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Speaker 2: three Things Thursday. One three things, and I doubt that
Speaker 2: we're talking college football for three Things Thursday, but it
Speaker 2: does stand to mention Bob Chesney, UCLA head coach Spring
Speaker 2: game Saturday, will join us next on this Crunchy Groove Thursday.
Speaker 2: I don't think this is a college football three things,
Speaker 2: matt Less, it is.
Speaker 6: That certainly alters three things. I don't feel like a fool.
Speaker 6: I was gonna start with Wake Forest weight training, but
Speaker 6: all right, I heard they're getting Bob Chesney's coming on
Speaker 6: in the next segment, so let's just scrap it.
Speaker 2: They are getting after it, which in Winston Salem, Matt there,
Speaker 2: they're in the woods.
Speaker 6: They're doing all that off the desk, and let's just
Speaker 6: figure it out from here.
Speaker 2: Every player has been given an axe, a special Wake
Speaker 2: Forest Act.
Speaker 4: So we're the Deacons we are.
Speaker 2: I don't like it. What do we do? I don't know.
Speaker 4: Let's make them a demon Okay, we're the demon Deacons.
Speaker 2: I like it. No, what I don't know?
Speaker 4: Give them a motorcycle. Okay, I really like where this
Speaker 4: is going.
Speaker 2: Um Pike him looked like an ex president.
Speaker 6: Yes, but a psychotic one. He wears leathers and he
Speaker 6: comes in on a chopper. Okay, what's his face look like?
Speaker 6: Do you remember what the cavity looked like in the
Speaker 6: Yuckmouth commercial.
Speaker 4: Yes, let's make it look like that.
Speaker 6: Three things be. I did not think we would be
Speaker 6: going here today, Yet here we are. I had faith
Speaker 6: in what James Worthy was selling yesterday. I wanted to
Speaker 6: buy it all up. And he said the Lakers got
Speaker 6: to win this one. Those were his words, not ours.
Speaker 6: He said, I really think the Lakers got to win
Speaker 6: this one. So if they didn't, it turns out they didn't.
Speaker 6: We now have to look at history.
Speaker 2: Yes, must win is what we heard. Matt must win
Speaker 2: that James Worthy said, must win.
Speaker 6: Yeah he did not, and we even we even led
Speaker 6: him to the water and said, hey, do you want
Speaker 6: to drink from this? They really should have lost Game
Speaker 6: three is this series a lot tighter than it looks?
Speaker 6: And he said, yeah, that's why this is a must win.
Speaker 6: They very well could be down and should be down
Speaker 6: three to two, had again the Rockets not lost their
Speaker 6: mind in the waging twenty eight seconds of Game three,
Speaker 6: giving up a six point lead while they had possession.
Speaker 6: Yet this series is now three to two. The Lakers
Speaker 6: let it three to zero. Lebron goat conversations were happening,
Speaker 6: and by pulling his team out of the first round
Speaker 6: against a depleted Rockets team without Kevin Durant, would that
Speaker 6: enhance his legacy as the greatest of all time in
Speaker 6: NBA history. That's what was being sold today on the
Speaker 6: last day of April, with his team ahead three to two,
Speaker 6: shifting back to Houston for a Game six tomorrow. This
Speaker 6: is what they're staring at. Four teams pee in the
Speaker 6: history of the NBA postseason, four have come back to
Speaker 6: just force a Game seven.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 6: Just have managed to win the next three games after
Speaker 6: losing the first three game and force a game seven.
Speaker 6: The nineteen fifty one New York Knicks in the NBA
Speaker 6: Finals against the Rochester Royals forced to Game seven and
Speaker 6: lost in nineteen ninety four and the Western Conference Semis
Speaker 6: against those great Karl Malone, John Stockton Utah Jazz squads.
Speaker 6: The Nuggets, after going down three zero, won the next
Speaker 6: three force to Game seven, in which they lost.
Speaker 4: This is for the Petros and the money, and money
Speaker 4: and the money.
Speaker 6: The two thousand and three Portland Trailblazers in the first
Speaker 6: round were down three zero.
Speaker 2: Those the Trail Gangsters.
Speaker 6: Those were the Trail Gamesters against I believe wouldn't no,
Speaker 6: that would not have been the three js. I think
Speaker 6: they would have already broken up Jim Jackson, Jamal Mashburn,
Speaker 6: and Jason Kiddo.
Speaker 2: It's a tall order, man, It's a tall order for
Speaker 2: the Rockets.
