1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Asking Barry about the Big Ten starting QBs: July 28th, 10:30am

Episode Date: July 28, 2022

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You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Good singing, BT. Yeah. 1060. You got my dude Barry Thompson, brought to you by the folks from Ambition Electric. And a shout-out to the folks from Beatrice's Bakery for what they do on a day-to-day basis. Barry Thompson, I'm going to rattle off a list of 14 names.

They are all members of an elite club. They all have their capes, their superhero capes, because they are the projected starting quarterbacks in the Big Ten Football Conference. I'm going to ask you, of those names I give to pick five that some reason somehow for some way make you feel a certain way, all right? Here the 14. Here the 14. Ryan Hellensky from Northwestern.

Here is Tommy DeVito, Illinois. I give you Norvedere of Rutgers. I give you Connor Bazelach from Indiana. I give you Spencer Petrus from Iowa. I give you Tanner Morgan from Minnesota. Sean Clifford, Penn State. Talia Tango Viola from the Maryland Terrapids. Casey Thompson from Nebraska

Graham Mertz from Wisconsin Cade McNamara and J.J. McCarthy will put him in a combo from Michigan. Payton Thorne, Michigan State, Aidan O'Connell, Purdue, and C.J. Stroud of the Ohio State Buckeyes. Kind sir. Five in the lab. Okay. Tell me about these quarterbacks of the Big Ten

football conference. The guys you mentioned, I've started with Peyton. Okay. Just a steady performer last year on a good team. And I don't see him going backwards. So

Peyton would be one. U.N.D. Local, bloodline. Got Loxley there. as a coach. They have assembled an impressive group of athletes, and they've done a pretty good job of pruning talent from this local area.

I know the types of guys that are going there. I think he'll be calmer this year than last, so I like him. I'm going to go with him. I'm going to be a homer. I'm going with Casey. Yeah. name. I'm not going to sell him.

Despite everything that's going on, I'm going to believe that he's going to, something's going to come out of that quarterback for him. It's going to be, I'm hopeful that it's going to be good. What about Casey? And again, we're deep, we're deep diver. We've done, you know, private conversations about the young man. What is, what about a 30 touchdown, 9 interception,

pack 12, big, big 12 quarterback can come into Nebraska? What can he bring to this program? Well, he could. The only thing is giving hesitancy about it. And, again, we're not there every day. You're closer. You can see it. Is that that type of quarterback would be the start of there.

There would be no question. Right? What? Say that. Say that again. Hey, wait a minute. Say that. I'm going to frame this quote because this is a space out of a little bit.

Help me, bro. Help me, bro. If that kind of quarterback was present, then there wouldn't be a competition. So what it says to me, it's not that he's not capable. It's just that unless they're doing a really good job or just, you know, gaslighting them,

that he hasn't gotten there yet. Doesn't mean he won't get there. You know, August practice starts in August. And, you know, no, there's been a gap in between when they're off and working on their own. Things could have accelerated, and, you know, that could take place. But I'm pulling forward because he certainly has the ability to do that, right, to be that type of guy. And, you know, whether it's purdy or whoever, what we do know that they haven't on a consistent basis said,

I'm a 30 and 9, Big 10 quarterback. Like, how do we miss that? I didn't. 30 and 9, right? 30 and 9 is real simple, right? Right. You said miss it. We, that's the wrong pronoun.

I didn't miss it. How do other folks miss it? How do other folks miss it? Well, you know, it's all of that team. You know, we'll put your rose-colored glasses on, and, but it can still happen. And by the way, it can happen during the course of the season. So it can start slow and sometimes things click. at different times and things happened.

So it's at there. What we do know is it hadn't been exhibited yet consistently. Hey, Barry, here's the thing. You know I'm a deep diver, right? Yeah. Right. Like, surface level stuff doesn't really work for me. But it was passed on to me.

And I've known you a very long time. So we can be honest, right? Yeah. You know, I get nervous when you're talking. We can be honest. And you're a QB coach. But you played at Washington League University. Kind, sir.

How come we've never talked about the fact that you were an all-conference, first-team defensive back? How is that possible? Well, you know, I don't know. You are D.D. Right? You guys tell all my story, D.C. Hey.

