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Terrence Murphy Sr on buying LOVB Salt Lake, His vision for the team and the sport of Volleyball, Memories playing the Utes in '04 + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: This peace about Sean O'Connell's show. You were home of
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  Speaker 1: From the Murdoch Chevrolet Studio of ESPN seven hundred ninety
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  Speaker 1: one af AM.
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  Speaker 2: Sean O'Connell Show continues, lucky enough now to welcome in
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  Speaker 2: Terrence Murphy, former NFL player, founder of Synergy Sports Capital, and,
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  Speaker 2: most importantly for us here in Salt Lake City, the
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  Speaker 2: new owner of l OVB Love Volleyball, Love Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 2: Terrence Murphy, Welcome to the Sean O'Connell Show. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great. Thanks for having me, Sean.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing doing all right? Excited to talk to
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  Speaker 4: you about this.
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  Speaker 5: We've we've had we've had Love Salt Lake players in
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  Speaker 5: studio before, we've had we've talked to coaches. I've actually
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  Speaker 5: maybe I've run into the women involved with professional volleyball
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  Speaker 5: in Salt Lake more at the airport than I have
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  Speaker 5: anywhere any any other people, any other athletes. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know why that's happening, but they stand out obviously then,
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  Speaker 5: and I guess my first question for you is why
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  Speaker 5: Salt Lake? Why an emerging women's volleyball Professional League, Like,
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  Speaker 5: why did this interest you and your partners?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great question. It may be a long answer,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll give it to you. So, growing up in
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  Speaker 3: East Texas, I have older brothers that played D one. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: I was a D one athlete, All American at takes
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  Speaker 3: A and M and got drafted by the Packers. And
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  Speaker 3: but my closest sibling was my sister, so she was
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  Speaker 3: a volleyball player. So that was my first introduction as
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  Speaker 3: the baby boy, having to shag the balls and go
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  Speaker 3: to the games. But then you know, when I retired,
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  Speaker 3: got back my wife and I've been married for eighteen years,
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  Speaker 3: just had our eighteenth anniversary on eighteenth, and our oldest
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  Speaker 3: got into volleyball at a young age, so she's a
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  Speaker 3: setter here in Texas. Played for Houston Skyline the Woodlands.
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  Speaker 3: And once again, you know, as a volleyball dad, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you want to help your kids be the best version
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  Speaker 3: of themselves. And so as I was investing in sports
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  Speaker 3: and investing in real estate and all the different things
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  Speaker 3: that I do, you know, private equity really just got
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  Speaker 3: approved in the last five or six years to invest
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  Speaker 3: in the Big Four, and so as I was watching
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  Speaker 3: that and tracking it, I just kept circling back to
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  Speaker 3: other sports like volleyball and soccer and all these things.
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  Speaker 3: And so the thesis of Synity sports capital is investing
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  Speaker 3: in emerging leagues and teams with real estate development opportunities
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  Speaker 3: in sports adjacent businesses. And so as I was evaluating
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  Speaker 3: volleyball looking at the couple of leagues that were spurring up,
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  Speaker 3: LOVE just kept circling back. And my daughter's in the
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  Speaker 3: Love system. And I've never seen a league that has
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  Speaker 3: a youth with college and then pro pathway, and that's
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  Speaker 3: really where it started my interest with Love.
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  Speaker 5: So that pathway. We have a lot of parents that
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  Speaker 5: listen to the show. We interact with people, especially on
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  Speaker 5: social media, talking about the sort of youth sports system
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  Speaker 5: as it is now. You and I are about the
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  Speaker 5: same age, and I don't know what your prep life
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  Speaker 5: was like, pre high school and little league stuff, but
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  Speaker 5: it felt like we got to sign up for what we.
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  Speaker 4: Wanted to do.
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  Speaker 5: If you were an elite player, you'd probably get called
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  Speaker 5: by an all star team, you would emerge.
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  Speaker 4: The system feels a lot different now.
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  Speaker 5: We talk to a lot of parents who are like, man,
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  Speaker 5: I got this daughter, who's incredibly talented.
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  Speaker 4: She's tall, she's a jumper, she's an athlete.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm helping her follow the right
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  Speaker 5: path to get a scholarship, maybe to pursue professional opportunities eventually.
