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Well a special good evening to everybody out there. It is Saturday, April
fifteenth, twenty twenty three. I'm your host, Jason Spling my mom with
my co host Otis Wiley, jay U coach is on assignment down in Memphis
for the USFL Michigan Panthers team. We'll missing dearly, you know, but
the show must go on. The show must go on, so Otis,
you know everybody that's here subscribers only event here in the field House in Albert
Street in East Lands and beautiful day to day for the spring game. But
right now it's a little rainy, but it doesn't stop the show though,
right that Michigan. That's Michigan weather for you. You know, it's get
you, get you all hyped up with the spring. Then you come out
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the show. Otis spring game today. All kinds of things that we're going
to cover in a minute. But you know, there were some other events
on campus today that is old legacy five k thousands of participants. Yeah,
one of our very own Pete and his friends and family did the did the
run. We should have did the run, but it was, you know,
too much time ahead of it. Yeah, we wanted to do it,
you know, which had to get chu chu. But he was a
little was dressing all black and he said, it's Johnny Cash, that's what
you got to dress up like that. I knew he was sweating til he
got out of there. Yeah. Man, a lot of people out there
there, beautiful weather. As we said, I mean the thousands of participants.
So did a phenomenal job in the older bit. Yeah, and also
it's it's been a good thing where people turned out, showed up, a
lot of people on campus. Uh, we have our baseball, our softball
team that was competing. Hopefully softball did getting rained out and they finished the
game. But it's a lot of traffic, a lot of support. Yeah,
growing was here. Had a strong showing against Miami Temple and Tulsa this
morning on Lake Ovid and Sleepy Hollow State Park. Yeah, if you ever
been there, that facility is obviously phenomenal. It's a brand new facility.
But it's right on the water. They're rolling. Man, it's on the
sand. It's on the sand. But if you had any chance to go
out there to the to the boat houses chet oh man. You know,
talking about the other events, baseball wins twelve to two or for Western Illinois
in game one with doubleheader, Oh yeah last night, man, it was
under the lights. It was pretty nice when they won. You know,
you have the flickering the lights. You know, we do the little fan
engagement goes in and out, but we all we all all about spartans wins
and this is good for baseball. It was good. Yeah, Baseball did
the win. Softball had a loss, they lost five to nothing in the
Minnesota, but still some positive things. Absolutely absolutely. You know, we
have a first new head coach for year one, so you know you're gonna
have those pans and games, but she's coaching them up, getting that standard,
switching the tie from the culture standpoint. So uh, keep the support
because they has some big wins. But I think next year is gonna be
obviously the next next one we're gonna look forward to. Before we get any
further, we got to make sure that Harriet Dean gets a shot out.
What's up? Mary Smith? Tatum to hear Steve out, oh man,
people, the players are here signing it. You know, it's a it's
a it's a family affair here in East Landsley, you know, talking about
the hardest schedule for Michigan State, they're saying that Mischigan State now is the
number two hardest schedule in the country when you look at the entire nation here
only South Carolina being harder than Michigan State coming up at sixty two point seven.
Listen, we talked about this that one. If we just compete and
we win the games that we need to win, and we need to beat
that team down the road. I think that's just the strength of schedule gets
us to obviously the Bowl game eligible. But I think that once we put
the the chemistry going on and then we start clicking, we still got a
fall, we still got off season the summertime, we still got the training.
So capitalize on what happened in spring, which we're gonna update on the
second half of this. But I think it's gonna be great that I'm I
want it. I want the competition. You know, you want to be
on the national spotlight, and so when you have those wins, there's solid
wins. So I'm looking forward to that. You're right about that. Speaking
of Harriet Beings the gymnastics update, you know, we talked about the n
c A Championships, the lady and in both Gavin Stevens Uh, We're gonna
take a little video here and see how they performed. Otis Listen, I
wish I could give you a breakdown of like what he but Harriet could give
us a break she really could, you know. I think I think the
standpoint of bring them beer right right right here, right here, there's a
little breakdown here. We put Harry on the spot here, so I got
right here Harriet. So, Harry has been a long time supporter of gymnastics.
I've known Harriet. I was playing days. Yep, Harriet has a
bus that all of our former players. I mean, we talked about calculating
how many people have signed that bus. Right, It's like three thousand former
Spartan dogs all across our sports signed that bus. But she's a long time
supporter. And you're in charge of what we don't say booster club. Well
no, but I'm president of the gymnastics former booster club now just called the
Perfect ten point oh Club. And this year I'm actually president of the Downtown
Coaches Club, which the official booster club football. So I got my hands
full, got hands full. Well, we talked about our gymnastics program and
from what we've endured to coach micro coming back and turning it to what it
is now. Just to have two representatives at the national Championship to be competing
is a huge testament to what he's done. But talk about Delaney, talk
about Gabby and what they did. I know you were watching. We talk
about both of these young student athletes are simply amazing. And what the leini
is doing now is gymnastics is partially artistic when you're on the floor, and
it's partially elements that are required that they do. So right here, some
of what the lady's doing is simply artistic. So she's getting the audience to
believe in her and to follow her and to love her. And so she's
just now here comes the first element and the elements that are passed, as
they call them, and here she goes. Now, that is so much
harder than it looks, and what she did was darn near perfect. She
had a little tiny bobble with her foot at the bottom, which may have
cost her a little bit of a deduction. They start with a ten point
zero and then they deduct from there. So this is again artistics that she's
doing right now, but it's also part of the copulation of her score.
