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Inside the Sooner Family - Cicily Freia Talks Brent Venables, Todd Bates & Why Oklahoma! · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: Today we are joined by an absolute wonderful human being,
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  Speaker 1: and so I am joined by Sicily Frea and Cicily.
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  Speaker 1: I know I always get this wrong, but the mother
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  Speaker 1: of Dominic Williams defensive lineman transfer this year from TCU
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  Speaker 1: to Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: So Cicily, how are you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, enjoying Oklahoma, trying to get used to the weather.
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  Speaker 3: But other than that, I'm enjoying. I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: The good, good, good, good end.
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  Speaker 1: You've been out of the practice fields, and I know
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty hot too, So you know, we got a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a cool front moving in, so it'll
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  Speaker 1: be like, instead of like a punishing hot, it'll just
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  Speaker 1: be hot hot.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so it just won't be one hundred and fourteen,
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  Speaker 3: just one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. Maybe maybe in the mid nineties.
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  Speaker 1: But I am no weather man, so let's let's hop
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  Speaker 1: into this one. So, you know, on the first questions
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  Speaker 1: I always ask people and the parents during these interviews
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  Speaker 1: are about the beginning, because you know, when you put
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  Speaker 1: your kid in athletics, you go out there and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden you see hercules, right, you see an athlete,
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  Speaker 1: and that's going to that's going to go NFL and
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  Speaker 1: be a Hall of Famer. When when was it with
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  Speaker 1: Dominic that you, you know, early in his childhood that you
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  Speaker 1: were like, hmmm, I think that we got a little
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  Speaker 1: we get a little something here in an athlete.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, to be honest with you, Dom was always bigger
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  Speaker 3: than everybody else. But I really didn't. I still haven't.
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  Speaker 3: It still hasn't hit me what kind of athlete he is.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still looking at people when he makes plays like
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  Speaker 3: did he mess that up? You know? So I want
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  Speaker 3: to say, though maybe fifth grade, fourth grade ish around
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  Speaker 3: that age, it was like, okay, he likes football, but
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  Speaker 3: it was really just his size that everybody would tell me, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you have a football player on your hands, And it
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  Speaker 3: didn't hit me until, like I said, I'm still wrapping
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  Speaker 3: my head around it. So yeah, we actually went. The
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  Speaker 3: football became Dom's thing because we were actually driving around
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  Speaker 3: southern California trying to find his older brother a team
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  Speaker 3: to play for. And we pulled over and talked to
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  Speaker 3: a coach and Dom was in the car and it
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  Speaker 3: was me and the older brother, Devin, talking to the coach,
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  Speaker 3: and then Dom got out of the car and it
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  Speaker 3: was like this big giant four year old. The coach
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  Speaker 3: was like, who is that. I said, oh, that's the
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  Speaker 3: little brother and he said how old is he? I
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  Speaker 3: said four? He said, oh, yeah, he's playing for us.
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  Speaker 3: So football really wasn't supposed to be Dom's niche, but
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  Speaker 3: it slowly became.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's awesome now as a mother, I mean, I know,
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  Speaker 1: like my wife we have we have currently a six
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  Speaker 1: year old, so like you know, we talked about football
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, I don't know if I want him
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of you know, the football, just because
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  Speaker 1: it's a rough sport. So as a mom, that that
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  Speaker 1: that nurturing nature kind of takes over. Did Dom size
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  Speaker 1: and just you know some of the stuff that you're
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  Speaker 1: hearing from other people, did that kind of like relax
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  Speaker 1: that worry for you?
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  Speaker 3: No, it made it worse. No, he's a freight train
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  Speaker 3: and the heart of the freight train is running the
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  Speaker 3: parder the crashes, so it my nerves are still bad.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the day though, seeing his happiness
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  Speaker 3: and I know it's a dangerous sport or whatever, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, not many people get
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  Speaker 3: to do what they love and make a career out
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  Speaker 3: of it, or you know, even even get through college
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  Speaker 3: with it. So the fact that he's doing what he
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  Speaker 3: really worked hard to do, I mean it outweighs the negative.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely, definitely. So you go through fifth grade, he starts
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  Speaker 1: getting you know that, here we go with football. What
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  Speaker 1: were some of the first years like watching him compete?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, was he just I mean I've seen him
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  Speaker 1: at TCU, so I mean like, I can't, I can't
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  Speaker 1: you know, begin to think like what it was like
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  Speaker 1: in fifth grade?
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  Speaker 2: But were you seeing him just toss folks left and right?
