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Speaker 1: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, happy happy Championship Saturday.

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Speaker 2: This is Project N I l my man, Danny the Bernardinas,

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Speaker 2: Danny d Dad. I'm Anthony Gargano, your resident sports dad.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Danny Dad, at.

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Speaker 4: What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Because how we doing? Baby? Good? Good?

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Speaker 2: We got This is a sad time for me, I know, man,

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Speaker 2: because this is it, man like Championship Saturday, and then

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Speaker 2: next week sucks because it's like, God blessed. I love

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Speaker 2: the Army Navy game, but you know, it's the end

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Speaker 2: of the season. Man, it's it. And then we got ball.

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Speaker 2: I love the bowl season, but then it starts to

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Speaker 2: whittle down the one by one by one, and we

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Speaker 2: have winded down the last full Saturday was last weekend

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Speaker 2: of college football.

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Speaker 3: And big news this week. Signing Day.

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Speaker 2: Occurred this week Danny Day, and it was it was

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Speaker 2: a rousing signing day.

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Speaker 5: It's it's wild and how it's how it's evolved over

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Speaker 5: the last couple of years. Man, it's it's a new game.

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Speaker 4: It's a new game.

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Speaker 5: It's not as simple as uh, just picking a hat

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Speaker 5: off the table anymore. Right, there's a lot more factors.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot more that's going into it. There's so

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Speaker 5: many different angles that are happening.

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Speaker 4: So it's crazy. It's a crazy environment right now.

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Speaker 3: So it really was.

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Speaker 2: It was just you know, it's it's it is crazy

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Speaker 2: every big school jocking.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look what happened with Penn State.

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Speaker 2: Right, Penn State finally gets its coach, Matt Campbell from

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Speaker 2: Iowa State, long time, very good coach goes to Penn State,

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Speaker 2: but you know, to forever and they got like three recruits.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's difficult with the uncertainty, right,

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Speaker 5: I know, kids who were committed there and you know,

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Speaker 5: just the uncertainty and nothing's promised when there's not a

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Speaker 5: head coach in place. Right, there's a lot of hey,

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Speaker 5: ninety five percent, everything's good, but there's still that five percent.

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Speaker 4: We got to wait to.

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Speaker 5: See this new coach come in, so we can't you know,

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Speaker 5: the financials we promised you, or even this spot we

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Speaker 5: promise you is not really fully guaranteed until we have

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Speaker 5: that new head guy. So you know, you can't blame

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Speaker 5: kids for not committing. They're going to be extremely extremely

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Speaker 5: active on January second, when that portal opens because they're

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Speaker 5: gonna have to build a roster out. So it's going

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Speaker 5: to be very interesting to see how how Matt Campbell.

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Speaker 4: And his new staff that he's gonna have to put.

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Speaker 5: Together very quickly can corral all these guys who are

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Speaker 5: part of the portal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you still have a cap to work with, Like,

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Speaker 2: you still got to go and work with it, and

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Speaker 2: you know, some kind of money gets straight. Like I'm

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Speaker 2: sure you'll get help and you'll have, you know, addition,

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Speaker 2: very fun just to try to help you. But you know,

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Speaker 2: it's still still gonna be tough to put it on

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Speaker 2: the roster of free agents.

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Speaker 3: And basically that's the world we live.

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Speaker 2: We live in a free agent world, and this is

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Speaker 2: what they're gonna have to do. They're gonna they're gonna

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Speaker 2: have to put together a team of free agents. I guess,

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Speaker 2: you know, you canna make the argument that you bring

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Speaker 3: It's more like a free a kid to the NFL

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Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of I mean, it's the difficult, difficult,

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Speaker 5: it's a difficult time. And you know, we touched on

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Speaker 5: the lame thing last week. We were unsure what he

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Speaker 3: Was, Yeah, he's gonna end up. It was you.

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Speaker 5: But part of that is, you know, I've read a

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Speaker 4: Also getting the top portal guys as well.

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Speaker 5: And I from what I've read, that was a big

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Speaker 2: While, like what makes LSU better than you know, Florida, right,

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Speaker 3: Like when we look at when we.

