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CFB Offseason Headlines, Matt Rhule's Year 3 Trend, Dylan Raiola's Team · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast season seven. Season seven as Wild,
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  Speaker 1: We're back with the same co host Austin Rose, Hunter Zarbniki,
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  Speaker 1: and Dakota Free Tech. It is Dakota's third year in
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  Speaker 1: Austin in my seventh year of the podcast. Seven miserable
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  Speaker 1: years of Husker football. But this is the year that
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  Speaker 1: things go well. Austin, congratulations on becoming a father. That
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  Speaker 1: is thank you number one upmost importance to kick off
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  Speaker 1: this year. That's why Nebraska football is going to have
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  Speaker 1: a new or a great season because we've got a
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  Speaker 1: new fan.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad that there's someone that I can just brainwash
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  Speaker 3: into blind Husker passion, hopefully so that I have someone
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  Speaker 3: to be miserable with that understands my pain in my household.
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  Speaker 3: That's really the whole goal. It's just so if we
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  Speaker 3: could win something like you know, maybe like in like
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  Speaker 3: five to seven years, be really good for like a
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  Speaker 3: stretch to really establish that fan presence, that'd be cool.
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  Speaker 4: Well. First off, congrats Austin, Thank you, dak Second off,
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  Speaker 4: Second off, that first part you said about this is
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  Speaker 4: this is the year everything changes. You could just cut
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  Speaker 4: that from every podcast you've ever done. For the first episode.
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  Speaker 1: You think we've said that every year?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, now this year. There's definite years you've said it.
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  Speaker 4: You don't believe it. You believe it this year? Do we.
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  Speaker 1: That's the real question, do we?
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  Speaker 2: Dak?
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  Speaker 1: Before we get going, I also got to give you
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  Speaker 1: a congratulations as well. Dak just recently has gotten and
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  Speaker 1: on Snapchat for using insensitive slurs and language. But congratulations
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  Speaker 1: on finding the loophole around that and getting a new
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  Speaker 1: Snapchat account.
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  Speaker 4: So you, hey, don't don't don't say it too loud, hey,
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  Speaker 4: because I still get a banned.
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  Speaker 1: It's going on the world wide Web now for everybody
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  Speaker 1: to hear. So congratulations, I'm finding that loophole from getting
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  Speaker 1: banned on Snapchat.
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh Yeah. One of the podcasters here reported me
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  Speaker 4: and I got banned.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, congrats to both of you, Austin.
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  Speaker 2: Your equivalent accomplishments, really equivalent accomplishments.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we both are our best.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, is that your best deck?
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  Speaker 4: Nough exactly it is.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is his best. Well, there's been a
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  Speaker 1: lot over the past three to four months since we've
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  Speaker 1: been on the season obviously is coming right around the
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  Speaker 1: corner here for Husker football. Fall camp started this week
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  Speaker 1: or recording this on Wednesday evening, July thirtieth, And Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think the big topic of conversation, maybe not Nebraska related,
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  Speaker 1: but just college football in general, has to do with
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  Speaker 1: all of the revenue sharing, NIL, legislative, federal oversight talk
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  Speaker 1: that has been going on, and there's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it. We're not going to sit here and bore
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  Speaker 1: everyone of all the details, but I do think it's
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  Speaker 1: important to mention at the top that college football is
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  Speaker 1: changing faster than ever. It's very different to coach, to play,
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  Speaker 1: to be a fan of college football than it ever
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  Speaker 1: has been, and it's going to continue to evolve, and
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  Speaker 1: some people dislike it. So it's driving some people away.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, For me, reality, it's gonna happen. It's
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  Speaker 1: moving that way, already has moved that way, and if
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  Speaker 1: you want to follow it along, great, If you don't,
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  Speaker 1: then don't. It's just like anything else in the entertainment industry.
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  Speaker 1: Players are getting paid and we're figuring out how the
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  Speaker 1: logistics of that work. Actually, just a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump came out and stated, you know, student athletes
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  Speaker 1: are not employees, which we thought we were kind of
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  Speaker 1: moving towards that direction, banned some third party pay for
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  Speaker 1: play type of NIL deals. So there's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of political side dabbling into this, But I guess I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to get your guys' opening thoughts on on just
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  Speaker 1: where we're going in college football and how I guess
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  Speaker 1: listeners in Nebraska fans should view the thing as a whole.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say for the most part, this was kind of
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  Speaker 3: stuff that is already happening behind the scenes for a
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  Speaker 3: long time. It's just now it's kind of a political football.
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  Speaker 3: And to be honest, it's like, do I really care
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  Speaker 3: no or right? Ticket prices going up, regardless of whether
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  Speaker 3: they're getting shared if players or not. Tobally, Am I
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  Speaker 3: gonna stop watching football because I disagree with the compensation
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  Speaker 3: package for athletes? No, shamelessly, you know, like I like
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  Speaker 3: the product, I'm not gonna I'm gonna keep watching.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep watching basketball. IM gonna keep watching volleyball.
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  Speaker 3: So I think, yes, there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: who care about it, and a lot of people should
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  Speaker 3: care about it because there's a lot of money and
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  Speaker 3: some of those some of those players, they impact their lives,
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  Speaker 3: like it's gonna be the biggest paycheck they'll ever get.
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  Speaker 3: And that's important, and it's definitely you know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: billion dollar industry, so it's totally fair that the people
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  Speaker 3: in which you are building your billion dollar industry get
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  Speaker 3: a cut of the money.
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  Speaker 2: And they'll figure it out. That's their problem. I'm here
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  Speaker 2: to watch football.
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  Speaker 4: Well, like you, like you said, do you know what's
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  Speaker 4: been going on forever?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think now it's out in the open. It
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  Speaker 4: evens the playing field a lot now now that you
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  Speaker 4: can just openly pay players, because back then, you can't
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  Speaker 4: tell me Alabama wasn't paying all these players or l
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  Speaker 4: s U or whatever you like, like like they were
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  Speaker 4: thrown underneath the rug and all these top schools were
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  Speaker 4: doing this and and that's why you had Alabama winning
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  Speaker 4: every senior year.
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  Speaker 1: Basically you think you think you think they were just
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  Speaker 1: paying people, that's what they were winning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it evens out the playing field, Like look at
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  Speaker 4: this year, God was it? No No Dame Ohio State
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  Speaker 4: two two new teams in the title game. Haven't been
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  Speaker 4: there for a while, and everybody there wasn't unefeat team
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  Speaker 4: going the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: Right, No, yes, organ.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're right. Oregan was undefeated.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but they had a shoot quarterback anyway, So I
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  Speaker 4: I think it throws a lot more parody out there
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  Speaker 4: that's out in the open. And then with the transfer
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  Speaker 4: portal too, you don't so say you have a top
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  Speaker 4: guy come in and you have a freshman behind him.
