1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - When the Code is Set, The Code is the Law: September 2nd, 1:00pm

Episode Date: September 2, 2026

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 The Ticket. And hit a bass. Play the bass. 50-pound drummer, just using the drummer. Love this dude. The band is Sam's House. Oh, go find a song.

Sam's House, live it up. You'll appreciate you later. The black shirt, Cheryl Farley sits next to us back on the big board. And again, it is Beat Ohio week. And again, 18 hours a day, we can cover most things in sports. So the story with TCU, and again, we hopefully that you've caught up on it. If not, we will catch you up over the course of the day.

But here's a text. Texer says this. D.P., how much of the TCU issue would you attribute to the training? portal, the attacking player just transferred in after last season, how much of a brotherhood could be established with so many players coming in and going out, coaches are more concerned? Are coaches even concerned about brotherhood anymore? Now, I'm going to give that to Farley, because literally in the break, we were talking about that.

That new players in a new situation, there are codes, Farley, okay, let's not work from assumption. Are there brotherhood codes that exist in collegiate football? Somewhat. Okay. Is it fair to say that nobody holds you accountable like a teammate? Yeah. Do the coaches always know when there's heat and friction between players? No.

Who's responsible for making sure that friction between players do not. not exist and continue. Is that a captain? Captains, other players, um, probably a GA can, can help out. Don't want to tell them too much, but, you know, it basically is,

it's team captains who's supposed to squash that situation. And it's their job to know. Yeah. Right? Yeah. I mean, even with the TCU thing, when I, when I said bringing a, uh, uh, a guy into a locker room, that's transfer portal guy. That guy is always not the good guy because you got to,

you don't, you're recruiting them for a short period of time. You're only recruiting them from what? January 1st to January 10th. How much are you going to find out about that guy in those nine days? Okay. So this is when we have the transfer portal conversation. I'm old school.

I'm old enough to know that the transfer portal has always existed. It was just called jukew. Yeah. It was just like, yeah, right? So you came in, you were recruited by Nebraska from somewhere else. They did their diligence, right? Because before you came here, did you talk to Coach Osborne? Yeah.

Did you talk to your, to the linebackers coach? I had two of them. We're in one left and then I met the other one. But you, yeah. And did you visit Lincoln before you got, before you enrolled? Yeah. So there's opportunity for diligence and compliance to be done. Well, you're right, because once you come for a recruit visit and you meet guys,

because you're going to meet most of the team at off-campus housing and off-campus parties, y'all going to get together and they're going to see how you match with guys, see if y'all was able to get along with. I was able to get along with the guy who was my host for 30 years. We've still been friends, and he treated me. I've seen guys turn on recruits at parties when we was here. Like the recruit didn't, some recruits come mouthy. Some don't want to, you know, some don't want to go out.

Some just want to visit this thing and go back to the room. And for instance, I've seen one of our players almost get into it with T. Martin. That's probably turned him away from Nebraska when he was coming out of high school. That's a big part of it. Yeah. Here's the other part. pull behind the curtain, that when you come, when you're being recruited, they're recruiting the talent and then they figure out whether they want the person. Yeah. I think it works better when you know

who the person is because then that tells you, you don't fail because of talent. Yeah. You fail because of the person. Yeah. Right. It's rare that anybody gets recruited who doesn't have talent. You see the talent. then you find it about the person and then you have to know. But then in the locker room, when you first got here, you wasn't running anything, but you were going to be you. Yeah.

There were people in place who would tell you, here's what we do, here's what we don't do. Fair? Yeah. Team rules. All the codes passed along. Well,

first of all, we started in two different locker rooms. So it was, you started off in the freshman locker room. You had to earn your way in there. And then when you came in there, you also had to be initiated. So it wasn't a bad initiation.

What was the initiation? Just throwing water on you, just a little five, six. I'll say probably two-minute jump in. To see whether you can handle the friction. Yeah. And I happened to come in, me and mine green walked in together.

And we both got it together. He got it a little worse because he tried to fight back. So it's like he is, don't fight back in some instance. You don't. When I say grown man babies, that's what it was, a grown baby's in there. But this is the thing, though,

it's time for, like, I don't know what happened before. But there should be somebody in the, in the room with those players. So players in the locker room, that means there's other players in the locker room and their coaches in the locker room, right?

They're in the space. Yeah. Then they may be in their office, attached to the locker room, but they're there, right? Have you had those situations happen in a locker room before where players beef? Yeah, I mean, arguing wise, we heard it, but not fight. We never had the fights in the type of the locker room thing. And why did it never escalate to fights?

