Speaker 1: So you've probably done a couple of like real interviews
Speaker 1: since you've gotten here, real time being at Texas Established University,
Speaker 1: Nebraska established University. This is not that we are. We
Speaker 1: have no idea what we're doing. This is this is
Speaker 1: a second time ever doing this.
Speaker 2: Do you know what this is? To my right, Will
Speaker 2: what's his last name? Do you know what?
Speaker 1: Like the history behind Will Compton is what he's done
Speaker 1: for this university.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Okay, hey listen, we'll have to cut
Speaker 2: that out because we don't want the people to be upset.
Speaker 2: So William Earl Compton, he's from Missouri St. Louis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well our south but Bontaire, Bontaire, Missouri, like like
Speaker 1: a drive past town. Not in a disrespectful way. Your
Speaker 1: boy was in that too. This man was all state
Speaker 1: wide receiver, believe it or not. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I know you're looking at how pale he is. You're like,
Speaker 2: there's no, there's no way he could be that. But
Speaker 2: he actually was. And yeah, you can count him, no question.
Speaker 1: This man gets a call from so many universities, four
Speaker 1: star athlete, right, and he chose to go to the
Speaker 1: one and only Nebraska Corn Huskers black shirt guy.
Speaker 2: How many letters foot him? Is your letter? Oh? Four? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Four time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure he was all big ten, honorable mention,
Speaker 1: undrafted grinder, just finished your nine the league?
Speaker 2: Do we get it for? Will Compton? Please hate? I
Speaker 2: hate you guys? What do you mean? How about the guests?
Speaker 2: We have one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, hey, listen, you've you've had a So you you
Speaker 1: were at Texas before this, it's been a bit of
Speaker 1: not probably what you weren't expecting going out of high school, right,
Speaker 1: like you're probably expecting, go Texas. Let's start four years,
Speaker 1: first round pick bing bang, boom, right, move it. What
Speaker 1: was what was your process like being in Texas and
Speaker 1: then making the decision to come here. We're gonna circle
Speaker 1: this obviously a whole bunch, So just talk to me
Speaker 1: about like you you uh, transferring it first and we're
Speaker 1: getting your time in Texas.
Speaker 2: Uh, I mean as a as a whole.
Speaker 3: There's a big backstory because uh, I grew up like
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes north of Norman. So honestly, my whole life
Speaker 3: I thought it was gonna be playing football ou And
Speaker 3: it's kind of funny now I'm here.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so my dad went there.
Speaker 3: Charles Thompson, he played nineteen eighty seven, eighty eight, played
Speaker 3: against Nebraska Game of the Century game. Yeah, that was
Speaker 3: his first start, and he ended up in Lincoln being
Speaker 3: Nebraska went onto the Orange Bowl National Championship against Miami,
Speaker 3: and then he yeah, and then brother, So, my brother
Speaker 3: is Kendel Thompson and we're both from obviously from Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: And he said that he was with you will and Washington. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you said, Kendel Thompson. Yes, yeah. So so he played quarterback.
Speaker 3: At ou in Utah and then uh towards a cl
Speaker 3: and switched to receiver and went undrafted, made the team.
Speaker 3: Sean McVay whenever he was in Washington, signed him as
Speaker 3: a free agent for two years. And then he was
Speaker 3: with you and then and then when Shawn went to
Speaker 3: La to the Rams, my brother went to the Rams
Speaker 3: as well for a couple of years. And so he said,
Speaker 3: to tell you, what's a small world, man, a small world.
Speaker 3: So but that was kind of like my that was like,
Speaker 3: you know, my story growing up. And then growing up,
Speaker 3: I really liked Clemson because of Deshaun Watson and yeah,
Speaker 3: they're really good.
Speaker 2: They've been studs for a while. Right.
Speaker 3: And then when I was in middle school, I really
Speaker 3: liked Marcus Fariota and Oregan's offense and Chip Kelly Scott Frost,
Speaker 3: and so I don't know, I kind of just been
Speaker 3: watching nice offenses, and so I always saw I was
Speaker 3: going to Oregon or Clemson or OEU the whole time.
Speaker 3: And then when Lincoln Riley came to whenever he went
Speaker 3: to OU, you know, I think it was like twenty
Speaker 3: fifteen or whatever, and you know, you have Baker and
Speaker 3: all those guys, and I was real close with them,
Speaker 3: and i'd actually go work out with them, and with
Speaker 3: Baker in the endoor, like I'd go throw to the
Speaker 3: receivers and Stirling Shepherd and Kenney Steals and throw at
Speaker 3: Baker and all these guys. And they got to the
Speaker 3: point when it was time for me to get recruited.
Speaker 3: I kind of did, like you did. I just I
Speaker 3: just kind of like filled everything out and just visited
Speaker 3: around the country and just was trying to take my
Speaker 3: time and figure out, Okay, what teams actually want me,
Speaker 3: you know, who would be the best fit, you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: not just trying to like, oh, hey, you know, these
Speaker 3: guys are gonna come here, because he's from here or right,
Speaker 3: So I kind of I had like twenty nine and
Speaker 3: thirty offers in high schools.
Speaker 1: Damn weird flex all right, and so I end up
Speaker 1: I end up visiting thirty offers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, I'm hung up. Keep going, I'm hung up.
Speaker 3: And then I end up visiting a lot of schools
Speaker 3: and uh, I don't know that kind of I liked.
Speaker 3: I had never been to Texas, but so my brother
Speaker 3: and my dad they're actually the ones that are like,
Speaker 3: you should go visit and see if you like it.
Speaker 3: I had never been to Austin, which is crazy because Oklahoma, right,
Speaker 3: and nobody knows that. So people always like, well, how'd
Speaker 3: you grow up in Oklahoma? You end up at Texas? Well, Honestly,
Speaker 3: it was kind of the advice from you know, my
Speaker 3: brother and my dad, Like, so you so.
Speaker 2: Your brother and dad secretly hate Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: No, they don't, but I mean they just they just
Speaker 3: are like, you know, if the team is offering you
Speaker 3: and they're talking about, you know, you can come in
Speaker 3: and play. At the time, they kind of were going
Speaker 3: back and forth between quarterbacks that had Sam Allen in
Speaker 3: Shane Buchew, So I thought maybe I could come in,
Speaker 3: you know, compete, but obviously, like you said, things didn't
Speaker 3: go like I thought when I got there waiting my turn,
Speaker 3: sat as a backup for three years, started this past season,
Speaker 3: and then decided to leave, you know, after going through
Speaker 3: three different coaching staffs and changes and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of the backstory.
Speaker 3: But then coming here was a whole story because when
Speaker 3: I was in the portal, I finally got in the
Speaker 3: portal like two weeks after the end of the season,
Speaker 3: so it was like December sixteenth. I went into the portal,
Speaker 3: and then the first thing I did was I called
Speaker 3: Adrian just to see, like, you know, how is it
Speaker 3: like in Nebraska. I want to know, like they're real
Speaker 3: and not like you know, coach talk. Yeah, he says,
Speaker 3: And he said that he enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Obviously he was here the last few years and.
Speaker 3: We came out in the same class, and he said
Speaker 3: he just needed a fresh start, and I was like, well,
Speaker 3: I kind of feel the same way, and so honestly,
Speaker 3: I was like, we're just going to switch. So he
Speaker 3: ended up leaving, and I kind of told him, like,
Speaker 3: you know, the rass is gonna be high on my list,
Speaker 3: but it'll probably come down between Nebraska, Auburn, Ou.
Speaker 2: Just different schools.
Speaker 3: And so I took two to three weeks honestly in
Speaker 3: like December, and I kind of just watched film and
Speaker 3: research and said, these are the teams that are gonna
Speaker 3: need quarterbacks or you know, I have different you know,
Speaker 3: openings or opportunities, and here's kind of what I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: So I kind of just like.
