DFW basketball is taking over — and most people still don’t understand why.

DFW basketball is taking over — and most people still don’t understand why.

In this episode of Baseline Truths, we break down the rise of Dallas-Fort Worth high school basketball across multiple divisions (UIL, private, and independent programs) and what it means for recruiting at the next level.

But this episode goes deeper.

Because while opportunity is rising — so is confusion.

We’re talking about:

• DFW dominance in Texas high school basketball
• Why players from this region are translating to college success
• What actually stands out to college coaches on film
• How to approach elite exposure events like Noble Elite Camp
• The truth about recruiting camps and evaluation opportunities
• How to identify REAL exposure vs wasted money

And most importantly…

🚨 How to avoid recruiting scams that are costing families time, money, and real opportunities

If someone tells you:
 “I can get you a scholarship for $400”
 or
 “Just send money, I’ll get you an offer”

That’s not recruiting. That’s a scam.

This episode breaks down how recruiting actually works — and how to protect yourself in the process.

🎯 WHO THIS VIDEO IS FOR:

• High school basketball players (all levels)
• Parents navigating the recruiting process
• Coaches looking for real evaluation insight
• Anyone serious about earning a college opportunity

📈 RECRUITING TRUTH:
Exposure doesn’t create scholarships — development, habits, and fit do.

If you don’t understand the process, you’re vulnerable to anyone who sounds confident.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:59

What'd it do? What it do? My main man Phil Townsend.

unknown 1:04

What's up?

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Man, let's talk about some state championships. And let's talk about them boys from the North, man. Woo! I'm telling people, hey, 12 out of 12 state championship games was won in North Texas. Crazy. The Panhandle had two of them. Man, so you know, I would say that San Antonio basketball is is improving. Improving. Little 5A, Big Five A, Little 6A, Little 6A, all San Antonio teams were in the last games to get to go to state.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

I don't have any problem with that. No. You know, but man, at the same time, you know, gotta hand it off to them. You know, and when whenever we start looking at Division I scholarships and who signed division one opportunities, you know, it goes uh Dallas, San Antonio, and then Houston.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Um, but man, you know, uh I gotta say, now you just said when you look at it, now we just you just ran through what Dallas is doing. But then when you came and you know, we know San Antonio is on the rise. You just said division one scholarships, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, yes, yes. How often have we just heard Houston, Dallas, Dallas, Houston, and um, you know, uh San Antonio, they have basketball there?

SPEAKER_00 3:11

You know what? It's I got I gotta say, this one uh it may be the same number, but the point is still taken. Yeah, the point is still taken. We're moving on up moving up east side. Oh, yeah, no, you know, but at the same time, man, opportunity brings noise, and caps are coming, and people are talking, exposure is rising, but guess what rises with exposure? Scams, scams for the yams. We're gonna talk about scams tonight, man. We are gonna talk about it tonight. You know, we got the DFW dominance, real opportunities like the Noble Elite camp coming up, and how not to get fooled in recruiting. Because if you don't know the game off the court, you'll lose before you ever get on. Fear, what are we seeing right now? DFW across UIL and and taps.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

You had look let me let me just can I just go back and talk a little about what we saw in the in the state playoffs. Yeah. Look at here. I saw I saw Dallas Carter uh earlier in the year, right? And I was like, oh, I I I like the defense. I like the uh the defense, uh looking good. But then I saw North Crowley play Brennan. Yes, and I was like, oh my God, right? Oh my goodness, and then you know who we saw play Austin Wesley, we saw Harlan, and we saw Justin, and we saw little M. State Championship game.

SPEAKER_00 5:17

Little M.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

We saw Little M right there in that Carrollton Frisco area, area. Little M. Kev, that was the most exciting defense I have seen played all year long. Oh my goodness, I loved it. And I I'm not gonna encroach on something that you're gonna say a little later on. I'll it'll get me coming back to little M if you ask that question. If you don't ask that question, I'll I'll I'll bring it back in just as tight as Little M.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Yeah, you know what? And I'm gonna give a shout out to my man Jay Fry, the CEO of the Noble, as he put together the uh the matchups for the Noble, and I want to tell you just how good it was. And the Tap 6A state champion, Parish Capiscible, played in the Noble. Dallas Carter played in the Noble, Frisco Heritage played in the Noble, Mansfield Summit played in the Noble. Little M played in the Noble. Norman High School, Norman, Oklahoma, state champions in Oklahoma played in the noble. So, what I'm saying to people is this the matchups are out there. If you won't smoke, follow the noble. Because we got something coming up and we'll talk about it later on tonight. But what is it that you think? Because all of San Antonio, all of the rest of the state is gonna have to sit back and look and say, what is it that separates DFW players from everybody else?

