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Ep. 44 - Fishing, Cats, and Ball with RJ Godfrey · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Beyond the Pall.
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  Speaker 1: Today we have six seven forward our Ji Godfree, where
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  Speaker 1: we talk about him transferring back to Clemson, about his
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  Speaker 1: cat Derek, and fishing.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go beyond the Fall our j Welcome to be
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  Speaker 2: on the Paw. We're so happy to have you here. Firstly,
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  Speaker 2: welcome back to Clemson.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks thanks for.
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  Speaker 2: Having me, of course.
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  Speaker 4: So how's it been back to Clemson.
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  Speaker 3: It's been uh, like I just said, it's been awesome
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  Speaker 3: times with flying The people here are so nice. Uh
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  Speaker 3: staff they moving back with open arms, goes Bronell. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's just been you know, the same guy every day,
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  Speaker 3: which I enjoy. And uh, I'm just glad to be back.
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  Speaker 2: So you transferred from Clemson to Georgia, now back to Clemson.
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  Speaker 2: Can you meet? Can you kind of walk me through
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  Speaker 2: like your thinking behind all of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So initially when I first left Clemson, it was
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  Speaker 3: a hard decision, just you know, the eight run and
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  Speaker 3: then so I had a lot of stuff, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different you know, factors that happened. I don't even remember,
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  Speaker 3: it was so long ago, but decided to make the
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  Speaker 3: transition to Georgia. Georgia was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how was your time there?
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  Speaker 5: It was?
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  Speaker 3: It was It was pretty cool. It was different. You know,
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  Speaker 3: every school as its pros and cons, right, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we we had a pretty good season. We made the
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  Speaker 3: tournament for the first time in twelve years for that
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  Speaker 3: Georgia team. I mean, I enjoyed meeting some of those
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  Speaker 3: guys and uh, definitely some of the people off the
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  Speaker 3: court there. But you know, I don't think I, you know,
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  Speaker 3: fit there just as a culture. Culture wise, I think
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  Speaker 3: just what goes on here and the people here. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: like Barnello said Media Day the other day that it's
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  Speaker 3: just something in these hills that you know, makes you
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  Speaker 3: want to love this place. And I think just after
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  Speaker 3: that first workout, I just knew I had a you know,
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  Speaker 3: place for Clemson in my heart.
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  Speaker 2: And the first workout at Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it was nothing against Georgia was yeah, man.
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  Speaker 4: Like you were meant to be here.
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  Speaker 3: And then uh, I kind of knew right after the
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  Speaker 3: last game, like, yeah, I got I mean, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: staying here. And when I find out right when I
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  Speaker 3: hit the portal, Barnell Lucas McKay's my first call, and
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  Speaker 3: then Barnell called me. About fifteen minutes later, I knew that, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I need to be back. So but it's been fun
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  Speaker 3: the people, like, it's really the student body that's really
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  Speaker 3: made it awesome. Like I'm going to class and they're like,
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  Speaker 3: oh shit, you welcome back and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Do they come up to you and say that, actually.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But I mean this city is just awesome. He's
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  Speaker 3: full of sweet people who really care about the sports
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  Speaker 3: here and then that student athlete. So this place is No,
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  Speaker 3: it's not like any other I.
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  Speaker 5: Feel like it's I don't really know other student athletes
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  Speaker 5: that I've transferred and then come back to their original place.
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  Speaker 5: And I think it's cool because everyone's excited to have
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  Speaker 5: you back. And I know, even this summer walking through
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  Speaker 5: Neary and oh there's our j and it just felt
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  Speaker 5: like you had never really been gone. You know, like
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  Speaker 5: wait a second, he was gone a year. And I
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  Speaker 5: don't know if you felt that in other places too,
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  Speaker 5: but it just seems like you were meant to be
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  Speaker 5: here and everyone's excited to have you back and you
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  Speaker 5: weren't gone that long.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt for me, it felt like an eternity.
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  Speaker 3: But when I when I first came back here on
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  Speaker 3: my like my visit, I was a NEARI talking to
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  Speaker 3: jenn and Allison for like an hour thirty minutes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it just it just felt good again. And then went
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  Speaker 3: down to Nary and then I went down to what's
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  Speaker 3: it called went over there at a jersey with Brad
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  Speaker 3: and stuff, and I was talking just all of them,
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  Speaker 3: and it just felt good to talk to Donna again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just like it's just like a whole It's like the
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  Speaker 3: family feel is real here. So I mean, I just
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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  Speaker 5: Where's the first place that you went? Not Clemson campus,
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  Speaker 5: but like in the community somewhere. Where's the first place
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  Speaker 5: that she went that you were back?
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  Speaker 3: Sports pub? I missed the Chicken banking offredo, so I
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  Speaker 3: actually didn't come. I didn't come back a couple of
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  Speaker 3: times last year, and when I was driving up from Athens,
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  Speaker 3: I just made my door dash pick up order to
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  Speaker 3: sports pubs. I was in and out there in the year.
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  Speaker 2: So you came back to Clemson just to go to
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  Speaker 2: Charleston Sports pub?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Not just for that. I hung out with some of
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  Speaker 3: the boys. Uh Ian, me and him were real close.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously Wiggins when he was here he was my best friend,
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  Speaker 3: and obviously deal I had to see them during the year.
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  Speaker 3: They they're not my best friend, so I couldn't go,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a whole year without physically seeing them. I
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  Speaker 3: came back a couple of the summer. We had a
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  Speaker 3: couple off days. You drop up here, just say what's
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  Speaker 3: up and hang out with the guys and Ason Dallas
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  Speaker 3: and I mean, those are something. I mean the trip,
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  Speaker 3: the trip was kind of it was an easy trip,
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  Speaker 3: so but just hanging out them for a couple of
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  Speaker 3: hours kind of made my day.
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  Speaker 4: So that's awesome. How's it been.
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  Speaker 5: You're back with your friends, Like, you live in the
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  Speaker 5: same place now with Dylan and Ian obviously on.
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  Speaker 4: A different team, but have you still been able to
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  Speaker 4: hang out with him?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? So I actually moved into Ian's old spot and
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  Speaker 3: he lives right down the all from us, so I
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  Speaker 3: go say what's up to him every now and then.
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  Speaker 3: He tells me, you know, all these cool football stories
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  Speaker 3: and stuff. But it's been fun. Me and Dial we
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  Speaker 3: don't live together. I live with one of the managers,
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  Speaker 3: but me and Dial we don't live together, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: at his house almost every day at rough Housing, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're still kids, so I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 3: spend as much time with him as possible for our
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  Speaker 3: senior year. But the team has been awesome. The transfers
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  Speaker 3: are really cool. I think all of them are real funny.
