1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: November 9th, 3:25pm - Mark Manning (Husker Wrestling HC)

Episode Date: November 9, 2021

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You're listening to one-on-one with D.P. Brought to you by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back. One-on-one, 93-7 with the ticket. I'm DP. He's Nicky Boy Boy, Boy, the kid. I'm going to thank Cam Chick once again for coming in.

And we're just, you know, you need somebody in the middle of the field that could hit anywhere in the lineup and do work for you. We're going to effort Mark Manning for the wrestling. program just to find out what's going on. They've got dual meet Thursday night at Devaney Center, Chadron State, and Carney. Tickets are available to do that. So I want to talk to him about what to be expected there and then what's going on with that. Again, appreciate you guys on the start of Haman text line. Appreciate you guys.

What's up? Husker 52 says, what's up what's happening? Gabe, yeah, it was a pleasure. you last night, bro. And it's always fun at these events when you guys, we get to put a face, we get to put a face to the name. So it works out pretty well that we can do the things we need to do. I'm greatly appreciate you guys giving us your time on a, on a weeknight and coming out and hanging with us. So let's bring him in. He's got a big week ahead of him. Dual meet Thursday night, Devaney Center. Huskers wrestling coach, Mark Manning. Coach, how you doing today?

Hey, DP, great, great. Thanks for having us on. No, it's always fun. I get excited because, like, I haven't been to a Huskers meet, and I thought, oh, this is a Thursday where I get to come and check it out myself. So give me a little, give me a preview. What am I going to be looking for and looking at Thursday night? well Thursday night you're going to see a top 10 team in the country wrestle Shadron State at 7 o'clock and then probably about five-minute break and then we'll wrestle Nebraska Carney who's a powerhouse division 2 team so you'll you'll get to take in two dual meets and get to get to watch a number of Huskers be able to wrestle

we're wrestling extra guys two that night meaning maybe not all our starters will wrestle both matches so it's going to be a fun it's going to be a kickoff

our kickoff the season we have a coaches clinic we'll have about 150 coaches here on Thursday starting at about 1130 and we do our coaches clinic all day until about 430

and then those coaches are able to stay and take in a couple dual meets and watch us compete. Coach, how many coaches from the area will show up to this clinic? So it's mainly all the coaches within Nebraska high school and youth coaches. And so they come and get certified for weight certification and some of the rules and regulations for Nebraska high school. Athletics Association, Rodney Higman, will be doing a meeting for about an hour. And then we have different breakdown sessions with my strength and conditioning coach, John Pfeiffer, my trainer, a lot of ideas on rehab and prehab and taking care of your body for young athletes.

And then our nutritionist, DeWani, will give the coaches a breakdown of of, you know, weight management, I guess, you would say, and really how to make weight properly for young kids. And the protocol our college guys follow and our Olympic guys have followed and making weight the right way and the smart way, right? And so it's a big dynamic. It's a big dynamic as far as recovery and feeling good in wrestling at the proper weight that you should.

And that's a big aspect in our sport. And it should be about competing rather than how much weight I'm cutting. Coach. So I think it's really good for high school coaches and junior high coaches to hear that and really take that in. Coach, I want to ask this for both student athletes and parents. What should that gap be between your walk around weight and then the weight you're going to wrestle match day at.

In your mind, what should parents and students be aware of? Because some folks will say, you know, don't drop down, pass-a-weight class. Some will say, too. What do you say for folks depending on their body and the individual? Yeah, it varies a little bit different, D.P. for everyone, especially when you're dealing with, you know, 15, 16, 17-year-old men that are growing, you know. You know, I know I have a 14-year-old. He grew five inches in one year.

Wow. And so kids are growing, and obviously you don't want to, you know, try to go against nature. When you're growing and trying to put on weight and then you're working against itself, that's just not healthy. And so I always think, you know, if you're five or 10 pounds over your walk-around weight, That's what we call it walk around weight. What were you weighing in the summer? And you're eating up whatever you wanted and ice cream. And if you're 10 pounds over and then you start training and you're able to make the weight comfortably and you feel good,

then you're probably at the proper weight. Cutting too much weight is a thing of the past, you know? Yeah. You don't feel good. It's not good for the sport. takes the fun out of sport, feel good and strong and healthy and make weight the proper way. Coach, what is the nutritional boundary that you set for your student athletes? Are they all eating the same thing in the meal room?

Are you real case specific? How do you go about leading them with their nutritional situations? Yeah, we're really lucky to have Nuwani. She takes care of Husker Valley. ball and then Husker wrestling. She travels with us. Really, she's just a huge resource for our guys to go to to say, hey, you know, I mean, she tells the guys that have, you know, some weight problems or, you know, maybe not

problem, but guys that have to cut a little bit of weight, you know, carry a jug of water around, you know, drink, you know, 32 to 64 ounces of water, you know, during the day. And so when you're walking around and cutting pop out and cutting things out of your diet that will restrict you from really maintaining your weight and it's just hard, you know, drinking. Everyone likes sugar. We're all addicted to sugar, right? And it's easy to, you know, it's just easy. It's life's nature that we crave the sugar. And so drinking water and get your body. sweating properly, you're going to really just utilize your body's working nature to get your weight down so that you're not working against yourself.

