1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - January 21st: 10am - Priscilla Joseph joins the show

Episode Date: January 21, 2022

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Let's welcome to Lincoln. Let's welcome to the family. Mama Joseph, Priscilla Joseph, joins us. How are you? Call. I mean, I was expecting the cold. I was, but it kind of just hits you in the face sometimes. Yeah.

See, I'm not from here either. So I'm originally from D.C. Okay. So, which is kind of the flat line. But yeah, this is when it gets cold. So you guys kind of get the cold, but not like. We get that cold. But I also lived in Utah.

So I'm originally from Arizona, though. So. But I lived in the South from like, we've lived in the South for the last nine years. And then I born and raised from Arizona. So the heat is kind of all I've ever known. And I'm like, oh, you know, whenever I have the chance to live in the cold, I'm going to live there and enjoy it. You'll get some heat. You'll get some heat here.

And folks will let you know about it. Like, you this, if you haven't learned anything about Husker Nation, they will give you information. that they think you need. Oh, no. That is very true. They give me all the information I need. Let me tell you. And I'm here for it.

I need it. Well, that's the beautiful part of this. And in fair disclosure, like I reached out, Patil and I said, listen, you need to do your own show. There needs to be a coach's wife's show. Like, that has to happen. Because there are so many different stories

in different facets, different advantages, that you have, to this level of college football. Absolutely. That the average fan doesn't get. Like, you've had to pack up. I don't know if the fans are ready to know what my life is like, though. Well, but my thing is let's give it a shot.

I'm willing to give it a shot. Let's do it. Yeah, because there's so much to it. So first of all, so you said you're from Arizona. What part? And then how do you and Mickey intersect? Okay, so I'm originally from Arizona. Chandler, Arizona, if you're not from Arizona or even know Phoenix is kind of base.

And then from there, I moved, went to school in Vegas for a couple years, moved back to Arizona, and then I went to Oklahoma, and that's where I met Mickey while he was coaching at Langston University. So through that, there are folks who understand that if you're going to cross into an athlete's life or a coach's life, it's not standard. Like there's, it's unusual circumstances all the time. 100%. Did you knowingly jump into this situation? Did you know what you were getting into?

So I've been acting my entire life. Like, I've known nothing but athletics since I could walk. Okay. Like the second I could walk, my dad put a bat in my hand. I'm a softball player. I played collegiately. and I play professionally for the Mexico national team. Okay.

I coached before I had my daughter. Okay. And so I know the coaching life. I know what it entails to be a coach. I know the hours. I know the dedication. And once you're in, it's a calling. It's not a choice.

Like people don't just wake up one day and say, oh, I want to be a coach. It's something that you're born with. Like, that's God's calling. And it's really more of like a ministry when people are like, oh, you're supposed to be a pastor. Like, I can tell you this, we believe our daughter will be a pastor. She has the calling for it. I mean, the girl's six years old and she can pray on anybody. If you know, you know, you know.

Okay. So that's the thing. So when it comes to coaching, coaching is a calling. and if you and it and here's the thing as a coach's wife either you get it or you don't yeah um that is an absolute truth um having coached all over the country uh there's a lot of expectation there's a lot of things that have to happen so let's talk about you as an athlete okay all right softball player high level what position describe scout yourself uh catcher and i hit bombs That's about it

Perfect That's all we need I got an arm And I did my investigating And I know my husband has a decent arm So I'm banking on my daughter To have a phenomenal arm Who has the better arm between you and Mickey?

Accuracy-wise Yeah Me Okay 100% Okay He's gonna say other wife You know she put the caveat

Accuracy-wise But what she really wanted to say as soon as you said that was, of course me. You can see it. You can see it and she was like, what kind of question is that? I mean, women are, we're perfectionists, right?

So. Are you saying your husband is it a perfectionist? Oh, no. I mean, he probably is more, more so than me now. Okay, okay, okay, okay. The man won't sleep until he gets what he wants.

