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3 Guys Before The Game - Travis Trickett Visits (Episode 635) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up. Gather around everybody. It's time for three
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  Speaker 1: Guys before the game. Our summer series continues, and we
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  Speaker 1: got one for you here. I mean, did I tell
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  Speaker 1: you we got one for you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Fully loaded backfield here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do it is. We've got two backs, got
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  Speaker 1: a lead, got quarterback. We've got the dude. Senior offensive
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  Speaker 1: assistant for the Mountaineers, Travis Trickett is our special guest.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking Mountaineer football. And this is three Guys Before
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  Speaker 1: the Game, Episode six thirty five. If you're a penciling
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  Speaker 1: do it. We've been waiting to get Travis on. However,
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  Speaker 1: as y'all know, there's a new world of football. It's
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  Speaker 1: the season, it's off season conditioning, its spring practice, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's hey, go find ninety nine new guys for
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  Speaker 1: your roster because we have to have OTAs here coming up.
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  Speaker 1: So we like pulled Trick out of the building like
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a long lunch. Good to have
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  Speaker 1: you in here.
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  Speaker 3: Good be here, Good to take a break from Like
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  Speaker 3: you just mentioned, the last three weeks have been a whirlwind.
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  Speaker 3: But good be here and uh good to take a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of breather and talks amount their football man.
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  Speaker 1: He looks sporty done.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's an elite quarters.
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  Speaker 1: Zip I have not seen that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know my guy down you know, final looking field. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we know you know he's been you know Daniels has
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  Speaker 3: always been good to the Trigger family over the last
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  Speaker 3: twenty years, you know, since the last time.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I think I even got my prom outfit from
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  Speaker 4: there when I was But the suits are like, like,
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  Speaker 4: that's my go to.
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  Speaker 2: So so through all phases of your life, you have
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  Speaker 2: been able to consistent.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know for me, so sure you know the
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  Speaker 5: way he's been here like four times.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it is prom headquarters here greater north Central
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  Speaker 2: Western area. But the way that he said, like the
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  Speaker 2: trick and family.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's no, he's aid I looking Field has always
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  Speaker 1: been good to the Trigger kind of like a like
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  Speaker 1: the guy's in the pit crew, like he's the NASCAR.
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  Speaker 1: I can't thank fine Looking filling up on me game.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I didn't want to say this. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to say this, but we lost a cuff link
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  Speaker 1: right before the show was able to start, and I
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  Speaker 1: called Phil. He stayed up all night he molded molded
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  Speaker 1: a cuff link. And we can't say enough about Fine
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  Speaker 1: Looking for that.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the new ones though, that's only been.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, he's the guy that I always get
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  Speaker 3: complimented when other recruits come in. They're like, oh, that's great,
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  Speaker 3: and the parents and and even the staff members.
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  Speaker 4: And I always point him Daniel's elad stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah good, well, okay, so let's count how many years
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  Speaker 1: you've been in this world of football since your days
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  Speaker 1: here as a volunteer student assistant when you were basically
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  Speaker 1: I always like, I always giggle about you. I really do,
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  Speaker 1: Like I love your story because in the golden era
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  Speaker 1: of Rich Rodriguez in Mountaineer football, you're a student, but
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  Speaker 1: you're signaling the plays in.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, sixth grader sitting over in meetings.
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  Speaker 1: So to me, like the great like some of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest win some of the greatest plays in school history.
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  Speaker 1: Like my man, he's worrying about like anthropology one on
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  Speaker 1: one and on Saturdays he's holding the plate. He's giving
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  Speaker 1: you this Like I always find that quite fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, two thousand and three was my freshman
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  Speaker 3: year here, and you know, so I always save my
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  Speaker 3: coaching career started then. You know, I always credit coach
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  Speaker 3: for I to give my first job, because this was
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  Speaker 3: my first job. You know, when Dad, when I told
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  Speaker 3: Dad my senior year high school, I wanted.
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  Speaker 4: To coach, he got pissed. I was like, no, like Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He got really mad because our whole lives, all three
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  Speaker 3: of us. He said, doctor lawyer something, don't coach. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's too hard of life. You're too smart, Go do
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  Speaker 3: something else.
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  Speaker 4: And so I told him. He got extremely mad.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, I remember it was on vacation actually up
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  Speaker 3: to West Virginia to see my grandma up here in
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  Speaker 3: Preston County. And and uh so this was in the car,
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  Speaker 3: you told him, Yeah, in the in the front seat
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  Speaker 3: because we were just we had just tripped down to
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  Speaker 3: see somebody and we were driving back to West Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: And it was that summer where I knew that's what
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to do. And I think we're going to
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  Speaker 3: go from point A to point B. And uh and
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  Speaker 3: he said, you know, I told him I wanted to coach.
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  Speaker 3: And he's like, well, if you're gonna do it, you're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna ride my coattails. You're gonna we're going He
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  Speaker 3: got mad. He's like, all right, I'm gonna find out
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  Speaker 3: if you want to coach. So if you want to
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  Speaker 3: do it, you gotta go see coach ride on yourself.
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  Speaker 3: And uh and uh, you know I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: set anything up.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta do it.
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  Speaker 1: So said better than that.
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  Speaker 4: Though, all right, that's what I'm thinking about right now,
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  Speaker 4: is trying to like filter through. So I went in
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  Speaker 4: there and uh, I knocked on coach Roy's door.
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  Speaker 3: I remember the spring going to my freshman year and
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  Speaker 3: I said, I said, coach, I want to start coaching.
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  Speaker 3: He was great, and UH allowed me to do two
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  Speaker 3: years on defense, two years on offense, and UH it
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  Speaker 3: was a great experience.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I got two years on defense and the plan was
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  Speaker 3: to move from D line to linebackers and do O
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  Speaker 3: line our quarterbacks to O line.
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  Speaker 4: And when I went to line.
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  Speaker 3: With Carlaugh, which was the best first two years you
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  Speaker 3: can be doctorated. Yeah, period after my first year, carl
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  Speaker 3: I was like, you're not moving, You're staying with me.
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  Speaker 4: So I stayed two the years.
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  Speaker 3: And then I had a force to move to offense
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  Speaker 3: and I was with quarterbacks and I was gonna move
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  Speaker 3: to the line then coach and I was like, Nope,
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  Speaker 3: you're not moving, You're staying right here with us. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I got that experience and then got to
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  Speaker 3: go GA and and do that all after. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was it was a great time. Obviously, it was
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  Speaker 3: It was really neat looking back at it, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to be part of the you know, just
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  Speaker 3: to just be a you know, a spectator for some
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  Speaker 3: of those meetings and those uh, those practices and those games,
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  Speaker 3: and to be in the in the post game and
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  Speaker 3: the and the Sunday meetings.
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  Speaker 4: It was just really neat.
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  Speaker 1: Why why so why?
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  Speaker 5: I mean again, your dad said do something else? So
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  Speaker 5: what was it that triggered you to say, no, I
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  Speaker 5: want to do this?
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So my senior year Morgan On High you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was playing, you know, I was trying to compete
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  Speaker 3: to be the starting quarterback, lost that job, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, and ended up playing some deep but I
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  Speaker 3: was just okay. And then I was like, man, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to be a college football player, Bucht Like,
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  Speaker 3: if I did, it's just to do it.
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  Speaker 4: You're not really going to excel at it.
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  Speaker 3: And during that season, you know, I would try to
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  Speaker 3: be on sidelines and I remember one time there was
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  Speaker 3: one game, like coach Bauers was there and I gave
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  Speaker 3: them a hey, I think we run the draw here.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're rushing up at the end.
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  Speaker 2: Of plays on beans Bowers.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, and so, and he actually said, hey, call this,
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  Speaker 3: and they called it and it spit for twenty and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, I might be able to
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  Speaker 3: do this so and so and then what But what
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  Speaker 3: it did was it allowed me, you know, selfishly, as
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  Speaker 3: a competitor, you want to compete at the highest level,
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  Speaker 3: and it was an opportunity for me to compete. And
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  Speaker 3: it was the route that I thought, like, man, as
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  Speaker 3: a competitor, this is going to allow me. I know
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  Speaker 3: I could compete at the highest level doing this. But
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  Speaker 3: then when I got to college, I realized I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know I had a love for teaching. And so I
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  Speaker 3: found my love for teaching with those in those practices
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  Speaker 3: and teaching the guys and seeing them do what I
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  Speaker 3: tell them and go out there and perform in the
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  Speaker 3: satisfaction I got from being a teacher. And then as
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  Speaker 3: the years go on, you realize, you know, the relationships,
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  Speaker 3: that part of it is what keeps you going, because
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  Speaker 3: if it's all, you know, I'm always going to compete.
