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The following is a presentation of play
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Well, hello and good evening.
It is Tuesday, August first,

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two thousand and twenty three. Welcome
to the only show about Spartan Dogs hosted

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by Spartan Dogs. This is Sparta
Mso I'm your host, Jason Straighthorn.

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I played back and the proless of
saving Eras as a center and team captain.

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I could not do this without my
two dogs and the fight headed off

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by the boss oldest wiley, hard
hitting ball hawking safety. Both of these

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guys played back into John l and
the Dantonio Eras and ju Choo Choo culcrit

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running back and running people over and
scoring just you know, twenty one tutties

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for one season, single season touchdown
record holder from Michigan State. And if

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about. There's a lot going on. We got a jam packed show today.

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Pat, you know, be sure
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We need to know where you're calling
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happening. But guys, look happened
the Spartan dog Kind this past weekend.

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It was a phenomenal event. Was
there old us, you know, a

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whole lot. You know, Holdis
was there in spirit. But look,

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hey, we this organization organizing these
these events. He had he don't He

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had family. A happy wife.
Happy family affords us the opportunity to do

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these things more. So you go, you take care of that because I

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know in twenty nine days when that
season, you might not see me on

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the show again, because you know
how it is when it comes down and

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just right that season, the head
scratching is gonna go. The fast walking

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is gonna happen. Like what you
say, all right, cool, all

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right, yeah, that's what just
say. You know, Oh, it's

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like you have to see you have
to catch him. Whenever you wanted to

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ask a favor, I was like, and I see he's in a good

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mood. That's when I man,
what what kind of moved you in?

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Look at it? Well now and
I just see I'll be like, no,

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he caught on. He caught on
near the end of the season.

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I was like, oh, what
kind of mood. No, But it

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was good to see a lot of
those former dogs on campus, the future

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dogs on campus. It was a
great event, wasn't it you It absolutely

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was. It was a really good
event. I don't think, you know,

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like we talk about it and I
know where you know, former players,

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and you know, people might think
there's some type of bias you know,

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behind that, but there's not an
event like this in a country where

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the past, the present, and
the future all come together. Um.

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It was an absolutely tremendous Eventum.
Great time, good food, good drinks,

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good company. Um, and just
you know, having an opportunity even

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from the from the golf outing to
you know that Shadows event where they unveiled

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the new uniforms there, Uh,
just all around great event. That's true.

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You remember that ODIs that's a complete
your circles coach D'Antonio. Yeah,

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so, um, I mean look
that Dash Shadows event was outstanding, was

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phenomenal. You know, Darren Harris, Uh, you know, kind of

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was the MC there. You had
Alan Haller or athletic director there, and

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obviously head coach Mel Tucker put on
the event with some of the current players

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that model the uniforms. Guys.
You know, I know there's been a

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lot of talk about the uniforms.
You can see them right here. You

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said, Cal Halliday in the traditional
green and whites. JD. De Plaine

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in all greens with that old line
slag you got tragged with that, that

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cobo that black and then man Strop
the Stormtrooper looked that was a consensus.

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Those two on the right were like
what everybody loved the most. What do

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you guys think? Yes, I
think everything looks better in black, so

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especially especially when you got ut the
green the green elements in there, and

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then you have the you know,
paying respects to homage to like shadows and

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the university the university element tie in. Like I feel like there's not that

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very few schools that truly take in
consideration the history of Michigan State in these

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these union uniforms and so celebrating a
hundred in Spartan Stadium, I do have

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to give a shout off to others
that don't get the shine. They should

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deserve that organize this and behind the
scenes, and you know it's almost rotting

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the names off. You know,
you had the Rhonda Birley, Megan Holgan

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from the Marketing fan Engaging team,
Nick Baker and his team for Spartan Vision,

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Andrew Kopaki, which you know,
I know for a fact probably in

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a week or so, Too's gonna
be up in there, Scarveragen from the

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Total I already gave him the warning, warning, the warning at that event.

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Three XS Readier. Who else?
We got Cody Cox, we have

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Sarah Skilling, like just all the
people that showed up to support. You

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know, a lot of our partners
had an opportunity to tie in and come

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in there, a lot of the
former dogs, the recruits and their families.

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Like the pictures. I didn't have
to be there. I can see

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the vibe of just the pictures like
before everyone came in, like the rally

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towels, and you know, I'm
wearing the little you know, arm risk

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that's what do you call this arm
band? Risk band that has the thigh

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shadows and like the Greek lettering.
It's a whole whole event only can be

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happening when you have people behind the
scenes doing this, so, you know,

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shout out to those teammates that got
everything done so that everyone looks good

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in the football on the event standpoint, I just have to get that off

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off the chest. There no,
absolutely, and I think all those people,

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you know, it's a great opportunity
to give them a shout out because,

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like you said, sometimes they do
go unnoticed. But you know,

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definitely a lot of the hard work
behind the scenes to make this happen.

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And uh, when we were driving
to Indie for Big ten media day,

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we these you know, these uniforms
were leaked and I looked at them.

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I was like, eh, I
don't like them. I wish I wish

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I got them on a video.
But you see it with the pads.

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Well, when you see it,
you see the cuff sleeves, you see

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it, the whole get up,
it's like, damn, these are nice.

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Uh you know, so now you
know damn. But you know,

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hopefully the old parable like Coach Prime
would say, you look good, you

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feel good, you feel good,
you play good, you play good.

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They pay good. So hopefully we're
because we're looking good, we're feeling good.

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Now hopefully we play good. Yeah, yeah, a man, absolutely,

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And we had a chance to catch
up with some of the our faithful

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listeners that were at the event as
well, people like Kat was at the

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event. It saw you know,
Steve Smith, you know, always is

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a pleasure to see him, Sean
Taylor, he was there Time Story or

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he was there, a lot of
people. Harriet Oh, she was the

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ring leader out there. Yeah.
It was so good to catch up with

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a lot of the people who we
see, you know, we chat with

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in the in the in the in
the chat group, you know, that's

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where the party is at the live
chat, but to spend time with them

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at that event and then over at
the graduate, No, that was a

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treat for everybody because he can see
shoot you in his element, I mean,

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shoot you hey. He was hey, you know, I'm just waiting

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something like hidden. We couldn't put
this, we could not air shoot you

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And I know I'm getting those videos
from other people. Cow taking videos was

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there, you know, and so
we had a good good time. It

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was a great event. It was
a really good time. You know,

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my favorite you know, you know, obviously going to that Shadows event was

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good, but you know, hanging
out with this is Sparta fam you know

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at the Graduate Hotel. Shout out
to Langston and the crew at the Graduate

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Hotel, you know, going there
and uh you know seeing that, you

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know, being us with our family, with our this is Sparta fam.

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You know that was something else,
a really cool experience. Um, you

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know, and it was a beautiful
night. The rooftop bar was rocking.

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Um, you know, so it
was uh Steve smith Steve Smiths was feeling

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good. He was feeling real good. You can't forget the crazy mans,

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you lady. It was Mary Lou
Moore. She was in the house.

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Yeah, yeah, we've seen you
there. Yes, it was a great

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time and a lot of pictures on
Coach Tuck. He was in the in

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the crowd, just hanging out taking
pictures, talking to people. You know,

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you had all the like the current
players there as well. And um,

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I can't even that blew me away. There's a coming sense from Landa

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said, it's two is worse than
goose. You don't have you loose shirt

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right, sir, apparel coming soon. We we know we know how to

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have fun. We know how to
have fun. This is part of hard

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play, hard baby, and this
is part of FAM. When we connect,

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it's like Captain Planner, when your
powers combined, we have a good

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time. What you get this is
all the time. This is actually a

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tame version of us if you have
been around us so in those in those

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settings. But it was awesome,
great to see everybody at that event.

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But you're talking about dogs. There
was one that wasn't at the bit,

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Trey Waynes. But look, we
got notification that he dropped a five hundred

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thousand dollars gift to MSU. Man. Listen, this is one of those

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where I feel like we should have
celebrated this way more because from a former

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football standpoint, you know, straight
you were in the room, we were

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talking and sitting down with Flozell and
we were working on that north end zone

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gift, and you know, it's
it's very huge for a former player who

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obviously gets to that level where Trey
was at then to truly come back and

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we talked about complete our circles.
You know, he has a quote was

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like everything happened happened to me in
my life because of Michigan State, right,

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I wouldn't be where I'm at and
so forth. This is where you

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look at from the standpoint of a
former player committing investing back into the program

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where you know, we have you
know, we have dogs and we have

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former players to just ride the wave
and too they go into the susset,

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but they won't reach in the pockets
to invest. And this is the investment

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that you know. It's truly,
truly commendable for Trey and knowing that he

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did hang up the cleats and then
he has you know, turned the leaf

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in chapter into what he's doing today. I can't wait to get him on

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the on the show and hopefully we
can do on those marsh On lynches and

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go into the woods and uh chapter
absolutely absolutely, so congratulations on that.

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Absolutely. I mean where's he's in
Montana building a ranch, a massive ranch

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out there, Montena. Is he
back at home like in Wisconsin, Montena

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my antenna, Yeah, he's out
there. Uh talked to Darien about him

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and one of our old Baysmore is
that his name? Baysmore is another big

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director out there. Yeah, yeah, he's in He's in Montana as well.

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So look, you know two brothers
in Montana. I said, y'all

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gotta know each other, you gotta
hang out. It's a lot of laying

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in between them. But look,
straight before I cut your yea before cal

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is trying to give me some brief
from cow. I talked to your wife

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at though you never this time you
try to use to not go help do

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bad time and put the kids to
bad. Get your hats up there and

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put the kids to bad. Cow. That's from that's straight from your wife.

