well, it's always exciting to be here and there's *** lot of great people who,
you know, support mixed kids and obviously Miss Terry does *** fabulous
job of, You know, helping *** lot of people, I think we've given over $10
million dollars and done *** lot of other things that, you know, I've
helped create opportunities for young people and hopefully made the quality
of life *** little better for for them as well. So *** lot of great people
here and we're always excited to do this, it's *** lot of fun, so I wish
you all could join us, but you know, I don't know how it is when you have hi,
I'm not gonna say it,
did you get what you wanted to get accomplished down in Destin? I know the
schedule models still, you know, process just kind of,
well, I think, you know, there's probably three main, you know, topics,
scheduling being one of them and I think That's really an issue relative
to having two new teams come in the league in 25. Um so there was *** lot
of good conversation about it,
I think that, you know, no decision was made, but *** lot of positive dialogue.
So, um
you know, the name image and likeness is always *** big topic of conversation,
not kristen today, so um name image and likeness is always *** big topic and
and I think you know how we put guardrails on this whole process. I
think there's been *** lot of unintended consequences. I think the
concept is great for players. Um you know, we all want players to do as well
as they can, you know, while they're going to college, but still be able to
stay focused on, you know, developing careers on and off the field to the
degree they need to. So, you know, that's always *** huge thing and then
how it impacts, you know, recruiting, I think, you know, those are some of the
topics we always go through rule changes and the big rule change this
year is probably about blocking below the waist. There's some changes in that,
but other than that pretty pretty status quo, I think this is the first
time we've gotten the sense that transfers came in. Can you kind of talk
about *** lot about what they bring, the recent ones that came in? Well, I
really, you know,
they came to school on Tuesday, we had *** team meeting last night on
Wednesday today is their first workout day. So other than saying that they're
there and I saw him in *** team meeting, um you know, obviously we wouldn't have
recruited them if we didn't think they could, you know, help our team in some
way because you know, we're still always trying to develop our team with
good young players in the program and if we're going to take guys out of the
porter, there are guys that we think can, you know, impact and affect the
team immediately and you know, we'll just have to wait and see how it goes
this summer and how those guys develop, learn grow in the system. But we're
hopeful that they'll all
in terms of the corral and gentleman individually, what do you see like when
you decided to bring them in? What did you see about?
Ah, Well, you know, Tyler steen has started, there are lots of games in
this league.
Harold was *** big play receiver for, you know, his team, we thought we could
use somebody that could add that, you know, we added *** tight end from
junior college. That was, it adds depth of that position. Um,
who else that wasn't there in the spring
that you're able to sign this recruiting cycle, Were they able to get
on campus? All your pressure, everybody's here
coach. You've hired *** number of assistance from the NFL going forward.
Do you think attracting assistant coaches to come from that league is
could be more difficult because of the environment of N. I. L. And in the
portal?
No, I think that, um, you know, people don't look at those circumstances when
they're making professional decisions. This is just my opinion. I think if
they think they can create value for themselves and accomplish the goals and
aspirations that they have professionally, they're going to
continue to make those decisions based on, you know, the best opportunities
professionally, but
and and look, you know, there's always been adaptations, adaptations and
changes that we've had to make in college football, they have to make
them in the NFL they have to make them in the NBA. Um and those circumstances
are all things that you have to adapt to. And I'm sure that we've got *** lot
of good people trying to
create opportunities that are going to be beneficial to players, but also ah
keep *** competitive balance
in, you know, college athletics and um you know, there will be transparency
and what people are able to do and you know, how we can, you know, not allow
this to be something that gives people opportunities to create advantages for
themselves that are beyond the competitive development of players.
Do you guys have specific programs in place to kind of bring the education
and awareness to the team as *** whole. So they can have *** better
understanding of how to operate under that. We're doing that relative to
whether it's agent education or whether it's name, image and likeness, you know,
opportunities, whether it's how they have to pay taxes on the money that
they make and things like this. Um So all those things are, you know,
educational things that we try to make sure our players have *** good
understanding of this story. I thought was hilarious or I'll kick the coverage
this morning high school L. S. U. Fan somehow finds his way through security
at sec media days and tells you he'll give you $5000 if you'd be the L. S. U.
Coach. Well, it was, he made an offer for me to retire or come back to L. S.
U. One or the other, but I think L. S. U. Has *** good coach and they have ***
lot of good players. So we've had *** lot of competitive games with them and
I'm sure there will be no different in the future when it comes to competition
versus LS you guys were passed on. He's got *** quick one of terry jones coach
and coach. Terry has been around for 30 some odd years. What has he meant for
the program coach? Terry, jones strength and conditioning?
Uh, you know, terry has great relationships with players. I think
that's always something that's really, really important. Even more important
now with the new culture that we have, you know, in college athletics,
he's always made *** huge impact, you know, with the players, relative his
knowledge and experience. And um, there's always been *** great guy to
have around