Monday, June 23, Hour 1

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

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports
fourteen fifteen on Steve Rivera and today is My Guy
on Monday, Troy Hutchison and my guy three days out
of the week.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Right, what's going on, guys?

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Not the much. How's your weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Exactly? Nothing much.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Summer's not a lot, not a lot going. NBA Finals done?
You know, you find out what I want to talk about.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Man, Today was what basically only on fries with a
Dodger guy here. Yeah, it was good, good, good. It
was a pretty good NBA Finals. I thought seven games.
Crazy game yesterday because of Halliburton.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
Yeah what once he lunched and he saw him go down,
you knew I was over, You knew was done?

Speaker 6 (00:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
You mean the game?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, they they did pretty well, got the U of A.
Guys did really well, made a name for themselves. They
never once mentioned where they were from.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I don't think, no, not at all, I have even
from Duke, as everybody says, oh that guy's from Duke
no wonder you're playing hard.

Speaker 7 (01:18):
I feel like Richard Jefferson was giving him some favor
in the broadcast.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, so that that was. I will talk about that
a little bit. Anything else the book Cultural Series that
was when I got up. Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about
that too.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
We have Jennifer in con at three seventeen and then
Brian Peterson at four seventeen.

Speaker 8 (01:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
One of the most.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Difficult part of my life these days is finding guests
because the summer. Yeah, I'm taking the rest of the
summer off after today, No, next week I have. It's
tough that finding people that you know topical and can
talk about what's going on in the world today, because
I don't really want to talk about other things. But
but today, So Jennifer could three seventeen, Channel four obviously

(02:03):
channel for I Give you Away. And then Brier Peterson
Easy Desert for him. He was with the team out
in Omaha soil and he knows Chip fairly well. So
we'll talk about that. Not a surprise. It was the
wind whether you know, did you read this, I didn't read.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
I didn't read the same I saw the email come through,
But not a surprise. It was just when it was
going to happen four years. You knew it was going
to happen. Four or five year deal and a four
year deal, and when.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Is it? Is it?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I forget, I forget what I'm talking to. Yeah, A
good question.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
I mean you could you could work off of one
year now. There's no reason to have a coach not
on a link contract.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, because of the recruiting.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, m good question. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I would assume it would be. I worked in baseball.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
Well, baseball is doing something a little bit more interesting
these days, so they're going deeper into the lineup, deeper
into the lineup, deeper or into the postseason. You know,
that's what I came in, you know.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, we'll see what happens and then uh, your guy,
uh Tommy Tommy Lloyd, Tommy boy is out and overseas with.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Run yeah, you know to Coepete there and performing very well.
Everybody was talking about that dunk, but dunks the dunk,
but actually playing very right.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Right though, though you're right, gut look at you, you
must be fifty years old. Dunks of dunk on you
would say it's only two points, just like every other shot.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
I don't think they're going to give him you a
huge NBA contractor off a one dunk that was that.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Was the case.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
That was the case.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
It would have been has On Adams would have had
a lot of money in the NBA a lot of time.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
It would have been truly hot sauce.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, hot sauce. Right, So we'll talk about all that.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
So good for a chip though, four you're for four years,
I think, new signed, new signature, new new contract.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
I wonder how contracts are going to change now moving
forward with the transfer portal, with everything going on. Is
that because you have to feel a little bit more
uncomfortable giving out these four or five, six, seven year
deals at some colleges like Judfish at Washington, knowing that

(04:14):
a lot can change within a year.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, no question.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
And the money, yeah, because you know the buyouts and
all that. I'm sure it's talking about we thought this
when COVID hit. Remember when all this money either paying
these coaches, you know, ten twenty million dollars four or
five million, six million, ten million dollars a year and
then COVID hits and then you're not coaching and buyouts
are huge something stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Why would you do that?

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Why would you make it long term, and why would
you pay them this much of money when you have
to maybe you fire them at some point.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
I mean, unless you're at a place like Georgia Alabama.
I mean, we just saw George's coach what one hundred
million dollars and contracted football a while ago, like near
the beginning of the season or something like that. Another
big contracts somewhere else in college football. But if you're
not a school like that, it just doesn't make sense
to do those types of deals.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
But but if you have the money like the.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Doers, even with Chad seven years, seventy five, yeah or whatever.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
The but you whatever money you want to bet, whatever
money you want to bet, he doesn't end up with
at seven.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
Oh, I don't think he'll get to your I want
to say three for I'm going to say four just
to be I do want to say three.

Speaker 9 (05:25):
But well, because he'll go somewhere else, he'll leave. I mean,
that's what the projection is. You know, his track record
shows what what was it when he got there? Was
on the thirteen jobs in fourteen years? Something crazy? So
I left, yeah, exactly. Wait, he doesn't love Tucson. Wow,
he's a trap. Trap peezer. You know what he can trap?

