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Inside the Sooner Family - Marcus Dent Talks Oklahoma Sooner Recruiting & Why Oklahoma! · Sooner or Later Sports

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Speaker 1: Hey, what's up everybody? Today? We are here with Marcus Dent,
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Speaker 1: a guy that I Marcus. I think I can call
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Speaker 1: you my friend now. Uh, you know we've we've been
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Speaker 1: talking for quite a long time. So man, thanks for
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Speaker 1: joining us today on inside the Sooner Family.
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Speaker 2: Man, no problem, Man, glad to be here.
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Speaker 1: You know, my hopingness is to learn a little bit
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Speaker 1: more about the perspective from the family on you know,
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Speaker 1: the whole recruiting process going into the university, you know,
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Speaker 1: the maturation and letting you know your loved ones go
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Speaker 1: and be entrusted into a coaching staff. So this is
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Speaker 1: a fun conversation because everybody's got a different story. And man,
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Speaker 1: I know that you guys got you had some thinking
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Speaker 1: to do during your recruiting process.
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Speaker 2: We did, we did.
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Speaker 3: I mean I did a lot of research, you know,
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Speaker 3: on Oklahoma football. I went our way back to Burt Dunn,
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Speaker 3: who was one of the original guys on the eighteen
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Speaker 3: ninety five team. He's from Clinton, Mississippi, and I mean
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Speaker 3: I went back that far.
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Speaker 2: So, you know, just doing.
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Speaker 3: My job as a parent, you know, making sure that
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Speaker 3: this was a place of where he could grow, not
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Speaker 3: just on the football field, but you know, just socially
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Speaker 3: and different thing because Isaiah is a different type kid.
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Speaker 3: You you kind of know the story with him. He's
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Speaker 3: a he likes to hunt, he likes to fish.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: Outside of that, man, it's pretty much that's it, you know.
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Speaker 3: And he's just a well reserved kid.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 3: So when we got to got to the point, you
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Speaker 3: know where, okay, this thing is getting real because we
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Speaker 3: didn't know that at first.
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Speaker 2: His ninth grade year, I was coaching at a private school.
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Speaker 3: And and you know, he was playing, and you know,
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Speaker 3: it was it was one of those things. Okay, he's
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Speaker 3: a he's a big kid, he's probabible was about maybe
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Speaker 3: six four, maybe two forty five, two fifty and you know,
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Speaker 3: me as a as a as a you know, as
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Speaker 3: a dad, I was trying to get him to be
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Speaker 3: a little bit meaning because like I say, he was,
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Speaker 3: he was. He was a humble kid. And you know
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Speaker 3: it's just that you know, that destroyer wasn't in it,
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Speaker 3: not at that time. So I had the famous idea
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Speaker 3: of putting him on defense so he could get a
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Speaker 3: little bit tougher whatever.
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Speaker 2: And he did, and we was in a we.
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Speaker 3: Was in a game and Isaiah comes to the sideline,
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Speaker 3: you know, I got the hitsets on, and man, he's
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Speaker 3: tears coming down his eyes and he's blowing.
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Speaker 2: And like, what was it wrong too? You know, and
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Speaker 2: he wouldn't talk to me. And finally I was like, look,
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Speaker 2: you got to get your butt back in the game.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on, but you need to
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Speaker 3: find a solution, and like right now. And I looked
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Speaker 3: up in the fans and I could see my wife
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Speaker 3: standing up with her hands on her hips, like what's
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Speaker 3: going on? And two plays later, I look up and
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Speaker 3: Isaiah has this kid about twenty yards down the field
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Speaker 3: and he's shaking the life out of him.
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Speaker 2: I like, what in the hell is going on with him?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 3: So he comes back to the sideline and man, it's
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Speaker 3: flash going everywhere, and a little bit about me. I
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Speaker 3: referee for about ten years and I knew the guy
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Speaker 3: who was who was the head guy. I'm like, hey, man,
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Speaker 3: look hey, just let me let me talk to him.
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Speaker 3: Don't kick him out the game.
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Speaker 2: Whatever you do.
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Speaker 3: And so he come over to the sideline. It was
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Speaker 3: a big kid, one of the best kids he had
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Speaker 3: on the ground, you know, And I looked at him.
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Speaker 3: I said, buddy, you just messed up.
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Speaker 2: He's like, what's going on?
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Speaker 3: I said, no, I say right there, what I saw
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Speaker 3: is what I want to see every play. And from
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Speaker 3: that moment, from that day is like the light clicked on,
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Speaker 3: like I can do it. And you know it's just
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Speaker 3: it wasn't a me pushing him or his mom pushing him.
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Speaker 3: He founded itself. Once he found a gear. Then man,
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Speaker 3: we were you know, we would say, okay, look we
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Speaker 3: got some here, and that's.
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Speaker 2: Kind of you know. I think two weeks after that,
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Speaker 2: I said that clip to Ole miss and they offered him.
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Speaker 1: Cooking with grace.
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Speaker 2: At that point, it was a fun journey man starting out.
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Speaker 1: Well let's uh so you know you talked about going
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Speaker 1: way back, so let's go way back.
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Speaker 2: You know. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The first question I always ask everybody is, you know,
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Speaker 1: when you have an athletic kid, as parents, sometimes you
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Speaker 1: see you know, you see the next uh you know
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Speaker 1: Michael Orr. You know, kind of a lot of reflective
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Speaker 1: from that story, or you see the next Tom Brady,
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Speaker 1: the next Randy Moss, Jerry Rice, what time did you
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Speaker 1: you know, at what point did you look at him
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Speaker 1: and go I think we got ourselves a little bit
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Speaker 1: more than just a recreational athlete.
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Speaker 3: Like the story I was just telling you kind of
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Speaker 3: connects to the next story. After that year we left
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Speaker 3: the private school. We went to the North State championship
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Speaker 3: and we lost. But it was a it was a game, man,
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Speaker 3: that was like our team was full of sophomores and
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Speaker 3: it maybe a couple of juniors. But that loss. He
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Speaker 3: took that loss like I had never seen before. It
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Speaker 3: hurt him on the inside. It didn't it didn't hurt
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Speaker 3: him because you know, you know, we got beat. It
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Speaker 3: hurt him because he felt like he could have done more,
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Speaker 3: and he wanted to win. And when I saw that
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Speaker 3: in him, in that drive, that will, that wanting to be,
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Speaker 3: you know, on top.