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  Speaker 3: But if you just hang on just competing and teaching,
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  Speaker 3: the highs and lows are going to just absolutely you'll
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  Speaker 3: lose all your hair and you know, and all that
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  Speaker 3: but the relationships last a lifetime.
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  Speaker 4: And that's been the special part of my career.
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  Speaker 3: And I think all coaches out there as they why
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  Speaker 3: they do it, and they go through what they go
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  Speaker 3: through nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: Think about the dudes that you have sat in on
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  Speaker 1: their meetings. Yeah, Nick Saban, Jim bow Rich, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just to name a few, And you mentioned her lab.
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  Speaker 1: Her lab is legendary. Your dad is like legendary, like
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  Speaker 1: just within the business. If you just say offensive line coach,
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  Speaker 1: they go like Rick Crickett, like he has. He has
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  Speaker 1: put himself into the mount rushmore of offensive line coaches
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  Speaker 1: all time. And just think about the unbelievable blessing that
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  Speaker 1: you have had of being able to be around some
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  Speaker 1: of the guys that have been the single most successful
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the game.
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  Speaker 4: I say that all time.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I could go back and do it all
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  Speaker 3: over again to really maximize my experience, because I went
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  Speaker 3: from I mean I always I tell everybody I had
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  Speaker 3: Hall of famers from start to finish. Coach Rodriguez is
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  Speaker 3: gonna be Hall of Famer, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: So I had that in college.
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  Speaker 3: Then I go GA for Nick Saban on that first
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  Speaker 3: st at the one season they didn't win ten games.
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  Speaker 3: I was there for the seven to sixth seasons, so
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  Speaker 3: I got to see the transition and how he laid
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  Speaker 3: the infrastructure of University Alabama and the staff and what
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to do, and that coaching staff we had.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Jeremy Prue was in the weight room.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we had you know, Jeff Collins, who was
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  Speaker 3: a former former head coach, was director of recruiting. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Kirby Smart was dB coach. Like there's all these coaches,
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  Speaker 3: Kurt Signetti was receivers coach. There's this staff of just
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  Speaker 3: you know, guys that were going to be great head coaches.
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  Speaker 3: And then so I go from there, and then I
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  Speaker 3: go to Florida State and I get to be with
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  Speaker 3: Bobby Valden for his last two seasons. I get to
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  Speaker 3: be part of his last game and be on that staff,
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  Speaker 3: and then help Jimbo transition and be Jimbo's GA for
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  Speaker 3: three years and then go to even My first job
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  Speaker 3: was with Pat Sullivan, Heisman Trophy winner at Stanford and
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  Speaker 3: an all time great and and so like my career
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  Speaker 3: has been like a blessing. I wish I would go
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  Speaker 3: back and really maximize my time with those guys.
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  Speaker 2: And uh.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, over the over that course and over
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  Speaker 3: that span, you really pull. You find out who you
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  Speaker 3: are as a coach, and you pull from what those coaches.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you find yourself and they pour into you.
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  Speaker 2: And uh.
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  Speaker 4: And so I've always learned.
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  Speaker 3: Like a lot of the positives and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the negatives and and try to apply it to what
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's some different styles. They're all great. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what what's the thread that made each of those great?
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  Speaker 3: I would say they they were the competitiveness of all
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  Speaker 3: of them. I mean, I think they were all ultra competitors.
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  Speaker 3: They all competed in their own different way. That's a
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  Speaker 3: great question. I've never been asked that they all handle
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  Speaker 3: it different ways.
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  Speaker 4: But like even Coach.
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  Speaker 3: Bowden, who was as you know, our staff beings, we
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  Speaker 3: tell a story and he take his classes off and
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  Speaker 3: he'd tip back and he said, all right, let me
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  Speaker 3: tell you about this, and then.
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  Speaker 4: We'd all I'd sit back there like, all right, tell me,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: So, but when we were out there on that field
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  Speaker 3: and all that, like the competitiveness came through and the
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  Speaker 3: drive to always compete even at that age. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm seeing with my dad now at seventy eight, still coaching,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And so the all time greats are ultra competitors,
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  Speaker 3: but they're still who they are and they don't they
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  Speaker 3: don't try to be somebody they're not or try to
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  Speaker 3: like Waiver, and they really don't care what anyone of
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  Speaker 3: those thinks.
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  Speaker 4: They're true to.
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  Speaker 1: Who they are. So as.
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  Speaker 5: But those coaches like a Saban or a Bowden, would
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  Speaker 5: they be as successful in today's environment which has changed
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  Speaker 5: radically just over the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Another great question, I'd say, I do believe, So you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think, I think you know what's happening college with ball.
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  Speaker 3: There's probably hopefully it's going to be some consistency coming
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  Speaker 3: up on the horizon, hopefully, But the great communicators and
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  Speaker 3: the great teachers always seem to.
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  Speaker 4: Rise to the top no matter what.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's a reason why the programs and the coaches
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  Speaker 3: that have always won have won.
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  Speaker 4: You see with our head coach, coach Righte.
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  Speaker 3: I mean even in today's world at a program at
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  Speaker 3: Jack State, where you have less resources, you don't have
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  Speaker 3: as much in transition from FCS to FBS and to
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  Speaker 3: be able to do what he did there in short
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  Speaker 3: amount of time. It's just it falls back in line
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  Speaker 3: with his track record, you know, and so but it
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  Speaker 3: also goes back.
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  Speaker 4: To the type of competitor he is.
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  Speaker 3: So I do believe those guys would in today's world
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  Speaker 3: the all time greats. There's a reason why they've always
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  Speaker 3: been great. And you can see those those coaches in
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  Speaker 3: today's world, the ones that are able to and they're
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  Speaker 3: always able to adapt because even back then, like they're
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  Speaker 3: adapting from the eighties to the nineties to two thousands,
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  Speaker 3: so there's always change and you're always adapting at least
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. But I do believe so, and that's
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  Speaker 3: why I believe that. You know, when this job came
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  Speaker 3: open and everyone was, you know, oneing coach right to
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  Speaker 3: get it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, all of us that had been under coach.
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  Speaker 3: Ryd were hoping he would get it, you know, because
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  Speaker 3: you know, we we honestly believe that he was what
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  Speaker 3: was you know, we all feel like he was what's
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  Speaker 3: exactly what Western Football needed at that point in time.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, to your answer to your question, Hoppy,
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  Speaker 1: as I think, as he said, the great ones are
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  Speaker 1: ultra competitive, so as the rules change, they just find
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  Speaker 1: another thing to compete in.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: So like if they didn't know what the Transfer Portal was, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now we're going to play this new game, and this
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  Speaker 1: new game is called the Transfer Portal, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to play that game, so I want to win the
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  Speaker 1: Transfer Portal. Right, That's how kind of they think it is.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, the game is still the game, so
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  Speaker 4: you still had that piece of it.
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  Speaker 3: But but if it was all just based on hey,
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  Speaker 3: if I'm a great X and O coach, well then
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  Speaker 3: the great X and O coaches would always win every year,
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  Speaker 3: year in year out, you know. I mean, if it's
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  Speaker 3: always relationship based, you know, and the coaches that always
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  Speaker 3: made you feel good and all that stuff, they would
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  Speaker 3: win a year in year out.
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  Speaker 4: It's not that it's not the case. This game can humble.
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  Speaker 3: You extremely fast, and the great one always find a way.
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  Speaker 3: I just think that they're always blessed with the ability
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  Speaker 3: to create a team. How can they create the team
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  Speaker 3: and how they envision that team to.
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  Speaker 4: Be, whether whatever their philosophy is, and always.
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  Speaker 3: Point to that with coach rod Is, like he and
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  Speaker 3: all the former players, we all talk about this and
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  Speaker 3: the guys that I'm friends with is he's the best
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  Speaker 3: I've ever been around at at taking a team and
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  Speaker 3: making them a team, making them become extremely close and
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  Speaker 3: what they what our teams go through, whether it's practice
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  Speaker 3: and our tensity and how we live in the toughness.
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  Speaker 3: They always play extremely hard, and.
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  Speaker 4: That is the hardest.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the hardest thing to do in today's world,
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  Speaker 3: because I do believe in today's world, the element of toughness,
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: the tangible true like watch it on tape, see it graded,
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: that is not as relevant today. And there's a lot
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: of things I prohibited that where it's like less less
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: time teaching, less helmeted you know, more less pad practices,
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: rules where you can't block this way, you can't do
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: this like everyone's trying, and it has helped the game.