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Wait, there's another job I gotta go.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah, every job says dream job.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yes, he has a lot of dreams. That's why dream
ball getting up tomorrow, this dream give me up at
the boarding?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
What's up right? Not your weekend?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
It was?

Speaker 6 (06:05):
It was good.

Speaker 7 (06:06):
I've been watching since I don't have school right now,
just been watching a lot of movies.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh really, what Jaws?

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Fight Club? Fight Club? It's good. I've never seen that.

Speaker 7 (06:17):
It's a good one.

Speaker 6 (06:19):
Good one.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Secrets on what's shrase? There's no need you don't talk.

Speaker 7 (06:22):
About don't talk about it, man breaking the rules.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
You broke it by telling me, Yeah, it's fair again.
You guys want to com please do five to two.
Oh save us from five to four.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
One sixty four forty would like to hear from you
what you thought on what happened over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, I felt sorry for coach all day.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
You know, get their coach thrown out in the first
inning for whatever reason.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
I didn't see exactly what happens and strikes I think, Yeah,
was that just the bottom line?

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Balls and is right to begin with?

Speaker 2 (06:51):
And then he.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Argued more, and then you said, hey, get the hell,
get the hell out of here. You're gonna lose anyway,
and uh, we're gonna have Bryan. You know, he covered
J two, right, I never covered Jay And I asked Michael,
I guess he's an intense dude, even in those interviews
are really and we played hard, you know.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Very very strict, very monotone. Yeah, very yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Not exciting, not that you have to be, but you know,
he's successful.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
I mean two World Series later, so right, titles. They
had him here for a reason, because he's a good coach.
They got him over there because he's.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
A good coach. You know.

Speaker 7 (07:27):
Did the ump falling have anything to do.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
With Yeah, and he fell on his own.

Speaker 7 (07:32):
It looked like he fell on his own. Yeah, But
because then he gave the quote and he was like,
I don't have anything to do with a grown man's athleticism.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Oh yeah at the end of the game.

Speaker 7 (07:41):
Yeah, yeah, he said that in the in the postgame presser.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I don't I don't think so really, but it was
It's interesting, like because he like was backing up or something.

Speaker 7 (07:49):
Yeah, And it looked like it looked like the coastal
coach talking to like a different number, like it wasn't
even facing himself.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
But who knows what umpires are thinking. There's sometimes where
you're just like really like a couple of years ago,
I don't I don't know if you guys remember the
whole entire Madison Bumm Gardener thing with the checking of
the hand, and that's normal for the MLB umpires to
check the hand. But he wasn't even looking at him.
He was just looking at Madison and barely like feeling that.

(08:16):
He was just testing to see how stuff I could
get this guy before he freaks out. And then he
kicks him out of the game. So it's like, okay,
what what are your intentions going in?

Speaker 6 (08:28):
Kick me out?

Speaker 4 (08:30):
I don't want to be here. I'm not going to
get paid anyway.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
I hope nobody can read my lips when you do
the right everybody doesn't know.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Could you get me out of the third? He can't
go three? We'll see what happens. Okay, anything else.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
Uh NBA, But I mean besides finals, trade deadline, well
not trade deadline, but the trade and.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, I wanted to get somebody from Penix.
Somebody do it, by the more, But yeah, that big
trade in.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Phoenix and how that impacts potentially Carter Bryan.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, yeah, because someone said that they might pick him
at ten.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Seems like a good spot for him.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah him, Yeah, are you God?

Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's hard for me to say we didn't see him
enough of him obviously, but obviously he's got a ton
of potential. I'm gonna do the story on Caleb probably
tonight for tomorrow or whatever.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Because still have you heard anything?

Speaker 10 (09:25):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:25):
And Tommy is convinced. Yeah, but although what else is
he going to say that too?

Speaker 4 (09:31):
But is that drafted or signed? Summer league both? You
know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Well, were you there in the press comverance? Yeah, so
you heard my question right, And he kind of jumped
on me. He says, what have you been hearing? I said, well,
I know what, I know what I read. I don't
talk to anybody anymore. And he says, well, I've been
talking to people and you don't feel this way. In fact,
somebody interviewed me about TJ this morning. You're doing a
story when Sewn said he's a pro and we all

(09:56):
looked at him, what really? And then Caleb was was
more of a pro now than t J was then
a pro? That NBA player come on who's a better
player too, well now because we have ten years.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
No, no, no, no, no, even back then, I don't know
because I arguing because you full of crap.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
No, because you can't.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
You can't replace high basket Bay like you always doing
the right things.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
I don't hustle everything. Caleb doesn't do any of that.
I don't.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
But he's he He's a heck of basketball player that
doesn't he doesn't fit today's game.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well no, no, okay.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Caleb Calen doesn't fit today's game. He fits more of
today's game. My whole thing is anything I say is
going to be ten years of TJ doing really well. No, no,
I agree with that because he's been fantastic. But you
I'm not defending Caleb either, because I know he's flawed,
and he's flawed big time. Not just basketball, it's other things.
TJ was very flawed in terms of shoot shooting and

(10:52):
jumping and athletic ability. What's the NBA about?

