1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: October 22nd, 3:25pm – Evric Gray (UNLV Runnin Rebel)

Episode Date: October 22, 2021

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You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Sponsored by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Here's a guy that gives them more depth at UNLV. Everett Gray. He brings nine points off the bench for Coach Tarkhanian. In less than 20 minutes of playing a game. Here he'll have a chance.

Oh, as he goes up for the dump, Miller takes a piece of the arm. Two on Miller now. team foul number five here's another basketball player with a baseball background he was a third round pick of the Astros and 87 was Everett Gray

let's bring him in old man Everett Gray let's bring him in how you doing it how you doing brother tough crowd tough crowd right off the back

it's tough right there oh look that's not tough Andrew Galada around here right like straight to the jaw Man, I appreciate you. Thank you for doing this on a Friday.

A lot's going on, again, in sports. So it's interesting. I wanted to ask you, because being around great programs, like you've seen great programs and you've seen not great programs. You and LV had depth, right? You guys had your second five probably could have won the conference that you guys were playing in. Right? Like, that's a fair statement.

So you need depth and you need answers. When you're trying to build a good program, and I'm going the long route to get to a question about Tarkhanian, was Tark responsible for everything that happened in the program? Him and Coach Gert, Tim Gerkovich, was the two, I guess you want to say, the two leaders of the UNOV program. The thing is that Tark had his hands on everything, but he did delegate.

some of his responsibility to people he trusts. And that's the main thing about running the program. I used to hear him say sometimes, I'm only good as my, I'm only good as my assistants, and definitely only good as my players. And he knew that.

And that's what he stressed a lot, because I was nosy all the time, because I knew I wanted to get into coaching, so I wanted to pay attention to what he said to kind of pick his brain, because he didn't really say that much. But when he said something, everybody paid attention. With that, if something goes wrong.

So when you guys, you had your win streak broken, what was the following day at practice like? Well, you got to realize, D.P., so my sophomore year, we lost at Duke. We were 35 and 1, or 34 in 1, of whatever we were. So that last game, our last game was our last game. Okay.

So going into the season, his last year, which was my junior year, I really didn't discuss anything about, because remember, we always played deep into the tournament. So if we lost, are we either won? The game's over. So there's nothing to talk about. But I can go back to when we finally lost a game to Rutgers at Piscataway, New Jersey, and overtime.

Yeah, he let us have it after that. We switched up a lot of stuff. And he just explained, he gave everybody their role. And if you didn't like it, he'd transfer. You know, back then he was just like, if you don't like it, this is your role, transfer. But if you play hard and play the right way, you will play. And so that record, after we lost the records,

We went on and beat, we ended up running like 25 in a row. And we couldn't go to the tournament DEP.P. Remember that year? We were third in the country, we were 28 and 2. We lost the Rutgers and Missouri that year with Anthony Peeler. And we were 28 and 2, made it all the way to the, you know, the third-ranked team in the country, but we couldn't go to the tournament.

And then the Big West tournament at the course end was like, you guys couldn't even go to the conference tournament. Because all you're going to do is take a bid away from someone else who you're going to, you know, I'm just going to win. We didn't lose a, I didn't lose a, I didn't lose a conference game for two years. Like two and a half years. I didn't, three and a half years, I didn't lose a conference game. See, we're trying, yeah, but that's, that's, right, like, that's a part of, and a part of the humor in this. Nebraska football falls firmly into that time frame and that sort of dominance.

And then now if I asked you about UNLV's basketball program, you would shake your head, scratch it, and then try to find an answer about why it is in the shape that it's in now. Right. What is the thing that you think needs to happen at UNLV for it to be the UNLV that it used to be? You need to You know me, Dee, I've been trying to get I pull for all of my sports at your own LV

even though you know, we're not doing too well in all of our sports or some baseball. But the thing is, in volleyball I had a good season this year, but the thing is replacing

replacing a legend is always hard, it's iffy. There was some lean years after Tark retired, just like I was born, tired. They had a pretty good... I don't think they should have fired Solich, but we're not going to get into that. And, you know, I'm a... D.P., you know,

I like all sports. I'm a fan of everything. But the thing is that with replacing the legend, sometimes the expectation, the next coach is hard. And people live in a past. And those past is not going to come back. It's just not. You've got to live in reality at

one point. And you need to hire the right. guy that wants to be there. The last guy, TJ, he didn't want to be there. He wanted to be at Iowa State. He finally got there. His wife went there. He kind of coached there for a while.

Everybody knew that, and she hired him anyway. And we knew he was only going to be there for a couple years. And obviously, that guy was terrible. The guy he replaced. They only went like four games. So you got to get somebody that wants to be there. A young with a lot of energy. And I think they probably did with Kevin.

Now, Kevin's never been a head coach, Kevin Kruger. Right. But we'll see what Kevin, we've got to get Kevin a shot. I know his dad will be behind the scenes helping a little bit, Alon Kruger. But the thing is that was Nebraska football, I think they did it the right way. They tried to go back into their pass. But when they went to a pass, they went to a guy that ran the same stuff as Tom. And everybody, you have to spread the ball.

Everybody is spreading the ball a little bit. Now, if you want to be competitive in Nebraska, you've got to go get some dudes from Florida. that can run. You got to get some dudes from Florida. You've got to get some, now you've got to convince them. Don't mind of, you know, the cold winter months, but you're going to be playing on this big stage. But you got to, whoever's recruiting, they need to recruit Florida, California, and Texas.

