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Last Chance U's Coach Jason Brown | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #219

Today's episode is brought to you by Gray Block Pizza.
Gray Block Pizza is in Los Angeles at 1811 Pico Boulevard on the way to the
beach.
Gray Block, get that hitter.
Today's guest is a man that I've wanted to come in for probably about a year, I
guess.
And he is, you know him from Last Chance U.
He's quite a polarizing figure.
I mean, if he were in the wilderness, he would be a polarizing bear.
He's also the author of Hate Me Now and Love Me Later.
It's a new book, you can get it on Amazon.
Ladies and gentlemen, Coach Jason Brown.
What's up, Slap Dicks, man?
That's probably my favorite, man.
Is it?
Yeah, because I grew up, man, we had a coach, man, and he would always call us
numb nuts all the time.
He'd be like, you jackasses.
He'd be like, get your dick out of each other's butts and get out here.
That's what he'd say.
He'd come in the locker room and say that.
No doubt.
Yeah.
Hey, Slap Dicks been around.
Yeah, Slap Dicks been around.
It's been a long time, man.
Coach Jason Brown, nice to see you today, man.
Yeah, appreciate you having me.
Yeah, it's an honor, man.
It's a pleasure, man.
I'm hot off the second season of y'all's show.
Okay, good deal.
I haven't watched it yet, man.
I haven't watched the first one.
Really?
Nah.
I've seen bits and pieces here and there, but not.
Let's get you closer.
Sorry, let's get a little closer.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
Yeah, don't be afraid to eat it like this.
Okay, gotcha.
Right up on it.
Okay, cool.
How many of the players are, I mean, how much coaching are you able to do at
the JUCO level?
And how much of it is just like sheep herding, just guys who are just real,
just fucking.
Good question, man.
A lot of people don't ask that question.
They don't realize what.
Just Muppets.
I'm sure you get some Muppets at that level.
I grew up around Muppets, so I know what it's like to be around them.
No doubt.
You don't coach a lot, man.
People don't realize.
I can coach with anybody in the country, and they'll tell you.
The D1 guys that know me, you know, I grew up, I got my name as a coach, X's
and O's.
A lot of people stole things from me offensively.
Won't get into that, but became a, once you get that head job, which I've had a
few of them,
you become a manager now.
And in Kansas, at Independence, man, I didn't have the opportunity to hire an
offensive coordinator
because we didn't have the resources.
So since that was my baby, I said, you know what?
Screw it.
I'll run the O.
Spend more money on defensive side or hire an offensive line coach.
So I did those things where you compare that to Buddy Stevens' first year or
two years on the show.
He didn't do much of any coaching at all.
He managed as well, and he had that thing rolling.
I was in the process of building like he did, but he's been there 10 plus years.
I was there year one starting this program, so I said, let me take the offense.
He's got the resources built up to where he could hire some coaches and pay
them.
And so was there a reason why suddenly some of the finances wasn't there?
Just were never there.
Right.
And what we got going there, shoot, man.
The money that we raised, me and my boss, Tammy, we came up with a lot of money
to get some decent coaches
that we could get, but we still had, shoot.
So I'd average about 15 to 17 coaches a year, more than anybody in JUCO.
And probably eight of them run paid.
So they were guys that I gutted and worked hard.
But shoot, 17 of them got D1 jobs, too, in three years.
Wow.
Yeah.
So, you know.
Hate me now, love me later.
Yeah.
Look, man.
Well, that's the book, right?
That's the book.
That's the book, man.
I appreciate this copy.
No doubt.
But how much of it, like when you get a lot of these players, because at that
level,
it's a lot of players that have already had a first and second chance, kind of?
Or is that not the case?
Is it a lot of guys who you're able to go and get them right out of high school
and bring them in directly?
So I get three types of kids.
Okay.
All right.
So one is the high school non-qualifier.
He didn't qualify out of high school.
He was a Division I prospect.
Yeah.
Didn't have the grades.
I go get those kids.
Okay.
Best of the best of those kids.
The second type of kid is a D1 kid that went to the four-year.
So went to Alabama, went to Georgia, wherever, and flunked out, smoked weed,
got kicked out,
had some type of charge.
And they're already at these universities.
I'm sorry.
Go on to the third one.
What's the third one?
No.
And then the third one is the kid that's at the D1 as well, who's a good kid,
good grades,
does everything right, isn't playing the amount of time he wants to play, and
says,
you know what?
Screw it.
I want a shot to go get re-recruited.
Comes to me.
And that's a Jonathan Banks that played at Tulane, or he was at Kansas State,
actually.
So it came from Kansas State to me, back to Tulane.
Yeah.
So those are what we call 4-2-4 kids.
They were at a four-year, came to a two-year, and went back to a four-year.
Okay.
So we get a lot of those.
So they're coming down to get the tape, to get the film, to get the stats, and
then
go back up to another place where they can start work immediately.
No doubt.
No doubt.
And I've had, shoot, you know, last year alone, we had 28 D1 transfers.
And, you know, nobody in the country has that, but only eight of them played.
So usually, you think about it, a lot of those kids are broken.
They're far, far, they're probably, we call it damaged goods.
So can I, the D1 coach that sends me those kids.
Yeah, because you're herding sheep, and some of the sheep have, like, prison
time.
Oh, yeah.
No doubt.
Damn, the sheep's tatted up.
No doubt.
No doubt.
And I gotta, and I gotta fucking massage them.
I know.
That's what I'm saying, bro.
You're trying to make veal out of lamb.
Hell, yeah.
You know, that's wild.
Chicken, salad, chicken shit.
But, you know, we get it going, man.
We, you know, the D1 coach sends me the kid.
