1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Nebraska moral victory vs. Purdue: February 11th, 2026, 11:00am

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

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Welcome to the drive with Aaron Davis and Nick Sainert. Former football national champion speaker and author Aaron Davis. Pain is a teacher if you use it. And the lessons in the carnage of pain, sometimes you're elusive. They hide their stealth. The work is finding the lessons through the pain. There's always a message in the mess. Depends on if we want to get dirty and look for it.

Nick Sainter. Driving left side is bored, picks up his dribble looking for some help, decides to go up strong with it, and the layup will rattle home. Jack Riley picks the pocket of BJ Bradford up the floor. to Jack Posterider, watch out. FECC in the lane kicks it out. Three ball, Townsley, right wing, it's good. It's on 93-7 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.

The film has a beautiful new, very tapered up, very manicured will by manscaped. Easy. Well, because you awkwardly pause. As you said manscaped. Manscaped beard over there. That is a nice hair cut as well. Thank you. Yeah.

Talk about it on your face. I didn't, I didn't think anything else. I got a little chesty coming through the top of the collar. A little chest there. Huh? You got a hairy chest? No. No.

Yeah. Yeah. Dude. Any other questions? Any other questions you got for me? Hey, I do, you know what? Oh, this should be good. This is going to be great.

This should be good. This morning, I'm in the gym. And I met my man Matt Bartlett. Oh, Matt was back. He was back. And I said, it's a pleasure to me. you for real for the very first time. Dude, Matt was crazy cool, man. Show me a lot of grace, man. So I actually know who Matt is. There it is. I can put the face with the name. So Matt, dude,

all realness, it was good to see him. I think Matt goes a little bit earlier than what I do. Yeah. Because usually, that was the second. Now, the second time I've seen him, I'm coming in when he's going out. Here's the deal, AD. I didn't realize how late you go. Yeah. It's like 745. That's what time I go lift. I know. Because I go. to cardio at seven. I know. Over with Jeff and Nicole at Farrell's. I just can't do as much as you do. Dude, it's when you know what though, cardio for 30 minutes takes me less than five minutes. Traffic's a little rough at the time. Anyway, I get in about 745 and I lift until 8.30. Wow. I know I have to be in my car leaving at 845. Okay. Because it gets me 20 minutes basically.

Maybe. Because we come on at 905. Yeah, technically. We're supposed to come on. Maybe this is the either thing we're supposed to go on at 9 a.m. Yeah, that doesn't happen. That never happened. But it used to for about a week. Yeah. Well, I know, I mean, A40 is the sweet spot. 845 is the absolute latest. So I literally, at times would just cut the workout, you know, just get it. But I usually get it done. But it was good to see Matt this morning at the gym.

One of the, there's other drivers, drivers I would say, that listen to because I said in the gym, like, hey, man, you got to get out of here. AD. I guess I need to go to the different, the different Genesis. No for your shadows. I should. I stopped myself. I caught myself. See, point the thumb, not the finger. So. But yours is, yours is going under construction. Yeah, mine's under construction. And what is done, though, it is going to be nice. Yeah. I will say that because ours on, I can't say ours. The one I work out at. Yeah. I have ownership is. Yeah, no I don't is on the one on old chain. The old racket club.

Do they just have, do they just have a corner that's designated for AD? Like a corner of the gym that just has everything that you need, you use on a daily basis. Well, because you're there so often. Hey, brother. It's, you know what, swim? It's called therapy. That's right. That's right.

That's right. I think there's a lot of, you needed some after last night. Yes, there's a, that's a great segue. Swin. That is the lead. We're not going to bear it. We are going to discuss Nebraska's loss to Purdue last night, a valiant comeback effort that came up just short.

