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guys. We'll talk to you soon. Enjoy the interview. Continuing on Heartland College Sports Weekly, I'm Pete Mundo, and we now welcome in former Texas Longhorns quarterback, David Ash, giving us a few minutes of his time.

And David, really appreciate it.

And for people that don't know kind of what you've been up to lately,

obviously you're participating in a couple of the spring leagues last year.

You've rebooted your football career.

Where do things currently stand for you right now?

Well, you know, since trying to come back and play football, since I found out I was clear and healthy to play about a year ago, it's been really tough, you know.

I guess my career at Texas had yet to be completely, it was just still unknown whether I was going to, you know, reach my full potential or not. It kind of ended before any of that to be found out. And then, um, started trying to come

back and play. And it's, it's really hard, you know, with a, a head injury, um, stigma about you

to convince a team to take a chance and let you try to prove that you can

play football again. So trying to come back, really, that's been the hardest thing. It's been

like, no matter how well I go to the ball or physically, you know, look the part or whatever it might be, it always kind of

winds back to probably two deals for me, teams. You know, look at me and say, well, you've been

out of the games for about two and a half years. You know how many film. And then the other one

is, and we're not really sure you're actually healthy. And it's just a liability that they don't want to take on,

and especially in the way the media has treated head injuries over the past few years,

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