Austin Reed - Western Kentucky QB on confidence, servant leadership and God's purpose
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Austin Reed is a quarterback at Western Kentucky University. In 2022, he led the nation in passing yards with 4,744 yards to go along with 40 touchdown passes and eight rushing touchdowns. He was the 2022 New Orleans Bowl MVP where he threw for 497 yards and 4 touchdown passes to lead the Hilltoppers to a 44-23 win over South Alabama.
Prior to arriving at Western Kentucky, Reed led West Florida with 4,084 passing yards and 40 touchdowns and helped his team to a Division II national championship.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Austin Reed about his goals for 2023, his NFL future, the difference between between confident and cocky, fighting the performance complex and living out God's purpose in his life.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. I am truly excited for today's conversation because this is the week the college football returns. |
| 0:11.1 | I mean, come on. Let's get excited, right? It's football. It's back. And we're very blessed and thankful to have Austin Reed from Western Kentucky. He's their quarterback today as our guest on the show. |
| 0:23.7 | He was a transfer, right? |
| 0:25.2 | Last year he came to Western Kentucky and, you know, as a transfer, |
| 0:30.4 | did okay, I'd say. |
| 0:32.1 | He led the nation in passing. |
| 0:33.8 | He had 4,744 yards, which led the nation. |
| 0:39.1 | 40 touchdown passes. |
| 0:45.4 | He rushed for eight touchdowns as well and was the New Orleans Bowl MVP for Western Kentucky last year. |
| 0:51.2 | He threw for 497 yards and four touchdowns in the New Orleans Bowl for Western Kentucky. |
| 0:53.6 | Prior to that, also pretty good. |
| 0:56.0 | He was at the D2 level with West Florida and led them to a D2 national title. In 2020, he threw for 4,084 passing yards and 40 touchdowns. |
| 1:04.1 | He kind of likes that 40 touchdown passing mark. This is a guy to pay attention to. |
| 1:08.9 | He was at the Manning Passing Academy a couple months ago for the |
| 1:12.5 | summer. He's on the Heisman list. He's definitely a quarterback that teams are going to be watching |
| 1:17.7 | throughout the year. And we talk about that, trying to stay focused on playing quarterback for |
| 1:23.8 | Western Kentucky and not getting caught up in agents or Heisman talk or NFL draft rankings |
| 1:28.9 | or anything like that. Obviously, it's very difficult to not pay attention to that stuff. |
| 1:33.5 | But this is a stud of a quarterback that you're going to be hearing a lot more from, I think, down the road. |
| 1:38.5 | But we get a chance today to really get to Austin Reed's core, which is his faith, his faith in Jesus. |
| 1:44.8 | We're going to bring to you this conversation in a second. First, want to say thank you to our friends at Compassion International. |
| 1:50.2 | They are the most trusted child development ministry in the world, and what they do, bringing |
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