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I dynamite slider note folks remember what you're doing and seventh grade maybe playing sports hang out your friends ruled that maybe just get adjusted to middle school life how. Deciding where you played football in college at the age of thirteen. -- a thirteen year old from Delaware has already received. Verbal agreement on a football scholarship from guess where. The University of Southern California and he is thirteen years old okay. Here's a picture of David sills I he's not even played a single game in high school yet. But that did not stop the coach from USC. Caught up is dad and extending a verbal offer even those still of course cannot officially -- any letter of intent. Until 35. The agreement is not binding. I -- either one can still back out of this deal but joining us from Williams -- where Wilmington Delaware. I is David still good morning David good to have you with us today. They're going to be here thank you. I think thirteen years all they must that I haven't eighth grader and a and a fifth grader so we know you're sort of right in between them it's hard for me to imagine. Either one of them at dealing with a phone call from a football coach at USC you know last thing we want to come play for -- what what was your reaction when your dad told you about --

Well my dad told me about it I was -- if I thought he was joking at first. But. After after liked what few minutes went by any felony but I'm not you gain college speechless like Alan I couldn't even I couldn't speak I didn't even know what to say. I was so light excited and amazed that this would happen to me at this young age.

see your quarterback right. Yeah what you think as you've got to wrap there Peyton Manning and Drew Brees yesterday.

Not I have a lot of fun watching the game. There's a good game like this. -- you really for the Saints.

Yet. Get this thing is everybody was Barack. I don't have to really look at that anything about yourself at thirteen if some people out there are saying there's a picture Drew Brees with with his old boy. That this is too much too soon after kids your age you know -- to even be thinking about colleges too far off and that shouldn't be sort of you know pushed in the end this way how do you feel that it. Why is going through my dream to go to USC. And build any other college I probably would have said -- for the commitment. But US you always been my absolute dream to go there so I guess I said yes the commitment. We have five years between now and that roughly. You know what do you do to sort of keep yourself on this path because those -- five very big years in any kids like keep that in Iowa and having your middle school. And four years of high school what's what's your plan to to keep your dream on track.

Well over a child my best. Keep my grades up work hard in the weight room. Be a better. You better student and be a better son -- my pants. And just work my hardest.

Well that's colony parent pass that from a job and a cancer are very proud of you what do you think when people see it -- it. Do you play other sports -- me OI guess what I'm getting at is that there's so much pressure in sports in our country. At this time on young kids you know how do you how do you respond to that you you okay with that.

Yeah now look I'm looking over the like some people. Then talk about me and the negative way but I gotta take -- turn into a positive. Because we'll be we'll talk about me in a negative way I guess. It makes me wanna work harder and prove them wrong so I mean it doesn't really bother me -- much.

We'll pimp for you you know because I think whenever a passion for something which you clearly don't -- when you how old -- that this dream started --

Well I think what I really need to like pull my dad that I wanted the play in the NFL like seriously. All about ten years old. And now we've been with either since then. Yet he's your kind of try you hear individual quarterback yes I think it before but yeah I have top ideal. I'm 511 animal 135 pounds. 511 with satellite in seventh grader good head above everybody coming imagine right.

Yeah I'm pretty tall. They think you're gonna get top. The doctor said that I should be about 656 this. While -- that very confident his days in the quarterback position say got a lot. Going for you -- fine young man I and you just decades you know what you're doing and be very successfully now we thank you very much for -- infantile at us today David. Thank you you take care.