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Well, hello and good evening.
It is Thursday, March thirtieth, twenty

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back to the show, Oh fellows,

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pleasant, good evening, do you
guys? You know otis? You know

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me and you? We got our
Spartan green on in the background. You

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got that stunning always always be like, man, where you at, he's

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moisturized, moisturized. You see that. Don't don't say it ain't listening,

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because you know it is that boy, Chris Colin, Boy, you got

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that straight out of the drove clean. Look at you. I'm you somewhere

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downtown, somewhere. I'm at the
d a C. The Detroit Athletic Club.

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You know. Let you we're in
here. We're here, We're here.

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Love it, man, listen,
before you know, we got a

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nice show here in front of everybody. So like we're gonna get into it.

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Talking about some of our new recruits
in basketball who were at the McDonald's

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All American Game. Jeremy Fears had
four assists in the ball game. Guys,

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Let's look at some of the highlights
here. Hey, what was was

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I right when I was telling you
guys about Jeremy Fears? Was that was

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that right, because he's the guy. He's a general. No, hey,

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from my neighborhood. Neighborhood. You
want to claim it like he is,

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but no, look, this is
this is indication of is old recruit

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like recruited guard like is oh this
is he has the DNA and those guards.

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Man, you can see the floor. I'm excited to get him in

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there and get some hope. Man. I'm hoping Ty decides to come back,

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because that's gonna be a good mentor
mentee. Cut you off. You

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see what Trevor just said. It
was Ryan, you know because y'all y'all

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came. He knew he was coming
by, and he's like, yall can't

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get in the club, like y'all
can't troll off the Paisley, you know,

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the old Prince Paisley. Were looking
at that right now for those what's

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your shoe game? I just want
to know how he did the shoe game

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is cos okay, okay, so
you he here white, this is red

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pants, the red pants, the
red voice. Yeah, and then you

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got to stick it down with us
with that leg. You gotta get that

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leg up there like spice at him. You know, you know that flexibility

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you know, and you got to
run off with the brown with the with

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the with the brown shoe your legs
right right, the red pants this god

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blood, We love you, we
love it. And then we're from res

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to Andy that then we're from rest
shoot choo boo boom, cleaning in the

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border health, Yes, talk to
him. You know last show, Oh

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is you surprised? You asked us
a question about Bronnie and we didn't see

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Bronnie Lebron James Son in this dunk
contest. We want to see a little

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bit of that right now? What
we got? What we got here?

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Guys, man, listen, this
guy has Look he's got more pressure or

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more pressure because it's more social media
back then with le Bron. But look

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at oh man, Look you see
sister, His little sister gave him a

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nine. Do you see, like, oh gosh, look, you know,

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you know the thing about it is
he's not like he's he's only he's

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six two. He's not that like
tall for dunker. So it makes it

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look even better than than what the
dunk is. And he did something that

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his dad, his dad, he
couldn't do, is perform in a dunk

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contest. Is that a challenge?
To the King. The King never did

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it. I mean, I guess
it's still time. Oh that looks like

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that looked like that looked like some
James d n A right there, man.

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Look look, everybody's just waiting on
what are you gonna do? What

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do you think you're gonna do?
Why is Ronald McDonald? And I haven't

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seen Ronald McDonald a long time.
Yo. You guys are taking this show

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to the next level. This show
is off the Richters straight. You gotta

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put this thing back on, get
this train back on the track straight.

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No, there ain't nothing wrong with
this man. We're just looking at,

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you know, the future of the
NBA. You know, I know he

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wants to play with his dad too. That's the plan. There's little brother

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here's yeah. Do you think like, so, what do you think?

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I know? LeVar Ball came out
and said he should play in the Australian

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Basketball League next year instead of going
to college. What are you guys thoughts

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on that? That's what I was
talking about. What what do you guys

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think he is going to do?
Like I feel like you said, Duke,

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you know, when coach k was
there, I think he would have

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automatically went to duke in my opinion, But it would be great if he

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said, hey, I'm gonna go
to Ohio State with my dad. Love

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probably would love to go to Ohio
State obviously is like honorary alum. Right.

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I think that's a good spot for
him, the way o how State

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showed up in the late in the
tournament, the big right here, go

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ahead. But you know, I
think I think it's really like the way

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it's paid for him, meaning like
he's he's a hard worker. It's not

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like going to be given to him. But I don't I don't know if

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he would just say, hey,
you know what, I'm gonna do that

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G league real quick and and uh
and then go. But I don't know

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what you're think is too too,
So my my question to you guys is

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this. I think overall, he's
he's one and done anyways, so he

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might as well he's making he's making
money, he already in NIL, he

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might as well go somewhere, get
the structure of the professional level coach by

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you know, pro treated practices like
a pro. So I don't think college

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is the route for him. But
my question to you guys is this,

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like this fast forward, uh,
three four, years back before they changed

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the rule. Do you think he
is a lottery pick right now based on

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skill, not just off his name, but based off his skills and everything.

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Do you think he's like the Kevin
Garnets, the Kobe Bryant that can

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just jump to the next level and
play right away, you know, play

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you said, play right away,
versus Kobe came in and played right away,

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Kevin Garnett came in and played right
away. When they came in and

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did more than just play, they
excelled. I won't say dominate. Yeah,

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that's what I'm saying, But that's
what I'm saying. Like back in

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the day, if you were a
high school player and you entered the draft,

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you were a guy that was going
to go in and be an automatic

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impact for your team. Do you
think if that rule was still in place,

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Bronnie James could be an impact in
the NBA right now? You know,

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I guess the story like fast forward
or let's rewind back to remember Anthony

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Simmons right going to IMG and like
it was to me, I thought it

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was a surprise when he decided he
was going to to the league enter his

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name into the draft after IMG and
I feel like Bronnie has that, but

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I honestly it's it's a tough,
tough battle for you to decide, Hey,

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I want to experience college or my
goal is to get to the league.

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So to your point, the best
part, best traction, the best

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journey to get there is to go
that route is pro like, and I

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think he's I think from a scale
standpoint, he's now proven a lot of

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doubters wrong that you know, at
first they're saying he's not even a G

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league guy, But I feel like
now I think he can contribute to the

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way the game is now right and
he fits in the game. You you

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say he fits in the game like
with a lot like let me tell you

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this now he like you're saying,
like like Penny Hardaway going like, well,

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you're talking me like going straight and
being a franchise guy, Like,

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I don't think he's that. So
you don't think he's gonna be you don't

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think he will be a first round
pick? Then hold on, see wait,

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you're saying a lottery versus first round. I do think he's the first

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round pick. Do you think?
Okay, so that if you if you

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come from high school like those guys
that came from high school were lottery picks.

