When the whistle blows and the stadium lights ignite, that's when Coach Tim Weaver shines brightest – and I had the pleasure of sitting down with this mastermind behind Brown University's defensive maneuvers. Our conversation is more than just X's and O's; it's a deep dive into the heart of collegiate football, from the strategic recruitment plays to the personal growth of players who have sprinted their way from Ivy League fields to NFL glory. We reminisce on Bethany College days, where Weaver's coaching narrative began, and explore the tough yet rewarding journey of steering a program back to success.
Roll up your sleeves for a behind-the-scenes look at what it means to wear multiple hats in Division III athletics, as Weaver gives us the playbook on balancing the dual roles of coach and athletic director. There's richness in the tales of unsung heroes like Johnny "Fiddy" Falconi, whose unyielding spirit represents the diversity of contributions that make a team whole. It's not about the scoreboard but the character built and the lives shaped by the game – a sentiment that shines through in every anecdote and reflection.
Finally, prepare to be entertained – because it's not all serious strategy and life lessons. We're tackling the age-old debates of sports fans everywhere, from which championship is tougher to win to the hypothetical showdown between kangaroos and a polar bear. And as we close out the episode, I'm placing my bets on the burgeoning talent within Ivy League football and the thrills of FCS play. Coach Weaver's stories and insights are an open invitation to join us in celebrating the lesser-known corners of the football world, where passion and determination meet on the gridiron.
When the whistle blows and the stadium lights ignite, that's when Coach Tim Weaver shines brightest – and I had the pleasure of sitting down with this mastermind behind Brown University's defensive maneuvers. Our conversation is more than just X's and O's; it's a deep dive into the heart of collegiate football, from the strategic recruitment plays to the personal growth of players who have sprinted their way from Ivy League fields to NFL glory. We reminisce on Bethany College days, where Weaver's coaching narrative began, and explore the tough yet rewarding journey of steering a program back to success.
Roll up your sleeves for a behind-the-scenes look at what it means to wear multiple hats in Division III athletics, as Weaver gives us the playbook on balancing the dual roles of coach and athletic director. There's richness in the tales of unsung heroes like Johnny "Fiddy" Falconi, whose unyielding spirit represents the diversity of contributions that make a team whole. It's not about the scoreboard but the character built and the lives shaped by the game – a sentiment that shines through in every anecdote and reflection.
Finally, prepare to be entertained – because it's not all serious strategy and life lessons. We're tackling the age-old debates of sports fans everywhere, from which championship is tougher to win to the hypothetical showdown between kangaroos and a polar bear. And as we close out the episode, I'm placing my bets on the burgeoning talent within Ivy League football and the thrills of FCS play. Coach Weaver's stories and insights are an open invitation to join us in celebrating the lesser-known corners of the football world, where passion and determination meet on the gridiron.
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is, as always, your host, mike Bono. I have a great guest for us today. My guest today comes to us. He's the current defensive coordinator and linebacker's coach at Brown University. He is also a former Bethany College coach, so I'm having another former Bethany in on the show and I love talking to him. But coach Tim Weaver joins the show. Coach, thanks for joining.
Speaker 2:
Thanks for having me, mike. I appreciate it. It was good to get back to talk to people with Bethany Ties. It was a really good time in my life and my family's life.
Speaker 1:
Absolutely. I enjoyed my time at Bethany, too, as well. We were there around the same time, got to announce a lot of your games at Bethany. I was the head sports director for the radio station in my time there, so it was a lot of fun getting to announce your guys's games and seeing the progression of that. But currently, you know, like I said, you're a defensive coordinator at Brown University. How long have you been at Brown and you know how did the 2023 season go for you guys.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, we've been here now as a staff for five years and four seasons. Yeah, I really didn't play in 20 because of COVID. So, okay, we came here. I had been at University of Delaware after I left Bethany. Then I came here with James Perry, who's our head coach, and we took over a program with a really good history. It kind of gone sideways the last couple of years before we got hired. We took over and really had a rebuilding job on our hands and had a couple of two and eight years and then a three and seven year and then this year we finished five and five for the best year at Brown's 2016.
