1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Rico and Mark: April 4th, 10am

Episode Date: April 5, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios, here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome in one-on-one with D.P. Although D.P is not here, D.P. will be flying back from the D.C. Maryland, Virginia area. I think his flight leaves at 1215, so he unfortunately couldn't do the show because in a densely populated area like that, you got to get there pretty early. It's not like the Lincoln Airport. A little different than rolling up 45 minutes before the wheels leave the ground. It's not like the Lincoln Airport. That voice you hear is our very own Mark Onweiler.

Oh, people know. He decided to stop in here and help me out so I wouldn't be solo for the entire time. Maybe he stays the entire time. I don't know. We'll see. But again, this is one-on-one with Rico and Mark. brought to you by Brought to you by

Beatrice Bakery Go ahead Get yourself some delicious cakes Beatrice Bakery You can get some Some was it yield Yield English That one is fantastic

Why are we I'm not I wasn't really A fan of fruit cake And then we had some Fruitcake from Beatrice's bakery And now I'm like You know what

This is not that bad But only from there Because I tried some other Fruitcake once Not the same Oh did I tried like a not Beatrice's

Have you been down to the Beatrice location? I never have. I know you guys went down there. You did a couple shows down there. You did like the Saturday show. So when we were down there for that, he brought out their biggest competitor in the country. It's this place out of Texas. Massive fruitcake operation.

Had them side by side. And you can tell just looking at them that they're different. Yeah. Right. So it wasn't like it was really a surprise which one was which. That being said, Beatrice Bakery is head and shoulders above. of the other guys. Superior.

And those are like the two best. So anything else is garbage. Garbage. Yeah. Just stick to Beatty. I don't even know what it was. It was somebody had brought it from like the store or something. And I was like, oh, I had Beatrice's Baker fruit cake.

Maybe I've just been, maybe I've never eaten fruit cake. Maybe I'm a fruit cake guy now. Maybe I do like fruit cake. And I had it. And I was like, nope, this is not. Nope. Mm-mm. All wrong.

You're a Beatrice Bakery guy, not a fruit cake. Beatrice Bakery guy. I get it. And if we had more cakes, I would go in there and dig into some of that chocolate rum cake. But we are running low on cakes. We need more cakes. Because we keep giving out so many cakes. We're being, we're fantastic people.

We give out delicious cakes. Speaking of that, go to the ticketfm.com. Nominate somebody for a Beatrice Bakery Care Package Gift Basket giveaway. Tomorrow will be old school slash one-on-one. It's turned to give it away earlier, early break. gave one away. So go to the ticketfm.com, click on the Beatrice Bakery banner

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And maybe we pick that person. And you know, we've gotten a lot of, we get a lot of teachers, which is great. Don't get me wrong. And we get a lot of like retirement communities, which is also great. But I'd like to expand beyond that. And I know something that's really close to Rick and the folks down there at Beatrice's Bakery are veterans. So if you, whether it's a veteran organization, a veteran in your life, I think that'd be a really cool one to focus on this week, this month.

If we could kind of slam some veteran nominations, I think that'd be really cool. That'd be amazing. Yeah, we started, when we first started giving them away, we got a lot of nurses and hospitals. Yeah, that was a strong one when we first started. It makes sense. Yeah. With all that's going on. Yeah, it made perfect sense.

And now we're, now we're on the teachers and the retirement homes. Yeah, veterans, sorely lacking in Beatrice Bakery cakes, they deserve more. Always. Always. Mark, we were talking before we came on air about stuff. we could talk about, and you said something that actually got me thinking really hard. The playoff formats for different professional and collegiate sports leagues and how they're tailored and how things work out and how some people believe that one-game playoff scenarios

are garbage and that they don't crown real champions. So there's a couple different factors at play here. There's the one-game scenario where there's a, an element of luck to it. You know, you don't have a big sample size. I mean, I don't think anybody's arguing that St. Peters is the best team this year or was one of your top eight teams this year. And yet, yet they played their way there.

So you can go on a run. I mean, Nebraska basketball, if they had, if the tournament had been set that week that they went three and O against top teams in the league, they'd have been in the elite eight. They would have been in the elite eight, right? It makes sense. Those things can happen. They are in a lead 18. So there's the one game scenario.

There's also the size of the field that's at play here. And you guys were talking right there at the end of old school about how North Carolina, they're an eight seed, right? Apparently they barely made the tournament. They were a bubble team. Right. They're in nobody's top 25. And yet here they are one win away from being your national champion.

