1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Recruiting and NIL with Barry: June 30th, 10:25am

Episode Date: June 30, 2022

Arch Manning and Quinn Ewers at Texas and Miami's $9.5m QB recruitAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Brought to you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back to old one-on-one. Look at. Right here on 93-7 The Ticket, we are joined. Jay and myself are joined by the esteemed Barry Thompson on the Honda of Lincoln hotline. Barry, you still there with us? Right here, Ben.

Of course he is. It's a man of his word. Barry, I wanted to ask you, you know, obviously, I didn't even get, been able to talk, we didn't even get to jump into it, but obviously you and D.P. are usually on. I wanted to get your thoughts, insights on Arch Manning going to Texas, and how do you see it working out? Obviously, once he gets on campus with the two quarterbacks that won with Quinn, Quinn Ewer's that was number one, and the other guy that's, I guess, the assume starter,

that was number, I think, three in his class in the previous year. Of the three Manning brothers who have played football, we've seen two of them, did either one make mistake in choosing in school they went to? No. Where the chances that Arch made mistake going to Texas? Yeah. Chesh.

That's true. Tusha. If anybody, they could start an advisory committee and start charging people a lot of money to make the right decision, right? right and they got and and and i love the way rc's this is the top of the hill and i'm just they i'm just proud of my boys and you you mean to tell me that they don't have some conversations about what's important and how you need to look at this and who's coaching and you look at both taiton and um and uh el i right you know there was a little bit of a

handoff between Peyton and Eli it seemed odd that Eli chose Ole Miss but Coach Cutcliffe was there remember? Yeah. And there was a crew that was there including the oh gosh there's a set of brothers that

joined up with him down at Ole Miss and then they went on, that crew went on to Duke and to Duke was coming up and then Peyton when he got hurt he went back to Coach cut. So I'm in interested to looking behind the scenes at the coaching staff and to see if there's any connection between Tennessee, Ole Miss, or Coach Cut, and those are maybe off of the Duke staff

that are there at Texas. It just seems to me that's where this family makes decision. Yeah, it seemed to, you know, like, look, I would say if they're the first family of football, they went in or at least with Eli and Pempton dictated the draft. So they know what they're doing. It seems like they're always a step ahead of everybody else. I just wanted to see, you know, to double down on that, what do you think happens? Do you think it's a foregone conclusion that Arch Manning starts as a true freshman, or does he play a little bit, or do they kind of work them in there? Or thirdly, is it all depending on what Quinn Hewers does, you know, from now to then? There is, I know this is the fan game, but I'll rely on my first statement.

I don't think any of the mannings have made a mistake in the schools of the children. And of the names that you just mentioned, and you think about the fan base at the University of Texas, the publicity that Arch Manning had, the fact that he's a manning. Right. How many subpar games is any quarterback going to have before everybody, including those dudes who can pull out the wallet and money with people, start saying, yeah, we need to a little more Arch out on that field. Yeah, that makes sense. It will not take long.

Yeah, and I think since he committed, Texas has gotten nine commitments. They got a five-star wide receiver just like yesterday. Who went to Texas on a visit was disrespectful of their trophy case saying the only trophies you saw were swimming and diving trophies. Went to Texas A&M kind of said the same thing. I don't see any football trophies. And then after Archmanning commits, he's like, oh, well, I guess I'll go to Texas. Yeah. And by the way, and a shout out to Coach Marion, who's down there handling the receivers.

He's a guy that I ran into when he was on Howard staff with Coach London, went to William and Mary, went to Hawaii, and then he wound up on that Pittsburgh staff with the coach that Nebraska now. Coach Whipple. Yep, and he and Coach Marion is down to Texas. He's a quarterback receiver guy, has an offense. I'm telling you there's a lot of thoughts that went into making that choice. A lot of thoughts that went. And it just wasn't half of it just wasn't half. There's a good offensive staff down there.

