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So some 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.280 awesome coaches we've sat down with, and these are some 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.760 of the favorite moments from those coaches. Dan Lanning at 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:28.680 Oregon's my new friend. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.039 Well, yeah, that's awesome new friend. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.080 Yeah yeah, sometimes he texted me it's pretty cool. Well 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.399 three times ever, three times ever, three times ever. First up, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.959 we're gonna start there number one overall seed in the 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.240 College Football Playoff. Oregon's head coach Dan Lanning. We went 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.560 to Eugene this past summer, and I will say it 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.319 is not an easy trip to get there. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.120 No, it is further than I thought. It's a lot, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:49.680 but it's beautiful out there. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.880 It better be because it's not even it's not even near, 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:54.640 like you go to Portland and you gotta drive a 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.280 couple hours. Sure, but yeah, but he was awesome. The 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.520 facility amazing. I mean, they have Nike money and they 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.840 went Amazings and so now they have a shot at 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.160 finishing the season undefeated, win a national championship. So big 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.600 thanks to University of Oregon and coach Landing for having 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.600 us out. Here's about ten minutes of my favorite part 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.239 of that conversation. Coach, thanks, appreciate you being here. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.760 Actually we're here. I guess you're already here, so I 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.960 appreciate us to be in here, right, Yeah, yes for coming. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:23.480 I got a couple questions for you when I was 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.040 looking at kind of your history. You went from being 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.040 a GA obviously to a position coach, but then back 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.440 to a GA at Bama. Was that a tough call 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.600 for you to take a step back, but the program 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:36.399 was a step up? 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.080 Yeah, it really wasn't. I knew I had more to learn. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.040 Certainly financially it didn't make a lot of sense, but 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.760 from a professional development standpoint, it was definitely the right move. 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:52.160 How much do you say when it comes to what 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.960 uniforms are going to wear or what uniforms are going 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.640 to be created. Do you ever see one that doesn't 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.799 even get to the player's eyes because you're like that 0:02:58.840 --> 0:02:59.919 one is not good? 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.240 Sometimes there's a no, but but once once we have 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.880 the go, that's kind of where I step out, right, 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.160 so I get to see him in advance. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.480 But our creative team, our design group, uh. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.240 They do they do an unbelievable job and then they 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.320 get a lot of feedback from our players. Right, Kenny 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.280 Farr does a great job working with Nike and you 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.960 know those guys that create some some awesome get ups. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:21.440 For our guys. 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.240 But a lot of times we get to the game 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:24.799 on Saturday, when I walk out the tunnel, that's when 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:25.200 I see. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:25.720 It the first time. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.640 No way, not not the very first time. But like, 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.880 but I'm not that week. I'm a lot more. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.400 Worried about the opponent than what we're gonna work to 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:32.639 the game. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.920 I feel like my party jerseys. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.760 So do you have like a guy that will say 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.160 to you, hey, this looks great? This does it? Is 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.000 there a an aesthetics head of aesthetics here? 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.920 No, we have an equipment manager, you know, and he's 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.000 on top of it, he does as good job as 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:52.600 anybody in the nation. In fact, I think he's the 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.040 best in the nation. When it comes to piecing this together. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.680 It's Kenny farr H. And again he does a great 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.000 job of meeting with our players, collaborating with them, collaborate 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:00.440 reading with. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.480 Nike to create some really cool setups for our guys. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.040 Coach of the network loves highlighting your excitement and you 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.400 pumping up the team. And there's always a video montage 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.640 of somewhere during the game. Do you sometimes go home 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.800 and watch and be like, oh, man, like went too hard? 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:15.800 I went way too hard. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:16.279 You know. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.000 I don't normally watch the TV copy. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.760 You know, at times we might go back and like 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.800 peel through it for you know, to to make sure 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.920 we don't putting any signals on film or things like that. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.760 But I don't spend a lot of time watching that. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.480 And I'm never gonna be I'm never gonna apologize for passion. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.760 I think the players are going to match your energy 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.840 and enthusiasm, So that's something I always want to carry 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:36.279 on the field. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:41.760 You mentioned you're not gonna watch signal, possibly because signals 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.680 could be out there that that's not really a thing anymore. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.000 I think it'll still exist in college football just because 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.760 there's still gonna be some teams that carry tempo, and 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.640 if you're you know, reliant to just giving the call 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.599 and when to one guy in the field, you're probably 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.080 going to be short. You know, you want eleven guys 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.159 playing the same call on both sides of the ball. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.520 So at times, I think signals will still exist. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.440 Are you advocating now that every player has communication to 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:03.560 their helmet because that's what I hear. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.720 Yeah, i'd be, I'd be. I'd be great with that. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.600 There's probably some guys that there's such thing as too 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.000 much information too. When you get on the field, your 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.640 best players, you just wanted to be all play. But yeah, 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.599 I think there's probably a benefit to just to where 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.680 everybody can hear the call, and that would. 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:19.559 That would certainly help things. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.599 What if everybody else could talk back? Because I worked 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.240 at Hobby Lobby for a while and they gave me 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:25.680 a speaker. I was on the thing all the time 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:26.920 and I didn't need to say anything. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.680 You ever been on alwaukie talkie where the other guy's 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:30.920 always talking and you can ever. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.039 Yeah, that was me and hobby lobby. They'd be like, hey, 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.440 go down and set up this display. And I was like, hey, guys, 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.839 if you look at three like I out three like 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.480 she's got to you know that kind of stuff. 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.359 So, yeah, that probably wouldn't be good right and not 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:43.000 be a good thing. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:47.000 Do you ever feel like you you'll change your offense 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.080 or defense based on personnel that comes in if the 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.360 talent is so strikingly Let's say, you know, you run 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.320 wide open, but let's say the guy comes in and 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.680 is a straight ahead runner and maybe doesn't need it 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.640 as well open, Will you change your offense at all 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:01.960 for that? 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:02.640 Absolutely? 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.480 I think a coach's job is to match the you know, 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.520 the talents of his personnel, and that's, you know, going 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:09.960 back to being a high school coach, I think you 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:11.280 have to look and see what your players do. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.440 Best and try to make sure you're utilizing their talents. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:18.320 When you were your first GA job, what was the 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.520 goal for you there? Was it to be a head 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:21.720 coach at a major university? 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.080 Yeah? I mean that that was a goal early on. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.240 But you know, early in my career, I think I 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:28.800 figured out just be the best at where I'm at 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:30.560 and try to do jobs that nobody else wants to do. 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.400 When you're defensive cornator Georgia. I hated you, man, I 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.240 hated you. Who's your team Arkansas? 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:35.800 Yeah? 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.440 Yeah, I hate you. 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:38.599 Get that coach? 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.080 Yeah, And you know, not every O C or d 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.480 C is known, especially when you' under somebody like a 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.560 Kirby Smart or a Nick Saban, two guys that you've worked. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:48.200 With, right, both those guys. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.640 I hated you because there was there was no opportunity. 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.520 It was ugly when you have the players like that 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.240 and you're playing I don't know, let's let's just make 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.400 up a team Arkansas and they're week do you know, 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.240 like this game all we have to do, If we 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.320 do exactly what we've set forward, it is. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.320 Going to be over. They are not going to get anything. 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:07.840 You know. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.600 The great thing about football is you never really feel 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.960 that way. And I get nervous before every single game. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.400 Certainly we have more talent than Arkansas when we played them. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.920 But Arkansas, No, No, we're talking about hypothetical. 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:21.600 How's the talent for Arkansas? 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:22.120 No? 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.280 No, no, no, it's better. Is that a better coach? 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:24.560 Yeah? 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.960 Yeah, yeah, I mean I think anytime you go in 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.160 there knowing that if you don't, if you don't accomplish 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.960 your goals and really, you know, operate on the same page, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.800 you got an opportunity to lose in college football, and 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.440 that's part of what makes the game so great. So 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.160 we try to prepare for every game the same and 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:40.760 and hope that we go play our best and the 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.720 result hopefully takes care of itself. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.920 When you walk into a mom or a dad or 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.040 a grandma who remember raises the athlete that you're trying 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.480 to recruit, What do they know about you? Once you're gone? 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.640 That makes them want to come here? Once I'm gone, Yeah, 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.080 once you leave the room, once you leave the house. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.160 Just then I'm authentic, Like I'm the same guy today 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.720 that I was, you know, twenty years ago. I hope 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.560 that's what people can always say about me, that just 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.840 because positions have changed and situations changed, that I'm the 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.480 same person and that family. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:08.800 Matters to me. 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.560 I think if you're in the room with me for 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.280 ten minutes, you're probably gonna hear about my boys and 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.960 my wife, and that's something that's important to me. And 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.000 that we treat the players on our team the same way. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.360 Sometimes I'll see and I have a little warehouse. We do. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.240 I have a little clothing line. It's we do a 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:23.960 lot of charity work with our clothing line. And we 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.920 have one of those little machines that Prince Olta shirts. 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.360 I feel like here there's like a one of those, 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:30.600 you know, apparel printing machines. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.240 You just get anything you want printed. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:33.480 Is it on campus or do you have to have 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.840 a ship to you because it's NonStop everything's Nike, Oregon everything. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.560 Yeah, it's a good setup. You know, we've got an 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:39.800 awesome relationship with Nike. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.559 I don't know about that's the White House here though, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:42.280 right I couldn't. 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:43.040 I couldn't answer that. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:43.520 That's a secret. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.200 I know this when I show up to my locker and. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.640 I open it up, there's there's a stuff, and that's 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.640 it's pretty awesome. Like I said, Kenny Fard does a 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.360 great job of taking care of our staff. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.600 And our players. Yeah, we don't run out of gear. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.360 I didn't used to consider myself a shoe guy, and 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:56.840 now now I got too many. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.160 Shoes without identifying anyone. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.040 Were there ever colors that you just didn't like wearing 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:06.600 because you didn't like the colors? Not here, not Oregon 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.120 in other schools you've been at, because some if I 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.000 had to wear orange, I'll be honest with you, burnt 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.200 or Tennessee orange, I might quit just for that. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.679 Yeah, I guess color never been that. I've never been 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.959 that much of a fashionista. I'm not a big fan 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.160 of purple, but beyond that, I'm pretty good with any color. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.680 I guess, so light purple probably wouldn't be your jam. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:25.480 Not m cham like the U c. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:26.880 A Bears, you wouldn't go coach at UC. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:27.559 I would go. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.920 I'll coach where there's a job. I'm not going to 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.720 make my decisions based off of color. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.720 But luckily for me, I found my last job you 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.480 played at UCA was coach Norbal at Florida State. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.520 That's right, and you worked with coach there? What was 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:39.880 he like? 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.800 Yeah, he's awesome, like relentless, you know, works works his 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.280 taiale off, extremely intelligent, willing to get in there, and 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.240 coach will coach every position on the on the field. 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:52.560 You know, unbelievable family. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.400 You know, whenever I work with coach, it's the same 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:55.839 time my wife got diagnosed. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:56.880 With cancer and he was really good for me and 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:57.360 my family. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.480 Then I'll run through a couple and then coach, what 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:01.320 did you learn from him? 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.480 Consistency? You know, the guy's a robot. 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.280 He Uh, every morning he's rolling in the office the 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:07.920 exact same time. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.440 We're gonna have a staff me in the same time. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:09.840 You know. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.120 His his routine was really impressive to see, whether it's 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.840 what he's eating every morning or every lunch, the way 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.200 he operates day in and day out was was really impressive. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:25.640 Coach smart, yeah, just uh, enthusiasm, passion, intelligence, ability to adapt. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.200 Always thought he was on the cutting edge of things 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:29.440 and always looking for an edge. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.320 I mean, bones is rolling through all these great coaches 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.839 that you worked with, the schools, but he's forgetting Sam 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.480 Houston State, we're probably the best school in America. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.680 About the donut shops in Huntsville, Oh, the best, the best, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.400 And I think her cap at a donut shops per talent, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:45.800 I think it's gotta be one of the hut. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.760 What was your I mean, what was that experience? Like 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:50.840 a lot of people are gonna want to hear about this. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.440 Yeah, yes, for social Yeah. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.800 So I worked with Casey Keeler was the head coach there, 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.360 and that was that was a great coach to be under. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.800 He really gave you an opportunity to figure out how. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.000 You want to do things. You know, he let his 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:02.720 coaches coach. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.040 He'd push you, he'd questioned you, but he gave you 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:07.800 an opportunity to go, you know, make it what you 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.320 wanted to make it. So your dB meeting that day, 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.120 your corners meeting that day, it was, you know, how 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:12.760 do you want to build it? 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.120 What do you want to look like? The drill work 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:14.400 you did. 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.680 On the field, and you make some mistakes, but you 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.120 also learned a lot in the process. So I love 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.679 my time there at SAM and it's you know, it's it. 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.480 It wasn't the bus league at that time, but you 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.680 take some long road trips, you know, you do hop 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.760 on a charter bus from time to time. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.119 To get the places. 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.200 And you know, that's something that I think everybody should 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.560 experience in their coaching career. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.240 Going to Sam Houston, keeping it real. I think everybody 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:36.719 should go to SAM. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.719 That's at some point, That's all I says. 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.920 Everybody must go to Sam Houston State to coach at 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.480 some point. Now, I think you know, my wife and 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.400 I have this discussion too. We met at a restaurant 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.400 we worked at out back steakhouse together. And I think 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.200 the other thing that everybody should do is some point 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.920 you should work in the service industry. You should get stiffed, 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.720 at some point, you should get an unbelievable tip, at 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.160 some point you should, you know, learn how to you know, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.760 make the people at your table happy and learn how 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.760 to deal with Okay, the food came out late or 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:01.200 it came. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.240 Out and it's not even waiter's fault, but sometimes you 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:03.640 have to be. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.160 Sometimes like the head coach, like it an't always your fault, 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.040 but you got to take it and go and take responsibility. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.240 Can you solve a problem? Yeah, can you solve a problem? 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.760 So that's something else that you know. I'm a big 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.319 believer in that everybody should have to do that at 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:14.960 some point. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.839 Next up, also in the college football playoff, is Boys 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.360 he head coach Spencer Danielson, who still looks young enough 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.079 to be like a sophomore on. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.160 The team, makes us feel real old. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:26.480 Coach. 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.760 Danielson was hired in twenty twenty three after starting out 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.760 as a GA in twenty seventeen, so he's been there 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.880 the whole time, worked himself up the ranks. He now 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.800 has a team in the college football Playoff. They even 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.199 got a bye. It's pretty awesome. We really enjoyed Coach Danielson. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.040 Here he is coach Spencer Danielson. What is your man 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.280 cave like at home or your office? You know, because 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:46.719 a lot you probably have a lot of screens and 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.600 you can easily just say it's an office, like, what 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:49.600 is your place like at home? 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:49.880 Coach? 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.800 I'll be honest, guys, I don't have a man cave. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.880 I got two little girls, a three and a half 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.319 year old and a two and a half year old. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.560 So the spare room we have is filled with dressed 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.600 up elsa from Frozen. There's a little kitchen in there 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:07.040 with a bunch of fake food. So when I come home, man, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.679 I joke with people that the beautiful thing about being 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.120 a girl dad is you know how much those. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.480 Two little girls care about football? Not one bit? 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.160 You know when I come home. Literally last night, I 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.560 came home and my wife bought this t Rex dress 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.000 up costume that my three year old was ready to 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.200 scare me when I walked. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:24.440 In the door. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.560 So it's you know, it's so cool to be able 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.320 to blend those things, especially as a coach. You have to, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.920 I mean my girls come to practice a ton. I 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.360 want our coach to bring their families around. So at home, 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.840 I don't really got the bad caveto my wife. I'll 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.160 put whatever game's on in the in the living room 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.560 and I'll be, you know, watching the girls, and then 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:42.880 this out this side of my as. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.439 I'll be watching some football. But it's my wife's a 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:45.880 rock star. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.520 I mean we met in college at a Zuza Pacific, 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.240 which I'm sure you guys have never heard of. 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:51.520 It's okay, it's the Harvard. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.160 Of the West, and you know, it's just it's been 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:55.920 an awesome just experience for us through the year. This 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.520 is year number eight for us at Boise, So this 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.400 has really become home. Like it's a great place to 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.720 live and thrive. And everything I do is to impact 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.000 these kids. And I'm open about my faith. I talked 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.160 to our players about loving Jesus a lot, and some 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:11.720 people don't like that. I'm like, well, this is me. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.480 It's my foundation, and so just so hombled and blessed 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:15.559 to be here and be a part of it. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.480 How do you find time to be a good husband 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.880 during season? I travel a lot. If I'm either doing 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.480 stand up or whatever, project. I'm on the road a lot, 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.720 but my wife and I really have dedicated like Tuesday 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.480 evenings even for like four hours, we specifically have that time. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.800 Now for you, it could possibly be different during the 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.720 season than not, But how do you make sure you 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.600 can still dedicate some time to your wife and family 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.200 during a football season. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.560 Yeah, so much of it is just and I'm working 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.480 on it every single day. I'm not gonna sit here 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:44.920 and say that I got to figure it out by 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:45.360 any means. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.600 We're going on year ten of marriage, and first off 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.360 is a testament to my wife. She's a rock star. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.280 But I mean Coach Pete's a huge mentor of mine. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.920 And you know something I've took it from him is 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.240 just blending your home life with you do it with football, 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.240 and then you just got to be intentional. So like 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.760 even in a game week situation like Sundays, I try 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.960 to make sure I get home Sundays, make sure I 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.680 get dinner with the family and put our girls to sleep, 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.440 like that's a non negotiable. Tuesdays after practice, me and 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.240 my wife outside. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.000 Of Boise, we gotta right our outside of our facility. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:20.480 There's a river. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.960 Me and my wife on Tuesdays after practice, will go 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.600 on a thirty minute walk and just talk about life, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.000 how the girls are doing, how she's doing. We have 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.000 a we're expecting another baby in March, so kind of 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.080 going through how she's feeling. And then on Thursday night 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.680 is date night for us. And then depending if it's 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.640 home or away, kind of going through those things. And 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.080 then so much of it is trying to get our 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.000 you know, my girls and my wife in the facility, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:48.120 around around our players, because not just for the connection 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.600 with me and my family, but I think one for 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.800 our kids to see us working, because even as a 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.800 young kids, they just you're either home or you're at work, right, 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.120 there's not sometimes they can't even calculate why is my 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.520 dad not here? Or I want them to see what 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.280 their dad's doing, and I want them to see there's 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.200 quality and hard work, like hard work means a lot, like. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.760 There's no substitute for it. And I also want our players. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.880 A lot of our players come from home situations where 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.920 they didn't have a dad. I mean they're raised by 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.000 their mom, their auntie, their grandma, maybe a coach. So 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.560 I want them not that we're perfect examples. We're working 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.400 our tailoft always improved, but I want them to see 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.680 what a husband and a father looks like. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.120 We got players in our team that are dads. Want 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.880 them to see what this looks like. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.080 Not perfect, it's not about perfection, but seeing us in 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.080 that space. For our players to be around, those things 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.000 are huge. So try and be very intentional with the 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.240 time we have, especially in season, and make sure that 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.520 it's on my schedule. This is my time with my wife, 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:44.960 or this is the time that I'm doing this. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:46.080 And try to stick to as much we can. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:47.880 We have a lot of parents that will listen to 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:49.840 the show and talk about and ask questions about. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:50.840 Their kids playing sports. 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.720 Would you prefer a kid play a bunch of sports 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.240 or really dedicate themselves to one. 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:57.280 I would love. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.280 Someone to play as many sports as they can. I'm 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:04.160 such a firm and just playing as many sports as 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.560 you can from the youngest age you can play them. 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.640 And I just think being able to build the overall 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.160 athlete is such a big deal. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.159 And I see all the way through high school, like 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.119 I love like we I want to recruit guys that 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.800 run track, play basketball, baseball because it just shows the 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.320 different skill set that they're into and especially even more 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.119 college has become college footballs becoming even so much more specific, 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.200 and they are recruiting where guys are getting offers as 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.760 freshman high school. We don't do a lot of that 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.560 because we're a developmental program. I got to see how 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.840 you're developing from fourteen to fifteen to sixteen years old, 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:41.600 to see what that fit is. And I want to 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.520 see someone you know, running track playing basketball, because I 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.159 think there's you're building an overall athletic skill set, not 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.760 maybe just so specific to what you're doing on the 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:52.960 high school football field. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.679 Yeah, coach, he's talking about parents, you know. So at 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.399 the middle school level, high school level, you're dealing with 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.439 a lot of parents is getting involved with their kids, 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.120 and the coaches have to deal with that. What about 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.000 the college level, do you have to deal with parents 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.400 of players and tell them like, whoh, I got this. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:10.560 I'd say a little bit more of the door. I 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.560 mean so for me, I mean just and. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.280 Once again I say this stuff by no means that 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.560 I got to figure out. It's just my heart and 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.960 it's who God made me. When I say we're a 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.480 developmental program, you need to make sure everybody's involved in 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.679 developing these kids. So when when with our players, I 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.159 zoom with our parents once a month. So once a 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.600 month there's a zoom set where every parent will get 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.600 on a zoom we'll talk about our team, where we're at. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.680 Every week, my assistant will send out a weekly newsletter 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:39.600 kind of like. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.879 Hey, these are some highlights from the week. These are 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.000 some guys that are you know, doing some really good things. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:45.720 Blah blah blah. 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.840 And then I'm involved with our parents like and I 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.720 don't I don't talk much about playing time, but I 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.480 tell me, if you are concerned and you're frustrated, I 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.520 want you to call me and not sit on those 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.320 things because I want to be able to be real 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.080 and open with them. I believe in truth, and so 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.440 if a parent is frustrated that their teams should be 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.840 or their sons should be playing more, I want them 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:06.679 to call me because I'd rather tell you this is 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:08.679 why your son is not These are the things that 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.919 he's struggling in because they're only getting one side of 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.480 the story. They're getting the story that you know. I'm 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:15.879 not playing because of these things. I want to give 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.520 them the truth of this is where we need your. 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:17.840 Son to grow. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.680 And so I want to keep the lines of communication open, 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.480 and especially in this you know, new landscape of college 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.880 football with the transfer portal, is I want our parents 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.240 to know exactly what we're doing and how we're developing 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.560 their sons. And I believe that we're going to develop 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.359 their sons better than any other school. Maybe other schools 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.560 can offer them other things, but there's not going to 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:38.800 be a place that they're going to develop more. 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.240 And I think being. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.200 On the same page with these parents and just being 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.760 intentional to be upfront with them, and that's where that's 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:47.800 why I zoom with them once a month so they 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.040 can know my messaging. 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:50.880 This is what when. 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.440 We talk about practice performance like, this is what I mean. 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.320 So if your son is performing in practice, you're going 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.520 to see him play more in the game. If your 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.880 son is not playing in the game, you know that 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.440 that's probably because he's not performing. 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:05.480 The way we need him to in practice. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.840 So I'm intentional to be truthful with our parents to 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.320 know the landscape so then they can filter through some 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.359 of the information they're maybe getting from their sons. 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.840 If there's a concert coming to Boise and who is 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:19.119 it that you will not miss? 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.399 Oh, good question, I'm probably more on the on the 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:26.520 country side of things. I don't listen to a ton 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.360 of music. I listened to a lot of worship music. 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:32.480 I like Elevation Maverick City are two of my favorite 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:35.000 worship band. But I'd say like country artists. I'm a 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.040 huge Luke Holms guy. He came to the Blue a 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:41.800 couple of years ago. Didn't miss it. 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.320 Who else would I say? I like Morgan wall And. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.920 If there's a if there's a country concert coming to 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.800 boise Ido and we're not doing football, I'm gonna I 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.639 finally got some cowboy boots this offseason, so you better 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.120 believe that I'm gonna be I'll be rocket those. 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:01.919 To final question, do you ever just want to give 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.480 yourself the game ball in front of everybody? 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.480 Give it to me, boys, look at me. This is 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.639 what I got going up. I mean, I'll be honest, No, 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:11.600 i'd either's. 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.920 I mean, I just I'm one of those guys that's 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.920 probably overly emotional, Like every time I talk to our team, 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.800 I gotta fight crying because I just love these kids. 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:22.919 I mean, I see the work they put in, the 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:23.679 grind they do. 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:27.680 I mean, when it's January, Ashon gent's doing up downs 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.320 in the snow, and then you see them do what 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.479 they do. That's why I mean after these games, I'm 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:37.480 emotional because you know, I I just am so respectful 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:39.879 of our players not running from hard work, not taking 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:43.320 the easy road, doing you know, really enjoying hard stuff. 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:46.760 And I think that's uncommon in college football right now. 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:50.080 And I'm not saying that makes us better perfect by 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:52.280 any means, but I do think. You know, Boise State 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:54.680 is built on this blue collar mentality, and our players 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.040 do that every day. That doesn't mean that we're gonna 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:59.040 win every game. It means that we're gonna give ourselves 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.080 a good shot. So I could say after the games 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:06.240 that I haven't had that fight in my heart. I've 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:07.840 been giving a couple and I'm like, man, give this 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:09.479 to the guy that just score five touchdown. 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:12.160 I didn't do anything. I'm a I'm a glorified cheerleader. 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:14.199 Coach, we really appreciate the time we're rooting for you. 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:15.080 I appreciate you. 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:17.919 Moving on to Marcus Freeman, he's the head coach at 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:19.760 Notre Dame, and he made me feel like I could 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:22.440 go play at Notre Dame right now totally. I probably 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:26.200 wouldn't because it's cold. And that's the only reason I 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:28.560 could for him. I can play linebacker. I'm not going 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.440 to play that anywhere. It's freezing cold there. But man, 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:34.480 this dude he played linebacker at Ohio State. 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:35.520 He was the. 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:40.000 Defensive coordinator, and then when Brian Kelly left to go 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.000 to LSU, he became the inne Roman, then the head coach. 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:45.040 I mean, he still looks like he can go right now. 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:49.800 So Marcus Freeman from Notre Dame. Here is Coach Freeman. Hey, coach, 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:51.000 thank you very much for the time. 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:53.840 We really appreciate it absolutely, man, glad to be on here. 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:56.919 Question number one, when you're recruiting a kid, do they 0:22:56.920 --> 0:22:58.400 ever say it's just too cold up there? 0:22:58.440 --> 0:22:58.720 Coach? 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:04.200 If they say that, I probably turn away as fast 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:06.879 as I can. You know, I let them know that. Listen, man, 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:10.320 we got jackets, we have indoor stadium, an indoor practice facility. 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.840 I'm from the north, I'm from Ohio, a Midwest guy, 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:16.840 and so listen, cold is cold, and you don't ever 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:18.199 get used to it. You just got to put on 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:21.720 more clothes and at some point you'll you'll figure it out. 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:25.680 But you know, most kids that say, coach, I can't 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:27.280 play in the cold. You know right away you're not 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:27.880 going to get them. 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:30.280 What's like the trick to catching balls in the cold. 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:31.280 I know you look at me and you go, that 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:32.960 guy was a heck of a high school receiver, and coach, 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:34.840 I accept that. Thank you for saying that in your mind. 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:37.600 But I always struggle catching balls in the cold. I 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:40.439 catch balls in the warm, but catching balls in the cold, like, 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:43.399 what is the key to catching a ball in cold weather? 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:45.159 You know, I think you've got to try to keep 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:47.960 your hands warm, Like, if your hands are frozen, you're 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:50.159 not going to be a great pass catcher. And so 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:54.399 you know, obviously hand warmers, they have those, the handwarmers 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:58.320 that you were outside of your uniform. But in between plays, 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:02.399 it's really important to keep your hands warm, and so 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:04.919 you have to use different things to make sure that happens. 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:07.280 That that might be handwarmers inside your glove, that might 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:09.240 be a couple of different things. But if your hands 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:10.680 are frozed, you're not gonna catch that ball. 0:24:10.760 --> 0:24:12.800 Can you wear doctors gloves inside of a glove? 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:15.840 Yeah, there's some players that do that. There's some coaches 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:16.280 that do that. 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:19.240 Dang that's what I would do, because we'd be in 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:21.280 the deer woods and I wear doctors gloves underneath gloves, 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:22.560 and I was made fun of. Do you guys make 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:24.040 fun of people who do that? Because if so, I 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:24.760 take offense. 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:26.240 Not. 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:29.360 As as long as you get your job done, nobody's 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:31.560 gonna make funey. You always say there's no there's no 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:34.520 such thing as a cold tough guy. And so you 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:36.800 know if you're if you're cold, you're cold. You're not 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:38.760 being a tough guy. So do whatever it takes and 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:39.840 make sure you're warm. 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:43.399 Now you're gonna be humble here. I would prefer you not, 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:45.439 but maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle. Do 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.400 you think you could play a solid two to three 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:55.000 minutes a game right now you've said enough. 0:24:56.680 --> 0:24:56.960 Enough? 0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:00.760 Yeah, it depends on what the offense is doing. But yeah, listen, 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:02.640 I mean, my pride is telling me I could give 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:07.800 you two to three minutes. The outcome might be something 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:12.119 that the offensive defense doesn't want, but you, my pride 0:25:12.160 --> 0:25:13.959 tells me, yeah, I could play a couple of plays. 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:15.960 If you win a big game, how quickly do you 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:18.360 go home? Do you have a bit of family time 0:25:18.400 --> 0:25:20.640 at home or do you get right to film that 0:25:20.760 --> 0:25:22.520 evening depending on who the next opponent is. 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:25.200 Yeah, I go right away. That's just who I am. 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:28.560 If it's an away game, I make sure I evaluate 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:31.199 the game on the plane as we come back. If 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:32.960 it's a home game, I come right into my office. 0:25:33.119 --> 0:25:36.240 For me, it's hard to go home and have family 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:38.760 time when I haven't evaluated the previous game. So I 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:41.280 evaluate that game right away and take some notes and 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:43.600 then go and have a little bit of family time 0:25:43.640 --> 0:25:45.320 and come in on Sunday, and now you can be 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:46.880 ready to move on to the next opponent. 0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:48.880 Tell me about Riley Leonard as a dude. 0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:53.600 He's awesome man. He is just a great human being. 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:56.800 He's a great teammate. There's not enough compliments that I 0:25:56.800 --> 0:26:00.800 can give him, but he is a wonderful for individual. 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:06.159 So after the loss at Northern Illinois, what was the 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:09.200 big takeaway that has changed this team for the good? 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:13.360 I think it's just the mindset that we have to have. 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:17.199 And I said this to the media on the Monday 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:19.640 after that game, is that this is the first time 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:21.600 for me as the head coach of my three years 0:26:21.600 --> 0:26:24.040 that we won that big game early. You know, we 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:26.480 lost to Ohio State the past two years early in 0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:28.600 the season, and it was kind of like you were 0:26:28.880 --> 0:26:30.600 humbled and you got to make sure you're getting ready 0:26:30.600 --> 0:26:32.320 for the next opponent. But this time we won the 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:35.040 big one early over Texas A and M. And I 0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:37.320 think as we look back, we didn't have the right mindset, 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:39.880 the mental approach to this game. And I don't think 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:42.080 anybody in this program believed that we could lose the 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:45.800 Northern Illinois. And you know, sometimes you have too much 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:47.760 pride and you get humbled, and we were humbled. And 0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:50.679 I think I often tell this group in this program, 0:26:50.800 --> 0:26:52.760 like we have to keep that pain and we have 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:56.560 to remember what it was like to lose that game. 0:26:56.600 --> 0:26:59.199 And so we can never lack in the mental approach 0:26:59.200 --> 0:27:01.359 to the preparation. It's not just a physical approach, it's 0:27:01.400 --> 0:27:03.639 a mental approach. And we know if we don't prepare 0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:05.919 the right way and respect our opponents the way we should, 0:27:06.600 --> 0:27:08.720 then we can be beat by anybody in the country. 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:12.160 And so that's what we got to understand. And it's 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:14.520 you know, easy at first to have that mindset. And 0:27:14.560 --> 0:27:17.280 now you've had a couple of wins, and you know 0:27:17.359 --> 0:27:19.760 people are telling you how good this. 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:21.880 Team is, but we got to keep that same mindset. 0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:23.680 It's just this is who we are. 0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:26.080 We're not going back to who we used to be, 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:29.640 and we got to approach every week with the right mindset. 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:31.840 I feel like once in Churchill's pretty cool when I 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:33.840 like read what he had to say. I feel like 0:27:33.920 --> 0:27:36.200 sometimes I listen to Gary Vee and let's talk about 0:27:36.240 --> 0:27:39.080 sports cards. Who is it that you can listen to 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:41.200 talk and it can really fire you up or kind 0:27:41.240 --> 0:27:41.959 of reset you. 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:46.439 Oh man, you know there's a couple of people, you know, 0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:49.399 every once in a while, listen. 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:51.320 To a motivational speech. 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:55.280 You know, we played a Kobe Bryant video the other day, 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:59.000 just talking about the mindset. I might listen to a 0:27:59.119 --> 0:28:03.480 sermon by TD Jakes or something like that. I'll listen 0:28:03.520 --> 0:28:06.000 to a coach. I talked to my college coach, Jim 0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:11.280 Tressel often, who helps, you know, with my mental approach 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:13.879 as the head coach and the leader each week. But 0:28:14.480 --> 0:28:18.160 I think you can grab wisdom from anybody, and it's 0:28:18.200 --> 0:28:21.080 all about you know, are you humble enough to accept 0:28:21.119 --> 0:28:22.200 the wisdom that's out there? 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:24.600 Do you still call coach Tressell coach? 0:28:25.440 --> 0:28:27.200 Absolutely? I always will and. 0:28:27.160 --> 0:28:28.720 That's pretty cool. What about your high school coach, You 0:28:28.760 --> 0:28:29.520 still call him coach? 0:28:30.000 --> 0:28:30.840 I call him coach. 0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:31.800 That's right. 0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:36.119 I think once you have a coach, like especially somebody 0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:38.880 that's older than you and that's impacted you in a 0:28:38.920 --> 0:28:41.600 strong way, like they're always coach to you, and no 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:44.360 matter how long or how old you get, you know 0:28:44.400 --> 0:28:45.560 they're always going to be coach. 0:28:46.640 --> 0:28:49.160 Notre Dame known for their traditional uniforms. We know who 0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:51.479 it is when we see it immediately in the land, though, 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:54.360 of everybody wanting ten thousand uniforms, any idea to put 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:56.040 like a couple of hearts on the side of the helmet, 0:28:56.200 --> 0:28:58.000 or like just like one game, like switch it up 0:28:58.040 --> 0:29:00.000 a couple of lightning bolts like or is it just. 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:01.920 We are who we are, We're not changing. 0:29:02.680 --> 0:29:05.600 Listen, there's a little bit of both, right, the the 0:29:05.640 --> 0:29:09.600 old traditionalists. You know, every year we wear green jerseys, 0:29:09.680 --> 0:29:12.640 and I don't have to be on social media to 0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:14.800 hear sometimes the complaints. 0:29:15.240 --> 0:29:16.840 Sometimes even within this building. 