...cuz Pope offers 100's and 100's of kids in the portal. Pope subscribes to the telemarketing cold call approach to sales, If you make 100 calls, you'll get 40 people to answer, of those 40 that answer 20 will listen to your pitch, of the 20 that listen 5 will schedule an appt to meet and of those 1 will buy. So if you want to get 5 sales then you need to make 500 calls. So, whether you're the first, second, third, etc it's not a reflection on the quality or caliber, you're just a number at that point.

What popped for Khalifa in his film was his playmaking skills on the perimeter and what we needed in our offense vs what we weren't getting with bigs in the past like Fouss, Lohner, etc. It was obvious from the get-go that he would have a big impact on our offense. What maybe wasn't so clear was how well he'd do defensively. He was much better defensively than I thought he'd be.