Hour 1- August 26, Hunley Brothers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hey, good afternoon, everybody.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Welcome to I on the Ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve Rivera, your Juan. You got Reggie Geary in
the house. You got the Lamont brothers, Lamont brother and
with Ricky Hunley brothers.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Who are you, guys?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
I like you how you said Lamont brother?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, when you go, you get enough credit these days,
you know, in the shadows of Ricky.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
I'm Raymond's brother.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Everybody loves Raymond. Welcome, guys, we get the full house today.
You know his real name is Paul Payla. You can
only share one one.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Mike King of assists, Yeah, I made the tackle, he
jumped on the Did he get the assist? Sometimes? Sometimes
hold on? Who holds the record for the universe Arizona
and assists. That's what I'm saying. Isn't about how you
get your tackles, how you get your stats.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
You get him, He's not apologizing. Welcome, Sorry to talking
about this, Steve.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
What that was on philosophy?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I think you so you got Reggie, and we're gona
talk a little football talk, a lot of basketball, talk
about football with the gentleman here. You guys have something
going on pretty soon. Oh yeah, we're kicking off with
Yeah you excited? Yeah, because we're doing it with Steve Rivera.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Good, good for you, Good for you. We'll have a
little fun. Last time you guys were in studio, we
had a lot of fun. People love the show. You
guys giving each other grief and giving me grief Lamont,
of course, giving everybody grief.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Someone's got to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
Right now, I'm the stable one, remember that.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's right, You're right. I just gotta tell the facts.
Reggie was not a good shooter.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
With like it was good enough to get to the NBA,
but not good enough for Ricky.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
I got.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Defen, great pass, no foul. If I was a football
guy and I was the greatest defensive player in u
of a history, guess what, it would be a different story, right.
Basketball is a two way deal. I catch a lot
of grief for you too. I love guys.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
You know that you would have been a head of
a dB.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
I would have been. I would have put my head
down and done some silly things. But my dad always
kind of geared. He kind of pushed me away from
now with Skinny High school about hundred and I was
a baseball basketball guy, so football was kind of third
on that we have to call you the glove. I was, yeah,
the glove, the straight jacket, all those you would have
called me glove. I mean I would enjoyed it, honestly. Honestly,
it looked like a lot of fun out there. You

(02:38):
guys are It happens when we need some points, you
come to me. It gets silent radio, it's silent. I
was third U of A history and assists. I was
pretty good passing.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Well, I have you guys and you I wanted to
ask you guys a quick question, Uh what has the
U of A done for you? And I say that
because would you where would you be if you didn't
have what you have through you of Avery Rich.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
I mean you have A. I mean provided me a
lot of things. Obviously, come into as a student athlete.
You come into the school eighteen nineteen years old, and
it's a really important part of your life and so
great you know, gave me great guidance obviously. Loud Olsen
and his staff, Jesse Evans and Jim Rossborough to go
along with my teammates Chris Mills. These are part of
your maturation process, is how you become a young adult,
and so they provided me that. Obviously, the Athletic Department

(03:22):
provided me an education and free education and in a
platform a big stage to do my thing. And for
those I'm very, very grateful, And yeah, I could have
done thosed at other places, but I think I'm blessed
and we all are fortunate that we did this here
in Tucson and.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Three dudes who didn't grow up here but now make
Tucson home.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
So that's a huge impact. What about you the month.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
Well, and most definite it it provided me a big
platform and mag got a business here in town and.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Arizona Sports the only thing in town.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
And people still recognize you as being a former football
player here to at least me as a formal football
player at.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
The Universe University of Arizona, you know.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
So it did give me that platform where people still
recognize me and come into my business simply because I
was associated with the Universe of Arizona as a football player.
So I thoroughly appreciate what the community has done for
me as well as the university. Per se Ricky, what
was the question is what has Tucson done you've ain't

(04:23):
done for you? Well, I mean I can just go
back years and years and then come forward. I mean
from the time that you know, Tony Mason recruited me
to come here to play football, I never thought that
I would have the opportunity to play baseball. And that
was really the convincing factor that yes, you can play
baseball if you're good enough. And so I chose Arizona
over Notre Dame, Nebraska, Ohio State. Then I got to

(04:45):
play for Larry Smith, and you know, Larry had tremendous
faith in me and put me out on the field
as a true freshman and UH and I fell into
a good game against a number one ranked team and
and the rest is history. And UH, I got a
chance to come back here with Jed Fish and be
on the staff and UH and then with Brent Brennan,
they kept me on as an executive director of player
relations extort of development. And because of Brent and Desiree,

(05:09):
I'm still here and I'm living to dream. It took
me forty years to get back here.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, and we talked about that with when you applied
or you had talked about trying to come back as
a head coach. And the great line you had with
Jim O was the line again that.