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  Speaker 3: We have a real funny and enjoyable group who like
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  Speaker 3: each other. Already are starting to jail every day, So
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  Speaker 3: I think this year is gonna be It's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: fun for us.
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  Speaker 1: Because you guys have a lot of new people. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: what's the atmosphere, like, you know in the locker room.
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  Speaker 3: It's different. It's different. We have six new freshmen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, being old. I mean, I guess they
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  Speaker 3: some of them call me, but just being the older
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  Speaker 3: guy and the most experienced guy on the team now,
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  Speaker 3: it's just, uh, it's it's it's a good but it's
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  Speaker 3: a weird feeling just seeing people younger than you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just crack jokes and talk about stuff that you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're kind of too old for a little bit. So
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  Speaker 3: it's been awesome. We have six new freshmen and the
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  Speaker 3: guys Trent Blake, Chase has been awesome, Zach Foster, those
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  Speaker 3: guys are I mean, I can talk to anybody, So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean they they always ask me questions and we
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  Speaker 3: go fishing together, we go swimming together at the lake
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  Speaker 3: during the summer, and then the transfers, you know with
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  Speaker 3: Jake Budda Johnson, Nick Jess and and uh Cardiff Well,
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  Speaker 3: and I think I got everybody, Hope I didn't leave
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  Speaker 3: anybody out. Those guys are they're all they're all different,
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  Speaker 3: they're all different, and uh, you know they're they're very
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  Speaker 3: open to do different stuff. Like you know, we were
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  Speaker 3: fishing all summer and then they went to a little
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  Speaker 3: concert that couldn't make it. But they love doing new
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  Speaker 3: stuff in and around Clemson, which is I think is
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  Speaker 3: a testament to the guys who we recruit.
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  Speaker 2: You guys basically have like a whole new team. Like
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  Speaker 2: how is it gelling together? Already?
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  Speaker 3: I think the last actually two or three weeks, we've
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  Speaker 3: done way way better. Some days in the summer it
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  Speaker 3: was like, man, do we even other trailer? And then
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  Speaker 3: the next day we turn around it's like, man, we've
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  Speaker 3: been playing together for five years, so it's been it
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  Speaker 3: was up and down at first, but now we're starting
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  Speaker 3: to get a feel of each other's strength and you know,
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  Speaker 3: a feel of what kind of what coach Barnell expects
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  Speaker 3: of us. So I think we're we're on the we're
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  Speaker 3: on the increase right now.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's pretty unique too, because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like with a lot of like younger players or like
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  Speaker 1: you know, you haven't played for a long time, like
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  Speaker 1: it takes a long time to like find those connections
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  Speaker 1: and work together.
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  Speaker 4: So like that's good to hear that you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Are Yeah, and it's a that's the second year for
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  Speaker 3: me because at Georgia they had a complete roster turnover.
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  Speaker 3: So last year it was even it was on a
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  Speaker 3: higher level because we had there was only one one
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  Speaker 3: person back from Georgia last year. So having at least
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  Speaker 3: you know, as Dallas Dial and me who are familiar
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  Speaker 3: with the system kind of helps team out a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of have a little bit of that culture
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  Speaker 3: who came back and they you know, kind of know
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  Speaker 3: the ropes. So we college basketball even like with y'all too,
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  Speaker 3: Like the transfer portal was just every team is gonna
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  Speaker 3: have hughes turnover every year or so I think that's
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  Speaker 3: just something that's gonna, you know, you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: get used to in every sport, like every coach and
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  Speaker 3: every you know, ad is gonna have to get used
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  Speaker 3: to mm.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to us a little bit about your relationship with
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  Speaker 2: coach Bronow.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, me and close relationship. It's definitely grown a
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  Speaker 3: lot each year, especially this year, We've been more, we've
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  Speaker 3: been talking more, We've been more open about different stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I think, just as I'm mature, the more I started
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  Speaker 3: to understand and really see how beneficial his stuff is.
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  Speaker 3: I think a media day I said his philosophy not
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  Speaker 3: only helps me on the court, but off the court too.
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  Speaker 3: Just just the model of grit and perseverance as something
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  Speaker 3: that he he preaches. And Coach Bright now, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: y'all don't see like the you know, the hard nos
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  Speaker 3: coach right now, and that's the that's my favorite Bright now,
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  Speaker 3: the one who's I mean, he pushes you to another
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  Speaker 3: level and he makes you so mentally tough, like I
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  Speaker 3: can't even like, I can't really explain it because it's
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  Speaker 3: like it's been normalized in my life now compared to
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  Speaker 3: where I was. So but now he's a he's a
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  Speaker 3: cool he's easy to talk to guy, he's funny, but
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  Speaker 3: but but he gets you better. He gets you better.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you might not like it because he's super honest.
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  Speaker 3: He's always gonna tell the truth like he's no matter
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  Speaker 3: if you like it or not, which I appreciate most
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  Speaker 3: about Brownell. But he's definitely gonna get you better in
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  Speaker 3: every aspect.
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  Speaker 5: Did you have a moment this summer being coached by
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  Speaker 5: brown now that you're like.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, we're back.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I forgot what he said though. He said
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  Speaker 3: something about makes a lot of sneaky jokes, saying when
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  Speaker 3: he's you know, yelling at you. He said something about
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  Speaker 3: I forgot, But yeah, there was there was a It
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  Speaker 3: was probably in May. I forgot that. Uh we call
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  Speaker 3: it tag. It's like our little box out thing. And
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  Speaker 3: you know he got on me a little bit and
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  Speaker 3: you know I smiled and I was like, yes, like
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  Speaker 3: it's back. But yeah, we had a couple of moments
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  Speaker 3: like that. He still gets on us every day. So
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  Speaker 3: now it's just like, you know, it's part of it.
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  Speaker 2: What was that conversation with him, like when you first
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  Speaker 2: told him you wanted to he wanted to leave.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it was terry. It was super emotional. Some tears
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  Speaker 3: were said. I don't like looking back on it, like
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  Speaker 3: the other day, I was eating that earpie by myself
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  Speaker 3: and I was thinking about it. I just had my
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  Speaker 3: eyes over my head, like what was I du But
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  Speaker 3: we had actually two conversations. Both of them are super
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  Speaker 3: They're super long, super hard, and uh, I don't even
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  Speaker 3: like I tried to wipe some of it out of
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  Speaker 3: my head. It was that bad. But I just remember
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  Speaker 3: I was at the gym doing some homework and I
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  Speaker 3: went been to talk to him, tell him I'm transferring,
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  Speaker 3: and it was like the energy shifting the room and
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  Speaker 3: something that I haven't felt many times in my life.