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: I get all that, but the element of blocking, tackling
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: and playing extremely hard has not changed. And I do
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: believe that Coach Rod is one of the best in
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  Speaker 3: business at getting that done, especially in today's world. And
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: so I think that's that's going to be hopefully one
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: of our competitive advantages.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the all time, one of the all time
• 15:21
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Like, if you're not in, you've already trickled out, you
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: become you become, you know, just someone that leaves. And
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: so what's left are all the guys that buy in
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: and that includes not just the players, but the assistants
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: and all the staff members, and his program will always
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: have that this is us correct, and so when you
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: go on the field, that's what he has forged. And
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: you're right, you can be really that can be really
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: fragmented nowadays the way the rosters are put together.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Correig because everything's you know, there's opportunity for our guys
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: to capitalize on their name, image, likeness, which is great.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Coach Rod's all for that. There's not many coaches against that.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: But when that happens, sometimes you can lose sight of
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: the team and the team's goals and not I believe
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: coach does a great job of, you know, culminating that
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: environment where you know, the team is still first and
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: and for us, like you said, it's a program where
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: every individual in that building is one hundred percent all
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: in on this logo, this university, this state. We understand
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: how important is this state? We understand and that's why
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: the staff is made up where it is. We don't
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: have a lot of guys from places that don't either
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: have a relationship with Coach Rodriguez or understand what this
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: state's about and what this university means to this state.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: And so when you have that it, you know, leadership
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: like it always trickles down the identity of your program
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: from the top down.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: And that's where we.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: I believe in that building over there, my push Guard Stadium.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: You know, it's a building full of people that understand
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: how important this program is and what it means. And
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: we're working day in that day and day out to
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: make sure that that product is what's going to be
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: to the best far O build.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, give us let's let's talk some examples of that,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: of the competitiveness and having that happen, because I would
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: guess almost anybody in your position that we put up
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: on here is gonna is going to say those same things.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Rich specifically, how does that come through? Where's the competitiveness?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Show up a couple examples on field and off field,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: and then trickling that down because I think you're right
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: as big as organizations are right now, it can't just
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: be rich that wants to be like that. It's got
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: to be all you guys for sure. So how how
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: does he get that from a leadership perspective, how does
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: that show itself and translate down to all of the
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: assistants and staff.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Well, for I think he's very coaches, very particular with
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: who he hires, you know, first off as staff members.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: And that's the biggest piece. You know, he coach everyone
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: that he taught. He wants to make sure it's are
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: kind of people, you know, blue collar work ethic, understand
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: you know, there's no ego, and and do what it.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Takes to get the job done.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: So from a competitive standpoint, the football piece is easy,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: like everyone's competitive in football, you know, everyone's competitive football
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: all the time.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: But I think it's it's.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: The day in, day out, Like how hard he like,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I want these guys coached?
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: I want and he hired a staff and an infrastructure.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Now that we have on staff that allows people to
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: focus in on that piece, you know, like he you know,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: when you have now a rule where you can have
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: as many coaches you want on staff, it allows you
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: to actually get which is a rule that's been long
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: time needed in our sport because we have always been
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: a sport where you know, our coaches outnumber our player
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: ratio compared to other sports by far, and so now
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: our players can get the coaching and the attention that
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: they need. And one point that coach Rodriguez said on
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: that point too, and he's been saying this recently, is
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: you know, he said, our sport requires the most fundamentals
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: to teach than any other sport, which is true. Like basketball,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: you know, everyone has to dribble, everyone has to shoot,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: everyone has to you know, there's things that translate that
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: even if you're a low post player to a point guard.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: You know, yes, there are gonna be some different fundamentals
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: you have to work on. But there's a lot of
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: translatable soccer, baseball and all that. But with football, like
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: offensive linemen and quarterback or offensive line versus right each
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: position defense, the fundamentals are so vast and so you know,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: there's so many of them you have to have that
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: those coaches to teach those things, in my opinion, which
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I agree with them one hundred percent. So, but the
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: competitive piece of it, you know, how do you how
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: are you different? I think it's in the little details
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: of how you do things like how can we train
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: our guys year in year out? What are we doing
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: to gain the competitive advantage when they're at home? Do
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: they have stuff to work on? Let's put it this way.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Like as a staff, when it came to this transfer
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: portal recently, like coach challenges as he said, I want
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: every person in the portal evaluated, every single one. I
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: want I don't care if they're Division ie, I don't
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: care if they're Power four five, Division two, Division three.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I want everybody looked at.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Which was there's like four thousand, five thousand people four yeah, I.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Think just on offense, maybe four thousand people. So we
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: did that.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: So we had to set up an infrastructure, uh and
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: a plan to get everybody watched. And that's what allowed
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: the staff size allows us to do that and to
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: get that information and get all those guys watched. So
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: then coach could come to our staff and he said,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: all right, let me see, here's the daily report and
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: everyone's got a grade. So and the reason why he
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: did that is because last year at jack State, who
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: did they have.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Run for sixteen hundred yards a Division two running.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Back that they acquired right who was the conference player
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: of the year and if CS quarterback that they acquired right,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: so he had read the benefit, but also to West
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Virginia versus let's go back to the past of who
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: we've had.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Owen Schmidt, a Division III.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: White constant, you know, Wisconsin River Falls running back who
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: ran for a thousand yards and walked on. Steve Slayton
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: the defensive back commitment to UH Maryland that they took
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: as a running back, Pat Wide a receiver commitment.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: At LSU that they took as a quarterback.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Coach Roda throughout his history has had guys that, you know,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: maybe may not be the you know, the the ideal
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: this or ideal that, but he sees it and evaluates
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: it and he's had success with those kinds of people,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: whether it's you know, in all it's alignment, like Jeremy Sheffy,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: who was a two hun and thirty five pound defensive
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: end when he was in high school, who comes in
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: becomes a three hundred pound guard for them back then.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: So like those kind of people who's West Virginia football
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: has always been. We've always had those kind of guys
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: and taken you know, for like thet term taking waivers
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: on those guys and they've turned out to be all
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: timers here, and so that's one thing we're still going
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: to continue to do and be is we're going to
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: make sure those guys that maybe have been overlooked or
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: maybe have a chip on their shoulder and there's a
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: little bit more something here and here to go with
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the player that they're gonna be fits for. So he
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: wants to make sure that we're leaving those stone unturned
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: because that's going to be our competitive advantage and that
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: aspect in the player evaluation standpoint. So that's just one
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: example I think that we used of how we can
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: be different. And so you may even see some of
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: these guys that were taking Division two guy in FCS
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: guy here, you know, and and they're trust me. Every
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: decision that we've made to acquire somebody or to evaluate
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: our current players or even from a football stand next
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: to no standpoint go through the most rigorous you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: evaluation standpoint of whether we're going to do this or not,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: whether we're going to take this person or not. And uh,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: and I think coach does a great.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Job of that.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: So so given that did you end up with.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Going through the portal?
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Did you end up with Wow, we are we are good,
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: We're going to be good. We got everything, we got
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: almost everything we were looking for. Or did you end
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: up with Okay, we're building here, we're trying to build something.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, where where do you think you ended up
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: talent wise with whatever number of new players that that
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: you guys?
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Well, that's that's a great question. We're still not done yet,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: so we're still adding. So so I'm still waiting on
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: phone calls right now as.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: We're going, and you can, you can take that call
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: back if it's important.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I will be like, hey, guys, I'm out, but I'll
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: say this, that's a great question. I'll say, you don't
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: ever know to you know, let's put.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: This, do you know you don't know?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: The right answer is we don't totally know.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: We don't totally know.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: And that's the same thing all those guys I mentioned
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: that were great players for us. You know, Tony tells
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: a story about the Pat White thing, right, you know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: with me and back in the day. But I'd say this, like,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: we don't you know, Steve Slayton wasn't the highly recruited
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: running back in that class, but he ended up being
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: that guy. No One knew who who owned Schmidt was.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: You know, Dan Moses was a no star from Washington,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: PA that ended up being a leader only team. Like
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: you could go through every player just about that we've
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: had come through that were great players, like very few
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: of them were like highly heralded, and then you ended
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: up having that same.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Translation DNA of West Virginia correct.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: One hundred percent.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: And so that's why I and that's why again Coach Wright,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, obviously he being from West Virginia,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: but you know, our teams are and the teams that
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: he's had is always you know, held a soft spot
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: into people's hearts because of how they identify with Right.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: But when it comes to that he coacher was telling.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Us this story because I actually asked him, you know,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: because we had acquired a couple running backs to compete
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: with Jean Right in d Or and then Tyle on
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: our roster, and you know, because he alluded to Trey
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Stewart that they had last year at Jacksonville State, who
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: just signed a contract in the end, and he said, yeah,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: we know, Tray, we saw, but we didn't know he
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: was going to be that. And then all of a sudden,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: because he didn't even start the first game of the season,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: you know, and then by game two, game three he
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: got in there and probably would add close to two
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: thousand yard rushing he first started the first two games,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: you know. And same thing with the quarterback, like even
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: when they're on your team and then fall camp, you
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: may not know till I think that's probably why he
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: let the quarterbacks play a little bit live ball in
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: spring to kind of see who can elevate your game
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: when they're playing the game.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: So you don't know.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Yet, Hobby, to be honest with you, but I feel
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: like we have added some competitive pieces to raise the
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: level competition each room, and I feel like we've got
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the right makeup of the right kind of guy that
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: identifies with who we are as a program, who we
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: are as a state, who we are as university to
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: help again stay in that path of who we've got
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: to identify as as a team and how we're going
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: to play. So, like I said, that's why I can't
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: wait to get to summer, see these guys run around,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: will lift some weights, and then get to fall camp
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: so we can see what they can do on the field.