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Speaker 2: And hating to lose. He hates to lose. And I
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Speaker 2: said to myself, I told my wife.
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Speaker 3: When we got back home at night, me and the coaches,
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Speaker 3: of course, they went on back to the house and
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Speaker 3: me and a couple of coaches we stayed at the
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Speaker 3: field house and and coach looked at me and he said, man,
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Speaker 3: did you see Isaiah.
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Speaker 2: You know, after the game. I saw him.
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Speaker 3: I said, he's pretty emotional. He said, Man, that ain't
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Speaker 3: that ain't that's not regularly emotional, that's wanting to be
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Speaker 3: at the next level and wanted to.
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Speaker 2: Be great at what you do. So that was point.
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Speaker 3: That was probably the time that I said, you know, hey, look,
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Speaker 3: I know we got some because it's on the inside.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he had to feel, you know, he was
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Speaker 3: growing into that. But that's when I really saw it.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. And if you're just now joining us where
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Speaker 1: you hopped in, uh, you know, Marcus and I kind
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Speaker 1: of hopped in fast. But a lot of people don't
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Speaker 1: know that, Marcus, you're the father of Isaiah Autry, dent
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Speaker 1: freshman offensive tackle and this this is this is a
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Speaker 1: guy who comes from a pretty cool pedigree. So do
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Speaker 1: you mind sharing a little bit about what you do
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Speaker 1: and you know, the talent and valuation that you do,
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Speaker 1: you know on the side, and then also his mom's
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Speaker 1: got a pretty cool story too.
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Speaker 2: Your mom mom does Uh.
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Speaker 3: I work for the US Army All American Game as
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Speaker 3: a as a scout for them. I've been scouting for
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Speaker 3: them roughly, you know, for a few years now. On
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Speaker 3: the other side, when the company was owned by Football University.
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Speaker 3: Now they're split off and back to the Army All
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Speaker 3: American Game. So this spring I came back on with
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Speaker 3: them and I run football camps and different things, you
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Speaker 3: know on the side, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, just trying to help kids, man the best way
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Speaker 2: we can.
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Speaker 3: There's so many kids in the South that you know,
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Speaker 3: don't get that opportunity, so we try to provide that
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Speaker 3: opportunity for these kids to actually get a chance to.
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Speaker 2: Go somewhere kind of like Texas.
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Speaker 3: Mississippi has a large number of Juko's, so it's I'm
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Speaker 3: not gonna sae his.
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Speaker 2: You gotta play, you gotta be a doll. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: he's still is. You know, we do what we can
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Speaker 2: to try to help kids get out. And and as.
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Speaker 3: For my wife, my wife coaches basketball. She played at
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Speaker 3: the Universal of Tennessee two national championships ABO championships, and
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Speaker 3: I think that was a little bit before the w
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Speaker 3: n b A and I think she won an eighteen
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Speaker 3: U gold medal as well.
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Speaker 2: So she's a lot of the reason you know, for Isaiah.
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Speaker 3: You know, you know, just doing what he's doing and
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Speaker 3: keeping them around it because she comes from that. And
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Speaker 3: also her first cousin is Marcus Dupret, which sooner guy,
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Speaker 3: you are sooner.
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Speaker 1: Everybody now, Mark the UH and so she also played
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Speaker 1: for a legendary basketball coach in past summits. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: you guys have been around some winning and you've also
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Speaker 1: been around a lot of different stories, so you can
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Speaker 1: point towards different stuff when you're you're you know, you're
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Speaker 1: having these conversations with UH with i'd say it correct.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we do. And you know, I come from a background.
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Speaker 3: I played in the in the SWAT back in the
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Speaker 3: early eighties, in late eighties, early nineties when it was
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Speaker 3: a lot of guys. I played with two first round
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Speaker 3: draft picks and John Theory, Steve McNair. So I came
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Speaker 3: from a background and it was tough. It was brutal
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Speaker 3: back then. Yeah, you know it was. It was a
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Speaker 3: lot of It was a lot harder than what these
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Speaker 3: kids got now. But Isaiah has heard the story from
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Speaker 3: Pat and different things you know from his mom about
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Speaker 3: Pat and how strict she was and how tough she.
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Speaker 2: Was, and she lays the same thing on him. I
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Speaker 2: give you a little story. We had.
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Speaker 3: We had a game that was moved to a Thursday,
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Speaker 3: and my wife, boy to say, coaches basketball.
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Speaker 2: So she had a game.
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Speaker 3: So it was like late October or something like that,
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Speaker 3: and she called me because she was on our way
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Speaker 3: because they got out early and so the game was over.
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Speaker 3: She she come on and she called me and she's like,
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Speaker 3: how we doing. And I'm like, all, we're up about.
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Speaker 2: Thirty's how's Isaiah doing? I said, well, I said we winning.
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Speaker 3: I said, but he's not playing, you know, as well
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Speaker 3: as she should be. And I think a couple of
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Speaker 3: scouts or something that came down that weekend. I mean
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Speaker 3: that that that that Thursday, and she's that's about a
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Speaker 3: fifteen minute drive from where she was and where she's
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Speaker 3: you know, getting there about ten minutes. I see the
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Speaker 3: truck whoop around. She comes in. They going in at halftime.
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Speaker 3: So I'm like, man, where is she going? So she
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Speaker 3: gets out the car, gets out the truck, she goes
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Speaker 3: to the locker room. She's like, I need to see Isaiah.
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Speaker 3: They're like, is anything wrong? She said, no, yeah, it's
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Speaker 3: something wrong. He ain't he playing like so and so,
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Speaker 3: so and so. If y'all don't snatch him up, I
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Speaker 3: don't snatch him up. And the coach was like, what
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Speaker 3: we are about thirty It doesn't matter, you know, you
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Speaker 3: go out and you play to the best of your ability.
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Speaker 3: Where you up by thirty or you down by thirty.
