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Um, well, welcome everybody. It is Friday, July seventh,
two thousand and twenty three. Welcome to the only show hosted by Spartan Dogs
about Spartan Dogs. But you know, in this case is a little different
today because we don't know what's in store for us today. This is Sparta
MSU. I mean hoj a straight horn along with my co host Choo Choo.
This is called ju Choo Chu culprit is here? Great? That?
Nay? That background? I mean, I'm jealous. Man, You're on
the lake right now? What's going on? This is what they talk about,
you know, like when people in Michigan be like, oh, I'm
going up north. I'm up north. I'm not really up north north,
but I'm a little up north from where I live. But this is like
right on Cadillac on Clifford Lake here in Stanton, Michigan. The lake back
there that you know, all just chilling picking having a couple of toddies the
time. I'm glad you're feeling good man, it's looking good. I can't
I think I can see a lake in the background. I even got there.
I even got the color out of something for the big day, Big
day, big day, guns out, Yes, big day for Spartan nation.
Right now that commitment or is it straight a reemtman um Nick Marsh,
That's that's what we're gonna see what's gonna happen today, because everyone knows four
star Nick Mars six foot three or four, two hundred plus pounds with Rouge
Classic twenty and twenty four wide receiver, just a heck of a player.
Was committed to Michigan State months ago, but decided to reopen his recruitment so
he can take some other visits. And you know, he's been on the
road. Everybody knows he's been to Kansas. Who we see some Jayhawk fans
in the chat? Yeah, I see a lot of rock chalk? Is
that what's happening? You know? Crazy ms lady from Austin, Texas.
So we got as far as from all over the world. Also someone from
Germany. Yeah, I saw someone from Germany, you know, right,
little Wiener. Since low we got, we got, Penn State has been
in the mix. Pitt has been really in the mix as of late.
We don't know, like we didn't do this saying, hey, we already
know Mama marsh total the story, Jude, You've reached out and yeah,
you know, I had had a lot of conversation with uh Mama Tron uh
this week and uh, you know, it's you know, it's a family
decision. She was not you know, letting me know either way which way
they're leaning and everything like that. But what she, you know, wanted
to get across this. You know, they wanted to make it a point
for Nick to be somewhere for four years, especially with the way that transfer
portals and everything like that, and that was one of the big reasons that
they reopened the recruiting process and everything, so he gets the full experience of
this recruiting process because at the end of the day, it is a process
and you have to go through every step of that process. And having the
opportunity to re you know, to reopen that ruting process. So they were
happy about it as a family. And one of the biggest thing is they
really really loved the visit. The last visit that they had to Michigan State,
it was a family affair. We had the picture of you know,
Grandma Tron. Uh you know, she said on here like, oh,
you guys made my grandma fame, you know, my mom famous. Um.
You know, she said, they're calling me Grandma Tron you know from
that video of them dancing on the field and everything like that, you know
this video right here, you know, and she said, you know,
they're a big dancing family. Nick loves dancing. He actually wanted to be
a breakdancer. That's what she told me, you know. But when it
all got started. So, you know, hopefully at the end of the
day, we see lots more of this, you know, maybe possibly in
three to four years, on Senior Day we see Grandma Tron, Mama Tron
uh, Nick Marsh and them dancing in Spartan Stadium on Senior Day. Yeah,
we need to see a lot of that. We're hopeful here in Spartan
Nation that this is the decision that Nick Marsh makes. But you know,
until then, until the next says, we just don't know. We honestly
don't know what's gonna happen. Been a lot of movement. We just lost
the commitment today. It looks like to Oregon, Dylan Dylan Williams from Polly
Uh, you know, Long Beach, Polly, the lineback of the fourth
Star that was heavily sought after. Looks like Oregon came in late and really
took that commitment at the last minute. Looks like Uncle Phil strikes again.
Huh yeah, Uncle Phil definitely strikes again. And you know something, you
know, speaking of striking a striking comment. When we were sitting here before
we went live on this listening to his commitment video, he talked about coming
to Michigan State and it felt like home to him, Coach Tucker Um,
Coach Johnson, all those different guys and coach I'm um, I just went
blank on that TC there, Scotty Hazelton. Yeah, it's coach Hazelton.
You know how it feels like home. And then something that really struck me
off cores was he said, Oregon the way that the develop their player,
but the coaches haven't been there to show development in their players that long,
you know, correctly if I'm wrong there, you know, but like,
you know, what is that? So at the end of the day,
for him, it clearly showed that it is definitely about chasing the bag and
you know, picking up that money. Hey, different strokes with different folks,
you know. He talked about development. But yeah, when you talk
about Oregon, that staff has been there for one season, so there's not
a lot of And this is the first time, first time head coach and
coach Lanning who was a defensive coordinator for the Georgia Bulldogs in the first National
Championship season talking about the twenty one season for the Georgia Bulldog and then you
got the head coaching job over in Oregon. We don't know how it develops.
I know he's a younger guy. He smoked cigars a lot on social
media. He seems to be a players kind of coach, But I don't
know about the development as of yet because he doesn't have that kind of pet.
You know, they kind of history exactly. The track record isn't there
right now, so you know that's gonna be proven to seat. But you
know what, straight we can't talk about who's who's not here. Let's talk
about who could be here. And one of the big things is what does
Nick marsh What does he bring to the Spartan offense if he comes here.
