Talking Preps: Recent Episodes
Langston Wertz Jr.
Each week, Langston Wertz Jr. sits down with the leading authorities and analysts in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region to bring you unrivaled insights into North Carolina's hottest prep sports scene.
We preview all 8 of Friday's regional championships, plus new state rankings, players of the weeks and player interviews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We preview the second round of the NCHSAA playoffs and NCISAA semifinals. Rick and Randall join to break down basketball season with boys and girls preseason NC rankings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Talking Preps crew previews the NC High School Athletic Association and NC Independent Schools Athletic Association playoffs, which begin Friday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Talking Preps crew previews the final week of the NC high school football regular season, introduces the state players of the week and talks Charlotte 49ers football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Talking Preps previews Week 10 of the NC high school football season, introducing the state's best games and last week's players of the week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An in-depth preview of Week 9 of the NC high school football season with rankings, key games, top players plus a discussion about how former West Charlotte High player Steve Wilks got the head job with the NFL's Carolina Panthers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A preview of Week 8 of the NC high school football season, plus discussion of how a mock slave auction ended a team's season, which rule is toughest to officiate in high school and new statewide rankings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The crew discusses a botched call that hurt West Meck's playoff chances, fans upset in Garner, plus the state's best preview of Week 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Talking Preps crew breaks down Week 6 of the NC high school football season, with new state rankings, a discussion about RPI playoff rankings and Dale is out about referees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We preview week 5 of the HS football season. Guest include Weddington coach Andy Capone, Chambers' Brandon Wiggins, Millbrook QB Mason Fortune and local sports talk host Matt "Pepman" Morrow. We've also got a new Mr. Football Update Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hickory Ridge coach Jupiter Wilson and Chambers' Brandon Wiggins are among this week's guest as we preview Week 4, release new statewide rankings and discuss the future of the Shrine Bowl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previewing Week 3 of the NC high school football season with Charlotte Catholic coach Mike Brodowicz and Providence Day's Chad Grier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Providence Day QB Jadyn Davis, the No. 2 recruit at his position nationally, has thrown for 10 TDs in his first two weeks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 3 NC high school football preview with Catholic coach Mike Brodowicz, QB Sean Boyle and Providence Day's Chad Grier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chambers High AD Montis Lash talks social media, building a brand, winning titles on Talking Preps OT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On a busy episode Sam Greiner returns and Independence High QB Justin Little joins the show. Chelsea interviews Olympic's Eliyt Naire, a Liberty recruit, and we celebrate the return of Fresh Faces and Grice's Gems Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ahead of Saturday’s huge showdown with Chambers, Cardinal Gibbons coach Steven Wright sits down on Talking Preps OT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In our first show of the 2022 season, we break down the top games, and introduce our first statewide polls and reveal the first Mr. Football watchlist of the season
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We look at if high school kids need to leave their home schools to make it big, plus state rankings and Mr./Ms. Basketball updates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Has high school basketball recruiting changed forever? The Talking Preps crew debates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The first Talking Preps Basketball Podcast of the 21-22 season and we've got state rankings plus our Mr./Ms. Basketball Watchlist, Weddington High's Chase Lowe and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After 31 years of coaching, Hough High football coach Matthew Jenkins says winning a state championship isn't the most important thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A deep dive into the NCHSAA state semifinals games, plus updates to the NC Super Team and Mr. Football Awards. South Meck star Jacob Newman drops by and Chris drops new statewide rankings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Glenwood Ferebee said he applied and didn't several jobs in Charlotte before he landed at Chambers High -- and won two state titles. He's trying to a third. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The crew breaks down Round 3 of the football playoffs; UNC recruit Omarion Hampton and Porter Ridge's Will Hart join the show. We release preseason all-state boys, girls basketball teams and rankings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The crew breaks down Week 2 of the NC high school football playoffs, updates the Mr. Football Watchlist and breaks down Chambers-Hickory Ridge, the state game of the week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
He coaches with a lot of passion and wears his heart on his sleeve. Richmond Senior's Bryan Till joins the show for an electric and emotional interview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previewing the NC public school and private school football playoffs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A former star at BYU, Derwin Gray played for the Colts and Panthers before becoming a pastor. He talks about prayer, football and more on Talking Preps OT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The crew discusses the fallout after a thin blue line flag was flown at a Charlotte high school football game, the new NCHSAA state playoff formula and we breakout new Mr. Football and state rankings, plus a preview of the week's top games Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
South Mecklenburg senior RB Jacob Newman had to wait his turn but is delivering his senior season. He's got the Sabres on the verge of a rare league title Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