That's, see, that's the part, like you have to facilitate an entire life and existence. knowing that there is a huge amount of weight on his shoulders. Yes. But also that you are carrying the bread at home. Like this is, that's usually how this thing works. And I would imagine it's pretty helpful that you've gone through it so you kind of understand it.

Is there any interest in you coaching here? So initially, yes. when at the end of LSU's football season, actually about midway point, I told them we're about to have a two-year-old. And when I met him, so he kind of knows when I met him, I told him I told him I'm, as much as I love being a housewife, a stay-at-home mother to our children, I also know that I have the calling to be a coach. Um, my last coaching job, I coached at Gremlin State University and then I was, um, the interim head coach at

Alcorn, Alcorn State. Okay. So to say the least that I want to get back. But I also, we believe that we didn't want other people raising our children. And because we don't live and we don't really get to pick where we live, um, we don't have that like family community. Now here's the thing. My mom is literally the goat.

Okay. Okay. She has been with us for every of our seven moves. So right now she's actually at home with the kids. So if it wasn't for her, we wouldn't be able to do as much as we can. And we're able to. But yes, to answer your question, I do want to get back. But first comes first, like I told you, I need to get our house.

I need to get our kids situation. and our daughter's having a somewhat difficult time in the transition. She's loving every bit of it, but it's still overwhelming at times. I mean, yeah, she's losing friends. She's like that space, that comfort of that. What's the biggest issue in the transition? I think losing friends and starting, but she's also, she's another Mickey Joseph. She walks into a room and she takes over the room.

That's not a bad thing. No. And I don't think she knows that yet, though. I don't think that she knows that she has that personality. Like, I mean, she could walk in here and I'm out of the question. Like, the whole interview is going to go to her instead of towards me. Well, that's an interview that needs to happen. That wouldn't be a problem. Right? All right. Mom and daughter. Just to have, like, the family Joseph, that, that should happen. And let me tell you, at LSU, I was Mickey Joseph's wife. or Melania's mom. I wasn't, oh, hey, you're Priscilla Joseph. It's one of those.

I at least have my identity back, which I'm really happy about. But there it was like, oh, you're Melania's mom. I'm like, yeah. Oh, you're Mickey's wife, yeah. And like on the field when we do pregame, people are like, hey, I saw your daughter like, Melania, way over there. I'm like, yeah, they're like, you're not worried? I'm like, listen, there's not one person on this entire field

that doesn't know who she is. and if you don't know her, she's going to make sure you do. Who does that remind you of? Well, well, but this is, this is why, again, watching from a distance and saying, okay, you are firmly, fully, loudly embracing Lincoln, like this whole process. A lot of people would tiptoe into this space, right? Like, let me just lay low and figure out. And that's what Mickey wanted me to do.

Right, lay low. What, that's another conversation. That is. That's another conversation. Absolutely. that some people would lay low and say, let me figure this out. But some people have to be so authentically in who they are that it becomes impressive. So I said, well, listen, you asked Husker Nation to embrace you.

They did. They came running. And I said, okay, then let's facilitate that. Let's give you a space where you can come in and talk to them directly. Like, this is a thing. You can bring on Mickey and you guys can work stuff out on it. bring your daughter and showcase. But also it's like, so we have the text line that tells us and Pekin Pye's,

he's a friend to the show. He has a daughter that, as a matter of fact, his daughter is a catcher. Pretty high-level catcher at Pius 10th. And she says, well, they need a great softball coach. Let's go. Let's do it. I was thinking more private lessons, but hey, let's do it. She's a catcher.

She's a catcher. She's actually a catcher. So I think that might be one that might need to happen. You talked about seven moves. Go through the progression and procession to Lincoln. Let's see. I mean, we started at NAA and then we went to HBCUs. We were at Allcorn and then Gremlin.

And then from there we were at Tech and then LSU. Now, we did several moves at LSU. Just the housing market is not the best. It's an interesting place. Yes. And as a coach's wife, considering Mickey's background and his family, it's a football family, right? So you got Vance Joseph, you got Terry Joseph, and now you got Sammy Joseph. They're all in it.

