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Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports.

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Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Project

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Speaker 3: Now you know me. I'm Anthony Gargana with the Fellas.

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Speaker 2: In fact, Fellas will be up, uh it's shortly after

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Speaker 2: this hour. Every Saturday, Fellas will be from six to

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Speaker 2: to Project ni L. I'm Anthony Gargana with Danny D.

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Speaker 2: I want you to call him Danny d v A D.

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Speaker 2: It's my main man. And a lot of you know

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Speaker 2: that I'm gonna I talk about it a lot that

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Speaker 2: I'm a dad and father of two boys twelve and

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Speaker 2: fifteen who play youth sports. So this whole world is

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Speaker 2: a wild one of youth sports and where we're headed

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Speaker 2: from college and all the nil stuff now that's stripped

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Speaker 2: down the high school and youth sports. You know, my

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Speaker 2: kids play everything, and I know a lot of you people,

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Speaker 2: a lot of parents out there. You know the world.

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Speaker 2: It's a completely wild West. It's not like when we

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Speaker 2: were all kids and played ball. This is a very

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Speaker 2: different landscape. And I thought better than each week in

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Speaker 2: thanks for all of our people at Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: to help put on this show and I thought every

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Speaker 2: week would be fun to dive into it. I have

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Speaker 2: one of the best in the country from William Penn

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Speaker 2: Charter High School in Philadelphia, one of the oldest schools.

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Speaker 3: Danny d my main man.

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Speaker 2: He built Saint Joe's Prep, which is a national powerhouse

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Speaker 2: across all sports, especially in football, and Marvin Harrison. In fact,

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Speaker 2: Kyle McCord just aup all the kids that came out

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Speaker 2: of his program. And so I thought, no one better

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Speaker 2: to take this journey because I pick his brain all

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Speaker 2: the time.

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Speaker 3: So why shouldn't you. Good morning, Danny d Dad.

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Speaker 4: What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Cause appreciate you having me here today, and I appreciate

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Speaker 5: Fox Sports. I'm really excited to dive into this stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, listen, you're the perfect guy to talk to about

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Speaker 2: youth sports. You're the perfect guy too. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: picked your brain all the time when it comes to

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Speaker 2: all this whole new landscape and you're kind of in

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Speaker 2: the forefront of it all.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's ever changing.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I've been an athletic director for now

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Speaker 5: twelve years. You know, grew up in U sports, playing

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Speaker 5: in you know, in Philadelphia and being you know in

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Speaker 5: the rec centers and you know, going through that journey.

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Speaker 5: But it's ever changing and just in you know, my

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Speaker 5: changes year to year and it's truly changing now more

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Speaker 5: than ever because it's a business now, right. It used

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Speaker 5: to be more at the where of it was just

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Speaker 5: happens to some degree, but it has turned into a business.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess let's explore the beginnings of this stuff, right,

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Speaker 2: and you know, today's gonna be more of an introductory show.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna we want a lot of participations from the audience.

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Speaker 2: We want to take you into behind the scenes of

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Speaker 2: the world. We'll look at some of the hottest kids.

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Speaker 2: It's always fun to see some of the next generation.

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Speaker 2: And with the next generation, uh names that you're gonna

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Speaker 2: hear someday. On the landscape of college football, college basketball, soccer, baseball,

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Speaker 2: the whole thing, all the drafts, uh boys and girls

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about. But let's find let's kind of go

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Speaker 2: through the landscape a little bit. When did it When

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Speaker 2: did this really start to take form?

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Speaker 3: Dan?

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Speaker 2: When when did it start to take form and you

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Speaker 5: So if you want to go back to when it

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Speaker 5: would say when the AAU scene continued to grow, right

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Speaker 4: Right, So that's at probably about ten years ago when.

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Speaker 5: AAU basketball, football seven on seven started to really develop.

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Speaker 5: And during that time, you know AAU existed previous to it,

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Speaker 5: had to figure out ways. The shoe companies got involved, right,

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Speaker 5: So you know, the eybl is the Nike basketball circuit, right,

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Speaker 5: then to really where we are today is you know

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Speaker 5: when that started happening, training started coming in more and

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Speaker 5: the NCAA kind of opened up the gates and said, hey,

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Speaker 5: shortly after that, NIL, you know, big court case happened

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Speaker 5: And the main thing is they just opened it up

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Speaker 5: without really thinking I think long term, which I'm all for,

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Speaker 5: you know, kids getting paid, but they just took all

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Speaker 5: once you do that, it's really hard to get back right.

