1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Nebraska Men's Tennis Coach Peter Kobelt-Happy Birthday! : November 18th, 11:00am

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

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coach happy birthday thank you I thought you guys were going to play the Hamilton song No, no, this, happy birthday was your part. I thought we forgot about my birthday. No, no such thing. We're not around here, but I'll tell you, we like a good birthday party. We like a good, what'd you do special for your, your best day? Yeah, it was yesterday, 35 years old, halfway to 40. Seems crazy.

Time, time really does fly. But my girlfriend took me up to Omaha Saturday night and surprised me. We had it planned out, but a bunch of my friends came up. My sister came up, surprised me and we had a fun night out in Omaha. And then yesterday, just kind of a more normal, relaxed day, celebrated with the family over the phone and had dinner. Adorable dogs, by the way. Crazy dogs. You know, one of these Wednesdays, just bring them in.

I will. Just bring them in. We'll put them in the chairs. We'll put headsets on them. One of them will listen to you. One of them won't. I'll just tell you now. That's every, that's every, that's every, I don't care what kind of, what, what breed of dog,

if you have two of them, you have the one that is very serious and you'll have one that is very unsurious. And that's just the way, there's one that when you take the picture, we'll smile every single time and there's one that would just look at you like, human, what do you want for me? That's just like we're, we're, we're, we've got through the dog people. So we've got through this dance. How's your sister doing? How's how's your life treating her?

Great. She's doing great. Yeah, she was working the girls out this morning just on my way over. It's awesome having her around. Just to bounce ideas off of, talk about stuff, go out to dinner. It's nice. I always say, the United States is so big and you can go all over the country and work and travel. you know vacation but when you have i think it's pretty unique to you know you can stay where you are

and your family can be there but when you move and then you have family that's still with you i think that's something that i cherish and uh i'm lucky to have my sister around as uh as much as she is so how proud are your parents of you two i think they're pretty proud i would hope so um we're not we're not perfect i know i'm not perfect but um yeah i mean i think uh to have three three three three three of their children you know play college tennis play professional tennis and now two of them are in college coaching and the other one still out there playing professional tennis i think that's i would say that's three for three for for mom and dad so lucky to have parents like like them they've done more than anyone will ever know for for me and for my family so obviously

the apple does never fall too far from the tree so hopefully i'm i didn't roll too far away from the tree once i fell but uh yeah lucky to have amazing parents that i've done a great job raising me who are their favorites like seriously seriously he's the favorite i don't know i think that's like uh that's like you know you can never answer that question 100% truthfully but i think there's always a little bit of bias towards the first child because it's just the first one i i don't know I don't have kids yet, but I think the first ones just changes your life as a family. So I would assume maybe there's a little bit of bias towards me, but just because of that, not because you're the old.

Just because I'm the first child, not because of any other reason. So there was a study that said a thing that parents for the first child are different than the child parents for the second child who are different than the parents for the third child. I can see. I can't, yeah. They said, you can, you can go from the same DNA pool,

but the children aren't raised by the same people. Sure. I think that after the first lap, the second lap, you do something's different. Oh, you got all the cool toys. And you got, like, you got,

you got spoiled and pampered. And then they got hand me down love. That's what my older brother told. He was like, yeah you got hand me down love you got the love that was that i left behind the thing i think there was a big enough gap between me and my little brother though for him to get new stuff though yeah yeah at least some yeah it's there um coach i want to get into your head because i spent the week the weekend in Tulsa oklahoma uh with wrestling

and there's so many things that fans may not be aware of And I always, you know, poor coach Cobalt. He comes in here just in good spirits. And then I just dump everybody else's sports stuff on him. Because he can give insight to maybe, and I never ask you to speak for those coaches. Sure. But I ask just for your philosophy. Because if I can get a coach of this level and magnitude to kind of go through the process for people,

it helps the fans understand some of what goes on, right? Bus trips. Bus trips. Okay, let's go. Right, that to compete at the highest level and to spend hours on a bus before you compete, how does that, in your mind, how does that correlate? How do you manage asking, you get these finely tuned athletes?

