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Episode Date: November 18, 2025

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You're listening to one-on-one with D.P. Brought you by Canopy Street Market on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Half a door! Peter Cobalt, Husker Men's Tennis. We thank him for a weekly conversation, him sharing knowledge and insight. Willie was on the text line. So as you mentioned, Floyd Mayweiler. Willie was the best boxer ever.

He goes, bud. So there's two ways to do that. One would be the best athletes who were boxers. Or you could go the route of which boxers would be the best tennis players. I'm okay with either way. What way do you want to go? I think they correlate pretty good one and one. I correlate boxing and tennis pretty similarly.

Like the way you built, the way you're built is very simple. Obviously, in boxing, you're getting hit in the face and tennis. If you're getting hit in the face and tennis, we got some other discussions. Right. We got to talk.

Yeah, it's a little bit of a different game. But I will go with the first one. Okay. Just because I'll have a better idea of how to, to think about them. Okay. So obviously, Floyd is in the top four.

You got to put Muhammad Ali. Okay. Um. Yeah. I guess you can also put sugar red, uh, sugar, uh, Ray Leonard.

Yep. And then for the sake of, for the sake of for the pride of Nebraska. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I do think, I don't know if he's there quite yet. But I think he has the chance to be in the top four by the time he's done with his career. But I think he's like the...

I think some of that for old heads. And then for people outside the circle. Because Nebraska's no Bud's full fight history. Like they know the difficult fight, the friction. They know where he came from, what he had to go through to get it. Which sometimes can discount some of the other stuff because, If you've never been to Palmer Park, Maryland, or Louisville, Kentucky, and to not understand what Cassius Clay had to overcome to become Muhammad Ali,

what Mike Tyson had to go through on the streets of New York to become Mike Tyson. Yeah, Bill and Bennett says that. Didn't Sugar Ray Leonard once play tennis? He plays a lot of tennis. I didn't know that. Even now, yeah, he was a part of, he did a lot of charity work with Billy Jean King and Martina, Arthur Ash. Sure. That, where they were bringing these events and back in the day of celebrity, they used to do these celebrity sports events where they would have athletes from other sports be competitive in things that they were not competitive.

So they would have tennis players in a 100-yard sprint or they were swimming, you know, 50s. meters or bowling or whatever it was and it was always pretty interesting it was always pretty interesting because one you found out that there were some people who were better athletes and there were some that you thought would be pretty good athletes who were terrible and it was pretty interesting along the way um texter says he agrees with you uh he had bud bud crawford ollie tyson sugar ray so you mentioned in a break that tyson i thought he was yeah i thought he was up there but i think just thinking about boxing tennis i think there's similar and i put it like in a more to give it more of like a specific

uh comparison and tennis like you you know you're you're you're kind of rallying inside the point where you're hitting kind of back and forth until your opponent gives you something that you can attack and when you watch boxing they're kind of doing the same they'll kind of give you a little a little jab little this they're bouncing they're waiting for you to make a move so that that's kind of our version when you watch boxing that's kind of our version of like rally I saw that in wrestling this weekend. It's the same thing in wrestling. That's why these, I feel like all these sports are so entwined.

There's just different skills that go into different sports and different mentalities, different bodies, different, all this stuff. But it's the same kind of, there's an offense, there's defense, there's, you know, there's just so many similarities in sport. And I think that's, for me, as a young coach, that's the fascinating part of all this. And that's why I feel like I can truly learn from Mark Manning. I can truly learn from Rhonda Ravel. I can truly learn from Fred Hoyberg.

Everyone inside of the athletic department because I think coaching is coaching. That part. That's literally you accepted the layout. We were talking about during the break that I have this idea in my head that I want to create these forums where coaches speak to other athletes

outside of their sport and have these conversations. So imagine you in a room filled with wrestlers or gymnasts. There are things that you as a coach could offer them that would be different, a different voice, maybe different verbiage. Maybe you will get to a thing that their coach can't get to because of repetition, right?

