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Speaker 2: All Right, Alex, we spent a lot of time in Miami,
Speaker 2: but now you're in my hometown, the atl at a
Speaker 2: place that's really special to me, Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: My dad went here.
Speaker 2: This was the first team that I was a fan of.
Speaker 4: This is such a special place, and being here on campus,
Speaker 4: I'm in awe. I mean, just the size of it,
Speaker 4: the fact that it sits right in the middle of
Speaker 4: this great corporate market in Atlanta, great academic institution, great athletic.
Speaker 2: Jabatt is leaning into all of that because he's going
Speaker 2: to be a primary architect of what college sports looks
Speaker 2: like going forward.
Speaker 5: He's got the goods.
Speaker 4: I mean, he played soccer at the University of North Carolina,
Speaker 4: he worked with Nick Saban at the University of Alabama,
Speaker 4: and he is a prolific fundraiser.
Speaker 5: Can't wait.
Speaker 2: Welcome everyone, Welcome Jay Batt, thank you.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Atlanta, ay Ron.
Speaker 4: I know your hometown, baby.
Speaker 3: My hometown.
Speaker 2: I love it and you know, probably a more welcoming
Speaker 2: audience than you would get at maybe Truest Park.
Speaker 5: Maybe not as bad as fan Way.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's true. Okay, it's all relative it's all relative.
Speaker 2: I like the Braves, So welcome everyone to this live
Speaker 2: recording of the Deal. We are very, very excited to
Speaker 2: be here. And it's an interesting process when we think
Speaker 2: about this show because we're trying to dive into this
Speaker 2: intersection of business, sports, and culture. In fact, I was
Speaker 2: told earlier that I too often refer to it as
Speaker 2: the white hot center of sports, business and culture. But
Speaker 2: it was interesting to think about, all right, who do
Speaker 2: we want to talk to in Atlanta? Who do we
Speaker 2: don't want to talk to about college sports? And no
Speaker 2: one is at that aforementioned white hot center more than you,
Speaker 2: God bless you. There's a lot going on. We're going
Speaker 2: to get into all of that. Also, something that happens
Speaker 2: a lot in our show is I go through the
Speaker 2: normal process, you know, we work through representatives and it's like,
Speaker 2: all right, who do I know who knows Jay Batt?
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to him, Let's let's get the ask.
Speaker 3: And then this guy it's like, oh, yeah, I have.
Speaker 2: A teammate from the two thousand and nine World Series
Speaker 2: team who went to Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna text him.
Speaker 2: And so you did, Mark to Shera and that's how
Speaker 2: you guys get connected.
Speaker 3: So tell me about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Mark tix Shera who went to Georgia Tech
Speaker 4: recently got his degree, which I'm so proud of him.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite teammates of all time. And he
Speaker 4: introduced us and we had a nice conversation. But you know,
Speaker 4: when you think about Mark tx Shara, when you think
Speaker 4: about value proposition about Georgia Tech, my question Jay, is
Speaker 4: is he the prototypical athlete that you have now competitive
Speaker 4: advantage in this landscape?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think you know, part of what makes Georgia
Speaker 1: Tech so special is it's this unique opportunity to go
Speaker 1: pro and whatever sport you want to be in. But
Speaker 1: also after that, the value of Georgia Tech degree, the
Speaker 1: connection to alumni, the ability to be here in Atlanta
Speaker 1: is huge and you mentioned Mark. Mark to share is
Speaker 1: the perfect example of that. Right as we're going through
Speaker 1: this changing landscape, somebody with a pro background like Mark
Speaker 1: is an incredible advocate for us on campus as we're
Speaker 1: dealing with our administration other things that we're working through.
Speaker 1: Mark's been a tremendous friend and ally for us.
Speaker 2: All right, So one of our favorite topics to talk
Speaker 2: about and I will take this moment up top to
Speaker 2: shout out my parents or in the in the audience
Speaker 2: that is Nevia Kelly.
Speaker 5: Who also went to Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: That's right, my dad went to Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: So I like took Alex all around Tech campus today
Speaker 2: like Dragon around.
Speaker 3: We went on the field at Bobby Dodd lifelong dream accomplished.
Speaker 2: But my dad and I talk all the time about
Speaker 2: the state of college sports. I mean, like every phone
Speaker 2: conversation we have, there's some new development.