SPEAKER_01 7:20

You know, Kev, this this see now you're leading into what I was gonna get at, right? Because we look, and I'll just take uh little M and uh North Crowley, right? I'm looking and I am saying, oh my goodness, I'm looking at price speed up and down the court for North Crowley, right? And then Wings, what he was doing for Little L. I was like, oh my god, the the the the speed and the uh ability to to get up and uh do it at 6'1. Uh it was incredible. So okay, what we saw was really, I think a separation that you're getting in is okay, the talent is there, right? But again, when you look across the board, it's not like you're gonna look uh at Little Lamb and you say, Oh, well, they got four division ones right there, right? Yeah, it's not about that. I I think that what was so crucial about them was their discipline to the game, maintaining the lanes. You see, all the steals, all the breakups, and the I mean, and just doing your job, right? Their recovery speed was incredible. Um, so it it so much of that was I I just have to attribute it to good coaching, getting your players to buy in to do their job. And the one thing that we noticed, if you look that depth to where people were interchanging and going in on the on those teams, it it was just like, oh well, you don't have to worry about getting tired, you can exhaust yourself because you can get a chance to rest, and we're not looking at dropping off that much.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Man, let me tell you what, let's talk about uh the 4A district 11. Okay, 4A District 11. The champion of that district was Dallas Carter, they won a state championship. Second place in that district was Dallas Kimball, and guess what? They won a state championship, and to show you the depth in Dallas right now, and I'm not all about Dallas, it just happens to be that's where the players are right now, if you want to be honest, but the fifth place team, one, two, three, four, five, in in uh in that district eleven was Dallas Roosevelt. The reason I bring that up, Isaiah Johnson played on that fifth place team, 6'9, and man, I remember when I saw him at Tarleton State League Camp, he was wearing a jumpsuit. Man, I thought he was gonna be like Carl Lewis or something breaking up, and then I didn't I didn't really follow up with him, and then I checked back in uh during district play, and man, he's an animal, and so I started looking, and I'm not seeing the recruiting take off. And so, some kind of way I got in touch with Isaiah and his coach, uh Coach Walker, and I I said some along the lines of, hey man, can I come up and see him this weekend? And he said, No, well, he's on a visit to Vincent. Vincent just happens to be the number four junior college team in the country, and they'll be playing at Hutch for the national championship. Uh, the way that they do their their brackets, you know. Wow. How did Vince know something that nobody else knew? And what's interesting even more, man, and 4A outside of Davenport, I don't know that we have another 4-A team in the city, and that's why we mainly focus our attention to 5A and 6A. You know, shout out Eric Powell from Cole High School. We uh did a one-eye watch list interview earlier, and that's a dog house. I won't say doghouse baby, but he's been there forever, you know, and uh and man, I just the the divisions that show the most consistency is again region, I guess it's region one, I don't know, whatever that region is up north, but I gotta quit talking about it, man, because I'm a San Antonio guy, and that's that's making my stomach hurt, you know. Yeah, but people, this isn't hype, it's structure, coaching, and competition. The DFW's building players that translate, and we will go with a San Antonio legend, Coach David Peavy. When Peavy left Duncanville to go to Southwestern Prep, I talked to him over that summer and I asked him, Coach, what is the difference? And he said the difference was that Dallas has so many good players and they play themselves. Like, not that Brendan and these other teams, they need to get out and compete. So does Dallas, right? But you know, you'll have you won't just have to go to the playoffs to have a Brendan Judson matchup or a Harlan, somebody else matchup, or you know what I'm saying? Like they happen in the season, and they match up at the Allen tournament, they match up at the Dr. Pepper tournament, and I think that is one big difference that we find because I don't believe San Antonio really does that, and that's not a that's not a jab, that's not a nothing, that's just a big country saying that's one thing that's different, and whatever is different, they kicking our ass, you know.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

Yeah, but you know, Kev, sometimes you don't know what you don't know, right? So if you you go and play that talent, you can watch them on film on tape all you want, right? Yeah, and you look and you say, We do that, we can jump out of the gym, we can do this, we can do that, but it's something about players that people say. I'll give you an I'll give you an example. We saw somebody play uh before the season started against uh Frisco. You know where I'm going, and the the two guards were at it all back and forth before the game, doing the game, after the game. Uh but the whole thing is one of those guys believed that hey, this guy might be division one and I'm a division nine right now. But the whole thing is that I'm on the bet that my light can shine as brighter, brighter than his.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

