Hour 2 - August 7, Hunley Brothers

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I want to take part in the show call up
Steve now went five to two oh four one six
seventy four.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
D Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rovera and today
with me is Ricky Hunley and Lamont Hunley. Just got
finished with Randy Robbins. If you missed it, there's gonna
be on the podcast later tonight. Uh, if you want
to catch it. A lot of fun. Are you video
on it? No?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Not video?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh, it's a podcast, just on the replay of this.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Oh okay, yeah yeah, look at him, I look at me.
Would you put that on video? Of course he will.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Viewers.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, we gotta fish for ready said he's the goat
actually of his own video.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I mean we would have to charge him. Yeah, yeah,
it'd be up charge.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's nice knowing you guys at doors right there, pally
probally gonna make some money from Steve ye.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh, by the way, you're one of my sponsors. Importance buzzers.
You miss you miss being on the sideline. My neck,
my knees can't take it. But that's the only reason why. Yeah,
because when you're on the sidelines, you're a fiery dude.
Well you're in the game. You're part of the game.
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
I stayed there as long as I can. But you know,
just yeah, it's just so hard right now.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
So so I always say this to guys like you
play who played forever? Intense? Uh, athletes, athletes and competitors
need to compete. I'm sure, lamont you golf? Right? Yeah?
You go to so is that how you do that?
You compete golfer? You just play? Oh, we compete. You
have to find a way. Everything we do. We play
to win cards, you know you name, I play to win.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
He played the cheats a different It ain't cheating if
you you know, you win it.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
We got this thing.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's all Ricky hungry rules. He make them up as
he go and everything and everything. The rules always change always.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
We'll play at your house?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Is that.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
House?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Rooms? And you want to cut to No, don't say that.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, careful that one right? Right? So you play cards? Yeah?
We play everything? Oh man, Hello guys, Hello guys. I
don't play your kind of cards poker? What do you
guys play?

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Run?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Who?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I have no idea. What you that's right. We could
teach you. No money, No, I just gotta check though.
So golf, No, no, that's guarantees, but so golf to
you guys.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Go and compete with the guys and each other. We
played who's better? Rick is better than me? I give
it you?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Didn't I see you? I saw you at the tour
up in the Was it one of the we all
play that. Yeah, you're talking about up there for rich Tomy.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah no, no, No, for the pro for the program,
the program, but anything else?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
How it's always been following the star falls on him exactly?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's he. That's why I'm his little brother. You're like
the movie or the show. Everybody loves Raymond, it was
everybody loves Ricky. Yeah, everybody loves Ricky.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Everybody that. I ain't mad at it. He deserves it.
What I do wrong? No, it must be great. I like,
give me for a weekend. I want to be Ricky.
I've had a great life, you know I'm still having Yeah.
Seeing back here in Tucson just makes it that much better.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah. Yeah, tell me your your role now?

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Well, I have this title called Executive Director of Player
Relations and next rountal development. Long and short of it
is I'm there for the players really just more of
a historian sound come out of their feelings, sounding board
history and uh, you know, just the legacy connections. Also

(04:03):
helping with the donors and alumni relations and.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Along those lines of kids are what nineteen twenty eighteen's
coming in Now we're you're sixty something, I'm sixty something.
Do kids today know who Ricky Hunley is one? Or
is it more their parents know who their Ricky Hundley
is parents?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, And I think people these kids
come here, no locally, now, these kids that's coming here
being recruited, they know Ricky Huntley. The name of the
name of Ricky Hundley, I mean the name. Don't feel
that crowd all over the place? You really do you
agree with what he's saying sometimes because I don't think

(04:43):
they would know when you at ninety percent of the
kids coming to Ricky's Hundley office all the time, there's something.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
That they're gaining and getting from them. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, But I'm talking about before knowing Oh no,
just people walking in the building.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
I mean it takes a minute to get to know somebody. Yeah,
unless someone are going.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
To teach you the history.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
But the parents, oh yeah, you shouldn't the coaching staff
know the history.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah no, but you need someone, You need someone the
walking library here to be to tell them that. Right,
that's what you're here for. Yeah, I can give him
a simple just google me.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
That's what they do that anyway, Yeah, who.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Was that guy yesterday? And then they come.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Back l ey, you know yesterday I was, Oh, I
had these guys from Cox in my store fixing my cable,
and so the white guy said, that's then so the
other guy he went outside and google to be.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
First they come out. But I always got that mama's brother.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
I mean half the time I'm in town. It's like
they called me Laman. I can see that. I can
see that because he's been here alone time.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Like I'm not Lamon. Yeah, and then I'm getting I'm
not Ricky.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah. Yeah. But part of your charm la month is
is exactly what you talked about. You want to be
known more not for on the field, for off the field,
and you do a lot of things off the field.
You have your your your business there, but you're also
in the community doing stuff, right, you have those seats
at the basketball arena.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
You do a lot of things. I deserve. Those seats
are the best I paid for them. But you know
what I'm saying that that stuff's important to you. Yeah,
it is, I mean it is. I mean, I think
because I was afforded this opportunity as far as the
community given to me for so long, from the day
you know, you know I got here.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I mean, it was so much gift and given to me.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
So I feel that that's my way of giving back,
you know. And and we grew up that way, you know,
and everybody. It wasn't from your aunts or uncles, our
community and you know, the church to help, you know,
provide for our family, I wouldn't be here. So I
feel I need to give back, and those my way
of giving back here in town.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Do you sense that too, because you're you're here now,
you've been here for a couple of three years now.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well, you know the thing is, it's like I look
at the kids now. You know, in this day and
age of trans fad portal, you know, you have to
create some kind of connection and some kind of loyalty
to your school, to your institution, and you have to
educate them on how to give back. I think every kid,
now that you're receiving money, you should join the Wildcat

(07:21):
Club and be a proud member of the Wildcat Club
from day one.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Don't wait till you graduate. I mean that's thirty five dollars.
Come on, man, what are we talking about?

Speaker 4 (07:28):
And you know and that there can all of a
sudden grounds well and become you know, a contribution every
year into the h they call it the Excellence Fund
and before you know it, you' and diw in scholarships
with your student athletes. But the players have to take
pride in their school and the university. I mean, I
had so much fun the other day. We're out on

(07:48):
the field. Coach Brennan brought all the kids together and
they had a competition singing the bare Down Fight song.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
It was amazing. They got really creative and how do
we going to sing it? But judging and never giving points.
They had the cheerleaders and Wilbur and Wilmer out there,
you know, judging. It was a great time. And then
I get invited over.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
To the women's softball team and Becky brings me able
to teach their girls the Beardown song and it's the kids.
They're taking pride in it. And I love that because
you know, that's what it's all about. And you know,
it kind of bothered me the other day and I'm
sitting I'm talking to somebody saying, what happened to when
we played and every time we scored and the rotc

(08:28):
used to shoot the cannon. Well, you know, now people
in the neighborhood don't want to hear cannon.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
I'm like, come on, that was something special and unique
to us that we gave away, that edge, that's part
of the twelfth Man that we need. We're only talking about,
you know, a couple of a couple of hours. What
you're gonna do it? You know, every time we scored,
So just give us that, give us that back, because
that gives us an edge.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
This is a different time, different time of the time
we're living in, right, So one of the things you
talked about with the kids giving back and not just here.
I think I saw story not long ago where every
school suffers this. They have a lot of successful athletes
making tons of money, millions of dollars, but they don't
remember where they played. They don't give back. What's up

(09:13):
with that? I guess.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
I mean you were at school a one year scream
googy because SCHOOLB gave you a little bit more money,
becoming transactional, and you know people are not staying in
school for the right reasons. You know they're leaving for
the wrong reasons.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
What's happening to the education too, because you're some of
them don't get degrees because they're gone there. They have
all these transfer things, the credits and YadA YadA. By
the time four years, well, I didn't finish well. I
can't honestly tell you.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
At the u of A, we've had the best GPA
ever three point two football three point two GPA. So uh,
you know, part of the deal is you got to
get good grades. You want to get paid. But if
they're leaving, I still say as I mean, you're still
waiting to see you know, because you know if they
from one school to another school, and that's the good.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Here's my question.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
If they leave this university, do their academic record follow
them or do is it attached to the school that
you first sign with.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
No, it follows you.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
But there's no guarantee that those credits are going to
be credited at the next school.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Depending on right, which of course makes you fall back
make academic.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
But what I'm saying, if I leave Arizona and go
to Michigan, mhm, do my my my academic record, follow
me at Michigan. If I do graduate or don't graduate,
or does it in Arizona, they give you credit for
those credits, Okay, But if I don't graduate, you can

(10:46):
say Arizona.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't know if it's still count against you.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, you know it used to not used to count
against you, But I don't know if that's still the case.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
I just had a question for you guys. So you know,
you were kind of you were here before.

Speaker 6 (10:58):
Lou obviously, and so you guys were kind of part
of that like big heyday back in the day for
like football and stuff like that. So what has it
been like for you guys to just like watch kind
of I'd say a lot of the town's attention shift
from like the football team to like the basketball team
kind of.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Well, basketball has always been Nigga Arizona from French Nodon
on Ludos, and it was always big. But when you
look in the grand scheme of it, football carries everything
outside of basketball. Yeah, and so it's a big deal.
It's a big deal when this is the thing that
bothers me. You got a town of a million people,
you got a university of about forty forty five thousand people.

