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BONUS: USTFCCCA 2023 LIVE: Shane Brookshire-Frostburg State University · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Hey gang, you know we like our bonus material.
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  So from today all the way through USTF CCA, in celebration
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  of our live podcast recording at the convention, we're going to
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  play you last year's clips, each one individual from today all
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  the way up until Monday, December 16th when we go live on
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  YouTube at 6:00 Eastern Time. Join us if you're at the
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  convention, sit down. We're going to be talking about
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  your feelings, actions, thoughts about the way the NCAA is
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  changing and we're going to make some predictions for next year.
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  And every guest that sits down with us.
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  Will you get a a exclusive free gift?
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  So join us December. 16th, 6. PM Eastern Time for the Gill
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  convention. Here is bonus material.
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  If you watching here and you see my hat, you know we're in
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  Denver. So you know, I learned from
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  coach Crime that I ain't hard to find.
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  So I had to go get the hat since I was coming here to Colorado.
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  All right, we're back up ready for the next one here.
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  Why don't you introduce yourself and speak up with all the the
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  loudness here? I'm Shane Brookshire from
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  Frostburg State University. Shane, it's kind of a odd
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  question I've been asking to kind of kick off each interview.
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  What are you doing here? What I mean by that, let me
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  explain it. You know, there's a lot of
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  different things that go on during this week.
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  All amazing things, right? From Hall of Fame dinner,
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  Bowerman Symposiums, executive committee meetings, things like
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  that. What are you doing?
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  What do you? What's your goal?
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  Well, I'm the conference Rep for the mountain E for the exactly
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  the cross country committee. And so I've been going to all
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  those meetings, but also just trying to soak in all the
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  symposiums this year. Didn't get to go to very many
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  last year. And also a little bit of
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  vacation time too, with having a a long cross country season.
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  So it's time to take a little break from it all.
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  So I'm looking forward to that too.
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  That's really. Important that's good you know
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  my whole life as coaches, track coaches and I talked to at least
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  it feels like 100 track coaches every day, but a lot every day
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  and you know one of them. So I probably, I probably and
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  this if I'm saying this without any robata, I probably have more
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  of a knowledge of coaches as people about the XS and OS side
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  than you know, most people, almost at everybody, but most
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  people. And the number one thing that I
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  see us doing to a detriment is that we are coach 24/7.
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  So is this a new? So I'm really proud of you
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  understanding and recognizing I need to take a break that I'm
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  Shane first, not coach first. Has that been something new for
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  you? Did you have to learn that, or
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  has this been the principle of yours for a while?
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  It's been a little difficult. When I got to Frostburg, I had
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  to rebuild that whole program. So.
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  But I didn't really think I could take any time off for a
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  while until we got our roster numbers where they needed to be
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  at that should we finally hit those goals.
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  And so I even told my AD, he's been stressing to me for about
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  taking time off. And yeah, so I, yeah, like
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  finally this year, I felt like I could start to relax and scale
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  it back a little bit more on everything that I do.
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  Made it a point that that have some fun at the convention, like
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  check things out and then take a little trip to Nashville
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  afterwards to something I always wanted to do.
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  And so do that for the weekend before I head back to Maryland.
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  Well, I was going to ask, what does that look like to you?
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  So going to a place you've never been, but always kind of what?
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  Yeah, I mean, I've done it a lot of times for my own coaching.
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  I've traveled all over the country, so it's I'm used to
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  going places I've never been and I meet new people.
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  So figured that why not like go to Nashville a little bit, like
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  take a little couple extra days to relax and then be energized
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  for the rest of the track season?
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  What do you have you set like an itinerary for Nashville or is it
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  something like you want to make sure you go see or do?
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  The only thing I'm that's on my list right now, aside from
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  checking out all the other music venues is going to Garth Brooks
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  New Bar. Big fan of his.
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  I want to check that out. I caught it.
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  Come on now. Yeah, you can't go wrong with
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  Garth Brooks. That's right.
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  Yeah, Did. You grow up a country.
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  Ohh yeah. Grew up on country like on Garth
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  especially, and then I lived down to Oklahoma, so flying
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  coached out there and make sure I went out to a lot of different
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  venues there and so. And he's an Okie, I'm an Okie,
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  so I'll go check it out. Oh yeah, Oklahoma State.
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  Yeah, a lot of people don't know that about it.
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  That's a nice sign for him to make it.
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  Too. So what was and I came over with
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  the the Superman, the ultimate name.
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  He wouldn't. Carter, Chris Gaines so.
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  What was up with the Chris Gaines then?
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  I. Think he was just trying to have
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  a little bit of fun. I met the guy.
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  Oh, good. OK, great.
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  Thank you, Dan. Appreciate it.
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  Yeah. What was up with that?
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  So just kind of wanted to, like, be able to publish music without
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  the Garth Brooks name not attached to it.