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Speaker 2: Look at these top programs, it's bizarre how a pecking

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Speaker 2: what makes LSU better than Florida, Right, but LSU clearly

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think facility, Right, how many people you play

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Speaker 5: So I think there's a little to some other factors,

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Speaker 5: Like the facilities is a big part when you're recruiting, right,

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Speaker 5: they dominate in state. Louisiana has so much talent in state.

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Speaker 5: They do not let the top talent leave the state.

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Speaker 5: And in Florida it's probably more talent, but a lot

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 5: They have a stranglehold on Louisiana where they're going to

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Speaker 5: get the top three kids every single year. The number

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Speaker 5: he's committed to LSU.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 5: They do a phenomenal job of keeping those guys in state. Facilities, money,

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Speaker 5: their stadiums, alsome. I've been there before. Me and my

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Speaker 5: Stop at LSU it's an hour from New Orleans, so

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, why is it such.

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Speaker 5: More of a lord than those other schools you mentioned?

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Speaker 2: You look at you know, like a Penn State that

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Speaker 2: you know, I get you know, obviously was born out

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Speaker 2: That situation was handled one coach.

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Speaker 3: You have to coach.

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Speaker 2: And you know what was wild is the Penn State

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Speaker 4: Yeah, unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: People were saying pack Craft is, if he's interested in you,

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Speaker 4: Because he was he was getting everyone an.

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Speaker 5: Extension he possibly could. And yeah, I didn't fully understand it.

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Speaker 5: I understand, like why people want to stay where they're at.

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Speaker 5: They're happy, they're comfortable. I get all that, but I

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Speaker 4: A great deal to stay.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I didn't fully understand why people weren't so

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Speaker 4: But man, if he was interested in you, you got paid.

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Speaker 4: At the end of the day.

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Speaker 5: There was millions and millions of extensions being thrown around.

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Speaker 2: Wild man, right, like just completely wild stuff that was

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Speaker 3: To explain it.

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Speaker 2: But the big news is that five star quarterback Jared

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Speaker 2: to Vanderbilt. It was wild. I mean it's had to be.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Three years ago, it was before before

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Speaker 2: this this incredible comeback, somebody was telling me about we

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Speaker 3: From a past tense.

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Speaker 2: They were looked at like they will never be able

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Speaker 2: like why even be in the conference?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and now look at him. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: Dude, I'll be a fact baby, right yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean, and he stayed right. He could have got

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Speaker 5: but he stayed loyal. And I mean they're right there.

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Speaker 5: I mean then I love how they're talking. They're saying, hey,

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Speaker 5: and it's like we'll go anywhere. They're Ad and coach

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Speaker 5: and I mean they're not dodging it. They want everything,

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Speaker 5: building a great culture to keep a lot of those

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Speaker 5: guys in this era where you know, I'm sure they

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Speaker 5: were a lord to many other schools in this offseason

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Speaker 5: in the past couple off seasons, and you know, credit

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Speaker 5: just they just flipped the number one quarterback who's committed

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Speaker 4: I mean, goge it.

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Speaker 2: So Jared Curtis in June was going to was going

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Speaker 2: with the system. You know, if you're committing, there's got

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Speaker 2: to be a period where you just can't poach players.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the idea concept of poaching guys that have

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Speaker 2: already committed. I'm just uncomfortable with the whole thing.

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Speaker 5: And so talking about signing day, this is the big

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Speaker 5: the biggest changes on signing day. Are you see a

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Speaker 5: lot of reclasses up for the one percent right because

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Speaker 5: they want to get paid faster, and that middle everyone's

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Speaker 5: reclassing back the middle and back they want them extra

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Speaker 5: year of experience, right, So you're seeing reclassification both ways

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Speaker 5: is higher than ever. If you're in that top five,

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Speaker 5: top ten, top twenty percent player in the country, you're

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Speaker 5: looking to go up. You might say, hey, I'm a junior.

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Speaker 5: I want to be a senior because I want this money. Right,

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Speaker 5: this anil money now for everybodybody else with the transferportal,

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Speaker 5: people are saying, hey, I need an extra year because

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Speaker 3: Would you tweak this?

