Hey, Rebs, welcome back to Ivy League, powered by Riverland, which is in the world of the spirit.

I'm here with head honcho, Mr. Lankin.

How are you doing, coach?

Great.

Thanks for having me.

It's good to have you on.

So, man, I guess we'll just start, like, from the beginning.

Like, talk me through, like, your path with football and when you fell in love with the game.

Well, my dad being a coach, I was always around it.

I think a lot of times people take a long time, like they get to college, they change majors, they don't know what they're doing.

I was fortunate.

I mean, I remember being in like middle school, already knowing like I wanted to coach.

And I was just intrigued by watching NFL games and coaches on the sidelines going, like, wow, these guys can have to do with winning or losing games, even though they're not

playing in the game and the strategy behind it. So I was just really intrigued by that and thought

that was really cool. Were you like, what kind of player were you like like, were you a game manager type of guy,

where you just know absolutely every single detail while you were playing, or did that come

later?

Like when I was in high school, I called my own plays on my friends.

Yeah.

Until he threw it too much, and they took that back.

No, I just kind of, I think, was fortunate to have a head start with my dad.

I mean, so when other kids are just, you know, going through normal kids stuff, I'm sitting

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