1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - How many pieces does Nebraska need on football to be successful: April 8th, 10am

Episode Date: April 8, 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. Happy Friday, spring game tomorrow. Glorious. Glorious. interested to see what the number of Husker fans that will attend tomorrow's spring game.

What are those numbers? 57. And does, and does that, is that enough? Like, what's enough to make, to say that the program is in good standing? Right? 65. Yeah. 65.

Plus. 65 plus says the program and what is doing is in good standing. Still, still excited. I don't know about, the, the fans are still excited. Okay. So you guys can text us and tell us what's the number you want to hear after this thing. They'll let you know that the program is a good standing. Or is it indicative of whether this is.

If it's anything less than a sellout, is that bad? I don't know. That's why I'm asking you guys. This is your pool. I'm just asking you what are the rules four or two? You're just asking if you could pee in it? 465. 685.

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and I want to get through those. Just because, again, you guys, when you guys engage, I want to honor the engagement because you guys have been active in this discussion. And again, I look at the humanity rather than the process and the protocol. What can we do to make the things better for the people that we care about?

Right? That's, I mean, to me, that's what the conversation should be about. and because of that if you take care of the people then you get the results you want right but it's people first take care of the people and in the circumstances and then the results happen I think the results are an accumulation

of all the things that you've left unattended maybe probably the result this isn't a chicken or the egg thing this is this is just if you if you treat your people right they will perform better not if they perform better if they perform better, you will treat them right. That's not how this goes.

And you, my thing is people will say the number one excuse for not getting things done is time, but the second one is money, right? The reason why I don't do this thing is I don't have the money. Well, the reality is, if you're Nebraska athletics, you have the money. You have the money. You have the money. So then it becomes focus action. As I like to say, you can tell me you love anything, but you're,

action is required to follow that up and confirm it. So you can't tell me you love the players if you aren't active in loving the players and doing all the things that you can do for those players at the level that you can do it. And if you come and tell me that, look, we have all the resources that are required, I still was curious to find out how much money it would take to get the players that you need to get, want to get within the program, how much money would it take? Because if you know that number,

it simplifies how you do business. If I say you need for football eight players, eight top shelf, top of the line players, four on each side of the ball, to be successful. Is that too many? Is that too little? That's what I'm asking the fan base.

like defensive you want you want a sue level interior alignment you want one at each level or you need a pass rusher yeah you need a pass rusher you need a playmaker right so so if I say you get a you get a pat you get a you get one of the best pass rushers

on the defensive line which we hadn't have right you get a do it all linebacker side line to sideline he can break up passes, he can stuff the run. And then you have a lockdown corner, and then you get, I don't know, what the fourth one would be on the defense. But you get a guy that can just like,

he doesn't take one side of the field. He takes one person away. Well, you can, I mean, right? So one at each level, and then you're a pass pressure. Yeah. Right? And then you said on offense, I need a left tackle, quarterback, running back receipt.

Yes. For simplicity. Yeah. For those things. that if you could be purposeful in how you use NIL in your NIL contacts and contracts or agreements, then you can get those players at those positions. And then it makes it much easier to get the other players

at other positions once you have those highlight featured players. But it also makes it easy, because remember, you're doing one each year, and then you get another group next year. So by the time you're done in rotation, you should be able to have any given year, 12 people on either side of the ball, who are NIL benefited.

Yeah. Simple. Seems about right. Right. I mean, is that not simple? And I mean, everybody's going to benefit from, I don't know about everybody, but a big portion of them are going to benefit from NIL.

And the thing is, some of those people, the better you do, the more exposure you get, the more money you'll get. So even if you come into this, not the five-star guy who's going to make six figures, if you're the three-star

or a low four-star or even, you know, high-four-star, whatever you are, and you're coming in, you're making $3,000, $5,000 off of NIL, but you're learning behind this person. Or in some cases, you're next to this person, and with how much attention that person is getting, you see more success. That number will rise.

All boats in the water. Everybody is helping everybody. All boats in the water. But you have to. The success from one person, we'll just stick defense. The success from one person on the defensive side can impact the rest of the defense. And with NIL, we're talking impact in seeing numbers and dollars rise. Well, if we pay attention to Rishan and Jay and Strict, we understand that the best player in the team impacts it makes everybody better.

Like that's really the definition of the leadership in place. That people will do all the things that are required for everybody else to find success. And you also need people from underneath who push those people, right? And if you're not doing the job, Jake said, you know, what happens if a sponsor says, well, look, I'm helping this thing, but he's not playing. There's also a responsibility for the player to do better. Like that's another thing. That was one of the people that said, what if the person's getting paid and they stop working as hard? If you want to keep getting paid, you have to work harder.

