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Inside Sooner Family - Reggie Powers II · Sooner or Later Sports

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Speaker 1: What's up Everybody? To Boyd Coop here with Unfair sports
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Speaker 1: and content guy for the University of Oklahoma. I covered
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Speaker 1: the team from all aspects, recruiting, team, news, performance, But
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Speaker 1: I'm also a parent and I've often thought about what
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Speaker 1: it looks like when parenthood, recruiting, and fandom mix. So
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Speaker 1: I'm doing this series called Inside the Sooner Family. This
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Speaker 1: is going to give Sooner parents a chance to talk
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Speaker 1: about their experiences in recruiting, discussions on culture in il
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Speaker 1: and lending their most prized possessions to a program often
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Speaker 1: quite a distance away. So now let's go inside the
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Speaker 1: Sooner family. What's up for everybody? Today? We're joined by
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Speaker 1: Reggie Powers, junior father of Reggie Powers, the third freshman
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Speaker 1: safety at the University of Oklahoma. Man, Reg, how you
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Speaker 1: feeling man.
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Speaker 2: I'm good man. It's a pleasure to be with you.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad I got to meet you and Jay at
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Speaker 3: the spring game in person, so like that was cool.
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Speaker 3: I followed your contact because, like being from Ohio, you know,
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Speaker 3: I just tried to listen to what's going on in
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Speaker 3: the Sooner Nation during the recruiting process, and you were
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Speaker 3: you were two of the guys that I would, I
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Speaker 3: would listen to to to see you know what's going on,
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Speaker 3: because you know, Meva in Ohio, I'm not I'm not
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Speaker 3: tapped in, so you're it's a.
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Speaker 2: Pleasure to meet you, and it's a pleasure to be
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Speaker 2: on here with you today.
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Speaker 1: Man, I'm not gonna lie. I screenshot your your your
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Speaker 1: tweet and I think I shared with this. I shared
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Speaker 1: this with you back then. But like you said, like
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Speaker 1: you know, went to Oklahoma for the for the spring game,
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Speaker 1: got to meet Jay and Coop from Unfair Sports and
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Speaker 1: and then you also went into coach b and everything
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Speaker 1: like that, and I was like to be mentioned with
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Speaker 1: those guys much less first was. I mean that that
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Speaker 1: was that was an honor. So man, I'm honored to
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Speaker 1: have you on here too. Man. It's a it's it's
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. It's a lot of a lot
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Speaker 1: of reasons why I'm doing these and I've shared some
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Speaker 1: of those things. But you know, it's hard for some
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Speaker 1: of these recruits and these players to go back into
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Speaker 1: the beginning of their lives and talk about, you know,
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Speaker 1: how things got started, because you know, they got a
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Speaker 1: lot of interviews going on. So I man, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: start out this way, you know, I asked Jay Willard,
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Speaker 1: you know, the same question. You know a lot of
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Speaker 1: times when you're watching your kid as a as a
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Speaker 1: young athlete, you look and you're like, oh, man, I
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Speaker 1: see little Michael Vick there. I asked a little ed reed.
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Speaker 1: You know, I see it. You get excited, and you
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Speaker 1: know it doesn't always turn out that way. Obviously Reggie
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Speaker 1: is on an upward run right now. But when did
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Speaker 1: the whole thing with you start? When did you say
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Speaker 1: I might have myself a little bit of a football
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Speaker 1: player here.
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Speaker 3: Well, to be honest, so like at maybe four, he
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Speaker 3: started flag football, and his first time he touched the
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Speaker 3: ball I practice, it would touchdown. First time he touched
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Speaker 3: the ball in the game, it was touched down. And
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Speaker 3: then when he wants you to start tackle football at
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Speaker 3: like first grade, he was the backup quarterback and the
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Speaker 3: first time he got the ball it was a sixty
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Speaker 3: five yard touchdown.
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Speaker 2: So I know I had a football player early.
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Speaker 3: Early, but like like as far as like school and
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Speaker 3: stuff like that, I didn't think anything about that that early.
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Speaker 2: But I was like, oh, he's good.
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Speaker 3: And then like in middle school, you know, he dominated
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Speaker 3: like people football got to middle school and then like
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Speaker 3: it was like okay, like I can see him going
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Speaker 3: to school for free and like.
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Speaker 2: So like about seventh grade when like what he did
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Speaker 2: in Pee, we kept.
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Speaker 3: Translating to the the you know, the upper middle school
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Speaker 3: and then high schools, like probably like seventh grade, I
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Speaker 3: was like, I can see him going to school for
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Speaker 3: free because he was always like a good size and
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Speaker 3: like he had like instincts and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: It's like stuff that wasn't like talk to him.
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Speaker 3: It was just like he understood and like watching him,
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Speaker 3: watching him watch football games stuff like that when he
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Speaker 3: was real little, but oh, that's a fumble or he
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Speaker 3: didn't catch that. Like when they do reviews, he would
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Speaker 3: get mad because like they called something a catch that
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Speaker 3: wasn't a catch or was a fumble, wasn't fumble. Like
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Speaker 3: he would get mad like early on stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: So I was like, kid's a little different there.
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Speaker 1: So you're saying Rech three, after his playing days, he's
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Speaker 1: probably going to be an official like or something like
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Speaker 1: that because he's got an eye for that stuff.
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Speaker 3: Well yeah, I like, so I don't know about an
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Speaker 3: official because if he's like me, he wouldn't have the patience.
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Speaker 3: Like my mom always said talking about me, like you
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Speaker 3: should be a referee. I was like, I'd be kicking
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Speaker 3: people out immediately.
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Speaker 2: I love the game.
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Speaker 3: But like anybody talking to me crazy, He's like, you're gone, Personaliul,
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Speaker 3: get out of here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, have the patience. If he's like me.
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Speaker 1: As a as a ball noer, it's hard for yardbird
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Speaker 1: to be sirping at you from buying the scenes, not
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Speaker 1: knowing what actually looks, you know, so that those those
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Speaker 1: are tough. So you you see this, you see these splashes,
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Speaker 1: and you're like, man, there's some potentials there. It's hard
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Speaker 1: because as the man and as a father, you know
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Speaker 1: that like growing them to be a contributing, minute member
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Speaker 1: of society, you know, with a decent head on there,
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Speaker 1: that that's that's you know, that's the main thing for us.