Speaker 3: Made it like a legit, like a whiteboard, like a
Speaker 3: wish list, and I just kept like going down the
Speaker 3: list and crossing teams off, and then yeah, I end
Speaker 3: up Nebraska.
Speaker 1: So you end up with those three teams? What about Nebraska?
Speaker 1: Was it that was like, Okay, this is the offense
Speaker 1: that I want to plan. Like what was the drawing factor.
Speaker 2: For you to go to Lincoln?
Speaker 3: I had never even been to the LEAKU And my
Speaker 3: first time actually like being here was legit when I
Speaker 3: drove down and moved in. Oh really, Yeah, I drove
Speaker 3: like we started school and like January nineteenth or something,
Speaker 3: and I came down on the eighteenth to like ten
Speaker 3: pm at night, and that was my first time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I didn't even visit, like I didn't need to really,
Speaker 3: like you, the opportunity to come play here and just
Speaker 3: like an in front of this university and you know,
Speaker 3: for this team. Obviously everyone said it was a big deal.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll get to experience that in the fall.
Speaker 3: But that was probably the main factor. And then just
Speaker 3: knowing Frost and knowing that he's a good dude. And
Speaker 3: then my dad had actually his friend with with Mickey
Speaker 3: Joseph and they they actually kind of grew up together
Speaker 3: a little bit, and.
Speaker 2: I mean in high school.
Speaker 3: They both visited OU back in the eighties and they
Speaker 3: were both going to decide between OU and Nebraska. So
Speaker 3: they had a relationship way back then, and so if
Speaker 3: you fast forward it to now, Mickey Joseph was like,
Speaker 3: you gotta get Casey here. You gotta get Casey here.
Speaker 3: So finally I was like, okay, like I'll see what
Speaker 3: it's about. And I was talking to Frost. And then
Speaker 3: when Mark Whipple decided to come here, it was like
Speaker 3: a no brainer. And I was like, the dude, he
Speaker 3: came from the NFL. He likes to throw the ball
Speaker 3: a lot. You know, you're just throw that rock. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And then I reached out to Kenny Pickett and I
Speaker 3: was actually doing zoom meetings with teams every week. Oh
Speaker 3: really yeah, over the break, like, teach me the offense.
Speaker 3: Let me watch him film with you guys. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 3: call the different quarterbacks that played for Like, I was
Speaker 3: doing a lot of research and so I felt comfortable
Speaker 3: with it, and I called Kenny. He was like, you're
Speaker 3: gonna love the offense, and he kind of sent me
Speaker 3: some installs and we watched film and honestly, like I
Speaker 3: didn't tell my family or the coach and Steff when
Speaker 3: I was playing on committing I just I just woke
Speaker 3: up one day and did it.
Speaker 4: Damn.
Speaker 2: Oh no.
Speaker 4: I want to go back to like when you said
Speaker 4: you were on the phone with Adrian, because number one,
Speaker 4: I think it speaks to like his type of character,
Speaker 4: because he's an awesome dude, somebody who was able to
Speaker 4: talk to you on the phone and say he just
Speaker 4: needed a fresh start and had a lot of good things.
Speaker 4: But I did read the article you talked about the
Speaker 4: ups and downs. What were downs that he talked about?
Speaker 4: Was it playing in front of and playing at a
Speaker 4: place like Nebraska, Like, what were some what were some
Speaker 4: waves in those conversations that you guys are.
Speaker 3: Just like you, just like your typical, Like, uh, just
Speaker 3: like your typical like football fan.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know you get football for a long time. Yeah.
Speaker 3: When it's good here, Yeah, when it's good, everyone loves you.
Speaker 3: When it's bad, you know, people point the finger at you,
Speaker 3: they criticize you, all this stuff. You know, I've gotten
Speaker 3: hate messages and crazy dms and stuff like that on
Speaker 3: social media. When I was at Texas this past season.
Speaker 3: If we lost a game or if I played back
Speaker 3: like it was in in the world. But then when
Speaker 3: you play good, it's like your phone can't stop dinging.
Speaker 3: And so that's just kind of how he said it was,
Speaker 3: and honestly, I'm used to that. So I was like, okay, well,
Speaker 3: and then I asked some of the players. I was like,
Speaker 3: what's the worst thing that goes on or that you
Speaker 3: don't like about it there? Because like everyone wants to
Speaker 3: talk about what's good about a school.
Speaker 2: I was like, what do you not like?
Speaker 3: And all they said was like the weather, And then
Speaker 3: they were like, sometimes frost makes es do like practices
Speaker 3: out in the cold, or sometimes you know, we ask
Speaker 3: them for stuff we don't get and I'm like, I'm like,
Speaker 3: that's that's the worst that you have to say about
Speaker 3: like I'm good with that, then, like I'm committing.
Speaker 4: Weather can be tough air at times and wind blows hard.
Speaker 4: You were dealing with it.
Speaker 2: Today, But.
Speaker 3: For Miles, if you sit at a quarter you can
Speaker 3: see the whole state. But it's seasonal. It's like whenever
Speaker 3: you're ever going to play a game where it's a blizzard.
Speaker 4: Like, oh right, right, right, yeah, for sure, I'm just
Speaker 4: speaking to the whole winter thing.
Speaker 2: You walk around that that.
Speaker 4: Side of the stadium when you're going to study hall
Speaker 4: and that wind smash in the face.
Speaker 3: It's a different beast out there. But it's like Oklahoma though.
Speaker 3: It's like Oklahoma is super windy. It's literally snowing in
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City and tomorrow yeah.
Speaker 1: And they got like massive tornadoes tornadoes here like that. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: And then I was like rebuilding every right.
Speaker 3: Next year, Like I mean next week it'll be seventy
Speaker 3: degrees here, It'll be sevent degrees in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: It's literally almost like the same weather. Oh so you're
Speaker 2: not affected by that. I grew kind of like it.
Speaker 2: It's like the great planes, yeah in it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Can you can you talk about entering in the portal
Speaker 4: because that's super super new for us, right and and honestly,
Speaker 4: and you know it, it gets a bad rapid times
Speaker 4: because a lot.
Speaker 2: Of kids enter it.
Speaker 1: And then before you answer that, what was the stat
Speaker 1: you said, like, so many guys enter the portal expecting
Speaker 1: to be picked up by these big power five schools.
Speaker 4: Right, expecting for like a situation to happen, and the
Speaker 4: majority it doesn't work out the way they think it does. Yeah,
Speaker 4: obviously for you it's a little different. But can you
Speaker 4: speak on the turmoil you were going through with Texas
Speaker 4: because when Taylor and I were little afraid to bash them,
Speaker 4: you know, when Taylor and I were like doing our
Speaker 4: research on you. Obviously had a promising start at the
Speaker 4: Alamo Bowle a couple of years ago. Right then you
Speaker 4: go throughout this next year. It doesn't necessarily work out
Speaker 4: the way you want it to. You got a new
Speaker 4: coach and coach Sark he comes in, You don't have
Speaker 4: the starting job opening the season. Yeah, you end up
Speaker 4: taking over, but you're coming off the bench, and obviously
Speaker 4: it does.
Speaker 2: The whole year doesn't unfold the way you want. I
Speaker 2: saw you.
Speaker 4: You had injuries you were dealing with, and it just
Speaker 4: didn't for whatever reason, the stars weren't aligning for you,
Speaker 4: and then you decide to go into the portal, which
Speaker 4: can look like, you know, does he just not want
Speaker 4: to competer play?
Speaker 2: And I'll let you say all this stuff.
Speaker 4: But from the outside looking in, they signed two huge star,
Speaker 4: five star recruits. The writing's on the wall and kind
Speaker 4: of necessarily, like, if I'm reading this stuff, it's like, well,
Speaker 4: maybe Sark doesn't necessarily mess with him because he hasn't
Speaker 4: begetting certain opportunities this, that, and the other.
Speaker 2: You know your story, I don't, but.