Speaker 2:
It's exciting. You know, we got a really good team coming back. When you look at the history of Brown from 2000 to 2009, brown won three Ivy League championships and won more games than any other program in the league, and I actually coached at Harvard and Columbia during half of that time and I know how good Brown was then. So we're just we're almost back to where the program should be. We've got a bunch of good players coming back and we've had success recruiting. So it's been a lot of fun and now it's time to reap the rewards of how this hard work, from getting our teeth kicked in for a couple of years to now being pretty good. So yeah, I mean we're going to get into our first. Our first year we were losing to Princeton I want to say 52 to seven and a half time and then we beat them this year. So all that upward trajectory is fun to watch, absolutely.
Speaker 1:
I mean we'll get into it a little bit later, but I know you're used to that Did the rebuilding what you had to do at Bethany when you, when you took over the program there and you made it a lot of fun to watch those guys. But you've actually had at Bethany three or four more guests on the show Bill Garvey, Andy Upton and Mr Askew. Can you talk about how you met them and why hired them for your staff at Bethany?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, those guys were all on our initial coaching staff and then Andy and Bill with me the whole time. Mr left after a couple of years. So I met Bill Million years ago. I coached at Hofstra University on some really, really good teams. We had a bunch of NFL players. We won. We went to the FCS playoffs. You know we were a state of the art program in the East and one of the best in the country.
Speaker 2:
And Bill ended up going to Hofstra after I left but was connected to a bunch of our, a bunch of guys that I knew, and they recommended him to me when I was coaching at Harvard and we got him on staff. So we worked together for a couple of years at Harvard and then I left for Columbia. He stayed at Harvard, he ended up going to Stonehill and then when I got the head job at Bethany, he was my first phone call to get on as our offensive coordinator. So I was able to bring him along, which was great. And then, as you know, when I left for Delaware, he took over and stayed on as a head coach for seven or eight more years after I left. So that worked out great for him.
Speaker 2:
Andy Upton and I actually coached together at West Virginia, wesleyan in the late 90s, but he would he had since I left Wesleyan and went to Harvard and Columbia before I came to Bethany and he had ended up at Bethany so he was on staff there when I got hired. He was also coaching track, so that was an easy one to keep and Mr was one of the young graduate assistants that were on staff and there were a bunch of those guys. We kept three of them, four of them actually that were really good young coaches. Mr was one of them. Thank you, ryan Leib, andrew Rossi and Bob Nizel. We kept all four of those guys and they've all moved on to stuff in and out of coaching and they're doing great and it was a really good crew. But so that's kind of how those guys all came about on that first staff and we just started recruiting our asses off and tried to bring in players and get the thing going in the right direction, which we were able to do.
Speaker 1:
Now I know I asked Upton this when he was on the show, but do you guys remember trying to recruit me when I was already at Bethany? When you were there, me and a bunch of guys were just hanging around. I can't remember where we were at. I think we were at the field and we were just throwing football, just killing some time, and I remember you two coming up to me and being like you got a hell of an arm. Do you ever think about playing football? I was like I'm on a swimming scholarship here. I'm not trying to screw anything up for that, but how much of recruiting internally did you have to do when you first took over at Bethany?
Speaker 2:
Well, it was different. I remember seeing you guys out there and every time you see it it was sort of a little bit of a high school element to a retail high school coach to recruit to hallways. Right, you get a big, tall kid or a big heavy kid walking down the hallway. You want those high school coaches to recruit them. So we did a little bit of that on campus but mostly it was re-recruiting the good players that were left from Coach Lee's staff when we took over and there was, there were some good ones. We inherited some guys that could really play and so just keeping those guys and not having them get far away eyes, and I think we did a good job of that.
Speaker 2:
That first off season and first spring I think we set a good tone. And to get four wins that first year after coming off the three straight one and nines it was, I think it just kind of breathed life into everybody involved with the program, including the alums. We started to get more attendance in our golf outing. We started to raise more money. There were more people calling the office and stopping by and homecoming became a really big thing again. So I think that first year's moderate success that we had went a long way towards kind of keeping it to our. Ultimately, bill took him to a post-season game after I left, which is great, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:
Now I mean you've had the quite the extensive coaching background. But when you were at Hofstra I mean you said it and you had some metaphellas I believe it was legendary New York jet wide receiver Wayne I'm probably gonna butcher his last name Sharp Beck, can you talk to?
Speaker 2:
us about that. Wayne Krabat yeah, wayne was our best player for a couple of years. We also had Dave Fiore, who played a long time in the NFL and the offensive line for the 49ers we had. I actually recruited Raheem Morris, who is now the defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams. He played for us, you know. He was a really good player, you know. And then, after I left Marcus Colston, samoro Lyman, an unbelievable all pro safety, lance shelters. So the talent level at Hofstra was really, really high. We were good. And then Gio Carmasi was the quarterback who was there my last spring. He was one of the guys that got drafted ahead of time rating in that draft. So there was a run of players that came through there that was really really fun to coach and be around and help. Just one of the games.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, absolutely. I mean definitely. Having that kind of talent on a team now. You're not unfamiliar with, you know NFL stars. Your time at Harvard I believe it was quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was there as well too was what? Yeah?
Speaker 2:
Fitz's freshman year. He was our scout team quarterback and we on defense and I was there with Lou. Anna Rumo, who's now the secondary coach, now defensive coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals, was our secondary coach and Lou and I would stand watching practice every day and say, are we nuts or is this guy really really good? And we were not nuts. He was really good and we saw it as a scout team player and he was awesome to be around. He's a great kid. He's not a great man. He's got a bunch of kids running around, great family. He had a great career and now he's doing an awesome job on TV.
Speaker 2:
So you know he's another one who was pretty close with Bill because Bill was at Harvard after I left. So I left actually after Fitz's Sophomore year, I think, and then they ended up we had won a championship and then they won another one before he graduated after I left. So yeah, so Fitz was there and yeah, so we've been around, better been fortunate to be around a lot of good players. I hope she can keep your coaching career along when you get good players, absolutely.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, can't hurt to have players like that. So you know what's it been like coaching at schools and going and seeing all these former players you know make the NFL and having success. What's that like as a coach?
Speaker 2:
It's really rewarding and gratifying and you know if you can even have just a little bit to do with the success those guys have. Our last year at Delaware shoot. We got Bilal Nichols, who started in defensive tackle for the Raiders right now he just scored a touchdown the other day. Troy Reeder, who's active with the Rams. We had Zach Kerr, who played for a number of years, who was another defensive lineman for us. We had Nazir Adderley, who played three years for the Chargers.
Speaker 2:
All those guys played defense for us at Delaware and it was no surprise. By the time we took over a defensive Delaware that was, you know, not very good, and by the time we left we were top 25 in the country and just about every statistical category there was and it was. I mean we ran the same defense as we ran at Bethany and just had we had NFL guys out there doing it. So it's it's always more about the players than it is about the plays and those guys were awesome. It's been fun to watch their careers move on. And now we actually had a guy our first year here at Brown, michael Hoyt, who played defensive tackle for us and is now starting an outside linebacker for the Rams. He's playing for Raheem, so guy coached as a senior is playing for a guy recruited a million years ago and that's pretty cool to see.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, absolutely. You definitely seen the success that you have with players and things like that and of that nature definitely has to be rewarding as a coach. But stuck a little bit more about your time at Bethany. I mean that, like I said earlier in the show, it was a big turnaround for when you took over in engineering. The turnaround and the tenure there, yeah, you can tell us. Can you tell us a little bit about what it was like going, when you took over, from their consecutive one and nine seasons before your arrival to going four and six in your first year. What was that like and was what did you have to do to make all that happen?
Speaker 2:
Well, I put the staff together was number one. You know, I was a very defensive minded guy. I had been my whole career so I knew I was going to have my fingers in that. But I needed to get Bill on board, somebody that I could completely trust to do the offense. So once we had the staff put together, then it was, you know, just go recruit like crazy. And then we figured out that we had some guys there that, you know, maybe for whatever reason hadn't had as much success or the wasn't a good scheme fit with coach Lee staff or whatever it is.
Speaker 2:
Whatever you take over as a new coach, coming into a situation that's not winning, everybody drives me nuts in our profession. Guys said we're going to change the culture. Well, I hadn't lived the day in the culture. I didn't know if the culture was good, bad, maybe the players stunk, maybe there was no scheme fit. I had no idea. All I knew what had to change was the results. So we went in and established our call. We didn't. I don't know if we changed it or made it better or made it worse, but we established what we wanted to do and it started with the off season, you know, in division three the off season is. You can't make it mandatory, you can't take attendance, you can't penalize kids for not coming.
Speaker 2:
But we made it very clear that we were going to have high expectations and really work those guys off season, first spring practice and, to the players credit, we lost very few of them. We had very little attrition. The attitude got really positive. I think they liked what I said to them all the time was we're going to run a division three program with a division one attitude and so we're going to show up every day. We're going to practice hard or daily schedule. We were allowed to have them. Was it going to be any different than any of the division one places I've been? We're going to push it and try to schematically be as complex as we could and just kind of drive the whole thing forward.
