1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Husker Football is 1-0...what did we learn? (HOUR 1) - 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 to by Canopy Street Market. In Your Face. Labor Day Monday, in your face. In Your Face. Harrison Orange, man in the board.

different conversations different conversations on the Labor Day we're live kicking it there's lots to talk about over the course of this thing spent some time down the rabbit hole that is Akron Zips football to find out who

the opponent is and what's going on with them there's lots of story to be told recapping Husker volleyball on a successful reverse sweep of Kentucky yesterday and then their week going forward is Wright State and Cal come to town Friday Sunday.

There is of course Wright State and Cal on Saturday at Devaney Center. So there'll be three consecutive days of events. They're at Devaney Center. Oh, by the way, it's opening week. We are three days from the opening day of the NFL. And they give us quite the introduction to this football season. It's kind of like, you know, with Texas and Ohio State as the kickoff, as the jump off. Well, for college football, but it's the Eagles.

It's the reigning defending Super Bowl champions against the Dallas. Cowboys on a Thursday night. And then, oh, by the way, they added some extra sauce by giving us Kansas City Chiefs and the Chargers on Friday night. So what I would tell you is to buckle up in that it's a full week. The ticket will carry NFL on Thursday and Friday. A Husker pregame, post game, plus an early game Saturday. early game, afternoon game, and Sunday night game Sunday in the NFL,

and then NFL game Monday night. In between some of that will be Casey Royals in their pursuit of the wild card. And it's, you know, there are three games back. But it's gotten more interesting because as the mariners start to fall back to the pack, the Texas Rangers have popped up and have an even record with the Royals. So eyes on the prize all over the place. And of course, the U.S. Open, our national championship is taking place in Flushing, New York. And there's that. So we will kind of sports center this thing over the course of it. I'll have Harrison

monitor baseball later in the afternoon to kind of keep track of things. And then, baseball, I think first pitch starts 12 noon back east. So there's that and then I would imagine that the U.S. Open is firing up of course the story at the U.S. Open today is Coco

Golf and Osaka playing each other. And I think that's a great matchup. The tournament itself I was trying to figure out yesterday why the men's side of the tournament has been less than intriguing and I don't know that I just don't know that we're that familiar with the athletes or not.

But Harrison Orange joining us. Again, you can follow along. Be a part of the show. The start of hand me text line 42464-5685. If you want to be a part of the show, you can follow on all the live video streams, Facebook, YouTube X, Allo Channel 961. Download the ticket app so you have it. Take us where you go.

And then shout out to the folks who know. normally work in this space, the folks from Hamilton, the folks from Mulberry Barbecue, and the folks from Suizo, who generally make this thing happen each day right about this time. So we will shout them out consistently. Harrison, there is a read there sitting on the paper next to you for Lincoln Lancaster Health. And then there's one for Hamilton. Which one do you have in hand? We've got the Lincoln Lancaster County Health.

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Look for blue lips, slow breathing, pinpoint pupils or unresponsiveness. These signs can be deadly. Credible Mind gives you the tools and resources to be ready and protect those around you. Again, Lincoln Lancaster County Health Department has launched credible mind a free confidential mental health platform thank you kind sir greatly appreciate it and then there's another read for hamilton we'll get it in the next uh rejoin yeah uh so we can do that the highlights uh for husker athletics from from last week of course uh the 2017 went over Cincinnati Thursday night in the in the uh they called it the battle classic i thought it was

interesting that they that it had a name and there was a trophy attached to it So there's that. Men's golf kicking off their season as well at the Island Resort Invitational. Women's soccer, what if I told you there was an undefeated soccer team at Nebraska? They currently sit at 3-0-2. They knock off Weber State Thursday, and then they knock off Omaha Sunday to 1, late goal, gets them true. They improved to 3-0-2.

Now, I'm just going to say this because it's true. It's true. Football is undefeated. Volleyball is undefeated. Women's soccer are undefeated. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, I don't know anytime, I know it's early, but I just need to say it. And if you want a chance, you get two opportunities this week to check out the undefeated women's soccer team.