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• 29:17
  Speaker 3: and then when Dad left, he went down to Tallassie too,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: so seven seven, and then my wife went to school here,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: so the you know eight but in your.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: Bio, what's weird is I mean, there's no more West
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Virginia guy than you. But native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: I was there for about seven months and then I
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: didn't know it.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Everyone asked me because when I go down there, like
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Danny Nealing, you know, Dan's like, what do you want
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: on your name plate?
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: And I was like, just put your dad last time,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: But they always ask hometown, and I want to say Morgantown,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: but I wasn't born there, and everyone's like, boy, you're
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: just playing play Kate, and I was like, well, just
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: put where I was born, even though I was born.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: And literally seven months later we moved into Mexico and
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: he was there for a year.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: So again, but.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Many different places. If you live trick, that would be
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: a good You need to you need to think about
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that one you just gave us Hattiesburg. Your dad was
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: at Starkville, Your dad was at Auburn, your dad was
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: at Tallahassee, West Virginia. I mean, have you ever counted
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: that your I did.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I had a stat a line there for a little bit,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: but then I lost count. You know, I always tell her,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I tell everybody. I went to three different high schools.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: And this is before social media and phone so.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Like when you moved like it was by like I'm
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: not seeing you again.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: That's why when all that stuff came out, I was like, oh,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I can reconnect with guys.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: I haven't talked to him forever.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: But you know, yeah, I went to three different high schools,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: you know, middle school we.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Were in Auburn.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: And then the terry got let go and so Dad
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: was trying to find a job and you know, the
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Michigan State Nick Saban offered him the d line job
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: in Michigan State and Dad is coach office line his
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: entire career, and uh, Dad was like man and there
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: was a possibility of Virginia University of Virginia, the office
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: line job opening up if the off line coach is
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: going retire, and so there's a couple of things, some
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: irons and the fire there and coach Saban wanted Dad
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: to be the d line coach and that's like, I
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: don't want to transition at this point in time in
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: my career. And so the he turned that down, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: then the Virginia thing fell through, so we were stuck.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: And uh so then he ended up his best friend
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: in the world is Ikemores down in lovel West Virginia,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: and uh Ike said, you come up here, we'll we'll
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: ride horses for a year and then you'll get back
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: into it. Well he we we moved to Glembale. We
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: move into one of Ike's barnes. Uh that's a life
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: of turn barns. He had a house, a lickerate farm.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: We lived out there, and so we moved to We
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: go from Alvern, Alabama to Glembal, West Virginia and uh
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: and so this is really when you're like you're going
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: through the roller coaster or the coaching profession. So this
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: is my freshman year of high school and the global
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: State job just happened to come open then, so then
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: they talked Dad into taking it.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: So he said, hey, coach there glimbal and we had
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: a blast.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: We loved it, you know, the D two ball was
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: a great experience and all that kind of stuff as
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: a kid growing up. And then a year later, coach
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Saban gets the LSU job and says, all right, I'm
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: gonna try to hire again, and he hires an officer
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: offs line coaching job. So we left Glenville went to LSU.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: So that's my sophomore year, my second high school. We're
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: in Baton Rouge and everything's good, and you know, we're
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: there that first season LSU.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: And then coach Rod gets this job.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: And the one consistent in our as a as a
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: tricker family growing up, even though we moved some many times,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: was West Virginia.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Though.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: That's why I say, like where we want to claim
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: it is like my grandma and my grandparents all lived
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: in Preston County.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: My dad was born in Mine General.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: We vacationed in West Virginia every year, no remember we lived,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: we'd go to Glenville and we'd stay with hiking them
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Uncle I can Antsy. We'd stay with them for a week,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: and then we'd drive up to Preston County and we'd
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: stay with Grandma for a week, and then we would
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: drive all the way back down to whether it was
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Starkville or or wherever. You know, we'd get a little
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: bit of time at the beach, you know. You know,
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: we had to beg dad to do that because he'd
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: rather be in West Virginia than the beach. So West
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Virginia was always the one constant in our family growing
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: up from you know, from birth to now. So when
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: this opportunity came up to with Coach Rodriguez, who were like, yeah,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: let's go do it, you know, and so Third High
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: School come up here and then Dak coach was alsigned
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: for Ridge and the rest is history.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: But that was why I always say West Virginia is.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Our home is because it really is like as transient
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: as our family has been, all roads led back to
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: this state, and then it ended up being where I
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: got my education high school wise, and graduated from Morganton
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: High and then you know, graduated from West Virginia and
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: my wife went to school here, you know, and what
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: it did for our families, so it's been the most
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: constant thing place and university and our family.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: So so you spent you spent your life in the
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: transfer portal. Essentially, that's what you did. But it got
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: them to Tony tell Forregale or get in touch with
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: for Gale or uh to Toro and to change that
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: out of a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, you're a West Virginia, Yeah,
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: come on.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I could.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: I just you know, it's one of those things that
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: you don't want to get into all the the you know,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I saw what happened to Georgia O'Leary when he lied
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: on his rest.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Any possibility of that happening.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I just laid it down there straight. When you resumed
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: your relationship with Rich as you rejoin this staff here,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: and you join the staff this offseason, so you walk in,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: you sit down at some point and that your first
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: staff meeting, and Rich clears his throat and goes, all right,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: this is what my offense is. When he explained what
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: he is doing in his nowadays football, how much different
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: is it or what variations have changed since his last
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: run here.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: That's the one thing I'll credit coach for.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: And so I always paid attention from Afar like even
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: when I was a coordinator, and I've been according for
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: ten years at different spots. But like I remember when
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: I went to Georgia State, you know, you know, I
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: inherited so me when I was hired at at Sanford,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: I was hired as when I was a G at
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Florida State. I got my first job at Sanford to
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: coach in cybers Huters tied ends for thirty thousand dollars
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: and which I thought I was a richest man. I
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: was like, man, finally at twenty six years old, I
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: get my first job, and I finally got a bank
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: account and I getting paid something because GA's you just
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: had scholarships at GA for four years. So there was
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: another GA that just got hired at the same time
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: to be the coordinate at that point in a point
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: time named Rhet Lashley who's now the head coach at SMU.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Me rest one of my best friends in the business
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: care and justice really now working with Rhett, who you know,
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: I got those two hooked up. But so Rhet and
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: I were there together and Htt ran the gust mouns
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: On offense. So when Rhett left to go with GUS,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: I took I got coach Sullivan's came to me and say, hey,
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: I want you to coordinate this because no one else
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: is running this, and I want you to do this
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: because no there's no one else, so which I don't know.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: I was like, great, I mean, so I'm the only
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: guy I left to Awesome. So I took over and
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: I started adding pieces of what we did under Coach.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Rodriguez West Virginia.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Then I started adding some of the stuff we did
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: at Florida State and some of the stuff that we
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: did at Alabama and started making my own. But there's
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: some different stuff elements, backfield sets and that kind of
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: stuff that I was like, man, it's kind of giving
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: it away of what we're doing from a run game standpoint.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: So when I actually want I went to u.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: FAU.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: I started watching Arizona tape where Coach Roydrigez was out
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: of Arizona with coach Calvin Gee at that point in time,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: and on coach Ry Smith and all those guys, and
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: they had a really they were running the same West
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Virginia run game, but they kept the backfield set was
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: they had some certain kind of footwork and so I
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: always paid attention. So then I took that and adopted
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: into it, even from Afar, Like I never even talked
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: to Calvin. I just watched the tape and added it.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: So I've always been paying attention to what coach Rod did.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: So long story short, I get back here, you know,
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: and even when I was at Coastal. Before I get here,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: you know, we compete against Rich twice. You know, twenty
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: twenty three we played him, twenty twenty four, we played
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: them to a zero.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: So slow that in there. But God, I got Zach.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: I got Zach, and so Zach.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I went Zach one time, and so I always messed
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: with Zach about that, and Zach gets flustered and keeps
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: on out all these stats.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I know you're good. You went to Oklong
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: with all goods. So I drew my team. I finally,
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: That's why the other things. I am so glad that
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: guy's on team.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: He was one of the hardest guys I ever One
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: of the hardest preps I've ever had have was prepared.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: For Zach Galley's defense. And that's not even a trying
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: to you know, prop them up. It's real talk. He
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: is very very good at what he does.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: But you know, I obviously watched them when they were doing,
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: you know, because Dad was there and all that stuff.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: And he coach, right, has adapted.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: You talked about the great coaches over time and the
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: offensive lines. He's adapted over time, you know, and to
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: also fit what his personnel can do. You know, Like
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: there's one year Arizona, they were slinging the crap all
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: of the football, you know. So you know, he's always adapted.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: The tempo piece, like we were up tempo back then,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: but over the last three years the tempo has gone
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: exponentially higher about that, like I mean exponentially higher.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: And he and you know, he's.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Really you know, whatever the rules allow you to do.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: He thinks it's a competitive avantage. So now we actually
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: we train our guys in certain ways to make sure
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: we go as fast as humanly.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: Possible, you know.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: So and then so like over time, like that's where
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: I think, Yes, play calls some are the same, some
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: are not. Uh, the philosophy is the same as far
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: as how we play. But also and also like you
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: talk Jed draining be goes Jed. You know, Jet's historian,
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: brilliant football mind. He'll tell he's a savant.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: He'll tell you like the moment the first time I
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: saw Jed.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: When I came back, we sat down at lunch and
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: he gave me the whole how this often started, the meeting,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: the whole thing, and a lot of it still carries
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: over this time. So coach has done a great job
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: of adapting and and you know, and fine tuning and adjusting,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: but it's still the same core of where he has
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: because at Globale State, they you know, what was it,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Chris George had one hundred and forty four catches in
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: a year and twenty two hundred yards in a year,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: and it was.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Well, think about this he had. He has coached the
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: all time leading receiver in the history of college football,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: and he has coached the all time leading ground gainer
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: at quarterback in college football history. So could you be
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: could you be more different than those two?