Speaker 4: Can you speak on being somebody who's transferred from a
Speaker 4: Texas to a Nebraska Obviously it's working out for you now,
Speaker 4: but speak.
Speaker 3: On that, right, I mean, honestly, it was the first
Speaker 3: two or three years didn't go the way I wanted
Speaker 3: to because I had to sit behind Sam Ellinger. And
Speaker 3: then I mean, you kind of you can hear guys
Speaker 3: talk about, you know, my leadership with my work ethic,
Speaker 3: or how I perform at practice or the stuff that
Speaker 3: I do in the off season, you know, set on seven.
Speaker 3: But I mean, until you doing it in the game,
Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter. And so in twenty twenty, at
Speaker 3: the end of the year. Coming off the Alamo Bowl,
Speaker 3: Sam kind of got banged up in the first half
Speaker 3: and he hurt his shoulder and it was his last
Speaker 3: game in his career, which at the time nobody knew
Speaker 3: that but me and him pretty much in his family.
Speaker 2: But we were on the bench and he was like,
Speaker 2: you got it, you know, you lit it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was like, this is your this is your
Speaker 3: jam destroy and and I went in and then tied
Speaker 3: the Alamo Bowl record and had four touchdowns in the
Speaker 3: third like the third quarter, and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is pretty cool, Like what a happy ending to
Speaker 3: you know, to the end of the year.
Speaker 2: So going into the off season.
Speaker 1: Like can go to the office feeling like the man,
Speaker 1: Yeah this show?
Speaker 2: Yeah cool?
Speaker 3: Right, And so I, like I me personally, like me,
Speaker 3: my family, all the players, like we kind of thought like, okay,
Speaker 3: case he's gonna be the guy.
Speaker 2: And then, like you said, the new staff came in.
Speaker 3: And when you get a new staff there like everyone's
Speaker 3: clean slate and you got to compete, and like everyone
Speaker 3: had to compete, and so it's like okay, not scared
Speaker 3: of competition, Like you know, I've done this before. I
Speaker 3: had to go through a QB battle in high school
Speaker 3: my freshman year to start varsity, and so I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 3: like it's only.
Speaker 2: Gonna make me a better person, better player.
Speaker 3: And then throughout the off season, like honestly, I feel
Speaker 3: like that I was like winning the job.
Speaker 2: And then like when August came around.
Speaker 3: Like I was going first, Like we would rotate between
Speaker 3: ones and twos, but I would almost always go first,
Speaker 3: every every time, every week. And then when August hit,
Speaker 3: like I started to go with the twos a little more,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, okay, nine days out from the first game,
Speaker 3: like something, you know, something has to be going on.
Speaker 3: So then like a week before the game, I just
Speaker 3: kept trying to go meet with the coach, like you
Speaker 3: know when you're basically like when you're going to a started.
Speaker 2: We played next, we played a week from today. Oh
Speaker 2: you're trying to get some communication.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just like, you know, I've been working all
Speaker 3: off season with the receivers, and so it was me
Speaker 3: trying to go communicate, trying to go meet. And then
Speaker 3: a few days later, like after classes started, they called
Speaker 3: us back in and was like told us, you know,
Speaker 3: we're going to start with Hutton card. But you guys
Speaker 3: are basically going to compete and rotate the first two
Speaker 3: or three games because it's a non conference, so we'll
Speaker 3: kind of try it like an NFL preseason.
Speaker 2: That's the most colors thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the crazy, So the crazy part, like that
Speaker 3: didn't happen, so like he would. He played like the
Speaker 3: first three quarters of the first game against Louisiana, and
Speaker 3: then the next week we went to play at Arkansas
Speaker 3: and like it was super they were pretty good. It
Speaker 3: was super loud, and I'm thinking, like both the games,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, I'm gonna go in the first quarter, second quarter,
Speaker 3: third quarter, and I finally going in the third or
Speaker 3: four quarter. Obviously I'm frustrated, but I'm like, Okay, I
Speaker 3: got this whole year to compete, and I got this
Speaker 3: whole year to battle back, and honestly like my performance
Speaker 3: in the third and fourth quarter both of those games,
Speaker 3: like want me the starting job. And so we woke
Speaker 3: up the next day and everybody was like rioting and
Speaker 3: protests and like you need to start Casey, you need
Speaker 3: to start Casey and Vince Young and Earl Campbell like
Speaker 3: all these people, you know, these Texas, Like yeah, they
Speaker 3: were saying that, Yeah, it was a whole thing, like
Speaker 3: on Twitter and all this stuff. And I came in
Speaker 3: for meetings and practice on Monday and they're like, you're starting.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I kind of found out from Twitter and then like
Speaker 3: I think it was one of the ball boys.
Speaker 5: Which is super interesting anyway, Texas like that kind of
Speaker 5: university would honestly, like I found out on Twitter because
Speaker 5: I came in for practice like on Monday, and uh,
Speaker 5: coaches like, hey, I want to talk to you at
Speaker 5: some point today.
Speaker 3: In my head, I'm thinking he's probably going to tell
Speaker 3: me what I think he's gonna tell me. And then
Speaker 3: after practice stuff always leads around there, which is crazy
Speaker 3: but in sports in general. But after practice, I was
Speaker 3: throwing routes to the receivers on Monday, and then we
Speaker 3: usually have media and press conferences, like right after Monday,
Speaker 3: Monday's walk through practice, and I was throwing with the
Speaker 3: receivers and then I got off the practice field and
Speaker 3: the manager who does the footballs he was like congrats,
Speaker 3: and I was like, what are you talking about.
Speaker 2: He's like, you're starting this week. I was like, dude,
Speaker 2: you're joking in no way.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, you didn't see on Twitter, it already leaked,
Speaker 3: and like I went back in the locker room and
Speaker 3: my phone was blowing up, and then I went to
Speaker 3: do media, and then I came back a few hours
Speaker 3: later and finally met with the coach and he was like,
Speaker 3: obviously you probably know a boy now, but we're gonna
Speaker 3: go with you for.
Speaker 2: This week and we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3: And like the next four or five or six games,
Speaker 3: like I was like leading the Big twelve and passing
Speaker 3: passing efficiency and QBR and touchdowns all this stuff. And
Speaker 3: then we get to Week six Oklahoma, and uh, I
Speaker 3: had five touchdowns and no interceptions and we were about
Speaker 3: like twenty one points.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, this this couldn't go any better.
Speaker 3: And then they end up coming back and oh yeah,
Speaker 3: Caylen Williams went in and then we went into I
Speaker 3: mean we basically was that the cues, but yeah.
Speaker 2: They benched him.
Speaker 1: They brought trash and he brought a heisman, yes, like
Speaker 1: a hes going into the season and we were about
Speaker 1: twenty won and then they came back and beat us,
Speaker 1: and uh, honestly, that was like that whole game was crazy,
Speaker 1: like something I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: But in that game, I was throwing a screen route
Speaker 3: to Bijon on a third down and my hand kind
Speaker 3: of got caught in a defensive lineman's helmet and just
Speaker 3: like twisted all the way back. And like, I just
Speaker 3: played the rest of the season on a partially torn
Speaker 3: and just located thumb.
Speaker 2: It was like severely sprained, and nobody knew about it.
Speaker 3: And so I still started ten games in a row,
Speaker 3: but like you said, it didn't go the way I
Speaker 3: wanted to because I wasn't able to be my best
Speaker 3: some games, like one game, I would go out there
Speaker 3: in the first quarter and like could barely complete you know,
Speaker 3: an out route, or somebody would hit my thumb again,
Speaker 3: and you know, either coach would pull me or I
Speaker 3: would tell coach, like, you know, obviously I hit my
Speaker 3: thumb again. And then maybe like the next week, I'll
Speaker 3: go there and throw seven touchdowns, and it just it
Speaker 3: just was up and down the yeah, And so obviously
Speaker 3: that's not the way I.
