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  Speaker 1: Welcome back again, very very excited for this episode of
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  Speaker 1: Inside the Sooner Family because we're gonna be talking more
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  Speaker 1: family than we usually do. I've got JP jandrou father
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  Speaker 1: of Bo and Nico Jandro twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna call them athletes.
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  Speaker 1: We got a linebacker, we got a safety, but we
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  Speaker 1: know that these cats are just athletes. So JP, man,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for joining here with me here tonight. How are
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  Speaker 1: things going down in warm Arizona?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sure, thanks for having me. It's definitely hot.
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  Speaker 4: I think I saw the forecast this week and we
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  Speaker 4: get a one seventeen on Thursday, so we're right there
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  Speaker 4: with you.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have the humidity that you have, but it's boys.
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  Speaker 2: And right now, well, definitely definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know it's good because when when the boys
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  Speaker 1: get up here for their first kind of summer camp,
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  Speaker 1: fall camp, you know they're gonna feel like it's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a cool way for them because Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really catch you up. But the community, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: will will be a little different for them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: Well, man, you know I want to hop back in.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, right into the middle of our you know,
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  Speaker 1: conversation kind of leading up because bo and Nico are
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  Speaker 1: identical twins. You made a comment that you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't say you know who was older, you know
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  Speaker 1: which one was bigger, most folks wouldn't notice. But tell
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  Speaker 1: me a little bit, you know, because I've never done
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  Speaker 1: one where we're doing twin brothers before, So, uh, tell
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  Speaker 1: me a little bit about, uh, which which one, which
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  Speaker 1: one was the oldest one? And uh did did did
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  Speaker 1: they happen to hold that over the other's head growing up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? So Bo is two minutes earlier.
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  Speaker 4: There are identical twins, and really the only way you
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  Speaker 4: could tell them apart if you can look.
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  Speaker 3: For certain markers.
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  Speaker 4: I would think kids tend to be better about it
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  Speaker 4: than adults for some reason. Yeah, my brother in law
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  Speaker 4: helped coach their flag football team when they're when they
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  Speaker 4: were growing up, and he couldn't tell them apart the
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  Speaker 4: whole time. Back then in the youth ball, Nico would
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  Speaker 4: play a little at a quarterback and there was a
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  Speaker 4: play where he yelled.
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  Speaker 3: At Bow to go in and Bogo's uncle Mike, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not a Nico.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what I'm doing, and and Mike's like,
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  Speaker 4: just get in there and throw the ball, man. But
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  Speaker 4: if you do, if you do wait to see him
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  Speaker 4: throw the ball, then you'll know. Because Nico is a
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  Speaker 4: lefty end both righty. So that's one of the indicators.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so that that's that's pretty entertaining. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously when you've got your hands full. I've got a
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  Speaker 1: seven year old son, and that is exactly what he
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  Speaker 1: is as a handful. But growing up, I mean, these
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  Speaker 1: guys look like pretty uh, you know, pretty rough nosed kids,
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  Speaker 1: willing to get in there and mixed up with each other.
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  Speaker 1: How were the in the house wrestling football while you're
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  Speaker 1: watching you know, while you're watching football. Did they do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of tackling and rough housing growing up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? It was unbelievable, man. I mean you learn how
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  Speaker 3: to patch drywall pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: They were bouncing off the walls when they're a little
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  Speaker 4: They're always really good kids, very affectionate carrying kids, but
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  Speaker 4: extremely high energy. So we live on a county island.
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  Speaker 4: There were times where I would stop at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the road. It's you know, call it a quarter
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  Speaker 4: mile back to the house. It's like, guys, get out,
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  Speaker 4: you got to run home. Man, there's just too much
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  Speaker 4: energy right now. So that's the competition kind of started there.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a foot race home. Who's gonna win. We're
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  Speaker 4: cruising in the truck behind them, So there was plenty
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  Speaker 4: of that, or just like, let's get outside, get swimming,
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  Speaker 4: let's go out in the back and throw the ball, because.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the drywall took took the brunt of that. Over
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  Speaker 3: the years.
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  Speaker 1: How many times did you ever, you know, do the
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  Speaker 1: whole deal to where you know, you can't see both
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  Speaker 1: of my arms, which you got one head in one hand,
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  Speaker 1: one head and the other one. You're just kind of
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  Speaker 1: holding them back from each other. Have you lost count
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  Speaker 1: of that?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that was a regular occurrence in this house for sure,
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  Speaker 4: and there would be you know, those two against me
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  Speaker 4: wrestling matches, not so much anymore. I think they're in
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  Speaker 4: the weight room more than I than I am these days.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: That's a that's a I mean, one of the great
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  Speaker 1: things about having a son is you know, being able
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  Speaker 1: to do the rough housing. At what point did were
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  Speaker 1: you like, all right, you guys just go out each
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  Speaker 1: other because I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have this anymore, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, I think that I still kind of trick them
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  Speaker 4: into thinking that maybe I did have it. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know that, you know one hundred percent that they could
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  Speaker 4: take me yet I'll see them kind of looking me
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  Speaker 4: out of the corner of their eye.
