1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry Thompson (Fairfax Football Academy): June 9th, 10am

Episode Date: June 9, 2022

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We're talking fan bases. We're talking who I should. I'm in the NFL fan transfer portal officially. I made my announcement yesterday. So Jay Foreman just in the pitch of the world made his bid and said that the Buffalo bills would be very accepting and accommodating. They feel like my talent would fit what they do, who they are. I think he damn near made me a Buffalo Bills fan.

He put it in the work, man. He's crazy. Put in the work. Every other fan base has some work to do. Yeah, that was church. It was church. There was gospel in that. But I have a sneaky suspicion that our next guess may have something to say about that.

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea. With a rollicking song he sweeps along, swaggering boisterously. His face is weather-beaten. He wears a hooded sash, with a silver hat about his head, and a bristling black mustache. He growls as he storms the country, a villain big and bold. And the trees all shake and quiver and quake as he robs them of their gold. The autumn win is a raider, pillaging just for fun.

He'll knock you round and upside down and laugh when he's conquered and won. I'm not sure that that doesn't sell. There's some selling involved there. There's some real pitch to that. Let's bring in Barry Thompson. Let's bring in the coach. B.T. What's happening? What else?

D.P. are you with me? D.P. Are you with me? Hey, with all this stuff, I heard Jack Del Rio apologize. I thought it was all over. You apologize. You're a funny dude. You're a funny. You are a hilarious, hilarious dude.

I just have to say. Let me get to it. I'll do it quick. I didn't hear a jay, but I put my best foot forward. Here we go. Here we go. Get the pins ready. There is no other franchises has an owner who has coached a championship.

and also been the owner of the championship. There's no other owner in the league that's been on the field as a coach and won a championship. That's Al Davis. We've got history there. There's been no other owner that sued the NFL and won, right, for the right for franchises to move. And you get to on the field,

we've got three Super Bowls, and it won for a couple of things, including Ray Lewis, and this is a defense. We might have had more, but we'll leave that there. 28 Hall of Famers. And if you want excitement, I mean, You got the tuck roll play, you got the Holy Roller play, you got the Sea of Hands play. You even have the Heidi game.

And I don't want to mention that dirty reception against Pittsburgh. You got John Madden. Come on. John Madden. Who's more pervasive in the history of football? John, he's a Raider. They hired the first black coach, Archel, first high-ranking female official, Amy Trass. First Latino coach, Tom Flores.

He won a football, by the way. He even hired a former Redskin, Reddy McKinsey, as a general manager. You know, and something that the Raiders do, Al Davis never retired numbers because he didn't want to put any Raider above another Raider. I mean, come on, man. Come on. Come on. Come on. He said, you're all my children.

You're all my children. We've got, in fact, it's poetry. It's in Vegas. It turns out, I'm working on a deal for your N.I.L. money. I'm going to start a Vegas. book club turns out people in Vegas read too. So we get some books sold and get the NIL money.

You know, maybe we can get a flagship of the radar states. I'm talking with some people over there in the personnel department. I'm working on things. I'm working. People in Vegas don't read unless it's up in lights. What are you talking about? No, no, no. There's a population in the body. They read. They don't

come. And by the way, the world comes to Vegas. True. True. What best find a target rich environment to infect them with love of trends and impact the influence and take them home with them spread it out to the end of you'd be like the Johnny Appleseed of this new millennium of bookery I'm just telling you yeah that's where you need to plant yourself um that's it man I got it

and last thing all this uniforms this form this form the Raiders are traditional black and silver that's it man that's all we rock and black and silver is always in fact that's why i've never changed i'm not mad at that the book club thing and then the flagship that everything yeah yeah hey hey hey this ain't show friends it's business on them yeah but your quarterback wears eyeliner but his name is derrick it is your quarterback wears eyeliner who does no no no that that's an experiment that didn't work. Hey, hey, every, every, every team

goes through it, fits and start. I mean, you know, we go down the list. I mean, there's a lot of franchises. We can list a lot of suspect people on the center. We got through it. We got a great leader right now. They're a car.

I mean, this team went through some ups and downs. Head coaching chain, still competitive. They're on the right track. Trout history, proud position. You're located in a brand new splashy stadium. The world can't, they go to Vegas. You got to gamble, go here, and that's that.

You've got to see a Raider game. It's an experience, man. And our fans don't wait for Halloween. True. We don't wait for Halloween. True. You all like to get dressed up every Sunday. Come on, let's get it off.

Barry, I was asked this question on the text line and says, DP, how much NIO money do you need to wear a star on your hat? Star. Yeah. Star. How much money would you take? No, no, no, no. I heard you. No stars, no Eggles, no.

Sorry, get out of here. Here's the reason why the Dallas Cowboys used to scrimmage the Raiders all the time. They knew who was real America's team. Look, with that Lazarus poem about the Statue of Liberty, give me your huddle masses, and so the Raiders did that in football, right? They would take people that other people thought would reject. Al Davis would say, come on in here. They would take things that were broken.