Well, you have to have that impact. But here's the other thing. If you're not, it's apparent. It's apparent. And people aren't, I mean, in life, people aren't going to keep paying you if you're not handling the business the way you're supposed to handle it. But the other side of it is that it could change recruiting for Nebraska. Right? It could change the recruiting for Nebraska.

if when you send out your notification to them, they're like, oh, it's Nebraska, they take care of people. Right? Right. And really, it's worth, some of those you don't even need to send out the notifications because it's word of mouth. You got people coming from the same areas,

and you know, so-and-so who's been in Nebraska for two years comes back and you're recruiting some guy kind of from the same neighborhood, maybe the same high school, so-and-so comes back and is like, yeah, like they're doing such a great job. job for me, you know, they're helping me take care of my family, taking care of myself, outside of football, like, all this stuff. That's, that's, you know, peer recruiting. So, peer recruiting is important.

Well, well, that's why it was running back you for a while, that people didn't mind coming and competing because, quite frankly, you knew it mattered where you stood in the program. Like, I mean, Rozier was a guy, but you had dudes behind him who were just as legit. Amar Green was legit. I mean, you had people behind them and next to him that. pushed them and made it Lawrence Phillips

will tell, I mean, they talked about it that how competitive it was back that. The quarterback position how competitive it was. Vershawn likes to say

Lawrence Phillips ended a lot of, a lot of players running back dreams. Right, because you're going to go. Because you're like, well,

I'm not going, like I'm not going to start and then I don't remember who the backup was, but it's like, okay, well, I got to sit third, fourth string.

Like, so they're like, well, I might as well, switch positions to see what I can do. And a lot of, a lot of players went from running back to a different position and thrived.

Like Prince Amucomra. Yeah, Amukamra. Was supposed to be a running back. And they were like, yeah, no, we got some good running backs. We're going to throw you a corner. Turns out pretty good corner. You have to push. My thing is just having purpose.

Barry says this. Go back to the future, get linemen. They're the better value, less competition. I'll say this about getting linemen. It'll cost you less to get quality. alignment than it would quality skill position guys yeah right and you get more bang for your but necessary pipeline all those sorts of things you don't want to lose big linemen out of the state if you build up a solid offense if you if you use that nil offense and defensive line if you use

that nil to build up a solid offense and defensive line it will make everybody else's job so much easier and that will enable you to then go out and get solid running backs to solid quarter My thing is if you have a plan. This is, and what Barry said kind of highlights it, is that if Nebraska has a plan, then they haven't shared it, but if they have a plan that, listen, we're going to use the NIL to bring back the pipeline. People would come rushing to the table to throw money on the table.

Yes. Right. People love the pipeline. Right? If we said, if they made a statement that we want to be running back you, right? People would come rushing to the door. Oh, we're going to run the damn ball. here's my money. Take it. Take it. Take it. Take it. Take it. Take it.

People, if you just say, we want to run the damn ball, people are like, I want this money to go to whatever road greater offensive linemen you need. And remember, you want one or two a year. Yeah. Right. And be purposeful in it. My thing is having a plan for what you're doing in this space and how you're getting better from it. And that requires what is the purpose? What's the focus?

if line play is the focus, then we can go do that. We can say, you know what, we're not big enough at receiver, we're not fast enough at receiver, or we don't have real multiple level. We need a pro-NFL caliber quarterback, right? Because, I don't know, haven't been that frequent. Right? So that's a thing. I want the tight end of the future.

Right. Like all the stuff, like just if you have a plan for how you want to get better and then to use the resources that you have, NIL is a bridge if you know how to use it. It's a bridge to greater if you know how to use it. It should be easy to use a bridge. Right. Like if you're just going to go blindly.

You should have to think of how to use a bridge. Well, but there's no, there's no plan. Like, there's no plan. I'm bothered by the fact that if you, if you don't know how you're going to use the resources that you have, you were wasting the resources. Like that's simple. From the text line, what's up, D.P. here's my question what motivates a business to shell out money

for this program when we have consistently seen the head coach fail at his job no matter what kind of talent he has at this university so paying the players to play here is one thing but if coaching blunders are what continually set us back how do you move around that by being connected to the program and having voice in the first place

see that part is not under is not underspoken and remember these relationships exist whether NIO existed or not Like there's zero chance Valentinos and Runza are in the building getting the exposure and access they do if they do not have impact and influence on it because they end up showing up. Like we know who the construction companies are who are leading the drive for all new things wonderful. We understand what open doors does and how they became the power player. Look, these relationships and these businesses already exist. These things already happen.

