Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - DOUBLE STANDARD: Duke Head Coach Manny Diaz CRITICIZES Darian Mensah’s Move, Gets CALLED OUT

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

Duke Blue Devils and Coach Manny Diaz face scrutiny as allegations of hypocrisy swirl following Darian Mensah’s controversial late transfer to Miami Hurricanes. Is Diaz right to call for stricter contracts in college football, or do his own past moves undermine his argument? Alex Donno and Kenton Gibbs dissect the complexities of the transfer portal, player movement, buyouts, and whether coaches have any ground to stand on when debating loyalty. ACC basketball shakes up with almost half a dozen new head coaches: Can Jerry McNamara rekindle Syracuse Orange’s former glory and will Michael Malone’s NBA pedigree translate at North Carolina Tar Heels? The episode also explores the NCAA’s proposal for new college football start dates, expanded bye weeks, and a social media spat spotlighting Indiana’s defensive dominance. Don’t miss this candid breakdown of the shifting college sports landscape and what it means for the Atlantic Coast Conference. Everydayer ClubIf you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclub   Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now new customers can bet just five dollars and get two-hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets if your first bet wins. Visit https://FANDUEL.COM to get started — Play Your Game.   FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Duke head coach Manny Diaz was asked again about Darian Mensa and the business side of college football. Suddenly, Coach Diaz wants to talk about contracts. You are Locked on ACC, your daily podcast on the Atlantic Coast Conference. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. He is Kenton Gibbs. I am Alex Dono on this episode of Locked on ACC. We've got almost a half dozen new head basketball coaches in the conference, which was the most impactful hire.

We'll get to that. We'll talk about possible changes to the college football season. And listen, I don't know, the NCAA has maybe two days in a row of taking dubs unlocked on ACCC because I think this idea, if they can get this done for 2027 and beyond, is a winner. Another rare dub for the NCAA. But let's talk Duke. Mani Diaz, Darian Mensa, who's now at Miami.

Now, listen, Kenton, I know there's stories on the field as well. It sounds like Duke's young wide receiver core had a really good spring game, and that's encouraging, right? I mean, you'd like to see Duke be able to continue to contend. It's going to be tough for them after losing Darian Mesa and Cooper Barcate at a difficult time right before the transfer portal deadline. And this is something that Mandy Diaz was asked about. You know, he did mention like adjustments need to be made to the college football calendar,

and he might be right about that. But he continues with where things are. Everything happened within the realm of the system we've created right now, Diaz said. But you hear the expression about the business side of things, and if there's going to be a business and if there's going to be contracts, then the expectations of those contracts are honored. ultimately that was what was at play in our situation. And as I know Duke got a lot of sympathy

after the timing of Darien Mentson, Cooper Barcate's exit. But at the same time, Kenton, you've got Manny Diaz talking about contracts, a guy who several years ago signed a contract to be the head coach at Temple only to back out of that contract about two weeks later to become the coach somewhere else.

I don't know if that's maybe the best source of that. sort of information when it comes to honoring contracts. My good brother Dono has had longer flings in Tuscany than Mani Diaz's head coaching tenure in Temple, you know. And so from that standpoint, I don't understand where this is coming from. Mani Diaz had a buyout paid from Miami to Temple to get him to Miami. and Darien Minza had a payout that was paid to or buyout that was paid to do by Miami or by minza. It's a private school, so we don't know the details of that situation there.

Neither party is public. So we don't know the details, but the assumption is that Miami once again paid a buyout to get what they wanted. So what is the problem? What's the problem? I could understand his, you know, thought from the moral side of it if he wasn't who he was. I really could. If he was never a coach who did the exact thing, but to a worse degree, because Barry Minter at least gave you a year, you didn't give.

