In this episode we welcome back the Virginia Tech Hokies Head Coach Brent Pry. Coach Pry talks post-spring activities, team growth since last Spring, the transfer portal, and the program culture that allowed the team to weather a 1-3 start in 2023. We also talk Hokies Hall of Fame inductees and the newest 2025 verbal commits.
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Music.
And welcome back to the Boundary
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Fellas, been a couple weeks.
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How's everybody doing tonight?
I'm doing glorious, man.
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I'm doing real good.
Had a good day.
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Got in the office today, got to
see some folks hang out a little
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bit, play a little little Mario
Party with the family tonight.
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So it's been a solid day.
Better than I deserve.
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That's what I always say, man.
I've been ripping and running
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with with baseball and we
actually have baseball and
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basketball going on right now,
but getting ready for a cruise
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so we are packing and cleaning
and doing all of that.
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So glad to be back though.
Absolutely.
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Tally, I'm with you.
We, we, we, we head on vacation
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next week for a few days.
I am like probably 2 days behind
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you as far as getting ready to
go.
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I mean me, me and Tally were
joking.
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We're joking just before we got
on here.
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It's like 15 bags of laundry
before we get out of the house.
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It's the honest truth, Brian.
You know you're going to go
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through the same thing in a few
weeks when you head to
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Gatlinburg.
It's coming up, man.
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It's coming up my pump man.
I, they, they Dominion sent me
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my my tickets today.
So I was printing out the
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tickets and getting all that
stuff ready to roll.
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So it's going to be a good time.
Oh, yeah, I got to go.
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I got to go ahead and address
the new, the, the hat that we
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got on tonight.
So there we go.
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Or anybody else.
My daughter graduated high
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school.
We didn't know if she was going
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to make it.
She did make it.
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Now I'm joking, but she's
getting ready to go to getting
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ready to go to college.
She is going to my alma mater.
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She'll be headed to Jacksonville
State.
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So her and my wife went down to
orientation and decided to get
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me a new Jacksonville State hat.
I kind of feel old because it
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says Jacksonville State dad.
I don't feel like I'm supposed
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to have a, a kid going to
college.
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You know what I'm saying?
I still feel like, feel like I'm
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young, like I feel like me and
Kevin's supposed to be partying
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in Nashville, in Crystal, but.
Hey man, you know sometimes you
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got to embrace it a little bit,
right?
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Like so.
Yeah.
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It's like one of those things
where I can't do it like I used
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to, but I can still, I can still
throw down when we when we need
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to.
OK, I like that.
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I'm alright with that.
Exactly.
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And, and you know, Nashville is,
you know, believe it or not,
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we're under 100 days before
Nashville happened.
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Try not to think about it.
Stop bringing it up.
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I mean, the summer flying
through right now it's it's it
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finally got hot, humid.
You go outside, I look out my
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window, I can still see a little
bit of daylight left.
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So it is that time of year and
you know, all sorts of fun
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stuff.
But hold on, I got hit this one.
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I don't know who this is.
I'm going to tell you.
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Some days I feel 25, some days I
feel.
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Don't tell me that.
Don't tell me that.
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I feel pretty good lately,
though.
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I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll give
myself that.
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I agreed.
I.
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Agree, I'm in my prime.
Don't say Brian that, because
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Brian is he, he's on the
precipice of a of a number in
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the next day, a few weeks here.
It's true.
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You you catch up for a few
months.
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I got, I got 18 days, man. 18
days well, it's also been a fun
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time for us because of what we
got to do yesterday and and for
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the second time we got to do it
it was an absolute blast so
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without further ado, we're going
to go ahead and roll the tape
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and we'll.
See y'all in a little bit.
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See y'all in a little bit.
Podcast listeners, it is our
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pleasure for the second time to
have Head Coach Brent Pride join
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us.
Coach Pry again?
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How?
Are you?
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I'm good, man.
I'm good.
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You guys stole me away from the
hustle and bustle of the the
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daily routine.
I got like a stack of papers
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just high on my desk.
So thank you.
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Always glad to switch it up for
you.
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Glad to do it.
Yeah.
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Definitely glad to have you back
coach.
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Same.
Well, coach, we know it has been
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just a little over a year since
we last talked, but we got a
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bunch of stuff we want to ask.
And again, we really appreciate
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you taking your time to speak
with us and Hockey Nation Today,
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and I'm going to start here.
So back in May, we got to clink
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a few drinks together, saw you
out at the Tailgate tour here in
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Richmond, at Hardywood.
And obviously you went up to
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Northern Virginia.
You've had chalk talks all over
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the state with high school
football coaches.
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We know next week you're heading
over to hotel.
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Is it, is it that Hotel Rolling
Oak next week, Big event there
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yet?
The women's clinic that's taking
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place in the offseason.
So the season ended, spring
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ended, you ain't stopped.
But how important is it to have
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these fan and donor engagement
events in the offseason?
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Then?
What's been your favorite so
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far?
Well, first of all, it's super
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important.
I mean, that is what Virginia
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Tech's about giving back, right?
This is a two way St. in my
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opinion.
We asked for this, the fans to
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support us.
We asked for the community to
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support us.
We asked for the coaches in this
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state to support us.
So in order to make that ask to
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me, we got to give back wherever
we can.
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And we know we had a four day
youth camp.
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We had our first annual women's
clinic.
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You know, we've got six or seven
high school camps.
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We've had countless chalk talks
across the Commonwealth.
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We always have an open door
policy for high school coaches
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in the area.
You know, it's it's awesome,
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it's rewarding.
And and that to me is right for
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Virginia Tech and it's
definitely right for Brent
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Pratt.
Your favorite one?
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Your favorite one?
I don't know, that's tough.
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I'm OK watching those first
through 5th graders run around
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and wear our staff out.
Nice, I said.
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Normally you get $20.00 an hour
for that.
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That's right.
That's.
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Right.
The only problem was we had 200
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of them.
Yeah, well, coach, we, we see a
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lot of videos of of you, you
guys and the staff, you know,
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preaching, you know, competition
and perfecting the little
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things.
But we also see you balancing
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out some fun on and off the
field.
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So my question to you is, who is
the ringleader on staff that
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kind of is involved in getting
those activities together?
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I'm going to tell you
everybody's got a pretty good
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sense of humor and everybody we
have a staff that understands
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balance is important and it and
it starts with me, to be quite
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honest, I can't be the head
coach I need to be if there's
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not some balance in my life.
I've seen too many guys trend
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downwards because it's all they
do, you know, it's, it's all
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they are.
And, and that's not the case
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around here.
We pour into this thing with
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everything we got.
But we take time, you know, for
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staff golf outings, for family
events.
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We do a lot together.
That's, you know, Blacksburg's a
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small community.
Nobody lives more than 1012
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minutes from one another.
So we get together and celebrate
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birthdays and anniversaries and
but yeah, we got some good one.
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I mean, Sean Quinn, he's our
staff foodie, so he's always
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thinking outside the box on what
we can do from a food standpoint
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or restaurant standpoint.
But.
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We got a good group of guys that
that enjoy working together,
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enjoy being buddies.
It looks like y'all always out
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there having a good time.
I know y'all do some like late
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days from time to time and
things like that.
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So it looks like there's always
some something going on to kind
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of break up the monotony of the
work, right?
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And that that helps, that helps
with that competition piece too.
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Because like, if you can have
that balance, you can go a lot
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harder when it's time to work.
I don't know how you can be on
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your A game all the time if you
don't take time to decompress
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and and put your mind and
thoughts somewhere else.
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I don't know how you you
maintain a game like to be at
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your best for your players, for
the rest of the staff, because
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when you out of here for a day
right now, June, if we if we if
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we wanted to, it'd be really
easy to work every single day in
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the month of June.
So because you have camps and
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official visits all weekend, so
we take Wednesdays off.
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Nobody works on Wednesdays and
usually Tuesday about 3:00.
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Right now they're looking for
that message for me that says
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clear out of here, guys, you
know, just so that when we come
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back, I mean Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, we're good.
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You know we can be who we need
to be, love.
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Hearing that.
Yep.
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Yes, Sir.
Yeah, I'm, I'll, I'll pivot it
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this way because this is a
little, this kind of goes into
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some of the camaraderie stuff
and the coaches personalities.
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And I'm not sure if you've been
asked this by any other
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publication or podcast or
anything you've been on.
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Have you been gifted any Cheetah
adorned apparel by Coach Jones?
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Scary thing is, I think my wife
has.
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I know this.
We've gifted him some Cheetah
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apparel.
There we go, There we go.
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I'll also say this, there's not
one article of clothing in his
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wardrobe that doesn't contain
some type of cheetah print on
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it.
Just leave it as that.
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It's either outward or it's
lighting, right?
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It's somewhere in there.
It's he's got to represent.
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I like that.
We got a little bit of that
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cheetah, you know, love going on
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I mean everybody feels it a
little bit.
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So somebody will show up with a
cheetah socks on or cheetah
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shirt or you know, but when he
shows up in a three piece
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cheetah suit, that's when you
know.
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I know it's about to be a good
night.
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I mean, that's like, you know,
you're going to national
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championship.
Game nice, but coach we as fans,
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there's been a lot of uniform
talk and I I know you don't you
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you might not know a lot about
the program up there with you
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being the head man.
So I was just going to say if
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you did know anything about that
and you want to talk about that,
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we, we're, we're open to hear
anything about any uniform.
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The thing I would tell you is
this, you know, my roots, you
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know, when I was here, you know
what things looked like.
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Also know that I was at Penn
State for nine years and you
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know what those units look like.
And I think you have a sense of
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kind of what I'm about and what
I believe about this place.
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And, and you know, it, it's just
it it was time to kind of, you
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know, let's let's dive into it.
And, and it was a cool exercise
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to bring the former players on
staff into a meeting.
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And let's have a discussion
about what what we would would
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we like for the uniforms to look
like?
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What did you enjoy wearing?
What did you hate seeing on
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your, you know, like, honestly?
That's important too.
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Just as important as what you
like, what you don't like.
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Yeah.
And, and then the next meeting,
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the equipment staff and and the
OPS staff, they literally had
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all these PowerPoints with these
different combinations.
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Do you like this one?
Yeah, we like the top, not the
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bottom.
Not OK then.
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And they mixed and matched it.
OK, So you like, well, no, we
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don't like that Shoot.
I mean, it was like I was with
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my wife, you know, out at the
mall.
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I mean, but we finally got to a
pretty good place and well,
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it'll be exciting for everybody,
I think when we when we roll
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those out.
Tally coach, I think Tally's
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going to request.
Can we get that PowerPoint at
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some point so we can see all the
combinations y'all had in mind?
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I'm going to go this is kind of
leading into the spring ball
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conversation.
We'll get him back in here in a
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second.
But I I was thinking about the
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offense and this year.
What unit had your attention the
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most going into spring and why
you?
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Know, I think obviously the
quarterback position, just you
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know, how we evolved there.
I think needing the O line to
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improve as the year went on and
and feeling good about that.
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You know, there's a lot of
tension on those guys.
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We were excited about the
receivers and that kind of
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proved true for us.
You know, we felt pretty good
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about the group because year
previous, you know, it was one
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of the major concerns we had.
So I think being able on the
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defensive side of the ball to
win more one-on-one battles.
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We had to do that.
That was a a real focus going
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into the season.
Are we going to be better, you
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know, up front at doing that?
And and you know, I say up front
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and really the front 7, as much
as we pressure it's it's one you
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know, you can create one on
ones, but then you got to win
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them.
You know, you got to win enough
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of them to to make it count.
So.
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Yeah, I know when we had coach
Price on earlier in the
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offseason, he was like, you
know, as as coach Barr was
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getting to the the defensive
call, he's like, I want, I want
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to run man.
Let's run man.
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I want to get after the
quarterback.
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I want to be disruptive.
And looks like, you know, you
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guys kind of started moving that
direction as as 23 went on.
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So it's it's good to hear that,
you know, with retooling some of
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the interior defensive line,
that kind of that mode is still
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moving forward.
And as you said last last time
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you were on, you know, that the
emphasis was wide receiver.
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And seeing that come to
fruition, I know was kind of big
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for you and I'm sure kind of
made you feel good about about
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the direction that you took last
offseason and then you know, the
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game plan for this offseason.
Yeah, absolutely.
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I mean, I'm very proud of the
work that Coach Minds has done.
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I think, you know, it's good and
bad, right?
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I'm proud of it.
But then that gets all this
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attention from these other
Staffs around the country, guys
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trying to hire him.
But he's done a great job not
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just developing in that room,
but do recruitment at the high
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school level and the transfer
portal, you know, So really
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we're hitting on all cylinders
right there and it shows.
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It's the most competitive room
we have on the football team.
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Love hearing that telly you got
back man.
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Hey, can y'all hear me?
I'm still freezing a little bit.
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We can hear you now.
Go with that question you had
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before we before you got locked
out.
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Yeah, so I was going to ask.
I said we've been talking about
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clothes for a few minutes there
and we ain't want to harp on it
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too much, but we do want to know
how can we get our hands on that
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hunger, That hunger drills
T-shirt.
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You got that three seven
question mark shirt.
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How do we get our hands on that
coach?
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You like that one?
Yeah, I like that one, man.
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I like that one.
That's a great one.
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Imagine standing in line and
that's all you see from
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everybody in front of you, you
know?
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That I'm just saying if y'all
put that out, let's.
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Make a little money on that one.
What size are you?
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Talking about a 3X.
All right, you got a 4X coming
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your way.
You the man, don't send Brown or
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Curtis one.
They don't deserve it.
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It was that when when when y'all
showed those shirts back in
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February, it was like you said,
I like that thing because y'all
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line them up.
Where do we want the question to
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be?
What do we want the question to
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be?
And let me ask this because you
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talked a little bit about that
defensive side.
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Well, you lost a lot of good
veteran players last year,
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Norrell Pollard, Mario
Kendricks, but you know, you
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went back in to the portal, you
and your staff.
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Because I know it's not just
you, it's everybody and Aeneas
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peoples, Copeland and Gilliam.
I mean, are those guys, did they
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just fit in like hand in glove
when they first came in?
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Yeah.
And it, you know, it's a credit
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to the obviously the staff and
our efforts in the recruitment
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learning a lot.
We knew a ton about Aeneas, a
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ton about Kelvin, a ton about
Kumari.
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Just made too much sense and you
can never have enough depth on
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the D line.
You can never have enough depth
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to D tackle.
And you know, to lose 3 good
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players there that were
experienced and gave us a lot of
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value last year to be able to go
out and get 3 great job, you
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know, by the staff and great job
by those kids, you know,
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recognizing what they can, how
they can impact our program.
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And then, you know, then dicing
on the cake, you go get Curtis
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Perry, who's a swing guy,
placing strong side in placing 3
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technique.
He's got three years left.
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You know, you're just in a good
shape situation.
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Kamari Copeland has two years,
Kelvin Gilliam has two years.
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You know, Aeneas was all ACC
last year.
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So we've we've helped ourselves
there.
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You're always trying improve,
right?
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You always want to be better
than you were.
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And we had a pretty good group
in there that did some good
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things and we have a chance to
have upgraded at that spot,
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which is tough to say with the
way Pollard and and Rio and
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those guys played.
Yeah, that I mean, it's really
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impressive looking at at what
you guys are do able to do with
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that position in the offseason.
I mean, and the way you talked
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about it, the way they're kind
of staggered, you know, you got,
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you got Aeneas, who's all ACC
got, you know, kind of a, a good
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one year left for you.
And then you got the other guys
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that are kind of staggered there
that can give you 2 to three
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good years in the program.
So that that's important too.
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And yeah, I think, you know,
when you think about this
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offseason, a lot of it's kind of
been about managing the hype
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that's kind of behind the
program, right?
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Because the, you know, last year
it was about, you know, building
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it back.
You know, we we were trying to
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build something and now it's
about kind of managing hype.
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What's been your approach to
keeping the team hungry and kind
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of recalibrating their focus for
bigger goals in 2024?
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First of all, we have plenty of
weaknesses, you know, and, and
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we work like hell to identify
them to to improve on them.
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Not that we don't want to build
on strengths.
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We do that as well.
But you know that we had a lot
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of noise when we were one and
three, a lot of chatter and we
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had to talk about how it doesn't
mean anything.
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We know the team we can be and
and so that doesn't change good
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noise, bad noise.
You know, it, it doesn't, it
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doesn't impact who we are, what
we need to do.
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You know, we're just into the
third phase of our offseason.
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We we phase one's the winter
phase Two's the spring phase
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three's the summer phase four's
pre season camp.
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So we still have a ton of work
in front of us that we have to
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come out on top of to be the
team that we can be.
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Yeah.
Definitely, definitely.
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And coach, I'll, I'll pivot a
little bit to this.
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We've had Kyron on and we've had
you on great kid.
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You know Noah's family as well.
And I know you've talked about
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him, you had to talk about him a
lot.
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But the question I'll ask you is
what part of his growth from
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last year when, when you got him
are you excited about now you?
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Know he's really he's gained a
tremendous amount of confidence,
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rightfully so.
And I think that the respect
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level on this team is really
high for Kyron, the way he
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works, the way he approaches
games, the way he handles
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adversity.
And then lastly, from a skill
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set, just the ability to to
throw into tight coverage and,
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and, and be able to put that
ball where our guys can catch it
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and they can't.
You know, when it's a tight
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window or or there's good man
coverage and he's improved a
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bunch and that accuracy piece,
so very proud of the offseason
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he's had.
Yeah, yeah.
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And I'm going to switch gears
just a little bit because I'm
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actually stealing somebody
else's question, I believe.
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But I know you got Curtis Perry
that's coming in there with me
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being an Alabama, Alabama native
and him being an Alabama kid.