Speaker 5 (05:22):
You can pay me now and you can pay me later.
So what happened He didn't pay you at all. Yeah,
well we'll get to that a second.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
So Reggie, as you looked back, and this is mightbe
an odd question, but what would Reggie you know, how
are you about fifty one fifty one? What would you
tell Reggie Geary eighteen year old Riggie.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Shoot the ball bar? Wasn't that it was that I
could shoot. I did shoot, and that was only because
of myself and so just to have more confidence. But no,
like I said, I I was really fortunate. I think
like a lot of us, I just had a really
good experience my first time through. I enjoyed being a
student athlete, enjoy living in Tuson. I think that why
I'm still hearing the community. But just you don't have
to just have a you know, to be a part
of the team, but have a little bit more offensive

(06:05):
confidence and just kind of go for a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Who was that it offensively? Didn't have the cup or
or you had other people to score and you were
the other.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
I was such a fitting guy. I was such a
guy who just wanted to be a team player and
kind of fit in that. I would I would defer
at times that I would take a step back. And then,
you know, I don't think we got as much skill
development maybe as some of the players do now now
they do predominantly a lot of skill development. You kind
of play with you which which you came with, but fit.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
And so after a couple of years in the NBA,
I go over overseas and now they look at you differently,
and your expectations are differently, in your productions differently, And
all of a sudden, I started scoring, started getting more confidence.
I start looking back to saying I got done this
the whole time, and so just just being more confident.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, uh, Lamont, what would you tell your young self?

Speaker 4 (06:46):
Probably make more tackles.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Can tell me that all the time I didn't make
enough tackles, So I probably solo tech.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's true, you.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Know what, Honestly, I mean, there's a lot of things
that would go through my head. But you know, I've
been so blessed in regards to having an opportunity to
get here. And I would have to say the most
important thing is is having a relationship with my brother here.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
You know, I've been blessed where he was a step ahead.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Of me, and he put some you know, some some
good sized feet some steps in front of me. So
he allowed me to either put my foot in there,
or half of my shoe or my whole shoe.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
And and and I was able to do those things.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
So he was a step in front of me to
give me an opportunity to you know, see things a
little wiser than he saw them. So having him in
front of me was my blessing, you know. And I
I couldn't ask for a better situation as far as
you know, my time. So as far as me reflecting back,
as far as being a young man, you know, I
don't think there's much I can say as far as

(07:49):
related to the universe, Arizona. I you know, I've been
very thoroughly blessed. Did you get a business degree? What
did you get your degree in? I was in business school,
you know, okay, but well now you have a business.
It was I had no idea I was going to
get in business, you know, business itself. How I got
into it, basically, it was really in a relationship with
a young man named Scott Thompson. And Scott was Ricky's

(08:11):
personal trainer back in the day. And Scott was looking
to expand his business and I was selling insurance at
that point in time, and I sold insurance directly to Scott,
and he was looking for an opportunity to expand his
business and and do something different with it. And I said, well,
I tell you what, I'll come work for you to
see if it's something that I want to do and

(08:33):
see if you like me and I like you. And
it turned out forty years later. So it's Arizona Health,
It's Minds. And you know, we've been fortunate to build
a very successful business here in town and do some
quality things in the community to give back to the community.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
So we've been very blasted.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Who wouldn't love Lamont, you know, Ricky, everybody loves So
what would you tell your younger self?

Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know what, Miilama.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
We talked about this several times over the years, you know,
and looking back, I would have engaged more with the
community really, I mean, because there were people that came
into our life that were very very powerful influential people,
very wise business people that we did not take advantage of.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
We were too busy, you know, being you playing ball
and you know, doing what we do.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
But I mean I think of Barren russ Stand, I
think of Alan Norville, I think of you know, all
these people who were there, Judge Stanley Felman. I mean,
they had wisdom beyond our years, and we were just
too busy to listen, right.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
And being a kid, probably being a killed you knew.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
It at all.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Like Reggie, you know, if he knew that the backboard
was there for a reason the ball was, he would
have kept shooting the ball. But he didn't think the
ball would come back. It's like a yo yo, you
know it comes back. Good advice, that's good, right, Yes,
a little, that's that's good stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
But a great time. I mean, greate A you going
to uve and we time to talked about it last
time you you.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
And you've stayed here because the community, you know, the community.
People see you on the streets, right and they say, hey,
how you doing.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yeah, no, for sure. I mean I've lived all over
the world, I've traveled over the world, and Two Sons
always been a place of home, a warm place for
me and my family. But as Lamon mentioned, you're recognized
still within the community. You still can do good works
in the community. And it's just there's just this give
and take with with the with the fan base and
donor base and see ticket holders and just long time
Tusonians where it just makes it a great place to live.

