Hour 1- August 7, Hunley Brothers and Randy Robbins

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
And good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Ion the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, and today
with me special guests Ricky Hunley and his brother Lamont.
Who's gonna have to run some laps for us? You
think he probably won't? I know you wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
I'm done great to have you.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Last time we had somebody like this, we we were
doing some cooking, or you were guys were cooking, remember
a couple of years ago with Michelle, the two brothers
and we had some Q and a stuff. It is
a lot of fund I wanted to have you guys back,
talk a little about football. A lot of fanboys here
in the in the room look wondering, how the hell
are you doing? How the hell are you doing? I'm

(00:56):
doing great, man. I'm excited about what's going to happen
here this year. Living a dream? Yeah, what would be
that dream for Ricky Hunley?

Speaker 4 (01:07):
We get to play a lot of golf, We get
to hang out with some beautiful and wonderful alums that
been here for us.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, think and thin.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yes, I wanted to ask you that question when your
brother shouldn't wait for this question because you guys came
from Virginia. Yeah, uh, and what the appeal was. And
we've talked about this a lot already, but I wanted
to do it with both of you guys, the brother
Hunley's five of you.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
No, there's seven boys and three girls. Oh your mom,
and we had like forty five fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Really wow, I see you guys spending pictures all the time,
but not that many. Yeah, that's about five of us.
There's a dumb question. I want to actually wait for
the month. But you guys don't like each other, love
each other because yeah, because you guys wouldn't be in
pictures otherwise.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
I mean it's unique.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
I mean we got a family that loves and support
each other. Yeah, that's rare, you know. I mean I
love my family. I mean every I've ever gone and
coached and played and they all show.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Up mm hmm. Support the Huntleyes. Yes.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, and here's no different because I know that he
takes some guys to well. When the basketball program was
going to Vegas for the for the Pac twelve tournament.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
They were there. Are you guys were there? You know,
having fun going to games there you go, that's that's
living the dream man.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, no, you're you're right in part because the family
is always together. Yeah, yeah, no question. You know, you'd
be lucky.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
If you know, you look back and you as you
go through high school, you go through college and you
know you're going to pros and you think those guys
are gonna be your friends for life and yeah, yeah,
you know it always comes back to family, right, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Right, those guys to grinded it with. Can I ask
you got to be Can I ask to say yes?
Sixty four? Sixty three, sixty three sixty four he's sixty
ish sixty two? Okay, So what's the age rangers? Because
the guys, you guys are always together, the brothers, yeah,
maybe the sisters, but I don't know who they are.
So we're all one year apart. Oh really, okay, trouble

(03:00):
don't okay?

Speaker 5 (03:01):
Bad?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
What of you guys are close? Because you guys are
just right there. Yeah, well at one point in our life.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Uh, the Younger Five, the five younger boys from from
me on down Lamont Ricky Lamont, Kevin, Quentin, Derek.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
We all slept in the same king size bed really
yeah wow?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Out of necessity obviously, yes, yes, and the girls had
their own room, were on bed probably.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
That obviously kind of bonded you guys for you know,
one be one bathroom. Yeah, I want to say it
was one and a half.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah. Yeah, they cool.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Cool, Well look at you gotta run some laps.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, they moved us into this place. I'm late because
I was here. Oh yeah, right, excuses. So who's the baby?

Speaker 5 (03:49):
No?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
No, not all the all the boys? Derek? Does he
act like the baby?

Speaker 4 (03:54):
No, Derek, you act like the baby. Like the baby,
and you're the are you're the oldest?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, the babies always act like they're the balls.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Really well you evaluated that way, yeah, baby, But but
you're the oldest.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
No.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Some you have a brother older than you. I have
two brothers.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh wow, Okay, So dude, are they the type A
guys and they're the Are they the control guys?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
No, he's the type guy. That's that's why I thought
you's the control guy. But but I'm the balance. Yeah,
you're kind of the balance. I'm the between all.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, he's kind of like having known you a long time. Yeah,
I can see that.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
But he is more like the big brother than anybody.
Yeah you're the voice of reason. Yeah, yes, they all
come to me.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh really for the advice of what should I do?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, yeah, for various reasons, you know. Yeah, that's just
good ballet in his house. Now who's here, damn it?