Speaker 6: And most recently the tw twenty three Celtics against the
Speaker 6: Miami Heat lost their Game seven as well. So what
Speaker 6: I'm getting at is the Rockets have an opportunity to
Speaker 6: do something that has never been done in NBA history,
Speaker 6: and that has come from down three zero to win
Speaker 6: a series for the first time in the history of
Speaker 6: the NBA. Teams had been down two zero and won
Speaker 6: five game series. They have never been down three It's
Speaker 6: happened in hockey, It's happened in baseball. It has never
Speaker 6: happened in the NBA, and there are a lot of
Speaker 6: people that think the Rockets are set up to do
Speaker 6: just that. A team full of young talent that lost
Speaker 6: its mind in that game three Jabari Smith reed Shephard
Speaker 6: arguably two of the best players on the court last
Speaker 6: night in a hostile environment, shock full of celebrities like
Speaker 6: Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song. Yeah, Brenda Salt, superstar. I
Speaker 6: saw Dominican su there when they put him on the screen,
Speaker 6: I was like, I guess that's where we're going.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 6: And Dominican Suit, who I believe has been retired from
Speaker 6: football for about five years but was a hell of
Speaker 6: a force at Nebraska and of course in the Rams.
Speaker 2: You never forget him. He was great in the.
Speaker 4: Leagues, exactly right.
Speaker 6: He was there as well, all the fat, out of
Speaker 6: shape kids of Jack Nicholson. And I'm trying to think
Speaker 6: of who sat next to him. It was Jack, and
Speaker 6: I'll be damned if I can. I can visualize him,
Speaker 6: the old man and the sunglasses with the white beard.
Speaker 6: But their kids are now it's onto the next Jets.
Speaker 6: It's two generations later. Like their grandkids are now going
Speaker 6: dressed up like Luca and Lebron and their headbands and
Speaker 6: their high socks. Super cool hipster guys. Very disappointed in
Speaker 6: the effort. Last night, the Lakers jumped out to a
Speaker 6: quick lead. It looked like Austin Reeves was the elixir
Speaker 6: they needed in his return. Hot start for Austin Reeves
Speaker 6: on fire from the field. They jump out by eleven
Speaker 6: and then what does Reeves do? How about one for
Speaker 6: nine in the second half? Team could not hit a
Speaker 6: three pointer to save their life. They go ice cold
Speaker 6: from deep seven of twenty seven and if you take
Speaker 6: it back to the last game they lost, they are
Speaker 6: shooting twenty five percent from beyond the arc.
Speaker 4: And this is why you.
Speaker 6: Gotta be careful as you celebrate Rob Polinka for the
Speaker 6: exchange Ah gave gave Vincent who's been future? Just a
Speaker 6: puke of a signing and you get back Luke Knnard
Speaker 6: twenty seven, Game one, twenty four, Game two. Last night,
Speaker 6: Oh for thirty one minutes starts comes off the bench
Speaker 6: in the second half, Reeves gets to start thirty one minutes,
Speaker 6: zero for four from the field, zero for four from
Speaker 6: three guys, a ninety percent free throw shooter, He even
Speaker 6: missed one of those finishes with one point in thirty
Speaker 6: one minutes. Marcus Smart does this, peaks, valleys, valleys, peaks,
Speaker 6: misses everything, makes everything, three to seven from the three
Speaker 6: point line. Lebron James the goat. If this doesn't cement
Speaker 6: him as the greatest ever, then you just got blinders
Speaker 6: on and there ain't no change in your mind. Zero
Speaker 6: for six from three, missed two critical free throws down
Speaker 6: the stretch.
Speaker 2: At least he realized late in the game that the
Speaker 2: threes weren't going and he needed to do something else.
Speaker 6: Yeah, seemed like Austin Reeves and Lebron James looked at
Speaker 6: each other and they're like, should.
Speaker 4: We just keep shooting him?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you're on a four on one break, Austin,
Speaker 6: but effitt Man, let it fly?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: What about the next time?
Speaker 6: Don you know what, I'm gonna throw this to you, Lebron,
Speaker 6: Why don't you take it from the right wing and
Speaker 6: see if you can shoot it with that guy's hand
Speaker 6: in your face. Even though Aton's wide open, don low
Speaker 6: and he's made four consecutive baskets.
Speaker 2: All right, let's give that a go.
Speaker 6: It was a disheartening performance. And I do subscribe to
Speaker 6: the idea that James Worthy had that it did feel
Speaker 6: a little bit like a they kind of really got
Speaker 6: to win this one because of how wacky that Game
Speaker 6: three was, And you can really make the case this
Speaker 6: this series should absolutely be too too, were it not
Speaker 6: for two freaking hiccups and total brain farts from two
Speaker 6: young players. And those two Jabari Smith might have been
Speaker 6: the best, probably was the best player on the court
Speaker 6: for the Rockets, played his ass off reach. Shepherd got
Speaker 6: his revenge on Lebron, poked that ball away late.
Speaker 2: After Lebron bunked him with a forearm in the.
Speaker 6: Chest after he bonked him, had the two handed flush,
Speaker 6: and everyone was like, oh, white guy like that.
Speaker 2: Before that, he had the he had the short range,
Speaker 2: Don McClain, and then he had the flush. Yeah, before
Speaker 2: that the mid range where we really took it to
Speaker 2: uh to Lebron, he went to the king. He showed
Speaker 2: he showed no respect for the throne.
Speaker 6: He said, you may be a king, but I am
Speaker 6: a shepherd, and I am a shepherd of basketball goodness.