(10:33):
And we have the weather, the economy. There's just so
many good things about two sons. Kind of I don't
like to tell too many people because it's our little
secret here, you know what I mean. So I feel
like I say, I feel really blessed that you know
that my family is taking part in this community and
we've jumped in with both hands and both.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Right, and you're you've been not almost thirty years, right,
ninety six? Yeah, ninety six, almost thirty years next year, right,
just coming here.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah, it doesn't along you.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Guys, more than forty. Yeah, he's got a great family.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
I mean, his kids call me Dad, his wife called
call him Ricky.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
That's what Ricky wanted to do. This somehow has the
second family on the side of mine. He won't pay
any the bills.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Why would he need a second family when he got
the big family that he has.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
He like.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Ricky always want more. I'm good with family. Everybody loves Ricky.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
By the way, tell me real quick, we're gonna have
our first show here Saturday.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Excited about it? The ddly Huddle.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Well, you know what, I'm very excited, I tell you, man.
It gives me an opportunity again to spend time with
with Ricky, a person who got so much knowledge when
it comes to the game of football. I mean, he
got so many stories to tell when it comes to
the game of football, and he got so much that
he can bring as far as to the community so
people can have a good different viewpoint in regards to

(11:56):
you know, Arizona football and in the game of football
in general, you know. So to have this opportunity to
be able to sit here and and kind of like
you know, have discussion back and forth.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
With the game.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
I mean, like I said, he's going to bring a
viewpoint that I think is is parallel more than anything we.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
To heard here in Tucside.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
Hopefully I can bring a little color myself and a
little little laughter to the show. But having this opportunity
just to spend some time and him and I can
talk about the game. I mean, I'm looking forward to it.
I mean, it's it's I can't wait the Saturday, get
to get here. Let's see, it's more than just the game.
I mean, that's so many human interest stories comes to
you know, the connection and the relationship that we have.

(12:37):
I mean, we're gonna have coach Brennan that's gonna come
and talk to us about all the great things that
he's doing with his team. You know, on and off
the football field. We have up beyond football program. I
mean our guys. We probably have more guys with rough
Bye our Raids than than any other team in the country.
And Tobrick Blaine is doing a great job there with
the beyond football program. You know, guystro is gonna talk

(12:59):
to us about how the transfer proto works and how
you get players in such a short window. You name
the coach and he'll be in. He'll come and he'll talk.
You know, from my offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, from coach
Carter who danced with mc hammer. There's gonna be a
lot of good stuff to join in on.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Right. No, no, looking forward to that.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
We'll talk more about that because Lamont has to take
off after this next segment and then then Reggie, you'll
have more time to talk because with the brothers here,
I'm not.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Set me up practice. Reggie, you can get all money
in here. I appreciate you know. Steve Pato is a
lot to be here.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, I gotta share money we're supposed to get.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
I got a one or that's what you got, your one,
That's what you get, Doctor Renper.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
Let's go, let's go.

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Speaker 3 (18:25):
Hey, welcome back to I About Hero Fox Sports fourteen
fifty on. Steve Rivera in with me today, Red Juageary
Lamar Hunley, Ricky Hunley, help me. Somebody saved me. Somebody
saved you are giving grief, crying here, trying to figure
out what I'm gonna do. So No, well, we're gonna
have fun. I mean, Ricky's got it all planned out.

(18:46):
We're gonna talk to this guy, Barack Obama everywhere.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
He's got.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Okay, man, Ricky what are you thinking? But I think
it's gonna be a show. You you have some good
plans for the show, talking the X guys that are
doing really well, guys that you know obviously played with. Uh,
and some probably you don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, I know. The mic is like a foot away
from me. This is the radio. When you get to
the tackle. First, you know them. When you get to
the tackle. Second, you really get to know him. You
lift them up. We're gonna do it again. Get the penalty,
so let me.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
I don't know if I asked you this in the
last time you're here, but I know I wanted to
go there. You're very comfortable, Uh, being in the shadow
of your brother, very comfortable.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Most brothers wouldn't do that. Who wouldn't want that? Uh
maybe a little jealous or whatever, but that's not.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
You never been you know, Like I mean, when when
you have someone who again has done so much as
far as not not just with the game of football,
but also the type of person he has always been.
I mean he basically you know, showed me the ways
he show me the proper way of what to do
and what not to do. You know, there was a

(20:04):
lot of things Rick and Hunley has done in his
earth and on this earth that I choose not to do.
So I was blessed that he made those choices so
I can see, Oh I don't need to go there,
you know, but there's been quite a few great things
that he has done that that I still chase and
try to be a part of in my life. So
by by all means, I mean he's always been my

(20:24):
best friend. And you know, we we slept together and
growing up.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
As kids, we I mean we're kind of like twins
so to speak. Yeah, you were telling me about growing
up in Virginia. Yeah, right, with the big family. Are
your other brothers, Ricky like this because you have a
lot of younger brothers too, right, were they kind of
and did you Were you aware of that that you
were being watched?

