1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Nebraska Track Runner Sadio Fenner - May 26, 2024

Episode Date: May 26, 2024

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Live from the heart of Lincoln America. Welcome to Ticket Weeknights on 937 the Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Station makes me copy Dak Prescott on a regular basis. Here we go. And I despise that, but it's the thing. It exists. D.P. Live on a Sunday. We appreciate you hanging out with us.

It's a beautiful Memorial Day Sunday. And I hope that you have plans to do something today that's good for you. you and somebody else, wherever you are and whatever you do and hope you're safe. And the mission is just to get through today doing something good and whatever you describe good as and however you define it, do that. It'll be a couple hours of radio. So we're going to do one-on-one here and then we're going to do the Breeze with Hosta Breezy in the next hour. So we are alive 402464-5685 if you want to be a part of the conversation.

Lots going on on this Sunday. But to not bury the lead, I have company in this special edition of one-on-one. Why? Because special has to be identified as such. You see something good, say something good. And this young man is everything good, everything that we say that college athletics is about, everything that we say that student and scholar athletes are about, everything that we say Nebraska athletics is about.

When you find those people who meet the standard and become the standard, then you'd have to celebrate. And today is a celebration, a coronation, and kind of a relaunching. For the young man that's sitting next to me, his name is Sadio Fenner from Nebraska track and field soon to be, Florida State. and gold nose. I have family that's that's down in Tallahassee.

I know what you're walking into. I'm proud of you. We're not sending you away. We're just watching you from afar. Sadio, thank you for stopping in this morning. What's happening, brother? Nothing much, D.P. Thank you for always having me.

I mean, I couldn't say it better myself. Today is a great day to do something good for somebody else and for yourself. It was this thing, morning walk and usually that's where clarity kind of lands and I don't know how people find their clarity every day some people do it over a cup of coffee I remember my grand my grandmother did it with a cup of coffee in the in the Washington Post okay and she would just sit and process and she would try to things would kind of organize for her and thought and then she used to talk about that there were questions each day that you had a chance to answer and if you

were purposeful in asking those questions your day kind of became planned so she would always say I'm not sure who I'm going to meet today I'm not sure who I'm going to see I'm not even sure who I'm going to be but the questions of the day is who will love me who will I love what lessons will I learn and then what will I do with those lessons? Some deep questions to start the day. Well, but I mean, right? But you're right.

Right, that if you go through and you go, okay. So as a student athlete, there's a scholar athlete, you have a deeper, you have an existing list every day. Right? I mean, there are workouts. There's nutrition. There's recovery. There's academics at a high level.

You're not just going through the process. Right. Like you, you were like, wait a minute, I need to nail this. So how do you organize? So for high school student athletes who are trying to figure out what they want to do, for parents of student athletes who, quite frankly, may not have answers on what conversations to have with their young people, how do you line up your day?

How do you prioritize? What is the thought process? You know, I think it depends on what it is that I'm trying to do. But again, like the root of everything is no matter what I'm doing, making sure that the people that are around me are also good. Because I mean, I feel like it's, you know, like if a room is on fire and all my people are in that room, like, it's not going to be taking care of until I can take care of why the room's on fire, right? So I put like the things of the highest importance first. So like which one of these things are going to have the greatest impact on not just like my day necessarily, but like my,

you know, my outlook on life. So like, you know, if we're looking at this from like an academic standpoint with where I'm currently at, if it was applying for schools, I want to make sure that those things are taking care of first because those are what, that's what's going to be the biggest thing that's going to change my life in the long term. But that doesn't mean I'm neglecting, you know, my daily task because those still have to get done. But I want to prioritize the big things that are going to take more time, like, and give the time to get done. That's a perfect thing. Is the focus, the big things that need to be done or the small things that need to be done. And again, it kind of depends because I think sometimes like it depends on what you think

is big. Like I could say something like, I mean, me stopping in here today, for example, this is huge to me. You guys have done so much for me. So I can, I'll happily give an hour to something like this. But, you know, like, you could sit here and be like, oh, I've got all these other things to do. And it's like, well, think about the importance or the impact of that one hour or that time you get to spend with someone. Like, I don't think people understand like the value of time and what that does to not just like the individual. Because again, I could sit here and worry and stress about all the things I have going on in my life, but it's, you know, how often do I get to sit here with D.P. and Harrison and just kind of talk and just hang out and, you know, try to spread

