1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - What is the standard?: December 2, 11:30 am

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

What defines success?Salary cap for coaches, admins, etc?What is the standard at Nebraska?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

that's funny that is funny oh man yeah it's interesting times and trying to figure out what what success is and what defines maybe even who defines success because if we ask the text line what should the defense look like in order for the coach to be in good standing the coordinator to be in good standing and the head coach to be in good standing and the head coach to be a good standing, mind you, right? Because the head coach chooses the coordinator. And if it is personal workings, then the head coach has to be able to identify talent

for his coordinator. The people he's going to work with the most, you have to know whether I can trust the guy. Right? Is he going to be accountable? I have to say to Bach. Hey, Bob, Sunday night, you're my captain, bro. Run it. run it

run it I'm not going to question what Bach does on Sunday night unless something doesn't go off and it's like okay Bach what are the rules of engagement what are we trying to do here oh well we got we had a thing pop up

that we weren't it was breaking news and I made it okay but I know that Bach would now understand breaking news that overrides everything I'll call DP and say hey man what do you want to do here fair like it's simple but that's how this thing works and you have to have some standard for what it is but how often do i have input on the shows that you and farley do um i mean not a lot yeah not a lot i'd say there's you know helpful pointers right from here

and there but for the most part not not a whole lot right that that i know i trust you to to build a show based on the standards we've set, the rules that we work from, and then what's good for the fan base? What do the fans want to hear? And if the fans tell you, hey, DP, we don't want to listen to what's happening, then I come to you and go,

hey, that's not working, what can we do? Right? But there's a standard set to it. The same thing applies for old school. The same thing applies for Adam Kerracher. The same thing applies for the drive. and early break, that I have to set the standard, and then I choose who my leadership will be for those time slots, right?

That I've got, early break is my offensive coordinator. Right? I can say that old school is my defensive coordinator. Bach and the black shirt, you're my special teams. I've got two line coaches in character and AD. Right, right? And then I leave y'all alone. Y'all come to me if there's a problem.

But the standard has to be set. Now, do I have different rules for student athlete shows? Do I have a different rule for A.J. Ferrari? No, I don't. AJ, hey, man. Be A.J. Ferrari. Tell the bowlers. No, no.

Come tell your stories. I don't tell Pete Ferguson how to put his show together. I don't tell Mike Smith how to put a show together. I don't tell Rocky Russo how to talk about that, right? So the standard is the same for every show. Why? Because the FCC is involved, and we're not a podcast studio. We're a federally regulated radio station.

So rules and standards have to apply. Once I know the rules of the FCC, see, there is nothing stopping us from being the best radio station in the state except for us. I like our show from one to three. I think it's the best show in the state from one to three o'clock. That's why I put it there. Right? I feel good about it.

And I'm not trying to be better than anyone else. I just want us to be the best we can be for our listeners. And our listeners tell you every day. Bach, they let you do it every day. Amen. That's good enough. You know what the standard is. Because if you're not meeting your standard and their standard and the station

standard, they will tell you. They will tell you, hey, Bach, that ain't it, bro. That ain't it. So are you telling me that Nebraska athletics and Nebraska football doesn't know the standard? they don't know the rules of engagement and they don't know what success is. Well, I mean, unfortunately, I think you have to, I think they work toward that. But unlike radio, we don't have a game that will show it. I mean, there is obviously competition, all that sort of stuff, numbers you can get into.

But force is unique, right? It comes down to, did you win or lose today? well but that's that's how simple this is every show has to go want to know that day did you did you inform and or perform did you did you change the way people think did you provide information did you tell a story that was entertaining and worth tell them or worth hearing, right? Did you, as the emcees would say, because these are, if you, when you get the microphone, you're the master of ceremony. You're supposed to move the crowd. So I need to get you to think, if I got one person to think, bravo, if I got a bunch of people

to commit, now if you go from the text line, if I'm touching a nerve and then trying to get more informed either for them or with them, then that's what the show should be. Nebraska football isn't that, it's not that complicated. You have everything you need already. Is that a fair statement, Bach, that Nebraska football has everything it needs to be the best of the Big Ten Conference? I mean, there's always the geographical limitations to a degree. Would the planes not come here?

there's less local talent than maybe there is elsewhere, but they have, they've got more than enough to do better than what they've done. Less than Harrisonburg, Virginia, less than Tulane. Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania area. Less than New Orleans, less than, what are we talking about?

