1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - January 19th: 10:25am - The Pyramid of Structure, whats on top

Episode Date: January 19, 2022

Frost an Hoiberg need to find out what is on topChanges being made should help the football program arrive, right?Former players being allowed at practiceAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Presented by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com. Welcome back to one-on-one. Rasson is here. Rico is here. A couple of things from the end. Pekam passes, I think the former winners need to be there for mentorship.

I agree with that. I agree with that. A Husker fan of Manhattan says yes to Bo. Absolutely. Bo all day. Twice on Sunday. I like Scott and I hope things turn around, but I would like a nine-win team every year. Patrick says this.

If winning is at the pinnacle, how do you keep either Frost or Hoyberg? Husker fan goes on. Winning consistently takes a foundation that is set to a standard. Bow, Tower of Success was a single pole. Always swinging in that Nebraska high win. Riley had no pyramid, but it was blocked scattered all over the field. Scott and staff were trying to gather what was left, patched the floor, stacked a stable foundation.

and this is why the team product is better will lead to constant wins again. I will accept all of that, except that the product is better. Yeah, no. Better than what? Yeah, yeah, no. Not yet.

We've got to. You lost too many people. First of all, the guys that we recruited, we lost a lot of those guys. And now we're restocking the cupboards, if you will, to make sure that we can do some things differently. And here, you talked about,

Frost or Horrible. Here's a different between Frost and Hoyberg, I think. Scott did what was necessary. He changed. I don't know if Hoyberg has fired anybody on his staff yet. What does Scott change? Well, I mean, you changed offensively. You changed the people.

Has he? Yeah, you changed. How do we know? We'll know the spring. You change. So we don't know yet. Well, we'll know during practice. So we don't know yet.

We do know. We change. Here's why. Here's why we know, because you change the people in the room, okay? You changed leadership in the room. So with that change of leadership with Mickey and Donovan and Whipple and some of the other coaches that they changed, that came in that was not a part,

but I think that will have a bigger part to play. I think it will change. But Lerner is a high-level assistant. So to say that the room hasn't been changed isn't true. But we're talking about a little. And, yeah, that, that is, that's one of the top, uh, talent assessors and trainers in all a basketball in all of basketball. And he's right here, nobody talks about him.

And that's cool because that, that just tells me that you don't know basketball. But, but, but, but, but why is it, how can we see the change? The change is only in wins and losses, right? It's what I just said to you. Why, you put the same theory. You got to change something, though. You can't say the, boy. You got to change something in order to be good.

Of course he does. What does? Of course you brought in one of the great talent assessors and trainers in all of basketball, period. Okay. You mean this year. He's been, so he's here. So, but you can't say that Scott's changed. But that's changed.

You haven't seen it. You haven't seen it. Fred also, I don't know about the whole offensive philosophy, but they did change a part of their offense with how they run it. They run it more through Derek Walker now. Listen, let me go back to something you said, D.P. Scott has changed because if he didn't change, I don't think he'll be here. I'll say this. I don't know.

Because people will say, here's my thing, they're the same. Neither one's good enough. Like, period. Then you get into, like, how you feel about it. But then for me, I have to go back to, I have to be honest to the pyramid of structure. If the thing that needs to happen here in Nebraska Athletics for the major programs is winning, winning. then neither one is where we can be comfortable or compliant or an accomplice. No, you have to say those two programs need to be better in the thing that's at the top of the pyramid,

which is winning. Then the money aspect of it, which is absolutely hindering and holding up both programs from making simple decisions about how they're going to achieve winning, because they've made financial commitments and decisions that they're beholden to an accountable for. The money that's going to be required to fix those things to get your exit packages doesn't come from the fan base. They come from the elites. And the elite checkwriters who make this thing move behind the scenes,

they have to decide, is it money or winning? And if both start to get affected, people not showing up and you're not winning and the fan base isn't happy, then decisions get made. And you say, you know what, we've got to get back to winning. It can't just be money. It can't just be, hey, all the fan base happy because we understand that when the fan base was, when a third of the fan base wasn't happy with Polini, you made a decision based on the loud third rather than, hey, the thing at the top of the pyramid. means we're we've got the result now what we need to do is fine tune some of the other things in play to get us back to the standard that we feel like we're entitled to does that make sense makes all the sense of the world i'm just saying that when you have when you when you have been

at a place a particular place for a long time yep and it hasn't worked true you need to change something yes you cannot keep doing things the same way and explain expect different results. Yes. We know what that definition is. Yes, sir. And so I'm saying that, one, I take my hat off to Trev Alberts for making some decisions. And he is not done, man.

You've got to think of how much, how many decisions he has to make over the course of this year. And I know there is a game plan that will be instituted, you know, because I believe Trevor's is way more methodical in his thinking than people give him credit for. And no, we haven't seen a ton of things roll out just yet, but we've seen enough, I've seen enough to make me say the program is at least headed in the right direction. Will it continue? We'll see during the spring.

My skin moves a little bit in the creepy, crawly way because we're putting hope on, we're going to focus on spring football, which this market does at a very high level. to focus on spring game and how it's going to appear when it's us versus us. But again, you know, us versus us back when I played was better than us versus anybody. So until you get back to us versus us being like a junkyard dog brawl, like a heavyweight champion, Chip, you'll never have it.

So are you saying, but you can see it. What do you see? I don't personally see it. I don't see a lineup of six deep at linebacker where as you and Jay talked about, it is legitimately iron versus iron every day for the nine months before you get to September. But that's why I say former players coming back to practice. because we know what a real practice looks. Are they going to let you in practice? Yeah, but we know what a real...

