1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Further Down The Rabbit hole of the History of Sports (HOUR 3) - September 1st, 2025

Episode Date: September 1, 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-the-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, brought you by Canopy Street Market. Number three of one-on-one this block. Of course, we did three hours early with Jay Foreman and Nick Sainer.

Dept chart just released. for Akron, position of note and interest. I think they had a good week one, too, didn't they? Akron? Yeah. No, they lost 10-0 to Wyoming. I was trying to give them some. Well, they weren't terrible.

I'll go through. Wyoming's a decent team. Yeah, and this was a competitive game. It was 3-0 game all the way through the fourth quarter. Akron was driving, got inside the 8. Their veteran quarterback makes a terrible read. throws the pick in the end zone. I mean, we got to respect them still.

I mean, we have lost to Troy, Georgia, Southern, Northern Illinois. Yeah, you can't take anybody here. Can't do it. But the depth chart for left tackle is of interest. And this is what it says. Donogutola or Turner Corcoran or Elijah Pitcher. That's what it says. Or, or, or.

So we know, okay, there's some things in play. Latoski at left guard, Justin Evanson, Center, Spindler, and Teddy Prakoska. Teddy Pahasca at the right tackle. I receive a Hunter, Key, Barney, Raola, Emmett Johnson.

Does there two, three change it all in the running back room, or is that still? Nelson listed as two, Mosey, listed as three, Ives as four. So no changes there. Same starters on defense. although it lists Marcus Watson, Trent, or Vincent Chavez, Jr.

at one of the linebacker positions. It lists Williams, Winery, or Camelan Hart at the defensive end position. So, or is in play. Put on in and hole, and it says, or, as the place kicker. The kick returner, James or Kenneth Williams along the way and everybody else is the return for what we have in place.

So Lyndon Meyer at tight end, so again, the group that started in Kansas City are the same people who are starting offensively and defense. So now those are in play, and that's what the current breakdown. news. Of course, as Austin just informed everybody, Bonner, out for the season, bad news. Sad news.

Yeah, man. Said Carter Nelson's going to need to step up here as well in his Cliffman version of it. Is anything players or position groups really stick out to you? I haven't even really talked to you too much about Cincinnati yet. Stick out to you in a good or bad way? Well, I mean, there were tons of questions. We always say that that you can, the state of the team is determined by the number of questions you have about it.

Did you leave with more or less? Well, you leave different questions. Okay. Not more. Maybe not as pressing. What the intention was, I have more questions about the coaching scheme and intent. What are you trying to take away from your opponent? Like, you can say that I would rather have a deaf by a thousand paper cards.

and it makes all the sense in the world keeping people in front of you so that there's no big plays. You would rather be burned. If you tell me it was on purpose that you would allow a quarterback to nickel and dime you rather than beat you over the top with a bomb,

I understand that. Point off the board versus, you know, additional yardage. Yards don't end up on the scoreboard. Point to do. But if you told me that was intentional, that's what I would like to know. We don't know.

We can only base it on what we saw. Same thing from the offensive side, that putting up yards were great, but putting up points is better. 20 points, I'm not sure that that's the standard you want to work from. We were talking about, Nick and I were talking about this morning, that how many points would satisfy the typical Husker fan,

especially on a week that this week, whether you think more or less of Cincinnati than Akron. But do you? Remember, Akron held Wyoming to one touchdown and one field goal. So what does that mean? But they also didn't score. That's where the offense gets a lot of, I don't mean this in a bad. The offense probably got some leeway in terms of their performance.

There's definitely some highlights. But, you know, at the end of the day, the defense, they only gave up 17 points. I mean, it wasn't like the defense had a horrible showing. And there's definitely problems we can talk about the defensive line, linebacker room, and if those guys fell on, making sure we're tackling. But, you know, the offense scored 20. You know, we are at the, probably not even a yard to go. And we get a false start.

We move back. We're still having some of those red zone woes. Like, it was a game where, you know, both sides need some polishing. It's kind of where I met. It wasn't, it wasn't just all this defense, this defense is like there's still some moments of the offense. We could have gave some more wiggle room to that defense. to not have it be a three-point game. Now, we still gave up 17, but it's not like we gave up.

After, you know, we were there for the post game. Some of that post-game, some of the calls I was taken, you would have thought we gave up 45 points. Oh, right. The calls were insane. They really were. I appreciate them. Don't get me wrong.

