Bussin' With The Boys - Spring Tour: Josh Heupel (Tennessee)

Episode Date: April 19, 2022

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I wouldn't go that far, but I would say they are up there. Everyone feels super happy about this thing. The Tennessee Volunteer. And we are with Coach Hype. He wanted to go by that. That's his nickname he gave to himself. ElectraStack to have you on the pod today. Something along those lives left.

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You know what you're going to get. I don't know where I got it from. Durable, dependable, hardworking. Yeah. Reliable. Strong. Accurate. So how did you get the name Coach Hype?

Nobody can pronounce my last name, so you got to shorten it, give him something they can remember. It's tough. It's like, is it Hupil, all that kind of stuff? I was nervous coming in. Yeah. That's why you got the sweat going? Well, the sweat just goes because I'm out in the field and Will, he wants to walk on the field. I've got to always expecting the game of football.

Don't disrespect. Between the white lines. No walking between the light lines. I had to get a couple of your players. I had to get a couple of your players. You can find anybody to walk. You would go right outside the stadium. You see people walking all the time.

It's disrespectful. You were chirping me a little bit about Oklahoma. You were chirping me about Nebraska, but then quickly remembered the heartbreaker at Memorial Stadium. That was an incredible game, an incredible atmosphere. I would love for you to speak on how high in all time the energy was at the University of Nebraska. Yeah, that was a great game.

A huge win for you guys at that time, as you guys were kind of rebuilding and coming up at that time. And defensively had a huge day, quarterback head. You were the OC, right? I was a QB coach that day. The quarterback had a rough day, I think we threw four picks. Landry? It was Landry.

But we found a way to rebound and, you know, had a great day in Dallas in 2010 conference championship game. We were up, what, 17-0-0-0? I didn't talk about that off-air. Yeah. We were up 17-0-0. Bro, we were up 17-0-0. Number one, the year before is when we lost Texas by that one second.

I talk about it all the time. He says that they don't deserve the win at all. And the whole next year we're wearing these bracelets, right? That's back when the bracelet fad was happening. And we had a one second brace that we had to wear the entire year because it was all about that one second. We make it all the way back to the Big 12th championship. Our last year in the Big 12th, so I think that there was some stuff at play there.

Hard feelings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And this is already out. Where did you guys break that you were going to the Big 10? What's up? When did you all break that you were going to the Big 10? Earlier that before the season. That's all years later that spring.

Yeah. So everyone knew. Yeah. Oh, so the whole Big 12 hated y'all. Yeah. And we were up 17-0-0. and they come back and beat us, what, 24-17? Like, we went scoreless.

Like, we stopped... Something like that, yeah. We stopped mess with Burkhead. We stopped running him for whatever reason. We put the game in Taylor Martinez's hands. I love Taylor, I love you, brother. But he was young then. He was young then, turnover machine, though, but he cost us again.

Is this is 2010? Yeah, I think so. Maybe this was the year before the second year, but... Nebraska loves the Martinez's. Loves them. Yeah, the reason why you don't... You should always run Burkhead, especially in college. Guys, a study is still grinding to this day.

Yeah, he is. Getting effort. just a salty white did. Yeah, me. Plano. Finest. He is. But obviously enough about my old glory days.

Dude, you used to sling the rock. You used to sling the pigskin. I would love to hear about, like, you being a player because you're like a newer, you're like a newer coach. I mean, I guess, fuck, man. It's 22 years. 22 years. So really not that new.

Right. Yeah, you ain't got to date me like that. You know. I mean, I'm a consensus is All-American. Yeah, bro. You were slinging around at Oklahoma. Sling around. A national championship winner?

Yeah. For the Sooners? Just to be able to throw it around. I can still throw it a little bit out there on the practice field every once or a while. Do you mix it up out there with them? Not when it's live action. Certainly not. But Thursdays and Fridays, which are a little bit down, I'll play catch with those guys. Do a little fat and slow, a little pat-and-go action on Fridays.