Yeah, it's true. You gave a year and an ACC championship. And an ACC championship that got you an extension, okay? So you didn't give. you didn't give Temple a year, but now all of a sudden, and this is what I mean by coaches, hypocrisy. When everybody says, well, Kenney, the coaches are professionals, and they've done this for so long,

I am not against every player having a buyout. I want to make that very clear right now. I don't ever want anybody to say, oh, Ken, there's so much for player movement, he doesn't like common sense, though. Common sense to me is a buyout, is a, hey, if you sign this deal, you're going to have to pay out X amount, and if another school is saying you could go there,

take their money, no buyout. Go there. Go to them. Yeah. But we're going to protect ourselves from the risk on our end. The reality is this is just another example of rules for thee, but not for me. Oh, when you leave your contract, that's a moral shortcoming or, and not saying that he did say is a moral shortcoming because I don't believe that's what he was saying. But it's when you leave, when a player leaves, all, man, contracts need to be honored.

Darien Minza is about what, 21, 22 years old? Yeah, probably. Yeah, probably about 21. Manny Diaz was 44. 44 when he signed the contract with Temple. And still 44, because again, the timing was about this long that he spent as Temple's head coach. He was their head coach for a fortnight.

A fortnight. A fortnight, okay? This is, so again, I'm not saying that, you know, players shouldn't move, coaches shouldn't move any of that. But what I am saying is, coaches need to kind of look in the mirror and realize we're where the disloyalty started. Tommy Tuberville, leaving recruits at dinner to take a different job is where the disloyalty started.

Coach is telling players, hey, man, not only do I think you're not going to play here, we've worked out certain things with your academic progress to where you can't stay around here. That's where the disloyalty started. We can't sit up here and say, oh, the players now that they're getting done. paid and there's the transfer portal they can move how they want to contracts should be honored because you didn't think that when you signed with temple you saw a better opportunity opened up and where many ds play his college football out again down on fs u. So you saw a better opportunity with your dead rival the guys that you if i sat up here

and left locked on wolf pack to go be the league game announcer at unc and then say oh man you know people about loyalty. I would hope everybody would be pointing and laughing at me. I would hope they would because that'd be a sign that society is functioning in the right way. The same way we should all be pointing to laugh at Mandy Diaz saying, oh look, the guy who coached for 18 days out of place is now saying loyalty matters. Yeah. I'm genuinely curious.

You know, when coaches, and I get it like you're upset that you can lose a player, right before the portal deadline, and then you're not really left with a good amount of time to find a replacement. But then it's also like coaches were very much in favor of eliminating the April transfer portal window, which is now gone, which it seems like that could be something that, you know, gives you a chance to get that replacement. But then that also means you could lose a player at the end of the April window. But like, I'm genuinely curious. When you talk about how do you fix the calendar so you have a better chance to find a replacement, like what would be the proposal for doing that?

Like how would you fix it so where what happened to Duke with Mentsa and Barcate leaving right at the deadline? How do we make it so if that happens again, you're able to go out and find a replacement? Because it seems like an April transfer portal window, which almost every coach wanted to get rid of, would have been your opportunity to find a replacement. But the thing is, Dono, there's no way around certain things. There's no way around it. if you lose a quarterback like Dary Mentsa, even if you say, well, if you would have given us ample time,

we could have found your replacement. Sure, but it happened the way it did. Right. And it wasn't like he didn't leave after the deadline. Like he left right before the deadline. So it's like, well, what do you do? And here's the thing. Listen, I've talked about this ad nauseum and I'll talk about it again.

My heart goes out to do for losing their start quarterback on the last possible day of the portal being open. But notice what I said there, the last possible day of the portal being open. being open to enter. Right. Right. So at the end of the day, hey, it sucks. It sucks to be on the wrong side of things like that.

It does. I'm not going to sit here and pretend, oh, man, that, that's perfectly fine. And if that happened to my school, I wouldn't care. No, it sucked for state too. But with that being said, you have to accept this is the new nature of the game. This is the new, the same way that years ago, if you had a player, let's say Walter Eaget throws for 4,500 yards and Duke wins 11 games this year.

Guess what he's going to do at the end of next year? I'm not sure if he's all eligibility or not, but guess what he will do if he has more eligibility left? Hey, coach, that price is way too low. You need to raise it. That wouldn't have been a thing years ago, but it's part of the game now. So as a coach, it's part of what you have to do now.

