Speaker 1: Utah Football. Nine days away from game day.
Speaker 2: Our next guest, one of the best wide receivers to
Speaker 2: ever play at the You, Kende Scott on a two.
Speaker 2: Excuse me a Thursday afternoon, Kenneth, Happy Thursday, man.
Speaker 1: How are we doing?
Speaker 3: Man? Doing amazing? Man? Can't complaining. How y'all doing over there? Though?
Speaker 1: We're good? We're good.
Speaker 2: So give us an update, give us a life update.
Speaker 2: What's what's the latest in the life of kend of Scott?
Speaker 3: Oh? Man? Nothing too much, man, Just out here trying
Speaker 3: to provide as much education and inspiration on whether it's
Speaker 3: through you know, public speaking at middle school, high school.
Speaker 3: Right now, I'm in higher education teaching as a professor,
Speaker 3: so you know in one of those mediums you know,
Speaker 3: all allow us to do is just education inspiration, man,
Speaker 3: That's basically it for me.
Speaker 2: All right? Where you live in these days? Are you
Speaker 2: out here? Are you back in Cali? Where where do
Speaker 2: we find you?
Speaker 3: No? I live out here in Houston, Texas. Man. It's
Speaker 3: the beautiful humidity weather.
Speaker 1: Okay, very nice, very nice? All right, all right, let's
Speaker 1: get into it.
Speaker 2: So we're nine days away from game day for the
Speaker 2: youth to somebody who played for co TWI played up
Speaker 2: here at the University of Utah. What's going on behind
Speaker 2: the scenes as we're getting ready for UCLA At this
Speaker 2: point in camp, it's week three of camp.
Speaker 1: There's only one more week and then it's a game.
Speaker 1: So what's going on right now up there on the hill?
Speaker 3: Oh? Man, man, this year is extremely focused. I feel
Speaker 3: like this year doesn't have as much I wouldn't say,
Speaker 3: what can I say? I don't feel like there's a
Speaker 3: much expectation too much, you know, because last year with
Speaker 3: cameras and everything, well, you know, we had a lot
Speaker 3: of expectations of, oh, we got to win the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: I think this year is more so where are they at?
Speaker 3: And then from there we're going to adjust our expectations accordingly.
Speaker 3: I do feel like we're gonna have a good year,
Speaker 3: but we have to see what the first game is
Speaker 3: and then I feel like week to week we're going
Speaker 3: to adjust it. But I don't think expectations is too
Speaker 3: high as it was previous years. But I think we're
Speaker 3: gonna have We're gonna be in for a good treat
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 2: So as a player, Kenneth, do you like it when
Speaker 2: the expectations are high? Do you want people to expect
Speaker 2: you to Yeah, yeah, you know last year, as you reference,
Speaker 2: most all of us Utah would certainly compete, if not
Speaker 2: win the Big twelve, and it went the other way.
Speaker 2: Do you like when the expectations are high or do
Speaker 2: you prefer when you're kind of flying under the radar
Speaker 2: a little bit?
Speaker 3: Man? For some reason, I love the underdog mentality because
Speaker 3: it's like, all right, well I'm gonna show you, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna show you why I'm this and that. But it
Speaker 3: also does feel good to get the recognition that you know,
Speaker 3: we deserve as a as an organization, as a program,
Speaker 3: you know, throughout the year. So for us, For me personally,
Speaker 3: I loved coming in as the underdog so I can
Speaker 3: rise up through the occasion right up to it or
Speaker 3: show people, you know, what it is we're made of.
Speaker 3: But I would say maybe the underdog would be the
Speaker 3: better mentality for me.
Speaker 2: What about Coach Witt, What do you think he prefers?
Speaker 2: Does he like, you know, the underdog role? Does he like,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to find ways to motivate you when
Speaker 2: nobody thinks you're gonna do anything? Or do you think
Speaker 2: he prefers you know, people understanding how good his team is.
