Austin Price: Hello friends and welcome in for another episode of Vol Club Confidential. I'm your host Austin Price of Volquest.com. Only two episodes left in season number one of Vol Club Confidential. Then we'll take the summer off and we'll reconvene once Fall Camp gets here. The start of the show this week is sophomore running back Dylan Sampson. But before we bring him in, we're gonna bring in the Vol Club’s Brandon Spurlock. Brandon, you all started this captaincy program to kind of help grow the Vol Club and you've got a group of guys that have really bought in to uh, kind of their role of uh, you know, helping you all expand. Brandon Spurlock: Yeah. Just another page in the, the organic growth that we've done. We're kind of chasing a lot of things and you know, we failed a few things here and there and we turned 'em off. But this is one that was led by, you know, one of our early members that kind of started out and then got to our highest level of membership at that Tennesseean level and just was really pouring a lot of himself into what we were doing. And we had talked about doing like something like this for a while and you know, a company like ours, you kind of need people to just do. And so Kenny Clayton, who's joined our team, you know, helped get this group started and we really wanna take it all across the state. And our, our membership growth has really seen an uptick here lately, you know, just because of that, cuz we're kind of getting into, you know, basketball's over, baseball's still going, but after the football push, that group has really helped drive, you know, our numbers here lately. Austin Price: Your numbers have constantly went up, but uh, you know, what is it about this group of guys and the pride they have that sticks out to you? Because I mean they, I think they're taking a lot of pride in kind of, you know, these, these weekly meetings to discuss, you know, different avenues, different paths to help grow. Brandon Spurlock: Yeah, it’s ride but it's also structure. I mean they've got some pretty intense data analytics that are going into it and they're tracking what they're doing and really it's about formalizing and structuring the process to, you know, articulate and take that out to anybody and everybody that will listen to say, you know, Vol Club is about two things: It's about creating sustainable, ongoing and opportunities for our players first and foremost. And then creating an unmatched fan experience for the people that are members. And so having not just the people that work here for, for Aspyre and for the Vol Club, but now having a group that is an ever-growing group, like we're taking people, anybody that wants to do that in their county or their area of the state or even outside of the state, you know, we're taking all, all buyers on that. So if you want to be in and kind of, you know, not just be a member but go the extra mile and do something a little more, we can have you be a part of the team peripherally like that. Austin Price: Well, anytime you're growing stuff organically, it's really baptism by fire and with a couple of those guys, I think they've been baptized a couple of thousand times by their dad. Um, we'll talk more about that at a later date. Now let's get to the star of tonight’s show. And that's running back Dylan Sampson. Austin Price: You wrapping up freshman year, take me through what you felt like the season was was for you and then spring practice, you know, just go around your thoughts. Dylan Sampson: Um, I feel like the season was really big for me in terms of being in a limited running back room. I knew it was times where I would've had to step up and play or I knew I would've had to get opportunities that um, you know, probably like most wouldn't expect at that early stage. But I was doing the best I could to be prepared for that. And I think it ultimately like helped me progress as a player and as a person step into this spring moving in the offense like a vet, like really having to be RB1 at times just with um, Jabari and uh, J Wright. Um, depending on where they be sometimes. So like it produce more like comfortability, um, just in the room and on the field. Austin Price: Every running back that ever comes through here as a freshman, the biggest question is, is how are they gonna be in pass protection? How are they gonna be in pass protection? You go back to when you first got here handing its ear hold at LSU you almost make a unbelievable play there. I mean, you really did make an unbelievable play but almost pick up first down and then you kind of disappear cuz of the pass protection, then it gets better, you come back, you're a different back, different back. Those last three or four games, what was the difference? Was it just a matter of just earning your way back or what was it? Dylan Sampson: Um, I would say probably that too, but just me stepping back and just refocusing. Cause it, it wasn't that I didn't know what to do, it was just like, man, really first big SEC game. I'm back at home. Austin Price: Back at home. Yeah. Dylan Sampson: Back at home and it's just like, that's one of the freshman moments that I had. But, you know, thank God nothing, you know, bad happened, but it was a like one of the biggest like stepping stones for me that's a, you know, uh, top, top five quarterback in his