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Speaker 3: You play to your maximum and that's that's her. I mean,
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Speaker 3: she takes nothing less than that from him. So, you know,
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Speaker 3: with his demeanor being kind of quiet. You know, a
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Speaker 3: lot of coaches when when they found out we were
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Speaker 3: going to oh you you know, they know, coach being
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Speaker 3: bo coach beating bow Is is the best.
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Speaker 2: And he's tough. You know, he's a tough guy.
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Speaker 3: So but at the same time, you know, you got
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Speaker 3: to understand that he understands toughness because that's when you
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Speaker 3: get at home with us, you know, it's you know,
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Speaker 3: the coaches were kind of like, I have never seen
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Speaker 3: a parent come in the locker room we're up thirty
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Speaker 3: want to snatch the child up because he's not playing
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Speaker 3: with I've never seen that before. Well, this is a
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Speaker 3: past decay and that's trying to she was raised, you know.
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Speaker 3: So after that day, we didn't have no problem. But
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Speaker 3: I said take it off or anything like that. Man,
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Speaker 3: he was, he was on point after that.
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Speaker 1: I think you kind of touched on it already.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: But you know when you see him, you know, developing,
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Speaker 1: and you know what you got and you know that
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Speaker 1: you've got somebody who's who is going to uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: have some greatness that's within grasps. So at what point
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Speaker 1: did you think, you know, you know, maybe I might
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Speaker 1: want to foster this and push him a little bit
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Speaker 1: harder or was that kind of just from the get.
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Speaker 3: Uh When it comes to the training, we did. We pushed,
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Speaker 3: you know, and you know we had to we had
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Speaker 3: to talk. Look, if you want to do this, we're
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Speaker 3: gonna help. You know, I'm one of those guys. Man,
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Speaker 3: I know football, but I played tight end in college
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Speaker 3: and you know we had a block of that spent
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Speaker 3: to it.
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Speaker 2: But you know, my seven on seventeen and all that stuff.
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Speaker 3: I'm a I was a receiver, coast passing game coordinator,
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Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. So when it came to offensive line, man,
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Speaker 3: you know, I said, you know what, I need to
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Speaker 3: find somebody who can really you know, give him some
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Speaker 3: tools to put in his toolbox, you know, to be successful.
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Speaker 3: So you know, I told him, look, if you're gonna
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Speaker 3: do this, we finished push, were finish pushing to the
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Speaker 3: next level. And if you know you're not ready for
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Speaker 3: you better just tell us now before we start.
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Speaker 2: Spending his money. Exactly.
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Speaker 3: So you know, we did that man, and we pushed
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Speaker 3: him in that aspect and he got to the point
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Speaker 3: where he loved me.
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Speaker 2: You know when when when.
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Speaker 3: He saw hisself getting better, he saw his footwork getting better,
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Speaker 3: he saw his hand placed, when his movement getting better,
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Speaker 3: his overall expecting his game getting better, then he dove
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Speaker 3: into it himself.
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Speaker 2: We didn't have to wake him up and say, hey, look,
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Speaker 2: you got training today.
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Speaker 1: You know, he was ready to go, ready to rock
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Speaker 1: from get go. So recruiting processes are are always a
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Speaker 1: fun story because you know, it's a lot of people
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Speaker 1: they don't even follow recruiting. Some people don't pick it
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Speaker 1: up until you know that the senior year, when did
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Speaker 1: you go, all right, it's now time we got to
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Speaker 1: start cataloging what's going on because a lot of you know,
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Speaker 1: programs are starting to look at.
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Speaker 3: Him his junior year, that some of his junior year
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Speaker 3: when he got you know, he got Florida State.
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Speaker 2: And of course you know.
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Speaker 3: That was that was a big for us and and
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Speaker 3: you know it has a whole wait a minute, you
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Speaker 3: know that Florida State, we.
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Speaker 2: Alredad miss miss.
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Speaker 3: I want to say you a be maybe even Indiana
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Speaker 3: or something like that, Southern Miss. But when Florida State
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Speaker 3: came knocking and they would really sincere talking to us about,
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Speaker 3: you know, what they liked about him, and you know
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Speaker 3: what do you think they you know what they thought
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Speaker 3: they could, you know, take him too as an athlete.
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Speaker 3: You know, we said, okay, look that's that's that's that was,
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Speaker 3: and it wasn't. It wasn't long after that the season
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Speaker 3: started and then he picked up Bama. And then when
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Speaker 3: he picked up Bama, it changed.
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Speaker 2: Everything changed.
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Speaker 1: So when did Oklahoma throw their hat in the ring.
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Speaker 2: Then it was kind of after the Alabama l s
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Speaker 2: U the Oregons. It was after that he had been
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Speaker 2: talking to.
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Speaker 3: Coach Bimbo, you know home the Texan, the mean coach
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Speaker 3: Beva Texan or whatever situation on Twitter, I believe, and you.
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Speaker 2: Know, coach b wanted to see him.
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Speaker 3: And at this time a lot of people had speculated,
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Speaker 3: but it wasn't the case. Marcus didn't even know he
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Speaker 3: was being recruited by Alcahome. We kind of kind of
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Speaker 3: kept it from him, you know. So I said, I said, okay,
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Speaker 3: I said, we'll make the drive to normal.
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Speaker 2: I said, man, that's a long drive.
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Speaker 3: I said we'll make that driving on him, and I say,
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Speaker 3: you know, it seems to me, it seems to be
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Speaker 3: Coach b Is. Really he's really interested, you know, in Isaiah,
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Speaker 3: because we had sent film to him. They sent that
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Speaker 3: film out to you know, a lot of different guys,
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Speaker 3: and which I had did my homework on.
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Speaker 2: Coach B.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: He's one of the best, uh you know and developing kids.
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Speaker 3: And that's one reason why I made that drive, because
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Speaker 3: you know, we're going to develop here.
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Speaker 2: And my wife like, you want to go. I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we need to go. We need to take it. She said, well,
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Speaker 2: let's take it, and we did. We took him up there.