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Speaker 1: But also as an athlete, as you know, a fan
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Speaker 1: of sport, you start going, man, well, you know, how
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Speaker 1: do I get my hands in here and kind of
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Speaker 1: help him foster this and curate this and craft this
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Speaker 1: this you know, this professional athlete. So when did that
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Speaker 1: stuff starts? You know, for for Reggie, because some people,
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Speaker 1: some people it's early. Some people's a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Later, honestly about third grade.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, he started off, he was really good
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Speaker 3: at sports, and then one of the more popular trainers
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Speaker 3: in the area kind of noticed him. And actually the
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Speaker 3: gym I work out now that I work at now,
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Speaker 3: the owner his son came Nellby. He was a twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty five track and basketball guy. They were really good
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Speaker 3: early and that guy Tremaine Hall, he used to he
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Speaker 3: would say, hey, you should come work out with us
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Speaker 3: and stuff like that. So like Reggie started probably like
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Speaker 3: working out and like training footwork, Agiley all that about
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Speaker 3: like eight years old, like it was. He was like
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Speaker 3: really early, Like everyone saw, like that kid's different. So
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Speaker 3: like about about eight he started. He's been he's been
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Speaker 3: doing footwork training all that stuff since he was eight
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Speaker 3: years old.
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Speaker 1: Man, that's crazy, that's crazy. So he got he got
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Speaker 1: the footwork training and everything like that. When did you
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Speaker 1: start honing in on defensive back or safety.
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Speaker 2: That kind of kind He was always physical so when
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Speaker 2: we started, you know, I was an assistant coach when
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Speaker 2: he was a he started football at five or six,
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Speaker 2: I can't remember, like tackle maybe six, and like he
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Speaker 2: was physical right away, Like we had to teach me
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Speaker 2: stuff like that teach them like form and all that stuff.
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Speaker 3: It was just like wow, we went but like, so
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Speaker 3: well he started off off because in uh in Ohio
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Speaker 3: where we are, they call it band him that's first
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Speaker 3: and second grade.
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Speaker 2: So he was first grade playing with first and second graders.
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Speaker 3: So he started off at like corner, like that was
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Speaker 3: his first position was corner, and then the next year
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Speaker 3: he moved to safety. And literally he's been playing safety
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Speaker 3: his whole life till till now in Oklahoma. And like
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Speaker 3: he played offense too because he was like a good athlete.
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Speaker 3: So you know, they always put a good athlete on offense,
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Speaker 3: playing quarterback or running back. But like he, uh, he's
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Speaker 3: been a dB since he was in second grade. Man,
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Speaker 3: he's been safety since he was in second grade.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's uh, I mean he's good at it. So
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Speaker 1: so that's that he's been. He's been crackticing that craft
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Speaker 1: for a while, all right. So something that I'm assuming
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Speaker 1: that did not start in second grade is the recruiting process.
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Speaker 1: When did when did that type of thing start happening?
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Speaker 1: Because I mean mentally you might be starting to prepare
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Speaker 1: for it early, but like when did it actually start?
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Speaker 2: Well, he got he so freshman year, he started going
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Speaker 2: on he still played freshman ball, so he started going
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Speaker 2: on camps with some of the local athletes, like.
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Speaker 3: To Clemson, South Colina and stuff like that, and people
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Speaker 3: noticed that he was developed early at schools. I remember
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Speaker 3: South Carolina was like, you know, we're gonna keep eye
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Speaker 3: on him. But like he got he started his sophomore year,
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Speaker 3: he did start, I think after the first game, he
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Speaker 3: might start the second game, and then he started the
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Speaker 3: rest of his career. So he got his first offer
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Speaker 3: after his after his sophomore year. So like here, we'll
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Speaker 3: have like showcases where it's like the league has a
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Speaker 3: showcase where you know, schools can come in and see
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Speaker 3: like everybody everybody in the league for like an hour
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Speaker 3: time period on the same day.
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Speaker 2: So like spring, you know there's there's about eight different schools.
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Speaker 3: So he got his first offer was U Mass about
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Speaker 3: a week before that because the U Mass he's still there,
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Speaker 3: like the linebacker safety's coach who has this area is
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Speaker 3: from the Dayton, Ohio area, so he kind of recruits
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Speaker 3: the Ohio here. Has got his first offer from U
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Speaker 3: Mass and then once he had that first showcase, he
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Speaker 3: did really good and I think he might have picked
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Speaker 3: up five offers that day, So it was you see
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Speaker 3: when Fickle was still there and then he got Toledo
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Speaker 3: Ball State, which is a MAC and Eastern Kentucky or
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Speaker 3: something like that. So like it started like basically, you know,
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Speaker 3: you know, I didn't play football at his level, so
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Speaker 3: I was thinking maybe after his junior year, so like
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Speaker 3: it started right after sophomore year. Like it way faster
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Speaker 3: than I thought it was gonna be, and then it
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Speaker 3: just took off.
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Speaker 1: So one of the questions that I find super intriguing
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Speaker 1: is you're hearing from so many different staffs, and you know,
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Speaker 1: when when you're when you're starting a dating relationship or
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Speaker 1: a job interview, you kind of got to put your
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Speaker 1: like best who you are forward, even though it's not
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Speaker 1: always entirely accurate. But like, what's what's the difference between
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Speaker 1: you know, when you're hearing all these coaching staffs, were
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Speaker 1: there things as a parent that you continue to kind
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Speaker 1: of pick up on or things that you wanted to
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Speaker 1: hear that stood out more than others?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think that was more like once we started
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Speaker 3: like going to some campuses and like being in person,
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Speaker 3: because like on the phone or something like that, somebody
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Speaker 3: may offer him because they stopped at the high school
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Speaker 3: and then call me later.
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Speaker 2: That's one thing, But like you could just see who
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Speaker 2: was more interested in him.
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Speaker 3: Like you know, you go to a campus, you go
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Speaker 3: to you know, a junior day or anything, a game visit,
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Speaker 3: you can see, okay, the head coach and position or
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Speaker 3: with this kid over here, and then you know there's
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Speaker 3: a recruiter with this guy and you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 3: you can see who's with So like that that's something
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Speaker 3: that I noticed earlier was Okay, you can see who
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Speaker 3: their big dogs are and who you know, who they're
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Speaker 3: interested in, and like who's just like you know, we'll
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Speaker 3: see how they develop. So like once I started seeing
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Speaker 3: stuff like that, so like Cincinnati was real aggressive early.
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Speaker 2: They would come to well they're forty five minutes away,
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Speaker 2: so they.
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Speaker 3: Would come from school Max who is at Wisconsin now
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Speaker 3: you know, with check in with me and stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: So it's like when it started to become like multi
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Speaker 3: layer where it's not just talking to him or texting him,
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Speaker 3: and then when we get on campus, you can kind
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Speaker 3: of feel we went to Tennessee, we went to a
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Speaker 3: lot of schools like that and you can just tell
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Speaker 3: who's truly interested and who's just you know, we'll see
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Speaker 3: how this goes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean. So you pick up
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Speaker 2: on that right away.