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Oh damn, okay, shots fired
again. Be careful out here.

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You does not let things slide,
y'all. He don't let you. If

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you come for me, you better
kill me. Oh I got you too.

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He's like, all right, I
got you, Yeah, all right.

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Back to some highlight reels here because
we got to talk about these hops.

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Broke Cohen car new Fish State basketball
player just came to look at this.

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Let's show this video looks just just
just gently touch the man. He

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can go hire And from I heard
and uh and seeing him in person,

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you know he's he's slim and trim, but he got he got some muscle

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on him, and he's already as
a freshman. Um. I think I

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met him when they got dropped off
and you know, arrival on campus and

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I'm talking to the coach is a
you know, you got the little top

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deck where he got a like it's
like Lloyd Carr bo Chef Blecker, a

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little outside their little thing, you
know, they step out here to see

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practice. And so he kind of
came in and uh, he was talking.

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He did coach, Coach. I
was like, yeah, man,

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like, this guy looks thinks he
could play play football. He's like,

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yeah, coach, you know I
could play some my receiver now. And

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I was he said it was so
much confidence, I mean, jumping like

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that. Man like, this dude
is a pure athlete. It's gonna be

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a highlight reel above the rim.
And I'm also I'm also thinking, is

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he gonna be a better dunker than
Mouth Bridges and Shannon Brown was a beastie

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dunker like Jason Richardson. So like
half some solid dunkers in our time,

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you're throwing out some name this man. This man can do it in through

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the legs. I mean, just
just natural. He every highlight I saw

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in high school. I told you
about this. It's dun dun, dune.

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I ain't see a jumper. And
so we're gonna look at that and

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see how he truly brings in that
excitement with the freshman squad we got coming

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here m hm. Incredible exciting times. Man, you know he got the

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football season coming up and then basketball. Who man, it's gonna be something

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that Breslin Center when you see electrifying
athletic dunks like that. Man, I

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mean, we're excited for Cohen Card
what he can do. Moving on the

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football, he's still you know,
hey, Look but David Stone report is

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how he announces when his commitment will
be. Look it looks like August twenty

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six the commitment date for David Stone
and IMG defense five star defensive liment.

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Listen our logos not even on the
bottom. Look how look at the organ

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as Spartans in that corner he came
and see us put it back up,

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Tony. See Look look it kind
of faded into the back like we fade

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into Spartan helmet. I want to
believe that I could put all my eggs

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in the basket with with David Stone. I would love for him to come

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to Michigan State. It would turn
us all the way up, But I

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just don't have a confidence based off
of all the stuff back and forth.

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Um. I hope chooses to come
on this side. But all I can

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do is pray. That's all.
I can do. That's that's it,

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And amen said amen to that.
Look, look you ain't I'll talk about

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him when he's here, right,
I like that, you go, seine?

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Would Freddy say about those who ain't
with us? Right? Hey,

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have a sip to that road,
Jack, But it's still play. We

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got about twenty five days until that
announcement comes. We'll see what happens.

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But then we got to recruiting.
Last night at midnight was the beginning of

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the full contact period for the twenty
twenty five class. Guys, Like it

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just doesn't stop. You know,
I can't help but think about the coaches,

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like how are they doing this?
You got to recruit guys and the

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twenty four class hard as hell.
Now you got the twenty five. And

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then oh, by the way,
they have camp opening up tomorrow. So

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it's it's it's those are the twenty
hour days that everybody talks about. Because

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I'm gonna tell you, man,
from our personal experience, my son Kaden

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down at IMG and I was on
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I mean they just started inundating the
phone calls, dms and Twitter mail

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showed up at the house today like
handwritten notes like you wouldn't believe. And

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that's that's for the twenty twenty five
class guys. Yeah, that's the thing.

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And then you know you said it
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you know, you're you're not sending
it out emails that you can time when

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you send it out. These coaches
have to be up to do this stuff

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there. So it's just the recruiting
games totally changed a lot. There's so

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much that goes into it. And
like you said, straight they have camp

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starting tomorrow, you know, so
they have to worry about this, you

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know, figure out this when we're
okay, we have day one installed.

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We got to get the mindset right
for a camp. Start on the right

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note. But oh yeah, we
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well. So it goes a lot
into coaching. So and also too for

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these kids that are getting recruited it
sometimes it can be overwhelming the fact that

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all these coaches are coming at them
and these are fifteen sixteen year old kids.

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You know, they're taking all this
stuff, so it's overwhelming on both

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sides, and you know they have
to find a nice balance for it.

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Hey, those are great points because
I feel like if you're smart enough,

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if you don't want to be bothered, it's almost like they're gonna force you

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to commit to one and it still
gonna stop. Usually it was like you

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commit, there was some respect factor
of coaches, like you know what,

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that's your guy. We're gonna respect
that. Right. Like, there's no

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there's none of that anymore, right, So you gotta constantly once they commit,

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you still got to build a full
security wall around them to make sure

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that they're not flipping or going this
way that way. But to your point,

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like I don't mean kids can't really
enjoy high school man, because like

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they're getting blown up left right,
where like it's almost forcing you to say,

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you know what, I'm going to
control the narrative on my own future.

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I'm gonna make my decision this date, stick with it. Uh.

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I will feel these calls or text
whatever they are in the case may be

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when I get to them. But
like they need to focus on still producing

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because I feel like if you don't
produce, then all that heat and all

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that that that uh attention is gonna
come off of you. So I don't

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know, this is a different ball
game. Like anstitute, I feel like

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well, we'll struggle if we were
playing coming out of high school in the

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standpoint right right? Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, because if if it's

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a catch twenty two, because if
you don't continue to call the kids and

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show them the love, they'll flip
because you know, somebody else is.

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It's it's incredible. You see a
lot of commitments like who is it?

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Auburn just flipped to Georgia and Alabama
commit. So the guys that we have

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in the you know right now committed
to Michigan State, you have to continue

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to pay attention to them or you
know, you run the risk of them

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being poached by somebody else. It's
a crazy time that we live in right

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now. Guys, it is,
And I understand what you're saying. You

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gotta make the main keep the main
thing, the main thing. If you

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stop training and you stop focusing on
the task at head, which is being

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the best person you can be,
best student athletes you can be and be

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where you're feed are at all,
hell can break loose. So look,

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always keep the main thing happy.
Got to right? I mean, can

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we talk a real quick about like
recruiting integrity, Like you know, there's

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different tactics of you know, I'm
going to call you to I'm gonna call

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Stray and I'm going to you're committed
to Michigan State. I'm gonna call you

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from another school. I'm a bash
Michigan State to get you to think about

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like, is there is there some
shadow of doubt right? Like and I

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feel like that integrity of like,
don't bash another person's program, talk about

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how your program can do things for
you. But there's all of that chatter,

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and hey, you can't win,
you can't go to the next level

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going to Michigan State. Look,
you will be spotted anywhere from any scout

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wherever you go. But from the
standpoint there's a lack of that integrity.

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From a recruiting standpoint of them,
I'm not going to push this school down

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just to get a recruit. But
then it does that say about your program

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from an integrity standpoint. So I
just had to talk about percent right,

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one hundred percent right. It's the
same narrative if you have to if you

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have to talk shit on another man, who lift yourself up? That means

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you ain't shit yourself. You know, that's exactly so um you know,

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And but there are schools that do
that you know, a kid that's a

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sixteen, seventeen, eighteen year old
kid that's made that choice, sat with

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his family, weighed out the pro
and the cons, and then to have

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a grown man coming and saying,
oh, you're not going to be successful

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there, You're only going to have
success here. What does that say about

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Drew School? Are you saying that
you're not Your athletic ability is going to

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be different if you go to this
school, then if it is here,

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that's what it's saying there. So
that's the tough, tough part about recruiting,

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and at the end of the day, we have to realize that these

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are kids, easily influenced, kids
who sit with their families, you know,

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trying to make the best decisions,
and a coach that's powerful comes and

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talks to you. I'll say,
I'm going to change your life and this,

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that and other. No, your
talents, your athletic abilities that got

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you there, and your family is
going to be the one that takes you

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to wherever you want to go.
Are Those are excellent points And you know

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that was a big point of emphasis
before, guys, when you had negative

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recruiting and you know, some of
that stuff came back to bite certain coaches

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who are negatively recruiting a school against
the school who they then wanted to interview

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for a job for so that you
heard a lot of stories about that.

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But in today's world, you know, what you know, you used to

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be, relationships used to be,
you know, talk about your school.

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But what they do now they come
in with that bag bag again. It

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has changed the landscape. I've talked
to so many coaches that are friends that

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you know, not just you know
that are in the recruit of my kids,

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but just that relationships don't matter as
much anymore because you know, if

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somebody offers X, and you know
the team that he's committed to is offering,

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why they're going, they're going for
them. Some of these numbers are

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difficult to turn down, to say
the leaves. So that's that's where we

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are right now. That's why there's
a big focus on trying to get transparency

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with NIL because the collectives are I
mean some of them have you know,

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they have war chest twenty five million
dollars. Some of these guys have you

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know, and some schools like you
know or down in the three to four

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to five million dollars range, so
look, with a roster of eighty five

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scholarship players, man, I mean, you know, with no real rules

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right now, we are literally in
the wild ball West as far as that's

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concerned right now, and we don't
know there's legislation on the table that they're

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talking about, but we have a
ways to go before that becomes law.

