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Whoa. And the thing about these seven on seven that a lot of people know, you know, sat to me, seven on seven has turned into what basketball has with AAU basketball mm hmm. It actually gives you a platform. You gotta think. We took We took guys from the city of Miami and we had a quarterback from Texas. We had guys from from upstate Florida. We get them on these flaks. We taken them Dallas. We just don't play the seven on seven tournament we had. We went to TCU now
TCU, We went to s m U. Kids got offers. You know, if I take you back, we went, we went to New Orleans, you know, we went out to l A. You know, kids got offered from USC. My son ended up getting offered from USC. And we had like three or four guys that you USC that didn't get a chance to see. But since we was on the seven on seven tournament and we took a visit out there, that these these guys got different offers. Wow, that's interesting. So like, you know, what's the name of the
team is Raw seven v. Seven? Is that Raw seven on seven and you could think about rawing and all different aspect. If you get a chance, you can check out our instagram. We got a raw seven on seven. And the thing about this raw, this seven on seventeen. Man, we got we got video guys. We got guys that put guys out out there to the twenty four to seven. We got people that really follow us. We got a good follower and everything. Man, and we went out
to Dallas. We won eight games to win a championship, and it was it was a great feeling, man to win that. To beat those guys. And you gotta think you're playing against top rated quarterbacks, top graded receivers, top rated dbs all around the country. You know the thing about me on my team we got if we got twenty four players, I want to say we got twenty four and five stars, I didn't yet. The thing that hurts me straight, Yeah, can't get connected with nobody from MSU,
so we can look at them, so we can get these guys. These guys going to Nebraska, we had to receive a last year go to Rutgers. I mean, we can't beat those guys. What are we doing? Oh that's terrible, man. So we got Yeah, we please connect with Swerve somebody. You know, we gotta we'll work on this. Expecially, we got a video on something we shown. Let's show Look, so y'all beat the trillion boys in the championship, is that right? You got to
get a trillion boys their credit. They got a history of winning. You know that coach who don't even look like he played the game or whatever, a coach with a lot of money. And these what these coaches do straight they reach out to these get different guys because they see they they stars. They see they they see their videos and they see their rankings, and they put them on flights. They put their parents on flights, and they build these teams. A lot of teams don't even get the practice. M You
know, one thing about we got we got three good coaches. Coach tay Man, Coach Keon, and we got coach shuler Man who these coaches are passionate about coaching that. You know, like the offensive guys, you gotta be on the field because you can't really have play, you don't you don't have time to just call the player. And they know, you know, defensive coaches can't be on the field. But everybody either playing one, two or three, you know what I mean. And you're coaching up on the
run. So that's a lot of time. I respect for those guys, man, And we got a we got a GM. Yeah. Jerry Jones, you know, is the Washaw man. He's a great guy, love the kids, passionate about the kids. And these guys are working around the clock, man, to make sure these kids get getting these offers. And they're doing the hell of a job. Man. The thing about it pisses me off is we can't get the m S J. We're gonna we gotta change the culture. We're gonna change that. We gotta get this because you
have a lot of players here. Listen. Look at a little bit of the celebration clips if we have those available. Listen. Also, just like this that that's my baby many I tried to jump in the pit, but by the time I was gonna jump up, my knees say don't do it, So I didn't I need to jump in. I didn't get that you had to edit that out on the cutting floor. I couldn't even get off the ground straight. It is old now, brother, it's over with.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, it's different now. So You got a couple of players though that are on there, A couple of four stars. What you got so TCU commits, organ commits. That's our quarterback time, man own the money on the money. Yeah, I haven't seen the quarterback if you line up. Matter of fact, we played against the number one quarterback that's in twenty six from Carrington and we played against him and I had
my guy Rodney Harrison there, who should be a Hall of payment. He was that god looked like the number one rate in the quarterback when we played those guys. Wow, see what I mean? That's you got Dallas Wilson, Oregon commit, a five star. You got Drake Stubbs, another USC commit on the team, Cortes Mills, I mean, four star, nay Sean Montgomery Alabama, Penn State fourth. I mean, you got Amar You
got all kinds of people on this team. Man. We look. Look, the word is we gotta get somebody in East Lanson to get on these teams. We gotta plug here. We got we got a former player right here who's coaching these guys. Just just all they gotta do is call me you're not You're not say were coming? Yeah? Oh swerve We gotta say, just call me you. We ain't hard to find. You ain't hard to find. You called me, I ain't hard to find straight talk about
this and talk about that. I ain't just bringing Oh oh that's my that's my that's my boy, go to my high school. He good. I'm bringing guys that that's got that that that that people putting money on the table. Now what I'm gonna bring them to you? You got to finish the deal, head coach. Yeah, you can't get them without me. Right
now, they not by the Michigan State. But now if I give them to you, you put them on your campus and you sell a dream and paint them the picture, you should be able to beat them the brows of the world. Yeah, you know me, these guys you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, there's no question the guy last year that did pretty good, that won the state Tampionshire, that's a n C state right now. You come on, if we're Michigan State, we can't be in
C state. Fire the whole state sometime like talk about Michigan State. Yeah, yeah, you need guys, man, Yeah, we can people in places that can help out. I ain't asking I want my man. Yeah, that's it. If you don't reach out to your former players, that's any these kids here that these kids look up to that. I say, hey, man, I'm getting, I'm getting, I'm getting on the flight. Let's go. Let's go to Michigan. Okay. You know we had
guys that flew that flew from Louisville. They went on the visit of Louisville. I'm not knocking Louisville. Luiville had one good year last year. You mean to tell me Michigan State can't compete with Louisville. Oh, come on now, we got yeah. Yeah, if you look, if you look at Louisville rosca and I understand, you know Florida or whatever. Louisville had at least ten kids from Florida. Yeah they do. Yeah, and out of the ten kids, I know, eight of them. Mm hmm.
Louisville has always had that pipeline. I don't know, going all the way back to them, Charlie Strong days man, Louisville. You know our ad the assistant A D is from Florida. Is that what it is? Lamar Jackson, any drunking red cup that happened? Speaking of drinking red cups, man, we got some news out of Ann Arbor with Thenard Robinson. It's another Florida guy. Donard Robinson got hit with an old w. I now
looking with the red cups. We always teach responsibility. This time this is the second staffer on Michigan football staff that's gotten hit with the old WI. Wait, what's the old WI? You know? I know so so you got operating while intoxicated versus driving under the influence. It's similar, but apparently it's I don't know, it's just washingtona county deal. I guess you know what it is. Guys, get guys getting these red cuffs. Yeah,
get at these bars. The music go to playing, people putting extra stuff in the cups and this is this and they feel like they he man instead of make it and always tell people life is about choice, the decision. I wanted to know how much it would have cost him to just all the uber mm hm oh. Or the girl he was talking to it the bar, asking her how much he can pay her to drop him off to his car. Mm hm oh, do what I used to do? Maybe I can't drink the night, Can you drive me home? No? No,
no, I was drinking the night. Can you drive the other way around? Muster Night? Can you drive me home? Please? It's another story, but you get a two for one straight. You try to give him the games, You're giving them the game right there. That's it. I'm just trying to tell you how swerve would it did? I wouldn't have got it a w O W I d w I. I wouldn't have done that was Drake. Now, what's wrong with these mistress and coaches? Man? What's wrong with him? Right? So that's a d line. Coach got
hit and they ended up firing him because of it. Now you know, Dinard is now on the chopping block. We'll see what happens. I know head coach Sharon Moore made a statement that they are aware, but we'll see what happened. Speaking of Michigan issues, this is the topic of discussion today. Man, you know you got the transfer portal news. We're gonna talk about that in a second before we get to our special guests. But Michigan
committed violations this drop. Now, this is for the recruiting scamp. This has nothing to do with Conner Stallions. Okay, nothing for the cheap sign stealing and all that. This is for penalties you know that were levied for you know, the Hamburger during COVID and they had players on campus, you know. You know, Jim Harball tried to make it about a hamburger, but it was they were trying kids out and doing all kinds of things they
weren't supposed to do. Three years probations were for the school of five recruiting restrictions. You know, someone asked me earlier, what's the probation. That's the key that we got to find out, because probation can me Okay, we're gonna take away so many scholarships they mean, no bowl game, Yeah, they sean so much. That's the that's the important part that we got to find out. You know, and you gotta think, Okay, Michigan, kudos, you want it, but you wanted doing a lot of ship
you're still supposed to do. You know, you're still tis you know you you you you you you. You blame them on the defensive linebacker coach and you fire him he's talking you do this, you do that, and then you still end up winning. Okay, cool, But out of the team that was in the playoffs, you the only one that had these infractions and in any news for negative things. But see, come on, do we know what happened? Like they caught the guy on the sideline at the Michigan
State Central Michigan game. We have yet to hear anything about what Central Michigan had to do with it. And we know that he was on the sideline. The head coach admitted it, but we we still I don't know what's going on. You know what that hush money is? That what it is?
Ah if you ever played in Michigan State, in which we did, first of all, for it be so big, it's quiet because you got those old you got the old alumni sitting in certain seats or whatever it is, and all them old alumni had a hush money and they ain't got no problem giving in the way. That's why you're not gonna hear about it no more. That's why they told how Barr's best. You know, you went out on time. We want this and there's enough enoughing because we we we
we tied of giving you hush money. We don't gave you enough over these years, and you probably gave us one, you know, even though you never you know, Ohio State is Ohio's date but you know, we got you gotta go. Yeah. Yeah. Here's a comment from his lawyer, Tom Mars. Harbaugh's lawyer said coach Harball fire the LinkedIn response to the order today, which unfortunately has not been made public. I see Michigan has changed its position to get this resolved, which is not surprising. I can almost
hear the wheels of the bus going wamp wamp, you know. So now you got a lawyer basically saying Michigan has thrown his client, Jim Harball, making a hundred million dollars in the NFL, They've thrown him under the bus in this. But it looks like Michigan is the one gonna take this penalty on the chin. And it's just the beginnings where this is just for the
recruiting violation. What do you think is gonna happen with the Conna Stallions when that drops in about I mean, you know, the timeline of this was January when this came out of twenty three. The Connor Stallions was October, so they're about nine months apart. And I would hope that the NCAA can move a little faster than that before the football season. But what I don't know what your thoughts are at straight. What's gonna happen is you got other
schools that's gonna use it against them in recruiting. Yeah, and then you know the sad part about it. You know I love all people. You know, my best friend is wife. You know my son is mixed. But it gonna hurt the brother that's that Michigan. Mm hmmm. Let me recruit against Michigan. Oh, I'm throwing everything at it. Oh you think they gonna let them? You think you think they gonna give him what a ball got? Man? He just you're gonna you're gonna use out of us.
Seen it all, and I seen coaches sit in my office and tell it all. You know what I mean. How they gonna play a against me? You know what I'm saying. So I know I would do it if I'm at Michigan State and we me and Michigan recruiting a kid and this down to us too. Oh, I'm finished. Oh that guy on a chance. Yeah, I'm gonna throw everything at him, and it's gonna hurt him, especially when it come out about you know what, whatever the impraction
is. You know you're gonna lose scholarship you're gonna lose bold games. You're gonna you're gonna lose what yeah, yeah, two and every and when it comes down to it, you know, it's a dirty game. But they gonna say, man, you think they're gonna get that brother? All is like they gave you how far right? Come on right? He would need if you want to look someplace, look at that salary at Michigan. What
they give Sharon five million dollars at Michigan. Jonathan Smith wouldn't. I don't know if he take this job for five million dollars, just saying that, that's that's bargain basement, bottom bottom basement discount and bargain base. Did you hear what they were gonna get? High brought Justice State and he only won one. He stayed seven times in a row. But you were gonna give him this day because he won one? Uh huh come uh huh. Yeah. It is what it is. It's a dirty game out there, man.
