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Speaker 1: Welcome to the nest.

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Speaker 2: Makes some noise right now.

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Speaker 1: I need you to make some noise right now, right now,

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Speaker 1: right now, come on, come on, let's go make some

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's go make some noise right now.

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Speaker 4: Yes, this young man right here is an Olympic gold medalist,

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Speaker 4: former undefeated world champion. He now serves as a general

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Speaker 4: manager of Combat You Boxing, the Hall of Fame boxer

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Speaker 4: Andre Lord.

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Speaker 1: Give it up right now, please, let's go.

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Speaker 5: Come on, come on, come on, come on.

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Speaker 2: He's got a lot of energy.

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Speaker 4: Come on, baby, make some noise for a dog on

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Speaker 4: the basketball court, mat star.

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Speaker 3: Give it up.

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Speaker 2: Let's go. Oh, who's next.

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Speaker 4: He's a Hall of famer in today nowadays.

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Speaker 1: His aspirations is to be a world class dad. I

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Speaker 1: need you right now. If you're in the nest, makes

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Speaker 1: the noise right now for the champ. You're right of favor.

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Speaker 3: What's up, y'all?

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Speaker 6: Well, thank you guys for coming out today.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 6: Congratulations to Sack State for man putting together guys like

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Speaker 6: the gentlemen sharing the stage, Guys like Mike who'll be

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Speaker 6: coming on stage soon. Shack to be able to acquire

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Speaker 6: this type of talent for the student body and give

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Speaker 6: their goals. Man, I want to take my hat off

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Speaker 6: to you guys for that.

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Speaker 3: Dre.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 2: We're here.

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Speaker 6: Andre Ward runs the fight side of all the smoke,

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Speaker 6: and he's done a great job. You're Ryan and I

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Speaker 6: may be running the MMA side one day of the company,

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Speaker 6: but as far as combat you goes here at Sack

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Speaker 6: State Arrayah, what did it mean to be a part

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Speaker 6: of that in your hometown?

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Speaker 7: I mean, first off, it's the first of its kind.

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Speaker 7: So anytime you're in a position to be the beginning

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Speaker 3: You know, you guys know.

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Speaker 7: We're all homegrown talent who who you know, have a

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Speaker 7: and and uh, you know, I was one of those guys,

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Speaker 7: doctor President Luke Wood is in that same boat, I mean,

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Speaker 7: very humble beginnings and uh came up in the Sacramento

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Speaker 7: the leader of the program, and he's doing things like

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Speaker 7: eyes are on combat sports, boxing, mixed martial arts with

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Speaker 7: giving athletes like myself, somebody that you know loves combat

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Speaker 3: To further their athletic you know, goals.

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Speaker 7: And accomplish something big and be supported by a university,

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Speaker 7: which makes it safer, more professional, and gives another level

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Speaker 7: of authenticity to what we're trying to do. We're not

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Speaker 7: just you know, savages out here trying to beat.

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Speaker 3: Each other up.

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Speaker 7: We're we're experts in something, and we're intelligent people and

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Speaker 2: We savages.

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Speaker 6: Sometimes savage people get beat up, right, sometimes that's true, Dre.

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Speaker 6: What I mean someone who's been in the game and

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Speaker 2: Well, Doctor Luke.

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Speaker 8: Wood and that guy right there, Brandon goan Zalez, the

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Speaker 8: You know, that was my chief sparring partner for many

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Speaker 8: He would do that three days a week, and I

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Speaker 8: His coach that he learned from Ray Woods is the

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Speaker 8: So when he asked me to be a part of it,

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Speaker 6: So what do you guys hope again, with two Hall

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Speaker 8: I think for me, the main thing is just awareness

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Speaker 8: But you know, whatever President Woods is doing is working

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Speaker 8: because sax State is like the place to be for

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Speaker 8: right now. So the attention is getting athletes are getting interested,

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Speaker 8: so the awareness is part of it, and then making

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Speaker 8: I know it's the same for Brandon and his crew

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Speaker 6: So right, You're right. You're the the general manner of

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Speaker 7: You know, the biggest thing for for the for the program,

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Speaker 7: the mixed martial arts side. Entrepreneurship and and and making

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Speaker 6: That's what I wanted to ask both of you guys,

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Speaker 6: because there's not a traditional line. Like I played basketball,

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Speaker 6: Your guys' journey is a little bit different. How do

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Speaker 8: It is it's definitely different because I came from a

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Speaker 8: Like I went to school, went to high school, grade school,

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Speaker 8: all of that. But like and I and I and

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Speaker 8: I love numbers, I love business and I even flirt with,

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Speaker 8: you know, possibly going back to college one day.

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Speaker 2: So you know, I may have to talk to doctor

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Speaker 2: Woods about you know, we have.

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Speaker 6: To that enrollments, eligibility, the gloves I checked.

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Speaker 2: On that I don't qualify.

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Speaker 3: I got to imagine the poor kids. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Checked with him today, I said, could I do that?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: You got too many fights? But you know I wanted to.

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Speaker 2: I flirted with going to college.

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Speaker 8: I just wonder how it would have been if I

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Speaker 4: Doctor Luke is the president of Sacramento State and a

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Speaker 8: What Doctor Luke, You're not just like the president and

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Speaker 9: Who's got to combat you? No, there's a reason for

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Speaker 7: And then it's just like you know, if if a

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Speaker 6: First of all, i want to congratulate you. I'm someone

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Speaker 9: and jiu jitsu and jiu jitsu, and so basically, so

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Speaker 9: she says like, Hey, I'm coming to Sacramento State and

443
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 9: I do mma, And I was like, oh, that's awesome.

444
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,680
Speaker 9: Did you know that Uriah favors Ultimate Fitness where Team

445
00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 9: Alpha trains out of. It's just right around the corner,

446
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,679
Speaker 9: and she said, yeah, that's why I'm coming. And so

447
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,679
Speaker 9: that's when I realized there was a thing that was

448
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 9: already a thing that we have students who come from

449
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,200
Speaker 9: all over the world and even faculty members who come

450
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,040
Speaker 9: from all over the world to train at Ultimate Fitness.

451
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Speaker 9: And then from there I met I met her, and

452
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Speaker 9: then I met Ethan Kreeger right who's also has been

453
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Speaker 9: a big part of it. And around about that same time,

454
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Speaker 9: I have a friend, his name is Parish Gary, who

455
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 9: passed away, and he was training at Flawless with Brandon

456
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 9: and we were talking about, hey, we should do something

457
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 9: that encompasses MMA but also encompasses boxing. Want to make

458
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Speaker 9: sure we have a like a legit boxing team, and

459
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 9: so he connected me with Brandon and then from there

460
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 9: it was basically this kind of thing just unfolded from there.

461
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Speaker 9: And so it was really a combination of students, of meeting.

462
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Speaker 2: Arriah, of meeting of Brandon, and.

463
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Speaker 9: Just realizing that we could do something special because we

464
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Speaker 9: have people here who are at an elite level and

465
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Speaker 9: I've trained in with a lot of boxing coaches, I

466
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Speaker 9: can say, I don't feel like I've I feel like

467
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Speaker 9: I've only ever trained.

468
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Speaker 2: With two elite coaches.

469
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Speaker 9: The coach that I had in San Diego, Ernest Johnson,

470
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Speaker 9: and also then training with Brandon Gonzales. And I was like,

471
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Speaker 9: if we if we could bring that to sax State, man,

472
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,440
Speaker 9: we could beat up everybody.