(11:36):
You got a stadium that sees fifty six thousand. We
need that twelve man. Tell me what the problem is.
We need people in the seats. We need people to stay.
We need people to not make excuses why not to go. Yes,
you know we talk if it's your team, support your team.
We talk about that because we're in a conference now
where all of those teams support their teams. You go
to all those little forty thousand and fifty thousand towns

(11:59):
and population and they'll sold out eighty thousand. Right, No,
we talk about that all the time.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Ricky. There's no secret formula to this, and they got
to find a way right to get that thing full.
And there's no there's no formula to get him in
there outside of winning. If you win, they'll start to
show up. They'll show up for a moment. Well, you
got to continue to win.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
It has to be some type of a cultural thing
that has to start somewhere, because that hasn't started here.
And I reflect back when Ricky was coaching and back
in the SEC, I would go watch games back in Florida.
I mean you're talking generations of people going into the game.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
And and it personally, I think it starts there. It
starts in the household. How do you get that young
kid so contagious that he wants to make sure his uncle,
his brother, his daddy to go to a football game,
Arizona football game on Saturday. Okay, And then when that
kid becomes a twenty thirty old, he's he continued that

(12:58):
cycle and keep it going.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
So I was back in the day in the early eighties,
did people show up? I thought we had good crowds.
Great this okay. Forty three years later, Okay, where's who's
gonna show up? I think it's again. It's a it's
a recyclable thing.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
If they if they start winning again, the butt's going
to be in the seats.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, but now you have to figure out how you
keep them in this Well, you talked about Ohio State,
Notre Dame. There was a couple of other schools, you said,
and in Arizona. Okay, And after thought, then you came here.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
This is basketball? We got a basketball Arizona can compete
with those top schools, right, Why not Arizona in the
football world?

Speaker 3 (13:35):
But yeah, why not? How come they can't.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
You see Tucson as for what it is right now,
you see the university. Why not Arizona in football.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
I've seen Arizona competing in football against Notre Dame and
win at Notre Dame. I've seen Arizona competing in football
against USC at USC when they were ranked number in
the country. I've seen them beating I've seen Arizona beat
you say they rank number one in the country. I've
seen Arizona beat Washington.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
You know we can.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
We have to do it on a consistent basis. Sure,
what's the magic? The magic is stand put? I'm sorry,
stand put. The kids don't be so transactional and thinking
if the grass is green. On the other side, you
go through tough times for reasons.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
You know, in a way, I think we got the
right guy here as far as in Brennan because he's
such a disciple of coach Tomy and what Coach tomy
beliefs were, as far as family driven, you know, loving
his kids up, loving the team up. And I think
that type of personality can keep kids around and keep

(14:41):
them want to stay here and want to see the
end results of what they got going on and what
they're building here. And you know he has that personality
to make that happen. And so hopefully once we win
some games, the kids will realize, you know.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's it's not green.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
On the other side, I'm gonna get the same amount
of money if you know, if I stay here versus
someone else reaching out for me. So here's an opportunity
to really make this thing great again.

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Speaker 1 (19:37):
Streaming live on the iHeartRadio AB, This is I on
the Ball with Steve Ravera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Welcome back to on the Ball here. Oh you're Steve Rovera,
you're any Rickley. What were you talking? Oh?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Okay, so did you do that with check GPT.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
So nineteen eighty two, nineteen eighty one, just move the
time clock back, and how much were you worth? How
much would you have been worth back in the day?
Five million? Not even you even blink when you said that.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
I'm still away my check back pays.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
The kids are getting gonna get that, Yeah, like ninety
twenty fifteen, kids are going to get the back pay.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
What's the world coming to. I'm telling you it's a
great thing that. You know, our kids, they want to
be educated. We probably have maybe two thirds of our
kids have rough iras. So they've fund up that seven
thousand dollars per year maximum so it's tax free when
they take it out and they do retire. They they

(20:52):
meet with financial planners and wealth managers, they have tax
accounts set aside.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
They're doing all the right things.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yeah, you know, and as long as they stayed, of course,
they're gonna be okay, because all it does is gives
them a good little foundation and that ten percent that
they would tie. Okay, make a decision when you're gonna
tie or give that to your parents, But don't just
give it all the way. Yeah, because this is the
only window of opportunity. You I'm gonna get this kind
of money, true, just for playing a game. Yeah, you know,
because when it's over, it's over, you know, and it's