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  Speaker 3: Every once in a while. I got to keep them honest.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I think as of weight they've really kind
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  Speaker 4: of come into their own and developed out.
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  Speaker 3: They've been hitting the weight room and real hard.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, if it were if you were going to
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  Speaker 4: be the two of them against me, I would probably
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  Speaker 4: conceive that one.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: You still got like the the the old man Dad's strength,
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  Speaker 1: which you can kind of threaten because you never want
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  Speaker 1: you never want to bite off more than you can
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  Speaker 1: chew from pops. Just I mean, because you know there's
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  Speaker 1: a line. But uh, at the same time, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that you are you are correct. Neither of those guys
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  Speaker 1: look like they're afraid of the.
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  Speaker 4: In exactly one hundred percent, right allow one.
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  Speaker 1: You said, you know flag football, you know kind of
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  Speaker 1: pee wee football in the early years, So let's start there.
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  Speaker 1: At what point did kind of football enter the picture?
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  Speaker 1: Was it always going to be a thing for them,
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  Speaker 1: or you know something that you know, maybe you know
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  Speaker 1: coming down from yourself, or did you just like, there's
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  Speaker 1: so much energy, I just need them to hit other people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So, really we were really slow to the game of football.
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  Speaker 4: Flag football was a part of their development, but they
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  Speaker 4: did everything from you know, soccer when they were.
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  Speaker 3: Little, to baseball to volleyball.
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  Speaker 4: Swimming, they got into a little bit of horseback riding
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  Speaker 4: and roping and different things. So all the while they
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  Speaker 4: were doing flag football, and they had kind of been
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  Speaker 4: getting on me like, hey, Dad, can we do this
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  Speaker 4: tackle season? And I really wanted them to develop athletically.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted them to learn how to use their body.
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  Speaker 4: I want him to focus on speed and explosiveness. And
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  Speaker 4: we would do little drills in the backyard and make
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  Speaker 4: them fun and competitive. But it was kind of developing
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  Speaker 4: all that athleticism. And then when they got to their
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  Speaker 4: eighth grade year, they had one of their youth coaches,
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  Speaker 4: Bill Borkowski. He came to a baseball tournament and he
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  Speaker 4: recruited the boys specifically, so he came and kind of
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  Speaker 4: pulled me aside at one of their baseball tournaments. He says, hey, Dad,
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  Speaker 4: I know the boys want to play football. I know
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  Speaker 4: you've held them off. If I can assure you that
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  Speaker 4: I teach them the right way. You know, it's heads
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  Speaker 4: up football, hawk style, rugby tackling. We'll get them on
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  Speaker 4: the dummy, we'll teach them right. Would would you trust
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  Speaker 4: me with that and allow them to play? And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I pinned down, like will you do it the right way?
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  Speaker 4: And he says, absolutely, we will.
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  Speaker 3: So that was the year.
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  Speaker 4: My wife and I talked about it and we went
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  Speaker 4: ahead and let them play as eighth graders and it
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  Speaker 4: was like, I mean, it was like a rocket ship.
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  Speaker 4: So after that first practice he reached out to me.
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  Speaker 4: It was him and another assistant coach, and they kind
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  Speaker 4: of talked about the kids that they had had over
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  Speaker 4: the years that had gotten to collegiate level and I
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  Speaker 4: think nine of them went to the professional level. And
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  Speaker 4: he said, he goes, I'm just going to tell you
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  Speaker 4: for the first day of live hitting, when they came
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  Speaker 4: off the dummy, He's like, I haven't seen kids hit
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  Speaker 4: hit like that, you know. He's like, these kids are different.
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  Speaker 4: And he's like, you got a couple of football players
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  Speaker 4: on your hands. So that's kind of when it started
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  Speaker 4: getting real for us. And the boys came home and
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  Speaker 4: they just had big smiles on their faces and it
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  Speaker 4: was like they just took to the physicality and to
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  Speaker 4: the aggressiveness.
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  Speaker 3: So that's when we finally realized there's something here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you kind of got to lean into a
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  Speaker 1: dude whose name is Bill Burkowski. If his name was
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  Speaker 1: Bill Cooper, you probably are going to be like, we'll
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  Speaker 1: pray about it. But Burkowski, that's like, man, we got
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  Speaker 1: to back this cat. So I see your dilemma. See
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  Speaker 1: your dilemma there. What position do they were they playing
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  Speaker 1: right when they first started? Did they try to kind
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  Speaker 1: of go at the same thing. Do they have different desires,
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  Speaker 1: different you know, positions they wanted to play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Coach he really saw them as linebackers back then.
