Hour 1- August 21, Pat Ryden

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Thank good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball
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have no one in here to help me out except
for my boy ray Man, who's working the control, So
I guess you know you're my guy for the first
hour at least. Okay, I'm gonna have a guest here
at the four o'clock hour, Crystal, who is helping with

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the ifl indoor the kind of like a pr social
media probably person and helps with the sugar skulls and
I find the mind from the Old Old not old Old,
the other radio show I was on at the other station. Yeah, Crystal,
So she'll be in at four o'clock. We'll talk about
the game war. But in the first hour we're gonna

(00:58):
have south Point coach, mister.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Pat Pat right right.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm looking at you, like, help me out here because
my eyes are like Pat riding. Yeah, good dude, we've
been on He's been on the show before. Uh, So
we'll get the update on what's going on South Point
always good, right, when are they not good?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, so we'll he'll give us the details of.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
What's going on there. Uh, they open up soon. And
then on the second hour, we're gonna have Pete Williams.
He's in town this weekend for the Ludos and thing
and we have him on every now and again talking
about the good old days and what he's up to.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
And he's one of my best guys. He's a good
dude with a funny storyteller. So you probably haven't been
on with him, No, I think Kwan was probably the
last time. So he's in town visiting called, like some
of the other ex guys, uh, for some fun and
games this weekend. And then as we get prepared to you,
you're pretty stoked. You're like forty more than less than

(01:59):
forty eight up's away from watching Oh yeah, but you
know the TV.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
I got my alarm set at thirty eight thirty on
a Saturday, Kansas State and Iowa State.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Oh thought, it's like a noon.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
No, it's because it's on It's in Ireland, so it's
gonna be it's gonna be late.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Now you doing Irish accent? I can't even do my accident?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Cool?

Speaker 4 (02:22):
And then what's on after that? There's a couple of
games in between. I don't think there's really a notable one.
I think a lot of people here I have been
talking about watching the Hawaiian Yeah game obviously, and that's
at four thirty. Okay, that's at four thirty. I'm not
sure who's in that. Afternoons, you're not doing that. I
think you're going to the NFL game the yeah yeah, yeah, well,

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because that's when the pregame.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, there you go, the teil Gate starts. Yeah. Yeah,
I'll be going to that too.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
I'll probably be checking the score though, you know, watchlights
after do you probably have it on the screen down there?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:55):
All the games.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
You gotta hunting peck to see what you're gonna do downtown.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
Okay, Hey, anybody want to call. You can give us
a call at anytime.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Ray's got the thing going, so we're ready to go
whatever that thing is.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
He's got it going.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
I did it yesterday in the call, said I did
that yesterday. I returned to my nervousness. This is a
good show. Yesterday we had d my former intern in
uh who did we have the end Dave, Dan Dave, Dave.
I'm so used to seeing Dave that I forget about Dave.
Although we did have a nice little write up. I

(03:31):
don't know if you guys want to read it. It's
on my Facebook page. I'll probably put an eye on
the ball to one of our listeners, thank you very
much reviewed kind of you know, did a nice little
piece on the show, and how kind of you know
we're just here to have.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Fun, said man, I can't imagine you having fun.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
No, no, let me get it what you sarcastic? Sarcastic
been in fun way?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
My toughest part of the day is for me finding
people to come on the show because I don't want
to do it repetitively and guess the same guys all
the time. So and I kind of do that during
the time during the season, but not every day in
the summer was kind of tough.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
We pulled off some strings with some big dudes, but
it's like five we had like, what, let's say, ten weeks, so.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's fifty dudes.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, uh yeah, get fifty guys and the fifty women,
and it's can you come on the show today? I
got this to do, got that to do. Yeah, a
lot of them said yes, So thank you. Mike Bibbi's,
Kenny Lofton's those dudes, John Elliott, John Elliott came on.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, I talked about Spurs. Summer is really over. I
guess huh it's gonna get yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, right, well we have like what's August and abous
September before NBA starts. NBA starts, and then you know
NFL starts pretty soon, so all those dudes are out,
yeah until until then, until the summer, til this summer again, right,
and then we started all over again. What you We'll
see where you're at.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, I guess we're gonna find out.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
You'd be like what you can coming back.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
I like Tucson, Uh tough because I feel like they're
on too many opportunities, But I like Tucson a lot.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah, otherwise you'd go back home.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
No, no, no, no, I probably wouldn't go Monterey's endgame
just because my family.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
No, it's too expensive.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Oh yeah yeah yeah, yeah, A lot of your baby
it's like me trying to get back home to Santa
fe Yeah. The only way I'm getting you back home. Yeah,
very merry a rich woman. That ain't happening a lottery
and I'm getting a small, small place.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Man, just to put my hat there, yep, in my bag.
It's a little four walls in a shower. Go and
have a margarita. Are you doing there?

