And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

What's up everybody? Welcome to move the sticks DJ Bucky back with you Bucky. How are we doing man?

Man I'm good. I am good. I'm excited. We're we're we're in the middle of the summer. Right. We've got to hit it.

June that means you got a couple more weeks of OTAs and you got a little vacation time and before you know it man we'll be right back at it.

Question for you and we got a lot of ground to cover but just here off the top as a high school coach.

There's been obviously this this big focus on seven on seven and teams popping up all over the place with these seven on seven basically AAU club teams where it used to be when we were growing up we did a little bit of seven on seven in the

off season in the summer but we did it with our own high school team and we go up against other high schools and we got the chance to run our plays with our coaches and our players and it actually led towards the season well now we've got it you know an explosion of club seven on seven here AAU seven on seven whatever you want to call it.

Have you had any issues with that I know I guess maybe you're the wrong guy to ask because you you guys did not throw the ball. No last year.

But I'm curious what your thoughts are as a coach what your thoughts are on how this has morphed and changed from being a high school run thing to being a club run thing.

So DJ going out of way back so in my previous school we used to run I mean we called it a club seven on 17 but it was really all the guys that I would coach and we were going competing those events against club seven on seven.

So let me explain people the two differences in seven on seven so there's club seven on seven which is like AAU you can take guys from any school and they play on your team you go represent you put them in tournaments and that's your team so my team would enter under my whatever my LLC was big play ink right so you put big play ink that's what we're doing we got everybody we're coming in there.

Scholastic is your team you take your team whatever school you represent and that team is all the guys that you're coaching in the regular season.

So I'm never really had an issue with club seven on seven because what you have in that realm is you have a lot of trainers you have a lot of guys to do a lot of good skill work with players on the outside and sometimes they do the work that sometimes high school coaches can do.

Like high school coaches may not have the time in the off season to devote to their team and so those guys going work with their individual skill trainers and do all that other stuff and so there's an appreciation for what trainers I used to train guys and do all that so I love that stuff DB's wide out seeing them work whatever there's also a competitive fun element to club seven on seven where a man is trash talking is loser is different you see the silly celebrations they go viral all that other stuff like so you kind of live in a different way.

The problem that you can have is if everyone's not speaking the same language meaning you're learning different techniques and stuff that aren't necessarily applicable to what you do at your school and so can you take what you learn in the off season and then maybe put it in your pocket when you're playing for your high school coach because your high school coach demands something else can you take what you're doing in seven on seven which becomes a little more me centric.

Because it's a I'm trying to get exposure I'm trying to have these things go viral so college coaches can see I'm trying to put tape and then can you fold into the team fabric that you have to in high school and so it's that fine line between those things and then the final thing is the high school coach is sometimes trainers get into it in terms of who's responsible for helping the player land a scholarship if they get a look.

You'll see trainers you'll see trainers take credit for a my guy has 22 offers and my guy has this but you only deal with them in seven on seven where is the high school coach deals with them when they're playing padded up football real football and so it's a lot of that stuff and I think the best way to do it is if the club coaches and directors can get together with the high school directors and kind of meet in the middle ground where you look you acknowledge them you acknowledge the help and assistance that club.

There really is a lot of other things that you guys do while also remain re understanding that seven oh seven isn't real football and there's a difference and so like they have has this value and it serves as a purpose.

But there's a lot difference there's a huge difference in being a star in the seven oh seven circuit and been a star when it's time to padded up and played real ball.

I think you can find good and bad and in both sides, but I think you brought up a good point about hey some of these high school coaches might not have the time and some instances maybe not even the expertise help these guys in the off season the amount of time it's dedicated obviously their kids are paying these guys to train them not doing it out of the goodness of their heart.

But I always think of you know back in the day it was okay we're going to do seven on seven so that our team can get better.

And then a byproduct of that is we might be we're going to get better individually, but the whole point of it was we're going to rep plays we're going to get on the same page chemistry wise timing wise with our receivers our quarterbacks our DB's communication like it was all leading to us being a better football team in the fall.

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