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Well, hello, hey everybody.
It is Thursday, March twenty eight,

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twenty and twenty more. Welcome to
the only show about Spartan Dogs hosted by

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Spartan Dogs. This is Sparta MSU. I'm your host Jason Strayhorn along with

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my co host Cedric Suring Irving.
Hey, you're about being a dog.

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I mean you want to learn what
it is, talk to swerve and watch.

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Yes, sir, you know what
I mean. This is your first

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time to the show. We want
to welcome you into the show. If

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this is not, we thank you
for your loyalty. And look, let

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us know where you guys are.
You know, that's one thing that we

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got. We love that. I
know Woody's hanging out there in Hawaii.

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It's beautiful out there. Something in
mind ties and all that. But I

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know there's a lot of folks from
the Great State of Michigan and all over

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Florida, Georgia. That's where we
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look, don't forget the follow us
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this Sparta m at you, but
swerve. Man. I got to the

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Peach State last night, and man, it was good to see you.

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Man oh man. I wish we
could put that pitch that we took.

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Man, somebody say, we look
cute together. Oh that start Barton Dolls.

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Baby, they're look at that hanging
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little cigar, a couple of red
cups with nothing in them, you know,

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a little water. So we did
a job, you know what I

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mean? Yeah, yeah, man, real good seeing you and uh,

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you know, we're planning on some
good things for everybody in the near future,

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maybe around spring game time, so
we can do a little meetup or

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something like that for everybody. That's
something that's in the work, So clear

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your calendars for that. But man, swear we got we're gonna get into

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it today because you know, there's
a lot of championships and good sports going

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on around Michigan State, especially with
this new transfer portal NIL Era. There's

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a lot of stuff going on about
NIL and how it's packed in the game.

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But I'll tell you what. The
NIL group, the collective, this

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is part of MS shoot man,
I mean, they only had you know,

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they sponsored a lot of the guys
hockey. They just won a big

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ten championship. All the message girls
you know, had them on. They're

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doing a phenomenal job Tennis ranked in
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right now, doing a phenomenal job. I mean, it's just it's a

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great thing. We got to highlight
what they do over at Charitable Gift America,

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Tom Leaders and company. They're with
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the podcast there they go right there
for the QR code if you want to

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check it out and just make your
nil gift charitable take this chance to take

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control of the nil contributions where direct
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that this is part of fun powered
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and you know, man, look
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five percent of their their their their
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And we're gonna talk about that today
because we have a special guest on who

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is not only charitab Get to America
the athlete. He's an outstanding leader in

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the community, right fielder, you
know, and for the MSU baseball team.

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And right now we're gonna you know, look at this video that Spartan

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Vision did. They did a phenomenal
job. So roll the video we can

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if you want to be a good
baseball player, you got to strike out

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a lot, and you got to
make a lot of mistakes. When you're

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younger, you don't really lean into
hard things. You got to realize if

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something's hard, it's probably going to
help you. I approach the coaches in

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the fall of my freshman year,
so it was immediate. I was distancing

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myself from everybody. I was not
as involved as I could be. I

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was holding myself back. So I
approach the coaches and I said, like,

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look, I'm just uncomfortable. I
don't know what I'm doing. I

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don't know if I fit in here. I don't know if this team is

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right for me. There was some
talk coming out of high school that he

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might be a pro draft, and
I know he was kicking that around a

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little bit whether he wanted to turn
pro or come to school, and so

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thankfully for us, he came to
Michigan State. But it was a tough

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adjustment period for him. You know, he's got a twin sister who they

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were apart for the first time really
probably in their lives, and so I

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think that was very difficult for him. We talked about the struggles a little

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bit. Freshman year, just kind
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Schools harder, baseball's a lot harder, and sped up. But and then

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COVID happened and we kind of stayed
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something to occur that we could play
baseball. So I played a little bit

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in the summer, got to play
like ten games, and then I hurt

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my shoulder. I got labram surgery, so I was out another like seven

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ish months. When you add COVID
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year and a half off from playing. I honestly got to a point where

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I was like, okay, not
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know, there's other things I'm good
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in this world, I felt like, and I got to a point where

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I didn't know if I really loved
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bit and I kind of helped him
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the same time, I mean,
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through. Play with your head up
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time. I think Coach Boss did
a really good job of reeling me back

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in and just kind of making me
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the only person that's ever gone through
this or felt like this, and it

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just takes time. The more that
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an opportunity to get settled into things
and the culture of our program, the

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culture of the department and the university, the easier it gets. In the

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baseball world, everybody says, you
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in the Hall of Fame, right, And I think it's really indicative of

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just the challenge that is baseball.
It's not about one play or one at

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ad or one pitch. It's really
about consistency over a really long period of

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time. So that's what I've learned
in college is, man, if you

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can show up every day and be
a guy that's gonna be consistent and have

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good at bats and show good effort, Like you don't have to hit three

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home runs every game and win the
game. You got to just be there

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when your teammates expect you to be
there. It's a process and it's definitely

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something you learn to live with and
just the challenges of it. He's got

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a level head about him. He
has a very good understanding of who he

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is, and what he wants,
where he's going and how to get there,