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yes, yes, no so, But to your.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Point, yes, he's got all the other things, and I
would take him tomorrow in a heartbeat over a lot
of people. But at the time, you're thinking, how is
he going to be an NBA player because he doesn't
have But you think the NBA is right the potential
that Carter has.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, he didn't back then. He didn't have that either.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
No, no, no, but he's.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Found he's a fantastic player. I would I would take
him tomorrow. He's gonna be a heck of a coach
when he decides to coach, if he wants to do that.
But with Caleb, then I'm not trying to fit Caleb
in the NBA. I just don't see it. Tommy's going
to defend him to the death, and he did that
a week or so ago when I asked the question,
kind of joked back back and forth with me.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
But okay, my thing with Caleb is, obviously he's more
skilled offensive player than what TJ was coming out in
terms of shooting the ball. But you're also a high
volume shooter. You don't shoot for a great percentage, You
turn the ball over, and you do none of the
little things.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
No, No, you're right, you're right. I think he can
when he wants to. When he did that when he
wanted so Cadaiden when when he wanted to. But yeah,
I know Aiden's much more talented. But what I'm saying player. No, no, no,
I got, I got. What I'm saying is the motor
of it though, yeah, yeah yeah, And whose fault is that?

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Who's the player? The player?

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Right, So maybe that'll change.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's funny because when Richard came out, When Richard came out,
and when we got all these people saying, no, he's
not the first round guy. You look at his stats,
blah blah blah. But Richard was a heck of a player.
He's got a lot of potential back then, he came
out as a junior. What he did was over the summer,
he worked on his handles, he worked on his shot,
he worked at and became this guy, right, this pretty
good player, a flat player, but a pretty good player. Yeah.

(12:35):
TJ's fantastic. Would take him tomorrow. For Caleb, I don't know.
I don't see him.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
I don't. I don't agree what Tommy is saying.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
I don't either. I don't.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
There has to be that extra gear when you're outside
the scheduled times, because college is everything's so rigid. You're here,
you're here, you're there, you have to go to class,
you have a bunch of other stuff to worry on.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
When you're in the NBA. It's all on you.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Did you think that Trier was an NBA player.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
I thought his shot, I thought his scoring ability could
make him last year.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
He was a volume guy too, and he was he
was more of a me guy, though he.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Was much more one hundred percent, much more of a
me guy. But I think his offensive skills were higher
than Caleb. I think at times he could take over
a game score So I know Caleb did against Duke,
but the ceiling to that is lower.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Right when he was there for a year. I mean
he eventually got there in a year and last of
the year and that was it. Okay, I'm getting the
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Steve Rivera, He's got his eye on the ball on
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Speaker 3 (18:47):
Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roverta. You're Troy Hutchison,
and now on the phone, we have Jenna Pink from KVOA.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Jenna, how are you good?

Speaker 13 (18:57):
How are you?

Speaker 18 (18:58):
Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Thank you. I was wondering if you're bored because it's
a summer in Tucson, and if you're like me, if
you like me, I'm scrambling for stuff.

Speaker 18 (19:06):
No, it's never boring, never boring.

Speaker 19 (19:08):
No, it's definitely slower, a little bit slower this time
of year with U of A and KEEMA and high
school being out.

Speaker 18 (19:14):
But there's still a lot of good stuff.

Speaker 19 (19:15):
To talk about, a lot of you know, people in
our community doing really cool things as well.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Right right, you have the opportunity to talk about, you know, stories,
the stories about people playing sports or doing whatever they do.
You saw today, I'm sure that Chip got his contract
and you're probably not shocked, No, not shocked.

Speaker 19 (19:34):
Well deserved for sure, given you know, his success in
his first four years and the fact that they were
just an Omaha and you know, one of the eight
teams left in the entire country, so not surprising to
see that.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
You know, not only do you have the Chip Baseball News,
but here locally in Tucson you have well I know
that is local as well, but you have the Mexican
the Mexican Baseball League and the announcement that was just
the other day. You're at that event. What what was
that like? Just seeing this come together and I think
it's going to be starting up in October if I

(20:06):
am coregue that one.

Speaker 19 (20:08):
Yeah, opening day October sixteenth, so you can mark your
calendars for that. The overall feeling that I got there
was a lot of excitement, right, I mean, professional baseball
being back in Tucson for the first time in a
long time, and you know a lot of the officials
who were there were talking about how this is really
filling that gap that people in the community had been missing,

(20:30):
and that the stadium itself had been missing this. You know,
we're talking about how there was no tenant, but you
could feel the excitement from the team owners who felt
that Tucson was a great place given all the history
with baseball here, and how excited they were just to
see the blending of cultures and having you know, fans
from both sides going up to support you know, support

(20:53):
Tucson and the Tucson coming going down to Mexico as well,
kind of the shared the shared cultural bond that.