draft class. And you know, our job is to protect him just as much as we run the ball. And like that's kind of what the, the coaches they tell us like that's an NFL quarterback. They, you know, you need to protect him, this and that. So like that was a, a chance for me to like step back and like, I need to be like on my, my top a game practice, whatever time I get in the game. So like they’ll trust me going into these later games in the season and when I got my chance to show what I could do, you know, I'll be on point in the run game. And in the pass game. Austin Price: You have that big run against Vanderbilt, a couple of 'em. What kind of, take me through that game. How big was that from a confidence standpoint? Just to, you know, I mean when you're in high school you run wild, you're a superstar, then you get to college and all of a sudden it's almost like a reset, right? You have to kinda earn your way back. It's small increments of playing time for most freshmen to finally have that big run. How, how gratifying was it? Dylan Sampson: Everybody dream is to have the long touchdowns and ultimately that's what they brought me here for is to, you know, be home run, home run hitter. And that was, um, I feel like that was a glimpse. I showed the, the people of what I can do. But in terms of like the whole running back room had in like a good day. Austin Price: They did. Yeah. Dylan Sampson: Like we had a great day that day and it was just like, honestly didn't believe it. I was just, I was just playing. And then when I broke that tackle and I was running in my head, I was like, no way that just happened. Like no way that just happened cuz we were all just doing like crazy good, but it was like a good feeling just to know that we all did good that game. I had a long run and it's just an ultimate co uh, confidence booster going into the last game of the season, you know, with Joe Milton, uh, starting his first game at quarterback that year. But, uh, we put a good put good show on the ground for, um, the fans. Austin Price: You're just wrapping up your freshman year as we talked about, but you're like an old head, like, you know, you just very mature handling yourself a certain way. Do you feel like even as a 18, 19 year old kid you've established yourself as kind of a guy that even the younger guys or even an older guy could come to and, and, and, you know, talk ball with, be a leader, that type of thing? Dylan Sampson: I feel like, I feel like I have, especially in this, in the winter session going in the spring ball, I've been more, more, um, I am a talkative person, but last year my whole focus was to come in and learn the plays, do what I do, do what I could do to get on the field. So like you didn't see as much as that from me last year, but it's, it is really just my personality going into off-season workouts when we in the weight room out on the field, whether it's with De'Shawn or Cam, um, helping them learn. I feel like, you know, if you ask anybody, I'm always a, a energy giver or could be a leader no matter who I'm talking to, if it's an older guy or a younger guy, I do feel like that's a area that I developed that. Austin Price: You committed early on. And, and then as you, you know, you know pointed out earlier, you didn't get here until summertime. So do, do you kind of feel like you walked in with maybe lesser expectations, not for yourself, but from others? Like there wasn't like this weight on you coming in that some kids feel just because you had committed early and you didn't arrive till late? Dylan Sampson: I feel like there was a little bit less expectations just because we got another running back in the class too at the same time. Um, I mean, I don't know, I can't, you know, be in the coach's head, but I will say, I will say I felt more pressure in not, they weren't giving me pressure, but I feel like the pressure is more intense in the summer just because you know. Austin Price: Less time you didn't have spring ball. Dylan Sampson: Less time, you know what I'm saying? So you have spring ball and it's like, it's building stones. You have a whole bunch of new guys enter, it's like they're, they're a little bit more patient with you. And that's, that's what I realized, you know, being in my first winter session, they're a little bit more patient with you, but like when you get in the summer, I mean, it's summer then fall camp then season, so it's no time to not not know the plays. And that's what Coach Heupel said all the time. Like, if you don't know the plays, you have no shot of playing. So like that was my, that was my main thing. I didn't really feel like the pressure, but I, I felt like the urgency of like collectively as a team, like how fast we were moving just as terms as like practice and workouts and getting in the fall camp. Austin Price: What was it that the, the staff did a good job of selling you on when, when go back to when you were not committed and you come here on your official, you left that week, you know, kind of knowing this is where you wanted to be. What did they sell you on? What was that pitch and and what did you like about Heup or Jerry Mack and that and that and that sales pitch? Dylan Sampson: Um, it just felt genuine. Uh, honestly, it was just this offense, like probably one of the bigger things they went into detail of like