Dan Rochard
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And every university is a little bit different.
Our college setting is a little bit different in the sense that some guys are coached at a really high level, some guys maybe not as high level.
Maybe we've had multiple transfers from college to college to college, and things are maybe different.
just a little bit off.
What's in there?
So in that 15 minutes, you're trying to really hone in on, in a short interview, hey, what's this guy's football IQ like?
That's really what you're driving at.
And
Speaking on last year, because we were in the market, we thought we were in the market to go early.
We had the 10th pick, and although that went to Colston, which was a heck of a pick, we're all doing that as positions, coaches.
That's really what we're driving at for Colston.
our head football coach, our GM, and those in the room to be able to go, man, this guy's got good football makeup.
Or there's some real concerns.
And the more concerns there are, the less clean they are, the more work you then have to do after the process.
That's bringing them to campus for what we call 30 visits.
You get 30 prospects.
to come to campus and you can spend an entire day meal setting whatever those things are to do more leg work and then a process like this where you're on zoom hey how much more can we gather and I always like to you know in the process I always like to go back to if I know if I know somebody that I really know at a college that's worked with the player
and they can give me insider information about what this is like.
Like, how's this guy handle injury?
Is he going to be able to fight through it, or are we going to be dealing with a guy that's in the clubhouse?