1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - 1 ON 1 w/DP & Harrison! - June 29th, 11:00am

Episode Date: June 29, 2026

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 the ticket. Monday. 11 o'clock. 11 o'clock. The city of Lincoln. My uncle would say, I just saw the devil in the corner with an ice cube.

That's a great one. that's how hot it is. He said, I just, he said, they're over there selling. It's really a thing. Headed up, I mean, it's 88 now, but it feels. Sticky. Yeah.

The corn sweat. Yeah. And I'm, yeah, that's a thing that I, I, at some point, somebody will have to go into great detail, the corn sweat. I go, well, the textors can give. Well, you're the farmer. So, so, you know, you can go through. We have a full hour.

We're going to be all over the place. Shocker. Stunning. Breaking news. Harrison and DP go off on tangents. Welcome to late night. Tell what we do. Kind of what we do.

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Good timing for it, as a matter of fact. A lot's going on. We did get the first version of college football schedule confirmed, and then we're waiting for the second portion of it. There'll be some other games that will be made available to us that we will choose from as well. And then, you know, quite frankly, business picks up and we may get offered some other games from other sources. Hint hit, wink, wink. Plus we will have NFL preseason, Hall of Fame game, NFL preseason, and then the full Sunday schedule of day, game, night game, day game afternoon game.

night game, Monday night football, Thursday, and football. So lots in play. And then as we'll kick deeply into the college football season. As Harrison and I were talking yesterday, we're nine Saturdays.

Yeah. We're nine Saturdays from opening day. That's it. People are starting a week up a little bit too. My group text got some of my more casual, they're looking at the recruiting class and they're like, hold on a minute, what's happening with the rest of football? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's, And we have to know more than we know.

Mm-hmm. This year's summer camp will have more information. This takes us back to pre-social media days with the amount of information that will be required to sufficiently feed and nurture Husker Nation. Husker Nation has questions. And that is a big thing. And again, we're going to be all over the place. So I'm just letting that. I'll keep reminding folks of that because in each conversation,

there's several conversations. But what is the expectation of what Matt Rule in this coaching staff and this football program, what is the level that they must engage Husker Nation? And then why? right because again you go to camp and I can tell you again that Nebraska athletics and Nebraska football gives maybe the highest level of access of any powerful program in the country there are more reporters there more questions the more people involved

there's more there's more um there's more auxiliary coverage like Husker this corn that yeah I mean we got guys down there at Millard South fall in and Trey and Tay. Right. He's not, he's got another year of high school. Yeah, and that's a big part of the question for me.

Is, is that too much? Is that too much? Is that fair? Does that make sense? Is that responsible? Remove, remove the name Trey Taylor

and then ask yourself if a high school, and you could do this with the Manning, you do it with Arch Maining, right? You could do this, you did it with the Raiolos, you did it.

There's several quarterbacks around the country where the Elite 11 thing and Team USA thing, and then the days of being anonymously all-state quarterback, so if you're 6A or Class A or whatever the highest level is in your state, that that quarterback, that's kind of the star of stars. But then are they allowed to be high school juniors and seniors? We're talking about a current high school, a kid who's,

only played, the highest level he's played at is high school junior. Yep. And you're digging into his personal life and you're giving him voice over things that, quite frankly, it's too much. It's if, and as parents, I can't imagine my mother allowing people access to my life at age 16 like that. Yeah. Well, I know if someone, you put a microphone in my mind.

face at that age, I'd talk into it. I'd probably look back at the age of 27 now and be like, I wish I wanted to said X, Y, and Z. Not saying maybe trade tell you, maybe, I'm not saying he said anything, you know, that he regrets or anything, but I just know me personally, I would say it, but at my young age, I'd probably go back in hindsight and regret some of my you're not. You're not emotionally mature at 16. Yes. And you're not world familiar at 16. You certainly, I mean, there's the line, the media line, and then there's the social media line where there are people who will put a microphone in a camera in front of

that young man who do not have standard and do not have discipline, right? They want him to say something stupid. They, there are too many people. I mean, the old ad, I mean, think about it. The old adage was that if I was being interviewed, I was being interviewed by the Washington Post. Different level of media responsibility than, you know, the, the, the, the corn cob journal. Yeah. Right? We don't know what that person has done or will do, right?

