1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Which game is easier to win with less athleticism: Football or Basketball?: January 29th, 2026, 11:00am

Episode Date: January 29, 2026

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On one with D.P. Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7, a ticket and the ticketfm.com. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. It is 11 o'clock. In the city that is Lincoln, 19 degrees snow. More snow possible on the clock. We're watching, you mother nature.

You have our attention. 4-2-46-4-6-8-5 you started him and text line you want to be a part of what we're doing in the conversation today for the hour I kind of want to cover a couple of things that are that are looks back and then look looking forward lots to talk about in Huskerland will get to as much of it as we can the things you want to talk about hit reach us out if you got a question reach out

You can follow all the live video streams, Facebook, YouTube X, Allo Channel 961. Please download the ticket app, take us with you wherever you go. Simplicity. I know we have folks who are listening on the app in the air, folks by land, by sea. So we appreciate that. That's the best way to do it. We'll hand it over to this kind, sir, but I'll ask the question first. Bach, how the heck are you?

Hey, not too bad. Pretty good. As you know, I'm not a big fan of the snow, but I was looking at the forecast. Looks like in the next week, it'll get a little bit warmer. So other than that, I'm doing pretty good. Pretty good is pretty good, as my granddad would say. Shout out to Melvin Harris Jr. and seniors, matter of fact, as they sit on a bench in heaven and have conversation. So appreciate that. Bach, kind sir. at your earliest avail, if you would please. Pay the bills. Pay the bills. Yes, today's show is sponsored by Hamilton Telecommunications,

bringing the latest quality technology and communications services since 1901. Whether it's residential or business, Hamilton has the answers. Visit HamiltonTel.com for more info today. Thank you, kind, sir. It is the, uh, the, the, the Bacin-D-P one-on-one today. And there's a couple of things that I want to cover over the course of that. we will in fact have, everybody knows we'll spend Super Bowl Sunday down at Buffalo Wings and Rings.

And in preparation for that, I had to accumulate some goodies this morning. I was busy. We will, in fact, have Super Bowl squares that require nothing of you spectacularly in either of them. There will be two sets of squares. So, Bob, this is how I'll go down.

If anybody asks you, you'll be able to tell them that there'll be one square of 100 that we give away on shows next week. So Monday through, we're actually starting on Friday if they want to start tomorrow, but if you want to give them all away next week, you can. You have until next Friday noon to fill the boxes. You are only allowed one box per 100. So the first box will be gathered, collected, assembled here on air next week. And that's through trivia question, text lines, social media feeds, etc. So you'll have several ways to be a part of it.

Secondly, for those, the first 100 people that show up to Buffalo Wings and Rings will get a square. And we will match the things that are given away. So imagine there'll be a first quarter winner for the listener square and then the first quarter winner for those at Buffalo Wings and Rings. It'll be a halftime winner, et cetera. I can tease and offer that Bach, if I asked you who was the best Husker player who also played for the Patriots. who comes to mine?

Yeah. I'll say Irving Friar. Yeah. Yeah. So would that be a pretty cool? Yeah, we absolutely. That's a pretty cool. Yeah.

And if you can get a, you get, yeah. So that we're working with? That's what we're, well, here's the deal. There'll be something signed from, from Irving Friar. There it is. Yeah.

Right. As a part of our Super Bowl squares. So you'll have that. And then it got. a little more dicey and interesting when we're trying to find somebody from the Seahawks. But we didn't have to look far. We didn't have to look far. Now, we did have to look differently because there are two huskers of note who spent quality time in Seattle.

Bach, any guesses? I mean, I think of Josh Brown, who was there. oddly enough, one of the first names I think of was Amon Green who had a cup of coffee there. Right, that's one. That's one. Which is awesome. I mean, to give the, before they knew he was the Packers all time leading Russia. Right. He was the Seahawk. Y'all missed it. You missed the layup.

You missed the layup. So that would be pretty good. There's somebody else who was in the stadium, in the station a couple of weeks ago. He makes, makes regular appearances. A pretty regular appearance. Yes, Mr. Grant Westram. Yeah, Grant Wisdom. So we're going to add some goodies to the fold.