We understood it. We understood it. But then the question becomes, in competing with yourself, you know whether you were productive offensively, whether that 20 points is legitimate good or legitimate bad or legitimate bad or legitimate. indifferent. They know whether they executed the

plays that they could have executed. They know whether 20 points was the max for the work that they put in or whether it's acceptable. They also know defensively whether the 17 points is too much or was

it just right for the situation. Both enough that if you hold a team to 17 points, you should win the game. Well, there you have it. That's why. not ideal but that's you know that's certainly what what you know makes the place um dan from can't be who is the guy that can take it to the house yeah i i mean i we if you go through what we know versus what we think we know that we can look at gecori barney and say if we get

him in the ball open space when healthy uh is that kind of playmaker Hunter he looks he looks but we haven't seen him break a tackle and take it to the house not this year we haven't seen it doesn't mean he can't but before we say he can we probably should see it

I also just didn't see a whole lot of deep balls that game and again I don't know if that was more of just what Cincinnati was willing to give up as opposed to well they're in three deep what deep all you guys right exactly so it's just Cincinnati playing three deep the entire time waiting for you to think and dunk your way they are a zone defense in philosophy and in action.

They do not want to give up the big play. Yes, we just weren't going to see a whole lot over the top unless it's a complete breakdown and coverage. Yeah. Which makes sense. I mean, that's why I thought it was actually pretty good game for Mahomes. He never got tempted into making that deal.

Real. What did I say? Mahomes. Oh, no. Yeah, you did. Text line's going to crucify. You did.

You did. You did. But I get your point that, but the same thing applies on the other side is what you were allowed. selling Cincinnati to do versus what they wanted to do. They want to take a shot over the top two. They want to get more than 17 points on the board. But again, that's why Hard Dog is in play.

If you're not capping that play, that's a difficult play. You're in trouble. But he capped it and he was there. Emmett had what, six touchdowns last year? Something along? So it was maybe one or one more. I'm off top of my head. I can look at it quick.

But we haven't seen him explode and take it to the house and make that run. So again, that's a this year thing, what the expectation is versus what we want. I don't know how many points would make it all better. Like what number of points is going to make Husker fans satisfied or happy with the production? I meant Johnson only had one touchdown last time. One touchdown. So that's just it, right? 600 yards rushing off 117 carries.

Yeah. I mean, it's the thing. Bill and Bennett says this, I want to see more from Carter Nelson and not as a running back either. Yeah, I mean, if Bonner's out, the work that can be done is with Lyndon Meyer Harvard,

which is I want it more from Harvard. That's just me, right, for that size. Yeah, well, Lindemeyer showed up too. So, I mean, if you got a Harburg and Lindemeyer both playing at that level, I mean, that's a dangerous tight-end duo. Well, Lindemeyer gave you five catches and five targets. I'm not sure what the intention was, whether that was purposeful, part of the game plan.

Let's get five, Lindemeyer, five touches. But I also don't know what the Harburg intent was, right? And what it says, because if Lindemeyer is the better option, that says something about Harvard, right? But it could also say that quite simply he doesn't have the relationship with Rayola that Lindenmeyer does. And we saw Lindermeier's goal line, right, make a play in the red zone. It almost got him in the end zone. But Lindermeyer is a better blocker.

And it showed up in the tape that he was out who threw him bodies and throwing people out the club. I don't know what the magic number is for points in the game, but I'm sure they know what their idea number is. and it changes from week to week. I don't know whether they expect to have more defensive success against Akron than they did against Cincinnati. I don't know. It wasn't part of that meeting,

so I don't know whether that's the case or not. And, you know, Tater says, well, I think 35 points would be awesome. It's better than 20. It's better than 20, but I don't know that it's the ideal. I think the ideal, you know, you know, if you said 45 points, I can live a little, right?

That you threw the ball around, you're running game, gets your points, and then you kicking game was a part of it. I don't know, that's just me. So I don't know what the average Husker fan would be comfortable with and then what he expect. Don't know, don't know.