Thursday, they play Oregon State at Hibner, 7 o'clock. And then Sunday, they take on Kansas State. 1 o'clock, Hibner, opportunities. I think those are pretty easy to get into as well. I don't think they charge you hardly anything. They charge you, but I want to say that tickets are very reasonable. Yeah. It's a beautiful pitch out there.

It's a great stadium. Great stadium. Went a couple times last year when we had our girls who were doing shows. and it was interesting just to kind of follow them and do what they do. Sunday. So if you don't have tickets for volleyball versus cow 1 o'clock Devaney Center, then head on over to Hibner. Head on over the Hibner.

Go ahead and do that. Saturday, a busy weekend, right? Because, of course, the Huskers are home against Akron, 630, not 6.30. So pay attention to that Friday night, volleyball versus right? state. It is the Emeritus Players Challenge at Devaney 7 o'clock Friday night. So Thursday home for soccer, Friday home for volleyball, Saturday home for football, Sunday home for volleyball and soccer. So you have no excuse. Get your Husker fix this weekend. And I think the lead story for Nebraska football is this. That

Bing 1 and O matters. It changes a lot of the discussion. And Harrison, I asked Jay Foreman this earlier, I asked Nick Sainer's this. But for you, what's the headline from Nebraska football from Thursday night? What's the headline? As you think about it, three days later.

It's me that the headline, it's say the same. Huskers find a way to win one score game. Again, because now it's not the first time we've done this. We're finally at a point where these games, I don't. I'm still nervous and anxious, but I have some belief that we can find a way to close out the game. There's been so many games in the past where you just kind of felt like it was all of done with already. I know it wasn't looking great. We were here, you know, pretty late watching the game, watching Soresby.

And I was like, I don't know if we can stop Sorsby. We didn't. But Sorsby gave us a chance to end the game anyways. And you give credit to Hartzog for making that play. But, yeah, I mean, it's, we just found a way to win the game. And that's good. That is not a FCS schools. That is a powerful opponent.

You know, you'll take the win. You can look across the rest of college football and you realize, hey, you know what, that's not such a bad win. When you look at how to the other schools did, you know, Iowa was struggling with, I think it was what, Albany, University. Kansas State and an absolute thriller versus North Dakota. And everyone, you know, Kansas State was ranked heading into Dublin and they lose that game, fall out of it.

But the biggest jump for me, and you can tell me if we're right or wrong as a coach, is that week one to week two, I do believe. you should see a big jump, but you found a way to win the game. And that is the only thing that really matters to me at the end of the day. Yeah, the idea of the biggest jump between weeks one and two, because you get to see things live and you get to see them in full. There's a different speed to the game. There's a different speed to the movement.

You get to see folks who the bright lights affect, and then those people that it does not affect. And you need to see those things. You need to see how are your coaches? respond, which is probably the most understated, undervalued portion of this thing, is that we don't talk a lot about how the coaches respond to the in-game situation. And I don't necessarily mean the head coach or the coordinators. The coordinators have to adjust, right?

The coordinators, they have some idea based on what they want to do, how they want to do it, when they want to do it. Most offensive and defensive coordinators, most offensive coordinators will tell you they know what point of attack they think will work because that's where their brain is wrapped, right? Do they see in their system and their players plays being made? And if you don't see those plays being made, then you have to keep searching for the right plays.

If you don't have playmakers, because some coordinators know I've got playmakers, There's guys that will take a basic play, turn a four-yard catch into a house call. If you don't have those people, then you have to plan everything. Every single play, every single yard, every single point. You have to factor in, my goodness gracious. How are we going to do this? What situations do I want to be in?

First and 10, what am I trying to get on first down? What am I trying to get? What am I going to line up in? What's my best personnel for first and 10? what's my first best personnel against them and what they run because if they're running a Tampa 2 or cover 3 I need to know in my bag on my Batman utility belt what attacks Tampa 2 or what attacks you know man cover 2 okay what do I have oh they're they're flooding the box what do I do uh they're going strong side heavy what do I have do I want a back cut against them?

right do I want to change the flow do I want to run jet sweep misdirect what do I want to do do it with Nebraska with the coordinator with a new offensive coordinator new quarterbacks coach then they have to get on the same page right and you may be working on you know what Dylan we're gonna we're gonna emphasize seam routes this week because against this zone this is where we think it'll be or option routes where you trail across the middle. And then you can focus on that. The bulk of your reps is, well, they're going to concede these option routes.