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  Speaker 2: And how did that? What did that look like?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there were people I'm like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: this boy is going to have me fighting people's parents.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it's football, so they knew that what
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  Speaker 3: their kids were signing up for. But he he we yeah,
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  Speaker 3: definitely would just toss people around. He actually started as
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  Speaker 3: a running back, so he was making like ridiculous amount
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  Speaker 3: of touchdowns during games. And I was okay with him
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  Speaker 3: running the ball, but then when I noticed, oh, they're
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  Speaker 3: moving him to the line, what are we doing? And
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  Speaker 3: people were like, no, technically, that's probably the position he's
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  Speaker 3: built for. So it took a while for me to
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  Speaker 3: get used to him helmet to helmeting all the time.
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  Speaker 3: But as he he got better at it, we started
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  Speaker 3: going to different trainers who would kind of reassure me, no, mom,
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  Speaker 3: we're teaching him how to hit correct, like we're trying
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  Speaker 3: to avoid injuries. So it you know, I'm still getting
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  Speaker 3: used to it, but it's it's getting easier.
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  Speaker 1: So when was the first like refrigerator Perry comparison thrown
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  Speaker 1: out with him running or running back?
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever hear that when he.
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  Speaker 3: Was running back? Yeah, all the time they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you have a refrigerator on your hands, but yeah, apparently,
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  Speaker 3: so he don't just have these His legs were huge,
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  Speaker 3: so they're like, either he's going to he's going to
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  Speaker 3: play football or he you know, he has to do
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  Speaker 3: something where he can make some use of those giant legs.
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  Speaker 3: So I knew that he was going to be something.
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  Speaker 3: I just didn't realize it was going to be to
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  Speaker 3: this extent.
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  Speaker 2: That's terrific. That's terrific.
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  Speaker 1: So you see him move over to the you know,
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  Speaker 1: defensive line, and that's that's where his whole goal is
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  Speaker 1: to either I mean just absolutely swallow up the running
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  Speaker 1: back or runish the quarterback, because that's I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that fits his character from what I've seen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he he doesn't seem like a you know, super aggressive guy.
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  Speaker 2: So like, am I right and stand that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, dom It bothers me sometimes because I'll hear
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  Speaker 3: him or I'll see it, you know, on the field,
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  Speaker 3: like I'm like, well, he looks really angry. But then
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  Speaker 3: off the field, he's a big, giant teddy bear for real.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess it's it's a good balance for him
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  Speaker 3: because he can go on the field and get his
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  Speaker 3: frustrations out and then he's that mild mannered person off
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  Speaker 3: the field most of the time.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, mild mannered.
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  Speaker 1: And we had a little bit of a hiccup there,
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  Speaker 1: so hopefully I'll fit that in editing. But that's all right,
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  Speaker 1: mild mannered, you know, off the field, big teddy bear.
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  Speaker 2: I mean absolutely love that.
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  Speaker 1: So high school years, we get towards high school years,
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  Speaker 1: you see the competition, you see parents, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more serious where things when in high
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  Speaker 1: school where you like, I mean, I've always known he's good,
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  Speaker 1: but now like now I'm we might have something else here.
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  Speaker 3: So his freshman year, he played for a school that
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  Speaker 3: was kind of like a local football school. Sophomore year,
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  Speaker 3: that school got into some trouble, so it was time
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  Speaker 3: to start looking around for other schools. And it hit
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  Speaker 3: me when school's like hours away were trying to get
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  Speaker 3: my son, and I'm like, what do you mean you
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  Speaker 3: want him to drive two hours to come to high school.
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  Speaker 3: So it hit me then when people started reaching out
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  Speaker 3: to me like hey, we're interested, and I'm just used
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  Speaker 3: to you know, I wasn't raised in football, so I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know that people, you know, travel to go to
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  Speaker 3: high school. I'm used to going to the local high school.
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  Speaker 3: So when he had to transfer and he wound up,
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  Speaker 3: they came to pick him up like at four thirty
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  Speaker 3: in the morning every day, and he wouldn't get home
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  Speaker 3: to like seven thirty eight at night. And so that's
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  Speaker 3: when it hit me, like these people want your son
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  Speaker 3: that bad where they're figuring out ways to get him
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  Speaker 3: to school hours away, you know. So that's when it
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  Speaker 3: was like, Okay, we're in a different now. We're in
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  Speaker 3: the elite athlete type stuff, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, he is elite, So I mean
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't transition. So obviously the next transition would be
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  Speaker 1: all right, now colleges are going.
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  Speaker 2: To start calling.