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Speaker 5: It was never to this scale where kids are decommitting

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Speaker 4: At a rapid pace that we've never seen before.

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Speaker 2: That's it's it's just not It's not the whole world

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring this up to you.

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Speaker 2: I want to bring this up to you because it's

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Speaker 2: So, so mu's to do. It's Project ni l every week.

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Speaker 2: Oh, welcome back Project Ni l A d Danny Di Bernadinas.

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Speaker 4: It's the best time of the year. Man, Hollidays are great.

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Speaker 5: Family, get everyone, yeah, you know, get together.

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Speaker 4: Has a great time, man.

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Speaker 2: I don't want what's gonna happen to all this stuff,

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Speaker 5: so people out there that don't know. Their early signing

440
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 5: days this year were December third to December fifth. The

441
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 5: Transfer Portal officially opens January second, So the bowgue our

442
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,560
Speaker 5: playoff system is just starting then.

443
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:22,159
Speaker 3: So you had jad wants right, you know.

444
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you're putting these kids.

445
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:28,200
Speaker 5: Who may be a backup, who may have like starting potential,

446
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 5: but he's behind somebody. He has to make a decision

447
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 5: whether to stick with his team or leave. And for coaches, right,

448
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 5: this was a big reason why Lane.

449
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 4: Had to leave when he left.

450
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,439
Speaker 5: I don't like how he handled the whole situation, but

451
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,679
Speaker 5: he had to leave because January second.

452
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,800
Speaker 4: The portals open. They need to know who the coach is, right,

453
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 4: So there's no way around it.

454
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 5: If they put it after the bull season and transfer portal, right,

455
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 5: a lot of this heartache that we're or seeing through

456
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 5: these fan bases wouldn't occur and there wouldn't be as

457
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 5: much now. The reason for the January second date of

458
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 5: the portal opening is because they want it to end

459
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 5: by the days the first day of school starting back up,

460
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 5: which usually around January eighteenth of January twenty first, that's

461
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 5: the first day of classes for a lot of the schools,

462
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 5: so they want everyone registered. So that's the pushback of NCAA,

463
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,360
Speaker 5: but with online classes.

464
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 2: Because it is a in the end, it is a university. Right,

465
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 2: it's higher learning.

466
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:39,200
Speaker 3: Dude. Here's hell thing. My nephew's going to Virginia Tech.

467
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 2: Right, He's got a lot of classes online.

468
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 3: What sets does that he lives in Blacksburg? What sense

469
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 3: does that make? Oh?

470
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 4: It's wild.

471
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 5: I mean I know a high profile player in college

472
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 5: basketball right now, and he told me he has not

473
00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 5: been on campus yet just for practice.

474
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 4: He doesn't.

475
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,360
Speaker 5: He does six week classes at the time, so he's

476
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 5: breaking them out. He does six week online classes.

477
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 4: He doesn't. He hasn't stepped foot in a classroom in

478
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 4: the last two years.

479
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 3: I don't know how I feel about that. Yeah, I don't.

480
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 5: I don't really like for me, I needed I'm much

481
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,200
Speaker 5: more of a better in person learner. I don't comprehend

482
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 5: it off. It's just online. I like to have interaction

483
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 5: and conversation.

484
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 4: But I mean, that's that's the world, man, It's.

485
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 3: No, it is Listen.

486
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,120
Speaker 2: It started during COVID, which is you know. I hate

487
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 2: that the anti social I want to just sit in

488
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 2: my pajamas and be in my you know bedroom at class,

489
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 2: Like did you take your butt to class?

490
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: Man?

491
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.

492
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 2: I hate the old school, but like it's better, you know,

493
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 2: we need social interaction. Like I worry about these kids

494
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 2: because you know, they're isolated so much. They don't spend

495
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,120
Speaker 2: enough time together. I even see the way my kids

496
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 2: to the way, like they're not hanging with their friends

497
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 2: every weekend, right, they are on video games through all together.