positivity. How many times do, you know, you get to do that with your parents, with your friends in the moments when you're in high school, I mean, for the high school athletes, even for myself, like, you only get so much time to do whatever. So really, you know, invest in that time and make sure that you're making the most of it. And I think that's something we get caught up in with the rat race of life where it's, what's next, what's next, what's next? It's like, hey, we can take a, we can take some time and put some emphasis into the little things, because those are the things that are ultimately going to bring us happy, happiness, joy and those types of things, right?

Yep. In your priority, there's the really popular social media question. If I offered you $10 million, but the rule was that you only had 24 hours to live, would you take it? And see, I think I know this is going, and the answer from you would be no. So it's like, why would you, so you understand that your life is worth more than time? Right. Time is worth more than the thing that you focus on.

And I always, I always, and it pops up once a week, just as a reminder that listen, people matter, time matter. Love matters because it's the thing that we pursue in everything else. Right. In everything that we do, we're pursuing love. And whatever way you define love. Right, right, right.

whether it's faith, whether it's people around you who care about you and who you get to care about. If it's a thing, a mission, that's love. Right. If there are quality people, community, that's love. And we talk about it that in sports, especially at the highest levels, time is the most valuable thing. Because how you spend that time dictates the result. more than anything else. Oh, 100%.

I say this all the time. Like, we're all given the same 24 hours is what you choose to do with those 24 hours that separate the great from the legendary, right? That is so goat conversation, right? That's like the best, like that. As a coach, that's my favorite thing to say. We created as a coach,

and I have to give credit to the community of coaches that kind of birthed this idea and concept, which was, and I don't know that it's been used at Nebraska, I know that I've given it to some students at Nebraska to help manage time. But what, as a coach, I wanted to remove that 23rd hour of chaos because we didn't plan. And you go, oh, Johnny's failing history. Well, he was failing 23 hours ago. How did it become a thing?

How do we not know? How did this happen? And so we created a study program that required that every student athlete who played for us tell us in a full form. They had to actually, it was homework. Okay. So you made the team. Now you have a homework assignment because if I say academics is first, I actually have to put it first. Right.

I actually as a coach, I have to put it first. So your first deal is to tell me what you do with your 168 hours a week. 24 hours, 7 days a week, 168 hours. And the 4.0 student and the 2.0 student have the same number of hours. Something's not right. Right. So then you have to, and the beauty of this thing, Sadio, was that it would allow me to identify Sadio. Because Sadio has a plan for his 168.

Then the mission is to get Sadio to Johnny. How do you, how do you lift up others with the people you already have? Shared IQ, right? What you know is one level, what Johnny knows. But collectively, we can raise both of you because you're going to be satisfied in the fact that what you do is reaching somebody else. And the young person that you're helping elevates. And you can only go as far in the leadership as your lowest standard accepted around. Correct.

Correct. I mean, that's the old, ageal staying. is it not like you're only as strong as your weakest link and i mean i love that because as somebody who taught last year i learned that it's you know i think in a very beautiful you know academia way i learned that you know i learned a lot in my undergrad but now i have to put it you know to use in teaching the undergrads that are now under my you know under my care and responsibility and so now it's how well do i actually know how well do i actually know this is i've got to you know teach it to somebody else and now i'm getting better at what i do because now i'm starting to

understand the stuff that i don't i'm learning the stuff that i don't i'm learning the stuff that I don't, so that I can teach it better to somebody who doesn't know it at all. And now we're both getting better in the long term. But again, like, it takes a different lens to understand that. Because everybody's always, I know everything. I know this. Like, I'm perfect. But it's, no, like, we all have room to grow.

Man, it, it, this is why a big part of what this station has tried to do and will do going forward is to giving voice to folks who care about the thing that we all care about. you care about people. As much as you waiver on how you're going to educate people, you're going to educate people. Right. Like you're going to teach,

you're going to mentor. And it's missed sometimes because we think, oh, because of social media, all college student athletes are selfish. They're all about money. They're all about social media content. No, no.

