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Charlie Ragle: From Taylor's High School Head Coach - To Assistant Head Coach At ASU · Bussin' With The Boys

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  Speaker 1: Just grabbed the mic, grab the mike.
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  Speaker 1: Lips A.
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  Speaker 3: This is an absolute pleasure. We have head coach of Chaparral, Chaparral, right.
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  Speaker 2: Chaparral coach Charlie Ragel was head coach Chapero, maybe the
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  Speaker 2: most winningest coach in Chaparral history, but the.
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  Speaker 3: Head coach of Chaparo when you were in school. That's
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  Speaker 3: why this is important, right. We get to if anybody
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  Speaker 3: who listened to Dave Seigler interview. You can check that
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  Speaker 3: one out when we sent on the Raiders GM. This
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  Speaker 3: is the same bloodline basically, not genetically, but you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, I'm with you that Taylor came from.
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  Speaker 3: So I assume this is gonna be a great storytelling
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  Speaker 3: podcast between now two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So just background, man, I was my junior year, my
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  Speaker 2: freshman through junior year, I'm playing noose tackle and Chaparral
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  Speaker 2: High School, Scottsdale. It's a lot of money in that school,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of like a lot of resources at Chaparral.
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  Speaker 2: They come up to Cave Creek and fucking donkey us now,
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  Speaker 2: Trace Carrol, his dad was just a play guy I
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  Speaker 2: played with for like one year on like Pop Warner
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  Speaker 2: comes up to my dad. I was like, Hey, what
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  Speaker 2: are you doing with Taylor? And I's like, what do
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  Speaker 2: you mean? He's just trying to play football hopefully get
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  Speaker 2: a scholarship. And he's like, I think you need to
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  Speaker 2: have a meeting. So he goes and sit down with
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  Speaker 2: Ragel and I don't know what happened to that meeting,
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  Speaker 2: but I would love to hear that conversation you had.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's back up, because first of all, that was
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  Speaker 4: junior year. We go up to Cactus Shadows, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and it's up about a good twenty minute drive from
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  Speaker 4: the Dale, and uh, we're playing Cave Creek and alls
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  Speaker 4: I know is they've got this really big, good looking
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  Speaker 4: Kui and they're playing him at nose tackle. The thing
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  Speaker 4: I remember most about that game is that there was
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  Speaker 4: a really bad cornerback. And this is great coaching right here,
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  Speaker 4: I said, tomorrow, c's up in the box. Before the
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  Speaker 4: game kicks off, I said, hey, Dave, Mike Cummings, we
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  Speaker 4: had a really good receiver. I said, he's covering this guy.
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  Speaker 4: You just throw it to this guy all night long.
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  Speaker 4: And we went for twelve catches, two hundred and fifty yards,
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  Speaker 4: four tugs, sixty points on the board. The de tackle
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  Speaker 4: was a non factor. That was a non factor. I
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  Speaker 4: literally I wasn't even a player. You would look at
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  Speaker 4: and be like, we got a block picture.
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  Speaker 1: He walked, was big, he.
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  Speaker 4: Was long, good looking, and so fast forward to the
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  Speaker 4: spring of oh wait, oh wait, right, yeah, oh wait,
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, I guess I could say this now. I
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  Speaker 4: had a breakfast with his dad, which is illegal, I suppose,
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  Speaker 4: but what the hell, And there's gotta be a statute
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  Speaker 4: of limitations on.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't there.
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  Speaker 4: So we met and just talked about the potential. We
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  Speaker 4: had a really good defensive end was Taylor's teammate, Craig
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  Speaker 4: row At, And Craig was a four point zero student,
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  Speaker 4: had every offer in the country as a junior. So
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  Speaker 4: going to that spring, you knew that our place was
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  Speaker 4: going to be packed with dudes coaches coming through. And
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  Speaker 4: Taylor's dad knew that, and you know, he thought, man,
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  Speaker 4: this is the opportunity for Taylor to to to get seen.
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  Speaker 1: And now did you pitch him to move the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line versus no tax?
