1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry Thompson - Farfax Football Academy: March 3rd, 10:25am

Episode Date: March 3, 2022

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You're listening to One-on-One with DP. Presented by Beatrice Bakery on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back to one-on-one. We've got Fairfax Football Academy, Barry Thompson, with us breaking down. He's live and Indy, working with quarterbacks and kind of witnessing the process up close and personal. And it's been informative, kind of the process for folks who won't get their experience. this thing, maybe figure out what they need to know about this.

And Barry, kind of sure, we had an opportunity to sit with Mickey Joseph. Yeah. And your name came up, and we started talking about DC and the DMV and quarterbacks and receivers in that space. And he's aware,

and we were just kind of pushing us things. We talked a little bit about Baltimore, but we talked about North Virginia and about D.C. in general. The caliber of quarterbacks and receivers in D.C., are they Nebraska friendly? Yes. There are guys here that are worth taking a look at. Listen, you know this, and I know Mickey knows Southwest Louisiana where their receivers are. Alasahuas, he knows where to go.

But yes, there are quarterbacks in northern Virginia who are definitely Big Ten guys. At saying that, it kind of hurts me because I know in the state of Virginia in that DMV area, Maryland, UVA, or Tech ever did the Miami thing where they drew a ring around that circle and said nobody's getting now. The volume of quality players that the Big Ten is taken from our area, if we went back, it's

lifting. And they've done it. They've done it consistently. And I don't know why Nebraska isn't doing it consistently. There's guys here worth taking a look at. I told you about Daniel Loposki. You know, the last time we're on, I think he's a guy that he should be on a lot of people's radar.

He can play the position. You can, you know, do whatever you want, but you need to look at them. You know, and there's some other guys that are coming along. I'll be able to put my name on it pretty soon. But, yeah, they're here and they're worth looking at. So what we found out is that, you know, in the future, there may be an opportunity for us to all get together in D.C. And talk about some dudes. Okay, it will be great.

Yeah, that in play, right? That in play. Several things about this when you're talking about quarterbacks and receivers. And again, this is for high school quarterbacks, youth, little league quarterbacks, college quarterbacks, to kind of understand where they are, how to get to where they want to get to. And it's helpful to parents who are listening, who have young players, who aren't quite sure how to maneuver within this. space. They don't know how to get recruited. They don't know what's required. They think, you know, put together a video of them, you know, making 10 throws for touchdowns, but it doesn't help

them get what they want to get. So let's get into the, to what matters. What are recruiters looking for? Like, what should a tape look like? All right. Well, let's start with the other By the way, I just thought there's a very sexy receiver that Mickey needs to get his eyes on. I'll give you the name. His name is up. Galen Walker. We're all for that. I'll text you.

Yes. Yeah, he needs to take a look at. Anyway, I'm not an expert on recruiting, but at this quarterback thing, I've gotten pretty good at understanding, like, what's not working, right? That type of thing. And so what I'm about to say is based solely on the, and, I tell almost until my quarterback's their beta. I'm only going to give you advice on how to get your recruiting starting.

And the jumping off point from that is, are you being recruiting right now? If the young person says no, then I said, okay, you can keep doing whatever you've been doing, or maybe you can try something different. Okay, I'll try something different. I say, here's what I suggest that you do. There are six levels of college football, six. and only about 6% of high school football players go on the play, do the math. Six level, 6%.

So if you're not being recruited by an FBS, SCS school, then you need to understand which of the other four levels would be looking for a person like you. Now, how do you figure that out? You get on the Google machine and you go to d3.com or you go to d2.com or you go to SCF, whatever it is, and you pull up all those schools, and you start going through in the quarterback position, their roster. And if you see on their roster that it's 632, 6, 4, 215, and you are 511, 180,

then what you have to understand is that they are not looking for you. I'm not saying you can't play there, but they're saying they're not looking for you. They're looking for the guys on the roster. So if you want to get started, keep going. keep going until you find a roster regardless of the level if you're 511 180 that you see a guy who's 6 feet tall and he weighs 190 okay send your stuff to death school and go find another one and send yourself to death school and find some more and send yourself to death school right and keep looking for those where you physically see yourself on the roster and send yourself there eventually you're going to get a response because why because there's there's simply looking for a guy like you. And why hadn't they contact you? They don't have

Pornhasker money. They don't have Ohio State money. They can't afford to send some guy into your air drive around to the high school and explain to you where eastern Kentucky is, right, and then hope that you'll get

on campus. So you're going to have to initiate them to express an interest. You're going to have to convince them that you play. And then that's how it gets started. That's that's it. Now, the most basic thing is that if you're out there and you want to play in college, set the correct standard for yourself. And the easiest standard is that work as hard as you can to be the best player at your high school. The best play. If you are the best player at your high school, there should be no question that you're going to go to college. The question is

where? And so for the quarterback, that's what I do with them to get them started. And once you get into that coaching realm, you just never know how coaches move or, you know, however that all works out, right? You know, a guy happened to Miles. He, you know, he was an FBS kid, Army, and a couple other schools offered him. And he was at this one thing. And this coach from actually Washington League, coach Division III school.

