Bruce Feldman (74:31)
Yeah. The only thing I really remembered about him was before I did Meat Market, the recruiting book I did around Ole Miss, like when I was at ESPN magazine, we tried to do some version of that. Not as a book, but as a story. And one of the first schools I approached it was remember Chuck Amato? There's like a great. I don't know if it lives on the Internet still. Yeah, the legend, Chucky Red Shoes. And there was like a classic, like cartoon somebody did of him, you know, Florida State assistant goes to. Goes to NC State. And I had some. Some guys I knew pretty good on that staff. I mean, a phenomenal group of characters that Chuck Amato collected there. But anyway, Signetti was on that staff. And so at some point, the three guys I knew, or two of them, and I think Signetti, who I didn't know very well, two of the guys were like, oh yeah, Chuck will go for this. And Chuck wasn't going to go for this. So that was a non starter. But I remember back then, then I also remembered, I forgot I had talked to him for this, but years ago, like, maybe this is maybe like eight years ago, six years ago, NFL Network, I think they did their top 100 players and the top four guys were. None of them were big recruits out of high school. It was Aaron Donald, it was Lamar, Russell Wilson. I forgot who the other guy was. They all had really interesting recruiting stories. And so Signetti was on for Russell Wilson. I think that was the connection. I'm trying to remember when I had. Who I had spoke to him about and it was interesting to hear him talk his way through, you know, kind of his recruiting, you know, his. I don't say his sales pitch, but just like there is something there where it feels like it is very well thought out. And there's other parts like, no, that's really him under there. You know, I know I had one of the guys on his staff I know really well. And he's like, no, that's. That's him. But he knows the effect it's having you know, like, I mean, Mark Ingram, who I work with on Big Noon, you know, Mark remembers being recruited by Signetti at Alabama, you know, and he's an interesting character. There's still like a, you know, a lot of salesmen. I'd be curious as to. It seems like he's one of those guys that worked, would work better in college than in the NFL. And I think a big part of that is because one of his, you know, superpowers is he's got a really good sense of evaluation. But I, I think he's the most fascinating guy right now in college football, you know, and it's because he's got some of the saving tree and he's got different roots. He's a coach's kid. His brother's a coach. You know, he goes back with. There's a lot of people who have different perspectives on him, and even I don't want to see who this person is. But I was once in a conversation with somebody who knows, has known Signetti for a long time, and at some point it came up and it was like, you know, there's a little bit of Jim Harbaugh in him too, and it's authentic. Sometimes you think he's crazy, but it is real. And players respond to that. And that's a big deal in these, you know, especially in this day and age.