There's some good ones. Yeah, yeah, we'll add some goodies. So there'll be some Husker connection. Of course, we'll have some, some Seattle hoodies, pullovers hats, some Patriots pullovers, hoodies and hats, along with the long line of things that the normal Super Bowl vendors will add to the to the fray. And they added some pretty substantial items

along the way, courtesy of an email from an email from Jake Sorensen. There'll be two winners for five wings a week for a year. There'll be two $25 wings and rings gift card, two $50 wings and rings gift cards, one, $100 wings and rings gift card. There'll be pint glasses along the way, right? There'll be some wings and rings, breast cancer awareness mugs.

There'll be some other items that are coming in, probably, you know, some Coca-Cola things along the way. So there's going to be a lot of things going over the next week for you to be involved in if you so choose to do so. So, Bach, I'm going to start the party. I'm going to start the party. Okay. Ready for this? Let's start the party. I'm going to give away the first square.

And it's sort of, it's sort of, it's going to be difficult for folks to really cheat and Google this. So, but that's kind of why I want to do it. That's kind of why I want to do it. Let's be fair. Here's the question. And it's through the text line and through YouTube, and it's the first person who answers it correctly.

Right? And Oogie is sitting currently as the best shooter in either Husker basketball program. He's taking one three, he hit it. Okay. Who's number two? Who's number two? men's and women's programs combined. Percentage-wise.

Who's the best three-point shooter in the Nebraska basketball program? So we will take the answers are on the way. Pretty interesting. Yeah. Folks are rolling through and they haven't hit it yet.

Asking them to shoot from the... Shoot from the corner. But? There it is. Textor 7825 got it first. At a blistering 50% of 60-3-point attempts. Brit Prince is shooting 50% from 3. That's a crazy number in the Big Ten.

But somebody did place minutes. Bach, that's bananas. It sure is. That is bananas. Especially for a ball handler. All the wear and tear, the defensive wear and terror, the facilitating wear and tear. So 7-826, if you will put your full name and an email into this, we will get you into the square. And then that way you will know what your numbers are once we draw them next Friday.

We will not draw the numbers until next Friday. We will, in fact, draw the squares. We will line up the squares. And this is how the squares are going to work, Brock. This is how it's going to work. We're going to start at the time. top at the bottom right square and work our way to the top. So there's no favoritism.

And you can go in any direction connected that's already connected. Right? So you start the corner, right corner, right bottom corner. And then you move up. You can go to the left or to the right or up. So you can do that. We will give that. We will do that over the course of the next week or so.

Yeah, Cupskin, you were just a click away. You were just a click away. The guesses were all over the place. Lawrence, Hoyberg, Logan, Nisley. Yeah, they were all over the place. Cousin neighbor Jake said, yeah, we were talking about Huskers and Seahawks. Dan Alexander. I mean, there are a lot of folks who play for either of those teams.

But I was in jumping into the head. I was trying to figure out which one was there. Greatly appreciated. We had a text. We'll read this one. So good morning, fellow, I'm glad to be tuned in to you. All on the Worldwide, with traveling southbound I-395 to Des Moines for work.

I want to take on something first. All super proud of the boys' basketball team. They're having a superb season, very obvious. Fred Herberg has recruited basketball. However, I would say you're probably in the lower half of the league as far as your your... or don't that is. Do you feel it's easier to win in college basketball,

college football with average athletes? So let me say this, that basketball is a different game. It's a different game. You can't, you know, this is why Hoosiers is such a thing, right? This is why Rudy is such a thing that there are some measurables that people get caught up in. there are things inside the game that have more value, heart, IQ, integrity, coachability, toughness, willingness to stay true to the process.