Speaker 18 (20:59):
Will be created from this.

Speaker 19 (21:01):
And they also talked about how Mexican Baseball Fiesta had
kind of set the tone and set the you know,
the potential for this to even happen in the first place.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, yeah, no question. And he did you get to
see the different side of baseball that they have, the
part of the parties or whatever. So as you look back,
as you look back to the season, the whole season,
you know, from the Septembers to April's doms in fact
this late how would you rate the season?

Speaker 2 (21:28):
From Juve?

Speaker 19 (21:29):
It's funny because I just did I think it was
last week or the week before. I did like an
Arizona Athletics year in review, So I kind of in
putting that together, went through all the sports, and there
were things that I had even you know, forgot about
at such a long school year that sometimes you even
forget about some.

Speaker 18 (21:44):
Of the accomplishments.

Speaker 19 (21:45):
But there was a lot of success, you know, starting
with volleyball winning the niv C.

Speaker 18 (21:51):
That you know, that was their first championship of any kind.

Speaker 19 (21:54):
And then you know, football had had a rocky start
under Brent Brennan, but there was still in visual success
with Teo McMillan and three other Wildcats getting drafted, you know,
three Big Twelve championships in the first year, two other
Big Twelve tournament title appearances. Like I was going through
all of this and you know, there was a lot,
a lot of success, and it's going to be kind

(22:16):
of fun to see how, you know, in the case
like with Chippel when he's back and extended, Like, it's
going to be fun to see how these teams kind
of build on that success as we move into into
next season.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
Yeah, I was going to say it felt like a
built kind of like building blocks this season, given that
you're in the financial deficit, you're having to overcome that
and to still have success and lay groundwork on the
football side of things in terms of the offseason with
a lot of coaching changes and seeing that all come about.
How important was it do you think for Arizona to

(22:51):
have this success given with the cloud of the whole
entire deficit that I had to deal with during this
academic year.

Speaker 18 (22:59):
Yeah, I think it was, you know, important because and
I taught.

Speaker 19 (23:02):
I actually spoke with athletic director des A referend Suile
today and she was talking about some of the you know,
adjustments that they had to make, and they all had
to kind of buy in as a program to these
changes in order to get out of you know, make
headway and getting out of the deficit.

Speaker 18 (23:16):
And I think it's kind of speaks.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
To the the.

Speaker 19 (23:20):
Slogan bearing down right of of you know, still grinding
out and getting and getting those championships and having all
of the success that we're used to seeing from these
Arizona teams.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
So did you Will you have that interview uh in
tonight tomorrow?

Speaker 19 (23:34):
Yeah, we're gonna I'm gonna do kind of two parts.
So I spoke with her about the new revenue sharing
how that's all going to take effect on July first.

Speaker 18 (23:44):
I'll have that.

Speaker 19 (23:44):
Tonight and then tomorrow I'm going to break down a
little bit about the bare down blueprint that they put
out last week about you know, kind of their their
five year plan of how they hope to see continued
success in both you know, on and off the field,
in the classroom and.

Speaker 18 (24:00):
On the field, and also you know, how they're going
to continue with fan engagement as well.

Speaker 6 (24:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Sure, did you talk about the deficit, because they've got
it down to five million and should be cleared by
next year, so which is they've done a fantastic job.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Mm hm.

Speaker 18 (24:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (24:16):
She talked about how they've you know, some of the
things that they've done, and I'll have and i'll have
more of that.

Speaker 18 (24:20):
I don't want to I don't want.

Speaker 19 (24:21):
To say say exactly because I don't want to misquote
what she said, but you know, she did talk about
the ways that they went about reducing that that deficit.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, okay, so you can see that tonight.

Speaker 19 (24:35):
I'll have that part. I'll have that part tomorrow tonight.
We'll we're talking more about revenue share and all that
kind of stuff. Yeah, but it's still really, you know,
really interesting. It's a totally new age of age of
what we're going to see with with these schools paying
athletes directly unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
I know they're going to be your neighbors. They're gonna
be your neighbors because you know, hell, they're making more
money than three of us can buy, and four of
us can buy, and then some and then some. Give
me some revenue share, t mech if I could, real quick.
He So we had the school year. We just talked
about that.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Any specific story, maybe not even related to you, of
a that struck out to you or stuck out to you.

Speaker 18 (25:14):
I think my favorite that that I told is that
what you mean?

Speaker 19 (25:19):
I think one of my favorite stories that I did
this year was the super fan at Arizona Baseball who
dances to Cotton Eye Joe Stephen Leek. That was the
story that I had kind of been waiting to tell.
I had seen, you know, seen him dancing every game
that I had been to and and wanted to go.

Speaker 18 (25:35):
And then to have.

Speaker 19 (25:38):
Dick Greaser, who he who Stephen Leak was so heavily
influenced by to become a baseball fan and at Flowing
Wells High School, to have Dick Grease, He's son reach
out to me and present you know, little pieces of
his dad that he wanted to give to Steve, And
it was a really cool full circle moment and kind

(25:59):
of a good remind of you know, what you know
these stories can be like and how impactful they can
be in our community.