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Speaker 3: So that's something I tried to point out to him
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Speaker 3: as well, is that, you know, don't just be excited
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Speaker 3: by the jersey or who it is. It's like, how
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Speaker 3: do they treat you? And how do you when you're
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Speaker 3: in their presence? How are they reacting with other kids?
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Speaker 3: How are they reacting with you? So that's that's something
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Speaker 3: that I would notice, like if it was genuine or like,
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Speaker 3: do they feel like you just they're just repeating the
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Speaker 3: same stuff that they say to other kids everybody.
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Speaker 1: Yeahah, So that rolls into the next piece is this
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Speaker 1: is obviously the future for your son, and though they're you,
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Speaker 1: you're not separating him as he leaves for campus, But like, oh,
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Speaker 1: how hard is that to really just try to let
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Speaker 1: him have his own experience. But at the same time
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Speaker 1: make sure that you're kind of pointing things out, because
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a balance there. And we hear about
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Speaker 1: some things where it's all about the pops or the
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Speaker 1: uncle or something like that, and then you hear things
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Speaker 1: where it's like, well, this kid's getting to make his
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Speaker 1: own decision and it's always you know, so as a fan,
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Speaker 1: you're always following those things, going, uh, how did you
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Speaker 1: manage that?
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Speaker 3: So luckily for him, me, his mom, his support system,
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Speaker 3: like we're our college graduates, we're kind of financially like good,
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, not rich, but like we're okay,
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Speaker 3: So like it wasn't going to be our way out,
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. Like him, he was going
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Speaker 3: to be able to go to school, whether he played
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Speaker 3: sports or not. So that was a pressure that we
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Speaker 3: didn't have. So Luckily for him, it was all about
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Speaker 3: him and that where I wanted him to go or
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Speaker 3: who was going to give him money or stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: So what I just tried to help him with because
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Speaker 3: like you know, he's a he really could be a
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Speaker 3: class of twenty twenty five. He started school early, So
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Speaker 3: what I tried to teach him is just how to
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Speaker 3: interact with adults because it could be a forty five
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Speaker 3: year old talking to a fifteen year old like they
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Speaker 3: know the game.
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Speaker 2: So like I mean, I just tried to provide him.
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Speaker 3: Back up, like hey, you want to make sure when
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Speaker 3: you're when they're talking, when they reach out to you,
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Speaker 3: that you are making sure that you're bonding properly, not
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Speaker 3: talking to him like you're a fifteen year old kid.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean that what's up?
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Speaker 3: Or what up?
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Speaker 2: Or like stuff like hey, coach, how you doing.
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Speaker 3: Like I tried to like teach him like that aspect
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Speaker 3: of stuff and to like make sure that he understood
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Speaker 3: when they're talking to him, to like really listen to
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Speaker 3: what they're what they're saying, and you know how often
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Speaker 3: they're reaching out if they want you to come to campus,
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Speaker 3: if they want you to camp, different stuff like that,
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Speaker 3: to just see what their true interest is and just
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Speaker 3: just kind of like support him and like educate them, like, hey,
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Speaker 3: I haven't been in your spot as far as football,
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Speaker 3: but I have interacted with adults. I've had meetings and
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Speaker 3: stuff like that, so I know how to interact. So
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Speaker 3: I tried to give him game on like that type
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Speaker 3: stuff and make sure you're responding to everybody, because yeah,
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Speaker 3: it may be a school you're not interested, but by
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Speaker 3: the time you're a senior, you don't know where that
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Speaker 3: coach is going to be.
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Speaker 2: So if you burn a bridge at them because it's
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Speaker 2: at a MAC school or something like that. And then
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Speaker 2: he's in the SEC.
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Speaker 3: He's not gonna when you and Hey, I want to
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Speaker 3: come visit your school, he'd be like.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: So I just we tried to educate him on that
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Speaker 3: and like just making sure like he wasn't like chasing
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Speaker 3: a jersey, and like, how do you know you need
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Speaker 3: to go to these schools and see the campus? You know,
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Speaker 3: do you want to live there? It's more than just
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Speaker 3: what you see on TV. It's the fit of the defense.
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Speaker 3: Where do they want you to play? Do you want
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Speaker 3: to live there?
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Speaker 2: Do you want to.
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Speaker 3: Play for that coach? If that coach leaves, do you
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Speaker 3: want to still be there? Different stuff like that, Just
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Speaker 3: trying to make them look past just right now.
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Speaker 2: And like, yeah, where you're going, not just where you are.
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Speaker 1: And and you did a great job at that, because
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Speaker 1: when we got to meet him at the spring game,
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Speaker 1: you know me as an you know, as an ex athlete,
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Speaker 1: and I mean I'm forty two, so it's not like
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Speaker 1: I'm a kid anymore. But you know, he was yes, sir, yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: thank you, mister Cooper. And I was like no, no, no, dude,
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Speaker 1: just all me goops and so I had to walk
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Speaker 1: him back a little bit for me personally. But you guys,
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Speaker 1: you guys did a hell of a job. I just
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Speaker 1: I appreciate, uh, those things so much. So later starts
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Speaker 1: falling in. You get Cincinnati, you see some of these
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Speaker 1: things elevating again. You're trying to keep them away from
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Speaker 1: Like don't just look at the jersey right now, like
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Speaker 1: those things change. When did Oklahoma first reach out and
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Speaker 1: was it Coach Hall?
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Speaker 2: It was Coach Hall, I would say August of going
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Speaker 2: into his senior year, he started noticing. Okay, like four
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Speaker 2: of them just followed.
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Speaker 3: Me, so like we know, we you know, he had
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Speaker 3: been further enough in the process where he's like, if
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Speaker 3: four or five people start following you, you're on their board.
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Speaker 2: So Coach Hall start reaching out. And then uh, Coach
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Speaker 2: Vinibles I remember him.
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Speaker 3: He was at school and sent me a screenshot was
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Speaker 3: coach Venables and DMed and said, hey, you're interested in
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Speaker 3: being a suitor? Said like you better tell that man.
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Speaker 3: Hell yes, So you know it was a good process.
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Speaker 3: It was the coach Hall, Coach Venibles, Coach JP Lostman.
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Speaker 3: They would stay in constant contact with him, and I
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Speaker 3: think they got to offer like September or something like that.
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Speaker 3: But like they did their their due diligence of making
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Speaker 3: sure the family was right. You know, you know, he
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Speaker 3: had the good intentions of the right mindset, did the
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Speaker 3: background checks with his uh football coaches, head coach, position,
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Speaker 3: coach coordinator, all that stuff to just make sure you know,
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Speaker 3: it's it's it's.
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Speaker 2: A good fit. Like the dude.