And by the way, what you mentioned, that dynamic has been existing for about five years, that these quarterbacks, when they go around to these different high-level things, they're also having their eye on guys they would like to play with kind of like the NBA does right in the offseason and the quarterback arena that's been going on for a while with the idea that hey if I commit you know if we come together and go play here let's go get this on and it's not it's not buddy buddy it's that dude can play right type of thing let's saddle walk and let's get this thing done right um this go ahead it won't be long i don't think before there's a University of Michigan State situation with the 5-5.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, you can see that going on. I wanted to actually piggyback on that. You talked about the quarterbacks going around, and you're seeing a good player. Obviously, you know, the state of Nebraska has some kids that, you know, are getting out on a national level. You got the Gretna quarterback going to Oklahoma State.

You got Malachi Coleman and just got a ton of offers. I want to get your thought on thoughts on travel seven-on-seven. I deal with it in the basketball arena. I wanted to get your thoughts on Travel 7 on 7 slash the O-Line D-Line camps where you see them all over Instagram, Twitter, or whatever. Do you like it, dislike it, or has the purity of the reason behind it kind of lost, got lost in the shuffle, considering that it's go, do what you need to do, get offers, and it seems like there's 50 million of them versus 50 when it probably first started.

I think there's three levels, you know, from where I sit, and I don't know everything, but from where I sit, there's at least three levels. There's the high-end level where the four, five stars, they kind of know it's all like an old-fashioned pickup game. You know, especially I'm sitting here and people don't realize it, but this DMV, or particularly D.C., is really almost more of a basketball town than this football. and when there's a great player circling around when Alan Iverson was here it was just like a whisper

like okay and all the good players knew exactly where to go and everybody would drift over there and you would see this fantastic stuff where they were competing I think there's a level of 7 on 7 that that occurs that's out of the stratosphere for most people the other level is local high schools and they just kind of give into it and they say well at least the kids are together

and they're doing football i don't know if there's any real benefit to that other than that what i tell players at my level is i say go play seven on seven but don't mistake playing seven on seven for getting better right i heard i heard you mentioned larry bird earlier the end of left segment Larry has a quote. He says, most people don't understand that you're better off practicing

than playing most of the time. Right? So if a player goes out and does 707, he just can't mistake that for getting better. He's got to understand there's another separate compartment that he has to work on to get better for the fall because the 707 game doesn't, it's not relatable to the fall.

You don't get four seconds to throw the football. Right? You don't get to heave it on the end zone on fourth and 20, and there's no consequence. Right. Right. Play calling is different.

Your focus to execute a play is different. You could throw it away on three. You've got a good matchup. You can heave it 20 yards, and a guy can outjump some dude who's normally on the bench, right? Right. That doesn't work in real life. So I think those are the three different levels.

see these guys, you know, top top pylon or whatever the top one is now at the highest level. They're banging against each other. Okay, there's nothing wrong with that. That's a pretty good thing, right? Right, yeah. Right. I mean, you get horses together and they're competing. That's pretty good stuff.

But there's a lot below that. Just like on the AAU circuit, there's a few in the upper stratosphere AAU, right? You see them playing. All right, they're traveling and paying good stuff. But below that, taking money, spending with. weekend, playing five games, charging the parents to get in. Okay, if that's what you want to do, I'm not April. You know what I mean?

They do it in baseball, too. They do it in soccer. Yeah. I just think there's levels to it. And I think you need to understand what level you're on. Yeah. So you're talking seven on seven. Let's kind of along those lines practice.

The Miami quarterback commit who made his work, you know, having videos of him throwing passes in pajamas. he is he commits to Miami and is rumored to have a 9.5 not 9.8 I don't know exactly 9 million dollar deal with the hurricanes. How would would you as a high school coach? I mean, I don't know if this is true about the kid, but you know, some people say, you know, money changes, many changes people. How would you handle a $9.5 million senior in high school? I was shooting down in CLAF. How did you make the money? Show me how to do it. Right. No, I mean, listen,

it's funny how the numbers are up. Remember the first NIL came up, and everybody was like, their panties were in knots because there was some quarterback who hadn't played at Alabama had a million-dollar thing. Yeah.

Do we even talk about him anymore? No. No. No. Okay, but did we talk about his million-dollar NIL? No. Okay. So, you know.

