1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - January 6th: 10am - Huskers fans feelings on next football season

Episode Date: January 6, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery, on 937 The Ticket and The Ticket FM.com. Thank you for joining, everybody. Greatly appreciate it. 402, 464-5-6-85. Text line is open.

Hit me with a what's up, DP. Hit me with a what's up, RICO, and we'll get into the conversation. Lots to do. You can call in the Honolink of Hotline if you want. Today's a good day for it. You can call in and give your opinions. Dave, we apologize for not getting to you earlier. We were trying to catch Jay while he was hot, so we let him go through.

But yeah, the Honda Lincoln Hotline is open for you guys. The Sardahman text line is there. And the live video stream, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch. Let's get through some headlines and then we'll get into some meat and potatoes. The Antonio Brown thing where his attorney makes the statement yesterday that the Bucks tried to force him to play, that he took a pain injection and still didn't feel comfortable in playing. There have been some different angles to the story. Of course, there's one side, the other side, and then probably somewhere in the middle is what actually happened.

but my goodness gracious Antonio Brown put some put some popcorn on the table like he look nibble on this y'all that I knew I couldn't play I told my coach I couldn't play and the coach cutting me I didn't quit coach cut it so we can get into that a little bit

and then there is the story of Adrian Hutchinson committing and declaring for the draft and their folks who are speculating him as number one. The look on your face every time you say that is hilarious. Look, I get, so the NBA, the NFL is cyclical, and it's thought process for drafts, talent evaluations, those sort of things. And in this particular case, this is one where the recent history was

Bosa, Bosa, young, right? So, and those are, when those things, happened, those teams all had pretty good years the next year with those players defensively, which I get. I understand. Those pass rushers turned what they did in college and kept it going in the NFL to a certain extent. Right. Copycat League. Okay, copy success. We're going to go through and do this. I'm just not sure that based on the other talent that's available, that he's the guy I would take first. Well, there's that and the fact that those pass rushers that you listed off looked different than Aiden did in college.

Like they were, like Aiden was good. Aiden was really good. He was a very solid pass rush. He did some really good things. But those guys were dominant. Like Aiden had a dude on the other side. And those guys had, you know, some other guys on the other sides. But like Chase Young was just, it was one man wrecking crew.

Yeah, I just, I, I, I, I, I, I, yeah. Joey Bosa, one man wrecking crew. Well, they had each other. Like, there was a line like that. You talk about talent in a room. Well, what Chase Young had to wait his turn behind the bosses. Well, that part, right?

So you learn that people are going to play. So you got Bosa, but in that room, like, imagine you're a right tackle at Ohio State, and you're the number three tackle, and you've got to line up against Bosa and Chase Young. Number one has Bosa, number two has Bosa, number three has Young. Yeah, so that's just not fair.

Right, like, but that's how championships are won. Oh, yeah. And I'm just not sure. that that's what Hutchinson brings to the table. I mean, there are people that the project of him is number one. That's mind-blown. Because is he the best defender? Is he the best player?

Well, the best offender can't come out yet. Well, but again, we know where it is, right? We know what that is. So there's that story that kind of leads. I also found it interesting last night that Dirk Novitsky got his flowers last night in Dallas. I love it. love the statue that they put together, you know, fade away dirt, right? Step back.

It's, I mean, there's necessary. There could, there literally could not have been another statue of dirt unless it was him walking into the arena with the leftovers that his wife made for him with the tinfoil cover. Right. Like, it was pretty amazing. It's those, it's those two things. It's either fade away or him with his leftovers.

Yeah. I get the work, man. It's just pretty amazing to have it there. So, but I did want to spend some time talking about it and a couple of things in play. Men's basketball and their performance last night. Men's college football here with the Huskers and what's going on within the program, them trying to fill positions, whether it would be coaching positions, player positions.

I feel bad for the fan base. Like that's my frustration is that we get to hear from a fan base on a regular basis that is trying to determine, one, how they feel about the program, right? Like, are we in, are we out? You know, how are we going to deal with this? We want to be excited, but you won't let us because decisions can't be made, won't be made. There are folks who are trying to, you know, and these are tough times. So there are people trying to figure out, look, am I going to put my money into the program?

