Speaker 1: For twenty five season after missing most of last year
Speaker 1: due to a foot injury. The only remaining undecided player
Speaker 1: is freshman forward Carter Bryant, who wasn't until April twenty
Speaker 1: sixth to declare for the twenty five NBA Draft.
Speaker 2: So his on the clock, Today's fifteenth. Yep, how can
Speaker 2: I forget? It's a big day, big day. Yes, So
Speaker 2: we have eleven days, so we'll see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you.
Speaker 4: Think about Crevis coming back? You think he's gonna he one?
Speaker 4: Is he gonna be ready?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Is he gonna be better because he was uninjured right away? Right,
Speaker 2: and he could come back. I think this team would
Speaker 2: have been better off with Henry, But what the.
Speaker 3: Hell do you want? Man? We don't have that anymore.
Speaker 3: Don't have that?
Speaker 2: This team would have been then if Henry came back
Speaker 2: and Carter would come back.
Speaker 3: Now that window gets even better, the windows wide.
Speaker 2: But you know, to his point, to his credit, maybe
Speaker 2: CREVSS is gonna be ready and ready to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it was obviously two different styles of
Speaker 4: player player out there. You know, more of a kind
Speaker 4: of conventional big man down low center. He's not going
Speaker 4: to come more than ten feet out and do anything offensively.
Speaker 4: But you know, that's kind of the way centers always
Speaker 4: used to play. And Vasar showed us a whole different
Speaker 4: type of player.
Speaker 2: Right right, And and he'll have some complimentary guys Waka
Speaker 2: and the new freshmen who are going to be very athletic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's that I'm looking for.
Speaker 4: I've not seen CoA Pete, but if his dad was
Speaker 4: an NFL tight end and he's built like.
Speaker 2: His dad, I've seen I've seen him just in videos
Speaker 2: and he obviously looks smooth and big like you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's gonna be an interesting dynamic to have.
Speaker 4: But you know, having a big guy in the center,
Speaker 4: I mean, then it's been some a few of them lately.
Speaker 3: You know, then pretty good.
Speaker 4: Zach Edy was pretty good at Purdue a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago. So we'll see if that type of player
Speaker 4: can be effective still in college basketball.
Speaker 1: Arizona softball national ranking saw a little movement after sweeping Kansas,
Speaker 1: staying at number eleven and D one Softball and number
Speaker 1: twelve and m NFCA poll, but their RPI dropped to
Speaker 1: number thirteen. Though wildcats next opportunity to improve their seating
Speaker 1: comes with the crucial series against Texas Tech as they
Speaker 1: am to close the gap in the Big twelve standings.
Speaker 2: Oh, and they have a big, good series coming up
Speaker 2: with Texas Tech. Yeah, the million dollar baby, right, it
Speaker 2: comes into town. The picture, Oh that picture, that's right.
Speaker 4: Well, they went to Kansas and they wiped them out,
Speaker 4: so I don't maybe be winning those road games didn't
Speaker 4: mean much for their overall ranking because Kansas isn't all
Speaker 4: that great, but they swept them and they had a
Speaker 4: couple of run rule games there. So again talk about
Speaker 4: TV coverage, I was, I was sitting around. I was
Speaker 4: watching you know, women's softball at like eleven o'clock in
Speaker 4: the morning from Lawrence, Kansas. So the games are on
Speaker 4: if you want to watch them.
Speaker 1: Arizona men's basketball has announced a home and home series
Speaker 1: with Yukon, with the Wildcats traveling to Connecticut on November nineteen,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and hosting the Huskies in Tucson on
Speaker 1: November eighteen, twenty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was, well, I'll cover them for a long time.
Speaker 3: Is everyone else?
Speaker 2: I went to stores for that game, and that was
Speaker 2: the game that we talked about with the goldtending non
Speaker 2: golden game. That was the time, the beginning of the
Speaker 2: time that we started to realize that that Loot was
Speaker 2: missing practice, missing games because of Bobby. I remember we
Speaker 2: took that trip, uh, and I was on the team
Speaker 2: flight and I noticed that he was not on the
Speaker 2: flight with the guys. Got arrived there really late. The
Speaker 2: next morning they made the announcement he was not with
Speaker 2: the team and had to be stayed with her because
Speaker 2: of her illness. Rosboro coach, Rosboro coach, I forgot about that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So so that was the beginning of I think December,
Speaker 2: December ninth, two thousand, yeah, yeah, so exactly, so that's
Speaker 2: when it and she passed just a few weeks later
Speaker 2: when he remember he started missing games and then the
Speaker 2: uh the Fistobol Classic. He didn't coach in the championship
Speaker 2: game against Mississippi State it was, and then she passed
Speaker 2: on exactly yeah, exactly, so that was that game. Did
Speaker 2: Ross coach that game? And there was a fantastic game.
Speaker 2: That place was crazy cold as all hell.
Speaker 3: I remember that well.
Speaker 4: Just looking at the results of a few of those
Speaker 4: games through the series, you know, there was a two
Speaker 4: point game there, there was an overtime game here that
Speaker 4: Arizona long.
Speaker 3: Remember that game. That was a great game too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then they lost to them in Maui and
Speaker 4: they lost to them in Anaheim by two.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But then the last two games they won, Azona beat him.
Speaker 4: They beat him by fifteen here in twenty seventeen and
Speaker 4: then beat him by four in Hartford.
Speaker 2: So so back then too, here you had loot against
Speaker 2: Jim Callho Jim Calhoun. So you have two titans of
Speaker 2: the game right going and that was part of the story,
Speaker 2: just these two dudes. Now you have Hurley, who's Hurley
Speaker 2: right and has done great job, and then Tommy trying
Speaker 2: to beat that guy.
Speaker 4: Get a chance to beat the Hurley brothers in the
Speaker 4: same season, maybe, right, that doesn't happen for Arizona lately.
Speaker 1: Arizona women's basketball get to commitment from guard and Mikayla Purdy.
Speaker 1: Mikaela was the Horizons League Player of the Year last season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like we said, I think that she'll be
Speaker 2: able to find some talent, you know, maybe even players
Speaker 2: of the years other places and bring in and start
Speaker 2: a five, start a five, start a seven that will
Speaker 2: be kind of working in the groove here and maybe
Speaker 2: make something worthy the start of something.
Speaker 4: She had some good numbers. She averaged nineteen points a
Speaker 4: game playing for Cleveland State. So you know, again the
Speaker 4: competition question is always going to be out there. But
Speaker 4: if she's going to start getting players, she's got to
Speaker 4: start getting them gathering them together.