Speaker 3: You're hyper aware of those. How do you.
Speaker 2: Even begin to understand and where to go next? Like
Speaker 2: what's the thought process for you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's a fairly loaded question.
Speaker 1: I would say that you've got to start with what's
Speaker 1: still the same, right, and then I'll talk about what's changing.
Speaker 1: But what's still the same is we still have great kids,
Speaker 1: we have great coaches. We're still attached to really, really
Speaker 1: incredible academic institutions. And I can speak firsthand at Georgia Tech.
Speaker 1: Our kids still go to class and get degrees, and
Speaker 1: they're doing the same degrees that you got, and they
Speaker 1: still we say graduate now not got out. The student
Speaker 1: athletes that we deal with, they're still student athletes. What's
Speaker 1: changing is this sort of overlay of the changing business
Speaker 1: of college athletics. And I think it's important that we
Speaker 1: talk about whether it's arranging our staff right where we
Speaker 1: were one of the first folks to go out and
Speaker 1: hire what amounts to a general manager. We've got the
Speaker 1: proliferation of agents, right, our student athletes, many of them
Speaker 1: have agents. Well, there needs to be a person to
Speaker 1: deal with that. Right, we're going to have these rev
Speaker 1: share paym to be paid the student athletes. You've got
Speaker 1: to have a business operation right on your internal side
Speaker 1: to handle that. And Cherz heck, you've got to have
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of legal help to manage that. So
Speaker 1: organizing your athletic department for that, and then I think
Speaker 1: just the talent you have to surround yourself with. Right,
Speaker 1: it's not the same as it was ten or fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago. Whether it's the athletic director chair needing more
Speaker 1: business acumen and more ability to manage a larger budget.
Speaker 1: All that's really important still anchored in the fact that
Speaker 1: college athletics is essential to the fabric of higher education.
Speaker 1: It's essential to what it means, not for student athletes only,
Speaker 1: but for every student. I think you know that there's
Speaker 1: such value to the overall student experience to what college
Speaker 1: athletics springs.
Speaker 4: So Rick Patino recently said, I don't know if some
Speaker 4: of you folks saw. I was shocked. He said, we're
Speaker 4: not going to look at one high school student or
Speaker 4: recruit this year. Now they get the money, right, but
Speaker 4: they're not going to have with you had in North
Speaker 4: Carolina where you had a Georgetown, the mae, the growth.
Speaker 4: I mean, you guys, remember when you were in college
Speaker 4: it was four years Today, you show up there as
Speaker 4: a free agent when you're twenty three, twenty four, How
Speaker 4: do you ad defend against that? And how do you
Speaker 4: play office being an institution with an academic background like
Speaker 4: Georgia Tech.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I would say, you know, as we move
Speaker 1: into the next era of intercoclegian athletics, this revenue share
Speaker 1: of post house settlement.
Speaker 2: This is that just a reminder, right, I mean, this
Speaker 2: is the House settlement that is that is going to
Speaker 2: dictate that colleges have to share revenue with their athletes?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: Is that the simplest way, how would you put it
Speaker 3: most simply?
Speaker 5: I think it's the simplest way to explain it.
Speaker 1: There's two tranches, right, There's a two point eight billion
Speaker 1: dollar settlement for back damages for student athletes, and then
Speaker 1: there's the forward facing, which is, you know, the ability
Speaker 1: to create some structure and stability for revenue sharing.
Speaker 5: And moving forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but as those two things kind of move forward,
Speaker 1: I think there's going to be less and less separation
Speaker 1: across the overall landscape as far as you know what
Speaker 1: one student athlete a certain profile might be from given
Speaker 1: institution to the other. As there's a new revenue sharing number,
Speaker 1: that's you know, kind of ubiquitous across all of the institutions.
Speaker 1: And I think a high academic institution like Georgia Tech
Speaker 1: in a thriving major metro like Atlanta, where real third
Speaker 1: party in IL deals will be highly valued and available
Speaker 1: with an alumni network that will make a difference when
Speaker 1: you finish, that's going to go back to being important. Right.
