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Episode Date: June 24, 2022

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You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back to 101. I want to thank the folks for Mary Allen's Food for the Soul. Was there yesterday. Was meeting Ramel Rock Lloyd, Sr., and his lovely wife and his mom. They're all in town getting Ramel Jr., all settled in to his dorm.

A couple of things were pointing out, and I didn't know, but there are only two freshmen on this team, on this roster. Everybody else is an upper classman. So new roster, but experienced roster is what you're saying. Yes. Yeah, that there are only two players who are staying in the dorm. Oh, wow. It's interesting to put it that way.

Right, there's only two players in the dorm. I assume they're rooming together. Yeah. I mean, you have to at that point. Right, yeah. So, yeah, there was a lot of that discussion. And then, of course, I called Strick, and I'm like, hey, we're down at Mary Ellen. And so Strick and Rock played against each other in the infamous Drew League out in California.

And then several Vegas leagues in L.A. summer leagues, summer pro leagues, which used to happen out at the pyramid at Long Beach State University. Pyramid is the great basketball facility, man. It was amazing. Sat on the harbor in Long Beach, California. And I was the voice of that Summer League. So, again, in the preemptive days of streaming, right, where you weren't actually broad,

they were actually broadcasting all the games. There was internet TV. There was net TV. that broadcasted the games from both the Rocky Mountain Review in Salt Lake City, which was an NBA Summer League for 16 teams, and then you would go to Long Beach. And then the Lakers hosted it. The Clippers participated and were kind of the co-host,

but quite frankly, they weren't getting their due. It was kind of like them at Staples Center during showtime. I mean, it's basically the entire history of the Clippers. Right, right. We're here, too. We're here, hello, hello. But I called a couple of games with both Rock and Strick in them, which is fantastic back in the day. And then, of course, that led to my engagement with, while I was still with the Utah Jazz,

I was being recruited by the Clippers. And those summer days out in L.A. where it's, I mean, and I'm telling you, it's dudes. It was dudes out there. As a matter of fact, I called the very first game that Andrew Bynum played as an L.A. rookie. And I called the game with Craig Hodges. And it was a blast. But Strick and Rock chopped it up and told stories on each other and talked about the state of basketball here in Lincoln. I can tell you if I was a, if I am an AAU sponsor or a program or a high school,

I would be reaching out to Rock Lloyd and Eric Strickland immediately. Immediately. If you think your kid has something, I would reach out. I can get them there soon because the basketball IQ at that table, I just sat in the corner and let them talk. Oh, yeah, that's some high-level dudes here. Like I just lean back against the wall and let them have that it. So it's pretty funny to have that kind of space and collection.

And they talked about, you know, what, you know, hopes and dreams for the program and the benefits, you know, having strickling back in town and him being around it. But I think the two of them together would do some powerful, powerful stuff. So, but it was, it was informative. It was insightful. All I'm hearing is that the two of them need to have a podcast or something. I don't know how we would do that. Got some microphones. We're going to have three opportunities.

There are three that are in the air where it would be a player and a parent. Okay. That we're trying to secure. I think I'm pretty sure of two of the three. The third one might take a little more wrangling. Well, I'm going to assume the Lloyds. The Lloyds would be a great. radio show.

That was the jumping-up point here. They're basketball historians, right? They're old school, right? If we're going to do the second family, it would be the first, well, it wouldn't be the first.

But it would be a pretty interesting basketball show with a dad and a daughter. And then and then the third would be, we've come to an agreement with the son, but getting the dad is a problem.

Is it a fixable problem? I don't know. I don't think so. All right. I don't think so. I think you might be able to get dad to make an appearance. But more likely it would be the son and the mom. I don't, well, I mean, I don't know who we're talking about here.

Or the son and the brother. older brother. Okay. Who's also a player. Connect your own dots, people. I think it would be pretty cool. And then I'm trying to think of there, are there any other currently,

so on current rosters at the University of Nebraska, are there any more father or daughter dad or mom scenarios we could come off? So we're talking, we're talking legacies.

and things of that nature? Yeah. Well, depending on what happens with Noonan. Okay. That would be a thing. That would be a thing. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Who else we got running around? Let me go to the woman's roster. We should probably just get Carol and Scott Frost in a room together. I don't think that would. I don't think that would happen. I think that could happen. I don't think, yeah, you're funny. You're hilarious.

That's just make that call. I'll be right back What were we thinking That wouldn't even What? What? What do you know, Mark on water? What do you know that I don't know?

I know that that wouldn't happen. That would not happen. I think Yeah, I think Let's see here. Yeah, just looking at the rosters, that's kind of where we would go.

Oh, we could. We could do another son and mom and son and dad. We lost one in the women's side because Popa left, and so we couldn't get her and her dad who played for the Miami Heat. So we missed that. Who left? Who left? Tatiana Popa.

Oh, I didn't know. Okay. Yeah. But we could get Oleg and his mom and dad who both played college basketball. Yes. Right? Because dad was down UNC Wilmington, I believe, and mom may have played UNC Charlotte. There's something along those lines.