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  Speaker 5: Club volleyball's crazy expensive. You're now involved in kind of
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  Speaker 5: the top line of this. And as we look at
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  Speaker 5: the pathway to get to a place like love, if
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  Speaker 5: we talk about how you can play Division one volleyball
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  Speaker 5: or basketball, or soccer or gymnastics or for whatever that matter,
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  Speaker 5: are we serving from the top down with other leagues,
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  Speaker 5: the youth, the families that are trying to set their
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  Speaker 5: kids up for success.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great question, Sean. I think it's one of
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  Speaker 3: the things that attracted me to it. A ovis football
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  Speaker 3: be one athlete and being in track and baseball and basketball.
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  Speaker 3: It was very fragmented, right. Obviously seven o seven was
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  Speaker 3: kind of our AAU for football. We didn't really have that,
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  Speaker 3: and then you know, obviously have the AAU and basketball
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  Speaker 3: and obviously club teams in soccer and blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: So with volleyball, when you look at it to be
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  Speaker 3: to be able to plug in a young lady into
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  Speaker 3: a system where it's integrated. Right. There's times where there's
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  Speaker 3: middle schoolers, high schoolers and pro volleyball players training in
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  Speaker 3: the same facility. That's very, very unique and one of
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  Speaker 3: the things that I'm very passionate about after retiring the NFL, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, getting you know, having the injury early on
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  Speaker 3: in my career and just not being prepared to transition.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that I want to bring and
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  Speaker 3: I've already brought it up in the governor governor meetings
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  Speaker 3: with the other owners, is what are we doing for
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  Speaker 3: athletes like in off season? What are we doing for
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  Speaker 3: athletes that transition out of love and they want to
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  Speaker 3: transition into business or finance or whatever. So I'm very
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  Speaker 3: passionate about that transition because I had to go through
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  Speaker 3: it on my own, and I think that's just another
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  Speaker 3: component that I bring to the table, Uh, that that
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  Speaker 3: I'm really focused on the athlete first, whether it's middle school,
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  Speaker 3: high school, college, or pro.
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  Speaker 5: Going back to that that thesis statement you gave me
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  Speaker 5: for Synergy Sports, the uh emerging you know, growing leagues,
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  Speaker 5: but also sports adjacent businesses, potentially real estate.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, why is love in that category? You know?
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  Speaker 5: When we talk about acquiring ownership or ownership stake in
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  Speaker 5: like the soccer team here.
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  Speaker 4: I just we got an NHL team this year.
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  Speaker 5: You then get an announcement of oh yeah, we're gonna
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  Speaker 5: build this facility out there in Harriman, Utah for the
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  Speaker 5: soccer team. And now there's an academy for real Salt
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  Speaker 5: Lake and all these plans and renderings for a change
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  Speaker 5: Delta Center or even a new building. And the mall
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  Speaker 5: that I went to as a kid is now a
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  Speaker 5: practice facility for the Utah Jazz and the Utah Mammoth.
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  Speaker 5: When we're talking about love Salt Lake and we're talking
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  Speaker 5: about the volleyball side of this, where are those sports
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  Speaker 5: adjacent and real estate opportunities?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you hit it on the head. I
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  Speaker 3: think that was the thing that realizing that the local government, city, municipality,
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  Speaker 3: community has really gotten behind the NHL team. We actually
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  Speaker 3: went to a game. I just flew back from Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 3: I was there last night. I've been there for like
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  Speaker 3: the last three four days, and we went to a
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  Speaker 3: Mammoth game and just to see the energy in that
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  Speaker 3: facility and what Ron Smith has created. He and I
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  Speaker 3: spoke at an event together in Arizona last year at
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  Speaker 3: at Pack Pro Athlete Community, So I'm gonna try to
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  Speaker 3: connect with him this week if he flies out. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, just seeing what's happening with MLS NWSL team,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with the Commission of NWSL said it best
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  Speaker 3: like you could get an NWSL franchise for five million
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  Speaker 3: bucks in twenty twenty one, and I think they just
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  Speaker 3: sold the seventeen franchise to the Art the Blank family
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  Speaker 3: for one hundred and sixty five million. So just women's
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  Speaker 3: sports in generals finally getting it's just due. I'll see
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  Speaker 3: the new CBA agreement with the WNBA players. And then
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  Speaker 3: if you look at what's happening around college athletics, and
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  Speaker 3: obviously I'm here in collinstation, I'm an aggie obviously in
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  Speaker 3: art techs saying and women's volleyball team just won the
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  Speaker 3: national championship. So there's just a lot of positive things happening.