kind of describing how it was Coach Heupel specifically because, you know, all the other coaches were trying to really, you know, figure out exactly what it was and how they were gonna do it. But the o you know, coach Heup was like, you'll fit perfectly in the offense. Like, we'll do some things with you if we get you out in space in this offense, this and that. It'll be great. And I mean, I love this offense. I mean, it, it is great for people in space and, but the, the biggest thing I'll probably say is just like every, it was genuine and it probably wasn't more so what the coaches sold me. It was what I felt from the players at the time. Like this was a team that was in transition, like some players committed to a coach that wasn't even there no more. So like, I took my, you know, I took my time to ask like people like Jabari or Big O people all over onside the ball when I had like the player time. Like, like, like what do you really think about this? And you know that. But I would say it was one moment we were eating dinner one night at Ruth Chris Jabari was my host and uh, his mom called him FaceTimed him and Coach Heup just comes around the corner, greaser, uh, name everything. And at that point, they only been there for a couple of months, but it's just like, that was a, that was a, a instance in where like I was just like, like he's building something that's really like family to come around the table, greet his mother with the name. Just like when only being there a couple months, I was like, like that's a place I want to be. Austin Price: See that's what I'm saying, the old head, I mean like you notice little things like that, like, you know, not sure a lot of kids would even pay attention to those type things and you're, you're thinking kind of chess not checkers there. Yeah. Um, Jerry Mack talk about that relationship. Dylan Sampson: Oh yeah, he, he's a real coach. Um, you know, that's like right now it's to a point, you know, I'm, I could be tru trusted as a leader in the, um, in the room, but he's a, he's a smart football coach. I mean, he was once a offensive coordinator. Austin Price: He wants to head coach. Dylan Sampson: He wants to head coach and you know, number one thing is like, he will like cram the details in your head. Like he's gonna make sure that you know what you're doing. But like, it's almost like you could laugh with him, you know, you could joke with him and he'll get you better. He'll also take advice from you, you know, like how you feeling, um, what you thinking. Like even during the game he asks us what we see out there, collaborate with us. It's just like a, you know, a communicative relationship. And he pushes us each, each and every single one of us every day to get better. And there's times where he'll get on all of us. He catches us slipping, but like, that's what makes us better. And he's just a genuine person. I feel like everybody, everybody you talk to on the staff say I like, I like, I like J Mac, you know what I'm saying? I like J Mack. He's, I mean he's just a genuine coach. Austin Price: When I see Coach Mack on the practice field, I think he's getting ready to call for four tires in the splash of gas. Cuz he always says the headset on, like he's a crew chief of Nascar. Dylan Sampson: He always got the headset on. Austin Price: It's a different kind of headset though, like, you know what I mean? Dylan Sampson: Like how he has it up. Yeah. And then yeah, that's how, that's him though. That's him. He's always chewing that gum too. He love his gum. Nah. Yeah. Austin Price: What kind of gum? Dylan Sampson: Juicy fruit I think. I think. Austin Price: That's like an old man's gum. Dylan Sampson: I don't like it. Austin Price: Nobody likes it. Dylan Sampson: That's my auntie. She's. Austin Price: Never my father-in-law. He, he, he has it in his little pocket and his, his comb and his Juicy Fruit or Tic Tacs. Dylan Sampson: I said you chew it three times the flavor gone. But I mean to each his own, like that's what my auntie, she used to chew that in in church. I was bored cuz service used to be like three hours. So I used to take a piece of gum, feel like I got cavities every chew. Austin Price: And then you would pull out the little thing where you're supposed to put the offering and put the gum in there. That, is that what you did? Dylan Sampson: With the gum? I put a, I put money in the offering. Austin Price: Well, no I know that. I'm just saying though, like that's when you, you gum the offer. Yeah. When you, when you were trying to get rid of your gum in church, that's the natural place. The little, little place where you get the offering. Dylan Sampson: Man, I had to get rid of that Juicy Fruit. Austin Price: How would you describe your game for, for fans that watch you have seen you? How, how, how do you think, what do you think they see? Dylan Sampson: I know one thing for sure they haven't seen enough yet, but I mean they see an, a electric, electric player that, you know, has a potential to make a lot of big plays. I think that's what a lot of people see, um, the big plays. But to describe my game, I I would call myself like a subtle patient, explosive runner. It's like I don't, I don't feel like I put too much effort in when I run. That's why, I mean that's why my favorite player was Alvin Kamara always coming in. Cuz just the way he runs, just the way he flows, it's like he flows with the game. Like, and all my years of running track, I've been like developing my runs like, so I run comfortably and smoothly. So me obviously being not the biggest back in the world, like you have to learn how to flow with the game and use like, use my strength to, to the best benefits I can. Um, you know, I even some of the defensive players this year, they, um, throughout the spring they'd be like, it's really like sneaky because like obviously I'm not the biggest back, so you think like one big hit I'll go down, but you know, I pride myself on balance and running strong and finishing like however I can. But I always wanna make the big plays so like I'm gonna do whatever I can to stay up and make second, uh, second level defenders miss. So I can maximize every single play. Austin Price: I've been talking to you about since you got here. I love that you wear 24. Um, I think that's an old school running back number, um, when I was a kid. 33, 24, 30? Um, 32. You know, those are all, you know, running back numbers now. Everybody wants a single digit. You bring up Alvin Camara. I think you'd like to make the move to six if, if Coach Heupel grants you that number going into fall camp, right? Dylan Sampson: Uh, it would be, it would be nice. I do have a lot of people telling me to keep 24 though. But, um, I mean I'm weighing the options, you know, if Coach Heupel does let me, I have a decision to make. I have a decision to make, but I don't, don't know yet. Austin Price: How precious are those single digit numbers and how much do you all as players, I won't say bicker back and forth about getting one, but at the same time, uh, there's only so many of them and a lot of you want them. How much is that a discussion? Dylan Sampson: It comes up every now and then, you know, um, a lot of people, a lot of people want to sing single digit numbers obviously. Me personally, I honestly don't like, like fathom over, over the, the single digits. I mean the player makes the number, like I feel, um, I haven't even really wore single digits that much. I wore 21 in high school because, uh, my brother, uh, really couldn't finish playing football. So I, uh, wore 21. But, um, I feel like the player makes the number. I don't like fathom single digits. Austin Price: Oh, that's, you know, Eric Berry was 10 in high school and Erik Ainge was number 10 when he got here. And once Eric graduated he could have moved to 10, but he decided to stay in 14 because he wanted to make 14 his own. And he did. Now everybody associates that number at Tennessee with Eric Barry. So, you know, I mean, I I'm with you there. I I think that's a, a good way to look at it. What are some of your goals heading into this fall? Dylan Sampson: Number one goal is, you know, I want to be more electric and more useful to the team. You know, going into my second year, I want to operate as a vet, you know, however the rotation works out. I'm gonna do whatever I can to help this team out, um, to help us accomplish our goal each and every single step of the way. But I wanna, I wanna make plays. I wanna make plays like game in and game out take the field. Austin Price: What's your favorite play call? Is there one when it comes in practice or comes in in a game and you're in for it? You're like, yes, this is, they blocked this up. I run this well. Dylan Sampson: I probably wouldn't say play call, but if I see a five man box on the defensive side and we're running some type of, um, tackle pool or insert insert scheme, maybe I got confidence in my O line and I, I just, sometimes I know I could tell by looking at the front when a player is just going, just gonna hit, you know. Austin Price: I understand. All right, we're gonna do some social media questions. Favorite shoe? Dylan Sampson: Favorite shoe? Um, probably Jordan 4s. I like, I I don't have a specific one, but I just like Jordan 4s, the style of them. Austin Price: Funniest teammate. Dylan Sampson: Funniest teammate. We got a lot of characters on the team, like too many. Um, Joe could honestly be up there. He like, he don't ever stop joking. I don't know. There's, there's a lot. Austin Price: Grumpiest teammate, Dylan Sampson: Grumpiest. Nah, everybody come in with good energy. We not, we not grumpy, we not everybody. I don't know, we all energetic for the most part. You know, nobody really grumpy. If they don't talk then they just like, just vibing. Austin Price: Who’s the quietest person on this team? Dylan Sampson: Probably quietest. I would probably, um, Prime. Prime? Uh, Austin Price: Kurott Garland? Dylan Sampson: Yeah, Garland. He's, he's one. He just be in his own. Austin Price: When you, when he speaks. Is that one of those where everybody goes. Dylan Sampson: But it's like, it is like, yeah. Yeah. One of those. Austin Price: All right, let's go. Rapid fire. Favorite moment from last season? Dylan Sampson: Mizzou. When I just like, probably broke every single run I touched. Austin Price: Biggest surprise to you about the program here? Dylan Sampson: How much they take care of our bodies. They do a really good job of taking care of us. Austin Price: What brand would your ideal NIL sponsor be? Dylan Sampson: Nike. Austin Price: How old were you when you started playing football and running back? Dylan Sampson: I