You're going to. Hey, Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and

joining me on the show for the very first time Sam Brookhouse who is a data

scientist for sumer sports

as we continue to hunt the world

for people to fill Eric Eager's shoes

on this show as the resident data scientist.

So Sam, I don't know,

you've got some big expectations to live up for here

joining the show. What's up man? How are you?

Look, I don't know if I can live up to Eric's resume, but certainly if I do do do well on this show today I'm doing some right so much love to Eric and much love to everyone else from Super Sports over the years that you've had on the show.

Well why don't we before we just dive deep into it,

you could tell the audience,

since it's your first time, a little about yourself,

your former linebacker turned data scientist,

how does that work?

I mean, the linebacker is an intellectual

position though so maybe there's a fit there for being a data nerd. Yeah so so

like you said I come from a football background. I played linebacker at Tulane University for four years.

Luckily we were okay. We made some of the first bowl appearances in the in the school's recent history and then of course once I went out the door they win the cotton bowl last year that they make it to the conference championship, unfortunately,

lose to SMU, but they've been in New Year 6 Bowl contention since then.

But you learn a lot coming from that and kind of in parallel I was lucky enough to work in the

NBA with agents and and some of those guys during my time in college as well so

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