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Speaker 3: We actually called Marcus before we left because we wanted
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Speaker 3: him to kind of kind of know that, you know, Okay,
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Speaker 3: look now we're going. We got everything kind of under
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Speaker 3: the bridge, you know. So we called him and told
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Speaker 3: him and said, look, man, we're going to Oklahoma, and
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Speaker 3: you know, he was like, good man, you know you
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Speaker 3: know this, that and the third so something happened and
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Speaker 3: week after that we couldn't.
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Speaker 2: Go and kind of got dorm it. You know.
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Speaker 3: I want to say it was after it might have
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Speaker 3: been after the loss of Florida State, don't you know.
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Speaker 3: I think the coach was kind of trying to figure
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Speaker 3: out what was going on at that time. And Mark
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Speaker 3: was like, hey, man, you know, you know, for my sources,
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Speaker 3: you know from what I hear, they really they really wanted.
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Speaker 3: And I said, well, we're gonna I said something you know,
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Speaker 3: we hadn't really heard from, you know, best men, and
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Speaker 3: uh we hear coach be up here. He's like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: you know, this weekend right here will be a perfect
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Speaker 3: weekend to come.
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Speaker 2: Man. We came. We loved it, you know, we loved
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Speaker 2: it out.
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Speaker 3: Just from just going there seeing what they offered. And
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Speaker 3: you know, had been to LSU, had been to the
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Speaker 3: Auburn no knock on the program there at all. They
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Speaker 3: got great programs. But you know, sometimes man, they just
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Speaker 3: feel like home. And it felt like home for me
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Speaker 3: and my wife at that point in time.
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Speaker 2: And you know, and we're just going to see how
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Speaker 2: he felt about it.
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Speaker 3: And after we came out of the deal with the
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Speaker 3: Soul Mission and Isaiah saw that man, that that that
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Speaker 3: led him up like a Christmas treeth and he was like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: I like this. And we got a chance to meet
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Speaker 3: coach coach Man. He was full of energy.
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Speaker 2: Man. He was like a little bit energizer bunny.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, man, he got dragging red fulls or something,
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Speaker 3: you know, because he was just i mean, he was energized.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 3: And if that was the first head coach that you know,
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Speaker 3: that I saw had that much energy in him, you know,
18:38
Speaker 3: just talking about the program, talking about what he wanted
18:41
Speaker 3: to invest in the kids and different things like that. Man,
18:44
Speaker 3: it was, it was, It was amazing. And we got
18:47
Speaker 3: a chance to go in his room and and me
18:49
Speaker 3: going his office and we were sitting in there and
18:52
Speaker 3: he was talking, you know, different things about life and.
18:55
Speaker 2: Man, he went over there, he got that chip. Man,
18:58
Speaker 2: he got down, you know pretty much.
19:00
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was one knee or what,
19:02
Speaker 3: but he got that chip and he gave it Toah.
19:05
Speaker 3: His his eyes lit up. Man, I'm just talking about
19:08
Speaker 3: it was huge. And that was the best presentation of
19:13
Speaker 3: an offer I've ever seen in my life. And I've
19:16
Speaker 3: been around a lot of kids, and you got a
19:19
Speaker 3: chance to see it, and you know what he did
19:21
Speaker 3: how he presented it. And my wife was she was
19:24
Speaker 3: ready to cry. She was she was ready to cry.
19:28
Speaker 3: You know, she was like, Oh, this is this is
19:30
Speaker 3: it right here. I hope he chooses this place in
19:32
Speaker 3: this right here. And Isaiah was kind of looking at
19:35
Speaker 3: her because he he valued I mean, he valued his
19:38
Speaker 3: mom opinion about everything mine.
19:40
Speaker 2: Too, but he valued you know, his mom has been there.
19:44
Speaker 2: She played at the Hods level. You know.
19:47
Speaker 3: I know it's seeming kind of outrunic, but you got
19:50
Speaker 3: somebody that you see every day.
19:51
Speaker 2: You call mom who has played in two.
19:54
Speaker 3: National championships, you know, and that's that's you know, who
19:58
Speaker 3: better to tell him?
19:59
Speaker 2: You you know, how to prepare yourself? Did yeah? Uh?
20:06
Speaker 1: You know, I talked to a lot of recruits and
20:09
Speaker 1: you know, ask them to list out the things that
20:11
Speaker 1: they're looking for in a program with the background that
20:16
Speaker 1: your wife has, with the background you played football with
20:19
Speaker 1: Steve McNair, with those backgrounds, Like, what were your top
20:23
Speaker 1: three things when you were looking for all right? You
20:26
Speaker 1: know as a parent, these are the three things that
20:28
Speaker 1: I'm looking for, uh in the program.
20:34
Speaker 3: Number one is stability, you know, just stability in the
20:39
Speaker 3: staff itself and with coach b at the time, I
20:42
Speaker 3: think being there, maybe living twelve years, that showed me
20:46
Speaker 3: that Hayden Man, he's going to be here le something
20:49
Speaker 3: just crazy happens.
20:51
Speaker 2: He's going to be here. He had the chance to go.
20:53
Speaker 3: Well Linke and Roley in California, He's had the chance
20:56
Speaker 3: to go to the NFL.
20:57
Speaker 2: And I just think he loved being in Norman. I
20:59
Speaker 2: think he love what he does.
21:02
Speaker 3: And when you find somebody that loves what they do,
21:05
Speaker 3: money is not the issue, you know, I mean, it's
21:08
Speaker 3: not the issue. That was the That was number one,
21:11
Speaker 3: you know, just the stability of coach b being there
21:14
Speaker 3: for as loan as he had. Number two was the
21:18
Speaker 3: just the the overall staff, watching how they work with
21:24
Speaker 3: each other, watching how you know, you're going down the hall,
21:28
Speaker 3: you see a coach and he he fish pumped the
21:30
Speaker 3: other coach, you know.
21:32
Speaker 2: Just knowing that it's not you know, it's not defense.
21:35
Speaker 3: Offense, special teams, receivers, dbs. It's a fact. And we
21:40
Speaker 3: saw that, you know, as parents, we saw that. And
21:44
Speaker 3: when you see things like that, those things sticks in
21:47
Speaker 3: your head.
21:48
Speaker 2: You can't you can't get them out of your head.