Nice. You've got to give the big guys a chance to catch the ball. Have a little fun. They got touched the ball, too, right? Now, do you guys have anything in the playbook right now for those big guys? Yeah, we don't have the tackle screen in right now, but that's something you and I can talk about off there. I'll give you a couple things. Get close to the get on the goal line too.

Make a tackle eligible? You can't report eligible in college, right? No, but you can be in an eligible position. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah, I got a couple things for you now. A couple things from the Titans. We never brought out of the books.

I like it. Might give you a couple things. I don't know. It was up for me. I'm curious. I would like you to talk about because if somebody I was coming out of college, fortunately I've got, I've had a career that I feel like I've been lucky to have. But my mindset coming out of college was I wanted to do.

be a coach. And you went from college to, uh, you had a little stint in the NFL and then you transitioned into coaching. Did you go from playing to a GA? Did you get right into a coaching position? Talk to us through that because you went from all American opportunities in the NFL and then you become a coach right away and you've quickly climbed the ranks as like a head coach of a prestigious university. Yeah, for sure. I actually grew up around the game. My dad was a small D2, head football coach. And whenever playing was going to be over, you know, felt like that was where I was going to head and it ended a lot quicker than I wanted to. Had an injury. Couldn't pass any physicals on the back end of it. And opportunity came up to GA. You know, worked with quarterbacks,

spent some time with the offensive line, which actually was one of the best things that I ever did. Just understood the schemes and, you know, targets and the fundamentals, but just really diving into it, I think has helped me as a full-time coach and as an offensive coordinator and I was a head coach, understanding the game from a different perspective than just playing quarterback. Yeah, no doubt. What was your mindset like when you were, when you get drafted in the six round, when you go to the Miami Dolphins, it was Miami, right? Yeah. You go to Miami and then when did you sustain that injury you were talking about?

Was that in Miami or was it the next year in Green Bay? Yeah, in Miami. Might have had a little bit of it, you know, on the back end of the college career too. Oh, really? And anyways, you know, you go in and compete, I don't think, you know, as a competitor, you know, my road just through college was a junior college player and then went to Oklahoma. you're fighting and competing every single day. And that's true, no matter what round you're drafted in, right? You got a little bit of security if you're a first, second round pick.

But, man, you got to go in and earn it and learn it and take jobs, man. And, you know, so for me, that's the mindset that I was going to have. Always had a coach's perspective a little bit, smart, cerebral, control things at the line of scrimmage. That was a big part of who I was as a player. All those things transitioned into the coaching world. And all the skills that you learn while you're playing football, man, they become a piece of you when you're coaching. And truly, you know, we talk to our players about, man, you get out in the real world

and when you guys are done playing. Like, it's all things and traits that you've learned, life skills, to go be successful in life, too. And when you go from winning a national championship at Oklahoma being drafted, I mean, you're probably walking to Oklahoma and catch a free meal wherever you go right now, still to this day. I can do that in Knoxville, too. Yeah, really? Let's go.

Yeah, let's go. The players can now legally, I'm sure, before, you know. The NIL does an SEC. never happened before. Yeah, we know about the SEC. We're very aware what goes down out here. Dude, I'm curious because I agree with you 100% all the things you learn to football. Like it's the best game, right?

To transition into life and everything else. You learn about all the characteristics you need to kind of transition to the real world, so to speak. But I'm super curious. Like, was that frustrating when you're going through injury having a decorated college career? Because you don't have this mindset that you have now that you're able to give to the young guys that you're able to carry as a coach. younger things come off. Absolutely. Everything's bigger.

There's mountains, mountains, mountains. And what I was going to say from the last question is when you go through those things going back to Oklahoma and having to go and now do a GA job where like your mindset, is that kind of where you're going with that? Yeah. I mean, you hijacked the, you just hijacked my question. That was actually going to be my question. That's going to be it.