And, you know, Miles, very nice to him and talked and said, yeah, but I'm really interested in this. blah, blah, and they parted it ways. Well, the next year, that coach was on the UPenn staff or Mousel. You know what I mean? So it's like that once you get in there and people start talking about you, you don't know. Whereas I'll tell another quick time story. I always tell people one time it was Edwin's final year at F8 College in Lewiston, Maine, as a division three coach. So next year, he was an outfielder coach and recruiting coordinator for Duke.

one year, it was his final year as head coached at East of Kentucky. The next year he's head coached at Georgetown. You know what I mean? So it's like just get in there, find the schools that are looking for you. And the best thing about this BP

is for me is when I send a kid on that search and he runs across Juniata or he sees Washington, Jefferson, he doesn't even know where it is, now I push him a little bit more. you know, go in, you find the coach's bio, what kind of system you want? Because when you talk to him, don't be the regular guy, right? Be the guy who's looked at his bio and asked him, hey, coach, I saw you played at Pomona or, you know, I see two years staff that they all play the Pomona.

Tell me a little bit about that. It's a different conversation. And what it does from a college standpoint is it's forcing them to do some things that their parents are on them to do anyway. I went to school. Do you want to be there? You know, how many girls are there? How far are you away from home? You want to be that far away from mom.

Can your parents see the game? Can you get home? Right? That type of thing. Do you think you're going to play? Do you want to play? Do you want to play? Do you think you're going to play?

Yeah, they'll have you on the team. But do you think you're going to play? Or you're taking this other route. Are you willing to sit behind? You know, my upper level guys, right? All right, look at the quarterback room. Who's in there? Right?

What's the packing order? what's going on? You know, are you ready to fight through that? Yeah, are you going to challenge that dude? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yes, that's the simplest thing. At any level, you've got to understand which schools might be looking for you and which aren't,

if you're not being recruited, right? And you may want to play for, you know, Nebraska or whatever. Okay, if that's your dream, then go make that happen. become an expert on how a 6-1, 250-pound guy played defensive end in Nebraska. Be an expert at it. Find out how that happened. Don't sit around, wait for them,

because they're not going to come looking for you. You've got to go make that one happen. Yeah, they can't see everybody, as much as they'd like to believe that they can't, or that they try to, they can't see everybody. Barry from the text line, going back to a thing that you spoke about that, the player who acknowledges yes, no, I know, I don't know. But here's the text.

In my experience from various coaches, if a kid says they don't know a play or they don't understand, they get ridiculed by the coach. The coach gets angry with them and the kid is humiliated. So it's no surprise that they won't admit they don't know something. What's the bridge to that? We know it very well. What's the what? What's the bridge to getting kids past that humiliated feeling? That's the coach.

Well, first of all, you don't know. They're so humiliate them. Right. I think what that texture is conveying is real. But I think it's important before you yell at a player to really set the standards and the expectations for them to know it. Then if they haven't done those things, then you can hold them accountable for not doing the things, not the information, right? Because people process differently. So I'll give a quick example.

then the fall at Centerville, I had the receivers come in because we're doing stuff with the passing games. And so the first time they showed up, they didn't have any notebooks. And I said, go back to your lockers. They'll ever show up the meeting with me without your notebooks. Right. And then we went over some stuff. And then I had an app.

I said the stuff that we just went over, I'm going to put in the app you all. And I get to see who's looking at it and who's not. I expect you to know these things tomorrow. And if you have a question, hit me up tonight. Hit me up tonight. So knowing that they would all learn different speed, I wanted to set the standard that you're to watch it, you're to write it down, I'm going to give it to you visually,

you're to study it, and you were to ask questions. Now, if you come to the field next day and you screw it up, I'm going to get on you, and I'm going to find out, I'm going to go back and check my stuff, you know, which one of these things you didn't do. so I'm going to get mad at you for not doing the things that I asked you to do. Not so mad at because you couldn't exactly remember the play. Now, after a period of time, I'm holding you accountable for the play.