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  Speaker 4: Well, when I saw him, I was just like, man, look,
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  Speaker 4: this guy's a no brainer offensive tackle. Like I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you look at him, He's athletic, how he bins. It
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  Speaker 4: was like, this is And at the time, our offensive
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  Speaker 4: line coach had was in his early seventies, Ron Hibbeneck
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  Speaker 4: was retired, had played at USC coach was a long
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  Speaker 4: time offensive line coach for the Patriots way back in
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  Speaker 4: the day. And so I'm just like, this makes so
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  Speaker 4: much sense for this guy to play offensive line, and
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  Speaker 4: and I just told his dad, if we can get
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  Speaker 4: him there and he does what he needs to do.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna blow up. I hadn't seen the transcript yet.
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  Speaker 4: Let me preface that, brother, it was bad. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know that he went to school for the first two
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  Speaker 4: and a half years. When I saw that thing, Man,
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  Speaker 4: it was bad, bad from.
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  Speaker 1: My my freshman year.
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  Speaker 2: The first semester I failed three classes, and then my
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  Speaker 2: second semester I failed four. So I failed seven classes
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  Speaker 2: my freshman year of high school.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, as they say, yeah, the border and so
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  Speaker 4: my man here was rocking into Chaptown with the one
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  Speaker 4: six GPA. And uh but back then the NCAA right time.
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  Speaker 4: Life's about timing, as we all know. And uh, back then,
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  Speaker 4: you could replace as many classes as you wanted to.
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  Speaker 4: There was no there was no rule on how many
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  Speaker 4: classes as there is now. So I told him, man, hey,
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  Speaker 4: it's time to go to work. We're gonna we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: change that. We're gonna change the face of your landscape.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, that's exactly what we did. A lot of
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  Speaker 4: a lot of credit to a lot of people. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, he left with the two point six GPA,
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  Speaker 4: and uh uh there was probably forty plus Power five
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  Speaker 4: Division I schools that came through that spring, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: credit to Tony Dues.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys all know, dudes, he's out there. Dudes.
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  Speaker 4: Dudes believed me when I told him, like, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to get this dude right, Like, we will get this
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  Speaker 4: guy qualified.
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  Speaker 1: You just got to trust me on that.
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  Speaker 4: And so Dues stayed because everybody came to see Craig
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  Speaker 4: and obviously Craig was a hot commodity and a really
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  Speaker 4: good player as well, but everybody was asking about Taylor,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and then you show him the transcript, they're like,
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  Speaker 4: good talk, coach. And so my man pounded some workout again,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of resources and a lot
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  Speaker 4: of help, and you know, a few months later, my
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  Speaker 4: man is rocking at two six and he's on his
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  Speaker 4: way to go blue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a while. It was a while.
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  Speaker 2: Like I told you a little bit about it, Like
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  Speaker 2: we played those first two games, and that's like where
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  Speaker 2: I got all my scholarship offers off. It is just
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  Speaker 2: that I put those on film and then they went
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  Speaker 2: and like he said, like a bunch of coaches would come,
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  Speaker 2: and like Harball was at Stanford and he came, he
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  Speaker 2: saw my transcript and literally laughed out loud. It was like,
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  Speaker 2: there's literally nothing we can do here in left Like
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin did the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: So here, here's a great story. You're gonna love this.
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  Speaker 4: He comes with his dad to get registered for school.
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  Speaker 4: You see this guy, really like walking across the campus
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  Speaker 4: is the first time I really laid eyes on Mo
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  Speaker 4: other than in the uniform in the game. I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: at him offensive corder and we're kind of like in
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  Speaker 4: an off back in a room and he's walking across
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  Speaker 4: the campus and I'm just like, man, look at this dude,
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  Speaker 4: Like that's a left tackle. So I tell tell Rod,
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  Speaker 4: And again Rod's old school man, and we had had
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  Speaker 4: a kid that had started at left tackle for is
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  Speaker 4: really good high school player. Uh and Ethan Lewis. Ethan Lewis, Yes, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I say Rod, we're gonna move Ethan to right tackle.
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  Speaker 4: This is gonna be our left tackle.
