Wednesday. April 23, Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jordan them could coach because you're thinking player in the world,
there's nobody that has his ability. Like you're gonna say,
You're gonna say, how can you not do this? I
did it all the time. Now, well it's different. We're uh.
I was just watching a video and I ray, you
might know this. There's a it was like Kwame Brown,
but it wasn't Kwame Brown with somebody that was like,

(00:22):
I can I should play, I should be playing more.
I can beat anybody. I could beat Michael Jordan one
on one. And he heard it, and and Michael Jordan's
showed up to the gym like two days later and
they played one on one and Jordan's like he was
like eleven to one. Yeah. So to your point, as
a coach, like, there's just there's no there's no comparable
player to you or skill level. And there have been

(00:43):
those players who are good players, great players, who have
been able to coach, but they have that special how
many how many Hall of Fame coaches are Hall of
Fame players? Yeah, I don't have to go in any sport.
I mean, I think Bird was a pretty good coach
with Indiana when he first got there, but he didn't.
But you're not not a Hall of Fame coach by
any means, right.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, no, No, I don't think he's all of fame coach.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I mean I say Tomas was somewhat of a dumpster fire.
Yeah no, and he was kind of like a wishy
watched the type of person too. I mean, you know,
you know Paul Westfall the Son's Yeah, pretty good coach.
It didn't last long. But like we were talking before,
you have like a ten game swing and you're done. Malone,
who just was Player of the Year Coach of the

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year two years ago, he's gone. You see what he's
getting paid though. Okay, here's my question, Like these coaches
that just get fired, right, just that just got fired, right,
they still have to pay out their remaining contract. Yeah,
so I think it was Malone is still owed, Like
is he fifty one million dollars? Well to your point,
I think, did you say with the Phoenix Suns guys
seventy five million?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
That was such an exaggeration?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Was it was forty nine million dollars for the Sons
because it was pasted it was his past contract and
this contract from a line from Malone. Yeah, Oh so
you were you were being a little exaggerate. But but they
had three coaches, Williams, Vogel and now this guy. Yeah,
in three or four years. Yeah, and then they're still
all paying. You're paying more for those coaches than you
are for players that you're currently on your roster, Like,

(02:12):
don't you how much money there is? And at the
next level? Sure, maybe, I don't know. Is that a
good way to spend money? I don't know. I'd like
for me, we talked about this from an NBA standpoint,
It doesn't make sense to me because you can't build
a culture and what is the culture? Is it driven
by a coach?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Is there really is there really coach in the NBA
outside of I mean I can think about maybe Golden State,
maybe San Antonio, and maybe I'm wrong on a couple
other ones, maybe Boston. But I think that's more front
office that you're They're led by that front office. Right, Yeah.
I like the way okay, okay, see plays. I like

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the way look Houston Miami, Yeah, Houston, Miami. Houston Miami
is a good one too. Yeah in Houston. The guy
who played the Boston right, he just had some personal
issues that you could but all of a sudden, he's
got Houston. Yeah, but he's a great coach. You could
tell that just that doesn't happen by accidental. You just
don't stumble into a good situation. But then you look

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at the other side of it, like and then people
are you're getting fired mid season. I just that's to me,
that's just too much turnover.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Right or even like right before the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
But here's my question. Okay, so let's say you guys
are seconds. Both you guys are headquartered or head coaches. Right,
you get next five years, you're guaranteed forty nine million dollars.
Are you looking for another job? Are you like that's it,
I'm done, Like I'm retiring, dude, I'm done. I'm done. Right,
get me on TV and I'll be I'll figure something out. Yeah.
I don't even want to be on TV. I want

(03:38):
I told Josh Josh past who's pretty good at being
on TV. Very why would you deal with other crap?
I think it's just it's a routine, right, You're so
used to call the ego, and it's it's what you do,
So we gotta go. You ruin it, You ruined it.

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Sorry.

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Speaker 1 (07:50):
Hey, welcome back to I'm the ball here on Fox
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is Blake Eager from are you gonna say it?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
No? Come on?

Speaker 1 (07:59):
So on Arizona Sports. I'm in film authority that place. Uh,
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Speaker 2 (08:12):
All right, So usually try to start out with local stuff,
but this came out maybe like twenty minutes ago. Uh,
Jason Tatum not playing tonight over a game too for
diagnosed with Oh he's risk, he has a risk. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
but yeah he just I don't know, I thought that
was a big deal in case anybody's been on that game,
might might swing it a little bit.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
We're gonna talk about gambling here. I'd never get I've like,
I've never gambled on sports really, I mean maybe the schools,
let's no, but I just I mean, do you guys gamble?

