1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Nebraska Tennis Coach Peter Kobelt-Rose Bowl Story Time: November 11th, 11:25am

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

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You're listening to One-on-One with DP, brought you by Canopy Street Market on 93-7 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Welcome back, one-on-one, Peter Cobalt, host your tennis, in the building, dropping dimes. Rip to quit says this. He says, I like this coach. He's intense. I can play for him. Agreed. Let's go. Agreed. He'll sign you. Get over to Dillon Center. Find another year of eligibility. Get yourself over there.

Cubsger says this. I'm one of those proud people that's been asking for more E.J. The last couple of years. And now he's going off and a lot of fun to watch. Yeah. Coach, have you ever been wrong about a player? Good or bad? For sure.

Right? Well, you thought somebody was going to be the next great thing and they weren't. Or you thought this is going to be a good player. didn't know you were going to be a great player for sure 100% yeah it happens all the time you know but there's still something there's always something there's always something there's always something you know you always hope you get the guys that surprise you and which is which is great but um but yeah you know that's part of life it's part of you know you do your best to just you know to stick to to things that you like and you see in recruits and you know sometimes it doesn't it doesn't pan out and then you

adjust the next time you do it but but uh but yeah in regards to the playing time thing like you know coach will will put you out there when he thinks you're 100% ready to to you know in term and that means like being consistent 100% of time and when the coach puts you out there like hey like you can't fumble you can't not do the run run to the right spot you can't not you know there's a million things that they got to be able to the coach has to be able to trust that they're going to do so you know I think that's where coach rule is with with Emmett now he really really trust trust him that the you know he's going to handle all the right things and then he's going to be able to take the top off too so I think you know maybe he didn't trust him 100% back

back last year and now he does so that's just a part of the growth and part of being a program part of being coached up and then also being a good listener as a and being disciplined with everything that you do every day so what's the one thing for you that will get a player benched like more than anything else is it effort is it uh accountability is it what is it effort effort's tough if they're not giving you the right effort you just you can't you can't live with that uh you know sometimes they don't you know for whatever reason they don't compete their best um or they don't understand what you mean by that sometimes like uh you know they're not playing their best and you can't control that but if there's not a if there's not

a effort if there's not a fire inside them to try and fix things or to try and do better than for me that's that's a that's a warning sign that's tough yeah it's it's always interesting to go and the coaches level of trust for a particular player and a team is vital yeah i mean look it's a it's a team game so if the run if the linemen are doing their job and the running back's not, like, you're going to create some doubt in the team. So it's about can you get all 11 guys to first trust themselves and then are they going to trust the other 11 guys out there with them? And then you can really move forward. So if you have a guy or two that you can't really trust, then it's, it gets tough really quick. It's the same in tennis. You know, we want to put

six guys out there that if I trust them, like the guys, you know, the other five guys that are playing are going to trust them too. But if we have five guys out there that are doing their job and one that's not you know we're down one zero to a team that's better than us like that's not that's not how you win you got to have that's not the right math to to to win you got to you know if we're if we're coming up the we're still coming up the mountain so we got to have six guys out there that are that all trust each other and and believe in each other that you no matter what the situation is going on that they can figure out a way to to win or extend the match we were you're going to talk

Buckeyes here for a second because you are but you were telling us the story about the Rose Bowl again you know just having come back from Pasadena and it's such a magical building for a variety of reasons. I mean you feel all the ghost when you stand in it but you said that you had

a Rose Bowl story to share yeah for sure so I was I was playing on tour I was playing a tournament out in L.A. It's just so happened to be the same weekend as the Rose Bowl Bowl. Urban Meyer's final game as the head coach. Ryan Day is taking over next. And my old roommate, Jeff Hirman, was the captain of the 2014 National Championship team. He was also out there. They all flew out to see Urban's last game. And I called him. I was like, hey, you're going.

He's like, yeah, like I'm watching the game come up and watch it with me. And it just so happened to be the president's box with Gene Smith and Nick Swisher, Archie Griffin, some of the big donors at Ohio State and that was, you know, I watched the whole fourth quarter sitting right next to Archie Griffin, which was amazing. But the cool part for me was after the game, you know, everyone goes down, congratulates Urban. I wait for my buddy Jeff outside the stadium, right outside of the Ohio State locker room area. And we're going to leave. We're going to go back to the hotel. But he's coming off a knee surgery. He tore his ACL, his first year in Denver, playing with Peyton Manning when they won a Super Bowl and we asked an officer like hey like