So she's putting out a heck of a show right here, and she's also
fiercely competitive. And then in a minute she's going to work her way over
to do this is an element. Also, these are the jumps. They
have more technical names than that. So forgive me for not knowing the way
trying to do her second pass, which is a required element in order to
reach the ten point zero standard. So here she goes, and she goes
right here, she takes a deep breath, extremely extremely difficult, and she
nails it right there. So she absolutely did a perfect landing, and she
knows that you can see her right right now. Did the rest of the
team go there to give her the support, because I think that's also the
club being there with her. Rest of our teammates are there to cheer her
own, especially when he does this. But talk so abby on the beam
is the work of art. She is absolutely amazing. What you don't realize,
if people don't realize, is that is four inches wide. It is
four inches wide. Most people can't even walk the beam, let alone look
at this book that's now right there. She lifted her but that's what cost
her, you know, for her her highest score. But it's amazing.
Right here. That's an element move. That's a required move is to have
some kind of a spin or a turn, and here she is. All
of this is somewhat artistic, but it's also elements. And then she's prepping
to do right here, right here again, I mean amazing, work absolutely
amazing being work well. Here we appreciate this man, because this is this
is how we should before we are expert. That jump that she just did
is absolutely flawless. I mean, and here she comes, this is this
is going into her dismount. Watch this and a tiny tiny hop in there
that kept her from kneeling it. Whoa. We're going to have that segment.
Most of this is a future segment. Always thank you. How awesome
is that? Man? I mean to she's always yeah, it's delivered.
Here you go, all right, outstanding man. I mean, we got
a full breakdown of all elements, all things. Jim nastis like oldis you
know when you look at We want to break down the spring game. You
know, we want to talk to the players that are here. We got
Jacobe women in the house. We've got Cal Holliday, we got Kean Coolevid,
we got more, we got Dada, we got all kinds of guys
here. We're gonna break it down and actually talk to those guys and you
and I should break down what we saw today. After this message from our
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us here live at the Fieldhouse. This is Sparta Jay swaying along with Otis
Wiley breaking down today's spring game, having a subscribers only event. As you
see it's live here. Man's been a lot of people in and out.
The weather was beautiful today. It's a little rainy, but it's drying up.
Ain't nothing but a little rain ain't don't hurt nobody. So look,
we got players passing us right now, but we have a player sitting with
us right now in Jakobe Winman number four for missus state number one of your
what's something to Kobe? Listen? Yeah? Oh, I said, how
you doing? There? We go we're good man? How you doing good
Man? I can't complain beautiful weather? Well it was it was good.
I don't yeah. Yeah, So as you wrap up spring and the spring
itself. Tell us about the feelings is like how you feel right now from
the spring now and now it's done and we're going to turn our page to
summer workouts. Tell us what you're going through right now from listen at the
standpoint I made for the most part, I feel pretty confident about this and
our team overall. It's really just a matter of, you know, putting
everything together. So the Spike mab was a good time to compete with each
other and just show what you can do on the field and off the field.
So I think it's a pretty good spring long something to build off,
something to look back on, you know, contique each other, get better
from it. And it's man, Jacobany, I'm gonna tell you I was
launch here in one on ones. I saw your team period. He's pretty
much unblockable, brother, you know, especially in that two minute. You
know, they let Peyton. I think I don't know if it was Peyton
that you got to that. If he wasn't wearing the red jersey, probably
would have been a sack, but you know, they let him to make
the play anyway. You know, Like, how do you feel about the
pass or skills and your linebackers to be able to convert from two point stance
free point stands. I feel like my pass rush is being a lot better.
You know, I'm trying to learn how to steal work new moves.
You know, go DT is a big part of you know, my past
rushing. He was very helpful and still so I just really trying to focus
on small details on So that's what I'm gonna try and through and then not
going to transition from n tow back and sit. That's been like, you
know, my main goal really working talking about the obviously the new coaching transition
from change of bringing that coach coming in from the NFL experience obviously Stanford as
well, but talk about that transition of having like that first time being with
him in the spring and what are the elements that he's brought in that can
help you elevate your game. I think for the most part, I love
he is. You know, he's one of them coaches who has a lot
of experience. So he's not gonna yeah or nothing. He's not gonna be
roud about things like because he's big numberfore. He just more like, let's
go look at the fel Let's get a better off. Let's communicate as a
elon. Let's Russians one, you know, because that's that's what he's all
about. Russia's one one. That's awesome. Russians one. Coach Reno has
been real good man for me so far because I can't help working with him
in the fall. Yeah, based off of a spring last season. JAA.
Now this season, what are we gonna see from Chakoba women? Uh,
I think you're gonna see just you know, our tone center, somebody
to go out there and get the job done and do extra you know,
effort. I feel like after the he a big part of you know,
the defense and you know, be there fight together, making sure we all
on one thing. You know. I look forward to it. Just bottle
all my brothers. Yeah, hey, Joe, Kobe. Then we got
a lot to talk to you about, man, But we got all kind
of teammates in here. We gotta get to to bro a phenomenal performance today.