There's a lot. Our 10 o'clock hour is basically going to be dedicated to that because there's, we want to hear from you. Join the show. And as Austin always beautifully says, if you'd like to join the show, participate in the show, give us a call at 402, 4-645-6-85. Again, that's 402, 4645-685. Let us know your thoughts, your opinions on the game last night. So we're going to discuss that. I'm initially getting next thoughts here very quickly. But then at 925, a very interesting story. A state that borders. us. I won't say which one is actually sniffing the possibility of landed NFL team. I personally think

it's just to use as a barter to get what they want. 100%. But you're going to, if you haven't heard the story, you're going to be like, come on. Because when I read this morning, I'm like, yeah, no. We'll discuss that at 925. Of course, we got the history coming up at 9.45 and then 10 o'clock for the entirety. We're going to talk about last night. Nick, about last night. About last night. I, it's a, it's a bummer. I mean, if Fred Hoyberg said it as well as anybody could. I mean, he mentioned it.

You lost the game in the first three minutes of it. And you allow a team like that to go up 14.1. You spot them, you know, a 15 point lead at times. And then at times it was, you know, close to a 20 point lead. We can, we can make all the, we can make all the jokes and all the, we can point all the blame at the end of the game to the officiating. We can point all the blame to the wet spot. Whatever happened there outside of Purdue's huddle, whether that was because of a fan who threw a glass down at the team or whether that was because of somebody, you know,

spilling water or sweat from Purdue. Who knows, right? You can blame all of that. None of it supersedes, in my opinion, the fact that Nebraska could have won that game if they just started better. I think Fred Hoyberg last night, for the first time, I think he was very, very confused. I listened to his postgame conversation with, with Kent and Jeff after on the radio network. and I mean for the first time he seemed like he was a little surprised by the lack of energy right out of the gate and the lack of efficiency right out of the gate. And then I heard him in the post game press conference as well that he when he talked to the media and a lot of the same sentiment was kind of true.

I just think that there was a lot for Fred last night that he just goes in, didn't expect it. We talked about yesterday giving the benefit of the doubt like this. This is who they are. Last night in the first 10 minutes of the game was not who they are. And it was disappointing to see because we all thought, and I still do think because, once again, one game is not going to change the way I feel about this team. But it was really, it was really disappointing to see them come out as flat as they did. I will say this real quick on its swim.

I was disappointed to see the way they came out. But I agree with. Matt from HIP and Good Morning to your brother. I never thought they were out of it. Yeah. And that is a very I mean, you almost read my mind there, Matthew, in that even when they got down, halftime, I'm like, you know what? They did this, you know, as well

in Indiana. They were down at halftime. I was never thought they were out of the game. However, I don't know. It got dicey there for a little bit towards the the first like five minutes, the second half when Purdue comes out, you know, in a 6-0 run, 80. I thought for a moment, I was like, Nebraska just doesn't have it tonight. And then, you know, over the course of time, they go on that 22 to 10 run or whatever.

They do 28 to 10 run. And it's like, okay, well, maybe you do. Right. No, I'm not saying I thought they were going to win. I just thought they were not out of what they possibly make a run at, which they indeed did do. In fact, I was text another group buddies of mine that, hey, man, it just looks like Nebraska just doesn't have it tonight. And I said, not so much with Purdue because Purdue came after them. as you said, swim out the gate, 14 to 1.

And it's hard to overcome that. So we're going to dig in the numbers in between that and get your thoughts on it as well. A few of the text messages here before I allude to another story before the break. Unknown texts for 5598, good morning to you. You mentioned here regardless of all that comes down to fundamentals. If mass hits a free throw, the ball game is over. Yeah. You know, and I tell you what, 8598, if he hits it, it definitely changes it up.

however there were still time. There was still time. Obviously we see they missed that shot, but however, when they're down one, but to your point, though, 8590, you're right. You hit that point, you get puckered up pretty much knowing that you have to hit the shot to win. So I agree with you. Hit your free throws. And the free throws is something we were going to talk about

because 8598, it was an Achilles heel all night. Which was the uncharacteristic of Nebraska basketball team this year. I think also, I mean, you could say the same thing about the free throws with Purdue, right? Like Purdue at one point was 8 to 15. from the free throw line. I mean, so we can play that,

that back and forth game, which yes, a name text or, you know, unnamed texture. That's, that's correct. You're absolutely right.