was, uh, nine years old. Austin Price: Were you a running back then? Dylan Sampson: I was a running back. I want, I wanted to be like Reggie Bush, but they gave me number 85. Austin Price: 85? Dylan Sampson: Yep. Or somebody else on the team. Austin Price: Did you make that number your own? Um, what do you miss most about Louisiana? Dylan Sampson: The food, of course. My mama cooking. Austin Price: Is there anything up here that can come close? Dylan Sampson: I don't know if I explored enough. I, I don't, I haven't found any, I haven't found anything yet. Austin Price: Tell us about your favorite Mardi Gras experience. Dylan Sampson: Probably Spanish Town in, um, Baton Rouge. It, it's really the same experience all the time. Sure. Yeah. Um, bees king cake. Austin Price: Can anybody on this team beat you in a race now? Dylan Sampson: I'm gonna say no. Everybody else going to, uh, say yeah, they're gonna be like Squirrel's gonna blow you out, but there's actually, we should do a big, a big race. Jaylen Wright is fast. Squirrel White is fast. I'm fast. Austin Price: Dont’e Dylan Sampson: Dont’e. I wanna see, I actually do wanna see Dont’e run for real. Austin Price: Tell me about your involvement in Vol Legacy. Dylan Sampson: Me and Squirrel actually often like going to the community a lot, you know. Um, there was 1, 1, 1 of the best, uh, memories probably. We were like a judge at a, um, science fair, elementary school science fair. And there was like so many kids that were happy to see us and we like judged their projects and stuff. It was cool though. Austin Price: When you're around those kids and they see how you, how, and you see how they look at you, what's that mean to you? Dylan Sampson: It's just like a constant reminder to keep, keep going each and every day there's a constant reminder to like wake up and make the right decisions because I mean, you don't realize it until you like step out into community until you like walking from a game and there's lines of people like asking for an autograph whether you played or not. It's just like you wear that orange and they know you're on the team. It's just like they looking like in awe and it's just like a constant reminder to just be like the best, the best you each and every single day. Austin Price: When you walk outta the stadium and there's that group of kids right there on the, on the, you know, on the fence line and they go, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan Sampson: No. That's like, you know, for like the kids to like know my name, whether like regardless of how much I did, they recognize my face. It's just like you, I mean, how can you not go over there and you know, spend some time with 'em, take a picture with 'em, you know, sign a couple autographs for him. Austin Price: You were homecoming king in high school? Dylan Sampson: Mm-hmm. Austin Price: When they announced you, did you know you had won? Did you think you had won? Kind of take me through that and, and any interesting stories that go back to that? Dylan Sampson: I was pretty sure I won. I think somebody actually snuck into the, uh, the ballots and told me I won. No. But, um. Austin Price: They stuffed the box. Dylan Sampson: By a lot. But, um, it was kind of cool though. I walked out into the middle of the field. They gave me a crown, I did a back flip, gave him a hand and oh, I walked off. Austin Price: Better Back Flip. You or Joe Milton? Dylan Sampson: Me. Joe's just a big, large genius. Oh, he looks, it looks cooler. Austin Price: Jordan or LeBron? Dylan Sampson: Jordan. Austin Price: Oh, the rare one. We've had a lot of run LeBrons. We've had some Kobes though too. Dylan Sampson: I love Kobe. I say Jordan, but I'm gonna just say, why don't we just let all the great players just like rest in their eras. Jordan. Austin Price: Well, just what Jordan wants to do. Right. Jordan, you never heard him say he's the goat. Dylan Sampson: Right? Jordan is in his era. LeBron is in his era. I think we should just both agree that they are one of the best basketball players to ever touch the court and we should just let them both be great. Austin Price: How much did you watch Last Dance when it came out? Dylan Sampson: I watched, I watched the whole thing with my, with my dad. Um, cause it was just me and him in the house at that time. I think my mom was out with my sister for a cheer competition. So we were just like binge watching it. Austin Price: You run, do the whole season. You binge watched the whole season. Dylan Sampson: We watched it, man. Austin Price: Any summer plans coming up? You go back to Louisiana for May? Dylan Sampson: Yeah I will go back. Um, for May. We might take a family trip with my family. Uh, might go to Florida. Um, for a little bit of time we get off, but I'll definitely go back home. Austin Price: Any kind of pre-game superstitions for you? I mean, do you, is there anything you do every game, any music, certain music you listen to every game? Anything? Dylan Sampson: I wouldn't say superstitions, but, Austin Price: Or routines. Dylan Sampson: I mean, always, always pray in in the hotel when we get to the field and as soon as we run, run through the tunnel. Um, as far as music always, like I fluctuate what type of music I play. So like when we're first arriving I might have some like more hype music on and as the, as