Friday, July 25, Hour 2

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Streaming live on the Ihearts Radio WAB. This is I
on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball. You're on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in Today is
Jacon's Allies. We have Ray with breaking news.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
This is Eye on the Ball, Breaking News on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Fired Up Friday, Feel Good Friday. Friday's Friday.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Man, No more on Friday Friday Friday.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but just you have your hand on
that buzzard.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
Sorry enough, Thorny Dale.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
The softball team is going to be competing for a
chance to go to the Little League World Series in softball.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
Game is at five forty five on ESPN.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
So cool.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
They will be playing Southern California and this is this.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
Is this little Is this majors?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Twelve year old?

Speaker 6 (01:03):
Twelve years majors?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (01:04):
This is big? Yeah? Good for them.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah. I saw the last of the Southern Calver Snordan
Cow game Lastery and they said when places Arizona. I'm thinking,
how cool with that?

Speaker 6 (01:12):
You know, Steve?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Going back to when my daughter Alana, who is now
twenty eight years old, when she was in in in
Little League.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
Thorningdale was like the best league around.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:26):
It's just crazy that they.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
You know, well I always had that, you know, not on.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
The northwest side. Up there's the CDO area. Man, softball has.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
Just been yeah for a long time, for a long,
long long time.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, boys too. I mean look at the Duncans came
out of there. I'm losing my names now, but as usual,
but a lot.

Speaker 6 (01:45):
Of them, you know. Yeah, yeah, really good players up there.

Speaker 7 (01:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
I remember covering a CEO for a game I think
against Willow Creek.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah. Basically these last couple of years softball.

Speaker 8 (01:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, this past season baseball too.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yeah, keeping it going though.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Michelle Rushing, a local track athlete, won the national championship
in the two.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Hundred meter hurdles.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Whoa old thirteen and fourteen?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
You think she's a Fred Harvey product, like he's doing
side work now, okay?

Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yeah? Or she from do you know where she goes
to school? He or anything? Interesting?

Speaker 5 (02:21):
So she does it with the Arizona Titans.

Speaker 6 (02:23):
Yeah a track club here, I'm assuming. Yeah, and you
know we had that.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
Yeah, I mean great, great stuff to two hundred meter hurdles.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, man, could you jump over a hurdle. I can't
even jump over a little.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Brick cline, just tell you I can't. She stares anymore, man, those.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Little cinder blocks. I'm having a hard time.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Also, have some Wildcats involved or former Wildcats, I should say.
In professional softball, Taylor M McClellan, yes, picture, Yeah, she's
gonna be uh, I believe playing in the champion Ship
Series starting tomorrow on ESPN, according to the Arizona Softball

(03:04):
page on Twitter and Jenny Dalton, I imagine was going to
be the one calling it.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
So okay cool. There's a couple of of the X
players that are kind of gms. There a few out there.

Speaker 6 (03:15):
And so good luck to them.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh man, A lot of a lot of a lot
of a lot of people in action today. Jay Friend,
we talked about him, I think yesterday he was the
tennis guy that I said was just gonna go into
the championships for doubles, I believe, or mixed doubles, I
should say in the Ryan ruh, I think that's how
you say that tournament's name.

Speaker 7 (03:37):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
He won a gold medal in the mixed doubles today
at the f I s U World University games, and
he's going to be playing for another one in the
singles on tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
So I got some updates San Bernardino. That's where the
girls are playing. Yes, okay, Ken, you kind of knew that.
And the Rushing girl is the sister of Elijah Rushing.
That's why I figured I didn't haveavi are just confirmed,
all right. A lot of athletic jeans and that there are, man,
you and I couldn't put ours together.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
I'm so mad at my dad.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Instead of playing baseball, he wrote, bulls man, What the
hell was I going to do with that?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I do take your insurance cards, so I'll be your
therapist for today. Fifty dollars copay.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Though Ara McDonald also played for the Fever last night,
filling in for the injured Kit Clark, still dealing with
that right groin injury. She had nine points, three for
three from She's a great player.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
She's just so little. It's hard, you know, hard to
get any traction in, you know, in the big club.
But you know she keeps plugging away and playing on
teams and.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Coming in five years removed yep, keeping it rolling with
the w.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
A one of one Caitlyn Clark Panini flawless rookie card
with a patch of jersey. I'm assuming sold for six
hundred and sixty thousand at the Fanatics collect auction. It's
the highest selling women's sports trading card of all time.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Would you buy if they had it for sale for
five thousand dollars and you didn't know, would you buy it?
What that? Yeah? You wouldn't buy it. No, you wouldn't
buy it for five hundred.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
No, I know. I don't have any interest in that.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
That's my point.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
I mean that's fine. You know somebody does. And you
know what if that's the market, that's the market. If
somebody said, you know, if I had money to throw
right and somebody offered me a show hey o Tani
sign card thing, I would keep it. But I wouldn't
you know if I bought it. I'm not buying it
to sell it later. I'm buying it because I want
that in a.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Collection of mine.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
No, but if they throw you what's the number.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Six hundred and sixty thousand?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh no, no, you would sell it? Oh that? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Well that yeah, because I don't have any attachment to that.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
To the Otani no, no, no, no, no no no. If
you have your Tommy Carter, and they said, but you
paid twenty five thousand for it, and.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Someone it's off for me six hundred grands. Where do
I sign You got a bag of cash here? Yeah, oh,
of course, of course.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
You know, you know there was a chance of it's
getting to be nine hundred thousan.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, but I'm like you, Steve, if I've got memorabilia
like that, because it means something to me, and I hang.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
On to it, you know.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
You know, for the longest time, I've told you about
this Louis Gonzales baseball that I got signed the year
after the after they won the World Series, and it's
a World Series baseball, and I had it in a
container and it was put away somewhere.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
You didn't even know where it was.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
So and then my grandson found it in a in
a cabinet and he was playing and he busted the
he busted the little container. But I have the ball
and it's sitting on my desk and I love having
it there because it's like it's meaningful to me.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
No, I mean that makes sense.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
That's how I am.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
You know. I've got a jersey in the back of
my closet signed by Randy Johnson. You know a Diamondbacks
street that's sweet, you know, but you know what is
sweet to dudes like us? Yeah, yeah, sure, your wife's said,
come on, get rid of it. Well, that's what's in
the back of the closet, so she doesn't see it
and says, oh, let's say take this to the Salvation Army.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I had. I had a couple of Final four T
shirts from winning Albucrique way back in the day, and
I wore the heck out of them. They were almost
like see through. And my mom back in the day
he said, I won't even use those for rags. Yeah, mom,
these are my favorite teachers.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Our moms are the ones that throw away our baseball
cards because they were on the floor and so she
just swept them up with the broom and that they
went in the trash and now they're worth five hundred
thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, keeping it going.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Big trade that people are kind of signaling as the
Diamondbacks fire sell right now. Is started off with Josh
Naylor the Mariners got sent to the Mariners. But you know,
people are expecting some more trades to come along.

