Combat Vet Weighs-In on Walz

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I try to get at least like six thousand a
day because that's what you know, a solid healthy number generally.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Is that makes sense?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yeah, So guess how many steps I had on Thursday,
that was the first day of the fair. Remember I
had to come back and do this show after being
out there. Yeah, I got seven thousand steps. You want
to know how many on Friday thousand, I'll guess nine
thirteen thousand.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
So I went back to the fair after I got
done at the with this show, got more walking in
What do you think Saturday looked like when I didn't
have to work? Oh, could be more, could be less,
with probably more because when you work, you're not walking.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'll say fifteen thousand, seventeen thousand, six hundred. Wow.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
And then yesterday, what do you think I'll see? Fourteen
thou seventeen thousand, six hundred steps, by the way, is
roughly eight point one miles. Yesterday was twenty one thousand,
about nine point six miles.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Now, I got insoles in my shoes and I wore
my running shoes the last two days, which is, you know, nice,
because those the insoles really make my feet comfany. My
feet really don't hurt, but it felt like my left
quad was is basically just threatening to like rip off
my hip bone. And I'm guessing that can't be good.
I might I might need to take it easy for
a day. That's a lot of steps, right, like you're
walking nine miles a day. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
You know what, I might go into into rickshaw work
out there. That sounds like a good industry. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah yeah yeah, well.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Sure it is anyway, all right, So I did post
to a social media post by the way, and it's
a it's three photos of me. I made a montage
or what's not not a montage? Yeah, it's a montage. No,
it's a Colash collage. That's what it is, a collage
Colash colagh. Yeah, it's a collage of three photos with
three of my interviews that I had today for the

(01:49):
Iowa Show from the State Fair. And uh, my forehead's
a little red from getting some sun.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's not like burn. It just looks a little discolored
to the rest of my face.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
And uh, I don't know, you know, it's just like
I do my best to feel like I look pretty
confident and good. So take a gandery for yourself. You
can find it on the Emory Sunger page on Facebook.
Just search Emory Sunger eleven ten kfab or Emory Sunger
on x or on Instagram. It'll it'll be there everywhere.
Tim Waltz, remember that guy? We talked about him a

(02:19):
lot last week, didn't we?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah? Was it last week that she announced him? It was? Wow?
Why does it feel like we talked about him for
like a month already? It does, hasn't it.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
That can't be good for our brains. It really can't
to be talking about the same person this much when
we had no reason to speak of them otherwise. So again,
this is a guy named John Cobb Kolb. You remember
like quarterback Kevin Cobb, Remember him?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah? Wasn't he at like Houston? And then he got
drafted by the Eagles. That sounds right.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
He was like the guy that was supposed to replace
Donovan McNabb, Remember that? And then it floundered horrifically.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Boy, that's going back? Yeah? How about that? How about
that for a poll?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, this guy's last same is the same Cobb, but
Cobb not like Corn Cob or Ty Cob, but Colb.
I guess in my habit I would like to I
would call it Colb Kolb.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
But anyway, his name is John Cobb.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
He wrote apparently on his Facebook he was a lieutenant
colonel of the first Battalion, one hundred and twenty fifth
Field Artillery from two thousand and five to two thousand
and seven. Now, again, he wouldn't have had that title
that long, if at all, as long as Tim Walls
was still in the National Guarden for Minnesota. He retired

(03:34):
in two thousand and five. Now jd Vance was the
first to kind of bring this up because Jdvance also
has military experience, although many are questioning how legitimate that
one is. Even though he was deployed, he was basically
just in media relations. I don't think that matters. I
think if you serve the country, you were deployed, you
were overseas, that should count for something. But again, people
are going to compare, you know, who did more work,

(03:55):
who did harder work, and Tim Walls being in the
National Guard versus actually a full time service person. That's
going to draw an iro And of course this is
all politically motivated. Democrats are going to say Jade Vance was,
you know, just a media relations guy and his service
shouldn't count. And then Republicans are saying Tim Walls just
in the National Guard and retired before his unit was