Dude with the phone has next account. Just right. That, hey, yeah, and you're there, right? You're there. And we don't know why they're there or how they got there. So I'm a little leery of that, right? Because, and I can't think of Fred Hoyberg allowing full access to Sam Hoyberg as a high school student.

It just wouldn't have been done. Alexis Markowski. There's a buffer and a boundary. to how you allow high school students to engage and interact. And I found it interesting. There was a, again, down the rabbit hole. There was a, I watched a wonderful, absolutely wonderful documentary on Chris Everett and Martina and Evertollo.

And their battle, their rivalry, their relationship. and it talks into how much the media talked to. You can remember that Chris Everett became Chris Everett to the country at age 15. But she was a pro at that point, right? She was a pro. And she was at the Masters. I mean, Wimbledon. She was at the U.S. Open.

But she had to go to school and head counselors and mentors and all those things. And she would say that it was too much too soon. And it affected her all of her life. That being put in front of, you know, adults. And then she was competing with adults. And Martina came over again from behind the Iron Curtain. and she had never to go from where every word is programmed for you to being asked questions about you, your person, your personal life, your decisions, etc.

And she wasn't emotionally prepared for that either. So what did they do? They bonded together to protect each other. And you had the ice queen and then you had this emotional roller coaster in Navajovo. Then they doubled together. Like they play doubles. People forget that. Everett and Navratolova won one elite tournaments together.

And they did so until Everett saw that, my goodness gracious, Martina is learning my game. I cannot play with her, right? So you broke up the number one tennis team, doubles team, out of emotional insecurity. And then it led to Martina changing her life, right? that's changing how she ate and her body and all those things. And then it became a rivalry and there's friction.

Well, the way the thing ends is, as most folks know, that currently they both went through a battle with cancer, Everett with two battles with cancer. And they leaned so heavily on one another. And as a part of this documentary, they went back and watched. They sat together on the couch at Chrissy Everett house and watched some of their old matches together. And the joy that was in that moment

and them watching and them being there for each other and taking care of each other. But the main thing was that sports can be a great vehicle for growth, but it also exposes that, quite frankly, we can put, for the sake of a game, you're putting too much on young people who aren't prepared for it. Now, most people would say,

I would certainly take Chris Everett's life, Martina Navajo's life. But it doesn't mean that they didn't have the preference that, my goodness, I wish somebody had told me no. Like, for Martina and Everd-Dulliver, it's Nancy Lieberman. Like, Nancy Lieberman was 23 at the time that they met and started hanging out together. But she was a vital part. Now, Chris Ever didn't like Nancy Lieberman because Nancy Lieberton turned Chris Everett to a villain in Martina's mind.

Yeah, she's the one. She's number one. She's keeping you from your glory. and quite frankly, you got to stop being best friends for her. You need to kick her tail. And this comes from a 23-year-old, right? So it's, you know, but a 23-year-old who was the best female basketball player on the planet. So to take all of that thing.

And I've told the story of mistakenly walking into a gym at Old Dominion University. And me and my best friend were just shooting hoops and in walks, Nancy Lieberman and Martina and Abertilova. Oh, yeah, then you get worked. Oh, bruh, brough. I forgot about that one. Oh, oh. Oh, listen, I fully embraced my humblings.

Yeah, I was going to say, I was just been like, you guys shoot, I'll get the rebound. I'm not. Really, right? I mean, that thing that, and we were both pretty good athletes, right? As a matter of fact, I was a college baseball player at the time, and he was like an all-region baseball player, football player, et cetera. So, you know, it's two athletes. And not for nothing.

but in the early 80s, if two women walk in to a gym and want to play you in basketball, the answer is yes. And then you realize, oh, no, we've made a horrible mistake, a horrible mistake. Because not only is it the best basketball, female basketball player on the planet, it's also, who had just gone to camp into an NBA camp. and the number one tennis player in the world, or number two at the time. And when they say they want to go two on two,

we're thinking, okay, but, you know, it's matchup. We can get done. Now, she's the, but the nerve of me to think that I could play with Nancy Lieberman, man. What are you thinking, bro? But then they said, oh, yeah, full court. Twos? Full court two on two. No.

