1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Dylan Raiola is gone, now what?: December 16, 11:25am

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

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I mean, I know we have some creatives out there, but you need, like, Huss, you need, so there's a, there's the, the moment that John Siener becomes, goes heel, and you can do Sina or you could do Hogan. I'm okay either way, right? Right? Right, I'm okay. But use, use Dillon as, as Sina or Hogan. Turning heel. Turning heel. And, and, and, you know, it's a show. between the legs, right? It's, but who's, who's going to be the rock to his seat? Who's going to, like, I don't want to, who's going to be standing behind him? You know, maybe you just put on there for safety sake, you put on there the transfer for it. Yeah, yeah.

Right, like that way you don't have to really upset anybody. The transfer portal. And then who does he give the, the shot to? Matt Roll. I think Matt Rule. You want, you want that rule to get this. I think that's what it was. I think if anybody got hit in the below the belt more than anybody the other day,

it was Matt Ruh. Oh, man. And then it's just hostination all standing there like the guy with the glasses when Undertaker got beat. Yeah, that's right. Like, I can't believe you turned to heal. You can't believe it. But you need somebody to give the gesture, right?

Yeah. To go through it. So I know we have talented people. I asked the changes are the changes. just, Bach, what now? What now? Um, and, and through all the text, there's nobody's wrong, right? But there's zero chance we're going to get it right today. But I do want to hear from everybody. So, Bach, priority, what now? Are you, well, we do have a call. Go ahead. Yeah, we do have a call. And Nate is on the line. Let's bring Nate into the show. Nate,

good, good, good, good, good, good, Tuesday morning. How are you? What's on your break? Hey, hey, guys. I had a good morning. morning, man, you guys, you had me with your wrestling talk. You guys are hilarious, man. And with the whole Dylan Riala thing, man, I feel like Dylan Riala, this way I feel this morning is Dylan Rihala is Rikishi. And I feel like Huster Nation is one of his victims hanging on the rope. And we're just getting a big, fat Dylan Riala Rikishi booty right in our safe sucks. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. But I will say, you know, silver whining to everything. I really

do think this was a good parting for both for both a university football program and him. I think Dylan altered what the coaching staff originally wanted to do on offense. This was Dylan's team. I think a lot of today's college football for coaches that struggle is trying to find when I play football, it was always about team before me. Well, we are in the me generation and now coaches are trying to navigate how to coach a functional football team when it's about me. And I think that's a real struggle.

Anyhow, I think I've got the answer to Nebraska's problem. I really do. I honestly, truly do being a Nebraska kid. Here it is. It's just simple. I believe there's a thing called Midwest football. I know what works here in Nebraska, running the football. I know it's so cliche.

I know Huster fans clamor about it all the time. But with Iowa, if you can't beat them, join them. It works. I'm not saying we need to run. triple option, but we do need to be an NFL pro style run heavy first, setting up play action path, RPO, we need a mobile quarterback. Now, where am I going with all this? Development of players, okay? It's hard to develop players if you're a coach, if you don't know what you're developing for. We have got no identity on offense. To this day, the last six years, I still don't

know what the bracket football is. Are we a run team? Are we a past team? I have no idea. That's why I think development of players has been such an issue for so long how it has been because we don't even know what we're doing in the first place. Until we establish an identity on offense, whether it's this coaching staff or the next one, Nebraska will continue to struggle. And in the Midwest, I know running the football works. I know like Iowa has a pipeline to the Dakotas. They recruit really heavy in the Chicago land area. I think Nebraska is and truly, to be honest with you, needs to go back to some of that.

If you can't beat them, join them. I just wanted to hear your thoughts. With the recent coaching hires, do you think it is trending in that direction? Do you think that rule is going to emulate a lot of what Iowa does? And, yeah, just kind of wanted to pick your brain a little bit and see what you guys think. Thanks, Nate.

Appreciate it. Brock, your thoughts. Well, first of all, I absolutely enjoy the stink-face reference. So that's good for Rikishi there. This is something I've been yelling on soapbox for years and years. I mean, I believe it to be true, you know, because I look at all the other programs. Wisconsin is a perfect example of this.

They took Nebraska's blueprint. They had all the success in the world with it for 20 years. And now anytime they try to get away from it, what starts to happen? They start to fold. And they are kind of going back to that. Now, people will say there's a ceiling to that sort of offense, that sort of thing. we'll look at and maybe for all time that that did kind of change but who's been winning with power football

recently Georgia, Michigan, Notre Dame. I mean, so it's not always the prettiest, not always the flashest, not going to get you, you know, as many highlight reels on Sports Center. But in the Midwest, in my mind, it does get the job done. You're going to have to, you know, you're going to have weather games. You're going to have stuff where passing the football is going to be a little bit more difficult. So I think that also toughens up your defense, you know, to kind of go through that. that in practice. So, I mean, I couldn't, I couldn't agree with them more. I think over the years, Nebraska has been chasing offensive wizards. And there's an article, we've got this, you know, somebody brought in a bunch of old stuff from 1995 in the 90s and it was kind of reading through