(04:15):
set to deploy to back over to the Middle East.
And he basically retired before that even though he'd been
in for twenty four years or whatever, which is what
they're saying. And they're going to say, well, he is
still in valor from him. Well, what did John Cobb
have to say about this? He said, and I quote
from his Facebook post, And this was originally reported by
the Daily Mail, So I want to talk. The Daily

(04:36):
Mail was able to grab this and they were the
ones that published this because it's you know, I couldn't
find it myself, guessing it had been removed or you know,
I don't know, but this, this guy, who is an
attorney of Minnesota, has not made any comment about this
in the days since. And he said on his Facebook

(04:58):
page quote, I do not regret the Tim Walls retired
early from the Minnesota National Guard, did not complete the
sergeant's major academy, broke his enlistment contract or, did not
successfully complete any assignment as a sergeant major. Unwittingly, he
got out of the way for better leadership.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
End quote.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh now, again the rank part of this. I'm not
a military man, but I know that rank matters. I
know that people who talk about this stuff who are
in the military or are related to people that are
in the military, they are very familiar with what each
rank means and how much work and effort it takes
to achieve certain ranks. And Tim Walls, there is some

(05:36):
confusion with the way that he talks about his own
service and then what actually he did achieve. There is
like a gap there between those two things. But also,
and of course I'm sure politics at this point plays
into it a little bit, at least from the perspective
of a John Cobb talking about better leadership. I don't
know who gets the last laugh, considering John Cobbs working

(05:57):
as an attorney of Minnesota and Tim Walls eventually lated
himself to being the governor of the state. But again,
there's going to be different perspectives on what was achieved
while in the military and what was achieved by them
following the military. This is the one thing about politics
I just I'm never going to get into it. I'm
never going to run for office. I know there's something
about the power. I know, there's something about the attention.

(06:19):
I know there's something about the ability to talk to
people and get that adulation or to get that validation
from your peers in the community that say you're the
person that I want to represent me, either in the
county or the city, or the state or Washington, DC,
and that matters. I understand that. However, when you are

(06:42):
a politician, more often than not, you have to have
either strong opinions about something publicly because they need to
know what your policies are. And more likely, if you
want to win elections, you have to belong to a
political party, especially maybe Republicans or Democrats. I know there
are other political parties, but realistically, if you're looking for
high office, you really need to belong to one of

(07:03):
those two parties to have the platform you need to
get yourself elected. I just don't like the idea of
people disliking me or liking me simply because I have
a letter associated with my name, that R or that D.
That's all people are looking at these days. It is
a tough thing to do now. Tim Wallas has made
no bones about it. He does not care. He is

(07:23):
incredibly liberal he's very left leaning. There is no secrets
about that. At this point, everything is very out in
the open, and once he became the running made of
Kamala Harris, it became more out in the open because
people need to get the info, get the scoop, get
the dirt. So they have the opportunity to run campaigns
against him as well. That's totally fair game. They're doing
it to the same guys on the other side as well.

(07:45):
At the same time, I would never want to get
involved in something like that simply because everything that I've
done in my life, people are going to be trying
to say it didn't matter even if you win elections.
There's something inside of me. I just it takes courage
for these politicians to run for office knowing that that's
going to be the case.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Some of them, especially these older ones, they don't care
because they feel like this is a goal that they
have and they're not going to be waiting around worrying
about if there's a solid forty forty five percent at
least of people in their districts, or in their states
or in their country that dislikes them simply because of
which political party they are. But that's a difficult thing,

(08:25):
and for somebody like Tim Walls, he should have known
better than to go out and talk about his service
and tout his service a rank that he could have
possibly achieved, did not achieve.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
And now is being called out on that.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Plus the timing of him bolting out of and retiring
after twenty four years in the National Guard, which again
I'm not gonna say his service doesn't matter because I'm
not willing to go to that far. And I don't
know every detail of every single thing that he did
while he was in the service between nineteen eighty one
and two thousand and five, but there are a lot
of questions that people even in the military have about