So in the RPO game, this is what they'll give, right? And in the RPO game, they can't defend everything. And they can't defend everything at the same level. So what am I going to take? What are they conceding and what am I willing to take and how am I going to take it? So within that, the receivers coach has to say, well, listen, they changed their press coverage. So whatever we thought we could do and get a quick release we can't do, can we adjust?

Right? And in the adjustment, does it change what we said we were going to, going to attack? Do we have a win? And when I put that in air quotes, do we have a win? Can't do, does it look like our center can handle their noseguard or middle linebacker frequently, consistently, constantly? am I winning at left tackle on the edge, right? Is that boundary rusher getting up field too far so I can run off tackle inside?

Or I can key him with an RPO, right? I can take him out, use his aggression against him. All of these things. And then running back coach being able to tell, hey, listen, I think if we run what we run, but I need for you to plant the foot, I need to stretch it one half step further than you normally do because that'll allow my lineman to get the, you know, Raola's lineman to get downfield and get contact on it.

And those in-game adjustments, those in-game conversations, those in-game recognition of situation and circumstances, dictate the game. Like we think it's real simple. Okay, this is what we run, this is how we're going to run it. But-blah-b-b-b-b-b-b-no. Within all of these things, defensive coordinators then have to evaluate all the things that the

offensive coordinators is evaluating and then figuring out, here's what I'm going to take away. And again, I can't take away everything. So what am I conceding? What am I going to give them? And in most cases, most plays, defensive coordinators are willing to give you five yards. There's something, there's five yards somewhere.

You have to find it. You have to find it. And then can you turn that five yards to the 15? Right? Can I beat the safety? Can I beat the linebacker? Can I beat the cornerbacker? in open field.

All of those things, each group has their own communication pool, their own group text during a game, except for it's live. It's live. And there are players who come off and they go, okay, what do you see? Well, we want to run the RPO here, but I need you to run it extended a little bit by a half of yard

to get past beyond a linebacker. Okay, coach, that makes all the sense in the world. but I also have to tell the quarterback that he's going to be at six and a half instead of six. See, I don't know. Like, I think that's where, like, quick going on that Texas Ohio State game. Like, when you're watching that, I think that's just what the defense for Ohio State was doing. Like, they threw even front, odd front, even front, even front. Now we don't even have somebody over the center.

Now we're on the both, both guards outside three shoulders, but you don't, you don't really see. Like, I think that's just where Manning got flustered was, you know, to your point, you go into the sideline. What do you see? it's something new every single time I'm out there. Like I, and then you get to halftime and then I, they kind of try to hash it out there, but it was kind of felt like too late. As the coordinator,

I always know the easiest coordinator to attack or scheme to attack is when I know when I know where everybody's going to be. If I know how you're going to line up and where you're going to be, then I just have to execute. I mean, listen, if you're going to be on my nose, uh, no matter what technique it is, that technique will tell me what my responsibility is.

But if you are offset or you add a body to the space, you throw off everything, everything. We know that quarterbacks offensively and coordinators want to show you a thing and then motion out of that thing. Setting up in the thing only allows me a baseline to what I think you're going to do in this set. motion changes that because it allows me to see what coverage you're in, who's running with, what space will be open,

and whether the play concept will work in that space. Did they follow him? Are they trailing? Did they get on top of him? Is he capped? Is there a safety sitting over the top of that corner that runs with him? All the things that are in play. And if you're, Jay and I were talking about it as well this morning,

that the thing that we also miss is that most college quarterbacks haven't been hit all summer. They've been avoided like the plague. Yeah. You better believe Archibandah has been protected in their training camp. Well, guess what?

Ohio State's not protected. There's no red jersey out there. He's fair game. And not only are there in his throwing lane, but they're in his window, and there are helmets in hand. put in place. So now you can't finish throws because if you snap it off,

your hand goes into a helmet or into a face mask. You don't want that. You know, all it takes is one defender who says, screw it, I'm going to put a hat on him anyway. I'm going to put a hat on him. And believe me, Ohio State was, that was a part of the conversation. Put a hat on that dude. Hit him.