And hindsight's 20, but I mean, they have to figure out ways. And I'm kind of surprised we're having this conversation with somebody like Fred Hoyberg, who is as skillful as he is as trying to find creative ways to get guys involved.

I'm surprised that I'm having this conversation. You have to figure out a way to get Price Sanford more involved. like now now price has to hit the shots right and and we saw we've seen over the course of the year some real acrobatic and real contested shots that go in for price and we know he can make it and he drained that big one I believe it was over Clough at one point during Nebraska's big run when they went on like a 13 14-0 run we saw we saw price from the top of the key kind of go one on one and and just kind of make a contested shot from the top of the key but ever since the second half against Michigan

whatever Michigan did defensively on Price Sanford, from an X's and O standpoint, Nebraska has had very little answer the next couple of games for how to defend, or excuse me, how to combat that defensive approach against Price Sanford. And I'm not sitting here trying to say that Price needs to go off for 20 a game

and needs to shoot five threes. And it needs to make five threes, right? But there was, I mean, through the first half, Price Sanford had zero points. That's something that partially, you got to find more creative ways to get him involved, but elsewhere, like, Price has to be able to hit the shots too. And so I think that there's a couple of things that, yeah, the reboundings,

the one that sticks out like a sore thumb. Nebraska was out rebounded 54 to 37 overall. 21 offensive rebounds allowed for the Purdue Boilermakers yesterday. Yeah, that's the one that sticks out like a sore thumb. I felt like there was a lot of energy issues last night from Nebraska that they came out a little flat, and that's just uncharacteristic of this team this season. Folks, we're going to talk a lot more about this. Like I said, the 10 o'clock hour is going to be pretty much the whole hour we're going to discuss,

because there's a lot to discuss there with that game last night. Nick, let me ask you this. What did you think? You didn't go to the game last night, correct? If you went to the game, let us know the atmosphere what it was like last night. Chris, my agent is in town. He was at the game. Yeah. He's an unbelievable atmosphere. He is a graduate of St. Mary's out there on the coast that's always in the tournament.

You know, so obviously they don't have that type of, you know, that type of size arena, but obviously, but very rabbit fan base. But the folks that I spoke to last night, just say the atmosphere, which is absolutely insane last night. So we'll talk a lot about that. Swim, one thing we didn't talk about yesterday, like I said, that I want to talk about today. is Bobby Hawk. Yeah. Were you surprised by that news?

And folks, here's the news. Bobby Hawk decided, remember we talked about this. He retired, resigned from Montana on last week. Now he's the defensive coordinator for Brett Beléminess team down in Illinois. Were you surprised with that, Swim? No, like, this is AD. I'm going to chew my horn a little bit. Because I just said, yes, I said last week that it's,

guys coaches are going to look at this at smaller institutions in this case Montana and go I don't have a chance to compete I just don't and and now we see North Dakota State go up to the you know to the FBS level into the Mountain West and stuff but I just think that he looked at this and said head coaching is is a much more difficult profession than it ever has been especially at a place like Montana and I just I'm good. I'm good enough financially to retire, but also you must not have needed. You must not hate the way it's formatted too bad because if you think it was bad at Montana, you're, you're facing off against the big dogs now. Like this is your facing off against the best of the

best here. Swim, and that is true because you mentioned that you're going to start seeing some smaller schools, you know, smaller coffers, war chest, resources, etc. Yeah. However, with him going there. He doesn't have all that responsibility anymore, Swim, as far as being the figurehead, trying to secure NIL money. At a place to your point, he was never going to be able to compete with those other schools financially. He just wasn't.