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  Speaker 4: That's that they want to play ahead of him. That
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  Speaker 4: top guy will just leave and the freshman come in
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  Speaker 4: and just go somewhere else. So it puts these top
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  Speaker 4: guys to move. These top guys can move to other
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  Speaker 4: schools basically older guys, yeah, older top top what everyone
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  Speaker 4: calls junior seniors.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah. I think what you're saying makes sense. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: you are going to see, like you said, more level.
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  Speaker 1: You aren't going to see many dynasties anymore. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to be harder to do that, like we've seen
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  Speaker 1: the past one hundred years of college football. Because while
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  Speaker 1: the things you're mentioning, I don't really agree that. I
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  Speaker 1: guess the Alabama won because they were paying players. I
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  Speaker 1: think that was because they had a phenomenal program. I
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  Speaker 1: think Nebraska was on the cutting edge of weightlifting and
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  Speaker 1: maybe some other things that some people might accuse us
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  Speaker 1: of at the time, I think Nick Saban and Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: I think those coaching trees, I think those all stemmed
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  Speaker 1: from like a toughness era and when technology was coming
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  Speaker 1: up in society was getting softer. So I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a reason other than paying people why there were dynasties
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  Speaker 1: and white teams are good before. But now we're here
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  Speaker 1: where money is getting flowed around left and right. And
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing I want to mention here that is
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  Speaker 1: an update from when we last talked about all this,
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  Speaker 1: that the revenue sharing deal pasted or in place. So
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  Speaker 1: just to summarize, there is a big lawsuit that was
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  Speaker 1: backdating payments to players. I don't know exact year, maybe
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, twenty eighteen, something like that, like two point
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  Speaker 1: eight billion dollars was a settlement to be paid over
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  Speaker 1: ten years by the NCAA.
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  Speaker 2: But with this.
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  Speaker 1: Agreement in the settlement came this revenue sharing deal that
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  Speaker 1: basically each school is now allowed around twenty and a
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  Speaker 1: half million to be paid to their athletes from the
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  Speaker 1: school directly. What it's interesting about that is how schools
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  Speaker 1: are going to allocate those funds to their different programs.
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  Speaker 1: For example, Nebraska obviously prides their football team most schools do.
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  Speaker 1: The estimate online that I kind of found was seventy
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  Speaker 1: five percent of that money in general from all schools
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  Speaker 1: is going to football, fifteen percents going to men's basketball,
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  Speaker 1: five percent to women's basketball, and then five percent to
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  Speaker 1: other Houston basketball, for example, is getting closer to twenty
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  Speaker 1: five to thirty percent of that chunk a change. Nebraska volleyball,
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  Speaker 1: i'm guessing, is getting more than the average school because
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  Speaker 1: of who we are.
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  Speaker 4: Is ne brasketbolleyball more than the men's basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the exact numbers for Nebraska, and I
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  Speaker 1: probably I don't think anybody's gonna know really until this
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  Speaker 1: kind of all plays out, But that's just an estimation
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  Speaker 1: of how this money's going to work from the school. Now.
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  Speaker 1: This is in addition right to some of the souff's
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  Speaker 1: happening in NIL, but I think it's a start to
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  Speaker 1: put the reins on NIL a little bit and say, Nope,
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  Speaker 1: these universities are now going to be able to pay
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  Speaker 1: the schools and we don't have to worry about paying
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  Speaker 1: the athletes through these third parties and all these other
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  Speaker 1: NIL deals. That was just the wild, wild West.
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  Speaker 3: Knew we're gonna talk about the revenue share, and my
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  Speaker 3: hot take was, forget about the football program, dump it
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  Speaker 3: all in, so we just become like freaking rock stars
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  Speaker 3: and women's basketball, men's basketball, volleyball, women's soccer, like just
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  Speaker 3: completely pivot like men's football. They got plenty of money.
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  Speaker 3: You know what more money do they mean? Let's just
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  Speaker 3: make it a freaking show.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I heard another podcast locked on Nebraska podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the Daily Nebraska Podcast on on three, they talked about
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  Speaker 1: the same thing, like, at what point do you just say,
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  Speaker 1: screw football.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go we got money, right, Let's.
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  Speaker 1: Pay some other sport and let's go win the Natty titles.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny because I think that's out there now. Will
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  Speaker 1: it ever happen? No? No, but it's it's it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fun take to think about now that you
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  Speaker 1: have money. I actually know a kind of through an
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  Speaker 1: inside story of Eastern Michigan men's golf that's paying some
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who, this golfer is, like two million
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  Speaker 1: dollars of that money to go basically go win a
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  Speaker 1: Natty title in men's golf. Like that was their goal
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  Speaker 1: is just to get a bunch of good guys and
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  Speaker 1: go do that, which because they're like Eastern Michigan's never
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  Speaker 1: gonna win a Natty title in football, You're you're you're
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  Speaker 1: not winning it in any major sports. So let's go
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  Speaker 1: find this and let's go do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, that's why I forget it. I could see.
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  Speaker 3: I understand why you want because you're like your boosters
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  Speaker 3: are pumping in all this money. It's like the university
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  Speaker 3: isn't putting in their fair share. But it'd be freaking
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  Speaker 3: sick if we're just like, all right, we're already pretty
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  Speaker 3: good at some of these things. Let's just let's just
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  Speaker 3: go let's just go am Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So, so can you change this every year? Like where
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  Speaker 4: you're throwing all this money?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a lot of insights to where
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  Speaker 1: it's going, and I don't know if the public is
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  Speaker 1: ever going to know exactly how it's allocated. Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: will be public or.
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  Speaker 3: Because if the university painted out, so at least for
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  Speaker 3: a state university.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have an idea and that that dollar amount
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  Speaker 1: is increasing incremental incrementally over the next several years. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean maybe I just I just think that's that's
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  Speaker 1: something else that universities, and especially the top level universities
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  Speaker 1: have to decide. And that's why you're seeing general manager
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  Speaker 1: type of people get hired for all these sports and
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: athletic department because there is now a commercial, wized, professional
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  Speaker 1: aspect of college sports that you have to deal with
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't there before.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, basketball wise, you got to think duke in
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  Speaker 4: North Carolina are probably throwing like into basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Bill Belichick constantly least forgot about that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I forgot about that lines out of the picture.
