1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Relationship between UNL and Creighton fans: March 21st, 10am

Episode Date: March 21, 2022

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Please help me underline. I really want to wrap my brain around this in a way. When I got here, remember, I had a clean palate when I got here. Clean pal. Right. There's nothing in the space that said, well, this is how you should feel about Creighton or any other school or, right? Like, I didn't have, like, my issue with Iowa was as a football fan,

a national football fan. It was like, I don't like the way they play. I don't like the way they're run. Like that those are things based on the picture as a whole, not as a Nebraska or as a Husker or other. And then when I got here and my, my perception of Nebraska was built on the national scope, right?

The national scope of how Nebraska athletics were perceived and portrayed on the national level from folks here in Lincoln. Like that was a message that was sent out for folks from the University of Nebraska. This is how we get down. These are the people that we are. This is the heart and soul behind the programs and what we do, right? These are the people that we are. Okay.

We're hardworking, good-hearted folks. Yeah. Okay. Right? What you tell me. So, okay, I'm going to pay attention to what you tell me. And then it was brought to my attention that Creighton exists on a parallel to Nebraska. And some people were offended by that and said, no, the state is about Nebraska.

It's about the University of Nebraska. Creighton is just an offshoot. It's an outlier. It's its own thing. but it's not to be married, consumed, considered. And then the whole J-Sker thing was brought up. What's stupid about it? I think it's dumb.

I think the whole J-Sker thing, like, so you're telling people not, if they, if they, if they, well, no, not you, but people are telling, telling people who enjoy Creighton basketball more than Nebraska basketball that, oh, well, if you like this basketball team, you cannot root for our football team. If you are family, you're family.

No? Yeah. Okay. Look, family doesn't always agree. But family contains itself. It contains its issues within the family. It does not take it into the neighborhood. This is family.

It's the whole state. The Crating doesn't have a football team. What's the name of the state? Nebraska. Where is Craton located? Omaha. Nebraska. So it's one and the same.

It's an estate. It's not what I asked you. See, they're different universities. Different universities. So you do recognize that there are states that have multiple universities. One is the state university. The other is a wannabe. The other is an outsider.

The other is the little brother or the step-cousin or... I get that. Okay. So what I was told was, it's either or you're either a Husker fan or you're not and to say well because i'm a basketball fan i then get to go outside of family outside of marriage outside of relationship and accept the thing because it's not important well my wife won't cook so i can go get my cooking from elsework no no either you're in or you're out right i don't look at it like i don't look at it like

like that. So if there's a thing that Rachel won't. Well, in the marriage, yes, but in this whole basketball thing, no, it's not the same. What is it then? I don't know, but it's not that. I understand. Look, I was, like I said, I said it in the break. I'm born and raised in Omaha. I root for Creighton basketball. And for the longest time, I wanted to play football for Creighton, but I didn't know that Creighton didn't have a football team, but I was rooting for Nebraska football. Well, that statement makes its own. I know. It identifies you in a certain way. Yeah, I know. Okay. But I was rooting for Nebraska football, but I was rooting for Creighton basketball because that

So Creighton had football. Would you be a Creighton football fan? Probably not. And not a Nebraska. Probably not, honestly. So you understand that you're not on a professional level. You're not loyal to any region or space. Mm-hmm.

Right? Yeah. You're kind of all over the place. Yeah, I know. All right. So folks who are from a place and you root for that place, you're telling me you're rooting for Omaha and you're rooting for Creighton because it's Omaha

in spite of the fact that it's not Nebraska University of Nebraska Well it's not in spite no I'm asking for an understanding I root for Creighton basketball because I grew up watching Creighton basketball and I enjoy watching Creighton basketball but I also root for Nebraska basketball

because they're also fun to watch and we talk about them and I live here Again my statement was when I first got here Look, I've been here two years, two years plus. So when people tell me, hey, DP, when I first got here, it was, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no on Creighton. No on Creight. Yeah, well, you were here. And they said, well, Lincoln.

Well, but we are here. Yeah. We are here. We're not in Omaha. I know. Right? So I'm only following what I was told when I got here. Now, if the rules are different.

Right? Mm-hmm. I mean, I don't think that's, look, there's. I don't think that's as bad as some people in this state who root for Kansas basketball and Nebraska football. I think as long as if you're keeping it in the state, like that's okay. But if you're going outside the state to a rival in the old conference, and they were doing it when they were in the same conference, people would say, oh, yeah, I love Kansas basketball, but I love Nebraska football.

