1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - What Did We Take Away from Saturday's Open Practice?: August 4th, 11:00am

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

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down the layout. You're going to need it. Just going to let you know in advance. You're going to need it. It's a busy week. Busy week, things are happening and things are being added to the schedule. So as we talk about it, there will be NFL preseason games on the ticket. Make sure you're able to carry the app and stream and do the brick and mortar thing. It is a question, I guess. Bach, do you have an actual radio? I was thinking about asking that the other day. I don't. I don't think I do anymore.

Like outside of my car, I don't. But man, I miss it because that's what made me fall in love with sports radio. Right. So, and then, I mean, here's the thing that struck me, somebody mentioned it yesterday, that the website, the ticketfm.com, is also a great resource. Like, we forget so much, and we have to be consistent and constantly remind you. finding folks. And then when we say follow on social media, it's not just for the numbers. It's so that you get notification of what's going on and you can actually track some of the stories.

Like we have changes to things that go on here and, you know, that's a really good way of knowing. But jump on the website. Poke around. Look, you can look for programs. You can look for previous shows. You can look for content. All of that stuff is there. So, we've tried to make a point to give you every way possible to consume what we're offering as consistently and as often as possible. So, yeah, the website's also an added factor in that over the course of this two-hour show to Caracro will be back next Monday as well. So it would be pretty simple to follow along, back in the black shirt, immediately following

that most of the week. And then Anthony Smith, Anthony Loner Hart Smith will be back down Wednesday. Peter Cobalt's coming on Wednesday night for a one-on-one. So we will have several coaches from on de Magro from women's tennis, working on Lance Harvel, Jalen Reyes, from volleyball, Harvill, lots going on.

And then I need to get Luke of Regulio, the new GM, former director of operations for Husker basketball. I need to get him here locked in. And yeah, I'm poking at you, Luca. I'm poking at you. We need to get you in here. Lots to talk about as we head into students coming back, basketball training, what's happening there,

all the different involvements that happened from the transfer portal. And there's lots when you talk about basketball. But for football, Bach, your immediate hot take. on Saturday's open practice. What comes to mind? Do you know any more than you did on Friday? Do you know more on Monday than you did on Friday? Well, I mean, I think you can add some highlights.

And if you saw it, I mean, it's a certain wide receiver splashing, you know, maybe you feel a little bit better about the depth chart there. Not that you had worries in that particular area to begin with, but some of the young guys kind of showed out. And then, you know, you always kind of get through, okay, well, who's lining up where when they start? Ones versus ones, 11 on 11. And, you know, so I think you kind of take away a little bit maybe from what's going on there.

But there's also over analyzing the one practice that you see, right? I mean, that can be, you know, with injuries or rotations or whatnot. And we did see, you know, you saw rotations there even with, you know, the first team. So, and that's what it's going to be. You know, with the black shirts, we kind of get. this idea and sometimes we'll give, you know, 12, 13 black shirts out. But sometimes we get so entrenched in the idea of starters, I guess, in sports. And yes, it's important, but some of those, you know, maybe eight of the positions, I should say, you know, three of the positions, four of the

positions can be more rotation based than, hey, this is going to be our solidified starter throughout the year. And of course, we all know that it can change throughout the year as well. But so, I mean, I think you maybe, I don't know if you know more, you maybe feel a little bit, a little bit better, particularly I would say with the special teams unit, the field goal kicking. I think there's a competition there, and we didn't see any misses. Everything looked pretty good from what was going on there, which should be routine. I mean, these were 28 to 43-yard field goals. They were not like they were booming them, but that was not routine last year.