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  Speaker 3: And with Salt Lake, we're a part time resident. I
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  Speaker 3: think people are kind of misconstrued we're not there full time,
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  Speaker 3: but we have a place there in Park City we
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  Speaker 3: try to get up to and we're passionate about Utah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, our ultimate dream Monday is to spend six
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  Speaker 3: months out of the year up there in that area
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  Speaker 3: hit out of the heat, especially in the summer here
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  Speaker 3: in Texas. But when you look at the real estate
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  Speaker 3: development opportunities, that's what I'm trying to discover and wrap
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  Speaker 3: my mind around. Because you know, when Athletic Co Dallas,
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  Speaker 3: our team that we own here in Texas, we're working
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  Speaker 3: on eighty acre stadium district development. So not saying that
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  Speaker 3: the Love team will be in eighty acre development, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to partner with the local city municipality and
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  Speaker 3: if I'm the right site to build something practice facility,
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  Speaker 3: stadium and all that in one place for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Terence Murphy's our guest here for a few more minutes
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  Speaker 5: on the seat O'Connor Schill talk and Love Salt Lake
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  Speaker 5: Professional Women's Volleyball and the whole Love League has. One
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  Speaker 5: of the things that I appreciate about it is the
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  Speaker 5: accessibility for families, for young kids, for young girls. I'm
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  Speaker 5: a dad of three girls, right. You want them to
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  Speaker 5: see the good examples. You want them to be able
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  Speaker 5: to talk to people that are doing something that maybe
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  Speaker 5: they will end up trying to do as they get older.
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  Speaker 5: In life, and it's something that with these emerging leagues,
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  Speaker 5: to me is unique because we all love the NFL,
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  Speaker 5: we all love Major League Baseball. Here, we really enjoy
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  Speaker 5: the NBA and our new NHL team, But accessibility to
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  Speaker 5: those athletes, those coaches, those facilities, their time, for obvious reasons,
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  Speaker 5: is difficult. And it feels like with love Salt Lake
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  Speaker 5: and with the league as we know it, with the
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  Speaker 5: NWSL and some of these other kind of growth properties,
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  Speaker 5: part of the mission or part of the game plan
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  Speaker 5: for growth is to be more integrated in the community
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  Speaker 5: and to be I don't know, maybe have a better
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  Speaker 5: actual personal relationship with your fans. Is that something that
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  Speaker 5: you're paying attention to. Is that something you're trying to
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  Speaker 5: drive forward.
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  Speaker 3: It's something I'm very passionate about having two little girls,
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  Speaker 3: being a girl dad, a bali dad and a soccer dad,
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  Speaker 3: and myself and I have my son that I coach
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  Speaker 3: in flag football and basketball and soccer too. But I
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  Speaker 3: think that I mean, you think about it, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: age right in the eighties and nineties, growing up as
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  Speaker 3: a kid, you would see the Michael Jordan's and the
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  Speaker 3: em and Smiths and the Jerry Rices but you had
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  Speaker 3: no access to them and you were still inspired just
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  Speaker 3: by what you saw on TV. So now to be
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  Speaker 3: able to see them on TV as the media deals
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  Speaker 3: are growing and there's a lot of a lot happening there.
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  Speaker 3: But then to be able to get to them and
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  Speaker 3: you know, if we have access to that because we're
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  Speaker 3: here in colle station and it's similar probably for Utah
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  Speaker 3: and by U where you know, hearing conversation tax A
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  Speaker 3: and m like you're seeing as a pro team on
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  Speaker 3: the football team and volleyball team and whatever. So being
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  Speaker 3: able to get those kids access, like we're just trying
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  Speaker 3: to inspire these babies, to encourage them and in sports
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  Speaker 3: is just it's a it's a great tool to teach
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  Speaker 3: life lessons to our kids, to get them off the couch,
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  Speaker 3: to get the to get the electronics out of their hands.