Like run the system. There are a whole bunch of guys who can jump out of the gym and a whole bunch of guys who can knock down threes, but they couldn't defend their weight and they don't listen. They're playing for them and not all of them. players who play for themselves, this is a group that, quite frankly, we've heard it hundreds of times in post-game, that it doesn't matter who gets the glory

as long as the team gets the job done. It doesn't matter. They don't care who shoots the open three. They just want the open three take it. They don't care who gets the layup. They just want to get the layup. That's basketball at the highest level. And I, listen, I get a little bit passionate.

when people, when we talk about this sort of stuff. Because as a coach, I could never control who walked in my gym to play for me. And I always said, give me smart players and I'll beat talented players. Or I like my chances. I like my chances. Because you can't defend every spot on the floor. You can take away the things that a lot of people want to do. If I tell you that quite simply, Bach, what's the first thing I have to defend?

just in basketball and tell? What's the most important thing for me to defend? The basket. Right, yeah. The basket. Front of the rim,

I got to defend. Nothing to the front of the room. Then either sides of the glass, Mike and drill in space, right? Because those are the highest, those are the highest percentage shots that an opponent can take against me. So if I take those away,

if I take away the baseline drive, I take away your ability to post up down there, right and if you get posted down there then i need to make it difficult i need to make your eyes a little bit distracted in space the easiest way to defend the paint to defend the basket is to defend the paint i allow nothing in the paint now if i can find five players who are willing to accept that as gospel my job becomes easier now if i get five supreme athletes to buy into those things Yes, I have a better chance of having success, but success nonetheless. Where athleticism comes into play is defending from the front of the limb,

that midline in the middle of the floor from the front of the basket to half court, and your ability in triangles to defend that space to close out from any midline point to a corner three. Right? Midline point to a wing three. Midline point to the top of the key where Biggs post. up in post-op in the post game and they want to take that pick and pop three, right? So if I know what they're trying to take, I know what percentages I'm working with. And if they're shooting at 33% from the top of the key and 37% from the wing and 38 from the

corner, I'm going to push them to the top or I'm going to push them to where their percentage is lower. And that percentage is always lower. then front of rim either side of the glass. And if I get people to bind to that, and then I get six-foot-six, long wingspan folks whose close-out is a little more effective with really good feet so they can chop and close out and still defend a cut. They, Bach, I'm in business, right?

I'm in business. And if I can stop people, then I know how to not be stopped on offense when I get the ball. Because I know what I need to attack. Now, it's way more helpful if I've got a box sitting in the corner who wants to knock down 40% of threes. But I need for Bach to do something else. Because in order for Bach to knock down his threes, Bach's got to get a pump fake game. Is Bach willing to be coached that?

Can I get Bach to catch pump fake drive baseline? Put pressure on somebody. Does Bach have a finish in his bag? Right? Does Bach have face side finish? Does Bach, if Bach gets to the other side of the rim, does Bach have reverse side finish? Or can I, you know what, in a dream world,

Bach can elevate and punch. Might have to use a different example. This is what Hoyberg's done. You find people who are willing to play the game. He's got some bigs who are willing to defend the same way the Smalls defense. And the Biggs have an understanding of what happens. You know why

K.O. Jacobson had success defensively the other night? Because he understood what the Biggs were trying to do offensively. And I'm going to make it difficult. And what he was not going to let you do was post-middle. If you got, if you posted

at the elbow, if you posted on the on the box, he had a shot of defending you because he only had to defend half floor. What he didn't want to have to do was defend 360. Bach, I don't care what kind of player you are. If I only have to defend half the floor against you,

and I'm willing to work on that, and everybody knows, oh, he's taken away Bach's right hand. Box's going to have to go left hand. Bach, am I going to, do my percentages of successfully defending you, is just a go up? Yeah, yeah, take away the strength. Right? And then if I have a plan for when I get you weak,

they understand. K.O. understands what Sam's doing. Sam understands what Rink's doing. Rink understands what Jarmacus is doing. You know, Samford, probably Sanford understands what Rink is doing. Bear K understands what Kail is doing. And they work together and they communicate together.

And they lend her screams, listen, a quiet defense is not a good defense. A loud communicating defense is a good defense. So if you know what you're trying to accomplish and you communicate it, success is more likely. And it requires hard work. And yes, we found out against Michigan on the road that five players playing 38 minutes isn't ideal. Right?

Because close out efforts, your strength goes down. We understand that. but that when we say that defense travels and effort travels, coachability travels, that's why this is a really good Nebraska basketball team. And it doesn't matter where they play. Look, they done the hard part. They figured out how to win games in the Big Ten.