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No tongue about him, man.
He comes from a a great high
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school and their run that they
had in high school, I think they
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went 1415 and O and he may have
ended his senior year with about
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23 sacks, which was ridiculous.
So again, new ton about him.
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So just was going to ask you a
little bit about kind of how
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that came about or how you feel
about him being able to pull him
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into that defensive line room.
Yeah, First of all, I have a lot
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of relationships in Alabama for
a variety of reasons.
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Ton of high school coaches
recruited down there a bunch
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when I was at Louisiana
Lafayette, when I was at
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Memphis, when I was at
Vanderbilt, when I was at Penn
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State as the DC.
And we won the Big 10 and had a
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stellar unit. 3 starters on our
defense were from the state of
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Alabama.
So we knew a lot about KP.
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And you put that high school
film on and it's easy to see how
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we ended up in Alabama.
He's explosive.
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He's hard to block.
He's got a ton of twitch, you
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know, so and then then what's
the challenge to get to know him
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and to get to know his mom and
to feel better about him fitting
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our locker room.
And now we weren't sure all the
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way through the weekend till the
end.
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You know, I love asking him
those tough questions.
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Tell me about your relationship
with Coach Saban.
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You know, tell me, tell me why
you leaving?
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Tell me, tell me about the D
line Coach what?
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What are some things that you
got to do better?
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Let me ask you this, KP, how are
you going to handle walking in a
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brand new locker room as a
transfer when you first walk in
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that D line room?
Like how are you going to handle
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that?
You know, are you going to be,
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you know, cocky and arrogant?
Are you going to be, you know,
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have humility?
Like what's it going to look?
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You know, you just get into all
that with those guys to make
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sure they understand because
they could be really talented
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man, but they don't handle that
transition and we got great kids
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instead of guys like Fuga and
these guys Kanay stiff arming
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these guys because they coming
in to compete for their job.
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You know, they embrace them.
It it makes our room better,
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their talent and then the level
of competition.
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You know, everybody around here
has done a great job of putting
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the team first.
That's awesome.
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That is awesome to hear, Coach.
It's awesome to hear that you
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have you've created that culture
where it's embracing.
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It's not I don't want you here.
It's we need you here and we're
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going to be honest.
We saw, you know, you see
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reports out everywhere, but it
seems like you and the staff
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went very aggressive post spring
portal with all the offers.
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When do y'all start formulating
that and how far ahead?
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Is it in the window or is it one
of those things it never stops?
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Yeah, I say this.
I mean, we're going to be
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aggressive because at the same
time we're hitting that portal
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hard with offers.
I'm meeting with each and every
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member of our football team and
you just don't know what
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curveballs you're going to have
to hit.
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Was somebody that we're counting
on going to walk in and leave
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and take more money somewhere
else?
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You just, it was somebody going
to leave, you know, because they
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want to play more, they want to
be a starter, but they're a very
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important backup for us.
So, you know, you have to be
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aggressive to be able to fill
needs if they show up.
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So we're we're going to be
aggressive with offers.
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But we also knew, and we didn't
have many spots unless attrition
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occurred, it wasn't expected,
which that didn't really happen.
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So that's why there was only
the, the, you know, the three
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late ads.
Let me ask this, just thinking
443
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,520
about the, the, the spring
window of the portal, how much
444
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:27,000
harder is that window to kind of
identify targets and make sure
445
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,200
that, you know, the guys that
are on your roster, you know,
446
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,240
stay, stay at home versus that
bowl season window where it's a
447
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,560
little bit little bit wider and
you know, it's post season.
448
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,320
So there's a little bit more, I
don't want to say more to pick
449
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,600
from, but I guess more options
out there.
450
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,240
Yeah, there is.
I mean, it's, you know, there's,
451
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,920
it's a little bit harder to
navigate in December because
452
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:54,760
there's so many candidates.
You know, the other piece for me
453
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,880
is you just have to be that much
more careful when you're dealing
454
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,240
with guys that don't get to
participate in spring practice.
455
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,560
That's that's key when these
guys have to be able to come in
456
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:13,360
and learn it through the summer
without pads on, you know, but
457
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,320
you know, and, and there's
always decisions about hanging
458
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,160
on to a scholarship and is there
a walk on on your team that's
459
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,520
deserving, you know, versus
going out.
460
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,520
We don't want to be a group that
that just takes a good, you
461
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,200
know, player out of the portal
because he's he's a good player.
462
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,080
We want to feel needs out of the
portal.
463
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,640
Otherwise, those scholarships
are invested at the high school
464
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,320
level.
That makes sense.
465
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,280
And I, and I love hearing that
and you're thinking about, you
466
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,520
know, you're, you're always big
on relationships.
467
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,520
I'm sure that's that's just the
biggest, biggest piece of it is
468
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,160
making sure the fifth fits right
and that you know, that
469
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,880
relationship is there where you
know everyone is going to get
470
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,240
out of the the situation what
they want to get out of it.
471
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,560
So I, I don't ever take for
granted what our players have
472
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,560
been able to do.
I mean, we have guys, we all
473
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:08,280
those guys return all that
retention, guys that could have
474
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,040
gone in the NFL or gone
somewhere else and made more
475
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,640
money.
And I don't want to take that
476
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,400
for granted.
I don't want to be greedy.
477
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,280
I don't want to push the
envelope to where we lose that
478
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,240
from our team right now.
Our guys have been super
479
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:28,560
unselfish and team oriented.
And if you start making, you
480
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,440
know, kind of irrational
decisions and, and, and you
481
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,600
start bringing in guys that
don't belong in your locker
482
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,320
room, you're going to lose that
trust.
483
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,640
You know you're going to lose
that aspect of it.
484
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,320
Yeah, we're building that
culture.
485
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,600
There's been guys that have
spent time here on official
486
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,600
visits and at the end of the
visit, as talented as they were,
487
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,800
we couldn't do it.
You know, it just wasn't right
488
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,800
for us.
Yeah, I mean, you know, culture
489
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,080
goes both ways and you know,
you're building that that trust
490
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,880
in the locker room too.
So being able to maintain that
491
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,600
while you're also trying to
improve your roster, I'm sure
492
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,000
that's a that's a tough
balancing act sometimes, but it
493
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,240
seems like you're you're doing
pretty well thus far.
494
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,440
Let's pivot a little bit to
another guy that that is kind of
495
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,640
a new ad here for the spring
post spring Caleb Spencer,
496
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,680
Virginia Kidd returns from
Miami.
497
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,360
You had 100 snaps or so last
year, valuable special teams
498
00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:27,760
reps and things like that and
seems to be bringing that
499
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,560
position versatility that you
talked about from a from the
500
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:34,480
defensive back position.
Have you and Coach Marv kind of
501
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,920
landed on what room he's going
to start at in fall camp?
502
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,680
Yeah, he's going to start out
with at the star position, but
503
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,480
he's demonstrated already.
I I think he'll have, you know,
504
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,600
a good opportunity to help us,
you know, at will and maybe one
505
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,040
day at Mike.
He's a he's a physical looking
506
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,680
kid.
He's got some twitch to him.
507
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,840
Got a good build.
I mean, he just, you know, you
508
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,240
know, and again, another guy
that we knew a lot about, right,
509
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:07,920
a Richmond native that had gone
somewhere just like CGI.
510
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,680
Hope the message getting is
getting out there.
511
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:15,480
You don't have to go outside the
state, you know, to get what you
512
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,240
want.
I mean, these guys are coming
513
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,960
back home just like APR did.
You know, you go off to a a
514
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,560
program that perception wise may
offer you more, but you end up
515
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,760
finding success back here in the
Commonwealth of Virginia Tech.
516
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,920
And, and that can be, you know,
it's APR, it can be KG, it can
517
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,680
be, you know, all these guys
will be Caleb Spencer.
518
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,280
These guys have been able to
come back and have success.
519
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,600
Yeah, that's that's.
That's something I can see you
520
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,760
continue to preach.
And it also shows relationships
521
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,560
because you clearly, even though
they're elsewhere, I can tell
522
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,680
your value in relationships with
people that mean something to
523
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,480
them, which makes I'm sure the
transition significantly easier.
524
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,680
And you had one more, and we
don't think about it, but Colin
525
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,240
Shealey, who was all the way
over at UCLA, he's actually a
526
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,160
Maryland kid, right in Tyler
Bowen's home state.
527
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,080
How big was it?
Not only was their relationship
528
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,480
with Tyler or maybe when he was
at Kent State and how crucial is
529
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,160
it that helped bring him on, but
how crucial is it having another
530
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,160
quarterback in that room?
You know, Collins, a starter at
531
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,760
Kent State and had significant
reps as a backup last year.
532
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:29,760
How big is that for that room?
Yeah, he he fits what we were
533
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,320
looking for.
I mean, we hit a home run.
534
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,800
When you're going out there
trying to find a backup
535
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,920
quarterback and you can sign a
guy like that, you know, he fits
536
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,640
our offense.
He's a, he's a great young man.
537
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,440
He's 23 years old.
He's regional.
538
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,720
He knows a ton about us.
We knew a ton about him in high
539
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,560
school.
We had coaches on staff at Kent
540
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,760
State.
We had coaches on staff at UCLA,
541
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,080
you know, spent a a big long
weekend with him and his family
542
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,680
and his girlfriend and really a
good fit for us.
543
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,400
Excited about what he brings to
the program.
544
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,640
There'll be a package for him
that helps our offense.
545
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,760
It's it's somebody else that can
do things with the ball in their
546
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:16,920
hands.
Got got to love to hear that and
547
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,200
and also it's you guys like I
feel like the whole staff
548
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,360
there's y'all know somebody on
every staff and again, it's that
549
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,160
constant.
That's what it is relationships,
550
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,920
finding someone who knows and to
have that quick conversation.
551
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,000
I love hearing that.
I tell you what I mean, you're
552
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,240
right.
And part of it is that our staff
553
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,600
is approachable and genuine and
friendly.
554
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,840
That's what was right for me.
That's what was right for
555
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,520
Virginia Tech.
And that, you know, that bleeds
556
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:47,920
out there.
I mean, these guys are
557
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,360
relational guys.
They got buddies everywhere.
558
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:52,960
Yeah.
And I mean, we've, we've, yeah,
559
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,440
we've had some of the staff on
obviously you last year and some
560
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,080
of the other guys.
And that's the take away that I
561
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,840
have from every conversation
I've had with your staff is that
562
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,480
they're genuine.
They're people, people.
563
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,160
They, they, they love to talk,
they love to get to know folks.
564
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,200
And they're just really
approachable and down to earth.
565
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,040
And I think that resonates
across the board.
566
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,200
Resonated at Hardywood with me
and Brian.
567
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:19,680
You know, we talked to you a
couple minutes.
568
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,720
We spent 15 minutes talked in
the coach Brewer and coach just
569
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,280
chit chatting with them.
It was it it it felt easy.
570
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:31,680
So I loved hearing that, yeah.
You know, I, I appreciate you
571
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,760
saying that, Brian, that I mean,
that's, that's who we are.
572
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,320
And that's been really impactful
into the relationships with
573
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,400
these players, with this
community, with the Letterman,
574
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,840
with the high school coaches.
It's been at the core of of how
575
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,960
we're doing this.
Yeah.
576
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000
And, and, and it's definitely,
you know, I think it's paying
577
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,000
dividends and, and I think
everybody sees it so well done.
578
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,200
Yes, Sir, we're going to we're.
Going to, we're going to flip it
579
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,520
back a little bit.
Let's talk a little 2023 and
580
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,400
this is actually a, a question
that our, our buddy Sheldon kind
581
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,760
of dropped in here.
You wanted, wanted to get your,
582
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,320
your take on this.
You know, a lot was made and you
583
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,240
already brought it up a little
bit with the start with one and
584
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,360
three.
From the outside, everybody
585
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,480
seemed like guys were, you know,
even when the, the first few
586
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,040
games, the losses came, no one
was finger pointing, no
587
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,440
infighting, none of that.
Everyone had their heads on
588
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:23,960
straight and kind of worked to
get better.
589
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,800
Did you notice that too?
And how do you feel the group
590
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,080
responded collectively to that
adversity?
591
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,440
Yeah, I tell you, it brought
their brotherhood even closer
592
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,840
together.
You know, rather than go this
593
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:40,720
way and and start blaming one
another, they they did this and
594
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,800
that was critical.
When I was getting over the
595
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:47,120
hump, they stayed together.
They kept investing, you know,
596
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,920
we did a nice job of, of
encouraging them, showing the
597
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,560
positives, talking about the
positives.
598
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:58,000
This is the team we can be and
we eliminate a few weaknesses, a
599
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,520
few mistakes here and there and,
and this is going to look
600
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,840
different.
And they just bought in and the
601
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,040
staff persevered and stayed,
stayed the course and trusted
602
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,880
the process.
And, you know, we were able to
603
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,880
turn the corner.
How do you feel?
604
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,679
You feel like that's a
reflection of the culture that
605
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:15,239
you that you built with the
staff?
606
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:20,360
Or is that just something that
you with the the mindset of the
607
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,040
this these players and those
specific unit that that you're
608
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,639
working?
With I, I think it starts with
609
00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:27,520
the staff.
You know, it's it's, it's what
610
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,880
these guys are made of.
It's what they believe in.
611
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,159
I can't be in every room all the
time.
612
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:37,679
I mean, these guys are trusted
assistants that carry forth with
613
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:41,239
the messaging and the narrative
and the values of the program,
614
00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,560
you know, and, and it goes back
to recruiting the right
615
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:51,000
families, the right young men
that are looking for this.
616
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,000
They want accountability that
you know, that they want, they
617
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,920
understand hard conversations,
they want mentality.
618
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,720
They want, you know, the
competitive environment, you
619
00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:04,880
know all those things.
Well, that's a big part of it,
620
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,600
right?
It's identifying the right folks
621
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,240
for you.
Well, well, coach, we know
622
00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:12,320
Travis jumped in there.
We know you're a busy.
623
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,320
Man, and you edit that out or is
that going to be part of the
624
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:16,920
podcast?
Tell Travis he's going to be
625
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,800
part of the podcast.
Travis just trying to get some
626
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,120
airtime, years of all that
airtime, but now he's kind of
627
00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:25,840
scheme, he can't stand it.
I thought, you know, you got to
628
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,400
tell Travis we're going to keep
him in just because he's done,
629
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:29,800
he's done us so many good
favors.
630
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,360
So we're going to keep him in
there just so he gets that
631
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,320
FaceTime.
But, but coach, we, we, we know
632
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,440
you're a busy man.
We appreciate you taking, you
633
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,160
know, 30-40 minutes out of your
day to sit with us, have a few
634
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,720
conversations, Tally, Brian,
anything else you want to ask
635
00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,080
before we?
Let coach.
636
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:48,120
Yeah, I'm going to let Coach.
Yeah, I'm going to let Coach get
637
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:49,200
out of here.
I'm going to just say I know
638
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,440
he's got a bit of a homecoming
headed back to Nashville.
639
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,200
That's about two hours away from
my home, so I know you're going
640
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:57,800
to be all business.
So I'll take care of the
641
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,280
partying for you.
Y'all just get ready for the
642
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,440
game and I'll take care of
everything else Coach.
643
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,560
Yeah.
So you'll be there, Nashville.
644
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,920
Before so it's going, it's going
to be a good time in Nashville
645
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,320
for sure.
Definitely.
646
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,280
We appreciate you taking your
coverage.
647
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,000
Really, Sir, thank you.
That's what you do for.
648
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,520
The Hokies always Sir.
Thank you and looking forward to
649
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,200
talking to you again sometime.
Yes, Sir.
650
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:19,880
Awesome guys.
Thank you.
651
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,960
Thank you.
All right, So we will take a
652
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,800
quick break from Main Street
Pharmacy and our digital
653
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,960
partners.
I can probably save you a lot of
654
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,840
money and I can take a lot
better care of you.
655
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,240
That's pretty much it.
My name is Jeremy Counts and I'm
656
00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:38,440
a pharmacist.
I own and operate Main Street
657
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,960
Pharmacy here in downtown
Blacksburg.
658
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,600
My brother's a pharmacist, I'm a
pharmacist, my uncle's a
659
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:43,960
pharmacist, my dad's a
pharmacist.
660
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,120
I remember he would give me M
and Ms. to count in little pill
661
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:48,960
counters.
It's just something I've always
662
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,840
done and I'm just lucky that
what I know so well is something
663
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,360
that I can do and feel good
about it and get back to people.
664
00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:57,800
Pharmacies are your frontline
defense.
665
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,080
Pharmacy's job is to make sure
you're getting optimal care for
666
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,520
the lowest price possible.
Also, we take the pressure off
667
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,640
of emergency rooms.
I'll tell people immediately
668
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,440
when they need to go to the
doctor, or I'll tell them if
669
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,080
they just need a cream over the
counter.
670
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,040
If there's something that isn't
commercially available, if it's
671
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,760
something that's not available
in a certain strength or a
672
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,840
certain form or anything like
that, we'll make it.
673
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,200
Tailor made medications.
Some of those options save
674
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,120
people a lot of money.
What motivates me?
675
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,400
I get to take care of people and
live in Blacksburg.
676
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,240
That's all neat.
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Now back to the episode.
All righty, so we are back and
684
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,920
before we talk about the
interview and a couple things
685
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,400
that caught our ears, I'm going
I want to throw this one up at
686
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,760
CJ put this out here.
This is this is pretty cool to
687
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,120
see about coach Pryor right here
when he retired from the
688
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:08,920
military sending something like
that.
689
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,520
I mean, we, we, we've, we've
talked to him now twice and that
690
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:19,040
legitimately seems, you know,
like who he is, right, as far as
691
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,200
it goes.
Again, we said it on the on the
692
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:23,720
interview, like genuine, down to
earth.
693
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,480
The whole staff's like that, but
it starts with the head whistle.
694
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,880
He's creating that culture and
it's trickling down to everybody
695
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,440
else.
And it's not just, you know,
696
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,960
them feeding off his energy, but
also he picked the right people
697
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,280
to be around too.
So I mean, that's that's huge.
698
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,080
And you know, we got a little
sentimental one there.
699
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,400
Let's get a little funny one
here.
700
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,560
Riley Oh man, right.
I already know what to say to
701
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:54,760
that.
I.
702
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,440
Mean that that is the highest
order right there.
703
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,680
I mean it, it doesn't get, I
mean he put Prince on there so
704
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,480
oh God, it's Prince and then
everybody else.
705
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,200
So, you know, if he's up there
in that category, that's saying
706
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,280
something.
Absolutely.
707
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:12,040
You ain't gonna throw MJ in now.
It's Prince, then MJ, and then
708
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:13,320
everybody else.
Like, how about that?
709
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:14,640
How about that?
How about this?
710
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,840
We didn't got Andretti fired up
tonight, man.
711
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,720
Are you ready for some football?
We're ready for some football
712
00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:28,320
8080 days or so and I'm going to
do this one just because that's
713
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,320
the first thing I want to talk
about because that one was a
714
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,640
late AD and we got more than I
thought we were going to get out
715
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:39,920
of coach on that one.
So now, now y'all heard it from
716
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,920
the head man of how this thing
was framed.
717
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,880
A we talked when this thing
wrapped yesterday, the first
718
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,080
thing we three said each other.
That was pretty cool.
719
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,080
He was bringing in the guys on
the staff who played there and
720
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:56,640
said what do y'all think that's
like again, that's it's like
721
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,040
like that's awesome.
Like that's the first thing you
722
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,960
do because you think back
currently on the staff right
723
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:09,760
now, JC Pearson, mid 90s guys,
then you got ADB, then you've
724
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,240
got.
ADB wore the, in my opinion, the
725
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:17,080
best uniforms we've ever had.
Find a picture of it.
726
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:18,320
You talking about the ones with
the?
727
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:20,960
With the piping.
With the piping, yeah.
728
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,760
So what are you tally?
We're going to I'm going to
729
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,120
pitch it to you is your
question.
730
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:27,840
What what do we, what do you
think we're getting, man?
731
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,960
It's.
Going to be a traditional look,
732
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,840
you know what I'm saying?
The only thing that makes me a
733
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,200
little bit nervous is because,
like you said, you know my
734
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,720
roots.
It's probably not going to be a
735
00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:40,600
lot of variants, you know what
I'm saying?
736
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,840
You may get a alternate jersey,
you may not, you know what I'm
737
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:45,880
saying?
That's what makes me a little
738
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,400
bit nervous.
But we got to get rid of them
739
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,240
shoulder stripes.
So I mean, if we go with a
740
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:53,640
traditional jersey and it looks
clean, it looks good.
741
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,280
I'm fine with that.
It's just got to look good.
742
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,400
Like if you're going to stick
with it, then you got to make it
743
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,840
look good.
So I think they got, I think
744
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,560
they'll get it right though.
Give me some orange in there
745
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,760
somewhere.
Yeah, we need an orange.
746
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,560
I, I want to, I want to, I know
we're going to get traditional,
747
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:12,480
but I want unique traditional.
I don't want like cookie cutter
748
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,040
Nike.
What at like main template stuff
749
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,240
that you've been seeing like,
you know, I know Baylor got like
750
00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:20,040
some of that stuff and a couple
other school.
751
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,600
Like I don't want the cookie
cutter type stuff.
752
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,840
I want something that is
definitely either distinctly
753
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:31,000
throwback or something new
that's kind of a combination of
754
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,800
some of those classic looks
we've had.
755
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,320
I don't want to just get a
cookie cutter like you know,
756
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,160
first tier Nike template and and
roll with it.
757
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,080
Well, it's, it doesn't seem like
it was that way, especially with
758
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,840
the PowerPoint.
I mean, and if they're sitting
759
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,280
there, what combinations work
well together?
760
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,920
I mean, there, there were
obviously we know in the last
761
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:52,880
few years there's been an
orange.
762
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,760
There was an orange and I
believe the 90s, I can't
763
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,840
remember which game it is, but
there was an orange in the 90s
764
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,000
as well.
So, but I, I do think the
765
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,080
stripes are gone.
And I and I and Tally, we said
766
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,200
it.
I don't know if we said it on
767
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:13,680
the air, but we said if you go
with this, the classic maroon, I
768
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,920
know we all like the one thing
that is good.
769
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,360
Now, I do like the hokey stone
numbering on the thing.
770
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,280
I like that.
But as long as Tally what we say
771
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,520
on the arms.
Baby yeah, if they if they put
772
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,160
the orange numbers on now on the
on the maroon jersey.
773
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,240
Taliban 10.
Taliban 10.
774
00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:33,200
Off.
I'll be all right with that, but
775
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,920
but I got no confidence in Nike.
That's my problem.
776
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,880
Brian talks about, you know, no
cookie cutter and stuff like
777
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,080
this and it's fucking Nike, you
know what I'm saying?
778
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,400
Like what have they done for us?
That's what I'm thinking about
779
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:50,880
so.
Ain't done much lately, man, I
780
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,840
thought I'll give you that one.
And you know, when we when we
781
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,960
think about it, we also saw last
week, I think it was last week
782
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:03,400
or early this week the Mike Vick
put out that might get some
783
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,280
orange on the sleeves.
Yeah, that'd be pretty cool.
784
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:07,480
That'd be pretty cool.
Well.
785
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,040
I I don't know if you meant the
numbers or if you meant like
786
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:14,960
kind of that that tie rod look
that he wore a few times and in.
787
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,320
The the only reason I think it'd
be cool is because I just ain't
788
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:18,400
seen it, you know what I'm
saying?
789
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,480
Like give me something I kind of
want something like nobody else
790
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,040
has, you know what I mean?
Like something just unique, not
791
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:26,880
nothing crazy.
Don't give me no Maryland
792
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,880
bullshit.
Like I don't need no flag on the
793
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,320
helmet looking like AFL team or
nothing like that.
794
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,840
I'm just saying give me
something unique.
795
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,880
Though I think, I think what we
can see is like you picture and
796
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,600
you start snapshotting stuff.
We have enough classic vibes
797
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,320
from different eras that if you
if you mesh them in a certain
798
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:50,560
way and you put like the the the
orange sleeves, But if you had
799
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,600
the outlining with the hokey
stone sevens with the right
800
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,080
shape, like you can bring
certain elements together where
801
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:01,360
and if they do, it would be it
looks classic, but it's got
802
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:05,320
enough fresh vibes to be like
like this hits like this hits.
803
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,960
It's it's not only it's it's
classic, but these little
804
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,800
elements make it like you say,
Tally.
805
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,360
It's got to be a little
different.
806
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:18,160
So hopefully this is before
August so tally can get his
807
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,560
order and be wearing it in
Nashville soaking brine as well.
808
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,760
So let let's roll along.
And you know, we got a few
809
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,480
things we that caught our ear
about the players.
810
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:32,160
And I want to start with Curtis
Perry first, because Tally, you
811
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,160
know, you, you and coach had a
little conversation about him
812
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,760
back and forth.
But the thing that caught my ear
813
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,080
and as soon as he said it, like
I'm like, what'd he say?
814
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,000
I had to go back and listen to a
second time.
815
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,400
When he mentioned strong side
defensive end.
816
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:52,720
He said that his words, not
mine, not me speculating, not us
817
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:56,240
speculating.
With the with the loss of CJ
818
00:44:56,240 --> 00:45:00,520
McCray for pretty much the
summer and probably a lot of
819
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:07,160
fall camp, to have somebody like
Perry stature tally you, you saw
820
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,600
that kid play.
Obviously you've got download on
821
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,760
him.
That could be a massive upgrade
822
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,880
for the defensive end depth man
because there's three good
823
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,920
players there already.
You had him.
824
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,320
That's what it is, man.
It's just all about depth, you
825
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:23,920
know what I'm saying?
It's about competition, it's
826
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,760
about depth.
What's always held us back.
827
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:31,120
One person goes down and you
it's a significant drop off
828
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,160
after that person goes down.
So it seems like now we're
829
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:38,120
bringing in people that are, you
know, depth pieces, but also
830
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,760
like these people could stand
up, you know, could step up and
831
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,440
play a a big role.
You know, like even even when we
832
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:49,480
go, you know, not to just jump
forward, but even when he we
833
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,480
talk about Spencer, you know,
he's had significant snaps at
834
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:54,560
Miami.
You know what I mean?
835
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,840
That's a power 5 school, power
four school, whatever you want
836
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,800
to call it nowadays.
But you know, seeing the field
837
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,320
at those schools or, or or even
going against, you know, that
838
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,400
kind of competition in practice
and being able to, you know,
839
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,640
have some kind of success.
Again, we see what APR done.
840
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,040
I ain't saying everybody's going
to come in and do exactly what
841
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,960
he did, but sometimes you just
need a shot, you know what I'm
842
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,440
saying?
So it'll be interesting, man.
843
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,960
I'm excited about it.
I'm excited to see the kids
844
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:28,120
compete this year.
But also I'm excited just to
845
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:33,880
for, I'm excited for somebody
just put up the game.
846
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,600
What's the game when it's coming
out the 19th?
847
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,120
Yeah.
We ready, Robbie.
848
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,600
Let's get on it.
Fuck yeah.
849
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,280
I think Robbie's making a
special purchase just for that
850
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:46,040
game.
So he.
851
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:47,840
Is he?
Is Ron?
852
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:49,920
What did you think about the
Curtis Perry comments from
853
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,680
coach?
Man, you know, I think the
854
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:59,160
biggest thing for me is that
he's always talking about, you
855
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:03,320
know, that position flexibility
and, you know, having a guy that
856
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,840
can play outside, play inside,
you know, play a little strong
857
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:12,080
side DN play some 3 technique,
always going to be a guy that
858
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,080
can get after the passer.
So I think, you know, regardless
859
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,040
of where you're lining them up,
you're going to get some type of
860
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,240
production, especially in those
second and third down
861
00:47:19,240 --> 00:47:22,480
situations.
So having another guy that you
862
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,040
can put in that rotation, you
know, you're going to want to
863
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:30,320
go, you know, at least 2 lines
deep, sometimes 3 lines deep.
864
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,720
The more you can kind of mix and
match guys at those different
865
00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:37,040
positions, the better.
So getting getting a guy that is
866
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:42,200
has some position flexibility
there and creates a lot more
867
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,120
depth like Tally said on the
defensive line, that that's
868
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:46,280
nothing but good things,
nothing.
869
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,000
But good things.
And the and the go back to the
870
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:53,280
to the defensive line too.
I mean, it's all about matchups.
871
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:57,520
Like it don't matter.
It does matter what you do this
872
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,760
year.
But I'm saying before any game
873
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:04,080
is played, every team's going to
put on the tape and say we got
874
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:08,680
to block him, We can't double.
We going to have to try to
875
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,400
double him.
So that gives somebody else an
876
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,040
opportunity to, you know, the
flash.
877
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,560
So sometimes it's it's a
collective unit, you know what
878
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,880
I'm saying?
Having somebody who has a big
879
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,920
year like APR, you got it.
That's what we've been missing.
880
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,880
We've been having, we haven't
had somebody who teams have to
881
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,080
game playing for, you know what
I'm saying?
882
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,080
Especially like on defensive
line.
883
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,840
Well, hold on, it's two down.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
884
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,000
So, yeah.
Well, so now you got more than
885
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,600
one.
So who do you double?
886
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,400
You know what I'm saying?
So some of these, yeah, some of
887
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,120
these guys who are going to be
plugged in are going to reap
888
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,360
some benefits because they just
may be faster or better than
889
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:50,960
that man in front of them.
And they don't have an
890
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,600
opportunity to be schemed
against because people's might
891
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,000
be getting schemed against.
So APR might be schemed against.
892
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,120
So it's just seeing Burgos come
off that end.
893
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,640
I don't know too many people who
are going just you know what I'm
894
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,160
saying, man, handle him
one-on-one.
895
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,640
You know, if if he's just told
just go get the ball, you know
896
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:10,280
what I'm saying?
So.
897
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,720
And the other part about that is
even if they say, well, you
898
00:49:14,720 --> 00:49:17,640
know, he's shown some flash,
let's keep the running back in,
899
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,960
let's keep the tight end in.
And the next thing you know,
900
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,320
you're rushing for you dropping
7 on the back end and it's like
901
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,440
it's a seven on three-game
because you playing Max protect
902
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,680
because you're worried about
everybody up front.
903
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:34,880
It's like like, OK, y'all have
to do something different
904
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,040
because we got 7 people back
there.
905
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,480
Three people ain't gonna be able
to get uncovered quick.
906
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,320
So yeah, the other thing Coach
seemed pretty jacked about and
907
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:47,520
actually, and now that he said
it is the interior defensive
908
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:51,000
line, the way it's set up really
the next 3-4 years, you know,
909
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,960
people's this year.
Copeland and KG still got two
910
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,560
years of eligibility.
Here we go like that's a room
911
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,480
like I I know we were worried
about it now because of the
912
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,160
moves they made in every since
it's like.
913
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,040
You upgrade that, you upgrade
that line.
914
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:12,960
Upgraded it and hoveled it like
it ain't like it ain't like 3-1
915
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,240
year rentals right?
Yeah, because I mean, we, we, we
916
00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:18,440
got rid of guys like guys that
were moving on.
917
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,480
It was all three guys at one
time.
918
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,360
And what you brought in now you
got those staggered over the
919
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,800
next three cycles.
And I think that's going to be
920
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,640
huge and that's going to pay a
lot of dividends because it
921
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,360
helps backfill that position as
well.
922
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,800
When it comes to high school
recruiting, you don't have to
923
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,000
worry about, you know, I think
and that's the problem we got
924
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,000
with, I don't want to talk about
the old regime too much, but the
925
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,720
problem with the old regime a
lot of times was that we would
926
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:48,720
load up on one position in one
cycle and then we kind of do
927
00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:50,960
that again with another position
in the next cycle.
928
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:54,920
And that's that's when he end up
with, you know, wide receivers,
929
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,760
transfer wide receivers
transferring out in, you know,
930
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:02,040
12 scholarship running backs
like that, that that's how those
931
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,640
things happen.
And then it also is how, you
932
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:09,760
know, we needed, you know, a
COVID year and a couple medical
933
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:13,280
red shirts so that we actually
had a defensive line last year,
934
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,680
right.
And so, you know, things like
935
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,320
that are are how you get into
that situation and things that
936
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,280
Coach Pry and Coach Price have
done the last two off seasons is
937
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:31,480
how you get yourself out of it.
100% on that last piece that
938
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:36,720
again, I had not read anywhere.
If y'all had read somewhere or
939
00:51:36,720 --> 00:51:40,000
if it was out there and I just
missed it in the last few in the
940
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:45,680
last month or so.
Spencer, he's seeing as a
941
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:49,440
linebacker starting at star.
Might work at will, might work
942
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:53,360
at might.
I, I knew he was doing, he was
943
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,200
working in at linebacker some at
Miami.
944
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,040
Like you saw some ribs there up
and back.
945
00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:03,160
But I think everybody, I think
kind of assumed we were looking
946
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,320
at it as safety #1 because it
was a need #2 because coming out
947
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,200
of high school, that was his
position, right?
948
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:13,520
So, but I can, I can see where
he would do that.
949
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,640
And I can also see where if he's
playing that star, you could
950
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,400
also use him at potentially some
nickel as well and give
951
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,360
yourself, you know, a situation
where you don't necessarily have
952
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:27,080
to do a ton of substitutions
when you get into those third
953
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,600
down situations.
Yeah.
954
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:36,240
True mini what, 6 to 200 pounds,
210 lbs so mean good size, good
955
00:52:36,240 --> 00:52:40,840
frame.
But again, it goes right back to
956
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,680
competition because when you
look at that star position and
957
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:47,520
you look at the athletes that
they have that now, I mean, you
958
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:48,680
don't have to compete for a
plan.
959
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,360
You don't have to compete for
some playing time.
960
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,400
So that's what you want though,
you know what I'm saying?
961
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,920
Like you got to have that and
you got to have some versatility
962
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,280
in all these places because it's
football.
963
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,400
Somebody's going to have to take
a playoffs, somebody's going to
964
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,160
roll an ankle, you know what I'm
saying?
965
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:08,760
So as many as many athletes as
you can put on the team that can
966
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,320
help contribute the better.
Yeah.
967
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,120
And I think we had talked about
it when we had, you know, some
968
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:18,000
folks on after the spring that
you know, I think our concern
969
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,680
was, you know, I think front end
level.
970
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,600
You know, we were we were not
concerned about the front end
971
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,680
level play of the safeties.
We were concerned about the
972
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,600
depth when we locked.
We looked at some of the other
973
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,640
linebacker position,
particularly Will.
974
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:36,200
I think we were worried about
who's going to be, you know, one
975
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,760
of those rotational pieces.
So you know, this is going to, I
976
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,720
think help with that between him
being the star, potentially
977
00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:45,560
working at will some.
So that's when we're going to
978
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,920
add to that depth and add to the
guys that they can put out there
979
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,560
and and potentially be, you
know, counted on for significant
980
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:56,240
snaps in the game.