Speaker 1: See what she has the Seattle the Seattle Storm AF
Speaker 1: selected Madison Connor in the third round of the WNBA draft.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the one thing that we know about Adiya she
Speaker 2: knew how to find talent. There's no question, there's no
Speaker 2: doubt about that. It's like Mike said yesterday, could find talent,
Speaker 2: but just couldn't keep it. Yeah, here and Mattie was
Speaker 2: a heck of a player. She just couldn't stay here
Speaker 2: or didn't want to stay here.
Speaker 4: She had strong connections in Europe too, right, Adya did,
Speaker 4: so she would get players to come from all over,
Speaker 4: kind of like Tommy does with the men's team. So
Speaker 4: it's an interesting dynamic that those both those programs kind
Speaker 4: of had. So I don't know, I don't know if
Speaker 4: Becky Burke has connections you know, across the across the Atlantics.
Speaker 3: Just talent, just gotta find the talent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we'll see the Phoenix Suns have fired coach
Speaker 1: Mike Budenholzer after a disappointing thirty six and forty six season,
Speaker 1: marking their third head coach dismissal in just twenty three
Speaker 1: months for the Suns. Budenholzer, who was let go after
Speaker 1: just one season, joins Monty Williams and Frank Voleel on
Speaker 1: the Sun's payroll, with a team now holding a staggering
Speaker 1: seventy five million in contract for fired coaches since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three.
Speaker 2: Imagine having seventy five million for people just to go away. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm having a hard time with seventy five dollars.
Speaker 4: That's franchise is a mess. I'm sorry. Their roster is
Speaker 4: a mess. They're paying all these guys way too much money.
Speaker 4: They're already talking yesterday the day after the season ends.
Speaker 4: They're always talking about getting rid of Kevin Durant and
Speaker 4: Booker will probably be the one that stays and Beale
Speaker 4: and Durant, who knows. But they're making way too much
Speaker 4: and the coaching situation, they just have.
Speaker 3: Not been able to put it together.
Speaker 4: No, you know, I mean even Monti Williams, who got
Speaker 4: him to the championship a few years ago. Then he's out,
Speaker 4: and then he's out in Detroit. I mean, the coaching
Speaker 4: in the NBA is so crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, Steve is partly one of the longest tenured.
Speaker 3: Coaches in the league. I got to be one of them,
Speaker 3: and he's definitely.
Speaker 2: I think there's only two people in the last few
Speaker 2: years who has a job after winning a title, because
Speaker 2: there's I think seven of them, and there's five who
Speaker 2: have been fired recently.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Buldenheuzer, the guy who the Vogel guy two
Speaker 4: there's been and three others.
Speaker 3: I think Malone was Malone Denver.
Speaker 4: So who do the sons go after? There's all these
Speaker 4: guys that are out there now that they could do.
Speaker 4: They want to go get a you know, Malone, or
Speaker 4: they want to go get Luke Walton. Does he want
Speaker 4: to coach in Arizona again?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And then his success rate has not been all that great.
Speaker 2: Does he want to be a head coach? Have you
Speaker 2: talked to him?
Speaker 3: No? No, I talked to him when his dad passed
Speaker 3: last year at this time, But no about Steve Nash.
Speaker 3: What do you want to come in?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, that's good. That's a good name. Who knows,
Speaker 2: but why, well, why do it? Because they're gonna pay
Speaker 2: you a boload of money and if you don't do well,
Speaker 2: they're gonna pay you a bowload of money.
Speaker 4: Signed a nice five year deal for forty dollars. I mean,
Speaker 4: crew has got to they're playing tonight. They you don't
Speaker 4: want to be playing games against.
Speaker 2: What tis I start? Okay, so we'll see what happens
Speaker 2: with that, Uh, the NBA. I'm still a believer that
Speaker 2: the talent doesn't always win the day, uh college or otherwise,
Speaker 2: because you give throw people money and it doesn't necessarily
Speaker 2: mean that they're.
Speaker 3: Gonna be good, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: And if you throw a lot of people money, doesn't
Speaker 2: miss misses necessarily mean that they're gonna play well together.
Speaker 4: I was joking with with my kids this this weekend.
Speaker 4: We were talking about, well, is this gonna be it
Speaker 4: for you know, for Staff and Draymond and that whole
Speaker 4: nucleus of Warriors.
Speaker 3: And then then I kind of did a little Google
Speaker 3: search on Kerr.
Speaker 4: He's making like two hundred million dollars more on his
Speaker 4: contract and he's got so much money coming his way
Speaker 4: if he plays, why would he leave?
Speaker 6: Who?
Speaker 3: Steph? Steph? You Okay, he said curse. I think I
Speaker 3: mean Curry. Oh yeah, curse making. That was funny.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, yeah, And there's the court is no
Speaker 2: longer there. Yeah, the court pretty much is. You know,
Speaker 2: Thompson's in Dallas and it's only Draymond and uh and
Speaker 2: Curry and Curry, yeah, because everyone else is gone. But
Speaker 2: they're still putting it band aated together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They look they're fun to watch to me. And maybe
Speaker 2: I have a bias because I am a Golden State
Speaker 2: Warrior guy now and having for a while.
Speaker 3: But guess what.
Speaker 2: The rest of the league plays the same way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: fight out for out whatever and just kind of.
Speaker 3: Shoot the three.
Speaker 2: And maybe that's what people don't like anymore because everyone's
Speaker 2: playing the same game because.
Speaker 3: The NBA is not being watched.
Speaker 1: It's been a great fit since they got Butler.
Speaker 3: I think Jimmy Butler's made a big difference. But you know,
Speaker 3: he's been really hot.
Speaker 4: And no, we don't talk about it here that much
Speaker 4: as the Clippers and then on fire in the last
Speaker 4: like I don't know, six weeks something like that. They're
Speaker 4: like twenty four and three or something ridiculous. They beat
Speaker 4: the Warriors just on Sunday. I think it was in
Speaker 4: a great game, huge game. He was a loss for
Speaker 4: the Warriors. Gonna have to force him to play today
Speaker 4: and not get to sit out for like, you know,
Speaker 4: a week or so.
Speaker 3: So the winner of this game plays whom.
Speaker 1: They are in the playoffs, so they will face the Rockets.
Speaker 3: Yeah too, he'll be the seventh seeds.
Speaker 2: And you don't think the Rockie coach must be a
Speaker 2: fantastic coach because he was out. He got fired at
Speaker 2: Boston Boston because he turned that that franchise around in
Speaker 2: a heartbeat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that, and that just don't happened by accident.