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Kobe was a lottery picked. Kevin
Garnett was a lottery pick. You

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know, all those guys. You
know, Like I'm just saying, like,

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so, I don't think his game
is ready for the next level right

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now. I don't think his game
is ready to be checked by j Mi

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gral of men in this game,
because when they're checking you down there with

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those elbows in the small of your
back, that ship hurts. Hey,

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look true, this is one thing
that's for sure right now, going through

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the growing pains that everyone goes through
when they level up, and that's going

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from high school to college, college, NFL or NBA. There's always an

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adjustment period that you have to go
through. When you live in the same

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house as the greatest player of all
time, arguably the NBA scoring leader of

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all time. I think he's going
to have the cliff notes, the cheat

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sheet, the reader's digest version of
that development, that progression that you need

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to go through. So you hear, I've heard Lebron time and time again,

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and I don't think Lebron's blowing smoke
when he says like, look he

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I mean, he knows his son, and she's going to be honest.

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He doesn't want to set his son
up for failure. And he says,

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like, these dudes out here in
the NBA are trash compared to where he's

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at right now. And I'm not
saying the elite. You can keep comparing

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him to the elite of the elite. Now can he play? And you

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know they're trying to work out a
deal where he can play for with his

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dad, him playing with Lebron with
the Lakers, where he would end up.

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I think he'll be able to contribute, you know, I don't.

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I don't know if he'd be a
superstar, but he can absolutely contribute into

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NBA level of my opinion. See, I say that's so nepotism there.

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You look at that and callous,
right MJ's son and Shaki like shack Son.

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No, because he's he's living.
He's getting the blueprint of those greates,

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those Hall of famers. But at
the end of the day, it

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still comes down to two skills,
the will, the desire, all that

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stuff. I don't think he has
it right now. I think he needs

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to develop. He needs to get
bigger, he needs to get stronger.

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He needn't get faster. He needs
three years before he can be a three

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whoa. Oh man, Hey,
you know what if he was not?

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Okay, okay, So then let
me ask you this. Let me ask

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you this question. If you watch
that kid and his name was Brian,

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would you say he's ready to play
in the NBA right now? Why?

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You know why? Because I would
say, like you know, he doesn't

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if he was unless he was getting
coached up by Lebron every day than in

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MJ. In my opinion, because
MJ with his son, they didn't you

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you saw MJ. Son. I
think he was Illinois. Remember him playing

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in Illinois. He walked on in
Illinois. Not even that. It's not

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the same player and Shaquille O'Neil son. I mean, it's just it's not

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they're they're not the same. Bronni
is a little bit better and there is

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more of a handholding, if you
will, from Lebron's standpoint. Now,

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I don't think that he can come
out right now. I mean he can't

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because the rules say so, and
he needs a year, right one year?

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One year. So hey, we're
gonna talk about you son in a

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minute. Don't worry about that.
So what I would say is this then

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what what Lebron needs to do is
take his son. He needs to go

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on that uh LeVar ball math.
He needs to take his son, take

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him out of the limelight, take
him everything and just train him. Say

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you're gonna set a year out.
You're gonna get the best trainer, the

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best nutritionist. You're gonna put some
weight on, you're gonna get you know,

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put some athleticism, you work on
his guild. Now, having that

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to that level, he has that
level, he needs to go into.

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No, he's he's where he can
go with the girls distracted him everything like

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that. He needs to go away. He needs to go away. He

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needs to go through like a Rocky
camp girls. He needs to go to

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Rocky for listen to yes, Okay, that man has had that type of

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level of training from jump Dog.
Listen, he's not ready. He's had

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that type and he's not ready right
now. He ready, He's not ready.

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He will be well, David Jerry, Still, we'll see. You

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know, lebron spends a million dollars
on his body per our crack research team

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in the back here, just like
a Kardashian. So how much does Bronnie

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get to spend on his body.
Can you get answer that one? But

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probably more times too, Bro like
this, Yeah, I mean that man

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has a ceiling. He has already
he had. They'll get that man ready.

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Yeah. Yeah. So look,
talking about NBA talent, Let's talk

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about some Michigan State NBA guys.
Xavier Tillman and the Memphis Grizzlies has a

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career high twenty points and nine boards. Guys, imagine Brownie James going against

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this guy. Not a guard,
right, imagine him driving and then he

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had big tail on the court,
rim level guard. Yeah, he's he's

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athletic. He's athletic. I saw
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better, much better absolutely than he
was. You you saw that. You

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saw what a Maury Bailey was doing
in U c l A. Was on

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the court with why I can't believe
how good it is. Yes, at

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U c l A ball not in
the NBA, but you got against Brian.

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I don't I think he needs to
go to college and develop. Yeah,

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we agree. You know, we're
talking about playing in the league,

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like right away, that's what we're
talking about. He can't, he ain't

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ready, He's not ready. He
can get drafted and get that brand and

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he'll be ready. He'll be ready
AnyWho. Yeah, manrats, But Jared

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Jackson had a so it was he
had nineteen Like they both was like equally

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balling, right, and uh,
you got John Morett back, you see

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that kind of got the chemistry back. Uh and you saw Memphis was electric.

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Man watching that game. It was
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The Memphis there shout out to Tillman. You know, that's that's a

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player. You know, Like I
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and now that he gets to live
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know, came to college and everyone
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had the kid, you know,
and took the next step to support

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his family and everything like that.
That's so awesome. And then Darreon Jackson

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in there. But I'm telling you, Memphis Grizzly, that's a team right

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there as well as I love day
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but uh, that that's gonna be
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between the two of them. Dougie
Fresh said that does that jacket come with

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some hater? Ray I'm just asking
Douggie, ask Doug put this on the

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answer this question right now, so
this it will be archives and everything.

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You think Brownie James is ready for
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Today? Hey? You know what, Well, while he answers that

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question, well, we'll talk about
your son. Nathan Carter from Michigan State

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by way of Yukon by way of
Western New York, the home of the

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garbage plate dumb. Let's look at
a video right now Nathan talking about Michigan,

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Michigan State man. Just looking forward
to seeing on the fans. You

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know, I think it's like eighty
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so I've never seen that many,
eighty thousands. So yeah, it's

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been great just being able to be
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be part of the team, you
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that so so a decade and you
can come back here in years from now,

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will still be a Spartan dogs be
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which is a one to the lost
opportunity. So it's a blessing to

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be here. And I'm just excited
for the season, excited to perform for

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the fans and to help grow this
team so we can get our goal conference,

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which is ultimately to win championship.
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around here, you know, that's
how everyone says it. You know.

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We never named that team down the
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the way it is here, you
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have some some absolutely. They they're
the ones that when I was at Connecticut

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that put me out for the year. So I got a little tip of

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my shoulder when we played up.
So it'd be fun to get a little

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get back when when that time comes. But obviously you worry I'm from getting

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the game and we go from there. So m but sure, but you're

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young man. I would like to
get some old footage with jau and how

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he did his interviews to see I
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this kid is the next level.
This kid is gonna be a kid that

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I'm telling you guys, you will
be coming back to me and be like,

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Wow, this guy's he's a stud. Like just listen to him.

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He already has that chip on his
shoulder about that school down the road.