When three weeks ago, you would say they're not one of the 25 best teams from this season yet here they are your champion almost one game away from being your champion so this this argument comes annually if you happen to follow lannie holstein former 93-7 the ticket host lanie holstein shout out lany uh he will make this argument every single year about how this is an illegitimate way to crown a champion would he do that if nebraska was on a national championship oh i think so you think would he stick to tradition i i do mostly because he's he's not a basketball guy He doesn't have the love for Nebraska basketball that he does for Nebraska football. But he, you carry this over and we can take this beyond what the basketball argument is and look at all the different sports.

But college football playoff expansion is certainly front and center. Seems to always be front and center when these conversations come up. And whether that's going to eight teams or 16 teams or 32 teams, if you want to get crazy, you know. Let's go, let's go full D2 or Division 1. AA football playoff, 16 team tournament. I think it was Bokkin and Nathan having the conversation last week with Eddie when he was in here from 10-11 about how you really only have two or three teams in football that are head and shoulders above everybody else. So to go beyond the four that we currently have and even with the four we have, and this is their argument, I want to make this clear, this is not my argument. I'm weighing the groundwork here.

I do not believe the words I'm saying. But this is what was said. The argument would be that you've already got these blowouts. You know, you've got Cincinnati who seem to have no business being in that scenario. And yet they are because the number say they're one of the best four teams. Why do we need to go further than that? Why do we need to have bigger, worse blowouts and go one verse eight, one verse 16? what's the value in that to anybody.

Now, okay, let's stick with football for a second. Go ahead. Because my belief, and I've told you can't convince me otherwise, right? We can have this conversation, but you can't convince me otherwise. You've got to go eight because the schedules in college football are so disparate, right? Like what Nebraska plays, it's completely different than what UCLA plays, which is completely different than what Florida plays. You've got no common opponents, generally speaking, no common. No common opponents.

You've got really no way to say, how is my schedule compared to how is your schedule until we see each other on the field. So because of that, I think you've got to have a set, non-subjective way of getting into the playoff. And to me, that's when you're, win your conference. That's what I always say. And then people push back with the, well, are you sure you want a pack 12th team that has nine wins in the college football playoff? and I'm like, well, if you, you, Mr. Person, who always says that the regular season is very important, truly believe what you're saying, then that team winning those nine games in their conference and winning their conference. That's part of the regular season. That should be important. It should matter

and allow them to get into the playoff situation. Because right now, you've got two, sometimes, almost three teams from one conference just because it's so strong getting into the playoff with, with, you know, one, two losses and like, well, they play such a hard schedule. I'm like, yeah, but they also only play their conference opponents eight times. So every other team is playing in their conference, within their conference, teams that know them better than any other team because they play them year to year out. They're playing nine times. Do you know what the SEC's scheduling structure is going to be moving forward once Texas and

Oklahoma? I have that. They haven't talked about it. Because you're looking at a 16 team league, right? A 16 team league and you're only going to play. eight other teams? There's so much of your own league that you're not going to see. Yeah, you're playing eight, but you're not going to play the seven in your division

because you're going to have that crossover with rival, like, those protected rivalries and what have you. Like, Alabama and Florida are still going to play, and that's going to take a team out from the west, I think they're in. They do like a weird little loop, and Missouri is in the east. It's very confusing. So, like, Florida's going to. play Alabama and that's going to mean, you know, maybe Alabama doesn't play Mississippi State that

year. And what if Mississippi State's on a tear that year? What if they could have beaten Alabama? And maybe that took them out of the college football playoff. You never know. But those teams are going to get credit for playing an SEC schedule. And even what an SEC schedule means is going to be so different from team to team. It's you just can't compare until you lay out here are, here's what it takes to make in my mind an eight team playoff. Yeah. Right. Win your conference. win a conference championship game that makes the conference championship game at a facto first round for your playoff right so now you're looking at basically uh uh a 14 15 13 team playoff once you got all those those conference championship games factored in yeah yeah and if that's what you want to do like

and and some people will argue you know why would you make it an auto qualifier for the the conference championship what would you do with the group of fives i'm like keep the group of fives where they're at and just maybe have the best group of, whoever in the group of five has the best record after winning their conference championship, they get in on Maddox. Best record, highest ranking, whatever we want. It's not like you're going to have two or three

undefeated group of five teams. That also doesn't happen because going undefeated in college football is so rare and so hard that you're not going to have, you know, four teams that are undefeated. It's just not going to happen. So you've got your five power fives, and then you have a group of five,

and then you have, you know, two, three at-large bids. And then there you can get your three other SEC teams if you really want to be up and high and mighty about the SEC being so much better. In a crazy scenario where you do have multiple undefeated group of fives, maybe one of them is good enough to be you're at large.

I don't see it happening. I doubt it. They'll do the same thing. They'll be like, well, their strength of schedule wasn't very good because they had to play Navy and Army. And I'm like, okay, whatever, dude. And then we'll be expanding again once that happens.