(21:19):
a short lived life.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah. No, you're you're you're right. I've said this a
few times on the show. Now that the parking lot,
the players parking lots look a little bit better.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Than the coaches. I was looking at a kid today,
put on a Mercedes. Look nice. We had all hooptie
in college, you know, we had that big old Hey
you at least it for five six dollars a mine.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
You know.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh you're good.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah, you know you'd be wearing those cowboy boots
the g you.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Know, the crazy day. Once they graduate, they might not
be an afford to put gas in it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, so you need to me why create those disciplines
now that you're not gonna afford four years from it.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, but to your point, this is the only time
you're going to be making that type of money. But
you enjoy it a little a little. You got to live.
You gotta live in reality. You just check the cash
for me.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
This is my this is my me.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's reality. That's reality.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
No, you have to look you treat people like you
want to be treated.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Good things that come your way.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
There's a lot of things they won't have to pay for,
right so, I mean, but my thing is, if if
I had a kid in this world right now, playing
sports and in il arena, I would make sure that
kid know how to live within his or her means.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
Well, that's what they're that's what you're teaching, and train
them and beyond football with Tobrick and Natalie Fernandez at Meridian,
they're doing those things and the kids are embracing it.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
And and you know, you got kids.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Now they have duplexus, they have roths, and you didn't
have a row. I didn't eve know what a roth was. Guy,
last name beyondest. I'm still doing. I want you guys
to adopt me. I can live in that place that
you just build. You said he had just built it.
Life is good for both of you. Yes, yes, I'm blessed.

(23:12):
I'm doing well. Like I mentioned earlier, I'm about to
become a grandfather.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Oh yes, okay, really looking forward to that part of
my life.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
And were excited that our younger, our young daughter is
having a little girl come November, and she's not too
far from us.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
He's in New Mexico.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Actually, I'm going the next week What did you say
where in Las Cruses? Oh yeah, yeah, you talked about
lost Cruses. Okay, next weekend, Tucson, nineteen seventy two.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
I think that's that's yeah, I get you. Yeah, back
in the day. Yeah, we're going back there and I
might go up to Santa Fe. Well, yeah, if you do,
let me know obviously that's okay. Yeah, some people you can,
you know some people, Yes, some people can. So I
can throw your name around, you can throw my name
and you might throw that out. Well, you'll have some
good food out there. Yeah, no question looking for it

(23:58):
to Yeah, Ricky, there was something I was gonna ask you.
So you're you're you're okay doing what you're doing. Now
you're not, You're not. How how's the health with your legs,
with your knees?

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Well, I have to have a total knee replacement on
my left Another one, yeah, another one, but it's okay.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
I really like that. I really get one done at
a time. Then both of the you are like the
five million dollars man.

Speaker 13 (24:19):
You.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Know what that surgery?

Speaker 3 (24:22):
When I saw the bill, it was like one hundred
and twenty eight thousand dollars for that one leg. Like
what but you know inflation has gone up, so that's
gonna be a two and sure it's just a great thing.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah wow wow, So get one now and another the
other one man, man we gotta call no, well go ahead.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
How how uh you guys talk about like the like
kind of like the philanthropy and stuff like you do
like in the community and stuff. How like Hallan Grain,
Are you just like like watching like high school back
like basketball football, Like you guys like go out to
those kind of games and just like you know, hang out.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
I was.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
I was with Bob and Beverly Elliott the other day
and I'm watching their grandson Jody, and he's playing basketball,
and it was it was just a joy to watch
because you know, back in the day when my daughters
were in school, we travel around every weekend for AAU basketball.
You know, I was like the fundraiser coach and I'm
sitting on the sideline with my computer and you know,
but I got to see them play and they were,

(25:17):
you know, national champions. My oldest daughter was like two
time national champions for Cincinnati's Finance and the youngest was
a state champion at Dayton Lady Hoopstars, and it was
a joy to watching, just you know, seeing kids that
you know grow and develop and become something special, you know,
and because you can kind of project and see, it's
fun to do.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
And that's why I love my job.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
I don't even consider it a job. I'm still in football.
I've been in football ever since I was six years old.
And that's why I say I'm living my best life.
You know, I'm with good people. I mean, Coach Brennan
is a great guy to be around, you know, Desert
Raids great people to be around. And I get to
paler around with those guys on the field and they
still called me coach, and you know, they come in

(25:59):
my office and then they are all the time and
it's fun.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
It's a great time. So let me say, you guys
can call We can take some questions for the guys
five two o four one six seventy four forty if
you want to call in. You talked about this real quick, Ricky.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I know, having covered the game here for a long time,
but you wanted to come back a long time ago,
and you just didn't get the opportunities missed, missed by
U of A or whatever, you try to come back. Uh,
how much did you want to come back? And how
would life change for you had you come back earlier?

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well, first of all, I can't pick myself. Yeah, and
when you're on the other side, you're making a decisions.
Those people who are making this. When rich Rod was
for the job, you were trying to get the job.
Yeah before that too, yes, stoops, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
want to say, what the hell happened?