Speaker 2: I was there when Christ was born.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 6: I may be but a shepherd, and you may be
Speaker 6: a king. But that does not mean I can't lead
Speaker 6: these men. He led them to a victory and against.
Speaker 2: Skid maybe dark strong and shining in mine, maybe lily white.
Speaker 4: It's not good.
Speaker 6: It certainly looked fine in the first half rosterling names.
Speaker 6: Then he went absolutely ice cold. He still managed to
Speaker 6: get at the free throw line. They kept feeding the
Speaker 6: hot hand for a while and DeAndrea Eyton got away
Speaker 6: from it. Three pointers betrayed him. I don't know how
Speaker 6: i'd feel about this thing going to a game seven
Speaker 6: if I and by the way, kudos to the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 6: We got. You got a Nuggets team that was down
Speaker 6: three to one that looks like that's gonna end up
Speaker 6: getting to a game seven with the injury to the
Speaker 6: ant man. You got the Lakers and Rockets that I
Speaker 6: think if you were to pin which one of these
Speaker 6: are going to a Game seven between Nick Hawk's Celtic Sixers, Raptors, Caves, Pistons, Magic,
Speaker 6: most people would probably say, yeah, I think the Rockets
Speaker 6: have the best chance to win their game at home.
Speaker 6: All of these teams, all of these series look like
Speaker 6: they're going seven. After olm Bead's return, Celtics Sixers is
Speaker 6: now three to two, Nicks Hawks is three to two,
Speaker 6: Calves Raptors is three to two. Piston's Magic after a
Speaker 6: hell of a back and forth in the early one yesterday,
Speaker 6: is three to two. So kudos to the NBA for
Speaker 6: having a hell of a playoff start after a miserable
Speaker 6: end of the season. And that brings us to our
Speaker 6: second thing, real quick pee three two one, not contact,
Speaker 6: but three two one lottery odds launched yesterday, we talked
Speaker 6: about anti tanking, how the end of the regular season
Speaker 6: is unwatchable for three quarters of the games.
Speaker 4: All teams are doing is trying to lose.
Speaker 6: With two way contract players and G League players being
Speaker 6: called up in the hopes to increase the percentage that
Speaker 6: they will secure the number one, two or three overall
Speaker 6: pick in the NBA lottery, your odds drop dramatically if
Speaker 6: you are outside of the top four, where you have
Speaker 6: a fifteen percent chance. Well, Adam Silvers had enough and
Speaker 6: he has said he wants this approved immediately. May twenty eighth,
Speaker 6: Board of Governors will meet and he will seek approval
Speaker 6: on what he's calling three two one.
Speaker 4: What does that mean?
Speaker 6: Thirty seven lottery balls allocated to sixteen teams the teams
Speaker 6: with the three worst records would each receive two lottery balls,
Speaker 6: giving them a five point four percent chance at the
Speaker 6: number one pick. Teams that finish with the fourth worst
Speaker 6: through the tenth worst record will receive three lottery balls
Speaker 6: eight point one percent. So if you have one of
Speaker 6: the three worst records, your odds are not as good
Speaker 6: as the teams that had better records than you four
Speaker 6: through ten, and then the nine to ten seeds would
Speaker 6: each receive two as well, and the loser of the
Speaker 6: seven versus eight playing game would receive one. For all
Speaker 6: intents and purposes, it's what they call flattens the lottery odds.
Speaker 6: Your best chance to win the number one pick is
Speaker 6: eight percent versus five point four percent versus a one
Speaker 6: to thirty seven chance if you win the seven versus
Speaker 6: eight play in game. The teams with the three worst
Speaker 6: records can pick no lower than twelve. Everyone else could
Speaker 6: put anywhere from one to sixteen. Teams cannot get the
Speaker 6: number one pick in consecutive years, and they cannot pick
Speaker 6: in the top five and three consecutive drafts. Those are
Speaker 6: basically the changes that they are instituting.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 6: I think it leads to competition between teams that are
Speaker 6: absolutely terrible but would be playing their asses off. If
Speaker 6: you're in fourth place, you certainly don't want to lose
Speaker 6: an extra lottery ball by sliding to third place. If
Speaker 6: you're playing one of those teams and they're trying to
Speaker 6: get a victory late in the season, it certainly feels
Speaker 6: like it would at least scuttle, slightly scuttle the tanking
Speaker 6: that teams did this year that led to egg on
Speaker 6: the face level of embarrassment for Adam Silver, saying he's
Speaker 6: lighting the ass that he's got. You know, he can't
Speaker 6: he can't get a handle on this, and that's why
Speaker 6: it feels like he really kind of came over the
Speaker 6: top and brought some lumber to this thing, and says
Speaker 6: this is the only proposal that's going to be offered.
Speaker 6: He expects it to be approved and they will run
Speaker 6: it through twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck to everybody involved in the lottery. I
Speaker 2: hope that the Clippers pick doesn't go to the Thunder.
Speaker 6: I think that's that's pretty much already insured. I think
Speaker 6: this would be for next year. Oh that's a cool
Speaker 6: upper for this year. I mean, I thought it'd be
Speaker 6: pretty damn cool if it worth this year, and you'd
Speaker 6: really f the teams, and who knows, maybe it is
Speaker 6: and I just didn't read far enough down the article.
