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Speaker 2: Steve Rivera, He's Dave Silver.
Speaker 3: Welcome back. Dave got to.
Speaker 2: Be back, and we have Henry running the board, so
Speaker 2: we should be okay if I don't screw it up.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Wednesday's show. Everybody, welcome back.
Speaker 3: Dave. Good to be here. Kind of getting a little
Speaker 3: roll coming in a couple of times. Day, Yeah, what else? Retirement?
Speaker 3: What else?
Speaker 4: This is?
Speaker 3: Yeah? See if I can still do this? Now we
Speaker 3: get Dave.
Speaker 2: Now you just need to have coach Lopez in here,
Speaker 2: and he's not doing anything.
Speaker 3: Yep. I'm set for the rest of my life.
Speaker 5: Have all these guys who've been in the business sort
Speaker 5: of and they can help you out right. You can
Speaker 5: talk poop about it a lot of different things.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: We're getting posted to the game on Saturday. I don't
Speaker 2: know how big it is. It would have been big
Speaker 2: head Arizona been playing well. I think it's just kind
Speaker 2: of like a play and survive for Arizona, I think.
Speaker 5: So, you know, there are still obviously six more games
Speaker 5: to go, so I think it's not exactly the end
Speaker 5: of the world. But we saw last year they were
Speaker 5: kind of in the same boat, but they really went
Speaker 5: in a different direction, right and you know then they're
Speaker 5: going right now.
Speaker 3: But Colorado comes in.
Speaker 5: You know, their top player is supposed to be back,
Speaker 5: Travis Hunter we talked about yesterday and Dion you know,
Speaker 5: bringing his whole show to town with his son at quarterback.
Speaker 5: It's it'll be interesting to see, it'll be it's sold out,
Speaker 5: it's on national TV, so there's a lot of a
Speaker 5: lot of coverage for that.
Speaker 2: It's it's not that I find this funny or anything.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of not even ironic. But people go
Speaker 2: back to last year. Well last year there were three
Speaker 2: and three and they went on this role YadA YadA.
Speaker 2: It runs reminds me of the times when I hear
Speaker 2: Arizona going to the n C Littleity Tournament. Well, they
Speaker 2: finished fifth in the tournament, the fifth fifth in their conference,
Speaker 2: and they won the title. Okay, how do you get
Speaker 2: a pretended or connected to this year or whatever? You know,
Speaker 2: you know, they always say, hey, you never know, Well
Speaker 2: you don't never know. You just kind of play you
Speaker 2: have to see. You have to see the same playout.
Speaker 5: And you know, I think just as fans, we've we've
Speaker 5: noticed that it's dropped off a little bit here to
Speaker 5: start the season, hasn't been as consistent, and I think
Speaker 5: everybody is hoping that, you know, we know, we've got
Speaker 5: this quarterback who was great last year and these receivers
Speaker 5: who were really good last year still here. So I
Speaker 5: mean there's still hope, I think, and like I said,
Speaker 5: there's still six more games to go.
Speaker 2: The funny thing about is everyone wants to know the
Speaker 2: why it's happened. I don't think there is a why,
Speaker 2: or if there is, there's a bunch of whys. You know,
Speaker 2: the quarterback's not playing that well, they can't get them
Speaker 2: to the right receivers. Defense has been okay but not great.
Speaker 2: Offensive line has its issues, running game, who knows, injuries
Speaker 2: in injuries. There's like five or six things that have
Speaker 2: happened and all have kind of combined times to get
Speaker 2: them at three and three.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like you said, that's kind of what's going to happen.
Speaker 5: I think, you know, if everything was perfect, the record
Speaker 5: would probably be a lot different, but those injuries that
Speaker 5: I think have snuck up on them, especially on the
Speaker 5: defensive side. I think the offensive line had some injuries early,
Speaker 5: but the defense has really been hit hard.
Speaker 3: So that's not good.
Speaker 5: And you've got a potent offense coming into town this
Speaker 5: weekend too, so hopefully things are short up and guys
Speaker 5: maybe play a little bit above their level.
Speaker 3: Right right?
Speaker 2: How much do you think and I don't think I
Speaker 2: asked you this yesterday? Does one person make a difference?
Speaker 2: And I'm going to go to their guy? Who's Travis Hunter? Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's really good, He's really good. You know, there's I'm
Speaker 2: trying to remember back over the years, there's sometimes there's
Speaker 2: a deep a defensive back and maybe in this case
Speaker 2: it's him, other defensive backs who have just like even
Speaker 2: when Dion played, now that I really think about it,
Speaker 2: you know, he would just take over. They would never
Speaker 2: throw to his side of the field.
Speaker 5: So maybe you know, that could be something that he's
Speaker 5: in envisions with with Travis Hunter, or you know, a
Speaker 5: great defensive back like like Arizona's had over the years,
Speaker 5: there's just dB you just don't even go after him.
Speaker 3: Because there's there's so tough.
Speaker 2: And and I hope to see I don't know if
Speaker 2: it will happen, hope to see him going against Mac,
Speaker 2: just because you know, to two premier guys on each
Speaker 2: side of the ball going after one another or defending
Speaker 2: one another. And I guess last year that happened a
Speaker 2: time or two and t Mac did take advantage of
Speaker 2: a couple of things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Arizona's had pretty good success against the Buffaloes in
Speaker 5: yeah decades, so big high scoring games, the Khalil Tate game,
Speaker 5: what was in twenty seventeen where he just went went crazy.
Speaker 3: That was like his coming out party.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm trying to try to get him on
Speaker 2: the show tomorrow. I don't know if I'll be able
Speaker 2: to just to see, you know.
Speaker 3: What he's up to. One he's an honorary captain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so he Yeah, he said he was coming.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to have some people fill out for me
Speaker 2: so I can kind of get him on the show,
Speaker 2: not kind of to get him on the show.
Speaker 3: But I haven't heard yet. And we'll see.
Speaker 2: You know what a what a potential guy and didn't
Speaker 2: live up to the potential.
Speaker 3: Whether his fault or.
Speaker 5: The it was range especially how you know, he had
Speaker 5: such a great couple of years going and then I guess,
Speaker 5: you know, coaching change here. They changed the philosophy of
Speaker 5: the offense and maybe asked him to do different things
Speaker 5: and he weren't his strengths and it just didn't right.
Speaker 3: Well, Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I understand what you're saying. I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: entirely true or not because you're saying it or wrong.