21:50
Speaker 3: And I would say the third thing was just you know,
21:54
Speaker 3: I watched Coke coach b B when he was at Princeton,
21:58
Speaker 3: and man, he put together some great defenses over the years. There,
22:02
Speaker 3: and and I really didn't know about his staying at Oklahoma.
22:07
Speaker 3: I really didn't know much about it until I started
22:10
Speaker 3: kind of doing my research and we asked, as, how
22:14
Speaker 3: do you feel about it? You know, and it was
22:16
Speaker 3: kind of like a yeah, I kind of like it.
22:19
Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't a big city. It's kind of
22:22
Speaker 2: like being at home. It's kind of Oklahoma's kind of
22:24
Speaker 2: like Mississippi, to be honest with you. So he felt home.
22:29
Speaker 2: He felt like he was at home.
22:31
Speaker 3: And of course everybody had him paid to go to
22:34
Speaker 3: Old Miss only forty five minutes up the road.
22:37
Speaker 2: My business partner is an old Miss guy.
22:39
Speaker 3: My business partner is an Old Miss writer, and so
22:42
Speaker 3: everybody had him paid to go to Old Miss.
22:44
Speaker 2: Man it was and.
22:45
Speaker 3: Afterwards, you know when I guess, oh, you kind of
22:49
Speaker 3: got you know, everybody was feeling the pressure like, Okay,
22:53
Speaker 3: it might be old you and you know FSU and.
22:56
Speaker 2: Old Miss then you know, Old Miss. They came in
23:00
Speaker 2: and tried to put it on.
23:01
Speaker 3: It was pretty good, you know, try to try to
23:03
Speaker 3: sweeten the pot and make everything, you know, a little
23:05
Speaker 3: bit better.
23:06
Speaker 2: But it was kind of like one of.
23:07
Speaker 3: Those deals, like he was expected to go there and
23:11
Speaker 3: and nothing against the staff there man Lane KIFFN, the
23:14
Speaker 3: great coach, thank HIMN. One of the better offensive minded
23:18
Speaker 3: guys that you got out there. You know, I like
23:21
Speaker 3: to stop and playing. But it was just it was
23:24
Speaker 3: up to there. It was his decision. So you know,
23:27
Speaker 3: once he said, you know this is it, you know, that's.
23:30
Speaker 2: What we did.
23:31
Speaker 3: We let him make that early decision. We stopped the camps,
23:35
Speaker 3: but no need to go to another camp. Matter of fact,
23:37
Speaker 3: we didn't do a whole lot of camping. We went
23:39
Speaker 3: to a few camps, but you know, he was already
23:42
Speaker 3: getting office, so it wasn't any need to go out
23:44
Speaker 3: there try to grant stand and get the star rading
23:47
Speaker 3: up or anything like that. So once you know where
23:49
Speaker 3: you want to be, that's you know, hey, that's the
23:52
Speaker 3: end game. You can't go to all those schools. The
23:54
Speaker 3: stars doesn't make any difference.
23:55
Speaker 1: When we got to college, you shared a story with
23:59
Speaker 1: me when we were talking about out you know, him
24:01
Speaker 1: coming in with the uh, you know, some transfers coming in,
24:05
Speaker 1: and you said, we've been preparing his mindset for a
24:08
Speaker 1: long time, you know, to go in and compete for
24:11
Speaker 1: your opportunity to maybe step in and you know, why
24:16
Speaker 1: did you think that. You know, just preparing him mentally
24:20
Speaker 1: was such a key part in his development. Uh, you know,
24:24
Speaker 1: just from his.
24:24
Speaker 4: Parents, because you have to prepare a kid mentally for
24:33
Speaker 4: this and and it's unfortunate that a lot of kids
24:35
Speaker 4: don't have that, and that's the reason why you have
24:38
Speaker 4: a lot of kids transferred now to different situations like that.
24:42
Speaker 3: But we we prepared him what was coming. You know,
24:46
Speaker 3: we told him it's gonna be tough. You're gonna you're
24:48
Speaker 3: gonna quit. You're gonna be like, why am I doing
24:51
Speaker 3: this to my body? I say, you know, when it
24:53
Speaker 3: comes to school work, the school work's gonna be.
24:55
Speaker 2: Different than high school. We just tried to give him everything.
24:59
Speaker 3: That we, you know, could could put on the table
25:04
Speaker 3: for him to eat, to absorb, to go with his
25:06
Speaker 3: mindset to say, hey, look this is what I got
25:08
Speaker 3: to do. I share some of my experiences, as you know,
25:13
Speaker 3: as a college athlete. My wife shared some of her
25:15
Speaker 3: experiences as a college athlete. I share some of my
25:18
Speaker 3: experiences with some of my former athletes that I have
25:21
Speaker 3: come out of.
25:22
Speaker 2: My program, you know, different things.
25:24
Speaker 3: So we were just able to give him a lot
25:27
Speaker 3: of different things that can happen, then that will happen.
25:32
Speaker 3: You know, if you do the right thing and if
25:35
Speaker 3: you do the wrong thing, and what your mindset has
25:37
Speaker 3: to be. Me and him have a little thing that
25:39
Speaker 3: we text every nine and then one percent better every day,
25:44
Speaker 3: one percent better every day. You get one percent better
25:46
Speaker 3: every day from the time you start the time you
25:49
Speaker 3: finish up. That improvement will be off the charge. So you,
25:53
Speaker 3: like I said, we try to prepare him mentally for
25:56
Speaker 3: what's coming. And as Coach B concerned, everybody knows Coach
26:03
Speaker 3: B is tough. That's why he went. That's why you
26:06
Speaker 3: know everybody's talking about the offensive line. I hate to
26:08
Speaker 3: get off on that, but man, don't worry about that line, y'all.
26:12
Speaker 3: Y'all heard that's our defensive line, because they're gonna be okay.
26:15
Speaker 3: He's proven me year after year after year. What offensive line?
