WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Dr. Wes Bellamy and B. Daht Talk ‘Black College Invitational Championship’ + More 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:05.360 Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club morning. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.320 Everybody is d J n V. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:08.320 Just hilarious. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.280 Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. You got 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.639 some special guest joining us. We got the brother doctor 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:14.600 West Bellamy, and we got beat out here. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.560 Welcome, what's what's happening? Thanks for having man, Thanks for 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.040 having us. We really appreciate it. Y'all are bringing a 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.240 basketball tournament back to Charlotte. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.200 To Charlotte, HEAs no disrespect to see I double a. Yeah, 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.160 but it was better than Charlotte. No respect the ball. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.800 What part like, the party scene was better, but the 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.080 games were not being attended. That was the biggest problem 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.520 with it being in Charlotte. Nobody comes to the games. Yeah, 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.760 like everybody out at the day parties turning up, but 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:44.280 ain't nobody in there seeing Johnson C. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:49.080 Smith gets smacked by Winston Sandem state. I think about 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:50.720 the fact, I. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.879 Think times have change for HBCU sports, and I think 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.240 that was the time when people didn't necessarily really go 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.400 for the sports. Now more and more people are going 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.960 to the sports there, they're broadcasting games more so I 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.520 think if they bring it back to Charlotte, I think 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.360 it'll be a lot different. I just think the Charlotte, 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.960 that whole vibe and that whole scene was a lot better. 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.000 It was fun and you got to see so many 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:10.680 different people. I just don't get that from DMV and 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:12.679 I went last year. I just didn't feel that the same. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.200 Well on, we won't shout out show love to Mayor 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.160 Brandon Scott in Baltimore and our partners over at Van 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:19.160 Wagoner and SEAAA. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.520 I know they're doing their best in Baltimore. I was 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:22.080 there this year. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:23.039 I had a good time. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:24.479 I thought they did really well. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.840 But that's also to your points why we're bringing this 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.880 new tournament, the Black College Invitational Championship, to Charlotte, our 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.000 own tournament started by you, specifically for us, the Black 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.040 College Invitational Championship. We don't have to beg or ask 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.120 anybody else to do anything for our HBCUs. We started 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.520 this endeavor to do this specifically for us. We'll take 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.840 care of all the fees, we pay for travel, lodging. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.480 Every team that comes to participate in the tournament, we 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.720 give them an entry fee, and then the winning schools 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.559 get twenty five thousand dollars and this is all led 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.040 by us put together by us, So we need everybody 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:57.640 to come out of support. Yeah, Trump Gon sign inn 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.560 executive order no fundation Carolina. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.600 And that's different from the n C Double A too, 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.480 because like teams have to pay to go to the 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.000 n C Double A or pay to go to the 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:09.959 n I T and stuff like that. So for Wes 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.480 to put in a situation where that b C i 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.200 C actually pays the schools to come, like, that's different 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:15.600 right there. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.000 What you just said was actually that's true because all 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.720 those years that it was in Charlotte cub A, I 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:22.760 literally only. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.240 Went for the party you number went to one day. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:26.080 Definitely true. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:27.799 So what's up? You're coming to Charlotte this shiit is 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:28.080 the game. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:31.840 I'm coming. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.440 To get together to do this. How did y'all so 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:37.920 so one? 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.600 This is an idea that that I have along with 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.760 my my real good brother Russell Stewart. We've been talking 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.680 about this for about a year and some change. A 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.680 real quick backstory, it's gonna sound crazy. We were we 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.239 were on a social media platform that shall not be named, 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.400 and we saw a bunch of people complaining that a 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.760 particular school in Norfolk State didn't get into the n 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.880 C double A tournament. They didn't get a large bid 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.160 after having a phenomenal season, and folks were saying, man, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.119 damn like the NC DOUAA, they never give HBCUs more 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.760 than one school. We never get more than one bid. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:10.480 We need to have our own tournament. So I hit 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.400 my friend Josh runs this thing called HBCU nightly shout 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.480 out to Josh and was like, Yo, man, we need 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.880 to do our own tournament. So we were talking and 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.160 things kind of fizzled out, and Yo, this sounds wild. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.040 I had a dream in December of twenty twenty three. 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:24.959 I was telling be die. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.440 When I woke up, it was like God telling me, yo, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.200 go do the tournament. Wow. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.680 And woke up, made some calls and we started putting 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.320 everything together and lo and behold, less than a year later, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:37.520 we had the tournament. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:37.800 Now. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.800 I used to I live in Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, and 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.120 was traveling back and forth to Charlotte and I would 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.280 always hear this one particular voice on the radio. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:48.800 Yo, then this sounds crazy. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.960 I was telling him I will always hear his voice 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.120 on the radio when I was traveling through on this 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:54.720 particular station that shall not. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.240 Be named yeah, that's how we rocked. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.640 So I said, Yo, when we were talking for us 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.760 with them together, people were like, well, yo, we need 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.240 to get this personal host of this personal host. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.240 And I'm like, nah, we gotta get this dude. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.000 B Dot, the dude that was on the Beyonce record, 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.800 the dude that's known as the mister Voice of North Carolina. 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:13.400 So when I hit him up and was like, bro, 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.000 we need to have you on board, he was like, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.480 you know, I'm everything HBCU. He attended was to Salem 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.760 State University. I attended South Carolina State University and Virginia 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:21.599 State University. 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:22.599 So we're all. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.719 HBCU everything, And I mean it's it's really been a 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:25.559 match made in heaven. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.080 You know that, you know, you know you do the podcast. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.360 I didn't know maybe you didn't either. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.440 I want to say thank y'all for playing that in 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.320 February every day, Like seriously, thank y'all, Charlamagne, and just 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:37.120 like appreciate it. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.400 A lot of things that people don't know that you 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:40.920 put them on to you, you know what I mean. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.000 But you know what I like about that podcast is you. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.640 Tell people about things that they may or may not 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.200 know about black history. So tell us the history of 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.120 the bc C, but I never even heard of it, honestly, 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.279 And tell y'all did this yeah tournament and you won't 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.440 because this is the first of his calling you did. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.080 You know what I'm saying, Like again, West told you, like 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.200 this is his brain child and the idea that we 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.760 don't have a space to celebrate HBCUs after our SWACK 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.159 tournament or CI DOUBLEA tournament or MEAC tournament. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.920 We don't have anywhere else. So an opportunity to have 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:14.880 HBCUs come to a NC double A type environment like 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:16.400 this is the genesis of it. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:17.560 This is the history of it. 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.719 Right now, we're all participating in the history of the 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.960 bci C. Last year, again the thoughts were coming to 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.880 fruition and having conversations with the appropriate people at the 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:28.760 different conferences. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.360 It's a lot of legwork that had to go into this. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.560 You got to get signed off from the NC double A, 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.839 you got to get signed off from each individual conferences. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.919 There were certain conferences that wanted payments, and it was 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.960 just a lot going on. So to have it in 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.760 a space now where we're actually here, like less than 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.839 three weeks away, like this is the genesis of the 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.960 bci C. So I'm just excited to be a part 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.239 of this black history and bringing something like this to Charlotte. 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.400 So you didn't go to DSU, I'm sorry, did you 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:51.960 go to DSU? 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.240 Now? I went to Winster Salem State where you saw DSU. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:54.919 What's DSU? 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:57.719 Yeah? 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.599 Yeah, Lauren, think you talk about be dot from. 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:03.560 The time. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.120 You list. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.279 I'm like she said that was just like you know, 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.800 it was like for your information be that went to d. 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.279 S U too, But she probably was talking about Brian 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.720 Miller and I know that beat out to. It's a 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.760 lot of punctuation guys out here in these streets. Yeah, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.000 but I know I know as well now, but I 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.600 went to Winston Salem State University class of two thousand 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:24.880 and six. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.279 Yeah, she thinks he talking about. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.920 Other understand them. He just want to mess with Lauren. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.640 But how difficult is it to get the schools involved, right? 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.360 Because I DJ a lot of the HBCU events, specially 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.440 I like the rivalries, right, the rivalries a lot better 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.240 because it's like you always see the Howard Hampton. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:41.640 You always see the Hampton Norfolk. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:46.359 You'll see uh Morgan and Howard and you'll see family 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.159 in this one. So the rivalries are good because it 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.320 gets the people involved, But how are you going to 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.200 make sure fans come out and actually want to come 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:52.680 to these games? 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.600 Because you said it's so difficult. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:55.720 And a lot of times we don't get depressed, we 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.320 don't get the TV time, we don't get a lot 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.880 of those things where people don't necessarily find out about it. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.560 And that's why I like North Carolina too. I think 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.120 a lot of colleges, especially HBCUs are in the South. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.160 That's it's easier for people to get there. So how 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:07.880 are you gonna make sure that people get to these 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:09.440 games and these colleges get there as well? 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:10.720 Well. We got a couple of ways. 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.440 We have a wide variety of different in game entertainment 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.160 opportunities for people, different theme nights. I mean, we got 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.840 a Welcome to Charlotte Knight on the first day. When 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.800 we're looking at I mean, this is the first time 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.240 ever you're seeing different conferences playing each other in a 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.680 postseason tournament. So we're thinking that that's also going to 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.920 drive attention to the games. When you have the MIAC 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.240 versus Swag and then you have the Ciba versus SEC. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.400 Like you again, you've never seen that. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:39.200 And this is our first postseason basketball tournament, and we know, 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.840 like we can't west our Laurel solely on people just 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.440 coming to see the basketball games. So we have several 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.560 of the games hosted by Nolimon Larry. Shout out to 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.840 Nolimon Larry Charlotte. He's gonna be hosting the games on 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.240 Thursday and Friday afternoon and in Friday evening, Saturday and 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.920 Sunday for the championship games, we got b dot in games. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:01.400 We have performances, HBCU bands will be participate, paiding giveaways, 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.560 and then it's a whole week of events. So Tuesday 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.240 we're kicking it off for the golf tournament. Wednesday, we 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.920 have an HBCU Sustainability Summit with HBCU presidents from across 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.560 the country, followed by an empowerment lunching that'll be hosted 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.640 to buy some really cool folks, including the Durant Family Foundation. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.800 Shout out to doctor Yanda Durant and Mama Durant. Then 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.840 Thursday through Sunday we have the games. We also have 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.840 an educational Day, so we'll be having High School Education 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.440 Day with one thousand high school scholars from the Greater 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.880 Charlotte area coming on Thursday, about another thousand on that Friday, 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.199 and then we have a step show, a culminating event 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:33.160 on Sunday evening. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.920 So again like it's not just about the games. But 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:37.559 make no mistake about it. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.400 If I got one shot at this, if people don't 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.880 come and support this year, there will be no year two. 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.160 We got a one year agreement with the City of Charlotte, 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.040 is kind of a proven year, yo, Wes. If you 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.079 can pull us off and we make it what it's 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.640 supposed to be, then we'll be able to do something 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.320 moving forward. But if we don't, then there will be 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:56.960 no year too. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:57.640 So all the. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.320 Parties, it's a trial, all the parties, all the day parties, 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.679 the night parties, all the things that individuals are saying 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.120 that they want to come for, Like, oh, that's cool. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.120 But if you only go to those things and we 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.000 don't come to the games and we don't sell tickets, 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.000 we don't put bus in seats, we don't have a 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.479 safe weekend, we don't have people come in purchase hotels, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.960 then we will not have a year two. So we 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.280 always talk about like us needing a seat at the table, 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.280 but yo, we're building our own table. We don't need 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.120 anybody else to do anything for us. But when we 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:27.800 do build this. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.480 Table, come eat with your own. And that's what we're 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:31.240 asking everybody to do. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:32.400 No, no, you good. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.920 I was just gonna just say that they have a 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.800 system in place where they're selecting schools, but I hope 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.040 politically they do it like where they get schools that 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.560 are in that area so that fans of that school. 