Hour 2- September 18

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Streaming live on the Ihearts Radio while this is I
on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. I'm trying
to be saved by those who know Ricky. Welcome back, Ricky,
welcome back. I didn't want to throw you out. You're
still here, and we got Kobe got breaking news something. Okay,
this is the time of the day that you give
us breaking news. If we have a comment about it,

(00:33):
we talk about it.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Just the pop, says Hi on the Ball Breaking News
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Arizona has announced its full non conference schedule for the
twenty twenty five twenty six season. This late features thirteen games,
including a December sixth home showdown with Auburn and a
road trip to Yukon on November nineteenth.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Mm hmm, that's your tire hoopshit. Yeah, No, it's gonna
be a great because you you sitting next to your
brother right there.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
No, no, you have better.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Seat across from I said, next to Jeanine. Just your
across the way the basket. Oh yeah, yeah, I think
I've said ken of R R side where the band is. Yeah, yeah,
I could have been. That's why I can't hear total sense.
Total sense.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Dodgers legend Clayton Kershaw will retire at the end of
the season after eighteen years in Los Angeles. He will
retire as a third, three times Young Winner and eleven
time All Star.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Having lived in LA Are you a Dodger at all?

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Well, I like going to watch the Dodgers, but I
hate driving up there and having a drive back.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I could imagine, I could imagine how long you've done
it a few times though, Oh yeah, tell me. I'm
not sure where you you used to live. But to
get out of there, I mean it's like a five
to seven hour day.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
It's an all day uffair.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, and so you have to leave beforehand and it
is still a long day.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah. By the time you come down the hill, you're
right in rush, right, yeah. You I'm not one of
those guys.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
John Pitcher, justin Verlander, says he wants to return for
a twenty first season in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
He's forty three, I think in February, So let me.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Let me ask you, did you I think I may
have talked to you about this before, Ricky. What age
did you retire? Yeah, twenty nine? You are twenty nine.
Could you have gotten longer?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Not?

Speaker 5 (02:22):
What the knee surgery that our team doctor did to
my knee? Oh okay, it was just a little scope.
But he.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Mess it up. Mess it up, Mess it up.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Because I say this because some people have their they
can call the shots. I want to say goodbye, and
sometimes this happens, and you got to say goodbye.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, mine always says you, that's what the body says. No, yeah,
right right? It was. How difficult was that to say
goodbye in.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
The early years? It's really hard. It's really hard to
trans you were twenty nine, all that's very young to
transition out right, you know, and even transition into another career.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
It's hard, you know.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
And now I think that that's the thing that most
guys struggle with when they finished playing.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
What to do? What to do next? What to do?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
You've always had a regiment, You always had a schedule,
You always knew where you're going, what you had to do,
you know, and then to not have any requirements, it
just blows your mind. Sure, so you were twenty nine,
this went you were in Denver. Where were you?

Speaker 4 (03:21):
No? I was in La La Raiders. Okay.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
So and then so what do you think? What do
you think? What am I going to do next? Or
did you alorady know you had some some coaching in you.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
No, I didn't think I was going to be a coach.
I mean Larry Larry Smith. Actually he called me over
to the office and he said, hey, Rick, we're having
this football camp for kids.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Why don't you come out and volunteer your time? What
year did he four? Shitty five? Like eighty?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
No, it wasn't eighty, Oh he was ninety he was
he was was okay, it's like ninety two.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Okay, I think it was. And uh.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
And because he had told me before when I was
in my last years of the league, he said, look,
if you ever want to coach, you can.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
You can coach with me. I said, coach, thank you,
but no thanks.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
I said, I see the hours you guys put in
and I'm not interested in coaching.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
And so, but he asked me to come and work
the camp for the kids, and so I volunteered and
went out there at USC and it was it was amazing.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
The kids just gravitate you like you. Yeah, but these
are these are young kids. Yeah, you kids, and so
those are the guys that convinced you to do it.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, the kids, the kids. Well, so then the next.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Year you then I signed on as a GA a
grad assistant at USC.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
That's the start of my coaching career. Wow, nineteen, you
said in eighty three, ninety ninety four. Wow. And then
I did that for a year with Larry.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
And then Larry gets fired from the USC, and then
I stay on with John Robinson and then Larry calls
me up one day and he's at home. He said, hey, Rick,
what do you know about that job at Missouri? I said, Coach,
I don't know anything about Missouri. I said, well, let
me look. I'll look and suppressed guys and I'll see
if I know anybody. And I looked thumb through some

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press guys and I saw Kellen Winslow.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
I said, Kevin, I said, what's happening at Missouri?