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: Exactly?
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: So that's what's really neat to be a part of
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: this and just and also how he is able to
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: make it simple for our guys. We won't make it
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: hard for them easy for us. And to be able
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: to do that, that's what I've been I love because
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: as a coordinator, you're doing it on your own. You're
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: kind of you got your staff, you got you guys,
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: give you input, but your just your identity. And to
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: be able to get up here and to take a
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: step back and be able to just be there for
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: coach and be a part of this and learn this
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: and learn the ins and outs and your answers to this,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: it's been really cool. And and but yes, coach is like,
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: it's amazing how he's adapted over time. But even think
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: about when we were here Western in the first round.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: He did it during his tenure here, like it was,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: you know, a little bit we had some under center
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: there in two thousand and one, two thousand and two,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: you know, kind of modified it from the kneel and
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: area to his era and try to take advantage of
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: what the guys did. And then as it went with
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: the Rashis and the Pats, then a little bit more gun,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: a little bit more quarterback run. So coach is going
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: to do whatever, like whatever tools we have, he's going
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: to maximize those tools.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: All right, Explain, let's get in the nitty gritty offensively,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: how does that work? Give us give us a little
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: bit during the week on the meetings and how the
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: game plan comes together, and then on game day, your
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: responsibilities rich calling plays. You're going super fast? How does
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: that change how you work? Give us a sure walk
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: on all that stuff?
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: So we obviously we haven't done it yet, all right,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: this season, but this upcoming season. You know, as a
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: former play caller and I've done for ten years, I
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: know how how comforting it is and also how you
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: know you feel like you're on island if you don't
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: have it is having that guy you can lean on.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: It's like, Hey, what's going on? What do I need
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: to get to? What's coming next?
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: What's something that's in the game, Like you're focused on
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: what's happening?
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: What just happened?
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: What's it's a chess game? Like what's the next piece? Well,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: you wan to do next play? The next two plays?
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: Where do you want to get to? Whatever your game
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: plan for? What are they doing differently that we weren't expecting?
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: How do we need to adjust to it? You can
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: handle all that on your own. That's why I actually
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: liked when there wasn't any video tablets because then the
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: true play and true coaches could actually do it and
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: not like you know, to me, if you can see it,
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: that was a competitive advantage to me.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: That was the real play callers.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Now everyone's got iPads can see it, which is a
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: little bit of.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: A cheat code. But that's another story.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: But so I know how it is to have that
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: guy and then to not have that guy. And when
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: you have that person that you can lean on, Hey,
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: what do we need to get to? What do we
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: gotta here? Are good and awesome? I'll come to that.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: I'll come to that all right, good.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: You know, or they can tell if you got to check,
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: you got it, stay whatever it may be. Because when
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: you're on the field, especially, you can't see the same
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: as you can can.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: In the box.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: So I'll be in the box. Coach calls every play. Obviously,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: game playing wise, it'll be a collaborative effort of our
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: entire staff. We'll get our thoughts together, we'll present to
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: coach again, Coach will give Hish his thought and obviously
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: we're going to run with everything that coach wants to do,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: and Coach will call every play. But I'll be the
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: guy upstairs saying, OK, you got this, coach, or as
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: we're going, you know, hey, coach, you got this. Come
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: back to this, Hey, coach, they're hitting this, come with this,
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: or if there's a check with me. I'll tell them
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: exactly what I'm seeing that so that'll be the relationship.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: I'll be his eyes in the sky as well.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: Be When we had Coach rod On a couple weeks ago,
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: you asked about quarterbacks and he said he wanted three
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: or four guys that could play. So where's your quarterback
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: situation coming out of spring? Do you have a definitive one,
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: two and three? Will more than one quarterback play?
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: Tell us where that is now?
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: I think, like Coach said, I think we do have
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: a quarterback room that I think. Here's what I would do,
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: just to describe the quarbackroom. Because everyone's you know coach,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: I also say, well, I think I have four quarterback coaches
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: between him, you know, Coach Rhett, Coach Pat, myself, And
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: I said, I try to let those guys handle the
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks and then if anything, I'll give Coach Rhett and
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: then Coach Pass some things I might see and then
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: I'm able to sit in all the other rooms. But
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: here's what I would say if I was describing our
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: quarterback room is I would say, like there, I'm excited
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: about what this room could be and what's going for
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of promise in that room.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of promise. I think there's
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: a lot of promise of what because no one's done
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: it yet, you know, I mean, no one's done it
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: on you know, Nico's had that, you know, the progressive
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: you know old traditional you know, red shirt progression reel.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: And now he's competing.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: You know, you got Jalen who's actually had it, you know,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: starting experience, and you know I had gone to text
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: A and m is now competing in this style office.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: This is a different style of offense that he's played
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: in yet. You know, Max has come in from a
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: North Carolina UNC Charlotte. Before that, he was at Florida,
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: got some early experience as a freshman in Florida and
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: then played played really well, actually was playing really good
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: football at Charlotte till he got hurt, you know. And
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: so he brings a you know, really talented thrower, gotta
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: be more consistent. And then you got two freshmen between
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Khalil and Scotty Fox, I think are really two i
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: mean really interesting talents that are going to be really Khalil,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: we haven'ten able to see throw yet because of his shoulder,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: but he'll be back full speed this summer. And Scottie
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Fox I think has a great future here as well.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of promise in that room. The
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: biggest thing i'd say, you know, we haven't whoever's the
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: most consistent will be the guy. You don't know that
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: yet because you still got to get more, you know.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I think we got to go through a fall camp,
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: summer and fall camp with those guys. Consistency will be
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: what we need out of that room, you know, And
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: that's what Coach Rodriguez and Coach Rhett and Coach Patter
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: go and get those guys ready over summer with. But
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: don't know that answer yet, but I feel really good
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: about that room.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: That's why Coach has.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Been saying that everything that's in about how much promise
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: that room has had. And I'm telling you like it's
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: it's a it's one of those rooms that we actually
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: through this last you know, transfer requirement, you know, a
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: talent requirement phase that we've had last spring portal, we
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: didn't feel like we need ad anybody because we feel
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: like that room's.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: Got a lot of tools in there.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: And then who surfaces out it because of the competition.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: That's what coach wants. He wants ultra competition, uh, in
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: every room. And so I'm really interested this summer see
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: how the guys grow in this offense, because in spring
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: you can learn the offense pretty quickly, but you don't
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: master the offense in the spring. Right now, you've got
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: memorize and you got to learn it and understand it,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: and then the next phase is mastering it. This summer
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: will be a big step in the mastering face for
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: those guys. And then over summer, once you get all
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: those reps as far as them throwing routes on air
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: and and and getting our our a lot of time
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: over the summer meeting, when we get to fall camp,
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: who's mastering it the most consistently?