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You know, he has he legit
against him because of what like he said

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in the video there, so it's
already there. So you know, I'm

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excited for this kid. I think
this kid is gonna be the guy that's

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gonna help expand that offense from Michigan
State. He's gonna be the one that's

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gonna get those tough yards. He's
not gonna he's not gonna be a sexy

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player. So if you're Spartan Nation
out there thinking about you know, this

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guy is gonna be a sexy player, gonna make the splash home run place.

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He's gonna get those tough yards.
He's gonna be that guy that's gonna

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on third and one, he's gonna
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second and goal, third and goal, he's going to get that touchdown.

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He's gonna be that guy. And
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he's gonna have that arsenal in him
there. He's gonna run you, over

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run you, over run you over
and then when he breaks loose that one

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time that safety braceist for run over, he's gonna make a move on him

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and make Spartan see him go ooh. I'll tell you about it. Is

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that is that a fact? We're
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Okay. I mean, look,
he's he is immediately stepped on campus

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and it almost feels like has taken
the leadership role, like like, listen,

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we don't have a vocal leader,
and like I see more of Nate

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Carter speaking to the other you know, we're highlighting him, but he's talking

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with like he's been here already for
like two years. Right, he's talking

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like that where I think to that
point of his character of uh, you

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saw he he went to South Africa
during the spring break and I'm gonna I'm

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gonna lum on that trip, right, and so I already know the experience

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he went through going over there and
serving and going into Soweto and walking the

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streets of Nelson Mandela, I mean
Nelson Mandela, and so going through that.

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He also his girlfriend got baptized over
there. Like it's this dude,

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is he's the He's the whole guy, right, And I think that's where

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too, I see where you're saying
like this dude, that that transfers over

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to the field, like he's a
guy that's off the field, on the

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field the same guy. So you
know, he's gonna truly truly change the

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demographic in like the trajectory of our
running back round. So otis like you

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said, that point there, and
I'm looking at the big picture that you're

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talking about. Character. Character gets
you a long ways. His character gets

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you a long ways on the field
with your on field play. You know

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what you do off the field?
That all coming. I don't know our

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listeners if you don't believe in a
higher power or anything like that, but

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I do and I know like Nate
Carter is on the right track to being

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a successful student athlete at Michigan State. He's on the right path. And

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like you said, you don't hear
many. You had a running back that

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was here last year. He's not
talking much right now. Ny Carter has

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stepped in that role of that leader
in the running backs room there right now.

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So I'm all in on Nate Carter. I'm all in. And you

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call me bias, call me anything
like that. I'm all in on Nate

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Carter. Pete, what does Doug
say? What was Doug's answer? He's

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what's the difference between him and Lamela? Great point, That's a great point.

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LaMelo was ready for the next More
was more, he was more explosive,

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more explosive. Yes, but he
also went over it. He did

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the he did the ritt of going
overseas, he did the route. He

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didn't go to college. He didn't
go to college. He has all that

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everything like that. Yes, I
don't know. I don't know what we're

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even arguing about here having a friendly
debate, because you keep talking about like

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ready now, we're saying he'll be
ready next year, like the rules allow

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him to be understand here now.
So I but the question that you guys

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failed to answer us. I said, if the rules were back like four

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years ago, when a player could
leave, would he be ready to play

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in the NBA? And you guys
said yes, if Aunt Sally had balls,

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should be Uncle Bill? Yeah,
or maybe not. Is this twenty

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twenty three, so keep it moving
with that one. I don't know.

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Look, Marc Cuise great out of
Flint had a state championship. Otis man.

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Yeah it was. I was trying
to get out there, man to

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go go support, but obviously I
was stuck in the house it a little

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bit. So you know, it's
a story of like coming from Flint,

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like it was. It was playing
hoops and Marcquise was that dude as well,

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Like you know, we had one
of our big big bros in Kelvin

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Tober But that whole like five year
span of that age man, like we

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have some ballers, and Marquise could
have went anywhere in the country and he

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went to Michigan State to play for
Izzoe. But the the journey of trying

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to win one in the high school
and like Michigan State high school basketball playoffs,

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like trying to win a state championship
and then going to miss Michigan State

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win in some championships and then also
now being coaching at your alma mater that

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you you know, taking them to
the promised Land. And this is what

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the look at this story just a
few things that came up just telling a

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story about Markquis gray journey, but
also you know, the redemption of getting

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in there and leading these young men
from Flint in the state championship and welcome

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back. During his playing career,
Marquise Gray was seen as the savior of

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beat Your Basketball. The team hadn't
won a state championship since nineteen eighty seven.

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The six nine forward carried that weight
on his broad shoulders. Who's made

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it to the state finals in two
thousand and three, but fell short.

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Fast forward twenty years later, and
Gray has fulfilled his promise to Bucktown.

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It don't sink in because in my
mind, I'm still young, slim,

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can still dunk on people quees.
But the reality is is that I can't

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physically impose my will on the game, said Queen, give it no matter

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how much I want to. I
have to teach my players now how to

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do that, and that's the hard
one. In each of his first two

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seasons as Beacher's head coach, former
spartan Marquis Gray has guided his team to

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the Breslent for the state tournament.
This season, Gray finally got to hold

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the D three state championship trophy,
a moment over thirty years in the making.

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How many people sacrifice for me to
be in this moment, from my

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two older brothers, Keenan and Gordon
Gray, to my mother, Rebecca Gray,

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to my wife, to the beat
your community. Until one of my

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assistant coaches, sous, my girl's
head coaches, coach Smister Easton, just

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grateful, man, grateful that you
know you put it well, you put

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it in the work for something and
it finally happens, and you know,

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this big burst up emotional just it
just comes out. I gotta give love

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and a shout out to Mike Williams
because even though he's not here, I

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still talk to him often and he
still guides and mentors me, and so

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he doesn't have to do that all
year long. Raid has been drilled into

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his team. Be ready for your
championship vote. Robert Lee Junior grabbed the

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bull by the horns against Saint Francis
twenty nine points, eleven rebounds and ends

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his career as a two times stay
check. I feel like we couldn't let

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the game slip out our hands.
We have to keep playing hard and eventually,

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you know, we're just gonna get
the outcome that we got. And

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he's a kid that I would get
my right arm for. If my daughter

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grows up and dates a guy like
Robert Lee, I'll be happy. He's

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a great kid. He does everything
the right way. He doesn't take shortcuts,

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he never makes excuses for anything.
He just keeps his head down and

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continue to work. Rob wasn't alone. Yeah, so I just wanted to

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showcase that story. Man. It's
a good you know, follow it,

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you know search it, but you
know, one spartan dog. We obviously

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went to school with Quise when he
was here. Just good to see someone

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obviously winning lives for these young men. Yeah, ohdis, you're one hundred

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percent right. I remember being at
Michigan State and when Queeze came in and

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just seeing his highlights, seeing everything
like the else, like, Wow,

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this dude's stud. You know,
this dude's absolutely stud And I understand to

