Speaker 1: I know other people that feel the same way. They're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, all of a sudden, it's December tenth,
Speaker 1: and I feel like Thanksgiving just ended, and I haven't
Speaker 1: finished Christmas shopping or started it.
Speaker 2: No, So how much Christmas shopping are you recommending for
Speaker 2: your friends at Rhode Island FC. I believe that would
Speaker 2: be the perfect place to do your Christmas shopping.
Speaker 1: Yet, that's right, obviously we have some things available and
Speaker 1: some you know, Eastern Conference champion T shirts available and things.
Speaker 3: See there you go, yeah.
Speaker 1: For sure. I mean we as a club went Christmas
Speaker 1: shopping early and went out and bought or not bought,
Speaker 1: but got in free agency the best free agent available
Speaker 1: in the league, so from Maxi Rodriguez from Detroit. So
Speaker 1: that was a nice, nice gift to the club.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you about Maxie Rodriguez because literally
Speaker 2: the two releases came out at the same time. It's
Speaker 2: like Detroit City's release comes out, Maxi Rodriguez is leaving
Speaker 2: the club, and then instantaneously the release comes out from
Speaker 2: Rhode Island FC. Maxie Rodriguez joins Rhode Island FC. It's
Speaker 2: like whoa yeah, I mean, with all the scoring that
Speaker 2: you had. You're bringing everybody practically back, and then you
Speaker 2: add Maxi Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: Y'all ain't messing around.
Speaker 1: No, not messing around, John. We got one extra game
Speaker 1: to win next year, and you know, things just get tougher.
Speaker 1: You know, as expectations rise, you get a little target
Speaker 1: on your back. Opening up a new stadium is a
Speaker 1: little added pressure. So, yeah, I need to have a
Speaker 1: good team. So we're definitely looking to be better than
Speaker 1: we were last year.
Speaker 2: When you deal with men tees, and there's always the
Speaker 2: expectation of the self, you know, the you. You want
Speaker 2: to be the best version of you that you can.
Speaker 2: And you don't reach your goals, your self imposed goals,
Speaker 2: and know that there's still stuff that you have to
Speaker 2: chase after or if you even got to all the
Speaker 2: goals that you had marked off, but then getting to
Speaker 2: that next level, what are the conversations like with your
Speaker 2: mentees about going to the next level, Whether you've accomplished
Speaker 2: one hundred percent of what you set out to do
Speaker 2: or you felt just short.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are equally as important, right whether you've accomplished
Speaker 1: them or not accomplished and still finding the motivation the
Speaker 1: next season, The next year to recreate goals, adjust them,
Speaker 1: or just continue to strive towards them, because you know,
Speaker 1: the worst thing that we can have is some sort
Speaker 1: of complacency or this thought that Okay, oh I did it,
Speaker 1: I'm done, you know so. And I've seen that in
Speaker 1: professional athletes, especially younger professional athletes, where they think, oh,
Speaker 1: or even guys that have committed to college, oh, I
Speaker 1: did it, I got it, I got the scholarship, I
Speaker 1: got to the program I wanted to. But little do
Speaker 1: they know, like the toughest work has just started. Same thing,
Speaker 1: you know for young players that sign pro like, yes,
Speaker 1: it's a great accomplishment to get there, and it goes
Speaker 1: down the line. It could be the same thing for
Speaker 1: making your high school team. Right, any any thing that
Speaker 1: you accomplish in, any new step you take, right, it's
Speaker 1: great that you got there, but it's just going to
Speaker 1: be tougher to have success at that level if the
Speaker 1: motivation doesn't stay high.
Speaker 2: When it comes to understanding that that next level or
Speaker 2: that next goal might be difficult to achieve, or how
Speaker 2: patient are your mentees these days, or how patient are
Speaker 2: younger student athletes these days when it comes to goal aspirations?
Speaker 2: Checking things off of lists. Are are your mentees patient
Speaker 2: or is it still that you know that fast food mentality?
Speaker 2: Got to get there, got to get there, got to
Speaker 2: get there, got to go one hundred and twenty miles
Speaker 2: an hour to get there. How patient are your mentees.