Speaker 3: Man coach with the ultimate competitor that man competes with
Speaker 3: like compete, compete. So I feel like he loves the
Speaker 3: underdog mentality because he's the same mindset. He's like, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna show you. I'm gonna prove to you, Like, yes,
Speaker 3: I love the recognition, but I want to show you
Speaker 3: rather than you already putting me up there, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: show you why the respect is earned. So definitely, I
Speaker 3: feel like he loves the underdog mentality and obviously respect
Speaker 3: the process is one of the core things for us,
Speaker 3: so uh, and only the only way to get that
Speaker 3: respect is to get it, you know, through earning it,
Speaker 3: and I think that's the best way he likes to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: What's it? What's a training camp like? Under coach with
Speaker 1: what you know?
Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit different now than it
Speaker 2: was back in the day because they don't go as hard.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Certainly, the past couple of years for Utah football has
Speaker 2: been colored with the context of a tremendous amount of
Speaker 2: injuries and lack of health. So they're trying to make
Speaker 2: sure the frontline guys stay healthy, but start to finish
Speaker 2: what's a camp like playing for Kyle Whittingham.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like for for us, and you know, in our program,
Speaker 3: I think the standard has always been the standard in
Speaker 3: regards to like we want to push each other to
Speaker 3: the limit every single day. But as you mentioned, you know,
Speaker 3: over the years, the physicality of it may have tapered off.
Speaker 3: To be honest with you, I know during my career
Speaker 3: you can kind of sense it a little bit with
Speaker 3: you know, player rehabilitation type stuff, just to preserve the
Speaker 3: players going into the seasons, you know, because we do run,
Speaker 3: you know, run run to near exhaustion and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So I feel like over time, I think throughout every program,
Speaker 3: you know, over time the physicality and things have tapered
Speaker 3: down a little bit from previous years, but it's still
Speaker 3: high intensity. I think more focuses on efficiency nowadays, so
Speaker 3: maybe it's more reps, less physicalness, but more reps when
Speaker 3: it comes in terms of that. So I think that's
Speaker 3: what it's coming to nowadays. But you know, we're always
Speaker 3: going to be a physical no matter what. But I
Speaker 3: feel like nowadays it's all right, We're still going to
Speaker 3: provide that physicalness, but we want to be efficient. So
Speaker 3: I think more reps, you know, and that comes with
Speaker 3: you know, lighter practice, less tone on the body, but
Speaker 3: more more rest to it.
Speaker 2: Though, so of course Cam Rising will always be remembered
Speaker 2: around here as a legend with with the back to
Speaker 2: back pack twelve championships and uh, you know, but ultimately,
Speaker 2: I think the past you know, year or so with
Speaker 2: Cam was tough around here because we just didn't know
Speaker 2: if he was going to be able to stay healthy.
Speaker 2: And now the programs across the landscape of P four
Speaker 2: are mandated to report injuries. We'll see if coach Wit
Speaker 2: finds a way to circumvent that process. But you know,
Speaker 2: the past couple of years, they didn't have to report injuries, so.
Speaker 1: Nobody around here knew if he was going.
Speaker 2: To play, and oftentimes we'd show up at the stadium
Speaker 2: and wonder if he's gonna run out with his shoulder pad.
Speaker 2: Sometimes he did, sometimes he didn't, and sometimes he did
Speaker 2: and still didn't play. I think it just caused a
Speaker 2: lot of consternation around here, Kenneth. So, as as Cameron
Speaker 2: Rising makes his way to the next phase of his life,
Speaker 2: how do you think he should be remembered around here?
Speaker 4: An ultimate an ultimate doll like I don't think people
Speaker 4: understand like at a time where we were like really
Speaker 4: searching for something, like, man, how can we get over
Speaker 4: this hump?
