University of Portland

And whether you travel one weekend or you travel, you know, like one for one game or you travel for two games, usually when you are non-conference, you try to play games in the same location, right? You try to pick up a second game in a different location.

Like, you know, like if you're from Portland, you're trying to play this team and this team all, you know, easy.

You don't have to fly all over the country.

It's really what it is.

No, I just said I would stay here forever if I could, you know, and I got really frustrated because at the end of the day, you work your tail off as a coach just to try to get into the conference tournament.

You get in the conference tournament and you win it.

And then you go and you end up playing number one Stanford or Portland, who was number one at the time or whatever.

Right.

I said, yeah, that's what he does.

And then we were playing at the University of Portland, and they had a forward that we know, Nate Jaqua, And Nate scored three goals in the first 19 minutes.

And again, he was a topic of discussion that we had to mark him.

And I just remember standing up and...

So we have a professional who is on this podcast next, which we will intro in a second.

We have a professor from University of Portland who specializes in AI.

And then the last one is going to be a nice little AI Chatterley.

Chatterley.ai.

He gave a keynote at the UN conference in France for an audience of 5,000.

He was featured in Wired and was also a U.S. delegate on the Noble Technology Summit in Oslo and received the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network Lifetime Achievement Award.

Most recently, he spent three years helping the University of Portland build its AI strategy.

In 2024, he spent three hours explaining AI to a room of 46 CFOs.

ball.

I want to say University of Portland.

Yes, correct.

Senior year.

How many dribbles? Yeah, exactly.

How many dribbles? Ooh.

Honestly, I don't think many against University of Portland.

I wasn't really an off-the-dribble player.

They got themselves five bye games.

They don't have quite as many quote-unquote bye games in conference play without the Pepperdines and the Pacifics and the Portlands of the world.

But they'll have those as well.

We'll see what they do against Wazoo and Fresno State and maybe Texas State and some of those other teams towards the bottom.

But back then, if you didn't play, the only reason why you played golf is because you couldn't play the other sports.

So when I got to college, though, I'm from Hawaii, I'm 5'5", maybe 6", playing basketball, and that didn't bode well when I got to, to the mainland from Hawaii, where I went to University of Portland, and all of a sudden everybody just towered over me and basketball soon became just a nice hobby.

[laughs] So I picked up the golf club and, and just fell in love with the game.

I went to college to become a, an engineer, a civil engineer, to study and to end up taking my, over my uncle's construction company in Hawaii, and basically what he did was civil engineer.

And that's-

At, at University of Portland.

That's a, that's a cool, cool atmosphere too.

They got a parking lot.

... of Portland are the Pilots.

University of Portland are the Pilots.

U of O.

And they're, like, historically great at soccer.