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I used to more?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah yeah, yea, just like your Draft Kings guy. Like
I think that's what's too. It's like fake money for me,
Like if I got on my phone, I'd be like, oh, yeah,
there goes my mortgage. Totally. No, no, that that's very noble.
If you I I say this in the show, I've
never done a drug, So no you haven't. That's very
noble of you. Just you need to have me on
on something stupid. I'd be more stupid. Yeah, we'll see
what happens in the parking lot after the shows. What

(09:03):
do you mean sorry, better people have tried tried? Yeah,
are you gonna say, oh my god, at least one
time of show? We got to check. Also, I need
to say this, and I'm just gonna say this, and
I apologize if I offend anybody. So I'm driving here

(09:26):
today and I decided to take six down to Campbell
instead of taking Broadway. Okay, driving, by the u of A.
Is it appropriate for women to be walking around and
literally thong bikinis. I know you think hot chicks, but like,
honestly driving, is that? Like I don't want to sound

(09:47):
like an old man, Like I sound like an old
Welcome to the show. Yeah, but it's a I don't know,
it's maybe it's a weird one. You got to finish
the rest of break your news and I apologize.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
All right, Well, Arizona women's golf uh is going to
play in the NC Double a Lubbook Regional after winning
the Big twelve. Okay, so yeah, looking forward to that.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
We had her on Monday, Monday. She's great. Oh you
did the coach. Yes, she's fantastic, phenomenal, done great job
with the purple first year. She's like twenty nine years old. Yeah,
my jealousy kicks in so bad, like nine. Yeah. Sorry.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
The tennis team is gonna they're gonna be announced about
what we're regional. They're going to play on Sunday, uh.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Two thirty, both both men's and women's.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I believe just the men's. This men's playing right.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Now, we'll see. Well they're they're just finished straight to
the Big twelve. Yeah, so I'm not sure about the women.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yesterday, the softball team won the doubleheader. We had Chrissy on.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Right talking about the kidney of the transplant of the situation.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yep, yeah, and you know they they won the first
game three to zero and then uh five inning ruled
them thirteen to zero. New Mexico against New Mexico State.
The baseball team is looking to keep their hot streak
going after beating BYU over the weekend against UT Arlington.
So that was your alma mater.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I don't say that much pretty often.

Speaker 14 (11:12):
Did you know UT or Lincoln? No, No, mex School State.
Oh yeah, what did you say? You said that last
You said that last New Mexico State. This is so confusing.
You went to New Mexico State last year.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
You didn't know. We talked about that. In fact, you
gave me an idea of to tell you later.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Okay, drafts coming up starts tomorrow first round. A few
people wondering where Tedoro McMillan's gonna land. Tard Archer has
him going to twelve, but Peter Schrager had him going
to nineteen.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah. I think there's like a from six to twenty ish. Yeah,
it's a it's a pretty wide range. He might be
the first wide receiver, he might be the second wide receiver.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
I think the question is can he be a number
one at the NFL level?

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Right? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
I mean if he's not a number one, yeah, there
there must be some fantastic wide receivers out there. How
do you come that guy? Who's he's that guy? I mean,
I don't know much all the characteristics, body metrics make up. Yes, yes, yes,
who's the highest uh, who's the highest wide receiver out

(12:13):
of you of a ever drafted?

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Honey?

Speaker 1 (12:15):
It was it, honey cut not? Uh? No, am I
thinking about? I don't know. Oh, there's been a few recently, recently,
you know, but yeah, but not not not that's hard
hard for me to say. I even covered not a
lot in the last forty years. And I could be wrong.
There's a few. There's been a few. I don't feel like.

(12:38):
J No, No, he's not he's not. Yeah, Okay, just.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Will forget anyway, keep going, keep it going, right you
Wade was one? Conrad Martinez? Yeah, where is he committed
to High Point? Ok?

Speaker 1 (12:56):
That band will start? He's such a I mean, yeah,
he's a guy you want running point. And here's the
sad part. You saw him play in the last game
and played pretty well. It's that was on Tommy not
playing him more during the season. Not that that would
have prevented him from leaving, because I think he's probably
better off where he's at now. Yeah, I mean I
don't disagree with you. I think he's a guy that's

(13:17):
probably five minutes to seven minutes. But you did see it,
and this is no fault of Tommy. You did see
it when you started playing. I think when we played
UCF and he got bodied a couple of times, it
was a different player. For well, you come on, you,
I'm sure you when you pitched, you had better success
against certain teams. Oh yeah, and not certain teams. Yeah,
but you don't know until you know. You don't know

(13:39):
until you know. Yeah, I got that tattoo on my luerback.
Go ahead, right, you tramp you Blake stamp, Blake stamp.
Oh that's horrible.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Round two, or Game two's of the NBA Playoffs started yesterday.
The first one was the Pacers beating the Bucks one
twenty three to one fifteen and now lead the series
to zero.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Are the Bucks done? Do you think? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
You think? I don't think they're going back. I mean
they could, but I mean sports, right, you never know.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, but I mean it's an honest question. I mean,
if you think they're done, they're done, I just yeah,
I would, I would say so.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, the Grizzlies got crushed. Yeah, they're done once again,
they're super done. If the Bucks are like maybe done, yeah, grizzly,
super done. Lakers tied it up with the Timberwolves one
to one. Oh yeah, And I don't know, I feel
like you kind of figured because Lebron has the history of,
you know, starting series out so terrible the amount, right, yeah,