I'm like, that doesn't make any sense to me. See, having moved around the country, my loyalty is in. into what the local folks tell me is true about them. Right? I don't understand who folks are rooting for. I'm just looking around me trying to figure out, well, what's the temperature in the room? Are folks really Husker football fans and Creighton basketball fans?

Who do you root for in baseball? Nebraska. Creighton has a baseball team. I know. But you don't root for them? No. Why? I just don't.

I never watched the play. You watch Creighton play? I used to watch Creighton basketball all the time. Did you go to games? I went to a couple when I was younger. Have you gone to Nebraska games? When I was older. What's the better experience?

Well, now that I'm older and I understand it more Nebraska, when I was younger, I loved the Creighton games. There's no understanding. There's no understanding. Because if you, like, kind of like me, Like there's a bunch of people who grew up in Omaha, grew up as Creighton basketball fans. There was, you know, the, the show in the state is Nebraska football, though. So you're watching Nebraska football.

You're rooting for that. And then when basketball season comes around, you're rooting for Creighton because it's right there. Then you can put, you can take off your red end and just put on the blue sea and everything's cool. Sure. I mean, I root for both. When they play each other, I don't care. But I'm rooting for both. I'm just trying to get on them.

I want both to be successful. I want every, I want every, I want every, I want every, you know, university in the state to be successful. I'm asking you to help me understand. Let's go to the Honda Lincoln hotline. Jim is on the line. Jim, kind sir. What's up, Jim? Hey, what's up, guys? I had to weigh, and I've done it before, but I feel nothing to you today. I'm a University Nebraska graduate. Big Red fans. How are they lose him? They root for Creight and basketball when they're playing against other teams. When they're playing against Nebraska, I'm rooting for Nebraska. But I still like to watch and follow Creighton.

As only if they play each other, it's easy. I can always pick Nebraska with that. But I can root for both, and I don't be badly about it at all. I'm not asking anybody to feel bad about it. I'm trying to understand it. I understand, yes. Yeah, like, I'm not telling anybody what you should do. I'm trying to understand what I was told was.

Right. And I think that's been kind of a tone that I've heard. You can only be one or the other. And in my opinion, you can be both. And if I'm a J-sker, so be it. I don't mind being a J-Sker whatsoever. Nebraska first, great in second, but they play each other. I'm all in Nebraska, but they play other schools, whether it be volleyball or basketball

or whatever. I'll follow them and root for them and hope they do well. Jim, thanks for the call. Yeah, as I said and preface this by, I'm trying to get. get some understanding for what this pool of sports fans is or tries to be. And if you tell me that it's all Nebraska all the time, I would have understood that. If you said it's part Nebraska, part Creighton, I would have said I understand that. My deal is, is that when I first got here, what I was told was this is a Lincoln, Nebraska,

Nebraska Sports Station. This is not an Omaha Nebraska Sports Station. This is a Lincoln

Sports Station. Therefore, it's a Huskers Sports Station. That it is. And if that is true,

right, because Creighton gets coverage in Omaha. Gets plenty of coverage in Omaha. Yes, it does. Why would

I give Creighton that exposure here? You don't have to. You can if you want. You don't have to. Again,

And it's not what I can do. I'm trying to find out what the temperature in the room is. If you talk about Creighton here, you will get backlash, but there will also be people who appreciate it and want to know more about what is happening with some of the other local colleges. That's why you'll have people that ask about Donne or Hastings or Concordia or, you know, University of Nebraska Carney or Wayne State. Like, people will ask about it. this is mainly a UNL station but

if another college does something well we can talk about it I don't see a problem with it another college another Lincoln College or another Omaha College another Nebraska college

Another Lincoln Remember the Lincoln part Mm-hmm Like it would be very easy to go to Omaha and do hall radio. That's not what we're doing. I know. The people in this community

are University of Nebraska folks. There are people who came from other places. There are people who came from UNK and go to UNL for a master. There are people who came from Concordia. That's ensured. That's only a little bit away. Hastings. Lincoln. So we can only talk about the Huskers and the prairie wolves of Wesleyan. Lincoln Sports. Lincoln, Nebraska Sports.

Is that the priority or no? I would like to say it is. Is that the focus? Sure. That's what I'm trying to figure out. We can focus on this and talk about other things from here every once in a while. We don't have to always talk about it. We don't always talk to Nebraska.