The first time you hit him, you change the game. And that's what happens in all of this space. And for Arch Manning, they were talking about it last night with Miami and that when you have a veteran quarterback, when Carson Beck comes in, even trying to fool him doesn't work. Because he knows in certain situations, no matter what, if you show me cover three.

But in truth, I know that cover two is really your jam. Tampa 2 is really your jam. Then I know where the weakness is going to be. it doesn't really matter. But also sometimes it's just a matter of me getting a win. Also, gutsy win. How often do you see top ten opponents go on the road?

But you've got two going at each other, go on the road and get that dove. Well, it's tough to do. In Death Valley? Well, I know they're both Death Valley, I guess, but still impressive gutsy win. Well, when you talk about equal talent, and I love the fact that ESP and ABC showed the pregame lore.

of having to get on a bus of Notre Dame Miami or LSU Clemson. Yeah. Of the players from Clemson because they run down the hill, right? But in order to get to that hill, they have to get on a bus

and ride around the stadium and you're fully dressed in gaming gear and you're packed under these three buses just so that you can get off the bus right where the rock is and go down the hill. But then also the other side is the opposing. team has to watch all this. And you're just kind of idling, well, watching LSU plan and prepare. And LSU said, you know what we're going to do? We're going to time our run out too.

Our run out is going to be the same time as Clemson. So when Clemson comes down the hill, outruns LSU and boo. Well, it sounds like mixed crowd, right? Mix crowd. But that's being familiar with the space, playing the game that's required that you play, and then taking the advantage away. Taking the fan advantage away is tough to do. But playing Notre Dame tried some of it, right? They have the imposed thing, right? Because not many teams look like Notre Dame running out of the town. Yeah.

Right? But Miami is familiar. They've done this dance before. Now, maybe not this group, maybe not this roster of players and maybe not this coach. But Christopher was last. about this is about us. This is about us.

It's a big win for him. He needed one of those close game moments where his coaching record was always like I think people comparing Freeman and Christopal, everyone's like, well, Freeman's the better game manager because Chris Paul's had those moments. That was a big win, put Miami back on that map.

Well, Christopher needed that Freeman didn't. True, that is true. Crystal Ball lost two games in the season. Remember, they were in the top five. top five, and then went on a losing street. Yeah. And not a pretty losing street. Not impressive in the least.

So then it's, listen, Freeman played in the national championship game. There's wiggle room. There's wiggle room. And you can tell the way people coach that sometimes you get caught up in that, right? That I need to win this. It's the John Thompson thing of two people fighting on a cliff

one will fight as though if he gets knocked off the cliff there's a mattress there to save him and one will fight as though there is no mattress so i have to win there's a difference like there's a difference man between knowing that you have uh something to to break the fall and something that doesn't so it it's a great weekend for this thing Nebraska uh finding a way to win um there are a lot of programs again texasasas has has some questions to answer. We identify teams, the state of the union for teams. We understand that we now identify them by the number of questions we have about them.

Which team for you personally did you come away with any conference that you, you know, that you realize like I have so many more questions. There's a bunch. There's a bunch. You check Northwestern? How's one I was going to throw up? Well, here's the thing. Northwestern, again, Dave Brown.

this is his first that that's the first rodeo and you're talking about Northwestern who was just rated yeah in the transfer portal you bring in a quarterback who could sling it but he if you can't step into you throw and you're getting your head take it off what i'm saying i just really matter that's going to be a tough tough sled to build back like with the three years type of deal but think of matt re met rule in year one true yeah very true think of scott frost in year one you it's never easy going into a major conference in a power four in a first year. If you're correcting a mess, I mean,

we saw Florida State for crying out loud. Yeah. They won two games a year ago, right? Well, Boise State, they beat Kennesaw State by one over the weekend. I know they lost Gentie, but the rest of the-

Boise State got beat Thursday. Oh, what did they lose? Was it 10 to 9 the other way? Didn't they lose? Let me double-checked. I think I'm pretty sure I saw Boise State. They were struggling. Maybe they did.

But this is the thing, right? That you lose Gentie. You get responsible. Oh, that's right. They played South Florida. Yeah, they got three, four to seven. Let me figure out someone who just barely beat kind of South State. Right.