Speaker 2 (20:46):
You emulated kind of who watched what? I think it
was more me who was watching the brothers. No, I don't.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
I think our younger brothers because it was a difference
in age. Rick and I was so everything, so time together.
But our other brothers, you know, they they but they
ran It was like because with so many of us
we had Quentin and Derek who hung out, Rick and
I who hung then our sisters hung yea, So just
that I.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Think that age gap made the difference. That did.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
I resented the fact that my sister Debbie, she was
one year apart from me, and I had to go
to bed with the younger boys, and she could stay
up an extra hour, you know, And the only advantage
I have when we all five of us slept in
the same king size bed, I could lay on my
back and they had all lay on their side, So.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
We golf in the bed. Your mom is a saint.
I think we talked about her laftime off the air.
Just how many kids were there, right, you guys and
then the adoptive false kids fustered fuster kids. I'm sorry, yeah, no, wow,
No one of you guys are kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
You have to be. She didn't tolerate anything. They're more
than kind of cool.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
I mean, as an outsider, not a brother by proxy,
will say, you know, having a chance the last couple
of years to be around the how many yeah, lamont Ricky, Kevin, Derek,
and kind of seeing their sisters when it came in
for your birthday party and hearing their story and the
knowing more and more about this. This is a special family.
These are special people. We're fortunate to have them in
our community, fortunate to have him on campus. I'm fortunate
to call them a friend. And I truly do mean that.

(22:18):
They do so many great things that people don't even
know about around our community to go along with you know,
just bringing a smile to people's faces and they're poor golfers,
you know, like I like that and get into pockets
a little bit. But but no, I'm just speeding up.
I'm speeding up. But no, it's all seriousness. We're really
lucky for not only what they did to UFA as
that student athletes, but to have people like this community

(22:39):
makes two so on special.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, we love living and we kind of talked about
this to you. You kind of have the reputation or
could have the reputation of, you know, I'm Ricky.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Don't talk to me.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
I will. You know, I'm a cool dude, you know,
with that air, But you don't. You're just a normal dude.
And I don't get to know him.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
Once you get to know him, I mean, because I
think some people look at me and basically look at
it his personality and you know, Ricky has his way
of not smiling sometimes and he'll just sit there because
he got this darkness inside him. I think he's thinking
about something all the time. May take so so until
you really get past that, everyone's Ricky's friend. You know,

(23:22):
I got to tell Ricky some day he's.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Not your friend. He'll say to me, Oh, man, I
met such and such. He's my friend. I said, your friend.
When did you meet him, Ricky?

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Or we were sitting at the bar, we talked a
little bit, So how did he become your friend? Everyone's
not your friend, bro, you know. So you know, that's
the thing that I try to, you know, keep you know,
keep help Ricky out.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
That's your pay back to him.

Speaker 5 (23:44):
That he is my friend. I mean, I mean we've
been on an intimate level. He's been crying in the room,
my friend.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
He's like, what did I get myself?

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I got seven Saturdays and one Friday. He's so excited
he's crying. He reminds me that Indian Chief.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
The people on the radio can't see the headlock you
have him in.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Ray, You're gonna like, no, but look, I look forward
to theres a lot of a lot of cool things
that we have planned talking to ex players. You said,
Brendan will come on for a short stint and talk
about the game. Talk, no plans, but you know what
he has, what he has up his sleeve maybe or
whatever whatever you can get out of him. Uh, you
know everybody loves Rinky. We're not giving away trade secrets.

(24:32):
We're just trying to win games. Yes, yes, red line, brother,
red line, And at the end of the day, that's
what it is, right, You give a five hundred yards,
but you win by one, You win by one by one. Yeah, Okay,
what else is going to be happening with this show?
That's gonna be US three on a Saturday or a
Friday night when games are on Friday, every home game,
so there'll be seven of them talking football and well,

(24:57):
you know what, and life because that's what you want
to plan to do to explain that.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Well, there's just so many facets now with kids that
they need to be aware of, and you know, a
life after football. There is a life after football, and
there's so many great players that have come here who
are doing extremely well, and they need to know their
story because you know that may be you one day
to be an executive of some country. I mean executive
some company you know, or president of some country you know,

(25:25):
you never know. So I think those kids like to
listen in and see where their life can take them.
In your title, could you give me your title with
university now? Executive director Player Relations and External Development.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
So do you spend a lot of time with that?

Speaker 3 (25:38):
In terms of maybe little Johnny comes in, I have
Ricky have a coach whatever they call you, I have
an issue. Can you can you listen to my story
or whatever? Is that what it's about? Common sense coach?
Because common sense ain't common?

Speaker 4 (25:52):
Could you?

Speaker 3 (25:53):
I like it?

Speaker 2 (25:53):
I love that it's another billboard little thing here. A
lot a lot of these kids just make assumptions. They
just assume, you know.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
So I think Ricky's being there and being a buffer
in regards to already you know, walk that walk and
talk that talk.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
And also, I mean he's that guy that these kids
can you know, you know, talk to instead of.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Making that mistake or going around that corner and not
knowing what's around that corner. Ricky could say, I already
been around that corner. Let me tell you what you're
about to experience.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
I've always said two all three of you guys that
we live in a time now where it's almost as
a coach you have to be a psychologist, a sports psychologist,
or just a psychologist because there's so many things going
on with the young kids. Do you think that was
the case when you guys played, or you guys just
repressed them and just didn't worry about that stuff, you know,
not so much about the money, but maybe the family,