(14:38):
and bouncing back although I would say, you know, it
doesn't they didn't look great, but yeah, right, because a
lot of people are picking them for the championship. But
that continues on tonight. The Celtics are going to play
the Magic. Like I said, Tatum isn't going to be playing.
It doesn't look like it.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Shifted, no matter, no matter, all matter.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
And the second game is going to be the Cavaliers
against the Heat. Yeah on NBA TV. Good luck finding
it if you don't have the channel. And then the
kind of big game and more intriguing game i'd say
is the Warriors versus the Rockets.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah. I'm a Warriors guy. Yeah, Houston's going to beat
them tonight. Yeah, I think so too, Yeah, because they
have to win this game.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
This was an interesting one that I saw when we
were when I was looking up some stories for today.
So Nico his obviously his his transfer to u C.
L A was very well reported or followed very well,
followed by everyone. His brother also transferred to u C
l A on Monday from Arkansas, and Arkansas wants two

(15:48):
hundred k from after because he transferred pretty much kind
of did he sign a contract that he didn't live
up to?

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Then?

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Are you talking about the U C one? I don't
want his brother to his brother too. So they got
agreements through the not for the school, through the through
the commission, what do you call it, the that thing,
and they didn't complete it, That's what I was asking.
So they didn't complete it, and now they got paid.
They got paid. Yeah, now they got X amount of money.
I thought you had to complete and then postplay or

(16:20):
post pay after. I don't know, but they're they're going
to assume now to get whatever remainder of the balance
that they didn't use or didn't didn't fulfill. Yeah, well,
I think you're going to see that a lot. There's
so many things you're gonna see when all these transfers
eventually find the spot or don't find the spot, because
there's so many things going on, the number of people
who won't get picked up by other schools, and then

(16:41):
guess what you're in limbo. Maybe you've made a bad decision,
but that was the decision you made, right, Yeah, if
you go, I'm gonna leave, Okay, I'm leaving the school
in the transfer and here I am we don't want you.
Here I am nobody wants you. Then what transfer? A
new coach comes in. Like there's so many different factors and.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
It kind of goes into like I feel like what
you've brought up a lot is like with contracts, like
you want to be able to have that buyout where
it's you know, kind of clean.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Eventually all that's going to come to that like an employee.
But how long does how long is it going to take?

Speaker 15 (17:11):
What?

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I know they're waiting on a couple of decisions, especially
at the house level. But like that should it's not
that hard. It's not like you're you're not reinventing the wheel,
like you're going, we're a professional sport. How does professional
sports pay players? Why don't we follow this model?

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Right?

Speaker 16 (17:28):
It's not that it's not rocket science. I wouldn't think, yeah,
I mean it, I don't know. It just seems like
Nancy double A is the one holding it up. But
this is just a crazy time, just a crazy time.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Glad we're living through it. Jimmer for Dead is retiring
from basketball.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
He was where was he playing?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
I thought he was playing, but he was in He
was in the three on three basketball at the Olympics last.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's not a bag. I'm going to retire from something marbles,
I mean what, it's not going to be poker. We
all know that, or trying to figure out both full house.
That's part of the problem. Sorry.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Saint John's was or it's said that they were the
number one recruiting team and transfer portal specifically, they got
the number one class and they also had a commitment
earlier today from Dylan Mitchell from Cincinnati, So that's you know,
I got some I got some stuff going for him.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Since the Cincinnati kind of got gutted. Right, A lot
of those guys were in the transfer Yeah. Right, they're
two best Baylor.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, a lot of Taylor had completely sort Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
But Baylor's class coming in is not bad, right, it's
top twenty five, top thirty five, So I don't know
how many they've gotten. I don't think so. Oh, I
thought they had a decent class. Come No, I don't
think so.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
I could check two for yeah, yeah, we can check
it out. NHL playoffs also happening. What yeah, we got
a couple. Game two's tonight the Canadians are playing against
the Washington Capitals. Uh a Vegkan hit a overtime thriller,

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goal less game.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Can we talk about how wild a Vagican is if
you were watching any of his interviews, that guy is
so himself, like it's really missing five teeth, draaking beers, shooting,
shooting pucks in his backyard and like just wild stuff.
Like that guy should have his own TV show. It
looks like maybe he does.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Maybe not like hockey culture across the board, but looks
like it's a little bit part of hockey culture where.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
I mean, how many here's a question, how many NHL
players have a full set of teeth?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Probably not a lot, not a lot. If I had
to guess.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Who's a who's a tougher athlete, hockey player, a bull rider,
I'd say bull riner.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
I want to say hockey just because you know they
get some time. Yeah, you know what I mean, dude,
it's a tough way to make a living, bull writing
or hockey.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Either way, that's the last thing I would do. Bull
writing out of all the sports, bull writing would be
the last one. Yeah, yeah, well yeah, without question? What else? Hockey?
Put me in all those pads and give me a mask?
Your benefiting? The hell? No falling down? Okay, what's it?

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Very last sport you'd ever play?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
The last sport?

Speaker 1 (20:26):
What's the last way? He said? Bull riding?

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Man, it might be up there, motocross maybe motocross.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
I would kill myself in a harpy. I'm terrible on
two wheels.

