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Good evening everybody and good people out there. It is Thursday, February ninth,
twenty twenty three. I'm your host, Jason Straight going along with my
co host Otis Wiley. Yeah, I love it. Thursday Bay. It's
Thursday, baby, the weekend that means weekends around right around the corner,
Choo Chow is on assignment somewhere in Phoenix. He's out there around the golf
courses with the waste management PGA tournament and also the super Bowl. So we're
gonna get some feedback and some coverage of the super Bowl from this part because
we bring you everything football later look at it and looking at it sucking a
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Phoenix. It's sound like you sound like you're in a tornado. Man,
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to the show. Well, well, well too. Chwo is on assignment.
Man, Look you look at this think I just had to mute him
because that win was too much. But I'll when he tossed, I'll mute.
But he is too too. Mister bowl man is on you. Man.
It looks like you're in the desert. Man. I am in the
desert, in the in the middle of it right now. I'm actually at
the you know, my company, we're putting on the Phoenix Waste Management Open
uh Wild Golf tournament here, so out here, you know, taking in
the sights, you know, being productive, man, being productive. And
uh later tonight, gonna go catch up to some people at a Super Bowl
party, take some pictures and send it back. Hey, look like report
live. It's too too you're looking live. Phoenix, Arizona. It's like
the family guy. It's like the family guy. Man, it's raining cold,
He's Wendy. Here's Wendy like chasing storms out there. I love that.
I love what guys do that. Man. Speaking of Phoenix Arizona,
there's an alumni, certain someone that we all know near and dear in our
hearts, who just was approved to be the new Phoenix Suns owner in a
vote. It's twenty nine to zero, which I think there's thirty teams in
the NBA, but somehow he didn't have a somebody voting against him, but
there was only twenty nine that voted. I don't know what that's about.
Not sure what that's about. But nonetheless, on his first day on the
job, Matt Eshba as you just saw there swinging KD. Baby. Man,
Listen, I think everybody went to sleep last night, woke up and
and you have never seen a trade that happen. At one thirty six in
the morning, am. And you see the edits and the graphics of the
new Big Three in Phoenix with Kevin Durant, you know, Chris Paul.
Honestly, I thought they was going to try to get you know, shop
Chris Paul around and they're ready to get that championship now, like it's right
me out, not later. Is they are trying to win a championship and
it's gonna be crazy if they do get to the finals and then obviously win
a championship with KD coming in and you know, we talk about the sniper
man. KD is the smooth criminal brother. So him and d book that's
dangerous. That is dangerous. And we already know that Devin Booker gets buckets
day in, day out. So Matt making big money moves man. Not
only he's the owner and has spent that big bread. Now he is making
money moves and not you know, don't forget you got Phoenix Mercury too,
which is a rock star of an organization on the w NBA side. So
man, Spartan dogs man, we're doing big things. We got to Spartan
Lungs and our owners of NBA teams and three three actually, so Magic Johnson
right with uh who we got Dan Gilbert, We got Ma who was the
third the Detroit Pistons. Tom Gorris, well, he's kind of affilly with
the team down Road family wise, Like I mean, they got some heavy
ties with the family down team down the Road. Who Gorris, doesn't he?
No, no, no, no, This is a Spartan all day.
Okay, Okay, you know he's got a brother that went to Western
He's a he's a he's a Bronco. But Tom Gorris is the guy.
He's a he's a Spartan. We gotta get him on the show too,
don't. He's been quiet, he's slaying sad in a while. We gotta
get him back, get him involved in things. Choot, you will find
he's out. He's out on the west side, you know, or something
like that. Yeah, needs to seek shelter. I know, I do
feel like that family man here. There's one day out here that's just blowing
in my eyes. But I'm doing it all further. This is Spartan family.
We love it. We love it, man, We love the dedication
that you have. Tom gorss So anybody didn't know he worked as a janitor
in the telemarketer and with the Michigan State in nineteen eighty six, that's when
he graduated as a Spartan with a degree in construction management. Thank you Tony
Castella for that. Look that's probably because I wasn't born yet, So that's
probably why man oh were talking about age. Okay, he wasn't born in
eighty six. Dang, I know, man oh boy, man you rocked
the crazy You missed the Bears. You missed that eighty five Bears team.
I'm sorry you guys missed a treat there. But in hockey, talking about
MS you hockey, they had a sweep against Notre Dame. Man, big,
big, big win. Uh, this is the opportunity to really finish
the season strong. You know, we got a chance to win straight.
You got a chance to finally go to a hockey game all for years being
a Spartan alum. Yeah, see, this is the first time going to
that game to see them play. But we started to learn the points system,
Like they started to give us that full breakdown. Remember about the system
of points, and you know, over time you think of like, okay,
the wins win, No, it's really the points that is allowing us
to get you know, good bids into the n c A or c c
h A, uh you know tournament. So we have team down the road
coming to East Lansing tomorrow, and you know we have to finish strong and
shout out to United Dairy of Michigan the ud I AM. They are the
title sponsors, so milk means more. So they're gonna be handed out with
chocolate milk after the end of the game. And you know, I got
two cases in my phrase right now. I'm at to send you some straight
or for your boys and drinking chocolate milk. But they love chocolate milk.
Yeah, it's absolutely gras and proteain. Man. You know, I'm trying
to get my games up to man and misgiter say hockey will be on what
they're gonna be yeah, yeah, on Saturday, February eleventh, eight pm.
