1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: So you've probably done a couple of like real interviews 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: since you've gotten here, real time being at Texas Established University, 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: Nebraska established University. This is not that we are. We 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: have no idea what we're doing. This is this is 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: a second time ever doing this. 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: Do you know what this is? To my right, Will 7 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 2: what's his last name? Do you know what? 8 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: Like the history behind Will Compton is what he's done 9 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: for this university. 10 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 2: Oh my god. Okay, hey listen, we'll have to cut 11 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 2: that out because we don't want the people to be upset. 12 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: So William Earl Compton, he's from Missouri St. Louis. 13 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, well our south but Bontaire, Bontaire, Missouri, like like 14 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: a drive past town. Not in a disrespectful way. Your 15 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: boy was in that too. This man was all state 16 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: wide receiver, believe it or not. You know what I'm saying. 17 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 2: I know you're looking at how pale he is. You're like, 18 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 2: there's no, there's no way he could be that. But 19 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 2: he actually was. And yeah, you can count him, no question. 20 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: This man gets a call from so many universities, four 21 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: star athlete, right, and he chose to go to the 22 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: one and only Nebraska Corn Huskers black shirt guy. 23 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 2: How many letters foot him? Is your letter? Oh? Four? Yeah? Yeah? 24 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 2: Four time? 25 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure he was all big ten, honorable mention, 26 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: undrafted grinder, just finished your nine the league? 27 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 2: Do we get it for? Will Compton? Please hate? I 28 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 2: hate you guys? What do you mean? How about the guests? 29 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 2: We have one? Yeah? 30 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: Well, hey, listen, you've you've had a So you you 31 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: were at Texas before this, it's been a bit of 32 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: not probably what you weren't expecting going out of high school, right, 33 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,839 Speaker 1: like you're probably expecting, go Texas. Let's start four years, 34 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: first round pick bing bang, boom, right, move it. What 35 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: was what was your process like being in Texas and 36 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: then making the decision to come here. We're gonna circle 37 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: this obviously a whole bunch, So just talk to me 38 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: about like you you uh, transferring it first and we're 39 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: getting your time in Texas. 40 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 2: Uh, I mean as a as a whole. 41 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 3: There's a big backstory because uh, I grew up like 42 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 3: fifteen minutes north of Norman. So honestly, my whole life 43 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 3: I thought it was gonna be playing football ou And 44 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: it's kind of funny now I'm here. 45 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 2: But yeah, so my dad went there. 46 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 3: Charles Thompson, he played nineteen eighty seven, eighty eight, played 47 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 3: against Nebraska Game of the Century game. Yeah, that was 48 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 3: his first start, and he ended up in Lincoln being 49 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 3: Nebraska went onto the Orange Bowl National Championship against Miami, 50 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 3: and then he yeah, and then brother, So, my brother 51 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 3: is Kendel Thompson and we're both from obviously from Oklahoma. 52 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 2: And he said that he was with you will and Washington. Yeah, 53 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 2: you said, Kendel Thompson. Yes, yeah. So so he played quarterback. 54 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 3: At ou in Utah and then uh towards a cl 55 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 3: and switched to receiver and went undrafted, made the team. 56 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 3: Sean McVay whenever he was in Washington, signed him as 57 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 3: a free agent for two years. And then he was 58 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 3: with you and then and then when Shawn went to 59 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 3: La to the Rams, my brother went to the Rams 60 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 3: as well for a couple of years. And so he said, 61 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 3: to tell you, what's a small world, man, a small world. 62 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 3: So but that was kind of like my that was like, 63 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 3: you know, my story growing up. And then growing up, 64 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 3: I really liked Clemson because of Deshaun Watson and yeah, 65 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 3: they're really good. 66 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 2: They've been studs for a while. Right. 67 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 3: And then when I was in middle school, I really 68 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 3: liked Marcus Fariota and Oregan's offense and Chip Kelly Scott Frost, 69 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 3: and so I don't know, I kind of just been 70 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 3: watching nice offenses, and so I always saw I was 71 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 3: going to Oregon or Clemson or OEU the whole time. 72 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 3: And then when Lincoln Riley came to whenever he went 73 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 3: to OU, you know, I think it was like twenty 74 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 3: fifteen or whatever, and you know, you have Baker and 75 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 3: all those guys, and I was real close with them, 76 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 3: and i'd actually go work out with them, and with 77 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 3: Baker in the endoor, like I'd go throw to the 78 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 3: receivers and Stirling Shepherd and Kenney Steals and throw at 79 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 3: Baker and all these guys. And they got to the 80 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 3: point when it was time for me to get recruited. 81 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 3: I kind of did, like you did. I just I 82 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 3: just kind of like filled everything out and just visited 83 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 3: around the country and just was trying to take my 84 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 3: time and figure out, Okay, what teams actually want me, 85 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 3: you know, who would be the best fit, you know, yeah, 86 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 3: not just trying to like, oh, hey, you know, these 87 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 3: guys are gonna come here, because he's from here or right, 88 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 3: So I kind of I had like twenty nine and 89 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 3: thirty offers in high schools. 90 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: Damn weird flex all right, and so I end up 91 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: I end up visiting thirty offers. 92 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, I'm hung up. Keep going, I'm hung up. 93 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 3: And then I end up visiting a lot of schools 94 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 3: and uh, I don't know that kind of I liked. 95 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 3: I had never been to Texas, but so my brother 96 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 3: and my dad they're actually the ones that are like, 97 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 3: you should go visit and see if you like it. 98 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 3: I had never been to Austin, which is crazy because Oklahoma, right, 99 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 3: and nobody knows that. So people always like, well, how'd 100 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 3: you grow up in Oklahoma? You end up at Texas? Well, Honestly, 101 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 3: it was kind of the advice from you know, my 102 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 3: brother and my dad, Like, so you so. 103 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 2: Your brother and dad secretly hate Oklahoma. 104 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 3: No, they don't, but I mean they just they just 105 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 3: are like, you know, if the team is offering you 106 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 3: and they're talking about, you know, you can come in 107 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 3: and play. At the time, they kind of were going 108 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 3: back and forth between quarterbacks that had Sam Allen in 109 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 3: Shane Buchew, So I thought maybe I could come in, 110 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 3: you know, compete, but obviously, like you said, things didn't 111 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 3: go like I thought when I got there waiting my turn, 112 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 3: sat as a backup for three years, started this past season, 113 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 3: and then decided to leave, you know, after going through 114 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 3: three different coaching staffs and changes and stuff like that. 115 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 2: So that's kind of the backstory. 116 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 3: But then coming here was a whole story because when 117 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 3: I was in the portal, I finally got in the 118 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 3: portal like two weeks after the end of the season, 119 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 3: so it was like December sixteenth. I went into the portal, 120 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 3: and then the first thing I did was I called 121 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 3: Adrian just to see, like, you know, how is it 122 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 3: like in Nebraska. I want to know, like they're real 123 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 3: and not like you know, coach talk. Yeah, he says, 124 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 3: And he said that he enjoyed it. 125 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 1: You know. 126 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 2: Obviously he was here the last few years and. 127 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 3: We came out in the same class, and he said 128 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 3: he just needed a fresh start, and I was like, well, 129 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 3: I kind of feel the same way, and so honestly, 130 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 3: I was like, we're just going to switch. So he 131 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 3: ended up leaving, and I kind of told him, like, 132 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 3: you know, the rass is gonna be high on my list, 133 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 3: but it'll probably come down between Nebraska, Auburn, Ou. 134 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 2: Just different schools. 135 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 3: And so I took two to three weeks honestly in 136 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 3: like December, and I kind of just watched film and 137 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 3: research and said, these are the teams that are gonna 138 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 3: need quarterbacks or you know, I have different you know, 139 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 3: openings or opportunities, and here's kind of what I'm looking for. 140 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 2: So I kind of just like. 141 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 3: Made it like a legit, like a whiteboard, like a 142 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 3: wish list, and I just kept like going down the 143 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 3: list and crossing teams off, and then yeah, I end 144 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 3: up Nebraska. 145 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 1: So you end up with those three teams? What about Nebraska? 146 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: Was it that was like, Okay, this is the offense 147 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: that I want to plan. Like what was the drawing factor. 148 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 2: For you to go to Lincoln? 