Speaker 6 (07:56):
Trades.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Hano Swatt is right, and I mean, he's like one
of the one of the top players in baseball.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
He's the guy, and they're gonna.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Get rid of him.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
I think it's tough.

Speaker 6 (08:05):
It's part of the contract, the part of baseball.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
It bothers me. It's a contract year. Though I kind
of get it. It's like, might as well get something.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
You still do fantasy, Yes, see, Blake and I do that.
He does it all the time. I would never do
it because I stick with my team and they end
up leading horrible. I can't trade people.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
I have Cal Rawley, okay catchers, and he's got like
forty homers right now. I had no idea who I
drafted him because I needed a catcher, yep. And on
the ESPN thing that he was the top rated catcher,
I had no idea who he was. I just took
him because he was the top rated catcher and I
had to draft a catcher, so I took him. And

(08:42):
I mean, he's like home run Derby and he's one
of the best players.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
He may beat Aaron Judge for m VP.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
And you haven't ruined his career.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
And I have not ruined his career because he does
all not that I think about it. Dude, I've had
the Homer Derby champion each of the last two years
because I had and I'll have.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Uh, maybe maybe you've gotten some momentum.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
My.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
My fantasy team is not doing too bad, although I
got I've got five guys on the IL right now.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
There's always that, including Max Mounsey. So it goes moving
on to the some NFL stuff. Shamar Stewart finally signed
his rookie deal. It's a four year, fully guaranteed, eighteen
point nine million dollar contract that includes a ten point
four million dollars signing bonus.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Oh god, to go from one year to next having
that kind of money on you.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well, look at the Caleb who I've been trying to
get on the on the own for the show. I
think he's taking a pay cut.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
Yeah, did he get like six hundred He was gonna
make you more than that?

Speaker 9 (09:47):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes, no way, you know what. I would bet my life.

Speaker 9 (09:51):
Giving him that in areas I think at one point
like to yes, get out a year.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
Have you guys heard that?

Speaker 3 (09:59):
I haven't enough, like really really heard that, But it's
not out of the Roman Bust.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
But how much is that? How much that guy from
b YU get.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh he's getting eight million, exactly, know he's really you
don't think that, Jay, where you been living?

Speaker 6 (10:12):
I know too many people here and I just don't
know that.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, well, look at Henry's getting whatever he's getting good
to North Carolina. I mean, these guys at the very
least one listen and you needed the start.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
I guess I just don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
There must be some people out there who were not
thinking of who you know are bankrolling that kind of stuff, right,
because we know the Burt Lopez is and sure people
like that. But there's got to be people that under
the radar making a lot of money, sure, you know,
in whatever businesses they have, and they're big boosters and
they're doing that. Yeah, And I just can't think of

(10:48):
who they are. Well, I feel like I know everybody
in town. So if I don't know you, who.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
Can you be?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Can you spare a guy? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (10:57):
Do you want me to help you with some of
this stuff?

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah? You fut? So this this is how the headline
reads it.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Feds are probing the nfl PA actions that may be criminal,
which leads to kind of like that that guy who
got fired.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
We're getting an explanation that their executive director. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
did did he quit?

Speaker 5 (11:22):
I think he quit quit before he.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Right, Well, I mean you're spending seven hundred dollars to
go to a to go to a club and it's for.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
A ride apparently club. Yeah, I mean how much?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
How much is a ride?