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  Speaker 3: He did.
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  Speaker 4: He did use Nico a little bit as like a
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  Speaker 4: out of a wildcat kind of a quarterback versus kind
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  Speaker 4: of a runner, and he I think he really he
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  Speaker 4: kind of had aspirations to take Nico in that direction,
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  Speaker 4: to see if he could develop him. He kept telling me,
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  Speaker 4: He's like, I think we have a like a Mike
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  Speaker 4: Vic type of in our hands.
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  Speaker 3: Let's develop him out.
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  Speaker 4: But Nico kind of didn't share that same passion for
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  Speaker 4: one to play quarterbacks like you said. He wanted he
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  Speaker 4: wanted to come in and hit people and lay the woods.
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  Speaker 4: So very quickly they both kind of got onto that
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  Speaker 4: that side.
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  Speaker 3: Of the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Through the youth, they did played both ways, so Nico
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  Speaker 4: played some slot receiver and both played some wide out,
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  Speaker 4: and then on the defensive side it was linebacker, linebacker,
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  Speaker 4: safety type.
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  Speaker 1: So the the the thumping desire, you know, Mike Vick
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  Speaker 1: didn't really run into contact, and it sounds like Nico, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, probably wanted to be a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: like Bill Beldozer from the old old old old school
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  Speaker 1: ou days or maybe Tim Tebow so got it.
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  Speaker 2: Got it.
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  Speaker 1: So year one they start eighth grade, you start seeing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some passion, they've got some good direction. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like the the build up and the you know,
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  Speaker 1: as far as like the athleticism and the things that
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  Speaker 1: they're looking at, those things were kind of developed, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in advance.
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  Speaker 2: So at what point.
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  Speaker 1: During the the football I guess journey, did you think, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they're not only good at this, so they not only
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  Speaker 1: love it, but like the next level is very very attainable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think I knew pretty early that they
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  Speaker 4: had a spectrum for athleticism, was that was special in
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  Speaker 4: terms of foot speed and coordination, explosiveness, and just kind
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  Speaker 4: of adaptability between sports. They played so many sports that
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  Speaker 4: you know, when they would get on the field or
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  Speaker 4: in the pool or whatever it might be, they weren't
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  Speaker 4: maybe the most refined, so they had some raw athleticism
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  Speaker 4: to them, but you could just see the speed around
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  Speaker 4: the bases, or when they would get in and swim
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  Speaker 4: against other kids that were doing club year round.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they went a.
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  Speaker 4: Freestyle event or something, they didn't even know what they
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  Speaker 4: were doing, you know. So I think I kind of
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  Speaker 4: recognized early on that they had that spectrum, that ability
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  Speaker 4: to develop towards a high level of athleticism. From there
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  Speaker 4: was more so going to be which sport are they
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  Speaker 4: drawn to? And there for a while it was it
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  Speaker 4: was really backing and trending towards baseball going into high school,
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  Speaker 4: and the high school that we go to happens to
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  Speaker 4: be a real high level football and baseball school.
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  Speaker 3: So the joke was.
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  Speaker 4: They kind of decided that they were going to specialize
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  Speaker 4: in football. Once I put up the batting cage in
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  Speaker 4: the backyard, Okay, we put up like a legit seventy
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  Speaker 4: five foot batting cage, and then it felt like the
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  Speaker 4: next day they're like, hey, Dad, I think we're going
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  Speaker 4: to play football, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you know, of course, well I mean obviously
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  Speaker 1: being a baseball player like, uh, you know, I would
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  Speaker 1: have enjoyed either one, but but I mean pretty excited to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, see the football come to fruition. So going
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  Speaker 1: through high school, you know, nowadays, every single parent not
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  Speaker 1: only things like hey, I would love to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: send my kid to college to play college ball, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, not only that, but you know, a high,
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  Speaker 1: high functioning, high performing program.
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  Speaker 2: At what point.
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  Speaker 1: Did the first kind of recruiting conversation start coming about
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  Speaker 1: And was it for one or the other or was
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  Speaker 1: it kind of a package deal?
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  Speaker 2: How did that play out?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So, if I remember correctly, I think it was
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  Speaker 4: the recruiting jamboree that they have on campus at our school.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it was the spring of their sophomore year.
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  Speaker 4: And there's something like between sixty to one hundred college
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  Speaker 4: coaches that come out for these jamborees, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's primarily for the upper classmen. We may have some
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  Speaker 4: upperclassmen that are going you know, to the college level
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  Speaker 4: and they're checking these guys out, and it just so
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  Speaker 4: happened that at that sophomore year, I think they picked
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  Speaker 4: up three offers, two of which I believe were package offers,
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  Speaker 4: and then one of the local colleges offered NKO I
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  Speaker 4: believe that that jamboree, and then shortly after.
