1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Peter Kolbet (Nebraska Men's Tennis HC) - June 11th, 2025

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 937 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Boom. In your face. You thought, you thought we were going quiet into that good night. No, no, no.

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So it goes with you wherever you go on a Wednesday night in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it is gorgeous. Lincoln, you're gorgeous. You're gorgeous today. We have a special guest. He is always a welcome addition to the ticket. Let me introduce you once again to Nebraska men's tennis head coach, Peter Cobalt. Coach, what's good?

GP, I kind of like the night hour, man. This is fun. Yeah. Yeah, it's a little. Well, here's the thing. You know, talking to Troy Dan and talking to some of the regents, that is not that far from happening. And in my belief that you should have the ability to share who you are and share this program in a way in your voice, not necessarily ours. I can sort of tell your story.

but for you to talk to your players, for you to talk to your fans, for you to talk to your boosters, your alumni, for you to talk to people about the game that you know best and love most makes more sense. And I've offered,

and I can say it publicly because I have no shame when it comes to it, that I've offered this athletic department access for any program and any coach. If you want an hour each week, you want an hour for 20 weeks, you want an hour for 10 weeks, whatever it is, you have it. It's yours.

It's literally yours to do the kind of business that you want to do, to have the kind of conversations you want to have. Bring on your athletes, allow the Husker fans to get to know them, to let them tell the story of what it means to be a Husker and the life that is and why they chose Lincoln and why they chose Coach Colbel, all of those things. It's much easier for you. And so I think forward, soon enough, you'll have as much time as you want, coach, and I'm thrilled about it. That's why you're the best, DP. You're the man.

You know, it's the thing. So it's interesting times, just coming off the French Open, you as a college coach, how do you watch events like that? How do you watch the majors? Is it, do you follow pro tennis much or are you more eyes on college sports, college tennis? How do you process? Well, we're constantly, in the recruiting world, you're always looking at the lower levels of the professional tennis world. You know, some of those guys are on the fringe there, you know, deciding whether they want to come to college or not. So sometimes you can catch them and you convince them to come over across the pond

and play some college tennis. But, you know, for the French Open finals, you kind of just sit back and you just enjoy it as a fan. You know, you're seeing the two, very best players coming up in the world, Carlos Alcarrez and Yonix Center, 21 and 22 years old. And you hope for a great match. And I mean, if anyone watched, they're saying that was one of the five best tennis matches

ever played in the history of the sport of tennis. And tennis has been being played for a lot longer than a lot of these other sports. That's for sure. So for people to be able to make a statement like that and is amazing. and, you know, as a tennis nerd or junkie or whatever you want to say, you know, seeing some of the things that those guys are doing, makes me glad I decided to stop playing when I did and get into coaching. How would you define that, that the difference between high school tennis,

elite travel tennis for whatever it is, tournament tennis, collegiate big 10 SEC ACC type tennis and then professional tennis if you had to scale them with with the French open being Wimbledon being

you know 10 where would you put I mean because there are a lot of parents out who are listening who want to know listen you know my kids are pretty good high school player but I don't know if they're college

good How would you scale that? Well, it just depends on what you're kind of looking for in your college experience as well. You know, college tennis, you have Division I, you have Division II, Division III. You have NAA. There's a lot of different options you have for college tennis. And all the divisions are very good. You know, Division I's obviously the best, but I was watching the Division III National Championship the other day,

and that level is also extremely high. So, you know, if the French Open Finals is a 10, I would say the top college tennis players are about an eight, eight and a half, which is relatively high. Some of them can get up into the nines or low, you know, low nines. And then high school tennis kind of depends. I think if you're the best in your state, you're obviously going to have opportunities to play college tennis. and then, you know, kind of like my experience, I wanted to play college tennis, but I had no ambitions or no real dreams of playing professional tennis. I didn't know how good I was when I was 17, 18 years old.

I didn't have that kind of experience. So I found out in college, I had a chance, so that's why I gave it a go. But I think it comes with time. You know, you kind of figure out your journey as you go through it. But tennis is an individual sport, and it takes time to be good at it. It's not somebody you just pick up tomorrow and, you know, you're a freak athlete and you can just make it happen. Like tennis takes a lot of time, coordination, repetitions, athletic ability. You know, there's a lot that goes into it.