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:18.920 We have some guys that played here that just love 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:21.760 the tradition Notre Dame, and I can tell it kind 0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:23.640 of turns their stomach when they see us in green 0:29:23.760 --> 0:29:27.400 or wear a different combination. But I think part of 0:29:27.440 --> 0:29:30.080 it is that we have to remember what our tradition is. 0:29:30.080 --> 0:29:31.040 Like those gold. 0:29:30.800 --> 0:29:34.920 Helmets, the normal home and away uniforms is something that 0:29:35.000 --> 0:29:37.960 makes us unique. But the young people like a little 0:29:37.960 --> 0:29:39.800 bit of flavor, and so I think you can be 0:29:39.920 --> 0:29:43.840 somewhere in the middle where you let your your players 0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:47.040 and your captains kind of determine what they want to 0:29:47.040 --> 0:29:48.960 wear for that week. But at the same point, let's 0:29:49.000 --> 0:29:50.920 not get too far away from the tradition. 0:29:51.880 --> 0:29:53.680 What about people not wearing knee pads? 0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:55.520 Do you ever like put pads in? 0:29:57.240 --> 0:29:57.440 No? 0:29:57.920 --> 0:30:01.080 I mean, listen as you looking in NFL, some of 0:30:01.080 --> 0:30:03.160 those guys don't wear knee or dipads, and. 0:30:05.480 --> 0:30:07.239 You know, it depends on what position you are. 0:30:07.280 --> 0:30:10.120 If you're a ball carrier, uh, you probably should have 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:13.040 knee pads in. But a lot of guys on defense, 0:30:13.480 --> 0:30:15.760 you know, there's not a whole bunch of cup blocks 0:30:15.760 --> 0:30:20.760 anymore unless you're playing Navy and Army. Knee pads can 0:30:20.960 --> 0:30:23.320 be overrated at times, but it's all based on the 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:24.160 position you play. 0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:26.000 What if one of your guys want to wear like 0:30:26.040 --> 0:30:29.320 the old school single bar, like Dick Bucke's helmet is 0:30:29.360 --> 0:30:31.360 like coaches, would you allow that? 0:30:33.120 --> 0:30:34.720 The only things you better be tough. 0:30:34.760 --> 0:30:36.920 Now, if you're gonna wear one of those homes, you 0:30:37.000 --> 0:30:39.800 better be tough and represent what that means. But as 0:30:39.800 --> 0:30:41.600 long as you go do your job and you're tough, 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:42.880 I'm good with whatever you wear. 0:30:43.200 --> 0:30:44.800 I would play for you. I say this all the time. 0:30:44.800 --> 0:30:46.200 I know you're not here, but I would play for you, 0:30:46.200 --> 0:30:47.960 even though you would never let me. But like, I 0:30:48.040 --> 0:30:49.840 watch you and I'm like, that's a dude that I'm 0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:51.320 not like at all because I'm not near as tough 0:30:51.360 --> 0:30:52.240 or cool or good looking. 0:30:52.280 --> 0:30:54.360 But I would like to play for him. So congratulations, coach. 0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:55.640 That means a love. 0:30:56.240 --> 0:30:57.240 I appreciate you. 0:30:58.400 --> 0:31:00.880 I love to host you here anytime. 0:31:00.920 --> 0:31:01.120 Man. 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:02.920 All right, long as it's not cold. All right, coach, 0:31:02.960 --> 0:31:04.000 see you money? 0:31:04.240 --> 0:31:05.360 All right, brother, take care? 0:31:06.080 --> 0:31:10.280 All right, let's pick our parlay of the week NFL. Okay, 0:31:10.320 --> 0:31:12.320 here's the deal. I'm gonna do money lines. We're doing 0:31:12.320 --> 0:31:14.040 four money lines. And some of these money lines might 0:31:14.120 --> 0:31:16.000 seem a little easier than others and some will not be. 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:18.520 But I'm going all money lines. I'm feeling pretty good 0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:22.360 about these, and we're gonna go first jets at bills 0:31:22.560 --> 0:31:24.960 which is probably the easiest. If I'm money lining it, 0:31:24.960 --> 0:31:27.480 it's probably the easiest money line ever. Or is it 0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:29.840 You ready to be shocked? Naw, you shouldn't be. All right, 0:31:30.240 --> 0:31:34.000 Bill's money line easy. They're still trying to get that 0:31:34.120 --> 0:31:36.480 buy over in the AFC. We're going Bill's money line. 0:31:36.760 --> 0:31:39.720 Now we're gonna go Packers money line over the Vikings. 0:31:40.440 --> 0:31:45.640 So you heard what I said. 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We had spent time with him in the past, 0:33:31.200 --> 0:33:32.400 got to know him a little bit. He had come 0:33:32.440 --> 0:33:35.000 to one of my shows before my comedy shows, came 0:33:35.040 --> 0:33:37.560 on stage, talked a little bit. It was really great. 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:39.840 We were super pumped too, because this was right after 0:33:39.920 --> 0:33:42.680 Bama and everybody was trying to get him on and 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:44.560 he was so cool to come on with us. So, 0:33:44.760 --> 0:33:54.320 Coach Lee, congratulations and here he is. Here he is yes, wow, wow, wow, wow, 0:33:54.480 --> 0:33:56.840 Oh my god, what a wow? 0:33:57.360 --> 0:33:59.520 What do you even say? Coach come on? 0:34:00.720 --> 0:34:06.200 Oh man, I've had to fight and move past that. 0:34:06.240 --> 0:34:08.480 You could relive that night, you know, every day for 0:34:08.520 --> 0:34:10.359 the rest of your life, if you if you had 0:34:10.360 --> 0:34:10.880 your choice. 0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:12.600 But we got to move on now. 0:34:12.840 --> 0:34:13.520 I hear you. 0:34:13.520 --> 0:34:15.960 But okay, well before I move on, let's have ten 0:34:15.960 --> 0:34:16.640 minutes with us. 0:34:16.920 --> 0:34:18.680 What does your phone look like after that? Coach? 0:34:18.760 --> 0:34:20.440 You go to your cell phone, you finally get to 0:34:20.480 --> 0:34:21.680 it after everything, and what. 0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:22.200 Does it look like? 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:22.840 You know? 0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:26.680 I changed my number in May, so over the years 0:34:27.480 --> 0:34:29.839 kind of it made the rounds too many times, I think, 0:34:29.880 --> 0:34:32.080 And so I was starting to get some kind of 0:34:32.120 --> 0:34:36.160 odd ball texts in the springtime and I think changing 0:34:36.160 --> 0:34:39.759 my number probably saved me another five hundred texts, you know, 0:34:39.800 --> 0:34:42.319 but it was look you for all the for all 0:34:42.320 --> 0:34:44.040 the times that you come back to your phone and 0:34:44.040 --> 0:34:45.200 it's there's nothing there. 0:34:45.280 --> 0:34:48.400 You know, you just you appreciate people wanting to celebrate 0:34:48.440 --> 0:34:48.759 with you. 0:34:48.840 --> 0:34:51.840 And I think there's there's so many people that you know, 0:34:53.280 --> 0:34:57.120 over the years have like falled alongside me or supported 0:34:57.120 --> 0:34:57.759 me in some way. 0:34:57.760 --> 0:35:00.560 It's special to hear from them. You know, youppreciate that. 0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:04.080 Okay, so what matchups did you say leading into that 0:35:04.160 --> 0:35:06.360 game that you felt like there was a chance you 0:35:06.400 --> 0:35:08.759 could exploit or at least have advantages. 0:35:09.440 --> 0:35:11.360 You know, there weren't a lot of I mean, you know, 0:35:11.600 --> 0:35:14.000 that's a tough game of tough matchups for us. 0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:16.080 I mean, you know, that's a really skilled team. 0:35:16.440 --> 0:35:19.200 I think, you know, offensively, we were just trying to 0:35:19.239 --> 0:35:23.239 find the space to stay on schedule, and we knew 0:35:23.280 --> 0:35:26.000 that if we could possess the ball that we were 0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:27.839 going to get a chance to get the ball up 0:35:27.840 --> 0:35:29.440 and over the top. You know, they were going to 0:35:29.440 --> 0:35:32.600 be opportunities for us to hit some shots, and we 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:33.400 were able to do that. 0:35:33.440 --> 0:35:35.840 We missed on some too, but on the whole. 0:35:36.120 --> 0:35:39.160 Offensively, it was about staying on schedule and a lot 0:35:39.160 --> 0:35:42.839 of that channels obviously through our quarterback run and you know, 0:35:42.880 --> 0:35:46.840 our run game is is pretty multiple. So I felt 0:35:46.840 --> 0:35:49.040 like we were able to win physically at the point 0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:51.839 of attack on offense and create the space we needed 0:35:51.840 --> 0:35:53.960 to stay on schedule and that allowed us to extend 0:35:54.040 --> 0:35:57.520 drives and have opportunities to puncture the end zone. 0:35:57.560 --> 0:35:58.959 Defensively, you know, this. 0:35:59.000 --> 0:36:02.440 Was a game where we were we were really interested 0:36:02.480 --> 0:36:06.360 in and stopping the quarterbacks ability to extend the plays 0:36:06.400 --> 0:36:09.360 with his feet. Obviously, we knew that the explosive passing 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:12.799 game was going to run through number two and you know, 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:16.160 we were just trying to a limit their opportunities by 0:36:16.160 --> 0:36:19.880 possessing the ball with our offense and then be you know, 0:36:20.200 --> 0:36:24.919 absorb some of their plays without allowing to score explosive touchdowns. 0:36:25.680 --> 0:36:29.120 We we did that well enough, you know, to end 0:36:29.160 --> 0:36:29.879 up winning the game. 0:36:29.920 --> 0:36:31.919 I think there's a few a few we went back, 0:36:31.960 --> 0:36:34.279 specifically the third down that they were able to get 0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:37.120 the ball over top of us, and again credit to them, 0:36:37.120 --> 0:36:40.600 they made the play they needed to make. But you know, 0:36:40.640 --> 0:36:43.320 we we we got some things to tighten up defensively, 0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:46.919 but what we needed to have happened was we set 0:36:46.960 --> 0:36:49.759 a ten possession game, which it ended up being nine 0:36:49.800 --> 0:36:53.600 possessions for their offense, you know, we needed to be 0:36:53.640 --> 0:36:55.719 able to punch and counter punch, so you know, we 0:36:55.760 --> 0:36:59.240 needed to sync up at the right times with with offense, 0:36:59.320 --> 0:37:01.680 defense especial teams. We did that, you know, created a 0:37:01.680 --> 0:37:04.680 couple of turnovers that were that were huge for us 0:37:04.719 --> 0:37:08.719 one including the pick six, and then we needed to 0:37:08.760 --> 0:37:10.759 win on special teams and we needed to create a 0:37:10.800 --> 0:37:14.440 fuel position advantage, forced them to go to the long field, 0:37:14.640 --> 0:37:16.120 try to get us on the short. 0:37:15.880 --> 0:37:17.640 Field, and then again we were able to accomplish that 0:37:17.680 --> 0:37:18.040 as well. 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:22.479 That's kind of the makings of, you know, what would 0:37:22.520 --> 0:37:25.919 be a winning performance for us against anybody. Certainly when 0:37:25.920 --> 0:37:29.840 you're playing a team like Alabama, you can't you know, 0:37:29.880 --> 0:37:31.759 you can't miss on your strategy and think you're gonna 0:37:31.800 --> 0:37:32.600 have a chance to win it. 0:37:32.840 --> 0:37:36.040 When you go on at halftime, did you make macro 0:37:36.160 --> 0:37:39.200 adjustments or did you just reinforce what you had already 0:37:39.200 --> 0:37:40.000 set pre game. 0:37:40.640 --> 0:37:43.960 A lot of it is just kind of looking at what, 0:37:44.239 --> 0:37:46.279 you know, what is the plan that they had for us, 0:37:46.480 --> 0:37:49.000 and let's make sure we're clear on what those things are. 0:37:49.160 --> 0:37:52.600 You know, Defensively, it's like the special formations that you're 0:37:52.640 --> 0:37:53.400 seeing that they know. 0:37:53.400 --> 0:37:54.359 They're going to come back to. 0:37:56.000 --> 0:37:58.920 Offensively, it's you know, how are they defending the option, 0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:01.160 how are they defending your replays? And what are they 0:38:01.560 --> 0:38:03.799 what are they doing in their box that tells you 0:38:03.880 --> 0:38:07.160 this is kind of their plan moving forward. And then 0:38:07.520 --> 0:38:10.360 to the team, you know, it really was to me 0:38:10.480 --> 0:38:12.920 about kind of almost kind of taking some of the 0:38:12.960 --> 0:38:15.319 emotion out of the moment, which I. 0:38:15.280 --> 0:38:16.040 Know sounds weird. 0:38:16.080 --> 0:38:19.080 I mean, look, I'm a I get excited and fired 0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:22.120 up and can get emotional in the game. I just 0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:25.239 felt like we needed to focus on the fact that 0:38:25.239 --> 0:38:28.520 we've been in this situation before that you know, it's 0:38:28.520 --> 0:38:32.040 not going to take anything extra from us to close 0:38:32.040 --> 0:38:33.799 the game out. You know, we needed to come back 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:36.759 out and focus on again our strategy, playing the cleaning game, 0:38:38.080 --> 0:38:41.239 you know, and just stop by stop possession by possession, 0:38:42.600 --> 0:38:44.600 you know, closing the game out. So we took our 0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:47.080 time before we left the locker room just to kind 0:38:47.080 --> 0:38:50.520 of like everyone settle, focus on what we want to 0:38:50.520 --> 0:38:53.680 accomplish here in the next thirty minutes and a credit 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:54.319 to our team. 0:38:54.520 --> 0:38:55.840 You know they did just that. 0:38:56.000 --> 0:38:58.120 Is Diego just like a dog. He seems like a dog. 0:38:58.160 --> 0:38:59.600 I mean, I'll watch him. I'm just like that dude 0:38:59.640 --> 0:39:00.000 goes home. 0:39:00.680 --> 0:39:04.759 Yeah, I mean it's a He's a unique competitive personality, 0:39:04.880 --> 0:39:08.160 Like there's not another one that I've ever come across 0:39:08.280 --> 0:39:11.200 that is as you know. I think the one thing 0:39:11.239 --> 0:39:14.120 that can get a little misunderstood about him is like, 0:39:14.200 --> 0:39:15.960 this is a really serious. 0:39:15.600 --> 0:39:19.920 Guy who is such discipline in his process. 0:39:20.000 --> 0:39:23.040 I mean he's so steady and consistent in our building 0:39:23.040 --> 0:39:25.600 and day and day out, you won't even. 0:39:25.360 --> 0:39:26.040 Know he's around. 0:39:26.120 --> 0:39:28.160 I mean he's it's not like he's the loudest guy 0:39:28.160 --> 0:39:30.560 in the room. It's not like he's looking for the attention. 0:39:30.680 --> 0:39:32.000 I mean he just he. 0:39:32.000 --> 0:39:33.720 Sits front and center of every team meeting. 0:39:33.760 --> 0:39:36.320 He's right in front of me every time after practice 0:39:36.880 --> 0:39:39.600 on a knee, locked in and focused. 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:41.280 He carries my message to the team. 0:39:41.920 --> 0:39:44.840 He builds confidence in the locker room by making subtle 0:39:44.880 --> 0:39:50.680 connections with players and creating closeness that way. But when 0:39:50.719 --> 0:39:54.120 he crosses the lines, he just has a swagger about 0:39:54.160 --> 0:39:58.719 him and it's infectious. Everyone sees it and believes in it, 0:39:58.920 --> 0:40:01.840 and you use the word dog, like he's a dog 0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:05.040 you want the ball on his hands in critical moments. 0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:09.000 He's proven throughout his career and certainly in his time 0:40:09.040 --> 0:40:11.879 here that every time he takes a. 0:40:11.800 --> 0:40:13.600 Snap, you have a chance to win. So we're glad 0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:14.360 he's on our team. 0:40:14.440 --> 0:40:17.440 And for me personally, I mean, this guy represent everything 0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:20.880 I want this program to be about. And he's helping 0:40:20.960 --> 0:40:22.799 us put a product on the field that's fun and 0:40:22.880 --> 0:40:25.600 exciting and and you know. 0:40:25.560 --> 0:40:27.560 He gets a lot of credit and he should. I 0:40:28.120 --> 0:40:28.520 think that. 0:40:30.080 --> 0:40:32.759 You know, the other guys that are playing alongside him 0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:35.360 have done a really good job, especially in our front, 0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:38.719 to open up space receivers, blocking down field. We just 0:40:38.719 --> 0:40:43.799 have such a different competitive makeup offensively and defensively right now. 0:40:43.800 --> 0:40:45.440 That's helping us find ways to win. 0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:47.080 Only got a couple of minutes love with you, and 0:40:47.120 --> 0:40:49.279 we appreciate you fitting a sin because everybody wants to 0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:49.680 talk to you. 0:40:49.840 --> 0:40:51.480 Bell of the ball is what I would say. Got 0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:53.680 you are the bell of the ball right now. How 0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:54.400 in the world. 