I'm just curious, like, I would love to know about the hardship of that transition because as somebody like being undrafted, being a lower round guy, right, low round undrafted and you're going through injuries and there's a lot of fear and anxiety is am I going to make this fucking team and you got a lot of people right I'm sure for you I wasn't an all-American but I'm thinking I can only assume you feel pressure from being an all-American and feeling like you have an expectation and the way people look at you can you talk about the hardships of the transition for a little bit yeah I think the outside perspective of you know what people think you should be doing there's some of that but I think is an elite competitor right and somebody that

reaches success I don't care if it's college football or then Man, you're so driven inwardly that that's the pressure that you feel more than anything else is the expectation of yourself because of the work that you've put into it. Certainly felt that when I got drafted, where I went, you know, you're going through rehab process. I think the transition to the NFL, similar but different than, you know, transition from high school to college, there's so many unknowns, right? In that first year, like, you're trying to figure everything out and the anxiety that comes with all the nervous energy because of the unknowns. makes it a really difficult year. When you go through the transition of injury, having to rehab, man, that weighs on you in a completely different way

than people can understand unless they've been through that process. So you feel all that, absolutely. It's a really unique and hard time in life. I think when you get done playing, and it's not that you solely identify yourself as a player, but, man, there was a purpose and a goal and really a schedule laid out for you every single day in what you had to do in life.

the next day you wake up and you're like looking around, man, who's going to help me figure this thing? Right. Right. And how do I get going and what's next? You know, you guys have figured out kind of what's next for you guys. You know, and I think that's the unique thing for some guys that play a long time, right, that are still in their careers, is they can start planning that transition while they're still playing. Yeah. Do you think the NIL stuff might help with that too is guys when they're getting paid to do certain things and realizing you can kind of make money outside of football? Because when you're in college, I mean, the Big Ten, not in the SEC, you're just trying to make it. Only your rent checks. You're not getting paid by boosters or nothing.

So you're kind of just living in your life. You know what I'm saying? You're just living. But I'm saying, do you think it gives these kids an opportunity to kind of see, okay, there are other avenues I can take other than football to make relationships and get jobs and kind of shrinking that anxiety that you kind of get when you have to transition? I think one of the great things about NIL is that it is forced kids to understand that they have a brand and image and the choices that they make. make transitioning into college football, you know, have a huge impact on their future and potential earning power. The issues that maybe I've had to deal with previously as a head coach, man, very few of those

things are showing up right now because they are so understanding and have a global view of what they're trying to accomplish. It changes the mindset. It changes the opportunities. See, like 10, I mean, 10 or so years ago, when I was in college, you know, back in our day back in our day it was kind of like social media was kind of coming out like

when I was like Facebook was a thing Twitter wasn't really a thing yet and then all of a sudden all these social media accounts are coming out and these players are like trying to establish themselves their personalities on stuff and a lot of coaches look at us and go what the fuck you guys do you should be focused only on football like you don't need this stuff and now

it seems like your view on it has your view always been like the same as it is right now with NIL stuff have you always like encourage players to kind of be who they are or is it I play the game and I was as competitive as anybody. I still am today. I was as focused on being successful on the field as anybody in the locker room. I never felt like I gave an inch in any area.

But man, there's still a balance to your life, right? And, you know, in college there's an academic portion of it, but there's a social portion of it too. What happens is that takes up some of that social time. There's less dead time because they are interested in different pursuits outside of football. at the end of the day, the football and the brand in your name on your jersey and the power of how you play is the most important marketing tool that you have. Don't lose sight of that. It's okay to have those other interests and keep it within the scope of the team.

What's it been like stepping into this job? Because over the past, like I'm not a diehard Tennessee guy, but over the past several years, it's been like it's been shuffling in coaches out left and right. what's it been like for you stepping into a job like this at a prestigious program, having a year kind of, you know, label it, whatever you want, rebuilding, whatever, having some success. But how also backed by a lot of the fans, too. You know, Jack was in the car saying how great Tennessee is, well, I thought y'all won the Natty last year. He's a die-hard.