26:21
Speaker 3: The times that I look back and like I said,
26:23
Speaker 3: I'm kind of a historian. I know after Lincoln left,
26:28
Speaker 3: we changed strength conditioning coaches, and I think that hurt
26:32
Speaker 3: the offensive line just a little bit, because you know
26:36
Speaker 3: he used to It's like it's like their machine, Smitty
26:39
Speaker 3: and being bo their machine again. When he does with
26:43
Speaker 3: those athletes works well with with with coach being most
26:47
Speaker 3: tries to do and I think, you know, I think
26:49
Speaker 3: that little bit of frame might have hurt just a
26:52
Speaker 3: little bit. But with Smitty being back doing what he's doing,
26:56
Speaker 3: Isaiah has went from he was two eighty nine or
26:58
Speaker 3: two eighty eight from when he got from when he
27:01
Speaker 3: got got there, he got up to two three nineteen,
27:07
Speaker 3: he got up to three nineteen. I think he's back
27:09
Speaker 3: down between three ten three fifteen.
27:12
Speaker 2: I think that's kind of what they want him in.
27:15
Speaker 3: But I'm talking about good sided weight and it has
27:18
Speaker 3: gained a lot of strength, you know.
27:20
Speaker 2: So like I said, hete go off on that man.
27:22
Speaker 2: But you know, I just like what the program.
27:26
Speaker 3: It's about how they're developing the kids, you know, and
27:30
Speaker 3: take a shout out to just the whole staff on
27:35
Speaker 3: everybody making sure these kids have what they need and
27:40
Speaker 3: and you know, just just being a family but being
27:44
Speaker 3: tough on him at the same time.
27:45
Speaker 2: That's that's that's all me and my wife wanted and
27:48
Speaker 2: I think we got that in one definitely.
27:52
Speaker 1: You see, we talked about the sales pitch. You know,
27:54
Speaker 1: you've gone through with Florida State, Alabama, Old Mess, Oklahoma,
27:58
Speaker 1: and a lot of coaches. You know, they've got their
28:01
Speaker 1: pitch right, this is why you should come here. So
28:05
Speaker 1: Oklahoma has a pretty lofty one with the sole mission
28:08
Speaker 1: you've Eirny mentioned, uh, you know, just that that one
28:11
Speaker 1: percent mentality, let's get better, you know those types of things.
28:17
Speaker 1: Have you seen that pitch actually in I mean, continue
28:21
Speaker 1: to be who they are as a coaching staff and
28:24
Speaker 1: as a program.
28:26
Speaker 3: Well, I must say this, I don't think it's a pitch.
28:33
Speaker 3: I just think that's who they are. Yeah, I don't think.
28:37
Speaker 3: I don't think Oklahoma has to pitch anybody. They just
28:41
Speaker 3: be j They're just genuine, genuine program. And if you
28:45
Speaker 3: want to call it being a genuine program a pitch,
28:48
Speaker 3: then yeah, I guess that is the pitch. But just
28:51
Speaker 3: just being genuine is who they are. It wasn't a
28:53
Speaker 3: pitch about you know, we got this, we got that.
28:56
Speaker 3: You know we did this, we did that, And it
28:59
Speaker 3: wasn't about that. It was about straight up development. Okay,
29:03
Speaker 3: this is this is what we want to do with
29:04
Speaker 3: your your your child, and that's what we looked at.
29:08
Speaker 3: It wasn't like, hey, you come here, you're gonna do
29:11
Speaker 3: this and you know we played at the Big twelve
29:13
Speaker 3: and we're going to the s SEC.
29:15
Speaker 2: That wasn't even the thing.
29:16
Speaker 3: Actually when we start, when it was getting recruited, we
29:20
Speaker 3: didn't even know about that. We didn't that wasn't even
29:23
Speaker 3: a that wasn't even a deal with us, you know.
29:27
Speaker 3: But it worked out for us because a lot of
29:29
Speaker 3: the road games are two hours from us, an hour
29:32
Speaker 3: from us, so you know, that's it really worked out well.
29:36
Speaker 3: But it wasn't It wasn't a pitch it was. It
29:39
Speaker 3: was pretty much just a genuine you know, hey, this
29:43
Speaker 3: is what we are, this is who we are, and
29:45
Speaker 3: this is what we're going to do.
29:48
Speaker 1: You you pretty much answered that exactly and answer that.
29:54
Speaker 1: So you also look at you know, Twitter is is
29:58
Speaker 1: famous during talks and that's kind of where we're coming
30:01
Speaker 1: to the end of his talk season. But you see
30:04
Speaker 1: the you know, highest graded offensive lineman in the NFL
30:07
Speaker 1: and the you know, the highest paid offensive lineman in
30:11
Speaker 1: the NFL, and there's a lot of Sooners there. So you,
30:14
Speaker 1: as a father, how do you throw that to Isaiah?
30:19
Speaker 1: But then keep that like that one percent is why
30:22
Speaker 1: you end up there? Uh, what does that conversation look
30:25
Speaker 1: like when you guys sit down and talk.
30:32
Speaker 2: Pretty much.
30:32
Speaker 3: That's that's the goal every day is the one percentence
30:35
Speaker 3: the goal. And just you know, we look at the
30:40
Speaker 3: guys that are in the league that Coach B has
30:44
Speaker 3: had the opportunity to coach and and what they're doing. Man,
30:49
Speaker 3: you if you're old Liam in at Ou, you can't
30:51
Speaker 3: you can't not look at that.
30:53
Speaker 2: I mean.
30:55
Speaker 3: The conversations with with with Isaiah is with me and
30:59
Speaker 3: him is always one day at a time, take one
31:04
Speaker 3: practice at a time, take take take one snap at.
31:07
Speaker 2: A time, and get better at that one percent. What
31:11
Speaker 2: we talked about.
31:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll send me something every now and then, staying like, hey,
31:18
Speaker 3: this guy here, you know he was he was here,
31:20
Speaker 3: he was he was a three starter. He's in the
31:22
Speaker 3: NFL and coach we did this, and coach we did that. Man,
31:26
Speaker 3: he thinks the world going to be I mean, you know,
31:29
Speaker 3: coach were the kind of guy. You know, they'll be up,
31:32
Speaker 3: they'll be around, goofing off, and he comes in the
31:34
Speaker 3: room and everything is quiet, you know, because he has
31:38
Speaker 3: that kind of respect.