Speaker 5 (05:05):
He said, man, you know I'm a candidate for the
eighties job because he got his law degree.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I said really, I said, well, tell, Because Dan Devine
was the ad.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
He said, tell coach to mine that Larry is interested
in that job. He said, what Larry's mel I'm like, yeah,
he said, let me get back with you. So he
calls me back and he says, hey, coach Divine wants
to talk to Larry.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
And so I mean, it happened so fast.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
In two days, myself, Sheryl MoU Ankney and Larry were
on a plane for Missouri and it was my first job.
He hired me as a his D line coach at
the University Missouri.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
He tells you what happenstance and the phone call and
the people you know, yeah, the networking you know, don't
pissed off anybody. No, you just don't know, you don't know. Yeah,
And then our A D. The guy who ended up
getting the A D job, Kellen didn't get it. Jokestickly
On got it. And and then his connection.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
He jokers stick Man, was the A D at Missouri,
just tired from Oklahoma, oh okay. But he was there
as the assistant to Dan Tobaiyo oh okay. And so
he ended up getting a job. And then Joe leaves
Missouri to go to Oklahoma.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Because they wouldn't give him like a sixty nine thousand
dollars raise. Wow. Well he's stayed there forever, stayed Oklahoma
and just retired.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Wow wow. So then that set up your your career
as a coach. Yep, yeah, well seven years at Missouri.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Wow. Very cool, very cool. You got a story here.
You know that. I already told you that.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
The Buffalo Bills host the Miami Dolphins on Thursday Night
Football tonight at five point fifteen PM, with Buffalo favored
by eleven and a half points.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Okay, Buffalo win? Yeah, should should? Yeah? But yeah eleven.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
In that cover h Capitol star at Alexandro Vetchine says
he hasn't decided if the twenty twenty five twenty six
season will be his last the NFL and is still
chasing Wayne Gretzky all time goals record. Okay, Asia Wilson
of the Aces and Alana Smith of the Links have
been named co Defensive Players of the Year. It's Wilson's

(07:13):
third DePoy honor in four seasons. Okay, we got Packers
tight end Tucker Craft suffered a knee scare and practice
on Thursday. Tests came back clean, and sources that he
should be fine to play this Sunday against the Browns.
All right, not much for breaking news headline. That's what

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we've got some time here.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I want to ask you, so you're you've got a
story career, and then now from these other stories that
you're telling me with coach Smith and these connections you have,
is there a person or two, Ricky, that you almost
need to write a letter to thank you for helping
me become who I became. Well, there's a lot of

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people that helped me along the way. I mean, like
her momus always said, where everybody's kids, you know, we
were raised by everybody. But there's you know, I can
just go down a list of people that have been
instrumental in my life. From my elementary school baseball coach
her Herbert Ford, you know, and I was gonna quit

(08:19):
the baseball team then, you know, I didn't like him
yelling at me, and my mama sent me back up there,
you know. But probably my mom was probably my biggest influence.
People you always say, rights such a great player.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Who do you admire? What pro play?

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Now?

Speaker 4 (08:34):
It's my mom, I mean, and she was You're great
to have her.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
She's still around and she's it's It's funny because when
we first got together on the show, for the honey huddle.
You were telling you she's going to be listening, right,
and she's gonna be giving you guys a grief for
Jennine talked about you know she has a saying or whatever. Yeah,
what was her saying? Or she's is she full of wisdom?
She one of my mom was one one of the wisdom.
Oh yes, oh yeah, saying I brought you here and

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I'll take care.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, Mom didn't tell you that right now?

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, no, mom. Mom was a beast boy. I mean
she didn't she didn't play. I mean, I always remember
this story when.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
I was in junior high school and we'll have this
coach and there was a basketball it's a gym class
and everybody's playing basketball in the gym, but some of
the kids would tease the coach because he started, yeah,
and so he would get upset and he would make
us go back to the classroom. He had to sit
in the classroom instead of playing basketball in the gym.

(09:31):
We had to sit perfectly straight in the chair because
you know, the chairs were small, and we all sit
sideways with his legs in the aisle and he will
walk through the aisle and if you had your legs.
He would kick your foot to get your feet under
the chair. So you know, I'm too big for the chair,
and he kicked me and I kicked him back.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Then he stomped my toe and.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
I went to get up and he pushed me, and
then I got tangled in the chair and I fell over.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
And now I says, go to the office.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Like, go to the office, because now when you go
to office, you have to call your parents. I got
to call my mom, and you you know, that's night.
And I'm like, I said, scholar, I'm in the off.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
We call her mom our first name because she was young,
she was fourteen, she had start having kids, and so
she got her name from that movie Gone.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
With the Wind. Okay, and so oh Scarlett, Yes, okay,
that's a scarlet. I'm ben boy, what you do.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
I didn't do anything wrong, she said, I'll be right there,
because she always told us, don't lie to me, don't steal. Okay,
we could kill somebody and work that out. But so
now I'm in the office waiting for my mom to
show up. And she shows up, and mister Jones, the
principal's there, mister burke Halter, the teacher's there, and my
mom's sitting straight across from mister Burke Halter, and I'm

