1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - How NIL plays a role in transfer portal, what numbers look like: January 5th, 11:45am

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

What numbers look like in the transfer portal. What else can Nebraska add?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Back to one-on-one with D.P. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 the ticket. Welcome back. Text line. We'll get through them. I'm going to rapid fire through these. Texture 0628 says with a great line like pipeline, we would toss the sweep on third and 12. And get 15.

We need a good old line. Yeah, we had great backs. We put them behind lines. We had. They're going to be average. In some of those cases, you're talking about all. There's a difference between the road graders, the grinders, and the playmakers. The playmakers.

Most people would say Barry Sanders is one of the five best running backs ever. He never played in front of a line that was as good as he was. Jim Brown always was better than the lines he played behind. O.J. Simpson had two Hall of Fame Offensive line. John Riggins played for, there was one Hall of Famer in the Hawks. One. One. Rush Grimsie.

It's the only Hall of Famer out of the best offensive line in history. Best offensive linemen that ever existed is Anthony Munoz. And you can't name. You got to dig deep. So value versus

shareable wage is a different deal. I'm a lot of line first guy. And if they decide to, you know, whatever the numbers they decide to put behind the line, and cool, go for it. But you tell me that, that Mike Rozier wouldn't have been great. I'm

on green with, no. No, no, that ain't going there. I'm not buying that. Murph says this, let's get through. Murph says, under the ID ideas DP lays out, the refs share adjustable throughout the season. Yes. it's part of the agreement, part of the contract.

And we'll get into it in the next bit. I was sharing a little of the preview with Bach that there are ways to do that. Is the revs year adjustable based on injury or just playing beat out? Yes. All of those things are pliable in the situation because they exist in the pro model.

They already exist in the pro model. So the teams that are ahead in the Big Ten have accepted some of the best tactics and asset acquiring they've put that into their college programs and that's where there's advantage. Reve share being

equal for the 105 and NIL paying the difference to pay the additional money the players targeted makes more sense, which is what we were saying. That there is, you have to remember, revenue share is the guaranteed money that the university is set aside. NIL is value-based

incentive. It's value. base, and you can change your value system. You can change your level and location. You can do that through work. That's where depth and competition comes in play. Big Haas is on the text line. Good morning, guys, in my opinion. Nebraska needs one or two more quarterbacks from the portal, five or six

offensive linemen, three or four defensive linemen, a couple of linebackers. We'll go through the numbers because, again, most colleges, and each coach on the collegiate level, specifically on the Power 4 level, have their own idea of of what those numbers look like per player group. And when we say the 105 and that five are, you know, special team specialists, that's a real thing. That's a real thing.

And you can say I need two long snappers. If I can combine them into a player that's also, you know, in my top three, three squads on their side of the ball, that's additional money I can set aside. for those players. What you're telling high school players is if I'm a center and I can long snap for punts and

and field goals, there's ways for me that I have additional values to the team. So there's additional share money for me within the shared revenue. It's simple. I think Texas says this. I made the dating site reference.

So a friend once told me, The dating sites are humbling. If you are a seven, you won't get a 10. If you only get a seven or less, that's Nebraska football in a nutshell. Transfer Portal is, I mean, it is a, if you as the listener became single, if you're not single already,

who you think you can date and who you should date are two entirely different questions. And then add to that, that you then have to consider whether they want to date you. Who you want to date and who wants to date you, don't often, meat on the bridge.

The best situation is when you find somebody, you go, yeah, I would date them. And they go, yeah, I would date you. And you go, wow, that worked out. And then they found out, okay, how much money are you at? Oh, no, no, no, never, never, never, never, never mind. Y'all, are we eating steak or are we eating McDonald's every night? What are we doing?

And they got to know, that's the transfer portal. That's the transfer portal. So we're going to take a break We're going to come back in our number two. I spent some time last week talking to execs and coaches and athletic directors around the country because I wanted some insight to how these programs,

how these things are being handled and what the situation is. And again, I can't speak for Nebraska. There's information that I get and there are people who will give me that information freely. I will share with you some of that information along the way. And what we were trying to figure out

was how they were planning their 2026 revenue share and NIL. I will share some of that with you when we come back to one-on-one.