Hey, you know what's loaded, man? The noble elite camp coming, real opportunity, man. You know, we've been talking about it here, we've been talking about social media, man. And I just I don't think people go ahead, Ken.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

Look, I I really want you to delve into that a little bit because you just rattled off what the Noble showed last time, right? Right, and you're talking about this Noble Elite camp. People, you can go out there and you can spend this exorbitant amount of money if you want, and think because the more money you're spending, the better the situation it is, or the light is gonna shine, or the better thing, or you're gonna garner more knowledge because you're doing that. It does not necessarily translate that way. When when when you have the people that Kev is talking about involved in a situation, they are looking to get you the most bang for your buck. Not like some of this, and I look, I'm not poo-pooing somebody else's thing, but all I'm trying to do is tell you that sometimes you gotta look at the value overall and see, and not just go, well, this is a higher price tag, so it must be better.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? So we're gonna post this up there for a second, and and I want people to really look at that list. You know what that list says? That says if you want smoke, you know where to go. If you don't, then don't go. Because what makes a noble camp different from these other camps is look at that list of guards right off the bat, man. You got a Marion Hunter from Dallas Carter, state champion, Isaac Hayes, state champion, uh Sino Negan, state champion, that state championship pedigree just on the guard side. Yeah, we got a chance to see Hunter play, and he's something else. Man, you know what? My heart broke though, man. And I and I'm gonna give a shout out to Jacob Badia, because that's a dog of a dude for Brennan. And uh he went down injured, and uh, you know, we had kind of previewed that he and Isaac would have a rematch in this camp, man. And I just hope the best for him. Quick healings, man, because San Antonio needs him, man.

unknown 19:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:43

That that was so critical for Brennan when they played that championship game. You know, he had already got taken it inside for a couple of baskets, and then to set up and have something like that happen to him when uh when he was, you know, playing good g and all the you just hate to see something like that happen uh to a young man.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Yeah, you know, and and now we're gonna flip over, and I want people to look at the big the size that's gonna be there, you know. And uh I'm I'm really proud that um Amani Francis is coming up there.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Uh you know what I think about Amani.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

Yeah, I'm telling you, you can get a chance to show it. Uh Eric Powell is gonna be there. Uh Ty Reeves, who who plays uh Prep over at Quality Academy Prep. And there's one young man. I want to I want to read his name right because uh he's from right here at the Gervin Academy. Uh Laurandon Gums. Uh that's another San Antonio guy. And the reason I'm proud of him, man, is because what people don't understand, like, this camp's different. Like, there's gonna be NBA execs that are watching this camp. Division one, division two, division three, JUCO, NAI coaches are all there, and they're all getting the data from this stuff, man. And that's and for the price, right? Okay, for a two-day camp with MBA uh trainers, NBA coach, uh uh trainers,$225 for a two-day camp, man. That's$112.50 a day.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

Can I say this? Yeah, we watched the USA Olympic young guys, and the same type of people were at those and tryouts, and so it just tells you how elite this camp is, yes, yes, and I just people are gonna miss out on it, man.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

