Bucky Brooks

Duke.

I think college sports in general are kind of like that.

Football is just a kingpin that will never go away.

Yeah, it's really hard when you can't.

as you say, grow to fall in love with the players that you see.

Oh man, they were terrible as a freshman.

Look at them get better as a sophomore.

Man, their junior year, they start playing.

Senior year, they're great.

It's hard when we don't have that connection.

And college sports are, I mean, we're calling it college, but guys don't even really go to class.

Like everyone is taking things online.

There's a disconnect between us romanticizing what college sports are.

were to what they are now.

And I'll say this, it's really difficult for me, particularly as, as a target and watching like Carolina basketball growing up on that to, to these people pop corn in and out.

And there's no connection to the thing.

It's just a different time.

But I,

I, like the university and some of these other schools, you had a crossroads where either you jump in and you're okay with the transfer portal and everyone, or you just are, nah, we believe we're going to do it another way and we're okay with what it looks like.

Kind of like Dabo and Clemson in football.