Q time because you were offered, obviously, every school wanted you, um uh,, on their team and, and including USC where Wes went, but you decided that you would sign a deal with Adidas and become a professional athlete and still Eventually go to college and do your degree, but, but that was kind of like a, as I say, it was kind of a controversial decision at the time, right?
A Definitely. It was something that in the U.S., to my understanding, no one had done before, and so, you know, people had all their thoughts on it. I remember watching one of Wes's track meets. It was like the USC-UCLA dual meet, and it was on TV, and so I'm, I'm watching in the broadcast, and somehow, like, my name comes up, and They start talking about this decision, and if I go pro, it's the worst decision in the, in the history of high school athletics. And so it was just a lot of people had different thoughts on it. But for our family, it really came down to a timing thing. You know, Wes was at USC, and I understood, like, to be a collegiate athlete, like, NCAAs came first. You do all of the events. It's about points and all of those things.
AI assessment note: “Definitely. It was something that in the U.S., to my understanding, no one had done before”