Speaker 2 (26:54):
But uh, and what the hell happened?

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Well, I remember, like I told, that's alive And one
time I said, he said, Ricky, I wanted to call
you and let you know that we made a decision
and we're going with this coach, I said, Jim, I said,
I'm gonna tell you two things that you've done. I said,
you've hired a coach who's never coached at the highest level.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
I was coaching the NFL. You've hired a coach who's
never coached this Alma motto. And if he wins, you're
gonna lose him. If he loses, you're gonna fire him.
So you can pay me now, you can pay me later.
And you told him this because it's spot on, it's
right on. It's a good answer, good answer. But you
could applay that to anybody exactly.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, many choices. But you're back, I mean timing for
you're here and why were you now? Wild? Kept for life? Yeah?
Bottom line? What did what did Jim tell you? Jim?

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah to your answer, No, he didn't have anything. What
are you gonna say that? He's already made his choice, right,
He's gonna call me after you tell the.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Guy you got the job? Right? Right? Do people are
they timid coming up to you? Guys? Are they kind
of excuse me? Sick? Can you you know what I'm
saying that? You know, you know when you know.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
What, Ricky has this expression about himself that's it's kind
of like an unapproached boy.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yes, yes, yes, I mean he's a big dude.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
He needs a big personality, and you know, and and
still I mean people still see Ricky Hundley number ninety eight,
you know, the great football player. So I think a
lot of people, you know, are kind of shy to
walk up to him because of that.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
You know.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
But but once the ice is broken, Ricky Hunley think
everybody his friend. Yeah, you know, so Tucson, if you
come up to see Ricky Hundley, he's your friend, because
everybody is Ricky Hundley's friend, so you'll be Okay, I'll
tell you this story. I'm on campus and I'm walking
my exercise walk and there's this little girl and it
looks like she's stalking me, and I'm looking back and

(28:56):
and I finally stopped and she comes and said, are
you coach me?

Speaker 4 (29:00):
I was like yeah, she said, I just want to
say hi. My daddy brought your house.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
You know, it's second.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
We get to talking and her dad did by my
house and I knew her, and we went up there
and we had dinner, and we see the house, the
house that I built, a master suite full of mont
and then he moved out and got married. You know,
well if I couldn't afford to be there.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Hey, So you guys talked about like, you know, back
in the day you had a bunch of family, like
where you grew up in Virginia.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
What are those Thanksgiving games? Like you guys do this? Well,
we was playing ball, so we really didn't. The Thanksgiving
games is always redskins and you're watching the game. No,
I'm talking about like a physically didn't ball. I mean,
we were still playing football.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
We always down drag us about that game Cowboys and
the Redskins.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
He was a riskin because it's still the better team.
You know, the Cowboys are right, you know, I was
the only Cowboy fan in my house.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
I happened. How did that happen?

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Where we lived? So in d Washington was the closest team,
so all of them was great Skins. So I want
to be different, Okay, I just wanted to will a
helmet any road. That's I just wanted to be different
in regards to you know, let's let me take on
somebody else that I can call the long Shore.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Sure is everybody else? He's well. I grew up a
Cowboy family. Dad was a Redskins fan. So those days
were the good old days to the Clinton.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yes, fighting and beating up Rogers that he played one gameson,
getting the rested every Mondy and the the in the
locker room. Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
We we we used to fight.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
I mean one of my favorite players was a Redskin player,
and and that that was Chris Hamburger.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Oh yeah, the linebacker Chris Hamburger. The Hogs, the Hogs. No,
that was no, no, but still they were there. I'm
just bringing up watching that. I still have nightmares about
the Hogs.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
And we played them in the Super Bowl and they
ran that powertray all day long and we were favorite
to win.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
They beat us forty five to ten. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah, and actually you had mean because it is your team,
you had the blessing to play against him and coach
for them. Yeah, you know, so that was pretty cool.
You know, give me your.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Top three moments at the NFL Top three? Can you
come off the top of your head with the top
three moments.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Oh, I'll never forget the time I got an interception
and we're playing to say anego charges in a blizzard
and I intercept the ball and I ran it back
for a touchdown. That's my first hand ever. You googled it. Oh,
And I threw the ball in the YouTube and the
next day the lady came with the ball wanted me
to sign it. I got fined fifteen hundred dollars from
the commissioner because you can incite a riot for throwing

(31:49):
the ball instead.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, yeah, never forget that one. I remember that. You can't.
How did you know this YouTube is on YouTube today
when you knew he was coming.