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  Speaker 3: And then just walking out, like walking out of the
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  Speaker 3: uh the office sometimes like when you get something over with,
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  Speaker 3: you feel relieved. But I walked out and I was like, man, like,
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  Speaker 3: I feel even worse. And when I went back I
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  Speaker 3: used to live at the pier. I was chilling outside.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can go outside here. I was sitting
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: on my porch and I was just like, man, I
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  Speaker 3: don't feel any better about this decision. And then the
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  Speaker 3: next morning I made the decision to enter the portal.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, I thought I feel better, but I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: So that was definitely a rough two days. Uh, just
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  Speaker 3: a you know decision making. But now I look back
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  Speaker 3: on it, I'm just good. I mean maybe if I
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  Speaker 3: didn't do that, I probably wouldn't be here right now.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm grateful for it and I'm glad I just
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  Speaker 3: got it over with.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like the conversation when he called you
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  Speaker 1: when you were in the portal, like coming out of
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  Speaker 1: it was awesome?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, there we.
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  Speaker 3: Go, complete opposite. I remember ex actually where I was.
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  Speaker 3: It was raining real hard. I was on my porch
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  Speaker 3: too at Costly, and uh, he called me. I never
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  Speaker 3: heard him so excited I I side of winning that
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  Speaker 3: game we beat Arizona. I've never heard him more anxiety, like, oh, Jane,
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  Speaker 3: we had. We had like a thirty minute conversation, just
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of storytelling, a bunch of jokes, and but
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  Speaker 3: a ton of love too, like I think, just love
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  Speaker 3: for me and love for him. It was just it
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  Speaker 3: was an awesome call. And I mean I was after that, Car,
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  Speaker 3: I was smiling the rest of the day. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: just gratefully giving me a chance to come back and
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  Speaker 3: play and playing the Orange and Pro Bowl again.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. Can you explain? I see you on Instagram
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you all carrying tires and moving cars and all that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming this is during your summer workouts. What is
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  Speaker 2: that about?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think it starts in July. So every
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  Speaker 3: Friday in July week being called strong Man and it's
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  Speaker 3: an obstacle course and you're supposed to so the winner,
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  Speaker 3: whoever has the fast time wins the thing, and it's
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  Speaker 3: average by week.
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  Speaker 2: So they're like a prize at the end.
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  Speaker 4: It's like a team thing, like you guys are in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so the whole team does it. No, No, it's individual,
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  Speaker 3: but the whole team does it. Like you have a first,
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  Speaker 3: second group and it's like an obstacle course. First you
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  Speaker 3: start with you know, flipping tires and you gotta you know,
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  Speaker 3: the yolk carry and then pull the ropes and then
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  Speaker 3: push the truck at the end. But each week they
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  Speaker 3: ad they had a different obstacle and the winner gets
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  Speaker 3: the fast time is the winner. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's to coach boy another thing. He's been
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  Speaker 3: doing it, I think every year as a head coach.
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  Speaker 3: And it's definitely it's more mental than physical. It's just
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  Speaker 3: about training your mind to push the diversity and push
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  Speaker 3: do you know fatigue and you know I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: enjoy it. I know a lot of guys probably don't
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  Speaker 3: enjoy it, but it's just been awesome to go through
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  Speaker 3: it every year, seeing guys like hundred Tyson on my
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  Speaker 3: first year, PJ won my second year, and it was
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  Speaker 3: real competitive that year. Ian didn't go that year he
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  Speaker 3: had hurt his hand. But every year it's just it's
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  Speaker 3: just so competitive. Like I think me and Nick Davison
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  Speaker 3: type for first his year, he won the first two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: I won the last two weeks. So it's also just
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  Speaker 3: a you know, like I said, like a competitive game too,
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  Speaker 3: which you know in the summer you're not going against anybody,
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  Speaker 3: So I think that allows you to, you know, have
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  Speaker 3: that competitive off the court, which is good.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's such like mind over matter and
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  Speaker 2: makes you so mentally tough, because who in the right
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  Speaker 2: mind thinks like I'm going to push a car today,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I would never think to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the worst thing of like not I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I enjoyed waking up early, but right like some of
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  Speaker 3: the guys are like, man, we gotta do this at
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  Speaker 3: six thirty in the morning. So I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: doing hard things is one thing coach by now allows
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  Speaker 3: us to do like we're waking up like this morning,
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  Speaker 3: we had seven eight in practice, so we're up at
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  Speaker 3: five thirty. I think just doing the hard things now
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  Speaker 3: is going to allow us when the season comes, just
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  Speaker 3: when hard things come, we're gonna be used to it so.
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  Speaker 2: And you'll learn how to handle hard things better.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's something cool about the summers too here,
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  Speaker 1: Like I know, like we're here working hard. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are too, but I feel like it's like
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  Speaker 1: just the grind. Like the summers is when you're like
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  Speaker 1: grinding and it's like so hard, and it's just cool
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  Speaker 1: to see you guys working, you know, like facing the
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  Speaker 1: hard now so that when you get into season, it's like, Okay,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: we've done this, we've been here before.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah. The summer is my favorite. It's actually my favorite
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: part of the year, just because you do hard stuff
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: twice a day and then the rest of the day
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: you can chill, relaxed, go to the lake, get on
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: the boat, and then you're back to it the next day.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: So I'm a huge fan of the summer, and I
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: feel like that's the it's a key piece, especially as
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: a as a as a young athlete. You come in
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: instead of throwing you right to the fire and fall,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: you get a you know, kind of feel of what
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: to expect, and then you get into the fire and
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: you're already ready to do your thing.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: So it's also like a bonding experience with your teammates
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: as well, like you're doing such hard things, but you're
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: doing it together.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, do y'all have y'all y'all go in the summer
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: for gymnastics.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: No, we start in August. A lot of people come
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: back earlier just to get a handle on things and
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: stuff like that, but our preseason starts in September. Nice,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: so we're in the hard things now.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Nice. It already starting twenty hour weeks.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, started September, early September, I think.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: But it's been good. It's been new with we have
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: a new coaching staff this year, so it's been a
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: little bit difficult, like me being a sixth year having
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: to relearn a lot of things has been interesting, but
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: it's been good so far. And that's one thing that
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: they say too, is like you'll learn to let handle
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: hard better. Yeah, And so that's one thing that's been
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: sticking with me because it's definitely not easy, going to
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: practice every single day three and a half hours a day,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: then going waits and handling everything, but you'll learn how
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: to handle it and it gets better and so once
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: season hits, it's just autopilot.
