1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Nebraska Men's Tennis Coach Peter Kobelt- Coaches Voice + Athletic Department Pickup Ball: November 6th, 11:25am

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

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Welcome back. Peter Cobalt, then's tennis in the building. I will remind folks that when I tell you how the streams are working, that yeah, this is why we want you to download the ticket app. This is why we want you to follow us on Facebook and YouTube and X so that you get the programming. We do not control sunspots and the tower and that. and that's the ideal and old school radio. But I was purposeful in giving every listener 1438 ways to consume this product. So when it's convenient, download all those and follow all those so you have them so that you don't miss the content when Mother Nature decides,

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That's how we do it. Coach, so much of what you do is messaging and verbiage and sometimes the voice. You have your coach's voice. I got to hear that at a practice that his

radio voice is different than his hey, Bach. He has that voice too. Bach has his dad voice. I heard it on a Saturday. He has his radio voice and his radio laugh. But when his son takes two steps out of the wrong direction,

Bach has a different voice. Yeah, he has a different voice. Different voices are important than coach. For sure. And I had the opportunity to talk to some athletes last night for different sports, and one of them brought you up. As a matter of fact, two of them did. One in particular brought up and said,

you know, I was asking them about how they do they pay attention to the other programs. And in some cases they do. In some cases, they don't. They're in the fishbowl and they're just kind of making their way. But one of them said, you know what? I can play for that tennis guy. And the look on your face changed because, quite frankly, a reminder that people are paying attention. Sure.

Right? That people are paying attention. And that people of note know when somebody's, authentic and legitimate. And I think that's the biggest compliment a coach can get is that somebody else's kid will say, yeah, I could play for that guy. Yeah, I mean, it's cool. It's cool to hear.

I don't know, you know, he, I don't know what sport it was, but I'm, I'm pretty good at coaching tennis. So, uh, but, um, anything else you're, you might want to listen to your coach. But I mean, I think coaching, that's just on the surface of your sport, but I think coaching encompasses a lot of different things. you know you're there's a lot of internal stuff that that are very similar in from sport to sport you know how hard you work how do you show up every day a lot of it's just the controllables and i think you got as a coach you got to live it you know you don't always have to be out there doing it with them but

you you know the guys have to look at you and and like respect you know what you what you do and how you do it every day and i you know i think I read something or I heard something where they said, you know, like the two strongest emotions that you can feel, everyone thinks are love and or the strongest emotion you can feel is either love or fear, but it's really just being authentic. Like when you talk to someone and it's really, and you're just yourself right in front of them, I think there's like a connection that you make with people really quickly that you can't really describe. It's just like a frequency or a vibration between the two of you. and I do a lot of feeling out people that way. So I can tell when there's a real athlete standing in front of me, I can tell when there's a real coach standing in front of me.

It's just a different frequency when you listen to people talking, how they talk. So that's kind of how I sound things out as a coach. And when I talk, I think it's important that whoever I'm talking to, whether it's a student athlete of mine or an administrator or my boss, that they get that same feeling for me because, you know, I don't think you can, you know, people are too smart and really good coaches and really good administrators. They know, like, if you're real or not.

So I always say, if I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm not going to pretend like I know what I'm talking about because, you know, then you chip away at that trust and that legitimacy thing. So, yeah, I mean, like I said, I'll stick to coaching tennis for now. I used to play a little basketball, but I'm not going out there to coach basketball. But coaching in general is kind of the same deal in any sport. You don't have the desire to just walk over to men's basketball one day, grab a basketball and say, hey, Bear K, come get some.

In my mind, in my mind. But, you know, Coach Hoyberg's awesome. He plays little tennis and so does his wife. So, you know, he's one of the... Do you hit with him? I haven't hit with him yet. He has an open invitation. Coach Hoyberg, here's your weekly reminder.

Yeah. We're here for you. Yeah. For you and your wife to come by and hit some balls. They stopped by at the ATP tournament not too long ago, which was cool. But, yeah, I mean, I would go out there and shoot hoops with those guys. But, you know, I'm not going to go back down Burké and take it to him. Like he's probably going to, you know, the opposite.

The opposite is probably going to happen. He absolutely would. I'll go compete. I'll go compete, but I'm not in shape to kind of do that stuff anymore. No, I think, so if we had, if we had like a coaches, all the other coaches from every other sport and they had a three-point shooting contest, you'd win it, right? I can, I think I can still shoot. Right? Like you'd win it.

I don't know if I'd win it. I don't know. There's a lot of, we have, I haven't been in a few months, but there's, if it's, if it's, if it's, if it. It's either every Tuesday or Wednesday. There's the athletic department, gets together and play some pickup ball. Stop it. In one of the gyms. Stop it.

Yeah. So I went there a couple times. There's some ballers in the athletic. Bob! I'm telling you. Fuck! I'm telling you, there's some ballers. No, I think a great PR is that half time of one event, they have a coach's three-point shooting contest.

Yeah. For all of it, right? Down at Pinnacle Bank? Right. Oh, boy. That first one, if that's an air. Airball. That would be tough to recover from.

And we do the thing with the Lincoln Salt Dogs where we'll go down and take batting practice before game with team. Is that a thing that going forward, we can lock in Peter Colwell? I would be up for it. Just got to run it through the chain

of command, but I would be, I used to play a little baseball back in the day. I did a little travel ball back in middle school and I played. Yeah. But baseball and Tennessee is in overlapped in Ohio. So, oh, well, this is in, this is in the spring, late spring, summer. Yeah, summer's better. Yeah, summer.

Yeah, Bach, right? Because salt dogs are, they don't start until after Husker baseball ends. Okay. So, and then they end right before football starts. They end in like June, right? Baseball. Doesn't it end? July or.

World Series is in June, so. July or August. They run late. That's a long season. And then the crossover has begun because I know that so we're going to broadcast from women's bowling's practice next Friday. We're going to we're going to kind of do a tour. And so we're going to come down to one of your practices and we'll just set up and

broadcast around you what you're doing. I mean, we'll be up in the stands and you're doing your business. And we'll have the background feet filter rod so that you know, those those co-belt bombs don't make the radio. A lot of ducks that. We sit next to a pond To get that in But as a part of it I know that some of the football players

Are coming to practice To bowl To see how they do So I think that might be another thing Maybe some of your Maybe some of your guys Come down and bowl with the girl I was going to say

I don't know if they want to be coming over to play any tennis They got to stay We got to keep them healthy for the I But I don't know if that would be there late. I don't know. I think our guys would be up for some bowling. Yeah.

I think, yeah. I think they think they're pretty good at bowling, but, but. We'll get with Clempe. They're not, but I think they can't. Well, I'm smart enough to know not to challenge them to swim or rifle. Sure. Like, I know I'm not going to ask me to go out to play soccer, right? Like, we're not going to pull Hamies and roll ankles.

We're not doing that. but shooting threes and bowling strikes might be a thing. There you go. It's the crossover. I think it's fascinating that in this space, that what's happening in Nebraska athletics is a movement towards better for everybody. And it's important to have the right coaches

who have the visionary aspect they're willing to see outside of themselves. And then two, they have the big hearts. I think most coaches in this athlete, Department. Engage and like each other and enjoy each other. I think that's really a bit. So I'm, I'm impressed by it. What do you think Tori Danan's vision truly is? Like in the messaging to coaches, what does he talk about most? You know, I, I'm not going to speak for for Mr. Danin. He's got a, he's got, you know, one of the toughest jobs, you know, you can have here.

He's responsible for everybody and he's doing a fabulous job. But, He always says every time we get together, he's like, you know, we're going to do, you know, we're going to be the leaders and we're going to, you know, we want everyone to look at Nebraska and be like, we need to be doing it like Nebraska. So, you know, he's done exactly that since he's got here, you know, and it takes time to kind of move some pillars and do some of these things. But, you know, there's, I think there's a lot of examples of, you know, how he's done that. So I think it's really exciting as a head coach to have a leader like that that's willing

to go to bat for not just, you know, some of the bigger sports, but also for men's tennis, you know, and be a man of his word and really lead, you know, as, you know, walking to walk as he's talking to talk. And I think that's really empowering the rest of the athletic department. And I think that's how you really get to do special things as a group. But I think that's the most unique thing about Nebraska. and I think you go into the training table, everybody eats together, everyone's cheering for each other. You know, you always see other athletes and coaches

at all the other sporting events. It's a big family, and it's definitely not like that everywhere else. I would almost think it might not be like that anywhere else. And I think having a leader like Troy, who can kind of, you know, be the tip of the spear there and really promote that. and demand that from everyone in the department, I think is really, really unique.

And it allows everybody to have a voice and allows everybody to really empower themselves and their programs. And you get this really special energy that I don't know if you can find anywhere else. It's important. It's felt, it's seen, because you see his presence at events

that hasn't always been the case. So I'm pretty sure it means a lot to have that presence. Well, he's got a tough job. I mean, he's on the CFP committee. He's, he's doing all these things. He's, you know, the things that are going on here with all the changes in sports. And every time I look up, I just feel like we're in a really good position. Like, this changes.

I'm like, okay, like, you know, he's got us in a really good position here. He's got us in a really good position there. And, you know, it's not just, it's not just him. And he'll be the first say that. It's the whole athletic department. But he's the one that's kind of, you know, organizing everything and making sure that everything's getting done the right way. And I'm seriously like, we're Nebraska. We're really lucky to have a guy like that here, you know, leading the way. And I think even in the toughness,

I think he enjoys 100%. I think he enjoys it. He's a tough, he's a tough guy, man. Yeah. You know, we'll toward the break. We'll come back. We'll close up, Peter Colbeau. Get you ready for Adam Caricker, Fock in the Blackshirt, full afternoon old school. We'll be right back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 93-7 the Ticket and the Ticketfm.com.