Donald, you've been in this sports journalism business a lot longer than me. When you started, clickbait headlines were not the same type of deal that it is right now. Getting clips to go viral. Not the same thing as it is right now. But guess what? You've recognized, hey, I've got to change. I've got to change.

The game is changing. So I've got two options. Change with it or get out and be a stay-at-home husband. Let Mama Don't take care of everything. I just sit by and go to a little bit. Don't temp me with that possibility. Well, see, I'm not sure. or mama don't like that, but you get my point.

When you're, when you're Mani Diaz, you can complain about it all day long. You complain, sure. You can sit there and complain. But while you complain, guess what's going to happen? The game's going to continue to pass you by. Yeah. If you want to be to be fair to him, to be fair to him, like he didn't go out of his way to bring this up. I mean, he was asked about it.

So like, I'll give him a certain amount of grace. I just thought, you know, given his history, there was a little hypocrisy in his answer. not to mention, you know, it's a little suspicious when Duke went out and got Mentsa away from Tulane, you know, a year and a half ago. So, you know, it's stone stones in the glass house. And that's all I'm saying here. That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying that many days is a bad human being bad guy for this. I'm just saying this is another example of coaches saying, well, it's cool when I did it, but it's a problem when you do it.

And when I do it, it's just part of the business. It's part of nature, part of the game. When you do it, you know, guys should just honor their contracts. You know, everything should be. Buddy, you were the one who signed on to be Temple's 28th head coach on December 13th of 2018. That was you. That was you. And shortly after Christmas, she gave them a real interesting gift of $4 million in the new coaching vacancy.

That's what you did. So again, I'm not sitting here saying, making the castigation on Manny Diaz as a person or saying like, oh, he whines every time he gets in front of a mic. I'm just saying, you got to have some self-awareness. If somebody said, hey, too many people who talk about sports now just riff on their rivals way too hard, I'm not going to be the person beating my chest about that. I've come up with an entirely new moniker for the dirty flick. I'm at the University of North Carolina.

I've come up with an entirely new moniker for them that is cascating them. So I'm not going to be the one saying, yeah, journalists need to be impartial. but they need to stop covering it. It wouldn't make sense. By the way, when you talk about, you know, coaches who do whine, I saw a great example of that on social media. We've got to talk about that when we come back. Plus possible big changes and positive changes coming to the college football calendar.

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for seemingly no reason. I don't know if you saw the Twitter beef that's going on between Indiana defensive coordinator, Brian Haynes, who just won a national championship and a broils award. So life is good for Brian Haynes right now. But he's going after former Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson for the silliest thing. So Simpson, remember, his Crimson Tide got, they got demolished by Indiana in the playoff. And Simpson admitted that.

And so he was interviewed this week, you know, pre-draft. And he's talking about how like Indiana, like I'm paraphrasing here, like they didn't, they didn't really run anything all that crazy defensively, but they were just so fundamentally sound. And even though Simpson, like, knew what their looks were going to be, they were just so impeccable in everything they did. And he even went out of his way to say so well coached. Like those words, well coach came out of his mouth. And then for some reason, when Brian Haynes heard that interview, he got very upset and he responded adorable. We also saw every. everything they were doing on every single snap. It's just that we exploited those cues and didn't get frozen and crushed by them. So for some reason, even though Simpson went out of his way to say that that defense was very well coached, I guess Bryant Haynes was very offended by the idea that he's not some kind of a mad scientist throwing crazy looks at you. But see, and this is one of my biggest problems with a lot of coaches today. But what are we running about? What are we crying about?

This is that, and I took that personally mean personified. And then Joe was like, yeah, that never happened. I just needed something to get myself going. Like, what are we? What? Yeah, he said that they were extremely well coached. He said that you didn't run anything particularly amazing. You just executed well.