In the belief system, there we go. I listen to and we'll have more of the pressure from today. We'll have that later on. I got pulled up right now as well. So we got that stuff ready for the rest of today's shows. The reality is to play, we'll play some of it. But I also went and caught Akron's head coach, Moorhead, talking about their matchup with Wyoming and then what the expectation was.

with Nebraska, called Nebraska a very well-coached team, a deep talented team. Those are his words. And they have some issues. They had three returning players. Cincinnati? Yeah.

No, Akron. Oh. Yeah, they don't have a lot of returning players. They had to go in transport and get work in. They have four runners who all had five carries or more. Not really. didn't have a bell cow. And you're waiting for somebody to explode and take the position that didn't happen.

The receivers, I don't know that there's any fear of the receivers. There's a talented guy who didn't put up numbers, which requires some explanation. And then some filler positions where the guys were good players, but they don't strike me as fear inspiring at the receiver position. but I think in what they looked at he said there are some things that they were working on one that the quarterback need to understand why that throw in the end zone should never happen

right because that changed it's a 3-0-0 game you know Akron's at the Wyoming 8-yard line he doesn't see the linebacker sneak into the coverage he doesn't see them a snake into the passing lane he takes it and picks it off in the end of cost him seven points uh Wyoming then takes the ball and goes the other end and gets touchdown uh and it's 10 nothing which is what the final score was but if you if if the veteran play and they're their quarterback played at nc state and cap there's some there's some sauce in the bottle yeah you got you got a veteran there at the very least right you've got five runners none of them emerged as the guy.

You had receivers that are playmakers that things didn't happen for. And then you want to know if you can hold and maintain that. Can Nebraska defend Akron the way Wyoming did? And we don't know, quite frankly. We don't know. But that's the question that I would ask is that. And then offensively in their lineup, they got some big dudes who like to throw people around.

I'm not sure that Nebraska defenders are going to feel. that way. But when you're watching a team that doesn't mind being aggressive, sometimes that impresses you and it shows up. Through most of the things that were going on,

they didn't have a lot of experience depth. People that know Akron football, know the system, can come in and fill right away and make things better. Like, that's a belief system that I had, that when you come off the bench, I don't want

I don't want to be as good at. I want to be better than that. Well, you're looking for the answer when you're looking at the bench. Like, I need some of this thing to have. You're supposed to go in there and fix it. That's what you get put in the game. Yep. I mean, it's in play, but they have a bunch of new players.

And a lot of folks who are going through the depth up and down the depth chart and trying to figure out how does this work. Well, I got some tape now that week too. I mean, we talked about it at the very, I think at the very beginning. Yeah. What's the how big is the jump? Do you take a leap? Do you take a couple steps?

every team feels a little bit different week too. Yeah. Yep. It says, like Vin Diesel said, it doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning. That's what I'm talking about, especially when you lose so many of those close ones,

just get the win. And Nebraska footballs finally have, and that's not all the time yet, but I think we've been begging for that for years. So the fact that we can look at a few games now, it's like, you know what? It was close. We had an opportunity.

We didn't shoot off our foot. We actually executed it. I know we didn't score on the last drive, but we had a meaningful drive before that. we're doing or all found away. I think it was the key, or might have been Hunter again, to punch it into the end zone,

off of a nice little read. I mean, there's signs to look at where are we going to go out there and beat Ohio State next? Probably not, but if we're making progress and we get a close game,

there isn't such a feeling of just kind of waiting for it to happen. There's still some of that, and I still get some of, you know, fans where they're just waiting for us to drop the loss, but me personally,

I'm at a point where I got a little bit more faith that we have some ability to close these games out We don't just have a frog in or something. I do. I mean, I was sweating. You saw me sweating there with soresby, but I wasn't sitting back here saying, we're going to lose this game, just watch.

You know, I kept my eyes glued to it, and I got a little bit more help than I used to. Yeah, I'm, you know, I'm a realist and I try to be honest with folks about the things that matter to them and not to speak ill unnecessarily. I would like to believe and I would like to feel like I could trust. Nebraska football to put a second win together. I don't know that I can. I'd be silly to say that I can if I haven't seen it, especially this version of the hospitals, right?