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks GM Nigo Harrison has no regrets about the
Speaker 1: Luga Dante's trade, as he stated, I think once we win,
Speaker 1: then that will change your mind.
Speaker 3: If you don't win, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's like tell Jay all the time when he was
Speaker 2: with me all the time, j are you a good guy?
Speaker 2: And he would say, yeah, I'm a good guy. Breaking news.
Speaker 2: Jay's a good guy. What is he gonna say? No, Steve,
Speaker 2: I'm a horrible guy.
Speaker 4: They were talking about, you know, the loss of revenue
Speaker 4: since he left Jersey sales and the season ticket holder said.
Speaker 3: I don't want to come back to Why who do
Speaker 3: they even have anymore? K Oh yeah, yeah?
Speaker 4: And uh Kyrie when you know he's that's a bad
Speaker 4: injury for him.
Speaker 3: He might not be back for a while. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: How can you defend that? Sorry? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Two way star Travis Hunter told CBS Sports that none
Speaker 1: of the teams he has met with ahead of the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft has made an issue of him playing both
Speaker 1: offense and defense. However, if a team told him he
Speaker 1: could not play both, he would stop playing.
Speaker 3: Okay, how comes Shador is not going to be at
Speaker 3: the draft? I don't know. He just doesn't want them.
Speaker 3: I don't know, because.
Speaker 4: Demon will be there. I'm gonna guess. No, is he
Speaker 4: what well Travis Hunter player? I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: They say all these guys have been in, like tam
Speaker 4: Max gonna be there and stuff like that from Arizona. No, no, Schdor,
Speaker 4: He's gonna be like the top could be a Top
Speaker 4: I pick, it could be a top twenty five pick.
Speaker 3: You're not sure sure.
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard will miss the start of the NBA playoffs
Speaker 1: due to a blood clot He's at Milwaukee. Still, Lillard,
Speaker 1: who has been out since March eighteenth, has made significant
Speaker 1: progress with the blood clot and it remains optimism that
Speaker 1: for his clearance at some point in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Okay, if there, if they're hanging in there, right, who
Speaker 2: are the favorites, the favorites.
Speaker 1: The Thunder and the Celtics. I believe in the Calves
Speaker 1: are right there. Who's the number one in the East.
Speaker 1: The Calves are record Boston to Yeah, Okay. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: and defensive back Jalen Ramsey intend to part ways.
Speaker 4: Okay, Sei Jalen, I'll get a big contract somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Apparently he's had a couple of big deals I remember
Speaker 4: with the Rams.
Speaker 1: Especially Dallas Wings select Page Beckers with the number one
Speaker 1: pick in the w NBA draft.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good for them.
Speaker 2: We can start to start from the bottom right and
Speaker 2: play and see what happens. Kingon Clark with with who
Speaker 2: is she with Washington or Indiana?
Speaker 3: Indiana?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they weren't doing really well with her and
Speaker 2: then they caught fire made the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and those games will get televised. There's there's already
Speaker 4: a I think there's a game already scheduled for whatever
Speaker 4: ESPN with them to two against each other because that
Speaker 4: season starts here pretty soon.
Speaker 3: I saw it. Only you knew that from the draft
Speaker 3: last night. Yeah, that is it for today's breaking news. Okay,
Speaker 3: give you one more.
Speaker 4: Patrick Peterson Cardinals dB officially retired as a Cardinal today.
Speaker 3: Are you a Cardinal guy? Only because you have to
Speaker 3: watch them soon?
Speaker 4: In the years where they were like the only you
Speaker 4: had to watch, I've never been a big fan. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but individually some I mean, you know, Larry Fitzgerald was
Speaker 4: fun to watch.
Speaker 3: That's why I watch Who do you watch Zone?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: I do that too.
Speaker 2: No, I don't watch anybody because the names to me
Speaker 2: don't mean anything anymore. It's like back in the day,
Speaker 2: you fell in love with the team and they stayed
Speaker 2: with the team.
Speaker 3: Now it's like, oh, he's with them now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, yeah, because he did bounce around the
Speaker 4: last five years. It seems like he was going and going,
Speaker 4: but he was.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: There's only been four cornerbacks in NFL history named a
Speaker 4: seven straight pole Pro Bowls, and two of them are
Speaker 4: in the Hall of Fame already, Champ Bailey and Willie
Speaker 4: Brown and Patrick Peterson. Maybe's one of them and then
Speaker 4: the other one. Jalen Ramsey. We just mentioned seven straight
Speaker 4: Pro bowls. He's up there too, Okay, cool, cool cool.
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Speaker 2: so we'll see what happens if we call talk about
Speaker 2: what's going on in the town of high school sports.
Speaker 2: What else saw, Dave?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 3: This is Jackie Robinson day.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's right, Baseball honoring him today and with the
Speaker 4: number forty two on every jersey.
Speaker 3: So for you old guys, for you guys, did you
Speaker 3: see him play?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 6: What do you see him playing? Not that old that
Speaker 6: you that you were? No? No, but you're not a
Speaker 6: Dodger too, right, I'm not a Dodger fan, but you
Speaker 6: know I still love the stories.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sootos who maybe just.
Speaker 4: Talk about a night. It's the airs in a baseball tonight.
Speaker 4: They're playing Grand Canyon the Lopes. Okay, so that's always
Speaker 4: a good matchup. They're always good in baseball.
Speaker 3: Lopes have to have their number pretty much. Basketball team
Speaker 3: had our women's team baseball, they can't get through. But
Speaker 3: now we're on the phone.
Speaker 2: We have Javier Morales all sports two sound dot com.
Speaker 3: Have you are? What's up? Hey, guys? How you doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing okay, We're doing okay. Can you want to
Speaker 2: be caught up with what's going on in the high
Speaker 2: school world of sports? How much time? About two more
Speaker 2: weeks with stuff going on?
Speaker 13: Yeah, there's about two more weeks in the high school
Speaker 13: baseball and softball season. Also track is going on, you know,
Speaker 13: So it's it's coming down to the to the very
Speaker 13: end here, unbelievably because it's so like it wasn't too
Speaker 13: long of the high school football season is going on,
Speaker 13: and now here it is the end of the whole
Speaker 13: the whole school year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like the spring goes faster than the winter.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but it does. Because it's almost over.
Speaker 2: School's almost over and about a month. So who are
Speaker 2: the star teams to look out for as they approach
Speaker 2: these playoffs?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm sorry, I also forgot toys. Volleyball's going on
Speaker 13: right now too, But some of the some of the
Speaker 13: best team. There's a lot of good as always, there's
Speaker 13: a lot of good softball and baseball teams locally in Tucson.