So if anybody's in Detroit, go catch them there. They're gonna play
Michigan Little Love for sure, back to back days month and then Little Season
is gonna be a special weekend for Michigan State hockey. Also other sports and
other news. Michigan State gymnastics they they've only beat Michigan knocked off Maryland,
Penn State. I mean, this is a this team's on a roll and
they're gonna be at Iowa on Saturday. Yeah, man, this is a
I've had a pleasure of having some close friends that were some gymnast when we
were playing together in Michigan State. And you know, this is a big,
huge program win. But also, uh, the programs on the rise
nationally spotlight wise. We've got great coaching staff and you know, this is
an opportunity to take the next step. And they're showing out last year.
You know, they got into the NCAA terms. You got Gabby right here.
I mean, look at this, man like this is something that my
daughters, you know, look up to. Man. So good opportunity to
uh to see them and see them really si seed and this is the opportunity
for our athletic department to shed light into our female sports that they're doing big,
big, big great things for us. Gabby Steven boy, I tell
you what, that's a n i L opportunity if I've ever seen one.
If anybody's listening out there, definitely uh something that people need to go check
out. That's another thing I haven't seen otis we got to go check out
at gymnastics meet. Hey, man, you just say the word man,
and uh, you know you got they gotta match March I things March fourth
and fifth. Okay, back at home, and so we should check it
out. Man, if you're here, but I know you over there in
the best West Coast, man, But you know I always be in my
second home, East Lansing. Uh if you if you call on me,
I'll beat at you. Wrestling for MSU. They also have Senior Night Tomorrow
night, which is Friday at home versus Indiana. Yeah. Man, this
is a program too that has kind of been under the radar for the longest
of times. And you've seen the big big powerhouses, uh, you know
and with the IOWA with Penn State, and you know, we've always been
kind of a low low tier. And for this season, you know,
not say they came out of the out of the woodworks and start to have
some studs, but I think this team has truly shown we have some all
stars wrestlers this year. And so, uh, if you've ever been there,
man, Jennison's rocking with with gymnastics with wrestling, and you know,
back in the last season, you know, to a couple of seasons ago.
Volleyball was obviously playing there too, but they moved over to Bresling to
play their matches. But you know, that is a good atmosphere that is
really really family friendly, but also a good opportunity to showcase and support them
as well. Yeah, for some reason, I think we lost Ju because
I was going to definitely bring him in all his wrestling, because he loves
talking about wrestling. He's a w w E professional. But speaking of wrestling,
we're gonna take a step back, go to the high school ranks and
we're going to talk about j W. Sexton High School District champs after a
thirty one year drought. Our guy, Jeff Howard, we call him Rev.
Been in the broadcast with me and George and in the booth for a
long time, even when you were doing sideline reporting right over the day.
Yeah, man, he's the head coach of j DUB. They bring you
home, man, Rev. Man. Look to be honest when you said
Jeff Howard, totally forgot about Rev's name. The full name is always who
is Jeff Howard? I knew Jeff, I knew his name, but he
was like, man, Jeff Howard. We got a new guest Jeffery Rashad
Howard. That's our guy. Man. We also called him the snack man.
So if you know a little little backstore, you know, Rev is
always in the booth during football season. Used to obviously travel when Stray was
living here. With travel and and help out. You can help out.
And uh, guy is a work he's a wealthy knowledge, but he's been
a community guy through and through and really paving the way and building up our
young men in the city of Lancing. So Man, congrats Rev Man.
That is a huge feat to do that for the first time ever in the
school history. And uh, you see these kind of the happiness you see
in that picture, and we're just hoping we got some guys coming to Michigan
State through a pipeline there. But look at that happiness. Man, it's
great to see young men enjoy wins Man Oh thirty years Man a long time
coming head wrestling coach and golf coach. Yeah yeah, I still haven't seen
red golf though. Man, I've been talking to He got this smooth,
he's moved, got that swing man, he got a fade, he got
the fade. How to do that? I'm more of a draw guy or
a snap hook guy, but whatever you're gonna call it, we like to
go out there and have fun on the course, nonetheless. Man. Yeah,
speaking of other sports, MSU women's basketball, Susie Merchant gives a statement
and she's having some health trouble, but she's talking and she she it was
good to hear from her as she talked to the fans. Yeah. Man,
one been praying for for Susie and her health. And you know,
with the one car accident, you know, it's one of those things that
you know, it's one of you take time to heal and you know,
usually you know, I think with society, we always want to jump right
back into something when you have kind of a setback, and so I know
it took a lot for her to really sit down and rest and get well
so she can come back and coach the girls and lead the team. But
the girls, the team and Dean coach Dean has really rallied around her to
support her. And then you know, finally getting a big win. I
mean that was a huge win where you know, put they put it,
they put them on, it came back. Kamario Daniels man, Like I
mean, if you saw the highlights. Man, she was money from the
three point range last night, and so you know it's trying to find it
was on Big ten plus. But you know I'm not I'm not saying I'm
cheap, but I also gonna be playing plus money, you know. So
I was listening. I was listening to our boy, Dalton Shelter on a
radio play by play, which he did a phenomenal job as he always does.
What you know, the team is really pulling it, pulling it through
to get the get a dog finally. Yeah, good to hear that.
You know that Susie's on the men and the team is doing well without her,
looking forward to her coming back when she's ready. Don't rush whenever you're
ready. We're here for you, Susie. Prayers with you, continued prayers
going on to the m s U football team. Another transfer comes in.
