Tuesday, July 8, Hour 2

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, welcome back to my I on the Back here
on Fox Sports porteen fifty I'm Steve your Dave, and
now we have Gray with breaking news.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
This is Eye on the Ball Breaking News on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty eight.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Oh, lovely, lovely Tuesday. Well, I want to say super lovely.
It's kind of hot outside, but it's nice. This guy's
looking nice. Started kicking it off with the tennis team.
Alum Zorn Ladowski won his first professional title in Serbia.

(00:46):
I believe in men's singles, so that's pretty cool. He
was a freshman last year. He's returning this year. He's
supposed to be one of the higher rated guys as well.
On this article, it said that he should would be
taking Colton Smith's spot in the singles, so that's gonna
be awesome. Also, Peppajeene, Oh that's a tough One's Bastinson

(01:13):
from the Netherlands signed. The Beach volleyball team also got
a new well. They added someone to their staff, Amelia
Guerrera Akunya. She used to play at Boise State. Now
gonna start working here. Moving on to the baseball team,

(01:36):
the drafts coming up, and our guy Troy Hutchinson, uh
did a little article about it. Talked about uh summer Hill,
Brendan summer Hill being slided as the number sixteenth overall
Prospect'd be pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I mean, which team, which team would that be? Did
they say, uh?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Nah, doesn't say it's going to be there at that spot,
but I mean that'd be pretty cool.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Three three you a guys?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Uh, Well, a guy getting picked in like all up
the first round of all of the.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, I think there's another school that has that, but
just the one for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
I think it was like Penn State or something like that.
Like they had a hockey guy go in the first round.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, our guy Javier Morales.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
This is some more local stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
But ai A has announced a first like a double
first base, So that's that'll switch up kind.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
Of doing what everyone else is doing.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, And I feel like it's a good idea, you know,
because there was I mean that it felt like there
was a lot of obstruction, like kind of calls in
like both World Series is like the men's and the
women's in the past yeah, in the past this year too, but.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
This was that this one I thought was kind of
cool too.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Mountain West announced that the that GCU is going to
be joining their conference.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
The Western Athletic, the Mountain West.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, Mountain Western Athletic.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Was back in the day. Yeah, no, but it's just
a here, you're ahead of the schedule. Yeah, because they
were already going to be in it. Yeah, they're going
to be in it, but they are going this year.
Diamondbacks beat the Padres.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Six to three yesterday or is that a San Diego
It was in San Diego.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
They have the second game tonight at six forty got
more injuries. Yeah, that's kind of been the same. Missed
the game with a strained leg or something.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Which their fourth in the Yeah, they're fourth in the West.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Tough West.

Speaker 6 (03:31):
Trade trade deadlines coming soon too, so there's a little
bit of like what are they going to buy or sell?
You know, they're still sort of close to maybe getting
in the wild card world but you know.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, obviously it's hard to make
the playoffs, but yeah, that that West isn't going to
be easy.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Although they did beat the Padres.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
There's hope, like Troy said yesterday, I'd give you open.
Then they lose to the worst teams in the league. Well,
just an awful home stand. I think they were three
and seven like that.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, and I think the Marlin sweep was part of
that home stand. And then they split with the Giants,
lost a couple of lost a game or two to
the Royals.

Speaker 7 (04:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, they lost two out of three to the Royals. Yeah, tough.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'll be all right, I think, though maybe not this year.
There's another season coming up though. This was an interesting
one that caught my eye today. So Raphael Devers obviously
had a pretty big, kind of dramatic exit from Boston
with not wanting to play first and you know, obviously

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he's on the Giants now and Will Clark offered to
help him, and he didn't show up really three times
in a row, so I guess he really doesn't like
first base.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
There is another one that doesn't like Will Clark.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know, it's interesting that he
would not even take up the offer.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, because I mean he'd like to think, you know,
like just a Curtis and Icon, you know what I mean,
for the team.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
So it's like, yeah, but it goes.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
I guess Willie May's personal collection going to auction in September.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Obviously he passed away earlier this year.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
Who has that collection?

Speaker 4 (05:17):
I think probably just his family.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, but it was he wanted it to He wanted
all the proceedings or proceeds, Yeah, the proceeds sorry to
go to like education, health services, stuff like that.

Speaker 8 (05:33):
He has a foundation up for auction. Yeah, that's got
a world series. He got his car. That's kind of cool. Yeah,
wo'd be pretty cool. I mean I can't buy anything,
but it's cool to see. I guess got got trying to.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Help out two MVP trophies, Hall of Fame Induction ring,
Presidential Medal of Freedom from I think.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
That was Obama.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Obama's years keeping it going though.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Ex Cowboys tight end Heades Norman passed away at eighty six.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Norman year you do seventies early must have been the
early seventies.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Sixty two to seventy and then he played for the
Charges seventy one to seventies.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
Remember that name. I remember the name. You're a old man.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
That's why probably saw him play on on TV.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, one channel back and white. That's why we had
the one channel that's right.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Cowboys were always on.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Man, were you were you ever your your dad's remote control?