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  Speaker 3: I think BO picked up u of a So the
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  Speaker 3: local they had any u.
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  Speaker 4: U of A ASU and I think they had Central Michigan,
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  Speaker 4: and then it just kind of started picking up steam.
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  Speaker 3: From their sophomore year going into their junior year, it.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of started just building and that level just continued
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  Speaker 4: to grow, so you could feel there was something there.
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  Speaker 4: I think as a dad, you're trying to not be biased.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, like I said, I could I could recognize
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  Speaker 4: the athleticism. I was very confident in that, but to
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  Speaker 4: what level is this going to go? And is this
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  Speaker 4: their sport? Had some other coaches that kind of pulled
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  Speaker 4: me aside and my wife and I and sat us
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  Speaker 4: down and specific football coaches that were working with these guys,
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  Speaker 4: and they kind of forecasted that path for us. They're like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: this is kind of where we see this going. He
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  Speaker 4: came and sat down in our house. Coach hams A.
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  Speaker 4: He was kind of a mentor to us in that regard.
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  Speaker 4: He just kind of painted the picture. He goes, you know,
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  Speaker 4: God willing, if everything's kind of tracked in the way
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  Speaker 4: that I see it, you know, it's not going to
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  Speaker 4: be me coming for.
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  Speaker 3: A home visit next time.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be some of these institutions and some
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  Speaker 4: of these programs that are knocking on your door. And
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  Speaker 4: he just encouraged us to get some framework in place
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  Speaker 4: to kind of set out goals and things that we're
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  Speaker 4: looking for, the things that the boys are looking for
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  Speaker 4: in the program, so that we didn't go into this
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  Speaker 4: blind because it does get exciting and it gets busy
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  Speaker 4: and there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 3: So that that was.
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  Speaker 4: Tremendously helpful for us as a family to stay focused
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  Speaker 4: and grounded.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you brought up the package deal, and you know
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  Speaker 1: that's one again that through all these interviews that I've
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  Speaker 1: done with families, you know, we never had that conversation
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  Speaker 1: because you know, sometimes you know, we've got we've got
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  Speaker 1: a couple, you know, a couple sets of brothers on
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  Speaker 1: the team with the Bowens and the Hawkins and so
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  Speaker 1: but with that you get to you. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: truly separated by a year, right, What were those conversations
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  Speaker 1: like with you know, talking about you know, taking your
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  Speaker 1: own experience and encouraging that, but then at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: like you still kind of had to have the conversation
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  Speaker 1: about the package deal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think in the beginning for them it was kind
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  Speaker 4: of package or bus. It was like, Okay, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to go We're going to play together, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: one hundred percent this is what we want. And then
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  Speaker 4: has it evolved through their junior year. You know, Nico
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  Speaker 4: would get one on his own, and then bo would
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  Speaker 4: get another one on his own, and then they would
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  Speaker 4: get one together, and it just kind of evolved to
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  Speaker 4: a point where I think they had maybe twelve to
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  Speaker 4: fourteen together and then they had a handful. Then they
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: had a handful of each that they had solos on.
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  Speaker 4: So it was kind of vetting through all that, and
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  Speaker 4: that was part of what we written down is like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: part of that is how bad do you want to
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  Speaker 4: be together?
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  Speaker 3: You know, how much.
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  Speaker 4: Does it mean to you to to take a package
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  Speaker 4: deal versus a solo? And I think towards the end
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  Speaker 4: they got more to a place where they just wanted
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  Speaker 4: to find something that was the best fit at least
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  Speaker 4: at least that's what they expressed to us, And I
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  Speaker 4: know that the dream like inside was still to continue together.
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  Speaker 4: Should that offer, should that offer fit both?
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  Speaker 3: Right? I think what we were intentional about is.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: We didn't want we didn't want one to feel pushed
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: to follow another one at them at their detriment. You know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: if one really fit a scheme or a room and
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: the other one was pushed down because of you know,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: upper classmen or just needs for the team or fit that,
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: that doesn't really make sense. So we were pretty intentional
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: about going and vetting these places out and really figuring
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: out kind of how they felt about it and then
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: how it seemed to fit the family.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I mean that's a dynamic that you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: that's that's tough.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: So let's lighten it here for a second.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Because throughout history there's always groups of guys who come
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: up with names for themselves. You know, I think the
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: most famous one and be the Bash Brothers with Martin
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: McGuire and jose Canseco. Did they ever have any fun
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: nicknames for themselves as a pair?