Speaker 4 (04:53):
You know that's when he's just walking and he's living
for me, with with me for free. Yeah, so now
he comes through the come to my house, he had
to ring the door.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
We've heard that story around.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Figure, if we stuff in the same bed for all
those years, I don't have to bring a doorbab.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
How was it growing up in Virginia just with all
that love and all those feeds bounce to feed, Well,
it was Uh, it was.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
A special time.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
You know, you don't know what you don't know when
you're growing poor and you know, you don't know you're poor.
You got family, you got love, you do stuff together,
and uh, you know that's just the way it was.
And we we we we never thought we was poor
because we you know, our mom made sure it was food,
it was discipline, you know, it was fun.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, we didn't know so so Virginia. But what part
of Virginia very small city I was gonna say, were
they the mean streets of Peter Well.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
I mean it was corners that we didn't go to.
Oh really they kept us away from Okay because there
was a bunch of you dudes. I don't know, if
I want to mess with thees, it goes deeper than
I guess. Our immediate brothers. I mean we had uncles
and cousins, and I mean we had a football our
football team. We had about five relatives on that team
at one point high school.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
High school when we went to the state championship.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh I bet, I bet, yeah, because you were a senior,
you're probably a junior sophomore, and then you had the brothers.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
But under had an uncle. Uncle.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
We were in the same year because he got held
back a year. So when we were in the same year,
we grew up together. We had a cousin who was who?
What kind of class was that? The double A, triple A?
Was it the biggest? It was the highest level triple really,
and you guys won state because you guys were that good. Actually,
we were the only state championship team. They had an

(06:36):
undefeated team back in the fifties.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
But we only yeah mean as far as our yeah yeah,
we was the only ones.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, we're gonna talk a lot about a lot of things.
We gonna have Brandy Robins, thank you here about exciting.
So you are you guys how we were all roommates?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
We don't mind Randy? Oh really? Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:59):
You guys really like you guys? Are you guys are
always together or not always? Put your guys are together
a lot.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
I mean when you you know, I mean when you
grow up with someone that you admire and you respect
for so long, and you know, I'm blessed that he
came back to Tucsign because we didn't have these moments.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
That we have right now.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, I was just gonna go there to town and
gave us an opportunity. You're back after a long time.
The month's been here forever well. And I'm not sure
if you're doing recruiting or helping or bringing alums or whatever.
But what sells? What do you how do you sell Tucson?
Because you guys love it, you guys are here. Now,
what would you say or what do you tell the
people you should come here? Because well I.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Can tell them my story and then you know, and
they can take from my story what they want from it.
I know when I came here, I had no intention
of coming here. I came here in nineteen eighty only
on a visit because I had a high school coach.
We had a high school coach, Moe Oldenwelder, who actually
walked on here in the sixties, and he was on
linebacker coach, and he called out here to Tony Mason

(08:04):
and Bob Davies, and they came out to recruit me,
and I told him I wasn't interested. I didn't know
anything about the desert or Arizona, about coyotes and road
runners and cartoons, so I just put it on the shelf.
But I was being recruited by all the schools back east,
and I had Notre Dame, Nebraska, at Ohio State, Carolina,
Junia Tech. And I was a big baseball player, and

(08:28):
everybody would say, you know, if you go through, if
you're going to be recruited and played two sports, you
have to go through springball in the sport that's giving
you a scholarship.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
So when I came.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Out here on to visit, you know, my mind was
made up that I'm.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Going to Ohio State. Yeah, because I had a buddy.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
He was saying, Sean Gale, his brother Jimmy Gale, played
running back o Ohio State, and we're going to take
our trip together. Well, the week before, I took a
trip to Virginia Tech. We had a rainstorm that turned
into sleet and snow. We skarded off the roller mountains
on that visit with us, and uh we didn't get hurt,
but it was the coldest day of my life. Then
the next week, I'm going to Ohio State and they

(09:05):
had a snowstorm and I'd never been on a plane before,
so I didn't want to fly and land in the snow.
So I canceled the trip, and uh, I postponed the trip,
and I called out here and I said, I'll take
the trip to Arizona January.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Ish would tell you February.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Because my mother's sister was stationed out here for with Chuka,
and I s I'll get to see my auntie and
our mom always wanted to be in a place where
family was close by. So I came out here still
with every intention of going to Ohio State the next week,
and uh, it was eighty five degrees.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
In February, it was beautiful mountains.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Beautiful salmon, palm trees, beautiful girls, dolphin shorts.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
And then I still wasn't sold.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
And we're up in the Dunlap Wildcat Club and we're
watching them play baseball and Tarif Francona's pitching, and I'm
watching them play and coach Mason comes up. He says, hey,
you play baseball, don't you. I said yes, sir. He said,
well you can play. I said, no, I can. He said,
who told you that?