(09:02):
the way that he left and retired right as that
particular unit was scheduled to have a to be deployed,
a deployment coming up, and the end of two thousand
and five, just after you know, Tim Wall's bolted, and
there are some people that are questioning whether or not
he had the paperwork to retire. You can't just like

(09:24):
put the paperwork in and you're retired the next day.
There are people who are probably Democrats or Wall supporters,
who are saying, well, he would have had to put
the paperwork in two thousand and four, and this unit
didn't know it was going to be deployed until early
two thousand and five, and he stayed with his retirement
plans and did not decide to continue to serve with

(09:44):
that unit as it was preparing for deployment.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
And again I don't.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Know enough about how frequent something like that would to occur,
especially with somebody who had been in the National Guard
for twenty four years. However, that's the kind of thing
that needs to be addressed. So we are all on
this same page and totally understand what the heck is
going on here. If you're interested in talking about this,
or you're a military person, you know how these rankings work,

(10:10):
how the ranks work, how a deployment would work, and
how retirement itself works, and the timing of that, and
whether or not the reports about Tim Walls and the
stolen valor all that stuff perturb you or bother you.
I'd love to hear from you. You can call in a
four ROH two five five eight eleven ten four H
two five five eight eleven ten. It is news radio

(10:31):
eleven ten KFAB talking about Tim Walls, the governor of
Minnesota and also of course running mate for Kamala Harris
for the Democratic ticket for president, and about his the
claims of stolen valor, but also just the way that
his services come into question, and how we can best
decipher this as objectively as possible as we learn about

(10:53):
this person and whether or not we can trust them
to be a leader of this country. We have Kevin
on the phone line of four roh two five five,
eight eleven ten. Kevin, welcome to the show. It's on
your mind.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, Hey, just I am Marie. I just want to
prefsdent of saying I'm a retired medically retired disabled combat vet.
I did three tours, two and a half in Iraq,
half in Kuwait for the last one. And you know
that being said, a couple of things. The rank that
he's claiming, or has claimed in the past to retire

(11:23):
at E nine commands are major. That ranks like god,
if you've seen we were soldiers with commands our major
plumb Lee, and you know some of the scenes in there,
how gruff he is and stuff that is like the
most respective rank and listed wise. So not to say
that the a master sergeant is a high rank, but
it's just not the same thing as a commands our major.

(11:43):
And then the second thing is with deployments, usually you
don't find out just a month or two before you deploy,
and then you go. There's what's called a warning order
before you get your operations order, and you know quite
a little bit in advance that you're going to be
going on deployment. So whether or not he filed the
paper before the warning order, after the warning order, he
knew at some point well before the unit deployed that

(12:06):
they were going to deploy, and they were on the sleeve.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
All right, Kevin, First of all, thank you so much
for your service to this country. It goes without saying
how important people like you are to this nation, and
we really appreciate that. Secondly, twenty four years in the
National Guard, I know that's a little bit different.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Were you were you active duty the whole time?

Speaker 3 (12:26):
I was National Guard for about two years and then
I was active duty for the other fourteen.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Okay, so you know kind of the difference here.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Can you explain how somebody in the active or a
full time branch of the military kind of sees the
National Guard, or do they see them just as equals.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Well, unfortunately, the active duty sometimes sees the National Guard
quite not as prestigious as active duty themselves would be.
Having been on both sides of the fence, I will
say it's very hard to have two full time jobs
when you're activated or deployed with the National Guard and
then you have a Bacilian job back home, so it
is very difficul But the activeduty folks are training breaths,

(13:03):
live and sleep their job twenty four to seven, three
sixty five. So it's a different flavor to it, except
instead of someone that comes in once a month two
weeks in the summer to drill as opposed to that,
So it's a little different flavor. I think there's a
little more professionals and a little more training in my opinion,
not to say that there actually is, but with the

(13:24):
acti duty versus National Guard soldiers.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Okay, so Tim Walls enlisted when he was seventeen, right
after your turn seventeen, two thousand and five, he would
have been roughly forty one years old.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Twenty four years there.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
You've we talked about missing the paperwork and how different
people view in the military with those ranks are the
rank that he actually had in the rank that he
could have had if all that stuff was completed. I
guess my bigger question to you is, do you have
an issue if he put let's let's say he put
the retirement paperwork in before he was given the warning
order that hey that your unit could be deployed soon.