We just got word. It's a punter, Michael Osha Hennessy starter from Ohio
State. O say, oh Henderson, don't try to mess with me now,
listen. I'm sorry, oh shot, See, I thought you meant
best straight. You mean that. Uh, you know it's a big,
big, big shoes to feel. You know, we've we've had bearing Behringer,
bearing ger Bearringer. Always get that messed up, but George always corrects
me. It's bearing bearing Gerr. You know, we got some huge shoes
to feel and you know we use the punter as a weapon, and so
coming over to this side, you know, it's always it's always weird to
me when you go to an opponent within the conference, when you transfer and
then you go right and play right away. It's always weird to me on
that. But this is what the day we live in, the age we
live in. But you know, he has a good skill set. I
mean in order to be a five star punter, Like I'm pretty sure there's
a lot of evaluation goes into that. Fully, you just don't get that,
you earn that. And so uh one, great for us, great
grab. Let's see if he can really uh fulfill the shoes of our guy
that is balling will be drafted this year. We'll see how he does.
Yeah, So we have a punter from Ohio State and a long snapper.
Now, so they've got some chemistry coming from Columbus, not only the same
conference with the same division, the East Division just coming up the road a
few hours to east Lands and so welcome. You know, this is also
kind of like it's weird, man, We're in a rock and hard place,
Like are they coming here because we know we punt a lot or or
or they really see an opportunity, But like it's kind of weird, man,
Like you know, we're getting these specialists and you know, I know
we punted a lot last season. I hope we don't have that same case,
but you know, we'll see. But it is weird, like we're
celebrating them, but we really don't want to celebrate them. We want to
score touchdowns, right Doug, So we don't want us to punt too much.
And Steve says, you know, let you to coach up the kickers
and punters. That'll be something. And you know, thoughts are on that
to a fake them, he'll fake punts all day long, trust me on
the on his own ten yard line, right yeah. Absolutely. Also in
Michigan State, defensive back graduate assistant Garon Douhart leaves Michigan State. Yeah,
this is one of those things where you don't you don't know the reason why.
I guess I won't focus on why. But it's one of those where
I've seen him do work. I've seen him really really connect with our guys
and really changed the narrative of our defensive backs where you know, we had
the no fly zone and we were locked down. We were ranked numbers,
you know, you know, always top five ranked in the defensive passing and
then you know, you think about from a standpoint of maybe this is you
know, that opportunity to get another opportunity to another program, or you know,
maybe it was stuff where he wasn't able to do what he was supposed
to do. In this standpoint, I really haven't. I don't see gas
leaving the middle of their their their term, you know, I mean,
you get a masters right, like, you don't really leave between them.
Maybe he got it and he was like, look, I'm gonna go somewhere
and get a full time job. But one when you read that letter,
you say, you hear nothing but respect, and you hear nothing but love
for the guys, and that we're in a good spot where our coaches are
leading our team and you know we're gonna miss you obviously, coach, and
uh, obviously we're paying for the next step where you're at and obviously stay
connected. Always is spartan to off for life man without question. He talked
to the recruits, the players who you know come on campus, the defensive
back guys. When they at you ask them, you know, who is
it on the staff that you talk to the most and who you like?
They always bring up new Heart's name. You know, it's a guy who
they He doesn't go on the road to recruit, but he does do a
lot of calling, texting and when they come to campus. You know,
he's younger, so he can relate to him and obviously his technique, whatever
he's allowed to do within the rules, he does a great job of it.
And the players really respect him. So best the luck to him.
I'm sure he's going to be successful wherever he goes. And you know they're
always looking for good defensive back coaches all over the country. So hats off
to him and continue success. You know, you know I'm available, Yeah,
you know your little coach. Now, look, I'll give my I'll
give my, my, my, my guest knowledge, all my knowledge come
from coach Barnett. So we straight you know, you know he's there.
Still, he's there, so they don't need me. So yeah, awesome.
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Yeah. February eighteen, Ran Rapids Yes, hit that road. Hit that
road to go Social love Man West, Michigan's Spartans. If anybody is watching
out on the west side of the state, make sure you go to I
Hob February eighteenth. Get you a plate, Get a plate and an autograd
and a picture from a great one. I'll tell you that. You know,
we've had players on the show. We've talked about nil deals, We've
had all kinds of involvement. We even had a guy who had Michigan State
as his top three as a twenty four recruit. We now are going to
talk to a twenty four commitment, twenty and twenty four commitment right now.
He's he's finishing up a basketball game in Toledo. But his mother, Mama
Tron, we're talking about Nick Megatron Marsh and his mother, Mama Tron,
joins the show. Right now. We're going to talk to Mama Tron and
hey, hey, hey, hey, what's going on? Mother? Nothing
much, doing good always always, you know, we see those tweets,
you know, like you know, we got Mama Hall doing her thing.
Yeah, you know, talk about your the involvement in like with with with
Michigan State and the recruiting process for Nick, as that journey has started with
you and you've already made your decision. Talk about how that started and uh
where you are now. So in the beginning, Nick was like, you
know, I'm already feeling a certain type of way, like it's so much
love when I go there. The coaches, the staff, the fans,
like everybody really made him feel at home. So when he did decide to
commit, I wasn't there, but he literally, they said he stepped out
the room and he called me. He was like, I got that feeling
again, and he was like, this is it and I know my son.
So I wasn't percent agree with them and a lone this entire journey.
When I say, it's always just that when we go there is just nothing
but love and the coaches you don't even want to say coaches and staff is
family, like literally family, and that's something that we hadn't got anywhere else.
