1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - German Dalmagro joins the show! : 11:00am, January 26th, 2026

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

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A weekly conversation with Huskers women's tennis coach, Hermand Delmogro, coach. How to heck. are you? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Embracing this bitter call in the last few days, but hopefully we're on the, you know, on the end of this. But yeah, no great weekend. You didn't get to play this weekend. So I was more of a fan watching different sports. Took my kids, so we took our kids to wrestling, to gymnastics, to, they have their own hockey, a bunch of men's tennis, yeah, a little bit of everything. You know, some Huskers on TV. Men's basketball, the way. I mean, see what they're doing. Yeah, it was fun, fun to be a fun.

How does Lincoln settle with you when it comes to having all of these things going on? You don't always think that Lincoln has so much going on. This was a busy weekend. It was a busy weekend. You know, it's fun. I love it. I love it. I, a lot of times I don't get to enjoy it all because we're busy out of town or doing stuff. But I think I think when there is so much going on and we didn't have anything, it kind of becomes more like, well, this is kind of fun. You know, I think so many different sports, so many different things to do. Yeah, Lincoln is a great city and it was a good weekend. Got to a Friday night at wrestling at Devaney, ran into coach.

And he gave me the honor of introducing his two young people, his two young boys, let the folks know about your family. Yeah, yeah, we have three kids. My oldest, Enzo, he's nine. Our middle one, Luca, he's seven, Justin's seven, and our youngest daughter, she's five and a half, she likes to say. Yeah, got to get the extra. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, they're amazing. They're busy with many activities, and, yeah, so they wanted to go to wrestling, so I took the boys there, they enjoy it, and then they were wrestling towards the end, you know, in the hallway. Of course they were. They were. My old has a big height and weight advantage there, yes. So he started wrestling with one arm, you know?

Just feel like, all right, this is how it feels like, you know? So, no, it was fun. It was fun. I think on Saturday we took my wife and I took the three kids to women's gymnastics because they wanted to watch that. So we went there, enjoy that. They actually upset Minnesota. So that was good there.

Yeah. And then the rest, you know, they have hockey. So they're both of my boys, actually my daughter too, but they're all into ice hockey. So we're busy with that, but it's good. Yeah, they love Lincoln. You know, we love being here. It's a very family-friendly city, a lot of things to do. And yeah, so those are the...

The oldest, you think he's a hockey player. And do you think that's the direction he goes? I think so. You know, he likes golf, he play golf. He play a little bit of tennis, but he didn't want to really. really, you know, listen to his dad too much, you know, coaching-wise. So we go out there. Why I take them to play and we just kind of have fun, you know, they don't want to take a serious yet. But he loves hockey. So he's an 10-year travel team right now. So he travels

everywhere and plays and kind of everything he does. I think he's right now, is hockey and, you know, he does baseball, golf in the summers and does a little more of that. But I think his passion right now is hockey. We'll see. Do you do much with the stars? We go to games. I mean, he practices there sometimes and, you know, they do clinics in theirs and they do other things. But I think he plays out a 10-year trouble team out of Fremont, Nebraska.

So it's called the Warbirds. But he's out of there. They have a great team, really good coaching. And it's been fun. You know, it's been fun kind of to see, you know, I never play hockey. It's fine to see from the other side a little more just be a dad and a fan more than just being like a dad and a coach. You know, sometimes I can be, you know, we talked before, it can be a tough balance. I want him to do what he loves and I want him just to work hard and try his best, you know.

He's a hard worker. He, you know, every time there is anything extra, anything, you know, he's always up for it. So it's fun, fun to see that. It will have to connect you with Coach Rocky Russo and the stars. they allow us some some perks and benefits of being around so maybe yeah no that'll be great i think he's actually taking a couple lessons from one of his assistants yeah so so it's so it's fun you know so he we were out there yes sunday morning at 7 a.m he had a lesson 7 to 8 a.m so it was it was fun being out there when did you i took my oldest yeah so we went there omaha we went there get home you know

10.45, 11, 11 p.m. and then our sticks were up. Ready to go. So, you know, it is what it is to get enjoy, you know, take him to do what they can and, you know, better enjoy, you know, sleep, you know, sleep when we can. It's got to be cool to be able to walk into a building and get on a weekend where some exceptional things, a record crowded Devani Friday night for wrestling, didn't get the result preferred, but then Saturday,

going back to Devaney and watching Heather Brink and her gymnastics team not get an upset win over Minnesota in a full performance. The crowds, right? You start to pay attention to what people go to. How do you watch that? Do you just, can you ever fully disconnect from being a coach? Does that part of your brain ever turn off? I think it's just a part of my brain, you know, even though I never wrestle, never, you know,