Speaker 7 (06:32):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (06:32):
Yeah, but we Yeah, it's we were living mostly when
I really learned sports in the Bay Area, So you know,
we had the Raiders and we had the Niners for football.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
See we go back and forth. So Dave, get up.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
And turn the channel. CBS not doing long NBC. That it's all.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
We had two channels. It was a two well two
three for ESPN wasn't around you No ABC, CBS and yeah,
Monday night football you'd have just the one game. Otherwise
it was, you know, a couple of games on the weekend.
So different now you can everything's on and there's nothing on.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah. Did you ever have to hold the antennas? Oh yeah,
oh man.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
No.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
In that direction, just the old school.

Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yeah, so we used to have to. Actually, you know
we have the antenna on the roof one of those.
Did you have those?

Speaker 4 (07:22):
I mean people listening might remember those, and you have
a remote in the.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
House our audience. But you know, occasionally things with the
wind would come up. Hey David, can you go up
on the roof?

Speaker 5 (07:37):
Dan, I already fell last week.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
Which might explain some of them. Why I am now,
but I mean that's what we had to do.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
I tell my kids these stories like, yeah, I mean
physically had to go up and because we needed to
aim into Sacramento because they had the games, and really
it was weird. It was weird, like some of the
Raiders were blacked out in the Bay area, but.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
You could get them in the Sacramento chain.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Physically we would go up on the roof and it's.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
A little snowy.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
It's a little snowy. Try it again, Okay.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Keeping it going.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Cowboys News Cavante Turpin arrested on two misdemeanor charges he
would which would be he had a possession of marijuana
and carried and carrying an unlawful unlawful carrying of a weapon.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
That'll be cleared.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
Season starts soon.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yeah, r Jerry will get in there.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Dallas Mavericks Anthony Davis had surgery for a detached retina.
I don't know how if that affects like.

Speaker 6 (08:39):
Good season or to wear glasses goggles maybe ye coming
here may wonder well.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
I always remember whenever like someone has like I stuff
like Rudy Gay he just just couldn't even see for
a while. I think he ended up like having eye surgery,
Like while he was playing, he was like, yeah, this,
this helps so much more.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Uh s.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Brad Stevens is saying that they the Celtics are not
rebuilding even after all the trades that they've done, which
is kind of surprising to me.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Not rebuilding. Who's hurt? Who's hurt?

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Jason Tatum gonna have to do something what's his name?
And porzingis So it's really just.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, I think it's just one of those things where
it's like we're not going to try to tank, but
ultimately can we'll probably end up not doing great. Oh
this is a pretty cool one from Wimbledon. Taylor Fritz
has become the first I believe, non American to make
it to the semis of a major that isn't like

(09:41):
hard tennis so like grass, I don't know what other sords.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Yeah, no, he's the first American to make it.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I'm oh, he was
how many different courts are there in tennis?

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Grass? Just grass and French open clay? Yeah no, I
didn't know that. That's it for me.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
So he gets to play Alcoraz, right, yeah, so that'll
be a challenge. We're getting to the Semis, so actually
after tomorrow will be so the quarters right now.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
I was quarters.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, Okaraz looked great too. I was they had the
game on or the match.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'm sorry, h while I was at the gym today,
and yeah, he was crushing it.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
He's good. Yeah, he's but so is.

Speaker 6 (10:26):
Center was number one, So that's kind of what they're expecting.
I think again, just like the French Open.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, to get the two together, No, and I think
it's o't know, I think rivalries like that are probably
pretty good. I remember, I think a couple of years ago,
before Cinner really came onto the scene, it was Okaraz
and the Djokovic. That was like kind of the the
pairing that you'd see in the finals more than anything.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
But so and Djokovic has he's hanging on, he's he's
in the quarters tomorrow. And then Center plays Ben Shelton,
who's another young American twenty two years old, so that's
gonna be.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
How did quite a match?

Speaker 5 (11:03):
How did the Arizon did the Arizona guy?

Speaker 4 (11:05):
No, I don't think he made the main draw or he.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Was in that in kind of close right, and then
some something he lost off.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
He went to Wimbledon and I think he lost in
like the preliminaries.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
I kept looking for that too. I never saw him.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Yeah that's why.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah, I never saw any stories about it, So I
don't know how he did. I mean, still making it.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know, Well, we are going to have Mike Bibby
here in about seven minutes. He did confirm that he's
gonna be able to do it. Uh so that'll be fun.
Talk about the good old days, talk about his new
job a Sacramento State. He's already hit the ground running
with some big names. He's looking forward to it. I
saw his interview with Jeff Golden Goodman Goodman a couple

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of weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
So you're gonna ask him about that Wildcat Classic. They're
gonna oh.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
Get yeah, yeah, yeah, I will, I will.

Speaker 7 (11:54):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (11:54):
So with him coaching there, Josh at Vegas, Damon and
Georgia Tech and then Arizona here have a four team
team are in Vegas.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
Let's do it. That'd be fantastic, I have.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
Yeah, they got to get like some major sponsor or
something like that or TV network to buy him. But
the secondment of State, it's kind of a tough draw
for television.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yeah, but it would be it would be cool.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
I mean, you have Biby there, whether he plays Arizona
or Vegas, you know, Vegas, and then Damon. They don't
know if Damon want to do it, because you know
you does he want to play Tommy or does Tommy
want to play him? Tom He's kind of avoided some things, right,
he just doesn't want to deal with it.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, doesn't want to deal.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
With that, which is I don't know if I would.
I want to do it either. It's going a lot
of pressure. If you what's the game? I mean, it'd
be a nice showcase here, it would be it would
be actually that too, you know what the first or
the return of the Festivowl Classic.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yeah, it would be kind of cool. Haven't we haven't
seen that forever?