What I want from it is more purpose behind it. Have a plan for why, for what, look, it can't be that we're just going to throw up nice toys and a wonderful building and a wall. No. Look, what would you have? The new building or better players? Does the new building get me better players? I don't know. Does it?

Would that player? Do players, better players didn't give me the new building? Let me say this. I tell you what, if I'm a new player, if I'm a player who's considering Nebraska and you're offering me money or are you going to put that money in a new building, I would much rather you give me the money.

What I think? That, hey, look, and yes, the building is for everybody. But if we do this right, everybody's in the money. Yes. Right? See, you understand. If you. Yes.

Yes. It's like, okay, don't buy me lunch. because I did a good job. Give me a bonus. Give me a raise for doing a great job. Like, that's! Like, oh, I love you so much.

I bought you pizza. Like, I bought you pizza. Like, thank you for the pizza, but I wanted to get this. Right. Right. So I understand the difference behind it. And I wasn't going to ask you for this. I'm just going to ask you for the money for me to get this.

For me to go get what I want when I want to get it. I do want to tell this. So Sanderson, gives us this. I remember being at college waiting for that $20 money order as well. And I didn't have the obligations that these young men have. I also wasn't thousands of miles from home. These young men and women deserve not to have stress about money.

On top of everything else, they give to these universities. You have to understand the man's put on these student athletes. Why shouldn't we do anything we can to help them along in their journey? Right. That's what the focus can be. about. Gary says this. On the text line, NIO will say Nebraska will never be as good as Iowa as long as we

have this false identity of being a big deal. Prestise that comes from being a Husker football player is ridiculous and a disservice to the development of our players. Nebraska should be better off with a chip on their shoulders move forward. Absolutely. And there's accountability to hey, we're doing everything we can, as parents, as parents and as coaches. The conversations we have with young people about, listen, here's the plan and the purpose.

We will do, if you do all the things, you handle the academic workload, we will do everything we can for you to get you wherever you want to be in life, in life. In life. those conversations are the most important conversations that happen as a coach if you put in the work because i can't make you work i can't make you care so those things have to come from you and if you do those things then as a coach i will throw my body in front of anything and everything that gets in your path as fans we say if you guys put in the work and remember love of a sport required action for that sport. If the fans say we're going to not only show up on game day

and we're not only going to put on the colors throughout the week, but we're going to show up for you whenever you need us, however you need us. And that's kind of the Nebraska fan code, right? That, look,

we want to be the best fan base in America. And that requires that we're going to look out for you, you perform for us, you work for us, you care about us, we'll care about you, we'll work for you, all those things in place. People can make NIL about other things, but the reality is NIO is just going to put a mirror up to programs and fan bases and it'll show you who you are. And in a lot of cases, sadly, to this point as we mark it down today,

not all programs know who they are. and not all of them are going to like what they see when they look in the mirror. Saturday, tomorrow, at Memorial Stadium, the reason why that thing matters is that it is a great big mirror to hold up to the fan base. Look what we've done. Look at the work we've put in since we last saw you. For the fan base, it's a chance. Look at us.

We're here for you. We're carrying pride. We're carrying poise. We're carrying power. behind it. Like, we are Husker Power, right? That's why the numbers matter tomorrow. How much Husker Powers in the building

if the numbers aren't right. The numbers better be right, right? Tomorrow is about the program holding up a mirror and going, look at us now. And it'll tell, look, that mirror is a powerful thing because if you show up tomorrow and go, look at us. And then you go, ooh, we weren't dressed, we weren't, we, ooh, you dressed yourself this morning.

Right? Is this what you're asking me to love? Is this what you're asking me to stand in support of? So folks are going to drive several hours tomorrow to get to this thing. Just to hold up the mirror and see what's in it. That's what tomorrow's for. And guess what? That mirror is being held up to all of those recruits who show up tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the day where the mirror is up. and you get the program gets to, hey look, stand in the mirror with me, see what this is. Is this representative of you? Are you representative of us? You turn the other side. Like, do you fit in the mirror? Does the picture allow for you? I'm just telling you, spring game, NIL are opportunities for the program to get right,

for the fan base to get a better understanding for what the program is and is trying to be. I would feel so much better if NIL was an active out loud part in a statement of who the programs are because if you're doing nothing, then you're telling me that the program doesn't matter. And if you're doing everything, you're telling me that the program does.

I just want to know who we are. We'll find out more tomorrow. We'll find out more tomorrow. More one-on-one when we come back. Download our app by searching 93.7 the ticket in your app store. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 the Ticket in the Ticketfm.com.