Christmas to all of you. Hope you guys had an amazing day remember, okay? Christmas is not about how many presents you get it's not about how expensive your presents were Christmas is about going back to your hometown during the holidays and clapping the Cheat off of every single girl within a five mile radius that will respond to your what are you doing tonight? Text that you will inevitably be sending on snapchat Boys, that's how long you have January 9th. They all go back to college.  They're all going back to Mississippi State You haven't till then so you better lock it What are we talking about the wheel of my Christmas special? This is the second episode of a brand new season of wheel of mud So let me get you all caught up to speed in the season opener. We got a really lucky win But a win nonetheless. I have nobody on my offensive line, but we did get Dak Prescott We got an interesting running back duo of Devon Singletary and Najee Harris We got a really mid Jerry Rice and Josh Oliver as a backup tight end slash fullback defensively. I prestige Ray Lewis I got a little bit scared that Christian McCaffrey might snake offensive player the year So I went Ray Lewis. We got an amazing budget beast in Luke Keekley 20,000 coins gets lurk artists for one AP We got limited Kyle Hamilton up at strong safety. I moved Durman James to free safety We got Christian Gonzalez at corner champ Bailey at corner Adrian Phillips at corner and Nick Bosa Let's talk about this as you're watching this video ghosts of mud has dropped I'm traveling back to Michigan for Christmas right now So I'm not able to record this video when ghosts of mud dropped So if Nick Bosa got a ghost of mud card, you're gonna have to wait and if he didn't then this may literally be one of the Worst for stages ever. I just I expect him to get a ghost of mud present It's been too long to not have a Nick Bosa and in the season five season opener We had to spin the team wheels to determine our team for the season. We got the San Francisco 49ers awesome team to get I love their jerseys. I love their home stadium and what I need to learn to love is 49ers playbook I'm excited. We have gun demo package with two halfbacks in the backfield. That's awesome We've got the slot wide receiver backfield package so I can put Jamar at running back and then 49ers defense has even 6-1 Which is defense. I love to run and probably the best part since you guys are watching this video on Christmas you already know what my presents are so as a recap I've actually pulled two of whatever this present is it might be blitz players I have one of this gold 3,500 snowflakes. I have no idea what this is We've got a simple present a simple present a nice probably legends present a nice team of the week A nice red the simple blue all of which I will get to open But let's try to stay focused on the task at hand and that's moving our record to 2-0 We're at 1-0 right now and for the Christmas special. I made a Christmas special wheel This wheel isn't absurdly overpowered, but it is catered to the zero chill program So hopefully we'll get some awesome Christmas players today. I've got three wheel spins to build this team Let's get after it boys. There's even a spin on here that could give me lavish presents I wouldn't even get to open them right now. Oh my god. Am I gonna get it right now? Please Normally I need to win the game, but this is basically a futures bet I get to open two lavish presents and no matter what I keep them the downside of course is These aren't gonna open for me right now since it's not Christmas day yet So it's not gonna help my team right now, but it is gonna help us in the future I'm so glad I got this one.   Godly. I could have a kid in that time I'll say can we just talk about something EA? Can we talk about a quality of life thing?   I gotta wait for another leg. I This is like this is pretty high-level whining. This is some beta cuck shit Here's the real reason I'm pissed about it though I'm sure you guys saw my Christmas Eve pack opening yesterday where I collected an absurd amount of presents Do you know how long it took me to spend in nine million coins on stocking stuff for players?  I would have scooped that up Oh, here we go. Here we go snipe snipe 2000 coin discount. I'm him.  Are you kidding me? All right boys Our first wheel spin is two lavish presents that get to sit on unopened the episode where I open all the presents will be on December 30th just so you know so you'll have one more episode where we don't know and then it's go time the random lavish Present can be one of the special limited presents. Our first one is lavish. Oh, oh, I have I have no idea what this one is So I'm actually really excited to have this so we have one new present lavish red and burgundy and our second mystery lavish present is 1940 is it? Oh So this one's a team of the week present lavish. So it's probably an 89 or 90 overall are better That's awesome. So I now have all the lavish presents other than the limited. Am I forgetting one? I am I'm forgetting the legends one. I'm forgetting the legends one Hey, look at this team of the week lavish red and burgundy lavish gold and then the probably blitz And then we got a few little mini guys here, dude This is gonna be such a massive addition to this team. Oh, I'm key But for now it does absolutely nothing for my 82 overall So let's get into this second wheel spin and hopefully add to the squad right now Let's get it boys. Hopefully a zero chill player. Maybe a choice or even actually I would definitely take packs right now Yes, sir, we get five zero chill packs Unfortunately as I record this no limits in the stores, but zero chill packs can have the 93 overalls in them So still tons of good stuff for us to pull you get an 82 plus an 86 plus and 170 plus gold player five of these puppies Let's find out boys. Come on, baby. Sorry me out hot. That's funny I already have that out.  