Well, it tells you 2 probably, I
981
00:53:56,240 --> 00:53:59,240
think maybe they what they saw
with Caleb Woodson and Gabe
982
00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:02,680
inside too, right?
Even though he mentioned he's
983
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:04,360
going to get some run at them at
Mike and Will.
984
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,680
But he there were two guys
playing star that those two
985
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,520
young guys we know Woodson can
play.
986
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:13,560
He showed it last year and by
all accounts of what we saw and
987
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:17,000
heard from practice, Gabe looked
good at * but he also went
988
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,000
inside and played some will.
So is this one of those things
989
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:25,960
where coach is looking, saying I
see Caleb and I see Gabe inside,
990
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,680
Chianti's gone next year.
I could see Caleb being Mike
991
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:35,880
before it's all said and done.
So that's I think that's where
992
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,280
it's kind of trending is that
you're going to kind of see
993
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:43,040
what's and continue to slide
further inside into that mic
994
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:44,120
role.
You're going to probably see
995
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:48,240
Gabe once he gets a little bit
more weight, be kind of be Kelly
996
00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:50,880
Lawson's kind of shadow.
And because he's got a very
997
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:56,400
similar frame, just a, you know,
not quite as as as long, but
998
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,760
very similar frame.
I think you can see him sliding
999
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,240
in at will and then, you know,
we'll see what happens with
1000
00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:05,320
Caleb Spencer and where he ends
up in the in the shuffle there.
1001
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:13,080
Absolutely anything else that
caught y'all ears, eyes while we
1002
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,080
were talking?
Because this is the second time
1003
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:21,320
we got with the coach and y'all,
we aren't prompting the answers.
1004
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,560
We we have the questions we want
to ask.
1005
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:25,480
He answers them the way we want
to answer them.
1006
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:30,960
But he he threw some shit down
like like, whoa, I again, I
1007
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:34,040
don't, he just told the three
guys.
1008
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,840
Yeah, well, I know what caught
my ear.
1009
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:37,680
What?
Was that?
1010
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:43,160
He going to send me one of them
motherfucking shirts out of my
1011
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:46,880
ear.
So, so when y'all send me one of
1012
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,160
them shirts on, I don't want
nobody to be in your feelings
1013
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,640
because I'm up in there.
I ain't talking about y'all.
1014
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,560
I'm just talking about in the in
the Twitterverse.
1015
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,400
Everybody out there in the
world.
1016
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,600
If you see me.
Entirely walking with one of
1017
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,720
them there's.
No, I'm part of the staff.
1018
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:06,040
I'm up in there.
Let me get one of them shirts,
1019
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,120
Coach.
Oh my gosh.
1020
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,040
We'll, we'll see if that comes
to fruition.
1021
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:11,760
He's got your mailing address
now, so.
1022
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,320
Yeah, I'm trying to get that
thing, man.
1023
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:15,960
Oh, that, that that would be
absolutely sick.
1024
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,720
Sick.
All right, well, we got just a
1025
00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:21,720
few more things to hit here
before we before we call it a
1026
00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:25,160
night in an early night for us,
by the way, an early night.
1027
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,720
But one thing I just wanted to
talk about real quick.
1028
00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:29,920
I know you all saw it announced
a couple weeks ago.
1029
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,560
Tyrod Dwayne Brown going to the
Hokie Hall of Fame, I mean.
1030
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,200
Well deserved.
Well deserved, those two guys,
1031
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:42,240
absolute studs.
You know, Dwayne, the first
1032
00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:46,800
round pick still playing 16
years in right here from
1033
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:51,960
Richmond and Tyrod, I mean,
three time champion in the ACC,
1034
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,680
the ACC player of the year, his
senior year.
1035
00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:00,720
It it, it, it just Harkins you
back to again, We we, we keep
1036
00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:05,760
saying like guys like that,
that's how you get back.
1037
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:08,400
That's how you get back.
You got to have guys like that.
1038
00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:12,200
And those guys were leaders.
Dwayne Brown came in as a tight
1039
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:16,800
end and converted, which I still
make the joke to Brian, which
1040
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,280
Kurt Newsom then thought he
could make every single pipe in.
1041
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,760
He brought in a offensive
lineman.
1042
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:27,200
It'd be like, what's this guy?
He's 62220.
1043
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,320
He got a game. 88 lbs need to be
thinking about it.
1044
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:34,160
We can do it.
Though some of them he got there
1045
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:35,720
though.
So I mean, I'm I'm not going,
1046
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,360
you know, I'm not going to give
him too much of a hard time.
1047
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,520
But like, like you said, man.
Dwayne Brown, Tyrod Taylor,
1048
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:46,400
absolute legends of that era, so
well deserved across the board
1049
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,480
for both of them.
And obviously both of them
1050
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,400
still, you know, productive in
the league.
1051
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,520
So I think that's that's a
credit to their longevity.
1052
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:58,920
And yeah, I think with with tie
Rod, obviously everybody knows
1053
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,720
how we feel about tie rod and I
know a lot of Hokey nation feels
1054
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:05,240
the same way.
Just a special talent, special
1055
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,120
person.
So couldn't happen to a better
1056
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:09,480
person.
Yeah.
1057
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,400
I'm going to tell you this, man,
I ain't going to get real.
1058
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,640
You know, I ain't going to get
real deep on it tonight because
1059
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:19,440
we ain't had a whole bunch of
banter on Twitter about it
1060
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:24,120
lately.
But when we talk about the the
1061
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:28,960
stars don't matter, do matter
scenario all the time.
1062
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:32,840
I'm going to tell you something
when you go back and you look at
1063
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,000
a tape or tie rod playing
quarterback.
1064
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:41,040
That's why you want a 5 star.
That's what that's what I ain't
1065
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:42,480
saying.
You got to get a whole team full
1066
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:47,520
of them.
But we got to, I think now that
1067
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,960
Pry and his his staff have been
recruiting pretty much at a high
1068
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:56,920
level from what I see.
You know, people's calm down a
1069
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:00,520
lot on what we said, but like we
was making everybody's got to be
1070
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,680
Cam Chancellor, Everybody's got
to be Dwayne Brown.
1071
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,040
You can have some Cams and you
can have some.
1072
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,120
Well, first of all, you can't.
You ain't going to have none of
1073
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:10,000
them like they were themselves,
you know what I'm saying?
1074
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:15,560
But I'm just saying you got to
get some players that's sure
1075
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,080
hits like Tyrod, you know what
I'm saying?
1076
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,520
And Tyrod doing Tyrod stuff is
what made that team go.
1077
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:25,280
Now they had a lot of pieces on
there, but every now and then
1078
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,280
you got to have that player that
you just like David Wilson, you
1079
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,440
know what I'm saying?
Like this is a can't miss like I
1080
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:33,800
did.
This is what we need.
1081
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:36,560
Like that's what we've missed
for a long time.
1082
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,240
And I was, I just thought about
it because I went back and seen
1083
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:42,960
some some tie rod highlights and
I'm like, who else?
1084
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:45,360
Who else could make that play?
Nobody.
1085
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:47,560
You know what I'm saying?
Who, who, who's going to make
1086
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,720
that so?
And he was.
1087
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,280
Always doing good like he was.
He was so good at protecting the
1088
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:57,080
balls and just making plays
while, you know, not, not not
1089
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:01,360
turning the over, not not doing
anything outside of the
1090
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,880
framework of what was right for
that given play.
1091
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,240
I think that was.
That was what was always great
1092
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:10,440
about him is that he never got
himself in trouble trying to be
1093
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,640
too much of A hero.
But he was just such a gamer.
1094
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:14,320
He was making plays all over the
place.
1095
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:17,040
Yeah.
And, and, and that's happening
1096
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,000
slowly.
I mean, I think last year to
1097
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,600
think about it like Caleb
Woodson, I know we've mentioned
1098
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,400
him 3 * 4 Times Now, Caleb,
because Caleb was right at that
1099
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:26,880
four-star level.
It's like he's going to be a
1100
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:28,640
good player.
He comes right in.
1101
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,880
He's looking good his first year
and then I take that back.
1102
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,320
He looked absolutely yoked on
the field.
1103
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,760
He won't even in school yet,
right?
1104
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:41,080
Then he comes in, he plays
significant reps, plays defense,
1105
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:45,040
plays special teams, make some
plays, and then he looks more
1106
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:48,360
yoked this year and he's playing
even at a higher level in a
1107
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:50,240
spring ball.
And that's what it is.
1108
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:52,880
You start looking at it Tally.
I know we don't always look at
1109
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,720
stars, but it's like, look at
that kid right at a four-star
1110
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,320
party playing good.
And the reason I said that is
1111
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:02,440
because we started to, you know,
when you start to look at the
1112
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:06,400
roster, you see some of those
high level kids, you know what
1113
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:10,080
I'm saying, coming in at wide
receiver or, you know, at
1114
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:14,240
quarterback, Like even when you
look at Kyron, like Kyron with
1115
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:16,160
no scrub.
That's why I keep telling people
1116
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:20,360
like, if you go back, Kyron was
a high level player coming out
1117
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,240
of high school.
And so us seeing him do the
1118
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:27,960
things he's doing is like, to
me, once you see somebody, you
1119
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:31,200
know, on film, you're like, all
right, this he just got it.
1120
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,520
Like that's what is what it is.
So yeah, they do get some of
1121
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,280
those ratings wrong.
But when you see somebody and
1122
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,760
they just got it, it's like, OK,
that's that's what we've been
1123
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:41,360
missing.
So and and you.
1124
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,880
And you mentioned that well what
happened just to I think it was
1125
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:48,280
a few weeks ago they came out
247 always does the blue chip
1126
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,800
thing.
Doug Bowen wrote it text over
1127
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,160
10% blue chips which.
That's crazy.
1128
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:57,840
Yeah.
That's crazy compared to what we
1129
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:01,440
came from the war criminal
Justin.
1130
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:05,120
Matter of fact, let's talk about
this for a minute.
1131
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,440
Where is Justin?
Where is Justin?
1132
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:11,160
Sid Sid with 10 Sid with eight
figures in his bank.
1133
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,000
He is.
Still spending his buyout man.
1134
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,520
So I don't know, man, they used
to, you know how they used to
1135
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:20,080
have on the old movies and stuff
where people were selling the
1136
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,680
snake, snake oil and like,
you'll go back to get your money
1137
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:25,960
back and they'll have like the
little cart that has the
1138
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:27,760
propellers on it that it'll take
off.
1139
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:32,000
That's what he did.
Like he, he took up shop and he
1140
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:33,960
was gone and nobody's heard from
him.
1141
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:38,320
I don't know, man, it was the,
it was the, you know what it was
1142
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,840
like the movie inside, man.
It was the greatest crime ever
1143
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:44,640
committed.
Damn that dude.
1144
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:49,160
Justin.
Justin Aloysius Fuente.
1145
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:54,760
Aloysius man and, and let's talk
about it though, because you,
1146
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:58,360
you talked about, you know, the,
you know, stars versus no stars
1147
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:01,400
and all this stuff.
And I feel like, I think we kind
1148
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,320
of went through, I say we
collect the, I feel like the
1149
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:06,800
collective fan base kind of went
through a period where we were
1150
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:11,600
like, I, I got to try to explain
what's going on here because
1151
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,680
something ain't right.
But the only thing I can do is
1152
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,760
hope that every damn three star
we're pulling in is Cam
1153
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:19,160
Chancellor.
Yeah.
1154
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:23,560
Well, the thing The thing is, is
like, you know what I'm saying?
1155
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:26,120
Yeah, a little bit of success
and stuff like that, and we
1156
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:27,240
ain't got to go all back through
it.
1157
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:31,000
But it's like for me, like it
was a learning lesson for me.
1158
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,080
So I'm paying attention to my
guys.
1159
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:38,680
That's like boots on the ground,
you know, now you got some crazy
1160
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:40,520
people that be talking some
crazy ass shit.
1161
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,120
But like people that I trust,
you know what I'm saying?
1162
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:45,080
Even during that time they was
like, you know, I got to give,
1163
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,280
you know, people like Don V
shout outs, you know, being, you
1164
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,680
know, from the area and say,
well, I got coaches here and
1165
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:53,760
this is what they saying.
And I'm like, man, this like
1166
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:55,880
some of the stores just was so
unbelievable.
1167
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:59,600
I was like, it's no way that he
said that or he done that.
1168
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:03,240
Yeah, he was doing it.
He was doing it so.
1169
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,520
Shake your damn head all right
real quick y'all.
1170
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:13,560
We did land a recruit this week,
Sheldon Robinson, 88, ranked
1171
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:21,840
A24762185 from Woodbury Forest
where we have never had any
1172
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,040
recruiting success.
So that's a, that's a UVA
1173
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,960
pipeline, baby.
Man, just going there, taking
1174
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,680
the lunch money.
I just want to let Tally know
1175
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,000
this is a big this is a big
check for Tally.
1176
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:36,280
Patton, Narduzzi and Pitt did
offer this safety.
1177
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,880
So that mean he that mean he can
play some fucking defense
1178
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:43,760
because Narduzzi be he'd be
grabbing them boys from
1179
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:47,840
everywhere and they'd be hitting
Narduzzi be running that
1180
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:49,280
defense.
I had to give him his prop man
1181
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:50,760
there.
You go see there, there's
1182
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:53,720
certain people, there's certain
teams that if we get an offer on
1183
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:57,560
with my two guys here, if I just
mentioned that offer, it's like,
1184
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,160
Nope, good.
I don't care.
1185
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:03,000
I like this right there.
What I like, what I liked about
1186
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:09,240
that, which I haven't done a
whole bunch of like video gazing
1187
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:11,840
or anything like that, but what
I did like about that kid is
1188
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:17,120
like he posted himself in hokey
stuff a long time ago.
1189
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,000
So again, it goes back to the
people.
1190
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,080
This boots on the ground that
says a lot of these kids love
1191
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:25,880
tech, man.
A lot of these kids want to, you
1192
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:29,880
know, go to Virginia Tech, but
they just weren't made as if
1193
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:32,000
they were wanted there.
You know, they just, they
1194
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:33,720
weren't made to feel like they
was wanted there.
1195
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:37,880
So it's good to see that the the
coaching staff has, you know,
1196
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:41,800
kind of put a priority on that
and, and started going and
1197
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:44,760
recruiting kids who who want to
play their regional kids.
1198
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:48,040
So that's awesome.
Did you get a chance to see any
1199
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,840
tape run?
I, I looked, I didn't really see
1200
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:53,960
a whole lot out there, but I'm
going to continue looking.
1201
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:56,720
But I I don't really have any
any takeaways at this point.
1202
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:01,760
Other than 6 to 190 lbs.
Yeah, the the all, all the
1203
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,760
measurables look good.
All the measurables look good.
1204
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:10,720
Kid ran some track as well and I
don't know what this means but
1205
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:18,440
sub 11 and 100 meter dash is
that good for a 6 foot 290 LB
1206
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:19,960
guy I mean.
That's pretty good.
1207
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:23,000
Yeah, that's pretty good.
We sub eleven yeah all right,
1208
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:25,720
let's 1097 so.
Let me.
1209
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:29,240
I mean short, short of, you
know, under 10 is elite, so.
1210
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:31,920
Yeah, I'm 10's elite.
Where's where's 11 for?
1211
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:33,600
Where's under 11 for a football
player?
1212
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,440
So yeah, anything else floating
y'all's boat?
1213
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:38,960
Y'all want to mention we already
got some stuff off Tally's chest
1214
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:41,640
so that that's good before he
gets down to the Caribbean and
1215
01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:44,960
starts having his drinks.
Yeah, man, yeah, Tally.
1216
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:47,880
What do you call it?
The the same they made for you?
1217
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:49,680
You sent it a few weeks ago to
us.
1218
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:51,560
Oh, shoot me.
Well, they just, they just was
1219
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:52,920
calling it the tally.
That was it.
1220
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,640
Tally.
Yup, I don't know what it was
1221
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:57,400
but I'm going to see if they can
recreate it.
1222
01:06:58,000 --> 01:06:58,760
Damn.
Right I'm.
1223
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,000
Going to come back I ain't man
listen I'm going I'm going to be
1224
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:03,960
out there like Rick Ross.
I ain't going to have no shirt
1225
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:06,480
on.
I'm going to be living the life
1226
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:11,120
buddy enjoying myself, so if we
get some recruits, y'all write
1227
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:15,280
them down somebody post blue
face for me I'll see it when I
1228
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:17,720
get back we.
Got you, We got you.
1229
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,400
We got you all right.
If nothing else has broken
1230
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:24,040
tonight, that is going to wrap
up this episode of the Boundary
1231
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:30,200
Corner Podcast brought to you by
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1232
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:35,080
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1233
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:37,320
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1234
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:42,000
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1235
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,960
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1236
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:47,080
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1237
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:51,480
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1238
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:53,080
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1239
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:58,800
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1240
01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:02,160
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1241
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:05,000
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1242
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,640
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Also all of his new music and
1243
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:13,920
all that fun stuff.
Boys, it's it's summer, we
1244
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:17,640
aren't as getting together as
often, but I love talking to you
1245
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:19,279
Tally.
Enjoy your vacay.
1246
01:08:19,399 --> 01:08:21,359
See you.
I'll see you next week, man.
1247
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:23,840
Yes, Sir, Poker.
Night you enjoy yours too, Ted,
1248
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:25,000
that Bucky's up when you go
there.
1249
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:28,080
Will do buddy.
And as always, fellas, let's go.
1250
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:39,880
Okie.
The.
00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:47,440
Music.
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Fellas, been a couple weeks.
9
00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,120
How's everybody doing tonight?
I'm doing glorious, man.
10
00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,240
I'm doing real good.
Had a good day.