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Speaker 5: Once you open the gates up and there's not really

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Speaker 5: And I think that was kind of a misstep the

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Speaker 5: And I'm so happy that these kids are getting paid

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Speaker 5: because you know, you get a head start in life

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Speaker 5: and you're doing something you love. However, it's drastically changed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know how many times do I

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Speaker 2: And my boys Anthony and Massimo. Hey, what do you

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Speaker 2: think we should be doing here? And do you think

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Speaker 2: they should be training? And do you think they should

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Speaker 2: be specialized in everything else? So we're going to dive

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Speaker 2: into all those questions that parents. You know, I'm a

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Speaker 2: and it's amazing. I covered big time college sports back

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Speaker 2: I was talking to Frank Costa. Remember Frank Costa played

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Speaker 4: A multi millionaireton today.

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Speaker 3: That's what he said.

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Speaker 2: He goes, you know, it would have been dangerous for

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Speaker 2: this is not you know that these numbers that we're

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Speaker 2: Now we see some of the friend fresh and with

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Speaker 2: and it's it's crazy, crazy money.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's wild.

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Speaker 5: I mean we just big examples that get to you know, obviously,

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Speaker 5: the top guys are getting four or five million dollars

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Speaker 4: He's got you know, probably eight over four years. Like

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Speaker 4: so there's big deals that are out there. But the

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Speaker 5: Right, if you're if you're going to a Power five school,

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Speaker 4: If I think that's kind of like the minimum.

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Speaker 5: It's like the starting ground grounds if you're just coming

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Speaker 5: in as a player. Now the position player that varies, right,

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Speaker 5: if you're a quarterback, obviously it goes up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Bryce Underwood.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's again twelve million dollars, fifteen million dollars. Right,

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Speaker 5: if you're an offensive lineman. The positions of need they put,

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Speaker 5: they emphasize it more. It's really like the NFL coming down, right.

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Speaker 5: You see how the NFL prices it guys out. It's

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Speaker 3: And you know, my bag, it makes sense too.

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Speaker 2: Write like Mike Lombardi, who is a longtime GM for

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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick, is that Carolina with Bill, and he's treating

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Speaker 2: it like an NFL salary cap, right, like you know,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna put We're gonna pay our quarterback

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's it's again it's ever changing.

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Speaker 5: So like when people ask me, I like, tell him

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Speaker 5: because it's something that came out with again little regulation,

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Speaker 5: Every school can spend twenty million dollars so the school

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Speaker 5: can physically pay kids. Now, before when NIL started, it

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Speaker 5: you know, upcoming kids. NCAA said he all right, we're

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Speaker 5: going to take this in house since we're basically allowing

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Speaker 5: to pay. But the collectives still are there, and the

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Speaker 5: to you can spend up to twenty million dollars now.

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Speaker 5: So then and again you have to spread that out.

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Speaker 4: Through all sports.

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Speaker 5: So some sports schools, if you really want to invest

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Speaker 5: get really creative, like the Vcus of the world in basketball,

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Speaker 3: Phil Martell, Phil Martel, mar Telly Jr.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And they had a great season at Bryant, and

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Speaker 5: Ryan Dally, local guy, really really local to Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: the app to stream us live every day, all day

438
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Speaker 2: and be sure to select Fox Sports Radio is one

439
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Speaker 2: of your presets in the iHeart app, so we'll always

440
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Speaker 2: pop up at the top of your screen. Yeah, Dan,

441
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Speaker 2: it's it's it's so much to unpack that we're gonna

442
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Speaker 2: it's gonna take a lot for us to to kind

443
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Speaker 2: of go feel quickly a lot of different things.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna highlight kids.

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Speaker 2: I know that you have a list of the there's

446
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Speaker 2: five big time national football games between high school powerhouses

447
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Speaker 2: going on today.

448
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Speaker 5: Yeah, big big games today on the slate. It should

449
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Speaker 5: be a jam packfield. So the number one team in

450
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Speaker 5: the country, Modern Day on California, they have a huge

451
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Speaker 5: game this weekend and they're just loaded with you know,

452
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Speaker 5: big time commits. They have like the number one receiver

453
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Speaker 5: in the country.

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Speaker 4: They're absolutely loaded.