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Speaker 3: Like they already looked at the film and said the player, Okay,
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Speaker 3: he's good. What about the du So they did a
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Speaker 3: good job with that. They did a good job because
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Speaker 3: like they would, you know, coach Venables and JP. JP
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Speaker 3: would FaceTime me when they're about to start practice and
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Speaker 3: stuff like that. They're on the field, you see him
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Speaker 3: doing the sooner jacks and all that stuff in the background.
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Speaker 2: So they did a good job including everybody in it.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's awesome. JP. It's one of the guys
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Speaker 1: that I think a lot of people kind of he
18:03
Speaker 1: gets lost, but I mean he is an absolute glue
18:05
Speaker 1: figure in this in this staff. I love coach lossman.
18:09
Speaker 1: He saw So you bring up a good point because Previtables,
18:15
Speaker 1: I mean he came in and said he was going
18:17
Speaker 1: to recruit a different way than what we were used to, right,
18:20
Speaker 1: it was, it was something completely different. But he said
18:23
Speaker 1: he wanted to recruit leaders, you know, great men, people
18:27
Speaker 1: who had high character. So I mean number one, I mean,
18:31
Speaker 1: I congratulate you and Mom, because I mean, you guys
18:35
Speaker 1: raised bat Man, you raised him. He had to make
18:38
Speaker 1: his own choice, but you guys did a great job
18:39
Speaker 1: with that. So I mean, it's that's something that's got
18:42
Speaker 1: to make you proud as a parent, you know, to know,
18:44
Speaker 1: and that's a focal point of the Sooner recruiting staff
18:48
Speaker 1: that you guys did your job before you even knew
18:51
Speaker 1: that that was an option.
18:53
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah.
18:54
Speaker 3: So like Coach Hall told me, like you know, every
18:57
Speaker 3: everybody we checked with the school counsel, there's all that stuff,
19:01
Speaker 3: like everybody gave him like good reports and stuff like
19:03
Speaker 3: that about how Reggie behaved, how he interacted and stuff
19:06
Speaker 3: like that. So that stuff that he's doing well, not
19:09
Speaker 3: just with me, but just athletes are doing like when
19:12
Speaker 3: parents aren't around, So like that's what you really want
19:14
Speaker 3: to you know, you know how to act in front
19:16
Speaker 3: of you, but like when you're not around, how are they?
19:18
Speaker 3: So that's always good to hear as a parent.
19:21
Speaker 1: So for you as a parent, you're letting your son
19:24
Speaker 1: have this own thing. But like for you, what were
19:27
Speaker 1: the top three you know, just make or break things
19:30
Speaker 1: that you wanted to see for when you know a
19:33
Speaker 1: school Reggie.
19:34
Speaker 2: Was going to go, were they all in on him?
19:39
Speaker 3: You know that, like they truly Like it wasn't like
19:43
Speaker 3: you hear the terms like depth, peace or something like that,
19:45
Speaker 3: like no, do you think this kid is going to
19:48
Speaker 3: be a high level player in your program? So that
19:55
Speaker 3: and then you know what he thought about the fit,
19:57
Speaker 3: Cause like he got because he played so many positions,
20:01
Speaker 3: people were recruiting them at different things, Like some of
20:04
Speaker 3: them wanted to.
20:04
Speaker 2: Be like an outside linebacker where he would.
20:07
Speaker 3: Need to get to like two twenty five or something
20:09
Speaker 3: like that, or you know he'd be mixing in with
20:11
Speaker 3: the linemen a lot. Some okay, can he play deep safety?
20:15
Speaker 3: So the fit for him? And then was he comfortable
20:20
Speaker 3: like at that campus? Because what I've learned and what
20:24
Speaker 3: he learned, and what I would tell some of my
20:26
Speaker 3: athletes is like you got to go to these campus
20:28
Speaker 3: so you can see if you want to live there
20:30
Speaker 3: or now you know, so I kind of recognized that
20:33
Speaker 3: he really doesn't like city like big cities, you know
20:36
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So like the campuses, He's like, the
20:38
Speaker 3: most are like a good sized campus, but they're like
20:41
Speaker 3: off to themselves. They're not like a munch of one
20:44
Speaker 3: way's going this way and all that stuff, and like
20:46
Speaker 3: in like downtown and stuff like that.
20:48
Speaker 2: He didn't really ride with that, but you don't know
20:50
Speaker 2: until you go.
20:52
Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
20:53
Speaker 3: The two places that he went where he felt most
20:55
Speaker 3: comfortable was like Michigan State where he committed there and
20:59
Speaker 3: then they had their issues. But it's like the same
21:01
Speaker 3: East Lansing is like Norman.
21:03
Speaker 2: So when you got to.
21:04
Speaker 3: Norman, I saw right away that same glow that he
21:07
Speaker 3: had at Michigan State, like I feel comfortable here, blah
21:10
Speaker 3: zah blah, Like he had that Norman.
21:12
Speaker 2: So like I was good.
21:13
Speaker 3: If once he got on campus, if he liked the area,
21:16
Speaker 3: like the coaches and stuff like that.
21:18
Speaker 2: I was good.
21:19
Speaker 1: So so you bring up to the Michigan State and
21:23
Speaker 1: that's one that I think a lot of people would
21:24
Speaker 1: like to hear about because you bought in. You see
21:27
Speaker 1: that campus, you know that traditionally that's a great program.
21:31
Speaker 1: And so you guys committed to Michigan State when when
21:37
Speaker 1: when when you guys called and REGI committed? What was
21:40
Speaker 1: that process? Like, like did he was he? Was he
21:43
Speaker 1: one hundred percent all in at that moment or was it?
21:47
Speaker 2: Was it?
21:47
Speaker 1: Maybe not one hundred percent?
21:50
Speaker 3: So no, So like he got the offer, I like
21:55
Speaker 3: one of those showcases, Like I said, so showcase going
21:58
Speaker 3: to his junior year. He he hadn't talked to Michigan
22:01
Speaker 3: State or anything like that, but the DB's coach was
22:03
Speaker 3: there offered him right away, and like he was excited,
22:06
Speaker 3: Like right away it was like different. I don't know,
22:08
Speaker 3: you know, he just vibe with the coach or not.
22:11
Speaker 3: But you know, then once we did, we scheduled the
22:13
Speaker 3: fishp official visit and that was our first time there
22:16
Speaker 3: on that official visit. Like he told he felt so comforted.
22:19
Speaker 3: Like Friday night, he was like I'm going to commit here.
22:22
Speaker 3: So he's like that because he was interacting like he's
22:25
Speaker 3: he's kind of quiet, so like I saw him going
22:27
Speaker 3: out and talking to people a lot, and like it
22:29
Speaker 3: was just like he was like with his high school teammates,
22:33
Speaker 3: you know what.
22:33
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like that's how the vibe was for him.
