1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - 1-ON-1 w/DP - May 31st, 2025

Episode Date: May 31, 2025

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7-a-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, brought to by Canopy Street Market. Boom! In your face. All the seats. It's Saturday morning.

Beautiful. Beautiful Saturday morning downtown Lincoln. Gorgeous, Lincoln, you're gorgeous this morning. Fantastic weather should be a great day. There may be some clouds rolling in, but as of right now, sitting at the corner of 11th or O Street, it's fantastic. It is busy down here.

Cars everywhere, people on foot everywhere. The scooters have been active this morning already as well. Should be a fantastic Saturday. Lots to talk about it. the course of the next two hours. We're going to go two hours long today. Hang out before the guys from a Lincoln youth football show up, tank and insane man coming through. Should be a pretty good Saturday.

I'll ask you what you're doing, what you're watching, what is your focus? What is your Saturday mission? What is your Saturday focus? Text in to the start of him and text line 402, four, six, four, six, eight, five, six, eight, five. Want to be a part of what we're doing? Come on. Hit us with the what's up. Appreciate you.

hanging out on a Saturday and whatever you're doing, if you're in the car or in the garage or you get your headphones on or if you're like me, you're at work on a Saturday. But that's okay because my work ain't work. My work is love. And I'm glad for it. You can follow on all the video streams, Facebook, YouTube X, Allo, Channel 961. If you have not, pause, download the ticket app so you have it. It goes everywhere you go. We go. So download the app. You do the same thing was Amazon Prime as well. So to do that, disclaimer in full,

this show is absolutely like forced gum chocolates. Never know where it's going to end up. Never know what you're going to get. Those are statements of truth. I confess that openly, that I can have a list of suggested topics to talk about over the course of the next two hours.

Who knows what we could end up? We could end up in Paris. We could end up in Iceland. I don't know. I don't know where we're going to end up. We are going to talk Oscar baseball because, you know, overnight in case, you know, you, your humanity forced you to go sleep. And I will not judge you for it because that 736 first pitch was a problem.

And then so Jackson's clenched in, I have. have to ask Jackson this and y'all can tell me if if you agree or whether you share this but in this day and age i rarely watch one thing at a time that's yeah that like right that that that and it's dangerous because we could lose the ability to have to to single focus we have to be careful And so Friday nights for me, this was kind of the accumulation of a week, especially in this pocket of the sports season, right? Sports seasons have pockets that we have to follow. Husker football season, of course, is year-round. And you react accordingly and then whatever the hot Husker athletic sport of the moment that, you know, will sometimes slide above Husker.

football as the focus. Then the national events, maybe the Olympics, Super Bowl, NFL opening day, Major League Baseball opening day, NHL. And we need to do better at covering NHL. I mean, I still follow the NHL in full. Not everybody does. And I fully accept that. Then add to that, I've got some friends who are fighting in the UFC tonight at the

apex in Las Vegas. So it was tracking them, talk to one of them about how, about how her weight cut was going because it was a brutal weight cut. And again, we could talk about that as well. But then the thing happens where one of the things you're watching gets really good. It gets good. And you're trying to figure out in this time of, like on a day when there's 16 college NCAA baseball games and none of them are on schedule. like none of them are on the schedule that was set.

So your game watching doesn't work. Sometimes, you know, three or four at a time. And then the weather, inclement weather around the country, kind of just threw that into chaos. So the Huskers first pitch around 736. Women's softball, so I get into Florida and Tennessee, and they're having an SEC Downey Brook, right? that that looks, you know, pretty exciting game.

And then Florida, I think surprising people in knocking off Tennessee. I mean, Tennessee knocking off Florida. And then Ole Miss and Oregon started later. But that game went 10 innings. Oh, my gosh. Ten innings. It's, it's, Ole Miss ties it. They're down 5'3.

They tie 5-2. They tie it in the top of the 7. 5-5. and it goes to 10 innings. And I'm like, I'm supposed to get up tomorrow morning. This is late, late. Like, this is late late. And I'm just, I'm like, nope, I'm not a quitter.

I'm not a quitter. I need to watch this. Like, I need to, I need to. And then it led me to ask the question because as the Husker game, until the Huskers rallied, that was, you just kind of, for seven innings, you just kind of, laud-di-da, lauddy-da. softball was way more intriguing. So I was led to ask this question.

One, that in the era of multitasking, multi-watch watching, et cetera, do you, has college softball gotten more exciting than college baseball? Ooh. Like the college world, and I know that you're now watching the best of the best, but if you went back a week, right?

And I said this thing. that I figured out that when Jordy Ball and the Husker softball team were playing and men's baseball were playing in the Big Ten tournament, I was still leaning, my needle leaned more towards softball. And there were a couple of things that jumped in play. One, the action, the sounds of the game are different. And I think that's true at almost every level,

that softball has a different conversation going on during the game and more action. Softball has figured out the, I think that they have figured out the perfect distance between bases. Because every play in softball is bang, bang. It was amazing, bro. It was amazing to watch any ground ball, any, direction was bang, bang at the bag. It was a bang, bang, bang play. And I kept thinking, man, they figured this out.

They've really figured this out. This is perfect. Stolen base, it is always bang bang. So much so that in a softball group, now you're at the point of the season where, and I didn't notice it during the year, but how many calls they have about that are about leaving stealing early, leaving the bag early, obstruction, player, defensive player obstructing the bag, blocking the bag,

all sorts of little mechanical things, foot placement at home plate, stepping out of the box as you're making contact with the ball before you make contact with the ball. And I don't remember it being as many calls, especially in critical mass, like critical moments. But I was sitting there last night. And every literally, it was a moment where there were seven consecutive outs that were all in dispute. Seven consecutive outs.

There was like, look at the replay. We're going to go to the headphones. We're going to go to video. We're going to go. Like, we need to talk about the rule. And I just thought that doesn't happen in the college world series. No. Like it doesn't happen.

It doesn't happen. And I don't know if it's because in the evolution of softball, one, the game has evolved and rules have changed, but also the athletes for women's college softball are remarkable now. And I'm not saying they weren't then. It's a different game than the game is more explosive now. The game is more competitive now. They did a video online showing, I want to say like the 1983 national championship game for softball, right?

And some of it had the, some of the people who were playing in it were coaches. Now, so the players had never seen their coach play. Different bats, like the technology of bats, not the same. Not the same. I can tell you from experience, the bats that they have now, first of all, aluminum. I play with wood.