And I think it's probably why it's one of the most well-rounded sports in terms of, and just being a raw athlete, well-rounded in terms of everything that you need to do. In this day and age of transfer portal and now with, you know, different financial situations, in play, when you look at Division 3 and you're watching the best of that level and you're watching Division 2 or you're watching, you know, mid-level, mid-level, how intriguing is it to start to ponder and think, well, wait a minute. If they're number one in Division 3, they can help me. They could. Right. They can help me. What's the business mood in college? tennis about transfer portal recruiting of other talent are folks reaching out to you do you reach out to them how does that work and just in terms of uh like watching watching other players playing teams

play and in that in that regard yeah because they're not making they're not going to get the money or the resources or play in the type of venues that they're going to play at if they play at Nebraska. For sure. So maybe the curiosity is maybe the Division II runner-up is looking and going, Nebraska's got a really nice facility. Yeah. It's a nice town.

How does that process work? Well, yeah, it's just when the portal opens, you can, you know, some, you know, the way we do it is we go through all, you know, NIA, Division I, Division I, Division 1, Division 2, Division 3. Some of the, there was just a player from the National Championship Team, Case Western. school in Ohio. They, they, they, they, they, one, they, they, one, they, they, one, they, they're number one player transferred to the University of Virginia, which is one of the more

prominent programs in the country. And he ended up playing five or six for them this year and making a huge impact. So, um, I think if you're doing your job right, you're always looking at, you know, where can you, where can you find someone that can help, uh, make the team better. And so I think once, once, once you start talking to people and they see the, you send them the recruiting videos, they see the facility, you get I'm here on a visit. They're like, okay, like this is a little bit different than where I came from before. So do you, is there a recruiting video that shows facility that you send out to folks that that will reach out and say how I'm interested in Nebraska? Oh yeah. I mean, a lot of,

a lot of the recruiting we do. Obviously, we recruit the entire planet, literally, except for Antarctica. I don't know if anyone plays down there, but literally every, every, we recruit everywhere. So we can't be everywhere at one time. So we're on social media where we're sending out messages when we can and when we send out those messages we attach a video so even if they don't respond they click on that video and they see what Nebraska is and they get the they at least know now you know obviously now there's a ATP professional tournament here on campus so now you're attracting you know coaches and players and federations from all over the world to come the Lincoln Nebraska and they're like they get here and they're like wow this place is really nice you know they go back home to France or wherever

they're from and now they they tell the the juniors they're like hey oh you're getting recruited by Nebraska. That's not, you know, I would look a little harder at them. So you recently talked about recruiting and getting new, new talent in. How's that going in the all season so far? It's good. So we got two freshmen coming in that we really like, you know,

with freshmen, it always takes time in the type of program that I run. It definitely takes time to kind of find your groove and that's all right. But these two guys, I think, really fit the mold well. so we're excited for those two boys coming in. One's from Finland, one's from the Netherlands. We have a transfer coming in. He played number one for Sacramento State. He's from Australia.

And we're looking at another guy or two right now in the transfer portal. And after these two camps, then I'm sending my assistant overseas for about a month. And he's going to go country hopping over in Europe. He's going to collect those points. over there. So try and, you know, you, you try and find, you know, the player that'll fit your, your program.

But I think back in the day, it was a little bit, it wasn't, I don't know if it was easier, but you, you find a recruit and you lift up that rock and there's a million coaches running out of that thing. It's like, oh, I, I'm not the only one that saw you. And there's, exactly. So there's, it, there's a lot of exposure now. there's a lot of ways to make contact with recruits and that makes it easier but it also makes it more competitive. Does Nebraska having some social media stars existing in other programs?

Does that help you? So let's say it's it's AJ Ferrari who makes the bold mood to come and be a Husker wrestler. The rest of the country drops its jaw trying to figure out what Nebraska, right? Big deal. Dylan Raola all over the place. Great talent. Yep. There's movement.

Does that help Peter Cobout and the tennis program? 1,000%. 1,000%. I tell everyone, this is a sleeping giant. And, you know, volleyball's doing their thing, you know, which is great. I think, if football and you get back, get back to the, you know, those really successful years that they had back in the 90s, I think if, you know, I think that's the path that they're on.

I think the more you hear about Nebraska on TV and the news and recruits watch TV. They watch SportsCenter. They watch college football. Nebraska's in the college, you know, CFP playoff race at the end of the year. Like all that stuff matters, you know. People want to be, it's just like in life. Everyone wants to be around winners, you know. So if Nebraska is doing it like that, then I think it only helps all the programs,

not just the men's and women's tennis programs. but I got when that Ferrari guy comes, I got to, I don't know how he does that splits thing after he wins. I got to ask him how he does that. My hamstring hurts just watching. I was six, seven. I don't, I don't bend like that. No, I used to be super flexible. I mean, that was the thing.

