Speaker 1: If you are someone who lives and breathes draft contents,
Speaker 1: or someone who's just been trying to catch up on
Speaker 1: what everyone's talking about this time of year getting ready
Speaker 1: for the draft. Odds are you have come across a
Speaker 1: guy who is one of the foremost draft content producing
Speaker 1: machines these days, Frankie Vision. Some others out there might
Speaker 1: be like, who the heck are you talking about? Brian Well,
Speaker 1: Frankie Vision is our guest on this episode of the podcast,
Speaker 1: and we'll get into who he is, what he does,
Speaker 1: and how he started to do it in just a
Speaker 1: matter of moments. I want to remind you to subscribe
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Speaker 1: So for this episode of the podcast, thought might be
Speaker 1: time why not change up the pace a little bit.
Speaker 1: We've done a lot of interviews with guys asking who
Speaker 1: to the sixers, like, who might make a great fit
Speaker 1: with the seventy sixers, what direction might they be leaning,
Speaker 1: So to take somewhat of a break about a week
Speaker 1: out from the draft, thought, why not reach out to
Speaker 1: a guy who has watched, you would have to think
Speaker 1: as much film, certainly cut up as much film as
Speaker 1: just about anyone out there. And that is Frankie Vision.
Speaker 1: Quick background, He's gotten videos all over YouTube on the
Speaker 1: top prospects in the draft. To go to YouTube and
Speaker 1: you type in Frankie Vision, it'll take you to his
Speaker 1: channel where he has now nearly one hundred and fifteen
Speaker 1: at thousand subscribers. And for me, the way I snubbled
Speaker 1: upon Frankie Vision was around this time last year, after
Speaker 1: the season, I was trying to get caught up on
Speaker 1: draft prospects and watch some game film of top guys
Speaker 1: who the Sixers were looking at. And I found more
Speaker 1: and more when I was going on YouTube looking for
Speaker 1: highlights and footage, that there were great montages put together
Speaker 1: by this service, Frankie Vision. Then I started asking people
Speaker 1: around the office, well have you heard of Frankie Vision before?
Speaker 1: Do you know anything about him? Some people knew exactly
Speaker 1: who he was, others it was like I was speaking
Speaker 1: a different language. But given how much his operation and
Speaker 1: his following has grown in less than two years time,
Speaker 1: it would be safe to say that Frankie Vision is
Speaker 1: becoming a more and more familiar name to those people
Speaker 1: who follow the draft. And on that note, we bring
Speaker 1: in the man himself, Frankie Vision. What's up man, Thanks
Speaker 1: for doing this, doing great, doing great. I have got
Speaker 1: to say the service you provide is fantastic. It is comprehensive.
Speaker 1: It's like one stop shopping for anyone who is trying
Speaker 1: to catch up on finding out who you need to
Speaker 1: track in the draft. It's awesome. I appreciate it, man,
Speaker 1: That's why we do it. So. Your YouTube channel has
Speaker 1: over one hundred ten almost about one hundred fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: subscribers right now, and I cannot blame a single one
Speaker 1: of them for being on there. You could watch stuff
Speaker 1: like Dante de Vincenzo Adida's nation's highlight footage, Luca dontchage
Speaker 1: from overseas and montage of him. This has got to
Speaker 1: have grown into something pretty massive for you. It would seem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it happened, uh pretty fast, rapidly. So when did you start?
Speaker 1: I started about in August twenty sixteen. I was posting
Speaker 1: uh Rojron Wondo high school footage. I went to high
Speaker 1: school with him and uh I had some days high
Speaker 1: school footage to sign it to post it, and you
Speaker 1: know it just kind of grew from the Was it
Speaker 1: something that grew based upon people watching the video and
Speaker 1: picking up some viral steam or were you like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what clipping highlights that's kind of fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was just kind of fun. I started posting a
Speaker 1: Kentucky Wildcat highlights because those my team. That was my team,
Speaker 1: uh like Darren Foxing a week month. Then like after that,
Speaker 1: people just are requesting more and more players, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm just stop posting them. You're based in Louisville. Is
Speaker 1: that difficult to be a Wildcat fan in that part
Speaker 1: of the state? Uh? Now, because we win most of
Speaker 1: the time so well put so this type of year,
Speaker 1: it give me a sense of what type of traffic
Speaker 1: you're generating. Uh, this year, I guess what, we post
Speaker 1: so much videos that it generates a lot of traffic.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like it was last year because you know,
Speaker 1: those like bigger names superstars last year. But you know,
Speaker 1: I guess what, people like Luca and David Kenzo came
Speaker 1: up out of nowhere and try young. You know that
Speaker 1: helped out a lot. I mean, as we talked about,
Speaker 1: you do have stuff for guys from all different levels
Speaker 1: of play, and it seems like your operation has grown
Speaker 1: pretty rapidly. When did you realize that you had something
Speaker 1: on your hands here? Probably about like December of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: On January twenty seventeen, did you attribute to the quality
Speaker 1: of players that were going into the draft that year?