Oh my goodness, you talk about a playmaker here. I mean he had
the name Mini Tryn who as a younger player and then it's been Megatron because
of his size, his athletic ability, his athleticism, his ability to high
point the football, and his shiftingness in his rocks. That's one thing that
you want to see with receivers of their ability to break on a dime and
create separation from defensive backs. You know, Otis Wiley couldn't be on the
show. He's a guy who is a defensive back by trade. You know,
he is dealing with the family a funeral right now, so he could
not make it for the show. But when I'd like to hear his expertise
on this from but what I see, you just can't pass up a guy
like this. There's a picture of him right there being able to go on
high point the football and the seven on seven action. He's played with a
lot of the best quarterbacks and other receivers in the country around the nation,
so you've been able to see the apples to apples comparison for Nick marsh this
is the guy that everyone wanted and Michigan State still in the race as of
right now. You know, the loss of Keyon Coleman a year, this
fast year in the transfer portal opens up more cats. We just had Tyrrell
Henry on last night on the show, and he talked about, hey,
look there's a lot more targets, a lot more catches that are available now
because of the loss of Keyon Coleman. This is that big body receiver that
can step in the day one and be able to compete for a lot of
those targets when he gets to whatever school he goes to, but at Michigan
State for short. Yeah, you know, and you bring up a very
good point straight you know, from talking to Nick Marsh's mother on you know
this past week, you know, throughout the whole you know process having conversations,
she asked a pointed question, you know, what would it mean for
the Spartans if Nick was to commit to Michigan State. And you know,
so we went through, you know, conversations about where he will fit in
in the offense. We lost that, you know right now, like overall
we right now, we're a receiver by committee until one person steps up and
can say I'm that guy, I'm the number one guy that I'm the you
know, go to guy that every team has a game plan against, you
know, opposing defense has to say our best corner is going to be guarding
this guy throughout the game and traveling with him. We don't have that right
now. We have a receiver by committee. So I told her clearly,
he's gonna get the opportunity if he wants, you know, to perform at
the high level and be that guy. Losing keyon Coleman was a big loss,
but it's also a big opportunity for all these receivers. Ver sais coming
in and so we talked about that the plane field, the time on the
field as well as NIL. The different strategy, says Michigan State University uses
to get kids, you know in NIL from you know, we got guys.
We had Darius snow On working with Harvard University, you know, doing
different stuff that way. We got Malik Carr who's has a WWE contract waiting
for him. There's the long game NIL that Michigan State plays to set you
up for the future, and also there's that instant gratification as well. So
it's all really about what exactly that you want. Do you want that instant
lottery ticket where you know you can just scratch off you say hey I win
or I lose, or you're gonna be like, hey, I'm gonna be
invested in this program because at the end of the day, and one thing
that really came to that we talked about as well is the legacy factor.
The fact that after you play and leave your mark in Spartan State, um
on Spartan Nation, you come back. I don't care how long, how
long have we played. We walk around East Lansing straight and people say,
oh, hey, you don't think you know, appreciate you. I want
to take pictures with you and everything like that. That is how Spartan fans
love their players, and that's something that he's going to be able to,
you know, embody and be a part of. So if he comes to
Michigan State, those are the things that's waiting for him. Without question,
there's no doubt that if he makes the decision to come to Michigan State,
that people will love him for life. That's a he's a local, hometown
kid, you know, from the state of Michigan. River Bruge, a
very very h I would say, fertile recruiting ground. A lot of players
come out that blue collar, blue collars, too hard working, tough kid,
gritty kids that know how to play. And I mean he's been playing
I mean his mom still hoops right now. Mama Tryn was talking about taking
him to the whole any day of the week. Like, so, you
know, if we are able to get him on the show today after he
makes his announcement, we're gonna talk about that, did you as you know
play you know twenty one, you know, our the horse to find out
who's going to be able to commit to wear too. Right dance and there
their breakdance a family from what we were told as well, right and you
know what at the end of the day too, like I gotta I gotta
really pat ourselves on the back at this is part of MSU. UM you
know, all of us, you know, and behind the scenes and everything
like that. Not everyone has this coverage right now. Not everyone has some
boots on the ground, you know right now to you know, take a
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You know, you haven't been in stadium venues and getting everybody involved and getting
tickets away, the all kinds of special things. We haven't even gotten to
the w W E, the what is it? We're going to the summer
slammer Way two tickets, all kinds of things that are in store and right
now there's been a lot to look in River Rouge. They're doing it in
the auditorium. It's like in a bunker, like a nuclear bomb bunker.
Where do we have a live shot yet? I think it's very difficult.
