Today we’d like to introduce you to Summitt Hogue.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Summitt. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I grew up on a cotton farm in a small town south of Lubbock. When I was young, my dad used to wake me up on the summer mornings and tell me “you can come to the farm with a good attitude and get paid, or a bad attitude and not get paid, but either way, you are coming to the farm.” He taught me at a young age that “attitude is everything.” I was extremely blessed to have a Father that pushed me and cared about me enough to teach me that important lesson.
I love football, but I was not very good in high school. I ended up starting only 5 high school games. I wasn’t done playing in my head, so I went up to Texas Tech in Lubbock and convinced Coach Tommy Tuberville to allow me to run a 40-yard dash for him. He did. I ran it 2 times, and he looked at the time, looked at me, looked back at the time, and said: “go pick out a locker I’ll put your name on the board.” Boom. Long story short – I showed up for practice in fall camp and redshirted my first year.
Bottom of the barrel walk-on getting beat to a pulp. Then after my redshirt season, coach Tuberville let me suit up for the first game of 2012. I hand t practiced anything so there was no way I was actually going to play… until the 2nd half and we were stomping Northwestern State. Coach Tubbs came over and said Summitt; I am going to let you run on kick-off the second half. I about fell over – But I said Yes Sir! He said, “go to the ball and run as fast as you can.”
When I took the field, I was shaking in my cleats looking at 60k people watching me. I ran down on that kick off so fast every eye in the stadium was on me. What Tubbs forgot to tell me was that there was a guy on the other team that was assigned to knock me out. BOOM! That guy came from the side, and ear holed me hard – I did a flip. I ended up getting hit so hard that I did a flip and got back on my feet. BOOM! I made the tackle.
The stadium went wild because they all just watched me get KO’ed and then I got up and made the tackle. I ran down on kick-off 3 times that game and got the tackle all 3 times. Coach Tuberville gave me player of the game and I had earned my stripes after that.
I played the rest of that season and then at the end of the season, coach Tuberville left and went to Cincinnati. We hired Kliff Kingsbury and right when he got there, he called me into his office. I knew I was getting cut. When I sat down at the table, he told me that the new coaching staff asked around to the different departments in the program (Strength Staff, Equipment Staff, and Training Staff. Etc.) and they decided to give me a scholarship.
I have the chills right now writing this haha – I played the whole 2013 season and ended it with a big win against Arizona State in the Holiday Bowl. Unfortunately, I had a neck injury in that game that ended my career. I finished out school at Texas Tech and moved to Dallas on my own because it wasn’t a good time to get into farming. I took a swing at my first job, and it just didn’t mesh well.
I loved the people, just didn’t enjoy what I was doing. Fortunately, through that, I was attending a men’s ministry in Grapevine, and I met my now employer, Chad Hennings (Former Cowboy). Now I work for Chad’s real estate firm, Rubicon Representation here in Dallas.
I have only been in real estate for about 1 year and 4 months, but it’s moving fast, and it’s the perfect business for me. I work with Chad here at Rubicon, but I also run a branch of his ministry here in Dallas called Wingmen. We meet every other Tuesday morning at Dallas Country Club.
I think it’s extremely important for people to be mentored but also to be a mentor. The richest place in the world is a graveyard because so many people pass on without passing on all of the lessons and things they learned over the years! That is a big part of Wingmen. That is also why I signed up to be a mentor through Champions of Hope.
COH is an organization here in Dallas that connects people to young kids in South Dallas in 4th grade, and your job is to adopt them as a little brother/sister. You just spend time with them and help mentor and develop them as they grow up. It is an amazing organization that is changing the lives of kids in South Dallas!
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It has definitely not been a smooth road – I have been told “you can’t do that” my whole life, but I love when people say that. It means you’re going in the right direction most of the time. I was told by friends “You will never actually get to play at Texas Tech…” “You’ll quit in a month” – That’s what drove me to figure out a way to get on the field.
Now, I am in commercial real estate brokerage. I am cold calling every day getting told No No No. I have people say “Why would you go to a small shop to learn real estate?
They don’t even have an industrial division” – Well, you’re right, they don’t, but I’m going to build it. Which is what I’m doing now.
Rubicon Representation – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
I am building a tenant representation real estate business that is focused on catering to Third-Party Logistics Companies (3PL’s). It is very important in real estate for you to find your niche. My niche is working with 3PL companies across the country to grow and expand their business.
I manage their portfolios and help introduce them to potential client opportunities in an effort to fill up their warehouse. One of the things that makes me so proud of my business is when I can watch the bottom line of my clients grow because of the opportunities I have presented to them.
What moment in your career do you look back most fondly on?
The proudest moment was closing a massive deal in San Bernardino, CA with a client I busted my tail for to win his business and proving that the business development method I developed and was told won’t work, will work.
Contact Info:
- Address: 3333 Lee Parkway
Suite 400 Dallas, TX 75219 - Phone: 8066324672
- Email: shogue@rubiconrep.com
- Instagram: @summitthogue
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