Speaker 7: I mean Cell Point Baseball.
Speaker 13: Has only lost one game and that was this week
Speaker 13: in a tournament that involves Catholic schools in Las Vegas.
Speaker 13: They're there for four days. National teams that are going there.
Speaker 13: I've talked to a few coaches. Actually, one of the coach,
Speaker 13: one of their coaches teaches at Sunnyside with me and
Speaker 13: he mentioned this is his Cell Points best team under
Speaker 13: Preble and Preble's coach in two thousand and nine, and
Speaker 13: he led them to the twenty nineteen championship.
Speaker 14: And you know, Mason.
Speaker 13: White was on that team in twenty twenty one that
Speaker 13: came up really short against the cdo at High Corbett.
Speaker 13: But in the gentleman fever menta is been coaching there
Speaker 13: for a while, and you think this is their best
Speaker 13: overall team with pitching, defense, batting. I mean, it's just
Speaker 13: they have no weakness overall and their whole you know,
Speaker 13: their whole rosters. So they're very good. They're seventeen one
Speaker 13: and one the last time I saw they had one
Speaker 13: tie against I think a des of you that got
Speaker 13: late and they couldn't play because there was no lights.
Speaker 13: It was I a tournament or something like that. They
Speaker 13: couldn't play, They can't finish the game. But yeah, I
Speaker 13: mean it's I think, uh just just their overall. I
Speaker 13: saw them play CDO a couple of weeks ago. They
Speaker 13: beat him ten to zero in in uh in six innings.
Speaker 13: And CDO historically has been very strong and they're strong again.
Speaker 13: Their top ten team in the four A. So this
Speaker 13: this is the year where.
Speaker 7: Cell Points ranked number one in four A.
Speaker 13: So it's expected of them to win the championship. In
Speaker 13: recent years, it's like they're one of the top five
Speaker 13: six teams. But they're they're like right up there, they're there.
Speaker 13: They should be considered a favorite to win the state championship.
Speaker 3: Kay, you know what about some of the other sports.
Speaker 4: Softball is always strong with you know, the CDO softball.
Speaker 13: I mean, CDO is the same thing. They're the same
Speaker 13: thing in five A. They're they're they're in in games
Speaker 13: that the AA recognizes they don't recognize in season tournaments
Speaker 13: in their power ratings.
Speaker 7: So in their you know, their right.
Speaker 13: Their rankings are number one and they have an undefeated
Speaker 13: record because they haven't lost any any games that are
Speaker 13: in season. Amelia s. Druber, who's going to Oregon State
Speaker 13: is you know, she's untouchable, and she had like an
Speaker 13: array and there erer point six senior, you know, just
Speaker 13: uh some strong leadership there. She pitched in the championship
Speaker 13: game last year against Cell Point at hillm Brand got
Speaker 13: kind of rock. They're you know, a couple of home
Speaker 13: runs you give up. And I think this year she
Speaker 13: has the mindset that she's gonna win it, uh win
Speaker 13: that state championship. And they're they're very strong, and you know,
Speaker 13: there's just there's a lot of good teams. Sorrta is good,
Speaker 13: Micah Mountain, Uh, like I said, South Point also in
Speaker 13: softball is very good, too soon and Sunnyside. Uh. You
Speaker 13: can go down the list of a lot of schools
Speaker 13: that have a chance come postseason to to make a
Speaker 13: deep run. So it's gonna be fun here in the
Speaker 13: next couple of weeks to follow all these teams. Baseball,
Speaker 13: the five A they have like I think they have
Speaker 13: sixteen Southern areas only have six teams in the top eleven,
Speaker 13: leve By, Kelly and Foothills. Dwyer's their top player.
Speaker 14: I think he was.
Speaker 13: He was a former Arizona commit. He's one of their
Speaker 13: top guys. So, yeah, it'll be it's gonna be interesting
Speaker 13: if people like to go out to high school baseball
Speaker 13: and softball games like our our buddy Vic, they'll they'll
Speaker 13: have a lot, they'll have a great time.
Speaker 14: I see him everywhere every time. Every time I go
Speaker 14: to a game.
Speaker 13: He's there. It's like he's he's like stocking me or
Speaker 13: following me.
Speaker 3: He's in the same thing.
Speaker 14: He's the great guy.
Speaker 2: Though, So to me, you've covered this a while now,
Speaker 2: you and your brother. Is this an era of softball
Speaker 2: baseball some of the best, even though you know Tucson
Speaker 2: has been historically a pretty good u bed for for
Speaker 2: both sports.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's hard to say, because, like you said, every year.
Speaker 13: There's there's strong teams because of you know, we're in
Speaker 13: Tucson and good weather and a lot of development here
Speaker 13: since when they start out young. Because of that, there's
Speaker 13: a lot of good.
Speaker 7: Club teams and the Little League.
Speaker 13: You know, it's just as it as Isaiah Moraga, who's
Speaker 13: the stand out senior pitcher for self when he was
Speaker 13: on that Sunny Side Little League team that came one
Speaker 13: ending away from making the Little League World Series in
Speaker 13: twenty nineteen. I think he's he has some crazy stats,
Speaker 13: like he's got forty four strikeouts and four walks, just
Speaker 13: tremendous controls, got an area of about one point seven.
Speaker 13: He's going to South Mountain with his dad. Ernest played
Speaker 13: at His uncle is Omar Mora. I don't know if
Speaker 13: you remember him. He played, was a high draft choice,
Speaker 13: some good jeans there. So yeah, I mean there's I
Speaker 13: mean that whole Cell Point going going back to Cell
Speaker 13: Point there. Their roster has a lot of people that
Speaker 13: you know, their their relatives were really successful and you
Speaker 13: know in in past years like the Safer I don't
Speaker 13: know if you remember the Safers that came out of Sabino.
Speaker 14: Jeff Safer.
Speaker 3: Is he the son of the son, Yeah, he's Don.
Speaker 3: Don was the grandfather, yea.
Speaker 14: Don was the grandfather. Played for John Wooden.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and Paul Safer now is the one.
Speaker 13: Who plays at Cell Point. He's the grandson. He's the
Speaker 13: son of Jeff Safer, who was a really good put
Speaker 13: player at Sabino when he played with the Thanks Organization
Speaker 13: for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Who and then his maybe his uncle because his uncle
Speaker 2: was the GM here at iHeart met him.
Speaker 14: Yes, uh, I think Mike.