jump around. I'm always kind of seeing a little bit as a fan, but a little bit as a coach. I was like, all right, what would you tell you got here? You know, it's like, well, you know, what, what will you do here? Sometimes I'm always kind of thinking that way. Maybe just my brain is wired that way, but it's fun, but you know, you try to, you know, so much, nothing you can do from outside, right? So I try to not to be, I mean, I always have been best than I want them to do well. But, you know, it's so much you can do from the outside, right? besides cheering and just kind of like if they make a mistake sometimes you hear comments from you know people that never been in their shoes you know or or either coaching or the athlete's

side and then you're like then you're like hey just you know like you just got to you know like support them and you know we're all human and and they kind of make mistakes they're doing the best you know so it's fun it's fun but uh you know we don't get to do that as often you know being on the fan side so it's always you always in there in best there so there was there were some moments this weekend within the athletic department. And one, yesterday, Nebraska wrestling facing the number two program in the country, Ohio State. And AJ Ferrari does a show with us, so he's in each week. So we kind of know his journey away, maybe a little bit behind the curtain that other folks don't know.

But as a coach, what do you say to the young man who gets in the situation that he dreamed of, right? That's why he showed up here. he thinks he let down Nebraska fans. He thinks he let down his teammate. As a coach, what do you say to an AJ Ferrari who gave everything, just didn't get it done in a critical moment? What do you say to him?

It's a tough moment, you know, and I think he's worked really hard for that moment, you know? So you can, you can, you can. It doesn't come down to just one person. It came down to him, but all there's before him has to win and lose to get to that position. So you just got a support and just got to be like, hey, did you give you your all? Did you try really hard?

And all you can do is just like, hey, that's, you know, you give you your health, your best. You didn't let anybody down, you know, if anything, you know, you did everything you could, you know, to help your team. And yeah, you can, you know, I came down to just one takedown at the end, you know, in overtime, basically. So it kind of becomes one of those that you could have gone either way. you can always go back and be like, hey, this is little things we could have done better, but you got to do that more in a cool moment, you know, and the next day in a film session or just in a talk, you know, in a chalk talk type of deal and just kind of be like, hey, this is what, you know, if you're in that situation again, which you probably will be, this is how we can handle,

this is things we can change, you know, but at that moment, you just got to just give my hike and just say, hey, great job, you know, it just wasn't meant to be that day at that moment and just just got to leave and learn and you know you try to keep working hard to be in that moment again and see if you can have a different outcome

let's go through this in the tennis sense who like if there's the number two team in the country and in the big ten so let's imagine the best team of the big ten is the best team in the country and the number two team in the big ten

is the number two team in the country Nebraska at home gets its best crowd right and they battle they battle they battle. Doesn't start out well, right? You're down.

And then all of a sudden, your squad fights back. And at some point, you gain the lead. You don't want to land on moral victory, but you did accomplish a lot. You made some statements yesterday against a team that if you had played them two months ago and it was you lost 6-1, except for today you lost 4-3. Yeah.

Moral victory sometimes gets misconstrued or misidentified. How do you accept that? Is that accepting the progress and speaking to that? Or is it the lessons? Or is it both? Like, how do you go about that? I mean, a little bit of both, I would say. You know, we actually were in that situation, you know, last year.

We were, you know, a team. We had a team match point against Wisconsin. They weren't two in the country, but they were, you know, I think we're 16 or 17 at that time in the country. They were very good team. And we had a team match point to win it, you know, just one more ball, you know, over the net, you know. And then we win it. And I think it's a moral victory, obviously, for them. And I think how it came down in the duels, you know, and then now yesterday, I think it was a –

and then how they overcome a little bit of that adversity of, you know, that loss to Iowa. and then coming back on Sunday and, you know, performing just better, you know, against probably a better team, you know. I think it's a great response, you know, I think from the team, it's a great response. And then there's a times that you just can't control, you know, everything, you know, and I think they did everything they could to control, you know, all the things. And I think they, you know, some of the guys, you know, bounce back really well. And I think it's a, I think it's a good moral big. And I think it's hopefully gives them really good momentum, even though they didn't come.

with the victory at the end, but they did win, you know, um, more matchups than, than the other day. They did kind of like, they were closer. They were, you know, I think definitely a much better performance overall. So I think it's a great response for them, uh, for the whole team. And obviously not coming to the wind sometimes it gives you a, that sour taste in your mouth. But at the end, once you analyze everything, I think, you know, they had a great evening, you know, and it just came down to one last point, you know.

What can you say about that sour taste in your mouth? Hopefully it fuels them. Hopefully it fuels you for more. It fuels you that, hey, we're that close. You know, so when you are that close, it kind of hopefully motivates you more to keep going, to keep working and keep, you know, just refining some small little things. Right?