31:40
Speaker 2: And they love him. They loved him to death. Trust me,
31:44
Speaker 2: that one I got.
31:45
Speaker 3: He can I shouldn't even say this, but he loves
31:48
Speaker 3: kind of like, hey, you'll never believe it because we
31:52
Speaker 3: said that's a look I want up, you know.
31:55
Speaker 2: But you know, but I told I told Coach Be myself.
32:00
Speaker 2: My wife told him.
32:02
Speaker 3: You coach him and you coach him hard. There's no
32:05
Speaker 3: such thing as you know, just you coach him hard.
32:10
Speaker 3: And I think his his coaching style and what he
32:14
Speaker 3: has done is just I mean, man, how can you
32:19
Speaker 3: how can you not want to go play for him?
32:21
Speaker 3: I'm being honest, I mean, how can you not want
32:24
Speaker 3: to go play for the guy?
32:25
Speaker 2: If if if you are once you.
32:28
Speaker 3: Don't like getting chewed out, you mutter, stay your ass
32:31
Speaker 3: where you're at.
32:32
Speaker 5: You know, somebody is Coach BE gonna give it to you.
32:36
Speaker 5: He's gonna give you everything, brother, So you know, and
32:40
Speaker 5: that's what I You know, Isaiah looks at that type
32:43
Speaker 5: of stuff. Man, he looks at what.
32:45
Speaker 2: He have done. The young man is at Jacksonville. He looked,
32:49
Speaker 2: you know, look how he developed that kid.
32:52
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just, I mean, it's just it's just
32:54
Speaker 3: hard not to have those conversations about what Coach B
32:58
Speaker 3: has done.
33:00
Speaker 1: So off topic question here, if if with a Coach
33:05
Speaker 1: B offensive line in front of him, can Marcus Duprez
33:08
Speaker 1: still do you think he could still run for one
33:10
Speaker 1: hundred in a game? Does he? Cause last time I
33:12
Speaker 1: saw it, last time I saw him, Man, he's still
33:14
Speaker 1: with Jackson.
33:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a pretty good safe to be his age.
33:20
Speaker 2: Man, he was.
33:22
Speaker 3: We was in Oklahoma, it was I forgot when it was,
33:25
Speaker 3: but he was at a gym somewhere and the guy
33:28
Speaker 3: was they was kind of touching around. The guy probably
33:31
Speaker 3: I guess fifteen twenty years younger, and they was kind
33:34
Speaker 3: of just touching around.
33:35
Speaker 2: And you know, Mark's dipped in wrestling a little bit.
33:38
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know that. Yeah.
33:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, Marcus did a mood and got him on the
33:43
Speaker 3: ground and the guy was like, man, what I said, Noah,
33:50
Speaker 3: man said, you better leave that joke alone. I said,
33:52
Speaker 3: he got some of that old strength. He can push
33:55
Speaker 3: it out for about five minutes, so you better leave
33:59
Speaker 3: that chump along. Yeah, man, I would have I would
34:01
Speaker 3: have loved to see him behind on the offensive line.
34:04
Speaker 2: That was talked by you know, Kochvillbo. It would have
34:07
Speaker 2: been special.
34:08
Speaker 1: That would been great. So you're down in Mississippi, you're
34:11
Speaker 1: down in the South. You've got you know, ole miss Mississippi.
34:15
Speaker 1: Stay Alabama, all these Auburn, all these teams right around you.
34:18
Speaker 1: So I'm assuming that you've got a lot of seccats
34:21
Speaker 1: talking to you about manor you know, I don't think
34:23
Speaker 1: they're ready for this smoke.
34:25
Speaker 2: Uh everyday?
34:26
Speaker 1: What what kind of what kind of talk do you
34:29
Speaker 1: punch back with?
34:32
Speaker 2: Uh?
34:32
Speaker 3: The biggest thing is, you know, I tell him big
34:36
Speaker 3: basal Halo. We'll see when time comes. But when sometimes,
34:39
Speaker 3: you know, you get a barber shop talk and guys
34:42
Speaker 3: get there, you want to talk. So I have to
34:44
Speaker 3: put out, you know and say, hey, look look at
34:46
Speaker 3: the look at some statistics.
34:48
Speaker 2: I say, Okay, I said, y'all are Alabama. You know.
34:51
Speaker 3: Just let's say I got an Alabama fan or Auburn
34:55
Speaker 3: fan there. I said, who won the SEC last year?
34:58
Speaker 3: Oh Man, Alabama? I said, well, who won the Big twelve?
35:03
Speaker 2: Our Texas? I said, well, then Oklahoma beat Texas.
35:09
Speaker 3: Oh Man, Yeah, I said, old, old, Now, I said,
35:12
Speaker 3: you want to, you want to, you want to talk
35:13
Speaker 3: about the losses, but you don't want to talk about
35:16
Speaker 3: the wins. I said, you know, we had some injuries
35:18
Speaker 3: in those two losses and one bad call that cost us,
35:22
Speaker 3: and you know, the Arizona.
35:23
Speaker 2: Game, I don't really count that, man.
35:25
Speaker 3: I mean, although we played and I think the quarterback
35:28
Speaker 3: played well, you know, outside of the turnovers, and those
35:32
Speaker 3: are things that are correctable, you know, those things are
35:35
Speaker 3: real correctable.
35:35
Speaker 2: But I think he threw for over three hundred yards, you.
35:38
Speaker 3: Know the fumble, you know, come on, man, you know,
35:42
Speaker 3: but people don't want to see that.
35:43
Speaker 6: All they want to see is, oh, y'all lost to Kingses.
35:47
Speaker 6: And you know what, I'm like, man, hey is what
35:50
Speaker 6: it is. I said, let's do this. I said, oh,
35:52
Speaker 6: I said, oh, miss barely beat Texas.
35:55
Speaker 2: Ain't him? M last year?
35:57
Speaker 3: I think they won about six, I said, Arkansas, Arkansas,
36:01
Speaker 3: but Missouri had to.
36:05
Speaker 2: Had a dog fight. I think it was against Kansas State. Yeah.
36:09
Speaker 2: Sometimes you sit up here, you sit.
