1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry stays on to talk about high school athletics: February 24th, 10:25am

Episode Date: February 24, 2022

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You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Presented by Beatrice Bakery on 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. It's like a jungle sometimes. Makes me wonder how to keep them going on. Don't push me. Because I'm close to the edge. Just trying not to lose my head. Hey, man.

Look, Barry Thompson, Fairfax Football Academy. And Barry, to be fair, a couple things. happened to the break. One, Rico and I were just kind of marinating and all of the gold that you just put out into the universe. And that's why it's important to have you on today because you are a great GPS and resetter. You're a North Star for how this thing should be done. And there are people who agree. George Gamble says this, love you, coach. Thank you for trusting me and giving me an opportunity. Glad I was one of the first players for the QB Academy. It's encouraging to see you make such a meaningful influence on and off the field.

Thompson. Oh my God, George. Look at that. Hey, George, I bumped into him a little bit ago. He's doing, he is doing great. Talk about somebody that had a little bit of a journey

and football was something that kind of helped him through. I'll send you one of the first pictures. He was one of the first. I got pictures still to this day, George, of you and I on the field together over there near the FPYC field. house. Glad you're listening. Go ahead. Good stuff all right around. And Barry,

Barry is an energy source into himself. So it, it, it, there are days when I plug in just to get positive, to get fed, to get nutrition, intellectual, nutrition. There's a phrase we haven't used in a while. No, that's a good one. Right. Intellectual nutrition, right? To be able to, yeah, right? To go through that, right? And through that, so we were talking about putting together from an organizational standpoint, the people under you, and then the accountability and the ability to have conversations being present one to one with student athletes. And I want to talk about how important, the importance of an athlete being able to trust a coach. It's everything. I think especially now, I heard Bobby Bowden say some time ago, and they were asking the difference between,

the players in the old school and then, you know, more modern day. He said, you know, when you were coaching old school players, you could just go tell them to run through a wall and they would all do it because they knew that's what they were supposed to do. He said, now he says, you've got to start with loving them. You have to start from a ground of mutual respect with this, with the player. And it's a delicate thing in the process. And it doesn't mean that you're holding hands with them or anything. It just means that you're engaging with them in an honest way.

It's a clear way. And they understand. I mean, they're coming to you for a reason. You know, they're coming out to play a sport for a reason. They're coming to seek me out for a reason. And it just has to be on point. You know, you have to be authentic. You have to be real.

And you have to give them some information. It's going to help them. As long as you're doing that and they can see that you're, you know, that you are, talking about Lee Bailey, you know, that you are what you put. present yourself to be, that begins the formation of the relationship. Now, you know, that, that in a way shows that you care about them. The other thing is, I think, just being present with them, you know, learned a lot from my dad and just to get a feel here, your listeners. He owned a roller rink and among other things. And the people that passed by the rink during the time

that he had it. Just finally remember that time in the rink and talk finally on my father. And I remember asking a young lady, I said, what, you know, what was the deal? And she's talking about a time when she was 13 or 14. And she said, whenever I enter the rink, your dad always acknowledged that I was there. And that's what made her feel good. And just think about the weight of that statement that to some degree, in her life that was filled with family and teachers and friends and everything else,

this was an interaction that stood out to her because somebody acknowledged that she was present. I mean, imagine if we all did that a little bit. How about that? How about that? Yeah, yeah. It's please thank you. And hey, I know you're here and you're a human being. Barry, you know what those things are, right?

There's three words that are attached to those three things. You know I live by it. And they are. Love out loud. There we go. There we go. That's what that is. Barry Thompson,

Fairfax Football Academy. We were talking about the, you know, the coach has to be in the same space that he preaches or practice. He has to practice what he preaches. Yes. And we talk about leadership and we talk about that you have to be worthy of people following you. so juan howard comes to mind right

I mean you you've been down as many good game lines as anybody I know right there's a lot there's a lot to that space right yes what are the rules of engagement isn't there don't we practice how we go down a post game line like we literally drill how to go through a post game line

we all know the internet's undefeated and I thought the funniest thing that came out of that was if he should be mad at anybody for calling a time out, it should be Chris Weber. But there would be a lot of people who don't get that. Right. But I have two different things on this DP, and I guess, you know, that's why you asked me his questions. One is there's multiple rules that he violated, right? Like, one, you don't, you don't react that way. Two, the second guy always get caught, right? We all know that from the time that we're, so the moment that the first coach engaged him.