But I'm, I'm old enough that I did get the choice of playing with aluminum bats at some point. And understanding the technology of it. The baseballs are different. Softball. The softballs are different. And they were playing. because in those old videos they had,

they were playing with white softballs, which they don't do anymore, right? So it just looks, right? So the bat sounds different. The ball coming off the bat sounds different. Pitching, the athletes were in different levels of conditioning. There's no other way to say it, but that softball players,

the software players that I went to school with aren't in the type of shape and didn't play the number of games that the current college players play. and I don't remember it being as locked in. I don't remember it. I don't remember. So I was switching back and forth, then I realized,

no, these games, these games are fire. It was the competition level. I need for them to now go into the technology and tell me bats beat. Like I'm officially like I'm curious about softball bat speed. I'm curious about I mean, we're hearing more about miles per hour in the circle, right? You know, Carl and Pickens kind of has set a new standard for how quick people are throwing. There was a lot of conversation in this year's baseball season about time between pitches.

Like I saw several times last night Matter of fact, it happened in the Nebraska game where a batter in the 20 seconds a batter has to be locked in in the plate, two hands on the bat, and eyes to the pitcher at eight seconds. It's not, you know, it's a strike. And I just thought,

what else are you doing? Like, seriously, I'm a member of the, club, I had a bunch of machinations in between pitches, right? I mean, you know, I need to retighten the glove, get some dirt on the hands, uh, uh, you know, reset the helmet, whatever it was. But you don't need 20 seconds between every pitch to get a signal, stay in the box. Yeah.

Is, is a novel concept. But I can't imagine. And maybe you, you can help me is, does that rule apply? in major league baseball. There's not a, hey, you have to be in the box at eight seconds, eyes to the pitcher rule in major league baseball, right? No, I don't think so. Right.

There's just a pitch clock, right? Right. There's a pitch clock at some point, you know, in between it. But it just, it's a weird thing to me. That, that, and hey, eight seconds is arbitrary. Like you could, you could have said. that at four seconds, there's a red light that goes on that says it's time for you, you know, it's time for the pitch.

Bing. But at eight seconds, so the Husker, the Husker batter, he was, you know, again, tightening gloves, going through it at 20, right? You get to 12. He gets his sign, steps in the box, plants his feet, gets both hands on the back, except at nine, he looked down at his feet or at home plate. And the empire just a simple strike. And I thought, why eight seconds?

Who came up with eight seconds? Why is eight seconds the number that sets everything off? And so I didn't quite understand it, but I was like, okay, this is what happens in the condensed vacuum, where every game, every out, every pitch matters, and every call is an important call. But that's what's happening now. And I can't imagine any coach I ever played for

ever being okay with giving up a strike because you had your, you were looking down at home plate. Like in a game that matters, in a NCAA tournament game, you took a strike because you weren't ready. And it happened a couple of times in other games, and I just went, this was remarkable.

It was never a part of any game I ever played. And even in, you know, high-level competitive softball, you know, there were people that stood around and the umpire would just tell you get in the box. Get in the box. If the pitcher was there with the ball, toe of the rubber, you as a hitter, get in the box. Get in the box.

Don't play with me. So there's so much of this weird stuff going on, but I just kept noticing that all of the soft, that literally every ball that was hit, the play at the bag was bang, bang. And ground ball to shortstop, ground ball to third. ground ball to second. And you get used to the timing.

There is an internal clock for players based on your arm, where you're positioned, to know how much time I have and how hard I have to throw the ball to make this out happen. Like you know, if you hit it to me where I'm positioned, I don't even have to work at the throw. My natural rhythm should be able to get you out by a step and a half. but you also know the internal clock of when it's going to be close

and you put extra zip on the ball. But that's what errors happen. That's what throwing errors happen. When the internal clock speeds up and tells you, oh, you got to rush, you got to hurry, and then you either don't, you either get to the ball and aren't prepared because you're rushing. Your mechanics have changed.

Or you speed up your throw and try to put more on it. And the harder you try to throw, the more your mechanics change, depending on the type of play. But softball, bro, every play. Bang, bang. I stood up, again, stayed up last night, watched that. It was pretty remarkable. Today's a full day of games.

There's 2 o'clock first pitch for Oklahoma and Texas. And then there is a 6 o'clock first pitch for Texas Tech and UCLA. And then the teams that were that won last night, Tennessee and Oregon will play Sunday against the losers of who plays tonight, who lose the two games today. If you lose, you're in elimination games along the way. Today for the Huskers, it's a big day because in a 7-4 game that was, look, they battle.

They are who they are. They are who they are. And they faced a stud. for those that had not seen Witherspoon deal, sir, go ahead and get your Major League Baseball money. Because that young brother threw that he had sauce. We used to call that,

this dude's saucy. This dude is saucy. There's drip. There's drip coming off whatever he threw. Fastball, late he looked like it was picking up speed in the last third of the effort from his hand. We call that heavy, right? That it just seemed like it was getting faster when it got to you.

His delivery was smooth. It never changed. He had no tells, right? He wasn't tipping pitches, but he also, he had no tells in his motion. Sometimes in the motion, you can get a tip. Foot placement, Bill of the Cab, eyes, none of that.

This dude was mechanical. But, man, he had movement on everything he threw. It was saucy. The Huskers battled. But some of this was just being overmatched. And, you know, you get used to. I mean, there are pictures in the Big Ten who throw high 90s. High 90s.

But when they say to you, yeah, he popped a radar at 102. What? Jackson, there's a moment. There's a moment when, so as a college player, there were certain most pitch. Okay, so I was better against hard throat. The harder you threw, the better my swing was, because I did less better.

I simply, like, I wasn't trying to do too much. It's, here comes heat. I need to battle. I need to battle. But pitchers who threw junk gave me problems. Because there's no, what are you doing? Why are you throwing it? Disrespectful.

Do you throw that? Don't throw 79 at me, bro. What are you doing? What do you do it? And you're like, okay, if you're going to throw that, then I'm going to make you pay. Well, no, the mature thing it is, no, just do what you do. It should be easier.

When somebody turned up the radar like that, it becomes a different kind of disrespectful. But you're not just going to stand there and throw a hundred at me, bro. Like, I'm a grown man. What are you doing throwing a hundred at me? Like, what do you? That is disrespectful. And then I got to fight you.

Like, and I felt that from the Husker players. It was, sometimes they would, they would, they would take a pitch and look back at the huddle and look, look back at the dugout. Like,

did you see this? And sometimes you just shake the head, just walk it off and just go, hey, hey. I normally have a plan, but 100. And he was regularly dancing at 97, 98. Even in his 5 or 6, he was still pumping 98. And you go, yep, that's. That's the guy gets to get drafted on draft day.

That's a dude, man, that's a dude. Good morning, Anthony. Good morning, Isaac. Appreciate you. Yeah, Anthony says, good morning, fellows, listening via car buds while mowing the yard. Parents are about to be here from southern Missouri to visit me in my better half. Most important play with our four-month-old son Maverick. Looking forward to some fan time today.

Good on you. Anthony, a perfect way to start your Saturday morning. Isaac says, go Knicks and go Big Red. This is a big. We'll talk about game six. Because this is what conference finals should feel. It should feel like it is a task and a great reward and great disappointment at risk, all of that in play. So we'll talk about that again.

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One-on-one on a Saturday. Justin Blandchman making it happen. We were talking Husker baseball. So, and it, it's just here's the, here's, here's, here's why it gets confusing. Because so you get the, I get an email from Nebraska baseball, right? Nebraska baseball. And it says official email from Nebraska baseball. Game day, Holy Cross, 11 a.m. on ESPN plus.

what it says so it says but on huskers dot com baseball last stats like these 12 noon could it be is it could it be 12 Eastern maybe

12 Eastern and then that would be correct well but I think it's 12 I think it's 12 central this is what I was trying to figure out I was like well wait to us this is what they do right so I but in the email from Nebraska baseball, the official. Yeah, I got it too. I'm going to say what they said.

So 11 o'clock. 11 o'clock. And it doesn't say time zone. What says 11 o'clock central? Yeah, it does. 11 o'clock central. So that's what I'm going to do.

And here's a weird thing that I hadn't figured out that so many people in Lincoln don't have ESPN plus. I didn't know that. I, that's funny to me. Because I have ESPN plus. But we're, like, I get that we're sportssters, right?

We're sportssters. So if you're out there and you, you're on the text line, and can you tell me if you, if you want of people don't have ESPN plus? I'm actually kind of curious. Yeah, like, there are things, like, what's everything to you is not everything to everybody else. That's fair. And I have to get used to that. Like, I'm the same way in, uh, NBA season.

there are people who don't watch don't have NBA ticket. I'm like, are people that don't have NFL ticket. They don't have NBA passes or have NFL ticket. I don't know, I don't know how you're living your life if you don't have NFL ticket, Sunday ticket. Like, I don't, what kind of decisions are you making? Like, but there's, there's, there's awareness to me saying it, saying out loud. Because I know for a fact that my wife would never have NFL Sunday ticket.

I get the Sunday ticket and the red zone. I don't know if you're a red zone guy. That's the person. Well, it depends. Okay. So, but this is the multiple universe, several things streaming at the same time.

And you have to be very careful. Yeah. About your ability to just watch a thing. And it shows up World Series, Super Bowl, NBA finals, your ability to, like when we go to Buffalo Wings and Rings and we sit there and watch a game.

we watch a game. Think about that, that you haven't watched a single game unless you go to the game. Like I do love the fact that Husker fans, and I think it's true, correct me if I'm wrong, y'all. Do Husker fans, okay, so if you're at the game,

you're obviously watching the game. Yes. But if it's an away game, I think Husker Nation is so unique that I would say half of Husker fans only watch the Husker game. There's nothing else that exists during a Husker game.

Like you're not multi-streaming. You don't have a second screen up with Redzo. Or, right? Or ESPN, you know, and it's multi-screen. Or do you? Or do you? So if the Huskers, let's say, especially, maybe it depends on the game, right?

Big Ten, locked in. But if it's if it's a non-con, but they're not doing non-cons on the road. So yeah. So let's say it's Northwestern away. Okay. Are you just, is it just Nebraska and Northwestern? Or do you have on your phone or on a laptop or tablet somewhere, whatever else is going on? I think it depends on what games are available to that week, too.

For me anyways, for other people, it's like. Well, I don't, but this is, like, I don't know. I don't know the answer. And I don't know if there is a right answer. There's like some really good, like, like the, just some high profile. So let's say, let's say for the sake of it, that it's Nebraska Northwestern on the road. So you're not at Memorial Stadium. Okay.

And you're somewhere, somewhere watching the game, probably at home, probably at home. At home. On the big screen is Nebraska Northwestern. Yes. Do you have your computer or your laptop streaming, Wisconsin, Iowa? Oh, no. No, no, no. Do you have your big screen streaming Oregon USC?

Ooh. Right? Potentially. Right. And I don't know that that answer is, I don't know that that answer is the same answer for every Husker sport. Yeah. Right?

Husker volleyball, when Husker volleyball is on, are you fully locked in or is there Husker basketball or big, like, do you multi-stream, multitask? What do you do? I don't know, I don't know what the answer is. I'll give you my example. Okay. I think it was, it would have been last year.

I think we played, it was, it was the day we played, no, we played, I can't remember who the football game was, but it was the night that we played Wisconsin at the Devaney and we beat him in five sets. That, like that day we had a football game. I can't remember who we played. I think we won. For some reason, I thought Michigan is, I don't know, it's not Michigan. It would have been 21st of October.

So whoever we played then. I just remember seeing everybody go from Memorial Stadium and just walk all the way to Devaney as soon as the game. Well, was it, but that's on purpose. They do that several times a year. I love that. Here's my thing. I don't, and I'm not sure that it's this way.

everywhere, that whatever the percentage is, and I would love to have a study that says, for Husker football, how many people who watch the game, when you're not at the game, are you watching the game? Does anything else exist in the sports spectrum? Like, do you have the scoreboard up? Do you have, or are you so entirely locked in? The only thing that exists in the world is Husker football while the game is going up. I'm usually locked in on the Husker football game unless we're getting Molly locked, which doesn't happen that often. Right?

To lose interest, right? And just go, okay. Yeah. I need a distraction. If it's, if it's, if we're playing Michigan at home, um,

and it's like, whatever it was that, that game the last time we played him at home. Like that's, that's, that's, I can pay attention. I'm not going to put it off because that's just not how I am.

But I could like, okay, I could go like, quit channels, go check on some other games. and then come back to the Nebraska game. And I think that Husker football is different in that. Yeah.

I can tell you that BYU, when BYU plays football, there's nothing else to a BYU fan. Nothing else. It's BYU football and God. Like that's it. Like that's it. But it's not the same at Utah. It's not the same at Utah, right down the street.

If we said Texas, University of Texas, if Texas fans love Texas football, but I also, I'm not sure that they shut down everything else to do it. Notre Dame football. It used to be that Notre Dame football was the only thing. It was Notre Dame football and guys. on on game day it was there was nothing but Notre Dame football while the game was on and got it

but I don't know that any other game going on again old school was you didn't have 50 games to choose from so we had to learn how to watch multiple things we had one TV in the house you had one channel that you could turn on that was it it evolved into with cable being able to flip back and forth oh there's several games going on okay now what do you do And it used to be that one channel, NBC got, CBS got the early game that was the only game that was on. You didn't get even get to see the other games that were playing.