But I mean, think about it, West Point, that Army loses to Charlton State. And you have to ask some questions, right? That what's happening? The discipline that falls in the play normally keeps you from losing to bad teams. And military academy teams are notorious. following the road, the code. They are disciplined players. So that one leaves question.

Northwestern, I'm not surprised. I thought, but I had to remember that it's year one, game one. And Tulane isn't a nobody as far as those. Well, but Tulane wouldn't got a quarterback. Yeah. Like they wouldn't got, they wouldn't got BYU's quarterback and he came out there and Redslaft showed out.

I real quick, just so incorrect myself, Boise State, they lost South Florida. I was thinking it was Wake Forest, 10 to 9. Yeah. I know it's Wake Force,

but they've been pretty decent these past few years. This is not the old white force. So through all of these teams and programs, and then shout out to the Big Ten for going 16 and two in week one, you know, with Northwestern and UCLA being the two. But that UCLA Utah game was a statement. Yeah, Utah's good.

It was a statement. Like I, who we, you watch that Utah team. They look like dudes, right? I think I learned more that Utah is really, really good more than I learned that UCLA. Lays it's bad.

Like I think we could, you see like it. Oh, there's a different. Some things and throw it and throw it to weight around. There's a difference. But Utah's just dialed in right out of the gate. You look, Devin Dampeer is a ball. He's an absolute baller. But here's the thing.

Utah has four tight ends that they run routes with, right? And they have defensive. They have two-way players. They have a bunch of two-way players. Ground beef, man. They run the ball. get after it. They've got two real Sunday prospects

at both tackles. A legitimate day one draftee prospects at either tackle. A down here runner who's a bit saucy in open space. Great receivers. And they defend you.

Morgan Scali has that team playing physical, aggressive defense. So we find that a lot. We'll take a break. We'll come back. We'll go through more of what we learned Saturday. It's what we know versus what we think we know. And now we

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Thank you, kind, sir. Greatly appreciate it. along the way and rules for what we're doing. A full one-on-one disclaimer again, that we follow the Gump family rules that this show is like a box of chocolates you're never quite sure what you're going to get. And today, you know, if we go long,

who knows what rabbit holes will end up down today. We haven't even touched volleyball yet. I'm just setting the table. There's a lot. Right? I'm just setting the table. table that in a full day's worth of of conversation that who knows like clash in paris was yesterday yeah that's true you know me uh you also know that that that that that that there's

you have seen this weekend uh there's some really cool stuff oh yeah the undefeated number one ranked Nebraska volleyball team is back in town after let's see three top 10 buttons. Knock off number three pit. Check. Knock off number six, Stanford. Check. Knock off in a reverse sweep number seven,

Kentucky. Check. Thanks, Lipscomb. Check. Four and O, who comes right state and cow. That women, I posted yesterday that women's college volleyball showed off. yesterday.

Yeah, it did. There's a lot of good stuff. It showed off. And this, literally we had the conversation yesterday that women's college volleyball is so fluid and it's so deep. There's so much parity.

There's so many talented teams that the reigning defending national champion Penn State took an L yesterday. They took an L yesterday against an Arizona state team that ball. Wisconsin. Number eight, lost to Texas. So in my head,

Texas is now number two? Well, Penn State, they didn't lose. They had another close one. No, they lost. They lost. They lost the other yesterday, but they had another one match before that. I'll look at who it does.

There's two to three. Kansas. Kansas. That's right. They barely said. Five set. They got some problems going on over there right now. Well, no, it's not problems.

Volleyball, the game is, it's literally what Jane Lereroyis said here in studio. that the whole mission of the game is to elevate the game. Elevate the game and you can't hold it close where the transfer portal is affecting volleyball as well. That you're able to get talent, you're able to fix things. There are some really good coaches in women's college volleyball.

They just didn't have the resources or access to the players. Well, now that you give them access to the ability to fix their roster, wait a minute, there are some programs that actually can step up. Wisconsin's loaded. Penn State's loaded. When they take the floor, you go, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a contender for the national title. But here's the thing. Nebraska did the same thing.

They went and got better. Now, they already returned for All-Americans. And Taylor Landfair wasn't included in that. Laini Choboy wasn't included in that. And then you go out and get some newcomers that, and Matt, that improve immediately. you get two outside hitters that are vastly different, right? Check is different than Adriana. Like they're not the same.

