1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry Thompson (Fairfax Football Academy): March 17th, 10am

Episode Date: March 17, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios, here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery, on 937 The Ticket and The Ticket FM.com. Welcome to one-on-one on St. Patrick's Day. We appreciate you guys hanging out with us. You guys know the deal. You can hit us 42464.

5-685, I'm pretty sure I guess, we'll have time. tons of things for you to speak on, because it's kind of what we do. We'll be at Buffalo Wings and Rings 68th and O all day today, and tomorrow live shows from 11 to 6 both days. The first 64 people in the door get the ping pong balls, and those are ones that if your team makes the final four, you win some pretty cool prize packages that we put together. So those are good.

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beer, basketball sports talk pretty good way. It's been St. Patrick's Day. So we can do that and then of course just remember it is St. Patrick's Day. So there'll be a crossing of dreams and personality types.

Just prepare yourself. We kind of know what this thing is going to be walking into it. There's that. I found one of the songs that I was talking before we bring Barry in. One of the songs I was talking about. And it's Natalie McMaster. And the song is Grandma. And Rico and I have just jammed out to it.

Just, oh. Oh. We are having way too much fun over here. Yeah. So the CD, the complete compilation is called Fits of Passion. And it was put together by Starbucks back in the day, way back. And it's high-spirited Celtic music. Yeah.

Go find it. If there was a chair dancing final four, me and DP would be in the finals. We would be in the championship game. We'd have locked it up. We'd have locked it up just from that. We'd be two one seeds playing for the championship. serious business. There's no joke to that. It is an absolute

jam. Barry would be the other one seat. Oh, there's no question. But I'd take him down. I'd take him down on the final four. I'm sorry, Barry. Barry's got game. Just look. Cherry's got games. Cherry's got games. Cherry's got games. I'm sorry. Barry's got game. So. I take no prisoners. All right. Well, let's bring him in.

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he's 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

him of their goal. 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. Again, we're in, we're in absolutely 100% on fiddles today. Fiddles. That's great. All the way. Listen, we got to start with since the St. Patty's Day, we'd have to start with the Irish

post. May your troubles be less. and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door. Blante. See, see, Barry's got us. Beautiful. He's got us. He's got us covered.

That's the thing about Barry. He's very eclectic. He's always there for the moment. We're looking forward to. So, what's your, what's your, do you have St. Patrick's Day music that makes you move a little more than others? I don't know. We have a couple St. Patrick's Day around. around kind of traditions in my family.

The one is, I think I've mentioned before, the cousins to the leprechauns and that lepercon, Lord, it's called the clericons. And what we did with the kids for a long time, the clericons were kind of arneying devilish, and they would, the lore had it that they would overdrink this kind of thing called potene. And once they were kind of poteined up,

they would head out in the countryside, side and just kind of create a shambles out of everything, let animals out of the tent, throw hay out of the barn, just rearrange different stuff. So with our kids, when they were little, I just go down to the party city and get these little protein mugs and little things. And we would just kind of rearrange things. And that was good for as long as they didn't know what was going on. And then on St. Patrick's Day, you know, obviously a little bit of food, which we'll talk about at the end. And then this St. Patty's Day happened to be when the tournament starts. And so my son and I have a tradition of getting together on the first day, the big day of the tournament and sitting down having a little hamburger and something to, you know, soda pop and some fries.

It's just a little thing that we've always done. And we weren't able to get together today, but I was talking to him on the phone right before we got on. and we're going to hook up tomorrow. So that's St. Patti's Day for me. A little Claricon, this year, a little bit of basketball game with my son. And I don't know, there may be a stout or two in there. They've...

Hey. Everyone was feeling gay. Yes, they were. Hit it. That's all they chose They're right, they're right. Yes. Oh.

Good for the spirit. Good for the spirit. Good for the soul. You know, to be able to do that. So, first of all, how is young Miles, sir? Miles is doing great. They just got back from Puerto Rico. Like I said, when he stopped, he formed a company on new college entertainment.