Speaker 2: But I can go back to the first game or
Speaker 2: second game of the year his senior year, that final year, right,
Speaker 2: he came out, was the quarterback through like thirty three times,
Speaker 2: And I was the guy that asked him. I said,
Speaker 2: are you okay throwing the ball thirty three times? And
Speaker 2: I asked it almost like that, almost like should you
Speaker 2: be doing this? He looked at me and he says,
Speaker 2: that's what quarterbacks do. Yeah, you know, I think he was.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 2: He wanted to get ready for the next level and
Speaker 2: they're not going to get a guy, although they did.
Speaker 2: They had a number of teams have the runner and
Speaker 2: then the passer right, and he would have been perfect
Speaker 2: for some team, but he tried to prove that he
Speaker 2: was a passer.
Speaker 3: He was not a passer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but like in the NFL, I'm not sure the
Speaker 5: runner who runs most of the time like he was
Speaker 5: kind of doing here would work, you know, Lamar Jason
Speaker 5: to pass.
Speaker 2: And that's that's exactly where I was thinking. What I
Speaker 2: was who I was thinking about, because he's fantastic and
Speaker 2: it's hard to compare the two, but that would have
Speaker 2: been the guy, you know, the r PO, but he
Speaker 2: still lacked throwing.
Speaker 5: So important to keep the quarterback healthy. And if you're
Speaker 5: gonna get you know, go out on the run twenty
Speaker 5: times a game. The chances of you you're gonna get
Speaker 5: you're gonna get him.
Speaker 2: And remember remember what happened to him the year the
Speaker 2: year before uh Ashue game. You got crushed, he got
Speaker 2: he got hurt, and I think that that affected him too,
Speaker 2: because you know, he's been healthy kind of most of
Speaker 2: the year and then he got hurt. I think Dawkins
Speaker 2: was the guy right him and him and Brendan, so
Speaker 2: they both got hurt. And then he came in and
Speaker 2: he was a powerful quarterback, right. He got hit pretty
Speaker 2: hard in the Arizona State game and he suffered a
Speaker 2: big shoulder injury. I think something like that, and he was,
Speaker 2: what's the same player, right?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean even yesterday talking to Willie Tetama, who
Speaker 5: was not that type of a player, right, And he
Speaker 5: got he got crushed a few times and had some
Speaker 5: concussions like you.
Speaker 3: Said, three.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he didn't know which one. I couldn't remember which
Speaker 5: one was worse. But those are not not good signs
Speaker 5: for a quarterback. So you want to you want to
Speaker 5: keep them healthy. And it should be you know, it
Speaker 5: should be a high scoring game. I would think everyone's
Speaker 5: talking about Schaduur and Colorado putting up points.
Speaker 2: So you think that, right, didn't we think that last
Speaker 2: the last few games, that's room and it doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: Texas tack we thought, I think the sixty five ish
Speaker 2: something like that, nothing forty forty something, and last week
Speaker 2: it was relatively small. Yeah, and because everyone's not putting
Speaker 2: up his bar holding.
Speaker 3: Up the markets. True.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll see it's going to be sold out. Obviously,
Speaker 2: if you don't have a ticket, good luck. I'm sure
Speaker 2: there'll be some people on the sideline saying, hey, ticket ticket, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. If I'm going yet I was going
Speaker 2: to go as a fan. I'm still not sure if
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 5: It should be great and it's a day game and
Speaker 5: it's gonna weather.
Speaker 3: Looks like a might cool down a bridge, bring bring
Speaker 3: a little overcoat or something.
Speaker 5: It might It might rain on Friday, but could mess
Speaker 5: up the big bonfire that they have outside Old Main
Speaker 5: on Friday.
Speaker 3: Are they going to have that? They still they should be, well,
Speaker 3: they should.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they do, because I know that
Speaker 2: I've had Kirby, one of the guys, one of the Wilbers,
Speaker 2: and the homecoming group that they canceled that stuff, all.
Speaker 3: The thing they canceled the parades, the braids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know if they have been doing a
Speaker 5: bunch of here a couple of years ago, they did
Speaker 5: because I worked in a building right next to it,
Speaker 5: basically right behind Old Maine.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was pretty cool the situation.
Speaker 5: The band comes down, fans are kind of walking over
Speaker 5: from you know, University area, gentle bends and those kinds
Speaker 5: of places, and they's just come right.
Speaker 3: Up, let's go watch a fire. Yeah, and it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 5: I mean they've got just tons of wood and you
Speaker 5: know it lasts an hour or so.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool. Yeah, Okay, so we'll see. I've been
Speaker 2: checking to that. I guess that the golf golf teams
Speaker 2: are in Scotland or you know, in Scotland Andrews. I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask or they're playing in tournament there. I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask a question to Michael lev he's one
Speaker 2: of our guests. Uh here on the other side of
Speaker 2: four fifteen for seventeen, because I got a text from
Speaker 2: somebody who used to work at you base.
Speaker 3: How are they pulling this off, setting two teams to.
Speaker 2: Scotland and aren't they in trouble financially as that work out?
Speaker 3: I mean, like I said, they're kind of separate. What
Speaker 3: do you mean? What do you mean? Well, I'm kind
Speaker 3: of not, kind of pregnant.
Speaker 5: No, I mean, I don't know exactly the financial situation,
Speaker 5: but I think athletics kind of has their own budget
Speaker 5: going they can do whatever they want.
Speaker 3: Well, that's was part of the problem.
Speaker 5: Well, apparently they got enough money to get two teams
Speaker 5: Andrews and one of them, one of them won, you know,
Speaker 5: he won the match plays Zach Polo.
Speaker 3: Oh that's was that? That was? Are they still there?
Speaker 2: I thought they were there now because if yesterday yesterday, ye,
Speaker 2: I think they're still playing.
Speaker 3: They're playing now the team.
Speaker 2: Okay, that makes because I did send a note back
Speaker 2: to him, so so I thought they were done and
Speaker 2: he said, no, they're playing right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So that was my question.
Speaker 2: How can they afford to send two teams out there
Speaker 2: and you know, claim that there's no money and they
Speaker 2: could use that money for other things.
Speaker 3: It was probably scheduled years ago. It's not my money.
Speaker 3: It's not my money, So I don't know.
Speaker 5: They probably budgeted it a long time ago. And you
Speaker 5: know they built they just built this incredible golf facility
Speaker 5: out there too.
Speaker 3: You were with me when we were talking about that yesterday. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, we destroyed BIS Tucson about it. Pretty impressive
Speaker 2: And uh what were they before? Tuson National?
Speaker 5: They were all over the place, but yeah, at one
Speaker 5: point National, they were at Arizona Arizona, they were at Solo.