Hopefully a little better luck on her second zero chill pack a boot camp does he is he's better than Ocaron close He'll start we get rookie La Porta the dog and Elijah more Elijah more is 100% a starter on this team That's good work right there. Dude. There's Corey Lindsley on the offensive line There's Graham Glasgow offensive line both those guys been really good. Taijai Spears does not help us Elijah Wilkinson huge upgrade That's big. I'll take 86 left guard get a boot came again. Unfortunately third zero chill pack I think this will be a big success if I get even one 90 overall You get at Oliver shy tuttle cash boy. Cashman is a big upgrade to at Oliver. Unfortunately is not Here's our fourth zero chill pack. Come on. Hey a little core elite Anthony Walker I'll take that actually pretty good pack-a-punch potential right there He has that 90 overall with lurk artists Anthony Walker in two 86 Steven Nelson. We'll see if there's a spot for him and then our final zero chill is Matt Greta I know I'm not gonna use him Unimpressive packs thus far servosha Dennis. Who are you buddy if in final Michael Wilson? He will get to play on this lineup Alexander Madison will not five zero chill packs later We don't get anything crazy, but we will have some solid little upgrades to make let's start with Elijah Wilkinson on the offensive line Beautiful, I'm gonna pull Jerry Rice gonna put on 86 overall Elijah more here and at wide receiver three We're gonna get Ardenals Michael Wilson six foot two not very fast But pretty big wide receiver definitely better than a silver ominous and then defensively. We've got some linebacker So we already got Luke Keekley, but right here. We can put Blake cashman Blake cashman six one eighty four speed eighty eight Excel not bad good play rec decent block shed and he's a coverage linebacker So that's why we want at least at least a run stopper. He's not a an edge rusher MLB to can be 80 overall Anthony Walker Taking us up to an 85 overall team here I'm gonna move Samson Ebu Kim to my right end and I'm gonna move Agbania Ocaron quote to my back-up That is some tongue twisters and honestly just like that my entire defense now has zero silver players in it So that's really really good obviously a lot of these guys won't make the final line up, but at least there's no silvers left I can't say the same thing for offense my whole offensive line is pretty much still silvers Doug Kramer is one bean burrito away from a silver Jackson Kirkland Colby Soresdahl and Ryan Hayes are silvers and Wilkinson is just taking it all up front All right boys the first two wheel spins set ourselves up for the future filled some holes But at this point, I kind of want an absolute It's exactly what I'm looking for 325,000 coins on one player zero chill or Monday mix up so Monday mix up it I don't think technically is supposed to be a Christmas promo But since they dropped in December they gave them all Christmas art dude. There's a 93 overall tight end Vita Vaya I just have no idea how I use them on this team because I already have grown I get like I could sub I could put Vita Vaya at full back and then we could run I formation with Vita Vaya that is one thing I'll say about Niners playbook Niners playbook does have I formation? So if I really wanted to I could pick up tight end Vita Vaya put him at full back and then as has my back He has 91 speed. Oh my god. I don't know how you're gonna convince me not to get this Okay, so if I went Monday mix up my only options are Vita Vaya, Octiari, Keenan Allen free safety pretty cool card But I don't really know I could pick up Josh Allen outside linebacker again.  All right, hold up Let me look at the zero two players. Well before we go getting crazy We could get TJ Watt. We can get Jalen Hertz. We can get Shannon Sharp. All right boys I'm gonna be honest. It's obvious what we need to do I understand that Vita Vaya would be really really fun, but I want to win games So I'm gonna use my 125,000 coins Exually MMG Josh Allen gets zero AP lurk artist and Y was open at 15 minutes And my mother's ass cheeks are open every night at 11 p.m.    Oh my god I never thought about this edge protector on your tight end. It's good, but it's not what I was looking for I'm not gonna use them in that way. Yeah, I'd rather run tank on him But it's a waste of AP to activate unstoppable bruiser. He needs two touchdowns. Are you kidding me? That's actually so aggressive. All right, we're running Vita Vaya stock straight off the factory floor What do you really need on this car? Nothing?  