it gets closer to kickoff time, I like mellow down with some that's, I'm weird. I mellow down with some calmer music to just, I mean, we six we playing for 60 minutes where I, you know, our adrenal is rushing so I like calm down before I attack the field and then it just like gets me right every time. Austin Price: Yeah. You Dee Williams broke off the griddy last year at Vanderbilt, right? As he crossed the, the line made everybody think he tore his hamstring. You got anything planned? Like, I mean, do you, is there a, is there a dance that, you know, we might see this fall? Dylan Sampson: I don't have nothing planned yet. I mean, I might, I might just think of something might maybe might have been a hotel. I just wanna get, I don't, I don't have anything planned right now. Dee Williams though. He, he always got something that's, that's the dancer on the team. Austin Price: When Alvin had the touchdown at the Battle of Bristol and he flashed the, the the silver. Dylan Sampson: The uh, yeah. Yeah. I'll, I people just come up with ideas. I don't know. Squirrel be having a lot of ideas too. Um, I don't know. I might come up with some. Austin Price: How would you describe Squirrel? You guys are thick as thieves. I mean, you know, you guys are always playing the video games together and stuff. I mean, you know, I mean, he's a quiet kid. But at the same time, like, I think he's starting to come out of his shell a little bit. Dylan Sampson: Yeah, yeah. He definitely is Squirrel's the type of person that's just like, I mean, if he doesn't really know you that much, like he'll just like, you know, he'll just like keep it pushing. Um, he's not real talkative. That's not like saying that that's just, you know, people like that. I know a lot of people like that, but, um, I mean as he's like taking a bigger role in this offense, I, the coaches are challenging him too. And um, I mean obviously he hangs out with me. I'm more, more of the talkative one, but I mean, I'm, I'm seeing him, you know, be a leader more come outta his shell, you know, coach up guys talk more, you know. So I mean that's good to see. Um, but yeah, me and me and Squirrel are real close. Austin Price: Why are you so close? Dylan Sampson: I don't even know when it happened. Uh, it's probably some point last season, but I feel like it's, cuz we have the same mindset. Like, I mean everybody has the same goal. Everybody says they wants to go to the NFL, but the way you approach it is, is different. Like no matter what level you in. So like, like we all playing at the SEC level, everybody wants to go to the league, but like the mindset that me and him approach it with the way we think, the way we communicate and talk, like we just like, you know, connect on so many different levels and just like, man, you, we both like doing what, like we gotta do to like put ourselves in the best position. Austin Price: Gimme one or two guys who you've seen change their mindset. Maybe didn't have that mindset last year. I mean, you go back a year ago, Jalin Hyatt's, well chronicled for how he changed his mindset mm-hmm. and then of course, look at him now who do you, who can you see from maybe November of last year through spring practice had a different mindset or a different focus? Dylan Sampson: Um, J Wright for sure. He's one of them. Austin Price: Who is really close with Jalin Hyatt. So I think that that's easy for him to buy in, right? I mean, he's saw his friend do it. Dylan Sampson: I, I see the, the, you know, the want and the passion in J Wright all the time while he is on the field, how hard he runs. But just like, like I said, him off the field, like the way he, his mindset he attacks situations with. I could definitely see the, you know, the, just the change in the mindset and you know, the reality of NFL could be coming really soon, you know. And another person I would say is Kamal Hadden over the, like, just the way he's been off the field, like the conversations I done had with him, you know, I feel like he has really, he really changed his mindset too. Austin Price: Do you think the South Carolina game was a wake up call for him because he was jawing, y'all were down 30. And he took such a kind of a, like a Twitter bloodbath on that deal. Do you think that that that maybe was a wake up call? I mean, you know, cuz I mean that, that he has someone who has drawn praise this spring for being more focused. Dylan Sampson: I don't know if it was a wake up call. I feel like that game should have been a wake up call for everybody. Sure. I mean, but I mean he's definitely been like, I mean coach coaches have said it. Um, coach Martinez spoke on it a little bit, but I mean, you could tell just in his detail, his focus. Um, there's a lot of young DBs in the room. The way he coaches them up, um, on and off the field, like is a different, you know, a different mindset. Austin Price: Well Dylan, man, we appreciate the time and uh, we look forward to watching you this fall, whether it be in 6 or 24 or some other number that Coach Heupel gives you heading into the 2023 season. Dylan Sampson: Yeah, definitely appreciate you. Austin Price: Appreciate you. Dylan Sampson, an electrifying player on the field. One more show to go. Next week we'll have Joey Halzle on Vol Club Confidential. 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