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Much as a ride from the airports of curves? Right
to put it in Tucson terms. Keeping it going with
NFL crime though, at least one hundred players are facing
penalty over scalping some Super Bowl tickets.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
You know, we're having a conversation about this today.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Here's the NFL players, right, I mean, even even the
guy who's making the minimum is making a lot of money,
and they're scalping their Super Bowl tickets to make an
extra a few thousand dollars and putting things in jeopardy.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
Now, they're not get kicked out of the league.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
What I read was that they're banned from getting Super
Bowl tickets in the future, and that even if they're
on a team that's in the Super Bowl and would
get tickets, they're going to have to pay for the tickets.

Speaker 6 (12:21):
Right, But what are you doing?

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it doesn't make sense.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
I mean, I mean that's what That's what college kids
do with their was it somebody? It was Kirk Crisa, right,
got got busted for scalping a pair of his tickets.
Remember that, you know, a couple of tickets. But you
know that's what college kids do because they don't have
any money. You know, NFL guys, you're scalping your Super
Bowl tickets.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, I didn't realize they gave a bunch away. Yeah,
gave them to the Gratis.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Yeah, crazy stuff.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
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Speaker 6 (12:56):
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Speaker 3 (12:57):
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He didn't take part in the All Star Game on Wednesday,

(13:19):
and now he's getting a game suspension for it.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
And I was just like, how does that make sense?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (13:24):
So he didn't want to play in the All Star games,
so they're they're suspending him for.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
A game like the MLS.

Speaker 6 (13:29):
Is I'm behind Messy on this one.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
I am too, but I mean it's just like that
that doesn't make sense. Imagine imagine if they did that
in like other other big leagues, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Like, I mean, how many guys dipped out of the
Pro Bowl and the Home Runner run Derby, even the
All Star Game, you know whatever.

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Experts Streamy live on the Ihearts Radio while this is
I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera and today is
Jaygan'sauce and Ray with me too. And actually coach is
calling me. I'll tell him. I'll have to tell coach
if you can hear me to call us at the
radio show. No, no, actually we'll pick pick up the
pick up the line that we call you from the radio.

Speaker 6 (19:38):
Coach, Ok, so.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
He's ready for I called all that. Uh so Coach
Stewart from Morana who had a fantastic year last year
and he's had a pretty good career here, coach, is
this you coach? How you doing? This is Stephen Jake?

Speaker 8 (19:58):
How's it going doing good?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Hey, you've had a fantastic career there last year. You know,
remind me what you finished and one ten and one.
When you go ten and one and you played at
the highest level NFL and all that stuff, when you
get ten and one, and I'm sure the kids are
disappointed in all that. When the dust settles, can you
enjoy that despite not winning at all.

Speaker 8 (20:23):
Definitely, we looked at where we came from, you know,
coming in as freshman, that senior class, nobody did never
expect for them to rank us number one in the States.
So by them staying together, and you know, we fought
every year because coming in we was underdogs and to
see us to be on top, you know, we celebrated that, you.

Speaker 17 (20:41):
Know what I'm saying, because it's been a long time
since Super Good here.

Speaker 8 (20:44):
So and they gonna be the team that everybody remember
that changed morandom program around. So I told them, y'all
gonna go down in history because we haven't won.

Speaker 17 (20:52):
In a such a long time.

Speaker 8 (20:53):
And they bring him a Miranda back on the map.
You know, have done wonders for this group that I
have now and for the young guys coming in later.
So it's it's been a good thing that you know
to prod uh pride ourselves on, and we enjoyed every
moment of it.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Well we'll coach, you know, you high schools, you know
you're getting new players, you know, old players leaving, new
players coming in and.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
But how how can you use that. How do you
carry that forward? You know what you know, how do
you use it? Say in a in a team meeting
or in a practice or you know when you're breaking
down after after a practice something like that. What can
you do with what you guys did last year? And
how how does it help you?

Speaker 8 (21:33):
So that that seemed, like I said, that seems class
paved the way. And so now the coaching staff and
I we're trying to get them to change their mindsets.
Coming in. Our mindsets was we were the underdogs. We
couldn't do no wrong. Whatever we did, we were trying
to win. So now that we established a program and
we know we can win, now we got to be
at our best every time because now we have that

(21:54):
target on our back. So I tell them how we
do anything, it's how we do everything, and we're gonna
practice lazy, were gonna play like you know what I'm saying, Right,
every little thing got kind of remind them of, hey,
we're not that team we were four years ago. This
is those freshmen coming in. If it's not the program
y'all want, y'all want team growing up, it's a new program.

Speaker 7 (22:13):
We're we're really really good.

Speaker 8 (22:14):
So you have to be at your best, not sometimes
but all the time. So just constantly harping on that,
trying to get them to understand their mindsets have to change.
We're going to get everybody's best going.

Speaker 7 (22:24):
Forward at every level.

Speaker 8 (22:26):
You know, I tell my JV and my freshman, you're
going to get everybody bailt I mean best, because you
have them run across your chest. So we got to prepare,
you know what I'm saying. So just letting them know
that this summer we went every day, you know, two
days we went in the morning, when an afternoon. I
think I went to camp last week with one hundred
and twenty four kids, So it's worth Wow.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Well, no, winning's contagious real quick, because I think I know.
I asked this question to all the coaches that have
come on the show, and I may have asked you
this one of the first times you showed up here
on the show. What do you think your secret sauces?
And in me, if i I'm fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years
old playing for a dude like you, a former NFL guy,
You're already kind of bright eyed for the kids and

(23:08):
you and you say, well, this guy knows what he's
talking about because he was there. What do you think
your specialty is or your secret sources with these kids?