Do you know what a compliment that is to you personally? I want you to think about this for a second, Donald. There are only two ways normally that you win at that highest level of, football. You either have guys, you've got dudes that are a mile better than everybody else, or execution, or really three ways, execution is through the roof, or you got a mad scientist or two as coordinators. Now, here's the thing, right? He's upset that it wasn't number three, but number two is also a reflection on you. The only one that's not a direct reflection on you is if we would have said, Indiana just have better players than us. They just have bigger,

faster dudes. You know, I mean, we did our best to execute. They just, you can't stop eight first rounders with a bunch of accountants up front. That's not what he said. He said, hey, extremely well coached. They didn't run anything special. They just executed extremely well. So what does that mean?

You coached them up to know, oh, this is what they're going to run. This is how they're going to run. This is how we destroy that. And they did. And you did that. And that's what he was acknowledging. So I, you know, it's just one of the. those things where if my offensive coordinator is a diva like this and he's like, oh, don't you

talk about me not being a mad scientist. I'm okay with my offensive coordinator being a little sassy, a little zesty, little, put a little unfold. My defensive coordinator, I want a maniac that's not even on social media. I want a guy that's like, hey, he said what he said. We'll see him when we see him. And like a reporter's got to be face to face with him to get that. Not, oh, my defensive coordinator, I'm going to clap back. I don't, my defensive coordinator need to clap in the shoulder pads. That's all I want my defensive coordinator worry about.

Yeah, I know. What well said. I mean, to be like you see, he said that they were well coached. Like instead of crying about it, to say, thank you. Thank you for thinking that me as the defensive coordinator had this unit well coached. And guess what? When I played in high school, our head coach used to tell us all the time,

or I'm sorry, our defensive coordinator used to tell us all the time. Well, we run it simple. The magic is in y'all. Y'all are that much better than everybody else. And so he emboldened us with that. And when people talked about, oh, he's not a great defensive coordinator, it's just his players, he would get rowed up and

lathered up about it because that's the one of three paths. That's not a direct reflection on them. But if everybody said, oh, Jermaine Crowell, he's an insane defensive mind, then it would be different. So I just, I don't get it. I don't understand what there is to be riled up about with a guy specifically

saying they're well coached. It's not like he said, Coach Sigg is coaching those boys up. Haynes is just a figure hand. He's just got on a headset and he over there talking and joking. Yeah, not like that. All right. So meanwhile, the NCAA, it seems like there's a lot of support for this. Heather Dinnich at ESPN writes, beginning in 2027, college football could have an earlier official start to the season as the NCAA's football oversight committee on Thursday recommended a standard start before Labor Day 1.com. weekend. And I know some people might say, well, they're adding another week. You know,

what are they doing to these student athletes? Keep in mind, a lot of programs already do play that week anyway, because that's what we currently call week zero. So there already are a number of college football games that happen. But the idea is to make what is now week zero and make that week one. And why I like this so much, Kenton is, first of all, as a college football junkie. It extends the season. You get more games, more weeks, which is great for us, the consumers and people who make content. But

you now have, instead of standard 13 weeks to do 12 games, you would have 14 weeks to do 12 games, which means everybody gets two by weeks a year. Now, for some reason, I think it's because when Labor Day fell, in 2025, it worked out

that way anyway, which was kind of like a fluke with the calendar. But actually, I liked it. Like, 2025, five, two by weeks, 14 weeks for 12 games. I like that, and they want to make that the new normal in 2027. I don't really see any downside of this because, again, they're already some teams play on week zero anyway, so it's not as if they're like, you know,

making the season longer at the expense of academics or anything like that. Plus, some of these guys get paid millions of dollars. This is not what it used to be when it comes to student athlete. Well, here's the thing. I don't want to work off the 1%. I want to look at the bulk of student athletes. And even for the bulk of student athletes, I can't find the downside.

Even if we were saying, hey, week zero, having everybody be eligible and playing in week zero is a detriment to the students. How? How? What changes? What materially changes for these student athletes? I'm with you on a lot of things being bad for student athletes.

Cal and Stanford being in the ACC, objectively bad for student athletes. Yeah. Rutgers and USC being in the same conference, objectively bad for the student athletes. I will not hold you up there. I will not disagree with you. Lincoln Riley said as much,

multiple coaches have said, that time difference in traveling in one week. I'm in California and the next week I'm in Iowa, and the week after I'm in Rutgers and then I'm back. You know, oh, one week I'm in Palo Alto. Next week I'm in, what, Tallahassee. The week after that, I got to go up to Syracuse, New York. I get it.