0:40:54.680 --> 0:40:56.000 And I know you're going to find a way to 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:58.719 do it. But Kentucky, you have Kentucky coming up. I mean, 0:40:58.760 --> 0:41:01.719 this is the big subs that I've seen in maybe 0:41:01.800 --> 0:41:03.640 my life one of them. But how in the world 0:41:03.680 --> 0:41:06.040 do you get your guys to forward face now after 0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:09.160 being celebrated like so mightily over the last couple of days. 0:41:09.360 --> 0:41:11.920 Yeah, I think the real challenge is that the celebration 0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:14.720 won't stop. You know, we internally we've turned the page. 0:41:14.880 --> 0:41:17.880 Yesterday we got to work on Kentucky. So now we 0:41:17.960 --> 0:41:21.439 took time to enjoy in the team meeting, just kind 0:41:21.440 --> 0:41:23.759 of the fruits of our labor. You know, put some 0:41:23.760 --> 0:41:26.000 clips on film that I felt like showed the toughness 0:41:26.040 --> 0:41:29.759 we played with, celebrated players of the game, so on 0:41:29.760 --> 0:41:33.840 and so forth. But you know, we've we've made it clear, 0:41:34.000 --> 0:41:37.919 and by the time we were leaving practice last night, 0:41:38.000 --> 0:41:42.040 you know, there's no room internally for us to you know, 0:41:42.080 --> 0:41:44.279 we you know, we burned the game and release it 0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:44.920 to our past. 0:41:45.040 --> 0:41:48.480 It's over. Every ounce of our mental. 0:41:48.280 --> 0:41:51.239 Energy needs to be focused on our next opponent, which 0:41:51.280 --> 0:41:54.040 is Kentucky, which is a really good SEC team. 0:41:54.080 --> 0:41:55.560 It's a tough team on defense. 0:41:55.600 --> 0:41:57.840 It's a team that knows how to run the football 0:41:57.840 --> 0:42:01.080 and has exposive playmakers on the perimeter. And you know, 0:42:01.120 --> 0:42:05.280 Mark Stoops is the consummate program builder, and they've always 0:42:05.360 --> 0:42:08.400 been a tough out and they are going to be 0:42:08.440 --> 0:42:12.040 ready for us. I'm sure you know they're talking about 0:42:12.080 --> 0:42:13.840 the last time we went up there, which was twenty 0:42:13.840 --> 0:42:15.680 twenty two, and we were able to pull off a win. 0:42:16.640 --> 0:42:19.040 Last year at our home stadium, we spotted them twenty 0:42:19.040 --> 0:42:24.120 one points all turnovers, which is a brutal way to play, 0:42:24.239 --> 0:42:26.160 and you know, we have a lot to prove in 0:42:26.200 --> 0:42:31.600 this game. I think inevitably, right our kids are going 0:42:31.600 --> 0:42:34.840 to class today and they're going to meet high fives 0:42:34.880 --> 0:42:39.240 and congratulations on campus. Inevitably, there's going to be positive 0:42:39.280 --> 0:42:43.279 noise surrounding this program, which I think certainly can be 0:42:43.320 --> 0:42:45.880 a great thing. But we have to maintain the mental 0:42:45.920 --> 0:42:49.400 focus and discipline to realize that we can be respectful 0:42:49.520 --> 0:42:54.520 to all the people that are again celebrating the You know, 0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:57.120 what we put on film on Saturday and what we 0:42:57.120 --> 0:43:02.280 put on display, But Saturday only matters now, and we'll 0:43:02.320 --> 0:43:04.840 only understand the meeting of Saturday from reflection at the 0:43:04.920 --> 0:43:06.919 end of the season. It only matters if we're able 0:43:06.920 --> 0:43:09.520 to leverage it and pull momentum from it, and that 0:43:09.640 --> 0:43:11.600 means that we have to get back in our process 0:43:12.200 --> 0:43:16.319 and attack this process with commitment and energy so that 0:43:16.360 --> 0:43:19.120 we can be ready to play a good game against 0:43:19.120 --> 0:43:20.560 a really tough opponent on Saturday. 0:43:21.040 --> 0:43:23.440 Last ten seconds of this interview, we're gonna clap for me. 0:43:23.560 --> 0:43:27.200 Yes, how we end it right here, let's go. 0:43:28.200 --> 0:43:30.479 I'm super happy for you, coach, super happy to see 0:43:30.520 --> 0:43:33.560 like the culture. I mean, it's a Cultures are like 0:43:33.719 --> 0:43:36.080 humongous boats. It doesn't matter the industry. It's like, yeah, 0:43:36.120 --> 0:43:38.000 it takes a while to turn it. It's not like 0:43:38.040 --> 0:43:41.120 a little car. It's a big old ship. And watching 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:42.759 what you're able to do and what you're doing is 0:43:42.880 --> 0:43:46.200 really really been fun and motivating, even for myself. So 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:48.919 congratulations coach Man, thank you for the for the time 0:43:48.960 --> 0:43:49.400 this morning. 0:43:49.680 --> 0:43:51.759 A great to be with you. Bobby always Man coach. 0:43:52.520 --> 0:43:55.799 Next up is Eli drink Witz from the University of Missouri. 0:43:56.280 --> 0:43:58.920 Coach drink was a season ticket holder at the University 0:43:58.920 --> 0:44:02.279 of Arkansas and now just enjoys trolling the University of Arkansas. 0:44:03.080 --> 0:44:05.200 And I'm an Arkansas fan and had not been able 0:44:05.200 --> 0:44:06.960 to spend a little time with coach drink Witz and 0:44:07.200 --> 0:44:09.680 talkt to Coach drink here, I would be annoyed too, 0:44:09.760 --> 0:44:12.200 but I respect the troll game. But I love who 0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:13.160 he is. I'm a big fan. 0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:15.040 That was a fun interview, just that's the way you 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:16.000 guys interact with each other. 0:44:16.040 --> 0:44:17.440 We also had to cut the first part of it off. 0:44:17.440 --> 0:44:19.160 If you guys remember he said some stuff at the 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:21.360 very beginning. Yeah, he didn't ask us to remove it, 0:44:21.719 --> 0:44:23.719 but I felt it was better for all instead of 0:44:23.760 --> 0:44:26.360 a few clicks that we just eliminate that because he 0:44:26.400 --> 0:44:30.160 went after another SEC coach and I thought, I don't 0:44:30.200 --> 0:44:35.240 know if he knew we were recording, but just in case. 0:44:35.880 --> 0:44:39.920 So yeah, Coach Drink's awesome. Zara had a pretty good year. 0:44:40.320 --> 0:44:42.680 Didn't meet the expectations I think that they had on 0:44:42.719 --> 0:44:44.200 them at the beginning of the year as they were 0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:46.120 you know, I thought to be putting the CFP, but 0:44:46.160 --> 0:44:49.120 here he is coach Drink from Missouri. Let me ask 0:44:49.160 --> 0:44:51.840 about bye weeks because I know what why players like 0:44:51.880 --> 0:44:52.320 bye weeks? 0:44:52.320 --> 0:44:54.400 Why do coaches like bye weeks? What will you do differently? 0:44:54.719 --> 0:44:57.640 First off, you get to just take a deep breath. 0:44:57.640 --> 0:44:59.880 You don't have this constant churning in your stomach like 0:45:00.360 --> 0:45:02.239 you know you got something on Saturday. It's going to 0:45:02.320 --> 0:45:05.320 determine the happiness of about six and a half million people, 0:45:06.320 --> 0:45:09.400 including yourself, and you get to kind of be normal. 0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:12.920 Like my daughter had a volleyball game last night, and 0:45:13.000 --> 0:45:14.759 so I got to go pick her up from the game. 0:45:14.800 --> 0:45:17.560 When the bus got back. I'll get to go watch 0:45:17.600 --> 0:45:22.280 my daughter's T ball games on Thursday night. Saturday, another 0:45:22.360 --> 0:45:24.640 daughter's got two volleyball games in the morning, so you 0:45:25.200 --> 0:45:27.239 got you just kind of get a sense of normalcy, 0:45:28.800 --> 0:45:30.080 and it's just a little bit of. 0:45:30.040 --> 0:45:32.400 A time to take a deep breath. 0:45:32.560 --> 0:45:36.319 I think from a football standpoint, you can actually work 0:45:36.360 --> 0:45:37.160 on things. 0:45:37.320 --> 0:45:39.080 You know, it's easy to say. 0:45:38.920 --> 0:45:41.359 Hey, we got to get better this week, but when 0:45:41.360 --> 0:45:43.520 there's a game coming and you have all this game 0:45:43.560 --> 0:45:45.520 planning stuff you have to do, there's not a whole 0:45:45.560 --> 0:45:48.520 lot of just moments where you can focus on fundamentals 0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:50.520 and improvement because you've got to get the schemes in 0:45:50.560 --> 0:45:51.080 for that week. 0:45:51.120 --> 0:45:53.759 You've got to get the preparation in. 0:45:54.080 --> 0:45:55.600 But in a bye week, again, you don't have an 0:45:55.600 --> 0:45:58.759 opponent on Saturday, that opponent yourself, so there's really more 0:45:58.760 --> 0:46:01.560 time to focus on on Hey, this twenty minutes of 0:46:01.600 --> 0:46:05.000 practice is going to be specific to getting better. Five 0:46:05.040 --> 0:46:07.719 minutes on third downs, five minutes on team run five 0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:09.279 minutes on motion adjustments. 0:46:09.680 --> 0:46:11.759 So that's probably the best thing about it. 0:46:12.360 --> 0:46:14.120 Are you the bell of the ball in Columbia? Can 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:14.879 you grocery shop? 0:46:17.120 --> 0:46:17.319 Yeah? 0:46:17.320 --> 0:46:20.440 I can grocery shop. You find it funny? 0:46:20.880 --> 0:46:23.760 The other day I was driving my car to stop 0:46:23.880 --> 0:46:27.319 light and there were two college aged students who had 0:46:27.320 --> 0:46:29.480 their phone up next to the window taking a picture, 0:46:30.200 --> 0:46:32.120 and I just looked at him and was like, if 0:46:32.160 --> 0:46:34.879 you'll just tell me, I'll smile for the picture. I'm 0:46:34.880 --> 0:46:36.840 always worried that they're going to catch me picking my 0:46:36.920 --> 0:46:39.800 nose or something while I'm driving or singing to myself 0:46:41.719 --> 0:46:45.440 in the car, but I'll say this, I don't let 0:46:45.520 --> 0:46:47.040 it affect me one way or the other. I just 0:46:47.040 --> 0:46:48.239 know I got to wear a hat when I go 0:46:48.320 --> 0:46:52.000 to the grocery store instead of going all wild and free. 0:46:52.360 --> 0:46:53.880 I had a call or call the show and they 0:46:53.880 --> 0:46:57.200 were doing a paper on grit and she was like 0:46:57.719 --> 0:46:59.480 she got through the phone lines and she said, hey, 0:46:59.480 --> 0:47:02.400 would you talk about what you think grit is? And 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:06.480 I think my career has been mostly based off perseverance, right, 0:47:06.560 --> 0:47:08.600 like not doing a very good job and getting up 0:47:08.600 --> 0:47:10.000 again and doing it a little better and a little 0:47:10.040 --> 0:47:13.120 better because I've naturally not been that gifted at anything. 0:47:13.719 --> 0:47:15.680 How would you define grit and who are a couple 0:47:15.680 --> 0:47:16.680 of your grittiest players? 0:47:18.160 --> 0:47:18.359 Man? 0:47:18.400 --> 0:47:20.560 I love that you asked this question. Gritz the stubborn 0:47:20.600 --> 0:47:22.839 refusal to quit. I mean, that's all it is. It's 0:47:22.920 --> 0:47:26.040 just you refuse to give up, and it's passion plus 0:47:26.080 --> 0:47:30.560 perseverance over time, Like what are you willing to endure 0:47:30.680 --> 0:47:33.920 to accomplish what you want to accomplish. I think Brady 0:47:33.960 --> 0:47:36.560 obviously is a great example of grit. I think Cody 0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:39.840 Schrader last year was an extreme example of grit. I 0:47:39.840 --> 0:47:42.239 think when you look at this year's running backs, Marcus Carroll, 0:47:42.360 --> 0:47:44.839 Nate Noel, those two guys are really gritty players who 0:47:44.920 --> 0:47:47.840 had to overcome a lot and bet on themselves, refuse 0:47:47.960 --> 0:47:51.640 to give in to the outside noise to achieve what 0:47:51.680 --> 0:47:55.359 they want to achieve. I think Johnny Walker defensive end 0:47:55.400 --> 0:47:58.280 for me, came in at one hundred and ninety seven pounds, 0:47:58.680 --> 0:48:01.319 had four wisdom te t taking out within the first 0:48:01.400 --> 0:48:03.080 week of him being here, and now he weighs two 0:48:03.120 --> 0:48:04.280 hundred and fifty six pounds. 0:48:04.320 --> 0:48:05.760 Was the MVP of the Cotton Bowl. 0:48:06.680 --> 0:48:09.799 It took him four years to really earn significant playing time. 0:48:09.880 --> 0:48:13.879 But instead of pouting, instead of trying to go into 0:48:13.920 --> 0:48:17.120 a different situation, he just said, I'm going to sustain 0:48:17.360 --> 0:48:20.640 excellence every day, and that's really what. 0:48:20.560 --> 0:48:21.239 You have to do. 0:48:21.880 --> 0:48:22.400 You know, we have. 0:48:22.920 --> 0:48:24.520 We had a group of Navy Seals come in and 0:48:24.560 --> 0:48:27.799 they said winning is reserved for those who are willing 0:48:27.880 --> 0:48:31.080 to pay the price. And that's kind of our thought 0:48:31.080 --> 0:48:33.400 process this year, like what price are we willing to 0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:36.400 pay to win? And you've got to be willing to 0:48:36.440 --> 0:48:40.359 outlast people. You've got to be willing to sustain it 0:48:40.800 --> 0:48:42.239 even when it's not going your way. 0:48:43.040 --> 0:48:44.759 Coach, at the end of the game, you know, I 0:48:44.800 --> 0:48:46.680 see the two coaches go and they meet each other. 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:50.680 What can you possibly tell each other, especially if you've 0:48:50.719 --> 0:48:53.120 lost the game, Like what's that conversation like? Or do 0:48:53.160 --> 0:48:54.600 you are you thinking? Like what am I going to 0:48:54.640 --> 0:48:55.799 tell him? As I walk up there? 0:48:57.000 --> 0:48:59.560 You know, I've had some awkward conversations with the head 0:48:59.560 --> 0:49:06.840 coaches across the deal. Honestly, you know, when you're the 0:49:06.880 --> 0:49:09.480 winning coach and you're going across the field to the 0:49:09.520 --> 0:49:12.440 guy who's lost, you realize and know. 0:49:12.360 --> 0:49:15.560 How much pain they're in right then, and really. 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:17.560 All I'm trying to do is give them some some 0:49:17.640 --> 0:49:22.200 sort of like comfort or something, because man, the hardest 0:49:22.239 --> 0:49:25.640 thing to do is to swallow all your emotions and 0:49:25.680 --> 0:49:29.520 then go in there and address your team. So that's 0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:33.240 really what I'm doing. Whenever, whenever they're they're saying something 0:49:33.280 --> 0:49:36.000 to me after they're whipping my butt, it's usually as 0:49:36.080 --> 0:49:38.200 quick as I can just shake their hand and try 0:49:38.239 --> 0:49:41.120 to gather my thoughts and emotions before I address the team. 0:49:41.120 --> 0:49:43.520 But you know, I have such a tremendous amount of 0:49:43.560 --> 0:49:45.880 respect for the head coaches in this league. You know, 0:49:46.400 --> 0:49:50.600 it's a it's a fraternity of really good men, and 0:49:51.880 --> 0:49:53.920 you know, we don't always get along, we don't always 0:49:53.920 --> 0:49:55.680 agree with each other, but there is a level of 0:49:55.719 --> 0:49:58.279 respect there. And so you know, when you get a 0:49:58.320 --> 0:50:01.800 chance to visit with another SEC head coach, you always 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:03.320 treat it with a little bit of respect. 0:50:03.760 --> 0:50:06.640 I think a bit the pre game would be awkward 0:50:06.680 --> 0:50:08.160 if you're expected to talk and you don't really like 0:50:08.200 --> 0:50:10.080 them or know them. Like we have guests in studio 0:50:10.120 --> 0:50:12.960 and there there are you know, celebrities that either I 0:50:12.960 --> 0:50:14.239 don't like or I don't know them. We have to 0:50:14.280 --> 0:50:16.920 like do small talk for like six minutes before this, 0:50:17.680 --> 0:50:21.040 and that's torture for me, and I got to imagine 0:50:21.040 --> 0:50:23.560 just the human nature of it there. That's probably the 0:50:23.560 --> 0:50:25.799 same situation. So the pre more than the post. The 0:50:25.840 --> 0:50:27.920 post you can get out over. But the do you 0:50:28.000 --> 0:50:29.640 have to go talk to the other head coach before 0:50:29.680 --> 0:50:30.040 the game? 0:50:30.480 --> 0:50:31.600 Well apparently you don't have to. 0:50:31.719 --> 0:50:33.719 Ed Or Doron didn't come shake my hand before the 0:50:33.760 --> 0:50:36.040 first time we played them, and that was really the first. 0:50:35.840 --> 0:50:38.359 Time and only time I've ever had that happen, So. 0:50:38.280 --> 0:50:39.239 I guess you don't have to. 0:50:39.320 --> 0:50:41.359 Are you're supposed like that's the thing you're supposed to like. 0:50:41.360 --> 0:50:43.239 Yeah, I mean it's kind of a you know, it's 0:50:43.280 --> 0:50:46.520 kind of a sportsmanship deal. I tell you when I 0:50:46.600 --> 0:50:48.560 come into that the most is when you have to 0:50:48.600 --> 0:50:51.759 do the Friday pre game media because there are some 0:50:51.920 --> 0:50:54.319 media that you know, have been taking shots at you 0:50:54.920 --> 0:50:57.520 or you know, shots at your team, and then you 0:50:57.600 --> 0:50:59.680 got to go sit there and act like you're going 0:50:59.719 --> 0:51:01.799 to be anybody and give them all the information that 0:51:01.800 --> 0:51:05.160 they want to ask. So that one's always the one 0:51:05.160 --> 0:51:05.759 that you're like. 0:51:07.320 --> 0:51:12.760 Yeah, yeah, final question, coach, if you're struggling emotionally mentally, 0:51:12.960 --> 0:51:15.279 who professionally can you call who's your mentor. 