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sitting across from mister Jones. And mister Jones said, Miss Henley,
can I get you some call? No, No, I don't
need any coffee. I just want to ask mister Burke
called a couple of questions because I need to get
back to work. And she said, mister Burke Halter, is
Ricky one of your bad students? He said, no, ma'am.

(11:02):
Actually he one of my better students. She said, well,
if he was one of the bad kids, you probably
would have killed him. Then humh And he said, I
ain't killed nobody yet. That was a wrong answer, and
she backhanded him across his eyes. Really, mister Jones lost
on miss Humming. Can he call him down?

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Can I get you?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I don't need no coffee. Don't be putting your hands
on my kids. And to this day, mister Burkehole is
still alive. Boy, and he see my mom come, he's running,
give her the digest hug. But he'll never forget that.
So your mom had your back?

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Oh yeah, she had your back, because I mean, when
you it's like coaching. If your coach had your back
you'll run through a wall. Oh yeah, sure, sure, because
I've experienced things where the coach didn't have you back,
you know.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Oh of course, and the kids know that. Yeah, the
kids know that. Then why would I play for you
if you're not going to do anything for me? Right, No,
that's funny. That's a funny story. She would probably don't
remember that story, obviously, it's it's important. Oh yeah, you
never did that again though, kick the kick there?

Speaker 4 (12:01):
You know, now, if you kicked me, I'm a kick
him back. I mean, he was wrong.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
I can't pay attention because he's giving me grief all
the time. You know, you gonna watch it, what you know,
getting any in trouble with here and now? And you
gotta play a little bullyball. Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
I get it.

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Speaker 1 (16:39):
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Speaker 2 (16:51):
Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports Fortune fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, your Ricky Honley,
the other half of the Ricky Hunley Show, The Hunley Huddle.
I don't don't say that to lamt Is.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
It's the Honey Show, the Honey Huddle.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Uh. We won't be here this weekend, but will be
maybe possibly next weekend. You're gonna be on the road
with the with the team, right, I wish. Yeah, we
go to Iowa State. Yeah, gotta shake shake people's hands
and kiss babies. Be ricky, Yeah, Steven, be lonely.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'll be well.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
We want to stop a show here with with Lamont
and talk to you on the phone.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
And you're crazy. Interviews with the coaches. You know what.
We had coach consals on Monday. Fantastic.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
He just talker fun, one hundred percent hundred goes out
of a mile a minute you ever met?

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Anybody can remember as much? I mean, And I told
him that I get lost per down. He's like every detail.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Of every play, right, And I said, you're a numbers guy,
aren't you He comes up with all these numbers, you know, ten,
So he must have been a numbers gun, he says, Yeah,
just what he what he knows and a good, good coach.
I'm sure the guys play hard for him too, because
they respond to you know, exactly exactly when you coached.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
What was your trick to make that happen?

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Oh? Maybe tricks, not throw your ord, but you know
what I'm saying, You did you have something to make
them respond to how you coached, because I know your
fiery on the sidelines. But fair is that maybe your trick? Yeah,
I keep it fair. But uh, I always, even with
me when I was a player, I knew and understood

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from my coach that he was only going to demand
from me the things that I control, that you were
capable of doing, capable of doing, and that the number
one thing that he wasn't gonna constantly coach is effort.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
He said, that's on you. I was just gonna say that. Yeah,
you know, you got to give the effort.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, you got to have a good attitude, you got
to want to be coached by me, and he's tough.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, and then you got to know what to do right.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
You know, they'll tolerate you making a few mistakes here
and there, but you know, if it's consistently wrong, you
won't be in there. Let me ask you, anybody want
to call five two zero four one six seventy four forty.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
I'll give us a quick call. You can ask Ricky.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Questions about his time here, times in the pros as well.
You had a number of people, I'll give you ten
number of people were there, guys even here at that
time where he just said no, I'm not going to
do it. I'm not gonna or had so much potential
but just didn't realize it.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, well, I don't need any names.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
I remember a time when I was at Memphis and
we had this particular player and he was a good player,
but he was flunking out of school, so he wasn't
going long term.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
He wasn't gonna be there anyway.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah, so I'm just going to give the opportunity to
the next guy.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
So I waited, and I waited until family day. His
parents would be there.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
He would walk out on the field with his mom
and dad, and then he was a rec the starter. Yeah,
and then he got ready to go out and says,
stay right here, send the other guy out. So he's thinking,
you're gonna rotate now next series, stay right there, the
other guy out.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
This is already game time, right, this is in the game.
And he did not play, and he was so upset.
Sure and what so what came of it? Because then
when he came to me and I told him, I said,
you remember that class you didn't go to?

