1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Jersey ideas that Nebraska Athletics should use: February 15th, 10am

Episode Date: February 15, 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 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticket FM.com. Welcome to one-on-one. My apologies, we should have pulled the cousin Vinnie clip of Magic Grits. it's 20 minutes every

every redeemable southern person spends 20 minutes cooking their grits and in the movie dude said his grits cooked in five minutes

and Joe pesci took him to school just a fast cooker I guess were these magic grits do you buy these grits from the same person who sold jack the magic beat beans. That's like,

it's so good. Do the laws of physics not apply? Not exist in your kitchen. Your kitchen on your stove. Do you mean to tell me boiling water enters grits faster in your kitchen? So we will have to do that as well. We'll run that in a second. We'll give Rico some time to pull it and go through that.

I, okay. So here's the idea. And we're, I'm like, it's several. fold and it needs to happen. You get yourself from more trouble. Well, okay, so text line 402, 464, 5668, or call in and tell me, I'm going to give the background, and then you call in or text in and tell me whose jersey you want, which jersey you want.

Because a couple of things in the idea, right? A couple of things in the idea, right? So the idea, think Mitchell and Ness. Mitchell and Ness, right? Where you go back through Nebraska history and you release to the public

all of the old traditional Husker throwback jerseys in various numbers and names. Like we can go all the way back to Novak, right? You can go back to flip it, right? Like George deserves his jersey

60 right I'm not sure I'm not sure he may have wore I was about to say 20 but he had a turtleneck so but imagine Did they have numbers? I'm not sure right

I'm gonna look it up but that jersey how much would that jersey sell would that sweater sell for it right a bug eater's sweater right that would sell so

I don't think it's an I think it's just the end right So Nebraska would release its throwback commitment. Right? It's throwback collection. That's what we call it. The Husker throwback collection, the Go Big Red throwback collection. And you go back to the, you have the mesh, you have those midriff jerseys, you have all the bowl game jerseys, right?

Just call it throwback red. Right? All of all of the national championship jerseys. just as they were in the championship years. You could have Husker MVP jerseys. You could have the Heisman collection, right? You could have the black shirt collection and make them available. Right.

So think of the jerseys, the players that, think of all the ones that you would buy in football alone. Now you can get into baseball. So imagine the old baseball throwbacks. Right? Those should happen. All the basketball throwbacks. So then...

Volleyball throwbacks. Right? So then imagine this. That every year, it's a new tradition. It's a new tradition. That any player who played here, whatever your number is, so, you know, Crouch Frost, right? That if a player wants to wear number 15,

he's got to accept that from from Tommy Frazier Tommy Frazier legitimately like imagine them standing there right? Yeah. And saying there's responsibility that comes with wearing this number here at Nebraska. You got to look them in the eyes.

Like you got to look the legends in the eye. So that'd be and accept the number. So Xavier bets, right? Would have to look Tommy Frazier in the eye. Right. Who's wearing 20? have to look Johnny Rogers in the eye. You got to look him in the eye, right?

Like that if you're wearing 44 here, there's some dudes you got to talk to first. Like turn this into a banquet. Turn this into like a fundraiser where the beginning of season ceremony is such that if you're going to wear seven, man, you've got to talk to some people. And they actually would hand that jersey over to them.

Imagine the photo ops and the conversations that, the engagement that would happen from that. Sounds fun. Right? Like, okay. So imagine you're a defensive lineman and you want to wear 55 and be held accountable by 55. No pressure.

But it also ties into the legend and the history. does. Like, I'm giving away a billion dollar idea. I'm just giving it away. I'm just giving it away because it's good. But not really giving it away because we have it on air, so we have it on records. We have it on records. So you're going to have to credit him at some point.

All right. What, just give me like 75. I'm going to look up who where 75 because they'd have to look Will Shields. So Gus says, Gus says, 20, 50, 60, 70, 79 are retired. But imagine So they're retired, but

you can also I just look this up numbers are retired but you can still wear them all major national or no hold on but those are in the but see so you got five retired numbers

but their numbers will still be available to active husk so imagine that those numbers are retired those are in the throwback collection right and they are exactly as they were and the reason they were retired

right I guess there's three Permanently, yeah. There's three permanent. What are the three? 64, 60, and 20. 64. Bob Brown, Novak, and Rogers.