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  Speaker 4: But so it'd be tough to even is to say
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  Speaker 4: you did one. You just throw your money basketball. It'd
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  Speaker 4: be tough to You'd have to throw a ship ton
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  Speaker 4: and just say screw all every other program to do
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  Speaker 4: that for basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing I'll say around this topic, and we'll have
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  Speaker 1: a lot more of these two. Just as you're listening
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  Speaker 1: and following college sports, college football is fall, just keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind to that decisions are now being made and
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  Speaker 1: really you're getting judged as a head coach now, as
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  Speaker 1: a businessman, as a as an owner a little bit
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  Speaker 1: because you're deciding on which players to keep, which ones
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  Speaker 1: to recruit and pay. I heard a great example on
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  Speaker 1: the other day that Jamari Butler. We probably could have
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  Speaker 1: paid a guy like that to stay around, but he's
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  Speaker 1: an upperclassman, all right. Instead we go after Williams n
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  Speaker 1: Werry however you say his last name, will learn it
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  Speaker 1: here as a freshman and paid him a big chunk
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  Speaker 1: of change right at early early on. So you're making decisions, now,
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  Speaker 1: where are we throwing this money out within the program
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  Speaker 1: based on potential uh At the same time, you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to keep them here. Like Dak mentioned, the transfer portal
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  Speaker 1: still live and out there, so that's also something to factor.
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  Speaker 1: And on top of that, the walk on program is
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  Speaker 1: going away the roster limit, and the roster side is
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  Speaker 1: you're you're gonna have to cut you gotta, you gotta,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta have a set amount of guys on your roster.
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  Speaker 1: And that's another thing that adds all into this, that
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  Speaker 1: if you're one of these fringe level guys and you're
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  Speaker 1: not making money, you have no reason to stay like
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  Speaker 1: because you're probably gonna get cut. So there's a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of aspects that go into piecing all this together.
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  Speaker 1: Now that aren't doesn't have anything to do with the
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  Speaker 1: play on the field, but you will see the decisions
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  Speaker 1: being made and coaches being evaluated as well, Why in
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  Speaker 1: the hell did you just pay this guy eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars? We have some offensive blindman coming in that
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  Speaker 1: we're doing that too, and if they turn out to
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  Speaker 1: be trash, not only are you like, what do we
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  Speaker 1: do recruiting that guy? We just wasted X amount of
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  Speaker 1: dollars on this guy. Those conversations are going to be
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  Speaker 1: for the better or the worse out there as well.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. I mean that's why there's just more. There's
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  Speaker 3: more overhead positions in college football. It seems like Matt
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  Speaker 3: Rule's hiring subd somebody to be head of you know,
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  Speaker 3: player payment processing. It's like, oh, a new head of
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  Speaker 3: player processing from.
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  Speaker 2: Easter, Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it seems like every other day there's
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  Speaker 3: some guy getting hired. Which that's when you're running a
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  Speaker 3: you know, million dollar company.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's basically a pro yes program now because you
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  Speaker 4: have yeah, which Nebraska does have a GM right, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's not there yet. I don't think any
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  Speaker 1: it's not there, but it's moving that direction. I'll say it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a professional, but it's.
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  Speaker 2: There's no contracts yet it's moving that way.
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  Speaker 1: I still think it's going to go that way. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The Trump thing kind of throws it for a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a loop some of the stuff that he
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  Speaker 1: came out and.
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  Speaker 3: Suppose an executive order, which has absolutely no legal it's
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  Speaker 3: no law.
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  Speaker 1: But people are making opinions at a federal level now
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  Speaker 1: about it, which is more than anything is done since
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  Speaker 1: everything started back in twenty twenty, and people, I think
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  Speaker 1: kind of wanted that, but I think some people just
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  Speaker 1: got used to the rapid evolvement of all of this
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: stuff that's going on. That again, we could spend three
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  Speaker 1: episodes talking about it, but I just wanted to set
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  Speaker 1: that field up before we talk about Nebraska because all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff is intermixed with rosters and schedules and conference realignment,
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  Speaker 1: which we didn't even talk about. All of that stuff
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  Speaker 1: is the noise that is out there that everybody's hearing about,
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  Speaker 1: right that does not really directly impact the field, but
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  Speaker 1: indirectly does each team. So any other offseason big picture
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  Speaker 1: college football news SEC versus Big Ten. That's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a little duel right now. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: there's a need more that comes out of that and
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  Speaker 1: schools moving TV contracts. Who's the big, bigger batter conference.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's all. It's going to be an ongoing
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: rivalry right now, which I don't think is bad for
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  Speaker 1: the sport.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean we've said it. I think I've
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  Speaker 4: said this before. The SEC and Big Ten basically run
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  Speaker 4: the sport. Now there's no NCAA.
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  Speaker 2: It's football for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Nca is trying now to finagle their way in there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a little too late to do that. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the conferences are holding a lot of power
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  Speaker 1: right now because that's where all the money's at.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's yeah. They the NCAA just let it go
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  Speaker 4: too long or too long without stepping into anything and out.
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  Speaker 4: Now they're just not a thing anymore. And basically the
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  Speaker 4: conferences run at all.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, next topic, very broad. I'm just gonna throw out
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  Speaker 1: Matt Rule in his name to start this next dopege conversation.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: So background here and there is probably some common knowledge
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to any passionate Husker football fan. Year three of Matt
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Rule has been historically good for those programs at Temple
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: where he started and then moving over to Baylor or
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: each year incrementally or drastically got better and year three
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: was kind of the turnaround yere. Now it did not
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: work at Carolina. That's the NFL. Husker diehards are gonna say, well,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: it's the NFL is different than college. They could be right,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: But it's year three here at Nebraska for Matt Rule.
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  Speaker 1: His first two years five and seven, and then last
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: year seven and six with the win and the pen
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Strike Bowl, putting him at twelve and thirteen overall, another
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: big record stat to throw out there. Everybody blamed Scott
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Frost and his program for the one score losses Matt
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Rule in this time in Nebraska, it's two to nine
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: in one score games, which is the worst percentage of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: everybody in one score game. So I guess the question
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: or the top conversation for Matt Rule. I guess where's
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: he sit at? Because it is year three. I think
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: everybody has a different perspective on him as a leader,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: as a at football coach, as a person. So yeah,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I guess and start with you.
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  Speaker 3: So I've been thinking about this because I've been watching
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: the press conferences.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: And I like Matt Roll.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Coach, but gosh, am I tired of listening to him talk.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Not like in like this guy talks too much, but
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: it's like I feel like we're shoveling the it's just and.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: I understand you're staying on message. This is what we're doing.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: We're not going to deviate, but gosh, it's it's getting
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: a little boring, get a little dry.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know how many times I have to hear like,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: oh man, we're a team you know of lions, you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: and we what we kill, and you know, it's I'm
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: ready for games to start so you can actually start
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: critiquing the team a little bit.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: But his off season stuff, it's very complimentary, all the
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: right things.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Here's what I think you're saying. And I completely agree.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: It's like when you go into a car dealership and
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you just listen to the same car salesman, like it's
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the same pitch, it's the same remember who you get,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and you just kind of go, yeah, here we go again.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: That that's kind of what I get in the vibe.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And he's saying the right things, and you believe him.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: You're like, I know you're not You're not trying to
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: pull one over on me, but you know, am I
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: gonna drive this car off a lot and it's gonna
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: be eleven?
