The BroadCast: 6/13/2018 ~ Draft Pod - FrankieVision, the Draft Highlight Machine

be like, who the heck are you talking about? Brian Well, Frankie Vision is our guest on this episode of the podcast, and we'll get into who he is, what he does, and how he started to do it in just a matter of moments. I want to remind you to subscribe to the podcast. If you have not already, you can head too iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, SoundCloud, type in Sixers podcast Network and that will take you to our feed.

So for this episode of the podcast, thought might be time why not change up the pace a little bit. We've done a lot of interviews with guys asking who to the sixers, like, who might make a great fit with the seventy sixers, what direction might they be leaning, So to take somewhat of a break about a week out from the draft, thought, why not reach out to a guy who has watched, you would have to think as much film, certainly cut up as much film as

just about anyone out there. And that is Frankie Vision. Quick background, He's gotten videos all over YouTube on the top prospects in the draft. To go to YouTube and you type in Frankie Vision, it'll take you to his channel where he has now nearly one hundred and fifteen at thousand subscribers. And for me, the way I snubbled upon Frankie Vision was around this time last year, after the season, I was trying to get caught up on draft prospects and watch some game film of top guys

who the Sixers were looking at. And I found more and more when I was going on YouTube looking for highlights and footage, that there were great montages put together by this service, Frankie Vision. Then I started asking people around the office, well have you heard of Frankie Vision before? Do you know anything about him? Some people knew exactly who he was, others it was like I was speaking

a different language. But given how much his operation and his following has grown in less than two years time, it would be safe to say that Frankie Vision is becoming a more and more familiar name to those people who follow the draft. And on that note, we bring in the man himself, Frankie Vision. What's up man, Thanks for doing this, doing great, doing great. I have got to say the service you provide is fantastic. It is comprehensive.

It's like one stop shopping for anyone who is trying to catch up on finding out who you need to track in the draft. It's awesome. I appreciate it, man, That's why we do it. So. Your YouTube channel has over one hundred ten almost about one hundred fifteen thousand subscribers right now, and I cannot blame a single one of them for being on there. You could watch stuff like Dante de Vincenzo Adida's nation's highlight footage, Luca dontchage from overseas and montage of him. This has got to

have grown into something pretty massive for you. It would seem. Yeah, it happened, uh pretty fast, rapidly. So when did you start? I started about in August twenty sixteen. I was posting uh Rojron Wondo high school footage. I went to high school with him and uh I had some days high school footage to sign it to post it, and you know it just kind of grew from the Was it something that grew based upon people watching the video and picking up some viral steam or were you like, hey,

you know what clipping highlights that's kind of fun. Yeah, that was just kind of fun. I started posting a Kentucky Wildcat highlights because those my team. That was my team, uh like Darren Foxing a week month. Then like after that, people just are requesting more and more players, and uh, I'm just stop posting them. You're based in Louisville. Is that difficult to be a Wildcat fan in that part

of the state? Uh? Now, because we win most of the time so well put so this type of year, it give me a sense of what type of traffic you're generating. Uh, this year, I guess what, we post so much videos that it generates a lot of traffic. It wasn't like it was last year because you know, those like bigger names superstars last year. But you know, I guess what, people like Luca and David Kenzo came up out of nowhere and try young. You know that

helped out a lot. I mean, as we talked about, you do have stuff for guys from all different levels of play, and it seems like your operation has grown pretty rapidly. When did you realize that you had something on your hands here? Probably about like December of twenty sixteen. On January twenty seventeen, did you attribute to the quality of players that were going into the draft that year? Was that your focus to target guys who were draft prospects?

I mean that was my main focus. Yeah, Like Lonzo Ball, he had generated so much traffic, and you know, I could get his game up like five or ten minutes after the game was over, So I helped out a lot. How do you do that? How is the turnaround so quick? Just record the games and I just edited while the game's going on, so like when the first half is over and I already had the highlights done. We were a pretty comprehensive video department here at the seventy six ers,

and they are really good at what they do. I'm not even sure if they can always pump out a turnaround video had amount of time. So I mean, did you have a background in video production anything like that. No, I just once I started doing the Rondo highlights and I decided I don't want to keep doing it. I just started YouTube and googling how to get games and edit them, and I guess I found a really fast method. Is this something that you do full time? Now? Yeah,

it's full time now? It was that the original play or did you have to balance it with something else you were doing? Um? No, I was my dad. He owns McDonald's hen Louisville, so I was like the I T manager there and I had a lot of off time, free time, so I just started doing highlights and it kind of grew get paid for them. So full time that's so great. Um. So what is the I guess, typical day like for you? Well, actually, let me let me go back. What is your busiest time of year?