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  Like, it automatically hits gold, but it kind of does.
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  But like, he could play around and do some different things.
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  Yeah, I think that's all he was looking to do with the like,
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  spelling something new, have a little bit of fun.
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  Yeah. And stuff.
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  And that was weird. It was, but I.
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  Can't imagine. Yeah, I think like guards and
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  Taylor Swift things like, I mean, everything is under every
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  little microscope. She would agree a little bit
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  like that for coaching track and field and cross country.
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  Right. We may not have the national
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  media, which I would love for us to, you know, it's a little bit
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  be careful what you ask for, right?
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  It's like, you know, you'll see today the New York Times are
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  calling me every day like, hey, what happened to cross country
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  season this year, You know, but you know, you certainly are
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  every little mood where you choose to go to meets, who you
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  choose to run in those needs. Why are you holding that person
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  level? How did that person get injured?
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  What did you do? It's really a little bit.
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  Unfair. That definitely can be, yeah.
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  Especially, I mean, like you got people from outside the program
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  trying to figure out why you're doing what you're doing when
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  they don't really see the whole picture of it.
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  And yeah, that's, that's probably like the biggest issue
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  with it. But beside me, we try to do our
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  best at my place with establishing like the why
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  behind. Everything.
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  And like teaching our athletes at and so hopefully they buy
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  into it like that. And I mean, it's carried over.
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  It's brought a lot of success in this program and it's like the
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  administration find in the bubble villain.
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  So it's, it's been an exciting growth to see in prospects.
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  We had George Williams, now retired coach St. on the
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  podcast. He has the same.
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  It's been decades that he's had to say.
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  If you're not in the huddle, you don't know the play.
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  Meaning, you know, if I've seen Shane, one of your athletes get
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  hurt and I'm like, well, you know, that kid was in my
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  program. They wouldn't get hurt and no
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  one realizes, Well, that kid went out and played basketball
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  at midnight towards when it's whatever.
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  You know, it's like you don't know what's going on over there.
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  Guys. It's it's really like it really
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  helped me to like understand and see like not to have judgments.
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  So I don't know what's going on, but you don't know what's going
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  on with your athletes. Such a I'm not in the huddle, I
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  don't know the place. How do you recommend that that
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  episode he. Did a great job all.
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  Right, Shane, let's have a little fun here.
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  I've got 100 random, and I mean, they're random brother questions
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  here. You get the big number, I get to
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  ask the question. So 12 favorite number.
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  Favorite number? All right, Did the apple fall
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  far from the tree? Let's hear it.
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  Are you team Apple or are you team Android?
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  Probably go with an Android. It should.
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  Be that hard. What is your phone?
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  Well, that's an Apple, but it's a work phone.
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  My first smartphone was an Android so.
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  So if you had your choice, you'd be on Team Android.
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  I go with whatever cheaper. Yeah, not Yeah, OK.
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  That's an automatic viewer of the Android team.
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  I gotta be able to. Afford it?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's amazing what the the prices
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  of these things, man. It's amazing.
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  Shane, thank you so much, man. We're grateful.
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  This is not always the easiest thing in the world to sit in the
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  hot seat. And so for everybody who sits in
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  the hot seat today, you've got a little token of appreciation
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  from all of us here at Gill. You've got a custom Gill
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  Connections Christmas order before you for.
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  Your Christmas tour. Awesome.
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  Thank you, brother. Appreciate you being here, man.
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  Thank you so much. Oh, for me.
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  Oh, hey, come on. No, no.
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  We got to make a little bigger deal of this.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  I love this. You know, if you're following
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  along on Twitter at Mike Cunningham, you know, it's a
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  real like I get to say this to you right here.
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  I just appreciate this. It's not lightning that I wear
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  these shirts. You know, it is kind of my my
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  memento, my memory, my passion. When I'm in that weight room
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  working out, I'm doing it to be healthier and my family.
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  Amy, I know you're probably watching I love you too, baby
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  and the kids, but it really is. It's like that memory when I see
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  whatever school I have that day on, it's, it's I get to think of
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  you, Shane, and like what I get to do and how I get to serve and
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  uplift and honor what you do for young people.
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  Maybe it's it's immeasurable what you do.
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  I appreciate the support you give to coaches and I love
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  seeing you wearing those other gears.
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  So I got. You.
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  I got it. Yeah.
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  Thank you, brother. Thank you so much.
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  It really does. It means the world to me when
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  coaches send me these shirts and I have shirts from around the
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  country and you know, there's nothing, there's not a bigger
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  passion and uplifting and honor that I can do to work every day
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  to get better personally, health wise.
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  And also how I go about doing my business of serving coaches,
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  empowering coaches with innovative equipment.
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  And it's just a great memento and a great memory for what I'm
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  doing every day to help serve coaches around the country.