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Money and "Commitment" · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: All right, Shawna. It's not easy tracking recruits in the
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  Speaker 1: year 2026 with Transfer Portal and NIL money. And now
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  Speaker 1: programs are paying high school kids to keep their commitment.
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  Speaker 1: Trey Taylor is getting money from Nebraska. But last spring,
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  Speaker 1: Ty Ellis from Fort Worth, who was a commit to
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska in the fall. In fact, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: after the USC game. He said, not only am I
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  Speaker 1: committed to Nebraska, but I'm moving to Nebraska, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to play Millard South. Well, yesterday he decommitted from Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: Was he ever a serious recruit, and why in the
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  Speaker 1: hell did he move up here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is one of the oddities. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen this before, though. If you remember Christian Lockett
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  Speaker 2: tour in 2012, He moved from Odessa Pernian in Texas
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  Speaker 2: to play for Lincoln Southwest as a commit. Played his
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  Speaker 2: full season. His parents bought a house on 27th Street
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  Speaker 2: right next to the Country Club of Lincoln. I drive
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  Speaker 2: by that house still every day and think about that story.
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  Speaker 2: He switched his commitment to LSU. And so we've seen
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  Speaker 2: this happen another time, believe it or not, well before
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  Speaker 2: the money entered the game. But, yeah, the money thing
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  Speaker 2: is complicated because actually collectives or schools can't pay kids now.
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  Speaker 2: until they get here and has to count against the cap.
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  Speaker 2: So last November 1st, that went into effect. So if
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  Speaker 2: a kid does get any money before they sign, it
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  Speaker 2: has to be a legit, true NIL deal. The state
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  Speaker 2: of Texas does not allow high school NIL at all.
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  Speaker 2: So that was maybe one of the driving factors for
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  Speaker 2: him to leave Texas because he thought maybe he'd earn
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  Speaker 2: some NIL, come up here. But he's still here, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he has much of an option to
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  Speaker 2: go back anywhere at this point because the Texas transfer
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  Speaker 2: rules are really stringent with the UIL down there. They play,
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  Speaker 2: and I wouldn't be surprised if he's at the Nebraska
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  Speaker 2: game on Saturday. This is a world that we live
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  Speaker 2: in now, guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's very strange. It really, truly is. And I guess
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  Speaker 1: my view of it is, that any parent who believes
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  Speaker 1: that that's the best pathway for their kid, to give
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  Speaker 1: up a senior year and all of the activities that
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  Speaker 1: are associated with a senior year to say nothing of
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  Speaker 1: all of their other sports activities, to me is really
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  Speaker 1: a shame because the kid can never get that back.
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  Speaker 1: They can never go back to high school and run
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  Speaker 1: track in high school or play basketball or go to
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  Speaker 1: their senior prom or any of that jazz. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a loss. And I don't know if the kids really,
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  Speaker 1: truly appreciate that today. And I don't know if the
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  Speaker 1: parents really, truly appreciate that either. All right, so we
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  Speaker 1: have the Ohio Bobcats coming in here. And Coach Solich
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  Speaker 1: will be here. Frank will be 82 in a week
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  Speaker 1: or so. He coached both programs. How close is Frank
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  Speaker 1: to the Nebraska program now? You get the impression listening
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  Speaker 1: to Matt Rule that he's pretty close. Is he around it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very close. As close as he's been since
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  Speaker 2: he left Lincoln. And he attends... you know, practices here
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  Speaker 2: and there, which he'll come on a Saturday. He's come
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  Speaker 2: with Coach Osborne. Now, this year he's been a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more careful because of the conflict of interest, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: with this game. Typical Frank, I think he doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: people to think he's spying for Ohio or something. He's
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  Speaker 2: kept kind of a good arm. I can just hear
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  Speaker 2: Gary Saddlemyer laughing right now, too, somewhere. But Frank is
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  Speaker 2: a very classy, by-the-book kind of guy. But this is
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  Speaker 2: quite a moment. You think about everything he has done
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  Speaker 2: from Nebraska from 1965 being the first Husker athlete on
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  Speaker 2: the cover of Sports Illustrated to becoming the all-time winningest
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  Speaker 2: coach at the end of his career at Ohio to
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  Speaker 2: taking Nebraska to a national championship game in 2001 and
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  Speaker 2: recruiting a Heisman winner in Mike Rozier, coaching a Heisman
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  Speaker 2: winner in Eric Crouch. He's done so much for Nebraska, really,
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  Speaker 2: from 1965 to this very day.
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  Speaker 1: And he's in the College Football Hall of Fame. He
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  Speaker 1: was in the class, I believe, of 2024. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that there's going to be some sort of
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  Speaker 1: an official introduction of Frank. I think he's probably sitting
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the stands or in one of the skyboxes.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe at some point there will be. He was
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  Speaker 1: introduced at the spring game back in 2023. Not the same. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: everybody okay for this one? Do we have any major injuries?
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  Speaker 1: Because tomorrow we'll get your keys to the game. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: good to go for this one on Saturday morning?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's been a couple of camp things
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  Speaker 2: with guys here and there. Owen Chambliss is one to watch.
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  Speaker 2: William Zaneri, I think, had, you know, I expect him
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  Speaker 2: to play, but I think he missed some time. Tree Balbalade,
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  Speaker 2: as we know, missed time in camp. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's listed the number two behind Gunnar Gatula. So how
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  Speaker 2: much will he play in this game as a tackle?
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Benning missed camp with a hamstring, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of camp, so... He's third on that depth chart. There's
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  Speaker 2: nothing substantial as far as a key top player on
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  Speaker 2: this roster that's out, but Chambliss is probably the most
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  Speaker 2: notable one to see what his rep load, if he
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  Speaker 2: plays in this game, what it looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, Sean, thanks. That's KFB Husker Info. Strongman Sean Callahan.
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