Speaker 6: Whatever final thing, Pete, I would love And this will
Speaker 6: be super quick, because we discussed it yesterday and I'd
Speaker 6: just like to follow up on that. I would appreciate,
Speaker 6: and I would assume we'll get it, and I would
Speaker 6: assume not everybody will be excited about it. A certain
Speaker 6: sect of me basketball media society will not be excited
Speaker 6: by it, but I will be. I would like to
Speaker 6: ask if, in fact the Lakers do make history, If
Speaker 6: in fact they do become the first team to give
Speaker 6: up a three to zero lead and be eliminated from
Speaker 6: the postseason in a playoff series for the first time
Speaker 6: in NBA history, I think we should reinstate some goat talk,
Speaker 6: and I think we should talk about how this impacx
Speaker 6: Lebron's legacy.
Speaker 2: You know what, well now, yeah, you say that now,
Speaker 2: but you didn't want it. You didn't want it, well,
Speaker 2: you didn't want it when they were gonna want the
Speaker 2: Kevin Durantles Rockets. The fact that the Lakers beat him
Speaker 2: in the first round this is this is it.
Speaker 6: This is the c metal epoxy. This settles it makes
Speaker 6: him the goat. You know, I think we should bring
Speaker 6: that goat talk back. I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 6: I think let's re examine it.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I mean, let's just wait till after
Speaker 2: the Thunder series and then we'll talk about who really
Speaker 2: is the goat.
Speaker 6: The King made history. Guys, you always talking about the
Speaker 6: histories making the man made history.
Speaker 2: Well, let's get into it. But king was humiliated by
Speaker 2: a h I heard last night. Let's get it. We'll
Speaker 2: be back with Bob Chesney, UCLA head coach jonais Nax
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Speaker 2: Joining us right now on your Toyota SoCal Celebrity hotline
Speaker 2: is the UCLA head coach, creating a lot of positive
Speaker 2: buzz in town for UCLA football. Today was their last
Speaker 2: spring practice. Saturday is the spring game at the Rose
Speaker 2: Bowl noon kickoff. It's free and open to the public
Speaker 2: and eighteen thousand fans have already RSVP. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: It's going to be like a four quarter game offense
Speaker 2: versus defense, which is you know football. Joining us now
Speaker 2: is Bob Chesney. We were worried he was going to
Speaker 2: fall in with the wrong crowd, but he's done the opposite.
Speaker 2: He's gotten to work and he's changed the atmosphere around UCLA. Bob,
Speaker 2: what's cracking coach? And thank you for joining us? How
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 3: What is that? My good brothers? I am excited to
Speaker 3: be here with you.
Speaker 7: We got our spring game, as you've noted, coming up
Speaker 7: on Saturday, and just excited.
Speaker 3: To get to the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 7: And a lot of these guys will be their first
Speaker 7: time out there, my second time, so really really excited
Speaker 7: to do that, staying in a hotel Friday night, getting
Speaker 7: the entire game day experience in rolling from there. So
Speaker 7: we just want to simulate everything and get a feel
Speaker 7: for it before you know, we break from these pads
Speaker 7: and head into the summer.
Speaker 2: I mean, in yesteryear, when I played college football thirty
Speaker 2: years ago, the spring game in the late nineties was
Speaker 2: a real blood bath. I mean, yea after it pretty hard.
Speaker 2: Obviously that's changed over the years and how to handle
Speaker 2: these games. Everybody has a different philosophy. What to show
Speaker 2: the fans. Some people won't even do a game, they
Speaker 2: call it a showcase. What is your philosophy and in
Speaker 2: showcasing your guys getting a game day experience before the
Speaker 2: camp gets rolling and the summer program starts.
Speaker 7: Yeah, our philosophy is to get out there and compete
Speaker 7: and to do a lot of what we're doing on
Speaker 7: a day to day basis.
Speaker 3: Here. We want to be a little fun, We want
Speaker 3: it to be a little.
Speaker 7: Bit entertaining, and at the same time we want to
Speaker 7: accomplish a lot of football and just see exactly where
Speaker 7: our guys stand, what lessons they could carry over to
Speaker 7: that with them, and also do it in front of
Speaker 7: a lively crowd. And it sounds like we're going to
Speaker 7: close to twenty thousand people there, and I think that's
Speaker 7: a big deal for Spring.
Speaker 3: I haven't been part of one of those.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you mentioned the crowd, and as a former frat guy,
Speaker 6: Petro's former college football player, and I can relate to
Speaker 6: this as a former frat guy. Coach Pizza would do
Speaker 6: it for me, kind of walk us through the idea
Speaker 6: of how you want to get these fans out, how
Speaker 6: to get this fan base engaged with a great brand
Speaker 6: like UCLA football, and how that whole process is going.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I think it's going really well. I think
Speaker 7: that there was a lot of work that needs to
Speaker 7: be done on the front end, which I was willing
Speaker 7: to personally do to get out there, and you know,
Speaker 7: not only the support other teams, but to support the community.
