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The following is a presentation of Playfly
Sports Properties in Michigan State Sports Properties.

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Well pleasant, good evening, good
people. It is Tuesday, May ninth,

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twenty twenty three. I'm your host, Jason Strayhorn, along with my

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co hosts Otis Wiley and Jayu Chew
Chew All christ This is Sparta. You

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comments section below, and now back
to the show. So what's up,

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fellas? You know how you guys
doing after this weekend to looking like John

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Travolt's up in here? Is it
because I got the collar, the bigger

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collar than I mean camelin? No, because you go grease on your face?

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Why you look like the mob?
You know, I think it's I

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think it's just the lighting. It's
the lighting, the lightnings dim here.

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You know I do. I do
moisturize my face. I moisturized my body

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twice a day. Juices and berries
in the hair. Yeah, absolutely,

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but I moisturized. I moisturized my
body twice that You never touch me with

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ashy ankles, ashy elbows, ashy
anything. So don't even try to say

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like you did. Otis don't.
Yeah, it was winter time, it

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was it was probably a bad day. You never caught mem No, no,

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no, no, no. You
know what tells me I'm looking good?

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Trevor is a hard critic. You
know, if if Trevor said,

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yeah, you're looking good right now? Man, I saw somebody else say

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something about some soul glow. Is
that Steve soul glow? Steve Steve from

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You've got that soul glow? Speaking
of it, we got a jam packed

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show today, guys, We got
We're gonna talk from n I L.

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We got a special guest to really
talk about. You know, what are

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you guys speaking about. We're going
to give you an answer, a way

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to solve the issues that we have. And that's about n I L.

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Also straight straight, Yeah, I
hate to cut you off there, you

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do you know you don't because the
disclaimer he loves no no. But but

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the thing is, you talk about
that n I L. And and so

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many times in our show we have
people that are comments and how do we

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help out? How do we do
this? We do that. This is

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the show that you can find out
how you do that and how you help

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out. That's right. I appreciate
that. That's how to preface it.

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There's an intro for you right there. Guys. You know you're talking about

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you having ashcuse that probably dated back
to his days in college. We guys,

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we don't talk about graduation today.
Some spartans got the capping gowns on.

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Baby, let's talk about them.
Oh yeah, you got what ty

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little ty Walker did his thing,
you know, coming out there walking.

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Uh, it's always good to these
guys. Uh, you know these are

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student athletes who went to COVID,
right, So you getting to walk your

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you know walk. They probably even
envision being able to walk based off of

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what we had in the pandemic.
But when you're walking and just the feeling

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that you know, you got a
year of eligibility, maybe even two years.

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Sometimes some of these guys got three. And it's a good opportunity to

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where you were able to leave here
with two degrees, which is really not

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known from a standpoint which is utilized
as university to your good and your benefit

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to were you leaving here with two
degrees? Yeah, if I had two

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degrees when I left, oh man, you couldn't tell me nothing. You

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know. When I got that,
I was the biggest thing. You know,

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my biggest accomplished in my entire career
was getting that degree because I finished

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something. And I think that's the
best part of the celebration of you left

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your hometown and you've got the degree. And it was a good feeling to

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see our student athletes walk across that
stage. You're one hundred percent right,

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Oh you know, that's such a
good feeling, especially, you know,

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because my biggest thing is you know, people realizing that athletes are more than

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a number running down the field,
down the core, down the track and

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everything like that. And these guys
had an opportunity to walk, you know,

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in the Bresent Center and collect a
degree. Why the reason why they

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came to Michigan State, especially in
today's day and age, with nil and

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all those different things. You get
to come in and you you graduate from

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such a great institution like Michigan State
University, there's nothing like it. Uh,

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congratulations to all those student athletes that
don't and hell bigger congratulations to the

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guys that still have eligibility left right, I think that might yes, thass

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underwater? Under underwater? You don't
like, you can't, you can't tell

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nothing. You got a degree already
and you you're on campus, still getting

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it done. You're playing football at
Michigan State University. You're playing a sport

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at Michigan State University with a degree
in your back pocket. Nothing like it.

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I like it in the world.
We love it. I mean,

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guys, that's that's great news for
all the graduates. Congratulations to the graduates.

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Talking about people maybe leaving campus,
let's talk NBA combine list that just

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got put out. Guys, I'm
scouring the list of there's two names I

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don't see Otis Chew. Yeah.
Look, look I ain't got a laser

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vision, you know, zooming in
you see it, you don't see it.

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Uh. You know one thing,
we had a tour this morning with

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uh we had Buick and General Motors
team on site. We love General,

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we do, We definitely do.
Uh. You know, I won't say

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anything about that truck that to you
guy, but it is what it is.

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But that got what truck? What
truck that I get? You got

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that dodge round? You know,
it's like, what's all good? You

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know it's good. Anywhore we are
in the facility of men's basketball, Coach

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Iszo comes, Coach Tucker comes to
talk to them because you know they're driving

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those vehicles around. But we did
a tour and we were we we went

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through the locker room and you know
how quickly like when you're done, Yeah,

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you took your graphic off your locker
and it's like blank. Now you

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got all the squad and so like
just to give us hope, just to

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give spartanation hope. You still got
aj you still got Jayden's picture up there,

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right, but like you got your
boy Joe Joey's is gone, like

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it's gone script is gone. How's
is gone? Right? And so you

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think about it, that gives you
some hope too. But this list is

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the list you want to be on
if you're truly going to make the decision

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to declare. And that just gives
us hope that you know what if we

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get those two guys back, oh
my goodness, it is absolutely and uh

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and you know, let me just
go back, let me just go back

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real quick here to you know,
like to the list. Let's talk about

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graduation list. There a lot of
the guys that people don't realize spartanation,

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don't realize this a guy like Rocky
Lombardi who transferred from Michigan State, uh

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to or the one they could come
back and get their degree from Michigan State.

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You know, just so people know
that like a lot of the transfer

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come back. Because I saw somebody
in the comment there, a Michigan State

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degree carries a lot of weight because
people that transfer out of Michigan State and

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go to somewhere for a year,
they transfer their credits back to East Lanson

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to Michigan State and get and graduate
with a degree from Michigan State. So

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I just wanted to throw that out
there. Yeah. I mean, you're

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right, and I think that you're
talking about Trevor. Trevor Thompson again,

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he said the MSU degree carries more
weight than a degree from Auburn. I

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don't quite know what he means by
that, but we might have a hunch

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that I'm gonna talk about that,
Trevor. We are, you know,

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moving in the same thing as the
NBA comment. Let's talk about NBA owners.

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Michigan State's owned. Matt Ishie gets
into it a little bit with yacket.

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How about it. Listen the joker, the joker barely touched it,

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like that's a beautiful fly, a
beautiful fly. He's block. That's a

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block. It's not he ripped out
of his hand. He ripped it out

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of his hand because he yanked it
out of it's his hand. You see

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that. W w E. You're
right, Steve oh Man, look I

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like how like hey, first,
like, I'm not gonna lie, man,

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you kind of deserve that you put
your hand in there and slap the

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ball off like you kind of he
was. Yeah, see the video showing

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Yeah, he reached before this,
before this, before this, he took

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the ball out of it's his hand
because it was holding. It was his

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hole and he just took it away. Then it should poked it out.

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I love it. Hey man,
let's playoffs maybe come on? You know

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you don't want our owners ass any
day? You know what I wanted.

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I want to point out there right, so you see the guy in the

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guy in the blue that comes up
on the right there, that's Isaiah And

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he didn't do anything, Isiah.
That's that's no, no, no,

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not Isaiah Thomas where right there right
the blue to the right comes in late

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here he's like, hey, man, didn't do anything and defend the boy.