Speaker 1: Was that your focus to target guys who were draft prospects?
Speaker 1: I mean that was my main focus. Yeah, Like Lonzo Ball,
Speaker 1: he had generated so much traffic, and you know, I
Speaker 1: could get his game up like five or ten minutes
Speaker 1: after the game was over, So I helped out a lot.
Speaker 1: How do you do that? How is the turnaround so quick?
Speaker 1: Just record the games and I just edited while the
Speaker 1: game's going on, so like when the first half is
Speaker 1: over and I already had the highlights done. We were
Speaker 1: a pretty comprehensive video department here at the seventy six ers,
Speaker 1: and they are really good at what they do. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure if they can always pump out a
Speaker 1: turnaround video had amount of time. So I mean, did
Speaker 1: you have a background in video production anything like that. No,
Speaker 1: I just once I started doing the Rondo highlights and
Speaker 1: I decided I don't want to keep doing it. I
Speaker 1: just started YouTube and googling how to get games and
Speaker 1: edit them, and I guess I found a really fast method.
Speaker 1: Is this something that you do full time? Now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's full time now? It was that the original play
Speaker 1: or did you have to balance it with something else
Speaker 1: you were doing? Um? No, I was my dad. He
Speaker 1: owns McDonald's hen Louisville, so I was like the I
Speaker 1: T manager there and I had a lot of off time,
Speaker 1: free time, so I just started doing highlights and it
Speaker 1: kind of grew get paid for them. So full time
Speaker 1: that's so great. Um. So what is the I guess,
Speaker 1: typical day like for you? Well, actually, let me let
Speaker 1: me go back. What is your busiest time of year?
Speaker 1: I would assume the college basketball season, right, Yeah, was Saturdays,
Speaker 1: and um conference tournament is the busiest time. Okay, So
Speaker 1: then what is the typical day like for you during
Speaker 1: that time of year? Oh? Man, Saturday, I'll probably wake
Speaker 1: up eating breakfast and some on my computer. I'm recording
Speaker 1: like three or four games at a time and just
Speaker 1: kind of trying to monitor all of them and just
Speaker 1: posting highlights, trying to add them as fast as I can.
Speaker 1: But I got actually another guy who helps me out now,
Speaker 1: so it's a little easier. You're now a two person operation.
Speaker 1: Well last well it's like five of us now, but
Speaker 1: last season it was like just two of us post
Speaker 1: to highlights from college basketball, Like is this we pull
Speaker 1: on all nighters that sort of thing? Are they those
Speaker 1: types of days? Yeah? I had to stay up for
Speaker 1: the Lake because the West Coast teams like UCLA, Arizona
Speaker 1: teams up in the Pac twel we had to stay
Speaker 1: up late. Down't come on to like ten to thirty
Speaker 1: eleven our time, So you know, we had to stay
Speaker 1: up a long time. Do you target specific games that
Speaker 1: you're gonna cut highlights from or is it sometimes reactionary
Speaker 1: if someone goes off and has a huge night. Well,
Speaker 1: we have our list of like targets of players, and
Speaker 1: we try to knock these players out, and then like
Speaker 1: people will comment and let me know who went off.
Speaker 1: Don't hurry up and go get the game and uh
Speaker 1: break it down for them. This might seem like a
Speaker 1: silly question, but is this anything that could have possibly
Speaker 1: happened without the way social media and digital media is now,
Speaker 1: Because it sounds like there's a lot of interaction between
Speaker 1: yourself and the people who consume your content. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it probably wouldn't have because the house what they reached
Speaker 1: me and let me know. I didn't even know who
Speaker 1: mark el Folks was last year Get out of Here
Speaker 1: I started. I was just so fused Kentucky players, like, um,
Speaker 1: yeah they I didn't know who Lines Oball was. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. The only person knew was like Danni Smith
Speaker 1: Song learned to like I learned about Miles Bridges and
Speaker 1: Josh Jackson and I hope you know a lot of
Speaker 1: other players when I first started. That is hilarious. So
Speaker 1: when did you find out who they were? Somebody was
Speaker 1: coming on my one of my videos, like Darn Fox
Speaker 1: was like, hey man, post lines, post lines Oball, and
Speaker 1: I finally went to go watch one of his games
Speaker 1: and I posted it and then got like two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand views. Such an organic, homegrown story. Did you ever
Speaker 1: think that it would spawn into something like this? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't, honestly. Now as you're looking at some of
Speaker 1: this stuff, Um, at this point of the year, is
Speaker 1: it going back and just putting together compilations? Um? Is
Speaker 1: this a little bit easier time of the year than
Speaker 1: in the season. Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, that's White Chield.