455
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Speaker 5: But they're playing today, They're playing another California team, Sentinel,

456
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Speaker 5: and again USC commits. They're the field is just absolutely

457
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Speaker 5: loaded in they have kids from.

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Speaker 3: Well matter Day, he's always had studs.

459
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Speaker 4: Oh everywhere.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, just it's it's a wild wild you know, to

461
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Speaker 5: have all that talent on one team. So I can

462
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Speaker 5: just run down a few names. So they have the

463
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Speaker 5: number just Modern Days, number sixteenth, recruiting in the country,

464
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Speaker 5: number twenty twenty one, one hundred and twenty four, one

465
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Speaker 5: thirty six, and three and twenty six playing on both

466
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Speaker 5: sides of the ball. Tight End dranked sixteenth in the

467
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Speaker 5: country is going to usc They have the twentieth tackle

468
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Speaker 5: on the country going to Washington. They have the number

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Speaker 5: twenty one player in the country as a receiver going

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Speaker 5: to Ohio State, number one twenty four receiver in the

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Speaker 5: country going to.

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Speaker 4: Ohio State as well. So they're absolutely loaded.

473
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Speaker 5: And then not to you know, centerl on the other side,

474
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Speaker 5: they have you know, they have a Ohio State commit,

475
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Speaker 5: they have a Cal commit.

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Speaker 4: You know, they're they're loaded.

477
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Speaker 5: David tight ended, linebacker and cornerback all in the top

478
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Speaker 5: twenty two hundred in the country.

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Speaker 4: So absolutely love.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this off of these rankings, because

481
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Speaker 2: this is interesting.

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Speaker 3: How does first of all, it's rivals that does the rankings.

483
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Speaker 3: So there's a.

484
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Speaker 5: Bunch of different services, right, and they're and they're they

485
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Speaker 5: mimic each other, and again it's really tough to put together,

486
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Speaker 5: but they do their best, right, They're they're trying to

487
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Speaker 5: figure it out. So I don't always put a ton

488
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Speaker 5: of stock into it. But the top hundred usually is

489
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Speaker 5: pretty accurate in my eyes. It's really I mean, it's

490
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Speaker 5: so hard to get eyes on all these different.

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Speaker 2: Right, Like, you're not going to live whether they're two

492
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Speaker 2: or eight, you're not going to quibble with. You just

493
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Speaker 2: know that they're a big time prospect, right.

494
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Speaker 5: Yeah, because they're going to Power five schools and they're

495
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Speaker 5: getting those offers, and those schools obviously know what they're

496
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Speaker 5: looking for, right, so they see the talent. So I

497
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Speaker 5: think a lot of it there's a bunch of different

498
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Speaker 5: you know, factors going to is what school's off for them, right,

499
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Speaker 5: That might just get someone on the radar a big

500
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Speaker 5: school offer somebody to like, oh this kid's got to

501
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Speaker 5: be in the top three hundred, right, he's got to

502
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Speaker 5: offer from Penn State or you know, Alabama. So I

503
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Speaker 5: think they rely on coach's opinion.

504
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Speaker 4: They try to get out.

505
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Speaker 5: There's obviously talent evaluators that get out, but it's so

506
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Speaker 5: hard to see all these kids.

507
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Speaker 4: There's you know, millions of millions, And.

508
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Speaker 2: That was this is my question to here, how do

509
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Speaker 2: you get noticed if you're I'm going to take a

510
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Speaker 2: kid from the Eagles who's a friend of mine, We

511
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Speaker 2: do what we do a show with him. Cooper Dejeen

512
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Speaker 2: who plays for the Eagles. He was a stud at Iowa.

513
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Speaker 2: He grew his town was nine hundred people. You grew

514
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Speaker 2: up in a farming town in Iowa, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, how does it?

516
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Speaker 2: And he's a great athlete, Like he dunks a basketball.

517
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Speaker 2: He's a safety for the Eagles. Now, I mean he's

518
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Speaker 2: a great, great player. He could play outside corner, he

519
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 2: could play nickel corner, and he could play safety.

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Speaker 4: Right, like he put twenty on him. You can put

521
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Speaker 4: him at linebacker.

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Speaker 3: Yes, great tackler.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but how does a kid like that if you're

524
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Speaker 2: in a small town somewhere nestled in the country, how

525
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Speaker 2: do you get noticed?