Vance and Terry have been, you know, in this for a long run. And we take advice from them as far as, and more so me talking to their wives. What? Because we're the ones that do everything. Listen, this was the first house Mickey Salson, like, that we've ever moved into. that he saw before we actually moved into. See, that's a common thing. And some people will refer to the coaching life as a gypsy life

that you have to be able to pick up and move. You like to believe you're settled into a place, but you're never really settled in. The very few people get the Tom and Nancy Osborne experience of being in a place and then just staying there. That rarely happens. Well, we were at LSU for five years, so that already is unheard of now

because we know one or two years is kind of like the deal, which is I have my own feelings about that. Well, that's the question, right? Because you have to, so we're talking to Priscilla Joseph. That's Mickey Joseph's wife. Again, softball player, coach, so this whole thing. But the engagement part of it, that you're able to ask people here, the things that you need to know openly, honestly, which is different because a lot of folks in this space, they try to lay low.

I'm impressed by the fact that you have this thing in order. It's not easy. So the move in, all of that stuff, the house hunting here in Lincoln, I went through that two years ago. I kind of understand the process. It's not easy. It's not fun.

So you said this is the first one. the house he saw before you actually moved in. Yes. What's the normal process? So you're at LSU, rumbling, phone calls, emails, texts. Lincoln may be an option. What are your thoughts? When do you become active in the process?

Is it, hey, I got an offer. Hey, I'm going to get an offer. Or once the offer is in place, then let's go. How do you process this stuff? Okay, so before, it was kind of, I, before I used to like knowing every single action. When if you received a phone call, if you received a text, I wanted, but now with kids, it just created more of anxiety for me. So now I tell him not to tell me unless it's like our agent, we're negotiating, okay,

where it's like you're on the phone, you're talking to head coach or OC or, you know, whoever. And that's just, it's, it's really been a process, but at the same time, like, we, we lived at LSU in a hotel for two, two and a half months. So with that, when we left Louisiana Tech, we picked up, we moved pretty much, people like to say, like, y'all picked up and moved overnight and didn't say your goodbyes and all that stuff. And the great thing about today is, like, you have like social media, so you still stay in touch. And it's not that we don't want to say goodbye. It just, it's hard. It's, it's not something that coaches wives like to talk about is you don't like saying goodbye. And in all reality, the coaching circle is extremely small. So like, the more places that

we've been at, like, you meet somebody and they're like, oh, you know such and such. I'm like, yeah, yeah, we were with them at, you know, such and such school and all that stuff. So you come to realize that this carousel is not very big, which makes it easy and stuff. Like, so like when you, when you mentioned that I embraced the whole situation now and asked Husker fans for a lot of info and help, I mean, I could have gone to Laura Bush, right? Because we were with them for two years at LSU. But knowing, like Mickey was here and he told me like, listen, the fans here are nuts on a good note, right? And I'm like, all right, they can't be that bad. So let's see. But I had like zero intentions of what has become zero. I literally, somebody posted Mickey Running and I thought it was the coolest thing ever because I love seeing him play.

Like I love the old stuff that we don't get to see because he needs. he didn't him and his parents really didn't keep a lot of it and if they did it's like in the like in the attic yeah in the third box from the left yes exactly so when i get to see it it's it's it's exciting for me and then i get to show my kids i get to show his son i i mean like it's it's something to embrace something that he like if there's one thing to know about micky he is the most humblest, unhamblest person ever, right? Because he knows he's bad, but he

will not tell you he's bad. Now he knows it, but he won't tell you. Describe, give the, you did a pretty good scouting report on yourself. Give us a scattering report of me. On Mickey? Just give us, give us the cliff notes. The clip notes. Mickey can talk to

a tree and convince it to move. Okay. That's how I describe Mickey. And that's, that's his recruiting. He can recruit a tree. What makes him a good recruiter, a great recruit? There is nothing but honesty, and he will give you everything he has. He'll give you the shirt on his back.