The people that you, you follow. Correct. There it is. The people that you've chosen to follow on social media are all about that. What you're missing are the Saudi offenders. What you're missing. Every student athlete that has a show on this station,

I would be proud of as my son or daughter. That means a lot. Right? That means a lot. Well, but you're the sons and daughters of whatever community you're in. until you become leaders in that community. And what I know to be absolutely true is that if I pour love into Sadio Fenner,

Fenner is going to go and pour love into more people. One, because he knows that love is the thing. Two, he understands that that's why I did it. That that's why he's here. That's literally why you're here. To come here, learn the lessons, learn the landscape, and then make it better because from,

inside, you know what the next side of your offender needs. Correct. No, I said this probably at some point this week, but, you know, everybody hears that, you know, the phrase of, you know, let's pay it forward. Like, I'm paving the road. And it's, that's a me statement, right? Like, that's, I'm doing something. But I think the way that has to really be said is I'm paving the road further than

those who came before me because they paid before me, right? Like, I'm walking something that's already been done, more or less. But then it's, I'm also paving it so that the people that come after me can walk farther than what I did and see farther. We've had this conversation with like whose shoulders do you stand on because there's plenty of giants we've all stood on. It's the same deal. Like I'm not doing this without you. And in 20, 30 years, like there will be somebody who's not doing this without what you and I have talked about today. Yeah. I have no idea how that's going to come around about, but it will, because that's just the funny thing with life. And again, like somebody's going to listen. I don't have to reach everybody. But one person is going to listen. It's going to have an impact on them. And that's the only thing that I think really matters. Because again, you never know who it's going to impact and that one person will make all the difference. Harrison, would you please read the text that's on the text line?

I find... Oh, more than happy to. Shout out to this guy. This guy helped me get the gig that I currently sit in the chair I'm at now. This one from Sadio Fenner will know him well. Ethan Petrick, he says, please change his name on the stream to his elite freshman year nickname. Setsky? Is that how you pronounce it?

No, I mean, shout out to Ethan because, I mean, like I said, I wouldn't even ever get or never have been connected with DP if it hadn't been for him. Same here. So that's, Ethan, I love you. I hope you're doing well, my man. You know, he's out doing this thing, man. Ethan is such a unique, wonderful character. He is. That I follow en route for here from a distance. But I always whisper to him, you know, just remember where home is.

Like, you know, that don't work. Come on back. I always got a place here. always have a place. Sadio Fetter joins us here on ticket weekends and one-on-one. And this will run several times this week. So this is why I'm tagging it that way. One, because I always know that when I put Sadio on the menu, I know that I'm serving up something good. I know that the folks are going to come and go, you know what, this was an hour worth of radio that was beneficial and I got something from it,

and maybe that they want to share it with somebody to say, hey, listen, in this community of young people and parents who are just, like all of this is new. All of this is new. So for the moms and dads who were college students, or maybe college student athletes, the game has changed.

It's evolved. Technology has changed it. And to have people in the system, in the vacuum now, who can say, hey, mom, dad, there may be a blind spot. And parents are notorious that they do not, you cannot see your blind, you can't know your blind spot. So for the parents out there who are, again, this is graduation weekend and they're high

schoolers who are going to be sent into the real world, the bulk of the people who are listening, if they're going next level, they're coming to Lincoln. they may be going to the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. What do you have for the parents? And we'll get to the students in a second. But what do you, what would you like to say to parents? Just as somebody who was a freshman once who said, you know what, man, it would have been really helpful for my mom and dad to know

this is kind of what the priorities were. This is what I was going to go through. This is what I needed to know. You know, and I've probably done this every time I've come on here. I have to give credit to my mom because my mom really set me up well for what I would experience here in the most roundabout way possible. And there's a saying out there, a wise man once said nothing. And my mom said nothing to me. And I love that because my mom when I was in high school was very much.

So I know it's best for you in this moment. So I'm going to tell you what you need to do and you're going to do it. And I did. Not that I really had much choice, right? But I did it. And it benefited me. But then when it came time for college, we had a conversation. And it was different from any of the conversations I've had with her in the past.