498
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 2: And I hear them laughing. I'm like, all right, but

499
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 2: like they don't in my old stuff. It'll go out,

500
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 2: you know a little bit, but not like the way

501
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 2: we did. We were always together.

502
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 5: They're losing their social skills, you know, they're it's it's

503
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 5: just it's a sad It's not it's not I won't say sad,

504
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 5: but it's definitely different.

505
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 4: And it's definite I don't love for sure.

506
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 5: I would much prefer more interaction with people want to

507
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,719
Speaker 5: want and not through a screen or through a microphone.

508
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 5: And you know, have these kids outside. It's just a

509
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 5: different world. And you know it's changed, its changing rapidly,

510
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 5: and COVID did play a big part of it, right

511
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 5: because they understood they can have all these different type

512
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 5: of interactions without having to leave their house.

513
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 4: Right, So yeah, it's crazy.

514
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 2: I mean look at sports right, like, and this has

515
00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 2: changed for somebody like you, everything's organized like, so the

516
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 2: youth sports is all organized like, they don't ever play.

517
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 2: Rarely do I see kids out there playing themselves where

518
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 2: they're you know, let's play with you know, handful of kids.

519
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 3: They don't do it.

520
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 4: Oh it's wild.

521
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 5: I mean I remember coming home from school, I would

522
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 5: just sprint. I mean I would try to do my

523
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 5: homework as fast if I can. I sprint to the

524
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,400
Speaker 5: playground and be there until dinner time and then try

525
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 5: to head back out until I was allowed.

526
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 4: To have to come back home.

527
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 5: Right, And we're playing sports at the playground and I

528
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:32,160
Speaker 5: walk around my neighborhood.

529
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 4: You see kids playing, but not not nearly to the

530
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 4: level of it once was.

531
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 5: And the kids are playing are really young that that

532
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 5: middle aged kids, those teenage kids are not outside like

533
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 5: they once were.

534
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 2: Nah, it's wild, it really, it really is. It's it's

535
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 2: a wild thing. So the next date so basically what

536
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,679
Speaker 2: happens in the spring.

537
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they're the spring signing period. I'm gonna pull

538
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 5: up the date right now. So they're the springtime period,

539
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 5: which it used to be pretty dead, but now it's

540
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 5: bigger than ever because you're waiting to see how the

541
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 5: portal shakes out. Right, Like you don't know what that

542
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 5: looks like until the portal comes out. And so this

543
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 5: date used to be very it used to be a

544
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 5: lot smaller. Now it's there's a day in February. It's

545
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 5: day in April where these kids are coming out and

546
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:26,360
Speaker 5: signing in waves.

547
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 4: It used to be very dormant.

548
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,919
Speaker 5: It used to be just the early signing day was

549
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 5: the day people signed because there wasn't this big transfer window,

550
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 5: this big free agency that happens, right.

551
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 4: That's happening now. So it's it's difficult and it's and

552
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 4: it's changing. But I mean that's you got to preach

553
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 4: patient to these kids.

554
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 3: Man.

555
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 5: It's it's wild. It's it's really wild, and it's different.

556
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 5: So there's a February one and there, and there's an

557
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 5: April one.

558
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 2: So what happens with the twenty six is in the

559
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 2: twenty sevens when it comes to recruiting.

560
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, so college coaches aren't like they used to.

561
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 5: I remember my first couple of years as athletic director,

562
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:08,199
Speaker 5: they were giving committable offers to sophomores and juniors. Those days, like,

563
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 5: there's offers, but they're rarely committable until.

564
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 4: Late in your junior year.

565
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 5: You rarely see kids committing as sophomore. People used to

566
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 5: you know, verbally commit earlier on those days are gone.

567
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 5: And again, like we've talked about and even when we

568
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 5: had Seana last week, the amount of freshmen that they're

569
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 5: taking is half or less. You know, schools used to

570
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 5: take in football, for example, some classes are twenty five

571
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 5: to twenty to thirty people. They're looking at ten to

572
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 5: fifteen now right because they're hoping those fifteen to twenty

573
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 5: spots are going to be portal spots where they're getting

574
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 5: more grown individuals, guys who are more ready to compete

575
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 5: right away.