I would assume the college basketball season, right, Yeah, was Saturdays, and um conference tournament is the busiest time. Okay, So then what is the typical day like for you during that time of year? Oh? Man, Saturday, I'll probably wake up eating breakfast and some on my computer. I'm recording like three or four games at a time and just kind of trying to monitor all of them and just posting highlights, trying to add them as fast as I can. But I got actually another guy who helps me out now,

so it's a little easier. You're now a two person operation. Well last well it's like five of us now, but last season it was like just two of us post to highlights from college basketball, Like is this we pull on all nighters that sort of thing? Are they those types of days? Yeah? I had to stay up for the Lake because the West Coast teams like UCLA, Arizona teams up in the Pac twel we had to stay up late. Down't come on to like ten to thirty eleven our time, So you know, we had to stay

up a long time. Do you target specific games that you're gonna cut highlights from or is it sometimes reactionary if someone goes off and has a huge night. Well, we have our list of like targets of players, and we try to knock these players out, and then like people will comment and let me know who went off. Don't hurry up and go get the game and uh

break it down for them. This might seem like a silly question, but is this anything that could have possibly happened without the way social media and digital media is now, Because it sounds like there's a lot of interaction between yourself and the people who consume your content. Yeah, No, it probably wouldn't have because the house what they reached me and let me know. I didn't even know who mark el Folks was last year Get out of Here I started. I was just so fused Kentucky players, like, um,

yeah they I didn't know who Lines Oball was. I didn't know. The only person knew was like Danni Smith Song learned to like I learned about Miles Bridges and Josh Jackson and I hope you know a lot of other players when I first started. That is hilarious. So when did you find out who they were? Somebody was coming on my one of my videos, like Darn Fox was like, hey man, post lines, post lines Oball, and I finally went to go watch one of his games and I posted it and then got like two hundred

thousand views. Such an organic, homegrown story. Did you ever think that it would spawn into something like this? No? I didn't, honestly. Now as you're looking at some of this stuff, Um, at this point of the year, is it going back and just putting together compilations? Um? Is this a little bit easier time of the year than in the season. Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, that's White Chield.

So we just like put together compilations and kind of get high school kids and the video breakdowns we just started this year, kind of like with Draft Express used to do. When when have you found that people really start digging into draft content? I mean people kind of watch all year, but I noticed like a lot more comments on older videos around this time. And then like right after the draft, it's like people will come and let's see what player who they drafted or who they

could potential league draft stuff like that. And now you're doing your own filming too these days, right. Yeah, I started filming in high school because I figured that, you know, the high school and college kind of compliment each other. So get everybody heads up, look at you know what's coming? Do you like the NBA? Yeah? I love it? Via that saw all I've watched before I started doing this. Who's uh? You hadn't mentioned Region Rondo but a favorite

squad or other favorite players. I hate to say it, but it's Lebron Well, there's no reason to hate to say that. Some most of the world coasts have been a fan of him, and yeah, especially especially these days going to the offseason, I would think, what do you, what do you think of this year's draft and the caliber of players that are in it. Now. I like the lottery a lot, but after that, it's just like a toss up. Really, there's no like superstar players like

it was last year, I think. But and it also seems like a lot of the players who are at least generating most of the attention at the top of the draft, they're bigs and it's hard to tell the way the game's being played today just how exactly they could pan out. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Last year we had like a guard dominated uh draft, So I got a lot of more memes off that. But if you had to pick a put together a best of this year's

draft class um video list. Are there certain videos that you guys have up as a part of your channel that you would recommend that you consider must watch viewing of a specific player, Yeah, or a couple of players. I think that Marvin Bagley against Texas game that we did, I think that's a really good one when he kind of went head to head with Mo Bamba. It's a great game two guys that are looking at potentially like their top ten picks. Yeah, I think that was a

really good game. Um, not really any that come to my head. That was my favorite video all day we did. Oh yeah, was there one play from any player, whether it was a top five guy or you know, fifty five to sixty guy projecting the draft that you consider your favorite from this past season? Of course, Trey Young. I liked him a lot, But I'm really in love with Kelan Martin. From a butler, What do you like