I just realized to can he come in and Debo package He should be able to come in in certain packages where there's like gun slot close where there's a fullback in the back He should be in we're gonna find out boys. All right, y'all. I've got a depleted offensive line But I've got tight end Vita Vaya and a dream we added Michael Wilson Elijah Moore Elijah Wilkinson Vita Vaya tight end Anthony Walker Blake Cashman Samson Abu Cam and two lavish Unopened presents the only thing left to do of course is to win the game Let's see if that can lead us to a back-to-back here and the Christmas challenge wheel if I complete this challenge wheel I can add another mystery present to our unopens. We have a lot I do not like that. I only don't like that because my quarterback is 91 overall team of the week Dak Prescott He's got Traveris word Eric Berry Arden key home field advantage. It's a night game You know what EA needs to do bro EA needs to actually put weather into mud how sick would it be during December if every game was a snow game now Listen listen listen before you go saying no I don't want my players to fumble etc. Don't let it impact the players just because it's a snow game Doesn't mean they have to add in you know increase fumble chance It would just be cool if it looked like it was snowing, but it didn't impact the game You know or like a rain game every once in a while add a little bit to the immersion Throws to the boundary wide open man. I will Leviss he's got angry runs will levis at quarterback. It's the first time I've seen it personally It's got Derek Henry the backfield.  Let's go man coverage. Can we afford to do man coverage? Is this team good enough for that? The right side looks open. Oh my god. I was about to say I don't know if that's open Well, we got to work artists linebackers in the middle. We got Keekley. We got Ray Lewis.   That might be my biggest complaint is that they nerf pitches, dude Vita Vaya tight end is already in let's get the first pass of the game goes to Vita Vaya tight end Snagged all right boys. Let's tinker. Let's tinker with this playbook left slot close. I do gun split close I think that's Vita Vaya in the back. Oh my god. It is I think on split close has Vita Vaya lead blocking out of the backfield Let's follow him great block great block Vita But it was still a good block he took out a big-ass dude that Najee never would have taken on now It's third and three. I can put Vita Vaya on routes here. Damn. I wish I had high-route master. Oh Vita Vita no fourth three offensive line fell apart. We shouldn't be too shocked I tell you what man. I didn't get Vita Vaya. Did I go for it on fourth and three? He's my lead blocker on this I form run. Let's go Vita Maybe I should have gone to the edge. I might have cut that up a little too early I shouldn't be trying to run it so much before I upgrade my O-line He should probably throw this ball away second and ten definitely a pass He has nothing sending heat Oh my dear third and ten we are boxing him right now great defense Sam will tried and true all reliable I just have to guard the half back here.  That's no way Doesn't matter let's go my cashman takes him to fourth and 20 and I think out of field goal range I'm gonna open up this drive with a run behind Vita Vaya We're going to the edge this time Vita Vaya goes up the middle I'm gonna come out in the same formation now and I'm gonna send this one at the middle right behind Vita Vaya There goes Vita Vaya get to the second level single Terry's out Now wait a minute now we know how though but this time we're going jet sweep hopefully he clogs the middle Jamar Chase on the jet sweep and What second and 11? Second? He breaks another an inches.   That was unbelievable He's in goal line.  This is goal line. I don't care who what silvers I got Made contact behind a lot of scrimmage. I am not putting up no 40 bomb like this though Let's go play action and see if we can roll out. I got Ray Lewis blocking on the right side.   I've never really had two running bags He's on the D line Naji barreling forward third and three. I'm gonna know huddle and pass It's bad. Oh, I'm going for it I'm gonna go for this if he wants to march it out 96 yards. He can march it out 96 yards Keep in mind my challenge wheel is QBR. I don't know if this is man or zone. It isn't Jamar Say with the amount of running I did there's no way he could expect what I was gonna do All right, I'm coming out and gun split close for this two-point conversion. That's QBR is still alive Beautiful Jamar Chase is catching tough ball right now Derwin James Hello, hello on this big second and three That was pretty good He's back to passing here.  I would love it if it did because I need some time on the clock I see reek. I see one. Oh my god, Nick Bosa cornally Nick Bosa against the double team. Oh My god, what a time Did that knock him out of field goal range it didn't all right Let's just conserve our timeouts. He'll probably use this whole clock. That's fine We saved three timeouts to potentially get some more points up. He doesn't even use the whole clock eight to three I love that. I don't remember if I start with ball or not though We honestly we could run a pretty effective play action with how much we've re-in the ball. I think this could work Look at that Rob Gromkowski. It's a beautiful throw from the deck. He decks five for eight fifty-three yards in a touchdown That's not gonna be enough for a 140 plus QBR. We're gonna have to throw a lot more pass He just pulled off single Terry. That was his responsibility But single Terry's not beefing up to get through that. I'm gonna go for the run here. I have timeouts I just want to I just want to reset the downs Get through deal. I don't have the air raid figured out with this team yet. Let's find a cool play They got a gun bunch y flex vertical right now.  