149 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 3: I had never even been to the LEAKU And my 150 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 3: first time actually like being here was legit when I 151 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 3: drove down and moved in. Oh really, Yeah, I drove 152 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 3: like we started school and like January nineteenth or something, 153 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 3: and I came down on the eighteenth to like ten 154 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 3: pm at night, and that was my first time. Yeah, 155 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 3: I didn't even visit, like I didn't need to really, 156 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 3: like you, the opportunity to come play here and just 157 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 3: like an in front of this university and you know, 158 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 3: for this team. Obviously everyone said it was a big deal. 159 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 3: I mean, I'll get to experience that in the fall. 160 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 3: But that was probably the main factor. And then just 161 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 3: knowing Frost and knowing that he's a good dude. And 162 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 3: then my dad had actually his friend with with Mickey 163 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 3: Joseph and they they actually kind of grew up together 164 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 3: a little bit, and. 165 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 2: I mean in high school. 166 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 3: They both visited OU back in the eighties and they 167 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 3: were both going to decide between OU and Nebraska. So 168 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 3: they had a relationship way back then, and so if 169 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 3: you fast forward it to now, Mickey Joseph was like, 170 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 3: you gotta get Casey here. You gotta get Casey here. 171 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 3: So finally I was like, okay, like I'll see what 172 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 3: it's about. And I was talking to Frost. And then 173 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 3: when Mark Whipple decided to come here, it was like 174 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 3: a no brainer. And I was like, the dude, he 175 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 3: came from the NFL. He likes to throw the ball 176 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 3: a lot. You know, you're just throw that rock. Yeah, 177 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 3: And then I reached out to Kenny Pickett and I 178 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 3: was actually doing zoom meetings with teams every week. Oh 179 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 3: really yeah, over the break, like, teach me the offense. 180 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 3: Let me watch him film with you guys. Yeah, I'll 181 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 3: call the different quarterbacks that played for Like, I was 182 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 3: doing a lot of research and so I felt comfortable 183 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 3: with it, and I called Kenny. He was like, you're 184 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 3: gonna love the offense, and he kind of sent me 185 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 3: some installs and we watched film and honestly, like I 186 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 3: didn't tell my family or the coach and Steff when 187 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 3: I was playing on committing I just I just woke 188 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 3: up one day and did it. 189 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 4: Damn. 190 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 2: Oh no. 191 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 4: I want to go back to like when you said 192 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 4: you were on the phone with Adrian, because number one, 193 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:22,679 Speaker 4: I think it speaks to like his type of character, 194 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 4: because he's an awesome dude, somebody who was able to 195 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 4: talk to you on the phone and say he just 196 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 4: needed a fresh start and had a lot of good things. 197 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 4: But I did read the article you talked about the 198 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 4: ups and downs. What were downs that he talked about? 199 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 4: Was it playing in front of and playing at a 200 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 4: place like Nebraska, Like, what were some what were some 201 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 4: waves in those conversations that you guys are. 202 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 3: Just like you, just like your typical, Like, uh, just 203 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 3: like your typical like football fan. 204 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 2: I mean, you know you get football for a long time. Yeah. 205 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 3: When it's good here, Yeah, when it's good, everyone loves you. 206 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 3: When it's bad, you know, people point the finger at you, 207 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 3: they criticize you, all this stuff. You know, I've gotten 208 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 3: hate messages and crazy dms and stuff like that on 209 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 3: social media. When I was at Texas this past season. 210 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,199 Speaker 3: If we lost a game or if I played back 211 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 3: like it was in in the world. But then when 212 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 3: you play good, it's like your phone can't stop dinging. 213 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 3: And so that's just kind of how he said it was, 214 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 3: and honestly, I'm used to that. So I was like, okay, well, 215 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 3: and then I asked some of the players. I was like, 216 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 3: what's the worst thing that goes on or that you 217 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 3: don't like about it there? Because like everyone wants to 218 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 3: talk about what's good about a school. 219 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 2: I was like, what do you not like? 220 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 3: And all they said was like the weather, And then 221 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 3: they were like, sometimes frost makes es do like practices 222 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 3: out in the cold, or sometimes you know, we ask 223 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 3: them for stuff we don't get and I'm like, I'm like, 224 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 3: that's that's the worst that you have to say about 225 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 3: like I'm good with that, then, like I'm committing. 226 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 4: Weather can be tough air at times and wind blows hard. 227 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 4: You were dealing with it. 228 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 2: Today, But. 229 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 3: For Miles, if you sit at a quarter you can 230 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 3: see the whole state. But it's seasonal. It's like whenever 231 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,719 Speaker 3: you're ever going to play a game where it's a blizzard. 232 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 4: Like, oh right, right, right, yeah, for sure, I'm just 233 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:58,319 Speaker 4: speaking to the whole winter thing. 234 00:09:58,320 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 2: You walk around that that. 235 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 4: Side of the stadium when you're going to study hall 236 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 4: and that wind smash in the face. 237 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 3: It's a different beast out there. But it's like Oklahoma though. 238 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 3: It's like Oklahoma is super windy. It's literally snowing in 239 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 3: Oklahoma City and tomorrow yeah. 240 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: And they got like massive tornadoes tornadoes here like that. No, yeah, 241 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: And then I was like rebuilding every right. 242 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 3: Next year, Like I mean next week it'll be seventy 243 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 3: degrees here, It'll be sevent degrees in Oklahoma. 244 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 2: It's literally almost like the same weather. Oh so you're 245 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 2: not affected by that. I grew kind of like it. 246 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 2: It's like the great planes, yeah in it. Yeah. 247 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 4: Can you can you talk about entering in the portal 248 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 4: because that's super super new for us, right and and honestly, 249 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 4: and you know it, it gets a bad rapid times 250 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 4: because a lot. 251 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 2: Of kids enter it. 252 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: And then before you answer that, what was the stat 253 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: you said, like, so many guys enter the portal expecting 254 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: to be picked up by these big power five schools. 255 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 4: Right, expecting for like a situation to happen, and the 256 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 4: majority it doesn't work out the way they think it does. Yeah, 257 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 4: obviously for you it's a little different. But can you 258 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 4: speak on the turmoil you were going through with Texas 259 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 4: because when Taylor and I were little afraid to bash them, 260 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 4: you know, when Taylor and I were like doing our 261 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,719 Speaker 4: research on you. Obviously had a promising start at the 262 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 4: Alamo Bowle a couple of years ago. Right then you 263 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,679 Speaker 4: go throughout this next year. It doesn't necessarily work out 264 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 4: the way you want it to. You got a new 265 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 4: coach and coach Sark he comes in, You don't have 266 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 4: the starting job opening the season. Yeah, you end up 267 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,079 Speaker 4: taking over, but you're coming off the bench, and obviously 268 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 4: it does. 269 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 2: The whole year doesn't unfold the way you want. I 270 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 2: saw you. 271 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 4: You had injuries you were dealing with, and it just 272 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 4: didn't for whatever reason, the stars weren't aligning for you, 273 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 4: and then you decide to go into the portal, which 274 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 4: can look like, you know, does he just not want 275 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 4: to competer play? 276 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 2: And I'll let you say all this stuff. 277 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 4: But from the outside looking in, they signed two huge star, 278 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 4: five star recruits. The writing's on the wall and kind 279 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 4: of necessarily, like, if I'm reading this stuff, it's like, well, 280 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 4: maybe Sark doesn't necessarily mess with him because he hasn't 281 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 4: begetting certain opportunities this, that, and the other. 282 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 2: You know your story, I don't, but. 283 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 4: Can you speak on being somebody who's transferred from a 284 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 4: Texas to a Nebraska Obviously it's working out for you now, 285 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 4: but speak. 286 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 3: On that, right, I mean, honestly, it was the first 287 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 3: two or three years didn't go the way I wanted 288 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 3: to because I had to sit behind Sam Ellinger. And 289 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 3: then I mean, you kind of you can hear guys 290 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 3: talk about, you know, my leadership with my work ethic, 291 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 3: or how I perform at practice or the stuff that 292 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,199 Speaker 3: I do in the off season, you know, set on seven. 293 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 3: But I mean, until you doing it in the game, 294 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter. And so in twenty twenty, at 295 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 3: the end of the year. Coming off the Alamo Bowl, 296 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 3: Sam kind of got banged up in the first half 297 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 3: and he hurt his shoulder and it was his last 298 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,319 Speaker 3: game in his career, which at the time nobody knew 299 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 3: that but me and him pretty much in his family. 