Speaker 18 (26:07):
So that was probably my favorite story that I did
this year.

Speaker 19 (26:09):
A couple of stories was just kind of his story
behind dancing the Cotton and eight show at every baseball game.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
You know, a lot of people they think people get
into this business not only what you do, but writing
and stuff like that in terms of covering the game
and being around the team and all that, and that
is part of why everybody gets into it. They do
love sports and all that. But is it stories like
that that drove you into the business and being able
to tell those stories of not only the team but

(26:36):
the fans that go to these games.

Speaker 19 (26:38):
Yeah, I'm always you know, that's probably my one of
my favorite parts of this job is getting to tell
people's stories, you know, not necessarily just you know, of course,
we cover the games and what happens, but I also
like going beyond beyond those highlights and talking, you know,
about the stories behind these athletes, the stories behind the fans,

(26:59):
you know, things that make Arizona and in this case,
that make Arizona athletics what it is. You know, same
thing with high school, same thing with Pema College. Like,
there's so many great athletes and and people who make
you know, these sports teams run that have great stories,
and it's kind of like it's always really fun to
me to get to share those stories.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
One of the things you did, I think it was you.
I'm sure it was you, but I think it was
a waka. He reads a lot, right, he reads a lot.
And the story that you know, he really reads. We
had him on the show maybe a month ago. He
was yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 18 (27:34):
He read, he read, yeah, you want. He started when
he was at Tennessee.

Speaker 19 (27:38):
He had a whole book club, and when he came
to Arizona. I don't know that he ever started up
a book club or not, but he was really into
into reading. And you know, I think that's really cool too.
I mean, you don't necessarily you know, you don't necessarily
think about it.

Speaker 18 (27:52):
I don't even read as much as I probably should,
you know, so to see that was kind of it
was kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
No, We had him on the show and then you
could just tell how well spoken he is, an articulate
and you know how he uses his words like how
I'm doing right now? But you know just how smart
he is because he reads a lot. And I thought,
you know your story and I remember the press conference
where you spoke about it, but you could just how
you could just see how he You can see that

(28:18):
the wheels turning when you ask him questions.

Speaker 19 (28:21):
Yeah, yeah, his whole face lit up too. And when
I remember asking him about reading, and his.

Speaker 18 (28:25):
Whole face lit up and he was, you know, excited
to talk about it.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
You know, another part of your job, and you mentioned
it before is that high school sports. And guess it's
on you know, the downside right now in terms of
the dead period, but football is going to be gearing
up for training camp and getting ready for the season
and not that far ahead. Uh, just your excitement level
to get back out there on the high school field
and cover these athletes. And what are you looking forward

(28:52):
to this upcoming high school season?

Speaker 18 (28:54):
Oh yeah, it's so much fun. It's so much fun.

Speaker 19 (28:56):
We have our high school football show every Friday night,
a football fever. Super excited to get back into doing
that because you know everyone gets so excited to see
themselves on TV, see their highlights, and it's just fun
to be out there within the community and covering the teams.
And there's so much talent here too, you know, between
Maranago and undefeated last year and being in the Open

(29:18):
and you know, all these teams that have continued success.
It's really fun to to follow the student athletes journeys,
like as they you know, become seniors, you know, we
see them and sometimes they're sophomores, juniors on varsity, and
then we see them kind of continue to grow and
then go on sometimes off to college and playing at
the collegiate level.

Speaker 18 (29:39):
So it's really fun to kind.

Speaker 19 (29:41):
Of follow their journeys every year, see how they improve
and see you know, which teams are are going to
be good. There's so much talent, like I mentioned down here,
so I'm super excited for for football to start up again.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
So how has it been, because I think you're probably
going to start second year, maybe three year of being here,
but maybe first or second or second year of being
the lone Ranger as a sports anchor, because I'm sure
it's real busy. Although you have.

Speaker 18 (30:04):
Mooney, I think I think I lost it for a second.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Okay, just yeah, are you there? Can you hear me?

Speaker 18 (30:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah, yeah, just.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I think this is gonna be your second year without
without a second person, right, So how difficult has it been?

Speaker 2 (30:19):
One? Although I think you have Mooney helping you from
time to time.

Speaker 19 (30:24):
Yeah, no, it's it's definitely one less person to shoot
football games, but you know.

Speaker 18 (30:29):
You make the most of it.

Speaker 19 (30:31):
We still, you know, have people out there at all
those games and and they are dedicated to bring in
as much as many games as we can to the show.
And it's just about you know, trying to get to
as many different things as we can and trying to share,
share the love, and make sure that we're highlighting as
many different.

Speaker 18 (30:48):
Schools with regard to high school football.