11
00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,240
Got in the office today, got to
see some folks hang out a little
12
00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:28,240
bit, play a little little Mario
Party with the family tonight.
13
00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,760
So it's been a solid day.
Better than I deserve.
14
00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,520
That's what I always say, man.
I've been ripping and running
15
00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,880
with with baseball and we
actually have baseball and
16
00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,800
basketball going on right now,
but getting ready for a cruise
17
00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:46,080
so we are packing and cleaning
and doing all of that.
18
00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,440
So glad to be back though.
Absolutely.
19
00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,760
Tally, I'm with you.
We, we, we, we head on vacation
20
00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:59,120
next week for a few days.
I am like probably 2 days behind
21
00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:03,480
you as far as getting ready to
go.
22
00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,400
I mean me, me and Tally were
joking.
23
00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,960
We're joking just before we got
on here.
24
00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:13,600
It's like 15 bags of laundry
before we get out of the house.
25
00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,600
It's the honest truth, Brian.
You know you're going to go
26
00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,400
through the same thing in a few
weeks when you head to
27
00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,040
Gatlinburg.
It's coming up, man.
28
00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,840
It's coming up my pump man.
I, they, they Dominion sent me
29
00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,640
my my tickets today.
So I was printing out the
30
00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,600
tickets and getting all that
stuff ready to roll.
31
00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,240
So it's going to be a good time.
Oh, yeah, I got to go.
32
00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,960
I got to go ahead and address
the new, the, the hat that we
33
00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,480
got on tonight.
So there we go.
34
00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:38,680
Or anybody else.
My daughter graduated high
35
00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,720
school.
We didn't know if she was going
36
00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:42,360
to make it.
She did make it.
37
00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,200
Now I'm joking, but she's
getting ready to go to getting
38
00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:51,160
ready to go to college.
She is going to my alma mater.
39
00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,040
She'll be headed to Jacksonville
State.
40
00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:59,200
So her and my wife went down to
orientation and decided to get
41
00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,360
me a new Jacksonville State hat.
I kind of feel old because it
42
00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,800
says Jacksonville State dad.
I don't feel like I'm supposed
43
00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,880
to have a, a kid going to
college.
44
00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,120
You know what I'm saying?
I still feel like, feel like I'm
45
00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,480
young, like I feel like me and
Kevin's supposed to be partying
46
00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:20,640
in Nashville, in Crystal, but.
Hey man, you know sometimes you
47
00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:22,240
got to embrace it a little bit,
right?
48
00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,280
Like so.
Yeah.
49
00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:27,080
It's like one of those things
where I can't do it like I used
50
00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,840
to, but I can still, I can still
throw down when we when we need
51
00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:31,600
to.
OK, I like that.
52
00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:34,080
I'm alright with that.
Exactly.
53
00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,000
And, and you know, Nashville is,
you know, believe it or not,
54
00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,080
we're under 100 days before
Nashville happened.
55
00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:42,760
Try not to think about it.
Stop bringing it up.
56
00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,640
I mean, the summer flying
through right now it's it's it
57
00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:50,040
finally got hot, humid.
You go outside, I look out my
58
00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,480
window, I can still see a little
bit of daylight left.
59
00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,920
So it is that time of year and
you know, all sorts of fun
60
00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,160
stuff.
But hold on, I got hit this one.
61
00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,000
I don't know who this is.
I'm going to tell you.
62
00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,560
Some days I feel 25, some days I
feel.
63
00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,360
Don't tell me that.
Don't tell me that.
64
00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:10,440
I feel pretty good lately,
though.
65
00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,080
I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll give
myself that.
66
00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:13,640
I agreed.
I.
67
00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:18,760
Agree, I'm in my prime.
Don't say Brian that, because
68
00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,240
Brian is he, he's on the
precipice of a of a number in
69
00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,680
the next day, a few weeks here.
It's true.
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You you catch up for a few
months.
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I got, I got 18 days, man. 18
days well, it's also been a fun
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time for us because of what we
got to do yesterday and and for
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the second time we got to do it
it was an absolute blast so
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without further ado, we're going
to go ahead and roll the tape
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and we'll.
See y'all in a little bit.
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See y'all in a little bit.
Podcast listeners, it is our
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pleasure for the second time to
have Head Coach Brent Pride join
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us.
Coach Pry again?
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How?
Are you?
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I'm good, man.
I'm good.
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You guys stole me away from the
hustle and bustle of the the
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daily routine.
I got like a stack of papers
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just high on my desk.
So thank you.
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Always glad to switch it up for
you.
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Glad to do it.
Yeah.
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Definitely glad to have you back
coach.
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Same.
Well, coach, we know it has been
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just a little over a year since
we last talked, but we got a
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bunch of stuff we want to ask.
And again, we really appreciate
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you taking your time to speak
with us and Hockey Nation Today,
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and I'm going to start here.
So back in May, we got to clink
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a few drinks together, saw you
out at the Tailgate tour here in
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Richmond, at Hardywood.
And obviously you went up to
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Northern Virginia.
You've had chalk talks all over
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the state with high school
football coaches.
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We know next week you're heading
over to hotel.
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Is it, is it that Hotel Rolling
Oak next week, Big event there
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yet?
The women's clinic that's taking
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place in the offseason.
So the season ended, spring
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ended, you ain't stopped.
But how important is it to have
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these fan and donor engagement
events in the offseason?
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Then?
What's been your favorite so
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far?
Well, first of all, it's super
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important.
I mean, that is what Virginia
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Tech's about giving back, right?
This is a two way St. in my
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opinion.
We asked for this, the fans to
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support us.
We asked for the community to
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support us.
We asked for the coaches in this
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state to support us.
So in order to make that ask to
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me, we got to give back wherever
we can.
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And we know we had a four day
youth camp.
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We had our first annual women's
clinic.
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You know, we've got six or seven
high school camps.
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We've had countless chalk talks
across the Commonwealth.
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We always have an open door
policy for high school coaches
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in the area.
You know, it's it's awesome,
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it's rewarding.
And and that to me is right for
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Virginia Tech and it's
definitely right for Brent
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Pratt.
Your favorite one?
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Your favorite one?
I don't know, that's tough.
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I'm OK watching those first
through 5th graders run around
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and wear our staff out.
Nice, I said.
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Normally you get $20.00 an hour
for that.
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That's right.
That's.
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Right.
The only problem was we had 200
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of them.
Yeah, well, coach, we, we see a
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lot of videos of of you, you
guys and the staff, you know,
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preaching, you know, competition
and perfecting the little
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things.
But we also see you balancing
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out some fun on and off the
field.
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So my question to you is, who is
the ringleader on staff that
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kind of is involved in getting
those activities together?
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I'm going to tell you
everybody's got a pretty good
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sense of humor and everybody we
have a staff that understands
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balance is important and it and
it starts with me, to be quite
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honest, I can't be the head
coach I need to be if there's
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not some balance in my life.
I've seen too many guys trend
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downwards because it's all they
do, you know, it's, it's all
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they are.
And, and that's not the case
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around here.
We pour into this thing with
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everything we got.
But we take time, you know, for
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staff golf outings, for family
events.
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We do a lot together.
That's, you know, Blacksburg's a
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small community.
Nobody lives more than 1012
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minutes from one another.
So we get together and celebrate
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birthdays and anniversaries and
but yeah, we got some good one.
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I mean, Sean Quinn, he's our
staff foodie, so he's always
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thinking outside the box on what
we can do from a food standpoint
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or restaurant standpoint.
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We got a good group of guys that
that enjoy working together,
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enjoy being buddies.
It looks like y'all always out
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there having a good time.
I know y'all do some like late
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days from time to time and
things like that.
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So it looks like there's always
some something going on to kind
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of break up the monotony of the
work, right?
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And that that helps, that helps
with that competition piece too.
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Because like, if you can have
that balance, you can go a lot
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harder when it's time to work.
I don't know how you can be on
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your A game all the time if you
don't take time to decompress
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and and put your mind and
thoughts somewhere else.
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I don't know how you you
maintain a game like to be at
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your best for your players, for
the rest of the staff, because
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when you out of here for a day
right now, June, if we if we if
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we wanted to, it'd be really
easy to work every single day in
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the month of June.
So because you have camps and
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official visits all weekend, so
we take Wednesdays off.
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Nobody works on Wednesdays and
usually Tuesday about 3:00.
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Right now they're looking for
that message for me that says
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clear out of here, guys, you
know, just so that when we come
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back, I mean Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, we're good.
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You know we can be who we need
to be, love.
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Hearing that.
Yep.
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Yes, Sir.
Yeah, I'm, I'll, I'll pivot it
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this way because this is a
little, this kind of goes into
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some of the camaraderie stuff
and the coaches personalities.
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And I'm not sure if you've been
asked this by any other
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publication or podcast or
anything you've been on.
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Have you been gifted any Cheetah
adorned apparel by Coach Jones?
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Scary thing is, I think my wife
has.
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I know this.
We've gifted him some Cheetah
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apparel.
There we go, There we go.
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I'll also say this, there's not
one article of clothing in his
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wardrobe that doesn't contain
some type of cheetah print on
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it.
Just leave it as that.
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It's either outward or it's
lighting, right?
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It's somewhere in there.
It's he's got to represent.
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I like that.
We got a little bit of that
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cheetah, you know, love going on
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I mean everybody feels it a
little bit.
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So somebody will show up with a
cheetah socks on or cheetah
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shirt or you know, but when he
shows up in a three piece
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cheetah suit, that's when you
know.
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I know it's about to be a good
night.
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I mean, that's like, you know,
you're going to national
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championship.
Game nice, but coach we as fans,
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there's been a lot of uniform
talk and I I know you don't you
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you might not know a lot about
the program up there with you
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being the head man.
So I was just going to say if
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you did know anything about that
and you want to talk about that,
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we, we're, we're open to hear
anything about any uniform.
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The thing I would tell you is
this, you know, my roots, you
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know, when I was here, you know
what things looked like.
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Also know that I was at Penn
State for nine years and you
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know what those units look like.
And I think you have a sense of
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kind of what I'm about and what
I believe about this place.
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And, and you know, it, it's just
it it was time to kind of, you
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know, let's let's dive into it.
And, and it was a cool exercise
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to bring the former players on
staff into a meeting.
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And let's have a discussion
about what what we would would
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we like for the uniforms to look
like?
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What did you enjoy wearing?
What did you hate seeing on
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your, you know, like, honestly?
That's important too.
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Just as important as what you
like, what you don't like.
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Yeah.
And, and then the next meeting,
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the equipment staff and and the
OPS staff, they literally had
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all these PowerPoints with these
different combinations.
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Do you like this one?
Yeah, we like the top, not the
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bottom.
Not OK then.
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And they mixed and matched it.
OK, So you like, well, no, we
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don't like that Shoot.
I mean, it was like I was with
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my wife, you know, out at the
mall.
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I mean, but we finally got to a
pretty good place and well,
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it'll be exciting for everybody,
I think when we when we roll
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those out.
Tally coach, I think Tally's
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going to request.
Can we get that PowerPoint at
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some point so we can see all the
combinations y'all had in mind?
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I'm going to go this is kind of
leading into the spring ball
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conversation.
We'll get him back in here in a
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second.
But I I was thinking about the
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offense and this year.
What unit had your attention the
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most going into spring and why
you?
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Know, I think obviously the
quarterback position, just you
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know, how we evolved there.
I think needing the O line to
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improve as the year went on and
and feeling good about that.
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You know, there's a lot of
tension on those guys.
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We were excited about the
receivers and that kind of
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proved true for us.
You know, we felt pretty good
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about the group because year
previous, you know, it was one
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of the major concerns we had.
So I think being able on the
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defensive side of the ball to
win more one-on-one battles.
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We had to do that.
That was a a real focus going
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into the season.
Are we going to be better, you
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know, up front at doing that?
And and you know, I say up front
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and really the front 7, as much
as we pressure it's it's one you
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know, you can create one on
ones, but then you got to win
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them.
You know, you got to win enough
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of them to to make it count.
So.
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Yeah, I know when we had coach
Price on earlier in the
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offseason, he was like, you
know, as as coach Barr was
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getting to the the defensive
call, he's like, I want, I want
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to run man.
Let's run man.
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I want to get after the
quarterback.
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I want to be disruptive.
And looks like, you know, you
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guys kind of started moving that
direction as as 23 went on.
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So it's it's good to hear that,
you know, with retooling some of
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the interior defensive line,
that kind of that mode is still
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moving forward.
And as you said last last time
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you were on, you know, that the
emphasis was wide receiver.
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And seeing that come to
fruition, I know was kind of big
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for you and I'm sure kind of
made you feel good about about
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the direction that you took last
offseason and then you know, the
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game plan for this offseason.
Yeah, absolutely.
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I mean, I'm very proud of the
work that Coach Minds has done.
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I think, you know, it's good and
bad, right?
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I'm proud of it.
But then that gets all this
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attention from these other
Staffs around the country, guys
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trying to hire him.
But he's done a great job not
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just developing in that room,
but do recruitment at the high
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school level and the transfer
portal, you know, So really
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we're hitting on all cylinders
right there and it shows.
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It's the most competitive room
we have on the football team.
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Love hearing that telly you got
back man.
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Hey, can y'all hear me?
I'm still freezing a little bit.
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We can hear you now.
Go with that question you had
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before we before you got locked
out.
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Yeah, so I was going to ask.
I said we've been talking about
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clothes for a few minutes there
and we ain't want to harp on it
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too much, but we do want to know
how can we get our hands on that
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hunger, That hunger drills
T-shirt.
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You got that three seven
question mark shirt.
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How do we get our hands on that
coach?
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You like that one?
Yeah, I like that one, man.
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I like that one.
That's a great one.
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Imagine standing in line and
that's all you see from
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everybody in front of you, you
know?
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That I'm just saying if y'all
put that out, let's.
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Make a little money on that one.
What size are you?
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Talking about a 3X.
All right, you got a 4X coming
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your way.
You the man, don't send Brown or
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Curtis one.
They don't deserve it.
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It was that when when when y'all
showed those shirts back in
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February, it was like you said,
I like that thing because y'all
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line them up.
Where do we want the question to
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be?
What do we want the question to
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be?
And let me ask this because you
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talked a little bit about that
defensive side.
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Well, you lost a lot of good
veteran players last year,
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Norrell Pollard, Mario
Kendricks, but you know, you
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went back in to the portal, you
and your staff.
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Because I know it's not just
you, it's everybody and Aeneas
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peoples, Copeland and Gilliam.
I mean, are those guys, did they
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just fit in like hand in glove
when they first came in?
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Yeah.
And it, you know, it's a credit
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to the obviously the staff and
our efforts in the recruitment
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learning a lot.
We knew a ton about Aeneas, a
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ton about Kelvin, a ton about
Kumari.
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Just made too much sense and you
can never have enough depth on
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the D line.
You can never have enough depth
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to D tackle.
And you know, to lose 3 good
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players there that were
experienced and gave us a lot of
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value last year to be able to go
out and get 3 great job, you
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know, by the staff and great job
by those kids, you know,
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recognizing what they can, how
they can impact our program.
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And then, you know, then dicing
on the cake, you go get Curtis
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Perry, who's a swing guy,
placing strong side in placing 3
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technique.
He's got three years left.
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You know, you're just in a good
shape situation.
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Kamari Copeland has two years,
Kelvin Gilliam has two years.
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You know, Aeneas was all ACC
last year.
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So we've we've helped ourselves
there.
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You're always trying improve,
right?
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You always want to be better
than you were.
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And we had a pretty good group
in there that did some good
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things and we have a chance to
have upgraded at that spot,
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which is tough to say with the
way Pollard and and Rio and
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those guys played.
Yeah, that I mean, it's really
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impressive looking at at what
you guys are do able to do with
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that position in the offseason.
I mean, and the way you talked
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about it, the way they're kind
of staggered, you know, you got,
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you got Aeneas, who's all ACC
got, you know, kind of a, a good
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one year left for you.
And then you got the other guys
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that are kind of staggered there
that can give you 2 to three
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good years in the program.
So that that's important too.
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And yeah, I think, you know,
when you think about this
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offseason, a lot of it's kind of
been about managing the hype
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that's kind of behind the
program, right?
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Because the, you know, last year
it was about, you know, building
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it back.
You know, we we were trying to
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build something and now it's
about kind of managing hype.
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What's been your approach to
keeping the team hungry and kind
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of recalibrating their focus for
bigger goals in 2024?
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First of all, we have plenty of
weaknesses, you know, and, and
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we work like hell to identify
them to to improve on them.
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Not that we don't want to build
on strengths.
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We do that as well.
But you know that we had a lot
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of noise when we were one and
three, a lot of chatter and we
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had to talk about how it doesn't
mean anything.
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We know the team we can be and
and so that doesn't change good
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noise, bad noise.
You know, it, it doesn't, it
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doesn't impact who we are, what
we need to do.
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You know, we're just into the
third phase of our offseason.
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We we phase one's the winter
phase Two's the spring phase
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three's the summer phase four's
pre season camp.
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So we still have a ton of work
in front of us that we have to
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come out on top of to be the
team that we can be.
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Yeah.
Definitely, definitely.
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And coach, I'll, I'll pivot a
little bit to this.
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We've had Kyron on and we've had
you on great kid.
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You know Noah's family as well.
And I know you've talked about
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him, you had to talk about him a
lot.
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But the question I'll ask you is
what part of his growth from
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last year when, when you got him
are you excited about now you?
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Know he's really he's gained a
tremendous amount of confidence,
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rightfully so.
And I think that the respect
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level on this team is really
high for Kyron, the way he
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works, the way he approaches
games, the way he handles
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adversity.