Speaker 3: Yeah for a while. Yeah, Arizona National.
Speaker 5: There was a big a logo right there on the eighteenth,
Speaker 5: the eighteenth green.
Speaker 2: So and you speak of Selo golf course, that's a
Speaker 2: single Dell soul. We're gonna have Jeff Wheels. I think
Speaker 2: that's how you spell his names. W E A L
Speaker 2: E S. He's the GM at so Well Golf Course.
Speaker 2: He'll be on to have a big tournament next week
Speaker 2: helping out Ronald McDonald house at Interfaith the Church. So
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that and just all the things going
Speaker 2: on down there, one of our big sponsors, and we'll
Speaker 2: talk about that, and then Michael Levitt the four fifteen
Speaker 2: hour for seventeen hour talking about u A basketball, UA
Speaker 2: football and all things in Arizona.
Speaker 3: That'll be good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been asking some good questions. Yeah, he does
Speaker 2: about the team. I want to ask him if there's
Speaker 2: a temptation, you know, he's he's following, and I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'll ask him this.
Speaker 3: I will. I'm close enough to asking him.
Speaker 2: So he's following in the footstep of Greg Right and
Speaker 2: everyone who knows Greg either he's there for him or
Speaker 2: against if he's a polarizing the character and a friend
Speaker 2: of mine. It's like when I when I write snarky.
Speaker 2: Let me when I write snarky every once in a while,
Speaker 2: and I do, I'll admit it.
Speaker 3: People are saying, what happened to you?
Speaker 2: Because I don't I usually a positive when I write,
Speaker 2: you know, I faid, well, when you're covering looton those guys,
Speaker 2: how many times are going to be snarky because they're
Speaker 2: pretty good, but when things turn bad you could get starky.
Speaker 2: How it is for him to follow Greg because he's
Speaker 2: nicer than Greg. I mean in his writings right, it's
Speaker 2: more straightforward there than polarizing. So if there's any pressure
Speaker 2: to do to do some of that.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be interesting. I mean, I don't really know him.
Speaker 5: I was gone by the time he got here, so
Speaker 5: I know he's from southern California, so he's got to
Speaker 5: be influenced by a lot of the great writers in
Speaker 5: the you know, the history of the La Times, especially
Speaker 5: that you know I grew up reading and write.
Speaker 2: That's another paper that's the show of itself. Really well,
Speaker 2: most of the guys are. He's still there, but I
Speaker 2: mean he's the centerpiece and he won't have much more time.
Speaker 2: I would think, no, no, And there's everybody else kind
Speaker 2: of young. They I think they were going to do
Speaker 2: something with athletic or they let a lot of people go,
Speaker 2: A lot of people go with when the last year
Speaker 2: one of my buddies.
Speaker 3: Ben Bulch kept his job.
Speaker 2: He covers your cla but it's it's a show of itself,
Speaker 2: just like every place else.
Speaker 3: I mean the New York Times. I mean that's.
Speaker 5: It's crazy, right because now they're using the Athletic. In
Speaker 5: the Athletic, there's really no local coverage.
Speaker 3: This is the New York Times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is not some small paper. No, but that's
Speaker 5: a that's a big adjustment. And like you know, like
Speaker 5: you said, we kind of grew up looking at these
Speaker 5: guys and admiring him. If you got to that level,
Speaker 5: you pretty much got to the top of the business.
Speaker 3: Right right now, there's not even that level anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not. I mean, you get a job. So Henry,
Speaker 2: cover your ears. It's tough. And Henry knows this right
Speaker 2: comes from New York. Who is your Did you have
Speaker 2: a childhood guy you read in New York?
Speaker 3: Not really, No, It's funny.
Speaker 5: We have friends here who are from New York and
Speaker 5: they either grew up or they knew. Mike Vaccaro who
Speaker 5: still writes for the New York Post, and he's been
Speaker 5: covering the Mets, and so we've been texting back and
Speaker 5: for like, I don't think my friends here even knew
Speaker 5: that he was doing it, but I would find the
Speaker 5: article and send it off. So, I mean the New
Speaker 5: York's Post guys, and like the Daily News, I mean
Speaker 5: they're kind of they stuck around.
Speaker 2: Sure, those are those are the ones where the older
Speaker 2: people kind of have stuck around. Although if you're older
Speaker 2: now you're you're dead meat because you're make too much
Speaker 2: money in their eyes, not in your eyes.
Speaker 3: So you know, no one special, not really.
Speaker 6: I would read the New York Times because like my
Speaker 6: family got yeah, and that's specific.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like the Post of the of the day.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It's totally different totally and how they cover things.
Speaker 5: Yeah exact, and yeah, Phil Mushnik, he's gonna check him out.
Speaker 5: He's in the New York Post. He's their media guy.
Speaker 5: So you talk about snarky. He so he would rip
Speaker 5: and kill different either local or Nashal and how they
Speaker 5: did like when you know, when I was in the business,
Speaker 5: it was kind of like, oh my gosh, the stuff
Speaker 5: he's saying about on air.
Speaker 3: People.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you pick on some you know CBS guy or
Speaker 5: you know somebody big.
Speaker 3: Time, but he's still around.
Speaker 2: Okay, we gotta go we gotta go get back with
Speaker 2: mister Jeff.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I in the Ball here on
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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: Then with me today is Dave Silver And now on
Speaker 2: the phone we have Jeff Wheels, the GM at Sewil
Speaker 2: Golf Course at the Casino Dell.
Speaker 3: So, Jeff, how are you.
Speaker 4: I'm very good. Thank you for having me Steve.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's Jeff. I would assume as the temperatures kind
Speaker 2: of simmered down here, you're a pretty popular guy down there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: As the temperaures drop, we definitely see more action on
Speaker 4: the golf course. And we've just come out of overseating
Speaker 4: changing our grass, so we're an outstanding condition.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm sure that even before the CD and
Speaker 2: all that stuff, I know of no one and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go down to the casino and I know the
Speaker 2: guys who golf on there love the place. I have
Speaker 2: never heard a bad word about that place.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Steve, I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys have had a pretty good history there
Speaker 5: with you of A as a home course. I know
Speaker 5: there's been I believe was there a PAC ten or
Speaker 5: Pac twelve championship was played there. So it's been a
Speaker 5: kind of a good little destination for a lot of
Speaker 5: different types of events.
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely. We have a very good relationship with the
Speaker 4: u of A. They still frequent our facility quite a bit,
Speaker 4: and we're actually looking to host additional additional events with
Speaker 4: them in the NCAA in the near future.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Nice. Nice.