like am I going to renew tickets so from the text line let me know would you or will you renew your tickets for next year are you excited about next year for football so let's take that temperature are you excited are you patient are you indifferent are you frustrated in a word how do you feel about the football program so rica i ask you first what's the word that comes to mind when you think of where you stand with the football team right now um careful like i'm being careful with with how excited i get or how down i get with the football program because there were some massive changes some very important changes made um and it seems as if they are moving in a different direction hopefully a better direction than where

they were, but, you know, you still have some coaching vacancies to fill. You still have, you know, the, the main part of your offense to either fill or, you know, come out and say that the people that you currently have are the ones you're going to be rolling with and give us some type of confidence in why that, why that is a reason. So right now I'm being careful, but give me about three months and I'll probably be excited. Like my thing is I want to know what you're asking where people are and how they're feeling, but I want to know what change or what thing that this program can do will get you not, you know, back to the level of, you know, excited, but just back to the level of being interested

in this upcoming season again and not already being, already counting them out and saying, I guess they have to prove everything to be. Just being like slightly excited and just like, okay, I think maybe this could be a good year. Not saying, you know, they're going to win, you know, 10 games, but just, you know, this is going to be a good year. Well, I tend to stay away from how many games a team's going to win. Yeah. Because we know, quite frankly, we don't know. Like, even when we think we know, we don't know.

And there's so many variables in people. play. We don't know how this thing's going to line up. We don't know who's going to get through, you know, spring ball and fall ball and summer camps and everything. Like somebody, somebody, you know, hopefully it doesn't, but somebody could get hurt. Somebody important could get hurt and that would throw a wrench into everything. Like, we don't know if we have depth because we don't know what the front line is. We don't know what the expectation can be because we don't know what systems are in play, right? We don't even know who's leading some of the rooms.

And in the most important space, we can talk about it, whatever way we want to talk about it. But special teams is important. And yes, you have a coach now, or at least we think there's a coach. But then you have to tell me what the protocol and what the practice is. like does it become a focus for this team like are you going to practice it every day at the top level and top priority like that's that's a question and we don't have that answer so on from the text line uh tater says hopelessness I'm not saying don't have hope be hopeful you know no no I do I'm asking how he feels and this is how he feels

Scott says what's up What's up Scott? I don't have season tickets but would love them if anyone is giving them away. Well, there's that. And again, hit me with a what's up. Like say hi. Like I'd like for you guys say it. I did not renew my season tickets.

I'm starting to feel apathetic. I have lost all faith in our head coach. It's BJ in Wichita. Gabe says this. I was hoping this would be a year where we would win eight or nine games. We had a defense that was improving in a veteran officer. offense with a veteran quarterback and plenty of weapons. After seeing the product on the field and listening to Rishan and Sheldon and Octavis

and Jay, I realize we are fooling ourselves. It's going to be a while to rebuild this program even close to what it used to be. I will still root for them next year, but we will be lucky to go 500 again unless the offensive line improves, and we start getting an attitude and act like we want to smash people in the mount. Also from the text line, what's up guys, get a quarterback like Casey Thompson. get excited. Beaten Northwestern, I'll get real excited. Schedule should do the rest from there for the next six to seven weeks to build the

spark to the program if we can finish. Next year's schedule is it's cheap, but I'll take it. Yeah, and then Tators says this, I feel like we deserve better as fans. That part, that part. Like I, this, if this is the engine that moves the state, right? This is the thing, like all car, all of the train cars are attached to Nebraska football. And it affects the community. Yes. Right? How business is being done affects the community.

So then it, there has to be some temperature taking by the athletic program over what the fan base wants and needs. And if you love the fans, if you love the fans, one, you give them transparency and you give them access. but two, that you're active in a way that suits and meets the standard of what you say you feel about the program, about your fan base. Right? We were looking around and we're watching name image and likeness deals being sprung up and about all over the country where local businesses are throwing money behind football programs so that they can, one, acquire the players that they feel like they want. and then to take care of the players from the program from the bottom up. Is that happening here? I think so.

I mean, they have a $6 million NIL pool, so I would think that the community. I don't know what it means. I really don't. Like Texas has like a $10 million. I don't know if that's just businesses giving money to the university and saying give this to players when they make deals. I have no idea how the deals are done. Yeah. Who's going to facilitate these things?

What's the distribution pool? What percentage goes to who? Where, when, how, and why? Like, there's so many questions within the program that some of it can be disclosed pretty easily, right? Pretty easily. I would, I'm not trying to set the temperature. I'm only trying to know the temperature of the room, right? what fans want how they feel because that's that that's kind of what this is like to know what folks

are feeling uh Todd says what's up DP what's up Todd my word for Husker football is frustrated I'm teetering on indifferent but here's what sucks I'm 44 out I was at the university in the glory days in the mid-90s I was at the 95 championship game in my mind Nebraska should be great my kids have never known Nebraska being good at football I'll put on a game and they're like why are you watching? They're just going to lose. And they're usually not wrong. Ouch.