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  Speaker 3: And are they all going to go pro? No, but
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  Speaker 3: they can learn a lot of lessons with hard work
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  Speaker 3: and perseverance and teamwork, learning different ethnicities and learning how
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  Speaker 3: to lead and how to deal with hard days and
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  Speaker 3: hard moments. That's where sports will never take a back
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  Speaker 3: seat to you know, AI and some of the things
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  Speaker 3: that's coming down the pipe and then from a fans standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: it's one of the places you can go and leave
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  Speaker 3: whatever's going on in your life outside the gym or
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  Speaker 3: the court or the stadium and just enjoy that two
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  Speaker 3: to three four hour moment with being a fan. And
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  Speaker 3: it's and it's very organic. I think that's why sports
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  Speaker 3: will always be at the forefront in our country.
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  Speaker 5: You referenced the new CBA in the WNBA, and I
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  Speaker 5: foresee I mean with heat now minimum salary around three
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  Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously that's a good living.
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  Speaker 5: That changes not only the way that fans are going
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  Speaker 5: to I guess, approach that game, but also it changes
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  Speaker 5: for the athletes themselves what they need to do with
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  Speaker 5: their life. Right, a lot of WNBA players would spend
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  Speaker 5: a WNBA season making their sixty K and then they
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  Speaker 5: would go overseas to earn some more income opportunities to
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  Speaker 5: help their families out whatever.
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  Speaker 4: And probably they don't need to do that anymore.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if they're still going to, but you
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  Speaker 5: don't have to do it anymore to make a livable
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  Speaker 5: wage as a professional athlete with this new CBA. With
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  Speaker 5: volleyball in an emerging league, do we foresee it probably
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  Speaker 5: years down the road, admittedly, but do we foresee a
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  Speaker 5: situation where or do you want it to be a
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  Speaker 5: situation where love volleyball players love Salt Lake players don't
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  Speaker 5: do the overseas thing in the love offseason where they
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  Speaker 5: can just be here, focus on their families, focus on
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  Speaker 5: development for the league, whatever, and not have to kind
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  Speaker 5: of split those responsibilities.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, selfishly, I'm always going to have that passion, right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because I played in college sports when you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was the face to take stand in football as
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  Speaker 3: the top draft pick. I was a two time All American,
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  Speaker 3: two time team captain, two times four team All Conference,
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  Speaker 3: three time academic conference blah blah blah, and I was
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  Speaker 3: eating double cheeseburgers over the weekend, right ninety nine Saints Burgers,
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  Speaker 3: where you know, there's millions of dollars being made. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm always going to be an athlete at heart, even
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  Speaker 3: though I'm owning these sports teams and sports investments. And yes,
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  Speaker 3: i want my ops to get returns and I want
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  Speaker 3: my partners to get to get a good return on
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  Speaker 3: their capital, but there is no sports without the athlete, right,
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  Speaker 3: the number one resources, number one asset is the talent
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day. And one of the
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  Speaker 3: things we want to do is I want to invest
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  Speaker 3: in the in the whole ecosystem of athletes, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: recovery health, mental health, long term health, and then obviously
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  Speaker 3: the ability to perform while they're playing for us. But
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  Speaker 3: then how do we transition them into the real world
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  Speaker 3: as professionals and parents to mothers and investors. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm even already working on a plan through centergy Sports
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  Speaker 3: Capital where we're going to have a cohort of athletes
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  Speaker 3: from all sports NWSL, WNBA, LOVE volleyball to be able
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  Speaker 3: to come work at our firm a couple months out
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  Speaker 3: of the year and learn and see what it looks
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  Speaker 3: like on this side of the fence, because that's something
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  Speaker 3: I wish I would have gotten when I was playing
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL. So, yeah, we're going to bring a
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  Speaker 3: different element to private equity. We won't but at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, the athlete is the number one
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  Speaker 3: asset to whatever we decide to do. And then with
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  Speaker 3: salt Lake, like the vision is simple. When you look
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  Speaker 3: at my history at Texas A and M and Kyle Field,
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  Speaker 3: there's one hundred and ten thousand people that cram into
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  Speaker 3: that stadium. It's a tough environment. And you look at
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  Speaker 3: Lambeau Field, those are two historic places to play, and