22:35
Speaker 3: So I'm like, oh shit, you know this kid likes
22:39
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, So no, he's all in.
22:41
Speaker 2: He's not one of the guys that.
22:44
Speaker 3: Was like I'm gonna keep all my options open or
22:47
Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna still do visits and stuff like that,
22:50
Speaker 3: because when he committed there, that was his third. Back
22:53
Speaker 3: then you can only do five officially, So he did
22:56
Speaker 3: Northwestern pitt then Michigan State, and then the next week
23:00
Speaker 3: and he was supposed to be at Cincinnati in the
23:02
Speaker 3: weekend after that, Ohio State and uh. Once he committed
23:06
Speaker 3: to Michigan State on that Saturday, he on the way
23:09
Speaker 3: home he called Cincinnati and Ohio State and say he
23:11
Speaker 3: wasn't coming. So it's like he's not a he's not
23:14
Speaker 3: a flip flopper until he saw, like this coach is
23:16
Speaker 3: not gonna I was trying to tell him, like even
23:18
Speaker 3: when Michigan State was going through their things and like
23:21
Speaker 3: coach Stucker kind of was removed.
23:23
Speaker 2: Now he hadn't been fired yet.
23:24
Speaker 3: I was like, you gotta understand stuff like this happened
23:27
Speaker 3: sun Like the head coach, usually the coordinator and the
23:31
Speaker 3: position coach aren't going to be there. So the three
23:33
Speaker 3: people you committed to, I ain't gonna be there. Man,
23:36
Speaker 3: I'm saying they're not gonna and that they hadn't been
23:39
Speaker 3: let go yet, but like they're they're not going to
23:41
Speaker 3: be there. They're gonna bring on new staff because they're
23:43
Speaker 3: going to have to try to change the culture and
23:45
Speaker 3: stuff like that. And then, you know, even though Oklahoma
23:48
Speaker 3: was already talking to him in August, that's when he
23:50
Speaker 3: was like, Okay, let me, let me see what's going on.
23:53
Speaker 2: So that's when like he was really interested in Oklahoma
23:56
Speaker 2: and U c l A.
23:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, there there was there was talk of you know, Red,
24:00
Speaker 1: you know, there were a couple of other guys that
24:02
Speaker 1: had been you know, David Stone was looking at Michigan
24:05
Speaker 1: State at that point, you know, talking about that. And
24:08
Speaker 1: so when the Michigan State and Sooners were overlapping quite
24:13
Speaker 1: a bit. So when all of a sudden we start
24:15
Speaker 1: hearing know, Reggie Powers the Third and Jay and I
24:18
Speaker 1: started digging in the film, we were like, oh, Paul's
24:21
Speaker 1: at it again, because that boy that was that was fire.
24:24
Speaker 1: So we're you had that conversation with him about, you know,
24:29
Speaker 1: potentially what's going on. So when Oklahoma, now you're you're
24:33
Speaker 1: official visited Oklahoma. Did you see the same things from
24:37
Speaker 1: the Michigan State deal where he's you know, integrating himself
24:39
Speaker 1: into the you know, into the crew and out there
24:42
Speaker 1: having conversations with the players, or did he take it
24:44
Speaker 1: differently the second time.
24:46
Speaker 3: So the first time we went there, that was on
24:48
Speaker 3: our our time. We did an unofficial so it was
24:50
Speaker 3: just me and him that went there. Maybe the UCF game,
24:53
Speaker 3: I think it was, was that first one. Yeah, yeah,
24:56
Speaker 3: and I saw a lot of same things. And it's
24:57
Speaker 3: different because it was the game day versus ficial visit
25:00
Speaker 3: where you got a full forty eight hours, but you know,
25:03
Speaker 3: those damn eleven o'clock kickoffs, man, we got there, Like
25:10
Speaker 3: we took care of that. Yeah, the game started, the
25:13
Speaker 3: game hadn't started yet, but like we missed. We didn't
25:15
Speaker 3: get to see the pregame warm ups and stuff like that.
25:17
Speaker 3: We were off the plane. But you know, the game,
25:22
Speaker 3: the environment, seeing everybody, you know, you know, the ladies
25:26
Speaker 3: had the boots on and the cowboy hats.
25:28
Speaker 2: And stuff like that.
25:29
Speaker 3: And then we were able to see Coach v before
25:33
Speaker 3: he was in his own office and like he doesn't
25:35
Speaker 3: usually do this, but he wanted to see you before
25:37
Speaker 3: the game. So like we were able to go talk
25:39
Speaker 3: to coach Vinnibles when he was in his office and
25:42
Speaker 3: doing his prayers, doing his pre game stuff like that,
25:44
Speaker 3: and like that made him once again, that made him
25:47
Speaker 3: feel special, like Okay, they're they're they're doing what they
25:50
Speaker 3: can now it's time crunch, but like they're fitting you in,
25:55
Speaker 3: So like that was important. And then like the atmosphere
25:57
Speaker 3: was great. Of course, the guys played a tough game.
26:01
Speaker 3: And then afterwards when he hung out, I think we
26:04
Speaker 3: went to dinner and I think Billy picked him up.
26:09
Speaker 3: So he hung out with Billy afterwards. And then Sunday
26:12
Speaker 3: when I got back, he felt really good and he
26:15
Speaker 3: committed that Sunday man. So when he when he he
26:18
Speaker 3: doesn't mess around if he feels right and he's like, yeah, yeah.
26:21
Speaker 1: It's sound to go. Well, then let me ask you this.
26:26
Speaker 1: Have you been a have you followed Oklahoma football like
26:29
Speaker 1: pretty closely before this? Okay, so you know that just
26:32
Speaker 1: I mean just a few years ago. I mean as
26:35
Speaker 1: many as you know, four or five safety wasn't exactly
26:39
Speaker 1: a position on this team that Sooner fans like talking
26:42
Speaker 1: about because it was not a strength. Now you've got Billy,
26:47
Speaker 1: you've got R. S. J. You've got Peyton, and you
26:51
Speaker 1: know Bogo and Reggie are are the next the next
26:55
Speaker 1: guy's coming up to this is now one of the
26:58
Speaker 1: stronger positions on this team. Like what do those conversations
27:02
Speaker 1: look like on Like hey man, Like these guys are
27:05
Speaker 1: set in the bar, like are you ready to are
27:08
Speaker 1: you ready to take it and elevate it? Because I've
27:10
Speaker 1: made comments that you know, the most unathletic, you know
27:14
Speaker 1: players on this team might be our starters because of
27:17
Speaker 1: how they and it's not a knock to them, it's
27:19
Speaker 1: just a trend that is going on. So what does
27:22
Speaker 1: that conversation look like?
27:24
Speaker 2: So one thing is like.