Speaker 1: It's a mixed bag, But I'm oxy surprised at the
Speaker 1: patients of most of them. I think that they grasp
Speaker 1: that you know that there's bigger goals, and then you
Speaker 1: know there's steps and ladders to these bigger goals, and
Speaker 1: those are very important, and that's what we talk about
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: It's easy to make these resolutions or goals for these
Speaker 1: for the future, right where do I want to be
Speaker 1: at the end of twenty twenty five or where do
Speaker 1: I want to be at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: Which is great, right, But we do need things to
Speaker 1: check off the list between now and then to keep
Speaker 1: the motivation high and to just give ourselves a pat
Speaker 1: on the back to say, hey, we're headed in the
Speaker 1: right direction, especially in the event that we don't reach
Speaker 1: that final like at least we took these steps, we
Speaker 1: hit these things, and we just came up a little
Speaker 1: bit short. That doesn't mean it was a failure. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's what we really focus on. And I
Speaker 1: think that kids really grasp out they understand that, so
Speaker 1: that that's been really cool to see.
Speaker 2: Actually, how patient are the adults around the younger at
Speaker 2: when it comes to goals and aspirations and you know,
Speaker 2: it's like the list is there. How patient are the
Speaker 2: adults these days?
Speaker 1: Less less so? And I'm assuming you're talking about the
Speaker 1: adults for the kids, yes, yes, yeah, less so? Right,
Speaker 1: it's hey, kids not starting in two straight games, or
Speaker 1: you know, has a bad week or whatever, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, houses on fire, things are things are not
Speaker 1: going well right, and I feel like I need to
Speaker 1: show them the success ladder of you know, it's not
Speaker 1: this linear pathway up. It's you know, we're going to
Speaker 1: have these jagged edges and as long as we continue
Speaker 1: to get higher and higher, right, we're going to have
Speaker 1: these setbacks every now and then, and they're important for growth.
Speaker 1: It's just like the stock market, and it doesn't go
Speaker 1: straight up over time. Yeah, if you zoom out far enough,
Speaker 1: it looks like it goes straight up, but we know
Speaker 1: it doesn't, you know, So they're they're definitely less patient.
Speaker 2: Though, when it comes to how often do you have
Speaker 2: to have conversations with adults about.
Speaker 3: The uh, the family.
Speaker 2: And the younger student athletes that are a part of
Speaker 2: their family. Do you do you have to pull parents
Speaker 2: and adults off to the side more often than not
Speaker 2: these days.
Speaker 1: I probably should do it more than I do, but
Speaker 1: I try and just while I'm talking to the kid,
Speaker 1: talk to the parent.
Speaker 2: Okay, how do you how do you how do you
Speaker 2: pull that off? Because you want the parent to kind
Speaker 2: of be there. You want you're you're talking to the
Speaker 2: student athlete, but the parent or the adults, the overseeing
Speaker 2: adult is there.
Speaker 3: Uh. Are you hoping.
Speaker 2: That the adults getting the clues that you're dropping in
Speaker 2: or you're hoping that they're actually listening instead of just
Speaker 2: kind of you know, their their faces glossing over.
Speaker 3: What what's that?
Speaker 2: What's that like in that room or in that setting
Speaker 2: where you're talking to the student athlete, you're talking to
Speaker 2: your man t and you hope that God the adult
Speaker 2: is listening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to that point, right, we're just talking about that
Speaker 1: the pathway and hey, these setbacks are part of the journey,
Speaker 1: and it's okay, and it's necessary in order to have
Speaker 1: these right, And yeah, I'm hoping that the parent is
Speaker 1: listening for sure, and I don't know if they are
Speaker 1: all the time. And this is the minority the majority
Speaker 1: of parents, and I think this is a good thing overall.
Speaker 1: They let the kid talk to us by themselves, okay,
Speaker 1: which is which is nice, I think, because the kid
Speaker 1: sometimes opens up about things, and they're usually a little
Speaker 1: bit better to work with and they're not just leaning
Speaker 1: on mom and dad to answer the questions. They're looking
Speaker 1: at mom and dad when they answer or things like that.
Speaker 1: So it's usually better when the mom or dad is
Speaker 1: not around for the meetings outside of the first one.
Speaker 1: Usually we'd like to have the first one with the
Speaker 1: mom or dad. But yeah, there's definitely times where I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that the parent is picking up on the hint
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: And when you get to see I guess the evolution
Speaker 2: of a parent. You know, for me, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: my message is getting through on more than one level,
Speaker 2: and it's it's I would think that that is just
Speaker 2: as satisfying, if not more satisfying. Where you're reaching you're
Speaker 2: getting the two for one deal or the three for
Speaker 2: one deal, or the parents are finally the light comes
Speaker 2: on with the parent, It's like, okay, I know where
Speaker 2: Michael Parker's is going with this. Now need I need
Speaker 2: to do this. I need to either lay off. I
Speaker 2: need to be more supportive. I need to be you
Speaker 2: know this way when it comes to dealing with you know,
Speaker 2: my my athlete inside my house. When you see a
Speaker 2: parent respond, I would hope that you know, at least
Speaker 2: an a peer level adult to adult. That's just as
Speaker 2: satisfying as it is when you have a you get
Speaker 2: the men tee to understand as.
Speaker 1: Well, Yeah it is. We don't see that as often,
Speaker 1: and not that it doesn't happen, I just don't see
Speaker 1: it as much. So but yeah, it is. I mean
Speaker 1: I think that every now and then we have a
Speaker 1: parent say like, hey, thank you for your help. You know,
Speaker 1: we see it in little Johnny and it's really helped
Speaker 1: us with our understanding of the game and the journey
Speaker 1: and all these things because a lot of these parents
Speaker 1: didn't go through it themselves in any sport, never mind
Speaker 1: just soccer, and you know, they just want what's best
Speaker 1: for their kid and sometimes they just get you know,
Speaker 1: it's easy to have this, Oh this kid's better than
Speaker 1: my kid on the team, So how do I get
Speaker 1: as good as him? And these guys are doing extra training?
Speaker 1: Should we be doing extra trainings? And like they're paying
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and I get it, and they
Speaker 1: want to have their kid have success, because who doesn't
Speaker 1: want their kid to have success. But sometimes we do
Speaker 1: need to back off a little bit and make sure
Speaker 1: that we're doing what's best for the kid and that
Speaker 1: the kid wants to do it, and that they're having fun,
Speaker 1: and that the best eight year old doesn't make the
Speaker 1: best twelve year old or doesn't make the best sixteen
Speaker 1: year old. It's not like that all the.
Speaker 2: Time because at the bottom the bottom line in the
Speaker 2: end of the day is you want your mentee. You
Speaker 2: want that eight or twelve or sixteen year old to
Speaker 2: enjoy the experience. You want them to grow continually, even
Speaker 2: if it's growth off the field more than it is
Speaker 2: on the field. You want them to enjoy what's going
Speaker 2: on and understand what you're chasing after. And you don't
Speaker 2: want them to sour on an athletic experience. You don't
Speaker 2: want them to sour on the idea of growth, even
Speaker 2: if it's off the field and has nothing to do
Speaker 2: with what's going on on soccer, because it's going to
Speaker 2: be something they're going to face as adults. And if
Speaker 2: they if they get it, and even if it doesn't
Speaker 2: help them as an athlete, but they get it and
Speaker 2: they turn into a fantastic mogul in charge of their
Speaker 2: own widget business. And it's the most successful thing in
Speaker 2: the world that lesson was learned, even if it didn't
Speaker 2: apply to sports totally.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And that's the biggest thing about you sports.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It's not to get a college scholarship and turn pro. Right,
Speaker 1: it's just such a small, small minority. And even though
Speaker 1: most adults know that, it doesn't stop us from pushing
Speaker 1: and pushing and pushing and hoping and hoping and hoping. Right,
Speaker 1: Like my hopes for my kids or to get they're gone,
Speaker 1: Like I know that already, and so it's like it's
Speaker 1: not going to happen. They don't have the motivation, they
Speaker 1: don't have the the skill that's necessary in their sport.
Speaker 1: And I see that, and that's okay, because I would
Speaker 1: just want them to have fun and enjoy it. And
Speaker 1: they're going to play in high school and it's going
Speaker 1: to be great for them, and they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. They're gonna learn a lot. It's going
Speaker 1: to be really good for their time management and all
Speaker 1: these things. And that's what we want for society, right
Speaker 1: to okay, be better than the past, be better than
Speaker 1: us as parents, and so you know, that's what we're
Speaker 1: trying to get through for sure, and hopefully these parents
Speaker 1: can understand that a little bit. And I get it.
Speaker 1: U sports is different than it was when we were
Speaker 1: growing up. There's so much more money and travel and opportunity,
Speaker 1: and you see the bright lights and it makes it difficult.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're obviously you're drawn to it.
Speaker 2: Halftime turning into the second half here with Michael Parkers
Speaker 2: and the Freddy free kick and are friends at Beyond
Speaker 2: Goals menering, I want to get into be GTV here
Speaker 2: a little bit and how much of an adjustment it was.
Speaker 2: I know that there was a lot of thought that
Speaker 2: went into the idea of the video aspect of what
Speaker 2: you're doing there at Beyond Goals.
Speaker 3: How much of an adjustment was it.
Speaker 2: For you and Greg to do things in a video
Speaker 2: form outside of just the conversations that you're having virtually
Speaker 2: with mentees. What was it like to shift and to
Speaker 2: add BGTV to the whole process.
Speaker 1: Yes, Honestly, the biggest change was the technical aspect of
Speaker 1: it because we had been doing with mentees some video
Speaker 1: work with them, Right, we had already a little database
Speaker 1: of video where, hey, if we work with a midfielder
Speaker 1: and one of the things that they're struggling about is
Speaker 1: with turning in the midfield, Like we could show them
Speaker 1: a few videos of Nagby turning in the midfield or
Speaker 1: you know, any any player out there, and give them
Speaker 1: some examples and show them, Okay, what are they doing
Speaker 1: before they get the ball? What are their movements, how
Speaker 1: do they check their shoulders, how do they approach the ball?
Speaker 1: Like all these little things. And honestly, that's super fun
Speaker 1: for us to talk and go through videos like that
Speaker 1: because it's just natural for us. So, you know, we
Speaker 1: had the wherewithal to do it. But now it's it's
Speaker 1: just a little bit different.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I'm like got the tripod set up, and I'm like
Speaker 1: recording my face while I'm talking about the thing on
Speaker 1: the screen and then putting that together and then okay,
Speaker 1: then I'm uploading it to a different site so I
Speaker 1: can put the circles and the arrows and the stuff
Speaker 1: and so and then adding background music and just all
Speaker 1: this stuff. So the technical aspect of it was more
Speaker 1: and a job trying to get used to it and
Speaker 1: figure it out. But in a good place now where
Speaker 1: you know I can crack out ten videos a week
Speaker 1: and keep this thing moving.
Speaker 3: Really ten you get the ten videos a week now.
Speaker 1: The goal is seven, But those seven it's not that
Speaker 1: it's not that each video is like, hey, this is
Speaker 1: out a midfielder. This one video could go into the
Speaker 1: midfielder bucket, It could go into the striker book. It
Speaker 1: going too every bucket, and then there's obviously other ones
Speaker 1: that know this is just specific to an outside back.
Speaker 1: So yeah, between seven and ten per week updated into
Speaker 1: the library.
Speaker 2: What's it like to see you grow when you look
Speaker 2: in the mirror? You sit there and go, man, I
Speaker 2: didn't know I could do that, And you get to
Speaker 2: see how you advance in this next stage of your
Speaker 2: career and how you're helping out the next generation. What's
Speaker 2: it like to challenge yourself a to do what you
Speaker 2: and Gregor are doing and then be challenge yourself electronically
Speaker 2: and technologically. We sit there and say, okay, I've got
Speaker 2: to do this, and you have to apply yourself to
Speaker 2: something that you haven't been able to do or experience.
Speaker 3: What's it like to challenge yourself now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's part of growth for sure, right, putting yourself
Speaker 1: in an uncomfortable situation, taking a risk and seeing, okay,
Speaker 1: how can we how can we do this right? And
Speaker 1: so Greg could, Greg and I could, you know, just
Speaker 1: keep mentoring ourselves and hey, the company's growing and we're
Speaker 1: doing good stuff, but you know, how can we grow?
Speaker 1: How can we do more? What else can we do?
Speaker 1: And so yeah, BGTV came out of that. I think
Speaker 1: next year our major goal for Q one is to
Speaker 1: hire a new mentor. We want it to be a
Speaker 1: female who's played in college sometime in the past, you know, five, six,
Speaker 1: seven years, because we get a lot of mentees looking
Speaker 1: for help as far as that process, and to have
Speaker 1: someone that went through it more recently than I did
Speaker 1: would be beneficial. So if you know of anyone John
Speaker 1: who used to play college soccer and would be willing
Speaker 1: to work with kids, let us know. But anyway, so
Speaker 1: that's another growth.
Speaker 3: I got somebody in mind.