Speaker 14 (31:58):
In, well, yeah, you got, you got.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Okay, that's one.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Then in the Super Bowl No, the NFC Championship game
against the Cleveland Browns, before the drive, I intercepted the
ball and they started to drive and that way drove
ball down and we want right, that's when you talked
about Bernie Cozy. Yes, and then and uh, then.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
There was a time when uh, I was having words
with the head coach and uh it was right after
the strike. I was a player reup and he told
everybody he called him in one bout one and he
told every player, Hey, if you don't play better, we're
gonna bench you rightfully, so as a coach, but he
didn't tell.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Me that because I was a player rep. So he
told the press.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
And then when I came out for lunch, they like
swarm me, and I was so embarrassed.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
So I accepted the challenge that I was going to
play better.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
And then I asked Roynzipolo if he would have me
on the Coaches Show if I got MVP of the game,
and he said yes, And I got two interceptions and
they can't see the game, and I was on the show.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
And Dan had to say that I met the challenge.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
So, you know, while studying apart from the apart from
the highlights on YouTube, you know, I saw that you
were a NFL PA vice.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
That's what we're speaking of. What I mean, what was
that like? You know, and like how do you see
it now?

Speaker 6 (33:14):
Like with you know kind of I feel like the
big dispute is guaranteed contracts and so you know, are
one of our guys names Blake, He always talks about
he feels like the NFL should be like one of
the like sports that gets like also fully guaranteed contracts.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
What do you think about it? I think it should be. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
I mean, you're you're laying your life on the line,
and every time you go out there and you play football.
Guys play football because they love it. If I had
to do it all over again with these torn up knees,
I would do it.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
You know. Can you talk about your contract back then
and what would it re be now? My contract as
a player.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Yeah, back then when I got drafted, I was the
seventh player taken overall and the Bengals actually offered me
a contract. It was like one hundred thousand, three hundred
four hundred and they offered me like it was like
a eight hundred thousand dollars signing bonus. And they drafted

(34:09):
Boomer size and in the second round they had traded
the first overall pick to New England had two first rounds.
Now they hit the fourteenth and the twenty eight and
uh when they had the seventh, and they took me
with the seventh to Boomer with the first pick in
the second round and gave him.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
The money more money they offered me. So that's why
I held out.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
That's where he Okay, So now you made you know
the figures. Now, what what would it be today? Oh?

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Today as a seventh overall pick. I don't know, but
you got to look at it. Fifty million two yeah,
fifty million versus million rightow?

Speaker 2 (34:45):
That would be crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. And the month
for you, Oh, I was a free agent.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
So because of my brother, I was a free I
got no sick sleep that day.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
I was a free agent. What do you mean on
draft day we went around to be drafted.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Oh I never got I never got drafted because did
you hear the story about him, you know, being the
the play a rep and holding out and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
That's the reason, that's the reason why it all happened. Funny,
what Ricky did was a reflection on me and you.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
You ended up okay or no. Yeah, I was blessed
to be there. I'm telling you how many years for you?
For four years, I was blessed three years. I say
four because I was with another team. But I was
blessed to be there.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
I really was.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
I was just happy to be there. And you know,
the moment that it was over, it was over. I
didn't even chase it anymore. And and and the only
blessing that I had as far as with the game
and walking away, being able to walk from the game.
I wasn't attached to no one. I wasn't married, I
didn't have kids, I didn't have a girlfriend, attached no one.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
It was only me. What was your first thought going
home to Virginia coming back here Tucson.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
I came right here back to Tucson for both of you, guys.
How much time we have had a couple of minutes
we got to go and come back. But I want
you to get your thoughts on when this ends, when
all this and all the adoration ends, how do you
guys feel, so we'll talk about that on the other side.

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Speaker 2 (40:15):
Negotiation there you're wedding the dough. Hey, welcome back to
Iying the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve Rivera. In today with me is Ricky Hunley and
his brother Lamont for you a greats on the football field. Okay,
so you guys are studs here. YadA YadA played in
the NFL, and everybody loves everybody loves Ricky, everybody loves Roman.
And then when all that love ends and the applause stops,

(40:39):
how does it feel.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Oh well, when the cheering stops, it stops. You're only
a hero for a moment, and the guys don't realize
it that you better learn the narrow your focus, and
you better learn to play between the whistles, because if
you can play between the whistles, you have a chance
of being the best that you can be. When you're
out here thinking about all the other stuff outside of

(41:01):
football and worrying about that stuff during the time when
you're supposed to be playing football, you're not gonna be
good at anything.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
And and your only hero for a moment.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
You know, people don't remember what you did on the field, okay,
and they're gonna applaud you for that for years to come, okay,
But if you don't handle your business on the field,
nobody's gonna remember you. Nobody gonna care that you water
red and blue and thousands of people that wear the
red and blue. The only thing that you can be
attributed to do good is sing the bear and them
fights on. I think that there is there is some

(41:31):
guys that really get lost in the game.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
And I think the longer you play, the more you
get lost into it.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
I think there are some guys that I you know,
I call it as they get institutionalized into that moment.
It's kind of like being in prison. Once you get
out of prison, what do I do? And and sometimes
that cheering keep. They want to hear that cheering all
the time, and and expect that cheering all the time,
and then if they don't hear it, then at that
point one of their lives, they're like, you know, what

(42:02):
happened here?

