1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Going through the 2006 football season: February 16th, 10am

Episode Date: February 16, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios, here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery, on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome to one-on-one. Sometimes shows go in different directions than playing. And I blame Rico for this. But how do you?

How did we get to 2006 as a season? Joe Gans. Joe Gans. The greatest quarterback in Nebraska football history. You know, runaway. Easily. Not even close. If you look at the statistics, Joe Gans is the best.

I'm sorry, you can't argue with them. Not even close. You can. Yeah, yeah, you can look at championships and Tommy Frazier. And Adrian Martinez and all of his numbers. But Tommy Frazier isn't in the, isn't a top 10 all time passer. or has the most passing yards or passing touchdowns in a single game like Joe Gans does. How did Gans not win the Heisman? How did that happen with those numbers?

In 2006? Yeah, with those numbers. Well, his best year was 2007. Okay. And that Heisman trophy winner was Tim Tebow, I believe, is what we got to. So we can kind of understand that one. Yeah. Right?

2007. Yeah, that was Tim Tebow. So let's look at the 2007 college, college season. and see if Joe Gans finished in the top five of the Heisman. Yeah, right? Like, why was he not invited to New York? That's a great question. It's a great question.

Based on the numbers I'm looking at, he definitely should have. It's a sham. It was a sham year. It was a sham heism. All right, here we go. Awards and honors. Oh, darn it. He wasn't invited.

He wasn't in the top five. Top five that year. Obviously, winner, Tim Tebow. Number two, again, second year in a row, Darren McFadden. So, poor Darren McFadden. Then Colt Brennan, you remember from Hawaii. He put up Monster. Power.

Rested Power, Colt Brennan. He put up monster numbers. That might be why Joe Gaines wasn't there. Chase Daniel. And then Dennis Dixon. Who? Who is Dennis Dixon? He was the Oregon quarterback.

You don't remember Dennis Dixon? No. You don't, bro. You really don't remember Dennis Dixon? I do not. Oh, Dennis Dixon was a problem. I do not. Just kidding.

I actually don't know if Dennis Dixon was a problem. I don't remember. He also played baseball, apparently. I don't remember. Like, it was that, those two years were to, so 2006 was not the best year for college football. Oh, he was picked in the fifth round by the Atlanta Braves. Maybe that's why it wasn't so good at baseball. Well, he didn't really, he didn't really play.

He went back to Oregon for his senior year. I don't know. So go through this, the 2006 Heisman candidate. Oh, the 2006 Heisman candidates? That one's fun. Yeah. This is, this is. This is a group of people who got a trip to New York for no reason.

Zero reasons whatsoever. Like none of them should have ever. Awards and honors. I want to know. Okay. Okay. So I'm guessing people know the 2006 Heism trophy winner was Troy Smith. If you don't Google it, if you can name a single other person outside of Darren

McFadden in the top five for that Heisman trophy winning season, I don't know. We didn't do a Nick's trivia yesterday. I will give you $15. to upside bar and grow, bar and lounge. Say it again. If you can name another person that finished in the top five of Heism voting in 2006,

don't Google it. Without Googling. That wasn't Troy Smith or Darren McFadden because I gave those away. You will get $15 to upside bar and lounge. Yeah, I'd have nothing. Because one of them is a name that you might know. The other two, if you know them,

I'm very impressed. So who are they? Go ahead and tell it. Nobody knows it without Google. Yeah, nobody knows it without Googling. And honestly, if somebody texted in right now, I'll get your information. I'll write it down and then you just come in and pick it up. Number two was Darren McFad.

Number three, Brady Quinn. You know Brady Quinn, right? The largest jaw on the history of quarterback. Notre Dame quarterback seen here that year. Huge head. Number four, West Virginia sophomore running back. Steve Slayton. Wow.

And number five. Wow. Michigan junior running back. Mike Hart. Nope. Nope. We just announced, the NCAA just announced

that anybody that bought a ticket in 2006 is given a refund. Nobody should have to pay to watch that. That was an awful. I just, I went through the other major award winners. Yeah. Okay.

You know, Troy Smith won a lot of them. Although Brady Quinn won the Maxwell Award, which is the top player. Odd. Weird. Bronco Nogerski, top defensive player. James Lorenitis. Okay.

He was really good that year. But they took him over Willis? I believe so. He was a first round pick to the Rams. Patrick Willis won the Dick Butkiss Award as best linebacker. Right. So I would have, like, because Laurennitis was a linebacker. He wasn't a lineman.

They were both middle linebackers. NCAA have a meeting with yourself and work this out. Barry, you have the best defensive player. but he's not the best linebacker even though he's a linebacker. Work it out. Chuck Bednerick Award. Bednarick. Bednaric.

