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Speaker 1: I just got one question for everybody. Would we have

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Speaker 1: is getting time. Welcome to the fire Pit with Matt Chinella.

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Speaker 1: Before we get back to Devin Browse, head coach of Purdue,

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Speaker 1: Division one women's golf regional in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, we

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Speaker 1: start with some appreciation for John Ashworth, co creator of

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Speaker 1: to chase down meaningful stories. It golf is such a

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Speaker 1: you know, such a positive, you know, come together spirit

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Speaker 1: and uh, I mean, you know that's that's the whole key,

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Speaker 1: You know, just playing golf, you can't you know, you

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Speaker 1: um and I'm just glad. I mean, I feel like

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Speaker 1: So I can assume you've seen it by now. The

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Speaker 1: torches the hopes and dreams of an innocent gathering of

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Speaker 1: female athletes. The dragon is the n C Double A,

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Speaker 1: in this case in the form of Brad Hurlbut, an

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Speaker 1: Club home to the l s U Tigers. A few

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Speaker 1: relevant facts. The tournament consists of eighteen teams, five girls

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Speaker 1: testing started Saturday, May eight, practice round on Sunday May nine,

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Speaker 1: then three days Monday through Wednesday, fifty four holes of

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Speaker 1: to Andrew Hobner. He's a sports director at k e

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Speaker 1: z I nine News, which covers both Oregon, the four

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Speaker 1: seventh seed. The problem with this, more broadly is that

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Speaker 1: So I asked a couple of rules officials that are

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Speaker 1: out in the lunch room that aren't on the committee.

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Speaker 1: You know, do you know where Drew is? Do you

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Speaker 1: know where where Brad is? Uh? Do you know where

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00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: Tina is? No, don't have any idea where they are.

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Speaker 1: Nobody knows. Well, I'm pretty resourceful guy. So I started

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Speaker 1: looking around and I find out where the offices are

435
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: in that building, and there's a pros pro office that's

436
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: kind of tucked behind the pro shop and so I

437
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 1: walk up to the door and sure enough I can

438
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 1: hear him talking in there, the committee. They're talking, and

439
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: so I opened the door about this far, okay, just

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00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: not to stick my head in so they know who's

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00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 1: who's knocking. And Drew tries to push the door shut.

442
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: He tries to push me out of there, and I

443
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 1: just kind of stomped my foot down and blocked the

444
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Speaker 1: door so it couldn't be pushed. I said, no, no, no,

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00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: I said, don't be pushing me out of here. And

446
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: Brad was sitting at the desk in the middle of

447
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Speaker 1: room and he says, Devin, please give us ten more minutes.

448
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: And I said, Brad, you need to be communicating with

449
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: these coaches. You know, what in the hell is going on?

450
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 1: And Devin, please, you don't understand there are things going

451
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: on behind the scene that you don't even know about.

452
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 1: He's telling me this, and I said, well, Brad, enlightened me.

453
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: You know, did did somebody die this morning? Did the

454
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Speaker 1: superintendent have to be carted off because of COVID? Will

455
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: tell me what's going on? Devin, give us, please, please

456
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: just give us ten more minutes. We'll come out and

457
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: address the group. Okay, what am I gonna do at

458
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: this point? You know, um, I've already kind of made

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Speaker 1: a fool of myself. But any rate, you know, Wednesday

460
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Speaker 1: was definitely a very tense day. At ten this morning, Um,

461
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: the rain actually didn't come through like it was a

462
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Speaker 1: expected to do. It was actually a fairly clear morning.

463
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 1: There were a couple of delays on Wednesday, um, and

464
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Speaker 1: we heard that the delays were for maintenance to continue

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Speaker 1: to press the golf course for a playable condition. The

466
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Speaker 1: coaches started getting rowdy, the players started getting rowdy. You know,

467
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: you could feel that, you could feel the tension just

468
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: it was just growing and growing. I mean, we had

469
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: a couple of coaches start yelling at each other and

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00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: that was that was kind of I've never seen that before.

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00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 1: Girls Girl range. They warm up? Uh. Jay Gobol with

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00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: Baylor whose top seeds? Uh text sends a text message

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Speaker 1: to the whole group, including the committee at He says, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I just I just went out to the golf course.

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Speaker 1: It's not ready yet. Are we gonna have a delay.

476
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Speaker 1: Three minutes later, Matt Drew sends a group text message

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Speaker 1: the start has been delayed eleven o'clock from ten. Okay,

478
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: now it hasn't rained to drop all morning. Had rained

479
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: over night, but nothing in the morning. We could have

480
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: gone out and then spliced around a saturated golf course.

