1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Shoutout to Sports Parents LIVE from Carriker Chronicles Football Camp: July 9th, 12:25pm

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

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You're listening to One-on-One with DP. Brought you by Canopy Street Market on 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. You all understand. This music means one thing. Paint your face. Pump up the muscles. Tie strings around them. Get your boots on and go sprinting.

Sprinting into your office wherever you are. snarl snarl everybody get your warrior on get your ultimate warrior on you have to Nick I'm working on that's going to be my project oh no serious business

I need the Husker face paint mask I said the mask the mask you don't want to actually paint your face well you can do it with a stencil but I think if you had the temporary tattoo okay for game day right

where you could you put the peel on and you peel it off and it's your your husker match sure it needs to happen it'll be brutal in those early season games when it's 110 degrees as it melts absolutely 100% but this is who we are you start to just go wipe your sweat and you get a thing full of red this is who we are nick saying we have to make sacrifices for the greatness of the program is that going to win absolutely okay the number the number of wins will correlate directly to the number of face match the number of face face you don't know that that's how that works The number, the number of face tattoos and face paint correlates with wins.

You didn't understand that? They didn't tell you that. I did it. They didn't tell you that. Just like, look, as, as the college world soon tells you, the number of jello shots correlates to you winning. Like, it absolutely ties to the number of championships that you win. Well, then we're going to get 85 year old Betty, who's had season tickets for 60 years

to wear face paint every single look at. Look, Husker Betty deserves to wear the Husker face mask too. Don't shame grandma Husker Betty. Husker Betty deserves to put the tattoo on, let her get her game on. Just might need to take a little more convincing. No, I don't think, listen, I think grandma is going to be first in line. First in line. Matter of fact, she's going to do it herself.

Listen, if we had Husker face face, I guarantee you 80% of the moms here today would wear the face. Would you wear the face? Yes. You got a, see? That wasn't convincing yes. No, it was a yes. Hands to the sky. Hands to the sky and now the double fist.

This is when I know what I know, Nick. I'm just saying it. We were corrected on the break that we have parents who drove from Kansas. That's right. Drove from Kansas. Whoa. Drove from Kansas to be a part of the Adam Carrier Chronicles Camp. I just to say as much as we talk about a lot of the other stuff in sports,

that the value of showing up parents. Yeah. Listen, in some corners, people will try to de-es. value it. But what I tell you is a parent that is willing to show up and be connected. I'm not talking about in management. I'm talking about out of love. A hundred percent, right? Just to support. Well, because like, let's just do some simple math here. We are at least about an hour and a half from the border of Kansas, Nebraska. So even if they are a two hour drive one way, you're at a camp for four hours, you drive for four hours. It turns into an eight hour day. The time, energy

effort that's put into this. Sure, the parents, or excuse me, the players, the coaches is one thing, but that's on the other side. We talk so much about how parents can be bad at sporting events and in youth sports, but there's also a lot of really good ones too. Well, I mean, listen, we try to talk about it. Think about it that this is a day that none of these young people will forget anytime soon. 100%. Like this is a day where they're meeting superheroes. They're meeting heroes. They're beating the greatest football players to ever walk in Lincoln. And they showed up for you. The value of having an Ammon Green, Eric Crouch, show up for you to meet you. Like I heard Crouch having the conversation that when you offer a hand to a young

person to say, you're why I showed up today. Right. And you say to Tank and Jim, listen, to put on this sort of event and have all the resources, to have Adam go out of his way to put this thing together. Again, he's a busy guy. He and A.J. had plenty of do. They got plenty of stuff going on. But what they decided to do was to be outside of themselves and bigger than themselves and creative. They asked friends to volunteer time to come from different parts of the country to be here. This is like if you told me that you you made a day of coming, driving from Kansas for a Husker game day. I'm impressed. These parents did it for their young people. And I just can't say it enough.

how meaningful it is, how powerful it is to have the parents show up. It's a great day. It's a great event, great camp. And again, if you didn't make it here next year when you hear about it, not only make plans to be here, even if you don't have young people to put it into the camp, come hang out. Absolutely. Come hang out.

Come meet Lincoln, Nebraska. Because this is what it is. That's what I told people earlier today about just normal Sundays, is you don't have to have somebody playing, come out, bring a lawn chair, there's plenty of space for you to sit around the football field and understand how Lincoln is growing, how the youth football scene is growing because LYF, Jim, Mike, the entire crew there done a great job there. But yeah, you mentioned it. This is going to be a day that they remember for the rest of their lives.

This will be a day that they also look forward to next year. Next year, it's going to be, hey, can we go again? And then a lot of these guys that are in first grade, guess what? This goes till eighth grade. So you've got six years at least of doing this year after year. I talked to Adam earlier. He mentioned how it's going to evolve. They're talking, thinking about potentially multiple days.