But that doesn't just go for Jack. It goes for Tennessee fans all across. I mean, Nashville. I like Jack, man. Yeah, Jack's all about it, bro. They go hard in Nashville. But it kind of seems like there's such a long line of traditional. here and it really reminds me of Michigan

in a lot of ways where like 90s and early 2000s like a lot of relevancy. It all goes back to Michigan, doesn't it? Listen, no one doesn't want to know. He hijacked my question again. I did it again. I just sit back like, all right, go ahead and take it.

Well, I'm just kind of, I was trying to add to the question. Well, I'm sorry. We're having a bad, our chemistry today is tough. And it's probably on me. But it does seem like people in Tennessee, Tennessee fans are thrilled about you as a coach and where this program is headed. Yeah, if you got great leadership,

We've got an unbelievable athletic director, chancellor, president, right? If there's an in-sync vision of what we want to accomplish, our athletic director and I have worked together before, like clear understanding of what we're trying to accomplish, went on the field, but great academic and athletic experience for our student athletes, man, then you can just go to work, man. We're able to have hire a great staff here. You know, Tennessee is an iconic brand, man.

Top 10 in the history college football wins, first round draft picks, anything you want to do you can do right here. The fan base is as passionate and as big as any in America. That's why there's 102,000 plus seats inside that stadium. You know, we get a chance to put a new age approach on an iconic brand. And that's what we're doing. We've built great chemistry inside of our building. You guys were out at practice.

You saw the culture, the energy, the competitiveness that we have. We've got great coaches that are great teachers and mentors. And now we just get to build it every single day. You know, the foot traffic that we have in recruiting gives us the ability to go Chase Championships. That's what we're going to do. Speaking of fan base, I was at the Tennessee Ole Miss game when I was trying to link up with you the first time. But what do you, the atmosphere of that game was insane. Like I'm obviously diehard and Nebraska guys. I think we have the best fans in the country.

We're the nicest for sure. Yeah. But it's, there's some violence in here. There's some violence at this stadium. Passion for sure. Talk to us about how everything unfolded at the end of the game. And I would love a take. Did you love? Love what you saw from the fan base at the end? Listen. As a competitor, right, I've driven down the interstate scene, Vaughal Navy with 250, 300 boats tied up.

It's a unique setting in all of college sports. They talked about Vol Walk before the season. In all of reality, I was kind of skeptical, man. There's not really 40,000 people out there. It is unlike anything in sports. You walk down the hill, you hang a left. You go through Gate 27, man. And there is a swarm of people.

It is electric. My son walked down with me. We take our kids on ballwalk, play catch with him in the end zone for five minutes, man. His eyes were just massive when we turned the corner and saw that group of people. In the stadium, I mean, you were there that night. It was crazy, bro. I'm talking, like, obviously, I'm not sitting here like condoning violence and people getting hurt, but the vibe to me was like going into Philadelphia Eagle Stadium where you're in the division and they don't like that you're there. There's obviously a history with Kip. and all that stuff, but it was like, they don't want you at the stadium. And it's rowdy. Like, as a player, like, you love kind of playing in that environment because you want, you want the main fans. It was. Man, they care. They're there in their seat 60 minutes before kickoff. You can feel it. You know what I mean? They had a great, they had a great afternoon tailgating, but they're in the stadium early. You're going to hear them all night long. Shoot, Rocky Topp's going to get played 50 times while you're in the stadium for four hours. and you saw that event unfold, right?

You know, some of the things. Number one, it was the longest game, for college game, especially the first quarter. Phil me in. I'm in the middle of the season. Phil, what exactly happened? A lot of dehydrate. There was a lot of dehydration by the Ole Miss guys.

They didn't drink before the football game. A couple of calls that might have not gone our way. What calls didn't go your way? And do you agree? There's a scoop and score, strip scoop score. Yeah. Those in the first quarter, right? Yeah, there's a first down on a fourth and a long call.

You think the person that fumbled the ball was down? Yeah. Can I borrow your checkbook? I don't want to get fined. No, here. Listen. And then at the end of the game. Tennessee's got the facilities.