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  Speaker 4: Now back to the show.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Being a former player, being with teammates or people asking
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: you know, what do you miss? And it's the summer,
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: like you're just basketball and then fun. But there's just
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: something about like being pushed to that brink of like
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: everything hurts. I think I'm blacking out from the workout,
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: but we did it, and you know what, I'll do
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: it again tomorrow. But then the fun that comes after
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: when all the other students are gone from campus and
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: it's just you and other student athletes. Like, it's so
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: fun to hear you all talk about it, because that's
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: my favorite part when I was an athlete as well.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Was just like summertime working out everything. Yeahs, you're so tired.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: You really get to enjoy closer for it it is
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: so you get to go to these I mean, you
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: see the city's empty, you get it. You know there's
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: no line in jo potles, no line to play, and
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: then you just see the city at night when it's
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: calm and peaceful. That's like, that's what I enjoy.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I think it'll be nice during fall break too. Oh yeah,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: only only the sports are HiT's already.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I feel like so c park to the Yeah, fall
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: and winter break, winter break. I don't know if you're
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: out here during winter.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Break, but we get like five days off, five days
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the first through the twenty sex. Oh we're here, what
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: do you do?
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Just get off?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Hopefully we get at least three or four days this
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: year typically it's about three. We get Christmas the day
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: before Christmas christ Eve. I'd be back Christmas night typically, but.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Christmas night, like.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: That night or the twenty seventh morning, and then we
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: probably have practice twenty seven because we I mean we
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: ramp up acc play like January games.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's insane, but.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: You get used to it, like now, like a too,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: like like one one off day is enough for me.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I don't live far, but I know for other guys
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: it's different.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: But you know, you get used to it, though, do
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: you get So what are you doing on and off day?
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: This time of the year, I'm still in the gym.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Like yesterday, I got like yester, it was off day,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: a shot, did some school work, got a nice tub,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: went home and played some Fortnite after that. So off
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: days are pretty chill. But I don't. I don't. I'm
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: not one of those guys who just like I can't
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: do anything, Like I just lay in bed all day.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: But I gotta be active on my off days.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Here, you're like really into Fortnite.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've been. When I was younger, I was
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: really bad. But as I got older, you know, it's
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: been I think one thing that bonded our lea eighteen
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: was Fortnite, Like me and Jack Clark, PJ will hop
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: on a little bit Andrela, tiff Ian and Josh. We
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: used to get on Fortnite creative and just play against
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: each other and then we go in there and like
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Joe Girard's making jokes and stuff about you know, it's
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: called it's more called go Go. Did you guys load up?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: And you it's like a free for all and we
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: would just play, like some days we play it. During
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: winter break, we played it for like four hours one
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: day and we were having a blast.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: You guys can talk to each other.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: To each other. It got competitive, But Fortnite's a bonding
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: thing for me. I don't just play Fortnite just to
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: play it. I mean I don't ever play alone, play
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: either with my brother, play with my teammates, and it's
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: just like you know, it's a team where things a
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: bonding thing. So I think I'm finding the beauty out
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: of that is it just helps me in life to
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: just keep up with people that I don't see every
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: day and just get to know people more than I
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: do see every day. So I think fortnitees goded that.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: During like a typical practice, what are you guys doing
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: and on your off day, why do you go and shoot?
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: More Like what's the point of that to the non basketball.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: So a typical practice, it varies, like some days we
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: kind of like our stuff. It's kind of ran like
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: a football, you know. We have off of the day
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: defensive days. Some days's fifty to fifty.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: And you're a forward, so you're on offense.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, but basketball defense. Yeah, basketball you play both up
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: and down. So we typically practice for about two and
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: a half hours.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's something I should know, right, it's okay,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: looking at me like, i't know.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Okay, he does play offense.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, both offensive defense and uh like practices this time
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: of year, it's less about like certain player development rather
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: than the summer. It's more about like getting schemes down
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: and how we want to guard a ball screen or
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: are certain plays. So you're not getting as much individual
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: shots and practice as you are during the summer. So
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: those off days are used to you know, you got
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: to get up more shots to work on your individual game, gotcha.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: But you can do that before practice, after practice, you
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: can get I typically shoot every day before practice and
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: after practice.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: And this is like extra work that not in your
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: allotted practice time.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Right, Yes, everything is, gotcha, Okay, typically have like waits
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: in the morning practice at two thirty Like today we
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: had practice weights. We have practice later. So you got
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: two days yeah, well technically three kind of weights, but
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: two days, yeah, two days. You gotta find room in
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: there that gets your you know, your player development, like
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: your self development. So as you get you know, like
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I said, when you get older, you got to you
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: stortady to make your own schedule and get used to it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: So it's I mean, it's been it's been part of
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: my habit for a long time.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I didn't know that there was so much
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: extra work that went along with it. Well, that you
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: guys have to do.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, to be good, especially if you want to be
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: a good player. I think coach Barnell one of his
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: things this year is going to end then some. So
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: it's adding to what we already are giving you and
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: you got to add that and then some if you
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: want to be you know, a really good player. And
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I have a good season.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: The chart coaches preached too, like you have so many
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: resources here too, like all the new buildings that Compson
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: has and like the arc and all the stuff, like
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: you have literally all of it, like at your fingers,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: like you could just literally I don't know, like it's
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: just such good resources, like you have to you have
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: to use it to be good.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: I think the ARC is something that I took advantage of.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the first time you saw it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: They opened like right when we got back from LA
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: my sophomore year. So I went once or twice, okay,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: but ever since i've been back, I've been. I've been
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: that thing so much.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: What's your favorite?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I like the the theragum massage, and then I used
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to like before I left, I was in the little
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: air bag, you know, the thing in the back, the
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: air massage like.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Water massage things, the hydro massage.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah I didn't. I didn't I like that at first,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: but I got another damn. Like I don't remember it being.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Like sometimes it feels like itchy.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had my pants and I was into my pants,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: and then I like the uh it's called the cocoon. Yeah,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: solid one, and I'm cold. I get in there so.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Dry.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: That's my favorite.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Is that the one you have to get you either
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: take a shower in it before you go. That's the
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: wet was the wet one?