Speaker 3: How can we get to this destination? Like cam Risen
Speaker 3: came in and put put us on that pedal sal
Speaker 3: It was like, oh man, these guys are rose Bull
Speaker 3: bounce type type school. This team can put up with
Speaker 3: anybody the Ohio States, the teams that have all these
Speaker 3: five star prospects that every single uh, every single position,
Speaker 3: he kind of showed everybody and not only through his play,
Speaker 3: but like the cohesion and the culture as well, like
Speaker 3: everybody not only from the field, but the fans, Like
Speaker 3: he brung everybody together too. And I thought that was
Speaker 3: so cool because the effect was not only on the
Speaker 3: field but off of it. And I think he should
Speaker 3: be remembered highly like yeah, last year happened or whatever happened,
Speaker 3: Like we don't know what, we don't know, but I
Speaker 3: feel like for him, I think we should praise him,
Speaker 3: like for the things that he did for us, despite what,
Speaker 3: you know, what other people may say. I think he deserves,
Speaker 3: you know, to get the glow worry that you know,
Speaker 3: he ultimately put in the work for so Uh. I
Speaker 3: think he did an excellent job throughout his career. I
Speaker 3: wish it would have ended better as far as like
Speaker 3: him going out on top and actually finishing his playing days.
Speaker 3: Injuries suck, but I think we should remember him for
Speaker 3: the greatness that he is still, not only on the
Speaker 3: field but off the field. Like for the fans, the
Speaker 3: excitement people wrong, the confidence people wrong in the program,
Speaker 3: just all that. Like it just like for me, you know,
Speaker 3: being in Texas, I'm able to strut around be like, look, man,
Speaker 3: our team was in the roads. Well our team. So
Speaker 3: it's just that he brong that to you know, to
Speaker 3: Utah back you know, back to that level. So you know,
Speaker 3: I commend him for everything he did.
Speaker 2: You know, you can relate to what Cameron went through, Kenneth,
Speaker 2: because when you were healthy, you were very productive, but
Speaker 2: you suffered some some big time injuries because you had
Speaker 2: to miss a couple of years with injuries, and ultimately,
Speaker 2: you know, that's something that Cameron experienced as well. How
Speaker 2: how challenging is it when you're relied upon by this
Speaker 2: community and this to be playing and then you go
Speaker 2: down and you get hurt and there's nothing you can
Speaker 2: do about it. What are the challenges in that space
Speaker 2: and how did you overcome them?
Speaker 3: Man? The injuries? Man, that that was the most challenging
Speaker 3: because you yourself see you as this figure of what you
Speaker 3: could be, but your body is kind of telling you differently,
Speaker 3: like you still feel like maybe you can for the
Speaker 3: first couple of rests, but after a while, that fatigue
Speaker 3: kicks in and it's like, dang, maybe I may have
Speaker 3: lost the step. Maybe I you know, maybe I'm not
Speaker 3: back to where I once was. And that's the frustrating
Speaker 3: part because you're always trying to get back to your
Speaker 3: old self, but your old self or trying to reach
Speaker 3: another level, if that makes sense. So the mindset piece
Speaker 3: of it definitely is challenging, especially if you have big
Speaker 3: dreams for yourself, big aspirations, and no matter how hard
Speaker 3: you push, no matter how hard you will through it,
Speaker 3: your body just doesn't hold up. And that could be
Speaker 3: frustrating because it's something out of your control. And so
Speaker 3: I commit him on that because he kept fighting, he
Speaker 3: kept coming back despite all that, and you know, sometimes
Speaker 3: we get the bad luck of the draw. But if
Speaker 3: you have a good people around you, which it seems
Speaker 3: like he did, you know, they kept him high during
Speaker 3: those times like for instance, like when Travis Wilson had
Speaker 3: to go through his his situations with his with his
Speaker 3: brain and stuff like that. You need a good support group,
Speaker 3: whether it's through your teammates, do your your fans, like
Speaker 3: you know, if they see you in the community, keep
Speaker 3: the positive for you like you need that or else.
