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How Jahdae Barron and other Texas players have benefited from an extra year of eligibility · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: He only got rock when she was standing by Mike
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  Speaker 1: Leslie from w FAA and Dallas uh mending fences, patching
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  Speaker 1: it up with Trayvon Diggs. So his tweet was, Trayvon
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  Speaker 1: Diggs and I have cleared the air. He apologized for
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  Speaker 1: the hallway incident, and I apologize for misleading, misreading the play.
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  Speaker 1: He explained that what I interpreted as him jogging was
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  Speaker 1: in fact him slow playing a potential cutback from George Kittle.
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  Speaker 2: We buried the hatchet with a and there's a photo, well,
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys PR informed me that the video there was a video,
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  Speaker 1: violated their social media policy, so here's some pictures instead.
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  Speaker 1: So there it is with the cans of D's nuts.
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  Speaker 1: So they're and they're like, you know, toasting one another.
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  Speaker 1: And it drew a universal, really really positive response from fans.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. It's great to see there's always gonna be
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  Speaker 1: one sour guy in the group that says, you go
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  Speaker 1: through action you wanted, you were trolling, and he gave
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  Speaker 1: you the emotional response and made you famous for twelve
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  Speaker 3: Who got famous. Both are already well respected and their feel.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I mean, you know, that's silly that someone
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  Speaker 1: does cat Cortes work at the actual iHeart station.
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  Speaker 2: Someone needs to let her know.
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  Speaker 1: In Austin, we mispronounced Manor and Elgin on purpose because
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  Speaker 1: she said Manner and Elgin off of that she's not
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  Speaker 1: in the building, you might imagine.
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  Speaker 4: And when you.
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  Speaker 3: First look at it, what does M A N O
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  Speaker 3: R look like Manor?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And E L G I N looks like Elgin the
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  Speaker 1: yeah and the suburb of Chicago Elgin, Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: But that's it's Elgin. There's a lot of us, as.
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  Speaker 3: We know, a lot of surrounding area in the central
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  Speaker 3: Austin towns that I've had to learn. The correct pronunciation
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  Speaker 3: for Burnett was one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, when Dennis Franconi was a coach
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  Speaker 1: of Texas A and M and he' stt when he
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  Speaker 1: had Stephen McGee's his quarterback, when McGee and Jordan Shipley
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  Speaker 1: were both there, he goes, it's burn it, learn it,
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  Speaker 1: burn it. That's the old saying, you have to learn
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  Speaker 1: burn it. Okay, did it with the other ones yetdler refe.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've that that's one that I really
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  Speaker 3: struggle pronouncing because I'm not because it looks like refuge,
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  Speaker 3: oh refere you. I just can't say that the F
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  Speaker 3: and you do, you.
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  Speaker 1: Will replace the G with an rfere re few rio yeah,
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  Speaker 1: refereo Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: wax a hatches. It's like w O c kau I hear.
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  Speaker 3: I still hear people say wax a hatch you and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, it's not why I'm saying it wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I learned that very quickly when I got wos asage.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then of course they're San Marcus.
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  Speaker 2: Some people say, you said Marcos.
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  Speaker 3: Through Matt Berry on ESPN calling the game, it's Arizona State,
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  Speaker 3: San Marcos.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's not that. It's not that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh there's old town up northeast to Dallas n e
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  Speaker 1: v a d a.
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  Speaker 3: N e v a d A. I mean, just like
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  Speaker 3: the state. We're Las Vegas, Ada, but it's pronounced what
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  Speaker 3: would they I don't even know. That hurts my brain
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  Speaker 3: to think about how I'll say to pronounce it. Craig,
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  Speaker 3: it's there.
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  Speaker 1: It's pronounced Nevada, Nevada long egg Nevada. It's it's where
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  Speaker 1: there's hot.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to Nevada this weekend, Craigs.
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  Speaker 1: No, we're going to Nevada this weekend, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: And that is how the locals out there pronounce it.
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  Speaker 1: It's Nevada, not Nevada. My brother and sister and all
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  Speaker 1: lived there for twenty five years. They will tell you
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  Speaker 1: it is Nevada. It's not Nevada.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Up in Collin County, it's Nevada where there's a high
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  Speaker 1: school called Community High School. The reason why is it
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  Speaker 1: draws from four communities. One is Nevada. There's also one
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  Speaker 1: called Levon by Lake Levon, Copeville, and my favorite, Josephine.
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  Speaker 1: It all makes up Community High School there, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Some more from Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarksin. He
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  Speaker 1: was asked by our good friend Jeff, how about with
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  Speaker 1: the COVID eligibility, those extra years that student athletes accrued
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  Speaker 1: over time. Well, it's now finally winding down. It's on
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  Speaker 1: the home stretch of that. So he was asked for
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts on how it's been to get the best
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  Speaker 1: football out of some players during their college career because
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  Speaker 1: of the extra year and how it's benefited them and
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  Speaker 1: the program he brought up to Vandre Sweat and Marvin
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  Speaker 1: Over shown as examples that. David Bendon is an example
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  Speaker 1: of that. Joddi Baron is an example that anybody he
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  Speaker 1: was asked about what it's been like to get some
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  Speaker 1: of the best football out of these guys given the
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  Speaker 1: extra eligibility.
