WEBVTT - RT George Fant talks hoops, C.J. Stroud & optimism | Texans Huddle 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.680 This is Texans huddle, and this is gonna be a 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.520 fun one because hey, it's me Drew Doherty. We got 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.640 Travis Johnson two thousand and five first round pick of 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:10.640 the Houston Texans. Played in the NFL for about a 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.200 decade here and in San Diego with the Chargers. 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:16.400 And to his right is right. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:21.919 Tackle George Fant George you ready, ready, you got a 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.880 little teeny tiny taste of Travis and kind of who 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.080 his personality is, what his personality is when you walked in. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.200 But first things first, how you feel in two days 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.600 after a pretty darned impressive win on the road at Cincinnati. 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.320 Man feels good. Man, come off a you know, second 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.320 second win in a row. It feels good. So you know, 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:41.519 I just go out there and played well, get a win. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.560 So and you're playing for a head coach and Dimigo 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.919 Ryans who played played right behind this guy in Travis. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.159 What's what's it been like coming here? Because you've been 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:50.760 in Seattle, you've been with the New York Jets, and 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:52.720 now you're here. What's it been like playing for him? 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.880 You've seen some different coaches in your time in the NFL. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.000 Man, I was just talking about that man, And I'm 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.800 really enjoying myself. Man, my eight years in the league 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.720 feel like I'm honestly having the best time in my career. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:02.959 Man. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.480 You know, so, uh, you know, it's it's pretty cool 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.240 to play for a coach like that, man who's been 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.040 in been in it with, been in it before, played 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.360 the game at high level, kind of understands the players 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.640 a little differently, man. So so, like I said, I 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.560 really enjoying myself having a really good time. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:19.959 There, Travis, how much does that matter? 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.600 The understanding of the players, And after having gone through 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.120 what Demiko went through? And you're the perfect guy to 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.760 talk to about this because you know, played with the 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:29.240 Miro and you've seen what's be going on. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.560 How big an impact can that be? 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:30.840 Oh? 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:31.080 Well? 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:32.560 I mean I always say, man, when you look at 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.640 when you look at teams, teams are direct reflection of 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.399 their leadership, and at the position coaches. You look at 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.960 position coaches their directly reflection of the guy that's the 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.520 leader in their room. And when you get guys like Demko, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.800 who once again when he was here, he was our 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.600 he was our leader from the first day he got here, 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.960 you know, so it's exciting to see you know, like 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.120 when I saw him after the game and I seen them, 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:54.240 you know, I just. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:55.200 It gave me. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.120 It gives me so much enjoyment when I see him, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.080 I see me, I see the kids, and just how 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.800 we've all come, but how far he's come. And it's 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.200 phenomenal to watch because I see the guys buying in. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.440 I see and they know it's not fake. You know. 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:10.919 You know you've been around coaches. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:12.480 You know when you play long enough in the league 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.720 where they might be friends with somebody else to get 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.320 to get a job. You know, you see a guy 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.600 who might not know as much as the eight year 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.240 vet that sitting in the room, and they sitting there like, man, 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.880 this is what we got to do. But when it 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.720 comes from a guy like Miko, who learned the game 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.880 from behind that face mask, it's a whole different ball game. 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.760 And he just brought something up behind that face mask. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.240 There's a little tidbit. First thing, I've been here a while. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.480 I got here about four years after you, two thousand 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.000 and nine, and one of the first things I learned 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.120 was Demko Ryans had to get a new face mask 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.200 installed on his helmet after every game. Yeah, he's bending 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.160 it and cracking it and all that. Anyhow, what's it 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:48.880 like right now? You guys are on a roll. I 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.120 mean two in a row, Texans having won two hadn't 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.959 had two game win streaks in a long, long time 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:55.440 around here. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.239 It has been two thousand and would have been nineteen. Yeah. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:02:59.919 Yeah, that was the last time that happened. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.160 Had a three game win streak since eight team in 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.720 the midst of the nine game win streak. But what's 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.359 it like because you've been here since Week one before 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.400 that really, but regular season wise, you guys are clearly 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.880 taking massive, massive steps along the way. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:12.320 Man. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.639 What I'll say, bro, I feel like not much it's changed, man. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.600 I think I think that's what makes this situation kind 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.840 of dope. Man, Just like I think that guys are, 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:25.400 you know, the same from from weak ones they are now. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.520 You know, I don't think anybody is like, you know, 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.280 too high off the winds, you know, and after a loss, 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.280 you know, it hasn't been too low. It's not a 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.640 situation where guys where like people panning. I've been in 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.680 situations where you lose a game, you lose two, and 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.200 then it's panning mode. You know what I'm saying. People 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.400 and that's when things go downhill. Man, I don't think 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.240 it's ever been that, no waiver anybody in it in 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.400 it's building, you know. So man, it's refreshing to be 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.560 around that bro. It's like really refreshing to be around 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.520 some people who you know, are the same way every 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.880 single day, attacking the day the same every day. So 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.040 I feel like the building right now is definitely on 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.240 the you know, in the right path, and people are 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.320 you know, thinking the right things, just you know, working 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.800 with the guys every day and not changing up who 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:06.120 they are. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.000 So all right, Travis quipping, So damn serious, let's have 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:09.720 some fun on the show. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:10.720 You know. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:12.920 My biggest thing is, you know, when I look at 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.440 this team, I laughed because and I told Miko yesterday, 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.120 I told cal, I told all I said, man, look 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.920 right now, we easily get be seven to two facts, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:22.719 you know what I'm saying. And a seven and two 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:26.760 team right now is scary, like to come off of 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.600 what we've been through the last few years and the 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.040 bs from top to bottom. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.280 And to see me go come in. 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.680 When you get coaches like that, man, and you get 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.440 people who seriously genuine man, you can't beat that man, 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.480 and I think for me, I'm excited because I see, 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.200 like you said, nobody gets too high, nobody gets too low. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.720 But you see how much they love winning and they 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.080 love being around. Like when we had to running back 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.560 kick the freaking field goal the other day, you know 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:52.000 what I'm. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.720 Saying, And you did? 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.440 You did you know he could do that? 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.080 I didn't even notice who it was, so I was 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.240 thinking it was gonna be Cam kicking. I didn't know, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.320 you know what I'm saying. I'm thinking, like, I'm like, man, 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:02.760 why he ain't kicked the ball. I knew, I knew 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.440 how he was hurt, but I didn't know that was 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.200 you know else. No, I look back at him, like, 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:08.720 oh yeah. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.320 And when I when I watched the clip Miko like 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.320 they had they had the dual clip, Miko looking at 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.919 it and him kicking it, and I watched Miko not 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.039 get too high. But I've seen that smirk on his face, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.240 and it reminded me of when I when I used 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.160 to tell him like random you know, I can't I 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.080 don't know if he cares on this, but random stuff, 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.520 you know exactly, that's on the other one, you know, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.560 random stuff in the game, and he gave me that smirk, 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.320 like tighten up now, you know what I mean. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.800 But no, but George, I got a quick question. What's up? 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.200 Who like one on one game? You and your wife? 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:43.200 Who wins? 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.840 Okay, give a little background here that man, give a 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.960 little background, George, tell us the audience. 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.680 Yeah, so I was a college basketball player. Four years 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.880 of college basketball, switched over football. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.760 You know what I'm saying. You don't know I'm playing the. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.599 I played defense, but nah, so and then my wife 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.719 is an All American basketall player, Like she killer, killer 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:06.280 on that court. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:06.520 Man. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.760 So she still plays now, like you know, requees and 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.000 stuff like that. But she was don't don't listen, don't 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.440 don't don't call it down now. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.960 She was the next Smith watch list. Person was up, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.360 was up for player of the year last year in school. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.880 You know what I mean, Like, hey, you god for 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.840 the year, and she was. She was a dog. The 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.080 question is with them kids, the kids gonna play. 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.919 Football, the chosen ones, them kids? 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:35.320 Because you know, I don't know your name. I was like, man, 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.640 I breathed it because I tell you know what. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.640 It makes me so mad when you see guys with 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:42.400 great genetics. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.240 You know what I'm saying, like this dude got little ankles. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.400 You know what I'm saying. You know, you know something, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:48.080 you know. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.520 You got to pick the right You got to pick 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.440 the right partner. You can't go and find it because 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.240 just because she to find this little short. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:54.520 Girl out of here. You can't listen. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.200 I dated the ones like that, and I'm like, man, listen, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.520 I love you, don't get me wrong, but we can't 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.440 have no kid is together. You know, the Lord blessed 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.000 me with great a first round DNA, and I gotta 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.440 have somebody else next to him. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:07.960 You know. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.160 I look at like my guy, Marcus Spears, who's on ESPN. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.720 Marcus married a basketball player, and right now, Marcus, his 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.600 daughter is the number one volleyball player of classes twenty 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.920 six or twenty four, whatever. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.000 Class is coming up. Yeah is she six foot fall? 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.880 Like you gotta breache your kills. Yeah, I know something. Yeah. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.360 So my boys, I got two boys, seven and six, 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:27.800 and I got. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.680 A little girl. My oldest he he got it. Man. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.640 He athlete, all three of my athletes. Man, but he 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:39.160 basketball football. My daughter's basketball with my son, my middle son. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:40.480 He's like the polar opposite. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.720 He playing hockey right now ice hockey. So I'm excited 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.680 about that man, because we just moved to Nashville, so 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.400 he got to see the Predators a little bit. And 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:50.920 then the school he goes to some of his some 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.720 of the people in his classy hockey so and he 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.160 told me he wanted to play. I was automatically excited 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.240 because I like, I liked I just started Likeking hockey. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.000 Too, a tremendous athlete. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:00.520 Yeah yeah, So I'm like, man, let's do it. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.680 So he just started. He just learned how to ice skate. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.640 He just finished that. But the start of practice in 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.760 a couple of weeks. So first year at it. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.520 I don't think people realize, like it's it's the lacrosse 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.480 players and hockey players. How big some of them dudes 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.640 nice too, and they made a little. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:19.000 Dudes and if they're good, they're shifting exactly. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.720 And when you see that, it's a whole different ball. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.720 Who was it? Popak Jones had had the son that was. 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.840 Yeah, who was he was a basketball player's son? 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.120 Black kid on the ice? I love it. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.360 PK Subband one of my favorites. PK Suban used to 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.480 be out there like, you know, like who was it? 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:40.200 Said? 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.600 The entertainer said, you know, they let black people on ice, 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.120 they didn't want to let us one because they out 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:45.640 there with no with no stick, just. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.360 Out here out here hitting people, you know. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.480 And I think it's dope that she got him in there, man, 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:52.360 because I used to play. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:53.360 I used to play street hockey. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.800 So you know he's from southern California. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.480 Okay, southern cal And so we moved out of Englewood. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:00.959 I moved to the predominantly white neighborhood, you know what 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.080 I'm saying, And all the kids down in the cult 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.800 to Sack will play hockey. And the first couple of 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.880 times I'm out just running around with the stick. But 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.400 you know, didn't have no skates. First thing I did. Man, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.400 hey I need some inline skates. I need to be 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:14.200 able to inline skate. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:14.440 I need. 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.000 I wanted to get out there. So I think that's 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.640 super dope, man. I think we and the beauty of it, man, 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.920 when you got kids, and you know this too, is 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.760 that you get to watch them grow and you get 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.079 to watch their past, the past they take. Like when 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.040 my kid I got five of them and two boys. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.760 Probably my best athlete overall is probably my youngest daughter, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.240 my youngest son probably is the one who's gonna be 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:35.320 the greatest out all of them. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.760 Because he just he just want them dudes. He's just 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:38.320 a dude, you know. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.880 What I'm saying, means a rattlesnake all the time, and 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.400 he's just he's just that guy, you know. But it's 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.480 beautiful to watch him, to watch him grow. Man, that's dope. Man, 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.520 I like that hockey. Man, that's cool. Why why Nashville, though, 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:51.480 Why you pick Cashville? 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:51.760 The move? 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.319 So I'm I'm I'm from closer there. I'm like forty 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.600 five minutes Kentucky. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.280 The first black dude I've met from Bone the Green real. Yeah, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:00.960 I mean I know, I know they're out there. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.360 But brothers, some hoopers out the We hoop. Yeah, that's 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.320 what we do. Because because you went to what's the name, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:07.040 what's high school? 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.640 You went to war Warriston. You always got good basketball, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:10.720 high school basketball. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.760 What I was in high school, I remember watching them 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.559 come up, you know what I mean, Like, okay. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:16.959 All right, we hoop out of there. Man. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.000 So, so it's forty five minutes from from the crib man, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:21.280 So I was like, I want to be in a city, 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:22.679 you know what, I'm saying I've been I've been in 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.320 all these different cities and I can't go back to 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.680 on to a small town. So and then I do 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.319 a lot of work in Nashville too, So it was 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:29.720 kind of kind of made sense for me. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.480 What so my my, I mean, I know we're getting 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:33.480 off topic a little bit. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:38.120 But that's what we do on the ships, right tackle 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.240 George fan as well. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.560 So, so my thing is you far enough, You far 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.680 enough from the crib, and you ain't got to be 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:45.599 your cousin. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.880 Stuff like coffee you pull up, no question, Yeah, just 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.400 popping up. No, not forty five. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.240 I mean, I love my family. It's all good, it's 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.040 all love. But they're gonna call man, it's all. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.800 Why you when you came down to your top five schools, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.040 did West Kentucky was at one of oll the schools 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:06.880 to let you play both? 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:08.600 So I didn't. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.640 So I never I've never played football, man, Like I 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.000 tried to play football one year in high school because 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:14.600 you didn't play football in college and I never played 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.320 the last time I played football was like eighth grade, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:17.480 seventh grade, seventh grade. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.240 Never remarkable, So it's dope. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.320 So I tried to so my senior crazy story. Like 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.840 my senior year, I all these different college I offers 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.600 in basketball, like different different all kind of good ones, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.360 you know what I'm saying. So it's like my high 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.240 school football coach is like, man, look, man, just come 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.040 out and try it one time. Like don't just just 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.319 come and give it a try, and give it a try. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.160 So like one of my best friends at the time, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.120 my point guard, he was a quarterback too, so he 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.280 went back to play for a year. So I snuck 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:43.600 out there, you know what I'm saying. Tell my parents, 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.520 ain't tell nobody. I just after school. I just they 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.640 usually think I'm working out basketball. I just skipped that 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.480 with the full practice, you know what I'm saying. When 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.440 out there in practice and stuff, had a really good practice, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.200 you know what I'm saying. It kind of came natural 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.960 for me. And then uh my mom found out, like 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.280 probably had practice, so she showed up. She drove her 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:07.200 van on the field. On the field, bro Like literally 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.200 they literally drove her van on the field. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:10.439 What the team do? How they react? 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:11.120 They laughing? 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.160 Man like to take this stuff off and getting the 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.160 car about the coaches though everybody was so the coach 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.440 at the time was a pastor and like he's a 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:19.160 past or whatever. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:20.440 So he came on mind. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.280 He was like, man, his fans like I talked to God, 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.520 Like he said, George need be playing football. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.800 She's like, I don't give it. I don't. You got 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:29.199 this car. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.560 But what's funny is and we always joke about it, 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.040 like he was right, man, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:34.199 This whole time, I wish I had to play in 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.760 high school, but I didn't play, man. So but going 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.120 back to picking that school, man, it was like a 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.520 hometown deal, like you know what I'm saying. Honestly, was 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.439 about to go to Kent State. The committed there first, 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.559 but then uh, you know, last minute, last minute decision, 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:47.520 end up switching back. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.080 A few hours, a few hours west of Bowling Green though, right, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.199 Penn State. No, No, no, Western Kentucky where you want him? 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.600 No? No, It's like literally, bro, like not even a 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.199 mile to my high school on the campus. 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.600 Are you serious? Okay, I walked my ignorant of geography 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:02.160 right there. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.000 So that's my thing because I mean, I see it, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.080 and I guess for me, I played I hoop growing up, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.080 playing the A U circuit all that stuff. But it 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.520 was always you're the biggest dude on the team or 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.480 near the big you got to play down down low, 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.920 and it's like a yeah, I played a little powerful. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.160 We got a nice little shot. But at the same time, 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.600 nobody ever tears you. Like man, you've got these big bones, 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.720 this big structure like basketball Lake Joe sports man. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.199 By Betweeno trying to get me to come out. Uh 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.360 because he's a Louisville then he's at Westerns after. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:39.040 He fell off the can am he would never fell off. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:41.800 I don't still fell off. I don't think he ever 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.079 fell on the screen. Is he got you know? 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.840 But uh but but Bobby was trying to give me 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.640 out there that uh will he tagger was trying to 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:51.240 get me out there. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:51.880 Man, I'm glad. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.960 I'm glad you played for Willy Willy Terrible Willy my 0:13:55.080 --> 0:14:00.880 dog Will. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.240 I just really tagging man. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.840 Yeah, system everywhere. You know what I'm saying. You know, 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.640 and it ain't I don't know. For me, it wasn't 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.280 the system. It was the outside of stuff like that. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.880 Day to day the day I'm like, man, you like 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.520 Florida boy is different than the boys in Kentucky. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.400 Like y'all got more disciplined I don't know. Man. Our 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.200 whole team is from Florida and it's probably a bunch 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.600 of undisciplined be you know what I'm saying. I ain't 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.080 gonna lie. And they got some dudes up out of it. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:31.240 I don't know where they found them from. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.360 They can, they can bar because that's all they eat. Breech, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.520 sleep and use the bathroom football, you know what I mean. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.280 But when it comes time to when it comes time to, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.280 you gotta have At Florida State, when I was there, 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.360 we had killer stills and drug dealers. You got to 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.160 put You got to give them direction. And that's what 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.600 everybody wants. And when we wh you go to practice, 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.920 the music louder than than anything. And I'm like, it's 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.040 cool to have music at practice. That's cool, you know 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.120 what I mean. It was a change for us, old dudes. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.920 But at the same time, if I can't coach you up. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.240 That's one thing about football. If you make a mistake 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.560 in practice, especially at the college level, you make a 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.560 mistake in practice, you got to be able to correct 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.760 him right now and give them that correction, give them 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.160 that guidance. If you go back later on an hour 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.120 or two hours later, and talk about it in the 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.320 film study. It ain't nothing he could do to fix that, 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:15.880 and he probably gonna forget about it next time he 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.080 stepped on the field. And I just, you know, it's 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.120 just it. Some of the stuff just bothered me. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:20.320 Man. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.840 It was it was just and I hated it because 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.400 I knew what it meant for the culture of black coaches, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.240 the opportunity, the opportunity and the gold of Tallahassee and 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.160 not do well. It's said, I think it set a 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:36.920 lot of coaches back for some years, you know what 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.760 I'm saying. And because I wanted him to be successful too, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.640 you know what I'm saying. But it just was and 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.840 when it when it started, when it started going downhill 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:44.760 from day one, it. 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.160 Was like, oh my goodness, what we're gonna do. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.840 But I feel it's one of situations too, Man. You 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.320 had you had a school like Florida State, Man, and 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.920