1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Lack of Support for Womens Sports: April 5th, 10am

Episode Date: April 5, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Koppel Chevrolet GMC Studios, here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. It is Tuesday, and I have to kind of check my brain, which means around here on Tuesdays we make smiles. We do, we do, we do, we do. So what we're going to do is send you over to the ticketfm.com. Find the Beatrice Bakery banner. Click on it. And we will take nominations for care packages.

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But if it's somebody that you're thinking of, somebody that, who went out of the way for you or they went out of the way for others, somebody who cares a little bit more, somebody who is present a little bit more, Do that. Do that.

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I smiled so much this weekend, and I have to say. So the show will evolve. And what I want to do going forward is that one-on-one specifically will be Husker. student athletes and coaches or people who talk about sports in a way that we want to talk. But what I want to do is that when we have players on, I want to be able to hand them something

for doing it. And the usual suspects, right, canopy market, we appreciate you. Thank you for doing that. We're going to do that going forward. I'm going to put that directly into this segment. Okay. Moose is Mad Fresh. We're going to put that directly into it with Chachos.

We'll get a gift card from Nick and we'll put it in this segment so that when athletes give up their time to come in and share themselves, we can hand them something. Also, we will take sponsors. We'll take, if you just want to make a donation for the players who come in, any donation that's put in, we'll just give it to the players. We'll give it to the athletes. Somebody suggested a Patreon for that, and I thought that was a good idea.

I'm not sure that's the way I want to go. But I think a direct involvement where for the people who donate, when they donate, we read them, like when we introduce the student athlete, we present and say, okay, these are the people you need that we want to say thank you for making this happen. And whatever's accumulated over the course of the week, we share it. And you could say, you know what, I want to control. tribute 10 bucks a week, 10 bucks a month, or whatever way you want to do it.

Whatever you want to do it, we'll figure out a way to do it. So we'll talk about that as well. Lots on the play. Lots on the plate today. Again, championship Tuesday, watching the game last night. And I was impressed by the broadcasting. I was impressed by the foreshadowing. I was impressed by Charles Barkley and crew and how they got through.

Sometimes we go back and look at the season from that perspective, right? If we said at the beginning of season, this is how this plays out, are we satisfied with it? Right? If you told me at the beginning of this season without the, without, you know, this, what we saw, during the season that Kansas and North Carolina would be playing for the national championship. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would take that. That Final Four, right?

If we had said... Duke, Kansas, North Carolina, Villanova. Right? People would be like... Four Blue Bloods. You know, you can feel how you feel about it. But this is how this plays out. If you said a first-year coach

goes to the Final Four, goes to the championship game, we'd be pretty excited. Right? I mean that if I didn't tell you what school and I just said a first year coach is making a first year coach makes the championship game who do you think that that's kind of the lane that would have been in like that's kind of laying out you give any other first year coaches right um that that she Sheffsky in his last year is in the final four and you watched it and tracked it that way um now we we would have if you said you know 11 wins for Nebraska basketball. No.

Right? But 11 is better than seven. Right? So we'll accept that and move along. If we said the women win 20 plus games and make the tournament. Right.

We'd be thrilled about it. Yeah. So as you watch baseball and softball, right, those are opportunities. The women could do some exceptional work. They have been done, doing exceptional work. Winners of 10 straight?

What is your faith level in the softball team? That they can keep up. That they can win the Big 10 conference. Extremely high. Scale of 1 to 10. I have no reason to doubt. Scale of 1 to 10. So you think this team wins the Big 10 conference.

Yeah. There's no, they do everything, even in a game, like the one that I went to watch, where their offense was kind of. of stagnant. They did just enough to win. They played stifling defense. They had, they got great pitching. And they just did the little things here and there when they're up to bat. They weren't trying to go yard every time. They were, even though that's what they can do and have been doing, they very explosive offense. They were, you know, laying down critical hits. They were running the base paths really well. They were, you know, just

just very smart and methodical with everything they were doing. They were drawing walks at a high rate. To win a 12-9 game and to win the 2-1 game speaks volumes, right? So to have that happen, I want to give the proper perspective and advantage for it, that they are in a position to do to have an exceptional season. And that's about a good season or great season. We're talking about an exceptional season. So I want to get out in front of it.

and send focus and attention to it because we don't give enough attention to it. No. Like this is a roster from 1 to 9 plus 12 to 10 to 12 is as good as any of the Big 10. They have the opportunity. Of course, you've got the leadership, you've got the coaching. What can almost ensure that it happens is the fan base. It's the support. I don't want to see another women's softball game where the crowd,

whether with stands aren't full. There's zero reason to have that facility and this team and that much access and not sell out. Like there's zero reason. Great environment, great team, great venue. I don't know what it's going to take. Is it just a change of weather?