Definitely gonna be a start at this level and the next level. Good
luck to you in the preparation for the fall. Captain's coming up. But
man, hey, we appreciate you joining us. It's signed a couple of
autographs have some chicken couple. Whatever do you want? Man, it's on
oldis Chicken. That's pretty good. Yeah when when you when you read it,
he shout out of the field house. Yeah, we gotta keep it
real. We want that absolutely, man, We appreciate you spend time with
us. Man, Thank you go greedy brother. That's absolutely appreciate. The
Kobe women, everybody. Hey, look, we're gonna we're gonna keep this
thing moving. I mean we got Cay Holiday. No about look Steve Smith,
Yeah we got next. Yeah, after count that, we're gonna have
one. We don't have Town Holiday enjoyed it. So how about that one
of my loyal subscribers. Hey, Steve Kee's standing there like he want to
get on. He does. We gonna, Hey, Carol, you here,
welcome, w Cow gets set up. You got right up there,
hold it up to you. Yeah. Cal Holiday joins the show. Welcome
to this asparta cow once again. How you doing. Yeah, we're gonna
pull that up up there, you guess now, Count Hey, uh,
I just saw your father here minute ago. He said hello, and then
he told me that you probably could kick his ass at least you know that.
Yeah, oh yeah, hold it all the way up to you.
Yep, there we go. Yep. Good. Hey, look we're all
about real, live, real lives, real, we're real here school.
Yeah. So Kyle, talk about what Spartan fans saw today in a kind
of regular practice format, not your typical spring game that we've you've been a
part of prior to our coach d to talk about what we saw out there,
and then some of the positives that came out of up today leading into
the summer summer program. It's just a good things, right. Yeah,
so we still we still came here. Oh speaking loud, speak up loud.
Oh you're thinking out take me loud up in here? Yeah, go
ahead, you speak a loud as a live that you gotta improvise sometime,
right, the same thing, man's football. But like I saw you today,
come in on a on a blitz where you I don't know if it's
the blitz or not, but I think you've laid up my man. Uh
snel Hopper Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, what happened there? Is it?
Playing downhill? Hold on? Is it? Is it? Is it?
Not? Set? Is it? Is it? Check? Night?
Check? Hello? There we don't go, Yeah, there we go.
We're playing man and stuff. So I just turned zone. It's kind I
saw. Yeah, I'm just ending up in my favorite right now. Yeah.
So you told us you're like, you're not flashy? You don't you
don't do you talk trash? If somebody talked trash, I just let your
play talk. Yeah, I talked to myself when I talk to anybody else
in the field. All right, So what do you What do you tell
yoursel It's usually not very good. It's not very good. I'm usually very
hard on myself. Yeah, it's like, come on, cow, Yeah,
what do you what do you do? You call yourself in third person?
Or you tell yourself much name? I just dropped that I shouldn't say.
I got to dropped a couple of words that you shouldn't say. Oh
lot, why not? You know? Family here but a count. So
you're looking at the open body, the overall body of work for Misigan State
this spring. How do you think you guys stand in these fifteen practices?
You get better as a unit? Yeah, I think we got a lot
better as a unit. I think that we just communicated better and became more
confident, and we've been able to like work on little things and make sure
that we got better and focus on things and just get better every day.
Definitely, definitely, so mint. I'd ask the same question that Jacobe is,
after you just finished Saturday spring game, what's your mental state of like
one you're gonna focus on school or like decompressed get ready for the fall,
summer and summer program. It's just nice singing out on the schedule because we've
been off every day's five six o'clock. Yeah, just getting to the subbies
by seven. Get to just step back from football once in a while,
and folks on school now because I need with the grades up, make sure
passing everything to call. I'm coming ready for the summer to just work on.
Definitely, definitely. We love it. Man, Before we let you
go, I mean, just I see here your father's in the chat.
Gregory Holiday said, just remember your sister was the last to kick your ass.
Is this true? This is? Oh? No, gotcha, she
said, gotch That's awesome man. I love it. Man. Oh,
look, we appreciate you spending time with us. I know you do some
stuff for it, but the luck to you next season. We'll be talking
to you, man. Yeah, get them guys going in the summer,
all right, Brother, thanks Dal Hallen. Yes, sir, all right,
So look, I mean otis is I look around. I mean those
are two great linebackers. I mean you look at the defense today. It
was extremely fast. It seemed like they were together. Uh you know,
missing ten players on defense that didn't perform in the spring game. That's a
lot for the level of talent that I was able to see out there.
I'm I'm looking forward to what Scotty Hamston the company are gonna be able to
do come to fall. Yeah, and I think the main keys that everybody
wants to know is that it is our secondary improved or is it revam more
so, because you got guys that got two young safeties yeah, freshmen by
the way, Yeah, Mango's about to be a sophomore. Ma leaksa two
freshman. Yeah. You got guys like they say, Malice Spiser is that
guy who leads the team. And you've got Dialtatum who you know. We
talked to Dark Wesden on the sideline. He was saying that dark, uh
Dal Tatum was a guy who is physical smart and you need a solid corner
to be able to be able to detect things and things are coming their way
and we still had one of our reserves guys and our our senior guys,
and and Chuck Bradley, who is nursing an injury, is gonna be in
therapy and getting ready for the fall season. But I did like what we
saw who was dressed, You saw things. You saw our guys getting to
the backfield quicker, which is is good because like we didn't get we didn't
get any hits on the QB last fall and that many sacks. So let's
turn that time to where we talked about that rose ball team, right,
Yeah, fly on, no fly zone. You knew when they slept on
the field what it was about business and gets smacking them out. And I
think that's where they're seeing that they gotta take that mantra and that mentality and
and and attack that every day question. Man, we talk about the coverage.