473
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and on that, on that that same topic, you know, traditionally,

474
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Speaker 7: because our gym started in two thousand and six, and

475
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Speaker 7: it was no one knew who I was when I

476
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Speaker 7: started the gym. It was it was I was creating

477
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Speaker 7: something that I needed, bringing everything together. The sport was

478
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Speaker 7: still brand new, but throughout that time we kept building

479
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Speaker 7: a name and we kept bringing more and more so

480
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Speaker 7: sax State alumni that are part of my team or

481
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Speaker 7: part of my staff doing something.

482
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Speaker 3: There's quite a few.

483
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Speaker 7: TuS Martd She she does all our marketing for our team.

484
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Speaker 3: She was a sax State alumni.

485
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Speaker 7: She came here from Australia because of the gym and

486
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Speaker 7: because of sax State combination. We have Andrew Coyn, who's

487
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Speaker 7: a homegrown talent, one of our top up and comers

488
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Speaker 7: who's a professional.

489
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Speaker 4: Uh.

490
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Speaker 7: He was in our team and on our team. His

491
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 7: whole time at sack State. So he's a sax State

492
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Speaker 7: Combat You alumni with that before the program was here.

493
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Speaker 7: And and then like you said, we've got people from

494
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Speaker 7: India and now we have a girl from Azerbajean that's

495
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Speaker 7: here because of the program.

496
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Speaker 3: We have you know, Baba from.

497
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Speaker 7: Hawaii, and and and so many different people that because

498
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Speaker 7: of this program it makes sense for them to move here.

499
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Speaker 3: And it was just a perfect marriage.

500
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Speaker 9: And then in our own backyard, I on the Gonzales, right,

501
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Speaker 9: and so that's been amazing. But the other piece I

502
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 9: got to say is our athletic director, Mark or Mark,

503
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Speaker 9: throw up your hand please, brother. So so what's unique

504
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Speaker 9: about Combat You is that it's sports that are also

505
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Speaker 9: managed under the the arm that.

506
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Speaker 2: Does intercleagiate athletics.

507
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Speaker 9: That is a very very different model than you see

508
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Speaker 9: anywhere else most other campuses. Oh, it's a club sports

509
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Speaker 9: with some with some coaches who are volunteering their time. No,

510
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Speaker 9: this is managed through athletics. So that's a whole different

511
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Speaker 9: way of doing it. And it makes sense too because

512
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Speaker 9: these are higher risk sports.

513
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Speaker 2: Right.

514
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Speaker 9: You got gymnastics, which is a higher risk sports. You

515
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 9: got football, which is a higher risk sport. And you

516
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,640
Speaker 9: got combat sports, higher risk sports. You want to make

517
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Speaker 9: sure that the concussion protocols, the safety testing, the way

518
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 9: that we provide the kind of wrap around support, Like

519
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 9: you got to be doing it in a thoughtful way

520
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 9: so that you're making sure that like we're we're being

521
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Speaker 9: safe about what we're doing as safe as you can

522
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Speaker 9: be in you know, a violent sport.

523
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Speaker 8: You got to be a little different to one a

524
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Speaker 8: box at any level.

525
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Speaker 2: Yeah right.

526
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Speaker 8: Somebody described you as a bulldog in terms of how

527
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Speaker 8: you get things done. He say, just a dude that

528
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 8: gets things done. He gets locked in on something and

529
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Speaker 8: he'll get it done. All presidents, all faculty members are

530
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 8: not created equal, Like, like, what kind of president are you?

531
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Speaker 5: Like?

532
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Speaker 8: What do you have in here that makes people feel like,

533
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 8: oh he's like that.

534
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Speaker 6: Oh, brag on yourself a little bit, talk about it

535
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Speaker 6: all right, Well, this is what I would say.

536
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Speaker 9: I think it comes from humble beginnings. So you know,

537
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 9: I was born while my mother was in prison, foster

538
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 9: child group in the foster care system, transracial adoption, came

539
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,439
Speaker 9: to Sacramento State, lived in my car when days at

540
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Speaker 9: a time without eating, and I always and even then

541
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Speaker 9: when I was a student, here at sax State, I

542
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 9: was like, man, this place could be something special. So

543
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Speaker 9: by the time I hit my sophomore year, I was

544
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Speaker 9: walking around campus and introducing myself to people. Hi, my

545
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 9: name is Luke Would I'm gonna get the president of

546
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Speaker 9: Sacramento State all the time. There's hundreds of people in

547
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Speaker 9: the city who remember that, and they probably thought I

548
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 9: was crazy, But for me, I was just I knew

549
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 9: what I was going to be capable of doing because

550
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 9: I knew that this place was special. But I also

551
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 9: knew that it wasn't being maximized to the level that

552
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 9: it needed to be. So everything that I do, I

553
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,199
Speaker 9: move forward hard. I move forward fast. I don't like

554
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 9: to talk about things. I'd like to do things and

555
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 9: talk about them at the same time. And I think

556
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Speaker 9: that that describes both my leadership style, but I also

557
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 9: feel like that describes how I am when I'm sparring

558
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 9: or in the ring.

559
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Speaker 8: Man, that's powerful.

560
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Speaker 2: Man.

561
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Speaker 8: I think you know what I hear from you is

562
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Speaker 8: that you're not afraid to dream. You have vision, and

563
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Speaker 8: you're not afraid to go attack what you think your

564
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Speaker 8: vision is. Because, like you said, we just all the

565
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Speaker 8: people you have associated with this great university right now.

566
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Speaker 8: You asked a question, Hey, can we have a meeting?

567
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Speaker 2: Can we do this?

568
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Speaker 8: Like some people are even afraid to pursue a vision.

569
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Speaker 8: They're afraid to ask the question or to take the

570
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Speaker 8: met And you don't seem to have that fear, you know.

571
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Speaker 9: I tell people being president means that you take nine

572
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Speaker 9: l's in one day so you can get to one.

573
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Speaker 2: W Hey, you can't stop, can't stop. See.

574
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Speaker 8: Sometimes I won't ask because I'm like, I don't like

575
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Speaker 8: being told. I don't like to know, like make the

576
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 8: pitch and it's like, yeah, we can't do it right now,

577
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 8: I'm like, forget it. I know I should have did it.

578
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 8: But sometimes you gotta take ten meetings to get the

579
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 8: one yes. Yeah, you gotta be kind of different to

580
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 8: keep pushing through the nose to get the yes because.

581
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 2: The one yes can change everything.

582
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,239
Speaker 9: Yeah, at the same time when everyone is saying, oh,

583
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 9: it can't be done.

584
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Speaker 6: Last question before we get you out of your doc.

585
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 6: You hired someone on the basketball side that has broken

586
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 6: a lot of these kids in here is parents' hearts,

587
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 6: playing for the Lakers and doing a lot of different things.

588
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 6: What was the process like getting Shack to be the

589
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 6: GM of the men's basketball program.

590
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Speaker 9: Well, I mean that really is a credit to coach Biby, right,

591
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Speaker 9: So basically he said, hey, Shaq, why don't you be

592
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 9: the GM. Shaq said, no, how I'll be the sistant GM.

593
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 9: And then Mike said, well, you can't be the sistant

594
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,719
Speaker 9: GM because we don't have a GM. And then so

595
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 9: Mike got on a couple of calls with him, and

596
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 9: then I got on a zoom call with him, and

597
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 9: then Mark also got on a zoom call with him,

598
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 9: just trying to explain like what it would mean to

599
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 9: be involved, and he wanted to make sure that like

600
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Speaker 9: it was something that he'd be able to do at

601
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Speaker 9: the highest level. And so but he's been incredibly involved.