Speaker 8 (23:15):
I believe it is that And I told this to
the kids last week in camp. The coaches are willing
to coach. And I think that's where it doesn't matter
if you are five star, four starting those start We're
going to coach you in And if you're willing to
be coached, you're going to become a great football player
at any of your four years because you know, these

(23:35):
coaches are giving up their time, you know, and I
told the coaches.

Speaker 7 (23:38):
We don't get anything out of this.

Speaker 8 (23:39):
You know, the only thing we get out of this is,
you know, our pride and we get to see these
kids go off and do good things in the world.
So we don't get in ane out of it. But
we're willing to give up out time to help them.
And about those coaches willing to do that, the kids
are benefiting from it. And if you ever come to
one of our practice or feels at any seven or seven,
you see the coaching staff. We have a coach in
every corner. We're just coaching, coaching, coaching. We're constantly coaching

(24:02):
them and trying to get them to be, you know,
not perfect, but to at least drive for it. And
I think that our seekers office, we were willing to
coach them all, not just the guys the first team
or the second team. We're coaching them all so when
they do get out there, you know, they have their
opportunity to showcase their skill set.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
You know.

Speaker 8 (24:18):
So the one thing I would tell them stay ready
so they don't have to get.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Ready remind us because I don't know, Jay, we've had
them all before, right, Uh, of all the gin joints
in this world, how did you end up in Morana?

Speaker 18 (24:31):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (24:32):
A crazy story. I was coming from Willcox and I
moved up here. You know, my wife had ended up
getting accepted into the pharmacy school.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
She's now doing.

Speaker 8 (24:40):
She's doctor Monique Starry, so she h she ended up
coming getting accepted, and so we moved up here to
Sucson and I ended up getting hired, you know, by
Louis Ramirez as a linebacker coach, and then he stepped
down that same year. So I ended up getting hired
there Morana. I've been there ever since, you know. So
my first class was the class that graduated last year.

(25:02):
So like I said we built this. You know, that
entire uh senior class last year all came to me
as freshman as my first year has been a head coach,
and they rowed it out with me and they stay
seen the benefits.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Okay, I think you told this story too, And okay,
so that's how you ended up and do somebody, how
the hell did you end up in will class?

Speaker 8 (25:24):
So Alondo is one of my good friends.

Speaker 7 (25:29):
Phoenix.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
Yeah, he ended up bringing me down. He was like, man,
come help me, you know, get the program started. And
so I was like, all right, I'm thinking I'm going
to just Arizona. I've been to Phoenix before, so I'm
just thinking, all right. So I ended up coming out
here and uh, you know, I woke up the next
morning and Willcox Arizona.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Man.

Speaker 7 (25:48):
I fell in love with it.

Speaker 8 (25:49):
Man. I was coaching the kids and you know, crazy
thing gets I was still a free agent at the time.
I ended up getting a call from my agent as
the Tennessee Titans wanted to bring me in and I
had a I had told my agent, Man, I think
I found what I was supposed to be doing because
I had already been out here two or three months
prior to that call, just working with the kids, just
watching him do everything that I was trying to get

(26:09):
them to do, and I had just fell in love
with it. And then I didn't hesitate when he had
asked me to come in. I was like, I think,
this is what I'm supposed to be doing. And I've
been doing it ever since. You know what I got
on my eighth year?

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, you know what a gun from all that? You
know what a gout from all that? What you got
that you married up? You married a doctor?

Speaker 17 (26:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't do that.

Speaker 8 (26:34):
Well yeah, man, So I just I just went with it, man,
And I've been doing it ever since.

Speaker 18 (26:39):
Man.

Speaker 8 (26:39):
And I'm able to give back to the game that
done so much for me. And I told the kids
the reason why I'm here is because I played football.
It got me to where I'm at now and it
just opened doors that I never thought that would open
for me.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
So, well, let me ask you this, because when you
think about, you know, how times changed over the years,
When you think about what you were like as a
high school football player, how you you treated your coaches,
how you treated your teammates, and how theyd you and
how they treated you, and what practices were like, and
you know what the locker room was like. How different

(27:11):
and how much of the same is it today? You know,
when you see today's players in today's today's parents, right,
and then today's programs and the way football is done
in Arizona, how much of it is the same and
how much of it is different.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
So it has changed.

Speaker 8 (27:30):
Don't get me wrong, I has change. The kids changed,
you know what I'm saying. I try to give them
someone like cause they asked me a lot of questions
on how it was growing up, and I try to
mimic some of that. Well, I know it's hot. I
in Ason as like we were the Letterman Jackets. They
don't have no pride in those Letterman jackets, you know
what I'm saying. I'm like, I want to Letterman Jackets
say every sporting event to let people know what team

(27:50):
I played for. We had pride and.

Speaker 7 (27:51):
What we do.

Speaker 8 (27:52):
You know a lot of kids now, I don't think
they really have pride in it. They just doing it
shit to be doing. And I was like, the reason
why we played was for different reasoning. What I'm saying,
we have pride in our school. You know, we always
want to represent our school. So the one thing that
I do do out here, I pass out gear. I
walked through the schools, Hey where the shirt? Where the shirt?
So it's like you can't go one day at Marana

(28:12):
and I see a kid in a football shirt.