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  Speaker 5: They accrued, Well, I think there's a lot of value
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  Speaker 5: in that, you know, you know, development, everybody is. Everybody's
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  Speaker 5: at varying stages of their own development, right and sometimes
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  Speaker 5: it's physical developed development, sometimes it's mental development, sometimes it's
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  Speaker 5: maturity development, and everybody's at a different stage at a
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  Speaker 5: different time. And I think that that's why you're hearing
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  Speaker 5: so many people now being proponents of that fifth year.
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  Speaker 5: And you know why, you know, why are we trying
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  Speaker 5: to minimize the red shirts when we could just rather
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  Speaker 5: develop the players and if they choose to play a
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  Speaker 5: fifth year, they play a fifth year. I think that's
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  Speaker 5: why there's some sentiment for that and people pushing for that,
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  Speaker 5: because there is a real sense of gratification as a
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  Speaker 5: coach when you can see a player grow and develop,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, in a multitude of phases in their lives.
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  Speaker 5: You know, again, there's physical development, of course, there's understanding scheme, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: there's maturity. Yes, I mean there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 5: that go into the development of a young man when
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  Speaker 5: we get them at eighteen years old to twenty two
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  Speaker 5: to twenty three years old, and to watch them grow
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  Speaker 5: and then ultimately to have some success not only on
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  Speaker 5: the football field, but in the classroom and in life.
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  Speaker 4: That's what this whole thing is about, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And I know what we you know, we look to
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  Speaker 5: wins and losses, and again that those matter. Don't get
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  Speaker 5: me wrong, those matter. But you know, I have one
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  Speaker 5: hundred and twenty sons on our team every year, and
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  Speaker 5: to watch them grow year in and year out, and
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  Speaker 5: to see a young man his freshman year to where
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  Speaker 5: he is his his his senior year, whether he red
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  Speaker 5: shirted or not, fourth or fifth year, you know, what
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  Speaker 5: does that look like? And I do think for some players,
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  Speaker 5: the more time you have, the better opportunity you have
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  Speaker 5: to grow and to develop. And so I don't think
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  Speaker 5: it's for everybody.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not suggesting that, but I do think that the
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  Speaker 5: ones that we have had stick around a little longer.
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  Speaker 5: It is it has you know, Dean been, It's been
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  Speaker 5: successful for us and for them.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And then he was asked about Jade Baron, another
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  Speaker 1: one of those six year seniors, his impact deciding to
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  Speaker 1: return for that sixth and final season of eligibility instead
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  Speaker 1: of declaring for the NFL draft.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think that that's that's a huge component.
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  Speaker 5: You know, so many guys they just want to hurry
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  Speaker 5: up and get to the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but are you really ready for the NFL?
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  Speaker 5: And if you're getting a fourth or fifth round grade
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  Speaker 5: and then you leave early and let's say you go
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  Speaker 5: on the fourth or fifth round. But yet a guy
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  Speaker 5: like John a who maybe didn't get a great grade
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  Speaker 5: but is playing himself up into an earlier round, that's
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  Speaker 5: money that he would never be able to make back
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  Speaker 5: when he gets to the NFL. And so the fact
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  Speaker 5: that yes, he's making that money now and making that
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  Speaker 5: money back now for himself and for his family. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I know a lot of agents preach just get to
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  Speaker 5: your second contract. That's true, and that's true whenever you
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  Speaker 5: go to the NFL, But you can never go back
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  Speaker 5: and make that money that you inevitably get drafted at
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  Speaker 5: and what that rookie deal looks like. And so when
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  Speaker 5: we have players that really buy into the developmental piece
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  Speaker 5: and what one more year could look like for them,
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  Speaker 5: I think it just really speaks volumes to for our
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  Speaker 5: younger players for what it can look like. And again,
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  Speaker 5: not every guy is going to decide to stay. I
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  Speaker 5: understand that, but I think about an Alphad Collins or
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  Speaker 5: I think about a jud A Baron, those types of
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  Speaker 5: guys that, man, what a life changing decision they made
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  Speaker 5: to stay in school for one more year. And naturally
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  Speaker 5: with ni L and with with now down the road
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  Speaker 5: revenue sharing, I think some of those decisions are a
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  Speaker 5: little easier to make. But just the fact to hurry
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  Speaker 5: up and get to the NFL, that sounds like a
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  Speaker 5: good idea. But if you're not really ready, you know,
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  Speaker 5: they'll adages NFL stands for not for long and then
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  Speaker 5: and then what do you have?
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  Speaker 4: And so you know, we we.
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  Speaker 5: Just try to educate our guys as best we can
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  Speaker 5: so that they can make, you know, sound decisions. And
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  Speaker 5: I think jud A made a really sound decision. I
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  Speaker 5: think it's one as he looks back in his life,
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  Speaker 5: he's going to be glad that.
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  Speaker 2: He made no doubt about that, all Right.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, i'll tell you the lineups are
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