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and very mature kid. That's a
very tough game, a lot of

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failure, and just having him there
as a person just being like, hey,

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it's all right, we'll get him
next time. It's baseball. Today's

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a good chance to being a good
team, beat your first Big ten team,

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and then get rolling for next week. So so have a good day,

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be aggressive in the fall. You
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more of a leadership role and he
has taken it and run with it,

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and I think he's the unquestion leader
on our team, which is, you

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know, an awful lot of fun
to watch, especially if you go back

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to that, you know kid that
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at eighteen years old. I think
with each year I gained a little bit

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of confidence. And I think it
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through just evolving as a young man. It's important to me just because I've

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been there and I've been uncomfortable,
and I think I wanted somebody to do

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that, and now that I'm in
that position, hopefully there's guys that kind

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of recognize, like, oh,
I'm glad Jack's trying to make that effort

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and trying to help me out,
and hopefully, you know, in a

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couple of years from now, they'll
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I'm happy he did that. I'm
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where I wanted, and so I'm
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bit and do what I can.
Jack has helped me on the field in

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a way that where I tend to
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myself and having Jack, who's this
upbeat guy, just at home after a

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game. We're just talking. He's
making me laugh and kind of just forgetting

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about what happened so that the next
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into it with a clear mind.
He will turn it on when he has

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to, and then he will be
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So I think that's a great quality
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job with that stepping up leading.
He's doing amazing. We had a guy

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on the team last year why I
rush you Day one? He said,

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my role as like a fifth year
player is I just want to leave the

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program better than it was at the
beginning. That's kind of the same thing

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that I've taken on and we're in
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to a better place and a better
place. Great video right there, man,

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and swear without further ado, Let's
welcome on Michigan State baseball right fielder

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Jack Frank who joins Hello, Hello, thank you for having me. I

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appreciate it. It's weird watching that
video of yourself. It's a it's a

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weird feeling, but it's a great
video. You know, put a lot

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of work and do it. It
was good now for me, Jack,

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I watched all my videos all the
time, all the time. I just

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love watching me Jack. Well,
I I said to my parents, I

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was like, I don't really even
want to do this. I'm not I

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don't love being on the camera and
stuff. So I said, you know,

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I don't want to do this,
but I think when I'm older,

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I'll appreciate that I did it and
I'll be able to show my family and

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watch it when I'm older. So
really happy, you know how it turned

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out, and got to do it, but it is a little bit weird

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watching yourself and then and then like
I made it like a week ago,

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so I'm like, this is just
a kind of funny feeling, but great.

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They did a great job. Yeah, hey, Jack, I got

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three questions before you started straight because
I saw some things in the video that

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I got to address right right.
For one, you know, the football

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team got coach, you know,
we got new coaches, and I saw

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you still second, so that means
you got a burst, you know what

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I mean. And then I just
saw the catch that you caught it defense.

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I used to make that catch with
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in the air way to my mom, you know what I mean. But

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that showed me you had hand in
our coordination, right, Yes, So

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all I'm saying is, you know, once you finish baseball, you know

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we need you in the slot receiver. Well, we're gonna take care of

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you. That's one, okay.
Number two is you got a little sold

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to you because I saw you dancing
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it wasn't really oh be kind of
dance. My last thing is was that

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a real squirrel in that picture?
No? All right, I'm sorry,

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I'll comment. Well, so the
first one, I was not very good

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at football. I'm a huge football
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so Brown's fan through the good and
the bad, and watching every play of

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the sixteen but so huge fan.
I was never that good for whatever reason.

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I don't know why, but I
have definitely exhausted my eligibility. Fifth

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year here, there is no way
they could find me any more time on

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the college sports avenue, so unfortunately, I wish I could, but I've

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definitely exhausted that. The squirrel is
not real. I sent that in because

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it was a funny thing. And
the story behind it is I had been

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telling our trainer at the time,
who our athletic trainer. I was telling

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him, Yeah, we we kind
of like found this squirrel and we're raising

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it in our dorm, right,
So we made that picture and be like

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photoshopped down there and sent it to
him and he believed it for like a

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little bit. So that's the story
behind it. I was surprised they used

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it. When I watched it.
My roommate texted me and he's like,

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they put that picture with the squirrel
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my gosh, but yeah, I
don't know, it was funny. I

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couldn't believe that, So no,
the story could not believe it came back

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around, but the football Avenue I
got some of the attributes, but for

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whatever reason, it never clicked.
I don't know why. But it too

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big. I mean, you just
like the smaller ones. So I mean

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that rarely throw a football pole.
You got to say poles when you say

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the ball too big poles. I
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so they keep themself. Did no
did no, no Diddy, I just

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no diddy, not no dignity.
Oh my goodness. But you know you

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talked about not, you know,
being comfortable watching yourself here and thinking about

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how it would be for you personally
watching this video in the future when you're

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you know, an older guy and
all that. Like us sitting back,

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you may not want to watch this
on continuous loop like Swerve watches his self.

