Roy Cooper

Like, Steve, you're talking about the sport evolving.

I mean, You know, it's like, just go to the calf roping, look at the evolution of the, you know, Dean Oliver hands the torch to Roy Cooper.

And, you know, along the way, there's Joe Beaver and Fred Whitfield and Cody Oll and, you know, on down the line.

And everything keeps evolving.

Like, when I'm a little kid and I'm at the Cow Palace with my dad in 1976, he was all-around champ there again that year.

I got in the car to go home and, and I said to him, "What was that?" And he knew I was talking about Roy Cooper.

What, what, what in the world was that? We'd never seen anything like it.

Well, these things come, you know? And, and without Dean Oliver, there's no Roy Cooper, and without Roy Cooper, there's no what? Joe Beaver, Fred Whitfield, Cody Oehl, Trevor B- I mean, just go on down the line, you know? And it, and it just, it all keeps getting better and better and better, and the talent, look how deep the breakaway is now.

Yeah.

But, but also the barrel race.