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Man, Hey, Isaiah, Isaiah's
bad boy days are behind him.

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He is. He is like,
I donet had enough of fighting the bulls,

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bro, come on, I'm good
right, and took a lot of

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shots to that, but we did
cover what he came out with saying I

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don't want I don't want the joker
to get a fine or get suspended for

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games, Like, yeah, he
got fined five thousand dollars, but he

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said, like it's twenty five thousand. He got enough. That's nothing.

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That's like it's world and n B
in NFL back to back an the league.

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Yeah, NBA money that's that's that's
that's another topsies you would you know

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there we go only too in Nashville, Tennessee. You guys are off the

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train right now. Look moving on, gentlemen, you want to change clearly

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listen amber ryin Stein, this is
this with a heavy heart. We say

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she is now moving on. Fellas, Hey, this is i't know this.

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This is a big loss, like
I mean to for someone like Amber

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that's in our program, Like you
don't understand how much she leads green.

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Uh, you know, adapted or
adopted us. Uh. And when you're

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having to feed these guys and put
meal plans together to get them to their

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maximum nutrition state, and you got
to keep on them. I mean it's

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like back at home, your mom
is like, you know, each your

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vegetables, each of eat this,
each of protein, and she has these

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guys down to a science. And
uh, it was one it was one

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story during the spring practice where Malik
left practice or it was inded practice,

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but he didn't grab the meal or
the food that he needed to eat.

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So you can go for the rest
of the Malik Spencer. Okay, so

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Malik, because you like Malik,
call you right, Malik Spencer and she

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called him by his full name,
middle name and everything, and like that

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relationship standpoint is it's going to be
missed. And one she's going to North

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Carolina. You know she was obviously
there before. But you know, one,

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congratulations Amber. Obviously we're going to
miss you, but you always apart

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for life and obviously come back.
She's trying to put weight on Chuck,

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you know, like you saw Chuck
come out with a social post like I

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love you Amber, Like you know, Amber is truly uh you know,

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she's she's behind the scenes. She's
like a kin manny of when she's with

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those guys for all the time.
So it's good good for her for to

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get another job in another program.
Yeah, you know, absolutely right.

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And I got to give a shout
out to Amber because you guys might not

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know this, but doing Sideline,
you know this year oldest brought me back

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to East Lanson to do Sideline along
with Jason and the Booth doing color and

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George doing play by play. She
should get home on the sidelines. Now

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I go to it to Miss Amber, I'm like, hey, you know

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you got anything from shore. We
give me Bruanola bar, you give me

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like a yogurt parfait and something like
that on the side of the keep the

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energy going there. So you know, kudos to her and a lot of

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the kids you don't really appreciate her, they really appreciates, you know,

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the respect that they have for her, you know that she has for them

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as players, and how they really
want to cultivate that relationship, how they

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feel that she makes them a better
athlete. She's putting everything into them,

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So that is something that's really cool, and you know, congratulations to her.

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We really wish, you know,
she would stay, but you know,

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like at the end of the day, you got to You've got to

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always level up. You got to
figure out a way, you know,

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what it's best for your career.
Never forget when she first arrived on campus

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and then there was those body transformation
photos that came out. Guys you remember

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that, Yeah, yeah, I
mean, and you know so that that

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was dramatic in of itself, and
then for them to go down to Miami

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this is the twenty twenty one season
when it was extremely hot. You know,

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there's no way to mimic those conditions, especially in East Landsey, and

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they were able to go down there
and they had a plan. It was

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the nutrition team at by Amberg combined
with strength conditioning and the coaching staff that

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put together a plan that had Michigan
State pulling away from Miami in their own

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house, which was incredible. You
know. So, you know, hats

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off to her and thank thanking her
for all that she's done, and wishing

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her the most success. Sad to
see her go, but happy to see

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her continue on her path and her
dreams for success for her family and her

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future. Guys. You know,
moving on with there's some transfer portal news

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that came about that I wasn't aware
of, but maybe you guys know Cade

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McDonald pops up wearing you know,
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those things that was a quiet transfer
and now he you know, popped back

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up and Miama, Ohio is no
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Big Ben was there, you know
back Otis when you and I were

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in college, our offensive coordinator there. Uh he turned to be the head

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coach at Miami of Ohio. There
don treadwell. Uh So you know that's

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a that's an assure you Now,
I can assure you, I can assure

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you that's his thing. Yeah,
I can assure you. But you know,

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coach Treadwoll is a really good dude. And you know, he was

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a head coach of Miami, Ohio
for a few years there. So I

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think he's gonna have a really good
career Miami of part. I think that's

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a really really good landing spot for
him. I think he's that type of

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player and I think he's gonna have
some success at that level. Yeah,

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you saw the story like one I
just found out that you know obviously wasn't

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following as closely, but played on
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back at you know, in Illinois, and so is this yeah, so

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just from standporio, Yeah, the
trio and you know he did his part.

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Man, he waited as long as
possible and you know, drinking lad

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green and White, and it's now
like, let's go out there and truly

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put some stuff on the field.
And I think that's a great spot for

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him because the MAC is not not
a slots conference. You know, they

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got some some programs in there that
have truly pushed the needle in and had

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success. And so looking forward to
support him and like I said, once

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a Spartan dog, always a Spartan
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earlier, he'll be back, you
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good, good job of getting to
the next landing page, which there's

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a lot of transfers out there that
have not landed, and for him to

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get landing a spot is a success. It's absolutely huge. You're right,

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Oh yeah, multifaceted a guy,
great talent, you know, kick returner,

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pump returner. Uh people to obviously
play that slot position and shorthanded made

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made a lot of plays for michign
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that that is the end of the
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you had Jayden Reed, had Peyton
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Naperville guys that kind of grew up
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now we got to get back to
recruit in the Chicago area. What do

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you think boys moving on Stuart Keon
Stewart is a transfer from tcut TCU National

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Championship Game TCU cornerback is now a
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to you guys about this like that
that that result in that championship game one.

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Then we did and uh, I

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just from a standpoint of like I
honestly, I thought we were deep in

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our room from a corner standpoint,
but it's just gonna add, you know,

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some volume into the compete, competitive
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I looked at the stats and then
it's it's I say, minor,

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it's not as major from a standpoint
of stats from where he was at with

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TCU. I let's just hope that
he comes in and you know, has

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a fresh page on on on the
life and the career that you know he

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can produce for us. But looking
to see what he could do in our

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system. But you know, he's
a physical corner if you can see in

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that picture. But obviously looking at
some highlights as I did some research,

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physical corner playing in that league,
you know conference, So let's see that

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he can make a transition up to
here, because you know, you got

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to hit too, man, you
got to knock some people out and being

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at the secondary of Michigan State defense
but in the big team period. So

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let's hope he has success with us. You know, I don't want to

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lose one keon and gain another keon. I want two kons on the Spartan.

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Yeah, talking about that's what I
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yeah, but no, I want
that keon as well, because like

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against otis Is, I know Otis
played the position and everything like that,

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but I like this kid. I
think he's a great ad. I think

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he is a value add to the
Spartan secondary. He's going to give those

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guys a push because at the end
of the day, you got to look

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at this, You got to look
at this guys like this guy played in

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the national title game, he played
in a big twelve tidle game, you

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know, all those different things,
and he knows what it takes to win.