Speaker 19 (30:51):
In southern Arizona that we can, because, like I mentioned,
so much talent down here, so just try to spread
it out we go, you know, we I always do
a high school game of the week preview and love
getting to talk to all the variety of different coaches.
I think I was at I think of the thirteen weeks,
I think I only went.

Speaker 18 (31:09):
Back to one school twice.

Speaker 19 (31:11):
So really trying to get out to as many different
schools in our community and talking to the coaches.

Speaker 18 (31:16):
It's so much fun.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Let me before you said, I'm going to drop you
a little quick note later today if your look about
all this, because I just thought of something, Okay.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
Go ahead, No, I was going to say, you know,
take us through your Friday nights because you are all
over the place going to one high school to another
and getting all this coverage. How many games do you
hit up during a Friday night and get and get
coverage of?

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Would you say?

Speaker 19 (31:41):
Yeah, I would say in general, as a team, we
normally will get anywhere from like six to eight games,
and just kind of depends on the schedule any given
week of you know, our two schools close to each
other playing and someone can go grab both of those
schools real quick, you know that kind of stuff. So
it just kind of depends on the given week. But

(32:02):
we have a whole team, you know, people who go
out to games and help it because I would not
be able to do it by myself obviously, So you know,
everyone at Newsports Tucson does a really good job of
stepping up and going out to games and and shooting
I personally normally go to one maybe.

Speaker 18 (32:19):
Two if they're close.

Speaker 19 (32:21):
But that's because I'm putting the show together. So when
I go back to the station, I'm editing all of
those highlights, writing out scripts, and making the show.

Speaker 18 (32:32):
Come to life.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
So you had the Desreon today.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Did you talk to her about the chip news or
did that come after or whatever.

Speaker 18 (32:39):
Came out afterwards? I spoke with her this morning.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah. Then what do you think about softball? What's going
to happen there?

Speaker 18 (32:46):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 19 (32:47):
I you know, I think it's going to be interesting
to see, if you know, what happens with Caitline. I
think she's had a lot of success, you know, just
like just like baseball, and so.

Speaker 18 (32:58):
It'll be interesting to see.

Speaker 19 (32:59):
I I don't have a crystal ball unfortunately, but uh yeah,
I don't.

Speaker 18 (33:03):
You know, be interesting to see what happens.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, thanks a bunch for joining us. I'm gonna send
you a note later. Thank you. Check out Channel four.
Thank you. We we gotta call. Hello, you're on the air,
nine on the wall. Who's this? It's the man?

Speaker 4 (33:23):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
What's up? What's up? Are you? Where are you at? Man?

Speaker 6 (33:27):
All right time?

Speaker 20 (33:28):
You know why since we're the topic of high school football,
and she's saying that they only do the Friday football
man is she could be the worst one.

Speaker 18 (33:36):
To jump on and cover all the seven tournaments.

Speaker 6 (33:40):
That we're going to, all the speaking up and you
just seeing the strong line.

Speaker 18 (33:47):
Highlight?

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Are you calling?

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Are you calling from Uncle Poockle because you just kind
of went out enough.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
I don't know, dude, I got that new phone four
years ago.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Oh yeah, it's a phone.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
You're good.

Speaker 20 (34:02):
You're good, like I would say, Well, let me we
say what I'm saying again. She there's content out right now,
all the seven on seven tournaments. Oh yeah, where you
could cover get you could get intimate details of these
kids and build the because Arizona youth football has grown.

(34:23):
You know, we've had Bijon Jordan Morgan. I know that's
just a few kids, but the culture is building and
we're not Texas necessarily, but to make content and to
have it out there right now, they're doing seven on
seven tournaments, they're doing the strong Man competition. I just
dropped my my son off right now.

Speaker 6 (34:41):
He's doing reen konn University.

Speaker 20 (34:44):
Good luck for him, you know, nerd school, but that's
that's what he chose to do.

Speaker 18 (34:49):
And another thing.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
You guys talked about.

Speaker 20 (34:51):
The baseball right, yes, the team they don't have a
they don't have a name yet, right right, Like you
better not watch it, like HOLLI botched the shigs calls,
Oh my god, the Sugar's calls. Wait, Donald or the
sugar calls. They should have been the medicals. They had
it right there. You would have the dead section. People
could have went looking like zombies or sugars called out,

(35:14):
you know what I mean. But no, it's like I
look at it and they just make a face like
I'm smelling something decay, Like you know what I mean,
like a sorry name.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
So you tell your boy not to mess it up.

Speaker 20 (35:28):
And another thing, those baseball fiesta things are.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
The most annoying themes in the world.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
They need to shut up the band and we need
to listen to the game.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Oh wow, look at you. You became an eighty year
old man all of a sudden.

Speaker 6 (35:43):
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No shoot, we'll see how that goes for you. Good
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Speaker 2 (36:03):
Yeah, no, no, we don't talk about the Cowboys. Way
too early for that. Thanks Mike. Love y'alla, dude, I
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On the pulse of that because I was waiting for something. Yeah,
I was God, That's why he kept saying, yeah, get
that finger up. But just because I couldn't find it,
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You know, I saw something and I still don't like.
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Speaker 2 (41:26):
But really, how old is sixty eighth?

