April 17, 2025 • 33 mins
Dan Bailey with Four Corners Foundation joins Trent and Patrick on “At Home with Roby”. Four Corners Foundation is an organization dedicated to transforming struggling high school athletic departments into thriving programs through equipment support, booster club development,
community engagement, and financial coaching. The group aims to bridge the gap between well-funded and underfunded schools by providing immediate resources and long-term solutions that ensure sustainable and high-quality athletic programs for ALL students. Tune in to hear about Four Corner Foundation’s inaugural golf tournament happening Monday, May 12 to raise funds for the organization and Dan’s new position as Head Coach of the men’s varsity soccer team at Harding University High School.
community engagement, and financial coaching. The group aims to bridge the gap between well-funded and underfunded schools by providing immediate resources and long-term solutions that ensure sustainable and high-quality athletic programs for ALL students. Tune in to hear about Four Corner Foundation’s inaugural golf tournament happening Monday, May 12 to raise funds for the organization and Dan’s new position as Head Coach of the men’s varsity soccer team at Harding University High School.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to that home with Roby. I'm Patrick mcaac from
Roby Commercial and Services on and Trent Hayson from the
Roby Family of Companies.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We are your hosts. You must have been working on
that a little bit. I didn't.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I didn't. Calvin hit me with the one too. I
think I was texting somebody. I heard the three two one,
stop my text and off we go.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
So that made you sound like Bob Youuker.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Bob Uger. Wow, God rest is too. Did Bob Youker
pass away? I think so? Man, I think so.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm sure our guest today would no effect like that
a factoid. Was he really an announcer? Was he just
an actor?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I think he was both. Man, Oh okay, Cleveland Indians
baby catch the fever?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Was he really a Was he really a Cleveland Indians announcer?
Just no major league? I thought he really was. I
thought he Danny going to chime in on this one.
You got he He has no more. He's just got
to do a head nod or a head turn. So
we're all about not giving people a voice. That's anti
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Everybody, everybody has a voice, so we should we are
censoring down. Well, this is one thing, one thing for
a moment in time. If we can partner with Calvin,
we control.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Kelvin's rocket is Florida Gators shirt. Congratulations to all the
Florida Gators fans. We have a Florida Gators fan on
our commercial plumbing side, Joe cap So. I know he
was all pumped up really yesterday wearing a Gators hat.
And then Kelvin's got his Gators shirt on, so Gator nation.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Chomp, chomp. What'd you say?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You're a two thousand and sixteen Grady fifteen fifteen?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Dang.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I was trying to give you another year of youth.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Calvin, it's been long gone. Well, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The college basketball National Championship was last night. We're recording
this on Tuesday, April the eighth of twenty twenty five.
Put a time stamp on it for when you listen
to this us uh my great grand baby. We'll see
how that works, okay, but anyway, it was fun. I
(02:09):
didn't have a dog in the fight, but uh, I
will say Florida's basketball coach, I heard this after the
game is the youngest national championship coach since Jim Valveno.
Oh wow, growing up in North Carolina, acc home. Uh
he was a big name and a big rival of
the Tar Hills.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
No, no, yeah, I got it in C State. I
got a little tied to that that game. And uh
and in that team. Derek Wittenberg who shot the shot.
If if I think I heard him say that that
was actually a pass is what he says. But uh,
he was. He was assistant coach at Georgia Tech when
I was a kid, and we hung around him little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He's the one that threw you in the shower.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Not now, it was Malcolm, Brian Oliver, Malcolm Mackie. Man
leave the weapon three you remember then we have to.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Kenny Anderson, Brian Oliver, and Malcolm Mackie.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Dennis Scott.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh, Dennis Scott's game shooting threes with his box haircut
three on the tar heels. You know, the box haircut
was popular back in the in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I think I'd try one if I could do it.
They're pretty sweet.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I don't know my forehead would really shine, it would
be it would be horrendous. It could go with a
four inches it would be not it would four inches fourteen.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I doude think it could be like six to one.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I tell you, I saw a picture of myself the
back of my head the other day.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It looks good.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's nice and full.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It looks so handsome from the rear.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You're thinking about going with a mullet.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The problem is, you know when it grows out, when
when it starts getting long. It looks like Joe Dirt,
you guess. And if you've never watched that movie, it
is a funny movie.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
At Dirt A big a sound.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Friends. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
If it's just me and my five year old and
ten year old boys think it's real funny.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But if we like it, I quote like a one
hundred scenes in that, it's Dana Carvey right now, it's
Chris Farner. Oh, come man, No, it's not Data Farty.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Who is it? David Spade? Yeah, David allen Coe.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I don't know. David Spade and Dana Carvey's look very similar.
If you want to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
So we'll go back to the old Saturday Night lives.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Oh, I want to go back to this mullet. You
dropped off this way too quickly. You could have a
sweet mullet.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, in the.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Third grade, I had a rattail, and it didn't look
too preppy. Let's just say that's a junior mullet. Well,
it would look worse the fuller I tried to make it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You were trying to go for like more like a
raccoon tail.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I mean it was popular in the eighties, but the
guys that had the thick hair could pull it off.
I mean a little scraggly man looked like he wasn't
hitting no much.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know, we're gonna go down memory lane a lot today.
I have a feeling we.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Got old Dan Bailey. Chill.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah. Dan Bailey one of our probably most prominent guests
we've ever had in our eight and a half years
on the show.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He's been here never.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I think he's is he running for a day here?
He's running for a city council. He's a busy man.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Wow, I don't know. Y'all told me.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Y'all told me several years ago that I could not
run for the political position.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
In fact, I called your brother and said I need
your help with something.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I took.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Hey, you won't call my brother for anything else. But
she sure has had called him for that. I got attacked.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And he's got some long arms. Man. I don't know
how you dealt with that.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I was trying to do it for all the right reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You were to your defense here. I remember that like.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It was yes on.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I didn't really try he mentioned it. I mentioned it
for all the right reasons. That is not an effort.
Let's say you.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Were trying to make West Mecklenburgh County great again.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I mean, I believe in my people in my home
in the west side of Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I do.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And uh yeah, I got a soccer game tonight, the
girls rolling in Piper playing soccer, having fun Ford's playing baseball.
I'm assistant baseball coach. I don't know if I've said
that on the radio. First time ever done that.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You got the sunflower seeds to boot.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I have not purchased any sunflower seeds, but I have
borrowed some from a few people.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Have a nice seat and I'm excited about for it.
I just dip.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I just dipped Patrick just taking a kid. I don't
I don't do that around the kids, but I haven't
ever really. My schedule is a little wonky, so I
haven't ever really helped coach officially, but I did do
it this year, and I'm having a blast. I'm the
first base coach and I'm the fung go bat hitter.
If you know what a fun go bat is. A
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fun go bat is a very light product, sort of
like a baseball bat, but it hits the ball really hard.
So a fun go is really hard when you're hitting
the nine and ten year olds because if you're not careful,
you'll knock them out.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Are you an aggressive first base coach? Are you sending
for doubles? Are you more conservative?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
In this age group, you really want to push the envelope.