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He's going to push these guys to
find success. You know, he's

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gonna push the Tatums, He's gonna
push the Chuck Brantley's. He's going to

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push all those guys in that secondary
room to you know, to a higher

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level. And anytime that you can
bring a transfer like that because what it

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does, what it does, it
tells your team the grass is not always

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greener somewhere else. Yes, it
does. Well said to like, are

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you looking at me like that?
Because I've heard. I've heard different stances

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from you to two a different things. This transfer right, Like from a

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standpoint of we already have a guy
in a mere Speed that played on that

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national championship team come over Georgia,
right, And I think from a standpoint

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we have guys coming in in this
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I get it from a experience standpoint, but it's like, why are you

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leaving that program where you can go
into Like that's those are the questions I'm

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thinking from going to be I get
that question. And don't get me wrong,

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I'm not saying he's annoying as starter. No, I'm saying, oh

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he can be. He can be
there and say, hey, this is

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the culture we had as a team
that played in the national title game.

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This is the culture that we that
took us to that next level. I

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want someone that comes in and teach
that culture. Don't get wrong, I

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have faith in the guys that are
there right now. I just think it's

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a value add to the position group. That's what I think it is.

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I have faith in the guy there. I still have faith that he knows

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how to be that team beat that
team in a row now, which is

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good, exactly exactly, yes,
yeah, what's wrong with that? Bless

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me? Maybe he's a very good
evaluator of a team's potential, because who

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was thinking about TCU a year ago
going to the national championship game. Must

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let old Us is the only person
because he's a Texas guy. How you

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do how you do it? Oh, it's the it's the foreign frogs.

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It's like horn horn horn. Okay, you got the hook him and then

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you got the pony up. It's
like that too. It's not it's not

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as horn as that. That's pony
up. Yeah, Oldest is the only

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one that had any horn in him. This is true. This is true.

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But you know, maybe Key I
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like before they're on the edge,
when they're on the edge of breaking us.

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So TCU loses Max Duggan, we
lose Peyton Thorn. But he sees

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something, guy, that's what I'm
saying. He's championship pedigree. He sees

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something in East Lansing that he wants
to be a part of. Maybe I

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don't think I'm transferring to the bench. Silly, Come on now, like

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this man, go to shit.
The bitch especially in the nil day.

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Did I say that correct? Time?

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There? You got it all right? Well, and you have the collective

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happens to have a beautiful name,
and you could tell everybody yourself time.

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So this is spurt of fun.
I mean, that's awesome. Yeah out

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there, you see me, I'm
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say look at my arms. Yeah, I remember, I remember Tom Tom

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sent me this picture was like,
hey, you know, I forgot what

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you would tell me? Jay who
said that? I didn't say it.

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I said, I need to get
in the weight room if I'm going to

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hang around with these guys. Can
we go back to that picture? Oh

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my goodness, look look look at
look at my arms? Who just saying

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just saying? I'm not saying,
I'm just saying. So they're asking me

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where where was I at? You
know, I was? I was.

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I did the intro, Tom,
Jason and Ju and I had to go

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to Detroit. We had ucking worrigots. Yes, yeah, you had other

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stuff going on right that then more
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You know, a doc though,
who is single handily putting together some

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very very cool stuff, especially for
the folks in east Land scene. In

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time, we want to talk to
you about Charitable Gift America and like what

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that is, where did it start? And then what do you do?

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Well, I'll try to be brief. I've been in the gift planning business

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for thirty years and twelve years ago, i think eleven years ago, twenty

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twelve, we started this is I'm
sorry, Chitable Gift America and we worked

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with hundreds of charitable organizations around the
country with their life income plans, their

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charitable life income plans, specifically charitable
gift annuities and variable payment programs. We

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allow them to private label these types
of gifts through Charitable Gift America. It's

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usually because they haven't had these programs, or maybe they don't have the wherewithal,

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whatever the reason is, they need
an outside source. So we built

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our business around that. And I
took that same concept of allowing organizations to

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private label their gift planning operation and
applied it to NIL and created a fund

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within Charitable Gift America. And you
know, we are probably the four most

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unimaginative guys on the planet because we
lifted our name from a movie. So

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I came up with you up for
our fund. Really that simple, you

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know when you talk about the name, I mean when we started this,

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uh you know, we had a
couple of different names and we started out

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and then we ended up we did
what else do we have? You know,

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we had a bunch of different that
and we said about this part MSU

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yeah, And then we realized as
we did like a trademark like searching around

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and like somebody said, we we
don't want to get flagged by anyone that

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there was a fund or there was
a name that was obviously overseas that we

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could have got flagged, which I
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and then we find out. I
kept hearing this is Sparta when Alan would

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talk or anybody else, like Dary
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And I was like, I'm looking
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something? I already like this is
before we did like work with Ihav and

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Ko, you know, did his
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then lo and behold, I find
out, well it's Tom Deaters and this

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is Sparta with Charitable Gift of America. And I kept seeing Charitable Gift of

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America or Terrible Gift America with our
gymnastics team, talk about how that fully

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started, because I feel like that
was that first team that you went fully

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you know, the entire team,
and then just talking about how that worked

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out with coach Rowe as you discussed
what to do to support them. Yeah,

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they really were our first team.
You know. I started this two

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Decembers ago, when Nil kind of
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Miami back home up here to pontivid
Beach listening to some sports talk show,

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and I heard some guys wanted to
start a nonprofit organization at the University of

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Texas to pay their linemen. And
that's where I thought, well, I

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already have a nonprofit. I can
do it myself. And so that was

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in December, and I just figured
I call people. I know. I

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mean, I've been around Michigan State
for my whole life, and I'm just

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going to get a whole bunch of
money and pay football players. Honestly,

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that's what I thought. Wasn't the
best idea I've ever had. Say what

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happened. What happened when I had
a little bit of money, not very

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much, not very much. And
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there in the athletic department in June
last summer, and we were just talking.

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Back then rules were a little tighter
than they are now, but what

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people can say and what they couldn't
say. But I got the distinct impression

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that helping the women's gymnastics team would
be a great place to start. So

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I walked out of that meeting and
I thought, well, I got twenty

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five thousand dollars, I can contract
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And I didn't know what to do
at that point, because how do you

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get five gymnasts off a roster?
I had no clue, but I called

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the coach and he asked if we
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dollars each. And I didn't really
like that because I wanted to make more

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of impact for these women, and
so I said, give me a couple

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of weeks, and I called some
people back that had said no to me

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before, and called a couple foundations
that we work with and donor advise funds.

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And it was right then that I
realized people really liked what we were

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doing. We were doing things the
right way. We were going to contract

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with a whole roster, and within
two weeks I had enough money to do

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all nineteen women on that team for
five thousand dollars each. So the coach

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and the team back, they were
needless to say, they were happy,

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but but ohis you're right? That
was our That was our first step into

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this, and we got a lot
of publicity for it. They're wonderful to

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work with. Of course, they
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and I think it's because of our
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not taking care well resources resources.
So that's that that team is where that

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is, where we started. It
is so there. They've been a great

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partner for us, and they've they've
launched us into other teams too, like

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for example, the women's soccer team
who again Big ten champions. Is that

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a coincidence? I don't know.
I don't know. The thing is,

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00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:45.920
Tom, And to answer Doug's question, yeah, the three students weren't taken

408
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:52.480
because two of your friends had that
copywritten already. But so Tom, you

409
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:57.400
don't like. The thing is this, I I really appreciate you know,

410
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:02.480
what you you do and what you've
done and from where you've started, you

411
00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:07.400
know, like putting that you know, emphasis and everything because at the end

412
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.720
of the day, you know,
football, basketball, they're the ones that

413
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.839
get you know, all the attention
and everything like that. And as the

414
00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:19.599
father of a daughter, otis the
father of two girls, Jason, you

415
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:22.319
have a girl as well, and
uh, you know that is something like

416
00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:27.799
really huge that these girls get an
opportunity you know, to you know,

417
00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.960
not one just showcase the talent,
but you know, you have something to

418
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:35.960
show for that as well, you
know, so like what was the thought

419
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:38.960
process behind, Like, you know, hey, we're gonna appreciate the women's

420
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:44.640
sports, and you know start with
that. Well, I think I already

421
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:50.400
answered how we started with gymnastics.
But we are one donor driven. Okay,

422
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:52.599
whatever a donor wants to do is
what we're gonna do, all right.