People say I'm almost jointless, but that was before all the metal and pens were put in, uh, into various ports. So, but when I watch him now, the idea, like I made a sound getting up off the couch the other night. And I thought, that was my granddad. I made the sound that my grandfather made. Like, I just went, oh, my goodness, so humbling. But to see A.J. Ferrari and do the thing and see all the young men, you know,

the battle at the bone yard where that's a thing that's going on to watch volleyball do its thing, baseball winning the Big Ten tournament. And all of those things, softball making a full run, Matt Ruhle being everywhere all the time, Fred Hoiberg changing the roster and making a run, it, there is a movement. There is momentum. and in sports, we know that momentum is real. 100%, you know, to get the stuff through.

I'll ask you this because where you stand in this thing, you're now at a place where you've got camps coming up, right? Recruiting is still happening, setting a North Star for what, a GPS for what your next season is going to be. And getting folks into town to make sure your roster looks the right way. But how do you manage having camps and a, appearances and that sort of thing coming up because it's a busy stretch for you.

It's a busy two weeks with the camp that you have going on. Let the folks know, one, about the camp, too. What's the mission behind it? Yeah, so it's just summer camps for the junior tennis of Nebraska or in the surrounding areas. Seven through 18 years old, you can be a brand new beginner and all the way up to an advanced junior. There's space for everybody. And, you know, we make a little bit of money from it. And it honestly helps some of our staff.

It goes mostly to our staff. And, you know, there are, you know, I make, I'm fine financially. But we have a graduate assistant that helps him. And same on the women's side. And which is always nice. But really, it's a mission just to try and grow tennis in Nebraska, get people more excited about tennis. I mean, that's what I came on the show.

You know, I don't know how many times now, but that's always been my number one goal is the grow tennis here. Like how can we how can we make tennis more popular here? How can we get people more excited about the men's women's tennis programs? You know, will it ever get to football or volleyball? You know, that's probably shooting for the moon. But that's where I'm looking or that's where we're trying to go. Well, to put this thing in order, so is it boys, girls, both age groups?

What are the parameters? Yeah, boys, girls. It doesn't matter. Age groups, seven years old through 18 years old. All you do is you sign up. You go on the Huskers Men's Tennis website. On the top, there's a tab. On the top, there's a tab for summer camps.

You can do a half day. You can do a full day. It's Monday through Thursday this week and next week. So it's a great opportunity to come out and see the facility. We show everyone, you know, the locker rooms, and we kind of walk everyone through so they can kind of see. But it's a lot of fun, honestly.

It's obviously a lot of work, and you meet a lot of people and everything, which is great. But it gives everyone a chance to come into the facility, see where, you know, I've heard that people here don't even know we have a facility or know where it is. So the more we can get people understanding

where we are and what we're doing, like I think that's only a positive. I think the idea, Yeah. We're going to be in Omaha for College World Series Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. But I think Thursday, and then the following week, we may have some opportunity. I'll talk to you about that. Maybe we'll bring some of the daytime crew down there and broadcasts from the benches somewhere. Just to give people a reason to pay attention to what's come to end. What we know about it, what we know about our, I'll listeners is if we're in public, you know, they'll come show up. Like, they'll come show. Yeah, you have to wave it. We got to wave. Yeah, you have to wave as they go by. 11th. Coach Peter Cobalt, Husker, tennis. We're going to go to break. When I come back,

I want to get into the camp. Some of the things that you need from this, some of the things that folks are looking for. I had a high school coach, local, asked for your information. And so I referred them. So I would like for you to give them that information as well when we come back and then I'm going to switch tables here because I need for you to talk about Husker football. I want you to talk about the NBA finals. I want you like we're going to get into sports talk with with Coach Peter Cobalt, your own 101. You're listening to one-on-one with D.P. Sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Peter Cobalt. Husker tennis joins us.

on one-on-one greatly appreciate him making time on a Wednesday night to come hang out. We talked tennis, we talked a little NIL and Transfer Portal, and he's got a camp coming up that we'll get back to. But we're currently sitting at game three NBA final. And it's OKC, Indiana. Currently, they're battling back at what's 1-1, but it's like a one-point game late in the third. Are you watching? Are you watching the NBA playoffs? I grew up, not many people know this, but I grew up playing basketball.