The focus is Nebraska, but the thing is if Creighton makes it to the Sweet 16, we can talk about it. We don't have to spend an hour on it. We don't have to spend 20 minutes on it. We can just say, hey, Creighton did this. This was the score. This is what so-and-so did. Maybe this person from Lincoln, this kid from Lincoln who plays for Creighton did this, you know, congratulations to them. We'll see what happens.

And then we go back on our merry way and talk about the court. Talk about the Huskers. Is that what you're doing? I can. Is that what you do it? Sometimes. This is the tepidness that just be crazy. It's okay.

It's what I do. I talk about the Huskers all the time. If you're not right or wrong, Rico. I talked about UNK last. last week. This is the part that you're not right or wrong. I'm trying to make sense of, and I know they're fanatics. I know

the whole basic premise is that fans are just bonkers. Like they're all over the place and there's full extremes left right and in between. I'm just trying to understand the room. And this weekend I was with some folks and in the conference, some conversations that left my head spinning. So trying to understand Who is who and what is what

I know some people the other day Who were who were rooting for Iowa Because they hated Creighton so much I understood that I understood that I don't get that one I understood that So here's the thing

So Hizzlebear says this Is UNL's blue collar Creighton is full of people who wear Spearie Skakis and a polo There's just a different than the fan bases Scott says this, who is supposed to be a fan of Creighton? I mean, I'm not, but if you're a fan of Creighton basketball,

you're probably a Nebraska football fan too. All things in play and all things true. What I have to admit, I went to Creighton yesterday due to not being able to stand Caitlin Clark, but now I'm against them all the way. Like I, this is what I'm talking about. I want to understand what the logic is. I'm not saying anybody's right or wrong. I'm trying to, you speak to me as though I have a full.

40-year grasp of the relationships between Omaha and Lincoln, Creighton and Nebraska, Nebraska football fans, and Creighton basketball fans. I'm asking for information and intel so that I can be more informed. This is me getting information and intel. Nebraska basketball fans, this is what I have to admit, I went for Creighton. Hold on. This is the best one. Nobody wants to admit this, but Nebraska basketball fans hate Creighton basketball because Creighton is everything

fans want to be. Nebraska basketball fans want to be. And that is okay too. That's fair too. From Tiny Pig, we can only talk about bad Husker football and basketball teams so much. A lot of us from Nebraska are rooted for both teams who are growing up. Again, this is what I'm asking. What I was told and what I believed prior to this.

was that it was all of nothing. That's not true. No. It's not all or nothing for some folks, but. For Dusty says, what up, DP? I thought Creighton might win their first game in the tournament, and I picked them to lose because that's what I wanted. I do that.

I'm fully guilty of that. Like, full on guilty of that. That is that. That's a problem sometimes when you want to have a perfect bracket. You're looking at a team. You're like, I can't pick you. Like, you're definitely going to win, but I can't pick you. I've never picked a cowboy in fantasy football ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, even to my own demise.

Like, that's just, I couldn't do it. Jeremy says this, hey, DP, I just like Iowa so much, I refuse to take my two-year-old son to the state to the east until he had visited all the other states surrounding Nebraska, which I can proudly say it makes for a longer drive to Casey and Sioux Falls. He can probably say he's been to all five prior to visiting the state with the bad corn. like all of that is again this is why that's funny i asked the question like this is why i asked the question because i nobody has any understanding of it that's the problem well that's that's that's that's the that's my whole thing is i'm simply an outsider trying to understand i there's no right wrong or other it's impossible you won't because nobody does well that's what i'm fighting out that's what i said over this weekend was that it it it's

The best text I got yesterday was, DP, in regards to Creighton and Iowa, our relationship status is, it's complicated. It's complicated. And it makes perfect sense. Like I will, I've never rooted,

except for, I don't mind Iowa State, but like Iowa, I won't root for them in anything. You know, the colleges in Nebraska, I'll root for them, you know, whatever.

and maybe a little bit of South Dakota as well. So this is from, this is a text, I'll read it. It's the Jay's fans that dog on and hate Nebraska basketball, but say they're Nebraska football fans and constantly screaming for validation for their program. We are the Big Brother and they hate it. We all, we hate all Wisconsin, Iowa and Wisconsin, but still love our Big Big Big A.