You got reports on what the other games were that were playing. You didn't get to see them. You know, update from Chicago. You know, all depending, you, you didn't have option. And then NBC got an AFC game at 4 o'clock in the afternoon or the second game. game. And you did not get to see all the other games. You got the game that was sent to your market and then you got updates. And that was it. And there was no Sunday night game. Monday night football was so big because it was it was an opportunity where you got to see somebody

other than what was programmed into your market on Sunday. And it was, oh, and the Monday night games was a chance for you to actually see other teams play. You didn't know how good anybody was because you didn't see them. You got reports and you read magazines and you did a, and there was no ESPN. ESPN comes along and then all of a sudden you get reports, right? George Michael's sports machine.

You get reports on, oh my goodness, we're going to take you to Green Bay. This is what it looks like in Lambeau Phil. You had no idea. And so in the evolution of it, my question is for Husker fans. And Bill and Bennett, you're a great. Corbate, you can chime in.

Please do. When the Husker, when Husker football is playing, I'm pretty sure that, I want to say the number's higher than 50%. 75%. Three out of every four Husker fan that loves the Huskers. No other game is on when the Huskers are up. And I think three out of four.

It could be four out of five. But tell me if I'm wrong. But I'm saying that to say, it's not that way everywhere in the country. It's not that way for every program. And, I mean, it's a handful of programs that are so unique to that space and such a part of the fabric of the place that when that team plays, nothing else exists. And I had that problem in D.C.

Because it was Redskins and nothing else. and then when you introduced anything else to it, people got upset. Like, what are you doing? And, like, I know sports bars here will try to put, like, every TV on Huskers football during Husker football. But there are people who want to see other games

who, as we said, may or may not have ESPN plus, right? Who have to have, you know, ESPN. So they go to the bar because other things can be shown there. And then the people who are there to watch Huskers believing that everybody's there to watch the Huskers then have to deal with and consume and ponder. Well, wait a minute.

Why do I need Tennessee LSU over here? LSU might be another place where that happens. Aggie football, Texas Aggie football. Texas Aggie football more so than Texas Longhorn football. Aggies are about their business. They don't care

nothing about none of the rest of the stuff. Aggies are on, that's all the time. Yeah. I'm not sure that that's case for Texas because it's Austin. Austin is a different vibe. It's a different sort of space. A lot of things going on there. In California, no.

There's a million things. There's a million things going on. No. Yeah, there's a million things going on. Not really it. There's, there's, I would think that there's maybe, man, that would be a great study. Like 10. 10 programs of the country where when they play, when the football team plays,

nothing else exists in that space. Yeah. There aren't that many. That's definitely Nebraska for sure. Like, well, I mean, I think if you're in that three out of four range, I think half is kind of the measuring stick that there are some blue blood programs where that's everything. I'm not sure.

I would think maybe Ohio State. Yeah. maybe Michigan Ohio State more than Michigan Definitely now More than Michigan Um Pockets of the country

Florida Florida State Miami Yeah I could yeah But but Miami's not that way anymore Miami's definitely Miami's not that way anymore Florida's not that way anymore I mean FSU Alabama

Alabama Alabama is in the Yeah, that was my Alabama, absolutely. Bamma for sure. Not Auburn. No. Georgia. Iffy.

The Silver Bridges, that's close. That's close. I don't know. I don't know if they make that. In Georgia and Tennessee, Tennessee is a little bit of high. Tennessee more than than Georgia. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Yeah, that's actually right. That's definitely correct. Well, yeah, that's fascinating. We'll talk to back. We'll continue this conversation because I would love to know. I would love to know. One-on-one Saturday, 937 the ticket.

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until the next fuzzy, shiny thing shows up later. And it's become apparent, and again, correct me from wrong. But apparently, Nebraska football matters more to its fans than most. 98% of all sports fans in their teams, that on par,

Nebraska football means more to its fans than, I mean, Alabama's, Alabama football is in the conversation. BYU football is in the conversation. I'm not sure, Texas A&M, I would almost say Texas A&M cares as much. That's fair. And then we could bundle in all of the military academies.

Yeah. Yeah. Right? Because once you're, once you're West Point, you're West Point forever. Yeah. And it's all the matter. Your Naval Academy, you know, that's your jam. And there's nothing else.

I'm not sure that any of the big state school. fall in play. California, no. Florida, no. Not now. You could have said this in the earlier days, but you can't say it now. Technology has absolutely crushed this thing.

More games being available all the time. Technology's just done that. But the idea that any of this stuff, there's the black shirt, look it's real far, flexing. I don't know. I don't know that Georgia fans rate. I don't think that Texas fans rate.

LSU is close. LSU is close. I don't know. What if I'm, like, UNLV basketball back during their championship run was pretty a click. Duke basketball fans would fall this conversation.

Yeah. But not North Carolina basketball fan. No. And I lived in Carolina and I can tell you, them two get at it. But I just think Duke fans

because they don't have, they didn't always have powerful Duke football. And they didn't always, Carolina football was always relatively good, was generally better than Duke football.

So they always had that You know those battles The schools you go to and you beam in basketball and go wait till football Wait till football And that's kind of where that works Like it's Nebraska and Creighton And it matters so much more

Because Creighton doesn't have football Yeah So you get some of that passion transferred over And I just think that this state is so unique in that space I'm literally trying to think of like Iowa football I don't know what does Iowa football matter as much.

Like I'm not sure that Iowa is the football school now. I think that Iowa State might be football school. Oh. Right? If you said higher ceiling, it might be Iowa State. Yeah. That doesn't exist in Nebraska. Doesn't exist.

Colorado? No. Trying to think going. state to state pocket to pocket. Tennessee is as close as close to Nebraska as I can say. Because 100,000 people who come by car,

van, mobile home, and boat to Neeland Stadium to put 100,000 people in. And boat. And boat. If you haven't put that on your bucket list of things to do is to go to Tennessee and get one of those charters

that take the boat that park and tailgate at Neela. It's pretty exceptional. And again, there's not a lot of places that have that type of experience. And I don't think there's anybody else in the Big Ten who is on that pole with Nebraska at the top of the poll. But from the, but I got a text and asked the question.

Because I mentioned the Mount Rushmore of fans, fan bases. But then somebody. asked the question. And I'm going to load this for 10 o'clock. We'll go to break, come back and bring the second hour. But here's the thing. The question that was asked, what is the Nebraska sports?