300 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 2: But we were on the bench and he was like, 301 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 2: you got it, you know, you lit it up. 302 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, he was like, this is your this is your 303 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 3: jam destroy and and I went in and then tied 304 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 3: the Alamo Bowl record and had four touchdowns in the 305 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 3: third like the third quarter, and I was like, Okay, 306 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 3: this is pretty cool, Like what a happy ending to 307 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 3: you know, to the end of the year. 308 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 2: So going into the off season. 309 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: Like can go to the office feeling like the man, 310 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: Yeah this show? 311 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 2: Yeah cool? 312 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 3: Right, And so I, like I me personally, like me, 313 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 3: my family, all the players, like we kind of thought like, okay, 314 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 3: case he's gonna be the guy. 315 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 2: And then, like you said, the new staff came in. 316 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 3: And when you get a new staff there like everyone's 317 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 3: clean slate and you got to compete, and like everyone 318 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 3: had to compete, and so it's like okay, not scared 319 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 3: of competition, Like you know, I've done this before. I 320 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 3: had to go through a QB battle in high school 321 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 3: my freshman year to start varsity, and so I was like, okay, cool, 322 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 3: like it's only. 323 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 2: Gonna make me a better person, better player. 324 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 3: And then throughout the off season, like honestly, I feel 325 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 3: like that I was like winning the job. 326 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 2: And then like when August came around. 327 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 3: Like I was going first, Like we would rotate between 328 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 3: ones and twos, but I would almost always go first, 329 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 3: every every time, every week. And then when August hit, 330 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 3: like I started to go with the twos a little more, 331 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 3: and I'm like, okay, nine days out from the first game, 332 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 3: like something, you know, something has to be going on. 333 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,199 Speaker 3: So then like a week before the game, I just 334 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 3: kept trying to go meet with the coach, like you 335 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 3: know when you're basically like when you're going to a started. 336 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 2: We played next, we played a week from today. Oh 337 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 2: you're trying to get some communication. 338 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just like, you know, I've been working all 339 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 3: off season with the receivers, and so it was me 340 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,719 Speaker 3: trying to go communicate, trying to go meet. And then 341 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 3: a few days later, like after classes started, they called 342 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 3: us back in and was like told us, you know, 343 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 3: we're going to start with Hutton card. But you guys 344 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 3: are basically going to compete and rotate the first two 345 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 3: or three games because it's a non conference, so we'll 346 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 3: kind of try it like an NFL preseason. 347 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 2: That's the most colors thing I've ever heard. 348 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, but the crazy, So the crazy part, like that 349 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 3: didn't happen, so like he would. He played like the 350 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 3: first three quarters of the first game against Louisiana, and 351 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 3: then the next week we went to play at Arkansas 352 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 3: and like it was super they were pretty good. It 353 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 3: was super loud, and I'm thinking, like both the games, 354 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 3: I'm thinking, I'm gonna go in the first quarter, second quarter, 355 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 3: third quarter, and I finally going in the third or 356 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 3: four quarter. Obviously I'm frustrated, but I'm like, Okay, I 357 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 3: got this whole year to compete, and I got this 358 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 3: whole year to battle back, and honestly like my performance 359 00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 3: in the third and fourth quarter both of those games, 360 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 3: like want me the starting job. And so we woke 361 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 3: up the next day and everybody was like rioting and 362 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 3: protests and like you need to start Casey, you need 363 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 3: to start Casey and Vince Young and Earl Campbell like 364 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 3: all these people, you know, these Texas, Like yeah, they 365 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 3: were saying that, Yeah, it was a whole thing, like 366 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 3: on Twitter and all this stuff. And I came in 367 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 3: for meetings and practice on Monday and they're like, you're starting. 368 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: You know. 369 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 3: I kind of found out from Twitter and then like 370 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 3: I think it was one of the ball boys. 371 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 5: Which is super interesting anyway, Texas like that kind of 372 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 5: university would honestly, like I found out on Twitter because 373 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 5: I came in for practice like on Monday, and uh, 374 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 5: coaches like, hey, I want to talk to you at 375 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 5: some point today. 376 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 3: In my head, I'm thinking he's probably going to tell 377 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 3: me what I think he's gonna tell me. And then 378 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 3: after practice stuff always leads around there, which is crazy 379 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 3: but in sports in general. But after practice, I was 380 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 3: throwing routes to the receivers on Monday, and then we 381 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 3: usually have media and press conferences, like right after Monday, 382 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 3: Monday's walk through practice, and I was throwing with the 383 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 3: receivers and then I got off the practice field and 384 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 3: the manager who does the footballs he was like congrats, 385 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 3: and I was like, what are you talking about. 386 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 2: He's like, you're starting this week. I was like, dude, 387 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 2: you're joking in no way. 388 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, you didn't see on Twitter, it already leaked, 389 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 3: and like I went back in the locker room and 390 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 3: my phone was blowing up, and then I went to 391 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 3: do media, and then I came back a few hours 392 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 3: later and finally met with the coach and he was like, 393 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 3: obviously you probably know a boy now, but we're gonna 394 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 3: go with you for. 395 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 2: This week and we'll see how it goes. 396 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 3: And like the next four or five or six games, 397 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 3: like I was like leading the Big twelve and passing 398 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 3: passing efficiency and QBR and touchdowns all this stuff. And 399 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 3: then we get to Week six Oklahoma, and uh, I 400 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 3: had five touchdowns and no interceptions and we were about 401 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 3: like twenty one points. 402 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, this this couldn't go any better. 403 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 3: And then they end up coming back and oh yeah, 404 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 3: Caylen Williams went in and then we went into I 405 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 3: mean we basically was that the cues, but yeah. 406 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 2: They benched him. 407 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: They brought trash and he brought a heisman, yes, like 408 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: a hes going into the season and we were about 409 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 1: twenty won and then they came back and beat us, 410 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: and uh, honestly, that was like that whole game was crazy, 411 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: like something I'll never forget. 412 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 3: But in that game, I was throwing a screen route 413 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 3: to Bijon on a third down and my hand kind 414 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 3: of got caught in a defensive lineman's helmet and just 415 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 3: like twisted all the way back. And like, I just 416 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 3: played the rest of the season on a partially torn 417 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 3: and just located thumb. 418 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 2: It was like severely sprained, and nobody knew about it. 419 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 3: And so I still started ten games in a row, 420 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 3: but like you said, it didn't go the way I 421 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 3: wanted to because I wasn't able to be my best 422 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 3: some games, like one game, I would go out there 423 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 3: in the first quarter and like could barely complete you know, 424 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 3: an out route, or somebody would hit my thumb again, 425 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 3: and you know, either coach would pull me or I 426 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 3: would tell coach, like, you know, obviously I hit my 427 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 3: thumb again. And then maybe like the next week, I'll 428 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 3: go there and throw seven touchdowns, and it just it 429 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,479 Speaker 3: just was up and down the yeah, And so obviously 430 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 3: that's not the way I. 431 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 2: Wanted to go. 432 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 3: Me being like looking out for my career, I'm like, 433 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 3: you know, maybe I should shut it down, or maybe 434 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 3: I should like go public and say I hurt my thumb. 435 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 3: But then honestly, like the competitive nature of me. I 436 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 3: was like, no, I'm gonna play, you know, I'm gonna 437 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 3: play for my team and you know, try to do, 438 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 3: you know, the best I can, because I'm also not 439 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 3: only helping my team, but I'm helping myself, you know, 440 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 3: if I decided to, you know, leave after the season. 441 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 2: So it's kind of what my mindset was. 442 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 3: And then I got an MRI like October and then 443 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 3: and then again at the end of season, like right 444 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 3: around Thanksgiving, like week twelve, and the injury basically didn't 445 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,399 Speaker 3: heal at all. If anything, I might have got worse. 446 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 3: And so right after the season, like I shut it down. 447 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 3: I didn't throw for like eight weeks, like two months, 448 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 3: and that was the longest I haven't thrown since I 449 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 3: was like four or five years old. And then that's 450 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 3: when I was like, I'm going in the portal. That's 451 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 3: kind of what it was like. It wasn't anything that 452 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 3: like it was too much back and forth with the competition. 