Podcast just wake up. How are you, Bill?

I'm good. I did not just wake up.

And I don't sound nearly as terrible as I did yesterday when the fifth round of black death

that the school brought, that the girl, the five-year-old brought home from school, hit me and then released me.

So I'm good.

The reason why coaches make more money than you and I is that they, it's not about working hard.

It's about working patient.

And what I mean by that is, uh, today is Thursday. Yes. In Eugene, Oregon.

As we taped this, I'm about to leave Eugene, Oregon to go home.

I was up, I got up at 3 a.m.

Pacific yesterday. The first staff meeting in Oregon for National Signing Day was at 330.

I got into the building about 345 350. The coaches had already gotten up,

showered dress for the day, and gotten on the phone.

And built, they were on the phone,

talking to kids, talking to families hanging out tolerating people like me reporter

Going to press conferences going to multiple press events then going to I know that every coach went to at least two banquets because I went to two banquets yesterday,

one here in Eugene and one I drove up to a big event at the convention center in downtown Portland.

Then, as far as I know, the coaches went to like smaller

meetings and like other regions of the state in between those two events.

And the reason I tell you all this is like that's a long day, right?

I'm talking to Mario, Cristobal,

former head coach at FIU, a former assistant inside the machine in

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