I think so.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I mean, so take advantage of the situation. It's good
they learned the game, but but it might not be
the exact form of baseball that you see in high school,
college and pros.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Of course. How bout that?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, yeah, it gets pretty I told you my nephew
is a junior, and we watched those high school kids play. Man,
it's legit baseball.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
They play hard and they're way more athletic than I
was when I was in high school. But Knox had
his fifth birthday party this weekend. I heard it that
was fun. So I think his birthday month is officially over.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That thing got into quick.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I mean we were on spring break three weeks ago,
we celebrated his birthday, and then we came back a
couple of days later he had his birthday, and then
two weeks later he.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Has a birthday party. Yeah, hung out with Michael Cox
in Ross Kirwan that following day for a Bridge foundation.
Oh cool, said Michael has said. It was a pretty
fun time.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, we had a good time.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Tradition is is during Easter season, so Reagan does the
Easter egg hunt for now they're all like the two, three,
four five year olds, which Knox just turned five, and
then she does another round for the preteens and teens
and she really gets a kick out of it. I
was like, you really like this, don't you, And she says, yeah,
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I can't wait to do it for the grand babies.
Like not's gonna turn forty five and have a birthday party.
Slay your role a little bit, reagane. I mean, come on,
all right, we'll tee up.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Old Danny boy over here. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
One of my life life best friends in the world,
Dan Bailey, hailing from the University of Harding, Harding Rams
all Westsider and work send the industry that we work in.
I can't wait to get an update on what he's
up to these days. Welcome to the show, Dan, look
(08:54):
forward to having you in a few minutes. You're listening
to at Home with Ruby.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Don't forget Ruby Services is your one stop source for
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at Home with Roby. I'm Patrick mcasac from Roby Commercial
and Services along with Trent Hasten from the Roby Family
of Companies. Trent, I messed up.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And almost gave your spot away to Dan by accident, there,
I said with Dan Bailey from Miss Fourth.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Try my host. I hope this one last. Kelbyn Fourth
Blunder and Dan Bailey joining us from Harding University High School.
That's right and MCI right, Dan, that's correct, Very cool,
very cool. But that's what what are you here for?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Anyways?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You lobbyed this deal, you got something, you got something
up your sleeve right now.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah, so it's so full full transparency. Friend, Trent, I've
been friends forever and we both went to the glorious
and uh reputationally driven Harding University. When we went, it
was an academic it was probably the academic club, the
of the City.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And Magnet School back then.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Right, Yeah, it was IB, math and science. We had
good sports teams. I mean, would you agree with that, Trent.
We were never great at anything, but we were good
at everything we did, right minus football. We were never
good at football or baseball, especially not when you were playing.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
My daughter is fourteen, eighth grade. She is in the
IB program at Randolph Middle School. That's awesome, so similar
deally transition up.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
But yeah, keeping so Harding doesn't have IB anymore. They've
they've they've had there in a bit of an.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
IB is an acronym for International Bacularate program.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And I don't know what that means.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Very smart, yeah, really really really smart and you got
to do a lot of an I B. I was
a math and science. Were you a math and science
student or was you just no neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I was a math and science yeah, but I could
have been neighborhood hood.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yes. Still.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
My brother went to Harding four years prior before it
was a Magnet school. And uh, he went to the
neighborhood schoo.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So, Dan, did you also go to Wilson Middle School
with Trent?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
All right, we won that track. He came from the
east side that right now.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I came from the Dilworth area, So I went to money.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, that we know we're working with here.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
No, the eighties dial Worth is not the twenty ten
deal Worth by any means. But anyway, I'm back at
Harding and i've been I'm the assistant coach on our
varsity basketball team, and you guys were first to hear
I've actually just accepted the job on the new varsity
men's soccer coach.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, head coach, I'm here bragging on the first segment
about being an assistant baseball coach for listen, Belmont Rec
League nine and ten year old Trent. You just got
to start somewhere, all right, You got to start somewhere.
Some people are built to be coaches and some people aren't.
And I don't really think that that's my gift. Having
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a blast with.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
The kids, Yeah, it's there's nothing like coaching, man.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And the camaraderie of being with the other men that
are helping coach as well.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's right, that there's nothing like because it's such a
it's a lot more of a tight knit group than
anything else you do. Right, because your coach is a
typical staff. Even in little league. You're two to three
maybe four guys and you all have one common goal
and you're trying to get the best of all the
kids and make sure they have fun. It's to learn
a game and that that keeps going at every level
you coach at.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
So time out, men's soccer is in the.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Fall, correct, basketball is in the winner.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So you are the head coach of the boys soccer
team for Harding this fall, this coming fall, yes, fall
of twenty twenty five school year.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
That's correct.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Wow, that is cool. First first word.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, y'all the first to hear yep is breaking news.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So how did you get back reintegrated with Harding?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
So, so back to when dating back to when I
ran Steel's mechanical, we historically gave and I say we,
me and my family historically gave Harding about seven thousand
dollars a year. Even in some of the down years
we had because of non compete, etc. We still tried
to give back to that was our point of emphasis
was to give to a school that needed And they
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recently got a new athletic Director's name is Jermaine Walker.
He's an amazing guy. I go to meet him. You know,
we're talking about fundraising and how we can drive more
money in and he said, man, you know the thing
we really need is people and boots on the ground
and people that are willing to invest in the kids.
And he asked me if I've ever coached, and I said, well,
I actually coached college soccer for five years and I've
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coached basketball up to junior high level for twelve. And
he said, well, I'm gonna introduce you to the varsity
basketball coach. And Corey wanted me on staff pretty quickly
after he saw me work the team out, and I've
kind of stuck around ever since. The kids just drew
me in. Harting is not what it looked like when
we went to school, right like that, when they stopped
bussing in nineteen ninety nine, the Charlotte Meckanberg School's kind
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of changed forever, and now Harding is strictly a Title
I school, ninety nine percent free or reduced lunch.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, free or reduced lunch wow.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yeah yeah. So so to jump into what you were
asking me, Patrick, So we're you know, we're looking at
raising money. And I found out this, this this fact
that in every every school in Charlotte, mechanver schools, no
matter what, receives six thousand dollars a year to support
all sports. So every school has to be self sustaining
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to provide their own football equipment, buses, referee, well not referees,
but anything that's material driven or facility driven they are
responsible for. They have to mot around grass, liner and fields,
provide uniforms, helmets, shoulder pads, et cetera, all off of
six thousand dollars a year. The rest of the financial
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responsibility comes from ticket sales, sponsorships, and booster clubs. A
school like Harding that's nine nine percent free reduced lunch,
driving in extra money is going to be very difficult.
