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Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good morning ever buddy.

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Speaker 3: Welcome in. This is Project and I L Danny d

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Speaker 3: d A D Danny de Beernandena's athletic director of penn

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Speaker 3: Charter High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I'm Anthony Gargano and one

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Speaker 3: of the fellas.

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Speaker 2: Every week right here we.

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Speaker 3: Tackle Project ni L and uh so much going on

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Speaker 3: man in the world bits it's just ever changing.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Danny.

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Speaker 4: What's going on over there? Cauz, how we doing.

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Speaker 2: We're doing well. We're doing We're doing well.

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Speaker 3: We got basketball practice today, So as soon as I'm done, like,

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Speaker 3: we'll do our project down il hour. Then the fellas

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Speaker 3: come on so Jeff Schwartz formerly the Giants will on

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Speaker 3: me and then uh I'll hi tell it to basketball practice.

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Speaker 5: Season changing, got a little mix now we have a

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Speaker 5: little football, a little basketball, you know, going on the

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Speaker 5: same time.

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Speaker 4: It's my favorite time of year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The only thing is, can I be honest, I do

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Speaker 3: this every year. I I like when it's just football, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I know, And I love the you know, I love basketball.

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Speaker 3: I love baseball, you know, help coach it for the

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Speaker 3: kids from you know, my oldest and my youngest and uh,

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Speaker 3: I love it. But man, I just like football to

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Speaker 3: go slow because it's such a blur.

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Speaker 2: I looked up.

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Speaker 3: I was just counting there's only three college Saturdays left

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Speaker 3: in football.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I know. I mean that's a little depressing,

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Speaker 5: right that it's coming. You know when they start overlapping,

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Speaker 5: you know that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of doing that.

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Speaker 3: That's the only that's that's it because I love the

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Speaker 3: basketball so but it's the only thing is that it's

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Speaker 3: coming to an end. And you know, we have this weekend,

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Speaker 3: we have next Saturday, and then of course is the

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Speaker 3: Thanksgiving you know, rivalry weekend, and then and then it's

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Speaker 3: Capital One ball season, which I actually love. I watch

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Speaker 3: all those bowl games and I love that stuff. What

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Speaker 3: I was having this conversation yesterday, what do you do

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Speaker 3: with playoff balls portal?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's difficult because these kids are trying to

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Speaker 5: you know, some you know, they might be buried on

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Speaker 5: a depth chart right out of school and they're in

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Speaker 5: a bowl, but they might be looking for a team.

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Speaker 5: You know, teams are starting to look that portal opens up,

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Speaker 5: and you have to really make a decision. Do you

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Speaker 5: do you stick it out with your team, or do

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Speaker 5: you try to position yourself to get portal early to

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Speaker 5: let us solidify yourself a spot on another team, So

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Speaker 5: let us fire yourself with some more money.

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Speaker 4: Right, It's it's a really tricky situation. It was.

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Speaker 5: It was amplified last year with Penn State with bo

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Speaker 5: you know, the backup quarterback who you know we've done

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Speaker 5: certainty of what Drew Allen was doing, and you know.

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Speaker 4: They were in the final four. He had to move

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Speaker 4: he you know, he had to get.

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Speaker 5: In the portal and he ended up in Missouri and

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Speaker 5: he had a great season this year, but he had

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Speaker 5: to get in there because he didn't want to wait

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Speaker 5: for it to dry up or spots to be taken.

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Speaker 4: And it's difficult to navigate, right.

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Speaker 5: So that we've discussed a few times, we really want

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Speaker 5: the portal to it should open after the full season ends.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah, you got to do it like it

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Speaker 3: can imagine college football, imagine NFL playoffs and a portal.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's crazency starts, you know during the NFL season still.

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Speaker 3: Exactly like all of a sudden, the portals open free agency.

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Speaker 3: Well wait a second, we get to put you we

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Speaker 3: got actually games going on. It's crazy, you know, playoff

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Speaker 3: games crazy anyway, But we turned the pages a little

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Speaker 3: bit and let's talk a little hoops.