Speaker 17 (20:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
I think younger Blake would have enjoyed bull writing. Yeah,
I enjoy pain, probably a little bit more than no.
But if there was a snake charm, snake catching sport,
that'd be below bull writing. I would Mine would be
a syncer nice swimming because I can't swim, I would
that would it would be just floating on the top
of the water anyway, Sorry, can you have to see

(20:57):
you at a speedo at u of A. It's weird
you asked to do that after the show about the ship.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh, we're getting a call, but we got to go
to break.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, well we gotta. Uh, let's let's take the call
just to see Hello, you're on the air and I
of the mall.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Who's this.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Brandon, You're you're a coach, right, You're four minutes early?
What's up with that? You're trying to beat your time?

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Oh? Man, I just you know what I do, Man,
I make sure I'm right.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Okay, So give us a second. We're gonna go to break.
We haven't gotten a break yet. Give us a call
in four minutes. Okay, thanks, Let's take the break down.
We'll get back to the other stuff here and maybe
talk more about what else is going on.

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Speaker 1 (26:56):
Hey, welcome back to Eye on the Bog Here on
Fox Sports Fortune fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in with me
to day Blake. You're from Southern Arizona sports tourism film authorities.
It's tough for you to know. I just won ten bucks.
I'm sorry, hold on, hold on. We on the phone.
We got Brandon Sanders from the u A. Brandon, how
are you.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
I'm doing fantastic, man. How's it going.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
We're doing fun. I have so many questions for you, man.
Why in the world are you gonna run a marathon?

Speaker 11 (27:23):
Teddi Brukie said, I was crazy when I told I
want to ask him a little bit over a year ago.
You know, it was I was already kind of doing
a little bit of running, but then.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
I knew he were he. Teddy has has.

Speaker 11 (27:34):
His calls, you know, for strokes survivors and stroke awareness,
and we had just we had just lost a couple
of wildcats. You know, Heath Bray passed away last year
and that was a heart related issue. And then I
looked over the last you know, two to five years,
and I've had a number of teammates and whether it
be an Arizona or or high school that had passed
from strokes and and and heart related issues. And and

(27:58):
I was like, man, this is the way I could
give back, and and uh, and then I started this
journey man to Boston.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
So did you were you there to raise help raise money?
And I'm sure you were a heck of an athlete here,
You're a heck of an athlete in the NFL. Is
this maybe some of the best shape you've been in?

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Absolutely?

Speaker 11 (28:15):
This is grueling, grueling, you know because I did because
I was I when when roughly around this time, Teddy
just told me, if I'm really serious, just start running.
So from now until from from then until I say November,
I would just kind of run my own pace. And
then I put together, along with his team, we put
together my my game plan and I went on a

(28:37):
twenty four week training of you know, four days a week,
one day lifting and and you know, long run pace,
run and training runs and yeah it was it was
a monster.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah. What was it like coming from the you know,
obviously playing football, uh, having the professional background, having collegiate
athlete background, going into the proper ration of a marathon.
Like how much of a mental f is that? And
how much of a different landscape is it when you
that you're used to very.

Speaker 11 (29:09):
Different because you know, when you're you're when you're when
you're when you're on a team, you know, you got
everybody else to motivate you. There's a lot of times
I know people saw me around whether it campus or
on the on the on the loop or anywhere else
to read park, they saw me, you know running, I'm
my own motivation and uh, and so then you have
to pick up what the cause is? You know, typically

(29:30):
when you're playing, you're playing football for your family and
in yourself. And and I was a competitor, so I
wanted to compete and now you're just competing with yourself.
And now it's what what is your cause? You know,
when when when times are tough, when you don't want
to get up and run this fifteen sixteen seventeen miles
along with you know, knowing that you got another six
miles and two days and another six miles and two

(29:52):
days after that.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
That's that's the toughest. So it was it was very
mentally challenging.

Speaker 11 (29:57):
And then once I got in the Boston Marathon running,
I think I was running around running very smoothly, and
then and then you know, and then you started hitting
those heels and then your body kind of somewhat locks up.
So that was a whole nother mental challenge that I
had to get through.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
We'll get to that in a second. So how long
how long has it been since you first started? You
probably remember the day exactly.

Speaker 11 (30:18):
Oh gosh, when I started, when I started the official training, Yes, yeah,
that would have been.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
What is that I'm looking? I'm looking. I'm looking three March.
Is that right? That doesn't look right? Oh god, I'm
not I'm looking. Oh i'm looking at I'm looking at
the wrong thing. Sorry, I have it all. I have
it all looking on my.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Was it a year more than a year? It had
to be more than a year.

Speaker 11 (30:44):
Yeah, this time last year I just started running. So
November eleventh was my was my first official week that
I started.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay, so so here's what I was. I would be
like two weeks in, I've done enough. I'm just no way.
At some point, do you just say, what the hell
am I doing?

Speaker 11 (31:01):
You know, not really because of the costs, you know,
you got to think to yourself. And and then and
then I even added my my brother in there. My
brother passed away in January, but I started November, what
I say, November eleventh. At the end of November, right
around Thanksgiving, we found out he had a tumor and

(31:21):
he was going to have to get tumor in his brain,
and he was going to have to get a you know,
crnonomy and some other things and and one of those
things that he said when when when he knew I
was training for this, he was like he was proud
of me, and he was proud that I was trying
to do this. So I hadn't, you know, the bulk
of what I was going to hit yet. I hadn't

(31:42):
even run at the half marathon yet. And and it
happened so fast, you know, from from from Thanksgiving to
January seventh, you know, then he's gone.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
And then I just.