I don't disagree. with that. But if we're talking about extending the season out by a week and adding in a bi-week, I don't understand how that hurts or harms players in any meaningful way, even if your argument is, well, it takes away more time from academics so that they can focus on ball. I would simply say adding in an extra buy week, everybody knows, and players don't say this out loud, but a biweek in particular is when guys really locked down on those grades and look at it and say, all right, what am I doing? What's going on with their academic advisor?

Because normally, if you're struggling or falling behind, that academic advisor can throw on an extra meeting or have something like that where they go to the coach and say, hey, this dude is falling behind. I recommend that during this biweek, we put them on this type of plan or we meet extra here and there. So, again, I don't really see a logical, reasonable argument for. or it's a bad thing to give these young men to my wish. Well, up next, ACC basketball of the new head coaches,

who will have the biggest impact and who might be the biggest flop? You want to keep it locked right here. We're not done yet on this brand new episode of Lockdown ACC. Thank you for making Lockdown ACC your first listen. For your next listen, make sure you check out our other shows. Kenton Gibbs and Grayson Boone host Lockdown Wolfpack, talking all things NC State. I do want to take a deep dive later this week, Kenton, on post-spring NC State, if you will indulge me on that,

because it sounds like that offense is trending about where you thought it would, which is good news for the pack. You can watch me and listen to me on Lockdown Keynes talking all things Miami. But into some hoops, Kenton, and the transfer portal is in full swing, and I'm excited. Hopefully, ACC basketball, which had a bounce-back year this year, although not as much tournament success as we'd hope for, a bounce back overall year. We can continue that going into the 2026, 2027 hoop season. And we're going to be doing that with five new head coaches in the conference. Now, I guess because of his NBA history and winning a championship a few years ago,

the biggest splash on paper was Michael Malone to North Carolina after kind of a bizarre coaching search that they had. So that's one. Jerry McNamara, back to Syracuse. was a big one. Boston College hired Luke Murray, former Yukon assistant, and son of Bill Murray,

which is kind of cool in itself. I mean, I love having him in the ACC. Georgia Tech hired Scott Cross, former Troy head coach, and NC State hired former Wolfpack player and former assistant, Justin Ganey, which I think is a low-key, really good boot. And like, Ganey is up there for me, Kenton.

When I think of who's going to have the biggest, impact. Ganey is a possibility for me, but I'm getting all the feels with Jerry McNamara back at Syracuse. I feel like that could be the one where they got that hired just right, although they've got to get their NIL and all their ducks in a row as well. They got to get that stuff just right too. But what do you think? Let me tell you something. Luke Murray, you better than not have a loser record at Boston College or else people are definitely going to say Groundhogs Day all over again. You know, it's just another. I lost. No, but in all seriousness, I think that the two, you know, native sons of the universities going back, I would agree. Everybody loves those hires, and I think they are the right hire, right? McNamara, Sienna, didn't he lead a state? He was right there. He was right there the entire time. And, you know, to see that we talked about Sienna and how, let's be very honest, they controlled the traffic for a majority that tournament game against Duke. With how many substitutions?

down up. Zero. We had five guys play for 40 minutes. Five. Five. Now, obviously, you're going to need a better NIL package and whatnot to what Syracuse has been producing as of late to kind of get that thing rolling. But with that being said, what better of an exos and those guy could you ask for

than a man who went up against Duke with five guys and say, hey, we're going to, this is all we got, but it's all we need. And took them to the wire, took them right up against it in the first round there, you know, heck of a job by him. And then you talk about Danny coming home and talk about Wolfpack Blood. You know, one of the first

places that he coached at after leaving NC State was with Herb Sendeck at Santa Clara and all that good stuff before he had gone forward to go to Tennessee. And it's a very, I say this all the time. There are certain cities, there are certain places. They take

on an identity. Like all Detroit teams are only good if the defense is really good. Like every Detroit team, it don't matter to sport. It does not matter. It doesn't matter if it's hockey in the wings. It doesn't matter if it's basketball, the pistons. We're known to rough people up. That's just what it is.