So maybe you might be able to do that. I just want Oleg. I mean, parents are gravy, but. It's just Oleg. Yeah. We look. Whatever it takes to get Oleg in here. I'm fully set in the fact that free Oleg is going to be a thing and an important.

important thing. I hope so. When you watch him practice, he's enjoyable. He should be a pop icon here in Lincoln, Nebraska. As soon as he sees the court, he will be. Right. Yeah. Totally pop icon shirts and otherwise, how much trouble would we get into for doing Nebraska basketball shirts? Not jerseys, but just shirts that say Nebraska basketball. Can we do that? That say Nebraska basketball? Could they say Nebraska on the front and basketball on the back? Unrelated comments. It's fine. Right?

Could we do that? Probably okay. As long as we don't use names. Yeah, right. We can't use the logos. We can put basketball. We can do names if that person is associated with it. So could we do Lloyd 2?

And then on the back it says Nebraska. Could we do that? Yeah, I assume so. I assume so. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Rico.

He's consistent. Rico. You had an idea? It was my idea. Yeah. That was my idea. I want you to know. Yeah, because the words free and Oleg have never been in the same sentence ever in history of mankind.

He is so, oh, he's consistent. Looking forward to seeing him a bit here, Rico. He is consistent is what I would say. No, I think, I mean, just to think about that, right? I mean, what could we? Because, so one of said sons, if we put their name on the back

with Nebraska on the front, not even putting basketball. Like, I don't think we would need the word basketball, right? You could put that player's name on the back. on the back. Do you need to use a first initial just to be...

S. S. Again, as long as the kids involved, the player, I don't like using the word kid, as long as the athlete is involved and signs off on it, gets a little chunk of change back there away from the sales. Right. You know, I think...

A little NIL action? I think that's all in play. Right? Yeah. I mean, because it is his name, too. It's his last name, too. It's his last name, too. It's his last name, too.

He has ownership of it. Wow. Huh. And then maybe we could get a couple of sponsors to put their logos around the name. Right? So we, right? Like on the back of the T-shirt, right? Or on the back of the jersey, we can go like EuroLeague and have the logo.

The logo and then the number, the player's number. and then the name on the back with the number with various companies' logo around it. All in play? Okay. Okay. And we could do that on like a headband too.

Sure, sure. Right? Like we could do like his name on the headband. Yeah. We could probably even have him sign. the headband. Huh.

Can we get his signature embroidered on a headband? Yes. Yeah. Because it's his. Because it's his. He did it. Right. He signed it.

And then we just... We just had the embroidery skills. Stitch, did it. Yeah. Yeah. And then we could put them on our website. Yes. On the shopticketfm.com website.

someone asks if we can use nebraska ball i don't believe so i believe that word is trademarked i don't know that for certain but i believe it's trademarked well huskers is trademarked and it's used all over the entire state yeah you're right you're right right right it's all over the entire state huskers plural i think is different than husker and i know the word corn husker which one is which one is is trademark i think plural plural huskers yeah and certainly stout So, so, right, stylized. So if we change the font, I think, I think that might be in play. Could we change the font?

That potentially, because it's tricky. The word corn husker, the full word, cornhusker, is considered fair use because, A, it's kind of considered a common word. It's also the state motto or the slogan or something like that. It's, we are the cornhusker state. So the university can't trademark cornhusker. Can we use cornhusker? And I think Husker kind of falls in that. So if we put cornhuskers and then the players on the front and then the player's name,

not his father's name, but his name on the back and made a jersey. So it would be the players. Are you guys tired from all this dancing yet? Oh, I can do this all day. It's a lot of dancing. Well, I mean, you want to be considered and respectful. No, I get it. It's just funny because you pause before you say a lot of people's like, wait, how can I say this?

I woke up in Trow's drama today, Eric. All you got to do is put a last name and then you don't need to put Nebraska or basketball. You just put an outline of the state and an emoji basketball. Well, no, you put super simple. You put the state and in a basketball beneath it. Yeah, or you put it in it. Right? Oh, like the old school free throw lanes

That's basketball Right? But you do the basketball tank top Yes So it looks like a jersey You just have that Because then it doesn't say It doesn't mention anything about Nebraska

So they can't get mad at that And then you just put a last name And it's just like look This is a decent This is a decently common last name Welcome to the dance Yeah Look you didn't need music

No I don't I just slid right in You just slid into the move man How works anonymous Cubs fan says this having gone through this many times before trust me the university will find a way to make sure they get a cut guaranteed i have no doubt i have no doubt that they'll try they can't get a cut of n iL money um right because this is an n iL deal as long as we talk to whatever player that the last name is yeah and we include them on the deal

the university can't their deal the university gets nothing i mean it's his money yeah we're not putting huskers we're not putting nebrosepherson We're not putting, you know, it's just a basketball and the state of Nebraska. Plenty of teams. Plenty of teams play basketball in this state. But then here's the thing. Because I have some legal cachet, I would ask the question, well, why have you excluded me? Tusha.

Why have thou forsaking me, university? And we can just, you know, the color palette can just be off by a little bit. Just a little different color. Different color. Different pantone. Different. Just slightly different. Okay.

All right. So we'll go towards break and ponder. Ponder, ponder. We may dance 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.