Like that's why I wanted to have this in play. Like I wanted to hear what this is. And we talk about the players don't know what it's like to play, to practice in January, right? In late December, they don't know the sacrifice of, okay, I got to put my Christmas plans on hold sort of so that I can keep getting this work in. like and then having a meaningful game. And the fan base who likes to rally around it doesn't have an event to go to. Like bowl games are an event. Like an opportunity for the fan base to come together, to be proud.

Nothing moves money like unity. Right? So you miss the four weeks of bowl prep and booster prep. It's also the four weeks where the fan base gets to be positive about the program. You get to play in your travel trip, your, your, travel plans. You get to be like, oh, man,

we're going to go hang out out on a beach with a bunch of other Nebraska fans. You'll see the colors. You'll see the big red in. You'll see, right, they'll go big red chance.

You get to yell go big red on an airplane and everybody responds because they're all Husker fans. Or in a new town that you haven't been to. Yeah. And then, oh, people respond. And the new town loves it because there's so many Husker fans,

like all the small businesses are getting so much traction. Right. So that thing isn't implying. If that's the case with the fan base, if that's the case with the community, where the younger people in the community don't know it, respect it or love it. That's a problem.

So, you know, there's that. Back to the text line. Joe says once a fan, always a fan, not going to be able because of a 20-year slump. What goes up must come down. I wish there was more transparency and development of players for sure, but I still blue-red, so I'll keep my tickets. Yeah, so that, right, be a fan, be committed to it, be faithful to it.

But the accountability should still be there. Like, I'm a Washington fan. So, so we went through a run where we were, we were pretty good, right? You were up here. We were up here. And now it's, it's a dumpster fire. Even after winning the division title a year ago, right? Nebraska didn't have that.

No. I imagine, at least if Nebraska had won the West at seven and six or seven and five. That would have been cool. Right? Like, okay, they accept that. So that gave me a little oxygen. A small spark of a fire. Right.

And then say we're going to make changes in the program so to make sure that we don't repeat the nonsense that's happened. But then I see the frustration of Washington fans. Like, well, let's, what's the delay? Like, why is there a delay? And there's always a reason why there's a delay. You need to know that. You need to know what that reason is.

Yeah. And if I'm in the football program, it's got to be really hard to fan fires of enthusiasm right now. Like you can't, what is there, what thing, like Mickey Joseph gives you reason to be excited. Mickey Joseph was big. Like, like, that's a big thing. We can get excited because we can see what he does with receivers.

And we can see the receivers here that may exist and thrive in his, and what he's done in the past. Mark Whipple, reason to be excited. Very recent success. Right. Recent success. Lots of a very long list of also success and just places he's been. But are we allowed to spread our wings and fully flap because we don't know who his

angel is going to be? Like we don't know. Our wings are still taped out. Right. It's like, oh, you know, we see it, but we're not really allowed. The window's right there, but I wouldn't jump out of it just yet. Right, right. So that's kind of what that is.

So are we excited about the defense? There's reason to be excited because of the recent success that they had. But the people that everybody was excited about are gone. There's that part. But the defensive coaches, the defensive coaches do a really good job of, you know, presenting their players. in not a pot, just more in the light and telling you more about them and showing you, you know, them and what they can do. So on the defensive side of things, you have a little bit more faith in some of the guys that are replacing those guys. But how many returning starters are there on defense?

One in the defensive backfield. All but one of the linebackers. Okay. And the four. The defensive line is complicated. I don't know how they start the defensive line. They're not started. Because you like, okay, if you say starters, it was Stilly and and D. Boogie.

They're gone. But also, Ty Robinson played a lot. Well, let's, Casey Rogers played a lot. We'll just go starters. So, okay, none. So all of your linebackers, but one. So four starters, right? Four starters.

Yes. Yes. So are we excited about the defense? I am. Okay. Other people cannot be, but I am based on what I've seen from the guys that backed up those starters. Okay. All right.

But I understand why you wouldn't be. Like, I totally, I totally get that. Saying four, you only have four stars returning does sound very daunting. It's the big ten. It's very terrifying. It's the big ten. Well, I mean, you could look at the offense as well. I mean, first off, you don't have a quarterback, but how many starters do you have on the offense?

