LIU is riding the wave of women’s flag football with the help of Jets quarterback Jimmy Barbarise

Leave the gun, take the points.

Jimmy Barbarise’s hit show, “Capo: Rise to Power,” may be filming Season 2 — but the actor is focusing on Season 1 of the Long Island University Sharks’ flagship women’s soccer team as the head coach.

“Most parents, when I call, the first question they ask is not about the flag,” he told The Post with a laugh.

“It says, ‘I watched it. I liked it. When is Season 2 coming out?’ and I’m like, ‘Let’s talk about your daughter now?’” added Barbarise, who handed out signed posters to the players’ families.

Centereach-born Goodfella – previously coached the University of Tampa to a national No. 3 and is a flag football LI Hall of Famer – chose a year to jump in the Shark tank.

The New York Jets and their Betty Wold Johnson Foundation received a healthy $1M from LIU’s Eastern College Athletic Conference to launch America’s largest 15-team flag football league.

To sweeten the deal, the coveted “Shwi noMtekhala” cup tournament will be played at MetLife Stadium from 2027 when the World Cup ends.

“It’s very surreal,” E’lise Lyrse said during the big league media day at the Meadowlands.

“I’ve never seen people come together to do a sport like this,” added the sophomore from the LIU rowing team who will try his luck on the gridiron.

It finds their button

Lyrse isn’t the only newcomer to the Sharks this season, as Barbarise’s squad only has four women with previous experience.

“Of course we are starting from scratch,” admitted the head coach, saying that he opens the books to anyone.

“I sat in a common place and asked people if they want to play football… we have players who ask and stay with them.”

But sharks are born swimming.

The man of the crowd chose the first two years of experience as captains of his football family to groom the newcomers: his Valley Stream high school teammates, running back Ryann Blount and linebacker Sophia Songveeratham.

Blount said they will “run our own little clinics” that teach the fundamentals of the 7-on-7 game, such as route running, and more situations.

“A few months before the coach was at the academy, we were training on the grass, just running in the dark – doing everything we could to make progress,” added Lyrse, who described the team as inseparable.

When asked how many players watched Barbarise’s show, the captains refused to comment.

“I swear we’ll get to it,” Blount said.

It was made for this

While the first season may be a building year, Songveeratham is confident that Long Island’s flagship high school football will certainly improve the program going forward.

“We had about 26 seniors on the team,” he said of his senior year at Valley Stream.

“It’s amazing how the programs have been growing on the Island … I want to see how far this can go, and I can’t wait.”

Barbarise added that the local hotbed also makes his job easier.

“Most of them have reached,” he said. “I have a road map that I want to recruit.”

But the Sharks – one of the loudest teams in the Jets media day – are not planning to wait to show the football world what they are made of with the first game against Mercy on St. Patrick.

“I know my team, I know we can do it,” Blount said. “Watch out for the new kids on the block.”