Like, you've conditioned them, you've strengthened them, you've given them nourishment, you've given them, you've preached rest and taking care of the bodies, and then because of the nature of the beast, you have to get on a bus and then ask them to go compete at the highest level. When you get to a hotel from a bus ride, what are you asking you young people to do? What are the things that you have in place

to get them ready to compete? Yeah, I mean, that's, I think that's the toughest part about college sports, especially in our world and tennis, where we might only fly down the day before and we got to just get off the plane and then we'll go and we'll sometimes we'll grab something quick to eat sometimes you don't have any time and we'll just go straight to the courts and hit just depends on when we can get onto the courts to practice so but yeah I mean that's

why our philosophy is is all centered around toughness and competitiveness and having a process that withstands you know everything that comes with with college tennis so obviously coach Manning and Opa, what Coach Manning and everyone, you know, and everyone inside their program is doing a phenomenal job of that already. I mean, number two in the country, you know, trophies after trophies, national champions after national champions. It's not just a one shot in the dark there. It's consistent success.

So they have a formula for what they're doing. I think every coach kind of has their own way to do it. But, but yeah, trying to take care of their bodies. you know, traveling with the, the tall socks, the compression stocks, little things like that, whether they make a difference or not, I don't know, 100%, but mentally, I think it all plays a role. And I think if you're consistent with what you do in your process, I think your team can adapt to it over time. If you're constantly bouncing around trying to do different things, I think that's when it can get a little tougher. But, yeah, I don't know.

I'm still, I'm a young coach. I'm still learning a lot of these things. And, you know, some of these programs that are doing really well right now, I try and take a peek into those programs when I can and just see. How much of your coaching decision philosophy is based on you as a player as a pro figuring out what worked for you, recovery, nutrition, time before the match, stretching before or after? How much of that goes into play? Yeah, I mean, a lot of it.

I mean, I think that's what coaching is. I think it's an, you take a, you know, a giant ball of clay and you kind of take your experiences from different parts of your career and what you learned at this section, who you learned it from, what you liked about it, and then you kind of mush it all together and try and try and bring it into the program. So, yeah, I mean, as a player, you learn things. And then from other coaches and other coaching staffs, you learn things, how they handle this, how they handle that. Some schools take bus. Some schools take a car. Some schools will fly. there's just a whole lot of different ways to do it but but yeah you always kind of draw back on

your own experiences and i'm lucky enough that i had a lot of really cool experiences i played at a high level i traveled around the world i got to do all these things and and experience all the things that happen on tour in college tennis so i feel like i have a pretty good idea but at the same time like not everyone's me and not everyone thinks like me so trying to be adaptive and say okay like what's this team's you know recipe to success not necessarily what i would do best in if that makes sense where do you fall like on so in the big 10 are you a young one of the younger coaches are you one of the middle of the where would you put place yourself i'm this i think i'm the second youngest coach in the the big 10 and i might be the

third youngest coach in the power for so i was pretty much thinking that those numbers i I need for you say those numbers for people again. Because to give you some flowers as we sit here that what you're doing and how you're doing it should be, we should put a light on it and celebrate it for just a second because a recently turned 35 year old P4 tennis coach is a rare, rare bird. it's a unique unicorn so you're learning as you go but you're in deep water already right yeah yep so i think you know that's and one of the things that i i really truly believe that i understand and know and able and i'm able to communicate you know the the things that need to be communicated and need to be coached in order for us to do well um and i tell the guys all the time like i'm gonna I'm going to make mistakes.

I'm going to play the wrong guy. I'm going to call the wrong play. I'm going to tell you what to do wrong on your forehand and backhand. And I'm going to make those mistakes. And I tell them that because I know they're going to make mistakes too. And I need them to be confident in doing that. I think if you go out there and you're not okay making mistakes or you're scared to fail, then you just kind of slow up the process.

I think you've got to go out there and be willing to fail. And then when you do fail, be able to adjust. and that's what I say, look, guys, I'm going to make a mistake. I'm going to try not to make that mistake twice. This is going into my third year in the head coaching position. And I'm not going to have all the answers. I'm not going to have all the experience to lean on as a guy that's been doing this for 20 years. But I'm willing to go out there and I'm willing to stand tall.

