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On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

1-on-1 with Darrick Yray: Get to know FSU football's General Manager

On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Florida State general manager Darrick Yray joined the program in a new role in February, and is charged with organizing a department that is the lifeblood of a football program: recruiting.

Yray, in a 1-on-1 interview with On The Bench’s Trey Rowland, provides insight into his role with FSU, scouting methodology, putting on a large-scale recruiting event, and more.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we are back on the Vengeance Interview Series continues it forges on and I'm

0:23.1

here I get to go one on one with the Ray one because I am here with Florida

0:29.0

States General Manager of Personnel the one the only the man with the

0:34.6

mysterious why at the front of his last name Derek Ray how you doing Derek

0:39.2

Good tray how are you appreciate you all having me I'm doing real good

0:42.6

pronunciation I nailed that right yes yeah the why is never confused people so

0:47.3

absolutely it does especially dumb sports riders like myself you are a man of

0:51.5

mystery and I'm very happy to be able to talk to you today thank you for

0:54.9

dedicating the time now Derek you are the General Manager of Personnel I don't

1:00.9

want to get too off of Spacey on you right now but what does that mean for the

1:05.0

layman what are you doing yeah lucky enough to be brought in here in February

1:11.6

and kind of the way college football is going with the evolving rules and what

1:16.3

recruiting in personnel and evaluations are turning into just my jobs to make

1:21.4

sure I'm always have eyes on our roster and how we can constantly improve that

1:25.6

in through any means whether that be traditional high school recruiting

1:29.6

Juco's transfers prep schools and then most importantly hit on the transfers

1:35.8

earlier but the portal because the portal is ever changing and just to build a

1:39.4

department to collect as much information on the front end because you never know

1:43.8

when you might not when you might need it again to come back on and use that

1:47.4

information so yeah we might not get someone right out of high school but a

1:52.2

year and a half later we want to have all that background information available

1:55.2

to us to where we can make the right decisions especially when it's in a

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