If you can cover on the back end, it gives those defensive linemen
a little bit longer linebackers to get home, which is getting that quarterback down.
We want to be able to put pressure on quarterbacks and if they're worried
about throwing the ball and turning it over, they're gonna hold on to it
a little longer, which costs the sacks, which then creates more opportunity to
the offense's which we can talk about next, and we talk about Chrisister State
offensively. Everybody wants to talk about the quarterbacks, and we'll get to them.
But the running backs look promising today when you look at Nate Carter,
Jalen Berger and also Jaron Mango. Yeah, we Jared Mingo ram pass me
and this guy is a big running back. Yeah mind Jinchu to you,
I'm gonna tell him that is probably excited. You see somebody's gonna be back.
I can tell I think we're gonna have a one two three touch.
You got a fast guy, you got a guy who's a combo guy.
That a guy is the power guy that has his speed. So I'm looking
to see who's gonna take the next step of like how do they share the
rotation? But he also had the issues with the jaylen Berger and Hussar last
year. It's like they never could get in that grial rhythm and the rhythm.
So how much are you gonna let them allow them to get in that
rhythm before you rotate it and get the game script or a players on the
game strip. Yeah, that's true. I mean, in Nate Connor,
everybody's been wanting to see how he was gonna be as a player today,
and smart fans got a tend to see how fast he was. You know.
Seem like Dolphins line played really well for him when he was in there.
I mean, the guy you know, has a nice burst and able
to pick up big chunk yardage when you need it. Absolutely. You know,
you always want to see guys get to the mid level when they break
that front line, and then get to the midline when the linebackers are able
to make a move and get to the secondary because once you get to the
secondary, you're gonna have solid guys to be able to tackle you and get
you down. And so I think it was good. It was a good
motivating factor of what we got going into the summer. And uh, it's
all gonna get better because now you're gonna put weight on, You're gonna get
faster, you eat, you get you get tied to rest in between your
workouts. Yea, and what school is done, the finals are done,
Uh we'll be we'll be able to see what we got going on the summer
leading into the fall camp. Oh. Hold up question. I mean you
get some rest, You're right, I mean you heard from Cal Holliday here.
You get a chance to focus on grades, which is not something they
don't do all the time. But they have less time in the football building
in that practice now, which is always a welcome thing for football players when
the spring closes, you know, talking about the quarterbacks. Now, we
saw Peyton Thorn, we saw Nord Kim, and we saw Kyton Housing.
How do you think those three quarterbacks there today? Otis's It was tough to
to do an assessment there because you're not in a game like situation. And
I think that's what we need to see, is like our quarterbacks are making
decisions in a game life situation. This see some team, but it wasn't
as like I say, elevated like one hundred percent. I did see each
quarterback make two solid throws. I think everyone wants to know is how quickly
are the decision making when things are coming every which way? And how do
we get the ball out quick enough? And I think that's where everybody's looking.
Can we move the offense in the tempo consistently? Just you didn't see
anybody take us leap in the competition row because it was a scripted spring game
practice. So I think summers it's gonna be our detectic factor. Detecting factor
there. I think you're right. I mean, all three quarterbacks show positive
signs of things. You know. You look at Peyton Thorn. I mean,
he's the guy that's been there in the position for two years now.
He has the mental, the jump mentally on preparation for the teams that are
coming up. He understands how it is. You look at a kim elusive
in the pocket a guy it seems to be very accurate. Actually through the
game winning touchdown pass, said saying Tony Ogates Junior in the back corner of
the end zone there on the nice state, which was beautiful that you saw
Kayden Houser. The on talent is undeniable from him and seeing what he's able
to do throwing through tight windows. He can get the ball downfield like you
want to stretch of defense. So I mean it's going up. This competition
is definitely going into camp. It may go into the first couple of games
of the season. I mean the question is do you really want that?
If you really want where we're gonna we don't know who it is, but
someone's gonna get the start. I feel like it's like a Hard Knocks fall
camp where you had a rookie quarterback man you had a vet and that basically
say hey, we're gonna go with the rookie. And it's not just it's
intense, but like for you as a Spartan, we're fans and a loves
now and we're immedia, but like Stan point of what are you feeling that
decision making should be when you do name a starter? Can we give another
opportunity faul Camp not to go in with a starting quarterback? Or we're gonna,
like last week, right in the week of, we're gonna say,
hey, he's our guys. I think they're gonna go into the season honestly,
because you have Central Michigan, then you have Richmond. I think you're
gonna see multiple quarterbacks play in those two games. Now when Washington comes to
town, and it's gonna be Michael Pennick Junior, a guy who has one
in Spartan stadium as an Indiana who's your quarterback beat Michigan State last year at
home in Washington is now coming here to East Landson again you need to have
a quarterback because it's gonna be a duel of quarterbacks. They come in with
a high powered offense, so I think it's gonna be then when you can
really see. But everybody can play well in seven off seven. Some guys
even play good in practice with the red jersey. It's totally different when the
live bullets are flying around in front of thousands of tens of thousands of fans
and you're on national television, which every game mischister state is so in my
OPI, and you know, yes, what you like to have us start?
