Rex Walters

I don't wanna dabble much and be dad mode guy much on, in that world.

And so, you know, we don't, we haven't talked a ton about it, but it's funny sitting here yesterday and got a text from Rex Walters, you know, the infamous Rex Walters, right? Who's the head coach at Regis, but Rex Walters fa- you know, one of the most famous college basketball players, Kansas, right? KU legend.

Um, and then NBA guy, like, you know, Rex played in the NBA forever.

Well, Sonny worked for him in San Francisco, and he was head coach at University of San Francisco, uh, amongst other places.

Yeah.

You talked about horror stories, and I'll share this story just because he's still a friend, and he's a Bay Area guy, not a Ma- Marin guy, but some of you may remember Rex Walters.

Of course.

So Rex Walters who-

USF coach.

Played for Kansas

Coach Wicks always talks about distorting your competitive reality.

I think that, um, Rex Walters is probably the, the king of that.

I think right now if, if, if you told Rex you had three months to get in shape and you'd get a chance to go play in the NBA again, I think in his mind he'd be like, "I, I can do it.

I can do it."

And so it was, it was good for me to have to go through this, this period of my life where it was like, "Hey, this stuff isn't just guaranteed just because you show up." And, um, you know, it's, it's interesting looking back now, I used the word naive earlier.

Like, I, I really was, you know? I was this naive kid that just thought that winning was, was a given.

So I, I leave Tulsa and I go to San Francisco, work for, for Rex Walters, who to this day I'll say is one of the, the, the brightest X's and O's basketball minds that I've ever been around.

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