You know. Look, speaking of some positive news, we had some a scholar athlete awards in Michigan State and he had Office of Provosts winners here. I think we have a graphic for them, and hey, there it is Darren Hallick and Dylan Tatum in the community. That's a cute picture right there. Hey that's a Halleck. She's a she's a legacy Spartan too. Yeah. Yeah, I wonder if I would have ever. No, no, no, that's Tie. That's Tie Halleck, thought her man, and
she's a hoop of two. Look, so we give them grace. Come on now, swerve. No, could I ever won the academic award? But no, I wouldn't stand the chain. You gotta you gotta think high of yourself. I don't know. We have the Skylar Athlete of the Year award, we have that available. No, okay, So look, there was a great galla a lot of a lot of great things. I think Jordan hall won an award as well from Michigan State Football. So, you
know, hats off to all student athletes. Emphasized students were in the athlete too, right, Yeah. That that that's very important. That's very important because I remember back in my days, man, I had a coach that used to say education is number one or something like that. You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Oh, hesed to say, you know what I'm saying. But now they got football's number two right right here you go, here you go. I just didn't want to snitche
you already started it. We all know what the balloons came from. But real quick before we go to break, to bring on our special guest because we got we got a lot to talk about with this fellaw man. But the transfer portal did open up and it's gonna be up for the next two
weeks. Okay, so we're following this. You know there's an athletic article, great article in the athletic that, uh, that's that's available if you guys want to go to that and see what's going on in the big ten to see what you can expect, but live in the color for Michigan State folks. So far, my goatee gote has gone, Brandon Miller offensive lineman, mine as a linebacker, and running back Jalen Barbering have all three entered
the portal today. You know we're gonna be this is a developing situation. Swerve. But you know, what do you say to those three guys that if you're in the locker room with them, don't let the dough hit you. Where the good lord Flitcher? Yeah right, I got a whole bunch of I got a whole bunch of hands. Uh huh, you don't want to be down with there? Bro Hey, you look you look good coming,
but you look better going. My whole thing. Man, If you don't want to be with us, you know what I mean, You don't want to go through the blood, sweating tears, because it's really football eventually become a brotherhood. Yes do I say that because Robert Smith just called me this morning. You talking about the guy I met in ninety six. My math is not good, but I know that gotta be over twenty eight years ago. Old human, You know what I mean? Bird? But sir,
sir, where you're going with time you landed? What time you did? Boom boom boom? Like that's a brotherhood? Man. You get guys that find you on Facebook and say, oh, what's going on? Said like the receiver today, I mean yesterday? Like you get on Jason Klein. You know we're going back and I ain't seen Jason Klein since I left school. Say you know what, that was my brother. We was in the huddle together. You know that at that time, in those three years
I shared with him. If he would have gotten in the fight. I would have gotten the fight. If he needed I had a dollar, I would have gave him a dollar. I didn't. I didn't go to high school with him. We bond because we had a brotherhood. Now, if you don't want to be part of it, because you want to go ex where this is, hey, go get the phone. We don't need you. We want the guys that want to stay here and grind and then let's get this thing gone. So that's why I'm glad the porter can hit now
and I know open up again. But I'm tired of this porter ship because I want a team. Let it be time. You see. You mean to tell me I can play Spring If I don't like Spree, then I can leave again at June. What do we here? Yeah? Man, that's crazy. You know I just went. I just went out to uh uh uh uh California. Mm hmm. I told you know what I told my son. I say, hey, work for what you want. We ain't going nowhere. We ain't going nowhere. We're gonna We're gonna fight it
out, you know what I mean. Bust your ass every day, compete every day, come out here with a good attitude and work your ass up and control what you can control. That's what we're going. We ain't yeah, you know, I mean I never thought you to run. We ain't running, were plast But we're gonna. We're gonna compete. We ain't running for nothing now, and that's what as a drown man I am. I was sitting down there. I know the right question to ask, you know,
papatism. But if it's not, man, let my baby compete. And if you beat us, you got a hell of a guy that's in front of him because he ready for war. That's right. But these guys leaving in the port where you're going, you don't even know. You didn't guys, you couldn't even play in Michigan States. So where you're gonna play, Like, come on twice, this indecision come with consequences. Make the right one. Stay where you a fight it out battle. If you that
guy, this is me off. Yeah, I understand it. Hey, my bad fun fans, I'm back Red Cup. Hey, we love it. Swere because you know, I think a lot of fans understand that and feel that sentiment too. So it's good to hear somebody who's been through the fire say it because it does piss off a lot of guys. To see guys just moving around because they get a little uncomfortable. The game is meant to be uncomfortable. You know. I hear that a lot. I hear
guys at my son's teammates. You know, you know, I don't know this coach. I was like, that's that's what they're supposed to do. Stop all that. Oh he might be raising. He don't like me, he don't like my mam and daddy. Stop right there. It's supposed to be hard. Okay, you know it's you know, I just thought about it back and I back in our days, if be transferred, you had to sit out, you lost a year. Yeah, you can't do it. It was thought about it. Guys thought about it. They went back
to their doing room. They cried about it. They cried the fall. After they hung up the phone, they say, you know what, I got nowhere to go. I got to work. I gotta work try, I gotta bust my ass on special teams. I gotta do something. I got to suck up to this coach to make sure he gives me a chance. I got to do something to get on this bier because I can't just
run. Now the guys that can be at the number one school in the country leave because his girlfriend this and then go to somewhere get some money and then y'all don't treat me right, y'all medical staff, It's not like where I left. Now I get to go back and get some more money. You. So, now, at the end of the day, what did you teach? What kind of structure and discipline are you really teaching these kids? I understand we want to do something because coaches get to leave, all