576
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 3: Right.

577
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 2: So it's crazy, and it's kind of is youre a

578
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 2: like give a strategy? Like I think about it, like,

579
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 2: if I'm a more of a mid level kind of program,

580
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: I would go all in on on the high school

581
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 2: and the kids and try to recruit and try to

582
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: build my team that way since everybody else is using

583
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 2: the portal.

584
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 4: Oh for sure, I agree, I a thousand percent agree.

585
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 2: Once I got to be in the building, right, like,

586
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 2: there's a better chance I could keep them. Like, I

587
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 2: know everybody's really like looking for the portal, but if

588
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 2: I get them in the building, and treat him right.

589
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 2: I mean, I should have an insight track of keeping

590
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 2: my players right at.

591
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 4: But the college coaches, it's so it's so violdle right now.

592
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 5: So they're just saying, hey, we want to make sure

593
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 5: we're getting guys who can contribute right away.

594
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 3: We're not.

595
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 4: They're not trying to invest in projects unless they have.

596
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 5: The job security where they're like, hey, you have four

597
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 5: years and we're not going to mess with you to

598
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 5: to really grow this program. And then once you have

599
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 5: that class, you could build behind it and can build

600
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 5: behind it and build behind it. But there's not that

601
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 5: job security that there once was. Yeah, there's so much

602
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 5: more money in it. So that day in February is

603
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 5: February fourth, So it's the first Wednesday in February this year,

604
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 5: and the portal will be open from January second till

605
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,719
Speaker 5: like January twentieth or eighteenth, and then you know, so

606
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 5: we'll see how the dust settles, we'll see where everyone is,

607
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 5: and then there'll be a two week push of that

608
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 5: second window, which again used to be very small with

609
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 5: commitments and now it's it's ten x.

610
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 3: Wow.

611
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's crazy. And just to wrap up, like the

612
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 5: signing the day. I know we kind of we downplayed

613
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 5: it or didn't speak so highly of it. It's still

614
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 5: a celebration, right, I still want to talk about like

615
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 5: it is still such an amazing day for a majority

616
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 5: the top.

617
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 4: It's more of a circus.

618
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 5: For the you know, the top one hundred kids in

619
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 5: the country, right or top three hundred and football, But

620
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 5: it's still like it's still a celebration, right. It is

621
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 5: a little bit of a checkpoint, which it used to

622
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 5: not be because you know, there's other stuff going on,

623
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 5: there's other money factors going on. But the end of

624
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 5: the day, they're kids, man, and that it is crazy.

625
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 5: And we've talked about We've touched on a lot. We've

626
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 5: had people talk about mental health, health and their development

627
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 5: as a person on the show. It's just like, you know,

628
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 5: it's tough because we're making them make really grown up

629
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 5: decisions with these financial factors that they never had to

630
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 5: think about before.

631
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 3: Right.

632
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 5: It was just like, hey, the fit and development isn't

633
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 5: at the priority like it once was. The dollar sign

634
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 5: is at the priority, so it makes it it's difficult,

635
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 5: but I still want to celebrate it, right. I don't

636
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 5: want to just say it's just it's a circus, right,

637
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 5: but it's.

638
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 3: Tough, man, Yeah, it really is.

639
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 2: It's it's a new world, man.

640
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 3: Hey.

641
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 2: I had an interesting conversation yesterday. I was hosting the

642
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 2: World Cup draw in Philly because we're hosting a obviously

643
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 2: we have six matches next summer and the national show

644
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 2: was out of DC, so we had a gathering at

645
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 2: the Governor of Pennsylvania.

646
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 3: Josh Shapiro. There we had.

647
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 2: All the dignitaries from Philapia Soccer and the whole thing.

648
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun.

649
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 2: The professional teams in Union, they have a youth academy yep.

650
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 3: And the youth.

651
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 2: Academy is wild where the kids go to school there right.

652
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 4: Like, and they train all day long.

653
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, in school, but they're training more than ever and

654
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 5: it's it's a wild model. Because I've kind of looked

655
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 5: into it, I'm like, how you know, because it's it's

656
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 5: mostly free.