And so there's about six or seven guys underneath that group. And so they went to Puerto Rico specifically to kind of document the trip and to do some music. They had written a lot of stuff and they're putting it together. Trip was a success. They're back now and they're putting all that stuff together and they're going to release something soon. So he's doing well. He's doing real well. And I look forward to having our hamburger tomorrow.

It's that special day. When you think of March Madness, Barry, what game pops into your head as the kind of standard for March Madness and why this thing matters so much? It's way back. There's a couple. But it goes, the first, as soon as you said, I'm trying to put pops into my mind. Old school, Richmond as a 16th seat, who they upset? Syracuse. Yeah, that one.

John Thompson and the Freddie Brown thing. Just finished listening to John Thompson's story. I came as a shadow, the book that he wrote. And it was actually released just a little bit before he died, about two weeks before he died. So that game stands out. Butler, what they did a few years ago. And then you have all the shiny moment stuff.

you know, whatever you want to put on a reel. So those are the ones for me. Chris Weber's time out. Yeah. Yeah, you went, Jordan's jumper. Jordan's jumper. The internet joke was if he's going to be mad at anybody. Right.

Right. Right. Jordan's jumper. I get about four, five. Yeah, those are the ones for me. Jordan's jumper against Georgetown. One because of the poster, right? We remember the poster of him hitting the jumper.

for ESPN did a thing a few years ago, and they talk about the games that created March Madness. And one that people forget was Georgetown versus Princeton. That's right. John Thompson's JT3, Peter. Right? Yeah, where Princeton gave them the business, right? They kind of hung out for a while.

And I believe... Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, that's when Peterill is still coaching him. Yeah, yeah. It was 50-49 or something along those lines. Right. One point game. Everybody said, well, that may have been when March Madden really kind of took off. I was talking to guys yesterday, and they were asking about my favorite plays in the tournament.

And what I remember are shots, right? Certain shots. And I, like the Bryce Drew shot. Yeah. Where they ran the hook and ladder kind of deal, right? As soon as you say, I can see the pictures. On the right side of the floor, he's going, as we're looking at the screen, he's going from right to left, right in front of his bench, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's through all of that, then it's, it's NC State and Jim Belvana. That was act of a run. But you know what? You know, the shot just locally, right? they really get into it.

There's two local run that remember Reggie and the Miracle, the Georgetown team? Yeah. Reggie wins and that. I remember this is just a local DMV store. I remember being out. There's a place up with Cemetery Road. Deep you probably know these places.

There's a high ad. And he's three places to kind of go. And I remember being so caught up in that game that even though everybody's out, you know, dancing and parties, that they were stopping. and there was just crowds going to the one or two TV things that were on and watching that. And then the George Mason run. I mean, now I'm cutting a small circle, right, where they ran it. And this, in our little area here, there was no place you could go out to that there wasn't a line.

Like all the whole Fairfax City and surrounding areas just dumped out. And every night that they were playing, that was, that was the deal. Well, VCU's run to the final four took it over. Like, we've... Fortunately, we've been lucky being in the DMV because you get Georgetown to get Barlin, you get Virginia's run, you get Georgia Mace's run, VCU's run.

You're getting the, you know, Richmond's upsets. So you got a little bit, you know, Coffin State, UMBC. And we have four in this year, by the way, in the common one. Hey, look, I'm wearing green... I'm wearing green today for the Spartans of Norfolk, state. I've said that. I'm claiming it out loud. I want to get your perspective on a thing that

happens here. And I'm trying to wrap my brain around how it's possible. How is it possible that this thing exists? That Nebraska has never won an NCAA tournament game. Well, you know what? Before you got on the air, I was still trying to figure out who was doing the calculations before the tournament started and said they could come up with 21 wins. season. Who did that calculation? Oh. Do you remember it was a few shows before the tournament started? Yeah. Before the Big Ten.

