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BONUS: Tyreek Price at 2024 USTFCCCA LIVE interview! · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Bonus time every year at the USTFCCCA convention down in
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  December, we do a live podcast event where we sit down with
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  coaches from around the country for 5:00-ish minutes and talk
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  about a certain topic. This year, December of 2024, we
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  sat down with coaches to talk about the NCAA.
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  What's going on with the NIL transfer portal?
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  Roster caps all. Those kind of good things, and
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  there's some interesting. Feedback and tidbits.
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  From everyone who chose to sat down with us.
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  So here we are, the audio version of that You can catch
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  the video version over on. YouTube.
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  Just search up the Gale Athletics podcast and look for
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  our live events content and you'll find the three that we've
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  done 20/24/2023 2020 2 and we'll do it again in 2025.
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  Alright my friend, how are you doing?
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  Well, doing well. Start by introducing yourself
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  please. And I don't know if you heard
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  the rule. We need the mic pretty close so
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  everybody can hear that beautiful voice.
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  All right, I'm Tyree Price, assistant track and field coach
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  at TCU with the horizontal jumps.
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  The horizontal jumps, man, you you're so I love you.
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  By the way, you do such a good job.
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  You know, USC and Bethune Cookman or SC State?
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  I I always get a mixed up. Yeah, both.
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  OK, See, I took a risk there to guess there, but always have
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  done a good job. Everywhere you go.
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  There's not just necessarily good athletes are attracted to
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  being coached by you. You make really good athletes.
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  You coach your butt off, my friend, and it's really cool to
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  see. I gave it to the athletes and
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  they make help make me. Yeah, You know, I, I, I'm glad I
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  get to do this live because one of my things that I absolutely
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  can't stand when coaches say this and Ken Harden is the worst
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  at this, is I'm just the bus driver.
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  Because here's the thing. If that's true, then I don't
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  need you. We don't need you, but we do
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  need you. You and Ken and other guys and
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  gals. Your coaching matters.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  All right. All right.
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  I get it. I know you're, you know, you of
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  all people, Tyree, you're so humble.
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  If you you're you, you ooze humility.
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  I get that. But don't forget the positive
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  impact you make on young people, which isn't always, by the way,
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  what their penultimate stuff is. It's how you treat and talk with
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  them and lift them up because you know, 99% of them are not
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  going to go pro in track and field, but 100% of them are
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  going to go and become business owners, doctors, teachers,
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  coaches, moms, dads, etcetera. And that's that's your real
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  positive impact that you make. OK, I'm stepping off my soapbox,
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  but we'll get you on your soapbox.
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  So, you know, the theme of the year that we've been talking
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  about, what's your thoughts, feelings, actions on just all
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  this, call it craziness, if you will, this change in the NCAA
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  Well. I think I looked at it from last
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  year's standpoint that I felt it was a, it was a good thing
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  that's coming along. You know, the negative is
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  probably less opportunities for some institutions, but then it's
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  more so for those who people who opt in, it's less opportunities
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  for those schools. But then I always said, you
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  know, because I've come from a mid, mid, mid division.
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  Level Major. And so and then HBCU as well,
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  you have opportunities to get some of the athletes that you
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  didn't have the opportunity to get before.
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  So now it opens up the the level of playing field for those
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  student athletes do. You, you brought up something
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  that I hadn't thought about. You know, I have a lot of
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  respect and love for HBC us, mainly because the coaches that
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  I've met at HBC US are just salt to the earth people.
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  Like I love, you know, we had Richie being here earlier.
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  I mean, just really amazing people.
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  I haven't thought specifically about them.
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  Is, is there any extra negative towards them because of, I'll
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  call it unique situations, you know, being an HBCU, etcetera,
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  or are they lumped into the same of the Division One or you know,
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  division two depending on what division they're in?
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  No, I. I, I really don't think there's
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  any downside because you know, even from, if they opt in and
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  with the 45, it kind of helps them as well.
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  Because now when you're looking at numbers and when Advent the
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  rights are looking at numbers and they're going to boosters
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  and it's like that the, when the numbers fluctuate, then you have
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  no stable body from how many numbers are you're dealing with
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  student athletes. So now from all levels that you
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  say, OK, this is the maximum amount of student athletes
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  you're ever going to have in a given.
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  Year she's here just to take your picture.
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  You know that not not me. Love you guys.
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  Thank you. So when you look at it from that
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  standpoint, now they can say, OK, we're never going to have
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  this many more athletes as a as a body of athletics.