Speaker 2: In fact, you have a big event coming up in
Speaker 2: a week from today again tomorrow, can you talk about that,
Speaker 2: I guess in conjunction with the Ronald McDonald House.
Speaker 4: Yes, I can, Steve. This is our ninth year for
Speaker 4: our Casino Del Soul Charity Classic. The tournament is, you know,
Speaker 4: we have to partner with all the businesses and vendors
Speaker 4: here locally as well as some that we use in
Speaker 4: other areas, and they come in and help us to
Speaker 4: raise money for a couple of charities every year. This
Speaker 4: year our charities will be the i'll McDonald House and
Speaker 4: then we also have interfaith community services here locally. We
Speaker 4: will kick this off on October the twenty third. On
Speaker 4: October the twenty third, we are having basically a preregistration
Speaker 4: meet and greet cocktail hour at the Prima here in
Speaker 4: our hotel, the bar area, and we will obviously walk
Speaker 4: outside in the pool area as well, and then on
Speaker 4: the twenty fourth we'll have the golf tournament. It is
Speaker 4: a ten am shotgun seven to ten. We have breakfast
Speaker 4: in networking here, registration and then kick it off with
Speaker 4: a golf course, a lot of fun out on the course,
Speaker 4: a lot of tents, a lot of local vendors will
Speaker 4: be here, you know, allowing their goods to be sampled
Speaker 4: as well. So we really look forward to it and
Speaker 4: it seems to just get a little bit better every year, Steve.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no no question. Let me ask you, so,
Speaker 2: do you still have spots open or is it full?
Speaker 4: We are sold out. We actually have a waiting list, Steve.
Speaker 3: How many foursomes?
Speaker 4: We have thirty six fours wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So not about gig you got there a lot
Speaker 2: of people believing and helping out with the nonprofit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. And Ronald McDonald house and Interfaith are are
Speaker 4: very deserving of support, both great organizations.
Speaker 2: I know, and having dealt with or dealing with Jacklin
Speaker 2: and the group down there in the marketing department, as
Speaker 2: you know, we do a show down there now, you
Speaker 2: guys do a lot of things. I'm talking to Del
Speaker 2: Sola to help the local nonprofits.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, we actually are lucky enough and fortunate enough to
Speaker 4: have a lot of nonprofits that not only we help,
Speaker 4: but then also utilize us for some of their own fundraising,
Speaker 4: whether it be golf tournaments or you know, different types
Speaker 4: of events. But yes, we do get an opportunity to
Speaker 4: partner with many here locally.
Speaker 5: I've had a chance to work with Courtney's courage. They've
Speaker 5: been there a number of years. In fact, I was
Speaker 5: just there in August. So that's been a great summertime
Speaker 5: event sure for the course and for the casino. I
Speaker 5: know a lot of people stay there because it's it's
Speaker 5: an early start, like a seven am shotgun, so people
Speaker 5: like to spend the night and get up early and
Speaker 5: go out and play.
Speaker 4: Absolutely a lot to do here at the facility, you know,
Speaker 4: different from some other facilities. You know, you have more
Speaker 4: than just golf here. For entertainment as we have the
Speaker 4: you know, the casino and of course the ava Amphitheater
Speaker 4: with live shows there. So yeah, a lot to do
Speaker 4: and a lot of events come in and utilize everything
Speaker 4: to be able to maximize what they can get out
Speaker 4: of their event.
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming that you're you're a big golfer or
Speaker 2: at least was in the past, and what do you
Speaker 2: what's your background?
Speaker 4: So, Steve, I actually am a transplant to Tucson, originally
Speaker 4: from Indiana. I did play college golf. I've been in
Speaker 4: the golf business in one way or another for twenty
Speaker 4: eight years. Actually owned a golf course at one point
Speaker 4: and am looking was looking for warm other ended up
Speaker 4: in Tucson and I hope to be able to retire here.
Speaker 4: We really love the Tucson area.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the older stuff is one thing, and hey, let
Speaker 2: somebody else deal with that.
Speaker 3: Let me just run the thing.
Speaker 5: That is for sure, there is not are you are
Speaker 5: you thin the youngest golf course in Tucson. There has
Speaker 5: not been a new one, I don't think in a while.
Speaker 4: We Yeah, we are the youngest golf course in Tucson.
Speaker 5: Why would that be specially you think, why would it
Speaker 5: be different than say going out and play you know
Speaker 5: a Randolph or a Tucson National, places that have been
Speaker 5: around for you know, forever.
Speaker 4: Sure, and if you you know, if you're in the
Speaker 4: the golf industry, and this is actually the second young
Speaker 4: course that I've been at. You know, as a golf
Speaker 4: course matures, you know, things begin to change a little bit.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: The nice thing for us is when when Notova Gay
Speaker 4: designed this course, he opted to put in bent grass
Speaker 4: greens as opposed to bermuda greens. Bent grass greens do
Speaker 4: not have to be overseated, so you don't go through
Speaker 4: the change of grass from season to season because bent
Speaker 4: grass will stay green year round. And I think that
Speaker 4: is a competitive advantage for us here in the Tucson area.
Speaker 4: And also, you know, our facility being newer and the
Speaker 4: grass and everything is still very fresh. We're not looking
Speaker 4: to have to do any kind of major renovation, and
Speaker 4: the golf course is always an outstanding position or condition.
Speaker 4: Are superintendent is a Southwest guy. He's been in the
Speaker 4: business for about thirty years, and I don't know that
Speaker 4: I've worked with a finer individual than Jason Rogers.
Speaker 2: So just let me get you, let me get you
Speaker 2: some background on things. As we all mature, we all change.
Speaker 2: I didn't have a gut, I didn't have gray hair,
Speaker 2: and now I'm just a cranky old net So a
Speaker 2: lot of things changed when you're not matured.
Speaker 4: If that's happened, Yeah, absolutely, I resemble that comment.
Speaker 3: We all do, but I embrace it. By embrace it.
Speaker 2: Let's talk real quick more about about the golf tournament.
Speaker 2: So you're loaded down there. How many of these things
Speaker 2: do you do in a.
Speaker 4: Year of the Casino del Sol Charity Classic. We just
Speaker 4: do this one once a year. Now, we do partner
Speaker 4: you mentioned Courtney's Courage, you know, we we've partnered with
Speaker 4: more than a bed. We partner with local firefighters. We
Speaker 4: do a lot actually with the base and the U
Speaker 4: of l u of A as well. So we get
Speaker 4: a lot of charitable whether it be you know, raising
Speaker 4: money for cancer or raising money for local families. We
Speaker 4: get to do a lot of that, and we actually
Speaker 4: do in excess of probably thirty to thirty five of
Speaker 4: those a year partnering with other organizations.