Right. So those stay in the very jersey of those people. You got to collect all the other jerseys to get those three. Right. Like that's a thing, right? And then imagine, yeah, like Mike says, like Turner Gill is 83. Oh, oh my goodness. That's sexy.

Like, that's a head explosion. And I guarantee you this. that on game day and Memorial, you will have a stadium full of those jerseys. And those jerseys would fly off the rack. And here's the other thing. Imagine the fundraising and sponsored capability. Some company,

somebody out there listening wants to sponsor this thing to make sure it happens. And then you put on this event where each year at a banquet before the season starts, right? You have all of the veteran players. players, right? I know Vashon would be in, right?

And anybody that's wearing Vichon's number. Look, man, this is a captain's number, bro. You can't just put this number on and not understand what it means. We never did Vichon. Depends on the year. Like, did he wear 34 and 43? So imagine Varshaun and Trev standing and Farley looking at over the shoulder of whoever's wearing 34 and 43.

34. I'm not going to say the names. I'm looking this up. 34, okay. 43. Right? I mean, think about it. 43's already got a

right. It's Michael Booker the third. Right. He's already got enough on his plate. Well, but like it's full, right? Where you go, here's another one. Now you start the Nebraska numbers club. Right?

Like club 43 and you imagine on the back of the shirt, so it's number 43 in the front of the back shirt, it's the names of all the players wore it. Who. Right? Right. And you do, you get, you do, you can put together autograph signings and meet and greets for that thing. Right. All the people who were number seven, just do number seven and, and tell me how many people you can put together at an event and a way to move this thing. And look, you can fundraise with this thing, right? You can fundraise with it. You can, you can build events around it.

But just imagine the ceremony of somebody accepting that number 93 from Domitam Sioux and the responsibility that's, that's required with that. That's a big dude to look in the eyes. Well, but, but you think of this. Like, there's only one person with 93. Right.

Which seems odd. Which seems odd, right? It's very different. Right? The place kicker. Right? Like, it seems odd.

Think, think about the engagement of, like, if you want to change the culture of the program, make them accountable. Mm-hmm. That's the part that's missing. Like, I would think this, that if I'm the equipment manager, if I'm Scott Frost, when you ask, like, first of all, nobody has a jersey number.

No. Nobody has a jersey number. And then the day that uniform numbers are assigned, you have to stand up and tell everybody who wore that number. Ooh. Right? That's interesting. Right. That means you got to do your homework.

You got to know the history of not only the number you're wearing, but because within that research that you're going to be doing, you're going to learn the history of Nebraska football. Like, it has to be done. Imagine every year for the kickoff, right, that you have today's players in every uniform ever worn at Nebraska. Back to the sweaters, right? Like, how.

How badass would that be? Is to have all of the stuff there, right? And to have the sweaters, right? Have the players show up for throwback, you know, throwback against Iowa, and they're all wearing the sweaters into the stadium. Just the end. Like, into the stadium, right?

Mm-hmm. How, like, the universe would explode. You're playing Oklahoma this year here. Yes. everybody wears a Johnny Rogers jersey into the stadium. You have to have a Johnny Rogers jersey to answer. No, like the players.

Oh. The players have a turlamek and a Johnny Rogers jersey. What better way to get them to acknowledge the past? Or everybody walks in, even because if you can't play the game in those jerseys, everybody walks in with whatever their jersey number this year but in the mesh midriff cutoff jersey you walk into the stadium like we taking it back that'd be pretty funny right funny fun right that'd be awesome taking it back oh I'm on fire right now people I'm on fire this is I'm just

saying sound pretty good right like I think through all of this and Husker fans says deep you can we get together and write a football jersey history Yeah, I'd love to do that. Getting Sue to acknowledge Nebraska. Look, that would be the way to do it. Include him. Be inclusive. Do people miss the fact that people...

He was at Nebraska two, three years? No, but look, if you were having a Sue Jersey day, do you think he would not acknowledge and feel humbled by it? I'd be moved by it. That's gonna say, I'd pay up to $500 per jersey for a signature day like that. So imagine, again, there is a day for boosters. where it's the jersey handover day and you're in the room. Everybody has the jerseys to hand over,

but then the people who have written the big checks that day, you get signatures on those jerseys. My goodness gracious, think of the month. Think of the volume of money sitting on the table. And again, I'm giving it away for free. That's so. Right? Like I'm giving it.

Gus says Nebraska should have games designated for a specific play, Johnny Rogers Day. Every one. Exactly. Hoping day for basketball. Exactly. The Strickland Day, Strickland Jersey Day. What university doesn't give away the jersey, doesn't have a jersey giveaway for the players in their Hall of Fame?

Well, they don't even need to do, like, if jerseys are too expensive for the university, whatever. They're not. I don't know. When is the last time, and I truly am asking, like I'm asking a text line, I'm asking people listening right now, when is the last time, if they ever have, Nebraska did a thing like where other teams do, where they laid shirts out in the stands of, will just say basketball for everyone to wear.

So everybody has the same shirt or it's just a shirt giveaway thing. Like when is the last time if it's ever happened that has happened? You do have a sellout. I guarantee you that. You'd have a sellout. Whatever day you put 15,000 jerseys on seats, you'd have a sellout. Because like sometimes, not always, those like stripeouts that teams do, people don't, you know, they tell people like, hey, if you're in this section, you wear this, if you're in this section

where that. there are other times where they give people in those sections the shirts to wear so the stripes it gets striped out black out they give them black shirts to wear you know wide up they give them white shirts to wear quick math it costs them a half a million dollars to do it what 30 dollars a shirt jersey right yeah right 30 dollars but you'd have a sellout you'd sell an additional 10,000 seats at whatever that number is mm-hmm it's fit well so basketball 15,000 seat arena right and think the boosters like all the people who pay for the these seats, even if they don't use them, those seats could use that debt. 15,000, let's just say, you know, tickets were like 15 bucks. We'll just go at that. I don't know. We'll go with that. You know, maybe you lose a little bit of money there, but guess what?

You know, the concessions and everything and when people go to the gift shop after the game to get stuff, like you're going to make up that money. Right. Like it, so let's think of this, right? And as BJ said, start a basketball season, it would have sold out, but not now. No, even now, if you said we were going to, on each seat, there would be a basketball hall of famer, either a Lou or a happen or a strict, whatever, right? That no matter who came to the game that day, you were going to get a Hall of Famers jersey. Now, mind you, what we know is that people move for that stuff.

And the tickets, as people have complained about, because, you know, when you read the official attendance, it says 15,301 for a 15,000 seat arena. the tickets are sold. Like people already have their seats bought. Yeah, you're just, you just need to get butts in the seats. You just need to show up. Well, and then my old adage, especially in minor league sports, was I can't sell basketballs and coax to empty seats. So my mission was to get butts in the seats.

I was going to make that money back in concessions. I knew that the average person was going to spend $12 in concessions. So the difference of me having a 2,000 seat crowd, versus a 6,000 seat crowd wasn't in the tickets, it was in the concession. And once I get you in the seat, you become familiar with the seat and you come back. So I understood the marketing side of it.

I knew that. Look, if you did that for baseball, right? Middle little week game where you want to draw some folks. Give me a list, Texan, give me a list of all the baseball players that you would want jerseys for. but think of having in the in the jersey store every all-American all every all-conference player their jersey is available in the in the store and imagine doing a jersey turnover there i just want

to buy play i just want to buy players jerseys right like i think it's cool i like players jerseys i don't like this is going to sound blasphemous and i know it is the the yankees they don't have the names on the backs of the jerseys, whatever, respect, history, whatever. I have one with a player's name on the back because I realized, you know, this is probably the last year that he's here and somebody else is going to wear the number and it was like, oh, it's this person. We're like, no, I got it for this person. I don't care.