0:51:17.600 --> 0:51:20.200 Well, you know, there's a couple of different people that 0:51:20.239 --> 0:51:21.080 I can reach out to. 0:51:21.840 --> 0:51:23.320 From a spiritual standpoint, there's. 0:51:23.160 --> 0:51:26.200 A guy in Boone, North Carolina named doctor Dick Furman 0:51:26.960 --> 0:51:31.120 who's been a really a person of great character and 0:51:31.160 --> 0:51:33.640 integrity for me for the last six years, and. 0:51:35.120 --> 0:51:36.880 The highest of highs I can expect to get a 0:51:36.880 --> 0:51:38.040 text from him that says. 0:51:37.840 --> 0:51:40.360 T y L which stands for thank you Lord, or 0:51:40.560 --> 0:51:42.360 the lowest the lows I can get a text from that. 0:51:42.360 --> 0:51:44.200 It's going to say thank you Lord, because you just 0:51:44.280 --> 0:51:46.600 realize that you're blessed to get the opportunity to do this, 0:51:46.719 --> 0:51:49.320 and you realize that your future is in his hands 0:51:49.400 --> 0:51:52.279 and not to get caught up in the anxiety of it. 0:51:52.800 --> 0:51:56.080 From a coaching standpoint, you know, coach Malson's obviously a 0:51:56.120 --> 0:51:58.080 guy that I can reach out to that we exchange 0:51:58.080 --> 0:52:01.719 ideas back and forth from. 0:52:01.760 --> 0:52:03.759 So there's just different people like that. 0:52:03.840 --> 0:52:07.399 But in the but in those two situations, those would 0:52:07.400 --> 0:52:10.080 probably be the first two phone calls. You know, sometimes 0:52:10.320 --> 0:52:13.560 I'm not quite as quick to call Gus because you know, 0:52:13.680 --> 0:52:16.359 he's still the guy that I ga Ford, So he'll 0:52:16.360 --> 0:52:17.560 tell me that that's pretty dumb. 0:52:19.680 --> 0:52:20.560 What is your problem here? 0:52:20.560 --> 0:52:20.759 Man? 0:52:21.560 --> 0:52:23.640 But that's good to keep me humple. 0:52:23.880 --> 0:52:24.680 Coach, good to see you. 0:52:25.960 --> 0:52:28.080 We talked about coach drink Fro Missouri being like hey, 0:52:28.080 --> 0:52:29.799 and he's saying all this stuff and we edited him out. 0:52:31.040 --> 0:52:33.680 Brett bielamaf Milanoy, who also is right on the verge 0:52:33.680 --> 0:52:35.799 of making college football playoff like he got in the 0:52:35.800 --> 0:52:37.920 mix with Lane Kiffin when Kiffin was like, we're nine 0:52:37.920 --> 0:52:41.040 and three, we should get in and Bilama wasn't serious 0:52:41.040 --> 0:52:43.080 about them deserving a shot in, but he's like, if 0:52:43.120 --> 0:52:45.440 that's your logic, well here's ours, and it's better than yours. 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:45.799 Love it. 0:52:46.280 --> 0:52:49.200 And so coach Beelam was awesome. I know coach Bilama 0:52:49.200 --> 0:52:50.920 a bet from when he was at Arkansas. Now, what 0:52:51.040 --> 0:52:53.839 happened with this one was he did not know we 0:52:53.840 --> 0:52:57.200 were recording. But because we don't have good radio voices, 0:52:57.320 --> 0:52:58.920 no one ever knows we're recording that. They were just 0:52:58.920 --> 0:53:00.840 talking to them and he did I'd say some stuff 0:53:01.960 --> 0:53:03.560 and they reached out and said, would you guys mind 0:53:03.600 --> 0:53:05.839 removing that He didn't know you're recording, and we were 0:53:05.880 --> 0:53:08.560 like one step ahead of you once they're already on it. Yes, 0:53:09.160 --> 0:53:11.719 made his name at wisconstantly crushed, went to Arkansas, has 0:53:11.760 --> 0:53:14.879 turned the Illinois program around, big contenders. Coach Bilima one 0:53:14.880 --> 0:53:17.920 of the bigger personalities. Really great guy here he is 0:53:18.040 --> 0:53:20.120 from University Villinois. Coach Brett B. 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:22.799 Lama, Hey, coach, how you doing, my friend, coach? 0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:25.000 If you found it to be most effective to get 0:53:25.000 --> 0:53:28.560 your guys used to loud cheering or music, because you've 0:53:28.600 --> 0:53:31.560 done this a while, Like what's most effective in practice. 0:53:31.320 --> 0:53:33.600 Still by far just the crowd noise in the stadium, 0:53:33.960 --> 0:53:36.799 you know, just just putting it out there. I mean today, now, 0:53:36.800 --> 0:53:41.160 what we do do here is I removed my defensive 0:53:41.200 --> 0:53:43.680 coaches and players because I want it to be so 0:53:43.800 --> 0:53:46.879 loud you can't really conduct the practice for the other 0:53:46.920 --> 0:53:48.640 side of the ball because on offense, when we run 0:53:48.680 --> 0:53:51.120 to play, we crank it and then we'll turn it down, 0:53:51.360 --> 0:53:53.600 you know, in between while we want to correct it 0:53:53.600 --> 0:53:54.920 and then they'll crank it way back up. 0:53:55.000 --> 0:53:57.640 So is it ever so loud you cannot hear in 0:53:57.719 --> 0:53:58.880 the in helmet communication? 0:54:00.160 --> 0:54:01.960 Does you know? It does get loud? 0:54:02.040 --> 0:54:02.160 Now? 0:54:02.160 --> 0:54:04.600 We actually not a lot of teams are using them, 0:54:04.600 --> 0:54:07.239 but there's actually muffs that you can put on your 0:54:07.239 --> 0:54:10.520 helmet that our quarterback. You'll see our quarterback doesn't have 0:54:10.600 --> 0:54:14.000 ear holes because we put a canceling device over his 0:54:14.080 --> 0:54:16.040 ear hole. You'll see a lot of quarterbacks going like this, 0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:19.080 that's because they don't have that device. But it really 0:54:20.320 --> 0:54:22.839 for me, I've always wore double ear muffs. It's kind 0:54:22.840 --> 0:54:28.279 of kind of like the movie Old School, Old Cool 0:54:28.640 --> 0:54:32.160 ear muffs, earmuff Like, I always wear double ear muffs 0:54:32.160 --> 0:54:33.880 because I just want to hear the voices that I 0:54:33.920 --> 0:54:36.560 need to hear. But yeah, for a quarterback, it definitely 0:54:36.600 --> 0:54:37.200 can be that way. 0:54:37.800 --> 0:54:39.400 Coach, what's all my like in the locker room? What 0:54:39.480 --> 0:54:40.120 kind of leaders? 0:54:40.960 --> 0:54:41.160 You know? 0:54:41.239 --> 0:54:41.399 What? 0:54:41.880 --> 0:54:42.240 Bobby? 0:54:42.800 --> 0:54:44.839 First off, you know, his dad was a team doctor 0:54:44.840 --> 0:54:48.440 a Mississippi State, so he's been around college football his 0:54:48.480 --> 0:54:52.640 whole life growing up, been around it, seeing it, lived it. 0:54:52.719 --> 0:54:55.800 So his awareness to the to the world and college 0:54:55.840 --> 0:54:59.760 football is really really high. His football IQ extremely gifted 0:55:00.120 --> 0:55:03.279 ball awareness. He's also a tremendous kid of faith, so 0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:06.160 like he's very fade driven. But it's not like these 0:55:06.200 --> 0:55:08.960 guys that you know, come across preaching and teaching everything. 0:55:09.040 --> 0:55:12.040 Like he's just a normal guy. He's very empowering, but 0:55:12.239 --> 0:55:15.799 a and He's very deliberate in his relationships. He it's 0:55:15.800 --> 0:55:17.520 not a guy that he's out in front screaming and 0:55:17.520 --> 0:55:18.759 you own, like some quarterbacks. 0:55:18.800 --> 0:55:18.880 Like. 0:55:18.920 --> 0:55:23.320 He's a very relationship driven guy and just really exudes 0:55:23.400 --> 0:55:25.600 confidence that carries over to every position. 0:55:25.920 --> 0:55:27.719 I'm want to ask a really dumb question because I 0:55:27.760 --> 0:55:30.120 just don't know the answer. Is there food at halftime 0:55:30.120 --> 0:55:30.719 in the locker room? 0:55:30.880 --> 0:55:31.440 A good question? 0:55:31.760 --> 0:55:32.799 Oh yeah, yeah? 0:55:33.000 --> 0:55:34.759 Like and how much did someone eat? 0:55:35.160 --> 0:55:37.440 Well? Even even going back to my time at Arkansas. 0:55:37.480 --> 0:55:40.279 You know, so Ben Herbert, who was my strength coach there, 0:55:40.320 --> 0:55:42.279 we kind of developed it when I was at Wisconsin. 0:55:43.360 --> 0:55:45.120 He's done with the Chargers out there with hardball, but 0:55:45.480 --> 0:55:47.200 we do a lot of PB and j's to do 0:55:47.239 --> 0:55:50.160 anything that has a high nutritional value to give energy. 0:55:50.480 --> 0:55:52.200 You know, some kids just really don't want to eat 0:55:52.200 --> 0:55:54.759 on game day. So what we try to do is 0:55:54.880 --> 0:55:59.240 override any issues we might have with high energy protein 0:55:59.600 --> 0:56:03.040 content in shakes and snacks. 0:56:03.120 --> 0:56:03.279 Right. 0:56:03.360 --> 0:56:07.000 So there's there's also a lot of gummies like good gummies, right, 0:56:07.000 --> 0:56:12.120 gummies that are for the purpose of nutrition and anything 0:56:12.160 --> 0:56:15.520 that can peak their performance. We actually have a nutritional 0:56:15.560 --> 0:56:20.640 crew that will pre make and set up maybe probably 0:56:20.680 --> 0:56:23.560 about half our roster at halftime where they'll slam a 0:56:23.600 --> 0:56:26.040 shake that they pre ordered, they love, and we just 0:56:26.080 --> 0:56:27.759 want to get calories in them. So it's a it's 0:56:27.760 --> 0:56:30.719 a very specific thing. Yeah, it's a lot different. Back 0:56:30.719 --> 0:56:32.680 when I was in school, we had chicken broth that 0:56:32.800 --> 0:56:36.800 was our high heightened during the cold games once in 0:56:36.840 --> 0:56:40.719 a while. But yeah, the nutrition factor into performance is 0:56:40.760 --> 0:56:42.640 at a it's and I'm sure it's soon. It's going 0:56:42.680 --> 0:56:44.120 to continue to get better, but it's at a high 0:56:44.200 --> 0:56:46.680 level now that that's the way. I'm not exactly a 0:56:46.680 --> 0:56:49.920 walking dictionary of nutrition. So like that that's in their world. 0:56:50.320 --> 0:56:52.680 Coach, you fly off for your job, What kind of 0:56:52.719 --> 0:56:55.440 flyer are you? You put headphones on, you listen to music, 0:56:55.520 --> 0:56:57.360 you do work, you read, Like, what do you do 0:56:57.400 --> 0:56:57.839 on a flight? 0:56:58.200 --> 0:57:00.480 Yeah, you know, we got a pretty long flight going 0:57:00.520 --> 0:57:03.759 out here to Oregon. So we'll actually practice Thursday morning 0:57:03.760 --> 0:57:06.600 and leave Thursday afternoon, so I'll watch Thursday's practice. I 0:57:06.600 --> 0:57:08.200 actually got it one of if you've seen them, but 0:57:08.239 --> 0:57:11.120 it's the there are glasses that you plug into your 0:57:11.120 --> 0:57:13.919 computer and then they I don't have to be looking down. 0:57:13.960 --> 0:57:17.080 I can lay back and I've had the video and 0:57:17.440 --> 0:57:19.720 it's I got to remote in my hand, I can 0:57:19.760 --> 0:57:21.200 watch that. It's just like I'm in front of a 0:57:21.200 --> 0:57:23.760 big screen. It's it's I can read emails that way, 0:57:23.800 --> 0:57:26.280 I can read articles, I can watch film. It's it's 0:57:26.560 --> 0:57:28.240 and now I usually got a pair of headphones on, 0:57:28.400 --> 0:57:31.600 listen to a little little country, little little R and B, 0:57:31.800 --> 0:57:33.800 little little reggae. Kind of depends on. 0:57:33.720 --> 0:57:36.200 The mood before a big game or any game. 0:57:36.280 --> 0:57:38.360 Do you like your guys to be like right on 0:57:38.400 --> 0:57:40.840 the edge, fired up or And we've had fighters that 0:57:40.840 --> 0:57:42.760 we've talked to who will tell us they do not 0:57:42.960 --> 0:57:44.960 like to be fired up because they're not thinking as 0:57:45.040 --> 0:57:48.400 clearly that if they're calm, they're actually able to take 0:57:48.520 --> 0:57:50.919 and navigate through their thoughts. Right, And there's a fine 0:57:50.960 --> 0:57:53.520 line somewhere that's correct. Where do you stand on the 0:57:53.520 --> 0:57:55.800 psychology of that going into a game or going into 0:57:55.840 --> 0:57:56.360 a big game? 0:57:56.640 --> 0:57:59.360 Well, I think first it's culturally based by what you 0:57:59.440 --> 0:58:01.240 do kind of throughout the year, right, Like if you 0:58:01.320 --> 0:58:04.160 try to go to uh, you know, the gate the 0:58:04.200 --> 0:58:06.640 day of the game and try to figure your crew out, 0:58:06.760 --> 0:58:08.360 you're going to have a long time coming, right. So 0:58:08.400 --> 0:58:10.520 we try to get a pulse on this we build it. 0:58:10.920 --> 0:58:13.000 I really call it that flip flop Friday. I kind 0:58:13.000 --> 0:58:14.960 of relax on Fridays because I want to put our 0:58:14.960 --> 0:58:18.840 guys at ease. I'm more comfortable, they're more comfortable, you know. 0:58:18.920 --> 0:58:21.200 We do little things like we call we'll have a 0:58:21.200 --> 0:58:24.280 lot of mandatory dinners, but we'll call it. We'll call 0:58:24.320 --> 0:58:26.440 it mandatory flow, which means just kind of come and 0:58:26.480 --> 0:58:28.760 go as you want. But then the last meal, we 0:58:28.840 --> 0:58:31.200 have our last pregame meal, which is always fours out 0:58:31.200 --> 0:58:34.080 four hours out before pre before the game. So if 0:58:34.120 --> 0:58:36.560 we're playing at two o'clock, the meal is at ten o'clock, 0:58:36.600 --> 0:58:38.840 we're at six o'clock, it's at two o'clock, and that 0:58:39.040 --> 0:58:41.520 is everybody comes in mandatory seeded. We'll start off with 0:58:41.520 --> 0:58:45.080 the prayer, you know, we have it regimented away. We 0:58:45.160 --> 0:58:48.120 eat just to kind of begin to lock them in, 0:58:48.240 --> 0:58:50.160 you know now. But then they'll go to their rooms 0:58:50.200 --> 0:58:53.000 and I'll say, hey, go call text, FaceTime, whoever you 0:58:53.000 --> 0:58:54.520 got to do. Let's get it out of the way. 0:58:54.880 --> 0:58:56.400 So when you come down here two and a half 0:58:56.440 --> 0:58:59.000 hours before kickoff, we know what we're doing, right, and 0:58:59.040 --> 0:59:02.480 then we kind of a gras transition to being ready 0:59:02.480 --> 0:59:05.320 to go. I think game day is totally different, Bobby 0:59:05.360 --> 0:59:08.920 than practice. You know, in those moments, it's about it's 0:59:09.000 --> 0:59:11.040 not what happens, it's how you react to what happens. 0:59:11.240 --> 0:59:13.880 So if you have kids that are on edge because 0:59:13.920 --> 0:59:16.000 they think they're going to be, you know, handled in 0:59:16.040 --> 0:59:17.880 a way that's combative on game day, you're going to 0:59:17.960 --> 0:59:20.600 have usually a bad result. So we're kind of a 0:59:20.680 --> 0:59:23.440 kind of a in the moment, let's let's learn from 0:59:23.440 --> 0:59:24.280 the moment, but move on. 0:59:25.160 --> 0:59:28.560 Are you ever internally so emotional? But you're able to 0:59:28.600 --> 0:59:31.960 have the thought I should not be outwardly emotional because 0:59:32.000 --> 0:59:34.720 of how we'll make others feel A react like a kicker, 0:59:34.960 --> 0:59:37.560 miss the kicker you like mother, But you've got. 0:59:37.440 --> 0:59:39.160 To really dial it in and keep it in. 0:59:40.360 --> 0:59:42.680 So true story. I think you evolve in time as 0:59:42.680 --> 0:59:45.320 you get older, right, you learn more from your failures 0:59:45.320 --> 0:59:47.880 than your successes. But I've always been a guy that 0:59:48.000 --> 0:59:51.240 really just believes the teaching moments are all around us. 0:59:51.280 --> 0:59:53.120 It's just a matter of what you want to teach, right, 0:59:53.160 --> 0:59:56.440 And I came full circle. I was a young coach. 0:59:56.800 --> 0:59:58.880 I'm probably in my second or third year. I've recruited 0:59:58.920 --> 1:00:01.160 a kid by the name of James I, who was 1:00:01.160 --> 1:00:03.720 a running back out of Saint Thomas Aquanas in Fort Lauerdale, Florida. 1:00:03.760 --> 1:00:05.440 He went on to play for the Patriots for about 1:00:05.720 --> 1:00:09.040 ten years, won several Super Bowls. He was a true freshman, 1:00:09.120 --> 1:00:12.000 really good player for US. And he was making a 1:00:12.080 --> 1:00:14.439 run and he reached the ball across the end zone 1:00:14.440 --> 1:00:17.440 and I got punched out and created a touchback scenario. 1:00:17.520 --> 1:00:21.560 And I literally was on the headset and everybody was like, 1:00:21.600 --> 1:00:23.160 you can't do that, and I heard it. I said, 1:00:23.240 --> 1:00:26.600 I told everybody, hey, shut up, I'll handle this moment right. 1:00:26.640 --> 1:00:29.479 And I went over and he was on the bench 1:00:29.520 --> 1:00:31.320 and I just put my hand on his head and 1:00:31.360 --> 1:00:33.000 I leaned down by his knee and I said, hey, 1:00:33.000 --> 1:00:36.360 my friend, you are such a great player. You are 1:00:36.400 --> 1:00:39.240 going to score so many touchdowns in this stadium and 1:00:39.400 --> 1:00:43.120 in your career, and you'll play beyond here. But just 1:00:43.200 --> 1:00:44.960 know we're brought you here to run the ball, not 1:00:45.080 --> 1:00:48.000 reach the ball. Right, There's three occasions that you can 1:00:48.040 --> 1:00:50.000 reach the ball. Fourth down, two point plays in the 1:00:50.040 --> 1:00:53.120 end of game. Right, Otherwise they're always staying and we'll 1:00:53.120 --> 1:00:58.520 play the next down. And it came full circle. His dad, 1:00:59.360 --> 1:01:01.720 I went on to the coach of the Patriots, and 1:01:01.840 --> 1:01:05.560 his dad told me he watched it on TV. Right, 1:01:05.960 --> 1:01:09.280 And then lo and behold his dad was killed in 1:01:09.320 --> 1:01:13.680 a car accident, like a number of two years later, right. 