1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Lance Harvell on the process of coaching: December 5, 11:25am

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

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For everything in your style, delivered with fast and free shipping, visit Wayfair.com or the Wayfair app to win the season. But again, it's not a competition. Way fair, every style, every home. Welcome back, one-on-one Oscar assistant coach Lance Harvall in the building in the hot seat, because it's about to heat up because we get into asking about coaching and the process. And, you know, I have to be willing to be open to hearing other people's takes on them. That if a coach, if a coach.

is soliciting other job offers mid-season while you're competing for the best season possible, maybe in the program's history, that the conflict of interest is so loud. How can I ask your thoughts on coaches being recruited while under contract in mid-season by a rival? There's several boxes to check. Yeah, that's that's a tough one because there's, it's I would say it's not ideal and there is a definite definite conflict of interest there and I you know probably that's that's why some of these agents and and business managers whatever make the money that they do out there is is handling that kind of stuff so that a coach I mean ideally right you can focus on the job at hand while they're maybe you know handling the other irons in the fire um but Yeah, you look at some of the stuff going on. I mean, this year in college football just specifically has been so crazy with not just the number of jobs,

but the number of big jobs that were open from about what week five or six on. I mean, it was it was nuts. And it's like, is this going to be more the norm or is this just kind of an outlier while everything? I mean, the world of college athletics is ever evolving and just look at what it was just five years ago and what it is now. it's it's totally it's totally different everything everything about it is is totally different and i know at least as long as i've been coaching and specifically i guess in baseball that part of how you know the stuff goes down is is yes you get maybe offers or you get you get interest while your season is still going on um but that it's it's just crazy now how it's

you start to look at stuff where you start to really wonder, like, well, when was the decision actually made at what point in the year and what, you know, how did you, how did you still do your job? Like, you can't serve two masters, right? And so it's a sticky situation for some of these. Who could circumvent all of this, right? That somebody could come in and say, listen, here's what we, we as athletic director, we as regents, we as coaches.

We are going to honor contracts, which for the greater good of both sides, if you say, Coach Hovel, you are under contract for two years. You sign the agreement, they offered it. They will honor it. If they fire you, that's a whole different deal, right? But it has to be a reason outside of the result, because then if it's result based and it's a whole different conversation. But if they've promised to pay you X number of dollars over the next.

next two years and you agree to it. That should be it. And the rule could be that, you know what, as a head coach, I'm not going to tamper with and try to pull you over to my program because I know you're under contract because you want your contract to be honored. Is that such a far-reaching concept in this space? I think right now, maybe so. I don't think traditionally, no. And I'm kind of in the in the mindset of you you sign a contract you're under contract okay there can be stipulations and certain um you know allowances or something like that maybe like if if this comes along or this comes along maybe i don't know how you line those things out yeah um but it's it's tough because there's there's a million different reasons and a million different things that could happen maybe

that that could be well this is a you know extenuating circumstance to this contract or something like that and like now the now the lines get blurred and now the gray area comes in and so there's a lot of like I said there's a lot of agents out there and a lot of a lot of attorneys that are really good at operating in that gray area but maybe that's the problem well maybe the attorneys or the agents have too much power and too much say so that I you know I heard that this morning um listening uh to Rick new heisel the show on on on on on on XM or whatever and they were talking about that talking about Jimmy sexton yeah and just being the power broker of college football because he represents all of these you know i mean franklin rule like there's a whole lot everybody everybody and and how he was i guess some report came out that he was sabotaging the the pin state hiring sorry happy valley head coach because they burned his guy right you know and it was like wow if a guy you know can do that all right now now maybe we're we're definitely operating in the gray and kind of outside of um what this whole thing is supposed to be about right and it's it's different i don't know if there's any right i

definitely don't have have all the answers but well could it be that if you if you're under contract you have to sit out a year if you're going to break the contract maybe if that's if that's part unless somebody you say unless somebody i mean you have the buyouts and something you know something like that you're paid for the year so technically that's been covered you can then get to work in your next deal but also a side effect of this is that players and their conflict of interest because players are being recruited from the programs that they're currently at by the coach at that program to go with them to other programs and that to me come on that's just we've gone too far yeah and i saw just specifically

with uh who's it north texas head coach is going to go to oklahoma state and their quarterback i think maybe came out again i don't know what's true that you see on on twitter x whatever you know i didn't look into it that far but just that the the quarterback had already i guess made plans to um transfer and i don't know i don't think he opted out maybe but of the rest of the season but but that's that you know we were talking about on the on the break you know however many years ago it was not that long ago when players started opting out of the bowl games because it was in their best interest you know for to not go play and get hurt because they had, you know, a professional career to think about.

And I, and I understand that, you know, it's just, it's just different. I don't know yet. I think my personal jury maybe is still out. There's, there's definitely aspects of this whole thing and where it's, where it is and where it's headed, I think where it's headed that I don't, I don't like. I'm not a fan of. But like it or not, it's just different. And like when, when NIL and everything really started.