423
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:59.359
So so if somebody contributes to our
fund, they can they can designate

424
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:01.880
it to a particular sports. So
we don't make the decision on who gets

425
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:08.440
the money. Okay, we collect
it, but we don't just have women's

426
00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:12.720
teams. We don't just have dymnastics
in soccer. We have football players,

427
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:17.920
we have baseball players, we have
men's tennis players. We have last year

428
00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:27.160
seventy five contracts we wrote for Michigan
State University athletes alone. This fall already

429
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:30.319
we already know and I fully anticipate
this number to grow. We will have

430
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:36.119
written one hundred and fifty nine contracts
for Spartan athletes. And that does include

431
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:40.559
incredible, it does include baseball.
So we don't make that decision. We're

432
00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:45.160
totally donor driven. We like to
be that way because we feel like we're

433
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.240
going to collect more money if we
do what the donor wants to do.

434
00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:53.759
Yeah, Tom, you talked about, you know, one the one hundred

435
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:58.599
and fifty nine contracts from Michigan State, you know, a few weeks ago,

436
00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:01.440
obviously last week or just this past
month. You know, Michigan State

437
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:07.200
was getting a lot of pushback from
you know, fan base, and like,

438
00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:09.760
you know, when our guys hit
the portal, it automatically turned to

439
00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:14.239
Okay, we're not we're not doing
our part with an nil, which is

440
00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:19.320
you know one that's that's false too. We've had you doing these things behind

441
00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:23.639
the scenes, and you've done it
without really wanting the notoriety or just the

442
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:29.599
publicity. Uh. And you quickly
in amount of a day and a half,

443
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:34.239
you know, signed up Chuck Braandley, which we did celebrate last week.

444
00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:37.880
You know, talk about that with
with Chuck and you know he was

445
00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:40.239
obviously one of the guys hit the
portal, but then we were able to

446
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:44.480
have a conversation with and say,
hey, let's let's break it down and

447
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:46.360
let's build something out. But tell
us how that went, and you know,

448
00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:52.199
how was how was the conversation with
Chuck? Truly? I was like,

449
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:54.559
it's it's always fun having a conversation
with the student athlete. Okay,

450
00:34:55.480 --> 00:35:00.480
they're always happy, right, and
I haven't I haven't contacted one student athlete

451
00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:07.480
who didn't want to hear from me. Okay, So yeah, he's been

452
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:12.599
fantastic. How did that come about? I don't want to say that,

453
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:15.480
and I don't think it would be
accurate to say that. You know,

454
00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:21.039
we paid Chuck so he came back. I don't think that's accurate at all.

455
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:23.760
He wants to be at Michigan State. That's fine, that's great.

456
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:29.599
I think that's where his mind is. I believe he seems like a really

457
00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:36.840
good kid, and we had a
donor that was was for whatever his reasons

458
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:38.840
were, it doesn't make any difference
to me. But he really wanted to

459
00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:44.719
do things to help Chuck, not
just pay Chuck that that doesn't work.

460
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:51.159
We don't do that with anybody,
Okay. So he has some responsibilities in

461
00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:53.440
the contract that I think will be
very, very beneficial for him, and

462
00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:57.480
that's what the donor wanted to do. So that's what we did. But

463
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.239
it just I don't want to say
as a coincidence, but you know,

464
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:04.800
we had the right person at the
right time who was interested in him and

465
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:08.639
I think Chuck probably needed a little
bit of that to make that decision.

466
00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:13.079
But really I think I think I
think Chuck just really wanted to be at

467
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:15.920
Michigan State. I'm not speaking for
him, but I think that is the

468
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:20.880
case. Oh no, that's correct. Yeah. Yeah. We had the

469
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:25.599
pleasure of speaking with him and seeing
him recently and he expressed that like it

470
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:29.480
was you know, and he came
on the show and talked a lot about

471
00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:32.039
that too, So you know,
Chuck is a phenomenal guy. It's to

472
00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:37.199
the question about Nil and Tom.
You can really speak to this because I

473
00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:44.000
know that we've we've ourselves myself has
said miscuse, they needs to step up

474
00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:45.599
more. Now, I know that
you've been doing things behind this, and

475
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:49.960
there's other groups trying to do things, and you've done it at a level

476
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:53.519
that I haven't really seen as far
as the amount of players and athletes that

477
00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:55.880
you've been able to hit. You're
talk about one hundred and ffty nine coming

478
00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:01.119
up in this fall. Now,
you also, with Charitable Gift America have

479
00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:07.800
collectives in other schools. Correct,
correct? Okay, so when you get

480
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:09.960
to go I mean you get your
masters from Miami, so you know what's

481
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:13.599
going on down there, and they're
like crazy down in Miami right now,

482
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:22.639
right, But you have seen giving
from a lot of different universities across the

483
00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:28.280
country. How does Michigan State rank
as far as the amounts per athlete from

484
00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.679
what you see in other places?
Oh, I think Michigan State is right

485
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:37.239
there with with just about anybody.
You might see some really large contracts at

486
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.800
some places that maybe in Michigan State
doesn't have. But I will say this,

487
00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:46.840
the structure of the cooperation between the
collective you know, us and the

488
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:54.239
athletic department is critical and we have
a great relationship there. Michigan State has

489
00:37:54.760 --> 00:38:00.000
in my estimation, and you're right, we do work with several other schools

490
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:02.079
where we run that we don't run
their collective, they run it, but

491
00:38:02.199 --> 00:38:06.079
we have their funds, so I
work with them all the time. But

492
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:13.039
with our fund I can tell you
MSU has the cleanest, uh most efficient

493
00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:17.920
and above board ANIL program that you
can possibly have, and that includes the

494
00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:21.159
name this has spired I. We
we looked into it and it's in the

495
00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:28.239
public domain so we can use it. But the perfect perfect but now we

496
00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:32.360
made sure we work with the compliance
office before we even wrote one contract We're

497
00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:38.239
very heavy into making sure we're doing
all things correctly and it's because of that

498
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:44.639
that not only have we have we
acquired assets to pay for some of these

499
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:49.079
pay for all the contracts. But
that is what has led to our growth

500
00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:53.440
with other schools wanting to work with
us in our and creating a fund with

501
00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:57.559
us. Most notably, we're the
only one that I'm aware of, and

502
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.920
I talk to a lot and I
get a lot of home, but we

503
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:07.800
have the capability of writing contracts for
international student athletes. And the numbers which

504
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:09.159
I wrote down in front of me
here when I said we'd have one hundred

505
00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:13.920
and fifty nine contracts. Currently that's
going to grow, but currently that's what

506
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:17.960
we'll have written in the fall.
Twenty three of those, or fourteen percent

507
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:22.079
of them, are international student athletes. That's just at Michigan State. But

508
00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:29.039
these other schools stumble across international kids, and they do happen in football.

509
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:32.719
We have one at Michigan State.
It happens more often than you think,

510
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:37.719
and that's why they come to me, and then they see how well run

511
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:43.119
the service they're getting here with the
contracting and the ten ninety nine work.