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And guys, we'll see what happens
one thing real quick. I know we

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got to move on to the next
topic. But stray like Otis and I

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are not in this position right now, you and your family in this position

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where you have, you know,
coaches coming at you and doing the recruiting

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and all these different things, Like
what would you say, you know from

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you know, someone that's played the
game. You know, you're in the

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game on the day to day and
now you're on the recruiting side of things

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and you've seen all the tactics and
everything like that, what would you say

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to, um, you know,
another family you know that's keeping how much

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money? How much money's gonna make
you not played twice? I mean we'll

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look at what would I say to
another fan will how much money? Every

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Look, let's be real, everybody
has a number. I don't get what

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who you are in this one that
you can say it and all that.

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Oh, there's no amount of money, but there there there is, you

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know, but the numbers that I
hear thrown around, like, look you

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have everybody's situation. Everybody's financial picture
is different, you know, being a

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former player myself, we we value
other things. We do a value education,

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we do value development, mental conditioning. Um, we value like the

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body, Like how kind of kind
of rest and recovery do you have?

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What kind of nutrition programs do you
have? All those things? Depth chart

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that matters. You know, you're
just not gonna go chase money and then

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next thing you know, you're you're
number five on the depth chart. You

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know as a as a quarterback,
right, guys aren't gonna do that.

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So you know they want to be
able to be in position to actually contribute

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to a team and know that they're
developed. Um, is there an opportunity

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for you to really like has has
the position code? Put guys into the

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NFL? If that's what your dream
is. If you want to be a

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chemist, can I make it to
fighter being a chemist? At this school?

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Do you have? Can you show
me that path? So everybody has

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their own formulas for success. So
I would just you know, be mindful

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of that when I talk to dads, and I do do a lot of

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that. I do speak to a
lot of dads and try to help them

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through the process as much you can, because you know, yeah, I'm

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always gonna, you know, try
to lean green. But you gonna have

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to also, you know, the
main thing the maintain the real green,

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like green and white and green green
Well Kirk Well, Kirk Frankman song,

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Kurt Freakman song at Silver and Gold. I'd rather have Jesus. That's unlimited,

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brother, But money, right,
that's unlimited. So look, guys,

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look, we gotta keep it moving, man, we gotta get to

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what's up? Good? Thank y'all. The number one DV in the

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at follow up quest. All right, go ahead, man, good lighting,

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good background, good sound, everything. How you doing that? I

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don't bless, can't go playing at
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Yeah, it was good to see
you this weekend. Yeah, go

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ahead, go ahead, go oh
yeah, look, I hate I have

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to miss it, you know,
but I know you've been around often.

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I saw you in springball. You
know, you came back and he was

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giving some love back to the young, the young Jets, the young dB

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ease and um, I remember you
told me? Who did you tell me

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that was was was nice out there
that we could expect in that BB secondary

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who so really, you know,
I spent the whole spleen there. So

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some guy who I really liked,
Tatum dealing Tatum Man he chopping out to

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out the tape just especially we haven't
key on the NFL receiver. In my

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eyes, he'll play on Sundays.
Uh keep uh him to go out there

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in battle Kian like he did.
Uh. You know he's still a young

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dog. So uh really really a
lot of upside that he got. Man,

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you got so really all the dbs
I really like, uh like Lowry

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got a really good feat like can't
really can't really teach like certain things that

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he got, like just natural ability
you got Caleb. Uh you know that

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Georgia Wood he did. Uh he
gotta burst. He gotta burst, and

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he finished through his tackles and stuff
as well. So uh, man,

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it's it's it's a it's a man's
Uh. You got some good ones.

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And I think let's always talking to
a lot of the guys at the Smart

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Dog Like I mean obviously we kind
of we you know, we had a

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great year. A lot of things
feeling feeling played uh that year, but

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people don't understand, like what was
together for a long time, Like you

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God, you look at that that
secondary me Curtis Isaiah who was out in

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00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:12.480
the same recruiting class, so like
was who was there for a minute,

409
00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:15.960
like we you know what I'm saying, we experienced a lot, we grew

410
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.599
up, we got to grow up
a lot earlier as well, and that

411
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.640
you know, that helped us.
So like with these guys, like they

412
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.359
were talented it and then we was
for sure. I would say, Uh,

413
00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:29.920
they just gotta you know, believe
in themselves and put the work in.

414
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.400
So back to Dylan there, you
know you were there and you know

415
00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:38.200
he's played some safety from corner,
and what do you think his best spot

416
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:45.160
is? I mean, I'm not
I can't really, I can't really tell

417
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:51.400
you that because I'm not necessarily in
the coaching you know, uh philosophy or

418
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.480
in their room, so I don't
really know how they're being coaching, how

419
00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:59.200
they're being told, So I don't
necessarily see his best capabilities. All I

420
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:04.119
seem at and I just know mentally, mentally, physically and he can play

421
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:10.000
it like at a at a high
level. So I can't really say if

422
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.519
he is he is he can he
play safety? I'm I'm pretty sure you

423
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:15.880
can. If you can play corner, you you know it's uh, you

424
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:21.720
can play safety usually if you can
tackle and you're smart. Uh, But

425
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:23.799
you know, those are two different
positions as well, a lot of corners

426
00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:29.839
can't play safety, So you're saying
corners some more athletic than safeties. I

427
00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:38.799
mean, here you go, said, yeah, I got that sideline as

428
00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:44.920
your best friend. Yeah, said
yeah, it depends on who you.

429
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:48.599
You know, some guys that walking
this earth they just and he's like,

430
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:56.319
and you that guy, right,
you that guy you're talking to. Hey,

431
00:31:57.400 --> 00:32:00.480
let's talk. Let's let's go back. Let's go back, let's go

432
00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:06.000
back. Dry Brands, Georgia story. The story. The story was told

433
00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:12.279
that you was playing against Keith mufphrey
as they was looking at Keith and you

434
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.480
was out there locking Keith now,
and it was like, who's this cat?

435
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:21.559
Right? Like talking about that time, like the initiation of Michian State

436
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:24.799
introduction while you was in there in
Georgia, Dry Branch, Georgia. Oh

437
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:30.200
yeah, so shout out that's the
crib at home. I always fail shout

438
00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:35.200
out to Yet County. You know. Uh So what happened was, at

439
00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:38.920
the time, I didn't have any
scholarships. So Keith was already committed to

440
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.079
Michigan State. So they were like
they, you know, he was already

441
00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:47.000
allowed to go and we was getting
ready to go into the playoffs and Keith

442
00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:57.039
was you know, it was Keith
senior night. Actually they came to you

443
00:32:57.079 --> 00:33:04.759
know to support them and who can't
who came, I don't really remember.

444
00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:07.039
It was about four. It was
about four people. I want to I

445
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:15.680
want to say coach Warner. Uh, I'm not sure. I'm not sure

446
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:20.680
the other two coaches was maybe it
was Enos. It was like three or

447
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:22.559
four coaches that it came. It
was a bunch of coaches that came because

448
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:27.599
like in the pre game, ain't
in the pre game like it's funny like

449
00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:35.160
now, um, because so what
people don't know is Keith usually followed me

450
00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:39.160
like I was the receiver. I
didn't play dB, so just for like

451
00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:44.960
you know, Keith was the guy. It was like the challenge uh my

452
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:49.200
coach had for me, like uh
that my senior year. So I end

453
00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:52.240
up had to to follow Keith that
game, which you know, I guess

454
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:58.759
that opened up. But you know
some odds as well, so like uh,

455
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.759
by us following each other the whole
game, it wasn't you know what

456
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:06.279
was gonna have to see each other
in battle. But like before the game,

457
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.440
like the pre game, there is
out there like on pre game,

458
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:15.199
you know, and I'm you know, kind of like barking. I'm doing

459
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:19.519
a lot of barking. Now,
I'm like, y'all go y'all. You

460
00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:22.000
know, y'all came to see a
show. I'm gonna get y'all win.

461
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:28.480
And you know, end up having
a pretty good game. Uh uh I

462
00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:32.800
did. On the way home,
my coach shout out to Coach Copeland.

463
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.920
Uh. Were running back on the
way home, and he, you know,

464
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.519
he on the phone. He turned
around, look at the back of

465
00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:43.559
the boy. He's like, yeah, man, just got the phone.

466
00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:45.480
Michigan State. They say, they
go highlight you. I'm like, bro,

467
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:51.840
get out of here. Don't believe
him. And then you know,

468
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:54.440
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, come in. I go in,

469
00:34:54.679 --> 00:35:00.119
you know, to the building and
Coach Warner and Coach d sitting in the

470
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:07.920
office. So that's how out.
And then at the time, I don't

471
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:14.360
have you know, I have zero
scholarships. I don't I don't even football.

472
00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:17.599
And then you know, I'm not
going to play football, Like I'm

473
00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:22.639
not about to go to Julian College. Uh. You know, I'm kind

474
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:27.119
of looking at other options at the
moment. So uh, yeah, man,

475
00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:30.400
God is a great man. I'm
just like, what what are you

476
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:37.039
thinking? I actually couldn't hair I
wanted to say. I mean, I

477
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:43.519
thought it was easy. You know. Yeah, you get to do your

478
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:46.320
job. You pay you for your
service. You don't really got to talk

479
00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:52.719
too much. Man. You know, dude, you got in and out

480
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:55.519
the chair when you did you cut
hair? In high school? Did you

481
00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:59.039
cut your teammate chair? Did you? Yeah? We don't want to talk

482
00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:07.320
about that. What he was out
there giving three point line when people to

483
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:12.639
start, you know started, you
know, yeah, you know I had

484
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:17.159
a practice on that a little bit, but football I ended up being a

485
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:28.440
little better for me. Said that
No, no hairline zone so so so

486
00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:32.440
so quit so you had you were
a receiver really before you ended up playing

487
00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:36.039
against Keith and you followed him the
whole game. He played defensive back.