When we went to school, we were lucky enough to
have guys like your dad and other parents get very
involved in our booster club to help raise money, to
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cook it events, to work the ticket booth, to find
ways to bring money in per team. Well, and this
set up the parents aren't there to be able to
help out. So schools like Harting are in a tremendous
deficit and equity and sports. And to give you some comparison,
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if you look at a school like Huff last year
and the two main money making sports, which is football
and basketball, Huff's combined ticket sales for one hundred and
forty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Now imagine, now take a wild guess at what you
think Hartings was just guess twenty six thousand.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
So twenty six thousand dollars plus six is all they've
had to run their entire athletic program period. And so
I came up with the idea at first we were
gonna do some a fundraising golf tournament to help help
Harting out and it could you know, drive drive money
to them to help them get some resources because they
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were in danger of losing their football season because they
had to replace twenty helmets this year. And a new
football helmet is five hundred dollars apiece. So oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Football helmet for high school football is five dollars.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Five hundred dollars playing Jane not painted, yep, goodness. So
that's ten thousand dollars they need off the rip. So
they did not have the money and I didn't have
the money to give it to them to do it
out of my own pocket. Plus I don't think that
that really teaches them anything, you know. So I started
to work with I started with this this tournament, and
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God put it on me, gotta talk about that, gotta
talk like that here, just making.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Sure, yeah, say whatever, we just don't curse.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Okay. So God, God put it on me to to
to be and seeing this dramatic need to not just
make it about hearting and to start to reach out
to other schools and see how they were doing, because
I mean, West Max's in the same boat, Garranger's in
the same boat. Chambers is not as bad, but stelling
in dire need of resources and people. So we created
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the Four Corners Foundation to help all low income high
school athletic programs and to drive newer equipment and resources
towards them to help them, you know, have a balance
to balanced identity and in sports system. Even in basic
equipment instead of having six seven year old uniforms, are
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getting newer stuff to help gain some confidence for the athletes,
some better, some better, some better training equipment, new football helmets,
uh new new we we just authorized new new football
uniforms for herding as well. So the coolest part is
we we partnered with Skyla Credit Union as a title
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sponsor for our tournament. And what Skyle is doing is
it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
They're gonna don't jump ahead.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Oh sorry, well, the so that we've we've got a
celebrity golf tournament made.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
When did the foundation start?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
About three months ago?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And when you when you say we are you sound
like you're tackling this with a team of folks. Uh,
do you care to share who other than Skyle is there?
Are there other people that are involved that are helping you.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yes, I say we A lot of I don't like. Yeah. Yeah,
So I'm working a lot with with Jermaine Walker, who's
also the founder of m W United, which is a
nonprofit that that operates solely in the basketball area of
high school athletics and in Charlotte, they put on the
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Charlotte Hoops Challenge every year, so they have a they're
partnering with me so that to make sure it's all
five O one C three and it's all it's all
passed through so that you know, anybody that partners with
us is getting a write off and and you know,
to create a five O, one C three rapidly for
the four corners, it just wouldn't have we wouldn't have
hit the timelines paired with this this tournament. So it
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we immediately started to work with him and and Christy
and it's been been really cool to help.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
What does the foundation stand for.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
You, MW United, It's uh. I forget Christie's last name,
but that's the M and then Jermaine is the way
MW got it. So so anyway, we've got this. So
we we decided that initially again the tournament was supposed
to be for Harding, we said, okay, we're going to
make it for everybody and started the process of getting
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the four corners moving and then you know, I start
to solicit towards finding the right sponsors and Skylar Credit
Union came on board and they part of their condition
which tied it right into what we we wanted to do,
was they're doing financial literacy for the athletes at each
one of these schools, Tootah and the it's really cool man.
So the first ones tomorrow at Harding and we've got
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one hundred athletes.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It's kind of like a junior achievement kind of thing
with through Skyla.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah. Well, no, it's more about teaching them how to
you know, like we we were blessed enough to have
a plat economics. You remember that class Trent taught us
how to manage a check book, understand the impacts of
credit cards and compounding interest, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, we had that in my school as well.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Okay, awesome, where'd you grow up again, Marietta, Georgia, Georgia.
I didn't know y'all could add past five.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
We can't have the kisses, that's right.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
So you know you're great. So anyway, it's really cool
because they're going to come in and really work with
these young guys who, you know, we've got one or
two people that will be Division one players. You know,
they make it an il deals deals and to get
them to understand basic economics and how to work within
their own income is a huge step forward. And the
big picture goal obviously is to also help their parents
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get into the same go to the same seminars and
set them up for later in the time. In time,
so our first ones tomorrow and then the next one
we're gonna do is at West Mac and that'll be
in May, and then at the at the and fall,
we'll have a full cycle and go to each school.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So how did you get hooked up with Skyla Credit Union?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I mean I think that, I mean, what a great
local brand and sure financial literacy is very important.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah. I had a good friend of mine introduced me
to their CEO, and uh, their CEO put me in
touch with a guy named James. James I met for
coffee and it went from you know, a conversation to
their commitment in an hour with they fully understood the
mission and Skyle has been great man, I mean they
they jumped right in and from I think that we
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announced it a month ago and we're already got a
financial literacy teed up for Harding. That's it's been an
amazing process.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Were they doing this kind of stuff Dan in other
areas or was this something that there's kind of new
for them as well?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
It's new for them as well. Wow, Yeah, so it's
really cool. And it's also like they agreed that the partnership,
you know, they'll they'll honor the partnership of it being
the four Corners Foundation paired with Skyla doing the financial
literacy programs to help us gain more attention to what
the overall mission of doing of the four Corners was
in Skyla.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I mean I know that y'all probably know this a
former Charlotte Metric Credit Union.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Jody has been my wife has been a life a
long long time client of Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, yeah, well, how where did the name four corners
come from?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
That's the best question you could ask as a tar heell.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Sir, good job.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
At I mean, that's the that's the understatement of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Four corners offense. Baby, that's back in the day.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
That's right. But what so so what was the whole
What did the four corners do?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Spread the floor?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Man? Deane Smith slows the clock down.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
That's right? And what and what? And the game of
basketball was changed forever? Ye never been the same. So
we named it the four corners because we have four
areas that we want to question.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
In fact, was the four corners created by Dean Smith
before there was a shot clock?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah? They created the shot clock because of it? Four corners? Yeah,
because no one wanted to watch a forty minute game
that ended twelve to eight.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I mean, you watched those football NFL games six to.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Three they beat They've changed those rules too.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Okay, but the Tar Hills you and c Tar Hills
basketball team under Dean Smith in his early years were
known to do the four corners even to slow a
game down.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
In later years when.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
There was a shot clock, that's right, we used to
be forty five seconds and then they crushed it down
to thirty five seconds to speed the game up even more.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah, now in the second possession it's twenty seconds. There's there.
They changed rules to drive scoring.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It makes it more fun to will well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
But the main thing is, like, what the reason we
chose the four corners was? We want to We want
to we want to change the equity of high school
athletics for.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Wow, okay, to change like it changed the game of basketball.
That's right, and you're a tar heeled Dean Smith's loyalty.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Absolutely and he've got it a player and student first attitude.
He was never about the championships, right, which is what
I would argue coaches should be right, developing the people first,
and then winning becomes a result of that action.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I can give you example of that with Dean Smith.