657
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 3: Well, do me a favor. I want you to explain it.

658
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 2: Coming up all right, we're gonna take quick too, and

659
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 2: I want you to explain it because I could see this

660
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 2: being the future of youth sports.

661
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Speaker 3: This is project Nil.

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Speaker 2: Danny de bernadinas the a d from patroon our high school.

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Speaker 2: Every week, I'm Anthony gargantto we are with you as

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Speaker 2: we explore the world of youth sports, high school sports college,

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Speaker 2: that intersection called Project Nil right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back Project and I don't forget Fellas. Coming up next,

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Speaker 2: I'll be with Jeff Schwartz. We'll tackle Championship Saturday and

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Speaker 2: all the NFL.

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Speaker 4: News by Bree and the crew.

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Speaker 3: Back there today.

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Speaker 4: Man again me real in the Howaday Spirits.

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Speaker 3: He was funny.

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Speaker 2: I had the same reaction Mighty Mark and Mighty Marks

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Speaker 2: the main when it comes to the music.

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Speaker 4: I love it Mark.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So Danny, let's dive into this whole.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the future. Right.

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Speaker 2: So I have this conversation with the guy that runs

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Speaker 2: the Philippy Union professional soccer team.

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Speaker 3: It's youth and its youth academy.

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Speaker 2: There's like seventy eighty kids that are in it, and

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Speaker 2: they scat them. They live it, right, So they go

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Speaker 2: to school there they they basically live.

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Speaker 3: Soccer that well.

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Speaker 2: You know, they have an educator and you know the

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Speaker 2: kids are getting their requisite education, but they're learning differently.

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Speaker 2: The school day is different. Uh, it's a wild just

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Speaker 2: wild situation.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it is wild. Now you're saying it's

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Speaker 5: seventy eighty kids. So this is for the smallest, smallest percent.

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Speaker 5: This is of the you know, there's millions upon millions

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Speaker 5: of kids playing soccer in the United States. This is

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Speaker 5: probably half of a percent, right that are able to

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Speaker 5: go to these academies. Now, if you are able to

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Speaker 5: be in these academies, it's an amazing thing. So think

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Speaker 5: of it as like basically a professional environment built for teenagers.

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Speaker 5: You know, they train every day, they compete against national teams,

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Speaker 5: they get great you know level exposure to getting the

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Speaker 5: highest level coaching, and they're in school, right, so they

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Speaker 5: find a way to get the school work in.

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Speaker 4: Now, this is again for the smallest percent.

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Speaker 5: The Union have had the most success so local to

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Speaker 5: me and you, the Philadelphia Union has had so many

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Speaker 5: homegrown kids come through that that have played for their team,

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Speaker 5: and one who's the number one kid in the one

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Speaker 5: of the number one kids in the world, Cavin Salvin,

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Speaker 5: who signed over to play in Europe when he becomes eighteen.

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Speaker 5: So the way this works is it is free, right,

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Speaker 5: and you get this phenomenal opportunity. So their hope is

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Speaker 5: that you come and you play for them, right, they

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Speaker 5: keep their talent. But when you're sold, they get paid.

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Speaker 5: So Cavin Salvin going to play for Manchester City.

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Speaker 4: Eventually they get a.

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Speaker 3: Piece of that.

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Speaker 4: There's a huge buyout.

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Speaker 3: So they invest in you.

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Speaker 4: Right, they're giving you a tons of stuff for free.

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Speaker 5: They're teaching you, they're training you, they're giving you all

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Speaker 5: these opportunities. But if you're super successful, they have a

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Speaker 5: part of you as well. Well.

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Speaker 2: It's wild, man, It's almost antithetical to how we know

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Speaker 2: you build a develop talent because we all think you

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Speaker 2: develop talent to keep it. But it's you know, it's

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Speaker 2: almost like a business because you're flipping guys for big dollars.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's very again, it's very rare that, you know,

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Speaker 5: we have these kids that are able to play in Europe.