Speaker 17 (28:15):
And just like I said, it has changed.

Speaker 8 (28:17):
As far as the coaching, Like I don't feel like
like my coaches that we don't have to cuss at
the kids. Most of those kids want to be out there.
You know, let's coach. They want to be out here.
Let's coach you.

Speaker 17 (28:26):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (28:28):
But the one thing I do notice.

Speaker 8 (28:30):
They have a lot more distractions than what we had.
I tell them all the time. They have the world
at the.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
Hand right there with their phone.

Speaker 17 (28:37):
And the team that can stay.

Speaker 8 (28:38):
Focused the longest probably going to go furthest And that's
probably been the hardest challenge for me as a coach,
is keeping all of them.

Speaker 7 (28:46):
Focused on one goal. And if I can get them
all the focus on.

Speaker 8 (28:49):
One goal, we'll be all right. Like last year's class,
my aby told me, none of my seniors, I mean
none of my seniors, none of the varsity class last
year had no grade under a seat. And I was like, well,
that's why we can.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
Oh.

Speaker 17 (29:00):
Yeah, they wanted to be good. They didn't want to worry.

Speaker 8 (29:02):
About the off the field issues. They all wanted to
focus on winning uh, you know, a state championship and
taking care of business off the field was one of
the things they knew they had to do so were
able to coach, I mean, teach football and learn football.
So it all came from them, not for me. It
was them that wanted to do it. And like I said,
that's probably was the hardest part keeping them focused on

(29:23):
one goal because you always get one kid that want
to do this this looking at their phone, they telling
us we're number one. It's just a lot of distractions
out there now, you know what I'm saying. So that's
probably the hardest.

Speaker 7 (29:33):
Thing for me. I see.

Speaker 8 (29:35):
Now as far as coaching wise, is you know, limiting
the outside distraction because it gets hard.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Hey, coach stut, I remember when uh we had like
kind of interviews back in the well last year. I
guess you you kind of always set out your your
goal for the team, for the varsity team kind of
before like before or around summer. What what what if
the kids told you what that they you know, that
they want to reach for this year.

Speaker 8 (30:03):
So this senior class last year, seeing class wanted to
win it all and boy, we got near it. This
senior class was like, they set the standard, now let's
raise it. So I'm like, well, they raised it pretty high,
so like our standard, Like, are y'all sure that's something
y'all want to do? And they was like, if any
class gonna do it, it to be our class, you know
what I'm saying. I remember one kid told me you

(30:24):
always see those stories the best class didn't winning, but
then the next year that class that won't talent ended
up winning it. And I was like, you're right. We
just watched the I actually just left the movie theaters
right now. We rented the movie head Out and we
just want to watch Friday Night Life and that in
that movie, they didn't win it that year of the
movie was showing, but they ended up winning the next year.

Speaker 17 (30:45):
And that's kind of how.

Speaker 8 (30:47):
We approaching this season, right And like I told them,
our mindset has to shift.

Speaker 7 (30:52):
We we're the big dogs.

Speaker 8 (30:53):
We can't afford to go out there and give a
team twenty one points and expect to come back.

Speaker 7 (30:58):
You know, we have to go.

Speaker 8 (30:59):
Out there you know from jump and just and just go.
So I think I modeled this year is you know,
start passing and faster.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Let me ask you, how old are you play in
the mid forties?

Speaker 7 (31:09):
Thirty four?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
How thirty four?

Speaker 7 (31:12):
Thirty four? Ud you tell me I'm old? Every day?

Speaker 2 (31:15):
You're young? You're I thought you're young as all hell.
So phones were probably a problem for you too.

Speaker 8 (31:20):
So it was, and it was, but it wasn't as
big as it is now. Those kids it's TikTok, snapchat,
there's so many other apps that can.

Speaker 7 (31:29):
Entertain their mind.

Speaker 8 (31:31):
So you know what I'm saying, and I'm trying to
tell them to stay off that and this is hard.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Well, let me ask you, so, what was your destruction?
Because I was hoping you were older because I would
have say, like back in our day, and when I was,
it was girls. It was girls.

Speaker 8 (31:45):
Oh those they still I have to tell my boys,
hey leave those girls want to go to class. But
when I was in school, I think the most of
the distraction was because when I was in school, we
didn't really know about but dang, that team right there
got like three or four five star players.

Speaker 7 (32:03):
They got this guy.

Speaker 17 (32:04):
We didn't really know a lot about it.

Speaker 8 (32:06):
They didn't really that wasn't really a big team, so
we didn't really care for that. Now, coach, they got
this guy, this guy, he got this mini offers and
I'm like, who cares. They still got to play football,
right and that bass Now football still got to get played.
It don't really matter who to ask. And so when
I was in school, I think the biggest distraction was.

Speaker 7 (32:23):
It was girls.

Speaker 8 (32:24):
But I think more of anything was us getting into
trouble doing something outside of football, you know what I'm saying,
Because they feel like we had a lot more freedom.
I know, some schools allow their kids to leave campus,
they'll go get lunch, and we had a lot more.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
Freedom to do stuff.