Now, he received some poaching at Illinois. Of course he will, but not nearly like it was at Montana, because Montana could not match it. You know, it's like that old school movie, well, it's not old school, the movie Ray featuring Jamie Fox. You know, he was switching record labels, and he looks at the

Sony goes, can you match it? Yeah. And Montana, when he was getting poached, we poached a few of them, you know, can you match it? No, we cannot match it. Do you want to be here or not? He doesn't have to worry about that as much. He doesn't have to be the figurehead.

He's not going to have to do all the pressers and things of that nature. He's not trying to balance out NIL. He doesn't have to worry as much about the portal as a head coach. It's a different situation for him. It is. I think, I think, though, that we also need to wreck, I mean, look, think about Nebraska here in this case. I mean, we hold our coordinator's pretty accountable, right?

And I think Illinois might not have the passion fan base like Nebraska does and not to put those on the same kind of playing field or surface, but there is something to be said about there. There's just more notoriety also when you're a coordinator than when you're a head coach at a place like Montana. I think that very well could have been his way of saying, look, I just need a fresh start too. a break. I need a fresh start. Yeah, a week break. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I would say the break for the monotony of being a head coach. Like, all I'm going to say is there is a lot of people out there with a lot of opinions that say how bad college football and college athletics are right now and how much they hate it and how much they despise the way that it's kind of structured or not structured for that matter. But there's, you can, you can leave anytime. Like the door's out. The door's there. But there's a lot that choose to stay.

Swim, that's why, and it's a great point that you bring up, no one is forcing you to stay. Nobody's forcing you to collect these paychecks. Like, nobody's forcing you. I mean, it doesn't mean they don't have the right to complain. No, no. But at the same time, it is kind of like with the Flacco comment, I signed up for this.

Yeah. And you don't sit here and act naive. Like, everybody knows now. Everybody knows if you take a new job, like this is what you're getting into. And especially the one to the top. the head coaches, the coordinators, GMs, things like that, that you know what you're getting into.

Number one, there's no reason for excuses. There's no reason for you. In my opinion, honestly, AD, there's no reason for you to complain. Like, I don't, you know exactly what you're getting into. We're all adults here. Like, we can have honest to God conversations here.

And the number two, it's no, there's no reason for you not to be prepared. Right. There's just zero reason for you not to, not to be willing to adapt to it. because once again, you're getting paid for that reason.

This is why you feel like you're the right person for the job. Like all of those details, you, I just don't want to hear the complaints. No, no. They know what they're. Like I'm kind of,

I'm kind of annoyed with Bobby Howe. Honestly, because like a week ago, we were just being ridiculed on how bad college football and how college athletics are. And then a week later, you want to take the job as the defensive coordinator in a Power 5 institution, where the money's larger, where it's more about NIL.

You can't go into a small town school and grab somebody to come to Montana that nobody knows about and say, hey, let's make you a developmental project. It's going to be you're fighting against when I say the big boys, you're going to be fighting with the dollar figures that Nebraska has, that Ohio State has, that Indiana now has. It just got worse. So don't sit there on your little pedestal last week or two weeks ago now. and be like, oh, man, college football isn't just a horrible spot.

This isn't what I signed up for. And then a week later, say, hey, I want back again. We're back. Yeah, it was an interesting move to say the least. He is now Bobby Hawk, he's the defensive coordinator there in Illinois. He goes, I don't necessarily want out of the game. I just want out of here. Yeah.

There will be similar moves, I'm sure, in the future. We'll see more of that. We've already seen parts of that, you know, as far as that goes, of head coaches moving to D.C.'s. Chip Kelly, being one of those who's going to be at Northwestern now, as far as their offense coordinator at Stents at Ohio State as well. So it's going to be, I think, a new trend that you're going to see a lot more often as far as that goes.

Folks, we come back. Interesting story about a particular NFL franchise. Are they seriously considering or using it for bargaining chips where they're currently at? We'll discuss when we come back and at 10 o'clock. It's all Nebraska basketball. Want to hear from you with your thoughts are. we'll get to many as texts we can.

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