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Speaker 2: So I know you have compiled a list of your

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Speaker 2: top ten.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, all right, so you got your top ten

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Speaker 3: project ani L twenty twenty five twenty six boys basketball rankings.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 5: So you know this is early, right, it's going to

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Speaker 5: change throughout the season. But going into the season, right

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Speaker 5: as these teams are revving up to start playing, looking

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Speaker 5: of rosters they've either returned or additions that they've added,

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Speaker 5: and uh yeah, we got top ten high school teams

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Speaker 5: do the girls side, and you know, talk about each

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Speaker 5: do we want to start at ten or do we

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Speaker 5: want to start at one?

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Speaker 2: What do we want to know? I want to start

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Speaker 2: at ten. I like I like the drop right down. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Sean Bosco, huh yeah.

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Speaker 5: On the West Coast, they're led by two top twenties,

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Speaker 5: two guys in the top twenty six rankings. Christian Collins

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Speaker 5: is a small forward. He's ranked twelve, not committed yet.

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Speaker 5: And then NBA son Tajaisa, son of Trevor Resa.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Trevor's son.

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Speaker 5: Look at that hat and he's going to Oregon. Ranked

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Speaker 5: number seventeen the country. So you know California, right man,

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Speaker 5: I mean, they've been really high on our list as

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Speaker 5: far as football and basketball goes this year, but holding

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Speaker 5: down the number ten spot out in California.

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Speaker 2: Saint John Bosco, Bosco's legendary Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Always the school program.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I always love Yeah, you always got a lot

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Speaker 3: of great talent football and basketball. I'm enamored with the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I want to do a book about the

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Speaker 3: second generation.

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Speaker 5: Well we fall on this list. There's more second generations

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Speaker 2: Really? It doesn't surprise me? All right? How about number nine?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Fishers in Indiana, so smaller school, not you know,

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Speaker 5: really always known, but they finished the season strong really

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Speaker 5: last year, and they have one of the top point

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Speaker 4: He's a point guard. I'm committed, but he's a top.

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Speaker 5: You know fifty kid in the country, true point guard,

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Speaker 5: true general. And they just played the right way. They

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Speaker 5: finished the season really strong last year, made a run

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Speaker 5: in states, and I like them to be you know,

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Speaker 4: In the top, you know, top ten, top twenty five.

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Speaker 2: They like the Hickory High.

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Speaker 4: Maybe a little Hickory, Yeah, a little Hoosiers out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, still some of the great.

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Speaker 2: It's still the best.

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Speaker 3: It's when I see him, when I see it on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, to click and stick. I got I

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Speaker 2: have to. I gotta watch it. Yeah. Coach Norman Dale.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, man measures the hoop. It's ten feet no matter

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Speaker 3: And now he doesn't realize, but now those kids can

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Speaker 3: get baid. What Jimmy Chip was going to make Now, man,

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Speaker 5: Yeah he Jimmy Chit Will would have got a big

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Speaker 2: And stayed Indiana. That's great, all right.

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Speaker 5: Number eight with that out of Minnesota. So Minnesota over

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Speaker 5: the years, basketball has been growing there. You know, they

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Speaker 5: jailing Suggs and chet Holmgren coming out of there recently,

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Speaker 5: so big program down to Minnesota. They have, you know,

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Speaker 5: Wiggins and he's committed to a high Iowa state and uh,

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Speaker 5: you know they've been, you know, been a power of

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Speaker 2: It's Christian Whiggins related.

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Speaker 4: No no relation, no relation Andrews.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of great Wiggins.

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Speaker 4: They are they are.

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Speaker 5: We'll get you'll know the names when I get to

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Speaker 5: the number five team there and then number seven, uh,

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Speaker 5: Notre Dame Academy in California. They have the number one

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Speaker 4: He's a small forward. He's a specimen.

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Speaker 5: He's six seven, like two twenty he he's an absolute specimen.

