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2022 USTFCCCA LIVE podcast: Malik Burns-Marion Military Institute · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Hey podcast listeners, we're super excited about December
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  11th at 5:30 Mountain Time Denver Time when we're going to
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  go live once again on YouTube to record a live Gil Connections
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  podcast. To celebrate, we're giving you
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  bonus clips every day until then of last year's 2022 guests that
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  came onto the live Gill Connections podcast.
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  Check it out. Look in the show notes below and
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  you'll see the URL. Check us out December 11th, 5:30
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  PM Denver time. All.
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  Right. This next guest is going to be a
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  hoop. He better not disappoint just
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  because we're recording, because I met today's today this guest
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  and he had me cracking up. Introduce yourself, my friend.
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  How y'all doing? My name is Malik.
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  I'm throws coach. I'm.
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  Air military. Institute in Marion AL.
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  And you? Told.
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  You threatened me this morning that you wanted to beat my butt
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  in important. I.
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  Said. We play together, you know.
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  As one, you know, you know, Congress, I'm gonna get some.
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  You gotta get that XP. You know, I gotta gotta, you
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  know, I paid a lot of money for that Battle pass, you know, I
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  gotta give my $13 worth, you know?
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  You know, so Malik, tell me this is your first year at the
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  convention. Tell me you're smart guy.
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  You know the schedule's long, right?
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  You had to have circled some things, one or two things.
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  And you're like there's no way I'm missing this.
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  What were some of those things are not missed for you this?
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  Week it's actually going to be. I think it's wrong.
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  The last event is by coach Taylor, OK BYU doing with mental
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  health. You know what definitely got me
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  was that I listened to the interview that y'all did and you
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  know, learned about her story and just like and I feel like
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  that is going to be a great one Just because if I can get that
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  information now as a young coach, yeah, I can have that.
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  And then she can possibly say some things that can help me
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  help my stupid athletes as well. You.
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  Know right way not to put yourself in a box there, so.
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  You hit the nail on the head there.
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  Maybe it's maybe it's some generalization that, you know,
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  younger coaches don't think about mental health until later
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  in their career. They think about the X's and O's
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  and the techniques and networking, things like that.
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  And also as a throws coach, you're going to go listen to a
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  distance coach. I'm just like, you know, kind of
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  generalization here, but like, I'm going to listen to Don
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  Babbitt or whoever orphan is. But a distance coach, what is
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  she going to talk to me about? It's really good man.
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  And you know, I also I'm going to dig range everything you know
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  I want to. Be versatile.
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  Because you know, as you know, when we interview Coach
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  Valentine, we start a program. You never know when I might have
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  to coach a jumper, you know? So instead of saying, oh, you
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  know what I mean? You know I can't, they can't say
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  coach, you show. I can't show it to them.
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  Right, right. You know.
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  So I gotta have my information down pat.
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  You know I'm not. You know, I'm not already, you
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  know, So from trying to live with my kids, you know, show
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  them I still got a little bit, you know?
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  You you're, you know, as a young coach, you're a little wise
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  beyond your years, my friend. What's awesome is that layer.
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  So that will continue on. That's really good.
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  But we're gonna see how wise you are.
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  I've got 100 random questions here.
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  It's one through 100. You get to pick the number.
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  Alright 64. Alright, what's the significance
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  of 60? 4 which is my random football.
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  Number Alright man, let's talk about pets.
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  Pet Peeves What's your biggest pet peeve in life?
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  It's tough. Because you have so many, you're
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  like, how do I narrow it down to just the?
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  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, exactly. I don't know.
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  What's something that. Yeah, I'm a Family Guy guy,
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  right? So here's the other thing.
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  This grinds my gear. What grinds your gear?
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  Yeah, yeah, what? Grinds my.
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  Is it people that ask you a question and just won't shut up
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  and just keep making you ask the question?