I heard David Chadwick talk a long, long time ago
and his I'm probably getting some of these details incorrect,
but his son was a hell peck of a basketball
player also and got hurt to where his career might
have ended. And Dean or David or Dean somehow connected,
and David said, you know, Dean called the house to
(24:39):
check on him, and instead of asking about his injury
or what was wrong with him, the first question he
asked David Chadwick's son was how are your grades? That's right,
and that just tells you what kind of person. Dean
Smith was, Oh yeah, but go ahead, Dan, this is
this is really good.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
No, so I'm trying to think what got get we
get sidetracked talking about Dean Smith and go for that game.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
So so right now, I mean we've been I'm very like,
it's been really cool to get the participation we have already.
And again, like you know, this is an on rep.
You guys have the pitching for wishes. You know what
it's like to build a tournament and what the involvement's
like and how hard it is to drive people in
especially in the in the inaugural and we've been we've
(25:19):
been very blessed so far. Like we're we've more than
covered the price of the tournament, and we're at the
position where now it's really raising money to do the
initiatives that we're trying to launch. So we're already able
to pay for Harding's new helmets and a new set
of uniforms. And we're going to West Mech to get
(25:40):
them new soccer goals. They don't know that yet, but
they can't host a soccer game at home because they don't.
Their soccer goals are all destroyed.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Man, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So the Four Corners Foundation, is it gonna have an
is this is this the event that drives the funding
or are there gonna be multiple events throughout the year.
Knowing that this is in its first half a year
of inception, and you have this golf tournament coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Is that ball is Balan at Valentine Country Club?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Okay, tell us about it.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
So it's a celebrity golf tournament. We've got We've had
great participation so far. We've got some some tar heels
coming back in George Lynch, We've got Yancy Thigpen of
the Steelers. We've got Gordon Hayward, Matt Carroll, both of
the Hornet Slash Bobcats, Vernon Maxwell, who's hit a big
(26:34):
spike of fame recently in his podcast UH interviews if
you ever see those, he's hilarious, great dude. And Darren Perry.
We've got and we it looks like we've already got
one NFL Hall of Famer who's going to play in
that Stirling Sharp and right now we're working on getting
Bruce Smith to commit. So it could be the our
(26:55):
first tournament. We'd have two NFL Hall of Famers in attendance,
in participating, which would be nothing short of amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So so tell us the celebrities. Do they play with
other people? How does this work?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
That's a great question. So it's an entry team is
four players. You enter force them and then you're paired
with a celebrity, okay, and then they compete and we're
doing a two thousand dollars prize to first place by
doing and it's not you're not going to turn your
score and win. We're going to do a shootout at
the end to prevent pencil whipping. If you've ever played
in these tournaments. You'll have a guy guy's roll in
(27:28):
on the back end and say turn in like a
forty eight, and you can tell none of them can
stand or barely swing a golf club. So we're going
to do a shootout at the end of an alternating
shot at at a at the closest closest tea box
on number ten at Valentine. It's perfect for viewing, so
that it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And those are a ton of fun. Let me just
at the end for everyone to say and involved and
hang out.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, So do you then answer that my question, is
this the main event every year to the Four Owners Foundation,
is gonna you're trying to make this event a tradition
or you don't know how that's going to evolve.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You can say you're still designing this as you get
that's right.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
So it's it's it's a that's a we don't know yet.
I think that right now the focus is on is
getting this tournament through, you know, because again it's all
happened really really fast. We've had some great volunteers come
alongside us, some good friends of best. Ross has has
stepped On stepped up to be our event coordinator for free.
(28:29):
We've a friend of ours, Jessica designed the website at
pro bono. I mean, it's it's all been running really
at the seat of our pants. Ideally, we would love
to have a winter event of some kind a dinner
or you know, some type of event that ties back
to the community, because not everybody's golfers and we want
to do stuff to make sure we're raising the awareness
(28:50):
of you know, the this fiscal issue that high school
athletics has in our in our city. But we just
don't know what that is yet. But ideally, yes, something
that can include more people at a lower price point
and drive involvement.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Do you have uh money raised goals this year? I
mean what should When is the tournament?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
So the we do have we have a we have
a goal. It's a very aggressive goal to net one
hundred thousand dollars for the the first year in the
in the first event.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Uh, we're halfway there. Yeah, but we're halfway there.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Halfway wow.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, we're halfway there forrad and today's the five week marks.
We're five weeks out. We've had three gold sponsors sign
up mckinning's incorporated one of my old old places and
have a lot of great friends there. Can it be roofing? Uh,
they're they're a great group of people and then a
one quality.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Insulating Should we use those guys quite a bit?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Yeah, they're fantastic. So we've had some really great partners.
Joe Moss and his his food groups have stepped up there.
They're they're going to have food at at on each nine,
So Carolina Steele and Tapp and Vine will be there.
Triple C Brewing and seven O four brand is helping
(30:13):
us do some fundraising shirts. So we've had we've been
really lucky. Man. We've got a lot of good sponsorships.
We're just still trying to drive teams. We still need teams.
We need about we need about fourteen more teams.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So was the Harding University High soccer men's soccer coach?
Is his celebrity?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
I mean, uh, hey, what about with the name like
Dan Bailey, how can you not I get confused for
the kicker of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
What about the hosts of the At Home with Roby Show?
I mean, don't get much get bigger than that?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
If we could, if we could land. If we could
land those guys and get them to participate, I think
that's the home run of all.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
So what's the day?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yeah, May twelfth, the Monday after Mother's Day, in the
first first Monday of the PGA.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Tournament Valentine Country Club, May twelfth, Monday, May twelve.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Ten o'clock, ten o'clock Shotguns, Star five.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And I think this is a timeless show because I
think it's awesome that you're building this foundation and give
them back to the community.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Do you have a number?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I mean, how many schools are are you trying to
help initially or in year one or what is your goal?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
What short term goal? We're going to really prop up
these four schools or school Yeah, that we talked about
at the outset.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Repeat those schools please.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
It is Harding, Wes mac Garringer and Chambers Chambers which
was Vance. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I never heard change.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they changed the name like six years
ago that maybe longer. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
And they're Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
All Charlotte Meckwork Schools, all Title one, all have the
probably ninety five to ninety nine percent free reduced lunch.
They're all facing it's difficulty. Yeah, the rezoning really hurt
those neighborhood schools when they became strictly neighborhood schools.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well, Dan, God speed to you. Yeah, it's amazing you said,
say God has played a part on this for you.
How can people get information about the tournament and get
information about the Four four Corners Foundation.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
We have a website w w W dot four dash
or whichever. It's the not the slash, it's the dash.
I messed that up all the time. Hyphen thank you,
thank you, uh w w W dot four hyphen corners
dot net.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
F O you are f O you r O you
are ye hyphen are corners dot net. No, you don't
have to say.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
The w W told me that that was just an
old Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Uh yeah, I kidding. Nice to be with you.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Can I drop one nug it for you guys. Bob
Buker was never the announcer for the Cleveland Indians. It
was with the Milwaukee Brewers and then called baseball for
ABC for twenty years at all their highlight games like
Joe Buck did.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Good for you chat GPT, I knew I didn't know anything.