Hey, hey, hey, whatever. whatever we don't need a quarterback okay so on the off the quarterback on the offense we're just going to turn around and hand it to oh who are we going to turn around and hand it well your starter who's your starter who's your starter who's your starter gay bourvin who's your starter gay bourbon who's your starter who's your starter now romear johnson no i got you remire johnson there we go problem solved no we got we got we're starting a receiver uh oh my are Xavier Oliver question mark. Travis Vocalek.

Volkillac and Fadoni coming off of a tournese. You really just go give it to him. You just coming off of a tourneseo. I mean, look, hey, hey, look, look. Who else is there? But this fan, you get my point that the fan base would, to me, like, even as having as little skin in the game as I do. How you, Chancellor Brewington?

Look, hey, we can only run one play with him, though. But it works. Okay, for how long? You're funny. He's going to come and he's going to hit somebody. So you've got that going for him. Back to the text line.

What up, Dusty. I will watch the games when I can, but I will not arrange my schedule around them anymore until the team shows me they are. They care as much about Nebraska football as I did for my entire life. Valid. Like you said, as coaches, as fans, we cannot want this program to win more than they do.

And I don't think that that's the case, but it's not that obvious. Like it's not that. Like you, I believe they want to win, and I believe it's important to them. I'm just not sure it matches the fan base's fanaticism. So,

uh, Claytonia John, what's up, man? D.P. What do you want the new name? for the Washington football team to be. I'm okay with football team. I'm okay with football club.

It's grown on me. Yeah, I'm like, it's like, I'm okay with it. I didn't, I don't want it to be what it was. And I'm not sure I'm going to be bothered by whatever it is because I'm a Washington fan. Just like Nebraska football, I know the value of what a, good, a winning Washington football franchise does for that community.

I love how it unites them. I love how it makes things move. It is a great GPS for folks to get a reason to get together and to be positive together. But this is, man, this is the craziness. So whatever it's called, I'm going to be okay with. The colors aren't changing. We've been told that and shown that. That's good.

Ergonian goal. So that's what that is, right? That I'm rooting for the city. The team is just the vehicle. So that's just me. Tyler says, I love the Husker talk, but every single show now is so damn negative. It's annoying.

You blame the fans are being crazy and negative, but that is all the station has turned into. I don't know what that. I don't understand that text. I don't either. I'm when are I when are we blamed

the fans for being crazy I don't I don't I don't I don't quite get that one but the station and say that the station has

has turned into Huskers talking about the great memories and the great standards of so Tyler I'm not sure I get what you're saying and me and Nick aren't negative we're very excited about

everything. Actually, to a fault. Well, so, I mean, but yeah, like, I get, so people get mad at me when I say. It's really a problem, actually. We get made, we, we actually get told that we're being too positive. Right. Like, cool aid. Like, like.

Look, I mean, I get excited. I just told you I'm excited about the defense. They have four returning starters and I'm excited about a deep, about the defense. What do you want from you? Yeah, but every single show doesn't talk about it. As a matter of fact, that's why days I don't talk about it because you get 15, 16 hours a day. Now, mind you, we're not making the news.

We're reporting it. So if the teams are doing well, when the girls did well, look, the radio station was on fire. It was amazing. When women's volleyball went to the championship game, it was on fire. But if you have to talk about Nebraska football and basketball on the boy's side, exactly how warm and fuzzy should you be? It's kind of hard to be positive when you keep losing. Right?

So I don't know what side of this thing. you want us to be on, but that's okay. Yeah, Corey says I actually like the football team name. It's ironic. It's original, right? And you still got the fire uniform. Yep. I thought it was funny at first.

Yeah. And then I was like, you know what? It's funny, but it's good. This is so funny. So, again, so we'll go through. Go ahead. Sometimes it comes to this, that I get to certain listeners that get mad at me, me personally.

So whatever I do, they're going to have the issue with. And that's fine. I'm okay with that. But I have the microphone, so that's quite, I'm sorry. Well, no, to say to cover the basketball program and say that it's all skittles and rainbows, that doesn't happen here. So you can like the players, you can like the coaches, but you can also say that being six and nine isn't good enough.

being three and nine isn't good enough. Those are all statements of truth. I'm giving people voice and saying, hey, tell me how you feel about the programs. You're telling me how you feel about me. I asked you about the program. So you had an opportunity to tell me about the program

and you spent time talking about it. No, I am not. No, I am not. That's crazy. All right, we'll throw the break. We'll come back. More one-on-one when we return. 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.