Speaker 7: We were just about everywhere. I went to every single game,
Speaker 7: as many of them as I can, sometimes two or
Speaker 7: three in the same day, went down to Compton and
Speaker 7: worked at a food bank down there for a day,
Speaker 7: and you know, just we've been at the children's hospital
Speaker 7: across the street here, just trying to do everything we
Speaker 7: can to make sure everybody knows that you know, we're
Speaker 7: here to support them, and in turn, I hope they
Speaker 7: do the same.
Speaker 3: But that's not a prerequisite. We're doing it because it's
Speaker 3: the right thing to do.
Speaker 2: Bob Jessny, UCLA ahead football coach, coming fresh off a
Speaker 2: college football playoff appearance with James Madison and a good
Speaker 2: looking team, physical playing football the right way. I think
Speaker 2: a word we probably overuse in the business of covering
Speaker 2: football is probably culture or what does that actually define?
Speaker 2: As kind of nebulous, But there's no different There's no
Speaker 2: doubt that there's a different atmosphere around UCLA, and you
Speaker 2: would expect that with a new coach and a regime.
Speaker 2: Is that something that just naturally happens when you put
Speaker 2: the work in and the energy that you put in,
Speaker 2: or is it something you have to really keep track
Speaker 2: of every day and kind of coach your whole staff
Speaker 2: and coaches on how you want things done.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes to both.
Speaker 7: I think initially you assemble the group of men to
Speaker 7: accomplish this mission, and you hope they're in our interview
Speaker 7: process that we're all on the same mission. So that
Speaker 7: had to be the initial part of it, and that
Speaker 7: had to be clear, and then we had to just
Speaker 7: come up with the standards and the processes we're going
Speaker 7: to live by on a day to day basis and
Speaker 7: then hold each other accountable. And I think you know
Speaker 7: that's within the building. Then you get outside of this
Speaker 7: building and there's another way.
Speaker 3: To conduct yourself and carry yourself. And as the most.
Speaker 7: Populated team on this campus, it's important that we do
Speaker 7: things the right way and that we lend a helping
Speaker 7: hand where we can, and that we're you know, not
Speaker 7: just football players, but we're engaged in a lot of
Speaker 7: other things outside of here. So yeah, it takes a
Speaker 7: lot of energy, takes a lot of commitment, and that's
Speaker 7: usually what happens with the Rebirth Right is that people
Speaker 7: get a little bit excited about it, and it's just
Speaker 7: you continue to stoke that fire or do you let
Speaker 7: it kind of die down. And for us, we're going
Speaker 7: to continue to stoke this thing and make sure that
Speaker 7: we're injecting as much energy as we possibly can into
Speaker 7: this community and into this program, and in turn, you
Speaker 7: know that we'll pay itself forward.
Speaker 4: And pays itself in recruiting, you know.
Speaker 6: There we're we've been this our twentieth year doing the show,
Speaker 6: and there would be shows on signing day where it
Speaker 6: would be completely focused talking about fax machines and players
Speaker 6: from southern California high schools going to UCLA or anywhere else,
Speaker 6: kind of walk us through that's been going. I know,
Speaker 6: you had a bunch of high school coaches out for
Speaker 6: a while and one of the practices and just kind
Speaker 6: of how that connection has been with the local high schools.
Speaker 7: It's been great, And I think that was probably the
Speaker 7: biggest knock on me. Rightfully, So I'm not a West
Speaker 7: Coast guy, so how is it going to build these relationships?
Speaker 7: And just like any relationship, where does it begin at
Speaker 7: the start? So we had to start it somewhere. So
Speaker 7: that's something we were able to do with getting out,
Speaker 7: you know, into all the different local high schools and
Speaker 7: then at the same point in time, opening up all
Speaker 7: of our practices for anybody to stop by media, you know,
Speaker 7: high school coaches sitting on meetings if they'd like. We
Speaker 7: did that, and then we moved ourselves forward into you know,
Speaker 7: having a coach's clinic carright one hundred and eighty different
Speaker 7: coaches here from four different states, and they had an
Speaker 7: opportunity to, you know, watch our coaches work through the
Speaker 7: like a typical clinic which gets done on the board
Speaker 7: with video. But then we went out on the field
Speaker 7: and everything we cliniced on, we actually showed them us
Speaker 7: doing it with our own, our own team. And then
Speaker 7: the next morning, you know, we had practice, and night
Speaker 7: before we all hung out here, had a couple of
Speaker 7: drinks on the patio and just got a chance to
Speaker 7: spend quality time together. So it's not always just the
Speaker 7: quantity of that time, but the quality that matters the most.