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Speaker 4: Just yeah, it just overpowers you.

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Speaker 5: He's not he's more of a score over than the facilitator,

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Speaker 5: but just overall sides, he's a specimen. They also have

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Speaker 5: a really good twenty seven. And then the Navarra Bowman junior.

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Speaker 5: There goes another one.

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Speaker 2: Wow. But Vara Bowman the football player.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, junior shooting guard.

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Speaker 5: He's number he's the number forty fifth player in the

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: So nice little far bowman man he was he was

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Speaker 4: he was good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good defensive back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, I'm lying back. We talked about this.

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Speaker 5: The genetics, man, it's been coming through through big you know,

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Speaker 5: on a larger scale recently, there's been a ton of

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Speaker 3: Well, I I what fascinates me about it is, uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, obviously the genetics is there, right, you know,

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Speaker 3: if your parent was a professional athlete, makes sense. But

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Speaker 3: the wisdom of being around it, right, Like, if you're

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Speaker 3: around it, you're there's a losmosis effect.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know for sure, So all right, keep ye

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Speaker 5: we're the number six staying nowt in the state of California,

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Speaker 5: Harvard Westlake.

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Speaker 4: We have a top shooting guard in the country, Joe Sterling.

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Speaker 4: He's ranking the top one hundred and he's committed to Texas.

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Speaker 4: Very overall deep team.

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Speaker 5: They got a bunch of guys, guys that are you know,

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Speaker 5: considered to be in the top three hundred in the country.

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Speaker 5: You know, just depth and guys who understand their role.

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Speaker 3: All right, question, So you mentioned he's now he's committed

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Speaker 3: to Texas. Yes, When when do most kids make their decision?

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Speaker 5: That's actually interesting if you look at this year's high

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Speaker 5: school class, the twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Class, because it's a lot not commits, right, and.

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Speaker 5: If you look in the top twenty, there's probably five commits.

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Speaker 5: It's later than ever before, and I think it's kids

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Speaker 5: are just really waiting to see how these you know,

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Speaker 5: rosters are shaking out, and they're trying to play hardball,

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Speaker 5: I think, on this nil piece and waiting to see

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Speaker 5: what the need is before they jump in. And the

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Speaker 5: top twenty you can do that. You see guys committed.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot more commitments in that class from twenty

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Speaker 5: five to one hundred.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's very it's more common.

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Speaker 3: So the better you get, the more you're almost betting

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Speaker 3: on yourself like a free age. It would like one

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Speaker 3: of your last year in contract. You're gonna wait, wait

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Speaker 3: to the latest so you could maximize your payout.

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Speaker 4: Yep, it's crazy.

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Speaker 5: Did you think if in the top twenty, if only

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Speaker 5: five people are committed at this point in the season,

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Speaker 5: that's that's incredibly rare because signing days are happening, people

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Speaker 5: are on the clock, but in this nil environment, people

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Speaker 5: are being really patient and waiting to see, all right,

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Speaker 5: let me see how they start the season, right, Maybe

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Speaker 5: they'll panic and say, hey, we really got to invest

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Speaker 5: They have Brandon McCoy just transferred in. He's a combo

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Speaker 2: Subscribe, hit that thumbs up icon and comment away. All right,

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Speaker 2: welcome back.

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Speaker 3: Project NI L Danny de Berna, Diva's Davy d v

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Speaker 3: A D I'm Anthony Gargant. Together we are Project NIL

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Speaker 3: adep dive into youth sports. Everything to do with Project

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Speaker 3: NL in college, you name it, and I want to

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Speaker 3: talk a little soccer today. Dan, we got with us

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Speaker 3: a terrific coach from your school, a guy that's been

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Speaker 3: around it for a long time, coach Bobby diabetandetto coach

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Speaker 3: Bobby d Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Good morning, glorious. The congratulations on your championship.