Speaker 3 (10:01):
I said no.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
To day in Nebraska, Ohio they all say you have
to go through springball in your sport. He said no,
if you're good enough to play, you can play here.
I said, oh, can I use your phone? He said yeah,
I can I call my mom? He said yeah. I said,
sky like canceled Notre Day in Nebraska, Ohio State. I'm
going to Arizona.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
The best thing that happened to you and to me,
I mean, and then here, I'm eighteen years old and
I make the first adult decision I had to make,
and uh, and I decided to come here. And then
I turned down pro baseball because I got drafted in
the summer to still come here because I could have
played in the summer and still played in the fall. Sure,

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and I think about now, I still kicked myself because
the money they offer me is like equivalent to like
eight hundred thousand dollars today.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
And it was only for four weeks. Oh yeah, okay,
so it turned out all right for you.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
All the kids were from the Dominican Republic, and nobody
spoke English with me.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
And had he not come here, had Rickie not come here,
it's not likely you would have come here, very very unlikely.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Well, the key the whole thing where I wanted to
go wherever Ricky was planning ongoing, and I don't think, no, no,
you needed to help it. I don't think I was
good enough coming out of high school to go to
Notre Dame, Ohio State, but I know I was good
enough to come here to Arizona. So it was a
blessing that he decided to come here because I wanted

(11:21):
to be wherever he was. And I actually, my senior year,
I really didn't even go on no trips. I came
out here and I came out here in November, and
Ricky was actually Ricky did not play that game well,
I went to North Carolina State. That was because I
was a road trip right down the street from my house.
I went to North Carolina State in North Carolina. But
and and actually North Carolina State was a school my

(11:44):
second choice. But I came out here November and they
was playing a s U and Vernon Maxwell.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
They're playing against Vernon Maxwell.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Ricky didn't play because he broke his finger doing something foolish,
and so they I think they you guys lost like
fifty six to seven.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
E s U. Yeah, and said Vernon Max.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Vernon had a fumble recovery and your name and Vernon
did everything. And I'm on the sideline and I don't
think Glenn Perkins played that game either. So all the
linebackers was basically hurt.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
No wonder. So I said, gosh, I think I can
come here and play. He's got he's got suck, you know,
So I think I can come here and play.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
And you know, so at that time, I had made
my commitment to come here, and.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
This is eighty two. This is eighty one for me.
Ricky was eighty okay, so you're.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Said Larry, and Larry Smith was actually I was his
first true recruiting class.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Ricky was recruited by Tony Mason.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
So my class was rick was myself, Vance Johnson, Skip Peek.
I can't remember everybody else, but those guys. It was
part of my class.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Look at those names.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
I mean, so, what sold you besides your baseball football
thing and the pretty women? Well, I guess that's that's
the top of would be the top of my list.
But uh, what sold you on? Tucsons and all that
still holds? Do you a the beautiful tampus, the weather,
YadA YadA. So that's part of the cell, right, yeah,
even today and the opportunity to play and to play.

(13:18):
I mean I came here ready to play and and
was disappointed because I wasn't When I got here, I
wasn't first team, I wasn't second team.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
I was thirteen.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Because coach Mason had a stable of good players.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
They were junior college guys that were all American junior
college players Kelvin Hawthorne. You know they had they could
Sammy g and Jack Holsey two seniors. We've been here
five years, and me and David Jackson, we were the
freshman coming in.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
We were both high school All Americans.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Yeah, and so my first game, I only played special
teams and then but I worked my way up all
over the way to the second team.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
I beat those guys out by by what middle of
the year or no.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Second game, so we're playing listened unless he said, you
never heard of these guys.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
So the second game of the year, we're playing against
u u c.

Speaker 7 (14:10):
L A.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
They're ranked number two in the country.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
H Alabama loses at halftime, so UCLA is really technically
number one, and we're playing them, and it's ten thirty
in the morning on CBS. We've got to watch the
game we played them. I only graded out forty percent.
Wasn't I didn't know my assignments. But I could run
and I would tackle. I had twelve tackles. I had
three sacks as packed ten player a week. Played every

(14:33):
game the rest of my career and with the exception
of a SU game when I shattered my hand. I
got in a fight with one of the seniors al Pearce.
I missed him and I hit the locker and shattered
my hand. Oh well, and we can we haven't written
the book yet? Can we have written a book? Not
a writer but the writer.

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Speaker 2 (19:34):
Hi, Welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rovera in today with me,
Ricky Hunley and his brother Lamar Te Lamont Hunley. How
are you doing? And now on the phone, you got
Randy Robins. How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Randy?

Speaker 5 (19:47):
I'm doing great. How about yourself?

Speaker 3 (19:49):
We're doing fine. I'm told to say hello sas he
it is.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
I don't know who that is.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Are you guys? Are you part of the Hudly Brothers.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yes, I am. They adopted me back in nineteen.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Eighty Nice nice, well tell me something about him with
nineteen eighty Randy used to live in the bat Cave,
him and Lamont in the apartment.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
You've never seen an apartment where it's pitch dark, even
any time of the day. They took an aluminum fall
that covered the windows twice. Yeah, well closed the door.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
You lost me. You know, you stump your toe you
walk into the bed.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
I mean they were like bats were soundproof in our
room because of Ricky next door.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
And that's all I'm going with it.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, but your name's not sons.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
I didn't have any.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yeah, yees, yes, has the name to the story to it.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
I didn't own any cowboy boots. You own the water bed?

