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"Quiet Offseason" Amplified at B1G Media Days · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: Big Ten Media Days and the Huskers are up on
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  Speaker 1: the stage today, Seano, what are your five, three or
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  Speaker 1: four or five key issues associated with Nebraska football. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think the Big Ten media will challenge Matt Rule
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  Speaker 1: on today?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just think the approach for Nebraska going in
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  Speaker 2: the year four. It's been a very quiet offseason where
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  Speaker 2: we just haven't heard or seen a lot of this team.
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  Speaker 2: And they've added some key place pieces, some key coordinators,
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  Speaker 2: some assistant coaches, so this is very much a different
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  Speaker 2: team and a lot of key areas and they've been
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  Speaker 2: real quiet about it. Obviously, there's just to get Matt
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  Speaker 2: Word's final word on the Mkai Nelson situation. We know
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  Speaker 2: Troy Dannen said yesterday that they're not expecting any there
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  Speaker 2: won't be any athletic department suspension from Mikai Nelson's situation
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  Speaker 2: that happened in Key West, Florida. That's a big one,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Then there's just a number of rosters things
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  Speaker 2: you want to get caught up on and just get
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  Speaker 2: a feel for this team because they will start practice
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday of next week. As Matt Rule begins his
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  Speaker 2: fourth year here at Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: Now is as we've seen in the evolution of college
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  Speaker 1: football over the last three or four years, especially the
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  Speaker 1: ramp up of NIL and the transfer portal. Everybody is
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  Speaker 1: going into the transfer portal, at least a lot of
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  Speaker 1: schools are going into the transfer portal. Where is Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: in comparison to how much roster turnover we've had here
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  Speaker 1: with the other teams in the Big Ten, our peer
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  Speaker 1: institutions in the Big Ten, and obviously the teams at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they I mean, they're kind of right in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: What we've noticed now are the really really elite programs
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  Speaker 2: that can get the talent locally, like in Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: or you know, get the Blue Chippers, or you know,
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  Speaker 2: even at USC, they're not as portal reliant now as
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  Speaker 2: they've stabilized their program because you're still better off of
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  Speaker 2: finding a guy retaining them because it's a lot more
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  Speaker 2: expensive to go out and try to find a good
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  Speaker 2: player maybe at the same level in the portal because
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be more suitors. So I think the
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  Speaker 2: model you can do it is still find and retain
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  Speaker 2: versus you know, continuing to turn your roster. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: these programs that have gone through coaching changes, like in
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  Speaker 2: the Big twelve Iowa State, Oklahoma State, you're talking eighty
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  Speaker 2: new players they've had to add to the roster. Penn State,
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  Speaker 2: we know, is added a ton with a large number
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  Speaker 2: of Iowa State players that moved out to aim or
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  Speaker 2: move out to state college. But that's just the name
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  Speaker 2: of the game now when you do have a coaching change.
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  Speaker 2: So it's you know, it's something to think about Nebraska
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  Speaker 2: when they went through coaching changes in the past. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they've never really had to go through just like a
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  Speaker 2: mass exodus of a roster. I mean, that's become more
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  Speaker 2: the norm. And if it ever happened here again, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it probably would happen here, you know, where you'd have
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  Speaker 2: to go through a deal where fifty sixty plus guys
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  Speaker 2: could be leading the program and you got to find
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  Speaker 2: fifty sixty replacement players.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny how the transfer portal works, and it's so
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  Speaker 1: debilitating to rosters. Big announcement yesterday, one of the promising
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  Speaker 1: young players in Indiana's program. I figure Indiana right now
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  Speaker 1: is a big destination. But Tristan Abram, who was one
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  Speaker 1: of their top recruits in twenty twenty five, enters the
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  Speaker 1: portal before fall camp even begins, and I think this
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  Speaker 1: guy was figured on to contribute for them this year.
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  Speaker 1: How much of that is going on? Is that an outliers?
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  Speaker 2: That's an outlier and he actually technically can't go into
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  Speaker 2: the portal till January. I mean, you can always declare
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  Speaker 2: your intentions, but it would be silly for a guy
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  Speaker 2: to enter the portal right now because you would stop
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  Speaker 2: getting paid at that point. And maybe there's more to
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  Speaker 2: the story on that situation. I mean, we saw it
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  Speaker 2: with the bowl games this year. A lot of players
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  Speaker 2: pretended as if they were going to play in bowl
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  Speaker 2: games through December, and then a week of the bowl
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  Speaker 2: game they back out of the bowl game. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: because he get paid for another month, and for some
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  Speaker 2: of these guys getting paid for another month, it's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good pay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, why would they leave early? This makes no sense
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  Speaker 1: unless there was some other issue associated with him. Let's
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  Speaker 1: visit for a second about Jersey patches. Jersey patches are coming.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State just signed a big deal. Notre Dame signed
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  Speaker 1: a big deal. There have been a number of schools
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  Speaker 1: that have signed big deals. Nebraska athletic director Troy dan
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  Speaker 1: and says, we're not going to do one this year.
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  Speaker 1: What do you know about Nebraska's pursuit of a jersey
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  Speaker 1: patch for money?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they had been really quiet about this until yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: But part of me was like, maybe you want to
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  Speaker 2: see what the market's at, because if you entered into
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  Speaker 2: an agreement, you know, before you really had a good
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  Speaker 2: feel for the overall national market, you might you might
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  Speaker 2: have not got enough money, and you beget you give
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  Speaker 2: away a really sacred pizza real estate. So now we
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  Speaker 2: know what the market is. Notre Dame in Ohio state
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  Speaker 2: are fifteen to eighteen nineteen million. Where would Nebraska fall?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what would the number be it would take
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  Speaker 2: to put a patch on there? And who are the
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  Speaker 2: corporations within the state that could afford that? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of kind of questions about if you
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  Speaker 2: go that route, because you're not just gonna put anything
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  Speaker 2: on those jersey because obviously a sacred, sacred historical jersey
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  Speaker 2: in the Ohio state in Notre Name, though putting big
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  Speaker 2: patches on yesterday, I thought it was significant in this
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  Speaker 2: conversation because if you could get fifteen plus million dollars
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  Speaker 2: for a jersey patch, that pays a lot of your
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  Speaker 2: roster bill moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't think that the Golden Tassel Gentlemen's Club
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  Speaker 1: logo will be on the Nebraska jersey this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna have to be a pretty squeaky clean
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  Speaker 2: company that's got some history, is my guest.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Seana will be there, we'll have a sound
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  Speaker 1: from Nebraska on the stage, and Big ten media days
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  Speaker 1: for you Tomorrow. Lashan's there to report live right here
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  Speaker 1: on eleven ten KF. It'll be okay, big guy, have fun.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon.