1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Nebraska can and should be ahead of the game when it comes to NIL: May 3rd, 10:25am

Episode Date: May 5, 2022

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Kind words. My hope is that forward, thinking, logical folks, get active to make, again, Nebraska, the frontrunner on doing the right thing, not just in saying it, but actually being active in it. Like, don't tell me we've got the best NIL program if you aren't functionally working for it, for the greater good of the whole thing, not just some of it. Like, they've got pods of people who are putting, you know, money together to create events for student athletes.

Yeah, but what if you put all that together in a pool and you could just do good for everybody in the athletic program, not just that particular sect or city or town? You know, each pod coming up with half a million dollars, quick math, if you've got 10 pounds, we're told it's up to 20 pods, I'm sorry, that's $7 million and you should be able to do everything that you want to do within the athletic program together. but instead greed will keep it separate

so everybody gets their own thing rather than everybody taking care of things for the greater good. Like we don't talk about swimming and diving. They need a 10 meter board. It's a simple thing to do in order for them to compete at the highest level. There is a price for that,

but we also know that there are resources for that. Right? There are resources for that. Track. Look, we went through the whole process of them not having a home field. There is a way to make things happen. And look, you had enough money to build a new building

and shut everything else down from a resource and revenue standpoint when you could have taken that money and paid the people who were performing and competing and done things and built things at a moderate level. And you could have done that. That money for the stadium would have worked for 30 years of NIL with Nebraska being at the forefront at top level. Now, you could repress the button, re-ask and re-request,

and do the same thing and be proactive and get ahead of this NIL thing. People like, well, we need boundaries. The boundaries come from your character and your integrity. Like being resourceful in setting this up so that it works going forward. And you're on top of it and in front of it. Stop chasing money. Stop chasing dimes and collect. dollars. That's the old street adage. Stop hustling for dimes. Go to work for your dollars and put them to good use.

Then you don't have to hustle or grind anymore. Then you're just crushing. And you could take care of every program. Women's basketball. You could change the way teams travel. You could change the way teams eat. You could actually change the way people engage on social media. Work with the partners. Have those partners come through. If you get 15 partners into this NIL fund, then immediately they sponsor. serve the NIL deals. Then you use the athletes and say, hey, listen, you know, promote this item. Because for decades, centuries, you took advantage of the student athletes and you made money off

their backs and you didn't take care of them at the level that they knew they deserved. And now you're saying, well, yes, you did deserve it all those years. So now we'll make it right. Do what you want. No, no, no, no, no. Don't say, do what I want. What you should say is,

Here's what we're going to do. Here's what we collectively are going to do. And here's the benefit for everybody involved. It's not just to collect a few. It's not just the big money grips. It's not those folks. It's for everybody. Big man, little man in between.

Student athletes who are going to wear the end and going to do the work. And it's a pat on the back and a wonderful thing. Why? because for 100 plus years, you've made money off them and you know it. You're aware. And now they're aware. And again, we're talking about adults and millionaires versus teenagers and 20-year-old. Look, I don't know about you.

But most 20-year-olds don't have the financial acumen to make those decisions. They don't have the emotional makeup to make those decisions. they don't have the maturity to go into this things and make the deal. And that's on purpose because the people in power haven't told it. And unless your folks have money, you don't have the resource to fall back on. There's no way I would have been able to negotiate any type of deal at 20. At 20 or 22. Hell, I don't think I can negotiate a deal now.

Right. I guess that's a lot. That is a lot of money for somebody so young who was really just focused. on growing themselves, learning, being a student. They don't know who they are. And being an athlete, you know. You don't know who you are at 21. You don't know who you are at 23 or 25.

You don't. There are people who are currently in a sport who, as soon as they're done, are just going to be done with it. Like they made it their entire identity for however many years they were doing it. And when they're done with college and they're done with the sport, they realize, you know what? Maybe this isn't all I am. And to think that you, that you're right at 17, 18, about everything.

How many times does that happen ever? That an 18-year-old knew everything that was going on and what they were going to, how things were going to play out. We don't know that at 40 or 50 or 60. You're still evolving. Oh, you should be. So the business that we're talking about, let it develop. Gus on the text, started on a text sign, great points, DP.

If you had that much money, it would be. We've really wanted to set aside certain amounts of money for every Nebraska program, including money for academic scholarships for each department, develop a sliding pay scale for starters and reserves. This might keep the competition up. Also make the student stay three years. I'd pool money for coaching staffs to try and hire the best of the best. Here's the thing.

I wouldn't make them stay three, three years. I'd ask them to stay too. But here's the thing. If you're taking care of them, they'll stay. They'll stay. If you are respecting them and appreciating them, hearing them, give them value, they're going to stay. And if you're, this is kind of, if the competitions are actually open,

if there aren't favoritism to the point where no matter how good somebody is performing in practice or in games, that there really is no chance for them to move up. In the end, keep the coaches accountable for winning. Yeah. Then they will stay. If you're winning, then whatever competition you have, had was right. And if they decide to transfer, it doesn't matter.

Because now you can go and get the person who has evolved in two years that was not Nebraska ready when they were 17 years old, but they're ready now at 19 or 20. Yeah. And you give people the opportunity to

reassess and revalue themselves. That's competition. And the thing is with some of the people that end up transfer going, maybe they just weren't, maybe they weren't ready. for competition at this level. Maybe they just, they decided, you know what, I do want to be a little bit closer to home.

Maybe, you know, there's so many different, there's different extenuating circumstances that could have led to this person leaving this university that don't have anything to do with playing time. There's so many other instances where a person transferred away regardless of playing time. Well, change of system, change of coach, change of family situation and circumstance,

change of personal situation and circumstance. Those are all things that are in play. I want you to go back and listen to Talking 10s, talk about all of these things, how they made the decision, how they were to remake the decision, things to ponder, boxes to check.

It was there last night. Go on the website, it's there, you can check on it. I do have a text and I'll read it and then I'll give the answer when we'll come back. There's no name on it. It says,

In order to dodge NCAA rules, which I don't want to do, against inducement, the student athletes have to provide a quid pro quo for their revenue. They don't. They don't. Remember who we're talking about. We're talking about teenagers making decisions at the age of 17 and 18 under inducement. That's the very idea. So keep it moving.

Quid pro quo for the revenue, no, I don't want to do that because it presumes equivalent value. No, what it allows is a value system that is adjusted on a regular basis depending strictly on what it is that you're doing from day to day. Are you a student first? Priority there. Are you a scholar athlete? Priority first. Then as the athlete, what you're doing aside from what the student or the scholar is doing for the university, which is providing revenue for any sport that sells tickets

and sells it has a game program and a big screen where they run advertisers and a PA announcer where they announce it and call out their names. All of those things are the things there. That's what we're talking about. It's not merely for competing in the sport because they're ambassadors for the program. They are the forever step, the next step,

forward it up for the program and the university and also the community. We know the value. We know the value. We'll close out one-on-one, hand it over to the Captain Show next. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 the Ticket and the Ticketfm.com.