Speaker 3: You know, it can turn really bad for someone where
Speaker 3: they might say, look, I'm done, I'm clocking out, and
Speaker 3: not in a good way. So injuries can do that
Speaker 3: for you because you're not that person who people look
Speaker 3: up to as much anymore because of these injuries that
Speaker 3: you can't control, and you're not the person that you
Speaker 3: think you could become too. So it's always good to
Speaker 3: have a support system around.
Speaker 2: Did you feel like you had that while you were
Speaker 2: here from I mean, of course you had it up
Speaker 2: at school with the athletic department and the football team,
Speaker 2: but as far as the communit unity and the fans,
Speaker 2: did you feel like you had support when you were
Speaker 2: going through those injuries?
Speaker 3: Oh? Man, the support was crazy. I absolutely adored everybody.
Speaker 3: I loved everybody. It got to the point where people
Speaker 3: were bringing me like making cakes for me and bringing
Speaker 3: me sweets and snacks to just make me feel better,
Speaker 3: and I thought out. And that's why I'm forever indebted to,
Speaker 3: you know, the state of Utah or the program, the fans,
Speaker 3: the culture. I'm not even gonna call them the supporters
Speaker 3: because of what they did to me during my downtimes.
Speaker 3: Because for instance, my first injury, man almost I was
Speaker 3: about to transfer on out and LEVI because I was
Speaker 3: just at first, I felt like alone because I was like, man,
Speaker 3: I'm from California and you know people are going into
Speaker 3: the season. But you know, thankfully I had a coach,
Speaker 3: Rod who obviously at b YU now you know, he
Speaker 3: loved on me and made sure that I was loved
Speaker 3: in that moment and not forgotten. And our teammates came
Speaker 3: to visit me. The fans all wrapped their arms around
Speaker 3: me in the community if they see me around. And
Speaker 3: so when the second time happened, that love like with
Speaker 3: times too, and so I'm definitely appreciative of that. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm always indebted to Utah for that because they showed
Speaker 3: me that amount of love.
Speaker 1: I don't know how familiar familiar you are.
Speaker 2: Kenneth with Devin Danpier, the new quarterback here at the
Speaker 2: University of Utah who spent last season at New Mexico.
Speaker 2: He arrives on campus with his offensive coordinator, Jason Beck
Speaker 2: and some other New Mexico transfer transfers as well. So again,
Speaker 2: not sure if you've been able to kind of dig
Speaker 2: in and get to know about Devin at all. But
Speaker 2: what are you expecting from Utah's new quarterback as we
Speaker 2: approach game day in just nine days?
Speaker 3: Man, it's going to be a new dimension. I definitely
Speaker 3: I love I mean, I love the way he plays,
Speaker 3: plays with themost swagger and confidence. That's what cam Rydon had,
Speaker 3: that swagger and confidence. I love that about him. When
Speaker 3: you look at his game, it's pretty balanced. He can
Speaker 3: he can't throw the ball, he can run that ball.
Speaker 3: And so it's going to be interesting to kind of
Speaker 3: go back to a real dual threat type of quarterback
Speaker 3: that can actually really do good in both aspect to
Speaker 3: the game. It can open up pass and lanes with
Speaker 3: you know, with his diversity, the dualness of what it
Speaker 3: can do to the game, and in his counterparts that
Speaker 3: came with him, you know, the running backs and even
Speaker 3: a receiver. I like the receiver. I think his named
Speaker 3: Ryan I like what he does. He put up really
Speaker 3: good numbers last season, like seven over seven hundred something
Speaker 3: yards and fifty over fifty catches, So obviously there's chemistry
Speaker 3: there along with the other receivers that we have, and
Speaker 3: obviously our old lineman is freaking stacked and good. So
Speaker 3: you know, I'm looking forward to him being the leader
Speaker 3: that he is and like really moving that team and
Speaker 3: that offense along to where we can really make some
Speaker 3: noise on the office and that kind of keeps up
Speaker 3: with the mantra of our program. And defense always wins
Speaker 3: his games, but I mean the office and the whold
Speaker 3: their way too.