Mount Rushmore. What is it? What is it? And it's not just Husker, but it can be. Twofold. Is there a Husker Mount Rushmore? And is there a number of,

Nebraska sports because there are folks like Bob Gibson that may want to enter the chat. If you're doing Nebraska. So let's start with Husker and then let's go to Nebraska. How about that? We'll do that top of the hour here on the ticket. Download our app by searching 93.7, the ticket in your app store. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 937 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. It's time to go one-on-one with D.P.

Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7-a-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, brought to by Canopy Street Market. There is Oscar baseball at 11 a.m. this morning. It's Holy Cross. 11 a.m. They are going to trot out a.m. nine-win starter after trotting out a nine-win starter that held the number one North Carolina tar heels to four runs and this is one A and one B for Holy Cross.

Huskers will throw out somebody that actually, you know, Ty was top-notch in the Big Ten tournament championship game. Should be a battle. Huskers have a little bit more pop at the plate. Holy Cross is sharp defensively. It's going to be a good one. 4024-6-4-5-6-85. You want to be a part. Hit me with a what's up. Appreciate you folks who have been active on the text on this morning. Bill and Bennett, appreciate it.

He says, I don't have ESPN Plus, but I prefer the radio call. And that is a signal of ownership of the program. And that happens in pockets around the country where fans are more loyal to the local call, the local voice that they know, the person that goes through the battle with them. All of that is fair. We'll see what the next version of that it's going to be.

Because we don't know. True. We don't know. Yep. Brad says, yeah, ESPN, the good games will be on ESPN. That's a true thing. Everybody says, I have ESPN Plus, but it's with a bundle. Yep. All of that's true. Yep. Right? That's generally that. But, but, I mean,

today, that's where the game is. Games on ESPN Plus. Yes. And, you know, of course, the weather was playing havoc with the schedule yesterday. And it may be, it may do the same today because there's rains in different pockets of the country. And so some of the games that were originally assigned as ESPN Plus games may end up on the, on the mothership. Because the game that they had scheduled is in a weather delay. Yeah. So, and they do a really good job of having, they have the,

multiple game screen for ESPN. If you have the plus and you have access to that, you can do that. We've been all over the place. Fullback track says, I think they win 6-3 today, but don't make it out of the region, unfortunately.

First of all, the number one team of the country is hosting. Yeah, that's, yeah. You know, and there are people that tried to rank North Carolina fifth amongst the ones, the regional host.

But, Nebraska ended up in a place where there are some dudes, there are some horses out there, man. There are some stud pitchers. There are some arms in this bracket. This regional has dune. Like this is so, this region is so good

that no matter who gets out of it today, right? So this is an elimination game for the Huskers. You're playing for your season, all hands on deck. Wonder. If they win, they're going to get the number three, pitcher from either North Carolina or Oklahoma. And the Huskers will battle, no matter what, they will battle. Facts against the wall.

Like, they win today, and I think we can start to have some fun because then you're just a spoiler, right? You're just a spoiler and you get to make chaos happen. But Holy Cross would love to be the spoiler. I mean, again, they took on the number one seat and their number one pitcher for their number two. Well, no. Well, they had two number one. So there's that.

Yeah, they have two number ones. North Carolina gets a 12 win starter who beats Holy Cross. And then, oh, by the way, here comes another 12 win starter. Holy Cross was the same way, though. Nine, you know, and it's nine wins in that league. And it's a little bit different. But this is, today's starter was the starter when they beat Auburn. When Holy Cross beat Auburn.

This is the guy that took the bump and did the work. So you, Holy Cross is exactly what you would imagine from a school from that conference. They're scrappy. This is a scrappy, put the ball in play, defend, make plays, make people beat you type of squad. And they're playing for their lives too. On an elimination day, all bets are off, man. You better make plays. You, but you've got to make plays.

If we went today, they will play the loser of Oklahoma, North Carolina, tomorrow morning. There is the part that Nebraska plays late. They finished late. And then you have to get up, reload, refuel, regenerate, and then

hit the on switch for an 11 o'clock first pitch today. That's not easy to do. That's not easy to do. That's why those schedules generally don't work that way. Because it means,

especially in an elimination format, because if it's just a week, in series you're planning and there are people that aren't in your lineup on late Friday night who you plan to use Saturday morning, they used a ton of arms last night and all hands are on deck or all hands are on deck. And I would imagine that everybody has to be available day because if you don't, you'll have all summer to rest. 11 o'clock first pitch. So yeah. And then if they win, they will get, they will get an angry hornet's nest tomorrow.

Well, I mean, that's what today is. It's two teams with the back, not only against the wall, but in the corner. And these types of games, I mean, Nebraska's familiar with. They understand. They know how to get through those. So, okay. Familiar space. I do like the Huskers one through eight, one through nine line lines.

up more than Holy Cross. But Holy Cross has no, it does not have Nebraska fear. It has the schedule of enough. Listen, Jaden, uh, Wadda, 9 and 2 started 15 games through two complete games, 9 and 2 record, 75 innings pitched, um, 78 strikeouts in those 75 innings. If you're plus a strikeout per inning, you've got stuff. And again, it doesn't really matter who you're playing against. Doesn't really matter. They have four hitters who are above 300

and then the numbers kind of dropped fair to middling, but you're talking about teams that put the ball in play. They defend the ball well, they defend well, and they don't make a ton of mistakes. Now, the pressure is higher, the competition is higher. So this is where the things happen.

But you're certainly not surprised. in the battle. I mean, again, they played North Carolina on their own, at their own crib, and it was a four-nothing game. So, you know, tune in.

Let me know where you're watching the game, whether you're watching at home, whether you're going out in the bat, and to watch it. Here's where we were. And it went, it went deeper during the break because we had a Hall of Famer, Black Shirt Pearl Farley, pop his head in the door.

And I asked him a question. And this is what happens. The thread leads, you know, pulls the sweater. Like you start pulling on the thread and you realize that there's a sweater attached. That I asked the question because I think Husker fans are on the Mount Rushmore of, especially college football fans, college football fans. Husker fans are absolutely in that special place where not only do they show up in great numbers

and have for an eternal period of time. But also that the games themselves, when they exist, mean more than in most places across the country. And there are places that will tell you their fans love their teams and their programs, but there's only a handful that are in the conversation with Nebraska fans and their love for their Huskers, especially Husker football.

They just aren't. We know that they're on the Montreschmore volleyball fans. Yeah. Like you're at the top of it. Okay, yep, you're at the top of it. And support and longevity. Basketball, maybe not. Because the results haven't necessarily set that up.

