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Portal After the NCAA Baseball Regionals · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question from American mama's. Dear mama is
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  Speaker 1: being a baseball mom, how do you feel about the
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  Speaker 1: portal after the NC Double A Baseball regionals. Well, let's
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  Speaker 1: ask our American mama's mama, she said in joining us
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  Speaker 1: now our American mama, Terry Netderville. So, You've had two
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  Speaker 1: sons that went up through the baseball ranks played NC
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  Speaker 1: Double A baseball, one of the sons before the portal,
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  Speaker 1: one of them after the portal started, and they had
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  Speaker 1: very different experiences in baseball.
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  Speaker 2: They did the portal. Okay, I personally I don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: It is taking something away from college sports. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to explain it other than there's
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  Speaker 2: when you with Steele's experience, that crew grew up together,
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  Speaker 2: they went through adversity together. You know, they built a brotherhood.
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  Speaker 2: There was no stop in them. You know, they won
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  Speaker 2: the conference tournament, then they won conference one year. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they were just this is a mid major school, Louisiana Tech,
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  Speaker 2: and they felt like they could take on anybody if.
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  Speaker 1: They were just So.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching the regionals recently and what fascinated me.
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  Speaker 2: What fascinated me is that they were out of I
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  Speaker 2: think out of thirteen SEC schools, I think all but
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  Speaker 2: four got knocked out by mid majors. So what does
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  Speaker 2: that tell you? I mean, I think they said that
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  Speaker 2: Old Miss spends what was it, nine million, nine million
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  Speaker 2: dollars in IL and then UTSA who has eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand displit among their players, which is pretty good too,
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  Speaker 2: But they beat Old Miss, and it was happening over
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  Speaker 2: and over, and I thought, here's the thing. Here's the
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  Speaker 2: thing about the Portal. First of all, I don't blame
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  Speaker 2: a kid for wanting to better himself financially. If somebody
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  Speaker 2: offers you that that.
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  Speaker 1: Much money, yeah, you're going to use this challenge that
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  Speaker 1: you have.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't blame the coaches because I know that
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  Speaker 2: this is what they do now, this is what they
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  Speaker 2: feel like they have to do.
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  Speaker 1: This is how your job.
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  Speaker 2: But Steven, I'm looking for the College World Series. I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking for that coach that says, you know what, guys,
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  Speaker 2: damn the Portal. I brought you into this program because
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  Speaker 2: I believe in you. I know your talent, and I
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  Speaker 2: can help develop you. If y'all promise to stay with me,
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  Speaker 2: I will stay with you. Kind of like a coastal
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  Speaker 2: Carolina back in twenty fifteen or sixteen, whenever they won it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, the nation was behind that. The entire America
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  Speaker 2: was behind that team. Why because they were a little
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  Speaker 2: engine that could. There was this little being mid major
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  Speaker 2: school that beat everybody in one it all right, it
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  Speaker 2: is something very special. So I looked today, I looked,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I wonder how many kids? Because Sun
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  Speaker 2: I think that the final day of the regionals. That
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  Speaker 2: night the portal opened up, and so there's two thousand,
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred and forty five players entered the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And what I want to say to these kids
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  Speaker 2: is you might be getting money, but you're probably gonna
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  Speaker 2: be sitting the bench because they're paying for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of kids. You know, they only have nine they can
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  Speaker 2: play out there. Unless you're pictures, you have the whole different.
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  Speaker 2: They should have just a picture's portal. But I think
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  Speaker 2: about Jonathan Fincher. You know, that's one of Steele's buddies
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  Speaker 2: that came in with Steel, and he went through some adversity.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't even think the coaches liked him very much,
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't even get to travel that first year,
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  Speaker 2: and so that was adversity. If the portal had been
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  Speaker 2: the way it is now, you probably left. But guess
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  Speaker 2: what he got through the adversity. Coach Brows is like
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  Speaker 2: a father of him. He was named captain his senior year.
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  Speaker 2: It is one of those things that what you experience
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  Speaker 2: if you if you just stick around and trust your coach,
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  Speaker 2: trust the process, you don't know what good things can happen.
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  Speaker 2: But again, some guys feel like, you know, this isn't
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: They got to move on. Yeah, you know, we were
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  Speaker 1: talking earlier about the portal and there's got to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, something else to happen here. And I started
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  Speaker 1: thinking of the international soccer model, where you have players
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  Speaker 1: that are signed their developmental players fourteen to fifteen. Some
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  Speaker 1: of these players getting signed by professional soccer teams, Major
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  Speaker 1: leag soccer, European soccer clubs, and all the soccer clubs
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  Speaker 1: have their own developmental squads creating that youth players and
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  Speaker 1: growing up right. So you sign a fourteen year old
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  Speaker 1: to a contract and then say by the time they're eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: you got other teams around the world that are interested
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  Speaker 1: in this person and they say we want that player.
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  Speaker 1: So it'd be like the portal, Right, you want to
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  Speaker 1: I want this player. Well, except that the way it
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  Speaker 1: works in international soccer is you go, okay, great, you
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  Speaker 1: want the player that we have under contract, you have
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  Speaker 1: to pay us for the contract. So there's a deal
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  Speaker 1: between teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great deal.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's a deal between the team and the player.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody wins, and so the.
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  Speaker 1: Team that's developing players actually can turn that into a
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  Speaker 1: profit model.
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  Speaker 2: FCA they want to come in and develop.
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  Speaker 1: FC Dallas and Major League Soccer is doing this the
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  Speaker 1: most that they're actually the team that has the most
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  Speaker 1: youth that usually makes the first team, and then they're
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  Speaker 1: selling them off. For Ricardo Peppy's gone over to Europe
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  Speaker 1: and he's playing now for the US men's national team.
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  Speaker 1: They sold him for twenty some odd million dollars. A
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  Speaker 1: kid they signed out of l passitting me no, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's that was the transferred deal. So FC Dallas made
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  Speaker 1: twenty million dollars just for the contract.
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  Speaker 2: This is brilliant because you know, before the portal was
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  Speaker 2: set up this way. Yeah, the kid if they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to leave a school, they had to sit out a
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  Speaker 2: year before they could play, so there was there was
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  Speaker 2: a cost. So you had to really think about that, right,
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  Speaker 2: So if.
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  Speaker 1: One school is having to pay another school for players
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  Speaker 1: that the other school developed, Yes, I.
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  Speaker 2: Love this, I love this idea. Let's submit it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's that's one of the ways that I look.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to treat it like a business, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: then let's just stop pretending it's college and let's just
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  Speaker 1: treat it like a business. If you like to ask
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  Speaker 1: of the Mama's button. Terry Netteville, thank you so much.
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