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Speaker 5: It's tough, man, and that's what So, you know, we

527
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Speaker 5: talked about some of the cons some of the pros

528
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Speaker 5: of this AAU circuit is if you can get on

529
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Speaker 5: you know, on a state AU program, more a big

530
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 5: city AAU program, you can travel to it and get

531
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Speaker 5: more on the circuit for basketball and football to seven

532
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Speaker 5: on sevens, and so there is a pro of the

533
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Speaker 5: you know, it's an exposure that you can get, but

534
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Speaker 5: it's still super hard.

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Speaker 4: Right at the end of the day.

536
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Speaker 5: I believe they will find you. But I mean, like

537
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Speaker 5: a prime example, I tell people, you know, Steph Curry,

538
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 5: Dale Curry's son, Small Davison was his biggest offer and

539
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Speaker 5: then it doubled down. His brother went to Liberty, an

540
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Speaker 5: the NBA player. His biggest offer was Liberty. He ended

541
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Speaker 5: up transferring to Duke. Everyone sees him at Duke. But

542
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Speaker 5: there's two guys who father played in the NBA for

543
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Speaker 5: you know, fifteen years, and they still were overlooked. Yeah,

544
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Speaker 5: they weren't seen, right, So it happens. I feel like,

545
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Speaker 5: you know, there are some people that still fall through

546
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Speaker 5: the cracks. But if when you're that good, they will

547
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 5: find you. It just might take longer than if you

548
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 5: had that initial exposure coming at bigger city or bigger

549
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Speaker 5: high school.

550
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Speaker 2: Speaking of it's a great transition because speaking of former

551
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 2: NBA players, we have Rajah bell I got a chance

552
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 2: to sit down with Rajah. His son DJ got three boys.

553
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 2: His son Dia is a quarterback. He's going to Texas.

554
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 2: He plays an American Heritage in Florida. He's American Heritage,

555
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 2: another powerhouse. Who are they playing the bank?

556
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Speaker 5: American Heritage has a big game today. So they they're

557
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 5: one and one. They came off they won their opener

558
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Speaker 5: against Saint George Prep. Huge, huge comeback for them. They're

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Speaker 5: now twenty eight seven. They came back in one thirty one,

560
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Speaker 5: twenty eight so big game for them. They lost last week,

561
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Speaker 5: so they have a big bounce back game this week

562
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Speaker 5: and they're playing a team from Louisiana. Ton of Lshoe

563
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Speaker 5: commits playing Edna Carr, so big team out of down South,

564
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Speaker 5: a powerhouse at the according to Rivals, the rank sixteenth

565
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 5: and twenty fifth, respectively. And it's a big showdown, So

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Speaker 5: we'll see how it's going to break out. I've read

567
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Speaker 5: some stuff online that da might be injured, so we'll

568
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Speaker 5: see if if he's able to go, if he's not,

569
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Speaker 5: if he's not there, it's gonna be a tall task

570
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Speaker 5: for American Heritage because.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well he's such a terrific player and he's going

572
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Speaker 2: to Texas right like he's going here.

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Speaker 3: It is He's going to Texas.

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Speaker 2: Uh. We had a chance to sit with with Raja.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen to a little bit of the interview.

576
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Speaker 2: There's gonna be more posted online again, There's gonna be

577
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Speaker 2: it's we're gonna go by fast. So we're gonna give

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00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 2: you a chance where you guys can get involved for

579
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Speaker 2: some supplemental content. But take a listen to a piece

580
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Speaker 2: of art interview with Raja take us through.

581
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Speaker 3: The process of now choosing where to go.

582
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Speaker 2: We have every every major program in the country is

583
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 2: looking at you, guys. It's a whole world of ni

584
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 2: L which is a completely you.

585
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 3: Know, different animal, different beast than you dealt with.

586
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, well, you know, well we we decided like

587
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 7: my wife was a a I met her at FIU

588
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 7: and she was a All American soccer player and player

589
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Speaker 7: of the Year in college and stuff like that. So

590
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 7: she's got a great sports background in her in her

591
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Speaker 7: own right, and so together we kind of felt like

592
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Speaker 7: we wanted to you to try to pick you know,

593
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 7: as as organically as he could, for the reasons that

594
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 7: we would have picked for back when we played, Like

595
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 7: where do you see yourself? You know, what staff speaks

596
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 7: to you, Who do you think you can be around

597
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 7: on a day to day, What town do you want

598
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 7: to live in, Like what's the culture that you want?