I'd like to have a start the name now. But seeing where things
are, I just don't see there being a clear cut person that's gonna say,
Okay, he's the guy before summer and into the fuck because they need
to be sure. These coaches want to be sure and out of this mark
nation once a winner they do. We talk about like he's from last season
to spring so to summer training. It's like we need to figure out which
one of our transfers and which one of our incoming freshman additional guys that are
gonna make some impact. We saw Jordan Hall. Jordan Hall is the guy
that you have. He's a dude. Listen. Is as simple as that,
he's a dude. Who Jordan Hall. I think he's in He's in
the building. He's in the building. He's in the building. Now we
talk about some other guys and we got people, got the kids there also,
I see my roommate behind you with this. Uh now one of the
fastest corners I've been playing with. I played again, so I played with
But it's just Jordan. Hey, man, come over here. Man,
you've been on the show before. I come on, have a seat over
there, manor we're gonna talking about the spring. Okay, So look,
we got Jordan Hall joining the show. Everybody, are we good? Another
property? Mama, mama, you come over here to come over here to
they don't have to be in the background. Look, Jordan, Jordan stepped
on campus. When did you. Let's talk about it when you stepped on
campus earlier in ro league and get the good video, get aditioning, now
you got spring. Talk about that whole transition and how you feel it right
now? Put the way there you go. Who's a Who's a very long
process in my hot hand January and he's going from meeting conditions too black.
I've seen this progression and talk louder too talk because you got people be hiding.
I've just been progressing these practice and just continuing to get better these practice.
Okay, man, look you look good out there today. I saw
you making plays. You're running sideline, the sideline, like, what was
it like playing for your first time really in front of some fans. It
wasn't a full cell yet, but in Spartan Stadium for the first time.
It was a great experience for me. I honestly, it wasn't expecting that
the crowd to be that big, so walking in there and just seeing the
love and support from from all the fans are really humbling experience. But it
didn't last long, you know, I got to focus up. But I
definitely something off on this exercise. And it's always nice having Mama Hall,
Mama Hall there home. Did you get a Mama Holl home cooked meal once
you got here? Not yet, it's gonna be. It's happening tonight tomorrow.
Yeah, the whole cook mill. What's his favorite mill? Anything?
I could anything? She could? Thank you? All right, take care
of all right, listen to holiday. There's listen holiday, everybody. So
now it's over. What do you think you need to focus on going into
the summer. Obviously finishing school because that farting is coming up, but like
summertime, summer workout program, what you're gonna focus on, uh, working
on my fework. Well, I want to focus mostly on that during the
summer that we got a mother. So I just want to you know,
stronger, force, faster, become more physical. That's hey, you chos
on a plane. You had the Memphis to to broadcast the game from the
US side book and he says, Jordan Jordon Hall implussed me today. He
was on the field watching you. You know, like, what does it
feel like they have so many people who played before that are giving you compliments?
Is they go to your head? Doesn't seem to you seem to be
like I figured in tried man, Like what is that like? I mean,
it's great for me. I tried not to let it get to my
head. I try to just receive the positive feedback and it's a hundred thing
from me pers especially when it's somebody taking the time out to you know,
kee under the We have a bunch of great players, not even just on
our team, but just in my position. In general, so being you
know, kind of wanting to feel like somebody's watching integrate experience for me,
and humbling EXPANSI for sure, we love you and we gotta hear from you.
We gotta here for Mama Hall for a minute, and Mama Yeah,
I'm like just say, hey, just see how you do it. Thanks,
Jordan, appreciate you. Don't go far, just stay with it.
Yeah, while Mama is getting set up here. Yeah, you know all
the sudden the maturity, ah man, I mean I wanted to ask him
because like, as a freshman, this ain't a technical pressman, No,
like this, this is what freshman looks like. Like if you put my
picture with Jordan Hall coming as a freshman, it's like a pencil versus like
this is a crafting man from the Lord himself. Right, God's bless this
man, and I think he's gonna have a great cold man and just keep
up. Keep the baby cry comes into the fall to keep it up.
Good job man, And look you talk about the sculptor from God. This
is one of the probably main reasons like in Mama Hall, how was it
being here today after traveling and seeing your baby performed in Spartan stadium for the
first time. It was really really it was yeah, just seeing everybody.
Do you do you journey back to Like when he started, we asked this
question. He was on the show The Journey of Young Jordan's to now College
Jordan's like running out there with the uniform? Was it like a week we
made it feeling or like talking about that feeling just to step for Seeing him
finally hit that green field, it was like the we made it feeling house
and he was like, okay. Seeing him out there today was just like,
oh, here we go. How many calls do you get from here?
Down there? Is the homesakey? Good? All right? Good?
Are you breathing? Yeah? I gotta do better. My mom does the
same thing. I gotta do better. Yeah, okay, that's awesome.
I mean, because you transitioned from IMG to school like this, it's not
easy because he's been gone. He's been away for at least like three and
a half years already before this, and I know you like having your baby
around, but it's got to be comforting to know that he's been through this
before and is able to just keep picking instride because there's other players. I'm
sure other freshmen that may be struggling that he can help. He's done really
well. It was just you know, like I am I mean here,
it's like I got you know, if I'm understanding the question, if it's
just you know, coming to year, if it was, it was just
like regularly for him. Yeah, he was ready to go. Do you
what to do? Like the prep school format as you for this like this
is yeah, well our question. And so you know, I know that
you got in the stadium probably like I think there was early that was the
rumor out there. They said that you know, no one wasn't not in,
but Mama Halls, you were the first one that got a fifty yard
mind set. You don't know how it happened. We were just like walking
around the stadium and we saw the super security people and he was like,
I just want to know, like how do we get in here? We
just want to know ahead of time, like where do we know? And
he was like the guy was like, wait a minute, on home,
Yeah, oh you can go in right there. Awesome, man, absolutely,
ma'am. We'll find the door and you can just go on up.