Speaker 2:
And like everything you know, brent Owens was a real. We got lucky and inherited a guy that could play quarterback really well, you know, and then we left and took over for him after that and we ended up those first two years with really gifted players at quarterback that we didn't recruit. You know, bill coached the LL. We did a great job and we had a bunch of other guys on offense that played really well, like those guys were. Those guys were already on campus and I think we just used them right and pushed the buttons and motivated, did whatever. And I remember a couple of those games. We were down 21 to nothing at Ohio Wesley and we won that game. I think that gave the guys a whole bunch of confidence that first year that we won at Thomas Moore, which was really hard to do at the time. So a couple of those wins really boosted confidence and then it gave us more momentum going into the recruit, you know the following couple of years and just kind of sustained it.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I mean you had your first four years of Bethany, I mean from 2006 to 2009,. It was four at six, four at six, three and seven, three and seven. Now you've had numerous record setting players during that time. Well, those years were not all winning seasons. They were impressive and the things that you were able to accomplish. Like I said, I announced every home game for you guys. You know what was the first four year stretch like for you there.
Speaker 2:
It was. It was really two, two year stretches. I say that all the time we inherited a pretty good locker room of talent and were able to eke out those two, four win seasons. But a couple of those losses were. I remember Teal the first year. They blew us. They blew our doors off W and J, crunched us to bits, and then even the three at seven years. We may have lost a couple of games by two or three scored, but we weren't. We didn't get run out of the building by anybody. So those three and seven teams I always say were a little more competitive. But what happened was we got really young really fast. Like we had some decent players that we inherited. We recruited some better, younger players but they couldn't. They weren't better at the time. We knew in two years they would be ultimately better than the guys that we had inherited, but they weren't. They didn't give us the best chance to win those first two years after we recruited them. So those three and seven years we knew we're going to lead to the next two years where we're going to have a chance to to really compete like crazy um, because we had a deeper, more talented roster. So getting to the, you know, the next two years where we went we had the first back to back.
Speaker 2:
If not losing seasons at Bethany I don't know how long time, but those that first four year stretch paved the way for that. It was become competitive Every week. We're never going to get off the bus and feel like we're down 21. Nothing To wj like I could see in their eyes the first year. There was nobody that thought they had a chance. You know teal was coming off a playoff season. Wj is always really good. But um and our guys, I think, were that stupid coaching phrase that were a little afraid of the jerseys on the other team more than the guys. So we had to get that Fixed and removed from the process. But to the players, kind of they did over those first four years they became, you know they weren't. They got to where they were going to get off the bus and competing as anybody would play.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I mean, like I, like you said, you guys did get real young, real quick. Uh, there, I remember watching and talking about Eric Walker. You know, thousand yard season. Every time he touched a ball he knew he was rushing for a thousand Mackermard, all the receivers and of course, you know, got to imagine him the, the wonderful manager now of this podcast, johnny Fitty, fowl County and everything like that. We're gonna get to him in a minute, don't worry, that's for sure. But you also took over as the ad at Bethany for a period of time as well. What was it like being the ad and coaching? Did one help the other or vice versa? It was a lot.
Speaker 2:
No, I don't know that one helped or hurt the other. It's really. It's a unique situation in division three athletics. Um, you don't have the Time demands as the athletic director that you would in a division one in terms of the travel and the the constant fundraising. Um, when you're a coach as well as being the ad, I think the ideal model is to have an athletic director that can focus on fundraising and alumni relations and A little bit of the scheduling and making sure, because division three coaches all wanted, they want to do their own schedule. They won't all buy their own equipment, which made it easy for me.
Speaker 2:
You know I didn't have to get involved in a lot of that, unless something went wrong, like I wasn't planning Fans for coach Klein with her volleyball team when they were winning all their machines. You didn't all let herself choose great and all the other coaches did all that stuff. So I think it takes a lot of the pressure off the ad and division three when coaches do a lot of that. You know what operations, like our operations got here at Brown, does all of that. We have no idea until the day before we're going somewhere, at what time we're leaving, if we're taking a bus or taking a plane. It's we just show up and go where we're told.