Speaker 1: We spend all kinds of time recruiting great coaches, right
Speaker 1: surrounding our student athletes with great call them life skills
Speaker 1: for a long time total person program, but those sort
Speaker 1: of support mechanisms and then great coaches and good facilities
Speaker 1: that makes a difference. You know if there was a
Speaker 1: time there where maybe that didn't factor as much. You
Speaker 1: saw institutions pause facility projects, right, You saw folks say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're not going to go and hire some new coach,
Speaker 1: We're going to make an investment in NIL. As we
Speaker 1: move into the next era, some of that spread's going
Speaker 1: to kind of tighten up. And I think what you
Speaker 1: will see is we're going to go back to place
Speaker 1: that an opportunity to come to George too graduate.
Speaker 5: With that degree.
Speaker 1: That's going to matter more than maybe it has in
Speaker 1: the past three four five years.
Speaker 4: So it sounds a little bit like you're going to
Speaker 4: have your ncaa collective bargaining agreement that we have in
Speaker 4: the pros to just bring some structure around it.
Speaker 1: It will be that the house settlement will be the
Speaker 1: opportunity to create a stable way in which we can
Speaker 1: provide even more to the student athletes. Frankly, I think
Speaker 1: it's really important that we say that this house settlement,
Speaker 1: but it also creates stability, It creates fairness, it creates
Speaker 1: the ability to manage for long term stability for the
Speaker 1: student athletes.
Speaker 2: As we look forward, one of your additional responsibilities, as
Speaker 2: it were, is you're going to be one of ten
Speaker 2: athletic directors I believe across the entire country who post
Speaker 2: house settlement is really going to be charged with architecting
Speaker 2: this new landscape. How do you ensure that the Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech model is successful? But that also other colleges who
Speaker 2: may not have this academic profile or who don't have
Speaker 2: the benefit of being in a city like Atlanta, Like,
Speaker 2: how did they win as well?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: I think that's what makes college athletics great is that
Speaker 1: it's institutions all across the country with a bunch of
Speaker 1: different profiles. We have a bunch of really smart people
Speaker 1: in that room. We have a bunch of really committed
Speaker 1: people in that room who've been working really, really hard.
Speaker 1: Not today, not tomorrow, We've been working for months to
Speaker 1: lay out the groundwork. And I think the desired outcome
Speaker 1: of that is, let's have something that's stable, Let's have
Speaker 1: something that's clear, Let's have something that we can operate
Speaker 1: within going forward. That will provide us that clarity instability
Speaker 1: for student athletes to gain more. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, there's never been a better time to be.
Speaker 5: A student athlete.
Speaker 1: I can say that from firsthand experience. Right, there's never
Speaker 1: been a better time. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: they'll be you know, we'll have this repshare pool. We'll
Speaker 1: have the ability for student athletes in an organized system
Speaker 1: to earn third party nil deals.
Speaker 5: There'll be more scholarships, right.
Speaker 1: You see headlines all the time of athletic departments adding
Speaker 1: huge amounts of scholarships and opportunities.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: And we'll continue to offer all the benefits that we
Speaker 1: always have, right, whether it's the medical coverage, whether it's
Speaker 1: the academic support, all those parts and pieces that go
Speaker 1: with it. They're just gonna be on top of all
Speaker 1: those things that we've already been doing.
Speaker 5: And so I think.
Speaker 1: That's probably the biggest takeaway, right, is we're building that system.
Speaker 1: And listen, like, it's a bunch to figure out and
Speaker 1: a bunch to sort through, but I think we're building
Speaker 1: something that is sustainable.
Speaker 2: All Right, We're gonna do some role playing, okay, because
Speaker 2: I took Alex over to Tech and he walked around.
Speaker 3: This guy's eyes were his biggest saucers.
Speaker 2: We go into the baseball field, of course, you know,
Speaker 2: we're taking photos, we're talking to the coach, we're doing
Speaker 2: all that I'm telling you right now, if you approach
Speaker 2: this guy and like, hey, you want to come play
Speaker 2: baseball at Georgia Techi, got some eligibility, I.
Speaker 5: Would have to pay him. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3: So let's do it.
Speaker 2: Like, what are you going to say to him to
Speaker 2: get him to come to Tech over Miami?
Speaker 1: You know, I think it goes back to what exactly
Speaker 1: what we talked about of Listen, I think no one
Speaker 1: needs to be naive enough to think that in the
Speaker 1: future revenue sharing is going to play part of that. Right,
Speaker 1: So that's certainly part of the discussion. But the most
Speaker 1: important part about that is going to be about fit.