I have it. I like players names on the back because it's that player that I want to, like, that's the player that I like. So, you know, it's blasphemous to Yankee fans, but I don't care. Well, but I mean, if it's, if it's, so imagine, Alice Gordon jerseys, in every version of Husker baseball jerseys that have ever existed. Now, remember, they're sometimes, they're going to play five or six games a week.

So if you had throwback week in baseball, and it's two home series over the course of five days, right? Imagine putting in throwback jerseys for each game. And then selling those jerseys, jerseys in the in the in the in the in the store can you imagine having a uh a darren erstad one of the black jerseys that they wore last year or uh or uh Alex Gordon uh the people didn't like them I liked them the like the U and the U like the U S the U S like the big U the big N that was on the chest like people hated those I liked them I thought they were cool they

were different well you could you could do I mean think any of the old jerseys that were worn up and playing them. I mean, we're talking about, you know, 45 jersey, 50 jerseys for the players to wear. Pretty nice. And then you put, you said, here's the throwback day, we're going to sell a thousand of these.

That's all we're making. Just a thousand. Just a thousand, right? How quickly do they go? They don't even make this to the store. We know that the money people. Yeah, we know the people with money. Oh, yeah. And I, I'm going to, I'm going to push back on

BJ in Wichita, I don't think fans 1835 care about live sporting events like our generation does DP. I'm 28. I love live sporting events. I just don't go to many because I don't make it out much. But I would love to go to all the live sporting events. Okay. So this is the text line. So this is Abe.

Abe says, stop the BS enough. You are not the first one that thought of this. Tell me, show me where somebody said there should be a jersey handover day in the Husker football program. Show me where. I'll wait. I'll wait, Abe. I will wait. I have heard of people saying,

oh, we should sell old jerseys. Yeah, I've heard that all the time. Just do a throwback collection. I actually went past the idea and gave you a concept. Abe, punch yourself. Stop it. Stop it. I'm not in the mood.

I'm in a good place today. We're having fun, Abe. Are we not allowed to have fun, Abe? Is that the problem? We're enduring ourselves too much? Stop it. Same for you, Gary on Facebook. Stop it.

Stop it. What did Gary say? Yeah, the same thing. What? Do you really think you're the first one that thought of this? Stop this has been thought of before you are not a genius. Why wasn't it? Stop the BS.

Who said? Did I say I was a genius? No. I am a genius. So I don't have to say that. I don't have to say it. People just know. Oh, you know what?

Yeah, it's probably the same. That's what I was thinking. Same do. It's okay, Gary. We appreciate you. Thanks for listening. Hey, we're having fun. The nerve of us having fun.

getting Husker fans talking about something in a positive way. And there you are peeing and eliminate. Look, I'm just saying. Just peeing and eliminate. You do the collection and then you somehow prove to the university that you have the collection. Boom, you get a Johnny Rogers. All I know is that the Husker players on my phone love the idea. The former Huskers love the idea.

The current Huskers love the idea. So whoever had the idea first, there. That's the idea. I don't need to claim first. I'll claim it. I don't need to claim it. Do what you do. Can I have it? Do what you do. Can I have this idea? Can my name just be connected to this?

Yeah. It's called the Rico Colleges. What's up, Dusty? Yeah, the Rico collection. My name has to be associated with this in some way. Dusts is I love the idea of the Jersey handover day. Do you think these kids even know half the guys that play before them? Yeah, that's my point, is that I think it would be pretty cool to have a passover, like a handover, a legacy passer, a handing over. And yeah, it could be like you said, it could be like a banquet type thing.

Like before the season. Yeah. Yeah. Garbage Man says, change that dude's name to fuddy duddy. That's thick tag. You know what? Game,

we have the power. Gabe says, what's up? What's up? What's up, what's up, Gabe? Tell those trolls to quit squashing your good time.

You just took an idea that other people have had and expanded on it and made it better. I'm sorry. Sorry, you're having a bad day. That changed. It's just, man, it's talk radio.

Like, relax. Would you like us to talk about the Super Bowl some more? Yeah. You know, because there's an original, there's an original conversation. That's going to happen. We'll throw out the break. You know what we're going to do next?

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