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But the people out there that see
this message from you and get something

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out of it, because you talk
about a lot of things about being uncomfortable

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in the inner growth that you've experienced, you know, talk about that like

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how that story can impact and is
impacting a lot of athletes and students across

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the country, no matter what sport
there is. Because let me tell you

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something, there's a secret everybody feels
how you felt coming in now. Maybe

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not swerve. But most people feel
that that way, you know, when

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they're transitioning into college, right,
yeah, yeah, I mean I think

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the people that don't feel that way
are you know, the elite of the

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elite and kind of make things things
kind of just tick a little bit different.

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We've had guys on the team that, you know, it didn't bother

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them, But at the end of
the day, I think there's struggles that

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everybody has with college. And whether
you want to admit it or you're willing

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to admit it, or you're just
pretending like it doesn't exist, I think

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it's still there. So I mean
the message to me was honestly and I

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said this and in a couple of
times, I don't think it made in

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the video. But like my story
is not you know, unique really in

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any way. It's not something that
is different than a lot of people's.

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It's just that I'm willing to talk
about it because I feel like, you

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know, I've learned a lot over
the time, and I feel like it

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can help some of the younger guys. So everybody gets to school and that

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you know, they wish their mom
was making them dinner, and they wish

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their mom was doing their laundry and
they don't want to go to class,

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and so you know, that combination
of stuff is challenging in and of itself,

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but I really feel like if you
talk about it, then it might

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be able to help somebody. So
that was the whole point. You know,

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I don't consider myself like some great
leader or somebody who I tell the

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guys all the time, like you
know, I don't know exactly what I'm

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doing, but I'm just trying my
best to help you guys and try to

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help you where I can, because
that's at the end of the day,

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that's all I can do. I
don't know exactly what I'm doing, like

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I said, so it was important
to me that I'm able to share that

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with a lot of people because I
think a lot of guys, and I

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think I definitely men and athletic men
try to ignore, Like you know,

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I don't feel good right now,
I don't feel accepted on this team.

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That's I think that's a thing a
lot of people run away from. So

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I think me being able to say
it, while it's not comfortable, it

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might help somebody. So I just
wanted to get that out there, and

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I'm glad they asked me to do
the story. I was, but I'm

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glad they asked, well our question. I mean, said, you remember

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back, you know when we played
when you guys a transition, you had

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some freshmen that came in with you. They had a tough time dealing with

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it. Some guys couldn't even make
it through the first camp. You know.

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I think one of the things that
Jack has been able to show us

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that it's the perseverance in spite of
facing that challenge, Like what do you

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would you agree? Said? Oh? I told you, I totally agree,

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you know, because you got to
think you're making a big step,

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you know, and especially when you're
making a step and you come in with

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a name. You was the mand
in high school, you know, you

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you was prom king and all those
things. And when you get to college,

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you're in this big campus. Now
you're just a number, you know,

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so sometimes your confidence can can go
down, you know what I mean,

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because you don't know what if you
gotta think you was this big time

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athlete in high school where you just
woke up in the morning you knew you

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was gonna do what you're gonna do. But now I get to college and

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now around the big campus and around
better more and more athletes, and I

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got high expectations of myself. Sometimes
you put so much pressure on yourself that

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you can't perform, you know what
I mean. But I say that to

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those like for me, Jack,
I came in with the right now ready,

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I was superstar soon I stepped on
the field, you know what I

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mean. But it ain't about me
Jack at your time right now. Like

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I said, that is that's like
people that can do that, I applaud

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you. You know, we've had
some guys where you could tell like they're

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not phased by stuff, and I
think that's, you know, the elite

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of the elite, and then people
like me, you got to kind of

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learn how to at least fake it
or learn how to do it better.

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So it's very valuable skill I think. But yeah, I mean, I

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think a lot of people go through
it. I think you know when I

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came in because the one thing that
stood out about a guy like et cetera,

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I was here two year years before
you got here, that Michigan State

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said, and it was your ability
to practice with enthusiasm. And most guys,

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you know, you come out of
high school right in high school you're

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just better than everyone else. You
feel like you're more of a gamer,

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and you realize in college you can't
just be a gamer, you know what

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I mean when you say gamer just
you just kind of go through practice,

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go through the most of the practice, and show up and ball out in

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the games. It doesn't work like
that on this level or beyond. You

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have to practice with high intentions.
And when you when you think about your

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transition from Strongville, Ohio, out
of Cleveland, you know, you had

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a twin sisters. That was something
that I didn't know. You know,

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obviously you have an older brother as
well back at home. You know,

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how was that being away from a
twin for the first time. I do

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think it's funny. My coach mentioned
that. I was surprised when he said

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that. But you know, I
think that's another thing where at the time

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I didn't think it was a big
deal. You know whatever. I'm going

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to college like everybody else. But
I think the thing with my twin sister

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is just it was always somebody right
next to me that knew exactly what I

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was going through. We had,
you know, all the same experiences.