Speaker 5: Review of the Week, What type of international type visitors
Speaker 5: do you get? I know a lot of people come
Speaker 5: from all over the place to Tucson. Do you get
Speaker 5: that type of clientele as well, especially maybe in the winter.
Speaker 4: We do, uh, you know, the Canadians really frequent two
Speaker 4: son a lot we get. We partner with a Canadian
Speaker 4: travel company and they send us a good amount of business.
Speaker 4: And then we also get a lot of Canadians that
Speaker 4: they come here. They're just snowbirds, you know this. They
Speaker 4: they have secondary homes here. We get some from Europe
Speaker 4: as well. We do see some of that travel and
Speaker 4: something that's kind of unique. You know, I wouldn't call
Speaker 4: call these as far, but we've had the last couple
Speaker 4: of years a group that has come from Juno, Alaska
Speaker 4: and kind of overtaken our facility for a week, and
Speaker 4: they're always they're always fun to have around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tucson's lucky.
Speaker 5: We have a number of those kinds of places, you know,
Speaker 5: the canyon ranches of the world, places where people will
Speaker 5: come as a destination, spend a week, maybe work in
Speaker 5: some golf someplace if they can.
Speaker 3: So that's got to be kind of cool to have that.
Speaker 5: You know, Hey, why don't we partner with X resort
Speaker 5: and see if we can get some of those people
Speaker 5: to come over to the casino and to that part
Speaker 5: of town.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And I really feel like Tucson is kind of
Speaker 4: a hitting gym. When you're talking golf. There are so
Speaker 4: many great tracks around Tucson. You know, Ooral Valley. Whether
Speaker 4: you go east west, it doesn't matter which direction you go,
Speaker 4: You're going to find a golf course out there that
Speaker 4: is not only enjoyable to play, but it's going to
Speaker 4: be in great condition. And many of them have really
Speaker 4: nice resources to stay out as well. Although I'm kind
Speaker 4: of partial to Casino del Sol.
Speaker 3: As you should be.
Speaker 2: So how long has this transfert been in Tucson from Indiana?
Speaker 4: Myself, I've been here since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Oh, so you're kind of a rookie.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of new. Yeah, I'm kind of new out
Speaker 4: here in Tucson. It was actually i'd never been to
Speaker 4: Arizona prior to coming out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what has struck you the most You're only
Speaker 2: two years in. I'm sure don't say any heat because
Speaker 2: everyone self for seat and then they start loving it.
Speaker 2: So what's the thing that struck you the most about
Speaker 2: this town?
Speaker 4: I think what struck me the most about Tucson for
Speaker 4: our family I have even though I'm a little bit
Speaker 4: older and gray with the pot belly. Like you said,
Speaker 4: I do have young I do have a couple of
Speaker 4: young kids, eight and thirteen. And just the multitude of
Speaker 4: things to do here, especially for kids, you know, whether
Speaker 4: whether it's going to Tombstone or hanging out at Tubac
Speaker 4: or you know, just seeing some of the sites, maybe
Speaker 4: going to the Botanical Garden. You know, main event is
Speaker 4: just a blast. There's so many things to do. And
Speaker 4: and Steve, I really think when you when you talk
Speaker 4: about being a foodie or something like that, and there's
Speaker 4: some great restaurants around Tucson, right, you have.
Speaker 2: A couple down there in fact, that are fantastic. Let
Speaker 2: me ask you are you Are you a Hoosier or
Speaker 2: what where'd you graduate from?
Speaker 4: I actually went to University of Evansville.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, back in the day too. I don't
Speaker 2: know how old you are, but they had a pretty
Speaker 2: good basketball program. Was there as well.
Speaker 4: At the University of Evansville? Yeah, they had. And then
Speaker 4: they had the plane crash and had to completely rebuild
Speaker 4: the rebuild the program. And then of course I lived
Speaker 4: fairly close to Bloomington, so I am a Hoosier fan. Uh,
Speaker 4: actually got to know coach and when he was there,
Speaker 4: and so uh uh you know a lot of good
Speaker 4: basketball in Indiana Adas. Uh.
Speaker 2: Well, now you've only had two years of arias little
Speaker 2: basketball one kind of maybe two years. Uh I guess
Speaker 2: you learned that basketball fans are basketball fans, and they're
Speaker 2: kind of crazy and kooky and their team is the best.
Speaker 2: But uh, I was going to ask you to compare
Speaker 2: the two, but it's probably hard to do that because
Speaker 2: I know who's your fans are kind of bonkers too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're a little bit bonkers. If you've if you've
Speaker 4: ever been to Bloomington for a game, it gets pretty
Speaker 4: loud and crazy in there. But we've been to a
Speaker 4: few games here at the u of A. It's loud
Speaker 4: and crazy too, right, everybody loves loves U of A
Speaker 4: basketball here, and of course we've been lucky enough the
Speaker 4: last few years to have some very talented team. I
Speaker 4: think I look forward to where that program is going
Speaker 4: to go, and I look forward to being able to
Speaker 4: continue to take my kids and my wife and and
Speaker 4: and see games at the u of A. It's it's
Speaker 4: a lot of fun to go down there. And the
Speaker 4: football program, Hey, let's let's talk about that as well.
Speaker 4: They seem to be kind of getting on the right track.
Speaker 4: And been to a game so far and it was
Speaker 4: a blast. And I'm hoping to get to go this
Speaker 4: Saturday as well to see Colorado and Dion come in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Indiana's had a nice little football season so far too.
Speaker 3: It's kind of kind of a surprise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that before this year, you know, I didn't
Speaker 4: really follow Indiana football because it wasn't much to follow.
Speaker 4: But yeah, this year, they've gotten off to a good start,
Speaker 4: kind of changed some coaching staff, got some recruits in
Speaker 4: and it looks like they're kind of hited in the
Speaker 4: right direction as well.
Speaker 2: So did you follow mister bollow Umar now he's with
Speaker 2: the Hoosiers? Did you follow him here?
Speaker 4: I did not follow him?
Speaker 2: No, Okay, so I guess now he's working, well, working
Speaker 2: is the right word. Apparently he's making more than a
Speaker 2: million dollars over there as a student athlete.
Speaker 3: Good for him. But you know, now, yeah, is it
Speaker 3: the coach woods? Wo's it? Mike Woodson.
