1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Kent doesn't like to tear people down in the paper: February 9th, 10:45am

Episode Date: February 9, 2022

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Back to one-on-one with D.P. Presented by Beatrice Bakeray on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Final segment before we hand it over to the captain, I want to take this opportunity to do a thing because it's what we do, and this is a great reason to do it, for all of your service, all of your stories, Kent, all the time that you put into this thing that you care about so much, and the way that you care about it, the way you handle folks in this community with kid gloves and delicate hands, it's appreciated. It's welcomed and it's necessary.

We have the ability, because of the sponsor for this, our Beatrice Bakery, just to simply put a smile on somebody's face to say thank you for what they do and who they are. I would like to take this opportunity, kind, sir. We are going to put together a care package for you. Oh, thank you. And your buddies at the Lincoln Journal Star, you can share it with them. some nice cakes, some nice little, little edibles, good stuff that we can put in a box for you, just to say thank you, because you're the storytellers, you're the gatekeepers for the great

history, the good things that have happened here, and the boundary. Like, you're a standard setter. This is, we remember when it was done right, and it's necessary. So, before you to leave today, we'll put together the package for you, take it and share with the folks at the Lincoln Journal Star, compliment. That's a Beatrice Bakery. I appreciate that. I hope so.

I hope that's what we can do, you know, a little bit. Is, you know, one of the, I'm now the old guy at the newspaper, right? I mean, basically Don Walton's been there since the 50s. And after Don Don is me. And I never thought I'd be in that spot. But once you get there. I guess you see some of this, and like you're talking about the community, right? This, my intent has never been, regardless of what I write about, to beat somebody up in the newspaper for no reason, right?

And I mean, I'll give you people, say, when I'm writing about music, some band sends me their CD or their, download or whatever and it's terrible i'm not going to go into paper and beat them up over well this is a terrible record to show i'm some big guy in the paper that can beat you up right but if you good or if it's somebody you know i'll try to help you know try to get people to hey here look at these guys and it's the same i think on a sports level except the difference in the sports level is particularly when you're dealing with the Huskers, people almost treat them like they're professionals. Right?

These are not professionals. You know, student athlete comes first, but they're 17, 18, 19 years old. Louder for the folks in the back. You know? I mean, imagine yourself at 17, 18, 19, having that kind of expectation put on you. that kind of pressure put on you,

and you're still trying to figure out who you are and what you're doing. And so why beat them up? You know, it doesn't make any sense to me. It's been the common thread and most of the discussions that are had in this space. And I'm a fan of people who care about the things around them authentically. You care about this community.

You care about the fan base. You care about the people who are playing the games. And then you care about the history of it. And you get to be the storyteller and the reminder and the standard. Like, listen, here's what we are at our best. This is not us currently at our best. I agree with that. And, okay, I'm so old that as a little, as a kid,

the first game that I came to as a, you know, in person and not on TV, 1968. So I've been going to games at that stadium since 1968, right? And back then, there was no expectation that they were going to be the greatest team on earth every year. You know, it was a building thing. and, you know, the two years immediately before 68, they got good, then 69, 70, 71, those the previous two years, they were a 500 football team.

People forget that, you know. You got to build it. You got to build it. When Bob came here now, I was, I don't, I was too young to know this, right? But when Bob came here, they were bad. They were just flat bad, and it took a while for him to get him built. And he had some advantages in doing it, no scholarship limits, et cetera.

But it took basically a decade for him to get them where they were competing for national championship. Well, people forget that, right? Or they never knew it, maybe, you know? That's a big part of it too. But that's why we have these stories. is why we have these conversations. This is why we tell these stories. Listen, there was a time and there is a way.

Do you think they ever get on the same page? Does these two programs ever get back to successful levels? That's a really good question. The interesting thing to me is that basketball here was at that successful level for a very short period of time during Danny's time. and then we could go on on this for weeks. Well, this is not our last conversation. So we'll get to everything.

But you hired the anti-Danny in Barry Collier who thought he could come in here and play with players that were the same that he would have recruited at Butler. I didn't work out real good. And once that went down, it's just been kind of up and down. and Tim got it going a little bit and then fell off. And now I have, I personally have no clue what is going on over there now. I'm with you. I told you that story. I have no idea for what this is, but I'll keep searching.

Kent, thank you. Oh, thank you. Thank you. This is joyful. We will do this again. We'll set up another time for next week because I want to have these conversations. Anytime. Good stuff, brother. Greatly appreciate it.

Don't go anywhere. The captain's show. Up next for Sean Jackson. His feature, Tony Veeland. At 1 o'clock.