Speaker 2: Wanted to go.
Speaker 3: Me being like looking out for my career, I'm like,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe I should shut it down, or maybe
Speaker 3: I should like go public and say I hurt my thumb.
Speaker 3: But then honestly, like the competitive nature of me. I
Speaker 3: was like, no, I'm gonna play, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: play for my team and you know, try to do,
Speaker 3: you know, the best I can, because I'm also not
Speaker 3: only helping my team, but I'm helping myself, you know,
Speaker 3: if I decided to, you know, leave after the season.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of what my mindset was.
Speaker 3: And then I got an MRI like October and then
Speaker 3: and then again at the end of season, like right
Speaker 3: around Thanksgiving, like week twelve, and the injury basically didn't
Speaker 3: heal at all. If anything, I might have got worse.
Speaker 3: And so right after the season, like I shut it down.
Speaker 3: I didn't throw for like eight weeks, like two months,
Speaker 3: and that was the longest I haven't thrown since I
Speaker 3: was like four or five years old. And then that's
Speaker 3: when I was like, I'm going in the portal. That's
Speaker 3: kind of what it was like. It wasn't anything that
Speaker 3: like it was too much back and forth with the competition.
Speaker 3: It wasn't that because I started ten weeks in a row,
Speaker 3: even with my thumb injury, like they still started me
Speaker 3: ten games and so I kind of was like, you know,
Speaker 3: obviously they believe in me, but I just felt like
Speaker 3: it was time to move on.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what it was that we went
Speaker 1: in the transfer portal because you're you hit your thumby,
Speaker 1: spent two months off of it, and you're like, I
Speaker 1: shouldn't be at Texas anymore.
Speaker 3: No, No, I went to transfer portal because we had
Speaker 3: basically three different offenses in the three years I was there.
Speaker 3: It was just too much, Like I just feel like
Speaker 3: there's a lot of like quick turnover at that place.
Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of like obviously there's a lot
Speaker 3: of pressure on the coaching staffs. Yeah, and the head
Speaker 3: coach at Texas. I mean, yeah, you're looking about it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was gonna say they've had how many different head
Speaker 3: coaches and offensive coordinators?
Speaker 2: I mean when we were in high school, Yeah, Texas
Speaker 2: was like the place to go. It wasn't.
Speaker 3: It wasn't anything like anything bad happened or you know,
Speaker 3: something behind closed doors. It was more so like I
Speaker 3: was there for three and a half years, I sat
Speaker 3: away in my turn season kind of didn't pan out
Speaker 3: the way I thought it was going to go, the
Speaker 3: way we thought it was going to go. Had like
Speaker 3: two or three different coaching staffs, and so it was
Speaker 3: kind of like, you know, maybe it's time for me
Speaker 3: to move on. And so, like I told you guys
Speaker 3: before we started this, like my parents and my FA
Speaker 3: we didn't even really want me to leave at first
Speaker 3: or just come back and you know, and then so honestly, yeah,
Speaker 3: right when the season ended, I kind of waited like
Speaker 3: a week or two and then I put my name
Speaker 3: in the portal like the day of signing day or
Speaker 3: like right around. So it was before like they were
Speaker 3: even gonna go get quinn yours, but I had already known.
Speaker 3: They communicate like, we're gonna go take one or two quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: right because it was basically just me and Hudson Card.
Speaker 3: We were the only It was me, Hudson Card and
Speaker 3: a guy named Charles Wright.
Speaker 2: We only had.
Speaker 3: Three scholarship quarterbacks, and so they're like, you guys, we
Speaker 3: got to go get two more quarterbacks. Basically, we're gonna
Speaker 3: bring in a high school guy in one transfer. I
Speaker 3: didn't know who it was gonna be yet, and I
Speaker 3: ended up finding out on social media as well from
Speaker 3: Twitter after the fact.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So were you nervous going into the portal, like
Speaker 4: knowing what a perception could be would be.
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, like nobody knows this, but like I
Speaker 3: went into the portal at the end of my freshman year,
Speaker 3: like December twentieth, like the eighteen, at the end of
Speaker 3: my freshman year, I was gonna leave because, like you said,
Speaker 3: I came into high school thinking and all the recruits thinking,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come in as a freshman and I'm gonna play.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, everyone thinks.
Speaker 3: And then I was behind Sam Ellener and I'm like,
Speaker 3: there's like he was he was leading the team, but
Speaker 3: he was like a coach basically on the field.
Speaker 2: Like there's no way he's not going to start the
Speaker 2: rest of the next three years, right.
Speaker 3: And I told my parents and my dad was like, no,
Speaker 3: you need to stay, you need to stick it out.
Speaker 3: I was like, Dad, I'm just telling you, they're not
Speaker 3: gonna sit this guy. I'm not even gonna get to
Speaker 3: compete with him. And I ended up being right. But
Speaker 3: I'm glad that I stayed and kind of pushed through
Speaker 3: it because it helped me just like you know, learn
Speaker 3: about myself and kind of grow as a player on
Speaker 3: and off the field. But but Sam and I are
Speaker 3: real cool to this day, and I'm cool with all the.
Speaker 2: Quarterbacks and stuff.
Speaker 3: But so I went in the portal December twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: and I was gonna leave, and I was in the
Speaker 3: portol of the whole winter break my freshman year. And
Speaker 3: then I came back and I stayed, and then I
Speaker 3: went another.
Speaker 2: Are you in the portal? And nothing was happening. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 3: I mean, there are a lot of teams that were offering,
Speaker 3: but it just like wasn't the teams that I wanted.
Speaker 1: Is when you in the portal, is it public news
Speaker 1: right away or is it kind of like quiet?
Speaker 3: It's like if you it's like if you put your
Speaker 3: name in and saying you're going to resign or something
Speaker 3: or you're going to quit as soon as you as
Speaker 3: soon as you basically go just to the compliance office.
Speaker 2: So this is how it works.
Speaker 3: Either email compliance are going to the office and you
Speaker 3: just notify them and like like sign this paper saying
Speaker 3: that you're gonna like notify the team that you're gonna
Speaker 3: you have intent to transfer or explore your options is
Speaker 3: what it's called. And then within forty eight hours they
Speaker 3: have they have forty eight hours to kind of put
Speaker 3: your name in a database and every team in the
Speaker 3: country gets notified like that, You're really basically like a
Speaker 3: free agent.
Speaker 2: It's like free agency, no legit. That's how we talk
Speaker 2: about it now. And uh.
Speaker 3: And so when I put my name in like botant,
Speaker 3: like when I put my name in honestly, like I
Speaker 3: had law schools reaching out within the first couple of days,
Speaker 3: like the first time my freshman year, like UCLA reached out,
Speaker 3: like Chip Kelly, Oregon Utah reached shout and won, but
Speaker 3: they weren't the guys that I was. That I was
Speaker 3: there the same day, everything changes and I had small
Speaker 3: talk from from OU back then and Lincoln Rally and
Speaker 3: kind of their coaching staff there, and then Houston and
Speaker 3: West Virginia and like just different teams around the country
Speaker 3: reached out. That was my freshman year. And then I
Speaker 3: don't know, I just didn't like my options, and so
Speaker 3: I was like, I'd rather stay at Texas, like you said,
Speaker 3: and play big time college football. And uh, just knowing
Speaker 3: that I would have a chance to play against OU
Speaker 3: and the Red River rivalry Week six is like one
Speaker 3: of the biggest ribbies in college football, I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm staying so that's why I stayed. And then and
Speaker 3: then this past time I put my name on the portal,
Speaker 3: I was like out to eat or something with my family,
Speaker 3: like a Friday morning, Friday afternoon, and then I went
Speaker 3: to go, uh, get treatment and work out at this
Speaker 3: gym in Oklahoma City and then like all my weights
Speaker 3: to the gym and like during my workout and right after,
Speaker 3: like I have my phone in the ox and you know,
Speaker 3: these teams are like emailing me because you can put
Speaker 3: your email your phone number down. I told compliance I was,
Speaker 3: I just put both, and I wish I would just
Speaker 3: put my email.
