1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: November 17th, 3:25pm - Sean Callahan; Part 2 (Husker Online)

Episode Date: November 17, 2021

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You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Sponsored by Beatrice Bakery on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back. One-on-one with Sean Callahan, Hustker Online. We're live at Tanners, Barn Girl 30th at Yankee Hill, be here till 6 o'clock. We want to go to the Honda of Lincoln Hotline. We have a caller. Let's bring in Husker 52.

What's happening? Hey, what's up, D.P. Sean? What's up? What's up? Hey, so I apologize I've touched on this. I got to your show late, but

I'm just curious, what do you expect Frost's time frame to be to announce an offensive coordinator coach, and do you expect him to really work that transfer portal over hard this year to kind of get some instant fix, instant playmakers? I'll hang up with this guys. Thanks for your hard work.

I mean, I'd like to say sooner rather than later, like, but guys are coaching still, and that's the problem you're running. into with hiring coaches. Guys have to finish out the season. You might have championship week. There could be an NFL assistant coach in the pool right now, and they can't leave until they're done.

So a lot of it is timing with guys' jobs. I mean, you're not just going to get a Power 5 guy to say, take, you know, publicly accept the Nebraska job today if they're still coaching because they're under contract for another job. I think I get done to that job first. So I do think, though, The first week of December, a few of these pieces will start to shake out and some things will get out. But it has stayed relatively quiet because I think of the sensitivity of guys still working their jobs where they're at right now.

And it will be interesting, though, on the road, how they recruit. Now, they sent out the other promoted guys, the interim guys. They were the four guys that Frost sent out in the four spots. So it wouldn't surprise me for a week. Those guys would go out. and maybe the second week you could have some of the new coaches out. The transfer portal, yeah, that's inevitable. You're going to see a hard push.

I think the question is how many will they take? Three, five, six, seven, eight. I mean, how high will that addition go? And I think a lot of it is what's the supply look like. Are there guys that could really help your football team? Offensive line DP? I think you've got to find a guy or two there. A bunch.

You've got to find a punter. You've got to find a kicker. You've got to find potentially a long snapper. I mean, there's a lot of, you'd love to find an older running back. I mean, there's a lot of things, a quarterback that you could go, but it's got to be somebody that you have a scouting report on that you think is better than what you have. Is there any way to go into the 150 Pete players down to the walk-on level and develop these things that you need?

The problem I think is Frost doesn't have. have that kind of time, you know, like develop it. But, you know, he's got, he's got a swing for the fence on every movie he makes this year because he doesn't have the ability. He's had four straight losing seasons, you know, there's not going to be the flexibility to kind of wait this thing out and say, you know what? We got three more years here. Let's let this kid develop and develop and develop.

And that's the difference. I mean, I think he's got to really hit on all these moves and get some immediate bang on almost all of them. But for folks who have been in the program, there are folks in this 130 eligible deep that have been in the program for a couple of years. And it's not Sean. It's not we're talking about having Scott having hands on.

We're talking about some of these developmental coaches to tell me we can't find long snappers, backup corners, backup receivers, with folks that are already in the program. Because other programs get it done. What's happening here where that can't happen? That's a great question. on the special thing, specialist thing,

because it just always happened here. You always got guys. Like, Sam Foltz came here as a safety in a receiver and became an NFL punter. Brett Maher turned down Division I, Ohio, to walk on here, and it was a Big Ten Kick punter of the year. Greg Zerloin wanted a transfer here after Nebraska, Omaha, ended their program.

And think about this, you would have went, Alex Henry, Greg Zerloin for a year, then Brett Mahar for the next year. That would have been their kicker run. And NCAA wouldn't allow Zerloin to get his extra year of eligibility at D1. He had to go D2. So he went to Missouri Western. But they've just, you talk, you talk about the 20-year sample size of talent locally.

Kicker and punter was arguably the most fruitful NFL-producing position of any when you go through all those guys. Is that a good thing or not? Saw, that can't be. Now, but then you got tied in now that's really on the come. Austin Allen, Noah Fant, and, you know, other guys like that. But the state itself in the last 20 hasn't produced the level of NFL players as it did the previous 20. And is that cyclical or is that development? I mean, it's really hard to say.

Yeah, it's kind of bananas. I want to go to the text line. Taylor asked which two offensive position coaches are the most important for us to bring on. coordinator and offensive line. But hey, I'm not saying this is going to happen, but the coordinator could be an offensive line coach. I mean, there could be an O-Line guy. You don't know what direction he's going to go with these hires.

Not every coordinator is tied to quarterbacks or running. I mean, you might have a guy that, you know, like Barney Cotton was an OC that coach line. So we don't really know what position that coordinator is going to be tied to and how Frost will kind of divvy it up. But the line higher in general is going to be huge. So within this program, what we'll have to redirect is the system that's going to be used because there's been some question about whether this type of system can win in the Big Ten.

To your thinking, can Scott Frost's system work in the Big Ten? I think it has shown it can work when they, have the right pieces. I mean, you go back to his first year here, the final six games, nobody could stop them when they had an NFL running back, an NFL receiver, J.D. Spillman, who looked like an NFL guy at that time, and Maurice Washington, who was maybe playing as well as any freshman in the conference late in the year, Iowa and Wisconsin couldn't touch Maurice Washington that first year. Like, he was running all over the place. They lost all those games as we know. But there was a lot of promise that Nebraska showed, you know, that first year.