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  Speaker 3: it's you know, season tickets to get up. There's a
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  Speaker 3: thing in Green Bay, right. People know about some of
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  Speaker 3: our traditions, but one of the things in Wisconsin is
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  Speaker 3: when you have a kid, you go to the stadium
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  Speaker 3: and you put them on the waiting list, so by
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  Speaker 3: the time they become an adult, they can most likely
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  Speaker 3: get season tickets. And so that's something I want to
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  Speaker 3: create that that same Lambeo Field and Kylefield atmosphere with
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  Speaker 3: our stadium in Salt Lake. Right, we're playing at the
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  Speaker 3: Slick right now and it's a really loud gymnasium. I
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  Speaker 3: actually went and got to see it's in, you know,
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  Speaker 3: really good place. But our ultimate goal is to have
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  Speaker 3: our own home in the future and work with the
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  Speaker 3: city to create something for not only the Love youth,
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  Speaker 3: middle school, high school, but also that that pro team
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  Speaker 3: and have that ecosystem all in one place. That's my
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  Speaker 3: ultimate dream vision. And then they have the acoustics set
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  Speaker 3: up perfectly where that's one of the hardest places to play.
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  Speaker 4: In all of Love all right, I'm gonna be I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna be unfair here.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna ambush you with a question that that's not
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  Speaker 5: about love Salt Lake, but it is about your experience
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  Speaker 5: as a venture capitalist, as someone who's been involved with
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  Speaker 5: these private equity deals.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: The University of Utah made a lot of headlines for
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  Speaker 5: bringing private equity investment into their athletic department and being
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  Speaker 5: the first university to do it. We know that the
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  Speaker 5: Big Ten has talked about it. We know that other
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  Speaker 5: schools and other differences have talked about potentially doing that.
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  Speaker 5: In the University of Utah, they did it. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know how much you've been able to look at it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you're aware of full details on it.
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  Speaker 5: But just from a grand, like ten thousand foot view
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  Speaker 5: of this thing, what do you think of private equity
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  Speaker 5: being involved in college football, college basketball, college gymnastics, the
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  Speaker 5: heritage programs at the University of Utah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sir, Yeah, I think what I think One of
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  Speaker 3: the things, why, you know, when we made our announcement
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  Speaker 3: Ascenditty Sports Capital a couple of weeks ago, we had
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  Speaker 3: three hundred inquiries in like the first seven days on
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  Speaker 3: our website owned socials and you know, Reggie Bush is
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  Speaker 3: one of my partners, and I think for the first
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  Speaker 3: time I'll talk about myself being a D one athlete,
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  Speaker 3: being a pro athlete, and then being in investing for
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  Speaker 3: twenty one years and then I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was the time where I was on the twelfth
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  Speaker 3: man finance committe. It takes a and m dealing with
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  Speaker 3: all the numbers behind our athletics, right, and so I've
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  Speaker 3: seen it from so many different perspectives, and so I
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  Speaker 3: bring just a point of view. It's very unique, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that's where a lot of the family officers
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: are reaching out because they get that right. This guy
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: has the track record, but he did it on the
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: field off the field. So to answer your question, it
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: was only a matter of time. You know, it's inevitable.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: As much as you want to keep ee out now
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: with the profit sharing and the NIO and where athletic
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: departments are, it's tough and you know you've got to
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: make sure you're trying to break even or make money
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day from an athletic and
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: university standpoint, and donors only can give so much when
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: the kids in the talent. Once again, going back to
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: what I said earlier, the kids in the talent are
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: demanding more, right, you know, like I said, I was
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: on a scholarship and needing double cheeseburgers, and I was happy.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: That's just not kids in twenty twenty six. Like now
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: that this has kind of opened up the can of worms,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: there is different expectations all the way around, and we're
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: not putting that back in the box. Like there's just
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: no way to go back from now. So I think
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: this is the new wave, and I think it's just inevitable.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: And like you said, with the deal with Cultural Capital
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: in Utah, they really just created a new asset class.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: And now everybody's kind of scrambling to figure out how
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: do you make it make sense?