Speaker 2: You know, the irony Kenneth is a year ago, just
Speaker 2: an average offense would have put Utah in contention for
Speaker 2: a Big twelve championship because to your point, the defense
Speaker 2: is always stout and is always prepared and is always ready.
Speaker 2: Do you have confidence that this year, based off the
Speaker 2: new personnel, the offense can at least complement the defense
Speaker 2: and out to put Utah in a position and compete
Speaker 2: for the league this year this season?
Speaker 3: I'm hoping That's what I'm hoping. You know, it's always
Speaker 3: tricky because the new transitions. I know, I mean, every
Speaker 3: year I was there at Utah, we had a different
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator and a different system, and so I know
Speaker 3: how that can take time, you know, to implement. But
Speaker 3: luckily for us, the quarterback and some of his weapons
Speaker 3: are coming over here, so it's not gonna be as
Speaker 3: steep as a transition. So I'm assuming that we're at
Speaker 3: least I'm knocking on what them hopefully we can average
Speaker 3: about twenty seven points, twenty six, twenty seven. I'm hoping right,
Speaker 3: because I think this is a high offen, the high
Speaker 3: scoring tipe of the league nowadays, especially in the Big twelve,
Speaker 3: and so I'm hoping if we can put up some
Speaker 3: larger numbers will be good. But I think we can.
Speaker 3: We can do it. I think we can do it.
Speaker 3: We have some weapons, we got chemistry from their past teams,
Speaker 3: and you know, I think we're still balanced across the
Speaker 3: table when it comes to offense and the weapons. I think,
Speaker 3: you know, we put together in a symbol pretty good
Speaker 3: people from transfers, etcetera. And I think their experience coming in,
Speaker 3: I think we should be good.
Speaker 1: You reference the balance.
Speaker 2: I'm really interested, Kenneth, to see what that looks like
Speaker 2: this year. On this team because you point out the
Speaker 2: offensive line, all five starters are coming back. ESPN ranked
Speaker 2: their top one hundred players in college football yesterday. Spencerfano
Speaker 2: was number seven in the country regardless of position, so
Speaker 2: a lot of people think he's like a top ten pick.
Speaker 2: The other tackle, Caleb Lowmos on the a sophomore, Karen
Speaker 2: komp Is a captain. Michael Mokafisi has thirty three starts. Like, so,
Speaker 2: we know that the old line is awesome. We know
Speaker 2: that they have two running backs they like. We know
Speaker 2: they have a quarterback that can really run. Part of
Speaker 2: me believes this will be a run heavy attack. But
Speaker 2: what sort of balance do you anticipate from Utah's offense
Speaker 2: this year?
Speaker 3: That's you bring up a good point. So I think
Speaker 3: since we know that too outside looking in, I'm assuming
Speaker 3: other team's gonna think about the same and it's gonna
Speaker 3: be a more packed box. Maybe a single high safety
Speaker 3: rather than too high. Uh. Single high safety just means
Speaker 3: there's gonna be more people in the box. You know
Speaker 3: the safety is gonna come down. That just gonna offer
Speaker 3: more opportunities on the outside to make plays, and even
Speaker 3: the slot players too. So I think that's gonna allow
Speaker 3: us to do, you know, have more matches on the
Speaker 3: outside for big plays and shoot with that type of offense,
Speaker 3: and having you know, our quarterback being a dual threat,
Speaker 3: he is shoot one on one in the open field.
Speaker 3: Man he could take something that as simple as a
Speaker 3: read option and take at the distance. You know. So
Speaker 3: you know, I expect us to have some big plays
Speaker 3: just because of you know, even if us outside looking
Speaker 3: in know that we have a good office line, we
Speaker 3: have some good running backs and a quarterbacks a dual threat.