One of the five greatest linebackers to ever play. Paul Puzzlesney. Buffalo Bill. Yeah, okay. Fair. Fair. A ton of tackles. Dave Rimmington award.

Yeah. West Virginia Center. No. Dan Moses. No. That was an awful choice. Terrible. Just terrible.

It's just terrible. Brian Leonard won the drady trophy, which is the academic heisman. Who? Brian Leonard. Who's Brian Leonard? I don't know. He went to Rutgers. Congrats to him.

Bolitnikov, this is a name everybody knows, Calvin Johnson. Thank you for the one saving of the season. Oh, the Jim Thorpe Ward, defensive back, Sonia Richard Ross's husband. Okay. All right. I'm not even going to say his name. He's a dessert. Aaron Ross.

No. Texas defensive back. Yeah, we don't. John Mackey, the best tight end. Matt Spath, Minnesota. No idea. Me either. No idea.

Like, and I'm a bit of historian. No, no idea. This is a whole, I found it. Yeah. The Manning Award. Okay. Jim Marcus Russell. Everybody gets a refund.

Pull your ticket stubs and all of that money. I found it. All of your money. should be refunded. No one should have had to pay for one single ticket. One, unless you were a Georgia Tech and you watch Calvin Johnson, that is nobody. Hey, another person you know, Outland Trophy Award winner, Interior Lyman, Joe Thomas. Yeah, okay. That's fair. We're back in the game. That's why he was number two. That's why he was number two. Lamar Woodley defensive end, Todd Hendricks, Ted Hendricks award.

So, but here's the thing. So imagine being a GM that chose, uh, jimarchus over Joe Thomas. Like how does Is that person, was that person fired? Probably. Have they been banned from, from participating in an NFL draft? Not allowed to do anything ever again.

Like nothing. Who was the coach, who was the Home Depot coach of the year? I would have imagined. It's a guy. Notre Dame's coach. Nope. It's a guy who's back at that job now.

Who? Greg Shiano. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Different from the A. coach of the year, which was Jim Grobe, Wake Forest. Everybody gets your money back. Everybody gets a refund.

But Paul Bear Brian Ward, Chris Peterson. Still. Oh, come on. Still. Everybody gets your money back. People in Idaho were having a good year. Get your money back. That is terrible. That is terrible. Bud Foster won the assistant coach of the year.

You understand that year is so bad. It really, this should be a refund. Everybody should get a refund. Oh, coaching changes. Oh, nice. Here we go. I love this. This is great.

We should do this once a week. Just pick a random year. Yeah. And I will, I will, if the text line wants to give me a random year for next week, we'll do it. Oh. For next segment. Ooh. What are you talking about?

What are you talking about? 2006. Sassy. Okay. Here we go. Alabama. Oh. Former coach, Mike Shula, intern.

Joe Kines. New coach. Nick Sabin. Is that the greatest step up in the history of? It's the greatest ever. Like, in that. There's nothing better than that. Like, isn't that the great, like, you went from Mike Shula to Nick Saving.

Yeah. Like, you cheated. You've broken the Matrix. Cincinnati. Weird. Mark Dantoneo. Fired. Brian Kelly hired.

What was going on in Cincinnati? I don't know. Like, why was he there? He might have left, actually, hold on. Why was he there? And then why was you go? Yeah, Mark D'Antonio left. He went to Michigan State.

Right. Like, right. Weird. What is going on in Cincinnati? Like that's a place you need to pay attention to that. I'm looking for other names than the new coach and just seeing who. Mario Cristobal, new coach of Florida International, step up from Don Strach.

Oh. Ooh. Threw up in my mouth a little bit. You good? Do you know Don Strach? Yeah, he's a Virginia Tech guy. Oh. He was, so Don Strach was the dog.

I know you were going to know somebody on this list. Yeah. He was the Dolphins quarterback before Marino. Oh. Don Strach. Don Strach was like a career backup. So he was in between Greasy and Marino. And they would put him in.

And then he would, like he was a hero for a while because, you know, he'd come off the bench. And, and, and. But when he became a starter, it wasn't quite as, as. Okay, now I have to Google Don Strach's. Oh, no, no. Iowa State from Dan McCarney to. Gene Chisick. They needed to do that.

Hold on here. Hold on here. No, no, no, no. I've got to make sure I get the Don Strach right. Don Strach had 5,000 career passing yards. Period. Total. I know people like to do that in a season.

Total. He was with the, he was with the dolphins. Ready for this? He was with the dolphins for 14 years and threw for 5,000 yards. I'm sorry, what? 14 years, 5,000 yards. And then he went. Like he got, when Marino came in and got his work, right?