Speaker 6 (05:43):
You go.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Alone? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (05:46):
No, man.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
If I can get back to Monorey, I will. But
you know, yeah, okay, cool, that makes sense. Smart. You've
been around the world already. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hope
to see a little more.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Kid, you better a little bit. What have you found
out about this world journalism?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Of journalism?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh yeah, because you're you're in the business and now
you're kind of doing this. What have you learned? I
asked Wana this the other day, and you know, we
ran out of time.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
I think it's what I've learned more is.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
That some people find a lot more people like it's
hard for a lot more people than I thought it
would be for them to just talk to people. What
do you mean, like, there's not a lot of people
that I think are just like can strike a strike
up a conversation with anybody.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
And I think that's an important part of journals, oh,
without question. Yeah, that and learning.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
How to write, you know, yeah, they go hand in
hand if you can communicate, and it's like, yeah, yeah,
there's no question because this is not a shy business,
and people are kind of sometimes.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Shy, especially like your age. Yeah, you know, there's kind
of exme siic can I have.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
No and especially like people, some people aren't just willing
to talk to everybody either.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's like, oh, like they turn their kind of nose
up to them almost very much.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
So, yeah, they look at you up and down and
they say, no, sorry, I don't have time. But if
some other guy know who you are, whatever, come right
in exactly. Yeah, there's a there's a big deal for
connections and treating people fairly and uh and honestly that will.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Get you a lot in this business. So I'd say
that probably so far smart that smart.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
There's a lot of other things. But but you'll get
to that down the road, right. Yeah, okay, so anything,
I know you're gonna have breaking news, but anything else
going on. It was stuff happening last night that happened
w n b A. I'm not sure little league.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
You got a little League. Blake was supposed to be
in today.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
That's why.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, and then he's having uh, he's doing some stuff
with his family, so he couldn't come in. But he's
the little league guy because our boy Juan was putting
scores up there.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
This is for Blake the league scoreboard.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
We need to have Southern Arizona tourist spots of that spot.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
So we have all that.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
But first we'll tell you a lot about high school
stuff and and uh and quality of play things like.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
That first game is going to be tough for them.
Who did they play Marana? Oh yeah, yeah, that should
be a good game. That should be good because Maria.
You know, we talked to coach Stuart here about two
weeks ago. They lost to him last year. Yeah, it's
gonna be a good one. It was a nail bider too.
Did you cover that, Geyp, Yeah, I was. It was awesome.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
It was honestly the because that was my first So
Monterey it's not like very a big It's a big place.
San Jose, I'd say, is probably a little bit more
comparable to Tucson, so in terms of population, and so
I wasn't used to seeing like high schools like really
that big, or like fans showing out that much, and
so it was like really fun.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
I mean, that was the first time.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
I saw at Marana. Oh, that was the first time
I saw fireworks at a.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
High school for really.

Speaker 8 (08:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Wow, where you been? It's it's small place, a small Monterey. Yeah.
I think my graduating class was like three hundred and fifty.
Oh mine was one hundred. Yeah, it's not too big.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
But where'd you like three forty two?

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, something like that, maybe three forty nine barely made
the cut.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
It's like, it's like, be the doctor. Fee, there's one
hundred potential doctor in the students. What'd you finish? A
ninety nine out of one hundred?

Speaker 3 (09:07):
How'd you do?

Speaker 5 (09:07):
I got my degree? Now they call me doctor.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Now the commed doctor. Hey, that's an important part. You
get that piece.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
You might have been three fifty seven, but guess what
you're doing. You're on the radio.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
That's right, baby.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Just gotta find your way to the top. You gotta
find a way.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Did you send your check yet? Which one to be
to get you on this show?

Speaker 9 (09:27):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, my bad. Come on, man, I gotta work with
you about that.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
But yeah, I am. I am really excited for high school.
High school football.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
You're excited about football in general.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Oh yeah, joining like I'm being three fantasy leagues.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
In fact, in fact, you're going to be our producer
for the big show that's coming up.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
I hope we pull this baby off. There's not that
we're not. Yeah, but a lot of people are starting
to know.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, so you know, with Ricky uh and Lamar Tunneley,
we're gonna have the Honley Huddle. I'll be the host
asking the dumb question for an hour. Yeah, shooting the breeze.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
You were you the guy with us? No, yeah, you
were the guy with us when they were here. It
was a fantastic show. It was a great show talking
about the good old days.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, some cowboy boots mm hmm. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
We had Rodney Robbins, Yeah, Brandy Robbins.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
So it'll be a lot like that.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, just a lot of banter back and forth getting
ready for that game of the day or the night
whatever it is.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
So looking forward to that.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
No, it's exciting stuff.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
I mean, and I think it's one of those things
where it's like you want you kind of want the
faces of the faces of old like for the program
right now, because it's a lot of I think uncertainty,
and I think it gives people like kind of kind
of a light to flock to.

