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But without further ado, I want to bring in former Auburn star quarterback and current Texas A&M wide receiver coach Damien Craig DC.

I know we talked about having you on for a while, man. I'm pumped and I know you're busy, and I really appreciate it. I know the audience does too.

No problem, Jake. Thanks for having on any time. And he's just a dual threat can do it while he's driving.

Oh, you're not driving. Oh, it looks like the hand was moving, man. I don't know. You may be in England or something on the other side. I never know, man, but, but no, I want to start.

And I want to get obviously to what you're doing now and you playing at Auburn, but me and you talked on the pre show. And, you know, we give a lot of credit, you know, to college coaches and helping guys advance and being a big part of their lives, but high school coaches in my opinion, don't get talked about enough.

I know you had a very special relationship with yours. Coach Ben Harris. I just want to give you a second to kind of talk about him and the effect that high school coaches have on getting guys ready for that next level.

Not only on the field, but life because it's a life changing event going from high school to college. It's a totally different planet, especially like at a place like Auburn in the SEC.

Coach Harris was a guy that really changed my life. And he affected the community.

Fridge out of Bama, where I'm from. And if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't even have thought about coaching. And at the time, the nation was going through the crack every day, you know.

And it was really, really rough and I and I neighborhoods and coach Harris came in. I think it's 30, 34, 36 years old.

And he would ride around in the green truck and go pick guys up off the corner and take him to practice.

And so he had a lot of energy man. He was a big man about six, six, 250 pounds of muscle. And he commanded respect.

And everybody in the community, respect him throughout the school, the players. And what he was able to do, he was able to change the culture.

He was able to change the community. And he was able to change the team because we had never won a playoff game.

So I think I arrived at 89. My freshman year, Coach Harris got there at 88. And by 1990, we had one of our first day temp shit.

I was never ever won a playoff game. And our rivalry was by the hospital. And by the head just come off a national championship.

And so coach Harris went on throughout the 90s.

Blood Hospital played seven state championships and one five. And I really just could be a story or movie man a book or something.

Because the things he had to deal with, we had poor facilities, dirt practice fields.

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