It was just a, you know what, Sadio, I love you, you're going to do great. It's going to be hard. I'm not going to shrewcoat that. It's going to be tough, but you're going to get through it. And in my head, you know, I'm thinking doing what I always do where it's, well, what's going to be hard? Like, is it the school part of it? It's going to be the living on my own part said nothing about what was going to be hard. She was like, you're just going to go.

We're going to drop you off. That's going to be it. Looking back on this six years later, like, you know, I graduated two weeks ago now and we had a conversation afterwards and it was do you now understand what I meant when I said nothing to you about that? It was yes, because I would have never been able to understand where I was at, what was going on if I had gone in with, you know, assumptions. Like, oh, I'm going to feel this when I get here. Oh, I'm going to deal with this when I get here.

So, like, I'm preparing for it and all that stuff. No, like, I went in with an empty slate because it was, I don't know what I'm going to expect. I'll do with it when it gets there. And I think that's something where, you know, we talk about having a plan all the time. But there's also that saying of, you know, everybody has a plan until you get punched in the face and then your plan has no no value so without going into the plan like i mean obviously i knew what i was there to do it's you're there to do school you're there to you know compete with athletics we're also there to

to care about the people that you're you're with and so with all of that i didn't have those other you know things of oh i'm going to deal with these kinds of people or oh there's you know this type of demographic that's going to be there i need to be prepared for whenever i do run into that i didn't have any of that and that made my experience what it was and i'm again very very thankful that i didn't have somebody telling me, hey, you're going to do with this, you're going to deal with that. Like, I think that's what a lot of parents do because it's, I know better. My experience was my experience. And so you're going to have that same experience.

No, you know that's not how it's going to work. Be present. Present, exactly. Be present. Like, there's a shirt and we used to wear the practice that no matter what I planned, and no matter the way, any way a game or match played out in my head, if I wasn't present, I was going to get beat. Yep.

I was missing the point. and being able to adapt, being able to have a, the plan is really just a GPS. And a reminder of why you're here. In this case, you're here to learn. So be present, except everything. And learning sometimes, for college students, sometimes learning is the dorm room. Sometimes it's the meal hall. Sometimes it's the bar that you either walk into or walk past.

No, seriously. I can't sound better myself. Right? That sometimes the classroom is social media. Yeah. Sometimes, and this is a conversation I've had with four athletes this week. I need somebody, sidebar. I need somebody to have a dating class at every university in America.

Because stop it. Stop it. You know, I have to say this. It's twofold. You go to college to learn, right? But you also go to teach. And that's something that, like, I think... So with your bit on, like, having a dating class,

I think that extends far more than just, like, relationships. Because it doesn't matter how you cut it. I could talk about this in the standpoint of, like, a coaching to an athlete perspective, from a mother to son perspective, from a teacher to, like, however you want to cut it, there's plenty of relationships that exist out there. At the end of the day, again, like, you go through college. Even if you don't go through college, you're out there to, you know, start a life, start a career, whatever that may look like, I don't care what job you do, you're going to be

working with people in some capacity, right? And so for having a class on how to have like meaningful relationships. And when I mean meaningful, I mean like both people are benefiting. You're able to listen, communicate. All this stuff stems from what a good relationship should be. That talking part is kind of important. Very, very important. And people don't want to do it. And here's the thing. Like, I, I'm, I'm, I'm staying there with you because I get equally frustrated because I'm like, and you know what? It's funny because it all stems back to the same thing. It's all love. It's somebody didn't get loved at some point the right way. And so because of that, it trickles into every other relationship. And then you get all these negative people who

start spewing negativity into the world. And it drives me nuts because it really takes away from the beauty of what we could do if we could see past little stuff like that. Breaking news, the Huskers in the championship game. Of course, Josh Karen has been on fire. Well, he's still hot because he just tied it at 1-1 with an opo taco. And it's one. one in the top and the bottom of the sixth. So one, one for the Big Ten championship. That's kind of where in the top of the seventh inning.