Speaker 1: It's going to be about future. It's going to be
Speaker 1: about what we're going to do to help you achieve
Speaker 1: your dreams and grow. And then I think the end,
Speaker 1: you know, we talk a lot about it Georgia Tech.
Speaker 1: This isn't a four year proposition. Certainly in the transfer
Speaker 1: portal era maybe it's not. But you are going to
Speaker 1: finish and get that degree, and that's a forty year win.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, that above and beyond
Speaker 1: part that's going to be the differentiator.
Speaker 2: And so I'm looking at March Madness right now, and
Speaker 2: then we're sort of convening around this idea. And the
Speaker 2: transfer portal has radically changed the talent flow among teams.
Speaker 2: And you know, we talk a lot in the show
Speaker 2: about talent. How do you keep those students? And is
Speaker 2: that as much of a challenge as it seems like
Speaker 2: from the outside, it's.
Speaker 5: A fair question.
Speaker 1: I think retention of your roster is an all the
Speaker 1: time thing. And you know, whether it's the transfer portals
Speaker 1: open or not, you've got to be proactive. You've got
Speaker 1: to find different ways to add value, and you've got
Speaker 1: to be in the game. And I think that's something
Speaker 1: on the Georgia tech front we have been really active in.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: I think anytime you look at any sort of business,
Speaker 1: zoom out from college athletics right, you go through a
Speaker 1: period of massive change. Two things are important. You're well
Speaker 1: capitalized and you've got really smart people You've invested in
Speaker 1: that talent to negotiate for whatever that marginal increases you
Speaker 1: can bring. And so we brought an individual from the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears on board back in December to help us
Speaker 1: manage through the football portal and oversee our revenue sharing enterprise.
Speaker 1: We're in the process of bringing on an individual to
Speaker 1: help on the basketball fronts one for men and for women,
Speaker 1: by the way, because I think they're both really important,
Speaker 1: and particularly the women's game cantinues to grow at leaps
Speaker 1: and bounds. You've got to find really intentional ways to
Speaker 1: retain that talent.
Speaker 4: One of the things you have to do is recruit
Speaker 4: and raise capital. For sure, what are some of the
Speaker 4: things that you've done and continue to do that you
Speaker 4: can share with our group and our listeners that they
Speaker 4: can take home, Because everyone at some point has to
Speaker 4: raise capital or recruit great talent, and you've done both.
Speaker 5: Well, that's kind of you to say.
Speaker 1: I think the most important thing is the and everybody
Speaker 1: has their own different way about it, right, but I
Speaker 1: think the most important thing is to value and constantly
Speaker 1: work on genuine relationships. I think it's often forgotten that
Speaker 1: my value prop or my business plan is so good
Speaker 1: that of course someone's going to buy this or invest
Speaker 1: in this, or give us money because my goodness, we're
Speaker 1: winning games or we want to win games, or whatever
Speaker 1: it might be. People give to people, People invest in people,
Speaker 1: and so being available being part of that investing in
Speaker 1: those relationships so that when the time comes for that ask.
Speaker 1: It's not the thing you've heard of him, right, Like,
Speaker 1: it's it's important to be there so that that genuine
Speaker 1: relationship I've found to be huge.
Speaker 3: So talk a little bit on that point of fundraising.