So I'm pretty sure that's what made Nick make it his decision, and
overall that's what persuaded me. So I'm go green man. That's that is
one. Every time we bring a mother on, he gives us flashbacks for
like our moms and you know, we didn't have the this. I guess
our moms had this access, but it wasn't as much where it was so
inviting involved. They knew like mama does know best and she's going to decision,
make it right. But you know, I think talk about just the
relationship with your son and growing up when he started playing ball. You know,
we talk about mothers allowing their sons to play a physical sport and just
talk about when he started and kind of how he grew. You see him
grow into what he is now, is a stud on the football field.
Just talk about from start to now. Okay, Nick is probably super athletic
because his mama was athletic. I was a basketball player and I played ball
the entire nine months pregnant with him and his sisters. He has three sisters
and he's the second oldest, and so it's probably already in his DNA.
But I started noticing maybe about five or six, like just playing football in
the park, like this boy could throw, he could catch, and he
was huge for his age. Like even at six years old. They was
like, oh, is he eight. I'm like, no, he's just
six. So I knew then that he was gonna be something and Nick has
a what oh he was a Wolverine little little popword. Yeah, yes,
yes, yes, that was the that was So that was the first team
that he was actually on in the little League. One of the coaches seen
him and he was like, that's a pretty big kid, like can he
do this? Can he do that? And he was six and when they
got him to the field, it was just instant like he could get his
hands were so big and sick, so he could catch, he could throw,
he could do all of that. And just watching him over time not
only have that natural talent, but just become a beast, like I've been
like super proud. I'm his biggest fan, I'm his biggest cheerleader. Like
just seeing him go through this entire process has been a blessing. And on
top of that, he's a great kid. Yeah, nothing but good things
about him. What position did you play in basketball? Small ford? Oh,
okay, where'd you play? So? I played for Osbourne, But
by the time I got ready to graduate, I was having his oldest sisters.
So I sat down for a while and then I was like, I
can't give it up, Like I love ball, So I stopped playing maybe
about two summers ago because Nick would drag me out still, so we would
like go to the courts and and run games or to the gym, and
that that alone created our buy because me and Nick will we'll go to any
court and we'll play and they'll be like, oh, you brought your sister.
He's like, no, it's my mom balling just just like you just
started. Is that what you stopped talked about two I stopped about two years
ago. And then it's the competitiveness with me and Nick, Like he'll be
like, you know what, They're gonna say, you washed up. They're
gonna say you done out here preparing for the trash talk. So I'm like,
all right, I'm like get a ball, like, let's go,
let's get out here, and I'll run a couple of games with him.
But yeah, he's he's trying to coax me lately. But you know now,
I'm all my inkle is messed up. So I'm making excuses right now,
excuses. We had. We had a guest, doctor Baker. So
doctor Baker is ahead of our d and I for Michigan State Athletics, and
when she was coming up in the ranks, she did a dissertation about you
know, basically mothers and recruiting and how you can educate them and you know
sometimes they get left out, but they are the ones, right and so
can you can you kind of take the take us behind the curtain on the
recruiting trail and kind of the education of what were you and Nick going to
these programs to not just us, but anywhere in the country of what were
y'all asking, what we're all requiring? What were all truly looking for in
a place where he's going to be able to spend his future. Okay,
that's a good one. So I was totally new to the entire experience,
even with recruiting, because I'm like, why are these people calling my phone?
Like they email with me, they're looking for me. I'm like,
I don't know what's going on. So I had no idea. I think
up until last year, I got familiar with some of the football moves.
So in the recruiting process, it was more of the camps at first.
So he was doing camps and I even drove I drove him down to Alabama
for that camp. So it was just like getting familiar with the camps and
what they were requiring. But my number one thing for Nick was education.
First. It's like me and him talk about that number one because from here
and beyond, you still have to have your education, and he wants to
be an engineer or anything dealing with computer science. So education was number one.
And then a little bit about distance, but because I don't want to
be too far from my baby. But at the same time, like wherever
he felt comfortable and mostly about their standards. And what we found with Michigan
State was the brotherhood Spartan dogs, like the alumni is super super supportive,
and that's where I wanted him to be somewhere where you know, he can
have that framework not only as a good player, but as a good person
and build more character as a man. So that's that's the majority of what
we were looking for. You hear what she said, Spartan. You heard
what she said. It was the brotherhood. It was the Spartan way.
And that's why I chose Mississan State through and through and I got strong ties
with that team down the road, got family who played basketball there and football
there, and you know, I decided to change the narrative for myself.
But more so like at Flintstone Connection, I couldn't. I couldn't disrespect the
Flintstone connection and not go to Michigan. But but yeah, that's a good,
good answer, and MISSU is the best for engineers, which is a
great choice. I got a roommate from college who is an engineer and great
program. I know it requires a lot, but I know he's up for
the task. But that's good that he knows what he wants to do already,
which is great. And I got I got a fact for you.
So since Nick played and the League with the Wolverines, that was his dream,
like that was the school down the road. He was like, that's
what I'm gonna do. And then to get this far and have that experience
there and it's just like, Nope, that's not it. So yeah,
I was gonna ask, can you expand it? I mean, as comfortable
you are to expand what you mean? Yeah, expand expand on the difference
between them and then us. So I can I can give my view on
it. I can't really speak for Nick. I would have to let him
an answer that in his way for it, But for me it was it
wasn't as inviting as in uh family type of feeling. I didn't get that
feeling. It wasn't like, you know, it wasn't close knit. It
was more like, okay, that's Nick Marsh, we want him to play
for us, you know. So it was never a connection on a personal
level. It was more like a meet and greet. And that's with more
than one visit. You know, you can you can go up to Michigan
State and everybody knows what's on a first name basis. They know Nick's sisters,
they know the history, they know everything up until you know. Now,
if you go to the school down the road, you know, they
can say he's Nick Marsh before a star receiver. That's it. So Michigan
State went a little deeper. Yeah, more close knit, more some more
authentic relationship. And that's exactly it it was. It was more authentic,
more of who is Nick Marsh instead of that's just Nick Marsh. You know.
