Y-Option: College Football with Yogi Roth

Deemer Class (@22classy) is a midfielder for Chaos Lacrosse Club, one of the inaugural teams in the newly minted Premier Lacrosse League (PLL). Class shares his experience growing up in one of the sport's biggest hotbeds of Baltimore, MD, and takes you through the journey of rebuilding the Duke Lacrosse program throughout Team USA coach John Danowski's first years in Durham. Hear also about his ti...

Jordan Campbell is the founder of Winner Circle Athletics, a unique school in Southern California that helps students achieve their dreams of playing sports at a high level. He joined The Yogi Roth Show to share how he is impacting the next generation of athletes and leaders while going down memory lane with his former coach at USC, Yogi. The Winner Circle Athletics, Jordan says, is designed to gi...

‘There’s nothing wrong with a blockbuster, but there is also something really cool about telling me something that I’ve never thought about.’ ~ Adam Goldberg, Executive Producer of LOSERS How should we talk about losing? Do you have a relationship with it? Is it healthy? Adam Goldberg, Executive Producer of the acclaimed Netflix Series LOSERS joins The Yogi Roth Show to discuss why we need to reme...

‘A Brand is no different than a Resume’ ~ Jeremy Darlow, leading brand consultant/author Jeremy Darlow went from having an empty refrigerator as a child to becoming one of the leading marketing and brand consultants in the sports world. The former director of marketing for Adidas football and baseball joined The Yogi Roth Show to share his path, his passion and his guidance around athletes buildin...

What if you woke up each day with the goal to help every kid fighting cancer to Never Ever Give Up? That is Erik Rees, who lost his daughter Jessie in 2012 to cancer. He is the founder of NEGU-the Jessie Rees Foundation, which impacts children across the globe every single day and he recently joined The Yogi Roth Show to share his mission. NEGU, or Never Ever Give Up, was Jessie’s motto and messag...

This incredible conversation with Metta World Peace takes you inside the mind, heart and journey of one of the most recognizable figures in sport. Metta shares, in a style that is fully his, what his ‘normal’ was like growing up as a child as well as the various stages of his career in the NBA. During a live event created by Thuzio, which creates unique and unfiltered events with sport figures, Me...

Like you’ve never heard him before, Sam Darnold opens up about life, sport, being a rookie in the NFL and falling in love with the game. He joins The Yogi Roth Show and details his journey toward finding his voice, why his family would never allow him to ‘quit’ anything and his relationship with the word ‘trust.’ Yogi and Sam met when he was in high school competing in the Elite 11 Quarterback com...

Bryon Scott joined Yogi Roth during a live event in Los Angeles to discuss his path from a young boy with big dreams in Los Angeles to a key member of the ‘Showtime Lakers’ to the Lakers head coach and much more. During the Showtime era, the Los Angeles Lakers embarked on a historic run through the 1980’s capturing four Championships under head coach Pat Riley and, perhaps more importantly, finall...

Chris Burkard is one of the most inspirational explorers of modern times. As an explorer, Chris has traveled to all edges of the earth to capture images and content that millions have consumed. His photography combines powerful, wild landscapes with surfing, camping and human adventuring in a way that compels his audience to appreciate the earth and consider their own relationship with nature. He...

Meredith Dolhare is one of the world’s most accomplished ultrarunners. She’s completed the most notorious races - the Badwater 135 mile footrace through Death Valley in the heart of summer, the Kona Ironman World Championship, and the Furnace Creek 508 mile cycling race, to name a few. We sat down in Venice Beach, CA to discuss her training methods, career and life story; what I learned is that sh...

Oliver Luck, CEO and commissioner of the XFL, joined The Yogi Roth Show from the Athlete’s First RV in Atlanta at the Super Bowl. From the A1RV, they discussed his excitement around ‘re-imagining the game’ with the XFL, the process of building a relative ‘Start Up,’ and the joy he gets from constructing a league that will provide athletes, coaches and various professionals new jobs. They also delv...

Scotty McKnight, a record setting wide receiver from Colorado who also spent time in the NFL, lived an incredible story as an athlete. Today, he has transitioned to sharing the stories of future stars in sports as the President of GOAT Farm Media, which helps professional athletes create, control and profit from the stories they desire to share. As a multi-media expert, Scotty identifies, ideates...