Oh, bro. Oh, oh, no. Oh, no. That was a terrible idea. Did you play like 21? The time limit. Oh, bro, you're playing 21. Let me tell you.

And it was best of three, right? Which they stuck in after they beat you. Right? Right. Like, we're, and we played for dinner. So the winners, the winners would get dinner. Of course, they decided, you know, hey, we'll make dinner because we got a house.

But no, no, it was torture. Well, on the best, the good side of best of three, you probably only played two games. Oh, we, you absolutely, look, and I mean,

I want to say it was like 21, 15, and we got 14 of those in the first 28 points. Like, it's just outrunning them, right, which is the whole thing.

But then you realize, those strides aren't as long late now. those long strides that you take early in a full court game with no timeouts and no breaks. Oh, and two professional athletes who cardio is their thing? And then they're the capper. Like, and it becomes kind of a layup fest because you just can't. You know, it's cut and pass, cut and pass. Rebound cut, outlet.

First to the first, the first, the first second player to the lane. So if defensively your second player got. got back, you had a better chance of stopping them. But okay. Until Nancy Lieberman starts knocking down jumpers, like pull up jumpers. And it's like, oh, come on. Oh, come on. I thought we would just do a cardio.

Now we're, oh, we're playing playing. Right. And she's hit mid-range. And the evil diabolical killer, right? With the difference between us morals and then she's taking corner jumpers. There's no chance. I'm closing out to the corner. There's no chance.

So it takes understanding that just because you can be interviewed, it doesn't mean you should be. Just because you're a good athlete doesn't mean you're prepared for all the things that go with it. And then just because you have a prodigy of a child athletically or playing the piano or as a dancer or singer or whatever it is, or an actress, right? We, we've seen, we know all the stories.

I was going to say, look at child prodigies. Right. Look at whether. Amen. And to me, sports should allow you to boundary that. Because you know, you know what it is. The successful child prodigies were ones where the dads, it's second generation, right? Where the dads have gone through it and also have proxious.

to it. And I don't know the Taylor family and I don't know the particulars, but I just want to be careful. Like you just want to say. And then the other side of it is, as we, is you, when the Huskers go to camp, how many of the questions become about 2027? Right? And how not fair is that? Right. And how many questions about 2027 will be the priority and focus in 2026. And if you're a player, if you're a star player or a player that's going to lead the 2026 team, at some point you're going to get frustrated about 2027. Right?

If you're a senior, this is your year. This is all you got. And this may be the end of career for you. So you would want focus and attention and respect for 2026. But at what point, and we also know this, that. If all is well, week one, week two, week three, week four, now week four gets interesting, but week four, five, six, seven, at some point, if things go well, you don't have to talk about 2027.

If things do not go well, you start talking about 2027 really early, and it'll feel disrespectful, and it'll feel distracted, and it'll feel like disingenuous. And at what point, as Husker fans, does that happen? And at what point does it bother Matt Rule and his coaching staff to have to answer these questions? Now, we don't have any evidence of Dana Hulgerson not being thrilled by answers and questions about things that are out of his control. And appropriately so. And it's not fair to Matt Rule to have to ponder and have that discussion.

But quite frankly, it's going to be what happens. So as the countdown and the clock gets closer to camp and to, you know, nine Saturdays from now, we're talking nine Saturdays before Memorial Stadium sold out and packed and we're all in the building. Nine Saturdays. The world is about to be turned upside down in nine Saturdays. And five Saturdays from now, and that's all there is, we're going to go into hyper speed, hyper-depth, solar scorching about Nebraska football and every player on the roster, every coach on the staff, every practice rep, every meal,

every injury. Oh, who have we had more from this offseason? Colangelo, Andrea or Trey Taylor? Yeah, it was, you know, like those are, it's just interesting that we are, to your point, I don't want this season to be overlooked. I'm just pointing that out. Yeah. Right?