Speaker 9 (10:39):
You know.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
It's like, hey, we got we got.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
One of the one of the Mount Rushmore people of
University of Arizona football and we're talking right before the game.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
So I think it'll be.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
And he has some great insights. He's a former coach,
former big time player. Uh and not that he's gonna
give us any you know, secrets, right, but he'll be
honest with what he says an evaluation.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
And so Lamont and Lamont.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
You know, someone was talking about him today and I said, so,
who's gonna be on the show? Ricky and Lamont? And
I said, you know, Ricky is the perfect guy for this.
And then because he's out there and everybody loves Ricky.
And then Lamont is the guy who doesn't mind the
the background or the shadow of his big brother. In fact,
he's very you can tell he's very proud of him.
You know, they give each other grief and they give

(11:21):
me grief too, which is I'm not even a brother.
But but yeah, you know, there's a lot of good
chemistry there.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Well, I mean it's I mean were you an only child? No, Okay, well,
I mean.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
It's I feel like it's tough to not have like that,
that like chemistry, you know, and you're like anstering back
and forth like a sibling.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Especially them, they had like seven And if you want
to get the meal, you better be there first. And
if you better, if you get there first, you better
protect it.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
You better watch your play with the only dudes too.
They skinny dudes. You can tell they were eating right.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
So so we'll have that and that'll be a lot
of fun. Anything else I think that should do with
We're gonna have a coach, it's Mondy twelve.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Perfect.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
We'll go a five minutes's let's go to break and
get a hold of him. We'll talk about South Pointing
High School football locally, and then come back and open
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Speaker 2 (16:37):
Hey, welcome back to Wyn the Ball Here on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rovera and with me today
is mister Ray. And now on the phone we have
Pat Writing, the head coach at Southpoint the football team.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
How are you doing, coach?

Speaker 6 (16:53):
Good Steve? How are you?

Speaker 2 (16:54):
We're doing fine? Hey, great to have you on the show.
You uh, you ready for this big year another one?

Speaker 16 (17:02):
You know, it's uh, it's been a long winter actually,
you know, uh, we've been in the weight room since
January and and uh, you know, long summer, just getting
ready to go and and so yeah, we're excited to
get going.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
Last year was your first, dare right as a head coach?

Speaker 6 (17:17):
Yes, head coach? Uh, it would be my six year.

Speaker 7 (17:20):
I was a defensive coordinator for four years prior.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
How was it moving into that spot for you in
that in that first rookie year there?

Speaker 7 (17:29):
You know, it's it's a it's definitely a learning experience
because there's so much to do off the field, so
much to deal with off the field, away from football,
away from the x's and o's and and I kind
of knew that getting into it, so you know, I
wasn't coming in blind. But you know, there's definitely times

(17:51):
when I wish I could spend more time with the
x's and o's and and you.

Speaker 6 (17:57):
Know, you just got to manage your time differently.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I guess, yeah, no questions, do me a favorite? So
I have, uh right here, he covered a game or two.
Are you comfortable with giving me your observation.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
With yeaheah, yeah, yeah, coach, right, and it was it
was funny. I remember I was at the Marana game,
the Swallow game, and the Brophy the Brophy game forwards
the end of the year, and I remember seeing you
at the Miranda games for the first time, and I
was like, man, this guy looks kind of intimidating, like
he's going to.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Chew me out for you know, cutting like you know,
cut in the corner. So but he's actually a super
cool guy. He's super nice, super nice guy.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
Well, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I'm not sure is that a good thing for my
head football coach, because you have a yeah, come on, guys, details.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah, you know, I mean, I.

Speaker 7 (18:46):
Guess I just am who I am, you know, you know,
I can remember years and years ago at UH coaching
over at CDO where our kids.

Speaker 17 (18:56):
You know, we were used to a certain style. And
then as I got a little bit older.

Speaker 7 (19:01):
Some of the some of the old guys came back
and said, man, you're you're kind of soft now. But
but no, it's it's it's definitely, you know, you have
to adapt to the to the kids, and you know,
lots of changed. It's my thirty six year coaching high
school football. Well I spent ten years in junior college.
But you know, thirty six year coaching. And you know, kids, uh,

(19:22):
kids are kids, and you know, but the times are
different and the things that are interested in are different,
and and you know, social media I think has had
a huge impact on all sports, and you know, it's
it's drifting down into high school football and in high
school athletics now.

Speaker 17 (19:38):
And yeah, but you know, you just got to kind
of stay up with the times.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Sure, Well, in fact, you gave me a list of
thirty six years plus whatever. And the photo I see
of you that we used you look like you're forty three.
So what the hell you started coaching football when you
were seven.

Speaker 17 (19:54):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 16 (19:55):
Uh no, you know, I started right out of high.

Speaker 7 (19:59):
School and and it's kind of a funny deal. When
I graduated high school, we had me and another guy
from my school. We had signed with Salem College back
in West Virginia, and they dropped a football program right
before we're.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
Getting ready to leave.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
What year is this?

Speaker 3 (20:17):
What year?

Speaker 7 (20:19):
That was nineteen eighty nine, And my high school coach
at the time, John Cashner, said, well, why don't you,
why don't you stay here and coach and we'll get
you a place to go in January. And uh so
we did and and.

Speaker 17 (20:33):
And started coaching and never never looked back. So been
coaching ever since.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
Did you coach under Nugent at CDO.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Back in the day?

Speaker 17 (20:42):
I was with Pat?

