1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Kent on Kobe's comments and getting to know players: February 9th, 10:25am

Episode Date: February 9, 2022

Thoughts on Kobes comments that "made waves" inside the basketball programAnonymous sources?Getting to know players outside of just being athletesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Sponsored by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticket FM.com. Welcome back to 101. Kit, welcome out from Lincoln Journal Stars here. The storytelling is important, again, from the text line. We appreciate you guys for adding two. I want to read a couple of these.

Kett has been a staple of Lincoln in the Journal for basically my entire life. He's unique, tackles interesting stories, and is always a good read. Thought-provoking articles. Love his style. Always have. That's from Sanderson to you on the text line. Oh, thank you. Kent, question for your thoughts on Kobe Webster saying things on 93-7 ticket that cause additional distress for the basketball program.

What say you? What say I? I don't think they cause any additional distress. That's what say I. That part. Because my guess is, and I don't know this for a fact. because I'm not in the room. But my guess is that everything that gets said on the radio here has long been said before

inside those closed doors. He's not saying anything that anybody else doesn't already know or isn't already dealing with. And when is the truth bad? Never. Right. Like he said in his conversation here was that, well, coach and I have already talked about this. Right. And there was zero malice to him saying it.

He was asked a question. and then he does a show that's literally called The Truth. That's the name of the show. And he said, listen, talk to coach. I think we could work on this a little bit more. There was no, malice. He was talking about a couple of players. And he said, no, he's a good kid.

He can play. He'll be a star when he does that. So I didn't understand it. I didn't understand the fire behind it at all. Well, okay, you know this. It isn't all kumbaya on any. team okay and it's what somebody says in the media has a lot less to do with any of that than we like to think right um you know this guy's being critical of this well if he's been critical of

this there's that's already popped up long before it came on to the sports page or onto the radio. Like, we don't get to make the news. We just report it. Correct. And Kobe, certainly, I mean, Kobe has a career in radio. That's what he wants to do because he figured out pretty quickly that if I say what I know, I talk about what I know, I mean what I say, and there's truth to it, that it has value. And the latter is the important thing. If it's, okay, this is just what I think, and this is from my observation, right? A lot, where you get in trouble

is when it's all sort of judgment with no... Speculation, no. Yeah, exactly. With no fact behind it. With no fact. Right? I heard, and this is one of those things, and you and I talked about it, Dick Inberg was the one

that pitched this and said, well, you know, there's simplicity in the truth. there's simplicity in it and when people make it complicated go to the source don't quote sources go to the source

the source is greater than sources right so Kobe's there and he can speak to how anybody feels about it is on them correct but Kobe's talking about a thing that he's in and that affects him on a daily base And that was what I was going to say.

Okay. I am not a big user. In fact, I would guess I have maybe 10 times ever used an anonymous source quote. Okay. I'm going to you. I'm asking you if you don't want to talk to me, don't talk to me, right? But I'm going to use your name. And I'm going to use if it's something like.

like this. Well, he's doing that himself. It's not like he's being mediated through somebody with a pen, but it's the exact same thing. That's how it's truth. And you're behind it. And, you know, the other thing along the line here is if you tell the truth and or speak your truth, so to speak, you don't have to remember what the lie was that you told the week before. And you don't have to validate it. And you don't have to validate it. There's no validation required to. And so I don't see that as disruptive in the slightest, honestly.

I mean, there have been, I'll give you an example of, I still don't know what went on. When Danny Ney was the coach here, there was essentially a mutiny of players who went to the athletic director and complained and then a week later everybody's back. Now, I to this day don't know exactly what that was about

and exactly what was with what got worked out. Here's some, this is what's funny. So before I got here, I had Nebraska ties, not knowing that I had Nebraska ties. Okay. I had Nebraska ties to the Danny Knee Basket

about program. So I ran a minor league team in Utah that featured Geron Boone and Tony Farmer. Oh, okay. These are the guys that I, like, we would go on the road and their rooms were always next to mine because they were a little bit more mature than some of the younger guys that were playing.

But there were a ton of stories. And then Eric Strickland. Sure. Right? To be able to tell. So take three people that were involved in that very thing. A weird thing happens. All three of them, independently tell the same story about the events that took place there.