Speaker 2: Jay, Any good college president is going to tell you
Speaker 2: that one of the best and easiest ways to find
Speaker 2: a donor's heart is through sports. Yeah, and yet that
Speaker 2: doesn't see it's not universally shared. It sounds like, and
Speaker 2: I was talking to Coach Key about this this morning,
Speaker 2: he and you and the president of Georgia Tech are
Speaker 2: totally aligned. How do you make sure that it stays
Speaker 2: that way? And what happens if it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Alignment institutionally is the most important thing that you can
Speaker 1: have in an athletic department. So the kind of vision
Speaker 1: and the emphasis from your institution's president is the most
Speaker 1: important thing. President hel Cabrera here at Georgia Tech, he's
Speaker 1: one of the most pragmatic, visionary leaders you could you
Speaker 1: could ever want as an athletic director. But that athletic director,
Speaker 1: you know, working with the president, you're governing board down
Speaker 1: to your coaches. That alignment's huge and it's not just
Speaker 1: your president, right it's the overall academic kind of the
Speaker 1: entire community. Part of it is it has to be
Speaker 1: valuable to every student, not just to your student athletes.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: The role of college athletics has to be a part
Speaker 1: of the overall institution. And you know, I've talked a
Speaker 1: lot about that. Relationships are built on shared experiences, right,
Speaker 1: And so part of the role I think college athletics
Speaker 1: plays an institutional life cycle is think about all those
Speaker 1: memories you had from college, Right, I remember when I
Speaker 1: can't tell you how many fundraising conversations start with I
Speaker 1: remember the miracle on Techwood when Georgia Tech beat Florida
Speaker 1: State and we blocked the punt, and we you know
Speaker 1: that shared experience ties together alums to the institution, right,
Speaker 1: And a lot of times that engagement doesn't just necessarily
Speaker 1: end on the athletics front.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: We think I've raised I can, I don't know how
Speaker 1: much over my career, but a lot of them those
Speaker 1: gifts are often starting points to what that scholarship that
Speaker 1: you give in the school of Business where you graduated from,
Speaker 1: becomes and to your point about creating value. That's the
Speaker 1: way you create values. Those donor relationships that go beyond.
Speaker 1: And then the other part is the most important market
Speaker 1: Georgia text being done in our labs, in our classrooms,
Speaker 1: our researchers gt R. I that's the most important work, right.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, the way that
Speaker 1: we were able to share that publicly is through the
Speaker 1: athletic story that we tell. Whether it's the simple spot
Speaker 1: that's in the game. You know, we won awesome aer
Speaker 1: Lingus Classic right in the summer, we're in Ireland, we
Speaker 1: go to Dublin, Florida State, last second kick, win the game.
Speaker 2: It's awesome Week zero Week zero essentially the only game
Speaker 2: in town. Right.
Speaker 1: Interestingly, right, there's I don't know three or four million
Speaker 1: people that watched that game, which was awesome, but there
Speaker 1: were We had two billion on social media within one day.
Speaker 5: Two billion. There is nothing that we can do.
Speaker 1: There's no investment on the institutional front that can tell
Speaker 1: our story better than that. And I think you know
Speaker 1: President Caberra, he fully embraces that, invests in that, and
Speaker 1: that's what's got his positions so well right to move
Speaker 1: forward into this new era.
Speaker 2: And so when you think about a lot of that change, Jay,
Speaker 2: you know, one of the things that is just front
Speaker 2: and center. Is this whole notion of conference realignment. Sure
Speaker 2: you have experienced it firsthand with some maybe unexpected new
Speaker 2: members of your conference who are nowhere near the Atlantic coast.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about, you know, SMU, I'm thinking about Stanford
Speaker 2: and cal Where do we go on that and what happens?
Speaker 3: What's the right thing to happen from your perspective.
Speaker 5: That's a great question. First and foremost.
Speaker 1: We've got to keep the kids in mind, right, and
Speaker 1: so whereever we go with that, we have to be
Speaker 1: sure that we're supporting them through all that. Rich And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I think the ACC did a really
Speaker 1: good job recruiting members that made sense from a institutional
Speaker 1: profile commitment to athletics.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: Those are long plane flights. I did one to LA
Speaker 1: and back last week to watch our women compete at UCLA.
Speaker 1: But we're taking those steps to support them through it.
Speaker 1: As far as the conference realignment landscape, listen, I can
Speaker 1: only speak about the AEC because that's what we're in.
Speaker 1: We've recently been really innovative, right, We've gone to unequal
Speaker 1: revenue distribution based on on field success and TV viewership,
Speaker 1: and so part of what you can do, Jason, is
Speaker 1: you can be intentional about how you organize and arrange
Speaker 1: different things. Right, We'll play our Georgia game for football
Speaker 1: on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: Last year we played that game on a Friday evening
Speaker 1: in Athens, eight overtimes. It's not painful or anything. At
Speaker 1: the end of that we had nine million people watch
Speaker 1: that game.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: Part of why that happened is that we intentionally organize
Speaker 1: work with our partners in Athens to say, hey, we
Speaker 1: should do that game on a Friday night. ABC picks
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 5: Part of that is.