So maybe it feel a little bit better about that as well. Yeah, it's, it's, I was accused Sunday of being Derek Downer about the practice. And I said, that's not true. I ask questions. Again, I don't have to have the answers to everything, but I do want to get to questions to make you think. And I know that a lot of people don't want to be think, they don't want to think. They just want to be told what to think. And I'm not that way. Like I don't process that way. As a coach, a player, never processed that way. The basic skin, top skin level of a thing is not necessarily the answer. And it's certainly

not where I want to live. So, you know, it's the full, it's in the full space. You guys are funny too. Again, I have to say it as simply as I could say it that, yes, the Gump family rules

applies to one-on-one. We fully engage that and that is the beauty that you have to buckle up when you come to one-on-one. Because there's a hundred different rabbit holes we can go down. And you guys know me well enough to know how to press Bacconized buttons.

Like, you know that the day after pay-per-view WWE weekend and the weekend, the Monday after UFC fight nights, yeah, there's stuff to talk about. And you, we can go through, but we also hadn't talked about, you and I hadn't talked about the practice. So we'll get to the,

to Summer Slam. We've 100% get. to Summer Slam. And I want to get to Cincinnati because I think in the story, in the story, just like the face in a match at WWE, there has to be a villain. In order for it to matter, for you to care, there has to be some risk, some friction. And that Cincinnati exists. And we can look at, oh, my goodness gracious, here's what the Huskers are doing, which is wonderful. It's a wonderful thing to dive into what we think we see and what we want to know. And they're never the same.

They're never the same. We've never walked into a Husker football season in the last six years and know what we were walking into. We've never known. We've never gotten it right. Never gotten it right. I mean, there are individuals who got it right. Like there are people who took a shot in the dark. And they threw the dice and they got, oh, you know what, we're going to win four games.

We're going to win five games. Okay, we're in seven wins range. The simple way to look at it is what your eyes tell you and what the action looks like. And remember, you have new eyes. What you saw at the Pennstripe Bowl is just where the Husker program officially, left off, then you can compare what you saw at the Pennstrike Bowl and what you saw at practice. You can compare them. You can compare the players who you project at various levels of the depth chart.

But we don't know the depth chart. As a matter of fact, here's the one thing that you have to know about some or can't. The depth chart changes every day. As a matter of fact, it changes every rep. Why? Because you're not fully formed. You're not fully competing. Tell me when in Saturday, you went full on 100% once against once. Tell me when. Like, you don't even know who the ones are. You don't know who's hurt, right? There's no injury report. like there's kind of an injury port well this one was yeah we held this one out

because it was okay but we don't know we don't know this is not the NFL and we don't get those sorts of those doctors don't work that way okay who's healthy who's been healthy who's healthy we're protecting ask those questions

okay then who is participating in what drills what was the thing that you're working on every single practice. As a matter of fact, every drill and every part of practice is to work on a particular thing, a specific thing.

You're not working on everything. You're never displaying everything. You're never showcasing everything. Every part of practice is to work on a particular thing. And the parts that you get to see at an open practice is how a team warms up, right? Look at the group. Does the group look like a Nebraska group?

Now, always use air quotes with the look like because remember, we hadn't seen any of the groups that we saw Saturday in full before Saturday. Bach, we hadn't seen any film, had we? We hadn't seen the warmups, right? We had seen the quarterback groups drill. we hadn't seen them throw in unison and throw in routine. We had not seen the receivers in how they move in space and what their release drills were and what their top of the route drills were.

Were you able to come out, you know, did you come out of the break the right way, hand placement, release at the line of scrimmage, what type of release are you working on? Because zone releases and man releases are all different, right? And you have to see how this particular coaching staff, which is a new coaching staff at all the position. We're talking about you had not seen it. So you don't know what you were seeing. You can only compare it in your mind to the last version of it.

And then, and then, hey, then you get into the comparing game. How did Dylan look compared to last year? Bach, do you remember who the number two quarterback was at the first open practice last year. Do you remember who that was? Not necessarily. Right. We gave, we give so much.

We give so much juice. Right. Remember the Chubba party days? Like, remember the days of projecting with having Logan's mothers and Chubba? We went through. And it's so funny. Like we go through, you know when we're going to know what this year's Husker team is going to look like?