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Speaker 6: Thank you very much, Thank you very much. Long time

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Speaker 6: coming for pennch Arder. All those programs there have been

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Speaker 6: shut out the last three years. Outside of our great

459
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Speaker 6: basketball program last year. We haven't won a championship since

460
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Speaker 6: twenty sixteen on the boy side, in any sport, so

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Speaker 6: it's a big deal for the school. It's great to

462
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Speaker 6: have Danny Gan win a couple of championships early and

463
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Speaker 6: hopefully we can keep it rolling under the winter.

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Speaker 4: Coach, let's go, man, what is the as an ad?

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Speaker 3: Congratulations to you Dan on your first uh he just

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Speaker 3: started this school and you get your first champ, your

467
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Speaker 3: first chip.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Man, you know I'm just there to try to help

470
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Speaker 5: god these coaches and give them the resources. You know

471
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Speaker 5: this when you come in fresh it's you know, it's

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Speaker 5: it's a lot of stuff's already been established.

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Speaker 4: So Bobby already had the groundwork.

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Speaker 5: He laid it out and you know I just kind

475
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Speaker 5: of jumped on at the end and try to do

476
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Speaker 5: whatever I can to help, you know, grow the program development.

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Speaker 5: But you know, the credit goes to him and his

478
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Speaker 5: staff for all they've done leading up to this. You know,

479
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Speaker 5: it doesn't happen overnight. It builds over year after year.

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Speaker 5: And he has a phenomenal culture and the kids, you know,

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Speaker 5: they want to they want to run through a wall

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Speaker 5: for him.

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Speaker 4: So credit to him and his staff. And you know,

484
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Speaker 4: I was just happy to be there and watch it happen.

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Speaker 2: Coach, I got a bunch of questions.

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Speaker 3: Give me where high school soccer fits in when you

487
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Speaker 3: have all the club teams, right, because the club teams

488
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Speaker 3: as you go through youth are so big, so pronounced.

489
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Speaker 3: And then you have teams like the Union have their academy.

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Speaker 3: How does high school soccer fit in with a lot

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Speaker 3: of the big clubs that kids are playing.

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Speaker 2: On off.

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Speaker 6: So we've seen it change so much through the years, right,

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Speaker 6: So this is my twenty eighth year coach in high

495
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Speaker 6: school soccer. I've been involved in clubs in the meantime,

496
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Speaker 6: which I don't do anymore because I just can't vibe

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Speaker 6: with that culture. To be honest with you, I'm not

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Speaker 6: at one sport person. I think we to you know, Danny,

499
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Speaker 6: you have Ganny talked about that a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 6: And even these smaller clubs are starting to come to

501
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Speaker 6: the point where they want you just to specialize in

502
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Speaker 6: soccer young and they don't want you to play in

503
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Speaker 6: high school. And you know, you got to kind of

504
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Speaker 6: jock you for a position to get your guys just

505
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Speaker 6: to play in games. Forget about practice. I mean it's

506
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Speaker 6: an irison piece practice, they don't. I got to make

507
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Speaker 6: sure that they're throwing up for games. I was very

508
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Speaker 6: fortunate this year where my boys my MLS Next Kids,

509
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Speaker 6: which is a which is a level of club ball

510
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Speaker 6: on a high, very high level. But you know, they

511
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Speaker 6: all got exemptions and they were able to play high

512
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Speaker 6: school on their club. But you know, they're playing for

513
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Speaker 6: me five six days a week, going to practice for

514
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Speaker 6: club three nights a week, and then playing on the

515
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Speaker 6: weekends for their club. So it's a lot of soccer.

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Speaker 6: It wears them down, and it's starting to force kids.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's really making kids pick one one way

518
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Speaker 6: or the other. And it's just it's a shame that

519
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Speaker 6: it's set up that way because you know, they're sold

520
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Speaker 6: to bill of Goods and you know there's going to

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Speaker 6: be a lot of coaches here this weekend. Well, and

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Speaker 6: how are their coaches coming out on a Saturday when

523
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Speaker 6: they're coaching their college teams?