And then lastly, from a skill
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set, just the ability to to
throw into tight coverage and,
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and, and be able to put that
ball where our guys can catch it
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and they can't.
You know, when it's a tight
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window or or there's good man
coverage and he's improved a
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bunch and that accuracy piece,
so very proud of the offseason
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he's had.
Yeah, yeah.
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And I'm going to switch gears
just a little bit because I'm
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actually stealing somebody
else's question, I believe.
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But I know you got Curtis Perry
that's coming in there with me
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being an Alabama, Alabama native
and him being an Alabama kid.
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No tongue about him, man.
He comes from a a great high
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school and their run that they
had in high school, I think they
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went 1415 and O and he may have
ended his senior year with about
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23 sacks, which was ridiculous.
So again, new ton about him.
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So just was going to ask you a
little bit about kind of how
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that came about or how you feel
about him being able to pull him
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into that defensive line room.
Yeah, First of all, I have a lot
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of relationships in Alabama for
a variety of reasons.
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Ton of high school coaches
recruited down there a bunch
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when I was at Louisiana
Lafayette, when I was at
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Memphis, when I was at
Vanderbilt, when I was at Penn
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State as the DC.
And we won the Big 10 and had a
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stellar unit. 3 starters on our
defense were from the state of
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Alabama.
So we knew a lot about KP.
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And you put that high school
film on and it's easy to see how
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we ended up in Alabama.
He's explosive.
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He's hard to block.
He's got a ton of twitch, you
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know, so and then then what's
the challenge to get to know him
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and to get to know his mom and
to feel better about him fitting
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our locker room.
And now we weren't sure all the
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way through the weekend till the
end.
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You know, I love asking him
those tough questions.
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Tell me about your relationship
with Coach Saban.
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You know, tell me, tell me why
you leaving?
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Tell me, tell me about the D
line Coach what?
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What are some things that you
got to do better?
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Let me ask you this, KP, how are
you going to handle walking in a
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brand new locker room as a
transfer when you first walk in
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that D line room?
Like how are you going to handle
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that?
You know, are you going to be,
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you know, cocky and arrogant?
Are you going to be, you know,
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have humility?
Like what's it going to look?
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You know, you just get into all
that with those guys to make
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sure they understand because
they could be really talented
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man, but they don't handle that
transition and we got great kids
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instead of guys like Fuga and
these guys Kanay stiff arming
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these guys because they coming
in to compete for their job.
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You know, they embrace them.
It it makes our room better,
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their talent and then the level
of competition.
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You know, everybody around here
has done a great job of putting
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the team first.
That's awesome.
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That is awesome to hear, Coach.
It's awesome to hear that you
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have you've created that culture
where it's embracing.
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It's not I don't want you here.
It's we need you here and we're
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going to be honest.
We saw, you know, you see
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reports out everywhere, but it
seems like you and the staff
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went very aggressive post spring
portal with all the offers.
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When do y'all start formulating
that and how far ahead?
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Is it in the window or is it one
of those things it never stops?
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Yeah, I say this.
I mean, we're going to be
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aggressive because at the same
time we're hitting that portal
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hard with offers.
I'm meeting with each and every
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member of our football team and
you just don't know what
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curveballs you're going to have
to hit.
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Was somebody that we're counting
on going to walk in and leave
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and take more money somewhere
else?
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You just, it was somebody going
to leave, you know, because they
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want to play more, they want to
be a starter, but they're a very
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important backup for us.
So, you know, you have to be
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aggressive to be able to fill
needs if they show up.
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So we're we're going to be
aggressive with offers.
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But we also knew, and we didn't
have many spots unless attrition
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occurred, it wasn't expected,
which that didn't really happen.
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So that's why there was only
the, the, you know, the three
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late ads.
Let me ask this, just thinking
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about the, the, the spring
window of the portal, how much
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harder is that window to kind of
identify targets and make sure
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that, you know, the guys that
are on your roster, you know,
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stay, stay at home versus that
bowl season window where it's a
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little bit little bit wider and
you know, it's post season.
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So there's a little bit more, I
don't want to say more to pick
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from, but I guess more options
out there.
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Yeah, there is.
I mean, it's, you know, there's,
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it's a little bit harder to
navigate in December because
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there's so many candidates.
You know, the other piece for me
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is you just have to be that much
more careful when you're dealing
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with guys that don't get to
participate in spring practice.
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That's that's key when these
guys have to be able to come in
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and learn it through the summer
without pads on, you know, but
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you know, and, and there's
always decisions about hanging
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on to a scholarship and is there
a walk on on your team that's
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deserving, you know, versus
going out.
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We don't want to be a group that
that just takes a good, you
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know, player out of the portal
because he's he's a good player.
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We want to feel needs out of the
portal.
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Otherwise, those scholarships
are invested at the high school
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level.
That makes sense.
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And I, and I love hearing that
and you're thinking about, you
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know, you're, you're always big
on relationships.
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I'm sure that's that's just the
biggest, biggest piece of it is
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making sure the fifth fits right
and that you know, that
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relationship is there where you
know everyone is going to get
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out of the the situation what
they want to get out of it.
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So I, I don't ever take for
granted what our players have
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been able to do.
I mean, we have guys, we all
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those guys return all that
retention, guys that could have
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gone in the NFL or gone
somewhere else and made more
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money.
And I don't want to take that
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for granted.
I don't want to be greedy.
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I don't want to push the
envelope to where we lose that
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from our team right now.
Our guys have been super
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unselfish and team oriented.
And if you start making, you
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know, kind of irrational
decisions and, and, and you
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start bringing in guys that
don't belong in your locker
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room, you're going to lose that
trust.
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You know you're going to lose
that aspect of it.
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Yeah, we're building that
culture.
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There's been guys that have
spent time here on official
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visits and at the end of the
visit, as talented as they were,
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we couldn't do it.
You know, it just wasn't right
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for us.
Yeah, I mean, you know, culture
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goes both ways and you know,
you're building that that trust
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in the locker room too.
So being able to maintain that
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while you're also trying to
improve your roster, I'm sure
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that's a that's a tough
balancing act sometimes, but it
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seems like you're you're doing
pretty well thus far.
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Let's pivot a little bit to
another guy that that is kind of
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a new ad here for the spring
post spring Caleb Spencer,
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Virginia Kidd returns from
Miami.
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You had 100 snaps or so last
year, valuable special teams
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reps and things like that and
seems to be bringing that
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position versatility that you
talked about from a from the
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defensive back position.
Have you and Coach Marv kind of
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landed on what room he's going
to start at in fall camp?
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Yeah, he's going to start out
with at the star position, but
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he's demonstrated already.
I I think he'll have, you know,
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a good opportunity to help us,
you know, at will and maybe one
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day at Mike.
He's a he's a physical looking
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kid.
He's got some twitch to him.
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Got a good build.
I mean, he just, you know, you
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know, and again, another guy
that we knew a lot about, right,
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a Richmond native that had gone
somewhere just like CGI.
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Hope the message getting is
getting out there.
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You don't have to go outside the
state, you know, to get what you
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00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,240
want.
I mean, these guys are coming
513
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,960
back home just like APR did.
You know, you go off to a a
514
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,560
program that perception wise may
offer you more, but you end up
515
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,760
finding success back here in the
Commonwealth of Virginia Tech.
516
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,920
And, and that can be, you know,
it's APR, it can be KG, it can
517
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,680
be, you know, all these guys
will be Caleb Spencer.
518
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,280
These guys have been able to
come back and have success.
519
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,600
Yeah, that's that's.
That's something I can see you
520
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,760
continue to preach.
And it also shows relationships
521
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,560
because you clearly, even though
they're elsewhere, I can tell
522
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,680
your value in relationships with
people that mean something to
523
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,480
them, which makes I'm sure the
transition significantly easier.
524
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,680
And you had one more, and we
don't think about it, but Colin
525
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,240
Shealey, who was all the way
over at UCLA, he's actually a
526
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,160
Maryland kid, right in Tyler
Bowen's home state.
527
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,080
How big was it?
Not only was their relationship
528
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,480
with Tyler or maybe when he was
at Kent State and how crucial is
529
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,160
it that helped bring him on, but
how crucial is it having another
530
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,160
quarterback in that room?
You know, Collins, a starter at
531
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,760
Kent State and had significant
reps as a backup last year.
532
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:29,760
How big is that for that room?
Yeah, he he fits what we were
533
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,320
looking for.
I mean, we hit a home run.
534
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,800
When you're going out there
trying to find a backup
535
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,920
quarterback and you can sign a
guy like that, you know, he fits
536
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,640
our offense.
He's a, he's a great young man.
537
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,440
He's 23 years old.
He's regional.
538
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,720
He knows a ton about us.
We knew a ton about him in high
539
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,560
school.
We had coaches on staff at Kent
540
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,760
State.
We had coaches on staff at UCLA,
541
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,080
you know, spent a a big long
weekend with him and his family
542
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,680
and his girlfriend and really a
good fit for us.
543
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,400
Excited about what he brings to
the program.
544
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,640
There'll be a package for him
that helps our offense.
545
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,760
It's it's somebody else that can
do things with the ball in their
546
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:16,920
hands.
Got got to love to hear that and
547
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,200
and also it's you guys like I
feel like the whole staff
548
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,360
there's y'all know somebody on
every staff and again, it's that
549
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,160
constant.
That's what it is relationships,
550
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,920
finding someone who knows and to
have that quick conversation.
551
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,000
I love hearing that.
I tell you what I mean, you're
552
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,240
right.
And part of it is that our staff
553
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,600
is approachable and genuine and
friendly.
554
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,840
That's what was right for me.
That's what was right for
555
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,520
Virginia Tech.
And that, you know, that bleeds
556
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:47,920
out there.
I mean, these guys are
557
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,360
relational guys.
They got buddies everywhere.
558
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:52,960
Yeah.
And I mean, we've, we've, yeah,
559
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,440
we've had some of the staff on
obviously you last year and some
560
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,080
of the other guys.
And that's the take away that I
561
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,840
have from every conversation
I've had with your staff is that
562
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,480
they're genuine.
They're people, people.
563
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,160
They, they, they love to talk,
they love to get to know folks.
564
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,200
And they're just really
approachable and down to earth.
565
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,040
And I think that resonates
across the board.
566
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,200
Resonated at Hardywood with me
and Brian.
567
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:19,680
You know, we talked to you a
couple minutes.
568
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,720
We spent 15 minutes talked in
the coach Brewer and coach just
569
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,280
chit chatting with them.
It was it it it felt easy.
570
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:31,680
So I loved hearing that, yeah.
You know, I, I appreciate you
571
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,760
saying that, Brian, that I mean,
that's, that's who we are.
572
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,320
And that's been really impactful
into the relationships with
573
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,400
these players, with this
community, with the Letterman,
574
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,840
with the high school coaches.
It's been at the core of of how
575
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,960
we're doing this.
Yeah.
576
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000
And, and, and it's definitely,
you know, I think it's paying
577
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,000
dividends and, and I think
everybody sees it so well done.
578
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,200
Yes, Sir, we're going to we're.
Going to, we're going to flip it
579
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,520
back a little bit.
Let's talk a little 2023 and
580
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,400
this is actually a, a question
that our, our buddy Sheldon kind
581
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,760
of dropped in here.
You wanted, wanted to get your,
582
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,320
your take on this.
You know, a lot was made and you
583
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,240
already brought it up a little
bit with the start with one and
584
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,360
three.
From the outside, everybody
585
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,480
seemed like guys were, you know,
even when the, the first few
586
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,040
games, the losses came, no one
was finger pointing, no
587
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,440
infighting, none of that.
Everyone had their heads on
588
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:23,960
straight and kind of worked to
get better.
589
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,800
Did you notice that too?
And how do you feel the group
590
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,080
responded collectively to that
adversity?
591
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,440
Yeah, I tell you, it brought
their brotherhood even closer
592
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,840
together.
You know, rather than go this
593
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:40,720
way and and start blaming one
another, they they did this and
594
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,800
that was critical.
When I was getting over the
595
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:47,120
hump, they stayed together.
They kept investing, you know,
596
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,920
we did a nice job of, of
encouraging them, showing the
597
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,560
positives, talking about the
positives.
598
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:58,000
This is the team we can be and
we eliminate a few weaknesses, a
599
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,520
few mistakes here and there and,
and this is going to look
600
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,840
different.
And they just bought in and the
601
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,040
staff persevered and stayed,
stayed the course and trusted
602
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,880
the process.
And, you know, we were able to
603
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,880
turn the corner.
How do you feel?
604
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,679
You feel like that's a
reflection of the culture that
605
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:15,239
you that you built with the
staff?
606
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:20,360
Or is that just something that
you with the the mindset of the
607
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,040
this these players and those
specific unit that that you're
608
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,639
working?
With I, I think it starts with
609
00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:27,520
the staff.
You know, it's it's, it's what
610
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,880
these guys are made of.
It's what they believe in.
611
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,159
I can't be in every room all the
time.
612
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:37,679
I mean, these guys are trusted
assistants that carry forth with
613
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:41,239
the messaging and the narrative
and the values of the program,
614
00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,560
you know, and, and it goes back
to recruiting the right
615
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:51,000
families, the right young men
that are looking for this.
616
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,000
They want accountability that
you know, that they want, they
617
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,920
understand hard conversations,
they want mentality.
618
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,720
They want, you know, the
competitive environment, you
619
00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:04,880
know all those things.
Well, that's a big part of it,
620
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,600
right?
It's identifying the right folks
621
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,240
for you.
Well, well, coach, we know
622
00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:12,320
Travis jumped in there.
We know you're a busy.
623
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,320
Man, and you edit that out or is
that going to be part of the
624
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:16,920
podcast?
Tell Travis he's going to be
625
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,800
part of the podcast.
Travis just trying to get some
626
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,120
airtime, years of all that
airtime, but now he's kind of
627
00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:25,840
scheme, he can't stand it.
I thought, you know, you got to
628
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,400
tell Travis we're going to keep
him in just because he's done,
629
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:29,800
he's done us so many good
favors.
630
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,360
So we're going to keep him in
there just so he gets that
631
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,320
FaceTime.
But, but coach, we, we, we know
632
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,440
you're a busy man.
We appreciate you taking, you
633
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,160
know, 30-40 minutes out of your
day to sit with us, have a few
634
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,720
conversations, Tally, Brian,
anything else you want to ask
635
00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,080
before we?
Let coach.
636
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:48,120
Yeah, I'm going to let Coach.
Yeah, I'm going to let Coach get
637
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:49,200
out of here.
I'm going to just say I know
638
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,440
he's got a bit of a homecoming
headed back to Nashville.
639
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,200
That's about two hours away from
my home, so I know you're going
640
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:57,800
to be all business.
So I'll take care of the
641
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,280
partying for you.
Y'all just get ready for the
642
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,440
game and I'll take care of
everything else Coach.
643
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,560
Yeah.
So you'll be there, Nashville.
644
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,920
Before so it's going, it's going
to be a good time in Nashville
645
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,320
for sure.
Definitely.
646
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,280
We appreciate you taking your
coverage.
647
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,000
Really, Sir, thank you.
That's what you do for.
648
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,520
The Hokies always Sir.
Thank you and looking forward to
649
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,200
talking to you again sometime.
Yes, Sir.
650
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:19,880
Awesome guys.
Thank you.
651
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,960
Thank you.
All right, So we will take a
652
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,800
quick break from Main Street
Pharmacy and our digital
653
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,960
partners.
I can probably save you a lot of
654
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,840
money and I can take a lot
better care of you.
655
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,240
That's pretty much it.
My name is Jeremy Counts and I'm
656
00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:38,440
a pharmacist.
I own and operate Main Street
657
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,960
Pharmacy here in downtown
Blacksburg.
658
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,600
My brother's a pharmacist, I'm a
pharmacist, my uncle's a
659
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:43,960
pharmacist, my dad's a
pharmacist.
660
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,120
I remember he would give me M
and Ms. to count in little pill
661
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:48,960
counters.
It's just something I've always
662
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,840
done and I'm just lucky that
what I know so well is something
663
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,360
that I can do and feel good
about it and get back to people.
664
00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:57,800
Pharmacies are your frontline
defense.
665
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,080
Pharmacy's job is to make sure
you're getting optimal care for
666
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,520
the lowest price possible.
Also, we take the pressure off
667
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,640
of emergency rooms.
I'll tell people immediately
668
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,440
when they need to go to the
doctor, or I'll tell them if
669
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,080
they just need a cream over the
counter.
670
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,040
If there's something that isn't
commercially available, if it's
671
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,760
something that's not available
in a certain strength or a
672
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,840
certain form or anything like
that, we'll make it.
673
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,200
Tailor made medications.
Some of those options save
674
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,120
people a lot of money.
What motivates me?
675
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,400
I get to take care of people and
live in Blacksburg.
676
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,240
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Now back to the episode.
All righty, so we are back and
684
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,920
before we talk about the
interview and a couple things
685
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,400
that caught our ears, I'm going
I want to throw this one up at
686
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,760
CJ put this out here.
This is this is pretty cool to
687
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,120
see about coach Pryor right here
when he retired from the
688
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:08,920
military sending something like
that.
689
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,520
I mean, we, we, we've, we've
talked to him now twice and that
690
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:19,040
legitimately seems, you know,
like who he is, right, as far as
691
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,200
it goes.
Again, we said it on the on the
692
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:23,720
interview, like genuine, down to
earth.
693
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,480
The whole staff's like that, but
it starts with the head whistle.
694
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,880
He's creating that culture and
it's trickling down to everybody
695
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,440
else.
And it's not just, you know,
696
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,960
them feeding off his energy, but
also he picked the right people
697
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,280
to be around too.
So I mean, that's that's huge.