Speaker 2: I'll see one of the busiest folks on the planet
Speaker 2: we'll see, but we'll see what this individual might think
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I got an idea, so I will work
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 2: I'll work on that offline, as they say, the corporate speak,
Speaker 2: but yeah.
Speaker 1: Sounds good. But yeah, So we want to continue to
Speaker 1: grow because we know that it's important for a lot
Speaker 1: of youth female athletes to have a female mentor. And yes,
Speaker 1: we can absolutely mentor them and we do, but we
Speaker 1: know a lot of them want another female and so
Speaker 1: we're going to expand that way and hopefully that'll help
Speaker 1: the entire business grow. So that'll be the next biggest
Speaker 1: thing that we take on.
Speaker 2: Okay, and by the way, uh for for those that
Speaker 2: are interested in picking up the gia when it comes
Speaker 2: to Wicked good sokka. By the way, the final match
Speaker 2: the Final Matchup T And of course I had to
Speaker 2: go research this because it is the holiday season and
Speaker 2: you know, you know me, you know me wanting to
Speaker 2: wear the gear.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The final participant T the Conference Champions TEA and the
Speaker 2: Final Matchup T have two words attached to them that
Speaker 2: I know you, as a mogul in training, love to hear.
Speaker 3: Sold out. You can't get them anymore unless you print.
Speaker 1: More, dang, it's what are we doing.
Speaker 3: Your put well put no.
Speaker 2: But that that's that means that you're putting out a
Speaker 2: good product. You're putting out a product that folks want
Speaker 2: and it's at the same time it's and you can
Speaker 2: apply that to what you and Greg and everybody's doing
Speaker 2: there at BEG because of all of the teams and
Speaker 2: all of the mentees and all.
Speaker 3: Of the folks that want your advice.
Speaker 2: If you got folks knocking on your door, if you
Speaker 2: and gregor are sitting there and going, yeah, we need
Speaker 2: to expand into the video realm and we need to
Speaker 2: have BGTV.
Speaker 3: That means that.
Speaker 2: Folks are interested in seeing what you're doing, If folks
Speaker 2: are interested in what you have to say, and folks
Speaker 2: are interested in wearing your gear, and then you know,
Speaker 2: but you can't still buy your beat hat.
Speaker 3: Foot T shirt if you want.
Speaker 2: That is there, and as is a lot of the
Speaker 2: wicked good SOCA content that you get. You can get
Speaker 2: the wicked good SOCCA scoff all those kinds of things
Speaker 2: that's there, but the final matchup stuff and your conference
Speaker 2: champion stuff.
Speaker 3: That is gone. But that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: That's what you want, though, you want that attraction to
Speaker 2: what you're doing. And I think that with everything that
Speaker 2: you're having success wise at BGM, that's why you've got
Speaker 2: the TV aspect, you're looking for new mente's, you're looking
Speaker 2: for the younger mentors, those kinds of things. I think
Speaker 2: it's all a part of the I'll say, you know,
Speaker 2: the Bell curve. I know that you mentioned bring in
Speaker 2: and of itself is ups and downs and jagged edges.
Speaker 2: But I think that you know that there's more of
Speaker 2: the Bell curve right now, at least for BGM, than
Speaker 2: that the learning aspect, which we know is going to
Speaker 2: have jagged edges. You guys are doing good work, for sure.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's been a good year and we've had
Speaker 1: good growth, and we feel good about what we're putting
Speaker 1: out there, how we're helping kids, and we've gotten good
Speaker 1: responses from families and stuff. So our renewal rate it's
Speaker 1: really high. So yeah, overall it's been it's been awesome.
Speaker 3: Is there a common message?
Speaker 2: Is there a message that has been expressed to mentees
Speaker 2: more than any other message? Is there, like one common
Speaker 2: thing that you seem to be emphasizing a lot over
Speaker 2: other things is there like one big message that seems
Speaker 2: to be resonating more.
Speaker 3: Than others this year. The biggest Yeah.
Speaker 2: Because I know that it and I know that obviously
Speaker 2: the messaging for each mentee, each mente is looking for
Speaker 2: something different, But I didn't know if there was a
Speaker 2: commonality of message with the mentees that you and Gregor
Speaker 2: are talking to that yeah, okay, that this ment he
Speaker 2: needs help here, and oh that ment he needs the
Speaker 2: same kind of help, and the third ment he needs
Speaker 2: is there a pathway? Is there a an aisle in
Speaker 2: the in the beyond goals men are in grocery store
Speaker 2: that folks seem to go down more than others.
Speaker 1: I think there's two. One is confidence and pressure and
Speaker 1: dealing with those things and helping them understand that they
Speaker 1: can coexist, like being nervous doesn't mean you're not confident,
Speaker 1: and just tips for how to bounce back. So that's
Speaker 1: that's always a big one. And then the second one,
Speaker 1: which I've seen more in the past few months, and
Speaker 1: it's just kind of the way things are, and it's
Speaker 1: honestly one that I struggle with a little bit, is
Speaker 1: when is it time to move on from a team
Speaker 1: or from a school and when is it time for
Speaker 1: me to dig in and show some resiliency in grit
Speaker 1: and you know, battle for my spot and that type
Speaker 1: of thing, because we see it a lot right now
Speaker 1: in college athletics, right with the portal, and so it's
Speaker 1: we've got a bunch of athletes in college and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: there's it's it's come up a bunch of times here.
Speaker 1: I feel like in the fall and every situation is
Speaker 1: unique and it's a tough one because you know, my
Speaker 1: gut tells me that you know, you're going to encounter
Speaker 1: tough situations in life sometimes and you don't want to
Speaker 1: just run and go to the next place, right you
Speaker 1: fight through it and show what you're worth. And if
Speaker 1: you're able to do that, you're going to come out
Speaker 1: so much stronger. Then again, I do know that I
Speaker 1: had that experience in Germany, and I I don't think
Speaker 1: that I could have ever changed his mind because I
Speaker 1: literally was on the outs with him and worked hard
Speaker 1: at training every day and he didn't care and I
Speaker 1: never dressed and I never was a part of the
Speaker 1: team at all. And so you don't want to lose
Speaker 1: years as well, right of Like, yes, I don't think
Speaker 1: I got worse as a player in Germany, right, But
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't have fun and I didn't progress
Speaker 1: my career the way I wanted to in that calendar year,
Speaker 1: and so that's why I left. And so it's a tough,
Speaker 1: tough balance and that's but it's come up a lot.
Speaker 2: I want to ask about the portal before you go,
Speaker 2: and because then I know that I think the next
Speaker 2: time that you and I.
Speaker 3: Will see each other will be new year.
Speaker 2: When you look at the portal these days in college,
Speaker 2: basically the quiet part that used to be said is
Speaker 2: now is now out loud. And you have athletes and
Speaker 2: student athletes, and it's a lot of cases it's probably
Speaker 2: more athlete student than it is a student athlete going
Speaker 2: to a school. Then if they don't like their situation,
Speaker 2: they just jet and they go to another school, and
Speaker 2: then if they don't like that situation, they jet again,
Speaker 2: jet again, jet again, until they try to find a
Speaker 2: place where they feel like they can further their career
Speaker 2: in whatever manner they're looking for. What do you think
Speaker 2: about the portal and is it how how would you
Speaker 2: gauge what the portal can be for college athletics these days?
Speaker 1: It can be amazing for some athletes who didn't get
Speaker 1: to where they wanted to went to a JUCO school,
Speaker 1: went to a D three school, went to a community college,
Speaker 1: and now have done what they needed to do and
Speaker 1: want to move on, and now they're in the portal
Speaker 1: and they're ready to take that next step up. I
Speaker 1: think that's where it can be tremendous. Unfortunately, I think
Speaker 1: it's going to get flooded with these players who get
Speaker 1: accepted into a big school. And it's always been like
Speaker 1: this at even when I was there. Right, you have
Speaker 1: some players towards the bottom of the roster who are
Speaker 1: part of the one of the best teams at one
Speaker 1: of the best universe diversities in the country, and they
Speaker 1: play a role even though that role is not getting
Speaker 1: them a lot of playing time. And now that player,
Speaker 1: I feel like, wants to leave because they think that
Speaker 1: they should be playing somewhere.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 1: It's changing the landscape a little bit for sure, and
Speaker 1: I think that it's putting a bigger emphasis on making
Speaker 1: sure the first time you choose a school that you've
Speaker 1: done all the research and looked into everything and you're
Speaker 1: not just like, hey, which team's winning the most games?
