Monday, April 21, Hour 2

Okay, no theme song today, no breaking news that.

I was gonna say.

But that's the wrong. It's the wrong to Troy World, Fox. I want to stay on Fox.

Starting out breaking news with some transfer portal news Arizona. Former Arizona women's basketball guard Lawrence Swan has committed to Rutgers.

They're going everywhere?

Is it?

They duck East? Are they are? They lost a lot? They had one player left on the rocks around.

Yeah, I'm not I'll try to find it if I can. Just a question, but she will be playing for Rutgers next season. For Arizona football, they got a commitment on I believe Saturday from a three star athlete from Washington, Henry Gables. I'm not sure if I'm saying that right Gable tight end. It says athlete. But uh, they got a commitment. Okay, let me. Do you have anything on basketball? I don't think you have this.

So I just saw today this morning Andre Iguodala's son, Andre the third or second maybe the third?

Uh?

Did you see him play? I have not seen him play, So do you know him about it?

I do not? Okay, So the reason I asked the.

Recruiting guy, he's going to Baylor, right, every who didn't look at him, he's only a three star.

He's a three star, so then he slightly looked at him. You know, you're recruiting at a certain level, and yeah, I know Bryce James is a three star recruit, but it's also Lebron James Son and I all sure stuff like that, of course, of course. But you know, I think when you're looking at the roster for years to come, got to pick and choose your spots. And sure enough, sure we didn't.

I hadn't. I hadn't known of Andre Jr. Ever until I saw this morning that he was going to Baylor. So obviously must be pretty good if he's going to Baylor.

You know, Scott Drew is a very good coach. Works he's got nothing, he's got nothing exactly, there's no one there, right, yeah, so but he's one of those coaches that gets the most out of, you know, nothing.

So they've had a more recent title, yeah you know, five years right, five years ago.

Compared to twenty something years ago. Yeah, you know what I'm doing? I get it. Something that rage has brought up to me. Uh.

Becky Burke on Instagram posted something about Montea do saying she's back. Okay, so the one that's the only one that stayed, yeah, will be back for.

She's did a pretty good job.

I mean, anybody who thought she wouldn't probably wasn't paying attention. But anybody who comes into this position, you're still at Arizona, it's a Division one school that has a history, uh even a recent history. If you can find that magic, you'll you'll find a way to come back.

And you know what you started at ground zero, You built up the roster. Is the expectations to get to the tournament, probably not this year, but you got to start somewhere. And she's doing a good job of building a foundation, right.

I think a lot of the fan base is going to eventually come support her. You know, they're going to miss Ada in whatever capacity, but eventually find that coach Burke is going to be pretty good.

Exactly. Everyone was cautious about Ida. They eventually built around her. You ever, do you ever know you ever lose an X just say sure, uh and you hate him, you hate him, and then eventually you get over it.

Yep, you see Okay, hey, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, just eventually you get over it and you just move on because well you have to write.

Yeah, exactly, I'm keep moving forward.

For Arizona baseball, Mason White was named the Big twelve Colt Player of the Week.

You guys have covered baseball, Yeah, in an absolute bomb this weekend.

Yeah.

The dude's stud local stud, like a like a stud stud. Yeah. I mean that's he's going to be in the MLB dropped. Yeah, of course, very talented player. I don't know, you know, will he make the lead? Who knows? I mean you were talking about leg On all the ends and out there, but uh, highly talented kid that's done well. You know.

This comes after their series win in Provo BYU. They lost Thursday five to twelve. Friday they won five to four and Saturday seven to five, taking the series in provol for softball. If I can find it, I had it on here. They lost their series to Texas Tech Senior weekend one to two. They won the Thursday initial matchup two to one, got blown out Friday one ten to one in five innings, and then Saturday lost five to two.

Yeah, you didn't have a chance to get out there, right, We're still we were still at the spring spring.

Yeah, did the million dollar baby win on Saturday? Yep? Yeah, bitch, well yeah, yeah, you know that was kind of like the where are you in terms of as the team right now?

They're thirteen rankings, you know, mean whatever they want to want you to mean, but they were thirteen and fourteen, right, thirteen to fourteen if you have a study, and that's still the name of the game in softball.