512
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:45.760
At the end of the year and
then they kind of fold everything into us

513
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:50.679
because it's hard to be sustainable,
and we create that vessel for them to

514
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:54.920
be sustainable. Yeah, Tom,
and Tom, you have one of our

515
00:39:55.039 --> 00:40:00.840
very own who works with me and
my team obviously with the too, with

516
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:06.639
MJ Andrews from women's soccer. I
didn't know that. Yeah, yeah,

517
00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:09.800
yep. So she does work with
us, and it is internally to get

518
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:15.519
experienced because she is a marketing advertising
major, so it's part of her degree

519
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:19.800
to get a co op internship in
the field. And she is a great,

520
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:23.559
great add in for us from a
value standpoint, and she's very persistent

521
00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:28.480
and she can sell like she's one
of those those those you know, student

522
00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:30.840
athletes who you know gets it.
Yeah, but she's not doing it for

523
00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:35.199
all the money. She's like,
I just want to you have something to

524
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:37.400
fall on when I'm out of you
know, out of the sports. So

525
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:40.360
well, you know MJ. You
know, she's a really good example of

526
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:45.760
what we're doing, and that is
Okay, we're gonna do thirty two women

527
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:47.400
on the soccer team. Now I
get all over Jeff about herring is such

528
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.159
a big roster because he's killing me. But that's okay, right, but

529
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:54.280
then you had MJ the one international
kid on that team, and I'm like,

530
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:59.519
I'm not leaving one kid out,
okay. And so what we did

531
00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:07.400
was we hired an international law firm, immigration law firm in Miami to research

532
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:15.440
this and come up and draft a
contract specific for international student athletes that produces

533
00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:17.880
the type of income that they are
allowed to get. And we have a

534
00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:22.440
legal opinion from them. So we're
very very well covered for these kids.

535
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:29.079
And so a woman like MJ it
was able to participate along with half the

536
00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:35.400
women's golf team. Let's see the
couple. I've got a tennis player men's

537
00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:38.239
tennis from a guy from Greece,
and then we have half what was it?

538
00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:45.199
Volleyball has a couple, and women's
basketball has a couple. Yeah,

539
00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:47.920
I remember them all. But yeah, we didn't want to leave anybody out.

540
00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:52.880
You know. You know that's that's
really good. And so Tom,

541
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:54.960
I got to ask, you know, I know you went to Michigan State.

542
00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:59.280
Michigan State is a passion of yours. You went to Miami for your

543
00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:04.679
masters. I have a buddy that's
a former teammate of mine with the New

544
00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:09.199
York Jets and now his son's being
recruited. And you know something that's really

545
00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:14.159
cool that you hit on is you
said, Michigan State's doing it right with

546
00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:20.599
the nil and the collectives and everything
like that. And I'm getting so like,

547
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:24.840
Miami's recruiting his kid hard, really
hard. They're they're making these promises

548
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.400
and everything like that, and he's
like, I don't know if I have

549
00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:32.920
that trust factor in that, because
you see from different organizations like Texas A

550
00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:37.360
and m people are transferring out because
they're they're people that went there for the

551
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:40.679
reason that they went there aren't getting
what they're getting, you know. So

552
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:45.239
like, how do parents you know
that are listening to this be like,

553
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:47.920
oh, you know, this is
a you know, good place to go,

554
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:52.400
Like not just even even if then
I go to MSU, but like,

555
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:55.639
how do parents like be like,
Okay, this is what's promised to

556
00:42:55.719 --> 00:43:01.239
my kid and I can believe it
and trust it. That's a really good

557
00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:07.480
question, Jay who And I'll go
back to how we run our fund and

558
00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:12.679
we will not make an offer to
any student athlete unless we have the money

559
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:15.599
in the bank. Cash in the
bank. That's it. I mean,

560
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:19.320
I can't speak to what's going on
at Miami. I think it's not a

561
00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:23.280
secret. I mean it's just in
the newspapers or wherever. But clearly,

562
00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:29.920
when you have one person that's funding
NIL contracts, just one and it seems

563
00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:35.639
like that's what they have there,
and it looks I mean, I just

564
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:38.119
read this like you do. It
sounds like that company has has some issues

565
00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:42.039
on valuations things like that. Are
they going to be able to make those

566
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:46.719
payments? You know? I think
if I was being recruited or I had

567
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:51.480
a child that was being recruited by
a school and they're being offered an NIL

568
00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:53.960
contract, whether it's Miami, Texas
and AM or Michigan State, I would

569
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:58.280
want to know who's running that collective. And if it's not a collective,

570
00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:00.320
what company are you talking about?
Because that's what we're talking about at Miami.

571
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:06.320
And you know, do you trust
them not? Unlike do you trust

572
00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:09.880
the coach when when coach is recruiting
you. But yeah, there's there's there

573
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:15.559
does seem to be some some issues
with with payments in that UM. But

574
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:17.760
I hope not. I hope the
kids get everything that they were promised.

575
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:22.480
Yeah, And so you said,
you know you look into that. I

576
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:27.199
know through ms U people can you
know the people that are on here?

577
00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.440
You know, from listening to you
can figure out how to know, like

578
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:36.159
Michigan say this, how does a
parent look into it and find out if

579
00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:39.440
what the collective is and what the
collective is about? Oh, I get

580
00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:49.280
phone calls, yet, I got
parents, I got agents, you name

581
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:53.079
it, I get, I get. Some of them are really good.

582
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:58.719
Most of them are really good phone
calls, Tom, licensed agents or the

583
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:09.679
unlicensed agent? You know, I
don't know. Response came about everyone wanted

584
00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:15.800
to become everyone wanted to become an
agent. Everyone's like I have. But

585
00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:22.440
yeah, yeah, but you know
that that's one of the things Tom,

586
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:24.440
That's one of the things that you
know, people need to realize is you

587
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:30.400
know, there are people that are
out there in it for themselves and but

588
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:35.199
you have very good organizations like the
organization that you have, you know,

589
00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:37.119
that are in it for the kids
and the athletes. You know. And

590
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:42.199
that's what I wanted, you know, want to know and want you to

591
00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:45.599
push out there, is how these
kids you know, can get a hold

592
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:51.079
of you and your organization and everything
like that, you know, because they're

593
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:55.280
getting the actual true facts, it's
vetted. Is everything's great. You know,

594
00:45:55.400 --> 00:45:59.079
five to one, C three,
all that different stuff. If you're

595
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:01.639
a donor, if you're a parent
and everything, how can they get a

596
00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:07.119
hold of, you know, Tom, Well, you can go to uh

597
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:10.119
the charity was it? C g
A America? There you go right there,

598
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:20.119
cg Aamerica dot org slash this hyphen
is another hyphen sparta. That's it,

599
00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.239
And and my name and phone number
email is all over it. They

600
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:25.360
can call me anytime they want.
They can also go right on that same

601
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:30.440
same site and click the uh little
button there and make a contribution to very

602
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:35.440
easy, super easy. Everybody hear
that. It's the call to action.

603
00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:42.519
If you're any of those fundraisers out
there, you go, yeah, yeah,

604
00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:44.800
you know, but Jail, You're
right. There's there's a lot of

605
00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:47.599
people out there that maybe you don't
want to deal with. I've certainly met

606
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.519
too many of them. Uh I. I try to weed them out of

607
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:55.559
my life the best I can.
But you know, sometimes when I get

608
00:46:55.639 --> 00:47:01.840
calls from people looking for something from
it when they shouldn't be, you know,

609
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.039
I'd rather I would much rather walk
away from people like that then then

610
00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:10.440
get involved with them, because if
I did it once, I would get

611
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a lot more phone calls and probably
be the end of what we're doing.