That we have to have control and we have to be aware. And again, it, 3-7-6-4 says this DP 20-27 won't matter because Matt Rule after 26, Zach Taylor would be the head coach of Nebraska. And which isn't good or fair to anybody. Why? But this is what I'm talking about. this is what I'm talking about. We're not even in to 2026.

And it's not fair to this team and these players and those coaches and this program and this athletic department for those conversations, quite frankly. Like I'm reading it just for the sake of conversation. Right. But normally no. Why? Why? Kmart Steve says this.

What I've always struggled with is how they get all those boosters to continue to pay for hope. and not actual results with these All-Star type kids. Again, the very point of the conversation is focus attention choices, that the adults in the room have to be accountable. There is a simple way. I would imagine, I'm going to go out on a limb, and I don't, please correct me if I'm wrong. But would you imagine Coach Osborne going through this?

Like, how to say, what do you mean going through this? Would he, would the program with the 80s and 90s Huskers be fully locked into the next great thing rather than the thing? No. What's in front of him? That's what Osborne is doing. Right. The distraction faction is a big deal. And I think that's part of, like, when you're searching and seeking and you're stalking chaos, yeah, that's the problem. That means that there's no focus. All of that means there's no focus. And there's no urgency to win in 2026 because, well, 2027. And if there's another, you have all these discussions,

you're talking about things that, very frankly, you should scratch your head about. People who pay aren't paying necessarily for results. They're paying for proximity. To power. Say that time more times. Right. I mean, that's what it is.

Well, Scott Lincoln says this, T.O. did go through this. And then he interviewed for the Colorado job. But understand, Tio had that thing in order. He controlled the controllable. You don't control a surrounding group of people who think that you're not good enough. A Hall of Fame coach is not good enough to do the job. That's kind of the point. There are too many people talking.

that don't know what they're talking about, first of all. Second of all, how many people, can you imagine the ticket if Tom Oz were in that era and how many taxers would be saying, well, you know, nine wins, ten wins, 11 wins isn't enough. Going to the championship game and losing isn't enough. Right?

And none of those people were qualified. None of those people were, and they certainly weren't right. Yeah, Nalsmore and didn't listen. Right. Right. So did him. He focused on what was important to him. The media was not.

important to Osborne. Yeah, 376.4 says Osborne looked at Colorado because people thought he wasn't good enough. And none of the people who didn't think he was good enough were qualified to judge Coach Osborne. And I wonder how many of these people apologize to Coach Osborne. Well, Ohio State wanted to fire Ryan Day, Michigan, wanted to fire Harbaugh.

Well, they probably should. Well, they were on to something, but it was. It wasn't about the cheating, though. They wanted to fire him because they didn't think he was. Well, yes, maybe he did have to cheat. So they could have been right. Listen, you back to him. a corner. And so he did, he said, and I'm, I will 100% go on this hill that there were people

in power who told Coach Harbaugh to do whatever it takes to get the results that folks on the text line were talking. Somebody said, no excuses, right? This is how the Raiders become the Raiders. Just win, baby. If you're not cheating, you're not trying. All those things, right? And we understand, It's cute. It's a wonderful, you know, thing to put on a shirt, right? Because people will buy it because we know that, again, a third of the people will buy it because it's evil. A third of it will want it if it's good. And then the other third will figure out which one they agree with. That's what happens.

And I guarantee you, again, a third of the people thought that Coach Osborne wasn't good enough for the job. They weren't right. I went through this in D.C. with Joe Gibbs. And it was just weird. They were like, who is this guy? Who is this guy? Well, I know. One of the five greatest NFL coaches ever.

Yeah, who that guy was. The guy that you didn't think was good enough, a guy that you didn't want to give a chance to. But that's a part of what happens. And we just need to have our head on this movie. So Harrison Arns, we're going to take our first break. I'm going to leave with this, and I'm going to ask the texters to answer the question.

Text line and Harrison Arns. Are you more American or Nebraska? Are you more American or Nebraska? I will get your answers. Text line, go ahead and let me know. Harrison Orange, let me know. Prepare yourself. Are you more American or Nebraska?

We'll talk about that when we come back.