Speaker 1: So we just like put together compilations and kind of
Speaker 1: get high school kids and the video breakdowns we just
Speaker 1: started this year, kind of like with Draft Express used
Speaker 1: to do. When when have you found that people really
Speaker 1: start digging into draft content? I mean people kind of
Speaker 1: watch all year, but I noticed like a lot more
Speaker 1: comments on older videos around this time. And then like
Speaker 1: right after the draft, it's like people will come and
Speaker 1: let's see what player who they drafted or who they
Speaker 1: could potential league draft stuff like that. And now you're
Speaker 1: doing your own filming too these days, right. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: started filming in high school because I figured that, you know,
Speaker 1: the high school and college kind of compliment each other.
Speaker 1: So get everybody heads up, look at you know what's coming?
Speaker 1: Do you like the NBA? Yeah? I love it? Via
Speaker 1: that saw all I've watched before I started doing this.
Speaker 1: Who's uh? You hadn't mentioned Region Rondo but a favorite
Speaker 1: squad or other favorite players. I hate to say it,
Speaker 1: but it's Lebron Well, there's no reason to hate to
Speaker 1: say that. Some most of the world coasts have been
Speaker 1: a fan of him, and yeah, especially especially these days
Speaker 1: going to the offseason, I would think, what do you,
Speaker 1: what do you think of this year's draft and the
Speaker 1: caliber of players that are in it. Now. I like
Speaker 1: the lottery a lot, but after that, it's just like
Speaker 1: a toss up. Really, there's no like superstar players like
Speaker 1: it was last year, I think. But and it also
Speaker 1: seems like a lot of the players who are at
Speaker 1: least generating most of the attention at the top of
Speaker 1: the draft, they're bigs and it's hard to tell the
Speaker 1: way the game's being played today just how exactly they
Speaker 1: could pan out. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Last year we had
Speaker 1: like a guard dominated uh draft, So I got a
Speaker 1: lot of more memes off that. But if you had
Speaker 1: to pick a put together a best of this year's
Speaker 1: draft class um video list. Are there certain videos that
Speaker 1: you guys have up as a part of your channel
Speaker 1: that you would recommend that you consider must watch viewing
Speaker 1: of a specific player, Yeah, or a couple of players.
Speaker 1: I think that Marvin Bagley against Texas game that we did,
Speaker 1: I think that's a really good one when he kind
Speaker 1: of went head to head with Mo Bamba. It's a
Speaker 1: great game two guys that are looking at potentially like
Speaker 1: their top ten picks. Yeah, I think that was a
Speaker 1: really good game. Um, not really any that come to
Speaker 1: my head. That was my favorite video all day we did.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, was there one play from any player, whether
Speaker 1: it was a top five guy or you know, fifty
Speaker 1: five to sixty guy projecting the draft that you consider
Speaker 1: your favorite from this past season? Of course, Trey Young.
Speaker 1: I liked him a lot, But I'm really in love
Speaker 1: with Kelan Martin. From a butler, What do you like
Speaker 1: about his game? He's just you know, he's he scored
Speaker 1: all three levels, he got the lengthy seventy three wingspan,
Speaker 1: he's sixty seven. Kind of reminds me of like that
Speaker 1: Draymond Green type player, four year senior, three n D
Speaker 1: type of guy. So he's just one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: When there's a player who and this is not to
Speaker 1: discredit someone like a Dante de Vincenzo who at least
Speaker 1: the general public comes out of nowhere and has a
Speaker 1: huge game like he did in the NCAA Championship game
Speaker 1: against Michigan. Do you see that as a factor that
Speaker 1: influences the traffic that you get and just the demand
Speaker 1: for that type of video to see a player like that,
Speaker 1: um go off in that type of game. Yeah, someone
Speaker 1: the I guess New Jersey base On Philadelphia base fans
Speaker 1: were asking for the demon chenso all season like the
Speaker 1: mending them then mending him like crazy. He was one
Speaker 1: of my high demands. Do you have any sense about
Speaker 1: what the demographic is for your fan base? At least
Speaker 1: around here and talking to some of the people that
Speaker 1: work for the team, it's like a lot of younger
Speaker 1: college age kids that have just kind of caught wint
Speaker 1: to what you're doing and then follow along. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: I mean it's all ages. I think last of my
Speaker 1: tech it was like eighteen to like fifteen, maybe forty
Speaker 1: five or most of my viewerships. So yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of college kids watched me more than most if I
Speaker 1: go to college campus as they all recognize me and stuff.