Right. That's the first thing. I'm not blaming him, but I'm just telling you this. These are the rules of the street. Right. Someone grabs you. Okay, that's the first thing. Now, if you retaliate, you're going to get caught. Everybody knows that. And, you know, he just spun out of control and that. Here's my part that may not be so popular is I don't understand in this day and age, just particularly in team sports, what that shakeup line has, anything to do. do with sportsmanship. You know, I've been on the field with a coach that has a dominant team. They're up 54-0 and they onside kick. You can't tell me that getting in that line after that solves everything. That's bad sportsmanship.

I've also been on the field with a coach with a dominant team who was so disciplined that once the running clock started that he wouldn't run a play that he knew would get three yards, which would allow his kicker, who doesn't kick very much, a chance to come and kick the game. He would refuse to do it. He wasn't going to put up any more points. And then you look here locally in Virginia, there's a school of Madison County. They hadn't been winning for a while, and they were playing a team in which a teammate on the other team had died. After Madison plays the game, they win, and the guys go in the locker room and their celebratory actions, they're playing a lot of loud rap music with a lot of words on it and they're putting it out in video streaming

and they're they're cracking jokes about the dead teammate of the other team now they went through the shake-up line my opinion with the shake-up line and i'm not absolving joan i'm not but i think the best place for a team and coaches to be after an emotionally hard-fought game the best place for them to be is with the team. Yeah. Like we've been in those situations where the game was highly contested or it's a rivalry or the coach talked a little smack or they took cheap shots and those things.

And you and I have walked across the field side by side and pondered out loud, man, it would be really cool to set this right. But we always went back to why are we here? Right. And it's the question that we learned early on. Tell me what day of practice and how many days of practice you spend on slapping a coach in the good game line. Right, right. You don't.

And it's just, I don't know. It's funny when these incidents happen, I think the worst thing in our society, the most dangerous, perilous place to be is when you become an action or word or you become symbolic. of something, right? And so this Duran thing threatens to be symbolic of something. And it's just a bad space to be it. You know, he's had other incidents. It's just, I don't know, D.P. You know, here's something. You know, there was a saying that one time I was working in a Saudi oil investment firm. And the boss at the time was holding me to a high standard. And I kind of questioned him a little bit. And so the way he came back to me, he says, look, if I have an ice cold glass of milk and I take one little hair and I just put the one little hair in the middle of that milk, have I ruined the glass of milk? I said, yeah.

So to some out there, these things may seem small, but there's just certain things in life. If that little hair, just a little tiny hair gets into it, it's a bad deal. And this is one of those things. It was a bad deal. Barry, I want to add you use the term, and it's one of my favorite phrases that you use is distance traveled. And we miss it in sports far too often and evaluating where people are without considering where they came from, where they started from, how they got there, what was achieved in the meanwhile. Give the coaching description of distance traveled and the value in it. Well, it goes back to what I said earlier about the things that I tell parents, right?

And I tell them that, you know, coach, not coach, but that one where I say, you need to be a special cheerleader for your child. You need to be the one who's watching this person transverse. And because when they get in it, when it gets tough, like I said, they'll be stuck emotionally right in that spot. And they won't have the perspective of how far that they've gone. And you need to be there to remind them of that. I tell you, I'm really blessed that way with this quarterback thing because you'd be surprised a number of kids that come to me who play quarterback and they can't throw the football. Yeah.

Or they want to play and they can't play the football. Right. And then just to step up from that, they want to play and they're floating around here. But they literally in my world don't know anything, right? So that's my starting point with them. And I get to remind it all the time over and over again. and I watch them kind of progress through. And I'm always, you know, when I start to see them achieve,

like I have a guy named Daniel Loposki right now. And Danny's probably working on being one of the top passes in the area. He passed for over 3,000 yards and 35 touchdowns, that type of thing. And he's drawn interest, Nebraska. Anyway. Well, did you make the call? Did you send the call? Did you send the tape?

I'll send the tape. Send the tape. I'll send it. You know, they should look at it. Hey, hey, let's do the fun thing, Barry. Now, before you, look, give me, give me size. Give me all the numbers that Nebraska fans need to know. He's, okay, I'll get, I'm unprepared here,

but he's over 3,000 yards passing. He's first team all region. I think he has about 38 total touchdowns. Took his team to the playoffs, and he's just a junior. How tall? Huh? How tall? Dan's about 6-2, probably about 190.