Jim Plunkett was broken. Pull them in, right? Help pulled all these young coaches that nobody wanted to give a chance. He had a tradition of doing that. You pull them in the air and say, hey, let's go make this. And, coach, we got great nicknames. Come on, the store. The two, we got the snake.

Come on, man. I don't. Brett Lickickick. Yeah, there's a lot. Great story. There's a lot to that. There's a lot to that. Dusty says this, Bear,

You just need to say, DP, I need you. The last time you said that, DP said okay and coached with you. Listen, to him, remember how I find on? I said, DP, are you with him? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I didn't hear an answer, DP. He still has to use his other official visits, Barry. Come on.

Official visits. Sometimes you close that deal. Never let him leave. You land at that school, it's got, it's, It's got the campus vibe that you want. It's got the right co-ed mix that you want. I love the coaches. You love the offense that they run.

Talk about the vertical game. You love the uniforms. You love the weight room. You love the meeting room, right? Everything about it, you say, oh, man, this is home. Yeah, this is it. I don't need no more. I'm done.

This is where you know, right? Yeah. He knows the recruit. I'll tell you how great the Raiders are. I don't need to put down other franchises to build the Raiders up. I'm just making the pitch on this is the one. This is a home. See, that's deep.

That's deep. And I'm just saying. You know, if I felt weak about it, I'd be, you know, climbing on to don't do this. I don't have to do that. Well, there's that. There's that. And the Raiders have always been different. Outside the box.

Come on, D.P. This is right. This is hitting you in your bloodstream. Come on now. Well, this is how recruiting is supposed to go. We'll see what happens. He's got to announce his top five. All the mess that you're rejecting about that, what somebody said they call the WTF team now.

Right. All the whole thing. Look, got a progressive owner. Al Davis, here's a great Al Davis story. As the NFL and the NFL were finally, some of the listeners, like the NFL was the, you know, the established and they did it. And the NFL was the upstart. They're just like a lot in a different respect like these springleys are. They're not aiming.

They've learned a lesson. They're not competing in the NFL. But back in the day, there was room to compete against them. So they started up the NFL. They won their franchises. They sold a different brand of football. They had different color balls, different rules, more exciting. And the NFL just ignored them.

And then finally, as they started getting more and more players, recruiting players out of the HBCUs that the NFL wouldn't take and they start filming their roster, it's more diverse. the NFL started to worry about it. And so he finally got to the point where they were competing for the same player. And it was this one game where all the NFL executives, they were determined that this player, I forget who it was, that he was going to go to the NFL and he wasn't going to go to the AFL.

Well, Al caught wind of it. And while all those guys are sitting in the locker and waiting for this dude to walk through and put the heavy pitch on him, Al went out to the field. And right on at the goalpost, he stopped the player, and he signed it to the contract before he went into the locker. Come on, baby. That's the right way. Like, I don't know.

Seal the deal. Yeah, it's going to be crazy. This is going to be nuts. Hey, Barry, we've been through this transfer portal, frantic off-season with college students. And you have the ear and you hear the voices of college students. at almost every level in what they're going through. What are the things, what do they say about the transfer port?

Well, the guys that I'm dealing with, it seems to be more from a practical standpoint. I've had two guys that I work with who have hit the portal and, you know, are transferred out of schools in this age. One was a former quarterback here at Madison High School. He went down to William Mary, converted to a tight school. in and was doing really well. Got on the field in the spring game, got on the field. And, you know, just one of those guys that, you know,

was getting on the field and getting, you know, playing time and all that stuff. But it came down to money for him. And, you know, he thought he put enough in. And they, I think I have the story right, they made it clear that for whatever reason, they weren't going to give him money for this next season. That his status there was going to say. And that kind of forced him to look at something else.

And then, like I said, I think I mentioned it, make sure you're grades are tight, because he's going to land it. He's going to land it, yeah. So he's going to up to hockey and go play tight-in for them. And, you know, the more I see guys kind of what track they're on, the more I can kind of say, okay, you keep going this direction, this is what's going to happen. And he's a guy that I think he eventually stays healthy, not that he's injured, but stays healthy.

He's tracking to a guy that's going to be playing after college somewhere. So that's one. The other one at a quarterback, and it's just an unexplainable kind of situation. He was 18-2 as a starter, everything else. And then for some reason, the coaching situation soured on them, even 18-2 in a conference champion winner, best small college player in the state of Virginia Ward, all-conference, everything. A good guy.

know, you know, I don't know both sides of the story, but in his case, it was like, this is unbearable for me. And so he transferred out once another school and very quickly became not only the starter, but the captain of that team. And he's going to have a great ball. So those are the two that I've seen. The NIL part of it, it seems like most of my guys are still pretty kind of figuring out where they fit in to that. I saw something, it's a well-known. I have a quarterback at Michigan State. And they, it looks like the team banded together to form something called the NIL club, right, where the team is going to present, give digital passes to, you know, people that went behind the scenes, content, stuff like that. And then there's, I guess, there's some type of shared revenue among all the players that are participating in it.