Speaker 2: Down basically because.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because like West Virginia like just coaches with
Speaker 3: text and literally text and call you be like, hey,
Speaker 3: this is coach such and such. I'm the offensive coordinator
Speaker 3: at whatever school. Give me a call, and like it's
Speaker 3: just like every hour, every day. And it was like
Speaker 3: that probably for the first few weeks. And then finally
Speaker 3: I just told all the schools like, hey, this is
Speaker 3: kind of like I kind of already know like where
Speaker 3: I'm looking at and so here's here's my list, and
Speaker 3: out of respect, like I'm not gonna waste your time, right,
Speaker 3: but I just started doing zoom interviews and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and I kind of had a list of schools that
Speaker 3: I was talking to every day, and then I just
Speaker 3: told them like, hey, I'm going to make a decision
Speaker 3: after New Year's cause I wanted to watch I wanted
Speaker 3: to watch all the teams playing the bowl games and
Speaker 3: see what quarterbacks would say or leave and see if
Speaker 3: there would be more coaching changes.
Speaker 2: So that's how I went about it.
Speaker 4: When you put yourself in that answer portal after your
Speaker 4: freshman year as somebody coming in, like we were joking
Speaker 4: about earlier, every freshman who comes in thinks are going
Speaker 4: to like be the man and it doesn't work out
Speaker 4: for him. You're somebody who put yourself in the portal then,
Speaker 4: and putting yourself in the portal now going through all
Speaker 4: the adversity and the shit that you've went through to
Speaker 4: now get to this point you are now at a
Speaker 4: fresh start at Nebraska. How do you feel like you've
Speaker 4: developed mentally from doing things like that? Right? Like, to me,
Speaker 4: in my head, like you putting yourself in the portal
Speaker 4: as a freshman and and not kind of like being
Speaker 4: exactly how you might want it to, and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm going to stay here, and you're kind of playing
Speaker 4: the whole you know, I want you want your time.
Speaker 4: You've you've done your time by being backup doing all
Speaker 4: this stuff. This last year happens in unfolds with Texas.
Speaker 4: You've now made your decision and you're in your last year.
Speaker 4: How do you feel like you've kind of grown mentally?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it definitely helped me just like
Speaker 2: be more.
Speaker 3: Organized and like thorough and like will kind of just
Speaker 3: like well thought out and know exactly like what I'm
Speaker 3: looking for and how to approach situations. I would say
Speaker 3: that's definitely what it helped me. I would just say
Speaker 3: going through a lot of different adversity, like you talked
Speaker 3: about different personalities, working with different coaching staffs, and every
Speaker 3: year it's a new team.
Speaker 2: You know, you got new guys in the locker room.
Speaker 3: So I think it just helped me as a player
Speaker 3: and honestly as a quarterback. And you know, now I
Speaker 3: kind of know like Okay, here's what works, you know,
Speaker 3: on the field, and here's what on and off the field,
Speaker 3: Like here's what works in the organization, here's what didn't work.
Speaker 2: And every year.
Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, did I get better as a quarterback?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, yes, did I grow as a person?
Speaker 3: And the answer always was yes every year, So I
Speaker 3: didn't regret kind of just sitting and waiting my turn.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, like you talked about, I heard
Speaker 3: you talk about with Garrett. You know a lot of
Speaker 3: teams in college football, it's a big melting pot of
Speaker 3: different nationalities and ethnicities and just different you know, type
Speaker 3: of players and personalities. And honestly, that's kind of what
Speaker 3: it helped me just figure out, you know, who I
Speaker 3: am as a person and how I can lead and
Speaker 3: kind of build with other players and other coaches and
Speaker 3: how I connect with them.
Speaker 2: So I would say it helped me do that.
Speaker 3: And then it kind of just helped me grow, like
Speaker 3: with my maturity of what I'm looking for and kind
Speaker 3: of how to be a professional.
Speaker 2: So that's really what it helped me do.
Speaker 3: And then being coming here, like I mean, I just
Speaker 3: I love the team here and I love Coach Frost
Speaker 3: and everyone.
Speaker 2: In the organization is really cool and you know, so
Speaker 2: I really enjoy it.
Speaker 1: When you first when you first got here, you see
Speaker 1: you love the team now, Like, but what was that
Speaker 1: process like, like when you like first day of school, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of hang out you're helping.
Speaker 2: Hey, Yeah, I felt weird at first, Like I was
Speaker 2: walking around. I feel weird, dude, because everyone already knows
Speaker 2: each other. Hey. And also guy.
Speaker 4: Right right right, and you're you're you're coming in because
Speaker 4: Adrian leaves. And Adrian's like, I think he's at the
Speaker 4: top of all purpose where did he got yards Kansas State?
Speaker 4: And he's somebody who's been in multi year captain, He's
Speaker 4: somebody who's been very ingrained in this culture, in this team.
Speaker 4: He leaves, you come in. It does like what he's saying,
Speaker 4: it's got to feel we're you're nervous.
Speaker 3: I wasn't nervous, but the first few days, like you
Speaker 3: talked about, it was like I had that feeling since
Speaker 3: like he like when I started to high school.
Speaker 2: I think as a freshman maybe like walking high school too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's just like kind of like when you
Speaker 3: walk into high school and you're like, Okay, I don't
Speaker 3: know what to expect, and and then you're like going
Speaker 3: to college as a freshman, You're like, I don't know
Speaker 3: what to expect, so come in and hear like I
Speaker 3: walked in like not even not even three or four
Speaker 3: weeks prior. I was literally in the Texas Facility in
Speaker 3: Austin in my apartment, going there every day, going to
Speaker 3: the stadium, working out in the weight room.
Speaker 2: And then three weeks later, like I'm.
Speaker 3: Walking in Nebraska's.
Speaker 1: For just pulling them to a place you've never seen before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just go here. Yeah, history, Like it's
Speaker 1: just weird, like everything. For the first couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: it was like I got to pull up. I lived
Speaker 1: five minutes down the street.
Speaker 3: In apartment, but like I had to map, had to
Speaker 3: get here every day, and then like walking around in
Speaker 3: the facility like I'm lost for like the first week. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then the guys, like I remember the the guys
Speaker 3: would because I was. I wasn't cleared at first when
Speaker 3: I first got here, so you got to like do
Speaker 3: your testing and you know, do all these like different
Speaker 3: tests and stuff before you can get cleared, and these meetings,
Speaker 3: and I just been walking around and people were introducing
Speaker 3: me to the players, like during their workouts and lifts,
Speaker 3: and they'd all be talking and dapping each other up
Speaker 3: and then they'd see me.
Speaker 2: They'd be like, what, what's up like you know, just
Speaker 2: kind of quiet, like I'm just trying to figure each
Speaker 2: other out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I want at the same time, like when
Speaker 1: you're a quarterback, like you know, the receivers are kissing
Speaker 1: ass right away, yeah, because they want to get that ball.
Speaker 1: And all the skilled guys are gonna kind of talk
Speaker 1: to you. So you walk in like if you were
Speaker 1: just like an offens linement, be like block nerd kind
Speaker 1: of I do your thing, kind of find your friends
Speaker 1: on your own hand.
Speaker 3: That's what they So the old lineman and the receivers,
Speaker 3: they came up to me right away because they lash.
Speaker 3: But the rest of the guys, like the defense and
Speaker 3: my locker is actually like right by, like Quentin Newsome
Speaker 3: and like Miles Farmer and Travis Vocalect and like these
Speaker 3: are guys who are players and their starters, and just
Speaker 3: being around those guys and hearing them talk and kind
Speaker 3: of like joke and I'm just like going to the
Speaker 3: corner and putting my stuff on the the first few
Speaker 3: days and then once I started to get to know
Speaker 3: the guys and kind of like hang around, and then
Speaker 3: it got a lot better obviously, you know, very fast.