to, you know, become a thing and become a reality, you know, you heard a lot of people outspoken against it. And, uh, and I, I didn't necessarily agree with it, you know, when it first came around, like now I think it's a, it's a good thing because I see the good that it does for some of these players. It's not, you know, it's not guys to just go, for baseball. Anyway, like baseball is still a different animal. Yep. Um, you know, then, then maybe some other sports. But, um, it's not, it's not, it's not fun. some you know elaborate lifestyle or something like that for these guys it's it's uh you know what it's doing for our guys that i've seen is you're you're still subsidizing part of their education

like there's there's still guys i mean there's not a single player on our on our team that's on a full ride you know and so you're paying for part of that stuff you're paying for these guys to be able to to live you know in a in a and a part just their living expenses you know whatever or or you're paying for some some of these guys to be able to go home you know just the travel cost and and what it is for gas or just vehicle maintenance so that they can go home and see their see their family you know the few times a year that we're that we're able to go do that um and so it's still a different animal for baseball so part of my opinion of the stuff is is probably still there's a there's an element of it that i don't have to deal with

because we're not we're just not it's not the same animal for us yeah um but it just kind of goes like to like it or not this is this is the game now it's like you can either stand on your on you know say you're against it and what and and refuse to change or you can get competitive in it and what it is now and that that's kind of where or it's like okay like it or not that's beside the point we have a job to do here and we've got to still find a way to get players and win games and all right how can we get competitive now with with what it looks like is that's that's just the name of the game now you mentioned that none of your players are on full explain to to the average fan to the lay fan and the husker booster who wants to understand how many players are on the

roster so we have 42 on the roster right now so to me with shared revenue in the millions millions of dollars that we're talking about that you could very easily, for equity sake, give all of the baseball players and all the softball players full scholarships. If you have enough money and enough revenue that you can pay certain players and certain programs $4 million, $5 million a year, you have enough to give the individual, all of your individual student athletes the same level of base level accommodation. why is that not happening explain that to me so i would understand well you got to have the you got

have the funds first of all to do it you got to have the the money to be able the athletic department has it well it's up to though so that the athletic department it's up to it's up to them to figure to determine who gets what still they can still still dish it out and um you know break up that money however they however they see fit um and so obviously like most places full football is going to get the lion's share of that. And then you kind of just go down the, I don't know, you know, pecking order, but that's essentially the pecking order. Yeah.

You know, basketball, you know, volleyball, you know, everything. So, you know, and so what we've been given, we try to just be good steward. Hey, what's up, y'all? Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. My favorite thing about the holidays decking out my whole house. It's not a competition, but if it was, well, I'd win the season with Wayfair. Outdoor inflatable Santa? Got it on Wayfair.

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Of the money. And instead of, you know, we're trying, instead of just giving it, you know, to a handful of people, like let's spread the wealth and let's help if we can help everybody. and that's kind of how how we've we've approached it and we've done it and we're still really big on rewarding guys that have been here and so a lot of people think a lot of that money maybe just goes straight to recruiting and bringing guys in you know new guys that whatever it's like well what about the the roster you have that's that's already here the guys that are coming back that have that have been here putting in putting in the work and that are you know dedicated that

that aren't going in the transfer portal because they want to be here. And so rewarding those guys, rewarding, you know, that loyalty, you know, it's still big for us. And so that's where a big part of that money and, you know, baseball players and athletes, no different than everybody else. I mean, it's the cost of living keeps going up and everybody's bills keep getting more expensive. And so we kind of look at it.

If we have a way to help that, then we're going to do that. And we were able to do that last year for everybody on our roster. But you start dividing up, you know, whatever money you get, 42 different ways. It, it goes, it can go pretty fast. And so that's, it's a, it's a constant balancing act and juggling act and having to stay ahead of that stuff. And, and staying, you know, just in tune and having your finger on the pulse of your, of your team and your roster and what everybody, like, because everybody's, everybody's different, you know, not, not only just, well, my rent is this and my rent is this, but everybody's got different family situations and things like that.

And, and so, you know, it's, it's, it's hard. It's, it's, it's a hard thing to, to have to balance and, and, uh, you got to stay, you got to stay on top of it. Well, you, you mentioned the fact that it is not for extravagant lifestyles. It is taking care of the things that, again, for, the typical student at the University of Nebraska versus the student athlete who has the same academic responsibilities plus the additional 20 plus hours or so that they have to dedicate to their sport the reason why they're there and then the battle between well what reason are you here which one is first are you an athlete student or student athlete and that's a whole other discussion to have but then it becomes that your players being

to compete in the Big Ten Conference, traveling at the levels that you're traveling, the amount that you're traveling, that the wear and tear of the bodies, the wear and tear of the play, that these revenue shares helps them simplify their life, right? Which I think we would all want for them. Yeah, and there's still, you know, some out-of-pocket expense and stuff for these guys, which is fine. I mean, nobody's, I mean, some of that is just exceptional. expected anyway. And I don't think anybody's losing sleep over, you know, somebody that gets to play college baseball at the University of Nebraska and

everything that we get, you know, that that's provided for us by the, by the athletic department, you know, if they're out of pocket, some money and it's like, all right, nobody's, nobody's going to go crying to mom over, over something like that. But, um, you know, kind of, kind of speaking on that, we were giving, uh, case Anderson a hard time yesterday because he was in the cage. And, uh, and he got there, he's got some like he took off his, his hoodie and he just had like a white t-shirt on and it was like it looked like a dog chewed the bottom of it or something like that we're like i mean you got the bacon neck going around i mean

we're like goodness gracious man come on you tell me you're from nevada missouri without telling me from nevada missouri man come on right right right if you should let me know yeah i mean these guys it's so we got shirts in the back bro we can help you out right there yeah it's like we didn't give you enough shirts here you got you're wearing the the 10-year-old you know haines three-pack from Walmart. You're wearing to Calgary leftovers. Is that what you're doing? We're going back in time.

Again, Coach, I appreciate you you breaking it down for us and sharing insight. I mean, yeah, there's some title nine issues, but I think there are also, there's simplicity. There is some simplicity. And we try to get through these conversations. One, so that Husker fans can hear it from people

in the process and how you manage it and how you go through it. And then it helps us have conversations so that when you're not here, Bach and I at least can be quasi-intelligent about why things are the way they are, why they are the way they are. But are you, are you ready for the exam? Maybe.

Okay. We'll work out of it. One more segment. We'll go to break. More Lance Harville.