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You're gonna feel bad that it's eleven. You didn't know
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: it was Lemon, you had no idea.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's the twenty twenty five Kias Reno
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: and how it was also none of the bad transmissions
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: and that they blow at sixty miles six after the war.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: You know, it's like, I like him. I think he's
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: a good coach. I'm excited for your three. I really
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: hope everything you're saying. But I got halfway through his
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: last press conferences, like I I'm tuning. You know, I
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: just catch myself tuning out because I'm not getting a
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: lot of updates and he's very secretive, which is what
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: you want. You want your coach to be like, I'm
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: not putting everything out.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: There, but and to piggyback off that Austin, I think
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: one of my thoughts I've had over the last well,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I guess since he came here, right, you look at
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: it as a little bit of a relationship with them.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: You have a honeymoon phase with anything new. There's excitement
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: there's hype. All these same comments come off as man,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: he's just selling our team, he's selling the program. This
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: is progress, selling progress, and you're kind of excited about it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Then after a little while you start with this is
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: with any coach or any anything that's new. You go okay, okay,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: you're still hearing it. All right, Well, now I hope
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: he's right. I hope it works out. I think it can.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: But we're hearing the same stuff. Like Big ten media
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Days for me was like okay.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Like, yep, you could have played you could have played
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: me twenty twenty four's big tim of the days.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: That's twenty five, and I probably would have believed most
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you know, yep.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: So that's what happens. THO, when you're in year three,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I just think we're out. We're at a spot where
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the honeymoon phase is kind of worn off. With any
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: new coach, with any new leader.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Or maybe that's every coach, we just hardly make it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: We hit your three and it's just a utter disaster
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: for the last three head coaches, you know. So it's like,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: all right, we're I think.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: It's a product of that, but also the product of
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the burnout that we've had with previous coaches. Scott Frost
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: in year four revamps his entire coaching staff, whether he
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: was forced to or whatever, and it got people juiced
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: up again. Not everybody, but I think the fan base
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: in general now is a little bit more, a little
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: bit more of an and show me mode, which.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I would say in a general comment, not necessarily Matt
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: rule related, but also revamped coaching staff, all new headquarters
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: head coordinators for offense, defense, and special teams. And it's
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: like it's being talked about, but it's also not. It's like, Okay, yes,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: his years three supposed to be his big year, but
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: he's already had to pivot to all new coordinators and
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: his offensive staff has four former I mean, his former
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: offensive coordinator is still on staff, and he has a
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: two other ones that he brought in last year that
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: are now on staff.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Thatak, you called it how bad Sadderfield was no O
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: c right from the get go, and that's that's on you, Scott,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: or that rule for for hiring him. Okay, Tony White,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: but he's gone and that got closed up in like
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: less than a month from when he's gone. Now we
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: don't ever know what happened, and and the and we
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: never it's never gonna get brought up again. So you're right, Austin.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: It is kind of similar to Rule in the year four,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: like it's revamped. Now, let's see.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Where it goes. But it's also like he.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: It's revamped partly because of necessity, and like we won
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: a bowl game, like we went in the right direction
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: and we still revamped everything. I just don't know how
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: to feel about it. I maybe, you know, throw it
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: to the panel. I feel good about all the coordinators
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: we saw. Volger said, Butler was really good at Buffalo,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: and he was on staff before White left, and White
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: left because of whatever. He's probably gonna leave anyways at
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: some point, and we're happy that we got to do
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: special teams coordinator. Then he came in and switched up
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: the entire punting approach, and then all of our punting
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: recruits he'll leave because we brought in like a jillion
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: punters because this is how we're gonna punt, and then
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: we're like, no, we're punting rugby style.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't write down our new punters name, but all
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: we could talk about him in some other episode. It
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: sounds like he's arch.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Archie something and he's a big dude too.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm Jack. I think Mike Eckler, out of any
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: of the Hires or any maybe any single thing for
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: us for football that I'm like really excited about, I
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: probably believe in the most you would talk about a
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: guy that doesn't drink the kool aid, that's drinking the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: kool aid is Mike Eckler and the Special Teams one,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: because god, can it get any worse than it has
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: been the past few years. And this guy, you know,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: born bread Nebraska, like coming back to been everywhere, Like
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I have the most faith in that man. That will
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: be the one thing that breaks my heart of our
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Special teams like just sucks again. But that's kind of
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: going off the rails a little bit, Dak.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I think you.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: As an outsider but now a fan as you you're
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: sitting here wearing a Husker at tonight, Like, what do
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: you think Matt rule year three?
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: The outlook is, so you said you were saying out
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: every coach your three is turned into disaster, or is
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: when the disaster basically hits. Yeah, you gotta think though,
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: with Frost and then Raley not as bad, but even
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: before year three it was a disaster.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I disagree with that. Not it could have been maybe
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: to an outsider, but internally it was not.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: You didn't you didn't think going three and nine was
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: a disaster.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: No, we were the best three nineteen ever, haven't you heard?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Huh? Yeah?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, but it really felt like we were right.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: It felt like we were right there, like it's like, okay,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I've seen the progress we are on the cusp, Like, yes,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: we're three and nine, but we're a razor razor edge
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: three and nine, so it's like all right, next years.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: The looking back on it, would Huster fans say it
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: was a disaster from the get go. Yeah, we would
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: laugh and say, man, we Scott Frost started off Owen
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: six at Nebraska, like what were we doing?