599
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 7: We and then the money, We'll get to that eventually

600
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Speaker 7: because it is a part of it, right, But like

601
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Speaker 7: up front, that's what we focused on. So we spent

602
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Speaker 7: a lot of time and a lot of resources taking

603
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Speaker 7: his little butt around the country to see all the

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Speaker 7: places that he thought he could see himself. We double

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Speaker 7: back and go again, we get to know those people.

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Speaker 7: Uh and and and that was our process and then

607
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 7: we kind of let it. We let let do you

608
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Speaker 7: have his time? And and you know, we went to

609
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 7: bed one night thinking it was one school and woke

610
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 7: up the next morning he told us it was Texas.

611
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Speaker 7: And so we've been that ever since.

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Speaker 8: That that had to be such an incredible uh yeah,

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Speaker 8: you know, and we're gonna there's so much to unpack

614
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Speaker 8: with that interview, and I'd love for you guys to

615
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Speaker 8: check it out.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna we're gonna tweet the full interview out

617
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Speaker 2: so you could, uh, you could check it out because

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Speaker 2: he's got you know, two other boys that are basketball players. Now, Dan,

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Speaker 2: here's the thing, Riser Bell is a professional athlete, right,

620
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Speaker 2: so there's a there's a part of it that's in

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Speaker 2: the jeans.

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Speaker 4: And there's the stock.

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Speaker 5: I mean, when you have professional you know or Division

624
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Speaker 5: one parents, right, or you know people that you know

625
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Speaker 5: that athletically, it helps right, it's a huge up and

626
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Speaker 5: and to navigate that right, like he's been through it.

627
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Speaker 4: Not so much daniel Er, but he's been through. He's

628
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Speaker 4: been through being recruited.

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Speaker 5: He understands the things that are important right that people

630
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Speaker 5: might not see. Right, He's saying, like where do you

631
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Speaker 5: want to see?

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Speaker 4: What city? Do you want to see her? What staff

633
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Speaker 4: talk to you?

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Speaker 5: So that's great opposed to focusing on the money, right,

635
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Speaker 5: And that's and not every person has that in the

636
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Speaker 5: corner or that nowedge to to lean on. So his

637
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Speaker 5: son is very fortunate to have, you know, a father

638
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Speaker 5: that has gone through, you know, going through the recruitment

639
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Speaker 5: cycle and played professionally. Now you just got a text

640
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Speaker 5: from Yeah, so legendary coach Bobby d coached in Philadelphia's.

641
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Speaker 4: Soccer coach for for a long time.

642
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Speaker 5: He's listening today and you know he said in his stance,

643
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Speaker 5: he said, the problem is that what the culture is

644
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 5: these trainers and coaches and clubs, they really turned into

645
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Speaker 5: a true business. You know when he was growing up

646
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 5: and you know when he even coached earlier on that

647
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 5: they didn't pay a dollar. It was you know, U

648
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Speaker 5: sports kept you out of the house, and it taught

649
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Speaker 5: you lessons. It wasn't about a payday, and that the

650
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Speaker 5: payday aspect of it has changed. You know how people

651
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 5: go about running these programs and how they are even

652
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 5: trained in some aspect. Right, So it makes you specialize,

653
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Speaker 5: it tries it gets you to focus on one spoort.

654
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Speaker 5: I mean, there's so much to six of the two

655
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Speaker 5: sport athlete kind of going wayside. And that's what But

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Speaker 5: injuries have increased, right man, me and you've talked about

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Speaker 5: a ton and.

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Speaker 4: Where it's like these two the two sport.

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Speaker 5: It helps you stay healthy, it gives your body, you know,

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Speaker 5: a break in one thing, and it also helps you,

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Speaker 5: you know, grow strong.

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Speaker 2: Baseball, man, I see it all the time in baseball. Kids'

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Speaker 2: arms are are shot because you know, it's one thing

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Speaker 2: about And this came years ago. Lsu Ben McDonald don't

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Speaker 2: if you remember him. He was a pitcher for the

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Speaker 2: Orioles and he was a great college pitcher they and

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Speaker 2: they overused him. They were pitching them every three days.

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Speaker 2: It was bad. But now these kids are being used

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Speaker 2: like that in travel ball and they're playing all year

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Speaker 2: round like they're really good ballplayers. Like you see pictures

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Speaker 2: coming out now because their mechanics are so good through

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Speaker 2: throwing ninety eight, ninety nine, we've seen one hundred and

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Speaker 2: all that stuff. But it comes with a price because

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Speaker 2: you're just overusing your elbow when your shoulder can't take

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Speaker 2: all the all that all that stress on it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it wears you down and it's really really difficult

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Speaker 5: to sustain sustain that, and it didn't happen to injuries

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Speaker 5: like people like, why the injuries Now, it's because we're

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Speaker 5: overusing it.