453 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 3: It wasn't that because I started ten weeks in a row, 454 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 3: even with my thumb injury, like they still started me 455 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 3: ten games and so I kind of was like, you know, 456 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 3: obviously they believe in me, but I just felt like 457 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 3: it was time to move on. 458 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: And that's kind of what it was that we went 459 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: in the transfer portal because you're you hit your thumby, 460 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: spent two months off of it, and you're like, I 461 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 1: shouldn't be at Texas anymore. 462 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 3: No, No, I went to transfer portal because we had 463 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 3: basically three different offenses in the three years I was there. 464 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 3: It was just too much, Like I just feel like 465 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 3: there's a lot of like quick turnover at that place. 466 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of like obviously there's a lot 467 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 3: of pressure on the coaching staffs. Yeah, and the head 468 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 3: coach at Texas. I mean, yeah, you're looking about it. Yeah, 469 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 3: I was gonna say they've had how many different head 470 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 3: coaches and offensive coordinators? 471 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 2: I mean when we were in high school, Yeah, Texas 472 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 2: was like the place to go. It wasn't. 473 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 3: It wasn't anything like anything bad happened or you know, 474 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 3: something behind closed doors. It was more so like I 475 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 3: was there for three and a half years, I sat 476 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 3: away in my turn season kind of didn't pan out 477 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 3: the way I thought it was going to go, the 478 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 3: way we thought it was going to go. Had like 479 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 3: two or three different coaching staffs, and so it was 480 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 3: kind of like, you know, maybe it's time for me 481 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 3: to move on. And so, like I told you guys 482 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 3: before we started this, like my parents and my FA 483 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 3: we didn't even really want me to leave at first 484 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 3: or just come back and you know, and then so honestly, yeah, 485 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 3: right when the season ended, I kind of waited like 486 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 3: a week or two and then I put my name 487 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 3: in the portal like the day of signing day or 488 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 3: like right around. So it was before like they were 489 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 3: even gonna go get quinn yours, but I had already known. 490 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 3: They communicate like, we're gonna go take one or two quarterbacks, 491 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 3: right because it was basically just me and Hudson Card. 492 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 3: We were the only It was me, Hudson Card and 493 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 3: a guy named Charles Wright. 494 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 2: We only had. 495 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 3: Three scholarship quarterbacks, and so they're like, you guys, we 496 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 3: got to go get two more quarterbacks. Basically, we're gonna 497 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,119 Speaker 3: bring in a high school guy in one transfer. I 498 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 3: didn't know who it was gonna be yet, and I 499 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 3: ended up finding out on social media as well from 500 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 3: Twitter after the fact. 501 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 4: Yeah, So were you nervous going into the portal, like 502 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,959 Speaker 4: knowing what a perception could be would be. 503 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, like nobody knows this, but like I 504 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 3: went into the portal at the end of my freshman year, 505 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 3: like December twentieth, like the eighteen, at the end of 506 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 3: my freshman year, I was gonna leave because, like you said, 507 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 3: I came into high school thinking and all the recruits thinking, 508 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 3: I'm gonna come in as a freshman and I'm gonna play. 509 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, everyone thinks. 510 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 3: And then I was behind Sam Ellener and I'm like, 511 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 3: there's like he was he was leading the team, but 512 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 3: he was like a coach basically on the field. 513 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 2: Like there's no way he's not going to start the 514 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 2: rest of the next three years, right. 515 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,719 Speaker 3: And I told my parents and my dad was like, no, 516 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 3: you need to stay, you need to stick it out. 517 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 3: I was like, Dad, I'm just telling you, they're not 518 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 3: gonna sit this guy. I'm not even gonna get to 519 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 3: compete with him. And I ended up being right. But 520 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 3: I'm glad that I stayed and kind of pushed through 521 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 3: it because it helped me just like you know, learn 522 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 3: about myself and kind of grow as a player on 523 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 3: and off the field. But but Sam and I are 524 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 3: real cool to this day, and I'm cool with all the. 525 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 2: Quarterbacks and stuff. 526 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 3: But so I went in the portal December twenty eighteen, 527 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 3: and I was gonna leave, and I was in the 528 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 3: portol of the whole winter break my freshman year. And 529 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 3: then I came back and I stayed, and then I 530 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 3: went another. 531 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 2: Are you in the portal? And nothing was happening. No, no, no, no, 532 00:21:59,320 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 2: it was. 533 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 3: I mean, there are a lot of teams that were offering, 534 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 3: but it just like wasn't the teams that I wanted. 535 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,160 Speaker 1: Is when you in the portal, is it public news 536 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: right away or is it kind of like quiet? 537 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 3: It's like if you it's like if you put your 538 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 3: name in and saying you're going to resign or something 539 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,239 Speaker 3: or you're going to quit as soon as you as 540 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 3: soon as you basically go just to the compliance office. 541 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 2: So this is how it works. 542 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,360 Speaker 3: Either email compliance are going to the office and you 543 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 3: just notify them and like like sign this paper saying 544 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 3: that you're gonna like notify the team that you're gonna 545 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 3: you have intent to transfer or explore your options is 546 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 3: what it's called. And then within forty eight hours they 547 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 3: have they have forty eight hours to kind of put 548 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 3: your name in a database and every team in the 549 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 3: country gets notified like that, You're really basically like a 550 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 3: free agent. 551 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 2: It's like free agency, no legit. That's how we talk 552 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 2: about it now. And uh. 553 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 3: And so when I put my name in like botant, 554 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 3: like when I put my name in honestly, like I 555 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 3: had law schools reaching out within the first couple of days, 556 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 3: like the first time my freshman year, like UCLA reached out, 557 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:03,199 Speaker 3: like Chip Kelly, Oregon Utah reached shout and won, but 558 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 3: they weren't the guys that I was. That I was 559 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 3: there the same day, everything changes and I had small 560 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 3: talk from from OU back then and Lincoln Rally and 561 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 3: kind of their coaching staff there, and then Houston and 562 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 3: West Virginia and like just different teams around the country 563 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 3: reached out. That was my freshman year. And then I 564 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 3: don't know, I just didn't like my options, and so 565 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 3: I was like, I'd rather stay at Texas, like you said, 566 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 3: and play big time college football. And uh, just knowing 567 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 3: that I would have a chance to play against OU 568 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 3: and the Red River rivalry Week six is like one 569 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 3: of the biggest ribbies in college football, I was like, 570 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 3: I'm staying so that's why I stayed. And then and 571 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 3: then this past time I put my name on the portal, 572 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 3: I was like out to eat or something with my family, 573 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 3: like a Friday morning, Friday afternoon, and then I went 574 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 3: to go, uh, get treatment and work out at this 575 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 3: gym in Oklahoma City and then like all my weights 576 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 3: to the gym and like during my workout and right after, 577 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,199 Speaker 3: like I have my phone in the ox and you know, 578 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 3: these teams are like emailing me because you can put 579 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 3: your email your phone number down. I told compliance I was, 580 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 3: I just put both, and I wish I would just 581 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 3: put my email. 582 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 2: Down basically because. 583 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because like West Virginia like just coaches with 584 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 3: text and literally text and call you be like, hey, 585 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 3: this is coach such and such. I'm the offensive coordinator 586 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 3: at whatever school. Give me a call, and like it's 587 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 3: just like every hour, every day. And it was like 588 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 3: that probably for the first few weeks. And then finally 589 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 3: I just told all the schools like, hey, this is 590 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 3: kind of like I kind of already know like where 591 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 3: I'm looking at and so here's here's my list, and 592 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 3: out of respect, like I'm not gonna waste your time, right, 593 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 3: but I just started doing zoom interviews and stuff like that, 594 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 3: and I kind of had a list of schools that 595 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 3: I was talking to every day, and then I just 596 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,439 Speaker 3: told them like, hey, I'm going to make a decision 597 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,640 Speaker 3: after New Year's cause I wanted to watch I wanted 598 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 3: to watch all the teams playing the bowl games and 599 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 3: see what quarterbacks would say or leave and see if 600 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 3: there would be more coaching changes. 