They got the money. At the end of the game, it just got rowdy. People are throwing golf balls, mustard. How do they have golf balls? Is it cute in the pack pocket? And it got to, they had to get the players off of the field because it was just getting so bad. You couldn't even really play the game because people are throwing stuff on the field. It was hilarious.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the major point of that night is the three hours and 59 minutes of that crowd. Like, that's my takeaway. This is as good a place as there is in college football, man. Yeah, and if you don't want to say it, I'll say it. Tennessee fans, keep that up.

Like, keep doing that stuff. Yeah, that's that big dick energy, bro. Keep being absolutely aggressive because you want that. When, like, when Michigan, Ohio State, it's like, I feel like I'm going to get assaulted after this game. We lost, but if you even that wasn't good enough for them, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's true to take your lie. And it sounds like that's kind of what's going on here. I love our fans.

I wouldn't change the thing about our friends. What was the thing you were talking about, the Vaughn Navy? And you said it was like, what is that? That's one of two stadiums in the country where you can drive a boat up and go tailgate and go to the game. No way. There's 250, 300 boats tied up, having a party. A little redneck yacht club. It is 100%.

Friday night, we drive to the hotel. You know, they're honking their horns and having a good old time as we're heading to the hotel. And Saturday, you're going to see them before kickoff to. Hey, you got to play hooky one of those games. You know what I'm saying? Don't just go out with the Navy. Yeah, I know. That sounds like a hell of a deal.

No doubt. So before you got here, you're at Oklahoma. And where'd you go from Oklahoma? I was that Utah State for a year, Missouri for two. And then UCF for three. Utah State. Some. God damn it, dude.

When you went to, so you went to Utah State, sorry, Missouri for a year and where else? I was flexing. Missouri for two, UCF for three on the back of that. Of all those schools, which one was probably your favorite to coach? outside of Tennessee. We're not talking about Tennessee right now. Unique opportunity just being first time head coach at UCF,

love of the guys that we had in the building and a passionate fan base down there too. Now UCF there's a lot of controversy, I think the year before you got there? Yeah, it's always controversial. Yeah, and so people are saying they won a national championship. Do you agree? They went undefeated and beat the only teams that,

or they were the only undefeated team, so absolutely. So you think over Alabama, they have the national championship? Why would I not agree with the guys is where I was at. I'm with you. Because we were talking in the green in the car. Like if you're undefeated,

ain't no other games being played. Nobody can touch you. Why would they let in then? We got a playoff now. You know what I mean? Keep expanding it. Well, the playoff was then too, right? Yeah, but they didn't get in.

They didn't get in. They're only like the outside looking in. Yeah, it's got to be tough. Do you think because of that they should redo the playoff system? Like maybe you should take one from each Power 5 school and then allow two more. I don't know what the right thing to do with the college football playoff is. At the end of the day,

you know, you want to find the best. I think about this when you were in college, though, right? And just, you know, we didn't sniff the playoffs. That might be right. We didn't sniff them. But go ahead. What were you going to say? You got that look in your eye. Yeah. If you're the GM of the college football playoff

and you had your little fantasy world, you're hanging in the house, you're playing GM mode on the Xbox. What layout would you have if you got to create your own playoff. And I think it's real simple. You take the top four teams from the SEC and play it out. Get the fuck out.

Oh, my God. That is ridiculous. Is it real? Is it really? I mean, you got Ohio State. You got Michigan. Dog, is it really?

That's what I'm saying. You guys let us down in the playoff this year. Listen, I know we fucked up. All right. We messed up. But we were in that thing. Dog, if Nebraska was in it, we would have lost by three points.

No question. There's no question about that. You would have probably had a better showing. The best three and nine team in the history of the NCAA. Of college ball. Of college ball. Zero score differential throughout the season. So you're really drinking the coolie, like the SEC is the best conference by far.

You get it. Man, he's at Tennessee. This is why you want to coach and playing this league. It absolutely is the best league in America. So you would, if, let's say, Tennessee wasn't even a school. It doesn't exist.