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the dry one.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: You're just like in this bubble like raises you up
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and you're just like, oh, you're on the table right.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that one's cool, Like relaxes all your muscles.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: It feels like you're in like a water bed or something. Yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: it's weird, but it's cool.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: I need to hear more about fishing.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my thing. I've been out the game for
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: about for four weeks. I just broke my favorite ride.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: You gotta get a new one. I was goin to
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: go today at uh it's Walmarts. I was fishing my
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: brother tomorrow. But fishing is like my second love. Uh.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: My dad had me growing up fishing, sketching, you know,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: blue gill and trout, growing up in my neighborhood pond.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: But I think just after my sophomore year, I never
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: utilized like heartwell to what it was. I was like,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: you know what, I'm go fishing one day and uh,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: that's a man named Dean Cox. Y'all know who he is.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: But he wears the he comes to y'all game sometimes
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: he wears the orange cowboy hat, big orange. Yeah. Yeah,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: never seen him. He beat the football games. He'd be
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: at y'all game sometimes too, maybe, But he takes he
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: takes us out a lot of the guys like go
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: fishing with him a lot. And then obviously I'm a
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: pretty good fisher by myself, so clubs and I have
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: some good ponds around here. I pull off on the
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: side of the road and walk about a half a
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: mile to find a good fishing location, and you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: do my thing for a couple of hours, especially in
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: the summer when no one's here. There's no trafficing and
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: there's no people you know, fishing alongside you, So it's
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: pretty easy to find good spots here.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Do you like to fish with your teammates or by yourself?
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: The pros and cons to both.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: There's pros and cons to both. When you have a
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: teammate that knows how to fish, it's easier because you're
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: not always detangling their or you're not telling them where
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: to cast or to be to be patient. So having
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: a teammate that knows how to fish is definitely is
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: so much easier because you can cover so much water faster.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: But I enjoyed. I mean, if anybody get like dyl
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: he never he never went fishing. I took him out
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: this summer, got him as first fish. He was pretty
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: good at it, So that was a pretty good moment.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Our whole team. Most of our team fishes, like we
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: have guys like Trent and Jake who grew up kind
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: of fishing, so I didn't have to tell them much.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: But I enjoy going by myself though, Like if I
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: had to choose, I probably go by myself. But it
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: kind of sucks sometimes when you have a giant fish
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: like the other day actually during our break, I caught
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: a giant, like a massive bass behind Uh.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Is this what broke your rod?
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: No? I brought the dock side the other days, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: then I had a giant fish. I was out there
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: behind Sunnyside and my phone was on one percent, and
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I want to go pull the fish out. I want
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: to go take a picture of the fish. I got
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: one picture of the fish and then Uh, phone ran dead.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: No one could take a photo from me. But it's
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: pros and cons to it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Like you said, so, can everybody on your team take
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: a fish off the hook?
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: No? No, there's only there's a small percentage that can.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: There's probably we went fishing this summer together. We do
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: a little fishing foundation thing. I think only about two
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: people can, not including me probably, I probably say Jake.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I think Jake Can and maybe maybe Nick. But half
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: the guys they didn't want to touch a fish. Yeah,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: they didn't want to. It's like me, I'm like, touch
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: the fish. It's not going to hurt you.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: So, so you said fishing was your second second love,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: your first love, we're assuming is your cat, yes, Derek.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Well, actually, if it goes by that, I was fishing
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: for Derek, but Derek is like, Derek's one for me.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Can you explain why the name Derek to us?
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: So?
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I have an uncle. His name is Derek, Derek Miller,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: But when I saw Derek, I didn't think of my
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: uncle Derek. I just thought he was like a Derek.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: The first time I seen Derek so much, his name
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: him Derek. But I do have an uncle named Derek's.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I love him to death. He's the one of the
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: most funny guys I've ever ran across. He coaches football
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: at Lowndes County in Georgia. Uh, he's a real good coach.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: So I wouldn't say I named him after my uncle.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: But I think Derek like that. You know, you look
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: at Derek and you're like, yeah, that's a Derek.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Subconsciously, what type of cat do you.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Have, uh, that's him.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Right there, which one the one behind the.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Green and white one. So his story is actually kind
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: of crazy. So our old g a Joel dance, he
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: got a call from somebody. Sorry I messed out the
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: part we actually so at the period, there's a ton
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: of stray cats. And one night me and Deal were
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: sitting on the porch just looking out, and then there
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: was a black cat that came across us and then
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: we just there was eating a taco and I broke
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: the tore the taco and I threw that the.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Cat took out of his hand.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, and we're gonna feed that cat, and that cat
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: came up started eating the taco. And then the next
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: day she came back and we named her Octavia, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Octavia became like the household name. Like Ian would come
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: over and play with Octavia. And then she started sleeping
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: with this.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: In the apartment.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Then yeah, so I gave her a bath, and you know, uh,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: you know, she lived with us for like three or
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: four days or actually it was longer. That's probably like
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: two weeks. And then one day, this is like late August,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: this giant storm hit and she was outside because we
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: just let her out during the day. She come back
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: at night and she didn't well. We saw her that
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: morning and a giant storm hit during the day during practice.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I hope I'll tell you it's okay.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: It's like it was really bad, like it was real bad.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: And we came back after practice. We were on the
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: porch waiting there to come back. She never came back.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: And then uh, like two weeks later, Joe got a
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: call because everyone was like, man like Otavia, she paved
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: the way like she we needed we need a cat.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: So Joe Dan's got a call and was like, hey,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: we found a box of kittens on the side of
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the road and the mom like it's still with them.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Do you'all want one of the kittens. I was like yeah,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: I'll take one of the kittens. And they're like all right,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: you'll be able to get the cats, you know, in
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: three weeks when they're mature, like when they you know,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: get to age where they can live without their mom.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: So I was in a lyft the day are supposed
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: to get Derek. I was in a lift and Joe came.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: He's like, I got some bad news. All the cats
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: ran away, every single one of them, they're gone. I
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: was like, oh man. So the whole day I went
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: through practice, I was sad and I went so this
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: is the crazy name. I went to bed that night
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: and before I like I was praying. I was like, Lord,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: please let one of those cats, like because I had
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Derek pick that. I was like, Lord, please let Derek
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: come back. So the next they were at lyft and
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Joel comes up to me. He's like, bro, the crazy
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: thing happened. All uh, you know how the cat's run away.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Two of them came back and one of them is Derek.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Let's go. That was That was one of the best moments.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: I started jumping around like yeah, now I got Derek
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: that next day and after that it's just been history.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: You and Derek is a true sign.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Have you had cats before?