Speaker 2: Lay right right, Okay, I'm just trying to picture who's
Speaker 2: who here because I've never met the dad of the ballplayer.
Speaker 13: Then okay, yeah, Mike Safer was probably the most notable one.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 13: He was a prey All American at Sabino, went on
Speaker 13: to u c l A. Yeah, played for Jeff skur
Speaker 13: In there at Sabino. And then John Safer was a
Speaker 13: top five uh you know, he was drapped in the
Speaker 13: fifth round by the Exposed in ninety three. He played
Speaker 13: at Anti. He's a he's another uncle. Jeff Safer played
Speaker 13: at Sabino. He played, was a really good quarterback and
Speaker 13: baseball player, also played for Skirn. And now you know,
Speaker 13: Paul is the grandson. He's a senior and he's one
Speaker 13: of the top players. Also on that Selping team is
Speaker 13: Anthony Milo Junior. He's the son of Tony Milo, former
Speaker 13: Arizona baseball player, and Katie Swan who played softball in Arizona.
Speaker 13: So a lot of good bloodlines there.
Speaker 4: Remember she was a former k gun ka Gun intern
Speaker 4: Katie Swan and she really she was quite a player.
Speaker 4: Was second basement I think for Arizona and some those
Speaker 4: great early Candrea with teams, who did you mention?
Speaker 3: Who did you mention? It was a commit to Arizona
Speaker 3: And he's no longer.
Speaker 13: Dwyer the one out of Kenyan Foothills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so what's he up to.
Speaker 13: He's just he's I don't think he's signed with anybody.
Speaker 13: If I'm mistaken, he's you know, I I like him.
Speaker 13: I think it's a it's a situation where Arizona hasn't overloaded.
Speaker 13: He was a pitcher and he also played in the field,
Speaker 13: but I think they have They kind of basically told
Speaker 13: him that they have, uh, you know, surplus at where
Speaker 13: he's at, and he's taken in stride and he you know,
Speaker 13: and you never know what could happen in these days,
Speaker 13: but you know, transfer Portal or were believing to go
Speaker 13: pro if there might be if you another spot might
Speaker 13: know for him. For him, I really don't know the
Speaker 13: particulars of all that, but he's he's a top talent.
Speaker 13: Kelley and Footal is one of the top teams in
Speaker 13: the state in the five A.
Speaker 4: Are there are there draft type players out there in baseball.
Speaker 3: In this in this group, are there people who are
Speaker 3: gonna get picked?
Speaker 13: H That's that's the thing. It's it's a it's a good,
Speaker 13: good talent, but not high draftable talent. You know, guys
Speaker 13: who have maybe signed for like places like San Diego
Speaker 13: or uh, you know, some some lower d one but
Speaker 13: nothing like high you know, something not nothing like we've
Speaker 13: seen in you know, recent years, like Thinking balla something
Speaker 13: like that. It's it's it's not as.
Speaker 14: High as they're probably.
Speaker 13: May be some lower round draft or not drafted and
Speaker 13: go to a lot of there's a lot of kids
Speaker 13: who have signed to go to colleges, but I don't
Speaker 13: see a lot of them going to pro route right away.
Speaker 2: Do you, Oh, do you think the NIL could play
Speaker 2: with baseball because it's one of those things when they
Speaker 2: get to drafted or whatever, they get promised, you know
Speaker 2: a few hundred thousand dollars to sign with them that
Speaker 2: maybe instead of doing that, they decide to go to
Speaker 2: Juve or other places. I'm not sure what the NIL
Speaker 2: would be at the coll I think.
Speaker 13: It's just like any other sport where there's colleges that
Speaker 13: have the money, they have a better chance of keeping them.
Speaker 13: I don't know, if Arizona has that kind of money
Speaker 13: like you would see in the SEC schools like else,
Speaker 13: you to keep some of those guys from from signing.
Speaker 13: So yeah, I don't, I don't, who knows. I mean,
Speaker 13: the chances are though, for a partum like Arizona, they
Speaker 13: won't get a guy who's a high draft pick to
Speaker 13: stay with Arizona, whereas somebody you know the SEC might
Speaker 13: be able to. But you know, you know, Chip Hale's
Speaker 13: the way he's put together the staff though, in the
Speaker 13: pitching has been impressive, you know, just overall, just the
Speaker 13: way they've been able to go from one year where
Speaker 13: they lose all their starters and then having they come
Speaker 13: up this year and have another good performance. They're pitching staff.
Speaker 13: That says a lot about about you know, him and
Speaker 13: their pitching coach and just their operation.
Speaker 3: Okay yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: So you'll be busy here, going here and there to
Speaker 2: watch these teams. Who's the who's the odds on favorites?
Speaker 2: So South Point Baseball to win a title? Maybe CDO
Speaker 2: Women's or Studio Girls Softball.
Speaker 14: Yeah, those are the two obvious ones.
Speaker 7: Uh, smaller school, Busbee. They won the state championship last year.
Speaker 13: They're they're undefeated this year. They had everybody back from
Speaker 13: last year. That's smaller school from downtown South And But
Speaker 13: and then, like I said earlier, any of these teams
Speaker 13: that there's a lot of teams that are rank in
Speaker 13: the top ten in baseball and softball and in all
Speaker 13: classifications that have a chance. So it's going to be
Speaker 13: quite interesting here coming up. We had head into the
Speaker 13: end of this season, going into the postseason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, thanks a bunch for coming on.
Speaker 14: All right, thanks guys.
Speaker 2: You well, however, Morales from All Sports toots on dot
Speaker 2: com get the latest on the youth sports stuff.
Speaker 3: But at that site, it's good site. Now, those guys
Speaker 3: are amazing. Well you're part of that too. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: do as little as possible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the high school, no one's covering high school
Speaker 4: sports except except your website.
Speaker 3: They've got a control over.
Speaker 11: Yah.
Speaker 3: In fact, I need to talk about about a few things.
Speaker 2: Uh, maybe we can kind of maybe have a marriage
Speaker 2: with a TV station that kind of they get stuff
Speaker 2: from us and we give stuff from them and kind
Speaker 2: of arrangement.
Speaker 3: I don't know if the TV stations are doing much
Speaker 3: high school. Yeah, no, but this would give them a chance.
Speaker 2: To Yeah, they could use your stuff, your stuff, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I mean if you were back, I mean, what's what's
Speaker 2: the best?
Speaker 3: Didn't we try to do that one time with the Citizen?
Speaker 3: We did.