You're going to keep asking questions until I give you the answer. It's my job. This is how I get paid now. That you want. That was a phenomenal answer, though. Damage, you got us on that. If Tennessee wasn't, like, you weren't working here. Would you take another SEC school?

Would you be the head coach? I am. I am a good. We're living in a fantasy world. Tennessee doesn't exist. Oklahoma offers you. When I was at UCF, I thought it should have been three SEC teams in UCF when we were undefeated in the regular season.

This man, he's unbreakable. He's smart. He's good. That's why he's where he's at. Going into year two, like what kind of leaps are you looking to make this year? because year one, you're obviously in a very much, what do we have, how do we build the culture, how do we do all these things? Now a year in the system, a year in the culture and everything else, what is like a year to jump? You like to see the guys make a message across the board.

It's like, all right, guys. We never put a ceiling on ourselves in year one either, right? A lot of the guys chose UT. They didn't necessarily choose me, man. We both chose the power T at the end of the day. I thought we came together. We competed extremely hard. Man, there's a million different ways that you got to grow. I think the leadership and the culture and the consistency and the accountability inside of the room has to continue to grow. It has during the offseason and through spring ball. I spent a lot of time on just leadership from within. Championship teams happen because of the championship culture that's inside of that locker room.

You know, coaches, they change, they grow, but, man, it's not drastically different from year to year, man. It's got to start inside. And so we've tried to build that ownership from within. And, you know, just got to continue to grow that way here as we go through our offseason. He's good. Yeah, he's good. Can I get some water?

I'd vote for him. Should we do the Duke Cannon question? Well, I have one more question. All right. All right. A question. And it's a simple one. As a coach, when you bring recruits in here, what's your selling point to these kids?

What do you tell them? The power of the tea, man. The power of the tea. What are you to say, education on me? Are you going to say facilities? All those things. All those things, man. This is college football is good as it gets.

It truly is. The history of it, the tradition, the passion and pageantry of the fan base. You know, you look at the facility. You look at what this university and this city has to offer. It's a really special four-year opportunity. And, you know, we're going to be the most aggressive football team in America. I honestly believe that people get caught up in what we are offensively because of my background. That's how we play defensively.

It's what we do on special teams. And if you want to play the most exciting brand in college football, this is the place. You've got every tool and resource to become your best. It is an unbelievable city to live in. I think that's one of the things that I didn't understand. stand in coming here. I thought all the resources, all the facilities, yeah, those things are all here. But Knoxville is an unbelievable city, man. There's a real personal and professional growth. It is a fantastic place to live. So our final question. Matter of fact, I thought of a second one,

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The Purdue game. The play on the goal line. Which is the Big Ten, by the way. Exactly. Yeah, that's a side piece. That's a Big Ten ball right. That's Big Ten branded football right there. You're claiming Big Ten?

Oh, Nebraska. So I claim Big Ten. I didn't know. You know, you're a Big 12 guy when you played. Well, I played, hang on now. Hang on now. Big 12, two years, big 10, two years. I ended my junior and senior year in the big 10.

So I can claim big 10 a little more. Yeah, I can claim that a little bit. I was just a freshman when we lost to you guys. So if I was like a senior and playing, we probably win that championship game. Leadership. Yeah. But what of your thoughts on that last play, your actual emotion, like who did you want to strangle? Use names.

Yeah. Well, I'm going to go to the replay. Yeah. But your thoughts on that last. play clearly I think everyone feels like you guys got jip for sure and I you know I can be man enough to say that but I would love to know the day don't put in somebody else's hands we got an opportunity to make a bunch of different plays different play calls all of those things that can factor in and how we win the football game and regulation or at the end of it at the end of the day people that that watch the

football game could probably read my lips and see the disappointment in the outcome of that call what you say don't leave into the hands of somebody else but I would almost argue like as a player watching it all happen. Like, that's clearly a play that shouldn't be in the hands of anybody except like the players because to me, I feel like somebody's just coming in there to hijack the game. Hijack your new word of the day. I do you feel like that.