Speaker 2: Mike Woodson, Mike Woodson. Yeah, So let me tell you,
Speaker 2: I'm not too sure I was wont to played them.
Speaker 2: I guess two years ago in Vegas, I was at
Speaker 2: the game and those Hoosiers took about seventy five percent
Speaker 2: of the stadium or the arena it was when I
Speaker 2: had like twenty five percent. So I know that they
Speaker 2: travel well and they're pretty rabid. So we'll see what
Speaker 2: happens with that program.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, it'll be fun to watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, anything else with that with that big tournament
Speaker 2: next week? Yeah, yeah, next week. A week from tomorrow,
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty four people I think are going
Speaker 2: to be out there. Can people just go watch or
Speaker 2: how's that?
Speaker 4: It is actually primarily a closed off event just due
Speaker 4: to the amount of activity that we have going on
Speaker 4: on the course with the vendors, and then you know afterwards,
Speaker 4: it's gonna wrap up pretty quick on the twenty fourth,
Speaker 4: But it'll be a blast. Everybody has a good time,
Speaker 4: and it's really fun to get to work with the charities.
Speaker 4: I've been fortunate enough at other facilities that I've worked
Speaker 4: at to be able to work with Ronald McDonald House,
Speaker 4: and it's a class organization. And coming from somebody that
Speaker 4: has a son that has special needs and has been
Speaker 4: down that road, it's it's very near and dear to
Speaker 4: my heart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good, good for you. That's very nice, Jeff. Well,
Speaker 2: appreciate your time. He's the GM at Swallow Golf Course
Speaker 2: at Casino del So go go see him, go play
Speaker 2: the course. I mean, how can people just general public
Speaker 2: go see you and get on the course.
Speaker 4: Just call yeah, very easy. You can call us at
Speaker 4: five two oh eight three eight six six four five
Speaker 4: or our website at Casinodelsol dot com. So Wilo also
Speaker 4: has its very own app, So if you go on
Speaker 4: the app store you can download the Sowilo app. You
Speaker 4: can book t times live through there and it also
Speaker 4: has GPS as well as as a range GPS on it.
Speaker 4: So it's a really nice app to have if you're
Speaker 4: coming out.
Speaker 3: Great, great, thank you, Jeff, appreciate your time.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, Steve. I appreciate it, Jeff.
Speaker 3: You will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's last one. Okay, let's take a break. We're
Speaker 2: a little like a little over, but we're cokay.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, feel like we get about a few
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's kind of my life, well used to be.
Speaker 5: But I'm a big podcast listener these days.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, lots of good ones, right, you know.
Speaker 2: The one thing that's one of the guys said to me,
Speaker 2: I was at tour today in one of the guys
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Speaker 3: They don't buy the paper. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I do not.
Speaker 5: I subscribe online electronically, and that's not stopped. I stopped,
Speaker 5: you know, getting the actual physical paper. Every once in
Speaker 5: a while, I'll go out. You know and walk in
Speaker 5: the morning in the neighborhood and you see a few papers,
Speaker 5: but not many.
Speaker 3: Not that it was ten years ago, No, ten years ago,
Speaker 3: twenty years ago, and thirty years ago.
Speaker 5: Remember we used to get two papers when I was
Speaker 5: a kid. Yeah, we would get the morning and afternoon
Speaker 5: where San Jose.
Speaker 3: San Jose, the San Francisco.
Speaker 5: We'd get either the Chronicle of the morning or we get
Speaker 5: the San Jose Mercury. And then then they had the
Speaker 5: San Jose News in the after afternoon, right, and then
Speaker 5: they combined, yeah, eventually. But yeah, as a kid, you know,
Speaker 5: I would my parents would probably read the morning paper
Speaker 5: and then I'd check.
Speaker 3: Out the afternoon. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how people recognize me. And I'll say this
Speaker 2: about Greg again in the polarizing Tampa thing. We'd go
Speaker 2: to one dude at a boxing match, pulled me aside
Speaker 2: one day and he says, you know, see, I read
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Speaker 5: That's just the way it is. You know, well, I mean,
Speaker 5: you guys were we were all kind of there. I mean,
Speaker 5: the way we approached the story was different how you
Speaker 5: guys did because we just.
Speaker 3: Didn't need, yeah, all that space, the description stuff.
Speaker 5: We could show it and not have to write and describe,
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Speaker 3: We could just show it.
Speaker 5: And plus, you know, Greg's basically what was doing commentary,
Speaker 5: so he's doing his opinion and you were pretty.
Speaker 3: Much straight reporter straight.
Speaker 5: A lot of people still to this day don't understand
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Speaker 2: Right well even today look at today's world, because it's
Speaker 2: not it's not straight news.
Speaker 3: It's well, they're one side of this. What I'm saying
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Speaker 5: Yeah, But so yeah, and that's I mean, that was
Speaker 5: one of the great things about what we got to cover.
Speaker 5: We had a lot of people kind of at the
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Speaker 5: looked for you, you look for you know, Greg or
Speaker 5: you know, Bruce or whoever the beat writers were. You're
Speaker 5: going to get that basic story and then you're going
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Speaker 3: Yeah, right right. I enjoyed that even more myself. I
Speaker 3: still do go to that first usually.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you had you know, CBS, you had you
Speaker 2: with ABC and and NBC of course. Uh. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure when you were doing your your gig there, Dan
Speaker 2: Ryan made you better. You made Dan Ryan better. And
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Speaker 3: Who's Who's thirteen? You had so many there a lot
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Speaker 3: Kevin mckab of course. Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, But my attitude when I was working was I
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Speaker 3: That was good.
Speaker 5: We worked hard today and we got good stuff. And
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Speaker 5: It was kind of the same. Sure, how was it
Speaker 5: going to be packaged? How are you going to cover
Speaker 5: pretty much the same story?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I firmly believe in Jay was on the
Speaker 2: other side with the Star early in my career. You know,
Speaker 2: we made them better, They made us better because we
Speaker 2: always kind of wondered what the heck they were up to,
Speaker 2: and same for them for us with us so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's only so much news that goes
Speaker 3: around in this town.
Speaker 2: Well that's too and then you know how they cover
Speaker 2: it now and everybody gets the same stop and under
Speaker 2: the thread of you better not screw up and break
Speaker 2: the story that you're not allowed. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: There's always that they're going to take your and it's
Speaker 2: not true. You do your job and it would look
Speaker 2: bad in the school in my opinion.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they tried to remove credit or threaten you.
Speaker 5: I don't think that happened.