(26:42):
the girlfriends, the stuff that's complicating in life.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Well, I think all that stuff was in front of us.
I mean, I mean, that's life. I mean, but it
wasn't as much that I think these kids get to
experience it on these days in time. You know, we
played football, we went to school, we went out in clubs,
we hung out with females, we did our thing off
that end of it.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
But you know, it wasn't as much. I don't think.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
Well, the problem you have now in today's society, you
have social media, there's cameras everywhere, and everything is not
for public consumption, and so the kids have to understand
that and they have to be aware of their surroundings
because the eyes are watching you, those little eyes are
watching you everything you do.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Those young kids are watching you.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
And so whether you believe it or not, whether you
want to or not, you are a role model, and
so you must live to a higher standard. You're held
to a higher standard. And so those are the things
that these kids have to learn to do and embrace
and also learn to humble themselves to embrace the opportunity
because there's so many good opportunities with people here in
the community that can help you. But if you be

(27:48):
a knucklehead and do dumb stuff, you know you're gonna
find yourself missing out on a lot of great opportunity.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Sure, Reggie, having been a coach here in other places,
you had to deal with it. I think the one
of the things, like a coach like you, you go
to sleep and you know, with your family, and you
wake up and one of your kids are not your
kids kids, but your player kids did something. I mean
you you're you have a family extended.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yeah, I mean that those they are like your kids,
and and you treat them as such. And when they
get in trouble or they do something they shouldn't, you know,
do it felt like a child is in trouble or
disappointing or you need to help. And so yeah, we
wrap themarms around them. We use our resources to try
to help them, but yeah, we we tried to. I
think all of us is just to make sure they
understand that their reputation is important and should protect that

(28:31):
at all costs, and by being a good person, by
being kind and empathetic, to being a responsible individual. And
to Ricky's point, you know, with social media, it's just
on steroids in terms of the exposure these kids have
and they can use it to their benefit. You see
that with with the you know, maybe the A billity
get nil and some contracts my third parties outside of
the administration or just in building their brand. But there's

(28:52):
also negative to that and they have to be aware
of that. And I think we at the athletic Department
and as coaches and as men, we try to try
to tell these individuals.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
That yeah, yeah, you know, to tell you a story,
not to divulge any names, but I had a kid
that came out of my office and he did an
amazing thing that you know around Christmas.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
You know, he.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
Started a foundation, bought toys for kids who didn't have toys,
and it was amazing. And then but he didn't write
thank your notes, and so I called him in the
office three months later and I said, hey, you know,
is that the way you do business?

Speaker 4 (29:25):
It's like what it was?

Speaker 5 (29:26):
Confused? I said, well, you know I didn't get a
thank you note and you took my money. I made
you look good. Oh from the money he raised, he
did a wonderful thing.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
I said.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
Now, pull out your phone, I said, go to Chad GBT.
I said, and type in everything you should have said
to me forgive you that money. And he did and
he read it and he was like, oh, I'm sorry, coach,
I'm so sorry. So eventually he did it.

Speaker 14 (29:49):
So he did it.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
I said, see the same thing as now.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
Had you wrote that note to me and you came
into my office, I'll be giving you a check for
next year early.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
I said.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
So if I ran my business this way, I'd be
in business for a lot longer than if you ran
your business your way.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
And so he learned that lesson.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
And it's simple things. You know what I think.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
I think a lot of the kids overlook the simple things.
But that's the question led to where our conversation is.

Speaker 13 (30:18):
Now.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
They overlook these simple things simple because the fact that
everything is given to them. They don't have to work
for it, you know, so you forget about, you know,
the simple things in life and whatnot. And you know,
but the simple things is what, you know, keep the
world going, you know, they being polite, you know, yes ma'am.
How many kids still say yes ma'am.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Oh, yes sir.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
That's a loss that's lost, you know, so to me,
I even say yes ma'am, yes sir. You know people
that's younger than I am, you know, but it's it's
just called respect and saying hey do to your mom.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
And that's why sports are so great because that's what
coach Brennan's probably talking about with coach Lloyd, that you know,
small things matter, you know, and as when you're an
a league level athlete or a five star or four stars,
sometimes you don't believe that I'm just gonna run through
it overpower it, you know, I just I'm gonna just
be amazing. But the thing that separates good players, good teams,
successful programs are those details, are those small things, not

(31:16):
getting penalties, not holding having proper technique. And so that's
why life mimiced sports a lot of times, and that's
why it's been so so great for all of us.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
You know, to echo what Reggie just said.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
I was on the practice field today and man, the
offense came out ran a play action pass and they
hit a bomb on the first play, but receiver jumped
off side. Coach Brennan called them all back and it
made them the whole offense do updowns because the play
wouldn't have count.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
The details.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
We're gonna quick call below. You're on the Aaron nine
in the ball Who's this?

Speaker 4 (31:45):
It's trick buddy. How you doing?

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Rick?

Speaker 2 (31:47):
What's the word?

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (31:49):
You enjoy listening to your guests here today, But I
got a question for them.

Speaker 13 (31:56):
All.