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a cat named Kylen. My mom uh
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: she loved cats, so we always grew up with a cat.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: So I was already I already knew how to take
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: care of one. And Derek is the easiest cat. Like,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: you don't have to do anything for Derek, just showing
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: the litter. He's gonna do his thing. Let him out
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: during the day, he'll come back at night. He's an outside,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: outdoor cat. Yeah, he hates being inside, like if he
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: goes inside, he's gonna But he always comes home, always
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: comes back, or if he doesn't, you can trust that
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: he will.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: But have there been nights where he hasn't come back?
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Uh No, But there's the nights where like he will
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: be out till like two am and then be like,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: all right, let me in, but I haven't.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Does he like scratch out the door.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: And he just me out and let him in. But
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Derek's like he's chill, he has no attitude problems, like
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: super nice. He watches TV, he plays fetch like he's
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: more than Like if you if you spent an hour
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: with Derek, you would immediately fall in love with there.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: I think everyone who ever came across Derek, that's like
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: he always rubs off on him, like literally, like I'm
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: not kidding like that, everyone who's ever come to our
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: house or seeing them. We have a lot of people
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: over sometimes and like, oh Derek, and they just every
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: time I see him ask about him and ask him
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: to see him again. So, but you know, he's the goat.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: So I assume getting a dog is like out of
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: the question.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: I probably won't get a dog until I have kids.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: I think dogs a little bit too much. Like I
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: see people at night, I'm going to your poet walking
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: our dogs, and our dogs just off the leash like Derek.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't have to. I ain't have to
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: train Derek to act a certain way. He's just Derek's
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: just himself. So yeah, dog, you gotta, you know, tell
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: him to sid and learn, tell him how to get
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: potty trained and not attack other people and dogs. I
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: think that's just too much a little bit. That's the
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: That's why I'm a cat guy now. So my brother
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: actually has two cats now, uh, because of Derek. His
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: cat's name is John John and Leroy Buffington. So you
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: know we're we're a cat family now for sure.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: I was like never a cat person.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: And one of my roommates got a cat, and then
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: we're like, oh, he needs a friend.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: So then I got Cash. Huh.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: So then I got one like six months later, and
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: now I'm like in love with her, like she's.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: The last ever what's your cat's name? Frankie, Franky Frankie
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: and Cash, But she.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Like doesn't like outside, Like I'll try to open the
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: door and I'm like try like see like I want
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: to see actually run.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Away every cat.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: I think Cash and Derek are around the same age. Yeah,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: I got I got Derek uh a little bit September
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: August area and then they end up getting cashed a
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: little bit later. So I used to come over. Yeah,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: me and Moore used to have me come over and
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: play with Cash, make sure he's all good. So, yeah,
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Cass is a good cat. Yeah I got, I gotta,
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: I gotta check out on Cash.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah for sure. Well cat family, but it's like a
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: good like college.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Animal, especially during dogs are hard with your schedule as
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: like an athlete. I don't know how anyone would take
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: care of the dog like it would be.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. And then I think one of one of
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: our teammates got a cat to Dallas and Ace. They
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: got a cat and a milchme, so he lived down
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: the hall for me. I'll do, you know, weekly little
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: checkouts on milcomel. So it's just it's so easy with
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: your schedule because you're gone most of the day and
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: they don't need to be smothered in love. So you
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: come back and then waiting on you. So, I mean,
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know what other animal I would get in
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: college besides a cat if I was just if I
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: wanted the animal.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: So, okay, So you're from Atlanta, right.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: I'm from Swannee. That's like our north of.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Atlanta, north of Atlanta. Tell me how like growing up
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: in Atlanta? Kind of okay? Hold on, yeah, do you
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: want to go? Maybe let's talk.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: About like your background in basketball, how did you get involved?
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: It's a it's a different city, like it's a metropolitan
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: outside of Atlanta. It's kind of big. We have a
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: lot of big time people, especially for football, will come
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: out of Atlanta. We have a lot of resources. I
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: don't know if you guys know Barrett Carter who played
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: here a couple of years from Swanne. We went to
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: the same high school. We grew up together. And uh,
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: I think it's just it's got a little bit like
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: liveson a little bit, like everyone knows everybody and it's
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: a small town phil But it's just it's an awesome
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: city to live in. A very uh, I would say,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: like they make the citizens get involved. There's a lot
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: of like the Swanee Fast you have different venues like
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Swane Town Center that allows people to come together and connect.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: So you know, everyone's the family, and especially in the
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: North because Swany's like broken up into four different like sections.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: In the section that we're in, it's like our own
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: It's like cities inside of Swanne. Swaney's kind of big.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Everyone is so passionate and you know, lovey dovey on
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: each other, and it kind of rubbed off on me.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: That's why I think that's one of the reason why
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: I love Clemson so much, is just because I had
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: that love for Swanee at first. And I mean, that's
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: just one thing. I'm so glad God has put me
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: in certain places, and I think Swany is the my
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: favorite place He's put me in because I've learned so
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: much there. And on the on the basketball n there's
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: a legendary gym called Swanny Sports. So I grew up
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: going there, especially in elementary school, seeing all the top
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: players come through and play in that gym. And they
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: used to have E Y B L there, So I
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: used to go there as a kid and watch like
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: players like Jamal Murray, thom Maker, Corey Sanders, Dwayne Bacon
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: play And I got to see that at a young
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: age because of the resources we had, and I think
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: that kind of rubbed off on me and allowed me to,
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: you know, be where I am today. That's awesome.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Who would you say you model your game after?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Uh, definitely at this point Draymond Green. I think it
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: just we're the same side, same position, and I think
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: just the skills and quality he asked, not only physically,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: but mentally. It's kind of gonna rub rub out on
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: me if I want to play professional. So I think
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: his game is rubbed off on me a lot. Grant
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Williams especially, I watched his Tennessee tape and uh, I
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: used to be in love with herb John this game
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: he plays for the Pelicans. He guards one through five,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: and he knows how to get over every ball screen.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: It's the guardball screen. So that's something that I kind
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: of want to embrace because I think if I get
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: a chance at the league, I'm gonna have to be
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: a defensive star. So I think just seeing their different
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: qualities and attributes, I think I need to embrace that
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: and take that in.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Growing up, did you always know that it was going
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: to be basketball?