Speaker 5 (20:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Okay, this is a family show. It's a family show.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
Yep, it is. It's a family show.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
How did how did.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
These guys, these two and some others help you get through?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
You of a man?

Speaker 5 (21:07):
When you played with two great players like Ricky and Lamont,
I mean, you know, they kind of I just kind
of rode their backs, you know. I mean, you know,
like the tail doesn't wag the dog. I was a tail.
Those two guys were the dogs. So I was just
back there collecting out, just just doing my thing because

(21:29):
of how great they were. So you know, when you
have two linebackers like that, uh, teams don't want to
go there, so you have an opportunity.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
To make plays.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
So my you know when that when opportunity came, I
just wanted to make plays because they were so good.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
So I wasn't here during that time. I was in
my college back in the day. But to me generally,
those were the good old days and it was the
start of something special.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, you guys were not in your head.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Can and every he talks about those days that how
come we can't get back and we as the unit
not mean get back to those days. Can that happen?
It can happen, but it has to happen based on
the commitment of the individual players.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Things nowadays are so transactional. Players are in and out
for different reasons. You know, money, opportunity can transfer portal,
You hurt my feelings, you don't like me, I'm going here,
I'm going there. You know, back in the day, when
you made a commitment to the school, you were there.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
You weren't transferring out. You stayed the course.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
So you go through the tough times together and you
grow and you develop and you mature together and it
becomes a really special bond.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
I mean, I look around and I.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
See guys who who played together and they're still friends
because they remember those good times, you know, the good
times and the bad times.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
I mean, I mean, I can rattle it off to you.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Are great wins because going up to Notre Dame and
beat Notre Dame and you know, and Coach Rogi's giving
that speech and everybody, you know, you can't give no blood.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
You in the house of Rockney Builton and then we
were like, oh, looking for blood. It was I mean,
it brings chills to you. Or when we played USC
at USC and it was right after the Rolling Stones
concert and that feel smell like crap, and you know,
and Marcus Allen is getting two hundred yards of crack
and he's a Heisman Trophy leading Kennedy And if it
wasn't for Mike Woodford who clipped his ankle, you know,

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because Rogie said, the only way we're gonna beat them,
we got to hurt Marcus Allen and he clipped his
ankle and we won that game and Max and Dayhouse
kicked that field goal and I can still see that picture.
On the newspaper, Julius standing there.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
It was beautiful, you know.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
And even even players given halftime speeches like Julius when
we played Stanford, and we played Stanford and the player
would step up and you know, and and make the
rest of us accountable, you know. And and and Ricker's right,
I mean we were such a close unit. We did
it things off the field as well as on the field.
And now and well, we had a closer unit within

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the unit of the game of the team itself, myself, Ricky, Randy, Joe,
Drake and man most of us defensive players and stuff,
and so we we knew each other very well.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
So when we got on the field, it was like playday.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
So Randy, when when Ricky talks about the players, and hey,
you you you see him grow up because of what
you do. You're You're still the a d right, the construn.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
Right, I'm the ad a cast of grand and and
I'm you know, being the add cast grant. I'm trying
to get our players to go back to what of
how I was taught and how they're going to succeed
and uh in college. And Ricky's right, you know, the
atmosphere and the culture of college athletics has changed to

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where it's almost you know, this nil stuff, and I'm
trying to grow our athletes to play hard, work hard.
You know, that's how you're going to succeed in the
long run. The money will come, but you got to
put in the effort and put it in the work,
make sure they have right character and and just do

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the right things. That's what I'm trying to do in
high school to get our kids ready if they want
to go to college.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
And beyond Randy, when you agree that there's nothing like
having a kid on your team that wants to be coached.
Kids nowadays you have to want to be coached because
to play football is hard enough, but now to play
on this level where they're bigger and they're faster, and
they're stronger, and there's.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
All these temptations.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
You know, you gotta want to be disciplined, you gotta
want to take care of your body, you know, and
then you got to be able to narrow that focus
so that they understand that I have to be at
my best in that window of three to five seconds
because that play doesn't last that long, right, And you know,
the culture of the relationships that they have is a
big part of it, you know. But if they don't

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stay around long enough, they don't learn to love each
other and appreciate each other.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
That's correct. And the biggest thing I deal with in
high school right now is is entitlement. You know, our kids,
this this young age is still entitled somewhat. So that's
what I'm trying to The habits I'm trying to break
is that.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, no question, And it's everywhere, not just here, it's
every time everywhere because of today's money situation.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
But you mean you just bring up the word money, Yeah,
and here it is that that's the problem. I think
they do busy focus on focus on what's off the
field versus what's on the field. I mean, if you
play the game right and you do you do what
you're supposed to do on the field, the money's gonna follow.
But right now the kids are chasing the money first.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
What do I get? What do I get?

