Because in the NFL or in college football, or certainly the position of quarterback, you are going to have bad days.

Defenses have better days, you have off days, ball tips goes the wrong way.

And how you bounce back is what is kind of the name of the game.

So it's coming. You know bad things are coming, more bad things are coming,

but how you deal with them and bounce back is kind of the test of character.

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host, Greg McElroy. We're in the

month of March. And those are you guys that think we're about to start diving into brackets and

bubbles. Well, it's the wrong sport. That's going to be starting here at March Madness. One of the great, great traditions in our country. It's coming up just a

couple weeks from now. I'm as excited as anybody. I love March Madness, but I also love

spring practice. And we know that's getting underway in some places all throughout. And we know

that roster building here in

2026 is moving at a breakneck pace. But today we're going to have a unique conversation for you.

We're going to be joined by Cooper Manning. And usually when you hear that last name, you think about

touchdown records, Super Bowl rings with his brothers, Peyton and Eli and all these

incredible things. But today we're going to talk a little bit about not just Arch Manning.

We'll talk about Arch, but I am a dad. I'm a dad and I love college football. I'm fascinated

to hear from Cooper what it's like to be a parent right now and raising a college athlete.

What advice would you give to people that have hopes of being on the recruiting trail alongside their son or daughter at some point here in the very near future.

So we're going to talk to Cooper about a lot of things. We're going to talk about parenting.

We're going to talk about how does he help Arch, how is he positioned Arch, what their

recruitment was like, and how they've handled it all. Because in the era of the NIL transfer

portal with 14-year-olds with marketing agents,

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