602
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Speaker 9: You know, I'll leave it to Mike to talk about

603
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 9: what that involvement looks like. But I think people think, oh,

604
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 9: it's like a symbolic thing. It's not symbolic. He's been

605
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 9: truly invested in Sacramento State, everything from what happens in basketball,

606
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 9: but also other parts of the campus as well. I mean,

607
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Speaker 9: for example, we got admitted Student Day coming up on

608
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Speaker 9: April eighteen, and all the students who applied to Sack

609
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 9: State are about to get a call, a robo call

610
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 9: from Shack invited him to become the amitted students day, right,

611
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Speaker 9: So like even like things like that where he's trying

612
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 9: to make it so that he's helping to elevate the campus,

613
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 9: and elevating the campus is elevating the community, and elevating

614
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 9: community is improving Sacramento. And if you care about Sacramento,

615
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 9: you're rooting for the only university in the entire region

616
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Speaker 9: other than sax City that has the name Sacramento on

617
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Speaker 9: the title.

618
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Speaker 2: So I'm all about Sack. I'm rooting for everything Sack.

619
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Speaker 6: Congratulations again. I wish the best luck. Continue to break

620
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 6: down these glass ceilings. Give it up for doctor Wood rest.

621
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: Repeat this after me. Please, everybody say speak it.

622
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 2: Give it to me again.

623
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Speaker 1: Speak it.

624
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Speaker 4: He walked around and said, I'm going to be the

625
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 4: president of sax State.

626
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: Ali said, I'm the greatest. Who told him he was

627
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: the greatest?

628
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: He did?

629
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Speaker 4: He said, I float like a butterfly, and he spoke it.

630
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 4: We gotta speak our dreams into reality. The next champ

631
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Speaker 4: coming to this stage. Her name is Ayana. I call

632
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Speaker 4: her Ayana the Great Gonzales. She's a member of the

633
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 4: Combat You Boxing team and a trailblazer for the program.

634
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Speaker 4: She became Sacramento State's first female boxing All American and

635
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 4: represents the dedication, discipline, and competitive spirit that defined Combat

636
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 4: You and its student athletes.

637
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Speaker 1: She is the twenty twenty six regional champion.

638
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Speaker 4: If you're in the nest right now, I need you

639
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 4: to make some noise right now, right now, right now,

640
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 4: make some noise for Ayana.

641
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Speaker 2: Then great Donza, come on, come.

642
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 3: On, come on, come on.

643
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 2: What's up?

644
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Speaker 8: So you just came off a big regional win that's

645
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Speaker 8: got you going to the nationals.

646
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Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about that.

647
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Speaker 10: Yeah, we just came back from Reno. Had two fights

648
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 10: out there. Went well. First round stoppage for my first

649
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 10: fight first like fifteen seconds already. Second fight, we went

650
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 10: all through rounds. It was a good, hard fight, great opponent.

651
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 10: Got tired for sure up in Reno. But yeah, I'm

652
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 10: really excited to be going to nationals. Decided to go

653
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 10: with my team my coaches. Grow up was at sax

654
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Speaker 10: State on a national level.

655
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Speaker 8: So you eleven years as a gymnast, four years competitive tennis,

656
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 8: you were boxing as a cross trainer. You know obviously

657
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 8: you know your father's Brandon Gonzalez. Your mother also fought

658
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 8: it was almost like it was destined to happen. So

659
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Speaker 8: how did you make the decision officially say I want

660
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Speaker 8: to be a part.

661
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Speaker 6: Of combat youth sounds like she was born with hands.

662
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Speaker 10: Yes, you know, it's crazy because I never saw myself boxing,

663
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Speaker 10: Like girl, yeah, you know, being in the gym, you

664
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Speaker 10: would think like you would gravitate towards a sport, but no,

665
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Speaker 10: Like I was like, nah, I'm not interested, Like gymnastics

666
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Speaker 10: is my sport.

667
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Speaker 11: Like I'm a gymnast. I'm not a boxer. You'll never

668
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Speaker 11: catch me. Like training with my dad.

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Speaker 10: My dad tried to get me into it a little

670
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Speaker 10: bit when I was younger, but it just never really

671
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 10: stuck with me. But then as I got older, I

672
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 10: found kind of a new appreciation for the sport. So

673
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 10: towards my senior year of high school, I was just

674
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Speaker 10: training the summer with my dad for fun, like just

675
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 10: once or twice a week, you know, just on the

676
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Speaker 10: midst nothing serious. But then the more I started going

677
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Speaker 10: in the gym, the more I started showing up putting

678
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Speaker 10: in the.

679
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Speaker 11: Work for that sport.

680
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Speaker 10: I was like, wait, you know, I kind of I

681
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Speaker 10: kind of like this, like why didn't I give this

682
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Speaker 10: a chance before? So then you know, we had the

683
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Speaker 10: combat You program startup, and I was like, well, this

684
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Speaker 10: is my opportunity to take my boxing on the next level.

685
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Speaker 10: So this is now the time to really lock in,

686
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Speaker 10: start pushing it, showing up in the gym every day,

687
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Speaker 10: you know, being present and being ready to work.

688
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Speaker 8: So I said earlier, you got to be a little

689
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Speaker 8: bit different.

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit.

691
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Speaker 8: I don't want to say crazy, I don't want to

692
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Speaker 8: say off. I just want to say different. You could

693
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Speaker 8: take that word however you want to take it. But

694
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Speaker 8: for a person that hit a person and you have

695
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Speaker 8: a desire to want to hit back, you got to

696
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Speaker 8: be a little bit different. So how did you overcome that?

697
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Speaker 8: The physical side training, that's one thing, but how do

698
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Speaker 8: you Who are you when you get hit?

699
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Speaker 2: Are you a fight or flight type of person?

700
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Speaker 11: I'm a fight I want to get it back.

701
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Speaker 10: I want to draw you as soon as you get

702
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Speaker 10: one good hit on me, Like I don't want to

703
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Speaker 10: drop you.

704
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Speaker 11: I mean the goal. I mean, you know, boxing it's

705
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 11: nothing personal. When you're in the ring.

706
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Speaker 10: Everybody wants to win, but you got to want to

707
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Speaker 10: win more, so you got to you got to really

708
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Speaker 10: have to go after it.

709
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so vice president of Combat, you competing for sex

710
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 6: State in pursuit of your degree. How do you find

711
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 6: the balance in being a true student athlete?

712
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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, it's definitely a challenge.

713
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Speaker 10: My parents always tell me, you know, things are always

714
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 10: only as hard as you make them. So, yes, while

715
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Speaker 10: it is difficult, and in o those days where you're

716
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Speaker 10: tired and you've been training for hours, but then you

717
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Speaker 10: have an exam to study for the next day, but

718
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Speaker 10: then you have to think to yourself, like I have

719
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Speaker 10: the you know, ability to be afforded these opportunities, so

720
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Speaker 10: why not make the most of it? So you have

721
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Speaker 10: to show up as a student and an athlete.

722
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I have a question for you. I know that

723
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Speaker 7: at least I've heard that you want to be a doctor.

724
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Speaker 7: Is that the key is correct and and combat sports

725
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 7: are life skill? You know, how how satisfying is it

726
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Speaker 7: to know that in a real situation on the streets

727
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Speaker 7: you know exactly what to do if something confronts you

728
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Speaker 7: or you're in a bad situation.

729
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Speaker 3: That's a life skill.

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Speaker 7: But first off, has that given you a different type

731
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Speaker 7: of confidence? Obviously you're doing the combat you stuff, I

732
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Speaker 7: would vote you go down the doctor route versus the boxing.

733
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Speaker 3: But if you thought about becoming a boxer, because.

734
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Speaker 7: You know, it's a very lucrative world, especially in today's

735
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Speaker 7: day and age, if it's something that you're really passionate about,

736
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Speaker 7: you know, you have, you know, some star power. You know,

737
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 7: it's one of the reasons you're up here. Not only

738
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 7: you you have the boxing skills, but there's a little

739
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Speaker 7: something extra there. Have you thought about what that would

740
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 7: look like or you even let that that cross your

741
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Speaker 7: mind to be a professional?