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  Speaker 1: And he was pissed. He fought me on it.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a left tackle, No, man, this this is
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  Speaker 4: this is a left tackle. And so he comes on
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  Speaker 4: campus and he says, I'll never forget this. He says
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  Speaker 4: to he goes, I just got one question for you,
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  Speaker 4: he said, Coach, Like I don't even know if you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna remember it. But he goes, when you guys played me,
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  Speaker 4: I was playing the nose tackle. Did you have to
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  Speaker 4: double and triple team? That's a tough look. Last questions
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  Speaker 4: like that, I said, let me tell you something. We
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  Speaker 4: had to create a whole game plan against you. I said,
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  Speaker 4: we were doubling tripling. How one point we just wedged
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  Speaker 4: the whole thing at your ass. We couldn't stop you.
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  Speaker 4: Complete lie.
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  Speaker 1: As I told you the front end of the story.
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  Speaker 4: And he looks, as Dad, let's go get me signed up. Facts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so funny how the Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: Loan era started at Shoptown, USA and uh, and then
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  Speaker 4: once he got on the field, man like, and I
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  Speaker 4: love this guy because he's never forgot where he's.
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  Speaker 1: Come from, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: And he's just a genuine dude, Like it's rare in
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  Speaker 4: your life to coach someone of his ability, but just
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  Speaker 4: he approaches life kind of how I see it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I got a real fiery personality, and it's either you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm either in fifth gear or un parked, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean, And it's all in. And that's how
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  Speaker 4: he approached it. On the field and off the field.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he was an instant fan favorite. He was
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  Speaker 4: an instant students. The students loved him, man. But it
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  Speaker 4: was how he played the game with just a relentless
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  Speaker 4: and I mean, you know, like the dude just played
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  Speaker 4: balls to the wall and there's no substitute for that.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously once he put the stuff on tape, it
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  Speaker 4: was a rap.
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  Speaker 1: And then once we.
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  Speaker 4: Got the grades where they needed to be, everybody came
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  Speaker 4: slinging those offers.
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  Speaker 3: Well, was it basically like they saw the first two
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  Speaker 3: games or whatever, and everybody's basically lined up, And then
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  Speaker 3: it just came down to the transcript.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean.
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  Speaker 4: The transcer was so bad in the spring that people
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  Speaker 4: were scared away from it, but once he put the
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  Speaker 4: stuff on tape, it was too good for people not
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  Speaker 4: to come back and check back in. And then they saw, oh, man,
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  Speaker 4: he's making that progress. Yeah, you know, but then dues
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  Speaker 4: had been dudes had stayed the course, man, and stayed
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  Speaker 4: consistent with me. And then obviously with Taylor's dad's background
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  Speaker 4: in the Big Ten and having the affinity for that,
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  Speaker 4: obviously he could tell you the rest of that why
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  Speaker 4: he shows Michigan. But Uh, it was everybody, man, everybody
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  Speaker 4: and their mom wanted this dude. It's been and it's
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  Speaker 4: been fun. Like to sit here and see all of
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  Speaker 4: this man, and like it's it I trade. It's an
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  Speaker 4: emotional for me because how much I love this dude,
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  Speaker 4: but it's also just a testament to how hard he's
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  Speaker 4: worked and just eat life.
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  Speaker 1: Man, you never know. It's crazy. Yeah, man, does that
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  Speaker 1: make you feel good? Yeah, it makes you feel good.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of those when you take compliment, you just
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  Speaker 2: got to kind of receive it and sit there and
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  Speaker 2: take it because it is it's tough to get compliment.
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  Speaker 3: Cool to hear though, because he's somebody who obviously was
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  Speaker 3: was part of that big process for were you in
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  Speaker 3: pivot in your life.