Pitching is everything. And you saw, you know, they were able to hang around that first game and Devin did a great job. But when you're playing in postseason softball, when you get to the super Regionals Oklahoma, you got to do it every day. And you know, she broke down in the sixth Maybe she should have been pulled out after the fifth ending, But I think it's a good learning pool for Arizona to look at that series and see what went wrong and what went right and

I got like two, maybe two and a half. Really does it seem how much? How much time do we have here about tis and you have a lot of fill at all. So I was just gonna say, we'll talk about it and did it feel quickly this year? And did it feel quickly the.

Last four years? We'll get to that later. No to both. Oh yeah, that's right, you said it took forever.

Coming up next for baseball, they got a game Wednesday against UT Arlington six o'clock. For softball, they have New Mexico State on Tuesdays at three and five o'clock. Okay, And of course, the men's tennis team won the Big Twelve Tournament championship. It's fantastic four to one against UCFS. These guys, I still say. I'll say this with respect to all the coaches on campus. Coach Shield is fantastic. I think he might be the best coach on campus.

He just continues and for a while now not just you know, one on, one off, two off.

I had a chance to cover them back in January and I asked a couple of players, but him, in particularly what his expectations were, you know, not a lot of people know Arizona tennis, and straight up he said, we want to win national championships, and I think this is a programming team that can go and.

Yeah, yeah, it's very strange because you asked, you ask everybody what do they want to do within a national championship?

Right?

And then as a as a questioner, you're thinking yeah, right, in your head, you're thinking yeah, right, like that's ever gonna happen.

Yeah, exactly if I were to try to like explain it to someone and say, oh, yeah, Arizona's men's tennis head coach wants to win a national championship, their first offer of christ be like Arizona has a tennis team.

But there there definitely is a difference because with him, you can tell there's that Mike Andrea when they said we want to win. Yeah, yeah, what do you mean the way the way he is not only the way they are, but the way they care themselves. Yeah, you can tell when when a coach says that and he means it, and when a coach says it and he well, hopefully we'll win, Like there's.

No, no, no, no, And I've said this especially doing what I've done for the last number of years. Coaching matters, and you can you can tell maybe one or two or five conversations with some whose coach knows if he's gonna be that he or she is going to be that person to be that good coach, right, because you need to have some toughness or some pain in the ass to be a good coach. Usually those coaches are

Well, I mean look at just as of recently with Alabama with Nick saban h.

Yeah, I mean, no, he's good for a reason. He's good for a reason, and they respect the hell of you know. The funny thing about is Sean. I thought Sean was too much to the to the outside, to the to the being a tough coach. There wasn't that that relaxation, No, no, no part of it. And Tommy might be too far to the other side. We won't know, but we don't see him behind the scenes, right, we don't see him. I think right in the middle between those two.

This is the perfect perfect and we kind of saw Tommy going more towards that middle. Yes this season.

You know what too, it might be that he's feeling more comfortable doing that. Yeah, because it's the only four years into being a head coach, right, and for all his career he was an assistant coach. And guess what assistant coaches do there? You have the good cop and the bad coup. Assistant coaches are usually the good cop. Don't worry, he doesn't mean that when he says that to you. Now he's gott to flip the role and kind of be the bad cop after being the bad the good cup for.

So many years, and you kind of saw. I'm gonna give him credit and people are gonna hate me for doing that, but you saw what Jed. You saw Jed was that. Yeah, I'm not saying championship level of it, but to do what he did at Arizona, Yeah, and you saw the path that doesn't happen by accident.

I mean what he did and he must have a something about him that we don't see Fiery or them wanting to play for him because they respect.

The hell out of him. There's a drive that people didn't see it, and then that brings to you to well, Brennan, does Brennan have that?

And that's it's right. No, you got he only had one bullet last year. I mean he got his bullet and it was not good enough. Now he's gonna get a second bullet for a second year. Either it's gonna have to be good enough or maybe not. You know what I'm saying. You know, Jed had three, Jed had three and three. He pulled it off.

But in fairness of Jed, he started from literally gals yeah yeah, yeah, to where he built it. Good, good situation for Brennan. But also, I don't want to say an unfair hand, but a difficult hand in terms of the expectations were.