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Speaker 4: You know, So yeah, that's wild. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I mean they tell me how this coach is coming,

526
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Speaker 6: and that coach is coming, and I look at that

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Speaker 6: coach's schedule and you know he did Buck Noll coaching

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Speaker 6: that weekend.

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Speaker 2: Or you know, or they're up there right.

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Speaker 5: So I did a really good job of finding the

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Speaker 5: balance right and talking to the kids and being realistic

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Speaker 5: about expectations. And I think it's really important for coaches

533
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Speaker 5: out there that are dealing with this to have these

534
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Speaker 5: conversations early, right, and Bobby will sit down.

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Speaker 4: And say, hey, like, this is what I need of you.

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Speaker 5: Right, if you want to be a part of my team,

537
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Speaker 5: you have to be here, this, this and this, and

538
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Speaker 5: we want to.

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Speaker 4: Help you be a part of it. But whole also

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Speaker 4: be flexible and saying, hey.

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Speaker 5: Like, I understand you have a big you know, big

542
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Speaker 5: weekends and big tournaments, and we can find ways to

543
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Speaker 5: get your breaks and work you in and out of

544
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Speaker 5: the lineup. So I think being creative with it because

545
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Speaker 5: the environment's changing and I know it's challenging for coaches,

546
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Speaker 5: but to not have a hard line and kind of

547
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Speaker 5: address it by the situation and the student athlete.

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Speaker 4: Bobby did a phenomenal job manage.

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Speaker 5: It because we did have kids that are high level

550
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Speaker 5: soccer players that have to navigate these really difficult schedules.

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Speaker 3: So if you're not well, give me, Like, if you

552
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Speaker 3: have a high level kid, give me his week, like

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Speaker 3: Cowmedy games, he playing well.

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Speaker 6: I mean he's playing at least two for us. Right

555
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Speaker 6: during the season, Balm, we're in league, we try to

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Speaker 6: stick to two games of leek just are two league

557
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Speaker 6: games before the season starts. Before October one, we try

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Speaker 6: to fit in three games a week. Luckily, in our

559
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Speaker 6: in our conference, in our in our association, we're allowed

560
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Speaker 6: to play as many games as we want. And I'm

561
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Speaker 6: a big Montsouri guy. I learned. We learned through play, right,

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Speaker 6: We get better by playing. Yeah, yeah, you know you're

563
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 6: complaining every day, man, But at seventeen and eighteen years old,

564
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 6: dribbling around a cone for me.

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Speaker 3: Is kind of like a waste of time, right, those skills,

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I never saw.

567
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Speaker 6: Cone jump out and try to steal a ball from

568
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Speaker 6: you or tackle you from behind them. I want to

569
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Speaker 6: see how you react to that. Right this way, when

570
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Speaker 6: I get into the league, and Daniel tay our non

571
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Speaker 6: league schedule is rigorous. We're in Cincinnati. Next year, we're

572
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Speaker 6: down in DC. Next year we go up, we go

573
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Speaker 6: up to New Jersey and New York to play. You know,

574
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Speaker 6: we try to play the best competition around. Some of

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Speaker 6: that just being the thought of your Catholic league is Daniel,

576
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 6: tell you Roman, Ryan, Saint Jose Prepp, Father Judge, Like,

577
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Speaker 6: there are the games that make us better. But we're

578
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Speaker 6: playing three games a week and then they're going to

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Speaker 6: tournaments on the weekend. So in a lot of those

580
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Speaker 6: on league games, I'll give I'll give those guys half

581
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Speaker 6: the game or some of them. You know, I just

582
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Speaker 6: tell them, you got to tell me how you feel,

583
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Speaker 6: you know, because the league really is the most important thing.

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Speaker 6: And I kind of understand. And I think my staff

585
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Speaker 6: on the stands with those players are capable of doing them,

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Speaker 6: you know, in game. So you know, maybe some of

587
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Speaker 6: the other guys we had to we had to get

588
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Speaker 6: them battle tested a little bit. But it is a balance.