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00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: In my opinion, after spotty communication all week, an immediate

482
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 1: response to the Baylor coach, who's the three seed? Now

483
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 1: back to coach Chadwell of Houston. They rubbed our nose

484
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: in it on Wednesday. We show up at eight o'clock

485
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: ready to go warming up. Doesn't rain a drop. I

486
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: think it rained overnight, but doesn't rain a drop from

487
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 1: when we got on the golf course to when they

488
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 1: called it an to the point where they kept pushing

489
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: it because they were hoping whether it was going to

490
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: come to give them an out. Their backs were against

491
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: the wall severely, and that's what they had to make.

492
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: They made. They made a bad decision. They compounded everything

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Speaker 1: with that decision. They had us there warming up to

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Speaker 1: the point, to the point we're supposed to play at

495
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: ten o'clock. So we get there eight, we're warming up.

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00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: Coaches are asking, hey, it's nine thirty and we need

497
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: to start loading up cars. No communication, Hey, we're gonna

498
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: push two eleven and to get the golf course ready.

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00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 1: And we're like, you've had all day. You had sunshine

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00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: from eleven am yesterday and you had rain overnight, Like,

501
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: what is there to get ready? As I was, I

502
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: was sitting in the van. I walk over to the

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00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: to the clubhouse and I meet my coach there and

504
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: by chance he passes by me and he goes and

505
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: as I've heard that they're delaying it another hour. So

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00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 1: after getting to the golf course less than an hour

507
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: before the time that we're supposed to it off, they

508
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: tell us that we're having another delay. There we are delayed.

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00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: Girls all come back to the parking lot, hanging on

510
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: in the vands whatever. Eleven o'clock start, we get another

511
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: message because they're supposed to be on the cards at

512
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: ten thirty. We get another message about ten thirty. Uh,

513
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: the start has been delayed till of a clock. And

514
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: then after the first hour delay, they closed the range

515
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: saying that the maintenance is going to work on it.

516
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 1: And basically what they were doing is picking up balls.

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00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: In my mind, I know what's going on. They're waiting

518
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: for the cell that was supposed to come through at

519
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: ten o'clock to wash this baby out. There's also another

520
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: cell that possibly could come through at twelve o'clock. They're

521
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: waiting for that one to come through. We'll guess what.

522
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: Neither one of them came. It did not rain and

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00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: drop right around the last point they had. They had

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00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: told us that they were going to delay it over

525
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: again to noon um and at that point we're like okay.

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00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: So everybody, every team out to the range. They had

527
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: reopened it and and at eleven I believe we were

528
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: supposed to be in the parts. By at like eleven

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00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: twenty or so, our coaches messaged us and said for

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Speaker 1: us to come to the back of the club house,

531
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: which is I don't know if you've seen, but you

532
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: you probably have seen the video of like the group

533
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: of all these student athletes in the back, and that's

534
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: kind of what happens. So everybody kind of grouped around

535
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: and they said that at eleven thirty they were going

536
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: to make make an announcement. It's getting pretty obvious that

537
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: they're going to call this thing because they aren't communicating.

538
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: They aren't they aren't telling us anything, and I'm just wondering, well,

539
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: maybe they got the n C double A on the phone,

540
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: and the n C double A is gonna let us

541
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: play on Thursday. That's kind of what I'm thinking. But no,

542
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: I was wrong. Bradson's a text message coaches meet me

543
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: at the backstairs behind the clubhouse. Back to Nicole Schroder

544
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: of Oregon State, there's chatter there's gonna be a coaches

545
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: meeting at the back of the clubhouse. And then all

546
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: of basically all the girls were like, screw that, Like

547
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: coaches meeting. I'm gonna stand there too, like I'm gonna

548
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: listen if they're they're going to cancel it, like they're

549
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: going to cancel it to our face. And so that's

550
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: when it became a whole group meeting their parents standing

551
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: in the background, officials, coaches and players obviously, and then

552
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: what transparted the video. And actually right before the recording

553
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: of the video, somebody had walked out the door, took

554
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: a look of the amount of people behind the clubhouse

555
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: and went straight back in. And we waited there for

556
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: like another ten minutes or so before before the recording

557
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: of the video of like those five I think it

558
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: was five comedy members who came down. Even though the

559
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: force is playable, it's not playable at a championship. Here

560
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: for talk six teams received talk three prenching this happen?