Marino got the job. Yeah. He goes to Cleveland. He goes to the Browns. Yeah, throws for 5,000 yards. He goes to the Browns. So the greatest, this is from Wikipedia. Strock is well remembered for coming off the bench, January 2nd, 1982, for the Dolphins

AMC Divisional Playoff game against San Diego Chargers. In the Orange World, Strach led Miami from a 24-0 deficit to tie the score in the third quarter, ultimately Miami lost the game in 41.30 in overtime, right? That's the image of Kellan Winslow being dragged off the field that game. They were competing. Strock came off the bench to lead them there. Like, shout out Don Strzok. Shout out. That he was, so he was at Florida, Florida International, he was five and six, two and ten, three and seven, five and six, oh and twelve as a coach. and 41 as a head coach.

Outta boy, Donald. That way, Don. A boy, died. Louisville, Bobby Petrino, gone. Steve Craggthorpe in. Wow. Oh, that was such a swing and a miss. What a swing and a miss.

So I had friends who were part of it, like they were big-time boosters for Louisville. And when that happened, I remember the conversation because they wanted, they wanted strong. And they didn't get them. And then they wanted, who was the guy that recently was at Louisville?

and only stayed like a year. Like he got the job. No, I don't know. They flew in to accept the job. He had accepted his job verbally. Got and flew in, accepted the job, and then got back on the plane and said, you know what?

Second thought, I don't want the job. So they had to scramble to find somebody else. Steve Crackthorpe's brother, Kurt, was one of my buddies in Salt Lake for the Salt Lake Tribune. So we would get the, like, Kurt would give us these stories, these scoops on his brother. And it was a weird,

vibe because he never talked really good about his brother. Like, yeah, forget this guy. Like, it was like, I don't know why they keep offering him jobs. He's a moron. Damn. Oh, man. That's good. I had to go back up

because I realized this. Central Michigan, Brian Kelly left. Jeff Quinn was the intern and they brought in Butch Jones. I don't, do you ever like, we need to keep a running ledger of how bad athletic directors

do at hiring coaches. Because it's way worse than we would imagine. Hey, Steve Craig Thorpe left Tulsa. Yes. He was fired. Left Tulsa. They hired Todd Graham, who was let go or

left Rice, and they hired Dave Bayliff. Just think about it. It's just a whole rotation. Just think about it. Most athletic directors totally biffed. Wait, hold on.

Totally biff. the coaching hire thing. Different butch. There's another butch on here. Like we can name, we can name 10 really good hires, but we can name like 300 bad ones. That's true.

So we kind of have to accept that going forward. What do you want a good hire? Yes, give me a good hire. Stanford, Walt Harris, gone. Jim Harbaugh in. They were on a run. Stanford's on a good run with coaches. Oh, yeah, they are.

Let's see. Any other good coaches. Larry Coker, gone at Miami. Andy Shannon in Miami. Oh, ooh. Oh, that's fun. They, they don't, have they gotten it right? No, since then.

They, they have not. Right. Arizona State, Dick Cutter gone, Dennis Erickson in. Big one. And this is Erickson post Miami. But why did Erickson leave Arizona State? Why did he leave? No, no.

That was a weird dismount on that one as well. Well, Dennis Erickson was coming over. He went to Arizona State from Idaho, who then hired Rob Ackie or Akey. I don't know how to pronounce his name. That's a statement. But shout out Idaho. That's a statement, right? Nobody else really.

All right. So that was. So Tony John says due 2000. Oh, you want 2000? Why not? Let's wing it. Let's keep this going. Let's keep this trainer rolling.

Brom. Thank you, text line. It was Jeff. Brom. Brom accepted the little job then bail. Because didn't, uh, what's his name? Dude that was at, uh, Dana Altman. He did that with, uh, Arkansas. That is such a bad move. You took the Arkansas job and it was the whole Wu Pig Sui and he was like, yeah, no.

Yeah, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to go to Oregon. Yeah, not going to do it. Or no, he went back to Creighton. Then he went to Oregon. Yeah, not going to do it. Uh, that was funny. Okay. Oh, so I'll tell you why you dig, why you lock and load. Okay. So I'll tell you start, because I was. once one of those coaches that got the job and then didn't get the job. Yeah? Like you left or you just didn't get it? So when I was in Virginia, and I was busy, but I wanted to coach, I didn't have the desire

to be like a head coach. Like at that point, I didn't want to, like, we were moving to Houston and I was really just going to chill until we decided to go to Houston. And the baseball program, they sabotaged the coaching staff. They literally sabotage the coaching staff. They had the assistant athletic director be an assistant coach who sabotaged the head coach with the AD. So they could fire the head coach and then fire the whole coaching staff. As they fired the head coaching staff, they didn't now have to find a replacement.

And I'm calling out the athletic director and the assistant athletic director the entire time, Rico. I'm like, you guys are trying to get this two fired. Like, I see you. Like, shame on you. they get him fired. They want to place the assistant AD into the head coaching position. Why? Money.