Speaker 2: Well you saw what happened you see a year or
Speaker 2: two last year. I think it was when the kid
Speaker 2: who had him on the show. Yeah no, he was
Speaker 2: a young kid who worked for the Orange Kenny Register
Speaker 2: quoted somebody that wasn't on the podium. They were getting
Speaker 2: ready to go on the podium and they quoted him
Speaker 2: saying what should I talk about?
Speaker 3: What should I say?
Speaker 2: And he wrote about and it was just a passing.
Speaker 2: They didn't know what they were going to say before.
Speaker 2: It was just a scene set of really and Riley
Speaker 2: took his credential. Way, you're not gonna cover my team.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be suspended. That took a national tone and
Speaker 2: says you.
Speaker 3: Can't do that. You can't do that, no matter who
Speaker 3: you think you are. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, we saw the thing this week with Jerry
Speaker 5: Jones right in Dallas, right kind of going after these
Speaker 5: talk show guys. We need to be careful when we
Speaker 5: call some of these folks and don't don't get am
Speaker 5: angry at you.
Speaker 2: But the hell they're not paying my salary? Well, I
Speaker 2: don't think he was paying their salary. He said that,
Speaker 2: He said that, but the guy said he's paying my salary.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, no, I don't think.
Speaker 2: I may have pissed somebody off by Jay's mostly the
Speaker 2: one that does it or did it.
Speaker 3: But hey, they're here to talk. Let's talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not this is not brain surgery. Now,
Speaker 2: that's why you get to do it. I would have
Speaker 2: failed at a few things already.
Speaker 5: Speaking of fail I was checking some of the stories
Speaker 5: today and the Chicago White Sox the king of failures
Speaker 5: in his baseball so oh yeah yeah yeah, and Rhyin's
Speaker 5: door if Jerry Hinsdorf, who has Tucson ties. Excuse me,
Speaker 5: his son went to the u of A. And then
Speaker 5: of course he had the White Sox train here in Tucson.
Speaker 5: He's talking about selling the team. Of course he owns
Speaker 5: the bull does he still owns the Bulls, right, all
Speaker 5: those championships so yeah, yeah, and nothing with the White
Speaker 5: So maybe he did have one World Series time.
Speaker 2: And what a great what at the time, what a
Speaker 2: great owner, right because they were so good with Michael
Speaker 2: Jordan and all that, and then you had his Crouse
Speaker 2: I think he was. He was the bad dude, and
Speaker 2: then it all came out for the the the Jordan's
Speaker 2: big thing was it?
Speaker 3: Tell me what was God? That's it thing? Did you
Speaker 3: see that as a kid? You didn't see that? I
Speaker 3: didn't watch. Oh you got to watch it. Watch. It's
Speaker 3: really good.
Speaker 5: Very sad for Jerry Cross, I guess. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: it was weird. Why in the world did they break
Speaker 5: up that team? Who knows? Right there was you know,
Speaker 5: their financial reasons or whatever the whole situation was. But
Speaker 5: you know, why would you do that? I have six
Speaker 5: championships in nine years. But yeah, Rhine's door thinking about selling.
Speaker 5: He bought him by Bottom for what was it twenty million?
Speaker 5: And they're worth over two billion? Now, so what did
Speaker 5: you buy a good deal? It's like ninety oh wow,
Speaker 5: so in thirty years they wow. Well they had the
Speaker 5: remarkable record of forty one and one hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: one this year.
Speaker 2: So so well, you know, you know what, what's the
Speaker 2: Kenny Rogers?
Speaker 3: No one to fold them?
Speaker 5: No one actually bought him in nineteen eighty one. So
Speaker 5: it's been forty forty years.
Speaker 3: No, I remember. Yeah, he had a family.
Speaker 5: That came and he had like a son who's an
Speaker 5: alum of the U event. Yeah, so he was here
Speaker 5: and he would come into games and you'd see him
Speaker 5: at you know, maybe some basketball games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, busy his son, and then the White Sox trained here.
Speaker 5: In fact, the year that they won the World Series
Speaker 5: was part of the time that they were here.
Speaker 2: Right, that was in the nineties, right, I was like two,
Speaker 2: like five, really, yeah, I'm getting older and you know
Speaker 2: two thousand and five?
Speaker 3: Yeah pretty sure? Yeah, Well how would you know that
Speaker 3: you were like two?
Speaker 2: Good memory? Yeah, he's like two. That's why we have you, Henry. Well,
Speaker 2: it's like me chasing down with you to a Tommy yesterday.
Speaker 2: I couldn't remember his name after talking to some people
Speaker 2: about him one and then I he was a while back.
Speaker 2: And then then he tells us, I'm thirty seven years old.
Speaker 2: I thought he was quarterback ten years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, it's just how quickly things got done,
Speaker 3: because you know we I think one of the good
Speaker 3: things about what we have done. We have good memories.
Speaker 3: You know. I can remember, oh yeah, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 5: And then you start looking at the date and you go,
Speaker 5: my gosh, it was seventeen years ago.
Speaker 2: And most of my dates are basketball related, not like
Speaker 2: you get football.
Speaker 3: You give some football. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh, I play games in my head sometimes, just trying
Speaker 5: to remember, you know.
Speaker 2: Right, give me a game. Now, we're kind of just reminiscing.
Speaker 2: If we get any calls. We have about five minutes.
Speaker 2: Give us a call. What was your most incredible game
Speaker 2: you watched that did not because you were in Indianapolis.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, yeah, that wasn't a championship game like that.
Speaker 2: Have I asked you this before?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe my memory is going already a lot of the
Speaker 5: games that got them to the final four. I mean
Speaker 5: I was there in Seattle when they made it the
Speaker 5: first time. Yeah, I was there in Los Angeles when
Speaker 5: I was needed. Yeah, I was a sports arena.
Speaker 2: That was the weekend I was in Seattle, which was
Speaker 2: a great one because Bobby was right by the side. Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember that, because it was
Speaker 2: Jim was his first year a d and Luke got
Speaker 2: to the final four again, right. He had been taking
Speaker 2: a lot of heat from Greg and some other writers
Speaker 2: about he hasn't gotten back, blah blah blah, and he
Speaker 2: had a press conference and got all over the locals.
Speaker 2: I know more about basketball and my little pinky than
Speaker 2: you guys will ever know. You remember that.
Speaker 3: You were probably there. I think I was there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then then not too long after that, Jim had
Speaker 2: to sit down with US sports reporters. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you were there too, saying what's the animosity between
Speaker 2: everybody here?
Speaker 3: Because he didn't know he had just gotten here, What's
Speaker 3: why is it like this? And he told him it's
Speaker 3: just the way it is. There was there was a
Speaker 3: lot of non game.
Speaker 5: Related stories that were really interesting something like that, and
Speaker 5: I mean most of them were good memories for me,
Speaker 5: just you know, meeting everybody and you know, just learning
Speaker 5: the business.
Speaker 3: And what's it like to come. I mean, I remember
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 5: This is one kind of fun one is I remember
Speaker 5: kind of a Arizona got to the number one position
Speaker 5: in the polls and that, you know, in that one
Speaker 5: year going back to Ona on four, all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: like there's the New York Times coming to our little
Speaker 5: Tuesday gathering.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like why are they?
Speaker 5: You know, all of a sudden, Arizona became a national
Speaker 5: product and that just like that, like a snap of
Speaker 5: the finger, you know, one week there they go into
Speaker 5: the top ranking in the country.
Speaker 3: Sure, people started carrying and it's never really stopped.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say that you're you're exactly right
Speaker 2: New York Times Washington Post because at the Post it's
Speaker 2: who's the PTI Tony Cornheiser, wil Wilbon would come in.
Speaker 2: He would be the college guy back in nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 2: Really was he came here?
Speaker 3: Pretty sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, some of those guys can USA today was still
Speaker 2: young at the time in eighty eight, eighty nine, eighty seven.
Speaker 5: That was a good memory and really kind of like
Speaker 5: put things into perspective for us doing Oh we're doing
Speaker 5: local news, we're doing local TV. And it's all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, it's like rubbing elbows with Michael Wilbon and
Speaker 5: you're rubbing elbows with the New York Times guys coming
Speaker 5: and just to do a whole feature.
Speaker 2: Were you there at all any of the n cub
Speaker 2: A tournament games too that Arizona was not involved here
Speaker 2: in Michale, Oh those blast those were those are big
Speaker 2: time games. Michigan is here. I think at the time,
Speaker 2: Indiana was here. Yes, with well, I mean Jeff who
Speaker 2: we were just talking to. It wasn't when it was
Speaker 2: when Knight was at Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: Texas Tech. He came in with that team right and
Speaker 3: and he didn't he get into some squabble.
Speaker 2: It was Jay was he was Jay and Bob Bob
Speaker 2: we talked about. Was the no, No, he was sitting
Speaker 2: in the stands, but he was had been the moderated
Speaker 2: But no, Jay was sitting in the stands at the time.
Speaker 2: I think it was maybe a different time. Dave Bob
Speaker 2: asked me a question. He did a story on Bob
Speaker 2: Bob Knight. Bob didn't because he pointed out Bob who
Speaker 2: did Who's Bob Knight? And blah blah didn't have the
Speaker 2: story blub Bla and Jay after the after he went
Speaker 2: on his ratu, Jay and J would tell us better
Speaker 2: than I would. Uh, your question, but why do you
Speaker 2: care about stuff like this? You aren't even worry about
Speaker 2: with people, right, And that's what kind of ended the
Speaker 2: press Covermence.
Speaker 3: It's funny because just yesterday I was talking to somebody
Speaker 3: who has asked me why doesn't Arizona get the tournament anymore?
Speaker 3: Is it? Basically McHale? You would probably know Michael.
Speaker 1: Enough.
Speaker 3: The luxury boxes and stuff and every other new I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure.
Speaker 2: And it'll put a bit for they did the women's obviously, right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's big enough. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: big enough. Yeah, that's what even because they go to Boise,
Speaker 2: they go to bigger arenas.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: But it was nice. I remember Michigan coming here, some
Speaker 2: other great games. But I was always on the road
Speaker 2: with the team, So yeah, I was missed.
Speaker 3: So it depends on what my duties.
Speaker 5: Usually I usually would stay here for the first and
Speaker 5: those years I would if there was going to be
Speaker 5: a regional here, I would stay and the other person
Speaker 5: go and then I'd go to Sweet sixteen. So I
Speaker 5: did get to see like I think Tim Duncan was
Speaker 5: here with Forrest and definitely you said Michigan the fab
Speaker 5: five years. I mean we were pretty lucky. U c
Speaker 5: l A was I'm sure came came through once or twice.
Speaker 3: Could have been ninety five or something like that.
Speaker 5: Might have been like an obandon years. Yeah, were awesome,
Speaker 5: and you know, we being in the media, were like
Speaker 5: right there. Although I remember the game that night where
Speaker 5: I was sitting I couldn't see him as well. It's
Speaker 5: kind of down the other on the other end, but
Speaker 5: just to watch him.
Speaker 2: Coaches, just ya, do you remember much when Kansas State
Speaker 2: came here and Frank Frank tell me his.
Speaker 3: Name, he's at South Carol.
Speaker 2: He was at South Carolina, got fired there, Martin, Frank Martin,
Speaker 2: very big dude, very authority.
Speaker 3: I thought that.
Speaker 2: I thought he was fantastic. He spoke well, he was
Speaker 2: fantastic with you know. I said, if I had a son,
Speaker 2: I don't want him to play there. But he was
Speaker 2: kind of like a military dude, like very yeah.
Speaker 5: Okay, So I think it was the same events. I
Speaker 5: think when Knight was here that same year and I
Speaker 5: was sitting behind the Kansas State bench I was almost
Speaker 5: embarrassed because what he was so out and mean to the.
Speaker 3: Very I mean like in there face.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I was and I'm like literally like three
Speaker 5: feet behind them so I could hear everything.
Speaker 3: It was a little bit strange, right I didn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't, And parents were like right behind me, like
Speaker 5: that was my kid, and he was just chewing him
Speaker 5: out in front of.
Speaker 3: Everybody with language. It was a little rough. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was rough.
Speaker 5: He was.
Speaker 2: He was known for that, right, No, and he got
Speaker 2: to the final four in twenty seventeen eighteen when Arizona
Speaker 2: could have gotten there, when Oregon was there, but no,
Speaker 2: I remember him.
Speaker 3: There's some great memories. I think Adam Morrison was here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Matza Gonzaga and you know getting as he
Speaker 5: was diabetic and he was drinking orange juice onthing.
Speaker 3: Oh really real?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, he like every time out he would have
Speaker 5: to almost get his blood tested. Oh he's pretty interesting.
Speaker 5: And again as worse like sitting a going why is
Speaker 5: he going over there?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It was.
Speaker 2: It was okay, we're ready to go, right, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're gonna come back. Henry will have some breaking news
Speaker 2: and they're gonna have Michael liv on the other side,