Yeah. I saw him on the sideline so I was coming. I
totally forgot which game it was, and I remember leading up to him.
I was like, ah, I said, you decided to come here yet
he was like I'm close. I'm close. I was like, oh,
that's a good answer. Is I want to be like yeah, I'm coming
up. You know, it's good. But as a young man, he's
like, I'm close. I'm still thinking about I'm close though, I'm close,
and those relationships matter, you know, each one of the coaches,
the staff, those relationships and building is ultimately what made him have that decision
to commit. He felt comfortable, wow, because you talk about it.
He committed early in the recruiting cycle because he's a class of twenty twenty four
and you see a lot of players now, a lot of a lot of
high school athletes, they want to wait maybe until that summer, like the
summer that you're getting ready to come into to go on all the official visits.
Did you think about that? Did you say, like I might want
to go on a couple of visits. Is that something that you may still
be looking into. So again, like Nick and me, I support whatever
he does, but I'm also that that voice in his earl like, hey
son, you know, think about this, this this, But I trust
his judgment because at the same time, Nick literally made this decision on his
own. I wasn't there, his father wasn't there. So this is something
he came to on his own. And that's one of the most authentic parts
about it. And you know, as far as him not taking any other
visits or wanting to, who wouldn't want to have those experiences. He knows
where he wants to be in his heart, and as his mother, I
want to make sure I'm guiding him in the right direction. As far as
yes, this is decision that you want to make. If you do want
to do those visits, do those visits. You know where you're committed to,
you know what you want to do. But they still have to have
those experiences. Yeah, yeah, I don't see why not. You know
what I mean? You know, I can't wait. So Nick right now,
just so everybody knows, he's playing a basketball game in Toledo. Who's
he playing against? Yes, Toledo, don't give me, don't give me
fibbs. I don't know. Yeah, so he loves basketball. I'm sure
he's two sported ass. So that is that is amazing to me because this
is a kid like Nick. Since he's my only boy, I wanted at
least somebody to pick up my sports because the girls were like no way.
And so when Nick I had him in football, but it was a point
where he stopped playing football and it was like break or whatever. And so
I got him into basketball. Nick would not go play. He would fake
like he was sick if I wasn't home and not go to practice he had
the flu. Then he really got the flu because I would take him to
the court with me and I would, you know, let him watch me
play, and then I would insert him like you know, son, like
you got to learn this. He's like, no, that's your thing.
And then turn around he finally got it. And then two three years later,
I'm like, what is it? Did I create this? Like this
dude? Just he was in a game the other day twenty nine points and
shot eight threes back to back. I was like, I said, so
you still don't like basketball. He's like, yeah, I'm better than you.
And so we really had a we had a debate. I said,
you know what, I said, that's that's my shot you got now that
I'm retired, you know, I gave you the handles. He got it
from his mama for sure, but he diss in me. Now literally,
what was it? Junior day we went up to Michigan State and we had
a whole debate, like all day, like we were trash talking each other
and He's just like, yeah, you know, you don't want to do
this. That's the Oh we can go live on Twitter, like take it
out through there. So when I held up y'all, y'all got a live
game coming because I got to protect We're gonna be there, play by playing
commentating for sure. Yeah out there. Yeah, look, I got a
question. So when look, we all know the nickname Mega Tron. We
already know Calvin Johnson and what he did for the Lions. Do you know
which play that he'd had where people were like, oh, he playing like
Calvin Johnson Megatron. When did the nickname come about? And what play was
like, that's that's that's Calvin johnsh Megatron right there. So I think it
might have made, if I'm not mistaken, the one uh the one play
it made. I think it made the Free Press. Charlie Squizzle is their
school's photographer and he literally that's who caught the picture. And I think it
might have been with one hand either behind or front. I know it was
wild, but Charlie Squizzle showed out to Charlie Squizzle, he is the one
who coined the phrase and the hashtag marsh and when he shot that picture and
then went to the Free Press. That's who even gave me the rights to
that picture. And that's how Marsh was created. So from that picture and
that catch, I was just up one night and I'm like, man,
like, Nick looked like he's he's making an H, like his body was
making an H. And that's exactly what I did. So I took that
picture and I literally turned that into Marsh. Mmm. Wow, So that's
is that a brand? And that's him in his own photo? Like that's
him? Oh? Man. See, that's what I love about this era.
Now you can brand yourself at an early age, and you know,
you don't have to wait till you you know, Michael Jordan's and already going
to the pros, right, you could be in high school brand yourself and
then get recognized by these companies. About that is I always create things for
all my friends or make designs for everybody else. And I made that design
and I found out that not even a week after I created it, that's
when they had just said, like, you know, nil and all of
that. So that was just right on time where I created the brand.
I had no idea. That's incredible. You're clairvoyant as we call that blessed.
Yeah, Like you know, we think about like what what you know,
mothers and parents go through in this recruiting process. You know, I
know that you talk about the coaching staff as more family, but there's also
the players families. Like right now you have Kean Coleman's mother Ravens on this
chat. I don't know if you know her, but yeah, receiver,
Yeah, I have the same position. Yeah. Did y'all see that play?