where do we where do we get an Uber he's like oh you got to walk like half a mile that way you know it's not like a simple thing to get out of the Rose Bowl and Jeff's like screw that man we're taking the bus home and I'm like what bus he's like oh the the team bus like just hop on and we'll go and I'm like what do you mean so there's A B and a C bus we get on the B bus that's the offensive bus and it's we're the only ones in the bus at the time and i just pick us i pick somewhere to sit right like right like you know just like across the hall from from jeff or across the aisle yeah and the guys start getting on brian hartline gets on you know all the coaches get on and ryan day's the offensive coordinator so this is the his bus so everybody gets on they're

still waiting for one guy and is dwayne haskins drip dwayne haskins he comes on the bus he starts walking back and I swear, D.P. Pock, he looks at me and he's like, hey, man, who's this guy in my seat? I took Dwayne Haskin's seat. So he sits down with the guy behind him. We start the bus. Jeff looks over at me. He's laughing. He's laughing like crazy. As the bus starts, you know, Ryan Day is officially the head coach now of Ohio State. And he comes walking back to the bus, like all the way back. And he gets to my row and he looks at me. and because Duane's right behind him and he looks at me and he sits down right next to me facing facing back to Duane he's like his first decision as a head coach he's got to figure out

if Duane Hassan's going pro or if he's staying in college so he sits down and I literally hear him say hey Dwayne so what's you thinking and then I don't hear anything else and then Jeff is sitting over there he's laughing so hard hey Bach they hit him they hit the coach with the knockout gas so he could not hear the conversation i did i swear i didn't i didn't hear anything else but i was like wow this is pretty cool like i'm sitting here and i get to see like um coach day's very first decision as a head coach and you know as a head coach now like you you you start to realize the magnitude of of all those of all those things but yeah i got off the bus like and uh you know the old

all the trainers Doug and sean and those guys were like what p what are you doing on the bus i was like oh jeff dragged me on they were laughing so that i mean i was like family family for all them. The tennis team and the football team, the tennis team shared the training room with the football team when I was there. So all the football staff, all the guys, they knew who I was. So it wasn't like some random random. So I couldn't just randomly show up and get on your team. No, I don't think so. And I wouldn't have got on if it wasn't for for Jeff. So, you see how he's, he's, he's just told us we couldn't just come hang out on his bugs. You can hang out on the tennis bus. Like, we're just like, what are he doing on the bus?

DP, get off the bus. Bach, what are you doing on the bus, man? But yeah, that was a, that was a cool. There's, you know, there's a thing about the politics of, of a team bus and team travel that should have its own special. Because where you sit, who you sit with or around, where the coaches sit in regards to, because some coaches are front of the bus guys, some are back of the bus guys because they wouldn't be able to see everything.

Some don't want to know. I want to sit in the front. I want to talk to the adults. I want to see the road. I don't want to. Who are you? Which one are you? I think I was like two thirds of the way back.

So you wanted to be in the middle. Middle back. I didn't want to be all the way in the back because the bus was too bouncy back there. And I don't know. Sometimes I'll just jump in the front because I knew I was getting off quick. But usually it was just, hey, where's this empty spot where there's not someone else sitting there? As a coach, I always was right with the driver. like I need to like hey man are we doing we good like if something if something went down I wanted to know right away as a coach I think I'm more towards the front now but as if I was a I was an athlete it'd be more towards the middle or the back I wouldn't want to be around the coaches do we do we not give Archie Griffin the credit he deserved he's he's I mean I think he's amazing I mean obviously like should that what is qualify him as the goat but I mean the college football go for people that

For people that are college football historians would probably agree that he's the goat. But he also, you know, my parents still live in Columbus and they're still around Ohio State and some of the things that are going on there. And he's just all over the community there. He's kind of like what you said, he's like the Johnny Rogers here and Lincoln. Like he's a big face there still. He played, you know, he's always down and around the program, always hanging out, always promoting Ohio State.

And I think that's what makes both of these places so specials. you don't you don't really see that everywhere and to have people that really care and stick around and want to be a part of the program and around the city of lincoln and and see it grow and prosper and and achieve things that you know maybe you guys didn't achieve or whatever you know they just want to see ohio state do great they want to see Nebraska do great and i think that's for me that's why i enjoy being here so much as i see you know a lot of my experiences that ohio state are also visible here in lincoln so there really aren't that many programs that have a Johnny Rogers Archie Griffin no Michael Jordan like we can name

a handful maybe two handful but I think beyond ten programs I'm not sure Bill Walton before he passed at UCLA was was was that active I just don't know that every program has that for sure no I know and I think you know we're sitting here and you know we're biased to Nebraska and me a little bit to at least I was to Ohio State but that's the truth like you just don't see a lot of that special energy everywhere and uh and i and hopefully fans don't take that for granted here because of this is a really special place yeah i agree 100% we'll go to break come back final segment with coach peter cobelt husker men's tennis here on the ticket watch live on facebook youtube or twitch you're listening to one-on-one with dp

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