They haven't gone back to back yet. We don't know how beat up they are, how things are working. And as a matter of fact, they're probably scheming super hard as we speak. And they're pretty smart over there too, and they got some athletes. So I'm not sure what the expectation is

for this Akron Saturday. And it's a Saturday night game. These games are so tough. I mean, you see it. And it kind of goes back to why it's not always great to schedule these opponents. All the pressure is on you to go out there and dominate,

starts to finish. The moment you don't dominate, you get Iowa fans looking at Iowa like, what the heck were terrible. You get Kansas State fans all upset. Exactly. Just win. But it's not, you know,

the fan base gets all bothered by it. But you can't be worried about that part of the fan base. That's a good point. To be fair, I don't know if Matt Ruhl really cares about any part of that fan base, which you can't. Well, he doesn't listen to me either. So there's that, right? There's that, you know, like I can't preach from the mountaintop, but it wouldn't really matter. So I would imagine the ability to shut off outside resources certainly is fair.

But a 630 kickoff. it said as the description says this is a game that was set to be played in 2018 but was canceled so the rain the frost rain game revisits there's a little part of me that worries like

Akron's the cause of the curse and we're just inviting it back into our doors oh don't open it it's a little bit voodoo to bring Akron back in here after what they I'm just going to say go ahead and say they did it and the reason Or at least hope they brought the cure. You think they would? Absolutely not.

I think they would. I don't think they would know that it was that. That was really the thing. I don't know. Again, I don't know which Akron team we were supposed to give priority to. The Akron team that scored no points or the Akron team that only gave up one touchdown down in one field. I think you look at that defense first.

Right? Like, I mean, for me, just knowing how, you know, we did score 20, not a ton.

And it's not like Cincinnati was not an overwhelming defense. They were a good defense. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Cincinnati's defense was better than Mackles and Wyoming. Probably. I mean, Wyoming flew around, but no,

it wasn't like that. Mm-hmm. some of the receivers they had to cover looked like they just got the playbook. It didn't look like it was highly wrapped. It didn't, you know. You got one guy going 10 yards in, burn out and the other guy on the other side going three. I didn't understand the schemes.

When you look at the film, you just go, what is, like you had to rewind it to make sure you saw what you saw. Yeah, guys, just not. No one was what to do. What, what, what, what combo is that? Like, I, it's improvising. I you know points they're starting quarterback

again this is a guy that played at NC State played it uh cow he's six foot three 215 pounds right should be able to pull it down and make some magic happen are we wrong for asking

are we wrong for asking what type of plan is in effect for this board? No I mean you gotta I mean the offense not scoring points like for me the whole thing is it's going to be a field position I mean there's two turnovers that Cincinnati game where we get to say hey we're plus one turnover margin wise but in reality we had a fumble

fumbles I mean it's a 50-50 once that thing hits the ground you don't know who's going to land on top of it we got lucky we also had a pick that just right in the hands don't know lucky for him didn't get picked off but I mean that's two turnovers right there if they fall the other way and then with the zips are they going to have a lot of success driving the ball 90 yards down the field maybe i'm not really banking on it but you know we'll wait and see we but if we gift them the ball we've at the 10 yard line we watched them against

wyom that was not a team that was driving 90 yards and putting the ball so don't give them the ball at the 10 you do not i'm not giving i'm not giving them credit for stuff they haven't done like that that that that that's what i'm going to put that on uh of course when the mac comes to town it's always a story. Nebraska beating Northern Illinois, 35-11, beating Buffalo 283, beating

Northern Illinois, 44 to 8, and then losing to Northern Illinois in 2017, 21 to 17. So, we have all sorts of sauce. We have all sorts of meat. Now we have to make

a sound, solid decision. And some of those numbers, matter. Some of those numbers will be in play. We'll go to break. We'll come back more one-on-one here on the ticket. You're listening to One-on-One with DP. Brought to by Canopy Street Market. On 93-7, the ticket

and the ticket FM.com. Welcome back, one-on-one text line. Dan from Canopy says, alarming. How fast is tonight scored when Nebraska scored and almost had control of the game. It's a trend. It'll be a big red. It is a

It is a little bit of an unfortunate trend. Well, trend how? Late game drives. Really just struggling to get a late stop when needed. You got to stop. They got to stop.

True. I think of a lot of Iowa games in years past. Trend broken. Streak broken. Tendency ended. They got to stop. And the most in the critical, in the critical, They got to stop.