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a degree, you know, the
battle and everything like that that happened,

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you know with him. He didn't
win a state title as a player in

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high school. When I was in
high school, we went to four straight

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state chainampionships and lost four straight state
titles in a row, and we're the

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Buffalo Bills of high school football in
Buffalo, New York. But you know,

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after that, you know, I
had the opportunity to go back and

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I was a head coach back in
my hometown area there, and that was

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one of the things. It's like
chasing that high school state title, you

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know, because that's something special that
nobody can take away from you. And

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I was never fortunate enough to get
that high school state title like Marquise Gray

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was able to. And I'm just
so happy, so proud of the fact

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that you know, after what he
did in Michigan State, he took his

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talents back to mentor these young men, you know, and give them something

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that no one can take away from
them. Well said guys, I mean,

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you know, winning, you know, personal accolades only go so deep

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and only so far. But coming
back in mentoring those youth like he's doing

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and being able to take it all
the way to the state championship level as

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a coach will live on for generations
to come, with those young men and

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their families forever. So I mean, yes, I'm not crying. You're

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crying. That was that was act. You know, that was very ons

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one of the moments right there.
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right now and see if Jau,
who is mister NFLPA, can do exactly

407
00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:37.240
that. So what we're gonna do
is pull off the picture, mister NFLPA

408
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:43.200
of the This is the meeting here
in the NFL owners meeting that happened on

409
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.240
Tuesday, I believe this week a
couple of days ago. And we're going

410
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:52.319
to go from left to right there, starting in the back row, and

411
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:58.920
see if Jay you can name that
coach? All right, I might.

412
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:02.079
I can skip over in like I'm
back right, sure, okay, see

413
00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:06.240
what you can tell you? So
in the back row, starting left to

414
00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:12.559
right, the dude and the aviators. My guy got his start at Michigan

415
00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:17.880
State as a GA was my He
was a coach on the coaching staff when

416
00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:22.519
I was with the Jets, and
he has a way to my heart because

417
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:24.799
at the owner's meeting. There was
some thing that came out. I said

418
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:29.960
he was the first coach at eleven
thirty am to crack open a beer.

419
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:40.640
Brian Daball of what team? The
New York Giants Football Giants. So that's

420
00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:44.880
number two there, the guy,
the tall guy with the all the hair,

421
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:49.039
number two. Let's go. Let's
let's go down. Let's go down,

422
00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:52.039
sitting sitting down. We're gonna start
with the Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott.

423
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.599
Okay, all right, and then
let's skip the next guy. Let's

424
00:33:55.599 --> 00:34:07.000
go to the Green Bay Packers coach
name Matt There we go, and then

425
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:12.920
let's go to mister too cool for
school Sean McVay. Welcome back to the

426
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:20.519
league, Sean Payton. And then
in there everyone's favorite I just lost his

427
00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:25.760
name of coach of the Commanders around
Rivera. All right, uh, and

428
00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:34.800
everyone loves Big Red like he's taking
the bowl game pictures, those you know,

429
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:42.440
those bowl game pictures. So all
right, he's got. We got

430
00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:52.880
Bill Belichick, we got hardball,
we got Pete Carroll, we got let's

431
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:58.440
skip the dude with the blazer I
know him. Let's go to the Dolphins

432
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:04.400
coach yeah, an next to Pete
Carroll. Oh yeah, yeah, my

433
00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:10.400
right, you know, I'm sorry, that's my bad. H We have

434
00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:16.360
the Dolphins head coach. I just
you. You've made me lose him,

435
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:21.360
lose his name. All right,
Let's let's skip and let's go to McDaniel,

436
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:27.079
McDaniel, Mike McDaniel, let's go
to Let's go to Mike McCarthy.

437
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:34.719
Let's go to Jamico Ryans. Let's
go to Frank Wright up top. Hey,

438
00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:37.519
we got some coaches here. Boy. Let's let's skip over three.

439
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:42.719
Let's go to Michigan State's Robert Salah, who was a g A there when

440
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:45.679
I was at Michigan State. Let's
skip over old boy here, Let's go

441
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:53.800
to Detroit's skiff over, old boy. Just going to Detroit, Dan Campbell

442
00:35:54.079 --> 00:36:02.800
Motor City Dan? Uh? Damn? Who's that brother? Then Mike Tomlin

443
00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:14.280
lefty skip the brother? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the decordinator,

444
00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:20.960
the decordinator, the decordinator who has
no facial expressions. He used to coach

445
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:27.079
the Jets. Damn. How does
name slipped my mind? TB Yeah,

446
00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:35.480
Todd Bold uh huh. And then
let's go to Mike Tomlin. Uh,

447
00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:45.639
Mike Tomlin's fro just disappeared that quick
man. Like that boy got hair.

448
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:52.239
He's not like you otis he can
grow hair, all right, So let's

449
00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:58.719
go to uh old boy. Then
let's go to Arthur Smith next to Mike

450
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:13.960
Tomlin. Let's go to Kyle Shannonhan
I said, Mike Matt Lafleury. Hey,

451
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:20.880
that's pretty good man, he's left
there. You got. Yeah,

452
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:23.480
that's good. That's good. That's
really good. That's very good. Cleveland

453
00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:38.880
Brown. Yeah, yeah, yeah, brother there is Who is that brother

454
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:47.239
that skipped? Yeah? You said, So let's look who's the who's the

455
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:52.639
favorite coach of the pose of all
the coaches? Like who has the best

456
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:57.079
posture? And look right now swag
all that. I would say it's either

457
00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:05.239
it's Sean McDermott far left there because
he's like I don't give a yeah,

458
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:08.760
he's there, like he's there to
kick it. And Brian Dabolls waiting to

459
00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:20.199
crack open that next beer and Andy
read it's not it. He likes to

460
00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:24.920
draw mustaches on his teammates, you
know, his players faces when they're sleeping,

461
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:30.480
according to the commercials. But Frank
writes some credit though, like there's

462
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:36.199
a lot of people that's trying to
go to Tampa to Carolina right now.

463
00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:42.039
Oh man, Yeah, they're loading
up over there. Hey, hey,

464
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.079
hats off to you too. That
was good. Put you on the spot.

465
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:52.360
You came out with flying colors.
Man, I wonder how our listeners

466
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:55.679
fared. Honestly, and I know
Dougie is going to say, I did

467
00:38:55.719 --> 00:39:12.960
it all six old boy, That
old boy. Who's that brother? Hilarious

468
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:20.599
to choose one of the ki guys. We want to bring up an article

469
00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:24.199
that came out recently Mike Gandhi.
If you guys don't know who Mike Gundhy

470
00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:31.840
is, the legendary mullet baby,
the legendary mullet you know here he He's

471
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:38.039
His thought is, oh, it
is that in order to curb the transfer

472
00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:43.119
portal and all that and settle it
down, that players need to be able

473
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:47.480
to sign contracts for their scholarship.
So a one year deal, a two

474
00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:51.480
year deal, or a four year
deal. What do you guys think about

475
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:53.519
this option? Because he thinks that's
going to cut down on the ability for

476
00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:57.800
guys to move in and out,
uh and leave, you know, the

477
00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:02.199
school that they're currently in. I
say, and by the way, Mike

478
00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:08.960
Gundy's Elijah Collins new coach now Frost
Spartan. I say this, Yeah,

479
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:13.599
if you want lockdown players too,
deals coaches, you stay. You can't

480
00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:19.920
leave. If you get a better
offer somewhere, you gotta stay. Mmm.