And hopefully they can get some guys there. But you got to address to the times, just like with basketball, like stretch five, stretch fours, driving nobody really post up anymore. More guys are skilled now. So, just like with football. I mean, you can't, you got to spread the ball and run the ball. Not run the ball, but spread the ball out. And, you know, shotgun.

And those days are over. Even FC is not going to student body right to laugh anymore. Right. They got Clovis in the back, you know, not even under center anymore. So you have to adjust to the times and hire a guy that can actually coach that style of football that you guys are looking for. We're talking Evergrey, former NBA, or, you know, played with the great UNLV teams, is now a coach and an athletic director in Utah.

So as you manage this stuff, right? Let's say that you're in the building and a program is struggling, you generally try to keep your hands out of other people's soup until the soup is bad, right? Then you've got to step up and say, all right, okay, this, we either got to fix the soup or we got to serve something else. For you, what's that, what's a line that would be in place

that you would say, you know what, I've got to change. We need to change a coach for this program because this program's not good. Well, you already know, D.P., when money talks. Right. So nobody's showing up in boosters. When boosters start complaining, that's when you're in trouble as a coach. And you need to start trying to figure stuff out. Just like what Boone did.

Boone or the baseball coach, he knew the Yankees, the Yankees coach. He knew he was, he was on the, he was under the fire, so he fired three guys. So he thinks that's changing. That's going to make a difference for him. But the thing is that when you see it coming, it's basically on what's booster sand, alumni sand,

and the money people behind that, it seems like Nebraska still gets a lot of support for their program. But, I mean, eventually they want to get back to the glory days, but it's going to take a minute until they get the right guy in there. I don't know if Scott is the right guy. I like Scott. I watched him when I was younger. I mean, when he was in college, you know, those teams are great.

But those days are over. And you have to address, like I said before, and when the booster start chiming in, and that money started going away, and then that's when you make a change. Yeah, I want, I'm glad you said that because that's been my thought, is that as long as the account, as long as the bank account is good. they're not going to move. And if people are still supporting it, people still going to games,

I mean, they've got the sellout streak and 90,000 since 1962, right? You've got all this stuff in place. But ultimately, at some point, wins have to happen. And for you, when you're watching this thing, if somebody loses in year two,

year three, your four, year five, what becomes the focus? Is it that money is still coming in? Or is it that wins aren't happening. It's a little bit of both, D.P., but when it comes down to it, it's

money and how the program is being ran, how the morale around the program. And if, you know, talk radio, you can pay attention, I'm pretty sure some people are fired up. Yeah. Either for, for Scott

Frost, or I guess, either way, somebody, some people are fired up, and, you know, you know, everybody's but I'm pretty sure they really want Nebraska back on a map. They're not looking at Nebraska going seven and four or six and four and playing in the potato, you know, the inside bowl. They don't want that. And I think once those things start happening when you're playing in the inside bowl

and your Nebraska and you're okay with that, then that's a problem. You shouldn't be okay with that being Nebraska because everybody knows. the history of Nebraska, but we're not going to get into Frank Solichstein. Did I just say that again, D.P.? Because it's all true. It's all true. All right, so before we let you go,

the NBA 75, give me your two biggest snubs. Give me two people that shouldn't be there on the list and two people that should have been on the list. Oh, D.P. I don't think Tracy McGrady was, I think Tracy McGrady should have been on there. People making a big stink.

over Bill Walton. Bill was nice. Bill, if Bill didn't have fee problems or foot problems, I don't know, I think he had

both of his, both of his wills are messed up. Yep. People complaining about, about, about, about Bill,

but I think Clay Thompson should be on there because of the simple fact that people don't realize if you watch the game, that's why Clay, and Clay took the pressure off,

off, of Steph, because Steph can't guard D.P. right now, no offense, B. Stop it. Stop. But he can't defend, but Clay took that away. Because he was a great, but he was a great two-way player.

He can score and he can defense. So that's one of them, Bill. People hate knowing Bill, but I think he should be on there. I mean, if it was a top 100, I would definitely have Tracy McGrady and Clay Thompson on that. But, you know,

you know, this is why they have these for debate. I mean, it's just perfect, it's perfect for us to talk about it. And it's great. I don't know. Is Ben Wallace on there? Ben Wallace did not make the list. See, I'm an undergo.

I like Ben. He was my teammate with the Wizards when he first got to the league. And he took care of me when I got hurt. But it was just a bunch of guys. But, you know, to be in the top 100 or 75 is great. But there's going to be some guys that are going to be pretty pissed that it didn't make it. but, you know, this is why it's great for talk radio and us talking off the record on who's going to be on there.

Yeah, amen to that. That'll be a whole different discussion. Hey, Dwight Howard did the White Howard should be on. Dwight Howard did not make the list. That's literally the one that was like, you don't realize Orlando Dwight Howard. Yeah. It was a monster.

He was a beast, man. I told people, people missed. Them folks that weren't connected to the game, didn't know how Dwight Howard moved the league. in several different directions when he was the top player. Right. Yeah, they miss it, but that's okay. We're here to tell him.

Thank you, brother. Have a great weekend. I'll reach that this weekend. All right. Talk to you guys. Every great, UNLV, NBA. It's all around good dude. We'll throw the break.

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