36:13
Speaker 3: Up here talking about the SEC at this juggernaut. This
36:16
Speaker 3: is what I grew up in. This is my this
36:18
Speaker 3: is I know this.
36:19
Speaker 2: I said.
36:20
Speaker 3: But when you take a team like Oklahoma and you
36:25
Speaker 3: put them or they they expect to win. Their standard
36:29
Speaker 3: is to win. So they're going to come in there
36:32
Speaker 3: like that. I said, let's go back to this. I said,
36:35
Speaker 3: when Mozo came into the SEC, what happened? I said,
36:38
Speaker 3: you know, you hadn't seen that type offense before.
36:41
Speaker 2: What happened? What are you talking about? I said, they
36:43
Speaker 2: went to the SEC Championship.
36:45
Speaker 3: I said, So, you know, you know a lot of
36:47
Speaker 3: them don't like to talk to me, you know, but
36:51
Speaker 3: but you know, I'm just laying facts down.
36:54
Speaker 2: You know, everything I'm telling you is true. You can
36:57
Speaker 2: go look it up.
36:58
Speaker 3: So those things, you know, yeah, we get the conversation
37:02
Speaker 3: that they're not ready, and I'm like, hey, we'll see.
37:06
Speaker 3: You know, well, you got to play between the lines.
37:08
Speaker 3: You know. I can talk all day about the Sooners,
37:11
Speaker 3: I can talk all day about the offensive line, but
37:13
Speaker 3: you know it has to be played outside. And you know,
37:15
Speaker 3: I think, you know, when it comes down to our record.
37:18
Speaker 3: You know, everybody asks me, you know, what do you
37:20
Speaker 3: think the record would bet?
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Speaker 2: Man? How many games y'all gonna win?
37:23
Speaker 3: Like, hey, look, you know some I give you know,
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Speaker 3: somebody I think is sensible and of about football.
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Speaker 2: I tell them. But some of these cats, you just can't.
37:33
Speaker 3: You can't say anything because they think you, oh, man,
37:36
Speaker 3: you're crazy.
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Speaker 2: There's no way y'all gonna win that many games. So
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Speaker 2: you know, I just kind of kind of leave it at.
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Speaker 1: That, man, all right, So then then then let's talk
37:44
Speaker 1: to the sensible folks, because I got the Sooners going
37:47
Speaker 1: ten and two this year. Are you you want to
37:50
Speaker 1: make a prediction?
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Speaker 3: Oh, I can't. I can't, man. I want to say
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Speaker 3: between nine three and ten and two. And the reason
38:04
Speaker 3: why I say that is I think we can. I
38:08
Speaker 3: think we'll steal a game from somebody. And I know
38:13
Speaker 3: where your leaps abouttle from where we were last year.
38:16
Speaker 3: But you know, sometimes you know, being on the road
38:19
Speaker 3: can be hard in the SEC if you never played
38:22
Speaker 3: in it. And I think one of those games could
38:24
Speaker 3: get by us. A couple of those games could get vibus.
38:26
Speaker 3: So I want to say, I want to say nine
38:28
Speaker 3: to ten and two. I know the Old Miss Game
38:33
Speaker 3: would be tough, but I think it's not as glaring
38:40
Speaker 3: place to play as Jordan Hare or Death Valley, So
38:45
Speaker 3: I think I think personally, I think they can.
38:48
Speaker 2: I think they can steal the Old Miss Game.
38:51
Speaker 3: I really do, because it's just not it's not the
38:53
Speaker 3: atmosphere there is not like the other two.
38:57
Speaker 1: Definitely, Well, hey, coach ben I man, I love you, man.
39:02
Speaker 1: You're you're you're like my You're like another uncle in
39:04
Speaker 1: the family for me. Already and and so man, I
39:08
Speaker 1: appreciate you hopping up. And so if you guys are
39:10
Speaker 1: watching this video and you've enjoyed this, this is the
39:14
Speaker 1: third interview that I've done.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Coach Dent is actually the one who was like, hey man,
39:19
Speaker 1: you've been talking to me about this this series. When
39:21
Speaker 1: are we going to start? And so yeah, you were
39:23
Speaker 1: excited about that. So I appreciate you owing up, man,
39:26
Speaker 1: And uh, what what's what's the what's the game? Like
39:29
Speaker 1: if you circled one game on the calendar this year,
39:32
Speaker 1: what's the one that you're most excited for? Tennessee, Tennessee.
39:36
Speaker 3: That's in house deal man, you know, yeah, that's that's
39:41
Speaker 3: the in house deal man. You know, Mom want to
39:44
Speaker 3: be Tennessee band. You know I want to be Tennessee band.
39:49
Speaker 3: And we all know as football guys, football talking here
39:54
Speaker 3: is that that's going to be the game that kind
39:56
Speaker 3: of start us on the road, you know, be on
40:00
Speaker 3: a little.
40:02
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not gonna say Cruise Control because.
40:05
Speaker 3: You gotta play every weekend, but that's the game to
40:07
Speaker 3: start your s SEC play. And I think that's the
40:12
Speaker 3: game that we gotta win. I think we got to
40:13
Speaker 3: win that game. Convencently. I don't, I don't. I don't
40:17
Speaker 3: see us, you know, going in there bad escaping bye,
40:19
Speaker 3: because I think we got to go to Jordan here
40:22
Speaker 3: the next week, so we need to put something on
40:24
Speaker 3: their mind, you know, when we get ready to go
40:26
Speaker 3: down to Alabama.
40:28
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
40:29
Speaker 1: Well, hey, coach, I appreciate you pulling up today. Guys
40:32
Speaker 1: in the comments, if you got questions, you know, I'll
40:35
Speaker 1: be tagging Coach Dent here so he can see these
40:39
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40:43
Speaker 1: are going to be coming in because talk season's almost sober.
40:46
Speaker 1: They're in fall camp. Stories are starting to come out.
40:49
Speaker 1: So Coach, again, I appreciate you pulling up today. Thanks
40:51
Speaker 1: for joining me, and thanks for just sharing your heart
40:54
Speaker 1: about the program and you know, just intrusting your son
40:58
Speaker 1: to this.
40:58
Speaker 2: Program, no problem anytime now, all right.
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41:13
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