But yeah, I think it's important to set the expectations. We talked about this last time, right, the foundation. This is how this is going to go. This is what you need to do. If you do those things, okay, and you have a little trouble. I'll work with you on that. Let's find out what the problem is. but if you're not doing the things that you can control

and I've asked you to do them, then we've got a problem. We've been in the same huddle. Like we understand. Listen, if it's something that I've taught you and something you acknowledge that you knew, I'll just look at you and say,

okay, do I need to reteach it? Like, I'm not asking you if you know or not. I'm going to reteach it. Like the moment you tell me you don't know, I got coaching to do. That's simple. And I don't know how that gets blown up, but we know that it happens because we've seen it and had to fix it ourselves. BT, it's Indy.

What are you eating? Man, Indy, low-key is a really good food town. I don't know if I had any expectations to come to Indianapolis at all. I didn't. But low-key is a great food town. this breakfast place had here called pachachut. I just found it and said one of the best preferences. So it has everything that you'd want like in a nice little place.

You know, it's got eggs and, you know, all that stuff. They got almonds and all stuff. But there were a couple of dishes that they come aside. One was called the Cuban. And it was the rice and beans. And sometimes when you go and get those in a non-Latin place, they can be a little flavorless. Right.

right but there's a thing called adobe so there's just a touch of adobe on there there was some type of cheese i had an egg over easy and then um uh they're a little bit of sour cream that kind of make it pretty but the star of the dish surprise them was this spinach jalapeno pesto and i'm not a big pesto guy but that spinach jalapeno presto it really it really worked uh because Pusters and a heavy new cheese. It's just a fantastic dish. Went to a place called Slatfish, great oysters in Indianapolis. Yeah. Six different varieties in Indianapolis, right?

Yeah. Their thing is fresh off the ice. Really great. Little spot called Mass Avenue. Oldest shoe store in the world amidst like five or six of these little spots, right? You go and I was there early for dinner. And you know, you can be in a spot and you can feel that night vile. start to come in, right, the volume picks up and, you know, those types of things.

Yeah, really, really nice. A lot of stuff around here. Really surprised. And I don't know if you'd say any of the destination point, but I tell you a town to come in and kick it around a little bit. It's pretty cool. We had a hotel on the canal. Got hooked up pretty nice there.

It's been a fun visit. Oh, D.B., you've got two minutes? Yeah. This one, if you and I, I was going on this road and I see this big dinosaur on the corner like, you know, molded type of thing and it's a building. And it turns out it's something called a Dinosphere. So it's a children's museum. And so I'm looking at it.

That's pretty cool. And I go right past those. It has a corner presentation on the street and then as you go down, you can see the entrance to it, a kind of playful entrance for D.P. Right next to it, like smacked up against it. It's something called the Sports Legends. experience. Now, I couldn't get in because there was a fence around it, but they had these different basketball courts, like, you know, pastoral stuff, and there was little stands, and then there was a football turf deal with cult stuff on it, and then there was a hockey, there was a hockey thing.

They had a little section that imitated like drag racing. There was a track that went around. There was a baseball diamond. There was a tree house. There was a concession stand. And I was at that sense trying to get a look at this thing and I thought to myself, if I lived here, they would have to, when I was younger, they would have to electrify that fence. Yeah. But, no doubt. No doubt. But that would only keep me out until my tunnel was finished, you know what I?

Right. Like, this is, this has to happen. Like, you've got to be in there. Oh, my God. You've got to get in. I think they opened up myself. They opened a little bit after I leave. But, yeah, so Indianapolis, you know.

just kind of full of those little surprises I told you about for the women's tournament. I was going to meet with the CEO of my payment platform, upper hand, and I look and I see cornhuskers. I go, what, you know, Kevin tells me, he says, well, when teams come in like the ladies' tournaments, they take certain street signs and they make them the names of the teams that are coming. Yeah. Right? Yeah. That little thing, we're walking on the sidewalk there, and I'm noticing that these bricks, like, just randomly have names.

on them. A little small town touch and I go, what's up with these things and goes, well, those are veterans that are from Indiana that have died. Like all these little touches in this little place. Really kind of cool place. A couple of places, the Indies townhouse in Indy is a Husker's bar. A house bar and grill is a Husker bar. The guy was telling me that before. They've got a a Rocky Mountain Husker Bender's bar or something. There's like three or four places where the Huskers can rally and get together and watch ball games. Hey, BT, man, listen. Love you, appreciate you.

Good stuff today. Pat Young, Mr. Meyer, on the back and say, well done. And then we'll talk next week. All right, Matt, talk to you soon. Bye-bye. Barry Thompson, Fairfax Football Academy. We'll throw the break. Close out one-on-one.

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