742
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Speaker 3: Are you one hundred percent going down the doctor route?

743
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Speaker 10: So you know, I've had people ask me that question

744
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 10: before and I'm like, you know what, Like, I love boxing,

745
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 10: but that's not my ultimate goal. My ultimate goal is,

746
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 10: you know, to become a doctor and help people and

747
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 10: give back because you know, I have a lot of support,

748
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 10: so I want to be the kind of doctor that

749
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Speaker 10: can support others and support their patients. And whether that's

750
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Speaker 10: you know, becoming an athletic physician and helping you know,

751
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 10: my fellow boxers and giving back to the boxing community,

752
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Speaker 10: that's definitely something I would look forward to.

753
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Speaker 6: Cool Over there, Dad's loudest clap of the day. Speaking

754
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 6: to dad, have you heard any stories or got a

755
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Speaker 6: chance to see any videos of your dad and Andrea

756
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 6: back in their days?

757
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Speaker 3: Sparn I've never.

758
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Speaker 10: Seen videos of Andre and my dad, but I've been

759
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 10: curious now that all this is going on.

760
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 11: I want to see who was whooping on who was It.

761
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Speaker 2: Was intense, I'll say that for sure.

762
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Speaker 8: What's your overall like vision for combat you and like,

763
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Speaker 8: how do you get the word out personally?

764
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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, for combat you.

765
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Speaker 10: I want to see a lot more people come into

766
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Speaker 10: the sport, especially females. You know, we don't have a

767
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 10: lot of females, especially in boxing right now.

768
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Speaker 11: So you know, I want this.

769
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Speaker 10: I want other females to come in and see like

770
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Speaker 10: this is an opportunity to be a part of something

771
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 10: big too. You know, for combat sports, for a lot

772
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Speaker 10: of girls, it can be really intimidating. Like I've met

773
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Speaker 10: girls who are like, oh, I want to join, but

774
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Speaker 10: you know, I'm kind of like nervous, like I don't

775
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 10: really know how to get into it.

776
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Speaker 11: I'm like, fine, you're okay, just show up.

777
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 10: Like everybody has to start somewhere. No one you know,

778
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 10: comes to practice already being ready to take on a

779
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 10: national title. So you know, I tell them it's just

780
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 10: about showing up, showing consistency, and getting more comfortable in

781
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 10: the space. And you know, we have a lot of

782
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 10: great people in our club. Everybody is super welcoming, super supportive.

783
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 10: We all want to help each other grow. We're all

784
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 10: here for the same reason. So I think it's really

785
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 10: important that, you know, we kind of push each and

786
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 10: lift each other up.

787
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Speaker 6: Before we get you out of here. What's your favorite

788
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 6: part about all of this? I mean, you're a student here,

789
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 6: vice president, combat you you're competing. What is your favorite

790
00:36:59,200 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 6: part about this? So?

791
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Speaker 10: I think being able to work alongside my parents in

792
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 10: all honesty, you know, before I was like, oh, well,

793
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Speaker 10: now I'm gonna have my parents like even more involved

794
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 10: in my life and more nagging at me and I

795
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 10: have to hear, go get up and do your runs.

796
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 10: But you know, I've honestly really enjoyed the process of,

797
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 10: you know, just becoming a better boxer and a better person,

798
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 10: having my parents support me through school and the sport.

799
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Speaker 3: I got one one more question for you.

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Speaker 7: I remember going to UC Davis and seeing the athletes

801
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 7: when I first got there, on posters and you know,

802
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 7: being excited to see them at like a local like

803
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 7: a van or a party, you know, and eventually I

804
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 7: became that guy that was on the poster and then

805
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 7: on to my professional career, et cetera. And you're talking about,

806
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 7: you know, wanting to get more girls involved. Have you

807
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 7: felt now that and like you said, boxing wasn't your focus,

808
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 7: it's something you are good at and then put the

809
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 7: work in.

810
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Speaker 3: Are you feeling now as a role model you met

811
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 3: girls that are inspired by you? And if so, what

812
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 3: does that feel like?

813
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 10: Yeah, honestly, it's really rewarding.

814
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Speaker 8: You know.

815
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 10: Some people say like boxing is like a thankless job,

816
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 10: it's a thankless sport. But then I've had parents reach

817
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 10: out to me and say, my daughter really wants to

818
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 10: start boxing. Now she's seeing you on the billboard and

819
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 10: she's really excited to start boxing, and she know she

820
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 10: wants to compete and be a fighter like you. And

821
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 10: then when you look back and see that, you're like, wow,

822
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 10: Like you really are making a difference in people's lives.

823
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 10: Like even though on like a personal level you don't

824
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 10: think like anybody cares or anybody's paying attention, there are

825
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 10: people out there who are looking up to you and

826
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 10: seeking inspiration in you.

827
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 6: That's great. Well Ayanna and you Rajah both. Thank you

828
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 6: guys for joining us today and best of luck.

829
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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you guys. Thanks for all the support, guys.

830
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Speaker 3: Thank grall. I you see you guys in.

831
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Speaker 1: The first one is Prophet Johnson.

832
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Speaker 4: He's a senior guard for the Sacramento State men's basketball

833
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 4: team and one of the top players in the Big

834
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 4: Sky Conference. He was named second team All Big Sky

835
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Speaker 4: and select it to the All Defensive Team after a

836
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Speaker 4: standout season, establishing himself as one of the conference's premier

837
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 4: two way players. And before we show him some love,

838
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 4: the second entry, the second champ I'm gonna introduce his

839
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 4: name is Mike Bibby. He's the head coach of Sacramento

840
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 4: State men's basketball team and a former NBA All Star

841
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 4: point guard known for his leadership and clutch performances. He

842
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 4: played fourteen seasons in the NBA and remains one of

843
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 4: the most respected figures in Sacramento sports history as he

844
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 4: leads the Hornets into a new era.

845
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Speaker 1: If you were in the nests, I need you to

846
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: make some noise.

847
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,240
Speaker 4: Right now, right now for Mike Bibby and Prophet Johnson

848
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 4: give it up.

849
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Speaker 2: Let's go, Let's go.

850
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 6: I need to hear you, Mike, after a great run

851
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 6: with the Kings in a long NBA career, did you

852
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 6: ever think you would come back and be the head

853
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 6: coach of sax State basketball?

854
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 5: I never did, you know.

855
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Speaker 12: I Mean, the thing is, I wanted the coach I've

856
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 12: been winning, the coach I coached my son since he

857
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 12: was nine years old, like growing up. So I mean

858
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 12: I never really wanted to coach. I just wanted, you know,

859
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 12: to retire and just sit back and just watch my kids,

860
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 12: both of us, both of us. So the thing was,

861
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 12: you know, never, when the job came open, like four

862
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 12: or five years ago, I talked to Mark and was like, Mark, Hey,

863
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Speaker 12: I'm the guy.

864
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Speaker 6: You know.

865
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Speaker 5: So, I mean, it didn't happen the time, it wasn't right.

866
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Speaker 12: And then you know, the second time around, it opened up,

867
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 12: and you know, it was God's time and and God

868
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 12: got me here. You know, I feel it's only right

869
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Speaker 12: to start my career here in Sacramentum.

870
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Speaker 6: That's top profit. I played with against this guy for

871
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 6: a long time, played with him. What's he like as

872
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 6: a coach? Hey, listen, you can't get in trouble no more.

873
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 13: For so No, it's definitely like one of a kind

874
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 13: coach for short, like he's a player's coach because he's

875
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 13: been in the position we've been in. I feel like

876
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 13: you're not gonna find no one like him honestly, because

877
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Speaker 13: he relates to us on a different aspect.