But no, I mean, I'd personally, I'd rather be having these arguments about who's 8, 9, 10, rather than who's 4, 5, 6 when to me that margin is so slim. And I just don't have anything to compare them. And to me, expanding the playoff and putting conference champions in kind of makes the regular season more important because you have to win those games to get into it's not like college basketball where if you have a terrible regular season and then you possibly do what Nebraska was trying to do and go on a tear in your conference tournament you can win your conference tournament and be an automatic qualifier with a losing record like if you have a losing record in your conference in football you're not making the conference championship game it's the best teams in your conference making the conference championship that means the regular season is more important because to get there to then get an auto qualifier into the national tournament, you know, you have to have a good regular season. And some people will argue, oh, well, the runner-up might get in

and they might have, you know, however, you know, Northwestern lost all their non-conference, then they won their conference. I'm like, well, that just means they were better than everybody in the conference. They played a hard non-conference schedule. I don't know. But they did what they needed to do.

They took care of business. And they ended up losing in the company, blown out in the conference championship. You're not going to take them. Right, right. It's like, oh, well, the runner-up and the big 10 should make it. No, it depends. on how you look and you got blown out.

You're not making it. Yeah, yeah. This isn't an Alabama, Georgia's situation where both teams have, you know, one loss or undefeated and then one team loses by three. There, I understand. You take them both. But if you've got, you know, Auburn has four losses and they beat Alabama in the final game of the season and they make the conference championship and get blown out by three touchdowns

by Georgia, they're not going to make it. Do you like the idea that there's some value given? to improving as the regular season goes on. Because that's certainly true in college basketball right now, where if you can show growth and I know the playoff committee is supposed to view a loss in November, the same as a loss in February, right? But there's value to getting hot at the end of the year, especially if it comes to winning a conference tournament, but show it,

I mean, there's recency bias. There absolutely is. So I think you get rewarded for getting better. throughout the year. Do you like that or do you want a, like a Northwestern, losing all their non-cons in football, but making, I mean, they could have made a playoff in a scenario where a conference championship get in.

And the argument would be, yeah, they improved as the year got on. Do you like that or do you want to have to be hit the ground running week one? I actually like the improve as the season goes on. You should get some credit for that because when the season starts, you don't know what people are dealing with. And maybe you've got some guys starting in positions that at the end of the season, they're not going to be starting in. And that happens with some teams where they have a quarterback

or they have some linemen or some defensive players who are starters day one. And by week five, you realize, oh, their backup is actually better than them. You get them in and all of a sudden you start winning a lot. more games. So I believe that it shouldn't have that much of an impact on them making a tournament, but if you improve as the season goes on and let's say you're, you know, you go on, you lose your first two games, then you go undefeated. I think, you know, that should still have some type of merit and should get you something based on, not like into the playoff automatically, but it should have a little bit of, you should look at that more in a favorable light.

because you can have a team who starts hot and then loses two, three games at the end of the season, but they're just, they beat everybody else in their conference, and the two or three losses still got them into the playoff, and then they lose their conference championship game. You're looking at that, like, I don't really know about this. That happened in college basketball with Trey Young's Oklahoma team. Remember, they started this season undefeated, and then everybody figured out, oh, if we stop Trey Young, we can stop.

the entire team. And as the season went on, they lost a lot more games than they won. I think they barely made the tournament. They were a decently high seed, though, because of what they did earlier in the season, and they lost in the first round. So going back to kind of the original argument that the NCAA men's basketball tournament overall doesn't give you a legitimate champion. Do you think there's truth to that, that this six-game scenario where you only have to win six games doesn't give you a good picture of who is the best team this year?

There's some truth to it. Like the upsets, like some of the crazier upsets when you have Lehigh beating Duke or you have UMBC beating Virginia, like that's, if those teams go on around, like those are not, those are not, those teams are. aren't better than the teams that they just beat. They got hot at the right time, and the team they were facing wasn't hitting on all cylinders. And part of my argument is if you're better, just win. Yeah. Like, if you're better, just be better. Like, that's a part of my argument, but at the same time, sometimes you're just off.

And nothing, nothing works in your favor. And there's no, there's no chance to come back from that. There's no, okay, well, we'll get them tomorrow. We'll get them next time. No, you're done. You're going home. And that happens, that happens in any time. type of playoff with a one game scenario. I mean, you've had, and I know people are going to argue this, whatever. The Giants, the two Super Bowls they won, I think they were wildcards. They had to play on the road the entire time, and they made it to the Super Bowl and they won. They're like, oh, yeah, this is the best team in football. Was it? Were they really? Or did they just get hot at the right time and kept it going? Because they went up against an undefeated team and ended up beating them. I don't think they were the best team. They were the hottest team at the time. They're your champion.

