Damon West
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Right.
But I get, I get in front of Dabo and I give him my pitch and man, Dabo looks a little frightened.
He's like, man, you got a card on you.
I'm like, Oh, this is awful, man.
So I give him my card.
He's nice enough.
He said, man, I'll check you out.
He's gone.
And, um,
That night, man, that looked like a no and felt like a no, man.
I got a lot of no's like that that night, but I felt good about that last no because that no meant that I left it all on the field.
One of the biggest lessons we learned from sports, right?
We learned that you give it all up.
Sometimes you come up short.
Or like Muhammad said, you don't have to win all those fights.
You got to fight the fights.
Make it one home that night and sleep like a baby.
Forgot about that night.
Four months later, the operations director at Clemson, a guy named Mike Newley, he emails me.
It says, uh,