Yep. They're like, hey, if they get on the run. Yep. I don't know, D.P. You know, it's funny looking at this iteration of them. And, you know, I know there's some local stories going on with the coach getting renewed. And, you know, and it's always in this day and age, you know, whether you're going to get guys back or not. I just think that if they get the.

this group back. They seem to have an understanding, a better understanding of how to play together toward the end, that they should get their first. But never in history. How is it possible never in the history of this program? Are they not able to get folks here and well enough? I mean, think about it. Like Longwood's going to tournament, right? And they're going to, you know, they may not win, but they're getting there. Yeah. With all the teams, didn't have upset. How? I mean, to be fair

with this, I think, just from an outsider's viewpoint, we know back in the day there were football schools and there were basketball schools. Yeah. And then only you know, within the last decade or so, was there an attempt for, quote,

football school to become a basketball? I think Texas is one of the four runners of that, maybe, right? Yeah. Notre Dame always kind of had it going kind of. You know, when Bigger was there and Holton, you know, they kind of had that thing going. But it did seem that these schools

would only shift resources one way or the other. So in Nebraska's defense with who's there now, it seems like they're delivering the resources to a basketball program that would be capable of,

you know, getting to the tournament and getting a run. So the seeds are there. And it's just a matter where they sustain. I think that that streak will end sometimes soon. Let's hope because I'm not sure that I could go through more of what we're gone through. It's spring break. So the football players have gone to their various ports of recreation and recharge.

But I want to ask you how important it is. Like we've talked about Casey Thompson. and we know kind of who he is and what he brings to the table. We've talked about some of the receivers. But what do I, I mean, look, can this team, can this program succeed at the level that it feels it needs to if the line doesn't step up? Like what would be the key to turning around

and creating an offensive line that was successful as a standard? What things do you have to do to make, your line play grow at a high standard? Well, that's a great question. If there's a physical weakness there, a physical weakness that can be fixed, fix it. But good players always make you a better coach. There's just no question about that.

But if weaknesses remain or and or that can't be done, then there has to be a heavy concentration on what do these group of five or seven or eight, what do they do well, or what do they do best, and then get them to do that as well as they can. You know, if it's a limited skill thing, you're going to only hurt everything if you're asking players to do things that they're not capable of doing. And so if the line is weak, fine, can you fix something via recruiting? If you can't, then let's really understand what it is that this group can do.

Not everybody are good at gaps being blocking. Not everybody's good at zone blocking. Not everybody's, you know, they're just not. They're not. And so what is it they do well? let's keep them within that wheelhouse. Let's make rules simple for them and as consistent as possible, right? And it may hurt you in some other area.

But that ability that you can get a group to know what they're seeing, know how to communicate, and know how to react to what they're doing is just, it's key in any position group, really. Is it the lost art of moving large humans at its base? That's base level. I don't know if any O-line coaches doesn't talk about leverage, right? We define leverage as, you know, helmet under helmet, pad under pad, hands, hands, eyes, and feet, right? Right? That's leverage as simple.

I don't know what offensive linemen out there or coach doesn't do it to start there. So, yeah, it's got a large human. But, you know, let's say you can't move somebody. Right? You're sitting down and you're analyzing everything. Hey, there are going to be some people we can't move. So what is it with this group that we can do with the people that we can't move? How do we operate around that?

There's a way. Right? We want to know what the way is. Like, you know, like how simple that is, Barry? Yeah, well, I'm just saying. Like we constantly do this, right? That there is an actual way. The left, the guy, you know, sitting on the outside and,

and, you know, having the pen and, you know, the last guy that has a pin in hand, it's easy to come up with it. But, yeah, the solutions are usually simple, but they're not easy. You know, to be fair to the guys over there really busting their hump and lifting and running and doing all that stuff. Yeah, it is simple, but it's not easy. And so it's really, it's that process of getting there that's everything, right? It's smart people in that building and experienced people.