about his game? He's just you know, he's he scored all three levels, he got the lengthy seventy three wingspan, he's sixty seven. Kind of reminds me of like that Draymond Green type player, four year senior, three n D type of guy. So he's just one of my favorites. When there's a player who and this is not to discredit someone like a Dante de Vincenzo who at least the general public comes out of nowhere and has a huge game like he did in the NCAA Championship game

against Michigan. Do you see that as a factor that influences the traffic that you get and just the demand for that type of video to see a player like that, um go off in that type of game. Yeah, someone the I guess New Jersey base On Philadelphia base fans were asking for the demon chenso all season like the mending them then mending him like crazy. He was one of my high demands. Do you have any sense about

what the demographic is for your fan base? At least around here and talking to some of the people that work for the team, it's like a lot of younger college age kids that have just kind of caught wint to what you're doing and then follow along. Yeah, when I mean it's all ages. I think last of my tech it was like eighteen to like fifteen, maybe forty

five or most of my viewerships. So yeah, a lot of college kids watched me more than most if I go to college campus as they all recognize me and stuff. So is that with or without the Frankie Vision shirt they swithout? Now? Sometimes I just worry regular Jack and they still come up and actual pictures of stuff. Who would have thought just a series of Ray Jean Rondo highlights before. I's still a little uncomfortable. People ask stuff,

how often do you get out the games? Oh? I go a lot now since we have people posting the college highlights, I try to get out as much as I can, Like, uh, we're going to the NBPA Top one hundred this week in Virginia University, Colorado Springs. So yeah, I try to go to the high school games a lot, not really college as much. Have you ever had anyone from a pro team approach you and say, you know what, I watched some of your videos too? Yeah it was

some got from the Phoenix Suns. I honestly forgot what his name was, but here I reached out and let me know that what I did was a big help for him and stuff like that. So cool. Who do you think we might be talking about this time next year as you look ahead to future draft classes? Form on link for it. Okay, all right, what for those who are uninitiated with the incoming class of talent for the college vil next year? What about his game stands out? Um? He just he does it all. I think he really

has no weakness. Really, I mean, he plays greg d you know, he's athletic. He could score. He got an NBA NBA range, he could score all three levels. He got a met range. Like I said, NBA range three can go into lane, dunk on, you can drible create his own shot. He does it all. He's great rebounder and great defender, blocker, shot blocker, he does. There's nothing he can't do. A guy like him, obviously there's some hype and build up around but do you find yourself

now that you're going to more of these events? You could sit down watch a couple of these showcases and you're like, hey, whose number whatever it is? And then you're discovering on your own guys that have talent all the time, especially at like the a U circuits like E Y b L or Adidas Gauntlet, You're always gonna find somebody like that playing against a person that you're recording great. It seems like it could be at times kind of like a needle in a haystack type of situation. Yeah,

it is, Well what do you make all this? If you had any way to sum up your story? And you know, I know it's it's only been a couple of years, but it seems like you definitely m intentionally or not landed on something where it's a service to a lot of people value. Oh, you know, if you find something that you love to do, just do it, because it was actually a passion. I had a couple of my friends telling them at the beginning like what

are you doing? You wasting your time and stuff like that, and now to trying to give me advice on what I shouldn't shouldn't do. So I guess it's stick to it. Don't anybody tell you to. You know, you're wasting the timeline if you truly believe it's something good. And what's the best way for people if they do have future highlight requests and montage requests, what's the best way for them to get at you? Oh? This is write me on Instagram, on Twitter, dams is always open, Always check it.

It is a person who creates content that is vital at this time of year, especially and also throughout the college basketball season. Frankie Vision A pleasure talking to you man, Thanks so much. All right, thanks. That is the voice of the man behind so many highly viewed prospect montage videos that you'll find on YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, particularly

this time of year. Frankie Vision. I thought it was great to hear about his story as much as anything else where he came from, how he tripped upon this and what his operation has grown to become. It is. It is pretty impressive stuff. We'll get back to some pre draft conversation interviews in the days ahead, coming up on Friday. Beyond the lookout for our Week in Review episode featuring interviews with some of the guys who the Sixers brought in for workouts in Kevin this past week,

and Natural be coming up on Friday. All right, thanks to Frankie Vision for indulging and doing that interview. Thank you for listening. We'll talk to you next time here on the broadcast. Yeah.