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  Speaker 1: When did the recruiting start the process start, Like when
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  Speaker 1: when was that first college like reach out and you're like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well there's another player here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So like his his sophomore year, I want
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  Speaker 3: to say maybe it was the summer of his sophomore year.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was. Nevado was his first offer and
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  Speaker 3: it was his recruitment, believe it or not, was kind
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  Speaker 3: of slow in the beginning. People were telling me like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: this is going to get crazy, you know, and their
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  Speaker 3: phone's going to ring off the hook, and that didn't
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  Speaker 3: really happen right away. So it was just kind of
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  Speaker 3: like trust the process. I never really got overwhelmed up
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  Speaker 3: until this last the transfer portal thing. The initial recruitment
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  Speaker 3: process was actually not bad. We only really went one visit.
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  Speaker 3: We took one visit to cal and he was sold.
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  Speaker 3: So we really didn't jump around and do We didn't
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  Speaker 3: even take all five official visits initially, and I liked that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I saw other people going through the visits
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  Speaker 3: and getting tired out, and I was like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to Colt. You know, we're fine, we're good.
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  Speaker 3: We got this.
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  Speaker 2: We're done.
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  Speaker 3: We're good. We're staying. Forty seven minute plane ride and
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  Speaker 3: that's it. So I was fine and none of the
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  Speaker 3: you know, I had coaches telling me, Oh, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to get overwhelming. You're going to have to take his phone.
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  Speaker 3: That really didn't happen until the transfer portal kicked in
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  Speaker 3: and then I got to see. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this must be what everybody was talking about two years
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  Speaker 3: ago when he was a freshman.
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  Speaker 1: So you go from I mean, you go from that
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  Speaker 1: and then TCU, you know next, so you mentioned, you
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  Speaker 1: know with the huge transfer, uh you know, just two
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  Speaker 1: hours away. How did you handle that? Because Fort Worth
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  Speaker 1: a few more hours away than cal Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Just a few. I was a wreck. I cried, I prayed.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, God, if this is really what's supposed
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  Speaker 3: to happen, just you know, keep him safe. We are
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  Speaker 3: strictly like California people. I mean, I've traveled, but to
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  Speaker 3: actually say, you know, I have a kid that lives
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  Speaker 3: out of state that I couldn't. I couldn't my head
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  Speaker 3: around that. It took. It's taking a while, but now
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  Speaker 3: now you know, Oklahoma's a hopskipping a jump to me.
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  Speaker 3: At first, you know, traveling to Texas every you know,
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  Speaker 3: twice a month was a lot. But now it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of become the norm. We just hop on a plane
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  Speaker 3: and go see Dom, you know. So it's become a
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  Speaker 3: new normal, traveling at least two or three times a month.
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  Speaker 1: So during this past cycle, a lot of people got
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  Speaker 1: to learn, Oh, Dom's got a younger brother too, So
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  Speaker 1: how is how is that? How's that process starting to
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  Speaker 1: work out? And talk about him a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Joshua was a honestly, was okay with Joshua not playing football.
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  Speaker 3: He started younger than Dom. He started I want to
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  Speaker 3: stay like it, six five or six. He Dom started
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  Speaker 3: a little later, but he didn't like it, and I
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  Speaker 3: was fine with that. I was like, okay, we only
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  Speaker 3: have one athlete in the family. I'm fine with, you know,
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  Speaker 3: less concussions and all of that. I put Joshua on
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  Speaker 3: a team and he sat on the bench, like not
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  Speaker 3: on purpose. He would prefer to sit on the bench.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, okay, maybe football is not his thing.
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  Speaker 3: So he quit and maybe by the time Joshua was,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Domb was in tenth grade, he was like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Dom's getting all this attention. He was always
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  Speaker 3: kind of Dom's little shadow. He really wasn't into a
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  Speaker 3: lot I put him in. He played chess, I did
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  Speaker 3: basketball for a little bit, but we really had a
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know what this kid wants to do.
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  Speaker 3: He used to tell me he wanted to be a
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  Speaker 3: YouTuber when he grew up, So it was like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: we got to let Joshua find his own Niche then
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  Speaker 3: Cal came in the picture and we went on the
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  Speaker 3: official visit for Cal, and they dressed Joshua up in
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  Speaker 3: the uniform and you know, took the pictures and all that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and he got a taste. They put him on the field.
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  Speaker 3: It was just him and Dom at the Cal Berkeley
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  Speaker 3: Stadium and the field was empty, the bleachers were empty,
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  Speaker 3: and they were just throwing a ball. And it was
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  Speaker 3: almost like a light came on in Joshua's head, like
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  Speaker 3: and you could actually see the light bulb, like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I like this. After that, it was over. Now it's
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  Speaker 3: like Joshua knows more football than Dom. Joshua Dom never yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Dom never studied the sport per se, like he was
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  Speaker 3: just naturally good at it. Joshua goes home and studies it.
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  Speaker 3: He he you know, he's watching like I forgot what
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  Speaker 3: it's called, like the Hardest Hits or something like that,
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  Speaker 3: one of those uh programs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, something hard knocks something.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's it's a it's just a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of no, not hard, but it's yeah, it's a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of plays where they it's just linemen just knocking each
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  Speaker 3: other down. So he studies that, he studies, so he's
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  Speaker 3: he's the football person in the house, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 3: And so at first, you know, it took a while
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  Speaker 3: because I was like, Okay, we got dom through this
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  Speaker 3: with limited amount of concussions and limited amount of injuries,
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  Speaker 3: and now I have to do this all over again
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  Speaker 3: and hope you don't get hurt too. So it's definitely
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  Speaker 3: but by now though, I've wrapped my head. Did you
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  Speaker 3: just a football mom, and you're just gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: deal with what comes with it? So that all right?
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  Speaker 1: So we switched over to TCU. TCU had some really
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  Speaker 1: you know, interesting success. Uh you know, go into the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and you know, being being you know again winning
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  Speaker 1: a game in the playoffs and so describe you know,
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  Speaker 1: just a few years at TCU for Don, Like, what
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  Speaker 1: was his mentality around that, because I mean, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have the standard of success now you have that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that playoff experience.
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  Speaker 2: How was it last year for him?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Did he go into the year kind of thinking like,
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  Speaker 1: if I have another good year, maybe it's NFL, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's transferred.
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  Speaker 2: What what did that look like?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't think I can't speak for him, but
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  Speaker 3: I will say I willly, I don't think he transfer
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  Speaker 3: was in his initial plan. I told somebody he set
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  Speaker 3: the bar very high for himself. You don't just graduate
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  Speaker 3: at seventeen and then go to the national championships, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So I feel like almost like he thought that that
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  Speaker 3: next season was going to be the same, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because that's just how his first experience was. So he
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  Speaker 3: dealt with a little bit of disappointment. Of course, he
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  Speaker 3: was disappointed in himself. But Dom's a relationship person, so
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  Speaker 3: his loyalty was what made him stay as long as
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  Speaker 3: he did. The conversation came up earlier in the year
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  Speaker 3: and he was about to go ahead and try to
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  Speaker 3: transfer then the first time the portal opened, but his
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  Speaker 3: love for his coaches and his teammates. He really wanted
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  Speaker 3: to stay, so he stuck it out through springball and
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  Speaker 3: I guess I can't say exactly what was the final
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  Speaker 3: decision to make, you know, the final factor to make
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  Speaker 3: him go ahead and transfer, but I know they hired
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  Speaker 3: the new DC and he was just like, you know, mom,
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  Speaker 3: for a business, if this is what I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: do with my life, business decision would be the best
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  Speaker 3: best thing to do is transfer. And you know, I said,
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  Speaker 3: pray on it and see what your you know, see
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  Speaker 3: what your options are. But I'm and I'm glad he
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  Speaker 3: did it. I mean it. There were some tears, there
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  Speaker 3: were sleepless nights, there were you know, rough conversations with coaches,
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  Speaker 3: with friends. But at the end of the day, I
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  Speaker 3: told him, you know, the people who say that they're
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  Speaker 3: in your corner, they're going to be in your corner,
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  Speaker 3: whether you go to junior college, whether you stay at
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  Speaker 3: their college, whether you quit football, altogether, there's still your people.
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  Speaker 3: And if they're not, if they leave you because of
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  Speaker 3: decisions that you make, you know, then you know that
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  Speaker 3: they weren't really for you in anyway. So it's been
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  Speaker 3: a lot of teachable moments in this a lot of
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  Speaker 3: life character building, you know, So that that that the
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  Speaker 3: transfer thing was. It was a shock to me too,
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  Speaker 3: but I was like, first you tell me you're moving
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  Speaker 3: out of California. You did that to me. Then I
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  Speaker 3: finally used to you going to Texas, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: Texas is a second home. At that point, I'm comfortable
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  Speaker 3: with it. I know my way around forward. Now you're
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  Speaker 3: telling me we're going to a state neither one of
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  Speaker 3: us have never been in. So it's definitely kind of
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad, I'm kind of I'm a little kind of
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  Speaker 3: can be mild mannered, so just kind of go with
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  Speaker 3: the flow and and let what's going to happen happen.