878
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Speaker 2: The other coach just have before a.

879
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 5: Lot of yelling. Man, they make me, they make me

880
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Speaker 5: yell a lot.

881
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 2: They make me yell at coach, coach coach.

882
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 8: What's the balance though, because you have sometimes you have

883
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 8: a coach who is obviously older than the players, and

884
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 8: they just can't make the connection, they can't relate. What's

885
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 8: the balance between getting your respect as a coach but

886
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 8: then also being there to little know, I've been in

887
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 8: your shoes before I.

888
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 5: Got my son.

889
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 12: My son's associated head coach with me. So he's twenty eight,

890
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 12: so he's kind of a closer age to them, and

891
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 12: as far as Jones.

892
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 5: With him like that. But I mean, I'm not that

893
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 5: much older than them, you know what I mean.

894
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 12: I mean, No, I mean not like these other coaches,

895
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 12: these other coaches seventy sixty seven years old, I'm not

896
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 12: I'm forty seven, so I got a little bit of time.

897
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 12: I'm not seventy h no, but you know, I mean

898
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 12: it's a playful time that I have. And like I said,

899
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 12: the best coach that I had probably was Mike Woodson,

900
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 12: and he was all around coach as far as you know,

901
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 12: we'll have fun, but when you get between those lines,

902
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 12: it's about business. So you know, we have fun a lot.

903
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 12: But also when it's time we get dirty, we gotta

904
00:41:59,280 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 12: get dirty.

905
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 2: Question for propert, But I got to ask you, coach.

906
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 8: You know, like I just turned forty two, man, and

907
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,720
Speaker 8: stuff is different than forty two. You know, the muscles

908
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 8: don't pop the same, and it's harder to.

909
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 2: Get in shape.

910
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 8: I got a question for you, man, what's the what's

911
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 8: the what's the what's the protocol? Man?

912
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 2: For me to to look like you be looking? Man,

913
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 2: what's the protocol? Talk to me?

914
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 5: I mean, I can't get out there and run. I

915
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 5: try to.

916
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 12: I try to play with them one time, right, So

917
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 12: I got the practice one time and I'm just trying

918
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 12: to fill in the spots, you know, I'm just trying

919
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 12: to show these guys how to play. And one of

920
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 12: the kids got his eyes lit up and he just

921
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 12: took it out the fact out of him.

922
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 5: I just told him.

923
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 12: I was like, man, look, I'm out here just to

924
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 12: show you guys how to play it. Don't try to

925
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 12: take me one on one. I'm not there for you

926
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 12: to see what you could do against me.

927
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 6: But defense was never really your thing. Anyway you get

928
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:45,839
Speaker 6: on the other side.

929
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 5: They paid me to score that thing.

930
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 12: You did it well, so I flavor and fouled him,

931
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 12: and I just I just taught it. I just told him, like, man, look,

932
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 12: I told this, I stopped the practice. Said look, just

933
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 12: because y'all see me out here, don't mean that y'all

934
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 12: just gonna try to take a week. I'm a failure

935
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 12: hard So that was it was. But I mean, just

936
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 12: I love the lyft weights.

937
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 6: Man.

938
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 5: You know, when I was playing, they wouldn't let you lift, cause.

939
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 12: Every summer I go back home and I'll come back bigger,

940
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 12: and they're like, Mike, you can't you can't lift like that,

941
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 12: So what you would you riding me sit home and

942
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 12: do nothing and game weight and get fat and like, no,

943
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 12: but you can't lift like that.

944
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 5: So it's in between.

945
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 12: So now I could lift, nobody can tell me what

946
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 12: I could lift, like do my own weights and do

947
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 12: all that stuff.

948
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 2: So around, boy, it's impressive.

949
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 6: A question for profit?

950
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 8: Yeah, profit, You've had an interesting role man, and you

951
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,479
Speaker 8: battle tested. You know, you started in JUCO, you worked

952
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 8: your way different colleges and then you had a breakout

953
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 8: year this year and the year before, Like, tell me

954
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 8: about that journey of house that shaped you as a

955
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:43,439
Speaker 8: basketball player.

956
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 13: Yeah, first I went prep school. It was like out

957
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 13: of high school. I was a name and like where

958
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 13: I'm from and everything like that. But and I didn't

959
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 13: get anything out of high school. So Ulmoss, it was

960
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 13: like a mental game this whole time because I was

961
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 13: playing the year in high school. So then I had

962
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:00,479
Speaker 13: like what I'm gonna do next? Was the being about

963
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,280
Speaker 13: going juco or going prep school. So then I decided

964
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 13: to go prep because I didn't want to wastee your college.

965
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 13: So then I went prep. I was the best player

966
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 13: on my prep team, and then it still didn't get anything.

967
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 13: So I'm like, dang, am I just not good enough

968
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 13: for something like what's going on? And so then I

969
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 13: went JUCO up in Washington Bellevue College. I went there

970
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 13: and I killed. I balled out. Even after that, see

971
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,439
Speaker 13: we won our championship. After that season, I still didn't

972
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 13: have anything, so I'm just like, dang, this is really

973
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 13: like a mental roller coaster. I'm like, should I just

974
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 13: stopped playing or like, what's going on? And then eventually

975
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 13: I got my first offer like a month after the season.

976
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 13: It was like a surreal moment. So ever since then,

977
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 13: I just ain't looked back. So it's just just keeping

978
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,240
Speaker 13: my head and just staying level headed through the whole process.

979
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 13: Like just never give up, is really what I can say.

980
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 2: Mike.

981
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 6: I know how important being a father is to you,

982
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 6: and obviously with the rigors of the NBA schedule that

983
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 6: made it hard for us. But now that you're retired

984
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 6: and you're coaching, tell me what it's like to be

985
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 6: able to have your son sitting next to you and

986
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 6: learning from you and helping you and just having this

987
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 6: having junior along this whole journey with you.

988
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 12: It's good, you know what I mean, because you know,

989
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 12: I mean me, coming into this situation, They've always told

990
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 12: me you don't have any experience, you know, that was

991
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 12: the main thing, And you know, then I went I

992
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 12: did the college program, I mean the NBA Assistant coaching

993
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,919
Speaker 12: program where it was Now I'm learning computers. I'm learning

994
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 12: how to do stuff that they said we couldn't do.

995
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 12: Because remember back in they met, like the players would

996
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 12: get on just because you play. Now they tried to

997
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 12: change it to analytics, to where like you need to

998
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 12: know how to do the computer and stuff like that.

999
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 6: I think that's all BS, but go ahead, Yeah me too.

1000
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 5: So we did that.

1001
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 12: So I did all that, and they always tell me

1002
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 12: you don't have experience. So I would want to put

1003
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 12: him in a situation to where when he gets his

1004
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 12: own when he gets his own head job, they can't

1005
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 12: tell him, hey, you don't have any experience. So he's

1006
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 12: going to have that experience. So just have him there along,

1007
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 12: you know. I mean he's still you know, he's a brainiac.

1008
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 12: He thinks he knows more than me. I always start

1009
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 12: to tell him like I've been doing this before you

1010
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 12: were born, and I have to re mind.

1011
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,760
Speaker 6: But I remember him and diapers in the facility.

1012
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's his mindset is just like he's very smart kid,

1013
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 12: and he's he's always been a smart player. So it

1014
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 12: kind of goes right into into coaching.

1015
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 6: So tell us to I mean, we we talked to

1016
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 6: doctor Wood, but tell us how you convinced Shack And

1017
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 6: I don't know if you guys don't know Shaq. Shaq

1018
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 6: is the biggest kid in the world, first and foremost

1019
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 6: the biggest grown kid in the world. But what was

1020
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 6: the process of talking to Shack and getting to buy

1021
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 6: And obviously I knew his son played here. He was

1022
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 6: a senior this year, right, his son came in and played.