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  And so it's easier to go to the to the constituents and say, OK,
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  this is how much money we're going to need to able to fund
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  this this pro the athletic. Department because we're.
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  Never going to, but when you had before, you can have 100 people
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  on your team, you can have 50 people.
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  And so it can always fluctuate from that standpoint.
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  So it's pretty significantly. The money and keeping it stable
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  like well, this year you ask for this amount of money next that
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  year you ask for. This money, you never ask for
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  less, by the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, You got you
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  got half the roster, but you ask for more.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you know my my boss is
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  over there, I do the I do the same thing in my budget every
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  every year. Every year.
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  I'm glad he's not listening. Sorry.
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  Go ahead. So when you know that this is
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  the maximum amount of people, yeah, you can say, OK.
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  That's a great point. Where?
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  Our high size going to be we're going to go lower, but yeah,
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  this is where high. Size is the match.
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  It gives some stability to because I think you know right
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  now today you you've got to do a lot of things with roster
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  management. Boy, with this 45 and 17 like
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  you are AGM, you are now today, but you are really AGM on roster
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  management. How you do your red shirts when
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  someone gets injured, who you going to carry indoor versus
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  outdoor versus cross? But you do know the maximum
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  though, right? Which is different today?
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  Now the other thing is it forces coaches to really forecast their
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  recruiting out and and really understand those things.
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  But so those, those coaches are not forecasting out.
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  You're just looking for today. You're going to be caught up.
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  Yeah, come in, in two years or three years.
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  So, so how would your best guess, you know, recruiting.
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  So let's say it's 45. So if things are equal and
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  they're typically not ever equal, right, that means
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  11:50-ish per class, not counting a full rich, that
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  that's four years only, right? Not counting 5.
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  And if we, if you're going to be a full team, that means 10
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  people spread out of your distance, your throws, your
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  jumps, your sprints, maybe multi, et cetera.
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  Are you recruiting like you doing jumps?
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  Are you like, down to like just recruiting two kids a year?
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  No, well, it's, it's comes down to I think what each director or
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  or head coach wants to do. And so it just comes out you got
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  to get the best athletes that's going to help your program to be
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  the best that they. Can be.
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  So you may be 0, it could be 0. The Sprint coach may say, hey, I
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  got 510 flat kids right now, boss, right?
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  Yeah. And, and, and that's what you
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  want to look at is what's going to better your program for a
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  conference and what's going to better qualms for nationals.
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  So do you this just kind of, I got a little bit of goosebumps
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  actually. So let's, let's say it's evenly
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  and you recruit two kids a year. Let's just, and, and I realize
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  what you're saying. I respect that.
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  Does that mean, and I hope the answer is yes.
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  And I know we're all conjecture here, but does that mean you
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  might have a better I, I hate this term, but you'll, you'll
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  understand exactly what I'm saying.
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  Work life balance, because right now you could be recruiting.
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  I, I, I imagine you start at 4:00, 50 and it whittles down to
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  the 456 whatever you sign. Is this mean like, oh, I only
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  have to go after 5 or 6 to get my 2?
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  I can actually be a human being and not a track coach 24/7
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  because that's not healthy. Yes and no.
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  And I'm gonna say, and I say that because.
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  Notice all the good coaches always say maybe and yes or no.
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  I. Like that because you're not
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  sure if you're going to get just those two people.
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  So because everybody else is probably after those same two
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  people, you still have to recruit.
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  A. You hope so.
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  Or you there might be the two wrong people.
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  So you're hoping that you're getting you got to have a stable
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  of people. So just in case the two that
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  you're top are going after, you can't get them that OK with
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  these the next two people. So you've got to keep a
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  connection with X amount of people and, and figure out how
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  to do that correctly, meaning not leading people on.
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  And hey, I've, I've signed my 2 that I'm allowed Mr. Mrs. third
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  person. Hey, call my buddy coach So and
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  so at this school or you know, or, or again, if they're you're
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  recruiting the right people. They have, they've got their own
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  backgrounds. Yeah.
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  And so and then and in that case, like you just said, is
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  being able to take that person over.
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  And it's like, you know, listen, you know, we, we've reached the
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  limit of what we can do. I can help you get to the best
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  situation for. You right?
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  Yeah, that that's what's called longevity, by the way, and means
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  you can recruit 2 more people in that 20 years from now, you'll
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  still be a respected person. I love it.