Oh my god Why are you over there Vita? He's not If you want to see what I'm seeing this isn't exactly high level but his user has to decide yes to decide Vita Vaya or Gromk, I have a feeling he's gonna take Vita Vaya. So we throw Gromk. He takes Vita Vaya. We throw Gromk.  I want the QBR with that, but this is a free touchdown Vita Vaya That's a Christmas special boys Oh my god. All right, so just to be clear that risk got just way What was that 8 for 11 120 yards to passing touchdowns in just the first half Vita Vaya Just caught a passing touchdown.  I love this game. All right a few things to unpack here rage quit wheel Yes, we'll spin that I'm also gonna give myself an extra mystery present I it felt very clear to me that Dak was going to smack that challenge will he did not give me the Opportunity so we're taking one more mystery present, baby Shoot out of the four mystery presents. We've done.  We are Collapsing right now. This is actually the one of the lavish is I don't have yet I don't know what this one is. I assume a zero chill player was we're gonna have a stacked one We're gonna be dummy stacked. Okay, you know what it is a minor bump up last episode is 25k this episode It's 50k. I say we build offensive line. It's it's very obvious that my offensive line is bad I'm getting pressure every single time. I drop back to pass 50,000 coins on let's go a right tackle That's right-handed. They'll scramble right more often. Let's grab a right hack You know the markets markets a little saw stop right now, too So I think of 50,000 coins are right tackle might actually get us a 90 overall Hey, look at this the return of a Detroit lion Panacea was on a season actually don't remember when we had him But we definitely had 88 overall Panacea will just under 50,000 coins He's got pretty well-rounded stats, but then he has 90 run blocking. He's a slightly better run blocker I'm also learning more about this Niners playbook, and I'm liking it got nasty defenses and it's got some fun offense, right tackle Let's stick my boy Panacea will in there 88 overall takes our team up to an 86 overall The final thing I'll say I can't promise that even next episode will have ghosts of mud I hope you had amazing Christmas. This was an awesome Christmas special. I had so much fun recording this and shout out to MVP tight end Vita Vaya caught passes ran the ball blocked on a touchdown forced to rage quit He did it all. All right boys. I love you guys. Thanks for watching as always and I'll see you guys in the next video Hey


HBCU Digest welcome back and welcome to our new debut video series interviews with enlightened and enlightening folks in the HBCU community today. We are privileged to be joined by Chris Wright is a professional basketball player, former University of Dayton student athlete who actually is joining a wave of professional athletes who are becoming invested and interested in historically black colleges. Yesterday with a significant announcement of his endowed scholarship at Wilberforce University in Ohio, which is going to benefit for a long period of time. Athlete students, faculty staff, everyone who's involved in Wilberforce and just a continuing effort on behalf of that school to reach out in a big way to corporations and individuals looking to support the WU movement. So brother, it's a great opportunity and a great honor to have you on today.  You didn't go to Wilberforce, but talk to us a little bit about what peaked your interest about the institution.  Um, it just kind of peaked my interest because for me understanding like just the history of history of HBCUs and trying to figure that out and being a highly rated player, you know, high school, you know, being recruited by some of the top high school by some of the top colleges in the country. Um, there was really no HBCUs or local schools or different schools like that recruited me. It was like the University of Dayton and, you know, Michigan, Michigan State, different things like that. Um, and now that I'm out of college and I'm a professional athlete now, um, trying to figure out, you know, why didn't those type of schools approach me or why didn't those HBCUs come after me as a player. But it was came down to, um, now the knowledge of knowing and access to those schools and not really having, um, you know, the prestigious name like other, other highly rated, you know, colleges and different things. And, you know, I'm like, well, I once University of Dayton, I'm here as other opportunities as well for kids that's coming, you know, after me. So it's kind of like, you know, why not give, you know, a full look of all the schools around here and not pushing one school to the side because it's the HBCU or whatever. Just understanding like, okay, let's look at this school and let's see what it's about before we just kind of push it to the side. So for me, I want to really dive into the history of HBCUs and understanding, you know, what that can mean for a community and