Yeah.
Over most coaches, because of the fact they know my reputation precedes itself
as far as when
my kid leaves me, he don't fuck up at the next level.
He don't get kicked out.
So 222 kids, which I'm most proud of, Division I in my coaching career, never
had a kid get
kicked out of a four-year or go to jail.
That left me.
That left you and went to a four-year?
Nope, never.
Is that, you don't see a lot of that on the show.
No, I know.
They don't show, I know.
They don't show a lot of that stuff.
They don't really, we had 101 kids sign scholarships in three years there,
which is, no, nothing
close to that.
And they don't show that, really.
They don't show all the names.
To put it in perspective, the first year's show, last year, when we won it,
five kids
they showcase.
Emmett Gooden, Rakeem Boyd, Malik Henry, Bobby Bruce.
Yeah.
They don't show the other 40 kids that signed Division I.
There's 40 kids signed D1 that year.
I see.
So, yeah, you're only getting a taste.
Is that because they only chose those kids?
Do the kids kind of do an initial interview and then they're like, okay, these
are the ones
that we want to focus on?
They do, they spend tons of time early on trying to find who their guys are
going to
be.
The storyline.
And so, you know, it's unfortunate.
Like, Jermaine Johnson this year was at Georgia.
Yeah, yeah.
Number one player in the country.
Koi Dang, the number two player in the country, who's at Cal.
We had both of them, so.
And you never even saw Koi.
You didn't see him at all.
So, is it because they didn't fucking rob McDonald's or is it they didn't have
the
broken life that a lot of the other ones did?
Who knows?
Right.
They kind of stayed out the limelight.
They just did their business, handled it, and got on.
But, you know, we sent a kid to Cal Berkeley, Koi Dang.
Wow.
And we sent a kid to Vanderbilt in the same season last year, a kid named Dante
Carey
Williams.
That's never happened in junior college ever.
Sent a kid to Vanderbilt and Cal.
The reason I say that is, I don't know if you know, Cal Berkeley and Vanderbilt
are probably
the two highest prestigious academic schools in the country.
Juco kids don't go to those two schools.
Right.
So, you're saying that, yeah, a lot of the work that you do, the show obviously
doesn't
reflect that.
No, not at all.
It's just not part of their story.
Yeah, not part of their story.
You know, it's Hollywood.
They got to make great ratings.
And, you know, if I'd have known going in and did some more research, because,
you know,
Greg Whiteley, the producer, does a great job.
I think he depicts it the way that, I don't think he's out to screw me or
anybody.
I just think that you could be the best filmmaker in America, and he's a great
one.
He filmed Mick Romney for all those years, and that documentary he did, and
Netflix, he
has a lot of shows.
Oh, Mick Romney with the, who did the climate change?
Was that Mick Romney?
No, that was...
Is Mitten, is his first name Mitten?
I don't even know who the fuck it is.
I don't even know who the fuck it is.
But, no, that was the other dude, Gore, wasn't it?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I think that was Gore, but...
One of those fucking guys, bro.
Slapdick, global warming deal.
But, jeez.
But, Mitt Romney, I guess, was running for president or whatever.
I don't know.
I don't know shit about him.
Yeah.
But he followed, he did his documentary, the same deal.
You know, it looks like they've done a great job.
Yeah, he did a great job filming it.
I just don't know if he knows the complete inside, the intricacies that go into
junior college
kids, the broken home background, the coaches' backgrounds, and they're broken,
too.
Oh, you got a bunch of fucking Muppets, yeah.
Coaches, too.
We're broken.
And I think you'd have to be to spend time around, you know, to be in that
environment and
not get so affected by it.
And a lot of people don't know your...
So, your story, you're from California, right?
Yep.
You grew up in Compton, right?
Yep, yep.
And you played quarterback.
Yep, quarterback.
Whole life.
Yeah.
Yep, yep.
And so, what was some of that, like, growing up?
Like, what was some of...
Like, did you have, like, a role model kind of, and were your folks around?
What was your vibe?
Nah, you know, I had my pops and mom around.
They divorced when I was young.
And they're both white?
Yep, both white.
Both white.
Living with...
Ended up choosing to leave with my dad.
So, we went on and all over the place in California, though.
And then, he was a truck mechanic, diesel mechanic, and, you know, liked to
drink and come home,
fall asleep.
And you know probably why they divorced, to be honest.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But, you know how that goes.
He was a roughneck, and so...
I love diesel, bro.
Yeah, that's what he did, man.
But, and then...
So, I had those guys.
It wasn't like I didn't have the support.
They were there for me.
It was just one of those deals where I was kind of on my own the whole time,
doing my own thing, man.
Yeah, you seem like a guy that likes to do your own thing.
Yeah, so...
Yeah, some of it is you just making your own choices.
Some of those environments make you become that person.
Product of your environment.
Yeah.
You know, I'm a chameleon, they call me, man.
Yeah.
I can go in and walk into any type of...
Any home, any background, walk down any street in the country, in my opinion.
And I think that real recognizes real.
Yeah.
And they know, I'm not fucking with that guy.
Yeah, I like that shit, man.
Yeah, you seem like you gotta fucking hit somebody with a sword, bro.
Yeah, I mean, you know, see, years ago, I used to look that shit up.
Did you?
I would hope somebody would look at me.
Oh, look for trouble?
I would hope somebody looked at me.
I just, you know, I just think that they knew.
Yeah.
Nowadays, you know, they still know, but I'm not looking it up.
Back in the day, I would look at you a little longer, you know, but, you know,
you gotta grow up.
That's brave, man.
You gotta mature, man, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah, you gotta be brave, I think.
You know, I think you gotta be br