And if I make a mistake, I'll own it. And I'll make the adjustment. And the guys know that. And I think they respect that, but they also see a coach that's probably working harder than, you know, most of the coaches out there. So trying to do some of this stuff, trying to do the fundraising stuff, pushing them each and every single day, coming to practice, creating an edge at practice, you know, setting the tone and reinforcing the philosophy, all that stuff every single day. And I think if you can do that stuff, you're going to make a few mistakes, but it's not going to, it's not going to take your program down. it's going to help you continue to build because the fundamentals keep your floor really high and you can kind of figure out what exactly this specific team needs to be successful going forward

in the future. Is there some advantage to being one of the younger coaches? Yeah, I think so. I think now in today's time, I think especially recruiting, you know, sitting down in front of a recruit and be like, hey, like I was on tour five, six years ago. There's like four or five guys in the top 100. that i beat um so i really understand uh the level of the pro tour right now i understand what you need to do right now i was at kentucky i coached two guys in the top 100 just a few years ago like

i i really understand what you guys need to do so i think there's them knowing that for one that i i did it and i didn't do it 25 years ago i think that's a big one and then i i'm starting to fall behind with the slang and stuff like that a little bit but i still try and get in the fact that you know that you're falling behind puts you at advantage i i try and i try and get in there and hang out with the guys and i talk to slang and try and be cool and funny like like they all think they are and i i still got i think i got about half half the time the other half the time i'm i'm not there anymore so one of you guys hit me with a peter cobelt slang joke yeah and he said you know how tall coach is and i was like

six six and the moment i said six six i just paused because i knew i'd walked right into it and he goes six seven i don't know what that meant either but no but i walked like i literally heard it it slowed down in full motion and i just went oh no d p here we go you i'm officially the old guy like i am six seven too side i know but that was like i walked right dead smack into it straight into the joke yep it was there it was also the same crew they were you know wanted to debate lebron as the goat and yeah yeah we went through i said that that that i said coach is young he's not that young he's not that young uh to believe that uh peter covelt uh men's tennis and again we're wishing him happy birthday happy 35th birthday we're celebrating because i just i'm fully impressed i

I said this weekend that Nebraska, that wrestlers are such a unique athlete. They're such a unique type human being. They're almost barely human. But I also, in fairness, the brain of a collegiate tennis player is a really interesting place to get into because it has to process so much data,

so quickly, so often and over the course of a day somebody asked the question like how many like for your player the average player let's just ask you in your career that as you were training how many tennis strokes did you have in a day how much wear and tear do you put on that rotator cuff over the course of a day the average day for a tennis player

yeah I don't know if I've ever quantified that number before I don't know what I'm not going to be able to to give you an exact number but tennis is a game of repetitions it's not a game where you can just be a freak athlete and put on some muscle and then kind of like figure it out like tennis takes years and years and years of the brain to brain the body connection you know uh the muscle memory as everyone says to kind of really figure it out there's a coordination aspect there's a there's a strength aspect there's a you know the fitness side there's a technical side there's a mechanical side then there's a mental side there's a belief side there's a

problem solving side there's so many different layers to tennis that all really fall onto that tennis player whereas you know another another sport you might just have you have you have to do one thing and you can branch out from there but like i say in tennis like in tennis you have to be the quarterback you have to be the running back you have to be the offensive linemen you have to be the defensive lineman you have to be the defensive back you have to be the line back you have to be the linebacker you have to be able to do all these different all these different things and I think that's why it takes long obviously it's not as a physical sport like like one of those but from a mental standpoint it's a lot to you you're asking a lot to from these student athletes and

I think I don't know what the science is behind it but I think that's why tennis is the healthiest sport in the world because it just it used your you use your brain in a different way than every other sport because you have to process so much information and physically you have to be able to do it. And I think the combination of those two is what makes tennis pretty special. It is the data dump from point to point, right, that as the point changes and the game status changes, and then the opponent's reaction to whatever you're doing, and then your reaction to them, what's more vital of a skill set, being proactive at, this level when it comes to tennis or reactive which one is the one that will determine maybe the

greatest identifier for like success i think the more proactive you can be the better um even when you're playing like the way we teach our guys is we really focus on building a foundation that's going to work under pressure having a forehand that you can swing at as hard as you can that you're that you know like 100% that you can make when when there's when all the marbles are on the table you can make it and then from there like you don't have to think if you're going to be making or missing a shot you're just like I know I'm going to make it so then now you can kind of play in the head one shot or two shots in the point like I'm going to go this way I'm going to hit this shot and then that's going to give me this ball and then I'm going to be able to go