No one else in the world is able to get this shot. But this
is Sparta here we are. We're are boots on the ground, straight,
boots on the ground. Love it. Look, we're right there. We're
so we're waiting for the for everybody to get ready and we're gonna go to
that live announcement when it comes. But you know, speaking of that,
the thing we might have have a two four seven guy on our show right
now, we can maybe join us. Corey Robinson joined us there, he
is. What's up, Corey? Not too much? Guys, how you've
been We're good, Corey. I gotta know that the choo Choo Crystal Ball
has Marsh at nineties seven percent in Michigan State right now, And like,
are you are you dipping your toes into choo choo pool? Remember what I'm
doing? Pools by the ways and pools. Yeah, I'm feeling like you
probably got a pretty good chat at going with your prediction there, But I
guess we'll find out in a few minutes. But yeah, I decided hop
arms since Stephen Brooks he's covering it for us down there, so so and
Jason sent me a link. Yeah, so Corey, we were just talking
about this, you know. So if Nick Marsh does decide, you know,
to choose Michigan State as where he wants to make his home for the
next three or four years, what does he bring? And uh? Is
he a type of players that can come in and make an immediate impact in
his freshman year? Yeah, he'll He'll make an immediate impact to sixty three
at least two hundred pounds. He's always been advanced as a receiver. Uh,
I mean going back to when he's thirteen, fourteen years old. So
he's kind of built for built for this already. So yeah, if he
chooses Michigan State, he's not gonna red shirt. If he's healthy, he's
gonna be a guy that's gonna come in immediately and be able to challenge defenses
vertically and uh turn those fifty fifty balls into ninety ten balls. M Well
like that fifties and the ninety tens. So yeah, so let's let's dig
deeper to his skill set. Corey, Like, what do you see if
you're watching because you you do this, this is your thing, you break
down film, and when you're sitting and watching Nick Marsh, what pops to
you? Just just how he he's a complete wide receiver. I've seen him
live I think four times, maybe five times. Uh. He's a guy
that doesn't take off running plays. He's out there blocking every play, which
if you guys know obviously at Michigan State that that's a must, uh you
know to play for uh coach Hawkins, Courtney Hawkins. So you get that
out of him, you got a guy that's gonna run his routes properly and
just do everything that the coaches need out of him. Try to figure out
is he is he up there right now? We get done if he If
he starts talking, we don't want to get the commitment and it's muted.
There we go, oh, we got the jam's going to play in the
background there. Like far has commitment, you know, like has changed.
I remember standing at the bottom of my driveway coming home from football practice and
calling Jeff Stalin and talking to that crew that I'm committing to Michigan State.
Now, this is what commitments come to court. How much bigger can it
get? Uh? Yeah, I think that's something I wanted to bring up
to with how he's doing this where I think it's a good thing that he's
doing it at his high school with his teammates and coaches. Uh you know,
Like obviously some people they do it a different way with maybe they're seven
v. Sevens and stuff, But I like the touch of doing that with
the people that you go to. You know, these guys have been playing
together since they were little a lot of times, so so I think that
was a salad strong choice and kind of speaks of where his head is at
where he's kind of been driven by his family and his high school, not
so much some of the other stuff that's out there. So I think that's
just another positive thing that you can talk about with Nick marsh as a as
a player. Yeah. Absolutely, And you know these kids are turning more
of these things straight into like you know, it's like it's almost like a
mini draft day here, you know, right almost bigger. Everybody has,
you know, all eyes on that one player for a nice amount of time.
They get to choose the day that they want to do with their time
slot, and then we're all eyes on them when that happens. And I
see Mama Tryn there. You know, it's good to see Mama Hall sorta
Hall has joined the chat. She was in here. I want to say
hello to her. A feeling high, you know, look at I love
you guys right back. We love you. You know this is the best.
It's like, Michael, I love you. Yeah. Like So we're
right now, we're getting reports that Nick is near the stage. He's getting
something. I don't know if he's on the phone call. He's he's talking
to somebody making sure that everything is all the eyes about it. The teacher
crossed and the decision is final before he comes out here to tell the rest
of the world what the decision is. This is really interesting. You know,
this is the first time we've done something like this, and this could
either be something that's really good, you know Corey for us, or it
could be really like it's a platform. We're a platform. You know,
we've had recruits on here who haven't chosen to come to Michigan. Said,
I think if I'm Dobby Felford, the kid whose father is a m M
A fighter UM, very famous family, and he had Michigan sate on the
radar, he chose Virginia Tech. Look and happy doesn't mean we don't want
like, Look, it's okay. We love to talk. It's about the
players, the kids, the players, period athlete exactly. That's what it's
about, increasing their brand any way possible and doing it from a real authentic
place. Do we understand what they're going through And it's in a heightened way
that it's more heightening when we experienced it coming up, you know, to
you're younger than I. You came out a little later to me, and
you didn't have this, you know, we didn't I barely had I'm just
signed a piece of paper in my library, my school library, and they
took a black and white photo I signed in the school library too, And
you know what I had on the back of the backdrop in that library where
the remember when we went on our visits, there would paint, there would
uh wallpaper the doors of the Kellog Center hotel room with Michigan State pictures.
That that my mom took those pictures home, and uh that was my background
on end of my school library. You know. With that said, you
know, I was in you know, in my high school. I was
the first kid, you know, in my high school, out of my
school ever to go D one, you know, so incredible. Yeah,
it's a big thing and you know, all the whole community gets around players
take Oh absolutely absolutely, it definitely is. Of course, So while we
have you like, is there any other people we should be you know,
I know, you know we're ramping, you know, we're getting into July
training camp is gonna start here in a few weeks. You know, are
there any other targets that you know, we maybe you know, should be
have our radars up for um Jason Brown, the top one unning back out
of Seattle Washington. Uh, he'll probably be end of July August sometime make
an announcement and I have a pick in for him to Michigan State right now,
and he would be a huge pickup. He kind of like I don't
do the player comparisons a lot, but with him, uh, you see
a lot of Marshaan Lynch like where he's just like the same the same body
type and same running style and you know he kind of uh same, same
same pad level and then same thing where he's just like he doesn't like to
go down there on the ground. He's throwing guys off of him and running
through people. So uh yeah, there's a lot of a lot of similarities
when you see his tape to what you saw Marshaan do so obviously that that's
some lofty goals to to live up to, but absolutely, But if we're
just talking running style and physical appearance and everything, uh, he kind of
checks the boxes there. M hmm. You already. Yeah, So this
one is like does he speak to the media. Yeah, he hasn't hang
anybody over with a golf part yet. I don't know, but maybe.
