The Flagship: Why Texas QB Casey Thompson's dad, Charles Thompson, is comfortable with his son playing this season

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4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The fate of the 2020 College Football season remains in limbo after reports circulated over the weekend that the Big Ten and Pac 12 conferences were contemplating canceling the upcoming football season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After a day of misleading reports, the Big Ten has apparently not voted to officially cancel the upcoming football season while the Big 12, SEC and ACC have yet to openly address the current state of the conference's conversations. But without football season, what would that mean for student-athletes who already have frequent access to testing and COVID-19 test screening since arriving on campus? On this week's interview episode of The Flagship Podcast, former Oklahoma QB and father of Texas backup QB Casey Thompson, Charles Thompson, joins the show and gives the parent perspective of the ongoing situation surrounding COVID-19 and why he believes his son is safer being in a controlled environment on campus at the University of Texas. Charles Thompson also weighs on the progression of his son and how he could be poised to take over for Sam Ehlinger upon Ehlinger's departure from Texas, what Casey Thompson offers as a backup QB and much more. Catch all of that and more on Monday's interview episode of The Flagship Podcast. The Flagship Podcast — featuring co-hosts Chip Brown and Taylor Estes with Horns247 publisher Bobby Burton as a frequent contributor — hits the airwaves each Monday and Wednesday, and centers around all the latest happenings surrounding the University of Texas and college athletics, with big-name guests joining the show on a weekly basis. The Monday episode features an exclusive one-on-one interview with various high-profile guests, while the Wednesday show is Texas-specific pertaining to the latest news surrounding the University of Texas athletics, the Big 12 conference and college football as a whole. BONUS: While The Flagship is available on a multitude of audio platforms — including iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts — it's also available as a video podcast! Head over to 247Sports YouTube for the latest video episodes of The Flagship Podcast! And as always, make sure to subscribe to the Horns247 podcast channel on all platforms to have the latest episodes available to you at all times, and head on over to iTunes and give our Horns247 family of podcasts a five-star rating! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome in everybody to the flagship podcast.
0:09.3	I am joined this week by the one and only Charles Thompson,
0:15.0	former OU quarterback, best friend of Peter Gardier of all things.
0:22.1	Former Peter the Great.
0:23.7	Peter the Great.
0:24.5	That's it.
0:25.0	Yeah.
0:25.2	Oh, yeah.
0:26.3	Former Longhorns quarterback.
0:28.7	And of course, Charles Thompson, OU, quarterback extraordinaire.
0:33.8	And the father of Texas quarterback Casey Thompson.
0:37.7	Charles, thanks so much for joining us on the flagship podcast this week.
0:41.5	Well, man, it's a pleasure, as always, Chip, joining you.
0:44.1	I mean, just talking sports and football at any point,
0:47.8	especially with everything the way it's going on right now,
0:50.2	it's always a pleasure being on with you,
0:52.0	whether it's on your radio podcast or on this.
0:54.0	So good to be on with you, man.
0:55.7	Well, I appreciate it.
0:57.3	And let's start right there.
0:58.4	Let's put your parent hat on for a second, Charles, because as we record this flagship podcast, everything is up in the air with regard to college football.
1:09.6	It looked like we were rolling last week.
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