Ryan Smith

We're just in a new world and you've seen it.

Like in our world, it's Patrick Dumont, it's Ishbia, it's obviously, you know,

Gabe and, and everyone up in Charlotte with Rick and, you know, I think the wrestlers or, or someone new and coming in and like, you look at, you look at the involvement, not only just with their, or what Dunn has done in Carolina and now in Portland, like, like in a round and what they're building out, like it's a decision to say, Hey, I'm actually could probably do what I want.

This is what I want to go do.

And like, I want to be involved now.

That's a tough balance as well, because,

I know enough.

Look, I'm a hooper.

I play all the time.

I watch basketball.

I'm a junkie.

I watch every game.

But in this draft, for example, I'm going to say this.

Our fan base shouldn't want me drafting this person.

When you've got the team with Austin and Danny and group, you should feel a lot more comfortable than with me.

Now, I want to opine and have a thing, but how involved you get is like, you got to be a little careful because you need to be involved enough to give the team air cover, right?

Because everything's not going to go well and you need to understand the body of work that people are putting in.

But at the same time, that's what gives them air cover to be able to have a long tenure.

I often find that when people are too far out of it,

or they don't live in market, they become really reactive with coaches and GMs and stuff like that.