Speaker 5 (20:23):
You remember those grades? Do you remember all of this stuff?
I said, why I'm gonna invest in you? You're not
invested in not? Yeah, right, you know if you don't care,
why should I care? When you start caring about your grades,
then I'll still caring about whether.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
You playing right? And what did he say, man, nothing
to say?

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Right, yeah, and we are gonna go go see the
head coach said, he don't stand behind me, right, and.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
Even my guys on the sideline I would tell him.
I said, look, you're all prepared, you all know what
to do. These guys are the starters. If he screws up,
now I got ten set of eyes. He screw up,
you go get him. You don't have to ask me.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
And they know it. Yeah, yeah's run right on and
get it. And that's fair.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
I had one kid dealing one time he waved me off.
Oh I lost mine. Oh I bet I lost my
marbles on him. So what did you do? Pulled him out?
I went out on the field, got a penalty, pulled
him off. Is the Memphis Yeah, all they have to
do is see that one time.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
You can't let the inmates run asylumn, no man. And
as a coach you have to be tough. You just
have to be Yeah. And it's like you can't give
into one kid right and the other ones not right. Yeah,
they all see it.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, it's funny because I'm sure you've seen the Bobby
Knight thing where he uh I think it's maybe the
Olympics or sometime where he got on Michael Jordan for
not guarding or not defending and he got on him
pretty good. And however, you get on and and he says,
I did that for a reason. They see that I'm
getting on the best guy on the team. They know

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if I get on him, what's in it for me?
They're gonna get him twice as bad that was.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
That reminds you when I was playing here for coach
Rogi and we're playing against uh notre Dame and.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
Then you know, and I was goofball.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
I'm laughing and having a good time, but rogis are serious.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
This is like eighty sofare, It's like eighty two so software, Yeah,
eighty two, eighty three, Yeah, eighty two is going to
my junior year.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
And he is like, you can't even talk to him
on Monday. I mean he's in game mode on Monday.
We got Monday, tues Wednesdays, Thurday, Friday.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Then we played the game on Saturday and I'm goofing
around and he walks up next to me and he
guy's arms folded and he bumps me. See you think
you hot stuff, don't you. What you're gonna do is
you're gonna go up there in South Bend and you're
gonna show them your press clippings and you're gonna say,
I'm Ricky Hunley, all American.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
That's on.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
He just lost it. He was you know, he held
you accountable. Yeah, you know, because you know, he.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
Just he was a very intense guy, you know, former
Chicago Bear.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Ex marine, and but that's probably what made him a
good coach. Yeah, and that became the type of coach
I was this this oh yeah, right right, right, right,
players players you played against.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
I've asked you this question.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Toughest one's to play against on the other side, and
maybe on your side when you said teammates, toughest teammates
the best you know player, m Well, there was one
guy who was really, really tough and blew out his.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
Knee and then we never really got to see his
full potential. And he was a linebacker here in nineteen eighty.
His name was Gus Tucker. Man he was he was
a legit two hundred and thirty pounds, four or five
from where from where he was from Ohio. He came
there with Tony Mason, okay, and Gus Tucker dust Tucker.
Then there was another guy, was a linebacker named Glenn Perkins.

(24:02):
And the perk, I mean, it was like getting hit
by Mike Truck when he hits you. Yeah, and he
was a quiet, humble guy pastor like Byron.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
His pastors were just vicious guys, right, But yeah, I
wouldn't want to get hit by man.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
Those two guys, man, if they hit you, it was
it was over, you know. But ironically Glenn blew out
his knee. Gus blew out his knee. Byron blew out
his knee. Yeah, you know, yeah in their career.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
And only Byron you're talking about. Byron went on to
play in the league though, Yeah right, and he was fantastic.
Yeah yeah, I wouldn't want to be hit by him either.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Byron was strike like a cobra man.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
He was just I mean he would he would come
up from his sneakers and just run right through.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
R toughest dude too, who's some of the tougher dudes.
M the tough dudes. That's a different thing than football players. Yeah,
I mean guys that were tough.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
I mean tough because they made great hits, are tough
because you know, whatever.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
You do find tough.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
I'll tell you the hits that Tom Tonnecliffe took and
he stayed up in there.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
He was tough. He was tough. I mean on defense,
you get to hit people. On offense, you got to
you got to take the hits, you know. But uh,
Brian Holland and hub Bet Oliver, the running backs, those
guys they take the hits, you.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Know, they keep on taking.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Even Vance Johnson, you know he was a lightweight, but
he was tough. You know, if they can ever catch him,
he could just flat out.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
You're gonna have him on the showy on the on
the on the huddle. Okay. Now opponents that you feaced,
mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Well, you know, playing the USC, they just had an
all star lineup of players. You know, you know, you
had Don Mosebar, they had Marcus Charlie White, and I
mean the whole lineup probably had ten or twelve guys
that went to the NFL that year. That was a