Speaker 1 (26:40):
You know?

Speaker 3 (26:41):
What I expect? What would you? You should be given
to me?

Speaker 2 (26:43):
So we'll keep talking about that. But Randy, we haven't
really congratulated you yet on your ring of honor.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
How cool is that? For you.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
Oh man, it's uh. I'm humbled by this, you know,
because you know I didn't. I didn't get this water alone.
You know, think Ricky and Lamont for all of their support.
But also I had some great teammates too, and they
are a big part of this as well. All the
guys I played with and Ricky Lamont know what I'm
talking about. We are a close knit group of guys

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and when we get together, we really.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Have a good time.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
And this is not only just for me, it's for
them too, because I'm a part of them.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, it's funny you guys. Like I said, those times
are like the Golden Arrow view Bay. I could be wrong,
but even though you guys are here, I believe that
Byron Evans you had a group of guys like from
eighty to eighty five, eighty six, Holy crap, name dudes.
I mean, like I say, we're in what twenty twenty five?
If they could get half of those dudes, they'd be

(27:45):
pretty damn good.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Really, did you know from I think your freshman year,
maybe your junior year, no, I'm say your sophomore year.
A linebacker lad to pack ten at that time in
tackles up to Byron.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Evans, So give me some names. Ricky Lamont Byron Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yep, linebacker, you line back of you, Yep, you can
say that. I mean it was I mean those all
that time a linebacker led to pack ten and ta,
How did they make your job easier?

Speaker 5 (28:15):
Well, because I knew they didn't want to go to
Rickyo Lamont, so they got to come somewhere.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
So it was him with the sideline.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
It was him on the sideline.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
And you know when when you play with great players
and guys who really get after the ball, you know,
defensive defensive coordinator from another team, though, I need to
stay away from eighty nine and ninety eight. So they
got to come somewhere. You know, I'm not as big
as they were, but you know, you they give you

(28:44):
opportunities to make plays. That's the one thing about playing
with great players. You have that opportunity and you just
have to make the best of it.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yeah, you know, pound for pay on this guy you're
talking about, Randy Robbins, i'mber forty eight on the corner
by far, the best corner like I scene in college football.
Because first he said I'm come running away from us. Randy,
I said, Randy get burnt one time. I think it
was his sophomore year against Washington State one time. One

(29:15):
time after that, it never happened again. You know that
he knows well, tell me the situation.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
I bit on the cheese a little bit. It's gonna
bite on some cheese. I did, But you know I
learned from it. I learned from that experience. I took it,
took the coaching, you know, I took the hard coaching,
and never made the mistake again.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah, he didn't want to feel the Ratham more agnes.
You know, you know what they said.

Speaker 6 (29:49):
The game plan.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
You know, when you set a game plan, you basically
set a game plan against you know, certain people. And
I can guarantee you Randy Robbins was not one of
those guys they set a game plan against. They made
sure we're gonna stay away from Randy Robbins game in
and game out.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
So some of them try maybe embarrassed Ricky here, but
in my mind, at least from people that talk, uh,
you're the goat.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
You're the goat, You're the guy. You're the guy.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
If there's a football player, the best player to play
ever play here, Ricky maybe chucked a little little vote
here and there, blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
He was more like a goat than.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
I'm under fed.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
But but Reddy, could you tell me? Am I wrong?

Speaker 5 (30:33):
Ricky? I mean he's the original goat to me, you know,
because of I mean he was He's been All Americans
every year he was in college. So I mean it's
just when you play. I mean, he just achieved a
lot of things, and not only on.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
The field but off the field.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
So he's the goat to me.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
You know, in my opinion, is the going down in
my mind every time I see they put chuck or
yeah what Bruskie. I mean, it just it gets me
because I know this man is the goat. This this
man has set standards for so many people people before him.
I mean, he's a done things that no one else

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would ever.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Able to do.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Literally throw this at Riki and I could be totally wrong.
So before the season started last year, I said, you're
the goat. I said, if t Matt has one of
those years that you think that he's going to have,
because they were all the hype, all the great stuff,
the quarterback and the catch, that he's going to have
a year that's going to say he's the best player
to ever play here, and he didn't for no fault
of his own. It was just something that happened offense

(31:40):
didn't work. So he's not that guy. But he's talented
as all hell. Did you see that in him too?
Possibly being that guy? He has tremendous talent. I saw
a lot of possibility.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
But when you're the only guy at that level, it
makes it hard because, I mean, any coordinator or for
grain of salt to say we're doubling guy, we're tripling
that guy, it's gonna make his job that much harder.
And and then you have to play way above your
head to beat double coverage and beat triple coverach and
still make the play. And you got to be willing