You'd be like, hey, we're doing these things really well. Let's continue to work on those. And if we're, you know, a few things that we've got to get better, okay, let's attack those. So next time we're in that situation, you just try to get better. You know, you try to get better and you try to see if you can be on the other side of that. And, I mean, hopefully, in rest, you know, we try to always say, hey, you know, it's like, if you're that close, it means that you're doing a lot of things right, you know, and it comes down to a small little details.

And then you try to pay attention to those, attack and learn from them. And then hopefully, you know, you try to do the rest when you're, when you're not close at all, then you question a lot more things, you know, it's a young, kind of. of what you do and it's like, oh, it's a heart, is the effort, is the attitude? You know, like, is it just match-up? Is it just a team much better than you or no? You know, like sometimes you play teams that are just way too good and then just nothing you can do. But when you are that close against a really good team, then I think it gives you to a sense. It should give you, you know, motivation, but also knowing that, hey, what we're doing is we're close, you know?

Is it easier to teach and coach the Monday after a weekend like that? At times it is. Yeah. At times it is. At times, you know, you feel deflated, you know? At times you feel like, oh, you know, like I did everything I could and I still came up short, you know. And at times it's like, hey, I did everything I could and I was that close. So it's like how you view it, the mindset, you know, I think it's a little bit of, you know, it's our job too.

I think as coaches to kind of stir them in the right direction mindset-wise because they can, you know, I think those athletes sometimes can be very deflated and they can feel like defeated. They can feel like, well, I did everything I couldn't have lost. So then I don't have any hope, you know, type of deal for next. You know, instead of saying, hey, we were so close, you know, if we can just tune in, you know, these little small things, maybe we are the other end, you know. So it kind of like turning me a little into that motivation, a little bit into that, hey, we're doing the right things.

We're that close, you know. So hopefully that's the message, you know, that's the message I will usually give our team. How often is it that you have to remind yourself as a coach. You have to remind the fans. You have to remind the athletes that they are both the really high-level performance and the mistakes. And you just want to be more familiar with the high level. And that's an interesting bridge to cross. It is.

Absolutely, it is. You know, I think you just can't be afraid to make mistakes. Otherwise, you stay too much in your comfort zone and it's so tough to grow out of, you know, if you stay too much in your comfort zone, if you're avoiding the mistakes, you usually will be hard to grow. I think most of your growth, you know, usually comes when you make mistakes and learn from them, you know, because once you start making those mistakes, you kind of learn, well, this works, this doesn't work. But if you kind of waiting for things to happen and you don't make things happen, then sometimes it's going to be up to. somebody else to either mess it up, you know, or make things happen. And, you know, whether it's wrestling in tennis, you know, like, you can be patient and you can do, but you can,

you have to make things happen too, you know, like in tennis, there's no time, you know, so it's a scoreline that you can, a match can last four hours or a match can last. Just out there. Just out there. So you kind of have to have the mental toughness to stay there long enough, if that's what it takes or be the one that needs to close things or needs to be the one to be aggressive, you know,

because you can't just, you know, run the clock down. You can't. You have to, you have to play to win it. You know, you have to play. You have to execute. You have to be aggressive when you don't want to be aggressive. You have to like, you know, it's very mental at times. So you have to just be out there and be willing to, you know, step out of your comfort zone. And sometimes, you know, and don't be afraid to make mistakes. And but at the same time, you know, like, it is a game of mistakes. So you have to make the least amount of mistakes, too. There was just a that I saw the Australian Open, a guy hit, there was two guys play. One was just a very

consistent guy that doesn't make many winners, but doesn't make many Amforceros. Another guy is very aggressive, makes a ton of winners, but a lot of errors too. One guy made like 80 winners, too. The only guy made like 30 or something like. So it's like a huge difference. But then if you look at the Amforceros, the guy that hit a lot of winners, I also had like 60 Amforceros. And the guy that won, but they didn't have many winners, had like, like, you know, 10, 15, now for zero. So it's like, so it is a game of like, you know, errors as well. So you got to be okay making errors, but at the same time, you're going to make less

errors. And then, you know, it's a balance of the two. So watching, watching the men against Memphis, in doubles, it looked, the three doubles matches, it looked like just a cold start. It looked like you're hitting a button. There's just no gas in the tank. And okay, fine. And then the first set of individuals, Memphis is pretty dominant.

It looks like, oh, this is a tough day. But adjustments, in-match, in-game, in-point adjustments is the difference between Peter and that crew figuring out that, yes, Memphis was talented. But there were flaws and their ability to capitalize. People talk about kidding, you just execute. Everybody knows what they want to do. The ability to hit the button and execute in live form on point. What do you say to your players? You lose the first point in doubles.

You lose the first set. Do you reset each player? Do you let the game reset them? Because some players will respond to the game. Some need their button pushed. Yeah, I think you're just getting to know the players first, you know, and then to see who it needs that reset and who can like, you know, it's always like slow start and kind of see how things develop and then they start making adjustments after that.

