Now coaching Hustle Inc. 405's elite 7-on-7 squad, ex-Sooners quarterback Charles Thompson and current OU backup Casey Thompson are intense competitors.
BROKEN ARROW, OK — New take on an old joke: how many Oklahoma quarterbacks does it take to coach a 7-on-7 football team?Long time youth coach Charles Thompson and his son Casey spent the offseason coaching Hustle Inc. 405’s elite 7-on-7 squad, and of course it was a fulfilling family experience.
Casey was a dual-threat master of the spread at Southmoore and Newcastle, amassing 13,078 yards and 154 touchdowns before heading off to college. “It’s just all about time management, making it a priority,” Casey told Sooners on SI. “We all have 24 hours in a day, seven days in a week. It’s all about how you spend your time and what you do with it. I love football. I love the game and what it’s done for me, and I always want to give back.
“I remember coming into this tournament a couple years ago, and I was having trouble getting the kids to understand the system,” Charles said. “I called Casey on the phone. At the time he was at the University of Texas. I said, ‘I need an offense.’ So he started installing our offense and we started running a lot of Texas’ stuff and that concept, and that’s what we’re doing now.
“I would say it’s moreso about the fact that they know we know what we’re talking about,” Casey said. “They know the system and the plays and the technique we’re teaching, the reads we’re installing, the work ethic we’re putting in. They know it’s coming from a place of expertise. It’s not coming from us. This is just stuff we’re passing down. He’s learned it from Barry Switzer and teams that he’s played on, and I’ve learned this stuff from a lot of the coaches I’ve had over the years.
And the Thompsons can match that intensity. Coaching from the sideline is precise and can be businesslike, but when the team was eliminated early from last spring’s event in Broken Arrow, Charles lit into them for a good 10 minutes, followed by 10 more minutes from the defensive coordinator and almost 15 minutes from Casey, the offensive coordinator.
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