Speaker 4: We had some kind of working relationship with the newspaper,
Speaker 4: which I liked. I don't know if there was enough
Speaker 4: news people that enjoyed it. But then in sports, I remember,
Speaker 4: I don't know if you were I think you were there.
Speaker 3: I was. I did something to get you on every
Speaker 3: once in a while TV with my bs talking about stuff.
Speaker 4: I think you guys used to have a camera set
Speaker 4: up in your newsroom, didn't you at some point and
Speaker 4: we would take that.
Speaker 3: That was kind of an interesting, right year, like.
Speaker 2: Two thousand and you still doing it in two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight, Yes, it was about two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I had to put make up.
Speaker 4: There because I mean, you guys were doing stuff that
Speaker 4: we could never get to.
Speaker 15: Right.
Speaker 3: You'd have, you know, four or five reporters, and I
Speaker 3: had one. Yeah. Well, when I was on the road, dude,
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 2: I'd have to go to like an affiliate place ABC
Speaker 2: station to kind of get behind the desk and say, well,
Speaker 2: we're here at ore again and yeah, game tomorrow.
Speaker 3: It's a big game.
Speaker 4: That was always hard even for us to do when
Speaker 4: you know, we had relationships with those TV stations and
Speaker 4: we would have a hard time getting material out of there.
Speaker 2: Right sometimes, right, Well, let's take a break, come back
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball. You're on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're Dave Silver,
Speaker 2: your Kobe, and I wouldn't have my eye on the
Speaker 2: ball without you, guys. That's why you're going to come
Speaker 2: in with some information on for me, Dave on this
Speaker 2: new story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean credit to uh Justin Spears with Tucson
Speaker 4: dot com. We're just looking over some of the stuff
Speaker 4: that's been coming down this afternoon and they're talking about
Speaker 4: the portal that reopens tomorrow. So the transfer portal of
Speaker 4: the spring will run just basically for ten days until
Speaker 4: April twenty fifth, while Cats are trying to recover after
Speaker 4: losing twenty nine players in the earlier portal, which was
Speaker 4: tied for the most in the entire country. Time for
Speaker 4: a second, I'm sorry with Purdue second most twenty nine
Speaker 4: players left.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering of those twenty nine, and they would never
Speaker 2: give you a straight answer, but of those twenty nine,
Speaker 2: how many actually you said, Okay, no problem, take care.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: A few of them came back. Yeah, but you're right,
Speaker 4: I'm sure, Okay, Okay, good luck.
Speaker 2: You see what you can do it without without really
Speaker 2: saying that you're not good enough to here anyway, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But so yeah, So they're they're looking for a lot
Speaker 4: of a lot of spots. There's a lot of spots open.
Speaker 4: There's you know, freshman classes coming in, there's a different
Speaker 4: you know, key positions that they need to feel about
Speaker 4: a kicker, you know, things like that they had a
Speaker 4: great kicker Tyler Loop what they wrote about as well
Speaker 4: today on Tucson dot com. Who's got a good chance
Speaker 4: of you know, getting drafted. But there's a lot of
Speaker 4: a lot of spots open.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, uh that said there's a
Speaker 2: chance too that you know when there's going, there's coming,
Speaker 2: exactly when there's coming, there's going. So did he say
Speaker 2: anything about the possibility of losing.
Speaker 3: That's for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean that's this is also a very popular time
Speaker 4: for people to leave. So now we have this window
Speaker 4: of just basically ten days. Sure, so I'm sure players
Speaker 4: saw what was going on in spring football. What are
Speaker 4: my chances? You know, this is the time where they're
Speaker 4: going to make that evaluation.
Speaker 3: Sure. Sure.
Speaker 2: And one of the reasons why they're not going to
Speaker 2: have a game is because, well, there a talent gets shown.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Dubraska kind of started this where they're just going to
Speaker 2: have an exhibition or whatever you're going to call it,
Speaker 2: and not to have.
Speaker 3: Anything on film.
Speaker 2: But guess what, players know who the coaches know who
Speaker 2: these players are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you're right, a lot of schools decided
Speaker 4: not to play games, or if they did, they were really,
Speaker 4: you know, slightly slightly attended. There was a few that
Speaker 4: had like five thousand fans.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: Some of the bigger schools that you would think would get
Speaker 4: big crowds didn't really even you know, put their players
Speaker 4: out there. Because there is so much fluidity to their
Speaker 4: to their rosters, and players are coming and going. They
Speaker 4: probably don't want to go out there. And why should
Speaker 4: I get hurt of I'm going to transfer next week?
Speaker 2: Sure, No, no exactly, And Dave and I don't think
Speaker 2: I'm speaking out of turn or being naive about this,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure it happened here in basketball and poverty
Speaker 2: for football. They've been in contact with the other schools already.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, hey, the things don't go well,
Speaker 2: or if you're not happy, we're here for you.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Just the fact that these
Speaker 3: guys have agents, and it's so funny.
Speaker 2: It's so strange when I read that stuff, I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 2: we talked to their agent and then what Yeah.
Speaker 4: There was a guy that back in my development days
Speaker 4: working for the U of A who I ran into
Speaker 4: was in a lump up in the Bay Area who
Speaker 4: he was an agent, Yeah, but he was very quiet
Speaker 4: about it. He was an agent for professional players, not
Speaker 4: so much. Sure we get some U of A guys.
Speaker 3: Well because it wasn't available back then, right, But that
Speaker 3: was his career. So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I haven't talked to him in a while, but I'm
Speaker 4: wondering if he's kind of dipping his toes into the
Speaker 4: college players.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm gonna ask Meilbach, who's on the show every
Speaker 2: now and again. I wanted him to come on today
Speaker 2: because one of the questions was the Tennessee kid, and
Speaker 2: it could be Arizona kid, could be UCLA kid, didn't matter.
Speaker 2: The quarterback decided to, you know, leave and they said,
Speaker 2: we're you know, you're not going to be the face
Speaker 2: of our franchise and we don't need you to hold
Speaker 2: us hostage. But that happens, I'm sure other places and
Speaker 2: some and some another. What of our guests asked me
Speaker 2: to ask about is he a former employee?
Speaker 3: Is he does he colect unemployment right? Right?
Speaker 2: All that stuff, and what the legality of it when
Speaker 2: he eventually becomes that it would become employees and you
Speaker 2: kind of hold your your your business hostage, right, exactly
Speaker 2: what does it all mean? And then I'll ask him
Speaker 2: this because he used to be a sports agent, Matt
Speaker 2: did uh and you know, being an attorney and all that.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering how that, how that feels, because now it's
Speaker 2: just different. Now you could be part of it. You know,
Speaker 2: Jason Terry back in ninety nine got in trouble with
Speaker 2: an agent, YadA, YadA. I'm sure There's been a couple
Speaker 2: of others if I can remember correctly, but now it's
Speaker 2: like everyday occurrence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know he got his mama plane ticket or
Speaker 3: something like that back.
Speaker 4: Then and more, yeah, and more whatever, You're right. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's totally different. It's it's a different world. It's not
Speaker 4: the way it was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2: No, in fact, it's almost we don't have very many
Speaker 2: kids here in talking ex players one because of practice
Speaker 2: time and all that stuff. But there might be a time.
Speaker 2: And that was kind of warned if you were going
Speaker 2: to come on the show, you need to pay us.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, and Jay and I at the time said
Speaker 2: that ain't happening. We're not You're not that important to
Speaker 2: get a No one's asked No one's done that for us.
Speaker 2: No one's asked us, Hey, if you're gonna be on,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pay. But if it came to that, we're
Speaker 2: surviving okay without you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting. I don't know. I didn't think they
Speaker 3: would be on a talk show. Really they wanted to
Speaker 3: get paid.
Speaker 2: No, not specific to this, but they said eventually that
Speaker 2: could happen, kind of like I paid their parents.
Speaker 3: Okay, I can understand that.
Speaker 4: I suppose if they if they've got some deal with
Speaker 4: some store or sign autographs and things like that.
Speaker 3: That's usually how it's been working. I get.
Speaker 4: I guess they host these camps Fight Love Love Camp coming.
Speaker 3: Well, No, it just happened. Oh did he did?
Speaker 2: Because I wanted to get them on to show up Monday,
Speaker 2: thinking it was gonna come up, But it happened on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Didn't happen in the summer.
Speaker 2: No, it's just happened now with the thirteenth. Oh, because
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get him on.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: But then know they told me they warren me a
Speaker 2: year or so ago there could be a chance where
Speaker 2: kids were not coming on the show because you're not
Speaker 2: gonna pay them.
Speaker 3: This that ain't happen. I guess we got to start
Speaker 3: talking to high school kids.
Speaker 2: I got to take nil so I can pay the nil. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure that's the case too, because I guess
Speaker 2: now nil kids high school kids are getting nil.
Speaker 3: Good for them, unbelievable. Helped me with the electricity bill
Speaker 3: at that call. Yeah, exactly, exactly. You gotta buy some
Speaker 3: groceries to live here in our house. You're making more
Speaker 3: money than us. Yeah. Yeah, that's just the way of
Speaker 3: the world, and I'm proud of you. Yeah. Well, I
Speaker 3: mean they're really making money and paying Yeah, if you
Speaker 3: google it, you'll probably find it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's just can seem like if you're, you know, graduated
Speaker 4: from high school and you're gonna go to a college
Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden he get this big check. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know what's mom and dad gonna say, Grandma?
Speaker 2: The price of fame and the price of winning is
Speaker 2: just gone to be bonkers.
Speaker 3: How important is it? I guess very well.
Speaker 4: The separation between the pros and college is really shrinking
Speaker 4: if you think about it.
Speaker 3: Well, I posted a question to who was it?
Speaker 2: Oh, Michael v Michael Love, and you didn't happen to
Speaker 2: do this in your job much, if at all, be
Speaker 2: the be the columnist on TV. But something some people do,
Speaker 2: right suh? And you played it fair and square and
Speaker 2: I did too as a reporter. But you know, at
Speaker 2: some point these kids aren't going to be It's not
Speaker 2: so much fair game, but they're gonna you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to be critical of what they've done and actions they've had.
Speaker 3: They're not amateurs. Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean that's kind of one of the excuses
Speaker 4: we used to have, was why don't go after them.
Speaker 4: They're just a bunch of kids and it's just the
Speaker 4: amateur playing and this and that. But now you know,
Speaker 4: maybe it has changed. They are earning, earning something. What
Speaker 4: are you getting some texts?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you did a text? I got to say this
Speaker 2: one from one of our callers. What the guests collars
Speaker 2: should be paid for their calls if it's a good show,
Speaker 2: bailing their money's right?
Speaker 3: Well call it out. Let's test this theory. Call us
Speaker 3: down and make us You're in the Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: of callers. Yes, well we had one.
Speaker 2: If that mic he called earlier on the break, he
Speaker 2: can call back, give me my deal. Yeah, for the callers, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the phone would off the hook.
Speaker 3: That call was worth what dinner it's sell and so restaurants. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you just won one of our sponsors. Yeah, that's an idea.
Speaker 2: Give him a give him a free dinner somewhere, any
Speaker 2: sponsors who want to do that. Yeah, But we had
Speaker 2: been in saything else on that story about the comings
Speaker 2: and goings of potential people, because now it's like the
Speaker 2: other think we know the potential people every no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: but but the potential of that happening. Is there anything
Speaker 2: in there that he was quoted on? They say, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're keeping an eye on everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think he's just building that roster.
Speaker 4: If you lose you know, almost thirty players, you need
Speaker 4: to replace them somehow, right if it's even if it's
Speaker 4: just numbers to practice with and to keep everybody. You know,
Speaker 4: there's gonna be injuries obviously in football, and you know
Speaker 4: they're looking for players to fill those roles that disappeared.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll see it.
Speaker 2: Just it's so funny in talking to half and with
Speaker 2: baseball and other sports. I'm sure, uh softball, basketball and football.
Speaker 2: How Tucson and I love Tuson. You've been here forever too.
Speaker 2: You probably had a chance to leave, so did I.
Speaker 2: But Tucson has that small town, big time type of right,
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't live in Phoenix's two damn monster town.
Speaker 2: How it doesn't have the money historically to compete with
Speaker 2: the other schools. Yet you want to be one of
Speaker 2: those other schools, you know, and you saw it, you
Speaker 2: chase the money.
Speaker 3: How difficult it is to compete even just for the money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not just not on the field I'm talking about
Speaker 2: it's another This is another side action where if you don't.
Speaker 4: Get the money and you compete, you're talking about nil
Speaker 4: answer money. Yeah, I mean that's kind of what it's
Speaker 4: going to come down to. I think if teams want
Speaker 4: to do want to compete, they're going to have to
Speaker 4: you know, pony up and find donors who are going
Speaker 4: to help out with this. It's going to be interesting
Speaker 4: to hear some of the words coming from athletics as
Speaker 4: this money comes in, you know, on top of money
Speaker 4: that they're raising already for athletics, and what part of
Speaker 4: that's going to be for NIL I don't I don't
Speaker 4: understand that just yet. Yeah, but you know, at some
Speaker 4: point we'll need to, you know, get somebody on the
Speaker 4: record to say, Okay, they're going to get this much
Speaker 4: money from the House, the House votes or whatever, and
Speaker 4: then we still need to raise twenty five million more
Speaker 4: just for the nil stuff.