There's an underlying disdain between the two cities. Again, all things that I was told the things I was trying to understand. Right. And you guys are, this is school for me. So for me to find out what moves people in this space

helps me become comfortable in the space. I can't be comfortable without knowing. Again, from a national standpoint, me traveling around the country and doing sports all over the country, I don't think of Creighton. Like, sorry. You have to.

I don't. I don't give it credit. I don't consider it as an entity that is of note and that I need to give focus and emotion to. And that's only to say what's true. I'm not saying it's right. I'm saying for me, no matter where I was in this country covering high-level sports,

there are only a few times where it was relevant. Creighton was relevant. Nebraska has always been relevant to me. Creighton has not. So my interest and intrigue into the programs, it falls heavily with Nebraska rather than, and a part of my decision to move here is that it's the University of Nebraska instead of Omaha and Creighton.

It was Lincoln and the University of Nebraska. From a big city perspective, it would have made much more sense for me to go to Omaha and deal with Creighton. But the reality is, is from a character and integrity and heart sort of space, Lincoln and the Huskers made more sense to me. So that's where that is. From Tater, the only Creighton people I personally know

are either people who went to school there or kids of people who went to school there. Yeah, it has, like, I get its power and intrigue and magnetism within this space. But on the whole, I always knew more about Nebraska rather than Creighton. A lot of us who root for U.N.O were not playing the Huskers because we know people that play there. I rooted for Treb while he was there because he was a Husker. I root for UNO heavy when I was growing up.

Because he was a husker. I know so little about U and O that. nobody actually knows anything about UNO unless you went there because it's not shared no it's not shared it's it's UNL and it's Creighton right those are the those are the two two major players in this state you know gets no love unk gets no love Wayne state gets no love so so cheeseburg i'll say this he says ha ha so Nebraska has always been relevant except for the last year six years let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me dive into that pool Nebraska is so relevant that even when bad for six years,

they're still a part of the conversation and topic. There's people who are interested in the program that is because the sport is better when Nebraska's good. And when Nebraska's bad, it's relevant. It's relevant. Why do you think people still write pieces about Nebraska? Outside of Nebraska. Yeah, outside of it.

And they're like, oh, they're only doing this for clicks. I'm like, yeah, because it's relevant. Well, because it works. Well, because people draw into it at a different energy level

than say, 90% of the power five schools in the country. Their schools are the Big Ten that if you wrote an article about them, you really wouldn't care. Like, you wouldn't know what they were talking about. No.

You have no idea what the point of reference would be. I have friends who have never been to Link of Nebraska, but because I'm here, they're following Nebraska. athletics at a very high level. Like you got to think about it, there are schools where if you see their name in an article,

you're going to click that article. Nebraska is still one of those schools. Yes, it is a part of, that's a part of the blue blood thing. That's why I think. Like if you see Washington State does this, whatever surprise you, you're just like, okay, and you scroll right by it. If you see Alabama did this, you're like, oh, I wonder what Alabama did. You're going to click it.

I kind of have to know. If Texas did this, you're going to click it. So we understand. that within the space and outside of this space, we understand who Nebraska is and who Creighton is and who U&O is. Yes. So we have that full understanding.

And everybody knows who they are. And everybody could aspire to be greater than that. UNK is the Superior College. It just gets no love. Quite frankly, you know, if you're Creighton and your Cooper Manning and sometimes, or you're, You're Cooper Manning, you're the eldest manning, and your little brother does better than you do at a thing.

Do you hate the little brother, or do you support the little brother? Do you support the little brother? You support the little brother. Although you will smack him in the back of the head every single day because you're the big brother. Except for one day a year. Well, no, that's the day that you smack your little brother on the head even harder on his birthday. Whack? Take it. Take it.

Unfortunately. Creighton, you got to. take the smack on the back and the head. Even if you're doing better than your big brother. They take the smacks and they're fine with it. You've got to take the smack. One day a year you go to smack, they flip you over and they're like, all right, it's just superpowers for one day a year.

You kick them in the pants. One day a year. You kick them right in the pants. Got them. Drop them. It's that one where you do the sidekick as you walk by. Yep. What.

Creighton, it's your turn. You got to take. All right, we'll go to break. We'll come back. We'll get into some of this. The Husker Sports Weekend, because it was a good Husker Sports Weekend. We'll talk about those things. Five All-Americans in the wrestling team.

Bowling had a big week. Softball is 19 and 9, and we'll talk about all those things when we come back to one-on-one. Download our app by searching 93.7, the ticket in your app store. You're listening to One-on-One-on-one with DP on 93-7 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.