488
00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:38.480
You know, what was it that
did you that you felt? When wasn't

489
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:43.119
you knew that I'm gonna be a
better defensive back than a receiver? What

490
00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:51.440
was it? The funny thing is
probably the first my first my first game

491
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:57.599
my senior season, I got hit. Who probably heard is that I ever

492
00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:00.480
got here? Uh? When I
realized I was like, yeah, if

493
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:06.920
I'm gonna go play ball, I
gotta go to other side. Like it's

494
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:12.519
better to deliver than yes, Lord, it ain't gonna work out, Kay,

495
00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:15.400
Shaun Simmons. I never forget buddy
named you had to kill me.

496
00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:23.400
Yeah, that is rough. It
was. But he changed the course of

497
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:27.519
history for you and put you on
the other side of the ball where you

498
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:34.039
you know, he made a little
money, man, I mean everything having

499
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:40.800
for a reason that pain brought you
to joy exactly. Gonna look at some

500
00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:47.119
highlights here you playing while we were
talking. Hey, I looked like ninety

501
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:52.039
six. Hey man, look I
think I was. I was here and

502
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:57.519
I came to you, Why you
ain't crib this? And after all that,

503
00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:06.039
you didn't crib this? Yeah he
did. They called They called a

504
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:10.159
flag right then. They Yeah we
lost that game too, did we?

505
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:16.840
We lost? It was there was
twenty toyo season. Uh we lost.

506
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:21.119
It was seven and six day year. He lost with five games total,

507
00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:24.239
like toyl points or something, right, right, Uh yeah, they kind

508
00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:29.599
of like you know, rolled into
like that Rose Boy year. It was

509
00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:34.400
a good team. We just you
know how it is so mean. I

510
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.639
remember almost got banned from the radio
pair because we were Me and George were

511
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:43.480
real hot with that call, because
that that was a total bullshit call to

512
00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:50.280
Adam someone just tell you got with
you. They their game, man the

513
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:54.400
game and they stelf even like,
well, I end up getting a plass

514
00:38:54.440 --> 00:39:00.440
interference like right before probably like two
players, it's probably two or three plays

515
00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:06.360
before to throw in the corner end
zone too in the slot. It was

516
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:09.920
on Mitchell, uh to lose it. But I end up getting a PI

517
00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:16.400
like a couple of plays before.
It was a you know, it's crazy.

518
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:22.639
It's crazy because there happened my junior
year. They're going to my senior

519
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:25.480
year. The stuff that happened at
uh, you know, not to day

520
00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:32.639
it was it I was it was
easy. It kind of easier to eat

521
00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:37.079
and be able to prepare moving forward, just because you know, being in

522
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:42.400
that situation prior. So like that
twenty twelve season, they kind of taught

523
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:46.480
us a lot of lessons. Uh. I will say, even though you

524
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:52.119
know a lot of games came down
to the wire and flag here flat there.

525
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:54.559
You know, couple plays here and
there could have changed. You know,

526
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:59.400
that's easy. Could have easily been
twelve and two, easy to be

527
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:05.039
thirteen. You know, want like
you know, so it's uh inches,

528
00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:12.280
that's that coach steal right, yeah, that Notre Dame, that Notre Dame

529
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:15.280
game, go ahead, yeah,
no, yeah, so about that Norre

530
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:19.880
Dame game there and uh even uh
coach D'Antonio I think we I you know,

531
00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.639
talking to him, and he said, after that Norre Dame game,

532
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:27.920
he called the Big ten and said, hey, these refs just cost a

533
00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:30.760
team a bit in the national title, you know because you know of those

534
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:38.159
passing difference. How frustrating was that
Notre Dame game? Uh, super first

535
00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:43.559
grade steal first game to the day. Just because sorry, sorry declares,

536
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:46.599
we're bringing up those probably past moment. People want to people want to hear

537
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:54.320
you want to get rid of but
I feel you like, I feel that's

538
00:40:54.320 --> 00:41:00.760
the way right there for just because
for me anyway, don't I don't want

539
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:05.599
to if anybody kind of remember that
season like it was kind of national championship

540
00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:07.639
for me. Uh, that's all
all I used to talk about it,

541
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:13.599
you know, just because it was
it was at whole places and there would

542
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:15.639
always like it set up for us. We talked about we talked about the

543
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:19.320
Rose Bowl, the National Championship.
Just so happened to be in the Rose

544
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:23.920
Bowl, So like there was like
all my focus, so like going to

545
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:29.440
know the Dame who just was what
the year before, they a couple of

546
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:31.519
years before the year before they were
just in the national championship, like they

547
00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:38.239
playing a team that been there before. Uh, and you know, just

548
00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:44.679
to have it not have anything to
do with the game. Uh, just

549
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:47.000
you know, things out of control. Who were being coached to you know,

550
00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:52.559
you can't really be you know what
I mean, coach any better uh

551
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.679
in those situations to play the ball
or to play the uh you know,

552
00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:00.280
the receivers as a defender. So
to be to uh yeah, man,

553
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:07.039
that's thirteen to win is crazy because
to me, I feel like we were

554
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.960
the one and that easily uh because
we was able to match up and be

555
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:17.760
able to compete so with anybody of
that nature. So yeah, it's uh

556
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:27.960
that was tough. But okay,
so moving forward and uh orchestrating um what

557
00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:32.000
what people call um the no fly
zone? All right, you know that's

558
00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:37.360
a you know, just guys that
are you know, playing in that secondary

559
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:43.000
and playing damn good football. Where
was where did the origin of the no

560
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:47.480
fly zone come from? Uh?
So this all came like staying from the

561
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:55.400
twenty twelve season. Uh So at
the time, I mean like marketing classes.

562
00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:02.599
Uh so, me and Curtis actually
roommates. Uh so mea, Me,

563
00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:08.559
Curtis and Keith was our roommates.
And then but Isaiah my line like

564
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:13.760
all of us like stayed down the
street from each other. So um a

565
00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:15.679
little bit. I don't watch TV, you know, I watch cartoons.

566
00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:20.480
Uh And I just don't happen to
sit down. This is kind of at

567
00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:23.719
the time this ended up my junior
year kind of like decided if I'm gonna

568
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:29.320
leave or I'm gonna go, I
mean leave, I'm gonna stay for my

569
00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:34.400
senior season. Uh and we kind
of like you know, talking through that

570
00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:40.400
process, uh and watching the College
Football Awards. Uh Jonathan Banks win the

571
00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:45.239
award. And at the time,
I'm kind of like I watched who I

572
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.719
watch. I don't really know nobody
else other than people who I play.

573
00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:52.920
Uh So I'm like, who is
Jonathan Banks? I ain't never heard of

574
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:55.760
Jonathan Banks? Like, go look
at this span. I'm like, oh,

575
00:43:55.800 --> 00:44:00.800
I could do that, Like he
just wanted I can, Like I

576
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:04.760
could do that. So I end
up standing my senior year and I was

577
00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:07.159
like, all right, I got
to find a way to you know,

578
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:12.639
for us to get notoraded. We've
been a top you know five defense every

579
00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:15.519
year I've been here, and we
still people still like don't give us our

580
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:21.960
respect. H So end up you
know, coming up with the no fly

581
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:28.199
zone. Uh still a little bit
about that as well. Uh So made

582
00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:30.719
up the no FLI zone. End
up talking that like Curtis and everybody about

583
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:37.519
it, uh and end up going
to the Big ten like interview thing and

584
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:44.519
this when you know, uh,
technically I announced like all right, we

585
00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:49.599
for now we're gonna be known as
the no fly zone. Blah blah blah.

586
00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:52.239
You know kind of we popped out
pop you know, we taught out,

587
00:44:52.400 --> 00:45:00.239
We taught our ish and they were
kind of you know later and they

588
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:06.480
laid like the foundation really from there. You know, once you why don't

589
00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:08.920
you say certain things? You got
to be able to back up everything you

590
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:16.920
say. So like for for then, I knew like the capabilities that everybody

591
00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:21.679
had in the locker room. So
it was up to us to you know,

592
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:25.800
hold each other accountable. Uh Like
we had a great group of seniors

593
00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.880
and you know the younger guys will
they was you know, they was motible,

594
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:35.320
they listened. You know, they
trust us just because we you know,

595
00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:38.360
been in that fire. And so
that's how the no fly zone end

596
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:43.519
up coming, end up making like
some shirts, like end up doing a

597
00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:46.320
whole bunch of thing during training campus
stuff, and they kind of laid on,

598
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:53.079
you know, into the season and
yeah, it went crazy. How

599
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:58.039
to Coach D and them embraced the
no fly zone. Uh, I see,

600
00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:02.119
you know, was Coach D my
guy? Like that's like, that's

601
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:07.559
that's my that's my dog. So
like I feel like we got a different

602
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:12.000
Coach D than you know what I'm
saying, y'all. Yeah, I definitely

603
00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:16.199
did so Like I used to have
to tell like Coach D like I gotta

604
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:20.360
like, you know, look good. I gotta you know, that made

605
00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:22.480
me feel good, coach, I'm
gonna be able to play. And you

606
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:25.679
know, it kind of been like
that since my first year, so he'll

607
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:30.760
kind of you know, give me
a little more leeway and talk. And

608
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.920
then going into my senior ye know, we really just like bunded, uh

609
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:39.760
you know, me and Coach D. And it kind of ended up you

610
00:46:39.800 --> 00:46:45.519
know and end up being like a
player led team and you know, like

611
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:50.199
coach d big on that the seniors
having you know, their best years and

612
00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:53.440
that's what we did, and everybody
was, you know, all in it

613
00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:58.440
was. It was crazy. So
coach d gotta you know, hein't really

614
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:01.880
ain't had no pressure for he had
like you know, we had some dogs

615
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.840
and all the dog control where they
supposed to control, and you know,

616
00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:14.719
forgot what do you used to say, like keeping in the cage like age,

617
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:22.280
like keep line in the cage until
you know in the arena and we

618
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:24.920
we you know, it was a
happy balance. It was a happy balance

619
00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:31.119
so that I don't know he figured
it out quit So you tell him you

620
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:35.039
saw Jonathan Banks when the Jim Thorpe
you said, I can do that.