Speaker 3: But the first few days for sure. I was like, dude,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna be kind of over here in the
Speaker 3: corner observe observed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fly on the wall type of deal. Let's tough
Speaker 2: do that first forty eight hours is kind of yeah.
Speaker 3: It was like the first few days and then I
Speaker 3: would say that second week like whenever I got clear,
Speaker 3: like I think everyone was kind of like, okay, boom,
Speaker 3: we know who he is.
Speaker 2: Now he knows us, he knows our names. Let's get
Speaker 2: it going.
Speaker 3: Like the workouts started, and I started to hold my
Speaker 3: own meetings and you know.
Speaker 2: Field sessions with the guys.
Speaker 3: I took the old line out to eat at Rhodizios
Speaker 3: and then I took them to Round One bowling and
Speaker 3: that was.
Speaker 2: Rod Is that like a nebasket only place, Like it's
Speaker 2: like back there, it's a nice little deal. Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I did that, like that was kind of like
Speaker 3: and I had the idea. I was like, because I
Speaker 3: would do it at Texas. I would take my starting
Speaker 3: o linement out to eat, like after a win, and
Speaker 3: then I would like, get uh, because I'm I'm with
Speaker 3: partner with tiff Streets.
Speaker 2: It's a cookie company after the Jackets, after winter.
Speaker 3: After a win, I would get tip streets delivered to
Speaker 3: the facility for the whole like all the coaches and players, and.
Speaker 1: Then the coaches too, Yeah, you know exactly what you're doing.
Speaker 2: And then I would take the.
Speaker 3: And so and so when I got here, I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the whole lineman out to eat. And
Speaker 3: then trying to take them bowling like that was really fun.
Speaker 3: That helped me like get to know them for sure.
Speaker 3: And then after that, like after that day, like kind
Speaker 3: of the next week, like they're like, you know, cases
Speaker 3: are boys for deal, Like I knew them well and
Speaker 3: I knew the receivers and then it was like it
Speaker 3: took me like a couple of weeks or a month
Speaker 3: to get to the defense. So it's been fun. But
Speaker 3: now that practice has started, like I love talking.
Speaker 2: Speak to that stomach. No question, dude, I think it's
Speaker 2: time for it's time. I think I got the best question. Actually,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I do. We could do the
Speaker 2: same thing. The fun thing is we can do whatever
Speaker 2: we want.
Speaker 1: I'm just excited to talk about Dukes. Yeah, Dukes is
Speaker 1: pretty outstanding. Dude over there in the corner. So Duke's
Speaker 1: is like this little is this company that there's a
Speaker 1: men's body wash, but it's like instead of all that
Speaker 1: bullshit that like the other companies playing. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say brand names, but you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: Arrives with the ulchmice that they put the stuff up
Speaker 1: there and it's kind of it feels good and it
Speaker 1: smells nice. But then fifty years down the road to
Speaker 1: take an extra and they like, hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: see word, and you know, I get a kind of
Speaker 1: a bit of a predicament.
Speaker 2: Dukes doesn't have none of that stuff in there.
Speaker 1: That the fresh Fresh two thousand dude, Yeah, you got
Speaker 1: that little good of the jar.
Speaker 2: Litt just says thick on it, dude, you see that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got the thick high viscosity body wash.
Speaker 1: If you walk, if you walk past a girl in
Speaker 1: a bar with this on right here, game set match
Speaker 1: games over citrus.
Speaker 4: Musk, cedar wood, cedarwood. That just says rich to me.
Speaker 4: In the ingredients of premium, they not again like we're
Speaker 4: not gonna mention the but.
Speaker 2: The ingredients are clean. They're all about being masculine, dude.
Speaker 4: They're about athletes, military tradesmen, guys like ourselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, passed me that h one of the Yeah, the
Speaker 1: biggest brick of So.
Speaker 2: Do we wear this? Do I live in this? I
Speaker 2: take all my clothes on. If I just put this
Speaker 2: stuff on my body, I walked enough. Yeah, you came in.
Speaker 2: You dap me up slow and probably exhaled. Like if
Speaker 2: you inhaled, you would have noticed everything.
Speaker 1: Hey, tell them about the tell them about your feet, dude,
Speaker 1: So listen, and I take this stuff right here. And
Speaker 1: this is like kind of like an idea category. So
Speaker 1: maybe you can tell me if you really like it
Speaker 1: or not. But like, there's not a lot of features,
Speaker 1: especially in this area that's like really you can call
Speaker 1: home about. But these bad boys right here, these ones
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about starting only fans like a feet thing,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, put some flowers around it,
Speaker 1: dress it up real nice, and then put the duke's
Speaker 1: baked bottles soaked there and then rub it between the
Speaker 1: feet and then have will smell them.
Speaker 2: I think that'll sell you think you will? Dude? What
Speaker 2: do I get to smell them? Every time? You gotta
Speaker 2: say I like that.
Speaker 3: I got some funny stories when we start talking about
Speaker 3: it, and I actually, oh.
Speaker 2: I'm down to here. That for sure that can be
Speaker 2: our duke.
Speaker 4: So this final question Duke Cannon, or maybe final two
Speaker 4: questions presented by Duke Cannon. Let's get into the NIL talk, Like,
Speaker 4: give us a couple of ANIL stories, because number one
Speaker 4: is all of this stuff, all the stuff that we're
Speaker 4: showing you. It's going in this awesome military gray looking
Speaker 4: box and it's yours. So this is our NIL deal
Speaker 4: to you is free product for the boy for real.
Speaker 4: But I would love to see because I did see
Speaker 4: you talking about the opportunities that Nebraska for NIL are
Speaker 4: a lot better than Texas.
Speaker 2: Please elaborate and dive into that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I would just say that when I say opportunities,
Speaker 3: I mean like how often and how much that these plays,
Speaker 3: like these companies are willing to Well.
Speaker 1: We talking doing cash money, so we are we talking.
Speaker 1: We were talking about phone numbers.
Speaker 3: You give us something like you can come here, you
Speaker 3: can come to Nebraska. I mean, first off, when I
Speaker 3: first got here, they told me when I found out
Speaker 3: that like seventeen or eighteen different Fall players had vehicles,
Speaker 3: I was like, that's unheard of.
Speaker 2: It's how we do it here, man. Yeah, that's like
Speaker 2: with like.
Speaker 3: A free place to stay and like at Texas it
Speaker 3: was me b John Robinson and one defensive started like
Speaker 3: three three guys.
Speaker 4: Because they keep it closer to this, all the all
Speaker 4: the all the all the rich guys.
Speaker 2: But not even just Nebraska athletic. There's like seven or
Speaker 2: eighty different.
Speaker 3: People across all sports that have like either apartment or
Speaker 3: a car, or they're getting in io deals like women's.
Speaker 1: Basketball, women's golf team. Yeah, they're pretty outstanding. They did
Speaker 1: a great job.
Speaker 3: So that's what I mean when I say that, like
Speaker 3: more more, more athletes across all the sports are getting
Speaker 3: blessed with opportunities. And just like the numbers and the
Speaker 3: how often you know you're able to get these deals
Speaker 3: is like way more than I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Gonna say numbers. You're gonna make six figures as oh
Speaker 2: my as what fuck?
Speaker 3: As a player as a player here, if you're a
Speaker 3: starter here on football team, you can make over six figures.
Speaker 4: If I made six figures, I did eight hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty dollars scholarship check and I thought I was living
Speaker 4: because n was like three fifty three and after utilities
Speaker 4: four fifty.
Speaker 2: That's four yea.
Speaker 1: At the rail Nebraska legit needs to be in the
Speaker 1: playoffs every single year.
Speaker 2: You're gonna make six figures. Figure it out.