1023
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 6: But obviously his presence is bigger than life. And as

1024
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 6: doctor Wood mentioned, it's not just on the basketball side,

1025
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 6: it's it's to uplift this university as a whole. So

1026
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 6: how was it getting Shack and tell us something we

1027
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 6: might not know? Where a funny story about the process

1028
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 6: of getting.

1029
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 12: Shock it was, it was a quick process. I mean,

1030
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 12: I hate the Lakers. I always hate the Lakers for

1031
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 12: the rest of my life, no matter what it is.

1032
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,760
Speaker 6: So never in my that's a loud class.

1033
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 12: Never in my life ever thought to meeting and Shaq

1034
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 12: would come together somehow. And I talked to a guy

1035
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 12: that trained his son and he was like, hey, would

1036
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 12: you want Shakir to come? I was like, what do

1037
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 12: you come here? And he's like, yeah, you come. So

1038
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 12: end up coming here as our first recruit. We signed,

1039
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 12: and then like two or three weeks later, I saw

1040
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 12: you know, people being general managers and I was like,

1041
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 12: let me ask Shack if he be a general manager.

1042
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 5: And so I just asked him.

1043
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 12: I said, he, Shaq, would you want to be a

1044
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,800
Speaker 12: general manager of Sacramento State? And he, I mean he

1045
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 12: took like a five second break and said yeah. And

1046
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 12: it was like it was that quick, and I was like, Okay,

1047
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 12: I didn't think he's gonna answer that quick. I didn't

1048
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 12: even know how to answer. It's like, okay, well let

1049
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 12: me let me figure out what it coust.

1050
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 5: So he wanted to know what what it?

1051
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 12: Yeah, it went tailed and then got marked and Luke

1052
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 12: on the phone with him and we put him. You know,

1053
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 12: we couldn't be here all the time. He's very busy guy.

1054
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 12: So the thing was just whatever he could do to help.

1055
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 5: He helped. You know, he helped us raise a lot

1056
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 5: of money.

1057
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 12: You know, he sends me videos of kids that get

1058
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 12: sent to him all the time, and I mean just

1059
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 12: his presence around changes everything.

1060
00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 5: So it's good.

1061
00:47:59,200 --> 00:47:59,439
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1062
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 8: So Overtime and Omaha Productions recently announced the docu series

1063
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 8: about SAX State.

1064
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 2: You guys have had.

1065
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 8: Cameras where you normally wouldn't have cameras.

1066
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 2: Why did you think, why did you allow that around

1067
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 2: the team?

1068
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 12: I mean just to kind of tell our story, you

1069
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 12: know what I mean. I mean, it's my first year.

1070
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 12: You know, it's just a different situation that probably no

1071
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 12: school has ever had. You know, we got Shack as

1072
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 12: a general manager. I'm the head coach. We had all

1073
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 12: we had fifteen new players come in this year, so

1074
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 12: it wasn't no, yeah, it was all fifteen. So we

1075
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 12: had all guys come in, and you know, just to

1076
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 12: get these guys, to show these guys with the background

1077
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 12: of what we do and how are these kids work.

1078
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 12: You know, We've got Mikey Williams, we got Profit just

1079
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 12: to show people on the outside looking in just how

1080
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 12: these guys are on the court and off the court.

1081
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 8: Anything that's gonna surprises when we when we watch that.

1082
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 6: No, I.

1083
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 12: Stutter, bro I look at it before it goes out.

1084
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 12: So we're gonna make sure everything is precise.

1085
00:48:55,800 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 6: So Profit obviously having a different journey. I had a tradition,

1086
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,240
Speaker 6: somewhat of a traditional journey where I went to college

1087
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 6: and then got drafted, but then I got cut and

1088
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 6: had to go to the G League and kind of

1089
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 6: had to grind my way. Your journey has started a

1090
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 6: little different. What are you looking forward to after having

1091
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 6: a coach like Mike, having the success you've had here

1092
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 6: the last two years, what are you looking forward to

1093
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 6: moving forward in your basketball journey.

1094
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 13: I mean, I'm just, of course, looking forward to going pro,

1095
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 13: that's the number one thing. But it's kind of the

1096
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 13: same situation as I was in high school. If it

1097
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 13: don't work out at first, just keep going, Just keep

1098
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 13: my head up, like, for instance, how you did.

1099
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 6: He said, you got cut.

1100
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 13: If I get cut, then just keep on pushing and

1101
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 13: keep going.

1102
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 6: Just keep God on my side like that.

1103
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 5: I told him.

1104
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 12: I also told him that that, you know, not everybody's

1105
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 12: routs the same. You know, you have to take a

1106
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 12: different route. You might not be the NBA right away,

1107
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 12: but you got to keep working to get where you're

1108
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 12: trying to get. You know, you're trying to come back

1109
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 12: to school. I said, you get your ass out of here.

1110
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 5: Man, it's time. It's time to go. So he's moving on.

1111
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 2: What you think you're gonna do?

1112
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 5: They're talking to us, talking to you.

1113
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 6: Uh, he said, gotta see Mike. I feel like I'm

1114
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 6: in this space too. I have seventeen year old twins

1115
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 6: that I coach in the summertime, and I feel like

1116
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 6: this generation in kids is a lot different from our

1117
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 6: generation from a standpoint of they're very skilled, but I

1118
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 6: feel like they lack a little bit of basketball like

1119
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 6: you in knowing what to do when the ball's not

1120
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 6: in their hands. How did you implement a combination of

1121
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 6: what's current to keep these kids with what you are

1122
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 6: talking about, but also the way we came up in

1123
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 6: the game, and how did you implement that in your

1124
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 6: coaching style this year.

1125
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:36,800
Speaker 5: I'm still trying to.

1126
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 12: Man, I don't know the wind of it yet, but

1127
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 12: I mean Michael helps with that stuff too. And you know,

1128
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 12: and as far as being the younger generation puts the

1129
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 12: offense in to make it easier for them where it's

1130
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 12: not a lot of thinking, you know, I mean a

1131
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 12: lot of cuts just here, ball goes this way, cut

1132
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 12: back door, come around, just made it easier for him

1133
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 12: that way. But you know, I mean to still get

1134
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 12: back to the way we were mad and just to

1135
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 12: be tough. And I mean, if you're tough and you

1136
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 12: play hard, things will take care of itself. And just

1137
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 12: try to implement that into them, and sometimes it was hard,

1138
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 12: but I think towards the end of the year they

1139
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 12: started to get it.

1140
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 6: I feel like now is my favorite time of basketball

1141
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 6: with March madness. Obviously, you were able to win a

1142
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 6: national championship as a freshman. What was that journey like

1143
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:25,360
Speaker 6: your first year coming into college, accomplishing what you accomplished

1144
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 6: and leading your team to a national championship.

1145
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,439
Speaker 12: Well, coming in, you know that we had Jason Terry

1146
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 12: was a starting point guard, and you know I was

1147
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 12: the number one point guard in the country. So coming

1148
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 12: out of high school, never like you see kids today

1149
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 12: that ask you, you know, how much money am.

1150
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 5: I gonna get?

1151
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 6: None of that was even in our vocabulary. Didn't we

1152
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 6: get in trouble for that?

1153
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 7: Right?