561
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: You just said it was playful. Why are you serious?

562
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: And here came Brad down the stairs. I thought of

563
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: Caesar talking to the masses because he's got, you know,

564
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: two or three committed people kind of behind him. And

565
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: he stops halfway down and he starts telling us out

566
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: at what a gut ritching decision it's been, and so

567
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: forth and song. But but tournaments, so top six teams

568
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: are gonna advance top three individuals, And my mind was blank.

569
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 1: I'm feeling emotions, but in my mind is blank. Uh,

570
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: And I can tell that are that our student athletes

571
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: are feeling the same way. UM. A lot of people are, UM, angry, sad, confused. UM.

572
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: But we gather as a team and we talk and UH,

573
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: you know, at that moment, you you realize that you know,

574
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: this is the last time you're together as a team,

575
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: and in our season ended, the storybook ends of this

576
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: particular team, of this this group of people ends with

577
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: that announcement. UH. And some very sickening way for careers

578
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: to end in first seasons to end in for um,

579
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: you know, teams with a lot of momentum to be

580
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 1: cut off. For people that are that are looking forward

581
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: to that last opportunity to compete as a Mississippi State

582
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: Bulldog golfer, UM, whether that's in the regional championship, from

583
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: the national championship. UM, you deserve to have that last uh,

584
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: that last opportunity to compete as a team. And for

585
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: the second year in a row, that's taken from them.

586
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: And I just straight up broke down and cried, and

587
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: I was like, this could have been this could be

588
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: my last tournament, and I can never do anything about it,

589
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: you know, you never you I just we just felt robbed.

590
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: I think that was the biggest thing and oh, by

591
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: the way, Brad, we've been here for five days. You

592
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: didn't think one person, You didn't think one volunteer. You

593
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: didn't thank anybody for their hard work and effort in

594
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: this thing. You just told these girls to go the

595
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: hell away and you walk back up the stairs and disappeared.

596
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: And I mean there was crying, Matt, there was screaming.

597
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: There was one girl laid on the ground and cried.

598
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: And that was not a good stead from Miami. And

599
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: she's an All American. She has a chance to win

600
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: the n C Double A that she can go on,

601
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: but she got kicked to the curve. Meanwhile, Nicole Shoulder

602
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: is still coping with the nightmare. Are you out of tears? No?

603
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: I think, um, I think of going through different waves

604
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: of emotions. I think it started I was mad, I

605
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: was angry, and then it was sad and I was

606
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: crying and it was just oh my gosh. Now I

607
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: think I'm just like smiling laughing about it because it's

608
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: like sometimes I think about it and I'm like, did

609
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: that actually happen? Am I living a bad dream? Like

610
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: this can't be real life? But it is. So then

611
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: I go back to sad, so it's all the emotions.

612
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 1: Stacy Lewis, Garrett Chad was wife, took to Twitter that afternoon.

613
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: She wrote, There's a lot I could say on this,

614
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: but n C double A, you failed. These kids. Be creative,

615
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: be willing to adapt, and most importantly, let their play

616
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: decide who plays for a national championship. Proud of Houston

617
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: women's golf and they will be back now more from Chadwell,

618
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: but the thing that we never hit a shot and

619
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: the worst thing you could say the golf course was playable,

620
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: but not to a championship level. The worst thing you

621
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:37,280
Speaker 1: could say, man, the worst thing you could say, because

622
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: we It's what we had been telling you. Another thought

623
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: from Andrew Hobner, the Oregon based sports director, and I

624
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: haven't ripped away like that was was really something. You know.

625
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: Ellie Slama is here at Oregon State. She's probably one

626
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: of the the best golfers in in our region. She

627
00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: was she went to national championships in two thousand. She qualified,

628
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: i'd um for the Amateur at Augusta in the inaugural

629
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: woman's Amateur at Augusta. And this was her moment. You know,

630
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: she's a junior. She lost out on a chance to

631
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 1: go back to the n C double as because of

632
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 1: COVID last year, and she was poised to be another

633
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: one of those athletes that could have made a run

634
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: this weekend. The way they did it was very poor.

635
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: I mean him walking away the second that he finished

636
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: telling us, with all of us asking legitimate questions. There

637
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: were coaches trying to go in there and ask for

638
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: more details, and there was a security guard sitting there

639
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 1: and we weren't allowed to go in. So I mean

640
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: it was very, very poorly done. Yeah, the fact that

641
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: you need a security guard outside the door of a

642
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: women's golf like that tells you all you need to know.

643
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: This is like, this is crazy. It was great. I mean,

644
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: my parents were there. They flew all the way out

645
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: from Oregon. My brother was there. He took a week

646
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: off of word, came all the way out and all

647
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 1: they did was stand and wait and wait and wait,

648
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 1: and then I would text them delay, I would text

649
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: them cancel, and we all just had absolutely no idea why.

650
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: I think that was the hardest part is like, obviously

651
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: if we went out there and we saw the course

652
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: was unplayable, it would be much less frustrating. Because they

653
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: were doing everything they could. But in this case, we

654
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: could have played it every afternoon, starting at probably two pm,

655
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: maybe three at the latest, which I mean there were

656
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 1: eighteen teams, so we could have finished at least nine,

657
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: probably eighteen holes before eight pm when it gets dark.

658
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: The committee is hiding. They were inside that room. You know,

659
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: you can walk into that clubhouse, because to get to

660
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 1: the lockers you would have to go into the clubhouse.

661
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: The committee's room was like right next to it, and

662
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,919
Speaker 1: it was just a row of coaches just standing there

663
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: waiting for the committee to say something. And I remember

664
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: my team was standing in the parking lot and our

665
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: assistant coach walked out and we were staring staring at her,

666
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 1: you know, like do you have answers? And my assistant

667
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: just strugs her shoulders. She goes, I don't have any

668
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: answers for you, because they're not saying anything. We stand

669
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: there as a team at the U club, you know,

670
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: about to depart and head back home for the last

671
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: time as a team, and and nobody can even say anything. Um.

672
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: I didn't really have anything to say to the team.

673
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: The only thing I could tell him was you know

674
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: how much I love him. I care for him, and

675
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: how how they deserve so much better, and and there's

676
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: that's really you're kind of where it stops. And and um,

677
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: I won't I won't. I won't say a name. But

678
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 1: but I did have a student athlete come up to

679
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: me and just say, UM, you know, it's sad, but

680
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: I'm kind of getting used to this. Um you know

681
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: now for the second year in a row, that that

682
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 1: this is how the season comes to an end, especially

683
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: playing well enough to earn more. You have two vans

684
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: back to Houston, and oh my gosh, yeah, I mean

685
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: it's like and my assistant, who doesn't cry? Who's I mean,

686
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: dad's baseball coach. She's tough as nails. Not that's not fair.

687
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: That's bullshit, it's not and she and she and she's played,

688
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: she played four States, she's played a national, chance to

689
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 1: playing regions. But this is not fair to the kids.

690
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: And you just sit there like you cry. You've got

691
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: all this window window time. Kids are sleep, you know.

692
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: We so we've been out there since I mean we

693
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: left the hotel. It has been thirty We get in

694
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: the car and roll at noon. My kids had no

695
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: appetite because they're to their stomach we drive an hour

696
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: and a half before anybody's ready to eat. It's been

697
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: a really difficult week. UM, trying to support Obviously it's

698
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: not difficult to support them, but it's difficult to find

699
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,399
Speaker 1: the best ways to support these student athletes. There needs

700
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: to be some sort of coaches input because this is

701
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: I mean, Brad gets to go home and he still

702
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 1: gets a job. Like you know, you got coaches getting

703
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: fired this year for a performance based in a crazy year. UM,

704
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: So you know, what if what if some what if

705
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: somebody had like hey, it's national championship or year out

706
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: at a at a you know, a place that maybe

707
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: historically should be there. Um, you know, I don't know.

708
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: I just our livelihood. It's what we do. But we

709
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: got those kids in the eye and fixed these psyches

710
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: that don't trust the system. Don't you know have had

711
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to coach God Willing, I'm gonna get

712
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: to coach another regional. Um. I get to go with

713
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: Karen next week to n C double as. Karen fred

714
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: Gard of Denmark is a sophomore at Houston. She was

715
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 1: American Athletic Conference Player of the Year and was in

716
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: the odd position of advancing as an individual well, her

717
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: team was being told they were done, um well doing

718
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: the week. It was really difficult because I wanted to

719
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: play as much as them, and I wanted to to

720
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: play with my team, and we we had practiced and

721
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: worked really hard to get there as a team and

722
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 1: it could be the the first time ever. Um So

723
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: it was really difficult knowing that none of the others

724
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: get to play, but I can go and play. So

725
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: I felt a little bit like I felt bad for

726
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: all the girls. And obviously it's great for me that

727
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: I get to go and play, but I would so

728
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: much rather have been there, and like going there with

729
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 1: my team. I asked her if she'd be carrying five

730
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: bags next week in Arizona. And I know that the

731
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: team is going to be with me, and like in

732
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: another way than than usually, but um, and it's gonna

733
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: be weird seeing all the other teams there with the

734
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: full with all of their teams and players there's as

735
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: a team. But I know that that my team was

736
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: gonna support me however away they can, and and my

737
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: my coaches are coming with me, so so that makes

738
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: makes it a little bit more fun to be there.

