Are your agents right now out there going after sophomores, talking to parents? What's your percentage? And how does your company work with, we know about the NIL and the portal, but what about the high school kids? What percentage of your kids are you getting as sophomores and juniors even to commit to your company?

Yeah, good question.

Let me... only because I really get fired up with this world that we live in with high school kids.

No one gets a scholarship until they're done playing high school.

they get offered scholarships.

And in basketball, I've seen literally elementary school kids get offered.

What does that really mean? Again, we always joke around until it's commendable, right? But I think I understand.

When NIL first started, which seems like decades ago now, when it was first proposed and brought up that all these college students that played football and basketball and whatever were going to get money for playing I want to know how did you feel about it at that time? Were you for it or against it, in your opinion? And now with it going on today in full force and everything that we know about it and everything, where do you see it going in the near future, if any?

What's that?

We'd never have a kid signed at that school ever again.

Right.

Like there's an unwritten rule that at the end of the day.

And I hate it.

I hate it more than anything as a fan of football, because my favorite time of the year is during the holiday season when we get some downtime and we get to watch all these bowl games.

Right.

Yeah.

They could

basically be Johnny off the street.

There are so many guys that just, they grew up in the neighborhood, they know a kid.

Remember, football and basketball, what's the common theme about the top, top players? many of them come from tough backgrounds.

And you had someone in the neighborhood who made something for themselves or had a name or whatever it is.

And so there's trust, right? And then that person convinces that family that they can do something for that kid.

And I'm not here to say it's good or bad intentions, but I'm certainly here to say they don't have experience negotiating contracts.

And what different – Could there be a way that I could go on your website and find out what NFL caliber people you have working for you or anything like that?

That is now when coaches are coaching these guys and grading their performance and everything, how does, how, how do they relate? an increase or decrease related to NIL? How do they couple together?

Yeah, so, I mean, look, I'm a firm believer, and I think I shared this pretty openly on the first time on the show.

You know, we can call whatever we want to call it.

You know, what gets a head football coach's job kept or lost? Winning.

Winning.

Winning, yeah.

So, you know, what keeps a university's boosters and endowments strong? Winning.

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