Gary Parrish

that would in any other year try desperately to recruit the quote-unquote number one prospect in the sport.

And some of those programs just decided they didn't want to get involved in this at all.

You go to Peach Jam every year and –

You would hear stories about, you know, he can be tough to coach.

He can be tough to play with.

It doesn't mean that he can't change all of that stuff.

It just means that he does need to change all of that stuff, or at least a lot of that stuff.

To be fair, when I was his age, there was a lot of stuff I probably needed to change as well, and there were no eyeballs on me, nobody talking about me on a radio.

So, you know, I'm hopeful that this is an awesome story

But it's been a tough path, or at least

a little bit of a bumpy path for him to get to this point.

Nobody questions the talent, but people do have a lot of questions about a lot of the other stuff.

I hope not, obviously.

Yeah, like if you were to throw the past three recruiting classes all in one draft and say let's start saying whose future are you betting on, regardless of age, just like you can invest in their future.

you would invest in Cooper Flag way before you would invest in this.

You would invest in Cameron Boozer, A.J.

DeBonse, and Darren Peterson.

The list is pretty long.

But if you can just take that aside and say, let's just focus on the talent and see if we can get this right, the talent is all in place.

The truth is, and this is why I struggle to talk about this sometimes, is I have children, and I have a child who's older than Tyron Stokes.