(26:08):
tough team. They were always tough to play. Then the
second probably team that I would say is Arizona State.
The year we played them, they had an all star
lineup from Bernhard Maxwell, Mike Richardson. Those were two first
team All Americans on that same team. In fact, all
three of us were on the Playball American Team, all

(26:31):
three of us. Yeah, they had two guys on the
issue and they had Darren Como, they had great battle,
They had Don Kern, it was a tight end. They
had Willie Kitton's, Robert Weathers. All of these guys went
to the NFL from the same team, Mike Pagel. They

(26:54):
were tough. Yeah, I mean, they were stacked, and that
was a different era too. Yeah, but we were because
we could compete with him. Yeah, and you probably have
played with the chip on your shoulder all the time. Yeah,
because you guys were not thought of as highly Yeah.
And you know, I got a question here from how

(27:14):
I should ask Ricky about going to the bus at
halftime against Notre Dame. Uh and not kicking a field goal?
Is that what it will? Notre Dame want to kick
a field goal? Uh?

Speaker 5 (27:25):
No, they had to go to the bus at halftime.
And no, they had to go to the locker room
at halftime and get Max and Dayhouse because he had
took his uniform off and he.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Was going to quit the dance. That's what he got. Yeah,
and then he came back and kicked the field go
over the beat Notre Dame. So explain that story.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Maybe he had words or something with the coach and
he was upset because they wouldn't let him kick another
field goal, okay, And he knew he could make a
halftime yes, okay, And so you start taking his stuff
off and they had to go find him and get
him and put his stuff back on and bring him out.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
There and win and win the game. Yeah. All this
drama drama, drama, Football's drama. I mean you got one
hundreds of some divas out there. Oh, that's pretty much true.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Not just wide receivers, right, Why is it a bunch
of wide receivers or a bunch of divas.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Because they just catch balls and nobody can touch you.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
They're pretty yeah. Yeah, well so they think, yeah, but
that's too much diva for one team.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
So he is wanting to quit at halftime at Notre
Dame because Smith didn't let him try a fieldal at
the end of the first half. Yeah, okay, And then
he came in and got won the game. He showed him,
He showed him. Let's take a break and finish the
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This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteenth fidding.
Want to take part in the show? Call up, Steve
now went five to two oh four one six seventy
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Speaker 2 (32:45):
Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
I'm Steve. You're Ricky.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
We got Kobe at the controls here. We got about
ten fifteen minutes. If you want to call give us
a quick call five two oh four one four forty.
You can call Ricky and ask him some quest. So
I was gonna ask you a while ago. So what
did what did eight year old Ricky want to do
when he grew up? I wanted to uh be in

(33:11):
the military, because you must have had I used to
watch these movies with Patent and oh yeah, I wanted
to be a four star general.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
For that reason. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
When did that change when you could play football, play baseball?

Speaker 4 (33:27):
I guess so.

Speaker 5 (33:28):
But you know, we used to live like right next
to the Battlefield Park Civil War.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
In Richmond, in Petersburg, in Petersburgh.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Okay, yeah, Petersburg Battlefield, and we used to find all
these little bullets and go cannonball.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
We didn't know what we had, which is right, right way,
but right.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
So then you got older, what did you get your
degree in business?

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (33:51):
And and you got it right obviously, no plans with that.
Your brother has more business. He was in business too,
I think right did he say that life is business?
Life is business. Dealing with you is business. We have
a business. And yeah, I want to jump ship right now.
I want to be their day hunts taking my uniform
at halftime.

Speaker 5 (34:12):
No, I'll tell you a story about me in school
because I was a good student in high school. Our
mom did not tolerate. You know, you didn't have bad sure,
you know you went to school or you want to
get a job and go work, so you didn't.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Make you go to school. But if you didn't go
to school, you find a job. You find a job.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
And if you skipped school, then you had to stay
in the house and clean up.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Mind nine kids, you would send a fellow for that day.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, and when my mom put them on punishment, punishment
for four month, it wasn't like a week, it was
a month. And she I'm sure she monitored it. Yeah,
Oh you didn't cross her. No, it was like you
know when she said, I brought you here and I
take you away. She we saw enough examples that I

(35:01):
got to meet missus Scarlett Scott was a real deal.
Everybody's ever met her, know that. So, Uh, this might
be a dumb phrase. Were you kind of afraid of her? Yeah,
you got to be a little afraid of your parents.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Well what about your brothers and sisters?