Speaker 7 (20:44):
Yeah, Patt and I started coaching together, actually at Flying
Wells under John casher Back, and I think Pat came
over in nineteen ninety and we started coaching jv football together.
We did that for a couple of years, moved up
to the varsity and and then I left for a
few years, left Flowing Wall if Pat stuck around, and
I went over to Santa Rita with Russ Stovall. We

(21:08):
were there four years and then I went back for
one with Patt at Flolling Wells when he became the
head coach there, and then we went up to CDO.
I was there for seven years.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Well and was able to coach some fantastic players. I
was assuming was Kadem there and some of the others
during that time.

Speaker 17 (21:25):
You know, he showed up the year after I left.

Speaker 7 (21:28):
I left to go over and I was the head
coach at Rincon for two years and he showed up
at the question fan that year and the year I
played for the state championship.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Also, yeah, you have no question on strong team for
you guys. Now, let's say let's go talk about how
many do you return from last year's pretty good season
and and what's the outlook.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
You know, I really don't have the numbers as far
as how many guys we return.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
You know, we lost it.

Speaker 17 (21:56):
We lost a good senior classes we do every year.
You know, we we've got.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
A smaller senior class this year. I think we have
seventeen seniors if I'm not mistaken, But we have a
fairly good sized junior class.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
And and you.

Speaker 17 (22:12):
Know our our I've been telling everybody.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
Our junior class is really talented. As they are, But
you know, I don't I don't want to overshadow our
senior class because you know, they mean the world to us,
and we got a lot of talent within those seniors.
So but uh, we got some kids, uh you know
that are juniors that are gonna be uh really really
good football player sports all said and done.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, yeah, So do you have your lineup kind of
set your quarterback, your running backs, those guys?

Speaker 17 (22:39):
You know, Yeah, for the most part, I think we do.
We're we've got uh you know, the next three days.

Speaker 7 (22:45):
We've we've already begun, uh you know, putting in our
our game plan for.

Speaker 6 (22:48):
The Moranum game.

Speaker 7 (22:49):
And you know, we know who our quarterback is. Matt's
gonna you know, him and Race uh kind of both
played last year and and uh so we we made
a decision back in back in July that we were
going to go with one guy. And it really wasn't
an easy decision and both those guys are very very capable,

(23:11):
and uh, but we went with Matt, and uh, you know,
Matt's doing.

Speaker 6 (23:16):
A great job.

Speaker 17 (23:16):
He had really good scrimmage the other night.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
He's I think that was the most.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
Confident that I've seen him in his time here, I
thought he commanded the offense.

Speaker 17 (23:24):
Very very well for us. Uh so, yeah, we're we're
we're still competing in.

Speaker 7 (23:29):
A few spots and trying to still build some depth,
especially on the offensive line. And but for the most part,
I think we we got most most positions settled by now.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, no, good, good, good, anything great from you?

Speaker 3 (23:43):
No?

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Okay, just so if you got that, let me ask you,
is your second year we know that south point. It's
like I covered basketball forever, right and people ask me,
how are they gonna be any good? And I'm thinking,
I can't remember the last time I said, no, of
course it's going to be good.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
All the time.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Kind of out points the same way. I can't stop
point going to be any good? Of course you're going
to be good. Is there pressure in in being good?
If that makes any sense?

Speaker 16 (24:09):
Uh?

Speaker 17 (24:10):
You know, I think you know, we put enough pressure.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
On ourselves as a coaching staff.

Speaker 17 (24:16):
I'm not too concerned with the with the you.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
Know, outside pressure. I think that's at every level, probably
even on down to to you know.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
The youth leagues.

Speaker 7 (24:26):
But you know, we're competitive and and you know, I
understand the tradition at this school. Yeah, and you know,
we're looking to build upon that. You know, we we
you know, I walked into a great situation here and
uh so you know, we're just we're just looking forward
to too making strides. And you know, our goal is

(24:47):
always going to be the same, which is make the playoffs,
win our region, and you know, winnes State championship and
so and so that's what we work towards every day.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
So you talk about kind of like the legacy and
the tradition, coach, I mean, it was it was really
a shock to me to see you know, high school
football kind of on that level, just because of where
I'm from and not being used to it. So I mean,
how do you guys kind of is there a way
that you kind of enjoy it instead of feeling pressure
or like you know, you have like pride when you

(25:15):
see the stands fill up compared to like maybe previous spots.

Speaker 7 (25:21):
Yeah, you know, it's it's it's definitely a big time
high school football here, you know.

Speaker 6 (25:25):
And and you know with us.

Speaker 7 (25:28):
Playing uh, you know, a Phoenix schedule obviously, we're playing
two Tucson schools.

Speaker 17 (25:32):
This year that.

Speaker 7 (25:34):
You know, we we set a few years ago that
we want to play the best in Tucson, and so
we've added Tucson High. I think they're at a place
now where where they are going to be very, very competitive,
and that should be a great game as well. And
obviously Morana is a strong program and they do a
great job. So yeah, it's uh, you know, Friday night

(25:54):
lights here, it's you know, it's a lot of tradition,
a lot of alumni come back and pack the place
on Friday nights, and and uh, you know, the expectations
are high, but I wouldn't want to coach at any
place where they weren't. So you know, you you, if
you win a game, you get.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
To enjoy it. That I told our kids the other night.
You know you don't. You don't get to enjoy the
wins very long.