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Speaker 4: We're just trying to focus on one aspect.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we talked to doctors on your show, and

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Speaker 5: you know they've come in and said like that, it

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Speaker 5: keeps growing and growing.

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Speaker 4: The acls, the rotator cuffs, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, the Tommy John and these surgeries are so common

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Speaker 5: anymore because we're just wearing our bodies out where. If

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Speaker 5: you ask these pro athletes, almost all of them play

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Speaker 5: two sports. Now, I know it's easier when you have

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Speaker 5: that athletic ability, but like Cooper de Genie, right, you're

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Speaker 5: just talking about them. Big time basketball player, big time

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Speaker 5: football player, could have played Division one either sport. I

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Speaker 5: guarantee he'll tell you that helped him in either sport.

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Speaker 4: It really helped him grow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, sit tight, because I do want

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Speaker 2: to Each week we're gonna I went audience participation and questions.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to start this week as a sports dad

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Speaker 2: and I want to ask you this whole world, the

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Speaker 2: money being spent and trainers and everything else, is it

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Speaker 2: worth it for parents and kind of when they're you know,

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Speaker 2: boy or girl is eight years old and they show

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Speaker 2: a little bit of talent, what should they do? So

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Speaker 2: we'll have Danny d talk about that. Lots to do,

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Speaker 2: and then the Fellas will be up after that. We

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Speaker 2: are Project ANIL right here on Fox Sports Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 2: So if you have questions for Danny, we we're gonna

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Speaker 2: open it up next week. It's it's a fast hour.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to kind of figure out the flow of

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Speaker 2: this thing, and uh, we're gonna be doing supplemental content

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Speaker 2: as well. But if you want to reach out to us,

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Speaker 2: you know, hit me up on Twitter at Anthony L.

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Speaker 3: Gargano, Danny Day. What's your Twitter?

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Speaker 4: Uh, Daniel underscore D five one.

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Speaker 2: Five, So you can hit us both up on Twitter,

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Speaker 2: on X and on on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: I'm Anthony Lewis Gargano.

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Speaker 4: You are Dan Daniel de Berdinas.

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Speaker 2: All right, so you know you got it, like you

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Speaker 2: got it, you got your help. Now let me ask

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Speaker 2: you all this stuff? Right, we have all these you know,

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Speaker 2: all this stuff going on and and trainers and everything else.

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Speaker 2: And in fact, a special shout out to our friends

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Speaker 2: US Russ who said, uh, I have a high school

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Speaker 2: junior softball player looking at D one and ai a options.

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Speaker 2: We're all this kind of weird world, you know, especially

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Speaker 2: my I have a seventh grader who's a pretty good athlete.

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Speaker 2: And you know, like, what what should you get? Should

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Speaker 2: you get he's a quarterback? Should he get quarterback lessons?

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Speaker 2: Should you you go out of your pocket for places baseball?

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Speaker 2: You have pitching lessons and all this stuff costs a

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Speaker 2: lot of money, and people are going into debt with

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Speaker 2: this sort of thing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's crazy, and I don't want, you know, I

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Speaker 5: don't want to come off thinking that these trainers are

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Speaker 5: are I think they're they have worth, I think they're

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Speaker 5: very talented. However, they're it's a business at the end

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Speaker 5: of the day, and they're trying to make money at

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Speaker 5: the same time. So my recommendation is, and I tell parents,

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Speaker 5: and I told you this too, and go to these

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Speaker 5: trainers watch with your kids.

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Speaker 4: Right, there's a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 5: You can do with them after the fact, right, and

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Speaker 5: you're then you're spending time with your kid. You know,

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Speaker 5: you're you're you're bonding, You're you're going over it. I

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Speaker 5: know it's not ideal. You know, they rather listen. So

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Speaker 5: one else saying I'm sure you can.

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Speaker 4: Attest to that.

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Speaker 5: These kids don't always want to listen to their parents.

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Speaker 5: But I think through the combination, the ways to kind

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Speaker 5: of really weigh it is going, figuring it out and

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Speaker 5: then doing stuff with them.