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So at the end of the day, me and her were not like siblings

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where we're arguing and screaming at each
other. Like we were just friends because

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she's she's a little bit of a
tom boy and she's been around boys or

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whole life, so we've always just
been friends. So it was really just

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probably the comfortability of, like,
you know, now it's actually just me

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and I don't have the sidekick,
if you will. That was always there

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and I didn't think it was gonna
be an issue. I was like,

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oh, whatever, she's going to
college. I'm going to college. That's

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just life. But I think at
the end of the day, yeah,

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I mean it was a little bit
different. And you know, now we're

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used to it and we're adults,
but at the time it was a little

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bit different for sure. I think
when you've grown up with somebody the whole

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time and then suddenly you're on your
own, yeah, things change a little

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bit. You know. I'm not
I'll say names that there's been some athletes

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at Michigan State, maybe some on
the football team that showed up with binkies

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comfort blankets in college. So look, so, I mean a twin sister,

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I can understand that. You know, it's a real thing, you

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know, having that comfort, but
you had to also deal with the isolation

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that came with COVID after you got
the campus right, you came in in

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nineteen twenty nineteen, is that yeah, nineteen yep. So my first year

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on campus was that COVID year.
So the fall was completely normal, and

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then the spring was normal up until
whatever it was March. Middle of March.

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Played fifteen games and I just remember
we got called in the locker room.

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It was like, hey, we're
not going to Indiana State this weekend

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whatever. They canceled it because something's
going on in the world. So then

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like two hours later they call us
into the locker room and they say,

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we don't really know why or what's
going on, but the whole season's canceled.

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And it was like, what are
we talking about? And everybody was

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Nobody believed it at first, It's
like, what are you talking about?

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But and I'm not proud to say
this, my freshman year I had just

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I played in the beginning did well
because everybody, you know, you come

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out of the gates and somehow you
just play well and then people figure you

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out a little bit. And I
struggled for like the next five games.

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So when they called the season.
I was legitimately excited. I was like,

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you know what, this is great. I don't have to go,

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you know, struggle in front of
everybody and like fail on this level anymore.

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So I was like, this is
great, and I'm not proud of

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that. Believe me. I felt
terrible about it, you know, looking

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back, But then I saw like
all the all the people around me,

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all the seniors, who well,
I'm not going to play my last season.

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I just went through all the fall
to play and now it's over.

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So guys are crying. Nobody knows
what's going on. It was. It

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was a very very bizarre start to
a college career. I'm not sure anybody's

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gonna have a start to their college
like we did, but bizarre, bizarre

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thing. And I know everybody went
through it in different ways, but it

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was definitely a weird way to start
your college career. And then it just

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put like life on pause, as
you guys all know, for the next

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year. Like I said that in
that video, I end up getting shoulder

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surgery, just kind of on a
fluke thing. And then you know,

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I went almost a year and a
half without playing baseball. So it was

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like I may as well have never
played. At this point, it feels

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like so long ago. So it's
just a weird combination of stuff. But

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at the end of the day,
I think, you know that was That's

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just how it happened, and you
know, you can only can only control

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what you can control, right,
Yeah, that's that's true. I mean

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when you look at being up with
baseball, out of all sports, is

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one of those sports where you really
can't take time off, like when guys

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are you know, angirls are progressing
through their career. That's not typically a

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sport that someone could say, you
know, I, you know, I

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just jumped in as a junior in
high school and started playing. You do

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see that in some football, like
some basketball players may play it late in

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their life and transition and make it
to the Hall of Fame in some cases,

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but baseball is not one of those
because you know, you gotta just

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to the speed or the pitches and
alls things that go along with baseball.

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So for you to be able to
overcome that being off that long, it

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is a huge thing. Now to
baseball. Now, look at where you

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guys are now, I mean,
you just had a dominating performance a couple

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of like last week against Michigan right
Monday, Tuesday ago. It was two

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days ago. Yeah, yeah,
time is flying for me. Sixteen what

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it was? Yeah, and it
should have been a lot It should have

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been a lot worse. I'm gonna
be honest. I don't even think the

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score is indicative of what the game
looked like. If you were there.

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Hold you say indicted we had to
slow it down. Indicative, yes,

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but you know here, good job, go ahead, thank you a good

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job. Now talk about that game, because we all talk, love to

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talk about playing against and especially beating
school down the road. So how was

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that? How'd that feel? Well? I think in baseball, man,

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it's a lot different than like football
and some of these other sports. You

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know, there's so much hype in
football, and you know, one game

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is so much of your season that
it can change everything. And like you

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guys with the rivalries, it's different
in baseball because we play them, we're

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gonna play them another three times.
So it's not like you know, we're

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throwing a party like we we beat
them once, because you play them again

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at the end of the day,
it's only one out of the four times.