Speaker 17 (26:16):
You gotta turned the page because the next.

Speaker 7 (26:18):
Next up on the schedule is just as tough, or
not more tougher, you know, than than the game you
just played. So there's no gimmes on our schedule.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
I can guarantee you that.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
No you say that, I was just going to ask
you about opening with Marana, and I could ask Stuart
the same question opening up on South Point. I mean,
you like this nitty gritty game right away shows who
you are, or you would you rather kind of ease
into it.

Speaker 15 (26:42):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (26:42):
Absolutely, you know, I you know, I think we've got
a little bit of a rivalry going with Marana, which
which is fun. I think it's fun for the community.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
I think it's fun for the kids. It's fun for
both schools.

Speaker 7 (26:54):
You know. Like I said, they got a heck of
a football team and it's a tremendous challenge for.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Us, and and.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
Uh, you know, our schedule only gets tougher as we go.
So yeah, so yeah, you know, I I you know this.
You know, we didn't have to play Morana, but uh,
you know I know that, you know, coach Stewart wanted
to play us as well, and probably for the same reasons.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
Right, So well you probably face that a lot.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
I mean, given you know, I went to a Catholic
school in my in my place in the state. If
they played us, uh, the one thing they want to
do is beat the crap out of us, you know
what I'm saying, because you have that reputation of being good.
We got South Point on the schedule. Let's circle that
we'll be ready or we're going to try to be
ready and and you're always kind of like the target
like Arizona, you know, basketball whatever. I use that analogy.

(27:38):
But do you feel that too, because Okay, now we
know they're going to come after.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
Us, absolutely.

Speaker 7 (27:44):
You know. I spent seven years at CDO and yeah,
and Sophomoint was always our rival, so you know, I
kind of understand that.

Speaker 17 (27:51):
And you know, we've we've we've got a target on
our chest every.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
Week, you know. And and you know.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
When I first got here, we were still playing mostly
a Tucson schedule. Actually, I guess it was that first
year that we played a Phoenix schedule due to COVID,
it was mostly a Phoenix schedule.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
Nobody was playing down here.

Speaker 7 (28:10):
But that second year of the year we played for
the state championship, we played pretty much a Tucson schedule.
And and yeah, I think we I think we get
everyone's best shot.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Let me ask you a dumb question, not related to
where you're at now, because I didn't realize you were.
I coached that long for thirty some years. Uh, you've coached.
You must have coached some fantastic players. Can you give
me if you can your top maybe three without upsetting anybody?

Speaker 5 (28:36):
If that's possible.

Speaker 7 (28:37):
Yeah, you know that that's difficult. Let me give you
a couple anyways.

Speaker 17 (28:42):
I tell you what.

Speaker 7 (28:44):
I coached a fantastic kid over at h at CDO
and Aaron Tavis. Oh yes, yes, whose younger brother. I
tried to talk out of walking on at u of
A when I was at PEMA College and and after
he went to after jareded went to u of A
and had to success he did. I said, I'm never
going to try to talk a kid out of out
of walking on anymore.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
But and a small dude, and he was, and yeah, yeah,
a small dude.

Speaker 7 (29:09):
And Aaron Wasn't you know. Aaron was a six or
four kid and and just a tremendous athlete and uh,
you know did everything for us at CDO.

Speaker 6 (29:17):
And uh early in his career we had him.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
At d ND and then he he uh we put
him at linebacker towards the end. He went to Boise State.
I think he started three years at Boise State. So
he's probably you know up there for sure. Obviously, Elijah
Rushing a couple of years ago here at that point
was is a kid that.

Speaker 17 (29:39):
You know, he he.

Speaker 7 (29:40):
Was a special kid just because of the way he
approached the game. He knew what he wanted from the
time he was a freshman, and and he started for
us as a freshman at you know, one hundred and
eighty five pounds, and and uh, you know, he just
it was a lot of fun to see him developed
from year to year, and and uh, you know, to
see where he's at now.

Speaker 6 (29:59):
And and so probably those.

Speaker 7 (30:03):
Two high school get but but honestly, see, there there's
been so many kids that I've had the pleasure of
coaching that have just been tremendous athletes that have gone
on to play you know, college football, and even the
kids a team of college I was able to coach
and went on to careers at big time schools.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
And so there's been a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
What as the head coach and even as assistant, what
do you look for in a in a player? You know,
you have marginal players who are fantastically smart angles know
where to be at the same at the right time,
right place. But then you have just gifted physically gifted
and athletic people who who just gifted and sometimes don't
know where to be at the right place.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
What do you look for?

Speaker 7 (30:51):
You know, I think the most important thing is is
to find guys that are team oriented. And that's that's hard,
you know, it's it's it's not as easy as you
might think. And you know, especially with all the social
media and everything going on, and you know, guys marketing
themselves in high school now, and you know, to try
to to try to get guys to buy into the

(31:11):
team concept, I think is a little bit more difficult
than most people think. And so but if we can
get guys that believe in our team and the way
that we're doing things and can trust us, and guys
that are just coachable, you know, and and play within
the system, and you know, I think, uh, those are
the type of you know, just just hard on those kids,
you know. I mean, I've also had the pleasure of

(31:34):
coaching a lot of kids didn't have a lot of talent,
but we're just really really blue collar, tough kids.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (31:40):
And we've got those kids here at South Point too,
So yeah, all those kids are a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Do you you talked about how the kids have changed.
When do you think it did change from now we're
in the nil world of you know, I got to
get mine or I want mine, YadA, YadA. But did
it change two decades ago, a decade ago recently?