Just like with drawn up. Everything starts until like twelve thirty and he was
like, it's okay. I mean, come on nothing. I'm like,
it's my house now. That's awesome. It's good seeing you here. Obviously
Jordan playing m two. It's everybody. Oh, we gotta get to sign.
That's that's legendary. That's got to sign the bus. No, thank
you for joining. Appreciate that. Absolutely. It wasn't too bad man,
all right, I know you like to the fine jobs. May thank you,
Thank Jordan, appreciate you. I mean, look, man, you
talk about this is freshman. No one messed with Mama Hall. Look at
that Mama Hall. Let us see Mama Hall on the show. And then
we love this. It's awesome, Oi. I mean, look a lot
of festivities going on around here today as we covered her already softball, baseball
rowing five K and then you know, remember we're into Chicho. I don't
know, like we seen him roam in the streets earlier, and you know,
this is a Fieldhouse event and we kept walking by ricks like he just
couldn't. We're like, listen, no you get I don't know. We
have a picture. I'm jay you ah, well yeah, I like that.
We we masked the hearts with his uh, his Salmon Teler think you
cut off listen they you is you know, he's a legendary for keeping rix
like that is his most loyal spot, Like you should just my equity.
He got shirts, he got hats, he's in I l but Fieldhouse is
where we had to help. Actually, here's the spot, there's the place
to be. We got athletes coming here. Uhlik Malik Khan, he's walking
around here. That's a that's a big dude. Like then you see that,
yeah, yeah, yeah, that's tight end for you right there.
I mean, there's there's there's a lot of really bright spots. Look look
look at thought he was good. He's trying to eat duck out here and
eat. They got to talk into that back loud real yep, Yep,
that's good. Yep, that's good. But keep it up there right there.
Yep. We've been talking about you obviously. Then now the leading tight
end like starting because you was sharing some time, but this is your job
right where we talked about the spring, like talk about your experience this spring
because last year he was doing some that little basketball. Uh and this is
your first year where you're able to truly focus on football. But like talking
about the spring and like what we look to expect the summer and leading to
the next fall. As far as they put up there there, it was
really good education. Really yeah, okay, just so smarter like you're the
play knowing the playbook. You knew the playbook, but knowing like how you
fit in and make sure you get to your route to know everybody see that.
That's smart. That's what you gotta know. Yeah, coming from some
everybody's just getting in shape, you know, better shape already. Yeah.
Oh you should speak up to keep speaking up. Yeah I know, yeah,
yeah, yeah, Like I'm screaming that thing, so I still gotta
screaming this. But yeah, but as far as the summer goes, everybody
just behap. You know, we already ship right now. But to keep
going on the track I'm going on right out? Yeah, what are the
best? Yeah, and that's what you're gonna do. Definitely talk about the
tidy end, like culture of like what is a missed the state's tight end?
Body make now, like what's your what's the mission for that that that
room? Because I know you got a block and when you're out there,
you know you want to I know you, I know you like to go
catch the ball. But you got to be fitting in the blocking scheme too.
But what's what are they required in a tight end? Mississ state?
Right now, you gotta do everything. If our coach calls us the ars,
you know you gotta do everything. You definitely somebody definitely definitely they look
look look so you have a lot of God given gifts right to play this
game, right, you can play obviously other sports in your opinion, what
is one thing that you need to work on in order to be the best
players you could possibly be? As fars like athleticism goes and the field,
I think I'm the right track is more like ship. We're being vocal all
the time and never go in turn. Just sometimes you focus on your teammates
to be better. Yet that was that was what we gonna expect from the
Elite car in the fall last season. So this season coming up with what
we're about to expect, bro, we just have fun. It's not rocket
science, right, Okay, your job got definitely definitely, But yeah,
man, we appreciate you because I know you're about to head out and eat
that food. So basic to spend time man, and like the Leak's mom
is the but she's president of the Prayer stuff. Yeah yeah, team of
his whole life. Got you. But we appreciate you. Man, we
got a chance to meet your family, So thank you for at least spending
before your head out to get some food. I appreciate you. Yeah,
thank you, thank you appreciated lenklenkr everyone, thanks for joining the show.
Thanks for joining. This is SPATA all day long. I mean, like
like I'm losing power over here. We got yeah, look look here,
it's stumping right in there, making sure you sign that bus. Don't forget
that. Yeah. See Peggy, Peggy is mom. Doctor Peggy is the
president of the Players Association. Players parents, parents. That's what it is.
Specifically. You know, I gotta have a tatum. The tams are
here. We gotta have one tatum, Like, come on over here,
Dan, you gotta get over here and join the show. Man. I
mean you've been you're in the tat all the time. You gotta come over
here and get in here. And when you're fit heads. Yeah, yeah,
that's it. So look we go. All our players was speaking like
they didn't never yelled on the field, So you gotta yell, yes,
get your coach voice. That's what we need you've been here us in area.