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So that game, to me,
in and of itself, is we

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just try to play this same way, our version of baseball every game,

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regardless of if it's you know,
the best team in the country or the

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worst school you've ever played. Like
in baseball, if you and in any

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sport, if you just played the
way that you play, then most times

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you're gonna win. Right. So
it was a combination of things went our

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way. I don't think they really
wanted to be there as much as we

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did, and we kind of just
poured it on them inning after inning after

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inning, and they did not have
their best day, I'll say, But

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honestly, in baseball, that happens. You know, whether you lose by

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ten or fifteen or two, like
to me, you still lost. And

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in baseball that's that's one of the
biggest skills compared to other sports, is

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you know you're gonna play again the
next day. So if you hold on

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to something for too long, then
it can drag you down and it can

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lead into the next game. You
know, football, you got you got

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a couple days to think about it, learn from it, and it's like,

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you know, we played Tuesday,
beat the crap out of Michigan,

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and then we played twenty four hours
later later against Oakland. So you can't

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hold onto stuff very long in baseball, and that's one of the different skills

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for sure. So enjoyed it.
It was fun. We have played Michigan,

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I feel like a million times while
I've been here. So every win's

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good, and every win against Michigan
is a little bit sweeter. But you

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know, we got three more.
So, like people say, job's not

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finished, but at the end of
the day, every baseball game to me

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is just another baseball game. But
you know when we're when we're in the

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parking lot singing the fight song in
ann Arbor, Yeah, that's that's a

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little bit better, I will admit. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

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Look and with that, like so
from personal accolades too, said talked

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about your burse. He talked about
you getting the second base. He saw

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that because right right now you have
You've been moving up the charts for the

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stolen bases in Michigan state history.
Right. Yeah, Apparently that started off

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as like a funny joke on the
team. The team like, oh look

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at that, Jack Frank has moved
into fifty seventh place, a ten way

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tie for fifty seventh place. When
I'm like, I don't know, like

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everybody, everybody apparently has like thirty
something steals or whatever, but honestly,

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I had no idea. I just
kind of there was a time where that

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was like not part of my game
at all. And it's definitely one of

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the little things I learned, because
it's not really as much about the speed.

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It's more about understanding the pictures and
blah blah blah boring baseball stuff,

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but understanding when you can run and
in good situations. But I don't know.

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I try not to pay attention to
that stuff if I get tagged and

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all the tweets and stuff, so
it's not possible to ignore it. But

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it's like, do I really care
that I moved into a fifteen way tie

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in twentieth place. No, it
doesn't really matter. But it is still

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cool because now I I saw Cam
Gibson, which I know who Cam Gibson

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is, so that's cool. I
mean, he's he was a great player,

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got drafted by the Tigers, so
yeah, that's cool. But it

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00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:03.839
started off as a funny joke within
the team, like congrats man, twenty

411
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fifth place, twenty fifth place.
Now, before before we let you go

412
00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:15.359
here, we got to talk about
your your charitable giving, because you know,

413
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obviously charitable get to America, this
is part of the collective. As

414
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you contract is one of their athletes
for nil and with them you give a

415
00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:29.880
five percent give back to a chairboll
organization of your choice. Who have you

416
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.880
chosen not to give to? And
why? Yeah, so I chose.

417
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.039
I chose a charity called Family Nurturing
Center. So a little bit of the

418
00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:42.240
backstory behind that is I actually,
unlike most baseball players, I had an

419
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:48.119
internship in the summer at an insurance
company and we kind of had this you

420
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.839
know, intern project of trying to
fundraise for a local charity, and we

421
00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:57.200
stumbled onto this one, and ultimately
we got to go to the facility and

422
00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:03.400
tour it and meet the people who
actually run the facility. So just being

423
00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:07.200
there and trying to learn, you
know, what is their mission and they're

424
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you know, they're a charity that
supports children and families in general that have

425
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.359
been subject to abuse. So the
thing that really stood out to me was,

426
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:19.160
you know, none of this is
like court mandated. It's I want

427
00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:22.599
to have a better relationship with my
kid, or I want to be better

428
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:29.079
at how I express my emotions,
So people that really just wanted to have

429
00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:33.079
better family relationships and nobody's making them
go and nobody's doing this or that.

430
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.039
So that was really interesting to me
and cool to me. And then hearing

431
00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:41.200
from the people that set up the
programs and believe in what they're doing and

432
00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:48.319
spend their whole life trying to make
a better relationship in people's families. I

433
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.400
just thought it was a great opportunity
and it was something that I had first

434
00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:55.640
hand experience with. I know,
a lot of times, you know Red

435
00:30:55.680 --> 00:31:00.160
Cross and all these huge organizations,
I don't know anything specifically or anybody specifically

436
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.880
in those organizations. So this was
something that was close to me, close

437
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.880
to my heart. I had actually
been there and seen it. So I

438
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.799
felt really good being able to give
back a little bit. I didn't when

439
00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:14.720
they called me about the nil thing, I was like, nil, But

440
00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:21.240
you know, I'm on the baseball
team, right So at the end of

441
00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:26.119
the day, Yeah, so that's
what it was. Yeah, most people

442
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:30.160
don't do internships during the summer,
and it's something I had to work out

443
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.960
with my coaches. But part of
that thing with COVID was, you know,

444
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.480
I had to learn to prepare myself
for after baseball, because you know,

445
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.160
I'm not going to play baseball forever, and I think that's a hard

446
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.799
thing that you got to realize at
some point. So, like I said,

447
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.680
when they asked me about nil,
I was like nil. I mean,

448
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.599
yeah, I'd love to help out
and do it anyway I can,

449
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:55.799
but I'm like, do you have
the right phone number? So now it

450
00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:57.920
was it was a great opportunity.
Tom has been a you know, a

451
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:01.759
great person to learn from and just
be around, and I'm so happy you

452
00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:07.279
gave me that opportunity. But I
think the unique part of them having us