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  Speaker 1: So the the familiarity with Oklahoma was there already because
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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously TCU, you know, had a famous game
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: that National championship year. You know, Dylan Gabriel gets knocked
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: out of the game and they just i mean absolutely
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: ran the team.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Just you know, it was it was just a bad
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: situation for.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma that you know, kind of followed them throughout the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: rest of the year and then you know, last last
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: year have the opportunity to play again and so he
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: gets to see that improvement for you as a parent,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Like you've seen Oklahoma, you know what the you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the brand difference between CAL and TCU and then Oklahoma
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: that I mean, those are those are significant leaps up.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: What does that mean to you to to say like,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Like the coaches are reaching out to
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: him in the transfer portal from Oklahoma, like and then
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: the other you know, obviously the other teams were you know,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: reputable programs too, So how did you handle that?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I'm still all they said to me was SEC and
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: all I could think of was these big, homegrown, giant
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: kids that you know, it's a different type of competition,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: and they're like, you know, if this is what he's
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: going to do with with his life, with the rest
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: of his life, he has to the competition has to increase.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: So I just had to realize, you know, this is
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: like you know, you put them in first grade, they
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: graduate and go to second grade, they graduate and go
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: to third grade. So essentially this is this is really
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: what's happening. This is him graduating and going on to
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: where he's supposed to be. So again, even though my
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: nerves it's definitely keeps me in prayer, but at the
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: end of the day, he's he's actually following the path
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: that we let you know, we set out for him
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: to follow. And so that's really you know, when you
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: raise your kids, that's the goal. You want them to
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: follow directions and do what it is you laid out
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: for them to do. So I cannot be upset with him,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: you know, as bad as it as nervous as I
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: get about it, at the end of the day, it's
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: still what we prayed for him to be a company,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: you know, to accomplish.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: To have that opportunity is obviously, I mean, it's it's
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: not only beautiful as a parent, but then you know,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I think that you had the right mindset with that
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: because I mean, if he really is going to be
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: an NFL player, like, let's make that jump to the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: SEC because that's going to better prepare you correct.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And you know Don had as a as
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: a child, he had a little I think he was
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: three or four, he had an injury that could have
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: really taken him completely outing. I mean, never played sports.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: So just the fact that he's able to to do
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: this is a big deal for us. Yeah, and not
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: a lot, not a lot of people know about that injury.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: So when they see me, like, you know, I'm watching
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: him play football, you don't realize that this boy could
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: have been paralyzed. So yeah, so yeah, so it's it's
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: definitely a service. The whole the whole situation is surreal.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: So this journey, I mean all in all, like this
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: is a family journey, but this is definitely Dom's journey.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: And you can still have your opinions and stuff, and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: your affinity for coach Bennables in the program and the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: coaching staff became pretty evident pretty quickly. Go to the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: first time, when was the first time that you actually
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: got to have the conversation with the Oklahoma coaching staff.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: So Vinibles, how do I I don't I want to
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: say this right just the just the first meeting with
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: him was it felt like I had known him forever
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: and he wasn't a coach like I don't know much
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: about you know, the different football coaches and where they
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: came from and you know what other schools they've been at.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: So that didn't impress me. Hearing oh he was at Clemson,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, what does that mean? Because you know,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I'm not a big football person, believe it or not
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: but his character just meeting him. I was telling somebody
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: else like we were here for the spring game, and
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: he walked around. You know, they put you on the
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: little golf carts and they tore you around the school
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: and all that. That was amazing. The school itself was amazing.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: TC was a beautiful campus, but Oklahoma was just the
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: The campus was just beautiful. But it became towards the
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: end of the day and I guess there's a certain
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: amount of time that their coaches are allowed to spend,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: and so he had a little bit more time that
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: he could spend with us. He got out of his
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: car and got into the back of the whatever car
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: we were, and I think it was like an escalade
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: or you know, the big suburban, but he got in
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: the back seat, all the way in the back seat,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: like we're all I'm like, the man can sit in
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: the front. He got all the way in the back
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: seat and was just a regular human like he was
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: chopping it up with us like we were old friends.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: And I was like, this is the personable you know,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: like some of the other coaches the other visits we had,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: they were just like CEO minded, like Hi, I'm gonna
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: come shake your hand. This man showed up at Dom's
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: house with crumble cookies at seven o'clock in the morning
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: before he went to practice. I heard the door bell
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: ring and I'm like, domb, are you expecting anybody? Like
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: we had only been here for a day, and it's him.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: He's loud with crumble cookies and good morning guys, and
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: walk through the house pet the cat. Like. I'm like,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: this man is a real person, and that's that's what
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I liked about it. And then my father just recently