Speaker 3: And I like to start that we're off to for sure.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm sure holy Cross had a whole different
Speaker 2: vibe than Salve Regina. And then you know, James Madison,
Speaker 2: and you've been climbing ever since you started as a
Speaker 2: coach on this kind of upwardly mobile trajectory, not kind of,
Speaker 2: and I'm just wondering. You never know where you're going
Speaker 2: to land when you land, and the power for which
Speaker 2: is what we call it. Now, there's some unbelievably great
Speaker 2: things about UCLA as a school and an institution. There's
Speaker 2: also some challenges and a lot of things you have
Speaker 2: to kind of check where you don't have to do
Speaker 2: that at other places. How have you found that the
Speaker 2: balance of being at UCLA and just kind of adapting
Speaker 2: to a new environment.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, every day I drive in, I
Speaker 3: really do think, like, man, how lucky am I that?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Do you feel that way?
Speaker 2: But he's not happy like you, coach, you know, he's
Speaker 2: not all smiling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got his own thing. I got my own thing.
Speaker 3: Let us leave us alone.
Speaker 7: But ultimately, you know, for me, just think about this
Speaker 7: for one second, Like if I'm one of our football players,
Speaker 7: I am entrenched in an athletic department here that has
Speaker 7: six first round draft picks to the w NBA. Right,
Speaker 7: we'll have the first pick in the baseball draft and
Speaker 7: probably the third pick in the baseball draft is their
Speaker 7: number one in the country as well. You have a
Speaker 7: water polo team that won the whole thing, and nine
Speaker 7: of those guys will be on the Olympics team. You
Speaker 7: have a gymnastics team with a gold medal winner on it.
Speaker 7: You have a beach volleyball team that will be the
Speaker 7: Olympics team. You know, you just go through the list
Speaker 7: of people in our athletics department. You're walking every single
Speaker 7: day with Olympic athletes or first round draft picks, Like
Speaker 7: that's elite. And I'm not even talking yet about the
Speaker 7: people in these classrooms, not talking about the few your
Speaker 7: CEOs and the doctors and the lawyers and the engineers,
Speaker 7: you know, and all those people like you are. You are,
Speaker 7: you know, surrounded by greatness. And I think the thing
Speaker 7: to me is understanding, you know, the environment they're in.
Speaker 7: It's not just them as a football player, but embrace
Speaker 7: all of those things and understand how elite everything is
Speaker 7: at the most applied to you know, college in the
Speaker 7: entire universe. Right, those are all things that matter a
Speaker 7: whole heck of a lot. And I think our guys
Speaker 7: understand how, you know, blessed they are, and they enter
Speaker 7: it with a lot of gratitude. So whatever the negatives
Speaker 7: might be and whatever things we got to work through
Speaker 7: and improve, we'll improve those. But you know this is
Speaker 7: there's greatness on this campus. And it's important that we
Speaker 7: get that football team back to that same exact place, coach, just.
Speaker 4: To kind of drill down on that team. And look,
Speaker 4: we saw it.
Speaker 6: We saw it through the college football playoff and the
Speaker 6: team that raised the championship trophy. But I guess the
Speaker 6: one group that would love to know how you kind
Speaker 6: of take an approach to it when you have as
Speaker 6: many new guys on an offensive line that are getting
Speaker 6: to work together, in some cases for the first time,
Speaker 6: and how we always hear about important chemistry, synergy and
Speaker 6: getting that particular group to really feel comfortable with one another.
Speaker 6: What are the challenges if there are any, and and
Speaker 6: kind of how do you get that group right when
Speaker 6: they're all kind of new and getting to feel each
Speaker 6: other out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always challenges there.
Speaker 7: I think that there's two guys that have three guys
Speaker 7: that play together at JMU, I think there's you know,
Speaker 7: there's some familiarity there. I think that provides you with
Speaker 7: this luxury when you know coach Smith, our offensive line
Speaker 7: coach or coach Kennedy Roc leave the meeting room. You
Speaker 7: got three guys in there that know this playbook inside
Speaker 7: and out and can have separate meetings on the side
Speaker 7: and just really help bring these people together. But we
Speaker 7: do a lot of people from a lot of different
Speaker 7: walks of life that played a lot of different styles
Speaker 7: of football that you are all now here, you know,
Speaker 7: with one goal in mind, and I think it's important
Speaker 7: that they attack that every single day. But it is
Speaker 7: it takes a minute to get to know the guy
Speaker 7: to the right or left of you, and often you know,
Speaker 7: just is just like on the D line or any
Speaker 7: other really physical position, you end up in the spot
Speaker 7: where one of those guys that you were really gelled
Speaker 7: with is not there anymore, right or can't be there
Speaker 7: for a couple of weeks, or you know, a game
Speaker 7: at least. So you have to be able to, you know,
Speaker 7: do a really good job of communicating clearly. The standards
Speaker 7: got to be really high, and you've got to make
Speaker 7: sure that on a day to day basis, regardless of
Speaker 7: who is in there.
Speaker 3: There's trust.
Speaker 7: And I think that trust again comes from their football
Speaker 7: acumen in the classroom for them to be able to
Speaker 7: know that they're answering questions the right way and we
Speaker 7: all feel the same way about it. And then you
Speaker 7: get out on the field and there's tough moments where
Speaker 7: you know, you dominate those, or you survive those, or
Speaker 7: you lose those, and at the same point in time,
Speaker 7: there's just constant growth, and that constant growth leads to
Speaker 7: more trust, and then you just keep you know, spiraling
Speaker 7: that forward as best you can with that group. And
Speaker 7: I don't think there's ever I don't know how many
Speaker 7: times there's five that start the first game and are
Speaker 7: totally intact all the way through out the entire season.