He'll give you everything, and he's lived it. There's nothing, there's no one else that has lived it more than he has. And the reason why I say that is because he went through a lot. When he played, he had to work for it. It wasn't just given. Like he was talented and he knew he was. But he also, like, Coach Osborne made him work for it. And listen, I can't wait.

I still haven't met, Tio. Like, I'm, I can't wait to meet him. I'm in that boat with, like, I, we're supposed to, he's going to be in studio next Tuesday night. Well, then I'm coming in. Next Tuesday. I'm bringing a Micket. Next Tuesday night. Well, we were supposed to do an event with him today at the stars, but he canceled out.

Okay. But he's doing, he's doing, we do a teammate show, a mentoring show on Tuesday nights, and he's supposed to be here. And I don't fanboy. Like, my thing is, no. I'm valid, fan girl. Yeah, like, it's going to happen. I want to know all the dirt on Mickey J.

Yeah. And I heard there's a lot of dirt. Never met him, never, never, never even been in, like, the same room or like a couple rooms down from him. but I've been around a bunch of people that have met Tio, and I'm just like, man, if I ever get to meet him, I don't even know if I could muster up the courage to say a word. Like, I just, I don't know. I'd be just like, tell me all of it.

Tell me all. But so here's the thing. Like, this life of yours, moving from place to place, city to city, program to program, family to family, right? It's a little bit different. Each community kind of processes differently. You weren't grambling.

and Alcorn. Those are different universes. Those are different universes. I'll ask you, what's your favorite thing about those? I challenge people to go to HBC. My alma mater's Langston University, so I come from my HBCU. But not everybody here has experienced the HBCU life. Like I was raised under the shadow of Howard University.

So, you know, Virginia Union, Virginia State, North Carolina, NT, like, but grambling was my first football love because they were on TV every Sunday with Eddie Robinson and telling the story. So you knew. And then Doug, of course, Dougie Fresh is my guy, right? Dougie's my guy. Doug is my guy. All right. But that experience, give them a bird's eye view of grambling football as a community.

What's that like? Okay, so I'll go more like HBCU, right? So being a former coach of an HBCU, I would, my recruiting for my girls would be like, if you come here and you survive in HBCU, there's nothing in the world that you cannot survive. And that's not to like bash HBCUs is that you're helping our students and our men and women prepare for the world. And that's what I would like to. That's what I would tell my girls is that you think you can survive in this world today. No, no, no, no.

Go to an HBCU. Go stand in lines in financial aid and get the runaround and then be frustrated and be like, I can't do this. No, you have to. There's nobody else that's going to do it for you. And then you're going to survive. And then going to classes and doing all that stuff. It's a special community that I don't give enough credit to. because I had a rough experience with HBCU

but it still doesn't take away from what they have to offer to the world now that kid that goes back to the kid that's just signed with Jackson State University man what a stella I just can't I and that's the thing like when I met Mickey I was I had football was like what what's football I don't even know what I I mean touchdown, score, like, cool. So, like, I've come ways when it comes to football. I was more baseball, softball, and stuff. But it's definitely, and then Gremlin is probably one of our favorite place,

our second favorite plates. Allcorn is kind of home for us because the staff that we had there is family. They hold on to you tight. Yes. But like every single person that was on staff that year at Allcorn that we were there, that Mickey was there for, because he was only there for a year. I mean, we have Willie Simmons at FAMU. We have Tony Perker-Arrell that's now at McNeese.

We had Eric Losey. I mean, we just had so many that we're all still like, I mean, we go on vacations together. You know what I mean? Like, that is. something that can never be replaced and like redeep-you know duplicated so it's it's different because you're in the trenches I mean and Alcorn you're there's nothing else out there literally nothing else nothing around it let's do this let's sort of break we'll go to this day I want to ask about LSU and that culture and then we'll get into Lincoln and

and what's happening in this space. We're talking to Priscilla Joseph. She's going to be one of the first wives of the football program. We're going to talk to her more when we come back to one-on-one. You're listening to Old School with DP and J. Download the mobile app and listen wherever you are on 937. The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com.