Speaker 8 (32:39):
So it's easy to get in trouble, Like hey, you know,
you're not supposed to be doing that, So we have
to really if you want to stay out of trouble,
you have to really try to stay out of trouble
because it was so easy to find, you know what
I'm saying. And that's why now, like in the summer,
I keep the guy so busy. We go in the morning,
we go in the afternoon. So after the morning most
of them go home and go to sleep because we
didn't kill them in the morning, and then they come

(33:00):
back in an afternoon because I keep them busy to try
to keep them from going to do something else to
get themselves in trouble.

Speaker 7 (33:05):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
So that's why I think how our biggest was. I
had a lot of I had a lot of what
can I say, a lot of things to do wrong,
and I chose to do right.

Speaker 17 (33:13):
So when they're supposed to be right, we team ends
up being good.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, paid off. I'm sure. I'm sure success. Success breeds success,
and you want to continue to do that.

Speaker 8 (33:23):
Oh yeah, definitely. I think this coming into this season,
we didn't got eight transfers from down here. People are
starting to come to our school. And I talked to
my Bladdy director, like, Hey, as we continue to win,
people are gonna want to come here to Maranda. You know,
academics is good, our sports are riding at a rabbit dace.
People are gonna want to come here, you know what
I'm saying. So right now we're dealing with a lot

(33:44):
of transfers coming in and you know they're gonna.

Speaker 17 (33:46):
Have to sit and stuff like that. So it's growing
and I'm.

Speaker 8 (33:49):
Liking the word, the programs at and where it's so
it's been a pretty fun riot.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Right. You're probably fifteen years too late for nil too.

Speaker 8 (33:59):
Oh y'all. People tell me all the time, I think
I need to have been born five years later.

Speaker 7 (34:03):
I literally just.

Speaker 8 (34:06):
Uh, they sent something out about I think the last
class was twenty sixteen. I was like, I missed out. Yeah, well,
I told him I was born a little bit too late.

Speaker 7 (34:16):
But there you go.

Speaker 8 (34:17):
I'm probably the boys now can go be able to
do that, but that comes with another type of you
know learning, like how to sound the money, how to
you know, manage all those different things. So I told
him that's what we're here for.

Speaker 17 (34:29):
We're here to learn it, and we're learning those things
now so when they do.

Speaker 8 (34:32):
Get out there in the real world, they know how
to cope with it.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Right right, Well, coach, we appreciate your time. Was always
Thanks a bunch, good luck.

Speaker 8 (34:39):
Oh, thank you so much. Man. I'm glad I had
me on.

Speaker 17 (34:41):
I really appreciate Youah, a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Good to talk to you, all right, good, cool, cool cool.
Good to talk to coach Phillips stupod.

Speaker 6 (34:48):
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Speaker 4 (34:48):
I remember the first time we had him on the show,
and I went and looked. I went on in and
I to look for a mubshot. He looks scary. Yeah,
he looks mean and scary, but he's such a easy going,
easy going seemingly easy going again, and I bet he's
a mean I bet he's a tough coach.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
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Speaker 4 (35:06):
Experience and you asked about his secret sauce just to
the the whole I've been there kind of thing that
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Speaker 4 (39:39):
What distracted you back in the day. Wow, there were
a few things you're gonna laugh at. One of them
the dog track? Really, yeah, I started going to the
dog track.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Cho does a surprise me though? Did you love far
from the area?

Speaker 6 (39:56):
Yes you did?

Speaker 7 (39:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:59):
The bus that no?

Speaker 4 (40:00):
No, no, no, no, I mean I was old enough to drive,
but I was I when I started working at McDonald's
when I turned sixteen the year nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 6 (40:11):
I one of the guys fifty years. One of the
guys that worked.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
There with me and who I became really good friends with,
was eighteen, so he was he was old enough. So
you guys, just I don't know what. Here's the It's
all my mom's fault.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Okay, fault.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
My mom took me to the dog track one time
when I would was probably twelve. I wonder where this
story is going to be get. She had she had
a really good night. She wanted a bunch of money.
I kind of I kind of stuck that in the
back of my brain. So I don't I don't even know.
I couldn't even tell you the story of how it happened.
But this one, you know, we're just like looking for
something to do on a Friday night, and somewhere the

(40:54):
idea came, let's go to the dog track because we
had this one guy with us who was old enough
that so we went and he was old enough to bet,
and we bet and we were.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
Ready in two bucks a race.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
You know, we're four guys pitching in fifty cents a
piece and make getting the two dollars show ticket. And
we had fun and it was fun and it became
a thing, and you know, it was like on a
Friday night, it was okay, do we go we go
to the drive in?

Speaker 6 (41:19):
We go bowling? Do we cruise speedway for chicks? Or
do we go to the dog track?

Speaker 4 (41:23):
And those are like the four things that we would
discuss about what we were gonna do.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Anybody can call I can. I got in eighty seven
and in in eighty seven, I didn't really know anybody,
but you could see people on speedway doing that.

Speaker 6 (41:36):
We cruised.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Does it? When does that stop? Or do they still
do that?

