We are happy to be joined by the head coach of the TCU Horn Frog. Sunny Dykes joining us on Heartland College Sports. I'm Pete Mundo. It's great to have Coach Dikes here as we are just a few months away from getting the 2024 college football season underway. Coach, first things first. When you look at this time of the year in particular, it feels like it's the only

downtime for you guys. The cycle never ends. The spring portal window just, of course,

wrapped up. How has your schedule changed as a head coach as a CEO in this new world of

college football of NIL, transfer portal windows, and all the recruiting craziness you still have

to do.

Yeah, it's certainly changed quite a bit.

You know, for years, the last two weeks of April and really all of May,

head coaches were on the road recruiting.

And now that's really not the case anymore.

We're not allowed to go out on the road recruiting anymore.

Now assistant coaches go and we kind of stay in and man the ship in some ways. And it's,

it's good in some ways and not great in others. I think we'd all like to be out there seeing

recruits and high school coaches and build on those relationships, but we can't. So that makes

it a little frustrating. But, you know, there is so much that needs to be done now.

And it does give you an opportunity to sit down really with your support staff and do a lot of planning.

And, you know, for us, we've got a really busy camp calendar coming up in June.

We host a really big camp the very first weekend of June every year.

We'll have about, I don't know, 4,000, maybe 4,500 kids at that camp over those two days.

And so it'll be, we'll be busy.

And so a lot of prep goes into that and gives us a chance to do those things.

And as you said, you know, used to be camps only in June.

Now you're doing official visits in April and May and June.

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