Yeah. But that's because of the legends. And I ask the question. And I think there's several parts of the question. The first question that I will ask is for Jackson Kleinsman to come up with the Nebraska football about Rushmore. Okay. Now,

wherever your mind goes, because your mind could go with everybody, all Huskers. No. Every single Husker. But in order to have this conversation, let's start with, right?

we'll start with Husker players. Players, okay, there we go. And then in the next segment, Husker players and coaches. Husker players and coaches. And then Nebraska is a state. And. So Nebraska football players.

So imagine near the airport, there is a mountain of stone that's going to be carved so that anybody that flies in during football season, you're going to see the Mount Rushmore of Husker football plays. As a matter of fact, it's going to be outside of Memorial State, right? This huge, beautiful stone mountain carved with the faces of the four most iconic, greatest iconic. I'm not sure what they go to it too.

Right? that four. So text line, give me your four. Okay. Jackson, give me your four. My four. The jet. Okay.

Sue. Tommy. I guess far enough for that. But those three I feel pretty confident about those three. Sue, Johnny, Tommy. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm going Brooke. I am going to go Brooke.

I am going to go Brooke. He already has a statue, but I would put Brooke up there just because the impact he had on and off the field. What was the impact? On the team. He embodies everything that a Husker is, just the culture of Nebraska. Like, I feel like he would have to be up there because of that. I know, I know he's not, no. Listen, he, he didn't go first guy.

I know that. Like, I get that. I'm just, to me, he embodies everything in Husker. I, I, I, he already has a statue, but I would put him up. I don't know. I don't know that any of it's wrong. As I tell people,

I'll have to be given their opinions. You can't be wrong because it's your opinion. But there's zero chance you get it right because they're not really that thing. So give me your foregame, Beringer. Yeah, Brooke. Yeah, Beringer, Tommy Frazier, Johnny Rogers, and Domiton. So no account. No accounting for Heismans or national championships being considered.

That's just my four. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. If it's not Brooke, I probably would have put Mike Ruggier. What about Crouch? That's, see, that's hard. If you have to choose one or the other, and I just, I don't know. I think Mike had more of a impactful season, especially at that Heisman season. What about Rich Glover?

Exactly. It's just, oh, it's hard. To pick four? Yeah, I mean. To pick. far we had a great point it's got to be like a six head maybe an eight head well i don't because i because i don't know that i don't know that indomacan sue's career was better than rich glovers especially tell me in the game in the biggest game of the century which one made 22 tackle

hey it's rich gold it's true it's fact won the trophy as the best lineman in the country in the game in the same year the game of century was one of the game of century was one I'm not sure that that's not the best defensive performance in Nebraska football history. How many fumbles did he cause that day? That I don't. But this is my thing. I know the 22. But this is my point.

That Husker fans historically have to be aware that there were others before your generation and before your history began. that if you're going to have discussion over the best defensive players at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, that you have to start. Like there's some dudes. There's some dudes. We're going to talk about the Pat Fischer's and Romney Goals and the dude.

And we'll get to those dudes that went on to have 15-year careers in the NFL with success and, you know, all those things. But come on. Like, the go-to answer. That's the answer for everything.

Yeah, House of Spears was everything. But Rich Glover was a dude. Not Dave Remington. That's a good one. It's a dude. Like, you have to have, right, you have to have the discussion. That Remington, the trophy. The trophy, right?

The trophy. And there are people in having the discussion to say how amazing Dave Remington was that he may not be the best linemen, offensive linemen, in Nebraska football history. Who's better than it? Take your list. Go to pipeline. Go to pipeline.

Oh, yeah. Go pipeline. I wasn't thinking. Go pipeline. You're talking about a program. That's a great. That's a great point. I kind of forget that.

Right. I mean, Chris Leiniger says this. He says, in my opinion, you have to go with three Hizmann winners, and then with two for the fourth, because he was second in the Hizman,

boating as a defensive lineman. And I'm not a good. But do you serve a favor? Glover, Google Rich Glover, Heism. All-American. stats. Yep. Turer, Crosier, Gil,

Tommy Frazier. And that is part of the discussion part, is that there are those that if you rank Nebraska quarterbacks, I'm not sure that Brooke is quarterback 1B. I'm not sure he's quarterback 2. Well, no, I wouldn't throw, if we're talking about just best quarterbacks of all time, but like Mount Rushmore has a different feel than just like what they did on the field,

though, to me anyways, I don't know about. This is the part. Yeah. That people will inject some things into it, right? That if Nebraska fans will tell me you could choose one quarterback out of Brooke and Turner, there are some that would have that conversation about a bunch of quarterbacks. Jerry Taggy. Taggy.

Like, wait a minute. What are we talking about? I mean, you talk about what a Husker is. Torn jersey, double bar face mask, eye black under, socks, socks, socks pulled down from people yanking at his ankles. Taggie's a dude and did it. Some would say that he carried that team. Johnny made the biggest plays,

had the biggest highlights. But does that team win without taggy? Not any score the national championship. But that's my point. That Husker fan, and I just want you to process. So you're on the committee and you get a vote. And it says, okay, this is what we're going to do, the Mount Rushmore of this.

Husker football. And the four greatest Husker football players. Not performers, most accolades, most awards, whatever it is, right? But in order to be amongst the

four greatest of all time, you had to be one of the four, you had to be the greatest in your time. Like, isn't that like a fair, you have to be the greatest in your time? And if you tell me that

Rosier, Lawrence Phillips, I'm on Green. What are he was saying? That if you had all of them do, and on a team with Jet, taggy, Glover,

hey man, say it. On a team with Turner, Friar, Rosier, you know, Steincooler. Like, we have names. And you go to the 95, you know,

go through, the real process years, 94, 95, 97, 96, go to 2000, go to 2009, where the runs are so deep and the talent was so deep that people get caught in the wash. But the four, the four, the four that if, let's just say,

you're explaining to your son what, how great Husker football is, and you only get one, shot. And you, you get to say who the four greatest Husker football players are. What would you say? Is the answer the same? I actually kind of liked the, uh, all three Heismans. Mm-hmm. Because you can't, you can't, you can't put that award down. That is the, that's the pinnacle award to get college football. So I would put all three Heisman winners up there.

Mm-hmm. And then, yeah, I'd probably still go soon. Just because he's, widely regarded as the greatest, or one of the greatest, if not the greatest player to not win the Heisman. To not win the Heism. That is the state be true in Nebraska. That's true nationally. No. I've seen that put out nationally by CBS sports,

by multiple outlets. For somebody that's been in pockets of the country, they don't even identify in Dominican, too, with Nebraska. Okay. That's not the name. That's why he finished second. What Nebraska thinks of Indomicon 2 is different than what the rest of the country thought about Indomicon 2. That's why he didn't win the Heism.