612
00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:17.199
So we got to just gotta be
careful, right P and the guys,

613
00:47:17.239 --> 00:47:21.400
if you guys don't mind dropping that
in the chat so everyone can if they

614
00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:24.159
want to click on that website.
You know, that's good. I saw

615
00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:28.320
someone in there say drop it in
the chat, So if you guys can

616
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:30.960
drop that on the chat there,
that'd be great. And don't forget to

617
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:36.159
hit that clicking subscribe button that like
inside button too. Why you guys are

618
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:37.400
at it? You know, we
want to talk a little bit about some

619
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of the guys who did into the
portal. And I don't know if this

620
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:45.880
is necessarily inn il reasons, but
Peyton Thorn update now who we do now

621
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:51.639
know that he has signed with Auburn. Yeah, you know, Peyton signed

622
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:53.400
with Auburn, and you know,
good good on him for that. And

623
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:58.639
when he signed with Auburn, I
reached out a mentor of mine when I

624
00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:01.039
was out with the New York Jets, Tony Richardson, and he played for

625
00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:07.599
University of Auburn, and through him, I got connected with the director of

626
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:12.679
player Engagement for University of Auburn and
I sent her and him a message.

627
00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:15.559
I was like, hey, one
of our guys, just transfer there.

628
00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:19.280
Take care of him. And their
respond back was, you know, hey,

629
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we're very lucky and fortunate to have
him. You know, it's a

630
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:25.199
part of our team. And I
told him, you're you're exactly right.

631
00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:28.960
Peyton's a good guy. He's going
to be, you know, a good

632
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:34.760
fit for you for that organization.
Their congratulations to Peyton thorn Uh for you

633
00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:37.400
know, finding the land and spot
in Auburn, finding somewhere that makes him

634
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:42.000
happy. And you know, we're
as Spartan's we're all happy for that because

635
00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:45.679
at the end of the day,
we all want the best for everybody that

636
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:49.000
donned that green and white, no
matter where their career takes them. At

637
00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:52.719
the end of the day. I
mean, well said, you know,

638
00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:59.079
best of luck to Peyton as he's
down in Auburn. You know, a

639
00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:01.480
war eagle, Spartan nation, the
war eagle today. Look, I mean

640
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:05.960
he's always in Spartan, like you
said, you know, Before we move

641
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:08.639
on to the next subject, I
want to ask in your opinion, well,

642
00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:14.039
why do people donate and what what
motivates them to do that? In

643
00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:21.159
your experience, well, I've heard
a lot of different reasons. For the

644
00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:24.639
most part, for the people that
have that I've worked with that support our

645
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:30.440
fund and MSU student athletes, they
just want to help the kids and they

646
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:35.159
want to they want to make a
contribution that they know is going directly to

647
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the student athlete and nowhere else.
Sometimes they're uh, you know, maybe

648
00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:45.320
they're they think sometimes they make contributions
and it doesn't get to the area that

649
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:47.760
they actually wanted to get to,
but they know when they give to us,

650
00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:52.920
it's going directly to the student athlete. I should also add Terrible Gift

651
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:57.880
America does not charge any fee whatsoever
for doing this. We're doing it entirely

652
00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:01.199
to help the university, help these
kids and help move move all of the

653
00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:06.800
programs forward. So it's usually they
want to they want to help, they

654
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:09.639
want to help the kids directly.
But like I mentioned before, we get

655
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a lot of contributions from people that
have absolutely no relationship with that. You

656
00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:19.239
can say because because I asked them, that is great, Tom, like,

657
00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:22.760
really appreciate what you do and what
you bring to university. Tom,

658
00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:25.599
And uh, you know, Jason
and I have to have the privilege of

659
00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:30.440
you know, hanging out with you
out of practice and just having some greats.

660
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:34.760
Look at look at you know the
picture that my arms are like massive

661
00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:43.920
in that picture. But really really
appreciate, really appreciate you, really appreciate

662
00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:46.840
you, Tom and what you do
for university and what you do for these

663
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:52.679
student athletes. And one of the
best things about it is it's all all

664
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:57.360
the athletic brands all through you know, the university. It doesn't matter men's,

665
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.760
women's, all that stuff. You
bring it together for those student athletes.

666
00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:07.159
Really appreciate it. Well, it's
a pleasure. We have a lot

667
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:09.119
of fun with it. It was
a lot of work to start it,

668
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:14.039
and I didn't know at one point
why I was even doing it until we

669
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:19.480
started contracting with the kids and started
getting feedback from them. We do have

670
00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:22.840
a clause in all of our contracts
because we are a philanthrop but organization.

671
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:29.440
We'd like to teach kids about philanthropy. We empower them to learn about philanthropy,

672
00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:32.519
and we do that by every contract
we have has a clause that says

673
00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:37.320
they must give five percent of their
contract to a charity of their choice,

674
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:39.360
not our choice, but their choice. So they got to look up what

675
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:44.880
happened maybe to their family or friends
or what's impacted their life and what organization

676
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:49.599
would they want to help and they
love that part. And so we've created

677
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:54.719
this huge ripple effect literally around the
world with contributions to these two. Gosh,

678
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I don't even know how many chairs, however many kids we have,

679
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:02.840
is how many charities we've been able
to impact just because we have an NIL

680
00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:08.880
program. That's a good tom and
listen, this is this is what we

681
00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:13.480
needed, you know, from a
standpoint of education, you know, but

682
00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:17.119
it's valuable because you have the results
and then proof in the putting for everyone

683
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:21.679
here in Michigan State and then,
like you said, we'll post this and

684
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:23.719
people are gonna start giving. So
I would love to see how you know,

685
00:52:23.800 --> 00:52:29.800
the traction is as we continuously do
stuff within our partnership because the universe

686
00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:32.119
has aligned with our naming, and
now we're going to get to work and

687
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:37.840
putting some things to action for activations
and getting our student athletes exposure out showing

688
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:43.159
our show because there will be more
that you'll be signing up and we're going

689
00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:47.119
to celebrate them, just as we
celebrate our past. And well, I

690
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:52.920
really appreciate you guys doing that and
to help with that, uh to sustain

691
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:55.440
this over a long period of time
and really make it right. There has

692
00:52:55.559 --> 00:53:04.480
to be a seamless relationship between our
fund, the athletic Department, and the

693
00:53:04.519 --> 00:53:08.079
Spartan Fund, the Athletic fundraising arm, and we're working on that. And

694
00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:14.679
Alan has been a great, great
leader in this area. He's like,

695
00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:16.639
I've been working with the universities for
thirty years. I know things don't happen

696
00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:22.239
overnight, but it is moving.
It's moving, and I give Alan a

697
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:24.800
lot of credit for taking all the
right steps to make sure. If we're

698
00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:29.000
going to move, it's got to
be done in the right way and do

699
00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:31.679
it well. And if we can
accomplish all that, AMASH is going to

700
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:36.599
have more money in there in their
coffers, both in the Spartan Fund and

701
00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:40.119
in NIL than probably anybody in the
country, and that should help all of

702
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:45.400
our programs, including obviously football and
basketball. Absolutely. Yeah, we can't

703
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:50.440
wait to put a lot of the
athletes and kind of celebrate them as they

704
00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:52.440
get those deals, because you know, you know, look, it's cool

705
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:55.320
to like get the money and all
that, but I know how this generation

706
00:53:55.559 --> 00:54:00.199
is they like that, you know, they want some you know, want

707
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:02.840
the infant gratification. Yeah, you
know, we got to give them a

708
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:07.119
little love, you know, things
that money a little further, right guy.