621
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:39.159
And then you went to dicting media
days and said, hey, no flies

622
00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:44.519
on what kind of work went into
that, like the behind the scenes work

623
00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:50.039
with the rest of the defensive secondary
to get to that level. H man.

624
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:52.639
We it was a long dage,
but it was so The cool thing

625
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:59.000
about it was like it was it
was already built into it. So like

626
00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:02.760
especially in the morning, like we'll
on Wednesdays or Sundays, we'll have to

627
00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:08.079
wake up super early to go just
meet and watch firm and then we'll do

628
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:14.599
certain things like together, like all
of us would just be together at the

629
00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:19.599
house playing monopoly anyway. So it
was like, okay, let's take fifteen

630
00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:22.159
twenty minutes just to knock out some
firm. Hey, what stuff that you

631
00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:27.760
don't understanding these coverages? All right, we're gonna play it this way.

632
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.559
If we see it this way,
we're gonna play it this way. And

633
00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:34.400
then a lot of stuff. You
know, if everybody looking at the same

634
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:40.039
lenses and everybody like communicating at the
same level and understanding. Man, that's

635
00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:46.599
that's essentially where we like every it
was a bun and when you when you

636
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:51.320
was it, where are you supposed
to be? We let each other to

637
00:48:51.400 --> 00:48:58.239
know. So that was from workouts
to like your daily living to like you

638
00:48:58.280 --> 00:49:02.519
know, you know, making sure
everybody was eating, like just the little

639
00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:07.239
stuff that the like just we just
spent time with each other. We watched

640
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:10.639
family together, we worked out,
We pushed each other every day when we

641
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:15.239
got in the weight room or I
don't feel anytime it was any like competitive,

642
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:21.960
Like it was like had those Monopoly
games didn't finish because how competitive it

643
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:24.840
got, and they would you know, they were made us. They were

644
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:30.559
made us good. Excuse me,
they were made us great. Say that,

645
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:37.320
listener. I mean as a dB
like senior year top ten Jim Thorpe,

646
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:38.440
And I was like, to your
point, Dirk was I was.

647
00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:43.400
I was trying to chase that thing
with every fiber of my being dog because

648
00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:46.000
that's what that's what you want,
right, you want to leave a legacy.

649
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:51.199
And and uh, you know you
did it with a fashion of grit

650
00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:54.199
and just grow and just grinded it
out. Man. I think the one

651
00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:59.800
thing is when we knew what you
got, stepped off the bus like it

652
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.000
no matter who you're facing it,
no matter who they had on their side.

653
00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:06.000
We knew that we had our dogs, and we was coming after the

654
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:10.039
quarterback and we was getting after the
receivers. I feel like that defense also

655
00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:16.519
took that press control band a man
like by storm, where then, like

656
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:21.559
you guys kind of set that mode
of now, coach, be like,

657
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:24.599
this is the DBS. We wan't
moving forward right like people that are gonna

658
00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:29.440
punch you in the mouth, stick
with you pound for pound, speed up

659
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:34.039
and down the field. Seeing our
current last season, you know, and

660
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:38.119
seeing the kind of the woes and
struggles the defense a secondary had, you

661
00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:42.320
know, what was your mindset as
you watch from Afar, because I know

662
00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:45.360
you watched just probably us and how
we were working. And you know,

663
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:51.920
you can see coverages, you can
see Brounch breaking before they see them,

664
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:54.000
and it's played that you feel like
you can make right now in your mind.

665
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:58.039
But like, tell us about like
what you saw last season and then

666
00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:01.639
also what you expect to see the
uh So, what I saw last season

667
00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:10.679
was just the young inexperience. They
playing a lot of times, they playing

668
00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:15.159
by theirselves. Uh And what I
mean by that is they act like they

669
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:17.280
on the ones on the field,
like even though it is one one coverages

670
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:22.400
or even though certain coverages, you
you do have some kind of whether that's

671
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:28.199
body presidents or you know, you
have a middlefield safety hips over top as

672
00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:31.159
well. So like just different things
like that. Not that's you know,

673
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:38.239
kind of comes with experience, kind
of comes with knowing the defense. Uh,

674
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:44.480
knowing like you know, basically what's
your roles and responsibilities in this defense.

675
00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:46.679
What we saw, what the plays
that we're supposed to make and with

676
00:51:46.760 --> 00:51:52.199
the plays like the defense gives up. Uh So, like that's what I've

677
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:57.159
seen from Afar. Uh. Just
you know a lot of but you know

678
00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:01.599
they're young. Kind of happens when
you know young injuries like having X.

679
00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:08.760
You know X was a huge uh
part of that defense last year and you

680
00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:14.679
know him being hurt majority the year
that you know that that's that's that's tough.

681
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:20.719
Uh having somebody with that experience and
that communication. Uh. And so

682
00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:24.880
for me from Afar, that's what
I have seen so in this year.

683
00:52:25.679 --> 00:52:31.800
Uh, just them settling down and
trusting each other. I think that's the

684
00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:36.440
what I'm looking for. That's the
next step that they got to make.

685
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:39.679
Understanding like you got the team,
Uh, just do your job, do

686
00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:43.840
your one eleven. You're doing.
Your one eleven is more than enough.

687
00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:49.719
Uh. So like just understanding that
and just you know, playing don't don't

688
00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:57.519
play superhero ball. M man.
That's good. Yeah, that's the coach

689
00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:05.519
deisms right there, wisdom man to
the goal. You gotta you gotta you

690
00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:12.440
know. So that's true. That's
true. So looking at today's game,

691
00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:15.360
right, you know, you see
how it's changed so much. Right you

692
00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:17.800
see you hear about n I M. You hear about the transfer portal,

693
00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:22.519
and there's a big emphasis on stars
and all these things. So you are

694
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:27.719
a guy coming out of Georgia Versus
didn't have a lot offers before Michi Sate

695
00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:30.440
saw you ding up one of their
guys. Uh, you were I think

696
00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:34.480
two stars. What they said you
were two star coming out of high school?

697
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:38.280
I was a zero star? Was
zero? Yeah, it was zero

698
00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:45.400
star. They gave me two stars
at that side. Oh so all day,

699
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:53.000
right, so zero start the first
round? You know you you absolutely

700
00:53:53.039 --> 00:54:00.280
that that embodies like the President,
enduring and overcoming obstacles. Uh, what

701
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:01.800
do you what is a message right
now? Would you would say to a

702
00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:07.760
young guy who's sitting there in America
somewhere that's a zero star that doesn't have

703
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:12.360
offers? So what does it take
mentally to be able to make it through?

704
00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:17.920
And what I tell a kid who's
sitting what I tell a kid who's

705
00:54:17.920 --> 00:54:22.599
sitting in the same situation, I
will just stay down. I think that's

706
00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:27.599
the best on where everybody no offers. Just do everything which you can control.

707
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:30.639
U. That's your airport, that's
your attitude, that's your energy,

708
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:37.559
and just you know, continue to
put forward and whatever your dreams is and

709
00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:44.360
understand you good enough to play this
game. They will find you like they

710
00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:49.480
will find you no matter where you
know, where you go a bit school,

711
00:54:49.480 --> 00:54:53.960
small school, HBCU, D one
and D two, n aia juco.

712
00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:58.800
Everybody you know had a step of
stone. But if you're good enough

713
00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:05.079
to to play at a level,
especially now, because it's like you said,

714
00:55:05.119 --> 00:55:09.199
it's it's two sides to the NIA
in a transfer portal, could get

715
00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:15.599
some guys opportunities. Uh And obviously
you know I was a Boroke college student,

716
00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:20.679
so the money is good for them
too. But you know, stay

717
00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:25.400
down, wory hard, and you
know understand cream always rises. Uh yeah,

718
00:55:25.599 --> 00:55:31.480
just control what you control absolutely.
Um yeah. So with that quse,

719
00:55:31.559 --> 00:55:37.280
you know, you talk about being
a guy that was gonna be cutting

720
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:40.400
hair. You said zero star.
You know, your thought you're gonna be

721
00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:45.199
cutting hair. And then you get
as opportunity. You know, you go

722
00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:50.039
to Michigan State, you ball out, you know, and then you're going

723
00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:52.519
you're going to the league. You're
the twenty fourth overall pick. You know,

724
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:55.239
what was that? What was that
moment like not only for you but

725
00:55:55.360 --> 00:56:00.760
your family? What was that moment? Like? Uh man, life changing?

726
00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:07.159
Uh. I still just remember the
day I got drafted for real,

727
00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:12.519
just even like that process. Uh, just like those those two days like

728
00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:16.639
the day before and the day Uh
that was a you know, I felt

729
00:56:16.679 --> 00:56:23.280
like a week. Uh and just
the process just seeing everybody who you know

730
00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:29.280
I had, you know, some
kind of run into uh you know,

731
00:56:29.679 --> 00:56:34.559
and I'm now I come from a
big family, huge family. My grandparents.

