1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Kids Want Autographs...DP just Wants to Watch the Match: November 17th

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

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Down south rather than southern. There's a different. Bill and Beniss said he's a modern day, Brian Bosworth. Yeah. I just don't think he, I mean, I just don't think he should have to be. Think about that. He was wrong. So if he, if he consumes all of that, he's wrong.

Right? Because he should be there for wrestling. right and he should be able to focus on a wrestling athletes should be able to focus on their priority when they're there but we also know nothing moves the public needle like an athlete's reaction to a child coming up at an inappropriate time asking for an autograph for a picture because if he just says i can't do it right now because i don't know there's a 285 pound man over there preparing to stop my head in or hey quite frankly i'm concussed and my brain's really not clicking on all cylinders right or hey i just broke my wrist my signing wrist right if you're a

wrestler or there's a bunch of things kudos to especially Nebraska wrestlers they're spectacular about setting the process, setting the Browns, Remainting has done a great job of teaching them when to engage, when not to engage, et cetera. And then afterwards, then it becomes a matter of management because there's time management, there's emotional management. You've got to get on, you're on a bus schedule. Now, of course, now, ESPN was there yesterday. So, of course, they want interviews.

Then the pay-com people want interviews. The tournament sponsor, the tournament organizers want. interviews and you know manning's got a job to do he's got a job to do right so he's trying to manage that right and he's trying to manage his kids now mind you 10 or wrestling there's another four that are injured or going through some sort of protocol right and you're still managing that and then you've got to figure out okay how do you wrangle you know they said wrangling wrangling wrangling kittens um but i was sitting so saturday i was on the floor on the team like in the in the team chairs and then i recognized that sunday i'd probably have a better advantage if i sat

in the front row behind the team bench i had a better vantage and then literally it's as close like me in this chair that's the difference um But in that road, the number of times in the course of a 10 match meet, that kids crawled across to get autographs of people who were actually just recovering or just wrestled or otherwise, and what do you say to that? like yeah okay and i'm used to it so i'm like okay but then i become i become the the the dormant i become the bouncer right like do you think he'll sign an autograph i would wait until i could meet so that that's what i would do i can't suggest to that i said but because if you're going to approach somebody who if you're approaching somebody now i don't want to speak for him

but I can also say, he just got in a fight. That might not be the best time. Let him cool down, let him calm down. But where are the parents to tell them, hey, if you're going to go to this event, hey, how about teaching them the rules of engagement or some rules of engagement? Don't just let your kids run wild

and get themselves embarrassed or put themselves in tough situations. But that's just me. That's just me. right like it's you're at w w bach you're sitting in on the front row and the kids kids don't care they're going to run across bach to get access to john tina and you're okay with it for the first 30 kids whatever your number is right because at some point you just want to watch the match like you just want to be there and There's a line.

Sir, get your kids. Right? Like, Bach, it's, there is the line, right? So are they, are they, pretty much, are, are they signing autographs this whole time? Well, they're, they're doing as best as they can. It's what they want, because you want people to want your autograph. You want people to want pictures. You want, I mean, in this day of NIL and exposure matters and,

If somebody thinks enough of you to request the autograph, there was a woman from Oklahoma State, her son, she has a sick son, and a part of his Christmas package, you know, she was trying to, he was a wrestling fan, and she was trying to get signed shirts from all the, you know, as many teams as possible to put under his Christmas tree. And she, I'm just standing there and she, excuse me, if you have a second average.

question for you. And she asked me a question about, well, how would, you know, would giving them a shirt now be the right way to do it? I said, well, I'm just going to give you a suggestion. If you want it signed, what I would do is I would send it to the wrestling. I would mail it to them with a return envelope with a Sharpie and put the shirt in there and say, hey, can you please sign and ship back and write a letter with what you just told me and put it in there? And I said, it's some point I would imagine that you either operations or Mark Manning gets this and will facilitate or not but at least that's the way I would go about it she was like very thanks she's like well thank you that's that that makes all the sense in the world that makes sense to be courteous and

considerate be curious about what the process is but just to rant just to go nuts to go nuts and just I mean they're climbing across people they're stepping on chairs, they're stepping rolled, roll, and you just want to go, where are your parents? Who brought you here? Like, I, you know, is it my time to, to, to parent your kids? Am I babysitting that day? Like, I'm there, mind of my business. You know, and then I go, okay, I'll, I just want to announce to everybody. Do your thing.

I'd like to watch the matches, though. Like, if you want to, in baseball, I tell you, you know, don't go standing in the middle of an inning, wait until in between innings, right? They'll tell you, be considerate, be courteous. We need to do an entire show on stadium courtesy. Like, when to yell, when to, boo.

Right? Like how much is too much? How much alcohol is too much? You learn it pretty quick of the icebox. They'll let you know if you're walking around the place going on. Right. Right. I mean,

and they're not wrong and you're not wrong for enduring yourself, but when we share space, there has to be consideration. There has to be simple consideration for the other people there. Right? right no it is not a it is that eric it's not a hero it i tell you what it was pretty cool to watch how they handled it naturally organically how they were handled um husker fans can be proud of their their their their their their boy because they were um and again there's

great leadership in the room with trelly mento um i mean they were making friends in the in the burger place that we stopped at in the hotel and the team hotel. Yeah, there were a bunch of things. Kaviske says this, what's up, DPI? I imagine that the lady didn't know she was talking with someone who could inform Mr. Manning or said incoming package if she actually sends it.

Yeah, I mean, I think she kind of got the impression because I had a lanyard, so I think she kind of knew, I mean, I was with the team. So she kind of caught me to the side, and that was the point. Like, I have no problem with people asking me questions. I'm just there. Like, I'm just there.

It's when you don't ask and you just do stuff just to do. Just. It's a bit much. That's all. And I have the patience. I have way more patience than I should. Because I'm used to being around a lot of kids. Like the coach and me, I understand.

But I also, Bob, I'm the fun uncle, but I'm also the uncle that resets the young people. It's like, we're going to have a great time, but here's some stuff we ain't going to do. Like you can send, Bach, you can send your son over to Uncle DPs. He's going to have the time of his life. But guess what? You're going to get him back different because there's some things that you allow him to do

that I'm not going to allow him to do. And he's going to come back and go, Dad, did you know, I can't step on the, I can't put my feet on the couch. Yeah. Yeah, how about that? You find a home. That's your, that's your daddy's couch. And I'm that way with puppies, too. Oh, yeah.

You give me puppies, I will train your puppy for you in the weekend. You will get, you will get back a different puppy than the one you dropped off at Uncle D.P.'s out.