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Speaker 4: Right, not going as frequent as once a week, twice

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Speaker 4: a week. Some people are going.

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Speaker 5: Three four days a week, and they're spending one hundred

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Speaker 5: dollars a session, and it's you know, it becomes a

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Speaker 5: mortgage payment, you know. And I don't want to knock

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Speaker 5: these trainers because I think they have they're really talented.

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Speaker 5: But I think there's a balance where you can find

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Speaker 5: ways and ask them and pick their brain to be like,

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Speaker 5: what can we do on our own, you know, what

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Speaker 5: can we figure out different type of you know, ways

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Speaker 5: to approach it because.

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Speaker 2: I don't play that like you know, that's how they

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Speaker 2: make their money, and they make their money. It's their time,

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Speaker 2: right so time is money. It's like you're going to

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Speaker 2: an attorney. You have an arrowly attorney face. So I

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Speaker 2: get it, and they are very good, but I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a great advice that if you have

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Speaker 2: some time and it's great bonding, that you can help

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Speaker 2: them kind of go through it. I spent hours with

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Speaker 2: you know. I love it right now. So it's part

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Speaker 2: of my biggest dad. I was blessed to have two

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Speaker 2: kids that liked sports, right so that wanted to play.

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Speaker 2: So I always said, I'll never be too tired from

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Speaker 2: work or from whatever I'm doing. That if they wanted

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Speaker 2: to have a catch that I was always in and

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Speaker 2: I made a promise when they were very young, and

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Like whatever we're doing, you know, it's and that bonding time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know they they were fighting all and and

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Speaker 2: they're stubborn, but especially my little one.

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Speaker 3: But uh, but it's it's it's a great bond to

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Speaker 3: g at the end of the.

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Speaker 4: Day for sure.

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Speaker 5: And I again, like I know people might not have

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Speaker 5: the time and you drop them off.

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Speaker 4: It might be you have to run around.

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Speaker 5: But if you can go, I would say early on,

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Speaker 5: go and observe and see what they're doing with your kids, right,

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Speaker 5: don't just don't just drop them off and pivot from there.

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Speaker 5: I think it would be great to learn and then

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Speaker 5: try to do it with them on the own.

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Speaker 4: What they're on you on your own.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it is the world.

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Speaker 2: It's I don't want to say good or bad, but look,

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Speaker 2: I think it's good that the kids are getting compensated.

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Speaker 2: Does the trickle down though, does it now become in

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Speaker 2: the high school or are we going to see high

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Speaker 2: school in IL? I know it's already started in some place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So most states have taken it all.

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Speaker 5: So there's some big states that still kind of fought

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Speaker 5: at Alabama, Ohio, and Michigan or I would say the

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Speaker 5: biggest who haven't adapted it.

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Speaker 4: It's in forty states in some.

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Speaker 5: Form, twenty in like where they can do whatever they want.

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Speaker 4: Twenty states.

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Speaker 5: It's basically and it is trickling and you can see it,

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Speaker 5: and more so in basketball.

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Speaker 4: It is where you're getting high school kids paid.

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Speaker 5: It's a smaller number, it's easier, but I think it

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Speaker 5: will continue to expand where these kids are starting to

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Speaker 5: get paid in high school. And it's a wild it's

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Speaker 5: a wild thing to think about, but it's happening, and

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Speaker 5: it's a scary. It's a scary atmosphere and it's hard

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Speaker 5: to navigate, and there's not there's no precedent and you

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Speaker 5: know is not.

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Speaker 4: We're doing it for the first time.

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Speaker 2: So I mean, listen, I mean, it's great that kids

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Speaker 2: are playing ball, like that's the ultimate, you know.

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Speaker 3: I mean.

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Speaker 2: And in Europe it's academies in soccer kids are getting

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Speaker 2: paid at eleven years old.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's Europe.

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Speaker 3: So wild.

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Speaker 5: Like when I go visit my family in Italy, my

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Speaker 5: job doesn't exist. There's no high school athletics, right, and

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Speaker 5: in Italy there's there's academies and their school right, there's

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Speaker 5: no there's no school teams there they Yeah, it doesn't exist.

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Speaker 2: Hey, we're up against it, Dan, I just want to

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Speaker 2: thank you. Great first effort, great first show. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: have a lot of fun with this as as the

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Speaker 2: weeks progress.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm excited to see

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Speaker 5: what the future holds for us.

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Speaker 2: Love it all right, everybody, Fellas are coming up next.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having