August 29th. We're going to project. We're going to preview. We're going to predict. And then we're going to go, oh, man, we were way off. Remember all the starts of all the running backs who were the top guy? at going into camp. All of the,

Bach, we could name the last five projected thousand yard. Every year. Every year. Every year. We don't even know those guys anymore. Like you, Bach, remember all the transfers that came in and all the guys?

We can go all the way back to, bro. We can't even name. the last five predicted number one, the guy who started the season at number one, and then the guy who ended up at the end of the season, right? Yeah, we don't have, we don't have a mail carrier. Yeah, we do.

No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. We don't know. Like, we can talk about who's in the room. And this, I don't know that the running back room, is different this year than in the previous year, other than the fact that we know less about them this year.

We know Emmett, but we really don't know Emmett. We just met Emmett. We met Emmett in the last three regular season games. We met Emmett in the Pennstri Bowl. We're like, bro, we just started dating. We know you for 600 yards. We know. And that, but that's the focus, right?

that, okay, we can project that he, we know that he can play at the Pennstrike Bowl level, right? We saw that. But then we have to say what the pinstrike bowl was. Like, was that more important? Was the pinstribeau more important than the entire Big Ten season? I would say less important given the sitouts. Right? You have the sitouts.

Like, it's a different schedule. And it's not Big Ten football. Right. We can say fully, it's the Pennstrike Bowl was not Big Ten football. Played the baseball stadium. Right. Like it's a whole bunch of stuff. So then you get into the expectation. I'll ask the question because it helps me understand what people are thinking.

Because expectation is one thing, right? Wish list is entirely different. Like we know that there's the ideal situation that Nebraska is a double-digit win. team. That's the ideal. Whatever double digits means, right? It can mean 10, 11, 12, whatever, right? We also know that based on previous years, the possibility of the opposite being true as well

is not out of the realm of discussion. That's worst case scenario, right? Then, then, then, we get to project somewhere between what are the extremes? Like worst case, they only win five games? Is that the worst case? What's the worst case?

Text line, what's the worst case? What's the worst case and best case? So give me, so if there's an equal number, so let's say if it's six and six or seven and five, five and seven, right, eight and four, four and eight, nine and three, three and nine. 10 and 2, 2 and 10. In that, the spectrum lands that probably we would land that somewhere 8 and 4, 4 and 8 are likely,

the likely vacuum that we're working in, you could slide the scale four games either way, right? You can say that they could win seven games or 11, right? Or they could lose five games or three or two. Right? I don't. What's the spectrum for you, Bach? Like, walk me through. Well, I, you know, I do it a lot of usually would be based on historically.

Nebraska, even when they're missing the bowl games in the Callahan years, you know, still won five games. But since 2021, when I saw a pretty darn good team, win only three games, it kind of resets what you can think. And so I can throw that out there and people will tell me, you know, and I've said this before with the conversation, you know, we have five and sevens the floor. People will tell me that. I've seen pretty good teams win three.

So I know that, I know that it can get worse than even what we're, so I want to say a floor, I would say three because that's historically what we've seen. And then, you know, the ceiling, obviously, I mean. What's the ceiling? Again, I've seen Indiana make runs. I've seen Iowa make runs to get 11 regular season wins. I'd probably say 11. So 11 being best case, right?

11 and 1. Peter Corbilt came in and said 11 to 1, right? Yeah. 12 game schedule, 11 and 1. That the range, to me, this year's range has to be firmly locked in between 7 and 11 wins. Right, because seven is where you are. It's the most recent data point that we have to work from, right? So seven wins.

And you can't aspire or believe that all of the work, all of the hype, all of the resources, all the money, all that stuff would lead you to fewer wins than seven. But also remembering everybody else put in the resources and work as well. It's not like, you know, Illinois took the summer off, right? It's not like Indiana took the summer off. It's not like Washington didn't go out and put in work. It's not like Northwestern didn't go out and get a top tier four-star quarterback. It's not like Wisconsin sat on its hands. They went and got a guy who could throw for 200 yards a game, you know, which changes how you, how you prepare and prep for them.