732
00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:39.280
Uh like my grandmother got like fifteen
business sisters. My granddad got five

733
00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:46.840
siblings and silf you know, my
dad I had this his uh family as

734
00:56:46.880 --> 00:56:52.079
well. So like and just the
whole community helped me be the person I

735
00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:55.280
am the day. Uh and for
me to be able to you know,

736
00:56:55.400 --> 00:57:00.719
go to have hours. Uh not
only accomplished the things that I did on

737
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:05.599
the football field, I was able
to graduate. I was the first in

738
00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:09.079
my family to graduate. Uh awesome. Uh so my b being the first

739
00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:14.320
to graduate, I also motivated my
younger sisters to go to you know schools,

740
00:57:14.360 --> 00:57:19.000
and my younger cousins to go to
school. So just the things uh

741
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:22.280
that this, you know, the
game of football with Michigan State, uh,

742
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:27.440
you know, providing me just a
small town kid, just having an

743
00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:32.480
opportunity uh to you know, leave
my dreams, massimize my dreams. Uh.

744
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:37.320
Still you know, waking up and
doing that today. Uh, it's

745
00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:40.719
a blessing in itself and then changed
my life and my family life, uh

746
00:57:42.119 --> 00:57:49.760
forever. So I'm grateful. Look
at that Braxton Milli in the sessional put

747
00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:54.320
it right there on you on que
baby. Um, you know, let's

748
00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:59.960
let's talk everybody. Don't understand the
quality of man that we were able to

749
00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:04.800
to be led by and coach Coach
D'Antonio. Right, like we got Coach

750
00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:08.840
d from the fresh one where he
had to be he had to flip and

751
00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:14.320
turn the tide and we got Yeah, he had to be strict and like

752
00:58:14.960 --> 00:58:19.199
y'all been bandits and y'all got to
get in line in order. Like so

753
00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:22.920
we had that, but we also
start to see the side of like him

754
00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:28.119
him as a husband, as a
father, and you know, just talk

755
00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:30.599
about the time with him and still
to this day, like we could pick

756
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:34.440
up right where we left off when
we see him, or we can make

757
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.480
a car or text and he's still
accessible, and just talk about that that

758
00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:44.360
quality relationship knowing you where where you
ways away from Georgia coming to East Lanton

759
00:58:44.519 --> 00:58:49.119
right, completely totally different, um
standpoint, but just talk about that quality

760
00:58:49.159 --> 00:58:55.280
relationship with Coach d Man. Coach
d Man's man. It's my pops for

761
00:58:55.360 --> 00:59:02.599
real, uh genuine dude. Yeah, who you know, it's funny just

762
00:59:02.840 --> 00:59:07.280
before I live to go to Michigan
State. Like, first of all,

763
00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:12.559
my grandma, right, she really
didn't want me to play football. I

764
00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:15.400
got drafted and she still like,
oh I still don't want you to play

765
00:59:17.719 --> 00:59:24.840
signbouts, right, he even't care
about the money. A little type person

766
00:59:24.920 --> 00:59:30.519
she was, but she I mean, coach d came in and got her

767
00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:36.400
comfortable and you know, and that
meant a lot for me. That made

768
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:40.320
me comfortable, uh for in itself, that just shows what kind of you

769
00:59:40.360 --> 00:59:45.400
know individual this person was. And
just like you know, things that he

770
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:52.679
did to show, you know,
not as a football player. Then you

771
00:59:52.719 --> 00:59:57.480
know, I don't really want to
say he didn't care for us so about

772
00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:00.639
football players, because obviously that's his
job, that what he's supposed to do,

773
01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:07.519
but just the things he did as
for us as men, uh and

774
01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:09.679
the things that like bro like he
you know, he made us the ed

775
01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:15.639
could classes bro like like eat you
know what I'm saying, Like because he

776
01:00:15.639 --> 01:00:22.119
didn't like us and how it was
eating before a game. You know,

777
01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:24.159
you know, just the just the
things you do and you don't even think

778
01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:29.760
about it at the moment, like
in that time period. But like me

779
01:00:29.880 --> 01:00:34.599
being adult now me you know what
I'm saying, understanding like man, wow,

780
01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:37.760
like I understand why the things that
he did. Uh. And you

781
01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:40.599
know to this day, like he
still calling check up from me. You

782
01:00:40.760 --> 01:00:45.679
just golf. Uh he didn't kind
of like food me at like he wasn't

783
01:00:45.880 --> 01:00:51.480
a good golf player. But you
feel, Yeah, I knew. I

784
01:00:51.519 --> 01:00:55.639
knew when I saw him coming with
that comfort one arm sleeve on that look

785
01:00:55.679 --> 01:01:04.000
out. He's sneaky, but it's
those the bread fires man. Yeah,

786
01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:08.480
he got it before bread fire stole
all the people of money. Here we

787
01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:16.440
go again. Coach D level Man, super grateful form, taught me a

788
01:01:16.440 --> 01:01:21.519
lot, taught me how to how
I want to you know, be for

789
01:01:21.639 --> 01:01:25.239
my kids and you know, for
my family and how you know, operating

790
01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:30.199
business today. Uh Man gave me
a lot of a lot of twos in

791
01:01:30.280 --> 01:01:36.559
my in my two two chests.
Absolutely, I think we all can say

792
01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:38.559
that about uh. You know,
COACHD. You know, he is that

793
01:01:38.639 --> 01:01:43.159
guy that you know, helped mold
us to be who who we are.

794
01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:45.000
And you know, if we had
you know, if he was still coaching

795
01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:49.119
we had kids, we definitely want, you know, our kids to play

796
01:01:49.159 --> 01:01:52.880
for someone like coach d But little
key though Coach he be like if he'd

797
01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:54.639
be beating me, like he's sneaky
good at pool, but he and he'd

798
01:01:54.639 --> 01:02:00.000
be talking shit too. Hey,
I think I'm the only one. I

799
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:04.679
didn't. I didn't beat Coach dal
covid times I saw I had. I

800
01:02:04.679 --> 01:02:07.079
had to wait til I got to
be like a senior or the playing because

801
01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:10.159
I you know, I ain't really
not a pool until I got that,

802
01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:19.840
you know, going out sneaking and
sneaking uh the players and practice right right,

803
01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:22.679
had a couple of years to beat
them though, But yeah, he

804
01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:30.679
used to woo boys. He was
like, you know, good at golf

805
01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:37.719
for real, because I don't know, I'm uh play at all. And

806
01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:44.960
he's smooth with stays in the fairway, playing Kurt Golf easily. Huh yeah,

807
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:49.480
two and three? So quiz you
know, so you you've got a

808
01:02:49.559 --> 01:02:51.960
chance. I mean, you had
your career in the NFL. You just

809
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:59.239
recently retired from the NFL. Uh
No, no, I can still playing

810
01:02:59.599 --> 01:03:01.719
right, and I know you look
like it. Right, let's talk about

811
01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:05.039
that at the count I know,
I mean, so so we're still the

812
01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:07.639
doors open. I mean, I'm
just I'm looking for a job. So

813
01:03:07.840 --> 01:03:13.079
you're looking for you know I have, I have a lot of great skills.

814
01:03:14.079 --> 01:03:20.599
Uh tell them, tell them what
you're looking for or what kind of

815
01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:22.960
job I'm looking for. If it's
not football, then what would you like

816
01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:28.599
plane? What would you like to
do? Okay if in the perfect world

817
01:03:28.599 --> 01:03:31.559
war, I'd like to do Uh. You know, obviously I have a

818
01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:38.280
lifestyle brand, daily deposits and then
running my foundation full time or Denard difference.

819
01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:44.800
Uh So right now I'm pushing dope
like I was telling ju Uh the

820
01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:50.400
other day, I'm pushing dope at
the moment. Uh. That Isnard performing

821
01:03:51.039 --> 01:03:59.360
rich So it's again Denard Opportunity Performance
Enrichment Center. So it's a building what

822
01:03:59.480 --> 01:04:04.280
I got in my hometown, you
know, doing some new a new version

823
01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:06.559
of the y MCA, because you
know, I ain't had that when I

824
01:04:08.719 --> 01:04:11.599
grew up, So I think it's
very needed, especially at this time and

825
01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:15.519
age. But in the building,
it has a music as a music studio

826
01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:21.360
in one room or another room,
and has a photography podcasting room another room.

827
01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:27.360
You know, Google donated fifty computers
so that room serve as a library.

828
01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:30.039
So kids who don't have Internet assets
or just want to get away,

829
01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:33.400
come check out the computer and you
know, have that assets. And then

830
01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:39.000
we have a game room. We
have like six TVs that's gonna do screaming

831
01:04:39.079 --> 01:04:43.480
and twitching, you know. Other
I think it's like six TVs gonna be

832
01:04:43.760 --> 01:04:48.800
arcades. Then we're gonna do like
monthly. H We're gonna do monthly like

833
01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:53.880
Madden and two K tournaments. Uh. And then I have a kitchen are

834
01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:57.880
as where I have a few shifts
that's gonna work out of there also gonna

835
01:04:57.960 --> 01:05:03.000
you know, I have uh barber
sharing there as well. Uh. And

836
01:05:03.119 --> 01:05:09.119
then I have one room. It's
actually the entrepreneur room, so uh,

837
01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:14.199
you'll be selling clothes and shoes.
But if you're an entrepreneur, you're able

838
01:05:14.239 --> 01:05:18.199
to host your things up like you
have a storefront in my building. Uh.