Maybe. It might just be when it starts getting nicer. Because there were a ton of people that Saturday when I went. there's also bark at the park so there's a lot of dogs but yeah but you you also you had tons of room like i saw your pictures there's nobody around yeah i had decent amount of room right so but there was a lot of people standing because if if it wasn't the bark at the park and the people were sitting instead of you know standing with their dogs there was i mean less room I'll say this having, like I said, I spent the weekend in D.C.

I went to GW and went to a couple of different events. And the support is just different. The support is better here. But it's not at the level of somebody who's in a position to win the Big Ten championship. 20 something in nine. 25 and nine? Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

With three of their last four games being explosive offense run rule games. I mean, they get after it. They play smart baseball. They play intelligent baseball. They play attached, communicated, well communicated, connected softball. But I just think for the numbers, I just want to make sure that the numbers, the fans should be showing up in large numbers. That's where I was with that.

Also this week. Next week we're going to get that thing I was telling you about where both teams are at home. I think baseball is playing BYU. the women are playing, I think it's a conference opponent, but they're both at home and they'll be playing around the same, not at the same time, but I think there'll be options during that weekend where you can go from softball to baseball

or from baseball to softball. That happened last year, right about this time. I actually remembered that baseball played first and then the softball was later, so I left the baseball game and went straight over to softball. And a lot of people did that. I don't. Is there a difference?

Is there a fence between the fans who watch softball and baseball? Wouldn't they be the same fans? You would think so. I don't know. Right? Like, I mean, wouldn't, if you had, so here's the picture. You have 4,000 for baseball. Shouldn't you then have 4,000 for softball if the game's right following?

I mean, you would think, I mean, there's, there are, some instances where not all 4,000 would go over to softball. Maybe they have something else that they're doing that day and they have this block of time. But you would think there are people who didn't go to the baseball game who would then come to the softball game so it should still even out. Could it be done through

incentives? I mean, yeah. Like you buy a ticket to one, you get a ticket to the other? Like you can use the same ticket? Yeah. You'd be very simple. Like if you want, if you haven't seen this women's softball team, that if you you're at a baseball game and they enticed you to see them,

the very same reasons you go to the baseball game would be the same reasons you go to a softball game, right? You would think, I mean, yeah, but there's also the people who take their kids to the baseball and the softball games and being out for that extended period of time is a little rough on the kids and the adults. What do we know what the attendance record is for softball?

I can try to find it. Yeah, what the capacity for Bowling is. Just find that first. That will tell us. A little bit more. One second. I'm looking at this schedule right now. So April 12th is the first time they're both playing at home,

but they're playing softball has a double header that day. Okay, so here's from the text line. And there's no name to it. But here's the text. And text line, you guys. can tell me whether this is right, wrong, whether you agree or disagree. Wow. But he says, this is what the text says.

I hate to tell you guys this, but most men won't go watch women's sports, no matter how well they play. Is that true? Is that a statement of truth? I don't think so. Or is this person wrong? Are they right or are they wrong? That person's definitely wrong.

There are plenty of men at women's games. There are plenty of women at men's games. Like, it's, I don't know. I don't understand that. I do know some people who are like, I'm not going to go watch. I don't know. Well,

I don't know anybody like that, but I've heard people say, I'm not going to go to a woman's game because it's just less quality than the men's or whatever. Who says that? There are people who say, I'm not going to watch women's basketball, because it's just a worst version of men's basketball.