And I understand because the the conversations, well, there's an AAU tournament that weekend. Well, there's AU praxes, and there comes a time where you as a parent, you as a family, you as a player have to say, and what is more viable to my development, my development right now, because I think that's the point that's kind of getting missed, you know. Uh, but anyway, that is what it is, you know, and and coaches have us an opportunity for some connections, yeah. But you know, man, you you can't make you can't make choices for people. And what I've noticed, and you've noticed that. That people are following the cookie cutter procedure instead of doing what's right or what's needed for their child, you know, and I think realistically, the people that benefit most for attending events like this is players from other cities that want to measure themselves. You know, that's one thing that Eric and I talked about today. He knows those three names on that list, and he wants to know where he's at. You know, um, you know, we we talked about we talked about some other things, and I think that a player coming in day one on Saturday, we're gonna do some film work, some film stuff, and then we're going to do a full comprehensive uh combine, measurements, and all those things. So all those fake six sevens that are really six, six, and uh ain't a really you're about to be exposed, and opportunity is real, but only if your game is ready for it. These kind of camps don't fix confusion, right? So, my next point for tonight, and this is what's killing me, is recruiting scams. And I'm gonna give a shout out to my man, Coach Joshua Johnson of Bridgeport High School, his head basketball coach, and he says, What should you think when someone says, I'll get you a scholarship for$400, and that guy's a former college, and as soon as you hand over those$400, he walks down the road and calls his old teammate at schmuck you and says, Hey, offer this kid. I just wired you$200. Now, in the day and age of fake offers, and a school can't really comment if it's a fake offer or not. What stops this, man? And how can how can people be so dominant in their city? And we'll talk about Houston right now. God Lewis Award is chosen by the high school coaches. Devin Brown from Parliament High School is in the top 10 uh finalist. He's already passed, just getting in, and he's already pass the round of 25, and he's a round of 10. But no one's covering him, you know, and and or some very few people. I will say there's some, there's a few, but not at the not at the at the level that need to be. And you know, so uh hopefully he shows up this weekend, but you know, fake people create fake relationships with families just to manipulate them, and that bothers me, and it bothers me a lot because when you stop to think about it, I'm comfortable in what I do, I'm comfortable with it, I'm not affiliated with nobody, I'm comfortable because I'm not dependent upon uh income of taking people's money, right? Uh it if you charge people and you give them what you said they were gonna give you, I got no problem with it. None. It's when you you don't give them what you said you was gonna give them, right? Or you're shady about it, and man, you can sit back, and I've talked to you off air about this, and I'm not gonna put it laundry out on the show, but there's some scammy people out there, and you just have to watch how people move to understand who we're talking about. But and I think players and parents fall for these type of situations for one reason it's a lack of knowledge, and that lack of knowledge is really why we wrote the book. I was gonna tell you, put it up, man. Because scan that thing, scan the QR code and buy the book because it's ten dollars. That's less than a happy meal, less than a mate a medium pizza, that's less than a haircut, but it can save you thousands of dollars.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

Look, Kev, and just to show you that this isn't Kev just pitching that you buy his book, it's it's small, right? You can literally pass it on to someone else, so it's not like it's oh, I get this parent, that parent. You all can sit around and group talk about it on a one purchase.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

And if you want the electronic copy, it's only$7.99 with an instant download. The only reason there's a paperback version is because parents ask for it, and that, like you said, 147 pages. It's the top 10 things for clarity, the top 10 questions that I get asked on a regular basis. And if you're gonna reach out to me and ask me for help, I need you to read the book first. So we what we're talking about a common language, you know, and now we're gonna roll right into uh recruiting and recruiting actually works. And you know, if anybody tells you, says, hey man, I can get you a scholarship offer, they're lying to you. Only college coaches can offer scholarships, they can put you in a place and and and work with you and and all these things. But if a college don't like you, they don't like you. It can be any myriad of things, it could be grades, your attitude, and I'm gonna tell you right now, this is what I told you to get on the soapbox tonight. Man, I done had two different coaches call me about the same person and ask me, hey, why isn't he division one already? And I said, Well, you know what? You might want to check his defensive effort. You might want to check how many times he crossed half court or didn't. On defense, on defense, because offense, he was a quad-mile beast, no problems, no problems, you know. And don't expect big country, one-eyed scout, Kevin Howell, whatever you call me. Don't expect that I'm gonna put my name on something that ain't right, because at the end of the day, I'm on as good as my word, and I feel bad because remember at the beginning of the year, I told you there would be eight or nine Division I athletes that come out of this class. Yes, there's eight, and because the other young man would be nine, but he don't cut the mustard, and there's no man, you know. I don't want to call nobody out, and I'm not going to, but man, probably 75% of the shows that we put out this year were directed at the same individual.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

Well, he gave us the ability to have a uh particular thing to hop on because look, we're only talking effort, yeah. Put the same effort on defense and trust me, had we seen that same effort on defense, Cab, there's no way this person isn't number nine. No, no way, all right.