Speaker 2 (42:02):
What did I do wrong? Self esteem?

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Well, very much, And like Ricky said, they don't know
what to do once they cheering stops. I was blessed
because the fact is, you know, once it's stopped.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
For me, it stopped.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
I mean, it's just I knew when when to say when,
because I kept I hate chasing the dream and I
hate disappointment.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
That's who I am in life. Well, we talked about it.
I don't know what did we talking about on the
year or before the show, probably on the air about
you being the pragmatic one, and that's the pragmatic look
at it, right, you're this is the title of the book.
You're only a hero for a moment. That's fantastic. I
love that. I want to use that. No, no, I
gave you those.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Ricky said that my fee is a lot higher.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Remember I'm the five million dollar guy, and I was
happened to be there, So you might want to write
mice though I wrote.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
It down, keeping it up. You're only is you only
hear full moment. That's true.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
It's true. And the cheering stop.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
It really does. Man, I still see guys. That's part.
I won't throw their names out there. That's part of
this university who played a game for a long period
of time, just college ball, who still live in that
life of being a universe Arizona football player.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Sure, sure you know it ain't all bad.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
I was just going to say, there's no right or wrong.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
It's just the way it is to them.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
I sit here and I tell you when I go
out and I speak at Rotary, I speak at different events,
and when I get talking, I get emotional because I
can remember the feeling of those people cheering for us.
I remember when we marched down to the corner of
the end zone and we beat ASU in nineteen eighty
two and the band they put them so far up
in the stadium, they're almost out of the stadium, and

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we're singing the fight song.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
We're singing bear Down.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
You know.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
I remember when we're going through the tunnel at USC
and you know, and they're playing bear Down and it
touches you. It's it's a it's a moment, you know.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
But you knew when to take your jersey off to
you know, there's guys like I'm saying, still were that jersey?

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yeah? Of course, you know, still wear that jersey because.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
So so when you beat give me the big upsets
not dame.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
How did that feel at Iowa? How did that? How
did those things feel when you got back to the
you know, when you everybody loves Raymond, you know what
everybody loves you.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
I mean there's people waiting and exactly you know, cheering
us on and you know, people airport and and the
next game was a thousands of butts in the seats,
you know, waiting for that next game, the cheers like.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Anything else you win, they'll come sure, no, but how
was it getting back? And it was just like, uh,
your book doesn't stink. Everything is fun. You get you
get the girls.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
But reality comes into when you got a coach that
you got to see morning, coach and staff that you
have to deal with Sunday morning. And we had a
great coaching staff, and Ricky and I have probably the best,
he would you in the world.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
That's the roan. Look, I'm sitting there, we're playing Notre Dame.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Notre Dame. Now I was a goofball. I'm throwing water
on people and laughing and joking.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
And on Monday you cannot even speak to coach Brokie
because he's in game molds. And he would come next
to me and he's standing there and he, Okay, we
got you. Think you he said, he ain't nothing. He said,
you're going to the house the new Rockney built. He said,

(45:41):
what're you gonna do? Tell Notre Dame I'm Ricky, honey,
and show them your clippings.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
That's on you.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
He would lose it, but he'd get you back on
track and get you ready and get you prepared for
the game.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
We had our best game. We ever had the best game,
the best game ever. Yeah, you need it specially. I
asked this someone earlier this week. I think you've had
twenty coaches in your career. Twenty coaches. I'm just giving
you that number. How many of them were good? They
tell you what. I've had some great coaches. My all
time favorite coach.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Had to be and it's an amazing thing is only
one year I played for him?

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Was Jeene Stalin's man. Did he keep the main thing?
The main thing?

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Larry Smith, Tom Rodman, Okay, Dan Reeves, Mike Shanahan, Art Shell,
Steve Spurrier worked with him.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
I had a lot of great coaches.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
I mean, so you have fortunate to have all those
very fortunate player, you know, to work on these guys
and work with these guys. I remember when Larry brought
me in coaching because I never wanted to get in coaching,
and Larry says, look, hey, Rick, you know if you
don't want to coach, you can coach. I said, coach,
I am not interested in coaching. I see the hours
you guys put in. Thanks for no thanks, He said,
well come on here and just work the camp. So

(46:58):
I go to USC and I work the camp and
then I fall in love with these kids because they're
like little baby birds.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
They just want to be around. He listen to everything
you say. And that's how I got into coaching, you know.
And he pulled me in the meeting with the whole
staff and he said, I don't want you guys hazing him.
I don't want you guys treating him like he's some
little g eight. I won't don't want him going to
get your laundry or walk in your dog. You teach
him how to be a coach, because he said, you
got to learn how to be a teacher first before

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you can coach.