There are people that say that. Yeah, it's on the internet. There's people that say that. Really? Mm-hmm. Okay, so folks, and to the person, the text of that. Tell me if that, if you believe that or you're just saying that, do you, is,

is that how you operate that you would never go watch women play? I mean, this is, this is Husker Nation. This isn't just men's husband. Dude, I love watching softball. It's crazy. Well, women's basketball. I mean, volleyball. Like what, I mean, I'm trying to, like, this thing that was just said is so my, it's kind of mind blowing to me. There are people who, there are people who feel that way, who will not watch women's sports because they just believe that it's not up to the same level as men's sports. So does that mean you don't watch high school

sports because it's not the same level of college male sports? I don't know. Which means you should probably not watch college sports because the professional sports level is better. You would think so? Like there's some weird unwinding of thought

here. That's mind-blowing to me. That is absolutely mind- Okay, so the text is I will, but I've had friends tell me over the years that won't go watch women's sports. Okay, you need better friends. Wow. Wow. There are people out there like that.

So there are people here who would not go and watch women's volleyball because it's women's volleyball. There are some people who will not watch women's basketball because it's women's basketball, yes. They won't watch volleyball, softball, women's basketball just because it is women playing. What? What? People, get your knuckles off the ground. My goodness, so Joe says, I do enjoy watching softball, but I catch a lot of hell for not watching volleyball. Sorry, I just don't like volleyball.

That's fine. Like, if you tell me, you just don't like sport, like the sport itself. But then there's a crossover because there are people who go to games and you're not in love with the sport, but you go to support the university, the state and the athlete. I mean, I understand if you don't love the sport, you're not going to go, like, you're not going to go.

Like, I get it. That's fine. Yeah, but I mean, why would you not, like, I've gone to. You can support it other ways, but it's just. Like, I go to, I, I've been to the Masters and I didn't, like, I'm not a super fan. But I went in support of the event and the people and that sort of thing. Like, I've gone to every sport here that I could go to, with the exception of soccer. done soccer.

But everything else I've been to because I'm a sports guy and I like sport. And then you get to see the community and you get to see people involved. And there are a lot of people like you who like sports and they'll go to any sport. But there's people who have sports that they like

and those are the sports that they go to and maybe they'll catch a different sport on TV but they don't to sit down and actually watch something that they themselves don't enjoy. They're not going to do that. And I get that. I'm not going to.

I don't know. I don't get that. Like, I'm not going to knock somebody for not going to watch something they don't enjoy. No, I, here's the thing. That's like if I went to a, like, if I didn't like musicals, I went to go watch a musical. Are you a husker fan? Yes, I am. Right. Do you support the community? Yes, I do.

Communities better when, when, when the Huskers are better, yeah. When everybody connects to the product. Yeah. Right? So no matter what thing was going on, it's better if you're there. Yeah. But look, you can support it and not go. Pause.

Pause. You can support it and not go. Pause. Because if everything is better here, you can't tell me you love Husker Nation and you bleed Scarlet and Cream and it means everything to you except when it's women. No, I'm not saying that. If you don't like the sport. You can say that, listen, if you support the University of Nebraska, then you also support the

rifle team. Yeah. You support writing. It's better. There are people who support the university and they don't like basketball, so they don't watch basketball. but they'll root for them. They want them to do well, but they don't watch it.

Mickey says this. Totally incorrect. Women's basketball was a better product to watch this year than the men's basketball team just went to a game this past week in great entertainment. Kudos to women's sports. This texture says it was a discussion about Husker volleyball. Yeah, if you can't figure out how to watch women's volleyball, man,

as Eric says, the volleyball team is unfreeking incredible. I am freaking incredible. I agree with that. Kmart Steve asked the question, have you been to a NASCAR race? It's a sport supposedly. Yes, I actually sit there in the pit watching. Like, I lived in Charlotte.

Of course I'm from Virginia. Of course I've gotten a NASCAR. I'm not a NASCAR fanatic the way people are, but I'm also closer to it than a lot of people who claim to be fanatics. Right? I mean, my wife was a part of it. So guess what? And then so were my friends.

The official team doctor for NASCAR is scathing there. It's a dear friend of mine. So I understand it. Sanderson says this. We go to women's basketball games every year, volleyball, soccer, etc. I can only speak for myself. I've heard people say until a women's basketball team beats them a men's team, they won't watch women play basketball.