Speaker 6 (41:40):
They don't do it anymore? That stopped to me.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
That stopped when like video games and things became a
thing and kids were staying in and playing video games
and when they could play them remotely with people and
stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
My kids didn't cruise.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
So that would be late eighties.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
No, probably in the nineties nineties, because we crew, I
mean we would literally you know, because I was I
was on the side. We would get in the car,
I would go down to Speedway, would go down Speedway
all the way to Stone, make a U turn and
come back.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
If you've been here only a couple of years, what
do you mean for the cruising You're not from here?

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Oh, I know people don't cruise now. Oh you just
that you're just saying because then cruise.

Speaker 4 (42:21):
Yeah, we we would go Wilmot to Stone and back
and then do another U turn and go back.

Speaker 6 (42:28):
Sometimes would park. You know, there are different.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
Places to park that you know, you'd see so a
car that you recognize that they were a friendly you'd
pull over and you'd sit there for you know, an
hour and just people and you know you're parked in
these parking lots of businesses that weren't open, and the
comps didn't come and ansle you. As long as you
weren't doing stupid stuff, right, nobody was getting shot, right,

(42:52):
you know, you could just well, I mean when I
got into college pretty much stopped cruising. So it was
just high school eighteen years old. But there was a
drive in theater on Speedway. You know where Midway is
on between Swan and uh, between Swan and Columbus. You
know there's a Midway business park on the south side
of the road. There was a drive in theater right

(43:13):
there the Midway. I yeah, there there there's one the
Apache in the and and there or something.

Speaker 7 (43:21):
You know.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
The Apache was on was on Benson Highway.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
That's highway. Okay, so long ago, there a whole bunch
of yeah, we got a call, uh give us some updates.
On any news. What do you got cruising?

Speaker 6 (43:34):
Yah?

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Tell us?

Speaker 17 (43:37):
I remember back. Yeah, I've been here forever, and.

Speaker 18 (43:41):
So I remember the cruising down on Speedway. It was
really you know Friday and Saturday night, right that you
did just drove back like Jay said, you know, well
mine down to downtown. Back back in those days, they
had like a little restaurants like I had a Johnny's.

Speaker 6 (43:57):
Right, yeah, Johnny that was the big.

Speaker 17 (44:00):
Boy, Great Crow I think, I think Great Cropt and
Speedway I think it was.

Speaker 7 (44:06):
Yeah, when the.

Speaker 18 (44:06):
Johnny's rest right in that area, and then they had
the A and W on the top of the little
hill before you get.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
To algernontare me wait for me?

Speaker 7 (44:14):
Yeah, yeah, it was.

Speaker 17 (44:16):
You're talking back in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Okay, Brian is Brian raight?

Speaker 7 (44:20):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Right? So what distracted you real quick because we didn't
have to call no, okay, what distracted you back in
the day?

Speaker 7 (44:27):
What distracted me?

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (44:29):
Uh?

Speaker 17 (44:29):
Not all the same about on the radio?

Speaker 7 (44:30):
Are you so?

Speaker 4 (44:36):
But we did we did other stuff. We did stuff, right, Brian,
you know, you know, you.

Speaker 17 (44:40):
Know, like like kids, you know, even though you know
we were a little over and we still did all
the sports stuff.

Speaker 18 (44:46):
You know you did all the you know, playing basketball,
baseball and all that stuff, you know, going to the
park and everything. But you know that was basically was
our distraction. Right wait, wait, guys, you know the other stuff.

Speaker 6 (44:58):
You go to the high school football game on a
Friday night.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Right, yeah, we'd go.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
We we you know, we hung out at the jack
in the Box at Camino Saku on Broadway that is
now I think it's a those betos or something, you know,
but there was a jacking box there and you'd go
there and the parking lot was full of people. Yeah,
we did that too in a small town.

Speaker 6 (45:15):
But then you'd get in the car and you go
cruise and think.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
About it too. Back in the day, they didn't worry
about when you came home. At least I had a curfew,
did you, Well, you probably had to have a curfew.

Speaker 15 (45:27):
I did.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
I did.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
I mean, I figured I figured out ways to get
past it, but I had a curfew.

Speaker 18 (45:31):
Yes, you know, to me, it was like, you know,
like you went to football games or basketball games. Afterwards,
you know, you all go out that, you know, because they.

Speaker 8 (45:41):
Had shaky spizza.

Speaker 18 (45:43):
We go there right over on Great ropin Speedway.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
Well, we had one at speed Away and near Kamino Seco,
and you know that we went to it was probably.

Speaker 17 (45:52):
So desolate though, you know, there's there was so much
you know, uh, thank god we didn't have video.

Speaker 7 (45:58):
Games to have to worry about.

Speaker 6 (45:59):
We didn't, so we didn't.

Speaker 8 (46:01):
You know, but it was but it was people.

Speaker 18 (46:02):
Got to move, people interact and everything and it was fun.

Speaker 8 (46:06):
You know.

Speaker 18 (46:06):
It's like people nowadays are so socially inept.

Speaker 8 (46:10):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Yeah, that's true. Conversations are different. Yeah, yeah, okay there, Yeah,
thank you. Video games didn't show up to like the
eighties early eighties, you know, pac Man.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
But we you know, Speedway had had had two or
three places that you could go to an arcade. Yeah, right,
there was a there was one right there. Uh well
there was the Magic Carpet Golf right there on Speedway
that it's gone. And then there was a place called
it was first Green Acres, then golf Land, and it

(46:43):
was just it was an arcade in a metro golf
place and you just go there and you just go
park and.