right, but give me one time port of anything. Yeah. On top of that, Okay, if it can't be saying they really want to leave, yeah, let them know they got to sit out a year. They lose a year. M Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Oh, if you graduate and you got another year like like graduate transfer, you can do. I can take that one you get. You gave me three four years and you only got one year left. Okay, go go, go,
go roll the dice. Yeah. But I thought about it back in our teacher quarter because we had to sit out and who want to lose that year? Hey, swot, what do you think the percentage of players thought about leaving at some point during their creation, especially early on straight Think about it. You got eleven on defense, you got eleven on offense. That's twenty two, right, and even those twenty two are gonna play some special
teams. You gotta stay out of twenty two guys plus a kicker twenty three, plus the field goal kicker twenty four, and then you may have five or six special team guys. So he's saying thirty guys on a team that carried at least eighty if you don't want to count the walk on, hey five, you talking about forty seven other kids that's not playing. All they doing is dressing up. You don't think they wanted to leave. But now you hear these stories of these guys, man that like, I got so
much respect for those guys. Those slot receiver what I mean, I'm gonna say, those white slot receiver that played in New England, you know what I mean? Or that's the guy that's out there at Saint Louis right now. You know those guys did because in their mind, can you think that you can be a receiver and you're a white receiver. It's just like a dB. Right now in the NFL, it's dominated by blacks. They tell theyself, Man, I'm in our work. Everybody when I think as a
sleeping I'm gonna do the things that they're not doing. They are drinking, they are doing this and this. I'm gonna be working to the point they retired in twelve and thirteen years when one kid was a lacrosse player that ended up playing for New England. Come on, I know seventeen people that just went to jail two years ago better than him. Yeah, but you know what, they made the wrong decision while he was making the right decision.
He took advantage of this opportunity. Hey Cooper dejen Man Iowa. You just you just brought one up. Ain't too that's ay, first round of two. It's a bad boy. Hey man, you gotta stick with it. You gotta stick with it. Stick with it. Look, guys, like what you heard so far, please hit that likely subscribe button. Whoa we and follow us on all of our social media platforms. And this is part of MSU because we got a special guests talking about old school upbringing man and
like, you know, an interesting background. We got that with our guy that's coming up next who will join. This is part of MSU after these messages from our friends over at I hop. Ihop has tons of omelets, So you can't have omelets for breakfast, brunch, brinner or even a brittle of the night snack. Try the new meaty, cheesy and crispy mega Ama and add cinnamon dippers for a dollar only an ihul Ooh swerve. Man. Look, I'm interested because you down there in the A and this young man
is from the A his hisself. But he just didn't just from any you know. I mean, he was born and born in kirk with but you know, not not really boring, just he kind of from that that's where people I'm from. But man, he was raised on the other side of the tracks. Brother. You know, I'm talking about Grammy, Wars, studios, all kind of you know, you know, the Real Housewives, all these kinds of things that people watch on television. He knows it's just
like the back of his hand. But he also was one hell of a ball. And we're talking about none other the Michigan State's own defensive back, Malik Spencer, who joins a sparted m mass shoes. What's what's up at joud the A, Yes, sir man, the leak what's good with you, man? No much, real real, who has got a past? A few hours ago? I'm over here. Oh yeah, house practice been going. I mean, I know you're getting ready for the end of spring
ball coming up this weekend. How house things outlook? How's the outlook for the team so far? It's smooth. These new coaches, they most definitely got that got that plan, got that vision for sure. So I'm really interested to see like what to come to season for sure. Okay, swear man, Look now this guy right here, man, swear I know you you live in that high rent district over there in Atlanta too, But you know this kid, I mean, I know you were playing football for a
long time, since it's about four years old, you know. But talk about yourself growing up, man, I mean your father, Russell Spencer, a K block is a heavy weight in the hip hop industry. Oh yeah, it was definitely like growing up everything we seemed normal to me. I mean, of course it's because like I was always around it, but like just being in the studios, just being around when he was just doing business like that. Yeah. Yeah, hey that's my twelve too. Yeah you
got a twin. I heard about that car look see this block. He how y'all get these pictures he sent us to you. Hey, man, we have our man. Yeah, we can't tell you that. But one thing I like, I'm glad your daddy had you out there washing that car. Oh yeah, yeah, well we said that. I actually just had it out here, but we had something for a just because he be snowing and something like that, so he can't dry that trying to dry here. Yeah, look at look ahead, stars. I mean he's sitting there with
Share. I mean, when you see somebody hugging up with Share, you know you done made it. He made it. Hey, that's your that's your twin right there. Yeah. Yeah, so you got a twin brother. Man, talk about that. Man. That's cool. But growing up, I feel like just because we ain't like we don't look the same, he's really just like a regular brother. For for I'm older than him, but hen he gonna swear he don't like that though, But I'm older than him. But it was how much older? Man? Nine minutes? I'm
like you nine minutes older than him? Right, hated two seconds. The word on the street is like, y'all, y'all, like you know, brothers just like Ricky and dough Boy and and uh boys in the hood one one on the gangster ship now. But I ain't lie. Like growing up growing up, hell, it was cool most definitely sugar at first. At first he played football too, so you know how that is. You always compear against each other. We grew up always like playing each other like video
games outside do matters competing definitely, So yeah, that's cool. Let's get into football, big dog, Let's get into football. What's your mind? I always like to ask you guys, what's their minds? That's the key, you know, Like like right on that picture right there, I know I would have bust your head because you can't got no rich bands, you got no tab won I don't allow you like you ready, definitely definitely not that. And then you're wearing forty three. So that's a difference for me.