And, you know, just eating good, clean, healthy diet is the first step. And then just drinking, right, you know, not drinking all these crazy drinks out there that are offered and too much Gatorade, you know. Too much Gatorade. You've got to drink a lot of water to dilute all that Gatorade you drink. So Nwani shares with our guys a lot of the issues that, you know, everyone struggles with. You know, cravings at night, eating too late, and just making sure we work out, we train in the morning. So we practice in the morning.

We get our guys up in the morning. They might eat a bar, a yogurt or something before they, before. they practice. But we practice at 8.30, then we get going, and then they can eat a good lunch and go to their class, but just making sure they're eating a good, clean diet, but drinking a lot of water because, you know, your body's going to really, you know, regenerate itself and help recovery your workouts, but also it's going to operate better by just flushing bad stuff out of your system and allow your system.

to really, you know, work for itself. We're talking to Mark Manning-Huskers wrestling coach. And coach, this is that time where now that the match is you're in season, that primary focus of the academics, how do you assist these young people without, you know, to keep them from falling behind and from letting that be a distraction from the season itself? Yeah, it's good. Once you get locked in the season, people get, you know, altered focus.

focused and it's really we just really keep that in front of them is your student athlete here. You're really here to go to school and get a degree and wrestling is obviously a big part of it, but you got to go to your classes and put in the work with your study hall hours and your tutors and stuff during the day. And so our guys, we just have a great culture among our team. We have a lot of good people. Alvin Banks has been our academic counselor here for 13, 14 years that I've been here. And we just have a good culture around our team.

And we have a lot of guys on some type of academic aid, a lot of them. And so, you know, we're equivalency sports. So we have 9.9 scholarships. We have 35, 36 guys on our team. So right there, you can tell, you know, know, it's an accounting deal there. Not a lot of guys are on scholarship. They're on partials and they're, you know, so guys that might be on a full ride

kids out there, well, yeah, I'm on a full ride. I'm going to Nebraska. I'm a full ride. Well, there's no one on a full ride at Nebraska and wrestling. Right. Because that's one scholarship out of 35. That's it. And so they might be on partial academic aid.

and they're also on athletic aid. It makes it out to be where they don't have to pay much. But that's the dynamic of the sport that every school has to deal with. So no different for us. And so we really push, you know, obviously the academic side because we're here to prepare these guys for life. And we're going to win a lot of wrestling matches along the way. But got to get that degree and you've got to, you know, be prepared for life.

and that's what we really teach each and every day in the room life skills that they're going to ultimately really benefit from. Coach, I was just talking to Cam Chick from the baseball program, and we talked about each program having its own GPS, its own pyramid of what they want to accomplish throughout the course a year, and then that thing at the top for you, of course, would be national championships. But what on the way are the steps that are going to lead you? will know by checking the box that Mark Manning and this wrestling team are taking the steps that

they need to get to to get to Big Ten championship national championship. Yeah, absolutely. That's our goal, D.P., for sure. And we have, you know, a tough league. So ultimately, we have to stay accountable to each other and our team. And so when we're stronger within, it's going to make the outside result be better for us. Right? We want to win every dual meet.

We want to go to Las Vegas tournament, 45 teams. We want to win that. We want to win everything. Right, right. But ultimately, it's about we have to continue on a daily basis and a weekly basis as a staff. One, stay connected to our team. What's that mean is knowing their needs, knowing their needs. Sometimes when I go in the room, I don't have.

I always just gravitate to the best guy on my team. I gravitate to the guy that needs me. How do I know that? Because of experience, I know what guys might need me, might need a hug around, you know, put my arm around them, right? And some guys need maybe my foot up their rear end, right?

Yep. Yep. No, all facts. We need that. And so I think, but mostly they need my arm around their back and encouragement. and keep guys going and growing.

And that's the key to our season is take each week for what it's worth because there's always delightful challenges. I mean, there are always that, you know, someone, oh, you know, maybe didn't do well in a test. Someone didn't cut weight right. Oh, someone got their elbow dinged up. Someone hurt their knee, the ankle. I mean, there's always those challenges that are going to happen.

but you have to just make sure our guys are always growing and improving from within. And when we're improving within our program and holding each other accountable, then the results are going to come. Coach, before let you go, tickets, how do folks, is this a walk-up situation? Should they go on the Huskers app? What do you suggest? Yeah, Husker ticket. Husker ticket office are selling match tickets for this match on Thursday night.

And then next Wednesday is big because November 16th, we, or 17th, we wrestle North Carolina, University of North Carolina here at the Davani Center next Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. It's live on Big Ten Network, first match of the years on BTN. and so that's going to be big stuff. I love to pack the Devani and get people excited for Husker wrestling because we got a really great team and a lot of guys that are our next level and guys that can be national champions. So looking for the fans to come out and support our team,

and we're super excited about our season. Coach, I will see you Thursday night at Devana Center. and thank you for making time for us this afternoon to get us all excited about what you're doing. That's Mark Manning. Thank you, Coach. Thanks, D.P. Appreciate it. Appreciate it, brother.

That's Mark Manning. Hustrell Wrestling. Fired up. Got one more segment, one-on-one. I'll get to the text. I promise you, I'll get to your text. Be right back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch.

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