Hey, million dollars worth of game listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Right. Right now, shout out to the ACEBCUs. Yep. You heavy, you heavily involved. And I want to shout out to Jackson State. Shout out to everything that Deion did for Jackson State.

We was down there. It was major. Turned it all way up. Now, why is your heart there so much? Explain that. I mean, my brother went to HBCU. I grew up around HBCU, you know, going down to the homecomings. I understand what that culture and that community means to like, you know, our community and us, you know what I'm saying?

And for me, it was like the challenge of, um, how do I take HBCUs and, and put them on a platform

that's going to give these college athletes a look that they normally wouldn't get.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, you know, you have all these, like, you know, we have the best talent. Yes. Why are we always going to these other, you know, these other Division I schools instead of going back into, you know what I'm saying, the HBCU community? Because we can change the whole structure of it. Yeah. Really create a real alumni system so we can actually start having the facility and the funds, you know what I'm saying to be able to recruit the way we need to and be able to have the facilities that you know kids from high school actually want to end up at a Howard or a Hampton for you know athletic means you know I'm saying and then so having like you know having that was was was was uh in another reason why I thought of it because I was honestly I was watching the Maui Invit i was watching maui invitation i was like man i wonder how many like you know black colleges like get a chance to travel outside of the country and playing games like this you know what the you know the gift packets are looking like i understand like oh you know when they get the maori they get in the bags and then the winner gets this and that and all the funds go back to the school.

I'm like, damn, why don't we have anything like that? You know, so I was trying to start small, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, start. And then start to build some momentum so ultimately we can have our own invitation. We can have our own tournament, you know what I'm saying? It just came from trying to be disruptive, you know what I'm saying, in a positive way. you know what I mean and and and and and in my way through it's slowly evolving I

ain't got it all figured out what I'm saying, in a positive way. You know what I mean? And finding my way through, it's slowly evolving.

I ain't got it all figured out, but I'm slowly gaining some momentum. We sold out the Prudential Center, which was like, you know, phenomenal. The first year we did it was in the pandemic. We didn't, you know, we had great numbers for that. But this year we really did what we needed to do. So now it's like, yeah, man, I'm just trying to see where it can go.

Maybe, you know, instead of four teams, you know what I'm saying?

Now we maybe get eight.

You know, it can go.

Maybe, you know, instead of four teams, you know what I'm saying? Now we maybe get eight, you know, you get 16, turn into a weekend, you know, we offer some classes about coding, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, and financial literacy that we have right now, entrepreneur, you know, pitch competitions that we're doing. We're bringing in, you know, you know, different sponsors and brands and I was really wanting to be involved with this.

So just using the platform as best I can to give these guys a look.

You know, now with the name of likeness, you know, setting off right now,

now these cats can get brand deals.

Okay, well, I'm in Hollywood.

I know brands, you know what I'm saying?

Maybe I can start bringing in little small brand deals for cats to start getting paid.

So they can start, you know, if they don't go to the league, at least they have something.

Absolutely.

Are we setting up a pension for them in college, you know what I'm saying, in case they get hurt. You got something to lean back on because all these cats ain't going to the league. No. Most of them are not. But if you love ball, maybe you end up, you know, working front office.

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