But then you remember, everybody else went and got a running back too. Everyone got running backs. Who's the new running back for now? Nebraska. Right. President. Right. We have to do.

Right. We talk about that Nebraska went and got some receivers. Right. They went and got some receivers to the portal. What if I told you that Nebraska's first opponent, Cincinnati, also went, they got a receiver from Texas A&M. They got another one from Colorado State. They got another one from.

like they went and got some people that when they talk about three elite players if there were elite players, three elite players in the game that's going to be played August 28th in Kansas City. Do you know who the three highest rated players are? The ones that NFL scouts have looked at and college scouts have looked at,

do you know who the top three players are playing in that game by ranking alone? What if I told you they're all Cincinnati? What if I tell you that the defensive lineman is higher ranked than anybody we have on our defense? Yeah, Dante Corleone. Right? What if we said that the quarterback,

the Nebraska may not have the best quarterback on the field that day? You have a quarterback through for 2,800 yards and rushed for 145 in a game, in a single game, returning. is that, is that, is that, is that, is that impressive? Impressive enough. Right. He's a, yeah, dual threat quarterback, you know, look out for him.

Right. Like, you know, this is the thing. If in preparing in the walkup for it, yes, Nebraska's focus is Nebraska and trying to get the players. We can look at the depth chart and start to have some ideas of what we think the depth chart is. But we don't know. You and I don't know. The listener doesn't know what the

actual, you know, mothership room, coaches room in Nebraska Huskers, in the Huskers building, what it sets. We know that Dylan is one. Okay. Do we, are

sure who the three receivers are, the top three receivers? Not completely sure. Right. Do we know who the left side of the line is? We can project. We can project, but we can say,

from discussion's sake, maybe it's Pritchard and Lutovsky. You sit Lutovsky to Big Ten Media days, right? So is Evans the best center, best guard? He played a lot of left guard last year, right? Not right. Yeah.

expected to move in the center here. Well, right, that's part of the discussion. Part of the discussion. What do you do with Corker and Pajaska? Right? These are veterans. What do you do? Is Kinnak the guy?

Is Gatola the guy? Are they Big Ten ready now? And we don't know. We can say, yeah, I think if Cotola and Sledge are my guys on that side of the ball, you can feel okay about it, right? Because they got reps and they've been in the fire. But then you have to ask another question.

What do you know versus what you hope? In that part, the more questions you have about a team tells you the state of the team. here's the question I was asked Saturday. Bach, would you feel more comfortable if Pahaska and Corkran were your right side? Or if they were not your right side, based on people who are available, which one would you feel more comfortable with? Yeah, that was my reaction. That exactly, that sound you made, text sign, I'm not, like, I'm not wrong in it. Tell me.

Right. Bach. Right? Like, we go with, we know what we know. And then. I mean, just how much do you know in that conversation? Because you can even say, we at least know, because we've seen Praskin and Corcoran, well, they're coming off injuries.

Uh-huh. And multiple injuries. Uh-huh. And so you don't even know what you have there. So I think some people would say, No, I like what we have, keep those guys as backups. Well, you like what you have is you're projecting, you know, Tyler Nack. How much of Tyler Nack have you seen to play?

Unless you're, unless your daddy knack. Oh, you don't know. I, here's the one. We'll go to break. Fire up the text on that if, tell me what you're, what, and there's a difference between, between projected wins and expected wins. Right? Because I want, I want the temperature of the rope.

And if the room is, tell me, just put a projected win. So just put a P and a number and then expected E and a number for the number of wins this season. And you don't even have to tell me why. But I'm going to ask Bach this, what he projects them to win versus what he expects them to win. We'll get his answer and yours when we come back. Download our app by searching 93.7, the ticket in your app store. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 the ticket in the ticket FM.com.