Sanderson, stop talking to those people. stop engaging that sort of nonsense like tell them just grow up um not much thought went into the statement say hey neanderthal man yeah it's just like get your knuckles off the ground at some point at some point what i'm told okay so what i'm told about Nebraska fans period period like if you just that this is the best fan base in in in all of college sports and they don't just say in all of college football they say in all of college athletics right

the athletic department takes pride in that the administrators take pride in that right one of the things I love about Jane Green is that Jane Green shows up to events that nobody else is showing up to in mass numbers she's consistently constantly there

like you can count on that people make fun of the go big red guy who wears the the overalls. No, that dude shows up. And you can't tell me you love a thing absolutely and then say, well, but there are conditions to it. No, love is unconditional.

Like if you're a Nebraska's sports fan. Now, you can tell me that I'm just a Nebraska football fan and I'm going to look at you funny because that's when you get into that whole J-Sker thing, right, that folks talk about, right? But aside from that saying that, well, I love the University of Nebraska, but I do not love Nebraska baseball.

Then are you really loving Nebraska athletics? Are you really supporting Nebraska athletics? And again, for folks that are here who have access, none of those tickets are really expensive, I can tell you. No. They're not. So they make it so that it's easy for folks to get in and get out. They make it easy for folks to engage and be a part of it.

And for the sake of it, the product's good because you're, with people who love what you love. Like you're not overrun by Michigan fans. They will show up, but you're not overrun by them. Right? Ohio State will show up and they're red. You identify their rate because it's different from yours. Different shape.

And it's there. Right? Different deal. But if you're supporting Nebraska, the University of Nebraska, the state of Nebraska, the communities within Nebraska, we can use haymarket as an example, that if you support the haymarket and you want those places in the haymarket to do well,

then you support and you show up whether it's a big deal or not. The whole point about the state tournament is that, you know what, it's a chance for communities to rally around their own communities, their own selves, their own families, their own people. And to say that I will, you know what, I'm the number one Husker fan except when it's women playing. The first part is a lie.

It's a lie. I don't understand that at all. I don't understand it. Look, if you're a Husker fan, be a Husker fan. Get in the pool, get wet, take it all the way over your head. But this, this, this, this passive aggressiveness, this this tepid menace

I don't get and you have a good product and people ask all I want is a good product you have a good product you have a lot of good product you have like those programs are there and you just decide not to go

like my favorite still I'll say it to this day my favorite thing that I've experienced since I've been here was going to that bowling turn to the big red challenge because my thought was who's showing up

to represent Nebraska at a bowling tournament. Well, there are a ton of people, that's who. And it was impressive. It was impressive. I'll say I'm slightly disappointed if you tell me that you only support men's athletics. Drumstick says I bet Husker softball is top three in attendance in the Big Ten.

Whatever the attendance is, it could be better. and you know how we could be better because you just told me 2000 it can accommodate up to 2,500 fans feature back seats those are right behind the we're right next to the dugout and right behind home plate and then there's like two grassy areas

behind each dugout and then another grassy area farther down along the first base line there's a where I was sitting it's like a bleachered like metal bleachers that they put up

along the first base line would it kill them to do a berm like they do for baseball so they can't do it on one of the sides because that's where

the facility where they do all the indoor practices is and then on the other side where the scoreboard is that just goes straight out into the parking lot I maybe

you could build that up they also have a little they also have a little playground around play set area for the kids. So Eric says this thing. He says, when I wrestled at Nebraska, we went to all sorts of the women's sports, volleyball, swimming, diving, gymnastics.

We all support our own. That's it. Like, that's it. And so I want to know where are the other husk athletes when these events are going on? Like, what are you doing? Are you not supporting each other? I get, right? Like, I just.

I saw a couple athletes. I don't know what sport they did, but I saw a couple athletes there on Saturday. So here's the thing. So here's the text that says you're so rich. You go back to D.C. and talk about nobody being in the stands. Then you come back to Nebraska and complain, we're not good enough. Who said you?

I didn't say, who said, who said that? What I said was when I went to D.C., I allowed it Nebraska for actually showing up at games. The crowds don't look alike. Nebraska has better crowds. But also, not taking a shot on anybody, it could be better because it could be. It could be better. If you're going to listen, it's actually in the name.

Listener. Listen to what I say. You don't have to put words in my mouth. I'm pretty good at doing that myself. What I said was you could do more. There were not 2,500 people at the last three softball games I went through. No. Statement of fact.

How you feel about is none of my business. But the facts were. So we'll go to break. We'll come back. We'll stay here in this lane. You're on one more. Download our 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.