So they're being rotated in and out. You've got several players. And then Olivia Mock coming off, coming off the bench, giving you double digit digs and assists and playmaking. Playmaking. So for Danny Bus from Kelly,

it's impressive because you're setting a standard and resetting the standard. You're not accepting that just because this was John Cook's program, that Nebraska Volley, women's volleyball will improve and get better simply because it should. She's out to make, I mean, she switched out to Libero.

And she still played right after the fact, but, you know, that's a tough change to make. And that was the second set or the second, it might have been the second set to the, go ahead and made the switch. after they lost, but you lost two of the best players in history. Yeah.

In history. And then you replace them and you develop and step up. But it also changes your tendency, which is a thing. And then, of course, Danny Busman Kelly is not John Cook. So there are some tendencies that have adjusted. Some of the communication has changed. Some of the responsibility has changed. And I don't want to sit here and profess that this looks like a run, an epic run.

that they're never going to get beat now. That's the Big Ten Conference. Yeah, too many dogs. Especially the way we load our schedule. Too many dogs. But the idea of staring down numbers three, six, and seven, two and two and eight went down. Texas at five, who's it for? I'm not sure who's at four.

but that would be the conversation, right, that additional big 10 teams are in play. Louisville still up. Yep. So Louisville will probably move up to two. Texas will probably move up to three. Penn State will probably drop to four and so on. So Epic run, great reverse sweep.

the numbers are spectacular and then they come home. If you do not have, I think both games are sold out this. I think all three days are sold out this weekend. But go find the Huskers, whether it be Husker football. Sold out, sold out, yeah. Yep. They're sold out.

Yep, sold out all three events at Devaney. Maybe California Wright State isn't sold out, actually. He might be able to check that one out. Well, you want to be in the building. We learned that at PBA on the, the off nights, but Wright State and Cow on a day Nebraska's there. On a Saturday night

for them not to cross promote, but Bravo. So it looks the way it should look. It looks the way you wanted to look. Nebraska doesn't, you don't particularly care that you had to, that you were down

02. You found a way. Oh, now you get to be back at the Bob too. I just realized to be the first game that's a Bob for him. Right. After three top dead opponents, you haven't played in your home home venue yet. I mean, do we talk about all the time with football, you know, like all the variables that's where I always just hand it to the volleyball team.

That's a bunch of different unknown things that you got to go out and do. You're at PVA. You're having this big tournament. You don't get to play at home. You've got to take down three top 10 opponents before you even get to play at the court they're used to play it on. And you're still there undefeated. Now you get to find it to play at the bottom.

And it was good. I mean, the fact that you were on network. Oh, it was great. Don't get me wrong. We talked about them at PBA. To get the games all over. the place to have and and and this is where you start to pay attention to it is that i have friends back in virginia and down in texas who watch huskers now right and it's like wait a minute uh they're

they're they're on you know they're on fox uh they're they're on ESPN too um exposure matters and this is when we say that about the non revenue sports and i throw that the air quotes up to that they're they're non revenue because you haven't invested in you haven't shared them um we know for a fact that when Nebraska bowling's on TV, the number of the viewer number goes up. I'll never forget. That was the last time they won a national championship. Tanner's Bar and Burrell Southside.

It was early in the morning place was packed. Put them off. People just love winners. Nebraska winners in particular. Well, but I mean, if you show Nebraska, even if they're not winning, show them. True. So that interest grows and that familiarity grows.

You follow what you know. you follow what you're familiar with. And if you don't show, this is the whole point that, you know, the tickets figured out, that if you show gymnastics, people will support gymnastics.

If you show swimming and diving, they'll support it. If you show soccer, they'll support it. If you show bowling, they'll support it. Same for wrestling. If you show wrestling,

they will support it. And it's important to do so. That's not always convenient. It's not always convenient. But when you when you use the phrase non-revenant, you're literally saying out loud there's not enough revenue to support it no you support it to get revenue well i mean if that was the case they would have cut the NBA a long time ago

because it took it's not like the NBA just came out and made money you're one you're two well the NBA wasn't even on TV in the 70s all those were investments though to begin it wasn't even on 70s well they didn't look at it as investments they look at it his hobby it became an investment um but you remember that even the NBA playoffs was a taped on yeah Like I grew up in a time where the playoffs were in, the NBA finals were on tape delay. The UCLA Bruins at Lua Alcinders Apex were on tape delay. They weren't a live TV.