Was that fourth down? The thing that, the thing, no, which is why that's a terrible throw. Yeah. A terrible decision. He's got to put more mustard on it if you're going to put it outside there at all. Well,

but if nothing else continue to the drive and get the field goal to tie the game, send it to overtime, you don't turn the ball over. The one thing you do on that throw is you either throw it to the back of the end's over, only your guy can catch it. Yeah, you got to sail it or don't throw. If it's capped, if somebody's, over the top, don't throw it.

Like throw it out of bounds, right? Reload, throw a seven yard out, kick the field goal, you tie the game. No, you got greedy. You got greedy. You know, somebody went in and then and go, let's win the dang thing. Like, some, that's what happened.

Some coaches say, you know, we, you know what, we just don't, you know, they're not going to cap that, let's go after it. I was listening to Urban Meyer and, you know, whatever you think of his coach. Well, I think he is right about this. He talks about that a lot. He's like, the worst thing coaches do all the time is tell their player, let's go win this game. Go get a touchdown.

As opposed to what? Tell them, go get, let's go get a first down. Yeah. Let's go get two first downs here. Like, let's do that first. Make the play. Yeah. Let's go make the play and then we'll talk about scoring when we get there.

I'm fully honoring the fact that, I mean, my time with being around Urban Meyer often comes out on what I say on radio. Same for Joe Gibbs, same for John Thompson, Jerry Sloan. Gary Williams. There are people that you've been around that successful coaches. Yeah, very successful. Right? And so we're the accumulation of the people who coach us. What was the intention? If the intention was to tie the,

okay, you had the ball, you're driving. You don't need to make that play. You just don't need to make that play. Do the thing that had been working. As Dan said, the tendency, like they were moving easily. So the natural momentum of things would have been Keep moving the ball closer Chipshot field goal

Send you to overtime at home At a home game Right? Where anything could happen Instead you gave the ball up Trying to win the whole dang thing All at once Doing something you didn't do at all On that minute

It was like a minute and 45 minutes They scored on the drive And I was from Dan canopy I think I even told you use this I was like we can't stop Soresby Anytime he's a week We don't have an answer right now.

But you were choosing not to stop. You, his thing, to kill the clock, what I didn't want him to do was to throw long. Just don't beat me over the top for a touchdown. Yeah, we were, the answer was to take the field goal for Cincinnati. Everything in what Cincinnati was doing was perfect for them and us. Go, drive, keep you in play. We'll keep you in front of us. And then you'll kick a field goal and either make it or not.

Either way, I'm not going to let you went over the top. Well, they did the same thing. Well, why go over the top? Why try to go over the top? Didn't make sense to me. Didn't make sense. I mean, I said it as we were watching the game.

What are they doing? Yeah. So I think in play, that's important. Like, that's important. From the tech sciences, I like what's going on. Week 1 games were close. All around.

being paid, talent spread across the board. It's going to be a great year. I predict one, no one undefeated in college football player. Yeah, I don't know. Last night, this weekend didn't really shine the light that people were going to just coast through the season. And I don't think that's the case in any sport. I don't think, I'm not sure if you ask me Nebraska volleyball, you know, how difficult it

is to go undefeated in the Big Ten conference. Those are snipers everywhere. Yeah, and then you're going to rank three top ten opponents outside of your conference. to begin the season. Yeah, don't do that to yourself. Unless your husband or volleyball, you can do that and just take care of business. No, but you realize how difficult that it. Oh, it's incredible.

They deserve a ton of flowers for being undefeated right now. Dan says it's, I'm sure it's 100% a mental hurdle of learning how to win. Go Big Red. Yeah, I say it all the time. The toughest thing at all sports is to finish because it requires a tempo and pace and conversations that are uncomfortable often. Often, you can't compete in that situation. What's your thought process?

In that portion of the game, that area of the field, the throw you chose to make, when, quite frankly, you could have done a whole bunch of other things, but you did what you've practiced. That's what that says to me, that in practice, against a fourth team, fifth team quarterback, you could make that throw. but that's not who you're dealing with

on game that game speed says you have to move at gamespeed you have to identify that I'm as fast as whoever's going to come my way and I have an answer for whatever they're going to do I don't know I didn't know I don't understand the play call

like that's the first thing Barry Thompson texted me he's like what was that I don't know bro I don't know I would love to know how they came up with that well I mean you see or if it's just a force throw and that was never in the intention. Well, you see something,

and you just don't expect that over-the-top coverage. He wasn't the person they were attacking. He wasn't the defender of choice. He came over and filled because he saw what was going on. But it wasn't, that wasn't hard talks to do. It wasn't like they were running a route combination away from him. No, they were running to him. Like, I mean, that's the way I saw it was,