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: But and he he had a lot more leeway because
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: of his name.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, Well so I wouldn't necessarily say they
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: were a disaster, but maybe externally they kind of were.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, it ended up being a disaster.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, looks so h The thing if the rule is,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: like you guy said, every press conference is just everything's
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: going great right now, there's nothing bad going on, which
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: which I guess a lot of coaches are like that,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: you're not gonna come out and say this team sucks,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: like especially.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, we're just tired of it because you know,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: like I'm not watching LSUS, you know, I'm not watching
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Brian kelly his and maybe everyone there is tired of
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: what he says because he's been saying the same thing.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: You really don't want to watch it either because those
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: have to suck.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: We're tired of it often because we want to win,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: like and we want to win now and we've been
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: waiting for song. That's why we're tired of it because
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: it's like, yes, this is right, this is true. But
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: like if you're any if your LSU, because we're stuck
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: on them like LSU's now, they might their expectations might
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: be different, so they might be tired of not I
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: don't know, making a New Year's Six Bowl or making
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, but like they're beating teams that they should beat.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: They're not throwing out these crazy records of hitting hitting
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the unders in their win total in every year since
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, Like they're not doing that. So I think
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: that's a little bit why there's so much ants with
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Husker fans and listening to Rule, but also previous coaches
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: talk the way they're talking and and not getting results.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Now this is a year we can get results like
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I do a year three or four with any new
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: coach and really any sport. You now have had time
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to get your guys in, especially now with Nil, establish
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: what you want to do, make some tweaks along the way,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: which we've made some major tweaks. So it is I
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think Rule will be here in year five.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: If we go six and six two more years, I
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: don't think that will happen because you now are.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: More than that. I think there's one reason why why
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: you guys are like, we got to win now, and
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: it's the quarterback position.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want you want to move on from Rule
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and go to RYL.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're trying to g.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: There's one topic I want to bring up about Rule
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: that it's about the first game of the year, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: we can revisit this before the first game. Do you
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: guys think that Cincinnati is the biggest game of his
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: career so far at Nebraska? I can think of one
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: other one that might be close, but Colorado, Yeah, that
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: was the one I was thinking.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Colorado all faith is lost.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: At home lose. I mean, I think that was a huge, huge,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: huge game and we won that one.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: You gotta think that you got louse Cincinnati start on one.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: The train could fall off the tracks.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that's a very very realistic possibility.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I think every game last year until we caught that
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: sixth win was as important because not after the start
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: we had last year and not making a Bowl game,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: like I don't think we're sitting where we are today.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think Dylan Reyal is here. If that happens,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I think it falls off a cliff. So I think
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: all those were as important, but a single game like, yeah,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: going into this year, it's huge. We are better than
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Cincinna from a Vegas odd standpoint, I think in hopefully
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of areas. But does that mean we're going
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to win the game. No, I just I hope that's
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: in the players mindsets and the coaches of not getting
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: that overlooked, because it will get overlooked because of the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Michigan game in Week four. I've already saw stuff today
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: on that Michigan Nebraska game being one of the top
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: five Big ten games of the season, like the Cincinnati
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: game is so big for so many reasons, And I agree, Dak,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I do think the locker room losing the Cincinnati after
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: losing so many opening games in the past seven or
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: eight years, I think the locker room's going to go,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: here we go again, and forget going nine to three,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Here we go again. Let's fight to get to a
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Bowl game. Like that's going to be the thought in
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: everybody's mind, whether it's right or wrong, that's where it's
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: going to be. If we lose that opening game.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: It reminds me of a lot of the Northwestern game
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: with the Frost how that you lost that the train
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: just completely fa off tracks. I think it could be
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: the same way. Or if you loseen Snati, that could
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: be could be it right.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: There, especially if it's a one score loss, like and
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: we do something stupid on special teams like god knocking
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: on wood because I do not want that to happen.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: But man, okay, let's move on. Dylan Royola our first
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: segment of the Dylan Royola Wait Show. He's listened to
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: thirty on the twenty twenty five roster.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: What was you last year?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I think he looks good, guys.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I think from what I've seen, he looks a lot better.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: His body looks more in shape.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: He's run this year. Man.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Let's see what that translates like to you on the field.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I know, on the new college football video game, I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: think he's still way too fast because he can move
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit on that game.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: But he.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Looks like he did what we thought he needed to do,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: what people started talking about in the offseason, and what
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: he started talking about rules start talking about like. It
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: looks like he's achieved that. Heading into fall camp, Dak
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: you mentioned I think the talk about the hype or
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: you know, the ties with Matt Ruhle, but this is
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: forget Matt rule. This is Dylan Ryola's program right now.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Whether you like it or not. He is the face
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: of about everything, and for a young man, has done
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a fairly good job of handling everything as a nineteen
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: year old. It's his, though, until he doesn't want it anymore.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think we are going to ever bench Tillon
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Rayola or kick him out and force him out. I
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: don't think we're going to do that, So it's his.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I think the pressure is going to be on him
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to lead this team in one way or another, even
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: though he's only a sophomore. I think that's the hype
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and the expectations last year. I think we all went through,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: like to me, very much as expected or of going
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: into the year where we thought maybe he would be.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: It's not like he blew it out of the water.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: He struggled at times, definitely couldn't avoid anything in the backfield,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: but he did about what he should have as a freshman.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Made some freshman mistakes.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: He had a couple thre like, oh well it smokes
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: that dude can.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he had them stuff You're like, okay,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: there's that raw talent. Holy cow, there's a lot here.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: So he had your good and your bad and he
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: ended up out in the middle. This year, you know,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: your expectations go up. You know there's a there's a
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: world where he really exceeds those in year two. There's
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a world where he doesn't improve it all from last
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: year too. So Dylan Royola I think is a big
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: piece of this team. Like I said, the focal point,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the leader is his team this year, and I think
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: all the players know that too. I think that's a
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: very known thing amongst Nebraska football right now.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Here rooted half of them. It seems like him and
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I'm at Johnson, just out there on the town hanging out.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: No, I thought, I think it looks good. I'm excited
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: for those of you interested plus uh six for Heisman ods.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: So make some good money if you go to put
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: some money.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: On that deck.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let me grab my checklick real quick.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: He's lower than Indiana starting quarterback. That makes you feel
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: any better?