Different, yes, yes, and no question expectations. And there's a thing where the kids, the players have to respect you. And then you know him, I mean, he's committing in a situation where you know, the substitute teacher or the father, the stepfather, we don't you know, we don't like this guy or whatever. I'm not saying that's the case, but you know, i'll throw that out there.

Or or even, Hey, you know what we won last year. Let's just do what we do. Yeah, we know we're gonna win. Sure, who's saying this the kids? Yeah, And all of a sudden, Oh, you can't get on there. We're getting our butts. You can't tell me what to do. I've been here before. Well, win some games and shout out again. We're not saying that happened last year.

But that's a theory.

It's results matter. Okay.

The NHL playoffs have started. There's a couple of games over the weekend. The Jets beat the Blues. Have my beat the Stars, the Hurricanes beat the Devils, Maple Leaves beat the Senators, and the Golden Knights of Vegas.

Beat the Wild Hockey. Yep, I was joking, what what what's hockey? Hockey? Hockey hockey?

Well, you talk about you're gonna bury the lead with my Warriors.

Uh kind of. I was trying to say that for the end, Okay, Oh, you have a nice finale. He got safe the uh.

The golden child of college basketball last year, Cooper Flag confirms he is entering the NBA Draft.

Also breaking news, the sky is blue. It's a good transition, is it? Duke Blue.

I'm hoping to wake up to some Arizona Blue soon eventually. Yeah, but yes, it will be Duke Blue for a little bit. Uh, maybe even Florida Blue. Who knows he was Florida Blue? Right, Yeah, it's a great horse.

I'll tell you off the You remind me of great horse that won this weekend in Gulf Stream.

I think it was somewhere great name. NBA playoffs also started.

For the most part, some blowout games, but you had some close games like the Nuggets and the Clippers.

They went to overtime.

That was a great game, and I think the Clippers had a fifteen point lead they blew that. So it was in Denver two the Lakers got blown out by the Timberwolves. I guess that would be somewhat of an upset over over the weekend because it was in La too, right, because it's in LA. They're the three seed. But Minnesota, I think is that good? Okay, I don't know about you. I think they're very good, but they're also very young. Well that's like Houston. And then of course the Warriors upsetting,

That was a good game. Steph went off again and it was really good. They got their butt kicked on and offensive rebounds, so it was like, what the hell grab a rebound?

But who knows?

They could go on a run or they could get beaten seven games here on this series and.

They can go Rocks can go four straight. You never know. That's my favorite part about the playoffs.

Dream onunds. Give us the crap out of it. He's too inconsistent. Don't shoot it, don't shoot. I think he scares the crap out of everybody. Everybody want his teammates, nobody when he put his shoots from the three point line or whatever I'm thinking, don't don't give it the ball, the staff, everybody else clear out.

Well, remember that's like the golden era of Draymond when they first won that title. He was able to hit two or three two three is a game and then distributeable. He isn't that offensive guy anymore. No, No, he's pretty good screen play defense.

Well, the guy that I think is amazing is is Eric Gordon, who you didn't want him to shoot here and now he did three shot forty from the three point line. Can he has free throws. Now, how good has he gotten over the last ten years.

Yeah, I'm not surprised. I mean when you look at somebody that gifted athletically, kind of kind of like Andrea Goodala. Andre wasn't a big time shooter at Arizona. I'm not saying he was in the NBA, but he developed his shot in the NBA and got better and better each year.

Did the Pacers win their first row or okay, okay, so the Matherin and TJ are still rolling yep.

And then last thing I got before we have to go the NBA on some of their award finalists. You got the MVP, have Giannis, Shay, gilig Is, Alexander and Jokich. For Rookie of the Year, you have Stefan Cassel from the Spurs, so here Rushier from the Hawks, Jalen Wells from the Grizzlies. And then, uh, that last big one would be the Coach of the Year. You have the Calvs coach, Pistons coach, and the Rockets coach.

Not Night, not mine, Malone. No, I'm just kidding.

Nope, okay, okay, everything else, okay, Yeah, we're good. What's gonna ask you? Oh, that's it. I think we'll talk about year with all right. Thanks now.