27:27
Speaker 3: Him and competing ain't never been a problem like that, dude,
27:30
Speaker 3: Like that's one thing I don't, you know, hard work
27:33
Speaker 3: stuff like that. Like I taught him that early, but
27:36
Speaker 3: like he that's him now. So he's going to compete.
27:39
Speaker 3: He's gonna work hard. And to be honest, like when
27:44
Speaker 3: he was like junior senior, I was like, you know,
27:47
Speaker 3: if he goes somewhere just because he was younger, because
27:49
Speaker 3: like I said, he could have been in the twenty
27:50
Speaker 3: twenty five class, I was like, you know, if he
27:52
Speaker 3: goes somewhere in Red Shirts per year and then goes
27:55
Speaker 3: out and starts.
27:57
Speaker 2: Three or four years. I don't care like I've won,
27:59
Speaker 2: because he's going to school for free. I won. Yeah,
28:01
Speaker 2: so like it's.
28:03
Speaker 3: For him at that. So, like, I mean, if it
28:05
Speaker 3: was all about starting, you know, him and Boganowski could
28:08
Speaker 3: have went to fifty different schools and started like not
28:13
Speaker 3: two on home.
28:13
Speaker 1: But like it's just it's true that behind you is
28:18
Speaker 1: what it is.
28:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, So.
28:23
Speaker 3: You know, Coach Hall, he said, you know, I want
28:25
Speaker 3: you to come in and compete. I want you to
28:29
Speaker 3: prepare like day one, You're going to be the starter.
28:31
Speaker 3: That's how I want you, you know, to put the
28:33
Speaker 3: work in. I'm sure he tells all the athletes that,
28:35
Speaker 3: and that's kind of the approach Reggie already had. But
28:38
Speaker 3: that's kind of the approach he takes. So like and
28:40
Speaker 3: then me being a coach too, is like, hell, I
28:43
Speaker 3: want the best players to play right away.
28:45
Speaker 2: I don't.
28:45
Speaker 3: I'm not a My kids should be doing this. I've
28:47
Speaker 3: never been that, you know what I'm saying. So it's like,
28:50
Speaker 3: you know, Bowman, Spears, Peyton dudes are good man, let
28:56
Speaker 3: them do his rock and then like let him fit in.
29:00
Speaker 3: He fits in. And then you know, get his opportunities
29:03
Speaker 3: and then when it's his time, he'll be ready. You know.
29:05
Speaker 3: Throwing somebody out in the big you know, in a
29:07
Speaker 3: big time program and they're not really ready, they'll get exposed.
29:11
Speaker 3: So I'd rather him be able to learn the other
29:13
Speaker 3: dudes hold it, hold it down until he's ready and
29:17
Speaker 3: didn't play, so I didn't That's the conversation where you
29:20
Speaker 3: really didn't want, didn't have to have because he was
29:23
Speaker 3: going to work his butt off regardless.
29:25
Speaker 2: And it's like you got three NFL dudes in front
29:27
Speaker 2: of you, is what it is.
29:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you talked about this couple of times, so
29:33
Speaker 1: you get his his go at it. And I know
29:36
Speaker 1: that you and I have talked about some of like
29:38
Speaker 1: the coach's opinions on him, and I mean that's awesome,
29:42
Speaker 1: but like his go for it that set you know
29:45
Speaker 1: that they were going to take care of him, and
29:47
Speaker 1: Coach Ball and Coach Fenibles and uh, coach Ali, they're
29:50
Speaker 1: going to take care of him. Being a good player.
29:53
Speaker 1: Oh you is different because they they talk about developing men,
29:57
Speaker 1: men of God, men who are an asset to the community.
30:02
Speaker 1: And then there's the soul mission piece. I mean So
30:05
Speaker 1: if someone's watching this and they're you know, they've heard
30:08
Speaker 1: this pitch and their kids still going through the process,
30:10
Speaker 1: Like what would you say to them? You know, as
30:12
Speaker 1: far as like hey man, this is it's something they
30:15
Speaker 1: talk about. You know, I'm still going to see it,
30:16
Speaker 1: or no, this is real.
30:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, So like that part of it, like I said,
30:21
Speaker 3: like you said, the football part, I know he's gonna
30:24
Speaker 3: be fine, But like developing the person afterwards, because a
30:27
Speaker 3: lot of these kids, they're most college is over. It's
30:31
Speaker 3: just like high school for some kids. Sometimes that's the
30:33
Speaker 3: furthest you go. Yeah, you know, so preparing the man
30:37
Speaker 3: to be, you know, be able to know how to interview,
30:40
Speaker 3: know how to communicate, know how to network and like
30:45
Speaker 3: so I may be just like I can't really cook,
30:47
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
30:48
Speaker 2: So about it.
30:49
Speaker 3: So some of the things for me as the dad
30:51
Speaker 3: was like you know, they they open up restaurants and
30:54
Speaker 3: they show him how to make stuff from scratch and
30:56
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
30:57
Speaker 2: So like that shit I didn't have. Sorry, that stuff
31:00
Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know how to do.
31:01
Speaker 3: So, you know, to be you know, you want your
31:04
Speaker 3: kids to be better than you, right, So like stuff
31:07
Speaker 3: like that, you know, simple stuff, not a tie tie.
31:10
Speaker 3: A lot of kids don't know how to tie tie,
31:12
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, don't know how to do
31:13
Speaker 3: things like that. So like preparing him to be a
31:16
Speaker 3: man outside of football. It's like, of course, as a parent,
31:20
Speaker 3: like his dad, that's my job primarily, right, I'm not
31:23
Speaker 3: going to depend on the teacher or anybody else to
31:25
Speaker 3: kind of show him how to be a man. But like, yeah,
31:28
Speaker 3: as a secondary that's the type of stuff that I'm
31:31
Speaker 3: looking for. It's like you're gonna make sure, Okay, he's
31:33
Speaker 3: gonna play hard, he's gonna do all that stuff, but like,
31:36
Speaker 3: are you going to help him be a better person?
31:39
Speaker 3: So when he's gone, I don't have to worry about him.
31:42
Speaker 3: And that's one thing, Like I don't worry about anything.
31:44
Speaker 3: I still give him game on how to interact with
31:48
Speaker 3: you know, people, stuff like that, ladies.
31:51
Speaker 2: All that stuff. You know what I'm saying, that's still
31:53
Speaker 2: gonna come for me.
31:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, the other stuff, I just you know, I don't
31:58
Speaker 3: I don't worry about him at all.
32:00
Speaker 2: With him being there, and like the opportunities that.
32:02
Speaker 3: He's going to have and how they're going to teach
32:04
Speaker 3: him different stuff outside of football, Like, that's fantastic for me.
32:09
Speaker 1: So you know he's done stole mission stuff. They go
32:12
Speaker 1: on mission trips. Since he shared any of you know
32:14
Speaker 1: the stories back from there, well.
