Category: Interviews

Ryan Stallmeyer, an all-time great linebacker at Duke, took some time out of his day to discuss his time in Durham. But more than that, we talked about him growing up in Cincinnati, his brother, Mike, who also played at Duke, Ryan’s family and his current career. In regard to the Blue Devils, we talked about the challenges Duke faced during the Goldsmith era and the start of the Franks era. This was a fun talk and our TENTH INTERVIEW! We hope you enjoy. Listen here.

David Reeves was kind enough to take some time from his day to talk about his knack for big plays, his time at Duke, his pro career, Duke football today and what he’s been up to during the last several years. We talked about Miami, too – consider yourself forewarned.

If you don’t remember his amazing catch against A&M in the 2013 Peach Bowl, you can see it here. You’ll be wondering just how in the world he made that play. I’ve seen it a million times and still can’t believe he stayed inbounds. And scored.

This was a fun talk with a good guy. Thanks again, David, for taking time to speak with us.

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For those of you who haven’t listened to our first interview with Carlos Wray, what’s wrong with you? Listen to it. Now. We’re on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Anchor. Get with the program!

Not long after that interview, Carlos expressed interest in coming back to talk about the 2012-2015 bowl games. All four of them. And when you get a chance to talk Duke bowls, you say “Yes!” It took some time to get through them all, the run time is close to two hours, but it’s well worth it. We learn a lot about some big games and big plays that culminated in a win over Indiana in the Pinstripe Bowl in 2015.

In addition to the bowl games, we get into each of the four seasons and cover some big wins including one from 2012.

I can’t say thank you enough to Carlos for being willing to come on and do another interview. (And fingers crossed, a third one may be coming this summer.)

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FIRST – apologies for calling Coach Franks’ offense the AirRaid and not the Airborne. My bad. I will correct this in the next interview. SECOND – the Twitter handle is DukeFBCoverage, not DukeFootballCoverage. I’ll correct that next time, too. Now, onto the interview …

We stay in the 1990s and the Goldsmith-Franks era this week. Todd DeLamielleure was kind enough to take some time out of his day to talk about his time as a firefighter, his Hall of Fame father, his time at Duke, his professional career and his current work with HOF Solutions, LLC and Tip Of The Spear Football.

For those of you who don’t remember, Todd was one heck of a linebacker for the Blue Devils. Along with Ryan Stallmeyer, Todd was part of a hard-nosed and hard-hitting defense. He was fun to watch and left it all on the field. In regard to our discussion of the historic Charleston Sofa Super Store fire which caused the tragic loss of 9 firefighters, you can learn more about this fire and its aftermath (as we get into some of the particulars from the post-fire investigation) here and here.

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For the younger fans out there who don’t remember, Ben Erdeljac was a WR at Duke during the end of the Goldsmith era and the start of the Franks era. I enjoyed watching him play at that time and am thrilled to have gotten an opportunity to talk with this former player. We discuss football, coaching, family and how Duke football changed from the 1990s to today. This was a great talk. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Listen here.

All hands on deck for our interview with Duke kicker Ross Martin! Certainly the greatest Duke kicker I remember and the standard by which all future kickers will be judged, Ross was kind enough to sit down and talk about kicking, Duke football, his time in the NFL, what he’s doing now and a couple of big games from 2015. This was a fun talk with a Duke legend.

Listen to the interview here. Go Duke!

We hope you enjoy an interview with Lee Rodio, a former Duke Football walk-on. During our talk, we cover Lee’s musical interests, the intersection of politics and sports, church, his future plans and the legal profession. Turns out Lee is in law school and that became a significant portion of our discussion. And because Lee was at the Duke-Miami game in 2015 as a high school student, we talked about that. Again. Thanks to Lee for his time and for his contribution to the program. We hope you enjoy.

You can listen to the interview here on Anchor.