in particular, like a black community seeing, you know, schools that was founded by someone that looked like you and I and how can I help support that. So now just really seeing, you know, the whole movement in a wave of HBCUs and trying to figure out how I can help and do my part. What does it mean to see that that increased interest from up and coming student athletes. We see McCormaker come into Howard. We see Mikey Williams who was expressing interest about HBCUs. What do you think that is happening with young people that you just you just explain what the differences were when you were coming up. But how do you think that transition has occurred for for young people today at high school. I mean, I think when you look at some of the things LeBron has done for the sport as far as using your voice and these kids see that now and especially with social media and everything and these high school kids taking control of their careers early because a lot of times you listen to the people that's kind of in the business the ones that say well I'll make you this amount of money or I'm going to do this for you do that for you as an athlete. Now they're able to really speak for themselves and you know choosing HBCUs to try to change the way to change the narrative of that and show all kids that you know HBCU is possible it's a school.  I think seeing kids like this were highly rated going to HBCUs, it would allow other kids to see that I can do it too and not necessarily just black kids. There are probably are some athletes that are are are white that will want to go to school to play with these type of players so I think you know them I think it's great. They're taking, you know, their career into their own hands and controlling the narrative right now, water in high school, and, you know, making those decisions and like I said, you know, credit LeBron on a lot of that stuff when you go back to even him making a decision where it's like today I'm going to control the narrative of my career and my life regardless to what anybody else is saying.  You've played a lot of different places you've been in the NBA. Obviously you're from Ohio so it makes sense the connection that you have with will before. But what would be what was the engagement like with the university that that made made you feel like yes I'm bought in. I'm team WU here's why I'm going to sit down roots. We was on I was on his own call. We was talking about, you know, the COVID-19 crisis and everything and how as leaders of the community, you know, we can help and Dr. Pinkert, you know, the president of workforce was on that call.  She gave birth to five boys adopted four boys, one girl, and then she also, you know, adopted a few of my cousins. So, you know, and when I told my story, he was like, hey, we should link up and connect.  I was probably like maybe fourth, fifth grade, maybe, and I can even remember how to get there. So once I got over there, it was like, man, like, it was actually, you know, nice campus and everything. So when we sat down and we talked between the glass and the mask, the mask out and everything. Right.   And what made it even what put it kind of over the top as well is one of my old coaches, coach Mitchell, who's the head basketball coach at war before now just got hired on this year. When I saw his name as the coach there, I'm like, oh yeah, this, this is the perfect fit. And then, you know, I see a lot of talented kids that come through our city. And they kind of go away to school, or they go to kind of, they go to other colleges, but they end up being back here, sometimes for whatever reason. And sometimes being close to home, I don't I've been able to get the best of both worlds. Like you mentioned, I've traveled, you know, playing professionally, I've traveled outside of the US. So I understand the benefits of traveling and international travel. I understand the benefits of being home and having roots here.  I thought it would be good to just allow, allow them to see and help them understand that sometimes, you know, division one school may not be your best option or division two. Well, you can go to an AI school and create your own path because this help is needed here.  So if you can go here and make an impact and change the way people view something that you started, why not do that? And just having that conversation with them. And I just think it was a good fit for, you know, the Right Way Foundation and, you know, kids in this area that, you know, that are part of my program. And I just want to see them be successful. And sometimes we chase the brand and we chase the name of of of highly, you know, highly talented or highly like high impact names or chasing the prestigious schools and different things like that. Well, we can get kind of lost and forgetting our own name and what we bring to the table as young men. And that's what I wanted to be able to share with them and change. And I felt like Wilberforce would be a good starting point with that. You played for a program in in UD that in recent years, it doesn't seem like it's been that long, but they were picked to win. They were they were sure. That hurt me. That hurt me. That's hurting me because of COVID. But that but that isn't right. Many people regarded that that's a mid major program that is really correct. Do you think that do you think that with the investment that you're making the interest that you're getting from high caliber athletes coming out of high school that you can see an HBCU coming up the same way? And how long do you think?  