1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Nebraska transfer portal options: January 2, 11:45am

Episode Date: January 2, 2026

Who could the Cornhuskers target in the portal. Quarterback options on the table for Nebraska as the transfer portal officially opens. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

sponsored by the downtown lincoln foundation on 93 7 the ticket welcome back final segment before we head to hour to appreciate all of your text all of your comments greatly appreciated and we'll get to the folks on youtube we are not ignoring you we will get to you as well um that i promise but from the text line uh text your 2513 uh texted in this tp please explain to the listeners, what Nebraska football was to you growing up as your perception from the outside. He also went into some detail that matches how we all feel this place should be. And I try not to speak for Nebraska fans in full. I speak for myself in the vacuum that is Nebraska athletics and Nebraska football.

But I am from Arlington, Virginia. Like, I'm from, I'm from D.C. So, Arlington, Virginia, you know, for location purposes, I could bike, I would bike ride to the Pentagon on a, you know, it's a 10-minute bike ride to the Pentagon. Pretty simple. But I'm a child, I was born in 1962. In the beginnings, when college football before it was the big business that it is now, you got the best in the country on TV each week. And you didn't get a whole slate of games.

You got two games. You got two games. And often, often in the 70s, in the early 70s, you got Nebraska and whoever they were playing. But every year I got Nebraska versus Oklahoma every year. and sitting, whether it was at my house with the floor console TV, sitting in the floor and everybody and my family knew that that was, that Thanksgiving, we would eat the meal, and then this was before the NFL would really take it over.

But to watch Oklahoma Nebraska, it's the game of the century. And there's several of these opportunities where Oklahoma, Nebraska was the game that gear. And I watched. And as I was introduced, I was already a football fanatic. I mean, my mother used to tell the story that I learned to read so that I could, we had one TV and a family of eight kids. And so with the TV guide, us old heads, when the TV guide showed up in the Sunday paper, you got to go through and circle or list what you wanted to watch that week. You didn't get to watch everything you wanted. So you had to prioritize. Well, I learned how to read so I can identify when football games are coming up. Those are my four shows. There it is.

I get five shows? Okay. All right. Oh, I get one show a night. No, what I'd like is five shows. Not on any particular night. Can I do that? Sure. Okay. Cool. Let me get the game of the week. In that game of the week, I was introduced to this thing called a cornhusker. I didn't know what a whole nine-year-old me didn't know what a cornhusker was. It wasn't necessarily a part of my vernacular in Washington, D.C. But as you watch the game and you started to identify, my goodness gracious, there's this number 20. There's this number 20. First of all, the colors, right?

Those colors. I saw bright red and white. I saw it in the old tearaway jerseys that slung from side to side as Jerry Taggy ran and Jeff Kenny ran and Johnny Rogers, the jet. And the jet was appropriate because it looked like there was like fumes blowing out of the back of that number 20 jersey. But he moved in a way that I had not seen a lot of players move. My eyes were drawn to how extremely athletic he was. I was extremely moved by how tough Jerry Taggy was,

how smart he was in playing the game, how physical the big guys were up front. And these were big guys that were violent, but it was purposeful violence. It wasn't violence for the sake of violence. No, they would throw themselves at Oklahoma in full. Like, I need to do anything to protect my quarterback and my running back. Like, I need to do anything to create a hole.

And the thing that jumped out to me was that there was this guy on Nebraska for all the stars, right? But the guy that stood out the most in that game was this defensive player that had, he had pads from his head to the tips of his fingertips.

Bach, it looked like a suit of armor. It was amazing. It was amazing. And he wasn't the biggest guy, but he was the quickest, and he seemed certainly as the meanest. And Rich Glover dominated that game. I want to say 20 tackles. Husker fans can tell me otherwise. But that they had defenders who attacked Oklahoma and the ball. Like, they attacked defensively. Like, they were sound, right? Because Oklahoma was very sound as well, but it took exceptional place.

If you go back to the Johnny Rogers punt return, there are six different opportunities for that thing not to happen. But he was the first person that I identified as a playmaker. That no matter what the play that was called, once he got the ball, anything could happen. And why? Because the other 10 players knew that if I make any kind of block, any kind of space for Johnny Rogers,

something magical could happen. And it did. And it kept happening. Rich Glover dominated the line of scrimbage. And it kept happening. I was like, can't they block that guy? No, because he was perfectly sound, foundationally rock solid.

Taggy made great decision after great decision after great decision and there's Bob Devaney on the corner on the sideline in full control in full control that's when I became a Husker fan even in Washington, D.C. in 1971. I would hope that that's what Husker

fans want from Matt Ruhl and this Husker team. Some excitement, some pride, foundationally rock solid, exceptionally athletic, and led by an absolute main. Second hour, one-on-one, coming up. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. to one-on-one with DP on 93-7 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.