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Everybody was I mean, we know she loved us, Yeah,
but we knew she meant what she said. M m yeah,
well like growing up process, Like they gave me the look.
You didn't want that look. That's all she had to
do is look at you, right, because you knew she's
been in business.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah, so I was a compliant child. I wasn't doing anything.
Yeah I was. Lamont was probably the same way because
he's kind of a good kid. And maybe I don't
know enough of about la Mont. Yeah. Yeah, whatever Ricky does,
I'll do too. I just want to go to the corner. Uh.
You've got a pretty good life, sir, in a great life.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Yeah it's not over, no, no, no, You're still active
in doing a lot of stuff. You're kind of like,
you know, I wouldn't mind being you for weekend. Everyone
knows you, everyone loves you.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
Know by the way, you know, you can give me
some of that money. I'm being picked as a person
of impact. So he raising money for the American Heart Association.
So your donation will go a long way. When's this
been heart disease? When's this happening?

Speaker 2 (36:17):
You can start today still launch Okay, tell me how
to do it, or tell people how to do it.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
Just give me the check, tell me a different way
to do it. I'll get you all the information. Okay,
Well you talk about it then huddle. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
So it's you're part of that organization. Yeah, a fundraiser.
You know, Janine drafted me. Okay, well then you know
you gotta be some do some work.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
Yeah. Last year was Dancing with the Stars. Yeah yeah,
how was that?

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Because I know Lamont did he participate because he lost?
He danced and he lost some weight. How was your
experience I won?

Speaker 4 (36:53):
No?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
No, yeah, but how was your experience to become the champion?
Were you not? Were you pretty good already? Were you
not good? And you became good? A lot of practices.
It takes a lot of Steve what those things? He
who raised the most money? No wonder, I didn't know
what that sound. The people's choice, I wouldn't. Well, I
see that's not how it is in real life. So
we have the diapers total sense. Yeah, we have the

(37:16):
diaper bank raise a lot of money. Oh and the
money goes towards people put like you when you need diapers,
will keep you diapers not too far along their sudden.
Don't think otherwise. Yeah, so wait, that's how it works.
So did you learn how to dance?

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah? I did the fox trot. I had to take
twenty lessons and how was that? I won?

Speaker 2 (37:36):
No, but you won a different way. I won twice. Yeah, right,
you raised them all. I want to Judge's award, the
People's award. Okay, yeah, good trophy to prove it. Everybody
loves Ricky, everybody loves me, and every people cheering. So
do you know how to dance?

Speaker 4 (37:54):
Anyway? No, that's what I thought, That's what I thought
I was talking. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
I mean, black folks got rhythm. I mean I know
how to move. I'm not gonna do that. But but
fox trot, fox trot, Yeah, I know I get it.
Why did you pick that one? She picked it for me. Okay,
and you learned it in twenty lessons twenty lessons to
pall up dual opposites of track. Well, look at you.
Do you have a film with this? I gotta I

(38:20):
got a DREI is film of it. Okay, it'll cost
twenty one hundred dollars. I don't need to watch it.
I'll go away for the YouTube to come out. So, Uh,
I know you're your knees are not good right now.
At some point you think you'll be back on the sidelines.
I'm gonna get through it this year and then I'm
gonna have another total knee replacement on them.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
The other you're like the six million dollar man. Just
get it off fixed.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Now these days it's like twenty million dollars man.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
You know, you get everything fixed, me fixed, get your
eyes fixed, you know, whatever takes.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
So what can you talk about that? Just you're kind
of just getting old. The knees are bad. You played
too many games six three.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Steve, what do you think? What is old?

Speaker 2 (39:02):
I asked that question of all the time. I asked
the kids all the time they're playing, Uh, Kobe, what's old.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
What's old? Are you? What's old?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Like?

Speaker 4 (39:13):
I don't know if there's a right answer to that,
don't worry about it. Yeah he's really old. No, no, no,
If you kids think forties old, I'm fine with that.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Six dads, I would say like sixty five because like
I don't think my dad's like going to turn sixty,
and like I think of him as like a young person.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
So like sixty five is old is when you stop
throwing balls out in the yard with your kids. Mm
hm yeah, well you can't do it anymore.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, no, no, Back when we were younger, come on,
we used to think old. It was you know, forty
forty five. Yeah, now it's not. I don't think so.
No scars what eighty forty said? Eight sixty is the
new ninety? Can I help you down the stairs? You
need help down the stairs? Noo at a one level home?