Because you always leave it on the field. That's what we would talk. Right. Leave it on the field. Don't take it to the locker room. Here's the thing. When the code is set up. room is your home. When the code is set, the code is law. Yeah. That's how it works. And with this

TCU thing, again, I don't know what player that transfers in from anywhere who thinks it's okay to kick a teammate in the head. Yeah. Or to kick anybody in the head. Can I say that? Yeah. I mean, right? My thing is, where was his other teammates that? I mean, you got 110 guys on team. Somebody got to be close enough to hey, hey, or block that kick, help that guy or even break it up. It shouldn't have went that far where a guy should have would be

kicked in the head and bleeding on the brain and stuff like that. I mean, the athletic room is right next door. She'll be right next door to the locker room. The idea that it took two hours to get him treatment. Sad.

Right? I blame the school on that part. I mean, you blame everybody from the top to the bottom for that. Like you said, you got to blame the trainers. You got to blame the position coach. You got to blame even the player who did it. I mean, you got to blame the players in the locker room. Like if you see a guy just, somebody had to know that he was hurting like that. I think everybody. Yeah. I think everybody knew and that that's what leads to it. Terrell Farley, Blackshirt, Bach, D.P. on a Wednesday. It's game week. Bill and Bennett, you're funny. So I think DP would be good.

be a good backup singer to that song. Many a night when they were playing at my bar. Yeah, singing and dancing, bro. It's the ultimate thing. We have blanket, we see you. We see you. And I think far too often the adults in the room

don't adult. Far too often, we choose adults who aren't adults. We choose leaders who aren't adults. right? Because the belief is that, well, this personal will do anything required, right? They're cutthroat. They're dogs. But when you're led by a dog, you get dog things. You get bites, you get scratches, you get some recklessness. That's what happens.

And a reckless program is rarely the championship program. That's not how championship won. Is that a fair statement? Yeah, I mean, so one guy was what, a receiver? I don't know. Other guy was a what, DBB? Yeah, yeah. So even with that, like, locker room setups, when you talk about locker room set up, I was never around the offensive player.

Like, we had our locker room so big and spread out. I was over with the defensive line. So then you have, I had a quarterback's on my other side of me. So it wouldn't really like, no, if I got into it with a runnerback, I had to face him in the locker room. No, he's wailed on the other side. So we both can cool off. go our way.

I didn't think that there was ever cause and otherwise. I told Bach this story. I think I told the story on the station about being in Carolina for the training camp and having Kerry Collins dropped the N-word on one of his teammates. And his teammate knocked him out,

broke his jaw. And there was the thing of having an NFL team call you and say, hey, can you sit on the story? And I said, I don't know the story. That was my protection. Yeah. Was saying I didn't know the story. You tell me what happened.

And then I'll investigate from there. Then I'll talk to Carrie. Well, you can't talk to Carrie because he had a broken jaw in his jaws wire truck. Well, he can write, can he? Yeah. Right? Can I talk to the guy that he, got knocked out by can I talk to the guy who felt offended enough and again you asked the question

why would you be offended by words but people constantly are and want to throw hands because and it became a whole thing that one panthers didn't tell the story right away uh then the story broke and then they got mad at some media people for telling the stories and then ultimately they end up asking me as a third party and art yeah i'm i'm the i'm the i'm switzerland Like I'm the one in the middle who would just sit back and go, okay, for a man of color and a white gentleman, can we speak from both sides? Can we get to come to some agreement? And that's what happened. And that was the right way to handle it.

And he was like, I apologize. I was wrong for what I was doing. And he apologized. He should have never reacted because he hurt the team by knocking out and breaking the quarterback's joke. And I just never understand. why there are so many athletes who feel like they can just throw hands because they feel like it or they lose control. Well, apart for me in this part with the locker room thing in TCU

is where's the senior leadership? Where's the guys that seen this? I mean, you can't let a guy just sit there and kick an innocent, a guy who's already on the ground in the head. I mean, I would stop that even before it got to take it to the ground. I mean, you got to stop. You don't want your locker room turned inside out like that. It's that thing.

And when we talked about Nebraska preparing for Ohio, that all I wanted to hear was how we're going to beat Ohio. Like, what are you going to do to beat Ohio? And we're at that point. So we did do a full day's worth of prep to talk about Ohio. And Farley, I want to ask you a couple of things because the connection between Ohio and Nebraska I'm surprised at the level of co-interest that Frank Solich has created for Ohio and Nebraska to think of each other as kindred spirit.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you care that Solich coached in Ohio? Does it matter to you as a Husker? It doesn't really matter. It matters because I care for Coach Solich, but, you know, it's kind of the Frank Solich bowl, if you really look at it. his old team versus his other old team. So, you know, it's not about Solich,

but it's all about what Nebraska and Ohio is going to bring to the table of Saturday. So, you know, but, you know, if anything, I like it because of coach Solich. And I would like, you know, let them do the, what the corn toss box. Yeah. It's fair. I do want to shout out the folks on YouTube, you know, Captain. We appreciate you. We do see you.