and it's kind of fun. But, you know, I've got this article. I've been meaning to bring in, and it's from 1995, a Sports Illustrated article that I want to read because we now know the ending to it. But it was talking about how isn't it odd at the time, remember in 95 that nobody's running the option except for the number one team. Why is that? And they would go through it. And again, this is not completely option type of pitch. But I have asked Tom Osborne here in the last couple of years in studio, whether he thinks it would work today. And he said it was. So option or not, you know, it's kind of the power of football. The talk there was, hey, boosters don't want to pay for option football, you know, across the country. That's not, you know, people want more excitement,

more, you know, more passing the ball and all that sort of stuff. And you could see it. I mean, as the article read out. And again, this is in 1995. I know the end of that story after that article was written is Nebraska eventually gets away from it, tries to, you know, get to a offense that maybe can produce more NFL quarterbacks, all that sort of stuff. You've produced one. You've produced Zach Lee in the sixth round. Maybe the worst of all the quarterbacks that you've had here was the only one that got drafted. Adrian Martinez now in the league, you can kind of make your arguments there. But I think that that's the way to go. I think that's what they have to do. But the problem is, is when you dig yourself in a hole like this,

you're going to have to be patient to get there. Minnesota's been doing this for years. I was been doing this for years. So they're starting at a different level than you're starting if you want to win their brand of football. So it's, it is something if they, if they, if they dedicate themselves to it, you just wonder if the fan base, especially in year four of a coach, believes that that would be the way to go. But overall, I don't think there's any more proof that's piled up more so than anything over the years that Nebraska football needs to go back to Midwestern football, the blueprint that they that they've, that they carved out to begin with. So, and again, we go down rabbit holes.

It tends to be how radio, live radio works, that I spent Saturday watching Army Native. And to say that boosters won't support that type of play. they're not the biggest players they're not the best players that are the fastest runners they're not they are the most disciplined they are the most disciplined athletes in the country

no NIL packed stadium every year for that game go to Annapolis West Point Colorado Springs those are great events great football And Navy will compete with anybody on any given Saturday.

Don't particular care. Don't know. They don't care what brand. The other brand is their brand is their brand. And they excel at their brand. And their brand becomes difficult to defend because they're really good at running and identifying who they are. 260 pound linemen at a max because that's the academy.

Like that's the way you might get somebody that gets up to 275 because. But quite frankly, being a. able to fly jet management is more important than your ability to play football and there's a way to do this thing you pointed out that well the boosters don't want to pay for that style of play which takes me back to who's in charge and what do they want I ask the fans what they want what now what do you want now i'm going to spend the rest of this week asking that question what do husker fans want to be the next one what you want the end goal to be and you know you could say the expectations you want to compete for a national title because the moment you say you

want to compete for a national title volleyball comes up and you didn't win the national title and people lost their minds right the brass you know nebraska wrestling did you pull up by your bootstraps and you you unglomerously find your way at number two and then you lose an early season match or two and people lose their minds what will make husker fans happy specifically when it comes to husker football what do you want so texers what one what what's what's what's the end goal because in the the magical GPS that exists

Husker fans, here's where we are. That's how GPS works. Here's where we are, which tells you all the things of how you got here. The status of how you got here, did you get here brand new? Are you feeling refreshed? Did you take the straightest route?

Are you weathered than tethered? Are you beaten down or are you standing proud where you are? The GPS will then ask, Where are we going? What's the end game? What does this supposed to look like to make Husker fans happy? Right? And if the only answer is the national championship,

that's going to be a really interesting GPS. Because then the GPS will tell you, from where you are to where you're trying to be, this is the easiest way to get there and how long it's going to take. And if you then aren't honoring that thing, it will ask you and it will tell you, it appears you have detoured. It appears that you are idling. It appears that you've gone in reverse.

You're going backwards. It's going to take you long because any time you make a detour, it now takes you longer and changes the route forward to where you're going. but Nebraska football and Nebraska athletics, specifically Nebraska football, because that's what we're talking about, has to decide what is the end game. What's the end game?

And Husker fans, the fans, we'll get to what the boosters want. We'll get to what the regents want, because I don't think we know, Bach, is that a fair statement, that we don't know what will make the regents happy, what will make the boosters? happy the big check writers what will make the the the average husker blue blood red blooded fan

happy satisfied maybe identifies that that this is is a program worthy of us tagging ourselves right does this speak for the agricultural Midwest does this speak to uh blue nose hard nose football blue blood hard-nosed football, does that need to identify? Do you want, all of the talk that we're spending time on without knowing what it is that you're trying to accomplish and what timetable? We went through a GPS. The GPS has rerouted and recalculated for Nebraska football for as long as, for as long as most of us can remember.

Why? Because you haven't set a GPS that you could follow or that you would hold people accountable to. I've said from day one since I got to the Lincoln, Nebraska, I need to know what priority one is. And until you know what that is, it's really, really difficult to have a meaningful conversation about the status and state of the union for the football program. Why? Because we don't know.

The fans have one GPS mission. The regions have another. If it's the same, then let's get to it and say, Okay, everybody's on the same page. Now we can start holding people accountable. But as long as there's no accountability and transparency, you can't ever hold anybody accountable for it. You're never going to get it right if you don't know where you're going

or when you're supposed to get there. What's the end mission? Bach, I will go to break. We'll come back. I'll ask you, kind sir. What are you putting in the GPS for Nebraska football? I'll get the text lines as well when we come back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch.

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