481
00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:22.880
It's it's you can't lock down a
player and then you pick up and

482
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:28.119
leave for a better offer. What
what sense does that make? Oh,

483
00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:30.159
so you're locking the coach down too. You have to if you want to

484
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:34.400
lock down the players, you got
to be locked down as well. If

485
00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.280
you leave, you got to pay
a fine, and the other school that

486
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:42.639
hires you can't pay your fine as
your buyout clause. You have to take

487
00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:45.880
it like it's getting like to that
point, like it's to that point where

488
00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:52.079
businesses it needs to be a business
decision exactly, transition. It's this is

489
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.199
a the way West. You keep
hearing wa wa West is going to get

490
00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:00.400
even worse. But if it's like
if we got to make make sure,

491
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:02.559
you know, remember what they used
to come around and make a sign that

492
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:07.880
little paper sometimes you know you serve
practice hours, but like you know,

493
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:13.119
I think year to year until I
don't know how many years ago, where

494
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:17.800
you know, the Big ten worked
on getting that four year guarantee and your

495
00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:24.960
scholarship. Where it wasn't the sending
guys like behind and transferring there. There

496
00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:30.679
was there was no issues where you
had to be academically eligible to then transfer

497
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:35.360
like or you have to sit out
right. So now it's like, hey,

498
00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:38.639
I'm in the transfer portal and you're
able to go any times so and

499
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:44.440
able to control the numbers. It's
really the numbers game. It's leaving these

500
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:47.239
coaches out to drive, where guys
are just picking up and leaving after that

501
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:52.679
one year, not serving the purpose
of at least going one year. Yeah,

502
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:55.800
go ahead, go ahead, I
get what you're saying. Otis you

503
00:41:55.840 --> 00:42:00.679
know, like you say, leaving
the coaches out to drive, but a

504
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:04.719
lot of the time is before even
the transfer portal and stuff, that these

505
00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:08.079
coaches were leaving these players out to
dry because when we were there before a

506
00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:12.639
coach you pick up and leave and
if we transferred, we had to sit

507
00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:15.840
out of you know, now it's
it's you know, it's not that these

508
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:22.239
coaches need some type of repercussions as
well. Guys, what about the elephant

509
00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:25.480
in the room here, because you
know, we're talking about players deciding to

510
00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:34.559
leave and coaches deciding to leave.
The reality of today's college football or basketball

511
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:37.679
in some cases is that coaches are
telling guys to get in the portal and

512
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:43.920
get out of here. That's the
reality. So in this article, when

513
00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:45.079
you read this article that you like, we will put it up on our

514
00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:50.320
on our socials so you can see
it. He talks about it. Now.

515
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:52.119
Yeah, you know, if a
player says, hey, I can't

516
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:59.000
play here, well I'm not I'm
good enough to sign another's And later in

517
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:02.440
the articles not to part, he
says, I'm not coach, I'm not

518
00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:06.800
good enough to play here. I
want to go to this school. I

519
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.559
sign off and let him go or
whatever reason. But that's the only way

520
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:14.840
they're going to be able to manage
numbers. In my opinion, Well that

521
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:17.719
right there, Like if you really
get into the nitty gritty of that one,

522
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:22.039
that statement. A lot of players
are being in what we would call

523
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:29.480
in the NFL cut released from their
scholarship. So I think that you know,

524
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:32.639
this is progress, and it is
movement in the right direction, but

525
00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:38.320
it doesn't solve everything unless they somehow
mitigate that because some players are being asked

526
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:43.440
to lead and then they have nowhere
to go afterwards. Yeah, I think

527
00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:46.320
before. You know, back when
we played, there was those exit interviews

528
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:50.159
at the end of the season where
you go and you resign your scholarship,

529
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:55.000
you know, and sometimes you you'll
have a locker bate that doesn't come back,

530
00:43:55.119 --> 00:44:00.400
doesn't guess it sound scholarship resigned.
So I just think there's so much

531
00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:07.000
coaches are now getting fearful of their
jobs because the players now are starting to

532
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:12.559
have control of their destiny and their
decisions and everything like that, because the

533
00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:15.880
players are now being like, you
know what, this isn't for me,

534
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:19.039
I'm gonna leave, and these coaches
are like, well, I brought this

535
00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:22.000
guy here because I thought I was
gonna win when he was a four or

536
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.480
five star guy. And the alumnis
are going to love me for signing this

537
00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:29.320
guy because he's a four or five
star guy, and it's not going to

538
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:30.159
be anything on me. At the
end of the day, It's going to

539
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:32.440
be in the kid. The kid
was a bust. But at the end

540
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:36.119
of the day, it was not
the kid was a bust. The kid

541
00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:39.800
was not in the right position to
be successful in your program. So instead

542
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:44.280
of the coach saying this, you
know, it was on me that this

543
00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:46.639
guy wasn't for me. He's going
to put it on the kid for transferring,

544
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:52.639
And that's what the coaches are starting
to do right now. Shameful,

545
00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:54.480
you know, you know, I
don't know what the answer is here,

546
00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:58.199
guys, But if you don't know
who my Gundy is, maybe you can

547
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:01.480
remember this particular quote when he talked
about he's a man, he's forty.

548
00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:07.360
Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,

549
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:13.960
I'm forty, I'm not a kid. Write something about me? Or

550
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:19.599
are coaches right about a kid that
does everything right? That's heart's broken?

551
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:22.840
And then say that the coaches said
he was scared. That ain't true.

552
00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:30.440
And then to say that we made
that decision because Donovan was because he threatened

553
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:37.280
to transfer. That's not true.
So get your facts straight. And I

554
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:40.840
hope someday you have a child and
somebody beat downgrades them and belittles them,

555
00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:43.880
and you have to look him in
the eye and say, you know what,

556
00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:47.280
it's okay. They're supposed to be
mature adults, but they're really not.

557
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.719
Who's the kid here? Who's the
kid here? Are you kidding me?

558
00:45:53.039 --> 00:46:00.480
That's all I got to say.
It makes me wanting I don't know

559
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:06.639
if you guys remember this. I
do remember it. Yeah, even that

560
00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:10.079
was hilarious of my gun. Even
you brought up a point their iconic presser.

561
00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:15.920
You brought up a point there too
when you said we had players that

562
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:17.079
had, you know, you had
to sign a scholarship to move on and

563
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:21.719
sometimes you're, you know, a
guy in your locker your role might not

564
00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:25.440
come back in your era, what
would guys be doing. Would they be

565
00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:30.280
asked to leave or would they just
take the medical because in my era,

566
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:35.039
that's what it was. Guys didn't
quite hack it. They got a medical

567
00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:39.800
so they still were able to finish
their classes on campus. But now you

568
00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:45.519
got they had to go the I
remember specifically, you know, coach Smith

569
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:52.159
calling people in this locker room saying, I'll do the odors now Michigan State

570
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:57.119
isn't for you. Yeah, and
you know, guys are gone, you

571
00:46:57.159 --> 00:47:00.760
know, like and that was the
harsh reality that people didn't realize. People

572
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:05.039
at that time thought when they were
when they committed to go to play at

573
00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:07.519
a Division one college, they were
there for four years. You know,

574
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:10.039
at that time, it was a
year, two year contract. It was

575
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:15.440
a year two year scholarship. If
you didn't perform or you you weren't showing

576
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:20.840
any level of potential, Like you
know, you could fit into this system.

577
00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:22.360
You can fit into their scheme.
You're going to get bigger, strong,

578
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:25.559
and faster. They just simply said, hey, you know you'll be

579
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:30.519
better served somewhere else, and you
know, if you need help finding a

580
00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:34.719
new home, will write you a
letter of recommendation kind of stuff. Who

581
00:47:36.440 --> 00:47:40.480
do you remember that all man?
That's r It is rough man, it's

582
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:45.559
rough. I feel like there's no
there's no room for error, Like you

583
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:49.559
cannot be like you have to follow
the rules. You need to go to

584
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:53.760
class. You need to be academically
like sound because like drop off, get

585
00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:58.440
shipped off quick. If you want
to like right back, then you able

586
00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:00.400
like I'm gonna groom him. I'm
a mint to him, get him right,

587
00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:04.840
Like no, we ain't got time
for you to get right, like

588
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:07.480
you know, like you got to
be here and be right on it.

589
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:12.599
Be about your business because like anything
that's gonna be in a disadvantage is not

590
00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:15.840
doing the right things. And I
think that's where like we're getting guys in

591
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:20.960
here that's ready and they're professionally ready, like we weren't when I was out

592
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:27.280
in la we went to dinner with
you, me and afloat with Stephen Reeves.

593
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:30.239
Stephen Reeves, great player at Michigan
State. You know, he came

594
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:34.599
in from a great lineage. You
know, his dad played at Florida,

595
00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:37.719
his brother is a coach, everything
like that, highly touted quarterback. He

596
00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:40.360
didn't cut the mold, he didn't
fit the system. He was asked to

597
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:45.400
leave. He was asked to transfer
out of there, out of Michigan State,

598
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:49.119
and he ended up going to Old
Miss and having success there. But

599
00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:53.480
you know, that's that's just how
it goes, you know, coaches.

600
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:57.199
You know, I don't think that
a lot of people know that, like

601
00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:00.760
because it was there was a moment, there was a time when it trans

602
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:05.880
transcended. So because when I was
talking about Perlis and saving you know,

603
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:09.519
the late mid nineties, late nineties, it wasn't the deal. And then

604
00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:14.519
somewhere in the early two thousands,
mid two thousands, it started to becoming

605
00:49:14.639 --> 00:49:17.079
like, hey, you got you
gotta go. And I remember when urban

606
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:22.519
Meyer came into the Big Ten,
they were bringing this quote unquote sec mentality

607
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:29.119
in that every year of your scholarship
was not guaranteed and It really changed the

608
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:34.039
landscape of the game because I think
what was happening before Big ten if I'm

609
00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:38.000
not if I'm not mistaken, if
you could prove that there was a medical

610
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:43.639
issue, then that scholarship that you
were still paying for didn't count against your

611
00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:49.079
roster. But now it does.
They don't really care. You know what

612
00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:58.360
the exemption with the situation isn't get
eighty five, don't really care. I

613
00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:02.320
mean, it's all about the money, right apparently, So what's this?

614
00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:07.079
If you're hit? What's this?
Okay? If you watch get that like

615
00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:15.880
button, you gotta call wow,
Dougie, you might have got a spartan

616
00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:25.480
side. They inspired me and uh, I'm terrible at We got to get

617
00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:30.119
John L on the show. We
are What do the people think about that?

618
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:34.840
What bringing John L? We got
to bring John L on the show?

619
00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:37.800
Bringing bringing them on? Like do
people want to hear that? You

620
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:38.960
know, because there's a lot of
things people like here, you know,

621
00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:46.039
and we're going to talk about what
people have really you know, reacted positively

622
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:51.280
to and we're gonna you know,
provide them with those people. So maybe

623
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:53.360
John L is one of those future
guests that we can have. I know

624
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:58.400
one thing that everybody reacted positive to, positively to, and that was the

625
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:02.480
bill to approve olcohol sales in the
stadium and that just got introduced in the

626
00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:07.719
legislature in the state of Michigan.
Look at this, guys, mm hmmmm,

627
00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:15.239
otis talk to us, talk to
them nice huh. This is one

628
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:23.599
great news. Two, it's an
opportunity to now truly, you know,

629
00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:30.880
bring that revenue to be real,
I'm trying to be like real professional about

630
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:36.960
it. No, it's like revenue
and and it's also very I mean,

631
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:43.760
statistics show that it does control the
binging, like the binge drinking on campus.

632
00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:47.000
And so I think it's it's gonna
be a good, you know,

633
00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:51.639
step by step process because there's still
some work to do. But you know,

634
00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:55.840
just reading that, I mean,
everyone's been asking about it, right,

635
00:51:55.920 --> 00:52:00.079
everybody's been asking about it. They
go elsewhere to other venues. I

636
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:04.559
think that's when you start going to
visiting other campuses, when you're going to

637
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:08.559
see the Spartans play, and other
venues are doing it and they see success

638
00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:14.039
in it. Everyone's asking, man, that will change the environment of the

639
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:21.239
fan engagement of adding that to the
elements of our sport events. Yeah,

640
00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:28.760
and just so everyone remembers, everyone
understands that this is Sparta. MSU podcast

641
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:32.400
broke the potential news here first.
So when you're going around telling your friends

642
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:37.920
and everything like that, remember where
you heard the hints about it first.

643
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:40.920
But to Otis's point, you know, I think it's a very good thing.

644
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:45.880
It controls you know, a senior
in college, you know someone in

645
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:50.119
college. You don't have to sit
in the parking lot of Spartan State and

646
00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:52.840
chugg a pint chug of fifth just
so you can come into the game.

647
00:52:57.440 --> 00:53:02.360
You're basically telling your routine. No, I don't want tell me in a

648
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:08.719
few times that's what Spartans have been
required to do. But that's what kids

649
00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:13.000
do, you know. But like
we go to different sides, and especially

650
00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:15.360
this year, going sideline, you're
sitting at Maryland. You see a guy

651
00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:19.559
and you know his kid, and
he's drinking a beer, minding his business.