601 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 2: So that's how I went about it. 602 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 4: When you put yourself in that answer portal after your 603 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 4: freshman year as somebody coming in, like we were joking 604 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,439 Speaker 4: about earlier, every freshman who comes in thinks are going 605 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 4: to like be the man and it doesn't work out 606 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 4: for him. You're somebody who put yourself in the portal then, 607 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 4: and putting yourself in the portal now going through all 608 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 4: the adversity and the shit that you've went through to 609 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 4: now get to this point you are now at a 610 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 4: fresh start at Nebraska. How do you feel like you've 611 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 4: developed mentally from doing things like that? Right? Like, to me, 612 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 4: in my head, like you putting yourself in the portal 613 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 4: as a freshman and and not kind of like being 614 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 4: exactly how you might want it to, and you're like, Okay, 615 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 4: I'm going to stay here, and you're kind of playing 616 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 4: the whole you know, I want you want your time. 617 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 4: You've you've done your time by being backup doing all 618 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 4: this stuff. This last year happens in unfolds with Texas. 619 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 4: You've now made your decision and you're in your last year. 620 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 4: How do you feel like you've kind of grown mentally? 621 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 2: I mean, I think it definitely helped me just like 622 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 2: be more. 623 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 3: Organized and like thorough and like will kind of just 624 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,880 Speaker 3: like well thought out and know exactly like what I'm 625 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 3: looking for and how to approach situations. I would say 626 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 3: that's definitely what it helped me. I would just say 627 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 3: going through a lot of different adversity, like you talked 628 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 3: about different personalities, working with different coaching staffs, and every 629 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 3: year it's a new team. 630 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 2: You know, you got new guys in the locker room. 631 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 3: So I think it just helped me as a player 632 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 3: and honestly as a quarterback. And you know, now I 633 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 3: kind of know like Okay, here's what works, you know, 634 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 3: on the field, and here's what on and off the field, 635 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 3: Like here's what works in the organization, here's what didn't work. 636 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 2: And every year. 637 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, did I get better as a quarterback? 638 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 3: And I'm like, yes, did I grow as a person? 639 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 3: And the answer always was yes every year, So I 640 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 3: didn't regret kind of just sitting and waiting my turn. 641 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 3: But I don't know, like you talked about, I heard 642 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 3: you talk about with Garrett. You know a lot of 643 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 3: teams in college football, it's a big melting pot of 644 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 3: different nationalities and ethnicities and just different you know, type 645 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 3: of players and personalities. And honestly, that's kind of what 646 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 3: it helped me just figure out, you know, who I 647 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 3: am as a person and how I can lead and 648 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,479 Speaker 3: kind of build with other players and other coaches and 649 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 3: how I connect with them. 650 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 2: So I would say it helped me do that. 651 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 3: And then it kind of just helped me grow, like 652 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 3: with my maturity of what I'm looking for and kind 653 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 3: of how to be a professional. 654 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 2: So that's really what it helped me do. 655 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 3: And then being coming here, like I mean, I just 656 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 3: I love the team here and I love Coach Frost 657 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 3: and everyone. 658 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 2: In the organization is really cool and you know, so 659 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 2: I really enjoy it. 660 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 1: When you first when you first got here, you see 661 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 1: you love the team now, Like, but what was that 662 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: process like, like when you like first day of school, right, yeah, 663 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 1: kind of hang out you're helping. 664 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 2: Hey, Yeah, I felt weird at first, Like I was 665 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,360 Speaker 2: walking around. I feel weird, dude, because everyone already knows 666 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 2: each other. Hey. And also guy. 667 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 4: Right right right, and you're you're you're coming in because 668 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 4: Adrian leaves. And Adrian's like, I think he's at the 669 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 4: top of all purpose where did he got yards Kansas State? 670 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,479 Speaker 4: And he's somebody who's been in multi year captain, He's 671 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 4: somebody who's been very ingrained in this culture, in this team. 672 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 4: He leaves, you come in. It does like what he's saying, 673 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 4: it's got to feel we're you're nervous. 674 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 3: I wasn't nervous, but the first few days, like you 675 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 3: talked about, it was like I had that feeling since 676 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 3: like he like when I started to high school. 677 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 2: I think as a freshman maybe like walking high school too. 678 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's just like kind of like when you 679 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 3: walk into high school and you're like, Okay, I don't 680 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 3: know what to expect, and and then you're like going 681 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 3: to college as a freshman, You're like, I don't know 682 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 3: what to expect, so come in and hear like I 683 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 3: walked in like not even not even three or four 684 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 3: weeks prior. I was literally in the Texas Facility in 685 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 3: Austin in my apartment, going there every day, going to 686 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 3: the stadium, working out in the weight room. 687 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 2: And then three weeks later, like I'm. 688 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 3: Walking in Nebraska's. 689 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: For just pulling them to a place you've never seen before. Yeah, 690 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 1: I guess I'll just go here. Yeah, history, Like it's 691 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: just weird, like everything. For the first couple of weeks, 692 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: it was like I got to pull up. I lived 693 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: five minutes down the street. 694 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 3: In apartment, but like I had to map, had to 695 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 3: get here every day, and then like walking around in 696 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 3: the facility like I'm lost for like the first week. Yeah, 697 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 3: and then the guys, like I remember the the guys 698 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 3: would because I was. I wasn't cleared at first when 699 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 3: I first got here, so you got to like do 700 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 3: your testing and you know, do all these like different 701 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 3: tests and stuff before you can get cleared, and these meetings, 702 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 3: and I just been walking around and people were introducing 703 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 3: me to the players, like during their workouts and lifts, 704 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 3: and they'd all be talking and dapping each other up 705 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 3: and then they'd see me. 706 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 2: They'd be like, what, what's up like you know, just 707 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 2: kind of quiet, like I'm just trying to figure each 708 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 2: other out. 709 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:21,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, but I want at the same time, like when 710 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: you're a quarterback, like you know, the receivers are kissing 711 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: ass right away, yeah, because they want to get that ball. 712 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: And all the skilled guys are gonna kind of talk 713 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: to you. So you walk in like if you were 714 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: just like an offens linement, be like block nerd kind 715 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: of I do your thing, kind of find your friends 716 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: on your own hand. 717 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 3: That's what they So the old lineman and the receivers, 718 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 3: they came up to me right away because they lash. 719 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 3: But the rest of the guys, like the defense and 720 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 3: my locker is actually like right by, like Quentin Newsome 721 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 3: and like Miles Farmer and Travis Vocalect and like these 722 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 3: are guys who are players and their starters, and just 723 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 3: being around those guys and hearing them talk and kind 724 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 3: of like joke and I'm just like going to the 725 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 3: corner and putting my stuff on the the first few 726 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 3: days and then once I started to get to know 727 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 3: the guys and kind of like hang around, and then 728 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 3: it got a lot better obviously, you know, very fast. 729 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 3: But the first few days for sure. I was like, dude, 730 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 3: I'm just gonna be kind of over here in the 731 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 3: corner observe observed. 732 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, fly on the wall type of deal. Let's tough 733 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 2: do that first forty eight hours is kind of yeah. 734 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 3: It was like the first few days and then I 735 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 3: would say that second week like whenever I got clear, 736 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 3: like I think everyone was kind of like, okay, boom, 737 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 3: we know who he is. 738 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 2: Now he knows us, he knows our names. Let's get 739 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 2: it going. 740 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 3: Like the workouts started, and I started to hold my 741 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 3: own meetings and you know. 742 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 2: Field sessions with the guys. 743 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 3: I took the old line out to eat at Rhodizios 744 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 3: and then I took them to Round One bowling and 745 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 3: that was. 746 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 2: Rod Is that like a nebasket only place, Like it's 747 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 2: like back there, it's a nice little deal. Yeah. 748 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 3: When I did that, like that was kind of like 749 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 3: and I had the idea. I was like, because I 750 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 3: would do it at Texas. I would take my starting 751 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 3: o linement out to eat, like after a win, and 752 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 3: then I would like, get uh, because I'm I'm with 753 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 3: partner with tiff Streets. 