Oh so it looks like there there's still we're still waiting. I see.
You know, look the thing now with the families that they wear like something
on top of whatever is underneath. Underneath, there's there's definitely the school of
choice, Mama Troyn. I believe it's to the left in the red.
You know, let's get up in the end. Let's get in there.
Getting we go up there and say, hey, this is smarta. We're
here, flat and center. Yeah, he's got a microphone right there.
It's auditor. We're thinking more gymnasium for HiMAT where it's open. You can
walk up there. But this is you know, you got the rows.
You know, it's a little different. You got a stage, the curtain
down so they're elevated, which is good so you can get a good picture.
Got good lighting here. We're just waiting on Nick to join the party.
I know that they had some issues from a WiFi perspective in that bunker.
For one bunker, it's a bunker in there. A lot of concrete
in there in the middle of the river Rouge High School. Ye see that
a lot. Wouldn't we come around live announcements? It's uh, you get
there and everything's ready to roll, and then everybody fills that auditorium with their
cell phones and it seems like the WiFi just shrinks down at them. So
I've definitely seen something that we're pretty choppy, but so far, so good.
Here it looks like, yeah, we'll just looking to see him,
just just just communicating with our booth on the ground and to see like what
is our timeline looking like. We just we're we're ten minutes into the official
timeline of the announcement and you know we're still we're still waiting. But look,
patience is a virtue. Patience, it's a very true. You know,
Rome wasn't built in the day. You know what we're doing right now.
I did reach out and what we're gonna try to do is after the
commitment announcement, if it lose the way of Michigan State, you know,
we're gonna try to see if we can get uh, you know, quick
comment from Nick and Mamatron really quick. Um. You know that, you
know there's a message out to her and everything. I understand everything's out there,
but we're gonna get them. If we don't get them today, we're
gonna get them either Tuesday or Thursday. If next week, okay, Hey,
we're all about it here and we just want to see it live,
just like everyone else wants to see this live, bringing you the real information
as it happens in real time. This is this is exciting. I'm this
gets my juice flowing. I don't know about you. You know, it's
great, you know what. I have people sending me texts like I I
don't condone this. I don't say you do this. There's a new lawn
Michigan. But someone there's something picture, you know, and then driving and
their phone set up for this and now this streams on there. Yeah,
you can't condone that. You know. Big Gregious came out with her rules,
but they haven't set up. They're not touching it, they're not doing
anything. So we're we're good. Looks like we're about ready to get rolling.
Now. I see a large human being walking up on the stage right
now. Great walk up, so great walk up. It's got to be
fought out. It's beautiful. So let's go. Let's go live to neck
right now, I am a stage. There was actually one of the assistant
principals as well as on the athletic coordinators. Wrong with mister Chester Perkin.
That's on the back. But we'd like to thank everyone for coming out tonight
to enjoy this clussification on behalf of our Superintendent, Doctor Coleman, our deputy
Superintendent, missus Barry, Miss Barry Brown, the Board of Education High School
has left administration football program. We would like to thank everyone for coming out
today to support one of our football athletes, mister Nick Morris is celebrating him
on his verbal committment announcement aware he would not only be taking a football talents,
but as well as academic talents. We like to think the time mean
for inst to day in the crowd that's in autendis as well as as Nick
and his mother, Miss Wilson and his film Lea for allowing all of us
to be part miss announcement in this big play because I know we couldn't ended
any weapon the truth to do it here in the auditorium River Rouge High School,
and we truly appreciate it. At the time, I would like to
take the time to introduce for some more Westhy comments from our excellence, Superintendent
Doctor Derek carcole Man. Listen, we have to celebrate the young man's accomplishment
that every child that has played any sport aspires to become. So we're gonna
provide incredible energy. This evening good easy. So I thought about the magnitude
that this is bad. And again for any kid playing sam football on playgrounds,
any basketball players, they all want to go D one. That is
every athletes grain. One of the things that I tried to educate it to
help young people understand it doesn't matter if it's D one one, D two,
D three. We want D freely. We want you to go somewhere
where you're going to be celebrating, where a billy is gonna get behind you,
to make sure that this journey is not complete. Before I get into
everybody's role that's here tonight, i'd just like to say that as much as
we talk about Nick the football player, I think the most underrated and understated
characteristics of qualities that you ask are rights, humility, and is working.
He didn't get here by chances. He has these physical gifts obviously that most
of us wish to man, but his commitment in the classroom and to being
a great person are far greater than anything that athletics is gonna be able to
do for him. Because football has promised to no one, so we're going
to celebrate you make on a young manage you are, because I think that's
bigger than the athlete from Lulleging. Everybody hearing this is all feels like a
wedding. This is a commitments here a moment. It is him saying I
do to one of the thirty plus universities that have offered him an opportunity to
come here and continue his academic and athletic abilities. But when people go to
a wedding, you are there witness witnesses. You're not there to participate in
the reception. You're not there to just watch what happens. You're there to
provide your commitment to the bride and groom to say that we're going to do
everything we can to make sure you're a successful So, if you're here this
evening, you're not here just by chance. You're here because this next journey
and his life is going to be far more difficult than anything he's ever done.