698
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,080
And you know, we got a little
sentimental one there.
699
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,400
Let's get a little funny one
here.
700
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,560
Riley Oh man, right.
I already know what to say to
701
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:54,760
that.
I.
702
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,440
Mean that that is the highest
order right there.
703
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,680
I mean it, it doesn't get, I
mean he put Prince on there so
704
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,480
oh God, it's Prince and then
everybody else.
705
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,200
So, you know, if he's up there
in that category, that's saying
706
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,280
something.
Absolutely.
707
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:12,040
You ain't gonna throw MJ in now.
It's Prince, then MJ, and then
708
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:13,320
everybody else.
Like, how about that?
709
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:14,640
How about that?
How about this?
710
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,840
We didn't got Andretti fired up
tonight, man.
711
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,720
Are you ready for some football?
We're ready for some football
712
00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:28,320
8080 days or so and I'm going to
do this one just because that's
713
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,320
the first thing I want to talk
about because that one was a
714
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,640
late AD and we got more than I
thought we were going to get out
715
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:39,920
of coach on that one.
So now, now y'all heard it from
716
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,920
the head man of how this thing
was framed.
717
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,880
A we talked when this thing
wrapped yesterday, the first
718
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,080
thing we three said each other.
That was pretty cool.
719
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,080
He was bringing in the guys on
the staff who played there and
720
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:56,640
said what do y'all think that's
like again, that's it's like
721
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,040
like that's awesome.
Like that's the first thing you
722
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,960
do because you think back
currently on the staff right
723
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:09,760
now, JC Pearson, mid 90s guys,
then you got ADB, then you've
724
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,240
got.
ADB wore the, in my opinion, the
725
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:17,080
best uniforms we've ever had.
Find a picture of it.
726
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:18,320
You talking about the ones with
the?
727
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:20,960
With the piping.
With the piping, yeah.
728
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,760
So what are you tally?
We're going to I'm going to
729
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,120
pitch it to you is your
question.
730
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:27,840
What what do we, what do you
think we're getting, man?
731
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,960
It's.
Going to be a traditional look,
732
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,840
you know what I'm saying?
The only thing that makes me a
733
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,200
little bit nervous is because,
like you said, you know my
734
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,720
roots.
It's probably not going to be a
735
00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:40,600
lot of variants, you know what
I'm saying?
736
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,840
You may get a alternate jersey,
you may not, you know what I'm
737
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:45,880
saying?
That's what makes me a little
738
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,400
bit nervous.
But we got to get rid of them
739
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,240
shoulder stripes.
So I mean, if we go with a
740
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:53,640
traditional jersey and it looks
clean, it looks good.
741
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,280
I'm fine with that.
It's just got to look good.
742
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,400
Like if you're going to stick
with it, then you got to make it
743
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,840
look good.
So I think they got, I think
744
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,560
they'll get it right though.
Give me some orange in there
745
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,760
somewhere.
Yeah, we need an orange.
746
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,560
I, I want to, I want to, I know
we're going to get traditional,
747
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:12,480
but I want unique traditional.
I don't want like cookie cutter
748
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,040
Nike.
What at like main template stuff
749
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,240
that you've been seeing like,
you know, I know Baylor got like
750
00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:20,040
some of that stuff and a couple
other school.
751
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,600
Like I don't want the cookie
cutter type stuff.
752
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,840
I want something that is
definitely either distinctly
753
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:31,000
throwback or something new
that's kind of a combination of
754
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,800
some of those classic looks
we've had.
755
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,320
I don't want to just get a
cookie cutter like you know,
756
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,160
first tier Nike template and and
roll with it.
757
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,080
Well, it's, it doesn't seem like
it was that way, especially with
758
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,840
the PowerPoint.
I mean, and if they're sitting
759
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,280
there, what combinations work
well together?
760
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,920
I mean, there, there were
obviously we know in the last
761
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:52,880
few years there's been an
orange.
762
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,760
There was an orange and I
believe the 90s, I can't
763
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,840
remember which game it is, but
there was an orange in the 90s
764
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,000
as well.
So, but I, I do think the
765
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,080
stripes are gone.
And I and I and Tally, we said
766
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,200
it.
I don't know if we said it on
767
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:13,680
the air, but we said if you go
with this, the classic maroon, I
768
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,920
know we all like the one thing
that is good.
769
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,360
Now, I do like the hokey stone
numbering on the thing.
770
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,280
I like that.
But as long as Tally what we say
771
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,520
on the arms.
Baby yeah, if they if they put
772
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,160
the orange numbers on now on the
on the maroon jersey.
773
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,240
Taliban 10.
Taliban 10.
774
00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:33,200
Off.
I'll be all right with that, but
775
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,920
but I got no confidence in Nike.
That's my problem.
776
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,880
Brian talks about, you know, no
cookie cutter and stuff like
777
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,080
this and it's fucking Nike, you
know what I'm saying?
778
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,400
Like what have they done for us?
That's what I'm thinking about
779
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:50,880
so.
Ain't done much lately, man, I
780
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,840
thought I'll give you that one.
And you know, when we when we
781
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,960
think about it, we also saw last
week, I think it was last week
782
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:03,400
or early this week the Mike Vick
put out that might get some
783
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,280
orange on the sleeves.
Yeah, that'd be pretty cool.
784
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:07,480
That'd be pretty cool.
Well.
785
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,040
I I don't know if you meant the
numbers or if you meant like
786
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:14,960
kind of that that tie rod look
that he wore a few times and in.
787
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,320
The the only reason I think it'd
be cool is because I just ain't
788
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:18,400
seen it, you know what I'm
saying?
789
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,480
Like give me something I kind of
want something like nobody else
790
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,040
has, you know what I mean?
Like something just unique, not
791
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:26,880
nothing crazy.
Don't give me no Maryland
792
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,880
bullshit.
Like I don't need no flag on the
793
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,320
helmet looking like AFL team or
nothing like that.
794
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,840
I'm just saying give me
something unique.
795
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,880
Though I think, I think what we
can see is like you picture and
796
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,600
you start snapshotting stuff.
We have enough classic vibes
797
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,320
from different eras that if you
if you mesh them in a certain
798
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:50,560
way and you put like the the the
orange sleeves, But if you had
799
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,600
the outlining with the hokey
stone sevens with the right
800
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,080
shape, like you can bring
certain elements together where
801
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:01,360
and if they do, it would be it
looks classic, but it's got
802
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:05,320
enough fresh vibes to be like
like this hits like this hits.
803
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,960
It's it's not only it's it's
classic, but these little
804
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,800
elements make it like you say,
Tally.
805
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,360
It's got to be a little
different.
806
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:18,160
So hopefully this is before
August so tally can get his
807
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,560
order and be wearing it in
Nashville soaking brine as well.
808
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,760
So let let's roll along.
And you know, we got a few
809
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,480
things we that caught our ear
about the players.
810
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:32,160
And I want to start with Curtis
Perry first, because Tally, you
811
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,160
know, you, you and coach had a
little conversation about him
812
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,760
back and forth.
But the thing that caught my ear
813
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,080
and as soon as he said it, like
I'm like, what'd he say?
814
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,000
I had to go back and listen to a
second time.
815
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,400
When he mentioned strong side
defensive end.
816
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:52,720
He said that his words, not
mine, not me speculating, not us
817
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:56,240
speculating.
With the with the loss of CJ
818
00:44:56,240 --> 00:45:00,520
McCray for pretty much the
summer and probably a lot of
819
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:07,160
fall camp, to have somebody like
Perry stature tally you, you saw
820
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,600
that kid play.
Obviously you've got download on
821
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,760
him.
That could be a massive upgrade
822
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,880
for the defensive end depth man
because there's three good
823
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,920
players there already.
You had him.
824
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,320
That's what it is, man.
It's just all about depth, you
825
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:23,920
know what I'm saying?
It's about competition, it's
826
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,760
about depth.
What's always held us back.
827
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:31,120
One person goes down and you
it's a significant drop off
828
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,160
after that person goes down.
So it seems like now we're
829
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:38,120
bringing in people that are, you
know, depth pieces, but also
830
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,760
like these people could stand
up, you know, could step up and
831
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,440
play a a big role.
You know, like even even when we
832
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:49,480
go, you know, not to just jump
forward, but even when he we
833
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,480
talk about Spencer, you know,
he's had significant snaps at
834
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:54,560
Miami.
You know what I mean?
835
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,840
That's a power 5 school, power
four school, whatever you want
836
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,800
to call it nowadays.
But you know, seeing the field
837
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,320
at those schools or, or or even
going against, you know, that
838
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,400
kind of competition in practice
and being able to, you know,
839
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,640
have some kind of success.
Again, we see what APR done.
840
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,040
I ain't saying everybody's going
to come in and do exactly what
841
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,960
he did, but sometimes you just
need a shot, you know what I'm
842
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,440
saying?
So it'll be interesting, man.
843
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,960
I'm excited about it.
I'm excited to see the kids
844
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:28,120
compete this year.
But also I'm excited just to
845
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:33,880
for, I'm excited for somebody
just put up the game.
846
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,600
What's the game when it's coming
out the 19th?
847
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,120
Yeah.
We ready, Robbie.
848
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,600
Let's get on it.
Fuck yeah.
849
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,280
I think Robbie's making a
special purchase just for that
850
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:46,040
game.
So he.
851
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:47,840
Is he?
Is Ron?
852
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:49,920
What did you think about the
Curtis Perry comments from
853
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,680
coach?
Man, you know, I think the
854
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:59,160
biggest thing for me is that
he's always talking about, you
855
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:03,320
know, that position flexibility
and, you know, having a guy that
856
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,840
can play outside, play inside,
you know, play a little strong
857
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:12,080
side DN play some 3 technique,
always going to be a guy that
858
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,080
can get after the passer.
So I think, you know, regardless
859
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,040
of where you're lining them up,
you're going to get some type of
860
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,240
production, especially in those
second and third down
861
00:47:19,240 --> 00:47:22,480
situations.
So having another guy that you
862
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,040
can put in that rotation, you
know, you're going to want to
863
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:30,320
go, you know, at least 2 lines
deep, sometimes 3 lines deep.
864
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,720
The more you can kind of mix and
match guys at those different
865
00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:37,040
positions, the better.
So getting getting a guy that is
866
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:42,200
has some position flexibility
there and creates a lot more
867
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,120
depth like Tally said on the
defensive line, that that's
868
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:46,280
nothing but good things,
nothing.
869
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,000
But good things.
And the and the go back to the
870
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:53,280
to the defensive line too.
I mean, it's all about matchups.
871
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:57,520
Like it don't matter.
It does matter what you do this
872
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,760
year.
But I'm saying before any game
873
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:04,080
is played, every team's going to
put on the tape and say we got
874
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:08,680
to block him, We can't double.
We going to have to try to
875
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,400
double him.
So that gives somebody else an
876
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,040
opportunity to, you know, the
flash.
877
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,560
So sometimes it's it's a
collective unit, you know what
878
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,880
I'm saying?
Having somebody who has a big
879
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,920
year like APR, you got it.
That's what we've been missing.
880
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,880
We've been having, we haven't
had somebody who teams have to
881
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,080
game playing for, you know what
I'm saying?
882
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,080
Especially like on defensive
line.
883
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,840
Well, hold on, it's two down.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
884
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,000
So, yeah.
Well, so now you got more than
885
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,600
one.
So who do you double?
886
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,400
You know what I'm saying?
So some of these, yeah, some of
887
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,120
these guys who are going to be
plugged in are going to reap
888
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,360
some benefits because they just
may be faster or better than
889
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:50,960
that man in front of them.
And they don't have an
890
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,600
opportunity to be schemed
against because people's might
891
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,000
be getting schemed against.
So APR might be schemed against.
892
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,120
So it's just seeing Burgos come
off that end.
893
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,640
I don't know too many people who
are going just you know what I'm
894
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,160
saying, man, handle him
one-on-one.
895
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,640
You know, if if he's just told
just go get the ball, you know
896
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:10,280
what I'm saying?
So.
897
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,720
And the other part about that is
even if they say, well, you
898
00:49:14,720 --> 00:49:17,640
know, he's shown some flash,
let's keep the running back in,
899
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,960
let's keep the tight end in.
And the next thing you know,
900
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,320
you're rushing for you dropping
7 on the back end and it's like
901
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,440
it's a seven on three-game
because you playing Max protect
902
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,680
because you're worried about
everybody up front.
903
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:34,880
It's like like, OK, y'all have
to do something different
904
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,040
because we got 7 people back
there.
905
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,480
Three people ain't gonna be able
to get uncovered quick.
906
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,320
So yeah, the other thing Coach
seemed pretty jacked about and
907
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:47,520
actually, and now that he said
it is the interior defensive
908
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:51,000
line, the way it's set up really
the next 3-4 years, you know,
909
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,960
people's this year.
Copeland and KG still got two
910
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,560
years of eligibility.
Here we go like that's a room
911
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,480
like I I know we were worried
about it now because of the
912
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,160
moves they made in every since
it's like.
913
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,040
You upgrade that, you upgrade
that line.
914
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:12,960
Upgraded it and hoveled it like
it ain't like it ain't like 3-1
915
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,240
year rentals right?
Yeah, because I mean, we, we, we
916
00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:18,440
got rid of guys like guys that
were moving on.
917
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,480
It was all three guys at one
time.
918
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,360
And what you brought in now you
got those staggered over the
919
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,800
next three cycles.
And I think that's going to be
920
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,640
huge and that's going to pay a
lot of dividends because it
921
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,360
helps backfill that position as
well.
922
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,800
When it comes to high school
recruiting, you don't have to
923
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,000
worry about, you know, I think
and that's the problem we got
924
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,000
with, I don't want to talk about
the old regime too much, but the
925
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,720
problem with the old regime a
lot of times was that we would
926
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:48,720
load up on one position in one
cycle and then we kind of do
927
00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:50,960
that again with another position
in the next cycle.
928
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:54,920
And that's that's when he end up
with, you know, wide receivers,
929
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,760
transfer wide receivers
transferring out in, you know,
930
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:02,040
12 scholarship running backs
like that, that that's how those
931
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,640
things happen.
And then it also is how, you
932
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:09,760
know, we needed, you know, a
COVID year and a couple medical
933
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:13,280
red shirts so that we actually
had a defensive line last year,
934
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,680
right.
And so, you know, things like
935
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,320
that are are how you get into
that situation and things that
936
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,280
Coach Pry and Coach Price have
done the last two off seasons is
937
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:31,480
how you get yourself out of it.
100% on that last piece that
938
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:36,720
again, I had not read anywhere.
If y'all had read somewhere or
939
00:51:36,720 --> 00:51:40,000
if it was out there and I just
missed it in the last few in the
940
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:45,680
last month or so.
Spencer, he's seeing as a
941
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:49,440
linebacker starting at star.
Might work at will, might work
942
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:53,360
at might.
I, I knew he was doing, he was
943
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,200
working in at linebacker some at
Miami.
944
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,040
Like you saw some ribs there up
and back.
945
00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:03,160
But I think everybody, I think
kind of assumed we were looking
946
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,320
at it as safety #1 because it
was a need #2 because coming out
947
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,200
of high school, that was his
position, right?
948
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:13,520
So, but I can, I can see where
he would do that.
949
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,640
And I can also see where if he's
playing that star, you could
950
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,400
also use him at potentially some
nickel as well and give
951
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,360
yourself, you know, a situation
where you don't necessarily have
952
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:27,080
to do a ton of substitutions
when you get into those third
953
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,600
down situations.
Yeah.
954
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:36,240
True mini what, 6 to 200 pounds,
210 lbs so mean good size, good
955
00:52:36,240 --> 00:52:40,840
frame.
But again, it goes right back to
956
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,680
competition because when you
look at that star position and
957
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:47,520
you look at the athletes that
they have that now, I mean, you
958
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:48,680
don't have to compete for a
plan.
959
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,360
You don't have to compete for
some playing time.
960
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,400
So that's what you want though,
you know what I'm saying?
961
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,920
Like you got to have that and
you got to have some versatility
962
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,280
in all these places because it's
football.
963
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,400
Somebody's going to have to take
a playoffs, somebody's going to
964
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,160
roll an ankle, you know what I'm
saying?
965
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:08,760
So as many as many athletes as
you can put on the team that can
966
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,320
help contribute the better.
Yeah.
967
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,120
And I think we had talked about
it when we had, you know, some
968
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:18,000
folks on after the spring that
you know, I think our concern
969
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,680
was, you know, I think front end
level.
970
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,600
You know, we were we were not
concerned about the front end
971
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,680
level play of the safeties.
We were concerned about the
972
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,600
depth when we locked.
We looked at some of the other
973
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,640
linebacker position,
particularly Will.
974
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:36,200
I think we were worried about
who's going to be, you know, one
975
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,760
of those rotational pieces.
So you know, this is going to, I
976
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,720
think help with that between him
being the star, potentially
977
00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:45,560
working at will some.
So that's when we're going to
978
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,920
add to that depth and add to the
guys that they can put out there
979
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,560
and and potentially be, you
know, counted on for significant
980
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:56,240
snaps in the game.
Well, it tells you 2 probably, I
981
00:53:56,240 --> 00:53:59,240
think maybe they what they saw
with Caleb Woodson and Gabe
982
00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:02,680
inside too, right?
Even though he mentioned he's
983
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:04,360
going to get some run at them at
Mike and Will.
984
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,680
But he there were two guys
playing star that those two
985
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,520
young guys we know Woodson can
play.
986
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:13,560
He showed it last year and by
all accounts of what we saw and
987
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:17,000
heard from practice, Gabe looked
good at * but he also went
988
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,000
inside and played some will.