Speaker 4 (12:55):
That was so good.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Was that it was the tournament there was when to
hold a while back, but right during Loot's time. Bring
four fantastic teams in here and play it over a
three game stretch. The Florida's, the Dukes, the big time schools. Yeah,
and it was probably the premiere on campus tournament.

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Just do like a round robin Christmas, there'd be like
two games and then the winners would play, losers would play.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Yeah, but not just anybody was it was.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
There was that one year where it was Duke and
Michigan State and Florida and they were all in the
top ten with Arizona. They were all here, and then
teams started thinking, well, you know, I don't want to
one of those teams is going to lose two times,
and so all of a sudden they were looking at like,
I'm not sure I want to go to Tucson and
lose twice in December.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
But it was a great event.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
It was right before New Year's, like in between Christmas
and New Year's.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Yeah, those are the really good old days.

Speaker 9 (13:46):
That was.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, those were that was. I mean, got a lot
of publicity.

Speaker 8 (13:48):
It was.

Speaker 6 (13:48):
Those were in years where teams were we're not afraid
to play each other.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
So I was about to say it's too bad, like
some teams are just scared to play play well.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
You don't want to his benefit or credit whatever. Tommy's
not shying away, no for any of these games.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
No, And I think it's changed because now you've got
places like Phoenix in Vegas and lay with their new
arenas and you know big sponsors money that want to
do them in those cities.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Will you they'll go there with that.

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Speaker 1 (18:49):
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Speaker 2 (18:58):
Hey, welcome back to one of the ball on ROX
Sports Fortune fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today's
Dave Silver. Now on the phone, we have former U
of A All American Mike Bibby, the head coach at
Sacramento State.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
Mike, how are you good?

Speaker 7 (19:12):
Are you guys doing?

Speaker 2 (19:12):
We're doing fine. How's that sound? Head coach Mike Bibby
at sack State.

Speaker 7 (19:19):
I love it, you know, I mean, I so long,
but every you know, everything's God, Simon and Steve, you know,
And I had to wait for that time to come.
So I'm glad it's here.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Yeah, no questions.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
The guys have been had been working out. I'm seeing
some videos and pictures and stuff. I mean, what's the
team look like. I know you're kind of in a
rebuild there, aren't, right, I.

Speaker 7 (19:38):
Mean, yeah, we have everybody new, But it's I'm just
teaching these guys the basic stuff that you know, I
want to see and and and to make them better
if any of them go on to that next level
maybe overseas or the NBA. Just have them ahead of
the eight ball for when they come out there to play,
so coaches would be okay, they've learned something. They may

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coach that's trying to give them the benefit of doubt.
So that's sometimes you're just trying to on and off
the court, just try to give them a sense of
you know, kind of what I had, you know coming
out of college.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah is it uh not that it's a lot of work,
but you know, are you doing some of the loot
stuff for? Who do you kind of lean on to
kind of do this whole thing.

Speaker 7 (20:21):
It's just I'm looking at everything, you know, I mean
I go as far as after Loward, you know, just
give them these guys a confidence and letting them play
what I letting them do what I recruit them for. Yeah,
and you know, you get a lot of you get
a lot of these college coaches that will bring a
kid in, watch him all his high school time or
wherever he's playing at, and recruit him, and then when

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he comes to play there, he's doing the stuff that
you saw him doing and you stop him from doing it.
So I'm just giving them the confidence. You know. Coach
oh used to just let us play play our strengths
and that's what made us so good.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
What about just building the program?

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Are you modeling this after anybody else that maybe we
would recognize what you're trying to do.

Speaker 7 (21:02):
I mean just I'm just trying to, you know, do
it how I see fit. You know, I got my coaches,
you know, uh, my coaches and myself, We we are
a big hand on what the team was picked. You know,
I give a lot of credit to my assistant coaches
because I've gotten so much film on kids, and it's

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like I can't look at four hundred things to film,
so I passed them to my guys, and you know
they've came through. I think we got the best of
the best that we got. We looked through. So we know.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
You grew up in Phoenix and people there loved you
growing up and you're probably still home to you, but
Sacramento is kind of like your second home and probably
comfortable for you to kind of end end there and
coach there.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
How's the how's the community embraced you?

Speaker 7 (21:50):
Really great? You know, the community has been always great here.
And Steve, do you think I got done playing here
last year? The way everybody, the way everybody sells me
love out here, you know. I mean that was one
of the reasons why I wanted to get traded here
and come play here as just you know, that was
one of the biggest reasons was the fans. It was
the fans and the style of play that Sacramento played.

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And so you I mean, there's there's never a value.
I mean, but you know, every every city like to
see a winner. And I think once we get this
thing going and get this thing on the winning, winning side,
it's gonna be ours, you know, to lose.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
What will it mean to join the Big West next year?