Speaker 11 (31:53):
Had another, you know, another another cause to run for
and and and it was him.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
So you've seen you say in November six seven months
ago or the previous year.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah, no, November of just this passion.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Now, some people train lifetimes and don't do this. Yeah,
but he started training marathon style like he's been running
for a while, right, But you started training for the
marathon during that.

Speaker 11 (32:17):
Yeah, twenty twenty four weeks is what I had in
your twenty four weeks to the day of when I ran.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
So, at what point during those twenty four weeks did
you actually hit that mile marker for a marathon? Was
it twenty six point two?

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, you don't.

Speaker 11 (32:32):
So the longest run, the longest run I had was
would have been twenty one miles and that would have
been March twenty fourth.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
And did so how did those final five fields?

Speaker 11 (32:44):
So it's the mileage you do per week, So you know,
in the beginning you're thirteen, I went, you know, thirteen
fifteen miles.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
The accumulation of weeks.

Speaker 11 (32:53):
You know, and then you look after I started doing
my half marathon, and it was twenty one miles, twenty
seven miles, twenty nine miles per week. Then they got
up to thirty one, thirty three, thirty five, thirty seven.
You know, your accumulation of miles per week, and and
then you start tapering down so you don't ever really
run the twenty six point two and so it's time
to run it. But if you can get twenty twenty one,

(33:15):
if you you can get that, you you can you
should be able to still finish. Now Boston is a
little different because of those heels that that that was,
you know, I did some I did some heillwork, but
but I probably need to do just to tab it
more because that was that was rough. Did you have
any knowing I went from the wash like I did

(33:35):
fourteen miles on the loop, came off and when I
hit fourteen, then I went up from the from from
you know, the wash on Swan and I went all
the way up to Sunrise, so that was three miles
and then once I got up there, then I did
another two miles.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
That gave me eighteen for that that day.

Speaker 11 (33:54):
And that I felt that So things like that really
helped me when it was when it was time to
you know, grule out.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Did you have any injuries along the way, like nicks
and bruises or anything that I know it takes it's
such a wear and tear on your body, Like what
do you feel now and what did you have to
go through?

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Oh? God?

Speaker 11 (34:11):
So the I'll say the scariest one was I think
maybe two and a half weeks ago, three two and
a half, three weeks ago roughly, I was on an
uneven pavement and I tweaked my calf and I'm like, man,
I'm only I'm only like fourteen days away and and
my calf is hurting. So you know, I didn't do

(34:31):
anything that the rest of that week. I got in
our training room and I just iceed and did everything
I could to try. I thought I might have to
end up renting with a sleep because because you know,
I strained it. So that was the scariest because it
seemed like two weeks out there was always there was something,
you know, I got, I got hitting my lip being
around one of our players, and then I tweaked my calf,

(34:52):
and then here's something else, and I'm like, what is
going on?

Speaker 7 (34:56):
Man?

Speaker 3 (34:56):
This is some meley challenge and stuff.

Speaker 11 (34:58):
And then I think in anyway, after around my half marathon,
the only other injury, I wouldn't call it an injury.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
It was just changed.

Speaker 11 (35:05):
I had changed shoes, so you know, you can only
go I think and told me that I had run
when I was going to the uh when I when
I was heading on the bus to the to the
athlete village, it said totally, uh total, I'm over five
hundred miles that I've run in my training to get
to to get to this point. So I was over

(35:26):
five hundred and some of my miles, which is crazy
when you think about it.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
So how did you qualify?

Speaker 7 (35:30):
Then?

Speaker 1 (35:31):
When did you qualify?

Speaker 11 (35:33):
It wasn't a qualified So I'm running for a charity.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Since since I'm.

Speaker 11 (35:38):
Running for a charity, Teddy's team, I was able to get.
You know, he has a certain bit certain bits that
he bid numbers that he can have per per thing.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
So I raised that.

Speaker 11 (35:49):
I was number eighteen when I was here, and I
raised eighteen thousand dollars. A lot of humbling, a lot
of people, you know, really poured in. They still pouring down.
They go to the sight. But it's it's it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
What is that real quick?

Speaker 11 (36:02):
Just in case, Oh gosh, it was a giving games.
It's on you gotta look on my on my page.
I don't know it by like by dot dot dot,
but it's it's it's a giving games.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Brandon Sanders.

Speaker 11 (36:13):
If you look me up on my on any any
social media page, Instagram, it's in my bio, Twitter, it's
on a number of my my things, and Facebook, it's on.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
The number of my posts. It's on there.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
So yeah, Brandon, do you have any Are you going
to run more marathons? Or was this kind of a
lifes Is this going to be a LIFs down right now?
What's your recovery process? Like, take us through that.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Recovery.

Speaker 11 (36:39):
So I got into a habit of using when I
was here, I was going to our cold tub and
hot tub sometimes if normally when I ran on my
long days, I.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Just got come back here, shower and get in the
cold tub. But but then.