So pretty cool stuff. In the author phase of my life, there are questions that kind of line up. And there are a couple of things. One, when speaking to a group of students, I give them this question. Do I have your permission to tell you the truth? and I give it to them for relationships with their professors,

with their parents, with their friends, and with people in their social circle. Do I have your permission to tell you the truth? Because it sets us in order to be able to say, hey, listen, if you're going to date somebody, you might want to ask them, hey, are we telling the truth or are we just going through some stuff? Right.

To say to coaches, when you come recruit me, hey, can we talk truth here? Because here's what I really need and here's what you're really offering. Right. Parents, listen, if you're a parent and I'm giving this to you right now, I'm just saying when you send your kid off to school, do I have your permission to tell you the truth? And give that to your child. because the fear that young people have of telling their parent that thing, that thing,

and it's always the most important thing that they're afraid to tell you. This is free. Right. I don't know what I'm going to say. This is free. And listen, tell your parents the truth when it happens. At our number one, hey mom. dad, a thing happened, and I want you to know.

Look, I may not need for you to fix it. I may not need for you to agree with it, but guess what? You gotta know the truth. And in hour one, because in hour 23, it's a problem. It's a problem. Young Miss Davis in there in the 23rd hour texting your dad while he's at work because he'll say yes, instead of doing it. that when it happened, you know, hey, listen, I bought some shoes instead of saving that gas money,

and now I'm going to hit you, Dad, while you're working because you'll say yes in the 23rd hour. Listen, young people, it's church on Sunday. D.P. Sadio Fetter here on the ticket. We'll be right back. Back to the ticket weeknights on 937, the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Live on a Sunday, bottom of the seven, tied at one. Penn State for the Big Ten baseball championship. They're in Omaha. They're still dealing.

Huge opportunity for the Huskers. Let me have a moment, too, while I'm thinking about it. My boys won the A10 baseball championship yesterday, and the beauty of that was the VCU Rams beat Richmond, who was their rival. So imagine that if there was a Big Ten and Creighton and Nebraska were in the same conference and that Nebraska had to beat Creighton twice to win the Big Ten title in their building.

Oh. Yeah, I'm feeling some kind of way this morning. Well done, VCU Rams. Shout out to Edwin Thompson from Georgetown baseball. Quite the run. Got his team to the Big, to the Big East championship. Where were you at, Creighton? What's the problem?

Y'all got issues. That's in strays out here. You got some baseball? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I chose chaos this morning. Look, look, look. We got a chip. We got a ring. I'm hoping Nebraska comes up with this one. So there. We're going to have that. You did a thing, Sadio Fenner is with me this morning here on Ticket weekend. And you did a thing this morning that why we do what we do is to connect.

and I try to identify folks who are doing good things on purpose. And it has to be that. Do a good thing on purpose. Like there are people who back into some courtesies. Right. No, no, no, no. Purposeful goodness is the greatest sign of God in my mind. And you did a thing this morning on your own.

You text me and say, hey, you're going to be at station this morning. And I'm like, yeah, I'll be here. You're like, I'm going to stop by. please tell the listeners what you did this morning. I really don't feel like I did all that much, but I just brought in an old jersey because I mean, I feel like, again, I don't have the opportunity to do what I do without this,

and I feel like you guys have become a part of me until I've got to give you a small part of myself. So for the wall, and there's a wall, almost a wall of fame here, of student-athlete pioneers who accepted doing more than they should or could. Because it's a lot of time.

Your time is important. And for you to choose the ticket and to be a part of the family and the roster means everything. And it's a huge statement. So I am honored and flattered by you, kind sir, for you taking a time. Because anybody that walks into the ticket from this day forward will see Sadio Fenner's name. And that's a pretty cool thing that you did today. So thank you. Of course, D.P.

Thank you for that. So we were talking about from the parents. Hey, parents, we're giving you some golden nuggets of how to deal with and work with your people, with your young people. Now I want you to talk to the seniors who just graduated who think they know everything. I'm going to start with this. Yeah. You know nothing. I'm about to start a PhD and guess what?