I'm just saying when I play, nothing against you, saying, when I played, we would have got the report. We'd have been looking forty three, got no town. His jersey don't look right, Okay, Okay, I'm just saying, but time don change, now, you know, time before games, y'all, y'all listening to Sexy Red now we didn't know you're talking sexy Red. Ain't they played? They played the Iowa game. She catch it though, see see that ship would have never played a lot
of locker room. You know, it's cool, it's different, it's different, but no, let me know your mindset, man, like what you're thinking for the season, what you're trying to accomplish, and I ain't, And don't give me the political shit. Give me the eight town zone six uh bank head and talking to young and tell me what you want to accomplish, what what it is to look for and what I'm gonna see. I'm sad because if you ain't hearing I'm coming on the field, who's gonna start
me? Definitely here like she really really going to uh every season every game. I'm really just thinking, just be the person in front of me, like dominate like you no, like no matter what, make sure people know like when I want to get you, I was done at more definitely, So it's just like doing that being being as vicious as aggressive as possible,
but smart though you can't you know what I mean? You know sometimes that he can get out of act, but like, please keep your mind but still feel with that dog and you just play play vicious, you know what I mean, just dominate. Really, that's the word I say, dominate because you definitely swear man. You know, he when he gets there and now he bring it now you know from the safety position, talk about you don't see I don't seen it, but this that this is the first time
I don't seen two light skin, good court and safety. Yeah. If you if you look at Alabama, you know you got one dog skin guy and you got one little brown and then you know that's it with Cam Newton right there. He knows about row, he knows about wrong and the immortals. Yeah, so so you play. He's talking about you and Dylan playing safety. Yeah, light skin because he was on a couple of weeks ago. Okay, okay, okay, okay, you got to light skin.
Pretty good safety. That's that's a good thing. Usually I feel a little scared because they like against like my son like skin. I really, I really think it's his light. And I'm really brown. I'm a good I'm I'm richally from Miami and you from I'm not not just just no from us. You a little you know, we live We used to Yeah, yeah, we used we used to eleven fifty nine back then, you know what I'm saying. But but I like what we got so far in the back
end. That's that's that's a that's a good that's a good thing. So tell us, Milik, how you work with Dylan and uh, Jaden right, Jaden is back there with you too, You're sure, I ain't lie like it just really really with Dylan playing corner Liash really just bulting that chemistry with him, like just you know what I mean, And really honestly just really communication for for lones lons. We just know, h as long as the back end on the same page, we can't really mess it up too
much, you know what I mean. So just like really communication, making making sure everybody is in the place they need to be and doing doing the things that they need to do. So at just shoot really like once once, once everybody get that chemistry together and everybody, I just start finding all syllers, you know what I mean. He gonna be straight now. Tell me about Coach Blue. That's the that's the guy that I coached, what
I played with in high school. You know, it was a really tough player and was one of those hard workers and even worked his ass up in this in this coaching industry to get to he's at and very knowledgeable guy. Man, I know he talking. You can tell from yeah, hey baby, let's go and all that type of stuff. But want you think I love I like the way he coached. I like the way he just go about things, you know what I mean, Like he's it's just he brings
he like he like he bring that extra aggression to the room. Just you know, I mean, just look everybody up like I was. I was a good ad most definitely, because he's not. He's not going for anything like it's just a SI standard. Got to meet that standard. Of course our coaches in the passage like that. But with him and just you feel it, like you know what I mean, like more more so feeling and the things he said you act, He's just like I I like you for
sure. Okay, that's good. Do you interact at all? Because I know you're probably man to play safety? Do you interacted all to coach me? For cool? Like me? The coolest here ain't alive. There's another West Coast guy, right you know. Yeah, he's Finn. Yeah, that's a Dina. He passes the la guys in the Miami guys. It's always class right there. I got nothing against coach met because he was sparting, you know what I'm saying. But coach me, I think he had
eleven picks in the ninety four my freshman year man. He was born. He was born damn yeah, man, I mean yeah, oh g to me. He before me. I came in ninety six. I got no respect for him, but he still likes BET's talk about your family real quick though, because you had a twin brother, but you also have a sister that's uh, you know what with yeah Riley. Her mom was Candy Burrows of the Housewives of Atlanta. Done. What's a relationship like with a sister
like that? That's in the spotlight and this she is with l cool Ja Yeah yeah, and that's a mom right there. Now what's name though? But growing up I'm most definitely was raised around her a little bit. But it's like me or we're not. We're not as close as as my as me and my other sisters were. I was like with my extullent mom for sure. I mean I grew I grew up around here a little bit. Yeah, I taught her a little bit, but it's not nothing, just
overly close, you know, Malik. Between me and you, I'm gonna give you my number, give her my number for me. He's trying to be quiet because his wife in the other room right there. Yeah, yeah, he BELI good. He a dog I'm talking about. You know. I wanted to give him my numb because I'm coming up there for the spring game and you know, cool, we got some music. I want to
listen to the music I feel. But now if he feels like you know, he wanted to pass my numbo to certain people because he most I ain't got no problem with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, everything got nothing to do with to do what he wanted to do. I'm giving you my you my boy. Ain't nothing wrong with it, man, Malik, Man, you did some other kind of training to man. You box a little bit, yeah yeah, And I told we actually we grew up kind of
boxing a little bit, but nothing serious though. Yeah, you more definitely did that. It helps for sure, half of coordination and that coordination. It really just it really just get in shape for for like boxing, the workouts. That's it's different. Bread. It's not the same as football. Like it's just right, it's different. So yeah, my dad, my dad that we was young. And then in COVID I did it a little bit. So yeah, oh Covid. Yeah, I did a little bit
in COVID. So now with the box and your dad being who he is and knowing people, you know, did you have an opportunity to train with some people like say a cross free makewell? The thing about boxing that I like, Malik because I can't box. I'm forty six, I ain't never had a fight. It's too late, but I love I love when y'all can just do this shit here like you can do that about you hold my hand and do all this shn I like, are you are you gotta do
for that? It's just it just get her to get her routine and pactice it once you once you do that? All that easy. Yeah, yeah that's easy. But my godfather, he was he was actually a boxer, burning for us. Yeah yeah, he's actually a boxer. So I think he's the one that took a shine twice. Yeah yeah, he wanted them to more. Yeah okay, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, uh do some stuff pop up saday while we're at at the party. I'm with you, Okay, no, I got nothing to prove ship he's the boxer.