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Streamy live on the iHeartRadio app. This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.

Hey, welcome back to its About General Fox Sports fourteen fifty ot rovera E's Troy hutch A sin from Goies Cats and we got job one at the controls here now on the phone, we have Chrissy Pareham.

Pareham, how are you?

Former Olympian gold medal winner and you have a all time star swimmer?

How are you? Chrissy?

And friend of Seve rivera friend.

Of mine, longtime one of my crazy friends.

Uh are you in? You in town now? Right?

I'm going to be in town tomorrow tomorrow.

Okay, what are you making your way out here for?

Well? I something really near and dear to my heart.

I work with a couple other volunteers and we did these things called Living Donor Awareness games and it started with a guy in Michigan and he has done them mainly with MLD teams and so we've kind of started reaching out and he did one at wake Forest and we've done We're going to do some minor league teams. We're going to do some college ball this summer.

And I had mentioned I said, you.

Know, we like I really feel like we should go to a softball game, and they're like, well, who are you thinking of it? I was like, like, one of the best programs ever in the history of softball. University of Arizona. So I'm coming to town to do a living donor awareness game to promote awareness for becoming a living donor.

Because I donate my kidney and I want to see other people.

Do it too.

Wow. Okay, so explain, Explain what will happen one and then we'll go into your situation.

Okay, So what we're going to do tomorrow is we're going to have some information on the.

On the big board.

We're going to have some information to hand out from Banner University.

We're going to be able to honor.

Some other donors and recipients and medical personnel before a couple of them before each game. We're gonna so one of the things that we really try to do is honor those that are in the field, educate those that are interested into learning more about living donorship, even if they're.

Not going to become one, you know, becoming an ally.

And talking about it and then possibly inspiring.

Someone to become a living donor. So that's my goal tomorrow.

You know.

Cool, that's cool. When you approached Arizona with the idea to do this, Uh, just how how helpful were they and how did it all come about? To do it at Hillenbrand.

So I called the big boss.

I called Mike Andrea and I said, right, So Tots Andrea has known me since I was eighteen, bless his heart. We still have a lot of you know, our.

Past still cross a lot.

I've been Arizona athlete and then I was a really active alumni and I'm I'm a big cheerleader. I go I've gone three times since the softball team has gone to the World Series, and so our paths have discontinued to cross. And I reached out to him and I was like, Hey, what do you think of this? And he's like, hey, we're getting to the end of the season.

Let me find out. And the next day I got a phone call.

They're like, hey, can you be here on you know, next Tuesday. So the UVA has been really responsive. I have loved working with the team there. One of the interns is a diver, so that's awesome.

And I'm just I'm.

Really looking forward to getting back to Rita. I love visiting, I love going to the games. I love to tanning the ladies on and you know, now I get to kind of maybe inspire them years from now to be a living donor.

Two what time does the game start?

Six?

I'm a doubleheader. The first game is at three and then the second game is at five.

Okay, cool, Cool, So then you'll have a couple of bites at this. Will it be like a two game situation where you inform all the people there?

Yeah, so the first game, I have been warming up my arm, Steve, I'm gonna do first pitch. I don't know, so I'm feeling I'm like channeling you know, Debbie Day old school. You've a ladies.

Yes, we are besties.

We were.

We were very very close in college. I mean we're still friends now, but we're very very close in college. And so I'm gonna do that, and they'll talk a little bit about my story. I donated my kidney too, another Olympic swimmer's dad, so they'll.

Go over that a little bit.

But then we're gonna have, like I said, we're gonna have other donors. A friend of mine and two sons who donated to our dad. Another donor pair a daughter and a dad. We're gonna have some medical people there and from Banner representing Banner, and we're gonna be available.

To answer questions.

Tell me and I don't know why I don't remember this, how many years to go this happened? And how did it happen? When you were a match?

So in January of twenty two, I saw that Missy's mom had posted on Facebook that her husband, Dick Franklin, was looking for a kidney, and I just was really moved to see if I could be a match. And five months later or six months later, I guess I was a match. And I mean, I'm the kind of person like I go to the dentist because I'm a grown up.

I hate it. I you know, go to my doctor's appointments because I want to be a.