Speaker 1: So is that with or without the Frankie Vision shirt
Speaker 1: they swithout? Now? Sometimes I just worry regular Jack and
Speaker 1: they still come up and actual pictures of stuff. Who
Speaker 1: would have thought just a series of Ray Jean Rondo
Speaker 1: highlights before. I's still a little uncomfortable. People ask stuff,
Speaker 1: how often do you get out the games? Oh? I
Speaker 1: go a lot now since we have people posting the
Speaker 1: college highlights, I try to get out as much as
Speaker 1: I can, Like, uh, we're going to the NBPA Top
Speaker 1: one hundred this week in Virginia University, Colorado Springs. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I try to go to the high school games a lot,
Speaker 1: not really college as much. Have you ever had anyone
Speaker 1: from a pro team approach you and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I watched some of your videos too? Yeah it was
Speaker 1: some got from the Phoenix Suns. I honestly forgot what
Speaker 1: his name was, but here I reached out and let
Speaker 1: me know that what I did was a big help
Speaker 1: for him and stuff like that. So cool. Who do
Speaker 1: you think we might be talking about this time next
Speaker 1: year as you look ahead to future draft classes? Form
Speaker 1: on link for it. Okay, all right, what for those
Speaker 1: who are uninitiated with the incoming class of talent for
Speaker 1: the college vil next year? What about his game stands out? Um?
Speaker 1: He just he does it all. I think he really
Speaker 1: has no weakness. Really, I mean, he plays greg d
Speaker 1: you know, he's athletic. He could score. He got an
Speaker 1: NBA NBA range, he could score all three levels. He
Speaker 1: got a met range. Like I said, NBA range three
Speaker 1: can go into lane, dunk on, you can drible create
Speaker 1: his own shot. He does it all. He's great rebounder
Speaker 1: and great defender, blocker, shot blocker, he does. There's nothing
Speaker 1: he can't do. A guy like him, obviously there's some
Speaker 1: hype and build up around but do you find yourself
Speaker 1: now that you're going to more of these events? You
Speaker 1: could sit down watch a couple of these showcases and
Speaker 1: you're like, hey, whose number whatever it is? And then
Speaker 1: you're discovering on your own guys that have talent all
Speaker 1: the time, especially at like the a U circuits like
Speaker 1: E Y b L or Adidas Gauntlet, You're always gonna
Speaker 1: find somebody like that playing against a person that you're
Speaker 1: recording great. It seems like it could be at times
Speaker 1: kind of like a needle in a haystack type of situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is, Well what do you make all this? If
Speaker 1: you had any way to sum up your story? And
Speaker 1: you know, I know it's it's only been a couple
Speaker 1: of years, but it seems like you definitely m intentionally
Speaker 1: or not landed on something where it's a service to
Speaker 1: a lot of people value. Oh, you know, if you
Speaker 1: find something that you love to do, just do it,
Speaker 1: because it was actually a passion. I had a couple
Speaker 1: of my friends telling them at the beginning like what
Speaker 1: are you doing? You wasting your time and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and now to trying to give me advice on what
Speaker 1: I shouldn't shouldn't do. So I guess it's stick to it.
Speaker 1: Don't anybody tell you to. You know, you're wasting the
Speaker 1: timeline if you truly believe it's something good. And what's
Speaker 1: the best way for people if they do have future
Speaker 1: highlight requests and montage requests, what's the best way for
Speaker 1: them to get at you? Oh? This is write me
Speaker 1: on Instagram, on Twitter, dams is always open, Always check it.
Speaker 1: It is a person who creates content that is vital
Speaker 1: at this time of year, especially and also throughout the
Speaker 1: college basketball season. Frankie Vision A pleasure talking to you man,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. All right, thanks. That is the voice
Speaker 1: of the man behind so many highly viewed prospect montage
Speaker 1: videos that you'll find on YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, particularly
Speaker 1: this time of year. Frankie Vision. I thought it was
Speaker 1: great to hear about his story as much as anything
Speaker 1: else where he came from, how he tripped upon this
Speaker 1: and what his operation has grown to become. It is.
Speaker 1: It is pretty impressive stuff. We'll get back to some
Speaker 1: pre draft conversation interviews in the days ahead, coming up
Speaker 1: on Friday. Beyond the lookout for our Week in Review
Speaker 1: episode featuring interviews with some of the guys who the
Speaker 1: Sixers brought in for workouts in Kevin this past week,
Speaker 1: and Natural be coming up on Friday. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: to Frankie Vision for indulging and doing that interview. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. We'll talk to you next time here
Speaker 1: on the broadcast. Yeah.