-: I'm a little unique.
I came here on a football scholarship,
played football,
thought I was gonna go to the NFL.
So, I thought it was gonna be two years.
I'm outta here in two years.
Two, three years, I'm gone.
But it didn't work out that way.
And along the way, my senior year,
when I started realizing
football's not gonna be,
I knew I wanted to go to the NFL
for maybe four years,
but I realized that football's not gonna be my entire life.
If anything, I make it four years,
and now I'm 28, 30.
What then? What are you gonna do?
Okay, you wanna run a business.
Okay, what kind of business?
You want to help kids.
Okay, how are you gonna do that?
So, I took a sales class and I don't know if it was part
of the curriculum or what, but I took a sales class.
And Stacy, and I think her name was Stacy,
was the teacher in that class,
and I could be wrong,
but I did really well at it.
And I started realizing everything in life is sold.
I mean, the color of your shirt was sold.
What I'm wearing was sold to me.
So I started realizing, look,
everything in life is sold to someone.
So if you can understand sales,
if you're trying to sell yourself,
you should do well in life.
So, I would say Ball State prepared me
for that specific thing.