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.840 You did know what I'm saying, Like because North Carolina 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.840 Central is like lower in the me ACT, but that's 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.559 a team that if they were in the bcl C, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:49.360 folks are. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.480 Going to come to that. You did know what I'm saying. Customers, 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:52.480 I know. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:54.880 Points, But I'm. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.040 This the fanet you have to do that. You did 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:58.560 know what I'm saying. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.080 So like I hope, I definitely hope that it's attended 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:02.600 the way that it should be, so this can be 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:03.560 the beginning of something. 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:04.400 I'm huge. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.199 How did y'all even get the teams to participate, Like 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.120 because it's the first time tournament, Like a lot of 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:09.520 schools be like, I'm cool on. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:10.640 That even get participant. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.720 So, uh, there's a selection process. So what we're doing 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.959 is after every conference tournament. The CE double A just finished. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.160 The sai C is this weekend, So after every conference tournament, 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.800 we'll be talking to teams who finished in the top 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.520 quadrant and then uh, those individuals are incentivized to come. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.040 So again, we give you five thousand dollars for participating 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.680 in the tournament. We cover all food, travel, lodging, and 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.160 we're giving you a first class experience. Postseason basketball for 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.200 those who don't win their conference tournament is non existent 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.120 for us, so it's only incentivized for our season to 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.360 continue and then to be a part of something in 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:45.959 Charlotte where a lot of people want to be back 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.160 in that city, and then doing something for the culture. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.800 It wasn't really hard. As I've been talking to presidents. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:56.240 And adsly, i just want to say, I just want 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:56.720 to say this. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.920 No, I'm not I'm going to give you your prose because well, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.960 this has been boots on the ground of this. Like 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.960 when you asked that question, Charloamne, He's had to talk 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.560 to every single head of every the SIEC, the SWACK, 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.280 the CI double A, the MEAC, the NC double A 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.079 like get signed up. So to answer your question, the 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.959 first answer that will be connections, like the way he's 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.320 connected to so many different individuals. The people that can 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.840 go in rooms that he couldn't go into and speak 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.480 for him on behalf of the bci C. Now, yes, 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.520 all the things he's saying is one hundred percent correct, 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.520 but how do we get teams to sign off connections? 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.480 The fact that he knows certain people and he was 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.160 able to talk to them, that was able to because 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.600 certain people wouldn't even listen and he had to have 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.040 certain conversations with other people to come. You know what 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.080 I'm saying, Like, so cash, credit or connections, you always 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.560 want them connections and he has those. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.040 Y'all got a step show two right? Greek Fraternity? 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.840 Yeah, so it's the first ever b c C Step show. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.160 So this is the first ever interconference step show. So 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.080 you know, you often have step shows and it's like 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.480 just bring the best Greek teams, but these are going 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.319 to be participating Greek teams and or step show teams 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.079 from the different conferences be competing for the b c 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.319 C Championship. So everything is not only built around competition, 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:05.760 but including. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:06.640 All four of our conferences. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.920 Like so for example, when you you go to let's 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.480 say you go to the Hampton right or you go 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.600 to Morgan State, you don't necessarily interact with people from 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.600 Grambling or from Miles College. Uh if you if you 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.560 went to Clark Atlanta, you're not necessarily interacting with folks 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.679 from Delaware State for example, Like. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:34.439 Nobody that they do, Amni Jackson. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.400 I'm saying, but again, it's all about really bringing these 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:41.520 conferences together and having an opportunity for our student athletes, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.360 students and an alumni more than anything else, to be 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.320 able to intertwine with each other is what it's all about. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.160 That's how we build culture, and in this era right now, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.600 more than any other, we have to make sure we 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.720 build with each other, which means we got to spend 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.280 time with each other, We got to do things with 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.040 each other. We gotta play against each other, we got 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.360 to compete against each other, We spend money with each other. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.320 And I think that's all going to enhance us as 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.319 we move forward. We more than enough, you know, I 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.360 think about how you know on joy Reads last night, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.360 everybody gathered around and she ended up having the number 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.240 one showing her demo twenty five to fifty four, Like, then. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:14.640 Why were we even doing that? The last five years 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:14.880 for her. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:15.200 Yeah. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.800 Yeah, it's like we're more than enough. You just got 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.760 to show up. Yeah, and that's what it's about. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.720 Let me ask you, so a lot of these conferences 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.040 in these money is the biggest thing. Yeah, has sponsors 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.319 came in or with sponsors a difficult thing? Oh no, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.520 it's been difficult. Made The biggest sponsor that came in 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.360 and supported you right away that that you could sell. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.360 The biggest sponsor's been Black Voters Matter, which really yeah, yeah, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.360 ironically shout out to my man Cliff and Tasha. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.280 About only sold the companies that sponsored everything else and 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.400 these these liquor companies that sponsor these companies. I mean, 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:52.480 he's closes the companies because I see them sponsor everything else, right. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.880 And they have been very slow quiet to come and 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.360 to sponsor this. Just being completely honest with you, that 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.480 doesn't mean it's not going to happen. Obviously, with three 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.520 weeks out, it's gonna happen. It's gonna be a first 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:03.640 class event. But to be. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.800 Yeah, no, not for real, like we haven't. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.719 But we haven't had we haven't had a lot of 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.520 the support that you will see with traditional entities. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.360 We're not the acc we're not the SEC. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:21.560 Tournament budget absolutely correct, which is even more so while 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.600 we're saying we need folks to come out to the games, 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.920 because this is really, i mean pretty much half the 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.680 tournament I've been paying for out of pocket. Uh like 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:31.760 we and this is a I'm not gonna say the 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.000 amount because I'll be in court, but but. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.240 But this is this is a this is. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.920 A very heavy endeavor in which we've had to put 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.800 on and we haven't had the sponsorship support in what 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.360 you see again from other entities, which is part of 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.720 why we appreciate y'all for having us up here. I'm sorry, 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:47.400 just you. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.440 Yeah, I was about to do you have a really 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:50.680 really dope videographer? 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:51.040 Yeah? 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.200 Yeah, yeah, man, Because how you got to do it 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.160 is you got to package it a certain way. You 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.960 got to make it look like something that somebody want 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.720 to get. And to nb's point, they are supposed to 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.360 be honestly like not quiet about giving money, and sponsors 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.800 supposed to be coming out out the ass cheeks for this. 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:11.000 But you gotta like package that it's real nice, like 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.360 market it and have like the dopest I'm talking about, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.680 really really dope videographers do every day like you may, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:22.040 especially that Step show. That Step show is going excite people. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:36.680 That sounds like I could do that budget the work then. 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:41.280 But now I see this being really really big and 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.640 that's how you get the dos and you know, not 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:45.640 even just liquor. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:46.080 But the. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.800 We've had conversations. I'm saying, you know, we would love 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:52.840 to follow up. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.920 Because they're doing the rebranded damn. So they need just 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:56.880 as much as y'all need. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:57.600 We got to give. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.320 We got to give. Credible credit is due. We have 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.680 a really sponsorship on We're partner with Van Wagner. Van 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.640 Wagner is the group that runs a C double A. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.520 They produced a Super Bowl shout out to my man, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.120 Julius and Brandon in the back. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.880 They've been they've been really really helpful. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.520 But I would I wouldn't be lying if I didn't 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.800 say that again, we haven't received the same amount of 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:16.800 support as others. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.960 Either clothing, Jersey, whether it's Pulm or night Yeah. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:23.600 I mean we've literally had conversations with all of these entities. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.239 Well we have sometimes people. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:29.000 Want to see it done, but I always say, with 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.760 all these companies me, so we deal with these sponsorships 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:32.120 and companies. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:32.720 It's difficult. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.560