Thanks for verifying that day. You need to look that
up on chat GT I believe, he said with conviction. Well,
thank you for listening, Dan, what a great story. I
can't wait to hear how this evolves over the years
and have you back and hear updates and see what
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you're doing doing for these schools and these kids, especially
these young men and women that are working hard playing
these sports. Thanks for listening to that home with Roby.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
We are your hosts. You must have been working on
that a little bit. I didn't.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I didn't. Calvin hit me with the one too. I
think I was texting somebody. I heard the three two one,
stop my text and off we go.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
So that made you sound like Bob Youuker.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Bob Uger. Wow, God rest is too. Did Bob Youker
pass away? I think so? Man, I think so.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm sure our guest today would no effect like that
a factoid. Was he really an announcer? Was he just
an actor?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I think he was both. Man, Oh okay, Cleveland Indians
baby catch the fever?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Was he really a Was he really a Cleveland Indians announcer?
Just no major league? I thought he really was. I
thought he Danny going to chime in on this one.
You got he He has no more. He's just got
to do a head nod or a head turn. So
we're all about not giving people a voice. That's anti
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Everybody, everybody has a voice, so we should we are
censoring down. Well, this is one thing, one thing for
a moment in time. If we can partner with Calvin,
we control.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Kelvin's rocket is Florida Gators shirt. Congratulations to all the
Florida Gators fans. We have a Florida Gators fan on
our commercial plumbing side, Joe cap So. I know he
was all pumped up really yesterday wearing a Gators hat.
And then Kelvin's got his Gators shirt on, so Gator nation.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Chomp, chomp. What'd you say?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You're a two thousand and sixteen Grady fifteen fifteen?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Dang.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I was trying to give you another year of youth.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Calvin, it's been long gone. Well, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The college basketball National Championship was last night. We're recording
this on Tuesday, April the eighth of twenty twenty five.
Put a time stamp on it for when you listen
to this us uh my great grand baby. We'll see
how that works, okay, but anyway, it was fun. I
(02:09):
didn't have a dog in the fight, but uh, I
will say Florida's basketball coach, I heard this after the
game is the youngest national championship coach since Jim Valveno.
Oh wow, growing up in North Carolina, acc home. Uh
he was a big name and a big rival of
the Tar Hills.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
No, no, yeah, I got it in C State. I
got a little tied to that that game. And uh
and in that team. Derek Wittenberg who shot the shot.
If if I think I heard him say that that
was actually a pass is what he says. But uh,
he was. He was assistant coach at Georgia Tech when
I was a kid, and we hung around him little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He's the one that threw you in the shower.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Not now, it was Malcolm, Brian Oliver, Malcolm Mackie. Man
leave the weapon three you remember then we have to.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Kenny Anderson, Brian Oliver, and Malcolm Mackie.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Dennis Scott.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh, Dennis Scott's game shooting threes with his box haircut
three on the tar heels. You know, the box haircut
was popular back in the in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I think I'd try one if I could do it.
They're pretty sweet.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I don't know my forehead would really shine, it would
be it would be horrendous. It could go with a
four inches it would be not it would four inches fourteen.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I doude think it could be like six to one.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I tell you, I saw a picture of myself the
back of my head the other day.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It looks good.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's nice and full.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It looks so handsome from the rear.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You're thinking about going with a mullet.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The problem is, you know when it grows out, when
when it starts getting long. It looks like Joe Dirt,
you guess. And if you've never watched that movie, it
is a funny movie.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
At Dirt A big a sound.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Friends. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
If it's just me and my five year old and
ten year old boys think it's real funny.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But if we like it, I quote like a one
hundred scenes in that, it's Dana Carvey right now, it's
Chris Farner. Oh, come man, No, it's not Data Farty.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Who is it? David Spade? Yeah, David allen Coe.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I don't know. David Spade and Dana Carvey's look very similar.
If you want to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
So we'll go back to the old Saturday Night lives.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Oh, I want to go back to this mullet. You
dropped off this way too quickly. You could have a
sweet mullet.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, in the.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Third grade, I had a rattail, and it didn't look
too preppy. Let's just say that's a junior mullet. Well,
it would look worse the fuller I tried to make it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You were trying to go for like more like a
raccoon tail.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I mean it was popular in the eighties, but the
guys that had the thick hair could pull it off.
I mean a little scraggly man looked like he wasn't
hitting no much.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know, we're gonna go down memory lane a lot today.
I have a feeling we.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Got old Dan Bailey. Chill.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah. Dan Bailey one of our probably most prominent guests
we've ever had in our eight and a half years
on the show.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He's been here never.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I think he's is he running for a day here?
He's running for a city council. He's a busy man.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Wow, I don't know. Y'all told me.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Y'all told me several years ago that I could not
run for the political position.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
In fact, I called your brother and said I need
your help with something.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I took.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Hey, you won't call my brother for anything else. But
she sure has had called him for that. I got attacked.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And he's got some long arms. Man. I don't know
how you dealt with that.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I was trying to do it for all the right reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You were to your defense here. I remember that like.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It was yes on.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I didn't really try he mentioned it. I mentioned it
for all the right reasons. That is not an effort.
Let's say you.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Were trying to make West Mecklenburgh County great again.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I mean, I believe in my people in my home
in the west side of Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I do.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And uh yeah, I got a soccer game tonight, the
girls rolling in Piper playing soccer, having fun Ford's playing baseball.
I'm assistant baseball coach. I don't know if I've said
that on the radio. First time ever done that.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You got the sunflower seeds to boot.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I have not purchased any sunflower seeds, but I have
borrowed some from a few people.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Have a nice seat and I'm excited about for it.
I just dip.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I just dipped Patrick just taking a kid. I don't
I don't do that around the kids, but I haven't
ever really. My schedule is a little wonky, so I
haven't ever really helped coach officially, but I did do
it this year, and I'm having a blast. I'm the
first base coach and I'm the fung go bat hitter.
If you know what a fun go bat is. A
(06:36):
fun go bat is a very light product, sort of
like a baseball bat, but it hits the ball really hard.
So a fun go is really hard when you're hitting
the nine and ten year olds because if you're not careful,
you'll knock them out.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Are you an aggressive first base coach? Are you sending
for doubles? Are you more conservative?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
In this age group, you really want to push the envelope.
I think so.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I mean, so take advantage of the situation. It's good
they learned the game, but but it might not be
the exact form of baseball that you see in high school,
college and pros.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Of course. How bout that?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, yeah, it gets pretty I told you my nephew
is a junior, and we watched those high school kids play. Man,
it's legit baseball.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
They play hard and they're way more athletic than I
was when I was in high school. But Knox had
his fifth birthday party this weekend. I heard it that
was fun. So I think his birthday month is officially over.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That thing got into quick.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I mean we were on spring break three weeks ago,
we celebrated his birthday, and then we came back a
couple of days later he had his birthday, and then
two weeks later he.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Has a birthday party. Yeah, hung out with Michael Cox
in Ross Kirwan that following day for a Bridge foundation.