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to play like that full speed every snap, regardless of
the obstacles they throw in.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Front of you.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
I mean me, on defense, all I had to do
is count the five. You know, I get five tackles
a quarter, that twenty, and so I'm going like one, two, three,
five quarter, you know, And if I can get twenty
a game, I'm gonna always be up there at the top.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
But it was just your tackles, Ricky, I mean you,
you had so many other you know, other avenues of
the game that made you specially and made you the player.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
When we needed a plate, Ricky made that play.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
We needed to turn the ball over, Ricky Huntley turned
the ball over. I mean we play in California and
we needed to get off the field. So Ricky Hundley
gets the interception, running in for a touchdown and throw
it at the coach row you krog said, you're not
doing your job. Ricky would do things like that when
we needed the ball. Ricky Hundley will make it happen.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
You were just you had that knack, you know, one
year and I mean Ricky had what seven interceptions, Yeah,
seven interceptions, just as many.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
As I had.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
I mean, so he's a linebacker, you know, so not
only could he tackle, he could get the ball.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yes, well, we were talking about this, We were talking
about this coming in, well, the Denver situation where our
fan boys here at the office were talking about, you know,
the Denver drive and all that. You you stepped that up.
Yeah with the in interception. Yeah yeah, I mean I'll
never get that. We're playing against Cleveland in Cleveland in
the worst stadium in in the league.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
It was muddy.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
It was hey, it was painted and uh and Bernie
Karsaw I didn't have zip, you know.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
He threw the ball and I caught it, you know,
and and then then they had to drive and we
won the.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Game again right place, the right right place. So yeah, yeah,
yeah this happened. So how fortunate were you to have
him in Denver too? We were.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
You know, that was great. You know, I don't know
if I ever told Ricky this story in Lemont, I
might as well tell it on air. It's clean, it's
very clean. I mean, I remember, you know, I know
how Ricky got to Denver, you know, because Ricky was
you know, he was he drafted by Cincinnati and they

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were having some negotiation issues. Yeah, so Ricky was just
sitting at home and so I said, hey, man, why
don't you just come up and visit me, you know.
So he went to the airport, got ticket and come
on up to visit me. And then before you know,
he stayed with me a few days.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
And then I was practice field with the team everything.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
And listen said this this is how you got to Denver. Uh,
you know, I went to go talk to coach. I
went to call to Dan and say, hey, Dan, you know,
I got my college teammate, Ricky Hunley. You know, he's
coming to visit me. He's not in camp. Is it
okay for him to come to practice and with me?
Because you know, it was kind of like a walk
through a real easy practice. And then coach Reeves said sure,

(35:22):
and so Ricky came to practice with us. He was
out out on the field. Then the next thing I know, Uh,
Joe Collier went over and talked to was over there
talking with Dan. The next thing I know, John Beech,
the general manager from Denver, you know, was uh, came
around and I said, okay, something getting ready to go down.

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So that's how Ricky got to Denver. You know, that's.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
What the team pre game.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
And I'm on the Denver side and mister Brown, Mike
Brown's on the other side and he calls down and
he that's my property. Get him off the field. They
had security take me off the field during the game.
Was there no tampering back? There was there nothing?

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Sure I was, but I mean I was visiting my
roommate and I don't know.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Okay, so do you have to go yet? We're okay, right,
well we got to go. But can you stick around
for a while, Randy? Sure, Okay, we're gonna take a
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Speaker 2 (40:44):
Alli, Welcome back to I'm a ball here on Fox
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day is Ricky Hunley and the Mount Hunley Now on
the phone or continue on the phone as Randy Robbins,
you were talking about being on sideline?

Speaker 3 (40:56):
So what happened after that? So you had did you
go to yours? Which what happened? I had to leave
the field. I couldn't be on their sideline.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
So I went back up into the press box with
my agent, Howard Slusher.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
And then the.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Next week he walked worked out a deal and he
he told me, he said, look, we have two dealsh
Minnesota and green Bay.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
I said, I'll go to Green Bay. I won't go
to Minnesota. So then he calls back, he said, like,
I got one more call. Let me call Pat Bowler
and he said, we got a deal for you. You're
going to Denver. And you said, they gave him up.
They gave up a first or third and the fifth
And I.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
Went to Denverer. Who were you?