Speaker 11 (36:53):
I don't know, midway through Chaine where I started using
what we call our Norma tech and that's like air pressure.
Sure that that has been amazing. Like I'm gonna after
I get off this, I'm gonna go downstairs and get
on Norman Tech. The Norman Tech is is it's better
than ice cut and coup to me, it because it
helps flesher, it helps your flesh flesh.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
And you know, I'm not a sponsored to Norman.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Tech, but uh yeah, yeah, yeah, a Lota.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
So you've done a lot of stuff obviously in your career. Uh,
this great player here at Uve. That took a lot
obviously at the NFL level. Now you're you're assistant, give
me your title. Let uva just real.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Quick coordinator of alumni high school relations.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
So you've done all these things that were tough. Right
where does this sit? Because it was to me twenty
four weeks or whatever that week's it's like, what the hell.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Yeah, it's it's up there. Teddy Teddy said the same thing.

Speaker 11 (37:51):
Teddy Teddy said, you know, he's played in he's played
in super Bowls and NFL and and those things, and
and he ranked this right up there with winning the
super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I haven't won the Super Bowl.

Speaker 11 (38:01):
I have won a Fiesta Bowl and also played in
playoff games and those things in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
It's up there.

Speaker 11 (38:08):
It's right up there with the feeling you have when
you finish the crowd. I mean they have the crowd.
There is no let down all twenty six miles.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Everywhere you go. I mean they are lined.

Speaker 11 (38:21):
The city of Boston shows out. It's incredible. It's up there.
It's top top two for me, especially like like Teddy said,
especially at this age. You know, I'm over fifty years
old trying to get this. You know, the nicks and bruises,
you know, a lot of the concrete running on your
joints and everything else. I mean, it was, like I said,

(38:43):
only think I can say is I'm humbled.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Man. God looked out for me to get me through.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
So we all have a story, right, everybody has a story.
Did you come across the story that you were inspired
by in line there or running or talking?

Speaker 11 (38:57):
A story? A story from someone else?

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yes, from somebody else? Mm hmmm, did you you know?

Speaker 11 (39:05):
I think there there were there were a number of
different people on on Teddy's team when we went to
our Night of inspiration that was really really really inspiring.
You know, there was there was some people that there
was one lady she had don't know.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
There's a guy who was sitting next to excuse.

Speaker 11 (39:24):
Me at dinner and he he had just had a stroke,
I think maybe a year and a half ago or
maybe two years ago, two years ago, and he you know,
got through everything else. And last year was his first
ever he ran the marathon coming off being a stroke survivor.
It was amazing and he's got two children, and and

(39:48):
he was just saying, you know, uh, he he you know,
he had he had he had no history of anything.
He was healthy and everything else. And he has a
stroke and you know he was lucky enough to survive.
But now he a marathon and now he's back. And
like she said, his wife said at the end, she
he was like last year, he was saying, he's never
running another one, and here he is back again, running

(40:08):
a second And and that was that was super inspired,
because you know, coming back from that is amazing, but
only coming back, but running a marathon is is incredible.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
So what was your time and was it a good
time for you? And I would guess that you're gonna
do it again.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
I think right now, I'm not committing anything store.

Speaker 11 (40:31):
It was four hours eleven minutes, which I've never run
a marathon. I've never run anything like that, So for me,
that was great. I was I was cruising. I think
I might have I might have had a chance to
be under four hours. Fact I know I would have
had a chance to be under four hours, but when
my body started cramping up about miles seventeen, then I

(40:51):
had to walk and run. So the last the last whatever,
mile seven, seven, eight miles. I was walking and running,
walking and running, and you know, they said our marathon
is good specting for a novice. So for me to
finish with four hours and eleven my even my half
marathon time was better than the half marathon or ran
in Yuma, So it was it was good man. I

(41:14):
was I was rolling, I was really cruising and uh
and even then, even my training still helped me get
through and push through. And the and the people cheering
you on, it's an amazing feeling. There's there's nothing really
like it. I can definitely say that there's nothing like
that for people for four hours as you keep they
don't know you, and they're cheering you on, and you know,

(41:37):
I have my name on my front, so they're yelling
out my name and telling me I'm doing a good job.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Keep pushing. It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
That's an You don't think about that from just a
like a just a normal everyday kind of perspective. But
the amount of people that are out there just supporting
the runners, like is incredible. Like you talked about a
communit community coming together for a greater good just in general,
it's it's are you amazing?

Speaker 11 (42:01):
You go by Boston College and all those students are
out there pressing like it's it's incredible.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
It was. It was definitely incredible.

Speaker 11 (42:08):
My my, my, My old principal friend Ross and auser
from at Pueblo's the.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Current principal at Pueblo.

Speaker 11 (42:15):
He here and his wife went out there and and
and they you know, and they they ran out there
to support me. Michelle Scoley used to run track here.
She's out there support me. It was like just an
awesome deal all the way, all the way, all the
way around Teddy and Heidi Deer.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
It was a good wildcat. It's a good wildcat showing
what a.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Great little little community. Hey, and I don't think we
meant to skim over this earlier. We're really sorry to
hear about your brother. Would you would you be okay
with maybe sharing one of the memories that stuck with
you about your playing career and your brother in the
relationship you guys had.