Oh cool, said Michael has said. It was a pretty
fun time.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, we had a good time.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Tradition is is during Easter season, so Reagan does the
Easter egg hunt for now they're all like the two, three,
four five year olds, which Knox just turned five, and
then she does another round for the preteens and teens
and she really gets a kick out of it. I
was like, you really like this, don't you, And she says, yeah,
(08:18):
I can't wait to do it for the grand babies.
Like not's gonna turn forty five and have a birthday party.
Slay your role a little bit, reagane. I mean, come on,
all right, we'll tee up.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Old Danny boy over here. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
One of my life life best friends in the world,
Dan Bailey, hailing from the University of Harding, Harding Rams
all Westsider and work send the industry that we work in.
I can't wait to get an update on what he's
up to these days. Welcome to the show, Dan, look
(08:54):
forward to having you in a few minutes. You're listening
to at Home with Ruby.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Don't forget Ruby Services is your one stop source for
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it easy and get it all done by one. Roby
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at Home with Roby. I'm Patrick mcasac from Roby Commercial
and Services along with Trent Hasten from the Roby Family
of Companies. Trent, I messed up.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And almost gave your spot away to Dan by accident, there,
I said with Dan Bailey from Miss Fourth.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Try my host. I hope this one last. Kelbyn Fourth
Blunder and Dan Bailey joining us from Harding University High School.
That's right and MCI right, Dan, that's correct, Very cool,
very cool. But that's what what are you here for?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Anyways?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You lobbyed this deal, you got something, you got something
up your sleeve right now.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah, so it's so full full transparency. Friend, Trent, I've
been friends forever and we both went to the glorious
and uh reputationally driven Harding University. When we went, it
was an academic it was probably the academic club, the
of the City.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And Magnet School back then.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Right, Yeah, it was IB, math and science. We had
good sports teams. I mean, would you agree with that, Trent.
We were never great at anything, but we were good
at everything we did, right minus football. We were never
good at football or baseball, especially not when you were playing.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
My daughter is fourteen, eighth grade. She is in the
IB program at Randolph Middle School. That's awesome, so similar
deally transition up.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
But yeah, keeping so Harding doesn't have IB anymore. They've
they've they've had there in a bit of an.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
IB is an acronym for International Bacularate program.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And I don't know what that means.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Very smart, yeah, really really really smart and you got
to do a lot of an I B. I was
a math and science. Were you a math and science
student or was you just no neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I was a math and science yeah, but I could
have been neighborhood hood.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yes. Still.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
My brother went to Harding four years prior before it
was a Magnet school. And uh, he went to the
neighborhood schoo.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So, Dan, did you also go to Wilson Middle School
with Trent?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
All right, we won that track. He came from the
east side that right now.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I came from the Dilworth area, So I went to money.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, that we know we're working with here.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
No, the eighties dial Worth is not the twenty ten
deal Worth by any means. But anyway, I'm back at
Harding and i've been I'm the assistant coach on our
varsity basketball team, and you guys were first to hear
I've actually just accepted the job on the new varsity
men's soccer coach.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, head coach, I'm here bragging on the first segment
about being an assistant baseball coach for listen, Belmont Rec
League nine and ten year old Trent. You just got
to start somewhere, all right, You got to start somewhere.
Some people are built to be coaches and some people aren't.
And I don't really think that that's my gift. Having
(11:58):
a blast with.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
The kids, Yeah, it's there's nothing like coaching, man.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And the camaraderie of being with the other men that
are helping coach as well.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's right, that there's nothing like because it's such a
it's a lot more of a tight knit group than
anything else you do. Right, because your coach is a
typical staff. Even in little league. You're two to three
maybe four guys and you all have one common goal
and you're trying to get the best of all the
kids and make sure they have fun. It's to learn
a game and that that keeps going at every level
you coach at.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
So time out, men's soccer is in the.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Fall, correct, basketball is in the winner.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So you are the head coach of the boys soccer
team for Harding this fall, this coming fall, yes, fall
of twenty twenty five school year.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
That's correct.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Wow, that is cool. First first word.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, y'all the first to hear yep is breaking news.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So how did you get back reintegrated with Harding?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
So, so back to when dating back to when I
ran Steel's mechanical, we historically gave and I say we,
me and my family historically gave Harding about seven thousand
dollars a year. Even in some of the down years
we had because of non compete, etc. We still tried
to give back to that was our point of emphasis
was to give to a school that needed And they
(13:13):
recently got a new athletic Director's name is Jermaine Walker.
He's an amazing guy. I go to meet him. You know,
we're talking about fundraising and how we can drive more
money in and he said, man, you know the thing
we really need is people and boots on the ground
and people that are willing to invest in the kids.
And he asked me if I've ever coached, and I said, well,
I actually coached college soccer for five years and I've
(13:34):
coached basketball up to junior high level for twelve. And
he said, well, I'm gonna introduce you to the varsity
basketball coach. And Corey wanted me on staff pretty quickly
after he saw me work the team out, and I've
kind of stuck around ever since. The kids just drew
me in. Harting is not what it looked like when
we went to school, right like that, when they stopped
bussing in nineteen ninety nine, the Charlotte Meckanberg School's kind
(13:58):
of changed forever, and now Harding is strictly a Title
I school, ninety nine percent free or reduced lunch.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, free or reduced lunch wow.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yeah yeah. So so to jump into what you were
asking me, Patrick, So we're you know, we're looking at
raising money. And I found out this, this this fact
that in every every school in Charlotte, mechanver schools, no
matter what, receives six thousand dollars a year to support
all sports. So every school has to be self sustaining
(14:33):
to provide their own football equipment, buses, referee, well not referees,
but anything that's material driven or facility driven they are
responsible for. They have to mot around grass, liner and fields,
provide uniforms, helmets, shoulder pads, et cetera, all off of
six thousand dollars a year. The rest of the financial
(14:53):
responsibility comes from ticket sales, sponsorships, and booster clubs. A
school like Harding that's nine nine percent free reduced lunch,
driving in extra money is going to be very difficult.