the net you can kind of it all kind of happens in your mind as you're playing the point shot next to the shot behind the next shot yep so but if you're if you don't know you can make your forehand you're going to hit it and then you're going to look and then it went in and then now you're reacting for the next one so just that alone right there i think one of the most important things in tennis is you have to be able to have shots that work under pressure i should be able to wake you up at four in the morning handle racket put you put a racket in your hand and say make a hundred in a row and you should be able to do just about that from wherever on the court wherever yeah from wherever. So if you can do that, then you can go out and you can focus on the other side of the

court and you can say, what do I need to do to win as opposed to like, please don't hit it to my forehand because I don't know if I'm going to make it. So that's a big separator in my opinion and successful tennis players and unsuccessful tennis players. Is that also true offensive or defensive-minded tennis players at this level? Yeah, right? That, that to be stellar defensively and to still be able to be proactive which is that confidence level of knowing no matter what you hit at me I have some answer for you

sure it's just like the best example the best the best athletes in every sport I think maybe not every sport are the counterpunchers you got like Floyd Mayweather counter puncher best boxer ever in our sport Novak Djokovic counterpuncher

take what you do and then make you pay for it yes so they can you kind of i think with that mindset you you see what's in front of you and then you have to be very you have to be very confident in your skills because if you don't have that then you're then it's tough but if you're extremely confident in your skills and you know exactly what you're doing you just read what your opponent's doing and then you start solving the problem over over over the course of the fight so um i think yeah i mean there's a lot of different ways to play tennis. I was extremely aggressive. I wasn't much of a counterpuncher.

But something about that type of game style, that type of mentality allows you to problem solve against more players week after week after week after week after week and give you the results that you want over a long period of time. Fighting off good opponents is

way more worrisome than attacking good players. Yeah. And I think there's a there's a balance too and in the in what's cool and unique about college tennis is all of our guys are slightly different so i you know we can't make all of our guys have a defensive mindset and play like that some of them are going to have to be more offensive and that's re-try and you know when it comes to the season trying if you can find good uh matchups against the other team and make sure you put our players in a good uh situation in a in a situation where their games

might match up a little bit better against that player as opposed to that player and i think that's that there's a little bit of coaching there you can't do it too much in our sport um because you have lineups and rankings and and um you know kind of like the your overall records throughout the course of the season but if you if you can maneuver your lineup to give yourself a little bit of an advantage like that's stuff that everyone does and that's i think that's what coaching is so it it is why i love having you in because it's just to recalibrate the brain um because we all think we have a pretty consistent thought process for what happens in front of us.

But, no, there are so many other things that are taking place and so many different ways to approach it that define stellar coaches and athletes at this level who identify that, you know what, there are different ways to go about it. It just depends on the person. 100%. It really does. From the text side, Texas says, coach is doing a great job coaching Huster Tennis. When's the next first home match?

first home match January 17th 11 a.m. versus Omaha. It's a doubleheader. We'll play him again later that day, which is great, great for the state of Nebraska. The coach up there in Omaha does a great job. He's also a young guy like I am. A lot of energy. I would expect them to keep doing well over the years. And then January 25th, we have Memphis coming to town, which is one of our rivals in our in our region they have also a great younger head coach does he has a lot of experience did a great job at florida state when he was there he's bringing in a really good team they're always going to be dangerous they have a phenomenal facility and a phenomenal program too they have a lot of former pros that are doing a great job and and the the head coach there is doing

a great job with this team too so it gets quick week you know january 17th is doubleheader and then boom straight into some of these big time matches and uh yeah it'll be exciting Before we go to break, Coach, let the folks know how much season tickets for Husker men's tennis will cost them.

Season tickets are free. Free. Absolutely free. We'll go to break. We'll come back. A Texer wanted your opinion on boxing. The mentioning of Floyd Mayweather. All right,

yeah. And remembering that you're in Nebraska. Yep. That they want to know goat. Best boxers ever. So we'll need four. We'll need four. Okay.

Four. Or even, change it, which four boxers would be the best tennis play? We have time. You got four minutes, Coach Peter Coebbelt, DP, we'll be right back. Download our app by searching 93.7, the ticket in your app store. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 93-7 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.