1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry Thompson (Fairfax Football Academy): July 28th, 10am

Episode Date: July 28, 2022

What makes you lean in on a coach at the high collegiate levelAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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In full celebration of the Brotherhood, appreciate this man, love him to death. Let's bring in the coach. Barry Thompson. B.T. Hey! What's happening? Come on, man. Happy birthday, too.

You, a little Stevie won. Did you play a little Stevie today? Not yet. I'm going to have Rico Pulling. Oh, come on, man. If you play Uncle Luke, you have play a little bit. little Stevie one. Yeah, fair is fair. Fair is fair. Because you got to slow it down a little bit after a little bit of

loose. You know, you got to catch your breath. You got to wipe the brow a little bit. You got to catch a little sway. Happy birthday Jesus. Get everybody clapping after the hip, you know, put everything back in place. Oh, yeah, right? All the body parts. Like check, like check them all, right? Like that. I did the check this morning, Barry. I really did. I really did. Okay. All right. Let me, let's talk about it. Let me, let me see what this six zero is all about. Let me see whether I'm feeling that.

He was his rig going to do today. No, it's good stuff, man. It's good stuff. A couple of folks who are. Dawson and Dawson. Oh, Jay, well done. He's just going to stop by and say hi. Happy to be.

We appreciate you, Jay. Yeah. We would enjoy doing his thing. It would be a great day. I'm just letting you know. We are celebrating simplicity. Simplicity, right? It's been.

been it's been a journey. Like I said, today's of the day where, you know, I want to have that conversation with 10-year-old DP, you know, hey man, hey, man, you ain't going to believe this. Right? Yeah. You know, where we have those conversations, I had, you know, I had a conversation in my, in my heart with my mom, you know, hoping that she's proud. Yeah.

You have the conversations. a family. And I can have this conversation with you because you understand it. Yes, I do. That in 1978, actually in 1975 we met as middle school guys. And if we said to each other then that some 40 plus years later, 45 years later, we'd still be hanging out. Link of Nebraska doing, I think.

Yeah. No, I mean, just see when we are in life. Like, I know, yeah, the answer is yes. It's phenomenal. I know that you with the radio station, right, and everything you've done, just me, even coaching. I tell people, you know, they ask me and I said, no, I never thought I would be coaching. I resisted, you know, overtures to coach.

and it's been the biggest surprise of my adult life that this is what I'm doing I never, you talked to me just 20 years ago I said no you're crazy you know what I mean so yeah what is that for training day when they get them out of the bathtub and they go he texts them out

and he goes life can be trippy home right right like he's like oh my goodness man, right? Like, here's, this is, this is a reality. Life can be tricky. It is in a good way.

Yeah. Several of my, several of my favorite pictures are of you and I at various places and points in our life. And it's funny. You go back to the 1979 year book and they're side by side, number 10 and number 26. Right. Right. Right.

Right. In the front row. up front. We had, we had better hair than a cheap. We might have been hugging each other at that. Right. There wasn't many other times. Right.

Yeah, you amen to that. Right. That's what it is. For you, the games that we play and the games that we love and the sports that we coach from purpose and passion and direction, we spent two days in the Big Ten Media Day, and there's some things that I want to talk to you about because they resonate real heavy and strong with me. And I know they do with you, but I want your take because I know that you are aware that you track with Mel Tucker. Oh, okay.

What is it with you that makes you lean in on a coach at the high collegiate level? I think it's just the clarity of when you hear them speak and you kind of whatever you can see of their actions, that there's a clarity of purpose and that it's moving, and we talked about this before. But the sense that these moving in one direction and the discipline that they exert or you feel that they exert, is that they are exerting it for everybody to move in that direction. I think I've called it alignment before. And to be fair, I stole that term, I'd steal it, but I first heard it with Urban Meyer.

And I forget what you think about Urban, but when he took the year off from Florida, and he was doing the ESPN commentator gig, and somebody interviewed him after, and he said, well, what did you do? And he said, what I really did is I went around and I wanted to find out, you know, how these people were sustaining success. And what he found out is that people were so different.

You know, Matt Brown was at Texas at the time. And Chip Kelly, there's that organ. He said they were as different as could be. But what I found out in their program is that everything was aligned. Everything was moving in one direction. And so for me, that's an attractive quality and a coach, where they kind of put things down and they say this is the way it's going to be

and typically as they come in they start on the smallest thing they start on the smallest thing it's just you know we are going to do this this way and they don't skip a step you know and they have urgency because they want you to get to the next one

but you get the film that they don't skip a step we are going to do this this way and those types of things I do lean at all a coach like that. You know, they don't often talk about systems. You know, they don't talk about that. It's more their force of personality, their vision about how this is going to rock and it's going to lead to we're going to go win championships.

That's the other thing. They talk about winning championships, right? They don't talk about winning so much, you know what I mean? But they say the purpose is this is where we're going. We want to be a championship team. And I've been around coaches that were just afraid to even put that, put it on the schedule. You know, I never understood that, right? It's like, then what are we doing here?