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: passed away and he had something about him reminded me
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: of my dad, and Dom said the same thing. He
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: was like, reminds me of Grandpa Hun. I'm like yes,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: So for me again, prayed a lot that Dom would
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: pick Oklahoma again. Like you said, I couldn't make the
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: decision for him, but it just felt it felt like
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: home and I was adopted. In one of my little
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: catchphrases is you don't have to be blood to be family,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: and that's what this felt like. It felt like we
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: just knew them, you know, like they were long lost uncles,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: and so it felt right. But the fact that Oklahoma
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: was our first visit, I knew I'm like, oh god,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: these other schools are and I'll roll out the red carpet.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: And you know, the first visit gets forgotten about as
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: you go on these other visits, you know. So I
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: just kept saying, Dom, don't forget about Oklahoma. And they
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: were just they they checked on Dom, they checked on Josh.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: They called me like it was the presence you could
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: still feel. I'm like, oh, I'm like okay. You know,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: some coaches were like, well, we'll let him take his
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: other visits. Da da da da, And they left him
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: completely alone. And to me, that was like, okay, well
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: they didn't really want him that bad if they didn't
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: call and you know, just check in. So we were
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: getting text messages and you know, just real quick check
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: ins and pictures and it was it was just really nice.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: And I know they probably do that for everybody, but
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: not everybody is as family oriented. You know. Some people
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: are in the strictly for the coaching. There was another
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: school that the coaching you couldn't go wrong with either school,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: but oh you had more like, like I said, the
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: family aspect, and so I was like, okay, even if
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: he picks that other school coaching wise, business wise, it
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: probably you know, it'll do him just as well as
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: oh you would, But you don't have soul mission. You
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: don't have the life after football program like all that
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: is very important to me.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: So so you bring up soul mission and some people,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: you know, when I've done these interviews, sole mission obviously
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: is a is a big piece of what everybody says.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: And it's not a tactic and it's not a tool.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: That's like literally just a way of life. And that's
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: how this coach of these coaches, coaching staff just in
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: general operates. What were your first thoughts about the sole
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: mission and hearing about that.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, I loved it like that to me and I
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: tell everybody for me and my plan for dom the
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: NFL has always been planned b And he knows that
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: you know the degree and your carearacter because at the
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: end of the day, if you get hurt, you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: you may may not ever be able to play football again.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: But who are you as a person. So the fact
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: that sole mission, you know, teaches them how to be
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: men and teaches them how to give back, that to
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: me was everything. Like some of the quite as it's
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: kept well not quiet, but you know, I one of
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: my fears is, you know, these schools use the kids
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: and they play football for four years or whatever, but
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: then what do they do after that? You know, are
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: you helping them jobs? Are you making sure their mental
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: health is okay where they can be you know? Yeah,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: So sole Mission just had all of that to me
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: and that that was very important in fact, speaking to that,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: and this zoo the other day was telling me. I
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: was like, please remind them to get his passport. She said, oh,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I'll put that on the list. But they literally walk
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: through the parking lot to find the kids that have
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: close to expiring tags to make sure that they get
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: stuff like that, Like, we're another college isn't going to
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: do that. They could care less, you know what I mean.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: But yeah, little little things like that that those were
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: the deal breakers for me.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: So after the spring game and Jay and I we
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: we saw you guys down on the field, and you know,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Jay's the guy that I do the podcast with and
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: he's he's him and I we we both love the school,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: not just I mean we started doing our podcast because
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I think that our affinity for for Brent Vennables and
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: just who he is as a person. But we saw
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: you down there you guys look like you were having
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a blast. You just smile ear to ear and again
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: you said it was practically it was number one. But
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: as you were leaving, you know, those those rumors started
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: circulating to where it's like, man, we saw uh, you know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the Williams family, and they looked excited. But now they're off,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: and so you guys stop around campus a little bit longer,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: and then the other campuses started. So I'm gonna ask
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you this, and you can say, Eric, I want nothing to.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Do with this one.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: But there's a famous video of you guys at a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: restaurant and there is you know, sparkle sparklers on the cake, and.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: You know, from an Oklahoma fan, we're like, oh, oh.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: That's that's cringey, you know, but that like, as a parent,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: you're sitting there watching another school celebrate your son and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: just roll out absolutely everything for him.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: It was how.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Do those conversations go?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: It was like, all right, now, let's keep keep the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: core things you know in your minds like that the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: sparkler cake is awesome, But how did that look like
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: you know, just kind of trying to keep him, you know,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Keeping the main thing, the main thing, you know.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: What I can ease. I can honestly say that that
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: doesn't like Dom doesn't get excited. So there's times where
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: I'm like, you have to show that you're you know,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: give some some emotion. I wasn't really worried about other