Speaker 11 (42:51):
Oh my goodness, gosh, Uh, there's so many memories to
go about.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
I don't know if I can pick just one.

Speaker 11 (43:00):
I would say for Brian, he he was.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
So much he was so much.

Speaker 11 (43:08):
Like me, and and in a lot of ways and
and pressed me to be better.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
We always come.

Speaker 11 (43:14):
We always competed at everything. And I can still remember
he and I in the in the December and ninety two, throwing.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Catch outside outside my house.

Speaker 11 (43:24):
Out here and me telling him that I don't we're
gonna beat Miami in the Fiesta Bowl, and he and
I were big Miami Hurricanes fans. He's like, no way,
and I told him I don't. I don't even see
how they're gonna get a chance to score. And then
we go out and we shut them out. And you know,
I flew home to San Diego and as soon as
I saw him, he's just shook his head and he's like, man,

(43:45):
you were absolutely right.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
I think, not just not to go too far.

Speaker 11 (43:50):
I hope I'm not going over, but you know, I
think the one thing that he'll say, because I was
a big video I'm a big I used to be
a big video game guy for Matt Madden videovideo games.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
I love Madden.

Speaker 11 (44:01):
And they set up some stuff where I went over
to his house and we had some guys come play,
and I won twenty four thousand dollars at his house.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
I played. I played all day. We played one thousand dollars.

Speaker 11 (44:14):
A game went by the double, Got to play, Gotta
Pay went by twenty one Gotta pay double, And we
called that the Madden Experience at Brian's house and it
was like incredible. He didn't play, but it was all
me and so you know, between him and even, like
I told you before, just so many people.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
When I was going to do that twenty one mile run,
my longest run, you.

Speaker 11 (44:37):
Know, my mom called me and told me that my
aunt had just had a stroke and she had passed
that day, and I still had to go out there
and run the twenty one miles and I'm just like wow,
everything just kept coming back to this cost a ton
of things that just kept coming back. You know, Gary
Walton and sala Asaiah both played at UCLA. Gary played

(45:00):
with me at at Helix High School and they both
had strokes within five months of each other and passed away.
So it's just a lot of different different themes that
kept coming back to heart related issues. And it just said, man,
I'm supposed to be doing this, like I'm supposed to
do this, and I'm supposed to finish this no matter
what kind of pain comes my way. We got to

(45:20):
get through and now I got a shiny metal around
my neck right now that I've been wearing all day
for the.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Last three days about it. So it's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Nice. Well, you know that there's a marathon going to
be happening here November first fifteenth. Yeah, we haven't. I mean,
we were hoping to get that done and we'll off air.
I need to get with Brandon and set that up
and maybe have him come out and talk to Garment
about it.

Speaker 23 (45:40):
Yeah, okay, oh yeah, right now, I'm just shining this
thing up and shining to you know, I got an
Ice and Norman taking everything else because that course is brutal.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
But you know, and they said it was brutal. I mean,
if you're don't do it.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Do it.

Speaker 11 (45:59):
That's what coach and you know, that's what Coach told me,
was that, I know, he looked down. I was like, man,
this man, it's literally doing it. Teddy still shook his
head everywhe I came and he's like, I can't believe it, man,
you really are doing this.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Well Brandon. We appreciate your time. Thanks Abuch, thanks.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
For the stories.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Thank you. You have to have a great you too.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Thank you, Jo. Take care of good stuff this stuff.
Let's take a break a little over, let's come back
and talk more. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan,
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Streaming live on the iHeartRadio app. This is I on
the Ball with Steve Raverra on Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
We'll come back. Welcome back to the ball you Fox
Sports fourteen fifty m Steve Vera. You're Blake eager and
we got ready with us. Uh, Brandon says, I forgot
Please give him when I get a chance to thank
arizon a football legend, Tom Tennacliffe and ever Fit from Burbank,
California for supporting and sponsoring his trip to Bust and
yeah got you got it. Takes a village, baby, Yeah,

(50:24):
he needs to. He needs to get on like a.
I don't know if he's a motivational speaker, if he
wants to be, but that story that he has right
now and the traction that he has moving forward. He
needs to jump on that uh that train and start
chewing it. Yeah. I guarantee you he'll be doing that
again next year. I mean, because once you start, why
would you stop? You know, just like you know, it

(50:44):
feels good a one off, Yeah, it feels good to
run like just usually you know, Yeah, Forest Gump, I'd
be like for not stop and come back and oh man,
run running all over the country. They say, I'm done.
Where are you doing?

Speaker 3 (50:57):
Man?

Speaker 1 (50:57):
I'm done, I'm done. There's nothing else to do. Uh. Yeah,
I've never had I've never had a want to run
a marathon, But kudos are the people that do it
because it is gnarly. Yeah, for sure, super gnarly. Like
losing your bowels during training too, Like that's always been like, nah,
I don't really want to crap myself while I'm running,

(51:19):
Like that doesn't sound fun. I barely keep it together
as it is right now. So you're running in, you're
running into here just cheeks. Why Hey, I got this?

Speaker 17 (51:31):
Just in?