Right? Yeah? So I mean that's something I think she said something
in the chat a second ago. I don't know if you guys put it
back up there, but she said, hey, you know, you guys
can share notes about this whole recruiting process as somebody another four star athlete too,
sport athlete absolutely same position. That's Nick. Nick reminds me of so
bad. Like see, yes, like this Mama Hall is just amazing,
Like her spirit o MG, and her support level, like it's so inspiring
and it's it's like where do you see that at? Like she bring a
whole, a whole new thing to this And that's what kind of inspired me
to even the act of more because they need that absolutely, and you got
to know that what you're doing does attract more players and parents to come,
you know, to be a part of this. That's what we're doing it
for. We love this platform, for you, for Nick, and for
any players that are going to that's our production crew backstage. Listen, it's
gonna shout out to the defensive back who's now going to be telling that story
for the rest of his life. On him, On him too, I
don't know, but he did it twice in that game. I believe man,
my man is gonna be like man, look, I got boss twice.
Marsh. You know, we have a clip that we want to share
with obviously our followers, but you know, we talking about Mama Hall.
I feel like you got you coming with the same vibes that Mama Hall gives
in the relationship from mother to son. We have a clip of Jordan's that
was posted today about you know him leading right. We talk about young leaders,
young man like you don't have to wait to lead hang and it shows
right here with Jordan's really talking to the group. They're in a workout right
now. Check this out with excuses. It's a quote I want you to
and I got to memorize. I just want your to know is excuses are
tools. Are the incompetent used to build monuments and nothingness. Those who specialize
in this former disterceptions suddenly announts to anything at all. So basically some of
that up. That just means man, every excuse it comes from nothing.
It means nothing. So each day that you come here, everybody got everybody
got something that they got to deal without the overcompany. You gotta ignormally you
come in here and get ready to work. I feel me family on one
one family. That's the leader. See like shout out, that's the leader
right there. Like I got tials like you think about like we're in a
good spot man, like bad you up? These two classes twenty three and
twenty four, is finna hit so different? Talk about the brotherhood all of
that, Like it's gonna hit so different, much different. Speaking of different,
we got a different player joining us. Now, your son, Nicky
like trying Marsh joins the show. What's up? You go somewhere quiet?
Yeah, you gonna have to go somewhere a little bit. You have to
go somewhere a little bit quiet you. Yeah, we can hear you.
Who won the game was a score? Yeah? We got breaking telling bring
the phone up. I got I got my head, my head barely.
All right, I'm talking. I'm talking to you. Yeah. Well we
end up winning the game. I think seventy three to sixty four. Okay,
I like how you said, I think like that? Is this is
this today? Oh? No? This this was last game? This last
game? Okay? Is this came? Woh? Smike, boy, look
look shoot leth right there. Oh yeah, yeah, so your mother told
us that, you know, she's the reason that you got that shot.
Yeah, I can say that. Yeah, a little bit, a little
bit. Yeah, you're outside a little bit there. We Hey, he's
on location. You're getting him coming right out of a gym right here.
This is this is the prime time, man, I mean basketball. Yeah,
it's live. So we how many offerses you have coming out of you
know, out of out of the river roofs scholarship offers? Da? Can
you hear? I think he's walking all the way to the back of the
US. Yeah. I am walking all the way to the back. All
right, all right, I'm in the back. Then we're on a bus
ride. I said, I how many offices you have the scholarship offers?
Thirty four thirty? What was that process like you know, to s through,
you know, it was. It was a pretty see process for me,
you know, coming in ninth grade year, you know, are coming
in Yeah, coming in ninth grade year, already had like three offers and
you know, it was a blessing you know to start my recruiting process.
And then you know, just to start a freshman year. You know,
I had seniors able to you know, do the job on the field to
get me in the game, you know, get filmed early. So that's
a that's a blessing right there, and that's how my recruitming really started.
I was able to get offers and going to camps like summer spring, and
you know, just getting all those camps up, you know the mega camps,
Fair Estate, you know, just put my name out there. Yeah
what what which camp that really kind of sets you apart? Can you think
about which one that was really like one put you on the map? Put
you on the map, because I know for me, you know it was
for that school down the road. It really you know, I started balling
out and you had a bunch of bunch of schools that were coaches that were
there, and they started coming like wildfire. But what was that camp for
you that you truly say you bought out in that started flowing. I would
say that the Fair State Camp. Fair State Camp. Hit up the Fair
State Camp and the last thing I know, I got like plus fifteen offers.
You know, I hit up like another camp, Northwestern Camp. You
know, a few more offers rolled in the office, like really rolling in
like during school time. You know, I got called down to the office
almost you know every day you know such just such it's here to see you
or you know such such in the building. And you know that's that's how
most of most of my offers came. Or you know it's a real phone
call. But mainly, you know, just going to that Fair State camp.
Really, you know, put me on the map and talk talk to
us about when when the Green and White spartan dogs, like talk to us
A to Z what happened like who there first in the school? Then when
you give us that full full story. So so, Michigan State they offered
me, uh after after the States that meship game one. I had some
great film during that game, and you know they offered me them Michigan and
a couple of other schools they had offered and you know, I made that
trip up to Michigan State, and you know, I was like it just
felt familiar. And I had a few camps up there, you know,
just dominating, and you know I grew up liking to the school. So
that's how that really started with Michigan State. You know, I started to
build a relationship with coach Tuck and then you know, I started to build
that relationship with coach Hawk. You know, that became really good. So
who which coach so you talk? Who do you talk to the most?
I talked to coach Tucker the most. Coach Hawkins. Hawkins, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, that's another form of spotted dog man. I mean it's
still a spartan dog once one always won, played in the NFL, and
he's producing some good receivers. Yeah yeah, yeah definitely. So you so
you talk to them and they offered you who is it? Are you talking
to any current players? You have a relationship with any guys on the team
right now? Trey Mosley, you know, I've been in contact with Trey,
Tonio Gates, some of my guys there. Uh, you know just
this, you know, former students or students that's there. Now I'm in
contact with them, you know, just getting more familiar with the area.
I've been talking to you know, the recruiter a lot of leak. You
know, you grew up from where I'm from, so you know that's my
guy. We kind of chopping up here. And now he said, he
said, Malik, Yeah, okay, yeah, man, tell us about
coach Hawk. Man, Like, we already know, we already know who
you're doing. What are you doing? Yeah, we already know his DNA
and who he is. But tell us, tell us, let's relationship with
Coach Talk is just you know, it's phenomenal. You know, it's it's
all love and stuff like that. But Coach Talk is the coach. I
think that would be to take me to the next level. I think he
can put a lot of focus into me and uh you know, you know,
just keep you know, putting in, putting in and me buying in.
So I think he'd be the coach to take me to the next level.
And so far, you know, he's been trying to give me to
do other things like working on speed for work, you know that right there,
to show how how much love it is and the relationship we have.
Yeah, what what do he uh you know, we talked about we asked,
we asked our current players, like we asked Trey Moseley. We had
him on, We had Kean on and you know, we asked him,
what what do you need to work on? Uh in the off season and
you know you got one a year, but what do you need to work
on? What has Coach Hawk told you that you need to work on and
for yourself to get on campus and and ball out, just you know,
getting out of routes, you know, uh, my breakdown running routes and
just getting faster. You know, I got the side to let the hands,
you know, I got the speed, but you know it's always better
to get faster, you know, just just finishing up top. Yeah,
she had we see you're breaking some tackles now, love you know you know
you're not afraid of content, right, yeah, definite content. Now what's
up? I'm gonna test you on this, man? What is Coach hawks
Number one number one rule as a receiver? Don't wait on number one?
Okay, my time? Number one number one? What must you do?
What must you do to get the rock? Oh? You got a block?
Yeah? Oh yeah, oh yeah, I definitely blocked. Man put
boys on their back that Oh you don't mind putting your hands off up?
Oh no, I love I'm a christive receiver. I like getting physical walk
of mine. You want to touch me? Hey, what's up? That's
what I'm talking about? Man, Hey, Nick, So I wanted to
ask you because you know, there was an article that came out. I
know you wanted to talk about this some on three articles that something I I'm
you know, I don't know if we have that article just so we can
address it. And it said you're planning to visit other schools. And I
guess some people took it the wrong way this and that because they like thought
that meant you weren't committed or whatever. So Mama t was goin to turn
into Mama far My. Meaning that is, you know, I'm still pretty
young. You know, I got another year left, and you know,
I just want to go have fun, you know, just being in recruit
you know, four star recruit at that, you know, some blessings,
so you know, just take the opportunity that you can to like really explore
the world. You know. That was one of my main main points about
that that quote right there, and I just want to explore, you know,
I'm still in the Michigan you know, before I settled down for It's
just a lot more that I want to go see. Yeah. See,
there's nothing wrong with that, going taking some trips, you know, see
what you can see, eat the food, you know. Yeah, in
sights, experience and the culture. But Nick did so well with that.
He was calling me like, yeah, no Twitter today because I was getting
caught up in Twitter all night. To me one o'clock in the morning,
did you see what they said on Twitter. I'm knocked out. I'm trying
to school. But sure, I like that. Yeah. So so your
mom, your mom told us when you before you jumped on a you know,
you want to be an engineer or you want to do something with computer
science. So talk about what to talk about when you fell in love with
that and why you want to do that. During school, like we work
on like making robots and stuff, you know, programming, doing a lot
of computer science. And I was I had a really good connection with my
teacher and we talked about it a lot, and I told him this would
be one of the things I would want to do in college and pursue,
you know, after high school. The engineering. You know, they'll make
a lot of money, and you know, I would like to build something.
You know, I grew up watching movies where you know, they always
building treahouses and you know, just just doing stuff. You know, I
would like to build something, probably a house. You know. It's just
just the skill work is pretty handy, and you know, that's that's why
I want to be an engineering. For the most part, I think computer
science. I think I'm not really too short, but I think they both.
Well, I'm gonna link you up with Ross Weaver, who is an
engineer right now. I'm a former dog was my roommate. I never I
never saw him in the apartment. He was always in the engineering school.
So no, that's great ambition, man, to get out there and be
an engineer, community science. You want to build something, so I mean
that speaks to the education you've gotten so far and exposure that your mother has
has put you on, which is great man, in my opinion. You
know, you know, how many more games do you have having basketball this
season? I think I believe we have three more before the playoffs. Okay,
yeah, you guys got a shout. Yeah, I think we're going
all the way. I think so much adversity this whole year. You know,
it's like our third coach in three years, so you know, we
had a new coach every year, but you know, got the same guys.