They figured out how to win games on the road in the Big Ten. And now they're in a position where they get to stare down a giant. Again, this time at home. Again. Cupsure says this. Basketball is different. That's why when people argue the college football playoff and why they need more teams for Cinderella stories and say, well, March Madness is great. I say basketball is five on five of five on the type minded physical players where the things can, you know, somebody can get hot for a team.

Football, it's the old line for one team could be full of 300 pounders and the same 300 pounders, but they don't have the same leverage-based strategy and facility. here's what happens. It doesn't matter what sport it is, and it doesn't matter the level. What you want is opportunity. It's opportunity. Some can say, Bach, you're limited in the number of stories you can tell

because you didn't play college basketball. But if I give you the opportunity, I allow you to outwork the person who has that experience. Which one would I rather have, Bach, the hard worker or the person with more talent who doesn't work is hard. Usually the hard worker. That a boy.

At a boy. Now, it's great when you get somebody with talent and hard workability. Nice. Right? And that's what we get to. And you do the work. You understand. Listen, I got four hours.

I need to have, I better have some stuff in my utility belt. Who knows what DP and Adam Carrier are going to break up of course of two hours? You better be on your game. And you prepare for such. But I also know I'm only going to feed Bach on a corner open three. I'm not going to ask Bach to go post up rink my ass and hope some good happens. No, I'm going to ask him to do work. Fuck, get out of that corner.

Give character somebody to dish two. Let the big man cook. You out there just taking open threes. You better know your players. It is the thing that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. And it is an absolute glorious statement of truth. Hoyberg has in fact been intentional

about the kind of human he wants playing for him. Style of play matters, especially in the Big Ten. And if you, listen, if you, if you learn nothing from Kurtz, Eddie. Learn on the outside that if I get mature people, mature, intelligent people who are willing to work hard and listen, the likelihood of success goes up in the college game, no matter what sport it is. Get old, stay old. You can add to that. Get old, get smart. Stay old. Stay old. Stay smart. You got a shot. You got a shot. Panic happens when people don't, when they don't know, know, even talented people panic. Think about it. The best young freshman class in the history of college basketball.

Bach, who might that be? Fab five. Fab five. And in their greatest moment, what are they known for? Panic, a bad decision in the most critical moment. A timeout when you didn't have it. When you didn't just slow down and trust the process. It's pretty simple.

Pat the cop says that he thinks that he says that Rex was Rex was the most accomplished Husker as a patriot I don't know that yeah yeah I mean I think that depends on the way you I mean he did win the Super Bowl

but I think Irving Friar was on a Pro Bowl team with him Irving went to the they played against the Bears in Super Bowl who made the most Pro Bowls as a as a as a husker for the Patriots. Well, again, that's what makes Irving Friar, I don't know how many people know this, but he made a pro ball on four different teams.

He's like one of like maybe, I don't know how many, a handful of guys to do that in their history. I love me some wrecks, but hey, bra, that's Irving Friar. That's, that's the,

the best past catcher in Nebraska history, period, full stop. full stop, the most complete wide receiver to ever play at Nebraska. Because you could have that discussion about the best blocking receivers in college football history. Irving Friar is immediately in the conversation. Yeah, we like that. So he did. He made a pro bowl on all four of his stops.

Patriots, dolphins, Eagles, Redskins. Yeah. Two with the dolphins. Yeah. Hey, man. Say what you say. We'll go on a break. we come back. He said as a Patriot. One Pro Bowl versus one Pro Bowl. I'm going to go on a limb.

I've had Patriots fans from outside of this market when we talk Nebraska football, Irving Friars is the name that. But let me just say that. Let me just say that. We'll go to break. We'll talk about Illinois. The matchup won in Champaign, 830, was a thriller. Great game, several players with notes, several things happened along the way. We will plant some flags for Saturdays matchup here at PBA. Hopefully, it is a sellout, but I'd like to know who's going. Who's going?

Who's going to be a PBA rooting on that top five Husker basketball team? We'll be right back. Download our app by searching 93.7, a ticket in your app store. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 93-7 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.