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Speaker 5: But the Union Academy, their success rate has been unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: They've had pipelines to their main team to MLS, a

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Speaker 5: few to Europe and a ton to the national so

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Speaker 5: they've had great success.

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Speaker 3: In you know, doing it.

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Speaker 5: They so they're kind of what people are trying to

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Speaker 5: model their academies after. Now there's a bunch of different

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Speaker 5: MLS next and different leagues and where you can still

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Speaker 5: play high.

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Speaker 4: School and do that.

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Speaker 5: Again, this is for a really small percentage, but if

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Speaker 5: you are in that percentage, going to these academies is

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Speaker 5: life changing and it does give you a great opportunity

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Speaker 5: to really chase your dream and go to the highest

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Speaker 5: level because you're getting the topknop training and you're getting

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Speaker 5: it in a very creative way.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Wow, all right, I got one of them things. It's

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Speaker 2: the it's the holidays, right, so I have I was

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Speaker 2: on Dick sporting goods website, which I you know, I

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Speaker 2: have to be honest with you.

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Speaker 5: It's like a candy store for me, right back, ball,

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Speaker 5: I know it's dangerous.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at all this stuff and I'm looking at everything, right,

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Speaker 2: and I just imagine, like we were kids, there was

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Speaker 2: a sporting.

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Speaker 3: Goods store called Al Rainbows.

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Speaker 2: It was it was on Broad Street, right, and you

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Speaker 2: went to Al Rainbows, and you know, you had baseball

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Speaker 2: gloves and baseball back like there was no other like

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Speaker 2: there was no like big national chain back when I

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Speaker 2: was there, and so you know what you had was.

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Speaker 3: You shared equipment.

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Speaker 2: And now like the equipment available is unbelievable, man.

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Speaker 4: And you can get it within twenty four hours.

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Speaker 2: It's it's insane. And you know what's funny, was looking

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Speaker 2: because hospital has these uh Bruce Bolt uh batty gloves.

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Speaker 2: Dude through one hundred and seventeen dollars for batty gloves.

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Speaker 2: That's when there are a undred seventeen dollars.

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Speaker 4: Man, did they make his bat fast or what's coming?

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Speaker 3: It's it's really unbelievable, man.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's got the best stuff. I've seen the

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Speaker 5: videos of him. He's always got the coolest batt man.

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Speaker 4: I mean, well, he's.

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Speaker 5: Going deep, so you got to you gotta keep going.

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Speaker 3: Was working at it.

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Speaker 4: Shopping fences three eight.

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Speaker 3: I was cracking up, though. I'm like, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: Like, look at this stuff and then like all the

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Speaker 2: football equipment is is awesome, but there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: great training equipment and I don't know, like under my

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Speaker 2: tree because I'm staring at it now, there will be

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Speaker 2: a lot of sports training equipment and everything else.

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Speaker 3: And I know, I suck. I go. It's just really

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Speaker 3: for that for.

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Speaker 5: Me, I'm glad you get excitement buying it for them,

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Speaker 5: right at least you're getting something out.

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Speaker 4: And I'm and I'm happy.

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Speaker 5: That they're asking for sports related stuff for Christmas and

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Speaker 5: not so much games and technology. Right, I'm glad that

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Speaker 5: they're asking for things that they're going to stay active

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Speaker 5: and use.

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Speaker 4: And if it's if.

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Speaker 5: It's bad and gloves, let's get the bat and gloves, man,

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Speaker 5: let's go.

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Speaker 2: I said, listen, well you want uh you know, a

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Speaker 2: new quarterback, like we're talking about working out with a

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Speaker 2: quarterback coach. And he's like, yeah, I like that. I said, well,

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Speaker 2: i'd be one of your stocking stuffers and he's like

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Speaker 2: I'm in.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, all right, good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it gets me fired up, man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good, right, It's it's good. It's good stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's a great time of the year, man, you know,

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Speaker 2: for all the stuff that we've got basketball. If you

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Speaker 2: need to reach us, I would love to. Danny give

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Speaker 2: everybody your email

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Daniel d five on five a Gmail is the

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Speaker 5: email or Daniel unders Underscore five on five on tex