Speaker 2:
Um, so I have, in the, the coaches in division three do that helped me a ton. Um, I think my biggest thing there with with dr Miller, who was so heavily involved in athletics Uh, you know, just managing the budget, managing the people trying to make sure that everything was was professional and above board and and kind of just raising the level of of everybody as much as we could, but it was, uh, I don't know that either position helped or hurt the other While I was doing it.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I mean I, I know what it entails, you know being uh Coaching and then trying to run something else too as well.
Speaker 2:
You know it's, it's, it's a lot um, changes were the biggest thing, you know, and we made the change at swimming coach, we made a change at uh yeah, you know, we added field hockey, so some of those things. Those hiring process Aaron Huffman left our men's basketball program. We had to hire a new guy there. So those things that I was really involved in on a day-to-day basis. Those did take time. Those you know those were. You know, though, that was when it got a little more challenging to do both With the personnel stuff, but for the most part it was. I was able to compartmentalize it and not have to do everything that a standalone athletic director would have to do.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, definitely. And, like I said, you, we, you were part of this. This next guy was the part of your first recruiting class in 2006 and that is Johnny Fitty, foul county. You know what was it like Coaching fit. I know what, how he is today and the energy level that he has. So what was it like coaching a guy like that?
Speaker 2:
I Think we said this about 50, three times a week. If his talent had matched his energy, he would play in the NFL for 20 years. You know, he was just a high energy. I'll do anything, coach, I'll run into the goal post. He was awesome to have on the team. He was never a guy who you know, he was never gonna be our most talented player, he's never gonna be our fastest guy or most gifted guy, and he never came in and gave the old woes me and I should be playing instead of this guy or this guy or this guy. He just he understood and accepted his role and he was awesome to have it there.
Speaker 2:
And his first play that he ever played in the varsity game actually was on defense. I can't remember who we were playing, but we were winning and I thought he was scheduled to go back in on offense on the next series, but then we thought that the game might end before we got the ball back, so I just turned and grabbed him on the sideline. It's a go, play safe. Just go in there and play safety for these three plays. So, and as sure as it would happen To the second to last play the game, the ball gets tipped up in the air in the end zone and finish run under it Like he's gonna get a pick and he didn't catch it.
Speaker 2:
That was place into a frenzy because you know everybody loved him, teammates loved him. You know he was a fan favorite and Just I'm happy for him to see. You know he got married recently. I know, and, yeah, you know he's coached. He's coached here and there and done some stuff and it's just again. He's another guy that you know didn't set any records and didn't, you know, didn't make any big plays and any big wins. But it's just as rewarding as his old coach to see him doing well as it is to see anybody else who you know. Eric Walker was our ball time rushing leader and I'm happy that he's doing awesome. But it's at this point in their lives. It's he's no different to me than fitting. You know they're both guys who did everything we asked of them and helped us win in their own in different ways, and it's great to see him having success now.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, absolutely. I mean I think I tell Fitty a couple times a week Like, hey, man, can we like pump the brakes a little bit? Like on, on is what you're doing. I'm happy you're on board here at the ride home rance podcast and you're in, you're helping me out and we're we're growing this thing, but my guy, I need Pumped the brakes a little bit. I now wish I had a third of your energy To make it through my busy schedule and everything like that. But, coach, we are running down near the end of the episode here, but I do have to get this segment in.
Speaker 1:
This did lead into this last final segment and I'm sure you've gotten a lot of these through your time and knowing it. But it is the fast 555 random questions from the wonderful manager of the podcast, johnny Fitty Falcone, and the new listeners out there. These are kind of rapid fire, but you can elaborate if you need to. And, coach, I don't think these have anything to do with what we've been talking about for the entirety of the show. So you know, fitty, if you're ready, let's see. I think we can see. Alright, question number one Is it harder to win a world series or an NBA championship in pro sports?
Speaker 2:
World series. Okay, thank you. It's harder. Baseball is harder to play the basketball. You could assemble a team in basketball. They should never lose if your two best pitchers have a bad day in the world series. It's gonna be really hard and that's more likely to happen than Steph Curry going over. So I say win in a world series.
Speaker 1:
Absolutely Alright. Question number two who is a better NFL coach, pete Carroll or Mike McCarthy?
Speaker 2:
Got a personal bias. I'm gonna go with Pete. I've known Pete for a long time. He was. He was at the Jets while we were at Hofstra. He's a great guy. I'm gonna go Pete, okay. Plus he's got I Think he's. He's been to two Super Bowls. Mike's only been to one. I know Mike yeah yeah, I think too.
Speaker 1:
All right, question number three who's more athletic, pro tennis players or pro golfers?