Go ahead, I'm okay, okay, you here? Hello? Can
you can you hear us? Can you hear it? We're getting in here
there you go. Yeah, that's what it is. And this is my
coach's voice. Can everybody hear me? See? You gotta touch our guys
and they came on to be loud. You gotta project, Yeah, to
project your voice. That's what you want. All the kids in here there
you're looking look and then that's your cameras. You're looking there when you're talking
about look like I said, you know miss tatle twenty one, right,
we're talking about I've talked to Dylli multiple times. They call it the twenty
one club. Clearly I was twenty one. It's been a while for someone
wearing twenty one as like fully embracing him, like making some players out there,
right, But like your son stepped up in that Penn State game when
we had some injuries and talk about did you get a call from where he
knew he was gonna get that starting job? Like talk about that. I
can't recall the exact game, but yes, he didn't know when the dance
was really good. Exc he's been sitting back and watching and waiting for his
turn and working hard. We maxt year it is ready, ready to go.
He stills a long hard of course. I mean you can sing the
game, you kind of settle down to it, you're up there. But
at the end of the day, I mean he's an athlete. Go out
there, Jr. Child and support your team. That's really you do your
job, worry about yourself. And then everything happened. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, because you know, you talk about the spring and then I feel
like he is, he's a patient guy and he wants to, you know,
to happen now. For like, how was his frame leading into uh
today, what you saw on the field, Well today he didn't play because
of the injury in right now, but I mean he's locked in. He's
locked in one hundred and that on the field, in the classroom, and
just doing whatever else it takes to take this entire team to the next level.
To all the guys out here. You have to be all around.
You can't just say I'm gonna play football. You have to embrace everything.
This is your moment in time. You have four years and that's it.
So you stepped four You're representing everybody from your hometown lead by it, and
every time you meet him it's very what it's very oh man eyes, he's
very aware. Man, what's going on? That's w He's await that's what's
which is great. You know, So this is is this your second spring
game? Yes? Because last year yeah so k so, so this is
your second time going around with this thing now? Right, So he didn't
play in this game. I know that it was. He's got a little
something he's dealing with, but he'll be fine, nothing to worry about.
But looking at his progression as a dad, right, you knowing that what
you've been telling him is like coming through. I don't know if it like
sometimes I know parents probably don't see it, but do you see that he's
growing yourself? Well, how do you feel about where Dylan is right now
as a player. Well, one thing that kind of surprised it was he
was like, Dad, it's just taking in two months and him being and
he's like Dad, everything is right here at my finger tips. I have
no excuse to succeed. So this is just a matter of time. It's
not it's kind of different smart exclaims. But now he's like coming out a
little bit, like introverted a little bit, but it's a little bit.
But now he's getting time, he's getting played. Man, he understands he's
locked in the book exactly be done. You can't make it up. And
once you we all know, once you invisit things. Speaking to Ali,
absolutely that's true visualization. Your brain doesn't really know the difference whether or not
it's really done it or not. So if you think it positive things things
will happen positively for you. So if he's a guy who seems to get
that more than your average freshman that's out there. I mean, to your
point, we talk about every sporting evam, I'm at here, every one,
bring one like it don't matter, like the basketball. He's there,
and that's what you think about, Like he's enjoying the whole experience and the
holistic approach to be have a student athlete's I caught it because it's like to
your point, you get here, you break it is done. And that's
what we always looking at that man back in my day, back in my
day here like, oh my god, he was But then and I heard
you could throw down on the brill and everything else. So my dad saying
like, we don't have a put it off. You haven't set up that
situ Michigan game. While they played them cook off, they take them cook
off? Did that come over there? We're gonna do Let me just let
me just let me just make it okay. My goal is just to provide
the things needed right for everybody. The half fun. I am not saying
you throw down. I mean I mean he's snowballs all POSSI playing possible and
he's like, I don't want to stick to I'm not. And everybody was
very pleased on what we did last season, and we planned to do it
again this season. So yes, bring them all. Well, yeah,
it's smalling from the parents have to have I know we need to bring our
former parents to join with the current. Yes, kids are going us in
a family man snay spotting dogs too. Yeah, absolutely, thank you.
You do your support here. He appreciate your brother, all right. Man.
I feel like we gotta get my roommate on the ons. We gotta
get Ross on. He's write a song ross Ship right here. Mans weavering
man, bring him to man, bring him to pring little man. It's
been room mate, MANI roommate like you can hear it. You can hear
me talking to you and ask you a question to just all right, you
just be good, but speak of a keep it right here, speak good
like I said, Eastern Eastern speed. Uh yeah, Ross Man Wills Weave
at number thirty seven love me and me and Ross came to campus together in
our freshman year. One of the fastest most physical corners that I played with.
This is my brother for life man, but one is you know,
well, welcome back to campus. Yeah, welcome. I know you come
here like you come in real quick, like boom back to the east side.
Tell us what we got here with you, Ross, Well, we
got my son, Ross junior year, who we just been on a little
father son time here. Yeah, I get the perfect time frea him up
here spring game. Absolutely absolutely, he came in hand taking everybody right,
Ross O, you brought him back and once you were you just looking at
like practice for a minute. It was just tough. Well, I actually
got here little late and everything was good. Oh god, just you know
here in the update you talk with the radio and just normal people's comments work.