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: No.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: I thought I was gonna be a defensive end or
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: running back. But I had a couple of injuries in
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: football in middle school. That put me out and I
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: thought it would come back the next year. And then
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: like in eighth grade, we had a pretty good team,
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: a lot of really big time mans on that team.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: But I got hurt and I was out for the season,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: and I thought I was gonna come back in ninth
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: grade year. But between that time, I had my first
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: good basketball season. I was like, ah, maybe maybe I
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: need to try basketball. So I had a two good
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: seasons in a row in basketball and never went back.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: And then after my junior year, I was thinking about
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: going back to play football, and then two days before,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: like we had the summer practices, I snapped my ankle,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: and uh. I was then in my football dreams because
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: I was gonna go back and play with my brother.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: He was supposed to have a really good season, so
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: I was like, hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna line up
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: across from him and try to help him out. So
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: I think after that injury, I was like, I'm not
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: taking any chances of getting hurt in football. I already
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: can't stay healthy in basketball, so.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: You obviously stuck with the right sport.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do that. That's that's the only if I
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: had one regret in my life. That's like the only
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: regret I have is not trying to play football in
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: high school or give it another shot earlier. But you know,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: guy has his plan for me, and maybe it's not football,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: but I just kind of wish I got out there
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: a little bit earlier to play with my brother.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Your dad played football only for eleven years.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my dad played inspire you.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely inspired me just going to the games.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: I think one of my earliest memories was going to
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: UH they played against the San Francisco forty nine ers
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: when I was two iusand and eight. I was five
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: years old, and I remember going to that game and
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: hanging out with big guys after the game, like Clinton Porters,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: who was really good running back, and just seeing just
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: seeing what my dad achieved in all the awards ceremonies
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: he went to, in the different games we went to
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: growing up kind of made me want to be like
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: him and play football. Just mean, like, like I don't
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: know how, but like all the mentors that I had
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: grown up, they were all football players, like Rodney Harrison
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: I met, I thought to Ray Lewis a lot just
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: growing up, just the different people because my dad hopped
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: around the league a little bit, and you know, he
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: was really good player, so he was still in contact
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: with all these people, and I'm getting advice from all
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: these big time football players and I ended up translating
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: that to basketball, which is crazy now that I look.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Back on it, that is crazy, hmm.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was definitely cool. Like I don't know
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: how many UGA football games I went to just from
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: the age of five to sixteen, Like, I went to
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: so many awards ceremonies, seen so many big games. That
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: was That was a big reason why I went back
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: to UJ, just because what he did on the football field,
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: and I felt that love because of how good he
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: was on the football field.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: That's got to be so fun. Like having one of
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: your first early memories being watching your dad achieve his goals.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: That is so exciting.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's even more exciting when you, like when
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: you go somewhere and you say, oh, your name is R. J. Godford.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: You know your dad Randall Godfrey. So I think that
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: kind of also an input pressure, but it kind of
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: made you want to be great too, because you know,
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: you see, like the severity of how good your dad
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: was at a young age and you kind of want to,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: you know, have your son feel like that too a
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: little bit.
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're in your senior year.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Now, what are like some goals and aspirations you have
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: for your last college season.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: I think the main goal is just winning every day.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: I don't want to look too far ahead or look
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: too far back, so I think just winning every day
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: and having the you know, good practice, a good lift
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: you get shoot around every single day. This is the
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: goal that I have, is just consistency. I have a
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: thing on my wall in my in my room it
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: says consistency and on other side it says attitude. Because
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: those are just the two controllables that you can control.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: Is that you can control your attitude every day and
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: you can control how hard you work. And that's just
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: probably the biggest goal I have is just to do
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: those things every day, because I feel like if I
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: write down a certain number or a certain award or
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: a certain thing on my on my wall, it kinda
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: will take away from the fact that I have to
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: be consistent. I have to have a good attitude to
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: achieve those things. I think with those two mottos on
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: my wall every day, I can get those awards that
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: I want by doing those two things, so and also
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: just taking it in. I know one day I'm not
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: gonna ever play college for us again, so I'm just
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: not taking every day for granted. Like I said earlier,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: like time is flying. So I'm just trying to take
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: in every moment and you know, enjoy every single film session,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: every single meal, every single just every single second, you know,
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: as a Clemson student athlete, just trying to take it
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: in and enjoy it while I can.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: I think of something you're known for is bringing a
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: lot of joy and energy into a space. But that's
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: hard every meal, every second, Like how do you change
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: your mindset or reframe it or how do you ensure
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: that you're keeping that good attitude, that consistent attitude every day.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's different for me because I want a year
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: without it. So now that I'm back in it, I'm like,
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: oh man, I can't lose it again. So obviously the
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: chances that y'all transfer and come back like I probably
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: won't happen to y'all. But I think having gratitude and
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: knowing the knowing how blessed you are is gonna allow
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: you to see that way because there's There's a billion
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: kids on this earth that would die to be in
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: our position right now. So I think having that gratitude
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: and having that just love for it will allow you
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: to see it like that. But it's definitely different for
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: me because you don't really know how much you love
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: to miss something until it's gone. And I don't want
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: to be, you know, twenty seven years old out of
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: college with that feeling, and I definitely want to take
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: advantage of it now so when I look back when
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: I'm twenty seven, twenty eight, when I'm fifty, I can
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: be like man, I took, I took, I took advantage
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: of what I had, and I just don't want that
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: feeling of regret and sorrow when i'm you know, when
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: I'm off there in age. I love that.
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: So you want to play basketball as long as you
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: can when that day ends.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: What would you like to be doing?