I feel like I know nothing. The more you learn, like this is a. again, the parents will probably thank me for saying this, but the more you learn, the more you learn, you know nothing. And that's how you have to approach life, is approach it with an open mind. I had a coach who I'll see in a couple weeks, so shout out to Coach Ramsey,

but the mind is like a parachute. It only works when it's open. And so if you go in thinking that you know all of the answers, you will close your parachute, and you will ultimately hit the ground and have a much harder time getting yourself back up than somebody who opens their mind, listens, and absorbs that information.

You did a thing, and I'm not sure if, this is tied to athletics or not. Somebody needs to do like a master's thesis on whether nutrition of the college athlete can be shared with the non

athlete because it's important. You make good decisions with your nutrition because you have to. Can that be shared with young people? Because there's a thing and mom and dad

share this with the young people. I'm just going to give it to you. Just going to give it to you. The freshman 15 is real. It's real business. I'm just saying. And you know why? Because freedom.

Freedom. Yep. Freedom is a real monster. It's a monster. And guess what? Mom and dad, you're going to have to pay for it. So you might as well set something in play. From a nutrition standpoint, walking in the college,

what did you learn that you should have known in high school? I mean, this I feel like is just for everybody. This doesn't have to be for just the kids. And again, stop me if you've heard this one before, but health is wealth, is it not? And so we know, I mean, okay, we talk about this so much for athletes because of what it does for your energy, right? Like if I walk into a race and I'm not fueled properly, I'm going to be tired, I'm probably going to cramp, I'm going to have something that's going to impact my ability to go out and perform. So if we know that it does that from a physical standpoint, why would we assume that it doesn't do that psychologically as well? I'll tell you what right now.

If I'm physically tired, you better believe I'm going to be mentally tired. So if I'm not fueling myself properly to, again, accomplish what I'm supposed to in the classroom, all you can expect is going to be crap. Like it's that whole crap in, crap out type deal, right? And, you know, I think about this a lot because it was really mind opening. I mean, one of the classes I took was an obesity and disease class. And, you know, you think, oh, we're just going to talk about how, like, eating a bunch of fat's bad for you and how fat's bad. Like, we know fat's bad.

But, you know, I don't spend a ton of. of my time looking at the older population because like my realm of study or my focus of study focuses primarily on athletes which is going to be somewhere between like you know 15 to 45 years old but we're looking at a study that's doing essentially like what somebody in their 80s looks like when they exercised every day or you know some version of that versus somebody who's at the same age more or less the exact same but didn't do any of that didn't do any of the nutrition properly and so their fat content is much higher and it's like okay well that makes sense right they didn't exercise any of that. But now I'm going to take that a step further. And what does that mean?

Well, we're looking at, you know, the composition of what their fat has. And we know that an excess of fat usually leads to an excess of things that, one, like, exacerbate your inflammatory response. It increases. What essentially that means is that your pain is going to feel more. And so you think about, oh, well, I'm going to sit here in fat shame people because they don't want, they don't want to get out and exercise because they say that it's hard. And it's like, no, it actually is hard for them because it hurts much more than what it would be for somebody who exercises. And so there's a lot of things like where if we don't take care of the stuff now when we're young, because again, this stems to a whole bunch of different things. It's habits. It's, you know, do you have the discipline

to eat right, fuel properly and all that stuff? Because yes, we could sit here and look at it in the small term. Yeah, it'll help me with my competition. It'll help me with like making sure that I'm not tired when I go to class. I'll perform better because like psychologically my cognitive function is higher when I'm, you know, properly fueled. But let's look 80 years down the line. If I don't take care of the stuff now and start doing these things now when I'm young and developing these good habits. When I get to be even 45, I'm going to have to deal with things like, you know, COPD or high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, like all of these different things are going to onset because I'm not taking care of the stuff now.

It's in this thing that we say to people that resources, access, and simple decisions. And the thing about most, most college students is money. Money drives choices. Correct. And access drives choices. So I try to say to parents, listen, set aside a separate budget just for healthy food. Look, some of it will end up at the local tavern. Dems the rules that look, well, make them.