Speaker 7: So it is important that we also, you know, rotate
Speaker 7: a bunch of guys through there and get everybody the
Speaker 7: experience that they need so that when their time is.
Speaker 3: Called on, they are prepared.
Speaker 2: Bob Chesney before we let them go, you cla football coach,
Speaker 2: And speaking of the water polo team and the basketball team,
Speaker 2: Corey Close and Adam Wright, the two coaches will be
Speaker 2: guest play callers at the spring game. I don't know
Speaker 2: what they're gonna call, hook and ladder, maybe a Bob play,
Speaker 2: a little week side zone.
Speaker 4: We like you blitz every day.
Speaker 2: No, I heard Corey Close.
Speaker 7: Adam's got a playbook. Adam was at practice today. He's
Speaker 7: got a playbook. He already sent me four different plays
Speaker 7: that he needs installed. And we'll do that tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3: He'll come over and.
Speaker 7: Do that with his side of the ball, and then
Speaker 7: I'll call Corey later see if she wants to do
Speaker 7: the same. And it's all it's all part of it,
Speaker 7: a little bit of fun. So we actually have a
Speaker 7: sheet with you know, eight calls on it, you know,
Speaker 7: four run, four pass, and then on the back is
Speaker 7: the defense, you know, a couple of blitzes and they
Speaker 7: just pick at it and then our our offensive coordinator
Speaker 7: defense corner called in through the helmet communications. But a
Speaker 7: pretty cool moment for them to be out there, to
Speaker 7: be able to select a play and us be able
Speaker 7: to go, you know, execute it.
Speaker 2: Attention to detail right there with Bob Chesney before we
Speaker 2: let you go. Coach, you do have going through and
Speaker 2: through the summer when the coaches can't be out there.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's a real convenience to have a quarterback with
Speaker 2: some experience, and you do have that in Niko Iamalayava.
Speaker 2: What's he been like to coach? All reports have been
Speaker 2: that he's a great kid.
Speaker 7: He's a great kid. He's a great kid. And again,
Speaker 7: I think for everybody on this team, but him in particular.
Speaker 7: He got here late in the summer last year and
Speaker 7: then by week three his head coaches, offense coordinators, quarterback
Speaker 7: coach were all gone. And I think that trying to
Speaker 7: lead a team through that you know, the situation is
Speaker 7: really a challenge, especially when you don't have enough hours
Speaker 7: logged with them yet because you weren't with them in
Speaker 7: the spring and all summer long. And I think now
Speaker 7: he's very comfortable in this position. He's very comfortable as
Speaker 7: being the leader of this team. And I love to
Speaker 7: watch him come out here every day and compete. And
Speaker 7: you know, he makes a play, he lets the defense
Speaker 7: know about it. Right when the defense makes a play,
Speaker 7: they let him know about it. But it's a cool
Speaker 7: back and forth and it's fun watching him. He enjoys
Speaker 7: this game. He loves this game. I think he loves
Speaker 7: the people he's doing it with, and I think those
Speaker 7: are things that definitely show in his game. So I'm
Speaker 7: excited to get a chance to get out there and
Speaker 7: watch him go on Saturday.
Speaker 6: I gonna be exciting on Saturday. Go to UCLA Bruins
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Speaker 2: So again, you this is gonna be worth another seven thousand.
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Speaker 3: We'll see I will actually see I know exactly what
Speaker 3: our numbers were.
Speaker 7: Now that I'm on your show, we'll see what after him.
Speaker 3: We'll see if you actually packed that type of punch
Speaker 3: or not.
Speaker 2: We'll see. We'll see. Don't make them too good, coach,
Speaker 2: USC won't want to play anymore. I'm sorry. Have a
Speaker 2: great night and have a great spring game. Coach.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you, all right, Thanks guys, Go Bruins, man, Wow,
Speaker 3: so is.
Speaker 4: That the thing now? Go Bruins. At the end of
Speaker 4: the call or whatever, fight on, guy can actually talk, iz.
Speaker 2: I don't think, are you. I don't think that I
Speaker 2: would leave his hanging Matt at the freaking Tarantula Hill
Speaker 2: holding our puzzo's in a four hour show.
Speaker 6: No, that guy would pick us up and drive us
Speaker 6: to Tarantula Hill and talk to us the entire way
Speaker 6: about the promise that is ahead for UCLA football. You
Speaker 6: can hear the belief, you can hear the excitement, and
Speaker 6: it's contagious.
Speaker 4: More damnit.
Speaker 2: I'm worried, Matt. I'm worried they're gonna get too good
Speaker 2: and s he won't want to play them anymore.
Speaker 6: And then that doesn't make sense. Whych whylch play doesn't
Speaker 6: make sense to plan too close, too close. Yore day
Speaker 6: was too far.