They're going to let everybody a practice. I would imagine if you wanted to go back to practice. No, they won't let you in. Well, I mean... That's the current rule. Look, I'm a fan of going to practice and watch it. Look, my eyes are pretty good. I have my bad moments.

You know, I give that. Yeah, but former players? I mean, I would think former players can go to practice. I would think in this climate, in this day and age, that a former player... No. I think it's former players that are like volunteer assistant type stuff or like on a go. No.

If I wanted to go to practice, I can go to practice. Okay. I wouldn't. I don't know. I wouldn't know. I'm just saying if I will, I will take a, I will accept a wager on that. How much you want to lose? We'll talk about that.

Yeah. Because I think, because there are people who want to help the program that want to be close to the program for the very reason. for the very reasons that you speak of. And if that was happening, if the former players were given that pass and that freedom, means that the coaching staff was comfortable enough in what they're teaching and coaching to be seen and evaluated by those people.

I would then say, oh, that's a step in the right direction. accountability is the thing that accountability and urgency is the thing that has not been present in my mind and that's just my two cents in my opinion that accountability and urgency have been missing and it will fix some of the things you talk about

if we find out that former black shirts and huskers could go to practice on a regular basis even just to watch I would say you know what You know what VJ? You're right. Right. A change has happened.

And I would say the very same thing about Husker basketball. That if the former players were allowed to come and get eyes on the program and be a presence, I would say, okay, now they're in business. Like, now you're cooking in Christoph. I know, but I think the problem is the invite. Okay. You got guys like myself who want to go because I know what I can. I can contribute in my eye for talent and my eye for football and understanding it.

But it would be nice if football called and said, hey, we want you to come to practice. That's very to my point. Most programs that set those sort of boundaries where they don't want former players around are working from a space where accountability and knowledge aren't the focus. ego and this is my ball and I'm going to close quarters because I don't want people I don't want people's voices I don't want voices in the chamber there is a new sheriff in town and his name is tref albert well when when I hear that practice is open to former huskers I it ain't going to be open to me have people who understand what needs to be taking place in that space for positive

engagement, right, on the field and off. And I'm just as concerned that these young people have people who could, one, that they could bounce stuff off of. I mean, there are certain players in this team that have, they have a need to have a big brother or a person of strength to support what already exists for them. That's what I want for. And I think that's, so when that announcement happens, RICO and I will throw confetti in the I'm not going to say necessarily that we will throw confetti in the air.

I'm not going to say that they're going to announce it, but if I wanted to go to practice, I could go to practice. But let's just say that it's not a Varshan thing. What if it's somebody else who has the good heart and has the history? I don't think that we have to get passes and lanyards and all that stuff. No, you're going to have to. That's compliance. You have to do that.

You don't have a choice. No, no, no. See, this is that thing, and this is the line that people are going to talk about. The compliance issue is an issue at Nebraska. Compliance with who? The NCAA and the Big Ten Conference. So wait a minute. So you mean to tell me that those guys that I saw on the sideline at Michigan State,

they're in the same Big Ten conference, right? And the guys that I saw in Iowa. When did you see them there? Iowa. Not in the last four years you haven't. Not in the last four years you have not. I was on the sideline during the Iowa game. Brough, I'm telling you, I'm not to be talking about ball games.

I'm talking about practice, Alan Iverson. I'm talking about people being in the space, right? In the space. Man, they can go to practice. Because that's when they need you. Look, I get. We go into practice this year. That people show up on the sideline during games,

because that's to be seen and to be a part of the day. But the work is the other six days, bro. I agree. This program's problems aren't on Saturday. Saturday is just a pimble that shows up because of what they digest the other six days of the week. And if you don't put good things in that space, you're going to have the same results.

You're just going to have the same results. You can tell me all about it. I think it's simple that the bridge between the former Huskers and the current program will have the ability to help enhance and empower those young people. That's all I'm hoping for. Oh, absolutely. It will.

You know, that's one of the things that we talked about. There's a bunch of former Husker groups going on, and there's a former Husker alumni group that they just started being headed up by Georgia Chola. Okay. And I really and truly think that it's been more of an effort. I mean, one of the things that Treff said at that dinner to us former players was that he apologized to us. Now, he didn't have to do that. Correct.

He didn't have to say, you know what, former players, you guys have been the ones that have not really have been treated the worst. In this last umpteen years, we're going to make sure that we take care of you guys. And I know that he's going to do that. And I don't think that practice is. I'm throwing confetti in the air, baby. I don't, yeah, I don't think that practice.

I think we will be able to go to practice. Will you, Rico? What's that? We should demand that he calls us when that thing happened. So we can throw confetti in the air. for you. We'll pop a bottle. Hey, listen, I'm going to, I'm going to practice day one.

Matter of fact, if you're able to... If I wanted to go through the walk-through, we just had a walk-through last week. I don't know. Just because I'm going to prove you wrong and I'm going to practice. I need to picture you at practice. I'm going to practice. I don't want to get you in trouble. We talk about practice.

I don't want to get you in trouble. I'm not allowed to go to practice. We're talking about practice. But if you can, I think, I think number 34 can go to practice. A little selfie. especially now in this climate where, listen, what's the worst that can happen

by having old busty bust at practice? Nothing. No, no, no. That is a long list, but we will not go. Give me one. We will not go. What's the worst that can,

give me one, DP. What's the worst that can happen? We'll go to break. I'll give it to you that. All right. He's going to think about it. I know. Texas 464-685 on the Siderhammed text line.

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