When we went to school, we were lucky enough to
have guys like your dad and other parents get very
involved in our booster club to help raise money, to
(15:14):
cook it events, to work the ticket booth, to find
ways to bring money in per team. Well, and this
set up the parents aren't there to be able to
help out. So schools like Harting are in a tremendous
deficit and equity and sports. And to give you some comparison,
(15:34):
if you look at a school like Huff last year
and the two main money making sports, which is football
and basketball, Huff's combined ticket sales for one hundred and
forty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Now imagine, now take a wild guess at what you
think Hartings was just guess twenty six thousand.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
So twenty six thousand dollars plus six is all they've
had to run their entire athletic program period. And so
I came up with the idea at first we were
gonna do some a fundraising golf tournament to help help
Harting out and it could you know, drive drive money
to them to help them get some resources because they
(16:18):
were in danger of losing their football season because they
had to replace twenty helmets this year. And a new
football helmet is five hundred dollars apiece. So oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Football helmet for high school football is five dollars.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Five hundred dollars playing Jane not painted, yep, goodness. So
that's ten thousand dollars they need off the rip. So
they did not have the money and I didn't have
the money to give it to them to do it
out of my own pocket. Plus I don't think that
that really teaches them anything, you know. So I started
to work with I started with this this tournament, and
(16:53):
God put it on me, gotta talk about that, gotta
talk like that here, just making.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Sure, yeah, say whatever, we just don't curse.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Okay. So God, God put it on me to to
to be and seeing this dramatic need to not just
make it about hearting and to start to reach out
to other schools and see how they were doing, because
I mean, West Max's in the same boat, Garranger's in
the same boat. Chambers is not as bad, but stelling
in dire need of resources and people. So we created
(17:20):
the Four Corners Foundation to help all low income high
school athletic programs and to drive newer equipment and resources
towards them to help them, you know, have a balance
to balanced identity and in sports system. Even in basic
equipment instead of having six seven year old uniforms, are
(17:41):
getting newer stuff to help gain some confidence for the athletes,
some better, some better, some better training equipment, new football helmets,
uh new new we we just authorized new new football
uniforms for herding as well. So the coolest part is
we we partnered with Skyla Credit Union as a title
(18:03):
sponsor for our tournament. And what Skyle is doing is
it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
They're gonna don't jump ahead.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Oh sorry, well, the so that we've we've got a
celebrity golf tournament made.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
When did the foundation start?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
About three months ago?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And when you when you say we are you sound
like you're tackling this with a team of folks. Uh,
do you care to share who other than Skyle is there?
Are there other people that are involved that are helping you.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yes, I say we A lot of I don't like. Yeah. Yeah,
So I'm working a lot with with Jermaine Walker, who's
also the founder of m W United, which is a
nonprofit that that operates solely in the basketball area of
high school athletics and in Charlotte, they put on the
(18:49):
Charlotte Hoops Challenge every year, so they have a they're
partnering with me so that to make sure it's all
five O one C three and it's all it's all
passed through so that you know, anybody that partners with
us is getting a write off and and you know,
to create a five O, one C three rapidly for
the four corners, it just wouldn't have we wouldn't have
hit the timelines paired with this this tournament. So it
(19:10):
we immediately started to work with him and and Christy
and it's been been really cool to help.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
What does the foundation stand for.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
You, MW United, It's uh. I forget Christie's last name,
but that's the M and then Jermaine is the way
MW got it. So so anyway, we've got this. So
we we decided that initially again the tournament was supposed
to be for Harding, we said, okay, we're going to
make it for everybody and started the process of getting
(19:42):
the four corners moving and then you know, I start
to solicit towards finding the right sponsors and Skylar Credit
Union came on board and they part of their condition
which tied it right into what we we wanted to do,
was they're doing financial literacy for the athletes at each
one of these schools, Tootah and the it's really cool man.
So the first ones tomorrow at Harding and we've got
(20:04):
one hundred athletes.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It's kind of like a junior achievement kind of thing
with through Skyla.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah. Well, no, it's more about teaching them how to
you know, like we we were blessed enough to have
a plat economics. You remember that class Trent taught us
how to manage a check book, understand the impacts of
credit cards and compounding interest, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, we had that in my school as well.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Okay, awesome, where'd you grow up again, Marietta, Georgia, Georgia.
I didn't know y'all could add past five.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
We can't have the kisses, that's right.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
So you know you're great. So anyway, it's really cool
because they're going to come in and really work with
these young guys who, you know, we've got one or
two people that will be Division one players. You know,
they make it an il deals deals and to get
them to understand basic economics and how to work within
their own income is a huge step forward. And the
big picture goal obviously is to also help their parents
(20:54):
get into the same go to the same seminars and
set them up for later in the time. In time,
so our first ones tomorrow and then the next one
we're gonna do is at West Mac and that'll be
in May, and then at the at the and fall,
we'll have a full cycle and go to each school.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So how did you get hooked up with Skyla Credit Union?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I mean I think that, I mean, what a great
local brand and sure financial literacy is very important.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah. I had a good friend of mine introduced me
to their CEO, and uh, their CEO put me in
touch with a guy named James. James I met for
coffee and it went from you know, a conversation to
their commitment in an hour with they fully understood the
mission and Skyle has been great man, I mean they
they jumped right in and from I think that we
(21:43):
announced it a month ago and we're already got a
financial literacy teed up for Harding. That's it's been an
amazing process.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Were they doing this kind of stuff Dan in other
areas or was this something that there's kind of new
for them as well?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
It's new for them as well. Wow, Yeah, so it's
really cool. And it's also like they agreed that the partnership,
you know, they'll they'll honor the partnership of it being
the four Corners Foundation paired with Skyla doing the financial
literacy programs to help us gain more attention to what
the overall mission of doing of the four Corners was
in Skyla.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I mean I know that y'all probably know this a
former Charlotte Metric Credit Union.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Jody has been my wife has been a life a
long long time client of Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, yeah, well, how where did the name four corners
come from?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
That's the best question you could ask as a tar heell.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Sir, good job.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
At I mean, that's the that's the understatement of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Four corners offense. Baby, that's back in the day.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
That's right. But what so so what was the whole
What did the four corners do?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Spread the floor?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Man? Deane Smith slows the clock down.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
That's right? And what and what? And the game of
basketball was changed forever? Ye never been the same. So
we named it the four corners because we have four
areas that we want to question.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
In fact, was the four corners created by Dean Smith
before there was a shot clock?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah? They created the shot clock because of it? Four corners? Yeah,
because no one wanted to watch a forty minute game
that ended twelve to eight.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I mean, you watched those football NFL games six to.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Three they beat They've changed those rules too.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Okay, but the Tar Hills you and c Tar Hills
basketball team under Dean Smith in his early years were
known to do the four corners even to slow a
game down.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
In later years when.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
There was a shot clock, that's right, we used to
be forty five seconds and then they crushed it down
to thirty five seconds to speed the game up even more.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah, now in the second possession it's twenty seconds. There's there.
They changed rules to drive scoring.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It makes it more fun to will well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
But the main thing is, like, what the reason we
chose the four corners was? We want to We want
to we want to change the equity of high school
athletics for.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Wow, okay, to change like it changed the game of basketball.
That's right, and you're a tar heeled Dean Smith's loyalty.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Absolutely and he've got it a player and student first attitude.
He was never about the championships, right, which is what
I would argue coaches should be right, developing the people first,
and then winning becomes a result of that action.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I can give you example of that with Dean Smith.
I heard David Chadwick talk a long, long time ago
and his I'm probably getting some of these details incorrect,
but his son was a hell peck of a basketball
player also and got hurt to where his career might
have ended. And Dean or David or Dean somehow connected,
and David said, you know, Dean called the house to
(24:39):
check on him, and instead of asking about his injury
or what was wrong with him, the first question he
asked David Chadwick's son was how are your grades? That's right,
and that just tells you what kind of person. Dean
Smith was, Oh yeah, but go ahead, Dan, this is
this is really good.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
No, so I'm trying to think what got get we
get sidetracked talking about Dean Smith and go for that game.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
So so right now, I mean we've been I'm very like,
it's been really cool to get the participation we have already.