Speaker 2: This is too close.
Speaker 4: It's not worth it.
Speaker 6: We want our guys to feel you can't travel anywhere,
Speaker 6: our guys to feel the rigors of travel.
Speaker 4: He's gouts too.
Speaker 2: Closet, but he continues on a crunching groom. At Thursday
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Speaker 2: Lemon's snakelike behavior in front of the microphone. Amazing. However,
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Speaker 6: If you have it on cassette, if you have it
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Speaker 2: Thank you? Morning?
Speaker 1: Pe.
Speaker 2: I met Philips before the Dodger game. This was yesterday
Speaker 2: and I saw a short latina, ordered a pickled egg
Speaker 2: and a glass of Chardonnay at ten fifteen am. My
Speaker 2: first thought was interesting order. My second was dark nipples,
Speaker 2: great sports. Though well, I don't know. I didn't see her,
Speaker 2: but chances are with that pickled egg, pickle your egg,
Speaker 2: would you know that? Get some vinegar. That's your Dodger's analyst.
Speaker 2: When the burden becomes too much. All she did was
Speaker 2: vomit up a fat non fat David Vese talking point
Speaker 2: from Dodger Talk. I could do what she does. Put
Speaker 2: me in pal. Hey, you don't talk about Isabelle like that.
Speaker 2: She is a great Dodger analyst, and she needed those
Speaker 2: cooler heads because you. Later last night, Matt, I was
Speaker 2: at that event in Redondo Beach with Fortunate Youth and
Speaker 2: Annie Snead and some other local influencers doing the beach
Speaker 2: life merch drop and somebody asked me, God, can you
Speaker 2: believe the Dodgers loss and two out of three to
Speaker 2: the Marlins? And I said, hey, calm down, It's a
Speaker 2: long season. And would I have been that measured if
Speaker 2: we hadn't talked to baseball analyst Isabellemara at the group home.
Speaker 6: She sh'd tell uh Tim Kates to calm down. She
Speaker 6: told me to calm down. She told you to call
Speaker 6: I would have been measured like that. No, you carried
Speaker 6: that into the streets.
Speaker 4: Thanks is he?
Speaker 2: I carried that the world.
Speaker 4: You know I'm gonna carry this out into the real world,
Speaker 4: is he?
Speaker 2: Thank you? This comes from the state of Iowa, and
Speaker 2: says Lebron talks about Akron like Matt talks about Iowa.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to thank you and Matt for getting
Speaker 2: this cook damn Stap song stuck in my head. You
Speaker 2: have a good debt.
Speaker 5: Indeed want strike couns be ship store.
Speaker 2: I can't stop thinking about it.
Speaker 4: Cheat the feel here the I'm trying to.
Speaker 2: Come on, Marlins, crown.
Speaker 3: Me crown.
Speaker 2: You know, I was thinking and it's irrational, you know,
Speaker 2: tossing and turned in. It's like it's hoping and dreaming
Speaker 2: enough to soar. I don't think I think you're gonna die.
Speaker 4: No, but you're gonna permit games and triple plays dead there, you.
Speaker 2: Know, stolling me.
Speaker 5: Perfect.
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Speaker 4: biggest rock band in the world.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I believe the.
Speaker 6: Album that had Higher on it sold twenty million copies.
Speaker 4: That's the state of music in the early two thousand.
Speaker 2: God, it's good.
Speaker 4: God, it's awful.
Speaker 2: If you talk about the NOD, forget don't forget about
Speaker 2: two other friends of the show ex baseball coach for
Speaker 2: shamanad Mark Gubaza and ex Eagles football coach Ben McEnroe
Speaker 2: Petrosen money friend. Yeah, he was texting us about the
Speaker 2: NOD as well. Of course, the current coach, coach Machuka,
Speaker 2: was there, and he has not publicly apologized for the
Speaker 2: behavior of some of the lacrosse dads. Earlier this week
Speaker 2: and there's one thing you don't do. You don't go
Speaker 2: to Las Vegas and talk to Moe Green like that.
Speaker 2: And you don't go to freaking village Christian and say
Speaker 2: anything about the wall and get out without an armenia
Speaker 2: and taking potshots at you. Now what happened? Not much.
Speaker 2: A glass was broken, A glass was broken at the squads,
Speaker 2: a glass was broken at the at the don cucos
Speaker 2: and cooler heads prevailed throughout the night, though, and we
Speaker 2: have no real beef with the nod that.
Speaker 8: Broken class, by the way, still under investigation, thoseation.
Speaker 4: If in any leads, please come.
Speaker 2: Jim Kates blacked out, got up, thought he saw a
Speaker 2: ghost of a nod. Dad threw his schooner overhand like
Speaker 2: he's trying to peg a guy at second when he
Speaker 2: was a catcher for the Burrows Indians, and then goes, hey,
Speaker 2: you girls want to have some ice cream?
Speaker 3: Dad?
Speaker 2: Are you okay? Problem solved?
Speaker 4: Problem solved, exactly right?
Speaker 2: All right. We'll be back with more petros and money
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