(14:00):
Do you have any issue with him staying with his
plans to retire and then leaving before that unit was deployed,
or do you think he probably should have or would
have been viewed better if he would have decided to
do that deployment and then retire.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, I can only put myself in issues on what
I would have done and whether or not I got
the warning order before or after I turned in my paperwork.
If my guys are going, I'm going period. I volunteered
to go to two of my three deployments, and if
I was on orders to deploy and I had retirement
paperwork in, personally, I would have pulled that back because

(14:38):
those guys I've been training for a year or two years,
or however long. He was provisionally a sergeant major. That
means a lot more to me than just running for
a seat in Congress or a Senate or whatever, because
those are the guys I trained. Those are my boys.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
So Kevin, just to clarify, you think the people being
critical of that particular decision for him at the end
of his military terry career, that is fair for them
to question him.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
I think that's for them to question Irian because I mean,
you got to think that this is the post nine
to eleven generation. I joined after nine to eleven. He
was pre nine to eleven generation. There's a little bit different.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Mentality with that.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
However, like we all sign that that line and took
that oath knowing that we could be deployed to a
Cedar war and that being said, you know, that's the
ultimate pulmination and the ultimate task as a soldier. And
to just say, oh, well, I've got better things to
do instead of do that, it's kind of a little
bit disingenuous, you know, especially for something like running for

(15:37):
a play up office. You know, you want to be
there with your guys, in my opinion, and you want
to be there guts on ground, not just you know,
doing something that necessarily benefits you. That's why you join
the military for the greer good.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
All right, Kevin, Before I let you go, because you're
such a great source on this, can I ask you
about JD. Vance for a second in his job, which
was mostly what it appears to be, more relations in
the Marines full time, and certainly he's I mean he's
younger now well out of the military at this point
than Tim Wallas was, who retired at roughly forty one

(16:11):
years of age.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
For anybody that's critical of JD.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Vance in his position or what his job was in
the Marines, how do you see that as well? Is
that a fair criticism that he shouldn't be claiming heroic
work with the Marines in his service because he wasn't
like combat or artillery or anything like that, or services
being service.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
No, I think it's not very fair to criticize him
on that because there's still danger over there. Even if
you're behind the lines and in an office, their conditioned
office on the base. There's mortars and rockets and you know,
stuff like that that you can very much run into.
Two of my deployments, I was involved in combats, you know,
on the ground, and one of them I was in

(16:53):
an office, but the danger didn't change. Still, it was
the same possibility as getting rocketed, mortared, attacked at the base.
So to say that his service doesn't count for anything,
He's a combat veteran any way you look at it.
He was in a combat zone. He faced danger just
by being over there, by virtue of being in that area.

(17:13):
And I think to say that, oh, well, he was
just a combat correspondent or whatever, that's not fair. He
deployed here in the title of combat veteran and he
should be treated as such.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
I love this. Hey, Kevin, this was an excellent call.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
If we're ever talking military stuff and you happen to
be listening, and you know you could provide us a
little bit more information, or you want to correct something
that I'm talking about, give us a little additional information,
please feel free to call us anytime.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
All right, Well, do Hemory, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, thank you, Kevin, and once again thanks for your service.
Absolutely outstanding call there from Kevin. If you got some
thoughts on this, thoughts on the military history and the
questioning of such of same for you know, Tim Wallace,
so you could throw Jade Vance in there as well.
I'd love to hear from you. Four oh two, five, five,
eight to eleven. Ten is the phone number four oh two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. We'll be back with more on