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: schools being able to woo him with stuff like that, like, yeah,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: it was fun, Yeah it was exciting. We took some
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: great pictures, we got you know, cool memories. But that
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: kind of stuff really doesn't excite him. He actually prefers
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: to be less of attention. He likes less attention. Like yeah,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: so one thing I will say, like one of the
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: schools showed him this housing and you know where another
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: kid would be like, oh my god, this is amazing.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: You know, I want to live here. He looked at
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: me and he was like, mom, this is more for
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: somebody who wants to be the center of attention. So
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: that's just his you know, so honestly that, like you said,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: the cringey picture, Like I was really thinking in my head,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: my baby really wants to bury his head under the
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: table right now with all those sparklers. Like he was
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: so embarrassed. I mean, like I said, fun, but it
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: wasn't that wasn't going to make or break. That wasn't
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: going to make the decision.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: So so and go ahead.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Go ahead. No one thing. I did remind him, even
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: though I knew it really wasn't a big deal to him.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I told him, you know, at the end of the day,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: this is what they do for a living. Like they're
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: going to do the same thing for another student that
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: comes along, and you know they feel like can open up,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: you know, can do things for their for their program.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: So you know, you have sparklers tonight, but tomorrow three
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: other kids are going to have sparklers. So you can't
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: let that, you know, be a factor.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you said. You know, Brent jumps in the.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Back of the back of the car and.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: You know he's up in the morning bringing trumble cookies.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: He made a comment the other day in an interview
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: where he says, like, you know, my mom says, if
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: you're not going.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: To go to Oklahoma, I'm still going to go to Oklahoma.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: You know that that made a lot of Sooner fans
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: like extremely extremely happy, just because you know, we hear
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: these things. We hear the recruiting battles, and you don't
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: win every single one of them, and you know it's
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: it's relationship and ships matter. But then you know SODA's
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: nil matters, and then so does development. So this year,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you know, you had this opportunity to, you know, do
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: something completely different. When when when you guys sat down
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and made the decision of choosing Oklahoma and going through
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. How happy were you when he when
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: he when he said sooners.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so relieved. Happy isn't even the word. I
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: was like, oh, okay, we got that battle of taking
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: care of it. I knew so, like I said, the
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: other schools were great, they just didn't have the full package.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: There were some schools that, Okay, he has great coaching,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: but you know he they're just going to look at
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: him at like a number. There were other schools that
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: had close to the full package, but they just didn't
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: have venables, you know. So it just I was relieved
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: and I was like, Okay, now let's just get out there,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: let's drive around, let's get comfortable and familiar and move forward.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: And here we sit.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: So I'm absolutely I feel terrible coach Baits. I apologize
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: if you watching this. That's another man that that I
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: mean when I see him post something. I don't do
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of notifications on my Twitter, but coach Bates
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: is one because I feel like it makes my day
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: better when he says something, because I you know, there's
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: heart there and stuff like give me your your your
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: thoughts on coach baits.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: So at first, like I was just kind of like, okay,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: he's he's there's something, you know, he's a coach. But
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: he was just so nice that I'm like, how are
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: you a good coach if you're not cussing at kids
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: and yelling you know what I mean? He was just
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: so nice and that that kind of was like, oh,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: you know, I know Dom needs somebody that's gonna yell
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: at him, you know, because he likes that. But also
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: not having a father figure, he does need somebody who's
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: going to coach, but coach where Dom listens. So you know,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: if you scream at somebody, they're just eventually they're going
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: to shut off. So Bates kind of had the perfect balance.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I have heard him scream, you know, but he'll circle
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: back and hey, do you understand why I said this
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: or do you understand why you know I may have
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: been a little bit hard, He's not just coaching him
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: just to make him do what he says do because
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: I say do it, He'll circle back and make sure
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: you understood why I'm telling you to do this. And
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: that's important because I know Dom was a little could
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: have been, for lack of better words, intimidated by the
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: you know, learning new plays and all that, and so
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: that that's really what concerned me about Oklahoma. I was like,
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: oh God, he's not going to pick Oklahoma just because
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: of the playbook. And so I told him, you have
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: to trust that whatever coach you pick is somebody that's
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: going to coach you and you're going to understand it.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Don't don't be intimidated by the playbook. Just you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: pick the coach that's going to teach you the playbooks. Yeah,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: bas had the balance, and that's that's what Dom needs
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: because at the end of the day, like you said,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: he's a big teddy bear, you know, he's he's not
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: the vicious person you see on the field, So he
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: does need somebody that knows how to communicate that's not
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: yelling and screaming all the time.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I you know, we talked a lot about the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: relationship and you're admitted, you said, but I'm not a
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: big football I think that you're more of a football
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: person than than you realize you are.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I think so. But as far as like like I
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: still look at my kids and I'm like, what just happened?