I didn't understand why you would throw the ball there. in traffic. I'm either throwing it to the 23rd row or not at all. Yeah. Like, it's a perfect dot. And to think that you're going to make the perfect dot, like watch this throw. Well, I mean, and that kind of makes sense, you know,

because you can stop the clock. And like you say, worst case scenario, you sail it over top. But you know what? You don't put it in jeopardy and you stop the clock. If you really, really want to take a shot there. Yeah, I did. Again, thanks for doing Nebraska's favor.

Yes, yeah. I mean, we loved it. you know, brilliantly so. It is an interesting night because we have a Monday night college football game. And TCU recent of college football playoff run, North Carolina under the full new regime. I'm super curious. What's your expectation? What do you expect this to be?

Now that it is a little bit more pro-stock. I think that helps North Carolina a lot more. I got to see what it looks like. I got, and TCU's fallen from Brace, too. I got a close game. And, you know, I'm going to go ahead and give it to Bill Belichick and crew. Yeah, I just don't know. There are too many, like I don't know what the North Carolina Belichick team looks like.

Do you think Bill Belichick adjust well to the college now knowing what college football is today? Where it is a little bit more, you can have more of a pro mind to it. You still got to have that different element of coaching kids, and you've got to be a big part of you want to help the next generation. Well, we don't know what Belichick's priority is. We don't know. We don't know. And I've said this has been my whole thing,

is that we don't know the philosophies of these coaches and the players who are the players accepting it, are the players working along with it? Are they working as hard as the player? Is the coach working as hard as the players? We don't know. We don't know. The first sample of it,

like, they could either be Texas. or Ohio State. We don't know. And curious to find out. I'm curious to find out what this is going to be. Is it in Chapel Hill? Where's it?

Yeah, it's in Chapel Hill. Which not exactly the football factory. Now, but the place will be bump. It'll have a different noise in there. It might be a cautious noise, but people are going to be excited to see what this looks like. So I have friends who live in the triangle. in Carolina.

And curious, yes. Anxious, excited? No. Really? No. Curious? Yeah. Like, what's this going to be? Huh. So they're just waiting for basketball season?

Huh. Like, well, Carolina fans, Carolina basketball fans, are Carolina basketball fans before their Carolina football fans. Yeah, for sure. Like, this Belichick thing is a distraction. Indiana felt like that a little bit last year, Indiana basketball isn't one that has been until since Kurt really started getting them winning and winning and winning people are like you know what we can watch a little bit of football before we get to tell me your Carolina without telling me your Carolina tell me that you care about Carolina basketball you tell me you tell me you care about Carolina basketball you tell me you tell me you're you like what are you doing um but I mean

based on this weekend's games there have been road teams that handled adversity and pulled off the win there are road teams that had the idea of what they should do but didn't lock it down which one do you think happens I think I think North Carolina gets a don't know I do I think they

I think they answer the bell because I don't think they need to go out there and have an awesome performance they really need one where I think they they just get the win. That's enough. I hope that's what they're thinking. I hope that's what they're thinking. You think a blowout?

No, I just, Carolina fans aren't reasoning. They're not. They're not. That's why they're Carolina fans. Like literally you, oh,

were you a fan before Michael Jordan hit the jumper? Or you, like, is that what you're doing? Just hold up four fingers and tell me what they do. That tells me whether you're a Carolina fan or not.

If you don't raise them higher, than my four, then I can't with you. I can't with you. Like tell me, name the three best point guards at North Carolina. That's much more easily done than naming the last three starting quarterbacks to North Carolina. And those have all been guys who played the league. You can't name three. You can't.

You can name two. You can name two. And you might get this year's current, you might. Maybe. Who is starting North Carolina quarterback? I couldn't tell you. That's my point. is that listen and tc u is in the same boat right that ever since dug and i just haven't right but

we don't know this version of it and we don't know who the star players are going to be a why and then the matchup itself wait a minute you have to pay attention to how tCU travels to chapel hill north carolina have you have you gone to chapel hill north carolina have you seen the triangle do you have any understanding what this is and they will be tc u fans there how many i don't know i i i can't recall a network Carolina Chapel Hill home game not at night

Saturday night because of ESPN because of Big Tenet the ACC network. Right. Right, right. Like this is, this is is, is this projected? Is this all eyes on?