Like, I feel like you're not really leaving it up to the refs. Like the play was happening. The progress was happening. Nothing was really stopping. And all of a sudden, we're blowing whistles and stopping the play short. Yeah, I mean, you said it was as good as he could. I love it, dude.

A lot of people, when they come up, on bustling with the boys can't handle the pressure of how big of a deal this is. Yeah. You've done an amazing job. Like, Braybill came on so he cut his dick off for a Super Bowl. Yeah, he was obviously. He was rattleed. The lights were too big for him, but you're handling this like it's nothing right now.

It's the volunteers got themselves a coach. Yeah, they do. I am Coach Eck. I've been with Coach Eck for a while. He has a lot of good things to say about you. Not that I don't know how much credibility he actually has, but. It depends on the day. Right.

I know it's like babysitting that guy. He's fiery, bro. A lot of energy. Same workout every day. He got, now, I'm going to say arrested to make the story better, but he got picked up

by the cops on the highway from running like 17 miles on the freeway. After a spring practice, backers apparently had a good practice day. He must have bawled out. He didn't need to watch the film. Yeah, and he went and ran on the freeway

and got, you know, not pulled over, he's running, but got picked up by the cops. Going that fast though. Hey, this is illegal. You can't do this. Picked him, put him in the back of the cop car and drove him to the stadium. But the dude is a wild man.

but the second question I had, I would love to hear a good recruiting story. So let me give some context about what Coach Bo Polini had said. Coach Polini one time was at a recruits' house. He's trying to recruit a kid. And in the back, he hears a family member or somebody else like watching porn. So he hears porn going on while he's in Florida recruiting. He's pulled into like tough parts of California trying to pull up and go recruit somebody. And they take off running and jump the fence thinking like the feds are pulling up.

Do you have a good story, whether it's a fail, like, whether it's a big fail, like, I'll just do something different next time, or something that's funny that you like to talk about or just tell, you know, the boys about. Yeah, one A.J. Brown said that Harbaugh walked into his house with cleats on, correct? Yeah. But Harbaugh didn't give us much. He said, I don't really have many. Yeah, which is crazy because Harbaal's like, everyone says he's the craziest recruiter. But AJ Brown said that Harbaal came into his house with his cleats on and refused to get his cleats off. And he was like, I'm for sure not going there.

For sure not going to that school. But what he says is a lot. I can understand that. Mine's not a home visit, man. I'd go to my first time as a full-time coach being out on the road. I'm going to be gone for three straight weeks. Got a nice Cadillac. I mean, luxury vehicle, looking good, floating down the road.

End up going at this time, you guys might remember, like the old Nike Combines. Coaches could go to those. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm at the University of Houston. Park my car. I'm going to go watch the combine. and that area, Houston's a little bit rough at parts. And I come out three hours later, and my caddy is completely stripped.

There's nothing. Oh, my shit, dude. It's my first weekend there, too. So for the next two weeks, man, I'm going from school to school. No hub cabs. Nothing on my car. Oh, that's hilarious. Just pan-down down the road.

Oh, my God. That's awesome. Did you offer any kids over there at that next year? Hey, man, we love for you to come to our school. just in a busted caddy. Pulls off the wheels kind of right, right? Outstanding. Yeah.

Thanks for coming on, man. This is awesome. We appreciate your time. Appreciate you guys being here, man. You got anything for us? Do you have any questions for us? No. Any insights to be off its line room?

Nothing? No, you and I are going to talk a little bit afterwards. Yeah, that's true. I do have a couple things for you. Got some athletes out there too. You like what you saw? Yeah, I do. I think there's guys move well.

We walked up right when they were running games and stuff like that. And so there's one kid, 55, small, right, guard, grinder. I saw him dump a kid in practice and I heard the old fashioned. Hey, stand up, keep up. Yeah, stay up from the old line. And he takes a big step over him like it's nothing. It was, uh, it was fun to watch. It was fun being a part of that practice. I appreciate you guys coming out. Guys enjoyed getting a chance to hang with you a little bit on in practice. Thanks, man. We appreciate it. Appreciate it. Shout out the Boston football spring tour.

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