If you got a Detroit team that don't rough people up dang good. Same thing with NC State. And then you look at a transition from Will Wade, who's like, hey, analytics say we give up that shot. And if he makes it, he makes it. And, you know, we live with it, which led to most. multiple guys having career nights against. Yeah, I didn't love that.

Yeah. As opposed to the first thing that we heard from Justin Ganey about his defensive philosophy before he even signed up to NC State is we want to contest every shot in every drill. And all of us are like, wait, what? In every drill. So like in the game, they're really going to be contested. Huh? This is okay.

So, you know, I think both of those hires are slam dunks, not just because they're alums the schools, not just because they played at the schools, but I think in today's time and what you saw with kind of both coaches that had preceded them, Autry and kind of that, it never seemed to be a great fire for winning about him and Will Wade and the lack of loyalty and integrity with NC State. You get two guys that absolutely love where they're going, even if they do it in very different ways. McNamara being the more fiery to two, Ganey being more of the quiet confidence type of guy. Both of those guys love the place that they're going. They want to be there and they bring what the fans would need at this moment from both. Now, on the opposite end, I know you and I

both at the time the hire was made, we expressed a lot of concerns about Mike Malone. You know, former Denver Nuggets head coach who did win an NBA championship. Can I take that away from him? He is now the head coach at North Carolina. Now, this one obviously has a lot of bust potential. He's one of the highest paid coaches in college basketball. He's never been a head coach in college. And the last time he was an assistant coach was when? What year? 2001.

2001. 2001. It was 2001. Now, Malone will have, I'm sure, NIL resources because, you know, Carolina is going to want to get back to the promised land. So you're not going to have to worry about that stuff. And, like, he's obviously a very capable exes and nose coach, but also. also had issues in Denver with how abrasive he is. So, you know, certain things you have to worry about behind the scene.

So it's like this one has boom or bust potential. Like if Malone is able to win big there, people will look back and say, see, you hire an NBA championship coach, this is what you get. Or if this thing blows up in his face, it's like, yeah, maybe you should have hired somebody with a little more collegiate experience and someone who knows how to handle these young men a little bit better, you know, than a guy who everybody was wanting to get rid of in Denver because they didn't like him. Well, Donno, you got to understand when he left Denver,

he didn't really have that many good players on that team. I mean, there weren't really, there's not like a debatable top 10 all-time big man on that team who was revolutionizing the position. And he also didn't have one of the best playoff risers of all time at point guard. Oh, yeah. The team just stunk, and he was holding him to account. he was holding him to a standard, you know, and everybody don't like that. And besides, you know, a lot of people didn't like it last time we talked about, you know,

Mike Malone and all that. And so we want to give him his due respect because he is the goat coach of all time. He's won, what was it, six or some Marines or something like that. I mean, oh, I'm sorry, that's the other coach. That's the other one. That was Bell check, yeah. But that one didn't work out too well for me, then I didn't. It didn't work that well so far, huh?

No. More headlines off the field and on the field, huh? Mm-hmm. And we're going to imagine this one is different. Why? Why? Like, if you can't win with Yolkich, Mary, Gordon, and company, what are we doing? What are we seriously talking about here in terms of like, oh, it's just going to be better now?

Now, the one thing that I will give him to his benefit is generally the tough guy, hard, abrasive coaches. They do. they have done historically better in college than an NBA. Because it's hard to be that way when the guy's making four times what you make. It's hard to tell the guys making four times what you made. Get down and shuffle. Because even the highest paid players right now in terms of basketball, they're at what, five, four and a half, five, something like that.

Yeah, it sounds right. He's still going to be about double what they're making. So it's going to be a little bit easier. It's still not exactly an easy task to deal with young. men in the generation that with all due respect, he hasn't had to interact with and deal with at a high level. Yeah. So we shall see. I want to appreciate everybody who made Lockdown ACC your first list.

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