You know, you can only uh you can only help them be excited.
Yeah, yeah, so you get the fields when you drive back to
cancer, like man's gonna go back to where I grew up as a young
man, or you became a man when you got here. But if you
get excited or like you see all the new developments because we've knowne that we
had had this. We were here very jealous, very jealous restaurants and they
don't have to doings like us. When you slept on beings, I felt
like concrete, totally different apartments. They got the sleep number mattresses. We
didn't have alcabolic chambers all like yeah, yeah, look, you watched you
watched football last season, but our season being in the secondary, knowing what
it looks like, what did they need to do to get back onto the
other side of the page here? Or we know we're coming out with all
and that we're competing and this is the secondary alone because this is where I
like to fuck big offensive lot. So I don't get a chance when I
got to be yeah, yeah, I can die. I want to know
what's idea about this and being like played in the league, understanding what it's
still look like. How can we get better in this offseason? Right now?
I honestly think we have the guys. You just need to effect the
communication you can shall when watching the game. If the guys don't look like
this communication to each other from the outside looking in, it's like, oh,
another dude got beat. But like I believe that was the suication.
You know, I think, you know, look like a certain thing.
Yeah, the corner of the finding to THEA from the corner, and that's
what I think that we can really stop our game. Like there's a couple
of times me and him, he looking back for me and looking back to
him. He's like, that's going on. Man, he's on the top.
They'll be like, lock it up, you know what I mean.
But that's what Doc Crust said on the sideline of the day when they to
interviewed him and he asked him what does he think about the defensive back He
said, I think because he's with them daily, and he said, I
think they need to just get out of their head and play with them themselves
and just play, you know. And that's one thing. That's the thing.
You're right, because when Layman, even anybody who play other positions,
we don't know what the hell's going on with the coverage just because we don't
know the call so it may look like somebody got beat, but it's really
not his fault necessarily, right, So when you see good defensive play,
defensive play, there's a lot of talking. You can tell the talking communicating
guys are movement and adjustice because there's a lot to see out there. Now.
As a former player, what do you think about how there's the NIL
transferred portal, all these things that really you guys didn't have to deal with
that these players now have to deal with. I mean, they're signing autographs
here today for money, but I think if you do it the right way,
it could be fun. But what do you think about it to the
game? And I half off the coaches because you have a different side of
the people that have to deal with if you ever manage. You know,
even for high school coaches from college station, they're looking at players more.
Now we're walking into money. You know, it's a different dynamic. And
then when they come into college, you have more to think about than just
your grave about winning. That's what you also you want the players to think
about. I'm happy for the players, and I just hope that every university
who gets an opportunity to have the n I L deal but they'll surround the
players with the right people in the right programs to the handle it and manage
them. Yeah, that's answer. We always ask if we had n I
L what would have been your first deal? What were your ideals the ideal
deal? If you was like, I would love to be an ambassador for
what that's a good question about it, Rick, you would have me look
about, saying, Wendy for me, probably the engineering building in there all
day every day, man, That's yeah, I would. I would come
home and be like roll roll, oh, man, I'm in the engineering
buildings like I don't see them. So we wake up in the water from
the workout. Wow, that could even be a hard question. Plus former
player, because we've never been Yeah, never had to think about it.
We never had to think about that. So honestly, I probably even took
any deal came. Yeah. We also worked together at the uh what's what's
the place down? And remember the front front ground they had Remember that,
man were painted the whole pool, painting the whole You guys are doing like
we are. Manual label were working. This is like we had to work.
Yeah, and we were in a factory making still wing gears. Guys
losing fingers. It's terrible. I said, you know, I knew what
I didn't want to listen, that's what I wanted as the clean curves.
I was like, no, man, that's when I drawed. I was
like, I was like, I'm done with this. Yeah heard Shampoor curves
and what Yeah, he took off on. He took off on. Man,
he did like a year and a half. I'm out, man,
out of the he knew, he knew how to do the work. He
wasn't about that manual label and then going into the running we had to work
because that Yeah, yeah, but that stuff like that hells players with and
I players not to fish the job because you don't know what come with their
background is at home with more homes and give the opportunity. I like that
part about it. I'm happy for the guys now man, if they're able
to do it. So man, it's great. It's great seeing you jump
back to campus. Always here Ross Jr. In the house. Don't forget
the name Ross Junr. Ross leaving Jr. Yeah, listening, we don't
bring this up. When he signed right right, appreciated look a great shown
this is. We had a good bus behind us. When it came to
the crowd control. But if the rain stops and now we've got a good
weather. Oh no, Now, now it's kind of you know, I
have a problem too, and uh, you know, soak in what we
saw this weekend as the spring football comes to a close. Now this is
the state transitions down to get those finals done. Everybody, make sure that
you get all that you're on schedule to do the right things there and then
int the summer workhouse before Paul Camp opens up. I'm sure we're gonna have
more athletes on the show as we continue. This is part of m s
U. And you know, Jay, you being on the sign that you
know, I like it showing for people out there on the bus talking about
the legendary bus. There's a bus so if you see that around, uh,
definitely give a holler. I'm trying to stop it. But with our
questions, man, we did have a ball to bab for Jay. You
who's on assignment headed to Memphis right now. And otis Wiley. I'm Jason
Strayhorn. This is SPARTA. Have a good night, God blessed and go
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