652
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:23.039
You know, it's not harming anybody. It's it's a good culture and

653
00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:27.280
everything like that. So I think
this is something good for Michigan State,

654
00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:30.000
and I think it's going to reduce
a lot of problems and also it's going

655
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:31.440
to drive revenue. You know,
at the end of the day. We

656
00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:36.440
all it's it's a what if you've
done for me lately? Business and we

657
00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:40.000
have to bring revenue and we have
to uh bring sponsorship in. We have

658
00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:44.119
to you know, keep up with
the joneses if we want to continue to

659
00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:49.679
do that. These are these are
the steps that's necessary. Don't act like

660
00:53:49.719 --> 00:53:52.800
you've never chugged a fifth before,
you guys acting like I'm the crazy one

661
00:53:53.280 --> 00:54:01.880
for relat Yeah. Look, they're
saying that it will be limited to one

662
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:08.039
hour before the game and a half
hour after the game, which if that

663
00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:12.800
passes it because we have they have
a lot of support in this particular bill

664
00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:17.960
that's being introduced from the bar owners, which kind of blocked at the last

665
00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:22.119
time. The bar owners are in
agreement that it's not going to be you

666
00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:24.320
know, there's a certain amount of
days allotted for each sport or each season,

667
00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:30.400
and what is one hour before the
game and a half hour after.

668
00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:34.840
Because there's been stadiums that I've been
to, we've all been to where somewhere

669
00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:37.280
around the fourth quarter, like midway
through the fourth quarter, they stop.

670
00:54:37.800 --> 00:54:43.360
That's how NFL stadiums are like that
too. M yeah, I mean,

671
00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:45.840
so this one would be actual a
little bit, you know, a little

672
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:52.920
bit nicer, you know, but
the bars are on board the governor.

673
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:55.159
Governor Whimer said that, you know, being for a night game, it

674
00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:59.320
makes her a little nervous. She
said that normally, and she's a spark,

675
00:54:59.599 --> 00:55:02.119
right that this would she would think
of this as a great thing.

676
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:07.360
But her prosecutors, she's looking through
her prosecutor's eyes. This makes her a

677
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:12.239
little nervous. But if the bill
comes to her desk and I quote,

678
00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:19.679
she'll sign it. So wow,
wow, ye that night game. You

679
00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:21.920
don't got to go so hard in
the parking lot, you know, you

680
00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:24.000
can still get it in there.
Yeah, yeah, you got time.

681
00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:28.239
You definitely have time. So that's
something we can look forward to. And

682
00:55:28.280 --> 00:55:34.280
then we'll make everybody including notice and
shoot you in straight. Happy guys talking

683
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:39.079
about the spring game responsibly. Yes, you must drink responsibly and don't get

684
00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:50.119
behind that damn will please disclaim no, please drink responsibly. We gotta hey,

685
00:55:50.119 --> 00:55:52.239
look, we got an event coming
up for the spring game, right,

686
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:58.719
guys, put it up. We
got we'll we got artin Saturday.

687
00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:02.199
Saturday is good good time to be
on campus because there's a lot going on.

688
00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:07.639
And so if you want to support
your equal support. Just as much

689
00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:12.079
as you go hard for football,
you go hard for basketball, go hard

690
00:56:12.119 --> 00:56:15.760
for the softball uh team and the
baseball team. And uh we got some

691
00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:19.880
rowing. I mean we got a
new facility in rowing too, which is

692
00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:23.599
beautiful by the way, but great
Saturday. Obviously, you haven't forget the

693
00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:28.320
five K. Don't forget the five
k. They will be leading the stretches

694
00:56:31.559 --> 00:56:45.360
spanx, y'all in that golf cart
n stray will be leading you to straight

695
00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:50.719
straight. I think I think you
need to take the position of Johnny Spirit.

696
00:56:55.440 --> 00:57:04.039
Did you imagine state like? Yeah, So Saturday, obviously you got

697
00:57:04.039 --> 00:57:10.039
the spring game April fifteenth, doors
open twelve thirty and we'll start around two

698
00:57:10.079 --> 00:57:15.840
o clock for the football it begins. But bring your kids. You got

699
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:21.480
some junior Spartan picnics, you got
some on field exclusive access for fans to

700
00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:23.719
take some pictures on the field.
It's a great day to bring your family

701
00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:28.320
and have a good day of supporting
all the sports. And they look at

702
00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:32.199
Spartans at home. We got the
schedule in the time, so look out

703
00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:36.239
from our socials you'll be able to
see to keep updated. But if you're

704
00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:42.519
on campus, please share the love
and go support and at that Spring game.

705
00:57:42.880 --> 00:57:45.639
You know, from the recruiting side
of things, We're going to have

706
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:49.800
a special guest at the spring game
this year, guys. And you know

707
00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:54.079
it's gonna be David Stone from IMG
Academy. He gonna be in attendance,

708
00:57:54.119 --> 00:57:57.480
man. I mean, he loves
it up here. We got a Spartan

709
00:57:57.559 --> 00:58:02.840
he loves it here here. We
need some good weather. Come on,

710
00:58:05.119 --> 00:58:07.480
yeh, can we get one of
those c I A planes to drop something

711
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:15.000
to change the weather around here for
the positive? I mean conspiracy theories going

712
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:22.599
on New York when it was like, you know below, you know,

713
00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:25.719
freezing, and then it was seventy
on game day. Come on, guys,

714
00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:32.079
we need we need, we need
one of them. Are you Spartan

715
00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:38.360
fans out there this weekend? I
don't know why I said Spartan fans,

716
00:58:38.400 --> 00:58:45.280
but big weekend in the call Creak
House, all right. Saturday WrestleMania Day

717
00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:53.880
one in l A Sofi Stadium.
Sunday WrestleMania Day two. Roman Reigns versus

718
00:58:53.880 --> 00:58:59.159
Cody Roads. Cody Rhodes comes home
and try to take back what his dad

719
00:58:59.239 --> 00:59:14.840
couldn't do, win that Universal Heavyweight
Championship title on Peacock. I mean,

720
00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:22.920
do we have wrestling fans? That's
what I want to know, Like,

721
00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:28.039
you know, can some I'm gonna
do this. I'm gonna do this,

722
00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:35.559
and I'm sure Mama stre is listening
somewhere. If you're a wrestling fan and

723
00:59:35.599 --> 00:59:38.400
you follow this at Sparta, we
have to think of something. We have

724
00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:45.719
to think of something. I am
will I'm gonna give away because WWE SummerSlam

725
00:59:45.159 --> 00:59:51.920
is coming to Detroit, Michigan.
I'm gonna give away stray. You're gonna

726
00:59:51.960 --> 00:59:54.400
come back. Oh, you're gonna
come back. You can go to Summer

727
00:59:54.440 --> 00:59:59.719
Slam with the This is Sparta crew
on us. I get us tickets.