739
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: Ellie Islama on Fred guard's complicated sich wation. I hope

740
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: she wins the national Championship. I hope she you know,

741
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: says in her speech something about the n c A

742
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: and just you know how disappointed she is in them.

743
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 1: But I really am rooting for the top six teams

744
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: that made it because I think that they do feel

745
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,240
Speaker 1: really guilty, and I know I would feel really guilty

746
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: if I advanced in that way. Um, But yeah, I mean,

747
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: it's still very frustrating, and I just also wonder if

748
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: this would have happened if l f U was the

749
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: seventh seed. So that's another Yeah, there's a lot of

750
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: what if before we get to some more reflections on

751
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: who's to blame. Be sure and listen to Part two

752
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:54,240
Speaker 1: of this debacle, as Sam Bazoian or Barstool Rigs, shares

753
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: the story of how and why he and his team

754
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: at Barstool are now hosting a consolation tournament this week

755
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: at Whirlwind Golf Club in Arizona, plus a lot more

756
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 1: reaction from coaches and players, and in Part three, I

757
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: speak to Jay Billis, the basketball analyst and lawyer who

758
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: has dedicated the better part of a decade to exposing

759
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: the dysfunction and bullshittery of the n C Double A.

760
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 1: I should say I had a lot of no response

761
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: from several coaches and administrators involved in this bizarre fiasco.

762
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: A spokesperson from the n C Double A did call

763
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,919
Speaker 1: me back and referred me to the response they made

764
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: on the Golf Channel in which Julie Manning, the chair

765
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: of the n C Double A Women's Golf Committee, who

766
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: was in Ohio but apparently was getting involved in the

767
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: decision making in Baton Rouge. But I will also tell

768
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 1: you none of the players or coaches I did speak

769
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: to were very impressed with her responses to the questions.

770
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 1: So whose fault was it? We end with a series

771
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: of final thoughts from the coaches and players who helped

772
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:01,240
Speaker 1: tell this story first, and I really appreciate coach brownse

773
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: And the problem is we've got and I hate to

774
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 1: say this about Brad because he's been around enough golf

775
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: tournaments he should know what he's doing. But he got

776
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: influenced by the L s U crowd. I believe you know,

777
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: you got a superintendent on that committee, you got the

778
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 1: director of the championship as an L s U guy,

779
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 1: And there are rules. A couple of rules officials on

780
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: that committee that are l s U people. So I

781
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:33,280
Speaker 1: don't know the facts behind the scenes that he's talking about.

782
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: You know who who who's calling up the Baylor the

783
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: President of the United States is calling up and say, hey,

784
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: you can't play down there unless you have a championship venue.

785
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: I I don't know, but they kept throwing that that

786
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: rationale out of everybody is we have to have a

787
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: championship venue. And they decided Tuesday night that we didn't

788
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: have a championship venue and they were not going to

789
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: play on Wednesday. That's my opinion. They decided they were

790
00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: going to play and they were going to count on

791
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 1: those two thunders showers that were predicted for for Wednesday

792
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: morning to get them off the hook. That's my opinion.

793
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: Inez one and Martha who plays for coach Browse at Perdue,

794
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: whose fault is it? I think it's a little bit

795
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,760
Speaker 1: of everything. I wouldn't say it's it's like a women's

796
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: sport kind of thing. Um. I would just say in general,

797
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: I think it was a series of poor decisions that

798
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: lead to more poor decisions, if that makes sense. It's

799
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: almost it's almost like a fallacy. It almost kind of

800
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: felt like you built a snowball and just kept going down.

801
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:40,800
Speaker 1: Gary Chadwell, administrators have no business calling shots. This dude

802
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: that called that, that that said that as of Tuesday night,

803
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: hadn't stepped foot on the gorse, had not walked the

804
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: golf course. This same dude. There was nobody there from

805
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: the n C double a Indian represented. They were calling,

806
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: what do we do? What do we do? That? I know,

807
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 1: but we don't know anything because nothing was communicated to

808
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: us like you got a number one. Communication has change,

809
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: like we never had a coaches meeting from Sunday afternoon on.