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I think? I agree.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Last year we had I think we had us specifically,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: had adequate expectations. We didn't think he's going to go
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: out there and you know, rip the roof off of everything.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: But I think he played well. The quarterback position did not.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: When he dropped back, I didn't have to like panic
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: because I thought the ball is going to be intercepted.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I think people forgot how bad it was, Like.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: I can't even begin to describe how bad two years
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: ago was Yeah fast, and people be like no, yes,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: So that was not an issue last year, which is
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: a huge step forward. I expect him to make a
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: decent step forward with a whole other year under Dana Holgerson.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Do I think he's gonna in a husband. No do
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: I think he has the chance to be a top
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: three QB in the Big ten probably, which.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Which what is that saying he stopped being a Big
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: ten this year? Big ten is pretty bad at quarterback.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: But maybe he said he said a Big ten Medy
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: days he's gonna run a lot more this year.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: He's hoping to run more this year.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, hoping, which he should. He had so much open
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Like the one game where he did run the Hio
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: State game. He he ran over the field that game,
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: and he's never did a game.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, but I do think that was
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: a product of Ryan Day came out and said it
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: like they just said he can't do it because he
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: hasn't shown he won't won't whether he can't do it
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: or he won't do it because he don't he's afraid
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: to get hurt, right. I think there's a there's obviously
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: a fine line between throwing your body out there and
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: just taking shots and deciding when they're on. You see
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: that at every level of football, So I think it's
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: defining what that is in this offense, and I think
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Danas has helped him with that in the offseason. Yeah,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I agree that that was a progutive bio state saying
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna do it, and Dan did it and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: it helped her offense that day and then.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: That Dak.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Just so I can help you understand football a little bit,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: team's probably adjusted a little bit to his ability to
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: maybe at least do a little something running. I don't
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think it was he never decided to run again.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think that was the case. I just think
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: team's probably adjusted a little bit because they're like, Okay,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: he maybe can a little bit.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: The You can't tell me that there wasn't like five
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: yards there in this other game, five yards that he's
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: wouldn't take because he just won't run last year.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's that. There's definitely times I said,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: there's a fine line between deciding how aggressive you want
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: to be. I mean there are a couple of times
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: where it was what he went down when he had
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the first down, went down like a yard short, Like, yeah,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: we saw those times. But like I said, there's a
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: friend taking a hit and getting the first down, and
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: some people, some of the old school people would say,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you got to go for it the whole time. Well,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: you're gonna do that you're you are risk and injury
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: and and that might be the correct approach. Some people
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: are gonna take the opposite approach and say, never get
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: hits ever, because we don't want Jalen Grahamstead to play
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Like o. QV room depth is not that great now,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I've heard that too.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: To be fair, No QB room how many?
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: How many? How many Division one programs have a really
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: good QB two Like, It's not like the NFL where
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: you can bring in a backup and say, okay, this
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: guy can function. There's not many.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're talking probably top six in the
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Big three Conference. You know, the backup quarterback at Texas
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: is probably pretty good. The backup quarterback in Alabama was
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: probably pretty freaking good.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: But the main thing though with him is I mean
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: he had six games with him last year, but having
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: a full off season or helped Holderson. I don't think
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: you actually were able to see what Holgers wanted to
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: do with the offense all last year because he's kind
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: of throw it together. That's what I'm interesting now to
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: see what kind of offense he actually wants to run.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: And I know we're gonna get to position breakdowns in
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: the actual team, but like the offensive line feels pretty
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: solid and then Johnson feels like he's gonna be fully
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: involved and they kind.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Of have that connection.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Ja Cory Barney is a whole other year older. And
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: are you know, do you feel better our offense felt
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: okay last year? You don't feel it does doesn't feel
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: like Raol is gonna backslide because of the other parts
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: of the offense.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: The backsides is because of him, correct and it's not
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: like the team got worse around him.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Dana Holgerson as a coordinator has never had anything outside
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: of a top twenty five scoring offense to put that
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: in perspective as an offensive coordinator. So now he's not
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: been in the Big ten, right, he's in Big ten
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: styles a lot different.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: But but.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: That being said, Dana knows offense and we know that
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: and Dak, I guess to your point getting more time.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Like what what do you think if he's had a
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: whole off season to dice, you know, what do you think?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: What do you think that looks like? Like what difference?
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: What did on fire?
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah he didn't, he didn't want anything to go God
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: that Marcus Safel played like I think I think it's
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: gonna look more like it did in the Big twelve.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Like like I said last year, I think it's gonna
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: be more of an air raid offense now.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: That I hope not. I hope not.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: But he gave an opinion.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: That's what he loves. N he's got the quarterback for it.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I just don't think that's sustainable in the Big ten.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I hope he realizes that. I think that that right
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: there would lead us down a very a path to
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: set for failure.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: I think for last year he showed that he could
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: get creative with the running back.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Agree. I don't think. I don't think that he can't.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that I hope we don't go air raid.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: I agree, and I don't think he will. I don't
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: think we will let.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Him not full blown, but I think a version of it.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: I think he just said a rate yeah verse, it
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: won't be a full blowing let's go eighty percent air
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: raid like you'll be throwing.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I hope it's not eighty like I I just I
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: just I get what you're saying that because that's what
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Dana's kind of done. I I just think that it's
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: got to be very and they've said it complimentary football.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: You know, I think Dana is smarten to figure out.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a different playbook though
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: than what we've seen from Dana Holgerson because of the
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: conference you're playing in and the different pieces that you have. Now.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I agree with Austin. We brought in like Dame Key
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: and Isaiah Hunter. I think I shouldn't say this, but
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: I think are the best transfer wide receivers we brought
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: in in recent years. That's what we've been hearing anyways,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: So I hope that they are and that will help
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: our passing game. That way, we can help our running
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: game as well, because I you know what comes first,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: passing set to run or running except the pass. You
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: could argue that both ways. But I think the pieces
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: seem to be better than what we've had, and that
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: that is is Ryola. It's it's Holderson rule. It's all
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: the recruiting stuff that you just hope again that it
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: pays out in year threes so we can see some wins.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I will say so. Holger Holgerson took over the last
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: three games right last year, three or four ish in there.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: So last year we Nebraska had the sixth longest the
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: game game of possession in the nation, and then the
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: last three it only dropped to tenth. It dropped about
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: like it dropped about forty seconds. So I mean it's
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: he played a little bit quicker, maybe a fewer less runs,
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: but we were still in the top ten for the
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: last three games.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: Here's here's the thing I was gonna bring up. And
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's been it's been a long time
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: since the brassman says. I think it's flipping this year.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: The Nebraska men offensive football team still have a defense
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: football team. WHOA, Probably it's been a long time we
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: said that. And I I mean, which which group are
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: you more confident going the season? Your offense your defense?
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: I would say offense.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: By probably very very confidence wise.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's a lot more unknowns, even though
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: we got new coordinators both. Then I think there's a
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: lot more unknowns on on.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Defense player of just personnel player personnel.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean going to the season on the braston
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: is an offensive team, I would say, I would agree.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: We have seven long times on staff. There's no way
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: we aren't an offensive tea.