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: They don't really have it. You know, We've we've heard
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: some on social media that pop up, some of their
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: strength coaches and stuff around here. Like we've heard the
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Desert Twins. They've kind of been coined that by one
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: of their strength coaches. We've heard the Twin, NATO's Bash Brothers.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: We've heard the Bash Brothers.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: So it's more so people on social media or coaches
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: that kind of throw it out there, But we don't.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: We don't necessarily have like a slogan for them yet.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: How I mean, has anybody ever really had like a
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: high batting average for you know, getting Nico for Nico
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and Bo for Bo or is it still just a
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: massive cluster when trying to diagnose who's who.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Kids kids pick it up quickly in terms of getting
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: them right and wrong. You mean, yeah, yeah, my family
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: does real well. But it's very much like what's the lighting,
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: what are they wearing? And there's been phases and ages too,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: So when they were brand newborns you could tell them
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: apart really easily. They got to about four to six
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: months good luck, and they're in one of those phases
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: right now where it's really difficult, Like my wife is
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: even said she's like, man, you guys are looking so
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: much alike right now. If the other night we were
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: sitting on the couch and she's like, who is that?
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: You know, It's like, Mom, it's Nico, all right.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Well, obviously being an Oklahoma podcast, people are gonna hear
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I want to hear about, you know, some more of
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: those questions. So again, if you're just now tuning in
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: here with Inside the Suitter Family, Jpjandreau, the father of
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Bo and Nico, Jandro out of Arizona twenty six commits
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: identical twins. So tell me about Oklahoma. When did Oklahoma
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: into the picture and what's the story that happened there?
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think it was in February. I believe
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I just got the call from Bow.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: He was the first one to get offered, and it
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: was just like, man, this is really cool, Like you
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: got Oklahoma.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: This is something special.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: And it was a solo offer at a time, or
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: so he thought, right and through that process of talking
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: to coach Dryling and and coach d I don't think
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: that it was necessarily public knowledge to everybody that not
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: only does he have a brother, but he's a twin
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: brother in the same class and comparable build and all that.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: So as that started to get revealed, they're kind of like, wait, man,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: this guy has a brother, and you know, we heard
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: more about it as we went through the recruiting process.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: They kind of told us their side of the story
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: where it's like, yeah, they joked, they joked around. They're like, man,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: you don't have another brother toal like, do we need
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: to take a little bit more film?
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: You know. So I think once they saw an Eco
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: and they and.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: They evaluated him, they were they were just as excited
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: about him. So it just turned into a really cool
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: experience for us. And I think the feeling from from
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: inception with with the coaching staff and and the recruiting
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: coordinators and everybody on board was just really professional, really cool,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: and you just got a sense that it's it's good
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: human beings.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: That are a part of that program. Yeah. Really, it
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: really stood out.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: So then, you know, so you say in February, so
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: in March, the program brings on Jim Naggy, and this
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: is a dude who has been around Super Bowls. He's
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: a guy who has coordinated the Senior Bowl and he
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: knows how to get an eye for talent. You got
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the brother portion, you know, to two different guys, two
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: different positions. You know, hey, if we can knock out
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: quote unquote two birds with one stone, you know, you
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: kind of get a good thing right there. But when
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: when you're when you're talking with the coaching staff a
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Brent Vinnables who's won national championship, saying, program like Oklahoma,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: how did you kind of approach the All right, guys,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: let's we got to keep the slow, we got to
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: make sure we look at everything and let's really just
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: weigh the options here, because I mean that that that
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: had to be a little hard.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: So through that mentorship process, we kind of wrote down
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: principles that we were looking for, you know, as a
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: family and an individual, goals that the boys had and
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: things that they were looking for in a program.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: So we were able to kind of resort back to
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: that and use that a guide.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: So when we're going on these trips, you know, you're
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: taking notes and you're and you're taking pictures, and then
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: you're going back later and you're going I mean it's
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: like do they practice on real.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: What's the graduation rate? You know, what?
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: How do you fit into your position group, What do
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: you rate that position group?
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Coach?
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: What do you what do you rate the head coach?