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  You know what? What my face I don't like when
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  people assume I'm angry. When I is, you know, like James
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  Harrison, the football player for the studio.
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  You always look. Mean.
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  Sure. Everybody.
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  You're right. Yeah, like, do you know I'm
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  listening. Look, I'm listening to some Katy
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  Perry right now in my head. All right, Look, you know what
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  I'm saying? Like, I'm listening to some
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  music, but you know, on outside I might just be, you know, you
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  know, so that's that's definitely because I get it a
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  lot. Yeah, that's that's an
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  interesting thing there. You know, something I've worked
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  on not judging. So that's a judging, right?
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  It's like, oh, here's this guy's big.
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  You know, whatever all the things that go with that, it's
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  I'm trying to do even better. It's like, hey, man, until that
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  person proves to me that they're a bad person or angry.
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  Exactly. They're human.
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  You know, by the way, you are human.
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  You're allowed to be angry. Exactly.
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  Exactly, you know. And that's why I think that's a
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  good thing about Chuck. You know it's a lot of different
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  different people, different places.
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  I mean everybody dressing different you know and you know
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  it's I definitely, when I just found fully decided I wanted to
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  go coach and I was like the only way I would be somewhere thing
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  except me for me. You know I got.
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  The Pierce when I got the locks, the nose rings, tattoos, you
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  know, you know. You know, I that's the country
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  accent. You know, I say how y'all doing
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  a lot you know you know something like that you know.
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  So I gotta you know if that's that's definitely, you know when
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  I said OK this is the right thing for me.
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  You know, this is the right career choice for me.
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  That that's important. You know, we talk about when we
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  recruit athletes to finding the right fit.
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  Well, it's also important for the coach to find the right fit
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  in a university or high school setting that they're going to
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  accept you for who you are because again, you're an
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  individual unique person. So unless you want to change.
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  Yeah. I feel like that's how success
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  is built and you know, of course it can be, you know, training
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  and all that stuff. But I feel like it's one of
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  those things where there's somebody in your life you're
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  going to go above and beyond for just because of what y'all went
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  through or something like that. And I feel like once you get to
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  that relationship with a stupid athlete, that's when you you
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  know that's when they I didn't. I wasn't expecting that, you
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  know, that's when I say I have to do this, you know, and and
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  that's that's how it was for me. With coaching me and then I had
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  coach mathologists, you know, they definitely I wasn't the
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  best student athlete. You know, I wasn't the best
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  student. But you know, they gave me time
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  to actually get right. You know, they do everything I
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  need to do and that definitely helped me like I mean a lot.
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  So that's why I'm I'm happy with developing athletes, you know,
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  you know, because development is key, you know, that's going to
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  go on way after they, you know, some of these kids.
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  I saw a Gpa's. I'm like, hey, I've never
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  touched that, you know, so you know, this might be a lawyer,
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  doctor, so they would have those type of skills, you know, you
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  know, so. Well, it's going to be real fun
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  to watch your development, man, yeah.
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  You're still? So early you're barely at the
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  starting line. Of a.
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  It's really interesting. It's going to be a great
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  journey. I just.
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  Know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I'm definitely excited. I'm definitely excited.
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  Let's get our selfie in here, man.
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  I appreciate you very much for being here on the podcast,
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  trusting me here with the live recording.
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  Fortnite we go. Fortnite.
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  Somehow, someway, we get it done.
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  Appreciate you, man. I really appreciate you man.
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  I have a good. Day.
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  You know, I literally met Malik this morning.
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  Down, actually, kind of afternoon.
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  We're up for lunch down in the lobby and just what a great
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  character, what a great, just bubbly person.
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  That's the kind of guy that I want my kid to be.
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  Coached by man. World record Shortest Gill
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  Athletics Connections podcast ever.
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  Check us out December 11th, 530 Denver, Co Rocky Mountain
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  Central time. Check us out on YouTube in the
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  link below in the show notes.