You know, I was there the match, you know, and it was, yeah, there was some opportunities in doubles and then they lost it and then I think that momentum shift into singles. And you can tell in a few courts, Memphis was playing well, but I don't think we were, you know, doing as much. And then we started just, at least what I saw the guys were starting being more consistent. And then a couple guys in Memphis just kind of fell down a little bit, you know, kind of crumbled a little bit under the pressure. And then we were just way more consistent.

And then our guys step up and, you know, they did a great job. So I think, you know, you try to, a little bit of both, you know, you try to see who needs that reset to be like, hey, let's go. We got to wake up here. Or you got to make adjustments. Or we got to play your game, you know, at times who are afraid to pay a lot. our game, you know, because we're, we're kind of waiting to see kind of what our opponent does. So at times it's like, are they playing their game? Are they losing at their game? You know,

is it just their opponent's playing really, really well. And then if they are playing really well, they say, well, can they keep it up? You know, can you hang in there longer? Can you find different adjustments, you know, change their style game a little bit? If your style is matching up really well with their styles, then you have to make adjustments. So at times, you know, you, we'll try to go, you know, on every court if they're losing just to be like, all right, let's make some adjustments this is what we can do this is what i see you know and then at times it's just like a matter of like things clicking you know and then and then they kind of go from there in women's tennis at this level is is scouting in film study as as vital and as important a cog in preparing

for match play it is yeah it is we try to it's so hard to match up because uh the way our rules are um we can put line us based on matchups Right. In tennis is kind of one of those weird, you can move up a spot. You can move up. Yeah, but you have to technically play your lineup based on your order of ability. So you have to play your best player one, your second best player, or two. You know, you can kind of switch a little bit back and forth, but not as much.

So it's stuff to say, hey, you know, my number one matches up with their five. So I'm going to put those together because you don't know what they're going to present either. Right. But we try to, we try to watch film or watch them, you know, different tournaments. And we kind of know the style. So if we have a flexibility to switch up and down somebody in different spots of 1 through 6 or 1 through 8, sometimes we like to do that. And hopefully they play those spots as well, you know, because you don't know what they're going to present.

When we change lineups, you know, obviously you don't know their lineup and they don't know our lineup. So when we exchange lineups, then you're like, then you know what they have. But they already know what we have. So we can't make an adjustment after that. So we watch film and we if we know that ex, you know, they have two players. that they always play at those positions they probably won't change them against our match and then then we think is okay do we have flexibility and then which matchup is better and then we try to do that but we without they have to have the same type of ability otherwise you can you can't

you can make a switch based on on matchups which i think is it's kind of silly you know in every other sport you kind of you try to you know practice and do matchups based on matchups so you know what you can have and in tennis you can, you know. But it's a, yeah, at the end of the day, you just have to, you know, put the players where you think you're going to be successful in each sport in the lineup. And then hopefully they can just, you know, have a good match and execute and, you know, and then go from there. There has to be pride, though. If you're one and two, you're, you're being listed as player one and player two, has to carry some weight. No, absolutely, absolutely. It always has. Even though it's worth one point, just as,

somebody's play number six but that that spot always feels like it has like oh i'm play number one you know for my team so it does it also carries a little more pressure uh because it feels like more eyes that on them you know if they're playing that position so uh sometimes they know if they haven't play enough at that position they feel the pressure and it's tough it's tough to perform under pressure you know um you have to do a lot more things than than you think you know i think more eyes are on you And sometimes players put a little more pressure on themselves than we do. We don't put any pressure on them, whatever they're playing the lineup. We always say, hey, whether they play one or six or four or five, it's worth a point.

It's still another person in the core, the same dimension as the core. You know, you just like you've got to go out there and play the same way as you will do any spot in the lineup. But it's like a little bit of pressure, that intangible pressure. pressure. It's kind of one of that pressure you're like, nobody's put in it, but I know it has it, you know, and then it's up to each player at times, you know, to step on the core and feel like, all right, can I handle this or I'm comfortable with this? So it's interesting, you know, it's fun to see and unfold sometimes. Well, we'll go to our first break. When we come back, he mentioned pressure and that's exactly where I wanted to go. As you watch Nebraska

basketball and the pressure has changed because now eyes were on. I'm going to ask coach, there's some fan discussion over, do you just want to win out? Do you think it's likely or possible or even positive to talk about staying undefeated and the pressure that comes from that? And is there value in taking a loss during the season so that you get it? That's one less thing off the table for you to have to worry about in accomplishing the bigger goal.

which is postseason and championships. We'll ask coach, break it down for us. We'll go into the pit. What is pressure and what does it mean to Nebraska basketball? Coach Hermando Magro, Bach, DP. We'll be right back.