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Do you foresee a possibility of Synergy Sports Capital your
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: company being involved at some point in I don't know, Texas,
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: A and M maybe USC. Because your partner is Reggie Bush.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: I think I'm to see if that were to happen,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: and that possibility, you know, is there, I think, I
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: think selfishly, I don't want to speak for Reggie, but
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I know it's hard. I think we would both it
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: would be a dream come true to be involved in
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: our universities, our alma maters in any way, shape, form
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: or fashion. So you know, whether it's UTC or takes
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: A and M, Yeah, for sure, no brainer. And I
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: think Senegy Sports Capital once again brings a very unique
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: perspective because as much as we're focused on emerging leagues
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: and teams with real estate development opportunities and sports adjacent businesses,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: when it comes to college athletics, the driver is college football.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: There's just no way around it. And obviously we need him.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Him went into Heisman and us being both first take
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: around draft picks. If you look at just the numbers, right,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: there's sixteen hundred guys give or taken the NFL, but
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: every year there's about you know, sixty to seventy guys
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: that get drafted in the first two rounds. There's a
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: very very small group of people. And if you remove
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: the O line, D line and you just do the
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: skill guys, it's even a smaller class. Right. We do
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: the we do a draft thing every year where the
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: top kind of athletic you know, athletes go take total
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: sheets together and stuff. But being with all that being said, no,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: I think it's it's it's a very unique time to
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: be in private equity, to be in sports. But no,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: it's a no brainer that Synity sports capital will be
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: at the forefront of those conversations as they mature. We're
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: already having some of those conversations.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: You mentioned your son is involved in flag football right now?
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Will he be involved in tackle football eventually?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: With Junior? You know, it's it's a weird dynamic, right.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: There was a time when we knew we were having
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: a boy. I said, babe, do we want to name
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: him Junior Terrece Murphy Junior. She said, honey, that's your dream.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: We need to do it. So she pushed me on that,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: But I knew what comes with the territory of him
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: being wearing my name here in Agui Land and growing
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: up as an athlete. But he's very special. He's got
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: some unique talents. He's probably way more advanced than I
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: was in soccer, basketball and football. But as long as
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: I can keep him away from tackle, I'm will try
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: to as long as I can. But I tried to
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: get him in the golf. I'm like, man, you could
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: be the next tackle Wood. And then now I'm like, hey,
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: you should do being bope and be do soccer and
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: he just loves football. So we'll see before.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: I let you go, what's the best way that our
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: listeners could get involved in support what you are doing
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: with Love.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Salt Lake.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Man, I would say, just, you know, get out to
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: the games. You know, you know Jordan Poulter. You know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: I'll quote this from somebody who said this weekend, she's
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: the Lebron James of Setters, right, Like, she's just really
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: talented and you know as a center, she's a quarterback,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: right And one of the key reasons that I really
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: started leaning me in in that direction, and I'm like, Okay,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: who's my center, because's who's gonna touch the bal the most,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: that's who's gonna leave the team, that's gonna be your
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: heartbeat of the team. And getting to me Jordan this
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: last week and in the team in interrow, and then
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: also just meeting the staff, the coaches and the supporting
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: staff from Love Man, everybody was just not only kind,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: but the culture that they're building in two years to
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: go from being at the bottom of the pack last
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: year to really this year dominating. They were eight and
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: one at one point before some of the injuries played
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: the team and you know they're playing Houston tonight in
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Houston and we're gonna go drive down and then we're
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: bringing Tearns Love Volleyball Houston team there to support our
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: team in person. But no, I just think it's a
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: great time. So anybody that is their local, like, we
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: we want your support, we want you involved, and yeah,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I mean let's get behind us and as things come up,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: just know that I didn't just come there just to
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: invest in the team and flip it. My ultimate dream
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: is to build something that's great long term. And actually,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: you know, my first experience is to in talt Lake.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I played there. Mind we played Utah my junior year
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: at Calfield and then my senior year we played at
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: at salt Lake. They're at Utah University. And so now
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I have a love for that area and want to
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: want to build a great enterprise and a great team.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: And listeners, what happened when you visited salt Lake City?