There are things that you would say to basketball players that maybe Fred Hoiberg wouldn't say. and Mark Manning would say things to your guys about toughness that maybe would resonate with them differently. 100%. Right? So if I said to you that a panel, a true sports panel where you cross over

and you have Peter Colbilt talking to Husker football, maybe one week it's you talking to wire receivers, again, a different athletic group, right? Sure. Right? to be able to say, listen, in your thinking process or maybe the psychology behind it, maybe the emotional fatigue that happens from high repetition sports, that crossing over and having these conversations may be of value to both the coach

and the athletes from a different perspective. Yeah, I think, you know, what's unique about Nebraska's too is we all eat in the same cafeteria. You know, all the sports are connected and, I think it's, you know, everyone can learn from everybody, you know, and whatever sport you're in, sometimes it's nice just to bounce ideas off other coaches, for me at least, because sometimes they say something and they communicate. They're able to communicate the message to me better than I've been able to communicate it to my team. And then I can go to practice and say it like this and then it connects better. So I don't know. If I can't, if I can't talk to other coaches

in our in our department i always i always kind of go back to like three or four fundamental coaches that i can go back and watch videos from or study from and you know i feel like my mentality is more of the tough toughness mentality discipline mentality kind of a little bit more of the old school vincent um barde vinsumbarty vinsumbarty nick sabin good night as far as tom urban Meyer um you know probably Andrews a little too far yeah but those guys who are your coaching coach then who are the people that that like if you if you well well because a ghost today well because it helps me identify the culture

yeah personality type like what you think what you're made up that who are the people that you think you've taken the most things into your coaching utility though sure um but you're not a woody hayes guy i love woody hayes oh there we go i love woody hayes um woody urban well i got to spend the most time around urban like i said in the last time i came in that when i was at ohio state the tennis team shared the football training room so we i got to spend a ton of time inside of the woody and in the football facility um and i also lived with two of the football players on the team two captains so i got to experience a lot of it i got to um i had a meet an hour

long meeting with coach mire in his office with my roommate we were just talking about tennis and football and everything that comes a you know a much better athlete than advertised urban mire he was drafted he was drafted baseball yep very good at that he was he was a he was rigid man like he you know not everyone was comfortable around coach mire even in the woody but just from a coaching standpoint like just from a coaching standpoint i i think the games the games always evolving but for for when those coaches were in their primes like in in that section of time i like i don't know if ever mire comes back and is a great head coach today but 10 years ago he was that was his prime and i think he was one of the best head coaches that

college football has ever had nick sabins up there john wood and for basketballs up there. Do you use his pyramid? Are you, is that a part of your coaching? I haven't studied as much of him as I would like to. Oh, his pyramid is like his book. It's really good. Oh, it gives that, I mean, that's, he's, he's, he's,

unintentionally, he's become the North Star for building a foundation in sports, right? All the base things that you have to have and then the most important thing at the top of it. what the thing that overrides everything else yeah like what is your thing that overrides everything else and whether that's discipline character integrity work uh belief system uh all those things right all the part of it but one thing has to override everything else that when you get to the fork in the road you're going to choose that thing over the other things whether it be winning the finance behind it the psychology behind it the young person that you're coaching,

do they override the money that is in play about it, or does winning override everything? And it's a wonderful, I just, I dive in because I can read it every month and have a different answer, every month. Yeah. So I don't know how you coaches do it.

I really don't. Eric says, As coach, has you heard of this guy named Tom Osborne? I have heard of Tom Osborne. I think Tom Osborne is definitely on that list, too. He might be on the top four coaches of all time. All time go. I just haven't, I got to meet Coach Osborne once earlier this year.

I had the privilege of meeting him. It was over in the athletic facility, and I just so happened to cross pass, and the person that I was with introduced me to him, and he talked to me for like two. minutes and I was like so coach you ever play any tennis and you know he he stopped it and he was thinking for five or ten seconds and he said yeah it's been a while I was like coach as long as you don't go to pickleball we're all good yeah and he's like he started laughing but was something

about coach Osborne he has like a different uh even now he has a different energy I feel like he's extremely wise yeah doesn't overreact without really seeing too much coaching highlights and everything from his time like i can just you can kind of just see his aura when you talk to him nothing really bothers him too much he is uh he hasn't understand i always say that the something that i try and coach by is nothing is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it i feel like tom osborne really embolizes that.

Yeah, I cannot disagree. That is amazing. Two things. We'll go to break. Two things. You just set a table. I'm going to ask, hey, Bach, you ready for this?

We're going to get Coach Cobalt's take on pickleball. Right? We're going to use his take on pickleball. And then we're going to ask him to get his eyes forward to Penn State. And what happens, Nebraska versus Penn State State College this Saturday? We'll get that from Coach Cobalt when we'll come back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 The Tickets and The Ticketfm.com.