754 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 2: It's a cookie company after the Jackets, after winter. 755 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 3: After a win, I would get tip streets delivered to 756 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 3: the facility for the whole like all the coaches and players, and. 757 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: Then the coaches too, Yeah, you know exactly what you're doing. 758 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 2: And then I would take the. 759 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 3: And so and so when I got here, I was like, 760 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the whole lineman out to eat. And 761 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 3: then trying to take them bowling like that was really fun. 762 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 3: That helped me like get to know them for sure. 763 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 3: And then after that, like after that day, like kind 764 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 3: of the next week, like they're like, you know, cases 765 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 3: are boys for deal, Like I knew them well and 766 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 3: I knew the receivers and then it was like it 767 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 3: took me like a couple of weeks or a month 768 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 3: to get to the defense. So it's been fun. But 769 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 3: now that practice has started, like I love talking. 770 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 2: Speak to that stomach. No question, dude, I think it's 771 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 2: time for it's time. I think I got the best question. Actually, 772 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 2: I don't know if I do. We could do the 773 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 2: same thing. The fun thing is we can do whatever 774 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 2: we want. 775 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: I'm just excited to talk about Dukes. Yeah, Dukes is 776 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: pretty outstanding. Dude over there in the corner. So Duke's 777 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: is like this little is this company that there's a 778 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: men's body wash, but it's like instead of all that 779 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: bullshit that like the other companies playing. I'm not going 780 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: to say brand names, but you know what I'm talking about, 781 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,959 Speaker 1: Arrives with the ulchmice that they put the stuff up 782 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: there and it's kind of it feels good and it 783 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: smells nice. But then fifty years down the road to 784 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: take an extra and they like, hey, by the way, 785 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 1: see word, and you know, I get a kind of 786 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: a bit of a predicament. 787 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 2: Dukes doesn't have none of that stuff in there. 788 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: That the fresh Fresh two thousand dude, Yeah, you got 789 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 1: that little good of the jar. 790 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 2: Litt just says thick on it, dude, you see that. 791 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, we got the thick high viscosity body wash. 792 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: If you walk, if you walk past a girl in 793 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,720 Speaker 1: a bar with this on right here, game set match 794 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 1: games over citrus. 795 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 4: Musk, cedar wood, cedarwood. That just says rich to me. 796 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 4: In the ingredients of premium, they not again like we're 797 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 4: not gonna mention the but. 798 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 2: The ingredients are clean. They're all about being masculine, dude. 799 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 4: They're about athletes, military tradesmen, guys like ourselves. 800 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, passed me that h one of the Yeah, the 801 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 1: biggest brick of So. 802 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 2: Do we wear this? Do I live in this? I 803 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 2: take all my clothes on. If I just put this 804 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 2: stuff on my body, I walked enough. Yeah, you came in. 805 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 2: You dap me up slow and probably exhaled. Like if 806 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 2: you inhaled, you would have noticed everything. 807 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: Hey, tell them about the tell them about your feet, dude, 808 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: So listen, and I take this stuff right here. And 809 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: this is like kind of like an idea category. So 810 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: maybe you can tell me if you really like it 811 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 1: or not. But like, there's not a lot of features, 812 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: especially in this area that's like really you can call 813 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: home about. But these bad boys right here, these ones 814 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: I'm thinking about starting only fans like a feet thing, 815 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, put some flowers around it, 816 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: dress it up real nice, and then put the duke's 817 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: baked bottles soaked there and then rub it between the 818 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: feet and then have will smell them. 819 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,880 Speaker 2: I think that'll sell you think you will? Dude? What 820 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 2: do I get to smell them? Every time? You gotta 821 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 2: say I like that. 822 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 3: I got some funny stories when we start talking about 823 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 3: it, and I actually, oh. 824 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 2: I'm down to here. That for sure that can be 825 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 2: our duke. 826 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 4: So this final question Duke Cannon, or maybe final two 827 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 4: questions presented by Duke Cannon. Let's get into the NIL talk, Like, 828 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 4: give us a couple of ANIL stories, because number one 829 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 4: is all of this stuff, all the stuff that we're 830 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,800 Speaker 4: showing you. It's going in this awesome military gray looking 831 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,399 Speaker 4: box and it's yours. So this is our NIL deal 832 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 4: to you is free product for the boy for real. 833 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 4: But I would love to see because I did see 834 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 4: you talking about the opportunities that Nebraska for NIL are 835 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:29,760 Speaker 4: a lot better than Texas. 836 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:31,600 Speaker 2: Please elaborate and dive into that. 837 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I would just say that when I say opportunities, 838 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 3: I mean like how often and how much that these plays, 839 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 3: like these companies are willing to Well. 840 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,680 Speaker 1: We talking doing cash money, so we are we talking. 841 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 1: We were talking about phone numbers. 842 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 3: You give us something like you can come here, you 843 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 3: can come to Nebraska. I mean, first off, when I 844 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,839 Speaker 3: first got here, they told me when I found out 845 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 3: that like seventeen or eighteen different Fall players had vehicles, 846 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 3: I was like, that's unheard of. 847 00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,880 Speaker 2: It's how we do it here, man. Yeah, that's like 848 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 2: with like. 849 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 3: A free place to stay and like at Texas it 850 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,360 Speaker 3: was me b John Robinson and one defensive started like 851 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 3: three three guys. 852 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 4: Because they keep it closer to this, all the all 853 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,279 Speaker 4: the all the all the rich guys. 854 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 2: But not even just Nebraska athletic. There's like seven or 855 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 2: eighty different. 856 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 3: People across all sports that have like either apartment or 857 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 3: a car, or they're getting in io deals like women's. 858 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: Basketball, women's golf team. Yeah, they're pretty outstanding. They did 859 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: a great job. 860 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 3: So that's what I mean when I say that, like 861 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 3: more more, more athletes across all the sports are getting 862 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,040 Speaker 3: blessed with opportunities. And just like the numbers and the 863 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,160 Speaker 3: how often you know you're able to get these deals 864 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,480 Speaker 3: is like way more than I've ever seen. 865 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,959 Speaker 2: Gonna say numbers. You're gonna make six figures as oh 866 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 2: my as what fuck? 867 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,880 Speaker 3: As a player as a player here, if you're a 868 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,640 Speaker 3: starter here on football team, you can make over six figures. 869 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 4: If I made six figures, I did eight hundred and 870 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 4: fifty dollars scholarship check and I thought I was living 871 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,360 Speaker 4: because n was like three fifty three and after utilities 872 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:01,839 Speaker 4: four fifty. 873 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 2: That's four yea. 874 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,840 Speaker 1: At the rail Nebraska legit needs to be in the 875 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,040 Speaker 1: playoffs every single year. 876 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 2: You're gonna make six figures. Figure it out. 877 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:12,960 Speaker 4: It's a slow burn, it's a slow climb, but we 878 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 4: figure out. We know where we have to land. 879 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,239 Speaker 1: I'm more of a typhoon type of guy if you 880 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 1: want to make six figures right out of high school, 881 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: so you're automatically doing better than all of your friends. 882 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 1: Your friends are up to their neck in student loans 883 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,800 Speaker 1: and they're dying, and you just say, oh, that's weird. 884 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: I make six figures now, and I drive whatever the 885 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,840 Speaker 1: fuck I want. Come to Nebraska. All right, you got history, 886 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,000 Speaker 1: you got dope uniforms. By the way, the equipment boys 887 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:37,279 Speaker 1: in the back. I don't know if you guys saw it, 888 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,920 Speaker 1: but they gave us our very own jerseys. Will's is cool, 889 00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,240 Speaker 1: but Will's already been here. I got my air Ferio 890 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: in Jersey. Didn't even play here. All right, I'm gonna 891 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 1: need six figures for that. That does speak down to 892 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,120 Speaker 1: take care of the boys. They take care of us 893 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,799 Speaker 1: where they made you a jersey. Hopefully Michigan's watching this 894 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:52,920 Speaker 1: and I get a little something next week. 895 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,520 Speaker 2: Oh that'd be nice. But the thing is, I think 896 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:55,880 Speaker 2: much more prestigious claims. 897 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,680 Speaker 3: Now, I think now any any athlete and any student athlete, 898 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,319 Speaker 3: you should be able to make six figure is if 899 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,600 Speaker 3: they really like are working on their brand. Like you 900 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,840 Speaker 3: guys saw about you got Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, like snap 901 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,719 Speaker 3: There's so many different ways for you to monetize now 902 00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:09,920 Speaker 3: off of your Snapchat. 