His kids are internet celebrities and an NFL quarterback for Jerry Jones, but Chad Grier's high school coaching career has been stellar: multiple state championships, dozens of college recruits and a dream to make Providence Day a national power. In Year 2, in south Charlotte, Grier gets candid on Talking Preps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We talk about a banner that got a NC cheerleading team and staff disciplined, break down the week's top games and cut our Mr. Football list to 12. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An all-CIAA player at Elizabeth City State, Antonio Moore dreamed of working for the FBI and his first job at a prison, but the tug of community and building young men brought him back to high school. And he's done very, very well Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020 US presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen was on Talking Preps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
He's been a referee and a long time sports fan, and a mayor and a Governor. Pat McCrory stopped by Talking Preps last year to discuss his career and his future Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Supt. Earnest Winston joined the show in July 2020 and talked about the district and its future Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In April 2020, brothers Chazz and Sage Surratt joined the show to talk about growing up in football, college and the then looming NFL draft Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Charlotte 49ers football coach Will Healy talks about how Club Lit got started and how he's steering his program forward on Talking Preps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
the Talking Preps crew examines whether pop-up schools and new schools like Kanye West's Donda Prep will seriously disrupt the sport. Plus a breakdown of the week's biggest prep football games in North Carolina Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After a stellar career at Charlotte's Mallard Creek High School, Marquise Williams went onto play four years with North Carolina. He discusses the highs and lows of his career, as well as getting to play alongside Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, who still sends him Christmas gifts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Talking Preps debates after an Olympic High football student, facing sexual charges, plays in a game and young women who protest that were suspended. Also new Mr. Football, state rankings and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
She's in talks to become one of the first, if not the first, female to run a shoe-sponsored boys travel basketball team and she may be on the cover of SLAM Magazine to boot. Meet new Mallard Creek High girls basketball coach Karlyn Dixon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We talk ACC football, like who's the best team, introduce new statewide polls and update our Mr. football watch list. We also debate crowds storming courts after big wins and CMS' talent retention problem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Daylan Smothers has the nickname "Hollywood" because of how he plays under the biggest of lights. He's got more than 25 scholarship offers from big name schools like Michigan and Tennessee and Louisville. He has a big game against nationally ranked Hough coming up with his teammates. He discusses on Talking Preps OT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have five new teams in state rankings, a new No. 1 in our Mr. Football Watchlist and we debate high school recruiting changes and politics in NC prep sports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
He played with Cam Newton and Steve Smith and former Carolina Panthers defensive back Captain Munnerlyn opens up about both of them as well as former coach Ron Rivera and former owner Jerry Richardson. He also talks about the current team and QB Sam Darnold and star RB Christian McCaffrey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
NC State football coach Dave Doeren was on Talking Preps and talked about wanting to play Duke more and offered advice to parents who want to get their kids recruited Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two days after his grandmother passed away, Rocky River (NC) High School star Rashaad McCollum put up a five sack game. A year ago, he lost his father and other grandmother to COVID Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aaron Brand has learned the game from a legend, Dutch Fork coach Tom Knotts, and he stops by Talking Preps OT to talk about Knotts, coaching at West Charlotte, Independence and Mallard Creek -- plus how he laid the foundation for a dynasty at Julius Chambers High in Charlotte Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In a new Talking Preps, the crew reviews a busy week of action, a dire prediction from a health expert on Wake County Schools, we update the Mr. Football and statewide ranking and debate Leesville Road and New Hanover Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Just an hour away from Raleigh, Tarboro High School football coach Jeff Craddock has built a high school football dynasty. He's won six NC High School Athletic Association state championships and coached dozens of college players, including a future Georgia Bulldog and NFL running back named Todd Gurley. Craddock talks Gurley, winning and staying on top on Talking Preps OT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We recap a big week of games, look ahead to an even bigger one and reveal new No. 1s in the Mr. Football Watchlist and top 15 statewide rankings. Chelsea interviews South Meck lineman Taron Williams and Providence's Nate Hajduk takes on Sam on the Game Show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Butler High football coach talks about how a Carolina Panthers player brought him to Charlotte, how he built his state championship resume, and finally beating his arch rival, Tom Knotts' Independence Patriots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools names history-making new athletic director, we rank the Mr. Football candidates and preview the week's top games Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
NC state senator Vickie Sawyer joins the show to discuss House Bill 91, which could eliminate private schools from the association and, at one point, could've ended the NCHSAA. Chris Hughes ranks every public school football-playing team in the state and we reveal our top 25 Mr. Football Watchlist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In June 2020, former Charlotte mayor and NC Governor Pat McCrory stopped by Talking Preps last spring to talk about possibly running for office again (he is, for NC Senate), the George Floyd protests, and his views on his days as Senator and he talks about the N.C. school system at length Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
UNC football coach Mack Brown stops by again to chat with the Talking Preps crew. Brown talks recruiting statewide and nationally, where he thinks the Tar Heels are on the national landscape and navigating through the current world we're living in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices