But how incredible was that for you as a dad watching your kid go through that 11-year year, but also then to come back at the 12-year level and win as many games and play on the highest stage at that age?

Yeah, it was cool, as you can imagine.

I mean, that...

Scott Brown, our pitching coach at Vanderbilt, his son Nolan, he was on that 21 team.

That was sort of my entree into learning exactly what it was and what it could be.

That was cool for Nash to make it in 22.

Here you're just going in wide-eyed and have no idea really what that experience is going to be.

So what's the schedule? You guys play Thursday, and then what's the format?

Wow.

And so my, my high school years were, were, were running coon hounds.

Um, then I actually did take a break.

I met my wife and, uh, worked on my education and started a family, and frankly, the, the time was devoted around the family a lot.

Uh, still went on annual deer hunting trips and, and, uh, you know, fishing when I could, and those type of things.

But, uh, you know, when you got three young kids and you're starting a business, it's, uh, you know, things are a lot tighter and different Um, but I, I really started when my, when my kids started hitting the college age.

I was in my 40s.

Mm-hmm

feel about things? I mean, where do I begin? Are you disgruntled? Are you happy? Are you just disappointed in one program or, you know, 100 Euro check? You know, what's sort of your thinking in terms of the athletic program?

Yeah, I mean, I guess it's like everybody else.

I'm disappointed that we – now, this is all what just appears to me.

I don't know anything, you know, for a fact, but it certainly appears like we were not ready for the new NIL at all.

Yeah.

And we got caught flat-footed, and I'm very disappointed in that, obviously.

And in football, I don't know if somebody has a voodoo doll, a Razorback voodoo doll somewhere down in the Caribbean because our football program has earned its own mistakes big time.

No, no, no,

out

next week.

He's going to be assistant communications director for California Baptist, which has been a D1 school for about 10 years.

And they made March Madness, or it made March Madness this past year.

So it's kind of an up-and-coming.

It's kind of like GCU.

I don't know how many.

See, that's

Tell us about the pair of tennis shoes you

have.

Those belong to Danny Manning.

Back in the 90s, I was working for the paper out in Jacksonville, the leader.

Scotty Pippen had arranged a charity game and brought in a bunch of NBA stars.

I remember.

you're –

intensely covering it like you would a normal like college game or something and so I was sharing my nachos and I think I got him a drink and you know and popcorn with him and we visited the whole game and then after it was over you know we just got up and said hey nice to meet you bye and he started to walk off and then he turned around and he had taken his shoes off And those are size 17, I think.

remember?

Yeah.

No, yeah, it was the Razorback Foundation.

You get like three choices of free gifts.

You know, you get like a windbreaker or whatever.

Or you can get your name put on the back of an actual Razorback player to make it look like it's you up his jersey.

So, yeah.

I did your PA that day.

Right, right

...

but I, when I wasn't at the game, I would watch downstairs, and I, I forced myself to just be like, "I'm not gonna react in any kinda wild, crazy way."

[laughs]

He doesn't have anything.

He didn't document it.

This would be something to me.

This is what you d- this is like the movie Monument Man.

That's fixmylowt.com.

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