453
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.160
donate back is a It's a great
thing and just a great lesson for all

454
00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:15.279
athletes because I think a lot of
athletes are going to be really successful and

455
00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:17.279
if you can kind of ingrain that
into us now, I think it's going

456
00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:22.359
to be really natural when we've all
kind of moved through our careers and we're

457
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.279
able to give back a little bit
more. I think this is a great

458
00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:30.599
starting point. It's a beautiful thing. Man. You know, really do

459
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:35.039
like the mission that you know,
obviously Cheldabill get the America does, but

460
00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:39.759
then people like you being ambassadors for
them mimss you as a whole. This

461
00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:43.720
a phenomenal thing. Man. I'll
tell you what you know. You've talked

462
00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:46.960
a little bit about how to build
culture. I think that your example,

463
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:52.160
your daily example, is what culture
is all about at Michigan State and how

464
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.559
to build a great organization, be
it on the field or off the field.

465
00:32:55.599 --> 00:33:00.160
Sowere, what do you think about
his ability to be a leader in

466
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:06.039
this great United States of America in
the future here so now see you in

467
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:09.359
the giving move Jack. I saw
the terse shoes you guys had on the

468
00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:14.319
side thirteen, and I need a
fitted hat. I'm gonna seeing my addres.

469
00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:20.799
It looked like that that picture you
guys took yesterday. That looked like

470
00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:22.799
a baseball hat? Was it?
Not right? That's old? That's old.

471
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:32.200
Okay, time sign the inside of
okay, just sign the inside one

472
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:40.599
given move man. You know,
Mabe pleasure talking to you, man.

473
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:45.759
I'm a fan. Now I'm gonna
watch baseball, please now watching baseball because

474
00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:49.279
of Jack Man. I appreciate it. Thank you, Thank you man.

475
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.839
Definitely we appreciate you coming on the
show. Jack. Don't be a stranger

476
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:55.599
man, and we'll be watching this
season as you move up the charts now,

477
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.480
you know, knocking fifty seventh place, you're gonna be the top right

478
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:04.039
right. Thank you guys. I
appreciate it. It's a lot of fun,

479
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:07.519
really good time being on here.
I appreciate you guys. Thank you

480
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:10.719
all right, man, appreciate it, Jack Many and man she baseball.

481
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:15.199
And I'll tell you what now that
that's a phenomenal young man right there.

482
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:19.360
Great story, yeah, great story. And I mean it's a testament to

483
00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:22.239
a lot of kids out there that
are looking at that maybe that haven't even

484
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:24.239
you know, gotten to the college
level. But this is something now with

485
00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:30.000
the media of this social media and
you know, being on YouTube forever and

486
00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:34.360
all these videos so people can always
drive back to that the mental health aspect,

487
00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:37.400
which is a very hot topic right
now. This is what you gotta

488
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.320
do now. Everybody's not like swerve. You know, you can't in I

489
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:44.079
ain't gonna lie now you you y'all, I don't know how you did it,

490
00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:45.880
but man, you you had a
different mental makeup from a lot of

491
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:50.519
people. How did you do that? It's funny straight because I was gonna

492
00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:54.360
say, you know, we we
had a teammate that I feel like we

493
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:58.960
didn't know anything about mental health back
then. I know I did. You

494
00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:01.280
know now looking back, as you
know, we had an athlete, I

495
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:07.360
mean, a teammate, former brother
who eventually had some mental health issues,

496
00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:09.639
you know. You know what I'm
saying. And I look back at it

497
00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:15.400
now, being being older, saying
like, how could someone could have grabbed

498
00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:21.719
him earlier? Because we saw examples? You know, you you probably more

499
00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:25.280
closer than than you met him before
me, but you saw examples throughout this

500
00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:29.519
career in college, you know what
I'm saying. So I want to know,

501
00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:37.679
like, how could you grab someone
early to really control those mental habits?

502
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:39.920
You know what I'm saying, Because
at the end of the day,

503
00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:45.840
it's all about towrsur and decisions in
life. But how do we help those

504
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:51.960
who we feel like got mental health
problems make better tors and decisions? Yes?

505
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:58.119
Yeah, you know because like like
like Jack said, you know,

506
00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:00.760
you come in being a being an
appleman all this. You don't want to

507
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:04.719
say you got issues and you got
problems, you know what I mean?

508
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:09.480
And then a lot of time coaches
don't make theirself available to for you to

509
00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:13.280
talk to them. Some players feel
like they can't talk to some coaches about

510
00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:15.400
certain things, you know what I'm
saying. And then do you have the

511
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:21.480
courage do you have the courage to
talk to someone your age about your problem

512
00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:22.840
of what you're going through? You
know what I'm saying. I think that

513
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:27.039
take a lot, man, And
I think all that build up to having

514
00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:30.079
mental health problem because you got to
get it out. You got to you

515
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:34.760
absolutely do. And that's one thing
that you see now across the country,

516
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:39.840
they have these areas outside the training
room where they're bringing in professionals that are

517
00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:44.360
there and you can set appointments with
them. Uh so you can talk,

518
00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:47.000
you know, and kind of work
through some issues because as you said,