Chemistry is pretty good. You know, we fought through adversity. So
you know, I think this team can take it all the way. You
gotta let us know, you gotta let us know the game. So I'm
gonna come. I'm gonna come check it. I'm living hear me and you
in here, and it's straight come in like, let us know when when
when the next game. Man, We're gonna come check you out to support
you. I'm gonna make sure I send down my schedule on Twitter. Yes,
we'd like to see a lot of green and white. There's there's socials
everyone Nick marsh un the score eleven. I love the uniformity in that.
Yeah, listen, man, always about that other otis is out there,
man, like I ain't somebody else got twenty one. Somebody got O t
Wyley. It was O t Wyley. Wow, you know that's with you?
No, Yeah, definitely follow Nick. Everybody smart, show him a
lot of love. Follow. I'm gonna trying. I don't know if we
have her socials. Yeah, I'm trying. What's your social We'll type it
up here. So I'm so not good with Snapchat or nothing like that.
No, no, no, just Twitter, inst Instagram. So our Instagram
is Marshed Apparel under Sports Underscore twenty one. Is it for Mark? Because
I have Marke in there. I'm gonna trying on Twitter. I'm gonna try
it on twel Okay, well we'll post it. We'll post it out on
our social. We got I'm gonna straight horn the back. We'll make sure
she get it right for us too. There we go trying, Yeah,
here we go. No man, hey love, hey man, congratulates on
the win. You know, it's great talking with you. I'm trying for
sure. Just wanted to give you guys an introduction to the Spartan nation.
And look, we're gonna continue to recruit your glove on you. I don't
care where you go, go see the world. They come on back home
this time. You know you're gonna be right there. Yeah, yeah,
you're gonna be an early enrollly are you gonna come in? Oh yeah yeah.
I actually just got switch so I can graduated early. So yeah for
today. Oh yeah, that's great. You gotta take advantage of it.
I love it. I love it. Well, love man. We appreciate
y'all. Thank you so much because I know it's Thursday night. We had
a game and mama trying is on there, so I appreciate y'all taking time
this dedication. He's on the bus, everybody on the bus coming out of
the game. Mama trying to be thirty five in a couple of hours.
Oh, a couple of hours. A couple of hours, aquarious season.
All right, well, happy birthday. Everybody got to get her happy birthday,
right, alright, appreciate you. Oh man, hey, great family.
My goodness, that's a great kid. And it's mother's an athlete.
How about that. Yeah, that's how that's how it starts. You know,
you know, at least she doesn't give her so credit, but she
got some of the talent for your boys and your girls. So oh yeah,
yeah, man, you know, doesn't happened by accident, guys,
definitely. You know, it's crazy straight man, Like we haven't had a
bad apple Man yet, which is clearly clearly showing the vetting process. Like
I always say this, the vetting process of getting the quality guys and going
after character guys. You know this is gonna be a great opportunity man to
bring him on add to this other class that we got just right now.
So uh that man, look that basketball You got a smooth stroke, didn't
he like coming off? Just yeah? Six four? Yeah? Man,
look he just the one on the sleeve. Yeah yeah, down the court.
Man, look like a man amongst boys are here. Just easy oh
man, Yeah, this is gonna be a This is gonna be a good
add And I coach talked, Man, that was from deep Yeah, Coach
Hawkin's got man. Look honestly, man like, that's our strongest suit is
the receiving corps. Man. So all we gotta do is get the connection
right, and you know it's gonna be a It's gonna be lights out,
lights out, man. We're doing a phenomenal job receiving and linebackers. But
receivers, I mean, man, they are stacked athletically. It ain't easy
to get a scholarship offer as a receiver in Michigan State. I can tell
you that much. Man. Selective, and you gotta be selective. They're
looking for Chu Chuo right now. You don't know where he's at. He's
on the golf course in the desert. Great next thing, you know,
he disappeared somebody, Hey man, mister bum man. Look he loves ch
Chuo. Man, look at him. Man, look somebody find you to
tell chu to find himself. We know he Yeah, he needs to be
found, that's for sure. Look at him. He's on choot Choo Island.
Kickers not welcome. Don't forget that, man. So yeah, man,
that was the jam packed show. Guys. You know, any final
thoughts, I mean, we had a lot we covered heroes. Man.
I think it's one it's showing. I love that we highlighted everything around athletics
and our teams because you know, it's not just obviously football or basketball,
but we have some outstanding teams that are really winning and winning not only in
the competitive space, but off the field too, and so you know we're
going to continuously highlight them just as much as we highlight our football and our
basketball. But you know, one, it's good to obviously see our future
spartans and the mother's son connection is very strong in our in our space.
Man. So that's just the top highlight of showcasing that we are for real.
But what we talk about we just don't you know, walk it we
talk it man, So good kudos to you straight man of obviously putting this
together of tonight's show along with our other folks man and behind the scenes.
And I'm just blessed to be here man, blessed to be a catalyst of
a good conversation every night on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Baby, we love it,
man, We love it, We love the chat, We love everything
about this And thank you all for continue to allow this platform to grow.
You guys are doing a good job. It goes heavily noticed by us.
Thank you guys for tuning in. Hey, five hundred down here, five
hundred. Yeah, we got to get a thousand. Baby, we have
five fibers and counter man, I'm coming, keep him coming, and thank
you Otis and Jayu you know wherever he is. Thank him for tuning in
for a quick minute from the waistman in the golf tournament there in Phoenix,
Arizona in Super Bowl. He's got some festivities to go to, you know,
so we can't blame him. So that puts a bow on today's show
for Otis Wiley ju who's on assignment. I'm Jason Strayhorn. This is Sparta,
Have a good night, God blessed in Go Green, Go Like.
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