I know what the heck is going on. Well, how much of the, is identifying what work? hard actually is. And you've got to put air quotes a real working hard. We always say ask a better question, get a better answer, right? So sometimes you can get caught asking the wrong question. And then you

come up with the answers that don't really address the problems. Another little simple saying, I was just talking to another coach. It just comes up so much and that has so many layers to it. It says the old saying that in football there's X's and O's and there's Jimmies and Joe's. Never

draw an X or an O without thinking about a Jimmy or a Joe. The fact that this starts, this is a people business. And you've got to start with the individuals that you have. You have to start from a coaching standpoint, which we've talked about, right, the relationship part of it.

And then in this case, you know, what is it that they can do? What is it that they can't do? Then I'll start throwing up X's and those based on that. You know, versus here, I got this great plan. I got this great system. I have a great plan.

Yeah, a great play. You know, I got a great lesson about that once on from a really outstanding coach here. I had a good fortune to work with him two years, and I'm going to work with him next year. And I came into him with this play. It's a standard NFL play. They call Yankee is a concept. You have a backside post. You have it over.

The back swings out. Just a three-level kind of horizontal stretch type field. And I said, coach, you know, this is a big play. I just think what offensive guy here. And he goes, he took the thing from me. And he goes, let me show you a better play. And what he did was he withdrew the play with the three options being our three best play.

Right. Because that's a better play. Right. You know? That's so good. That is so. Right. Remember?

Okay. So I can make a point here that we had a similar situation in Virginia. and concepts that we'd run mesh concepts. And we had never put those people in place to run said content. And it was funny once you identified who was going to have to do the thing that you were to ask players to do. Like how important that was because there were many times we go, what are we want to run here? And you go, well, it started with we want to run this play. Did it be a bit?

No, I need to get this player. here. And that was when we knew we were in a better place. All right. It's St. Patrick's Day. What are we eating? You know, it's funny. I had coddle, which we talked about before, which is totally Irish. And by the way, for your listeners, there are a lot of people in Ireland who really don't know what corned beef and corned beef is. Right. So Dublin Coddle is a dish. But recently, since I dumped the gun early, I made Pohate de Garbanzo con chorissa, which is, here we go. A lot of good stuff starts off with this. About two tablespoons of olive oil.

Okay. One medium, maybe a large onion in there, let it start to get soft and then throw in a couple clothes of garlic. You let that go, and give about a couple, three, four minutes just to get it soft on medium heat. and then fresh chorizo like Spanish chorizo you want if you can find it you don't want it to cure where you would slice it off

and eat like salami but you let that in there you slice it up some pieces and you let that kind of salt take for a few minutes you also have one large potato and about two and a half cups of you can do the overnight things

but two and a half cups of cooked Robonzo beans as that that onion and garlic and Teresa Mixer gets in. At a certain point, a teaspoon of sweet paprika, not the smoke, not the hot, but just paprika. Stir that in really quickly.

Don't let it go too long because it will burn. You don't want it to burn. And then in-go-the-banzah beans, and go to potatoes. And you put about three cups of chicken broth in there. It's really good. You can use water, but broth would be better. And then a bay leaf or two.

Put the lid on it, turn it up to, turn it up the high, let it boil, put the lid on it, and then turn it down somewhere, let it go for about 20 minutes just until the potatoes get soft. Get a piece of crusty bread. And it is a great stew that we had just the other day. It's potatoes, it's meat and potatoes if you think about it, right? It's onions, potatoes, chorizo, verbanzadine, a little bay leaf, little crusty bread. maybe something cold to drink. It's outstanding.

Everybody's hungry now. Thanks. Okay, B. I'll be waiting for my delivery. Thompson delivers. Thompson eats. We've got to start that. Yeah, it'll work.

We'll get that done. We'll get that done. BT, love your man. Appreciate you. Hey, thanks for having me. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Thank you, kind, sir. That's Barry Thompson, Fairfax Football Academy.

We're going to throw the break. more music to set the mood we'll do that when we come back 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 and the ticketfm.com