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: How'd that game go for the Aggies?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Well, we got you guys my junior year at Caylefield.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Actually I'll give you the history on that. So obviously
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: we had a legendary coach R. C. Sulkomb And you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: if you look back in the Southwest Conference days in
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: early Big twelve and then my sophomore year, Rich just
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: be the number one team in the nation in Oklahoma.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: And then two games later we had the two games
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: started and we fired our legendary coach still to this
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: day takes A and M. I think we as agis
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: can all speak to that. It just obviously wasn't the
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: best decision. And then we brought in coach Francioni from
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Alabama and probably wasn't the best decision. So we played
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: you guys here. And I would give Alex Smith a
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: hard time. He's a friend of mine. When I see him,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I tell him, I said, you O takes A and
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: M a lot of money. And he's like why, And
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I said, well, when you played at Cayl Field in
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: two thousand and three, you were the third string quarterback, Mike.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: And think about it, what's the likelihood of a thirsteon
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: quarterback playing It's probably slim and none. Right, But the
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: starting quarterback our defense ended up injuring him. I think
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: they heard this. He broke his ribs and he was out.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: And then on like the last play of the game
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: in O three, they broke the risk of the second
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: string quarterback. I think he tried to dive a M
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: zone and broke his wrist. So then Alex Smith comes in.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: You got to go on a like ten to two run.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: And then that next year they go like twelve and
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: oh and that does not happen if that A and
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: M game doesn't happen. So I always give him a
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: hard time about that. But no, we came to Utah
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: on Thursday night football and got our butts kicked. I
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: don't remember what the score was. I know my junior
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: year I almost two hundred and fifty yards on like
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: seven touches against Utah, and like they were even mentioning
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: some Heisman conversations after that game because it was just crazy.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: And then my junior ar my senior year, I had
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: one hundred in some yards. But we got our bus kip.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: For sure. They came out on fire. Our defense couldn't
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: stop a nosebleed and we got torn up.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: You were on the field tearing it up.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I was walk on on the sideline, probably not even dressed.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: I don't think in that game, just cheering on the
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: guys who were actually doing it. But distinct memory. Oh
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: you were on the team, bro, Yeah, I was on
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: the team. I wasn't on the field, if you know
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: what I mean.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's all love. Yeah, that's cool man. Yeah, because
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: when I see in U saw guys, Now the first
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: thing they bring up. Even when I was in the
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: NFL going through the combine the process, they were like,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: anytime I would see him, they would always just keep
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: bringing it up. Because there was a guy that was
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: on the team. I don't remember his name. I know
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: we're reminiscent now, I know we need to go. We'll
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: close with this. There was a guy on y'all team.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: There was a DV that supposedly ran a four to one,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: and they were like, this guy ran a four to one,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: seven or four to two. Always a fasty DV in
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: the nation, Ryan Ryan Smith, we call yeah, we called
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: bluff on that. But either way, I got a reverse
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: and he was running to try to catch me, and
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I made him disappear in the screen. I was like
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: an eighty yard two guy reverse. People who want to
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: call my bluff, go look it up. It was a
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: R I think speed reverse or something. But he's running
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: right next to me and I made him disappearance. I
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: was fast. I ran a four to three, but I
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: didn't run a four to one. And then from that
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: point on, like the guys from Utah were like, you're
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: the fastest guy we've ever seen, because in their mind
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: they see this guy who they've been told running four
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: to one and I just ran out on him. And
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: that anytime I see somebody from Utah they bring it up. Man,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: you remember you number five. You were the fastes guy
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: we've ever seen play football, So it's something that always
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: came up.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Well, we're glad you're back in the Salt Lake City
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: world as an owner now instead of as a competitor.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Congrats and all your success. Next time you're in town,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: let's get you here in studio, all right.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: We love to do it, brother, Thank you for your time. Man.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: That's Terrence Murphy.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: He's partners with Reggie Bush and others in Synergy Sports Capital,
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: now owners of Love Salt Lake LVB, Volleyball, Cult Lake