Speaker 7 (22:30):
It's gonna be good, you know. I mean, I think
it's gonna help a lot with the travel. We won't
have have to travel as far. But I mean we'll
give us give us a lot of California teams to play.
Like I said this is my first season, so I
don't really know how to travel works as far as
you know, the you know the Utah games and Colorado
games that we have and and and so on and
so on. But I'm just ready to play, man, you know.

(22:54):
I mean, I don't care where they could send us
us overseas, as long as we got to as long
as we have to boat overseas. I'm okay wherever we
got to. But I mean I'm ready to play the same.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
And they're making things nice for you. I guess what
the renovation of the new court or or or arena.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
Yeah, I mean we've got we got a new we
got a new arena. We also got you know, we
were doing the lock to practice, locker room, you know,
the training room, the wait and run, just to give
these guys a sense. Uh, you know, a high profile college.
You know, you look at these we don't have any
We don't have as much money as you know these

(23:29):
other schools that you know, spend eight million dollars on
their on their stuff. But I mean we're we're doing
what we got to do. It's going to help so
the recruiting, it's going to help us all the way around.
So you know, I mean doctor Luke Wood and Mark
or are coming through big time and helping on that.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
So so they don't they don't have that, but they
have Mike Bibbie and they have.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
Shack who those two.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, we're working. I mean we I mean,
Chad's done a lot for I mean it was an
easy goal for Shacking. You know, a couple of weeks
in a month or so in I just you know,
called him like, hey, what do you think about being
that general manager? And it was as simple as like,
I like that, just let me know what it entails

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and what you need me to do and what you
want me to do. I mean it was that simple.
And you know I always tell everybody always asked what
does Shaq do? And I said, you gotta let Shack
be Shacked. You can't tell Shall do what he wants
to do. And you're just glad to be glad he's there.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
You know.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
He everything he touches is successful. He really is.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
I mean we kind of joke about him and you
see him on you know, TNT or whatever doing his thing,
but I mean he really is a great business man
and every everything he.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Look at, all the commercial he does he's super successful.

Speaker 7 (24:39):
He's yeah, he's super stilious kid at heart. I think
he's the best center to ever play the game. And
you know, just to just to have them him around
the kids and me being around the kids, just to
show these kids are kind of what success is and
to try him in the right direction. You know. I
mean a lot of these kids are coddled today, and
you know I said, I said to my team today,

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that's not something I'm gonna do. You know, I'm gonna
be a father figure for them, helping him grow as
a person, help them grow as a young man, and
help him grow as a player. So that's what I'm
here to do.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Well, you know, Luke wasn't that way too right. He
didn't caddle. He caddled after you guys are done, but
he didn't do it during that's for sure.

Speaker 7 (25:17):
I mean he was great. Like I said, he gave
us the confidence that I think we needed to be successful.
You know, Steve, you heard the story before. You know,
I got to the tournament. We almost lose the first
two games, and then you know, he pused me in
front of the in front of the team. He's like, Mike,
I need you to play. How we need you to play?

Speaker 9 (25:35):
How like you?

Speaker 7 (25:36):
You know, Ever since he said that, you know, you
could see how things opened up starting at the Kansas game.
For me, it just and just got better at the time.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Went on, Yeah, no question, and you came through that
next game with Kansas.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
How important is it to have your son as one
of the co head coaches?

Speaker 5 (25:51):
I think.

Speaker 9 (25:55):
That means you have done great.

Speaker 7 (25:58):
And he's done great. I mean there's a lot to
me and I got you know, I always wanted to
play basketball, and you know, he figured out it was time.
You know, he's having problems with his back, and you
know him, what's the coach. He's a great coach. He
runs the practice and stuff when I'm gone and does
all this stuff. I mean, I give it about two
or three or four years Steve. I could see him
get being a head coach. And so.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
When are you gonna play Arizona?

Speaker 5 (26:22):
Guys?

Speaker 7 (26:22):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wait wait wait wait wait, yeah you answer that. I
don't think we You and I have talk since this
came up, because Josh at Vegas US sax State.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
Maybe maybe you guys did tweet this here.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
At Vegas with here in Tucson with Tommy and Damon
and Georgia Tech a four team a fourteen tournament here
in Tucson, the just about Classic like we used to
know it, and you know, two games here, it'd be fantastic.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
Yeah, I mean I brought that up. I mean we're
working it. Hopefully we can get that done, you know,
and sometime in the future. I mean, just like you know,
just have it and you know, just I think we
named it after Coach Oh. You know what I mean,
because you know, you get four guys, you know, obviously Arizona,
but you get three other guys that played under Coach
Oh that are head coaches right now. Just get them
there and have them back, and you know, called the

(27:10):
Coach Old Classic. You know, we've been talking about hopeing
and something like that done in the future.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I think it's a fantastic idea. I figured that's where
it came from. You and some guys. You talked about it.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
And you guys could play horse or do something at
halftime all years.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Josh win that. Yeah, of course I try this. This
is uh, I don't know if it's a dream for you. You
you don't have talked on the side about all this.
This is kind of like a dream for you. Uh
maybe a first step along step in doing this. How
how happy are you now that it's funny happened.

