 Coach dance welcome to C3, Georgia. Is it hot enough for you? I mean, I'm used to it now man down in Davidson. It's it's humid over there, but I mean I love the weather I love the people in the south. It's such a good environment for me You're from Virginia though. We went to Christiansburg and then later to you know right down the road of Blacksburg Yeah, ten minutes apart. Yeah, ten maybe five minutes if you drive fast So you're right there right you get to stay in Virginia Yeah, stay home for college and then you have an interesting journey the last two years I did. Where did you go right after Virginia Tech? So I went to the Chicago RTC I was a Chicago for a little bit training still I went to a serapolato gave Schultz in different tournaments like that I did well, but I actually just found my love in coaching. I mean, I worked with a lot of guys at Northwestern, too I worked at Sebastian Rivera all the way up to 49 57 pounder and I guess I kind of knew it was time when I got More excited about Sebastian Rivera all-american in his freshman year than I did for anything I ever did in college So I just I never knew about how excited I could get for someone doing it that well So it was a different feel. I was kind of sad that I'm kind of leaving the wrestling world a little bit and kind of going On to coaching, but I mean who knows I might get that bug again. I might I might want to compete more You're looking at that then you go from Blacksburg, Chicago. Now you're down in Charlotte, right? Yes, sir near Charlotte 15 minutes in Charlotte, right back in the South, you know What's it like? What's a Midwest winner like for a guy like you? I don't know that it's I mean the best way to Tell it's it's awful. It's it's hard to deal with especially being used to Virginia weather and nice weather we have down here I mean, you know, we really don't realize how fortunate we are for this weather we have I mean, I think two days before I was leaving Chicago. It snowed about about six inches and So when I got out of Davidson, it was about 70 degrees. You're ready to go. Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay So transition you're in North Carolina. You're Davidson puts a lot of your heat to go Loser comes down good dude real good dude. Was that Princeton for a minute? Yeah, what was that like for you to make that adjustment now into coaching from competing and being an athlete? I mean it really wasn't too difficult for me. I mean even when I was at Tech I would help all guys a lot doing camps clinics during the summer and so I had that feel for coaching I always had that love for coaching and so I thought it was an easy transition and then going into Davidson College It was just I was blown away with how beautiful that campus was and how great the people were there How much you can just tell how much everyone wanted wrestling to be be kind of like your stable sport there the alumni They want to see the program grow. We just did a fundraising thing We raised half a million dollars for just for creating and stuff like that. So it's uh, it's really going in the right direction No, you were at an ACC school and you went to a big-time school Funding's different. Yes. Can you guys still win there in your opinion? Honestly, I mean, I've always heard negative things about it But in my first few months there, I would say we can definitely still do great things there I mean, we're already doing the right things now. I'm gonna be traveling everywhere. We're going off and getting recruits I mean, obviously, it's our hard school to get into we're academically one of the most elite programs in the country Just as far as I mean, we recruit right there with the Ivy League school with the Cornell's the Bucknell's and the Princeton's We recruit all there right with them And so I mean if they're doing well, we have that opportunity real well too And that's another big selling point for Davidson too is we have those great academics and we have this great campus We have these great facilities and we have that tradition of doing well in other sports, too So I mean, it's just about that time where this wrestling program really needs to fire off You know you're looking getting back down there. What's it take to get you out of Chicago? A phone call? Well, how's the whole process of you going from Chicago RTC to Davidson? I mean, I love my time at Chicago. I couldn't be more thankful what Stormy did with me a red Northwest I mean, I love working out with Brewer every day. I love working with how I just felt it was that time for me to Actually get into my coaching career and I was still kept being connected with other colleges and talking about possibly I'm gonna visit there, but when I visited Davidson, it was just all said and done then I just fell in love with the campus Fall in love with the people being coached by the director of the nationally well together Really positive people who want to see this program do well and do great things and I promise you in the next five to ten years We're gonna be make it some big news. So I'm excited for it. All right. Do you make it back home much? Oh, yeah, yeah, I love seeing my family all the time and that's another reason why I stayed close to home I went to Virginia Tech So I had the option maybe going to like Oklahoma State and some other big colleges But I stayed close to home and I couldn't have been more happy with my decision Obviously, I I wanted to do a little bit better in college and possibly get a national title in maybe one or two But I mean, it's the way it goes the way the sport goes. That's how I learned evolved and I think it's gonna make me a better coach too I'm seeing that I mean going into college man You're gonna see your ups and downs and so I've went through it all I had my office I have that I've had my down to that Transitions well into coaching too So I've got a good feel for the negative side of things when you get into a bad place And then you got the positive side of things A little beat-up, but I mean that's that's about every single guy that goes through college I mean, I mean I had my injuries going through college had a few different things going on with my body I won't really say it, but yeah Nick was really beside of us here last year. Yeah, that dude had a lot going on He's actually hurt right now, too. He was supposed to be serious. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh He's uh that guy that when he was in college, man, he was a fun guy to watch He was a gamer. He was one of those guys I looked up to on our team He just he knew how to go after and he set that that that mindset that might the right mindset the right physical Are you gonna be are you good to roll can you still roll? Oh, yeah, of course, of course I mean like I said 2020 starts to roll around. I might get back on the mat. I'm not saying I'm done So we'll see Hey, thanks for the time. Good luck to you guys moving forward. You got anything else for me? No, man. Go cats and thanks for what all you guys do