As far as local talent? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania. But Texas isn't winning national titles. No. Florida's not winning national titles. California's not winning national titles. Well, there's a, okay, we'll just put it.

Right. We'll put it in the south. There's a lot of, there's a lot of talent in the south, and the south has won a lot of national titles over the last 20 years. Okay. So if Nebraska needs talent,

and it knows where the talent is, it knows how to get the town. And it has the money to go get the town. Right? Ah. Came up short on a running back last. She heard that for that rule. Why?

They didn't have the money, they said. Offensive line was not their first thing. Why don't they have nobody? Don't they have a, what's 1892? What do they do? Same thing as what other collectives do at other universities. Oh, okay. So there's a way to get money.

Yeah. LSU seems to get money. And quite frankly, that's intriguing to me. Right? They've burned $150 million on coaches not coaching. So there's money. Nebraska's paying coaches now who do not coach here.

So there's money. Bad decisions are taking money from the program. Is that a fair statement? Oh, yeah. So there's a way. Right? Yeah. I mean,

the one thing that we can definitely agree on is the leadership at Nebraska has not done the best job over the last 20 years. Now, I don't say anything about currently, but it's the the paper's already been written the story's already written i here's what i know about about sports and about life you can always rewrite the end look the tickets the ticket it wasn't always the ticket this version of it we could stay where we were and just kept that that weird address and that weird location and kept doing what we were doing the way we were doing it But we determined, we collectively determined that we were better.

And it had to be a we thing. Otherwise, this doesn't happen. I can't come here without trauma. And the listeners, I can't, we can't do this without the listeners. There's a reason for us to do it without the listeners. The fan base bought in. Dan from Canopy says this on the text line. They must have a salary cap and regulate NIL.

It can't go on like this. Go Big Red. salary cap for who? Coaches, administrators, consultants, assistant coaches. Who's that for? Because the asset are those football players, 105.

That's what, hey, that's what people buy tickets for. Bakke, you buy, are you, When you go to the stadium on Saturday, are you going to watch Matt Roo Coach, or are you going to watch the Huskers play? Yeah, because of the players. I'll be, I'm a little bit unique. I mean, I do travel to go see different coaches.

Yeah. Well, but why? Because they've proven that they can get the players to achieve. Right. I expect a good product out of the game, yeah. I'm not a member of the, you need to regulate the rosters if you're not going to regulate the coaching staff and administrators, it doesn't make.

You can't regulate the teenagers. and I regulate the adults. The absolute professional, the career professionals, if you're going to regulate the temporary worker, the person that's going to work for you for four years, but you're not going to regulate the coach

under a nine-year, nine-year deal. No, you missed the point. You missed the point. You know, Phil, Bach, you want to help him with that. you want to help him with that well yeah i mean you're not listening that means you didn't you didn't hear the first 20 minutes when you try to say it in a way sometimes to allow people to draw their own conclusions i don't want to look i don't have to have the answer i'm trying to get the right what is

defining success phil what does it mean before you fire somebody there has to be some boundary for what it is you're asking them to do and if you don't know how you're hiring then you're inevitably setting them up to fire. What's the next defensive coordinator are going to be asked to do? What are they going to be asked to accomplish? How will you know you hired the right guy? How will you know?

How did you know you hired the wrong guy? Because if you make that decision and that decision has been made for several offensive and defensive the coordinators recently. So either you haven't identified why you're hiring or why you're firing. One of the two, maybe both. And if you haven't to figure out what success is going to mean for these

coordinators, is that to help you get to seven wins, one more win, eight wins, nine wins, ten wins. We just said you fired a coach who was winning nine and ten games because he had a bad year. what are the rules what's the standard so phil tell me what's the standard why did why did a defense coordinator get fired yesterday and what should the what will be defined success for the new for the next coordinator because that's when we have the discussion about who's going to be next we should probably know that fair yeah right fair

Eric, behave yourself. Go to your room. This is, of course, black shirt, pocket of black shirt is special. You said special team. Stop it.

Hey, probably one of the best special teams players ever walk. How about that? Utility guy? Swiss Army knife? Simple biz.

We'll read the text if we come back and close. I get to you all set for Adam care.