He's pushing that area. three sport athlete above three five going to complete the state championship track meet this Saturday. Oh. And how would he look in red? He would look awesome in red. He can run it. He can run it and he can sling it. Barry, everything you just describe sounds terrible. I don't want him. I know. I know. But here's the point picking up on these journeys. I remember to this day, right, I was just on the field with Danny last line. I remember to this day, I remember to this day, And there's a, it doesn't matter, but it's right behind your score. But when he was in seventh grade and his dad is walking off the field with me and he says, what do you think?

And I said, well, what do you mean? He says, do you think this is going to be worth it? And I looked at him. I said, I have no idea. I said, but is he having fun? He said, yeah. I said, then just as long as he's having fun, he's getting better, let it keep riding out. right let it keep ride now so for me know when this guy achieves thing and it gets its offer which is

probably coming soon um i always draw back to that point so i never forget the journey that these guys transverse and if you've been on the twitter you probably see me intermittently i post this this series of this kid who can't throw and you watch it and progress so you're getting to watch part of his journey too yeah it's fantastic couple of things one thing um that is some tremendous art behind you. Who is the artist? Yes. Yes.

This is Leila May Thompson, LM tweet on Instagram. And this particular painting, believe it or not, she did when she was in sixth grade. And it's just something different. Yeah. No. And if you look at it carefully, the thing that really makes this picture is you see the pastel colors in there. right there are all the you know the blues and the thing but if you look off in the corner there's a little primary color a blue right right in the corner you can see it and we keep it up because um

even though she's doing all this other stuff this sixth grade painting still holds up you know what me you don't look at it she doesn't walk in the house go i can't believe that in sixth grade it's like he's got a couple more pieces around here that that are like that too how how can folks uh see her purchase her art, gawk at her art. Yeah, go to LM tweet. She's heavy on Instagram. LM tweet is the account

and you can just follow her. She's coming out with something called the Empty Chairs series. With the COVID and, you know, when everybody was kind of inside and there were a lot of people at a high rate that were passing, this

idea that there was going to be a lot of empty chairs around tables. and the first one that kind of hit her was when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and so she did a chair, a justice chair of that and then I think she did one for the NBA and I don't know what the other ones

that might have been another con. But anyway, her series is coming out. So yeah, if you like that type of stuff, want to support an artist. And she just does some pretty stuff too. It's not all. And none, nobody else will have

the art that's in your house just for the record. No, not this one. Nobody else will. Hey, B, what are we eating? Well, it's funny. You mentioned, you know, it's funny this morning. I don't want people to think I'm a foodie in terms of like I'm snobby. I just like food that tastes good.

It's so funny that you mentioned Lee this morning because what I did was just something really simple. I went and got some scrapple the other night. Never much. Well, there are a lot of people know what Scrapple is. If you don't, I'm sure you can get it online. Just basic Scrapple. So this morning, right before we got on the air, it was Scrapple,

a little piece of thin slice of provolone cheese, a little mustard, a little hot sauce, and an egg. And it was on a Martin's potato bun. And it was really good. I'll put it on the Twitter feed and tag you guys in it. But it was really simple. And for those of you who have never had Scrapple, you could probably do the same thing with Spam, you know, fried up a little bit. But the thing about Scrapple is when you cook it, it crust on the outside.

And it has a soft kind of flavorful middle. So you get that texture bite, you know, biting through the softness and get a little crunch. So Scrapple, egg and cheese this morning. That's what we're eating. Barry, we had a text. Can we get Barry to do his own daily or weekly show? The answer is yes. if you guys support it.

Sponsor it. Rules of the gate, we have time on the station. We have talent. Sponsor it. Hook that dude up for his time and we'll make it happen. Because in case you haven't figured it out,

this is good for all of us. This is good for all of us. Barry, what a great, great hour you just spent with us. Thank you, my friend. You are appreciated, loved, and respected. Thank you for adding two. Thanks for having me.

All right, that's Barryton. Fairfax Football Academy. You can find him on social media, VAQB8. On Twitter, you can find just type in Barry Thompson at Fairfax Football Academy. He'll come up on all social media. And then his daughter's Lila May Thompson, LM, Tweet. You can see the good art, the good work she's doing. So we'll close out and set up for the captain's show.

Pretty strong show today for Voshaun. We'll talk about that when we come back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 93-7 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.