But hopefully you give the opportunity and the reason, because I, look, look, man, I was, poor kid. I was a poor kid. And my family didn't have money. And I remember, like, I was a baseball player. So I got, I got training room. That was steak, potatoes. Like, that was food, food. But it was the time when my schedule was different. Baseball player. Two study halls a day, two practices, two workout a day. Look, food wasn't necessarily a thing when you were doing other things. We had so little money, and again, this is generations ago, so sit around, you know, Uncle D.P. as he tells you what the value of $20 was back in 1980.

But real talk, I got one money order every two weeks from my mom for $20. And on that day, when that money order landed at my dorm, I was the king. Look, there will be cheetahs and aren't for all my men. Come, come, peasants, come. We will have grilled cheese sandwiches until we fall asleep. But those are the things that happen. And it requires somebody to say, you know what? Probably not.

Well, you know, and I'll even counter what you just said because I think this is also a pretty common misconception. and it took a registered dietitian to come in and like, tell me this in the class for me to be like, oh my God, no, she's right, because when this happens, this is what actually ends up happening. So let's say you give DP and his band of merry men $20.

Yep. To go spend on whatever. So DP now has access to all the foods that he wants. And they are in his house. He can eat them whenever he wants. Great. Does DP eat those foods every single day? The answer to that's going to be no.

Because when there isn't somebody telling you, hey, you can't eat that. Okay. Well, now I'm going to want to eat it because you're telling me not to. That's what happened. I'm grown. I'm grown. This is the first time my mom and daddy ain't here to tell me what to eat and when to eat it.

Exactly. So if I say, hey, DP, I'd like you to make informed choices about what you eat, but I'm not going to tell you necessarily like you can only spend this money on this. Spend it on this. But again, I'd like you to make informed decisions. Like you can buy chips. You can buy whatever else. But maybe we also buy some of this stuff as well. And when's it happening, you're going to have a more balanced diet than what you would have.

If I said, DP, you're not allowed to eat. any of these quote unquote bad foods. I think that's probably one of the biggest misconceptions there is that's out there is that food is inherently bad for you. There's certain types of quote unquote bad food. I mean, I could sit here and tell you as an athlete, don't it's one of the greatest things for me as a runner. Why?

It's carbs and it's sugar. 100%. What 100%. Listen, it was the greatest day of my college career. Two things happened on this day. One, hey, this is beautiful. Listen, man. The first day that the baseball,

team had fans. And the fans sometimes were students. And they were female students. And they were like, listen, you know that I can go and get your meal.

And if you don't can't get it, I will get it and put it in your refrigerator for you. Game changed. He said playing playing the game. Game changed. Because if you're on the road for seven days, and you come back and they're steak and potatoes in your refrigerator instead of nachos and spam,

we are going to do work. So my body type changed immediately, and I went, why didn't they tell me? This is like a thing. But that's the veteran on the stat. That's the senior that has to tell you, hey, man, I'm going to send you somebody. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Take care. The other thing was this. First time I hit a home run in college. And a guy comes to me, And he hands me an envelope. Hands me an envelope. Like I leave the stadium, he just hands me an envelope. And I look at the envelope, but it's bills.

It's green and it's thick. And I'm, amen. So I go to my captain. Bro. What do I do? Like, what do I do? And these are the conversations that parents need to have because these things, these people approach students.

So I called my mother. And I'm like, mom, you ain't going to believe it. I hit my first home run today and I got $500. And my mother said a thing that resonates to me to do this day. She goes, we are getting in the car to come pick up that much. Yep. I feel like that has to be. Every person needs to experience that at least one time.

Because I did the exact same thing. I got a little bit of money. I said, hey, mom, I got this money. She said, no, you didn't. That's going somewhere that you're not touching it. That's our money. And the beauty of it was, and this was the lesson,

that she told my grandmother. And what I didn't know was that my grandmother was putting in half of the money of the $20 that I was getting. And so when I did this thing, my grandmother said, okay, the fact that you made a really good decision with your money tells me I can trust you with money.

So the 20 every two weeks became 40. because grandma was like, no, no, no, no, no, you're going to do good things with it. Two weeks later, I hit my college second home run. And this time, I get twice the money I got before. And I'm like, wait, I don't know that I got twice the money. And I'm like, what do I do? Like, I give her $500. She happy?