Speaker 6 (31:56):
You know, with this nil and the recruiting process has
definitely changed. It's all about show me the money. But
you've made some good points. I think all the guys
we're talking about the respect, proper manners understanding.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
How do you get passed?

Speaker 6 (32:20):
My question is this, how do you get past the
money issue and really try to ingrain in these young
athletes the importance of the process and the discipline that
comes not only.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
With football but with life in general.

Speaker 5 (32:36):
Okay, I think being a coach you never you never
ever get away from the process, and being a coach
you're constantly talking to these kids about the process and
how the process is more important than anything. You know,
the money will come and go, and so a lot
of this money stuff is educational. You have to educate

(32:58):
them on something they've never had because it's short term money.
It's a short window. It's gonna come and it's gonna
go so fast. But if you abuse it, you're gonna
lose it. If you take care of it, you invest it,
you pay your taxes, you know you're gonna have a
little nest egg when you graduate. But that we're all
driven by playing and winning and the camaraderie. That stuff

(33:21):
never goes away. I mean, there are guys who are
making hundreds of million and they still play the game
like kids.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
And these kids are never gonna change.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
You're just gonna be caught behind the eight ball when
a guy gets hurt because you can't take the money back.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
M you don't get any more, right.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
But yeah, I mean for me, for me, it's not
a topic to run away from it. It's it's part
of the game now, it's part of the uh. You know,
there's the landscape of college sports that that the money
is part of that, that players are a part of
the business model. And I think the UFA has done
a great job in terms of really kind of focusing
on financial literacy and making it's a positive for these individuals.
Keep in mind, when we play, we didn't receive any

(33:59):
kind of rev shared. You know, we did get a
scholarship and maybe you got a pel grant, had some
money inside, but we were hustling and struggling and doing
some things.

Speaker 12 (34:06):
So for these.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
Athletes now to be monetarily, you know, rewarded for being
part of this system that we built a big you know,
big economics and big entertainment and big contracts, and that
we can educate them on the back end of this,
and knowing that only a small percentage will be professional athletes,
but this could be a real nice nest egg for
you to start your life. I mean, they are blessed
with us opportunities. So I think we've doubled down as

(34:28):
an athletic department. I think Desiree and Brent and then
all some of the head coaches have put their arms
around this and said, hey, let's just educate our people.
By the end of the day, players want to want
to people you know, want to be coached. They want
to play in games, and they realized there's a bigger
picture and the more money down the road for them.
But if not, you know, I think we've done a
good job of just kind of, you know, do our
best educate them and taking care of their dough.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
Okay, go ahead, But I think one of the things
that we kind of missing also is that it's start
at home. I mean, there's a lot of things that
these kids should have gotten know from from the home life,
and and they're there.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
There there's some there, there's some you know, things.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
That your mom and your dad's gonna, you know, expect
from you when you do go to universities or go
to a place like that. So if you have those
discipline that came from your home life, it's going to
carry on once you get that money. You know, you
you're gonna know to do the right things. And all
the things that Ricky and and Reggie is saying is
absolutely true. But if that person has those disciplines that

(35:30):
they receive from their mother and their daddy before they
got here, it's only going to make their journey here
at the university. With those additional funds and everything else
to come with it, you can make it am easier
and more exciting for them in life. So I got
to give some credit to the homes just as well. Yeah,
no question, But well I think a lot of people
have to understand that. Don't get it twisted. It's not

(35:53):
like a lot of money for everybody. It's only about
one percent of the God's going to pay good money, okay,
And and and I'm sure they're going to have advisors
and people who educate them on it. But then all
of the other guys, you know, they're coming into some wealth,
but it's small, and if you pay your taxes then
it's real small. But they have to be educated too,
And the parents have to be educated too, because it's

(36:15):
not the kid's job to take care of the parents
with ten ninety nine money, you know, right, they have
to be ready to pay their taxes and then tide
whatever way they want to tie.

Speaker 6 (36:27):
But how do you come across, how do you come
across in your education process with kids that don't have
that have had come from struggling families and where the
parents are having their challenges and they may not necessarily
have I guess the equipment to help these kids understand.
I mean, it's not that they're bad human beings. It's

(36:49):
just some of these kids come from tough environments that thought.

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Speaker 2 (41:21):
That's great.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
We're still getting ready for the Saturday show, so welcome
back everybody. So to the answer to the question from Rick,
given the situation on families, you know, maybe not prepared
for all this money coming in, and how do they
learn how to to manage it?