903 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,880 Speaker 1: But I don't like Snapchat. That let me get a 904 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,400 Speaker 1: loose lap, you know what I'm saying. I don't do 905 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:17,160 Speaker 1: the snapchat. 906 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,279 Speaker 3: But it's funny because like I don't really I don't 907 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:21,759 Speaker 3: really go out of my way to like try to 908 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 3: do all this other stuff. It just comes to me. 909 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,040 Speaker 3: And like here in Nebraska, I would say that's what 910 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 3: the opportunities are. Just yeah, it's crazy. But this past 911 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,400 Speaker 3: year when NIL started, like I think at Texas, like 912 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,240 Speaker 3: I think after the album both performance in twenty twenty, 913 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,880 Speaker 3: Like I just think all of the people around the 914 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,600 Speaker 3: United States and like the the Texas fans like in Texas, 915 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,960 Speaker 3: like they're offered me and io deals in like July August, 916 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 3: before I was even named the starter. And you know, 917 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 3: last year, before I even got to Nebraska, I worked 918 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 3: with like C four Energy Drink, which is a partner 919 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,800 Speaker 3: with Kimris, Scott, Tip Streets, the Cookie Company. 920 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,280 Speaker 2: Yeah for showing Yeah, Roman, it's like a it's. 921 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:08,919 Speaker 1: Like as they want to want Yeah, no, they wanted 922 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:09,319 Speaker 1: to do there. 923 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:10,960 Speaker 2: They're all hair team, so I did. 924 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 4: I'm sure you were like, hey, let's keep it to 925 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 4: just the hair stuff. Let's not go down below the bell. 926 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,200 Speaker 3: Yeah. Well actually there's there's rules, and I know you 927 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:23,120 Speaker 3: can't do certain stuff. It can't be anything including like vice, sex, alcohol. 928 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:23,840 Speaker 2: What's vice? 929 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,839 Speaker 3: Like like cigarettes like Miami vice, like going to Miami. No, 930 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:37,279 Speaker 3: just like yeah, like clubs and bars. 931 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,520 Speaker 2: Do what like the. 932 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,200 Speaker 1: NFL actually just changed that stuff too, so like and 933 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,759 Speaker 1: are allowing like alcohol and stuff. 934 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,560 Speaker 2: So you can't do that like that. This is those 935 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:45,000 Speaker 2: are rules. 936 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,440 Speaker 3: They have rules where you can't work with like any alcohol, 937 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,040 Speaker 3: any substance anything at all. You can't promote like clubs 938 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,919 Speaker 3: and bars and so they have different rules. I would 939 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,719 Speaker 3: say Kim's Scott c four uh, Tip Streets and like 940 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,840 Speaker 3: all the trading card companies last year it was like 941 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:06,720 Speaker 3: Topsy well yeah right, wild Card, Onyx, all these different 942 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 3: trails cards. 943 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,279 Speaker 2: You got to sit there and sign for hours. Huh 944 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:09,879 Speaker 2: yeah bro. 945 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,040 Speaker 1: When I was like getting rid for the draft, I 946 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:13,359 Speaker 1: think said, I'm weaving twelve K. 947 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,239 Speaker 2: Yeah, but you guys have like twelve thousand of these 948 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,719 Speaker 2: little stickers. You're like, okay, yeah, but oh I was like, 949 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,440 Speaker 2: I'm gonna murder this. My rist hurt so damn bad. 950 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:21,879 Speaker 2: No you're not. I was like, I've never seen twelve 951 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,799 Speaker 2: k before. This is fire. I would try to force 952 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:25,440 Speaker 2: six figures in college, Bro. 953 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,759 Speaker 3: I would try to force myself to do like at 954 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 3: least two hundred autographs a day. And yeah, I would 955 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,319 Speaker 3: sit because I was like, when I get home from 956 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 3: practice or at the before I go to bed, I'm 957 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,040 Speaker 3: gonna do one hundred, two hundred a day. I probably 958 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,640 Speaker 3: took almost half the season just signing the autographs, and 959 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,359 Speaker 3: by the end of season, like I had, I sent 960 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,160 Speaker 3: them all back like you talked about, it was like 961 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:47,279 Speaker 3: two thousand signatures, four thousand signatures, ten thousand signatures, and 962 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,600 Speaker 3: you're like, dang, I didn't realize like how much that is, 963 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,920 Speaker 3: you know, And so that was crazy And so I 964 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,239 Speaker 3: had to do those like I was supposed to be 965 00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:56,799 Speaker 3: doing them and getting them back because they give you 966 00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,080 Speaker 3: like thirty days to returning them. 967 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, did you change your signature during it? Yeah, shortened it. 968 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,200 Speaker 2: I did the same write out my whole name, Taylor Lawan. 969 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,279 Speaker 1: I did this TC see you later, and we're like, 970 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,839 Speaker 1: we're on to the next cursive listen. 971 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,200 Speaker 2: I might not be able to read, but I could 972 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,160 Speaker 2: still a little bit, so I had to shorten it. 973 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,760 Speaker 3: But and then since I've been here in Nebraska, Soldier 974 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,120 Speaker 3: Sports they're at omahall. 975 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,880 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're phenomenal gear. They sent me a hoodie. 976 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,480 Speaker 3: The material is amazing. Yes, I did a photo. 977 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:30,120 Speaker 2: Bear yeah, man, which is like an NFT. So I'm 978 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,839 Speaker 2: doing with Soldier Sports. Free shoutouts to Soldier Sports. Yeah, 979 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,960 Speaker 2: shout out to Soldier Sports. And not from us, not 980 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:36,560 Speaker 2: from us, not from the bus went the boys guys 981 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,760 Speaker 2: from me for sure? No shout out from me for sure. 982 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,760 Speaker 3: And then no, but I laugh about the only fans 983 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,400 Speaker 3: because I got an email like last week after workouts, 984 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,000 Speaker 3: I came looked at my phone. It was like, Casey Thompson, 985 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,880 Speaker 3: would you be interested in joining the only fans and 986 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,880 Speaker 3: monetizing off of your your name and setting your prices 987 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,200 Speaker 3: And They're like you could do workout, instructional videos, quarterback training, 988 00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,759 Speaker 3: all online stuff. Yeah, And I was like I showed 989 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,680 Speaker 3: everybody in the locker room, and like for like a 990 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,400 Speaker 3: few days, all the players are like, you're gonna do it, 991 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:06,960 Speaker 3: You're gonna do it? 992 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:11,440 Speaker 2: Are you doing it? No? Why not, dude? Because what 993 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,160 Speaker 2: are you allowed to do it? Would you be allowed? 994 00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,000 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's like a Craigslist there's like dirty stuff 995 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:17,920 Speaker 1: on there, but it's not. 996 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,960 Speaker 3: It's supposed to be like exclusive content all access, like 997 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:21,800 Speaker 3: behind the scenes. 998 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:23,640 Speaker 2: But my whole deal is you got to be the 999 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,240 Speaker 2: first Q who does an only fans account. 1000 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,520 Speaker 3: But then I found out I found out from other 1001 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,120 Speaker 3: people in the country, like they're obviously emailing other people, 1002 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,000 Speaker 3: and all right, I don't think anybody's gonna do it. Well, 1003 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,680 Speaker 3: I think it's a compliance rule. Somebody's gonna do. 1004 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,920 Speaker 2: It, okay, And then too, if you're allowed to. 1005 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,000 Speaker 3: Well, my whole thing is like anytime I see or 1006 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,960 Speaker 3: hear about only fans and like it's what we all think. Yeah, 1007 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,600 Speaker 3: it's like, okay, it's not doing that right, It's like 1008 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,239 Speaker 3: he's talking about it's like having that's how you. 1009 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,440 Speaker 4: Get it, that's how the marketing, that's how the promotional 1010 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:52,200 Speaker 4: stuff works, man. 1011 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:52,600 Speaker 2: You know. 1012 00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, But then like I thought maybe that they wanted 1013 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,879 Speaker 3: to offer me a contract like with the company, because 1014 00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 3: like you can create your own website, whatever your own prices, 1015 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,840 Speaker 3: but then like you can actually get paid by these companies. 1016 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,520 Speaker 3: And so I was like, I just told them, like basically, 1017 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,920 Speaker 3: what would you be offering me? Like what's the contract? 1018 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:10,960 Speaker 3: Obviously I wasn't going to do it. But they're like, 1019 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000 Speaker 3: oh no, we just wanted you to create your own account. 1020 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 3: Like well, that's not even like I work with real 1021 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:19,759 Speaker 3: companies like you know, Ford the car dealership and you know. 1022 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,240 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, cut that for sure, due. 1023 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,160 Speaker 3: Oh and then and then Kenri Scott all these different companies. 1024 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,439 Speaker 2: So I'm like, yeah, I love that. I'm like, I'm not. 1025 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,719 Speaker 3: Doing that, but yeah, the only fans they wanted me 1026 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,520 Speaker 3: to do it in io deal and some other different 1027 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,359 Speaker 3: companies that honestly, like I probably I probably can make 1028 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,960 Speaker 3: double just by signing with all these different people, but 1029 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 3: I want to be sworn about, you know, who I'm 1030 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:43,200 Speaker 3: working with and stuff like that. 1031 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,280 Speaker 4: How do you balance You've talked about the way athletes 1032 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,960 Speaker 4: can build their brands now through all these social platforms. 1033 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:49,960 Speaker 2: Duke's Second Question. 