So is this one of those things
989
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:25,960
where coach is looking, saying I
see Caleb and I see Gabe inside,
990
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,680
Chianti's gone next year.
I could see Caleb being Mike
991
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:35,880
before it's all said and done.
So that's I think that's where
992
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,280
it's kind of trending is that
you're going to kind of see
993
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:43,040
what's and continue to slide
further inside into that mic
994
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:44,120
role.
You're going to probably see
995
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:48,240
Gabe once he gets a little bit
more weight, be kind of be Kelly
996
00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:50,880
Lawson's kind of shadow.
And because he's got a very
997
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:56,400
similar frame, just a, you know,
not quite as as as long, but
998
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,760
very similar frame.
I think you can see him sliding
999
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,240
in at will and then, you know,
we'll see what happens with
1000
00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:05,320
Caleb Spencer and where he ends
up in the in the shuffle there.
1001
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:13,080
Absolutely anything else that
caught y'all ears, eyes while we
1002
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,080
were talking?
Because this is the second time
1003
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:21,320
we got with the coach and y'all,
we aren't prompting the answers.
1004
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,560
We we have the questions we want
to ask.
1005
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:25,480
He answers them the way we want
to answer them.
1006
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:30,960
But he he threw some shit down
like like, whoa, I again, I
1007
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:34,040
don't, he just told the three
guys.
1008
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,840
Yeah, well, I know what caught
my ear.
1009
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:37,680
What?
Was that?
1010
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:43,160
He going to send me one of them
motherfucking shirts out of my
1011
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:46,880
ear.
So, so when y'all send me one of
1012
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,160
them shirts on, I don't want
nobody to be in your feelings
1013
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,640
because I'm up in there.
I ain't talking about y'all.
1014
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,560
I'm just talking about in the in
the Twitterverse.
1015
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,400
Everybody out there in the
world.
1016
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,600
If you see me.
Entirely walking with one of
1017
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,720
them there's.
No, I'm part of the staff.
1018
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:06,040
I'm up in there.
Let me get one of them shirts,
1019
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,120
Coach.
Oh my gosh.
1020
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,040
We'll, we'll see if that comes
to fruition.
1021
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:11,760
He's got your mailing address
now, so.
1022
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,320
Yeah, I'm trying to get that
thing, man.
1023
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:15,960
Oh, that, that that would be
absolutely sick.
1024
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,720
Sick.
All right, well, we got just a
1025
00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:21,720
few more things to hit here
before we before we call it a
1026
00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:25,160
night in an early night for us,
by the way, an early night.
1027
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,720
But one thing I just wanted to
talk about real quick.
1028
00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:29,920
I know you all saw it announced
a couple weeks ago.
1029
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,560
Tyrod Dwayne Brown going to the
Hokie Hall of Fame, I mean.
1030
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,200
Well deserved.
Well deserved, those two guys,
1031
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:42,240
absolute studs.
You know, Dwayne, the first
1032
00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:46,800
round pick still playing 16
years in right here from
1033
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:51,960
Richmond and Tyrod, I mean,
three time champion in the ACC,
1034
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,680
the ACC player of the year, his
senior year.
1035
00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:00,720
It it, it, it just Harkins you
back to again, We we, we keep
1036
00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:05,760
saying like guys like that,
that's how you get back.
1037
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:08,400
That's how you get back.
You got to have guys like that.
1038
00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:12,200
And those guys were leaders.
Dwayne Brown came in as a tight
1039
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:16,800
end and converted, which I still
make the joke to Brian, which
1040
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,280
Kurt Newsom then thought he
could make every single pipe in.
1041
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,760
He brought in a offensive
lineman.
1042
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:27,200
It'd be like, what's this guy?
He's 62220.
1043
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,320
He got a game. 88 lbs need to be
thinking about it.
1044
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:34,160
We can do it.
Though some of them he got there
1045
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:35,720
though.
So I mean, I'm I'm not going,
1046
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,360
you know, I'm not going to give
him too much of a hard time.
1047
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,520
But like, like you said, man.
Dwayne Brown, Tyrod Taylor,
1048
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:46,400
absolute legends of that era, so
well deserved across the board
1049
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,480
for both of them.
And obviously both of them
1050
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,400
still, you know, productive in
the league.
1051
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,520
So I think that's that's a
credit to their longevity.
1052
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:58,920
And yeah, I think with with tie
Rod, obviously everybody knows
1053
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,720
how we feel about tie rod and I
know a lot of Hokey nation feels
1054
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:05,240
the same way.
Just a special talent, special
1055
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,120
person.
So couldn't happen to a better
1056
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:09,480
person.
Yeah.
1057
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,400
I'm going to tell you this, man,
I ain't going to get real.
1058
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,640
You know, I ain't going to get
real deep on it tonight because
1059
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:19,440
we ain't had a whole bunch of
banter on Twitter about it
1060
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:24,120
lately.
But when we talk about the the
1061
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:28,960
stars don't matter, do matter
scenario all the time.
1062
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:32,840
I'm going to tell you something
when you go back and you look at
1063
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,000
a tape or tie rod playing
quarterback.
1064
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:41,040
That's why you want a 5 star.
That's what that's what I ain't
1065
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:42,480
saying.
You got to get a whole team full
1066
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:47,520
of them.
But we got to, I think now that
1067
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,960
Pry and his his staff have been
recruiting pretty much at a high
1068
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:56,920
level from what I see.
You know, people's calm down a
1069
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:00,520
lot on what we said, but like we
was making everybody's got to be
1070
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,680
Cam Chancellor, Everybody's got
to be Dwayne Brown.
1071
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,040
You can have some Cams and you
can have some.
1072
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,120
Well, first of all, you can't.
You ain't going to have none of
1073
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:10,000
them like they were themselves,
you know what I'm saying?
1074
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:15,560
But I'm just saying you got to
get some players that's sure
1075
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,080
hits like Tyrod, you know what
I'm saying?
1076
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,520
And Tyrod doing Tyrod stuff is
what made that team go.
1077
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:25,280
Now they had a lot of pieces on
there, but every now and then
1078
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,280
you got to have that player that
you just like David Wilson, you
1079
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,440
know what I'm saying?
Like this is a can't miss like I
1080
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:33,800
did.
This is what we need.
1081
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:36,560
Like that's what we've missed
for a long time.
1082
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,240
And I was, I just thought about
it because I went back and seen
1083
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:42,960
some some tie rod highlights and
I'm like, who else?
1084
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:45,360
Who else could make that play?
Nobody.
1085
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:47,560
You know what I'm saying?
Who, who, who's going to make
1086
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,720
that so?
And he was.
1087
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,280
Always doing good like he was.
He was so good at protecting the
1088
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:57,080
balls and just making plays
while, you know, not, not not
1089
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:01,360
turning the over, not not doing
anything outside of the
1090
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,880
framework of what was right for
that given play.
1091
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,240
I think that was.
That was what was always great
1092
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:10,440
about him is that he never got
himself in trouble trying to be
1093
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,640
too much of A hero.
But he was just such a gamer.
1094
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:14,320
He was making plays all over the
place.
1095
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:17,040
Yeah.
And, and, and that's happening
1096
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,000
slowly.
I mean, I think last year to
1097
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,600
think about it like Caleb
Woodson, I know we've mentioned
1098
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,400
him 3 * 4 Times Now, Caleb,
because Caleb was right at that
1099
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:26,880
four-star level.
It's like he's going to be a
1100
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:28,640
good player.
He comes right in.
1101
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,880
He's looking good his first year
and then I take that back.
1102
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,320
He looked absolutely yoked on
the field.
1103
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,760
He won't even in school yet,
right?
1104
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:41,080
Then he comes in, he plays
significant reps, plays defense,
1105
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:45,040
plays special teams, make some
plays, and then he looks more
1106
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:48,360
yoked this year and he's playing
even at a higher level in a
1107
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:50,240
spring ball.
And that's what it is.
1108
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:52,880
You start looking at it Tally.
I know we don't always look at
1109
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,720
stars, but it's like, look at
that kid right at a four-star
1110
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,320
party playing good.
And the reason I said that is
1111
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:02,440
because we started to, you know,
when you start to look at the
1112
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:06,400
roster, you see some of those
high level kids, you know what
1113
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:10,080
I'm saying, coming in at wide
receiver or, you know, at
1114
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:14,240
quarterback, Like even when you
look at Kyron, like Kyron with
1115
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:16,160
no scrub.
That's why I keep telling people
1116
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:20,360
like, if you go back, Kyron was
a high level player coming out
1117
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,240
of high school.
And so us seeing him do the
1118
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:27,960
things he's doing is like, to
me, once you see somebody, you
1119
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:31,200
know, on film, you're like, all
right, this he just got it.
1120
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,520
Like that's what is what it is.
So yeah, they do get some of
1121
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,280
those ratings wrong.
But when you see somebody and
1122
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,760
they just got it, it's like, OK,
that's that's what we've been
1123
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:41,360
missing.
So and and you.
1124
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,880
And you mentioned that well what
happened just to I think it was
1125
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:48,280
a few weeks ago they came out
247 always does the blue chip
1126
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,800
thing.
Doug Bowen wrote it text over
1127
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,160
10% blue chips which.
That's crazy.
1128
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:57,840
Yeah.
That's crazy compared to what we
1129
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:01,440
came from the war criminal
Justin.
1130
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:05,120
Matter of fact, let's talk about
this for a minute.
1131
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,440
Where is Justin?
Where is Justin?
1132
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:11,160
Sid Sid with 10 Sid with eight
figures in his bank.
1133
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,000
He is.
Still spending his buyout man.
1134
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,520
So I don't know, man, they used
to, you know how they used to
1135
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:20,080
have on the old movies and stuff
where people were selling the
1136
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,680
snake, snake oil and like,
you'll go back to get your money
1137
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:25,960
back and they'll have like the
little cart that has the
1138
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:27,760
propellers on it that it'll take
off.
1139
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:32,000
That's what he did.
Like he, he took up shop and he
1140
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:33,960
was gone and nobody's heard from
him.
1141
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:38,320
I don't know, man, it was the,
it was the, you know what it was
1142
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,840
like the movie inside, man.
It was the greatest crime ever
1143
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:44,640
committed.
Damn that dude.
1144
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:49,160
Justin.
Justin Aloysius Fuente.
1145
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:54,760
Aloysius man and, and let's talk
about it though, because you,
1146
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:58,360
you talked about, you know, the,
you know, stars versus no stars
1147
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:01,400
and all this stuff.
And I feel like, I think we kind
1148
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,320
of went through, I say we
collect the, I feel like the
1149
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:06,800
collective fan base kind of went
through a period where we were
1150
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:11,600
like, I, I got to try to explain
what's going on here because
1151
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,680
something ain't right.
But the only thing I can do is
1152
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,760
hope that every damn three star
we're pulling in is Cam
1153
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:19,160
Chancellor.
Yeah.
1154
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:23,560
Well, the thing The thing is, is
like, you know what I'm saying?
1155
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:26,120
Yeah, a little bit of success
and stuff like that, and we
1156
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:27,240
ain't got to go all back through
it.
1157
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:31,000
But it's like for me, like it
was a learning lesson for me.
1158
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,080
So I'm paying attention to my
guys.
1159
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:38,680
That's like boots on the ground,
you know, now you got some crazy
1160
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:40,520
people that be talking some
crazy ass shit.
1161
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,120
But like people that I trust,
you know what I'm saying?
1162
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:45,080
Even during that time they was
like, you know, I got to give,
1163
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,280
you know, people like Don V
shout outs, you know, being, you
1164
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,680
know, from the area and say,
well, I got coaches here and
1165
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:53,760
this is what they saying.
And I'm like, man, this like
1166
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:55,880
some of the stores just was so
unbelievable.
1167
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:59,600
I was like, it's no way that he
said that or he done that.
1168
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:03,240
Yeah, he was doing it.
He was doing it so.
1169
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,520
Shake your damn head all right
real quick y'all.
1170
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:13,560
We did land a recruit this week,
Sheldon Robinson, 88, ranked
1171
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:21,840
A24762185 from Woodbury Forest
where we have never had any
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01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,040
recruiting success.
So that's a, that's a UVA
1173
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,960
pipeline, baby.
Man, just going there, taking
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01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,680
the lunch money.
I just want to let Tally know
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01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,000
this is a big this is a big
check for Tally.
1176
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:36,280
Patton, Narduzzi and Pitt did
offer this safety.
1177
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,880
So that mean he that mean he can
play some fucking defense
1178
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:43,760
because Narduzzi be he'd be
grabbing them boys from
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01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:47,840
everywhere and they'd be hitting
Narduzzi be running that
1180
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:49,280
defense.
I had to give him his prop man
1181
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:50,760
there.
You go see there, there's
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01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:53,720
certain people, there's certain
teams that if we get an offer on
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01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:57,560
with my two guys here, if I just
mentioned that offer, it's like,
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01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,160
Nope, good.
I don't care.
1185
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:03,000
I like this right there.
What I like, what I liked about
1186
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:09,240
that, which I haven't done a
whole bunch of like video gazing
1187
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:11,840
or anything like that, but what
I did like about that kid is
1188
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:17,120
like he posted himself in hokey
stuff a long time ago.
1189
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,000
So again, it goes back to the
people.
1190
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,080
This boots on the ground that
says a lot of these kids love
1191
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:25,880
tech, man.
A lot of these kids want to, you
1192
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:29,880
know, go to Virginia Tech, but
they just weren't made as if
1193
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:32,000
they were wanted there.
You know, they just, they
1194
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:33,720
weren't made to feel like they
was wanted there.
1195
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:37,880
So it's good to see that the the
coaching staff has, you know,
1196
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:41,800
kind of put a priority on that
and, and started going and
1197
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:44,760
recruiting kids who who want to
play their regional kids.
1198
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:48,040
So that's awesome.
Did you get a chance to see any
1199
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,840
tape run?
I, I looked, I didn't really see
1200
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:53,960
a whole lot out there, but I'm
going to continue looking.
1201
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:56,720
But I I don't really have any
any takeaways at this point.
1202
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:01,760
Other than 6 to 190 lbs.
Yeah, the the all, all the
1203
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,760
measurables look good.
All the measurables look good.
1204
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:10,720
Kid ran some track as well and I
don't know what this means but
1205
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:18,440
sub 11 and 100 meter dash is
that good for a 6 foot 290 LB
1206
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:19,960
guy I mean.
That's pretty good.
1207
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:23,000
Yeah, that's pretty good.
We sub eleven yeah all right,
1208
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:25,720
let's 1097 so.
Let me.
1209
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:29,240
I mean short, short of, you
know, under 10 is elite, so.
1210
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:31,920
Yeah, I'm 10's elite.
Where's where's 11 for?
1211
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:33,600
Where's under 11 for a football
player?
1212
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,440
So yeah, anything else floating
y'all's boat?
1213
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:38,960
Y'all want to mention we already
got some stuff off Tally's chest
1214
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:41,640
so that that's good before he
gets down to the Caribbean and
1215
01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:44,960
starts having his drinks.
Yeah, man, yeah, Tally.
1216
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:47,880
What do you call it?
The the same they made for you?
1217
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:49,680
You sent it a few weeks ago to
us.
1218
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:51,560
Oh, shoot me.
Well, they just, they just was
1219
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:52,920
calling it the tally.
That was it.
1220
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,640
Tally.
Yup, I don't know what it was
1221
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:57,400
but I'm going to see if they can
recreate it.
1222
01:06:58,000 --> 01:06:58,760
Damn.
Right I'm.
1223
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,000
Going to come back I ain't man
listen I'm going I'm going to be
1224
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:03,960
out there like Rick Ross.
I ain't going to have no shirt
1225
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:06,480
on.
I'm going to be living the life
1226
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:11,120
buddy enjoying myself, so if we
get some recruits, y'all write
1227
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:15,280
them down somebody post blue
face for me I'll see it when I
1228
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:17,720
get back we.
Got you, We got you.
1229
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,400
We got you all right.
If nothing else has broken
1230
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:24,040
tonight, that is going to wrap
up this episode of the Boundary
1231
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:30,200
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1232
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:35,080
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1233
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:37,320
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01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:42,000
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1235
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,960
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1236
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:47,080
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1237
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:51,480
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1238
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:53,080
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1239
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:58,800
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1240
01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:02,160
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1241
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:05,000
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1242
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,640
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Also all of his new music and
1243
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:13,920
all that fun stuff.
Boys, it's it's summer, we
1244
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:17,640
aren't as getting together as
often, but I love talking to you
1245
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:19,279
Tally.
Enjoy your vacay.
1246
01:08:19,399 --> 01:08:21,359
See you.
I'll see you next week, man.
1247
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:23,840
Yes, Sir, Poker.
Night you enjoy yours too, Ted,
1248
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:25,000
that Bucky's up when you go
there.
1249
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:28,080
Will do buddy.
And as always, fellas, let's go.
1250
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:39,880
Okie.
The.
Virginia Tech Head Coach
Brent Pry is the Head Coach for the Virginia Tech Hokies. A University of Buffalo football alunmnus, he first came to Virginia Tech as a graduate assistant for Virginia Tech from 1995-1997. After a four year stint at Western Carolina where he coached defensive line, defensive backs, and special teams, he was hired by former Virginia Tech offensive coordinator and newly hired Head Coach at Louisiana-Lafayette Ricky Bustle as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Ragin' Cajuns. He followed this up with a three year stint as the defensive line coach at Memphis. He was defensive coordinator at Georgia Southern in 2010, with their defense leading a run to the NCAA FCS semifinals. In 2011 He was hired by James Vanderbilt as associate head coach, defensive coordinator, and linebackers coach, roles he continued in when he followed Franklin to Penn State in 2014.