519
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:52.159
you can't keep that stuff bottled in
and it isn't taboo. It shouldn't be

520
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:57.159
taboo for anybody that is struggling,
because I think everybody has a little of

521
00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:59.400
that self doubt. I mean,
I don't know, Swerve, I mean

522
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:01.719
when you know, when when the
music stops from everything, I don't know,

523
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:06.280
when you was running around on campus, running running through everybody on the

524
00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:09.519
practice field and scoring four touchdowns against
doing your first game, I mean,

525
00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:17.280
was there a little doubt somewhere?
Little no, no, look at what

526
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:22.280
being in the marriage for ten years
and having two kids. Boy, I

527
00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:27.000
got a whole lot of doubt.
I needs it, hits you. It

528
00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:31.840
finally caught up to you. Right, I need to tell Jesus I lock

529
00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:37.840
anybody. I need some help man, right, you know we'll speaking of

530
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:42.880
football, man. We gotta do
a little spring football update in a second

531
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:49.639
here after these messages from our friends
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532
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535
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and centhim in difference for dollar.
That's man, Hey, they keeping America

536
00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:13.239
fat? An'thing? Well, we
finished this. I'm going over there for

537
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:17.880
a dollar. You gotta keep it
in that budget. You know, we

538
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:22.480
don't learn that, man. But
look, word on the street, Michigan

539
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:27.199
State football. There's a little update
for you guys. So we've been putting

540
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:30.039
our air to the street and understanding
what's going on in practice. Michigan State

541
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:35.679
is entering the fifth practice. They
had it today on Thursday here, but

542
00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:39.880
one thing that stood out to everybody, is that line back of room.

543
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:44.599
Uh? They said this is probably
one of the best linebacker rooms where they've

544
00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:50.000
seen ever, maybe ever at Michigan
State. You got cal Halladay, Darius

545
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:55.480
Snow and then the newcoming Jordan hall
but the addition of Wayne Matthews, the

546
00:38:55.519 --> 00:39:00.079
third out of Old Dominion, and
Jordan Turner from Whenisconsin. They said they

547
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:06.119
turned a lot a head to practice. Hey, that's where I started in

548
00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:12.440
practice. Yeah. If you got
a good linebacker room and they making plays,

549
00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:16.440
that's telling us we got good guys
up front too. M H.

550
00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:22.320
Linebackers only make plays that you dumbing
it up front, That's right, you

551
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:27.800
know what I mean. So if
linebacker's running around and running sideline the sideline

552
00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:30.559
and getting tackled for loss, that
mean them big guys up up front doing

553
00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:36.119
their job. And that's a good
thing to have. I mean to talk

554
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:39.480
about the guys up front. You
got Chris Bogeo back, Simon Barrow.

555
00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:44.840
Now that look, I can't believe
he's still got elptibility now, you know

556
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:47.000
because of that, I love the
chance. So I would love to be

557
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:51.880
a linebacker behind that. And you
know, don't don't mention Jalen Thompson,

558
00:39:52.280 --> 00:40:01.199
Ken Tally and Big Derek Harmon.
Hey, man, swear you might want

559
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:09.079
to say running back. Hey,
the guys Morgane, they walked into a

560
00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:12.599
good situation. They can put it
all together, you know what I mean?

561
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:15.679
Well, they really did, they
really really did. I'm excited to

562
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:20.159
see what that defense especially is gonna
be able to do. You talked about

563
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:23.480
a defensive lineman. The newcomer on
the defense has been turned ahead as Quinn

564
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:30.920
Darius Dunning, Dunning getting You know, this is a guy that he menaged

565
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:35.840
what sixty four two seventy, but
they say his wingspan is like a guy

566
00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:37.920
that's over seven foot. So,
I mean, look, you know we

567
00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:40.960
got long arms. Man. As
an offensive lineman, it's hard. It's

568
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:45.679
hard to control a guy if you
can't get to his body. Yeap,

569
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:47.719
yes, sir, we need it. We need it, baby, we

570
00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:53.559
need it, We need it.
I can't wait till the twinter to see

571
00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:58.599
those guys before him. Man,
oh man, you know we got that.

572
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.480
And then now nobody wants to talk
about number two and number two were

573
00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:07.239
talking about Aiden Childs. So the
good the feedback that we're hearing all Aiden,

574
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:10.400
it's like, you know, the
one thing that that may not sound

575
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:14.960
like a big deal, which is
a huge deal. And you know this

576
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:20.440
being in the huddle is his command
of the huddle and the offense. His

577
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:24.039
cadence is pro like. And he's
saying you can hear him his cadence across

578
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:28.760
the street, you know. So
he's in the huddle. Man, there's

579
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:31.679
nothing worse on the quarterback that you
can't hear in the huddle, right,

580
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:38.480
And what that means is he's speaking
with confidence and that and that can be

581
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:44.119
contagious in that huddle too. You
know, if your quarterback speaking with confidence

582
00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:46.800
and he walking with confidence and he
playing with confidence, that can trigger down

583
00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:51.239
to everyone else. And I was
reading about him, you know, coming

584
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.480
over here with the coach. That's
big too. And now you don't have