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news radio eleven to ten kfab. Remember we were talking
that Fox did like a bunch of sims of the
college football season on College Football.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Twenty five the video game, I do yep.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Remember which team had the most national championships in those sims?
It was Oregon, it was it was now Well, who
do you think is number one? In both polls? The
top five, top six seven, the top seven are the
exact same in both poles.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
I think number one still has to be Georgia with
a returning quarterback and coach and that stout defense.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
They are and in both that is not very close.
They are running away.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
With the first place votes. Who do you think number
two is? Hmm, that's a good question.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Do you think the number two team in the country
is preseason? Don't overthink it? Well, there's an argument to
be made for and against a lot of teams right
now as I'm mulling through the options here. Yeah, yeah,
I was thinking Alabama, but they got a new coach.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
They are in the top seven. I was thinking Ohio State,
but they got a new quarterback.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
They are number two. They are, they are, they are,
And so they're feeling pretty good about is it? Will
Howard from the State.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
YEP, from Kansas State YEP.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
And they are receiving first place votes in both polls.
So a lot of people think they are the best
team going into the season. I don't know how much
better Will Howard's going to make that team, but it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Who do you think Number three is? Number three?

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Well, by the way, he's not just playing a game here,
he literally I told him not to look this up.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, and I follow orders. I didn't look it up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
I can't tell because I can't see your screen right now,
but I believe that you're not.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
You're not. My screen has a bunch of audio waves
on it as I'm editing the podcast. Yeah, well that's
not going to help you. I don't know. Yeah, come on,
come on, number three. I don't I guess I'll say Michigan,
even though I'm not feeling good about it. Michigan nine
in the AP eight in the coaches poll.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, good pick on my so top ten, but they're
the national champs, they're defending national champs. They deserve Yeah,
I mean a lot of changes there but that doesn't
mean that, you know, we should just ignore you know.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
That they won it all last year? Right, yeah, So
what do you think? What do you think?

Speaker 4 (20:04):
You?

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Come on, come on, give me another top seven team.
Do you think? Are they in the SEC?

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Uh? There are a few SEC teams in the top seven, yes,
that you have not mentioned.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
But I'm thinking for number three. Yeah, and it's not
number three? No, no, okay, huh.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Don't overthink it. Yep, it's argued, okay, yep, yep, okay.
And then four Morgan's got a new quarterback though, so
that's interesting. Number four yep, boy, not a new quarterback.
Not a new quarterback?

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I had a lot of success last year.
Were they in the playoff? Yep, yes, sir? Okay. And
then number five, same story in the playoff and they
don't have a new quarterback? Correct this one? New coach?
Oh Alabama? Yes, sir, oh? Number number six kind of
an interesting under the radar one here. Okay, who would

(20:49):
be out there that's left?

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Think I think just think it SEC. Okay, I don't
think it's lsu. It is not.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
It is not think think a crazy head coach all miss, Yes, sir,
nicely done, number six in both poles and then number
seven traditional powerhouse of types in just absolute refusal of
joining a conference. Oh notre dame, Yes, sir, all right.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Both polls.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
The top seven is identical some of the other notables
you have Iowa twenty fifth in both polls for whatever
that's worth. Uh, Nebraska receiving votes in the AP and
in the coaches poll. I will say this, it's not
a lot. There are a lot of teams receiving votes
in both poles. But does that move the needle for you?

(21:37):
I know that you saw that there are some you know,
important types of people that you've seen have Nebraska in
the mix as a potential rank team at the beginning
of the season.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
What say you or does that perturb you?

Speaker 1 (21:51):
I know that you hate it when anybody puts expectations
on this team considering how the last eight years have gone.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
And that is just me speaking as a fan. I
only will ever as a fan, because if you want
me to speak as some sort of like insider with
deep knowledge, like go get somebody else who's better at
that and better at that, I can only speak as
a fan. That's my that's my gut feeling as a
fan is I feel like, come on, give this team
a break. They how many years has it been since
they won the first game of the season. Let's just

(22:18):
win the first one, guys. Let's focus on Utap. My goodness,
they can't lose to Utap. Come they can't. But look crazy.
You gotta understand how crazy the last couple decades of
Husker football has been. Yeah, well, who was it georgs
Was it Georgia Southern? The other year? That?

Speaker 1 (22:36):
And it Scott Frost's rain where they put up like
forty eight points or something in Lincoln?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Remember that?