Here's why college teams are nothing to high school all star teams. He's
going to walk into college as an eighteen year old freshman, competing with me
and women in the college weight program for five years or three four or five
years, he's going to deal with professors who could care less about what happens
in football, because the academic integrity of that institution matters. So while we're
here celebrating this evening, make sure that when he transitions from here to whereever
he's going to go, that we continue to support him. I don't care
how mature he looks, how much of a man his physique, Liz is
all to believe he is. This is a young man that's going to need
all of our supporting. So niggas are superintendent, somebody who views you as
his nephew. You have one commitment, and I'm certain that everybody here shares
in that believe because very few people get to have what you have. When
you think of all of that combined, you have the potential to play at
the next level after college, but it won't happen unless you make great decisions.
It won't happen arrest. You're academically eligible. There's nothing that about you.
So you're going to college to be an academic All America as well as
an athletic All America, and everybody here here is committing to help you with
that you love and where you choose to go. That university is gonna be
better because you chose to go there. Thank you, Thank you, Dr
Coleman for those marks. Now we all know that there's a lot of people
here to day that would like to talk and share their experience that they've had
on Nick Marcia's journey. The first person got asked to come up to speak
is one of his former coaches. Coach Mo resents, we can do a
little better than let right. Looks like we're gonna get a lot of people
talking on this right now. There's a big fish coming out of here.
Baby. They want to At one point, at one point we had on
our program nay stool at one time, um picking on pipeline for a ready
moment time leading back to the Doggies and all those great players that they head.
Um. But I've known Nick because he was like seven years old.
We translated from the Tigers the wood Raves and uh. At that time,
we all didn't know he was a dividual player. Oh you know, he
was a big, tall, big headed kid. I was a kicker,
That's about it, you know, Um. But his transition um from youth
to high school has been the remarkable. I remember getting a phone call from
his mommy Linda, and she's telling me, like, hey, at the
championship game, I ran to the coach his name is Close Russell and he
wants my son and blah blah blah. I'm like, man, we're not
trying to get that. We're going here, Uh Loriie Holts. It's real
Roots. That's why all my kids already had UM and Nickols. One of
the ones I was a bright Spot championship game. I think he scored four
touchdowns, Zach rig Rick three touchdowns. Coursey gonn tell him because he stayed
score of five touchdowns. UM, but it was a tremendous UM. O'm
coortunity here to coach Nick h Nick is more, um, more just a
football player than me. UM. I street like my son. He called
hey, coach, I need this, I need that. Hey can compete
with this to pick me up. That no problem at all, UM.
But I'm extremely happy UM for its development from coach Larry coach Petway Goes Lands
UM coach partner of the Hole Rod Roots staff. UM, and I'm eager
to see the next three or four years we would like to go and development
leading to the next level. UM. That's pretty much it. I think
the coaching listen. Next up, we're gonna have a coach come up.
That's currently all the River Roots High School staff. That's gonna say a few
worse coach school keys. Good evening, everyone, can you guys hear me?
Good evening? Uh? First off, I want I want to Uh,
let's take it up. Let's talking up fool one. Uh, all
of the staff, the facult team, everyone who made this. Possibly,
man, I've never seen nothing like this. Everybody. Um. I started
to a little bit about me. Coach Russ Rus who used uh two thousand
and five graduated River Rouge High Schools, threw the through I played at River
Rouge as a junior panther. A couple of my old coaches are out there
shout out coach Key, coach feeling they coached me when I was nineteen years
old starting off playing football. UM So that just gives you an idea of
the community field of me got here. Um So, you know, shouts
out to to everybody here in the Rouge community. So, like I said,
River Rue Graduate, I actually walked across this stage a long time ago,
back in two thousand and five. So being able to celebrate one of
our kids. Here is a huge thing, from a huge sense surprise.
I love think to death. He's like my second son. You're here,
he said all the time. Uh, you know he he get bad when
I called him sling for everybody else. But I truly feel that way about
him. So I give you guys a quick story. H looking at you
know, kind of everybody else. He was playing in port role in next
life. H. When I met coach Reese, Uh, he wasn't in
coach rings. I was working downtown as an engineer. Uh. He was
a chef in my one of my favorite restaurants, and every day I used
to go in there and get my my soul food, my extra corn bread.
And I used to kick you, litting me he should show him love.
Uh. And then rowing behind passed forward. I found out, you
know, he's the coach of me and had had my experience with the reason
not doing good days. He may have been like, ain't no way.
We heard what he just said. We ain't going the rooms. Like if
my experience was any different than them, Nick man, I've been here today.
So um, just a quick story on how you treat people. I
guess going forward, when you when you when how do you treat people when
you don't know like who they are? So always being a good person to
somebody, I think that we can say that Nique is that to a lot
of us. Uh Man. So first thing I want to say and shout
out coach Lands when we first met me. When I first met Nick,
all I want to do is to be able to help him with his family.
I mean, you see this kid with this great potential, U great
head on his shoulders. Mom is you know, daughters, everybody like you
got this nice family, and it's just like, what kind of do to
help you achieve your dreams? When I first met NICKI tell me I'm to
playing the n field. So from that day for everything that I've done for
him has been to help him achieve those dreams, run on the field or
off the field, and all of that starts with being a good person,
like doctor Coleman said, being a good student in the classroom and a good
person off the field. A lot of what Nick is great at it's not
even something that's on the field, just a great young man to be around
and add the coach every day. Uh Nick is a where's the coach Lands?
He's a blessing to our group because he's a humble uniform. Nick is
so so humble. He won't read off his stats, he won't read off
his accomplishments. But I will hear today Max Frev sophomore All Americans under Armor,
next All American under Arm refreshment All American, and he'll probably played the
two All American games at the end of the same year. And Nick won't
tell you none of that. He probably let our team and receiving the last
three years, and touchdowns and receiving yards, but most a problem of that
he's ain't ten to three point on GPA while doing all of that, all
right, And I ended with this with this story. On Nick's ninth grade
year, going into our first game, Uh, Mario Swift, one of
our senior safety who's playing in college football. He's playing. Uh, Nick
caught a pass across the middle of a field on the slant route and Marion
just drew him kelly right to his chest and Nick fell out, not win
out. Was going to come back all stories about and it's really something that's
cool, and uh, you know you it was hit on there. You
know that three point on GPA. He's a smart kid, you know,
coming in and as you can see Stray and Corey, I had to switch
out here because my battery life was not doing me and you're not helping the
battery life. Everybody was not helping me. So I hadn't switched come back
inside. I had to leave the beautiful outside that that Lake Michigan breeze and
everything like that. But hey, we're here, and uh, you know
what this is something. This is a really really cool commitment ceremony that I
think that we're we're seeing right now because you see a lot of different people
coming up there and speaking to not just the athletic callous that Nick marsh possesses
possesses, but also the person he is. And we all know this.
If you if you're gonna be wearing that green, donning that green and white
and coming in and going to be called a Spartan dog, you have to
have those core characteristics. And uh so you know, Nick step definitely a
kid that possesses those things. And uh, no matter what school gets them.
You know, if it's us, we would you know, be very
grateful and appreciative of it. But you know, no matter what school gets
him, I think that's you know, he's definitely possessing a really good trait
there. Well, of course you said that perfectly, you know, I
mean, I think that the town, you can tell, is very excited
about this particular commitment. And when you're talking about Nick Marsh's commitment today,
he's a very very very big fish in a place that is very proud of
him. You know, you talked about it earlier. He said, this
is a very blue collar, hard working area River Rouge, just south of
Detroit. There, um the down river area. You're gonna see a little
highlights here and Nick, you know, making it happen. I see Go
Green Go Whites popping up everywhere on in our chat. Uh, this is
a guy who you can see, you got the you got the superintendent,
coaches principles. I think we got school board members. Everybody wants to get
up and say a word about what Nick Marshall means. Mamade Grandma. You
know, I was expecting Mama, Dame GRANDMAMADEV. But we're going we're going
beep down the line now. You know, everybody wants to get there.
Time to talk about Nick. You know, I know everybody wants to say,
let's to it but look, God might even enjoy the moment. Let
him enjoy the moment. They're gonna get to it. He's on the stage
right now, and I know they're telling stories about him as a youth player
getting into high school. I mean because absolutely Karon said it perfectly right.
It takes a village. This is Knicks village. Let him enjoy enough said
right there. You know, you know, I'm just I'm dying laughter just
reading these comments, you know, right now. And Steve Smith can't believe
I who seemed chet turned up to drink yet? Oh I can't believe me
Steve Smith and I didn't celebrate this occasion right now. You know, spartan
nation that it's getting more, isn't it right exactly? You know, get
some read some some ice and that in that cup. Keep going. Let's
just say I have I have right now, like behind the scenes, just
like we at this is smart MSU. Behind the scenes have a great support
system. I have a great support system right now just feeding me. The
line of bebbies. You know, I'm not gonna say what it is because
they're not partners. Right now, this is part of myself. The line
of Bebbies are just rein fed to me right now. So they're not partners
yet, the partners yet, but they could be if they playment cards right
there could be. But one thing I want to say is this. We
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you. Right now, we got Mama Trump on the stage. Yes,
let's go to Mama Trum. I want to thank everybody here in this room
right now. Um. This needs so much to me and means so much
to Nick. This is I never would have dreamed. This boy has been
putting us in the rooms and places that I could have never imagined this benn
Um. First off, I have to thank Bo Thomas. Nick was about
six years old looking about nine, and uh Bo was my Facebook friend and
he ended up being my camp driver one day and he said, oh,
you remember seeing you on Facebook? Do you have the sun? I said
yeah. He said how old is he? About nine? I said no,
he's six. He said, well, I coach, you got to
bring him in. And I remember, makin seventy five is weird? All
started? And when I took Nick there, he was really a unicorn compared
to all the other kids. And the moment they threw a ball, the
moment he dragged a tire, it was it was owned from there and from
that point on he just been striving ever since. Um. I really want
to thank everybody, the entire staff, the entire community of River Rouge for
welcoming us, because if it was not for them, we would not be
leaving the east Side. Everybody know we're from the east Side. And Russ.
Russ came and he pitched something different, cast and one of them King,
one of them. But River Rouge was a tight knit community and they
believed in having that education, having that brotherhood, and that discipline, and
that's what stood out to me the most. They wanted to make my son
a better person and a better man, and that's number one in my book.
And that's why we chose Ruge. This so monumental and um son,
I am beyond proud of you. You have been beyond a blessing. You've
exceeded everything that I can ever imagine for you, and I can't wait to
see what these next four years of Like, um, I just think,
everybody here tonight and let's see the burner instead of burning my baby. Thank
you all so much. That was Mama Tron on the one time there,
so you know, I think, you know, I think we're getting closer
and for you know, the viewers popped in with us, we really appreciate.