Big 12. What do you what are you doing with TCU? ACC, what are you doing with the Big 12 is like what do you, TCU, what are you doing? Like, what's your place in this? I, are they a playoff? Is this, is this a playoff contender? Or is this a team that was in the playoffs a couple of years ago and it's trying to get good again?

Big 12s all got their guns pointing at each other in a big circle. I don't think anybody knows anything at the Big 12 right now about who's going to come on top. To me, that is the most. Troy, behave yourself. Troy, just out here causing problems. As that Austin Ormond's burner account. You know, like to go through it and fully understand, right? That it's all possibly screams go Duke on the text.

Well, but that's all part of it, that that space, that there will be, so there will be Wolfpack fans there tonight to see the spectacle. They'll get the Duke basketball fans tuning into that game. They're going to be there. Yeah. And it's kind of the haterism. It is. It's still fueled by the haters. Right. Like, I mean, Wolfpack fans will be there.

Blue Devil fans will be there. And then maybe a few Virginia Tech and Virginia people will be there as well just to go, hmm, Clemson, Clemson, they will drive up and go, hmm, hmm. What are y'all doing? And Harrison, do you think the majority of the country is rooting for Belichick in the Tar Heels or against? Well, that's a great question. You know, after the divorce. I shouldn't call it that, the split with Tom Brady and Belichick.

Everyone kind of didn't like Belichick and it feels like he's sitting a little bit of a rebound. I think people are actually going to be rooting for the Tar Heels. Is it the fact that he has a hot young girlfriend? Is that the thing that makes people crazy? I think people just like, you know, it's like tip the cat. You go, man, do you want to see what you want? He's just an intriguing individual. And at that point, you're just like, we'll just wait and see what this looks like.

But aren't we rooting for the old guy? Like, aren't we rooting for the goat? Part of you, that is. Like, I mean, we're really. rooting against somebody living his best life. Exactly. That's why I'm going to be roof for the man. You do you, Belchuk.

Hators. Haters. Haters. How many, what's the overrunner? How many times is she going to be on camera tonight? She probably put in a notice of the PR saying zero times. Do not put me on camera. She will be on almost as much as, as, uh, Dikes.

Maybe. I don't know. Which ones on, which ones on camera more? Dikes. I don't know if she's, she's, there's all the. I don't know what's all true with her and what's not true about her say and the PR area and what they can all say. And then like if she puts a note, you don't put me on TV once. Like I have no idea.

This is going to be Taylor Swift like this kind of coverage. She's going to get so much camera time. So much. I just need to know the over and her. Okay. If she's, if we're going that route, I'll go six. Yeah, it's going to be a number. We'll go four and a half.

Actually, it'll be five and a half. She's going to do six in the first quarter. She's going to be seen more times. Six of the first court. For some reason, I got it in my head that she's going to be like hiding behind the bleachers. Like, do not put in the camera. They're going to find her. You think Carolina fans aren't going to be pointing at her?

That's true. Literally. She's right there. There she is right there. And they may boo or hiss. I'm not even sure. Spence season attendance. I'm not.

I'm not. There's no way. There's no chance. We'll throw it to break. We'll close out this hour. One-on-one. You're listening to One-on-one with DP. Brought you by Canopy Street Market on 93-7 the ticket and the ticket FM.com.

Rabbit Hole. All the way down the rabbit hole. All the way down the rabbit hole. I was getting a notice on... Oh. Sherry and Mike have been in... interesting guest for you Sunday morning.

Okay, who do we got? John Baylor. Shout out. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Did you can't even talk to my school, not about volleyball, but about the ACT.

Thanks, John. I think you help my score a little bit there. Less his best. Well done. Well done. The story, U.S. Open. Cocoa Golf and Naomi Osaka in first set action.

Do you know the Cocoa Golf drama that's been going on? I saw that blowing up over Twitter and I couldn't get to the bottom of it. She has a new serve. Okay. She's a new serve and she was struggling with the new serve. There are people that are envious of her. Yeah, it makes sense.