There's no other reason he didn't win the Heism. The national voters didn't think as much of him as Nebraska did. In a year where the people around him weren't exceptional. That was not a thick Heisman room. and the national people didn't choose him. That says everything. You go around pockets, I've been all over this country covering sports.

No, sir. No sir. Think how Nebraska thinks, and that's great because you're entitled to. But there are people that will talk more about Lawrence Phillips than Dominican Sue. They'll talk more about Irving Fryer. They'll talk more about Rich Glover.

Because in the game, in the game, as we were talking about earlier, The game in the country, the game of the century that everybody in the country was watching, the biggest play was Johnny DeJet Rogers. The best player on the field that day was Rich Glover. But that's what that is. We'll change the discussion because then the next question becomes same format, but it's Husker coaches.

and do you include, right? Do you include players with the coaches? So for Huskers, they can be coach or player, who's your Mount Rushman? Jackson, you're back on the clock. We'll get to it when we come back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 937,

The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com. As we said on Saturday morning, Lincoln, Nebraska, there is, we're about 30 minutes plus from first pitch. Chapel Hill, Nebraska versus Holy Cross. The elimination game for an opportunity to play tomorrow, same time, against the loser of Oklahoma and North Carolina after losing 974 to North Carolina last night. We were talking about Rich Glover and I'm making the point. We said in Domicant II was number two in his Heisman voting the year he had the epic year that he had.

Rich Glover finished third. Finish third. You know why? you know what you know where 300 votes went where Johnny Rogers that you same team same fan base some would say splitting the vote that 400 first place votes 400 first place votes went to Nebraska athlete. Four hundred. There were 276 second place votes. Nebraska. 210 third place votes. Nebraska. 400 votes went to Nebraska athletes. 117 went to Greg Pruitt at Oklahoma,

who also participated in the greatest, in the game of the century that year. If Johnny Rogers isn't a Husker that year, Rich Glover wins the Heism trophy. He wins the hybrons his trophy. Who was second? Greg Pruitt. 117 first place votes. Johnny Rogers had 300. Rich Glover had 99.

You think Husker fans, you think, you think football reporters, 300 of them would have chosen Greg Pruitt over Rich Glover. I don't think so. No, no, they wouldn't. No, they wouldn't. No, they wouldn't. So when you use the argument that Sue was number two, really what?

But you got to put in perspective. Love was third. Another Husker was first. That's why. That's why. It's crazy. It's crazy. Y'all better put some respect on that man's name.

That dude had a career. That dude had a year. And I just bravo to Johnny Jet Rogers. But the first and third best player in the country, we're both Oscar. And when it comes to national voting, yeah, people chose Jet. But I would promise you that as Nebraska was doing what Nebraska was doing,

that if the Jet wasn't there, the rich A defensive player finished third That year behind a house So yeah It is it is a real thing man It is a real thing Chris is this other thing

You can put four different people there Depending on what you're looking at stats national variety impact on the team And yeah, there's a bunch that goes into it, but that's why we're literally having the discussion. I don't have all the answers. I'm literally asking the question. Bill and Bennett says, DeVaney,

Tom Osborne, John Cook, and Rhonda Ravelle as the Mount Rushmore of Husker coaches. Bob Devaney, Osborne, Cook, Revelle, Jackson, step up to the microphone, It's your time, sir. You're going to, you're going to hit launch because once Jackson signs it, that's who they're going to carve. They're going to take that stone, put penda.

They're going to put metal to stone and get it done. So steal the stone. What do you, what are you going to do? Devaney, Osborne, Cook. I don't think of a fourth. I don't know. I don't know the phone four. I do not know.

I don't disagree with Rhonda Ravel. Well, you have national champion. Yeah, that's one. Cook was not the first national champion volleyball coach. That is true. I was like, there's more names that I can. Clempa is in his own space, but he also wasn't the only one. What other sports of what, I mean, Mark Manning might be.

Yeah, Mark Manning, might be a part of this, but there are coaches at the University of Wisconsin-Lincoln that aren't always talked about. There are other Husker football coaches. It wasn't, we had a, I mean, the coach still might be there. Wasn't it a soccer coach? One of the teams has been here or was that Nebraska for? Well, I mean, this is the thing that. Francis Allen is for track is absolutely the discussion.

Gymnastics, you have to consider other sports. You have to consider that there is a, pull up the Husker Athletic Hall of Fame. It will give you a list of the coaches who are in the hall. of faith. And I think in that conversation that if you're creating this, it's just an opportunity to say this person deserves consideration. Nobody's wrong in considering.

But Francis Allen would certainly be in the Devaney Osborne Cook space. Petit would also be there. Francis Straub. Yep. But that's why I'm asking. So the Kevin says Straub. which, again, if you're talking about the entire, in the entirety of the history of Husker athletics,

to say how many sports has Nebraska won national championships in, and then the longevity of the success. It's one thing to get to the level of success, but then to actually have longevity in your national championship runs, in your Big Eight conference runs. You know, I'm not sure they were close in baseball to having coaches that were there. Yeah, Klemper has as much as juice as anybody.

I mean, I think that's, I think that's, when you say that Nebraska bowling is to NCAA college bowling as Nebraska football was to college football, Clemper's still working at the level. And now Mark Manning, I mean, you're talking about run, a long, successful run of being in the top 10, often in the top five.

I mean, we're talking about over a decade of having that run and producing in two decades, arguably the greatest wrestler to ever to walk through the door. I mean, George Burrell is, I mean, you have to have, again, what coach had, I mean, you talk about track, where they had several national champions last year. Like you had two women's throwers that were national champions.

Like you have to expand the thought. I mean, I know a lot of the focus in the conversation is on football, but the reality is women's basketball has had some coaches of success. You don't talk about it. We don't talk about. Ravelle's run, this is a spectacular run. And if you said, geez, even now, like if you had to set a priority of coaches now

for the Mount Rushmore, the current coaches, the top four coaches, there's no coach that's more important than that rule. But for production and success at Nebraska, a clemper Manning, Ravel, and then track, gymnastics? Maybe men's gymnastics ahead of track? I don't know, kind of in the same space.

And being that great for this period of time. That's currently, again, the most important, right? It's the barringer thing, right? The image of it versus the actual work of it, the production of it. Yeah. But who's done more for Nebraska Athletics? What coaches have done the most? What active coaches have done the most for Nebraska athletics?

And have that, you know, a year ago, John Cook's at the top of that list. Bus boom Kelly just got here. Right? Yes. Yeah, Chris, I mean, that's my point. I think that's the point Kevin was making. Straub with his 12 national titles in bowling.