This is a big thing for the marsh family. Um you know,
talking to a Mamma Tron you know earlier this week she said it's gonna be
over two hundred and fifty people you know out there for this event. So
they're gonna make a big event of this. So there's a video Oh yeah,
West Virginia, just Allard, Wisconsin, you know, of everywhere.
First I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I got
to lose the counting these bandits and part terms last little cops of rats talking
about my fast when bad, Oh my life, trying to keep you down.
Keep no, no, I think sometime I know so what see yeah
where we wants licking the door? My man? Where are you going?
Right? Baby? May what you love? I don't know your grandma?
All right, boy a boy visit, I'm going to the jelly was chanting
me up and you know that. I'm faminius. See how you're going through
with my stimulus. But they really ain't. Can't it good? I know
some can't on her days. Stop trying to thank job, not trying to
bendom. Use trying to bendom mind and mad amen? So you remb woman
man man, no, wait man, you know what's gonna lottle? Don't
know? No, no, don't want man by some stuff. I've been
handing it a lot to talk to about the brothers the ship. Did I
spit out? It's a chaque cold like I'm pinching a ring goal and I
nigga put a hit out and another one and another one. Y'all hold up
boy, the last niggas. So they take and I but I'm really in
front of them, some of the some of the nig fand f geting the
little comp that they had and running. She could be gonna get sir,
and he's gonna tell your many time. Feeling like nighting my prime and these
days seem very Oh why have you even heard a little buddy to somebody murder
a little buddy? Now I'm on the play a little body nay got to
play the wet you y'all? Wo where you tarking him? The three green?
Yeah? Yeah, you're right now in my life just ha take all.
We need to be better man. It needs to be a better president
overall. Um, I wish I could think everybody like personally because you know,
y'all just y'all just all blessings in my life. Um, making a
decision was pretty tough, but you know, I wanted to make these decisions
based off you know, how I felt, you know, as far as
like like coming to Roots, I wasn't too familiar with it. But when
I came in, I don't want to treating my family. You know,
it was a very family community, and you know, making a decision to
go to college, and I wanted to be exactly like coming to Roots,
So you know that was a big part of my commitment. Um reason I
chose Michigan State. Um, it's not too close to home. It's not
too far. And you know I would love all of you to come support,
come to games. You know, we just buy my family. Um,
it's another thing, uh, Michigan State, the fans, the coaches,
everyone just like family. You know, it's like an extended family far
from home, you know. Um. I would like to thank the Rouge
coaching staff. I would like to name the staff and Rouge school district.
UM. I want to thank on my teammates, former teammates, all right
now, you know I would like to thank family, coaches, everybody part.
Um. Yeah. And the next two to four years, I'm taking
my times education to Mission State University. I ain't got to change my team
wend Um. Yeah. Really, what a special moment, What a special
moment right there there? You have it, Nick Marsh chooses Michigan State right
here, live on. This is part of the MSSHOE. We're bringing it
to you, baby. Yeah, let me do it right. We know
you can't, you can't go against Grandmama. What's happen? Moment? What's
that? Corey Robinson? What's that the moment right there? Yeah? I
just put out a tweet that I had in the draft. I said once
he saw that. Uh you know, it was a rat for everything else
was out the window. He was coming to Michigan State. Like you don't
you don't have that moment and and not come here. I mean like you
can't. You can't tell tell Grandma no after you see her get getting loose
and starting stadium like that, and the official and I mean he saw that
all of the visits that he took, Uh, you could see that it
was family at Michigan State. That's what I mean. I've probably been on
uh countless shows and for two months saying it's coming to Michigan State. It's
coming to Michigan State. Because you got to understand each recruit individually. For
Nick gets family like that. That's what matters, uh, the relationships with
the coaches, having his family there. So so that's why when you saw
the picks go to Penn State early or uh maybe there's some noise with Kansas
or Pattern or Doozy's trying to offer offer deals too good to pass up.
Uh, you know, it's always going to be Michigan State because it was
family to him and his family. So uh, you know, you don't
you don't see it a lot when a guy d commits from school that he
comes back. But like when Nick, it always felt like this was always
gonna be where it ended up at, just because they never lost like that,
that love for the university and coaches. Um so so Corey, Like,
you know, we see a lot of these pictures and we see you
know, on social media, and if you're a spartan fan or a casual
fan and you see these these photos and stuff like that, you see that
big chair. Um, you see Nick Marsh, Mama Marsh, Mama Tron,
Grandma Tron, and coach Tucker like the unsung hero really in a lot
of this. And can you talk a little bit about the Courtney Hawkins effect
that he's having on the recruiting, especially at the wide receiver position. Yeah,
he's he's a different guy. There's a lot of coaches out there at
a lot of places they're gonna tell kids what they want to hear. He's
probably lots some guys because he doesn't tell them what they want to hear all
the time. But you know, you get the the guys that understand that
it's not all task kissing and rainbows here. It's it's worked to be a
very good football player. At the power five level. So guys that kind
of have that mindset that they know, you know, they've they've got a
block. They've got to learn how to get in and out of routes.
