirty guys
Speaker 21: wanting to transfer out. That's what ASU had transferred out,
Speaker 21: and they had fifty new players this year, so if
Speaker 21: they do it right. And then I saw I saw
Speaker 21: somewhere somewhere, I think on ESPN someplace they said there
Speaker 21: was three thousand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. It's a it's a big number,
Speaker 4: that's for sure.
Speaker 21: There's a lot of good guys out there. You know,
Speaker 21: we just got to make hit on the right ones
Speaker 21: and you know, get this thing turned around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've talked about this before because you're you're very
Speaker 2: positive with it. A lot of that's easier said than done,
Speaker 2: right because now you have to be a player that says, Okay,
Speaker 2: I believe in this coach. I believe that he's going
Speaker 2: to turn it around. After we've seen what you just saw.
Speaker 21: Well, you're going to have a lot of guys that
Speaker 21: didn't get to play wherever they were, and you know,
Speaker 21: it's it's like it's like ex players have posted on
Speaker 21: on the Twitter, is who on this team has film
Speaker 21: out there that they can sell themselves to somebody else?
Speaker 21: You find themselves a better place to be. You know,
Speaker 21: we got some of these guys are going to end
Speaker 21: up in D two. And well, here's a question, what
Speaker 21: happens to Jacob Man, who's uh rehab if he's in
Speaker 21: the portal? Arizona's not responsible for that rehab anymore, are they?
Speaker 20: Well?
Speaker 5: Good questions, A good question, I guess maybe until you
Speaker 5: where he's going, I suppose, and they have to pick
Speaker 5: up all that.
Speaker 21: Well, here's the thing, you know, because we get to
Speaker 21: we get to see it gets reported when the players decide.
Speaker 21: But how many of these players that are in the
Speaker 21: portal weren't didn't didn't get to choose, And if it
Speaker 21: was me, I don't know, it's maybe I'm petty, but
Speaker 21: as soon as you're in the portal, that id bats
Speaker 21: don't get you back in the building. No more like
Speaker 21: like last last year with Tacario Davis. You know, he's going,
Speaker 21: is he staying?
Speaker 2: Is he going? Is he staying?
Speaker 1: And how long was that?
Speaker 2: Five weeks? And then you know it? And and then
Speaker 2: once who said he was staying and going?
Speaker 4: Then he sold his jersey.
Speaker 21: That was price sock.
Speaker 6: They went to Washington.
Speaker 21: Yeah, and then he said, you know, he tried to
Speaker 21: say that it wasn't about nil money and that was
Speaker 21: that was bologny.
Speaker 14: But that was that, you know.
Speaker 21: But I mean, if if you're in the portal, hey,
Speaker 21: you know what, the Bredown Cafe is closed, my man.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing is they couldn't.
Speaker 5: That's the weird thing about this whole thing is they
Speaker 5: can come back, and there's there's a time they.
Speaker 21: Can come back, and they can't come back unless your
Speaker 21: spot got replaced. Hey, you know what, you went out
Speaker 21: and you you you you checked your options. Well while
Speaker 21: you were doing that, we checked our options. And I
Speaker 21: don't have a place for you. I don't not only
Speaker 21: can you know if I wanted to, I don't have
Speaker 21: a place for you. And that's the risk these guys
Speaker 21: are taking. That's the risk they're taking. You're you're you're
Speaker 21: risking your spot on a D one, on a D
Speaker 21: one pro in a D one program, and who knows
Speaker 21: where you're going to end up in the big sky.
Speaker 21: You know, you could end up at at and a U,
Speaker 21: which hey, I don't know if it's a bad place
Speaker 21: to be, but it's not at Arizona, you know, And
Speaker 21: I think that's that's what's somewhere along the line. The
Speaker 21: NCAA has got to get a hold of this thing
Speaker 21: and get things, get some rules back in this thing.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck with that, because because it's.
Speaker 21: It's crazy with that that ex NBA owner talking about
Speaker 21: he was in he's in, uh, he's researching buying a
Speaker 21: couple of football programs, you know, for these super rich
Speaker 21: guys that they want to get into sports and they
Speaker 21: can't buy their way into the league. You know, you
Speaker 21: could buy your way into college football and here's your
Speaker 21: program and you get to build it how you want
Speaker 21: because you're the one with the money.
Speaker 2: Right, We got to go down. That's the top of
Speaker 2: the hour. Thanks so much for calling. As always, All right,
Speaker 2: take care, Thanks, lot's going on. You're gonna be with
Speaker 2: me tomorrow day.
Speaker 4: I'll be back.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we'll get more calls tomorrow. We'll have a
Speaker 2: good show. I'll see everyone tomorrow, talk to everybody tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Thanks