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, a couple of years ago. I remember that was
wild Georgia Southern. Of all teams, it was wild. But
if you were around here, it wasn't all that unexpected.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Come on, man, it's Georgia Southern.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
It wasn't all that unexpected. You gotta understand Nebraska football.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
I don't. I don't believe it. I think most people
expected to win by twenty in that game, regardless. I
don't know. Oh, I maybe I'm just more pragmatic than most.
I was not surprised by that result.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
A thirty one is the first game of the season. Okay,
you have what is that seventeen days to get your
act together?

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Here? Nineteen I think it is. Oh yeah, sorry, I
can't math. Well, they've been saying it before every show
open nineteen day.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Do you think I hear what's going on, Matt, Like
my brain is in like fifteen different spots until I
hear my cueue.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Well, you missed it.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
By a safety seventeen nineteen. Yeah, okay, so whatever. I
just want this team to prove it. That's all I'm
gonna for anybody who didn't hear at the end of
last week. I went through the early part of the schedule,
and I'm not a guy that likes to count wins
and loss his preseason. I don't like doing that because
it's pointless. It's a pointless exercise it All it can
do is rile you up or or set some expectations. Really,

(23:46):
all the teams only care about the first game in
front of them and then the next game like they
take it one game at a time.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'm gonna outline this, Matt, and be real with me. Okay,
you tip what's the spread gonna be on that game?
Before kickoff? I think it's gonna be like twenty.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I think it's gonna be three scores for sure, I
like mid twenties probably. Then the next week Colorado, that's
a one of the big ten Saturday night games the
NBC's doing at home in Lincoln, Colorado. I don't really
know what to make of Colorado right now, But what
do you think. I think that it's gonna be like
a field goal for Nebraska. They'll be you know, it'll
be three Nebraska. Okay, so the slight favorite for the

(24:23):
homewo field advantage. What you're saying, I think, so it's
gonna be a routy atmosphere. I tend to agree Nebraska
will be favored. I don't think it'll be by much
at home against Northern Iowa the next week. Northern Iowa
unranked in the coaches pull for FCS. They are receiving votes,
but they are not in the top twenty five of
the FCS pull preseason. They're always tough, but it's Northern
Iowa that's got to be like a twenty four point spread.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah to me.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Hosting Illinois the Brett Belamas, they're gonna be favored again too, right,
They're gonna be favored probably like six ish Yeah, that's
a tough game, though.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know, Brett Beilama is gonna bring up something, you know.
I mean, he's got a freshman quarterback. He's gonna have
an interesting defense. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well, we're gonna have a few weeks of noted you know,
progress on that team by the time you see them
on September the twentieth, another primetime game in Lincoln. The
first four games are all in Lincoln. They're gonna be
at Purdue in the fifth week. Perdue is going to
be one of the worst Big Ten teams this year. Yeah,
that should be a win that They're going to be
favored on the road in that game, probably by you

(25:21):
know seven or so.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Host Rutgers.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Rutgers is much better than people probably expect them to be.
They were in a bowl and won a bowl game
last year.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Do we have a date and time for Rutgers, Like,
do we know when? Or is a TVD ten to five?
No time?

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Okay, that I mean, the Huskers could be could be
undefeated rolling in I don't know who Rutgers has, but
that could sneakily be a pretty big game early in
the season.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
And that's in Lincoln. Okay.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Five of the first six in Lincoln all they're going
to be favored in that game too, no matter how
good Rutgers is. And then at Indiana, who's going to
be battling. I think in like the bottom part of
the middle of the Big ten at best, and you're
in Bloomington coming off of a bye week.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
You have two weeks for that.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, there's a very good chance Nebraska, who may be
undefeated maybe one loss, will go into you know, Bloomington
and be a favorite on the road. Now, you guys
get a little harrier in the last handful of games
in the season at Ohio State hosting UCLA a bye
week before you go out to la and play USC
and then hosts Wisconsin. At Io would have finished the year,

