Jennifer Ledwith

And I attended Oklahoma in the Bob Stoops era when we went to a ball game every single year.

And so I want people to think about how football is made, how those successes are made.

The successes are not made when, you know, team makes the orange bowl.

or they're marching down, you know, they're at the Rose Bowl, or even when at the high school championship where somebody throws a Hail Mary pass and it is successful, it's completed, and that wins the game.

That's not the success of those programs.

So in my community, there are two main, just like most communities, there are maybe two main roads.

So one of the main roads, I can drive down one of the main roads on Saturday afternoon.

In fact, this past Saturday afternoon, and I see those little boys out there playing football.

And their families are out there.

They have the tents.

They have food trucks.

They have everything going on to support those babies in football.

And then when I turn down another major road, I see the same thing happening maybe on a Sunday.

And I say that to say we start early.

And there's a pipeline.

There's a pipeline in my community.

that creates these perennial contending teams for football.

And I need for people to think about thinking that same way.

People need to bring that same energy to education.

When they are younger, the main thing is that they have to be able to read.