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  All right, Tyree. So we're gonna publish this
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  again next December as we're leading into the 2025
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  convention. So we'll be able to check to see
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  this answer. Give us a prediction for
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  something that's going to happen in track and field.
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  It could be TCU school record. You know, you're going to set
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  the long jump school, which that's a heck of a school
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  record, by the way. It could be, you know, someone
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  earlier said, no, Lyles is going to bounce back and win the 100
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  and 200. So it could be as high as low,
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  anywhere in between. Just what's, what do you think?
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  Something that's exciting, maybe that's going to happen here in
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  2025. Rob Benjamin is going to
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  dominate again. Oh, bro, come on, I said.
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  You got to give some hardness to this.
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  Come on. I had a conversation with Joanna
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  Hayes at Prefontaine 2 years ago.
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  It was talking about rye. And you know, they're at that
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  point the, the, I hate to say to me, people were like, oh, he's
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  underperforming, you know, the, the war home is beating, blah
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  blah, blah. And she's like, they have no
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  idea what's going on, you know, the plan and things like that.
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  And I was like, hey, here's the cool thing.
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  And I know that doesn't care about other people think in
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  regards this. I go, who cares what they think?
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  Just show up and do it. And she's like, that's exactly
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  what we're going to do. And so for them to have the I
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  was so excited, like so pumped as she goes into a head coaching
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  position herself. Like, I was really happy for Rye
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  and and for her, you know, my. Mama being at USC for a.
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  Long time. Here, watching Rye really train.
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  It was. Setting up, it's just.
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  Small, yeah, that's true. You had insider view to this?
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  Yeah, so. The injuries that they happen
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  in, they kind of threw derailed him that year.
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  Yeah, yeah. You saw it built up.
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  It built up and, and I'm not sure, and it's hard to say this
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  because of what he ran and all this because I'm not sure he's
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  at the cut. I think there's more in the
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  tank, but there's a lot more in the tank, yeah.
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  And he's more fired up now than than you thought.
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  But before. I love that.
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  I was at, I think it was Prefontaine somewhere.
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  I had to be in line for one of these that these type of meet
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  that Rye was running in and he was behind me in line.
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  And so I took AI snuck a picture over my and I and I tweeted and
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  said, hey, does anybody recognize this guy?
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  He looks kind of fast. And I tagged him.
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  Yeah, it was kind of funny. I was like, that's the closest
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  Rye Benjamin's ever going to know who the world I I am.
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  Tyree. Thank you so much, man.
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  I'm really grateful for you to sit down here.
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  You know, I'm a big fan of yours from a long time ago.
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  And it's just so awesome to see the success because you deserve
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  every bit of it. And the athletes that you get to
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  coach are very deserving of you as well, man.
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  So very, very grateful. Seeing you in always
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  conversation with you, you're a great person.
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  Man, you need to pick it back up though.
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  I think I've said this to you every year.
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  You know exactly what I'm talking about the.
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  Show's coming back. Out good what's going on thing
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  you have got we're. We're recording starting next
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  week, we're going to start. Recording, you've got to go
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  check it out. Go on is probably the easiest
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  place to social media. Maybe YouTube.
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  Probably, maybe YouTube. Go to YouTube.
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  If I search your name, will it pop up?
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  What's the name you call it? The goal?
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  The making of champions. Making of champions.
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  He has had really amazing people on his show, and that's coming
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  from a guy who thinks I have amazing people.
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  I, I do I don't, I know, I don't think I know.
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  And it's really enjoyable to see a different style and a
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  different, you know, you come at it from a different angle
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  because of where what you're doing today as coaching.
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  So you know me, I don't think of those things as competition.
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  I think of it as greatness for our sport.
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  So you know, I'm always going to be like more, more, more while
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  you're doing your job and having a life.
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  I get it, I get it, but what you're doing is important and
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  I'm grateful that you're contributing to great coaches in
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  that way. Thank you very much.
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  Thank. You brother, appreciate you very
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  much. Oh, we got a prediction by by
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  the way, yes, Tyree works with Marissa Chu there at TCU.
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  Of course the coaches collab love her and the Athletics LLC
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  and what they're doing there. We got a prediction here.
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  Jasmine Jones will run sub 52 and the foreigner hurdles.
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  Jamisa Ford will run. You got a lot of predictions
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  here sub 41 and Caleb Brown will run sub 49.
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  It might even break the NCAA 400 meter record.
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  Now that is a that's a bold, bold prediction we're going to
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  do we're going to do one more after him.
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  Do you want to be it? And then we've done.