The first live one that I can think of was at the Astrodome against Texas. Who was at Houston when they lost? Who was the commissioner before Silver? I'm blanking on his name right now. O'Brien? No, there was one. in the middle, I think. We're missing one.

Who is the commissioner who is responsible for really? Stern. Okay. Yeah, was Stern the one responsible for pump getting the NBA playoffs? Like just getting it on national TV where we don't have tape delays where people are now watching the NBA. The,

the ABA is responsible. Whoever did the merger, but the ABA, because it was more exciting play. They started the three point line, right? The red, white and blue ball, you know, big afros.

was Dr. Jay, George McGinnis, David Skywalker Thompson, Dan Isle, George McGinnis from Indiana, Donnell Hillman. There were some dudes who played Spencer Haywood who played in the Marvin Barnes, who played the ABA, and then in the merger, they realized, and then they had Dr. Jay move from Virginia to New Jersey, and then the New Jersey Nets got in. So if you think of the Nets, the Nuggets, the Pacers.

I'm forgetting another team. Utah, the Utah Jazz were the Utah Stars. Of course, they end up taking over the New Orleans Jazz franchise. But the US Stars let them know that they could handle basketball in Utah. I think those were three or four of the expansion teams that... Lost the Kentucky Colonels and the Spirit of St. Louis. You lost St. Louis. the colonel's folded.

And people were upset about that because that was a really good team. That was a really good. Virginia Squires also hoped to get in and they also got on the outside. Well, the Squires because they didn't have a home court. Squires played in both Richmond, Roanoke, and Fredericksburg. They were all over the place, but mainly they played at the scope in Norfolk and the Richmond Coliseum. Yeah, and it sounds like their biggest problem was they failed assessment payment to the NBA. was the reason they just, they just didn't have enough.

Well, the other part was that they really wanted that, that franchise in Washington. They wanted it, actually, that would have been the original Washington capitals. Before hockey, there would have been a Washington capital, and the bullets were in Baltimore and then went to Washington and became the Washington bullets in order to fulfill, you know, rivalry and that sort of thing. So you can go, I mean, the ABA, version of it is deep. But if you,

if you don't put money behind it, it doesn't grow. It doesn't grow. And they went through and literally, I'm telling you that the ABA merger saved the NBA. It saved the NBA because it changed the style of play. It was more exciting.

Players were, were better dressed and they went up and down the floor, started the slime dunk contest was started over there in the ABA. I mean, again, you know, the original one with Donnell Hillman, Julius Urban David Thompson. I mean, geez, they didn't know what they were doing

because they put artists, you had a seven footer, you had artist Gilmore at seven foot two in the slam dunk contest. But at least you had it. And then that led to the iconic moment of Dr. Day taken off from the free throw line. Well, not that point too. You haven't seen a seven footer in a dunk contest.

So even that's still exciting. At that point, you didn't even know. Yeah, you're like, well, we'll see what he does. You didn't know what it was. Like his thing was he dunked two balls. He had a ball in each hand and dunk the boat. and people probably lost their mind. Oh, it was in Denver.

Bob Costas, who worked, was communications director, I believe for St. Louis at the time. I don't think he was in Denver. I think it was St. Louis. We're doing play-by-play for the St. Louis franchise. The Spirit, great team.

Marvin Barnes was their best player. Notoriously, Marvin Barnes was told the story that he would not get on a plane because the plane was flying from Memphis to St. to the West Coast. And because they would lose an hour, he said, why would I get on a time machine?

We're going to lose time. We're going to get on the plane at 1 o'clock, and it won't even be 1 o'clock when we land. I'm not getting on the plane. I always blows my mind those people exist. Shout out to him. Well, you didn't know. You didn't know.