Speaker 2: In your time for working for the foundation, correct foundation,
Speaker 2: and whatever else you were working for, did you run
Speaker 2: into places where they said, no, Dave, because I'm going
Speaker 2: to give into the athletic department. Oh yeah, so you
Speaker 2: were already kind of losing out.
Speaker 4: Well, it's both sides, right, Yeah, I've already given or
Speaker 4: the number one excuse, husey was I'm paying my kids tuition,
Speaker 4: so I'm giving back to view of a that way, right,
Speaker 4: that was always a good one. They could always lean
Speaker 4: on that for like four or five years, and then
Speaker 4: after it was over, it's.
Speaker 3: Like, well, you know you're done playing in tuition.
Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry now, Yeah, I'm trying to collect that, buddy. No,
Speaker 2: I'm sure that happened a lot. Were those like cold
Speaker 2: calls or how No, they weren't. They were No, they
Speaker 2: were lumps. I wasn't doing cold calls. There were a
Speaker 2: lumps who had kids coming to live their life.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean.
Speaker 4: If you get that phone call from the U of
Speaker 4: A usually that's called like annual giving.
Speaker 3: It's usually a small ask.
Speaker 4: You five hundred dollars or one hundred dollars or five thousand.
Speaker 4: Those are considered like, you know, smaller gifts, So you
Speaker 4: would get that, and that's what they would say. Sometimes
Speaker 4: you could just give them a menu, Hey, would you
Speaker 4: like to support the College of Science or a College
Speaker 4: of Social and behavioral sciences?
Speaker 3: Would they get anything in return? Depends on how much.
Speaker 4: I mean, if they're given in the millions, you know,
Speaker 4: they're they're probably gonna what do you mean, like, what
Speaker 4: do you think they're gonna get?
Speaker 3: That's the thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't they access to the dean, maybe access
Speaker 4: to somefessors, learn more, get behind the scenes things, meet
Speaker 4: the students. A lot of donors really just want to
Speaker 4: if they're going to give and create a scholarship, they
Speaker 4: just kind of want to meet the students that are
Speaker 4: going to use their money.
Speaker 3: That's always gratifying to people. That's cool, especially when you
Speaker 3: have that much money. What do you do with it?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's usually you know, they would get upset if
Speaker 4: they didn't hear from their students, and we'd have to
Speaker 4: jump on this. Yeah, sure, you know, right, mister and
Speaker 4: missus Smith at a nice letter thanking them, right, but yeah,
Speaker 4: athletics again, same thing. You know, I'm buying my tickets,
Speaker 4: that's my gift. Yeah, so I'm sure you know, if
Speaker 4: you talk to us them, that's that's probably the number
Speaker 4: one excuse they're getting.
Speaker 2: More power to them because now when you buy a ticket,
Speaker 2: they have an extra side money that's going to the
Speaker 2: nil right, right, the fifty dollars one hundred dollars particular.
Speaker 4: Right And if they ever you know, I don't think
Speaker 4: they're going to do it soon, but they were always
Speaker 4: talking about doing something with this football stadium, expanding it
Speaker 4: and changing it up. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 4: that plan is dead for now, but yeah, you know
Speaker 4: that's going to be a huge expense.
Speaker 2: Well it's it's amazing to me and maybe to you, Dave,
Speaker 2: where they were this huge amount of money in debt,
Speaker 2: right and it became public two years ago almost whatever
Speaker 2: years ago, And how other schools didn't become public for
Speaker 2: being in debt because I would venture to guess at
Speaker 2: least fifty percent of the schools out there in debt
Speaker 2: for the same reasons, right, COVID more money that you
Speaker 2: have to find for some kind of things buildings of
Speaker 2: those facilities.
Speaker 4: Well, I think one thing that Arizona was guilty of
Speaker 4: sort of was giving away too much money in scholarships
Speaker 4: to students. Hey, you know, you come to Arizona, we'll
Speaker 4: give you, you know, thirty thousand dollars and.
Speaker 3: General general fund.
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, I mean I think I don't know if
Speaker 4: I'm speaking out of a turn, but maybe that was some
Speaker 4: things that happened financially that you know in the old days,
Speaker 4: like oh, yeah, you know, I'm going to go to
Speaker 4: the place where I get the most money.
Speaker 3: Sure you would hear that from high school.
Speaker 5: Is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you talk about just general public, general public,
Speaker 2: not athletics.
Speaker 3: I mean athletics.
Speaker 4: Is you know, they have some big ticket items which
Speaker 4: they've you know, I don't know if they're going to
Speaker 4: pay off big call facility, and you know they redid
Speaker 4: Hill and brand you know, ten years ago, things like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. It's a tough world.
Speaker 7: We live in.
Speaker 3: Tough world. Yeah, I'm sure you're happy or not happy
Speaker 3: to be out of that world. It's fun to be
Speaker 3: talking about it. I don't worry about it. Once the story,
Speaker 3: Once the show has done. I got to make a
Speaker 3: call to the East coast. Yeah, yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Wish that we have good We gotta win them. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks Dave for coming in today. A good show. Good show.
Speaker 2: We had John Perlman from FC Tucson. Their season is
Speaker 2: going to start here pretty soon. Talked to have Morales
Speaker 2: just to get an update on what's going on with
Speaker 2: the team. It's a lot of good teams. Obviously a
Speaker 2: lot of good teams.
Speaker 4: I mean every year there's some good high school players
Speaker 4: and then you know the U of A and Pima
Speaker 4: benefit off that. Yeah, you know they've been having some
Speaker 4: great teams too. You're going to the baseball game tonight,
Speaker 4: go watch some baseball arison a Grand Canyon. So that
Speaker 4: should be fun. Haven't been to a baseball game yet?
Speaker 5: No year.
Speaker 3: No, they're pretty good. I like these midweek games.
Speaker 4: Six o'clock could be home by you know, seven thirty.
Speaker 2: Nice to be retired, you bet. You guys like me
Speaker 2: to call you? Can you come on? Can you come over?
Speaker 2: Can you want to go baseball game?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 3: Cool? And thank you Kobe for coming in today.
Speaker 2: I'll see you Thursday, right yep, And I'll see everybody tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna have Blake Eager tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Thanks