Speaker 5 (41:29):
You got to think of guys like Phil Jackson and
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Speaker 2 (41:35):
Yeah, but back, you know, back.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
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forty compared to Tom Brady when he was forty.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
That's true. It was a lot older.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
It looks like the wooden Wooden Nickel twenty five years old.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Who's the second oldest? Does it say or I can
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Speaker 2 (41:57):
Who said that that he was the oldest. Yeah, that
does sound the really strange.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
It sounds weird at sixty five then, you know, I
mean the heckuy, what's his name?

Speaker 4 (42:09):
George Carl, George Carl.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah, there's a bitch of he was old well to win,
to go to the finals, win, just to coach in
the finals.

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Oh really, we got to call Hello, you're on the
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Speaker 3 (42:21):
Vi?

Speaker 9 (42:22):
Vic?

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What's the word?

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What's going on?

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Troy?

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How you doing? Vic?

Speaker 10 (42:26):
I'm fantastic man, So I gotta hear your guys opinion,
both of you on a on Caitlin, you are.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
Going she's staying, well, she's staying.

Speaker 5 (42:38):
But again, I think when you have a coach in
today's game, Elaine duck Ere a one year deal. I
don't think there's that urgency that there was back in
the day, given how many transfers there are now, how
classes changed now, and how Nils played a big part.
I don't think there's that huge need to get a

(42:59):
deal done right away if it's up and there at all,
given the fact that roster's move and change all the time.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
Now.

Speaker 10 (43:08):
Yeah, he could be right. Never thought of it that way.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
But you still got a recruit, and she's got some
pretty good recruits right decently.

Speaker 10 (43:16):
He's got some girls coming in this year, and she
did probably ce in the portal. Uh, Gray, if you're
gonna grade minus, maybe I was gonna says, yeah, they
got Tiara, Jenny's little sister, and she's like a one
night he hitter out of San Diego.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
I mean victim as you.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
So if she if she got to C minus D plus,
what does she lose?

Speaker 2 (43:43):
B minus B she lost?

Speaker 10 (43:45):
I would say, oh, yeah, yeah, I mean just with
just with Dakota and and uh and Kiera she lost.
That was definitely a bat plus right there.

Speaker 6 (43:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
Well, I would say outside of Dakota and Altmeyer, the
rest of them, I think you could afford to lose
if you had pieces that you could get.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
That were you.

Speaker 10 (44:06):
I definitely agree with that. The pitching. The pitching just
didn't pan out. But those were misses on everybody because
I mean a couple of them were you know, California
Players of the Year and I thought, hey, you got
to do something with them, but they just didn't pan out.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
So how many games you go to in a year? Bick?

Speaker 10 (44:27):
I go to one air at least one every home stand.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
So do you can you if I gave you the power,
can you evaluate how she coaches?

Speaker 10 (44:39):
She's kind of weird here. She stays in the dugout,
she doesn't coach third base, Lapping coaches third and then
one of the rad assistants coaches first.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Style style.

Speaker 10 (44:56):
It's tough because man, that the pitching. Obviously everybody's mad
about that, but he just hasn't had that one to
go out there like that guy at Texas cat you know, hey,
when in trouble, you know, he looks like a great coach,
but was he Is he really that good? Because all

(45:16):
he did was roll the ball out to his girl
and that's it. And even at Oklahoma, how can you
evaluate her when she, you know, just following them are
just hitting bombs and bombs and bombs, and she has
the best picture in the nation year in the year out.
I told you that time I had and there's way

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back in the day. But I have this great baseball
team and everybody said, oh man, Dick's so great. I'm like,
are you kidding? I roll the ball out to my
kid and I crossed my leg and he does. He
does everything for me and that that. But so yeah,
you know, once again, I mean to being the minority,
but can you really Phil Jackson has twenty rings, but

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he had the best player in the cunt in the
world two times, and then when he lost Michael the
baseball he didn't win craft. So was he that great?

Speaker 1 (46:14):
You know?

Speaker 10 (46:14):
So I don't know. Well, okay, I had one more
thing for you guys, and then I'm gonna be in
the minority. Or you said it a little bit Steve
on TJ when Miller said he was going to go
to the Pros and I laughed like I'm almost fell
off my chair. He had that Bob Coosey jump shot
back at Arizona, and you know what, between the two

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of you, tell me one play or one game that
he took over at Arizona.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
Well again, I think I think a million. I think taking.

Speaker 5 (46:47):
Over is looked at differently taking over scoring, no, but
taking over dominating again a game through his passing, through
his defense, through his leadership, communication, leadership.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
He did that several times. I know when Bill Walton was.

Speaker 10 (47:03):
I mean he was met Kansas and and er and.