1154
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 12: And then cross my mind, I just figured I'm starting

1155
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 12: when I come in, you know, I mean, I'm gonna

1156
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 12: work myself to get in and just taking the just

1157
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 12: coming in and just sitting back and not trying to

1158
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 12: step on anybody's toes. You know, I'm a freshman. That

1159
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 12: team we had the same exact almost the same exact

1160
00:51:58,320 --> 00:51:59,879
Speaker 12: team that they had the year before. So I'm coming

1161
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 12: and then like okay, just fit in do what you

1162
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 12: gotta do. And you know what kind of opened it

1163
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 12: up for me was, you know, in the tournament coach

1164
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 12: Olsen recipes is great. Coach Olsen said, hey, Mike, I

1165
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,760
Speaker 12: need you to play how you played how we recruit

1166
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 12: you for and so that's all. Yeah, So when he

1167
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 12: said that, it kind of opened everything up for me.

1168
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 12: That was after the first two games. We almost lost

1169
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 12: the first two games to South Alabama and then Carlge

1170
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 12: College of Charleston. So we ended up winning those barely

1171
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 12: squeaking those out. Then we end up going beating three

1172
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 12: number ones on the way. We beat Kansas, North Carolina

1173
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 12: and Kentucky to win the championship.

1174
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 5: So, I mean, it was a good It was a

1175
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 5: good thing for me.

1176
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,320
Speaker 12: Everybody wanted me to come out after that season, and

1177
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 12: I you know, I wasn't ready, and I just knew

1178
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 12: that I wasn't ready and I just said, Coach, I'm

1179
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 12: staying another year, and he was fine with that.

1180
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 5: And then I ended up having a really, really good

1181
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 5: sophomore year and I went and meet him. He was like, go,

1182
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 5: it's time to go. So I knew it's time to go.

1183
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 2: Probably, what's the what's the life of a D one athlete.

1184
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 8: How do you stay focused because there's a lot of

1185
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 8: pitfalls walking around the campuses.

1186
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 6: Could you imagine we just here done today?

1187
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 5: He walked in a lot of times.

1188
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 12: You don't have his hair done, and he walked in

1189
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 12: one time, I'm like, damn, who's that over there?

1190
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 5: He had he had to sticking up here.

1191
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 6: And found himself out. He was like, who's that little girl?

1192
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1193
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 12: I was like, come on, man, come on, but you

1194
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 12: guys here it done today, So he must be on

1195
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 12: he must be on.

1196
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 6: Something something trip.

1197
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 3: I always got my hair done.

1198
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 2: But just staying focused.

1199
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 13: I mean, I don't live on campus, so it's kind

1200
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 13: of being Yeah, that helps, being out the way and

1201
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 13: stuff like that, and just staying level headed and standing

1202
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 13: in the gym. Really it's like I don't really do

1203
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 13: much so going out and stuff. Everybody does that like

1204
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 13: here and there, but not not much. Just hanging with

1205
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,919
Speaker 13: the friends and stuff like that. And just the most

1206
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 13: important thing is just staying out of trouble. And then

1207
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 13: if you're in the gym, you won't you won't get

1208
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 13: in trouble.

1209
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,800
Speaker 12: He was one of the hardest workers. He had, Like

1210
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 12: he we lost a game bit because of him this year.

1211
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 5: He yeah, I'm gonna blame him.

1212
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 12: He so like an hour and a half, Like he'll

1213
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 12: work out an hour and a half like before the game.

1214
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 12: So he cramps like and he walks out the game.

1215
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 12: His leg is like looks like it's shifted, like nine

1216
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:18,359
Speaker 12: minutes left in the game and we're like we were

1217
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 12: up at like nine or eight against the top team

1218
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 12: in the conference, and he just goes in the back.

1219
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 5: Didn't see him again after the game.

1220
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 2: Peterson on you.

1221
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 5: But he cramps because he worked.

1222
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 12: He does so much stuff before the game, and so

1223
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 12: we had to start getting him ivs before the game

1224
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 12: so he could last the game. So, I mean, just

1225
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 12: he's a hard working man. Stayed in the gym.

1226
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 6: Good well man, We wish you the best of luck

1227
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 6: moving forward. Man, you got a great uh you know,

1228
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 6: circle around you. This is one of the best point

1229
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 6: guards to ever do it. Mike, before we get out

1230
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 6: of here, what was your favorite part about coming to

1231
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 6: sax State this year and being the head coach of

1232
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 6: this men's basketball team.

1233
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 12: Just getting the opportunity, you know, I think doctor Luke

1234
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 12: and Mark to even give me this opportunity, that's the

1235
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 12: biggest thing. And with me coming out. I played here

1236
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 12: for six and a half here, seven years half of

1237
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 12: my career. There's only right I start here, you know,

1238
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 12: I mean maybe finish here too, you know, just see

1239
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 12: how it goes. But I want to be here for

1240
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 12: as long as I can and turn this program around

1241
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 12: because you know this is second home to me.

1242
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 6: Love that well, thank you guys for joining us today.

1243
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:23,919
Speaker 6: Shout out to the staff to make combat you, Mike

1244
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 6: and the basketball team football coach. Again, As someone who

1245
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 6: grew up here, I couldn't be prouder to see where

1246
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 6: this school is going and the intentions is getting. And

1247
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,760
Speaker 6: if you need me and my company all the smoke,

1248
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 6: let us know to help promote anything, help do anything,

1249
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 6: and wish you guys the best of luck. Man.

1250
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 4: We just have a few fan questions, and the first

1251
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 4: question is for you Andre, is from Cameron Lyles. He said,

1252
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 4: how do you break down opponents before a fight? I'm

1253
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:57,240
Speaker 4: a combat you boxer and grew up fighting. What habits

1254
00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 4: do you guys do to be the best at what

1255
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:00,320
Speaker 4: you do?

1256
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 8: So the break the breakdown part is just years of

1257
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 8: watching boxing and then being taught boxing. So I got

1258
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,800
Speaker 8: I got great teachers, so they're teaching me not just

1259
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 8: it's not just about hitting my opponent harder or hitting

1260
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 8: my opponent more than he hits me. But he's saying, hey,

1261
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 8: you see that jab to the stomach. You see how

1262
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:21,400
Speaker 8: he reacted.

1263
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 2: He didn't like that.

1264
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 8: So I start watching that in my opponent and man,

1265
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 8: you saw he had a good round. But then the

1266
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 8: other round he he didn't throw very many punches. He

1267
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 8: gets tired very quick. So you just start to start

1268
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 8: to pick things up and you start to just learn

1269
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 8: the game. So now it's not hard for me. It

1270
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 8: takes me a few minutes to look at a fighter

1271
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:40,360
Speaker 8: and see, oh he does this good, he doesn't do

1272
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 8: that good, And man, I think he can go. This

1273
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 8: is his ceiling. I mean not a ceiling, but this

1274
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 8: is this is the room he has to grow. And

1275
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 8: if he can get this, man, he can be really good.

1276
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 8: So it's just experience and time and being Tom.

1277
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 2: What was the second one?

1278
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:56,479
Speaker 1: How did your sparring session with bud go? That's a question.

1279
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 2: It was good.

1280
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 6: It was good that that's the commercial response.

1281
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 8: I'll give you a little bit more. So he was

1282
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 8: getting ready for a fight. He was a couple of

1283
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 8: weeks out and obviously I'm retired now. So but because

1284
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 8: I'm because I'm me. I did a little four week

1285
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 8: mini training game. I'm running, I'm spawning, I'm hitting the

1286
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 8: bad because I just can't go out like that, you know.

1287
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 5: But it was it was fun.

1288
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 8: It was more just technical work and uh man it

1289
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 8: it felt good.

1290
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 2: To be in there.

1291
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 8: And you know, Bud was like, man, Bro, you like

1292
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 8: I'm hitting you, but you know you're hitting me in

1293
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 8: certain spots but I can't get it back. And it's like,

1294
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 8: it's just good to know that even though there may

1295
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 8: be some rust on my weapons and my tools, they

1296
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 8: still kind of work.

1297
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 6: You know.

1298
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 2: Felt good, feel good, Let's go.