And my thing was, nobody's asking them what happened. They would rather have some impression in their head that fits a narrative that they want to use. When those people are readily available and Eric Strickland's been on air off and on since the day I got here, and nobody ever asked him. Is that right? What happened. Interesting. Right?

Like I've had the individual conversations with them. I've had collective conversations with them. Geron Boone, who by every metric should be a member of the Nebraska basketball Hall of Fame. Every metric. He's top 10 in almost every category. Right? One of the last champions you had here.

and there's a little bit of hurt that he's not valued and tributed here. Like he wants to be loved. Every Husker wants to be loved. And it's the only thing that people can say is, well, he's part of the walkout. Well, no, that's not reason enough. We know that because Eric Strickland is also, Tyron Loo is also, Pike is in. Like, we understand logic versus truth. and people who seek out the truth becomes easy.

Yeah. So I think if you ever want like that, that's a story I would have told. Because you could talk to those three guys. Well, those four guys, add Tadalu to it. And they will tell you what happened. Oh, I'm sure they would. But when it was going on, it was mystery land.

Right? Like it's fascinating. Like the stuff that goes on now, so much of it is C-YA. It's all cover your butt. And my thing is, I understand from a business standpoint why you cover but the reality is if you want to get it right

if you fix it then you should tell the truth about if it's still going on you will hide it. That's a simple thing for me. Quick on Eric. He was always he's one of my very favorite Husker basketball players and he was like, I think he's the best defense. defensive player they've ever had, period.

Period. Nobody else. Got it. Right? And that was back in the day when they used to give away cars for hitting a half-time shot. I said a better, more entertaining version of that would be to give the guy to ball at the end line and have Strickland guard him. And if he could get to half court, he got the car.

Like that would be, oh, my God. We have to, oh, my God. I have to ask about that today. Because, you know, that guy could guard and he was athletic. And can I ask you a favor? Can I ask you to get on with Strick and Bach in the afternoon one day? Oh, sure. Because I think, like, those are conversations that should be had.

That's a thing that should be said to him because it would absolutely tickle him and make his day. It was, I mean, okay, here. we're heading in another direction. Here, back in the old days at the Devani, we were on the sideline for a while, and then they moved us up. But we were sitting right on the side. And so when you're sitting 10 feet away from them,

you really get to see. And there were guys that you could see from the visitors, from the opponent, didn't want to have anything to do with the basketball because Strickland was guarding them. that's the level of defense that that guy played. I would love to get back to the days where, again, where media is there, you can hear the conversations.

Yeah. Like the best way to understand that would be fantastic. The tricks on YouTube, he said Word, L-O-L. So Strickland's listening now. That's amazing. Well done, bro. Well done. Yeah, I just think that would be amazing to happen.

But I also think, again, I understand the money aspect of having big money vendors sitting in those seats. Oh, sure. But there's enough room at every Husker event to have the media, especially the beat reporters, the folks who talk about this stuff every day. There, look, no slight to podcasters and the like, let them go sit up.

But the guys who are going to provide the news for you immediately in full, why would you not want them there to hear what's being said in timeouts and to hear what's being said in the huddle and to hear what's being said on the floor because some of the best conversations I've ever heard was guys like Strickland going against Iverson in the conversation that's being had. And this isn't directly to the players,

but I got to know pretty much all the referees in the, I guess have been Big Eight probably then, including Ed Hightower. And Ed, he'd come over and talk to you during the game, before the game. before the game. He would steal my Snickers bars. Nice. Nice. And there's, well, I guess he's retired now, so it's fair enough.

Denny Friend was an official, and there was a horrible call in a game, like complete phantom call, right? And I'm laughing. I'm just laughing out loud. And then he runs by and goes. Yeah, right, right? Well, that was great. We're on the radio.

I'm doing it. No, well, they can see. Everybody can see this. That's why we video stream. We give that opportunity as well. All right, so we'll throw it to break and we'll come back. We'll close out 101 with Kent. I do want to do a thing while you're here.

We'll do that in the next break and we'll close out this hour before we hand it over to the captain. Sean Jackson will take us from 11 to 2 o'clock here on 93-7 the ticket. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. listening to one-on-one with DP on 93-7 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.