Known as one of the top 5 greatest American living athletes today, Jim Brown is in the NFL Hall of Fame, College Football Hall of Fame, the Lacrosse Hall of Fame and has accomplished much more in his life. Yogi was able to sit down with this sports icon in front of a live audience at a Thuzio event in Los Angeles. Jim Brown, who is also a complicated figure, has been in the middle of sport, entert...

Matt Leinart and Vince Young did not grow up together, but ever since the 2006 National Championship game at the Rose Bowl they have evolved together. In short, these two Hall of Fame quarterbacks are connected for life because of a simple game. They joined The Yogi Roth Show and talked about that specific game, what motivated them and their respective teams at USC and Texas, and how their relatio...

Jon Gordon, an international best selling author and speaker, joined The Yogi Roth Show to start the New Year. For the last two years, he and Yogi have met to share their ‘word of the year’ on this podcast. For Jon, 2019 is about ‘Expand’ and for Yogi, it’s ‘Create.’ Jon has purposely had a ‘word of the year’ since 2001 and Yogi since 2013. Jon also dives into the concept of turning ‘hopes into ha...

Max Browne was offered a scholarship at 14 years old and by 18 was the #1 recruit in the nation. He joined The Yogi Roth Show and opened up about recruiting, the highs of his career and how he asked for help during the lows of it. This courageous conversation is one that will shed light on the humanity of college football, the pressures within it and how Max dealt with his anxiety during his emoti...

Cody Hawkins was born into football. His father, Coach Dan Hawkins, has been coaching for the majority of his life. But while coaching football is Cody’s profession is does not define him. The current UC Davis wide receivers coach joined The Yogi Roth and shared his experiences playing at Colorado under his Dad, being a player-coach in various leagues around the globe & his ‘why.’ He takes you ins...

Adam Amin is known as one of the top broadcasters in sports and joins The Yogi Roth Show to share his story. Adam joined ESPN at the young age of 24 and has called major college football, basketball, NBA, NFL games and more during his career. While host Yogi Roth and Adam dive into the details of his professional journey the essence of their conversation is around humanity, as Adam has seen it fir...

During a historic month in college football and during a historic week in the United States, Yogi Roth shares two stories from his life that have influenced his lens on the world in a unique episode of The Yogi Roth Show. The first story describes his first time at the voting polls as a child and the second story details the city of Pittsburgh and the impact of his mentor, Michele Rosenthal, who l...

Bruce Feldman is an award winning author, college football personality and one of the most respected members of the media. He joined The Yogi Roth Show and shared the ‘why’ behind the path he chose, how he has always followed his heart and how ‘it all comes down to the work.’ Bruce was an art major in college and has since altered his career path to become what I consider to be one of the greatest...

Trent Dilfer--a 14-year NFL veteran, Super Bowl winning quarterback and current head coach at the Elite 11--is the most recent guest on this week’s podcast episode of The Yogi Roth Show. Someone I consider family, this was a conversation I have been thinking about since we launched this podcast almost three years ago. Our conversation goes into depth unpacking Trent’s path, his passions, and how f...

This week McKenzie Milton joins The Yogi Roth show to talk about his journey from a small familial town in Hawaii to a national stage in college football. Going into his senior year of high school McKenzie wasn’t highly recruited, but his passion for faith, family and football, along with an element of grit that most of us can relate to, took him to the next level. McKenzie accepted a scholarship...

“It’s not a weakness to get help, it’s a sign of strength.’ ~ BYU QB/Elite 11 co-MVP Tanner Mangum Tanner Mangum was an unknown recruit in 2011 from Eagle, Idaho and after a summer with the Elite 11—the premiere high school quarterback competition—he catapulted himself onto the map in college football, as he was named co-MVP with Jameis Winston and Neal Burcham at the 2011 Elite 11 quarterback cam...

Brenda Tracy is a catalyst and agent of change. She joins The Yogi Roth Show, as their conversation will take you inside the world of Brenda, as she travels to college campuses year-round, impacting college athletes to Set The Expectation. Brenda, a survivor of a gang rape on a college campus is now inspiring and empowering student-athletes to #SetTheExpectation to end sexual and relationship viol...

In front of a live audience, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff joins The Yogi Roth Show where he shares elements of his path to LA. Yogi and Jared met when Jared was in high school at the Elite 11 Quarterback Competition and they will reflect on that day, when he was a freshman at Cal, the night of the NFL Draft and much more. Jared’s story encompasses the word grit. He grew up undersized an...