Speaker 1: Or you know who's going to pay me the most
Speaker 1: money or anything like that, Right, it's it's no what's
Speaker 1: the best fit for me? That is so important in
Speaker 1: the coaching style everything, so it makes that very very.
Speaker 3: Important, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: It's always great to uh, to see my friend, great
Speaker 2: to hear your voice and how things are continuing to
Speaker 2: grow up beyond goals. What's the number one thing on
Speaker 2: your Christmas? On your Christmas wish list? Are you going
Speaker 2: to get the pony for Christmas?
Speaker 1: I rarely ask for anything, and I actually already have
Speaker 1: my Christmas gift self picked out, but it's I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it in like a month, and it's gonna get
Speaker 1: wrapped and it's gonna be great and I'm gonna be surprised.
Speaker 3: And love it.
Speaker 1: But it's a new golf bag.
Speaker 2: Oh no, okay, So you're happy with your clubs, You're
Speaker 2: you're happy with what you Oh what do you play?
Speaker 3: By the way, who's your manufacturer?
Speaker 1: I have Nike clubs John from fifteen years ago, and
Speaker 1: I told myself until I'm hitting consistently in like the
Speaker 1: low eighties, I don't need a new clubs. It's not
Speaker 1: the club.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's a I'm a callaway guy. Myself and
Speaker 2: the boss make sure that I don't get new Calloways.
Speaker 2: That's for damn sure, considering my play. And if you
Speaker 2: and I went out on the golf course, it'd probably
Speaker 2: be an even steven matchup and I would be highly competitive.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm a callaway guy. And yeah, she's like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm buying you used callaway stuff until you much like you. Hey,
Speaker 2: you want to shoot in the smid seventies, you work
Speaker 2: with what you've got.
Speaker 3: That's basically how this rolls.
Speaker 2: Shop dot Rhode Island FC dot com. You can get
Speaker 2: pretty much anything and everything. I'm leaning towards the Rhode
Speaker 2: Island the crest hitch cap myself and where the trucker
Speaker 2: lid and scarves and things like that for wicked good soccer.
Speaker 2: But you cannot get Eastern Conference championship gear. And you
Speaker 2: can't get last Game of the Year gear because it's
Speaker 2: sold blank out.
Speaker 3: That's the weak.
Speaker 1: Well, John, if I get my hands on one, I
Speaker 1: know where to send it, ah, and.
Speaker 3: You would be epic and it would be a part
Speaker 3: of it would be a part.
Speaker 2: Of Office HD and it would but hey, look if
Speaker 2: it's a T shirt. It ain't get worn because it's
Speaker 2: a piece of history. And I'm gonna have you sign it,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna frame it. If it's a scarf, it
Speaker 2: goes up here with your other one here in the office.
Speaker 2: I know i'd see. I want to respect history. I
Speaker 2: am a child of history. I'm a child the gear,
Speaker 2: and if it's cool, I don't know if I should
Speaker 2: wear it because then it gets destroyed.
Speaker 3: It's like the baseball card and the you know and
Speaker 3: the see. That's how it is.
Speaker 1: Problems, all right, I gotta run have a great holiday season.
Speaker 2: We go go away, go talk golf and do things.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to him by all right. So there's Michael.
Speaker 2: That's Cap, and so CAP's gonna go and like play
Speaker 2: golf and things. So he's out the door. It's always
Speaker 2: great to see Michael Parkhurst and Greg cars and everything
Speaker 2: going on, because it's really cool to see how Beyond
Speaker 2: Goals mentoring is growing and what they meaning Michael and
Speaker 2: gregor learning as they are growing beyond goals mentoring and
Speaker 2: mentioned Beyond Goals TV and what they're doing there in
Speaker 2: a visual sense and how they're learning meaning Greg and Michael,
Speaker 2: what they're learning about advancing BGM Beyond Goals mentoring and
Speaker 2: so we get to catch up with them when they're
Speaker 2: not traveling the planet. And so I think Michael had
Speaker 2: a golf game. I think that's what Michael was getting
Speaker 2: ready to do. And so yeah, because you tell hat
Speaker 2: was on backwards, he had the gear on.
Speaker 3: He was ready to go.
Speaker 2: So great to catch up with Cap And like I said,
Speaker 2: I think the next time at least I will catch
Speaker 2: up with Michael Parkers, probably going to be after the
Speaker 2: first of the year.
Speaker 3: So it's always good. And that's why I had to
Speaker 3: ask him about his Christmas