I played basketball all the way until I graduated high school. I started for my high school basketball team my last two years. So I got a piece of my heart is still for basketball, for sure. Who's the best play you played against in high school? Oh, that's a good question. what's the Tray Burke there was a

Michigan there's a there's a big guy that went to Ohio State with he was his teammates why am I for getting his name I mean I was in the bench we played against Dayquan Cook at Dayton Dunbar

OJ Mayo at North College Hill that was I wasn't playing against him I was watching from the bench That's my story when it comes to to a lot of a lot of famous athletes i was there with them when they played but uh but uh but i got to see a lot of that stuff so i i was always fascinated i was like and i you know i was good at basketball i could shoot and i could jump a little bit i was tall and lanky i could grab a few rebounds and block a few shots yeah but i didn't

want anything to do with the post or the i don't know i was a tall skinny kid but but uh no i love basketball so i i watched the the the NBA when i can um i personally think that the NBA needs to I think they could clean it up a little bit they could call some more travels some of these uh you know in high school it's like you you you squeak your toe the wrong way and you're getting that's a travel in the NBA you see him taking four steps and you're like hey man come on now like what's going on here so i think i think it's i think i think that's kind of the missing piece right now the NBA i think they could get back to cone phone things the way they should in my opinion, but that's just my opinion. The greatest statement, and Harris and I always have a good time

when we have guests in, because there is the question that identifies which, which, which, which, which pocket of the, of humanity you belong to. So the question is as follows, kind sir, who is the goat? The goat? Who is the goat? MJ? See? All right. It's good room. Right. And then, and anyone that wants to give me this LeBron thing it's Kobe over LeBron all day every day. Get up, Coach! There's a guy in our team, Henry Ballistic. He's 610. He's a big basketball guy, loves basketball, and we probably argue about Kobe LeBron every other day. It's the ongoing thing on our team. And I'm just like, look, like, you just, they're just not, they're just, they're both great basketball players,

but they're just wired so differently, in my opinion. So, yeah, I mean, Kobe over LeBron all day. And I'm an Ohio guy. LeBron's an Ohio guy. So I got that, you know. You get to create your, from any era, you're starting five in basketball. Oh, boy. Any era, you can do it by position.

You can just pick the five best players. I'm okay with that. I'll let you, I'll tee it up by letting Harrison give his because Harrison is, is, is, 10 toes down about this. All right. When it comes to hoop. So you're starting five, any era you can pick. Again, you can pick by position.

You can pick by the five best players, whatever you want. Okay. We'll take Shaq in his era then to start five because I don't think, no, I think Shaq in his prime, him and Kareem, but I just think Shaq so dominant. So I'm taking Shaq. I'll take Dirk at the four. Give me some more height there. At the three, let's put, give me defense.

give me Scotty mj and at the one make it all click give me john stockton i'd have to revise that i'd have to go back but i like that list right there okay i'm i'm only i can squeeze the key amount of the pasty gangster listen you know look look i i've got i've got a million stories about john stockton for my time of stockton and stockton and stockton abused me man stockton abused me like he was he was he was i mean that the guy was a killer he was he was a he was a gangster i tell people they missed that all the time that John Stockton was a dude. Absolutely. Okay, coach, who's, who's your starting five? We're going five down to one. Yeah. We'll go with, we'll go, I'm not going to go Shaq. I like Shaq. Um, uh, Will Chamberlain. Okay. Then I'm going Dennis Rodman at the four, a little defense.

That's a lot of defense, a lot of rebounds. Yep. Um, at the three three we'll put Kobe at the three we'll put MJ at the two and we'll put Isaiah Thomas at the one oh you're gonna have some chemistry issues I think

between a couple guys well well you're gonna have 80% chemistry because they had 80% where they were best buds I think Michael and Isaiah can work it out I don't have any doubt whatsoever I think they both want to win on the same team I would say this that magic is fully, like,

if you're going to go with a point guard, with a point guard, with real talent around it, and MJ, the dream team was the dream team for a reason, for a reason, and they had the success that they had for a reason. I'm a member of the club that I think that Larry Bird isn't talked about enough in this space.

I thought about taking bird. He's not talked about enough in this space, but at the very same time, neither is Julius Irving. Dr. J was an absolute gangster, and people don't talk about it. So I'm not going to take Pippin over those guys. I do like having the force, but I'm a member of the of the Car Malone as the best four fan fuck. First of all, buckets. Second of all, enforcer.