589
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Speaker 6: But you know, we've had we had a kid run

590
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Speaker 6: cross country this year and not only did he run

591
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Speaker 6: cross country, he's gone to college for cross country. He

592
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Speaker 6: was just on our team a lot of games.

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Speaker 2: Uh wow.

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Speaker 6: We had three wow, three kids kick footballs this year.

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Speaker 6: So you're always balancing schedules. But that's what you should

596
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Speaker 6: be doing in high school. That's what I feel bad about.

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Speaker 6: These kids missing that experience because you know, they're running

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Speaker 6: out of school sometime headed to their club practice and

599
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Speaker 6: missing all the other things that they should be doing

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Speaker 6: as a high school athlete.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting.

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Speaker 3: I was talking to Uh, there's a guy, Tim McDermot

603
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Speaker 3: who runs to fill up he union of the MLS

604
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Speaker 3: and was saying that your your academy team, like this

605
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Speaker 3: commitment like you have to sign sign and you can't

606
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Speaker 3: miss certain things and and it's an all year around deal.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, me and Bobby have talked about and Bobby could

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Speaker 5: go a little bit more. That is like such a

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Speaker 5: small percentage right of the population that are at that

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Speaker 5: type of high, high level where they're trying to make

611
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Speaker 5: the MLS or trying to you know, play professionally. So again,

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Speaker 5: navigating that is important, but it's important also to have

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Speaker 5: coaches who understand that balance. And Bobby does a phenomenal

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Speaker 5: job about it. But Bob, you can talk about that

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Speaker 5: that small percentage.

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Speaker 6: So you know, there's I think I gave you a

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Speaker 6: number standing if they're in mind, I think there's it

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Speaker 6: says there's like close to four million kids that play

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Speaker 6: you soccer in this country to a lot of kids,

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Speaker 6: four million, right, and I think we have internationally and domestically,

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Speaker 6: I think we have under four hundred players that play professionally.

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Speaker 6: So think about that in your head, right and if

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Speaker 6: you look at that's just one little thing. I mean

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Speaker 6: you're talking about a minor, minor percent that go pro.

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Speaker 6: But even Division one soccer players now if you look

626
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Speaker 6: at a Division one roster on a bad team, it's

627
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Speaker 6: two thirds foreign and then the transfer portal. Right, so

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Speaker 6: if you're looking at Division one rosters, you're looking at kids.

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Speaker 6: They don't have their high schools listed, they have their

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Speaker 6: first two colleges listed, and most of them are from

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Speaker 6: outside the country. That's what Division one rosters are compiled

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Speaker 6: on that for the most part, I mean even locally.

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Speaker 6: You can look at our local programs, I mean Temple

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Speaker 6: with dau saying close, they're loaded up with internationals, right,

635
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Speaker 6: you know, it's really difficult for a kid like I have,

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Speaker 6: probably and Danie'll tell you, probably one of the best

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Speaker 6: players in the area issue and he's All State, he's

638
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Speaker 6: also out Eastern Pennsylvania. He's first team All Interact and

639
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Speaker 6: he's the MVP of the week. He's got some of

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Speaker 6: the best vision i'd seen, I mean ball skill, you

641
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Speaker 6: know he's got at all. But he's under six foot

642
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Speaker 6: and he's an America. He's a senior at the end

643
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Speaker 6: of the season, and he doesn't have an offer yet,

644
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Speaker 6: and he's an MLS next kid who's dedicated time and

645
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 6: money and gave up, I mean gave up going to

646
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Speaker 6: proms and gave up going to homecomings and to play soccer.

647
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Speaker 6: And he's a kid, you know, outside looking in at

648
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Speaker 6: the college level right now. And when I tell you

649
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Speaker 6: he's one of the best players, I'm twenty eight years in.

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Speaker 6: He's the best forward I've ever coached in high school.

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Speaker 6: And he doesn't have a college He did not have

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Speaker 6: a college offer yet.

