Rob Blake

Then he was our, started as a video coach when I was still playing here with Mark Crawford.

Nelson was a video coach.

Graduated.

Then he got into management.

And then when I came on board, he was still here in management and today's assistant GM.

No way.

No, but I would hear the stories of Mark Crawford.

The wreck from the source.

Yeah, he was so good.

And like I said, so coming from a farming community, and my parents didn't understand junior college and all that.

So when Bowling Green was recruiting, when I was in Stratford, uh, coach York drove to, to my hometown and had dinner with my mom and dad.

And, and from that point on, they were like, Hey, if that's where you're going to go, we're a hundred percent, you know, I would be with, with coach York and you sit down.

So no, he was terrific.

I remember it was my sophomore year at Bowling Green.

And like I said, I was kind of late bloomer, but the second year I started to take off a little bit, had been drafted by LA and, uh, Rogie Vachon was the GM at the time.

So he called right after the second, my sophomore year.

And he's like, Hey, we're thinking of turning, uh, you know, off of your contract, have you turned pro?

But I wasn't really sure.

And I went and met with coach York and he had had so many guys go through the same situation when he was at Clark's and he had Dave Taylor who was here and obviously a Bowling Green, Brian McCullen, George McPhee, and these guys.

And he said, listen, he goes like,