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: And that's what we got.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: And again, you know, put them in those situations so
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: we know game one, who gives us the best chance
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: to win?
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: All right, flip back over defensively, he said something there
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: a minute to go about Zach and how difficult he
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: was to prepare for.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: Why you don't know what you're getting.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: So for example, when I played Zach, you know, it
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: was the it was the opening game of the season,
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: which was the worst to do for it, Like, you
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: don't want to go against a coordinator your opening game
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: when you don't really know what kind of team you have,
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: and uh, you don't know what you're going to get.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: And he comes from the Brent Venables tree of and
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: and Venables as a coordinator is like every game all
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, you know, you prepare for something, then
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: you first series, you're like, man, they're playing this' you know,
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: hey they were four down the previous game cut you know,
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: basing out of corps and three. Then all of a
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: sudden this game, Hey they're odd stack three down the
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: entire time, or they're three safety this game, or you know,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: all all of a sudden, they're gonna go five you know,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: bare front cover one majority of the game and bringing
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: simular press.
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: Or whatever it may be.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: So he's got a roll of decks and Coach Rod
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: always messes with him like, hey, you got one thousand
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: blitz is you're gonna learn for recruits, you know when
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: you come on visit because Zack's got so much in it.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: So you you don't know what you're getting till a
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: game day.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: And so like when we played them, you know it
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: was a you know, we were expecting I had a
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: game plan for like that. You just gotta run good
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: place and so whatever you find out. So after the
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: first two series, I knew, oh, this is his game plan.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: So then we got to get to this.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: So you gotta be prepared for it all what you
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: could look like, it could look like. You know, we
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: were three three stacked under Coach Rode. I mean we
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: could do three three stack. We go four down. We
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: can go three down with a pass rusher. We can
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: do any defense there is, and they can and every
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: blitz known a man, zero fire zone, whatever. So I
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: be and coach picknew with this line that we don't.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: Coach Ryle was like, hey, we need to evaluate guys
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: at spring and me and Jack raw is like, well,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: can you tell Zack, because like we can't evaluate the
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: offensive line because we're seeing a different defense every day
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: and we can't get We get this blocked one day,
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: then we turn around we see something new, so we
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: can't get any you know. So but it's I honestly
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: believe it's great for us because now whatever we show
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: up on game day with as fast as we go,
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: you know, it defines, it refines your rules and it,
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: and our guys are gonna be comfortable on game day
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: because they've seen it all offensively from our defense. So
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: there's not gonna be anything that we're gonna be like, Oh,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: they came out of this, what do we do?
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: So our guys will have comfort in that.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Let's dive deeper into rich morphine, into plane faster. Okay,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: walk us through philosophy on that. How much of that
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: is fatigue that you're trying to cause? How much of
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: that is misalignment that you're trying to cause? Because if
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: my head's right, like, yeah, you're gonna get more and
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: more tired. Yeah, you're gonna gas. You're gonna have a
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: couple of plays that just do Okay, that's two, that's three,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: that's two, that's three. This thing's going nowhere and all
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: of us such pam. It's these explosive plays, oftentimes the
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: result of probably an ma where someone just didn't get
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: in their right place at the right time and it
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: opens up a gaping hole. Is that what it is?
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Coach alludes to like the tempo allows us to
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: you know, you know, fatigue makes cowards of us.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: All Right, it doesn't matter who you are.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Eventually, when you get tired, you're not your same self,
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: and we want that to be our advantage. And then
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: also when that happens, you know, whether it's a mental
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: error or whether it's a physical error where you just
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: don't do what you're supposed to do defensively and you
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: give up a gap or your eyes are looking at
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: the wrong place in the back end and you let
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: go of a seam or an outside guy. That's when
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: we have to capitalize offensively. That's what we're built to do.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: And so that's what we want to use the tempo
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: in our advantage. And you know, the coach always mentions
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: like and it's kind of like a boxing match where
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: you know, early on, gloves are up right, but then eventually,
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: as you get tired, those gloves keep come down, keep
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: coming gon, keep coming down, keep coming down, and then
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: eventually that's.
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: When the knockout happens. Right.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: So that's our mentality, and that's almost like an old
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: you know sometimes people talk about old school mentality, like, hey,
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: you just do this, do this, and you keep pounding
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: and keep outing it.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: Whatever our game plan is.
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: That's our mentality with the tempo and to keep in
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: the how we play and how we block and how
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: physical we are. That's how we're going to be our
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: competitive advantage.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: But it's a.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: Teams don't train that way all the time. They're not
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: used to it. Usually in game you settle into a
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: team's tempo. But when you train that way all the
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: time and you play, and not only the tempo, but
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: the physicality piece, I think that's what gets lost in
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: coaches identity of who we are as an offense. You know, yes,
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: there are fast teams out there, there's other teams that
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: play tempo, but are they as physical as us?
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: Snap in, snap out?
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: Are they Because the way we block and with our
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: rules and the way we do things, our physicality and
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: in my opinion is different. We allow we greenlight a
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: lot more physicality than a lot of other offenses in
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: my opinion, with how we do things, and that along
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: with the tempo, I think compliments it and what makes
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: us different. So the physicality piece, and it could be
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: even pass pro whatever.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: It may be.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: How we attack guys and how we get how we
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: finish through the whistle, how we just continue go talk
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: about if they can't catch you, that's the most defeating
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: feeling in the world.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: You know, if they can't catch you.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: And maybe I'm a four or five guy and the
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: other guy's four to four, but when he gets tired,
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: he becomes a four to seven. And I'm still gonna
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: that they can't catch you.
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: So yeah, that's our philosophy.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Think about the o Lyne guys, and this is just
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: a couple of guys that he had the last time here, right,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: So you're talking about Dan Moses, who would just he
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: would fight just to fight, Like a good day for
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: him is let's go get in a fight. And Jeremy
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Sheffey same thing. He would love to just hitch you
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: in face repeatedly, right, stand check right. He was just
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: like he was just a brawler. So you had all
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: these brawlers, and that's where this thing has to get
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: back to where you're just literally physically abusing people, continuing
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: every snap, every snap, every snap, and then it pops
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: and off your grow great.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: And that's and that's the DNA of who we've always been.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: And that's why I really do believe with because again,
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: like we just acquired a lot of guys, right, and
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: that's going and we feel like these guys fit our
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: ability to do that, whether it's in the office of
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: line room, tied end room, running back room, receive room.
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: Same thing. Like you know, one thing with recruiting.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Now with like we're we're prior towards prioritizing speed, especially
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: at the high school level, over everything right now, because
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: we want to be faster, Like like that's one thing
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: where we have got to absolutely upgrade our roster on
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: and so. And then with the office line pieces, like
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: are they athletic enough to be explosive at the point
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: of attack? So if we get them stronger and they
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: have those explosive twitches, that explosive twitch to them, then
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: then as they get stronger and they get bigger. Now
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: we're absolutely just doing that and then the the DNA
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: of who they are, if we can acquire those guys,
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: that's exactly what we're looking for. But and all honestly,
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: as we all know, like today's world is different, Like
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: there's not a lot of guys playing outside all the time,
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: you know, playing backyard football and tackle football at.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Recess and all that kind of stuff, so you don't
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: see it.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: So you've got to provide an environment where that those
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: traits come out and uh, and I think that's we
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: do a great job of that. So we're going to
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: have that mentality one way or the other. We're going
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: to make sure the guys that we bring in are understanding,
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: like that's how we're going to play, and they're gonna
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: want that. And that's why we encourage all of our
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: guys to come watch us. All the recruits, whether whoever
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: they may be, come watch this practice because we want
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: you to see, like this is how we live in
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: between the whistles and in between that to that period
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: one to period twenty, and when that, when that price
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: is over, then we go back to being civilize human beings,
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But but when we're there,
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: we're going to practice and we're gonna play a certain
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: kind of way to develop that hard edch like everyone
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: talks about it, but we're going to live it. So
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: then it shows up on tape and you can see
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: how we play and see how we finished through the
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: whistle and see our receivers when the run breaks out
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: running downfield in our office lineman and running downfield when
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: there's only three defenders in the picture, but there's seven
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: offensive guys in the picture, you know, So that's where
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: we're going to be different.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Tempo works in practice too. Managers running, trainers running you
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: guys running the office too, sprent between MEAs.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: The biggest thing, that's what was the biggest thing that
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: I learned under coach this past uh this past spring,
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: was it really like how to train the managers and
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: how to train like Danny Danny. Danny's slowing down a
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: little bit, honest. You know Danny Neeld, He's used to
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: he's not four to three. He well, he used to
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: be firing brimstone on those guys and all that. And
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: then even Ryan Neeland who's alos Ryan's like not my soft.