839
01:05:18.480 --> 01:05:23.760
Basically for will be your back office
and run everything for you. Uh.

840
01:05:24.079 --> 01:05:28.599
And you'll get a text excuse me, attached credit for it because it

841
01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:32.199
is a five or one C three. Uh So yeah, so that's you

842
01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:36.639
know, that's what I'm doing at
the moment. But I'm still stand in

843
01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:43.519
shape. I'm still staying out the
part to any and every opportunity possible.

844
01:05:44.360 --> 01:05:47.360
Uh but yeah, so again at
the moment, I'm pushing dope. Uh

845
01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:53.639
it's sad and making Georgia twenty four
sixty five. Hell, Chris, We're

846
01:05:53.679 --> 01:06:00.559
gonna do a grand open August twenty
six. So it's like you be like

847
01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:05.199
backpack giveaways still for the kids in
the community, have like piunce houses that

848
01:06:05.320 --> 01:06:11.159
type of stuff going on August twenty
six. So That's what I'm doing at

849
01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:15.000
the moment. But I'm ready to
play though if it, if it gotta

850
01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:18.360
it gotta make sense, right.
So with that, with your foundation there

851
01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:21.519
and everything, if I because we
got a lot of you know, listeners

852
01:06:21.599 --> 01:06:25.760
that you know, always love helping
out especial love helping our former spartans.

853
01:06:25.800 --> 01:06:28.679
If they want to help out or
in any way, you know, how

854
01:06:28.800 --> 01:06:34.960
can they do that? Okay?
Uh So the foundation website is up.

855
01:06:35.280 --> 01:06:43.199
Excuse me, the Denard Difference dot
org. It's Doug du Denard Difference dot

856
01:06:43.360 --> 01:06:49.039
org. If you got like social
media, Uh, my Instagram is dark

857
01:06:49.119 --> 01:06:54.679
quiz. I got the links on
the on the bottom of it. I

858
01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:59.719
am doing. I'm getting ready to
do a couple of different things because we're

859
01:06:59.719 --> 01:07:03.360
gonna get ready to do a sneaker
ball come October to be able to uh

860
01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:09.280
do some fund raising. Excuse me
to do some fund raising so I can

861
01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:13.400
continue to have my weekend, uh, you know, because it's you know,

862
01:07:13.559 --> 01:07:16.559
kind of getting to the point where
I am going to retire soon and

863
01:07:16.639 --> 01:07:20.400
I want to continue to bring different
athletes and entertainers in my own town to

864
01:07:20.639 --> 01:07:26.280
you know, continue to show the
kids. Like it's always ways we can

865
01:07:26.320 --> 01:07:29.280
get paid off our talents, but
it's more ways, you know, to

866
01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:31.519
be able to do it as well. You don't have to be the person

867
01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:35.039
that's on the screen. You can
also be the person that couldn't that person

868
01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:43.280
but chick uh and usually that's a
little bigger, right. So that's the

869
01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:46.239
type information I'm trying to give,
you know, to these kids and just

870
01:07:46.519 --> 01:07:49.920
open up their minds. So I
got a few things that's going on my

871
01:07:50.039 --> 01:07:57.719
foundation stuff. You can't basically stay
up the day with things where I got

872
01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:04.679
going on at dark Quiz Instagram and
then the Denar Difference dot org on websites

873
01:08:06.639 --> 01:08:12.559
there it is right there. Look
at that see crack producers got it right

874
01:08:12.599 --> 01:08:16.239
there for everybody. Then different Center
dot org there's one right there that pulls

875
01:08:16.359 --> 01:08:20.399
up online. Uh yeah, do
youth really need this? I mean this

876
01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:26.079
is great, beautiful sense of why
mcas aren't as prevalent as they once were.

877
01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:30.039
The CEE doing something like that for
the youth, it's incredible. That's

878
01:08:30.239 --> 01:08:34.159
that's beautiful, man, I mean
that's awesome. Yeah, I mean pushing

879
01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:40.159
dope, pushing dope one more time
just for the people like just coming in.

880
01:08:42.640 --> 01:08:50.760
Yeah, pushing dope. What what
thenar Opportunity Performance Enrichment Center. Okay,

881
01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:57.760
it's the dope center. Some pushing
pushing hope. You know what I'm

882
01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:00.880
saying. You're giving people hope that
they and be able to chase their dreams

883
01:09:01.359 --> 01:09:06.039
to the maxims. Like you feel
me. I'm a living proof you stand

884
01:09:06.159 --> 01:09:13.079
on making daily deposits. Uh you
know what I mean. The blessing gonna

885
01:09:13.119 --> 01:09:16.239
come. Man. Look, I'm
proud to see you one the evolution of

886
01:09:16.399 --> 01:09:23.199
dark quest coming from freshman year to
then now and just this is the this

887
01:09:23.399 --> 01:09:28.239
is the proof of and the results
of sowing seeds and reaping the harvest.

888
01:09:28.319 --> 01:09:31.520
Man. So I'm me from one
day seeing you as a littlegit coming in,

889
01:09:31.720 --> 01:09:35.720
It's like it's good boys, he
grown man, now, I can't

890
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:44.439
grow up. Growed up? Respect
you real proud of you, bro,

891
01:09:45.039 --> 01:09:47.239
extremely proud of you, man.
Thank you for your time and that look,

892
01:09:47.279 --> 01:09:49.760
we love to have you back.
You gotta come around. If you're

893
01:09:49.800 --> 01:09:53.079
not playing ball, you gotta be. You're gonna be around the sign to

894
01:09:53.159 --> 01:09:57.479
help them guys out. Man.
You know, he even even even come

895
01:09:57.520 --> 01:10:01.560
co host the show with us.
Yeah, let us know what you in.

896
01:10:02.359 --> 01:10:08.319
It's this been Timason. He looked
at. Yeah, you know,

897
01:10:08.560 --> 01:10:13.159
usually I'm like now forty four.
I mean, I kind of hit the

898
01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:16.159
bid, but I've been I've been
traveling, so I'm trying to, you

899
01:10:16.239 --> 01:10:20.520
know, catch up, but you
usually got usually not about ten ten thirty

900
01:10:21.359 --> 01:10:28.439
going on. Yeah, I feel
that. Well, let us know when

901
01:10:28.479 --> 01:10:31.000
you're here coming to east Lands,
and I'm sure you probably be and when

902
01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:33.840
we play that team down the road, but let let us know, give

903
01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:38.039
us the heads up so we make
sure we lied something up for you.

904
01:10:38.199 --> 01:10:43.520
And yeah, you can take my
spot on this show, man. So

905
01:10:43.680 --> 01:10:49.039
I would always trying to man,
I appreciate you guys have yeah, thank

906
01:10:49.079 --> 01:10:54.000
you, man, appreciate you a
lot of fun. Man salute. That's

907
01:10:54.479 --> 01:11:00.359
happy all right? Man? To
So why so yeah dark quares Denard,

908
01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:04.439
everybody, man, what an incredible. Look, that's a great story,

909
01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:09.000
you know, inspiration for a lot
of people. Look, that's you know

910
01:11:09.079 --> 01:11:13.319
that song Rats the Riches, right
like man like, he did it how

911
01:11:13.399 --> 01:11:15.439
you're supposed to do it, right, he did it by the book.

912
01:11:16.000 --> 01:11:21.079
And yeah, we don't know if
if if we never had a Keith Mumfrey

913
01:11:21.239 --> 01:11:25.600
that opened the door to then Dark
Quest Denard and both of those guys were

914
01:11:25.640 --> 01:11:29.800
outstanding talent for us coming from Georgia, and so I remember, we remember

915
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:40.720
you say what I did. I
just don't around. Yeah, all right,

916
01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:47.119
all right, only got the other
side side, you know, Keith

917
01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:49.960
Mumfrey. The amount of people that
don't know that song, but they were

918
01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:53.359
trying to do the video and they
just be out here like, you know,

919
01:11:53.560 --> 01:11:57.239
I ain't say a word. I
ain't say a word, did it?

920
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:02.359
Hey? You know? Look,
you know, before before we wrap

921
01:12:02.439 --> 01:12:05.880
up, we got some important news
to share with everyone, and one of

922
01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:12.279
them is the SummerSlam that's happening with
Chow Like. We want to show you

923
01:12:12.399 --> 01:12:16.720
this promo video. What is going
on. This is Sparta MSU family,

924
01:12:17.119 --> 01:12:23.520
This is your boy Chootch coming at
you and this Saturday is the biggest party

925
01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:28.600
of the summer Live in Detroit,
Michigan at Ford Field. It is WWE

926
01:12:28.800 --> 01:12:32.319
SummerSlam and we're giving away a pair
of tickets to come out hang out with

927
01:12:32.439 --> 01:12:35.640
you. We'll go get some drinks
before the show. Get to go.

928
01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:39.439
If I even if I like you, I might even sit next to you

929
01:12:39.560 --> 01:12:44.520
at this show. All right,
enter to win. Subscribers only boom.

930
01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:48.760
Here's how to enter. Go to
This is Sparta MSU on Twitter or Instagram

931
01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:54.439
follow us, then click the Lincoln
bio. Click the first button says WWE

932
01:12:54.600 --> 01:12:58.359
tickets. On the next screen,
just fill out the forum and click submit.

933
01:12:58.640 --> 01:13:00.640
But here's the most important part.
Share this video with a friend to

934
01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:04.119
increase your chances of winning. If
you both enter, gods are better.