They're your Super Bowl champion. They're your national champion, I guess. But I wouldn't say it's an illegitimate champion, but there could be some disputes. You told me in the commercial break that the NBA is your ideal. It's perfect. Now, that's a league where more than half of the teams make the playoffs. Now. Yeah.

I mean, it's what? It's 16 out of 30, right? Yeah. That make the playoffs. But you don't just have to win one game. You have to win seven or you have to win four of seven, which if you're a better team, you can drop one of those and still be like, okay, you know, they got us, this wasn't our night, come back, you can reverse sweep them or whatever.

Like, you just need to win four games. That's perfect because every once in a while a worst team might get the better of a good team. We were just talking about that. But, you know, you have Golden State going up again, or you have, you know, right now Phoenix going up against the Lakers in the playoffs if that happens, if the Lakers make the playoffs, which they probably won't. Sorry, I still giggle when I hear that. Phoenix is going to win that.

Yeah. Like maybe the Lakers get a game or two, but Phoenix is going to win. They have proven that they are the better team this entire season. And, you know, you'll still have those, not like the eight seeds or the seven seeds going on runs and winning it all, but you'll have a four seed who, maybe they were a couple games out of first. They're still a really solid team. If they win, you know, it's not that big of a surprise. It's not like a monumental upset. So I think that's a multiple game series is just perfect to me.

Because again, you have the best team. Maybe they drop one, but they could still come back and prove that they're better. And then, you know, your smaller team gets to have the good feeling of, hey, we beat them once. Hooray. Yeah, that'll carry them into the off season. We did not get swept. All right. So is there any way to carry that to the NCAA?

No. The March Madness needs to tweak. Way too long. It would not work. If you did that, you would not have 68 teams. No. You would have to take... Well, yeah, you're not doing 32 different best of seven series.

With that, it's the automatic qualifier. That's it. Nobody else gets in. Every conference champion gets in seven games series. Well, not five game series. You have to win three. That'd be fun. That would be.

It'd be chaos. It would be awful. I could not keep track of it. Awesome. Would it be fun? Sign me up for that. That's what I want from all of this. I just want fun.

Yeah. That was my original response when Landy went on his tirade was, I don't care whether we're crowning a legitimate champion or not. Is it fun? I'm having fun. Yeah. Like, with the college football playoff, I want to expand it because I want to see, you know, Oklahoma State play Alabama. You don't see that very out. Oklahoma State was really good this season.

They were airing it out there tossing around the yard. You know, teams in the SEC weren't doing that. Yeah. I want to see that. I want to see if Alabama can handle it. Do you think they could? I probably. Honestly, they probably would have destroyed them.

It would have been fun. It would have been really cool. That's what's all about my entertainment. And guess what? Ohio State was like the best team in the Big Ten all season, but they slipped up and they lost in Michigan to end the season. Didn't go to the conference championship game. Michigan went to the college football playoff. Got crushed.

Got destroyed. Everybody was in agreeance. Ohio State's a better team. They slipped up. What are you going to do? Aiden Hutchinson, kind of good, not that great. That's a bold statement. Is it?

I think people are in a great. You think so? I think so. The NFL draft committee isn't. All those scouts aren't. That's what I'm saying. He's good. He's not.

Honestly, I don't think he's number one pick material, but he's definitely top ten. Okay. Well, I mean, that's still pretty darn good. Yeah, but he's not, you know, oh my gosh, this guy's going to change our friends. He's not going to change a franchise. It'll be like a three-time pro bowler. Can we put a wing bed on that right now? Yeah.

Like a far future wing. More than three probles. Aidan Hutchinson over under three and a half pro bowls. Proble is a really bad measure for that too. A lot of average players are making pro bonn. Yeah, well, it's the injury and then teams they go to the Super Bowl and people that are just like, you know, I just don't want to play in the Pro Bowl. So if you're giving me the Pro Bowl metric, yeah, I'm taking the over.

How many good D.Ns are there, though? Like, come on. There are a million. Aidan Hutchinson's not. He'll be one of them. Aidan Hutchinson is not one of the six best D-Ns in the league. I don't think you could convince me of that at any point. No, at any point?

At any point. We'll see. I'm higher on him than... I'll write it down on the board. Aiden Hutchinson over under... Over and three. Three. Give me the over. Okay.

All right. I'm looking forward to these wings in 2026. Wings are obsolete. Just cauliflower everything. Oh, goodness. Well, on that note, we're going to take a break. On the other side, I have no idea what we're going to talk about. We'll get to something.

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