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: Now he's not on those guys as much.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: And so but we those managers like they have they
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: have to have that same mentality are ball boys, and
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: there's a there's like there's a role, there's a job,
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: there's a problem. So for us to be again, I
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: could talk about how we practice so it translates to
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: the game and we simulate it. We have people stepping
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: over the ball if the ball goes out of bounds
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: on our side, like we're trying to simulate it so
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: you know, it's as realistic as it can be. And
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: our guys are practicing in that enviartment because if we're
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: gonna hold them to it, we gotta simulate it.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: But I was being serious. I mean managers are running
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: and trainers are running. That wasn't That wasn't joke. They
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: are running.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: You would acknowledge though, the risk of tempo, right, I
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: mean the risk.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: In that uh well you better get first downs.
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, right, Like Zach Zach is probably saying, I just
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: got my guys off the field. I'm trying to figure
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: out what we're doing, and you guys went three and
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: out and burned eighteen seconds.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: You know there's a science that can absolutely be So
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: are you conscious of that?
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: I mean every tempo team is I'll say this, like
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: coach Rodriguez, like we're gonna keep going fast, but when
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: we got a lead, Like that's one thing he think
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: he did last year this past season, like if there's
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: something where we got to slow down, we will slow down.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: They did last year and when they would have leads
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: or whatever it may be, but it you know, you
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: know we're going to go though. We're like we're going
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: to you know, we're going to be woe not sick
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: of them you know what I mean. So it's a uh,
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: but yes, that is a factor of it. But it
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: goes back to situational football. And that's one thing that
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: I do believe we do a really good job on
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: understanding situational football. What what is it going to take
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: for us to win this game or win this situation?
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: Two minute drill, four minute drill, you know, you know
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: the middle eight, any of those things. And so that's
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: something we address when we talk about constantly with our guys.
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: One other question, and so in terms of x's and
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: o's and players, think think of two pots, x's and
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: o's and players. And you can't say fifty percent each.
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: What percent do you need more of X's know's good
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: x's knows good players, and you can't say fifty.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know that you can tell him how to answer.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: You can ask the.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Question what you're trying to bait him for.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: You want to answer your answer.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: He's a guest. He's a guest, and you're trying to answer.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: Wants to answer.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Job to ask questions, He'll give you the answer you're
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: asking question, He will give you an answer.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Hitting hopy coming through, client will answer how he wants
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: to answer, not how he was directed by you.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: Okay, you can't say fifty percent, sir.
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: No players okay, ninety nine.
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: Players got players.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: Guys make players most beautifully drawn up play doesn't work
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: to drop a snap.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Players players Jimmy's and jokes.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: He answer the question, You had no problem with the question.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: You have to give him the fifty You anticipated an
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: answer that wasn't even close to what he was going
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: to say.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: We apologize for him.
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: It was an easy. It was an easy.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: He's changed a lot since you became semi retired. This
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: area very We have.
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: To help players, players one players. So that's why the
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: evaluation piece.
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: And guys, right, you know, we watch I mean, we
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: aren't coaches, but we've pretend to be. Sometimes we watch
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: a lot of football and I don't how many times
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: any game and coverage we'll say, what do we say, brand.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Guy made a play?
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: Got made play?
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: I made a play?
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: Players like, was that a great play? I don't know?
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: God made a play? Yeah, I'm telling you it's yeah.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: It's been in twenty years and you like think as
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: you go, oh, yeah, we got this great, it's play
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: yours here?
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: We get you ready, It's easy to do. Like, did
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Major Harris make plays? Yeah he did? Did pac Man
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: Jones make place? Pat white Hat white Man Slayton? Right,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: those guys make plays and go on the overund and
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: go over on the defensive side. Right, did Aaron Beasley
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: make plays? Guys make plays. That's what the whole that's
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: what the whole game is about.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: You can scheme up some of the perfect guy drops
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: the ball. I mean you can have the like, man, it's.
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: There and then it doesn't happen, and but to the
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: outside it does. I'm just play.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: So that's why the development aspect, the way we've got
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: our staff set up, that coach as has put together
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: our year long plan talent evaluation, talent development, how we
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: play those things like maximizing our players as our.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: Number one goal.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna be interesting. First time he was here,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: as you well remember, only they only won three games, right,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: they won three games last year? He was oh and
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: three right at jack State at the start of the season,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: and uh I talked to Jeff cass Steele as you
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: well know, Jacob's son was on richest staff there last
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: year at jack State. Now he's here in Morgantown and uh,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: and Jeff went down. Jeff went down after like lost
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: one or two. They like, hey, come on down here,
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: like give us just take a peek. See what you're
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: thinking here. And I'm thinking to myself that ain't good,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Like I would not like to be in that building
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: when you're oh and one, oh and two and oh
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: and three with rich right. And I take a lot
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: from that because, as I was talking to him just
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: last night, we're in Parkersburg, they had sixty new bees
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: last year. You guys are gonna have over seventy newbies
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: on this team this year that weren't here a year ago.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: And I would think the the angst that he had
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: to deal with last year probably taught him a lot
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: so it doesn't happen again this year.
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I can't speak on last year. I
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: just I got secondhand information obviously.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: Well, your dad talk to your dad. I was heard.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: I heard all about it.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: That's like we were we were playing them, I guess,
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, toward the end, and we're up
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: by a little bit, and uh, you know, we're we're
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: up by two scores or something like that, and we're
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: going down the field and and we probably ran out
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: the clock and uh and uh they we get down
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: like twenty yard line and it's like third down and
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: he's like and he said he got all had to said.
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: He was talking to dressers, like, now, I know my
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: son's not going to throw.
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: A pass here.
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: I just know he's just gonna get us out of
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: this game.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: We thought a touchdown.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: I saw, I said, hey, I mean, but when I
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: say that is like hell, he would tell me. He
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: told me, like how like And that's what coach Royd
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: does though. He ams up the environment so like he
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: makes he pulls the best out of everybody, not only players,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: but coaches and staff as well.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: And you know that's one thing that I'd say, you know.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: It's it's uh you the lessons can always be learned.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: You're always growing, like coach mentions like im. He said
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: he's a better head coach this year than what he
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: was last year, because if you don't learn from last year,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: then you wasted a year, right, And so he's taking
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of life and that's good for me and
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, staff members. I weren't with him
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: last year to to hear why we're doing things based
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: on what he's experienced and why why he made the
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks live and spring some so he can see this.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: And so to me as a guy that's new, I'm
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: I'm loving, living, loving hearing all this information, hearing all
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: the experiences, because there's some things I experienced that he didn't,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: and there's a lot more than he's experienced that I haven't.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: So I'd say right now, like there's a method to
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: everything that we're doing. Sometimes as even as staff, we
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: don't know yet and he tells us after the fact,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: you know, and it's really cool to hear. And so
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: it's it's but that's how it was back in two
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: thousand and three and four or five.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: So it's business usual.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: Three guys before the game is brought to us by
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  Speaker 1: Jan Dill's attorneys at law. They won't take no for
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: an answer if you are someone that you know needs
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: help when it comes to a Social Security disability claim.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: That is what Jen Dill's attorneys at law do every
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: single day. That is an area of specialization, and that
• 1:01:32
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• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: eight percent of the time when people file claims, they
• 1:01:38
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• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: would like you to give them a call before you
• 1:01:45
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• 1:01:49
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• 1:01:52
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• 1:01:56
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• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: wherever you may be. And I was in Parkersburg as
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: you know yesterday. Now you knew the coach's caravan last night,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: wonderful people in Parker's great style. I saw a lot
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: of saw a lot of folks uh there and had
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of had a lot of fun, had a
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: lot of fun.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: Is that the first time we've had an advanced stat
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: in a sponsor read there? Yeah is good. It is
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: a little advanced stat.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Right in the eighty percent get rejected. And so Jan
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: Dill's attorneys at Law, they won't, in fact based take
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: no for an answer. Okay, so this new world, you
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: guys have twelve new offensive linemen in this program since January.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Holy potato salad, dude, that's not to do it again? Well,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: I know, so walk us through you know, we we
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: we've been trying to coordinate to get you in here,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: and it's been busy, busy. What is this reopening of
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: the portal bend like on a day to day base.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: Well, like I talked about how we were evaluating everybody
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: in the portal and making sure that everyone gets looked at.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: And so when we found somebody like, you know, there
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: there was tiers to like. All right, initial view by
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: a coach and then gets to myself, if there's somebody
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: that they like, and then I would sit there and
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: watch them and we talk about the guy and there's
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: somebody that we came a conclusion that we both liked,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: and that's when we brought to coach and so we'd
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: sit in there and we'd watch the film with coach
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: and coach has the ultimate final yes, final no. And
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: so it's been a you know there again, the prioritizing
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: a few things. Athleticism, if we can get great size,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: we wanted that gets up with office line perspective size.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: We wanted to get that. But the athleticism piece was
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: number one piece. And then how they.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: Played, you know, and do they play and it's different
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: than you know, high school freshmen. Sometimes you can grow
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: them and you can, you know, if they don't bite
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: as a pup. You know, Coach always tells a story
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: about his receiver that trend, you know, that that transition
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: into changing into be and a puff that did end
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: up biting because he got challenged. Sometimes when they're it
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: depends on where they're at in their career, right, and
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: so we want to make sure. One thing that we
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: looked for and Coach talked about this was, you know,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: we look for production over potential when it comes to
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: the portal. We want somebody that's produced and shown rather
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: than potential. Because now if they're young and they have potential,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: we put categorize that almost like a high school guy,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: but they're you know, year three or four, what's the
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: production We'd rather roll, not roll dice. But we'd rather
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: put a hedge our bet with someone that's done it
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: right than someone who hasn't done it. But maybe can
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: you know, because and and there's a lot of communication
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: and getting the stories of.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: Why guys are leaving and all and all that and.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: So but we'll bring the cases to Coach, and Coach
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: will watch every single guy that we want to go on.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of guys we brought that he didn't
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: like and we didn't take, you know, and so he yell.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: When you bring him a player that he doesn't like,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: it does get this away from me? What'd you bring it?