Like, if we don't have the attitude, if day one that this is what we're trying to do, then what are we doing? So, yeah. So that, I don't know if I was clear, but. No, it's perfect because that GPS thing is important. It's important. The amplification of purpose and mission is important. You got to say, we're trying to be not just good, great.

Right. We're trying to be the best. And the funny thing happened. So we sat down with the Michigan State guys, and, of course, we sat down with Peyton Thorne. And Jane Reed, he said, listen, 11 and 2 wasn't good enough. And I almost fell back in my chair. I almost fell back in my chair

because there's a lightning bolt moment for me right when Michigan State who was who was terrible they were terrible and hear these kids saying after an 11-2 year and you're the you're the ball game champions and you go wait a minute that's not good enough

like is that and I'll ask it to the right way is when players say that, 11 and 2 is good enough, how does it get sunk that deep? Well, I've probably followed social media a little bit more than you have. Right. People in the Bratcab for, you know, I have a bias reason for father and see how it's going.

Right. And I do have a little bit of insight into what they do. They, it's that. deal that, you know, if you're going to be there, this is, this is the way it's going to be. And it's going to be this way for a reason. And it's not just talk. I know for fact, I think during the winter training month, they brought in some people who were professionals that protect our country. And they ran those guys through a gamut that not only test themselves personally so they can find out where the edge is, but also.

so that they could learn how to depend on each other. Some very purposeful stuff has been done in that program. And you get it to the point where, you know, when the people that aren't about it eliminate themselves, what you're left with is the sweetmeat. After you get all the piss away, right? You carve a watermelon, you get all that stuff. What you're left with is the really, really good stuff.

Right. And so that's what they're left with now. So that's how you get there, right? You don't tolerate nonsense in terms of, you know, you're not about what we're going to be about. And I can tell you that that ownership tends to have levels to it. So there's Peyton who is at the top. But without giving anything away, I've had some conversations where there's ownership that's taking place below that. Go ahead and take it to church.

Let me say that. Go ahead. Go ahead. You give me wild up deep, too. No, no. Look, here's what's funny. In that space, what I love about Big Ten Media Days and those type of events is that you get fed from different places with different nutrition, right? You're not getting the same thing that you get in Lincoln, that you get in Columbus, that you get in East Lansing, that you get in now Los Angeles, that you get.

in college park, Maryland, or college, it's just, or Happy Valley. Each space provides its own. And the folks from East Lansing were talking about your guy. Like, they were curious about your guy. And then when Mel Tucker slaps you on the back and gives you the look like, yeah, man, he's one. He's one. It's how this stuff happens.

Nebraska's sitting dead set in a quarterback situation, air quotes, where you aren't saying who's the one, you aren't saying who's the two or the three, not in full, right? You're whispering about it. But I'm looking for the leadership to say, here's the standard. Right.

I want to know the standards. So give me, Barry, Big Ten starting quarterback standard. If you want to win a change, he's got to be a monster. He just has to be a monster. A monster in terms of, and I've said it's, I know some of your listeners probably can say what I, you know, probably repeat, but he's just got to be a monster about all the requirements of his job. and then he has to be the right person. Right?

So he has to be a good person who you're watching every day just consume the, voraciously, the requirements of his job that to know everything to put forth maximum effort to perform and execute consistently, who has the ability to do that on a consistent level. A guy that sets the standards for himself as high, that outworks. Everybody else is there. And not just hard, but intelligently outworks. He's always prepared. He's always ready to go. And then he turns around and he does in a way that he wants to pull people with them. Not just a selfish motivation. Although some selfishness is involved in that being that good. But it's a selfishness that is driven because I want all of you guys to experience the success.

And I need you to come with me. And I need you to be about this, right? And as long as you're about this, I'll put my arms around you from a football standpoint. Yeah. Right? And, you know, and if you're not that guy, you know, I'm not going to hate you, but you just can't be involved in this football stuff with me. And by the way, I'm really about this football stuff.

Right. You got me? The best phrase I ever heard about it was Coach Withers, who came from Ohio State, was at DMU. I think he's down in Texas and with Texas something. But he got there on the field down in Harrisonburg, and he was admonishing the players. And he told him, he said, you are professional at student athletes. Because you're not here for anything else. You're a professional student athletes.

And so whether a coach articulates that to the players or whether the players kind of understand that that's why they're done. there at that school and they're getting their education paid for, it is a fact of light that you are being paid to be a professional student athlete. Those are the priorities. And when you get a group of guys that understand that, and the coach that wants to leave them somewhere, let's get me up, baby. Hey, we need to do four segments today. We're going to throw it to break.

We'll come back. There's a thing that happened in Pittsburgh with Ben Rossenberg. I want to talk to you about that. falls in line with what we were just talking about. That's Barry Thompson. This is brought to you by Ambition Electric. We want to thank folks from Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. More one-on-one.

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