1:01:13.760 --> 1:01:17.600 And I think about the profound effect of that moment, 1:01:17.720 --> 1:01:21.479 that teaching moment with that kid, to have a dad 1:01:21.520 --> 1:01:24.600 witness it on TV and the life lesson that was 1:01:24.600 --> 1:01:27.520 taught is truly why you do this job. 1:01:27.920 --> 1:01:30.360 At what point in your career, coach, did you realize 1:01:30.400 --> 1:01:32.320 And I say this as someone who my high school 1:01:32.360 --> 1:01:34.200 football coach, I didn't have a dad, was a big 1:01:34.240 --> 1:01:39.000 part of my understanding of discipline, right, Like, because I 1:01:39.040 --> 1:01:40.640 had no mal influence, I had no one. 1:01:40.960 --> 1:01:42.640 At what point in your career did you realize that 1:01:42.680 --> 1:01:43.680 you were going to be that? 1:01:43.760 --> 1:01:45.400 And that was a real responsibility for a lot of 1:01:45.400 --> 1:01:46.040 these kids. 1:01:46.720 --> 1:01:48.560 It's a great point. I say it all the time. 1:01:48.600 --> 1:01:50.560 We do a little presentation when I have a kid 1:01:50.560 --> 1:01:52.440 come in my office that we've offered a scholarship to 1:01:52.560 --> 1:01:56.960 or a visit. We talk about a timeline on this earth. Right, 1:01:57.000 --> 1:01:59.120 we all start at zero and average age goes to 1:01:59.160 --> 1:02:01.840 seventy two. Hopefully we all go beyond that. But we 1:02:01.880 --> 1:02:04.360 talk about during that window. You know, I usually get 1:02:04.400 --> 1:02:06.680 a kid when he's eighteen years old, right, And if 1:02:06.680 --> 1:02:09.880 you just do the math, that's a twenty You know, 1:02:09.920 --> 1:02:12.880 twenty five percent of your seventy two year lifeline is 1:02:13.640 --> 1:02:16.480 already done before I got you. Right, So I'm going 1:02:16.520 --> 1:02:18.720 to get you from eighteen twenty one twenty two, And 1:02:18.800 --> 1:02:21.640 during that four year window, it's the first time you're 1:02:21.680 --> 1:02:24.880 out of your environment that you've known your whole life. Right, Like, 1:02:25.200 --> 1:02:27.520 whether it's a parent, an uncle, a coach, a grandpa, 1:02:28.160 --> 1:02:30.480 I get everything right, like I have step parents, whatever 1:02:30.520 --> 1:02:33.240 it is. And I always tell our kids, like, listen, 1:02:34.400 --> 1:02:36.040 I don't want to be your dad, you already got one. 1:02:36.040 --> 1:02:37.560 I don't want to be your uncle or your brother, 1:02:37.680 --> 1:02:40.120 your cousin, your friend, or your high school coach. I 1:02:40.160 --> 1:02:42.080 want to be the best college coach you could ever have. 1:02:42.240 --> 1:02:42.400 Right. 1:02:42.480 --> 1:02:45.720 And because of that, I'm going to at times sound 1:02:45.800 --> 1:02:48.360 like a parent. I'm going to at times tell you 1:02:48.440 --> 1:02:50.600 things you don't want to hear, right, And I would 1:02:50.640 --> 1:02:53.280 tell you the more I tell you things, especially if 1:02:53.280 --> 1:02:55.040 you don't agree with them, it's because I love you, 1:02:55.160 --> 1:02:58.040 not because I hate you. Too many people in this world, 1:02:58.120 --> 1:02:59.440 like try to tell them the things they want to 1:02:59.440 --> 1:03:01.680 hear and avoid to the things they need to hear. 1:03:02.040 --> 1:03:04.760 So I think that's a really big part of coaching 1:03:04.840 --> 1:03:06.480 is you're going to sound like a parent a lot. 1:03:06.840 --> 1:03:10.040 The good news is they're not right. 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That's funny. 1:04:33.080 --> 1:04:33.480 Uh so. 1:04:33.520 --> 1:04:37.520 And he also let us work out with Cooper bb And, who. 1:04:37.400 --> 1:04:38.600 Is now a Dallas cowboy. 1:04:38.680 --> 1:04:39.920 Yeah, and you'd have a problem with it because I 1:04:39.960 --> 1:04:42.320 knew he he probably knew we wouldn't hurt Cooper BB. Yeah, 1:04:42.360 --> 1:04:45.800 of course, like these idiots, but yeah, I know Kansas 1:04:45.800 --> 1:04:49.800 State like Perennial in the mix. Now, we love Coach Climbing. 1:04:49.880 --> 1:04:52.480 And here's our talk with him. His dad was a coach. 1:04:52.520 --> 1:04:53.760 We talked about that a bunch two with him in 1:04:53.760 --> 1:04:55.880 the full interview. So here he is from Kansas State. 1:04:56.080 --> 1:04:59.280 Here is coach Chris Climbing. Hey, coach, good to see you. 1:04:59.360 --> 1:05:02.720 Thank you for the time. How you doing, Hey, pretty good. 1:05:03.000 --> 1:05:05.720 I do want to go back a year or so 1:05:05.800 --> 1:05:07.400 we were working out with Cooper BB when we were up 1:05:07.400 --> 1:05:08.040 there with you guys. 1:05:08.280 --> 1:05:10.080 You keep up with Cooper at all with Cowboys. 1:05:10.800 --> 1:05:16.000 Absolutely, he's come back for at least two games, but no, 1:05:16.200 --> 1:05:19.439 probably weekly. We send a text back and forth. Super 1:05:19.520 --> 1:05:21.840 proud of him being the starting center in the NFL. 1:05:22.080 --> 1:05:24.360 Man crazy too because and Cooper and I follow each 1:05:24.360 --> 1:05:27.720 other on Instagram since then, and when he was drafted, obviously, 1:05:27.920 --> 1:05:30.920 super pumped for him. But the transition, and maybe you 1:05:30.920 --> 1:05:32.880 could add a little of this, the transition because he 1:05:32.880 --> 1:05:35.000 did not play center for you, but now he's playing 1:05:35.040 --> 1:05:38.120 center with the Cowboys. How hard is that to do 1:05:38.200 --> 1:05:39.200 on the offensive line? 1:05:40.280 --> 1:05:43.959 It's really hard. But the fact that he played all 1:05:44.000 --> 1:05:49.920 four positions, but that I think lent himself to understanding 1:05:50.920 --> 1:05:53.320 all the positions and knew that he could because he 1:05:53.440 --> 1:05:56.960 was the guy that communicated all of our checks and 1:05:57.000 --> 1:06:02.480 adjustments and IDs and stuff. Anyway, and all along when 1:06:02.520 --> 1:06:04.800 he was here and continue to get better and better, 1:06:04.840 --> 1:06:06.920 people kept asking us, do you think he can be 1:06:06.920 --> 1:06:09.480 a center? Do you think he can be a center? Well, yeah, 1:06:09.520 --> 1:06:11.320 we did from a mental side of things. Now from 1:06:11.360 --> 1:06:13.600 a physical side of things. He just had to put 1:06:13.600 --> 1:06:17.000 the time into it. And obviously he did that because 1:06:17.200 --> 1:06:19.400 to make that transition and be the start, be named 1:06:19.440 --> 1:06:22.640 the starter by week one was pretty remarkable. 1:06:23.080 --> 1:06:25.520 So teams were reaching out to you to ask if 1:06:25.520 --> 1:06:28.520 they if you thought, like his mental capacity was that 1:06:28.720 --> 1:06:31.480 of a center. Some more so, was it his size? 1:06:31.520 --> 1:06:34.320 Like why were teams looking at him as a center. 1:06:34.960 --> 1:06:37.360 All the fact that he's not six foot six and 1:06:38.040 --> 1:06:39.520 six ' five and stuff. He's a you know, I 1:06:39.520 --> 1:06:40.919 don't know what is he six three and a half 1:06:40.960 --> 1:06:45.120 six ' four. And they knew he would be an 1:06:45.160 --> 1:06:49.280 interior guy somewhere. And the center position is so valuable, 1:06:49.480 --> 1:06:52.800 so hard to find that when you have somebody with 1:06:52.880 --> 1:06:55.680 the acumen that he has of understanding the game and 1:06:55.840 --> 1:07:00.439 understanding defensive fronts and being able to communicate. I thought 1:07:00.480 --> 1:07:02.200 it was going to be a natural for him to 1:07:02.280 --> 1:07:04.280 be able to move inside there. Then he just had 1:07:04.320 --> 1:07:07.520 to work on the physical side of getting the snaps 1:07:07.520 --> 1:07:10.880 and movement, and I knew he could do it because 1:07:10.880 --> 1:07:12.280 he's such a great athlete too. 1:07:12.760 --> 1:07:16.480 Is there ever a time with a player when you 1:07:16.560 --> 1:07:19.000 will modify a bit of how they play or what 1:07:19.080 --> 1:07:21.400 they do for the next level, even though it may 1:07:21.400 --> 1:07:25.080 not be completely advantageous to what you're doing right then. 1:07:25.480 --> 1:07:30.960 Not completely, But I also have a responsibility to give 1:07:30.960 --> 1:07:34.480 these guys the best opportunity to have success at that 1:07:34.560 --> 1:07:37.000 next level and if it can fit with what we're 1:07:37.000 --> 1:07:37.920 doing as a team. 1:07:38.880 --> 1:07:39.120 Yes. 1:07:39.240 --> 1:07:44.360 Absolutely. We had a guy that actually started for the 1:07:44.400 --> 1:07:47.960 Bucks the other night named Josh Hays. He's a safety 1:07:48.000 --> 1:07:51.680 slash corner and I had him at North Zakota State 1:07:51.760 --> 1:07:54.600 and he was a corner and then we got him 1:07:54.600 --> 1:07:57.440 out of the transfer portal to come here and he 1:07:57.480 --> 1:07:59.320 assumed he was going to play corner and I said, Josh, 1:07:59.360 --> 1:08:02.360 we're going to play you safety here. A. It's going 1:08:02.440 --> 1:08:04.840 to help us be a better team, but B, I 1:08:04.880 --> 1:08:07.240 think it's going to market you better in the NFL 1:08:07.680 --> 1:08:10.560 because you're not a six foot three guy that's two 1:08:10.600 --> 1:08:12.760 hundred and fifteen pounds. That's a corner that a lot 1:08:12.800 --> 1:08:15.919 of the teams are looking for. Josh is a six foot, 1:08:15.920 --> 1:08:18.320 one hundred and ninety five pound kid. And I said, 1:08:18.360 --> 1:08:20.559 if you can cover slot guys, you're going to have 1:08:20.600 --> 1:08:22.880 a place in the NFL. So it's not only going 1:08:22.880 --> 1:08:25.040 to help our team, but it's going to help your 1:08:25.120 --> 1:08:26.040 draft status. 1:08:26.120 --> 1:08:27.120 And they up getting. 1:08:26.880 --> 1:08:29.200 Drafted maybe in the fourth or fifth round by the Bucks. 1:08:29.720 --> 1:08:32.080 And I think he's in his third year now and 1:08:32.120 --> 1:08:36.000 now he's a starter for him. But his ability to 1:08:36.080 --> 1:08:39.280 move and showcase what he could do as a safety 1:08:39.400 --> 1:08:42.040 rather than a corner helped us as a team and. 1:08:42.000 --> 1:08:42.960 Helped him in the draft. 1:08:44.080 --> 1:08:45.920 What's Avery Johnson like as a dude? 1:08:46.520 --> 1:08:50.919 Gosh, A, he's awesome. He's so much fun to be around. 1:08:52.080 --> 1:08:57.360 He's the unquestioned leader on the offense, but he's very confident, 1:08:58.160 --> 1:09:01.599 has some swagger, but he's not a cocky kid. He's 1:09:02.000 --> 1:09:05.880 a guy that you know the room lights up when 1:09:05.920 --> 1:09:10.160 he comes in, but he doesn't want that, if that 1:09:10.200 --> 1:09:12.960 makes sense. He doesn't want to be the center of attention. 1:09:13.160 --> 1:09:14.720 He's just always going to be Some of it is 1:09:14.720 --> 1:09:16.240 his hair, right, He's going to be the center of 1:09:16.280 --> 1:09:22.000 attention because of his hair. But he's a very humble, 1:09:23.000 --> 1:09:26.960 driven kid that what people don't see about Avery is 1:09:27.080 --> 1:09:30.280 all the things that he does in our community for youth, 1:09:30.520 --> 1:09:37.360 for disability, children, for people in need. I know he's 1:09:37.400 --> 1:09:40.839 helping a principle back home that was diagnosed with cancer, 1:09:40.840 --> 1:09:43.680 of raising money. Those are the things that he's not 1:09:43.800 --> 1:09:47.400 putting out on social media, but maybe should be emphasized 1:09:47.400 --> 1:09:48.759 a little bit more because it's. 1:09:48.600 --> 1:09:49.799 Not just about the football. 1:09:49.840 --> 1:09:52.920 The football is just a very small part of his life. 1:09:54.080 --> 1:09:57.640 When you look for a leader, like what are those qualities? 1:09:58.280 --> 1:10:01.680 And the leadership qualities can be very different. I mean 1:10:01.680 --> 1:10:04.200 we have them even here amongst this organization. Like what 1:10:04.240 --> 1:10:07.479 are the qualities that you see in leaders that you 1:10:07.560 --> 1:10:10.240 feel like go best with your program? 1:10:10.600 --> 1:10:13.920 For starters that have to be able to hold themselves accountable, 1:10:14.000 --> 1:10:16.160 it's always easy to say the best player and the 1:10:16.160 --> 1:10:20.840 work ethic and his last one off the field and 1:10:20.880 --> 1:10:22.840 the first one on the field. You know, those are 1:10:22.920 --> 1:10:25.960 the things that people I think think about, but I 1:10:26.040 --> 1:10:28.919 think of it as one he's one that holds himself 1:10:28.960 --> 1:10:34.040 accountable and he's not going to talk to talk unless 1:10:34.080 --> 1:10:37.320 he can walk the walk. And we have a kid 1:10:37.400 --> 1:10:41.360 named Austin Moore that's one of our captains that epitomizes 1:10:41.400 --> 1:10:43.960 what a what a leader is and what I call 1:10:44.120 --> 1:10:46.719 when I say a leader, he's a servant leader. In effect, 1:10:47.880 --> 1:10:51.040 he makes everybody around him better because of his presence. 1:10:51.800 --> 1:10:58.479 And the best leaders are ones that really don't care 1:10:59.000 --> 1:11:00.880 if at the end of day, we're going to be 1:11:00.880 --> 1:11:03.720 best friends for the next forty years, you're going to 1:11:03.800 --> 1:11:07.040 respect me because I'm going to hold myself accountable, but 1:11:07.120 --> 1:11:09.320 I'm not going to be afraid to hold you accountable. 1:11:09.840 --> 1:11:14.160 And you know, in our sport, in college, kids have three, 1:11:14.240 --> 1:11:18.040 four or five years to make a legacy, and you 1:11:18.080 --> 1:11:20.120 can make a ton of friends, and you're already going 1:11:20.160 --> 1:11:21.920 to make a ton of friends. But the only way 1:11:21.960 --> 1:11:24.640 you're going to make a legacy is if you have success. 1:11:24.880 --> 1:11:27.200 And the only way you're going to have success is 1:11:27.240 --> 1:11:32.679 by holding your peers accountable. And that's what I find 1:11:32.720 --> 1:11:35.760 in the best leaders is they can hold themselves accountable. 1:11:35.800 --> 1:11:38.759 They can walk the walk, but they are not afraid 1:11:38.800 --> 1:11:41.320 to call out their best friend, not afraid to call 1:11:41.360 --> 1:11:45.760 out a teammate that is maybe equally as talented. It's 1:11:45.800 --> 1:11:47.680 easy to call out the guys that maybe aren't as 1:11:47.680 --> 1:11:48.920 good or don't do things. 1:11:48.800 --> 1:11:49.360 The right way. 1:11:49.720 --> 1:11:52.240 But when you can call out the other best players 1:11:52.320 --> 1:11:54.320 and they respect you for it, that's the best sign 1:11:54.320 --> 1:11:54.879 of leadership. 1:11:55.400 --> 1:11:56.680 I'm going to get in the weeds a little here 1:11:56.720 --> 1:12:00.200 because I respect your entire career as a coach, what 1:12:00.240 --> 1:12:02.320 you've built at every level. But I want to talk 1:12:02.360 --> 1:12:06.760 about practice tape. So you're a practice, You're doing what 1:12:06.800 --> 1:12:09.639 you do, you're ceoing, you're making sure that the macro 1:12:09.800 --> 1:12:11.880 things are done right. Do you ever get on and 1:12:11.920 --> 1:12:14.519 watch some tape and see somebody that maybe you did 1:12:14.560 --> 1:12:18.519 not know was competing at a higher level than maybe 1:12:18.520 --> 1:12:20.639 you wouldn't have caught if you didn't see it on tape. 1:12:21.720 --> 1:12:25.920 One hundred percent. I do it every day, And not 1:12:25.960 --> 1:12:28.720 only do you do, you have to do it, but 1:12:28.800 --> 1:12:34.519 you have to recognize that individual or those individuals for 1:12:34.560 --> 1:12:38.360 their efforts. And a simple thing would be we have 1:12:38.439 --> 1:12:41.200 our Scout team Players of the Week every week, the 1:12:41.240 --> 1:12:44.400 guys that aren't playing but gave us a chance to 1:12:44.439 --> 1:12:47.880 be successful by the look that they gave us each 1:12:47.960 --> 1:12:51.960 day that week that maybe we're down a defensive tackle 1:12:52.000 --> 1:12:54.439 and he had to take every rep in practice for 1:12:54.520 --> 1:12:57.880 the scout team or a linebacker whatever, maybe as well 1:12:57.920 --> 1:13:01.400 as special teams. And I think it's important that not 1:13:01.439 --> 1:13:07.160 only myself, but some of our best players thank those 1:13:07.200 --> 1:13:09.160 guys and recognize those guys. 1:13:09.240 --> 1:13:11.559 We have a neat deal that we do after wins in. 1:13:11.520 --> 1:13:15.800 The locker room where we hand out a hammer because 1:13:15.800 --> 1:13:17.439 we talked about pounding the stone all the time. We 1:13:17.479 --> 1:13:20.160 hand out a hammer to somebody and then they get 1:13:20.200 --> 1:13:24.479 to recognize somebody, and oftentimes it's a defensive lineman that 1:13:24.720 --> 1:13:27.720 is recognizing Hey, Scout team offensive lineman so and so, 1:13:27.960 --> 1:13:31.439 or Scout team wide receiver as a defensive back. Thank 1:13:31.479 --> 1:13:33.759 you for pushing me this week, man, you made me better. 1:13:34.520 --> 1:13:36.800 But I think you have to recognize those guys and 1:13:37.160 --> 1:13:40.160 they have to know that they're a valued part of 1:13:40.200 --> 1:13:41.639 your organization and program. 1:13:41.760 --> 1:13:43.400 I want to ask you about your dad for a second. 1:13:43.400 --> 1:13:45.559 What do you think you've taken from him, even if 1:13:45.600 --> 1:13:47.760 you don't realize until you got older, that you had, 1:13:48.200 --> 1:13:49.040 like as a. 1:13:49.000 --> 1:13:53.599 Coach, competitiveness and toughness not even in question. My dad's 1:13:53.640 --> 1:13:59.320 the toughest man I know. He's still at five years old. 1:14:00.280 --> 1:14:01.320 Armchair quarterback I have. 1:14:01.880 --> 1:14:03.960 Does he text you at all? And does he use emojis? 1:14:05.600 --> 1:14:07.880 No? No, my dad wouldn't use an emoji. 1:14:09.360 --> 1:14:12.080 All right, Coach Sea, thank you, hey, thanks for listening. 1:14:12.320 --> 1:14:13.880 One of the really cool things about the show is 1:14:14.520 --> 1:14:16.800 we can't believe people will agree to talk to us 1:14:17.880 --> 1:14:19.439 that are like head coaches and major programs. 1:14:19.479 --> 1:14:21.760 It's pretty amazing, pretty amazing. 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