32:16
Speaker 3: He hasn't gone on any missions yet. That's something that
32:19
Speaker 3: was like me and his mom Bo says, like next offseason,
32:23
Speaker 3: we want you to do that because, like one is
32:26
Speaker 3: a great opportunity and it's always good to see stuff
32:29
Speaker 3: outside of your normal world, you know what I'm saying.
32:31
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, just with me, like I've been
32:35
Speaker 3: able to travel to different places and like from.
32:37
Speaker 2: The airport to the resort, it's a totally different world.
32:40
Speaker 3: Sometimes when those back roles and ten out sols like
32:43
Speaker 3: you need to really see what's out there so you
32:45
Speaker 3: can appreciate what you have and then also realize there's
32:48
Speaker 3: people that you may be able to help, you know
32:50
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, interacting with them kids stuff like that
32:53
Speaker 3: to show you know, that may be something he wants
32:55
Speaker 3: to do later on. It's like, you know, be somebody
32:58
Speaker 3: like works with kids or you know, have a foundation
33:02
Speaker 3: later on.
33:03
Speaker 2: Things like that.
33:03
Speaker 3: It's like it's just a good opportunity to be able
33:06
Speaker 3: to learn outside of your normal, your circle.
33:08
Speaker 1: Basically I understand, Well it's you know, we are a
33:12
Speaker 1: week into fall camp now it's uh talk season is over. Yeah,
33:18
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's getting a little a little I don't know if
33:21
Speaker 1: you call it disrespect or just not the attention except
33:24
Speaker 1: for on the defensive side. Has what story says he
33:28
Speaker 1: shared with you at this point about fall camp, you
33:31
Speaker 1: know and Schmitty and everything like that.
33:33
Speaker 3: Well, like, well as far as Midty, like those working
33:36
Speaker 3: workouts are tough, but like he knew that going into
33:40
Speaker 3: and like you know, like I said, he's been working
33:42
Speaker 3: out in training since he was eight, so it's like,
33:44
Speaker 3: of course it's another level like Hisa, his baseline was
33:48
Speaker 3: a little bit higher, so you know, then he said, basically,
33:52
Speaker 3: the difference is like the volume and the intensity of
33:56
Speaker 3: the workouts is a lot different. But he's been able
34:00
Speaker 3: to manage those. I don't think he's had to throw
34:02
Speaker 3: up yet or anything like that. I think he's been good.
34:05
Speaker 3: You know, he said, a couple of his guys have
34:07
Speaker 3: had to let it, you know, lose their lunch a
34:09
Speaker 3: little bit a couple times workouts, but he hasn't.
34:12
Speaker 2: But that's been good.
34:14
Speaker 3: And then I know, I talked to him, you know,
34:17
Speaker 3: because I follow you know, I listen to you guys
34:19
Speaker 3: and different stuff and look at different message boards just
34:21
Speaker 3: so I can be tapped into what's going on. So
34:25
Speaker 3: I was like, I texted him like a couple of
34:26
Speaker 3: weeks ago. I was like, yeah, I know, you got
34:30
Speaker 3: to stump Texas and Missouri, right, He's like, oh, yeah,
34:34
Speaker 3: we know. But they talked amongst themselves and like, you know,
34:39
Speaker 3: obviously you want to win every game, but like there's
34:41
Speaker 3: a little lecture for those they know that, so you know,
34:46
Speaker 3: and it's just as watching you know, even though I'm
34:48
Speaker 3: from Ohio, so most people here Ohio State or Michigan.
34:52
Speaker 2: But like his.
34:54
Speaker 3: Godfather is a Florida State fan, and I've got two
34:56
Speaker 3: friends that are Sooner fans, you know what I'm saying.
34:58
Speaker 2: So it's like it's a national brand.
35:00
Speaker 3: So like for me to like when people say like
35:02
Speaker 3: six and six and seven and five, I'm like, come on, man,
35:06
Speaker 3: it's like it's not you know, they're gonna be them
35:11
Speaker 3: in Texas are gonna be pushing teams down, not going
35:14
Speaker 3: underneath you. You know what I'm saying. They're like they're gonna
35:17
Speaker 3: be that. Don't mean everybody's gonna go twelve oh or
35:19
Speaker 3: anything like that. But it's like, come on now, Like
35:22
Speaker 3: it just tells you about like what I just said
35:24
Speaker 3: about so much, and like some fan bases and some
35:27
Speaker 3: conferences are just in their bubble and they have never watched.
35:30
Speaker 2: Football outside of their bubble. Yeah, I'm saying.
35:32
Speaker 3: So it's like and then my favorite team being Washington,
35:35
Speaker 3: so that for me, I know the PAC twelve. So
35:37
Speaker 3: I kind of look national wise, and like for some
35:39
Speaker 3: people to be like they're not gonna be ready, it's
35:41
Speaker 3: like you just haven't.
35:42
Speaker 2: You haven't paid attention, Like they've known their coming to
35:44
Speaker 2: the SEC.
35:45
Speaker 3: They've kind of been recruiting towards that, yeah, you know,
35:48
Speaker 3: and then just like one day they'll.
35:49
Speaker 2: Be like, oh we're in a different conference. Huh. You
35:52
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So they've been Coach Vernables has
35:55
Speaker 2: been getting ready.
35:55
Speaker 3: That's why everybody's getting bigger and bigger, and who they're
35:57
Speaker 3: recruiting is bigger.
36:00
Speaker 2: They're gonna be.
36:02
Speaker 1: And when coach b got here, I mean he had
36:05
Speaker 1: I mean I always I always use this analogy. It's
36:09
Speaker 1: like if you're if you're going to uh, you know,
36:11
Speaker 1: do a lot of stuff in your house and you've
36:13
Speaker 1: got the capability to stay somewhere else. It's better to
36:16
Speaker 1: rip everything out and then start start building back in instead
36:21
Speaker 1: of trying to move and shift. And so that's what
36:24
Speaker 1: coach B had to do, is he had to pull
36:26
Speaker 1: everything out the house, He had to gut the house,
36:28
Speaker 1: and it was it was easier to go out and
36:31
Speaker 1: recruit the higher caliber athlete then to take you know,
36:35
Speaker 1: just a remnants in some cases and hope that you
36:38
Speaker 1: could get them to a spot. And so I mean, yeah,
36:41
Speaker 1: it's it's listen. We know that we've been coming to
36:45
Speaker 1: the sec A and n broke the news for us
36:47
Speaker 1: all you know, a few years back, and now they
36:50
Speaker 1: want out. So so tell me this, give me your prediction.