Speaker 2 (41:31):
What round did you go? I was number seventh overall
in the first Oh okay, so yeah that's yeah, okay.
It's about status. Bestly another best You live? You live
pretty well, don't you. You come here, you come here
to u A and things turned out as they did.
You go to go these places and you end up
in Denver as they did, and you have a great life.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Things happened to you.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, I mean, I tell you what I've been, I
don't know, been trying to get back here to.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
Be around family. Yeah, I mean I lived in LA
for a lot of years. I lived in different places
in Denver and LA and Phoenix and Florida and DC.
But it's nothing like being around family, you know. And
and uh, I used to come back and tailgate with
my brother and all my friends, and and then you're missing,
you know. And uh, when I got an opportunity.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
To come back here, it was really special. Randy.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
So so he goes to Denver and you must have
been in hog Heaven two.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Oh, man, I was. It was.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
It was the greatest thing.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
You know.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
It's like we got there, like we just picked up
where we left off in college and continued from there
to this day. So that was awesome. You know, we
had a great it was a great time, great experience.
So it was it was just great, you know, playing
you know, you played with your college teammate for four
years and play with us, you know, the four years
in Denver. So that was awesome. That was really awesome.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
And a guy named Bence shows up later.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
How was that one year we had seven guys from
the give me the well we had uh myself, Randy Robbins,
Chris Brewer, Mike Freeman, Marshawn Graves, Vance Johnson, Alfondia Hill.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Ye, how did that happen? How did that happen? Was
there somewhere free agents?

Speaker 4 (43:14):
But remember the guy who was remembered the black Charlie
Charlie Lee.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
He used to so he was up there now he
was with Denver in the front office. Okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
He used to coach up there, and he knew the
character of the guys and and they used to call us,
you know, uh Arizona North, Denver North.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Okay, Okay.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
What I heard from what I heard from the scouts
was they liked, uh the work ethic of our players.
That's what they told me. You know, the guys that
came in. You know, we had a great work ethic.
So that's why we stuck.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
You must have learned that here or you had it
in you, but you learned it here too under Larry
Smith and Tom Rogman and Chuck im Out Yeah, Wakeney defensive.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
Yeah, we we learned that work ethic, you know under
you know our coaches that.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Right, So did all seven stick a year or two,
all seven were there and you got to the Super
Bowl together. Yeah, just you Ricky Marshawn. No, I don't
think my Sean made it. I don't think Freeman made it.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
Yeah, we all have chance out of the seventh stuff
for you know, a good period of time.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
That's pretty strong. Did you guys remain as well?

Speaker 2 (44:36):
I'm sure you did remain as close as you did
here up there and have you know, cookouts and families
and oh blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
But it was more men Randy, you know, because we
lived together. We had a town home together, we roommates,
We we bought a home together. I mean we took
the bottom of the basement and turned it into a
massive suite for Randy and I.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Took the master bedroom up top. That's what they until
the rest of us showed up in a season. I
see what, you gotta write a book. We gotta write
a book. It's a lot to tell. So how often
do you got he You're just up the road, so
I'm sure you're here. You gotta sea around you a

(45:16):
few times.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
Yeah, I got to see the tickets of the games.
I mean every since, you know, when Ricky and came back.
I mean, I've had season tickets, you know, such yet
Fish when he came in and restarted up the program.
So I'm having the season tickets ever since then. So
you know, I'm gonna walk at through and through. I'm
gonna come watch and come play, especially you know Ricky's

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Ricky's involved with the program. So you know Chuck is
still involved with the program. So I'm gonna go watch
the our team play.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
So real quick because I didn't cover Chuck. Uh, he
didn't play for you with you right, he did, he did.
So here's this, here's the skinny kid. What was your
first impression of him coming on? Chuck Sayesel Coach Roganan
used to tell him every day. He says, son, what
are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here.
And that's why I can tell you today, in my opinion,

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the greatest player to ever play football at the University Arizona.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
The toughest player was Chuck Cecil. He was one hundred
and forty pounds. He would hit the slid and would
knock him down. Okay, he would get up and he
would be out there by himself trying to ring the
bell on the slick because we we hit the if
we didn't ring the bell, we had to do it over.
I mean in practice, and you know you hit it,
bang you ring the bell, next guy boom ring the bell.
Chuck couldn't he can't enough weight and that guy man,

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they started the fine system in the NFL because of
Chuck Cecil. Oh yeah, no question jumps do.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
In the NFL.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Yeah, he knocked the guy out and hit him great
centers chest. Well to all you guys, there had to
be something. There had to be something that happened or
that you just saw. They saw something in him. Did
you guys see what he had himself?

Speaker 3 (46:56):
You know what I'm saying. Did there was there a play?
Did he do like you?

Speaker 2 (46:59):
You came in second game and you were you were
good to go the rest of the time. Something happened
with him.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
I think when Chuck, Chuck really mature, we was gone
on it this later year, in his later years, he
matured and got into that position later years, you know,
but practice wise, we saw stuff and they were like,
you know, say, like two p's in the pond, you
tell him not the running back, not.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
To do this. They're gonna they got Johnson all the time.