So they can, because we had done a ton of fundraising and they wanted access to the money. I then found my way. I said, you know what, I'm not going to let you do this. And all the parents said, we want DP as the coach.

And I'm like, I'm only going to be here for three months. But okay, fight for it. Principal says DP should be that. coach. Like, look, let's do the right thing. Now, this school had never had a black head coach in 50 years in any program.

Ever. Ever. 50 years, 19 athletic teams never had a black person be a head coach. So I'm like, you have a chance to do right and do history. And I'm the best head. I'm the best candidate. Like, it's not even close. But this is the athletic director that also fired the head.

coach for football and the principal had chosen Barry Thompson as the head coach to the next head coach now mind you imagine here's a school in Virginia that could have had Barry Thompson and DP and Doug Craig who won the state title as their three head coaches in the product in their in their big program sounds awful right would never do that right you what principal says these should be the head coach the athletic files files a complaint with the athletes with the state board that the principal overshot it's his decision etc principal names names me the head coach i run the camp i'm running the whole summer drills all that stuff state says in theory the athletic director should have his decision should it should have should have stuck i stepped down guy gets a program turns it into an absolutely crap show like it's a dumpster fire and the football program as was pretty As was predicted. So sometimes athletic directors really don't know what to do it.

It's true. 2000. What do we got? 2000. All right. We're going to go straight to, wow, these are a bunch of names that I don't know. LSU.

Okay. No, Michigan State first. Nick Saban, gone. Bobby Williams in. Was that good? LSU. Not good. Not good.

Jerry DeNardo. Out. Gone. Nick Sabin. In. Was that good? Yes. I mean, it turned into a national championship, but it wasn't his.

Of course. Or no, he won one. No, he won one. It was his. It was his. No, Les Miles won one with Nick Savings players. Right. Right. Did Nick win one?

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So Nick won one and then his players also won another with a different head coach. Because Nick left. Because Nick left for Miami and then flamed out and then went to Alabama. Shout out Miami.

That's so funny. It's so funny. Texas Tech. Spike Dykes out. Mike Leach in. Not good either. It was fun. It was something.

And then that's just a bunch of names that I don't know. So we're not even going to go into him. Oh, that's spectacular. That is spectacular. So wait. So 2000 was boring. So Sabin was at LSU. From 2000.

So the 2003? No. Yeah, the 2003 starters Tigers won the championship. Yeah. So yes, he did win a championship at LSU. And then he won a whole bunch. The milkman says Mike Leach, not good?

Well, Mike Leach. It was fun. Mike Leach, lots of yards, lots of points. Not a lot of winning. Like, he wasn't satisfied with the job he did there. A lot of 500 and like two games over 500. Yeah, he wasn't satisfied with the job he did there. Anybody else have another year they want to look into?

That's fantastic, though. This is fun. Do you want to know who the Heisman winner was in 2000? 2000. Okay, go. Give me the top four without. I will start at five. Yeah, give me five through two.

Damien Anderson, Northwestern. Oh, boy. Who, not a good start. It gets better. Okay. Ladanyan Tomlinson, TCU. Okay. Drew Brees, Purdue.

Okay. Josh Heipple, Oklahoma. Okay, fair. And the winner of the 2000 Heisman Trophy with 1,628 points, Florida State quarterback Chris Winkie. Winky. Winky. Who was 27, I believe, at the time.

He was close. So there you go. He was close. Winky, Hypo, Breeze Tomlinson, and then Damien Anderson. And you just Chris Winkie over Lodany and Thomas. Oh, man. Elson only had 566 points. You've reset 619.

Those two weren't even close. Josh Heiple, 1552. There are people who decided. So he stepped away. So he played major leagues. He played major league baseball before he played. He played baseball before he played football. He was, so here's the story.

Winky entered Florida State in 1997 when he was 25 years old. This is in 97. What? This is what it says. What? in 1997 he was born in 1972 he was 27 he was 25

but he was 27 97 when he was 27 98 26 20 28 28 he was 27 28 he was 27 28 he goes he was the first Heisman trophy winner not to be named a consensus All-American because Josh Hypole well he didn't even win the college player of the year

Drew Breeze did Right. And Josh Hypo won the Walter Camp Award. Right. He was 27. The Davey O'Brien Award for the quarterback. Winky won that. And he won the Johnny United's Golden Arm Award.

But they were national champions that year, so nothing else matters. He was doing. Come around, kids. Grandpa did. Grandpa Chris Wanky is going to tell you stories. Goodness. He was 27. He was 27.

He was 27. Focus on Hepole. It wasn't even All-American and won the highest one. All right. Well, we'll talk you the story of when he got to. Carolina because they drafted him in the first round. What a train wreck that was. It was horrible.

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