1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry talks about Prep School vs Reclassifying: May 26th, 10:15am

Episode Date: May 26, 2022

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You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Presented by Beatrice Bakery on 937 the Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back to the very tops of an hour here on 937 of the Ticket. Brought to you by Ambition Electric. We were talking about, you know, the reclassification and the kind of rejoining of a replacement. Replacement is probably a good way to say it. The question was, if you have a junior or senior in high school, does a year in prep school do the same thing as reclassification, Barry? You have familiarity with this as well.

Right. You know, I think that's a great question. Parents sometimes midstream will worry about the reclassing the kids find. They don't understand that there's another way to get a fifth year, which is there are programs out there that have what they call PG or post-grad programs. And you can get your fifth year that way. Now, the one thing that everybody has to understand is if you're a Division III player and you go to a Post-Grab program, that's not going to make you a Division I player. It might.

Depends on what you do with it. Yeah, it depends on you're there. It can happen. But that – and understand that post-grab program. programs have changed. It used to be that it was solely for kids that needed to get their grades in order and that was a year in which

they got that done. There are pro-scad programs out there now that you can go into and as long as you're academically straight at the end of the football season, you can leave. So, when you look at that process, that's really

not a bad option. Because if your grades are good, you're looking at just literally another football season and that gives you a little extra time to get to wherever you need to go. I think it's useful in the case that, let's say, a kid is some type of tweener, right? And for whatever reason, you know, he needs time to contact schools, to let him know he's there, to get another set of film, another role for himself. And, you know, you have coaches there that, you know, recruiters can rely on, right?

That's always important in recruiting. parents, maybe some people underestimate that. One of the biggest things in recruiting is independent third verification of anything about a player. And it can come from, that's why head coaches are always involved in the process. That's an independent third-party verification. If you go to a well-known event and you post times in that, you know, people can kind of rely on those times. So any time you get that independent third-party verification, that helps a college coach feel kind of assured about his gut feeling.

If a young person has the physical tools but needs the academic work, people will request or kind of suggest, hey, reclassifier prep school, Juko, if a player has the academics and they need to work on the physical aspect of it, why wouldn't it be the same response? I don't know why it wouldn't be the same response. D.P. You have a tendency of being logical. And as we frequently say common sense isn't a flower that grows in everybody's garden. Right.

Yeah, it just is. And so, you know, but when this whole recruiting thing, just the better, the clearer that, here's what I talk to players about. going first thing is going on to playing college is not about any particular division it just isn't it's about and it should be about whether you think it is or not it is about it's about four more years to play a game that you love and four more years you use that platform to get to the next stage of their life that's what that's about or even two years right yeah and so if you don't understand that, that's still half, you may finish the two or the four and the, you know, pocket

out and you said, oh, I didn't understand it, but that's what it's about. The other thing that people have to realize when they're pursuing this, there are only 6% of the kids in this nation that are going to go on to play college football. There are six levels of college football. Let me slow that down. Six percent are going to go play college, and there's six levels of college. If you do the math out there, that's about 1% for every level. So not every peg is going to fit into every hole. And people spend their wheels a lot of time going to the wrong place. They go to a seafood restaurant. They want a good hamburger. No, you have to go to a hamburger to put a few hamburg. You know what I mean? You've got to go to the right place. And the right place is,

what level are you at? And you say, well, okay, how do I know? Easy. The eyeball test. Open up any roster. Go to your position. If you see your height and weight at that position, then you can go there. If you don't, then you need to go find another roster where your height and weight is there.

Andrew Greets. Yeah, and that's where it starts if you're not being recruited. Now, it does not mean that you look at, you know, state U and you don't see your height and weight, but you're bound to determine that you're going to do whatever it takes to be a member of state U. That's a different mission. Go be an expert to how that happens. But if you want to get recruited, then you've got to find the roster that has the heightened weight of the position you play. Why?

because that means that they're looking for players, your height and weight, right? If you're 5'10 and you're a heck of a defensive line and you weigh 220 pounds and you destroy every block in the world, go look at an FBS roster. You will not find your height and weight on there. But you go to Division 2, Division 3, you will find your height and weight roster. So now it's up to you.

You can bang your head and go that camp, right, where they're looking for 6-5-2-80, and you're 5-10-2-20. Or you can go to the other camp where they're looking for 5-10-2-20, hey, we can work with that, and you're going to get some lungs. It's up to you.

And you've got to remember that no matter what level it is, you're going to be one of only 6%. I tell my guys, look, if 100 of us roll up to a nightclub, and only six of us get in and 94 on the outside, when I come out of the club nobody in the 94

can tell me hey where did you sit and I said well I was on the floor oh you didn't get in the VIP lounge I'm like dude you didn't get in the door right

I was at least inside they know my face you know my name they saw the ID yeah they know my name that's right and the club's called college football even guys to get

let me finish 12 deep even college to go to small schools I said look you go to a school called Hooniotto or West, you know, Tree Lim, you. And, you know, somebody rose up and says, do you play college football? You go, yeah.

You know, where do you play? West Tree Lim, you. And go, I don't know where that is. And in my head, I'm going to, because you don't play college football. You know what I mean? It's like you've got to start understanding what that is. This is from youth, you know, flag, contact, right through middle school, through high school.

And there's 6% at the end that are going to be college football players. And you should be proud of that, no matter where. where you fit into that scheme. And you better understand that a lot of that 6% are coming from 1% of the schools. And there's that whole other part. We'll throw it to break. Barry, ponder this over the break. The difference between Juko, prep, and reclassification.

We will. Yeah, we'll dive into that pool when we come back to Barry Thompson here on 937 a ticket. Download our app by searching 93.7 the ticket in your app store. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 the Ticket in the Ticketfm.com.