709
00:54:07.199 --> 00:54:10.320
Yeah, well, well we are
planning on Thursday, I think it

710
00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:14.679
is Thursday, August thirty first,
if that's the day before the first football

711
00:54:14.679 --> 00:54:16.400
game, which I think is the
thirty first, We're going to have a

712
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:22.960
signing day where all of the kids
that we have under contract will pretend like

713
00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:24.880
they're signing a contract. There'll be
a great photo op and get them a

714
00:54:24.920 --> 00:54:30.280
lot of publicity, and we'll celebrate
how many how many student athletes at Michigan

715
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:34.800
State that that this is Sparta we'll
have under contract for for the next academic

716
00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:42.280
year. That'll be fun, dynamite
you guys. Yeah, absolutely absolutely,

717
00:54:42.440 --> 00:54:47.360
We already we are discussing like live
show, I show on site. Yes,

718
00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:52.840
it will be in our office building
that's Downtowny's Lands, and we got

719
00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:57.440
to we got some things cooking behind. Yeah for sure. Before you you

720
00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:01.679
go, like, there's a lot
of comments that are asking about possible merging

721
00:55:01.760 --> 00:55:07.199
with the Spartan Fund donations in order
for people to give or choose n I

722
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:13.679
L within that type of giving.
Can you expand on that our talk speak

723
00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:16.960
to that I sure can, and
I'm glad you asked. That's what I

724
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:23.639
was talking about earlier about the corporation. What what has to happen for sustainability?

725
00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:27.760
All right, and this is well
within the rules for the n C

726
00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:35.199
double A Okay. There. We
need to have a relationship where people can

727
00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:39.559
give to what they've normally given to, whether it's facilities or whatever sport they

728
00:55:39.639 --> 00:55:45.599
give to or ni L and the
points need to be meshed together so you

729
00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:51.039
can get points for giving to this
fund. We're working on that. It's

730
00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:53.239
not going to happen overnight, but
if I had my way, it would.

731
00:55:53.760 --> 00:56:00.199
But I will say we have all
the right parties involved, okay to

732
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:06.960
make this happen, and I'm optimistic
that we can pull it off. And

733
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:09.239
if we can do that, then
we're not going to have to go back

734
00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:15.679
to the same individuals every single year
when we need a bunch of an eye

735
00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:19.480
all money. Can you give us
money? Again? That is not sustainable,

736
00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:23.760
Okay, what I'm doing is probably
not sustainable. But we need all

737
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:30.320
of the Spartan fans to have the
opportunity to give. But we understand they

738
00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:36.360
also want their points. Okay,
that's just an internal policy that that can

739
00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:40.800
be done. I probably have said
too much, but that's that's the direct

740
00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:44.960
that's the direction we're heading, and
we certainly have are having the right people

741
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:52.119
involved, and everybody seems to be
behind that movement. So what I hear

742
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:55.840
you saying, Tom is just hang
in there, don't stop giving, you

743
00:56:55.960 --> 00:56:59.760
know, just come on in.
You know, they're going to catch up

744
00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:09.760
and if you need an extra ticket
or to call ots. I love it,

745
00:57:10.239 --> 00:57:17.400
I love it, I love it, right man. This has been

746
00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:22.719
great and extremely informed, you know, informational for everybody, for me.

747
00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:24.960
Uh. So you know, I
appreciate you coming on the show and sharing

748
00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:30.320
this information. And this is the
first of many opportunities for us to get

749
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:34.079
together, uh with that beautiful name
of yours. So thank you for joining

750
00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:37.039
us. Uh. And you know
we already we're going to continue to post

751
00:57:37.639 --> 00:57:43.519
where people can give to the charity, correct guys, Yeah, we will.

752
00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:46.079
Yeah, And we are a five
one three organization, so any contribution

753
00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:53.760
is is is text deductible. There
you go. That's the first thing people

754
00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:58.559
ask, you know, charitable donations
or and Spartan fund those are the top

755
00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:02.519
two. So we've answered that.
We got all these components. We just

756
00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:08.719
need to put them together together and
m SU will be unstoppable. Absolutely hear

757
00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:14.039
that. We really appreciate you,
Tom, really appreciate what you do for

758
00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:17.159
these student athletes. And you know, as a former Spartan player that wish

759
00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:24.800
when I was playing you were around. I really do appreciate what you're doing

760
00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:29.719
for these student athletes and what you're
doing for the community of you know,

761
00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:34.199
this is Sparta and everything like that. Really really appreciate you. I wish

762
00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:38.360
this was around when I was playing. I know you. I wouldn't have

763
00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:43.280
I wouldn't have blew all my n
I l at ricks. Yeah, I

764
00:58:43.320 --> 00:59:00.159
would have all trade. That's all
trade. You appreciate the time, Man,

765
00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:04.280
look forward to having you back on
the show. Thanks for having thanks,

766
00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:06.440
Thank you very much for having me
here. I appreciate thank you.

767
00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:10.760
All right, go oh man,
So, I mean, I hope the

768
00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:14.800
nil questions got to answered a little
bit there, fellas you know, so,

769
00:59:15.079 --> 00:59:16.800
well, what do you guys think
I saw in the chat? Man?

770
00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:21.840
You know, we had this conversation, we had these questions and last

771
00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:25.519
time we you know, last Thursday, right, and then we quickly it

772
00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:30.280
kind of went to the lab and
like okay, we gotta break. We

773
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:32.119
got to get this going. We
got to bring someone who is fully living

774
00:59:32.159 --> 00:59:37.000
and breathing it but doing the work. And you know Tom is doing the

775
00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:42.440
work. And I think that's a
truly, you know, good opportunity that

776
00:59:42.639 --> 00:59:45.440
this show provides. Our listeners are
subscribers, our fans, and the lums.

777
00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:51.760
Is that listen, we are bringing
you resources and it's almost like we're

778
00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:54.440
leading you to the well if you
don't dip and a get a drink of

779
00:59:54.519 --> 00:59:58.920
water. And that's only you all, and it's one of those things where

780
00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:02.199
you want success us. Tom showed
you and told you that what he did,

781
01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:08.039
these did these team wide deals and
supporting our student athletes championships, that's

782
01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:13.199
resources, right, So as a
direct result of getting the guys and the

783
01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:16.199
girls, the women taken care of
so that they're able to then put the

784
01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:21.639
beauty of work onto their competitive fields. And you know, this is a

785
01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:24.199
good opportunity to showcase that. So
I do appreciate Tom and what he's done.

786
01:00:25.079 --> 01:00:30.239
I mean he's truly doing it through
the green or white spartan pride and

787
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:32.760
is nothing for his own merit and
what he's trying to get out of it.

788
01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:37.840
And so I'm trying to drop the
mic before she does, because typically

789
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:40.159
does that after I do something.
The one upper, you know, the

790
01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:49.199
floor, you know, overall,
the overall, like we talked about this

791
01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:52.960
and especially last week. You know, it was he of conversations last Tuesday,

792
01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:57.639
you know, tranch support because Michigan
State spartans got I got punch.