935
01:13:04.399 --> 01:13:06.920
Thank you for entering, and we'll
be in touch Friday with our winners.

936
01:13:08.199 --> 01:13:14.439
Go green there. It is quick
turnaround. But look a night out with

937
01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:17.640
you? That was one. That
was one take. I saw a little

938
01:13:17.720 --> 01:13:24.600
edit there where like the No one
take I was going to be. I

939
01:13:24.760 --> 01:13:28.359
wanted you to bring out a bills
offia table man, like truly get into

940
01:13:28.439 --> 01:13:34.359
it, like I was in my
office. I can't be joy. I

941
01:13:34.439 --> 01:13:41.079
saw them go slippers your head on
to come Hi. Hey, Yeah,

942
01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:43.159
So if you want, if you
want to come kick it with you,

943
01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:50.319
come kick you know some people backstage
to do I know some people backstage.

944
01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:54.600
You know. We might bake our
way down. We might be up,

945
01:13:54.720 --> 01:13:58.560
we might who knows. But I'll
be downtown Earl. The show starts at

946
01:13:58.560 --> 01:14:02.479
seven thirty and die. I'll be
telling this Saturday, This Saturday, August

947
01:14:02.600 --> 01:14:06.439
fifth. Oh you you know,
let me take, let me take,

948
01:14:08.760 --> 01:14:14.079
let me take, I'll let you. I'll let you know. Friday,

949
01:14:14.520 --> 01:14:18.000
Yeah, I will be uh,
I will be uh, you know,

950
01:14:18.159 --> 01:14:25.239
hitting up downtown Detroit her around one. So you're gonna catch me in rare

951
01:14:25.399 --> 01:14:31.520
form. Oh my goodness. Look
look, so be sure to check the

952
01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:36.800
go to that, go to the
Twitter or Instagram link tree. Fill it

953
01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:41.640
out. Great night with you.
That's gonna be fun, phenomenal. I

954
01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:45.479
want videos. We gotta bring somebody. Oh you gotta go just take video

955
01:14:45.319 --> 01:14:51.319
and somebody. I gotta, I
gotta. I gotta redeem myself and be

956
01:14:51.479 --> 01:15:01.079
my brother's keeper. That another sc
day right there, we'll coin that the

957
01:15:01.199 --> 01:15:09.239
White Castle Night in the rain,
White Castles in the rain. You know,

958
01:15:09.359 --> 01:15:14.000
by the way, you know the
day after tomorrow marks are one hundredth

959
01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:16.720
show. Everyone this is the ninety
nine show, but this is part of

960
01:15:16.840 --> 01:15:23.520
Turns one hundred on Thursday. So
let us know your top five moments.

961
01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:26.840
You know, go to any of
our social media platforms and let us know.

962
01:15:27.079 --> 01:15:30.640
I think that's it's we're running in
on our personal stories. It's everywhere.

963
01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:34.880
So tell us the top five moments
did you remember in our ninety nine

964
01:15:35.000 --> 01:15:40.079
show history that you want us to
review. We're gonna go over those on

965
01:15:40.239 --> 01:15:42.479
Thursday, celebrate a little bit.
It's gonna be a little party, so

966
01:15:42.520 --> 01:15:45.039
we're gonna join in the live chat
and hang out a little bit with everybody

967
01:15:45.079 --> 01:15:48.479
and celebrate because it's been I mean, it's a labor love. It's incredible.

968
01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:51.880
Man, from just a little old
less than a year still, we're

969
01:15:51.920 --> 01:15:56.199
still not quite out of year,
but one hundredth show, we thought it

970
01:15:56.319 --> 01:15:59.319
was time for us to celebrate.
So guys, what's your final thoughts?

971
01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:03.560
Yeah, real quick before we jump
off. I know, we had a

972
01:16:03.680 --> 01:16:09.359
great time this weekend, you know
at Spartan Dog Con and uh we and

973
01:16:09.560 --> 01:16:14.199
although keep in mind we're all one
Spartan family. Um, you know that

974
01:16:14.359 --> 01:16:16.520
when we got home we got some
you know, bad news, you know,

975
01:16:16.800 --> 01:16:19.960
Mamatron Nick Tron. They were in
an accident on the way home,

976
01:16:20.359 --> 01:16:25.359
but thank god they're all fine.
Uh, you know, prayers up for

977
01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:28.000
them, you know, if you're
if you're a prayer warrior. I know

978
01:16:28.119 --> 01:16:30.079
the three of us on here are
you know, let's you don't, you

979
01:16:30.119 --> 01:16:33.319
know, put our heel and hands
up, you know, say a prayer

980
01:16:33.399 --> 01:16:36.119
for you know, all of us
in the Spartan nation. But the Tron

981
01:16:36.279 --> 01:16:39.960
family, uh, you know that, you know, they get through this,

982
01:16:40.119 --> 01:16:43.119
they kick this and everything you know
pans out. Okay, but you

983
01:16:43.199 --> 01:16:47.439
know we're thinking about you guys.
Uh uh, Nick, Mamatron, Grandmatron,

984
01:16:47.720 --> 01:16:51.119
all those you know, all the
Tron family. Uh, you know,

985
01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:57.960
yes, yes, definitely, definitely
all yeah, you know, glad,

986
01:16:58.039 --> 01:17:00.600
everything you know was you know,
everyone's kay. Everyone came out unscathed,

987
01:17:01.039 --> 01:17:04.039
but uh, you know, definitely
And Mama trying to put that boy

988
01:17:04.079 --> 01:17:11.600
and Bubba rap till you get him
here. We need him Bubba rapping,

989
01:17:11.760 --> 01:17:17.000
oldest man. Listen, I'm always
good. I'm appreciative when we had defensive

990
01:17:17.279 --> 01:17:23.239
guests players former players on that.
I'm always getting outshine by the offensive guys.

991
01:17:24.359 --> 01:17:28.560
But dark Quas Man, it's good
to hear one his stories and how

992
01:17:28.640 --> 01:17:32.199
we when we bring guys on,
we hear evolutional even Coach D or you

993
01:17:32.279 --> 01:17:35.159
know we have. Those are the
things that kind of give me, you

994
01:17:35.239 --> 01:17:38.880
know, the good feels of like, you know what, Coach D did

995
01:17:39.520 --> 01:17:42.439
his best with this program and then
obviously gave it to Coach Tuck. So

996
01:17:43.159 --> 01:17:46.239
um, I love talking obviously shot
with dark Quest, but I believe having

997
01:17:46.359 --> 01:17:51.520
him on a Jim Thorpe Award when
are people don't understand that award how hard

998
01:17:51.560 --> 01:17:56.600
it is to win that award and
to have one of being a Michigan State

999
01:17:57.000 --> 01:18:00.720
former dog is just great for our
program. But I enjoyed that conversation to

1000
01:18:00.840 --> 01:18:05.520
Night Fellas likewise, I mean,
yeah, dark question, and are you

1001
01:18:05.560 --> 01:18:09.600
said that that was That's the highest
trophy award just for defensive backs. It's

1002
01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:14.000
very difficult to win first round draft
pick from a zero star to a first

1003
01:18:14.119 --> 01:18:18.359
round They're doing phenomenal things back in
his hometown for the youth in Georgia.

1004
01:18:19.960 --> 01:18:23.760
You can't write it better than that. That's that's the kind of guy,

1005
01:18:24.039 --> 01:18:28.760
a young man that embodies what it
is to your spartment and that perseppearance and

1006
01:18:28.960 --> 01:18:32.960
being able to overcome any obstacle and
continuing on his quest as an old man.

1007
01:18:33.960 --> 01:18:39.159
It is beautiful to see you know. So, guys, a great

1008
01:18:39.199 --> 01:18:44.039
show. Can't wait till Thursday,
and we don't forget the subscribe do the

1009
01:18:44.079 --> 01:18:46.520
subscription things. Guys. This is
fully different than subscribing to show, so

1010
01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:51.159
it is track. You have that
technology, so we're tracking it to hang

1011
01:18:51.239 --> 01:18:57.039
out with you with that one quick
thing straight just so you know. If

1012
01:18:57.079 --> 01:19:00.079
you needed a little extra incentive to
enter the summers flaming event, if you

1013
01:19:00.159 --> 01:19:04.520
haven't subscribed to do that, subscribe, tell a friend subscribe if you need

1014
01:19:04.600 --> 01:19:15.239
that one extra incentive. Saturday is
the day before my birthday, so basically

1015
01:19:15.319 --> 01:19:26.600
he's inviting you out and drinks are
on you. We take you, take

1016
01:19:26.640 --> 01:19:29.600
care of ke, We take care
of ours. Yeah, yeah, don't

1017
01:19:29.640 --> 01:19:30.920
worry about it. It was because
you didn't know this, but you know

1018
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that graduate, that whole tab was
on you, according to Chew, So

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every the whole upstairs up there,
the top was on otis is tab.

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I don't know how he did it, but they believed him. So notice

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and he scratch coming. If you
don't see me on this show no longer.

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You know that the guy, No, it ain't let that happen.

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Man, all right, guys,
I'm sending you my Venmo guys. The

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past collection played around for this trip. All right, appreciate everybody for Otis

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Wiley, Jute. I'm Jason Straihorn. This is part of MSU, Have

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a good night, God bless and
go Green, Go White. This is

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far by ms YOU as a combined
presentation of play Fly Sports Properties and Michigan

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State Sports Properties. The show is
produced by Tony La Barbara Tony Gastella and

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Process Driven Consulting. Additional supports provided
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