The Last Shot 2: Jon Carne (Intense Volleyball)

The Last Shot 2: Where you get to hear all the random silliness when the podcast is winding down!

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Transcript

Don: 0:31

Welcome, to The Last Shot. Sometimes at the end of an episode the whiskey really starts to hit and the guys start to get a little goofy. These are the fun conversations that you don't get to hear during the episode. I hope you enjoy"The Last Shot" on this wonderful weekend.

Chris: 0:45

So I have a random question. What position did you play in volleyball?

Jon: 0:50

So in high school, I was an outside hitter and I was back now, we've got to remember this is the dark ages, like literally like this is pre video, like, right? So, in 1984, I was a pretty good outside hitter. I went to Redondo high in Redondo beach, California. And I was a six to outside hitter, which was, was, was pretty small. Even then now, like there's, you know, there's, there's seven feet tall, right? Yeah. Somehow, but I had, but I could touch in high school, I could touch 10, six. And then in college, I eventually could touch 11 feet, which is a foot above a basketball rim. Yeah. So, and then very quickly when I got to college, the coach was like, you're too small to play, you know, you just, they're just too big. So we're going to turn you into a setter. And I. Dovetail off this comment. I just made outside. Hater is a pretty aggressive, angry. Yes, you just, you're just going to hurt somebody all the time. Then a setter has to be very cerebral and has to be in control. And so I try, I had to mix that anger and that competitiveness and then try to become a quarterback and a coach. And it was it was a it was tough, but very few people played with somebody that was as Passionate as I was, I'll use that word. Okay. If, yeah, if I didn't win it was the, the drywall was gonna be in trouble. Yeah. Like I was, I was that competitive and so I, I sat in college and then I played on the beach for a few years and, and two very low, moderate success. My dad fi, the reason I got in this business, my dad told me I had to get a jail. He's like, John, you really have to get a job. And I'm like, I'm going to be a, like a big time boy. I'm going to make all this money. And he's like, John, you've been playing for three years, not making any money. You got to get a job, but had a dream. And it was the most fun you could ever have traveling around, playing beach volleyball. So that was a, that was a late eighties. Long time ago, you ever

Tyler: 2:41

stopped by captain bills and

Jon: 2:43

so feet wet, funny story the closest we ever got here was Virginia beach, but there was a couple players from here that played in a couple of the tournaments and they were talking about it. And I'm like, like, I'd never been here before. And so I, I mean, obviously growing up in Southern California, there's like, if you go to most grade schools around the country, They would have kickball, tetherball, softball, baseball, football, like in Southern California. There's a lot, there's volleyball courts. I mean, there's all those other things, but there's all the kids are playing. So I just, so when I came, I'm like, wait, where's the beach? And we went down to the beach. The water was like, I'm like, where do we play? They're like, we would play over here at this place and we go. And it was a very controlled. Environment. Yeah. So the difference between here and Southern California is you're right on the water. If it's windy, it's windy. And so this was a, I mean, it's just unbelievable. Now they've opened these facilities all over the all over the country and all these like, especially back when I was playing the girls were playing at the professional level, but there was no high school or college beach. Now it's just exploded. There's more girls playing beach volleyball than guys are. It's amazing. You go watch them play and it's just the level of their play is just incredible. Yeah, my

Chris: 4:01

sister just graduated. She played for Averitt on their volleyball team. Okay. And that's what... I got to watch one, one series out of the four years she played because she played through COVID and. One, it just, it sucks because of the way my schedule worked out. I couldn't get up there because they are four hours away. Yeah. That's a whole day, but it was just interesting to watch the competitive nature, but also, like you said, seeing people who learn the different skills, like, Hey, if you want to play here, you got to adapt.

Jon: 4:39

Well, I coached for I guess 25 years and I coat like pre getting into this industry, which was in the early nineties. I coached at a division while I was a head coach at a small college and coaching the indoor game. And then I coached club for girls for many, many years and it never ceased to amaze me. Like every, I think you sport, there's probably still a few of them around. But back when I was coaching, there were a lot of dinosaurs who were, you know, yelling at the kids, call it, you know, just beating them up and calling names. And it was amazing for me to see that some encouragement. And some insight could just open a kid's eyes if you know, like for me, I was, I was an outside hitter and I was told I had like, I wasn't asked, I was told you want to play. You are, you're not, here's your option. Yeah. You're not getting on the court unless you set. And then I'm like, okay, well, if you're telling me that's the recipe, I'm going to go be the best chef. Right. And so like a lot of the kids today are, they're so amazing that I don't know what happened. Yeah. But in the last 30 years there wasn't, you know, young ladies that were six foot three who could move like these young ladies. And then there weren't guys that were 6'9 or 6'10 that can move. The athletic ability of the people playing volleyball now is like two or three times higher than the level. And I know there's probably somebody who's going to call me and say, John, come on, man, we were amazing. I'm like, yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's definitely changed. It's amazing. So, yeah,

Tyler: 6:07

it's always fun watching like the Olympics from like the 1970s versus the Olympics now. Cause like even not even just volleyball, but like basketball, especially to like the game of basketball has completely changed or even within the last 10, 15

Jon: 6:21

years, it's changed a lot. Watched like, you know, I, I, my middle son who's into MJ is also into Usain Bolt and I'm just watching those guys run. It's, I mean, you know, and I grew up with Carl Lewis and grew up with some of the greats and Carl still holds a couple records. He's amazing. Yes. But when you see Usain and those boys, I mean, it's, it's like. It's unbelievable and you're, and then, you know, and you're like, are they taking something? It's like, no way. The guy is so lean and clean. And it's just, it's just it's God's gift. And also just a lot of practice.

Chris: 6:54

I'm still salty that Hussein didn't just go

Jon: 6:58

ham.

Chris: 7:00

Like every time I see that video of him, like coming to the end with his arms out, just chilling. Yeah. I was like. He would have set a record that no one would ever get anywhere near to if he had just pushed it all the way through. But it also just makes me laugh. I'm like the fact that he

Jon: 7:17

slowed down. Well, I was watching this new kid the other day. That's the number one pick from Fran Victor or when the Yama or whatever, that's why he went in to dunk this ball. And he jumped and then he took his arm and his head is at the rim already. Right. And he took his arm and he goes like this, you know, and I'm like, what is that? Like,

Chris: 7:36

yeah, cause he's, he's like seven foot, seven, five.

Jon: 7:40

Wow. I mean, anyway, so, but yeah, we have some fun, like we, so we have a big Duke and Carolina. I'm not, I don't have a dog in that fight, but I'm telling you, it's like pretty wild in our office. Like there's a lot of Dukies and a lot of, a lot of Tar Heels. And so I, I've definitely gotten much more into ACC basketball. And just ACC sports in general and the SEC for sure. The West Coast is like UCLA, USC, if it's on the watch here, it's like, everybody's like waiting for the season and they're going, it's like, it's so different here than it is on the West Coast. Everybody out there, it's, it's important, but they'll show up to the Dodger game in the third inning. Yeah, you know, the leave in the seventh

Chris: 8:23

here, it's people show up to pregame and stay through the whole entire game.

Jon: 8:27

Unless it's a blowout hours afterwards. Exactly. I love it.

Don: 8:31

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