Speaker 5 (41:39):
You got to manage your expectations. Don't expect anything. You
don't have to worry about it. Just you know you're
gonna have an opportunity to help, but you can't help
to the extent that you put yourself in in problem
situations with the irs. That's what I'm saying, pay your
taxes first, okay, because if you got one hundred dollars,

(41:59):
you only got fifty. So you manage it from what
you have after you pay your taxes, not manage it
from what you have when you first get Alumsum.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
You know, for me, if you're one of those individuals
and we talked about it's only a small percentage student
now receiving REP share and especially have a significant amount.
But if you're one of those individuals, you know, I
don't know if it's a university's position per sae to
save people, but it's definitely to educate them. And so
all we can do, I think in my mind is
the hope that these parents or and parents and students
or somebody you know has some foresight or has the

(42:32):
ability to sit down with a financial advisor, has just
to make sure they have a good team around them.
And that's not always the case, and the university can't
control that who's going to be around these as third parties.
But we're just hoping that there's individuals, financial advisors, agents,
family members, the kid themselves that will put their arms
around their own financial future and we realize to do
the right thing with it and not and realize this
is this is not a little bit of money. It

(42:52):
could be a lot more if we just take care
of it correctly.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
So it's funny when all this started back in the day,
I won't say three four years ago, it was my
impression or my naive impression that everybody you had five
hundred students, student athletes, and you had X amount of money,
which now we know is twenty million dollars twenty point whatever,
that all would get the same amount of money, and
that's far from the truth or far from the reality
of it. Certain teams get certain amounts blah blah blah.

(43:17):
And I was surprised about that because if you have
a young girl who's a heck of a softball player,
and you know she works for butts off or but
her butt off, and she's not she worked just as
hard as a football player, the basketball player, but then
she's getting this or getting that.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
I was like, this is not right, but it is
what it is.

Speaker 12 (43:35):
Right.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
It was no different when the NCAAA they had to
pay back pay to the students for playing over those years.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
And so who's generating revenue? Yeah, I get that drives
who gets money? Right, I get that.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
I get that. Go ahead, No, I mean I correct.
That's the business part of it, where you know what
sports are genering revenue? You know a revshare model? You
know only I think five teams are participating with the
u of A and so a lot of the Olympic
sports and others. I'm looking for maybe some opportunities outside
the school. But yeah, every school is different. It's case
by case. But no, not everyone receiving money.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
So both of you guys have experienced this as coaches
and probably as players where parents, God bless them, little
Johnny is gonna save the family financially, right, and they're
pushing little Johnny to be this guy, be this guy,
and maybe he's good enough, maybe he's not. But you
have the helicopter the parents to kind of say, Okay, Johnny,
you can't get you can't get hurt, you can't you know, fail.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
In school, all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
You still see that, you know, and I'm sure you said, coach, coach, honey,
how much can you get?

Speaker 2 (44:41):
How much can this? How much is this? Because I'm
sure you've heard that, you've heard the stories. Yeah, well
you hear it, you see it. But players play the game.

Speaker 7 (44:50):
You know.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
You can't go out there saving yourself thinking that, oh
you know, I have to say myself for the NFL.
Therefore I'm not gonna go hard. I'm gonna no. You
got to play the game. You got to play the
game just as passionate when you were just doing it
for free, you know. And that's the thing about even
when I was recruiting, I always want to recruit kids
who played multiple sports. They were just passionate about playing

(45:10):
the game with its baseball, basketball, football, they were gym rets.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
They love playing the game.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
And when you take that attitude into the game, you know,
because when you're playing the game, you don't think about money,
You don't think about any of this stuff. You know,
you got outside people thinking that, yeah, right, but you,
as a player, a competitor, you don't you play.

Speaker 4 (45:29):
I'm in total agreement with Ricky there. If you're if
you're a player, a fan, if you're anybody who's gonna
be hung up on the money part of this, you're
gonna be disappointed. You know that the money is a
part of it. But yeah, it to me, it's all relative.
Ricky and I had were feeling the same type pressures
to go to school every day to you know, my
dad sat me down at the early age that son,

(45:50):
you know, financially, we might not be positioned to send
you to college. You're gonna have to go get a scholarship.
Well for a fifteen year old, sixtess pressure, all right,
And so that pressure has always been there. It's for
these individuals and those famili they handle the best. You know,
that's gonna really you know, see how far they can
take these things. But and you know, end of the day,
I think that the players and families and people are

(46:10):
who can get their mind away from just the money
part and just focus on the task at hand, being
a good student athlete, getting good grades. When I hit
the field, I hit the court, whatever, that is, just
doing what I do. Man, it was some great times
ahead of us.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Right, anybody, we still got about six minutes before we
go to the top of the hour five two oh
four one, six seventy four forty Give us a call
if you'd like to ask some questions. Ricky, this may
be a dumb question, and I could be totally wrong,
but you've been around a long time. You've been a
lot of places. Uh did very well in the NFL

(46:42):
to me, and this is just an observation. You're probably
living your life. You're you're good the good life for
you now. You're you're you're happy, I mean compared to
other places, because you're you're done with football, but you're
still working in football.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
You know, you're not crashing into people. You know what
I'm saying. It looks like you're very comfortable with Ricky
is that's a dumb question.

Speaker 12 (47:04):
Was right?

Speaker 4 (47:05):
I'm living to dream?