You didn't know. The kid, look, he went straight from high school to the ABA. and this is Moses Malone did that there there's a bunch of folks who did that yeah you remember this before the internet bro their information was not necessarily out there like that that's true you could get sold on that info if you couldn't

look it up in the real time amen you couldn't look it up back then it was a whole different deal yeah cyclopedia doesn't have flight travel in there yet well I mean here's the other part of it that that that we act like everybody knows what we know now they didn't know that the rush grim tells the story that when he was drafted by

by the Redskins by by Washington, he thought he was moving to the state of Washington. He didn't know it was the team in Washington, D.C. We think everybody knows everything. They don't. That's true. There's some Green Bay Packers that I won't shout them out out of respect, but they did a little game. It's like, can you point out where Green Bay is in the map?

Me, given, they're in Green Bay. They didn't know. Do you have listeners we know that don't know the map? Yeah, we have listeners that don't know the map. So there's that. We'll throw it to break more one-on-one when we come back. You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Brought to by Canopy Street Market on 93-7 The Tickets and the Ticketfm.com.

Segment on Labor Day. I appreciate y'all hanging out with us from the text line. He goes, I had a David Thompson Sports Illustrated poster in my room as a kid. To this day, my favorite all-time player. Way to call out David Skywalker Thompson. Sick. Well, I mean, he really was. He was a freak.

We knew of him. We learned of him in high school. And then when he went to NC State, of course, he played on what I thought was as good a college basketball team. I remember it, Monty Tao, they had a five foot four point guard, five six, Monty Town. They had Rivers at the two guard, David Thompson small forward, Tim Stoddard. They called him Big Bird, who ended up being the closer for the Baltimore Orioles for a large run, a long run in the late 70s. Tim Stoddard was the power forward, and then Tom Burleson, 7 foot 4.

Tom Burleson was the starting center. And they were loaded. Pete Myers came off the bench. But David Thompson, we knew he could jump out the gym. He was the first person I heard them refer to him. with their vertical leap. And it was said that he had a 44 inch vertical leap. 42-44.

Some said 48. But at 6 foot 4. He literally hit his head on the rim. He hit his head on the rim. And this was prior to, in college in those days, you couldn't dunk. So they would throw Ali Ubs and he would have to catch it. And as he, you know, ascended down from the heavens. he would drop the ball in the basket.

That looked like Tropic Thunder. Oh, oh, oh, he said out Tropic Thunder. And that is one of the greatest moments where they throw the hoop and everyone's like, what that, the refs are like,

oh, I don't know what that is. What is that? I don't know what to do that. Yeah, I don't know what to do that. Well, I mean,

think about it, that the game was to say that they, they literally changed college and pro hoops because one Lou Alcender. Yeah. Um, that they didn't want he and, you know, I mean,

go back to Wilts Chamberlain. They didn't let him dunk, or else they had to catch the ball. the paint and just drop it in the basket. Can you imagine if they let it, wilt Chamberlain dunk? Yeah, and they changed the lane. They changed the width of the lane.

They narrowed it for the sake of, Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, like the original lane, there's been a migration of the lane. They've changed the way the lane. It went from narrow to kind of, in a V to the widespread lane, all because,

again, what were you going to do? What were you going to do? And there were great runs of, you know, Russell, Chamberlain, Louis Alcindra, Bill Walton, and then finally after Walton, and the fact that Bill Walton

had a championship game stat line against Memphis, Keith Lee and the Memphis Tigers, that he was 21, I want to say he was 21 or 22, and couldn't dunk. No dunks. Yeah, insanity. And then they finally, it was like,

hey, wait a minute, people like dunks. Yeah, it's pretty exciting. Dunks are cool. Peak athleticism. Dunks are cool. And they chase, I mean, but think about it. When people say, you know, they're playing it's plumbers, no, that wasn't what it was. The game had to change because there were people in charge who were nerds who didn't want cool things happening.

They didn't want you to have cool things. Quite frankly, if it was just about jumping out of the gym, I don't know, that would remove a certain portion of the population. So they made decisions and said, okay, fine, we need to concede. And this is what happened. And through the evolution of the game, the old ABA, I am an ABA jersey fanatic. They are some of the best. And I have several.

I'll go through the list. We'll go to break. Come back. Well, you know, again, we can stay in the lane. Again, the full disclosure, one-on-one is like a box of chocolate. You're never quite sure what you're going to get.