Speaker 6 (46:47):
There would be somebody there at the two and everything
that was on Speedway.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, pretty much everything was on Speedway. You cruised Speedway.
You didn't cruise Broadway. You didn't cruise. Everything was on speedway.
And there were a million places along the way they
could just okay, so off the road. So you just said,
that's what you said.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
That was one of them. What was the other one,
the destruction? You said the Great Home Park.

Speaker 6 (47:09):
Well, you'll go to the dog track, would cruise, would
go to the drive ins? Right?

Speaker 4 (47:12):
Yeah, because you yeah, right, but there were there were
like eight drive in theaters and two yeah.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
There was one up here on Prince Road, and and
and and uh and Oracle there was there was the
Midway right there on Speedway. There was a one on
twenty second Street in Columbus. There was one on Benson Highway,
the Apache. There was a rodeo drive in across from
the rodeo grounds at Irvington, right there by the by
the papers on Irvington, and and and uh and no

(47:41):
Gallas Highway, there was one there. They were all over there,
and then there was of course the last one was
it was the Cactus became the DeAnza on alvnan Oh.
And then the Tucson War on grant for the building
the new casino. There was a fort there was a
Ford theater. Uh drive in theaters, Yeah, yeah, and we
would go we would go to those things and you'd

(48:02):
go to the move, you'd go to the first there
were always double features, but you go to the first.

Speaker 6 (48:06):
Movie and then you'd leave and you'd go cruising.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Yeah, that's what we did, you know, popping an eight
tract tape and you were good for the night man,
just back and forth with with you know, a tank
of gas and you're just going up. I mean it
was right out of Days Been Confused, if you've ever
seen that movie, Right out of Days and Confused and
American Graffiti and all those.

Speaker 7 (48:28):
We just we.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Cruised simple life. Back then.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
There were two bowling alleys on on on Speedway that
was still still there. No no Lucky Strike near Alvarnon,
but there was the Iceland Bowl was over there on
Speedway in Wilmot.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
How far that had an ice skating? How far east
was it? Because uh, to me, the east side, so
it was so desolate.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
Now east side ended at Camino Seko, which is where
the street that saw our high school was on. That's
where the east side kind of that's where it all
ended beyond and that was nothing but that's where I lived,
you know, I lived out there. So we were on
one end of the one end of the cruising. So
we would just go back and forth and would end
of the would get to them.

Speaker 6 (49:10):
So okay, let's say.

Speaker 7 (49:11):
Let's go home.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
There's no fish.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
Hey, I gotta be I gotta be home in three minutes.
And it didn't crack the window so I could get
in with my without my Parentcy.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
I'm sure that you did the same in uh in
the mean streets of.

Speaker 6 (49:24):
Uh uh Monterey.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Well, you know, not a lot of cruising going on
at that time, but yeah, probably just not a lot
of stuff that I can't talk like you can't.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
Yeah, believe me.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
You know, Juan's goody two shoes that I don't claim
that title.

Speaker 6 (49:43):
For a reason, you know what I mean. That was
and we were you know, Tucson, Arizona. Man, That's that's what.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
And the and the traffic on cruising nights was crazy.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
I mean, it was just it was just especially when
you think of it now, because it's a it's a
serious road where people go back and forth and.

Speaker 6 (49:59):
You just drive with your arm.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
I'm hanging out the window and yeah, you know, yeah,
throwing water balloons, mooning people.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
I'd say it was a little it was a little
different just because like since I played football, like my Friday,
like I was there, you know what I mean. Yeah,
and so on. Yeah, once I finished. Is like when
me and my friends would hang out and I just
tell my mom, like, oh, go to Denny's. Yeah, I
was not. I wasn't at at.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
I'm sure my mom was on to me, but I
would say Friday, every friend's mom, I'm going to the movies.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Well she deserted it because you went to the donk track, Mom.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
I'm going to the movies. I'm going to the movies.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
You know.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
There was no find my iPhone, right, you know, I'm
going to the movies, and that's okay, you know, and.

Speaker 6 (50:41):
Then we'd go do whatever we did.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
Yeah, thankfully my parents didn't know too much about Fine.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
They weren't you know, the one thing.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
That like I kind of looked out about because I
was born right before like the first iPhone started coming
out and stuff like that, so like they didn't know
like find my iPhones and stuff like that, and I was.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
So I had my kids on that all through their
high school because you knew. Yeah, it's like and we
busted them a couple of times, you know, yeast them.
But you know, you know, my deal with my kids was,
you know what, just don't let the cops bring you home, right,
just don't let the cops bring you home. Whatever chances
you're going to take, make sure that you know the cops.

(51:23):
And that was basically my charge with my parents. They
just said, don't get in trouble, and they have no
idea how close. I got a number of times, but
that was my thing, just don't get in trouble, and
the cops never brought me home to my parents.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Well, don't get in trouble for the next week because
I need you next Friday, one one one. I'm not
going to start calling you one because I wanted to
make sure that you got this good guy in you.

Speaker 5 (51:47):
It's in there, you know, somewhere right.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
We all got it.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Okay, we started to show weird and will enit it weird.
Let's go. Thanks everybody for listening to this week. We'll
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