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  Speaker 2: And it was I remember, like you remember, like you
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  Speaker 2: look back in high school now and you realize, like
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  Speaker 2: how not big of a deal you made it up
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  Speaker 2: in your head because you were so zoomed in on
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  Speaker 2: high school like we like, uh, Rigel was always always
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  Speaker 2: good to me, man, Like I I didn't get in
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  Speaker 2: like by the time I got to like my senior year,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't getting in trouble like I was in the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: But like I could have done pretty much whatever the
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  Speaker 2: fuck I want, and he had my back and I
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  Speaker 2: but we had one A couple of times we played
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  Speaker 2: to worrow and uh, I fucking do. It was like
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  Speaker 2: going into half, it was like seven zero and Dwayne
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  Speaker 2: Garrett are running back. Who you met Dwayne at dinner? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Last last fall. He makes this diving catch in the
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  Speaker 2: back of the end zone and Dwayne can't fucking catch.
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  Speaker 2: You can literally throw it to him ten times, you know,
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  Speaker 2: drop at six of them, just straight up. He makes
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  Speaker 2: this in like crazy catch. I get a face mask call,
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  Speaker 2: it gets called back. We end up living the game.
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  Speaker 1: I remember you guys talked about it that we.
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  Speaker 4: Were seven at half.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and four had like eight dudes going d one.
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  Speaker 4: They had that rivalries. Master's ten thousand people there. It's unbelieved. Well,
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  Speaker 4: me and the coach got a great food feud going
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  Speaker 4: to like it's a it's everything was build up to be,
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  Speaker 4: and we score. It's going to be seven to seven.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna go on the half tide, and we just
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  Speaker 4: got lost all the momentum.
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  Speaker 1: For us right there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he'll shut the face masks, but my man
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  Speaker 4: was was doing blindside before there was blindside. He was
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  Speaker 4: putting kids. We're out of patche Junction one night, all right,
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  Speaker 4: on a Friday night. My guy's putting dudes on roller
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  Speaker 4: skates and putting them out in the tumbleweeds, I mean
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  Speaker 4: way out. And the thing was is this guy was
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  Speaker 4: not shy about sharing his opinion with the officials, which
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  Speaker 4: as a.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, you know that's obviously not what I want. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And so like the coach throws a flag.
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  Speaker 4: He's got this literally dude on the track, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: and the coach the ref comes to me and says, look, man,
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  Speaker 4: that's just unnecessary rough as he's got this kid fifty
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  Speaker 4: yards down the field.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, well, what do you mean? What do
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  Speaker 1: you want me to do?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Like, I can't tell my guys stop blocking him. That's
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  Speaker 4: not what we're preaching this program. So honestly, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna take the fifteen. And so he comes, get
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  Speaker 4: his ass off the field. I got to talk to
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  Speaker 4: him and bring him over there. He comes the official
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  Speaker 4: Do you remember that? I remember, I remember excessive blocking
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  Speaker 4: and reaching in his pocket.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, are you getting paid for this? To the
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  Speaker 1: rest throws another flat and that's What I loved about him, though, man.
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  Speaker 4: Is the dude was just he he had that passion
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  Speaker 4: and that intensity that made him a lead And that's
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  Speaker 4: that's what it was like. He is obviously physically gifted.
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  Speaker 4: He could run, he could bend with with his length,
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  Speaker 4: which is rare. But it was the mentality and the
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  Speaker 4: passion that he brought to the field every day and
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  Speaker 4: off the field too, that that has gotten him where
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  Speaker 4: we are today. It was a cool deal, man, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: bring bring him back to ASTU. Like you've been in
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  Speaker 4: a lot of places. You're you went to U of A,
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  Speaker 4: went over to cal for a while right five years,
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  Speaker 4: and and then Idaho State. Yeah, it was just a
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  Speaker 4: just a nice cup of coffee as a.
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  Speaker 1: Head coach twelve months.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, and then obviously you know, bringing
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  Speaker 4: it all back with with coach Ziggler, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: coach I coached coach Dillingham that first year. So he
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  Speaker 4: came my second year. That first year, Kenny was a
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  Speaker 4: senior and got hurt and was going to hang up
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  Speaker 4: the cleats, and so I got him, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: just he was a smart young man. I just said, hey, man,
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  Speaker 4: we gotta get this guy into some coaching, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and and uh, that's how the process of his journey began.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, here we are now back here full
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  Speaker 4: circle in uh in Tempe, working working for for Kenny Man.
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  Speaker 4: It's uh and sitting here doing a podcast with you guys,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's pretty wild.