Speaker 7 (32:01):
You know, I I I always say, you know, I've
been teaching for a long time and I'm the Dena
men here at that point now, so I still have
an opportunity to work with kids on.

Speaker 6 (32:09):
A daily basis.

Speaker 7 (32:10):
Kids are kids, you.

Speaker 17 (32:12):
Know, and.

Speaker 7 (32:14):
It's just everything obviously in society around us that has changed.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
But you mentioned ni l And and.

Speaker 7 (32:21):
You know, I think that's definitely changed because you see kids.

Speaker 17 (32:26):
Now that are not only are they you know, wanting.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
To to get to that next level in the Division
I level, but now they're, like I said, there they
got their site set on how much money or what
their contracts going to be when they get there. And
you know, again most of them don't understand that. You know,
that's few and far between. There's there's there's not a
lot of you know, Elijah Rushings out there, another kid

(32:51):
that I mentioned I failed to mention. We had a
couple of years ago with Kiona Davis University of Brasky. Yeah,
and I believe he's going to start this year and
you know Elija's gonna play a lot. But but so yeah,
you know, I I think just a few years ago,
it just kind of changed. And again I I think

(33:12):
it's I think it's probably has a lot to do
with n I L and and people you know, trying
to trying to see what they can get, you know,
getting out.

Speaker 6 (33:21):
Of high school.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Right, where's the game? Where's the game with Marena at
your place?

Speaker 9 (33:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (33:26):
It's our place this year.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Okay, we might try to get down there for that
Friday night first game.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Big game if I'm not covering anything else.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, coach, I appreciate your time is always good luck, Thanks.

Speaker 7 (33:38):
Guys, my pleasure, Thanks for having me, and thanks looking
forward to seeing your Friday.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
Great, great, take care of be well.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Great to talk to coach right in here on ay, Yeah,
you can't wait. Let's take the break. Maybe take a
caller to good for them, coach to or two. You know,
here's a good dude. We'll see. I mean, both talented team,
probably too bad teams in the city.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
And I think I saw someone on someone's post on
Instagram kind of like saying like that it's like the
new Southern Arizona rivalry.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
I actually was wondering, you.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Know what we and why let me just say they
can't really be a rivalry, if there's if they hate
each other but they're not any not any good, or
wouldn't these two guys, these two teams can compete.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeah, yeah, I know, they're the cream of the crop
here in Tucson. I think without question. I always I was.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
I meant to ask him, but just right out of time,
and if he kind of wears like you know, because
he talked about that Tucson in Phoenix schedule. Yeah, and
they do have a lot of they have a ton
of Phoenix teams on their schedule this year, So I
wonder if they had like wear that, like as a
badge of honor, like.

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As Twosnians or as two Sonans. They're like, hey, we're
not going to lose to these feings. Oh yeah, you
know that. You know that.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
Yeah, and it's all pail battle. Yeah, Okay, let's go.

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Speaker 2 (39:01):
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Good to hear from you, talk about whatever your night.
We're nine days away, right, nine days in a couple
of hours, yeah, waiting for next next or the first

(39:24):
game of the year and for less than forty eight
hours for the next football season.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
Have you always been like this year?

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Like a twelve year old hoping for or eight year
old waiting for Christmas?

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Start you and j probably since I turned probably since
like I got into high school like fourteen, just because
it's like, I mean, it's the because you know, you
can't really watch wrestling on TV. You really got to
look for it online. Right, but like you know, you
play football, you're gonna yeah it goes you.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Know, right, you just waited to get it rolling. Yeah, okay,
NFL too, Yeah, because it's a week later.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Yeah, that one I'm a little it less optimistic about.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
But I always love watching. Yeah, there's drunk being good.
They got a lot of people hurt right now.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Like there's probably seriously that they won't play the season.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
Or Yeah, there's probably been like four or five like
season like season ending.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
I are that's funny because there's been a lot of
a lot of that.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
Yeah, I mean it's always like that, you know what
I mean. I mean t mac he someone told me
that he got hurt.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Yes, hamstring. They're just saving him to the first game.
There you go, Okay, I get it. It is interesting stuff.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
That's why I wear That's what did you notice what
I'm wearing today?

Speaker 3 (40:33):
Bubble rap?

Speaker 6 (40:34):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (40:34):
They fall down the stairs man, the rest you see,
if you walk up those stairs, you gotta go downstairs easily.
Momentum going down. No, I don't want that. The momentum
going out.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
No, no, momentum going up.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
We'll see five two, four, one, seventy four, forty.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
You're gonna have some breaking news.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Yes, I have a question for you. When did you stop? Like?
I know, because as everybody says it, you know what
I mean, like you stop being a fan?