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: D c O see living in situations distance from home,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Like there's just a list of things that we were
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: looking at, and then you get into that compare and
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: contrast and towards the end, you have multiple places that
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: have elite football, You have multiple places there are good programs,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: and then it just kind of gets into the nitty
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: gritty of where you really feel like you have connections
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: and relationships and where you feel like you're going to
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: be developed on and off the field.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Really, so you talk about that. So that's a great
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: segue because you know, with the Soul Mission and you know,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: being a true faith based program, you know, and through
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: these conversations and ones in the past, that's one of
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the things that I you know, we hear a lot
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: about is you know you knew who you were hand
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the people that you were handing over your kids too,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and you're doing not only just one but two. So
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: how did how did just you know this the character
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: of the program the coaches? How did that take a
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: part in your decision making on like where you wanted
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: to see the kids go from a father's point of view,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I think it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Was pretty quick for both myself and my wife.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: You know, when we got out to Oh You, you
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: could you could feel a sincerity there and there's an intensity.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: So it's not that it's it's just all lighthearted and
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: all fun. You could feel the level of expectation and
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: you could feel the level of intensity behind everything they did.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, you.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Really did feel a trust and meeting with with Coach
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Genibals and his office and you know, his his kind
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: of speech to us. I don't want to give away
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: his you know, his magic on those doors. Yeah, but
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: but he really he really makes you believe what he's
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: saying and believe that he cares. There's not a doubt
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: in my mind that if you screw around, he's going
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: to be in your face and he's going to get
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: you back in line, and he's going to be tough
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: on you. But I think I really do believe that
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: as hard as he'll be on you, I think he'll
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: love on you just as hard. And uh, any thing
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: with like coach Bates and Hall and dry Ling and
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: good One and all these guys, they're they're very similar
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: in that regard that they're very accomplished coaches and people,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: but I think that they really they really put in
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: the effort to care for their kids too and be
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: intentional about what they do. And as a parent, it's like,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: you know what, the football stuff will work itself out.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: You're just looking for the opportunity. You know, it's like
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: crack the door, and you either go get.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: It or you don't. Either go perform or you don't.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: That's up to you. But I want to control that.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: You're going to be there with some good men and
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: some good human beings. And yeah, I felt like super
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: confident about that.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: How excited are the kids to work with Schmidy because
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you know, these guys love the weight room, they love
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the workout, and you know, you've got this hard nosed
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: dude and Jerry Schmidt, who is you know, renowned amongst
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: college football, first drinking conditioning. Are they actually really excited
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's that's where they live. So like on
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: our on our official visit, that's what they did. They're like, hey,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Friday night, they heard they heard, you know, Materier and
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: the guys are doing a Friday night late lift and
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: they're like they like lit up They're like, let's go.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: So they went out there with the team and got it,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: got a late night lift in and they were with Owen.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Heine Key and these guys that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Were hosting them, and they got to go lifted the
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: team and they actually they brought that back here with them.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: So they're doing Friday night lists with their high school
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: team and they're kind.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Of taking on that role.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: And like Nico told me, he's like, I want to,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: you know, hit up Mature at DM him and see
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: if he'll send me some of the workout stuff that
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: they're doing and we can replicate it over here. So
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: I think they'll they'll be fired up to get with Schmidty,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: and you know, I know he will be.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: But when I.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Look and I see we're blessed that we do have
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: a good strength coach here that it's very hardcore, very militant.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: He's tough on him. You know, it's not like we're
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: gonna go there and get a little pump and go
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: home like you're gonna there's gonna be puke buckets on
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: the first day. You do legs with him, for sure,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: And I kind of see that same I see that
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: same level up you know, they're going to get up
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: there to the to the level with Schmidty and in
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: that program and the nutrition team and all that. So
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: I'm excited to see where it takes. I think that
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: they're they're fired up for sure.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: So let's uh, let's let's wrap the the the the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: football conversations around a couple of other questions. Number one
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I would say is you know, oh, used in the
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: sec they're they're developing this uh, this renewed you know,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: kind of association with being tough no no, tough nos defenses.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: That's you know, that's been a pedigree of the of
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the university for most of its history. What what do
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you think about that for your kids? And knowing that
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: you know, Bread Vinnables, who's regarded as one of the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: better defensive coordinators. Uh, you know guys like Miguel Chaves,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Todd Baits, Nate Dryling, you know this entire crew, Brandon Hall,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: It's it's almost every single one of them, right, So
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: how do you talk to your kids about like, you know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you guys are going to go in here and there's
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: gonna be an expectation and I don't doubt that, you
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: doubt there are work and what they're going to put
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: into it, but you know that that you know they're
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: going to have a little bit of a legacy to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: uphold when it comes to the defense.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think that I just kind of project to
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: them what an opportunity it is and if they can
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: just be a sponge with what these guys like you said.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's exciting to me as a dad when
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: you have two defensive players and they're going to a
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: program like this, right, So if you look at coach
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: v and you have you know, coach Bates and dry
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Ling and Skolski and Goodwin and Hall, and it's like, man,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: you could really just get in there and be be
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: the guy that just bends their ear constantly, you know,
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: be in there, ask a lot of questions. You have
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: some some guys ahead of you that you know you
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: can just model after and compete with. And the sky's
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: the limit. But what an opportunity to get in with
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: a program like this. You know, we have to go
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: to a lot of different places through this process, and
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: they're a lot of good people out there and good programs,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: and I think some of the people get into the
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: weeds a little bit of chasing last year's record, whether
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: it be good or bad. But you know what, that's
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: very that's very fluid, right, And I think, yeah, that's
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: that's an easy thing to do, is go, oh, well,
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: this team went this last year and this team went that.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: It's like, you know.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: What, it takes a little bit of belief and a
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: little bit of hard work too, and I think that's
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: what we're ready to do. We you know, we believe
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: in what they're doing and now it's time for the
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: hard work.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: So definitely, so uh SEC.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I mean that's uh, you know, that's it's you know,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: big ten sec. They continue to fight for which ones
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the premiere conference top to bottom? Did the conference affiliation
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: have have a role to play in kind of why
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: they ended up choosing Oklahoma?