Speaker 1: Being intentional about how do you organize that schedule? What
Speaker 1: are you doing on that front to create value?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jack, it's incredible. I mean, this's my head is
Speaker 4: spinning because I don't know. I mean, this is not
Speaker 4: what I grew up with. I remember, back in the day,
Speaker 4: you had a guy like herschel Walkerm dating myself a
Speaker 4: little bit. But he went to Georgia and you knew
Speaker 4: what high school came from. He's going to be there
Speaker 4: for at least three years. You know who the coach
Speaker 4: was going to be, you know which conference, you know what.
Speaker 4: Now you don't know anything. I guess my question is
Speaker 4: and this is something that I'm struggling with. I'm a
Speaker 4: parent of two daughters and one is a software at Michigan.
Speaker 4: One of the junior in high school. And I'm thinking,
Speaker 4: if if someone like you showed up at my house,
Speaker 4: I love that they get to share in the economics,
Speaker 4: that's always great.
Speaker 3: What I don't love.
Speaker 4: Is no commitment, no loyalty, and option education. How do
Speaker 4: we give them the resources or make them earn the resources,
Speaker 4: but also give them the chores that make this country great,
Speaker 4: like the fact that you got to work for it.
Speaker 1: Well, I think you know, part of what will be
Speaker 1: great as we move into this next era of college
Speaker 1: athletics is student athletes are going to have more and
Speaker 1: more opportunity to earn that third party nil Right, There'll
Speaker 1: be financial gain and benefit that go with that, and
Speaker 1: so that part will be enhanced outs. I think it's important.
Speaker 1: But you know, part of that, I think what makes
Speaker 1: higher education college athletics great is you do still get
Speaker 1: even if the window gets compressed, Right, even if the
Speaker 1: window gets compressed and maybe somebody transfers, you still get
Speaker 1: all those intrinsic values of resiliency. Right, you fail on
Speaker 1: a stage in front of thousands of people. You know
Speaker 1: that way better than I do. Right, You have the
Speaker 1: ability to be a great teammate, teamwork, all those parts
Speaker 1: and pieces that go with what does college athletics do?
Speaker 5: Even if it gets microwaved right at times.
Speaker 1: But as many stories as there are of student athletes
Speaker 1: that leave, there's just as many as the ones that
Speaker 1: stick it out right, And so it's our job in
Speaker 1: college athletics to build those environments that's port the kids
Speaker 1: to make those good decisions, to see the value in
Speaker 1: the higher education part of the equation. Listen, again, not
Speaker 1: going to be naive enough to not say there's part
Speaker 1: of it that's going to come down to what's the
Speaker 1: rev share and all the other parts.
Speaker 5: That work with it.
Speaker 1: But that's our job, and that's when when I come
Speaker 1: to see you guys. You know, we'll send the coaches first,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, I think it's
Speaker 1: important we talk as much about that as anything.
Speaker 3: All Right, you ready forrapping?
Speaker 5: Ready?
Speaker 3: All right, let's do it?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: So the only rule is keep it tight. Okay, I'll
Speaker 2: start and then I'll still thick up. What's one word
Speaker 2: to describe your deal making style?
Speaker 5: Direct? What's more important to your gut or data both.
Speaker 3: Who's your dream deal making partner?
Speaker 5: Nick Saban? Oh, good one.
Speaker 4: What's the best piece of advice you ever received on
Speaker 4: deal making or business?
Speaker 5: Always be honest.
Speaker 3: What's the worst advice you've been given?
Speaker 5: Do the rapid fire question thing?
Speaker 4: You can only watch one sport for the rest of
Speaker 4: your life? Which one is it?
Speaker 5: A football? Guy? American football? American football? All right?
Speaker 3: Good, it's a global show. And to clarify it, yeah,
Speaker 3: and you played talker.
Speaker 2: What team do you want to see win a championship
Speaker 2: more than any Well?
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 5: That's the best question. Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4: What's your advice someone listening who wants to have a career.
Speaker 5: Just like yours.
Speaker 1: You gotta do it for the right reason, right, You
Speaker 1: gotta love the enterprise. Don't do it to end up
Speaker 1: in one of these chairs. Do it because you love
Speaker 1: the enterprise. You love helping student athletes.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, this has been a huge, huge amount
Speaker 2: of fun. I've been waiting for a long time for
Speaker 2: us to come to Atlanta together, and you've.
Speaker 5: Never been happier.
Speaker 4: By the way, I know your parents, Georgia, maybe mom
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