36:53
Speaker 1: Are you ready to make a prediction for the season,
36:55
Speaker 1: because when fans are gonna be watching this and they're
36:57
Speaker 1: gonna be like, what is Reggie's pops think that is
37:00
Speaker 1: about to happen? So what do you think Sooners end
37:03
Speaker 1: up record wise this year?
37:06
Speaker 2: With it being football, so you never know.
37:09
Speaker 3: Health, Yeah, but if we stay relatively healthy and avoid
37:13
Speaker 3: like the season long and like if a certain guy
37:16
Speaker 3: in a certain position has to miss.
37:18
Speaker 2: One or two weeks. I think our depth is across
37:21
Speaker 2: the board is fine.
37:22
Speaker 3: I can honestly I say between like ten and two
37:25
Speaker 3: and ninety three because there's gonna be some tough games,
37:28
Speaker 3: but like they'd be like all the SEC schedule like
37:30
Speaker 3: that don't mean everybody's good man. Yeah, well they have
37:32
Speaker 3: more NFL players on the roster. But just because the
37:36
Speaker 3: patch on your jersey don't mean you're good.
37:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
37:40
Speaker 3: Like there's teams last year that were three and five
37:43
Speaker 3: in the conference, you know what I mean. So it's
37:45
Speaker 3: like everybody's not great. The top end of time, you
37:47
Speaker 3: got Georgia, Bama, LSU. They're always going to be, you know, relevant,
37:51
Speaker 3: but like everybody ain't good man.
37:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it. And like you said, you know it's
37:57
Speaker 1: Oklahoma is in Texas. Uh my own opinions there, but
38:01
Speaker 1: Oklahoma Is want to insert themselves in and just like
38:04
Speaker 1: an Excel spreadsheet, somebody's bumping down, somebody's gonna go from
38:08
Speaker 1: you know, five to six. So but yeah, that's it.
38:12
Speaker 1: What games do you have kind of circled for, uh,
38:16
Speaker 1: you know, most fun that you're wanting to see, and
38:19
Speaker 1: then what games you're going to be coming.
38:20
Speaker 2: To Uh, Well, I'm coming. I've always said. I told him.
38:24
Speaker 2: I was like, I'll do first home game, first SEC game,
38:28
Speaker 2: gotta go to Red River Rivalry, last home game, and
38:32
Speaker 2: then the closest away game. So I'll be at Temple Tennessee,
38:37
Speaker 2: Red Rover Rivalry, Missouri, and.
38:40
Speaker 3: Then is the ones I'll be in in person for sure,
38:44
Speaker 3: like I've already got those locked in, and then I'll
38:47
Speaker 3: make sure those other Saturdays, whatever time he's playing, I'll
38:50
Speaker 3: be I'll be watching. But I'm I'm looking forward to
38:55
Speaker 3: the road game versus Missouri.
38:58
Speaker 2: Uh. And then I think I think all of them
38:59
Speaker 2: are would be good.
39:00
Speaker 3: The SEC the Tennessee game, just because it's the first
39:03
Speaker 3: SEC game that's gonna be different. It's gonna have different
39:07
Speaker 3: energy to it.
39:10
Speaker 2: Back home.
39:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, all that stuff is gonna be good. So there's
39:14
Speaker 3: a lot of ones that's like, there's not a top one.
39:16
Speaker 3: It's just each one of those games is gonna have
39:18
Speaker 3: a little bit different to it for different reasons, you
39:21
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. So like, you know, we gotta
39:23
Speaker 3: put Missouri in their place, you know what I mean,
39:25
Speaker 3: Gotta humble them a little bit, and all you got
39:27
Speaker 3: to do put it on them one time. They'll go
39:30
Speaker 3: back to where they're supposed to be. And then the
39:33
Speaker 3: Alabama game that's to be I want. I want the
39:36
Speaker 3: Sooners to win because my kid plays, But like I
39:39
Speaker 3: said earlier, I'm a Huskies fan, so I want the
39:41
Speaker 3: Border lose for me.
39:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
39:44
Speaker 1: You ripped my heart out and I gotta say, you know, uh,
39:47
Speaker 1: bless you. Sorry, baby Jesus Packed twelve is dead, so
39:51
Speaker 1: you know it's it's it's it's something different now. Well, man,
39:55
Speaker 1: you know, Reggie, I appreciate you hopping on with me.
39:58
Speaker 1: I mean, you're a ball No, you're a parent, You're
40:02
Speaker 1: a quality individual. So I mean, you guys bring brings
40:06
Speaker 1: so much quality and value to this program. And man,
40:10
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch you know, Reggie three uh,
40:13
Speaker 1: you know, become a better player every single day. And
40:17
Speaker 1: we're excited to have you as part of the family.
40:19
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Man.
40:20
Speaker 3: We're grateful to be here, Me and my wife, his mom,
40:23
Speaker 3: we're all happy to be here. My dog, Shiloh just
40:25
Speaker 3: poked her head she sees me talking. Shilow's got a
40:29
Speaker 3: Sooner jersey too, she'll be wearing on game days.
40:32
Speaker 1: Oh there, you go there, you go. I like it.
40:34
Speaker 1: I got a Sooner jersey for one of mine, but
40:36
Speaker 1: the other one won't wear the shirt. Okay, but guys,
40:39
Speaker 1: if you have liked this video, obviously you know Reggie
40:44
Speaker 1: is on Twitter.
40:45
Speaker 3: Reggie give them the Twitter handle. Mister Powers Junior is
40:49
Speaker 3: my handle. I follow a lot of you guys, just
40:52
Speaker 3: you know, so show love. I appreciate everybody, appreciate the
40:56
Speaker 3: fan base that's shown them, showing them a little Redge
40:58
Speaker 3: love and just shiate everything.
41:00
Speaker 2: Man, We're blessed to be here.
41:02
Speaker 1: Definitely, definitely, and I'll be when I dropped the video,
41:05
Speaker 1: I'll tag you and we've be tagging Coach follow, Coach Fenable,
41:08
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So guys, pop in the comments. You know,
41:11
Speaker 1: this is part two of our inside the Sooner family.
41:14
Speaker 1: You know, I've got a great relationship with a couple
41:17
Speaker 1: of these guys. Jay was supposed to be on with
41:19
Speaker 1: us today but his wife gave him a little to
41:22
Speaker 1: do list and so he's going to take care of her.
41:24
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41:35
Speaker 1: that we want to show our fan base, you know,
41:37
Speaker 1: the behind the scenes, who's behind these great men that
41:40
Speaker 1: are coming in with the staff. So again, guys, appreciate
41:43
Speaker 1: you pulling up for unfair sports Reggie. Thank you again, sir,
41:46
Speaker 1: and stay tuned because we'll be dropping this one and
41:50
Speaker 1: a few more here in the next couple of days.
41:53
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, man, Thank you, Thanks brother, man than you