Speaker 7 (27:45):
I'm blessed, you know what I mean. I'm very happy
and I'm blessed. You know. I think, like I said,
come in here, it was God's timing. I try to
get this job. You know, four years maybe three or
four years and five years ago, I know how long
it was when it first opened up and it didn't happen.
And you know, I was in my press conference and

(28:06):
I remember just standing there like okay, I remember just
all the way that just the process of you know
a lot of people getting jobs and wondering how why
I couldn't, And you know my thinking, you know, God
was holding this spot for me and waiting for it,
like this is the perfect spot for me. Is the
second home to me. I played for here for and
a half years. I was half of my NBA career

(28:26):
and just I'm comfortable here. And you know, Steve, I
have to feel comfortable in a comfortable situation in order
to be successful. So I'm comfortable here. I got a
lot of family and friends that are still here, and
like you said, the fans are great here, So I
mean they're treating great, you know, And I mean it's
just good to be here. Glad. I'm glad to have
my start here. It's kind of like having my start,

(28:47):
you know, in basketball again and being a Vancouver for
three years. People for play because no one really ever
saw his play, so you know, come here kind of
rejuvenated my NBA career. So it's a great to have
a start here.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, no question. And thankfully, and I joked this with
this about you or whatever. Thankfully you talk more than
you used to when you were here.

Speaker 7 (29:14):
Everything's a lot easier on the phone.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
No cameras, no nothing.

Speaker 7 (29:19):
Right, No, I fantastic, lot easier. You know.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
You know you're one of my favorite players. Thanks Mike
for joining us.

Speaker 7 (29:24):
Good luck to you, no problem, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
Yeah you will.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Mike Bibby of course from Sacramento State, former Ubay guy.
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Speaker 1 (33:06):
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Speaker 2 (33:18):
Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Jave Silberg. We got
Ray behind the mic on to the side. Good to
talk to Mike. Now he's relieved that I don't have
to bother him for a while. Now all these guys
I catch him in the middle of the season, Yeah,
if they have time, right of course, right, I will
see how how it goes on.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Have you ever seen him coach? He's a tough dude.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
I don't think I ever have.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
He's a tough dude. He's he gets on the guys,
but he's fair with them. He gets on the rafts,
he's a he's a he's gonna make these guys win,
or have these guys win.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
It's gonna be an interesting situation just being you know,
small small conference, small gyms. You know, how's he gonna
feel about that. It's gonna be a much different environment.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Than when he's used to well and you know, Dave,
these high profile guys, especially at a place like Sacramento
State at least.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
I'll say this because I believe it.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Those are the places you kind of go and you
get fired because it's tough to win, you know what
I'm saying. You're not gonna go to a place like
Texas Tech or Louisville or whatever and you'll win because
it's just a good has a good reputation.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
It's like being the Browns coach.

Speaker 5 (34:22):
You're right, You're right, right, right.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
You know that you're gonna have to work your ass
off and do really well to get the hell out
of there before they take you out of there.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
But if you win, if you win, he'll get you.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
You know, Oh, no questions in a you know, an
area with a ton of colleges and just the West
Coast and his name, his reputation, it's gonna be a
good story if he's doing if he does well.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Here's the other thing though, Like Stackhouse coached at Vanderbilt,
some of the ex guys, uh what's his name? At Michigan,
the guy just so these X guys go in and
they don't do well they're gone. I mean, you you
have to do really strike hot and go somewhere right.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
And so if he doesn't do well, you know, people
maybe not even won't even know.

Speaker 6 (35:06):
But if he does well, yeah, he don't look like
a dish, you know. I mean, Dion goes and coaches
in the big time like Colorado.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
I have no doubt that he's going to do well
because he's a heck of a good coach. He was
at the high school level, demanding, YadA YadA. And you
kind of knew that when you were asking about you know,
maybe Lut's model or whatever. He's been coached by a
number of dudes, and and his dad was a pretty
good coach, was a different coach whether they had a
relationship or not. You knew that he If there's one

(35:35):
thing that Mike knows, he knows basketball, right, you know,
he he's a winner.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Do you think he gets like, you know, let's say,
you know, maybe the first two couple of years of Rocky,
you think he like gets a little bit of leeway
because of how he like the league and stuff.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
And there's no pressure non really no, you know.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
But when you're loot, when you got your four and
twenty four. Right, Uh, it's gonna take a while, take
a while. You were here, you saw that, You saw
all the magic started and kind of kind of took
a couple of years, but you could see it happening. Yeah,
and then people you probably saw it the second year, Yeah,
you could tell. And people started buying tickets, right.

Speaker 6 (36:10):
And that was I mean, this is a little still
different situations, Aunt of State totally, it's not. I mean,
we were really the only game in town here and
he was able to take advantage of that, whereas in
Sack he's not only competing with you know, now the
A's are there whatever, the athletics are in Sacramento for
part of the year, on top of Avan, the Kings
and whatever. But yeah, I mean it'll it'll be a

(36:32):
good story. It'll be one of those you know, Hey,
the Sacramento State Hornets are twelve and one.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Look who they're head coaches. Oh you remember him right?

Speaker 6 (36:40):
The next thing, you know, maybe there'll be some people
sniffing around for his for him to get a new
job somewhere else.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
Yeah, who knows.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
Yeah, I mean it's gonna be interesting again.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
If you'd like to call it police do five two zero, four, one, six,
seventy four, forty. We have plenty of time before we
call it a day, just because anything else going on
in the world of sports breaking news.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
For the nothing happened.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
Since nothing since we broke the news before.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
Fifty minutes ago.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
It was one who goes, I don't do we have
the schedule when they go mid morning, probably because about
media day.

