Kenny Dillingham
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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I would say you get to come out here and live in paradise and You get to play championship football. You don't have to go in the snow and hit people in 25 degrees. Yes. Does it get hot in the summer? Yeah. Yeah. Keep your butt inside, right? Get in the pool. The pool's not bad, right? It's a good spot. And be around good people. We have really good people on our staff, and we have a saying here.
Be a good person. Make good decisions. And the last one, have more fun working harder than anyone in the country. You want to have a lot of fun working your ass off?
Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, like I know it's a business. I get all of it. Trust me. I'm in it. Right. So I understand it, but college sports is supposed to be to help the kids. Like that's still the root of, of what it's supposed to be. And if there's a guy who's not playing for us who wants to go play college football, why should I be upset? Like I shouldn't be upset.
I should be like, you're right. You're not going to play for us right now. Or maybe you're behind somebody on the depth chart, or maybe you're really good and you want to go your dream school, right? Maybe this isn't your dream school. Why would I be mad at a kid for wanting to be, do what's best for him? Coaches do it all the time. I've moved around. Assistant coaches move around.
What a double standard that would be for me if I don't support the players and their career aspirations like I support coaches and like I did in my career. So I root for them. I try to help them. I let them give my number to other college coaches for them to call me. I want to see them successful. And bottom line, and I really think if you're good to people,
People are going to be good to get back. Yeah. I really believe that.
Yeah, I would hope. Like I said, I just believe, like I said earlier, our number one thing on our board when we recruit people for our coaches, like our number one thing is be a good person. Like that's not very hard to do. Like when you really truly think about it, it's not hard to just treat people right. And if you do that, good things are going to happen for you. I just believe it.
So I do think that's part of it is just being a good person.
Not rocket science.
Yeah.
Not at all. So I coached Bo as a true freshman. He had a pretty good season as a true freshman, SEC Newcomer of the Year. And then he transferred to play for me at Oregon. That was a big reason he went up to Oregon. And Bo has always been competitive and special and accurate and has moxie and intelligent, like, He's the dude that has enough dog in him that it makes some people uncomfortable.
Like, oh, whoa, he's going to say something back to you. Yeah. Like in a good way, like in a competitive way. Like, why do you like that call? Well, what have you thought about doing it like this? And some people don't like some people. This is what you do. Go do it. Don't don't give your opinion. I'm the opposite. I'm not. I've never been the smartest in the room and I never will be.
You know what I am? I'm smart enough to listen to people. And I was smart enough when I went to Oregon to listen to Bo Nix when he said, I want to run. I want this guy to run the route like this. I'm like, OK, go tell him you're the one throwing it. Not me. I'm over there standing with my hands in my pockets like I hope this works.
I have zero doubt in my mind that he was going to be successful. He has it. And I'm excited to watch him play for many years to come because I think he's going to be one of the next great Bronco quarterbacks.
No, I mean, he did that at Oregon. I mean, he had one of the highest completion percentage in the country. He really didn't turn the ball over at Oregon for us when we got there. So it's he's kind of doing what exactly what he did his last two years in college. The problem was he's so efficient as a passer. You know, people wanted him to throw it deep more.
You know, and there was a narrative about him going into the draft. And the funny thing about narratives is you guys know a narrative can be created about anything. It doesn't really matter. People can make it out of thin air. They can find a stat and create it. And there are some narratives about him going into the draft that led to him.
And it was the best thing that ever happened to him because it put him in a position to be drafted by the Broncos with Sean Payton. Yeah. So that narrative of he doesn't throw it deep or take chances. was the best thing that could ever happen in his career because it got him with a really good football coach.
I don't know about Whisper. I wouldn't be. I will say this. I can guarantee I would not be the head coach at Arizona State without Bo Nix.
Without Jordan Travis. You know, I can promise you that because they're both really good players. The kid we have right now, Sam Leavitt, he's a very similar player to Bo Nix. He's got that swagger, the blonde hair, the run around ultra competitive. I mean, it's like I'm reliving the Bo Nix experience with this new guy, Sam Levitt. And it's super exciting.
I mean, now he's a Big 12 champ as a freshman. So I've been blessed to be around some good quarterbacks.
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