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: I would love to do. I've been. It's been mixing
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: the air because a part of me, I just want
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: to move out, you know, in Wyoming and just get
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: away from everything everybody. But another part of me, well,
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: a big part of me, I want to get back
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: into college sports. I want to be a coach, So
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: I definitely want to. I'm not sure if I want
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: to be a head coach yet. I probably just want
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: to travel to travel to US and just recruit different
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: kids and kind of be like our assistant coaches. I
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: really look up to Sean Dixon and Billy Donland. Those
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: are two role models in my life, and idn't really
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: enjoy the impact they've made on me. So I kind
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: of want to do that, and or I kind of
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: want to, you know, broadcast some games like Don Munson
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: bit just follow around Clemson basketball and ask different people questions.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: And I don't know if y'all know him. He works
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: for the Field of sixty eight. Jeff Goodman. I've been
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: watching his stuff for a long time. I like what
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: he does. And obviously Teo, who used to play here,
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: he kind of inspires me to just from a freshman.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: He's just such a cool dude with a lot of aura.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: So I just think those guys have kind of rubbed
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: off on me, and I kind of want to, you know,
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: either you know, coach or broadcast college.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Basketball, be around the game. But still time to fish.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I still have that time. I have a lot
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: more free time than you know, catch him, get some
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: big fish in between that.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: So what advice would you give your freshman self starting
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Clemson starting college basketball.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: I was thinking about that yesterday or two days ago. Actually,
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: me and Deal were actually talking about it. If we
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: had to go back to ourselves. One thing, I probably
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: just say everything's gonna be alright. I think at the
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: time I was overthinking and I was just stressing, like
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: how much you're gonna play? If I am I gonna
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: even be here next year? Am I ever gonna be
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: a good player? I wouldn't tell me, uh, like, everything's
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: gonna be all right. It's kind of cliche. I probably
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: just say, just put your head down and work, like, uh,
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: they're gonna be good days, they're gonna be bad days,
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: but all you can control it's the amount of work
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: you put in your attitude. So I probably tell myself
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: that that's that sounds kind of, you know, like cliche also,
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: but I think just having a consistent work ethic and
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: good attitude will change your life.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: So I don't think that's cliche because as a freshman,
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people get in their head
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: about those those things like playing time, Am I gonna
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: be good enough? Is the coach gonna like me all
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: of that stuff, and to just like learn how to
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: relax and everything's going to be okay is something I
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: would have definitely wanted to hear my freshman year, like
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: having those voices in my head in that stress, like
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: just chill out, Everything's going to be okay. I think
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: that's really good advice.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're when you're so young, you come in
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: your mind racing. You see everyone's competition, you see everything
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: is like, oh man, he made this good play. Oh
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: I wonder what do you think is about me? Or
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: just I kind of see it now too a little
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: bit with our young guys, and I think just telling
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: them that, man, you are right, like everything's gonna be
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: all right. Just control which you can control is something
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: that I wish I knew at a younger age. But
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: I definitely agree with you on that those.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: Thoughts can feel so isolating, like you feel like you're
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: the only person thinking that, when really everybody, everybody thinking
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: matter has thought that.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: M h.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: It's like a cool perspective being like a senior now
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: and like thinking about yourself is like freshman year, like
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: how much do you think like you've changed?
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: Really and like mindss three sixty.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: I had three sixty change just not only about just
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: my mindset, just uh faith wise, my faith is just
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: took a complete turn. I think I've just been living
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: it out every day. Mindset wise, I kind of got
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: out of that, you know, I'm feeling sorry for myself mindset.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: I think sometimes also people get down themselves just because
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: like when things don't go bad, they just start to
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: you know. I don't want to say like a victim
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: or fix. It's more like a fixed mindset like oh man,
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: I need to want it, Like yeah, Like I had
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: that mindset too, and now I think, thanks to Coach Barnell,
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: a little bit like a soldier mindset, like you know,
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: I got hit, Like what am I gonna do? I'm
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: gonna lay there and die or I'm gonna get up
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: and fight to the death. So that's something that I
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: kind of embraced too. I think fishing has helped me
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: a lot just to sometimes you need to get away
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: from things and you know, isolate your mind. And I
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: think fishing has just allowed me to uh really sue
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: my mind and find another joy. And it's something I
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: don't I mean, it's someone said this on Facebook, my
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Facebook reals the other day. It's just like there's a
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: joy with fighting a fish when you feel a fish
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: just tugging against you and you just fighting it and
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: you're you know, when you're sitting the pace on a fish,
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Like there's like a piece and a joy in that.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: That's like indescribable. I think also that it's helped me
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: a little bit too. So I think those three things
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: is really you know, allow myself to have a three
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: sixty on on my on my life. Also, shout out
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: to Jenna Cox. She's when I came in to the clubs,
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: I hated school, like you couldn't get me to write
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: a four page paper. Ever, Jenna had me enjoying, like
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: I look forward to going into agenda and getting my
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: work done and learning new things because she allowed me.
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: She changed just my little habits of uh the way
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: I you know, pick up things and learn. And she's
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: just done so much for me where I can actually
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: sit down and read an article like I could read
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: any article now because she's allowed me just to see
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: the like the value of growing in knowledge. And I
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: just want to give her a shout out for that.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: It's really cool.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. What's one thing you think Clemson fans don't
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: know about you that you wanted to share?
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: Uh? Lately they've been finding out everything, especially not there
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: and my fishing. Uh. One thing they don't know about
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: me now? Uh, they already know I love the Falcons.
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: It's not a lot. Man, I've been I've been talking
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: to the media. I've been talking to or what do.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: You what is? What do you want your Clemson legacy
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: to be? Like when people think are j Godfrey Clemson
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: men's basketball player? What do you want them to think?
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: Uh? On the court, I want to them to think
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: of like when thinking me, like Ruth's aggression, Like I
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: never give up and I play really hard. That's just
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: something I I want that to be a testament to
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: my game. And uh, I just want them to you know,
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: and they remember me be like man I got he
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: gave it as all he tried. Our best is for us.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: So either that and then just or just like love.
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: I just feel like, you know, I'm more than a
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: basketball player. I'm a human being, just like everyone in
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: his room. So I want them to realize that I'm
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: human too, And you know I feel the same thing.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: I'm just like, I'm just like them. So I just
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: think that love that and that joy that I carry,
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: I kind of want to, you know, rub it off
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: on the people who you know, invest in Clemson.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: So right.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Right, that's like a really good teammate to have to
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: like we're all going through like hard stuff, so like
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: feeling the love from each other, feeling the love from
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: like a senior and a leader. I think that's something
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: that's really important too.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: Saying I think having that uh, that type of leader too.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: We kind of had that my freshman year with Hunter
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Or was really he was really unselfish and he cared
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: about especially with me. He was like my mentor in
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: my freshman year. He really cared about how I was feeling.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: At the time, I'm like I said, I was very immature,
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: and at first I didn't think it was genuine, But
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: as you get older and as you go along the season,
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: you realize it is and that he actually does care
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: about He cares about the program and you at the
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: same time because he wants to see the program good.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: And the only reason the program is gonna be good
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: is that you invest in the future. And Hunter invested
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: in you know, me and the other young Fersman we
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: had and just the other guys we had on the
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: team that year, and I feel like I'm kind of
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: embracing that with some of the new guys. So that's
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: just also a testament to our commit like who coach
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: Barnell recruits like he recruits guys who care about the
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: future of Clemson, not just the present. So I think
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: we got a good thing going on here and I'm
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: just grateful to be back.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome, RJ. Where can people find you on
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: social media?
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: My Instagram name is random got for Junior and then
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: I'm not on Twitter. I don't. The only I have
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: right now is Instagram, so you can find me on
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: Instagram at random Guy for Junior and Facebook. I'm on
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: Facebook keeping up on my mom and my dad because
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: they've be posting stuff on there. I gotta make sure
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: they're not posting any embarrassing baby, so valid.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on.
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: That's awesome.
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: H