Speaker 5 (47:06):
I mean, you know, you live all your life to,
you know, go to college, get a degree, get a job,
have a career. I mean, I've been playing all my life.
I mean it's it's it's never ended. I mean it's
I still get to be on around the players, to
be around football. Yes, it's a absolute yes, I mean
this is you know, I had a coach who told
me years ago I was gonna it was a little

(47:28):
league baseball and I was going to quit the team
because you know, I was upset with the coach and uh.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
And I was going to quit the team because my buddy.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
He had a job at the ramone end and he
was making fourteen dollars an hour, not fourteen dollars for
two dollars and fourteen cents an hour. And I needed
that job because I wanted that job to buy Hamburger,
have a little money in my pocket.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
And he said, let me tell you something, your big dummy.
He said, you got all your life to work, You
only got a low time to play.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
Yeah, and I can look up a coach job the
other day and thank him because I'm still playing.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Very true, very true words.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
So my question wasn't a stupid one because you are
living the great life right now.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
Every day.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
You get to be Ricky Hunley in a town that
loves you, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
Steve Yes, get to be friends or Reggie Geary.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
No, just but I know your family too.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
You have talented kids, right, you have a great wife, Reggie,
and you get to be Reggie Geary. I mean there's
a reason why you're here. The Corey Williams of the world,
the Joe Nell's, the Joseph Blairs who come back, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
Yeah, No, we, like I said, we had a great
experience here at the U, have a great experience here
in tu Son's while we live here, and fortunately it's
it's worked out well. You know, after being in professional
of four twenty three years, I come back to Tucson
and now I have a son at the U of
A as a senior. I have another son at the
Universe Cincinnati, So I have two kids in college. My
wife's works here in town for the American Heart Association,
but she's a part of a lot of boards and

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we're around town a lot, and so we just love
being here, you know, and then we're just very it
felt very fortunate. Blessings have worked out well.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
So when even when the kids don't come up to you,
Ricky and to Reggie coach. Do you have something, you
know advice?

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Do you do you have advice that you give openly
to just say okay in your speeches that you.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Give him as a group. What is that?

Speaker 13 (49:16):
What A.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
I think the most important thing is just to be humble.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
You know.

Speaker 5 (49:21):
You can receive so much more when you're humble, you know,
and you don't get out of your feelings, you know,
and and and sometimes people give you good advice. It's
not to criticize you or to put you down, but
it's advice that you can take and you can learn from.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
And uh and I know it's the thing I learned
over the years, you know.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
And my mom used to say to us all the time,
you know, we're everybody's kids, because there's a lot of
people that poured into us.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
You know.

Speaker 5 (49:46):
It's not just you know, I mean I think about
all the people from the time I came here as
a freshman, when John Roller was my sponsor, you know,
and a cowboy. He was a rodeo cowboy, six foot
four rodeo uh bull rider.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Yeah, and just learning lessons from him and his for
two wife Sharon was do you remember some of that
advice back in eighty two eighty one, maybe a nugget.

Speaker 5 (50:09):
Can you remember stuff like that? Oh yeah, you could
do bad all by yourself. You don't need no help.
That's a lot of bad things that have come your way.
You just gotta did some. Did someone specific tell you that?

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Probably?

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good one too. You come up
with some pretty good ones. They're only a hero for
a moment. I love that one from back in the day. Yeah, yeah,
Reggie you your greatest Maybe for Reggie shoot ugly kids.
You're ugly when you have ugly kids, Reggie, you kids.

Speaker 4 (50:43):
My mom would disagree, all right, but no for like
when you know, you know, Ricky's being being modest here,
you know, I know, you know, he speaks to a
lot of student athlete, not only in football but across
the board. He's part from the mentor program.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
So on my.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
And a club ambassadors. You know, we we we lead
by example. But yeah, when there's opportunities to sit down
with student athletes, I sit down with student athletes. I
sit down with kids in Elder Cross campus. I speak
across campus, just you know, all with the same message,
just to you know, to be present, you know, to
be present, especially with the student athletes, especially with this
you know, this generation. A lot of times they got
half the foot out the door trying to get to

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the next thing. I'm saying, Hey, be present, be humble,
be engaged, and and just you know, take take full
part in what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Now, what's that We're going to take a quick call. Hello,
who's this?

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Steve is Andy Brown?

Speaker 2 (51:30):
And well you got a question for the guys I got.

Speaker 6 (51:34):
I want to go on record and say that Reddy
was one of the best players I ever played.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
With basketball lives, So Ricky and Leamonk can stop giving
him soon.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
And I cannot see you scoring any points.

Speaker 6 (51:49):
So Reggie, five points and I remember each one of them.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
I appreciate me.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
If you read you can remember every point you scoring
your leading career.

Speaker 4 (51:59):
I cannot. Can he only scores.

Speaker 6 (52:01):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
I can name all five. I can talk powers about
all five. We should have let you do that the
other night.

Speaker 6 (52:07):
Yeah, cool, Hey, keep up to go work fell Hello.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Thanks thanks for Andy.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Uh we got about a minute. Okay, we're gonna come back.
Do you have breaking news for us if you want? Okay,
we can just continue to talk to your headphones. They
don't simultaneous work. Okay, I will figure this out. We'll
take the break, come back, maybe get some breaking news,
get everybody's input, and then we're gonna have Brian Peterson
on the other side.