I mean, there's so much in the works, but you got to start somewhere. And today, it didn't feel like there was 260 kids out here on the dot because it was so organized. It was so concise and it was so well thought out and planned. This is a great facility. And I think the idea of people's vision of what happens here on Game Day Sundays should be discussed because it's community. Yeah. I mean, all ages. So what are the ages of teaching?

that play here on Sunday during season. So, I mean, you start all the way in fourth grade, and then you go up until eighth grade. And there's some smaller divisions that they don't play as much of a schedule. But, I mean, it starts, Jim will tell you, he's out here at 6 a.m. Game start around 10 or around noon, and then they go until Jim leaves, Jim and Mike leave about 7 p.m. at night. And that's every Sunday throughout the entire fall, and it all leads up to a championship Sunday at Seacrest Field or at Union Bank Stadium. I think they're still nailing down one of those two locations. And so it gives the feel of like, okay, every single Sunday, you know what's going to happen.

You also have practices throughout the week that the players and the parents have to be responsible for. But then you are playing something. And you're playing for an opportunity to play essentially on the big field. For these guys that are in fourth, fifth grade, they look up to the high schoolers. And you get a chance to, if you take care of business every single Sunday, then you get to play on a field that the high school. sports gets played it's the it's the facial expression um i worked one of the first camps i worked as a teenager was was a redskins camp and sunny jurgensen was running the camp and i listened to him

and sam humph talk about looking how important it was to look into the faces of the kids so as we sit here i'm looking at the faces of the young people who were out here running around one they put in work today i was just said they're tired they put in work today they put in work today they There's going to be some long naps today in Lincoln, Nebraska, and fully earned. As a matter of fact, I think some of the parents are going to nap well as well, because putting on the event and showing up for it. I think the value in it as well, at 260 kids this year, this thing grows. And I hope they're prepared for the boom. Because this, I would imagine that there's twice as many kids next year, that there'll be twice as many parents here next year.

and there'll be twice as many fans. Football fans, Lincoln sports fans, Lincoln youth fans, people who played in the system, and they will show up and support it. You did, you had the walking pig. Yeah, the walking pig. It was delicious. Please, please inform people about the walking pig. A little barbecue pulled pork, some shredded lettuce, sour cream, shredded cheese,

a couple of tomatoes, all layered on top of nacho cheese Doritos. It's a staple out here. It just got invented last year during the football season. I learned about it when I was out here on Sundays. And I was excited to get back today. And they hooked me up with a loaded walking pig. So the walking taco versus the walking pig, which is preferred? Well, I think you can never go wrong with old reliable, and that's walking taco.

You can never go wrong with just ground beef. But if you want to switch it up, if you find yourself out here Sunday after Sunday and you want a little variety to spice up your life, then go with the walking pick. I'm going to give you the cheat code, Nick Senator. Have you tried it with the Fritos? Oh, yeah. Have you had the Fritos? That's how I grew up on it.

Okay. Was with the Fritos. Up until a couple of years ago, that's the first time I had Natcha cheese Doritos. But in between baseball games, you had a double header on a Saturday, it was go get a walking taco, but it was with Fritos. I am full just talking about it. I have not eaten today, and the idea of the walking grid makes my tummy happy. Yeah, for about two and a half hours, and then it makes it gurgle. Well, that's everything else.

Yeah. That's everything else you put on it, Nick. Those are personal choices. No, one last thing I... Those are all personal choices. One last thing I will say, and you understand the importance of this, is the coach to player ratio. Yeah. 35 coaches volunteered today.

I mean, you're talking one out of... One coach for six, seven kids at a camp like this with this volume, that's really, really good. Again, the commitment of grownups to show up for communities. is just it can't be understated or devalued. Nick, give the list of the, of the,

the Husker coaches, the Husker grades who showed up today. Well, I'm going to probably leave some out, but you've got to lead off with Zach Wieger. Weger is here. Obviously, Outland Trophy Award winner,

Heisman trophy winner, Eryk is out here, Adam Kerrker's out here, Kenny Wilhite is here. Ron Kellogg, the third is present. He said he was ready. Jayvonne McQuitty is here.

He said he was ready to run 40. Husker wide. receiver who transferred to South Dakota to finish out his career. He's here. I'm probably missing. I know there was a walk on tight end that Adam talked about that he played with that was here. Almond Green. How could I forget him? So there's there's a lot of guys that are out here for it. They are currently in the autograph and then the shuttle 40 broad jump phase of the of the measurement and giving them just something to take with them. A thing that just says, hey, listen, I might have been the fastest guy here. I might have been the best jumper here.

Well, that's the part of, if you come to it year after year, you can log your times from year one and see progress to year two and progress to year three. And then you can build somewhat of a substantial show of progress throughout the last couple of years. DP, Nick Sandard here, the Adam Kerker Chronicles Camp. We'll throw it a break. We'll come back. We'll close out our time here and remind folks, stay tuned up next, the Hall Famer. Black shirt to Rell Farley. he and Bach, Bocke in a black shirt, will take you to 3 o'clock and then on the block and old school with Eric Strickland J. Foreman as well. So it's a full day here on the ticket. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back.