Speaker 5 (47:09):
You're able to You're able to. I'm just saying you're
able to dominate the game without scoring in a different way.
And I mean his final year. There are several coaches
Bill Walton said it several times. And if you're not
a Bill Walton fan, you know that's that's on you.
But I'm just saying several times where he said he's
one of he's one of the packed twell best players

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in the Pack twelve. He should he should have been
a candidate for a packed tell players and he didn't
get it. But that's because everybody looks at scoring and
all that. But the way you dominate a game, there
was nobody outside on that team that dominated again more
than him, because Stanley Johnson wasn't doing he was hiding
in the corner, wasn't You can make a case for

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Nick Johnson and Ronde, Hollis Jefferson at times, but nobody
dominated the game more than t J mcconny.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
That team would have never been as good as it
was without him.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
No, and he saw the previous year when he was
on the bench, you had a high level talent. Now
you didn't have an Aaron goreon ronnet well, but when
you had who who is the point guard at the time,
I think it was Mark Lions and they got to
the sweet sixteen. If you have TJ on that team,
they probably get to an eliteate.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Well, they had a chance to become the best team
when they were undefeated, until they weren't. He got hurt, right, No,
to your point, Victor, I felt the same way. You know,
you see what he does. But he NBA's a different level, right,
it's the next level, and he didn't have it, and
then he then he's just a smart dude. I mean,
coming Hula thought Steve Kurr would have done what he
did in the NBA. He just found his Niche found

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his niche you know, Judd Buschler, These dudes, these dudes
that just found their way and could play the game
and found the coach that loved him.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
And and appreciated them.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
Look at it.

Speaker 10 (48:47):
Look at I often wonder that that ninety five team
of U c.

Speaker 8 (48:51):
L A.

Speaker 10 (48:52):
That one guy made a made a.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Right tby Bailey and all these guys.

Speaker 24 (48:57):
Yet know you're right, I mean, yeah, Bannon with College
Player of the Year, right right, Oh, okay, well we'll
see what happened, uh with Caitlin.

Speaker 10 (49:09):
But she's got to be out there recruiting now.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
So right, we'll see. Okay. Thank hey, you guys, thanks, thanks,
thanks for getting us to this ten minute.

Speaker 7 (49:20):
Second oldest coach by the way, Larry Brown for the
Pistons in two thousand and five.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
How old was he?

Speaker 4 (49:25):
Sixty four?

Speaker 5 (49:26):
God, these guys are say, and I was thinking, like
Greg Popovich looks like he's ninety at times.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
He hasn't got well.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Now in twenty.

Speaker 5 (49:32):
Fourteen, he's played it against the Miami Heat.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Eleven years ago, he's seventy two. Now probably okay, Well,
you had Luke gone to the Final four in two
thousand and fifty whatever, two thousand and five, he would
have been the oldes step at the time he was
like seventy, it would have been seventy seventy one, would
have been the oldest guy to kid and you're thinking, yeah,
you know, okay, seventy and even now Patino's what he
is and some of the other guys who's uh.

Speaker 5 (49:58):
Well, before that, you had a Jim Behim who was
getting up there in years, so.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Right, right, who's there for Miami?

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, so you.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Know God, and they're coaching later, they're coaching later in lives. Now, Okay,
we got about two minutes.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
Yeah, I got a couple of minutes.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Okay, thanks for calling anything else.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
No, I was gonna comment on that thing that Vic
brought up in terms of the coaching style of Yeah,
and I think the biggest thing and he I think
he was getting there to that point, is.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
It's very passive.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (50:31):
You mentioned there's not there's not that streak, and I'm
not saying a mean streak. But you have to be
a you have to you have to be hard on
your players.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Troy, There's no question about you. To have that, you
have to have an edge and then almost a fear
of playing for you but I love for playing you
at the same time.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
Fear of disappointing you. And she doesn't have that.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
Yeah, and she might be as smart as a whip
on the game and all that stuff, but you have
to have that them to play hard for you.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
And that was the biggest question during the transition because
for a while, everybody kind of knew that that was
going to be it for coach Andrea near the end
of that season. So the conversation was months the media,
is it going to be Taran Mowet or is it
going to be Caitlyn Low. It's going to be somebody
on the staff. Tarn seemed to have that head coach mentality.
She was always out there, she was always in controlled

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that period. Well, yes, she got fired later in terms
of what she didn't have something she wasn't the associated
head coach. Okay, Caitlyn was second in charge, so naturally
she is the one it's come next. But you never
after interviewing them and being around them with Mike there,
you never got a head coach feeling from Caitlin.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Well maybe that's an issue.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
Maybe that's an issue, And that's where I think a
lot of these issues got because Vic brought it up.
You've had top tier pitching talent from California. They haven't
panned out, no matter if it was Taran as the
pitching coach or Conrad Martinez. You've gone through potentially Conrad's
still there, but you know who knows that's his name,
contorg Conra Martinez.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Yeah, okay, here we go. Yeah, okay, we'll talk more
about that later