And again, like you know, this is an on rep.
You guys have the pitching for wishes. You know what
it's like to build a tournament and what the involvement's
like and how hard it is to drive people in
especially in the in the inaugural and we've been we've
(25:19):
been very blessed so far. Like we're we've more than
covered the price of the tournament, and we're at the
position where now it's really raising money to do the
initiatives that we're trying to launch. So we're already able
to pay for Harding's new helmets and a new set
of uniforms. And we're going to West Mech to get
(25:40):
them new soccer goals. They don't know that yet, but
they can't host a soccer game at home because they don't.
Their soccer goals are all destroyed.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Man, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So the Four Corners Foundation, is it gonna have an
is this is this the event that drives the funding
or are there gonna be multiple events throughout the year.
Knowing that this is in its first half a year
of inception, and you have this golf tournament coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Is that ball is Balan at Valentine Country Club?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Okay, tell us about it.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
So it's a celebrity golf tournament. We've got We've had
great participation so far. We've got some some tar heels
coming back in George Lynch, We've got Yancy Thigpen of
the Steelers. We've got Gordon Hayward, Matt Carroll, both of
the Hornet Slash Bobcats, Vernon Maxwell, who's hit a big
(26:34):
spike of fame recently in his podcast UH interviews if
you ever see those, he's hilarious, great dude. And Darren Perry.
We've got and we it looks like we've already got
one NFL Hall of Famer who's going to play in
that Stirling Sharp and right now we're working on getting
Bruce Smith to commit. So it could be the our
(26:55):
first tournament. We'd have two NFL Hall of Famers in attendance,
in participating, which would be nothing short of amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So so tell us the celebrities. Do they play with
other people? How does this work?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
That's a great question. So it's an entry team is
four players. You enter force them and then you're paired
with a celebrity, okay, and then they compete and we're
doing a two thousand dollars prize to first place by
doing and it's not you're not going to turn your
score and win. We're going to do a shootout at
the end to prevent pencil whipping. If you've ever played
in these tournaments. You'll have a guy guy's roll in
(27:28):
on the back end and say turn in like a
forty eight, and you can tell none of them can
stand or barely swing a golf club. So we're going
to do a shootout at the end of an alternating
shot at at a at the closest closest tea box
on number ten at Valentine. It's perfect for viewing, so
that it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And those are a ton of fun. Let me just
at the end for everyone to say and involved and
hang out.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, So do you then answer that my question, is
this the main event every year to the Four Owners Foundation,
is gonna you're trying to make this event a tradition
or you don't know how that's going to evolve.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You can say you're still designing this as you get
that's right.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
So it's it's it's a that's a we don't know yet.
I think that right now the focus is on is
getting this tournament through, you know, because again it's all
happened really really fast. We've had some great volunteers come
alongside us, some good friends of best. Ross has has
stepped On stepped up to be our event coordinator for free.
(28:29):
We've a friend of ours, Jessica designed the website at
pro bono. I mean, it's it's all been running really
at the seat of our pants. Ideally, we would love
to have a winter event of some kind a dinner
or you know, some type of event that ties back
to the community, because not everybody's golfers and we want
to do stuff to make sure we're raising the awareness
(28:50):
of you know, the this fiscal issue that high school
athletics has in our in our city. But we just
don't know what that is yet. But ideally, yes, something
that can include more people at a lower price point
and drive involvement.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Do you have uh money raised goals this year? I
mean what should When is the tournament?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
So the we do have we have a we have
a goal. It's a very aggressive goal to net one
hundred thousand dollars for the the first year in the
in the first event.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Uh, we're halfway there. Yeah, but we're halfway there.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Halfway wow.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, we're halfway there forrad and today's the five week marks.
We're five weeks out. We've had three gold sponsors sign
up mckinning's incorporated one of my old old places and
have a lot of great friends there. Can it be roofing? Uh,
they're they're a great group of people and then a
one quality.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Insulating Should we use those guys quite a bit?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Yeah, they're fantastic. So we've had some really great partners.
Joe Moss and his his food groups have stepped up there.
They're they're going to have food at at on each nine,
So Carolina Steele and Tapp and Vine will be there.
Triple C Brewing and seven O four brand is helping
(30:13):
us do some fundraising shirts. So we've had we've been
really lucky. Man. We've got a lot of good sponsorships.
We're just still trying to drive teams. We still need teams.
We need about we need about fourteen more teams.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So was the Harding University High soccer men's soccer coach?
Is his celebrity?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
I mean, uh, hey, what about with the name like
Dan Bailey, how can you not I get confused for
the kicker of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
What about the hosts of the At Home with Roby Show?
I mean, don't get much get bigger than that?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
If we could, if we could land. If we could
land those guys and get them to participate, I think
that's the home run of all.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
So what's the day?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yeah, May twelfth, the Monday after Mother's Day, in the
first first Monday of the PGA.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Tournament Valentine Country Club, May twelfth, Monday, May twelve.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Ten o'clock, ten o'clock Shotguns, Star five.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And I think this is a timeless show because I
think it's awesome that you're building this foundation and give
them back to the community.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Do you have a number?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I mean, how many schools are are you trying to
help initially or in year one or what is your goal?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
What short term goal? We're going to really prop up
these four schools or school Yeah, that we talked about
at the outset.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Repeat those schools please.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
It is Harding, Wes mac Garringer and Chambers Chambers which
was Vance. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I never heard change.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they changed the name like six years
ago that maybe longer. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
And they're Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
All Charlotte Meckwork Schools, all Title one, all have the
probably ninety five to ninety nine percent free reduced lunch.
They're all facing it's difficulty. Yeah, the rezoning really hurt
those neighborhood schools when they became strictly neighborhood schools.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well, Dan, God speed to you. Yeah, it's amazing you said,
say God has played a part on this for you.
How can people get information about the tournament and get
information about the Four four Corners Foundation.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
We have a website w w W dot four dash
or whichever. It's the not the slash, it's the dash.
I messed that up all the time. Hyphen thank you,
thank you, uh w w W dot four hyphen corners
dot net.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
F O you are f O you r O you
are ye hyphen are corners dot net. No, you don't
have to say.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
The w W told me that that was just an
old Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Uh yeah, I kidding. Nice to be with you.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Can I drop one nug it for you guys. Bob
Buker was never the announcer for the Cleveland Indians. It
was with the Milwaukee Brewers and then called baseball for
ABC for twenty years at all their highlight games like
Joe Buck did.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Good for you chat GPT, I knew I didn't know anything.
Thanks for verifying that day. You need to look that
up on chat GT I believe, he said with conviction. Well,
thank you for listening, Dan, what a great story. I
can't wait to hear how this evolves over the years
and have you back and hear updates and see what
(33:34):
you're doing doing for these schools and these kids, especially
these young men and women that are working hard playing
these sports. Thanks for listening to that home with Roby.
Go do the Golden rule, treat others the way you
want to be treated, even when things aren't going well,
and carry a smile around on your face.
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