Good grown up and I want to live and like move my body.

And be responsible with it.

But like I actually signed up to do a surgery, and when I was being rolled out to go start the surgery, my heart rate like was at fifty two. I just it was I felt like it was meant to be. I felt like I was supposed to like not no Missy before that, and then give Dick a kidney. And we bonded because of our swim community and I got to be the one that was there for him. So it's awesome.

I love it.

Who was the person again, who is the swimmer.

Missy Franklin. Okay, yeah, she was pretty good. She won like five gold.

Medals, a couple world records she did.

Okay, No, she's much younger. Yeah, she's much younger than me. So that community, that community expands, Yes, yes, it's.

Very much like I think.

You know, we live in San Antonio and Sean and I have discussed volunteering together to promote kidney donation.

You know, the Wildcat family, I think is feels really small.

My husband's retired Air Force. That community feels really small.

And the swimming.

Community, you know, there's a lot of my you.

Know, I would say probably nine some of my best friends are because of either swimming at the U of.

A and we all were Wildcats, or.

You know, being on a couple of national teams and Olympic team.

Like, there is something about.

That community where you know, friends of friends know each other and it makes the world really small and really lovely.

Right right? Does it seem so long ago? I remember when you came back.

So I was here in eighty seven, got here in eighty seven, you were here doing your thing, does it?

See?

And then when you went to Olympics and you came back. I remember the interview when you first came back. We did it at the Double Tree. I think it was so many years ago. Yeah, yeah, does it seem that long ago or how ow is it?

Yeah?

So every four years the memories come flooding back and it feels like it wasn't that long ago.

But I like to do CrossFit, and every day I go to the gym and I get my rear ended handed to me and I'm reminded that I am not twenty one anymore. So, so sometimes it feels like it's really close, and like especially in an Olympic year, like the memories are very vivid, and my time at the UVA is very clear to me and the people that were in the athletic department at that time, Like I know, said Dempsey just passed away, and I'm honest, thride list to me of a people and we all remember him.

So like sometimes it sometimes it feels like it wasn't that long ago. Yet.

I don't want to shock you because I know you're still young in your forties, but I'm now in my fifties.

Your Yeah, try to be nice, to be yeah, I dare you, all right, exactly tell you this. I just got a text from one of my sponsors. He says, have them join going to a meeting, but give me her information because I want to help. So I'm going to have to pass.

Oh my god, that's awesome. Yes, this is what we want to do. If you talk about it, it's I am like the field of dreams for living donation, like I did. I donated, and I don't. I think it took me about a year to really.

Understand the need and kind of the butterfly.

Effect that happened because of it. After I donated, I had.

Two friends also donate. And I think.

The more that you talk about it, the more you understand. Like, you know, seventeen people die every day that you could be giving a kidney to.

There's over ninety thousand people.

On the kidney donation waiting list, and this is a problem that we could solve. You know now, you know we're not waiting to understand how we can do living donations. We can solve the problem now. And I would love to have more allies.

Yeah, no, I bet did you? I know you're kind of crazy. I'll say that with all the terms of endearment, you could take it good because you're you're out there. We've been you know, we know each other for a long time. Did you did you kind of say yeah, I'll do it, or did you kind of like I'm not sure.

At the beginning, I wanted to remain anonymous.

I just did.

I felt a very disingen if I was going to like toot my horn.

Now I've already done it. I don't feel like I'm tooting my horn. I feel like I'm reminding other people that there is another way that you can help your neighbor. And so I feel strongly about And also it's not for everybody.

So for example, like you know, if you have kidney.

Stones a lot, you're not going to be.

A good candidate for being a donor. That's okay, because you could still.

Talk about it or be an ally and understand that for example, writing your name on your license doesn't make you a living donor, and only two percent of those.

Organs get used, you know, So like.

Becoming an ally is the best.

And if it ends up being something where someone's inspired to also become a donor or, it helps them.

You know, It's it's very hard, and I definitely am one of these people. I hate asking for help, Like there are.

People out there that need a kidney right.

Now that don't want to ask.

You know, it feels weak, and I think we should talk about it when we shouldn't tell people.

Let me ask you up.