Speaker 4: It's a slow burn, it's a slow climb, but we
Speaker 4: figure out. We know where we have to land.
Speaker 1: I'm more of a typhoon type of guy if you
Speaker 1: want to make six figures right out of high school,
Speaker 1: so you're automatically doing better than all of your friends.
Speaker 1: Your friends are up to their neck in student loans
Speaker 1: and they're dying, and you just say, oh, that's weird.
Speaker 1: I make six figures now, and I drive whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck I want. Come to Nebraska. All right, you got history,
Speaker 1: you got dope uniforms. By the way, the equipment boys
Speaker 1: in the back. I don't know if you guys saw it,
Speaker 1: but they gave us our very own jerseys. Will's is cool,
Speaker 1: but Will's already been here. I got my air Ferio
Speaker 1: in Jersey. Didn't even play here. All right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: need six figures for that. That does speak down to
Speaker 1: take care of the boys. They take care of us
Speaker 1: where they made you a jersey. Hopefully Michigan's watching this
Speaker 1: and I get a little something next week.
Speaker 2: Oh that'd be nice. But the thing is, I think
Speaker 2: much more prestigious claims.
Speaker 3: Now, I think now any any athlete and any student athlete,
Speaker 3: you should be able to make six figure is if
Speaker 3: they really like are working on their brand. Like you
Speaker 3: guys saw about you got Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, like snap
Speaker 3: There's so many different ways for you to monetize now
Speaker 3: off of your Snapchat.
Speaker 1: But I don't like Snapchat. That let me get a
Speaker 1: loose lap, you know what I'm saying. I don't do
Speaker 1: the snapchat.
Speaker 3: But it's funny because like I don't really I don't
Speaker 3: really go out of my way to like try to
Speaker 3: do all this other stuff. It just comes to me.
Speaker 3: And like here in Nebraska, I would say that's what
Speaker 3: the opportunities are. Just yeah, it's crazy. But this past
Speaker 3: year when NIL started, like I think at Texas, like
Speaker 3: I think after the album both performance in twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: Like I just think all of the people around the
Speaker 3: United States and like the the Texas fans like in Texas,
Speaker 3: like they're offered me and io deals in like July August,
Speaker 3: before I was even named the starter. And you know,
Speaker 3: last year, before I even got to Nebraska, I worked
Speaker 3: with like C four Energy Drink, which is a partner
Speaker 3: with Kimris, Scott, Tip Streets, the Cookie Company.
Speaker 2: Yeah for showing Yeah, Roman, it's like a it's.
Speaker 1: Like as they want to want Yeah, no, they wanted
Speaker 1: to do there.
Speaker 2: They're all hair team, so I did.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you were like, hey, let's keep it to
Speaker 4: just the hair stuff. Let's not go down below the bell.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well actually there's there's rules, and I know you
Speaker 3: can't do certain stuff. It can't be anything including like vice, sex, alcohol.
Speaker 2: What's vice?
Speaker 3: Like like cigarettes like Miami vice, like going to Miami. No,
Speaker 3: just like yeah, like clubs and bars.
Speaker 2: Do what like the.
Speaker 1: NFL actually just changed that stuff too, so like and
Speaker 1: are allowing like alcohol and stuff.
Speaker 2: So you can't do that like that. This is those
Speaker 2: are rules.
Speaker 3: They have rules where you can't work with like any alcohol,
Speaker 3: any substance anything at all. You can't promote like clubs
Speaker 3: and bars and so they have different rules. I would
Speaker 3: say Kim's Scott c four uh, Tip Streets and like
Speaker 3: all the trading card companies last year it was like
Speaker 3: Topsy well yeah right, wild Card, Onyx, all these different
Speaker 3: trails cards.
Speaker 2: You got to sit there and sign for hours. Huh
Speaker 2: yeah bro.
Speaker 1: When I was like getting rid for the draft, I
Speaker 1: think said, I'm weaving twelve K.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you guys have like twelve thousand of these
Speaker 2: little stickers. You're like, okay, yeah, but oh I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna murder this. My rist hurt so damn bad.
Speaker 2: No you're not. I was like, I've never seen twelve
Speaker 2: k before. This is fire. I would try to force
Speaker 2: six figures in college, Bro.
Speaker 3: I would try to force myself to do like at
Speaker 3: least two hundred autographs a day. And yeah, I would
Speaker 3: sit because I was like, when I get home from
Speaker 3: practice or at the before I go to bed, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do one hundred, two hundred a day. I probably
Speaker 3: took almost half the season just signing the autographs, and
Speaker 3: by the end of season, like I had, I sent
Speaker 3: them all back like you talked about, it was like
Speaker 3: two thousand signatures, four thousand signatures, ten thousand signatures, and
Speaker 3: you're like, dang, I didn't realize like how much that is,
Speaker 3: you know, And so that was crazy And so I
Speaker 3: had to do those like I was supposed to be
Speaker 3: doing them and getting them back because they give you
Speaker 3: like thirty days to returning them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you change your signature during it? Yeah, shortened it.
Speaker 2: I did the same write out my whole name, Taylor Lawan.
Speaker 1: I did this TC see you later, and we're like,
Speaker 1: we're on to the next cursive listen.
Speaker 2: I might not be able to read, but I could
Speaker 2: still a little bit, so I had to shorten it.
Speaker 3: But and then since I've been here in Nebraska, Soldier
Speaker 3: Sports they're at omahall.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're phenomenal gear. They sent me a hoodie.
Speaker 3: The material is amazing. Yes, I did a photo.
Speaker 2: Bear yeah, man, which is like an NFT. So I'm
Speaker 2: doing with Soldier Sports. Free shoutouts to Soldier Sports. Yeah,
Speaker 2: shout out to Soldier Sports. And not from us, not
Speaker 2: from us, not from the bus went the boys guys
Speaker 2: from me for sure? No shout out from me for sure.
Speaker 3: And then no, but I laugh about the only fans
Speaker 3: because I got an email like last week after workouts,
Speaker 3: I came looked at my phone. It was like, Casey Thompson,
Speaker 3: would you be interested in joining the only fans and
Speaker 3: monetizing off of your your name and setting your prices
Speaker 3: And They're like you could do workout, instructional videos, quarterback training,
Speaker 3: all online stuff. Yeah, And I was like I showed
Speaker 3: everybody in the locker room, and like for like a
Speaker 3: few days, all the players are like, you're gonna do it,
Speaker 3: You're gonna do it?
Speaker 2: Are you doing it? No? Why not, dude? Because what
Speaker 2: are you allowed to do it? Would you be allowed?
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's like a Craigslist there's like dirty stuff
Speaker 1: on there, but it's not.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be like exclusive content all access, like
Speaker 3: behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: But my whole deal is you got to be the
Speaker 2: first Q who does an only fans account.
Speaker 3: But then I found out I found out from other
Speaker 3: people in the country, like they're obviously emailing other people,
Speaker 3: and all right, I don't think anybody's gonna do it. Well,
Speaker 3: I think it's a compliance rule. Somebody's gonna do.
Speaker 2: It, okay, And then too, if you're allowed to.
Speaker 3: Well, my whole thing is like anytime I see or
Speaker 3: hear about only fans and like it's what we all think. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, it's not doing that right, It's like
Speaker 3: he's talking about it's like having that's how you.
Speaker 4: Get it, that's how the marketing, that's how the promotional
Speaker 4: stuff works, man.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But then like I thought maybe that they wanted
Speaker 3: to offer me a contract like with the company, because
Speaker 3: like you can create your own website, whatever your own prices,
Speaker 3: but then like you can actually get paid by these companies.
Speaker 3: And so I was like, I just told them, like basically,
Speaker 3: what would you be offering me? Like what's the contract?
Speaker 3: Obviously I wasn't going to do it. But they're like,
Speaker 3: oh no, we just wanted you to create your own account.
Speaker 3: Like well, that's not even like I work with real
Speaker 3: companies like you know, Ford the car dealership and you know.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, cut that for sure, due.