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Oh good?

Speaker 2 (40:00):
That smart man. Smart man. Anybody want to call please
do five two oh four. One will take your calls
about anything here with Ricky.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
So, so what's your day like?

Speaker 2 (40:11):
If you don't mind me saying at you of a
it's uh, you know during this time, it's you know,
you got the football season so those guys start earlier.
I don't have to start as earlier.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
They got the meetings and then they have practice and
I'll show up for the practices and as I always
want to stay up to date on who the talent.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
The playoffs are.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
And then after practice, you know, my regular rotary on Wednesdays.
You know, that's a big thing, and it's a good
way to connect in the community. I mean, I love
rotary because it's it's all about service above self, you know,
and you're out there your service and people, but you're
getting to connect and meet new people. And it's my
way of just kind of staying connected within the community

(40:56):
and the teaching our guys how important it is to
connect within the maturity. Always got your hand out, always
just playing football. It's not all about.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Especially now, especially now when they haven't made because they're
making a lot of money. And that's yeah, I see
obligated to people to help you, you can help them, yeah,
And so you know, a lot of times, you know,
in my office, you know, I consider myself sometimes a
common sense coach because a lot of guys common sense
ain't common no, you know, and they get in their
feelings and they you know, they think, oh.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Coach don't like me. You know, you're not playing me.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
I said, get in here, and there's one hundred and
some of those kids. Yeah, I said, you know what,
I said, it's one of you. And coach has probably
got two hundred.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
And fifty people under his watch, not just a football team,
but the whole staff and everybody else.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
So everybody's problems are his problems.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yeah, and why are you gonna make your problem his
problem on top of it? Right?

Speaker 4 (41:46):
So just get out of your feelings and just do
your job.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
And that's probably a daily by you because you have
one hundred kids going in and are possibly going in
to tell them. I think Kendrea does some of that too, right,
mentoring and and soothsaying and just kind of being Mark
and Andrea.

Speaker 5 (42:04):
It's good to have that kind of connection with guys
can reach back and and you know, and they can
just keep pouring into the young kids.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
You know. Someone who was going on the show earlier, Uh,
maybe Bob. He said, Uh, who are your idols growing up?
Oh see, I tell you what. When I got here
to jo A, Bob was one of my idols. You know,
here's a guy, he's already come and gone. Yeah, but
you know he was my accountant too, yeah, you know.
And Warren rush Stand was one of my hus I
mean he was a mentor for.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
A lot of years. What a great man. I met
him recently. He's great. There was a judge Stanley Felman.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
I remember, yes, Alan Norville, this guy I always wanted
to be like a what did they call it, a
developer and I admired what he was doing in building
buildings and all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
My my mom, she was my idol.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
My baseball coach, Olie Jarvis, you know, Larry Smith, all
my football coaches, you know, bow because you know, they
keep it real and uh and they were there for
you when you needed it.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
But you know they were there to put up your
button when you needed it to right. Well, like you said,
the top of the list was your mom. Uh what
about what about players?

Speaker 4 (43:15):
Teammates? Did you said? You know what, this guy's a
good dude and he's a smart dude. And but I
have to start with my brother Lamon.

Speaker 5 (43:22):
I mean, I mean he's tied by the hip, you know,
for years, and he is a good dude. He's a
good dude, and we lived together, you know, and you
know I experienced going.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Through college and you're living with a roommate. That's like,
I got to get out of here. I'm gonna kill this,
you know, I know that feelings.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
When I was a freshman, Larry allowed me to move
out of the dorm because me and my freshman roommate
did not get along at all.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
And was he a football player?

Speaker 5 (43:47):
Yeah, yeah, he was a football player on their team.
And uh, but you know they match you up to
live with someone based on what region of the country
you were from, whether you were black or white.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Yeah, and that was it. Like, I'm nothing like that.
Sometimes there's a mismatch. Ye, it was a mismatch.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
And and so I moved out and I moved in
with a family way out on Pantano Road.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
Speedway and Pantana. Did you have a car? Yeah, I
want a car. I want a car.

Speaker 5 (44:17):
Playing cards, I beat the guy to five hundred bucks
and I bought this old Galoppe And that's how I
just skip back and forth to school. Really, instead of
taking the money, I just took the car.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
She's the first car.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Everyone I wanted to play cards against you, I'm not
sure about this anymore.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
Yeah, bring it on. I want to still, I want you.
I learned from my uncle and my grandma.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, So okay, so what was that
going with? So you lived out there and you came
how was you living? Then you became his roommate later
when he came.