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Did Dom do that? And they're like, Mom, how did
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: you miss that? And I'm like, because I don't know,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: I really don't know why.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: So I like to do the predictions. At this point,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: you know, we're at the end of the interview. We've
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: heard these things. You hear some of the national stuff
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: about Oklahoma, and it seems like a lot of people
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: just they don't realize that. I mean, we just ran
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the Big twelve for twenty years and now we're going
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: into the SEC, bigger batter. But you've got guys like Dom,
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  Speaker 1: You've got guys like DJ Terry, and you know what
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: you've seen practices. What do you what do you think
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the Sooner team looks like this year?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly they it looks like it could be a really
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  Speaker 3: good run. Like I'm I'm I'm excited, and I think
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  Speaker 3: they're going to surprise a lot of people. And one
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: thing and Dom Dom he flourishes in the underdog. So
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: in that underdog position, so he likes the fact that
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: people are, oh, he's not going to do this, and
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: you know, you guys aren't going to be able to
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: do that. He's Dom's one of those people if you
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: tell him you can't do it, he's going to do
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  Speaker 3: it just because you said you can't. So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna he's gonna press through. So let's let's let's
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  Speaker 1: go with this. This last question here is you've got
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: you got a year set up. Dom has personal goals.
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  Speaker 1: What we're playing teams that like, you know, you watch
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my gosh, you know, I wish
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: we could play them more often. Which games have you
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: more excited? What is there a game specifically that you're
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: really really excited about this year?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Tennessee. I'm really excited about the Tennessee game just
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  Speaker 3: because you know, Nico and Dom are are California kids
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  Speaker 3: and we have relationship with you know, with families and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's that's gonna be a fun game. It's
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: gonna be exciting. We have some people coming with us
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  Speaker 3: that'll probably have on OU shirt and the Tennessee hat,
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  Speaker 3: so it's just gonna be it's gonna be fun. There
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: we go, Yeah, looking for me to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, are you planning on making all the games or
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: do you just have some selected ones picked out?
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  Speaker 3: In a perfect world, I would be at all the games.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I probably will sit Missouri out just because been there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to try to do most of the you know,
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  Speaker 3: the OEU games. Of course I do want to go
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: to will for sure be in Tennessee. But at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, I have to I still have
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  Speaker 3: to be an adult and go to.
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  Speaker 2: Work, don't we all.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So at the end of the day, I'll be
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  Speaker 3: at the ones I can make. I can't even put
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  Speaker 3: a finger on how many, but if I put in
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: a perfect world, I'd be at all of them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Miss Sissily, I appreciate you so much.
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  Speaker 1: For hopping on. I know that we've we've been kind
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: of managing, you know, our big boy big girl schedules together.
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  Speaker 1: It's still a little while for us to get connected,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: but you know, I look forward to seeing you at
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a couple of the games. And you know, definitely if
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: you're not making them, you can only shoot me at
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: text and ask me also.
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  Speaker 2: Hey did was that good?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: And and I promise you I I like to watch
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the games pretty quiet, and so my family just leaves me,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and because our daddy's talking to the TV and they
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: can't hear him, so I go pretty crazy. But thank
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: you so much for hopping on today. I know that
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: your life has been insane and it's a talk. Season
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: is almost over and we got football just where we
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: got twenty two days away.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm so excited.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, and so everybody if you are, if
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: you're checking this out, and you know, this has been
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a great series inside the Sooner family getting the opportunity
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: just to just to share some more of the heart
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: about everything, So hop down in the comments, let you know,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: let him Cicily know what she you know, what you
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: thought about the interview and how excited you are to
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: see dom also like subscribe and you know, share it
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: because I think this is one that a lot of
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: parents want to see, is you know the reality of
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: what this is so cisly thank you so much, and
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: again I appreciated you and Boomer Sooner as always, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: It goes Sooner