So it's been a few years removed since you were here, and I kind of already went here. But what are your thoughts on the nil because you were one of those great ones in Arizona in the swimming world, has been one of them, had a lot of the great ones. What do you think about it now? How would you have crushed it? And what did you if you? I think maybe you've said this on the air with me before. How much did you get for that the medals that you want? Probably pittance now yeah, so yeah, so.

In nineteen ninety two, you did not receive money for your medals.

That didn't start until nineteen ninety six. But I did sign some really.

Good contracts Bert Kinarc yeah, you know, but very well known lawyer in town. He was my attorney, and so I I mean, I didn't walk away with nothing, and I was really happy with kind of the little nesta that I'd created for myself. I do feel like at the time if they if we had had NIL, it would have been really fun and exciting to do that.

Because I definitely felt like a Tucson.

Girl and an Arizona girl and it would have been really fun to kind of explore that.

But yeah, the.

Stuff that's available now for athletes, like.

I don't begrudge them forgetting what they want, even though sometimes it does make me cringe a little bit when I hear about like all the pants for portal or you know, like the quarterback from Tennessee kind of holding out for more or whatever. Like I just I struggle with that a little bit because I feel like.

A real loyal Wildcat.

And you know, I would I would encourage that for any.

College athlete to stick it out in a place and.

You know, make roots and be a part of the program and cheer for other sports and get to know the other athletes and stuff like that. But the NIL opportunities now, like this is exactly you know you want growth in sport. Do I think that they're doing it the right way all the time? Probably not, But I'm not an expert at this.

But like when my mom.

Was a college athlete, they didn't even like she wore the same uniform for basketball and volleyball, you know.

And they didn't even have scholarships. So when I went to school and.

I got a full ride, like this is the growth of sports in America and it's a business.

And so yeah, I mean, would I do I wish that I would have had an opportunity like that. Yeah, that just wasn't happening at the time. But I definitely don't begrudge the athletes for you know, understanding that they're in.

A profession and you know, it's a business, right, I don't know.

Yeah, it's it's hard, It's it's a delicate dance. I'm sure, sure, no, no question.

Okay, Well, enjoy tomorrow, give the word, give the word from Chrissy tomorrow.

You're the best. I want to see buddy at that softball game. Want to cheer the Cats because that's awesome. It's their last home fan. But any information that anybody wants to find out about the becoming a living donor, there's a plethora of websites out there, and I would encourage anybody that has any questions to go do it. And lastly, Steve, thank you for all like always being a friend, always helping you know, Tucson athletes. I know you love the Wildcats more than just about anybody, So

Dollar Baby, Darling Baby, take care.

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Hey, welcome back to I'm Vaguero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, You're Troy Hutchison, your one, and we got right here. So I just got to text for one of another listener, Christy just busted you. So you are a closet great Wildcap fan. I think we all knew it. Yeah, eat down inside. All that other stuff is just BS and Bill. If you're listening, I hope you are. You haven't called me since the first time you said that.

We don't. I'm always negative, I'm not always nakedive.

You're just realistic, and it's just realistic, pragmatic, pragmatic, pragmatic, honestly I am.

You know, it's sunning outside, but a cloud could be coming.

Arizona Blue, not Duke Blue, Arizona Blue. Well, good to talk to Chrissy, one of the crazy friends I have in the old sports world, doing some good scene. I didn't remember her doing the kidney thing. Oh, good for her, Good for her, and good thing tomorrow. Will you guys covered anything tomorrow?

No?

No, no, no, nope.

And they're playing my alma mater, so they should win pretty easily. Everybody you want to call, we have some time. We get about twelve minutes, yep, just about minutes five two, four, one, six, seventy four forty.

I'll let us know what you think.

If you were to tell us what you want new or improved a Michale or otherwise on campus, give us call, let us know, maybe pass it on to the people who need to know it's just your experiences as a fan or whatever.

At you obey.

That.

You guys, give me all yours, right.

I think the only thing I would say, and this is unrealistic dreaming, is moving both baseball and soccer to on campus. I think that would get a little bit more of the student population.

To go.

In my opinion.

Well what you said soccer soccer, maybe maybe baseball. Baseball is doing better because it went a win.