1299
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 4: I'm a piggyback on that says, do you get pushed

1300
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 4: back from parents about promoting boxing or combat sports.

1301
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 8: I don't really get pushed back about it. I think

1302
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 8: that uh I say this, right, I would rather are

1303
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 8: kids know how to defend themselves and to see them

1304
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 8: getting beat up. I don't promote violence.

1305
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 2: You know. My dad was real big on like not

1306
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 2: being a bully.

1307
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 10: You know.

1308
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 8: He said, look, always defend yourself, you know, but do

1309
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 8: not abuse this disability that you have. So I probably

1310
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 8: had a handful of street fights in my life. The

1311
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 8: reputation kept a lot of people away from me, right right,

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Speaker 8: that's the boxer, But I'm not. I don't like bullying.

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Speaker 8: I don't. I don't like that at all, you know,

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Speaker 8: and in fact, I speak out against it a lot.

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Speaker 8: But I do think it's smart for our kids to

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Speaker 8: know how to defend themselves if something ever happened. So

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Speaker 8: it's not to start it, it's just to protect yourself absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Two more questions for both of you.

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Speaker 4: What has been your biggest obstacle in life, sports or business?

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Speaker 6: Oh Man, just sticking to it. I think sticking to

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00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 6: it is probably one of the most important things you

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Speaker 6: can do, because, as Mike said, everyone's journey to where

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00:58:55,720 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 6: they're going isn't going to be the same life. I'm

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Speaker 6: a dad of seven now, so just making sure I

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Speaker 6: navigate and prepare my kids the best I can for

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Speaker 6: the cold world that's out there, and for business. And

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Speaker 6: I talked to Kobe about this actually when we did

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Speaker 6: his last interview, And I think as an athlete, we

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00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 6: have a certain mindset and discipline and responsibility that we

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Speaker 6: put ourselves to as an athlete, and being able to

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Speaker 6: take that same mindset into business. I think gives us

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Speaker 6: an upper hand on most people because you know, as

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Speaker 6: an athlete we have to get up at five or

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Speaker 6: six in the morning to go hit the gym. Now

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Speaker 6: it's five or six in the morning to respond to

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Speaker 6: emails or you know, create business plans or talking plans

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00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 6: for the day. So I just think that discipline that

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Speaker 6: I would that was installed in me as an athlete

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Speaker 6: has helped me tremendously in this business space.

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Speaker 8: Rather it's business, personal life, or sports. I think the

1341
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:56,919
Speaker 8: biggest obstacle can be me. I can be my worst

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00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 8: enemy because the thing that has made me right in

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01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 8: you know, a sports business, which is my mind, my

1344
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 8: work ethic, my drive, my focus. If I'm not careful,

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Speaker 8: that can be the greatest obstacle for me. So I

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01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 8: have to you know, I'm a believer, you know, I'm

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Speaker 8: a Christian, and releasing that to God in tough times

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01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 8: and not overthinking or trying to be perfect or trying

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01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,919
Speaker 8: to you know, or beat myself up if I missed

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Speaker 8: the mark.

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Speaker 2: That's really key for me.

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Speaker 8: So it's just staying in that flow of have the focus,

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01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 8: be the person you are, but just know when to

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01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 8: release it and just walk by faith.

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Speaker 2: That's good. That's good. That's good.

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Speaker 1: You clap for that.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I got it. I got one for you, Matt,

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Speaker 4: and then one for the last one for both of you.

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Speaker 4: What was your favorite team to play for in the NBA?

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Speaker 6: Oh, I gotta ask for be careful how I answered

1361
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 6: this question. Obviously, being able to come home was great,

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01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 6: but I caught two weird times when I came home.

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01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 6: I came home at the end of the Great Kings

1364
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 6: run with Sea Webb and mic and them, and was

1365
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 6: traded with Christa Philly, which is horrible. Oh my god.

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01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 6: And then I came back and they were still I

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01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:14,479
Speaker 6: signed a three year deal here and thought I'd finish

1368
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 6: here when they first got the new arena and management

1369
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 6: and ownership were still little eh. So my favorite places

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01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:28,479
Speaker 6: that I actually played were Golden State Okay, it's close

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01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 6: to sack and then the Clippers because they had traditionally

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01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 6: been so bad for so long and we had a

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01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 6: really good team. And then getting a chance to play

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Speaker 6: with Kobe was something I'll never forget.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go.

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Speaker 4: Last question for both of you, champs, speak to the

1377
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 4: internal battle in the mind, and how do you navigate it,

1378
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 4: which you did a little bit of that Dre just

1379
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 4: a few minutes ago, speak to the internal battle in

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01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 4: the mind and how you navigate.

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Speaker 6: I think the biggest part of whatever you're doing is

1382
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 6: then to be the mental aspect. Obviously there's going to

1383
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 6: be a lot of physical that comes with it if

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01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 6: you're on the sports side. But you know, once you

1385
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 6: get to the top of the mountain where Dre and

1386
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 6: I have been, what keeps you there, what keeps you consistent,

1387
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 6: what keeps you on top, is your mental approach. And

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Speaker 6: it's interesting now again as I was talking as a father,

1389
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 6: there's so many more distraction today for these young student athletes,

1390
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 6: and being able to prioritize your time is at the

1391
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 6: utmost understanding what the at the end of the day

1392
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 6: with the goal is, because if they're playing with a

1393
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 6: lot more money now, like with everything they're given now,

1394
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 6: we had to get in the pros so to be

1395
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 6: able to be able to balance responsibility, financial responsibility and

1396
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 6: understanding that you can't do that everything your friends do

1397
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 6: because you guys don't have the same goals. So I

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01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 6: think the biggest part of anybody today, but particularly student athletes,

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01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 6: is having a sound mind. And focus on the goals

1400
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 6: ahead because there's so many more distractions and pitfalls.

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01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 2: A couple of.

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Speaker 8: Things on battling the mind. I think it's a combination

1403
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 8: of street things. Is faith, works, and then also listening

1404
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 8: to the people I have in my life. So the

1405
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 8: workst part. I try to do everything that I can do.

1406
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 8: I'll work as if everything is up to me. I

1407
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 8: try to check every box. I try to make sure

1408
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 8: I leave no stone unturned. That helps put my mind

1409
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 8: at ease. But then there's a place where I've done

1410
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 8: everything that I can do, I gotta have faith now

1411
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 8: because the rest of these results are not up to me,

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01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 8: So that keeps me at peace. The third part is

1413
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:30,160
Speaker 8: is sometimes when I am wrestling, having that voice to

1414
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 8: say you're good, You've done enough.

1415
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 2: Hey, you gotta let that go man, and just walk

1416
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 2: into it.

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01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:38,960
Speaker 8: So those three things, like working, puts my mind at

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01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 8: ease walking by faith. But then also I got a

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01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:44,440
Speaker 8: handful of people in my life that can speak just

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01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 8: what I need to hear in that moment, and that

1421
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 8: puts me at rest and lets me know that I

1422
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 8: can go attack this giant and do what I need

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01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 8: to do.

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01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 6: I think having that I mean to Dre's point to Piggyback,

1425
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,400
Speaker 6: having a solid circle around you is very important. Less

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01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 6: is more. The older you get, you realize the less

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01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:00,479
Speaker 6: people you really need. You just need those real runs

1428
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 6: around you.

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Speaker 2: Awesome.

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Speaker 4: Before we close, Before we close, can you take a

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01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:06,200
Speaker 4: second and give your sales a round of applause for

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01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 4: being in this building right now?

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, thank you for showing up, thank you

1434
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: for supporting. Combat you and give these ships you want

1435
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 1: the boss.

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01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 6: Brother, I have a great day.

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Speaker 1: That's greatness in you.