And I just don't think they've had near the pieces that they had that opening year. And it starts with the line play. I mean, when the line play can't protect and you can't run block, it's really, really hard to do anything else. Yeah, I think most fans would say, okay, let's get the chance. change happening. You say the first week of December is when things will start to move. It can't be much earlier than that because everybody plays Thanksgiving weekend. Sure, there are guys that are available now, like LSU coaches and other guys, but you know, it will still be interesting how a lot of that shakes out because it just depends on where you're getting these coaches from and what they're doing right now.

It's going to be an interesting, right? And football has its own issues, basketball. is in game three. Do we know who this team is after three games? You know, I got to see, I'll say I saw about 75% of the game last night. We had a big red wrap-up, and I wasn't on to the late part, so I was watching on my phone in the lobby. But I watched the first half at home, and, man, down 19, I was just like, tell my wife, man, what did people in Nebraska do,

Like, what do we do to deserve this? Right. But, yeah, that was a tough start to the game. Just the shot selection early. Like, Creighton had a great plan on Rice, and they knew how to kind of Verge just wasn't clicking, and everything just went downhill on that first half when those two guys, I mean, they were, what they scored, like 50 some of their points the last time out, and when they're not doing it,

and all of a sudden you've got to rely on Kobe Webster, who felt like they were running him out at one point, and all of a sudden he led them in scoring. That's just not going to win you games. But see, the thing with Kobe is that the same thing happened a year ago, where he gets set aside, set aside. And then by end of season, even with a future NBA point guard on the roster, Kobe gets the minutes and has the impact.

How much of that could it be possible that we're just not giving Kobe the do? Yeah, there's like any team, there's, roster politics. And, you know, there's things that happen on teams. You know, you might be better than a guy, but that guy might be a better prospect than you or whatever you wanted to define it. And that guy plays because you might be a better player, but he's a better prospect. And sometimes the better prospect gets to play with a better player.

And it doesn't always translate to wins when you do that. And I think some of that last night we saw, like guys that weren't the better prospects came in and played better. by your own eye what is it that Creighton does better than Nebraska does on hold they execute a system and they play team basketball and they hit shots I mean they hit a lot of shots I mean Greg McDermott's a great coach like that's proven what he's done there and how he transitioned Creighton from the Missouri Valley to the big east and rebuilt that roster I grew up at home.

I went to a lot of Creighton games. I watched a lot of Dane Altman as a kid. Went to his camp as a seventh grader, his first year. And Dan Alman always wanted the Nebraska job. That's what's always interesting. That was the job he wanted. It just never timed out right for him in his coaching career to come here. But McDermott, you know, has taken Creighton to another level than where Altman ever had them.

And that's saying something because Altman built that thing to what it was. showed and then McDermott took it to a whole other level. With the news of Trey's injury and surgery, what do you think the forward is for him? What do you think just from what you can say and what you do know? I mean, I think now you're just hoping for January. Can he play minutes for you in January? But what do they do in his spot? Like how do they fill those minutes?

That's my next question for you. I feel like CJ and Tokanaga are specialty players. I don't look at them as starters. And so, like, what does Webster go back up? Your guess is as good as mine, what they do. And Alfred Tinkers with that lineup and how they kind of decide to go for the next six, eight weeks. Can they go bigger and try to fix the rebounding problem and slow it down a bit? Yeah.

Even when guys had position last night, They were getting, like, Creighton was getting the hand over him and getting the rebound. That is as frustrating as all get out if you're a coach. Like, you're in position. You have a butt on a guy and he's still getting the hand underneath you and pulling the ball. Like, what else can you do there other than just be more physical? Can you go longer? Can you go?

Eduardo Andre is, I'm a fan of his. Okay. I've gotten to know him a little bit, and I like how he plays. I think he gives them a spark. Maybe he's someone that gets more minutes. Walker did him. play very well last night well but he had i mean he's still the walker's the second best passer on the team yeah no he's a great play he's a and defender so what do they do can they

play them together and lat lat is not really a big guy as we know yeah he's he he feels like he can he can body down there but he wants to shoot at first and you know brigham you know he's a big guy likes to shoot too you know like i feel like andre's a guy's a guy that that wants to get dirty and they need a little bit more of that on on the interior of their other team it's it's gonna be so are you you you you normally do a show with tray and bryce are you guys going to have that show well we had a plan for tomorrow okay tape um we have eight shows left to do over the course of the season and tanners who we're at right now is actually the sponsor of that so we're talking like well when's the show coming well hopefully tomorrow but

i don't know a lot of it depends on tray and his surgery you know and how how how he's feeling. So I'd say it's probably 50-50 at best. We're going to do a show tomorrow just because I just don't know where Trey's at right now. And, you know, I wondered about Bryce watching that, too, how hard that was for Bryce. Because he seemed a little out of sorts in the second half. I mean, you got your brother in the locker room. Your brother's not there, man.

He was in tears. Yeah. That's got to be tough. Yeah. I feel for Trey, man, because I know how hard he's taking this. Yeah. I'm concerned about that too. That's a statement of truth.

We're at Tanners Bar and Grill 30th in Yankee Hill. Sean Callahan, a Husker, online. We'll throw it a break. We'll come back. Close out one-on-one from Tanner's Bar and Grill. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One-on-One with DP on 937 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com.