They got to know the playbook. Like, he's not going to promise you
that you're getting playing time because to get your commitment, he'll he'll tell you
if you come in, you'd put the work in, and you show that
you can beat out some of the guys that are here, then we're gonna
play you, right. So, I mean, that's kind of how how
he operates. You know, he's from Plint, Michigan, where you know,
it's a town that everybody goes and gets it that nobody's getting anything handed
to them in Flint, Michigan, and he kind of takes that approach at
them. Yes, we'll see you very soon. Congratulations, mama. Thank
you so much. I'm so excited, y'all. I I have my own
box of tissue. I was crying up a storm. But you're gonna see
us in a minute, all right, Mama trying. We're gonna try to
get you on the show on Tuesday or Thursday. All right. Thank you
guys so much. All right, hey, hey, big question. Where
are you going for dinner? I'm sorry, saga, where are you going
for dinner? We're actually here, I think at the school. What what's
on the menu? What's on the menu. It's so much good stuff,
y'all. I have not like it's so much stuff? Are you set up
so nice? Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourselves, enjoy it with your family.
Like a message today, I've got to find my mom. I think she's
around here dancing somewhere, like she s where she was going to dance.
We gotta get her on video. Thank you so much, Thank you.
We'll talk to you later this week. All right, yeah, all right,
And there you have it. Guys, you know, a big time
recruit for the Spartans, you know, coming in Nick marsh Um Corey.
Before we let you go, one quick question for you. Nick marsh was
a kid that committed to Michigan State early in the process, and then he
d committed and wanted to, you know, go through the process and everything
like that, like what does that say to you? And what does that
say? You know for that fact, and then coming back to Michigan State
saying, hey, maybe the grass isn't greener somewhere else. Yeah, speaks
to the relationships that he had with Courtney Hawkins, Mil Tucker, Jay Johnson,
some of them. You know, they gave him that cooling off period.
You know, hey, go see what you got to see. We're
gonna be here for you. And then maybe three weeks after the d commitment,
they started talking again and you know, putting themselves back in the position
for it. But yeah, I mean it talks about the culture of the
program under under Mel Pucker and that you know, he was able to go
see Pittsburgh, he was able to go see Penn State, he was able
to go see Kansas and a bunch of other places. An answer and he
got every one of his questions answered done. Why Michigan State was still the
best spot for him, and it led to today's announcement, and you know,
that's it's good for Michigan State. Obviously he's going to make an immediate
impact on the field, but on the recruiting trail. I mean, I
think there's a something you gain out of it too, because he did come
back, you know, so that speaks to the culture. Uh, he's
a guy that you know, everybody in the country knows who Nick Marshes all
the other players. So you're going to see other prospects on the Michigan State
coaches his recruiting board. You know, this says something that's gonna send a
shakove or you know, get their attention. So a big day for Michigan
State football. Definitely, it's a big day. Straight. It's a great
day. It's a huge day. You know, I'm so happy. I
don't know that video got me. Hey you almost got me there, Nick.
That video was very emotional. I mean the song was great and involving
everybody in the community. Was beautiful, like the young kids, you know,
people in the stores, you know, the barber family, Grandmam and
them on the corner going across the street. I mean, it was it
was beautiful arts benches. That was a very thought well thought out commitment video
that meant a lot. And you know, look, look, I don't
care how much time it took. At least we got to the end that
we wanted. And Nick marsh is a Spartan. He's committed. Thank God,
you know, thanks for all the work that he's been able to do,
and thanks for everybody. Thank God. Like that. Yeah, like
it's just like you know, look it all in all lines. We didn't
know going into this. We didn't No one knew for sure, Lady Cordon,
you know Corey is I guy who's in the Crystal Ball the two.
Yeah, but yeah, no, mine was at one hundred percent. Going
you about Corey. You did not have the coyones to say yours a hundred.
I said, Mom, I's not ninety five. And you said,
oh, yeah, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta hide hide it
for the kids moment. I can't, can't, I can't be dropping.
I did. That's why we did the sixth confidence uh and yeah, Hey,
the atmosphere, as you said, Corey though you talked about it too,
like the family atmosphere that they had at Michigan State is what attracted him
to that. And you saw him Mama trying talking about the fact that they
were going to look at the king and cast and all that, but they
like the family atmosphere of River Rouge. It's a family all the way around.
This is a family affair. This is part of the ms you as
a family that chat being over nine hundred strong nine that's huge. That's a
record breaking for us, and we thank you. It's all about family.
You know, one of our chat the Loyalist, this happens to be right
here with me, Landa. He's right here in California with me live.
You know, hey, you know so so yeah, Green is where it's
at. Family is where it's at. So it just you don't give me.
Give me a shout out to um little Dirk J. Cole for that
song in that video there oh my live Yeah. Hey man, hey,
that was a great, great event. Appreciate you Corey Sean. Appreciate you,
Sean. Yes, definitely, Tom Boots on the ground. That was
great and it is a happy endiver shoe to you, you and your lovely
wife things the fifth sixth anniversary son, No, let's go into this right
it's shot and his wife sixth anniversary tonight and he went to the press conference
for us. Talk about that. That's huge. About what else? That's
compliment? That's that's love. Yeah, And how do we know shine?
How to shine through this medium? Right here? That's the day this man
company and what we're doing at this party. Lets the power and anybody in
this shot is just just like somebody is right here with us right now.
So like the person handing the drinks over the two who Who's awesome? The
people who I want to give them a quick shout out. My boy Mike
Gee, my boy Brett Mellon continually handing with never on E Choo choose never
on E. That train keeps on rolling, baby, he loved Uh.
Thanks to everybody in the in the chat that joined us for the show special.
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