Speaker 3: Oh and then and then Kenri Scott all these different companies.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, yeah, I love that. I'm like, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Doing that, but yeah, the only fans they wanted me
Speaker 3: to do it in io deal and some other different
Speaker 3: companies that honestly, like I probably I probably can make
Speaker 3: double just by signing with all these different people, but
Speaker 3: I want to be sworn about, you know, who I'm
Speaker 3: working with and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: How do you balance You've talked about the way athletes
Speaker 4: can build their brands now through all these social platforms.
Speaker 2: Duke's Second Question.
Speaker 4: Suke's Second Question, for sure, brought to you by Duke
Speaker 4: dud Duke's cannon, Duke can the best duke? How do
Speaker 4: you balance that, right, because you'll be going into the season,
Speaker 4: and obviously as a young kid, as a young athlete,
Speaker 4: you're infatuated by signing autographs and making money when you
Speaker 4: know you want to keep the main thing the main thing.
Speaker 4: How do you balance building your brand and also being
Speaker 4: a football player, especially as a student athlete.
Speaker 3: I mean, you just have to prioritize your life and
Speaker 3: your routine. And I think like for me, I use
Speaker 3: the weekends and like the off days like Sundays or
Speaker 3: Mondays to really like get on the phone with companies
Speaker 3: or email or you know, if I have to go
Speaker 3: do like a guest appearance or a photo shoot, like
Speaker 3: I'll do it on a weekend where there's like a
Speaker 3: day of no football, like you know, there's nothing on
Speaker 3: the schedule, you know, stuff like that, or even like
Speaker 3: if I need to leave.
Speaker 2: So what I do now?
Speaker 3: Like my routine now here in Nebraska, Like I've kind
Speaker 3: of figured out how to do that because last year
Speaker 3: everyone was new to it. I was just kind of navigating,
Speaker 3: like how much to do?
Speaker 2: You're kind of ready to hoar yourself out for all
Speaker 2: of it. Like this money.
Speaker 3: Like companies would ask me like what's your price for,
Speaker 3: like you know, what would you be willing to come
Speaker 3: do for a photos? Like I didn't know anything. And
Speaker 3: after you get down the phone with like NFL players
Speaker 3: and I signed with athletes first their agency and they
Speaker 3: got like Justin Fields and Jalen Ramsey, Deshaun Watson and
Speaker 3: kind of hanging around those guys when they would come
Speaker 3: to Austin and we would just hang out and talk
Speaker 3: and I would do, you know, photo shoots and I
Speaker 3: watched him. I went to like Jordan Love and uh,
Speaker 3: what's the receiver name? I went to Jordan Love and
Speaker 3: Justin Fields like they're C four and they're Madden shoots
Speaker 3: and kind of just talking and hang out with those
Speaker 3: guys and seeing like what they what they charged and stuff,
Speaker 3: and like I was like, okay, well talking to my
Speaker 3: agent and stuff, I'm like, well, here's what I charge,
Speaker 3: and here's like how many companies I work with or
Speaker 3: so kind of like signing with them help me out
Speaker 3: a lot, and then kind of knowing what to do
Speaker 3: and so now here in Nebraska, like I'll know like
Speaker 3: how much or what's too much or what's too little
Speaker 3: like I'm not gonna go do something unless it's for
Speaker 3: a good cause.
Speaker 2: Like I'll always go.
Speaker 3: Talk to kids or go to a high school or
Speaker 3: you know, go surprise somebody at a daycare, Like I'll
Speaker 3: do that for free. But when it comes to like business,
Speaker 3: like you're talking about me driving and going out of
Speaker 3: my way or like breaking my football routine, my daily
Speaker 3: regimen to go do something for in il, to me,
Speaker 3: it's not worth it unless it's you know, for the
Speaker 3: right right reason or the right cost. And so I
Speaker 3: mean I get up at like five am, I go
Speaker 3: to bed and finish my day, like I study film
Speaker 3: all the way to like ten pm at night, and
Speaker 3: I have stuff that I do in between them, like
Speaker 3: everything's written down, and so I dedicate basically like business
Speaker 3: in io deals or like zoom calls. I do that
Speaker 3: between one and five usually, But I really don't like
Speaker 3: to honestly, Like when they told me that you guys
Speaker 3: are coming, I thought you were supposed to come tomorrow
Speaker 3: on March eleventh. We're here both days, yeah, and we'll
Speaker 3: be at practicable but we fly out tomorrow, okay. And
Speaker 3: then they told me that you guys are going to
Speaker 3: be here and then they're like, would you want to
Speaker 3: do that?
Speaker 2: Yes or no?
Speaker 3: Like honestly, like I didn't even realize that you are
Speaker 3: you already here until I saw all this setup, Like
Speaker 3: I was getting ready to go back and finish my
Speaker 3: routine for the day, like and so, but it's good
Speaker 3: to take a break too, because it helps me out
Speaker 3: mentally kind of just like take a break and not
Speaker 3: legit and be either studying, getting treatment or watching film
Speaker 3: all day. Like I'll take a break between like two
Speaker 3: and five and do nil stuff or like weekends or
Speaker 3: off days.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you coming on, dude.
Speaker 1: I apprecire you noticing that we're set up and being
Speaker 1: like all right, today's day.
Speaker 2: Appreciate Yeah, I appreciate you giving us the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty epic and nil stuff, dude, that's cool
Speaker 1: as shit. I wish we had that when we were
Speaker 1: planning for sure. Yeah, but take advantage of that, dude.
Speaker 2: It's fun.
Speaker 1: But take it as an advantage to learn, like the
Speaker 1: business part and like how you can now set up
Speaker 1: businesses when you're in the NFL, Right, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do with that money to make sure that money
Speaker 1: makes you money?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I'm not looking at it as a more
Speaker 3: like how can I get rich quick? I'm looking at
Speaker 3: more of like you said, how can I become a businessman,
Speaker 3: How can I build my brand?
Speaker 2: How can I be.
Speaker 3: Around other millionaires and billionaires and like see what makes
Speaker 3: them successful? And how can I become a professional in
Speaker 3: this space of like working with companies and brands and
Speaker 3: like it just makes you definitely grow up and become
Speaker 3: you know, mature really fast. And then I signed with
Speaker 3: Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and like they they they've definitely
Speaker 3: taught me a lot about like taxes and finances and
Speaker 3: accounting and like I now I know that kind of
Speaker 3: the ins and outs.
Speaker 2: And also learned from my brother.
Speaker 3: Who played in the NFL for three or four years,
Speaker 3: Like you know about all the taxes and the fees
Speaker 3: and everything costs money, like everything traveling. Even if somebody
Speaker 3: gives you a free car. This is what I learned
Speaker 3: through in IO. If I hand you a free car
Speaker 3: as a dealership, like I still got to fill out.
Speaker 2: And turn that into the government, so you're going to
Speaker 2: get tax on that. It's not free.
Speaker 3: Like that blew my mind because I'm like I thought
Speaker 3: everything was free.
Speaker 2: It's something that was free. I thought it was free,
Speaker 2: but they're like, no, you gotta five taxes. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a lot of learning.
Speaker 4: But good luck to you, bro, And I'm I know
Speaker 4: you're going into your last year and everything, and obviously
Speaker 4: we're stoked that you're in Nebraska, but good luck to you.
Speaker 4: And I appreciate you again, We appreciate you for taking
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 2: No problem.
Speaker 3: And then I actually have a I have an extra
Speaker 3: year since like the COVID thing, if I want to
Speaker 3: come back.
Speaker 2: Oh for real, for the next year. Will we ball
Speaker 2: go in the NFL? So don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: Getting Big Ten Championship or Big Ten Championship runner up
Speaker 1: to Michigan and then to the NFL.
Speaker 2: We're talking first round, picky, Yeah, h
Speaker 1: M hm