Speaker 4 (41:02):
Like after a certain amount of I've said this, right, yeah, yeah,
when did you stop?

Speaker 5 (41:07):
Question?

Speaker 6 (41:09):
Uh uh?

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Probably ninety For in the mid nineties, I covered I
sorted here. It's going to be thirty eight years tomorrow
that I came rolling into. I might do a little
blogger something your body, but thirty eight years tomorrow came in,
I'd be here like maybe five years, and you know,
crack this popsicle stand and go somewhere else. But then

(41:34):
you enjoy it. I covered good school, but they want
a lot YadA YadA. He was covering basketball, So I
stayed and so but you learn early that you can't
be a fan in your position, right, you see it
anyway because they went to school here or whatever, and
that's fine. Just don't kind of show what don't be

(41:54):
so yeah right, So, but but for me, I don't
know it became a job maybe after the ninety seven championship,
ninety eight run when they when they should have won
it again, and then you just realize, you know, it's
a job. You know, there's no need to. I rarely,
you know, outside of my kids when they were younger,

(42:15):
they played soccer, cheer for those things.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
Or if I go to the horses, to the races.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
And you know, I cheer for that, but not not
when I'm involved or have a team or whatever, because
I don't know, there's not a point to. And you realize,
at least in my mind, because I'm sure you have
your friends, and you have your guys, you're almost depressed
when they lose. I haven't depressed the thirty some years

(42:41):
exactly because and it's not that it's a job, he's
just you know, okay, the team won, the team lost.
What's for dinner? Yeah, okay, you know what I'm saying.
But as a kid, oh god, you know how many
disappointments do you have? And guess what, at the end
of the day, every team is going to break your
heart unless they win the.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
T and there's only one the one title. Yeah, that's
why some of the coaches today.

Speaker 5 (43:04):
I know Luke felt this way.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Why would you and when football didn't have a playoff
ten whatever years ago, yeah, would say, you know, what
are they trying to do? Why are they doing this?
And they know it's obviously money. But you have the
bowl games thirty some whatever. Yeah, you have thirty two winners,
and guess what happens after that? They have successful season,
you know, the losers of the bowl game. Okay, yeah,

(43:26):
but you went to the bowl game, the wins win it.
They have success. Yeah, and they don't have complaining. But
everybody else in this playoff.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Well yeah we lost. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
No, I just asked because because I've been watching that
that Cowboys documentary.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Okay, so, and I mean it is good. Oh yeah,
yeah yeah. Then but I know, like you, I know you.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Talked about I forget the caller's name, but he's a
funny guy. No, no, Howard, No, he sounds like a
younger guy. No, I'm to make sure with the button. Yeah, da, Okay, Hello, you're.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
On the airline of the ball who's this? Hello?

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Hello, who's this? Hey? Steve?

Speaker 17 (44:09):
This is God?

Speaker 5 (44:10):
Hey dog?

Speaker 2 (44:10):
What the heck do you do all day? Because you
call in and I'm happy for it.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
I don't know. Maybe I'm living right.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
Can you adopt me? I need some of that? I
wish I could.

Speaker 21 (44:24):
No, what do you you know what?

Speaker 3 (44:26):
I think?

Speaker 21 (44:27):
Well, no, we're talking. You're talking with Ray about fandom
and stuff like that. And you know what, as time
went on and we got ESPN and Sports Center every
day and you had national news and everything. Yeah, I
think I think the amount of information that we have nowadays,

(44:48):
it's it's like you were just talking about your team wins.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
It used to be that when your.

Speaker 17 (44:54):
Team won, especially being here in Tucson, I was a.

Speaker 21 (44:58):
Raider fan growing up and everything else else. When they won,
you had almost all week to celebrate that. But nowadays,
just like the team, you got to turn the page
because you get so much information about the U upcoming
games that it's that it's it's like almost you know,
it's almost like being on the team with all the

(45:20):
information that.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
You're taking in.

Speaker 21 (45:23):
You know, you don't get to you don't get to
enjoy the wins as much anymore because like the team there,
you know, you you you know, you start watching the
shows and stuff and they're already.

Speaker 17 (45:35):
Onto the next.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
Week, right.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
I think that's another issue. Like you're saying you don't
have time to enjoy the moment.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
You just don't.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
No, you don't.

Speaker 21 (45:43):
And you know, even with the even with losses, because
now you've got another game to you know, your your
you're scouting, you're researching the next game, and so it's it's.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
More like work.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
Let me ask you, did you have a point or that?
What my point was?

Speaker 4 (45:59):
I was actually going to ask, how do you guys
think like a twenty four hour news cycle has impacted
like like it's crazy, it's crazy, go ahead, done.

Speaker 9 (46:11):
To me?

Speaker 21 (46:12):
It almost it makes you hate some aspects of it,
The business of it, the business of sports is really
taking you.

Speaker 17 (46:22):
Know, that's a whole nother thing.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
Let me ask you real quickly, you know, I know,
let me ask you just your rupt.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
You're a Raiders fan. I know you've called in with
Jay talking bad about the Raiders. You know, get the
Raiders name out of your mouth. Blah blah blah. You
remember that very much, funny line. So who do you
think it has more angst? And I think I know
the answer to this. A Raider fan or a Cowboy fan.
And I throwing Cowboys even though they won more recently,

(46:49):
but every year is their year, right, So they say.