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's been a long time since you've been
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: able to say that. I mean, I can't think last
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: time we.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Had seven offensive coordinators on stuff.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's I get a good quarterback.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: I actually hope that we can. I hope we can
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: be arguing this midway through the year because both units
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: are good, solid, like I really, I mean, if one's
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: like exceptionally while and the other one's good, then that
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: means we're probably sitting seven or eight no midway through
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the year. But yeah, I hope our offense can at
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: least catch our defense to where they were last year slash.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I hope our defense doesn't decline below our offense because
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: if our offense gets that much better and our defense declines,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: and I still don't think that's a good recipe to
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: compete in the Big Ten. I think you have to
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: build foundation on defense to be in games, which we
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: have been. We just haven't won them because we're two
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: and nine since RL's been here, and however much before
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: that with Frost. So I think you have to have
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: a strong defense in the Big Ten. Doesn't mean our
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: offense can't get better. But I think that's that's the
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: word complimentary that everybody throws around now when talking about
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: complimentary football, So I do. I think that's a good point.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: I just that could for the sake of the team.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I hope it's not a little bit because I want
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: our defense still that I want to still hang our
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: hat on our defense and our offense just to catch
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: where they've been at.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: I just put my calendar October fifteenth. We will come
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: back this talk.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: There you go, last bit of conversation that I want
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: to get to that for the big thing. Right three
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: four weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago, it was way
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: overblown because there's nothing else going on, not distant in
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: college football, but distance sports in general. But with Scott
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Frosts comments about basically, don't take the wrong job is
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: what he said.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Quotes, Yeah, the statement he's not wrong.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: So that was the quote. That's what got talked about.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: To put the follow up on ruled in a big
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: ten media's days kind of it didn't necessarily straight up
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: back for us, but kind of explained how he.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Defended Frost.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: So he said that you know, you know, it wasn't
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: a good job either when I took over. So I
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: think the the the the message here in the conversation
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: is one for both people. And I'll start with Frost,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Like why even say it? Even why some people might
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: think it's true? Like can you not just go out
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: there and give the generic Like you know someone's gonna
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: ask about it, right, it's your first head of coaching Johnsons.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Someone's gonna say something. Do you not just have a
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: canned answer of yep?
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: I tried it.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: It didn't work out. I learned from it, and now
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I'm here like can you not just have that answer?
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: But instead you got to say something? So he said something,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: and that's Frost.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, keep playing that.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying, Like that's
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: still his ego inside of him. He had the answer ready.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not yea, I think he had the answer planned,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: like it's just how it like his ego still had
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: to say it and then rule then following up, did
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: he have to really address it? No, but you also
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: knew that you were gonna get asked about it. He
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: actually talked about how they had a something in the
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: locker room, a poster or something of Frost on some
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: of the side conversations, like basically saying that he's not
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: an enemy, like so anyways, a lot of drama around
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: these comments and that's what you do an off season.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: But I do think Austin, I will let you go.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I guess you said there's some truth with that. That's
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: not what you know. A lot of common Husker kool
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: aid fan, drinker type of people will say, dude, what
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: the hell.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: But I'm gonna I will say my like.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: My initial reaction was like, dude, like, he's not wrong.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: You don't want to take their like having the right
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: being in the right place for you is super important
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: to how well you succeed. But he basically it did
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: feel like he was like, it's not my fault.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: It went bad.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: It was a it was a bad job from the
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: get go. There's nothing I could do. Don't take the
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: wrong job.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: It was. That's what it felt like.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: Do I think before he said this, if he had
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: came back, I think with more estate, somebody give him
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: a standing ovation, even though he had a terrible ten
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: year as head coach. I think for the most part,
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Nebraska fans recognized it didn't.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Work out legend, but now not anymore. He's not I
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: don't think so.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: You put you put a little dagger in there and
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: twisted it.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: It's just one of those things where it's like, yes,
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: was it probably not the right job for you? Was
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: it a little bit too close to home a little
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: maybe a little too big for what you were?
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: What you not too big for him?
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: But spotlight was constantly honest.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, it was the spotlight too big, not the role,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: but the spotlight. Probably.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: Would you have been fine staying at UCF Yes, would
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: you be undefeated ever you were there?
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Probably not. Is having the right job important?
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: But do you say that about an all monorn who
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: paid you a ton of money and you went and
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: did just absolutely horrible as a head coach?
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: No, that was the right it was the right job.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: It's like, you can come home and save Nebraska fotball
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: and he does that, he becomes a freaking legend.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: But he didn't.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: And him saying it felt a little bit like it's
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: not my fault. There's no way I could have fixed it.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: It was the wrong job.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: It was his fault though, like thank you, thank you for.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: We we we've all heard the rumors about what he
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: was doing. Yes, like he didn't give he didn't give
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: it as all coaching here at all. I don't know
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: I why even say that, that's that's why.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: I said, that's that's the exactly right you keep There's
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: just so many ways you could have avoided the question.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: You know, grass isn't always greener.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: It's like, as has he learned anything, just become any
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: humility at all from the job in Nebraska, went to
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: the rams, or went to maybe his Arizona state. The
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: RAM had a couple of things like they're like did
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: he learn anything from that? And people, you know, maybe
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: wanted to like have a little bit of okay, like
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: feel bad for the guy, like okay, glad he got
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: a coaching job.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: And then bam, I'll be honest, I wanted you have
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: to do well. I want them to do horrible.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Now I was, I was kind of the same ball.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: I I don't necessarily like want to fail, but I kind.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Of do like I do now I didn't before. That's
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: the thing. He could have come home. He's still have
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: been welcomed as like you're still Scott Frost, like you
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: tried it, we appreciate it. It didn't work out, but
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: welcome home. And now it's like if I don't know,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: If he would have had just a generic answer, no
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: one had even known that Scott Frost had.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: No no one would have cared.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: He he wanted to make news with what he said.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Gosh, I hope they just get freaking obliterated. Put them
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: on the schedule. Put him on the schedule.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we want to do he yes,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: this is the year.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: I want to know. This year is my last.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Like conspiracy theory, or it's not really conspiracy theory, but
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: thoughts around long term or not the next couple of
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: years where things could go. So to your point, Austin
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: about maybe he was can be a little bit right
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: and how you kind of phrased it. So here's the
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: world that I see where he's right. And this goes
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: back to why I think, and I know we've had
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: some discussion around this of why I think A big
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: reason why Nebraska football has struggled, Nebraska sports in general,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: but football has struggled is the hype and the fans
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: and the spotlight that you put on the players, the coaches,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: which comes with sports. But we're in Nebraska. There's nothing else,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: and so what do we do? We literally blow everything
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: up out of proportion. We analyze everything like we're doing now.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: How we were part of the problem. I'm not. We're
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: here doing the same thing. But the big picture of
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Nebraska football as a as an entity is why it's
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: not a good job because you can't get away your celebrity,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: and Scott Frost was a celebrity in his own reason, Like,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: you cannot just do your work. You're constantly being pulled
