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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Chavis Daniels: Mentoring 1,000 Kids (Pt 1)

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Daily News

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Chavis Daniels played football for Coach Bill Courtney and was one of the accidental stars of the Oscar-winning film Undefeated. But that’s not why he’s a member of the Army. Chavis went on to found The North Memphis Steelers, a mentoring and athletics nonprofit that helps at-risk kids in the same challenging neighborhood where he grew up. 

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0:14.9

The kid that I put the most blood sweat and tears are the ones that still go go to juvenile like I do and most of those kids not even bad kids is just the environment like and there's no excuse because we still make our own decisions but and one thing I've learned is just like I've ran into

0:20.7

so many kids like I was and the hardest thing I think I've had to do is try to coach

0:25.9

the me out of a kid.

0:28.4

The hardest thing you've had to do is try to coach the you out of the kids?

0:33.6

Yes, sir.

0:34.8

Because you recognized it from your past.

0:36.9

Right.

0:37.4

And I've had kids to walk off the feet and throw the heel,

0:40.5

call me B's and H's. Like, like literally I've had to experience the same thing

0:46.2

that I was taking people through.

0:49.4

Welcome to an Army of Normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, a father or an entrepreneur and I'm a football coach in

0:59.7

inner city Memphis and the last part unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team.

1:05.4

It's called Undefeded.

1:07.2

I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people and

1:11.9

nice suits using big words that nobody

1:14.2

understands on CNN and Fox but rather by an army of normal folks us just you

1:20.0

and me seeing a need and saying, hey I can help.

1:23.8

That's what Chevis Daniels, the voice we just heard is done.

1:27.4

And I know this guest all too well

1:29.6

because Chevis played on my football team at Manassas and like me was one of the

1:34.8

accidental stars in undefeated. But that's not why he's on the podcast.

1:40.0

Chavis has gone on to mentor over a thousand kids in his organization that he

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