SPEAKER_00 31:45

So, how how do relationships play a role in recruiting? And I tell you how it, you know, they'll say, Well, you kind of know what type of player this coach wants or this program wants, right? And your role in that relationship with that coach is only as good as when you have players, and the players meet the words that you put on paper or you put in communication. After that, you burn the coach once they got fired, you know. And I'll put out this little snippet. You know, I remember when first got in this game, and and we reached out to some coaches and said, hey, you know, this kid, this kid, we might want to look at this kid, and they said, No, we already got our people to give us the information. And guess what? Two of those staffs got fired. And one guy went and took another job up north, and he got fired again because he used the same same support system. So you tell me, man, I'm I'm not worried about it. You know, money does not speed up the recruiting process, you know why? Because coaches need to trust the player, trust the relationship, and trust the situation. Because they gotta have so much trust that they're willing to put their wife's Gucci bag on the line. That that happy birthday party that their kid so desperately desires, if they bring in the wrong kids, guess what? They back to brown bag, sandwiches, and junior college on long bus rides on a short bus. And that's a god honest truth. And so whenever we sit around and talk about throwing money or something, man, I know services that charge$600 a month, the biggest racket you're gonna find. And it ain't worth it, man. Not especially like you know, like for us, like we put together some stuff, and and my thing is it has to be affordable for the common family because and that's normally affordable for uh a poverty family, being you know, in reality, the way the economics are these days, and that's not a dig of nobody, because everybody who knows my story knows I was homeless, and I wouldn't have been anywhere without Tom Bissell, Gary Dewey, or Ronnie Eugene Duvall. And uh, you know, it's kind of crazy, man, because I called my old coach today, got honest truth, uh, because I was preparing for the show, and I and I just I I I texted him and said, Coach, man, thanks, you saved my life, man. You know what? Like, you really did. And and he called called me later on, and and he was it was funny because he had just met with his old coach that coached him in high school, you know, like earlier that week, you know.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

But uh no man, and so I think the hardest go ahead Moses Armathuselah was your coach's coach, yeah, you gotta be talking about your coach, talk to your coach, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

Man, like man, look at here.

SPEAKER_01 35:32

I'd love to be able to have that lifeline.

SPEAKER_00 35:35

Oh man, I'm gonna tell you what, man. And Coach Dewey love him, man. He's the one that that started the whole you gotta believe joint. Um, it was on the back of every t-shirt, and he would tell you, like, he came to our school, my senior year, and he said, Hey, the shirt says you gotta believe, and it's the same slogan we use it every stop along the way. But what people fell to realize is now he's a Hall of Fame high school basketball coach in state Louisiana. Probably been to more, I think, four or five state championship games. We wound, we we lost to the buzzer, but it wasn't because he wasn't prepared, man. And um, you know, you gotta the the question that I was supposed to ask, answer, is really answered by the next question. So we're just gonna skip to it, right? Find people you can trust. You know, I mean, like, how do you find how do players and parents identify trustworthy sources? You gotta ask questions, man.

SPEAKER_01 36:37

You got to. Well, sometimes, Kev, you gotta ask questions that you think might be uncomfortable for that person. And no, you have a lot on the line here, yes, and you at this point you shouldn't be worried about that person's feelings or that person thinking, oh oh, he might think we don't trust him if we ask him this. No, you need to ask him that.

SPEAKER_00 37:07

Yes, ask him that question, you know what, man, and I'm and I've said it before, I'm gonna say it again. One of the parents I had the most respect for is Amari Garrett's dad. That man did Amari their way, how they were gonna do it, what was best for Amari Guerrero. And uh most his name is Anthony, most people know him as Chubbs, but man, he I'm not gonna say he put his kid on his back, but man, he put his kid in a place to be successful, toughened him up, you know. And when people say small guards don't make it anymore, I'm gonna call you a liar because that man is five foot nine, full of dynamite, piss, and vinegar, and the city of San Antonio is in a not in a better place. Somebody should have recruited him in the city, and I and I've talked to stabs. Well, he's not good enough, he's not good. I said, I I beg the difference because he could have revitalized a couple of places within the city if he would have felt welcomed, you know. We'll just stop there. Um, you know, transparency is so important in this process. You know, we had our very first uh NIL educational QA session on um on Monday, and man, that was awesome, you know, and what made it awesome was they were families that I knew, you know, people say, Well, you show favoritism. Nope. I found eight families that I really believe that their sons are gonna play Division I basketball if they follow the process, if and and that process explained to them. We educate, we train, we consult, we mentor, you know, and you know, it was just an amazing feeling because I've held that back for so long. And people say, Well, why'd you hold it back? Well, because I'm so humble, and that that sounds like a and you know I don't know what the word is, oxymoron, but so humble that I didn't want to put information out that other people maybe didn't have or didn't didn't know because I didn't want to seem like a know-it-all. But whenever I talked to three different junior college kids that I had personal relationships in, and all three of them signed a bum deal and a bum agent that ain't communicating with them, that's when I realized my humility had negatively impacted uh some of the people that were close to me, and so maybe that's why you're gonna get a new improved country. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