I'm just a QB coach. Let's let, let, let, let me. I'm just a QB coach. I'm down here in, you know, a little slice of Northern Virginia. and just trying to coach more high school football love my wife I'm on the air once a week and I cook I'm Barry Thompson just a lowly

quarterback coach in Virginia don't pay any attention to me I'm not doing anything special you know an all region quarterback in high school I was no I was not a good athlete don't pay attention to me Hey, as they say, I'm just the country board trying to survive.

That, that, mind you, national champion roller skater. Pay no mind. National champion. Pay no mind to the trophies and certificates in the living room. That he won here in Lincoln, Nebraska, mind you. Pay no, the roller. I promise my left foot. My right foot follows my left foot.

I'm talking about special. The roller skating Hall of Fame is here. I wonder if I taught. Yeah. You know. You think you. And y'all are crazy. No, man, that is fantastic.

It was sent to me. It was sent to me. It's him wearing, him wearing the number, him wearing the eight. And these looking all, all, all, all, all hitterish, hitterish. You look like you like to hit people. You know what? I'll tell you funny story about that. Like, football is a game that keeps going to.

So here's a very funny story of watching. So it may be hard for your viewers understand, but it was made perfect sense at the time. I was really looking at between Division I schools and Division III schools. That's where I was going to. I had some touches by Florida, different Florida program at the time, touches by Virginia Tech and some other schools, look at the I, V's, and all that best. So anyway, it comes down to time between Davidson and Washington, and I, for a lot of reasons, I won't explain, but it had to do with experience in the high.

school. I said, no, I'm going to go here. So I went there. Just to make you clear, I have no regret. Bobby Genovine, you know, Dick Serroney, all those guys had there for Charlie Ockhorn, friends to this day, four for 40, all that stuff. But when I get to camp, it was the first time that I'd ever done math in my life. All the way up, I was a quarterback, and somebody would say, go do this here. No, I'm a quarterback, and there'd be somebody competing, and I just figured out. a quarterback. Well, when I got there, they called the quarterbacks who were 11. Holy crap.

11. 11. So back in the day, one of the recruiting strategies was to recruit quarterbacks, right? Because you remember Virginia Tech early on when they were making their initial rise in the Beamer, they would have up to seven quarterbacks, former quarterbacks on the football team. Oh, yeah.

So there was a recruiting strategy, you know. So out of 11, I really wasn't worried about it. It was down to four, two upper classmen. myself and another freshman. I knew. And then for the first time I did math, I started saying, okay, this is how this is going to go. They're going to give this guy a chance, a couple games,

and then they'll go to the second guy, give a couple, then they go back to the first guy, and then it's going to, by that time, it'll be one of the freshmen, certainly, even mine or the other freshmen. And when I looked at that, I'd never miss games. Right. And I was looking at, hey, this might be the last 40, 40, 48,

you know, whatever it is of my career, and I don't want to be on the bench for any of those games. So it went according to how I said the other freshman guys took a job. But what I did at that point is I went over to the defense, it said, y'all need any help? And I said, yeah, we need some help for safety or weak corner, whatever it was. And I said, okay, I'll do it. And camped a little bit longer, but long story short,

I wanted to be in a starter. I started my first game as a freshman and then went on. Now, bring it home. This is how ignorant I was about defense. They had me at free safety. And I would look at the stats. Like, I'm compelled. And I would see that the lineback would have like 12 tackles,

and I only had eight. And I would be pissed in that queen. So I wouldn't have to be released that. And finally, my dad, of all people, he grabbed me. He goes, you know, after some game I had, like, a couple, you know, I did pretty well, and I wasn't happy. And he goes, we'll try. I said, well, you know, I'm only the second leading tackler on team or third or whatever it was.

And he goes, look, if you're making a lot of tackles, it's not a good thing for the day. Right. It's not how it's supposed to work. This isn't. Oh, B, this is so, like, it's so good. And to tell you, several time all conference, defensive event. But there's that. Anyway, we'll talk about Big Sent football.

Hey. We're talking about Big Sent football. No, we're going to go, hey, when we come back, you'll let us know. What are we cooking? What are we eating? That's very time. Oh, I got a good one. This is 93-7 the ticket one-on-one.

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