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: It did? I think that was part of that list
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: that we had put together.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: When we can contrast, you know, it's like, okay, we
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: what type of conference does this team play in? What's
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: the competition, Like, what's the position group development? Like, you know,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: what's the continuity from position coach to head coach to
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: front office? What's the development that they're putting into the NFL?
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Like all of that really came into play and they
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: definitely had aspirations to play in the SEC. Specifically, I
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: think you could see as a dad, you could see different.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Paths for your kids, you know.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Or I don't necessarily think that there's like this is
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: the one and only path to success.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I think there's multiple, But it's more so.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Just just trying to determine which one of those pasts
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: fits the best for.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: The team and for yourself, you know.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: And this through that process, Oklahoma really seemed that they
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: have a good path at development and and they just
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: checked the boxes down that list that we had put together.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: And I don't I don't really think that there's a
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: place better honestly for them. It's like the opportunities there.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: I kind of like where it's at program wise, and
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I know online you hear a lot of stuff, right,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: and you hear like some some negative recruiting and some
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: stuff like that. But at the same time, what an
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: opportunity to come in at the crux of this and
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: kind of get this whole thing back on a role.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: And I mean.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: I think this year is gonna be great for them,
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: So we're really excited.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: So it comes down to commitment days and I say days,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: because they didn't hold a joint session, which I really
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: really loved because you know, I wanted that was one
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of the things that you know, when people were like, well,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: when's Bogue going to come on?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Because Nico was the first.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: So in those final days, you know what was that like,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: you know what, you're capable and able to share as
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: far as one of them, you know, Bo Bo was
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: left on the board a little bit longer. Nico, you know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: pulled the trigger sooner. So kind of explain that situation.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so Nico, we had kind of vetted through. We
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: did a lot of spring ball visits, and a lot
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: of those springball visits kind of started answering the questions
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: and checking the boxes that an official visit would do.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: I think the intention for us on a springball visit
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: was I'm going to show up on a Wednesday night,
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: unannounced and kind of see what's this place really like,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But it ended up being
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: a little bit more, a little more official. We're meeting
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: with people, we're seeing things around school, and so you
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: got a lot more answers to your questions. And so
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: I think Nico was just able to vet through that
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: process really really quickly, and he kind of pulled us
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: aside as a family and was like, man, it's.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Ou for me, you know.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: And yeah, we.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Had gone to some other places and compared and contrasted
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: when we were there, and he just had to resound
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: and he just like he's like, this just didn't know you.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: You know, it's cool, it's really impressive, and it's just
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: it's not you. And I agreed with him.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: So as a dad, I kind of had to balance
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: that line of like supporting but not pushing, you know,
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: because it was hard for me.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I'm like, let's commit right.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: Now where he resigned. You know, hey, both come follows too,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. We were ready. Bo had
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: a few more of those solos on his side that
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: he didn't have the answers to yet, so he kind
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: of wanted to check out a couple of those. So
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: it came down to you know, Oklahoma on a package,
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: and then he had Texas and Oregon kind of on
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: the board that we hadn't really been on campus.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Yet and he has some questions.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: So we we allowed that process to take place, you know,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: very intentionally, and going through that process, I think he
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: kind of ran different scenarios and you know, you're you're
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: going okay? If I'm here alone, what's my path over here?
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: We had been to Oklahoma for a spring ball visit
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: and we knew we had the OV at the end
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: of June, so we got through the other officials earlier
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: in June and then we ended in Oklahoma and going
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: in bo I think he should play poker or something, man,
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: because he did not lead on He did not lead
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: on anything to me, and I was trying to purposely
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: kind of give him space.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: So I know what school people are say, Man, what
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: are you thinking? Where are you going to go? What
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: are you where are you going to commit? Is that
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: this or that?
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: So when he was home, I tried not to be
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: that guy, just support him and wait for him to
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: come around.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: But by the time we got to Oklahoma, now I'm
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: really wanting to know, like, all right, dude, what is
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: it at this point?