Speaker 2:
Test players. As a rule, I think test players they gotta just gotta move more. Starting stop is underrated physical skill. The amount of time tennis players have to stop is Incredible to me.
Speaker 1:
Okay, I feel like these first three were setup questions for the last two here, because, if you know, fitty, here we're getting into those. Question number four what is better, a grilled cheese sandwich or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
Speaker 2:
Wow, that is a fantastic question. I love both and when you have kids I say this all the time hot dogs, grilled cheese, mac and cheese and Peanut butter and jelly come back into your life when you have kids and you don't know why you stopped eating them in your 20s. But I'm gonna give a slight edge to peanut butter and jelly makes us more time during the day. People are jealous of breakfast.
Speaker 1:
Okay, I Definitely get that with the kids. My son lives on hot dogs, grilled cheese and mac and cheese. So Question number five who wins in a fight of three kangaroos versus a polar bear?
Speaker 2:
But that's a good question. So if I'll give Fitty props for that one, I'm gonna go with the kangaroos. I Think three kangaroos as strong as those kicks are. If they surrounded the polar bear they could body blow them, get them on the ground and ultimately win that. One of the kangaroos is gonna end up dead though yeah, but I three of them. They probably end up. I'm not. I have less confidence that answer them.
Speaker 1:
Okay, and that was the fast Fitty five. And I gotta tell you, coach, he's had a strange obsession with animal questions. In this segment there's always at least one and everyone, and knowing him, as long as you have, how many times that practice have you had to answer those questions for Fitty?
Speaker 2:
Well, the what ifs that came out, him like, well, what if, what if, what if it was? Always, it was crazy. So those, and then the facility hypotheticals like that, that's, college kids are into those. Now we have those arguments out here at Brown. Would you rather fight what? A ten thousand ants or Ten miniature grizzly bears or some stupid thing like that? These guys have these arguments and they're passionate about their answers and I don't. I don't get it. It's funny. So the three kangaroos against polar bear? That's. That's fits right into what's what's coming on, what I deal with most of the time.
Speaker 1:
Like I said, coach, we are running down near the end of the episode here and I do give every guess this opportunity at the end of the show. I'm gonna give you about a minute if there's anything you want to get out there, whether it's for Brown, anything else that you got going on, or even if it's just a good message, I'm gonna give you about a minute. The floor is yours. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
I'd love to just tell everybody you know the quality of football in this league. Ivy League football not just Brown, but the Ivy League in general is really tremendous and we've got to deal with ESPN plus. So if you have the ESPN app or ESPN plus, you can watch every Ivy League football game and it's a. It's really competitive, it's really good. The leagues got a bunch of great rivalries in it. So I would recommend that For everybody to watch more Ivy League and FCS football in general.
Speaker 2:
Look at the league I left when I was in Delaware, the, you know the, the CAA, with teams like Villanelle, vaughan, william Mary and Richmond and New Hampshire. Those, those teams are great and they're fun to watch and I think those games can be better. Sometimes some of the group of five stuff that you get stuck with, they can be a little less competitive. So just putting a plug in for FCS football and Ivy League football and then, you know, for all the, any of the younger people out there, watching the Ivy League is a real thing. Like we've signed for your audience the last three years We've taken three West Virginia kids, just a brown, you know. So those that's a real goal. So you know, do your work in school, put yourself, put the work in, and that's a realistic opportunity for everybody, so you can end up wherever you want.
Speaker 1:
Absolutely, coach. I love it when people can promote on here, but I also love it when there's a good message like that. I don't think a lot of people know about the Ivy League Football or any sporting really In that, but you know what they. They produce NFL talent, it seems like from what your track record and everything like that. So great for that and, you know, for the FCF, I will be checking you out come next season, coach. I will tell you that I do Watch and keep up and follow everybody that has been on the show too as well. So you're just another notch in that I will be checking out. I am a huge fan of ESPN plus and everything like that, so Brown is now on the Bono's watch list here for you for coming up in next season for 24.
Speaker 1:
I will be rooting for you, coach, absolutely For sure. But that is going to do it for this week's episode of the ride home rance podcast. I want to again Thank my guests, coach Tim Weaver, for coming on, take a time out of his busy schedule to sit and talk with me, as Always. If you enjoyed the show, be a friend, tell a friend. If you didn't tell him anyways, they might like it. Just because you didn't, that's gonna do it for me and I will see y'all next week. You.