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  Speaker 1: So you were a senior when Coach d was about
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  Speaker 1: to come in.
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  Speaker 4: He so, Uh, Coach D was a senior. He was
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  Speaker 4: at still at Cactus Shadows.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so my junior I transferred in spring break,
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  Speaker 2: like Cat Shows was going on spring break. Chaperon was
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  Speaker 2: off spring break, and I just took that weekend and
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  Speaker 2: then went to the new school. Yeah, and so their
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  Speaker 2: season was already done. He was I didn't even know
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  Speaker 2: coach Dellingham at all because he was a senior, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, he he was hurt, couldn't play. I got
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  Speaker 2: this really sharp kid. His dad was a very intelligent
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  Speaker 2: lawyer that was on our booster club. I got to
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  Speaker 2: know his dad and Kenny had come off some knee
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  Speaker 2: injuries and just i'd got to really build a relationship
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  Speaker 2: with Kenny. I'm like, man, this kid's pretty sharp. And
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  Speaker 2: I said, what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 4: And He's like I think I'm just gonna go to issue,
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  Speaker 4: probably a lawyer like my dad. And I was like, well,
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  Speaker 4: I don't really give a ship what you what you
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  Speaker 4: can I say that on here?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah everything up here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Uh. Anyway, so uh, I said, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: really care what you do, you know, in terms of
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  Speaker 4: your career, but I want you to come back here
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  Speaker 4: and coach. And that's how the Kenny d train started
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  Speaker 4: rolling out of Shaptown and uh. And then my man
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  Speaker 4: joined the crew that spring after the spring break, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, here we are, rest is history.
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  Speaker 1: Well what did you see in?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Kenny coach, Coach Dillingham. Yeah, you
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: know what.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: The thing that I say about about Coach Dillingham that
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: that is the most impressive is he's always been driven,
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: even at that young of age.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: I tell the story that we were sitting around one
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: time and we were in a staff meeting and he's
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: the young new kid, eighteen years old, and he says, uh,
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: we were talking about why people do this, and I
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: can't remember what the particular situation was, and he just
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: pops about of nowhere and just says, you know, it
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: really comes down to one thing, Coach Rigel, and I said, well,
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: what's that He's got all's of his life life principles
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: is the.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Juice worth the squeeze.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: And I looked at this guy and I'm like pretty perceptive,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: especially in what we were talking about, and that dude
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: was driven. Like from that point on that that quote
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: stayed with me for whatever reason, and then I just
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: watched him stay focused to what he wanted to do
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: and achieve his goals and to get here at at
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: the age of thirty two years old and be where
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: he's at. Man, that that that takes the resolve. That's
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: you know, young people, and you guys are young man,
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: it's hard to stay that course with the temptations and
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: the things that come with the success. To stay driven
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: and in that goal oriented tells you a lot.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: About what he is. I oh, really do you know?
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: I just you can just tell by listening. You're the
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: speech giver. Brother.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I told you before we've walked in here like this
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: would get it seems like the fucking I got to
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: know one more thing before we go theter When you're
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: playing Moraine in the first game senior year and you
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: gave a speech about your dog.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: You're throwing the ball, the ball, the dog dies. Is
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: that a real story that really happened. No shit, a
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: dog was hardy man, purebred lab. My wife had it
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: before we got together. We're out labor day weekend. We'd
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: come from practice and come home. It's midday. Took the
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: dog out to the park, was throwing the ball and
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: the dog collapsed. Uh, you just collapsed.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Now, how are you? How are you funneling that into
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: a pre game speed.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: No matter what you do in life, man, you do
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: it till you till the wheels come off. Like you've
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: got to be so ingrained in the passion and in
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: the process you run till an end. It's like you
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: run till the end. Man, there's no there's no limit.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Like it's you got to be all in or all out,
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: and that's the only way that you really achieve greatness.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Most people will never understand that. Hey, you gety, he's
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: got the fucking juice.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna come to nash Vegas, Nashville and sit
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: on the bus at some point.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Hell, yeah, brother, you are in Biden.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: You're here spring game, Go Devils. Thanks guys.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, let's go do this. M.