And they, so the previous version of college bowling was men's and women's together. So, yes. And I don't, we miss, we miss talking about the Olympic sports because, quite frankly, that's how people move.

But I find great beauty in the fact that Nebraska has such depth. Now, here's the next phase, though. Mount Rushmore, four Huskers get to be on it, coach or player. That's so difficult.

I don't even want to do that. Right, like coaches or players. Coaches or play. That and you're not going to be wrong because all four that you're going to, you talk about, then you get into the iconic state. Yeah. Like the definition of iconic legacy and legend that Devaney as the godfather. of coaching at Nebraska.

Even for that, I would love to have got, go, you know, get in the time machine and go back to 1965 and hear Husker, Husker Radio talk about Husker Athletics and find out who the people were, right? Back in 1965, I would love to know what, what sports talk radio would have sounded like in 1965 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Like, what were they talking about?

I would imagine sports radio was pretty, interesting anyway that radio i mean can you imagine the folks i don't know that anybody i i'm pretty sure stuff's out there but the folks who talked husker radio husker football during the 70s during the early 70s like right 70 to 72 the folks who talked about you know i mean the calls are still great the calls are still out there but that would be fascinating to me is to go back and find clips and be able to play them. That would be special. I would love that.

Jackson, get your Google machine running. God. Yeah. The four greatest Nebraska-based athlete. So that means they could be born here and gone to my own and had success.

Or they could. they could as a running back i'm thinking of i can't remember his name yeah well there's a guy sayers that's yeah i was like he's definitely on there that guy i was like can't remember he's yeah you have to you have to be considered and consider the voice from creighton uh yeah yeah you have to consider you gotta expand for new brashka come on jackson we'll get it he'll give you his answers when we come back and close out one-on-one download our app by searching 93.7 a ticket in your app store you're listening to one-on-one with dp on 93-7-the-ticket and the ticket-fm.com.

You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought to you by Canopy Street Market. On 93-7, the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Federal segment before we hang it over, hand it over to Sandman and Tank, the greatest sports athlete, sports figures from the great state of Nebraska. Jackson, what did you come up with?

I got Gail Sayers. Okay. I got Bob Gibson. Okay. I got to throw one that, like, was one of the ones that came to my mind. Mm-hmm. Jordan, Jordan, Larson, Lawson, Morrison, right? I think that's what you say.

Jordan Larson from volleyball. Yeah, from volleyball. I can remember it was Larson or Lawson. And then I'll still put Johnny on there. I'll still put the jet. Okay. I'm okay with that. Okay.

Yeah, I'll go with those four. Those four. Okay. So for me. Here's here's something. And quite frankly, what Bob Gibson did. To me, to me, I was reading some stuff on that. I was like, I can't not say him.

To me, Bob Gibson is my favorite pitcher of all time. And I think it's pretty simple in saying that, that changed the way rules were made, changed the way the field was lined up, changed. literally the whole way this thing was done. His complete game numbers in the core and apex of his career are universal. Plus, if you wanted to consider that he was the best basketball player in the state of Nebraska for his entire time when he was at Creek. Yeah.

You had to say. Right. Like it's there. Gale Sayers, Gail Sayers, to me, and this is where Big Old certainly has perks and benefits, but in all of my. my life, my favorite person to ever run with a football is Gail Sayers. Put a football in Gail Sayers' hands, and especially for that era, we did not, there was one

Gail Sayers. There was one. There was one. We had never seen anything like the Kansas Common. We'd never seen anything like him. And quite frankly, I'm not sure we've seen everything since. The people that we talk about with a football who move well, Barry Sanders, Dionne Sanders on a kick return. You could talk about certain players who moved within the game differently than

everybody else, Gail Sayers, before his knee injury, was as unique. And you can talk about the moment of watching him on film returning kicks in three inches of mud, making three cuts on the return that should defy physics. Yeah. There's a great line from Bill Koss. to be saying he watched Gail Sayers and he's pretty sure that at one moment two defenders had him had him cornered and that Gail, he saw Gail Sayers' body

the only way he could get through this was Gail Sayer's body split like an amoeba and avoided both defenders. A Nebraska name that you don't talk about and there's some pro wrestlers that you can talk about if you want to talk pro wrestling that Gorgeous George, the icon of

all icons that comes to pro wrestling because today's version of it doesn't exist without gorgeous George doing what he did, having Nebraska connections. You have to say it. Like, there's the thing. Tom Osborne, and we have to remember to give Tom Osborne credit for being a professional football player. Like we have to remember that,

we have to remember that, hey man, this dude caught passes in the pro league. You have, in the NFL, you have to give him credit for that as well. Johnny Jet Rogers and the description. discussion for all that's there.

Richie Ashburn is one of the greatest players ever, ever with connections from, from, they don't, they don't, I didn't know this until probably a month ago, the Grover, Cleveland, Alexander had Nebraska ties. Yeah, I just saw that on. I did, I did not know. I mean, you're talking about a three-time 30-game winner in the major leagues. Like, you know, and this guy threw against some crazy talent, again, Tim. Bob Bozer

was the guy that all the old heads talk about as a unique athlete in the space and said he belonged in the conversation with Gail and Bob Gibson. Our own Eric Strickland is on the list. I see him on here. Our own Amon Green is on the list. Jim Hartung, who coached at the, I believe he's still on the staff or was on the staff at Nebraska. But when it comes to gymnastics, men's gymnastics, Hartung's name is

at the top. It's in that Mountain Rushmore discussion of athletes. And then one of my favorites, who's on this list, he started Omaha Tech, four-time American Basketball Association, All-Star, the Iron Man of the NBA, before AC Greed and his came along and broke his record. But in my time in Utah, when I first went out there, I was paired with the legend. I can only identify him as such, the legend Ron Boone. And Ron Boone has been an analyst for the Utah Jazz since his playing days. He finished with the Lakers.

He went through the ABA. Then the NBA, the early version of the Utah Jazz was traded to the Lakers, came back, started doing radio and television with the Utah Jazz, and literally held my hand for the first three years that I was in Salt Lake City doing radio. And every day,

it was a history class because every great athlete in the country had respect for the guy I was sitting next to. And his name was the legend. Ron Boone, you might also know him as the father of Geron Boone, who still sits in top five categories for Nebraska basketball, even to this day. One of the great humans in my career. And I'm thankful any chance I get to say, well done, Ron Boone, I will do so. Don't go anywhere. That'll be it for one-on-one.

But don't go anywhere. Thanks, Sam, man. Coming up, they will hold it down for a bit. More tickets Saturday coming up. And again, Husker first pitch, baseball coming up from Chapel Hill against Holy Cross.