Speaker 5 (37:12):
Yeah, because they go tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
They have a handful of guys out there, including now
and uh and the rest, So we'll see what comes
of it.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
I feel like it's not really accurate, just because like
I was, like I remember it, like showed like Dillian
Ham and like as he was going to be first,
and then I don't think they went until the Yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
No, I think there was a schedule, but I didn't.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
See I've seen the schedule too.

Speaker 7 (37:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Well, I mean I don't know if this is work.
Maybe it's alphabetical. I think I think it's alphabet That's
why I was on this listed first.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Right, So we'll see what happens tomorrow, and it's just
more interviews, you know what you hope to do.

Speaker 6 (37:48):
We get the quarterback no, uh, offensive lineman, you're gonna
help me with the name here, Rhino is his first name.
Top Oh, yeah, I know, I know who you're talking about.
Just man, Well he'll be there tomorrow. Maybe get up
pronounced correctly. The lineman Trey Smith, defensive backs Trade and
Stuke Stalton Johnson, Genesis Smith. So like you were saying,

(38:10):
the defensive backfield might be the best, you know, group
of players on the team. And then the head coach mhm,
we'll see what happens.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
I liked how the commissioner came out today.

Speaker 21 (38:22):
He had a pretty good did you listen?

Speaker 3 (38:23):
And he talked about kind of being able to like
enjoy parody compared to like, you know, see like what
like how it is in like the Big ten or
the SEC where it's like, you know, Bam is going
to be up there, you know George is going to
be up there, Yeah, and stuff like that. He also
talked about one of the things that I liked is
like he said it was like the most balanced, which kind.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
Of it's true.

Speaker 21 (38:46):
Yeah, but sometimes that's not a good thing, right because
it could be mediocre balance. Yeah, exactly, you know so
many it's not like basketball or it's kind of top heavy,
and it's really good top heavy.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
I don't know how much we want to get into it.

Speaker 6 (38:59):
But his big talk today was about the college football Playoff,
and we're the big twelve stands in there because it
all these different models on who should get in, Like yeah,
the five eleven model, which is like the five you know,
top teams excuse me, their highest ranked conference champions would
get in plus eleven at large BIS and some people
are against that.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Yeah, I mean, is there any really right method because
you're gonna screw somebody over or be the wrong thing
or yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:27):
I mean we at least it's getting bigger this first
this next year is going to twelve. Yeah, and then
they think the next whenever the TV deal is up, it'll.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
Switch to sixteen.

Speaker 15 (39:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
I mean it's one of those things though.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
It's where it's like, you know, if it's going to twelve,
that thirteenth team is going to have ten fifteen reasons
about why they should have.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Been the twelfth team, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
I mean, like, you know, we saw it with Florida
State a couple of years ago, but I like, kind
of on that topic, he talked about why they aren't
doing a poll too, and he kind of credited it
to like, well, since we ranked ASU like towards the
bottom and then they ended up like beating like you know,
almost everybody. It's like it makes the other teams look

(40:10):
worse because as he is doing so good or like
because that's what I thought too.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
But that's silly. I mean, that's kind of overcorrecting. Who
who doesn't have a pull?

Speaker 4 (40:18):
And what is it?

Speaker 3 (40:20):
It's talk, it's it's fun. No, and then it sets
up the storyline. Sure, Like that's another big part of it.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
Sure, And the commissioner is a forward thinker too.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
I mean some of the stuff you see he's are
even today he's talking about playing games internationally, which they
are going to do in six weeks. They're going to
be Kansas State's playing Iowa. Stayed in Dublin, you know,
and then they're gonna play TCU is gonna play Bill
Belichick's North Carolina team next year and also in Dublin.
So I mean, why not, I guess you know, it

(40:52):
attracts students to come to these big twelve schools.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Didn't aris want a place somewhere early in somewhere or
they went to the Bowl to Japan once it was
it was that for the play what was that for?

Speaker 6 (41:06):
It was like the last regular season game of the season.
They played Stanford, Yes, on a field that was like
seventy five yards long.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
We didn't happen to go to that.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
I know that Dave Petrusco was covering at the time
and he was I think, so yeah, and that was
just why did that happen?

Speaker 4 (41:20):
I you know, you have to ask him.

Speaker 6 (41:21):
I really don't remember exactly why that game because it
was actually I think in eighty seven or eighty.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Six, yeah, before I got here, so it had to
be eighty.

Speaker 6 (41:29):
Six eighty six, and all of a sudden the season ended.
I think Arizona played Asu and then oh wait, now
we gotta go play Stanford in Japan.

Speaker 7 (41:36):
Jeez.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
So it was a little bit odd.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
I kind of on that international kind of topic. He
also talked about maybe doing like some baseball stuff in Mexico,
So yeah, I thought those stories.