810
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: We never had a coaches meeting where you tell us

811
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: everything that you're exhausting. Nicole Schroeder of Oregon State. So

812
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: this is my fourth REGILM that I've been to. I

813
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 1: feel like I've I've seen it. I know I've played it.

814
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: UM that I've played in very prestiged ones. There was

815
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: at Texas Tech my freshman year, sophomore year, UM at

816
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: University Ridge and West Madison, Wisconsin, and then junior year

817
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: we're at UM Klayle and Washington or you Dog host

818
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: hosted and UM all very prestigious, well run tournaments where

819
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: the host school was communicating with the rules officials and

820
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:53,479
Speaker 1: the committee, and there was no question in my mind

821
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: that everything was going to be done to make that

822
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: tournament the best that it could possibly be. Whereas this

823
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: we I was like, did they do a single thing

824
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: to make this tournament run? Well? I don't think so.

825
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: Charlie Ewing of Mississippi State. I don't question the integrity

826
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: of of the universe of of Louisiana State University. And

827
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: I genuinely hope that if if the seating was different,

828
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: I hope that wouldn't have an impact. Do you think

829
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: this happens if this is men's golf versus women's golf?

830
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:31,439
Speaker 1: I don't know. Um. Again, that's something where deep down,

831
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: I really really really hope that would never be the case. Um,

832
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: And I think I just need to leave it at

833
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: that if I really really hope that that would never

834
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: be something that influences anybody's decision. And finally, Kelli Slama,

835
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: also of Oregon State, I wrote a very strongly worded letter.

836
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: I've mailed it. I've emailed it. The mp A is

837
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: going to get quite a few letters from me, so

838
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: I mean it's and I give them every single detail

839
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 1: from a whole tournament. I give them my personal opinion,

840
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: I give them my coaches opinion, and at the end,

841
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: I tell them everything that I think that they should change,

842
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 1: because if it doesn't happen because of this, it's never

843
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,800
Speaker 1: gonna happen Like this is this is the time. I

844
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: asked Salama if she cared to share some of the

845
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: letter here. I'll read the last paragraph right here. So

846
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: I said, golf has taught me so many life lessons,

847
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: and one of them is courage. That is why I'm

848
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: writing this letter. I know that what the n c

849
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: A Games Committee did was wrong. I do not want

850
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: anyone to feel this way. I would like to ask

851
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: the n c A to change the rule that a

852
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: regional championship cannot be extended past Wednesday. If we would

853
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,280
Speaker 1: have continued the tournament and played thirty six holes Thursday,

854
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Speaker 1: we would not be in this situation. I would also

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Speaker 1: like to see proper training of the Games Committee so

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Speaker 1: that they know what to do in circumstances where there's

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Speaker 1: inclement weather. I understand that weather is out of everyone's control,

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Speaker 1: but this committee did not know how to proceed, and

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Speaker 1: that should not happen, especially at this level. Of golf

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Speaker 1: and on the behalf of every player in this field

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Speaker 1: that and not make it to a national championship due

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Speaker 1: to this committee's horrible decision. We would like a formal apology.

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Speaker 1: This situation should never happen again, and I will make

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Speaker 1: sure this. I'll continue to be in contact with the

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Speaker 1: n c A in every possible way until I hear back,

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Speaker 1: because I will not let this story fade out and

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Speaker 1: go away without some change being made. We appreciate the

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Speaker 1: support from part points and app that's the portal to

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Speaker 1: a new way of scoring. Brandon Ebert, one of the

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Speaker 1: co creators, explains the concept of the game is every

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Speaker 1: hole is its own game, and your job is to

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Speaker 1: make sure you score par on every hole. So it says,

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Speaker 1: pick a spot on every hole where you think you

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Speaker 1: can score far from and play from that distance so

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Speaker 1: as they scratch golfer might play it from the back

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Speaker 1: teas as an average golfer, I might play it from

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Speaker 1: one fifty. Doesn't matter. You can choose anywhere you want

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Speaker 1: on the on the whole, from the you know, the

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Speaker 1: teag area to the green and if you want to

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Speaker 1: put your ball on the on the green and put

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Speaker 1: it and that's all you want to do, that's okay.

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Speaker 1: Part Points is a great way to get kids or

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Speaker 1: newcomers into the game, and should also be considered as

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Speaker 1: an alternate way to play on your next Buddy strip.

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Speaker 1: Download the power Points app now and then go make

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