Speaker 19 (47:26):
And that's the best thing, Larrismen I've ever did. Yeah, no,
good for yourself. Twenty coaches. Yeah, well I only think
I had twenty coaches. Well, you know, by father the most.
The coach that stands out the most of me is Roganmen.
You know, I see a lot of the disciplines that
he taught us and gave us.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
That I have within myself. Before you move, Did he
treat you differently than he treated your brother? Because people
are different? People are different? Did he kind of have
to go?

Speaker 3 (47:53):
You know, he treated you differently once you became a senior.
You know, when you was a freshman going up, he
treated those people the same. But as your senior year,
he knew he brought you to well you need to be.
He had his own unique level of hazing.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Because when I became a senior, I watched him Hayes,
Byron Evans, Lamont, David Wood, Brent Wood, and he gets
Ricky gets sit up front with Rodan.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
I would laugh.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
I mean, I've been through it, yeah, and we sit
in it back and we take it. You know, it's like,
that's but he gave you that that eventually you became that.
I've become that personality. And right now you're speaking of
the coaches that had influence on Ricky. You said that
me watching Ricky coach himself, I see all those coaches
a bit of all those coaches, and Ricky as a coach,

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as a coach as far as him out there on
the field loving these kids up, teaching these kids what
need to be. It's not not just as a football player,
but outside the actual game itself.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
So my point of the question, though, is if you
had twenty are you here a lot of things the
coaches today or even recently, Well, I had maybe four
or five good ones. The rest were kind of just
there being the coach. Does that make sense? Yeah, Well,
you guys were fortunate to have a lot of good coaches. Yeah,
you the same uh, same coach the last few years
than you were twenty five years ago. Yeah, even though

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the kids have changed, or have they changed, you don't change.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
Coaches, don't change because because you give it to them straight.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
It's I think that's the end.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
It's just like when you raise your kids, you know, parent,
you're gonna raise your kids to their parents.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
You everything to these kids straight shooter.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Yeah, tell you got hey, you gotta love them up first,
and then they'll follow your.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Lead in talking to you off the air as well.
A lot of philosophy in your life. You used a
lot of that, right. Was your mom like that? To
you guys?

Speaker 3 (49:50):
It was like we've seen her do it enough times.
We knew that she could do it, and she would
tell us simply, don't do as I do, do as
I tell you, Yes, and I.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Brought you here.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Who our age hasn't heard that.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
She could do it? You know?

Speaker 3 (50:07):
The thing is to with our mom and our again
the way I was. You know, you see what your
our mother went through it sure you know. So it
was hard for me to be a bad kid because
the hardship and the things she was going through. So
you you basically want to do the right thing. Well,
I was going to go here too, because you guys
do what you do.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
I think that people, if you're coaching them, don't want
to disappoint Ricky and you didn't want to disappoint exactly.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
And that's and that's that's the thing. And you don't
want to disappoint. It's the same thing with being a parent.
The kids don't want to disappoint their parents. I think
the good kids, the good kids, I think good players
and the good guys who want to be coached I lose.
Part of lose success, in my mind is they didn't
want to disappoint Loot because of who he was and
how he was with them.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
I don't want to do.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
That's the thing that I'm seeing more and more with
coach Bretan. The discipline, you know, the red line, you know,
the excellent level that he demands from them. They're buying
in and that's the key. You know, once they believe
in you, they'll they'll follow you, they'll do whatever you
need to be done.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
I want going to use that too for the red line.
Explain the red line.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
We got We got about half do everything one hundred percent,
you know, no exceptions I made. I made a comment
to Ben today he sent that out. I said, Ben,
you guys need to use those words red line in
the fourth quarter, that that red line belonged to this
stadium red line, and make that whole stadium.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Yes, yes, we talked about getting that place better and
maybe that's line. I gave that to him today and
hopefully you're going to use it.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
It's just a few lights right there, strings of lights
around the whole stablemen lighted up red and the opponent
be like, what's that.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Yeah, well you guys know, you know, find out red line. Yes,
we gotta go. Thanks, this was fantastic. Guys, appreciate you.
Get checks in the mail again, Thank you a million.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I gotta go. I'm giving my five million to the
Excellence Fund. You're gonna Endoul some swimming scholarship. Good for you,
Good for you.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
You gotta go.