Like, we win. Everybody happy. I called my mom. and said, come get money. I gave it a thousand. My grandmother called me that Sunday morning. This was on Saturday. She called me Sunday morning.

And she said, son, I love you. I'm more proud of you in the decision you made than the accomplishments on the baseball field. Which there's no amount of money worth that. There just isn't. So, well, we'll throw it to break. One final time. There's a question. that was asked of Sadio, I will give him that question,

but the young man has some steps forward. We will talk about those steps forward, his future. And what we can expect from Sadio Fenner. We'll find that out when we come back to the ticket. Back to the ticket weeknights. On 937 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Final segment with Sadio Fenner, at least in this form, because there's lots going on that we will cover here in the next six minutes.

Sadie O'Fetter, we have a text that asks the question, why are you going to Florida State? You know, I couldn't tell you why I ended up in Florida State other than the fact that God works in mysterious ways. And in a very roundabout way, I could not have planned this out any better, but I don't think it'll, I don't think I can have asked for any more. more. Primarily, it started with med school, and I had something fall through with that because

during the COVID transition, there was a change to my degree, and with that, I lost two classes. Those two classes prevented me from being admitted into med school part because it was like there are prerequisites that have to be met. And regardless of whether or not, I took those classes, they still have to be taken if I want to be admitted. And so I found myself panicking for about a month where I was like, okay, I'm not taking a gap here because the second that I do that, I'm going to lose all motivation to continue to do school. So let's try to find something else. And in that panic, I leaned on some of those giants. And I said, what do I do? I'm at a loss. Every person that I've talked to has said, we don't know. You'll figure it out. And I'm like, that's great, but I don't

know how to figure it out. So I talked with my team's registered dietitian, Jake Blatner. So huge shout out to him. And he was like, dude, you have all the connections in the world. You know, I went to Florida State and look at where I'm at now. And I'm like, yeah, you've done a lot. How how hard is it to get in there? And he goes, it's pretty hard. But, you know, you've done a lot. And I think that, you know, we can leverage what you've done to get in there. And going back through it, I'm looking at who my team's, well, not even just my team was the entirety of the athletic department, who was running the athletics performance lab, Chris Bach, who, again, like I said, had a huge hand in, you know, kind of directing me to where I would go academically.

And I'm looking through his LinkedIn profile, and I'm like, wait a minute, you also went to Florida State. And then I go ask Jake about that. And he goes, oh, yeah, yeah, he was in my cohort and I'm like okay what the heck like that's a really you know weird coincidence but in doing so I start talking with Jake and he's like you know I'll put you in contact from people I want you to reach out just let them know kind of what what it is that you're trying to do and I start having those conversations and it was I don't think it was a coincidence that it was almost like a perfect fit and everything that we were talking about it was you know we want somebody who has an endurance athletics background we want somebody who you know hopefully has a background and track and field

we want somebody who wants to continue to help us push this field forward and I said that sounds exactly what I want to do. And so I applied and this is the only place that I applied to afterwards, I kind of put all my eggs in one basket. And I said, you know what, I'm going to trust in faith and hopefully it all worked out. And a month and a half goes by of me like waiting for something. And I'm like, okay, this is not looking good. I'm kind of panicked here. And I want to say it was like May 3rd. I'm sitting in my bed and I roll over expecting to see an email like I always do. I'm like, I'm going to see an email from a student, something, something, see one from Florida State's graduate admissions program.

I'm like, okay, this day is either going to go really well or I'm going to be really upset. And I wake up and it's congratulations, you're going to Florida State. And I said, cool, here we are. So, young sir, listen, I made a promise. I think we've talked about, no matter where you are, you have a home here. And I still want your voice in this space. So even if it's from remote, from Tallahassee, Florida.

Saudi offender needs to be on the ticket. And I already told you, DP, like I said, this place has done wonders for me. I'm not elevated to the platform that I'm currently standing on right now without the guidance, the support, the love that you, Harrison, and everybody else from this support staff has given me. So like I said, I will happily be here for this program, however I can't be. Go be great. Don't miss us.

If you're looking, look forward and up because that's where I already know it. Yes, sir. Stay tuned to the breeze coming up next here on the ticket.