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: in a billion directions and having to deal with stuff
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: that at UCF you don't have to deal with. And
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: that was part of what Scott Frost said was he
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: can just go and do his own thing.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: That I think, it's just why I think is better
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: for Nebraska. Correct.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Now here's my that's here's my conspiracy with that. I
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: think if things go south, rule is already starting to
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: set the stage for a very similar angle. Number one
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: and this, this is my theory. Nobody knows his tweet
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: that's probably a month ago ish month and a half
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: ago that said something about I can't remember exactly how
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: it was dated, but negativity. People profit off of negativity,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Your time is over, or something to that effect. Nobody
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: knows really what that was about. My theory is what
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: it was about was hinted at three Nebraska sports riders
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: or two guys that put together the Groin Kit Chronicles,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: which if you haven't listened to it, it is kind
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: of decent. It's on the ID Club podcast. They rank
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: all of our losses since Bopolini got fired, So every
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: loss is ranked on a scale of one to seventy
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: because there's been seventy of them on a numerical stat
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: They gave it of how hard or how much it
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: hurt by getting kicked in the groin. That's what the
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Groin Kit chronicles, and I think that's what that comment
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: was based off of. At the media, at people now,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: people had other thoughts set from national stuff to whatever
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: they thought it was about, but nobody's ever going to
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: know what it was. I think that was his first frustration.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Second thing he made a comment on in I think
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: it was big ten media days. Maybe it was something
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: else on positivity in Nebraska, like he said something about
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: it takes everybody to do this thing, to do it
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: the right way, we have to stop thinking so negatively
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. He made some com up positivity.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Then Third, I think now by taking Frost's side a
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: little bit here without directly saying I completely agree with
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: coach frost basically roundabout like we said, sided with him,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: supported him. I'm I not that he's doing it on purpose,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: but I think a little bit. If things do go south,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: you're gonna start seeing those frustrations come out because Rule's
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: gonna talk. We know he's gonna talk. He's gonna speak out,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: now does I do. I think he's a little more
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: mature and grown up and take responsibility for his actions
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: absolutely than Scott Frosted. But I don't think he's going
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: to go out and at his next job if if
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: he were to get let go in a couple of
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: years and say Nebraska football was the best university and
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I just messed up. I think he's going to have
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: some similar opinions about which awet fair critiques, but stuff
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: that we've talked about that.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: That's why see, I don't I'm not gonna go conspiracy
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: theories laying the groundwork. I think he's just being straight
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: upon it and being like, there are some critiques about,
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: you know, the Nebraska fandom, but yeah, he goes abound
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: it very I mean he massages it and he's sugarcoats
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: it like people are drinking it and they're like, man,
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: he freaking loves this place. He's like, yeah, you're right,
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: it does require a fun He's like no, he's basically saying, like,
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: you guys need to chill the fuck out, like.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: And and and as we're going, as we're going up
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: up up, up up, and things start going down down down,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: down down. With any coach, I'm not just saying it's here,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: but here, especially because that's all we talk about. Then
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: that's when it goes a big explosion.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: And I think he's also recognizing that there isn't like
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: a you don't sky like, you just don't when you're
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: building a program. It's not just a straight to the
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: top Indiana. Well, we'll see how it goes this year.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: We'll see was that lightning in a bottle or is
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: that a product of schedule and luck?
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: I can really complain about the positivity of nebraskiv or
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: media and Nebraska fans whatever, when every off season it's
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: it's we're gonna win it all, basically, I every every
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: other things.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: It's not positivity that's delirious, delirious.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of it, a little bit of sarcasm
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: that I think to that point, I think that's fading.
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: A lot more it is. Yeah, I think people as
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: much people.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Are in an improve it mode now, which I think
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: is is still it's still good. So for a different reason. Yeah,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: you're talking about but I think this is where we're at.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: That's just reality of what things are happening, and we're
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: just impatient for things to happen now, Like instead of
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: us looking at Indiana and going hat that was a flute,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: one off thing good for Indiana, Like there's inside everybody goes, God, damn,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: why can't we do that for one year? Like what
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: what are we doing wrong that we Indiana's got no
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: resources compared to us.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: Why that there's probably some frustration within the rule of
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: like he's not getting the patients because Frost burned like
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: Nebraska fans patients like Nebraska fans used all their patients
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: for the last two years of Scott Frost.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: Now he's coming in and it's like so they came
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: in and takes time as the program.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: They're like, no, we gave you times like Scott Frost time,
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: I'm not getting any time to build this.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: And so I'm sure there's some internal frustration.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: With that of just address that's gonna come out too.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: I agree, and I don't. I think that's right for
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: both sides. Like I think fans that we have a
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: right to want it, to haveations, we have a right
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: to want it now, and and I think the college
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: football world even gives it fans more right, but rules
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: also right, and that any coaches that you want time
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: to prove yourself, no matter what job you're doing. And yes,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: did we see progress in your two?
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: What does progress look like in your three? We'll talk
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: about that on some other episode. But I think we
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: got it. We're all going to define that very differently.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Rule's going to find it differently than probably we do
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: than the next person does. So that's the measuring stick
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: in a program in year three or four.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: Yep, I agree.
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: All right, So Scott Frost, let's not I mean, you
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: got you Gottafer, you thirty five million dollar contract for
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: seven years.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Let's not be like, yes, thank you, we're paying you
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: that much money too, And then you still got to
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: say that, Yeah, that's the other part. Yeah, thanks for
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: mentioning that.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Scott, I hope you do.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, every everybody feels bad for you.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: I'm going to the UCF at case State game. I
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: think it's September twenty seventh. Buskers are on a buy that.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Week, and.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: I think I might wear my Frost warning red shirt,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: so we.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: Know when we look in the stands, we'll be cheering
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: up stand standing up cheering.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: You're gonna be the only Husker fan worring.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: People will be confused, what is this guy doing?
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: Boo.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I'll do. I haven't decided. I
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: have a UCF shirt from when we hired Frost, I
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: have a obviously Frost Nebraska stuff, and I have k
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: State stuff. I don't know what I'm gonna do. Maybe
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: I'll somehow find a way to do all three.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: All right, go on, Well, yeah, this.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Is obviously episode one of five season, but we'll be
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: diving into more player position talk our schedule. We've had
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: some fun predictions get sent in on percentage chances of
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: winning every game, so we'll do some analysis on our
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: schedule here in the upcoming weeks. We'll be going two
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: times a week here, so episodes will come out on
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: Monday morning and Thursday morning every week. We'll do a
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: postgame recap on Sundays, and then Wednesday we'll do the
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: mid week preview and headlines, so kind of similar schedule there.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: We're going to try to have some more guests on
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: this year too, so if you're interested, want to come
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: on and talk and it'll be a little more organized,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I think this year than what we've done in the
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: past with our guests, but we will have more of
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: those as well. So citing things. Oh, also social media.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Dax's run on our Twitter page. We're gonna get them
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: on some Instagram. Maybe we're on YouTube as well. Our
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: videos are on YouTube if you want to watch watch
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: not live, but h see dak War's husker had every
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: every week. We are there as well, so get out
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: on there.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: We have some.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Giveaway shirts, hats, we'll give a tailgate location if you
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: want to stop by our tailgate all that fun stuff.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: All right, Well for the first time
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