Speaker 21 (46:55):
I think it's harder for Cowboys fans because they think
they're going to be good, and we know, and we
know and and we as Raider fans, you know, it's
I mean, if you're honest with yourselves, we know when
we're not going to be good. We know, and I
mean there in my opinion, like this this year coming up,

(47:19):
I don't know what's gonna happen. I think we got
a lot better quarterback now, but through the years, it
takes more than a quarterback, because we used to have
a quarterback that was good enough. But some but some
seasons he had absolutely no defense, or he didn't have
any running game or anything.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
Else like that.

Speaker 21 (47:40):
I mean, I've mentioned on things like Trent Bilford won
a Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Give me a break, you.

Speaker 21 (47:46):
Know, so it's you know, Brad Johnson won a super Bowl.
He beat the Raiders to win a Super Bowl. Brad Johnson,
who who even remembers he was even in a football player?
I do, because he beat my team.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
We gotta go down. We got another call. Hey, thanks
for calling you guys, Thanks for calling always. We got
another call. Oh you're on the Aaronine on the ball.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
Who's this Steve Rick?

Speaker 22 (48:09):
How are you doing, Brad?

Speaker 5 (48:10):
How you doing? Who's breaking your heart this year?

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Now?

Speaker 22 (48:15):
Uh, well my Yankees were, But but I just want
to piggyback on when your previous caller just said, everything
is so available right now. And I was talking to
a friend of mine, waking up in the mornings in
the summertime, reading the sports pages, seeing who was in
for city baseball, reading everything about football.

Speaker 17 (48:37):
Everything was in the sports pages, we read the newspaper.

Speaker 22 (48:43):
Now, if you.

Speaker 17 (48:43):
Don't hear about it on.

Speaker 22 (48:44):
The radio, or if you can't google it or something else,
you're probably not going to even pay attention. And everybody
has become so space, you know, what's what's the next
great things? Instead of appreciating what we have right in
front of them.

Speaker 5 (49:00):
Oh, without without question, without question.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
You can't even enjoy it anymore because either well for
whatever reason.

Speaker 17 (49:08):
Yeah, And and it's sad.

Speaker 22 (49:10):
And you know, I still watch baseball, and I know
it's probably a lot of people, but you look at
the baseball stadiums.

Speaker 17 (49:16):
The stadiums are passed.

Speaker 22 (49:19):
Fans still go to watch baseball, and there's a lot
more fans that go to baseball than basketball. Probably the
only other sports that might compare is soccer, but that's international.

Speaker 5 (49:32):
Well, football footballs because they only have thirteen.

Speaker 22 (49:35):
Balls once a week.

Speaker 17 (49:36):
Yeah yeah, but that's once a week.

Speaker 22 (49:39):
Baseball's every day. And a lot of the stadiums are
still full. And I was earlier. I was working on
the computer and the Cubs were playing the Nationals or no,
they were playing the Brewers, and the stadium is pretty
of fool.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
Well, two good teams, two good teams.

Speaker 22 (49:56):
Yeah, hey, give me anyway, give me real quick.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
You got to so, uh, I was on a football schedule.
What's your what's your season going to be like? Record wise?
I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 22 (50:09):
I'm just going to be a fan and watching. I'm
not trying to predict anything. I was in Texas for
a while this last summer and I'm going back again
next month. When you look at.

Speaker 17 (50:20):
The Southeast Conference and you.

Speaker 22 (50:22):
Look at the football and everything else, unfortunately Arizona doesn't
have the money to compete.

Speaker 17 (50:28):
I'm sure We've got a lot of good.

Speaker 22 (50:29):
Coaches and everything else, but I'm just going to be
a fan support Arizona football. But I don't have any
great expectations until they can get into the same bank
accounts as some of these other schools.

Speaker 17 (50:44):
Reality, good luck with that.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Thank you, Rick, thanks for calling by. Yeah yeah, if
that's if you're gonna wait for.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
That, Yeah, I know that's don't hold your breath, that's
for sure, though, I mean, you hope, but.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Well, it's it's always I mean, you have to catch
your lightning in a bottle. Ninety seven they cut lightning
in a bottle, yeah, ninety eight And football they cut
lightning in a bottle to do what they did. Yeah,
lightning the ball is hard, and.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
It's not even that I mean, you hate to just
like because you know, it's not all luck. Obviously, there's
a lot of preparation tell yeah. But I mean, man,
sometimes it really is like those like a couple of
bounces a.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Game, you know what I mean, ball doesn't get your
way ninety eight football, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
In ninety eight basketball, Arizona had the best team in
the country and got the butts kicked to Utah.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Yeah, and that's exactly what I mean, you know, just the.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Well in baseball too, I mean, Andy Lopez we had
a couple days ago in twenty twelve, had a run, unbelievable, run, yeah,
run for the ages, and who would expect that?

Speaker 3 (51:42):
Right?

Speaker 5 (51:43):
So okay we got to go right yep, okay,