793
01:00:58.119 --> 01:01:02.400
This is not Tutor's apology toward this
is chew cheese like putting it out there

794
01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:06.800
because at the end of the day, all on all of us as spartans

795
01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:12.280
got an absolute gut punch two Sundays
ago when we're sitting there minding our business

796
01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:15.760
and you read on Twitter Peyton Thorn
nswered the transfer portal, you enter,

797
01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:22.519
you see Charles Brantley entered the transporportal. You see Kean Coleman entered the transfer

798
01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:24.840
portal. You know, those are
all things that never really it's one of

799
01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:29.280
those things like you know, it
will never happen to us, but it

800
01:01:29.519 --> 01:01:35.199
happened to us. We got we
got uh uh k nine out of the

801
01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:37.440
transferport and we were he he ha
hai and all the way to you know,

802
01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:40.079
like Chick fil a pitchball New Year's
Day, bul you know, and

803
01:01:40.159 --> 01:01:45.159
we didn't think it would happen to
us. But this is the way Spartan

804
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:49.519
Faithful. This is the new college
football. This is it right here,

805
01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:52.800
and now you have the opportunity to
be a part of the Spartan universe,

806
01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:58.079
be a part of Spartan Faithful that
can help keep these and retain these guys

807
01:01:58.159 --> 01:02:01.440
here as Spartans. You know.
So those are the things and having you

808
01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:06.440
know, we have this conversation,
kudos to Otis. As soon as we

809
01:02:06.559 --> 01:02:08.800
were done, and you guys don't
know this, we record the show for

810
01:02:09.440 --> 01:02:14.039
everyone in here. When we're done. At the end, we spend another

811
01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:16.159
thirty minutes on what could we have
done better? You know, what can

812
01:02:16.239 --> 01:02:19.280
we do? You know? Okay, this was good, This was good

813
01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:21.440
and everything like that. Oldis is
like, hey, we got to get

814
01:02:21.480 --> 01:02:23.079
tom on, you know, to
figure out, you know, how can

815
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people help out in every way like
that. You know, we have a

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01:02:27.480 --> 01:02:30.199
guy out there right now. We
have a guy out there right now,

817
01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:36.360
Spartan fans that is in that limbo. And this guy is Agent Zero Keon

818
01:02:36.440 --> 01:02:39.199
Coleman. He's in there right now. We need to This is the new

819
01:02:39.800 --> 01:02:45.320
this is the new NCAA. You
know, we have to be able to

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01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:50.679
recruit these guys. It's you know, thoughts and prayers, we wish you

821
01:02:50.800 --> 01:02:53.920
well come back to us, Kean
Green and White. Those things are different

822
01:02:53.960 --> 01:02:58.480
now, Yeah, hit the like
and subscribe button. Let's pull up the

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01:02:58.519 --> 01:03:01.280
graphic. Let's look at this Spartan
nation right here with Keon Coleman. This

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01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:07.760
is the teams that have contacted him
since he went into portal. But there

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01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:14.800
hasn't been a commitment yet, so
that means there's still a chance. There's

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still a chance. So there's all
Like I said, there's always a chance

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01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:22.199
until you sign on the dotted line, you know what, and you don't?

828
01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:25.639
What can I get the camera on
me? Pete, Oh my god,

829
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I want to say this. I
want to say this. You said

830
01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:35.199
there is always a chance. I, in the heart of hearts, still

831
01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:39.599
believe that Agent zero, Keon Coleman
is going to be rocking the Green and

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01:03:39.679 --> 01:03:44.800
White this year because of the love
Spartan Nation has for m But that love

833
01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:51.800
only goes so far just here,
you know, right, But I truly

834
01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:55.480
truly believe that Keon loves Michigan State. No matter what he does, no

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01:03:55.599 --> 01:03:59.960
matter what decision he chooses to do, he loves Michigan State, his family.

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01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:02.039
We loves Michigan State, all right. I have never I have not

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01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:09.400
I have yet to have the opportunity
to try Mama Coleman's gumbo. I still

838
01:04:09.559 --> 01:04:18.639
want. I still want that damn
gumbo. You gotta come back with that

839
01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:30.480
a loan key for my selfishness,
get that gumbo. Listen, I will

840
01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:34.559
hust at my house in the summertime. We will have a full our broil.

841
01:04:34.679 --> 01:04:39.239
But that gumbo gotta be on deck
too. So look at cows talking

842
01:04:39.239 --> 01:04:46.679
about it's good se see unfinished business. Key. You know, we will

843
01:04:46.719 --> 01:04:50.400
welcome you back. You know there's
a prodigal son chapter. We'll talk about

844
01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:55.519
that another day. But guys,
you know, before before we go,

845
01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:59.559
I want to say this. I
know you guys don't know this. I'm

846
01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:02.760
just throw you guys out there.
I have a special announcement. Next Tuesday

847
01:05:02.920 --> 01:05:15.159
show one of those days, like
I have a big announcement that that is

848
01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:19.480
you know what, it's gonna benefit
our viewers. Okay, it's gonna be

849
01:05:19.599 --> 01:05:24.719
like our viewers. It's something that's
gonna benefit our viewers. That's the only

850
01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:30.440
special announcement. Look, look how
fast he put that up there. Next

851
01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:35.400
Tuesday, a special announcement. This
is part of m s U. The

852
01:05:35.559 --> 01:05:41.280
more, the more yes, the
more people you bring into this, the

853
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:45.360
more people it benefits. If you
care about the people, have them come

854
01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:56.280
in and tune in next Tuesday from
my special special special announcement that now,

855
01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:02.800
because it's not like that versus commercial
college, you see no account and I'm

856
01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:05.559
telling you, I'm telling you,
these people are gonna love it. They're

857
01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:10.360
gonna love this announcement. It is
something, it's something big, it's something

858
01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:16.000
no other show, no other podcast, can ever offer you something like this.

859
01:06:16.559 --> 01:06:21.119
We've done so many things that you
know what they say about you know,

860
01:06:21.239 --> 01:06:26.440
this is part of the MSU,
often imitated, never duplicated. No

861
01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:30.440
other people can can do what we
do at This is part of and now

862
01:06:30.559 --> 01:06:41.840
this is just another another thing on
it that is beneficial to our You've killed

863
01:06:41.920 --> 01:06:45.960
that you talk about the over sell
doesn't do this justice. I mean,

864
01:06:45.239 --> 01:06:50.400
we're expecting reparations for the entire chat, the entire check. It's you know

865
01:06:50.599 --> 01:06:54.000
what, you gotta beat the stuff
that's going on in California one point two

866
01:06:54.039 --> 01:06:58.400
million per per head. And I
will I will have a special outfit on

867
01:06:58.599 --> 01:07:05.440
for this announcement. Okay, yeah, yeah, an Obama or bust.

868
01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:14.159
I mean, like, like,
what is getting this into the heads?

869
01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:23.159
Is this you know what trouble.
It's big trouble. So no, don't

870
01:07:23.159 --> 01:07:28.159
forget about Thursday. Thursday. This
Thursday, we have a special I mean

871
01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:31.480
extremely special Mother's Day gift for you. So we're gonna bring you a show

872
01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:35.440
dedicated to the mothers. All the
mothers, every one of us have one,

873
01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:45.159
you know, you know, boys, repeat, keep it inside me.

874
01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:48.880
Oh boy, it's gonna be that's
gonna be a special show. So

875
01:07:49.119 --> 01:07:53.960
you can do it in Thursday and
then then then that's gonna be very special.

876
01:07:54.239 --> 01:08:04.159
Stress especially has in store. Don't
stress. Otis out to this guy

877
01:08:06.559 --> 01:08:15.239
again. Everyone, how long we
meet prior to doing these you Choo's got

878
01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:18.039
his own script and that's why we
love them. It's okay, you know,

879
01:08:18.279 --> 01:08:20.439
hey, guys, we got to
wrap it up here. I think

880
01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:27.319
that you know, we've thoroughly destroyed
next Tuesday show. But for otis Wiley

881
01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:31.199
and tell you I'm Jason Strayhorn.
Have a good night, God blessed,

882
01:08:31.279 --> 01:08:45.920
and go Green, Go wife.
This is part of m s U as

883
01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:49.399
a combine presentation of play fly Sports
properties in Michigan State Sports Properties. The

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01:08:49.479 --> 01:08:56.319
show is produced by Pete Manez with
additional support from Tony Costella Operations and Social

885
01:08:56.399 --> 01:09:01.680
media support is provided by Alicia Straehorn
with support from Cecily Max Brown on location.

886
01:09:01.880 --> 01:09:06.159
Technical support is provided by a Good
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887
01:09:06.199 --> 01:09:12.520
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888
01:09:12.600 --> 01:09:15.520
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01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:19.520
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890
01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:24.079
Thank you for your support and as
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