I can't fight. Why now he got none approved? Hey in downtown, these lads, I don't think anybody gonna be fighting. Yeah, yeah, do we have a picture or not. I'm trying to I'm talking to the people in the back production. I think we have pictures of uh burning, but maybe a man look. Amateur champions as well had the opportunity to be around uh Malik. Since he's a little kid and outstanding the individual right now, like, uh, very good, very good kid, a lot
of talent, Uh, outstanding athlete. He's got a dog work at him. Uh his work ethic right now is what really making me think he he may really be a real special kid. He's got he's got an extremely good work ethic, like he wants it. And naturally his talent, hyn't he got a he can go a long way, you know, whatever he chooses to do. I know football is this thing right now, but whatever he do, he's gonna sail. And he's got he got the right attitude and
uh, he's got a he gotta help a lot of talent. Some of my teammates VJ. He was working out I was like, nah, in no way, he can be out working. I'm just gonna have fun. Really yeah, okay, look man, So that that's that's not your your godfather right there, that's that's a trainer. Oh tomorrow tomorrow in that video, Yeah that was that's that's the trainer. Yeah, that was just a
trainer. But my father was burning Forrest who who who was tragically killed in in a in a robbery attemph, I know, back in the old nine. So you probably, man, what was that to make that made you a bout like four five young? Yeah? I was young? Yeah yeah, okay yeah maybe six you you bo two thousand and three, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they grow up fast. Nothing, man, Malik. So who do you pad of your game after as a as a safety? As a safety mm hmm, I really, I really, I really say,
like like, uh, I'm forgeting his name. What's his name? Uh Broke from the Seahawks. I forget his name? Uh Seahawks. Yeah, the safety camp Tessler. A little bit of him, Oh yeah, at him and that in that way big Feller, big fellow. Yeah, yeah, most definitely. And I say a little bit of him and m hmm, I'll see him just just because of the physical part of part of my game. Just I'm trying to I'm trying to dominate us. That's like,
yeah, most definitely, yeah, I like to. I mean, man, look, you had three state championships at beaut for the high it's in Georgia. I mean, uh look at that free Yeah championship win at Miami straight straight, straight straight. I've been up here since May, right, Yeah, and Beauford is what you call a it ain't even poor, but it's a small man. I am g let's not get's not getting the ship. Twisted his team out of twenty two starters and I don't even know.
I'm willing to bet you twelve to fifteen individual on one of those teams that got history. I mean this year, you gotta think. Uh oh, the guy played with me at Detroit, his center, his son came wad out from Texas or whatever. They had one year he's supposed to go to Georgia. He's now at Nebraska. I mean they got the number one Yola went there, Like come on, I mean, they get the best of the best. Man, it's a great program when you see they training
and things that they go through. Whoever the coaches. They do a great job, but they get the best of the best. Now, what's the coaching coach? Yeah, apple, yea, yeah, he run all that like college for sure. Like I was in college before I got an m SU. Like you like a college, you don't play. I ain't gonna lie to you. Yeah, they gotta, man swear. They got a stadium being built over there at Beauford. I've seen it everything. Man, it's the stadium. It's worldpools, it's a MS zoom music, it's a
carnival they got got I learned a little bit about it. Man, y'all got like a five million dollar football budget or something because of the oil they got oil they go through Beauford. It's a lot of things. I give us money. It's a lot there. It's a lot of different factors that go into that. Yeah, it's coming through that. Hey man, that's that's different. That's not like your average public high school, and it's public.