Speaker 6 (41:45):
Yeah, the next week that would be interesting. Baylor's women's
basketball team is going to play in Paris. I mean,
they're really going international, so I don't know. I don't
see the UFA mentioned here yet.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Well, that too is for that too, that you're right, David,
for were thinking in he's very well respected. Yes, and
he's trying to trying to usurp some of the Southeastern
Conference power.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
Yeah, and the Big Ten power.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Well, it's I don't know, man, that the whole thing.
It's just it's weird because the Big Ten's never loud
about it, you know what I mean. Like the SEC
is always like we're the SEC. Yeah, but the Big
Ten's like, yeah, we're I mean, we're good.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Yeah, we're chill or whatever. Yeah, you just watch us play.
And then then when the.

Speaker 6 (42:22):
National title exactly, it's good exposure and it's good for television.
It's going to be you know game, it'll get some
highlights of you know, hey, they're playing in Dublin. I
mean it's just you know, not you're just you know,
Kansas State playing Iowa State and ames. But it'll be good,
I think, And I'm sure that is going to get
in the mix in this. You know, trigories are just
coming out today, So see what happens in the next

(42:44):
maybe tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
I wonder, will you have another day of talk, because
there's two days.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
I don't know, I don't know if he speaks again.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure everybody was there to a day
early because you know, I'm sure you know, you covered
the whole, the whole spectral of the league.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
It's exciting though. I think it's cool that they're man,
I mean, everybody talks about it. But if they can
get that, if they can get those tournaments out of
out of Kansas City.

Speaker 5 (43:09):
The basketball and stuff, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
Like, why not do it in Dallas? Well aren't they?
Well no, I'm sticking baseball.

Speaker 6 (43:14):
There's gonna be, it's gonna be in surprise all things
are not even playing in the big major league stadium.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
Yeah. Well, basketball, Well, the thing is they have a
stronghold out there.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
This what.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Thirty twenty thirty two, So everyone's talking about Vegas and
who knows, maybe they'll change their mind.

Speaker 6 (43:33):
Well, they aren't moving the football. Are they gonna move
the game out of Arlington? Are they keeping it there?

Speaker 4 (43:38):
I'm not sure. I hope they keep it there.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
They should just make Dallas area like just like the Senate.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
It's in the middle of all of them too. Kind of.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yeah, it's easy from here. A flight, Yeah, there's stuff
to do, Just don't go on frontier.

Speaker 5 (43:53):
What do you travel? How do you get there? Where
to Denver?

Speaker 4 (43:57):
Oh? Southwest or United.

Speaker 5 (43:59):
You didn't listen to my story yesterday.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
You know what happened, brutal Southwest Frontier front Okay.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
I'll give you even better one. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Well, no, it took me because now we're in thirty
minutes to get my baggage checked. I was five minutes
from missing my flight. I was the last guy on
the plane. Yeah, and you know, Denver it's chick. It
was like, I've never experienced that in a long time.
I haven't flown in a while, and I did it
for a living for twenty five years.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
It was just it was it was crazy. It was crazy.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
If I had not had an express express pass to
get through the and that took a while.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
It was just crazy. Really made it.

Speaker 6 (44:35):
I was gonna say, I went to this is going
way back when the original Frontier maybe, well the one
that's you know, different than the one that's now there,
used to be Frontier back in the day. I flew
to Denver on Frontier and I'm there for like a
day or two. They went out of business when I
was in Denver. Seriously, they like, I'm sorry, but the
planes are not going to be flying. So I had
to scramble just to get home. But that was back

(44:58):
like in the eighties.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
Yeah, so yeah, well that's how it felt like for me.

Speaker 6 (45:02):
I've had some long layovers long. Yeah, weather delays, it
is crazy. It's an interesting city. You can get super
cold and super hot.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
Yeah, no, it was. It was nice for them. It
was like ninety five. Oh god.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
Yeah. Sometimes they won't fly when.

Speaker 6 (45:16):
It's that hot out there, can get up off the ground.
It's like the same delays we have in Arizona.

Speaker 5 (45:22):
It was very nice though, very nice, very nice weekend
or four days.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Did you do any sports?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
No, didn't go to any sports. What to Colora Springs.
Took in the sites there, you know, and then Denver
for most of the time. But you know, you were
just there. Kind of the traffic holy crab, holy crap. Yeah,
and they will drive dangerously because they don't blinkers.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
What the hell are those were? They just swerve in baby.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:49):
Just be prepared, figure out where you're going.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Don't do anything weird, right, right, But it was okay,
it was good. The weather was fantastic. Okay, this is
a pretty interest.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
USC is eliminating a lot of jobs in its athletic
department as it braces for new revenue sharing expenses.

Speaker 5 (46:08):
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
Yeah, no, it makes sense for a lot of things.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
And I think there was almost kind of already done
a little of that, given DESIRET came in and kind
of be settling the budget and trying to get the
deficit down to what it's five million, six million. Now
that that happens, and it's kind of like on the
DAL yeah, you know, because every school's going through it
and arizone of those situations just became public and kind

(46:34):
of you know, the forty five million whatever it was
fifty four million.

Speaker 5 (46:37):
Yeah, did it say how many?

Speaker 4 (46:40):
It's said dozens.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
This is from Ryan well La Times, but Ryan cart.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
G Yeah, yeah, that came up. It makes sense. It
makes sense. The federal government, the federal funding too. It's
probably getting hurt a little, yeah, or a lot.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
So six athletics employees and then another six that had
like roles that were vacant, they're not going to be renewed,
are not going to be renewed or filled.

Speaker 6 (47:12):
Yeah, well they got a new president there. I mean,
the kinds of things are going on. New leadership, stuff
like that happens, you know, who knows their coach their
football coaching situation could be a little bit and flux. Ya,
they don't improve this year, and they got zillions of dollars,
so they can kind of figure it out.

Speaker 5 (47:30):
And it's so privately you don't have to. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
Yeah, I think Lincoln Riley's seats. It's not hot yet.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
It's a little warm, no, but yeah, he's I think
he learned a lot that after that first year when
he kind of started trying to control the narrative with
the reporters. And then if if you don't win a lot,
in which he didn't just last year, then yeah, the
heat starts.

Speaker 9 (47:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
I wouldn't cry for Argentina though, because somebody will get
them right away.

Speaker 9 (47:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
Well, I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
It's one of those tough things where it's like as
growing up in California, you know, with the PAC twelve
and stuff like that, it's like, man, you blow up
this whole conference just to kind of stink up the place.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
In the big and you're one of the reasons why,
right yeah yeah, or USC yeah yeah, yeah, you go
show off, go show off six and six.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
Yeah, thanks for showing off.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yeah, I mean, and that's how it was too like
when they were in the Pac twelve, like they weren't
consistent winners. No, I mean, obviously Oregon is gonna be
up there.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
You're talking about foot or overall or football, football, Yeah,
Oregon them, but in other sports.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
Not so much.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
Yeah, exactly. It was like track and fielders their bread
and butter and then after that.

Speaker 6 (48:33):
So yeah, I still think eventually the other sports besides
football and basketball are going to come back to the West.
Are somehow going to put them into a new Pac
twelve or back twenty or something before you and I die,
I don't know, but it's easy for them to be
sending teams off to the East coast to play like
one game or.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Well, I totally agree with you, dad, it's gonna be
like a four section, yeah, Midwest East blah blah blah,
and have that section and maybe they'll goal ventur into
East every now and again for the bigger games.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
Yeah, I mean, football is no big deal. I suppose.

Speaker 6 (49:04):
I mean, it's just it's just weird to you know,
be playing USC playing Penn State and things like that.
But you know, for like baseball to make it like
a three game road trip to you know, Maryland.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
It's just it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Yeah, or have the have the big five team baseball
tournament in conference tournament during the season, Yeah, just because
they're all there, rather than to.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
Talk about, you know, expenses, just like.

Speaker 6 (49:28):
That, how much does it cost to throw your you know,
thirty thirty person baseball team on the planes?

Speaker 5 (49:34):
Sure trouble. Who would have thought this five years ago?

Speaker 2 (49:37):
I mean all this stuff, yeah, guys, or players being
paid what they're getting paid, the deficits you're gonna have.

Speaker 6 (49:44):
I mean, we're not even talking about the players and
the athletes anymore. We're just talking about all the side shows.
It's like, man, yeah, we're dropping sports, so we're dropping staff.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
Yeah what about the USC football team?

Speaker 6 (49:57):
We're not even talking I guess well we will eventually, yeah,
yeah at some point.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Well, I mean I don't know, what do you think
about expenses?

Speaker 3 (50:04):
I mean, just like, man, I feel I feel for
Cal and Stanford just like because they got to go
to the East Coast like for almost every game, for
every away game, you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
It's like that it makes no sense, right, and those
especially Cal's athletic department has always had financial issues.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
Stanford, don't they don't. They don't care. They got so
much money.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Right, But for the first time too, they didn't win
their the Director's Cup Stanford. Yeah, I don't know, maybe Michigan,
Ohio State one of those. We get about a minute left.
I think it's the whatever Cup that is.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Uh oh, yeah, it doesn't.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
Is it the it's not the ship Director's Cup.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
I think it is. Yeah, it is the Director's Cup.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
And it's Ober now because school years over Texas.

Speaker 4 (50:49):
Maybe I think you're right.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Yeah, yeah, because the the it was, Stanford owned it
forever because of the minor motorsports like.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
The Olympic sports and stuff like that. Yeah, what Texas.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
They had a lot of damn Dell content.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Women's College World Series.

Speaker 7 (51:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
Del Conte did pretty good in football, did you did
you know mister del Conte?

Speaker 6 (51:10):
Yeah, he was like Jim Lavinho is number two guy.
Not very long though, I would say maybe.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Two three years, maybe a little bit longer even five
Years's from my neck of the woods?

Speaker 5 (51:20):
Is he Northern New Mexicoo? Yeah, Taos?

Speaker 7 (51:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Are we good to go?

Speaker 7 (51:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (51:24):
It's about that time?

Speaker 5 (51:25):
Okay, thanks? Yeah, thanks?

Speaker 7 (51:27):
Ray?

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Hey are you gonna? I want to see you Thursday?
Or Friday. Friday, Yeah, Friday, maybe, depends what happens to Jay.
Thanks to Jay, Thanks Dave. UH we're gonna have Eric
Rhoades tomorrow and probably talk a lot about football tomorrow.
Thanks everybody, Thanks for listening. Thanks Fick for the call.
UH talk tomorrow