Speaker 3: We could we can expect to be about sixty five
Speaker 3: percent run, sixty six percent run, and then the rest
Speaker 3: being uh uh, you know, whether it's play action, you know,
Speaker 3: those type of aspects in the passing game. So I
Speaker 3: think a stack box going allow more bigger plays on
Speaker 3: the outside, which is gonna kind of make us a
Speaker 3: little more effective out there. That's gonna be pretty good.
Speaker 3: I'm excited for it. Actually.
Speaker 2: So you played the wide receiver position, and it is
Speaker 2: the positional group that most people have the most questions
Speaker 2: about because you know, Zach Williams kid.
Speaker 1: Was thought to be the number one wide receiver.
Speaker 2: He transfers to USC they're they're all they're all new,
Speaker 2: and if they're all new, they're all transfers.
Speaker 1: We don't know much about any of them.
Speaker 2: So as somebody who played the position, what should we
Speaker 2: be hoping for? As far as watching a group of
Speaker 2: new players, what's it like to play wide receiver at Utah?
Speaker 3: For Kyle whitningham Man, I was hurt when Zach when
Speaker 3: he left the USA. No, no, no, bring him back.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, he did so well and I think
Speaker 3: it was the UCF game he was falling. But you
Speaker 3: know what you can expect. I always say this, man,
Speaker 3: it's not that we never had the like the talent
Speaker 3: at the position. It's just a matter of opportunity when
Speaker 3: it comes to it. And so if you are a receiver,
Speaker 3: just know that a lot of times you may have
Speaker 3: to put your ego aside and be like, man, you
Speaker 3: probably most likely are not going to get ten catches
Speaker 3: a game or ten of tips a game. You're gonna
Speaker 3: have to do the dirty work and do whatever it
Speaker 3: takes in order for us to win a game. And
Speaker 3: if that's four catches a game, three catches, three attempts,
Speaker 3: whatever that is, you just got to know when that
Speaker 3: ball is in your area, in your way. You just
Speaker 3: got to come down with it, right, make the mostion.
Speaker 3: And so in translation, the receivers if they can go
Speaker 3: to a weed mentality instead of an eye, just like, man,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to get ten catches, that's a cool aspiration.
Speaker 3: But you know, think about the team too, because when
Speaker 3: it comes to our offense, it's more about you know,
Speaker 3: when the opportunity does come, you just got to make
Speaker 3: the most of it. And just know that we are
Speaker 3: traditionally a run offense, and so you just got to
Speaker 3: be you got to access some things you got to accept, right,
Speaker 3: And so I think when it's coming to a receiver
Speaker 3: in you just got to accept like, Okay, I may
Speaker 3: not be a thousand yard receiver in this offense, or
Speaker 3: whether I can still be productive in regards to the
Speaker 3: run game helping my running back if I hit this
Speaker 3: safety download now he's a single. Now he's one on
Speaker 3: one with a person and he can take it the distance, right,
Speaker 3: And just those unselfish acts that doesn't show on the
Speaker 3: stat sheet, that's going to make you value by a
Speaker 3: receiver in this offense. And then when the opportunities does come,
Speaker 3: you just got to make sure what it. Make sure
Speaker 3: it's your way to keep the possession going, or make
Speaker 3: that big play on the outside when it's one on
Speaker 3: one and we really need it to shift the game.
Speaker 3: So I say, also say all that had to say.
Speaker 3: As a receiver in this offense, just know that you
Speaker 3: know you're going to put your ego aside and do
Speaker 3: what's best for the team, and just know when something
Speaker 3: comes your way, just take advantage of it.
Speaker 2: Current state of the sport is always something I'm interested
Speaker 2: to talk about former players with.
Speaker 1: Then let's start here.
Speaker 2: Is it still weird for you that the Pac twelve
Speaker 2: is dead, that there's not a home for West Coast football?