Enforcer. Like he took bodies and he took bodies like the stories are there and I think that group gives me enough that if I have if I have the big and the big no matter how you swing it is that captain to me is the guy that plays best with any other group of players. Sure. like any other style of play that Kareem would play better with anybody else, no matter who it was. He would run the floor. He would shot block. He could.

He was a free. You can find photos of him doing pullout. We're just talking about Ferrari. Fullout splits midair on a rebound with a ball underneath him. Yeah. Insanity. Yeah. And his college run is so epic that we miss it.

We miss it. So I think if I put captain next to Carl next to Bird, next to Jordan, next to Magic, I think that's my time. You're not doing like a Steph Curry. You're not, no modern players for you. Well, Steph, I love Steph because Steph changes, change the game. Like you can't tell the story of the NBA or basketball without talking about Steph Curry. So that's in that, he's got there. Right.

Like he's in that space. But there are too many guys that I know that don't get talked about. I mean, Clyde Drexler would have given Steph the blues. Oh, yeah. Right? That would have happened. Joe Dumars would have dressed with Kurt. Like, as Steph was putting on his shorts,

Joe Dumars would have slid in the shorts with him. Like that it's a different era of guys. Ron Harper. People forget that Ron Harper was an all-star score. He became a defensive star because of Jordan and Pippet. He was like, okay, I'll give up and continue to go play point guard. you know Miami of Ohio got right that what he did with the cabs early on averaging 26 a game and then just said hey MJ you got it you got it so you you you can't go wrong uh picking it

the the dirt thing I love what dirt did but there are so many there are so many fours I mean we didn't talk Tim Duncan I was going to say Tim Duncan is you know we didn't I got a soft spot for Dirk. Most the most insane playoff run we've seen. At least by far for me. Well, you're, yeah, you're a baby. Kevin Garnett, you're a baby. Yeah, ticket, ticket was a problem.

Dirk, I mean, he had to go through the Kobe Paul Gasol Lakers. Who did they have in the first round? But he got, again, he got it, he did it once. I thought what the most insane run. But Akeem, no, but you have to remember, Akeem had a different run. Moses and Lone had a better run. Like there are different eras of this thing where we only talk about the 10.

It's like tennis. You can get caught up in today's this era of tennis players. But if I ask you for your Mount Rushmore of tennis players, me personally, I go back. And they're not the athletes that we have now. But you can't tell the story of tennis without talking about Arthur Ash. McEnroe at his apex, Bjorn Borg as you got to talk about Rod Laver and how he changed the game from a speed game

and otherwise Ken Rosewall, Ivan Lendell for what he did because he was the steady, consistent gangster. But coach, your tennis Mount Rushmore. Yeah, I mean, I'm surprised you know all that info on the tennis right. Yvonne Lendell was the one that kind of, he's the one that really brought fitness into tennis.

and that that was kind of the step curry effect of that world and now now fitness is is like a priority with tennis you absolutely have to have it but remount rushmore um of three of them three of them will three of them will be modern because i think they are and it's the big three you have novac jockovic you have roger feder and you have roffle on the doll and i don't and i think even the the older guys would would agree with me i'll put rocket rod lever on there. And then the last guy I guess that's the Mount Rushmore. That's

four. But if you Honorable mention. Honorable mention five. Honorable mention five. There's a ton. There's just there's a ton. Well, Sampress is in the in that space. Agassiz. Agassi. Agassi Bjorn Borg was like Bjorn Borg quit too early to be

on that. But what? Listen. Man. Childhood for me was it was it was bjord yeah like it was borg and martina like that like i got lucky enough to watch chris ever billy jing king margaret court i von gulidoncali um then falling in love with dna garrison because i was like wait a minute we can do this too wait a minute we can play um but there were monica sellus is in the conversation stephy graph of course yep on the women's side so what's the women's mount rushmore you got serena williams

Number one, you got Steffie Graff for sure. And after that, I don't know how many titles Martina Navratilova has. All of them. She's up there for sure. And then one more. Yeah. One more. I don't think there's anyone that's playing right now. I would have said Venus.