Speaker 5 (47:28):
They they had no quit at them and they were
gonna go one hundred, one hundred miles an hour all
the time. That's the way that That's the way they were,
That's the way they played.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
They wanted to be on the other field.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
They want to be on the defense side of the field,
not the offensive side of the field.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
As far as scout team players.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
So now you're gone, you're gone to do making money
in the NFL, and you're seeing him be this guy
probably no surprise or yes, a surprise to be the
level that he was. Which one you, Chuck, because you're not, no,
no surprise at all.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
I mean once he in his junior senior you saw
him making play that hundred and six yard interception will
last forever.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
That is one of the greatest players.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
Out to me, random mcdan should have caught him and
he would have called because Chuck not that fast.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Rudolph was right there blocking Randy.

Speaker 5 (48:15):
That kept about it.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
But that actually, that play right there solidified my mind
that Chuck was a great player. When I saw that play,
and then I said, this kid is a great player.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
So so any of you guys, I don't know, Randy,
how how much do they love you in cost Grund?

Speaker 3 (48:31):
They must?

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Okay, so because I'll ask this question you. So, so
we're you're in Tucson, You're in cost Grund. You guys
have this resume of being these players, blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
You guys ever have to buy meals or drinks? Yeah,
Steve's gonna.

Speaker 5 (48:49):
No, Actually he's the one.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
He's the one who invited us to Charles Steak. I
was gonna go.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
To the ball, right, Okay, no, no, non, we go.
I'm going a different text breaking with you guys, but
so ready so that a yes or no from you
cause of gun Cassi Gram.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
I mean, they treat me well here, I mean, but
I also show them the respect that they deserve. And
they did a great job of, you know, supporting me,
so I'm gonna support them as well. I mean, you know,
it goes both ways. You know, I love my hometown.
They love me, but I showed them the respect that

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you know, that they deserve, and so you know, I
always wanted to do that. And you know, I was
raised my parents raised me. Heye, don't do anything to
embarrass yourself or the family. So so that's kind of
how I was raised.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Sure, sure, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
When you guys get together at the football games, you know,
the tailgates are walking around whatever. People people who recognize
you because you know it's a younger crowd or whatever.
They love you and they look like you a funny story.
But this is funny as all get out. So I
meet this guy that his wife taught.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
Oh yes, okay, And he asked me, he said, I
got this little league team.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
I want to bring him at the facility. Can you
show him around? I'm like, okay, sure.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
So he comes around and he wants me to take
a picture with the guys at the end, and then
he pulls out this T shirt and it's a little
tiny T shirt and it says Ricky Hunley football Camp.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
He said, can you sign my shirt? Because my mom
washed it in the name came off. I was like, well,
is that your baby shirt? He said, no, that's my shirt,
like nineteen eighty three, it was nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Yeah, it was like nineteen eighty six something like that.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Yeah, won't see it. You guys are still known. I'm
sure you guys walk around with people, aren't you.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Aren't you? But you know, here's the difference.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
I think I mean, nowadays, I think kids expect to
be known or want to be known, yeah, you know,
and then they expect to get this or won't to
get this, you know, I mean me personally, I mean again,
I get more joy out of someone appreciate me as

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a man in this community and the things I haven't
done off the field versus on the field. And I
expect not sure of course, because I first of all,
I hate disappointment, so I never expect anything. Yeah, you know,
if it comes, it comes, But if it doesn't, you
know it's not for me.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Right right, Annie, You've only got a couple more minutes.
I don't know if you could stare. You want to stay,
you play up stuff to do. Uh, you've had a
pretty good life. You're an educator now doing what you
want to do. Obviously, how much longer are you going
to do that?

Speaker 5 (51:34):
But you know, I feel real I still feel I
feel real good. And we got some good kids coming up,
you know, a good crop of kids coming in. You know,
as long as I feel good, I mean, I got
a great job. I mean, I come to high school
and I'm over youth programs, high school programs, and I

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watch kids play high school sports every day.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
That's my job.

Speaker 5 (51:59):
That's not a bad job, so especially in my hometown
where I grew up and I know most of the families,
so my job is great. So as long as I
feel good and I still feel really well, I'm gonna
continue to do it because you know, if I sit
at home, I'm just gonna sit in front of a
bowl of Cheetos and eat so well.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
You won't be able to those jeans they talked about.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
They got you them overall, man, and they already turned you.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
You're not in the room. That's why you're not in
the room. I appreciate your time, man, good luck. We'll
see you down here at one of the games.

Speaker 5 (52:45):
I got to see the tickets. I look forward to saying.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
The state Okay, thank you Randy A brother, congratulations, y'all, congratulations.
Will see you that Hawaii game, for sure.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
I'll bring the skirt it man.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Alright, alright, brother, we're gonna go. We'll take a break.
Thanks about it. That was fun.