So I've seen that approach from the outside. But most of my guys are, that's where they are. It seems to be a practical thing, you know, get me here because of this, not just because I'm pissed off and that type of thing. So that's the level of my guys are at right now. That's all I can really say. From a distance, I still think this thing has to shake out. It's a little bumpy right now, right?

It seems like it's careening one way. You know, you hear about a million dollars figure early on. Now you don't hear about the guy. Then you hear about people setting this up and they're paying for players to come, right? and then, you know, you have individual guys going out. You have guys transferring because now we're including in our recruiting. I think it's kind of careening from one side to the other, but I think the amplitude of those squirves are going to get narrower and narrower

over the next couple months, next year, so it'll very much become just part of the game. We're talking to Barry Thompson, of course, this hour of sports brought to you by the folks at Ambitional Electric. I want to thank Joe Davis. And what he does for us and allows us to do. Barry, you just mentioned this NIL club, and I'm going to ask you to dive a little deeper because you are a creative thinker. And if Michigan, well, if a program of the Big Ten is being proactive in a thing, we want to be curious about it and lean in. What can, what can be done in that space, based on what you're hearing Michigan State does. Let's go a little bit further.

Repeat what you said about what they're offering at Michigan State. Yeah, I just scanned it. And so, you know, if I miss a detail, but it seems as if the whole team is presenting themselves to an audience. Most likely their warmest audience is their alumni base and their fans of their program. And they're offering, when it said, a limited number of digital passes so that people, their fans can get behind-the-scenes content and so forth. Because I assume their social media team is doing anyway, right? and so now they're going to provide that content to those people that have these, quote, digital passes. And it's a team-oriented thing.

The thing that I like about the shared revenue and the shared approach is that it doesn't divorce the mission of the coaching, which is everything is about the team. So now you're making the NIL about the team, too, and everybody can't. and sharing that revenue. You talk about creativity. We've always said, you know, collective intelligence is way more affected than individual intelligence. So now you've got the collective of those players viewing that. If you're listening to them and feeding back and adjusting the content off of that,

I think you have a greater chance of overall success. And you eliminate what some of the people were worried about this guy, making a ton of money, that guy making a ton of money. Now the team has a best interest in the presentation of the team, how the teams perceive, right? Now everybody has a vested interest in, hey, I don't want to mess up my money, right? I like that approach. And it's an approach that as they win more and more, their fan base is going to go. So it's tied to the result that you want, which is you want a team approaching winning

and presenting themselves in the best life possible, right? And it may even lead to a little bit of players in front of each other if you have somebody that's going off through reservations to, hey, now you're messing with my money. Right. And I like the approach. I like you a lot. I think it's smart. I think for some of it and while the powers that be want to stay away from pay for play, right? They want to stay away from that mentality.

And they also want to stay away from the money as the reason for accountability because there should be other priorities. above your money, there should be on-field things that players hold each other accountable for. But I like the idea of the team concept. Again, if you just put a magic number out there and said 100 players, it makes it easy for you to deal with donations. It makes it easy for you to deal with distribution. It makes it easy for you to deal with the accounting aspect of it because the number is simple. You know what you're getting based on what's in the pool. and it allows people outside of the corporate world

to contribute and get access to some of this information. Absolutely, you can tell exactly where to direct it. And the other thing, when you think about sports teams, there are individuals that pop up from time to time that become kind of iconic, but one of the reasons that they become that is in the main, in the main, especially in football and, you know, in basketball too, it's their team that consistently win.

You brought this up before versus baseball versus other sports. In baseball, you can have a guy. I feel like Tony Gwynn that stands out. Maybe San Diego doesn't do really well, right? But in football, and even in basketball to some extent, yeah, definitely. You have your player that you love, but it's a team. And when you think about in our history, those iconic posters, you know, it's iconic images, whether it's the dream team or whether it's the Bears doing their thing

or going back to that team that's located in the Washington, Maryland, this area, right, their presentation of their linemen and things like that. And so this gives an opportunity, and you go back in the NFL when you way back in the day where these front fours were defined by nicknames like the Purple People Eaters, the Doomsday defense, and all those things. Now, if you're taking that team approach, you know, you're, have an aspect of a team that can really bubble and people latch on to it and they want to send their money. You know what it really reminds me of?

On the internet, there's something called a Patreon. And the Patreon is kind of dedicated to your fans of something. It can be an artist. It can be a guy that produces certain content. And people in the Patreon community will agree to essentially donate. money to that person and, you know, for something. Some is pure donation, but most of the times they're giving you some content, right? And then, you know, there's different levels of it. And I like that, right, because it's tied to the output. What do you want a college team to do?

You want them to be a team. You want them to be competitive. You want them to win. And you want them to behave themselves. And by doing that collective, pushing all the together. It seems like it kills a little of birds with one stuff. Like I said, it's all interesting stuff, and I love the proactive folks, and I love the proactive approach. With order to break, we'll come back. More from Barry Thompson

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