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Speaker 5: The college landscape, especially with the offers, so say some teams, right,

654
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 5: they're investing in the really you know, the major sports football, basketball, right, baseball,

655
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Speaker 5: But with soccer it kind of sometimes it gets left aside.

656
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Speaker 5: Where you have a roster of twenty four and your

657
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Speaker 5: Division one program, they say, you have eleven scholarships, so

658
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Speaker 5: you got to figure it out.

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Speaker 4: You got to split that up. So then far and

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Speaker 4: you know, if you come from abroad, the funding is different.

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Speaker 5: They you know, they might have more final the financial

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Speaker 5: aid package is different. There's different programs they can get in,

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Speaker 5: so they have to get creative in the way they

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Speaker 5: attack it. And then obviously with the transferporter, like Bobby said,

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Speaker 5: so it's like there's no doubt this kid's a Division

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Speaker 5: one player, but how he's going to get there is

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Speaker 5: something that he's gonna have to process. Do I go

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Speaker 5: to a high academic D three and just stay at

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Speaker 5: one school for four years? Or if my dream is

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Speaker 5: to get to that Division one level, I might have

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Speaker 5: to bounce around two times three times.

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Speaker 2: I get real quick, because we got like thirty seconds.

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Speaker 3: But Bobby, if that kid that good, can he play

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Speaker 3: in a professional setting? Do you think like abroad? And

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Speaker 3: how do you get noticed like that?

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Speaker 6: It's probably too late for that to happen for him.

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Speaker 6: I think McDermott what he's talking about with going into

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Speaker 6: the Union program young and living there and you know,

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Speaker 6: being an everyday player for them, that's probably to pay

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Speaker 6: as way to play in professional a lot more than

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Speaker 6: coming through high school and going to college.

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Speaker 2: I gotcha.

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Speaker 6: Probably the pathway to play and pro and being seen

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Speaker 6: and they because they do a great job of getting

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Speaker 6: you seen, right, I mean over So that's probably a

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Speaker 6: point play. The problem is getting into those programs right.

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Speaker 6: Always have the best twenty kids in those programs now,

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Speaker 6: because and listen, that's a whole nother thing.

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Speaker 2: Us.

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Speaker 6: The US is like sixteenth in the world. We have

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Speaker 6: three hundred and fifty million people. If you add up

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Speaker 6: the top fifteen, it's to combine it's not many more

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Speaker 6: people than three hundred and fifty million, you know what

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Speaker 6: I mean? So what are we doing wrong with the

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Speaker 6: population we have playing soccer that the rest of the

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Speaker 6: world is getting right and that that's a whole other issue.

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Speaker 3: But well, well I'm going to get you back because

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Speaker 3: we got World Cup coming up. This is a it's

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Speaker 3: gonna be a big year for soccer. Bobby, Awesome, congratulations

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Speaker 3: once again. You're fantastic, buddy. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll get you back on Bob. I appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: Brother.

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Speaker 6: Great talking to you guys, love listening.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Pal.

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Speaker 3: show posting right after we get off the air a

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Speaker 3: couple of things, and then I got a question from

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Speaker 3: a parent that I want to hit you up.

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Speaker 2: But we were, you were, we did our.

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Speaker 3: Top five, our top ten basketball and in fact you

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Speaker 3: mentioned the school in Indiana. Yes, right, yep, and uh

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Speaker 3: it's it's really interesting. Here's the kids. Banks to Bill Kittle,

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Speaker 3: who's checking in on Twitter, he said, the recruit out

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Speaker 3: of Fishers, Indiana.

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Speaker 2: He said that area is a sports powerhouse.

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Speaker 3: Westfield next door hosts the Regional Little League, hosts the

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Speaker 3: Regional Little League, the Regional Little League, Carmel, Fishers, Brownsburg, Noblesville, Westfield.

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Speaker 2: It's a very wealthy area. They got great facilities.

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Speaker 3: And you know, he said, you heard of Caitlyn Clark,

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Speaker 3: the Fevers spending seventy eight million.

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Speaker 2: Dollars on a facility.