728
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:02.119
We will be there. If we
got to figure out a way to make

729
01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:07.480
this work. So Alicia, get
on it, figure out how we can

730
01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:12.280
do this. We're gonna give away
tickets to w W SummerSlam if we got

731
01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:17.800
this is Sparta August fifth at Ford
Field in Detroit. Oh, this is

732
01:00:17.800 --> 01:00:22.639
gonna be epic. It's gonna be
like you know, nineteen ninety the whatever

733
01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:34.960
was that the soup checks out sounds
like you're wrestling? You do are?

734
01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:37.320
I know? I know I didn't
tell you guys about this. I just

735
01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:45.320
threw this out. Are you guys
in if we do yes, Summer Slam

736
01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:52.239
the tradition, we'll take people from
this is Sparta to the event leaving it

737
01:00:52.280 --> 01:00:57.320
looked even our crack research team in
the back. Tony g is in.

738
01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:06.000
Everybody's in, Hey, look to
that point. At the spring game April

739
01:01:06.079 --> 01:01:12.719
fifteenth, we will have a special
live show guys after the game on Saturday

740
01:01:13.679 --> 01:01:16.800
at the Fieldhouse, East Lancy.
That's where we're going to be. It's

741
01:01:16.840 --> 01:01:23.239
going to be a very live event. You're gonna have Chew Choo there.

742
01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:28.280
He may wear the Paisley coat.
He may I might have a different outfit.

743
01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:39.239
I'll be there. I might have
game hold. Us will be there.

744
01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:46.159
Yes, these guys will be there, and we're gonna have some special

745
01:01:46.159 --> 01:01:51.639
players too. We're going to talk
about that in the next coming days.

746
01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:54.559
But yeah, I mean, it
won't be televised live, so it'll be

747
01:01:54.599 --> 01:01:59.800
an opportunity to hang with us replay
and hear us break everything down live.

748
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:06.039
Ain't wait to have a couple of
soda pops some great food with everybody here.

749
01:02:06.159 --> 01:02:07.320
It's going to be for subscribers only, so if you've got to be

750
01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:12.719
able to show that you have subscribed
to. This is part of ms U

751
01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:15.559
on your you on the YouTube and
you get in and there may be a

752
01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:19.119
couple of charts. I'm not sure, but that goes all to the players

753
01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:22.880
that will be there. If you
bring if you bring a if you bring

754
01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:25.440
a friend, they ain't got to
subscribe to. You can't just subscribe and

755
01:02:25.480 --> 01:02:30.039
bring up. They ain't got it
be subscribed as well, because it doesn't

756
01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:32.920
cost you anything to subscribe. So
go ahead, hit that like button,

757
01:02:34.079 --> 01:02:37.719
hit that subscribe button. Tell your
friends, as otis wool like to say,

758
01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:42.960
tell your mama and them to do
that. Tell mama and them,

759
01:02:43.079 --> 01:02:49.000
tell everybody them to come to the
Fieldhouse East Lands. It's gonna be fied,

760
01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:54.280
that's right for sure. Bringing the
bus to oh mama, Dean said,

761
01:02:54.320 --> 01:02:59.000
they bringing the bus now hopefully train
and I can't get to get on

762
01:02:59.079 --> 01:03:01.199
the bus. I know, otis
is you know, Hey, look I

763
01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:05.480
rode the bus. We rode the
bus in Chicago. That bus was hey,

764
01:03:05.519 --> 01:03:07.480
that was It was the best experience
I ever had in my life.

765
01:03:07.519 --> 01:03:10.920
I'm gonna tell you that being on
one of those Dean bus that was that

766
01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:15.119
was our standing. I loved it. Thank you bus. No, he

767
01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:21.719
ain't. I know more small.
I can't wait. I can't wait.

768
01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:24.159
I can't wait either, because now
we got we got so many. The

769
01:03:24.199 --> 01:03:30.679
first time I ever signed, the
first time I signed Harriet's bus was the

770
01:03:30.760 --> 01:03:35.199
spring game freshman year. You know, as a player, as a player,

771
01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:37.840
you know you've made it when you're
asked to sign the bus. Yeah,

772
01:03:38.800 --> 01:03:47.679
and that's and that's what Harriet says, signs. I don't think so,

773
01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:51.760
man. I mean, I'm old, I'm older than you, guys.

774
01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:57.639
I gotta we gotta make that happen. Sign Bubble Webster signed the bus

775
01:03:57.920 --> 01:04:06.960
and you didn't. Bubb Oh Webster. We we got a problem again.

776
01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:14.119
You don't know your part in history. That's crazy. Listen, look,

777
01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:19.440
you know not that bus. Okay, not that much. But yes,

778
01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:24.480
stay tuned for for announcement regarding the
players that will be in attendance. It's

779
01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:29.920
gonna be some our key players there. You're gonna love it. They're gonna

780
01:04:29.920 --> 01:04:31.440
love it. It's gonna be fun. So we're gonna and we don't have

781
01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:34.000
to worry about the weather. If
the weather is bad, we're good.

782
01:04:34.039 --> 01:04:39.400
If it's good, we even better. So it doesn't matter, you know,

783
01:04:39.480 --> 01:04:42.719
and because we listen to you and
the reaction that you gave us for

784
01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:46.719
when Corey was on the show Corey
Robinson from two four to seven Sports just

785
01:04:46.760 --> 01:04:54.960
a couple of days ago. Darrien
Harris will be on our show next week.

786
01:04:56.280 --> 01:05:04.360
Harris, Yeah, Tuesday forth.
We'll get it look like new money,

787
01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:09.400
don't they. And he's got stuff
to talk about a lot and we're

788
01:05:09.400 --> 01:05:15.760
gonna talk. Please d m us
with any questions that you may have for

789
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:19.920
Darien prior to the actual you know, the actual show. But I know

790
01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:25.960
how our loyal listeners here will be
uh, you know, putting those questions

791
01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:29.639
up as we are talking. So
and we'll try to pivot as best we

792
01:05:29.679 --> 01:05:30.599
can. Guys, I mean,
I think this is a great show.

793
01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:33.440
I think everything that we talked about, I mean we covered a lot of

794
01:05:33.519 --> 01:05:40.679
things. The best part of it, no doubt, Shay You's jacket.

795
01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:48.599
We love the jacket. Everybody loves
the jacket. Otis for you, For

796
01:05:48.840 --> 01:05:53.400
you and for me, this is
Sparta. Have a good night, God

797
01:05:53.440 --> 01:06:12.480
bless ah. I got to front
This is Sparta MSU as a combined presentation

798
01:06:12.559 --> 01:06:15.800
of Playfly Sports properties in Michigan State
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799
01:06:15.800 --> 01:06:23.039
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800
01:06:23.039 --> 01:06:29.559
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801
01:06:29.559 --> 01:06:32.880
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802
01:06:33.280 --> 01:06:38.800
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803
01:06:38.880 --> 01:06:43.519
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804
01:06:43.599 --> 01:06:46.280
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805
01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:48.519
support and as always, go green.