Speaker 3: I am hurt by that. I am hurt. I grew
Speaker 3: up with the pac Kins, watching USC and Oregon and
Speaker 3: even man, it hurts. I'm not gonna lie. It hurts
Speaker 3: me to the core being the West Coast guy. And
Speaker 3: no disrespect to the current teams in the in the
Speaker 3: in the New Pack, no disrespect, but it's not the same.
Speaker 3: It isn't the same. So I'm hurt by that. I'm
Speaker 3: being honest and I don't like it, but I'm trying
Speaker 3: to understand it and be honest. I'm trying to understand
Speaker 3: it and accept it, but I don't like it. I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 2: What do you think about Utah's current home, the Big Twelve.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a different thing. It's a different footprint,
Speaker 2: it's different road trips for fans, it's it's it's an
Speaker 2: entirely new experience.
Speaker 1: What do you think of it, Kenny.
Speaker 3: Ah, It's okay. I mean, I'm selfishly it's okay for
Speaker 3: me because I know we're gonna have a game in
Speaker 3: Texas like this year. I see we're going to Baylor,
Speaker 3: so obviously I'm gonna march up to Baylor with Waco,
Speaker 3: Texas to Wathton play Baylor. But uh, I honestly feel
Speaker 3: the way our program is structured, we either belong in
Speaker 3: the Big ten or if we had enough, I might
Speaker 3: say that we had enough. If we consistently show we
Speaker 3: have firepower as much as we do on defense on
Speaker 3: the office end, I think we can be an SEC
Speaker 3: type school honestly, because we have a strong stout defense.
Speaker 3: In every SEC school we play, we handle ourselves pretty well,
Speaker 3: and so I think we're a big CAN type school
Speaker 3: and hopefully within the next couple of years that can
Speaker 3: make it happen, but then again doesn't change the road
Speaker 3: tripping aspect of it. But I think final destination big twelve,
Speaker 3: I mean Big ten. But I can put up with
Speaker 3: the Big twelve currently because selfishly they're going to be
Speaker 3: showing up in Texas where I can watch them.
Speaker 2: The other thing that has changed, Kenneth since you were
Speaker 2: on campus is the ability of football players to profit
Speaker 2: off their name, image and likeness and make a little
Speaker 2: bit of money and in some cases make a lot
Speaker 2: of money. I always wonder how that lands with guys
Speaker 2: like you that had big personalities and we're really really
Speaker 2: good and probably could have made a lot of money
Speaker 2: if the rules were a little bit different. Are you
Speaker 2: happy that we have the change? Does it kind of
Speaker 2: make it cringe a little bit that you weren't part
Speaker 2: of it?
Speaker 1: Give me your thoughts on.
Speaker 3: That it's too way this duality to it. So for me,
Speaker 3: I'm happy for them, But oftentimes the things I see
Speaker 3: make me unhappy because it lose the essence of like
Speaker 3: the realness of the college experience. I'm gonna be honest, man,
Speaker 3: that locker room is sacred, like sacred, Like I just
Speaker 3: remember the good times, but we didn't have as much
Speaker 3: where we'd be like, man, bro, we don't need noodles.
Speaker 3: But you know, we we bump up together as far
Speaker 3: as the same apartment or something, and we just squander
Speaker 3: up a few dollars just to go down to catch
Speaker 3: the tracks to the taco bell on the four hundred South,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's just you miss court memories, you know,
Speaker 3: those type of court memories like it was back then
Speaker 3: where we didn't have we used to have to we couldn't.