585
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:55.960
to learn the new offense. You
already know the offense. You just got

586
00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:00.000
to go out and perform and like
you've been there before and so far in

587
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:04.280
the spring, that's what he's been
doing, that's right. I mean,

588
00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:07.039
you got him. He came over
from Oregon State and he brought a tight

589
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:10.760
end Jack Belling. I mean that
guy. You know, this is the

590
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:15.159
offense that is Taylor made. They're
gonna have a lot of packages, but

591
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:20.280
they're gonna have personnel at twelve and
you know sometimes thirteen where they're gonna have

592
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:24.159
three tight ends in the game.
He's a guy that they said is catching

593
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:29.119
everything. He understands the offense.
He's very comfortable. And look at the

594
00:42:29.159 --> 00:42:32.480
positions that came over. You know, you got a quarterback who knows the

595
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:38.800
offense, a tight end that's locked
in already, and I believe they had

596
00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:45.480
an offensive lineman. I think the
position is a center man. You know,

597
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:51.719
the center came over here, Tanner
Miller. He came over from Valencia,

598
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:53.320
California. He came over from Oregon
State too, and they said,

599
00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:58.599
you know, he's not the biggest
guy, but in those positions, center,

600
00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:00.000
quarterback, and then you had one
of the guys in the you know,

601
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:02.760
it's a tight end, it's not
a receiver. But they can be

602
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:07.599
coaches on the field, right They
can tell the other guys like, hey,

603
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:08.920
this is how this is what this
play is supposed to look like.

604
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:13.719
You know, because coaches coach in
a certain way, but sometimes some players

605
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:17.239
needed to be translated in their land
so they understand it a little better.

606
00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:22.480
So that's always a positive. Hans
Worth Oh, it's the plus. It's

607
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.360
the plus best. You know,
you gotta think when you have a center

608
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:30.119
that knows the offense, he's the
quarterback as well. He got to make

609
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:32.679
the line call, he got to
call out to Mike, he got to

610
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:37.119
talk down the line this way that
way. So he's a quarterback too.

611
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:40.039
And if he can get those guys
on one accord and don't have to think,

612
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:45.320
why you play, go out there
and make plays, baby, that's

613
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what it's all about, man.
I mean, we are very excited to

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see you know, the first scrimmage
is going to be coming up here in

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a couple of days. You know, that's something that you know typically is

616
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closed to the media, but you
know, we ain't media. Man.

617
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We're a little different than that,
you know. I mean we can get

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in there, you know, tell
us going on and give people, you

619
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know, shoot them straight. That's
what we're looking at and what we see

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from this new team, and there's
gonna be a lot of positivity coming their

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way because they have the athletes.
And I don't know, man, if

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Jonathan Smith you see him, he
just looks like a guy that can draw

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up something in the sand man and
it'll blow you away. So big ten

624
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beware of what Jonathan Smith and company
gonna bring. Come with the ex's and

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o's on Saturdays in the fall.
Swear On Tuesday, Man, we're gonna

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bring one a friend of the program, Corey Robinson from two four to seven

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Sports, will join us on Tuesday. He gives a big insight on the

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recruiting process and what's going on with
the Chansfer Portal. A lot of buzz

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happening there all over the country of
people that are getting ready to get in

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there. That portal opens up right
before spring ends here on April fifteenth is

631
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when the portal opens, and obviously
what's going on on the inner workings because

632
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he he's not just connected to the
coaching staff for the players, but he

633
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talks to the parents and the uncles
and everybody else. So you get real

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from Corey Robinson. He'll join us
on Tuesday, and we're gonna have some

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more special guests. Man. We
just keep him coming. And look,

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I can't wait until we get back
to that swear before we roll out of

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here. Man again, I can't
believe it was great seeing you last night.

638
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We're gonna after we get done with
this visit, we probably gonna come

639
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back and do it again tonight.
But we got to plan some stuff here

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for the spring game. Right.
Hey, what I'm hoping straight that this

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is my picture and walk with me
now, because I can't run like I

642
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used to, got bad the three
surge, but still go a lot of

643
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touchdown. I would love to come
back for the spring game, right and

644
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we do interviews with people who talk
about the history, asks them who their

645
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favorite running back or what the favorite
jersey you ever had growing up for their

646
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favorite center of all time? You
know, sit there, do do do

647
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a show? Or do somebody watched
the spring game? And after the spring

648
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game go around the corner sellership with
the fans and alumnies and the student bodies

649
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and some of the players just have
a good old part time and that can

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happen. I beached myself and wake
up and I have a hell of a

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trip to these lands. Oh man, we gotta make that happen. What

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do y'all think about that? Do
you want swerve astraight to come up there

653
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and do exactly walk what said through
that? That sounds like a good time

654
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to me, that sounds a great
time. I'm not making up a good

655
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time for them all for a good
time. I think they might know,

656
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but they don't really know. So
we gotta get yeah, we gotta give

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them to say it the Swerve experience. All right, man, great show

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today, we're gonna get out of
here. Man for Cedric Irving, I'm

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Jason Stranghard. This is part of
him. As you, everybody, have

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a good night, God bless you, and go