1034 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,600 Speaker 4: Suke's Second Question, for sure, brought to you by Duke 1035 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:56,239 Speaker 4: dud Duke's cannon, Duke can the best duke? How do 1036 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,840 Speaker 4: you balance that, right, because you'll be going into the season, 1037 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,920 Speaker 4: and obviously as a young kid, as a young athlete, 1038 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:06,200 Speaker 4: you're infatuated by signing autographs and making money when you 1039 00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:07,879 Speaker 4: know you want to keep the main thing the main thing. 1040 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,600 Speaker 4: How do you balance building your brand and also being 1041 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,200 Speaker 4: a football player, especially as a student athlete. 1042 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,520 Speaker 3: I mean, you just have to prioritize your life and 1043 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,359 Speaker 3: your routine. And I think like for me, I use 1044 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,200 Speaker 3: the weekends and like the off days like Sundays or 1045 00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,520 Speaker 3: Mondays to really like get on the phone with companies 1046 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,120 Speaker 3: or email or you know, if I have to go 1047 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,480 Speaker 3: do like a guest appearance or a photo shoot, like 1048 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,279 Speaker 3: I'll do it on a weekend where there's like a 1049 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,319 Speaker 3: day of no football, like you know, there's nothing on 1050 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,440 Speaker 3: the schedule, you know, stuff like that, or even like 1051 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:40,400 Speaker 3: if I need to leave. 1052 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:41,680 Speaker 2: So what I do now? 1053 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,719 Speaker 3: Like my routine now here in Nebraska, Like I've kind 1054 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,279 Speaker 3: of figured out how to do that because last year 1055 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,320 Speaker 3: everyone was new to it. I was just kind of navigating, 1056 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,319 Speaker 3: like how much to do? 1057 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,480 Speaker 2: You're kind of ready to hoar yourself out for all 1058 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:54,680 Speaker 2: of it. Like this money. 1059 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,000 Speaker 3: Like companies would ask me like what's your price for, 1060 00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,279 Speaker 3: like you know, what would you be willing to come 1061 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,560 Speaker 3: do for a photos? Like I didn't know anything. And 1062 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,880 Speaker 3: after you get down the phone with like NFL players 1063 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:08,400 Speaker 3: and I signed with athletes first their agency and they 1064 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,360 Speaker 3: got like Justin Fields and Jalen Ramsey, Deshaun Watson and 1065 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,239 Speaker 3: kind of hanging around those guys when they would come 1066 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:15,799 Speaker 3: to Austin and we would just hang out and talk 1067 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,759 Speaker 3: and I would do, you know, photo shoots and I 1068 00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,480 Speaker 3: watched him. I went to like Jordan Love and uh, 1069 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,480 Speaker 3: what's the receiver name? I went to Jordan Love and 1070 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,760 Speaker 3: Justin Fields like they're C four and they're Madden shoots 1071 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,239 Speaker 3: and kind of just talking and hang out with those 1072 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,200 Speaker 3: guys and seeing like what they what they charged and stuff, 1073 00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,719 Speaker 3: and like I was like, okay, well talking to my 1074 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,840 Speaker 3: agent and stuff, I'm like, well, here's what I charge, 1075 00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,239 Speaker 3: and here's like how many companies I work with or 1076 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,640 Speaker 3: so kind of like signing with them help me out 1077 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,440 Speaker 3: a lot, and then kind of knowing what to do 1078 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,759 Speaker 3: and so now here in Nebraska, like I'll know like 1079 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,640 Speaker 3: how much or what's too much or what's too little 1080 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,120 Speaker 3: like I'm not gonna go do something unless it's for 1081 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:53,760 Speaker 3: a good cause. 1082 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:54,920 Speaker 2: Like I'll always go. 1083 00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,400 Speaker 3: Talk to kids or go to a high school or 1084 00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,399 Speaker 3: you know, go surprise somebody at a daycare, Like I'll 1085 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,720 Speaker 3: do that for free. But when it comes to like business, 1086 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,480 Speaker 3: like you're talking about me driving and going out of 1087 00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,960 Speaker 3: my way or like breaking my football routine, my daily 1088 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,799 Speaker 3: regimen to go do something for in il, to me, 1089 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:15,040 Speaker 3: it's not worth it unless it's you know, for the 1090 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,960 Speaker 3: right right reason or the right cost. And so I 1091 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:19,360 Speaker 3: mean I get up at like five am, I go 1092 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,879 Speaker 3: to bed and finish my day, like I study film 1093 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,680 Speaker 3: all the way to like ten pm at night, and 1094 00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,480 Speaker 3: I have stuff that I do in between them, like 1095 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:30,440 Speaker 3: everything's written down, and so I dedicate basically like business 1096 00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:33,960 Speaker 3: in io deals or like zoom calls. I do that 1097 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,319 Speaker 3: between one and five usually, But I really don't like 1098 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,359 Speaker 3: to honestly, Like when they told me that you guys 1099 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,080 Speaker 3: are coming, I thought you were supposed to come tomorrow 1100 00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,480 Speaker 3: on March eleventh. We're here both days, yeah, and we'll 1101 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,880 Speaker 3: be at practicable but we fly out tomorrow, okay. And 1102 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:48,480 Speaker 3: then they told me that you guys are going to 1103 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,000 Speaker 3: be here and then they're like, would you want to 1104 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:51,200 Speaker 3: do that? 1105 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:51,719 Speaker 2: Yes or no? 1106 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,719 Speaker 3: Like honestly, like I didn't even realize that you are 1107 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,279 Speaker 3: you already here until I saw all this setup, Like 1108 00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:57,759 Speaker 3: I was getting ready to go back and finish my 1109 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,319 Speaker 3: routine for the day, like and so, but it's good 1110 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:01,719 Speaker 3: to take a break too, because it helps me out 1111 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,880 Speaker 3: mentally kind of just like take a break and not 1112 00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,680 Speaker 3: legit and be either studying, getting treatment or watching film 1113 00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:09,440 Speaker 3: all day. Like I'll take a break between like two 1114 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,840 Speaker 3: and five and do nil stuff or like weekends or 1115 00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:13,360 Speaker 3: off days. 1116 00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:14,759 Speaker 2: We appreciate you coming on, dude. 1117 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,120 Speaker 1: I apprecire you noticing that we're set up and being 1118 00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:17,920 Speaker 1: like all right, today's day. 1119 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:19,919 Speaker 2: Appreciate Yeah, I appreciate you giving us the time. 1120 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty epic and nil stuff, dude, that's cool 1121 00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:24,520 Speaker 1: as shit. I wish we had that when we were 1122 00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,439 Speaker 1: planning for sure. Yeah, but take advantage of that, dude. 1123 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:28,160 Speaker 2: It's fun. 1124 00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,360 Speaker 1: But take it as an advantage to learn, like the 1125 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,480 Speaker 1: business part and like how you can now set up 1126 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,880 Speaker 1: businesses when you're in the NFL, Right, what are you 1127 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,359 Speaker 1: gonna do with that money to make sure that money 1128 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:37,000 Speaker 1: makes you money? 1129 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I'm not looking at it as a more 1130 00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,200 Speaker 3: like how can I get rich quick? I'm looking at 1131 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,520 Speaker 3: more of like you said, how can I become a businessman, 1132 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:45,760 Speaker 3: How can I build my brand? 1133 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:46,799 Speaker 2: How can I be. 1134 00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,560 Speaker 3: Around other millionaires and billionaires and like see what makes 1135 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,360 Speaker 3: them successful? And how can I become a professional in 1136 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,080 Speaker 3: this space of like working with companies and brands and 1137 00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,239 Speaker 3: like it just makes you definitely grow up and become 1138 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,000 Speaker 3: you know, mature really fast. And then I signed with 1139 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:05,440 Speaker 3: Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and like they they they've definitely 1140 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,960 Speaker 3: taught me a lot about like taxes and finances and 1141 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:10,600 Speaker 3: accounting and like I now I know that kind of 1142 00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:11,319 Speaker 3: the ins and outs. 1143 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,000 Speaker 2: And also learned from my brother. 1144 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,200 Speaker 3: Who played in the NFL for three or four years, 1145 00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,960 Speaker 3: Like you know about all the taxes and the fees 1146 00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:23,560 Speaker 3: and everything costs money, like everything traveling. Even if somebody 1147 00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:24,879 Speaker 3: gives you a free car. This is what I learned 1148 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:26,880 Speaker 3: through in IO. If I hand you a free car 1149 00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,560 Speaker 3: as a dealership, like I still got to fill out. 1150 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,320 Speaker 2: And turn that into the government, so you're going to 1151 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,000 Speaker 2: get tax on that. It's not free. 1152 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,560 Speaker 3: Like that blew my mind because I'm like I thought 1153 00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:36,839 Speaker 3: everything was free. 1154 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,399 Speaker 2: It's something that was free. I thought it was free, 1155 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,960 Speaker 2: but they're like, no, you gotta five taxes. Yeah, that's 1156 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:41,640 Speaker 2: a lot of learning. 1157 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,600 Speaker 4: But good luck to you, bro, And I'm I know 1158 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,560 Speaker 4: you're going into your last year and everything, and obviously 1159 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:48,560 Speaker 4: we're stoked that you're in Nebraska, but good luck to you. 1160 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,040 Speaker 4: And I appreciate you again, We appreciate you for taking 1161 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:51,560 Speaker 4: the time. 1162 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:52,040 Speaker 2: No problem. 1163 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,080 Speaker 3: And then I actually have a I have an extra 1164 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,040 Speaker 3: year since like the COVID thing, if I want to 1165 00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:57,719 Speaker 3: come back. 1166 00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,319 Speaker 2: Oh for real, for the next year. Will we ball 1167 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,040 Speaker 2: go in the NFL? So don't worry about that. 1168 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,040 Speaker 1: Getting Big Ten Championship or Big Ten Championship runner up 1169 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,879 Speaker 1: to Michigan and then to the NFL. 1170 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,719 Speaker 2: We're talking first round, picky, Yeah, h 1171 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:15,319 Speaker 1: M hm