Yeah, well, let me just say this for the listeners out there, when he's saying this, you just have to understand how genuine it is when he's saying that, especially when he starts talking finances. I've seen Cav tell um other people, some high profile people, I don't want to be involved in it if it's gonna cost somebody a lot of money. Uh, that that's just not what I do. If it's not gonna be affordable, count me out. I'm not in it. So when he's saying that about someone's financial situation, he truly, truly is, and all of that humbleness that's there is as legit as it can get.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

And thank you, you know. Um, and I think parents need to find one more thing, and the transparency is one piece, ask your questions, but build a solid circle around your son or daughter, right? And I think that people like I'm never ever the smartest person in the room, and that's by design, because I want to learn from people, you know, and I think that there are times that people are afraid to add people into their circle because they're more intelligible than they are, a um, or they talk slick, and see, I don't deal with people that talk slick, don't never have, never will. Uh the same circle that I had 15 years ago is the same circle I have today because of trusted value to relationships. And if you're if you're team hopping, you'll never have those relationships. If you find a program that now I'm not saying stay with the same program, you know, but I'll put you an example like this. People ask me where I would put their child, right? And I tell them, I'm not affiliated with nobody, but I'm gonna sit back and say this. I approve of of Red Crittenden going to play with Jamal Shead Elite, whatever the name is at this point. Because Jamal and Jalen both were undersized guards that are gonna coach the mess out of those kids, right? And so then you look, okay, well, where should where should my kid go? Well, then if your kids are winged, I'm just gonna put it out there. There's CJ Miles and Tony Crocker who both fit that profile, right? And and then you can And you can trust what CJ is saying, right? Because you're 13-year vet, he ain't got he ain't got nothing to to earn to prove, you know. And I don't want to be now just singling out programs, but because I'm not affiliated with him, right? And there's a number of programs um that do a great thing. And if you follow me on Twitter and you realize who I retweet or who I talk with, or who I do this and that with, you'll know. But I'm not I'm not out here to to advertise for nobody. Um but I will say one more time that wrong one. That uh hold on, sorry folks. The book is ten dollars, and man, I I brought me a handful of books to the uh to the meeting the other night, and they I didn't come, I didn't bring none home, right? And because we preach in clarity, clarity, clarity, clarity, and it's your son or daughter's future is at risk. And I do want to say this. My group, our group, is so tight around the educational aspect. We had a young man show up, and he had a full ride academic scholarship to Texas Tech, Texas AM, right? And he was a marginal basketball player at best. So the second time he came in the gym, we explained to him your future is not basketball. And this isn't a common thing that we talk about in this basketball community because it's supposed to be sports and ego and all these things, but you got an opportunity. That 0.021% in the country have at being a valedictorian. I did the math, which is actually uh the same percentage that you have almost identical to making it to the NBA. Right. You know, and if you can go and get a degree at a Texas Tech, a Texas AM, a Prairie View, or wherever, man, go do it because and go do it and play in the murals, right? I mean, the whole goal is to get an education because your education is going to put you in place for the next 20, 30 years of your life. And I'm not saying college is for everyone, because the same education can be work with your hand, you know. Um and play a pickup game, yeah. You know, and and um anyway, man. I I love the people that are watching the show. I appreciate the people that are watching the show. I appreciate the people that talk to us on the streets, I appreciate the people that message us in social media. Um I love Phil, but in my circles, dog, you know as the t-shirt guy. I mean that tank top guy. Uh shout out our hall. Um, but yeah, man. Uh hey, so let's let's close it up, man. You know, because reality is the DFW is setting the tone right now across divisions, across levels, across everything. And we have to get back and decipher and and and cut away, bisect, dissect, whatever you call it, and figure out what we need to do. But opportunity only matters if you're ready and if you're protected from the noise, because the noise will get you. I mean, Gloria Estefan made it known. The music will get you, it's gonna get you. Find people you trust, ask questions, understand the process because the truth is simple. Recruiting is confusing, people just don't take the time to learn it, and very few will take the time to teach it. This is the one-eyed scout.

SPEAKER_01 47:31

And where will we be seeing them?

SPEAKER_00 47:33

Huh?

SPEAKER_01 47:34

And where will we be seeing them?

SPEAKER_00 47:36

Seeing who, man, I'm lost, bro. Oh man, you're trying to make jokes.

SPEAKER_01 47:42

No, oh don't worry, huh? Uh, when the season starts, we'll be seeing you.

SPEAKER_00 47:49

Oh, we'll be seeing you in the gym, don't you know all summer long? All right, have a great night, great evening. It's a one eye scout. Peace out.