And some of these kids that's on the team now were hosted by the people that I hosted. So I think a lot of kids that they understand if they come together and I could think especially now it only take it can be five to six years. I feel where, you know, some of these teams can be national championship contenders. If you look at the talent that's out there and also you're just creating that way because you think about, you know, when I was in high school, going looking to go to college, a lot of the kids were in elementary school. So they looked up to whoever the local high school players is. They watch the NBA, but you know, if you're a local celebrity as far as on the high school level, these kids are looking up to you. So they're going to follow you or watch everything you do and want to be where you are. So you have opportunity to, you know, change the kids behind you that's five, six years behind you. And I don't think it'll take long to turn it around. What's your opinion of the NBA as a pro sports league really becoming involved with HBCU? So we've seen them, not just the athletes, the individual athletes like you and Chris Paul and LeBron and so many guys that are giving to HBCUs, whether we know it or not. Because a lot of these athletes donate and you never even hear about it. Carmelo is another one. I mean, but not just individuals, but the league, the players association has worked with the SIAC conference to create combat specifically for HBCU players. What do you think about the league and that body particularly aligning with HBCUs to say, hey, we can help this come up. And then on the other end, HBCU is really doing a good job of hiring coaches that used to be former NBA players. So this is almost like a pipeline. So there's like a unique synergy between black colleges and the NBA. What do you think institutionally that means for both the colleges and for the league?   And I can do those things, you know what I mean? So I think with, like you said, just some of the HBCU schools doing a good job of hiring, you know, black athletes and professional athletes. It's great because I can tell you from experience, I'm not going off, you know, a research book, like I'm actually telling you my experience on how to get kids or what it is that you can put forth to show these kids like this is why I need you here at our school. And this is what steps you need to take to be a successful student athlete and then a successful professional player. That's what you choose to do. So I think it's great on both sides of it.  And some of them wanted to be that way. But I think it is something that should be, you know, praised and talked about because so many people overlook HBCUs. And I feel like, again, it shouldn't be put to the side just because it was founded by, you know, blacks. I don't I don't agree with that. You know what I mean? I think it should be, you know, just like any other school put out there put on the forefront and you should talk about the school and not just push to the side. Tell us a little bit more about your foundation and what specifically your endowed scholarship at World Befores will do.  So, you know, offering, of course, financial assistance and future scholarships for, you know, kids coming into World Befores. And like you said before, I want to be able to expand on not just, you know, given, you know, to World Befores and central state is right across the street and, you know, other, you know, HBCUs like down to Kentucky and everything. But it will allow kids to be on campus and offer financial assistance to them and other career pathway programs that maybe World Befores may not offer things such as like sports management, sports medicine. I have my own sports medicine clinic. So different things like that. Esports, construction management, where in the future, if they're not an athlete, they can, you know, turn around and have, you know, backgrounds and some of the programs that's being offered. You know, we're still working out a lot of the kinks with the school and what exactly we can offer over a longer period of time. But, you know, right now for sure knowing that we will be offering scholarships to my foundation and allowing kids to want to go there, the opportunity to, you know, benefit from, you know, financial assistance to go higher in life. And then tell us where we can donate to your foundation, how we can specifically support the World Befores endowed scholarship created by Chris Wright and how we can do more to support you, brother. Yeah, so the right way foundation, you can follow us on Instagram at their right way foundation. And then also the right way foundation.org. You can go in there and donate and just continue to, you know, help this project, you know, moving along and we're going to make sure we do the best we can and the right things with making sure we find in the perfect candidates for, you know, this positive movement that's happening.   Pro basketball player, Pride of Dayton, Ohio, Chris Wright. We appreciate your time this morning, brother. Thank you so much, man. Thank you. Appreciate you.