1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: November 30th, 3:45pm - Changes to the student section

Episode Date: December 1, 2021

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Back to one-on-one with D.P. Presented by Beatrice Bakeray on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Final segment of one-on-one. Thank you guys. You guys have been amazing on the text line. I want to read this one. So what's up, D.P. Respectfully, UNL is about more than sports to a lot of people.

The son went to you and L had zero inches to Nebraska football, just not his thing. So he will never go even if it was free. Me, on the other hand, I was at every game. As a student and later's a grown-up, U.N. employee season ticket holders since 1999 here. Yeah, those people exist. I would never discount the people who want interested. I would also say that honestly, that percentage of people who fall in that category

would be in the minority of folks who attend the University of Nebraska. Historically, that would be kind of the case. Travis says this, in my opinion, the donor fee will end the sellout streak before the performance on the field does. Yeah, I just think paying attention to what the operations actually are. If people aren't coming to a game or decide not to come to game, there is a profound reason why.

It would behoove everybody involved to know what those reasons are. Travis says, yeah, the donors would definitely be the priority. Yeah, that's, I mean, exist, but that's just a little weird. Texas Jeremy, I love how U.N.T. and Oki State had their student section directly behind the visitors of the bench. It gets rowdy. That's so common sense. and so logical.

I do not understand it. As I was telling the basketball players, when they head to Raleigh tomorrow night, what they're going to face, they're going to have the student section directly behind their bench. They're going to be in their huddle. Why do you think teams came up with the idea

of having their time outbreaks in chairs in the middle of the floor? Because you were going to places where the students understood their impact and because they were impactful in the game, they showed up in greater numbers. if you negate the student section's power

don't do that like if you're taking them further away from the action the action is for them let the blue bloods flight over the club seats think about when you're watching a Duke men's basketball game it's the Cameron Crazies right when they inbound it that's it's all the hands right by the player

and it's I mean that's part of what makes the atmosphere from the tech sign says Taylor says the entire South Stadium is old money and old people yeah and look I'm not, there's not ageism. I just understand it. If I've been going to games for 50 years,

I think it's ill thinking to say, well, I've been coming for 50 years. I think it should be, yeah, I've been blessed. I've come for 50 years. At some point, other people need to replace you. You got to build fan base. You've got to build a fan base. And you can't do it if you're not inclusive. Because there's some future blue blood.

millionaires in the student body. And if they're being excluded, it's kind of crazy. It's kind of crazy. So just be careful with that. Ben says, it's like no one gives a damn about the in-person experience anymore. That's some deep water. Because it's not just what the university is doing.

It's also a TV broadcast. Why do we have to wait for the end of a TV timeout and then announce the previous play is under review? Yeah, there are basic things. and you're catering to the masses, but the experience should be about the people in the building. TV has to work along. Radio has to work along.

Those are rules one and two of journalism and media. You have to dance with the game. The game doesn't dance for you. Now, money has taken over, and the people have said, well, listen, if you give me a minute after time out, I'll give you X number of dollars. We are becoming really, really too functional

and focused on the amount of money that a thing can get you to do. But that's a whole other conversation. Yeah. I was telling you, the organization, the location of student sections just isn't the best. Where would you, from a student perspective, where would you want to be?

Like, where could you have the biggest impact on the game? For football? Or for which? Ellis says, you keep saying blue blood. I think you mean blue hair. I mean the same thing. I'm including them in the same thing. Yeah, where would you want to be for football?

Where would you want to be? See, being behind the opposing bench. I think that's the key. I've been to other stadiums where it was you were behind the, on the side, behind the opponent's bench. You want them uncomfortable, right? Yes, and it's. You want them distracted, right? And when I've gotten into this on my show, it's been the, well, season ticket holders.

Season ticket holders are not more important. So. Then the student body, if you allow the student body to go. Now, what happens if the student body does? show up it's a bad look yeah but i don't think that's probably that's a problem for nebraska football i agree i agree the the student body showing up i think it's a it could be a problem for football and basketball you really should be right behind which nebraska basketball i mean i was telling you do we have time for the story yeah okay so i was telling you during the break that just a couple

weeks ago during the crayton game i uh got there i actually bought a student ticket because i was like yeah i want to be in the student section for crayton and this is how so what you needed you needed a wristband it was just an orange wristband that you needed to get into the side for the student section. I rolled up at whatever time and... What time was it? It was about an hour before tip. It was an hour, hour and ten before tip. Okay.

And the whole second row of the student section on the side was open. And the only reason I know this is because my buddies were there and they were waiting for me. And they had gotten into the student section. They were sending Snapchats, all this to everybody. Pictures were surfacing on Twitter and stuff of the. the whole second row being open, well, there were hundreds of students in standing room only because they ran out of wristbands. And so for a game like Creighton.

Well, that should be expected. They should be the norm. They didn't fill the student section on the side. So all these students are in standing room. They were all up on the popcorn machine hanging out. Like there was pretty substantial. And I'll tell you this right now. So in that game, I got in for standing room.

and there were no seats, which is fine. Like, that's fine. It wasn't the fact that I didn't get in there. It was the fact, it was the idea that they didn't fill it. And that they ran, they didn't make enough wristbands.

It's not like they had a different number of chairs than the week before. They have enough wristbands. They have enough wristbands for everything. They didn't do that. So I left, I went and watched the game at Buzzard Billies because they didn't let you just stand

outside of these sections. You should have just gone upstairs. I should have. Yeah. Yeah, just do that. So it was just like the organization. is just not there. Wow.

Wow. And Taylor says this, the basketball teams are in desperate need of an actual crazy student section. I agree with that. Adam says as a student, student section behind the opponent's sideline

or where the current road fans sit by the road team interests. There's so many ways to make this thing work. When I was in college, in the Sunbelt conference, the rule had been that they would always put, free student seating behind the visiting team

our dugout. So whenever we came in, we had to face it. Well, it makes it more fun for the fans. It makes a better atmosphere and the visiting team has a lot more fun for that. It was fire. Because them folks would come in,

they tailgate before games, and then they roll through. Hey, Pearson, nice jump on that one. Way to go. Look at you. You're going to go up. You're going to strike out.

You're going to strike out. You are going to strike out. You struck out. We told you. We told you. I think there's a plan to this if they do it right. Thanks for hanging out for the first hour. Old school is up next.

Jay former joins us at 430. You know, he's doing J. Foreman's stuff until 4.40. You don't understand how it is. Super secret probation. We know he's not downtown. Yeah, he is, actually. Old school when we come back. Thanks.