We do read you long. There's so much of the stuff that as we talk about it, it is a violent sport. Yeah. But it is also a discipline violence. The weapon, the thing in whether it be MMA, boxing, wrestling, football, control your weapons. Control your weapons. That's the responsibility part. And sometimes we miss that.

In talking about Ohio, let me break a couple of things down for you. that they went to a ball game. They have a new quarterback, a dual threat quarterback. Maybe a quarterback whose advantage is the fact that he can get you plus yardage on the ground. They had some holes to feel on the offensive line. They went in the Terminaldial and got three offensive starters on the line. They've got three high-level Division 1-WI receivers.

If I told you that they went, they've got a receive, they have seven starters on offense, returning seven starters on defense. They have three receivers, one played at Virginia with Anthony Colandria. You have another play to Kentucky. Got some big, those are some big-time receivers out there that Ohio brings in.

They use the San Diego State. familiar defense. Farley, are we running some things together here? These programs have, they're sharing a lot in their preseason, aren't they? I can say so. You talk about Ohio? Yeah. This is the thing, man.

I watched a little, I watched that, I went back and watched, uh, the bowl game. The bowl game, and, and they was on Anthony Clangely. And now you got to think about it. Most of the advantage probably goes to Ohio, because they know this quarterback. Now, it's going to be a lot different because our offensive line is a lot different from last year.

So you got to look for that part. The thing is, they know his weaknesses. They know where he goes. They know everything about this kid. So it's not going to be like they're going to sit back and let him do damage. No, they're going to watch for that rollout. They're going to watch for them RPO runs.

They're going to watch for all the stuff that he did against them. And I also watched the fumbles he had against them. and in the I and T's, in the stuff like that. They talked about it that, yes, that it's shared winning on either side, that they have some advantage because they played against him and they've seen him, they have actual tape on him against their defenses,

and they figured out. I mean, they held him for 10 points. And you can say that, well, he's got a different offense around him, and they've got different defensive players. But the schemes and the way you attack those things don't change. it's that 335, 425 flex, depending on situation, circumstance. You can do that.

He's seeing them, they've seen him. But different players around them and what they talk about. But the flexibility of the Ohio defense is a real problem. Right? It's a real problem. But I'll ask you, when you think of Ohio football, Mac, all the full Macsion that we talk about, right? that there's always little things, tweaks and twists in the way they run their systems.

Maybe not as talented as the Big Ten player for player, but they do things that cause problems. But what would you say when you think of Ohio football? What do you think of? Well, you know, just consistency for their program, too, over the last couple of years. Now they've got different coaches, but it all comes kind of from the Frank Solidge tree. And that's why Frank Solich is kind of part in this. You know, first was Tim Alvin. You know, now you get to John Hauser.

but yeah, I mean, remember, this is a team that a couple of years ago had Curtis who went on to go to Indiana, was the Mac player of the year. So, I mean, I think what you hit on is right. I mean, they're not going to overpower a whole lot of conference, you know, Power 4 teams when they go in and play them. But they are going to fight and they do play, you know, can play a physical brand, you know, probably in this type of game, you limit the possessions and, you know, play complimentary football and see what you can do.

So, I mean, I expect a pretty darn good game more so than I think a lot of people are between Ohio and Nebraska and Sarah. Farley as a defender, they run this. I mean, look, that that read that they run, but it's spatial for them. Like they run out of the diamond, which as a former defensive coordinator, I hated teams that line up in a diamond and they would open it up, which means you're adding another back, full back, tail back. line up in a diamond with the quarterback, and then you're running any direction with an extra body plus one, right? So blocker, blocker plus ball carry.

As a linebacker, when you're playing against a diamond and the edge is really important, what's your key? Keeping containment. Right, making sure that nobody gets outside. Yeah, nobody gets on the outside. Turn it back in. If you're looking at it, right, and you're setting the edge.

So, and you're usually changing the line of scrimmage, you're not sitting at the line of scrimmage. I sit at the line of scrimmage. You're sitting at the line of scrimmage. Okay. And then head on the swivel, where are your eyes? On the back field. Are you looking for helmets coming in your direction?

Or are you waiting to see if you're seeing back of, if you're seeing names on the back of the Jersey? of I'm seeing if that guard of tackle is going to block down or he's going to go around the other way. I mean, I can slide down a little bit and try to really pin it in and turn it back in or either I can, I got help on my side or I can blow it up and make it bounce to the outside

with the help out there. It's always funny. We used to talk about it. We tell linebackers against this type of offense, don't go looking for business. Business is coming. Yeah. Yeah.

Because the moment you, you assume and you anticipate, that's it. One step, you're going. It's a wrap. Yep. It's a wrap. All right. Farley, I'm going to let you go get prepped up for your show. Appreciate you, DP.

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