Venus, yeah. I mean, she was, honestly, it was, it was a. Serena and Venus go for a long time. It was a run. For a long time. But we can put Venus up there. Yeah, it becomes this thing, right? And I always say the coaches, how you play, it is one portion of it, to who you were

enamored with, who you watched. Because you're an accumulation of all the people that you want to steal from. And as a tennis player, it is a basketball player, whatever it is, those things are in play. So, but yeah, I'd be interested to have those conversations with your players and see who they had to say. Because I would imagine. Yeah, I wanted to get them on. Yeah, imagine that you wouldn't agree with him either. Yeah, absolutely.

The guy with, Henry, the guy I go back and forth with LeBron and Kobe, he's 610, but I'm like, hey, my ego is 611, pal. Yeah. Get out of here with this stuff. Yeah. Yeah, it's, but this is the beauty of it. Again, when coaches tell you what they love and who they love, it explains. so much about how they're coaching whether they're going to have success.

Peter Coebelt, Nebraska Tennis, joins us. We'll go to break. Come back, one final segment here on one-on-one one. You're listening to one-on-one with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. It is always the pleasure to have Coach Cobalt come in and talk about,

talk what's going on. And again, we want to make sure that you listeners get more of coach cobel. So I'll stay on top of this, but we'll make this thing happen because he's a sports guy. He just happens to be head coach tennis.

And I think that he's going to have some great conversations over these airways. He's got some great stories. I want him to be able to tell people why they should come to Nebraska to share the stories of how the young people got here. Because none of your tennis players use the same road or have the same journey

to get to Nebraska. They come from different parts of the world. They come from different support systems. What's the role call of all the places where your players currently are from? Oh, so the new guys coming in, we got Finland, Netherlands, Australia. We've got Argentina. Let's go through the list. Our Russian boy just got citizenship, so he's American.

We got two other Americans. and a boy from Spain. It's the United Nations here in Lincoln. I mean, but that's the thing. That's where the game is. The European game, it's just played differently. And is it more consistent? Is it a deeper pool of talent?

What is it about the international play? It varies by country, but tennis is a more popular, sport and there's not a massive, the biggest sport in the world is soccer, whether anyone, if anyone wants to debate that, they would lose that debate pretty quickly. Yeah, no, they would. So soccer's won and then in a lot of the country, like in France and Spain, like tennis is number two. So they get the, you know, the second best athletes to play tennis.

Sometimes the very best athletes in the United States, that's, that's just not the case, you know, especially a state like Nebraska, they're playing football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, um, maybe maybe soccer, you know, um, before they're playing tennis. So, um,

it's just, it's just a different dynamic, different level of a popularity, you know, different, different world. So, um, that's,

I think that's why you see a lot of the, the best players in the world coming from overseas, but I think the Americans are, they want, the Americans did dominate the sport at one point. And then it kind of, we kind of fell off a little bit. but I think the next crop of guys coming up are are going to start pulling at that a little bit.

So it'll be interesting to see. What has to happen for American tennis to kind of regain its place? It's a good question, D.P. I honestly don't know. I think it's going to take a generational type of talent athletically. I think that's the one area of tennis that it hasn't quite happened. yet there hasn't been this LeBron James of tennis where he's just a superior athlete

and he can just do whatever he wants. It happened in the girls game. Yeah, Serena kind of did that for a while and it was just the Serena show. And, you know, if she was on, that was the, you know, she was winning the tournament. There hasn't been a dominant force like that in tennis and that's kind of the worry to some

and the exciting part for some too. It's, you know, you have a guy that can just take the racket out of your opponent's hand and there's nothing they can do about it. So that hasn't happened yet in tennis for whatever reason. So I think that's the next step, the next evolution for professional tennis is something like that. Is that in the hunting of camps and trying to find somebody who just like there's going to be somebody that goes to a local camp and there's going to be a kid that plays basketball or maybe plays football and for a guy that pitches and all of a sudden you realize that the same motion required to throw 90 will allow you some real mustard

on the on the on the on the on the tennis court serve the ball yeah hey i mean they got to come from somewhere why not link in nebraska instead of leone france or wherever they might so yeah it always it starts at a clinic it starts at a camp that's how that's how you know that's the roots of all this so coach let them know once again about the camp and how to get them they're young people involved. Yeah, Huskers.com, men's tennis page. There's a tab up on the top for the camps. There's a half day.

There's a full day option. All this week, all next week. We'd love to have all you guys come down. Be a great opportunity to come see the facility, hit with us, hit with the men's team, the men's coaches, hit with the women's coaches. And have some fun. Coach, thank you very much.

It's been a great hour. You're the man. Peter Cobelt, one-on-one, ticket week nights following. this.