Speaker 5 (44:49):
No, then I came back into a dorm at Babcock
and it was in a single dorm room okay for
a semester until Lamont and were eligible to move out
of the dorm, and then myself, Lamont and Randy Robbins
move in together.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Yeah, that's right. Those are good stories. Those were good stories.
Do you ever have a chance to go back and
listen to some honey huddle? That was fun? That was
fun when you had Randy on. Yeah, a lot of
fun stuff. We'll get some other great guys on me.
There's yeah. We had four more stories, four more chances,
five more chances. No, no, And the show has been
very good. What have you heard?

Speaker 4 (45:22):
What have you heard about the critique of the show?

Speaker 5 (45:26):
Very positive? I mean people like it. I mean last
night I ran into a lady.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
And she said, oh, i'dn't want to listen to this show.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
It's been awesome, she said, but are you the guy
who was putting money in his shoe. Now that's not
I mean she said, did he have one hundred?

Speaker 4 (45:43):
Did you have one hundred and seventy doll I said no, you.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Got seventy eight dollars in the shoe frobably by man.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
They all pennies.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you said like seventy eight, said dive
here in quarterly here.

Speaker 4 (45:53):
No, that was what that was a funny story. Yeah,
you didn't have any superstitions.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
You know, it was like you don't step on a crack,
you don't split the pole, you know, you have bad
luck if a black cat cross your face. Oh so
the normal, the normal, the normal? Yeah, yeah, was there
a time? Well you had people here? Did you ever
get lonely to get back home?

Speaker 4 (46:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (46:19):
When I first got here, I was homesick. Every freshman
goes through it. But what what was your situation? I mean,
I wasn't playing.

Speaker 5 (46:27):
So when you're playing, you're occupied, your mind is occupied,
you're busy, and you're feeling good about yourself.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
So that injury must have saved your career. Here, which
one the one that you replaced the what's his name?

Speaker 4 (46:38):
Oh Jack Howley?

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Yeah, yeah, because otherwise you probably would not have played, No,
not that year.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
Would you have left? I don't know?

Speaker 5 (46:47):
In in uh, I mean I tried to create a
couple of times and somebody saved me here. No, remember
I was starting one of the elementary school.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so why not? Why
not when you were here?

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Right?

Speaker 4 (46:57):
Yeah? What would you have been your options? I don't know.
Go home, go home and work? Yeah, make your two
dollars an hour at Virginia State College. Yeah bad.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
You took the right path, obviously, look how it went.
And look who you are. I love it here. It's
his home. Yeah, no, of course. And I've said this.
I asked you this question last time you went the mount.
We're here about being the goat. You're comfortable with that?

Speaker 4 (47:23):
You are? You look like a goat.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
I feel like an old goat. Would you know what
I'm saying? People say you're the best player to ever
play here in football.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
It's okay to say. I don't mind it. But in
my mind, in my heart, I believe Chuck Sees is
the best place. Yeah, because he had less to work with. Yeah,
I understand.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
And the funny the stories you guys tell about him
being just this a buck fifty forty buck forty and
having to run into this into the into the pads
thirty yards away to ring the bell. And he admitted
he told the story. Yeah, that's some crazy that's some
crazy stuff.

Speaker 5 (48:02):
Yeah, he rang that bells like winning a lottery when
you're about forty And look at him now, you knowah yeah, no,
most vicious tackler and the history of the NFL.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
I saw him on the on the the fire fireman
uh commercial. Did you see the Fireman commercial? Oh that's
that's overhyped or whatever doing that. But you've seen the
commercial already, right, No, that there's a commercial with him
in the fire department and in the car. Yeah, it's
it's pretty funny him being him.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
It is what it is. Well, Ricky, thanks for coming in.
I appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
We'll see you possibly next week. May do his showy huddle,
honey huddle. It's a lot of a lot of fun
reminiscing and talking about the game coming up.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
We'll see what happens. Can you get to four? No,
we can absolutely.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
I mean, like I said, we have the ability to
win every game on our schedule, you know, but you
can't have mishaps you can.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah, we talked to it was it was a thread
that we had during the game. Penalties, penalty, uh, turnovers, yep,
and just small little things that were happening.

Speaker 5 (49:05):
Yeah, and for a minute that we thought were going
to give it away with yeah yeah, miskick, miskick, miskick,
drop snap dropt.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Yeah, and then all the penalties yeah feasible. Ye, But
they're still just young men out there trying to play
a game, right right. Thank you appreciate it. Hi, brother, Thanks,
thanks Kobe, thank you, thanks. Everybody talks to you tomorrow.