Yeah, I was gonna say, it's doing so much better than what it was at Sanset as the old stadium, and that was right by you know, the football field, the basketball you knew that, right, Yeah.

Yeah, it's just like the students didn't care or something. Well, you gotta win too. I guess it used to be Rocket a long time ago. You know, I don't know enough about that, but but when they moved to High COVID, it was like, holy crap.

This well and then they started that's here they won the title. They started winning right right then and there, so you know they the High covered snice now and you know before when I covered the Triple A team. When I first got he was like, okay, nice it looked like the Cleveland team was still there.

Yeah, we gotta call let's stick it. Although you're on the air nine the ball, who's this?

Hey?

Uh j r.

Hey.

I have ideas for each sport real quick on how to make it better. So baseball I recommend to get more students involved. Do like a shuttle that runs an hour before an hour after the game from campus back and forth for the students. That that way, uh, they can enjoy their time there, be safe getting home, uh McKay. The student seating availability and for the student seating uh and maybe eating some of the dedicated season ticket holders.

You sell it without a seat.

Just start that coverage. Start the basketball until you broke up a little. So start from the beginning.

Yeah yeah.

So for for for basket basketball, yeah yeah, basketball, I just say student seating, they don't need an actual chair. Sell it as a space in a row, you know, with a capacity and stuff. But that way, yeah, back to participants throughout the throughout game. If you look at other competitions that we have in the country, there's some

And then I mentioned it before.

For football, after the first half, open it up at a discounted price to let take a sale will happen so that people, Yeah.

You're breaking up jail, But I get it because the students, most of them leave or someone will, right, Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, I mean ideally they'd be earlier games. But I'm talking about like families that would love to go if this can't afford to go. If they knew they had a chance to get in after halftime because the seats weren't sold, and so them at a discount of great, you could have the second half. You know, you count on real dedicated fans being there.

I don't know if that's possible, but that's not a bad idea unless the game is like it starts at eight o'clock and.

You know you have to get you and Chris Rogers should coach all the sports.

Well, you just screwed it. You just screwed it up.

Jill. Well, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. Uh, just not on the student. I didn't get that, did you understand.

I think what he's trying to say is get rid of seats, the physical seats, and just create like a space for them to stand kind of.

Like yeah, like the final fours. Oh, I see, I see all that kind of have like like.

That.

I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that. Yeah.

That's not either safe or probably sound to do that. Okay, if that's what he meant, I didn't understand what you're trying to say. I was trying to do.

They do.

They have Now it's just done for me. But I walked through all the time bleachers or they have seats, have seats for basketball. For basketball, they have seats. Okay, okay, so football is all bleacher. Yes, yeah, I.

Still say shortening the or making it smaller, getting more people in that way, making more cozy whatever.

I think for football that works. Basketball, no, no.

No, no, no, no.

Fifteen thousand for big games, they'll show and it's not that bad. You like go and look at each other, like, what's thirteen thousand people or whatever, And it's noticeable because you're used to it packed, right, Yeah, and then you see pockets up in the stairs, up in the top kind of empty and you're thinking what, But then again, it's like ten o'clock yep.

I'll say this for basketball because Tommy talked about getting there late. Yes, have giveaways to get there early. Yeah, I have gifts like they did Bobbleheads a couple of years ago. With various different sports, have like I don't know, a towel giveaway for the first like five something.

Let me also tell you to try you know this because you guys are too No, no, no, well it costs money. Yeah, but Tucson is notorious and I've been here thirty seven years for being a late arriving Yes group anywhere anytime, if the play starts at ten oh one, they're getting in their seats at ten thirty, at ten ten o'clock ten, Yeah, just you know, thirty seconds before the actual team and they say, where's my seat, where's

To get to their seats where you're at o their venues and they're they're already harrassing.

You went to Kansas, then to Kansas twice, and there they get there early to have a fun time and then the game starts.

Due they were allowed yeah, yeah, like thirty minutes before the game. Yeah. Yeah, but you can't always be Those are one offs right there. But I'll say this, they were also letting students in way early and then they're like regular like I do, this section came in, yeah, and then I would say about fifteen minutes later, the regular fans, like the field in season ticket holders filled in. Right.