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: At this point, I'm gonna support you no matter where
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: you go, but I need I kind of want to know.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: And I even texted him on the official out there
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: and I said, h I said, hey, how did it
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: go last night? Like after the player work out? And
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: he goes, it was fun, And I said, so what
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: are you thinking? And he goes, I like it, but
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know, And I'm just thinking, what do we
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: built us?
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Do we need to see? You know?
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: So we get through the whole. The last day of
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: the official we're at Coach V's house and everything's going
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: great and all the box getting checked and it's kind
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: of kind of coming down to our last meeting with
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: coach with Coach V, and we met with Coach Dawson,
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Naggie and Taylor Red and Lake Dawson.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: He said, what do you think, Dad, is there like
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: a timeline here? What do you think?
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: I said, I imagine we get home, the dust kind
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: of settles and we make a decision. I said, I can't.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: I can't imagine it taken more than a week, two
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: weeks tops, you know. And in my mind, I'm kind
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: of thinking. In my mind, I'm thinking, what's he waiting
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: to see? I feel like we've talked about and seen everything.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: And then as I'm walking out to the main house,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: he comes into the living room and and Bo announces
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: it to the staff and it's just like wait a while,
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: Like DAWs and I look at each other, We're like, wait,
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: what does that conversation? It was just an emotional moment
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: as a parent because you got the Quinns together and it.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Was like, oh yeah, I started getting teary eyed. My
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: wife's crime and you know, yeah, it was It was cool.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: It was his super special time.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: So man, I appreciate you sharing that, and I mean,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: just some great inside stuff. What games do you have playing?
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: You guys gonna make it up the season for any games.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: I think we're going to try to get out for
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: the Michigan game. Okay, I would love to be out
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: for that Illinois State game. So my boys have two
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: former teammates that are playing out there for the opener, so.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, their old quarterback.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Is I think he's in the two spot, and then
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: one of their spot receivers has worked his way into
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: the lineup. So it would just be a cool, cool
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: game to see the opener and see some of the
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: alumni from their high school. But I'm not sure knowing
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: that we want to get to that Michigan one. I
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: don't know we'll be able to go two weeks in
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: a row. All the days off work that we took
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: for spring ball and officials.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: And stuff like that, you know what I mean.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I think that Michigan game at home will
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: be amazing.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Well, I love it.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I plan on being there too, so we'll have to
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: we'll have to connect. And then I know that you
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: saw Derek Johnson senior. He he says he's going to
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: plan on being out there, So we'll have to. We'll
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: have to get kind of the new crew back together.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: But uh, a couple more questions, A couple more questions
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: before we before we get cruise in here. You're a
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: former athlete yourself. Obviously you haven't. You haven't let yourself
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: go like some of us here. But I are you
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: interested in doing any of the shmitty workouts?
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: Hey, if there's something I don't have to overload my spine,
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: I might be interested.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: In doing it. But like you said, man, it's like
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: I have to be smarter, not harder anymore.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: I definitely stayed in there, but I modify right, so
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to put pounds on my back anymore,
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: do anything like that.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: I got you.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: I got you.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you said that. You know, BO had a visit
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: down in Austin. But now that the dust has settled in,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: that's that's done. Has has that that that hatred start
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: to kind of grow you know, good strong roots in
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: you guys heart for Texas.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: I think we're ready. I think we're ready and willing
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: for the competition. And you know, it's like some people
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: gave some some feedback, they said, oh, they're not ready,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: that they didn't do the horns.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Down in the photos or whatever. But we just want
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: to get out there and fill that energy.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: Man, I think it'll be yeah, because there for a
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: while it was like, what's the story here? Am I
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: going to be on one fifty and wife on the other?
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, how's this gonna look? You know? But it
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: was kind of a storybook ending.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: That they that they're able to play together and at Oklahoma.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: So we're just excited percent.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: But man, JP, I I appreciate you joining me here today,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: and man, we could do this all night, just because
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, I think the alignment with what
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: your family is all about and uh, you know, just
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: kind of what you've done as a father. Man, I
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: just give you congratulations, and uh, I just really appreciate
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: you hopping on here with me tonight.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Absolutely thanks for having me.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, guys, if if you are just checking in
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• 39:48
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• 39:50
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• 39:52
  Speaker 1: recruiting processes and what it's like and so uh, JP, man,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I appreciate tremendously, man, best of li to senior season.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Now the kids can just get get to football. And
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I'm a guessing they're probably they're on the way to
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: the gym or coming back from the gym.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Am.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, they're not home right now, so that
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: means they're either at practice, they're.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Hit the gym.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Love it, love it, love it.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Well, for everybody watching here, I appreciate you guys. We'll
• 40:19
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• 40:21
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• 40:28
  Speaker 1: with JP Jandre father of twenty twenty six defensive commitments
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: linebacker and safety, all around athletes. I do appreciate you, guys,
• 40:38
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