(26:20):
it could get pretty tricky as you know, wind down there.
But what I'm gonna tell you is from this seat
right now, I'm looking at the first half of that
schedule and I'm saying you better be expecting to see
Nebraska break into that top twenty five at some point
when they get to three to zero, potentially four, five, six,
and oh which is a possibility based solely on the schedule.
With a five star quarterback second year Matt rule, which

(26:42):
has always been generally a big jump in his programs
from year one to year two. I'm just saying, Matt,
start like coming to terms with seeing that. I think
it's totally fair. I think it's possible, but I'm going
to try to remain in a rational stance as a
Husker fan. Who's you know, I've seen some stuff. Yeah,
well I've seen some stuff too. It's three point forty nine.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
We'll talk plenty of Huskers between now and opening kickoff
in a couple of weeks. So I can't wait for
that love football season. Really excited for year number two
for me, following the Huskers from up close and personal.
We're gonna come back, have more off for you and
including giving away tickets. Next on news Radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
And Maurice Sunger on news Radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Time with Matt. I am somewhere way south of cautiously optimistic.
I think Nebraka even receiving votes at this juncture, looking
at the previous twenty years is kind of like Barack
Obama winning the Peace Prize after winning an election. Four
winning an election, It just tarnishes every sports Riven that

(27:48):
made that vote even Uh.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Well, I will say this, I guess I'm not exactly sure.
I think the coaches poll is public. We could figure
out who voted for who in the coaches poll. I'm
not sure about it. I think the the AP people
they have to like actually publish it themselves for us
to see. But either way, there, like I said, there
are some votes that are in there, but they're so
far down the list. They're like twelve teams ahead of

(28:12):
them that aren't ranked that have more votes than them.
But again, like I said, UTEP, it's not gonna move
the needle. If they beat U TEP by a lot,
it's gonna be a little bit more impressive. If they
beat Colorado, you and I is not gonna do anything
for them.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
What's so impressible about beating Colorado.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Well, it's it's just it's a nationally televised primetime game
against the high profile opponent. Even if they suck, you know,
they're still high profile. I don't know if it'll do
much for the coaches, but I think for the public
they'll be like, Oh, Nebraska, they might be back. That
was an excellent nighttime atmosphere in Lincoln they looked really good.
If they if they win by a couple of scores,

(28:49):
I think that could start to turn public perception more
than obviously UTEP or Northern I, or even Illinois for
that matter, or even Purdue for that matter, or even
Rutgers for that matter. Of those first six games, even
though Rutgers could be four and one, five and oh themselves,
I'm not one hundred percent sure that Colorado isn't the
most impressive win at the end of the day, just
because of how weak those first six games are, you

(29:10):
know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
I don't think Matt Rule jumped into a huge part.
This is not Temple, this is not whatever he was at.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, Baylor, Yeah, Baylor, this is none of that. Yeah,
And you're right, You're right.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
It's going to be more difficult to you know, jump
up to seven eight wins and then he I think
he won ten or eleven games in year three in
both places.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
So that's that's a tough ask. I don't think that's
gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
But I I appreciate the call, Joe, because you know,
I'm not a native of Nebraska. I'm an adopted Husker fan. Now,
the last couple of years, and I just want to
be ridiculously optimistic, but I look at that schedule, I
think it's very winnable all six of those first games,
maybe even the seventh game at Indiana.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
I guess we'll just have to slowly find out one
week at a time and take it one week at
a time, and we'll have plenty of coverage for you
here on KFA bet. By the way, Rutgers, Matt, you
want to know what their schedule is ahead of the
Nebraska game. Yeah, they are a host Howard, they are
hosting Akron. They'll be favored big in both of those
games at Virginia Tech, whom I'm not so sure they're

(30:16):
supposed to be super good this year either. Then they
host a gutted Washington Huskies in a primetime game at
the end of September, and then it's the Nebraska game.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
So they have a bye week in.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Between the Akron in Virginia Tech games three of the
first four our home games, and the road game is
at Virginia Tech after a bye week, and we don't
even know how good they are. Rutgers could be undefeated
going into that game in Lincoln. Two Rutgers Nebraska put
it down mid season Big Ten Championship game. Put it
down all right?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
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