Speaker 1 (51:31):
This is breaking. Judge says in order that she will
deny the two point eight billion dollar for the NCAA
settlement if the roster limits are not adjusted for the
sports programs. That just overseeing two point point two point
eight million settlement multiply. Blah Blah said in order to
head it down Wednesday that she will deny final approval
of the agreement if the parties do not modify a

(51:53):
plan to implement roster limits on college teams fourteen days
to respond, you want to dive a little bit more. No,
that's just too much, delve into it. No, no, no, no,
it's just a lot of stuff. We'll know more, what
we know more because it's a lot of money obviously, Yeah,
for all the schools and the programs. And it looks
like football players would get a minimum of two hundred

(52:14):
thousand dollars per player each on roster. Is it a
fifty seven eighty five? I thought then and then stupid
number both basketball player is probably the same and then
the rest is for the rest like the ble. So
are we talking that's what every single player gets? There's
no more than that or that's the minimum of every

(52:34):
single No, I think that's what they get. Okay, So
you're asking me, of course, because I really delved into this,
so yeah, into this, But that's what my numbers were.
That's that's on top of the anile, top of the
we're on the bottom of the annisle minimum. How does
that affect, uh, non revenue generating sports. It does, Well,
they get percentages of the piece of the pie. So

(52:57):
then that would trickle down to where every player on
say the tennis team, I would assume so, yes, because
that was one of the gripes from from Adia there
were she was only going to get two to four
percent of the pie and she said, well we need more,
and well, yeah, I mean, should be a gripe of
chip to being in a high corbett, being his own
stadium and getting a low I mean, yeah, exactly exactly

(53:19):
to your point, I was exactly, how's that possible? I
thought it was an equal type of thing, Title nine
type of thing. Blah blah blah. Oh no, because you
football generates this money, Basketball generally this money. They're going
to get the bulk of the money. I think we
talked about it, but I think you're going to see
if something doesn't drastically change, you're going to see so
many collegiate programs. Yeah, at in the in the golfing world,

(53:41):
in the tennis world, and the swimming world, and the
gymnastics world go away because they're going to generate all
their time and and efforts into basketball and football, which
is really like people are like, well that's what we watched. Yeah,
but you don't have like could you imagine having a
daughter or son that has a chance to play at
the next level and doesn't at the opportunity because they,

(54:01):
you know, got rid of the program. And you could
talk about that with the Arizona Junior College losing football, right,
that was a big that was a big leg down.
So sorry, do we have a call?

Speaker 13 (54:10):
No?

Speaker 1 (54:10):
No, no, I totally agree with you. Can we for once?
So talk about baseball? Did you guys watch the Cubs
game last night? Man, I don't know why I come
on this show. There's there's a second round of a
twenty round in the NBA playoffs, like the Cubs had
to play the Dodgers. It's seven if they're down ten
to seven and seven because our bullpen is a little

(54:32):
show last week too. They do it every game. Man,
They keep you on the edge of the seat. We'll
go ahead, tell me because you're dying to tell me,
Nic why baseball? And that's why you come on this
show every now and again? I get five seconds of
baseball on this show. Go ahead, No, no, it's really exciting.
So they won. Apparently I came back and I had
a home run bottom of ninth, two outs. Their catcher

(54:52):
had a two two out home runs. At the game
in Chicago, Hodge comes on and the tenth inning shuts
the Dodgers down three out with a man on second
because you know now the extra ending rule. Man starts
on second and they come out man on second. Hap
goes base hit, base knock the right field walk off?
Is there anything better in baseball than.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
A walk off?

Speaker 1 (55:13):
I don't know. I love a walk off, walk off.
I'm a single hitter. Do not like a walk walk off?
Or you're walking in a run? See, I thought I
got rid of this one. Jay was doing this Dodger talking.
I got cup talk. No, No, we're good talking. I
talk baseball. I mean Ray and I were talking about
the Giants.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
Yeah, we're talking about it.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
I mean we want to talk about we've got to go.
You're such a a minute, you want to call in
for the last five minutes. That'd be great to shut
them down so we know about baseball. Oh my god,
So I guess it was the baseball coach that I
would ridge that was that go u A word is that? Well,
we don't know the word is uh, so I guess

(55:52):
we might find out more later that Dick had brought
up but he has the same day last name with me.
But he's I chuged on figure this out, but it
is what it is. That was pretty funny today with
the two of you. Yeah, I'm telling you should get
all your regular callers. You should do an event. Yeah,

(56:14):
I'll get you a space, yeah, with padded walls just
in case. And you should do uh, not a show,
not a live show by any means, but you should
do a segment there. Yeah. They wanted to come in, like,
you know how, maybe special guests, the reading out again,
Fat Mike and maybe Nico. Nico hasn't called in a while,
Nico and uh and Gabe. How many regular callers do

(56:34):
you have? Would you say? Eight? Nine? Yes, you do,
just do a panel. Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, it'd
be cool if you could do this out of like
a bar. Yeah, of course, Well you're not going to
be sober, no no, no, no no. Initially when I
first started this, this is kind of how I wanted,
you know, back in the old day, they the sports reporters.

(56:55):
That was when you were growing up, right,