Yeah, I think that's you know, that's a guy like for Tony that we had on right uh yeah, because we were there at Duke and we were we had to be seated pretty much in our area because the guys came in and we hard to get in and out of our.

Yeah, I mean we had no room. Once he got down, you were there, Yeah, you were not getting up and you're getting back.

Right now to go on your point about two. So on arriving late, you know, I would get stuck in the third row of the media. And I'm not saying it's like that's a bad thing or anything. It's just when the best basketball, when the crowds arriving late, they're walking in front.

Of you, you can't see anything, right, yeah, and you're just.

Like, well, we're already ten fifteen minutes into the game and you're barely getting here.

My favorite is when people did I've had happen to me a couple of times. I don't know if it's happened to you. They'll come up and go, where is section I'm working, dude, I tell I'm sorry, man exactly.

They'll go, as you still wearing those blue vests, Target with the white hat? Yeah, Target, could you tell me where the fore the under arm the older it is?

I had that happened like twice. I'm like, I don't know, man, I'm just working. Well, can't know I'm working? Go ask somebody.

Yeah, well, I think personally it happens to me all the time, whether I'm working or even just being a fan.

People come up to me and I'm like.

I don't know, don't have your ticket at Mikale, at Michale, at the Football Stadium or a Target.

Sir, do you know where the frost flakes are? I said, Uh, probably someone that works here. That's bigger start. You probably looked lost to I don't road. Do you know where? That's funny?

Okay, any more calls we can take maybe one that we got five minutes. Yes, we can take another one. Thanking Jr.

For calling us.

Let us know what's going on. Uh yeah, So I think that you of a will see the subtle changes. I was surprised when he said that they're gonna start making but it's kind of be subtle, not like a boom, like like I think the at the football stadium, Arizona Stadium. The biggest problem I had was the sound. And the only problem I had was a sound, not not the

Right then that's kind of what it sounds like it was gonna happen, right And then there you go. Eventually you have a whole system.

And then by that time it's like the roads here, you fix this area, but then that one breaks and then you got to come back exactly And then do they say, well that's always being under construction. No, it's just that where you drive, they fix this area, you gotta go this area and then other fix blah blah blah. You know how many fixes do they need in that stadium?

Bunch? Right, I mean it's an old stadium for a reason, right, and elevators, I'm not sure. Good luck with that. Stop being lazy. You're you're in shape. You're the one in here that's in shape.

Yeah.

When one thing I saw that on Saturday too is one of the like on the screen, not the not the big screen, but the one in the corner.

Yeah, it was just like a green panel like it just like stayed green. I don't know, maybe they just didn't use it. I think I think they might have been having technical difficulties. That scream usually is working. But did you did you go you in as a fan? Did you were you on the field? I took like a little lap around the field just to see.

Like what was did you what was your feeling being the fan on the field because we were we were you were there. Yeah, I was there for like a minute.

I just walked by. Yeah, I mean it was cool.

The person I went with they hadn't been on the

I would imagine.

Right. No, the one thing that I thought Tony hit on two is when you were kids and me too, when you went to those type of games and you got to kind of watch them and meet them. It was when you were ten years old or eight years old. It's a cool thing because you don't get to meet your heroes. You don't get to meet your heroes, and you know, eventually they're not my heroes anymore. But back

Let me see you.

That's why you're a sports fan, right, Yep, I'm not a sports fan because for that reason, my guy here is on this team and then he could be somewhere else tomorrow. It's like the we talked about Jimmy Butler, right, is he here for a year or whatever and then he goes somewhere else this movement. That's why I'm horrible fantasy.

I get my team.

I don't trade anybody because I'm loyal to the team that sucks and I don't get rid of them.

Well, and and college is becoming more and more and more like the NBA where they're in the contract, but it doesn't really mean you're under contract. You just throw a fitting and get traded where you want to go. Kevin Kevin Durant uh, Kyrie Irving has done it before. It doesn't matter that our movement happens regardless of contract. So I know college they don't have contracts, but eventually you gotta think, yeah, right, we gotta go.

Yeah, Okay, thanks guys for coming in today. We'll see you guys tomorrow