You know. Link One thing I want to do, man, if you can do for me, man is I really want to I really want to hang out with you guys. Man. So I want a great spring game, you know, put on the good show. But when it's over. Man. I want you and your buddies, y'all get together. Man, I want to I want to feel that sparting dog, the young dog, the big dogs love. I want to sit there about with everybody get to know each other. Because I say that because you know I didn't have
a chance to do that with the before me. You know what I mean. Yeah, and if we if we want to have a podcast and we want to talk about coming back, I think we as players need to build our own fraternity, build it up so when guys come back where the whole new young, we know each other, we know how to bomb. We did each other with a phone call away, so if we can do that after the game, man, I love to sit you know, I'm gonna have a red Cup, but you have gatorad and then we Yeah, yeah,
that's what I'm talking about. Man. You got a couple of questions for you from people fans that wrote in and then asked it said, are you staying at strong safety or moving to other positions? That's from Chase Walker. I know, I know I'm playing safety. Uh, coach wanted to be able to play like tangent between both. So yeah, I'm still playing okay, and then who in the secondary is making strides in your fens? What you mean, like like the biggest strides? Yeah, like like like
somebody who's the best and most improved. That's how I rephrase that question. I ain't gonna lie. I'm liking Chance most definitely Chance rugger. He he's his game is going on was death Like Wow, I'm like, I'm like, I'm liking. I'm going I'll see what I'm saying from him, and I ain't gonna lie. He can, he could be, he can, he can be very dead. I ain't gonna lie to you. All you gotta do is keep on going. And then once that as his confidence deals
more and more, it's ain't gonna lie. It's gonna be. It's gonna be hell mm hmm. That's the one they put on. Then he put him on Marvin Harrison junior last year. I mean, uh, the game they put him on it like he as a true freshman. Yeah, yeah, I ain't lie. He has got a good frame on him too, so he what's all that coming? He gets stronger and and that's what we do, getting stronger, bigger, getting faster. But I feel with him, it's more of that confidence. So as that come more and more,
it's over confidence swear. I know you like to talk about this man, what about that sweet condition That's something we haven't heard much about. How to straighten the conditioning program. Under the new staff, you most definitely getting bigger and stronger and faster. So like put it like this, like I came in and uh I put on like I came back in one night and I'm some tool fun out. Yeah. So they they're doing what they do most
definitely, Okay, what kind of lifts y'all doing more Olympic lifts? What? Yeah, most death we're doing like hand cleans for what we're doing a whole lot of front squad. We don't even really touched basketquad yet, but we're doing a whole lot of front squad just you know, a bench. But like we actually like we like we're chasing weight. It's not it's not really on the on the on the little science thing no morey like like you know how I like it'll tell you like green red. Yeah, we're not
really on that no more. It's just okay, it's chased the weight. Let's get strong best same times. Be smart. But yeah, we're getting stronger. Oh you're actually putting numbers up. Who's the strongest on the team. It's still Sam Oh yeah, yeah, more definitely, Yeah, it's more definitely want to be lining or old lining, you know what they're throwing up because we were secually differently. Yeah, yeah, back a lot last year when I like, when I will watch him, his his barb was
full. He can't he can't put the more weight on there. Guy, right, I mean does that help you though, when you have a good defensive line to be able to you know, do your job. Yeah, most definitely, because we don't got to cover as long. Like that's like coming for three seconds or eight, like it's just like it get harder along a long you reguard somebody, So like if you can so so if your d line can get back there and cause eruption quick and getting quarterback faced right
now, make him panic, it's gonna be way easier. Wazier games man. I got a question from uh paedrics word ANRVA, which which dorms has the prettiest girls on camera? Yeah? No, I don't, I don't know, I don't know, you don't know. No, So he talks about doors got the prettiest ones on kempis. Oh no, not touch me as here. When you can't answer when you plead the fifth, you know what that means? You know, and I know why he didn't answer straight. It's easy. Let me tell you. Let me look at me,
my mind easy. You know why guy like that? You gotta think I like that he has. You know why I can say that because my same answer. Okay, okay, Saturday afternoon, I'm on my ass. Just tell me and my squirt you know what. You know, it really set this up. But I could because you know, I got Hey, how old are you right now? Malik? Okay, there it is. So you know we got to keep the gatorade in. You know, so when you double your age plus, this is what you have to look forward to
your mindset, that's gonna be just like squirt. Yeah plus about That's that a influence? Man? Look, so you got all the kinds of star people to go. You ever meet doctor Jink, doctor j Has Yeah, he's like a yeah, yeah, yeah, Lias in this video, I think Linux, Yeah, that's an lynics. Okay, man, Like, Like what is it like though for you? Man? Like growing up like that and having all this access. I think you've been trained with guys like pac Man. Do we have a video of that? Yeah, they ain't
coming by. I want to. I want to get it on check and I want to like that the rolls like the cloud, Wait, like cloud, and I want down there like cloud. Man, I'm so high my cloud ship for then I have do you rather be talking this ship and it ain't no fake tims? Look if he's deill lit this way so here, then but this ship mega by coming. Okay, that's money, not ever man. One thing I was gonna ask you, man, they looked like he was in jeans and he was going around the cold. Did he didn't
take off on you one time? I ain't my hand because because if you peep, if you peep, he didn't finish the drill. He just came from the h the club. Pac Man is a man. He's that deal now, so he help you. Yeah, that workout, that workout was, it wasn't too long ago. I feel like that was probably like in December January. I was. I was this year. I think, okay, yeah, okay, you work out with Chris Henry that's is his his
a son. Yeah, yeah, receiving though, right, Yeah, mm hmm, that's Chris Henry Jr. So his dad played but died in a car accident. And I know pac Man, you know, was watching over him. Now. So anyway, man, hey, look, so you got a lot of star power. Man, So what's your personal goals? I know a lot of people talk about team goals. What is your personal goal as a player? Uh? For this year as a junior going forward?
My personal god, I say, really ship maximizing my opportunities for real, for real, Like last year a few picks I dropped, everybody, they gonna keep up coming. So I gotta to stay stay, stays true and do my job and maximize the opportunities when I ball in the air, go get it. So actually my goal just just off the way I play, aggressive, physical, all that, like everything else will take care of yourself. So I got this nex smiles every opportunity I got, honestly,
So swear what you think? Man? Like, Look how many picks? Uh it does it take to declare as a safety to the league. Especially that The key with dad is we gotta play great on TV game the facts, gotta play big and and and all. It ain't all about the interception. But we can come up and be for us great tacklers. We can run side of the sideline, the sideline, we can get off the hat and we can cover those tight ends. We can be a guy that can
do all that the slow facts. We're gonna make the money. I just want to be with him with what's the guy that got the wings? He was he was in the bubble, the bubble, he got the bubble that got the wings? Name after them all the basketball player he went over the Magic City, Malie, you know I'm talking about. He was in the n b A and then he was in the bubble. He left, and then he went to man to the club and they got Chickenwayne. Name after
what you're talking about? What aout after this year or next year? I want to be I want you to be like, oh gee, I'm about to hit the club where you at and I'm coming may Malik definitely. Hey man, let's put up the after party. You know after the spring game. Looks like they're doing ten was it four or ten minute quarters? I just got announced. But Belik, you coming to this right here? Okay, this is part of the MS. She was having a second and your
members only event. So that's for you. After the game, come over to the field house, man right there. Yeah, I might know about this, Yeah, I might know about this. Yeah oh yeah, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. So for all those subscribers that are the people that are on the shoulder, have a subscribe, we're gonna talk about that in a minute. That you're gonna get to meet Malik and see the conversation might be a pride to conversation between Milak and Swerve. But after that we take
pictures and have good time. But Belik Man, hey man, we let you go, man, and thank you for joining us, man, and we look forward to seeing you this weekend and absolutely through it out the season next year. Were cheering for you, brother. I appreciate that. Thank you all right, brother, I don't yes, Sir Malik Spencer, Man, hey, no, look you I like the fraternity you're trying to build.
I love that swear. We gotta keep doing that as talk as I keep talking to these young kids, man, and I think about like when we was on campus, all we had was us, you know what I mean, we never really met Magic Johnson or we never really met you know,
Massin Muhammad. Like that for you know, for whatever reason, these guys never really just you know, echo even worked out with us and things that I see now, Like if you go to University of Miami, you see all the old guys there with the new guys or whatever it is. But we also got a problem too, because it's not like well, I mean when when when when? Uh? When when our guy was in the wet room and we didn't have a problem, you know, But even when
our old guy was there, what did what did with the what? What? What's his name? The old guy where we get uniforms and stuff like that, Nick Obacca, I call him Sniggerbox. We didn't have those problems, you know what I'm saying. So I can see why a lot of guys wouldn't come back to Michigan State because you're not welcome. I'm gonna welcome to other colleges. I walk in, I get a band, I get this, I get that, And I'm like, I say to myself,
like, damn, I don't even get this treatment at Michigan State. You know what I mean that I don't know. I look at me. I don't know if it's because I don't go back all the time, because I didn't I didn't live there after my season was over or what but and no, but then you look at like if I go with if I go with somebody to Florida State, my guys in Florida State, I'm on the sideline,
no problem. We even did it. Mischigan state. You got got stopping you hold on you stopping me my pictures in the in the in the hall over there. Well, same thing happened to brother Smith back in the day. By the way, But that's my thing. I want to I want to try to see because we got this far and on the on the on the Facebook this and is cool, but let's let's have something when we come back in this spartan doll. We don't have that even though coming you
know what I mean. Now, these young guys can pull an old dude to the side and help him. Hey man, I'm born in my junior year, man, and when you know I need to help with this? What's this? What you think about this? Or or do you know anybody that's in the business past, like you know I think about uh uh Stanford my son his internship or yeah, his internship, I say, son, people, what you're gonna make in a month people go to school to get
for four years. Teachers don't even make that, right. Yeah, but that's why that's the older player, that's the ex player that played there that say, huh, this is your internship. This is what you're gonna do for six weeks. Six weeks. Yeah. So I told him, I say, son, let me get twenty thousand. Told you give me twenty thousand. You still gonna be okay? Oh wow, that's that's a hell
of internship. Man. But my thing straight, just think about when we were in school, who came back, who built that relationship with us? Who we can say that was the ogs, right, you know what I'm saying. And then you know, we get that, we get we get lost when we hear you know, negative words about guys that passed away, this, this, that and that. Like I wish I had a relationship with that guy, new of them, you know what I mean. But I wish I could say I did more with him, because you know he
was he was wrapped before us, you know what I'm saying. But his fault, it ain't my fault. Just that now we never built the foundation. We talk about it, but when we go back, the only cookout that is out there is Flose Adams. That's right, that's right. That you're either going now or you're going to the to the park where all the young kids. Now, I want to be around a spun dog and I want to hear about what happened after I level, what happened in eighty six
and what happened. Let's have a drink, let's talk that, you know what I mean? Yeah, we go to go to floll situation. It's just us who played with mm hmmm, you know what I'm saying. But now you Facebook, let some negative come out everybody. How about we come together and build a brotherhood that that we can we can benefit from. That's right, because there's a lot of successful brothers, you know what I mean. Like we look at a guy like Bill Green, you know, who
would have thought he would have done what he's doing. Yeah, that's true. There's a lot of I mean, you know, you look at a situation like with with with uh Matt Matt Isley. Yeah, yeah, I went to school with Cleeve. Yeah I know what time that degree he don't got, That's what it's a teammate up his yes, got in this situation and say hey, hey, come on brother, not just you. Come on Charlie, not just Charlotte. Come on tonyo, not just a tonyo, Come on such and such. It's it's all bring them on. Mm
hmmm mm hmm. That's all. That's all I would like to build, you know what I mean. But you know I got I can do his asks about it. I think, uh, we we've we've we've thoroughly gone through this today. I need you to get on that flight and get down to Florida because we're gonna see you tomorrow. Okay. I want you to be safe with that. You have any final thoughts before we get out of
here. Now, you're asking to see me tonight and we can smoke outside your house because outside but if not, we're definitely gonna smoke this Saturday. Baby, But this Saturday, man, I just want to have a good time. I want to feel like it's a big ms U Sparting football family reunion. If you've never been to a family reunion, let's make this our first annual family union. Bring some watermelon, bring some boat chop brings watermelon, I mean, collar green hot dogs. Let's just have a damn good
time. I'm looking to see everybody but Thursday we're gonna have more than ten people. I believe that. I'm about to go on Facebook to put on Spartan Dog. I'm about to go put it on MSU Atlanta group. Hey. Matter of fact, if there's any other groups that's out there that we don't know about, please let us know so we can be a part of them and we can give them the information too, because there's a lot of people that don't know about the information. Yeah, that's it. It's all
about sharing information. It's wonderful kind of access. Now, that was well said. Swerve. Look you get ready, get to that airport and I see in a few hours for Centric Irvan. I'm Jason Straehorn. This is part of the MSU. Everybody, have a good night, God blessed, and go green.