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Speaker 3: Wow, right, he said, last fall run into Gary Payton

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Speaker 3: in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 2: All right, like there it is.

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Speaker 4: It's it's indian big hoops man.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's big time. And you know they're they're investing

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Speaker 5: in it. You can see it right, you know, the

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Speaker 5: Pacers had a big run. They have you know, they

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Speaker 5: have Kitland Clark there. I think the state's embracing it

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Speaker 5: in the high school is you know a part of it, right,

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Speaker 5: They're they're investing in it from the youth level up.

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Speaker 3: So I love it and it's awesome, right Like this

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Speaker 3: is you know again, I know I have this argument

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Speaker 3: with people.

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Speaker 2: And we're gonna get to one of the parents questions.

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Speaker 3: But I was arguing with a friend of mine about

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Speaker 3: this whole world. And look, I know it's professionalization of

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Speaker 3: youth sports, and I get it. But if we're putting

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Speaker 3: resources into kids and we're getting them active and playing,

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Speaker 3: and I mean, that's not a bad How's that a

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Speaker 3: bad thing?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: For sure, No, I love it.

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Speaker 5: I love when people get behind it, invested in and

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Speaker 5: you know, give these kids an opportunity to develop at

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Speaker 5: a high level and give them the opportunities, right.

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Speaker 4: I think that's all what it's all about.

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Speaker 5: It that you know, at the high school level and

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Speaker 5: the youth sports level, and when people do it, it's great.

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Speaker 4: Things happened from it.

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Speaker 3: I think we're seeing the benefit now, uh, in in

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Speaker 3: professional sports. Like if you look at the receiver play

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Speaker 3: in football, it's so far better than the receiver player

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Speaker 3: of the past. Like these kids are making catches like

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Speaker 3: they're they're toe taps, they're they're catches, their hands, the

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Speaker 3: uh you know, staying in bounds. You didn't see that.

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Speaker 3: This is a byproduct of today's athlete.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's with some of the individual work, right,

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Speaker 5: that's some stuff that they're practicing that in the past

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Speaker 5: that wasn't you know, emphasized as much or they didn't

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Speaker 5: spend enough time on. But with the specialization, they're practicing

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Speaker 5: that way more often than they have before.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: And then they're you know, the science behind it and

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Speaker 5: how you did you know your body's developing and the

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Speaker 5: weight training and you know, the agility and be training

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Speaker 5: is all at the high highest level it's ever been.

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Speaker 5: So these kids have the ability to really you know,

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Speaker 5: perfect the craft and you know, there's more talent, like

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Speaker 5: you said, than there ever been, especially at the skill positions.

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Speaker 3: So h Brian am in Wisconsin wants to know what

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Speaker 3: at what age and we're gonna have been left there.

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Speaker 2: At what age do you start training?

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Speaker 3: Like do you go out and get specific trainers h

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Speaker 3: for a sport?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it varies on the kid and the level that

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Speaker 5: I want them to love it first, right, but if

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Speaker 5: they're all in and they want to get better, I

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Speaker 5: don't see an issue, you know, seven eight years old

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Speaker 5: really diving into it. You really want to make sure

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Speaker 5: that the kid has a passion for it, right. You

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Speaker 5: don't want to force anything on them, but if they're

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Speaker 5: asking you, hey dad or hey mom, I want to

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Speaker 5: go out, and really, you know, play more, play more,

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Speaker 5: I want to get better.

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Speaker 4: I want to get better.

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Speaker 5: I think it's you know, it's definitely an avenue to

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Speaker 5: look at and again be strategic with it, like we've

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Speaker 5: talked about in the past.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like I would advise a pitch and I would

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Speaker 3: wait until like seven.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, case by case. But yeah, you know, continue to

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Speaker 5: ask us those questions.

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Speaker 4: And we can help navigate it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's gonna do it for us, Danny, quickest

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Speaker 3: hour of my week. All right, great stuff, everybody, stay tuned.

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Speaker 3: Fellas coming up next,