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: Why? Why?
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: You'll be like, really you get the you know, I'm
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: not mad, I'm just disappointed.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: So you know, you get those.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: Every now and then you're coach man, it's tough slid now,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: but uh, but that's the best thing about how we
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: do it because like and then he'll ask and and
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: it's it's layered tiers of evaluation. So you know, you
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: got to protect yourself against yourself. And when it comes
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: to valuation. So if if you're the only guy like somebody,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: you know, we always want someone else to look at
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: it because oh I didn't see that, you know what,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: you're right, or I don't agree with you, talk to
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: me about why, and so you can have those conversations.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: And so I really like how we do things and
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: and uh, it's a consensus base. So then if we miss,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: we all miss, or if we hit, we all hit.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: And uh, and so coach, like I said, everyone you know,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: coach has a final guest know on everything we do
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: in our program, especially on the player acquisition piece of
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: it and and the evaluation piece.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: And it was a lot of guys for him to watch.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: And he'd like, if you got to go trip somewhere,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: he'd get guys put on eye and he'd watch him
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: on the plane and then come back and give.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Us he's been busting it. He's been busted because I
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: come down the hill and I look over in the
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: parking lot and it's Sunday morning and he's there. He's there,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: he's there, He's there all the time. Now, probably no
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: one's told him yet. He could probably take that home
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: and watch that. But anyway, that's beside the point. That's
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: beside the point. He's in. He's working. So now that's
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: a piece of it. How much has it changed now
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: that a lot of these cats have agents? So you
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: just bit your lip. Now, I go ahead and study
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: the tape on that. He just bit his lip. So
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: how's that working now? Kill Brad is Brad Howe agent
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: at large. He calls you and says, I'm representing Sparky Smith.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: He's an offensive lineman and he has two years of
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: eligibility and he really would be interested in West Virginia.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Are you getting a solicitations from agents.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 4: I'm not talking to anybody like that.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: Your GM is GM Chuck Lily, God bless his soul.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: He is heaven sent. That's Rod said, I hired you
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: to handle that, dude. That's your job. And uh, Chuck
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: is the that handles all of our conversations between those guys,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: like it's our job on the football piece and the
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: player piece and anything outside that is Chuck and their
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: representation if they do talk. But like Coach Rodd says,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: you know, he's built for some things. One things that
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: he's not as built for those conversations. And I learned
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: that sometimes, like I think my dad side of me
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: comes out probably too. So I like that's why Chuck
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: is does a phenomenal job for us.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: Chuck Lily, I mean he is.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: I think he is was a home run higher by
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: Coach Rodriguez, and uh has done a great job for
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: us in that aspect.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: But so agent calls, Brad calls Chuck and he says,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: I got an old lineman and it's gonna cost you.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: I need I need to fifty to start.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: The No, no, no, I'm just saying I need two fifty
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: to stay and Chuck does the filtering, and he'll just say, hey,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: if you're interested, there's an offensive lineman, and you guys
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: just kind of filter from there. Then you take a
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: look got his tape, and you say, okay, let's talk
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: or not talk.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: Not really that does. Those conversations don't ever get to me.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: That's Chuck and the head coach. What we do is
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: we evaluate everybody in the portal. So actually we don't.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: We don't deal with that. We say, this is who
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: we like, and then we inquire with that kid. And
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: then once he says, hey, can you speak to my representation,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: then we said, all right, give us the number.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: Chuck, here you go, buddy, I gotcha.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: You know, so don't we don't field, Yeah, get pick
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: and choose, and then we then I take the plate
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: and I passed it over there.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: I said, buddy, you got it, you.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: Know on that, and then we get them on a
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: visit and then we we The best thing about how
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: we said, coach got it is like separation between church
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: and state.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 4: All right, we're the church, we're football. The state. They
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: can handle that.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, your dad when we had your dad on
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: when he decided not to come here and stay at
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville State. I mean he was. He was quite out and.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: He said, dude, he was pretty self aware.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: He said, I'm seventy eight, now is he I'm seventy eight,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: he goes, and I'll never wi your kid is gonna
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: make more money than me. And you can do that
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: at Jacksonville State. Don't necessarily know if you could do
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: that at the power four level consistently. So, I mean,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: at least like he knows. I mean, you got to
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: be in your comfort zone to adjust or not adjust
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: to this.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, when this whole thing happened, you know,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: he was you know, it's it's been a thing obviously,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: because my mom's like every time, it's like.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: Oh man, this is great.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: My mom's like, oh okay, I mean we're here still,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: you know. And she loves down there too. Don't get
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: me wrong, but she kind of wishes. But she's able
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: to be around Clinton, the baby and Kaal and all them,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: and and so it's one of those things where you know,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: Dad is at the point of his career. Like I
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: told him, I said, because he was actually talking to
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: me like, hey, I like it's this and it's that
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: I just worry about this, I say, Dad, I honestly
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: told him, I don't care. I don't give two craps. Dude,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: whatever you want to do do, you've earned the right
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: in your Like I wish you would just be granddad
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: and just be granddad, you know what I mean. Uh,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: but he's not built that way. He's Granddad, but he's
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: built to work. That's how he That's how he is,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: and so.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 4: You better start crawling soon.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, Like, it's one of those things where
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: it's one of those things where you know, I told him,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: I don't care what you do.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 4: Just you do what you want to do. You've earned that.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: Like, this isn't about me, This isn't about Clint Chance,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: anybody mom. This is about well, we have mom's part
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: of it. I shouldn't say that mom is one part
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: of it. But this is about what you want to
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: do at this phase in your life and whatever you
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: want to do, do it.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: It's not like he's one NASS championship. He's done all
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: these things. He's been like, it ain't about money, it
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: ain't about all those things. He just wants to He's like,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: I want to coach guys, and I don't want to
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: deal with all this stuff. And what I will say
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: with us, there is a little bit of that stuff,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: but you know, we can filter it out. It's really
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: you're still coaching here. It's not like it doesn't get
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: everyone gets this.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: Bad rap about today's world, you know, the way we're
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: set up.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: I'll have to deal with it. Chuck deals with all
• 1:10:56
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  Speaker 3: It's ball, it's they want to be coached, they want
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  Speaker 3: he likes that life where it's a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: People understanding probably better down there. Yeah, they talk like.
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  Speaker 4: I remember everybody. When he came up here, he'd be
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  Speaker 3: But but he's uh, you know, he only he only
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  Speaker 4: You know, it'sle he went, I.
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  Speaker 4: He said, you.
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  Speaker 4: Sob to kiss my rear in what I don't want
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: So they're gonna be They're going to be any good.
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  Speaker 4: You know, who knows nowadays with anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Hard they get did they get hit by the portal hard?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 3: I think you know everybody, I think everyone does. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I really there's very few teams that can retain everybody.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I haven't really talked to him about all
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  Speaker 4: How old are your kids now? Not eleven? Eleven, eight
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  Speaker 4: To play rules.
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  Speaker 3: You get a little bit, you get a lot of
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  Speaker 3: a little bit and coach them up. And so I
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