As long as you play good, there's not that big a deal right, yeah. Exactly. And guess what? If he's a bus, he still has, how much?

9.5? 9.5. Okay. Oh, he's going to be all right. Yeah. So we just have to worry about one thing. Can he play? I don't have any problem cutting him.

Hey, if I smash his scholarship away, Jay, I'm not going to feel that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, right? If he felt, if he's all gone,

I'll say, buddy. Yeah, you can go to get an online university degree now, you'll pay for it. You can do like Shaq. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll go buy school. Right. I want to.

Nine million, you start to buy something and put it up yourself. No, I mean, it's just, look, I told this to D.P. Every, every bad thing that you can think of about NIO, every bad thing, has already existed. Now, not a $9 million kid, but you can't tell me that in the past, there wasn't some kid getting paid two or $300,000 to go to a school. Right. That's happened.

We know that's happening. So then how you treat that kid? Yeah. You treat the $9 million dollar kid. Except for the $9 million kid, I definitely want to sit down and talk to him. I think you set up my social media account. I want to know.

You just got to be the pajama coach. You coach in pajamas and everybody that throws what you throws in pajamas. I'll be the pajama distributor then. There you go. I will pack and shift for you. I just need to cut. PajamaQB.com. What else can do with somebody makes $9 million?

Don't you ask them how they made their money? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Barry, I wanted to ask, like, you know, what, in your opinion, you coach different levels of guys that play the quarterback position, both high school and college. What's the one or two things that derails them? them from reaching their potential, you know,

or short-term when you first get there or long-term, maybe that maybe piggybacked off of that or something along the way that stunts their, you know, their growth as a player. Yeah. I think the simplest way we're talking about that, there are a lot of people in this world that are capable of just doing anything. But there are a much smaller population that's willing. and so what I noticed more than anything else

is the guys that keep going they're just willing to do more and willing to keep going it sounds overly simplistic it they are willing at times when I'm amazed that they're willing I mean I do it for living

and I'm amazed that they're willing like I can tell them this stuff but the stuff that they run into and keep going forward that is that is the singular difference i have so many quarterbacks right now just even god who's now a professional quarterback i mean there he's 5-2 as a freshman he goes juco juko juko nobody goes juco juko right right they go juco fc s f c s fd s fd s and certainly after the second jukeo you go f csss he goes division two right

he leaves with no agent, no senior bowl, right, and no project. Okay. Posted things says on draft eligible. Single mom, one car, no money, you know what I mean? Right.

Okay. So, you tell me what's the difference. Right? It's just that they're willing, there are a lot of people in that circumstance. It's why, you know, and you would understand it, so I can't do this. right

like a coach and help me out blah blah blah blah blah blah I'm a small school blah blah blah

right but then he's just one example of many where I've seen these guys and they just keep going

right Noah Kim had his thigh chopped and I mean I mean to be gross but the

the big bone in the thigh was broken right and he's in a bed I go to see him his birthday was on Monday

and my wife made something to take over to see him and I thought you know I'd wait a little bit and maybe he's a little grog because he had a surgery on Sunday they're sitting him up in a chair

tell him how he needs to walk when he gets home I barely called him in the hospital and then later on he's bugging me says coach what are we doing I'm like no are you on crutches he goes yeah but he can sit down and throw

I got pictures I go okay come on down right and first time is on two crutches. Next time he was bragging because he's on one. Killed himself in the pool and by the spring he's running.

Right? And then now he's a, you know, big 10 quarterback number two spots play away from, you know, playing. Right. I don't know how he did that. But I know that when these obstacles were in his way, he just found it with himself that he has a saying that says there's beauty in the struggle.

There's beauty in the struggle. And the guys keep going at all these positions, at all these levels, at some level, they must think that. That there's beauty in the struggle. And they like being pretty. Wow. We're joined by Barry Thompson, Fairfax Football Academy.

Barry, we're going to hit this break. And up next, we're going to find out, we cook and are we eating? Okay. We're eating. We're eating? All right. Up next, we're going to find out exactly what Barry is eating.

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