Speaker 3: I think the only thing we can have is like
Speaker 3: a bagel or a piece of fruit, like to where
Speaker 3: they can give to us. And so those memories, you know,
Speaker 3: those are prime memories for us. Like but then again,
Speaker 3: on the other side of them getting paid for you know,
Speaker 3: their name, image and likeness, it's cool. But as long
Speaker 3: as they know what to do and they align with
Speaker 3: the people that are paying them, Like if I'm them,
Speaker 3: I will make sure if I am partnering with someone,
Speaker 3: make sure that they're aligning to my desired outcome in
Speaker 3: my future. That can not only maximize my working on
Speaker 3: right now, but for after sports. And I mean the
Speaker 3: missing key is them. Man, if they can build relationships
Speaker 3: with this nil landscape that can not only set them
Speaker 3: up for now, but for later too. I think that's
Speaker 3: the goodness of it. But then you have predators out
Speaker 3: there that could take advantage of the student athletes as well.
Speaker 3: So it's both ways. For me, I wish I had it,
Speaker 3: you know. But then again, I look at my current situation,
Speaker 3: I'm like, nothing really changed other than the monetary stuff.
Speaker 3: I think the relationships for me is what was the
Speaker 3: real substantial piece through my college experience and the network
Speaker 3: that I build. So long story short, I like both
Speaker 3: sides of it. I mean I like one side of it,
Speaker 3: but I hate the other side of it.
Speaker 2: No, it's well said, and you reference relationship Kenneth. So
Speaker 2: before I say you lose, which are your former teammates
Speaker 2: do you keep in contact with? How connected are you
Speaker 2: to the alumni base man.
Speaker 3: I don't want to single everyone out because they like,
Speaker 3: well what about me? But I do have a lot
Speaker 3: of a lot of folks that I do keep in
Speaker 3: contact with currently right now, I know, I don't know
Speaker 3: if I can say too much of it, but we're
Speaker 3: trying to put together a former athlete association type things
Speaker 3: where you know, we can always keep that bond through
Speaker 3: different eras, right and so me right now, I still
Speaker 3: follow up with basically all my receivers from every era
Speaker 3: that I've played in, and even my quarterbacks. Like I
Speaker 3: know Travis Wilson, He's like one of my bestest friends.
Speaker 3: You know. I surprised him by a couple of weeks
Speaker 3: ago when I went to Cali to check up on
Speaker 3: him and to see him. And so, you know, I
Speaker 3: do have friends, you know, obviously somewhere out here in Texas.
Speaker 3: I watched their kids and it's crazy to me that
Speaker 3: we all have kids and stuff like that. So it's
Speaker 3: pretty cool. I make sure I stay in entrenched with
Speaker 3: my teammates because you know, those are memories that are
Speaker 3: forged in my mind that I'll never forget, and so
Speaker 3: I make sure I love on them from time to
Speaker 3: time because I understand the transition could be hard, but
Speaker 3: if you had a support system of the people that
Speaker 3: was with you during hard times and good time, man,
Speaker 3: it makes the transition much better.
Speaker 2: Where can people go find you on social if they
Speaker 2: want to book you to speak? Where are some of
Speaker 2: the touch points people can find you, Kenneth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, So on Instagram or Twitter. They can
Speaker 3: find me at Kate Scott Underscore too, and if they
Speaker 3: would like to book me to speak, you can go
Speaker 3: on my website at Kenneth Scott dop me and they
Speaker 3: obviously email contact informations in there as well. And I'm
Speaker 3: excited about uh, there's a future product that I'm going
Speaker 3: to be putting out here soon. It's a software product
Speaker 3: that's going to help you know, current high school student
Speaker 3: athletes that are potential college hopefuls. So I'm excited about
Speaker 3: that piece, which I can elaborate more once it is
Speaker 3: finally said and done, you know. And my whole goal
Speaker 3: is to and help all the student athletes, whether it's
Speaker 3: high school, college, whatever, prepare for their next step, not
Speaker 3: only right now but in life too.
Speaker 2: Good stuff, buddy, Hey, thanks for the time. It's great
Speaker 2: to catch up. You stay safe and we'll get you
Speaker 2: back on soon.
Speaker 3: Okay, sounds great to me. Man, Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you all right.
Speaker 2: Kennith Scott, former wide receiver for the University of Utah,
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