When you get to that level, it's kind of the norm. Yeah, well, McEnroe said, you know, she's worth $30 plus a million and doesn't seem like she's enjoying it. Which, how could you? I mean, she's new to this, right? Um, she's also trying to win a, you know, a second major. It's also just competitive. When you get to that type of athlete, like Michael Jordan might have never looked.

She's 21 years old. Yeah. She's wants to win. She's 21 years old. Like, let her live. Let her make mistakes. Let her be uncomfortable. Let her.

Let her. She got two grand stem titles at 21 already. Worth, worth 30 million dollars in Maconroe, you know, getting after a little bit. it, but leave it alone, bro. We remember what a penchantant child you were at 21. Since when does he have the answers at 21? Like, have we forgotten John McEnroe? Like, would smack the flowers that's sitting by the, by the mat, by the court.

And he would yell at officials. Did you imagine, like, is that him having a good time? Yeah, imagine if we had him mic up all the time and then. Oh, man. Okay, so this makes more sense, because I wasn't fully understanding what the beef was. Well, there's also, I mean, you know, tennis has its own set of rules within rules and codes. It's a little bit like baseball. The traditional rules that are unspoken, but everybody should know.

The unspoken rules about etiquette and courtesy, and there's nothing worse than the unspoken rule. baseball because because I'm a logical guy and I go why is it unspoken so how do you if it's important why is it unspoken you're a big baseball guy yep and baseball's full of them I I don't like any of them okay I don't like I don't like any of um play the game play the game get better at the game uh honor the game so every decision should be within those windows and if it's not a thing that you can coach or choose to coach, then leave it alone. Like, I said this to my players, geez, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, tell me what day we practice bat flips.

What's the proper way to bat flip? Now, we will, in fact, teach and coach how to run the bases when you hit a home run. Because if done well, it should happen. and you should have a plan for it. But nowhere in that plan for hitting a bomb and then bat flipping as a part of it. Hey, you're bat flip. You need three twirls. Never once said by any coach in the history of mankind, right?

Show me where I said Cadillac. No, run the bases. Run the bases. Why are you looking at the center field? What day did we have stared on the pitcher practice? you'll see that in football a lot too. With targeting? Right. You get it. Go ahead.

But I'm also that kind of coach that I will ask the question. What day did we practice lowering the head? That's exactly where I was going. Right. What day did we practice? That's not how we, when we practice tackling, never is that in it. Tell me what day we practice celebrating after a sack. Tell me what day we practice.

we practice an end zone dance. Tell me what day, like all those things, listen, you can have fun within the game, right? High five your teammate. Like your teammate made a play, go high five. Well done. You want to headbut him, okay, but I'll see it in practice. I'll see it in practice.

Right. Right, the things that we're going to do in the game are only things that can be done in practice. And if it isn't done on purpose in practice and assumed correct, in practice, then it doesn't belong in the game. Basketball hanging on the rim. What day was hanging on the rim day?

What day was it? Like what? Tell me what day we had no look past day? Like what day was that drill? No. No. Mark Rany likes to say, don't make a thing bigger than it is. Okay, so do what you were trained to do. The only thing that gets people, it's a conversation you and I were having yesterday,

that in coaching, teaching, mentoring, you only get upset when the thing that you have trained is ignored. Like, I'm not going to get mad as you, if a situation comes up that we hadn't prepared for, hadn't planned for. Right. But everything else we can prepare and plan for.

So let's follow those rules, do those things. And do the thing that we practice doing, even if it's the wrong thing. Because that means we can adjust from that. but don't just do a thing to go opposite of what we prepared. Like, don't do that. And, you know, talking about Cocoa Golf.

You have 21 years old. She's the best American player in the world. Like, as far as the world is concerned. She's the best American player. I'm sure you got upset at Wimbledon not too long ago. So she's got a lot of steam. Well, I mean, but she's number two in the world. That's what I'm saying.

She wants, right now she just seems like she's three. She's number three seed in the tournament. Osaka is currently up. Actually, she's serving for this. She's returning for the match. Yep. Woman's tennis is fired up. The soccer just won the first set.

So golf has to pull a reverse sweep. Naomi Osaka. And I'm a fan of Naomi. So there's that too. This is an exceptional match. I think you mentioned at the beginning. Right now, just women's tennis. There's a lot of lots to talk about.

All right. Let's sort of break final hour of one-on-one before we handed up to old school at three o'clock.